Only Connect
The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools Annual Report 2015 we spark creativity we nurture scholarship
When we connect
we inspire confidence we create lifelong learners
More than a century ago, John Whether between student and Dewey imagined an ideal society teacher, between parent and school, we ignite curiosity and learning community. He between school and the world, these started to bring that vision to life connections, to one another and our here at Lab and it is in our human broader community, allow Lab to connection that we provide the continue to be its best. sure footing for its success.
02 03 Lab’s growth and new (and renovated) spaces have inspired, reshaped, or made possible new approaches and expanded programs.
The past decade has been one of and expanded programs. These ways of understanding the world. In academic life, and physical plant. the most dynamic in Lab’s history. activities have brought our divisions doing so our graduates will continue He leaves a truly remarkable legacy. During this time we have watched and students together around to create, problem-solve, learn, and A school he describes as “magical” the new blend beautifully with projects and activities that benefit yes, connect, to the issues of our is more so because of him. the old, an idea clearly manifest our learning community. They society, to the ideas of the world, We look forward to sharing the by the vista that is the new connect us in new ways and allow and to the hearts of others. successes of our students, faculty, Gordon Parks Arts Hall, Belfield us to see the world, problems, You are among the many who have and community with you in this Tower (circa 1904), and Judd Hall challenges, and opportunities helped to make this year a success. next year. (1931). Traditional and modern through new lenses. Without the support of our families, resonate; past and future are From the Director Gordon Parks made a life looking alumni, and friends, Lab would Warmest regards, right here before us. The sight is through a lens, and the career he not be able to do so much for our and Board Chair amazing: a long awaited addition started with a camera ultimately students. We offer a special thank Dear Lab to the facilities that support Lab’s allowed him to explore the world you to John W. Rogers, Jr., ’76, who teaching and learning. and humankind through a multitude stepped down in June as Lab’s Robin Appleby More importantly, Lab’s growth of media: film, music, poetry, fiction, board chair. John has devoted years Director and new (and renovated) spaces autobiography. It is our hope that of his life to Lab and the University have inspired, reshaped, or every one of our students will be in many capacities. He loves this David Kistenbroker made possible new approaches able to use his or her experience at school and has done much to Chair, Board of Directors Lab to find his or her own voice and enhance Lab’s athletics program,
04 05 Adults at Lab never underestimate the The Buddy Program pairs children in Primary School knowledge that different grades (some classes placed QR each child brings to across campuses, codes alongside poems class. That mutual others down the stairs.) on the walls of Earl Ways We Connect: Little children love to Shapiro Hall so that Big to Little respect cultivates see their big buddies their pre-reader peers a confidence in the and older students could listen, via iPad, learner that allows him have the chance to to the poems being model problem-solving read aloud or her to question and and leadership. challenge and create.
06 07 At every age, Lab encourages students to learn from and support Snack time might be about refueling During a Phys Ed one another, an idea but it is also one of exercise, Middle that inspired architects the ways children Schoolers guide learn independence one another through to ensure that Lab’s new an obstacle course, Ways We Connect: (serving themselves spaces reflect design which in addition Child to Child a glass of juice) and that encourages the interdependence to teaching balance large collaborations and (sharing and requires students to communicate everyday interactions conversing over a meal.) and trust. that fuel scholarship, creativity, and discovery.
08 09 Being part of a larger A first-ever All Before classes start, community helps Community Health Freshmen head out for children find their Fair brought families, a two-day retreat which place and voice in faculty, staff, and helps students (both UChicago and other new to Lab and lifers) Ways We Connect: the world. In age- organizations together. create a new sense of appropriate ways Kids to Community Kids practiced CPR identity as a class…. the Schools bring to (using manikins of all and make new friends. sizes), explored models Retreats each year after life Dewey’s ideals of the human heart, or emphasize connection of the individual in a raced stationary bikes. and community. democratic society.
10 11 U-Highers and students Environmental Science It’s important and from the University students worked exciting when University of Chicago Charter with Northwestern Schools shared an faculty and educators University professor evening seminar on visit classrooms and Shelby Hatch exploring juvenile justice taught environmental/ share an expertise. by Professor Emily social justice issues And it’s just lovely to Buss. Expanding Ways We Connect: with relation to partnerships add Pre-K to Prof see how the questions contamination in depth to the Lab a child might ask can, minority neighborhoods. experience and a gift The students collected conversely, ignite a from the Lim family soil samples around the sense of wonder in will support additional city, and brought them such opportunities with even the most back to her lab to test the Urban Education for lead. accomplished adult. Institute.
