SIDWELL Contents FRIENDS MAGAZINE Spring 2020 Volume 91 Number 2 EDITORIAL Editor-in-Chief DEPARTMENTS Sacha Zimmerman 2 REFLECTIONS FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL Art Director Meghan Leavitt 6 ON CAMPUS Senior Writers The Whiffenpoofs pay the School a visit; the Black Natalie Champ Student Union Production explores American music; Kristen Page we ask Tamika Dudley five questions; students unravel the science of justice; and much more. Alumni Editors Emma O’Leary 20 THE ARCHIVIST Anna Wyeth Contributing Writers 06 Sidwell Friends was all about reuse and renovation Loren Hardenbergh before it was cool. Caleb Morris 42 ALUMNI ACTION Contributing Photographers Kelley Lynch 44 FRESH INK Tim Coburn 47 CLASS NOTES Susie Shaffer ’69 EVERY DAY. Freed Photography The Class of 1962 reflects on presidential impeachment—then and now. Digital Producers Anthony La Fleur 67 WORDS WITH FRIENDS Sarah Randall “Feeling Sly?” FOR EVERYONE. LEADERSHIP 22 68 LAST LOOK Head of School When you give to Sidwell Friends, you provide Bryan K. Garman “Night Moves” immediate and necessary funding for the experiences Chief Communications Officer FEATURES that our students value most. Hellen Hom-Diamond 22 SCHOOL OF THOUGHT CONNECT WITH SIDWELL FRIENDS And through those experiences, you empower The plans for a new Upper School are an object lesson students to take risks, develop confidence, @sidwellfriends in environmental design, ethical leadership, and edu- and overcome obstacles. @sidwellfriends cation of a “certain kind.” @sidwellfriends 28 GAME THEORY Your generosity makes a difference. Sidwell Friends Magazine Every day. For everyone. 3825 Wisconsin Avenue NW Sidwell Friends’ Sports Leadership Academy is Washington, DC 20016 28 redefining the School’s culture and transcending athletics. sidwell.edu/magazine [email protected] LIVES THAT SPEAK sidwell.edu/give 202-537-8444 36 MEAT WITH APPROVAL

