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Homecoming 2012 • Strategic Plan Launch • Parkin Fellows WINTER 2012-2013 HOMECOMING 2012 • STRATEGIC PLAN LAUNCH • PARKIN FELLOWS preSIDeNT’S MeSSAge DEAR SHADY SIDE ACADEMY that start horn blows, and all of the boats COMMUNITY: turn into the wind and cross the start line, the chaos immediately settles into a I’m not a sailor. My dad was more of a thoughtful calm. each skipper knows the work-around-the-house kind of guy, broad outline of the course and where and with seven kids, he had neither the finish is, but has to consider carefully the time nor the inclination to take up how he or she will get there. even minor new hobbies. My late father-in-law, an adjustments to the sail or the tiller can avid sailor, tried to teach me something have a significant impact on the outcome about the sport, but his approach was of the race. more Ahabian than I was accustomed to. With the approval of Shady Side communicate our progress to the larger A gentle, soft-spoken man on shore, he Academy’s Strategic Vision in May 2012, Shady Side community. It is so important became somewhat of a tyrant on deck, and the official rollout on Oct. 19, we to keep our community updated and also barking orders and using a seaman’s as a community understand the broad to invite feedback about what we have vocabulary that I was utterly unfamiliar contour of the course we have charted and accomplished to date. with. During the obligatory afternoon where the finish line is. The “start horn” I am very happy to be chairing what sails with him, I must confess that I has blown, and we are in the “thoughtful I am calling the “Balanced program” spent more time fantasizing about a calm” stage, actively engaged in planning strategy committee. We’ll be looking at possible mutiny than enjoying the fresh the implementation of the six goals of the our pK-12 curricular and extracurricular breezes, sea spray and adrenalin rush Strategic Vision over the coming months programs, with an eye toward ensuring that comes when slicing through the and years. We’re off to a promising start, that we have the right balance of waves on an aggressive heel. and I’m grateful to our faculty and staff academics, arts and athletics in each My kids, on the other hand, who have for the work they have done already. division. The watchword in education spent the past eight summers in Nova I’m especially grateful to our trustees, circles these days is flexibility, and we’ll be Scotia, have grown up on the water. alumni and parents, whose support is so taking a close look at the way we structure Sailing is second nature to them. They are important and essential to this endeavor. our academic and non-academic as comfortable in the cockpit of a small With the help of Andy Mozenter, requirements to make sure that we are sailboat as most of us would be on the our strategic planning consultant, we offering our students the flexibility that seat of a bike. I admire their skill, their have prioritized 11 strategies pulled they need in their daily schedules. knowledge and their “cool as a cucumber” directly from the different planks of the please stay tuned for progress reports attitude no matter how gusty the wind or Strategic Vision. We have assembled small on the Strategic Vision. There are so how big the swells. committees for each of these strategies, many great things happening at Shady One of my great joys is watching my and each committee is assigned the Side, and we’ll be sure to keep you posted! kids race their boats. In the stressful task of coming up with a time frame minutes leading up to the start of a and implementation plan. The work Sincerely, race, with anywhere from 25 to 50 boats of the committees will be coordinated jockeying for position – often with only by the Strategic planning Committee, inches to spare between boats running the core group that helped to shepherd in parallel lines and often in opposite the strategic planning process over the directions – it’s easy for skippers, young past year and a half. We are also putting Tom Cangiano and old, to get overwhelmed. But once in place a mechanism to regularly Academy president contentsWINTer 2012-2013 8 Homecoming 2012 16 Strategic Plan Launch 8 18 Community Connections 24 Global Perspectives, Personal Connections 28 Poland Personally 24 34 alumni Profi le: Mark Jackson ’74 & andy Mathieson ’74 38 alumni Profi le: Brock Bergman ’03, Jake klinvex ’05 and Jim ambrose ’05 Editor Lindsay Kovach Associate Editor Jennifer Roupe Contributors Jamie Brush ’98 Charlie Magovern ’07 28 Cristina Rouvalis Sarah York Rubin Noah Sprock ’13 Bill Steigerwald Photography Features: James Knox Additional photos provided by SSA faculty, staff, coaches, students and parents. Class notes photos are submitted by alumni and class correspondents. Design Quest Fore Printing Broudy Printing 34 Shady Side Academy Magazine is published twice a year for Shady Side