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“ When I think about all the informative

moments in my four years at Holderness, they

are too many, too hard to separate, and too

hard to rate. It was four years of hard but

rewarding work. The complete life experience

molded me into a well-educated young man,

ready to face the world.” – David Nichols ’65

“ There were 23 of us that graduated inthe Spring of 1950, part of a totalenrollment on campus of about 76. I stillthink of those years as some of my best.”

– Chico Laird ’50

“ We love Holderness!”– Kathy Cunha P ’16 ’19

“MEMORIES TOCHERISH FOR ALIFETIME…”– THADDEUS– FOOTE ’92

“ I AM ALWAYSPROUD TO THINKOF OR SAY‘HOLDERNESS.’”– JOHN ALDEN ’78“

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“ Thank you, Holderness, for all you have given me over the years, andcontinue to give to our community and world.” – Jake Norton ’92

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AIDAN KINSLEY ’19 HAULS BRUSH OUT OF THEFAIRMONT PARKS IN PHILADELPHIA. DURINGTHEIR TEN-DAY ADVENTURE, AIDAN AND THEREST OF THE NINTH-GRADERS CLEANED UPTHREE TRUCKLOADS OF DEBRIS. PHOTO BYTANNER ENSIGN ’19

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Catching Up with Jim BrewerRick Carey and Phil Peck catch up with Jim in his new home, not toofar from campus, where he continues to read poetry, takephotographs, bake bread, and yes, tell stories. BY RICK CAREY

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Special ProgramsHow many seven-layer bars does it take to fuel the juniors duringOut Back? How many pounds of mirror did the sophomores recycleduring Artward Bound? And how many meals did the ninth-graderspack for the citizens of Philadelphia during Project Outreach? It’sSpecial Programs by the numbers!

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Holderness School’s new Campus Master Plan not only supports theschool’s curriculum goals but meets many other strategic goals as well.BY RICK CAREY

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ABOVE: A view across the Quad with Niles and Webster Dormitories in the background. After Livermore Hall was built to replace Knowlton Hall, Niles and Webster wereconstructed according to the Campus Master Plan created by Jens Frederick Larson. The rest of Larson’s plan was never completed.

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Board of Trustees

Sandeep AlvaNeale AttenboroughJonathan BaumGrace Macomber BirdChristopher Carney ’75, TreasurerCarolyn Cullen ’87Russell Cushman ’80The Rev. Randolph Dales, SecretaryVictoria FreiTracy McCoy Gillette ’89, Alumni

Association PresidentRobert HallJames Hamblin II ’77, ChairpersonJan HauserSusie HayesThe Right Rev. Robert Hirschfeld,

PresidentPeter Kimball ’72Robert Kinsley ’88Alex MacCormick ’88Richard NesbittPeter NordblomSusan Paine ’82R. Phillip PeckThomas Phillips ’75Ian Sanderson ’79Andrew Sawyer ’79Jenny Seeman ’88Harry SheehyGary SpiessPoppy Staub ’85Jerome Thomas ’95Sander van Otterloo ’94

HEADMASTER EMERITUSThe Rev. Brinton W. Woodward, Jr.

HONORARY TRUSTEESWarren C. CookPiper Orton ’74W. Dexter Paine III ’79Will Prickett ’81

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EDITOR: Emily Magnus ’88EDITOR EMERITUS: Jim BrewerASSISTANT EDITORS: Rick Carey, Hillary Beach,

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ON THE FRONT COVER: During Artward Bound,sophomore Kathy Liech uses a mold to hammerand stretch a circular piece of copper into aspoon after it has been heated with a blowtorch. Later, she will attach a forged iron handle.

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When board member, alumnus, and presentparent Rob Kinsley ’ and his associateJonathan Wehri from lcs began developingour Campus Master Plan, they focused firston the programs and the people. What willteaching and learning look like at Holdernessin twenty years? What are the distinguishingand sustaining programs that are part of theHolderness experience? What tools will teach-ers want and need to effectively teach the nextgeneration of students? How will the out-doors, outdoor education, and HoldernessSchool’s programs interact in the comingyears? How do we design classrooms to bestserve the needs of our teachers and students?What does it mean to “redefine leadership andintellectual development preparing all for theirjourneys in a changing world”? How refresh-ing and how Holderness that Rob andJonathan focused on the people and programs.Yes, facilities are important but only in howthey support the dynamic programs and peo-ple of Holderness as we move forward.

In Rick Carey’s feature article, you will get asense of that campus master planning processand how we will be implementing this dynamicplan in the coming years. Last year was filledwith engaging discussions with diverse mem-bers of the community, and we hope that theresulting facility will serve our programs foryears to come. We are excited to take what wehave learned and design not just any buildingbut one that caters to our mission and ourstrategic planning goals.

In the meantime, what are the people in ourcommunity up to? We are fortunate that,despite the number of years since their retire-ment, people like Jim Brewer and Gretchen andJonathan ’ Swift have stayed in touch andcontinue to be involved in our community. Jimlives close enough to campus that I can stillvisit him on occasion, and the Swifts justrecently moved to the region and are helping uscatalogue the artwork we have collectedthrough the years. You can read articles about

these and many other cherished members ofour community in the pages of this magazine.

In this issue you can also read about anotherfacility that is moving us forward. During the– school year, while building the newrink, we struggled to replace the communitygatherings that happen regularly during normalwinters. What a difference a year makes. Theopening of the new rink in December renewedour community spirit and returned to us ourwinter traditions—skating, competing, andcheering on the Bulls. And in keeping with ourconnection to the outdoors, the open design ofthe rink maintains a nice balance between freshair and protection from the elements. In addi-tion, the rink has many features that make itenvironmentally responsible and sustainable. Itillustrates perfectly how we want to move for-ward—not just with new facilities but withresponsible building practices, robust programs,and full community involvement.

Of course Special Programs are importantat this time of year as well and again illustrate

how we intentionally build community. WhileArtward Bound and Out Back focus more onour internal community, Project Outreach andSenior Thesis build our ties to other communi-ties. This is particularly true of Senior Thesisduring which we have students participating inMarch Experiences all over the world. The sen-iors are also relying more and more on ouralumni for advice, interviews, and internships.We are grateful for their help and are humbledby their commitment to our community, evenafter graduation.

So yes, facilities do matter, but only in howthey support the essence of Holderness. Asyou read this issue of hst and as you watchHolderness’s facilities and programs evolve inthe coming years, I hope you see how theysupport a community whose mission it is ulti-mately to serve humankind. �

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Head of School Phil Peck with students at this spring’s bow tie party that he and Mrs. Peck host at

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At Holderness, there’s never a shortage ofintriguing stories to share. But sometimes thosestories aren’t detailed enough to turn into com-plete articles, or they don’t combine well withother material. They are the beautiful scraps offabric left over after making a quilt; you can’tbear to throw them away, so you tuck them in adrawer with other fragments, hoping to returnto them some day.

In February I came across just such a story.It had great promise but just didn’t pan out theway I had hoped. This time, however, the frag-ments were too interesting to throw into thescrap drawer.

Don Hinman, a teacher and coach atHolderness from to , sent Director ofLeadership Giving Peter Barnum a letter inwhich he made an appeal to Holderness tohonor Loys Wiles, a long-time faculty member,who Don feels has never received the recogni-tion he deserves. He sited Loys’ long trackrecord of holding multiple positions atHolderness, including assistant to former Headof School Edric Weld. In fact, Don explained,

it was Loys Wiles in who was responsiblefor convincing Edric to purchase the acresacross Route on which the athletic facilitiesand fields, as well as the miles of wooded trails,now stand. Loys’ Folly, they used to call it whenDon was still a faculty child living with his par-ents in Niles Dormitory.

Intrigued, I made an appointment withDon, hoping that perhaps this was the begin-ning of the school’s first campus master plan. Iimagined a nice sidebar to the feature thatrevealed just how far the school has come.

Unfortunately, I didn’t find what I waslooking for; while Don’s recollections are nodoubt accurate, I couldn’t find any evidence inthe school records to support his claim. IfLoys Wiles did convince Edric Weld to pur-chase the land across the street, it was doneunofficially, perhaps on the sidelines of a foot-ball or hockey game.

So that door closed. But many moreopened.

For example, thanks to Don, I now knowmuch more about the young man for whom the

Fiore Rink is named. Peter Fiore grew up oncampus, next door to Don; his father wasDante Fiore, a French teacher at Holdernessfrom –. Don and Peter were closefriends, sharing many adventures throughoutchildhood and high school. Unfortunately, thatfriendship was cut short just after their gradua-tion from Holderness in , when Peter diedof complications from a haying accident.

According to Don, Peter tended to pushthe limits with his curiosity, often steppingover the boundaries set by the adults in thecommunity. In particular, when they wereyoung lads, Don remembers one day duringwhich he and Peter were focused on cuttingdown an elm tree behind the chapel, but itwasn’t going well. Intent on cutting up some-thing, the pair found themselves inside thechapel and couldn’t resist chipping away at theintricate carvings on the chairs.

Loys Wiles found them that day, whichDon said happened on many occasions. “Hehad the uncanny ability to show up when youwere doing something wrong,” said Don.“Faculty children were scared of him.”

“But the nice thing about growing up,” Donadded, “is that someone who scared you as achild, you turn out to admire when you grow up.My respect for Loys Wiles grew as I did. He’sprobably the smartest person I ever met.”

Alas, these stories ended up having nothingto do with campus master planning either; andon their own, I was short on text and details.No matter how many times I rearranged thepieces, they weren’t stitching together neatly.

So I’ve made room here—for Loys, forPeter, for stories from the past that providecontext and perspective for the other stories inthis magazine. Even if the flow and timing isn’tquite right, these scraps are still a beautiful partof the Holderness quilt. �

Emily Adriance Magnus ’Editor, Holderness School [email protected]

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Loys Wiles with students in his Chemistry lab, circa 1930s or 1940s


There are some parts of Holderness School’s histo-ry that have never been officially recorded andexist only in the memories of our alumni, employ-ees, and friends. So it was no surprise to us whenwe shared the history of snow sports at Holdernessthat there were some details we didn’t get quiteright. Fortunately, our alumni are willing to helpus out and set the record straight. Below are twostories that are worth noting.

The Early Successes of theHolderness Ski TeamI once again very much enjoyed reading therecent edition of hst—an excellent publicationfor which you and your editors deserve muchcredit in putting together. Your piece about snowsports, in particular, caught my attention.Having attended Holderness during the forties,to which you referred at one point in your arti-cle, I have vivid recollections of the happy timesI had at the school in those days.

However, some clarification needs consider-ation. You wrote that in the s,” Basketballwas the premier sport; ski team coaches cameand went.” That wasn’t necessarily true. Underthe supervision and dedication of Wendy(Wendell) Stephenson—a very popular masterwho taught geometry, crafts, and mechanicaldrawing during much of that decade—Holderness put together a reasonablysuccessful ski team of about – Holdernessboys. We competed with other teams fromProctor, Hanover, Brewster Academy, and St.Paul’s, as examples. In fact, our boys had a verygood cross-country program in the winter of and captured the first four fastest timesagainst two of the four schools mentionedabove: St. Paul’s and Brewster. For a school thathad no more than students in attendancefrom the third to the sixth forms (freshmenthrough senior classes), I would say the ski pro-gram was reasonably successful in attaining itsgoals. I just wanted to set the record straight.

Frank Hammond ’

The Real Beginning of theSnowboarding ProgramI am sending a note in response to an articlewritten in the most recent issue of theHolderness magazine on snow sports. I am surePeter Woodward has done tremendous thingsto support and expand the programs; however,he did not start the Holderness School snow-board program in .

What became intramural snowboarding,was fundamentally started by Adam Wysor ’,Jamie Barbor ’, Peter Colpitts ’, PeterStanley ’, and me in . We trained everyday running gates at Waterville Valley andcompeted among the participating schools inthe White Mountains. We had dedicatedcoaching at WV (funded by our parents); MikeKildevaeld was our coach before he went pro,and then later an Austrian, Martin Kaplija. Theteam obtained Burton boards through Jamie’sfather (then president of Merrill & Kahru);Kahru it seemed had laminating capabilitiesthat Burton did not, and we were fortunateenough to benefit from the relationship.

I distinctly recall our parents debating withMark Perkins on the topic of cars on campus.We were (like Eastern skiers) seeking permis-sion to keep cars on campus for the purpose ofgetting to weekend races, as our parents grewtired of the drive up from Boston andMarblehead. Mark ultimately made the conces-sion. Adam and I went on to compete in theNew England Cup Race Series (attending racesacross VT and NH), and Adam ultimatelywon the men’s GS in .

I am delighted by the coverage the sport hasreceived and the notation in the hst. I writethis to simply set the facts straight, as one ofmy fonder Holderness School memories wasthe role I played in the inception of what istoday a snowboarding program.

Michael Brogna ’

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he place, on this brisk Monday inJanuary, is a conference room in the

headquarters of the Nordblom Company inBurlington, MA. The question is the loca-tion of a proposed new academic buildingon the Holderness School campus.

Those present all like the sketch ofOption A, which came into this horserace, as it were, as the odds-on favorite.Option B, when it comes on the bigscreen at the front of the room, is dulyconsidered, but generally dismissed.Option C will require the removal of adormitory building and a replacement inthat same spot with a new facility. This isattractive—but not so attractive, actually,as an alternative to Option A, a tweak tothat first idea that combines elements ofA and C. This involves a hurdle that didn’texist for Option A, but if it can be over-come–oh, my. “Wow,” says Jim Hamblin ’77,chair of Holderness School’s Board ofTrustees, as he gazes up at the screen.

Jim is also a member of the board’sCampus Master Planning Committee, andthat committee—seven trustees, along withHead of School Phil Peck, several otherschool administrators, and a pair of archi-tects—has gathered at the real estate firmrun by trustee and CMP committee chairPeter Nordblom.

One whole wall of the conference roomis devoted to an aerial photo of that por-tion of Burlington where the NordblomCompany and several other enterprisesare headquartered. The photo is a mosaicof office buildings, parking lots, woods,

ponds, and highways that over thedecades came together haphazardly–rather as a school campus might, actually,as circumstances change over thedecades. The committee’s mission is totake some of the “hap” out of the hazardsof making Holderness School’s campuslovelier, more livable, more sustainable,and equal to the educational opportunitiesof the 21st century. This is no small task,and being open to suggestions is—well,that is the whole point, at least as theprocess was designed and set up by thearchitects in the room, Rob Kinsley ’88 andJonathan Wehri.

It helps that Rob Kinsley is not only analumnus, but also a current parent(Aidan ’19) and a trustee. “I’m a triple-threat, just a different sort of one,” helaughs, citing old prep school slang for thesort of teacher who serves at once asinstructor, coach, and dorm parent. Makethat a quadruple-threat in Rob’s case, sinceas president of LSC Design (based inPennsylvania’s York County), he also leadsa multi-tasking company that providesarchitecture, interior design, civil engineer-ing, land planning, landscape architecture,and other services to its clients. JonathanWehri is Rob’s director of design.

On this day Rob and Jonathan are asimpressed as anyone else in the room bythe shape, sweep, and symmetry of a cam-pus shaped according to the alternative toOption A. That includes trustee RussCushman ’80. “I commend whoever cameup with that idea,” he says.

IN THE SHADOW OF KNOWLTON HALLIn order to understand—and appreciate—either Option A or its alternative, you haveto know something about how theHolderness campus took shape over theschool’s history. Let’s start with KnowltonHall, the biggest facility ever raised here.Phil Peck wasn’t quite serious, of course,when he once said, “Thank God KnowltonHall burned down;” the fiery destruction in1931 of the school’s main building—a combi-nation dormitory, library, dining hall, andclassroom facility—was indeed a catastro-phe, a reversal so ruinous that Holdernessnearly closed its doors. The building wasunderinsured and the school had to spendthe next three decades struggling out ofthe financial crater the fire created.

But at least from a campus-planningperspective, there was an upside to theevent. In its great size, in its ornate andgabled Victorian Gothic brickwork,Knowlton Hall had nothing in common sty-listically with the rest of the campus: thesimple clapboards of the Colonial-styleSchoolhouse, the straightforward Neo-Georgian brickwork of Carpenter Hall.And resting where Livermore Hall nowstands, Knowlton also faced south, towardsthe Chapel of the Holy Cross, turning itsflank on Carpenter and the Schoolhouse. Itoffered a different focal point for theschool, and Phil’s comment reflects thewisdom of hindsight for the focal pointthat developed instead.

On the heels of that fire, the task ofreplacing Knowlton occasioned what might

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be described as the school’s first CampusMaster Plan. This was a set of plans thatwere done pro bono for Holderness byJens Frederick Larson, the famed architectwho had designed and built the DartmouthCollege campus. The sketches that Larsonunveiled in December 1931, were a marvelof pleasing symmetry. Livermore Hall, per-haps two-thirds the size of Knowlton—and ablueprint duplicate of Dartmouth’s Dick’sHouse—would rest on Knowlton’s ashes andface east, at a right angle to Carpenter. Inaddition, and in accordance with Larson’splans, Schoolhouse would be torn downand replaced by a new academic buildingdone in the Neo-Georgian style ofLivermore, still facing south.

Rector Edric Weld and his board oftrustees knew that Holderness would haveto get bigger if it were to survive. SoLivermore and Carpenter were just thenorthwest corner of the new campus.Larson envisioned two east-facing dormito-ries rising south of Livermore and inalignment with Carpenter. Two west-facingdormitories would rise opposite theseacross the grass of today’s Quad. Andaligned with these, to the north, would be asecond academic building, built to resem-

ble Carpenter and balance the building onthe opposite side of the new Schoolhouse.

Perhaps no one on Weld’s board—agroup that included Franklin D. Roosevelt,then governor of New York—said “wow,” onthe day Larson unveiled that plan, butsomeone must have said something like

that to a sketch that put the campus’s cen-ter of gravity in that wide green spacearound which the academic buildings anddormitories could be ranged. The plan wasadopted, and the fundraising began imme-diately. Livermore was dedicated the verynext year, and then Niles and Webster dor-

Jens Frederick Larson’s 1931 campus plan—indicated here by buildings outlined in brown on a map of

today’s campus—imagined new structures added to existing ones to create symmetry on green space.

CAMPUS MASTER PLAN TIMELINEFALL 2008–14The ScienceDepartmentresearches anddevelops proposalsfor a new facility toreplace Hagerman.

FALL 2012–2015The Science Departmentvisits Olin College, St.Paul’s School, and St.Sebastian’s School. Whilefacilities provide context,it is the programming ateach institution that holdsthe interest of the scienceteachers.

FALL 2012The Campus MasterPlanning Committeeis established.

FALL 2014The Strategic Plan isfinalized and approvedby the Board ofTrustees. The Plan pro-vides institutional focusfor moving forward onthe science facility.

FALL 2014The CMP Committee isinstructed to update theCampus Master Plan inlight of the Strategic Plan.Rob Kinsley ’88 andJonathan Wehri of LSCDesign are hired to over-see process.


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mitories in 1934 and 1938, respectively. Bythen, however, the Depression had settledin like permafrost, and Roosevelt was inthe White House trying to do somethingabout it. Holderness could afford no more.The Schoolhouse remained as it was, andthe other dormitories and the academicfacility were never built.

Ground would not be broken for anoth-er building on campus until 1951, the yearWeld retired. This would be for a new dor-mitory named in memory of Alice HoitBrown, an aunt to Edric Weld’s wifeGertrude, and built to the northeast ofSchoolhouse. Since the school could affordonly one dorm, the trustees chose to aban-don Larson’s vision of a matched setopposite Niles and Webster. Wood-framedand sided with painted cedar shingles, Hoitreflects a slim budget, the cookie-cutternorms of postwar domestic architecture,

and also that temptation to build accordingto the architectural fashion of the moment.

This reached a sort of apogee with theEdward H.C. Bartsch Athletic Center in1968. The award-winning asymmetricaldesign reflected the sweeping, low-slunglines of the then-popular Prairie School ofarchitecture which departed significantlyfrom the traditional New England profilesof buildings such as Livermore andSchoolhouse.

More typically, buildings added to theHolderness campus in the second half ofthe 20th century endorsed either theGeorgian model of Livermore—for exam-ple, Weld Hall in 1963—or the Colonial styleof the Schoolhouse, as in the SouthCampus dormitories built over severaldecades. Of course these two styles, oneexpressed in brick, the other in wood, havealways mixed well around New England.

More significant than questions of style,though, have been questions of whatshould be built, at what size, and where.This is the meat-and-potatoes of campusplanning, and there have been severallong-range plans floated at Holdernesssince Larson’s. “In looking at HoldernessSchool’s progress and capabilities throughthe years, it seems obvious that the schoolhas done well with a minimal amount offacilities,” wrote the WM Design Group ina plan it proposed in 1977. “It is also obvi-ous and apparent that severe deficiencieshave arisen during the development and itis only through the great efforts and inge-nuity of the faculty that the Holdernesshigh-quality education program is able tocarry on.”

Money was always short for a schoolclimbing out of debt, and also seeding itsendowment. In addition, there was the “x”

“ONE [SACRED SPACE] IS THE CENTRAL QUAD, WHICH IS WHAT YOU SEE OF HOLDERNESSON THAT FIRST TURN INTO CAMPUS—THAT GREAT VIEW ACROSS THE GRASS TOSCHOOLHOUSE, CARPENTER, LIVERMORE, NILES AND WEBSTER, AND CHAPEL. THERE’S AVISCERAL ATTACHMENT IN EVERYBODY TO THAT GREEN SPACE.”

— ROB KINSLEY ’88

SPRING 2015Rob and Jonathan meet with focusgroups in the Holderness communi-ty to learn about the sacred,popular, and well-used areas ofcampus as well as the under-utilizedand unpopular areas. Rob also askspeople to describe what learningshould look like in the 21st century.

SUMMER 2015Head of School Phil Peck intro-duces Science DepartmentChair Randy Houseman to Dr.Bertrand Garcia-Moreno, Chairof the Biophysics Departmentat Johns Hopkins University.They discuss what sciencelooks like at Johns Hopkins.

FALL 2015Discussions beginregarding the con-ceptual design ofthe new academicfacility, includingits location oncampus.

JANUARY 2016The Campus Master Plan is approvedby the Board of Trustees.

MAY 2016Jonathan and Rob develop a conceptdesign for the new building and pres-ent it to the Board of Trustees.


factor of school size—a little more enroll-ment always seemed to help the bottomline, but more students required morefacilities. This was especially true for thespurt that was the shift to co-education inthe 1980s. Cash-strapped but reasonablysure that girls were coming—just not sureexactly when, or in what number—Holder-ness considered how to build up itsphysical plant.

It wasn’t until 1984 that the new aca-demic building recommended in 1977 wasbuilt. “We didn’t want to build until thequestion of co-education had been set-tled,” says Pete Woodward, headmasterfrom 1977 to 2001. The architects had sug-gested a spot behind Carpenter, to itsnorth and on the edge of the hill over-looking Plymouth. But test drills revealedunstable ground there, and the Hagerman

Center ended up north of and kitty-cor-ner to Hoit.

In 1993, Cambridge Seven Associatesadvised building a media center(library/study hall/resource center) justeast of the Schoolhouse, where Larson hadwanted a classroom building. The AlfondLibrary went up three years later, butnorth of and behind the Schoolhouse,where the library would define a prettynorth-end courtyard and also an efficientmotor route through the campus.

Through great effort and ingenuity, anda little bit at a time, severe deficiencieswere remedied in terms of both the cam-pus and school finances. Headmaster DonHagerman, who led Holderness until 1977,began to build an endowment at the sametime. Then Pete Woodward managed toboth retire the school’s debt and add to

the endowment. These days, fifteen yearsinto Phil Peck’s tenure, the school is finan-cially stable and entirely clear of theshadow cast by Knowlton Hall. Phil and thetrustees have also ruled that the schoolwill remain at its present size—no morescrambling for bed space of the sort, forexample, that kept Marshall Hall a func-tioning dorm for decades after its plannedexpiration date.

