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chools put so much time, 3. Produce or perform a work of art. build to demonstrate that they’ve mas- good effort and resources 4. Using statistics assess whether or not tered theory as well as practice. into planning and preparing a statement by a public figure is • Collaborate with peers to carry they sometimes neglect to demonstrably true. out a complex piece of research, teach take stock of the effective- 5. Assess media coverage of a global a class, or lead a discussion. ness of all that work. Over event from various cultural/national • Take part in and ultimately facil- the last decade our society perspectives. itate a discussion with peers across Shas pushed to assess the results that various media about the important are achieved in schools through an Using the complete inventory of aspects of a text: plot, character, almost maniacal reliance on standard- suggestions from NAIS, Berkeley theme, and style. ized testing. As an independent school Carroll has developed its own list of we are spared being tied to state-spon- demonstrations. This comprehensive Identifying and articulating these sored test results, but how does a record of outcomes can be found on demonstrations has been a worthwhile school such as Berkeley Carroll gauge our website in each of the Upper and rewarding exercise. We will have its effectiveness? School academic departments. These attained our goals as a school, and our Class of 2011 Realistically, independent schools are designed to be detailed and specif- society will be better served, if we pro- are under pressure to show results ic examples of the results that a BC duce graduates who can think, create Commencement because families make many sacrifices education delivers. When we stop and and take action. Have we done our to pay the high cost of tuition. Are we analyze all of the aspects of our pro- job? We believe we are headed in the worth it? While it is gram, it is discernible that there is a right direction to prepare our students impossible to offer guar- “BC” way of teaching and learning. for the demands of the future. Our he 55 members of the senior Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” and its The Warmth of Other Suns was pub- antees there are still The program starts in the Lower alumni are good at giving us feedback class graduated on May 27, mantra, “There will be time, there will lished last fall to universal critical demands to deliver the School and builds through all of the and uniformly tell us that they have 2011, at the Old First be time.” Audrey added, “I don’t have acclaim; it will be taught to BC stu- goods—and that is as it years. Using the complete inventory of been prepared for the next level of Reformed Church. After a it figured out, but what comforts me is dents this fall in Marvin Pollock’s should be. suggestions from NAIS, Berkeley demands. We will continue to keep greeting from Class President that I don’t need to. There will be American Stories course. For the last several Carroll has developed its own list of our eye on the constantly evolving TDanielle Regis ’11, the Upper School time.” Along with stressing the impor- years the National demonstrations. The “BC” experience expectations of the 21st century and choir performed “Sing Me to Heaven.” Her speech’s theme—the frighten- tance of perseverance, Ms. Wilkerson Association of culminates in the Upper School and continue to make enhancements to Then graduation speaker Audrey ing, exhilarating sensation of “not reminded graduates of their debt to BOB VITALO Independent Schools has on our website a comprehensive our program. Denis ’11, a Berkeley Carroll lifer, knowing”—swung smoothly into the their families. Whether or not one’s advocated for schools to reflect on record of outcomes can be found in Enjoy the accounts of our many spoke about the school’s supportive, remarks of Pulitzer Prize-winning forebears took part in the Great their academic program and produce each of the Upper School academic accomplishments that are contained in “quirky” environment throughout her journalist Isabel Wilkerson. Sixteen Migration, she explained, all demonstrations of learning: what skills departments. These are designed to be this issue of our magazine, and as fourteen years here. With beautiful years ago, New York Times reporter Americans are the products of our can students expect to have acquired detailed and specific examples of the always, we thank you for your brevity, she summed up those years as Wilkerson began researching what she ancestors’ courageous, odds-defying by the time they graduate from high results that the total BC education support. ones of exponential growth. “When I saw as “the greatest underreported journeys. school. To give a flavor of these delivers. Here is just a sampling from was three,” she said, “we planted grass story of the twentieth century”: the As each student’s name was called, demonstrations, here are a few from some of the areas of our program: in our shoes and checked on it every migration of nearly six million African he or she received a diploma, a hug the NAIS list: Sincerely, day to see if it had grown. In sixth Americans from the oppressive Jim from Upper School Director Suzanne • Apply logic, number sense, and Robert D. Vitalo grade I learned the name of the Crow South to cities in the Northeast, Fogarty, and handshakes from Head of 1. Write a cogent and persuasive estimation skills to analyze the appro- Head of School process that allowed it to happen: Midwest, and West. “I was about to School Robert D. Vitalo and Board of opinion piece on a matter of public priateness of numerical results. photosynthesis. And in eleventh grade begin something that I had never done Trustees Chair Stephanie Holmes. In importance. • Build something—the battery- Biology I learned, maybe in too many before, and it was scary,” Ms. her closing remarks, Ms. Fogarty 2. Declaim with passion and from free flashlight for Physics and 21st details, how photosynthesis works.” Wilkerson told the graduating class. evoked the words of French writer memory a passage that is meaningful Century science and the human torso After expressing anxiety about nav- “There were no guarantees of success.” and philosopher Michel de Montaigne: — of one’s own or from the culture’s model for Anatomy and Physiology are igating the world as an adult, Audrey More than 1,200 interviews later, “To compose our character is our literature or history. examples of things students need to quoted T. S. Eliot’s poem “The Love Ms. Wilkerson completed her book. duty.”

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uring the June 9, 2011 Sophia Prud’homme spoke about learn- rch Day is a time-honored, McBarron, representing Chissa Middle School Closing ing from mistakes. This important much beloved Berkeley Mireles’s fourth grade class, talked D Ceremonies, seventh grade theme was also evident in the words A Carroll tradition. As the about all of the privileges conferred on speaker Tom Shea told the audience of sixth grade speaker Leah Ross, children walk through the arch they fourth graders. “Fourth grade is a year that change is not always easy but— who talked about the signficance of symbolically pass from their current that prepares us for Middle School,” learning how to embrace grade to the grade they’ll be in next she said, going on to assure Jim life’s awkward moments. school year. Shapiro, head of the Middle School, The eighth grade speakers— Arch Day is also accompanied by that she and her peers were ready for Maya Littlejohn and Kamyar speeches. Speaking on behalf of his the challenge. Sadeghi—waxed reminiscent classmates in Rebecca Bellingham’s Echoing that sentiment was Alayna about how much they’d grown fourth grade class, Nicholas Bonina Thomas, delegate from Trupti Patel’s at Berkeley Carroll. confided that when he had first toured fourth grade class. “We got a sneak The universality of the the Lower School building at 701 peek of Middle School at 181 Lincoln students’ growth was evident Carroll Street (home to grades 1-4) he Place,” she said. “I’m a little nervous,” across the division as, kid thought, “Wow, this building is huge,” she admitted, but eager to move up by kid, fifth graders but ultimately came to the realization because “I want to advance my stud- Eighth grade speakers Maya Littlejohn and Kamyar became sixth graders, that it was just that he had been “real- ies.” Sadeghi greet the crowd. sixth graders became sev- ly small.” Today, though, Nicholas said And that’s Arch Day: a fond speaking for his fellow seventh enth graders, seventh graders he was already “feeling like a fifth farewell to the year that’s passed, but graders, and perhaps for everyone in became eighth graders, and eighth grader.” also an embrace of the challenges the audience—they learned things this graders donned the mantle of the Fellow fourth grader June ahead. year that might be useful later in life. high school student. Representing the fifth grade, Middle School Dean of Students Hillary Rubenstein shakes hands with a rising ninth grader.

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What did Middle Schoolers do during their summer vacation? Scholastic Gold THEYREAD! Medal Winner When the Middle School English Department threw down its Summer reads poetry Reading Challenge, over 75 middle school students rose to accept it, choosing to read thousands of pages beyond the summer reading at the required for English and history. White House Shown here are the three readers from each grade who read the most pages. The most pages read in 6th grade was 6,522 by Benjamin The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Schaffzin; Maiya Nielsen and Mokhtar Rajai were runners-up. In 7th started small—their first contest, in grade, Sarah Holsberg took the prize, with 6,639 pages; close behind 1923, yielded only seven submis- her were Lilian Rona and Alessandro Getzel. And Natalie Trautman, sions—but since then they’ve grown 8th grader, took the prize for her grade and for the entire middle astronomically in both prestige and school, having read an awe-inspiring 12,782 pages (a mere 142 pages size. This year the contest, designed to a day). Audrey Kastner and Cecilia Emy held their own, taking second identify emerging talents in the arts, and third place. received 185,000 submissions (45,000 The basic belief of the Middle School Summer Reading Challenge is of them from New York City alone), that the more you read, the better you read; the better you read, the and the roster of past winners includes more fun reading becomes; the more fun reading becomes, the more writers such as Truman Capote, Sylvia you read ... These nine readers prove how true this tenet is. Plath, and Andy Warhol. Congratulations to all 78 challenge winners! Last spring, Lucy Beers Shenk ’15 not only joined that illustrious “When we got there, we waited in about how she had wanted to be a list—she was one of twenty-one line and then went through a lot of writer when she was a kid. It was BC students honored by the security. Then they brought us into the inspiring to hear from her. And the Scholastic Awards—but she also East Wing and we walked past the whole time, I was thinking ‘Wow, I’m received an invitation to the Kennedy Garden and the White House in the White House.’ But I couldn’t White House for a poetry sympo- movie theater, and into the main make security jokes!” sium orchestrated by First Lady building. It was amazing. It was really Lucy wasn’t the only BC student Michelle Obama. On May 11, cool to see the famous portrait of John who struck gold, though. In Berkeley 2011, Lucy attended a work- F. Kennedy looking down, especially Carroll’s Upper School, eleven stu- shop for young writers in the because I’d just seen Caroline dents won Gold Keys for writing or State Dining Room that featured Kennedy in person!” visual arts: Naomi Brenman ’11, such notables as Poet Laureates In her opening remarks that after- Eve Cantler ’12, Eve Comperiati ’12, Billy Collins and Rita Dove, noon, Mrs. Obama jokingly referred to Audrey Denis ’11 (who received two and, of course, Mrs. Obama. her husband as “Poet-in-Chief” (he pub- Gold Keys), Elise Guarna ’13, “It was unreal,” Lucy says. lished two poems while at Occidental Sophie Kriegel ’11, Sage Lancaster ’11, “On our way there, I was really College) and stressed the fact that Lily Lopate ’12, Phoebe Miller ’11, nervous and felt kind of sick. “We’ve brought you here from all over August Rosenthal ’13, and I’d only found out a few hours the country because we want you to be Emma Rosman ’14. Four students won before and then suddenly, it a part of this conversation.” Silver Keys: Mikaela Chant ’13, was a Wednesday morning Lucy says, “Mrs. Obama was Allison Brown ’13, and I wasn’t in school but on great—really calm and chill—and she my way to the White House! really meant what she was saying [cont’d on page 8]