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letting their lives speak to these values. So are the distin- increasingly unpredictable world. We have also been think- guished alumni who will be honored on Reunion Week- ing about health as it relates to the design of the new cam- end. Two have drawn on their intellect and creativity to pus. Working in collaboration with our students and teachers, reimagine their fields: Tommy Kail ’95, the Tony and Emmy architects are developing a compelling vision that will trans- Award–winning director of Hamilton and Fosse/Verdon, and form the campus into an even more environmentally sound Kathryn Bostic ’75, an award-winning composer whose living and learning community. The children are watching the credits include Clemency, Toni Morrison: The Pieces That I decisions we make; we need to listen to their pleas and care Am, and Dear White People. Through new structures, such as for them and the Earth in equal measure. the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Center for Stewarding our commu- Ethical Leadership, as well nity means building enduring as in traditional classes and financial strength. Because with innovative coursework, “Sidwell Friends has Sidwell Friends alumni we will continue to create embody the School’s val- learning environments that always taken itself ues, they are ambassadors inspire in current students for our mission and, not sur- the remarkable success seriously, but the prisingly, have expressed alumni have enjoyed on so deep support for the Cen- many fronts. ter for Ethical Leadership, accomplishments of our run by Equity, Justice, and Stewarding our community Community Director Natalie means celebration. Sidwell students and alumni Randolph ’98. In addition, Friends has always taken alumni have donated the itself seriously, but the call for celebration.” largest gifts—one at $7.25 accomplishments of our stu- million, a second at $5 mil- dents and alumni call for cel- lion, and several at the $1 ebration. The annual Black million level—toward the Student Union Production provided an opportunity to appre- more than $53 million raised to date to purchase and reno- ciate cross-divisional collaboration as well as the voices and vate the Upton campus. Along with fellow board members, creativity of our students. The Quakers’ success during the alumni trustees are especially focused on strengthening the Upper School Dance Ensemble winter athletic season sparked spontaneous outbreaks of joy School’s financial foundation. Trustees Jason Carroll ’96, at conference and state tournaments. I always look forward Jamie Hechinger ’96, Kevin Johnson ’91, Jair Lynch ’89, and to Founder’s Day, which this year will feature an online Let board clerk David Milner ’86 understand that we cannot take Your Life Speak program. Author Anand Girhdidhardas ’99— past successes for granted; if the School is to serve subsequent Community Guardians an editor-at-large for Time, an MSNBC political analyst, and generations as well as it served them, alumni must continu- a visiting scholar at New York University—will serve as one of ally invest in Sidwell Friends. They recognize the lasting effect the keynotes. So too will Baratunde Thurston ’95, a self-de- that the faculty and financial aid had on their lives—whether What it means to be stewards of the Sidwell Friends School. scribed “Emmy-nominated writer, activist, and comedian they received that aid or not—and they fully appreciate the who has worked for The Onion, produced for The Daily Show, role the endowment plays in the School’s future. By under- BY BRYAN GARMAN advised the Obama White House, and cleaned bathrooms writing faculty salaries and tuition grants, the endowment is to pay for his Harvard education.” Both are engaging and critical to our mission. With the generosity of alumni and the inspiring public intellectuals who will have a deep impact on entire community, we can implement a financial plan to qua- ver the past months, I’ve spent a lot of time address the underrepresentation of people of color in the tech our students. druple the endowment and retire our debt by 2037. traveling across the country, visiting with industry, Nichols convinced the social-media giant to hold alumni, and sharing plans for developing the a diversity networking and recruiting event, which Fischer Stewarding our community means tending to the health of Together, we have accomplished much and have more to do. Upton campus—which is also the focus of a fea- keynoted. Time and again, our alumni demonstrate an endur- our students and living our values. With the recent spread of That is the way of Sidwell Friends. Thank you, as always, for ture I wrote (see “School of Thought,” on page ing appreciation for the values of the School and the quality of COVID-19, we are working to ensure the immediate health your partnership.

O22). These visits connect our past and present, surfacing feel- community relationships. And they pose thoughtful queries: and safety of the School now and in the future. We are fortu- ings that make the School special for our graduates. What does it mean, Fischer asked, to be stewards of the Sid- nate to have a remarkable Health Services staff, an engaged well Friends community in a complicated moment marked by Board of Trustees, and dedicated teachers to help us nav- In February, I landed in the offices of Facebook, where David political discord and widespread discontent? igate this challenge. Complex environmental factors are Fischer ’90, the chief revenue officer, and Jordan Nichols ’05, likely at the root of this novel virus, underscoring the need a client partner, shared news about a project they were launch- Stewarding our community means nurturing intellectual, eth- to make certain our students have both a deep connection to ing: “Amplified: Leadership in Sales & Marketing.” Seeking to ical, artistic, and spiritual growth. Fischer and Nichols are nature and a firm scientific foundation to prepare them for an

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The Middle School orchestra performs.

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From the Editor SACHA ZIMMERMAN P’29 STATE OF THE ARTS CULTURE CLUB Whiffenpoofs The Lion in Winter Regular readers may notice that this deeper look at Quaker education in action; Strike a Chord Lunar New Year means dumplings, magazine looks a bit different than next we will graduate to alumni stories music, and a rat. previous issues. For one, it is no longer with features that offer insight into Take one Sidwell Friends alum, subtitled “Alumni Magazine”—though those leading lives of purpose and vision; add a beloved a cappella group, Lions aren’t typically vegetarians. But the it is still certainly that. But it is also finally, we will hand off the magazine stir in the Beatles, and serve. lion who helped kick off the Year of the Rat so much more. Sidwell Friends is a directly to the alumni themselves— for the Sidwell Friends community during community-wide publication: It is they write Class Notes that routinely the Lunar New Year celebration? That lion for current and prospective students, amuse and touch us. My super-talented enjoyed a hearty vegan meal. “I liked feeding parents, and grandparents; it is for partner, art director Meghan Leavitt, the lion lettuce,” Erin ’29 said. After his the incredible faculty and staff; and, and I hope you find Sidwell Friends easy repast, the lion scattered leaves to spread yes, it is for alumni, some of the most to read, beautifully designed, and a lot good luck. Sponsored by the Parents of creative and enterprising people on of fun—to that end, each issue will now Asian Students, the celebration included the planet—like Ethan Brown ’89, the have a themed crossword by Aimee dumplings, a traditional New Year’s food subject of this issue’s “Lives That Speak” Lucido, a puzzle constructor for The (symbolizing longevity and wealth)—but feature (see page 36). Sidwell Friends is New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, not just Chinese versions. Parents prepared Lynch Kelley also part of the School’s public face to and many other outlets (see page 67). dumplings from many regions, including A lion visits the dining hall for Lunar New Year. the world, a way of sharing our stories lumpia, shumai, and samosas. “It draws

