Alumni Horae ST. PAUL’S SCHOOL FALL 2014

Four seasons on the SPS trails The literary standards of Andrew Wylie ’65 NPR’s Michel Martin ’76 moderates in Ferguson PHOTO: KAREN BOBOTAS, SEPTEMBER 2014

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Empowering Students to Actively Do Good

At the end of the of adolescents. One of the places to which I summer, I returned turned was the writing of Fourth Rector Samuel

LOUIS H. FOISY with my older brother, S. Drury. He was a person of certainty and I was Rob, to our childhood looking for certainty this summer. It was within home in Cheshire, this context that I read his Fathers and Sons, an Conn., on the sad oc- instruction manual of sorts for family life “as it casion of our father’s was supposed to be” in the early 20th century. rapidly declining Drury’s book did not provide all of the guid- health. Between two ance I was seeking, but it gave me one timeless of our visits to see bit of wisdom: him in the hospital, we took the time to walk Our day seems the wildest page in human history. around our old neighborhood, a collection of Was there ever such an unfortunate time to bring suburban homes built in the late 1960s. up children! Oh for the good old days, the quiet As we walked, we named every family who lived simple protected days of long ago. Do you think in the 30 or so homes we passed. We noted the they really existed? Do you suppose that the social individual gifts those families brought to our lives fabric of the eighteenth century, for example, was as we grew up. We also recalled specific, powerful less menacing than that of the twentieth? The fact memories of how we interacted with one another. is that the moral arena of human character has What Rob and I were really talking about was liv- always wild beasts in it. At any stage of history ing in community those years ago. the adversary takes varied forms, but the forces It was a wonderful place to grow up, but it of evil are no cleverer today than they were in couldn’t be described as an intentional commu- Galilee two thousand years ago, or in any century nity. St. Paul’s School, of course, is an intentional since. Youth has ever been beset, and has always community. One overt intention is to make sure been empowered to win. we are providing our students with the very best St. Paul’s School has never been impermeable classroom experience, grounded in the philosophy to the wild beasts of the real world. It would be a that learning should be student-centered. I sus- mistake to believe it is now or ever was. Recog- pect the phrase “student-centered learning” nizing this reality and using it to teach our students sounds like redundant educational jargon; in is one of our most sacred responsibilities. some ways it also does to me. But the phrase More interesting and certainly more inspiring describes our effort to better understand our in my view is Drury’s faith in adolescents. I love students as learners. the last line of his words above. You can hear the While understanding our students as classroom confidence in Drury’s voice. learners is important, it is more important to I’ll confess that I do not share Drury’s faith in extend this effort to understanding them as social youth’s ability to overcome the challenges the beings in this particular age so we can continue world presents. I am not less confident that youth to advance the noblest intentions of this commu- can improve the world, only less confident that nity. The allegation of a sexual assault here last they can do it alone. This is the work we are called spring and the subsequent media coverage of it to do; to give our students not only the skills to reminded me of the School’s fundamental calling win against whatever the “wild beast” of the day – to do good. may be, but to ground those skills in moral con- I spent my summer searching for answers to fidence, one that will empower our students to questions about our community and the raising actively do good.

Michael G. Hirschfeld ’85 2 Alumni Horae Vol. 95, No. 1 Fall 2014

Features Alumni Horae 14 An Uncompromising Commitment EDITOR Jana F. Brown to Quality by Tom Owen ’11 DESIGNER Cindy L. Foote Literary agent Andrew Wylie ’65 on the publishing industry EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS and the economics of good books Leeann Doherty Arielle Greenleaf Driscoll ’99 Mary Jo Hansen 20 Emerging from History Meg Heckman by Rachel S. Cox Hannah MacBride Michael Matros Nearly seven decades after his suicide, alumnus John Gilbert Winant’s image has been resurrected Alumni Association

ADVISORY BOARD Chair 24 Whose woods these are . . . T. Brittain Stone ’87 Photographs by Karen Bobotas Members David B. Atkinson ’59 Exploring the many wooded trails of St. Paul’s School – Brett A. Forrest ’91 in four seasons Mary F. Karwowski ’04 Michael Matros Robert H. Rettew Jr. ’69 Lockhart Steele ’92 Nancy E. Weltchek ’78 Departments Published by 2 Rector 30 Reviews The Alumni Association The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson of St. Paul’s School 4 Action and the American Way of War 603-229-4770 Capital campaign exceeds its goal – by Joshua Kurlantzick [email protected] a year earlier than expected Thirty Below by Harry Groome ’55 Trustees of St. Paul’s School 7 Perspective Whiskey, Sun & Fish 8 Memories by George Carlisle, faculty emeritus Sally Carroll Keating ’72 shares a letter 32 Community penned by her great-great-uncle, Waldo Newcomer of the Form of 1885, 35 Formnotes that provides details of life at SPS in the 19th century 51 Deceased 10 Athletics 58 Facetime Triple-amputee EQ Sylvester ’57 has When it comes to military miniaturism, turned personal hardship into a new artist Sheperd Paine ’64, says a fellow mission – helping disabled golfers get modeler, is the “Beatles, Rolling Stones, back in the game and Elvis, all combined” ON THE COVER: Hiding along the SPS trails, sprites and other creatures watch 60 Spotlight Michel Martin ’76 for wanderers. (Photo: Karen Bobotas) 3 ACTION

dents at St. Paul’s. That is the true gift of this successful campaign.” Trustee Hilary Parkhurst ’80 credited the initial leadership of former Rector Bill Matthews ’61 and other members of the Board, who led by example in terms of giving, which inspired volunteers and SPS other members of the School community. She also spoke of the vision of current Rector Mike Hirschfeld ’85, and called giving under his tenure a vote of faith in his leadership. Seven years ago, in July 2007, St. Paul’s “The campaign’s success has recon- “Thanks to this leadership, there has School recorded the first gift in what was nected many people to the School and been a huge resurgence in terms of the to become SPS Matters: The Campaign reaffirmed its importance,” added Lindsay. School’s popularity, and this helps ensure for St. Paul’s School. With a goal of “One senses a lot of new energy in the our future,” said Parkhurst. “I am hoping $175,000,000 by June 30, 2015, the cam- various constituencies – alumni, parents, this campaign has helped instill the idea paign officially kicked off in New York faculty, and the students themselves, all of giving to St. Paul’s as a habit.” City in October 2010, with a public launch of whom are proud to be connected to a Hirschfeld was quick to credit others attended by more than 500 alumni, parents, place with great aspirations underpinned for the extraordinary results of the and friends of the School. In its “quiet” by great support.” campaign. Mattersphase, SPS Matters had by that point In addition to the bricks and mortar of “Thanks to Bill Kissick, his team, and raised $98 million. the campaign, the generosity of donors the remarkable leadership of Bob and After the Board of Trustees voted in also led to the establishment of new Douglas, the success of the campaign 2013 for a more ambitious fundraising regional scholarships in Alabama, El Paso, will provide an enduring platform for timeline, the campaign came to a close a Texas/Juarez, Mexico, South Carolina, the School’s continued success,” said full year ahead of schedule, in June 2014, and California/Wyoming. A fifth new Hirschfeld. “I was inspired not only by the and the figures are in: $178,748,436 raised scholarship is pending for prospective campaign’s fiscal success, but also by the since 2007, with participation from more students from Colorado. Overall, the coming together of this community in the than 80 percent of alumni and parents. campaign has resulted in more than effort. I feel very fortunate to be leading “The campaign has produced a number 40 endowed scholarships, five endowed the School at this moment in its history.” of great benefits to the School,” said Bob chairs, four endowed teaching fellows, Campaign success was spurred by Lindsay ’73, who chaired the Campaign more than 20 endowed faculty support better-than-healthy levels of annual for St. Paul’s School and was the lead funds, and more than 200 new members giving – more than $39.5 million over the donor in the $44 million Lindsay Center of the John Hargate Society, who have life of the campaign, including $6,696,131 for Mathematics and Science. “The obvi- included St. Paul’s in their estate plan- for fiscal year 2014, with participation ous ones are growth in the endowment to ning. Planned gifts make up approxi- from 45 percent of alumni and 89 percent support faculty and geographically broad mately 15 percent of the more than of parents. The 2013-14 Annual Fund student financial support, completion of $178 million of SPS Matters. numbers represent a nine percent in- a critical physical need in the math and Recently retired Board President Douglas crease from the previous year. Overall, science building, and restoration of an Schloss ’77 spoke of how the resources annual giving rose 96.5 percent since the important metric – the relationship of provided by the generosity of so many campaign began in 2007. endowment size to the student body.” donors already have given St. Paul’s “At the beginning of this campaign, As the physical centerpiece of the cam- facilities and programs that better align Bob Lindsay wrote, ‘Every student paign, the 78,000 square-foot Lindsay the educational priorities of the School comes away with a full heart and a fine Center opened just after Thanksgiving with those of our nation. mind, and understands that the world 2011 and was officially dedicated at an “The success of this campaign demon- will ask something important of him April 2012 ceremony. At the time, cam- strates a unified school community firmly or her. Again and again, our students paign progress had reached $123 million. behind ensuring that SPS is a leader in deliver. Again and again, they astound Other physical additions to the campus secondary school education into the us,’” said Director of Alumni and De- include the Bogle-Lechner Field, dedicated future,” said Schloss, who helped fund velopment Bill Kissick. “Bob was right. in September 2012 when the campaign the establishment of an engineering And, the same thing can be said about had reached $128 million, and the McLane honors program at SPS. “The majority our volunteers and donors. We asked Squash Courts, which were rededicated of the campaign’s funds will ensure something important of them, and they in January 2014, when progress was up that we have not only the finest teach- delivered. Again and again, our volun- to $165 million. ing faculty, but also the very best stu- teers and our donors astounded us.” 4 Online Classes Underway different concert programs, which he will sessions designed to build connection perform multiple times each. The plan and empathy. is to complete all of them by the end of Challenge Day (www.challengeday.org) spring 2016. was founded more than two decades ago There are many pianists who have to “provide youth and their communities endeavored to accomplish the challenge with experiential programs that demon- Pauley has set out to complete, but the strate the possibility of love and connec- completion is not common, he says. Learn- tion through the celebration of diversity, ing and playing the pieces is a milestone truth, and full expression.” The one-day Last spring, St. Paul’s announced a col- in the career of any concert pianist. program is facilitated by professionals from laboration with the Eight Schools Assoc- “More often than not,” Pauley says, the organization, who use social activities, iation, to offer two online courses to “pianists do not perform all of these music, and games to bring students out of Sixth Form students, beginning this fall. sonatas. There are 800 pages of music their comfort zones with the goal of creat- With permission from the dean of studies to commit to memory and Beethoven was ing a more inclusive environment. and the head of the Languages Department, a superlative pianist, so the technical select Sixth Formers may enroll in the on- challenge is very high. Compound that line study of Arabic language. Also with with the intellectual and philosophical permission, Sixth Form students may challenges of trying to communicate register for an interdisciplinary course Beethoven through the instrument, and called Water and Humanity. it’s very difficult to achieve.” The pilot programs are team-taught by Pauley has always been intrigued by the educators from the Eight Schools, includ- artistry of Beethoven and the composer’s ing teachers from St. Paul’s, Choate, Deer- ability to speak to the human condition field, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Northfield through his music. While hard-pressed to “At its foundation, Challenge Day pro- Mount Hermon, Phillips Andover, and pick favorites, Pauley points to the “Ham- vides participating schools with a power- Phillips Exeter. merklavier,” for its length and technical ful daylong experience that ignites and So far, three SPS Sixth Formers have challenge, and to “Opus 2,” for its technical inspires students to become agents of enrolled in the study of Arabic language, difficulty. He also favors, at the moment, change,” says Dean of Students Chad taught by teachers from Choate and Deer- Beethoven’s final three sonatas, which he Green. “It engages participants in a series field. This spring, three more students compares, in terms of special quality, to of activities designed to help us recognize will take the interdisciplinary Water and the Mona Lisa. the power that comes both from revealing Humanity class, which will be offered as a our authentic selves to others and from full-year course in the fall of 2016. That genuinely accepting others as they are.” course will be taught by teachers in various Later in September, St. Paul’s welcomed disciplines at each of the Eight Schools. Seattle-based educator and diversity trainer Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee, who spoke Beethoven to the entire student body about issues of identity and inclusion. Her program was Think about this: 800 pages of music, 32 the first of four scheduled school-wide pieces, nine concerts, three years. These LINC (Living in Community) days. Third are numbers that dominate the daily life “The last sonatas are the summing up Formers are enrolled in LINC classes once of SPS music teacher Gregg Pauley, who, of his entire life and what he learned a week for the entire school year, while in 2013, endeavored to learn and perform through his life as an artist,” says Pauley. Fourth Formers take LINC classes three Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas. “The beauty is very deep and his thought times a week for one term. “It is something I have thought about process is truly remarkable.” LINC, explains Green, represents the doing since my early twenties,” says Gregg Pauley’s concert schedule can be formal social/emotional and wellness Pauley, who has been teaching piano at found at www.greggpauley.com. curriculum of the School. The curriculum St. Paul’s since 1999. “But life gets in the covers key topic areas over the course of way and I got sidetracked. Now I know a student’s career at SPS, with the overall that life doesn’t get any less busy, so I’d Healthy Cultures objective of creating the healthiest pos- better do it now.” As part of the School’s leadership and com- sible student culture. Pauley played his first concert in the munity building efforts, St. Paul’s hosted “I firmly believe that student culture Beethoven series in September of last its second annual Challenge Day prior to should be leveraged as a critical teaching year and will perform at least a few dozen the beginning of classes. The September tool,” says Green, “LINC is one place in by the time he is finished. To accomplish event engaged the entire Sixth Form, plus our collective school life to delve deeply the “Beethoven Project,” Pauley has broken student leaders from the Fifth Form and into the question of how exactly we want up the composer’s 32 sonatas into nine about 40 faculty members in a day of to live with one another.” 5 ACTION

Think on These Things The event began with an evensong by Walker School in Washington, D.C.). the Rt. Rev. Mary Glasspool, suffragen At a Friday Eucharist, the Rt. Rev. A. In May, St. Paul’s hosted a gathering of bishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles. Robert Hirschfeld, bishop of New Hamp- chaplains, heads of school, and teachers Bishop Glasspool spoke about “unlocking shire, spoke of the role Episcopal schools of religion, who visited for a spring con- the treasures of the heart” and the existen- play in raising up responsible, faithful vocation, Think on These Things: The tial and spiritual opportunities of “dealing leaders committed to the work of dis- Twenty-first Century Episcopal School. with death” and “living life.” cipleship, informed civil discourse, and Celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Other presenters included Dr. Paul Knitter genuine understanding. Chapel, participants revisited Paul Tillich’s (Union Theological Seminary), the Rev. F. Organized by the Rev. Michael Spencer, 1956 essay, “Theology of Education.” Washington “Tony” Jarvis (Yale Divinity SPS dean of chapel, the convocation drew Convocation participants also viewed a School), Dr. Lisa Kimball (Virginia Theologi- an audience that included School faculty Chapel art exhibition entitled “…which con- cal Seminary), the Most Rev. Frank Gris- members, staff, and students. “The dis- tinues in heaven.” Artwork submitted by the wold ’55 (former presiding bishop of the cussion was robust and spirited,” Spencer Artists Registry of the Episcopal Church Episcopal Church), Dr. Serena Beeks said, adding the hope that the event “con- & Visual Arts reflected on the SPS motto, (Commission on Schools in the Diocese of tributed to an ongoing and fruitful dis- “Let us learn those things on earth, the Los Angeles), and former SPS faculty mem- cussion of the character, purpose, and knowledge of which continues in heaven.” ber the Rev. Preston Hannibal (Bishop mission of Episcopal schools.”

Form Plaques Over Anniversary Weekend, the School dedicated wooden plaques carved by Lisa Laughy for the Forms of 1994, 1999, 2004, and 2013.

1994 1999 2004 2013 The boys crew won the Prin- This plaque represents changes A wild boar is central to the The central design element cess Elizabeth Challenge Cup in St. Paul’s leadership. The 2004 plaque, representing of the plaque celebrates four at Henley, an accomplishment book spines identify them: “X” the 2002 revitalization of the consecutive years of members represented in the vertical de- for Tenth Rector David V. Hicks, Boar’s Head dinner tradition by of the Form of 2013 earning the sign element of the plaque. In “I” for Interim Rector Clifford J. members of the Form of 2004. Hugh Camp Cup. The upper the background is Kehaya House, Gillespie, and “XI” for Eleventh In the upper left is the State of left carries the symbol for Old dedicated in January 1994. A Rector Craig B. Anderson. The Massachusetts, divided into Hundred, winners of the 2013 compass in the upper left rep- bookends, with inkwells and rainbow-colored stripes, to Club Cup competition. In the resents the Thompson Island quills, honor the establishment signify the state’s pioneering upper center, a granite pav- Outward Bound trip, made in of the Schlesinger Writer-in- passage of marriage equality ing stone carved with “100%” the fall of 1993. The upper right Residence program. The upper on May 17, 2004. The right side represents the form’s full par- features the South African flag, left celebrates NE champion- features the Princess Eliza- ticipation in the Alumni Fund. adopted in April 1994. This sym- ships for girls volleyball and beth Challenge Cup displayed A blue and yellow “Boston bol, combined with the ribbon cross country. The “G” on the with the Henley-on-Thames Strong” ribbon in the upper in the lower sections, marks the computer key in the upper right coat of arms, representing right honors the victims of end of Apartheid. Carved into refers to the incorporation of the boys crew win at Henley. the April 15, 2013, Boston the ribbon is an excerpt from Google in 1998, while the bot- The Democratic donkey occu- Marathon bombing. The center Nelson Mandela: “Education is tom left signifies the March pies the bottom left, honoring background depicts the Bogle- the most powerful weapon we 1999 Drury dorm fire. A rain- the presidential run of John Lechner field, dedicated on can use to change the world.” bow flag with “GSA” marks the Kerry ’62. September 29, 2012. founding of the Gay-Straight 6 Alliance, inspired by the Chapel speech of Dustin Brauneck ’99. PERSPECTIVE

Remembering the Berlin Wall, 25 Years Later by Richard Schade ’62

By the day I made it to Berlin in November 1989, I guided American college students into East the clink of steel on concrete reverberated off Berlin, waiting on pins and needles for their the Berlin Wall, bounced off the abandoned return at Checkpoint Charlie, and I have tales buildings lining no-man’s-land. On its western to tell. flank, Berliners and others hammered away, So it was that my career came to be marked collecting chunks of world-historical import. by visits to and through the Berlin Wall. And so I joined them, having rented a hammer and it was that I wept for the joy of it all, standing cold chisel from a vendor – 10 marks for half at the Brandenburg Gate in November 1989, an hour. observing jubilant Germans atop the Wall. The I walked from Checkpoint Charlie, where photos I shot on that walk document the Wall’s U.S. and Soviet tanks faced one another down western flank as text, as canvas, expressing the muzzle to muzzle in 1961, on by the Branden- aspirations of visitors like me (or those punsters burg Gate (originally named the Gate of Peace), from Walla-Walla), and I couldn’t resist putting all the way to Bernauer Strasse, made famous my arm through the Wall eastward surprising by frantic East Berliners jumping from apart- a border guard, for the souvenir hunters had ment house windows to freedom in the West, breached the barrier long before East German thinking back on my previous encounters with construction crews disassembled the structure, the Wall. segment by segment. In central Berlin, the Wall traced the border In 2009, I procured one such segment for of the Soviet sector. It was put in place during installation at Cincinnati’s Freedom Center. the summer before my Sixth Form year (Au- There it commemorates those who overcame gust 1961) and I was among those who learned totalitarianism in non-violent demonstrations from J. Carroll McDonald that autumn term against the regime – not a single shot was fired, – he parsed the Cold War crisis with incisive all the while chanting “Wir sind das Volk,” a precision. Later, in college, I encountered mantra echoing the American phrase “We the the realities of East Berlin firsthand, having People.” It was the disenfranchised East German crossed through Checkpoint Charlie into the citizenry in Berlin and elsewhere that achieved proverbial cold – one had to surrender one’s the first progressive revolution in all of German passport through a small window, becoming history, among them the current president stateless until your name was called. Some of united Germany and Germany’s current years later, I served as a counterintelligence chancellor. operative in Berlin and along the East/West This is what I remember 25 years after the German divide, observing the comings and fall of the Berlin Wall. goings of East European agents, debriefing them, listening to their putative life stories Richard Schade is a professor of German at before they were handed off to West German the University of Cincinnati and an honorary intelligence. Then, during subsequent decades, consul to the Federal Republic of Germany.

This segment of the Berlin Wall was a gift to Cincinnati from the City of Berlin.

7 MEMORIES A Letter Home Over the summer, Sally Carroll Keating ’72, one of the first 19 girls to arrive at St. Paul’s in the winter of 1971, was in New London, N.H., sorting through boxes of old family papers. Among her findings was a letter, penned by Keating’s great-great-uncle, a then-16-year-old Waldo Newcomer of the Form of 1885. The letter, dated April 5, 1884, was addressed to Mr. Newcomer’s sister (and Ms. Keating’s great-grandmother), Nannie Newcomer, who lived in Baltimore, Maryland. “The letter is perfectly penned and,” says Keating, “the large part of it de- scribes life at St. Paul’s, including mention of the [28th] anniversary of the founding of the School, a reference to dinner protocol, races in the gymnasium, his ‘perfect grade’ in Greek, dancing lessons, Sacred Studies, his roommate, [Aaron Vanderpoel of the Form of 1885], and a mention of ‘the war.’ It is a fascinating historical reference to the day-to-day happenings at St. Paul’s from a student’s perspective in 1884.” In 1910, Waldo Newcomer established at SPS the Aaron Melgert Vander- poel Prize in the sciences in honor of his old friend and roommate, who died in May of 1894. The prize is still awarded today. According to information from a family genealogy report provided by Ms. Keating, Mr. Newcomer went on from St. Paul’s to study at Johns Hop- kins University, where he founded the Faculty Club and later became a trustee. “He was a leading financier of Baltimore and director of a number of railroads” before his death in 1934, at the age of 66.