Holderness has at last reached a pointwhere a Campus Master Plan can really bea reliable road map, one that takes theschool a good ways into the future regard-less of the exigencies of the moment.

NOT TO REMEDY, BUT TO ASPIRESo in respect to that, where might theschool’s current deficiencies lie? To findout, Rob Kinsley and Jonathan Wehri

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What places on campus are sacred and should remain unchanged? And conversely, what parts of campus are failing to meet the needs of the community

and need to be redesigned? LSC Design met with many groups on campus and created a document that illustrates just that. Green dots indicate favorite

spots on campus, while red dots indicate areas in need of improvement.


began by visiting campus last spring andtalking to everybody they found here:groups of faculty, students, administrators,admission officers, development officers,and staff from maintenance, housekeeping,and food service.

“We spent a couple of weeks talking topeople in small groups,” says Rob. “And weran them all through the same series ofexercises. We’d put up a campus map andask people to put green dots on theirfavorite places at school, red dots onplaces that maybe don’t work so well for

them. Then we’d talk with people about thechoices they made, and why. Our next jobwas to correlate the different perspectivesand opinions of these different groups. Atleast that’s what typically happens.”

But that next job didn’t need doing atHolderness. “It’s usually a wrestling match,one constituent group against another, butat this school we got the most amazingresult,” adds Jonathan. “We heard thesame things from each group, with perfectconsistency.”

They learned, Rob says, that there are“sacred places” on this campus, beloved byall. “One is the central Quad, which is whatyou see of Holderness on that first turninto campus—that great view across thegrass to Schoolhouse, Carpenter,Livermore, Niles and Webster, and Chapel.There’s a visceral attachment in everybodyto that green space.”

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So you want a new academic building? It’s not that simple—atleast not if you want that building to serve the whole commu-nity for decades to come.

Rob Kinsley ’88—architect, trustee, and current parent—spent over three months last spring at Holderness talking topeople and discussing programs. Before he would even beginto discuss what sort of building might suit Holderness School,he needed to understand the community’s programs first. Andto bring it all together he needed a campus master plan.

It’s a better place to start. Campus master plans don’tinvolve just the physical buildings and landscapes; they takeinto consideration the programs and the strategic plans thatenvision them. Additionally with a campus master plan, build-ings are not designed, renovated, or constructed in isolationas monuments to styles or educational theories of a certaintime period; instead they are seen in the context of the wholecampus and how the other buildings around them interact andwork together to achieve a common goal, and in the case ofHolderness, the action items in our strategic plan.

Rob and the CMP committee began by asking what 21stcentury learning should look like and what spaces would beneeded to support the kind of learning proposed in theHolderness Strategic Plan. There are the student-led initia-tives like the robotics team and the architecture club. Thereare the STEM classes that focus on the environment and mathclasses that are flipped. There’s outdoor learning and leader-ship, and there’s global citizenship. What should theclassrooms that will support these programs look like?

Part of the process of writing a really solid campus masterplan also involves seeing how other schools do it. But the goalof visiting other schools isn’t to look at the buildings but tounderstand the programs and how the programs functionwithin those spaces. A school might have a really beautifulbuilding but mediocre programs, or vice versa—really dynamicprograms with no facility to serve them. The key is to achieveboth dynamic programs and the facilities built to serve them.

Rob’s approach also keeps in mind that buildings can’t bebuilt with one purpose in mind. A campus master plan beginswith the assumption that the priorities of today may not bethe priorities of tomorrow and that schools need spaces thatallow for creativity, flexibility, and innovation. A campus masterplan is a road map, not a set of directions.

The school’s journey has just begun; we have only exploreda small section of the road ahead. There will be a new aca-demic building, but before it can be built, the details must beimagined, revised, designed, edited, and checked against thegoals of the Strategic Plan, and now the Campus Master Plan.In the end, there will be dozens upon dozens of conversationsinvolving countless individuals from teachers and employeesto administrators and trustees, from students and families tobuilders and conservationists. The Holderness School CampusMaster Plan will help focus those conversations, build consen-sus, and develop a plan for a building that will be right forHolderness and relevant to 21st century learning. �

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side, and its student lounge, abundant win-dows, and natural light—a place describedby Rob and Jon as “the beating heart ofschool life.”

“Other places that got green dots fromeverybody were the outdoor chapel andall the on-campus trails cut through thewoods,” Rob says. “Holderness is lucky tohave these hundreds of acres of woodsand places like that so near at hand.”

To LSC Design, the places where therearen’t buildings—or anything besideswoods, or wildflowers, or high grass, or wet-lands—are as important to a well-plannedcampus as the buildings themselves. Roband Jonathan know all about unfolding neu-rologic research that ties natural light,access to the outdoors, and proximity togreen spaces to any number of humanhealth, psychological, and learning benefits.So of course that first glimpse of theschool, across a wide grassy swale, feelswelcoming and relaxing to many.

Therefore they brought in a landscapearchitect—Tom McGilloway of MahanRykiel Associates, based in Baltimore—tohelp make recommendations for the cam-pus as a whole. These include sight linesto the woods, swaths of wildflowers, andareas of high grass, all of which pleasesscience teacher Maggie Mumford, whoalso serves as the school’s sustainabilitycoordinator. “One of their ideas, in fact, isa wetlands area near the new academicbuilding, an area that would also functionas a living machine, something that wouldfilter the grey water from that building,”she says. “Then, of course, our scienceclasses could also use the wetlands forresearch purposes.”

And a new academic building has bub-bled to the top of the conversationbecause of all the red dots affixed to theHagerman Center, where science, math,and drama have endured an uneasy part-nership for the last several decades. “Well,

we’ve never had dressing rooms,” saysTheater Director Monique Devine.“Students have always had to change outin the hallways, and use a single full-lengthmirror in the hall for applying make-up.Storage space? There’s a small loft abovethe stage, hard to get in and out of, wherewe keep costumes. Furniture and propshave to go into the basement of Rathbun,where they tend to get moldy.”

The building has become all too tight asqueeze for the science department aswell. “I’ve been teaching here thirteenyears, and over that time the school’sbreadth of science offerings and the num-ber of kids taking them have both growntremendously,” says Science DepartmentChair Randy Houseman. “We require aminimum of two years of science for grad-uation, but many kids now are doing threeor four years.”

Those offerings have grown for severalreasons: a strong science faculty, the col-lege admissions factor, and the adoption ofa school-wide strategic plan at Holdernessthat stresses STEM offerings and new mod-els of learning. Hagerman was built at atime when the “sage on the stage” modelof pedagogy—i.e., the instructor as thecenter of both activity and information—ruled American education, and the array ofclassrooms in Hagerman provides goodstagecraft for this. Today, however, the dis-pensing of information is accomplishedmore often during homework assignments:taped lectures by the instructor, for exam-ple, or data from sources pulled off theInternet. This allows what happens in theclassroom to be more active and hands-on,with students typically working together insmall groups as they carry out experi-ments, exercises, projects, etc.

Such models thrive in facilities withbreakout spaces and common rooms,plentiful in the new science buildings thatthe science faculty—accompanied byJonathan Wehri—have visited at St. Paul’s,

St. Sebastian’s, and the Olin College ofEngineering. “What we do in science nowis built around words like ‘innovation,’ ‘flex-ibility,’ and ‘collaboration,’” says Randy.“We need a building that more easilyallows us to put these terms into practice.”

A similar conversation surrounds theBartsch Athletic Center, another spotburied in red dots. Its girls’ locker room wasan awkward add-on in the 1980s, makingthe building hard to navigate internally.Bartsch also suffers in general from a lackof spaces where coaches and athletes cancollaborate, train, work out, rehab, studyfilm, etc. Of course Holderness remainsthat now rare sort of school where athletesplay three different sports over the courseof a year, not just one, which means that itsmultisport athletes require—more so thanthe specialists—versatile training techniquesand collaborative coaching methods.

The dream of space for what needs tobe done leads Athletic Director RickEccleston ’92 to think about what could bedone as well. “What if we could helpMonique’s dance program by providingfloor room for it here?” he says. “What ifwe had classroom space here for ourhealth and wellness programs? We mightbe able to partner up with PlymouthState’s Human Health and PerformanceLab program—or their Ph.D. program inphysical therapy, and have four or five doc-toral students here to help our kids rehabfrom injuries.”

There are also problems elsewhere tobe addressed: a chapel that struggles toaccommodate the whole community, forexample, and residential life issues thatinclude continued progress toward an 8:1ratio of students to faculty in the dorms,and the unusual problem of more facultywanting to live on campus. Rob andJonathan have chipped in with their ownobservations, which include several build-ings that have no real open view to theoutdoors, and a confusing relationship

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� An aerial view of Plan A-Alternate which includes the construction of a new

academic building adjacent to Schoolhouse, the relocation of Hoit, and the

creation of an academic quad north of Schoolhouse


between the front of Weld and the Quad:“This is one of the most important spaceson campus and it’s dominated by cars,”reads their report.

While the Holderness community hasspoken largely with one voice in identify-ing what works and what doesn’t, decidingwhat to do next can be its own sort ofwrestling match, and architects all toooften have seen that process get testy.Fortunately the school has a referee forthis—not Phil Peck, nor the board oftrustees, but rather a document of just abrief several pages.

Holderness strategic plans used to beidentified by the year of their approval dur-ing the early years of Phil Peck’s tenure.By now, however, the Strategic Plan hasbecome such a living document, subject tosuch frequent revision and adjustment,that it merely has assumed undated capitalletters, as have its four primary goals: Builda Dynamic Community; Educate for theEmerging World; Deepen Our Connections;Connect Holderness to the World.

“By combining our Campus Master Planwith the Strategic Plan, we are keeping ourfocus on our programs,” Phil says. “Insteadof working on a project-by-project basis,each one within its own silo, we have devel-oped an array of projects that work inconcert for the school in terms of a futurethat we can project fifteen to twenty yearsahead. It’s a way of making decisions goingforward that complement each other, aprocess that’s not reactive, but proactive;not remedial, but aspirational.”

“Within that sort of framework,” addsPete Nordblom, “the CMP has less to dowith how a school looks and more to dowith what it wants to be.”

A CERTAIN TWEAK, AND THEN ANOTHERThat January meeting of the CMP Commit-tee in the Nordblom Company conferenceroom began at ten AM, and it ranged upand down, over and through both the

elements of the Strategic Plan and thefeedback LSC had collected, all in refer-ence to what the committee should bringto the imminent January meeting of thefull board of trustees.

“We have something like fifty differentrecommendations—good recommenda-tions—for things that need doing anddeciding,” Rob said. “From all those differ-ent stones, we have to sift out the bigstones, our top and immediate priorities.For the rest, we’ll have to see what hap-pens as the plan progresses, and as theneeds of the school change over time.”

The three biggest stones now—as deter-mined by the CMP’s steering committee,Rob said—should be these, in order ofimportance: Phase 1) a new math and sci-ence-oriented academic building, alongwith a renovation of Hagerman; Phase 2) anew athletic facility to replace Bartsch;and Phase 3) an expansion of the chapel,this headlining other elements having todo with aspects of student life on campusand renovating Niles and Webster.

There was talk about the funding neces-sary to carry out those phases, the risk ofproposing dreams that might never be real-ized. But Assistant Head for InstitutionalAdvancement Robert Caldwell, who sat atthat table contemplating the biggest chal-lenge of his career, remained positive andenergized. “So long as we tie what we wantto do into the letter and the spirit of theStrategic Plan,” he said, “I’ll have themes Ican work with.”

On the screen at the front of the room,Rob clicked to a floor plan for the pro-posed building, which was sketched at27,000 square feet, ten classrooms, agreenhouse, and honeycombed over itstwo floors with spaces for collaborating,connecting, communing. Russ Cushmanasked how that size was chosen. “Weworked with the departments and schoolleadership to define what was needed pro-grammatically,” Rob replied. “And we’re

talking now about more than just sciencein this building—maybe math too. But thisis just an idea. The CMP won’t lock us intoany one size.”

And where to put it? By the day of thismeeting, several different spots hadalready been proposed and considered inconversations between LSC and schoolleadership. Placing it on the lot currentlyoccupied by the tennis courts, for exam-ple, was on the wrong side of Route 175and too distant. Building it where thehead’s house currently sits was closer, butstill on the wrong side of the road; it wouldalso require moving that house.

One idea that stuck, however, involvedthe very spot where Jens Frederick Larsonhad wanted an academic building in 1931—on the east side of the Schoolhouse, aboutwhere the baseball field’s backstop nowstands. If there was anything fortunate innot implementing the entirety of Larson’splan in the ’30s, it was the preservation ofthat welcoming field and its eye-friendlybackdrop of handsome buildings as peoplearrive on campus. The two other dormsLarson had proposed would instead bepresenting their backsides to arrivals andblocking that vista. This academic facility,however, arriving nearly a century after itwas first proposed, would be centrallylocated, symmetrical, and only enhancethat first glimpse of Holderness. This wasOption A, which was clicked in diagramform on to the screen.

Another popular idea, which becameOption B, was to locate the building nearwhere the WM Design group had sug-gested in 1977—not on loose ground onthe edge of the hill, however, but ratheras an extension of Carpenter filling thepresent gap between Carpenter andAlfond. In LSC’s sketch on the screen,however, that option looked like too muchfacility squeezed into too small a space,lending a claustrophobic feel to thatnorth campus courtyard. It also blocked

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that airy campus sight line over Plymouthand out to Mt. Stinson.

Jonathan clicked to Option C, which hadtaken shape on a last-minute basis duringLSC’s final conversation with the school’sfaculty. That was when Janice Pedrin-Nielson—Chair of the Modern and ClassicalLanguages Department and the school’sservice coordinator—had raised her hand tocomment on Option A. She pointed outthat Hoit, the dorm built in 1951, would sitlike a stray boulder in the midst of trafficbetween the academic buildings.

“It’s just in the way,” she said. “I knowwe’ve recently renovated the building, butstill—what if we got rid of Hoit and put thenew facility in its place? Then we’d have anunobstructed courtyard at the north endof campus ringed by four academic build-ings: the Schoolhouse, Carpenter, Alfond,and this new facility.”

It was an idea compelling enough tothrow into the mix. LSC drew up a sketchof what this would look like, and indeed,on the big screen it outshone Option A,granting that end of the campus obviousdividends by way of symmetry, spacious-ness, and ease of movement. Enoughdividends to justify not razing Hoit, proba-bly, but lifting it off its foundation andmoving it somewhere else? That would bethe next question.

Then Jonathan returned to Option A,but now to display an alternative versionthat had bubbled up in Pennsylvania, whileRob and Jonathan were sharing this new

Option C with the landscape architects ofMahan Rykiel. There it was suggested thatthe new building remain east of theSchoolhouse, as in Option A, but that Hoitbe moved somewhere else just the same.

So a bird’s eye-view of what that wouldlook like came up on the screen, and atthat moment Jim Hamblin said wow. “Thatreally does look cool,” added Phil Peck. “Itredefines the whole look of the campus.”

“Exactly,” said Jonathan Wehri. “Nowyou have a true academic quad, one cen-tral area that captures all the school’sacademic buildings—Schoolhouse,Carpenter, Alfond, this new facility, andalso Hagerman.”

Indeed, by taking Hoit out of the pic-ture, the courtyard could be extended eastall the way to Rathbun, Hoit’s companiondorm. Suddenly it wasn’t just a courtyard—it was a quad, one broad enough tobalance a similar space at the school’sopposite end, that swale around which theSouth Campus dorms are ranged. And justas suddenly Hagerman had become an ele-ment defining this new quad, rather thanthe north-end outpost it had been previ-ously. Welcomed in this way into theschool community of academic buildings,Hagerman helped to make them all look,well, a little more august.

In a certain way, the Holderness campusas a whole had snapped into focus, achiev-ing that integrated sense of order andinevitability that Jens Frederick Larson andEdric Weld had dreamed about. “It will also

make a stronger sort of statement, archi-tecturally,” added Russ Cushman, “aboutthe importance we attach to academics.”

And so it was decided. Options A–C ofPhase 1 would be presented to the fullboard in January, but the committee’s ownrecommendation would be the alternativeto Option A. Phases 2–3 would be present-ed as the next priorities in line. And sowould begin the next stage of discussion,negotiation, and feasibility testing.

Whatever the issue during that stage,the CMP will be—like the Strategic Plan—aliving document, subject to adjustment onthe fly; but also one that commands theauthority of a broad consensus, and a widerange of definite possibilities. No less thanthe Strategic Plan, it will be a dream ofwhat the school can be, and a real-worldblueprint for getting there.

And for Rob Kinsley and JonathanWehri, this particular job—and process—hasprovided a reminder that architecturalvision is a virtue confined not just to archi-tects. “This is an example of the planningprocess working the way it should work,”Jonathan said, commending Janice forraising her hand and proposing somethinga little outside the box, and grateful forwhat had ensued in the tweaking of hertweak—for the breadth, beauty, and graceof that new academic quad. “You neverknow where the next good idea is going tocome from.” �

“INSTEAD OF WORKING ON A PROJECT-BY-PROJECT BASIS, WE HAVE DEVELOPED ANARRAY OF PROJECTS THAT WORK IN CONCERT FOR THE SCHOOL IN TERMS OF A FUTURETHAT WE CAN PROJECT FIFTEEN TO TWENTY YEARS AHEAD. IT’S A WAY OF MAKING DECI-SIONS GOING FORWARD THAT COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER, A PROCESS THAT’S NOTREACTIVE, BUT PROACTIVE; NOT REMEDIAL, BUT ASPIRATIONAL.”

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PHIL PECK BEGINS WITH A SURVEY QUESTION—the same one

used by the architects of LSC Design as they began work last fall on a

Campus Master Plan for Holderness School. “They showed students, fac-

ulty, staff, and other groups a map of the campus,” Phil says to retired

English teacher Jim Brewer. “Then they asked each person to paste green

dots on places they liked on campus and red dots on places they didn’t

like so well. Where would you have pasted your dots?”

“Well, I guess my favorite place was the chapel, and by that I mean the

old chapel—not the way it is set up now,” Jim says.

It’s February, and they sit in the kitchen of Jim’s tidy cottage in the

Taylor Community in nearby Laconia. Jim’s is one of many such cottages,

but all the cottages benefit from good campus planning, each with plenty

of sunny windows and views into portions of the area left wild and wood-

ed—not unlike the 1860s-vintage house Jim occupied in Rumney during

much of his long career at Holderness. Here, however, there is no fire-

wood to move, a task that was always a challenge for a man who was an

adult victim of the 1950s polio epidemic.

“I loved the pews and the narrow aisles, the smells of candle wax and

old wood,” Jim says. “I loved the sun pouring through that great blue

stained-glass window over the altar.” He laughs and shakes his head.

“Now, with all those metal folding chairs instead—well, no.”

The morning light still shines through that window, and the aisles are

still narrow, but yes, the pews are gone, and with them their simple

beauty and that scent of old wood. The pews were removed several

years ago in order to make room for additional seating for the growing

Holderness community.

“We’re planning to renovate the chapel as part of the new campus

plan, Jim, and we hope to keep the front of the building just as it is,” Phil

says. “The plan is to extend it out the back to make it bigger, and open up

some views to the mountains.”

Phil adds that the wooden pews are in storage now, but that he can’t

guarantee they will be reinstalled in the new version of the chapel. “We

may go for seating more easily removed, just to keep the space flexible

and available for other purposes as well.”

As flexible, perhaps, as an old shoe. Having graduated from Deerfield

Academy, then Hobart College (where he starred in lacrosse), Jim was in

his second year at the University of Wisconsin Law School when polio

struck him down in 1955. He was hospitalized for eight months and came

out in leg braces and on crutches. He returned to law school, began a

career in that field, but ultimately decided he wanted to teach instead.

Meanwhile a friend and classmate at Deerfield, Bruce Haertl, was teach-

ing history at a place where the headmaster, he said, was “as relaxed and

comfortable as an old shoe.”

That place was Holderness, the headmaster Don Hagerman. By then

Jim had regained enough motion in his right leg to use a short leg brace,

allowing him to put one foot in front and climb stairs facing forward. “So I

could pass the acid test of my Holderness interview, the old Livermore

climb to see the infirmary,” Jim says. “Don knew if I could do that epic

up-and-down, I could do anything on the campus.”


Catching Up With Jim BrewerTHE COMFORT OF AN OLD SHOE

Phil Peck visited former English teacher Jim Brewer to talk about some of the changes in store forthe campus. They also talked about what can’t change.

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� Coach Brewer on the sidelines


Jim started in January 1959. He then spent half of the 1970s as head-

master of the Barlow School in Amenia, NY, the rest teaching English and

coaching lacrosse at Exeter Academy. It wasn’t until 1979 that he resumed

his work at Holderness. “I heard once from Pete Woodward [Don

Hagerman’s successor as headmaster] that the Exeter head told him he

was getting the school’s best teacher,” Phil says.

During his first years at Holderness, Jim had already founded the

Holderness boys’ lacrosse program, and on his return he founded the

girls’ program as well—not to mention serving at various times as assis-

tant headmaster, director of development, director of publications,

director of college counseling, and English department chair. As a

coach, he racked up twelve league championships and two New England

Coach-of-the-Year honors.

Jim also became a student of Holderness history, someone particularly

good at pointing out some of the quiet but decisive moments in the

school’s narrative. He reminds Phil that Knowlton Hall was built to face

the chapel, but when Rector Edric Weld and architect Jens Fredrick

Larson built Livermore Hall in Knowlton’s place, the new building faced

east. “I think that suggested a different version of Holderness,” he says,

“one that prepared the way for a larger, more outward-looking school.”

Jim also remembers the pollutants that sawmills in Lincoln and

Waterville once dumped into the Pemigewasset River, resulting in a dirty

foam he’d see three feet deep on both banks. “Then in the 1960s the

Clean Water Act shut those mills down, and this area was pretty dead—

until I-93 got built,” Jim says. “Then Loon Mountain opened its ski area,

and the Ski-93 program got people up here, and the school was able to

grow as the region grew.”

BY IMMERSING HIMSELF SO DEEPLY IN THE LIFE of the school,

and so constantly finding new challenges to take on during his career

there, Jim found ways to keep himself fresh and forward-looking—much as

he has at the Taylor Community, which he joined in 2011. Currently he

sings in the community chorus, participates in the poetry group (writing

some poetry of his own on occasion), provides photography for Taylor pub-

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LEFT: Jim shares a quiet moment with a student in his office in Schoolhouse, circa 1965; RIGHT: Jim warms up a lacrosse goalie on the Lower Fields

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lications (as he once did for Holderness), performs annually as a storyteller,

and regularly bakes bread for summer picnics and potluck events.

In 2012 he founded The Playreaders, a group that meets to read plays

aloud every two weeks and to perform a public reading once each year.

Last year Jim directed The Devil and Daniel Webster. “This year it’s The

Spoon River Anthology, which we’ll distill and perhaps perform,” Jim says.

And his crutches have been succeeded by an all-terrain motorized

wheelchair, a fast little rig that allows Jim to keep up with his partner

Chase during late afternoon walks around the campus. Chase is a terrier-

mix rescue dog, perhaps three years old, abandoned on the streets of San

Antonio and eventually conveyed cross-country to the Laconia Humane

Society, where he and Jim met.

“This dog has known nothing but kindness since an Alamo Rescue

Friends volunteer picked him up ten months ago, and he reciprocates by

being all a-wriggle with affection for each person he meets,” Jim says.

“He’s also relishing a puppyhood full of toys, games, and treats—things he

never had before.”

Jim himself relishes the outdoors as much as ever, and his famous

powers of observation remain undimmed. The habits of butterflies and

bees are irresistible, as are the roosting patterns of crows. “I’m also work-

ing with Taylor to establish a few out-of-the-way areas that can be

developed into wildflower meadows that are attractive and pollinator-

supportive,” he says.

