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OES Magazine Fall/Winter 2017-18 OES MAGAZINE OREGON EPISCOPAL SCHOOL FALL/WINTER 2017–18 • OES.EDU An Alumnus Uses His Power for Good BOBBY LEE ’88 SETS THE COURSE FOR A PROSPEROUS PORTLAND Uncovering History and Meaning through Veteran Stories KENDALL DUFFIE ’19 SERVES WITH PORTLAND VETERANS PROJECT A Hub for Inspiration and Collaboration THE NEW FARISS HALL TAKES SHAPE OES MAGAZINE On the Cover OREGON EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OES Alumnus Bobby Lee ’88 FALL/WINTER 2017–18 • OES.EDU OREGON EPISCOPAL SCHOOL Founded in 1869. Located in Portland, Oregon, between the Cascade Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, our Pre-K–12 day Contents and boarding programs give future global leaders the skills and confidence to succeed in college—and life. Features OES MAGAZINE 16 Heeding the Call of Service Publisher: Liz MacDonell Through Veteran Voices: Editor: Karen Crandal Portland Veterans Project Graphic Designer: Jenny Bowlden Contributors: Sara Berglund, The Rev. Phillip Craig, 20 The New Fariss Hall Steph Hartford, John Holloran, Creating a Space to Support Vision Sue Jensen, Marianne Kennedy, Andie Petkus, Tuan Anh Nguyen, 28 Project X: Inquiry in Action Madeline Pruett, Anna Rozzi, Ken Rumbaugh, Alex Slusher ’19, 32 OES Alumnus Helps Portland Prosper Helen Kirschner Townes ’85 OES Magazine is published by Oregon Episcopal School Also in This Issue 6300 SW Nicol Road • Portland, Oregon 97223. You may request an additional copy for yourself or another person 18 Assistant AD Smith Earns Certified 16 you think will enjoy reading our magazine. Please call Athletic Administrator Distinction 503-768-3153 or email [email protected]. 24 Gathering Takes Root in the Notice of Nondiscrimination Policy Lower School Oregon Episcopal School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, sex 26 A Playground Dream Come True 20 (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, disability, age, sexual orientation, marital status, or other Alumni Leaders Address Local and 35 legally protected status in admission of otherwise qualified students National Trends and Challenges or in providing access to the rights, privileges, programs, or activities generally available to students at the school, Subscribe to the New OES Blog 42 including administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and financial aid programs, or athletic and Departments other school-administered programs and activities. Letter from Mo Copeland 5 News Briefs 6 Campus Events 8 32 facebook.com/oregon.episcopal twitter.com/oregonepiscopal Athletics 12 Joel Guimaraes ’27 youtube.com/OESTV Alumni Events 14 instagram.com/oregonepiscopal showing his school Class Notes 38 spirit at the We Remember 41 Homecoming 28 District VIII Pep Rally. 2015 CASE Communications Award Winner SILVER AWARD: Best Magazine © 2018 Oregon Episcopal School. All rights reserved. 2 Oregon Episcopal School oes.edu Fall/Winter 2017–18 3 GOVERNANCE BOARD OF TRUSTEES The Rt. Rev. Michael Hanley Chairman of the Board Elizabeth Gewecke President Dan Drinkward ’95 Vice President Mary Lou Green Vice President Malcolm McIver ’82 Our OES Mission Shines Bright Treasurer Georgina Miltenberger Secretary Dear Friends, Nancy Bryant I recently received a letter and OES Fund and the arts. We are incredibly lucky The Rev. Canon Robert Bryant inquiry-based academics, to be sure, Moira Buckley contribution from the grandparents and also through service learning, global to have so many people connected to Tabon Chang New photo of Mo coming of a young alumna. It read, in part, engagement, a close-knit community, the school who deeply live our values. Paul Ehrlich and spiritual development grounded in Pamela Hummelt “We want you to know how grateful Adam Kobos ’91 our Episcopal history and tradition. we are to you for providing our I will be on sabbatical March through Brad Lawliss granddaughter the opportunity for OES Magazine The Very Rev. Nathan LeRud Inside this issue of May this spring. This is my first extended Alicia Morissette such an excellent education. She you will experience more examples of time away since I began my role as Head Christopher Riser always understood how fortunate she our mission. We see it in the inquiry in September of 2011, and I see it as an Nathan Schwalbach was to have this opportunity and she work of the fourth and fifth graders opportunity for renewal—sabbatical has, Kevin Walkush worked hard to be deserving of it. Jess Wetsel who helped design the new Lower after all, the same root as Sabbath—a The excellent teaching staff at OES School playground. We see it in junior time to step back, engage with different is remarkable and instilled in her a Ex Officio Members Kendall Duffie’s genuine connection writers and ideas in person and through Mo Copeland love of inquiry and learning that will with Portland-area veterans and the their works. My stack of books and Head of School be lifelong. They also