St. Paul’s School before any answer will come from him. Richardson in 2 min 39 ½ sec. In marks April 5, 1884 Thursday was the anniversary of the this week, I lost only three and I have founding of the school, and two of the been assured that the world is rapidly Dear Nannie, boys from our table went up to Dr. Coit nearing its end because Mr. Valpey gave Communications and got him to give us a better dinner me perfect in Greek. I believe it is the were received this than usual, so at dinner a vote of thanks first time (or nearly that) that he has week from Sister was passed to the boys and the “ayes” given that mark to any boy in our divi- Mary, yourself and were so decided that Mr. Foster was on sion. I hope that before this term is over, Will. But although the point of dismissing the whole table I will be able to get perfect throughout I have had so much for disorder. for one week. I cannot hope for it for a news from these letters, I find a very small This afternoon there were three races longer period. stock of it to give in return. in the gymnasium, a mile walk, a mile The dancing lessons will be at an end It seems strange to think of yourself run, and one-half mile run. As the track on Tuesday. I am sorry there are not a as being anywhere except on Bolton St. is very narrow the contestants ran one at few more of them as I have not entirely in the vicinity of Mt. Hope. I think I had a time and the race was given to the one mastered the waltz yet and I hate to leave better stop and direct this at once for if I who made the best time. The best time in it in such an unfinished state. don’t, I am afraid I will send it to 241 and the mile walk was made by Lord (7 min. I like the lessons in Sacred Studies for never notice the mistake. I expect to write 49 sec.), but Hart, who did it in (8 min. 34 this term better than those of last. There to Ed Seidewitz next week and I think I sec.) was given a minute’s handicap and are questions on the Bible instead of on will tell him to direct to the St. Paul St. so won. The mile run was won by Dana the Catechism. The paper for tomorrow in 5 min. 49 sec. The half-mile run by is very long but the answers are nearly 8 house after this as it will be some time ½ all short. I don’t think it will be as hard as it looks. Vanderpoel and I are still living to- gether and have had no fights as yet, and I do not think that there are even any rumors of war afloat. I will stop for a while now to take my weekly trip to the B.T. (bath tub). Tomorrow, this term will be first half over. There are ten more weeks and as they will probably go even more rapidly than these first ten have (if such a thing is possible), it will not be very long be- fore I shall be hunting up the scattered remnants of the Newcomer family. We have had a little more snow this week but it is about gone from the roads. There is still some lying in the fields. With much love, I remain Your loving brother Waldo 9 ATHLETICS Getting Back in the Game

10 Getting Back in the Game Triple-amputee EQ Sylvester ’57 finds joy for himself – and for others – on the golf course by Jana F. Brown

Bruce “Boomer” Miller was learning to play golf, Sylvester says he knew he had walk again, working out on a treadmill, found a new mission in life. when he noticed a fellow amputee “I just couldn’t see myself sitting at entering the room from a hallway at the home,” he says. “I saw an opportunity Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. to put together a foundation that would “I asked about the crazy guy with no help others. It was a great challenge to legs who had a smile on his face,” said see if I could do it, and to help bring the Miller, who lost a leg to vascular disease joy of being on a golf course to others.” on November 12, 2012. The Freedom Golf Association (FGA) Miller was told that the gentleman was was born in 2012 out of Sylvester’s desire simply known as “EQ” and that he loved to use the game to create community, golf, a passion Miller shared. The two confidence, and a sense of joy to others. men soon discovered a common goal – “When the disabled hit a golf ball for to return to the golf course, somehow. the first time,” he says, “you just cannot It turns out that Edmund “EQ” Sylves- believe the smiles on their faces.” ter ’57 had a grander plan than learning Since its inception, the FGA has pro- to adjust his personal golf game to his vided nearly 1,200 hours of adaptive golf life after an infection caused by a kid- instruction to roughly 700 participants. ney stone resulted in sepsis and, con- FGA-sponsored adaptive golf workshops sequently, two weeks in a coma at New have trained nearly 30 adaptive golf York’s Roosevelt Hospital. When he emerged coaches. A recent clinic at the BMW Tour from sedation, Sylvester learned that, Championship drew 110 participants, to save his life, doctors had been forced from the disabled to fully able-bodied; to amputate both of his legs and his left though it is geared toward people with hand. It took two more months in the hos- disabilities, the FGA does not discriminate. pital and five months of intensive rehab Sylvester has also expanded the FGA’s near his Chicago home for Sylvester to reach by partnering with organizations regain his strength. boasting similar missions, including the One of his first orders of business was First Tee, Special Olympics, Easter Seals, to return to the golf course, where he’d and the Wounded Warrior Project. played 18 of the top 20 courses in the Phil Bell enlisted in the U.S. Army out U.S. and boasted a 6 handicap before his of high school and was deployed to Iraq illness. He currently serves as a director in 2005. In March of 2006, the vehicle in of the Western Golf Association. Sylves- which he was riding was hit by an impro- ter’s own struggle to hit a golf ball with vised explosive device. Bell survived but his new limbs prompted him to conduct sustained multiple injuries, including research on adaptive golf. He discovered muscle damage, spine fractures, and that, according to numbers from the PGA, shrapnel lodged in his back. He also 18 million of America’s 57 million disabled suffers from memory loss related to aspire to play golf. Upon absorbing those traumatic brain injury and from post- figures and discovering that most golf traumatic stress disorder. facilities do not possess the means to “When I knew I was going to be medi- help those with special needs learn to cally discharged from the Army, I felt 11 EQ Sylvester’57 (r.) with Bruce “Boomer” Miller. (photos courtesy Freedom Golf Association)

Just being “around EQ “ makes you feel better about yourself.

– Phil Bell Wounded Warrior project

lost,” says Bell, who spent 15 years in the Among those the FGA has helped are Bell military prior to sustaining his injuries. “I and Miller, plus a 10-year-old boy with didn’t know what to do with my life.” multiple sclerosis named Abraham, whose Despondent and traveling down a way- parents described the day he first hit a ward path, Bell discovered the Wounded golf ball as one of the happiest of his life, Warrior Project and, through that organi- according to Sylvester. A nine-year-old zation, was connected to a clinic operated girl named Ashanti, whom Sylvester had by Sylvester and the FGA. met in physical rehabilitation, came bound- “It helped me get back into the game ing toward him at an FGA “caring for kids” and start enjoying myself,” says Bell, who program and soon learned to putt with has since completed the adaptive golf two prosthetic hands. John Marrone, who instructor training and now serves as became a paraplegic after a car accident the FGA’s Wounded Warrior coordinator. more than two decades ago, rediscovered “The biggest thing about EQ is he didn’t golf through the FGA, when his wife, Penny, let his struggles and dramatic changes in brought him to a clinic. his life get him down. When I see someone “Penny wrote us a thank-you note, like that, who continues to walk around telling us about how John had been on with a big smile on his face, it’s inspira- the sideline for 20 years and he can now tion. Just being around EQ makes you feel play golf with his son and his best friend,” better about yourself.” says Sylvester. Golf, explains Sylvester, is therapeutic, There are dozens of similar stories, and Sylvester shows off his adapted swing. both for its physical and mental benefits. they are what drive Sylvester to push for 12 expansion of his mission. With his dining who are playing, and 18 million who want room table serving as FGA world head- to play. Why can’t we get more on the quarters, Sylvester already has hired one golf course? If people can realize that, full-time employee and three part-timers then the golf industry will give visibility to help the FGA broaden its base. One of to sponsors and promote golf as an the primary missions of the FGA is to build inclusive game.” its adaptive golf enhancement program, Over the summer, Bruce Miller, now which includes training instructors and an official ambassador for FGA, taught providing adaptive equipment to as many adaptive golf at a series of 20 FGA-spon- golf courses in the country. The Freedom sored clinics. In the fall, Oak Brook (Ill.) Golf map, available on the FGA’s website Golf Club, through the FGA, hosted free (www.fgagolf.org), allows aspiring disabled twice weekly golf clinics for six consecu- golfers to locate accessible courses. It is tive weeks, offering tips for “all special also Sylvester’s mission to turn the golf needs individuals interested in learning industry on to millions of potential new golf or improving their golf game.” That players. came on the heels of the First Annual “The golf industry is focused on its Freedom Golf Association Golf Outing Michael Gorlewski (with EQ) is among community – fully able-bodied golfers at Cog Hill Golf & Country Club in Le- those inspired by the FGA’s mission. – but they understand they have to do mont, Ill., which drew 120 participants something to make the sport grow,” comprised of 25 foursomes, each with a is not to teach them to play golf, but to he says, citing statistics that show a special needs player. get them outside, open their minds, and 4.7-percent decline in the sport every “This is an incredible way for people let them know people care. I lost my leg year. “Word is starting to spread that with special needs to find out they can do and my whole world opened up – and it’s there are five million disabled golfers things,” Miller says. “The main objective all thanks to EQ.”

Spring Sports Highlights Sports Summary

snatched 62 draw controls. VARSITY BOYS WON LOST TIED The girls crew struggled in the reg- Baseball 7 10 0 Crew – 1st boat 2 6 0

KAREN BOBOTAS ular season, but peaked at the right Crew – 2nd boat 1 7 0 time. At the inaugural National Schools’ Lacrosse 5 13 0 Championship Regatta in Saratoga Tennis 9 9 0 Track 7 10 0 Springs, N.Y., the girls first eight and 31 55 0 four took home gold medals. The first VARSITY GIRLS and second eights also placed third at Crew – 1st boat 0 5 0 Crew – 2nd boat 2 3 0 Worcester. Both the eight and the four Lacrosse 15 1 0 The 2014 girls track team placed third won at the UK’s Reading Regatta and Softball 11 4 0 in the ISLs. rowed to the semifinals at the Henley Tennis 6 8 0 Track 6 10 0 Women’s Regatta. 40 31 0 A lone blemish on its record prevented On the softball diamond, SPS posted the SPS girls varsity lacrosse team from an 11-4 record. Brooke Avery ’14 fin- VARSITY TOTAL 71 86 0 back-to-back undefeated seasons. The ished second in league batting (.636). JV BOYS WON LOST TIED Big Red went 15-0 before falling in the Other Big Red sluggers who ranked Baseball 2 9 0 May 21 season finale to St. Mark’s, 9-7. among the ISL elite included Isabel Stod- Crew-3rd boat 3 6 0 Crew-4th boat 1 4 0 Still, the ISL co-champs put up big num- dard ’17 (.583, 5th), Amanda Paine ’14 Lacrosse 3 10 0 bers as a team, outscoring its opponents (.561, 9th), and Taryn Collins ’17 (.486, Tennis 4 5 0 by a 223-109 margin. Duke-bound 14th). Collins also struck out 75 batters 13 34 0 JV GIRLS Maddie Crutchfield ’14 led the way with as the team’s leading hurler. Crew-3rd boat 3 3 0 60 goals and 57 assists. Rosemary Sca- The girls track team placed third at Crew-4th boat 2 3 0 lise ’15 (43g, 27a), Caroline Zaffino ’15 the ISLs. Kerry Swartz ’15 established Lacrosse 8 3 1 Tennis 5 3 0 (40g, 16a), Lindsey Reynolds ’16 (28g, SPS records in the 100m, 200m, and 18 12 1 8a), and Bowdoin-bound Hannah 400m. The boys tennis team finished Hirschfeld ’14 (17g, 9a) were other top at .500 (9-9) after completing another JV TOTAL 31 46 1 contributors. Shayna Tomlinson ’14 competitive ISL schedule. GRAND TOTAL 102 132 1 13 An Uncompromising Commitment to Quality An Uncompromising Commitment to Quality

Literary agent Andrew Wylie ’65 talks about the publishing industry and the economics of good books.

by Tom Owen ’11

Andrew Wylie ’65 (l.) with Nobel-Prize-winning writer V.S. Naipaul (photo: © 2014 Nancy Crampton) he New York office of Andrew Wylie ’65’s eponymous of his sentences give his voice the anachronistic timbre literary agency is off Columbus Circle. In contrast of a tweedy Ivy League professor. This image of gentility to the nearby pandemonium of Broadway, Wylie’s is quickly dispelled by his tendency to punctuate emo- Toffice has the contemplative atmosphere of a literary tional sentences by swearing, which more closely evokes monastery. Between the wooden tables, navy couches, his post-collegiate years downtown, socializing with and massive windows, abstract paintings by William avant-garde artists and intellectuals such as Andy Warhol Burroughs and a photograph by Susan Sontag hang on and Allen Ginsberg. Literature, Wylie says, was a means the whitewashed walls. to experience the lives and perspectives of other people, But the defining feature of the office is its rows and rows and his work as an agent is an extension of this impulse. of books, shelved in towering bookcases and stacked “My wife points out that when I’m trying to buy an neatly on tables, as if serving a structural function like apartment, I will pay whatever the seller wants,” Wylie hundreds of paper bricks. says. “And when I’m trying to sell an apartment, I will sell Literary agents perform a variety of crucial functions the apartment for whatever I’m offered. I can’t negotiate for the writers they represent – they negotiate contracts at all for myself. But I can negotiate very well about some- with publishers, find suit- one else. And the reason is able editors, and handle that someone else interests the intricacies of rights You have to develop me a lot more than myself.” and royalties. Because By the time most people their work is done pri- come into the office, Wylie marily behind the scenes, the confidence of has already been working agents rarely reach a level for a few hours. He has the of stardom equal to that “ judgment, which same routine every day of their clients. But with a (its repetitiveness, he says, largely unmatched author is not something drives his wife crazy). He list, which includes Martin rises every morning before Amis, Jorge Luis Borges, 5:30 a.m., checks his e-mail Italo Calvino, Philip Roth, you’re born with, while brushing his teeth, Salman Rushdie, Vladimir goes to the gym for an hour, Nabokov, John Updike, and or something that and is at work by 7:30. On dozens of others, Wylie is more uneventful days, he

the rare literary agent who you inherit from is primarily occupied with has gained a reputation to e-mail from clients, sort- match his list of heavy- ing through nonfiction pro-

weight clients. studying literature posals, or communicating To those familiar with with his London office about his work, Wylie’s client list in college; I had to international rights. Other is inextricably linked to his times,“ his work is more reputation as a hard-hitting really develop it. It’s face to face. Recently, for negotiator. Perhaps the most example, he met a client well-known indicator of this for breakfast at 8:30 a.m., persona is the nickname – like working out your “zoomed” around the city “the Jackal” – given to him in meeting with various pub- the mid-1990s by the Brit- fstomach muscles. lishing houses, and by five ish press. But in contrast o’clock he had successfully to the image perpetuated brokered a book deal. He by the media, Wylie describes himself as naturally shy. returns home around 8 p.m. and eats a quick dinner at This is why, he says, despite his interest in literature, he home before going to bed. His weekends are often filled became an agent instead of a writer. with even more e-mail. “If you’re a writer, you’ve got to be confident in your- These relentless working hours don’t quite fit the pop- self,” Wylie says. “And, you know, beginning even before ular image of the New York literary world, which many St. Paul’s, but surely at St. Paul’s and then later at Harvard, imagine as an endless stream of cocktail parties and café I was not very comfortable in my skin. I was more com- meetings. Wylie is friends with his clients, he says, but fortable in other people’s skin.” their relationships are more business-like than friend- Notwithstanding Wylie’s friendly demeanor, he still casts ship-like. a somewhat formidable aura in person. The dropped r’s “I don’t socialize much,” he says. “There isn’t enough and elongated vowels of his Boston Brahmin accent time, frankly.” 16 (covuh lettuh, St. Poowahl’s) and the measured cadence This intense attitude toward work is perhaps most Courtesy of The Wylie Agency clearly illustrated by Wylie’s refusal to sign official con- This joke has slim basis in fact – many of Wylie’s authors tracts with his clients, a virtually unheard-of practice have sold huge numbers of books – but it underlines among his peers. A contract, Wylie argues, instills a Wylie’s insistence on maintaining literary standards sense of complacency in an agent, and can lead to the rather than profit projections, an idealistic perspective agent’s coasting instead of putting in the work necessary that is rare in the industry. to guarantee a writer’s success. “What I say to kids as they join the agency is, look, we “You have to be free to get rid of us if we’re not doing a are interested in one thing and one thing only: the quality good job,” Wylie tells potential clients. “Because if we don’t of the work,” Wylie says. “Is the work interesting and good? have a contract, then we’ve really got to protect your If it is, we want to represent it. If it’s not, and you think it’s interests, and pay attention to what you’re saying, because gonna make money, we do not want to represent it. Not. we can be dismissed like that.” Of. Interest. And so we are some 50 people dedicated to Wylie has also gained respect in the publishing world for the business of discovering and nurturing quality.” his uncompromising commitment to quality. Most high- This raises an important question: How can one dif- powered literary agencies effectively have two client lists: ferentiate between what’s good and what isn’t? If there one composed of “literary” authors, who have great ac- is little-to-no correlation between literary value and claim but middling sales, and another made up of writers monetary worth, what other metric can an agency assign who top bestseller lists but are unlikely to win many to a writer’s output? Wylie says, in his typical straight- awards. By diversifying their portfolio like this, the profits forward fashion, that “it’s very hard for a reader to know. from the “lowbrow” writers allow agents the leverage to But we’re in the business, and it’s our job to know.” continue representing more renowned clients despite Wylie’s perspective on quality was not always so self- these authors’ lesser returns. Wylie’s agency, on the other assured. In his early days as an agent, determining quality hand, refuses to accept this conventional wisdom. work was an uncertain and time-consuming process. “We absolutely do not have the commercial piece,” he However, a phone call from one of his first clients, legend- says. “Our business model is not dependent on that. It is ary New Yorker fiction editor William Maxwell, helped dependent on books that are good.” shape his critical acumen. Wylie, frustrated by his inability Wylie says he often jokes with new clients that if they to quickly identify books that weren’t worth pursuing, re- become a bestseller, they’ll be kicked off the client list. lated his problems to Maxwell from his small apartment 17 (which doubled as his office). In response, Maxwell asked and the best magazine (The New Yorker). Wylie grew him some basic questions – the title of the book, what it increasingly confident in his judgment, and discerning was about, and what the first sentence said. quality work became a quick process. Although he rarely “What he was basically telling me was that I could have sifts through the slush pile today, he recently showed a told, within the first paragraph of that book, that the new arrival to the office how to sort through the offerings. book was not for me,” Wylie says. “You can tell in a cover “There were about 40 submissions,” he says, “and it letter whether the book is likely to be any good. You can took about two and a half minutes. It was a matter of tell from the first sentence. You have to develop the reading the cover letter or the first page, and it was just, confidence of judgment, which is not something you’re ‘Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope…’” born with, or something that you inherit from studying But Wylie’s judgments are only worth something if literature in college; I had to really develop it. It’s like they’re legitimized by others. An agent is successful only working out your stomach muscles.” if both authors and editors trust his opinions. This is why, Wylie’s subsequent training regimen consisted of he explains, it was difficult for him to land deals when studying the decision-making processes of the best he was just starting out. If Wylie wanted to represent a institutions in the industry – the best literary agency young writer, for example, his lack of a proven track (at the time, ICM), the best publishing house (Knopf), record would require a significant leap of faith on the writer’s part. On the other end of the process, his lack of clients meant there was no context in which to place the untested writer, so there was little ground for editors to go on. “I’m going to a publisher, the publisher doesn’t know

AP IMAGES / GEORDIE GREIG who I am, I can’t get anyone to return my phone calls, and I say the writer is good?” Wylie exclaims. “What are the chances I know what I’m talking about? I have one client!” The situation changed quickly once Wylie began to build his client list. Writers wanted to associate themselves with other writers they respected, and when publishers saw young scribes among a list of clients like Roth and Rushdie, they were more willing to take a chance on these fledgling writers despite their lack of a proven track record. “If you have this rigorous standard, and you are bring- ing young writers into that standard, and representing them from that perspective, then you’re actually doing them a service,” Wylie notes. “You’re putting them in a very strong context.” Although Wylie is clearly driven by a love for literature, he feels just as comfortable working out complicated business arrangements. This versatility has familial roots. While his father, Craig Wylie, had been editor-in- chief at Houghton Mifflin, his uncle, Harry Fowler, was a prominent banker who served as the president and board chairman of what was then known as the Fiduciary Trust Company of New York. “One of the things I saw when I was starting out was that the good writers have bad agents and the bad writers have good agents,” Wylie says. “But what would happen if money wasn’t the goal, if the quality of the work was the goal, and you brought a strong financial discipline to good work? They don’t make money like Danielle Steele, but they make money, for a change. Our job is to try to help writers to get paid enough so they can concentrate

Andrew Wylie ’65 18 on the work instead of concentrating on trying to get the overnight financial successes, continuing to sell after next egg salad sandwich.” their deaths. More recently, Wylie took on Norwegian When Wylie started representing Philip Roth, for ex- author Karl Ove Knausgård, author of the six-volume ample, Roth was initially doubtful that he could sell any autobiographical novel My Struggle, which Wylie calls more books. “He said to me, ‘Let me tell you how the Roth “an immortal masterpiece.” business works,’” Wylie remembers. “‘I don’t know a lot, Knausgård had found limited success in the United but I know about Roth. I have 40,000 readers. Some of States because his books were being published by a them get old and die, younger ones come up. Sometimes virtually unknown press. Random House, which pub- it goes to 41,000; sometimes it will dip to 39. Basically the lished his work in the United Kingdom, feared he wouldn’t number is 40,000. Those are my readers.’” sell in the States. Wylie called an editor at Random House After a short while under Wylie’s representation, Roth and argued that if he actually read the book instead of was approaching 800,000 readers and continues to sell. making profit-based calculations about it, it would be The credit cannot all go to obvious that My Struggle’s Wylie; after all, Roth has literary merit justified its written some amazing Our job is to try acquisition. books. But as Wylie “Try to remember why explains, “it was about the to help writers to you got into publishing,” structure of the presen- Wylie said to him. “Don’t tation of what he was doing.” talk to me about busi- In other words, Wylie was “ get paid enough ness. Read the [expletive] able to present Roth in such book!” Random House a way that got publishers and so they can didn’t bite, and Wylie readers more interested in remains convinced that the quality that had been concentrate they never actually man- present from the beginning. aged to read it. He next He uses Roth’s terminology called Jonathan Galassi, to give an overview of the on the work president and publisher of events: “The business hadn’t Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, been constructed properly,” who accepted Wylie’s offer instead of “ Wylie says. “Once the busi- “within literally 15 seconds” ness was constructed prop- concentrating on and led the writer to his erly, the value was released.” current status as one of the In a similar reconstruction most talked about authors of a writer’s “business,” trying to get the next of the year. Wylie was able to rescue Despite its artistic incli- William Burroughs from egg salad sandwich. 6 nations, publishing, like a tough financial spot by any industry, is ruled by selling the rights to un- the bottom line. Commer- published archival work. At a dinner party, Burroughs cially oriented books are a sure source of money for lamented to Wylie that he couldn’t pay his American publishing houses, while difficult texts rarely turn Express bill, so Wylie went to his house in Kansas to see a profit. This means best- if there was anything they could publish. “He brings me selling authors typically receive much larger contracts into the bedroom and there’s this big trunk,” Wylie recalls. regardless of the quality of their work. But for Wylie, the “And I say, ‘What’s in the trunk?’ He opens it and there current gap between liter- are guns and bludgeons to hit people with and various ary and monetary value is not necessarily a fixed constant. things. So I take them all out, and then there are letters “It’s important for the publishing world to recognize and manuscripts. In that trunk was enough material for that Shakespeare is more interesting than Danielle Steele, a five-book contract.” and that the economics of publishing should be adjusted He has also performed similar operations with authors accordingly to recognize the value of work that will last published in translation. Writers such as Roberto Bolaño over time and give it greater value than work that is going and W.G. Sebald, producing complex books in Spanish and to sell for 10 days then disappear,” Wylie says. “I think German, respectively, had remained relatively obscure in that this agency has played a part in trying to bring the the American market until Wylie began to represent them, publishing world toward a better assessment of value, after which they became widely acclaimed and seemingly which is tied to what’s good for the culture.” 19 Emerging from History

