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Our Mission At Dublin School, we strive to awaken a curiosity for knowledge and a passion for learning. We instill the values of discipline and meaningful work that are necessary for the good of self and community. We respect the individual learning style and unique potential each student brings to our School. With our guidance, Dublin students become men and women who seek truth and act with courage. The Fall 2014

DublinerThe Magazine of Dublin School

“Involve me and I will understand.”

• A View Without a Room • The Rock Garden • Looking Back with No Regrets fall 2014 1 Dubliner

Dublin School Graduation—The Class of 2014 First Row: Blythe Lawrence, Pembroke Bermuda (Gemology Institute of America, London), Mylisha Drayton, Endicott, NY (Clark University, MA), Yiran Ouyang, Shenzhen China (Wesleyan University, CT), Stephanie Figueroa, Lawrence, MA (Middlesex Community College, MA), Riley Jacobs, Dayton, OH (Ohio University), Mekhi Crooks, Brooklyn, NY (Emmanuel College, MA), Molly Witten, Bethesda, MD (Wheaton College, MA), Atsede Assayehgen, Cambridge, MA (Barnard College, NY), Anna Sigel, Manchester, NH (Wheelock College, MA) Anna Rozier, Westport, CT (St. Olaf College, MN) Alyssa Jones, Jaffrey, NH (Mt. Holyoke, MA)Molly Forgaard, Hollis, NH (Bennington College, VT) Middle Row: Zhiyu Pan, Shanghi, China (Emory University, GA) Dong Min Sun, Seoul Korea (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL) Yuan Feng, Shenzhen China (UC Santa Barbara) Julia Marcou, Singapore (Clark University, MA) Mo Zhou, Shezhen, China (UC Santa Cruz, CA) Alex Rogoff, Beachwood, OH (Lynn University, FL) Ben Wright, Acton, Ma (Florida Institute of Technology) Max Clary, Chevy Chase, MD (Lewis & Clark University, OR) Phoebe Knox, Scituate, MA (Simmons College, MA) Tyler Jones, Brooklyn, NY (Pomona College) Kenny Navedo, Washington, NJ (Wesleyan University, CT) Charley Neisner, Leverett, MA (Lasell College, MA) Ben Phillips, Norwell, MA (Franklin & Marshall, PA) Adam Bloom, Dayton, OH (Trinity College, CT) Brendan Palmer, Dublin, NH (Clarkson University, NY) Back Row: Shutong Luo, Beijing China (Renssalear Polytech Institute, NY) Edward Lawrence, Pembroke Bermuda (Dalhousie University, Toronto) Suk Hun Cho, Seoul Korea (New York University) Emmet Darman, McLean, VA (Wheaton College, MA) Andrew Parnes, Mount Kisco, NY (SUNY Brockport, NY) Cem Ozdeliorman, Istanbul Turkey (Lynn University, FL) Peter Dunphy, Fairfax, VA (Wesleyan University, CT) The

DublinerFall 2014 • Volume 2 • Number 1 14 The Genius The Dubliner of Place is published by “What a prospect! And what a Dublin School potential! It would be the most P.O. Box 522 beautifully located school in the 18 Lehmann Way Dublin, New Hampshire 03444 world!” By Henry Walters www.dublinschool.org • From My Side Editor 20 Erika L. Rogers of the Desk Director of Development and Students were asked to limn a Alumni Affairs Associate Editor teacher they admire in a few words Donna Stone 14 Alumni & Parent Relations 22 The Power of Copy Editors Jan Haman, Anne Mackey, Endurance Sports Dorine Ryner “Why are people in New Hampshire Design so proud of their Granite State?” David Nelson, Nelson Design By Brad Bates Printing R.C. Brayshaw & Company, Choose a Job Warner, NH 26 Photography You Love... Bill Gnade, Peter Imhoff P’13, 18, “And all I ask is a merry yarn from Anne Mackey, Donna Stone, Rachel Portesi a laughing fellow-rover, And quiet • sleep and a sweet dream when the In compiling this issue we have made long trick’s over.” By Jan Haman every effort to ensure that it is accurate. Please send any comments, omissions, or corrections to Erika L. Rogers, Director of Development and Alumni Affairs, Departments Dublin School, P.O. Box 522, Dublin, 20 2 Message from the NH 03444. Head of School • 4 Season Opener On the cover: Tatum Wilson ’16 in a Dublin 6 Dublin Life School iDesign course. 26 Truth and Courage Photograph: Peter Imhoff Quote: “Involve me and I will 34 Alumni News & Notes understand.” –Chinese Proverb 48 Last Word DUBLIN SCHOOL

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fall 2014 1 ENDURANCE TEAM head and heart

Building Endurance By Brad Bates, Head of School

elcome to this edition of The Dubliner! This issue is filled with topics near andW dear to my heart: the power of endurance sports, the role of our extended campus in the education of our students and alumni, faculty making a difference in the lives of young people, alumni following their dreams, and the generosity that allows our community to continue to build on the enduring vision of the Lehmann Family. Speaking of enduring, I have been thinking a great deal about the role of endurance in the education of our students. What makes something enduring? Most things that are lasting and perma- nent, like the Lehmann’s vision, took significant effort, time and persis- tence to create. We live in a popular L to R: Lilly, Brad, culture defined by the pursuit of instant gratification, one celebrating shortcuts to success and Lisa, and Calvin Bates pleasure. I would argue, however, that this culture leads to unhappiness, depravity, and isolation. Dublin School, from its founding in 1935, with its emphasis on Work Gang, deep academic work, the arts, the out- of- doors, athletics, meaningful relationships and community effort, stands as a beacon of hope against such a culture. Students and adults learn at Dublin that joy, reward, confidence, fulfillment, health, growth and even love result from commitment, sacrifice, struggle, failure, persistence, and grit—or what I would refer to as endurance. Lest this sound overly draconian, I would argue that our students are among the happiest you will find in this country. Tatum, the young woman on the cover of this magazine, represents a great example of someone who finds success through endurance. Tatum is one of our most curious and hardest working students—she challenges herself with difficult courses like the iDesign class where the photo was taken, and goes above and beyond to achieve lasting understandings. She is the top cross country runner in the River Valley Athletic League, qualified for the New Hampshire team at the 16 and under New England Championships in cross country skiing, and rowed in the four-oared boat that earned a bronze medal at the Scholastic National Regatta last June. While I cannot speak for her, Tatum appears to be quite happy, proud and humble — qualities that I discover over and over again in our Dublin School students and alumni. I hope you enjoy this issue and I thank Erika Rogers and her wonderful team for putting together such a terrific magazine. ■

2 the dubliner Dublin School Board of Trustees 2014-2015 President Peter Imhoff P ’13, ’18 Chair of the Board, Dublin, NH Peter Imhoff and Co-Vice President Michael J. Mullins ’93 Brad Bates enjoying Boston, MA another day at Dublin. Co-Vice President L. Phillips Runyon III P ’88, ’92, GP ’18 Peterborough, NH Treasurer George B. Foote, Jr. Dublin, NH Secretary Sharron Smith P ’92 Hinsdale, NH Trustees William A. Barker Dublin, NH Jami Bascom P ’13, ’15 (ex-officio) Parents’ Association Greenfield, NH Bradford D. Bates, P ’17 (ex-officio) Head of School Head of School Wish List Dublin, NH Robert C. English ’86 Washington, DC Current Need/Wish Granted...... Cost Patricia Fletcher H ’05 Worcester, MA Dining Hall Expansion...... $1,500,000 Joseph C. Gibson P ’12 Waterford, VA PRISM (Programing/Robotics/Innovation/Science/Math) Center ...... $850,000 Alexander M. Lehmann New York, NY Faculty Housing...... $500,000 Jason D. Potts ’96 Boston, MA Teacher Excellence Endowment Fund...... $250,000 Brett S. Smith ’88 New York, NY New Hard Surfaced Tennis Courts...... $200,000 William C. Spencer ’86 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Library Renovation...... $150,000 Alexander T. Sprague ’87 Castro Valley, CA International Travel Fund...... $100,000 Timothy Steele P ’11, ’13 Hancock, NH Dorm Furniture...... $100,000 Nicholas S. Thacher Dedham, MA Susanne K. Vogel Learning Skills Center Renovation...... $50,000 Dublin, NH Carl Von Mertens Athletic Field Irrigation ...... $50,000 Peterborough, NH Maurice Willoughby ’84, P ’17, ’18 4-Wheel Utility Vehicle...... $50,000 (ex-officio) Alumni Association Trail Snow Groomer...... $40,000 Glen Rock, NJ Lifetime Trustees Tree Chipper for Trails and Slopes...... $14,000 Louisa L. Birch ’57 Dublin, NH Chemistry Fume Hoods (2) ...... $10,000 Carlos E. Bosch ’46, P ’78, ’79, ’83 Hamilton, Bermuda Tractor Mowing Attachment...... $10,000 Judith Hoyt Goddard H ’11 Chatham, MA Funding for Senior Mastery Projects...... $5,000 Paul S. Horovitz P ’92 Gloucester, MA Basketball Equipment...... $3,500 David E. Howe H ’95 Peterborough, NH Flatbed Trailer...... $3,500 Margaret A. Johnson Hanover, NH Carleton R. Ladd ’60, P ’87, ’88 Large Format Photo Printer...... $2,500 Milton, MA H. Gilman Nichols, Jr. ’46 Smaller gifts towards any of these needs are always appreciated. Brunswick, ME fall 2014 3 season opener fall

4 the dubliner The Andromeda Galaxy This image was captured at the Perkin Observatory by Director Joseph Putko as a result of advanced imaging techniques to expose the greatest detail in the galaxy. The Perkin Observatory balances STEM independent studies with lab activities for courses and extensive community outreach.

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Commencement 2014 Excerpts of graduation speeches

Bradford D. Bates Peter Dunphy ’14 “When I think of the Class of 2014 the word that “There comes a part in every graduation speech to comes to mind is “change.” In my six years at Dublin thank Dublin. I thank Dublin for opening doors that I have never witnessed a group of individuals change certainly would not have been opened without it. I and grow as much as all of you have during your time thank Dublin for being the reason that my class is here. You have also seen the school go through many able to attend the prestigious universities that we changes, and that, I am sure, has been both exciting are attending. I thank Dublin for installing a sense of and at times disorienting. With change, something is confidence in me. I am comfortable enough to voice my lost and something is gained. What I hope you know is opinion and have the courage to speak at graduation that all of you have been catalysts of that change. You in front of many people that I have never met before, have challenged our faculty, staff and administration to and more frightening than that is speaking in front of broaden our programs, bring more rigor to our classes, the people who know me best. I thank Dublin for being and seek out greater competition in athletics. Through personal enough with me to understand who I am as two powerful ceremonies over the last two evenings we a person and under which situations I thrive. I thank have celebrated your accomplishments and your im- Dublin for helping me realize my potential as a leader pressive growth. I am so proud of all of you and excited and supporting me with leadership opportunities.” to see where you will go from here. You are ready to leave, and yet I believe your class will keep coming back to Dublin and will help take care of it for the future Nicole Sintetos, Faculty Speaker “So, my dear, brilliant, infuriating, hilarious, and generations of young people trying to find their way insightful Class of 2014: I think it only fitting that through the swamp that adolescence can be.” we would end our final exchange, no longer merely as teacher and student, but as initiated mutual accom- Mylisha Drayton ’14 plices in life, with an esoteric and cheesy poem about “I often tell people that Dublin is like my second the passage of time. Come to think of it, it might even home. It is hard to explain, but, to quote Sarah Des- be by Emily Dickinson. And, if you look under the seat sen, home is “Not a place, but a moment, and then of your chair, you will find your personal copy because another, building on each other like bricks to create you can’t be fully initiated unless you read it out loud a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire with me.” life, wherever you may go.” That is exactly why Dublin is our home. Within this little campus there is so Finite— to fail, but infinite to Venture— much. The size does not affect its abilities because For the one ship that struts the shore what makes Dublin so special is the aggregate mo- Many’s the gallant—overwhelmed Creature ments that pass us each day. It’s not at every high Nodding in Navies nevermore. school that you get Milk and Cookies every Tuesday night and spend the night bonding with your dorm Look back on time with kindly eyes, mates; it’s not at every school that your advisor He doubtless did his best; becomes one of your best friends, and it’s not at every How softly sinks his trembling sun school that you can be proud to say that you are not In human nature’s west! only a group of faculty and students but a family.” —Emily Dickinson

6 the dubliner fall 2014 7 dublin life Three Cheers for Ignorance Commencement Speaker Tim Clark

ongratulations, seniors. You have completed four more There’s more to be learned. years of education and lived to tell the tale. You’re on top Another physicist, Heinz of the world. Now you get to go back to the bottom. Pagels, wrote: “The capacity CBut for the next few weeks, you have a chance to bask in the to tolerate complexity and glow of all that you have learned. And lots of people will remind welcome contradiction, not you of the priceless value of knowledge. the need for simplicity and Not me. I am here to say three cheers for ignorance. certainty, is the attribute Somebody has to. Ignorance has few defenders. Ignorance is of an explorer.” the bane of our society, we are told. Americans, we are told, are That’s so beautiful I have ignorant of geography, ignorant of mathematics, ignorant of to say it again: “The capac- science, ignorant of grammar, ignorant of our own history and ity to tolerate complexity language. Ignorance is the enemy. Let’s declare war on ignorance! and welcome contradiction, Let’s not. Instead, let’s take a closer look at our ignorance, not the need for simplicity examine where it comes from, and how it happened. In fact, and certainty, is the attri- let’s celebrate our ignorance. bute of an explorer.” Ignorance will cure So here’s my first cheer:Ignorance rules! your melancholy, too. My The last thousand years of human history have seen a favorite book is The Once continuous and astounding increase in our awareness and and Future King, by T. H. understanding of everything from the intricacies of atomic and White. It is the story of subatomic structure to the awesome grandeur of the universe King Arthur, from his boy- and its beginnings. But, ironically, every advance in knowledge, hood to his last days. One every step up the mountain, has given us a wider and grander day, when the boy Arthur view of what we don’t know. is depressed, he goes to his tutor, Merlin the wizard, who gives In those thousand years we have gone from a time in which him this advice: one intelligent person might reasonably expect to learn, in one “The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That is lifetime, almost everything known, to a time in which all of us, the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling collectively, have no chance whatsoever to learn even the tiniest in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the fragment of what is knowable. As the physician and writer Lewis disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may Thomas put it, “The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know century science has been the discovery of human ignorance.” your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There’s only The more we know, the more we know what we don’t know. one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags, and “Our knowledge can only be finite,” said the philosopher Karl what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never Popper, “while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.” exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing So what are we to do about this apparently hopeless situ- for you. Look at what a lot of things there are to learn - pure ation? Let’s revel in it! Which brings me to my second cheer: science, the only purity there is. You can learn astronomy in a Ignorance is bliss! lifetime, natural history in three, literature in six. And then, A few years ago, an international team of physicists after you have exhausted a million lifetimes in biology and announced their discovery that neutrinos have mass. Don’t medicine and theocriticism and geography and history and ask me to explain it; my ignorance of physics is nearly perfect. economics - why you can start to learn to make a cartwheel out But it was big news that threw scientists into a tizzy all over of the appropriate wood, or spend 50 years learning to begin to the world. “It’s very exciting,” said Nobel Prize winner Leon learn how to beat your adversary at fencing. After that you can Lederman of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He start again on mathematics, until it is time to learn to plow.” added, “It also exacerbates and emphasizes our total confusion.” Isn’t that wonderful? Ignorance not only presents the oppor- More recently, scientists studying the very nature of the uni- tunity for learning, ignorance is the prerequisite for learning. verse concluded that 95 percent of it is made up of something Ignorance is the vacuum that nature won’t tolerate, the well that called dark matter -- and we have no idea what it is. never runs dry, the itch that can’t be scratched away. The writer About the only thing that makes a scientist happier than Chet Raymo put it this way: “Ignorance is a vessel waiting to be proof of success is proof of failure. The failure of a theory means filled, permission for growth, a foundation for the electrifying we don’t know what we thought we knew, and that’s good. encounter with mystery.”

