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The Global Citizen FRONT COVER: Korean Ambassador to the United States Lee Tae-sik talks with THE Korean War veteran and parent Stanley Brzoska as GLOBAL Director of Development Don Nicholson looks on. CITIZEN GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP 6 Advancement of a Flat and Fragile World 7 An Interview with Andrew Bazarian ’86 GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP 8 Sustaining Marine Ecosystems 9 CEGS in Support of Global Citizenship 10 Peace Studies: A Life-Changing Experience DEPARTMENTS Refl ections 2 From the Hill 4 Titans Victorious 11 Admission Profi le TRAVEL 25 Development Profi le 26 Class Notes 29 Passages PHOTO ESSAYS 14 Prize Day & Commencement 18 Reunion SPOTLIGHTS 12 Trustees COMMENCEMENT 13 Faculty & Students ANNUAL REPORT REUNION THE ACADEMY WORLD MAGAZINE · FALL 2006 · PUBLISHED FOR THE ALUMNI, PARENTS, AND FRIENDS OF WILBRAHAM & MONSON ACADEMY EDITOR PRINTING Please direct your comments and letters Wilbraham & Monson Academy does not Rita D. Carey Marcus Bordeaux Printing to: Rita Carey, Editor discriminate on the basis of race, religion, Wilbraham & Monson Academy national origin, disability, sex, sexual orienta- ADVISORY BOARD PHOTOGRAPHY 423 Main Street, Wilbraham, MA 01095 tion, or age. Brian Chatterley Paul Bloomfield Rita Carey Brian Easler Phone: 413.596.6811 Wilbraham & Monson Academy is assigned Steve Gray ’70W Robin Farrington Cook Fax: 413.599.1589 to the National Register of Historic Places. Laura Mulcahy Mayhew ’86 Rodney LaBrecque E-mail: [email protected] The area named the Academy Historic Glenn LaChapelle Kate Rakowski District consists of thirty buildings, twenty- Don Nicholson John Risley Visit our Web site at: David Ryan WMAcademy.org four of which DESIGN David Silver belong to the Jan Reynolds Design Jan Reynolds Ziter school. NEWS FROM THE HILL SINGING THEIR WAY ACROSS EUROPE Hye Young Chyun ’07 and Wilson Kao ’06 joined the United FPO States Youth Ensembles Chorale for a 19-day six-country European tour in July. Hye Young says, "The tour was amaz- ing, riding in gondolas in Venice with friends, experiencing Hye Young (back row, left) and Wilson (front row, right) perform- cultural beauties of other countries, singing in the Cathedral ing as members of Mosaic Harmony at the spring 2006 concert. of Notre Dame in Paris. The most touching concert was at Dachau. Because singing embodies feelings, there was a huge difference in the way we sang after experiencing the strong Ciosek, Gary Provost, and Earl Racine. A big “Thanks!” from emotions that Dachau evokes." the boys on Rich II. GREENHALGH LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES FOR WMA EXPANSION UPDATE STUDENTS Excitement mounts at the Faculty Street Josh Binney ’07, Ian Carlin ’08, and Elizabeth Wright ’08 construction site as masonry exterior walls attended two People to People Leadership Summits held this go up to form the perimeter of the new summer on college campuses. Elizabeth attended the theatre building extension, making it easy to see and the arts summit at the University of California at Los the dimensions and magnitude of the new Angeles, while Josh and Ian spent the first half of the inter- structure. The goal of the construction per- national diplomacy summit in Washington D.C. at George sonnel is to get the building “buttoned up” Washington University and the second half at Columbia before the cold weather so that work on the University in New York. In each of the programs, students interior can continue through the winter. focus on developing their leadership skills and increasing their awareness of their leadership styles to become more effective View of the Some of the work you can’t see is the fol- gymnasium in their present roles on campus and those they will undertake expansion from lowing: all underground utilities have been in the future. Josh and Ian are both Bicentennial Scholars and Faculty Street. set in their final resting places and the “slab” class representatives on the Student Senate this year. Elizabeth has been poured in its entirety; steel roofing was president of her class last year and will continue to be a materials are now “on site” and ready to go; decisions about valuable committee member for class projects this year. Josh interior finishes, color schemes, wood tones, tile patterns, said of his summit, “The People to People Future Leadership locker configurations, and the like are in process. Sprinkler program allowed me to interact and work with student lead- pipes have been hung and painted in the existing gymnasium ers my age from all over the country; it was a stimulating and for future tie-in to the new required fire protection system for enjoyable experience.” the entire gymnasium. LATIN TOUR DRAWS A CROWD A NEW LOOK ON RICH II From the radiant oculus inside Rome’s Pantheon, to Greece’s It’s remarkable how much difference paint and tasteful wallpa- Argolid plains and mighty Mycenae, across the Aegean to per can make. There is a distinctly welcoming and comfortable ancient