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connections) The 4th grade wrote the play, Race Around the World, in a collaborative and possible socioeconomic causes. way with director, Vanessa Paige. Hannah Lemkowitz ’11 studied the techniques of Method acting gurus Lee The music was written by Strasberg, Stella Adler, and Sanford Carolyn Sloan. Meisner in hopes of determining “the ‘best’ method.” Hannah performed Method acting exercises and conduct- ed an exhaustive interview with one of Meisner’s colleagues. She eventually concluded that “there is no ‘best’ method…Acting is living. Living is never absolute, so acting shouldn’t be either.” Ean Marshall ’11 was fascinated by the politically troubling work of Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein. Was Eisenstein “a propagandist who churned out movies for the state,” Ean (l to r): Elise Guarna '13, Eve Comperiati '12, Alison Brown '13, Sophie Kriegel '11, and Audrey Denis '11 wondered, or a bona-fide artist devot- Eve Comperiati ’12, and Sage awarded, outstanding works of art ed to advancing his theory of mon- Lancaster ’11. In the Middle School, and writing from the New York tage? He was both, as Ean demonstrat- eight students won Gold Keys: region are forwarded to the Alliance ed in a lecture peppered with clips Kennedy Austin ’15, Isaiah Back-Gaal for Young Artists & Writers to be from Eisenstein’s films. ’15, Maya Littlejohn ’15, Ben Paulson reviewed on a national level by pan- After noticing that the few tradi- ’15, Noa Street-Sachs ’15, and Maggie els of professional jurors. Three BC tions her family had “all seem to Duffy ’15 won Gold Keys for personal students achieved national award revolve around food,” Phoebe Miller essay; Lucy Beers Shenk ’15 and designations; Lily Lopate received a ’11 decided to research the potential Emery Powell ’16 won Gold Keys for Silver Medal for Poetry, Elise Guarna harms and benefits of genetically mod- poetry. (Isaiah and Lucy received two got a Gold Medal for Photography, ified food. “Thinking about what we Gold Keys each.) and Lucy Beers Shenk got a Gold eat and why we eat,” she writes, “is After Gold and Silver Keys are Medal for Poetry. vital to our ability to relate to each other.” Masha Puchkoff ’11 steeped herself in the poetry of Anna Akhmatova. In Senior Projects the course of studying the first well- known female Russian poet, Masha Senior project presentations culminate wrote a 45-page paper that defended found herself both arguing for an entire year’s worth of intensive, Faulkner’s non-linear and sometimes Akhmatova’s continued cultural rele- independent study. As juniors, inter- chaotic writing style. She discussed vance and identifying with ested students draw up a study plan the arduous but satisfying “process of Akhmatova’s obsessive “need to write.” and ask a faculty member to serve as straightening out Faulkner’s words.” Dylan Scher ’11 asked himself, mentor. A year later they write lengthy While working at her church’s soup “How much does the Internet really reports of their research and present kitchen, Sage Lancaster ’11 became affect politics? Do blogs really give any the highlights in front of a crowd of curious about the backstories of the pajama-clad amateur the chance to teachers, parents, and peers. regulars. She began interviewing make a difference?” His zeitgeisty study Emma Corngold ’11 pored over homeless people, city councilmen, and covered topics ranging from the three of William Faulkner’s early BC community members, and com- morality of Wikileaks to the success of novels—The Sound and the Fury, As I piled a study of homelessness in New Barack Obama’s internet-driven Lay Dying, and Light in August—and York City that examined its history campaign.

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ly a ‘What happens in Vegas stays in Students Vegas’ policy,” explains Ms. Prescott. “Lean into “It’s partly about comfort, and partly about helping students get secure Discomfort” enough that they can run things on on Diversity Day their own.” Along with Ms. Prescott, Diversity Day was organized by Upper Director of Admissions Vanessa School faculty members Erika Drezner, Prescott said, “The whole point of Kathleen Ellis, Suzanne Fogarty, Cindy Diversity Day is to be uncomfortable. Molk, Marvin Pollock, Nick Sautin, The kids’ expectation each year is that Lorne Swarthout, and Bob Vitalo. they want it to be raw, they want it to Diversity Day culminated in a read- be gritty.” This year’s Diversity Day, ing at the Sterling Place auditorium. held on 25 February 2011, was no Despite the dreary, overcast weather, different. In a day of respectful, com- students poured with such rowdy fer- munity-building activities, Upper vor that Dean of Students Cindy Molk School students suspended judgment observed, “That was really exciting. I and “leaned into their discomfort” in felt like an action hero.” The ten stu- order to talk about the issues they dent readings (along with a reading A student proudly displays an entry from his weekly journal. have in common with one another, as from US Science teacher Scott Rubin) well as the issues that set them apart. presented an array of sharp, eloquent One Project Brookyn group performed famous Brooklyn music, live from the Tea Lounge. E-Books and Others Published In the weeks leading up to responses to “Am I my brother’s keep- Diversity Day, every Upper School stu- er?” Aidan Watson ’14 discussed the From Aaron Copland to Pizza: in the Lower School dent drafted a response to “Am I My limits of loyalty, which he dubbed a Publishing, a dying industry? Not if Berkeley Carroll has anything to do Brother’s Keeper?” The school was “tricky virtue,” and Munirah the Middle School Explores Brooklyn with it. As one plucky PreK student exclaimed—while raising his fist in wallpapered with excerpts from their Braithwaite ’11 talked about the pit- falls of “feeling unseen.” “There are many ways to end a school year,” Middle School director Jim the air in a sort of Power Ranger pose—“I like books! I want to be a pub- written reflections, which ranged from Shapiro explained. “We could have ended the 2010-11 school year by lishing person.” He, along with the entire Lower School, had ample brainy to heartfelt and approached the Antonia Giles ’12 brought a jokey testing and pushing in the old familiar way to the last minute.” Instead, opportunity to test out that career path during BC’s sixth annual publish- notion of “being kept” through the intensity to her reading, in which she though, the Middle School embarked on Project Brooklyn, an exciting ing party, which took place on Wednesday, April 6, 2011. Each grade prisms of society, family, race, religion, argued that excessive, unchecked posi- new experiment in experiential learning two years in the making. For presented their work individually, so parents had the opportunity to drift and politics. tive reinforcement might result in “a three days last June, Middle School teachers, introduced the children to a from classroom to classroom while sipping coffee and munching on After the Silent Movement, students generation of stupid, reckless kids new or longstanding intellectual passion. These ranged from baseball to strawberries and doughnut holes. broke off into a number of intimate, who can’t rap.” Mr. Rubin enumerated Brooklyn street poetry, from meditation to public art. The books on display included, but were certainly not limited to, no-holds-barred workshops whose top- the various entities—including the Project Brooklyn has a heavy travel component intended to build cartoon panels drawn by the kindergarteners, the 4th graders’ biogra- ics included “What Is My continent of Africa—that have taken students’ knowledge of the culturally rich borough surrounding them. phies of celebrated explorers, the PreK’s Universe of Obligation?”, care of him. Andrew Timko ’11 One group visited music venues and recording studios, and then weekly journals, and folktale retellings “Am I a Team Player or a assailed BC’s “fuzzy,” entitled atmos- performed a series of tunes written by Brooklyn-born artists ranging from by the 3rd graders. Most of the Bystander?”, and “I’m phere, in which, he said, “too many Aaron Copland to Barry Manilow. Another team visited a local farm in Red books were “printed” on construc- Addicted to Facebook.” people expect to ‘be kept.’” (Andrew’s Hook, met up with alum Caroline Greig ’03, and explored aquatic tion paper and cardboard, but a Students then met in affin- speech had particularly strong after- ecosystems. Taking advantage of Brooklyn’s role in the Revolutionary War, few—including animal research ity groups whose identifiers shocks; the March Blotter published a a group visited sites where the Battle of Brooklyn took place while another reports written by the sec- included “lone wolf,” “gen- two-page spread featuring his speech team fully explored Brooklyn pizza. ond graders—were com- der cheater,” and “don’t and a slew of polarized student reac- Each group returned from their travels rejuvenated in a way not typi- piled entirely on the feel fully American.” tions.) Andrew’s speech was emblem- cally seen in the waning days of the school year. As Mr. Shapiro said, “We computer and then Teachers are excluded atic of Diversity Day’s ideals in that it are so often hampered by the brick walls that define the way we relate to displayed on iPads from these groups and resulted not in a unanimous standing space, as if inside is school and outside is the world. Of course, the two as e-books. workshops. “There’s real- ovation but a patchy, impulsive one. Even in terms of the way they are the same!” Two students pitch their applaud, the students of Berkeley stories to a receptive parent. Carroll are insistently diverse.

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14 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Fall 2011 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Fall 2011 15 connect) ions) LionsSpringto V I CT O RY The Spring 2011 sports season includ- run in the semi-final game of the ACIS ed fierce competition climaxing with tournament. Next season, the team nail-biting, one-game elimination will look to her to lead the team with The softball team, with coaches Michael Kubera and Joe Wood tournaments for all the teams. The her powerful bat and as a captain. baseball and softball teams were both Berkeley Carroll’s baseball team had Team captains Anna Saltman '11, Cristina Colon '11, high achieving, and the tennis team a season that the school will proudly and Lauren Malotra-Gaudet '11 showed promise for future improve- remember for years to come. Led by a ments. “core four”—Joey Martinez ’11, Robbie ask ourselves how such a small school Though led by first singles player Paller ’11, Andrew Timko ’11, and can be so consistently dominant, defeat- Johnny Steines ’11, the tennis team Dan Schwartz ’11—the team went ing teams that recruit players from was mostly populated by underclass- undefeated in the ACIS without much around the country. This question may men, including second and third sin- of a struggle. The real challenge for be unanswerable, but we do know that gles players Jason Grunfeld ’13 and them was the state tournament, in the Lions expect nothing less from Corbin Hopper ’13. Unfortunately, which they were highly successful, themselves and for our school. Steines was forced to miss the majority making their second finals appearance of the season due to injury, requiring in three years. After Martinez sus- (right) Johnny Steines '11 Grunfeld and Hopper to step up a tained a season-ending injury in seating and step up their game. state semi-finals, Ian Miller ’14 Anhony Spina '13 Grunfeld, in particular, had a very stepped up to pitch in the final successful season, finishing 5th in the against Poly Prep. Miller pitched Lauren Malotra-Gaudet '11 ACIS tournament. Tennis fans hope beautifully, holding Poly to five that Grunfeld and Hopper will prove and a third scoreless innings. to be a powerful combination in the Despite this, the game ended as a years to come as they age and mature devastating 8-1 loss. into even better tennis players. Overall, it was a very strong The softball team, led by cap- season for the Lions, one in tains Christina Colon ’11, which heroes were made, Lauren Malotra-Gaudet ’11, and in which battles were and Anna Saltman ’11, had won and lost. We often a very strong season. The girls made it to the semi- finals of the ACIS tournament and the quarterfinals of (l to r) Joey Martinez '11, Andrew Timko '11, the state tournament, cul- Dan Schwartz '11, Robbie Paller '11 minating with a heartbreaking loss to Riverdale. Olivia Wilson ’12 stepped up and hit a home BY MATTEO HEILBRUN ’14

The baseball team with Coach Glen and Coach Paller. 16 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Fall 2011 17 connect) ions) LionsSpringto V I CT O RY The Spring 2011 sports season includ- run in the semi-final game of the ACIS ed fierce competition climaxing with tournament. Next season, the team nail-biting, one-game elimination will look to her to lead the team with The softball team, with coaches Michael Kubera and Joe Wood tournaments for all the teams. The her powerful bat and as a captain. baseball and softball teams were both Berkeley Carroll’s baseball team had Team captains Anna Saltman '11, Cristina Colon '11, high achieving, and the tennis team a season that the school will proudly and Lauren Malotra-Gaudet '11 showed promise for future improve- remember for years to come. Led by a ments. “core four”—Joey Martinez ’11, Robbie ask ourselves how such a small school Though led by first singles player Paller ’11, Andrew Timko ’11, and can be so consistently dominant, defeat- Johnny Steines ’11, the tennis team Dan Schwartz ’11—the team went ing teams that recruit players from was mostly populated by underclass- undefeated in the ACIS without much around the country. This question may men, including second and third sin- of a struggle. The real challenge for be unanswerable, but we do know that gles players Jason Grunfeld ’13 and them was the state tournament, in the Lions expect nothing less from Corbin Hopper ’13. Unfortunately, which they were highly successful, themselves and for our school. Steines was forced to miss the majority making their second finals appearance of the season due to injury, requiring in three years. After Martinez sus- (right) Johnny Steines '11 Grunfeld and Hopper to step up a tained a season-ending injury in seating and step up their game. state semi-finals, Ian Miller ’14 Anhony Spina '13 Grunfeld, in particular, had a very stepped up to pitch in the final successful season, finishing 5th in the against Poly Prep. Miller pitched Lauren Malotra-Gaudet '11 ACIS tournament. Tennis fans hope beautifully, holding Poly to five that Grunfeld and Hopper will prove and a third scoreless innings. to be a powerful combination in the Despite this, the game ended as a years to come as they age and mature devastating 8-1 loss. into even better tennis players. Overall, it was a very strong The softball team, led by cap- season for the Lions, one in tains Christina Colon ’11, which heroes were made, Lauren Malotra-Gaudet ’11, and in which battles were and Anna Saltman ’11, had won and lost. We often a very strong season. The girls made it to the semi- finals of the ACIS tournament and the quarterfinals of (l to r) Joey Martinez '11, Andrew Timko '11, the state tournament, cul- Dan Schwartz '11, Robbie Paller '11 minating with a heartbreaking loss to Riverdale. Olivia Wilson ’12 stepped up and hit a home BY MATTEO HEILBRUN ’14

The baseball team with Coach Glen and Coach Paller. 16 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Fall 2011 17 THE Demonstrations ofLearning ISSUE ADVENTURES IN THE STUDY OF MODERN JAPAN

N THE FALL OF 2010, THE TENTH GRADERS IN LORNE SWARTHOUT’S UPPER SCHOOL HISTORY OF MODERN JAPAN CLASS PRESENTED THEIR “FIRST ENCOUNTERS” RESEARCH TO ITHEIR TEACHER AND CLASSMATES. THE ENSUING MINI-DRAMAS WERE REMARKABLY SUCCESSFUL RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTS THAT PUSHED THE STUDENTS TO DELVE DEEPER INTO JAPANESE HISTORY. MOREOVER, IT WAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO PULL TOGETHER SOME OF THE ASPECTS OF LEARNING THAT THE BERKELEY CARROLL HISTORY DEPARTMENT VALUES MOST HIGHLY.