8 the dubliner And finally, my third cheer:Ignorance will keep you humble! There’s a story about the great Danish physicist Niels Bohr. He was walking along the beach one day with a student, and the student was telling Bohr what a great man he was, how much he knew about the workings of the universe. Bohr picked up a pebble and showed it to the student. “This,” he said, “is what I know.” Then he turned and flung the pebble into the waves. “And that,” he said, pointing at the sea, “is what I don’t know.” Bravo for Bohr! More human misery has been caused by people certain of their own wisdom than by people who aren’t entirely sure they’re right. As the poet William Butler Yeats wrote, “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with pas- sionate intensity.” Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail alone around the world, once remarked that he was never so frightened at sea as when he was aboard a ship whose captain knew exactly where he was. “Icebergs? Nonsense! There are no icebergs in these waters! Full speed ahead!” The people who framed our constitution knew the same thing. They weren’t making an efficient government. They wanted a clumsy, hog-tied, slow- moving, Rube Goldberg kind of government, which couldn’t decide anything of importance very quickly. They wanted an ignorant government, because they knew that an infallible government—“the divine right of kings”—was a constant threat to the liberty of its people. In the words of the great judge Learned Hand, “the spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.” I’ve quoted philosophers, writers, poets, scien- tists, and a judge—I’d like to finish with a comedian. Josh Billings was the pen name of Henry Wheeler Shaw, a 19th century New England humorist who specialized in puncturing windbags. He gave igno- rance its due in fewer and better words than anyone. “It is better to know nothing,” he said, “than to know what ain’t so.” Good luck, seniors. Here’s wishing you a future full of mystery, doubt, and confusion. To para- phrase Niels Bohr, here, this little hilltop in New Hampshire, is what you know. Out there is what you don’t know. So be explorers. Distrust certainty; embrace contradiction. And may you forever regard the incomprehensible and magnificent universe around you with ignorant and wondering eyes. ■

Originally appeared in The Old Farmer’s Almanac Millennium Primer, copyright Yankee Publishing, 1999 fall 2014 9 dublin life

Dublin School 2014 Academic/Athletic Awards Paul W. Lehmann Award Jason Potts Theater Technology Award Mylisha Drayton ’14 (Endicott, NY) Alyssa Jones ’14 (Jaffrey, NH) This award is named after Dublin’s founding headmaster and is given by the faculty to that member of the graduating class who best exemplifies Summa Cum Laude Award sturdiness of character, academic vigor, and excellence of influence in all areas of school life. Max Clary ’14 (Chevy Chase, MD)

Scott C. O’Neil Award Dean of Students Award Grant Holliday ’15 (Wilton, NH) Mylisha Drayton ’14 (Endicott, NY) & This award is given in memory of Scott O’Neil (who died in a motorcycle Tyler Jones ’14 (Brooklyn, NY) accident after his junior year) to that member of the junior class who, in the opinion of the faculty, best exemplifies the spirit of Dublin School. H. William Evans Faculty Award Erin Bouton (Dublin, NH) Dartmouth Alumni Club The recipient of the Faculty Achievement Award is determined by the Lillian Campbell ’16 (Milford, NH) Head of School based on the accomplishments of the teacher or staff This award is given to a sophomore who excels in English and is involved in member who, in the opinion of the Head of School, deserves the honor. extra-curricular activities. The book is given by the Dartmouth Alumni. Criteria for the award normally include effort and achievement beyond the call of duty. Bonnie Riley Book Award Talia Cohen ’15 (Riverdale, NY) Charles Latham Jr. Distinguished Faculty Award This award is named after former Dublin School English teacher and Aca- John Adams (Dublin, NH) demic Dean, Bonnie Riley, and is given to a Junior who exhibits mastery The recipient of this award is chosen by a special committee which in English and overall academic achievement. includes the Head of School, Dean of Academics, student representa- tives and a current parent. This award is honoring an exceptional Dublin H. William Evans Community Service Award School teacher. Noelia Calcano ’17 (Irvington, NJ) The faculty determines this award. The criteria include a demonstrated Edward Whitney Distinguished Student-Athlete Award strong sense of commitment to community service and the potential to Tyler Jones ’14 (Brooklyn, NY) become a leader in the Dublin School community. This award is intended to honor a student-athlete who not only exhibits great athletic ability, but does so with honorable sportsmanship. Named Franklin Pierce University Award in honor of a great Dublin School friend, Trustee, and benefactor, Ned Whitney H ’91, and determined by the Athletics Department and Head Will Utzschneider ’15 (Chestnut Hill, MA) of School, the award is given annually to one Dublin student-athlete who This award is to honor a junior with a strong academic record, considerable embodies the mission of the School and the Athletics Department. This extracurricular involvement and a record of service to the community. student-athlete routinely exhibits sportsmanship, teamwork, dedication, and a passion for his or her activities while maintaining a high level of The Molly Shugrue “Shooting Star Award” diligence to improve their skills and the experience of their teams. Talia Cohen ’15 (Riverdale, NY) & Jesse Garrett-Larsen ’15 (Dublin, NH) Norm Wight Distinguished Coach Award Awarded in memory of Elizabeth “Molly” Shugrue, Dublin School 1998- John Adams (Dublin, NH) 2000, presented to that student with outstanding acting talents and This award is given annually to a Dublin School coach who embodies the promise. mission of the school and the Athletic Department by instilling pride and sportsmanship in their participants, while exhibiting high standards for Carol Heath International Student Award excellence through creative instruction and passion for his or her activities. Shutong Luo ’14 (Beijing, China) This award is given to an international student in the senior or junior Female Athlete of the Year class who is a respected member of the community, who has achieved Mylisha Drayton ’14 (Endicott, NY) academic success, participated actively in extra-curricular activities, and who has demonstrated leadership in promoting international under- standing in the Dublin community. Male Athlete of the Year Benjamin Phillips ’14 (Norwell, MA) Nancy Lehmann Tour Guide Award Kenny Navedo ’14 (Washington, NJ) & In Grateful Appreciation of Service to Benjamin Phillips ’14 (Norwell, MA) Dublin School Athletics This award is given for their dedication to the school and their position Matthew Talley 2011-2014 (Dublin, NH) as school ambassadors.

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fall 2014 11 dublin life Welcome, New Faculty! Tiye Cort recently received her Masters degree in teaching at Emmanuel College while teaching at Mother Caroline Academy in Boston. Ms. Cort is teaching English, working with freshmen girls in Corner House, coaching lacrosse, and helping with the Admission Office.

Stephanie Clark is our new Athletic Trainer and will be living in Wing and Hollow. Ms. Clark graduated from Keene State College and has been busy building her experience at places like Florida Gulf Coast University and Phillips Exeter Academy. Cort Clark Originally from Peru, new Spanish teacher Evelin Gamarra Martínez brings thirteen years of teaching experience to Dublin School, most recently at Boston College, where she also received her second Masters degree. Ms. Martínez will be living in Little House and coaching girls’ soccer this fall.

Spencer Fetrow moved to Dublin from the University of Mas- sachusetts, Amherst where he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees before working for the last seven years in their Admissions and Visitor Relations offices. Mr. Fetrow will be liv- ing in Tuttle House, and will coach lacrosse in the spring when not out on the road spreading the good word about Dublin.

Patrick Marr enters Dublin as our new Musical Director. A Fetrow Gamarra Martínez presence on campus throughout this past spring, Mr. Marr recently graduated from Concordia University in Montreal after growing up in nearby Keene, NH.

Emily Cornell, our new Director of the Learning Skills Pro- gram, has moved into the Bungalow with her family after mov- ing to Dublin from the Uruguayan American School in Mon- tevideo. Ms. Cornell went to high school in Tokyo, graduated from Cornell University and received her Masters of Science in Teaching Students with Disabilities from Pace University.

Simon McFall and his family moved into Valley House earlier this summer after a long drive back to their home state from Utah where Mr. McFall was working as the Dean of Students at Marr Juan Diego High School. On top of his Dean of Students duties Cornell this fall, he is also coaching the boys’ varsity soccer team. Jonathan Phinney has joined the Dublin community as a new tutor in the Learning Skills Program. He received his Bachelors degree in English and his Masters of Fine Arts degree in Writing, both from the University of New Hampshire. Having worked in a variety of classroom settings and also with stu- dents 1:1, he brings valuable experience to the tutorial team. He currently lives in Harrisville with his daughter Amelia.

And finally, we are thrilled that some familiar faces will be return- ing to Dublin School on a part-time basis. Henry Walters will be teaching English and coaching basketball; Bill Farrell will be working on a residential team and coaching alpine skiing, and Dr. McFall Bill Kennedy will be teaching in the Technology Department. ■ Phinney

12 the dubliner “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire” —William Butler Yeats Dublin School Learning Skills Program

or over 75 years, Dublin School teachers and tutors have been following this wisdom as they work with students to become confident, curious and independent learners. FAfter an initial generous bequest from alumnus Tom Griffin ’46, two families made additional gifts to help us design and build the new Griffin Learning Center. Up until the present academic year, tutors have worked in small offices spread across the Dublin campus. With the new Griffin Learning Center, our 8 tutors and 39 tutees are now together and under the same roof on the top floor of the David Howe Administration Building (where the Alumni and Development Offices used to be). The official dedication of this beautiful new space will take place on Saturday, December 13, 2014. “The Dublin School Learning Skills Program (LSP) stems directly from the School’s Mission – Respecting the individual learning style and unique potential of every student” says new LSP Director, Emily Cornell. “We meet students where they are and help them to set and achieve their goals. Every student has different needs and will take different paths to get where they wish to be. I am proud to be a part of a program and team that not only recognize but embrace this personalized approach to learning.” Today Dublin’s LSP provides academic support in a 1:1 setting to 39 students with a wide range of learning challenges. Students meet with experienced LSP tutors in regularly scheduled daytime classes, either two or four times weekly depending on their needs. “Much of the work that we do with students focuses on strategies for enhancing learning skills, including effective organization, time management, active study strategies and prioritization” continues Ms. Cornell. “These skills are taught on an ongoing basis through the use of course content and nightly assignments.” Tutorial sessions can also provide instruction and opportunities for further practice in the areas of reading, writing, and mathematics. “Our ultimate goal is to help our students attain higher levels of achievement while taking increasing control and ownership over the learning process. The support that each student requires to reach this point varies, and we strive to meet these needs.” ■

fall 2014 13 Somewhere in the Dublin woods is an old copper lamp, waiting to be found. Its genie—what the Romans would have called the genius loci, or “spirit of the place”—must be a hard-bitten, rough-bearded, sharp-tongued Yankee who won’t stand for any dilly- dallying over wishes; whatever boon you’re begging, better figure it out well in advance. When I find the lamp, there will be no hesitation: give me some time-travel. Not to rub shoulders with Triceratops, not to talk shop with the philosophers of ancient Athens—no, send me back a mere four hundred years, right in this place I’m standing, when white pines the size of twenty-story buildings were common as dandelions, and the music that echoed between them GeniusThe Place of the Story and Photographs by Henry Walters

was the long-forgotten language of the Abenaki. Can you imagine the stillness of the woods under those dynastic trees? Some of the trunks measured well over fifty feet in circumference. Eight large men, joining hands, could hardly have put their arms around them. Such little light filtered through the dense canopy that the understory was like park-land, with few brambles or shrubs to block one’s passage. Native tribes also used fire to control the undergrowth, keeping sight-lines clear for hunting. Walking across an unbroken red carpet of pine needles, one could actually be, as the saying goes, “quiet as an Indian.” Where are those pines now? Gone to make masts for the king’s ships, gone to make ridgepoles for colonial barns, gone for boards into countless houses long since rotted down to mulch. The woods in which they grew, though, are still there and still growing, all around us, all these hun- dreds of years later. Smash through the brambles, tromp through the brush: genie or no genie, here’s a landscape that will transport you. What ties a school to the land on which it sits? If that land’s a parking lot, the connection may be tenuous. If the campus is a manicured French garden boxed in with hedges, perhaps students

14 the dubliner learn to play a good game of hide-and-seek. But if the school is over four hundred acres carved (and uncarved) out of a granite hillside, in a place flush with unchecked growth and wilderness and rot; where a family of gray foxes rears kits a stone’s throw from the soccer pitch; where six hundred feet of elevation separate the top of campus from the bottom; where class is held in a stream-bed as easily as indoors; where a holiday means climbing a mountain—then how diffi- cult to separate a school from its woods, and how much that education owes to the landscape in which it takes place! The land’s its own genie, one with much to grant and much to teach. A View Without a Room “We were like pioneers. We had nothing at all.” So Ed Hawkes ’46 remembers his first years at Dublin School. The history of the institution’s early days reads like a narrative of an experimental colonial expedition—colonists who not only landed on a rock, but decided to plant a school atop

it. When Paul Lehmann first laid eyes on the site of the future campus, he was on skis, in the dead of winter. He had three pupils, no money, no trustees, and no teachers other than himself and his young wife Nancy. The Great Depression was not an opportune era for adventurous start- ups. A single house with six fireplaces would be the only roof over his head. How did he know this place was for him? As he later wrote: “…Then the clincher: surrounded as the house was, closely and almost completely, a view to the east through a slot cut in the dense woods suddenly and almost miraculously appeared! … The sunlit hills of Peterborough, the Temple Range…. What a prospect! And what a potential! It would be the most beautifully located school in the world!” If Dublin owed its founding to a quasi-miraculous view of sunlit hills, the rugged landscape in the immediate foreground soon occupied Lehmann’s attention and that of his students. In the next decade he and his handful of teachers and students built a school house, outbuildings, two playing fields—in the case of Memorial Field, creating turf where none existed,—vegetable gardens, a ski slope, cleaned up from a devastating hurricane, plowed the roads at all hours of fall 2014 15 the day and night, pruned orchards, polished the town church inside and out, heated the school and much of the town with countless cords of wood…and on and on. Oh yes, and a full schedule of classes were conducted. An early flyer advertising the school read: “The students will have the unique experi- ence of helping to create a new school.” The offer was very literal—if any- thing, “helping to” may have been an understatement. What students did have, then, says Hawkes, was “an axe in every locker, maybe a Swedish bow-saw, too,” and the knowledge to use them. From all accounts, they seem not to have resented the Work Gangs to which they were assigned, but—blasphemy!—looked forward to them. “It was a totally dif- ferent time,” Hawkes recalls. In the wake of the Great Depression, everyone knew someone who had signed on with the Works Progress Administration, often for public works projects such as building bridges, roads, and build- ings. There was no stigma in getting one’s hands dirty, nothing in manual labor to resent or be ashamed of. In fact, the clearing of the first ski slope (“a rocky, stubborn, ornery hillside”) was conceived and carried out by students themselves. (“We could see fun at the end of it,” says Hawkes, “so we had fun

“Dublin School today will never be—should not be—the Dublin School of 1935, 1945, 1955. If you don’t change, you dry up and blow away in the wind.”

doing it.”) Every work project, Lehmann made certain, had a clear purpose, improving life at the school in direct and palpable ways. “Any labor honestly undertaken is honorable,” was the creed, and it became one of the stones on which the fledgling institution was built. The responsibilities of such labor meant a good deal of independence as well. Stan Swaim ’54 sweeps his hand over a topographic map of the town of Dublin and gives a wide grin: “I fished all these little streams from Harrisville to Jaffrey,” he recalls, “and knew every little fall and hole along the way.” Did teachers mind him spending weekends stalking brook trout from sunup to sundown? Quite the contrary. “They saw that at that time of my life, I was craving solitude. Probably they were the ones that suggested I go out fishing.” John Wight ’64, son of longtime Dublin teacher Norm Wight and a teacher himself, corroborates Swaim’s view of the early faculty. Student engagement with the outdoors, he recalls, “spun off the skills and interests and strengths of our teachers.” Even as the character of a school shifts over time, the influ- ence of its adults—not as taskmasters, but as people—remains important. “Dublin School today will never be—should not be—the Dublin School of 1935, 1945, 1955,” says Wight. “If you don’t change, you dry up and blow away in the wind. But you need faculty who are passionate about the out- doors, who know how to make use of it, and who will involve kids in their own interests.” Cutting trees, pulling stumps, smoking out gypsy moths; planing boards, feeding stoves, planting and watering and tending; straining and hauling and reforming the land…. All this work to make room for learning—work which

16 the dubliner itself constituted a crucial part of learning. But how much did this engage- ment with the stubborn soil constitute a land ethic? If those first pioneering classes of Dublin School were connected to the natural world by necessity, how might that connection be preserved when that necessity was met? How to keep the spirit alive for those who would come to inherit their landscape and their traditions, the students of today? Re-teaching the Pioneer Spirit When Caleb Davis arrived at Dublin as a teacher in 2001, he found a place whose traditional ties to the land “had slowly but surely melted away.” Over the course of decades, the School’s pioneering ethos had naturally given way to new priorities, among them, increased class time, interscholastic sports teams, and broader offerings in music and the arts. For Davis, however—an outdoorsman, through and through—these welcome additions were not without a catch: “People weren’t lining up for camping or skiing or hiking or breathing the air,” he recalls. When the mental exercise of the classroom begins to ring hollow, he felt, as it will do from time to time, kids will always

“Dublin School today will never be—should not be—the Dublin School of 1935, 1945, 1955. If you don’t change, you dry up and blow away in the wind.”

need the restorative powers of the land under their feet, the call of the real, physical, untamed world. Like the mythical wrestler Antaeus, who gained strength each time he was thrown to the ground, students, too, need to be thrown. Sitting in tutorial across from a pupil, Davis would see “the lights go out in the eyes. And nine times out of ten, what those eyes were saying was, I’m waiting for this game to stop.” How to fend off apathy? Set the body a high but reachable bar, a task that an individual can accomplish on his or her own, given a hefty dose of grit and determination. Endurance sports that engage the rocky New Hampshire landscape invite kids to a worthy opponent and a worthy goal—and no task- master but the one in their own heads. Davis began training with a number of Dublin students for the Canadian Ski Marathon—an annual ski tour, not a race—in which participants select their own level of difficulty, skiing up to one hundred miles in two days through Quebec’s Laurentian mountain range. In order to train for the event, Dublin School’s contingent created a network of cross-country ski trails around the boundaries of campus—carrying out a full survey of those boundaries in the process. What began as a little group of inexperienced skiers, cutting their own rude course through the woods, soon turned into a phenomenon. Davis credits current Head of School Brad Bates for fostering the endurance sports—and the spirit they require—at Dublin: “He’s taken us from zero to sixty in no time.” Davis came to think of Dublin School as a place where kids could experience a taste of “the pioneer stage,” no matter the era. “In my mind, kids are always looking for that challenge, looking for something that’s real. The environment

fall 2014 17 gives that to them. It gives them a feeling that, although they’re young and inexperienced, they’re capable—and the importance of that discovery does not change with time, with the advent of new technology, with anything.” The Land as Teacher If the land teaches capability, how to draw students onto the land, to inter- act with it, to get it between their toes and into their blood? The Canadian Ski Marathon may not be for everyone, but every Dublin graduate does have a “persistent level of engagement” with the environment that is braided together from many sources. Sarah Doenmez, Academic Dean and longtime history teacher, uses those words in pointing to ways in which Dublin’s traditional outdoorsy spirit has been imported into the academic curriculum. Jesse Jackson’s ninth-grade STEM classes (Science, Technology, Engineer- ing, and Mathematics) can frequently be seen bushwhacking in all weath- ers through unfamiliar terrain; for these students, a unit in forest ecology is their introduction to Dublin School. The offering of Advanced-placement

“Why examine wetland water samples in a lab when we have the chance to put on waders and visit the wetland itself?”