in our voice and with our values. I’ll helm the ship. I’ve been a senior Lynch Kelley people not only of Asian backgrounds editor at The New Republic, Reader’s but invites people from all backgrounds to come and take has studied Chinese for six years. “I already played guitar, Take the cover story (see page 28). This Digest, and, most recently, The Atlantic— In February, Upper School students part,” said Sohaer Rizvi, a co-clerk of the Parents of Asian so I wanted to see how my skills would translate to this fall, Sidwell Friends embarked on a new but Sidwell Friends is the most fun enjoyed a talk and concert by the Yale Students at the Lower School. Niky Tignor ’20 played instrument.” The Lunar New Year event “makes Sidwell model of sports and leadership education. I’ve had in journalism. Wrapping my Whiffenpoofs, led by music director a sanxian, an instrument he studied during a School trip Friends special,” Rizvi added. “That’s what gives children While many schools may exile sports arms around the whole project of a (and alum!) Alex DiMeglio ’16. The to China’s Yunnan Province. While there, “everyone got the confidence to be themselves, to have their own identity to the extracurricular wilderness or magazine is my passion. Unlike so many popular a cappella group spoke about to apprentice with a local craftsman,” said Tignor, who without any fear of not being accepted or having to conform.” else push for a win at any cost, Sidwell other publications, according to the traveling internationally, coping with Friends’ dedicated coaches and student Council for Advancement and Support laryngitis, and taking time away from athletes are transcending what happens of Education, “alumni and school college. (The Whiffenpoofs spend during games and races; they are using magazines have stayed relevant and one year on the road before returning STATE OF THE ARTS sports to teach ethics, teamwork, and resonant with audiences by leveraging to their studies.) They also sang confidence. (Which, as it happens, are the strengths of print.” Narrative many jazz standards and signature also excellent ingredients for winning.) storytelling and artful design may have songs, along with a few new ones, like Poetry in Motion abandoned the news cycle, but they are “House of the Rising Sun,” “Got to Literally. Creating community is a vital part of alive and well here at Sidwell Friends. Get You Into My Life,” and “Rainbow the School’s Quaker values, which is Connection.” The Whiffenpoofs gave When it came to finding a poem to perform for the 6th grade why Head of School Bryan Garman is One last item: Sidwell Friends the a performance for the public in the Poetry Alive festival in December, Ethan ’26, Isaac ’26, and so enthusiastic about unifying Sidwell magazine is rather easy to confuse with Robert L. Smith Meeting Room later Zach ’26 had just one goal: humor. “I just found the funniest Friends on one campus. It all starts with Sidwell Friends the School. We’d like you that night. one and chose it,” Ethan said. The funny one he landed on was a new Upper School that is sustainable, to help us come up with a new title for Darren Sardelli’s “My Doggy Ate My Essay,” a riff on the old “the promotes wellness, and creates spaces the magazine. Some early suggestions dog ate my homework” theme. The trio recited the poem and that are imaginative and technologically include Fox Tales, Fox Light, and Star Fox. mimicked the pooch’s actions. The point of the exercise was to