The Shogun beckons the oddly dressed foreigner to come closer. As he does so, Will Adams bows deeply and begs to be of service to the Tokugawa regime. The Shogun suggests that Japan’s shipbuilding program could use the English mariner’s help. Thus began one of the oddest of Japanese-Western partnerships, between Tokugawa Ieyasu and the “barbarian” Will Adams. This encounter was the subject of James Clavell’s novel Shogun, and it was also the subject of a skit by two Modern Japan students when they presented their “First Encounters” research. The students from Lorne Swarthout's Modern Japan class. BY LORNE SWARTHOUT

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18 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Fall 2011 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Fall 2011 19 It all began with the Museum of the City of New York’s sesquicentennial cele- bration of the first Japanese embassy to the United States. In 1860, a high-level delega- tion representing the Shogun journeyed to Washington to sign a Treaty of Amity and Commerce between our two nations. This was a follow-up to the diplomatic opening that had been initiated by Commodore Perry seven years earlier. The traditionally dressed Japanese samurai and their attendants created a pop- ular sensation, especially when they visited New York. The Museum exhibit was modest but very well researched, full of the firsthand responses of journalists, politi- and missionaries, poets and engineers, that moment of maximum Japanese a short play dramatizing the The skits were lots of fun and also cians, photographers—and Walt tourists and soldiers. The loose criteria defeat and maximum America domi- encounter. a great way to wrap up the project. Whitman’s commemorative poem “A I used for selecting these encounters, nance. Yet, once again, a dramatic This was the real payoff for all of They forced the teams to zero in on Broadway Pageant.” besides that they fall within the time- power imbalance did not prevent peo- us, the reward for slogging through one crucial, dramatic moment while When I first saw a notice for this line of our course, were dramatic ple from East and West from working difficult texts and trying to write one also understanding the complicated This was the real payoff show in the summer of 2010, I interest and good documentary evi- together to their mutual benefit. How paper on two computers, and losing “back story.” They provided a per- ‘‘ became determined that first semester dence of both Eastern and Western did the two sides perceive each other? all that class time. Now we could all formance conclusion to a very aca- for all of us, the reward for history elective students would have perspectives. What did they want from each other? see what might have actually tran- demic exercise. They allowed some to go see it. My colleagues and I began For example, the Will Adams story How did they try to change each spired… teams to improve their scores. And thinking about how we might use unfolded around 1600 at the very other? How were they changed in the most importantly, they allowed each slogging through difficult “Samurai in New York.” The upshot start of the Tokugawa Shogunate, the process? Those were the kinds of rich • when the Toyota engineer team to show the class what they had was the First Encounters project. period at which the Modern Japan and interesting questions I’d hoped disagreed with his American been doing all semester. They became texts and trying to write An important message that the course begins. We know about this these encounters would elicit from my mentor, the teachers. “Samurai in New York” exhibit drove encounter between Will and the students. I was not disappointed. • when the Victorian Although I was not really con- one paper on two home was that it was virtually the first Shogun from Adams’s own journal, But first I had to decide on the Englishwoman faced the young scious of it at the time (because teach- time people from the United States although we have to guess at why, mechanics of this long-term assign- Ainu shaman, ers sometimes just do things that “feel and Japan had ever seen, met or inter- exactly, it led to a 30-year employ- ment. It seemed tailor-made for group • when the American MP arrested right”), the First Encounters project computers, and losing all acted with each other. Their reactions ment contract. work, and the class of fourteen was the black market merchant in 1946, advanced four goals that our history betrayed both their openness and Another series of encounters the neatly split into seven duos. Each of • when Lafcadio Hearn went faculty has sought to promote during that class time. curiosity and their blinders and preju- Modern Japan students study are the seven teams was asked to examine walking in the village, my years at Berkeley Carroll. Here dices. Couldn’t this 1860 encounter those between American soldiers and the encounter list and pick three that • when exchange student Tsuda they are, not necessarily in order of be a model for other such encounters Japanese citizens after World War II. intrigued them. Armed with books or Umeko tried to communicate importance: that have happened in a wild variety These historical episodes are much articles that explored their encounter, with her American host mother of ways over the last 400 years? I set more richly documented. John each group produced a five-page in 1872, and 1. Traditions and encounters. This is out to research some of those meet- Dower’s Pulitzer Prize-winning text paper addressing a lively research • when Fukuzwa Yukichi toured San the name of our world history text- ings and find documents that would Embracing Defeat was our guide to question about the encounter. They Francisco in 1860. book, but it also describes what we ’’ illuminate them. I found diplomats Japanese and American reactions at were then sent back to work to script care about. We are concerned with

20 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Fall 2011 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Fall 2011 21 It all began with the Museum of the City of New York’s sesquicentennial cele- bration of the first Japanese embassy to the United States. In 1860, a high-level delega- tion representing the Shogun journeyed to Washington to sign a Treaty of Amity and Commerce between our two nations. This was a follow-up to the diplomatic opening that had been initiated by Commodore Perry seven years earlier. The traditionally dressed Japanese samurai and their attendants created a pop- ular sensation, especially when they visited New York. The Museum exhibit was modest but very well researched, full of the firsthand responses of journalists, politi- and missionaries, poets and engineers, that moment of maximum Japanese a short play dramatizing the The skits were lots of fun and also cians, photographers—and Walt tourists and soldiers. The loose criteria defeat and maximum America domi- encounter. a great way to wrap up the project. Whitman’s commemorative poem “A I used for selecting these encounters, nance. Yet, once again, a dramatic This was the real payoff for all of They forced the teams to zero in on Broadway Pageant.” besides that they fall within the time- power imbalance did not prevent peo- us, the reward for slogging through one crucial, dramatic moment while When I first saw a notice for this line of our course, were dramatic ple from East and West from working difficult texts and trying to write one also understanding the complicated This was the real payoff show in the summer of 2010, I interest and good documentary evi- together to their mutual benefit. How paper on two computers, and losing “back story.” They provided a per- ‘‘ became determined that first semester dence of both Eastern and Western did the two sides perceive each other? all that class time. Now we could all formance conclusion to a very aca- for all of us, the reward for history elective students would have perspectives. What did they want from each other? see what might have actually tran- demic exercise. They allowed some to go see it. My colleagues and I began For example, the Will Adams story How did they try to change each spired… teams to improve their scores. And thinking about how we might use unfolded around 1600 at the very other? How were they changed in the most importantly, they allowed each slogging through difficult “Samurai in New York.” The upshot start of the Tokugawa Shogunate, the process? Those were the kinds of rich • when the Toyota engineer team to show the class what they had was the First Encounters project. period at which the Modern Japan and interesting questions I’d hoped disagreed with his American been doing all semester. They became texts and trying to write An important message that the course begins. We know about this these encounters would elicit from my mentor, the teachers. “Samurai in New York” exhibit drove encounter between Will and the students. I was not disappointed. • when the Victorian Although I was not really con- one paper on two home was that it was virtually the first Shogun from Adams’s own journal, But first I had to decide on the Englishwoman faced the young scious of it at the time (because teach- time people from the United States although we have to guess at why, mechanics of this long-term assign- Ainu shaman, ers sometimes just do things that “feel and Japan had ever seen, met or inter- exactly, it led to a 30-year employ- ment. It seemed tailor-made for group • when the American MP arrested right”), the First Encounters project computers, and losing all acted with each other. Their reactions ment contract. work, and the class of fourteen was the black market merchant in 1946, advanced four goals that our history betrayed both their openness and Another series of encounters the neatly split into seven duos. Each of • when Lafcadio Hearn went faculty has sought to promote during that class time. curiosity and their blinders and preju- Modern Japan students study are the seven teams was asked to examine walking in the village, my years at Berkeley Carroll. Here dices. Couldn’t this 1860 encounter those between American soldiers and the encounter list and pick three that • when exchange student Tsuda they are, not necessarily in order of be a model for other such encounters Japanese citizens after World War II. intrigued them. Armed with books or Umeko tried to communicate importance: that have happened in a wild variety These historical episodes are much articles that explored their encounter, with her American host mother of ways over the last 400 years? I set more richly documented. John each group produced a five-page in 1872, and 1. Traditions and encounters. This is out to research some of those meet- Dower’s Pulitzer Prize-winning text paper addressing a lively research • when Fukuzwa Yukichi toured San the name of our world history text- ings and find documents that would Embracing Defeat was our guide to question about the encounter. They Francisco in 1860. book, but it also describes what we ’’ illuminate them. I found diplomats Japanese and American reactions at were then sent back to work to script care about. We are concerned with