Environmental Science requires hands-on identification of the particular plants and trees of our immediate surroundings, as well as an understanding of the larger ecological systems of which they form a part. Add up three days of camping to begin each year; a day climbing Monadnock each fall; an Earth Day project; Work Gang; not to mention countless bonfires, sports practices, winter skating, hikes to Eagle Rock…—then multiply by four. The sum total of a student’s active outdoor education at Dublin is significant, and to many, life-changing. Jackson explains: “Why examine wetland water samples in a lab when we have the chance to put on waders and visit the wetland itself? They will remember how cold the water felt, how sunny or how windy it was, what birds they observed… Their education becomes a tangible thing: a real memory, not an abstraction.” When thinking about the acquisition of a new piece of property, says Brad Bates, the question in his mind is simple: “Does it add educational value to the school? Does it expand the radius of youth?” The recent purchase of new par- cels has tried to do just that. Eighty acres recently deeded to the School from the Lehmann family are explorable by a world-class set of Nordic ski trails, open to the greater Monadnock-area community, as well as to the student body. Twenty acres of meadow, just downhill from the Lower Playing Field, are now School property and will be kept open, providing crucial habitat for declining bird species such as tree swallows, bobolinks, and kestrels, among others, and giving students a peek into the grassland ecology that once domi- nated the New England landscape. One hundred fifty years ago, this is what New Hampshire looked like; now such grassland can be found only in small pockets. The lower side of this meadow may eventually be used as a site to

18 the dubliner generate solar power: though Dublin students are no longer heating dormito- ries with their own cord wood, they continue to engage with the bare necessi- ties, with issues of sustainable living, and with the land that still allows for it. To the screen-enchanted eyes of today, what does the land have to offer? Wood to heat our boilers, yes. An amazing vista, also. Places to explore, to get lost in. The smell of wet leaves underfoot in the fall. A snowy playground in the winter. Maple syrup in the spring. But something else, too, something harder to name. The way a hemlock finds a foothold on a sheer rock ledge and won’t let go. The way the root of Indian Cucumber tastes when you’ve been hiking all day and have to dig it out with your own thumbnail. The way a century-old apple tree keeps bearing fruit when the orchard’s overgrown. The way it feels to follow a stone wall for a mile till you hit some settler’s cellar-hole, “slowly closing like a dent in dough,” as the local poet wrote. Or the way a pry-bar in the hands of a hundred-pound Brooklyn girl upends a two-hundred-pound hunk of granite. Lessons that are learned without ever having been assigned.

“Why examine wetland water samples in a lab when we have the chance to put on waders and visit the wetland itself?”

Or if not lessons, then images—images of time winding itself like a watch each morning, each season, each year, and of the years unwinding, slow and smooth as thread off a spool. What was a meadow has grown up to blueber- ries and pin-cherry saplings; shrub-land, loud with the scratchy laugh of yel- lowthroats and Morse-code of chattering swallows, turns into moose maple and yellow birch; decades later, in the same place, red trillium blooms under great red oaks and white pines, young heirs to those unbroken forests that reigned before the white man, or any man. Like the land, a school changes shape but not identity, persons but not essential personality. Dynamic and steady, growing and constant, it stands in the shadow of its graduates, even while new shoots spring up below—shoots which will eventually come to alter the whole composition of the forest. The analogy is literal: a school is not only like the land, it is planted on it. After almost 80 years, Dublin School has become part of the lay of the land—form- ing it, and being formed by it. Inevitably, one partakes of the other, exchang- ing nutrients, sharing wisdom, swapping stories. In the steady drizzle of a Saturday morning, a band of colorful raincoats trudge by, brandishing clippers. They have their sights set on the invasive oriental bittersweet, which is expanding its territory near Memorial Field. There’s a little grumbling, but a Work Gang is not to be trifled with—the weed doesn’t stand a chance. If they find that copper lamp in the midst of all that tangle, a genie might well pop his head out to ask, “What else do you desire? Shall I clear out this bunch of bittersweet?” It’s possible they might accept. They also might put the lamp down and say politely, “No, thanks—we can handle it.” ■

fall 2014 19 From My Side of the Desk Students were asked to limn a teacher they admire in a few words

Jason Cox, “A Spike on the But Jenny will tell me, “use your down- Seismograph of Necessity” stage foot.” She knows that I’ll know Technology Teacher and that because she was the director of last Assistant Director of IT year’s musical, “Little Shop of Horrors,” If someone were to ask me what being (I was in the cast), so she appeals to my an autodidact means, I would reply strengths instead of calling out my weak- that it could be summarized as being nesses and eventually I get the move. a student whose curiosity transcends —Tali Cohen ’15 what is required of them. You see, what is required is often monotonous and “A Perfect Man,” John Adams repetitive. In the Dublin community Mathematics Department Chair some individuals stand out as spikes on Mr. Adams, also my four-year advisor, the seismograph of necessity and inspire has been my best mentor in and out of others to create their own outliers in the the classroom, during my time at Dublin printout. They cause tremors, bumps, School. I understand what his beautiful Cox and shakes when you listen for them. Mr. girlfriend sees in him: he is a humble, Cox breaks traditions, invests his time in hard-working, and responsible man. new concepts, and stretches the typical, What my father defines as “a perfect “need” into the, “Why not?” Humble yet man.” I really love how Mr. Adams wants sharp as a bright red spike drying crisply to contribute to this school in a lot of on a piece of pin feed paper, Mr. Cox dis- ways not only in academics, but also in plays and encourages others to question athletics. I think he has the potential to proposed truths and to push the bound- be a dean someday in the future. I will aries of what we can do at our school. never forget his aggressive, tough coach- —Deiter Brehm ’17 ing in Lax during my freshman year. I really want to thank him for everything Jenny Foreman, he taught me that helped me to grow “Very Much the Dancer” over these four wonderful years at Dublin Arts Department Chair and School. Learning Skills Tutor —Man Jae Yang ’15 I am not a dancer. I have been known to trip over nothing and my own mother Patrick Marr, “Is the Unicorn” has told me that I look like a penguin Musical Director Foreman when I run. To make matters more I hear that our music program really complicated, I don’t know my rights and came “alive” when music teacher Mario lefts. (I kind of do if I really think for a Flores stepped onto campus. Though minute and imagine holding a pencil, but he was only here for a few years, Flores Adams it is far from instinctual at this point.) left a legacy. So, last year when I heard Still, this fall, I’ve been participating in someone joyously talking about this guy Dance as my sport. Luckily, Ms. Foreman, “Patrick,” I thought that he might be like affectionately called “Jenny,” is very much Channing Tatum, causing girls to swoon a dancer. She is also very much a singer, endlessly over him. I wanted to know actor, and director. More impressive, more about this potential “successor” however, is her ability to balancer her to Mario. I scouted around and finally considerable talent with immeasurable found him seated behind the piano in the patience and kindness. Warmups often upper FAB, giving extra help to students. involve an “across the floor” component, He was not Channing Tatum’s identical which involves some degree of fancy twin. I didn’t know what to think. I left footwork, occasionally coupled with for summer vacation with this question fancy arm work, and an inherent knowl- burning in my mind. I also wanted to edge of right and left can be of great use. know how he would be as a teacher for

20 the dubliner Advanced Jazz Theory. Was I even suited occasions. My parents gave him the to take the class because I doubted my pet name, “Earl the Pearl.” Sometimes ability? I wanted to love the class. I think they like him a good deal more Cue first week of classes… I finally than I do. get to discover the elusive Patrick, now He often slips quietly into my known as Mr. Marr. Within the first few cubicle, my tiny study, my little room, minutes I understood what makes people and watches in silence. If he deems love Mr. Marr; he is a unicorn. Someone it needed, he will offer some concise rare, powerful, and entrancing. The first scrap of wisdom, or ask a question in thing one learns about Mr. Marr is his his lowest murmur. “I can’t hear you,” Quebecois patriotism. Second, his pas- I’ve said all too often. sion for music. Going to Advanced Jazz He may repeat himself, he may not. Theory is the highlight of my day. I came Perhaps he didn’t hear you at all. He in expecting classical music theory and may be thinking. One never knows. I lots of traditional repetition. NO! Mr. simply have to trust that if he thought Marr would be furious if that were to be it important enough, he would say it Marr taught and chooses to embrace a 21st cen- again, a little louder this time. tury approach to theory. Class varies each I am perfectly happy to tune in to a day as where we practice piano to help good podcast, or a playlist and ignore improve listening skills for scales. This the good people of Dublin School. then helps when we cover more advanced Maybe he lets me do this because he theoretical ideas. With this combination I would rather be doing it alone too, but should be soon able to competently write feels that he ought to be a good sport. my own music. Class is not all fast paced There was a time, however, when he theory. We like to have fun. Some of the insisted I join the group on a hike. ideas we have covered cannot even be “Us introverts,” he said, “have to push played like a piece of music written in 2/ ourselves to hang out with people sqrt 2. Throughout the many moments in sometimes. If I leave you alone 90% of the class we get to learn much about the the time, you can hang with the group eccentric Mr. Marr. the other 10%.” Valid, I think. One of the fondest moments was Schof doesn’t talk that loud, or even when we stopped in the middle of writ- that often, but I don’t really mind. Is ing scales and discussed our hatred (Mr. talking really so necessary when you Marr especially) for Yoko Ono. We dis- teach art? Is it really so necessary for Schofield cuss how the Beatles could have done so other classes? I don’t know. But silence much more if Yoko did not steal Lennon. has sure taught me a lot. To top it off we amusedly wondered why, —Daria Gross ’15 when she is such a terrible musician Sintetos herself, Lennon decided to work with her Nicole Sintetos, is “Inspirational” instead of the Beatles. English and History Instructor Mr. Marr is the unicorn that will bring Ms. Sintetos is by far the smartest per- life to the Music program and to Dublin. son I’ve ever met. Not only is she one This is why my favorite academic hour at of the best teachers I’ve ever had, she Dublin is Advanced Jazz Theory. also single-handedly creates the most —Max Brooke ’16 hardworking students. She manages to make her classroom as much fun as “The Silent Teacher,” Earl Schofield it is challenging. Through the rigorous Visual Arts Instructor and Putnam Gallery structure of her classes I have learned Director how to question, appreciate and under- I call him “The Silent Teacher.” Schofield. stand large amounts of work without I remember calling his name once in my becoming overwhelmed. She reminds first week and mispronouncing it with me almost every day that my brain is a soft c, like show-field. He made some more beautiful than even I realize and indignant sound, corrected me, and went inspires me to be a better learner and to loaf comfortably elsewhere or maybe to keep my mind open. do some very absorbing work. Most likely —Erin Tourgee ’15 the latter. I have since neglected to call him by his real name except on a few rare fall 2014 21 ThePower of Endurance Sports By Brad Bates

ndurance sports have been part of the fabric of my life. see it on her face, calm and less strained than earlier in They have connected me to family, to friends, to place, and to practice. It was not always this way. The new girl sitting myself. It is extremely rewarding to have the opportunity to two seats behind her, who came from a different school workE with such a fine group of faculty as we expose the next genera- with a different coach last year, different style—faster tion of students at Dublin School to the power of endurance sports. with the hands and slower on the slide than the Dublin Roger Duncan, the now deceased former headmaster at my own style. The new girl adapted, but the other three girls independent high school, used to regale us with stories in our weekly adapted to her as well. assemblies about a fictional academy in Maine called Kennebec Tchutcka…tchutcka…tchutcka…tchutcka…tchutcka… Academy. We quickly learned that the stories were really about us and They are on their fifth and final 1000 meter full pres- he was using fiction to get at deeper truths than any speech could sure interval “piece” on their way back to the dock. They deliver. When I was asked to share my thoughts on endurance sports, warmed up on the first two pieces, hit peak times on a subject so near and dear to my heart, I decided to humbly follow in three and four, and now, here in the middle of the 1000 that tradition and share two stories that I hope reveal the power of meters, they were running on fumes and guts. This is endurance sports when it comes to the education of the young men what it is all about, the stroke thought to herself. “What’s and women of Dublin School. These are stories of victory, failure, crew like?” her friends always asked her, “is it fun?” How friendship, delayed gratification, process, commitment, pain and joy. could she explain the beauty of the sound of their oar- They are stories of endurance. locks at that very moment and the work that went into achieving that sound, she wondered. She snuck a glance The Catch over at her coach, trailing behind them in a cold, metal Tchutcka…tchutcka…tchutcka…tchutcka…tchutcka… motorboat, checking his stopwatch and straining to see The “stroke,” the girl who sits in the stern of a four-oared them through the fog and early morning light. She smiled rowing shell, cannot see the boys’ four that her boat is inside thinking about how many times he had woken racing over her right shoulder on this cold and foggy April up early to prep their boats, adjusting each rigger to fit morning on Thorndike Pond. She can only hear the sound their individual rowing styles, before driving them to the the oars make when they turn in the oarlock just before lake. How many thousands of meters had these four girls the oar catches the water. Tchutcka……tchutcka… This rowed on the ergometers with him, how many kilometers morning the sound captures what she feels—she and her had they skied up and down Beech Hill to prepare for three boat mates have achieved perfect timing—you can practices like these? The fifth interval—this was the one

22 the dubliner that required endurance and commitment. The Rock Garden Tchutcka…tchutcka…tchutcka…tchutcka…tchutcka… He’d been thinking about it since the first day he showed Breaking the silence and the rhythmic echo of the oar- up for mountain biking practice in September. The other locks, the voice of the coxswain steering the boat started kids whispered about it, they talked around it. “Just wait,” in a whisper, “hold it…not now ladies…hold it…when I say they said, “you think this trail is hard…” “He clearly has go, we go…not now…hold it…wait for the boys to finish never ridden through the rock garden,” they would say their move ladies…then we go…” The sound from the to the rookies. This was his first season riding a bike for oarlocks of the boys’ boat reveals that they are not con- competition; he grew up riding bikes around his block and nected today, they are not allowing the boat to glide, they through the alleyways of his neighborhood, but never in are muscling each stroke and not relaxing enough to let the hills of southern New Hampshire. He was in the “C” the boat run up underneath them as they move down the group, the beginners, and the coaches waited for weeks tracks under their seats towards the next catch. The girl before taking the “C’s” up towards the top of Beech Hill, in the stroke seat smiles, she knows the boys don’t like it where the mysterious rock garden could be found. With when the girls stay close. The last piece of the day is about each day his mix of excitement and fear grew. Once he was technique and composure, not power. Her coxswain inter- riding along a rocky trail and asked one of the “A’s” if the rupts her thinking, “…in three strokes we go...” She could trail was similar to the rock garden. The “A” just laughed feel the girls behind her ready to explode with power—the and muttered “oh dear” to himself before speeding off, coxswain was creating just the effect he wanted—he knew seemingly dancing over the jagged granite in the path. them well. “3…2…1…NOW! ….Power Ten on this one!..I Finally the “C” coach felt his “C’s” were ready and the need ten of the biggest strokes you have ever pulled!” She peloton of riders made their way up the hill passing the felt the surge, the boat lifted higher in the water, stroke sandy layers near the Harrisville Road and finding more rate went up, they started moving on the boys. Her coach and more rocks as they climbed toward the summit of looked up from his watch, smiled with pride and gave the Beech Hill. As the coach pedaled ahead of him he tried to engine more gas—that was the stroke’s favorite part— remember everything he was coached to do when riding him having to speed up to match their change in speed. into a path filled with rocks and boulders—hands relaxed “8…9…10…paddle!” The piece over, they could barely on the bars, light on the seat, fluid motion with the ped- follow the coxswain’s commands and keep paddling. He als, and eyes looking where you want to go rather than commanded them to “weigh enough,” the crew word for where you fear going! Soon he found his wheels moving stopping to row. They glided silently through the yel- with less effort, they had reached the summit and were low pollen on the surface of the pond and listened to the heading downhill—toward the rock garden. boys complaining. The stroke of the girls’ boat smiled at He rode twelfth in line, the first riders well ahead of the coxswain, reached behind her instinctively and met a him in the fading early November light. The white birches waiting hand, squeezed. popped out of the gray background and appeared like Fun is not the right word, she thought to herself. fence posts along the winding trail. Soon he began to hear fall 2014 23 whoops and hollers through the trees and Halfway through the garden he noticed assumed that the better “C’s” had reached that none of the riders had made it and the rock garden. The rider in front of they stood on either side of the trail hold- him appeared nervous so he instinctively ing their bikes, watching quietly at first and applied his rear brake to give himself a little then suddenly joining in a cheer for him to distance. Feeling the strong grip of the disc finish his improbable ride. This unexpected brake reassured him and reminded him distraction sent him straight into a boulder how well he had tuned his bike in anticipa- that stopped his bike cold. Panicking, he tion of this ride—a full hour of tightening bunny-hopped his bike to the right and and tuning in the Outing Club the previous started pedaling—something he had seen night while everyone else was shooting an “A” rider do the previous day on the pool in the student center. Tuning the bike stone wall in front of the School House. helped him relax and get some space before It worked! One more series of rocks to go. study hall and after a busy day of classes Just as he thought to himself, “I made it,” and riding. he hit a wet root and his rear tire slid, send- He could sense something was wrong. ing him toppling into the leaves and sticks Briefly taking his eyes off of the trail he on the side of the trail. noticed that two riders had fallen, one hitting a sharp rock and It had been the best ride of his life. Back in the Main House bending his wheel’s rim, the other sent off the trail after trying everyone wanted to see the bruise on his thigh. He showed to go over rather than around a boulder. Refocusing his gaze them with pride. Coach stopped by his table, reminded him to he worked to put the fallen riders out of his mind. Suddenly, get some ice for the injury, and told him that he would be riding before his front wheel, he could see nothing but rock. “Damn with the “B’s” tomorrow. Back to the rock garden. ■ granite,” he thought. “Why are people in New Hampshire so proud of their Granite State?” His hands sweating he reminded Facts about the author: Brad was a three time All-American nordic skier at Junior Nationals himself to stay confident. He looked for a path and attacked the and four-year varsity skier at Dartmouth College. As a rower Brad was a member of his high rock garden with resolve, lifting his pedals rather than pushing school eight that won the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta and down, pulling his body off of the seat, twisting and turning with he was a four-year member of his college’s varsity heavyweight team, which he captained his his upper body to keep the bike from careening off of the trail. senior year. Joy is earned. This time, I am experiencing it lying in a lycra suit with my back on the snow, my arms and legs flung from my side, my diaphragm rising and collapsing rap- idly. It is here that I am perfectly content. I have just completed my leg of the four-man team relay for the New England Prep School Nordic Ski Championships. I managed to pass three ski- ers from other teams during my leg, which was a 2.5 kilometer sprint with a large uphill section. During my leg up the steepest section of the course, I felt my triceps burning from poling, and heard my lungs emitting the sound that a donkey might make as I gasped for oxygen on that frigid afternoon. In that moment, my body yearned to give up, and drop to the ground from exhaustion. At this point it’s about willpower. Not quitting. Instead I picked up my pace, pushing even harder. I have a mantra in my head: push to the end. I give every ounce of energy left in my body to pounding as hard as I can to the finish. As I get to the line of blue dye that is the finish, I tag my teammate for his leg, and then collapse onto the ground. I am filled with endorphins after pour- ing my energy into getting here. My grit overpowered the state of physical agony and exhaustion I was in to put in a solid leg for my teammates. This is why I love Nordic skiing: it is all about testing how much grit you really have. The sport embodies one of my school’s core tenets: joy is earned through hard work. Since coming to Dublin, I have embraced this motto, and have been able to find a deep sense of satisfaction from commitment to a process. Whether it be on the Nordic ski trails or in the precalculus classroom, I am perfectly con- tent here because I have embraced this belief – Joy is earned. – Will Utzschneider ’15