Ephesus in Turkey, our students were given the oppor- atmosphere on Rich II thanks to the superb craftsmanship and tunity of a lifetime this past March. This tour was one of exacting efforts of members of our maintenance staff, William superlatives, as WMA was very well represented on the Latin AUTHOR-PHOTOGRAPHER it as “an essential Transcendental travelogue that explores connections between writers and FELTON the places where they lived and how that inter- R. Todd Felton, a member of the WMA action shaped New England culture.” Todd, English department from 1995-2004, and who also does much of the photography for its chair from 2000-2004, published his first his books, has two more in the works, one on book last spring through Roaring Forties Irish writers in Dublin during the Irish Literary Press as part of their ArtPlace Series. A study Todd Felton signs copies Revival and another on writers in the British of the transcendentalists, their connections to of A Journey into the Lake District. Felton was on campus Saturday one another and to New England, A Journey Transcendentalists’ New morning, October 21, Parents’ Weekend and into the Transcendentalists’ New England, England for Liz Mitchell ’04 Homecoming, for a book signing. was well received. In his review of the book, and Andrew Lindberg ’04. Chris Bergeron of the Daily News Staff praised WMA 2 · FALL 2006 · THE ACADEMY WORLD wrong. I realized as I worked through the year that the Relay for Life is a living memorial to all who fight cancer and to their families, friends, and caregivers. I do not know anyone who has not been touched by this terrible disease, and fund- ing research to find a cure is of paramount importance. In the past two years, the Wilbraham & Monson Academy com- munity has raised over $90,000 through the Relay for Life. I am proud of that statistic, and I am proud of everyone at the Academy who joined in this effort. Because of the gymnasium expansion, the Academy will not be able to hold a Relay this spring, but students look forward Latin students with their guide on the main street at to its return in 2008. Pompeii. PAUL BLOOMFIELD program’s annual trip abroad: with thirty-one students and THE SILHOUETTE: IDENTITIES fi ve chaperones, this was one of the largest Academy groups ever to travel abroad. We visited three countries in thirteen & ARCHTYPES days, logging thousands of miles on land and by sea. Lisa Amato www.stcc.edu Art New England The positive impact of the tour was immeasurable. Students August/September 2006 received constructive feedback from the chaperones on how to be better world travelers, and likewise we received the [WMA Fine & Performing Arts Department students’ comments on the tour. “It allowed me to see three Chair] Paul Bloomfield’s photograms capture amazing countries. It was truly an unforgettable experience,” human silhouettes in a mysterious, emotive, says Chelsea Goldrick ’09. “There was always something fun and alluring way. By applying the developer happening,” says Liliana Galesi ’08. “We got to see some in- inconsistently and sometimes using mul- credible places and things that people should try to see in their tiple exposures, he pushes the medium to its limits, creating lifetimes,” says Tim Lindberg ’06. “It was a great opportunity unique images of great depth and complexity. to travel abroad with friends and teachers at a cheaper cost,” His oeuvre is divided into two bodies of work, distinctive in says Tae Kyung Ko ’06. “The trip was phenomenal, and I look their process and product but entirely complementary. The forward to doing another one,” says Niko Konstantakos ’09. first group consists of painterly, expressive images. Aware of In March of 2007, the annual tour will include the wonders of the optical illusion of Rubin’s Goblet, in which a black-and- Egypt, including Giza, Luxor, the Valley of the Kings, Alexan- white image appears as either a vase or two faces, Bloomfield dria, and a three-day Nile River cruise! creates equally elusive but vastly more organic compositions. Bloomfield’s other body of photograms is more minimal, with ELAY FOR IFE IVING EMORIAL R L : A L M simpler forms that are equally complex in suggestiveness. Jonathon Mortensen ’06 Chair, 2006 Relay For Life Here, less recognizable, black or white images are centered One of the most remarkable events held on the Wilbraham within a contrasting background. Their soft edges define dis- & Monson Academy campus in the past two years has been torted, seemingly otherworldly human forms. Eyelashes or the Relay for Life. Begun as a collaboration between Mrs. wisps of hair zoom into focus, but the remaining forms melt Jane Kelly and Carolyn Weeks ’05 with the American Cancer into abstraction. Seeming at once to emerge from and recede Society, the Relay became an all-school community service into an abyss, these ghostlike forms call to mind the polarities project, with all students, faculty, and staff taking part in some that inspire Bloomfield – darkness and lightness, positive and way.
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