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understanding traditional, mostly non- Western cultures in detail, as well as evaluating the encounters between Twelve Japanese-Western those societies and the U.S.-European PROFESSOR West over the last several centuries. encounters worth investigating Each of the teams had to understand 1. Will Adams, shipwrecked sailor, goes to work for Tokugawa Ieyasu traditions and visualize the encounter. Read: “Samurai William, the Englishman Who Opened Japan.” KARLA JAY ’64 2. Research. Independent investiga- By Giles Milton. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1992. tion of the historical record, guided by 2. The introduction of firearms into Japan and what happened then… t’s early June, a time when most professors at Pace a research question, is at the heart of Read: “Giving Up the Gun, Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879.” University are overwhelmed by term papers—but what historians do. It is what we want By Noel Perrin. Godine, 1979. Distinguished Professor of English Karla Jay ’64 is worry- all of our students to be comfortable 3. St. Francis Xavier and other Catholic missionaries bring ing about the fate of an old softball bat. “I need to give with, from digging the story out of the gospel to Japan (1500s) difficult texts to understanding multi- the bat to the New York Public Library,” she says. “They Read: “They Came to Japan, An Anthology of European Reports ple perspectives to finding the time to I house my archives. I can’t bring the bat into the library on Japan, 1543-1640.” Edited by Michael Cooper. University of write and rewrite. Each of these teams Michigan, 1995. building because, you know, it’s a weapon—so faced this challenge. 4. Townsend Harris negotiates the first commercial treaty (1856-1858) they’ll have to meet me here.” 3. Collaborate. Students learn from The bat in question isn’t some sentimen- each other just as they learn from a Read: Townsend Harris’s Journal. tal sports keepsake, either. It’s a relic from teacher. Workers in the “real world” 5. Fukuzawa Yukichi travels to U.S. and Europe (1860 and 1862) are better workers if they can be good Read: “The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa.” DankSy STeven PHOTO: Karla’s time as a rabble-rousing women’s team members. This project put every Columbia Press, 1960. and gay liberation activist in the late 1960s student in a position to be a teacher as 6. Tsuda Umeko and four other girls travel to America in 1872 well as a learner. It also required them to attend school BY MATT WEINSTOCK to collaborate and do it in front of Read: “Japan Encounters the Barbarian, Japanese Travelers in America their classmates. and Europe.” By W.G. Beasley. Yale, 1995. Also, “Tsuda Umeko and 4. Use the city. We have the cultural Women’s Education in Japan.” By Barbara Rose. riches of New York at our disposal. 7. Adm. Togo goes to naval academy in England (1880) With a little ingenuity, history teachers Read: “Admiral Togo, The Nelson of the East.” By Jonathan Clements. can find something worthwhile in this Haus, 2010. Also, “Three Military Leaders.” By Edwin P. Hyoyt. world-class metropolis to advance, Kodansha, 1993. embellish or challenge our curricula. 8. The Japanese adopt American baseball Read: “Baseball and the Quest for National Dignity in Meiji Japan.” By Donald Roden. American Historical Review, June, 1980. 9. Isabella Bird travels from England to Japan (1880s) Read: “Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, Firsthand Experiences of a British Woman in Outback Japan, 1878.” By Isabella Bird. Createspace, 2009. 10. Lafcadio Hearn seeks the authentic and traditional Japan, 1890-1904 Read: “Lafcadio Hearn’s Japan, An Anthology of His Writings on the Country and Its People.” edited by Donald Ritchie. Tuttle, 1997. 11. U.S. soldiers land in Japan in 1945 to begin the 6 year Occupation (1945) Read: “Embracing Defeat, Japan in the Wake of World War II.” By John Dower. Norton, 1999. 12. Nissan engineers test drive their new car in the U.S. (1953?) Read: “The Reckoning.” By David Halberstam. 1986. Jay (right) with her partner, Karen F. Kerner, MD, and her seeing-eye poodle Woody.

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22 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Fall 2011 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Fall 2011 23 and early 1970s. Karla brandished the to save him!” says Karla. “It wasn’t bat at Gay Liberation Front meetings that. I didn’t want to see any of us to maintain order; during those years, sent to jail.” she also participated in hunger strikes, The Ladies’ Home Journal triumph broke into live television broadcasts, was a validation of one of Karla’s most and even discovered that, due to her fervent beliefs: as she puts it, “We Karla brandished the bat at radical activities, the government had need the more radical movements in ‘‘ tapped her phone. “Happiest time in order to help the moderates make Gay Liberation Front meetings to my life,” says Karla. progress. It’s the Malcolm Xs of the Perhaps she recalls those heady world who make the Martin Luther maintain order; during those years, years with such affection because they King, Juniors seem like the ones you came on the heels of what she remem- want to talk to.” However, the exploit she also participated in hunger strikes, bers as an almost Dickensian child- also made Karla realize that she would hood. “One of the things I loved about probably “spend some part of my life the Berkeley Institute,” she says, “was in prison.” broke into live television broadcasts, that they had a lot of after-school She never did, as it turned out. activities, so I didn’t have to go home!” More zaps and meetings followed, but and even discovered that, due to her Born Karla Jayne Berlin (she later after a brawl broke out at one of her changed her name in rebellion against consciousness-raising groups in 1972, radical activities, the government the patriarchy), she came to the Karla became “disillusioned and dis- Berkeley Institute in eighth grade and gusted” by activism and decided to had tapped her phone. dove into a series of extracurricular pursue political change through writ- activities ranging from the Blotter to ing (though she used the softball bat Berkeley’s now-defunct bowling team. to maintain order at meetings, as a Karla was also among the legion of lifelong pacifist she never actually hit Berkeley girls who fell under the spell anyone). She co-edited the 1972 of French teacher Jeanne Palisse; the anthology Out of the Closets: Voices of two kept up a lively correspondence Gay Liberation, declared a “classic” by until Palisse’s death in 1986. (After a The New York Times. After completing ’’ trip to France plagued by plumbing Jay speaking at Harvard Law School in April 2011. her graduate work at New York would have to find nontraditional issues, Karla wrote to Mlle. Palisse, University, Karla joined the faculty of ways to teach, she began relinquish- saying, “Maybe you could have spent Pace in 1974, and published her ing power to her students. They help less time on Racine and Corneille and finale, Karla wrote in her memoir, lic protests designed to attract media memoir Tales of the Lavender Menace select the syllabus, take turns leading a little more time on toilets and dish- Tales of the Lavender Menace, “I knew I attention. in 1999. (Gloria Steinem called discussions, and even compose spec- washers.”) could never again sit on the sidelines One such zap was a 100-woman Lavender Menace “as irresistible as a ulative epilogues to the novels they While at Berkeley, Karla dreamed and hope an injustice would simply sit-in at the Ladies’ Home Journal novel, but as credible, humorous, and read. Karla explains, “That’s part of of becoming a writer, but when she go away.” Soon after, she joined the offices in 1970 intended to highlight unexpected as real life.”) feminism: to empower the reader to arrived at Barnard College in 1964, feminist group Redstockings and came the magazine’s outmoded, sexist con- Today, Karla feels a peculiar dis- be an active partner in the text.” she realized “that lesbianism was out as a lesbian. tent. Karla remembers hostile negotia- connect from her radical past. While Karla believes that her unconven- taboo, and there was little I could Though Karla was troubled by tions with the magazine’s editor drag- writing the memoir, she explains, “I tional thinking will be remembered write about without being damned for what she considered to be flaws in ging on for hours, until one activist often felt I was writing about someone by students. “I get e-mails from stu- it.” Karla tiptoed through her four both the feminist and gay rights “lunged violently” at the editor and else, some long-dead, distant relative dents I’ve had thirty years ago,” she years at Barnard, writing nothing but movements (according to her, many tried to push him through a fifth-floor whose name escapes me.” But the says, “telling me I’ve changed their term papers, passing “steadfastly as a feminists were homophobic and gay window. Karla sidelined the instigator seeds of feminist and queer thinking lives.” She’s slightly more worried heterosexual,” and remaining political- activists had a tendency to tear down with a judo flip, and the editor— are imbedded in her teaching style at about how the patchy, ephemeral his- ly uninvolved. their leaders), she nevertheless felt a struck by how comparatively reason- Pace. In 2004, Karla was diagnosed tory of the gay rights movement will She traces her political awakening powerful camaraderie with her fellow able the women’s requests had been— with a rare eye disease that causes be preserved. Though, as she points to the Columbia University protests of activists. Karla particularly loved hired them to write an 8-page Journal blind spots and eventual loss of out, “the bat is still in one piece. All 1968. Moved by the protests’ violent “zaps”—humorous, extravagant pub- supplement. “He thought I was trying central vision. Realizing that she is not lost.”

24 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Fall 2011 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Fall 2011 25 and early 1970s. Karla brandished the to save him!” says Karla. “It wasn’t bat at Gay Liberation Front meetings that. I didn’t want to see any of us to maintain order; during those years, sent to jail.” she also participated in hunger strikes, The Ladies’ Home Journal triumph broke into live television broadcasts, was a validation of one of Karla’s most and even discovered that, due to her fervent beliefs: as she puts it, “We Karla brandished the bat at radical activities, the government had need the more radical movements in ‘‘ tapped her phone. “Happiest time in order to help the moderates make Gay Liberation Front meetings to my life,” says Karla. progress. It’s the Malcolm Xs of the Perhaps she recalls those heady world who make the Martin Luther maintain order; during those years, years with such affection because they King, Juniors seem like the ones you came on the heels of what she remem- want to talk to.” However, the exploit she also participated in hunger strikes, bers as an almost Dickensian child- also made Karla realize that she would hood. “One of the things I loved about probably “spend some part of my life the Berkeley Institute,” she says, “was in prison.” broke into live television broadcasts, that they had a lot of after-school She never did, as it turned out. activities, so I didn’t have to go home!” More zaps and meetings followed, but and even discovered that, due to her Born Karla Jayne Berlin (she later after a brawl broke out at one of her changed her name in rebellion against consciousness-raising groups in 1972, radical activities, the government the patriarchy), she came to the Karla became “disillusioned and dis- Berkeley Institute in eighth grade and gusted” by activism and decided to had tapped her phone. dove into a series of extracurricular pursue political change through writ- activities ranging from the Blotter to ing (though she used the softball bat Berkeley’s now-defunct bowling team. to maintain order at meetings, as a Karla was also among the legion of lifelong pacifist she never actually hit Berkeley girls who fell under the spell anyone). She co-edited the 1972 of French teacher Jeanne Palisse; the anthology Out of the Closets: Voices of two kept up a lively correspondence Gay Liberation, declared a “classic” by until Palisse’s death in 1986. (After a The New York Times. After completing ’’ trip to France plagued by plumbing Jay speaking at Harvard Law School in April 2011. her graduate work at New York would have to find nontraditional issues, Karla wrote to Mlle. Palisse, University, Karla joined the faculty of ways to teach, she began relinquish- saying, “Maybe you could have spent Pace in 1974, and published her ing power to her students. They help less time on Racine and Corneille and finale, Karla wrote in her memoir, lic protests designed to attract media memoir Tales of the Lavender Menace select the syllabus, take turns leading a little more time on toilets and dish- Tales of the Lavender Menace, “I knew I attention. in 1999. (Gloria Steinem called discussions, and even compose spec- washers.”) could never again sit on the sidelines One such zap was a 100-woman Lavender Menace “as irresistible as a ulative epilogues to the novels they While at Berkeley, Karla dreamed and hope an injustice would simply sit-in at the Ladies’ Home Journal novel, but as credible, humorous, and read. Karla explains, “That’s part of of becoming a writer, but when she go away.” Soon after, she joined the offices in 1970 intended to highlight unexpected as real life.”) feminism: to empower the reader to arrived at Barnard College in 1964, feminist group Redstockings and came the magazine’s outmoded, sexist con- Today, Karla feels a peculiar dis- be an active partner in the text.” she realized “that lesbianism was out as a lesbian. tent. Karla remembers hostile negotia- connect from her radical past. While Karla believes that her unconven- taboo, and there was little I could Though Karla was troubled by tions with the magazine’s editor drag- writing the memoir, she explains, “I tional thinking will be remembered write about without being damned for what she considered to be flaws in ging on for hours, until one activist often felt I was writing about someone by students. “I get e-mails from stu- it.” Karla tiptoed through her four both the feminist and gay rights “lunged violently” at the editor and else, some long-dead, distant relative dents I’ve had thirty years ago,” she years at Barnard, writing nothing but movements (according to her, many tried to push him through a fifth-floor whose name escapes me.” But the says, “telling me I’ve changed their term papers, passing “steadfastly as a feminists were homophobic and gay window. Karla sidelined the instigator seeds of feminist and queer thinking lives.” She’s slightly more worried heterosexual,” and remaining political- activists had a tendency to tear down with a judo flip, and the editor— are imbedded in her teaching style at about how the patchy, ephemeral his- ly uninvolved. their leaders), she nevertheless felt a struck by how comparatively reason- Pace. In 2004, Karla was diagnosed tory of the gay rights movement will She traces her political awakening powerful camaraderie with her fellow able the women’s requests had been— with a rare eye disease that causes be preserved. Though, as she points to the Columbia University protests of activists. Karla particularly loved hired them to write an 8-page Journal blind spots and eventual loss of out, “the bat is still in one piece. All 1968. Moved by the protests’ violent “zaps”—humorous, extravagant pub- supplement. “He thought I was trying central vision. Realizing that she is not lost.”