Above: Winant (back, second from left) with the 1908 Halcyon crew. Right: Winant (front, second from right) with SPS faculty who served in World War I.

dated the principle that would guide his adult life: “I Nearly seven decades after his suicide, believe a life with an aim, and some definite work to be alumnus John Gilbert Winant’s image done in the attaining of it, is necessary in order to hold the respect of others as well as self.” Revealing the has been resurrected sympathy for adolescent males that would make him a revered master during his years at St. Paul’s, he added, “Boys through intuition feel this even more quickly than by Rachel S. Cox men comprehend it.” “He was an incredibly inspiring teacher,” wrote former A child of Gilded Age New York, John Gilbert Winant of the Time editor T.S. Matthews of the Form of 1918 in his 1960 Form of 1908 learned to love New Hampshire through memoir, Time and Again. Matthews recalls the eccentri- his years at St. Paul’s. It would prove a fateful attachment. cities of bearing and speech that marked Winant through- Four years after his graduation, Winant, then a senior out his life, yet somehow never prevented his powerful at Princeton, accepted the offer of Rector Samuel Drury connection with others: “He was gaunt, intense, awkward to return to St. Paul’s as a master in history. The School and shy, with a lock of hair that fell over his right eye; his became the launching pad for a political career that clothes were baggy and needed brushing.” His master’s would alter the Granite State, the nation, and the world room at “the Farm” was untidy, with books piled everywhere. during the 20th century’s gravest ordeals: the Great In the classroom, Winant seemed more shy and more Depression and World War II. embarrassed than elsewhere and spoke so softly that he The St. Paul’s School cemetery became Winant’s final could hardly be heard. “How did he manage to convey resting place in 1968, 21 years after his suicide at his Con- to us the burning conviction that the United States of cord home began a long eclipse of his historical legacy. America was a wonderful country, the most gloriously Over the last 15 years, the historical Winant has slowly hopeful experiment man had ever made?” Matthews emerged from the shadows. Now a bipartisan group em- asks. “I don’t know, but he did; and from his slow powered by the New Hampshire state government and smoldering we took fire.” including current SPS Rector Mike Hirschfeld ’85 stands In 1917, faced with America’s imminent entry into World on the brink of completing its mission to honor Winant War I and the loss of several masters to military service with a permanent memorial near the State House. It will (himself included), Winant took the lead at St. Paul’s in be, if all goes well, a bronze statue quite different from crafting a new system of student self-government and those of the distinguished men on pedestals now, Presi- self-discipline. In addition to establishing an elected and dent Franklin Pierce and U.S. Senators Daniel Webster appointed Student Council, the system relied on super- and John P. Hale. visors, inspectors, and student councilors to inspire self- In a 1912 letter to Dr. Drury from Princeton about the control, mutual assistance, and strong bonds between boys 20 prospect of returning to St. Paul’s, a young Winant eluci- and masters. The change was controversial and politically Emerging from History

John Winant as a young New Hampshire governor Above: Winant as U.S. Ambassador to Britain. Left: As a fighter pilot in WWI.

complex; it reduced masters’ autonomy and eliminated and at all times will follow the dictates of my own con- two powerful, secret student societies (the Hoi and the science….I can honestly say that I have no greater ambition Bog), which had enforced a student pecking order that in life than to be of use to my fellow men.” favored the socially prominent, well-to-do, and athletic. Dr. Drury did all he could to help Winant, whom he The reform was entirely in keeping with Winant’s emerg- considered to be one of his best friends, despite their ing politics. It enlisted the young master’s extraordinary 11-year age difference. Winant embodied the Rector’s talent for sympathetic persuasion. It shifted power from aspirations not only to improve the academic and intel- the privileged, made the student government more open lectual standards of St. Paul’s, but also to expand his and transparent, and assumed the essential good sense privileged charges’ awareness of the wider world and the of the governed. Similarly, in 1921, Winant – by then SPS necessity of working to improve it. When Winant began vice rector – introduced an honor system in examinations his first run for governor in 1923, Dr. Drury wrote a letter for the Fifth and Sixth Forms, adapted from rules at Prince- to the Concord Monitor-Patriot that also was circulated ton, which the Student Council administered and enforced. as a campaign flyer. By this time, Winant was applying his ideals and politi- “Mr. Winant’s candidacy for the governorship,” Dr. Drury cal skills in a wider arena. In 1914, Winant had approached began, “is a matter of such personal satisfaction to me New Hampshire’s Progressive Republican leaders, the that I venture to share with your wide circle of readers novelist Winston Churchill (no relation to Winant’s later some reflections on his character.” close friend, the British Prime Minister), and former gov- Conjuring an image of Winant as vice rector (1919- ernor Robert Bass, who kept as a motto a quote from the 21), Dr. Drury described “a man standing quietly at my Italian patriot and philosopher Giuseppe Mazzini enjoin- office door, asking his characteristic question: ‘What ing “a constant disposition to ameliorate the material can I do for you?’” Lest Winant be thought meek, Drury conditions of the classes least favored by fortune.” referenced his post-war success in the Texas oil busi- Winant entered public life in 1917 as a Republican can- ness and his courage as a pilot in World War I. Drury’s didate for state representative from Concord’s Ward 7, a conclusion condenses hauntingly the strengths and varied region populated by farmers, foundry men, and rail- weaknesses of Winant’s character: “There may be, road workers, along with the swells of St. Paul’s. His un- doubtless somewhere there is, a more unselfish man pretentious demeanor and obvious sincerity struck a chord. than John Gilbert Winant – but I have yet to meet him. “You couldn’t just make an abstract argument,” explains His disregard of self…is complete, and strangely con- New Hampshire journalist John Milne. “You had to be vincing.…With Winant in the State House, we should able to connect with blue collar, skilled workers. You had have there an absolutely fearless man, an absolutely to give them the idea that you would do something.” friendly man, a man who would devote all of his pow- In a brief message to his “fellow citizens,” Winant ers to public betterment….In him we have what Presi- spelled out his aims. “In so far as I am able, I shall be gov- dent Coolidge has described as the country’s need: the erned by the will of the people whom I hope to represent practical idealist.” 21 With Robert Bass’s support, Winant gained the gover- prime minister Clement Attlee, he addressed striking norship for one term in 1924, then, in an unprecedented miners in Durham. His speech evoked so persuasively achievement, served two more terms, from 1931 to 1935. a vision of a post-war world in which social justice had Collaborating with Democratic legislators, he promoted replaced war as government’s wholehearted purpose that reforms that improved the lives of working men, women, the strikers returned to their jobs. A little more than five and children throughout the Granite State and made years later, Winant’s inspiring words would become part New Hampshire a leader in innovative programs to of his epitaph: “We must always remember,” he said, ease the suffering caused by the Great De- “that it is the things of the spirit that in the end pression. In a state where textile mills and prevail. That caring counts. That where shoemaking were dominant industries, he there is no vision, people perish. That enacted a minimum wage law and a 48- hope and faith count, and that without hour work week for women and children. charity there can be nothing good.” “The only help the [industrial] employ- As the war dragged on, Ambassador ees got through most of the century Winant dedicated himself to easing the was through the work of John way for the hordes of American Winant,” says John Milne. By 1936, GIs encamped in Britain before Winant would be mentioned as a D-Day and, perhaps more import- possible presidential contender. antly, alleviated misunderstandings A devoted ally of President “Gil Winant between the well-fed, well-paid Franklin Roosevelt and a protégé GIs and the more long-suffering of Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, deserves to be Tommies. His dedication and vision Winant was called to Washington better known, sustained the alliance that broke to chair the new Social Security the fascist menace as he pursued Board. There, despite an initial lack and he’s a the goal of enduring peace. of funding, he organized the New Yet for the balance of the 20th Deal’s most enduring social wel- great inspiration century, the man Winston Church- fare program. When Republican to me personally. ill called “an inspiration,” who was presidential candidate Alf Landon with the British prime minister attacked social security in 1936, He’s been when he learned that Pearl Harbor conscience compelled Winant to had been bombed and his empire resign from the board and devote considered the would be saved (in some descrip- his energies to campaigning for model for how tions of that evening, they did a Roosevelt – a move that effectively little dance together), was all but ended his political prospects as a to perform the job erased from the pages of history. Republican. This came to be through a final, As world war again engulfed since he left self-inflicted, act of violence in an Europe, Winant’s 1941 appointment 70 years ago.” extraordinarily violent time. Two as ambassador to Great Britain, years after the war’s end, settled replacing the distrusted and de- Matthew Barzun ’88 back in Concord and awaiting featist Joseph Kennedy, brought U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain delivery of his recently published hope to a people who were, in the memoir, Winant ended his own enduring words of Britain’s war- life with a pistol shot. time military leader General Sir Alan Brooke, “hanging After his suicide, Winant’s legacy went into decline. In on by our eyelids.” Eschewing the official ambassador’s the 1940s and ’50s, a suicide was judged to be not only residence in favor of living quarters near the embassy and grievous, but also shameful, perhaps especially so after subsisting on the same rations as British citizens, Winant countless brave American GIs had faced down death in walked the blazing streets of London as bombs rained defense of freedom, or died trying. Many religious con- down, asking his characteristic question, “How can I help?” sidered suicide a sin akin to murder. The St. Paul’s choir In spite of his shy nature, Winant’s extraordinary ability sang “The Strife Is O’er” at Winant’s funeral service, but to connect with ordinary working people not only en- he was buried near the back of Concord’s public Blossom deared him to the British populace, but, in June 1942, it Hill Cemetery. Winston and Clementine Churchill sent also saved the nation from a coalminer’s strike that would five dozen roses; Eleanor Roosevelt, a large bouquet. have crippled production just when the nation needed it Friends and associates suggested possible causes for 22 most. At the request of Labour Party leader and deputy Winant’s self-destruction: money and family troubles, political marginalization, exhaustion, drinking, discour- “Winant was the most beloved [politician] of the century,” agement over the prospects for peace in a Cold War world. says Milne, also a member of the Winant Memorial Com- Even Winant’s biographer, Bernard Bellush, seems be- mittee. “He represents a bipartisan style of politics in fuddled by Winant’s tragic end. He Walked Alone, published which personal interaction and personal persuasion are in the Netherlands in 1968, presents a confusing and important, not the ability to raise money and hire consult- ambivalent portrait. ants to put on flashy advertisements. We’re sending the “It was such a shocking end for this good man,” says message that the Winants of the world retain values that historian Lynne Olson, author of Citizens of London. “Many are important in public life.” people, including a lot of people at St. Paul’s, simply didn’t In July 2014, thanks in part to a gift of $50,000 from know how to cope with it.” the current U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Matthew Today suicide is generally judged with more with com- Barzun ’88, the committee hired Missouri-based sculptor passion than censure, and Winant’s legacy has emerged J. Brett Grill to create a bronze figure of Winant for in- from the shadows. In June 2009, Winant Park opened on stallation in front of the State Library, just beside the 85 acres of Concord conservation land – less than 100 gold-domed New Hampshire State House and in view of yards from the entrance to St. Paul’s School. Originally the Governor’s second-floor office. The statue is expected part of Winant’s Pleasant Street home, the land was to cost $94,000, and the committee hopes to raise about donated by his younger son, Rivington, in memory of his $60,000 more for continuing maintenance and to create parents. There, hikers and bikers can learn about Winant scholarships to the Advanced Studies Program, which from an informational kiosk. St. Paul’s provided a parking brings rising seniors from New Hampshire public high lot and park access on School property. schools for summer study at St. Paul’s. In February 2010, Lynne Olson’s book broke the story The current heads of the John Winant Society, a student nationally of the American ambassador to World War II nonpartisan political club founded in the early 1960s by Britain and his key role in forging history’s greatest war- Secretary of State John Kerry ’62, are involved in fund- time alliance. The media reacted with curiosity and aston- raising and have created a Facebook page for their effort. ishment. NPR host Robert Siegel told Olson before their Rector Mike Hirshfeld, an honorary co-chair of the interview that he had asked various prominent people, Winant Committee, has donated $10,000 to the project including David Brooks of The New York Times and E.J. on behalf of the School and has agreed to match funds Dionne of The Washington Post, if they had ever heard of raised by the Winant Society. Winant. None of them had. “He thought that was unbeliev- The committee envisions a memorial statue that will able,” Olson recalls, “as did I.” emulate Winant – accessible by a bench on which visitors Olson’s book became a huge word-of-mouth success. can sit beside him. “He doesn’t belong on a pedestal. He “People have repeatedly told me how much they loved never put himself on one,” says Van McLeod, commis- my portrayal of Winant and how much they wish that sioner of the N.H. Department of Cultural Resources. public figures now were more like him,” she said. “He has The committee expects to unveil the completed memo- truly been an inspiration for a lot of people, including me.” rial in fall 2015. In this spirit, five-term Democratic New Hampshire In September, Representative Shurtleff learned a new state representative Steve Shurtleff introduced legisla- story about Winant’s generosity. At a New Hampshire tion in 2013 to ensure that Winant’s accomplishments Historical Society reception, conversation turned to the and character never again would be forgotten. “I looked cost of the meeting space, which the Memorial Commit- at what was happening in Washington and even Concord, tee had rented for the evening. Rep. Shurtleff had paid, the breakdown in bipartisanship,” Rep. Shurtleff explains. but Bill Dunlap, the executive director of the Historical “How appropriate to have some permanent memorial and Society, told him that the rental check would be returned. reminder of how much can be accomplished if people There would be no fee. put aside petty politics and focus on the public good.” One morning during the Great Depression, Dunlap ex- Shurtleff recalls childhood stories of Governor Winant’s plained, his grandfather was walking down Main Street kindness during the desperate years of the Great De- and happened to meet Governor Winant, whom he knew pression, and such stories still abound. Winant would slightly. The governor asked him how he was doing and hand 50-cent pieces to homeless men who approached Mr. Dunlap said, “Not too good, Governor, I lost my job him en route to the State House. He instructed Concord this morning.” Winant told him to be at the governor’s police to let the men sleep in unused jail cells, feed them office that afternoon and he’d have a state job for him, a good breakfast, and send Winant the bill. One snowy, and so he did. Bill Dunlap told Shurtleff that when he wet day he arrived at his office without an overcoat. When learned the reception had been planned by the Winant questioned, he explained, “I met a man who needed it Memorial Committee, he couldn’t charge, considering more than I did.” what Winant had done for his family. 23 Whose woods these are...

24 Whose woods these are... With only a few structures built since 1856, the School grounds are mostly water and trees – and these paths, seen through the seasons

Photographs by Karen Bobotas 25 Text by Michael Matros winter

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and26 fall . . . on the trails of St. Paul’s School and fall . . . on the trails of St. Paul’s School 27 POSTAGE POSTAGE REQUIRED

It’s a very good year for acorns, and so squirrels and chipmunks are rustling around everywhere in the leaves.

Sometimes you hear about bears in these woods, but you usually won’t be lucky enough to spot such large wildlife. Instead you have the sound of local birds, a chickadee scolding you just for walking underneath her pine tree, and the rush of the various streams, louder after a rain, with the roots wet and slippery as they snake across the path. St. Paul’s School An old canoe rests on the shore of Lower School Pond. POSTAGE POSTAGE REQUIRED St. Paul’s School 28 Seen from across Lower School Pond, Seen from across Lower School Pond, the Chapel rises above autumn foliage. The Turkey River spreads here and there for the families You come upon oddities that you might have passed by a of SPS ducks, landing together with a splash on the water dozen times and never noticed, such great stone-block but then floating soundlessly along, bright green heads formations stacked from years ago for some purpose now on the father ducks. On the “white” path, the rush of the unknown, or a reading bench, old and gnarled, like some- water can drown out the sounds from Pleasant Street but thing out of Grimm. Another bench is a memorial to Carl not the distant Westminster Chimes of the Chapel bells. Kiger ’71. A plaque affixed to a fallen tree says that he “heard the whispered secrets of these woods and waters.” There’s a smell – it might take a moment to recognize wild grapes, not quite out of reach from the path, sour You can wander the School paths using a map, created in after you slip off their skins and taste them. 2012 by Sixth Formers Morgan Holland and Eric Nieminen. You can find it at www.sps.edu/trailmap. The paths can almost disappear under the leaves, and even more when it snows.

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Thirty Below In the end, Carrie Ritter, who continues the American way of war in Southeast by Harry Groome ’55 to be haunted by her past even thousands Asia. Thailand became increasingly key in The Connelly Press, of miles away from La Jolla, gains the tools the post-colonial era, one defined by the 224 pages, $12.99 of survival through the help of McFee and notion of the Domino Theory. Thompson a strong Indian woman named Feather, but was always in the mix, but more as an Reviewed by Arielle not without tragedy and miracles along intellectually honest dissenter who viewed Greenleaf Driscoll ’99 the way. the U.S. buildup as blatantly imperialist, with his preference for allowing fledgling Harry Groome’s novel, Thirty Below, tells The Ideal Man: The nations such as Vietnam to seek self- the tale of Carrie Ritter, a twenty-some- Tragedy of Jim determination. As Thailand became pro- thing whose quest for love has left her Thompson and the gressively more Americanized, Thomp- vulnerable and lost. We meet Carrie in American Way of War son’s views were out of step with both her La Jolla apartment as she admires by Joshua Kurlantzick overlords and Thais. her own body in the mirror and ponders Wiley, 272 pages, $25.95 Thompson’s sympathies were with the her future with a yet-unseen Internet preservation of Thailand’s culture. He admirer, Bart McFee, who plans to whisk collected Buddhist art and displayed the her away to Alaska for the winter. Reviewed by Richard Schade ’62 treasures in his residence, one construct- Carrie’s thoughts are quickly inter- ed of teak stilt houses. The abode became rupted by her violent ex-boyfriend, Jake The dust jacket for The Ideal Man bears a the center of Bangkok’s exclusive social Hornbeck, who assaults her as revenge photograph of James H. W. “Jim” Thomp- set, almost as if the museum-like rooms for their breakup and proclaims, “I’ll get son ’24. From the pleasantly intense face were an implicit bulwark against the rav- even if it’s the last thing I do.” and the casual elegance of his shirt down ages of Americanization. But as great a Despite warnings from her friend and to khaki trousers, Thompson exhibits man- Romantic as he was, Thompson was also roommate, Carrie decides to join Bart to nered elegance. The patterned silk cloth a canny entrepreneur, singlehandedly winter at his cabin in the foothills of the draped across one knee defines him as reviving Thai silk production in a manner Wrangell Mountains in Alaska, fleeing the Silk King he had become. sensitive to traditional practices. He be- her stagnant life in La Jolla. With his privileged Delaware lineage, came, thus, the fabled Silk King, an “ideal In a parallel chapter, Groome beauti- it was natural that Thompson came to man” rather than an “ugly American.” fully introduces us to Daredevil, an be schooled at St. Paul’s and Princeton. Some have theorized that Thompson’s Alaskan wolf whose leg is caught in a Later, employment at a New York archi- silk trading was a front for CIA operations. hunter’s trap. Freed by a young Indian tectural firm assured him respectable Be that as it may, by the 1960s he became boy, Daredevil cautiously proceeds back credentials, yet, as war loomed, he felt ever more the misunderstood outsider and into the wild, careful not to encounter duty-bound to serve – initially in the even an irritant to Thais – as if this Ameri- any traps along the way. While Groome National Guard, defending “Delaware can dare comprehend their culture! As artfully introduces the story of Dare- from German battleships.” He was even- a result, he became ill, overworked, and devil, the apparent parallel between tually recruited by the OSS (predecessor despondent, but he kept up appearances Carrie and Daredevil falls short through- of the CIA), where he felt at home since until his mysterious disappearance in 1967. out the rest of the story, leaving the “the men around him had prepped at Over Easter of that year, he repaired to chapter a bit of an outlier. St. Paul’s and Andover.” Active duty in the cool highlands of Malaysia with friends. Through his vivid depiction of life in Europe and beyond in the clandestine The last photograph of him shows him on the wilderness, it is evident that Groome service garnered him five Bronze Stars. a picnic. One day he took a walk into the has expert experience living amidst the Kurlantzick tells the story well, focus- highlands and was never seen again. The animals. According to his biography, ing on the post-war years when Thomp- swirl of conspiracy theories is well detailed the author “spends every night he can son – now a CIA operative – was posted in the book, but ultimately it is the un- sleeping in a lean-to in the Adirondack to Bangkok. The readable, academically solved mystery of his death that has assured Mountains.” From the keen sense of the documented narrative contextualizes the life of this SPS graduate a legendary raven to the fierce yet protective nature Thompson’s exploits and intellect vis- status to this very day. of the wolf, Groome captures the wild à-vis the tumultuous intricacies of Thai with precision. politics and social history caught up in

30 Whiskey, Sun & Fish: tions of individuals as they harvest a wealth as word of the splendid beach spread, The Early Years of fish, as they ride on a boom of summer hotels were cobbled out of houses and of Fortesque, tourists, as their harvest dwindles to hobby, re-cobbled after fires. A fleet of oyster A Fishing Village and as the subsiding boom leaves hap- boats, party boats, and small commer- on the Delaware Bay hazard hotels at the mercy of fire and storm. cial fishing boats, supported unsteady by George Carlisle, This is an 80-page book that begs to be wharfs, and pavilion dances delivered faculty emeritus read slowly, at leisure, and, if possible, at parochial summer rapture until winter the shore in summer. Carlisle palpably closed the season. Exit Zero Press, 80 pages, $14.95 evokes the passage out across miles of Carlisle has uncovered accounts of the salt marsh to Fortesque and the trials of oyster war and prohibition smuggling. Reviewed by Frederick Dillen ’64 early visitors who came and camped for Found within his interviews of 56 years the privilege of abundant weak-fish – ago, locals tell in singular voice of a tiny Here is a jewel of a book. George Carlisle, “croakers” they were called – and oysters community in the best of times. The same who taught creative writing at St. Paul’s and clams and brackish drinking water, voices remember the decay of those times. for 45 years, has written of exploring a when drinking water could be found. And they report the stasis of a still-cher- village he’d known and loved as a boy, Framing these evocations are the divid- ished place and the seasonal souls who more than 50 years ago. Carlisle, as his ing up of properties and the establishment come for what fish remain. students might expect, writes with sim- of enduring families. Here is a book of feeling and loss, as all plicity, clarity, and particularity – and Fortesque was a destination for blue- good summer books must be. It is also with the love that brings a place to life. collar merchants and craftsmen, who the briefest snapshot of an unfurling Fortesque is a place insignificant came in ones and twos and then greater American moment that radiates through enough to be all but beneath notice. Yet its numbers with families and church picnics, time and geography and the passage of history is a microcosm of mid-Atlantic as logs were latticed across the marshes one’s own life. Read Whiskey, Sun & Fish, shore cultures, populated with the aspira- to bear the traffic of horse-drawn wagons. and, when you’re done, think gratefully tions, joys, and mosquito bites of genera- Small houses were built a yard apart, and, of George Carlisle for what he’s given us.