Wherever he is, Jim makes a point of being involved—“A key to sur-

vival, I’d suggest,” he says. In both mind and spirit he is sufficiently

curious, energetic, and flexible and gets involved in any number of ways.

Once the conversation circles back to the school’s Campus Master

Plan, Phil recalls the role that flexibility plays in the life of a building—as

will be the case in the chapel, and also with a new academic building on

the drawing board, and also for a wholesale renovation of the Hagerman

Center. “It’s a mantra we’ve got going with this plan—innovation, collabo-

ration, and flexibility,” he says. “More than ever, neurological research

supports the effectiveness of collaborative and interactive styles of learn-

ing, and the importance of common rooms and breakout spaces that

support small-group activities of this sort.”

And the problem with the Hagerman Center, at least as currently con-

stituted, is the lack of such rooms and spaces—the flexibility isn’t there.

“Those classrooms work with the sage-on-the-stage model of instruction,

and that’s it,” Phil says. “The new building will accommodate that or any

other model, including some cross-curricular team-taught courses we’re

thinking about—an elective on nature writing, for example, taught by [sci-

ence teacher] Reggie Pettitt and [English teacher] John Lin. Or a STEM

course taught by [math teacher] Vicky Stigum and [science teacher]

Maggie Mumford.”

Even flexibility and innovation, however, are things that can be

pushed too hard in an educational community with a lot of history

behind it already and geared for the long haul into the future. “I worry

sometimes that we’re too traditional, and also sometimes that we’re too

progressive,” Phil confesses to his old friend. “There’s a tension between

the two, and they pull in opposite ways. There’s a core right in the middle,

and that’s what we need to hold on to. We don’t want to be trendy. We

want changes that are substantive and sustaining.”

Did we mention that Jim also founded Holderness School Today? He

nods to Phil and says, “I wrote an editorial once on that very subject for

HST. I think I dipped into Shakespeare’s sonnet number 116 and referred

to an ever-fixéd star marking the way, something that alumni will always

recognize. I suspect it has an awful lot to do with staying friendly—hang

on to that old shoe, in other words.”

GENERATIONS OF HOLDERNESS STUDENTS remember seeing Mr.

Brewer, who retired in 1995, patiently maneuvering his way up and down

stairs, in and out of buildings, with only a friendly smile on his face and

never a complaint about his disability. On the lacrosse field, however,

Jim’s smooth and muscular stick work was wonderful to behold as he

warmed up his goalies, lasering shots at all corners of the cage. Perhaps

the comfort of an old shoe, an athletic shoe that is, was in the distance

past, but his athletic skills never faltered.

Fond memories they were—not unlike the rest of his memories of his

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Jim with his partner Chase

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SPECIAL PROGRAMS. It’s a time to push one’s definition ofself, to dig deep and redefine the boundaries of one’sperspective. For sophomores during Artward Bound thatmeans exploring one’s creative capacity. The stacks ofvases, bowls, and plates, created on the potter’s wheelsin the basement of Carpenter, are just one of the prolificoutcomes of their ten-day exploration.

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Scenes from Special Programs 2016


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STATISTICS FROM PROJECT OUTREACHr 44 students participatedr 10 adults joined themr 800+ miles were drivenr 8+ organizations were helped, including Fairmount Parks,

MANNA, Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission, SHARE,Philabundance, Cradles to Crayons, and Darby School

r In 1 day, 2,112 were meals made at MANNA, 200 boxes packed atSHARE, and 8,420 lbs of food boxed at Philabundance

r 3 truckloads of debris were cleared away, totaling 10,460 lbs!

STATISTICS FROM ARTWARD BOUNDr 7 songs were performed during the student performancesr 10 drums, 3 bells, 1 shekere, 1 cabasa, 1 didgeridoo, and

1 drumset were used in the composition of their original songsr Over 40 AB t-shirts were printed with a student-designed logor 38 glass bottles were sand blastedr 25 pounds of mirror were up-cycledr 1,500+ scenes were created by students with 3,000 or more

charactersr Thousands of notes were played

STATISTICS FROM OUT BACKr 84 students in 11 groups completed the full ten-day adventurer 5 seniors volunteered to do OB a second timer 26 adult leaders guided the students and taught them

wilderness survival skillsr 9 new faculty chose to do Solo along with the studentsr Over 400 miles were logged on snow machines and 4x4

vehicles that transported gear and food in and out of Basecampr Over 300 miles were hikedr Over 1,000 layer bars/baked goods were consumed

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Solo may be a time of solitude during which self-sufficiency is critical, but that doesn’t mean Director ofOut Back Lance Galvin expects students to remembereverything. The Solo checklist is just one way in which hesets students up for success. This year, every student whostarted Out Back also finished Out Back.



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This scene should look familiar to anyone who hasgraduated from Holderness in the last 45 years.Solo rations, a plastic tarp, and a No. 10 can. Anddon’t forget your flags and OB journal!




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by geoffrey west ’

Five years ago, before Senior Thesis became arequired course, seniors at Holderness partici-pated in a March elective program calledSenior Colloquium, and among the offeringswas robotic engineering. Since then, the brack-ets, hardware, and motors that were used inthe course have been laying dormant in a stor-age room.

Last fall, however, students rallied togetherand consulted Reggie Pettitt, the teacher of therobotics Senior Colloquium; they wanted helpin reviving the program. Under the guidance ofMr. Pettitt and a second science teacher, ThomFlinders, the club turned a vacant section of thelibrary basement into a workroom and broughtrobotics back to Holderness.

In the months since the club was initiated,over thirty students have become involved,many of whom participate on a weekly basis.One of their first projects required the studentsto build a robot that could ascend a four-foot-tall obstacle. Among the solutions the studentspursued was a spring-loaded grappling hookthat allowed the robot to pull itself to the top.In their first competition, they tied ProctorAcademy for first place.

Because the program has generated so muchenthusiasm, Mr. Flinders has decided to take ita step further; in the fall of , engineeringwill be offered as a class. “I think engineeringallows students to look at science from a differ-ent perspective,” says Mr. Flinders. “It’s anapplied science rather than a theoretical one.”

Mr. Flinders explains that an engineeringcourse will also offer students the opportunityto make connections to the skills they havedeveloped in other classes. “The nice thing aboutengineering is that it can cover so many differ-ent aspects of learning,” he says. “It can be atruly multi-disciplinary course. Everything fromthe sciences to humanities to art can all be inte-grated very easily into one engineering program.I also think the course will allow students to

look at the world differently; they’ll be investi-gating problems that we face in the world today,analyzing those problems, and seeing that thereare multiple solutions.”

So far the Engineering Club has focused onjust designing robots, but the class next fall willbe able to explore other aspects of engineeringas well. “I really like the first RoboticsCompetition,” Mr. Flinders says, “but I also likethe idea of students making their own inven-tions and coming up with their own problemsto solve. We’ll probably also do some big bridgebuilding, look at some traditional physics, and

learn how structural members work. There willprobably be some computer programminginvolved as well.”

In the meantime, the students in theEngineering Club are still meeting after lunchon a weekly basis to continue optimizing theirrobot; they will have at least one more competi-tion against Proctor this spring in which to testtheir design, and they can’t wait to see whowins! �

Robot Design

Members of the Engineering Club work on

the design and construction of a robot for

their challenge against Proctor. Clockwise

from above: Jullia Tran ’18; science teacher

Thom Flinders and Jullia Tran; Nate

Sampo ’16 and Zhaowei Yu ’16


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Remember the portrait of the headmaster star-ing down at you in Weld? How about theceramic pieces in the display cases in AlfondLibrary? And did you see the artwork on thewalls in the Admission Office, in Schoolhouse,and elsewhere on campus?

Artwork by recognized professionals hasbeen present at Holderness for decades. Someof what the school owns can be seen in displaycases throughout the campus, but other piecesare stored in closets, attics, and elsewhere. Justwhat artwork does Holderness own? Who arethe artists who created the various pieces?How can the school’s art holdings be displayedfor all to enjoy and for faculty to use as learn-ing resources?

Thanks to the generosity of John ’ andGretchen Swift, these questions are about to beanswered.

After graduating from Holderness in ,John dedicated his life to the world of ceramics,as a teacher, administrator, and artist at severalcolleges, universities, and independent schools.Then after years, he retired from educationand focused his attention full-time on his ownwork as an artist.

It wasn’t until years later that John andGretchen’s path led them back to Holderness.In John decided to donate his kilns to theschool and help create a ceramics program.This meant not just donating the kilns butreturning to Holderness to teach for severalyears as well.

For three years they eagerly immersed them-selves in the Holderness way of life. John taughtfour classes, and they both attended chapel anddinner, assisted in the dorms, and offered Art inthe Afternoon instruction. By the end of threeyears, the ceramics program was robust withbeginning, intermediate, and advanced classes.In addition, there were several faculty who knewhow to operate the kilns and could share theirknowledge of ceramics with students.

While cultivating the successful ceramicsprogram, the Swifts saw another opportunity

at Holderness School: namely the need for acatalogue of the school’s artwork. Paintings,portraits, and ceramics were moving aboutcampus without any record of their comingsand goings, so the Swifts, and others in thecommunity, felt it was time to develop a moresophisticated system to track the location,value, and continual care of our art collection.

Eight years later, with the collection of art-work continuing to grow, Holderness is readyto take on this task—with the help, of course,of John and Gretchen.

Now living back in the area, John andGretchen have already rolled up their sleevesand begun scouring the campus for artwork.From the walls of Livermore to the backrooms in Carpenter to the shelves in theArchives, the Swifts will be examining worksof art and recommending whether or not theyneed to be included in the official HoldernessArt Collection. Gretchen and John’s initialinventory is a crucial first step for the school.Based on their catalogue of work, the schoolwill then determine a process for movingHolderness art holdings to a central, securelocation. This location will serve as a space

where information about current and futureacquisitions can be recorded.

Based on the Swift’s initial inventory work,there are some key questions the school willneed to consider before moving forward:Where on the Holderness campus might ourtwo and three-dimensional artwork be dis-played for all to see? What pieces need to bedisplayed securely? And, therefore, what kindsof cases should be built to display such pieces?

“As pieces are identified and information isrecorded,” says John, “we also hope faculty willuse these resources in their classes and findways to develop interdisciplinary activities.While the art should provide visual pleasureand stimulate discussions, it should also serveto open new avenues to learning and thinking.”

Ultimately, it is hoped that further dona-tions of original artwork will be made toHolderness in the coming years, once the col-lection that is here now is fully documentedand put on display. It’s an ongoing project thathas no definitive end in the foreseeable future,but Gretchen and John are up to the task. Weare grateful for their service to the school andcan’t wait to see what else they discover! �

The Hunt Is On! Discovering Artwork at Holderness

A detail from Pirates Attacking the Great Galleon Plate Ship, by Frederic M. Grant. This oil painting,

missing from Weld Hall during a recent renovation, was found this winter by John and Gretchen.



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English teacher John Lin and science teacherReggie Pettitt began class one day this winterasking students to stare out the window at anoak tree. They met in the dining hall and sat atthe Head’s table, looking out at the old oaktree that arches high above the window andsweeps the sky.

But really it wasn’t the oak tree the teacherswanted their students to see. It was the spacesin between.

“We were discussing ‘The Snowman’ byWallace Stevens, which ends with the lines, ‘Forthe listener, who listens in the snow, / And,nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is notthere and the nothing that is,’” explains John.“It’s training your eyes to see all that is thereand also what is not there, to shift your per-spective, to extend your vision and recalibrateyour senses.”

An action item in the school’s current strate-gic plan challenges the school to “Deliberatelyand thoughtfully connect all our programs withthe outdoors.” It’s easy to see this at work inSpecial Programs and in science classes, but inother departments, the connection hasn’t beenas easy. English teacher and Out Back DirectorLance Galvin ’, is trying to change that. Thisfall, with the help of John and Reggie, he devel-oped a course titled Environmental Literature.The team-taught, one-semester course wasoffered for the first time this winter.

“We were concerned that it would be a diffi-cult course to teach when it is cold outside andeverything in nature is dead,” says John. “And ithas been a bit difficult to get outside, but it’s allabout observation, about seeing, really looking,and then looking again; it ultimately doesn’tmatter what the weather or temperature is.”

Take for example one assignment in whichstudents had to write about an object found innature for twenty minutes every night for twoweeks. The objects were simple—stones smallenough to hold in the palm of your hand, sticksshorter than your fingers, pieces of bark, orhemlock sprigs.

“The first night or two was easy,” says John,“but how do you continue to write somethingdifferent every night? How do you describe thevarying degrees of brown? What are the wordsthat explain the texture?”

“That’s where science comes in,” adds Reggie.“If they can begin to learn the language ofbotanists and geologists, to learn the lexicon of

nonfiction nature writing, they will be able to digdeeper and say more, and ultimately, see more.”

And while the nine boys enrolled in theclass admit to having some trouble findingenough to write about for two weeks, theirapproaches were varied and intriguing. Whileone took to waxing philosophical, anotherstarted writing about connections to his life

Seeing What Is Not There

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back home. “I’m learning to pay attention todetails,” says senior Emmanuel Dorvil, whoarrived at Holderness just this fall from aschool of , students in Miami, FL. “I’venever spent this much time in nature, and it’sgiven me a chance to make connections I’venever thought about before.”

In addition to writing about their naturalobjects and reading poems and essays, the stu-dents were also asked to design lab experiments.They began by observing nature on Mt.Prospect, just up the hill from campus, and thenthey wrote down their accounts in a journal.From their observations, students had to comeup with questions they wanted to answer anddesign experiments to test their hypotheses.

Bryce Murdick ’, for example, observed arotten log with insect holes bored into it. Hebegan to ask questions about what insects mighthave made the holes and wondered if they werestill in there in the middle of February. To findout more, Bryce has proposed pouring cementinto the log, letting it harden, and breaking apartthe log to reveal a cast of the insect pathways.

Cool idea. “But it’s not about the data oreven finding the right answer,” says Reggie. “It’sabout the process. In natural history writing,the back-story—the mistakes, the misleadingfacts, the iterations—are all part of the result.We are helping them to understand that thechaos behind the scenes is just as important asthe final result.”

It’s also about looking beyond themselves.Reggie and John want their students to forgetabout how they feel and how they are interact-ing with one another. Instead, they want theirstudents to embrace their inner scribes, writingdown what they observe and then methodicallyproposing hypotheses that explain what theysee. By doing so, they are no longer self-cen-tered but other-centered, or more accurately,nature-centered.

“Imagine how this could transform OutBack, particularly Solo,” says Reggie. “Insteadof claiming boredom, students could record

observations in their nature journals. Imaginewhat they could bring back to the classroomfor the spring semester if they spent three daysand nights observing and accounting for allthat is around them rather than missing whatis not there.”

But Reggie is getting ahead of himself. Thiswinter most of the students who enrolled inthe class were seniors who have already com-pleted Out Back. But it could work. Makingthis curriculum part of the junior year experi-ence could help them to see beyond the first

layer of lessons learned during OB—those ofenduring when the going gets tough and work-ing as a team. This curriculum could helpstudents focus beyond the human experienceand make connections to the natural world thatwould last a lifetime.

“That’s our hope with this course,” says John.“We probably won’t see the changes with thesekids in this course here and now. But we hopethat some of what we have done in this classwill return to them in the future and developinto a care for the natural world.” �

Above are photos from a lab experiment in

which students tried to determined the

caloric content of various types of native

nuts. Students in the upper-right

photograph are Emmanuel Dorvil ’16 and

Jack Fisher ’16.



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For the past four years, Erik Thatcher ’ hasbeen working with the fall and spring rockclimbing teams at Holderness. In November, hetook on a new role and is now responsible fordeveloping and leading the school’s first wintermountaineering team.

Geographically, this area is ideal for the pro-gram, with a wide range of terrain forbeginners to advanced climbers. And with thechanges in season, climbers encounter a varietyof conditions from rock to snow to ice.

“Some of the best ice climbing terrain inNorth America is in Crawford Notch,” says Erik.

And while the geography is a good match,Holderness School is an even better match forthe kind of program Erik wants to create andthe lessons he wants to instill in his student-athletes. In addition to teaching the technicalskills necessary for climbing, Erik hopes hisstudents pick up an appreciation for nature andin turn a desire to protect and preserve it. Healso hopes his students will learn about self-sufficiency and giving back.

Erik first fell in love with rock climbing as astudent at Holderness under the guidance offormer teacher and coach Richard Parker.

“During my senior year, Dr. Parker offered aguide apprenticeship program to anyone atHolderness who was interested,” says Erik. “Iwas the only one who signed up.”

During that season and throughout college,Erik continued to develop his skills both as aclimber and as a leader; in addition to obtain-ing certification as a Wilderness FirstResponder, he took a level course in ava-

Holderness Inaugurates a Winter Mountaineering Team

Scenes from the Winter Mountaineering team’s

adventures throughout New Hampshire,

including hikes on Mt. Washington and in

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lanche hazard management and obtainedSingle Pitch Instructor certification throughthe American Mountain Guides Association(amga). Erik also worked for, and continues towork for, Mooney Mountain Guides.

After college, Erik returned to Holdernessto coach and has been building the programever since. This winter, with his four-studentteam, he ventured from Rumney to FranconiaNotch, from the shores of Newfound Lake tothe cliffs in Crawford Notch. There are manystudents who prefer the intense competitionson the rink and on the ski hills, but for the stu-dents who signed up for WinterMountaineering, the challenges presented bynature are far more enticing.

“I’m in a better state of mind any time I amin the mountains or climbing,” says juniorLorea Zabaleta, who was also part of Erik’srock climbing team this fall. “There’s somethingabout mountaineering that feels bigger thanjust myself, and I hope to have a lifetime tochase that feeling—and a few years withThatcher to prepare.”

When they are not exploring the localledges and cliffs, Erik’s team is in the climbingroom in Bartsch learning the advanced skillsand safety measures needed for different typesof belaying and multi-pitch climbs.

“I chose winter mountaineering because Iwanted to learn the skills necessary for surviv-ing in the mountains,” says ninth-grader AidanKinsley. “And during the season I learned howto keep warm and prepare for the cold andother dangers that come with high-altitudeclimbing in the winter.”

But the program, as Erik sees it, isn’t justabout learning the technical aspects of thesport. “I think the climbing and mountainsports communities as a whole offer goodexamples of healthy communities proppingeach other up for the betterment of all—a veryHolderness-esque vibe,” says Erik. “I want stu-dents to recognize that it’s worthy to spendsome of your days slotted for recreation in a

selfless way, supporting others or the communi-ty that supports you.”

To that end, Erik hopes to get studentsmaintaining trails for local organizations likethe Squam Lakes Association, the UnitedStates Forest Service, and the AppalachianMountain Club. In particular he hopes thatstudents will help map the trail system atRumney Cliffs for the usfs.

Erik also hopes that the climbing programwill not be limited to students. “My hope is tooffer more climbing opportunities outside ofsports practice to both my climbers and thegeneral school population,” says Erik. “The endgoal is to make climbing more of a knownactivity on campus, to give everyone a taste,even if just for a day.”

With this in mind, Erik continues to seekother certifications that will allow him to pro-vide additional experiences to his students andto the greater Holderness community. “I took arock guide course with the amga last summerand was accepted into the Advanced RockGuide course this summer,” explains Erik. “Afterthat I’ll be a six-day exam away from beinginternationally certified as a rock guide. I’m alsotaking my Avy course next month. The specif-ic hope there is that it puts me on track to gettrained and certified in offering our students theofficial three-day Avy curriculum.”

He’s the man with a plan in all senses ofthe phrase, and Holderness is lucky to havehim on campus to develop a program that soclosely aligns with the school’s strategic planand mission. �

OUTDOOR PROGRAM KEY PRINCIPLESr Provide experiences where individuals gain a sense of

accomplishment and confidence.r Cultivate opportunities for growth in teamwork and

communication, both of which are essential in creatingbonds among peers and between teachers and students.

r Inspire an interest in and concern for the environmentthat manifests itself in “Leave No Trace” principles.

r Stretch individual’s understanding of physical, emotional,and social capacities.

r Enhance the ability of students to distinguish betweenwhat is necessary and what is merely desirable in anexpedition.

r Provide an experiential class that creates esprit de corpsand a sense of uniqueness.

r Establish an ethic in which the journey is more importantthan the destination.



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In case you haven’t heard, the Bulls have a newrink. On Friday, December , amidst much fan-fare, we officially opened the new Fiore Rink atAlfond Arena with a delicious chili dinner, theplaying of the national anthem (both Americanand Canadian), and a puck drop by formerHolderness hockey coach Tom Eccleston, whobefore his retirement in compiled a ten-year record of --.

The new hockey rink was often the primarytopic of conversation during lunch in WeldDining Hall last winter. The ice stayed firm nomatter the temperature outside. The sound sys-tem was crystal clear and reliable. The heatedbleachers were luxurious. The solar panels onthe roof performed just as predicted. (The arrayput out enough electricity in the first hour topower a typical small house for hours!) Thefire pit became a great gathering place. Even theparking lot was immensely improved with plen-ty of space for loading and unloading buses.

But while it is nice to have a new facility, tosay that the facility itself is all that matterswould be missing the point.

It’s the people that make the difference.People like Fliv Hinman, Rip Richards, andDick Stevens, who all perfected the art of ice-making. Before Zambonis and covered rinks,they sprayed water onto the sand base with gar-den hoses—one layer at a time on star-litevenings—and maintained the surface all winter.

And coaches like Don Hinman and TomEccleston, who not only taught their players theskills necessary to win but also instilled in thema passion for the game that kept them return-ing season after season, no matter how cold thewinter wind blew up the hill from Plymouth.

It’s also the players. Players like Peter Fiorefor whom the rink is named and who co-cap-tained his team alongside Don Hinman whenthey were juniors and seniors. Peter died ofcomplications from a haying accident before hehad a chance to play in college, but his passionfor the game lives on in the memories of histeammates. Countless others have followed inhis footsteps—both male and female—relish-ing the cut of their blades on the ice and theecho of the puck against the boards.

And finally it’s the fans, countless fans, wholine the glass whenever the Bulls are playing; inevery type of weather, their dedication toHolderness hockey has been unfettered.

Without the people of this community,Holderness hockey—and the hockey rink—would cease to exist.

And it’s not just about competitive hockeyeither.

Last year when it became clear that the roofof the rink was unsafe, the main area of con-cern was finding ice time for our teams.Without ice time for practices and games, ourhockey program would have been canceled. Butwhile it required some creative thinking on thepart of Athletic Director Rick Eccleston, find-ing ice time for our athletes was the easy part.

There were other events and gatherings thatcouldn’t be rescheduled or relocated. Facultychildren, who were just learning to skate, hadnowhere to go. The holiday hockey gamebetween faculty children now in their twentiesand thirties? That couldn’t happen either. Late-night bonding sessions for seniors had to bemoved elsewhere, and faculty pick-up hockeyhad to be canceled for the season.

What a difference a year makes. Even beforewinter break, the faculty had brushed the dustoff their skates and found time between examsto get out and play. The seniors bonded aroundthe fire pit, and the newest generation ofHolderness hockey players began meeting inthe afternoons, perfecting their belly slides andmaking their first shots on goal.

That’s what was missing last year. Ourhockey teams did just fine down at psu; some Ithink even preferred the indoor temperatures,especially the fans of the opposing teams! Butour community was missing out on some of itsmost cherished winter traditions. During therink’s dedication back in December and duringthe breaks in our busy schedules, it’s been sogood to see everyone back together—gatheringaround the fire, cheering on the Bulls, and scor-ing a couple goals. �

A Cherished Winter Tradition Returns

Ben Booker ’19 slides the puck down the boards during the boys’ JV hockey game against New

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CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: Logan Clarke ’16 in the boys’ varsity

hockey game against Academie Saint-Louis; faculty children

wait for a high five from the Zamboni driver between games;

the girls’ varsity hockey team stands at attention during the

dedication ceremony; girls on the varsity hockey team model

their new hats; and friends and family gather around the new

fire pit beside the hockey rink.