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n August 2009, Zoë Klein ’97 trudged back to her hotel room with husband Dave Paris, five months into a high-pressure stint on the NBC reality series America’s Got Talent. Instead of collapsing on the mattress, I though, Zoë and Dave tugged it off the bed frame and leaned it against the wall. They moved the hotel chairs aside, put The Monkees’ “I’m a Believer” on loop on their iPod, and danced until three in the morning, doing their best to avoid the chandelier. The show had asked Zoë and Dave—better known as acrobatic dance duo Paradizo Dance—to choreograph a routine for the Monkees tune. Zoë hated the song (she still cringes when she hears it playing in supermarkets) but, true to her scrappy, adaptable mindset, she danced to it anyway. An “improviser at heart,” Zoë has been performing impromptu dances since her Berkeley Carroll days. Even now, she sometimes whispers last-minute modifications to Dave while performing. “We just hope nobody sees it or hears it,” she says.

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26 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Fall 2011 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Fall 2011 27 A whisper or two is really the last wanted to dance two to four hours a Zöe always had vision—she wasn’t just dancing thing on audiences’ minds when day, and they kept getting tired. For Paradizo performs. Zoë and Dave’s Zoë, though, it’s not tiring; it’s enjoy- to music, or pretending to be someone else. She routines are full of thrilling stunts able.” (including one in which the tiny Zoë Their professional relationship ‘‘ was totally into presenting her own thoughts see-saws all 240 pounds of Dave over gradually evolved into a courtship— her back), but they’re so emotional one with all the flashiness you’d that they transcend gimmickry. At expect from a couple who own eight and feelings through her body. times it’s like watching a sweepingly pairs of matching lamé spandex suits. romantic skateboard trick. During a dance tour in India, Dave Paradizo’s work is so expressive, in proposed to Zoë by luring her to the fact, that it seems almost pointless to Taj Mahal, lifting her over his head interview Zoë about it; movement is with one hand, and taking out a ring ’’ her primary mode of thought. As she ior year of high school. “I think my with the other. When they married in admits, “I can’t figure out my feelings dad’s illness gave me a lot of perspec- September 2008, the wedding was cir- or my opinions about a topic unless I tive,” says Zoë. “I realized that I need- cus-themed, with jugglers and tiny put it out there onstage.” ed to be strong, and that my art could swords for the guests to stick down A BC lifer, Zoë had been perform- get me through it. I don’t think I their throats. ing intuitive, autobiographical dances could’ve done that at another school.” Less than a year later they were for years when Dance teacher Zoë continued to dance at performing in front of America’s Got Dalienne Majors arrived in 1994. Hampshire College, where she Talent judge David Hasselhoff, who Dalienne remembers feeling like an received a BA in Dance and Cultural told the pair, “I love everything about interloper; “Zoë was like, ‘Who are Studies, but after landing a job as you.” Paradizo performed four times you?’” she says. “But after a few weeks Technical Director at the Brooklyn on air and made it to the top twenty or so, we were on the same wave- Arts Exchange, she began feeling rest- before being eliminated. The show length. She always had vision—she less. “I’d grown up with artists like Bill was a confidence booster, but Zoë wasn’t just dancing to music, or pre- T. Jones and Bebe Miller who’d really now thinks it was a distraction from tending to be someone else. She was shared something of themselves,” she circus performing. totally into presenting her own says. “Nothing like that was happen- She’s fresh off an invigorating ten thoughts and feelings through her ing in the New York scene.” months at the Circus Center of San body.” Then she encountered Lava, an Francisco—though she was by far the Indeed, watching videotapes of Obie Award-winning women’s circus oldest student. “Russian and Chinese Zoë’s Berkeley Carroll performances is company. Dazzled by the extreme dance teachers are always telling me, like thumbing through a memoir. The physicality of circus acrobatics, Zoë ‘Agh, thirty? Too late! Next life!’’’ says group piece “Baggage” gives one a began touring with Lava, first as a Zoë. “But I am among the die-hard. I sense of Zoë’s complicated relationship lighting designer and then as a dance mean, Merce Cunningham was danc- with Colombia, the country from apprentice. After two years with Lava, ing into his seventies. Even if perform- which she was adopted. The elaborate she co-founded Kirkos, a short-lived ing becomes more difficult, I think it’s “Starry, Starry Night” (which featured circus ensemble group, and met Dave possible to modify the capacity to dancers wrapped in Christmas lights Paris in 2005. which you dance.” and trailing extension cords) gets “He was this big macho guy,” And Zoë’s life is full of modifica- across the kooky determination that recalls Zoë, “and he wanted me to tions, of little tweaks and sweeping made Zoë something of a loner at learn all these ballroom tricks.” Before transformations. Whether she’s scram- Berkeley Carroll. One dance, “Home Is meeting Zoë, Dave had burned bling to rebound from a dashed busi- A Safe Place,” was an indirect response through twenty-five dance partners— ness plan or ducking to avoid an to the death of Zoë’s father, who was none of whom, he says, “could deal unexpected chandelier, Zoë is remark- diagnosed with cancer during her sen- with the rigid training schedule. I ably willing to improvise.

28 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Fall 2011 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Fall 2011 29 A whisper or two is really the last wanted to dance two to four hours a Zöe always had vision—she wasn’t just dancing thing on audiences’ minds when day, and they kept getting tired. For Paradizo performs. Zoë and Dave’s Zoë, though, it’s not tiring; it’s enjoy- to music, or pretending to be someone else. She routines are full of thrilling stunts able.” (including one in which the tiny Zoë Their professional relationship ‘‘ was totally into presenting her own thoughts see-saws all 240 pounds of Dave over gradually evolved into a courtship— her back), but they’re so emotional one with all the flashiness you’d that they transcend gimmickry. At expect from a couple who own eight and feelings through her body. times it’s like watching a sweepingly pairs of matching lamé spandex suits. romantic skateboard trick. During a dance tour in India, Dave Paradizo’s work is so expressive, in proposed to Zoë by luring her to the fact, that it seems almost pointless to Taj Mahal, lifting her over his head interview Zoë about it; movement is with one hand, and taking out a ring ’’ her primary mode of thought. As she ior year of high school. “I think my with the other. When they married in admits, “I can’t figure out my feelings dad’s illness gave me a lot of perspec- September 2008, the wedding was cir- or my opinions about a topic unless I tive,” says Zoë. “I realized that I need- cus-themed, with jugglers and tiny put it out there onstage.” ed to be strong, and that my art could swords for the guests to stick down A BC lifer, Zoë had been perform- get me through it. I don’t think I their throats. ing intuitive, autobiographical dances could’ve done that at another school.” Less than a year later they were for years when Dance teacher Zoë continued to dance at performing in front of America’s Got Dalienne Majors arrived in 1994. Hampshire College, where she Talent judge David Hasselhoff, who Dalienne remembers feeling like an received a BA in Dance and Cultural told the pair, “I love everything about interloper; “Zoë was like, ‘Who are Studies, but after landing a job as you.” Paradizo performed four times you?’” she says. “But after a few weeks Technical Director at the Brooklyn on air and made it to the top twenty or so, we were on the same wave- Arts Exchange, she began feeling rest- before being eliminated. The show length. She always had vision—she less. “I’d grown up with artists like Bill was a confidence booster, but Zoë wasn’t just dancing to music, or pre- T. Jones and Bebe Miller who’d really now thinks it was a distraction from tending to be someone else. She was shared something of themselves,” she circus performing. totally into presenting her own says. “Nothing like that was happen- She’s fresh off an invigorating ten thoughts and feelings through her ing in the New York scene.” months at the Circus Center of San body.” Then she encountered Lava, an Francisco—though she was by far the Indeed, watching videotapes of Obie Award-winning women’s circus oldest student. “Russian and Chinese Zoë’s Berkeley Carroll performances is company. Dazzled by the extreme dance teachers are always telling me, like thumbing through a memoir. The physicality of circus acrobatics, Zoë ‘Agh, thirty? Too late! Next life!’’’ says group piece “Baggage” gives one a began touring with Lava, first as a Zoë. “But I am among the die-hard. I sense of Zoë’s complicated relationship lighting designer and then as a dance mean, Merce Cunningham was danc- with Colombia, the country from apprentice. After two years with Lava, ing into his seventies. Even if perform- which she was adopted. The elaborate she co-founded Kirkos, a short-lived ing becomes more difficult, I think it’s “Starry, Starry Night” (which featured circus ensemble group, and met Dave possible to modify the capacity to dancers wrapped in Christmas lights Paris in 2005. which you dance.” and trailing extension cords) gets “He was this big macho guy,” And Zoë’s life is full of modifica- across the kooky determination that recalls Zoë, “and he wanted me to tions, of little tweaks and sweeping made Zoë something of a loner at learn all these ballroom tricks.” Before transformations. Whether she’s scram- Berkeley Carroll. One dance, “Home Is meeting Zoë, Dave had burned bling to rebound from a dashed busi- A Safe Place,” was an indirect response through twenty-five dance partners— ness plan or ducking to avoid an to the death of Zoë’s father, who was none of whom, he says, “could deal unexpected chandelier, Zoë is remark- diagnosed with cancer during her sen- with the rigid training schedule. I ably willing to improvise.

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he first day of Brandon Clarke’s tenth-grade there’s also a crop of recent Berkeley Carroll BERKELEY CARROLL African History course is devoted to driving graduates—Kate Morris ’05, Max Hardy ’08, and home the fact that there is no “single story of Robin Riskin ’08—who are devoted to gaining a Africa.” According to Nigerian writer nuanced understanding of individual pockets of TChimamanda Adichie, that problematic and African life, while remaining wary of the pater- uniquely Western “single story” frames Africa as “a nalistic connotations of Americans working for INAFRICA place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals, and Africa. “It’s problematic,” explains Brandon, “this incomprehensible people, fighting senseless wars, idea of Americans going to a place like Kenya BY MATT WEINSTOCK dying of poverty and AIDS—unable to speak for thinking, ‘Oh, we’re going to help the poor themselves, and waiting to be saved by a kind white people.’” Max adds that “There’s a kind of open- foreigner.” What is needed, Adichie says—and mindedness and curiosity you need to go to which Brandon emphasizes to his students—is a places like South Africa. Berkeley Carroll really “balance of stories.” did prepare me for that.” Of course, seeing the world from a variety of perspectives is at the heart of Berkeley Carroll’s educational ethos. Along with Brandon Clarke’s students,

The Berkeley Carroll Kenya program, along with some of the people they met. Summer 2011.

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The Berkeley Carroll Kenya program, along with some of the people they met. Summer 2011.

