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Oak Leaves Summer 2017 Nonprofit Org. US POSTAGE PAID Summer 2017 Permit No. 259 Newburgh, NY Address Service Requested ONEWSLETTER FROMa OAKWOODk FRIENDS SCHOOL • CELEBRATINLG OVER e210 YEARS OaF FRIENDS EveDUCATION IN THE HUDSOsN VALLEY 2017-2018 Fall/Winter School Calendar October 24 Work Share Day October 27 Parents’ Weekend Reception at Oakwood Celebrates New Solar Array Head’s House, 4:00pm November 8 Breakfast with the Head, 8:30am leave eventually, and hopefully have found won- and application of Quaker meeting process, November 10 Parent Dinner, 6:00pm derful new nesting sites elsewhere on our campus. the board wholeheartedly chose to proceed. November 10-11 Fall Production, 7:30pm It is that kind of long-term, forward think- December 3 11th Grade College Planning & Chad talked about the tangible benefits of this ing that creates and sustains great institutions. Family Dinner project – reducing Oakwood’s energy costs and, consistent with our Quaker-based com- Thank you all for coming.” December 12 Holiday Concert, 7:00pm mitment to stewardship, dramatically reduc- January 5 Winter Reunion ing Oakwood’s carbon footprint. I would January 11 Breakfast with the Head, 8:30am like to talk about this project as a living January 27 Wine Dinner & Auction, 6:30pm demonstration of Quaker decision process. Thank you for your support! February 23 Parent Dinner, 6:00pm Our solar array represents a twenty-five year 2016-2017 Annual Fund February 23- 24 Winter Production, 7:30pm commitment with our commercial partners. Giv- Exceeds Goal! en the long-term implications, Oakwood’s board See Annual Gifts Report Visit us at www.oakwoodfriends.org deliberated in depth about this project over sev- eral meetings, true to the Quaker principle of In center section. avoiding haste when making a decision of great import. In the end, through careful consideration Student Clerk, Mimi Taariq ’17 16 Summer 2017 NEWSLETTER FOR ALUMNI AND MEMBERS OF THE OAKWOOD FRIENDS COMMUNITY On May 12, 2017, Oakwood Friends School cele- brated the official launch of its solar array. Student Jonathan Flaccus ’58 Endows clerk Mimi Taariq ’17 welcomed board members, Oakwood’s Commencement on June 9, 2017 faculty, students, parents, alumni and guests rep- resenting Dutchess County, the Town of Pough- Native American Fund keepsie, New York State (NYSERDA), Central A leadership donor to Oakwood Friends School Hudson, and Earthkind Energy. Don Spencer, over many years, Jonathan Flaccus, class of 1958, president of the board, shared these remarks: decided he wanted to do more to support Oak- wood’s diverse student body. Inspired by the “Welcome everyone. Creating this magnificent so- School’s celebration of Lakota Culture and the lar array required collaboration by many people activism of rising senior, Shai Black Bird, Jona- and constituencies, including the Oakwood board. than found a way to combine his life-long in- terest and concern for the rights of indigenous I would especially like to thank Phil Richmond people with support for the Oakwood com- ’67, who was the architect of this project, and munity by creating the Native American Fund. Fred Doneit, who sweated the details every Income from the fund will provide scholar- step of the way. I would also acknowledge the ship for Native American students at Oakwood tireless help we received from Troy Alexander, and support programming about the culture husband of board member Mary Alexander, and heritage of indigenous people. Last April, who performed our legal review and explained Jonathan joined his friend, Professor John Wil- the multi-section contract with Solar City in lis of Marlboro College, for a visit to campus on ways that the board could readily understand. Earthshare Day where they participated in the raising of an 18’ tipi and discussion of Lakota Chad Cianfrani is too modest to acknowledge his symbols and cosmology. Professor Willis gave own contributions, so I’ll do it. Chad immersed a presentation to the school community about himself into every aspect of this project, from his work as a photographer and the program he scheduling the work, winning favorable intercon- founded, The Exposures Cross-Cultural Youth nect terms from the local utility, securing zoning Creative Arts Exchange. Each year, John brings approvals from the Town of Poughkeepsie, and Brandace Ryles, Jiayu Xu, Yicheng (Mark) Shen, Chujun (Olivia) Qiu, Zo Phia DiSanto, Yanling (Connie) Huang, Malachi (Mac) Hales, students and volunteer staff to the Pine Ridge Bottom Row: amicably and respectfully addressing questions Asha Amberslie Jingyi (Peter) Chen, Moss Sherman, Aminah (Mimi) Taariq, Enid Swatson, Basira Daqiq, Sophie Poux, Siwen (Tanya) Wang, Reservation in South Dakota where they col- 2nd Row: and concerns from our neighbors. What im- Tingjing (Komi) Tong, Xinzhe (Kimi) Jiang Max Newman-Henriquez, Liam Crannell, Phing Ngyuen, Bianca Luna-Lupercio, Jabreel Harrell, laborate with schools and organizations on the 3rd Row: pressed me the most was Chad’s remarkable pa- Alice Flanagan, Mahak Varma, Renjie (Jerry) Shao, Sumara (Sumi) Cruz, Ada Liang, Yuerong (Lydia) Tang, Hunter Ortreger Robert Cheng, reservation to share photography and life stories. 