24 the dubliner Developing Trust - A Coach’s Perspective An interview with Erika Rogers and coach Rodrigo Villaamil

Erika Rogers: Talk me through the narrative of what is successful training recipe, following that recipe and having it going on in your head as a coach when you’re watching your execute itself during a race, compare to what you as a teacher team run a race. have to do for a course? Rodrigo Villaamil: Of course there is a lot of adrenaline RV: The coaching part, at the end of the day, can be much going on. You realize that you are a competitive person as more powerful depending on the student. Because as a an athlete, but you are also a very competitive person as a teacher, if I am unhappy with the results of a test or evalu- coach. It is a similar feeling, but when you are running, you ation, I always can find another way to allow the student to at least have some control, show me their ability. But in but when you are coaching, a race, it is completely objec- you have no control. But I will tive. It is 5-kilometers and a tell you that the emotions are time. There is nothing I can much stronger when you are do to change the result. coaching. You are connect- ER: Do you think that ing and feeling the emotions very black and white conse- through these other people quence of a race is a learning and you are appreciating their tool for a student when they effort and their commitment. have to apply that same kind It is very powerful. of trust, disciple, and belief ER: Can you see when you to academics? are watching a race or a prac- RV: Completely. Long tice that the kids are putting distance running is exactly together the pieces that you a metaphor for academics have laid out over the sea- because you need to have son? Can you see that “click” commitment, you need to moment? have consistency, and you RV: Well, that is interesting need to find your own strat- because we have been doing egy. Some people start slow a kind of scientific method with the students after Joanna and then speed up towards the end, some try to go as fast Smith (co-coach) and I attended a coaching clinic. The thing as they can the whole way. It is the same in the classroom. is that the athletes have to trust us completely. Different They must find their own learning style for success through days in practice there are different levels of effort they have trial and error and learn to strategize, how to recover from to do. It is crucial that when we say to run slow, they run failure, so they can run the next race, take the next test. slow. Then when we need them to run at 90% they develop ER: Finally, what has been the most memorable moment the self-discipline to push hard but not go full out, 100% is of this season? for the race. They must trust the system. It is almost math- RV: The girls’ championship race. I wanted us to win the ematical, if there are no accidents, they know what their championship because the girls had been doing very well time will be – they must trust the training. all season. You have to understand that in cross-country ER: So do the student athletes who develop that level of running, the combined score of the top 5 runners is what trust and follow the system, have greater success than those determines your standing. So the #5 girl is important that don’t, even if they are not as strong as the other athletes? because it does not matter how well the top 4 do, since if RV: Yes, because our athletes are also kids. They show the #5 girl places too low, you will not score high as a team. the same mentality as in the classroom, not all their choices Our #5 girl had an injury, so our #6 had to run. I told her are rationale. If they have mistrust in the system, but they we needed her to give her very best effort. This is what she experience that week after week they are improving their had been working for. When she came across the line she times, then they very quickly start to trust. They begin to was completely exhausted, she held nothing back, she ran an use the vocabulary, they share what they have learned with excellent race and we won the championship. Thinking back I their friends and parents, and they begin to own it and really can still feel the knot I had in my throat. I didn’t cry because improve. I am from Uruguay and men don’t cry in Uruguay, but . . . ER: How does that relationship between creating a very emotional. fall 2014 25 truth and courage “Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.” By Jan Haman

his article was inspired by the words of Marina that we can still do anything. . . We’re so young, we’re SO young . . . Keegan, in her final essay for the Yale Daily News, we have so much time. [But] we can’t, we MUST not lose that sense of entitled “The Opposite of Loneliness,” prior to her 2012 possibility, because in the end, it’s all we have.” Tgraduation from that school. Five days after Yale’s commence- As I read these words, I thought about the many Dublin ment exercises, Ms. Keegan died in an automobile accident. Her alums I have known and the roads they have taken. Many have encouraging words to her fellow graduates, along with some of pursued careers via “paths of passion,” what Harold Bloom her other writings, were subsequently gathered by Yale faculty referred to as “investing in their youthful pride and exuberance, and students and published into a successfully received book of both in self-development and in the improvement of society.” the same title. These are some of her musings: (Marina Keegan was a protégé of Bloom.) Consequently, I went “Some of us know exactly what we want and are on a path to get- in search of several alums who have chosen “the road less trav- ting it, but [some of us] are not quite sure what road we’re on and eled,” and I settled on four gentlemen of varying class years. I whether we should have taken it . . . What we have to remember is know there are hundreds more, but here are their unique stories.

Waise Azimi ’00 his father, now heavily involved in the international effort Waise Azimi ’00 and his sister, Sara, came to Dublin via to rebuild Afghanistan, invited him to visit sites throughout Afghanistan and the Philippines as a result of their father’s northern Afghanistan. “This time, I planned out my shoot. I search for a boarding school similar to La Martiniere College, seized upon issues that had consequences for the country’s the one he attended in his youth in India. “Somewhere,” says future, like the booming narcotics trade, and the ongoing Waise, “we could really grow and flourish as he once did, and effort to rid Afghanistan of countless mines left over from that’s how we ended up at Dublin.” Both Azimis had spent the Soviet occupation.” The end result was a short film, titled time in different parts of the world and brought with them to “Afghanistan After,” that provided a brief overview of the tran- Dublin a great curiosity about people and places. But both ex- sition following the Taliban ouster from power through the perienced homesickness almost immediately. “However,” says combined efforts of U.S. and Northern Alliance forces. “I was Waise, “it helped having Sara living just a few minutes’ walk proud of the work and I wanted to keep going. I have never away. I arrived a shy, socially awkward, struggling student looked back with any regret.” and left Dublin with a great GPA and a lifelong friend in my Waise says that his most challenging and rewarding experi- awesome roommate, Lowell Flanders, and many small, but im- ence as a director is “Standing Up.” As far back as 2002/2003 portant personal accomplishments.” Waise was aware that the Coalition After his two years at Dublin, Waise would not be able to achieve a success- went on to the American University ful end game in Afghanistan without a of Cairo, and then transferred to Bard reliable local partner in place to eventu- College. By then he had already devel- ally take over the counter terrorism. “In oped a passionate interest in film. “I short,” he says, “if the Afghan National took a slew of film studies courses with Army was not strong enough to stand up great professors like Adolfas Mekas on its own against the terrorist threat, and Scott MacDonald. But look- all the gains and sacrifices the U.S. had ing back, I now realize that my love made in blood and treasure to root out for filmmaking began thanks to my and eliminate Al Qaeda would eventu- father. On two separate occasions he ally be rolled back. At the time we knew invited me to accompany him on Asian nothing about this new army that was Development Bank business trips. The taking shape. I set out to shed a light first was to the Northwest Frontier on the work being done to raise a new Province of Pakistan, and the second to Afghan National Army and I wanted to Afghanistan after the U.S. intervention. Waise Azimi ’00 put a very personal, human face to the Both times I scrambled around to bor- young Afghan men who would one day row a video camera to document those trips.” make up the first line of defense in the war against terror. To The first video Waise shot chronicled his travels to the mas- do that, I went back in the summer of 2006 and spent four sive Afghan refugee camps. “It was extremely simple and rudi- months at the Kabul Military Training Center alongside the mentary, but it got me fired up, and I knew that I wanted to recruits of Battalion SS as Afghan and Coalition officers tried learn more and try again!” He got that chance in 2003 when to mold them from raw recruits to professional soldiers. The

26 the dubliner result was “Standing Up.” It premiered at the International future employers, “and the only way to do that is to shoot Rotterdam Film Festival and was also part of a special film something! Lastly, the road to success is long and steep and series on Afghanistan at the National Gallery of Art in sometimes it never rewards filmmakers with the kind of pro- Washington, D.C.” fessional success they desire. I would advise anyone looking When asked about advice he would give to perspective at a film career to enjoy the journey and worry less about the Dublin student film makers (of which there are many these final destination.” days), Waise says he would urge them “to pick a story they Waise continues to use his craft for social good, and is cur- know they can shoot with the resources they have at hand. rently working on a documentary short. “I am honored to have I would tell them to find like-minded collaborators and the opportunity to direct a film documenting the important make a short film in their hometown or on a road trip with social relief work that the NGO WeDpro is doing with commu- friends.” He emphasizes the need to have something to show nities around the Philippines affected by super storm Yolanda.”

Lowell Flanders ’00 phylogenetics, mapping out evolutionary lineages of the Waise’s friend and roommate, Lowell Flanders took quite animals. “We also assist external researchers, housing a few another road after graduating in 2000. He attended George on site and sending specimens on loan to many other research Washington University and was about to graduate in 2004 institutions. I try my damnedest to avoid interacting with the with a history degree, when, Lowell says, “I realized there public—you should see the crowds in the public spaces these really wasn’t much I could do with that, so a few weeks before days! I do sometimes give tours though, and the thing every- graduation, I declared for a Biological Anthropology degree one wants to see is the Latimeria (coeleanth) which is a huge and commenced in May 2005 with a Bachelors in History and ‘primitive’ fish. My duties mostly involve keeping things run- Biological Anthropology. The bio/anth degree was fortuitous ning smoothly. I catalog specimens and process our backlog, in that I took a few museum studies courses which introduced which, for way of perspective, still contains some unprocessed me to museum studies as a discrete field.” specimens collected by the USS Albatross (commissioned in A few years later, Lowell returned to GWU for a Master of 1882).” Arts degree in Museum Studies with a concentration in collec- He says that in the hours before the museum opens, tion management and physical anthropology. Between those he likes to stop in the very quiet Hall of North American degrees he contracted for the Department of the Interior as a Mammals. “It’s a diorama, and as such, is a bit antiquated, Records Management Specialist in the Office of the Secretary. but it evokes a significant history-it reminds me why this Soon thereafter, he made the leap to the Smithsonian Museum is important, even if it evokes a particular sort Museum of Natural History as an intern in the Department of of Jack London-y mindset about the environment we have Ichthyology. “My favorite was working with the illustration moved beyond.” collection. They have material from Ito As cool as working at the Museum of and Charles Bradford Hudson, pretty Natural History is, says Lowell, “It is not much the Audubon of fish illustra- financially rewarding in the least.” So he tion. If you ever have a chance to see has taken a second job at the National it, the Smithsonian’s storage facil- September 11 Memorial and Museum. ity, the Museum Support Center, is “I applied on line and they brought absolutely amazing. It has all worked me on after very extensive training. We out pretty well considering that when I had to learn a whole lot of data about first started, pretty much everything I the place and the exhibits - although we knew about fish I had learned from Ms. leave the truly in-depth interpretations Rogers’ marine bio course in my Junior to the docents. We spent a great deal of year—way back in the Spring of ’99!” time preparing for challenging visitor Nowadays, Lowell is a Scientific interactions—which with the various Assistant in Vertebrate Zoology in controversies are legion—and not a little the Department of Ichthyology at the time with people experiencing grief.” American Museum of Natural History, When asked about the museum’s open- “a Mecca of sorts, hence why I sacrificed Lowell Flanders ’00 ing week, which was devoted to families my life in D.C. to come to New York of the victims, Lowell said, “It wasn’t City. Like most of the museum, our department exists primar- easy. I remember my first shift down there, just handling that ily for research. We have close to 300,000 lots of fish, which amount of ambient sadness. Of course, it was also, at that adds up to maybe two million or more specimens. These are point, that I think the museum was most fulfilling its purpose. mostly stored in ethanol, but we also have large skeletal and These are the people, these families, it exists to serve. I’m glad ‘cleared and stained’ and cryogenic tissue collections. There are we could do that for them.” He says that since that first week, only a few pertinent exhibits we provide specimens for. One of “The vibe has changed a bit, now it’s the sort of normal NYC our Curators is responsible for the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life - tourist crowds coming in, so obviously the visitors are less where the huge whale is.” reverent. People actually want to know where the gift shop is Lowell and his colleagues work in systematics/ . . . I can’t see the need to bring home a souvenir! But I still like fall 2014 27 truth and courage

seeing visitors’ expressions when I explain they are, in fact, in the absent structures, and the tenuousness of any enterprise. the footprint of one of the towers and now directly beneath It only takes a handful of believers and many tons of jet the pools. It feels rare nowadays to see people express awe fuel to destroy decades of work and thousands of lives. For at anything, anymore. The monumental open spaces are a museum about one of the most horrific single events in breathtaking, especially as they illuminate the vast ingenuity American history, I feel it does the best job possible. Being of human engineering inherent to the original work, demon- appropriately respectful, informational, and not completely strated by the massive slurry wall and all that implies about soul crushing.”

Tony Bessinger ’78 The latter happens on his summer days off. His regular “I must go down to the seas again to the lonely sea and sky, summer job is driving a 117-foot, high speed, Catamaran And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;” ferry every day to Oak Bluffs/Martha’s vineyard from Qounset Point, RI. For a creative outlet, Tony blogs daily about all These words from the poem “Sea Fever” by the English kinds of marine events around the globe. “Right now,” he says, poet, John Masefield, are ones thatTony Bessinger ’78 “this is simply a source of amusement for me and my readers, I has embraced in his life close to the sea. After graduation am an Internet geek; my iPad is never far from my side and I from Dublin, Tony “dabbled in a few read everything! All the time!” things, including college,” he says, but He has basically retired from sailing ultimately ended up in the Caribbean, now. “My last race to Bermuda was in working around and on boats. “The 2010 and we won our class. It was a sea has always been part of my life. good way to end it, I think.” Tony says After the Caribbean years, I settled he does not really miss racing. “I’ve in Newport, got married, and started been through one hurricane and many working at ‘normal’ jobs, such as storms, and now, vow/pray/hope never restaurants, etc. I worked the seasons to do so again.” for several years; summers in New- When asked about travel, he says, port, winters in Florida, but I always “Sailing has taken me many places. kept sailing. Living in Newport, which I’ve been through the Panama Canal I regard as one of the most beautiful twice, once in a 46-foot Catamaran, places I’ve ever seen, draws you natu- once in a 160-foot sloop. I’ve done a rally to the sea.” Transatlantic race on a 146-foot ketch, Tony has taken many jobs that raced in 10 Newport-Bermuda Races, afforded him the opportunity to be and sailed, in total, over 100,000 miles. Tony Bessinger ’78 on or near the water, including crew The countries I’ve been to pretty much member on yachts, manager of a chart include the entire Caribbean, with the department in a nautical bookstore, editor of a national sailing exceptions of Cuba and Jamaica. My adventures have taken magazine, professional delivery crew/captain/navigator, and, me to Colombia, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico, of course, professional racing sailor. “In my 30s I worked at Spain, France, Italy and Canada.” the Armchair Sailor Bookstore in Newport, running the chart department. The owner there let me take as much time off as “I must go down to the sea again, to the vagrant gypsy life I needed every year to race boats at the grand-prix level, which To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whet- was a perfect blend of learning more about navigation and ted knife.” developing my racing resume.” Tony spent his 40s as an editor of Sailing World Magazine He seems content to have put the ‘gypsy life’ behind him which also allowed him time to race as much as he wanted, as these days, perhaps because of other responsibilities. “I have long as he wrote about those races. That experience led to an two children, my daughter, Beckett, who is 11, and my son, eventual position as the Electronics Editor for three maga- Emerson who is eight years old. When we delivered one of the zines in the same company. “It was a great job that taught me fast ferries on which I work to Bermuda last year, I realized to write - my basic writing skills were learned at Dublin - but it was about the 36th time I’d sailed out there. But, in fact, if my writing abilities are also a result of a life-long voracious you told me today that the rest of my maritime career would reading habit.” These days Tony spends his winters teaching consist solely of trips around Narragansett Bay and deliveries monthly two-week classes that prepare students to take the up and down the Intracoastal Waterways, I’d be delighted!” U.S. Coast Guard Captain’s license examination, as the head instructor at Confident Captain/Ocean Pros. He also does “And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, hands-on training for Confident Captain, Inc., teaching chil- And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.” dren as well as recreational and professional mariners, includ- ing law enforcement, in the skills of driving powerboats.