If learning is more about process than about arriving at a final answer, Holderness students have been digging deep. From classroomsin Hagerman to a barge on Squam Lake to the shores of a local pond, students have rolled up their sleeves (often literally) and madetheir own discoveries. While we didn’t manage to record every class adventure this fall, below is a sampling of some of the projects,experiments, and inquiries students performed.


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TEACHER: Elizabeth Wolf; ASSIGNMENT: Discovering the Second Fundamental

Theorem of Calculus—Using Duplos, students were asked to discover a rule

for the rate of change of an Accumulation Function, and thus discover the

Second Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, which defines a relationship

between integrals and derivatives.

TEACHER: Hal Gartner; ASSIGNMENT: The Properties of Angles

and Parallel Lines—Using illustrations on a whiteboard, students

learned the properties of angles and parallel lines in relation to

their roles in various triangles.

TEACHER: Thom Flinders; ASSIGNMENT: Osmosis and Diffusion in the Core of a

Potato—Does a higher concentration of sucrose increase or decrease the

weight of a potato core? What does that tell you about the osmosis and

diffusion going on between the potato core and the sucrose?

TEACHER: Reggie Pettitt; ASSIGNMENT: Sustaining a Healthy

Population of Largemouth Bass—Why did 60 largemouth bass

broodfish, released into Mr. Pettitt’s pond in October,

“disappear” by the following May? Was there sufficient forage in

the pond to support them? Or was it something else?

AP CALCULUS AB

BIOLOGY

GEOMETRY

AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE


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TEACHER: Maggie Mumford; ASSIGNMENT: Solar Cooker

Construction—Using parabolas and 3-D computer modeling,

students were asked to create solar cookers that were capable of

melting chocolate utilizing only the power of the sun. A maximum

temperature of 100 degrees Celsius was achieved in 20 minutes,

at which point many marshmallows and chocolate bars melted.

TEACHER: Pat Casey; ASSIGNMENT: Monitoring Water Quality on Squam

Lake—The Squam Lakes Association is a local conservation group that has

been monitoring the water quality of Squam Lake since the early 1970s.

Mr. Casey’s class helped the SLA gather data this fall in an effort to better

understand lake ecology.

TEACHER: Maggie Mumford; ASSIGNMENT: Testing Athletic Performance—

Dr. Mumford’s Anatomy and Physiology class collaborated with Plymouth State

University students in their Human Performance Lab. Students learned about a

variety of athletic performance testing tools and techniques and how the results

translate into athletic performance.

TEACHER: Thom Flinders; ASSIGNMENT: Pumpkin Races—

Students measured the speed and velocity of their

homemade pumpkin carts. They then were asked to create

formulas that could be used to determine the velocity of

their pumpkin carts over any given distance.

STEM ENERGY

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY

BIOLOGY

PHYSICS



Winter Sports

SPORTS

CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: Sumner Brumbaugh ’17 sprints towards New

Hampton’s goal during an early DecemberJV hockey game; Sam

Shinn ’18 smiles for the camera during an alpine race at Proctor;

Karina Bladon ’17 gets in some training early in the season; Emmanuel

Dorvil ’16 aims for the basket during a JV game against Brewster.

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SPORTS

CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: Celine Yam ’17 strides through a

course at Bretton Woods during a New Hampshire Coaches

Series 5k classic race; Zi Yan Huang ’19 dodges a player

from The Oliverian School during a JV2 basketball game;

Tyler Slusarczyk ’16 slips one past the St. Paul’s goalie

during a boys’ varsity hockey game; Coach Woody

Kampmann discusses strategy during a break in a boys’

varsity basketball game against Lee Academy.

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SPORTS

Winter Sports

CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: Miles Bowser ’16 attempts a layup during a

boys’ varsity basketball game against Lee Academy; Vanessa

Maldonado ’18 takes possession of the puck during a girls’ varsity

hockey game against North Yarmouth Academy; the Superstars

(girls’ JV hockey) smile from the bench during a game at New

Hampton; Mina Nguyen ’19 at Loon Mountain during a session with

the Intro to Snow Sports team.


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SPORTS

CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: Aidan Kinsley ’19 learns the basics

of ice climbing during the first days of winter; Jack Finn ’17

catches air during a Lakes Region competition at Loon

Mountain; girls on the varsity basketball team watch their

teammates on the court during a game against Vermont

Academy; Mikayla Stolar ’19 competes in a U16 slalom event.


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SPORTS


#MAKEITHAPPEN WAS THEIR TEAMhashtag on Twitter, and every day this winter the

girls’ varsity basketball team, under the enthusi-

astic and passionate leadership of Head Coach

Jini Sparkman and Assistant Coach Kelly Pope,

worked incredibly hard. Perhaps their record

wasn’t quite what they had hoped, but their pas-

sion and teamwork were both exceptional. Here

Skylar “Snoop” Robinson ’16 waits for a rebound

during a game against Vermont Academy.


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UPDATE: CURRENT FACULTY AND STAFF

School nurse and Director of Health ServicesNancy Thurrell came late to the sport of triathlon,but she’s caught on so very quickly that now evenshe believes in herself.

Was it a midlife crisis that put Nancy Thurrellon the road to the usa Triathlon Age GroupNational Championships in Milwaukee lastyear? Well, it happened at about that midlifetime at least.

“I had gotten pretty fat and happy,” Nancysays, looking back to . It was shortly afterher husband had left and she was asking herselfquestions about who she wanted to be andwhat she wanted to do. In school she hadplayed field hockey and lacrosse, and she saw asolution in that previous identity. “I wanted tobe an athlete again,” she remembers.

But what sport should she choose? Shehadn’t been on a bike since the age of nine. She

had been a competitive swimmer until the ageof eight, but persistent losses to a girl namedBarbara drove her out of the pool in frustration.Nonetheless, shortly after resolving to be an ath-lete again, she agreed to join her best friend inone of Danskin’s triathlon series events.

But one doesn’t just show up for a triathlonand expect to finish. She had to prepare, whichmeant reporting to the gym—which was actual-ly a new experience for this former athlete. “I’mnot somebody who just goes to the gym to workout,” Nancy admits. “But that first triathlon gaveme focus—it gave me a training goal.”

That first Danskin triathlon was a sprintevent, roughly half the length of a fulltriathlon—a -meter swim, a -kilometerbike ride, and then a -kilometer run. Thisfirst-timer was fifth out of the water in her agegroup, and that taste of success kept Nancyreturning, not just to the gym, but to the roadand the pool as well.

The problems with her swimming career asa child, she believes, were not enough self-beliefand not enough self-discipline. “I need to bewilling to do the workouts even when I’ve got alot to do or the weather isn’t so great,” she says.“I need to be willing to make healthy choices,especially regarding food as fuel and gettingenough rest.”

But over the past decade as an adult, she’skept to those workouts, stuck to those choices,and kept competing in triathlons. Eventuallyshe started to do so well that she began to qual-ify on a regular basis for the usa Triathlon’sage-group national championships. But therewas always a reason she couldn’t get to the bigrace: a schedule conflict one year, knee surgeryanother, too far to travel the next, and so on.

That old problem of self-belief might havehad something to do with it as well. “Well, I’mnot a runner,” Nancy says. “I can swim and Ican bike, but running has always been difficultfor me. I used to try to run a ten-minute mile,and that was my goal for a race. Most people

are warming up at ten minutes per mile, so Ididn’t think I really belonged at Nationals.”

But last August, when the Nationals wereheld in Milwaukee, not all that far away, Nancyfound herself bereft of excuses and on her wayto Wisconsin. There she clocked in at justunder ten minutes per mile in the road race.But even more impressive was her swim time of:—seventh out of the water in her division(take that, Barbara!). Her combined time of:: was astonishingly good, strong enoughfor tenth overall. In fact, it was good enough toqualify her for the International TriathlonUnion’s World Championships.

Will she give it a try? “Two years ago Iwould’ve said, ‘You’re talking about somebodyelse,’” laughs Nancy. But today it’s a differentstory; for the season she has two ambi-tious goals. First in June, she plans to run theMount Washington Road Race, a .-mile run-ning race that takes competitors up the Mt.Washington Auto Road, has an average gradeof , and an elevation gain of , feet. Andyes, she also plans to compete at Worlds, whichwill take her to Cozumel, Mexico inSeptember.

“I’m doing it,” she vows. “I’m living thedream.”

The dream will involve a lot more self-disci-pline, a lot more workouts, and a consistentlyhealthy diet. But the self-belief? No longer aproblem. �

First Nationals, Now Worlds

Nurse Nancy during the cycling stage of the

USA Triathlon’s age-group national

championships in Milwaukee, WI


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august , –february ,

The Holderness community has lost one of itsgreat leaders; this winter Al Fauver died justsix months after celebrating his th birthday.Eighteen of those years were spent atHolderness as a history and math teacher, acoach, and a business manager. According toHolderness records, he was the founding

father of the soccer team and coached tennisas well. He also helped guide the schoolthrough its first capital campaign in the s.

While Al Fauver dedicated much of his lifeto Holderness, Camp Pemigewasett inWentworth, NH was his first home. The campwas established by his parents Edgar and AliceFauver, and according to the camp’s website, Alwas “a camper, counselor, owner since the

s, director from the s to the s,and an active board member until the time ofhis death…The fondness Al felt for so many inthe Pemi family is something that gave himstrength and nurtured the good will in hisheart until the end of his days.”

A memorial service was held for him at theChapel of the Holy Cross at HoldernessSchool in April. �

Alfred Nye Fauver: In Memoriam

UPDATE: FORMER FACULTY AND STAFF

Photos of Al Fauver on the Holderness campus

during the late 1960s. His passion for sports

and his commitment to the education of

children was endless and enriched many lives.


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by jana f. brown

Through leadership opportunities at Holderness,three longtime faculty members have earned headof school jobs in the past year.

During the – academic year, JoryMacomber served as interim head of schoolwhile Phil Peck was away from Holdernessthrough the Chair Program. It was in thosemonths at the helm of the school that Jory hada revelation.

“The first thing I learned,” he says, “was thatI liked the job.”

The next realization was that he was inter-ested in pursuing a full-time head of schoolposition. Jory, who left Holderness in after years as a teacher, coach, administrator, anddorm parent, was recently appointed head ofBurke Mountain Academy, his high schoolalma mater and one of the premier ski acade-mies in the nation.

“He will undoubtedly bring excitement andenergy to an already dynamic community,”wrote bma Board Chair Willy Booker when heannounced Jory’s appointment. For the last

months, Jory has served as head of school atthe ussa team Academy.

Jory is one of three longtime Holdernessfaculty members to earn appointments as headsof school in the last year, joining current Deanof Faculty Chris Day and recently departedDirector of Admission Tyler Lewis.

In a September , , announcement,Cardigan Mountain School named Chris as itsth head of school. Chris’s two sons are alum-ni of the Canaan, NH-based school for boys ingrades six through nine. In announcing Chris’sappointment, Cardigan Board Chair HankHolland called him a “deeply compassionateand accomplished educator, a proven leaderwith an enduring commitment to collaborationand lifelong learning, and someone who is wellversed in the culture and ethos of boardingschool life.”

Chris, who also has worked at DublinSchool and Rye Country Day, is currently com-pleting his sixth year as dean of faculty atHolderness, where he also has served as chairof the History Department, director of CollegeCounseling, Senior Capstone Program director,baseball and hockey coach, and dorm parent.

While school leadership had intriguedChris in the past, the opportunity to lead atCardigan felt right for him, his wife, Cynthia,and their three children. The hardest part,admits Chris, was the decision to leaveHolderness, where he has felt supported in theschool’s nurturing community.

“I’m leaving a place that absolutely worksfor me, but I’m excited to serve another com-munity I really believe in,” says Chris. “I amgoing to take with me what works well, thestrengths of Holderness, because they are myown strengths too.”

Holderness, says Chris, maintains an atmos-phere of growth, a cultural norm that emanatesfrom Head of School Phil Peck and includeseveryone, from students to adults.

“No one is allowed to settle,” says Chris. “Weare always being asked in what ways we aregrowing. Phil includes people as much as he canin running the school, which makes it easy towalk down one’s own path toward leadership.”

Jory, too, made the most of his growthopportunities at Holderness and elsewhere. Inaddition to serving two years as dean of facultyand rising to associate head of school, he helpedestablish the Holderness Snow Sports Program,something Jory dreamed up and proposed toformer Head of School Pete Woodward.

“That is an example of a situation in which Itook an idea to the head of school and he ranwith it and gave me the opportunity,” he says.

Jory credits a rotating set of leadershipopportunities at Holderness for giving him thechance to serve one year as academic dean and,later, as interim head of school. In turn, whenJory was dean of faculty and participated in aChair Year, Chris filled in for him.

Unlike his colleagues, Tyler Lewis did notanticipate the approach of his next leadershipopportunity. After nine years at Holderness asdirector of admission and financial aid, Tylerleft Holderness in the summer of tobecome head of Bishop’s College School (bcs)in Quebec. In sharing the news, the bcs board

Spreading Their Wings

Soon-to-be Head of Burke Mountain Academy Jory Macomber with soon-to-be Dean of Faculty Tobi

Pfenninger back in 2014


described Tyler’s “many accomplishments,strength of character, and commitment toboarding schools,” while Phil was quoted assaying Tyler had “deliberately, persistently, andmost of all, caringly, enhanced our alreadystrong community.”

A product of Maine’s public schools, Tyler’sfirst exposure to boarding school came throughhis brother, who spent a post-graduate year atHolderness. Then a summer gig at Maine’sGould Academy further piqued his interest,and Tyler spent six years at Blair Academy inNew Jersey, learning about boarding school lifeand rising to associate director of college coun-seling and director of financial aid. Six years atthe independent school recruitment firmCarney, Sandoe followed, giving Tyler a deeperglimpse into the breadth and depth of privateeducation. But he yearned to return to schoollife and jumped at the chance to come toHolderness in as director of admission.Tyler served in that capacity for nine years,until a former Holderness colleague, GregMcConnell, connected him with bcs.

“A head of school job was not something Iwas pursuing,” says Tyler, who has three smallchildren with his wife, Renee. “But bcs resonat-ed with us so well. It has many similarities toHolderness—size of school, strong sense ofcommunity, character and leadership, love ofthe outdoors.”

Now in the midst of his first year as head ofschool, Tyler continues to appreciate being in aplace with a “good soul that attracts really goodpeople.” Like Chris and Jory, he creditsHolderness leadership with encouraging hisown personal growth. “Phil is a head of schoolwho is showing people, nakedly, how he leads,”explains Tyler. “He wants people to help himdo better. That in itself makes leadership feelvery human—a willingness to make and learnfrom mistakes.”

All three heads—Chris, Jory, and Tyler—willlead in their own ways, and each has a broadvision for his respective institution. Chris stress-

es the development of a culture that will pushCardigan community members to grow andlearn with him. Jory aspires to turn BurkeMountain from one of the premier national skiacademies into one of the best in the world.Tyler is involved in a strategic planning processand, among the emerging initiatives, is one toget faculty and their families back on the bcs

campus, to enhance the feeling of community heloved so much at Holderness.

“We are a better school for having had peoplelike Tyler, Chris, and Jory,” says Phil. “All three ofthem love learning. It makes me sad to thinkabout not having them as colleagues anymore,but I am also incredibly proud of them.” �

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TOP: Dean of Faculty Chris Day, who will take over as the head of Cardigan Mountain School in July,

with his son Henry ’17 during a baseball game last spring. BOTTOM: Head of Bishop’s College School

Tyler Lewis with Director of Leadership Giving Peter Barnum, Interim Director of Admission Cynthia

Day, and Bishop’s Director of Admissions Greg McConnell.


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Charlotte Caldwell’s award-winning fourth bookimagines a child enchanted by and curious aboutbutterflies—and lures real children into thatgalaxy where butterflies are found.

For a writer—or a writer/photographer likeCharlotte Caldwell—each book project is itsown voyage of discovery. For Kirby’s Journal,Charlotte’s fourth book, that voyage took herno farther than her own backyard inCharleston, SC. “When you really start lookingclosely at something,” she says, “you learn thatyou don’t necessarily need to go to Yellowstone.”

In Charlotte began doing researchabout butterflies and what sort of gardens but-terflies particularly like, and then she planted abotanical mix that best provides nectar formature butterflies, leaves for the laying of eggs,food and cover for caterpillars, and refuge fortheir chrysalises. Her idea was to photographall the phases of a butterfly’s life cycle, andthen present her photos as part of a journalkept by a fictional child—eleven-year-oldKirby—who is watching as closely asCharlotte, but who has guidance from a pair of

knowledgeable grandparents and the compan-ionship of interested friends.

Charlotte herself grew up on Tennessee’sLookout Mountain, earned a B.A. fromMiddlebury College in , and went on toearn Master’s degrees in environmental studiesand special education. Along the way, she alsofell in love with photography.

While her son Hacker Burr ’ attendedHolderness, Charlotte served two stints on theboard of trustees: – and –.Hacker is now head of school at the CharlestonCollegiate School, which is not far from hismom’s backyard butterfly garden.

“Nothing goes to waste in a butterfly’s lifecycle,” she says. “I watched a caterpillar emergefrom its egg, and then eat the egg. I watched acaterpillar molt from its spiny exoskeleton, andthen eat that skeleton, spines and all.”

She also saw the beauty of a butterflyemerging from its chrysalis with an abdomenswollen with a blood-like substance, and thenas its wings unfolded and expanded, she sawthe substance fill the wings’ veins and arteries.She witnessed the cruelty of wasps plantingtheir own eggs in captured caterpillars, doomedto serve as living hosts to the wasps’ larvae.

In , ten of Charlotte’s insect photoswere chosen by the North American NaturePhotographers Association for presentation atthe organization’s Annual Summit show. Theyindeed present wonders to match Yellowstone’s,

and the journal that accompanies Charlotte’sphotos enlarges not just on the butterfly’s lifecycle, but also its morphology and the intricacyof the backyard food web.

The text does not enlarge, however, onKirby’s gender. “I purposely left that undefined,because—well, boys generally don’t want toread books about girls, and I wanted to encour-age girls to become interested in science andnature,” Charlotte says. “So I leave it to readersto make their own assumptions. It’s funny—thepublisher assumes that Kirby is a boy, butKirkus Reviews thinks Kirby is a girl.”

Whoever Kirby might be, Kirby’s Journal hasearned a warm review from Kirkus. “This gentlestory is the framework for a great deal of infor-mation, some of which, Kirby says, she learnedin school, but is understandable in the contextof her own explorations,” says Kirkus. “Thispseudo-journal makes a clever invitation to alifetime passion.” Science Magazine adds, “Thebook excels in balancing the social life of theprotagonist with the scientific lessons she learnsfrom her grandfather, a lepidopteran expert…Kirby’s tone strikes the perfect balance betweenpreteen aloofness and childish wonder.”

Since publication, Kirby’s Journal has won abronze medal in the environmental issues cate-gory in the Moonbeam Children’s BookAwards, and was a finalist for a AmericanAssociation for Science middle-grade sciencebook prize. Charlotte says that of all her booksso far, this is the one she takes the most pridein, and it all has to do with that invitation topassion. “I hope that through this book,” shesays, “a child can be encouraged to get outsideand see nature, and then to understand it—andfinally to love it.”

Richard Louv, author of the best-sellingLast Child in the Woods, sees that as entirelypossible. “To a child, nearby nature can be auniverse,” he writes. “Through Kirby’s Journal,Charlotte Caldwell provides children with aportal into their own backyard galaxy.” �

A Backyard Galaxy


UPDATE: TRUSTEES

Educators and horticulturalists alike are praising

Charlotte Caldwell’s most recent book.

Charlotte Caldwell


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the balch society honors a group of forward-thinking individuals who support

Holderness School by combining charitable giving goals with estate and financial planning goals.

When you make a planned gift, you creatively support the school, yourself, and your loved ones, while inspiring

generosity in others. Joining the Balch Society involves no dues or solicitations, but members will be included in

Balch Society communications and invited to participate in special events.

The most important benefits? Giving Holderness School strength and providing educational opportunities for

generations of students. Design a plan today that works for you and your family.

For more information, contact Pete Barnum, Director of Leadership Giving, at 603.779.5221 or [email protected].

over 150 years ago, this man

led his family to make an investment

that is still paying dividends and is still

directly impacting the learning

experiences of Holderness students.

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investment by becoming a member of

the Balch Society at Holderness School.

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ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

Caitlin Mitchell ’09

Caitlin Mitchell ’ is the “Sales Wizard” for aninnovative Vermont headwear and accessory com-pany, one that provides some joyful overlapbetween work and recreation.

The problem was that she wanted to be out-side. Caitlin Mitchell had grown up inVermont, with plenty of outdoor adventuresand ski racing at Suicide Six Ski Area inWoodstock. When she became a civil engineer-ing major at Lafayette College in Easton, PA,she was beset by a suspicion that there wasn’tenough connection between what she wantedto do and what she was being trained to do.

“I only knew that I wanted to work insome capacity in the outdoors industry,” shesays. So after college she spent some time inNew Jersey, shadowing and being mentored bya man who did sales work for North Face, oneof the giants of the outdoor gear and clothingindustry. That led to a job with another of thegiants, Patagonia, and the chance to move backto Vermont, thanks to Patagonia’s store inBurlington.

Meanwhile Corinne Prevot—a childhood palon the junior ski racing circuit, who attendedBurke Mountain Academy and then MiddleburyCollege—had started her own outdoor clothingbusiness. It had begun when, just for fun, Prevotmade hats for her teammates and friends atBurke Mountain. The hats got noticed, andmore people wanted them. The hobby grew intoa micro-business that Prevot carried on throughschool with logistical help from her mother anda local seamstress. After Middlebury, she setabout making a serious go of it.

That meant expanding and diversifying herproduct line, and getting some full-time help atwhat had become Skida Headwear &Accessories. For several months Caitlin—afterher day job at Patagonia—had been stopping atthe Skida storefront just to help an old friendout for a few hours. Then in November ,

Caitlin quit Patagonia to become the firstemployee at this new and tiny competitor inthe outdoor industry.

Tiny, yes, but flourishing. Caitlin is listed as“Sales Wizard” on Skida’s website (www.shop-skida.com), which means that she handles allthe accounts pertinent to Skida’s wholesaledivision, wholesale buyer communications, andoutreach to prospective shops via trade shows.She promotes a product line that not only hasconsumer appeal—hats, headbands, neckwarmers, bandannas, all in bright and eye-catching patterns of paisley, tie-dye, or pop art(including a Holderness ski team logo)—butalso has philosophical appeal. Except for thecashmere that is imported from Nepal, thewool, poly lycra, and other fabrics used bySkida are all produced locally in Vermont. Acadre of seamstresses in Vermont’s NortheastKingdom, where cottage industries are treas-ured, provide hand-crafted assembly.

And as small as Skida is, the company stillsets aside some portion of its profits to help sup-port Vermont’s Nordic skier Liz Stephen, whofinished second in the K freestyle event thisyear at the Rybinsk World Cup and is a two-time Olympic team member. Then there is thephilanthropy of Skida [+], a program in whichSkida donates a hat to a cancer patient undergo-ing chemotherapy for every online sale in whichthat program’s promotional code is used.

These days Skida has an in-house staff ofthree, and Caitlin, this former engineer-to-be, islearning on the fly as she negotiates the world ofbusiness and sales. Last year Skida was nominat-ed for a Martha Stewart American Made Award,but that hasn’t quite stilled Caitlin’s instinct forperfectionism. “The hardest part of working herehas probably been realizing that mistakes areokay,” she told Teton Gravity Research in ,for an article on their website (“The SkidaGirls”). “Because Skida is such an organicallygrown company and because we’re still learninghow to perfect the business, it’s taken some timeto realize that mistakes can be positive.”