On the Shelf . . .

The End of Copycat Operation Paperclip: The Annapolis Book China: The Rise of The Secret Intelligence of Seamanship: Creativity, Innovation, Program that Brought Fourth Edition and Individualism Nazi Scientists to John Rousmaniere ’62 in Asia America In its extensive update, Shaun Rein ’96 Annie Jacobsen ’85 this edition stresses the Rein helps business In the chaos following skills and attitudes that executives and invest- World War II, the U.S. compose what the author ors understand how China’s economy government faced difficult decisions, calls “The Seamanship Ethos.” The first is shifting from heavy investment to including what to do with the Third four chapters cover the boat, basic sail- services and consumption through Reich’s scientific minds. ing skills, sail trim, and weather, with the insights that help shape effective So began Operation Paperclip, a covert first of many “Hands On” sections. The strategy. Drawing from 50,000 inter- project to bring Hitler’s scientists and topics of health (including seasickness) views with entrepreneurs, venture their families to the U.S. Many of these and on-board safety follow, with lessons capitalists, private equity investors, men were accused of war crimes, and learned from on-water tests and studies private Chinese companies, and multi- others had stood trial at Nuremberg. of boating accidents. The author also nationals, this book describes how They were also directly responsible for looks closely at the elements of piloting, Chinese firms are increasingly focused major advances in rocketry, medical navigation, and electronics. Appendixes on innovation and how consumers treatments, and the U.S. space program. include best practices for protecting the are evolving with their hopes, dreams Was Operation Paperclip a moral outrage, marine environment and bringing up and aspirations. or did it help America win the Cold War? children under sail. COMMUNITY

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS Boston Pelicans at Head of the Charles Regatta, Charles River, Oct. 18-19 CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE Alumni Coming Home, SPS, Sept. 26-27 Family Weekend, SPS, Oct. 24-25 GREENWICH, CONNECTICUT Campaign Leadership Dinner, N.Y.C. Current parents reception, home of Ann and Peter Getz, Aug. 28 HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE Alumni Dinner with Dartmouth Students, Canoe Club, Oct. 8 HONG KONG Seated Meal Event, The Pawn, May 24 PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA College Age Alumni Dinner, El Vez, Sept. 11 PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND College Age Alumni Dinner, Bee’s Thai Cuisine, Oct. 3 NANTUCKET, MASSACHUSETTS Alumni Reception, Portland, Ore. Reception, home of Sarah Bankson Newton ’79, Aug. 8 NEW YORK CITY College Age Alumni Dinner, Carmine’s, Sept. 10 SPS Parents Luncheon, Colony Club, Oct. 2 Former Trustee and Campaign Leadership Dinner, Union Club, Oct. 16 PORTLAND, OREGON SPS Alumni Reception, Bridgeport Brewpub, Aug. 6 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Current parents reception, home of Tully and Elise Friedman, Aug. 21 College Dinner, Providence, R.I. Alumni Luncheon with Admissions, Wayfare Tavern, Oct. 8 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON SPS Alumni Reception, Lookout Bar & Grill, Aug. 7 SOUTHAMPTON, NEW YORK Reception, home of Julie ’89 and Tom Frist, Aug. 2 SUN VALLEY, IDAHO Reception, home of Susan and Bill Hoehn ’68, Aug. 15 WASHINGTON, D.C. College Age Alumni Reception, home of 32 Sam Reid ’81, Sept. 17

Head of the Charles, Boston, Mass. Young Alumni in N.Y.C.

College Dinner, Philadelphia, Pa. Young Alumni in D.C.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR SPS ALUMNI EVENTS!

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS Lessons & Carols Church of the Advent concord At the April 8, 2015, Annual Dec. 14 Meeting of the Alumni Associa- tion, the Board of Directors will CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE elect a new alumni fund chair. Lessons & Carols The Nominating Committee will with Rectory Reception New York city vet the nominees in accordance with guidelines established by St. Paul’s School the Alumni Association Execu- Dec. 14 tive Committee and will present a slate of candidates to the Board of NEW YORK CITY boston Directors for a vote. Alumni will Parents dinner at the have a chance to discuss the can- home of Emily Bogle didates with their form directors in advance of the April election. Dec. 4 Send nominations to Bob Rettew ’69, executive director of the For details or to register for these events, go to www.sps.edu/alumni Alumni Association, at brettew@ events. Be sure you receive invitations to upcoming alumni events by sps.edu or submit online at www sending updated contact information to [email protected]. .sps.edu/fundchairnomination. 33 Team Hargate: Form of 1964

The form of 1964 set these records at its 50th Anniversary: • A new Alumni Fund record of $356,698 • A record for most new John Hargate Society members in a single year The ’64s have included the School in their estate plans, with commitments that will help keep St. Paul’s at the height of excellence. Their irrevocable gifts count toward their form’s Reunion Total Gift. The majority of those who include the School in their plans make SPS a beneficiary by will, with a trust, or of a retirement account. For those who continue to need the income their assets provide, life income gifts are a good choice.

To further explore how a planned gift for St. Paul’s School might be right for you, please contact Bob Barr, director of gift planning, at 603-229-4875 or [email protected]; or visit our website at www.sps.edu/plannedgiving. FORMNOTES

The Formnotes below reflect information received through 1948 September 2014. Please send news and/or photos of yourself Harry Havemeyer sent this or other alumni to include in these news of two plays by Pete pages. The address is Formnotes Gurney, playing on and off Editor, Alumni Horae, St. Paul’s Broadway this fall. One is The School, 325 Pleasant St., Concord, Wayside Motor Inn and the N.H. 03301 or [email protected]. other is the wonderful old play Thank you. Love Letters, which is being revived, rotating notable actors in the two lead roles. We are proud of Pete for receiving the Enjoying the day in Castine, Maine, from the Form of 1951 are (l. SPS Alumni Association Award to r.): David Morrish, Flix Kloman, Charlie Van Doren, John Lorenz, 1940 last spring. There’s a possibility Mark Cluett, and Steve Gurney. Clarence Michalis of putting together a 1948 form [email protected] gathering to see one of these Talbot Adamson performances later in the year. [email protected] 1950 1951 www.sps.edu/1940 Dean Howells John Lorenz [email protected] [email protected] Clarence Michalis writes: www.sps.edu/1950 “Please join us at our 75th 1949 David Morrish, Flix Kloman, reunion at St. Paul’s from May John Scully Hard to believe but true, our Mark Cluett, Steve Gurney, [email protected] 29 to 31. I visited with Fred 65th reunion is on the horizon and I were graciously enter- Rockefeller in the Adirondacks If you somehow missed the this year (May 29-31). Put it on tained by Ann Ashton and the calendar because we may recently and with Irv Sheldon winter edition of Alumni Horae, Charlie Van Doren at their when I was in Newport. They it contained a photo of Olive need to reschedule other lesser summer home in Castine, Maine. both hope to come. Late May Tilton Bigelow Pell and Sandy events – like grandchildren’s This was the 15th consecutive is a beautiful time in Concord, Holmsen, her grandson. Sandy graduations, weddings, medical year members of the form have and it will be great to see each donated to SPS a portrait of procedures, etc., and we can had a mini-reunion in Maine. other. Our form will be invited to John Winant painted by Olive, begin to think of things we might George Walcott Dick a small dinner at the Rectory on which resurfaced after some like to do. , Paine Saturday night. More informa- time and now hangs in Ohr- , and I will be in touch from 1952 tion about arrangements will strom Library. time to time on this subject. Peter Stearns follow shortly. Stay tuned!” [email protected]

Henry Silliman, with Marion’s help, submits this: “I am in 1945 agreement with Ted Taws – Tony O’Connor good news from the Class of ’52 [email protected] is increasingly welcome!” Mari- www.sps.edu/1945 on continues: “Henry celebrates Sue and I have just returned his 80th birthday tomorrow and from a memorial service for all doctors agree that consider- Sandy Baldwin in Bedford, N.Y. ing the challenges on his plate, Kay Waterbury was also there. this is a miracle. We had a party We’re still looking forward to Sunday night – only caretakers a record turnout for our 70th 1949 formmates gathered at Anniversary Weekend in May (l. to r.): invited! Afterwards, he was reunion. Dorie Friend, Ken Burt, John Wagley, Jim Terry, and Charlie Hoppin. wheeled around the drive-

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summer, Hugh and Sue took a number of formmates will an 11-year-old grandson on a be gathering in Prouts Neck, Road Scholars Intergeneration- Maine., from May 27 to 29, for al trip to San Diego, the main a variety of activities and remi- focus of which was surfing! He niscing. It should be a relaxing was standing up on a board by and fun time. Jake Roak and day three, and Hugh got terrific Oggie White are helping to put rides on the board, but could together the details. Lastly, we never get up higher than his will have our annual mini-re- knees. Seattle has a nascent SPS union luncheon at The Links in alumni group forming, but there New York on January 26, 2015. are no members in our decade We have been having this re- or even the next three! union for a few years and enjoy catching up with old chums in Caroline and Fred Hoppin ’52 John Taws ’84 and Helen enjoying a summer baseball Taws ’79, son and daughter mid-winter. Steve McPherson game. of Ted Taws ’52. has been generously helping to 1955 organize this gathering. Morris Cheston way and, upon encountering a which tends to happen. Don’t [email protected] nephew, he said, “I’m having a know anyone who thought they www.sps.edu/1955 birthday!” With best wishes to came too early. Give us a call or 1957 all of SPS ’52, and may there be drop by.” It is time to think about our 60th Anniversary (May 29-31, Bill de Haven only positive disclosures in the [email protected] coming months. Ted told us that 2015). We are anticipating a big his two kids, Helen Taws ’79 turnout, so put this date on your George de Man sends this and John Taws ’84, were both 1953 calendars and be sure to come. report: “The Form of ’57 gath- at Anniversary in June. Wright Olney You can make reservations at ered 18 strong in Jackson, Wyo., [email protected] Fred Hoppin writes: “We’re the Holiday Inn in Concord, N.H. from September 4 to 8 for its still kickin,’ traveling, garden- On June 17, I had double knee Late May is a beautiful time in third mini-reunion. All event ing, going to Symphony, and replacements done by Dr. Ste- Concord, and it will be great to and venue planning was mas- American Repertory Theater. phen O’Brien at the Hospital see each other. Our form will be terfully carried out by Sandy We’re both retired since 2000, for Special Surgery in New invited to a dinner at the School Holloway – with his usual me from academic medicine York City. Recovery has been on Friday night, and we’re plan- expertise. Attendees included (patient care, research, train- steady but slow. Expect to be ning a special form dinner at Margo and Ian Baldwin, Tom ing, admin) and Caroline from back on the golf course in early the Centennial Inn for Saturday Bartlett, Rose and Pete Bartol, admissions director at Park October. Our granddaughter, night. More information about Luke Breckinridge, Rena and School Brookline. I kept busy Emma Olney, daughter of Chip arrangements will follow. In Bukk Carleton, Shannon and at first, writing up some papers, Olney ’78 is starting on defense anticipation of Anniversary, Lee Carter, Lorena and Caspar peer reviewing, etc., while she for the undefeated Bowdoin chaired the Brookline Com- varsity field hockey team. Great munity Foundation. We sold the to watch her on video! Sue and house we built in Brookline in Hugh Clark remain in Seattle. ’71. Home is now a very com- Sue is a docent in the U. of fortable cottage in Brookhaven, Washington Arboretum and in a CCRC in Lexington, Mass., the Japanese Garden. Hugh had where it seems as if admis- fine fishing on the Rio Grande in sion requires that one be an Argentina for 15-23-lb. sea run academic and Democrat, which brown trout, and on the Chilko is all right with us. One fellow River in B.C. for large rainbow inmate, Dick McAdoo ’38, trout, all taken on dry flies. In went to his 75th reunion last the past 45 years, Seattle has year. We’re very glad we’re here. grown from a backwater town Lots going on – art, music, and to a major city, with a huge courses in conjunction with presence in the high-tech in- Form of 1957 mini-reunion, Jackson, Wyo., (l. to r.), front: Jack Tufts. Critically, it truly pre- dustry. Hugh’s own high-tech Parsons, John Petrasch, Sandy Holloway, Joe Holmes; middle: Tom Bartlett, Lee Carter, Bukk Carleton, Peter Bartol, Dick Holmes, serves our independence as far competence is limited to a Ian Baldwin, George de Man, Luke Breckinridge; back: Tony Horan, as that is possible, no matter 10-year-old cell phone and Terry Mixter, John Pearce, Caspar Davis, Kit Pool; not pictured: 36 what, including getting old – Windows 7 Home Edition. This Robby van Roijen. complex. Prior guests include Archie Cox, Taylor Gilmour, and, most recently, Lindsay White, who came by in an RV and is taking one grandchild on a tour of historic venues – Fort Ticonderoga, Niagara Falls, etc. – think Travels with Charlie. This reminds us of Lee Patterson’s European bicycle tours with the kids. Archie Cox writes: “I don’t have any particularly notewor- Sam Callaway ’59 at the People’s Climate March in New York City. thy news. I continue to work full-time, which I really enjoy, Davis, Sandy Holloway, Lucy intrepid few ascended by col- while spending a fair amount David Atkinson ’59 walked the and Dick Holmes, Poppy and orful hot-air balloons over an of time on SPS Matters as a French route of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela this Joe Holmes, Marcia and Tony empty golf course by towering trustee, which has been both summer. Horan, Terry Mixter, Becky Teton Mountains, disturbing interesting and rewarding. I and Jack Parsons, Jane and the grazing cattle, and settling serve as chair of the Audit and John Pearce, Lynn and John gently at last into their pasture Risk and on the Trustees & Gov- getting lost but always find- Petrasch, Judith and Kit Pool, near Teton Village, where the ernance and Investment Com- ing our way again. We never Robby van Roijen, and me, one percent slept on. Back at mittees. I believe the School is lost a sense of wonder at the with Susan Cobleigh. Events the legendary Wort Hotel, Tony in a very good place right now, discovery of the unexpected at began splendidly, with a cocktail Horan gave a documentary with excellent leadership at all the turn of a corner or the crest reception at the home of Terry’s slideshow of his harrowing 1967 levels. I would like to hear from of a hill.” son and daughter-in-law, Jed ascent of Denali (Mt. McKinley anyone in our class and can be Sam Callaway sends this and Krista Mixter, hosted by to non-climbers), wholly un- reached at 765-631-2000 or at news: “On the weekend of Sep- Rena and Bukk Carleton. The prepared, virtually unassisted, [email protected].” tember 6, Jill and I made the next morning, Jed led a walk and unblessed by the gods. Even spectacular drive across Penn- through the dense forests and the ballooners were grateful sylvania to Ligonier to attend a rushing streams to crystalline to walk out on level ground memorial gathering in honor Phelps Lake on the Laurance to lunch around the colorful 1959 of our formmate, Chris Elkus, Rockefeller Nature Preserve. downtown. The evening closed who passed away in mid-July. Sydney Waud Chris’s wife, Gen, hosted an That afternoon featured an the mini-reunion with a grand [email protected] all-out, far-out, one-man show reception given by Robby van outdoor dinner on Friday eve- by Kip Attaway of song parody, Roijen at the National Mu- David Atkinson sent this news: ning for family and friends at sound-and-light effects, and seum of Wildlife Art, indeed a “During July, into early August, their house, a wondrous prop- general hilarity. Diners scat- spectacular venue of painting, I walked the French route of erty that I am told had been in tered in little groups of eight sculpture, and at least one art- the Camino de Santiago de the family for generations. We to local restaurants. The next ist’s recreated studio. Compostela, this time in rec- spent Friday night with Lucy day began (mercifully later) to ognition of Bolivian friends and and John Douglas, and what a prepare the group for white- colleagues who did so much wonderful surprise it was when water rafting on the deservedly for their country – and for the Malcolm MacKay appeared the famous Snake River. Few were 1958 Atkinson family – in the 1990s. next day at the memorial gath- prepared for the dunkings Philip Bradley Anyone interested can check ering, which was held outdoors [email protected] that followed, and some even out my blog (mostly in Spanish) at the Rolling Rock Club in volunteered eagerly for bow Hunt Janin writes from his at www.ElCaminoparaBolivia Ligonier. In a series of touching positions. All came away wet, home in southwestern France .blogspot.com. During my trek, and moving reminiscences by cold, and worn out. The evening that he’s working on a book on I was reminded of the sum- family and friends, Chris was was spent (for some – there the uses of the English Chan- mer of 1959, weeks after our remembered as a man of great were defectors!) at the Bar-J nel by England, France, and graduation, when John Eaton humor, a devoted husband, Chuckwagon Old-Time Family other countries during the and I attended the bullfights father, and grandfather, an ac- Fun Extravaganza: cowboys- Middle Ages. Patrick Rulon- at the Fiesta de San Fermín in tive participant in family and gone-barbershop with fine Miller had a refreshing visit Pamplona, and Eliot Scull and community affairs, a lifelong harmony and a lot of discord. with Elizabeth and Andy Derr I explored Paris and the British athlete, and a staunch, endur- The next morning (early!), an at their Keene Valley family Isles, mostly on foot, at times ing supporter of SPS and many 37 FORMNOTES

charities. Gen had asked me if I would close the service with a reading of the SPS evening 1961

prayer, which I was honored Mike Seymour RICHARD PISANO JR. [email protected] to do, and which brought back a flood of memories of all the Last Night services we attended Marianne Kelsey Orestis, sister together in the Chapel at SPS. of Steve Kelsey, has written a Sad as this occasion was, Chris’s biography about Steve, which life was remembered as one of has recently been published. Philip H. Heckscher ’62 and John Rousmaniere ’62 received joy and accomplishment, and I My Brother Stevie: A Marine’s Michael W. Reid were married the William P. Stephens Award am forever grateful to Gen for Untold Story, Vietnam 1967 is April 1, 2014, in New York City. from Mystic Seaport. asking us to attend and partici- available from Amazon and pate. Then, on September 21, I Barnes & Noble. A copy was also Foundation. At approximately on April 1, 2014, in New York boarded a bus with 40 others donated to the School library. $1.2 billion and 1,900 funds, it City. The ceremony was per- from New Milford, Conn., and William Pier reports: “En- is one of the larger charitable formed by the county clerk at headed to the People’s Climate joying rowing on the Petaluma foundations in the country. Max the city’s marriage bureau and March in New York City. We River with the North Bay Rowing had formerly served as presi- witnessed by Timothy Heck- were but a small drop in the Club, and competing in masters dent of the Heinz Endowments scher, Meaghan Reilley, William bucket of what turned out to be races. Youngest son Matthew in Pittsburgh, as chairman Christie, Richard Estes, and a mammoth expression of con- just graduated from UCSD in of the board of the national Christopher Jones. Philip is a cern for the future by an esti- biochemistry, working on algae Council on Foundations, and as retired schoolteacher and lives mated 300,000-400,000 people. research for medicinal use. Third the editor of The Philadelphia in New York City and Mt. Desert It was a joyous, positive, and grandchild arrived in February. Inquirer. Since 2010, Max has Island, Maine, where he teaches peaceful occasion, and there Working with the Salmon Res- been retired and has been writ- Chinese calligraphy at the Col- was a powerful sense of com- toration Federation to help save ing the first biography of Fred lege of the Atlantic. Michael is munity, concern, and common habitat and water for Pacific Rogers of “Mister Rogers” fame. supervisor of the Men’s Chorus purpose among the marchers.” Coast salmon and trout.” He and his wife, Peggy, have wardrobe at the Metropolitan been living in northern Vermont Opera in New York. and on Nantucket, but will move Richard Schade submits back to the Squirrel Hill neigh- this news: “Will Taft is the 1960 1962 borhood of Pittsburgh. Max will invited keynote speaker in the Dimitri Sevastopoulo Seymour Preston continue writing the biography Freedom Center, Cincinnati, on [email protected] [email protected] of Rogers, while running the November 9. I will share the www.sps.edu/1960 John Rousmaniere, yachts- foundation. “Work is fun,” he podium with him. Both of us Our 55th reunion will take man and author, was presented says. “I’ve done plenty of biking are speaking at the event in place from May 29 to 31. Our with the William P. Stephens and rowing and kayaking over commemoration of 25 years form will dine at the School on Award by Mystic Seaport: The the last four years, and it will since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Friday, May 29, and on Saturday Museum of America and the be nice to be back at it.” In 2009, I initiated the acquisi- we shall get together for dinner Sea. Established in 1988, the Dulany Howland, former tion of a Wall segment from at the Kimball-Jenkins Estate, award was named in honor of national board director of the Berlin for the Freedom Center, where we enjoyed our 50th. I Stephens, long known as the Harvard Alumni Association, a Smithsonian affiliate.” attended the Alumni Volunteer “Dean of American Yachts- is co-chairing a gala in Dallas John Loge writes: “On July Weekend in September at SPS men” and the “Grand Old Man in October, honoring Harvard’s 1, I retired from Yale University and, by the time you read this, of American Yachting.” The president, Drew Faust, who is after 23 years as dean of Timo- you should have received my award is given in recognition coming to Texas to help cel- thy Dwight College and lecturer fall letter with details about our of a significant and enduring ebrate the 100th anniversaries in the English Department, May reunion. More to follow. contribution to the history, of the Harvard Clubs of both where I taught a course on na- preservation, progress, un- Dallas and San Antonio. Dulany ture writing. I have moved from derstanding, or appreciation of hopes to see fellow SPS gradu- campus to the Amston Lake American yachting and boating. ate Ryland Howard ’63 at the District in Connecticut so that Maxwell King reports that, festivities. Ryland served as HAA my nearby grandchildren can somewhat to his own surprise, regional director for Texas and have something to do when they he is going back to work. As of has been very active in the San come over and so that I easily the middle of September, he Antonio Club over the years. can be in and on the water and assumed the position of presi- Philip H. Heckscher and walk the local trails. Visitors 38 dent and CEO of the Pittsburgh Michael W. Reid were married and guests are welcome.” Chris Chapin shares: “The the world to me and I feel so funeral (burial service and Holy fortunate. I’ve decided the key Eucharist) for Pete Wylie was to success is to outlive the com- held July 3 at Pohick Episcopal petition – no kidding.” Church in Lorton, Va. More than 100 came to the service, includ- ing 18 Navy flag officers. Judge Tony Schall was our form 1964 representative for the occasion. Rick Bastian [email protected] Pete was a Navy captain, and his wife, Clair, is retired as a Navy Ray Payson writes: “As of commander. The Navy tradi- February, I have been senior tion runs deep in the family, as warden at St. Michael’s Epis- 1968 formmates Jim Robinson, Pete’s father was an admiral. Jonathan McCall, and Mike copal Church in Bristol, R.I. At the service, Pete and Clair’s Morgan met in Rhode Island Come visit!” Tom Shortall ’68 and formmate son, Peter Jr., was the reader, this summer. Ben Maguire in Nice, France. and their daughter, Jamie, spoke words of remembrance. She and we have a robust gradu- Master emcee Nat Prentice spoke extensively of Peter’s ate program in the School of 1965 will regale us then with memo- love of music (he was in the Fine Arts. I’m head of the ce- David Parshall rable tales from the past. If you Glee Club at SPS). She began by ramics area, which means the [email protected] haven’t reserved a room at the www.sps.edu/1965 saying that, while Peter was “a discipline of making art out of Mount Washington, I encour- logical, sensible Navy type, clay, whether it be functional Our 50th reunion plans con- age you to do so. Rick Bill- underneath all of that was the pottery, decorative vessels, tinue to advance. As of mid- ings ([email protected]) can soul of a rock and roller.” She or sculpture. Ten years ago, September, 66 people, including provide reservation details. He then told the congregation that I spearheaded the first pro- 30 spouses, have reservations and Randy Morgan are jointly Pete had been the lead singer, gram in the history of Northern for our pre-reunion gather- heading up overall reunion replete with tambourine, for his Mexican universities in the ing at the Mount Washington planning. More comprehensive band, The Shades (and yes, they discipline of contemporary Hotel. Some will be making information about the reunion wore them) at the 1964 World’s ceramic art. At Yale my major their first appearance among will be forthcoming. I have had Fair in New York. This was only was Latin-American studies, us in 50 years. Plans for golf, the great pleasure of seeing two years after graduation. and my minor art, so it has all tennis, bridge, and other ac- a number of formmates over Jamie closed with mention of come full circle. My efforts have tivities are underway. Specifics the past few years, including a delightful habit of Pete’s. At been successful beyond my to follow. Bill Matthews ’61, Charlie Bohlen and Neil Mal- the end of services at Pohick, as wildest dreams. The university former faculty member and the loy, whom I hadn’t seen since elsewhere, when the rector said where all this has happened is School’s Twelfth Rector, will be 1965. Not surprisingly, we easily “Go in peace to love and serve la Universidad Autonoma de joining us for dinner there on and readily picked up where we the Lord,” the congregational Chihuahua, the State Univer- Thursday evening, along with left off nearly 50 years ago. We reply was always, of course, sity of Chihuahua, the biggest his wife, Marcia. Anniversary remain an extraordinarily bril- “Thanks be to God,” but Pete state in Mexico, just south of El Weekend, commencing on Fri- liant, handsome, energetic, and would always add, respectfully, Paso. Two years ago, the state day, May 29, will include the generous group, bound together but audibly, “Beat Army.” art museum of Chihuahua gave usual events that have been intimately and profoundly by Piero Fenci brings us up me a solo exhibition, the first part of the schedule for many our life together in the 1960s. to date: “Ever since Ellerbe of an American in the history years. In addition, there will be You and your spouses will find Cole graced us with his pres- of the museum. The exhibition a traditional choral Evensong, yourselves in good company at ence last year in the deep-east was the highlight of my career. honoring the Form of 1965, in our reunion, and I look forward Texas piney woods, my inter- A year later, I was named Texas the New Chapel on Friday be- to seeing everyone there. est in good old St. Paul’s has Master by the Houston Center fore our dinner with the Rector been piqued. I’ve been toiling for the Contemporary Crafts, in the Upper. A 50th-reunion away in the salt mines of the the fourth craftsperson ever to Halcyon-Shattuck boat race is state university system here in receive the award, and the first in the works for Saturday af- Texas for 40 years, and I’m still ceramist. Along with the award, ternoon. Peter Twining has led going strong. I’m a professor of I was given a solo exhibition at the dinner planning (along with art at Stephen F. Austin State the center, which is in the arts Bob Coxe, Bob Lievens, John University in Nacogdoches, district of Houston, right down Rice, and Eric Saunders) at the oldest town in Texas. The the street from the Museum of the Mount Washington and the university has 13,000 students, Fine Arts. This honor meant Bedford Village Inn on Saturday. 39 FORMNOTES 1966 1969 Richard Woodville Terry Hunt [email protected] [email protected]