28 the dubliner David Fetherolf ’74 artist’s diary, “but it was 1800 square feet in NYC with a huge “I was four and a half when I informed my parents I needed a skylight and great light! And we were young . . .” ‘cello in order to live. Then I did the horrible things little boys How did the starving artist become an accomplished music do when their desires are being thwarted and I got a ‘cello and engraver, a co-founder of BYTE MUSIC/Skeeter Press, had lessons for my fifth birthday,” saysDavid Fetherolf ’74, who his Concerto for Violoncello accepted for performance and chose music, more specifically, composing and music engrav- recorded by Vienna Modern Masters? Well, as we said, the ing, as his life ‘road.’ And what a long and winding road it has road was long, and so is the story, and it includes years of been! “Even during kindergarten I would come home and play restaurant work, making fortuitous connections, and just 4 LP records in the same order. first, “Muggsy Spanier,” then plain creative tenacity. Also, a ‘novel’ detour into Purchase “Jazz at Storyville,” then Harry Belafonte’s “Mark Twain and College. “The first thing I told them, of course, was that I had other Folk Favorites,” and I’d finish off with Stravinski’s “Fire- no lower degree. But they were looking for grad students and bird Suite,” conducted by Stokowski. I so they said: ‘No problem.’ They’d still have these records.” just confer a B.A. on me and put me After Dublin, David’s original in the Master’s program. By the time plan included Harvard, but, “Plans I graduated, the SUNY system had changed. Had I done that, I most likely re-configured the school as Purchase would have studied Constitutional College Conservancy of Music.” Now Law, which is still one of my fields of he had an official degree: Master of interest. Being a Constitutional lawyer Music, Magna cum laude. “As we used is probably the only profession that to say in New York before Metro Cards, would make me more of an outcast ‘that and a token would get me a ride in America than being a composer of on the subway.’” One of his Purchase contemporary concert music. But that professors urged him to get a PhD at didn’t work out as expected.” Yale. “He’d already spoken with the Instead, David took private ‘cello Dean, who knew me. The only reason lessons with Nathan Stutch, who at to continue would be to land a teach- the time was the associate principal ing job. And although I loved teaching with the NY Philharmonic, and then David Fetherolf ’74 at Purchase, I hated the way associate theory with Vladimar Padwa at NYU. professors were treated at Pratt, where Soon he enrolled at Orange County Community College where, Carrie worked. Also I had to consider that and the surety of “I did the usual routine: chorus, piano, theory, etc. But after tens of thousands of dollars of debt as well as leaving my our first theory class, Doc (Dr. Marvin K.Feman) called me fledging business. I decided to forgo Yale.” into his office and handed me his personal copy of Piston’s Today, David and Carrie live on Staten Island, and his official Harmony Book. He told me the class would hold me back, so I title is Editor/Production Manager, Premier Works T G. Schirmer/ should just work my way through the book. He also taught me Associate Music Publishers. “What that means is that every new how to transpose properly and by sight, asking me to play the work by any of our contract composers comes across my desk to baritone sax parts in the concert band on my ‘cello.” be edited and sent out for engraving. I see the work through to Such became the unorthodox and eclectic music education the final process . . . Then comes the fun part. For most orchestral route that David chose, including entry into the Longy School works I go to the premier rehearsals and work with the composer, of Music in Cambridge. In fact, when, during an auto ride, he conductor, musicians to hone the work. As with book editors and told his father about Longy, his dad slammed on the brakes writers, my work with composers varies from true gratitude, to at the South Boston exit on I-93 and said, “If you want to those who won’t allow me to touch their music.” waste your life, you can walk from here.” However, says David, Between Purchase and G. Schirmer there were many more Longy was a wonderful place for him. “It was a lot like Dublin. years of absorbing all types of music and new skills, several My class sizes averaged about 6 students and the teachers entrepreneurial experiences, and the fun of co-founding were all dedicated and concerned about our excellence. Thank Random Access Music, a composers’ collective. “We’re one of you, Bonnie Riley! After two years I changed my major to the most active new music groups in the city. We give three composition, mostly because the older I got, the less comfort- concerts each season and we also started and curate the able I was on stage.” Queens New Music Festival, which is a four day, 8 or 9 concert By 1980, he had finished at Longy and married Carrie, his affair with groups from all over the world. We just finished our bride of 35 years now. They moved from “our lovely little third year of doing that.” apartment in Sommerville into the wilds of Brooklyn. We David’s musical path has been unusual, but consistent. found an unheated, raw loft space to rent near Pratt Institute “Music has been my touchstone. . . My life has been a long aural where Carrie was finishing her Fine Arts degree. If you’ve read hallucination. I walked around my paper route when I was Patti Smith’s book, Just Kids, you’ll know how we lived and eleven, composing giant, Romantic symphonies in my head after have a good picture of the neighborhood we lived in.” David reading about Berlioz’s dream orchestra of 400 players. They and Carrie’s Brooklyn loft experience reads like a starving stayed there because I didn’t know how to get them out.” ■ fall 2014 29 truth and courage

30 the dubliner A Special Homecoming

n September 27, 2014 Bonnie Allen Riley came home to the School House. It had been 33 years since she daily held forth on Keats’ “Grecian Urn” in Room 3, or gave wise homilies on the Oefficacy of good manners before the fireplace upstairs. Now, on this particular Saturday of Alumni Weekend, Bonnie settled down into a big red “easy” chair near that same fireplace, surrounded by many of her old students and older colleagues. A vison of grace and wisdom, her aged patina “To me, Bonnie has always been the seemed to match comfortably with the sun-lit consummate master teacher. She taught me to warmth of the pine-paneled walls and polished coax adolescents to love Shakespeare, to dance, oak floor boards in the upper School House. She to love politics, Africa, the English monarchs shared that it was in this same room in 1950, that and the purple finches that hover against she danced with the young women in her summer the small-paned windows of Room 3, which dance school, an endeavor that led to her teaching I inherited. In everything she taught in that cozy, cramped room with the carved wooden career at Dublin School. Bonnie spoke about desks, or on the dance floor of the old Arts those days, expressing her joy when “dancing in Building, she was the lady, une Grande Dame, this lovely room.” It was obvious to all that those that paragon of grace and beauty.” memories are still precious to her. At one point she —Jan Haman asked everyone to, “Stand, join hands, hips under, shoulders relaxed. . . Now feel like a dancer!” Moments later, she recounted living in Salzburg during WWII, while studying dance with Isadora Duncan’s sister, Elizabeth. “A great teacher!” exclaimed Bonnie. Then she asked for a show of hands from the teachers in the room, before extolling the virtues of pursuing such a noble profession. One by one, her former students knelt by her chair, and as Bonnie held their hands, they thanked her—a touching moment for a lady who has positively touched so many lives. ■

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Remember Slides? his summer we digitized over 3,000 slides from the Dublin School photo archives. Wow— WhatT a treasure of memories! But we need your help to sort and label them all. If you are interested in helping us sort slides from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s please contact the alumni office at [email protected]. We are working to get many of these images sorted before next year’s Alumni/ Reunion Weekend—October 2-4, 2015. (Mark your calendars!) You can also look for these images on “Throwback Thursday” on the Dublin School Alumni Facebook page! ■

32 the dubliner FOCUS ON THE PAUL W. LEHMANN AWARD WINNERS Where are they now?

This award is named after Dublin’s founding headmaster and is given by the faculty to that member of the graduating class who best exemplifies Grier Murphy ’92 sturdiness of character, academic Business Woman, Wife, Mother and vigor, and excellence of influence in all areas of school life. Charlottesville Fan 1985 Jeffrey B. Wurgler 1986 Michele R. Bridgewater 1987 Neil E. Ciley 1988 Alexandra C. Ladd 1989 Amy R. Andrus 1990 Sean B. Lockwood 1991 Rebecca A. Parker 1992 Emilie G. Runyon 1993 Hannah Smalltree fter earning a Bachelor of Arts from the 1994 Anna Blair University of Virginia, Grier opened a small 1994 Christopher J. Flynn café on the UVa “Corner”, the popular area of restaurantsA and shops near the University. The café 1995 Jed McGiffin thrived for 7 1/2 years and inspired the opening of a 1996 Michael E. Kitces mobile food truck and a second location on the now 1997 Samuel G. Miller famous Downtown Mall (a pedestrian mall similar to 1998 Adam A. Milukas those in Boulder, CO and Burlington, VT). Grier sold the business in 2004 and became a real estate agent 1999 Richard Seo in her beloved Charlottesville, VA. Picking up on her 2000 Sarah C. Bryan architect husband Kevin’s passion for design, Grier 2001 John T. Ying has become known for her talent in helping clients identify key properties and find the home that makes 2002 Rafi R. Jaima them want to put down roots and explore all that 2003 Rhea W. Davis Charlottesville has to offer. Grier and her husband 2004 Mari J. Alberico have even purchased their first investment property 2005 Taylor Phillips-Hungerford that they are running as a short term vacation rental. In between all this, Grier and Kevin have 2 boys, 2006 Seong Ho Hong Quinn (6) and Silas (4) and enjoy traveling, hiking, 2007 Daniel C. Shaw biking and volunteering in the community. “My 2008 Jacky C. Cheng experience at Dublin is one of the most vivid periods of my life. I LOVED the four years I spent at Dublin. 2008 James F. Kirk I learned how to be independent, how to manage my 2009 Jemila K. Grant time efficiently, how to juggle all of my activities and 2010 Chris Riley responsibilities, and how to cultivate amazing friend- ships. The confidence and skills developed at Dublin 2011 Meredith Hoffman showed me that I had what it takes to open my own 2012 Ashley Arana business. I knew it at the time, but I especially know it 2013 Tyson Laa – Deng now, I was lucky to have been given the 4 years I spent ■ 2014 Mylisha Drayton there.”

fall 2014 33 alumni news & notes Scenes from Reunion 2014

(Above) James Teuscher ’64, Gretchen and Jimmy Johnson ’64 and Daniel Holder ’64 (Below) Cathy Jessup ’78, Forrester “Chip” Smith, Jr. ’79, Jessica Landsman-Baker ’79 and Dan Steele ’79

(Above) Dan Holder ’64 (Below) Bonnie Riley, Jan Haman, Mary Cornog, Scott Holland and Michael Cornog

Darryl Outellette ’83 and Annette Harris Powell ’83 34 the dubliner Look Who Attended Reunion 2014

Class of 1964 50th Anniversary Daniel Holder Jimmy Johnson James Teuscher John Wight

Class of 1974 (Above) The Class of 1974: Craig Thurston, 40th Anniversary Harry Sloan and David Fetherolf (Right) David Fetherolf Jemila Grant’09, Ali Avery ’09, Ian Probst ’09, Harry Sloan Ashlee Virtue ’09 and Olivia Loria ’09 Craig Thurston

Class of 1979 35th Anniversary Joe Anderson Dan Hale (Below) Joe Anderson ’79, Dan Steele ’79, Jessica Landsman-Baker Forrester “Chip” Smith, Jr. ’79, Dan Hale Forrester “Chip” Smith, Jr. ’79, Jessica Landsman-Baker ’79 and Max LeMarchant ’80 Dan Steele

Class of 1984 30th Anniversary Samuel Bellavance Chris Bilotta-Woods Maurice Willoughby

Class of 1989 25th Anniversary Hadley Sullivan ’89 and husband Terry, AK Kim ’86 Garrick Boyd and Diana Elkavitch Hadley Sullivan

Class of 1994 20th Anniversary Lawrence Guthrie (Below) Front row: Jemila Grant ’09, Middle row: Colin Hill Erika Rogers, Genesis Mullins ’06, Jan Haman, Jessica Nemore Tolk Ashley Farrell ’06, Olivia Loria ’09, Ashlee Virtue Andrew Wyndham ’09, Back row: Richada Grant ’04, Alexandria Farrell ’08, Rodist Parker ’05, Brent Ford ’05 and Michelle Knapp Class of 2004 10th Anniversary Tamara Berkeley Mari Ciresi Richarda Grant Fredia Kat James Lloyd Rebecca Long Scott McCarty Eric Meils Nick O’Connor Class of 2004: (front row) Nick Terrasi, James Lloyd, Mari Ciresi, Lakena Outlaw, Fredia Kat, Lakena Outlaw Tamara Berkeley, (back row) Jonathan Savage, Jonathan Savage Scott McCarty, and Richada Grant Melissa Stremel Nicholas Terrasi David Thompson fall 2014 35 alumni news & notes

Look Who Attended Reunion 2014

Class of 2009 5th Anniversary Ali Avery Jemila Grant Olivia Loria Ian Probst Ashlee Virtue

Non-Reunion Year (Above) Rose Will ’10 and Attendees Anna Guinard ’10 (Above Charles Moizeau ’50 right) James Lloyd ’04 and Jamie Huntington-Meath ’67 Nick O’Connor ’04 (Right) Guy Jackson ’67 Forrester “Chip” Smith, Jr. ’79, Jessica Landsman- Ron Eschenbrenner ’75 Baker ’79, Oen Kennedy’80 Cliff Pafford ’75 and Max LeMarchant ’80 Jose Resto ’75 Dave Bliss ’77 Cathy Jessup ’78 Oen Kennedy ’80 Max LeMarchant ’80 (Below) Dan Steele ’79 and Homeyra Bakhshnia ’81 Dan Hale ’79 Tracy Bean ’83 Darryl Ouellette ’83 Annette Harris Powell ’83 AK Kim ’86 Richard Maher ’92 Deborah Wyndham ’97 Brent Ford ’05 Rodist Parker ’05 Angela Russell Leblanc ’05 Ashley Farrell ’06 Genesis Mullins ’06 Scott Olsen ’07 Alexandria Farrell ’08 (Below) Sybille & Dan Holder ’64, Anna Guinard ’10 James Teuscher ’64, Gail & Charles Julian Lind ’10 Moizeau ’50 and Susan & John Richard Thackston ’10 Wight ’64 Rose Will ’10 Eddie O’Donnell ’11 Peter Bascom ’13

Former Faculty Michael & Mary Cornog Peter & Alice Duston Michael & Diana Elkavitch Scott Holland Bonnie Riley

36 the dubliner A Song in My Heart She loved laughter, singing, gourmet cooking, all things musical, and, most of all, people.

e lost a truly good person yesterday,” wrote J. Bruce Scott ’75, shortly after Frona Avery passed on November 28. “The world should stop . . . a dear lady has died. She was brilliant, “ thoughtful, passionate,” said Sara Hall Thomas ’77. Added Sarah Bauhan, also ’77: “She had the mostW powerful voice I think I ever heard—what a range.” Frona’s ‘range’ covered more than mere musical notes, as those of us who worked with her here at Dublin, can bear witness. Zipping around campus in her little green Subaru with the license plate “2&Fro,” she was as comfortable in the Dublin kitchen cooking for us and Monadnock Music as she was directing the band for “Marat/Sade” in the ’70s, running her restaurant, Deacon Brodie’s Tavern in the ’80s, or tutoring and guiding students in the ’90s. Together, we were the Mutt and Jeff, the cup and saucer, producing the Dublin Community Theater, complete with art shows and film festival, and creating an enduring arts program here that included visiting artists who lived on campus, and didn’t want to leave—probably due to Frona’s cuisine. Fro could do it all. Here is what her students said when dedicating the yearbook to her. “It is difficult to interact in all aspects of life at Dublin School without finding you there before us, deeply involved. You are a friend, a confidante, a tire- less advisor and a fantastic human being. You have taken us camping, cooked our meals, planned our menus, helped us clarify our values, and taught us how to play instruments, to read music, to sing. You have directed our music, led our chorus, and refereed our kitchen jobs. You are Dublin’s Wonder-woman of 1976.” This is what Frona told The Dubliner in 1976. “My father asked me, ‘Do you want to be a cute little girl, or do you want to be a person?’ I was going to be an engineer. My father was an engineer, and I was going to be that, too. Until I got my scholarship . . . and later I was singing in a band six nights a week, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. It’s then I decided I didn’t want to do it all my life; it came to me that I really wanted to teach. Music is a life that can go many ways . . .” Her life was never far from music. We’re told that at the end, when asked what she would like, she answered, “Music.” A church choir came (she always was a member of a choir) and sang some hymns, then did Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. Frona even sang along. She will be remembered by all she touched and sang with. —Jan Haman fall 2014 37 alumni news & notes

Recently Published The Lehmann Works by Dublin Alumni Legacy Circle and Faculty “I will always be thankful for my years at Dublin School and what I learned there. It Cathy Barrows ’74 was a lot more than just the Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s Practical Pantry academics. Dublin helped make me the person I am to- day, knowing that Truth and Courage is the foundation on which to build a life. I hope that what I have been able to give back over the years Michael Light ’81 Lake Las Vegas/ will in some way show how Black Mountain appreciative I am and always will be.” —Joe Joslin ’54, Lehmann Legacy Member

The Legacy Circle, founded in 1989 by two Lifetime Trustees, Henry Ben Tripp ’84 S. “Pete” Hoyt ’41 and Nancy Lehmann, wife of Dublin’s founder, is The Accidental designed to provide Dublin School’s alumni, alumnae and friends Highwayman with an opportunity to make Planned Gifts to the School – above and beyond their support of the Annual Fund. Membership in the Legacy Circle is growing because so many have found that they can provide immediate or deferred income or major gifts to the School while preserving or enhancing their own income. You do not have to be wealthy or elderly to consider Dublin Henry Walters, English Teacher School in your financial planning. A planned gift can be as simple Field Guide A Tempo as deciding to give appreciated securities instead of cash, including Dublin School in your will or creating a charitable trust. For additional information please contact Erika Rogers, Director of Development and Alumni Affairs at (603) 563-1230 or erogers@ dublinschool.org. ■