But has Caitlin found a satisfactory balancebetween work and play? For all practical pur-poses, yes. “Product Ninja” Sarah Micioni is ofthe same young twenty-something age andbackground as Caitlin and her boss. “Thoughthe girls run a tight ship…Caitlin, Sarah, andCorinne’s passion isn’t business—it’s skiing,”continued Teton Gravity. “And snowboarding.And mountain biking. And all the rope-swing-ing, bush-whacking, outdoor debauchery thatcomes with living in the heart of the GreenMountains in Vermont.”

Prevot told tgr that they all work hard sothat “we can take days off, make our own sched-ule, and get out there to do what we really love.”

So, yes, it’s the work, but also what thework enables. “We work, learn, grow together,and then get outside,” says Caitlin. “The factthat the direct product of all our work issomething that we get to use day in and dayout—that’s what’s helped turn this job into apassion for me.” �

Let’s Go Product Testing

Caitlin models one of Skida’s hats during one

of her outdoor adventures.

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Meredith Peck ’09

Last year Meredith Peck ’ assisted in research atJohns Hopkins that won her an appearance at aprestigious national scientific conference; herresearch may also ultimately provide a newweapon against cancer.

During her last year at Smith College—whichactually was a year of studying at Johns HopkinsUniversity and working in its biophysics lab—Meredith Peck ’ was involved in research thatmay have far-reaching, even revolutionary, impli-cations for the treatment of cancer. And it allrests on principles, she notes, that tie in with herSenior Honors Thesis at Holderness.

“My thesis focused on the effects of water-borne infectious diseases on populations indeveloping countries,” Meredith says. To under-stand the link between that and her currentwork, however, we’ll need to know more aboutthe latter, work that also won her the honor ofspeaking and presenting a pair of posters at lastFebruary’s week-long meeting of theBiophysical Society in Baltimore.

At Johns Hopkins, Meredith’s focus was onproteins, those complex workhorse moleculesresponsible for all biological functions. One ofthe major fronts of research in biophysics hasto do with how changes in the structure andsequences of proteins translate into changes inthe functions they carry out. “Such changes areat the root of a lot of diseases—Alzheimer’s,for example—and also the simple process ofaging,” she says.

One of the great engines for such changes isthe process of dimerization, wherein two differ-ent strands of protein, identical or nearly so,join into a single larger compound. Meredith’swork, most specifically, was with enzymes,those proteins that grease the skids, as it were,for chemical reactions within cells. “So our firstgoal,” she says, “was to better understand whatchemical structures, what sort of composition,allows an enzyme to dimerize. And then, what

happens if we change a gene sequence in agiven enzyme?”

The second goal? That would be a matter offinding a medical application for what theylearn. “We wonder if it’s possible, for example,to engineer a protein that dimerizes in responseto changes in the acidity of its environment.”

And why would that be important? “Cancercells, once they start growing uncontrollably,lower the acidity of their environment, the pHcount,” Meredith explains. “So if we could buildan enzyme that would dimerize and activateonly at that particular Ph level, we might—justpossibly—have something that could be usedto combat cancer cells. If not, we’ll at least havesomething that could serve as a marker for can-cer cells—a harmless, accurate, andsuper-sensitive diagnostic tool.”

Before attending Smith and conductingresearch at Johns Hopkins, Meredith grew upon the Holderness campus—the daughter of afaculty member who became the head ofschool, you might have heard of him—and forthree summers she worked on the staff of theGordon Research Conference at Holderness.

That was how Meredith first met the scientistin charge of the lab where she worked at JohnsHopkins, and this summer one of the postersshe displayed at the Biophysical Conferencewas also on display during one of Holderness’sgrc weeks.

In , Meredith could not have anticipat-ed any link between her Senior Honors Thesisand a podium appearance at a national scientif-ic conference, but it happened. The viruses thattransmit the water-borne diseases she studiedfor her thesis are protected by protein shellscalled capsids. “And, for example, the influenzavirus infection,” Meredith says, “is triggered by achange in the pH in the cell that causes theproteins in the capsid to deform and release theinfectious material. So in a way, I was able toangle that work at Johns Hopkins in a mannerthat complements and builds on the work Ipresented at Holderness.”

A Senior Honors Thesis link to a possiblegame-changing advance in the treatment ofcancer? Yep, that’s just what we had in mind forthat program. �

Among the Stars at the Biophysical Society

Meredith Peck, with her former AP Biology teacher Thom Flinders and the chair of the Biophysics

Department at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Bertrand Garcia-Moreno, at a Gordon Research Conference


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ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

Meg Rapelye ’97

Meg Rapelye ’ has done a number of things sinceher graduation from the US Coast GuardAcademy, and they all share a Holderness-relatedcommon denominator.

Since October , Meg Rapelye—who oncecommanded an -foot US Coast Guard patrolboat and its crew of ten—has been running abike shop. Not so very different, she suggests.“Because Phoenix Bikes is so much more thana bike shop,” Meg says.

True enough. Phoenix operates out of arepurposed concession stand in Arlington, VA,and on one hand, it’s your basic full-serviceused bike shop. You can get a tune-up there for—which includes a parts allowance—or shop through the largest selection ofaffordable pre-owned bicycles and parts to befound in the DC Metro area. On the otherhand, you can indeed get so much more—espe-cially if you’re a teenager from a distressed,lower-income neighborhood.

“We do several different things at once, real-ly,” says Meg. “Yes, we’re a community bikeshop, but at our core, we’re a youth educationprogram—one that uses the bike shop to fundand deliver its programs.”

It begins with welcoming kids between theages of – into that old concession stand.Each participant begins by stripping a donatedbike and labeling its parts. Then they learn toput them back together, to fix flat tires, to workthrough adjustments to brakes and shifters.The first refurbished bike is donated to a com-munity member, many of whom are clients ofone of the local social service agencies address-ing hunger or homelessness. The nextrefurbished bike is theirs to keep.

“Of course it’s not just the mechanical stuffthey’re learning,” Meg says. “Our youth areinvolved in all aspects of running the shop, sothey also learn how to greet customers and runa cash register. They learn skills in retail practice,

business management, and how a non-profitworks. Emotionally, they’re also learning perse-verance, pride, and what it feels like to make ameaningful impact on their community.”

Meg herself knows that community-impactfeeling, and it began during her childhood—andthen education—at Holderness School as thedaughter of long-time history chair, athleticdirector, and Habitat for Humanity coordinatorPete Rapelye. What is now the Project Outreachportion of Special Programs was in the s analliance with Habitat for Humanity. “And I wasone of the few people who went to Habitattwice,” Meg says. “Once while I was an eighth-grader and accompanied my dad, and then againas a Holderness sophomore.”

Another thing she did with her dad (andsisters Kate ’ and Kim) involved a five-weekcamping trip to Europe when she was in highschool. There she remembers being stirred by avisit to Normandy Beach, and by the uniformsof the soldiers who guard that site. She says itwasn’t the power or flash of the military, butthe patriotism, human dignity, and potential forsocial justice she saw woven into those uni-forms. Later, during her senior year atHolderness, Meg made college visits to threeservice academies.

“I enjoyed my visit to the US Coast GuardAcademy most because of the Coast Guard’sprimarily humanitarian mission,” she says, “andbecause it’s a smaller school and seeminglymore welcoming to women.” After earning hercommission and Bachelor of Science degree,Meg served six years on active duty: two yearsas a deck watch officer on a cutter out of CapeCanaveral; two years commanding that patrolboat out of Gulfport, MS; and two years in lawenforcement intelligence in Boston.

Meg completed her service career in ,but she has continued to travel from place toplace since then. “The thread that connects allmy career choices is service,” she says.

Indeed it is. In northern California, she wasa unit leader for AmeriCorps’ National Civilian

Community Corps, administering a residentialservice and leadership development programfor young adults. In , she became a centerdirector for Higher Achievement, a non-profitafter-school and summer program for under-served middle-school students in Richmond,VA. And then last year, she became executivedirector of Phoenix Bikes, overseeing—besidesall the activity at that repurposed concessionstand—Phoenix’s five off-site programs at localpublic schools.

Phoenix Bikes is modeled after similar bike-based social service organizations that havesucceeded in places like Boston, New York, andSeattle. Like them, in addition to its earnedincome from the bike shop, Pheonix runs ondonations, grants, and fundraising events. Butwhat Meg likes is how deeply the programreaches into the neighborhoods it serves.

“We’re not just applying band-aids here tothe area’s endemic problems,” she says. “Instead,bike by bike, we’re affecting systemic changesthat will make lives better.” �

The Thread That Connects Them All

Meg Rapelye outside Phoenix Bikes


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ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

Nikki Kimball ’89

Nikki Kimball’s achievements as an ultra-marathonrunner are dazzling. Among those we now count aprize-winning documentary film, and the expand-ing ways she is using her fame to help others.

These days Nikki Kimball, at , is in the homestretch of a career that will stamp her creden-tials as the best ever among American femaleultra-marathon runners, once going undefeatedin the sport for a stretch of seven years.

And arguably the world’s premier ultra-marathon event is the Western States , runin June each year along the knobby spine ofCalifornia from Squaw Valley to Auburn. It’s arace Nikki has won three times. Last June shefinished tenth, but that in itself is an historicachievement, extending her string of top-tenfinishes in that race to an even ten, dating backto . No other female runner can matchthat record.

But that isn’t the achievement that Nikkitreasures most about that week. Instead it’s thetalk she gave the Wednesday before the race, at

the Medicine and Science in Ultra-EnduranceSports conference in Squaw Valley.

“I was there on the last day of the confer-ence speaking as part of a group that includedRob Krar, another ultra runner, and Dr. JohnOnate, a psychiatrist who teaches at UC-Davis,” she says. “I had only met these people acouple times via Skype, and our talk was theconference’s concluding event.”

For the last decade or so, Nikki has beenfrank with both friends and the media abouther life-long struggle with clinical depression.But never had she broached the subject in aforum like this, in front of hundreds ofstrangers. Part of her wanted to do what shedoes so well, take flight and run, but insteadshe made herself step up to that podium.

The group’s presentation went so well thatthey were invited to speak at a conference inFrance in . For Nikki this next step—assuming the role of a live public spokespersonfor those who suffer from depression—is a newfront in her struggle with a malady that, for allher victories in the world’s toughest sport, hasbeen her constant companion.

By then it had been more than two years forNikki since another notable achievement.

In Nikki Kimball broke the women’srecord for running the -mile Vermont LongTrail by more than two full days. Just to putthat into perspective, in days, hours, and minutes, she ran the equivalent of over tenback-to-back marathons. Finding Traction, thepowerful documentary that filmmaker JaimeJacobsen made of that feat, was released inFebruary of .

The film has won a raft of prizes at inde-pendent festivals around the world, and muchof its appeal has to do with the frankness withwhich it portrays both its iron-willed protago-nist and the sport she pursues. “The rawnessand the honesty that make Finding Traction dif-ficult to watch are also what make it shine,”wrote film reviewer Meghan Hicks. “This filmis, quite literally, a mirror of Nikki. The way shethinks, her approach to life, her deepest motiva-tions, her tools for co-existence with asometimes challenging psyche, her tolerance forsuffering, her no-nonsense mannerisms, theway that even she can almost crack apart underenough difficulty, the relief of achievement, theimperfection of body and soul, the tears,Nikki’s intense eyes, the physical distresses thataccompany efforts of this sort, the accomplish-ment itself. It’s all there.”

While breaking the record was an enticingchallenge for Nikki, the race and the resultingmovie began as a fundraiser for Girls On theRun, a national nonprofit whose programs userunning as a way to integrate lessons inempowerment, self-esteem, mental health, andlife skills for middle-school girls.

“Running, in and of itself, is such a narcis-sistic pursuit,” Nikki says. “Your training isself-directed, your goals are self-centered—butyou have to take care of yourself first to dogood for others. And once you’ve done that, itfeels so great to give back, to be a positive andsupporting member of a community.” �

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Nikki Kimball training in her home state of Montana with her dog Vika


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ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

Chris Brown ’70

Chris Brown ’ made a smooth turn from All-American ski racer to becoming one of the world’stop experts on the technology of skiing safely.

In the mid-s, Chris Brown was nearing theend of his competitive alpine ski-racing career.Highlights included All-American honors in for the University of Vermont; team co-captain in ; Eastern downhill championfor both those years. This and more would begood enough for induction into Vermont’sAthletic Hall of Fame in .

But it was towards the end of that careerthat famed Vermont coach Mickey Cochranchanged the course of Chris’s future. “It wasboth what he said and how he said it,” Chrissays. “I was a political science major mostlybecause that left me time for skiing. But when-ever Mickey analyzed what we did on theslopes, he talked in terms of forces, leverage,pressure—Newtonian mechanics. It soundedlike physics to me, and I liked physics.” Wouldhe be able to make some sort of career out ofcombining physics and skiing?

At the time Cochran was raising four chil-dren and working as an engineer for GeneralElectric. As Chris discovered, his ideas on skiinghad more to do with engineering than physics.

If that was engineering, then so be it. “Iended up getting three degrees at uvm,” Chrissays. “I finished my Bachelor’s in political sci-ence and history. Then I coached skiing at uvmwhile I worked on a Master’s and then in earned a Ph.D. in engineering.”

Chris’s doctoral work was on chip formationin machining, mostly because the universitywas able to get funding for that. At the time,Chris saw no connection between chip forma-tion and skiing, and feared he would have toforego his passion in order to build his career.That was before a renowned engineering pro-fessor at UC-Berkeley—Dan Mote—invitedhim to the West Coast to help research the

safety and performance of ski bindings. Moteliked Chris’s expertise on both machining theo-ry and elite skiing. “Because skiing ismachining,” Mote told him.

“What?” said Chris.“It’s a tool scraping along a surface, isn’t it?”In fact it is. The ski is a tool for getting a

person quickly and safely to the bottom of asnow-covered mountain, incidentally slicing,scraping, chopping, and spraying snow chips asit does so. Ultimately, in Chris co-authored a much-cited paper Mote presentedat a symposium on skiing trauma and safety inGermany: “Ski Binding Function inRecreational and Competitive Skiing.”

In , as Chris finished his doctoratework at uvm, his interest in the engineering ofski boots and bindings continued to blossom;he also had a good job offer from OklahomaState University. But after calculating the dis-tance to the closest mountains, Chris says hedeclined the university’s offer. “Once again I letmy interest in skiing govern a major life deci-sion,” says Chris.

Instead he went to Lausanne, Switzerland,where he worked for four years studyingmachined surfaces at the Swiss FederalInstitute of Technology, followed by two yearsas a senior research engineer for Atlas Copco, avenerable Swedish industrial firm. One suchmachined surface, of course, was snow.“Lausanne was a world center for research onski bindings,” Chris says, “and I was able to con-tinue work on what they call ‘ski fixations.’”

In Chris joined the faculty of theWorcester Polytechnic Institute—a school notonly close to New England’s ski areas, but alsowith a good number of skiers in its studentbody. He was at Dartmouth in , howev-er—on sabbatical from wpi—when a youngBode Miller dominated the Junior Nationalson a revolutionary pair of shaped skis. “Thatgave us something new to analyze, and that waswhen I started my course on the technology ofalpine skiing,” Chris says.

Currently he teaches a popular undergradu-ate course with the same title at wpi; teachesgraduate courses on axiomatic design, manufac-turing, and surface metrology; developssoftware for surface texture analysis; has found-ed an international conference on surfacemetrology; and has led groundbreakingresearch into how to improve skiing downwhere the edge meets the snow. He has patentspending on several new ski binding designs,one using fast-reaction toe and heel cups toprevent inadvertent release; he also holdspatents on a fractal method for characterizingsurface roughness, on an apparatus for frictiontesting, and on impact-absorbing skates.

Chris’s more recent work involves the tech-nology of winning races. “Research shows thatthe race is not always to the swiftest,” he says.“Going a little slower, on a straighter line, canresult in a shorter time than carrying morespeed on a rounder line.”

Chris Brown’s days of racing may be over, buthe is still curious about how people do that—and about making the sport safer for us all. �

Down Where the Edge Meets the Snow

Chris Brown, who has dedicated his life, quite

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In Memoriam: Charlie Kellogg ’58

Charlie Kellogg—who died on September ,, at the age of of sarcoma—is reveredin the Holderness community for several rea-sons, and among them is the fact that we cancount Charlie among the many Holdernesssnow sport athletes to represent the UnitedStates in the winter Olympic games. We tendto forget, however, how very nearly Charliewas not an Olympian.

“As noted in his US Biathlon Hall of Fameintroduction description, Kellogg wasn’t obvi-ously bound for skiing glory from day one,”wrote reporter Chelsea Little in a tribute onFasterSkier.com. “But the guy who grew upprimarily in Andover and Brookline, MA,picked up skiing at Holderness [School] a fewhours north in New Hampshire and neverlooked back.”

Holderness ski coach Don Henderson, whoso deftly helped young Charlie pick up skiing,remembers the boy as “very attentive, very lik-able and energetic, and very intent on becominga good skier.” Charlie went on from Holdernessto Williams College, where he kept skiing andalso captained the cross-country running teamin the fall. In the US Army, he was trained inbiathlon, competing in the world militarychampionships and earning the top Americanfinish. In he won the inaugural USNational Biathlon Championship.

By , Charlie was out of the Army,working for ibm, and still racing. He wascrushed when he failed to make the initial cutfor the US Nordic Ski Team before the Olympics—but not defeated. “Mr. Kelloggdecided he wasn’t yet strong enough to win, sohe ran through the mountains of Vermont andNew Hampshire and competed in track meets,”wrote the Boston Globe. “He arranged for a leaveof absence from his work at ibm in Cambridge,paid his expenses to ski with the training squadin Alaska, and then competed at three Olympic

tryouts, clinching a berth on the team at thefinal race in Lake Placid, NY.”

In Grenoble, Charlie finished st in theK cross-country race, th in the K. “Hewas one of half a dozen guys I would describeas the early generation of capable international-caliber Nordic skiers in this country,” saidformer Olympian and Dartmouth ski coachJohn Morton. “I remember when I was on theUS B Team, those guys set the standard, andthe rest of us just tried desperately to keep up.”

By then Charlie was married as well.Fittingly, he met his wife Gillian while bothwere skiing at Tuckerman Ravine on Mt.Washington in New Hampshire in .Charlie continued to ski and compete interna-tionally all his life at the same time that hecarried on successful business careers, first withibm and then with Global Partners ofCambridge, MA. “No matter what year you askabout,” said FasterSkier.com, “his friends andteammates will tell you that he was a rolemodel for how to balance a job, a family, andhigh-level training.”

In Charlie won the gold medal in hisage group in the K freestyle at the WorldMasters Cross-Country Ski Championships.He raced in national masters ski championshipevents through last winter and also bike raced,once participating with Bob Gray in a racealong I- before it opened for traffic.

As if the job, the family (two children, adaughter Lia and a son Terry), and his athleticcareer weren’t enough to keep in balance,Charlie devoted decades of service to otherswho loved snow sports and the outdoors. Hewas a lifelong member of the AppalachianMountain Club, and as a teenager managedhuts for the amc in the White Mountains. Afifteen-year board member of the US BiathlonAssociation, he was elected u.s.b.a. vice presi-dent in . He was also a board member ofthe Jackson Ski Touring Association and presi-dent of the Manchester-Essex ConservationTrust in Massachusetts.

“We’ll never know how many people werecharmed, inspired, cajoled, tutored, andbefriended by Charlie because they are toonumerous to count,” said the ConservationTrust in their tribute to their president.Charlie’s son Terry, speaking to the BostonGlobe, added that his father had “high-flyingfriends and backwoods friends, friends of oldand friends of new. He seemed to float in a seaof them, relishing their memories and theirconnections equally, as evidenced by thebreadth of his smile at the sound of theirnames.” �

The Breadth of His Smile

Charlie Kellogg in the 1958 yearbook


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FACING PAGE: Alumni and friends of Holderness during MJ’s Race at Cannon Mountain. THIS

PAGE CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: Alumni gatherings in Maine; Denver, CO; and Vail, CO; the

faculty children doing their part to show appreciation for the efforts of the community

during the Day of Giving.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23r All School Assembly r Class Visitsr Campus Toursr 50th and Above Cocktail Receptionr 50th and Above Dinnerr All Alumni Welcome Reception

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24r Training Sessions with Holderness Athleticsr Class Visitsr Campus Tours r Panel Discussion with Current Studentsr Alumni Convocation r Class Picturesr Cookout Lunchr Afternoon Gamesr All Alumni Reception and Dinner

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25r Farewell Jazz Brunch

COME BACK FOR BLUEHOMECOMING AND REUNION WEEKEND

SEPTEMBER 23–25, 2016

REGISTER NOW AT WWW.HOLDERNESS.ORG/REUNION-2016

Join us as we celebrate the reunion classes (ending with 6s and 1s), and as

we welcome all of our alumni, family, and friends back for a weekend of fun,

friendship and celebration. Here’s a list of what’s been scheduled so far!



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IN MEMORIAMJohn “Jack” Hill ’47, April 6, 2015David Morse ’63, April 20, 2015Sigourney Nininger ’41, April 24,

2015Mary Richards (past employee),

June 5, 2015 Paul Jenkins ’52, June 8, 2015Andrew Wilson ’78, July 6, 2015Clifford Rogers ’47, August 1, 2015Robert Cleary ’62, August 27, 2015Charlie Kellogg ’58,

September 20, 2015Alfred Olivetti ’60,

September 30, 2015Erin Maroni ’02, November 18,

2015John Southard ’59, November 30,

2015Dean Mullavey ’48, December 30,

2015Harry Emmons ’45, January 15,

2016Alfred Fauver (past employee),

February 13, 2016

BIRTHSTom LeBosquet ’93 and

Katherine Ledbetter: AmeliaKatherine, September 19, 2015

Rick ’92 and Janet Eccleston:Hazel Marie Eccleston,September 24, 2015

Dan ’95 and Cathy Lewenberg:Emmeline Serafina Lewenberg,October 9, 2015

Zeb ’98 and Jami Bogdanich:Avery Lee Bogdanich,October 23, 2015

Fordy ’02 and Liz Sinkinson:Charlie Sinkinson, October2015

Karen Boutwell (employee) andKelli Robinson: Addison AnnBoutwell-Robinson,November 6, 2015

Lee ’88 and Jayme Hanson: MarkAlden Hanson, November 19,2015

Emily ’03 and John NoyesGrunow: John Edwin DeardenGrunow IV, December 1, 2015

Andrew ’02 and Becca Everett:Annabelle Grace Everett,December 8, 2015

Alli (employee) and DerekPlourde: Willow AdaleePlourde, December 18, 2015

Amanda French-Greenwood ’01and Dana Greenwood:Michaela CarolineGreenwood, December 24,2015

David ’88 and Julie Warren:Knox Warren, December 31,2015

Ashley ’04 and Matt Healy: ColeTyler Healy, January 15, 2016

Heather ’99 and S. Alden Guptill:Maxine Wynn Guptill,January 19, 2016

Brendan Murphy ’03 andEtiwork Yirga: Rhoda BayushMurphy, February 11, 2016

MARRIAGESLucy Randall ’06 and Paul

Archibald, September 19, 2015in Chestnut Hill, MA

Alexandra Disney (employee)and Kurt Schuler, September26, 2015 in Jackson, NH

Charlie Gaylord ’01 and JamieBritt, September 27, 2015 inCarbondale, CO

Mike Aron ’08 and ChristineAron, October 10, 2015

Mike Dodge ’98 and Tara Cole,October 30, 2015

Robin Stefanik ’03 and AustinGreen, November 15, 2015

Craig Antonides ’77 and LindaCollins, February 14, 2016 inHolderness, NH

Milestones

CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: When CraigAntonides ’77 and Linda Collinsdecided to get married, there wereplenty of supportive Holdernessstudents to celebrate with them.Jaxson, Craig’s dog, also attendedthe service in the Chapel of theHoly Cross; Karen Boutwell and KelliRobinson’s newborn daughterAddison; Alli and Derek Plourde’snewborn daughter Willow.

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’45 Harry Emmons died onJanuary 15 of heart-related prob-lems. Harry and his wife,Rosamond Emmons, had beenmarried almost 60 years, and theywere all great years. Harry wasalso a wonderful father of threedaughters. He will be missed.

