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Thistletalk Autumn 2008 TALK ThistleThistleTALK Innovative Teaching Reimagining the learning experience in this issue: City as Our Campus Exploring new frontiers Commencement 2008 Off on life’s journey Rebecca King Teacher, administrator, spreader of peace and love Winchester Thurston School Autumn/Winter 2008 ThistleTALK MAGAZINE Volume 36 • Number 1 Autumn/Winter 2008 Thistletalk is published two times per year by Winchester Thurston School for alumnae/i, parents, students, and friends of the school. Letters and suggestions are welcome. Please contact the Director of Communications, Winchester Thurston School, 555 Morewood Malone Scholars Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Editor Anne Flanagan Director of Communications [email protected] Assistant Editor Alison Wolfson Director of Alumnae/i Relations [email protected] Contributors Rachel Dougherty ’10 Peter Frischmann John Holmes Carl Jones Karen Meyers ’72 Jonathan Springer ’10 Kelly Vignale WT North teachers and parents Di Xieg ’10 Printing Herrmann Printing School Mission Winchester Thurston School actively engages each student in a challenging and inspiring learning process that develops the mind, motivates the passion to achieve, and cultivates the character to serve. Core Values We activate our Mission by creating a learning environment that promotes and instills appreciation for these five Core Values: Critical Thinking, Integrity, Empathy, Community, and Diversity. Winchester Thurston School 555 Morewood Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Telephone: (412) 578-7500 www.winchesterthurston.org Content published in Thistletalk represents opinions, ideas, and perspectives of the authors that are not necessarily those of the Trustees or Winchester Thurston School proudly acknowledges Administration of Winchester Thurston School. The editors reserve the right to accept, reject, or edit any content submitted for publication our 2008 – 2009 Malone Scholars. in Thistletalk. Copyright © 2008 Winchester Thurston School. Congratulations to this year’s Malone Scholars (from top, clockwise) Hannah Strong ’09, All Rights Reserved. Alexander Zukoff ’12, Noah Vito ’12, Kyle Czurko ’14, and Alexa Yu ’11. These outstanding students received this distinction as the result of a $2 million grant from the Malone Family Foundation in recognition of WT’s rigorous academic program that serves the needs of gifted and talented students. This national foundation selected Winchester Thurston as one of three top independent schools in the country to be awarded a grant in 2007. VOL. 36 • NO.1 AUTUMN/WINTER 2008 inside COVER STORY innovative teaching: Features awakening the imagination 2 FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL Gary J. Niels city as our campus Proposals for new strategic initiatives 4 new faces on the board 3 COVER STORY: Innovative Teaching: wt today 16 Reimagining the learning experience 7 SCHOOL NEWS Leadership Personified ... Poland, A Powerful Jouney into the Past ... Being Good Sports ... Tents Raise Hopes for Darfur ... Student Art Shines PROFILE: in Gallery Show ... Immersed in Underwater Learning ... Rebecca King Pioneer Day ... WT Athletics Her influence continues to be felt at WT 14 development news 28 Commencement 2008 Reunion 2008 ... Miss Mitchell Society “…there is nothing left to do that can’t be done.” 17 class notes 31 2007-2008 annual giving report 40 About the Cover: Parents, faculty, and children came together for a weekend of work—and play—building the new natural playground at WT's North Hills Campus. www.winchesterthurston.org 1 Gary J. Niels school Innovative teaching: of awakening the imagination head from the his fall I have been shed further light on the vitality and Heidi Hayes Jacobs, an education reflecting on the theme of centrality of imagination and its close professor at Columbia University, has change that is resonating intellectual relatives. reminded us of what Daniel Goleman’s in our culture now, as we In his book Creating Minds, Gardner landmark book, Emotional Intelligence, at Winchester Thurston says, “In science, mathematics, and the demonstrated conclusively: “It’s not just Tcontinue to challenge ourselves to arts, there is widespread recognition of the ability to remember things and feed prepare our students to thrive in an the significant place occupied by intu- them back on tests that determines how uncertain world. ition, unconscious promptings, inexpli- well you're going to do in life. It’s the Change is a product of innovation, ability to solve problems and reflect and and innovation is a product of imagina- to, in fact, think critically.” tion. As we look to a more hopeful future Imagination Certainly great schools teach it will be the imagination that yields “ foundational knowledge, but great solutions and discoveries in the realms disposes of everything; schools also call upon