12 13 World-changing alumni Lab’s commitment to diversity in Charlotte Koh,’91, Ned Rorem, ’40, Dr. Diane Meier, ’69, Janet Rowley, ’42, Linda Johnson Rice, Garrick Utley, ’56, the all of its expressions has been Head of Features and Pulitzer Prize-winning palliative care pioneer PHB’45, SB’46, ’75, chairman of first NBC reporter to Series, GoPro composer and MacArthur MD’48, winner of the Johnson Publishing, cover the Vietnam war and continues to be one of the “genius” award winner Presidential Medal of which owns Ebony from Saigon Freedom, the Lasker and Jet magazines, foundations of a Lab education Award, and the National as well as Fashion Medal of Science Fair Cosmetics and allows our students to see Illinois State Graham Moore, ’99, Former Connecticut Sherry Lansing, ’62, W. Kamau Bell, ’90, Supreme Court Ways We Connect: the world in all of its complexity. Representative Barbara Academy Award- congresswoman former chairman of comedian Justice John Paul Flynn Currie, ’58, winning screenwriter Nancy Johnson, ’51, Paramount Pictures Stevens, ’37, AB’41 Our students, the youngest Lab to the World AB’68, AM’73 of The Imitation Game the first Republican and first woman (also a Presidential and author woman on the House president of a major Medal of Freedom members of the University of Ways and Means Hollywood studio winner) Committee Chicago academic community, Christopher Wool, Denise Jefferson, John W. Rogers, Jr., Daniel Clowes, ’79, Annie DeGroot, ’73, Monica Davey, ‘82, graduate prepared to make a ’72, one of the most ’61, former director of ’76, founder and chief Eisner Award-winning MD’83, pioneer in using Chicago Bureau important abstract the school of the Alvin executive officer of Ariel cartoonist and computer modeling to Chief, The New York difference. painters of his Ailey American Dance Capital Investments, Academy Award- create vaccines to fight Times generation Theater one of the nation’s nominated screenwriter disease top black-owned businesses 14 15 As of October 1, 2015
Thank you to the wonderful Parents’ Finally, everyone extends our Safi Runesha Association (PA) board and exceptional appreciation to the hundreds of parent Sari Weichbrodt, ’94 council members at each division who and student volunteers. Without Co-presidents worked tirelessly to further our mission: your help, long standing events like Bizaarnival and Rites of May would not Tina Louie Audris Wong to promote educational excellence by be possible. Co-presidents-elect fostering a spirit of community through the facilitation of communication and Regards, Matthew Miller cooperation among the Laboratory Schools’ Treasurer parents, administration, faculty, students, Cheryl Rudbeck and board of directors, and to assist in the Parents’ Association President Mariana Ingersoll implementation of school activities. 2014–2015 Secretary
The PA helped to welcome the Patty Jones hundreds of families new to the Lab Communications Coordinator community by organizing orientations Nicole Brookens and receptions and providing mentor Ann Grissom families. Neetu Sharma Kim Stolze The Association’s Speaker Series High School Council continued to be a major focus of Co-chairs our efforts to provide parents with informative and innovative topics. This Tracy Coe year we welcomed several prominent Yvette Killian thinkers: Amanda Norton, AM’03, PhD’10 Karen Slimmon, MBA’91 > UChicago Vice Provost for Academic Middle School Council Co-chairs Initiatives and Department of Psychology Professor Sian Beilock spoke Cathy Lee about the relation between the body Lena Jessen, MBA’04 and the brain. She is also the author of Tracey Quinn the noted book, Choke: What the Secrets Sara Skelly of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right Lower School Council When You Have To Co-chairs
> William Deresiewicz, author of Monica Hughson Excellent Sheep, The Miseducation of Leny Leung the American Elite and the Way to a Amy Liszt Shipra Parikh Meaningful Life, talked about American Shrunali Rai, ’92 education and the importance of a Katie Williams meaningful life. He spoke to parents Earl Shapiro Hall Council and also conducted a morning U-High Co-chairs assembly.
> Ted Gonder of MoneyThink spoke about the 21st century new forms of capital, and he spoke to parents as well as to U-High students at a PA- sponsored lunch.