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Max first traveled to South Africa as a high conflicts were motivated by environmental fac- When asked how she became interested in the which Kate says are intended to be conversa- school senior, under the auspices of Putney tors, such as reduced grazing land and water Congo, Kate O’Connor-Morris ’05 is blunt. “It tion starters. “It gives you an organic way to Student Travel’s Global Action in Awareness supply. Now a senior at Rhodes College, Max was totally Mr. Swarthout,” she says. While talk about the Congolese situation,” she says, program. He interviewed both civilians and thinks he might go into conflict management. taking Lorne Swarthout’s World History course “rather than just showing up at a party and NGO leaders about the HIV/AIDS situation in “I love the idea of gaining understanding of a freshman year, Kate was assigned a report on yelling, ‘Kids are dying!’” Africa, and came away stunned by the fact place by living there for a period of time—just the Belgian Congo, “a country I knew nothing However, Kate has learned that sometimes that, “even though the country was just four- being a sponge and absorbing as much as I about.” She read King Leopold’s Ghost, a history you need to shout to get people talking. This teen years post-apartheid, there was already can,” he says. of the ruthless Belgian colonization of the June she published a ballsy, impassioned New corruption going on, and a government that While working with ACCORD, Max lived Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi, and says, “It York Post op-ed about Secretary of State wasn’t working quite as hard as it could be for mostly with lower-middle-class Zulu families blew my mind. I couldn’t believe that I’d heard Hillary Clinton’s failure to prioritize the plight its people.” in Durban—“a very big city, quite urban and about the Holocaust and Stalin and all these of Congolese women. “Hundreds of thousands Still, Max remained fascinated by Africa. developed, which I wasn’t expecting.” While major periods of human oppression, but of women raped every year,” Kate wrote, “and “The continent’s becoming more and more rel- in Durban, Max bonded with a pop-culture- Congo had never come up.” America is conducting high-level Skype evant,” he says. “Look at the top twenty coun- savvy group of African teens. “Kids are kids,” Kate became a dogged advocate of human chats?” The op-ed was written out of frustra- tries in terms of GDP growth in the past year: he says. “They go to the mall, they watch MTV rights (she was even voted “Our (Almost) tion, along with an impulse on Kate’s part to five of them are in Africa. None are in Europe. Africa. There’s the same kind of drive to be Hippie” by her Berkeley Carroll classmates “rattle the cage a bit.” A week after the piece And culturally, artistically, they’re doing enor- super social, and on Facebook.” Recently, one senior year), and upon graduating from Smith ran, the White House (which hadn’t issued a mously exciting things.” of Max’s South African Facebook friends even with a BA in History, she decided to work for Congo-related update or press release in So in Fall 2010, Max returned to South posted an enthusiastic status about Jersey Central Africa. She is now press liaison for “months,” according to Kate) responded to a Africa—this time with the African Centre for Shore. “I was like, ‘No! You can’t watch that, Falling Whistles, a non-profit dedicated to mass rape in the region by immediately releas- the Constructive Resolution of Disputes man, it’s going rot your brain,’” Max laughs. achieving peace in the Congo. The organiza- ing a detailed response strategy. “It was, I (ACCORD), an NGO that is contracted in part “But that generation of South Africans definite- tion’s name refers to the fact that Congolese think, a tacit apology,” Kate says. by the United Nations and runs workshops ly has this urge to be people. They’re aware of child soldiers are sometimes sent into battle with peacekeepers. Max did preliminary their history, but they don’t want to be armed only with whistles. Falling Whistles research to help determine whether various screwed down to it.” raises money by selling whistle necklaces,

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32 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Fall 2011 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Fall 2011 33 ROBIN RISKIN ’08: Berkeley Carroll’s As Seen on Ghana TV African History Course: Robin Riskin first became interested in Africana professional bonds with them. When Robin day securing local sponsors and promoting the A BIGGER Studies her junior year at Berkeley Carroll, while returned to Ghana this summer, she even stayed event at Ghanaian TV and radio stations—to the taking English teacher Erika Drezner’s Race and with Otoo’s family. (She taught his children how point that, by the day of the event, strangers WORLD THAN Southern Literature course. After taking a hand- to make chocolate-chip cookies; they called her had begun recognizing her “from television.” PARK SLOPE ful of Africana Studies classes at Haverford “Auntie.”) Robin created promotional websites The end result was worth it, though: the exhibi- College where she is now a senior, Robin decid- for Otoo and Kudowor, and organized a com- tion featured an appearance by the award-win- Brandon Clarke’s day job is as Berkeley Carroll’s ed to spend the summer of 2010 teaching at the munity art project in the relatively poor neigh- ning hip life group V.I.P. and attracted substan- Director of College Counseling, but he undertook Junior Art Club in Ghana. “They say that Ghana borhood of Nima, with the aim of breaking per- tial crowds. In fact, discussions are underway to the teaching of a tenth-grade African History class is Africa for beginners,” she says, “and it’s true: ceptions of the area as a slum, and a belief with- make it an annual event. “It’s going to happen,” in a spasm of invincibility. “I thought: why can’t I it’s a really safe, warm, welcoming environment.” in Nima that artists are “dirty” and “lazy.” says Robin, who plans to pursue a career work- teach this?!” he says, laughing. “I ended up doing That summer, Robin developed a theater cur- The community project—titled Nima: ing with contemporary African art. “Next year a heck of a lot of reading.” The semester-long riculum that incorporated tongue-twisters from Muhinmanchi Art, or “Nima: The Importance of we’ll include music, spoken word, and dance. course began six years ago to fill what had been “a her Speech and Debate days at Berkeley Carroll, Art”—included a mural painted by twenty pro- Ideally, we’ll figure out a sustainable model for big hole” in Berkeley Carroll’s History curriculum, and she also put together an Environmentalism fessional African artists and individual paintings sponsorship, and get to the point where they as well as that of most American high schools and Day modeled on BC’s Diversity Day. by more than thirty children. Robin explains won’t even need me.” colleges. Students “don’t come in with a lot of After returning to Haverford in Fall 2010, that they were working “to break the perception, knowledge,” says Brandon, “but they do come Robin stayed involved with the Ghanaian art even among the children living there, that Nima with preconceived notions, and they take great community, organizing parallel photo exhibits at is a crime-ridden ghetto.” An initial brainstorm- delight in dismantling them.” Haverford and the Du Bois Centre in Ghana that ing session with the children resulted in sketch- Brandon has attempted to achieve a “balance of raised more than $750 for the Junior Art Club. es of people drinking, littering, and smoking. stories” in his curriculum, which covers topics She spent her Spring 2011 semester in Berlin, “We asked them to think more about what they ranging from the slave trade and genocide to researching expatriate West African artists. love and value in their community,” says Robin, Africa’s middle class and artistic heritage. “What I Robin had a surprisingly easy time getting in “and they came back with some wonderful don’t want is for students to leave my class think- touch with Ghanaian artists like Larry Otoo and ideas,” including market scenes and depictions ing that Africa is hopeless,” he says, “that some- Wiz Kudowor—“I just sent them Facebook of the bustling Nima intersection. how the continent has charted an irrevocable messages,” she says—and she quickly forged The inexhaustible Robin spent hours every course.”

34 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Fall 2011 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Fall 2011 35 ROBIN RISKIN ’08: Berkeley Carroll’s As Seen on Ghana TV African History Course: Robin Riskin first became interested in Africana professional bonds with them. When Robin day securing local sponsors and promoting the A BIGGER Studies her junior year at Berkeley Carroll, while returned to Ghana this summer, she even stayed event at Ghanaian TV and radio stations—to the taking English teacher Erika Drezner’s Race and with Otoo’s family. (She taught his children how point that, by the day of the event, strangers WORLD THAN Southern Literature course. After taking a hand- to make chocolate-chip cookies; they called her had begun recognizing her “from television.” PARK SLOPE ful of Africana Studies classes at Haverford “Auntie.”) Robin created promotional websites The end result was worth it, though: the exhibi- College where she is now a senior, Robin decid- for Otoo and Kudowor, and organized a com- tion featured an appearance by the award-win- Brandon Clarke’s day job is as Berkeley Carroll’s ed to spend the summer of 2010 teaching at the munity art project in the relatively poor neigh- ning hip life group V.I.P. and attracted substan- Director of College Counseling, but he undertook Junior Art Club in Ghana. “They say that Ghana borhood of Nima, with the aim of breaking per- tial crowds. In fact, discussions are underway to the teaching of a tenth-grade African History class is Africa for beginners,” she says, “and it’s true: ceptions of the area as a slum, and a belief with- make it an annual event. “It’s going to happen,” in a spasm of invincibility. “I thought: why can’t I it’s a really safe, warm, welcoming environment.” in Nima that artists are “dirty” and “lazy.” says Robin, who plans to pursue a career work- teach this?!” he says, laughing. “I ended up doing That summer, Robin developed a theater cur- The community project—titled Nima: ing with contemporary African art. “Next year a heck of a lot of reading.” The semester-long riculum that incorporated tongue-twisters from Muhinmanchi Art, or “Nima: The Importance of we’ll include music, spoken word, and dance. course began six years ago to fill what had been “a her Speech and Debate days at Berkeley Carroll, Art”—included a mural painted by twenty pro- Ideally, we’ll figure out a sustainable model for big hole” in Berkeley Carroll’s History curriculum, and she also put together an Environmentalism fessional African artists and individual paintings sponsorship, and get to the point where they as well as that of most American high schools and Day modeled on BC’s Diversity Day. by more than thirty children. Robin explains won’t even need me.” colleges. Students “don’t come in with a lot of After returning to Haverford in Fall 2010, that they were working “to break the perception, knowledge,” says Brandon, “but they do come Robin stayed involved with the Ghanaian art even among the children living there, that Nima with preconceived notions, and they take great community, organizing parallel photo exhibits at is a crime-ridden ghetto.” An initial brainstorm- delight in dismantling them.” Haverford and the Du Bois Centre in Ghana that ing session with the children resulted in sketch- Brandon has attempted to achieve a “balance of raised more than $750 for the Junior Art Club. es of people drinking, littering, and smoking. stories” in his curriculum, which covers topics She spent her Spring 2011 semester in Berlin, “We asked them to think more about what they ranging from the slave trade and genocide to researching expatriate West African artists. love and value in their community,” says Robin, Africa’s middle class and artistic heritage. “What I Robin had a surprisingly easy time getting in “and they came back with some wonderful don’t want is for students to leave my class think- touch with Ghanaian artists like Larry Otoo and ideas,” including market scenes and depictions ing that Africa is hopeless,” he says, “that some- Wiz Kudowor—“I just sent them Facebook of the bustling Nima intersection. how the continent has charted an irrevocable messages,” she says—and she quickly forged The inexhaustible Robin spent hours every course.”

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t’s not often that an editorial intended for Berkeley For the past two summers, Brandon has also that language isn’t a precursor to a substantive taken about a dozen interested Berkeley Carroll human relationships, but to experience that on a Carroll’s Blotter gets plucked by the New York Times, students on a Kenya program coordinated by sort of emotional, visceral level was really pro- but that’s what happened to an op-ed Matthew found.” the World Leadership School. The program is Strozier ’91 wrote when he was just in tenth designed to be a direct extension of the stu- Rebecca Glanzer ’12 agrees. “I was surprised dents’ Berkeley Carroll education. Last year stu- by how much you could get across without really I grade. The piece, “How Gentrification dents prepared for the trip by taking a seminar speaking,” she says. “The kids in Shompole were Broke My Nose,” appeared in the Times in conservation biology, and this year they very open. Within seconds of meeting you, on December 3, 1988. With intelligence studied the art of the memoir with Upper they’d pick leftover concrete from the worksite School Director Suzanne Fogarty and kept out of your hair, or grab your hand to show you and empathy, Matthew Matthew’s op-ed something.” meticulous journals in Kenya. recounted his experience of being a vic- The program begins with a six-day stay in Then came a homestay with the Maasai fami- Shompole working with the Maasai, a ranching lies, during which Berkeley Carroll students slept tim of what may have been a racially tribe whose cattle population has been decimat- outside on tanned cowhides as goats bleated motivated attack at the intersection of ed due to climate change. In an effort to “move throughout the night. “No one got much sleep,” Seventh Avenue and Flatbush, describing beyond herding,” the Maasai have asked for Brandon says. help overhauling their educational system. Last “It felt like sleeping on a table,” says Sam how the gentrification of Park Slope had year Berkeley Carroll renovated a bank of class- Bellamy ’12. “But I’m glad I did it. I never rendered the neighborhood “an island of rooms; this year they put the finishing touches thought I would be wedged between my friend on the school’s dining hall. Becca and the head of the Upper School on a riches surrounded by a sea of despair.” After mixing cement and sawing wood in cowhide in the middle of Africa.” sweltering heat, Berkeley Carroll students spent After leaving Shompole, the Berkeley Carroll BY MATT WEINSTOCK an hour each day with the Shompole kids, kids went on safari, spotting cheetahs, hyenas, playing games that ranged from soccer to Duck, zebras, and even lions mating. Brandon says, Duck, Goose. On Berkeley Carroll’s last day in “The kids came back from the program thinking, Shompole, the Brooklynites and the Kenyans We have a lot to learn. Look at how resourceful the exchanged friendship bracelets. Maasai are—for thousands of years they’ve created “We actually did make a lot of strong friend- this rich cultural tapestry out of some really chal- ships,” says Brandon, “which is weird to say, lenging geographical realities.” Tess Salvatore ’11, considering that we communicated primarily who entered Cornell this fall, grew so interested through hand gestures and smiles and the repe- in the scarcity of clean drinking water in Kenya tition of names.” (They also communicated that she now plans to become a journalist cover- through song—this summer, two Berkeley ing environmental resource issues. “Students Carroll students serenaded a Maasai family with return with a new confidence,” says Brandon. an a cappella “Yesterday,” and Emmett White “Confidence, along with the understanding that, ’13 played his ukulele constantly.) Brandon Wow, the world is a lot bigger than me and Park continues, “I understand on an intellectual level Slope.” PHOTO: Lauren r. Penza, DiamOnD buTTerfLy PHOTO, LLc PHOTO, buTTerfLy DiamOnD Penza, r. Lauren PHOTO:

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36 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Fall 2011 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Fall 2011 37 4 4 What was so remarkable about 4 those observations is that they came from a rookie New Yorker: Matthew 4 spent the first twelve years of his life 4 on what he describes as a “gentleman’s After his attack in the summer of 1988 farm” in rural Illinois. His new home, ‘‘ 4 1980s Brooklyn, represented “an Matthew spent months reflecting and writing incredibly dizzying and confusing about the experience in order to 4 adjustment” for him. 4 Despite the abrupt change of neighborhood, Matthew says that ‘figure out what it meant.’ 4 Berkeley Carroll was “a refuge, a wonderful place.” He says that, “In my 4 first few weeks there, I realized I was 4 supposed to be involved in my educa- “I think by the time I was done real estate editor. House-hunting was a SENDUSYOUR tion, and not just someone who regur- with Berkeley Carroll I was ready to’’particularly convoluted process for 4 gitated things.” This young teenager move on from that role,” he says. He him. “You can probably know too also began feeling a compulsion to attended Wesleyan University, and much about New York real estate,” he 4 understand the city’s complicated stuck to journalism after that: a stint deadpans. He eventually settled on 4 political and racial tensions. “It was so reporting for India Abroad was fol- Harlem, where he lives with his wife foreign to me,” he says. “I knew that I lowed by a Master’s in Journalism and two children. He says that 4 BLOTTERS!BLOTTERS! needed to understand all that in order from Columbia University. He covered Harlem’s “changing neighborhood” to survive, so that I wasn’t out of planning and zoning at the Stamford reminds him of Park Slope in the 4 place.” After his attack in the summer Advocate, and served as Assistant City 1980s. ERKELEY CARROLL’s student newspaper, the Blotter, was first of 1988 he spent months reflecting Indeed, even if Matthew sees his 4 published in May 1929. The paper—then called the Inkwell—was just Editor at the South Florida Sun- and writing about the experience in Sentinel. Matthew is well suited to the career in journalism as a departure four pages long (Funny about the name change. We would have liked to order to “figure out what it meant.” newspaper business; “I think my mind from the political grandstanding of his have been privy to that conversation….) The eventual publication of the tends to work in very discrete chunks Berkeley Carroll days, there’s a pecu- We’re fortunate to have a mint-condition copy of the Blotter’s debut piece in the Times was thrilling, of about 750 words,” he says. liar continuity to his life. For all its issue, but as the school newspaper ballooned in both size and ambition, though Matthew says it became For Matthew, overseeing one of the rhetoric, “How Gentrification Broke our archives grew patchier. (We’re in particular need of issues from the “something of a burden. I got a little Sun-Sentinel’s government affairs teams My Nose” is essentially a very person- BB 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s). As part of a continuing effort to preserve tired of being identified as an activist, during the historic 2008 election was al, visceral, passionate real estate Berkeley Carroll’s history, we’re asking BC alumni, family, and faculty to and always having to live up to that piece. Matthew believes this. “The fact particularly memorable. “I was in the donate any back issues of the Blotter you may have tucked away. In the expectation.” That said, Matthew more newsroom as Barack Obama was that where you live isn’t just a place, long term, our goal is to digitize and make searchable the entire Blotter than lived up to it. As a Berkeley speaking,” he says, “furiously trying to but something that you’re emotionally collection, in what we hope will be a kind of trove or Hit Parade repre- Carroll student, he organized a one- finish all these stories that we’d writ- attached to—and also something that senting 82 years of BC news, opinions, and culture. day student exchange between BC and ten about various elections. The TV represents you—is something that I John Jay High School (to help dispel was on in the background, but I had learned at that moment,” he says. “It the impression that John Jay was an to resist the urge to listen. I think stuck with me. I realized—probably, Please send issues to: “ominous” place). His work for the that’s the joy of newspapers; some- yeah, in that incident—that I had 4The Berkeley Carroll School Blotter covered a wide variety of politi- times just by sitting in the newsroom, become Park Slope.” 4808 Union Street cal topics—from the Gulf War and you can feel like you’re part of some- Brooklyn, NY 11215 the crime surge in New York to Do the thing much bigger than yourself.” 4Attn: Jodie Corngold Right Thing and the Berkeley Carroll Matthew moved back to New York dress code. Laughing, Matthew even in 2009, shifting into real estate 4 recalls that Head of School Bongsoon reporting—first with The Real Deal Zubay “threatened to kick me out on and, since February 2011, The Wall at least one occasion for political Street Journal, where he is the online agitation.”

38 Berkeley Carroll • MAGAZINE • Fall 2011 4 4 What was so remarkable about 4 those observations is that they came from a rookie New Yorker: Matthew 4 spent the first twelve years of his life 4 on what he describes as a “gentleman’s After his attack in the summer of 1988 farm” in rural Illinois. His new home, ‘‘ 4 1980s Brooklyn, represented “an Matthew spent months reflecting and writing incredibly dizzying and confusing about the experience in order to 4 adjustment” for him. 4 Despite the abrupt change of neighborhood, Matthew says that ‘figure out what it meant.’ 4 Berkeley Carroll was “a refuge, a wonderful place.” He says that, “In my 4 first few weeks there, I realized I was 4 supposed to be involved in my educa- “I think by the time I was done real estate editor. House-hunting was a SENDUSYOUR tion, and not just someone who regur- with Berkeley Carroll I was ready to’’particularly convoluted process for 4 gitated things.” This young teenager move on from that role,” he says. He him. “You can probably know too also began feeling a compulsion to attended Wesleyan University, and much about New York real estate,” he 4 understand the city’s complicated stuck to journalism after that: a stint deadpans. He eventually settled on 4 political and racial tensions. “It was so reporting for India Abroad was fol- Harlem, where he lives with his wife foreign to me,” he says. “I knew that I lowed by a Master’s in Journalism and two children. He says that 4 BLOTTERS!BLOTTERS! needed to understand all that in order from Columbia University. He covered Harlem’s “changing neighborhood” to survive, so that I wasn’t out of planning and zoning at the Stamford reminds him of Park Slope in the 4 place.” After his attack in the summer Advocate, and served as Assistant City 1980s. ERKELEY CARROLL’s student newspaper, the Blotter, was first of 1988 he spent months reflecting Indeed, even if Matthew sees his 4 published in May 1929. The paper—then called the Inkwell—was just Editor at the South Florida Sun- and writing about the experience in Sentinel. Matthew is well suited to the career in journalism as a departure four pages long (Funny about the name change. We would have liked to order to “figure out what it meant.” newspaper business; “I think my mind from the political grandstanding of his have been privy to that conversation….) The eventual publication of the tends to work in very discrete chunks Berkeley Carroll days, there’s a pecu- We’re fortunate to have a mint-condition copy of the Blotter’s debut piece in the Times was thrilling, of about 750 words,” he says. liar continuity to his life. For all its issue, but as the school newspaper ballooned in both size and ambition, though Matthew says it became For Matthew, overseeing one of the rhetoric, “How Gentrification Broke our archives grew patchier. (We’re in particular need of issues from the “something of a burden. I got a little Sun-Sentinel’s government affairs teams My Nose” is essentially a very person- BB 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s). As part of a continuing effort to preserve tired of being identified as an activist, during the historic 2008 election was al, visceral, passionate real estate Berkeley Carroll’s history, we’re asking BC alumni, family, and faculty to and always having to live up to that piece. Matthew believes this. “The fact particularly memorable. “I was in the donate any back issues of the Blotter you may have tucked away. In the expectation.” That said, Matthew more newsroom as Barack Obama was that where you live isn’t just a place, long term, our goal is to digitize and make searchable the entire Blotter than lived up to it. As a Berkeley speaking,” he says, “furiously trying to but something that you’re emotionally collection, in what we hope will be a kind of trove or Hit Parade repre- Carroll student, he organized a one- finish all these stories that we’d writ- attached to—and also something that senting 82 years of BC news, opinions, and culture. day student exchange between BC and ten about various elections. The TV represents you—is something that I John Jay High School (to help dispel was on in the background, but I had learned at that moment,” he says. “It the impression that John Jay was an to resist the urge to listen. I think stuck with me. I realized—probably, Please send issues to: “ominous” place). His work for the that’s the joy of newspapers; some- yeah, in that incident—that I had 4The Berkeley Carroll School Blotter covered a wide variety of politi- times just by sitting in the newsroom, become Park Slope.” 4808 Union Street cal topics—from the Gulf War and you can feel like you’re part of some- Brooklyn, NY 11215 the crime surge in New York to Do the thing much bigger than yourself.” 4Attn: Jodie Corngold Right Thing and the Berkeley Carroll Matthew moved back to New York dress code. Laughing, Matthew even in 2009, shifting into real estate 4 recalls that Head of School Bongsoon reporting—first with The Real Deal Zubay “threatened to kick me out on and, since February 2011, The Wall at least one occasion for political Street Journal, where he is the online agitation.”