’46 (reunion)Want to connect with your class-mates? Consider becoming a classcorrespondent and encouragingyour classmates to reconnect inthe HST Class Notes. Contact us [email protected] for moreinformation. Thank you!

’47CLASS CORRESPONDENT Bill Briggs ’[email protected]

’48Bart Chase writes, “Bunny and Iare continuing to have a happylife here in Oregon. We are nowvery near the rest of the familyand have been blessed with anew great-granddaughter, fivegrandchildren, and good times.We are living in a retirement com-munity and playing a lot of golf.Looking forward to a visit down inPalm Springs with Rik Clark andSandy. Best wishes to all class-mates; I have many greatmemories of you and our specialdays at Holderness. It was thebest.” … Rik Clark reports, “Thewinter of 2015–16 finds Sandy andme, again, in Palm Springs, CA,for three months. We continue tobe blessed with good health andactive lives. The largest sadnessfor us is continuing to losefriends, including neighbors andfamily members, to accidents, ill-nesses, and more. But we will

continue to enjoy our youngerfriends! We are looking forward toa visit from classmate Bart Chaseand his wife, Bunny. They will becoming down from their home inTigerd, OR, in March. Golf, walks,and other fitness efforts are onour calendars. Beyond that, I ambeginning to look forward to our70th Reunion in 2018. Come onguys, we can make it.”

CLASS CORRESPONDENTRik Clark ’[email protected]

’49CLASS CORRESPONDENTBill Baskin ’[email protected]

’50The following message came to usfrom Chico Laird in response tothe wonderful Christmas card wereceived this past season from ourHolderness family. The scene onthe card was copied from artworkdone by Herbert Waters, whowas on the faculty at the time wewere in attendance. “By the time Iarrived at Holderness School inthe fall of 1948,” he writes, “HerbWaters (he was MISTER Waters tothe students) was alreadyensconced in his shop in the littlebuilding just north of MarshallHouse. That was the year that theentire fifth form was housed inMarshall under the guidance andattempted control of DickCartwright ’38. The effortlessgrace of the skier gliding downthe gentle slope outside theSchoolhouse makes it look easy.Hopefully, he will have finishedhis run before the area turns intothe deep right field of the JVbaseball field in the spring! Ah,good times, good years, good peo-ple. The Herb Waters ofHolderness made it the special

place it was, and I sense it still is.”We surely share Chico’s thoughtsand sentiments. … Squidge and Ihave moved into our NewLondon, NH, condo at HilltopPlace. Henry, our grandson, hasrecently returned from Irelandwhere he studied as a freshmanduring the fall semester at theUniversity of Limerick. Henry’ssister Megan is a day student inher second year at ProctorAcademy. I continue to enjoyretirement and spend much of mytime either doing casual researchat my computer or reading a goodbiography in my den. I keep infairly regular touch with BigelowGreen who lives near Nyack, NY,in a lovely house overlooking theHudson River. … Doug Hamilton,our “outdoorsman” octogenarian,continues to do a little huntingduring the appropriate seasons,along with his son Peter, my god-son. … Chico and I representedthe Class of 1950 at our 65threunion at the school this pastsummer. We were impressed withthe warm greetings we receivedfrom fellow alumni, especiallythose former students celebratingtheir 25th. We applauded thedemeanor of the panel of stu-dents, who were extremelyarticulate in sharing their thoughtsabout the role Holderness hasplayed in shaping their attitudesand lives. It was unquestionablyevident that the prevailing schoolspirit, with which so many alumniare deeply familiar, is very muchalive and well.

CLASS CORRESPONDENTFrank Hammond ’[email protected]

’51 (reunion)Want to connect with your class-mates? Consider becoming a classcorrespondent and encouragingyour classmates to reconnect in

the HST Class Notes. Contact usat [email protected] formore information. Thank you!

’52CLASS CORRESPONDENTAl Teele ’52859.734.3625

’53 Want to connect with your class-mates? Consider becoming a classcorrespondent and encouragingyour classmates to reconnect inthe HST Class Notes. Contact usat [email protected] formore information. Thank you!

’54CLASS CORRESPONDENTBerton Chillson ’[email protected]

’55CLASS CORRESPONDENTBill Byers ’[email protected]

’56 (reunion) CLASS CORRESPONDENTDick Meyer ’[email protected]

’57CLASS CORRESPONDENTFrederick Ellison ’[email protected]

’58Want to connect with your class-mates? Consider becoming a classcorrespondent and encouragingyour classmates to reconnect inthe HST Class Notes. Contact usat [email protected] formore information. Thank you!


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’59Greetings: After finally masteringthe new Holderness method ofgetting in touch with alumni, I amback with my newsletter. Some ofyou may be pleased, andundoubtedly some of you are not.To the news… My old track buddy,Charley Murphy, checks in withthe following news: He is workingpart time for Senator Grassley inDC watching out for the people’smoney. I’m glad someone in thecapitol is concerned. This will beMurph’s last year. I can picturemany more trips out West lookingfor those elusive elk. … Lee Millercelebrated his 50th anniversarywith his bride, Wilma. There areprobably many of us in the sameboat. I, for one, celebrated withJeanne in East Boothbay, ME,with our entire family. This com-ing August will find Lee andWilma on a cruise from Venice to

Barcelona. Sounds like all is goingwell for the Miller crew. … Ah! Anote from my double classmate—Holderness and Dartmouth—Buster Welch. Having fished withBuster years ago in front of hishouse in Wilmot, NH, I can attestto the fact that he knows what heis doing. You can check that outby going to Kasba.com; go to flyfishing and check out his blurb.Buster has become quite theexpert on all wilderness affairs. Itwould be great if somehow wecould get him back to NewEngland to hear him speak abouthis adventures in the Arctic andin Canada. Remembrances fromthe mind of Buster: fermentingcider under the bed in the sixthform; Dave Sleeper and his wristRocket slingshot and the shotheard around the world—namelythe lead pellet that went throughthe Hagermans’ bathroom win-

dow and led to a meeting with theheadmaster. Boy, if only DickFloyd knew what went on inLower Niles! … I just heard fromthe slingshot man himself, DaveSleeper. He will be working on aproject in the Bahamas this win-ter—a major improvement overlast year when he was installingelectrical generator stations inGod Knows Where, ME. We hopeto see him this winter in Florida,if he can take some time off. … Ihad breakfast with SteveBarndollar on January 22, and allis going well there. He is still hik-ing and skiing and generally doingquite well since the sale of hisbusiness three years ago. … Dittofor Chris Palmer, who is nearingtotal retirement. That I’ll believewhen it happens. Golf is still highon his recreational activities evenwith a handicap of 29. Ah, thepower of the pen. Sorry, Chris. … Iheard from Henry Whitney. I amsure we will keep in touch. …Rosemary and Ken Lewis are stilldoing well, dividing their timepretty equally between Naples,FL, and Huntington on LongIsland. No real news to report; hedid drive through the Holdernesscampus last summer, after takinga boat cruise on Squam Lake with

some friends, and the place looksreally good. The school apparent-ly was hosting some athletictraining event, or camp, so utiliza-tion of the facilities was beingmaximized.”

CLASS CORRESPONDENTJerry Ashworth ’[email protected]

’60This time we have an embarrass-ment of riches. Two short daysbefore the deadline for this issueof HST, I awoke by the switchwhere I’d been snoozing andemailed the usual suspects (any-one with an email address) with apanicked plea for material. Within24 hours I had an astounding thir-teen contributions. But first, goingback to midsummer 2015, when Igot an email from Don “Soko”Sokoloski, who had news: “OnFebruary 16 I had quad by-passand valve replacement surgery. Itstemmed from a stress testordered by my cardiologist, whomI’d been seeing for a heart mur-mur. I hadn’t had one in the twoyears I’d been seeing him. I call itpreventative maintenancebecause I was feeling fine at the

Have you recently encountered a milestone in your life?

Share your news with your classmates! Please contact us at

[email protected].

SHARE YOUR NEWS!

Clifford A. Rogers ’47 passed away on August 1, 2015. At left are Clifford and his wife Marel; at right, Clifford, circa 1959, at Kent School where he coached football and hockeyand taught Latin.



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time! Everything went smoothly—no recollection of the surgery andNO PAIN. I’ve been doing cardiorehab exercises for the past 12weeks and am now a 175pounder!” At the 55th reunion inSeptember there was indeed asomewhat lesser Soko than wehad seen at the 50th. Soko staysin contact with Gerry Shyavitzand Ross Deachman—two other55th attendees—once in a while. …Another pre-reunion emailexchange in July was with DaveGrant, who said he is not areunion type of guy, but it wasgreat to hear from him after allthis time: “I have been a profes-sional land surveyor all my life. Iam now retired and work for thelocal town engineering depart-ment, helping with fieldwork, CADdrawings, and updating the townGIS 19 hours a week. The rest ofmy time is devoted to familygenealogy (a database of over16,000 people), and computeriz-ing cemetery records for a localcemetery (over 8,000 people). Ofcourse, I have my family and eightgrandchildren ranging from sevento 18 that keep me busy.” Davestill lives in the Mansfield, MA,house his family has occupiedsince 1864. … Peter Macdonaldreported “a spectacular powderday with Phil Peck at Vail inJanuary. There was a Holdernessgathering that afternoon atop themountain at Two Elk restaurant.Happy New Year to all.” … RickBullock checked in with a nicenote of thanks to your humbleand obedient class correspon-dent, adding, “It is always a treatto be reminded of who all myclassmates were [presumablyfrom the list of addressees Ishamelessly leave on my emails]. Ihope those who remain are allwell and happy. I know we havelost John Mossman and PeterMonighetti. Are we otherwiseintact? I am still working and feel-

ing fine, all things considered.Two of my sisters, both St. Mary’sgraduates, were not so fortunate,having lost battles with cancer. Ifeel very lucky. I didn’t fullyappreciate Holderness when wewere all there together—especiallythe great staff—but it was clearlythe right place for me, and thememories are all good. Best wish-es to everyone.” … Alan Dewartlets us know of his impressivepost-retirement activities: “I guessthe only news of any significancefrom my end is the role I haverecently played in helping theUniversity at Buffalo’s School ofArchitecture & Planning launch anew master’s degree program inreal estate development, the onlyone of its kind in the state’s uni-versity system. Then, when Iopened my big mouth, the school(where I have been serving as anadjunct professor for 15 years)took me up on my offer to teachthe new real estate financecourse! Who said anything aboutretiring at our age!? I wouldn’t bedoing it if I didn’t thoroughlyenjoy it, and I recommend thatany of our classmates, who mightbe looking for something produc-tive to do, to consider serving asan adjunct professor at a localcollege or university, most ofwhich are hungry for guys like uswho have a wealth of real-worldknowledge to share with today’sstudents.” … Bill Niles, another55th attendee, together with wifeBarb, says he is “officially free ofcancer after the excision of alarge part of my lung (I remembermy mother happily sending DonHenderson a letter giving me per-mission to smoke in 1958.). I havejust gotten my first smart phone—it proves how smart I ain’t.Hoping to hit an off-year reunionthis school year or next, as I can’tbe very certain about the 60th.My best to all who missed the55th.” … Ross Deachman says,

“Nancy and I went to CocoaBeach, FL for a few months thiswinter. Weather has finally turnedto winter; the skiers are happy.Plymouth has a new 85-roommotel on Tenney MountainHighway. It’s part of the Marriottchain. With that and Walmart weare now no longer living in thecountry. Stay well everyone.” …Gerry Shyavitz says everything isfine with him and Pearl. They’vebeen together for 48 years, “butshe says don’t push your luck.Had a great time at the 55th. Ieven relaxed. Great to visit theghosts of the past.” … Got anothernice thank-you note from LorenBerry. … John Despres, our manin Washington and just abouteverywhere else, reports: “Everyfew months, we’ve movedbetween our winter home inFlorida, summer home inCalifornia, and a family home inDC. We also spent a week lastspring and fall in NYC and amonth in the UK, Portugal, andItaly. As in recent years, Gina andI took our whole family to DeerValley, UT, the week afterChristmas. I enjoyed skiing withour daughters, Sarah, 49, andNaomi, 46, and grandsons, Desi,12, and Clyde and Oscar, both 11.Gina and I also enjoyed snow-shoeing as an invigorating butgentler and safer alternative toskiing! Now back in Miami Beach,we consume a nourishing diet ofconcerts, opera, dance, movies,and books. I still try to keep as fitas possible (age-adjusted) with amix of swimming, Pilates, weights,and walking daily. We now lookforward to two weeks in Juneand July with our daughters andgrandsons in the Galapagos,Ecuador’s rain forest, and itscapital, Quito. So, my life is stimu-lating and gratifying, but it’s noteasy to be optimistic about thefuture world of our grandsons. It’llbe an endless series of big chal-

lenges. Best to all for 2016 andbeyond!” … “It has been glorioushere in Vermont,” says DickFunkhouser. “Fall lasted well intoDecember, and it seems we areabout to miss the big snowstormmenacing the rest of theNortheast. I’m still on my gigteaching economics at New YorkUniversity. The students are won-derful, and commuting to NYC isnot as awkward as it sounds—plenty of theater, opera, and bigcity amusements. My very best toall for 2016.” … We haven’t heardfrom John Dunklee in a while. Hementions John Mossman’s deathand says he is retired from pullingwire as an electrician. Now hejust plays politician as a select-man for the Town of Hebron. …Phil Brooks reports in: “Nice tohear from all those familiarnames. My wife Ginny and I havebeen on our 100-acre farm inLyndeborough, NH, for going on50 years. We have two boys (menI should say, in their 40s); one isan IT guy working from home inWarren, VT, and the other is acommercial helicopter pilot inAlaska, who flies skiers to remotemountain cliffs, where they allattempt to survive what they callfun. In the summer he flies intoforest fires in the Frank Church—River of No Return WildernessArea in Idaho. We sold our postand beam business to one of ouremployees a few years back butthe manufacturing buildings arestill on the property, so we stayinvolved. We also own and man-age 15 rental units that we eitherbuilt or restored. We spend timein Hawaii in the winter months,and in the summer I still takebackcountry fly-fishing trips toLabrador, AK, etc. Ginny mindsthe gardens and animals (a fewcattle, etc.) for the weeks I am inthe wilderness. I also collect,restore and drive ’60s TriumphTR4s and enjoy small scale log-


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ging on the property. We are bothinvolved in land conservationprojects locally. I am on the Boardof High Mowing School, a localboarding school, and keep myhand in education, often stoppingin to visit Holderness to compareideas on the challenges of run-ning boarding schools. Bestwishes to all; I carry lots of goodmemories of our times together.”… and finally, “Hey folks, this isLuke Wright, Dave Wright’s son.It’s great that you all stay in touch.I really have appreciated hearingabout all your successes (Franklyit’s making me wish life by inorder to get straight to retire-ment!). Somehow you got my oldcorporate email, which is quitetypical of my dad. If you couldreplace it with [email protected] you may reach Dave. Ican’t promise you he will reply ashe’s very busy sailing in theAbacos of the Bahamas andrestoring the SV William H.Albury. Dad is as healthy as an oxand takes enormous pride in thefact that he takes no meds of anykind. If you do hear from him, tellhim to call me, and tell him nomore wooden sailboats!! Best ofluck to you all. PS: I owe a hugeamount of my success to his hardwork and the positive life lessonshe taught me along the way; I’msure many of your children wouldsay the same.” … I don’t know ifany of you are Facebook friendswith Dave, but YHOCC is, and Ican tell you he is totally feelingthe Bern!...This has gone on longenough without a detailedaccount of the 55th reunion lastSeptember, but it was a great timein wondrous fall weather. I’ll justthrow out the names of those whowere there: Ross Deachman, Ninaand Dick Gardner, SpikeHampson, Barbara and Bill Niles,Len Richards and MaureenMcClure, Gerry Shyavitz, DonSokoloski, and Pam and Charley

Witherell. One more thing—sever-al contributors mentionedclassmates who have died. Notwanting to lengthen this reportwith a necrology, I’ve emailedwhat I know to my email list. Anyupdates would be appreciated. …Alfred Olivetti (he was “Al” at thetime) was my freshman yearroommate on the first floor ofNiles. A few of us at the 55threunion ran into his son Jerry,who told us his father was verysick and not expected to live long.Alfred died four days later.

CLASS CORRESPONDENTLen Richards ’[email protected]

’61 (reunion)Want to connect with your class-mates? Consider becoming a classcorrespondent and encouragingyour classmates to reconnect inthe HST Class Notes. Contact usat [email protected] formore information. Thank you!

John Holley reports, “Candaceand I have been busy since welast wrote. My beautiful wifeturned 70 last August and we cel-ebrated throughout the year withkids, grandkids, and friends. Atrip to Kauai and another toJackson Hole and Yellowstonewere part of the celebration. Inbetween we visited Middleburyfor my 50th reunion and had agreat time with classmates includ-ing George Theriault and FredNoseworthy. During our visit to

Vermont, Candace and I stoppedby to say hello to Don and PatHenderson. We reminisced aboutthe 1958–61 ski teams. Life is goodand we are enjoying traveling,doing volunteer work, anddelighting in our kids and grand-kids. Our best to all.” … Cece and George Theriault are“looking forward to the 55thHolderness reunion next fall. I amenjoying a new stage of life havingjust retired from a highly satisfy-ing 35 years of service at the NewHampshire Association for theBlind—20 years as President/CEO.I’m hoping to be able to balancenew opportunities and challengesmoving forward, spend a lot oftime in the great outdoors, andcomplete a mind boggling to-dolist.” … John Cleary notes,“Whenever I connect with myschoolmates, the varied interestsand campaigns we individuallyseek and champion reassure methat all is well with us as a class,even if we may appear ‘old’ to therecent graduates. I am honoredjust to be associated with you. Itruly enjoyed our 50th reunion;what a hoot! I continue to workhard physically and thankfully;two years ago this May, I under-

went an open-heart, quadrupleby-pass. I was back on my feetand dancing within one month.Thus, I continue to ’hoe otherpeople’s rows’ with my variouspieces of heavy equipment, par-ticipate in our parish’s mastergardener program, shepherd ourtown’s dog park, and dance when-ever and wherever I can. EverySaturday morning I gravitate toour newly-formed farmer’s marketin town for my large latte andsome great conversation conduct-ed under a spreading live oaktree. My daily personal goal hasevolved simply into sharing anymoment and tweaking a smile onanyone’s face. I already havebegun planting my spring veg-etable garden: onions, carrots,beets, spinach, regular and sugarpod peas, lettuce, potatoes, chard,and kale. Because I have to con-sume most of my crops, I nowavoid the weird, multi-colored,foul-tasting stuff; I have resortedto juicing most of it. I live with myadopted six-year-old dog, MissLouisiane Lulu D.Q.Extraordinaire (D.Q. = dramaqueen); unfortunately, there is nocurrent significant other. NextJune 9th, my brother Robo’s ’62

George ’61 and Cece Theriault at their Middlebury College 50th Reunion

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widow, our sister, and I are host-ing a life celebration for Robo inHanover, NH, at his would-have-been 50th college reunion. Robpassed away last August aftercombating Parkinson’s for seven-teen years. We expect lots oflaughs as we all share his manyadventures/misadventures. If anyof you (from our era atHolderness) would like to partici-pate, please contact me [email protected].” … BillSeaver is “spending much of mytime planning our family trip toJapan next April. I have also start-ed supporting local asylumseekers (pre-refugee stage). Whenthe leader of my weekly Buddhistgroup moved on after eight years,I agreed to co-lead the group.(Lobsang, the monk who startedthis group with me, is now occu-pied full-time running a school forat-risk children in remote north-east India.) This has helped merealize how much Buddhism, andthe group, are part of my life andhas led to my interest in strength-ening the group. I continue todelight in the solace I receiveevery time I look at our Japanesegarden. Even though the garden isa lot of work, I delight in its calm-

ing influence as well as in watch-ing chipmunk TV (Sherry is morefascinated with the “Where’sWaldo” activity—counting andidentifying the goldfish and frogs).As we start to pass the baton tothe next generation, I am trulygrateful that Dana and Aliciavolunteered to cook the Thanks-giving meal this year. Thisallowed me to enjoy Thanks-giving instead of being caughtup in the cooking frenzy.”

’62Peter Cooke reports, “I am offi-cially in the re-engineering phaseof my life. As an organizationdevelopment consultant, I stillfacilitate strategic planning anddeliver programs on ethics in cus-tomer service, but now the bulkof my time is spent working withsouthern New Hampshire’s immi-grant population. For many years,Laconia, Concord, Manchester,and Nashua have served as NewHampshire’s resettlement citiesfor migrating refugees. For oneyear, I was the lead facilitator forthe Manchester ImmigrantIntegration Initiative’s strategicplanning sessions, and now I

serve on its leadership team dur-ing the implementation stage.This work has re-energized me inmany ways, and I am grateful tohave had the opportunity totransfer my corporate and non-profit skills to communitydevelopment. If you are inHooksett—the first town north ofManchester—please stop by andsay hi. All the best.” … MontyMeigs and Bro Adams ’65 met upat a veteran’s event sponsored byHumanities Texas. Monty writes,“Bro was here letting UT-Austinhelp him celebrate the 50thanniversary of the NationalEndowment for the Humanities,of which he is the director. Plus,to raise the excitement level, hewas handing out checks for workproposed by us and others. Wewere chuckling about being inHST together.”

’63CLASS CORRESPONDENTDave Hagerman ’[email protected]

’64CLASS CORRESPONDENTSandy Alexander ’[email protected]

’65Bill Carter writes, “CharlesReigeluth and I spent some timetogether on February 9, after hehad been on a panel with theNorth Carolina State UniversityInstitute for Emerging Issues. Iarranged for him to meet an ele-mentary school teacher inCharlotte, NC, to talk to himabout his book, ReinventingSchools: It’s Time to Break theMold. We had a couple of hoursto kill after lunch, so I decided totreat him to the NASCAR Hall ofFame. We had a great time driving

the simulator cars in a race, com-peting against each other,answering trivia questions, anddoing a bunch more things associ-ated with racing. It was great tosee Charlie and catch up withwhat he has been doing.” … BroAdams sent in a note and photoafter seeing Monty Meigs ’62 at aveteran’s event sponsored byHumanities Texas, the statehumanities council in Texas. Broshared, “Monty reminded me ofhis Holderness connection, andwe talked a good deal about theschool and other things that wehave in common, includingVietnam. We agreed to get togeth-er when Monty is next inWashington.”

CLASS CORRESPONDENTTerry Jacobs ’[email protected]

’66 (reunion)CLASS CORRESPONDENTPeter Janney ’[email protected]

’67CLASS CORRESPONDENTJohn Pfeifle ’67603.938.5981

’68CLASS CORRESPONDENTJohn Coles ’[email protected]

’69Larry Jamieson reports, “I retiredthree years ago after practicingfor 40 years. My wife and I movedfrom Fairfax, VA, to Wilmington,NC. We live here six months ofthe year and the other six monthsin Maine. My son, Ben, continuesto love his job as an academicadvisor at Harvard. Our son, Jon,

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retired from the military andnow works as an analyst for theDepartment of Defense. Ourdaughter, Mara, works as anexecutive vice president for aninvestment bank in Raleigh. Wehave five wonderful grandchil-dren, whom we continuouslyspoil rotten.”

CLASS CORRESPONDENTJon Porter ’[email protected]

’70Tom Munson is retired from alarge mining company in Utahand is living in Surfside Beach,SC.

CLASS CORRESPONDENTPeter Weiner ’[email protected]


Will Parish is the founder andpresident of Ten Strands, anorganization that is trying tostrengthen environmental literacyin California—www.tenstrands.org.Will’s wife Julie is on theCalifornia advisory board for theTrust for Public Land—www.tpl.org. Their son Nate (24)teaches first grade at a schoolnorth of San Francisco, and sonMac (29) lives in Barcelona work-ing for CrowdcubeSpain—www.crowdcube.es. Willand Julie celebrated their 33rdanniversary in April.