Hugh Clark writes: “My wife, Rick Lyon sends this news: Barbara, and I celebrated our “Our friend and form director, 40th anniversary in Quebec the Hon. Joseph M. Walker III, in June. Now we are nearing died on July 8. Many of us had retirement (our shared aim enjoyed his company at our 45th Charlie Scribner ’69 and Margi is spring 2016, just in time one month earlier. His passing Lindsay Picotte (daughter of John for our 50th) and enjoying came as a shock to everyone Lindsay ’40) in the historic New our granddaughter, Eleanor. who knew him, as he seemed to York home where she grew up, We look forward to spending be in good health and had been now owned by Charlie. more time in our cottage on quite active. All of Joe’s imme- Mt. Desert Island, where we diate family live in the Caroli- Lime Rock, to attend the Skip see many fellow alums. We’d nas, Georgia, or California, and Barber Racing School in open- love to see more. Meanwhile, Alumni Horae editor Jana they all came for the memorial wheel mini Formula One cars. I though my career as professor Brown has been working with service, which was held at the don’t think I had ever seen him of East Asian history at Ursinus veteran actor/director Perry Harvard Chapel on July 26, quite as happy. The smile on his King ’66 on the screenplay for with an evening reception at College outside Philadelphia is The Divide, a film to be shot at face, in his racing suit, helmet in nearing an end, my scholarship King’s Calif. ranch next summer. my house hosted by Remmi and hand, will forever be a wonderful continues to produce results. me, Dave LeBreton, and John reminder of my friend.” The University of Hawaii Press The Divide a story about “the Hagerty. Joe had a significant Dave Burling reports: “I am will soon publish my new book, drama of ordinary life.” Check impact on many young people playing lots of tennis and en- Civilizing the Lands Beyond: Ac- out the website at www.thedi- and many spouses. He and my joying yoga, skiing, and hiking. commodation and Transforma- videmotionpicture.com. wife were very close friends. We just moved our daughter tion on the South China Frontier The three of us had traveled into Susquehanna University through the 1st Millennium, and together and were planning a and are still moving our son a translation of the travel diary trip to Vietnam next April. My from Berklee College of Music of a seventh-century monk re- 1968 son and daughter grew up with to UCLA Extension for a cer- cording his journey to India and Tom Shortall Joe over for dinner at least twice tificate in film music composi- [email protected] back is next. Sales, no doubt, will a month and always on call for tion. We just moved back to be brisk!” Tucker Hood writes: “On July birthdays and special occasions. Santa Fe from two family sab- Perry King has been hard at 26, Jim Colby, Ewing Walker, They looked up to him more batical years in the East in and work on his upcoming indepen- and I sadly found ourselves at than I ever knew. He had that around Baltimore, frequently dent Western, The Divide. The Harvard Memorial Church for kind of impact on people. Joe commuting to D.C. to visit my script was written by Alumni a service celebrating the life of was to retire from the Massa- mother, who just turned 99, Horae editor Jana Brown, in Joe Walker ’69. Many spoke, chusetts Superior Court this fall and otherwise supporting my collaboration with Perry. The but the remembrance by John after a distinguished career as daughter through some early two met when Jana wrote an Hagerty ’69 was especially poi- a jurist. Many of his coworkers adulthood transitions. As we article about Perry for Alumni gnant, humorous, and straight came to celebrate Joe’s life and unpacked back here, we found Horae back in 2011, and they from the heart. We all can hope to relate their interactions with we needed to make more space decided to work together. The to have that kind of friend stand the judge. It was obvious that and started reviewing and ed- Divide is the story of an aging up for us when we are gone. Joe Joe’s sense of humor provided iting most of our accumulated rancher (King) with a failing has a really nice and interest- a courtroom environment that belongings, making piles for memory, his estranged and ing family, most of whom I got made his fellow workers com- consignment shops, Goodwill, independent-minded daughter, to talk with at a party at the fortable and highly respectful. nonprofit rummage sales, our and a young ranch hand who home of Rick Lyon ’69 after Joe was a great friend to many kids, recycling, and trash. In finds himself in the midst of a the service and reception at people, from all walks of life. one of the boxes I found an old family in crisis. All three must the Harvard Faculty Club. Much He was tremendously self- SPS magazine produced for reconcile a long-ago tragedy. good humor and “Joe stories” deprecating, especially when advertising while we were there Set for production in the sum- swapped until late in the eve- it came to describing his golf and am sending it to Tom Igle- mer of 2015, the movie will be ning. A good man with many game! One personal highlight hart to scan and post many of filmed almost exclusively on circles of friends who cared was Joe’s 60th birthday. He re- the photos in which many from Perry’s cattle ranch in El Dorado about him and colleagues who fused to have a party, so he asked our class are featured, includ- 40 County, California. Perry calls respected him.” me if I would accompany him to ing one of Hap Hale and me ter, Margi Lindsay Picotte, a also saw a KKK rally. I spent the chitecture conglomerates. Due déjà-vu tour of her childhood summer in Mexico witnessing to that commitment and a few apartment, which she left half the violent crackdown by the other things, I’ve cut back my a century ago, and which we government against the stu- teaching as an adjunct at UMass now inhabit, keeping it in the dents. I look back on that time and my rowing has suffered too. SPS family! Cheers!” of violence and intolerance with My daughter was married last Terry Hunt writes: “My wife appreciation for the progress year and my son is a junior at and I are loving this empty nest we have made – and with con- BU. Although I see a lot of Bill thing. I was also inspired several cern that there is still much to Jackson ’64 and John Evans ’66, years ago by a book, Younger do to realize the ideals we had Peter Van Brunt ’57, and, oc- The John V. Lindsay plaque, Next Year by Chris Crowley, in our school days at St. Paul’s. casionally, Bobby Lindsay ’73, announcing designation of the We’ve taken different paths I hear about SPS from my sister, Lindsay home in Manhattan, to eat better and exercise a once owned by John Lindsay ’40, whole lot more: yoga, running, since graduation. Mine took Hilary Parkhurst ’80, and former mayor of New York City, walking, tennis, biking, and me to Vail, where I have lived her latest child at SPS, Henry as a historic landmark. skiing – some intense activity and owned property for over Parkhurst ’16.” every day. Anyone interested 30 years. This year I joined the Peter Seymour says that, in with Señor Ordoñez in his Nash in a pedometer club for mutual new real estate office of Berk- July, he, Bram Lewis, and How- apartment. There was also an affirmation?” shire Hathaway Home Services land (“Murph”) Murphy, met old Pelican with an article on Dave LeBreton reported that and am introducing prospec- at The Pulse Restaurant inside the new coffeehouse and on there is a passionate little item tive newcomers to our lively, the Equinox Gym in Rockefeller the efforts of our varsity soccer he wrote for Alumni Horae sev- stunning area, where there is a Center for a mini-reunion team, in which many of us are eral years ago – gone missing! diversity of activities and events with Guy Antonioli, who was mentioned.” It was about Procter Smith’s year-round. Contact me should passing through the city from Bob Bennett also reports: highly constructive relation- your next trip bring you this Austin, Texas. Luckily, the res- “Technology has certainly af- ship with his son at Salisbury. way. We can reminisce about taurant was practically empty at fected me – photography just Kudos, Proc!” exhilarating times at St Paul’s, lunch as the noise level reached isn’t the same thing it was 20 while enjoying the beauty and what could have been from years ago. Sting said it just fine wonder of this special place.” a reunion of the entire form. decades ago: “...too much infor- Luckily, the few diners and a mation, washing over me...” Yep, 1970 wonderfully patient waiter were for sure. I added more images Tres Davidson amused, and more than one [email protected] in the sps1969.org website/ 1971 asked where the four of us knew www.sps.edu/1970 gallery. My life ain’t exciting, Dennis Dixon each other from as, by virtue [email protected] it’s just Photoshop; Photoshop, Save the date – May 28-31 – of the decibel level, stories and more Photoshop at a Marin as plans are underway for our After last seeing Steve Bedford of our school hijinks (largely County studio. I still shoot a bit 45th reunion. We are making on Monhegan Island, Maine, and thickly embellished) were of film now and then, but thanks plans to begin our celebration several years ago, he updates shared with everyone in a two- to ailing finances and a bad back on Thursday, May 28. Please be with: “Lots went on in those block radius. Murph generously (sciatica), I don’t get out much sure the alumni office has your few years. I’m now in charge of hosted the meal, and we all anymore. My only daughter is contact information and cur- the architectural historians for left to be greeted by a flooding now happily married, and prac- rent e-mail address. Send any the Louis Berger Group, one of downpour, which some of us ticing law in the Atlanta area. changes to [email protected]. those big engineering and ar- didn’t notice. I just published a book: www. More information to come soon! blurb.com/b/5470637-a-walk- Dennis Koller sends this on-the-California-coast.” news: “Hello from Vail, Colo., Charlie Scribner submits to the Form of 1970. While this historical news: “We had organizing my office, I came a magnificent ceremony on across our yearbook. Soon I September 10, when NYC His- was stepping back in time as I toric Landmarks unveiled the turned the pages, reminiscing John Lindsay ’40 plaque on about the late 60s at school. I our building at 155 E 72, where also watched again “Departure he lived with his family before 1970” and reread the notes he became mayor of New York about the 40th reunion. For me, (during our Third Form year) 1968 was a time of awakening. Formmates from ’71 (l. to r.): Bram Lewis, Guy Antonioli, Howland and moved to Gracie Mansion. In my hometown of Memphis, “Murph” Murphy, and Peter Seymour at lunch in New York’s I saw Martin Luther King and I Afterwards, I gave his daugh- Rockefeller Center. 41 FORMNOTES

the Woodhall School in Beth- lehem, Conn., and, of course, I direct the plays! Woodhall is an all-boys boarding school in the middle of nowhere, and the an- nual tuition is equal to the GNP of Uruguay. Sound familiar? I’ve been teaching now for 25 years and, even with two master’s degrees and countless licenses Sally Carroll Keating ’72 and and certificates on the wall, the Julia Jordan Alexander ’72 met by chance at a farmer’s market most important sources for The Keith Klan: Sara, Charlie (9), Jeffrey ’72, and Owen (12), pho- this summer in New London, N.H. good practice come from my tographed by Henry Laughlin ’72 at the Devil’s Causeway in the years at St. Paul’s. Every day, I Table Top Mountains above Steamboat Springs, Colo. producer had read my piece recognize all of us in the faces about MM on LI last year and of these young men struggling James Danziger writes: “My Our long-distance app will con- then convinced me to meet her with the same issues we did son Julian is graduating from nect MIDI keyboards together in August at the beach where but in different times, and I Dartmouth this year and my over the Internet so that you can the budding young actress ca- thank Lederer, Tracy, Burnam, daughter Josie just started her take a long-distance lesson or vorted in 1949 when she came Faulkner, Smith, and MacDon- first year at St. Andrews, where perform for remote audiences.” to NYC to promote her role in ald, et al., for modeling what it her roommate is from Concord Gilman Parsons updates the last Marx Brothers movie. is to be a true educator. It is an Academy (I still remember the us from California: “Let’s see... I admit I was never a fan, no enormous blessing to be in this exchange fondly!). I’m still in earthquake (a direct hit), major posters of Marilyn ever hung profession.” the photo world and moved my fires (oblique singeing), pesti- on my walls at St. Paul’s, but gallery to 521 West 23rd. All are lence (minor but nasty, being a I have come to appreciate her welcome to visit. I did bump into plague of yellow jackets rather more over the years. One of Terry Gruber, my fellow photo than locusts)...nope, no news my weekly tennis adversaries 1972 enthusiast, who hasn’t changed to report of any consequence. said he was in his doctor’s office John Henry Low [email protected] his enthusiasm or his haircut.” Grape and fruit harvests pro- and saw me on TV five times in Dennis Dixon shares: “Just ceed with all due promise that the waiting room. I think he’s No more rock ‘n’ roll this sum- trying to stay healthy (and nasty and much overrated exaggerating, but he did seem to mer, but the “when two or hydrated) during these semi- sobriety might yet be abated.” play against my doubles partner more are gathered in my name retirement years. I’ve started From Spencer Rumsey: “We and me with more ferocity than department” was busy. Julia doing the (N.H.) 4,000 footers now have two sons in college: a usual.” Jordan Alexander wrote: “It - did #17 last Thursday. Check freshman at SUNY Binghamton, And, finally, back to the East was a chance encounter over out my blog at: dixonheading- who’s a physics major, and a and Tony Sherer: “I am teach- fresh produce at Spring Ledge north.blogspot.com. Maybe to senior at SUNY Geneseo, a his- ing modern world history and Farm Market. Sally Carroll contradict Gregg, it often is only tory and Spanish major, who’s a seminar on the Cold War​ at Keating and I were both in New about the hike.” in Spain for his fall semester. I George Litterst writes: “On think our beagle mutt believes July 31, after a 2.5-year struggle, we put them in an animal shel- my business partner and I ter like the one in which we regained our former software found him, because he keeps inventions and are once more looking at us funny. Meanwhile, in business as TimeWarp Tech- my wife is a school psychologist nologies (www.timewarptech working with developmentally .com). We create intelligent, challenged preschoolers, while interactive software for per- I continue as the senior editor formers, teachers, students, and at the Long Island Press, now hobbyists. Our flagship product totally online in a “hope springs is a score-following app that eternal” business model. I was shows music notation on the recently on the local Cablevi- The Lunchmeats of the Form of 1972 after their 1-0 triumph over screen and tracks your perfor- sion news channel, discussing the Concord Academy Girls varsity soccer team in the fall of 1971 mance, coordinating the musi- Marilyn Monroe for a two- (l. to r.), back: Jon Whitney, Frazer Pennebaker, Bayard Clarkson, Willie McDonald, Jamie Byrne, Ian Laird, George Williams, Graeme cal accompaniment tracks and minute feature they call “Hidden Boone (notice the hand painted shoes), Norty Knox; front: Dave 42 turning the pages automatically. Long Island.” Apparently the Parker, John Christensen, and Jonathan Cronin. London, N.H., during the glori- Nick Parker writes: “Hap- ous month of July.” To celebrate pily married to Carolyn Foster their serendipitous meeting, for 30 years with two perfect Julia and Sally decided to jog children, Olivia and North. We the northwest slope of Mt. Ke- are living in Hailey, Idaho. I got arsarge, swim out to Loon Island a hall pass and am working for a Lighthouse on Lake Sunapee, year in Niassa Province in Mo- zip-line the wooded slopes of zambique, flying a Cessna 182 Mt. Sunapee, bicycle to Quechee for the Wildlife Conservation Gorge, Vt., for a Simon Pearce Society, supporting elephant glass-blowing demonstration, anti-poaching patrols. I live and brunch at Graze Sustain- in a tent, but I have maid ser- able Table. The ladies seam- vice. It is spectacular country, lessly wove life tales of their especially seen at 300 feet and respective journeys since the 100 mph. Unfortunately, the SPS alumnae gathered in July at the home of Julie Green ’75 (l. to r.): Mimi Anderson ’76, Jennifer Rand ’75, Kimberly Bancroft ’76, memorable 40th reunion. With elephants are being killed for Mallory Clarke ’76, Anne Latchis ’75, Julie Green, Ashley Elinor ’75, history in play, it wasn’t hard ivory at a horrible rate. Ele- Emily Bateson ’76; front row, (l to r): Twig Mowatt ’75, Marny to include family, moves, travel, phants could be extinct in our Kittredge ’76, Helen Hunt ’75, Nanny Starr-Marshall ’75, Katy developing practices, inten- lifetimes unless governments Melody ’76, and Amy Clarkson ’76. tions, and possibilities into the ramp up the pressure on the conversational mix. SPS again consumer countries. Enough anchor in Phnom Penh, and proved to be an anchor in a sea preaching. I saw Jamie Byrne 1973 then end up near Angkor Wat.” of change. way too briefly in August. He Katherine McMillan writes: Jose Maldonado Our indefatigable Colorado is well preserved. And I did not “I hosted Jim Brooke at the [email protected] and Cape Cod correspondent mistake him for JT Howell.” Cape Ann Forum in September, Jeffrey Keith reported on his Meanwhile, Halsted Wheeler This summer, I kept busy with where he gave an excellent family’s recent Rocky Mountain sent in an archival photo of the NYC mayoral transition analysis of the current situation High with Linda and Henry the Form of 1972 Lunchmeats, and have accepted a change in Russia to a crowd of more Laughlin at 12,800 feet on once a feared force of non- in role to that of counsel and than 200. Jim spent eight years the Devil’s Causeway above sanctioned soccer, fitting in policy advisor to the NYC fire in Moscow, first as bureau Steamboat Springs over the July with the era’s anti-establish- commissioner, where our big- chief for Bloomberg News and 4 weekend. Linda and Henry are mentarianism by eschewing gest challenge is diversifying a then Voice of America. James fabulous hosts and playmates. traditional practices, training, department that is more than 90 Caviston ’74 was in attendance Between the 4th of July parade, and rules. According to Hal- percent white male. My son is and we all gathered afterwards Linda’s gallery, the Steamboat stead, the photo was the “only in his Fourth Form year at SPS. on my dock overlooking the Springs Rodeo, the amazing away game of our 1971-72 From abroad, Jim Brooke Annisquam River to reminisce fireworks, and the over-the- season at Concord Academy, sends this news: “Greetings about our St. Paul’s days.” top hike, it was all the Keiths where we triumphed 1-0 (at from Cambodia! After eight could do to go back to their that time Concord Academy years in Moscow, I finally digs, watch a little World Cup, was still an all-girls school, and jumped ship, moving to Phnom and then spend most of Sunday had been the partner in SPS’s Penh on July 7. I have taken 1974 cooling their jets in the Straw- first coeducational exchange in over as editor-in-chief of a Chris Rulon-Miller [email protected] berry Park Hot Springs. Got 1969). The Lunchmeats from the new English-language weekly, this great Xmas-card-quality Form of ’72 were in fact formi- The Khmer Times. In September, From Burnet Maybank: “I picture to boot. As is evident in dable athletes. They may have we go twice a week. In Janu- finished my second stint as di- the photo, the whole hair thing, beaten SPS varsity. We were just ary, daily. I have a nice set-up rector of revenue under former now abandoned by neces- a bunch of, well, Lunchmeats!” here – a sixth-floor apartment South Carolina Governor Mark sity by the old man, continues So please keep your cards with views north, south, and Sanford and have returned through the next generation. In and letters and old (and new) east. Cambodians are friendly, to private practice. I certainly other news, Jeffrey did race in photos coming in. food is great, and history is enjoyed seeing everyone at the the Quissett Yacht Club S Boat fascinating. A big plus to trade 40th Anniversary!” Invitational Regatta, but sadly the land of frowns for the land Bruce Chan writes: “What his own fast S Boat, the Coyote, of smiles! If any classmates an amazing reunion, thanks to did not “splash” this season and are planning to come through, Artie Sistare and the rest of he was asked to race a friend’s drop me a line. There are some the organizers. My daughter, S Boat instead. lovely cruises up the Mekong – Hanna Chan, is in her Sixth visitors board in Saigon, drop Form year at SPS, and Gabriel is 43 FORMNOTES

