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MAGAZINE SUMMER 2007 Page 4 Graduation 2007 ShadySideAcademywww.shadysideacademy.org MAGAZINE SUMMER 2007 Page 4 Graduation 2007 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE and friends. It is our “people power” which through a “sneak preview” of our highly provides the force, which provides the “differ- acclaimed Hillman Series for 2007-2008 in Dear Shady ence”, and which enables the excellence for the Rauh Theater. In addition, please be sure Side Academy which Shady Side Academy continues to be to note the success and college choices of the Community: known. Class of 2007. Enjoy all the “energy events” In this final issue of the Magazine for the provided you in this exciting edition! alph Waldo 2006-2007 school year, you will be provid- As we conclude the current school year REmerson ed a snapshot of many of the concluding and prepare for the next, I am moved by the once noted that events of the last third of the year. Feel the number of faculty and students who are “The world belongs energy! Read about the service and outreach “reenergizing” their minds and their souls to the energetic” of our students through their sponsorship of locally, nationally, and internationally with and as Shady Side Academy concludes its Untucked, feel the excitement and success additional and advanced study experiences 123rd year of continuous operation, I can generated by our parents through their throughout the summer months. At Shady once again attest that the ownership of “our efforts of this year’s Green Gala, celebrate Side Academy, the joy of teaching and world” at SSA is purchased through the extra- with us the careers of those retiring from the learning is infectious; there is a healthful ordinary energies of our students, faculty, Academy, learn of the impact and success of hunger for that next great idea. I once heard staff, parents (current and former), alumni, our Alumni Council, and be updated it said that the “philosopher contemplates 2 Shady Side Academy Magazine In this issue… 2 President’s Message 4 Graduation 2007 26 Thousands of “Sweet” Days Honored with Uprecedented Three Posner Awards 28 Green Gala 2007 30 Live in the Rauh Theater 31 Senior School Events 28 32 Untucked Benefit Concert 34 Music Institute for the Development of Personal Style 35 Middle School Events 36 Junior School Events 40 Sports Briefs 42 Board of Visitors Spends Day at 30 Shady Side Academy 43 Alumni Events 46 Class Notes 52 In Memoriam The following are corrections from previous issues of the Shady Side Academy Magazine. We apologize for all errors and omissions. In the Spring 2007 issue, in the photo on the bottom of page 37 an individual was inadvertently cropped 43 out. Please see this issue’s Class Notes section for the correct photo and caption. ideas, the teacher energizes ideas and the In the Winter 2006-2007 issue, in the 15th Reunion student generates ideas.” Whatever the Class photo on page 27, Michael Leventon was misla- case, if one cares about ideas, one wants to beled as Aaron Strauss. gather them from every source and test them in every way possible; such is the ener- On our front cover: Lifers from the Class of 2007 at Senior School Commencement. gy behind the learning community of Shady Cover Photo by: Melinda Miller Editorial Assistance and Contributors: Jamie Brush ’98, Jamie Egan ’08, Alumni/Development Summer Intern, Karen Fedusa, Side Academy. Hats off to the energy of Bob Grandizio, Sr., Bob Grandizio, Jr. ’91, David Liebmann, Melinda Miller, Rick Munroe ’84, Tom Southard, Karyn Vella. excellence and happy summer to all! Photography: Jamie Brush ’98, Donna Giel, Tron McConnell ’71, Melinda Miller, Rick Munroe ’84. Class News photos are submitted by alumni and Class Correspondents. Sincerely, Design Consultant: Peggy Warnock Printed by: Knepper Press If you are interested in becoming a contributor to the Shady Side Academy Magazine, please contact Melinda Miller at mmiller@ shadysideacademy.org for details. Shady Side Academy Magazine is published by Shady Side Academy for its alumni, parents and friends of the school. Letters and suggestions are welcomed and should be sent to Melinda Miller, Shady Side Academy, 423 Fox Chapel Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15238. Address corrections should be sent to The Alumni Office, Shady Side Academy, 423 Fox Chapel Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15238. Junior School, 400 S. Braddock Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15221, 412-473-4400 Thomas N. Southard, President Middle School, 500 Squaw Run Rd. East, Pittsburgh, PA 15238, 412-968-3100 Shady Side Academy Senior School, 423 Fox Chapel Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15238, 412-968-3000 www.shadysideacademy.org Commencement Class of 2007 4 Shady Side Academy Magazine SENIOR SCHOOL 2007 2007 Senior School Commencement Prize Winners First Honor Student in Senior Class . Kyle Robert O’Donovan Second Honor Student in Senior Class. Andrew Martin Watkins Raymond F. Arnheim Memorial Award . Erica Lynn Hartz The Alfred C. Dickey Memorial Prize . Joshua Louis Kalla The Richard S. ’39 and Kenneth L. ’41 Simon Award . John Daniel Taylor The