’72How time flies. It is always greatto hear from you, and this time Iheard from four of our classmates.… Laurie Van Ingen writes that hehas retired from the oil and gasbusiness after 38 years. In Aprillast year he moved to Colorado,about 25 miles north of Durangoand about four miles south ofPurgatory Ski Resort. “My wifeand I have been volunteering atthe ski area for guest services.Ten days of volunteer work yieldsa free season pass,” he writes.“Really good deal.” Plus, he pointsout, El Niño has, as of the firstmonth of 2016 anyway, lived up toits advanced billing; his area washit by over 13 feet of snow as ofJanuary. “It feels like the snowblower and shovel are attached tomy hip,” he adds. “All those snow-clearing skills I learned during myfreshman year at Holderness onthe Outdoor Crew have certainlybeen put to good use.” Lauriewrites that he is also involvedwith the Geology Department atFort Lewis College, where heplans to make a couple of presen-tations to the geology students.“Durango has a narrow gauge rail-road that runs between Durangoand Silverton, and I have signedup to volunteer as a Rail Rangerfor their upcoming May toOctober season. Basically I willwander the cars answering ques-tions about flora, fauna, geology,area history, etc. Should be inter-esting.” Good to hear from you,Laurie. … From centralMassachusetts, David Nicholsonsays his big news is that his son,Dave, was married on August 29to Laura Monroe Will inOsterville on Cape Cod. “Wewere lucky to have a perfect dayto celebrate with both large fami-lies and many friends,” Davidsays. He and his wife Suzierecently visited Marguerite and

Will Graham at the MidlandSchool in California where Will isthe headmaster. “It is a very spe-cial place with less than 100students learning much morethan just academics,” Davidwrites. “Leadership, grounds work(Remember the Job Program atHolderness?), horseback riding—all on a 2,800-acre campus in LosOlivos, the middle of southernCalifornia wine country.” …Speaking of Will Graham, Will isalready starting to think about ournext reunion. “Can we thinkabout a good turnout for our nextreunion?” he says. “How about anight or two of camping in thewinter woods at the DartmouthLand Grant or the MoosilaukeLodge? Big Nick still has his ‘nomelt’ wilderness chocolate bar,and I think I can find my whistle. Iwill bring Bill Clough and FredBeams, but someone has to go toCuba to pick up Cesar Noble.” …All is well with Peter Kimball andhis family in Sherborn, MA. “Stilltrying to make a difference in myprofessional life and still trying tofind more time for family and thethings I want to do,” he says. …And did someone say “retire-ment?” By the time you read this,I will have retired from TheRepublican newspaper inSpringfield, MA. Lucy and I arebuying a townhouse in an “over55” complex in Duxbury, MA,near where my son Ted, his wifeJess, and their daughter Libbylive. While we are sad to be leav-ing our friends at First Church ofChrist in Longmeadow, we areexcited that we will be living justtwo miles from our son, and lessthan an hour from Cape Codwhere we maintain a seasonal res-idence. So starting this summer,we will be splitting our timebetween Duxbury and Dennis. …That’s it for this time. Great tohear from classmates as always.

CLASS CORRESPONDENTDwight Shepard ’[email protected]

’73Here in southern New England,the bitter snowy cold of last win-ter has been replaced with mildEl Niño conditions (so far). Thelack of snow drove me west inearly January. I gave my eldestson a ride back to his home basein Ogden, UT, and got in a littleskiing along the way. One word toyou skiers: “Snowbasin!” On theflip side, I dipped south to knockoff a few state high points (mycurrent hiking project). MightyMt. Woodall in Mississippi at 804feet took my breath away! I heardfrom a few of you, given the shortdeadline for comments (my fault).… Jim Sargent, who has tradedone side of the country for theextreme other side, writes fromHawaii that he, his wife Leslie,and sons Eaton and Wolf are allworking full time at their Mauidistillery. In 2015, they openedtheplantationstore.com which hasallowed them to sell authenticMaui rums and Okolehao Liqueurto folks in all 50 states. Jim ishoping some old classmates willgive it a try (unsolicited advertise-ment). Jim writes that PeterBennett is now living full time afew miles away and that they havespent a little time together catch-ing up. I might have to pay Jimand Peter a visit in a few years,when I get around to hikingMauna Kea/Loa on the Big Island.… I also heard from Glen Cousins(been awhile, Glen!), who writesthat life in Burlington, VT, contin-ues to be fantastic with Barbara,his wife of 33 years. They cele-brated Glen’s 60th birthday witha trip to Italy in September. Glensees Pete Rapelye a few times ayear and frequently talks withTed McElhinny ’75 in a continued



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effort to get him to come on hisannual Tuckerman Ravine three-day camping and skiing trip everyApril. Glen also has random skidays with Scott Morrison on theslopes of Mad River Glen andStowe. Glen continues to workand thrive at his home-basedbranded merchandise companyICON and invites any Holdernessalumni to contact him if they arein the area. … Peter Terrydropped me a quick “hi” andpromised to write more laterwhen school duties lighten up. …And finally, Peter Garrison, whoputs Dora the Explorer to shame,writes that although it took all of2015, he and his wife made it outof the jungles of Panama and fin-ished their move back to NewEngland, specifically Exeter, NH.Peter is very happy to be back inpeaceful and quiet NewHampshire (Newsflash, Peter…It’sa primary year! You probablyhave Hillary and Trump campedout in your backyard at themoment!). Peter should be grate-ful that we arranged an El Niñowinter to ease him back into NewEngland. He is getting the urge todo some sculpting again after tak-ing a break for the transition. Hehad breakfast recently with

Morgan Dewey, hopes to catch upsoon with Geoff Klingenstein,and is looking forward to our nextreunion. … I’ll leave off here andwish you all a good start to 2016.And yes, our 45th reunion is justover two years away; never tooearly to be making some longrange plans!

CLASS CORRESPONDENTDick Conant Jr. ’[email protected]

’74CLASS CORRESPONDENTWalter Malmquist ’[email protected]

’75Linda King Fogg Noyes reports,“Our daughter Emily King NoyesGrunow ’03 had a baby boy onDecember 1. John Edwin DeardenGrunow IV is our first grandchild,and yes, it is a ton of fun!” … MacJackson writes, “It was great tosee a bunch of you at the 40threunion in September, and it’sthat time again to give us somenews! It’s snowing again in theMad River Valley! After going ona bike ride on Christmas day (so

wrong in Vermont during winter),it started to snow and wereceived about 14” until the rainon January 10. I’m working atSugarbush, Mad River Glen, occa-sionally at Okemo, and travellingaround New England with PSIAthis winter. Give me a shout if youare in the area; we can take someski runs and have some coffee orbeer! I’m racing at Cranmore, NH,on March 12, defending my team’s10th Mountain Division Cup thatwe’ve won the last two years. Ouroldest team member is DickCalvert, 92, a World War II 10thMountain Division veteran. Hopeto make it to Commencement inthe spring, as I have a cousingraduating! My third relative (allcousins, and all sisters) to havegone to Holderness.”

CLASS CORRESPONDENTMac Jackson ’[email protected]

’76 (reunion) CLASS CORRESPONDENTSCharlie Bolling ’[email protected]

Biff Gentsch ’[email protected]

’77Coming in July to a bookstorenear you, Sly the Fly Goes on anAdventure, by Hamilton Williams,a.k.a. Ham Boynton. “It’s about afly named Sly,” he says, “who gets

sucked into a car window, eventu-ally escapes, and has someadventures flying and finding hishome. You can get it now at TatePublishing. Part of the proceedswill go to the First Tee of Tucson,a great organization. I am a pro-fessional golf caddie and I live inEnglewood, CO, and Tucson, AZ,depending on the time of year. Isaw classmate Olin Browne inTucson a few months ago for aSenior (sorry, OB) ChampionsTour event. Hope all my class-mates are well and that their livesso far have been rewarding.Maybe I’ll see you on the linkssomeday. Buy the book Sly the FlyGoes on an Adventure. Agesabout 4–10. You will like it. It isthe first in a series.” … Karl Peters“caught up with the Jibski,Jeremy Baulf, recently in CoventGarden. No one loves a successstory of astronomical wealth andprestige more than America andHolderness, so I’m happy toreport that Jeremy hit the groundrunning after school, did very wellfor himself, has been happily mar-ried for 35 years or so, has twokids, and has the world in thepalms of his hands. He’s much thesame. … Rob Bacon writes, “Thispast October we had aHolderness reunion at our placeon the Cape to honor SandyTreat ’78 who had been diag-nosed with an aggressive form ofmelanoma, and who was goingdownhill fast. Thirty-five peopleshowed up including Bill andPatty Burke. I was blown away bytwo things over the course of thatColumbus Day weekend: First,that I was surrounded by anextraordinary group of fabulousfriends from my earlier years, andsecond, that I had done a terriblejob of staying in touch. I simulta-neously experienced both hugeamounts of gratitude for what hadhappened during my four years atHolderness, and a sense of deep

Al and Bertha Fauver celebrating a bunch of centennials and perhaps an anniversary.Al was on faculty for close to 20 years and passed away in February.

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regret for having let it slip awayinto a distant memory—the fruitsof which I had done little to culti-vate into present-day blessings.Our weekend together on theCape last October brought manyof us back together for the firsttime in decades, and taught me—again—how much I had loved mytime at Holderness, and howdeeply grateful I am for it. Sandydied on January 8, and a verylarge group of Holderness alumnigathered in Colorado to celebratehis life. It was a powerful event!This past weekend I drove myyoungest daughter up I-93 Northto her AMC work camp at the baseof Mount Washington. As such,we drove right by HoldernessSchool. I pulled in and drovearound the school and showedMaggie everything. As we wentaround the campus, memoriesand reflections poured forth fromboth my heart and my lips. I was,once again, overcome with grati-tude for my four years atHolderness School. I showedMaggie the balcony at Nileswhere I first met Sandy Treat. Ishowed her Weld Hall, andCarpenter, and Bartsch, andHenderson’s Outhouse. I showedher everything. I was overflowingwith gratitude. I found myselfwondering how I could serveHolderness School. These pasteight months have re-kindled myflame of appreciation for the‘Holderness Experience.’ Many ofus will gather in just over a monthto ride in the Pan Mass Challengein honor of Sandy Treat. TeamTreat—a gathering of old men—willtry to ride from Wellesley toWelfleet because we love SandyTreat, because we loveHolderness School, and becausewe hope to do some small part tofund research and treat cancer. Itwill be a powerful weekend. Isend you my love, my gratitude,and my affection. I hope to see

you all someday soon. If you areever anywhere near Boston orLexington, give a call. I’d love tosee you. Many Blessings.” … CraigAntonides reports, “The unfortu-nate passing of Sandy Treat ’78brought many of us back togeth-er—whether in person or in otherforms of communication and con-nection. Sadly it’s events likethese that often bring us backtogether. Reunions, under thesecircumstances, often give us awakeup call and remind us thatlife is short. And as we reflect onour past, we might just realizethat our time at Holderness was aspecial time in our lives. Thebonds of friendship from thosedays are lasting, and in the newage of social media, it is easy toreach out and reconnect—which issomething that has motivated meto undertake the temporary dutyof class agent. As we approachour 40th reunion we need to takestock of our Holderness connec-tion and rally our class to step upand show some Blue pride. We’reranked pretty low on the list ofreunion attendance and on givingback to the school. Our last solideffort at reunion was at our 25th,which I recall as a pretty goodtime. It would be nice to get thegang back together under happier

circumstances—an opportunitythat is on our doorstep. Yes, it’s alittle ways off, but time does seemto pass quickly at this stage of ourlives. Many of us are friends onFacebook, and it’s been great tocheck out what folks are doing.The Alumni Office has given usanother opportunity with a newinterface tab, HoldernessConnect, which may have poppedup in your inbox recently. Iencourage you to sign in and seeif we can get our class to mobilizeand reconnect at another level.We need to find some of that spir-it that we showed back in the day.If you need a reminder, just breakout our yearbook—something I didthe other day while gettingrecruited for this duty. It wasfunny to be looking at it in anoffice on the third floor ofLivermore—Olin Browne’s oldroom (good thing those walls can’ttalk). I’m both proud and embar-rassed when I thumb through it.How many classes have blacked-out pictures in their yearbooks?Needless to say it’s always a littleawkward when one of our presentstudents comes up and says, ‘Isaw your yearbook.’ That’s usuallywhen I remind them that theyaren’t going to have much luckpulling the wool over these eyes.Regardless, it’s something that

makes me chuckle, because Ithink we all turned out okay. Let’ssee if we can rally and get somemomentum building for our40th.”

CLASS CORRESPONDENTPeter Grant ’[email protected]

’78Let’s start 2016 off right by check-ing in with the class of 1978’sanswer to The AmericanSportsman, Scott Sirles. Sirleszywent to Kamchatka, Russia, lastsummer on a fly-fishing adventureto the Ozernaya River. He saysthere was “almost a fish every caston this remote, but prolific river.The bugs were thick enough tocarry you off, though,” Scottwrites. “Daily baths in 100-per-cent DEET were the norm.”Sirleszy wasn’t the only classmateto head out into the wild. … Thiswinter Blaise deSibour and hiswife Leslie Clapp spent eightweeks traveling around SouthAfrica with a two-week jaunt inthe middle to Rwanda andUganda. Blaise and Leslie went toCape Town, Kruger National Park,the Drakensburg Mountains, andthe northeast coast. While inSouth Africa, they rented a 4x4

Helen Hua P ’15 pictured with the mothers of current Holderness Beijing studentsduring lunch in her home

Grace Bird TR and husband Jerry P ’07,’13 before the Kelly Brush Century Rideon September 12, 2015



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truck equipped for camping witha tent on the roof. … Randy Fiertzis still keeping the friendly skiessafe with his job in the FederalAviation Administration, but he’shad a change of scenery. After 20years in the District of Columbia,Fiertzie and family have relocatedto the other Washington, specifi-cally Seattle. His new gig with theFAA gives him federal oversight ofairports in seven states rangingfrom Washington to Colorado. Benice to Randy and wish him con-gratulations in his new role, gang,or he’ll make sure you never flycommercial ever again (I kid,Randy, I kid). … J.D. Hale took afew minutes off the ski slopes tocheck in and let us know that hisson Charlie is living in LosAngeles and is launchingYouPlus.com, an app companyprimarily involved in the health-care sector. They are privatelabeling for some big companiesthis year and rolling out 2.0 inApril. Jud also sends alongupdates about the rest of hisbrood. He helped move hisdaughter Rosie to Denver inOctober, where she has just

joined a healthcare ad agency.“She loves to ski and hike so sheis very happy,” Jud writes ofRosie’s new life. Jud will be backin Colorado on March 6, skiing atVail with Rosie, his brother Chris,and Kraig Haynes (a friend fromBates College); he is looking toconnect with any Holdernessalumni in the area. DaughterLacey just finished up a semesterin Seville, Spain, and Jud and hiswife Cindy and I visited her therein December as well as Madrid.Lacey is a junior at ConnecticutCollege. One of Jud’s other kids,Dalonn, graduated fromSpringfield College last springand is running the children’s pro-grams at the North SuburbanYMCA in Woburn, MA. And finally,there is Josh, who is a junior atNortheastern and is taking asemester off to work. …Unfortunately, 2015 wasn’t all funand games for the class of 1978.We lost two of our own—SandyTreat to cancer and AndrewWilson to a heart attack. Classmembers responded to Sandy’sdeath by forming a team that par-ticipated in the Pan Mass

Challenge, the bicycle ridingfundraiser that takes riders on dif-ferent routes aroundMassachusetts. The team, called“Treat Life Right,” was led by DonWhittemore and included PaulBozuwa, J.D. Hale, and PrescottSmith, as well as Rob Bacon ’77and Sandy’s widow, Kathy. Theteam raised $112,613.80 and islooking to better that mark thisyear on August 6 and 7.

CLASS CORRESPONDENTLuther Turmelle ’[email protected]


Will Neff reports, “Still alive andkicking in Houston, TX. I come upto Franconia, NH, each fall andsometimes pop by Holderness. Ireceived an annual email

Christmas card from Rob Loweand family in neighboring Katy,TX. I hope the whole class canmeet for our 40th coming up.Happy New Year to all!” …Michael Silitch writes, “After twoyears as boarding school teachersand coaches (Nordic skiing andmountain biking) in New England,Nina (Cook) Silitch ’90 and I areoff to bigger mountains. We aremoving to Park City, UT this sum-mer, where we’ll continue to beimmersed in sport and ski culture(after almost 15 years inChamonix, France and the Alps).Our boys, Birken (11) and Anders(nine), will continue to ski there.I’ll still teach part time, but I’malso returning to guiding (I’ll beteaching and mountain guiding inZermatt, Switzerland this fall).Looking forward to guiding theHaute Route next spring, if any-one is interested.”

’80CLASS CORRESPONDENT Greg White ’[email protected]

’81 (reunion)CLASS CORRESPONDENTBill Baskin ’[email protected]

’82Molly Nelson reports, “Beenhanging out a lot with PennieMcEdward Rand and Ann Ogdenthese past few years. Both are stillawesome people. Our kids, Ruby(25) and Grace (23) turned out tobe farmers just like their parents,even after four years of college.You can check out their pages onFacebook—Pine Root Farm andMerrifield Farm Stand. If yourkids are looking for summer work,send them our way! I stop in tosee Bill and Ki Clough often on

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my motorbike walk-abouts. Theyare doing well and look great—busy with their sugar bush, skiingand travel. Check out a two-minute film of our farm onYouTube: Merrifield Farm (not themaple sugar one). That’s Johnnyin the corn and me on theInternational. Come visit any-time.”

CLASS CORRESPONDENTChris Pesek ’[email protected]

’83Peter Hewitt is looking forward tomoving from California to theNortheast this coming summer.He would love to visit with any-one who cares to discuss healthscience or arts education.“Holderness is a great place and Ibet that it retains great people,”he says. “But I don’t know them,and I would like to change that.Idea: alumni arts events. My par-ticular interest is music, and itwill not take much to enroll me incelebrating the contributions ofDavid Lockwood for HoldernessSchool.”

CLASS CORRESPONDENTJud Madden ’[email protected]

’84CLASS CORRESPONDENTFred Ludtke ’[email protected]

’85CLASS CORRESPONDENTJean-Louis Trombetta ’[email protected]

’86 (reunion) CLASS CORRESPONDENTChris Zak ’[email protected]


Brett Weisel says to look him upif you make it to San Francisco. …Or if you’re in Hong Kong, stop into see Christopher “Todd”Burgess; he’ll buy lunch! He sawCraig Johnson in San Franciscoover Christmas.

’88Jenny Holden shared big news:“In April, after five long years,hours of ridiculous amounts ofpaperwork, and many visits toEthiopia, I finally brought mydaughter, Lucy Susan Holden,home. I am loving every minute ofbeing a mom. We had a magicalfirst Christmas together in Mainewith family.” … Brett Jones wasout in Wyoming last summer witha whole clan of 21 at the HF BarRanch where the Jones boys bat-tled the ranch hands in a matchof polo. … Pete Driscoll is stillplaying hockey at the AnnapolisNaval Academy, often with PeterBondra (NHL 500 goals), everyFriday morning. “My son contin-ues to skate with recklessabandonment with the Metro andNavy Squirts,” Pete reports.“When we aren’t playing hockey,we are skiing at White Tail inPennsylvania. I am still represent-

ing liquid alternative mutualfunds in the Mid-Atlantic as man-aging director with CedarCapital.” … Matt Schonwald hasbeen in Kyrgyzstan battling theelements and the slow Wi-Fi. …Paula Lillard Preschlack writesthat she is doing well and is look-ing forward to seeing everyone atthe next reunion. … Chris Keeler’sstepdaughter is getting marriednext June in Napa and plans tobe back East in July. … DavidWarren is now a dad. He and hiswife Julie welcomed their sonKnox Warren into the world onDecember 31, 2015. … Lee Hanson

Christopher “Todd” Burgess ’87 andCraig Johnson ’87 in San Franciscoover Christmas

Todd Hopgood ’87 and BruceBohuny ’87 in Telluride, CO

Alex MacCormick ’88 and ChrisDoggett ’88 at St. George’s Parents’Weekend

Brett Jones ’88 at the HF Bar Ranch inWyoming last summer

Russell Gates ’88 with family at arecent Boston Bruins hockey game

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also welcomed a new addition tohis growing family. Congrats! …Chris Stewart has been busy thisfall looking at boarding schools,including Holderness. … Stew,Scott Esposito, and I met up inthe city for the annual TetonGravity Research Premiere. … I’vebeen busy this fall as well. Mydaughter Molly is a freshman atSt. George’s. During their Parents’Weekend, I ran into ChrisDoggett (my Hoit roommate),whose son is a junior there, aswell and Jim and MargaretConnor who are both St. George’steachers. Great to see them. …John Taggart is Director ofPhotography on the new JerrySeinfeld TV show Comedians inCars Getting Coffee.

CLASS CORRESPONDENTAlex MacCormick ’[email protected]

’89Te Tiffany writes, “I have animportant thank you that I wouldlike to extend to classmates ScottBeckman and Jen MurphyRobison. Life does have a way ofoccasionally throwing us all someinteresting curve balls from timeto time, and such was the casewith me this last year; I supposean amicable divorce was a con-tributing factor as well! Myex-wife elected to leave Alaskaand move to Marblehead, MA,where much of her family lives.She and I share/split the timewith our two daughters, Reed (10)and Marin (eight), so this majorshift has caused me to adopt a bi-

coastal lifestyle. Commuting backand forth from Alaska to NewEngland wasn’t exactly in mylong-range plans, but one has tolearn to adapt, and I am doing mybest to comply. I now split mytime between Fairbanks,Marblehead, and Weare, NH(where my family has long had ahome). The only way this bi-coastal, tri-household system isable to work for me currently isthanks to the super help and gen-erosity of Scott and his wifeBecca, as the girls and I live in asmall above-the-garage apartmentthey have in Marblehead; and Jenand her husband Dave donat-ed/loaned us the beds the girlsare using in Marblehead, alongwith a lot of great, and necessary,household items. So to both ofthem I wish to offer a very sincereand heartfelt thank you! Anadded bonus is that I now get tospend time with them as well asmy old Holderness roommateGreg Eccleston. I am hoping tosee, and reconnect, with otherclassmates as the winter, andyears, progress!”

CLASS CORRESPONDENTJen Murphy Robison ’[email protected]

’90 CLASS CORRESPONDENTCourtney Fleisher ’[email protected]

’91 (reunion)CLASS CORRESPONDENTTerra Reilly ’[email protected]

’92CLASS CORRESPONDENTKelly Mullen Wieser ’[email protected]

’93CLASS CORRESPONDENTLindsay Dewar Fontana ’[email protected]

Hazel Marie Eccleston, daughter ofRick ’92 and Janet Eccleston, at twomonths old

John Taggart ’88 filming with JerrySeinfeld on the set of the TV showComedians in Cars Getting Coffee

The Herrick family hosted theDavenports and Gillettes to introducethe kids before the first week of schoolin September. (L–R) Todd Herrick ’87,Stian Davenport ’19, Jenny Herrick ’18,Chris Davenport ’89, Lily Gillette ’19and Tracy McCoy Gillette ’89

Te Tiffany ’89 with daughters Reed (10) and Marin (8)


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’94Melissa Barker reports, “I’menjoying year 13 at DawsonSchool, where I am still teachingbiology, running the experientialeducation program, and coachingthe cyclocross team. I love intro-ducing middle and high schoolstudents to bike riding and racing.I often summon my inner PhilPeck when talking to the team,and I am proud to say that I’mgraduating kids who have reallyembraced the bike. On a personalnote, I am now sleeping in thestars and stripes jersey that I justwon at the Cyclocross MastersNational CyclocrossChampionships in early January.Now on to ski season!” … CynthiaSweet writes, “Things are goingwell here on Cape Ann. I am stillrunning Sweet Paws, my non-prof-it dog rescue organization. We areapproaching 3,000 dogs savedsince starting five years ago, and Iam going into the 11th year of myrescue career. I am also workingon legislation that will changeMassachusetts laws regardingpuppy mills and animal abuse. Itis a ton of work and most days itis discouraging, but getting to seerescue dogs that once were strayson the street or horribly abusedgo into their new homes makes itall worth it. I recently found BritMunsterteiger ’95 and RameyHarris-Tatar their second SweetPaws dog and got to see them

both. Alexis Wruble ’95 hashelped a ton in raising funds andvolunteering and I love seeingher. It is super fun keeping intouch with Holderness friendsthrough our mutual love of dogs.Unfortunately, the rescue gigdoesn’t pay—there’s not a lot ofmoney in saving dogs—so I am stillconsulting in the internationalexperiential education arena tosupport my dog addiction. I workfor a small company out of CapeTown, South Africa, and luckilystill have the benefits of travelingfor work. I ran into DaveWarner ’95 a few weeks back atour local farmer’s market. Lastly, Iam planning a trip with LindseyNields Kennedy and KellyCornish to go visit Kate Stahlerin San Diego—just a quick girls’weekend. Hope everyone ishappy and enjoying life. Don’t for-get to check out Sweet PawsRescue on Facebook!”