Maine. There were 14 of us! I’m hoping to make it to our 40th. Meanwhile, in 2008, I co- 1980 founded a nonprofit called All Jennie Hunnewell Kaplan [email protected] Sato Rescue (the word “sato” is www.sps.edu/1980 Puerto Rican slang for “mutt”). We rescue dogs that have been Greetings! I am working on put- ting together our 35th reunion abandoned on the streets and “Mongie in the Middle.” Perot beaches of Puerto Rico, nurse Bissell ’77 and formmates Nick this coming May 29-31. Send them to health, and fly them Newlin and Chris Willis on any address updates to either Alexis Johnson ’76 recently vis- Baker’s Island, Maine. ited with former Rector Bill Oates up to the Northeast, where we me (e-mail address above) at his home in Westwood, Mass. partner with a bunch of shel- or to [email protected]. Look ters that take them in and find news as well. I just visited for more information to come throughout the year. in his sophomore year at UCLA. them great homes. It’s a real formmates Kevin McCaffrey Still nominally supervising the win/win – we save so many in South Hadley, Mass., and criminal division of our court dogs’ lives and we also help Anne Latchis in Brattleboro, and would welcome any Form of these shelters meet the high Vt. Kevin has just published a 1981 demand for adoptable pets. highly entertaining and sneak- 1974 visitors to San Francisco.” Biddle Duke Because New Englanders are so ily profound book of poems, [email protected] good about spaying/neutering Laughing Cult. Buy it. Anne our pets, there aren’t a lot of made me very welcome in Brat- Sono Aibe has been traveling 1975 unwanted dogs being born and tleboro, as she does so well. the world, managing repro- Randy Blossom then surrendered locally – it’s These visits put me in the mood ductive health projects with randy.blossom@blossominsur- a really good situation because for our next reunion. Back home Pathfinder International, based ance.com the local shelters can help other in Cambridge, I continue to help out of the San Francisco Bay www.sps.edu/1975 parts of the country that still administer programs at the area. Chase Robinson is a Warm greetings to the Form have dog problems. We send Center for Public Leadership professor of history and the of 1975 from my home at the an average of 100 dogs a month at Harvard’s Kennedy School newly appointed president of edge of Turkey Pond! The trees to the Boston area, where I live, of Government. But my main the Graduate Center of the City are turning and Turkey Pond and they are the most loyal, focus here is my children. Eric University of New York. is alive with foliage color. Our adorable, and soulful pups you is 15 and will be a sophomore Alex Krongard submits this 40th reunion is fast approach- could imagine. Just ask Anne at Boston University Academy. from abroad: “I am in Djibouti ing. I hope you can all attend. I Latchis about her Eva. I invite Isabel is 18 and just graduated for the year (2014) as the deputy am in the early stages of plan- any SPS alum looking for a dog from Cambridge Rindge and commander of Combined Joint ning our gatherings for Friday to get in touch with me at Latin, and, after a gap year, Task Force Horn of Africa. The and Saturday evenings, around [email protected], and I plans to attend Brown Univer- family is leaving D.C. on its the normal events at school urge everyone to adopt and sity. My apologies for the long way to San Diego. If anyone is (parade, lunch, etc.). Please let spay/neuter their pets. I am note – but we are not taking up in Djibouti, please look me up.” me know if anyone has thoughts also the international humane much real estate at the back of or suggestions on the reunion. editor for Bark magazine, which Alumni Horae these days. Send Anniversary Weekend is May 29 has been called The New Yorker your news, too.” 1982 to 31. Save the date! of dog magazines by Newsweek! Twig Mowatt sends this Trisha Patterson I write about animal welfare [email protected] news: “I was inspired to check programs around the world – in after receiving Alumni Horae Bali, Mexico, Costa Rica – and 1976 I celebrated my belated 50th and seeing the 40th reunion will be meeting with animal Don Keyser (50 is the new 35) birthday at [email protected] photo of the class ahead of us. activists next spring in Nepal my home in Larchmont, N.Y. I think there’s really no getting and Bhutan for a story. Oh, and Mar Bodine sends this sad Justin Solomon, Bill Bate- around the fact that we are all I have a real job too – at MITRE, news: “I was notified in May of son, Noah Solomon ’09 (now getting pretty old, yet even so, a government R&D firm, where the death of Justin R. Zak. He a crew coach at The Gunnery when I see these people’s pho- I write articles about their lived life in his own style and School), Dana ’83 and Susan tos, I can’t help but still think of work in cybersecurity.” was a gentle and caring soul Emery ’83 (daughter Kather- them as teenage hooligans. The Owen Andrews comments: with a great sense of humor!” ine is a new Fourth Former), big SPS gal group of friends that “Dismayed by the recent skimpy and Stacy Jamar ’81 gathered I am lucky enough to be a part of offerings in our formnotes, I together for some refreshing just had another mini-reunion am writing with the hope that beverages. Lou Adreani and at the home of Julie Green in Gabriella Demenyi ’81 were 44 others will be moved to share sorely missed! In June, Stacy circle continues. Sometimes the and I went to Craftsbury Scull- SPS community feels like one ing Center, where we coinci- enormous contra dance.” dentally rowed with Webster Thompson ’16 and Andrew Thomson ’14, thus forming an SPS cabal (three Halcyons 1985 and a Shattuck) that was quite Don Sung [email protected] formidable. Also, I met up with www.sps.edu/1985 Nat Prentice ’65 recently in Westchester County for a very Plans are currently underway fun lunch. My husband is in the for our 30th reunion. Please be A San Francisco gathering of the Form of 1988 included (l. to r.): sure the alumni office has your Lyman Howard, Sarah Jones, Scott Faber, Caroline Gilman La Voie, same office as Nat. Small world! and Sam Parker. The get-together was at Wild Hare, owned by Nat, of course, has all the scoop contact information and cur- Ben Bleiman ’99. on the entire building! rent e-mail address. Send any changes to me or to updates@ pends on how good the movie is the tour life, it always seems to sps.edu. More information to (which for independent features find me again. I spent the sum- come soon! is always a big question). I play a mer in Europe working for Neil 1984 research scientist. Hell, I went to Young and Crazy Horse and am Jane Kalinski school to become one, and now now doing a few festival shows [email protected] 1988 I’m playing one. I could tell you this month with John Mayer. For the serendipity file, Beth more, but I’d be in breach of On the other hand, I have been Sarah Jones my non-disclosure agreement. continuing to expand my film Nolan reports: “While waiting [email protected] for luggage at Keflavik airport You’ll just have to see the film career in between tours, hav- in Iceland, I had the good for- Summer has flown by and a when it comes out, unless it’s ing produced an independent tune to rendezvous with Fanny new year has started. Here in bad, in which case I’m changing film in 2012 called Heart of the Opdycke. Although I hadn’t the San Francisco Bay Area, Ly- my name.” If the movie is no Country with country gal Jana seen her in 30 years, Fanny was man Howard organized a Form good, don’t sweat it, Grinnell – Kramer and TV veteran Gerald instantly recognizable by her of ’88 get-together, attended by we’ll all just blame the director/ McRaney and recently a TV elegant posture and beautiful Caroline Gilman La Voie, Sam producer/screenwriter. pilot called Beachwood Char- legs (some ballet muscles never Parker, Lizzie Callard, Scott Chrissy Coughlin welcomed ter. I also managed to get back wither). We met for dinner in Faber, and me. For the second a baby girl, Caroline Crosby to school and got my master’s Reykjavik the following eve- time in a row, Scott ditched his Coughlin, in August. Sally in spiritual psychology. Dur- ning, accompanied by Fanny’s very-pregnant wife to come Horchow came for a visit and ing that two-year period with husband, Tom Feigelson, and hang out with his formmates... Caroline did a beautiful job only minimal concert touring, their two adorable children, now that is dedication. Thanks posing for her photo with her I had enough downtime to fi- Zoë and Max. Zoë studies at to Lyman for organizing! mom and “Aunt Sally.” Welcome, nally pursue my long-neglected the School of American Ballet Our own Hollywood actor, Caroline, and congratulations, creative inklings. I wrote and (SAB), where her teacher is Grinnell Morris, writes: “I’m Chrissy! recorded three of my own songs Darci Kistler, a legendary bal- shooting and starring in a film Meg MacRae got in touch (the EP is called The Lovely lerina who frequently danced called 96 Souls. So much fun! I’ll with a great synopsis of her Ghost). I really surprised myself with Philip Neal ’86 at the New let you know if/when there is a life in the music world: “Try and I got to see what I was re- York City Ballet. And so the release date. As always, it de- as I might to break away from ally capable of creatively when

Jocelyn (Jolly) Stamat ’87 and husband Terry Paul Rossio, welcomed twin boys, Julian Sally Horchow ’88 holds Caroline Alexander Mathew Aston, son Sage on April 30, 11:59 p.m., Crosby Coughlin, daughter of of Wendie and Matt Aston ’89, Richard (l.) and Joseph, 4, and Paul Somerset on May 1, Chrissy Coughlin ’88 (r.), born was born on August 17, weigh- twin sons of Betsy Barbato August 18, weighing 8 lbs., 6 oz. ing 7 lbs., 9 oz. La Padula ’90, take a break 12:02 a.m. Keeping Gotham 1 and measuring 21 /4 inches. from sandcastle building. Safe since May 1, 2014. 45 FORMNOTES

frequently for my job and was lucky enough to catch up with José Leos and David Brown- 1995 stein for a lovely dinner at Nick Van Amburg [email protected] José’s place last year. I have a www.sps.edu/1995 lanky, witty, and math-obsessed 13-year-old stepson, who lives Greetings! Plans are in the in Derbyshire, U.K. We’ve had works for our 20th reunion some good adventures these from May 29 to 31, so please be last few years, including three sure the alumni office has your weeks hiking in the back coun- contact information and e-mail try of Mongolia, a tour around address. Send any changes to the Baltic Sea hitting some key [email protected]. More infor- mation to come soon. Alix Paige Hyman and Ilia Dodd Loomis ’98 after the breaking of cities, and a beautiful camp- the glass at their wedding this summer in Jupiter, Fla. Landon ing trip in the Dolomites. We Marlon Key reports: “I had Loomis ’95 served as best man. Dodd’s SPS roommate, Pat Fox ’98, just invested in a rickety ’80s the pleasure of having Alessia and his wife, Holly, attended. Westfalia and hope to put some Carega be one of the first faces to welcome my son as I dropped I took all the time, energy (and serious miles on it in the coming him off for his Third Form year stress!) that I had been pouring years. That about sums it up! I at SPS. Also got to catch up into furthering other people’s 1990 hope to make it for our 25th.” with Judge Ayesha Brantley- artistic visions and careers and Megan Scott Seth Schelin writes: “Here’s Gosine ’96 as she dropped her focused all that energy on my- [email protected] my overdue update for Alumni www.sps.edu/1990 daughter off. Yes, we are both self for the first time – probably Horae. I am living in London and new alumni parents, and, no, ever. And a funny coincidence – Our 25th reunion is fast ap- working in Germany for a Ger- I don’t want to hear any more right about the time I was really proaching! Please mark your man Internet company called comments about people feel- working a lot on my vocals and calendars for May 29-31. Vis- Scout24. My wife and I met up in ing old after hearing that. All singing, I took a quick run out on it our form reunion page on London with alums John Meeks we did was have kids in our tour working for Bon Jovi and the SPS website (www.sps. ’91 and Adam Hermann ’91 early twenties, and you are all ended up singing onstage with edu/1990) and find the hotel and their spouses for dinner at still as young as you think you them in Sydney, Australia, along link as well other important Crazy Homies. The last person are. It’s great being even more with several of the other women information. It is going to be a I saw from our form was Art connected now as an alumnus on that tour. I don’t know what’s great weekend! E-mail me if you Richardson, who joined me in and a parent and I’m glad to next as we approach the last have any questions. Munich for Oktoberfest last have gotten to know alumni quarter of 2014, but I have really Betsy Barbato La Padula year (or was it the year before?).” across many decades during the been feeling the pull to branch sends this news: “Beginning my past several years. Otherwise, away from L.A. to spend more 14th year teaching English at working as an NYPD detective time in my home in Franklin, Newark Academy in Livingston, 1993 continues to grant me a ticket Tenn.” N.J., after taking a few years off Page Sargisson to the greatest show on earth. I love all the updates from to be at home with my identical [email protected] I’m still fairly new in my current our formmates. Keep checking twin sons. Would love to connect unit, the Central Robbery Divi- the Form of ’88 Facebook group with any formmates or other Mills Chapman made a free sion, which handles major rob- and stay in touch. alumni in the N.Y.C./N.J. area, self-help website (www.free- bery cases throughout the city. who have been in the military or selfhelp.org), which has 1,600 Solving these complex puzzles who are in veterans’ services. I pages of tips and resources for is challenging and interesting, run a Support the Troops club at you and your family. 1989 my school and am always look- Laura Munro ing for resources. Going to try [email protected] and make reunion and hoping Matt Aston writes: “It is with to see members of the Orphan- gratitude and joy that I an- age there.” nounce the arrival of my son, Jenny Petersen sends news Alexander Mathew Aston, from abroad: “My husband, born August 17 at 7 lbs., 9 oz. Mike, and I are still living in Between mom, Wendie, and France, not far from the Swiss sisters, Brooke (5) and Harley border, and working in Basel Grace (2), his needs are sure to (eight years and counting). I am Deborah Kaplan and Paul Gelinas ’99, Alix and Dodd Loomis ’98, 46 be met. Blessings to all!” back and forth to San Francisco and Jun and Miguel Payano ’98 caught up in Brooklyn. so no complaints. Although I’ll Sheerin (Florio) Vesin be at the School many times writes: “We took advantage of before then, I look forward to an unseasonably cool August seeing everyone at our 20th!” day in D.C. to celebrate our son Philippe’s first birthday in low-key, non-Pinterest-worthy fashion. Adele Shartzer and 1996 Cybil Rohrenbeck brought Emily Brands their little ones to join in the [email protected] cupcake and watermelon fren- Ashley Ruth Driscoll (7 lbs., 4 oz., James Michael Gavin was born zy. Living a few blocks from Shaun Rein writes: “My book, 21 inches) was born on Sep- on July 17 to Jon and Ann The End of Copycat China, was Mish Brown over the past tember 20 to Peter and Arielle Carley Gavin ’99, joining big released in October, and I will couple years has been fabulous, (Greenleaf) Driscoll ’99. brother Colin. be giving speeches in New York, but she’s off to a Fulbright in Boston, Singapore, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan shortly, so our and I am living in Hong Kong.” York City in May. I’m work- and other cities in the next few farmer’s-market trips and Ann (Carley) Gavin writes: ing for a jewelry subscription months for the book launch. walks around the neighborhood “James Michael Gavin was born startup, RocksBox, and enjoying I’m speaking at the Hong Kong will be interrupted for a while. on July 17. He and big brother re-acquainting myself with SF, Design Centre’s 13th annual I’m still at Rosetta Stone, doing Colin are making our lives busy which has changed a lot since I Business of Design Week con- B2B marketing, and am enjoying and fun! Great to see everyone left in 1996 for SPS. Would love ference in December.” biking to work through George- who made it up for Anniversary.” to connect with Paulies in the town, where I have the good News from Katie (Thomas) Bay Area! fortune of occasionally running Marsh: “I got married to Hugh Shields Callahan writes: into Meghan Sullivan ’98 or Marsh on June 7 in Aspen, Colo. “Margot Sommers Callahan 1999 other D.C.-dwelling Paulies.” Kate (Potts) Figler and Lauren was born on May 3 in New Ben Bleiman Kate (Noteboom) Kneipper Seaton were in attendance as York City. She joins big brother [email protected] sends this: “After 12 great years well as my stepmom, Ripley Whilden (2). Chris and I are so Brooke Lloyd, Mark DeVito, in New York City, my husband, (Greppin) Thomas ’83.” delighted to welcome the new- and I traveled from the West daughter, and I moved to Dal- And more baby news from est addition to our family! Since Coast to meet Peope Pachios, las in June. Would love to catch Brian Chen: “My wife, Jen, and moving back to N.Y.C. last year Mike Getz, and Neill “Sanford” up with anyone in or passing I can’t wait to bring our new son, for dermatology residency at Livingston in Brooklyn on Au- through the DFW area!” Miles, up to the Shire to meet NYU, we have had the pleasure gust 22. The occasion was Neill’s Paul Gelinas writes: “Dodd everyone at SPS.” of catching up with lots of old marriage to Sara Legenhausen. Loomis ’98, Miguel Payano ’98, friends and formmates. Hope The black-tie wedding, held our wives, and I caught up in this message finds Paulies near at the Liberty Warehouse, was Brooklyn in September. We are 2000 and far doing well.” exactly the type of elegant affair all recently married (me to Debo- Julia Moore sends this fam- Kathryn Duryea ily news: “My husband, Taylor, we’ve come to associate with rah Kaplan, Dodd to Alix Paige, [email protected] Sanford – a fitting celebration Miguel to Jun Payano). Miguel www.sps.edu/2000 and I welcomed our son, Wil- of their love surrounded by lives in Beijing, Dodd in N.Y.C., liam Ashton Moore, on August Save the date for our 15th a veritable who’s who of New 11. William is our first and an reunion, May 29-31. Hope to York’s ruling class, executed amazingly mellow baby so far. see many formmates then! The with an understated, blue- Continuing to love San Francisco latest from me is that I moved blooded exuberance. after seven years. It’s great to back to San Francisco from New have so many Paulies out here!”

Katie (Thomas) Marsh ’99 and William Ashton Moore, son of Margot Sommers Callahan was Miles Chen, born on May 14, Hugh Marsh at their June wed- Taylor and Julia Moore ’00, was born on May 3, 2014, to Chris 2014, to Jen and Brian Chen ’99 ding in Aspen, Colo. born August 11, 2014. and Shields Callahan ’00. 47 On Easter morning, Lizzie and George Ashcroft Heidt was born Benito Moyer ’92 welcomed June 8 to Greg ’03 and Emily Marc Aronson ’00 and Matthew Socia celebrated their wedding Elizabeth Sykes, in London. Baines Heidt ’03. this summer in Boston. Paulies in attendance included (l. to r.): Alan “Scooter” Zackheim ’01, Kurt Crowley ’02, Quin Kennedy ’03, Marlena Hubley ’02, Marc and Matt, Hal Miller ’03, Lucas from UMass Med School. She end John Thompson-Quartey, Cook ’02 and best man Eads Johnson ’02. will start her emergency medi- who officiated the ceremony. cine residency next July. In the We are happily settling into Nichol ’00, and Jon Landry ’02. meantime, she is researching our suburban life in Suffield, This was the fifth year I have non-invasive biosensor wrist- Conn., where Irene now works 2002 gone shooting with my father bands and signal processing as a college counselor for Suf- Toby McDougal and Lytle, and every year we technology at the UMass Toxi- field Academy and Andrew is a [email protected] manage a strong showing of cology Department. dermatology resident at UConn From Kate Waters: “I’ve grad- Paulies. It was great to catch Congratulations also to Jus- Health Center.” uated from George Washing- up with Clay and his wife, Ellen, tin Baker ’02 and DK Kim, who Greg Heidt and Emily (Ba- ton University with an M.A. and to spend some time with my graduated with Wookie Kim ines) Heidt send this family in art therapy to now work father and Lytle. It was Jon and ’05 from Harvard Law School news: “We welcomed our son, and pursue licensure in art Clay’s first time shooting grouse in May. Julia Ruedig is a can- George Ashcroft Heidt, to the therapy and counseling. I’m and they had a lot of luck and it didate for her M.B.A. and M.S. family on June 8. Born at 8 lbs., 6 living in Virginia and fre- was tough to keep up! Looking at the University of Michigan. oz., he’ll be catching up to older quently get together with good forward to next year!” From Andrew Kim: “Irene sister Isabel in no time. We had a friend Georgia Richter ’00 to Ma and I are happy to report that great visit with Quentin Reeve, explore the sights and sounds we tied the knot at the Chapel of who flew in from Australia to of Washington, D.C.” St. Peter and St. Paul this past become George’s godfather Annemarie von der Goltz 2003 May! Many alumni and faculty at his August baptism in Los writes: “I was in Scotland, Thomas Ho were in attendance, as gathered Angeles. We spent some quality [email protected] grouse shooting over Labor Day in the massive SPS photo! Also in time with Kate Michonski, Will weekend with my father Johan Congrats to Kelley Wittbold, attendance, but not pictured are Seidel, and Dayo Olopade this ’55, Lytle Nichol ’55, Clay who graduated this past June Jennifer Hornor and the Rever- summer as well.”

Molly McCarthy ’04 and Tito Carvalho were married on August 1 in La Jolla, Calif.