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1940s8 1960s8 I Martha McEntee, daughter in my class.” To contact of Jules Boykin Simpson ’36, Dianne, please email writes that her mother “is [email protected] thriving in Exeter, New Hampshire, and enjoys read- I At Grandparents’ Day at ing the alumni magazine. the Green Vale School in She has such marvelous Long Island, New York, memories of her time at Maureen Zerilli Cochrane ’58 Berkeley. I took my Mom to serendipitously ran into her 50th reunion in 1986 Berkeley Carroll parent and and was amazed to find that former Director of In addition to the MAGAZINE, her French teacher was Development Henry Trevor, class notes are published in our there! I can’t remember her who was at that time Green email newsletter. At the beginning name.” Jules would love to Vale’s Upper School Head. of the month during the school see photos of the Class of “We realized just how small Class of ’61 year, we email the newsletter to 1936. To contact Jules, our world really is,” writes I Jean Martinson Davio ’61 reports having a didn’t recognize the library. Total transfor- all alumni with email addresses on please email alums@berkel- file. If you aren’t receiving the Maureen. “I mentioned that I LOcaL wickeD THe Of cOurTeSy PHOTO: “grand time” at the Class of 1961 mation! So colorful and bright and full of newsletter and would like to, eycarroll.org was so happy that three of reunion, with a turnout of 17 classmates books! After cocktails we continued par- please contact Jessica Langbein, our ten grandchildren had the I In March 2011, Irene Nelson Goetz ’60 played Catherine from a graduating class of 28. Jean tying at Scottadito’s, where we had a little Alumni Relations Coordinator, at I Elizabeth H. Keely ’49 wants opportunity to go to a school Rearden in the Chatham Drama Guild production of Paul writes, “Some had been in touch over the memorial for our two deceased class- [email protected] with to reconnect with other Zindel’s And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little. The Cape Cod like Green Vale and compared years, but others had not seen or heard mates—Pat Hermann ’61 and Elena Sadock your current email information. members of the Class of it to my wonderful experi- Wicked Local said, “Nelson rises to from each other since graduation! It was Hecht ’61—and heard a summary of our You can also submit 1949. To contact Elizabeth, ences so long ago the many challenges this role pres- such fun to all be together again! Some lives over the past 50 years. The rain- class notes online at please email alums@berke- (at Berkeley). ents. She hits the right sarcastic of us were in town early enough to drops did not dampen our spirits, and www.berkeleycarroll.org/alumni leycarroll.org Several of my note, while acting tipsy and deal- attend the Senior Luncheon. We know we agreed to do this again without wait- or by mail to classmates met ing with some of the longest and that the Upper School is now co-ed, but ing another 50 years. We all went home Jessica Langbein, most difficult lines.” Irene and her up a few years it still seemed a little unusual to see boys with our Reunion booklets, tee shirts, Berkeley Carroll School ago and it was husband Roger also sing with the at the luncheon. When we went to the black and gold earrings, and black and 808 Union Street, 8 delightful. Still Chatham Chorale, and she says, cocktail party at 181 Lincoln Place, we gold beads and boas.” Brooklyn, NY 11215 1950s cannot believe “It is very exciting to be a part I Stephanie Bildner Gralnick ’54 that so many of the Cape Cod community is living in Coral Lakes in y ear s hav e where many cultural opportuni- Boynton Beach, FL, and passed.” Maureen ties are available to us.” 1970s8 would love to hear about lives with her the whereabouts of her for- husband Frank, and works as I Angela Caracciolo Keenan ’77 mer classmates. To contact a registered nurse (specializ- writes: “Just wanted to inform Stephanie, please email ing in dialysis) at Winthrop you that a few members of [email protected] University Hospital in the Class of 1977 got togeth- Mineola, Long Island, NY. er in late December for lunch. I Dianne L. Courtney ’55 writes: Maureen would love to speak Attending the luncheon were “Hello, I graduated from the with Evelyn Harding ’58 and is myself, Ivi Dickman Brenner ’77, Berkeley Institute in 1955. curious if anyone is in con- Kim Holtan Lang ’77, and Patricia My class name was Barbara F. tact with her. DePino ’77. It was probably the Block. My current name is first time in close to twenty Dianne L. Courtney. I am years that we’d all seen each trying to find out informa- other. Patty brought class pic- tion about the other 16 tures of us from elementary classmates. It would be fun and middle school. A won-

to correspond with ‘the kids’ PHOTOgraPHy SeuferT cHriSTOPHer by PHOTO derful time was had and it was decided that it should be Members of the Class of 1977 met for lunch. a yearly tradition.”

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to correspond with ‘the kids’ PHOTOgraPHy SeuferT cHriSTOPHer by PHOTO derful time was had and it was decided that it should be Members of the Class of 1977 met for lunch. a yearly tradition.”

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1980s8 1990s8 I I Seana Cameron-Starling ’85, a I Karen Delgado Krase ’87 is a Heather E. Cunningham ’89 is I Congratulations to Jill S. I Charles Murrell ’03 lost his learning and advisory pro- fifth grade teacher and cur- pediatric occupational thera- proud to announce that the Fousek Hirschen ’97 and her mother Doreen Murrell in grams exhibited at schools riculum consultant in Key pist and certified infant mas- play she produced, Women husband, Phil, on the birth of June. We send our deepest like Berkeley Carroll. You West, FL, was recognized as sage educator. She lives in the and War, was performed again their son, Mike, on December sympathies to Charles and his have a formula that clearly both the Poinciana Berkeley Carroll neighbor- at New York City’s Arclight 13, 2010. Jill and Phil live in family. works! My dream is to see Elementary Teacher of the hood with her husband and Theater in January 2011. Arlington, MA, and are both some of those best prac- Year and the Monroe County their two daughters, Isabella, Heather was also nominated teachers at the Cambridgeport I David Shapiro ’05 entered tices become mainstream to Teacher of the Year. In July 6, and Amelia, 2. for a 2011 New York School in Cambridge, his third year of law school affect more students in our 2011 Seana headed to Innovative Theatre Award for Massachusetts. Jill writes that at Brooklyn College this fall. city schools.” Orlando, where she present- I Deni D. Davis-Sheehan ’87 Outstanding Actress in a Lead she loves every minute of ed her video documentation continues to run her printing Role for her portrayal of being a parent, and that she’d I Jerome Carter ’07 graduated I Alyssa Goldstein ’07 is a sen- of pedagogical practices and and design business Brooklyn Sheila in Michael Frayn’s love to hear from the Berkeley from Rensselaer Polytechnic ior at Bard College, where she exchanged ideas with educa- PR. She lives in Brooklyn Benefactors. Alan J. Miller of Carroll community! Institute with a BS in civil is studying sociology and tional leaders from across the with her husband of ten Theatre Is Easy called engineering; in June, he left Middle Eastern studies. After nation. Seana says, “My fam- years, Edwin Sheehan, and Heather’s performance “simply I On June 1, 2011, a New for Rome and Shanghai to graduating, she plans to ily and friends are very proud their two children. Her son phenomenal.” Produced by York Times article about block begin working towards a become a certified sex educa- of me, and I am grateful for Justice is nine and enjoys Heather’s company Retro scheduling at the Calhoun one-year MS in global man- tor, and eventually get her that…It was the wonderful baseball and Taekwondo; her Productions, Benefactors gar- School quoted our very own agement as part of a co-ter- Ph.D. in sociology and gen- teachers at Berkeley that lead daughter Delilah is two and nered three additional Danny Isquith ’98, who teaches minal degree program. Self- der studies. me to follow a path in cog- “enjoys everything!” Innovative Theatre nomina- math there. Despite having described “proud parent” nitive development, education tions, including Outstanding initial reservations, Danny Hazel Carter writes, “I want I Emily Goodwin ’07 graduat- and to love what I do. Thank Production of a Play. praised the new scheduling ed from Marymount Baby Mike to give Berkeley Carroll a you.” great and deep ‘Thank you!’ Manhattan College with a system, saying, “It’s incredible 2011 at the Richmond for working with Jerome major in communication arts what you can accomplish in County Country Club in and giving him that start to and a minor in business man- excel in college. Soon he will agement. She hopes to pur- I Sylvia Brewster ’87 still terms of real actual under- Dongan Hills, Staten Island. begin his career as an engi- sue a career in advertising or lives in the Windsor standing versus proficiency.” The newlyweds honey- neer and a tax-paying citi- public relations. On Terrace neighborhood of mooned in Greece and live in zen! As a fellow educator, September 14, 2011, she Brooklyn. She recently Manhattan. Michael Singer ’05 my experience and research appeared on The Rachael Ray moved her art studio to a served as best man for his 2000s8 is geared towards school Show to discuss her frustra- new location on the brother, and among David’s leadership and the impact of tion with the lack of stylish Gowanus Canal, near I Pia Murray ’01 served as a ushers was classmate Nicholas collaborative programs on clothing options for curvy Carroll Gardens. You can guest choreographer at Ford ’01. at-risk students and their women. “I loved meeting see her photographic cards Berkeley Carroll last year. teachers. I am mindful of the Rachael,” Emily writes. “She and other work at Portions of her work were effectiveness of teaching, was such a sweetheart!” www.weldbiltstudio.com. performed by the Middle and Upper School Dance Elective classes at a showcase in February 2011.

I Patrick Lindie ’01 is a certi- I In March, Casey Scieszka ’02 published her first fied dental assistant. He lives book, To Timbuktu: Nine Countries, Two People, One with two former classmates, True Story. Illustrated by Casey’s boyfriend Steven Denise Mui ’01 and Sean Slifer Weinberg, the graphic novel is an account of the ’01, and three cats! © Sylvia Weld Brewster couple’s globetrotting experiences. I Congratulations to David Singer ’01, who married Alexis Claire Platis on June 18,

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I On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, Max Hardy ’08 served as a name reader at the World DonaChumasero is grateful to Trade Center Memorial, DEATHS where he remembered his IN THE BERKELEY CARROLL Berkeley Carroll father, Jeff Hardy. Everson’41 FAMILY for the impetus it gave to her I Mary Cleere Haran, moth- I er of Jacob Gilford ’09, died in Marjorie Mills Winkler ’36, born chosen career. Starting in a cycling accident on on January 15, 1919, died on elementary school, then on to the February 5, 2011. Haran was June 3, 2011. She was a a singer and writer best Berkeley Institute alumna, Blotter, with encouragement from known for her cabaret shows teacher, parent of alumna, and her mentor, English teacher celebrating the American song Trustee. Marjorie spent twelve book. A New York Times obit- years at the Berkeley Institute Margaret W. Arnold, she became a uary declared Haran “a singer and won a scholarship to Vassar, journalist. One of her gifts enabled of remarkable purity…she where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1940. In 1941 she the Berkeley Carroll library to Corey Jeffers ’07 (right) eschewed melodramatic pos- turing to deliver deep, married John Winkler, and they choose 31 books related to writing settled in Brooklyn in 1944. I On June 22, 2011, Corey Summer Program, and plans thoughtful interpretations of Marjorie remained tremendous- Jeffers ’07 competed in a to pursue a career in theater. standards by Rodgers and to guide others along that path. Microsoft-hosted event for Hart, Harry Warren, the ly devoted to the Berkeley Today’s remarkable students and Institute, becoming a member of students who want to change I Lionel Johnnes ’07 was Gershwins and others.” the BI Alumnae Association as alumni make her proud to be in the world through technolo- named to the Dean’s List for well as the Board of Trustees. gy. The students pitched their the spring 2011 semester at I Diarra Edwards ’10 was their number and inspire her to She even taught 7th and 8th ideas to Silicon Valley indus- Washington University in St. named to the Dean’s List for grade English at the school for keep on giving. try experts and academics, Louis. the spring 2011 semester at who then help the students Washington University in St. three years. Marjorie also served on the board of School refine their concepts and find I Lauren Menchini ’07 is Louis. Settlement House and was a markets for their ideas. Corey attending Manhattan College How can you remember docent at the Brooklyn Museum. was a member of Ithaca for civil engineering and I Georgetown freshman In the early 1990s, she and John Berkeley Carroll College’s Team IC Squared, hopes to work in the engi- Audrey Denis ’11 covered moved to Rossmoor, a retire- which presented Embryonic, neering field after graduating Secretary of State Hillary ment community in Monroe forever? an HTML 5 web game in this year. This summer Clinton’s opening address to Township, NJ, where they made which the player controls Lauren worked at Tully the U.S.-India Higher new friendships, participated in I “tiny nanomachines that Construction as an intern on Education Summit for Vox A gift of a bequest a variety of activities, and trav- weave their way through the the field and in the estimat- Populi, Georgetown’s blog of eled extensively. Marjorie is sur- I feminine reproductive sys- ing department. record. “Three hundred pres- A gift of life insurance vived by her daughter, Nancy tem over the course of a idents, chancellors, and other Winkler Naftulin ’61, her grand- I A gift of real estate pregnancy.” Team IC Squared I Amanda Sacks ’07 important educational figures matricu- daughter, Julia, and her great- was named a worldwide final- from the U.S. and India” I lated at the University of grandson, Luca. A gift from which you ist in game design and com- Maine this fall to get her MS attended the October 13, peted in Microsoft’s Imagine in ecology and environmen- 2011 summit. receive income such as a I Julia Card Arbuckle ’52 passed Cup in July. tal science. away on September 25, 2010. Charitable Remainder Trust, I She is survived by her husband, Pooled Income Fund or an Dyanna Hallick ’07 graduat- I Blaire Sacks ’07 majored in Dave, two sons, a daughter, ed from Muhlenberg College art history at Bates College Annuity with a BA in theater and and seven grandchildren. and is pursuing a career in I media and communications. gallery work. A Charitable Lead Trust She recently spent her fifth summer working at Berkeley Carroll’s Creative Arts For more information contact: [email protected]

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