emphasized veterans’ memorial we are working to articles to engage with grows by the day. Hilary O’Hollaren the importance of service . the place on campus, thanks to her. And Chair, Parent Community Link Associate Head of School Peter Kraft need to give back to the community Benjamin Chessar ’95 we see it in alumni like Bobby Lee ’88, will serve as acting head until I return, President, Alumni Council and as a result, that will always be who has dedicated his career to public partnering closely with our remarkably part of who she is . Thank you service in the name of a healthier society. strong and able administrative team. I OES VISION for all you do to instill these values We also see it in the dedicated faculty am confident the school will function Connecting people, ideas, and cultures in the students who attend OES.” to advance knowledge, create solutions, and staff featured in these pages, all of in its usual rhythm, and I will return and enhance meaning. whom go above and beyond to offer renewed for the projects yet to come. It is our mission—and pleasure—to the best of themselves to our students provide OES students with the OES MISSION in these unique aspects of OES: Have a wonderful spring! Oregon Episcopal School prepares educational experience that builds this leadership, residential programming, students for higher education and foundation—through our excellent Warmly, lifelong learning by inspiring intellectual, physical, social, emotional, artistic, and spiritual growth so that they may realize their power for good as citizens Mo Copeland of local and world communities. Head of School 4 Oregon Episcopal School oes.edu Fall/Winter 2017–18 5 News Briefs Third Grade Campus act) shared, “Playing the victim of something so traumatic was another Middle School Debate Team level of difficulty for me, but also the most rewarding. We are drawn Tour Illuminates to the stories that make a commentary—whether it be social, political, Takes a Day Has Significant School’s Past or ethical, and I’m so happy that we were able to make a statement to Serve Successes with this play.” “The biggest challenge OES students and Fall of 2017 saw OES’s facing the great teachers and Stone estimated that lighting, set design, and programming cues alone employees work Upper School Debate communicators of history,” for the production took over 100 hours to put together. “Cara Spindel year-round to offer Team earn some impressive once wrote actor, writer, and [’18]’s commitment and work ethic was incredible,” she noted. “In my helping hands in the awards at two regional activist Stephen Fry, “is not to mind she far surpassed the title of ‘Lighting Designer’ for this play.” community. Last fall competitions. Just before the entire Middle Thanksgiving break, the teach history itself, nor even the As OES parent and board member Chris Riser opined, “Macbeth(s) School took a day to fan squad traveled to Eugene for the Oak Hill Purely Policy Tournament. lessons of history, but why history matters.” was riveting, fast-paced, and cutthroat. It literally flipped the script on out into the greater Portland area for service learning work. In addition to first place wins by Alexa Tsai ’20 and Ellie Chang gender . remixing/rehumanizing the women of Will’s time, for all OES has almost 150 years of rich history, and the institution’s ’19 (Varsity Debate) as well as Nic Nautiyal ’21 and SkyCat Huang time. Powerful work and excellent performances!” The sixth, seventh, and eighth graders assisted a total of 14 teachers are committed to passing on the importance of that history ’20 (Novice Debate), OES won the Sweepstakes award for the to students. As one manifestation of this work, in September Visual organizations, including equine therapy nonprofit Forward Stride and the ReBuilding Center, which accepts our region’s largest volume of tournament. Sweepstakes is given to the best overall school; this & Performing Arts educator Peter Buonincontro took the third-grade Author Renée achievement is even more significant given that the students were classes on an in-depth tour of campus. used building and remodeling materials to repurpose for community Watson projects. competing against teams from Oregon’s 5A- and 6A-sized schools. The purpose of the exercise, explained Buonincontro, was to “prime Encourages Then in December, the team went to Seattle to participate in the [the students’] brains about how to research history, and how to ask Specific activities conducted by students to aid these entities in their work ranged from pulling nails out of salvaged wood to making sack Becky Galentine Memorial Debate Tournament at the University of questions regarding what was here before.” In the course of exploring Deep Washington. This tournament is named in honor of a debater who the on-site wooded areas, streets that run along the wetlands, and the lunches for women in transitional housing to crafting Halloween Community decorations.
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