The June wedding of Julia Sortwell ’01 and Vittorio Cottafavi ’95 in Camden, Maine, was officiated by Jason Angell ’95 and attended by (l. to r.): William Dean Howells ’50, Daniel Sortwell ’66, Edward Sortwell ’68, Eleonora Monacella ’03, Taylor Robinson ’01, Gabriella Campagna ’03, Valaer van Roijen ’01, Megan Ferguson ’01, Lloyd Walmsley ’96, Nick Cohen ’96, Oakley Duryea ’95, Andy Bay ’95, Owen Weihman ’96, the bride and groom, Nicholas Pike ’00, Samantha Walsh ’01, Etta Meyer ’02, Chris Pachios ’94, Lizzie Widdicombe ’01, McKay McFadden ’00, Tathiana Monacella ’03, 48 Avery Coleman Keller ’95, Allyson Ross Pachios ’95, and Jason Angell. San Francisco alums gathered recently for dinner (l. to r.): Sean McNulty ’04, Melody Lam ’03, James Isbell ’04, Valerie Ho ’04, Ben DeLoache ’03, Glara Ahn ’06, Andrew Meaney ’01, Thomas Ho ’03, and George Kwon ’03. Lindsay Deane ’04 and Zachary Mayer were married August 9, in Cohasset, Mass. Attendees included (l. to r.): Macy Radloff ’02, Trish Lamberti ’04, Alex Hoffmann ’04, Lindsay, Ellie Bowen ’04, Kristen Deane Campbell ’02, and Kim Lofgren ’05. 2005 Lizzie Mills [email protected] www.sps.edu/2005 Blythe Winchester ’04 and Jordan Brock were married in Atlanta in March (l. to r.): Blythe and Jordan with Mariel Rodriguez- Greetings! We are getting busy McGill ’04, Elizabeth Amory Host ’04, and Hannah Garrett ’04. Brian Harris ’04 and bride Heidi making plans for our 10th re- show SPS spirit at their August union, so please be sure the 17 wedding near Burlington, alumni office has your contact Vt., with formmates (l. to r.): information and e-mail address! Dan Marcy, Benji Nwachukwu, and Graham Browne. Hillary Carroll writes: “I married Will Jeffries in Provi- dence, R.I., on July 5, 2014. The dance floor was dominated by Paulies from the Form of 2005 as well a few former SPS faculty, including Dr. Patrick Carroll and Paulies at the July wedding of Hillary Carroll ’05 and Will Jeffries Robert and Kathryn Hill. We were (l. to r.): Catherine Nelson ’05, Sam Malmberg ’05, Agatha moved back to Denver, Colo., in Patterson ’05, Arianna Kourides ’05, the bride and groom, Ryan Friends from ’07, Charlotte September.” Carroll ’03, Erin Carroll ’09, Latoya Hankey ’05, Bowman Dickson Hickey, Jessica McKenzie, and ’05, Karen Winterhof ’05, Chris Hickey ’05, Marigot Vreeland ’05, Beth McDaniel, visited Kaye Ver- Peter Darrow shares: “I am and Azuka Anunkor ’05. ville in her Brooklyn apartment. very excited to announce that I will be opening a healthy, farm- to-takeout restaurant in New York City’s Union Square this fall. More than two years in the making, it is largely in honor of my father, who died last year of myeloma. Keep an eye out for Darrow’s.” Wookie Kim issues this all-points bulletin: “As I was boarding the AirTrain from JFK Terminal 2, I noticed a The May wedding of Form of 2003 formmates Andrew and Irene (Ma) Kim included (l. to r.), back: 50-some-year-old man wear- Masa Shimano, Annie Rettew, Alan Wong with daughter Olivia, Bob Oziomek, Edith Wong ’01, Jane ing an SPS cross country jacket Fung ’02, Toby Brewster, Anastasia Aurol ’03, Annabel Aurol ’04, Rick Pacelli, the groom and bride, with “Grayson ’11” embroidered Colin Callahan, Velina Lehur ’03, Devina Lehur ’03, Bob Rettew ’69, Yuko Ishii ’03, Bill Matthews ’61, Theresa Gerado-Gettens, Alison Hao ’03, Marcia Matthews, Toni Callahan ’76, Wendy Huang ’02, on one sleeve. Confused, I asked Cindy Huang ’02; front: Glenn Berkey, Henry Huang ’03, Calvin Ma ’04, and Lawrence Cheuk ’06. the man if he knew Parker 49 berg, and Quincy Darbyshire She loves being near so many risked it for the biscuit and SPS friends. joined me for a week in Mon- tana’s Beartooth Mountains, where we rode horses, motored 2011 around on ATVs, and did a lot Meredith Bird of hiking in a wilderness that’s [email protected] been pretty untouched, except for a recent fire.” Entrepreneur Ben Kaplan continues to build on his success with WiGo, an app that allows Friends from the Form of 2010 in Washington, D.C., are (l. to r.): college students at the same Hanna Helms, Calla Chase, Zoe Williams, and Deane Schofield. 2010 school to give friends access to Deane Schofield their social plans for the evening [email protected] – in real time. Ben writes, “In Grayson ’11. The man quiz- kets team of FTI Consulting.” www.sps.edu/2010 zically looked back at me and Charlotte Hickey writes: “I our first two and a half months, shook his head. I sent a quick moved to Munich after gradu- Congratulations to all those we’ve been downloaded on more Facebook message to Parker, ating in 2011 on a Fulbright who graduated last year! Our than 1,100 campuses nation- who confirmed that he had lost Research Grant and am now fifth reunion is coming up soon, wide. Our strong initial growth his jacket “years ago.” At that working at PIMCO (Pacific In- so please mark your calendars got the attention of both Tinder point, I was determined to re- vestment Management Com- and plan accordingly – I hope founders, who recently joined cover Parker’s converted prop- pany) on their Swiss Institutional to see everyone there. I will WiGo as investors and active erty. But the man had already team. I love living abroad and send out more details in the advisors. We’re currently work- disappeared. In short, please meet up weekly with Louis coming months. Gwen Schoch ing on a new feature we believe look out for Parker’s jacket!” Costa de Beauregard (2005 graduated from Trinity College will change the game.” Weicker Scholar), who is also in May and was named to the living in Munich and working Collegiate Rowing Coaches at Airbus. Kaye and I celebrated Association 2014 Division III 2012 2007 our shared birthday on April 20 Pocock All-America Second Taylor Casey Quincy Darbyshire this year in Tel Aviv and I visited Team as a coxswain. Trinity [email protected] [email protected] her in Brooklyn, along with Jesse won the 2014 NCAA Division Peter Harrison has returned McKenzie and Beth McDaniel. III V1 Women’s Eight National Carter Nelson sends his sum- to serious competitive running As a housewarming present, I Championship and Women’s mer news: “This past summer, in Seattle, where he recently gave Kaye an original SPS tray, Team National Championship. I had an exciting internship placed fourth out of more than which she keeps in her dining It is the first national title for with Ferguson and Shamamian 25,000 runners in the San Fran- room. We are already planning Trinity, which also won the 2014 Architects LLP. I also received cisco Marathon. Way to go, Pete! a New Year’s celebration in New New England Rowing Champi- the Ferguson Jacobs Prize in Nellie Ruedig earned her York with fellow Paulies.” onship Women’s V8, Women’s Architecture at Carnegie Mellon master of economics degree Kat Greenbaum writes: “For Point Trophy, and Combined University. I used the prize to from the University of Michigan the last three years, I have been Team Point Trophy in Worces- study Stave Churches in Nor- in 2014 and is a graduate assis- working at Rockstar Games in ter, Mass. She is living in New way and am excited to present tant women’s rowing coach. Her N.Y.C. as an in-game photogra- York and works for Prestige an exhibit during the second boat, the novice 8, earned first pher, working on titles like Max Brands Holding Company, Inc. half of the fall semester.” place at the Big Tens! Payne 3 and Grand Theft Auto Kaye Verville sends her V. I’ve recently decided after news: “I recently moved back nearly seven years in the city to New York from Sydney, Aus- to make the coastal jump to Los tralia, where I’ve been living for Angeles at the end of this year the past 2.5 years. On the way to continue pursuing my career back, I met up with Charlotte in commercial photo production. Hickey in Israel to celebrate our I’m looking forward to seeing birthdays. Jessica McKenzie, some West Coast Paulies, and Beth McDaniel, and Charlotte would love to see any formmates who are living in L.A.” all attended my housewarming Coxswain Gwen Schoch ’10 raises her hands at the finish line after in August. I work as a senior Tommy Gerrity shares: winning the NCAA Division III V1 Women’s Eight National Cham- consultant in the Capital Mar- “Grant Gendron, Lars Oster- pionship and Women’s Team National Championship in Indianapolis. 50 DECEASED

The section was updated October 27, 1934 Outside of work, Dr. Millet was an avid 2014. Please note that deaths are John Bradford “Brad” Millet hunter and fisherman, a private pilot, and reported as we receive notice of them. a renowned sur- a formidable backgammon opponent for Therefore, alumni dates of death are not geon, whose family his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. always reported chronologically. called him “Fire- He belonged to the Adirondack League ball” because of Club, the Sadaquada Golf Club, the Har- 1934— John Bradford “Brad” Millet his vast energy, vard Club, and the Fort Schuyler Club, August 30, 2014 diverse hobbies, among others. He also served as poten- 1935— Charles Maitland Fair Jr. and deep curiosity, tate of the Ziyara Temple. July 28, 2014 died in Utica, N.Y., Dr. Millet remained active well into his on August 30, 2014, late 90s. He and his wife, Constance, were 1940— William Oliver Boswell Jr. at the age of 98. the lone representatives at the Form of October 23, 2013 Dr. Millet was born on August 8, 1916, 1934’s 75th Anniversary at SPS in 2009. 1940— J. Woodward “Woody” Redmond in Buffalo, N.Y. to John A.P. and Alice Dr. Millet was recognized as the most October 7, 2014 Murrell Millet. He spent his childhood on senior alumnus in attendance. He kept both sides of the Atlantic, living in Stock- in touch with the School, writing in 2013 1942— William Evarts Benjamin II September 21, 2014 bridge, Mass., and Broadway, England. He that he was recovering from a broken enrolled at St. Paul’s as a Second Former femur and was “ready to hit the golf course 1943— Robert Barr Deans Jr. in the fall of 1929. During his time at the again and work in my garden.” Not long August 13, 2014 School, he rowed with Shattuck, played before his death, Dr. Millet published his 1949— George Crouse Houser Jr. football, hockey, and squash for Isthmian, memoir, My Life as I Remember It. October 22, 2014 served on the Acolyte Guild, and was Dr. Millet is survived by his third wife, elected to the Cum Laude Society. Mary Edith Millet; his sons, John B. Millet 1954— Howard Cocks “Crow” He went on to Harvard, earning his and David F. Millet; his daughter, Polly W. Dickinson IV Millet; his stepchildren, Andrew D. Kurtz, October 8, 2014 B.S. in 1938, and continued on to Harvard Medical School. He completed his medical Leslie B. Wharton, Bruce D. Culp, and 1955— David Hurst Knott training at Massachusetts General Hospi- Douglas Culp, and their families; nine September 5, 2014 tal and served in the Army Medical Corps grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; and thirteen great-grandchildren. 1955— David Story Jenks Smith during World War II. He and his family September 30, 2014 later moved to Utica, N.Y., where he spent his entire career as a leading surgeon, 1935 1956— Yale Kneeland III specializing in general surgery, vascular Charles Maitland Fair Jr. August 25, 2014 surgery, and pulmonary surgery at a num- a Renaissance man, 1966— James Francis Cavanagh II ber of area hospitals. who excelled as a October 2, 2014 Dr. Millet was an innovative physician, scientist, editor, who held patents on several medical de- poet, banana 1969— Paul Joseph Vignos III vices and worked to bring new surgical importer, and com- July 11, 2014 techniques – including open-heart surgery puter company 1976— Justin Raymond Zak – to Upstate New York during the 1950s. executive, among May 21, 2014 He was a fellow of the American College other pursuits, of Chest Physicians and the American died of lymphoma 1978— Henry Resor Laughlin August 6, 2014 College of Surgeons and a member of in Wakefield, R.I., numerous regional and national medical on July 28, 2014. He was 97. 1984— Charles Andrew Villee societies. Born on September 18, 1916, in New December 11, 2013 On June 26, 1938, Dr. Millet married York City, he was the only child of Ger- Former Faculty Elizabeth Burgess Watson. The couple had trude (Bryan) and Charles Maitland Fair. Stephen John Becroft three children, but the marriage ended in He was raised in Manhattan and Oyster August 17, 2014 divorce. Dr. Millet married Constance Bay, N.Y., preparing for St. Paul’s at the Hopkins in 1974. The Millets were married Buckley School and the Fay School in for 38 years, before Constance died on Jan- Southborough, Mass. In the fall of 1930, uary 12, 2012, following a massive stroke. Mr. Fair entered the School as a Second

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Former and quickly took to the sciences, 1939 years as an investment counselor with earning two Dickey Prizes in physics dur- William Gordon “Gordy” Clark Dodge Investment Company in ing his five years at SPS. He was a member Lyle Jr. New York and then joined Wood Walker of the Scientific Association and the Cad- Investments Inc. on Wall St. He also ran mean Literary Society. his own investment advisory business. Mr. Fair attended Yale University before Mr. Lyle’s first marriage, to Helen beginning his multifaceted and expansive Niblack in 1944, ended in divorce. In 1967, career. In 1963, he was appointed a Guggen- he married Constance Brewer Kilgore. A heim Fellow at the UCLA Brain Research year later, the family moved to Westport, Institute. The following year, he became Conn., where Mr. Lyle became a director a resident scientist at the MIT Neurosci- of Richardson-Vicks Corp. He also served ences Research Program. Mr. Fair was as an investment and pension fund man- one of the few to have held that position ager for various Richardson interests for without the appropriate academic degree. a resident of Bishop Gadsden Retirement the next two decades. Mr. Lyle was an In addition to publishing a number of Community in Charleston, S.C., died on active member of St. Paul’s Church. papers on brain function, Mr. Fair authored May 11, 2014. He was 93. To escape the ice and snow, the Lyles three books on neuroscience: The Physical The son of Dr. W.G. Lyle and Leontine moved to Chalmers St. in Charleston, Foundations of the Psyche (1963); Memory de Sabla Lyle, Mr. Lyle was born at home S.C., in 1987. Mr. Lyle continued his and the Central Nervous Organization on East 80th St. in New York City on religious dedication at St. Philip’s Church (1988); and Cortical Memory Functions December 10, 1920. in Charleston, just a block away from the (1992). His nontechnical books were more He attended Allen-Stevenson School in family’s new home. popular and widely read, including From New York City before entering the Third Mr. Lyle was predeceased in 2010 by the Jaws of Victory, a best seller in Italy Form at St. Paul’s School in 1935. He com- his wife, Connie. He is survived by his and a Literary Book Club selection in the peted in baseball, and track for Delphian daughter, Lucy Lyle Tower; two grand- U.S., and The Dying Self, which was trans- and served as captain of the club’s foot- children, Aurora and Alfred; his sister, lated into German and Danish and sold ball and hockey teams. He also rowed for Leontine Lyle Harrower; and four step- well as a paperback. Shattuck. He earned a First Dickey Prize children, John Kilgore, Constance Kilgore In addition to his keen scientific intellect, in Science in 1936, First Testimonials in Utter, Ralph Kilgore, and Robert Kilgore. Mr. Fair found satisfaction in his passion 1937, and Second Testimonials twice. He for poetry and prose. He published light served as an acolyte, treasurer of the 1940 verse in Punch and The New Yorker, book Scientific Association, secretary of the William Oliver Boswell Jr. reviews in The Washington Post and The Library Association, vice president of the an Air Force vet- Providence Journal, and a regular column Cadmean Literary Society, vice president eran and dedicated in American Poetry Review. He also wrote of the Athletic Association, and a dorm community serv- and narrated the soundtrack for the orig- supervisor. ant, of Rochester, inal Salem Witch Museum in Salem, Mass. Mr. Lyle went on to Harvard, where he N.Y., died on Octo- Mr. Fair loved sailing, the Red Sox, good lettered three years in track and football ber 23, 2013, at the conversation, and jazz. He enjoyed play- and was remembered for the touchdown age of 92. ing the piano and the vibraphone. that won the 1942 Harvard-Princeton Born in Roches- He will be greatly missed by his wife of game. He graduated in 1943, then entered ter on July 8, 1921, 34 years, Louise (Sadler) Kiessling; his the U.S. Navy as a seaman, attending he was the son of daughter, Ellen Bryan Fair; and his daughter midshipman school in Chicago. He spent Alda and William Boswell (Form of 1892), and son-in-law, Katherine Healy Fair and a year as an instructor and subsequently and the nephew of Charles O. Boswell Raphael Colb. He was predeceased by his served as a deck officer in charge of anti- (Form of 1889). He prepared for SPS at son, Charles M. (Chip) Fair, and his former aircraft on the cruiser U.S.S. Little Rock. Allendale School in Rochester, entering wife, Kay (Ruddy) Fair. Entering civilian life, he worked for 10 the School as a Third Former in the fall of 1936. At SPS, Mr. Boswell was a member of the Acolyte Guild, Missionary Society, Dramatics Club, and Outing Club and served as treasurer of the Rifle Club. He also enjoyed club sports, representing Shattuck in crew and Isthmian in football, ice hockey, and squash.

52 Mr. Boswell attended Hobart College Family Fund (“Ambassadors of Song”) was In 1987, Mr. Willis traveled as a citizen in Geneva, N.Y., graduating in 1943. He established at SPS in 2011 by Mr. Willis’s ambassador to the People’s Republic of served two tours of duty with the U.S. son, Christopher H. Willis ’77. The fund is China for the People to People Interna- Air Force, first from 1944 to 1946 and used to support international trips made tional Delegation on Grain Processing. later from 1951 to 1953. by the St. Paul’s Choir. Four years later, Connecticut Governor Mr. Boswell spent his career in invest- Mr. Willis earned his B.A. in anthropol- Lowell P. Weicker appointed him to the ments and eventually retired from Getty ogy from Yale in 1949. From 1950 to 1952, Commission on Compensation of Elected Oil Company. Upon his retirement, he wrote he served in the 301st Radio Broadcasting Officials. He was national treasurer and to the School, “Am trying to become a great and Leaflet (RB&L) Group of the U.S. Army, a director of Girls, Inc. (formerly Girls cook and/or photographer.” He thoroughly a New York City reserve unit called into Clubs of America) for 18 years, and also enjoyed sports car racing as well. active duty and sent to Fort Riley, Kan., served on the human resources commit- Mr. Boswell was a board member and for training. Mr. Willis was then sent to tee of the YMCA of Greater New York. He volunteer worker for North East Area Europe to serve with the 6th Army Group’s was also devoted to the Capital Campaign Development (NEAD) of Rochester. He Psychological Warfare Unit in Heidelberg, for Yale, the Greenwich Health Associa- also served on a committee commissioned Germany, under the U.S. high commis- tion, and the Greenwich Hospital Assoc- by the United Way and the City of Roches- sioner, during the partitioning of war iation. From 1982 to 1987, he served as ter that reported on the effectiveness of countries between the Allied and Soviet the form agent for the Form of 1945. He human services. forces. In 1953, Mr. Willis and Mr. Gates was a communicant of St. Barnabas Church Mr. Boswell was predeceased by his Davison, a friend whom he met in the of Greenwich for 50 years and had been a wife, Una, and son, James T. Boswell ’71. Army, were invited by Gates’s father, F. member of its vestry and choir. He is survived by his son, Bill; his grand- Trubee Davison (a former president of A former governor of the Field Club of children, Patrick, Martha, and Nathan; the American Museum of Natural History), Greenwich, in 1979 Mr. Willis founded the and his brother, Charles P. Boswell ’44. to lead a scientific expedition to Mada- club’s Willis Lecture Series, which endures gascar for the museum after the elder Mr. today. In 2010, he was granted a rare hon- 1945 Davison was too ill to travel. Mr. Willis orary membership to the club for his many William H. Willis Jr. never forgot about this trip and would contributions over the years. An active a longtime resi- retell this great adventure often through- sportsman, he enjoyed tennis, squash, dent of Greenwich, out his life. golf, and sailing with his family off the Conn., died at his Two years after the trip, in 1955, Mr. coast of Mt. Desert Island in Maine. Mr. home on May 11, Willis married Pauline Sabin Smith in Willis was a former governor of both the 2014. He was 86. Washington, D.C. The couple raised Harbor Club and the Seal Harbor Yacht Born in Harris- three children. Club of Seal Harbor, Maine. He was also burg, Pa., on In his professional life, Mr. Willis became a longtime member of the Racquet and December 19, an international leader in the executive Tennis Club in New York. 1927, he was the search industry. He was a founding part- Mr. Willis was especially admired for son of William H. ner with Ian Baldwin ’29 of Devine, Bald- his integrity, loyalty, dry wit, and wonder- Willis and Elizabeth Keferstein Willis. Mr. win & Willis in New York City in 1965 and ful sense of humor. He loved to tell stories Willis attended The Landon School for in 1970 went on to establish William Willis of his global travels and, particularly, tales Boys in Washington, D.C., before entering Worldwide, an executive search company of amusing mishaps in foreign situations. St. Paul’s School as a Fifth Former in 1943. with offices in New York and Greenwich, He had a passion and enthusiasm for life, He played baseball, hockey, squash, and where he worked until his retirement which he shared with everyone. tennis with Delphian, rowed for Shattuck, in 2004. Mr. Willis was also the founding Mr. Willis is survived by his wife, and was a member of the drama club. chairman of the World Search Group, a Pauline; his daughter, Wendell Willis Music and Choir played an especially strategic alliance of 30 independent search Livingston, and her husband, Tom; his important role throughout Mr. Willis’s firms in the Americas, the Middle East, son, Christopher H. Willis ’77 and his life, starting at St. Paul’s School. He en- Africa, and Asia Pacific. Prior to entering wife, Cindy; his son, Gregory T. Willis joyed playing the piano and the organ. the executive search field, Mr. Willis had and his wife, Lois; seven grandchildren, Channing Lefebvre, the legendary Choir worked for the industrial textile division including Caroline K. Willis ’14 and George and Glee Club director at SPS, became a of Owens-Corning Fiberglas and for Heidel- H. Willis ’17. He was predeceased by his lifelong friend to Mr. Willis and encour- berg Eastern, Inc., American distributors sister, Elizabeth Willis Reid, and his brother, aged his participation with the Yale Choir of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, the L. Clayton Willis ’51. and Yale’s Alumni Choir. Mr. Willis also world’s largest manufacturers of offset sang in other prestigious locales through- and book printing machinery. out the world. The William H. Willis Jr. ’45

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1951 Reverend McCagg married Edlyn In his free time, Reverend McCagg en- Lauriston Hazard McCagg (Cantwell) McCagg in February 1963 and joyed acting with a semi-professional who lived a full the couple adopted a son, Edward Cantwell troupe, most especially in his 1972 role life as an adoptive McCagg. The arrival of his son helped “Mr.” as Dylan Thomas in Sydney Michael’s father, priest, McCagg make the decision to become “Dylan.” He wrote about the Arkansas semi-professional “Reverend” McCagg, saying that he felt he Gazette’s review of the play, which actor, and lover of should do something to make the world a cautioned audience members not to be fine automobiles, better place for his son. concerned that the title role was being died on December In 1969, feeling that deeper calling, he acted by an Episcopal priest because 19, 2013, after a graduated from Episcopal Seminary in “the obscenities flow from his tongue as long battle with Lexington, Ky. He was ordained as a deacon if they are psalms.” lung cancer. that year and became a priest in 1970. He It was during a routine chest X-ray in Reverend McCagg took advantage of served in parishes in Arkansas, Texas, September of 2011 that doctors discov- Washington’s Death with Dignity Act, Oregon, and Washington, frequently for ered two spots on Reverend McCagg’s seeking assistance to end his own life little or no pay to assist congregations lungs that turned out to be malignant. He with a prescription drug “cocktail.” He in need. was given six months to live and, though announced his own death in an auto- In his auto-obituary, Reverend McCagg he declined chemotherapy as a treatment obituary timed for distribution after he listed events that were “personally signif- option, he was proud to have beaten the successfully executed his plan to die on icant in this old man’s life,” including his odds and determined to end life on his his own terms. embarrassment that he “goofed” the own terms. He described in his obituary Born in New York City on January 23, Stanford-Binet IQ test in first grade by his struggle to breathe, even with two 1934, to Edward King McCagg and Rosalind missing a word problem involving apples. liters of oxygen pumping into his lungs Barnum McCagg, Reverend McCagg was In 1943, Reverend McCagg was enrolled every minute, and his relief that he could educated at Rippowam School in Bedford, in a special Saturday music program at make a choice to end his suffering. “I have N.Y., before entering St. Paul’s as a Second Juilliard, which he hated because it limited reached the last significant turning point Former in the fall of 1946. He came from his time to play with friends. His first car, of my life,” he wrote. “It’s called death.” a family of St. Paul’s graduates, including purchased in 1949, was a 1924 American As a resident of Battle Ground, Wash., his father, Edward McCagg of the Form LaFrance fire engine, bought at a junk Reverend McCagg decided to take advan- of 1920, and his grandfather, William H. yard for $175. The vehicle was featured in tage of the state’s Death with Dignity Act, Barnum of the Form of 1901. At SPS, Rev- an article in Parade magazine. His car choosing to swallow 100 Seconal tablets erend McCagg participated in the Library collection eventually included a 1956 to accelerate a quick and painless death. Association, Glee Club, Missionary Society, Rolls Royce and a 1938 Jaguar. He lived “The process is easy,” he wrote. “So Propylean Literary Society, Acolyte Guild, in Hawaii for a while in the late 1950s, please don’t feel sad for me; I’m glad for and Choir. He also enjoyed rowing with Hal- quit a “career-type job” with Hawaiian me. It beats the fool out of death by as- cyon, and playing football and ice hockey Dredging & Construction Co., and sailed phyxiation. And with those words, goodbye! with Delphian. He participated in theater for a time aboard a 72-foot schooner. To one degree or another, each of you has and played the piano. At graduation, he Reverend and Mrs. McCagg, who pre- touched my life, has made it worth living, was awarded the Howe Music Prize. deceased her husband in 1993, opened and I thank you. And what I may have He went on to Yale, graduating with the their home to several “adoptive” sons. done for some of you? The influence of Class of 1955. He was a member of the The boys came from hard family situa- the pelican in the St Paul’s School emblem Society of Orpheus and Bacchus, a branch tions or had fallen in with bad crowds. has made it a cheerful endeavor. If I’m to of the Yale Glee Club. He sang with the All told, the couple helped 11 young men be remembered for anything significant, group in 1952 and managed the Yale Glee get back on their feet. Reverend McCagg it’s for John 15:13. That’s laying down a Club from 1953 to 1955. His career included wrote lovingly in his obituary of his 12 life, not a death. And, damn, I’ve enjoyed it!” work in a variety of fields, including ad- “sons” and of the 15 children who call vertising, architectural monitoring, sales, him Grandpa. and heavy construction management.