students to use of renewable energy, global health, and it creates beauty, that foundational knowledge in service education. In discussing the future of to their imaginations. At Winchester our school, our region, and our world, justice, and happiness, Thurston, we’ve worked to foster our members of WT’s Advisory Board have which are everything in students’ imaginations in myriad impressed upon us that our students ways, because we know through direct face an unscripted future. Little will be the world. experience that it will lead them to more important to them, and to the — Blaise Pascal” develop critical thinking skills, creativity, world’s fate, than their imaginations, perseverance, and integrity. As you read fully developed and unleashed. this edition of Thistletalk you will see Over the centuries wise thinkers cable insights, and the sudden awareness some vivid examples of how Winchester have paid homage to imagination. of relationships. Scientific discovery and Thurston fosters the development of the Blaise Pascal, one of the world's great artistic creations are hardly the result imagination. The stories are beautiful mathematical and scientific geniuses, solely of rational considerations.” and inspirational, and represent the ways said, “Imagination disposes of everything; Maxine Greene, the brilliant in which our faculty members ignite our it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, philosopher and aesthete at Columbia students’ passion for learning and guide which are everything in the world.” University, has noted that “Without them in using their imaginations as More recently, groundbreaking the release of the imagination, human important tools for discernment, delight, work on brain functioning by Harvard beings may be trapped in literalism, in and intellectual engagement. researcher Howard Gardner has blind factuality.” Excerpts taken from Gary J. Niels’ article, “Teach to the Brain,” published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 2 Thistletalk Autumn/Winter 2008 Winchester Thurston School BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2007-2008 Henry Posner III New Faces on the Board President Dusty Elias Kirk is a partner in the Pittsburgh office of Pepper Ralph L. Bangs Hamilton, LLP. She is co-chair of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Vice President Group and chair of the Sustainability and Climate Change Team. She concentrates her practice on all aspects of real estate development Kathleen Buechel with an emphasis on real estate litigation, including real estate tax Vice President assessment appeals, land use and zoning appeals, and eminent domain Simin Yazdgerdi Curtis proceedings. She also counsels her clients on an array of sustainability Vice President issues. Prior to joining Pepper in 1998, Kirk was a shareholder in the firm of Frank, Bails, Kirk, Murcko and Toal, PC, in Pittsburgh, where Douglas A. Campbell she was a founding member and president. Treasurer Kirk is chairwoman of the Board of Directors of the Allegheny Regional Asset District Board, a Deepak Kotwal member of the Board of Governors of the Allegheny County Bar Association (ACBA), and serves on Secretary the gender equality task force sub-committee. She is secretary of the Council for the Real Property Section of the ACBA, and a member of the Women in the Profession Committee of the Pennsylvania Gary J. Niels Bar Association. She is also on the steering committee of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Community Head of School Development Network, a part of Sustainable Pittsburgh. She was recently appointed to the Transportation Action Partnership, and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America. Ronald J. Bartlett Barbara Abney Bolger ’52 Kirk is chair of the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania, and nomi- John B. Christie-Searles nating chair of the Board of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation of Western Pennsylvania. Dan Cohen Kirk has two children, a son, David, who attends Central Catholic High School, and a daughter, Robert I. Glimcher Jeannie, who is a member of the WT Class of 2013. She also has a step-daughter, Alyssa Caroselli, who Rosanne Isay Harrison ’56 ◊ graduated from WT as a member of the Class of 1994. Diane Holder Elizabeth S. Hurtt ’74 Ian James Marty Powell is president of The Design Alliance Architects, having Dusty E. Kirk joined the firm in 1978. His architectural design experience includes Steve Loevner numerous projects for companies, universities, and schools in our A. D. Lupariello region. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects. Warner N. Macklin III Powell received his Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1973 from Carole Oswald Markus ’57 ◊ Cornell University, where he graduated first in his class, and went on Linnea Pearson McQuiston ’69 to obtain a
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