48 49 Erica Castle Davidovic, ’85, Deanna Quan, ’89 David Kistenbroker, Chair Chaka Patterson Robin Appleby President Vice President, Asset Management Managing Partner of Chicago Office Partner Director 1362 East 59th Street Senior Director, Commercial Operations The Chartres Lodging Group Dechert LLP Jones Day Chicago, Illinois 60637 Merck & Co. Scott Fech Smita Shah de Jeu, ’91 Felix Baker, ‘87 Jack Polsky Director, Educational Program [email protected] Kenneth Ebie, ’97, Vice President Founder/President Managing Partner Chief Executive Officer www.ucls.uchicago.edu Associate General Counsel Spaan Technology Baker Brothers Investments William Harris Investors, Inc. 773-702-0578 New York City Department of Principal Group Consumer Affairs Carol Soble Siegel, ’64 Sidney Dillard Matthew Shapiro, ’84 Partner Manager Sylvie Anglin Jennifer Aliber, ’76 Robert Solomon, ’78 Loop Capital Markets, LLC Mason Avenue Investments Principal, Lower School Principal CEO Shepley Bulfinch Software Platform Consulting, Inc. Derek Douglas Neil Shubin Sandra Bixby Vice President for Civic Engagement Senior Advisor to the President; Principal, Middle School Chase Chavin, ’97 David Solow, ’97 University of Chicago Robert R. Bensley Distinguished Service Principal Vice President Professor of Anatomy Susan Devetski Morgan Management Goldman Sachs Hanna Goldschmidt University of Chicago Principal, Primary School Faculty Emeritus Cheryl Cortez, ’92, MBA’03 Suzanne Friedman Stein, ’45 University of Chicago Laboratory Schools David H. Song, MD Kenneth James Cynthia Chow Professor of Surgery; Director, Student Services Daniel Deutsch, ’78 Walid Tamari, ’90 Austan Goolsbee Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery; Principal, Litigation Founder and Partner Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics Chief, Department of Plastic and Frances Spaltro Deutsch Williams Tamari Law Group, LLC University of Chicago Booth School of Reconstructive Surgery Acting Associate Principal, High School Business University of Chicago Kim du Buclet, ’83 Leah Taylor, ’78 Carla Young Director of Legislative and Community Vice President, Investment Advisor Douglas C. Grissom Joseph Squeri Principal, Nursery School and Affairs JPMorgan Chase & Co. Managing Director Chief Information Officer Kindergarten Chicago Park District Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC Citadel Sari Weichbrodt, ’94 Scott Edelstein, ’83 Melina Hale Jason J. Tyler Executive Team Partner Benjamin Zimmer, ’03 Professor of Organismal Biology and Executive Vice President Squire Patton Boggs Senior Director, Business Operations Anatomy and Committees on Global Head, Institutional Group, Catherine Braendel, ’81 Roivant Sciences, Inc Neurobiology and Computational Asset Management Strategic Advisor and Director, Julian Federle, ’02 Neuroscience Northern Trust Communications and Marketing Chief Policy and Program Officer University of Chicago Illinois State Treasurer’s Office Lisa Walker Alice DuBose Susan C. Levine Acting Executive Director, Alumni Anthea Kelsick, ’97 Rebecca Anne Boylan Professor of Andrea Wishom Relations and Development Strategy Director Education and Society, Department bluemarlin of Psychology; Amanda Woodward Christopher Jones Department of Comparative Human William S. Gray Professor and Chair of Executive Director, Finance and Benjamin Kirschner, ’94 Development and Committee on the Department of Psychology Operations Vice President, Sales Education University of Chicago Wilson Daniels Wholesale University of Chicago Curt Lieneck Ex Officio Director, Information Technology Eric Larson, ’06 Serena Liew, ’85, AB’89 Director, Operations David B. Fithian Sidney Lee, ’80 Peggy M. Lim Executive Vice President Irene Reed, ’92 President University of Chicago Executive Director, Admission and Golden Country Oriental Food, LLC Michael C. Markovitz, AM’73, PhD’75 Financial Aid Chairman Robin Appleby Zachary Levin, ’03 John Marshall Law School, Atlanta Director David T. Stafford Investment Banking Associate University of Chicago Laboratory Schools Associate Director, Capital Programs Credit Suisse Jeffrey B. Matthews Dallas B. Phemister Professor and Judith Solomon Maley, ’78, MBA’84 Chairman, Department of Surgery All-Schools Leadership University of Chicago John Oxtoby, ’03 Kellyn Gawel Director, Strategy and Corporate Christopher J. McGowan Director, Human Resources Development General Partner Ariel Investments CJM Ventures / OPTO Holdings, LP Brian Lipinski Director, Finance Mark Plotkin, ’64 Siddharth (Bobby) Mehta, MBA’81 Ned Reece Tina Pompey, ’79 Andrew G. Neal, ’78 Director, Auxiliary Programs Vice President, Intellectual Property 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Elizabeth A. Parker, AM’86 David Ribbens
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