38 the dubliner Congratulations Young Alumni

Amber Beam ’10, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Registered Nurse, Keene State College (Keene, NH) Beam Doenmez Hoffman Zak Doenmez ’10, Bachelor of Arts, Political Science and Government, Clark University (Worcester, MA) Natalie Hoffman ’09, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Accessory Design, Savannah College (Savannah, GA) Julian Lind ’10, Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, Clark University (Worcester, MA) Ryan Limero ’10, Magna Cum Laude Bachelor of Science, Elementary Education, Sociology and Anthropology, Elmira College (Elmira, NY) Lind Limero McCutcheon Jordan McCutcheon ’10, Bachelor of Arts, Goucher College (Baltimore, MD) Ian Probst ’09, Bachelor of Arts, Goucher College (Baltimore, MD) Chris Riley ’10, Bachelor of Arts, Special Education and Teaching, Goucher College (Baltimore, MD) Emily Rueggeberg ’10, Bachelor of Arts, Art History and Politics, Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA) Janice Sharpe ’09, Bachelor of Arts, Social Work and Juvenile Justice, Wheelock College Probst Riley Rueggeberg (Boston, MA) Nicole Smith ’09, Bachelor of Arts, Social Work and a minor in Criminal Justice, Franklin Pierce University (Rindge, NH) Sunny Zeng ’10, Bachelor of Arts, Economics, Smith College (Northampton, MA) Masters James Kirk ’08, Master of Science, Management and Mechanical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, MA) Sharpe Smith Zeng Vanessa Martinez ’07, Master of Arts, Communication in Kirk Martinez Outlaw Management, Simmons College (Boston, MA) Lakena Outlaw ’04, Master of Arts, Psychology, Cedar Crest College (Allentown, PA)

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Hard to Say Goodbye Homer boat builder and musician Renn Tolman ’51, passed away peacefully in his tiny beachfront cabin on July 5. He was 80. He was well-known in Alaska coastal communities for designing and building the Tolman Skiff, a practical dory-style vee-bottom boat that found wide use among hardy seafarers on Kachemak Bay and around the world. His skiffs can be found in Germany, Norway, Australia and other countries. An old-school outdoorsman, he traveled far across open water on hunting and fishing trips. At his death he had just completed a new design, the Tolman Trawler. As a flute and pennywhistle player in local bands and a step-dance teacher, he played a central role in Homer’s thriving contra dance scene, providing an authentic link to the New England and Cape Breton traditions he treasured. After a three- year stint in the Army as an intelligence unit radio operator, he returned to graduate from the University of New Hampshire in 1959 with a B.A. in History. He taught in a private school, did graduate work briefly at Harvard, and then moved to the West in 1963. He is survived by his late-in-life love, Betsy Street of Nelson, NH; his former partner of many years, Mary Griswold of Homer; a sister, Elizabeth Skinner of Mohawk Valley, NY; and, among other relatives, cousins Barry Tolman of Nelson, NH; Mary Robinson Shonk of Dublin, NH; Susan Woodward Springer formerly of Seldovia; and Colin Tolman of Homer. Timothy Platts Brown ’56 passed peacefully with loved ones by his side on October 23 at his home in Keene, New Hampshire. Timothy attended and graduated from Dublin School and went on to Deerfield (Mass.) Academy and Hanover (Ind.) College, where he was a fraternity brother in Beta Theta Pi. Upon graduation he enlisted in the Army Reserves. He completed his enlistment and was honorably discharged on Oct. 26, 1966. Tim worked for Texas Refinery Corporation based in Fort Worth, Texas. He was a salesperson for the New England territory, prior to retirement in 2012. Previously, he was employed at Homestead Woolen Mills in West Swanzey and had also worked at Noone Mills in Peterborough.

Ripley Beal Crowell ’59, of Mashpee, Massachusetts, passed away unexpectedly on July 7, 2014. He was the beloved husband of Katherine (Falconieri) Crowell. Ripley was a retired employee for the Town of Plymouth. He was a member of the Elks Club in Plymouth and the Falmouth Car Club. He loved gardening, classic cars especially his truck, and most of all his loving family.

Stanley “Lee” Tebbetts ’59, of Perrysburg, Ohio, died on June 15, 2014, at the Cleveland Clinic. Lee was born on March 13, 1940, in Bronxville, New York. He joined the Marine Corps and served honorably for four years, specializing in intelligence and code work. He was a very loyal and proud member of the Marines, as he said, “once a Marine, always a Marine.” When he finished his service, he returned to Dartmouth College and graduated. He also attended the C.I.A., the Culinary Institute of America in New York, and became a chef and learned hospi- tality administration. In Ohio, he bought a restaurant in Perrysburg and rebuilt it himself. It became the “Rose and Thistle Bar and Restaurant” on Louisiana Avenue. He has always enjoyed the sociability of knowing his customers and has cherished his many friends. He also enjoyed skiing, and flying airplanes.

Grant Murray Kennedy ’79¸ of Canandaigua, New York, unexpectedly passed away at the age of 54 on September 11, 2014. He is survived by his three children, Grant, Richard

40 the dubliner and Alexis. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Ashland University in Ohio. He was a graduate of the Cincinnati School of Mortuary Science. He was a licensed funeral director and owned and operated Kennedy & Son Funeral Home Inc. from 1986 to 2008, in Canandaigua and Bloomfield. He was a member of the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, Region II (DMORT) and responded to the Katrina disaster in New Orleans and the Flight 800 aviation accident in New York. He was a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity, First United Methodist Church, Canandaigua Rotary Club, Masonic Lodge 256, Merrill Hose Volunteer Fire Co., Canandaigua Chamber of Commerce, Canandaigua Yacht Club, Ontario-Wayne-Yates County Funeral Directors Association and New York State Funeral Directors Association. He enjoyed skiing, boating, fishing, cooking, woodworking and spending time with his family.

Nitza Delgado Hollinger ’82, passed away on June 20, 2014 peacefully at her home in Nikiski, Alaska with her husband, two sons and sister by her side. She was 49. She attended Dartmouth College where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1986. While at Dartmouth, she was a leader in the movement to create a Latino student organization, now known as La Alianza Latina, which is still vibrant and thriving today. After working three years in Admissions at Dartmouth, she continued her education at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, MA where she earned her Juris Doctor degree in 1992. She moved to Anchorage, in 1992 and married her husband, Mike Hollinger, who she met there during her law school internship. After a short time working in the legal field, she began focusing on her true love—teaching. She taught people of all ages—whether young or old; she had an amazing ability to con- nect and effectively teach others. Shortly after their first child was born, Mike and Nitza moved to Nikiski. It was there that they also welcomed their second son into their lives. She chose to stay home with her boys pouring her life into them—caring, loving, and homeschooling them as long as her health allowed. Near her journey’s end, she offered the following words of wisdom: “In life there are those things that are urgent—that want your immediate attention. Then, there are Nitza Delgado those things that are important. Never lose sight of what is important. People are important. Hollinger ’82 Relationships are important. Never trade the important for the urgent.” and family

Douglas Sayers ’98, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, formerly of Northampton and Carlisle passed away on August 7. He was 34. He was survived by his parents Anne and Lew Sayers, of New Hampton, NH; his fiancé Lonnae Cameron of Haverhill; a brother, Tracey Pratt, of Meredith, NH. He was a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and was the IT director of 3BL Media of Northampton.

Past parent and friend of the School, Elizabeth Story Wright, 75, of Dublin, New Hampshire, died peacefully at RiverMead in Peterborough, New Hampshire on July 12. Among her remain- ing survivors is her husband of 41 years, Thomas P. Wright; her son, William Wear ’85 of Amherst, MA.; and her step-son, Spencer Wright ’79 of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Story lived in Philadelphia and Tucson before moving to New Hampshire. She attended Smith College and worked as a teacher prior to living in New Hampshire. She was an active member of her commu- nity, serving on the boards of Monadnock Family Services, Monadnock Conservancy, Cheshire Bank, New Hampshire Public Television, the school board for the town of Dublin, and in 2006 she was named “Dublin Citizen of the Year,” after successfully leading the Beech Hill-Dublin Lake Watershed Project. ■

fall 2014 41 alumni news & notes The Ubiquitous Bottle As seen on “Dublin School Water Bottle” Facebook page

ur Dublin School water bottles have been traveling all around the world. Please share with us your Dublin water bottle photos on our Facebook page or send themO to the alumni office at [email protected]. If you Rob English ’86 would like a water bottle, please contact Donna Stone in the Better than a pot of gold Alumni Office at 603-563-1285 or [email protected] ■

AK Kim ’86 Sunday waffle time in Hancock, NH

Marc Risney ’86 Spencer Norcross ’86 Checking out the constellations Some quality time drift-boating the Jackson River for trout at the Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, CA

Mandy Schofield ’93 Enjoying fireflies in the garden at night

Zander Sprague ’86 Making a visit to the Richard Thackston ’10 Buckingham Palace, Twilight Peak, Colorado Westminster, England

42 the dubliner report of giving

The Power of Conversation Erika Rogers, Director of Development eceptions, lunches, emails, Tweets, Facebook posts, videos, Dubliners, birthday cards, phone calls, and good old-fashioned hand written notes… Every yearR I wonder what combination of these acts of communica- tion helped to inspire the generosity displayed in this report. No matter how many ways we have to connect, at the end of the day it never feels like enough. Because each time we connect with an alumna, a friend, or a parent, Dublin School gets stronger and more capable of fulfilling its mission. For example, a newspaper posting leads to a scholarship, a conversation during a campus tour leads to a major capital gift, a phone call leads to a new fitness center, and a Dubliner piece inspires an annual fund gift. The list goes on and on and it all starts with a conversation. The names on these pages represent the 493 trustees, alumni, parents, faculty and friends who together have shared $915,297.43 with Dublin School this past year. This total includes the largest amount ever given to the Annual Fund—$380,948.54—a school record ! These unrestricted gifts are incredibly important to the suc- cess of Dublin School. They not only help pay for salaries, campus upkeep and financial aid, but when gifts exceed the budgeted Annul Fund goal, Brad and his team have the ability to say “Yes” when a teacher or student has a new idea that would enhance an academic, artistic, athletic or resi- dential program. I cannot tell you how much your support empowers every person on campus to be involved with the innovative, creative thinking that is currently transforming Dublin School. We are very grateful for the many Capital gifts that are lit- erally transforming campus. We now have a Griffin Learning Center, a beautiful new space above the Louise Shonk Kelly Recital Hall for our amazing learning skills program. The Griffin Learning Center is named in memory of John (Tom) Griffin ’46 whose generous bequest to Dublin School helped begin the project. We also have a completely renovated fitness/strength training facility in the bottom of the Whitney Gymnasium made possible by several gifts, including one in memory of alumnus Jason Richardson ’90. Gifts have also been made to support the Perkin Observatory, the Dublin Nordic Center, the Monadnock Dormitory, the Robotics program, and the School’s Marketing and Sustainability efforts. Finally, we are indebted to the donors who each year invest in the long-term success of Dublin School by making gifts to our ever-growing endowment through funds such as the Norm Wight Endowment Fund, Lehmann Endowment Fund, Ford- Steffian Fund and Latham Faculty Fund. Every year we strive to find new ways of enabling our alumni, parents and friends to join us in the life of our amazing small School. Conversations with all of you help to connect us with the past, support what is going on right now, and shape the future of our School. So, let’s keep talking! And on behalf of the Students, Faculty, Staff and Trustees of Dublin School—Thank you. ■

fall 2014 43 report of giving 2013/2014 Donors Mrs. Jennifer Whitesel & Mr. Stephen July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014 Whitesel, P ’15 * Mr. George E. Withington ’56 *** Ms. Joan Kleinman & Mr. Samuel Witten, P ’14 Mr. & Mrs. Willard Wood, P ’13 Mr. & Mrs. David Worthen, P ’13 Ms. Avis Wright & Mr. Richard Wright, GP ’16 Pumpelly Ridge $500 - $499 Anonymous Ms. Jill Adams & Mr. Cecil Adams Mr. & Mrs. Peter Barnes, P ’03 ** Mr. Christopher Birch & Mrs. Alexandra Burke ** Mr. & Mrs. David T. Boothby, GP ’13 Ms. Mary L. Brown ’75 & Dr. Tove Matas *** Mr. & Mrs. Neal Brown, GP ’17 Ms. Debra Charlesworth, P ’13 Ms. Karen Clement * Truth and Courage Society Mr. Timothy Steele, P ’11, ’13 * Mr. James H. Davenport ’50 ** Mr. & Mrs. Peter Coffin, P ’16 $50,000+ Ms. Elizabeth G. Von Klemperer, Mr. Frederick Eaton ** Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Coreth, P ’82 *** Anonymous (3) GP ’15 Ms. Joanne Eustis & Mr. Christopher Ms. Sally Wallace & Mr. James Mr. James Goddard & Mrs. Judith Mr. & Mrs. Steve Walker Eustis, P ’89 *** Dunphy, P ’14 Hoyt Goddard, H ’11 *** Mr. Richard B. L. Fleming ’86 ** Mr. George A. Eddy III ’66 * Mr. Paul M. Lehmann ’59 * Headmaster’s Society Mr. Nathaniel J. Foster ’98 * Mrs. Joseph G. English, P ’86 *** $2,500 - $4,999 Mr. & Mrs. Lee Foster, P ’98 ** Mr. H. Kimball Faulkner ’48, *** Dublin Society Mr. & Mrs. William A. Barker, P ’85 ** Mr. Yanfeng Ge & Mrs. Lihong Mr. David D. Fetherolf ’74 & Mrs. Mr. & Mrs. Bradford D. Bates, P ’17 * Fan, P ’13 Carrie Lynn Fetherolf * $10,000 - $49,999 Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Grill, P ’15 Mr. & Mrs. Charles S. Goodwin, Mr. Paul Brooke & Ms. Kathleeen Mr. Jonathan F. Bourne ’58 *** Mr. & Mrs. Mike Gordon, GP ’17 P ’04 * McCarragher, P ’16 Mr. & Mrs. Todd DeSisto, P ’15 Mr. F Wade Greer ’48 *** Mr. & Mrs. Joseph S. Hart, P ’97 *** Ms. Kathleen E. Darman, P ’14 Mr. Robert C. English ’86 *** Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Gross, P ’15 Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Hicks, P ’15 Miss Patricia A. Fletcher, H ’05 *** Mr. & Mrs. Zubin Gandevia, P ’17 Mr. & Mrs. John Halacy, P ’16 Mr. Jeff Holland ’87 *** Mr. & Mrs. George B. Foote, Jr. *** Mr. Donald Haynes & Mrs. Nancy Dr. & Mrs. Edward I. Hawthorne, Mr. & Ms. Billy D. Horton, P ’13 * Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Gibson, P ’12 * Lehmann Haynes ’55 *** GP ’09 Mr. James S. Huntington-Meath ’67 * Mr. & Mrs. Steven Goldsmith, P ’15 Mr. Yijun Jiang & Ms. Feng Wang, Mr. & Mrs. Paul S. Horovitz, P ’92 *** Ms. Jill Hutchins & Mr. Raymond Mr. Edward Z. Hawkes II ’51 *** P ’15 Mr. & Mrs. Marc Isaacs, P ’15 Hutchins Mr. & Mrs. David E. Howe, H ’95 *** Mr. Seoung Ki Jung & Mrs. Eun Mr. Weimin Ji & Mrs. Shuqing Mr. Thomas R. Jackson ’58 *** Mr. & Mrs. Peter Imhoff, P ’13 * Young Kim, P ’15 Wu, P ’16 Ms. Margaret A. Johnson *** Mr. Robert W. Kirkland ’82 *** Mr. John Kerrick, P ’14 Mr. David A. Johnson ’95 ** Mrs. Teresa Khanna, P ’17 Mr. Alexander M. Lehmann * The Family of Nicholas Lemieux Mr. James L. Johnson ’64 *** Mr. William C. King ’52 *** Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Phillips, P ’14 Mr. Richard D. Simmons ’50 *** Mr. & Mrs. Samuel A. Lewis, Jr. * Mr. William Kinnane ’96 * Mr. Thomas P. Putnam ’61 *** Mr. & Mrs. Edwin O. Smith, P ’92 *** Mr. Michael Light ’81 *** Mr. G. Bourne Knowles III ’55 *** Mr. & Mrs. Gregory A. Richardson, Mr. William C. Spencer ’86 *** Mr. YiLong Ma & Mrs. Lei Zhang, Mr. John & Dr. Ali Lichtenstein, P ’90 P ’16 P ’03, ’05 ** Mr. Stephen Schuetz, P ’15 Monadnock Summit Mr. Stewart S. Macsherry ’62 *** Ms. Jihong Liu, P ’13 Mr. Liwu Song & Mrs. Qun Liu, P ’14 $1,000 - $2,499 Dr. Rosebeth Marcou, P ’14 Mr. & Mrs. Charlton MacVeagh, The Honorable & Mrs. George R. Mr. & Mrs. Mark Alter, P ’15 Ms. Cynthia McGinty, P ’10 * Jr. *** Sprague, P ’87 *** Mr. Charles V. Ball IV ’43 *** Mr. Charles J. Moizeau ’50 *** Mr. & Mrs. Robert Mayer, GP ’17 Mr. & Mrs. Carl Von Mertens *** The Barth Family ’13 * Mr. Harvey Pastan, GP ’17 Mr. Scott C. McCarty ’04 * Mr. & Mrs. Jonathon Wright, P ’14 Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Bascom, P ’13, ’15 Mr. Ronald P. Pertnoy ’72, P ’99 *** Ms. Betsy Neisner & Ms. Mary Ms. Cecily Bastedo *** Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Petrone *** Barnett, P ’14 Mr. Michael W. Bergeron ’70 Founder’s Society Mr. Jay Phillips ’61 * Mr. Scott C. Olsen ’07 Mrs. Louisa L. Birch ’57 *** $5,000 - $9,999 Ms. Felicity Pool & Mr. Allen Davis Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. O’Rourke, P ’16 Mr. Ben Blanchard ’47 *** Anonymous Mr. Jason Potts ’96 *** Mr. Max Ouyang & Mrs. Cindy Yang, Mr. & Mrs. Carl Blicker, P ’82, ’84, Mr. Nathaniel Bates ’53, GP ’17 *** Mr. & Mrs. Philip S. Robitaille, P ’95, P ’14 ’97 *** Mr. & Mrs. Elmer H. Close ’54, ’97 *** Mr. Thomas K. Paine ’65 *** Mr. & Mrs. Eric Bostrup, P ’17 P ’87 *** Mr. Thomas P. Rockwell ’37 *** (dec.) Mr. & Mrs. Michael Parnes, P ’14 Mr. William H. Bucknall ’69 ** Mr. Robert E. Desel, P ’17 The Honorable & Mrs. L. Phillips Mrs. Dorothy Peterson * Mr. Gerard Caron & Ms. Sheila Cusak, Mr. Jose A. Garcia ’67, P ’12 ** Runyon III, P ’88, ’92, GP ’18 *** Ms. Ann Ranelle P ’15 Mr. & Mrs. Scott Martin, P ’17 Mr. David W. Shiras ’50 Mr. Marc S. Risney ’86 Mr. & Mrs. Loring Catlin Jr., P ’17 Mr. Michael J. Mullins ’93 *** Mr. & Mrs. Robert Utzschneider, Ms. Erika Rogers & Mr. Thaddeus Mr. & Mrs. Stephen C. Caulfield, Mr. Joseph R. Mullins, P ’93 P ’15 Rogers*** P ’89 *** Mr. H. Gilman Nichols, Jr. ’46, Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Von Bothmer Mr. Pete Schenck ’50 *** Mr. James H. Cole ’66 *** P ’71 *** Mr. & Mrs. Yunpeng Wang, P ’15 The Scrivens, P ’16 Dr. & Mrs. R. William Cornell ’52 *** Mr. & Mrs. Kurt Simon, P ’17 Mr. John D. Seidner ’88