4th Row: tience when we learned that we had to delay site Professor John Willis, Shai Black Bird ’18, and Yinou (Spark) Kong, Cade (CJ) Nutting, Eisei Maeyama, Alexandria Weinraub, Junzhi (Cowley) Chen Owen Sullivan, Khari Wilmore, Top Row: clearance until the bats nesting in our trees left to We are grateful to Jonathan Flaccus for his generosity Jonathan Flaccus ’58 on Earthshare Day in April. Lisandro Chihuahua, Melina Sefuku, Dylan Bimka-Wintrob, Nai'lah Taariq, Matthew Voorhees, Alexander Gribas, Guoqing (James) Zhang, Benjamin go hibernate in caves somewhere. The bats did and care of Oakwood Friends School students. Hrong Not pictured: Zirui (Erwin) Fang, Zaneta Soumbounou and Yumin (Michael) Zhu 2 Summer 2017 NEWSLETTER FOR ALUMNI AND MEMBERS OF THE OAKWOOD FRIENDS COMMUNITY CELEBRATING OVER 210 YEARS OF FRIENDS EDUCATION IN THE HUDSON VALLEY Summer 2017 15 Looking Up and Looking Forward Chris Ishimwe ’18 Remembering by Chad Cianfrani, Head of School New Clerk A giddy kid was running around campus Susannah (Sukey) Stone Eldridge ’59 a few weeks ago sharing pairs of two- dollar solar glasses with anyone he could A memorial service will be held to cele- (Midge) Stone Leavitt ’62, and her step-moth- IN MEMORY find. Pulling co-workers off tractors and brate the life of Susannah Stone Eldridge on er, Jeannette Stone. She is survived and loving- lawnmowers, interrupting the stone mason Saturday, November 25th, 2:00 pm, in the ly remembered by her older sister, Deborah Shirley Baumbusch Bergmann ’39 pouring a new sidewalk, grabbing faculty, Meeting Room at Oakwood Friends School. Stone ’58, her nephew, Erik Nelson ’82, and October 27, 2016 administrators and parents who were pick- many other family members and friends. ing up children from summer camp; ev- Susannah passed away on July 28, 2017. Arik Brissenden ’43 eryone had a similar awed reaction when She retired several years ago from teaching January 6, 2016 viewing the 75% eclipse for the first time. at The Children’s Preschool in New Haven, From the crescent shaped shadows cast to where she drew on her love of children and the visible dip in the solar array produc- George Kouri ’46 families and her deep understanding of child May 19, 2017 tion to the live footage from multiple cit- development. Previously she had taught at ies across the country, we took a few mo- the Yale Divinity Nursery School and di- ments to pause in that collective experience. Eleanor Teidemann Betts ’53 Looking up at the solar eclipse on August 21st rected Leila Day, a preschool also located in New Haven. Before coming to New Haven October 31, 2016 from Philadelphia, Susannah was co-director occasionally caught in the currents and ed- of Hall Mercer Hospital’s Center for Children Mary Barnard Homans ’53 dies of these waters. Although sometime as- and Families, an innovative program to sup- June 12, 2017 sociated with chaos and unrest, turbulence Chris Ishimwe ’18 with his brother port parents with young children at risk. also acts as a powerful agent of change at Parfait Bizimana ’16 Michael Heningburg ’55 points of instability. Agitation promotes Sukey (as her family and childhood friends August 23, 2016 mixing of ideas, dissipates energy and tends Chris Ishimwe ’18 has been selected by knew her) was a voracious reader and an towards a state of order. The same holds the school community to serve as student enthusiastic traveler and was a loving fam- Susannah ‘Sukey’ Stone Eldridge ’59 true whether that turbulence arises from clerk for 2017-2018. In a first for Oakwood, ily member and friend. She will long be July 28, 2017 Chris is following in the leadership foot- vortex shedding off a wingtip or from con- remembered for her sweet kindness, her flicting viewpoints on the national stage. In steps of his older brother, Parfait Bizimana, love of theater, her wonderful sense of Deborah Stone ’58 with her sister who served as student clerk in 2015-2016. Linda Smith Quandt ’67 either case, I see the Oakwood faculty as humor and skill as a joke and story teller, Susannah Stone Eldridge ’59 June 28, 2017 uniquely positioned to help our communi- for her abhorrence of unfairness and cru- ty question, engage, reflect, learn and act. Chris is an international student from Ki- elty, her passionate engagement with life. gali, Rwanda, and Oakwood is his home Barbara Beasley Sorlien ’56 Those few moments running around sharing As new families join returning families, we away from home. In addition to his rigorous April 5, 2017 She grew up in Poughkeepsie, NY, where glasses with anyone I could find reminded me draw on our collective strengths and talents, academic schedule, he is fully immersed in her father taught at Vassar College and her of the joys, possibilities and responsibilities listening deeply to one another and learn- the life of the school.
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