54 1956 In the mid-1970s, Mr. Kneeland dis- 1962 Yale Kneeland III covered a way to combine two of his pas- Peter Caldwell Wylie sions – art and tools, when he became an a retired JAG art conservator. He studied conservation Corps captain, at New York University’s Institute of Fine who devoted his Arts and went to work in the Objects career to the Conservation Department at the Metro- service of his politan Museum of Art, where he served country and his from 1976 to 2008. One of his early im- family, died on portant assignments at the museum was June 26, 2014, in to curate the famous collection from the Alexandria, tomb of King Tutankhamun while it toured Virginia, after a of Hadlyme, Conn., died suddenly on the United States. Mr. Kneeland was highly period of declining health. He was 69. August 25, 2014. He was 76. regarded within the Metropolitan Museum Born March 15, 1945, in Summit, N.J., Mr. Kneeland was born on December 30, and by conservation departments around to the late Rear Admiral Joseph Caldwell 1937, to Dr. Yale Kneeland Jr. and Mrs. the world. Toward the end of his life, he Wylie and Harriette Bahney “Bonnie” Deborah Dyer Kneeland of New York, served as a trustee at the Florence Griswold Wylie, Captain Wylie spent his childhood and attended St. Bernard’s School in Museum in Old Lyme, Conn. moving frequently for his father’s career. New York City before entering St. Paul’s The diversity of his experiences and his In retirement, Rear Admiral Wylie served School as a First Former. wide-ranging friendships bear testament as one of the founders of the USS Consti- Mr. Kneeland was athletic and adven- to the fact that Mr. Kneeland – more than tution Museum at Charlestown, Mass. turous, a strong boy who rose to a posi- most of us – lived life as he wanted. He Captain Wylie found academic stability tion of respect and leadership at the was smart, direct, affable, warm, and and lifelong friends in his St. Paul’s years, School. He played SPS and Old Hundred funny. He could adapt to any situation entering the School as a Third Former in football, captaining the club team in 1955. and embraced people for who they were. the fall of 1958. While at St. Paul’s, he par- He rowed for the first Halcyon crew and He made friends with everyone he met, in ticipated in numerous activities, including captained the SPS boxing team, earning every sphere of his life, and his happiness the Concordian Literary Society, the Cum the Hart Boxing Belt title in 1955 and 1956. was infectious. Laude Society, Glee Club, and the Mathe- Mr. Kneeland served as vice president Mr. Kneeland was loved deeply by his matics Team. He played soccer for Isthmian of the Athletic Association, treasurer of family, which extended from the U.S. to and enjoyed rowing and squash as well. the Scientific Association, and a member Australia. He is survived by his wife, Judy He served as president of the Rifle Club. of the Missionary Society and the Library Cotton, their son, Timothy Cotton ’81, and As a member of the Spanish club, La Association. his granddaughter, Juliette, whom he was Junta, he won first prize in the 1961 Mr. Kneeland went on to Yale, where he able to welcome into the world last sum- Spoken Spanish Contest. rowed with the varsity lightweight crew mer. A memorial service to celebrate Yale Captain Wylie, who graduated from and played polo. After graduating in 1963 Kneeland’s life is planned for Thursday, Princeton in 1966 and earned his law with a B.A. in history, he served in the January 15, 2015, at 5:30 p.m. at the Yale degree from the University of Virginia U.S. Army and was stationed in Hawaii. Club, 50 Vanderbilt Ave., New York, N.Y. in 1969. He was honored with the Bronze He became an accomplished surfer during Star with combat “V” for his service in his tour of duty. Mr. Kneeland was also a Vietnam. His love for the sea and his de- member of the Millbrook fox hunt and, votion to the sailors he counseled made after his discharge from the Army, worked Captain Wylie a natural for the Navy JAG as a cowboy on a cattle ranch in Arizona. Corps. Captain Wylie married Lieutenant He later earned his M.B.A. from Columbia Commander Carolina Clair in December University and worked for several years of 1975, while she was a student at the as a banker before changing course to Naval War College in Rhode Island. The become a professional race car driver, couple raised two children, Peter Jr. and which deepened his lifelong love for cars Jamie Elizabeth. and driving.

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His service assignments included duty 1969 In 2000, Massachusetts Governor Paul aboard the USS Independence and posts Joseph Monroe Walker III Cellucci appointed Judge Walker to his as a legislative liaison to the United States seat on the Superior Court, which has Congress, assistant staff judge advocate original jurisdiction in serious civil cases, in London, and fleet judge advocate to the first-degree murder cases, and all other commander, Sixth Fleet, in Italy. Captain felony matters. Whether presiding over Wylie served as general counsel to the a civil or criminal case, Judge Walker ex- Military Officers Association of America plained in a 2010 interview with St. Paul’s, for 14 years, following his retirement it is necessary to facilitate jurors’ access from active duty. to accurate and reliable evidence and, He also served the St. Paul’s commu- therefore, their abilities to use common nity as the Form of 1962’s main agent for sense in evaluating it. In addition to help- nine years and as its form director for esteemed jurist, who spent his entire ing juries work through the facts of a four years. legal career as a public servant, first as a case, Judge Walker strived to educate the Above all, Captain Wylie was a family federal prosecutor and most recently as public about the legal system. man. He was extremely proud of his two an associate justice of the Massachusetts “It’s not like what’s on CSI and Law and children, who both went on to careers in Superior Court, died in his sleep in his Order,” he said. “We want to ensure that the theatre arts. When asked how two West Roxbury, Mass., home on July 8, people aren’t disappointed and that they military officers raised two thespians, the 2014. He was 63. understand the limits of actual government.” family joke was, “Actors/lawyers, lawyers/ Born September 17, 1950, in Winston- At the same time, Judge Walker worked actors – what’s the difference?” He main- Salem, N.C., the son of Joseph M. and hard to foster a better understanding of tained lifelong friendships with many. Melanie C. Walker, Joe Walker attended the justice system for every juror who His wife called Captain Wylie a “Renais- St. Benedict the Moor School before came through his courtroom. “If my jurors sance jock” for his many hobbies and enrolling at St. Paul’s in 1964. He served leave a case feeling that we treated them interests. His 1953 MG TD is still in the as co-chairman of the SPS Racial Action well, respected them, and tried not to family’s garage, along with his squash Committee and participated on the Stu- waste their time” he said, “then they have and tennis racquets. He also maintained dent Council, in the Glee Club, Le Cercle as equal an interest in the outcome as the a large stamp collection. Français, and the Missionary Society. He involved parties do. I think that helps At an Episcopal service celebrating his wrote for The Pelican and played varsity bolster confidence in the justice system.” life in July, Captain Wylie’s daughter, basketball and lacrosse. After his 1969 graduation from St. Paul’s, Jamie, delivered a loving remembrance of A 1973 graduate of Harvard College, Judge Walker’s relationship with the her father. Among other memories, she where he studied and played varsity School never wavered, as he returned mentioned that “underneath that sensible lacrosse, Judge Walker earned a master’s during graduate school to be an intern Navy facade was the soul of a Beatles and in education from Harvard and his law with the Advanced Studies Program. He ABBA fan.” She also noted that her father degree from the University of California, later served on the ASP Advisory Board often told people that the TV series JAG Berkeley, in 1978. With his J.D., he accepted and spent a year (1974-75) on the SPS was based on his career – and they a post as assistant district attorney faculty. From 1985 to 2003, he volun- believed him. in Oakland, Calif., then later moved to teered as a regional representative for “At the end of Sunday services,” added Massachusetts, where he served in the the School, and, in 1998, he was appoint- Jamie Wylie, “after the celebrant says, ‘Go same position for Suffolk County, before ed to the SPS Board of Trustees, serving in peace to love and serve the Lord,’ and being named an assistant U.S. attorney until 2007, including a term as clerk. Just the congregation responds, ‘thanks be to for the Bay State. In 1994, Governor Wil- prior to his 45th SPS reunion last spring, God,’ Dad would add ‘Beat Army!’” liam Weld appointed him to the bench of his formmates elected him their next Captain Wylie’s burial, with full military the Dorchester District Court, where, Judge form director. He died just a month after honors, was scheduled for November 4, Walker reported to Alumni Horae, “Work- reuniting with old friends and formmates 2014, at Arlington National Cemetery. ing within an urban community seem- at Anniversary Weekend. He is survived by his wife, Carolina ingly choking with gangs, drugs, and Joe Walker’s intelligence, warmth, and “Clair” Wylie; his son, Peter, and his guns, I must constantly remind myself judicial temperament were much noted in daughter, Jamie; and his sister, Captain that there are thousands of hardworking, tributes from his many St. Paul’s friends Elizabeth G. “Betsy” Wylie, USN (ret.). At upright Dorchester citizens, just trying following his death. His professional col- Captain Wylie’s service, he was remem- to exist in peace.” leagues were likewise saddened. “With his bered with a reading from St. Paul’s calm demeanor and affable manner, Judge second letter to Timothy: “I have fought Walker was well liked and well regarded the good fight, I have finished the race, I by court employees, judges, and the bar,” have kept the faith….”

56 said Superior Court Chief Justice Barbara She followed her older brother, Matt, to J. Rouse. “We will remember his steadfast, St. Paul’s as a Third Former in the fall of dignified presence on the bench, his com- 1977. Ms. Soule excelled in and out of the mitment to justice, and his wonderful, classroom at SPS, captaining the girls wry sense of humor.” varsity soccer team and playing varsity In a note in The Boston Globe addressed squash and lacrosse. She served as head to Judge Walker’s family and friends, the acolyte and vice president of the employees of Middlesex Superior Court Missionary Society. At graduation, she wrote, “We at the Middlesex Superior received her diploma magna cum laude Court had a special place in our hearts and was awarded the Dr. Everett P. Smith for the Judge. He was a great joy to work Prize for contributing “conspicuously to with and just fun at times to shoot the the morale and well-being of the School, breeze with. We are all better off for hav- its students, or the community.” ing known him.” Ms. Soule went on to Princeton Uni- Surviving Joe Walker are his sister, versity, where she played squash and Melanie Walker Harewood, her husband, majored in history. She graduated in Dr. Ivor Harewood, and the judge’s beloved 1985, before eventually continuing on to niece, Dr. Meredith Eileen Harewood, all Vanderbilt University’s Graduate School of Los Angeles. of Nursing, from which she graduated with high honors. She possessed a gen- 1981 uine curiosity and love of learning that Diana Kristen Soule matched an impressive work ethic. a devoted nurse Following her education, she served for practitioner and 10 years as a nurse practitioner with beloved family hospice in Los Angeles, before returning member, known to Concord, where she was a volunteer for her kindness, at Concord Hospital’s Therapeutic Arts genuine sense of Department for more than a decade. humor, and gentle Highly respected in her field, Ms. Soule manner, died in a was a member of the National Honor car accident in Society for Nurses. Canterbury, N.H., Dedicated to helping others, Ms. Soule on June 7, 2014. Her funeral was attended was an advocate in college for Oxfam by dozens of members of the St. Paul’s America. She continued to demonstrate School community – past and present. her commitment to helping others through Born in Concord, N.H., on Christmas her work with Memorial Sloan Kettering Day, December 25, 1962, Ms. Soule was Cancer Center in New York City and the youngest child of Genevieve (Herlihy) through her professional work, which Soule and the late Dr. Webster Soule. touched both the East and West U.S. coasts. Diana developed an instant and lifelong At a service in Concord to celebrate the bond with her father on the day of her life of Ms. Soule, her brother, Matt, spoke birth. Concord Hospital was quiet because about their happy childhood together. He of the holiday, and the doctor on call did described her as kind and compassionate, not make it in time to deliver Diana, so and how that was her great power. Though Dr. Soule delivered his own baby girl. she had no children of her own, she was Ms. Soule spent her youth in Concord, proud of the accomplishments of her attending public schools in the city and many nieces and nephews, who, in many walking with her older brother, Matthew ways, reflect her patience, kindness, Soule ’77, to school each day from the and modesty. family’s house on Merrimack Street before Ms. Soule is survived by her mother, the Soules moved to a home on Mountain Genevieve; her sisters, Genevieve House, Road in East Concord. She was an accom- Virginia Norton, and Andrea Soule, plished equestrian, who loved riding and and their families; her brother, Matthew caring for horses, and was a joyous mem- Soule ’77, and his family; six nieces; and ber of 4-H and the Pony Club. three nephews. She was predeceased in 1992 by her father, Dr. Webster Soule. 57 SPOTLIGHT

Military Miniaturist Shep Paine ’64 by Jana F. Brown

Paine, who is known as one of the world’s always been consumed by artistic pur- best military miniaturists. suits. He was a Fifth Former at St. Paul’s The secret to the eyes, explains Paine, when he began to experiment with com- is a sharp-pointed brush, but not simply bining his love of art with his affinity to dot a painted eye into place. “Eyes are for history. He spent his spare time in important because they are the windows his final two years at SPS painting to the soul,” he says. “When people look 20mm-high plastic figures (about the at my work, they may not know about the length of one knuckle), forming them history of costuming, or about the lives up into regiments along the wainscoted of those portrayed, but they look at the molding of his dorm room in Wing. faces first. They have to have character.” By the time he had completed his mili- Paine developed a passion for history tary service with the U.S. Army and was during his years at St. Paul’s and, while studying humanities, history, art, and Austrian drummer, 1813 (54 mm figure) he found the events of the past inter- literature at the University of Chicago, esting in their own right, he was more Paine had more than doubled the scale Shep Paine ’64 admits that sometimes, drawn to the people who made the of his figures to 54mm, crafting them when his job comes up at cocktail par- events happen. out of two-part epoxy putty, with a ties, people glaze over as he’s discussing “You meet more interesting people particular focus on figures from the his passion for military miniatures. But and make more interesting friends if Napoleonic period, an era in history that there’s one question that is particularly you don’t limit yourself to the ones who attracted him because of the fascinating pressing to those who are interested in are alive,” he says. “History is really the characters it produced. hearing about his uncommon career. history of people.” “People began wanting to buy them “The usual question is, ‘How do you Although he had not previously con- and I started putting myself through get those little eyes in there?’” says sidered himself an artist, Paine had college by selling these figures,” he says.

58 The gun deck of HMS Victory at Trafalgar, 1805

“It was the ideal college job because I could – for modelers and fellow diorama position in the hobby,” DeRogatis says. make them when I wanted to make them.” enthusiasts. “Think Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Elvis, In his career in this niche field, Paine “Shep’s biggest talents as a miniaturist all combined.” has used his broad knowledge of military are imagination and storytelling,” says Paine describes his own work as detail- history to create pieces for private col- DeRogatis. “For sheer technique, others oriented, both because of the care with lections, museums, and other large insti- have been better painters or sculptors. which he studies the figures and his close tutions, including the Franklin Mint. His But Shep has been able to draw the viewer examination of the periods in which they models and figures reflect his interest in for into his work in a way that no one else lived. His passion for research has allowed the Napoleonic era, the Civil War, World ever has matched, via the power of the him to be an archaeologist of sorts, dig- War I, and World War II (not to mention stories he told, much like a great direc- ging through history to reproduce every- fantasia, including a scene from The tor in the theater or cinema, and the thing from expression to stance to “trying Hobbit, and from famous works of art). unique and distinctive touches – whim- to figure out what these people would Jim DeRogatis, a fellow modeler who sical, poignant, humorous, or pure imag- have in their pockets.” For his model of recently released a biography of Paine, ination that could keep you endlessly Rembrandt’s Night Watch, he incorpo- calls him “arguably the best-known glued to his pieces.” rated missing figures, which had been military miniaturist in the world….He has Two artists, according to DeRogatis, cut from the painting when framed. But done more than anyone else to elevate who have come close to but never ex- even though his topics are serious, he is modeling to the level of an art form, ceeded the acclaim Paine garnered in careful not to take his work too seriously. one that includes elements of painting, the field are California miniaturist Bill “It has been fun,” he says. “But I don’t sculpting, historical research, and vivid Horan and Swedish artist Mike Blank, take it too seriously. Like anything, when storytelling.” An online biography of who has been at the top of the field for you start getting involved in the detail Paine describes him as a “champion of the last decade, since Paine declared semi- work, you can start losing sight of the the diorama” who has written numerous retirement from the pursuit. forest through the trees. I hope I have how-to manuals – and a handful of books “But Shep really has occupied a singular never lost sight of the forest.”

59 FACETIME Michel Martin ’76 In the aftermath of the shooting of teen- where there are no sidewalks. A lot of ager Michael Brown by a police officer black people felt they had been targets of in Ferguson, Missouri, National Public very aggressive policing. Radio’s Michel Martin ’76 was invited People were upset and they exercised by St. Louis Public Radio to moderate a their right to protest. But there were community conversation (“Ferguson and also people in the community who did Beyond”) in the shaken city. The two-hour not appreciate the days of disorder, the public event drew more than 200 people impact on local businesses, outsiders in- to Ferguson’s Wellspring Church. stigating behavior that was not acceptable.

My role was to be a moderator, and it My role in this was to help us have a was not a small thing. St. Louis Public good conversation, though we may Radio asked me to facilitate a community not agree on what that means. I felt that if people left feeling some truth had conversation, and they made some critical AUGUST JENNEWEIN / ST. LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO decisions. The first was to have the con- been spoken, that everybody had been versation at a church in the community heard, then it would feel worthwhile. I take in the governance of their own com- as opposed to at the radio station. The feel we accomplished that and let people munity. People need to participate in gov- critical decision [NPR] helped them make express themselves in a way that was un- ernment so they have a standing to lodge was to be sure responsible people in gov- comfortable – but necessary – for some complaints. ernment were part of the conversation. people to experience. The room was full One thing we have learned from this and everybody stayed. It was not just young African-American event is that structures matter. The people who spoke up, but some of the One of the points a lot of people made way people do their jobs matters. The white constituents – parents spoke up was that it wasn’t just about Ferguson. police chief in Ferguson apologized to and said we don’t like the way the whole I’m not sure people understand that there the family for the way Michael Brown’s situation has transpired; we are equally are a lot of small towns where the bound- remains were handled. He had clearly concerned. They said they don’t like that aries are not always clear. We heard from absorbed some of the hurt that had been this community is not safe for everyone. people who feel there is a really hostile and expressed and understood and heard it. The young [African-American] students antagonistic attitude between authorities If you look at the issues in which were not expecting to hear that. They and people in the community. The lack of black and white people have very didn’t realize they had allies. That made diversity in the Ferguson Police Depart- strong differences of opinion, a lot for some powerful moments. ment was visible, and there are no legis- of it centers on law enforcement. lators of color. The recently retired city Black people feel abused and that they I am not sure the mayor of Ferguson councilor said turnout in local elections are treated with a lack of respect from understood that this was not just about is low and asked people why they are not people who are there to protect them. Michael Brown being shot and unarmed, participating. Where is their accounta- Relationships matter. How many white, but his body lay in the street for hours, in bility in terms of participation in select- middle class people did not understand full view of many, including his mother. I ing the people who will govern their city? don’t know that he understood the full im- how the black young people were routine- pact of that. I asked him if he was inclined The conversation was called Ferguson ly treated in Ferguson? It was important to apologize to Michael Brown’s parents, and Beyond and that had dual mean- to understand there were other people and he said they had not approached him, ing. The question is: What are people in in the community who cared about but he would consider it if they did. It was this particular community going to do to get that. People do care about this, whether an interesting experience in that people beyond this, now that the questions are on or not they are directly affected by it. had a chance to hear from neighbors in the table? If people are not satisfied with How law enforcement conducts itself a way they had not previously, and it was the answers from elected officials, what does matter. the same for officials and constituents. are they going to do to hold themselves I don’t yet have plans to return to and their community leaders accountable? I thought it would be emotional, and it Ferguson, but I do have a desire to was. We came early to do reporting and we The conversation was broadcast in 26 go back. A number of people from the saw the heavy police presence in Ferguson, cities, and the questions were relevant community have reached out to me and saw cars pulling people over aggressively. to other parts of the country, too. There asked me to come back. I am looking for There was one gentleman who said he had is a disconnect in how the people are served an opportunity to figure out what makes $300 in jaywalking fines in a community by their leaders and what role they should sense. 60 Shareloyalty your

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