44 the dubliner Mr. Brett S. Smith ’88 *** Ms. Deb McWethy ** Former Trustees Mr. Richard B. L. Fleming ’86 ** Mr. Jason E. Smith ’92 *** Mr. Juan Navedo & Ms. Yolanda Mrs. Cathy Solomon Barrow ’74 & Mr. Abbot R. Foote ’61 ** Mr. Richard R. Stebbins ’55 *** Navedo ’81, P ’14 * Mr. Dennis Barrow *** Mr. Nathaniel J. Foster ’98 * Mr. Daryl Stutes & Ms. Jill Batty, Mr. Eric Nemitz ** Ms. Cecily Bastedo *** Ms. Meghan C. Foucher ’99 P ’17 Mr. & Mrs. R. Henry Norweb III, Mr. & Mrs. Carl Blicker, P ’82, ’84, Mr. Jose A. Garcia ’67, P ’12 ** Mr. Jonathan W. Teuscher ’63 ** P ’89 *** ’97 *** Mr. Bakari A. Gaynor ’99 Ms. Sally Thacher & Mr. Nicholas Mr. Rick O’Connor ’67 *** Mr. & Mrs. Forrest Cook, GP ’98, Mr. David N. Giambro ’72 Thacher *** Mr. Henry S. Otto ’47 & Mrs. ’03 *** Mr. Douglas Gibson ’12 Ms. Kathy Wichert, GP ’17 Elizabeth Otto *** Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Cornog *** Mr. Edward F. Glassmeyer ’59 *** Mrs. Jane S. Young * Mr. Clifford Pafford ’75 & Ms. Gail Mr. & Mrs. Frederick T. Ernst, Ms. Lara Weller Gleason ’96 ** Bielizna ** P ’77 *** Mr. J. Michael Gomarlo ’61 ** Eagle Rock Capt. John S. Phillips, USC (Ret), Mr. & Mrs. Christopher J. Flynn, Ms. Kim Goodman ’90 $200 - $499 GP ’00, ’05, ’07 ** P ’94 *** Mr. Michael C. Gorman ’06 Anonymous Ms. Molly Phillips-Hungerford ’00 * Mr. Richard K. Fox * Ms. Lauren K. Goodwin ’04 Mr. & Ms. Peter Antonellis, P ’12 * Mr. Lorenzo R. Rasetti ’85 *** Mr. James S. Huntington-Meath ’67 * Mr. John M. Gray ’88 Mr. Jonathan S. Avery ’67 *** Mr. Peter K. Read ’60 *** Mr. Joseph J. Joslin ’54 *** Mr. F. Wade Greer ’48 Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bachman, P ’16 Ms. Jo-Anne Regan, P ’03, ’05 *** Mr. Robert W. Kirkland ’82 *** Mr. Roy A. Hamrick ’69 Mr. & Mrs. Chris Bartlett, P ’13 Mr. & Mrs. Neil Robinson, P ’06 Mr. Paul M. Lehmann ’59 Mr. William D. Hanson ’85 Mrs. Martha Bean Mr. Laurance P. Runyon IV ’88 * Mr. Michael Light ’81 *** Mr. Edward Z. Hawkes II ’51 *** Ms. Alex Bean Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Sandstedt, P ’17 Mr. & Mrs. Ken Lindfors *** Mr. Donald Haynes & Mrs. Nancy Ms. Rebecca Beauzay ** Ms. Carolyn Castle Schmidt ’83 Mr. & Mrs. Charlton MacVeagh, Lehmann Haynes ’55 *** Mr. & Mrs. Michael Bloom, P ’14 Ms. Lucy C. Shonk * Jr. *** Mr. Christopher H. Hodgman ’48 *** Mrs. Nancy H. Borden * Mr. & Mrs. Richard Sigel, P ’14, ’17 Mr. John E. Mattson, ’71 ** Mr. Daniel S. Holder ’64 *** Mr. Jeffrey S. Bragg ’61 *** Ms. Elizabeth A. Smith, P ’13 Mr. Joseph R. Mullins, P ’93 ** Mr. Jeff Holland ’87 *** Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Braley, P ’87 *** Mr. & Mrs. W. Richard Smyser ** Mr. Rick O’Connor ’67 *** Mr. Matthew Hollister ’87 & Ms. Ms. Melissa Bride & Mr. James Bride, Mr. Alexander T. Sprague ’87 *** Mr. & Mrs. Brian O’Neill, P ’07 * Nicole Arpiarian P ’16 Mr. David P. Stewart ’65 *** Mr. Ronald P. Pertnoy ’72, P ’99 *** Ms. Joyce D. Hopkins ’96 ** Mr. & Mrs. Christopher P. Chesney * Mr. John E. Swenson ’59 Mr. Richard D. Simmons ’50 *** Ms. Katharine A. Houde ’13 Mr. & Mrs. John S. Clarkeson *** Mr. William E. Taylor ’62 * Mr. Jason E. Smith ’92 ** Mr. James S. Huntington-Meath ’67 * Mr. & Mrs. Forrest Cook, GP ’98, Ms. Maureen Quirk, P ’15 The Honorable & Mrs. George R. Mr. Guy L. Jackson ’67 *** ’03 *** Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Thirkield, Sprague, P ’87 *** Mr. Patrick T. Jackson ’57, P ’84 *** Mr. Jason Cox P ’11 * Mr. Thomas R. Jackson ’58 *** Ms. Melissa B. Cross, P ’06 * Mr. & Mrs. Richard G. Verney Alumni Ms. Amanda Schofield Jenkins ’93 Ms. Dora P. Moncada Currea ’73 *** Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Vogel * Ms. Erica S. Bullock Arpin ’08 Mr. David A. Johnson ’95 * Mr. Jorge A. Cutillas ’76 ** Mr. Joseph Walier & Ms. Judith Mr. Jonathan S. Avery ’67 Mr. James L. Johnson ’64 *** Ms. Veronique Chopin de La Bruyere, Walier, P ’84 * Ms. Cathy Graham Bakkensen ’70 *** Mr. & Mrs. Chauncey O. Johnstone P ’06, ’08 * Mr. Carl Werowinski & Ms. Sally Mr. Charles V. Ball IV ’43 *** ’60, P ’91 *** Rt. Reverand Thomas P. Devlin, Pendleton, P ’17 Mr. Nathaniel Bates ’53, GP ’17 *** Mr. Joseph J. Joslin ’54 *** Jr. ’67 * Mr. & Mrs. Peter Wheeler, P ’12 Mr. Christopher B. Behn ’83 Mr. Pierre A. Jospe ’66 ** Mr. & Mrs. John M. Dopp, P ’12 Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Willoughby ’84, Mr. Michael W. Bergeron ’70 Ms. Rosalinda Maldonado Kalani Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Ferguson, P ’16 P ’17 * Ms. Louisa L. Birch ’57 *** ’76 ** Mr. Michael Fertsch & Ms. Marlene Ms. Hong Jung Yun ’02 * Mr. R. Clifford Black ’61 ** Ms. Kathryn A. Kaminski ’73 Spears, P ’13 Mr. Ben Blanchard ’47 *** Mr. William C. King ’52 *** Mr. & Mrs. Todd M. Fulshaw, P ’16 Trustees Mr. Brian Blicker ’84 ** Mr. Peter L. Kingston ’71 ** Mr. Richard K. Fox * Mr. & Mrs. William A. Barker, P ’85 ** Mr. David G. Bliss ’77 Mr. William Kinnane ’96 * Ms. Kim Goodman ’90 ** Mr. & Mrs. Bradford D. Bates, P ’17 * Mr. Dean E. Bliss ’99 * Mr. Michael E. Kitces ’96 Mr. Dick Hammond & Ms. Alice Mr. Robert C. English ’86 *** Mr. Jonathan F. Bourne ’58 *** Mr. Norman E. Kitching ’55 ** Hammond ** Miss Patricia A. Fletcher, H ’05 *** Mr. Jeffrey S. Bragg ’61 *** Mr. Robert W. Kirkland ’82 *** Ms. Alicia Hammond & Mr. Ron Mr. & Mrs. George B. Foote, Jr. *** Ms. Mary L. Brown ’75 & Dr. Tove Mr. G. Bourne Knowles III ’55 Hammond * Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Gibson, P ’12 Matas ** Mr. Brad Koontz ’84 & Ms. Tomo Mr. Roy A. Hamrick ’69 Mr. & Mrs. Peter Imhoff, P ’13 * Mr. William H. Bucknall ’69 ** Koontz Mr. Matthew T. Hollister ’87 & Ms. Mr. Alexander M. Lehmann Ms. Jennifer L. Bullock ’90 ** Mr. Richard A. Kronick ’58 *** Nicole Arpiarian Mr. Michael J. Mullins ’93 ** Ms. Kayla A. Bullock ’06 Mr. Paul M. Lehmann ’59 Ms. Joyce D. Hopkins ’96 ** Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Phillips, P ’14 Mr. Roger Burke ’47 *** Mr. Michael Light ’81 *** Mr. & Mrs. Mike Horridge, GP ’16 Mr. Jason Potts ’96 ** Ms. Lisa C. Cameron ’06 Mr. W. Scott Little, Jr. ’60 *** Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Hungerford, The Honorable & Mrs. L. Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Elmer H. Close ’54, Dr. Michael J. W. Logan ’61 P ’00, ’05, ’07 ** Runyon III, P ’88, ’92 *** P ’87 *** Mr. Stewart S. Macsherry ’62 *** Mr. David A. Johnson ’95 * Mr. Brett S. Smith ’88 *** Mr. James H. Cole ’66 *** Ms. Vanessa Martinez ’07 Mr. & Mrs. Hooks Johnston, GP ’17 Mr. & Mrs. Edwin O. Smith, P ’92 *** Mr. Garrett Connolly ’10 Mr. Lars F. Matson ’03 Mr. & Mrs. Chauncey O. Johnstone Mr. William C. Spencer ’86 *** Dr. & Mrs. R. William Cornell ’52 *** Mr. John E. Mattson ’71 ’60, P ’91 *** Mr. Alexander T. Sprague ’87 *** Mr. Joseph P. Craugh III, ’83 Mr. Scott C. McCarty ’04 * Ms. Rosalinda Maldonado Kalani Mr. Timothy Steele, P ’11, ’13 * Mr. James Cuddihee ’61 & Mrs. Carol Mr. Peter McDonough ’61 ’76 ** Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Thacher ** Cuddihee *** Mr. Lauren McMason ’81 & Ms. Emily Dr. William Kennedy & Ms. Jeanne Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Vogel * Mr. Joseph D. Cummings ’66 ** McMason *** Dietsch Mr. & Mrs. Carl Von Mertens *** Ms. Dora P. Moncada Currea ’73 *** Mr. Samuel G. Miller ’97 Mr. Brad Koontz ’84 & Ms. Tomo Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Willoughby ’84, Mr. Jorge A. Cutillas ’76 ** Mr. Charles J. Moizeau ’50 *** Koontz P ’17 Mr. James H. Davenport ’50 ** Ms. Caroline Morgan ’76 *** Mr. Richard A. Kronick ’58 *** Mr. John T. Dearborn ’72 *** Mr. Weld S. Morse ’69 Mr. & Mrs. Edward Lawrence, P ’14 Lifetime Trustees Mr. Thomas P. Devlin ’67 * Mr. Michael J. Mullins ’93 ** Mr. & Mrs. William Limero, P ’10 * Ms. Louisa L. Birch ’57 *** Mr. Jonathan Dirrenberger ’92 Ms. Yolanda L. Guerra Navedo ’81, Mr. & Mrs. Robert N. Lord, P ’06 * Mr. & Mrs. Paul S. Horovitz, P ’92 *** Mr. Roger J. Donahue, Jr. ’73 P ’14 Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Love, P ’16 Mr. & Mrs. David E. Howe, H ’95 *** Mr. George A. Eddy III ’66 Mr. Milton G. Nichols ’51 Mr. & Mrs. James W. MacAllen, Mr. James Goddard & Mrs. Judith Mr. Robert C. English ’86 *** Mr. Spencer K. C. Norcross ’86 ** P ’94 *** Hoyt Goddard, H ’11 *** Mr. Ron Eschenbrenner ’75 & Ms. Mr. Timothy G. Norris ’62 *** Ms. Anne M. Mackey ** Ms. Margaret A. Johnson *** Rebecca Ryle ’76 Mr. Nicholas E. O’Connor ’04 Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Marcus P ’91 Mr. H. Gilman Nichols, Jr. ’46, Ms. Ashley M. Farrell ’06 Mr. Rick O’Connor ’67 *** Mr. Lars F. Matson ’03 P ’71 *** Mr. H. Kimball Faulkner ’48, *** Mr. Scott C. Olsen ’07 Mr. Lauren McMason ’81 & Ms. Emily Mr. David D. Fetherolf ’74 & Mrs. Mr. Henry S. Otto ’47 & Mrs. McMason *** Carrie Lynn Fetherolf * Elizabeth Otto *** fall 2014 * Indicates 5 years of giving ** Indicates 10 years of giving *** Indicates 15+ years of giving “(dec.)” Indicates deceased 45 report of giving