CLASS CORRESPONDENTSSam Bass ’[email protected]

Ramey Harris-Tatar ’[email protected]

’95Bryan Erikson reports, “I amhappy to announce that I havebeen named head coach and gen-eral manager of the NortheastGenerals junior hockey team. Weplay in the North AmericanTier III Hockey League and start-ed playing out of Canton, MA, inSeptember 2015. It has been abusy few months recruiting andgetting set up, but I’m having ablast doing it!”

CLASS CORRESPONDENTJohn Farnsworth ’[email protected]

’96 (reunion) CLASS CORRESPONDENTHeather Pierce Roy ’[email protected]

’97CLASS CORRESPONDENTPutney Haley Pyles ’[email protected]

’98CLASS CORRESPONDENTTara Walker Hamer ’[email protected]

’99CLASS CORRESPONDENTBrooke Aronson McCreedy ’[email protected]

’00CLASS CORRESPONDENTAndrew “Sully” Sullivan ’[email protected]

’01 (reunion)Kellan Florio says that “life keepschugging along. Diana and I justmade the big move from city tosuburbs (Brooklyn to PortWashington on Long Island). Ourkids (Zoe, two, and Crosby, one)keep us on the go non-stop. I’mstill working in investment bank-ing at Goldman Sachs, and Dianais ramping up her yoga-infusedphysical therapy business(www.dianazotos.com), recentlyfeatured on Oprah.com. While I’mnot playing soccer, skiing, or golf-ing nearly as much as I used to, Ireally enjoy exploring my inneryouth making pillow mountainsand reading Dr. Seuss with thekiddos.”

CLASS CORRESPONDENTSKaryn Hoepp Jennings ’[email protected]

Adam Lavallee ’[email protected]

Sophie Moeller ’01508.685.1682

’02It is with a heavy heart that Ireport to you that we have lostour dear friend and classmate,Erin Maroni. It was comforting tosee so very many people fromHolderness in the chapel to cele-brate Erin’s life and to cometogether to support one anotherand the Maroni family at her serv-ice. The outpouring of sympathyand kind words that I have heard,received, and seen on socialmedia really speak to the centralfigure Erin was in our class. Avery special thanks to Phil Peck,Rich Weymouth ’70, and DavidLockwood for making her servicefeel so warm, safe, and familiar—itwas a very special remembrancefor such a radiant person. To therest of the class of 2002 (and theother classes who also loved andknew Erin), her family hasrequested that in lieu of flowersyou support Holderness Schoolthrough your donations in Erin’smemory. I know I speak for all ofus when I say that we shall missher terribly but remember herever so fondly. … Joel Bradley isfinishing up his fourth and finalyear in the Internal Tufts/MaineMedical Center internal medicineand pediatrics residency programin Portland, ME. “I just accepted aposition at the VA/Dartmouthdoing quality and safety work andteaching in the departments ofinternal medicine and pediatrics,which will bring me back towardHolderness country in the sum-mer,” he says. “My older brother

Jen Fournier ’92 and Heather MarcroftVitella ’89 wearing their Holdernesshats at a wellness retreat in May 2015



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Jamie ’99 introduced me to thejoys of being an uncle—and livingwith an insomniac three-month-old with a cold. He continues tolive in Portland, OR, where he isleading an otherwise charmed lifeas a new father. At the beginningof January my wife Elissa and Ihad the pleasure of running intoPeter Hendel, Peter Durnan, PatCasey and the Holderness Nordicteam two days in a row skiing atthe base of Carter Notch inJackson, NH: a delightful chanceencounter. We are looking for-ward to seeing them around thiswinter if and when El Niño lets itsnow.” … Andrew Everett and hiswife Becca welcomed their babygirl, Annabelle Grace, onDecember 8.

CLASS CORRESPONDENTBetsy Pantazelos ’[email protected]

’03Shannon Fallon reports, “2015was a fun and full year for me! Icompleted my training in KMIstructural integration with TomMyers and I opened my own prac-tice—the Bodhi Shop inWestbrook, ME. The Bodhi Shopis a KMI, massage, and yoga stu-dio, where I predominantly work1:1 to help improve movement andfunction in one’s body. I also offergroup yoga classes and have real-ly enjoyed watching my littlecommunity grow. A lot of timeand energy has been devoted toopening a business, but I havebeen balancing it with plenty ofplay—skiing, sailing, and traveling.Sending warm wishes this NewYear! Stop in to the studio and sayhi if you are ever in the Portland,ME, area.” … Matt Burzon says,“Hi, Holderness! I turned 30 thisyear. After lots of travel in my 20s,I’m now enjoying life inBurlington, VT and am thankful

A EULOGY FOR ERIN MARONI ’02

BY BETSY PANTAZELOS ’02

I’ve spent some time mulling over when I actuallyfirst met Erin. I remember her sassy red curlspinned into the pixie cut and recall thinking thatthis girl was stylish and bold. But in retrospect, Idon’t think it was Erin’s haircut at all that conveyedher daring and spunk, but rather it was the veryessence of her that she simply exuded everywhereshe went. She shared her energy without pretenseand her friendship and heart selflessly and withoutjudgment.

Erin always had a way of infusing more colorinto situations. When everyone else on the soccerteam wore Holderness Blue and white uniforms,she thought it best to add iridescent teal leggingsand a mango pullover to the ensemble. For theoccasion of our high school Christmas dinner,when everyone else had spent time stalking theaisles of Macy’s and Lord & Taylor for a full-length

formal gown, Erin made a dress out of duct tape—complete with red and green electrical tapeaccents.

Some of my fondest memories of Erin involve’80s music, skiing, or dancing—the best of timesinclude all three. In high school we were on the skiteam together and spent a lot of time on coldchairlifts between runs. We found the best way toward off the chill was to keep moving while sus-pended over the icy slopes. Erin’s idea of “keepingmoving” always involved creating dances completewith hand gestures and other choreographedmovements while belting out the lyrics to some ofher favorite songs.

Since her passing, many of you have fondlyrecounted the day we took one of these verydances to the stage—in front of the entire studentbody. The notion of it instills stage fright in metoday, but somehow standing next to Erin thatnight made lip-syncing to Tiffany’s “I Think We’reAlone Now” with side-ponytails and neon attire infront of 300 people both fun and carefree. In thisway, she was a safety net of a friend—the kind ofperson that made you feel safe, supported, andimplicitly understood whenever she was near.

Erin was definitely a reader, but On the Roadby Jack Kerouac had a special place in her heart.In the book, Kerouac writes, “The only people forme are the mad ones, the ones who are mad tolive, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous ofeverything at the same time, the ones who neveryawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn,burn, like fabulous yellow Roman candles explod-ing like spiders across the stars and in the middleyou see the blue center light pop and everybodygoes ‘Awww!’” Erin was one fabulous yellowRoman candle and she would not want us tomourn her passing.

So instead, let us celebrate her life. Afterall,one eulogy cannot fully encompass the woman,the daughter, and the trusted friend. I’ll say myparting words to Erin with the same words she leftfor me in the last voicemail that I have from her.“I know you’re out of the country, but I missed youso much anyway, so I thought I would leave you amessage, so that when you got back home I wouldsay…Heyyyy! You’re home!! Ok. I’ll talk to you later.Miss you, love you, bye.”

FABULOUS YELLOW ROMAN CANDLE


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to be playing competitive hockeyregularly with Chris Talbert ’05on Team Flex in the CatamountLeague. Inspired by good friendRyan Dunn ’93 and his adventur-ous trips out West, I purchased anRV in the late fall and headedwest for two months. I touredmost of Colorado, had breakfastwith Kerstin Bendl ’04 in Aspen,and made a number of stops inUtah and New Mexico for somemountain biking and back-coun-try adventuring. The big news for2016 is that I’ve founded a talentacquisition company called TalonRecruitment. I am very excitedfor the coming year. Happy 2016!”… David Madeira lives in NewYork City with his wife Ori andtheir dog. “I always enjoy catchingup with Holderness folks,” henotes. “Hedda Burnett ’00 is ourdog’s veterinarian, and I run intoher husband Ben at the deli dur-ing lunch frequently. I went to aski film premier with BetsyPantazelos ’02 this fall, and it wasa great time. I also had a greattime catching up with Holdernessfriends at both Gaylord wed-dings—in the Adirondacks forAndy ’02 and Colorado forCharlie ’01. I stayed with FordySinkinson ’02, who is now afather to a baby girl, and BrittRuegger ’02 gave me a rockclimbing lesson. I saw RamsayHill ’02 in Park City briefly thefollowing weekend on our way tothe airport in Salt Lake. This pastfall Han Min Lee ’05 was travel-ling through NYC on his way to his’American Reunion’ atHolderness, and it was great tocatch up with him over somebeers in mid-town Manhattan. Istayed with Alex Palmisano andhis wife Katherine in SanFrancisco for a mutual friend’swedding, and went surfing withAlex and Dave Campbell ’04 atsome of their locals-only spots.Ave Cook ’02 and Heidi

Webb ’00 were in NYC forThanksgiving weekend, and Oriand I had a great time hangingout with them and their daughterand son. I saw both Coach DuaneFord and Coach Bob Low in earlyDecember. I also visited brieflywith Jessika Fishkin Klass ’02 atSt. George’s School in her admis-sions office, and then stayed withJarret ’01 and Jessica Hann on atrip to Williamsburg, VA, the fol-lowing week. Jarrett stoked agiant bonfire in his backyard justlike they do back inNewfoundland. Then I saw JustinSimon ’04, now the NewHampton School lacrosse coach,at a lacrosse convention inBaltimore. I usually get to see

Sam Beck ’02 (another soon-to-befather) in Norwich, VT, and ChrisRodgers ’02 in Stowe, whenever Igo back to Vermont. I look for-ward to catching up with moreHolderness folks in 2016.” …Siblings Neal and Lauren Frei ’05climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro together.They used their adventure as anopportunity to raise several thou-sand dollars to support a localschool and orphanage inTanzania.

CLASS CORRESPONDENTNick Payeur ’[email protected]

’04Nate Smith writes, “A few yearsago my wife and I moved out ofthe New York City metro area toSyracuse, NY. Since then, we’vehad our first child, Sarah, who iscurrently two years old. Next fallwe plan to move farther north toa small town near the Canadianborder. This is where we hope tofind our first home and enjoyspending more time outdoors.One piece of advice that Ireceived while at Holderness thatsticks with me to this day wasgiven by Norm Walker. Whenreading novels, he always had uswrite down any words we didn’tunderstand and look them up in a

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dictionary. He would hold usaccountable the next day andwould quite often quiz us on themost difficult ones. It seems sim-ple, but you’d be surprised at thenumber of students who skippedover this task. Mr. Walker felt thatthis was a metaphor for otheraspects in life. Since that time, if Idon’t understand something, you

can bet that I am going to try andmake time to do my research andsee what I can learn. I never gotthe chance to tell him that hisadvice stuck with me so clearly,but I credit him with the successI’ve had in life.” … Matt andAshley Healy welcomed theirsecond son, Cole, in January.

CLASS CORRESPONDENTRyan McManus ’[email protected]

’05CLASS CORRESPONDENTBrie Keefe ’[email protected]


Ashley Babcock lives in Telluride,CO, and teaches middle schoolmath and science at TellurideMountain School. “At school, I skiwith the students up to three daysa week, and in April I will be trav-eling to Cuba with theexperiential learning program,”she writes. “This winter I amsigned up for multiple big-moun-tain free-skiing competitions,including those at Crested Butteand Taos, and I am enjoying back-country skiing in the San Juans.I’m hoping the class of 2006 has agood turnout for next summer’s10-year Holderness reunion!” …Lucy Randall married PaulArchibald on September 19 at theChurch of the Redeemer inChestnut Hill. She reports, “Wehosted our reception at theCountry Club in Brookline andcelebrated our big day with familyand friends and a lot ofHolderness alumni! Paul and I livein the Back Bay of Boston, andI’m still working as an event plan-ner at the Massachusetts GeneralHospital Development Office,mainly focused on pediatricevents.” … Jess Saba lives andworks in Boulder, CO, and in NewYork City. She is an independentmarketing and business strategist.She has worked with over 30companies in the outdoor, naturalfoods, and social innovationindustries. “Come out to Boulderand visit if you’d like to ski, hike,or go on a hut trip,” she says. …The past year has been a busyone for Carlie Bristow: “I finishedmy graduate program at Tufts

Siblings Neal ’03 and Lauren Frei ’05 pictured with local guides, Innocent and Yusef, atop 19,341-foot Mt. Kilimanjaro for sunrise.The temperature was minus 24 degrees.


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University this past summer andstarted working at the Institute ofContemporary Art/Boston. At theICA/Boston I help run our exten-sive teen programs that connectBoston youth with the artists andartwork in our galleries. I live inCambridge, MA, with my two-year-old French bulldog, Oscar. Ialso have an art studio in Lowell,MA, where I am able to continuemy work as a visual artist/photog-rapher. Over the past year, I havespent time with 2006 classmateslike Anne Richardson, BlairThompson, Molly Nissi, and TaiHaluszka!”

’07Katie Oram writes, “I am workingfull time in the field for theNational Outdoor LeadershipSchool in their winter rock climb-ing, hiking, and mountaineeringprograms. I am spending most ofmy winters in Jackson, WY, andsummers in the Pacific Northwest.I see some Holderness alumniaround every now and then, andit is always great!!” … SarahMorrison reports, “I’m still livingin and loving Brooklyn, where Iwork in events and marketing.Over the holidays I went home toNew Hampshire and spent some

time catching up with KristaGlencross ’06 and JaimeDusseault. … Stephen andKourtney Brim Martin celebratedtheir fifth wedding anniversarylast year. Stephen is deployed asan EOD Technician to Spain, pro-viding crisis response for theAfrican region. Kourtney is still apolice officer and is currentlyassigned as a detective; fortunate-ly, they found time for a Spanishvacation in January. Their chil-dren, Julia and Mitchell, are oneand two years old.

CLASS CORRESPONDENTAnnie Hanson ’07 [email protected]

’08CLASS CORRESPONDENTJessi White ’[email protected]

’09CLASS CORRESPONDENTSMeg McNulty ’[email protected]

Allison Stride ’[email protected]

’10CLASS CORRESPONDENTSAbby Alexander ’[email protected]

Ashleigh Boulton ’10 [email protected]

John McCoy ’[email protected]

Em Pettengill ’10 [email protected]

Carson Holmes ’15, Emily Clifford ’15,and Annie Hayes ’15 in Orlando, FLafter running the Walt Disney World®Half Marathon on January 9, 2016

Kai Lin ’15 and Connor Marien ’14 infront of Thompson Hall at theUniversity of New Hampshire after aspecial Veteran’s Day “RetreatCeremony” that involved Army and AirForce ROTC programs

Katie Gewirz P ’16 met up with Massachusetts State Trooper Tom Mahon ’88 whilewaiting for a plane to arrive at Logan Airport this past spring.

Matthew Burzon’s ’03 new RV during a night of camping at Boreas Pass inBreckenridge, CO

Amanda French-Greenwood ’01 andDana Greenwood’s newborn daughterMikey wearing new Holderness gear



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’11 (reunion) Jack Long reports, “I graduatedfrom Babson College with a BS in

accounting and computationalfinance and am a candidate for aMechanical EngineeringCertificate from Olin College. I

continue working full time at myfintech start-up Volos PortfolioSolutions, LLC, which resulted inme moving to Boston, MA.”

CLASS CORRESPONDENTSCecily Cushman ’[email protected]

Mandy Engelhardt ’[email protected]

Sam Macomber ’[email protected]

Jamie McNulty ’[email protected]

’12CLASS CORRESPONDENTS Matthew Kinney ’[email protected]

Alex Leininger ’[email protected]

Kristina Micalizzi ’12 [email protected]

Steph Symecko ’[email protected]

’13CLASS CORRESPONDENTS Kelly DiNapoli ’[email protected]

Olivia Leatherwood ’[email protected]

’14CLASS CORRESPONDENTSCoCo Clemens ’[email protected]

Tess O’Brien ’[email protected]

Samuel Paine ’14650.464.0002

Garrett Phillips ’[email protected]

Elizabeth Powell ’[email protected]

Stephen Wilk ’14802.786.2255


Tai Haluszka ’06 and Lucy Randall ’06 getting ready for Lucy’s wedding on September 19, 2015 in Chestnut Hill, MA

Stephen and Kourtney Martin ’07 at the Plaza de Espana in Seville, Spain


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AT THIS POINT IN TIME

by ben mitchell-lewis ’

Which came first, the crest or the shield? Orwas it the seal?

Have you ever spotted the shield some-where surprising—across an airport, on abumper sticker across the country, or evenabroad? Those moments of pride, of recogni-tion, of memory, tie the Holdernesscommunity together.

The first chapter in the branding ofHolderness School is fairly simple. In theseal became official when Holderness Schoolwas chartered by the state of New Hampshire.That original seal was simple: the “lamp oflearning” illuminating the ever-present motto,“Pro Deo et Genere Humano” (“For God andMankind”) all inside a circle. “HoldernessSchool” and “” literally rounded out thedesign. For decades, this was stamped ontodiplomas and all official school documents.

But in the s the story takes a turn andgets a bit confusing; in fact we have to return tothe s to explain. Holderness School wasnamed after the town of Holderness, whichwas named after a region along the Yorkshire

seacoast in England, once home to a line ofEarls. Robert D’Arey, the fourth Earl ofHolderness, was appointed secretary for thecolonies in by King George III. The NewHampshire Colonial Governor at the timehonored the appointment by naming a newlygranted territory “Holderness.” Unfortunately,D’Arey never produced a male heir; the orderof Holderness ended, and with it, the traditionsof the lineage.

Enter Rev. Robert Elliot Marshall, a sHolderness reverend and headmaster with a

quest: he would bring a shield to Holderness.Since no Earl of Holderness had been alive inalmost years, it seemed fitting that oursmall school in the woods would pick up thelegacy of the D’Arey coat of arms.

Bringing a Shield to Holderness

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TOP LEFT: The original coat of arms of the

Earl of Holderness; ABOVE: Steps in the

evolution of today’s Holderness School logo.

CIRCA 1893

CIRCA 1892

CIRCA 1925

CIRCA 1932



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Supremely ornate, the shield has beenperched above the doorway into Livermoresince the building’s construction. It falls to theBuildings and Grounds Department to main-tain its color and form, and depending on wholast wielded the brush and how rough the pre-ceding winter has been, it can be faded orbright. Returning students in and were surely greeted by a glowing application ofpaint—our own Head of School Phil Peck didthe deed during his time on the maintenancecrew. Says Phil, “The chief painter at thetime…approached me with a paint and brushset and said, ‘Phil this was given to me byBrownie, who told me years ago to paint thecrest the right colors and paint the bullanatomically correct. You need to do the same.’I complied feet up.”

While the crest on Livermore remainsornate and traditional to this day, in this mod-ern era, for most publications, the shield oftenappears by itself, decorated simply withcrosslets and cinquefoils. Check out your t-shirt, bumper sticker, or Holderness Fundmailing. And be on the lookout in airports andcities—and mountain trails—around the globe.

During his leadership of the school, EdricA. Weld wrote an article titled “Lamps andBulls: A Survey of the Holderness Insignia.” Inthe article, he takes special care to discuss thebull, a true symbol of Holderness in his eyes.To quote him at length:

But along with the more profound symbols ofthe lamp of learning and the motto: “For God andMankind”, it may not be amiss to have the bullstanding for Holderness too, ready to charge atevery red banner, and impishly to chase theunwary visitor out of the pastures—and also asthe symbol of creativity. Never have I known agroup of the same size to accomplish so much—oranywhere near as much—in so many fields ofactivity. In an age of weariness and hopelessnesson the part of so many, America needs those whohave a passion to create, and to attack new prob-

lems. May the Holderness Bull continue to lookfrom Livermore Hall on those who add zest andlife to the world.

And may I add, as we look at the Bull, toremember where he came from, what he repre-sents, and all those who have felt his gaze atother moments in their lives. Once a Bull,always a Bull. �

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Final steps in the evolution of today’s

Holderness School logo. The round seal is

used for more formal applications of the

school’s communications, and often as an

adjunct to the school logo (shield with

school name).

CIRCA 1967

SEAL, TODAY

LOGO, TODAY


“ When I think about all the informative

moments in my four years at Holderness, they

are too many, too hard to separate, and too

hard to rate. It was four years of hard but

rewarding work. The complete life experience

molded me into a well-educated young man,

ready to face the world.” – David Nichols ’65

“ There were 23 of us that graduated inthe Spring of 1950, part of a totalenrollment on campus of about 76. I stillthink of those years as some of my best.”

– Chico Laird ’50

“ We love Holderness!”– Kathy Cunha P ’16 ’19

“MEMORIES TOCHERISH FOR ALIFETIME…”– THADDEUS– FOOTE ’92

“ I AM ALWAYSPROUD TO THINKOF OR SAY‘HOLDERNESS.’”– JOHN ALDEN ’78“

“

“ Thank you, Holderness, for all you have given me over the years, andcontinue to give to our community and world.” – Jake Norton ’92

“ Holderness is the complete package.” – Peter Rapelye P ’93 ’97

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AIDAN KINSLEY ’19 HAULS BRUSH OUT OF THEFAIRMONT PARKS IN PHILADELPHIA. DURINGTHEIR TEN-DAY ADVENTURE, AIDAN AND THEREST OF THE NINTH-GRADERS CLEANED UPTHREE TRUCKLOADS OF DEBRIS. PHOTO BYTANNER ENSIGN ’19

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Holderness School Spring 2016 Holderness School Today magazine. Flat size is 11.0 inches tall by 18.19 inches wide (includes 0.19 inches for perfect-bound spine); folded size is 11.0 inches tall by 9.0 inches wide. Artwork prints in four-color process and bleeds all four sides. Cover artwork; Cover II and Cover III.

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BASECAMP IS MISSION CONTROL DURING OUT BACK. BUT IT IS ALSO A GATHERING PLACE FOR ALL THOSE WHO HAVE GROWN TOLOVE OUT BACK AND RETURN EVERY YEAR JUST TO BE A PART OF THE JOURNEY. THIS YEAR ON A WARM AND BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY

AFTERNOON, HOLDERNESS CHEF KERRY O’CONNELL MADE THE TREK TO BASECAMP AND HELPED WITH SOME OF THE COOKING.

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Holderness School Spring 2016 Holderness School Today magazine. Flat size is 11.0 inches tall by 18.19 inches wide (includes 0.19 inches for perfect-bound spine); folded size is 11.0 inches tall by 9.0 inches wide. Artwork prints in four-color process and bleeds all four sides. Cover artwork; Cover IV and Cover I.

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