Princeton Alumni Awards. Form V – Vijay Kedar . Form IV – Joshua Louis Kalla . Form III – Frankie Joseph Costa The John H. Cohen Family Improvement Awards. Form V – Kaitlin Hennessy Bauer . Form IV – Nancy Harper Jones . Form III – Sallehhuddin Abd Salim Nast The Joseph Bole Hare Steffey Memorial Award . Leah Rose Schwartz The Edward Ernest Ebbert Memorial Award . Kimberley Marielle Nederlof The Ruth and F. Walter Jones Service Prize . Therese Costa and Kathleen Mausteller The All-Round Cup . Laura Rae Daigneau The Todd Drelles Memorial Prize . Christopher Gabriel Nevola and Nikka Rosenstein The Lowell Innes Award . Sumedha Vinod Chablani The President’s Prize . Graham Evan Gockley and Zachary Paul Klinvex This year’s Commencement Address was given by Jerry White, pictured here with Academy President, Tom Southard. Mr. White is the co-founder and Executive Director of Landmine Survivors Network, based in Washington, DC. He is a leader of the historic International Campaign to Ban Landmines and co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Peace. While studying in Israel in 1984, Mr. White organized a hike in the Golan with two friends and that’s when he stepped on a landmine. The explosion ripped away Jerry’s lower right leg and severely dam- aged his left. Over the next six months he underwent multiple surgeries and learned to walk with an artificial limb. In August 1997, Mr. White escorted Diana, Princess of Wales, on her last humanitarian mission-a three- day trip to Bosnia to meet privately with landmine victims and their families. A recognized landmine authority, Mr. White’s efforts have been honored by humanitarian awards given by Sir Paul and Heather Mills McCartney, Brown University, the Center for International Rehabilitation, the Mohammed Amin Award, and the American Association of People with Disabilities. Summer 2007 5 SENIOR SCHOOL 2007 Commencement “It’s your mindset and it’s your choice and it’s on you what you do with your life and these privileges. And how you respond when life explodes.” — JERRY WHITE Lifers, including those girls who entered the very first co-ed kindergarten in 1994. Leah Schwartz delivers the Senior Speech 6 Shady Side Academy Magazine Walter Jones, Faculty Emeritus, with Kathy Mausteller and Terry Costa, Library Assistants and winners of the Ruth and F. Walter Jones Service Prize. From left: Jeff Rich ’77, Julia Rich ’07 and Cynthia (Fiorini) Rich. 2007 College Choices The students and their college choices listed here are those for whom Shady Side Academy Magazine received permission to print. Megan Abell New York University Anshul Agarwala Johns Hopkins University Isabella Aivaliotis DePaul University – Chicago Jacqueline Allen John Carroll University Steven Ament Loyola University – Chicago Seated from left: Debbie Samakow, Rebecca Samakow ’07, Justin Samakow ’07 and Marion Phillip Amsler Samakow. Standing from left: Jesse Samakow, Michael Samakow ’73, Rachel Samakow ’05, Rochester Institute of Technology Tom Samakow ’78 and Josh Samakow ’14. Jeanne Antonuccio Cornell University Molly Arnn Vassar College Krishnasai Babu Washington and Jefferson College Tylor Balson University of Pittsburgh Emily Bell Chatham University John Bennett College of Wooster Sydney Bouchat-Friedman Indiana University (Bloomington) Ross Brendel Yale University Benjamin Briston Villanova University Colby Capretto Penn State University Sumedha Chablani Columbia University Gregor Cosgrove Seated from left: Middle School Director of Studies, John Curry, Caitlin Curry ’07, Diane Curry and Bates College Middle School Secretary, Sandy Curry. Standing from left: Dale Wiggins, Laura Wiggins, Alice Curry ’09, Matthew Braunstein, Anthony Braunstein, Emily Curry ’15, Erin Hubbard, Michael Braunstein and Mary Grace Sweeney. Summer 2007 7 2007 College Choices Alfonso Costa Yale University Caitlin Curry Capital University Laura Daigneau University of Virginia Sarah DeFeo Allegheny College Maria DiGioia Wheaton College Christine Donahue Boston College Kevin Doubleday Franklin and Marshall College Catherine Edwards Bucknell University SENIOR SCHOOL 2007 David Egan Allegheny College Daniela Faloon Commencement Ohio State University Claire Fawcett Miami University (OH) Hilary Fingeret Southern Methodist University Grant Fitzgerald Furman University Joseph Fletcher Syracuse University President of the Board of Trustees, Steve Lee ’77, with Academy President Tom Southard and Associate President Tom Trigg. “Reach out. No one survives alone and no one succeeds alone, and isolation will kill you. When a tough time comes if you isolate and withdraw, stay in your shell long-term, you’ll die. We are social animals we need each other to survive and to succeed.” — JERRY WHITE 8 Shady Side Academy Magazine Seated from left: Libby McKnight ’07 and Peggy McKnight. Seated from left: Betsy Magovern, Charlie Magovern ’07 and Megan Magovern. Standing from left: Steve McKnight, Jr. ’05, Garland McKnight Standing from left: Molly Magovern ’12, Norma Roylance, Bob Roylance, Paul and Steve McKnight ’70. Magovern, George Magovern ’70, Jr. and Jamie Magovern. Seated from left: David Wolf ’09, Dan Wolf ’07 and Nancy Wolf.
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