Mr. Clifford Pafford ’75 & Ms. Gail Mr. Gerard Caron & Ms. Sheila Cusak, Dr. & Mrs. Steven Price, GP ’17 Mr. Michael Fertsch & Ms. Marlene Bielizna ** P ’15 Ms. Maureen Quirk, P ’15 Spears, P ’13 Mr. Thomas K. Paine ’65 *** Mr. & Mrs. Loring Catlin Jr., P ’17 Mr. & Mrs. David Robinson, GP ’15 Mr. & Mrs. Christopher J. Flynn, Mr. Alexander J. Pappas ’08 Mr. & Mrs. Eric Clarke, P ’16 Ms. Laetitia Rodde, P ’15 P ’94 *** Mr. Frederick L. Pease ’57 *** Mr. Martin Cline, GP ’14 Ms. Lisa Rogers, P ’15 Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Forest, P ’04 ** Ms. Alisha N. Perelta ’03 Mr. & Mrs. Peter Coffin, P ’16 Mrs. Nan Rosenthal, GP ’14 Mr. & Mrs. Lee Foster, P ’98 * Mr. Ronald P. Pertnoy ’72, P ’99 *** Ms. Barbara Cusack, GP ’15 Mr. & Mrs. Charles Rozier, P ’14 Mr. Jose A. Garcia ’67, P ’12 ** Mr. Jay Phillips ’61 * Ms. Kathleen E. Darman, P ’14 Mr. & Mrs. Bud Sandstedt, GP ’17 Mr. Yanfeng Ge & Mrs. Lihong Fan, Ms. Molly Phillips-Hungerford ’00 * Mr. Robert E. Desel, P ’17 Mr. Dennis Sandstedt & Dr. Karen P ’13 Mr. Thomas P. Putnam ’61 *** Mr. & Mrs. Todd DeSisto, P ’15 Sandstedt, P ’17 Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Gibson, P ’12 Mr. Jason Potts ’96 ** Ms. Sally Wallace & Mr. James Ms. Rachel Schine, P ’15 Ms. Helena Gilman ’09 Mr. Lorenzo R. Rasetti ’85 *** Dunphy, P ’14 Ms. Rena Schine, GP ’15 Mr. Lewis Gilman ’09 Mr. Peter K. Read ’60 *** Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Ferguson, P ’16 Mr. Stephen Schuetz, P ’15 Mr. & Mrs. Leonard J. Goodman, Mr. John P. Rich III ’54 Mr. & Mrs. Todd Fulshaw, P ’16 The Scrivens, P ’16 P ’90 *** Ms. Meg L. Richards ’09 Mr. & Mrs. Zubin Gandevia, P ’17 Mr. & Mrs. Richard Sigel, P ’14 Mr. & Mrs. Charles S. Goodwin, Mr. Marc Risney ’86 Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Glaude, P ’16, Mr. & Mrs. Kurt Simon, P ’17 P ’04 * Ms. Julia K. Robinson ’06 * ’17 * Mr. Liwu Song & Mrs. Qun Liu, P ’14 Dr. Thomas Grace, P ’96 Mr. Thomas P. Rockwell ’37 *** (dec.) Mr. & Mrs. Steven Goldsmith, P ’15 Mr. Daryl Stutes & Ms. Jill Batty, Ms. Denise Grant, P ’04 Mr. Domingo Rosa ’76, P ’97 ** Mr. & Mrs. Mike Gordon, GP ’17 P ’17 Mr. Jeffrey B. Gray, P ’01 Mr. Randall W. Roy ’83 Ms. Marjorie Green, GP ’17 Mrs. Frances Sullivan, GP ’15 Ms. Winifred Gray, P ’88 Mr. E. Alexander Rubel ’53 *** Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Grill, P ’15 Mr. John Twomey, GP ’17 Mr. & Mrs. Joseph S. Hart, P ’97 *** Mr. Laurance P. Runyon IV ’88 * Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Gross, P ’15 Mr. Carl Werowinski & Mrs. Sally Mr. & Mrs. David T. Helm, P ’08 Mr. John Sandri ’03 * Mr. & Mrs. John Halacy, P ’16 Pendleton, P ’17 Mr. & Mrs. Richard Hill, P ’11 * Mr. Pete Schenck ’50 *** Ms. Jan Haman, P ’80, ’82, ’83, Mrs. Jennifer Whitesel & Mr. Stephen Mr. & Ms. Billy D. Horton, P ’13 * Ms. Carolyn Castle Schmidt ’83 GP ’15 *** Whitesel, P ’15 * Mr. & Mrs. Paul S. Horovitz, P ’92 *** Mr. Rolf Schroeder ’79 ** Mr. & Mrs. Nelson Hayden, P ’17 Ms. Kathy Wichert, GP ’17 Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Hungerford, Mr. John D. Seidner ’88 Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Hicks, P ’15 Ms. Joan Kleinman & Mr. Samuel P ’00, ’05, ’07 ** Mr. Richard S. Seo ’99 Ms. Robin Holloway, P ’15 Witten, P ’14 Mr. & Mrs. Peter Imhoff, P ’13 * Ms. Pauline R. Shaffer ’03 Mr. & Mrs. Mike Horridge, GP ’16 Mr. & Mrs. Jonathon Wright, P ’14 Mr. Patrick T. Jackson ’57, P ’84 *** Mr. David W. Shiras ’50 Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Horton, GP ’15 Mr. & Mrs. Richard Wright, GP ’16 Mr. & Mrs. Charles F. Johnson, Mr. G. Peter Shiras ’44 *** Mr. & Mrs. Marc Isaacs, P ’15 P ’95 *** Mr. Richard D. Simmons ’50 *** Mr. & Mrs. Ron Jaynes, GP ’17 Alumni Parents and Mr. & Mrs. Chauncey O. Johnstone Mr. Brett S. Smith ’88 *** Dr. Scott Jaynes & Dr. Annika Brown, Grandparents ’60, P ’91 *** Mr. Jason E. Smith ’92 ** P ’17 Anonymous (6) Mr. & Mrs. Willard H. Jost, P ’88, Mr. Jeremy T. Smith ’69 Mr. Weimin Ji & Mrs. Shuqing Wu, Ms. Doris Abans, P ’01 ** GP ’09 ** Ms. Ann M. Sollinger ’03 P ’16 Mr. & Mrs. John Peter Alberico, Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Kann, P ’91 ** Mr. William C. Spencer ’86 *** Mr. Yijun Jiang & Ms. Feng Wang, P ’04 * Mr. G. Bourne Knowles III ’55 Mr. Alexander T. Sprague ’87 *** P ’15 Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Allan, P ’96 Mr. Herbert A. Krumbein & Ms. Sara Mr. Richard R. Stebbins ’55 *** Mr. & Mrs. Brice S. Johnson, P ’16 Mr. & Ms. Peter Antonellis, P ’12 Naphtali- Krumbein, P ’12 Mr. David P. Stewart ’65 *** Mr. & Mrs. Hooks Johnston, GP ’17 Mr. & Mrs. William A. Barker, P ’85 ** Ms. Elizabeth K. Ladd, P ’89 *** Mr. Anders Jon Svendsen ’12 Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Jones, P ’14 Mr. & Mrs. Peter Barnes, P ’03 * Mr. John & Dr. Ali Lichtenstein, Mr. John E. Swenson ’59 Mr. Seoung Ki Jung & Mrs. Eun The Barth Family, P ’13 P ’03, ’05 ** Mr. William E. Taylor ’62 * Young Kim, P ’15 Mr. & Mrs. Chris Bartlett, P ’13 Mr. & Mrs. William Limero, P ’10 * Mr. Jonathan W. Teuscher ’63 ** Mr. John Kerrick, P ’14 Mrs. Mary M. Blair, P ’91 ** Ms. Jihong Liu, P ’13 Ms. Michelle L. Thirkield ’11 Mrs. Teresa Khanna, P ’17 Mr. & Mrs. Carl Blicker, P ’82, ’84, Mr. & Mrs. Robert N. Lord, P ’06 * Mr. Christopher U. Thoma ’60 Mrs. Caroline Knox, GP ’14 ’97 *** Mr. & Mrs. James W. MacAllen, Mr. Timothy Weissmann ’00 Ms. Cynthia Latta, GP ’17 Mr. & Mrs. David T. Boothby, GP ’13 P ’94 *** Mr. Tucker Wheeler ’12 Mr. & Mrs. Edward Lawrence, P ’14 Ms. Marika Brahe, P ’90 * Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Marcus, P ’91 Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Willoughby ’84, Mrs. Eleanor M. Lee, GP ’14 Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Braley, P ’87 *** Mr. Eric Matson P ’98, ’03 ** P ’17 Ms. Joy Lewis, P ’17 Mr. & Mrs. Stephen C. Caulfield, Mr. William & Ms. Carlene McCarty, Mr. Edward H. Winslow III ’53 Family of Nicholas Lemieux ’16 P ’89 *** P ’04 ** Mr. George E. Withington ’56 *** Ms. Jihong Liu, P ’13 Ms. Debra Charlesworth, P ’13 Ms. Cynthia McGinty, P ’10 * Mr. Benjamin Wright ’14 Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Love, P ’16 Mr. & Mrs. Elmer H. Close ’54, Mr. & Mrs. John J. McKenna, P ’71 Ms. Hong Jung Yun ’02 * Mr. Yi Long Ma & Mrs. Lei Zhang, P ’87 *** Mr. Peter McLean & Ms. Carol Ann P ’16 Mr. & Mrs. Forrest Cook, GP ’98, Pala, P ’12 Current Parents and Dr. Rosebeth Marcou, P ’14 ’03 *** Mr. & Mrs. John Meffen, P ’98, ’00 *** Grandparents Mr. & Mrs. Scott Martin, P ’17 Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Coreth, P ’82 *** Mr. Joseph R. Mullins, P ’93 Anonymous (4) Mr. & Mrs. Robert Mayer, GP ’17 Ms. Melissa B. Cross, P ’06 * Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey L Nemore, P ’94 Mr. & Mrs. Mark Alter, P ’14 Mrs. Evangeline McFall, GP ’17 Mrs. Rhonda Cutler & Mr. Anthony H. Gilman Nichols, Jr. ’46, P ’71 *** Ms. Barbara Arrowsmith, P ’17 Mr. Michael McLinden & Mrs. Cutler, P ’05 ** Mr. & Mrs. R. Henry Norweb III, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bachman, P ’16 Theresa Calabro, P ’16 Mr. Caleb Davis, P ’03, ’06 ** P ’89 *** Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Bascom, P ’13, ’15 Mr. Juan Navedo & Ms. Yolanda L. Ms. Veronique Chopin de La Bruyere, Mrs. Marion O’Connor, P ’67 Mr. & Mrs. Bradford D. Bates, P ’17 * Guerra Navedo ’81, P ’14 P ’06, ’08 * Mr. Philip O’Donnell, P ’11 Mr. Nathaniel Bates ’53, GP ’16 *** Ms. Betsy Neisner & Ms. Mary Mrs. Evangeline Deacon, GP ’09 Ms. Robin Oliver, P ’12 * Mr. & Mrs. Michael Bloom, P ’14 Barnett, P ’14 Mr. & Mrs. Suleyman Doenmez, Mr. & Mrs. Tom Olsen, P ’07, ’08 * Mr. & Mrs. Eric Bostrup, P ’17 Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. O’Rourke, P ’16 P ’05, ’07, ’10 *** Mr. & Mrs. Brian O’Neill, P ’07 * Ms. Ann Brehm, P ’17 Mr. Max Ouyang & Mrs. Cindy Yang, Ms. Anne Gunther Donaldson, P ’70 * Mrs. Jane C. Pafford, P ’75 * Mr. & Mrs. Donald Brehm, GP ’17 P ’14 Mr. & Mrs. John M. Dopp, P ’12 Mr. & Mrs. George D. Pappas, P ’08 * Dr. & Mrs. William R. Brice, GP ’16 Mr. & Mrs. Halit Emir Ozdeliorman, Ms. Margaret Dudley, P ’10 * Mrs. Ruth Pease, P ’57, ’58 *** Mrs. Melissa Bride & Mr. James P ’14 Mr. & Mrs. Peter Duston, P ’90 *** Capt. John S. Phillips, USC (Ret), Bride, P ’16 Mr. & Mrs. Michael Parnes, P ’14 Mrs. Joseph G. English, P ’86 *** GP ’00, ’05, ’07 ** Mr. & Mrs. Neil Brisson, P ’15 Mr. Harvey Pastan, GP ’17 Mr. & Mrs. Frederick T. Ernst, Mr. Roland Poirier & Mrs. Susan Mr. Paul Brooke & Mrs. Kathleeen Mr. Phil Pastan & Dr. Christina P ’77 *** Moch Poirier, P ’12 McCarragher, P ’15 Pastan, P ’17 Mrs. Joanne Eustis & Mr. Dr. & Mrs. Bruce A. Ratcliff, P ’87 *** Mr. & Mrs. Neal Brown, GP ’17 Mrs. Nancy Pendleton, GP ’17 Christopher Eustis, P ’89 *** Ms. Jo-Anne Regan, P ’03, ’05 *** Mrs. Janet F. Campbell, GP ’16 Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Phillips, P ’14 46 the dubliner Mr. & Mrs. Gregory A. Richardson, Mr. Brooks Johnson & Mrs. Emily P ’90 Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Neil A. Robinson, P ’06 Dr. William Kennedy & Ms. Jeanne Mr. & Mrs. Philip S. Robitaille, P ’95, Dietsch ’97 *** Ms. Michelle Knapp ** Mr. William Rogers & Ms. Susan Ms. Anne M. Mackey ** Phillips, P ’13 Mr. Sean Macy & Mrs. Holly Macy ** The Honorable & Mrs. L. Phillip Ms. Dawn McClellan Runyon III, P ’88, ’92 *** Mr. Eric Nemitz ** Mr. & Mrs. Lewis H. Sayers, P ’98 *** Mr. Dylan Pierpont Mr. & Mrs. Edward L. Shugrue, Mr. Joseph Putko P ’00 ** Ms. Jo-Anne Regan, P ’03, ’05 *** Mrs. Janet Silvers, P ’80 *** Mrs. Erika Rogers & Mr. Thaddeus Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Sistare, P ’13 Rogers*** Ms. Elizabeth A. Smith, P ’13 Mr. Laurance P. Runyon IV ’88 * Mr. & Mrs. Edwin O. Smith, P ’92 *** Mrs. Dorine Ryner & Mr. Peter Ryner The Honorable & Mrs. George R. Mr. Earl Schofield ** Sprague, P ’87 *** Ms. Nicole Sintetos Mr. Timothy Steele, P ’11, ’13 * Mr. Mark Sirois * Ms. Randi Stein, P ’90, ’98 Mr. Walter Snitko * Dr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Stinson III, Ms. Donna Stone & Mr. David Stone * P ’03 ** Mr. Rodrigo Villaamil Mr. & Mrs. Philip T. Struhsacker, Mr. Jonathan Weis, P ’06 ** P ’72 *** Mr. Jay Whitaker * Mr. Paul Terrasi & Ms. Joanne Musch, Mrs. Jennifer Whitesel & Mr. Stephen P ’04 ** Whitesel, P ’15 * Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Thirkield, Ms. Hong Jung Yun ’02 * P ’11 Mr. Bill Goodwin & Ms. Barbara Jason Richardson ’90 Mr. & Mrs. Robert Utzschneider, Former Faculty and Staff Summers * Mr. &Mrs. Gregory A. Richardson, P ’15 Mr. & Mrs. Michael Arwe Mr. & Mrs. William Gurney P ’90, Kim Goodman ’90 Ms. Elizabeth G. Von Klemperer, Mr. Scott Bertschy & Ms. Jean Mr. Dick Hammond & Mrs. Alice Todd Walier ’84 GP ’15 Hansen ** Hammond * Mr. Joseph Walier & Mrs. Judith Mr. Joseph Walier & Mrs. Judith Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Cornog *** Ms. Marguerite Ladd Walier, P ’84 Walier, P ’84 * Mr. Caleb Davis, P ’03, ’06 ** Mr. Alexander M. Lehmann Ms. Harriet S. Leonard Mr. Yunpeng Wang & Mrs. Xiuli, P ’15 Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Day Foundations, Business and Mr. Jonathan Weis, P ’06 ** Mr. & Mrs. Peter Duston, P ’90 *** Mr. Robert Lord Mr. & Mrs. Peter Wheeler, P ’12 Mr. Richard K. Fox * Mr. Frank D. Millet ** Matching Gift Companies Ms. Wendy White, P ’05 ** Mr. Robert A. Haslun *** Ms. Stephanie E. Newell Akron Community Foundation Ms. Denise Wilkinson, P ’09 * Mr. Donald Haynes & Mrs. Nancy Mr. Sean O’Kane Baldwin Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Willard Wood, P ’13 Lehmann Haynes ’55 *** Mr. Robert Perkin Bank of America Matching Gifts Mr. & Mrs. David Worthen, P ’13 Mr. Scott Holland *** Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Petrone *** Cisco Systems Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Wright, Mr. & Mrs. Nelson B. Howe * Mrs. Dorothy Peterson Franklin Fund P ’79, ’85 Mr. & Mrs. Willard H. Jost, P ’88, Ms. Felicity Pool & Mr. Allen Davis GE Foundation Matching Gifts GP ’09 ** Ms. Ann Ranelle Program Faculty and Staff Mr. Edwin O. Kerman ** Mr. & Mrs. Richard Smith Henderson Foundation Mr. John Adams Mr. Paul M. Lehmann ’59 Mr. & Mrs. W. Richard Smyser ** Intel Foundation Matching Gifts to Mr. Larry Ames Mr. & Mrs. Samuel A. Lewis, Jr. * Mr. & Mrs. Steve Walker Education Programs Mr. & Mrs. Bradford D. Bates, P ’17 * Mr. Christian Maitner * Mr. Thomas Warren & Ms. Ann Marie Millipore Corporation Ms. Alexandra Bean Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Marcus, P ’91 Warren New Hampshire Charitable Ms. Rebecca Beauzay ** Ms. Deb McWethy ** Mrs. Jane S. Young Foundation Ms. Susan Bergeron Ms. Sarah H. Mongan * The New York Community Trust – Ms. Erin Bouton * Ms. Robin Oliver, P ’12 * JTS Fund In honor of The Perkin Fund Mrs. Melissa Bride & Mr. James Ms. Joy Putnam Theo and Robin Ginsburg Bride, P ’16 Ms. Cynthia Ritter * Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Ms. Veronique Chopin de La Bruyere, Program Mr. Jason Cox Ms. Lucy C. Shonk * P ’06, ’08 * Mr. & Mrs. Suleyman Doenmez, Mr. & Mrs. Peter Ulrich Qualcomm Charitable Foundation P ’05, ’07, ’10 *** Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Von Bothmer Edward and Lillian Hawthorne Salesforce.com Foundation Mr. John G. Emerson Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Vogel * Edward and Lillian Hawthorne The Sally Foss and James Scott Hill Mr. William Farrell & Mrs. Shelly Mr. & Mrs. Carl Von Mertens *** Educational Foundation Foundation Farrell Mr. & Mrs. Arthur W. White * Andy Hungerford, Rich Connell, and The Star Family Foundation Ms. Jill-Marie Felton Dylan Pierpont TIAA-CREF Foundation Matching Mr. Mario Flores Friends Mr. Tucker Wheeler ’12 Gift Program Ms. Jennifer Foreman Union Pacific Railroad Mrs. Jill Adams & Mr. Cecil Adams Hadley McDonald Sullivan Mrs. Carrie Glaude & Mr. Maurice Wells Fargo Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Edward Auchincloss Mr. & Mrs. Henry Norweb III, Glaude, P ’16, ’17 * Worthen Foundation Mrs. Martha Bean P ’89 *** Ms. Jan Haman, P ’80, ’82, ’83, Mr. Christopher Birch & Mrs. GP ’15 *** We have made every effort to be as Alexandra Burke ** accurate as possible in recognizing all Mrs. Alicia Hammond Mrs. Nancy H. Borden * In memory of H. William Evans, Joseph Grew English, those who have contributed to Dublin Ms. Nellie Herman * Mr. Seth Brenzel & Mr. Malcolm Ann Hutchinson, Terry Dwyer, and School from July 1, 2013 to June 30, Mr. Bradley Hoffman & Mrs. Gaines Dr. Richard Kerwin 2014. If your name has been listed Gretchen Hoffman Mr. & Mrs. Michael Carter * Mr. & Ms. Billy D. Horton, P ’13 * Mr. Robert C. English ’86 *** incorrectly or omitted, please contact the Mr. & Mrs. Christopher P. Chesney Development Office at (603) 563-1285. Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Hungerford, Mr. & Mrs. John S. Clarkeson *** Joseph G. English, P ’86 P ’00, ’05, ’07 ** Ms. Karen Clement Mrs. Joseph G. English, P ’86 *** Mrs. Jill Hutchins & Mr. Raymond Mr. John Curran Hutchins Bill Evans Dr. & Mrs. Francis De Marneffe Mr. Frank D. Millet ** Mr. & Mrs. Peter Imhoff, P ’13 * Mr. Peter Drake & Ms. Nancy Drake Mrs. Katri Jackson & Mr. Jesse Mr. Frederick Eaton ** William Newell ’43 Jackson Ms. Stephanie E. Newell fall 2014 * Indicates 5 years of giving ** Indicates 10 years of giving *** Indicates 15+ years of giving “(dec.)” Indicates deceased 47 last word

“They who simply climb

to the peak of Monadnock

have seen but little of the

mountain. I came not to look

off from it, but to look at it.”

—Henry David Thoreau

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