Academy alumni, parents and friends. Letters and suggestions are welcome and should be sent to Lindsay Kovach, Shady Side Academy, 423 Fox Chapel Rd., Pittsburgh, PA 15238. Address corrections should be sent to the Alumni & Development Offi ce, ALSO IN THIS ISSUE Shady Side Academy, 423 Fox Chapel Rd., Pittsburgh, PA 15238. Junior School, 400 S. Braddock Ave., 2 Around the Academy Pittsburgh, PA 15221, (412) 473-4400 Middle School, 500 Squaw Run Road East, 30 New Trustees, Faculty & Staff Pittsburgh, PA 15238, (412) 968-3100 Senior School, 423 Fox Chapel Rd., Pittsburgh, PA 15238, (412) 968-3000 32 Hillman Performing Arts Series www.shadysideacademy.org 42 Sports Briefs facebook.com/shadysideacademy 3 46 Alumni Events twitter.com/shady_side 8 youtube.com/shadysideacademy 48 Class Notes Corrections The Ruth and F. Walter Jones Service Prize was established by the 53 In Memoriam FSC to be placed children of Ruth and F. Walter Jones, not F. Walter Jones himself, as by printer listed in the In Memoriam section of the summer 2012 issue. 57 Calendar of Events SHADY SIDE ACADEMY / WINTER 2012-2013 / 1 aroundNeWS AND NOTeS theacademy MIDDlE SCHOOl TEACHER’S BOOK WINS AWARD TAKE IT TO THE TOP Middle School English teacher Dr. Sara Kajder’s book, Adolescents and Digital Literacies: Learning Alongside Our Students, received the 2012 James N. Britton Award Seven seniors were named sponsored by the Conference on English Education of the National Council of Teachers semifi nalists in the 58th annual of English (NCTE). The book explores how technology is allowing for new teaching National Merit Scholarship Program. opportunities, and recognizes that because of technology, students read and write on a These academically talented students regular basis outside of the classroom. Kadjer received the award in Las Vegas on Nov. 16, will continue in the competition 2012, during the annual NCTE Conference. for some 8,300 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $32 million that will be offered in the spring of 2013. the semifi nalists are A MIDSUMMER Shivum Bharill, Maclean Calihan, NIGHT’S DREAM Tara Lee, Maggie Leech, Christopher Sawicki, Ayesha Shah and Paul The Senior School Gargoyle Steenkiste. Also, 15 seniors were Society presented an named commended students by the adaption of Shakespeare’s A National Merit Scholarship Program. Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mohsin Ahmad, Mia Borelli, Perry Nov. 1-4, 2012, in the Peter Cao, Harrison Gottlieb, Alexandra J. Kountz Black Box Theater. Janczewska, Audrey Koi, Mary The play starred seniors McLaughlin, Alok Nimgaonkar, Justin Barnes and Julia Dominic Oliver, Danielle Perelman, Gasbarro as Oberon and Virat Reddy, Hibiki Sakai, Antonio Titania, and was directed by Satryan, Alexandra Smith and faculty member Dana Hardy- Lia Winter were among 34,000 Bingham. commended students nationwide recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Also recognized was senior Elisa Ogot, who is among more than 1,600 outstanding black MYSTERY AT SHADY ACRES American high school seniors who Middle School students performed Mystery were named semifi nalists in the at Shady Acres on Nov. 8-9, 2012, for 49th annual National Achievement students, family and friends. More than Scholarship Program. These students 20 students participated in the fall drama will continue in the competition for 800 production, which is the largest cast the Achievement Scholarships worth more Middle School has seen in recent years. than $2.5 million to be offered in the spring of 2013. JUNIOR SCHOOL TEACHER NAMED TO ENDOWED CHAIR POSITION Junior School teacher Lisa Anselmo was recently named to the Rea Chair in Humanities, an endowed chair position at the Academy, for a fi ve-year term retroactive to the beginning of the 2012-2013 school year. Anselmo was selected after Middle School teacher Martha Banwell, who was named to the chair last spring, retired in the summer of 2012. 2 / WINTER 2012-2013 / SHADY SIDE ACADEMY THE JOHN H. COHEN THANKFUL SECOND FAMILY PRIZE GRADERS The second grade class The John H. Cohen Family Prizes performed a play about for 2011-2012 were awarded at Thanksgiving, with four Senior School Convocation on students serving as reporters Aug. 28, 2012. These book prizes after the turkeys went on strike are given annually for general to protest Thanksgiving. After improvement in scholarship, physical very humorous interviews vigor, citizenship and character to with pilgrims, Native a member of the Third, Fourth and Americans, a family, Fifth Forms. The 2012 recipients were cranberries, squash and a Wilson Conley, Carla Erb and football team, everyone learned Isabel Aiken, respectively. that the true meaning of Thanksgiving is being thankful. SENIOR SCHOOL TEACHER WINS ALUMNUS DONATES ORIGINAL SCORE OF SSA YALE EDUCATOR AWARD ALMA MATER Senior School mathematics and philosophy teacher Dr.
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