sophisticated (see page 22). The new Email [email protected] to vote for DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS Page Kristen get students to dive into poetry, bringing words to life through building will also be home to the one of those or to suggest your own title. In the Fall 2019 issue of Sidwell Friends, the Middle School students get expressive. movement and performance. “When you’re doing the acting, Center for Teaching and Learning and piece “Memory Palace” asserted that Lower you have to sort of break down the poem,” said Luca ’26, the Center for Ethical Leadership. I know how meaningful this School is: School teacher Eve Eaton was “the driving force” whose group performed the decidedly more serious “Caged I’m also the parent of a rising 4th grader. behind the Día de Muertos celebration and Bird” by Maya Angelou. “It helped us understand the poem a Like the campus, this magazine should be I just wanted to say hello and reintroduce lessons. In fact, it was team effort to develop the STAY FRIENDS lot more because ‘Caged Bird’ is very figurative.” True, “My curriculum. What’s more, teachers Luz Marina an inspired space. In each issue, we will you to your favorite magazine. Stay in touch with all things Sidwell Friends! Follow us Doggy Ate My Essay” may not be as profound, but as Ethan Cardozo Munoz, Angela Ballesteros Gomez, and first explore what’s currently happening put it: “We just wanted to do something fun.” Sabreena Jeru-Ahmed received a summer grant on social media to get the latest On Campus stories. on the ground at Sidwell Friends; then we to make the school altar—which was nothing @sidwellfriends will move into feature stories that take a short of spectacular. We regret the error.

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CULTURE CLUB The revised schedule offers flexibility for workshops and assemblies that GOOD SPORTS Brand New Day previously landed in the crowded academic day. The schedule also Slam Dunk A new schedule means less stress. includes “Quaker Days,” which give students an academic break. The first This year, the Upper School introduced Quaker Day featured a health and a new schedule—one that includes wellness assembly. Then, students days with no academics at all. “A 2017 played capture the flag, soccer, and community survey found there was a netball before a pep rally. For the next high level of stress with parents, faculty, Quaker Day, students held a cultural and students,” Upper School principal fashion show. Mamadou Guèye says. “And we thought, ‘We need to pay attention to Introducing more time outside the the mental health of the students.’” Now classroom gave many pause—including Upper School students enjoy more time Guèye. “I was the one who was so between classes, a 45-minute lunch, and worried: How we can have a day from a 20-minute break. All in all, students 10:30 to 3:00 with kids playing?” he Mystics Washington have “up to 70 free minutes a day,” says said. “But it is serving them. It’s a day Guèye. “All of the classes that used to where there are no academics, so from How two Sidwell Friends meet five times a week now meet four Thursday to Sunday evenings, they students wowed Nike and the times a week, meaning no kid can go have time for family and friends.” While Washington Mystics. home now with two and a half to three Guèye says the response to the new hours of homework when they only have schedule has been “massively positive,” In December, the 2019 WNBA

Kelley Lynch Kelley three or four classes.” there are still some issues to work out. champions, the Washington AP teachers, for example, are on a tight Mystics, announced the winners The new schedule was partly inspired schedule to prepare students for exams; of the Nike Game Growers program: AT YOUR SERVICE campus. Some sorted donated sporting by the “Imagine the Future of Learning” missing a classroom day makes that Sidwell Friends’ own Kendall D. ’24 goods for Leveling the Playing Field, section of the Sidwell Friends Strategic harder. “It’s not perfect,” he says. “But and Gianna K. ’24, both basketball Help Mates a nonprofit that gives equipment to Lynch Kelley Plan to “reimagine how we allocate going back would defeat the purpose of players. Nike worked with the WNBA underprivileged kids. Others went to time by revising schedules to be more what we’re trying to accomplish: to slow and NBA to launch Game Growers, The Sidwell Friends community the dining hall, where multiple service responsive to student needs and to down the crazy rhythm of the day and a program that gives 8th grade takes the day on. projects were in full swing. provide programmatic flexibility.” make it more humane.” girls the tools and resources they need to increase girls’ participation “Everyone can be great,” Dr. Martin “We’re sorting books for kids in need,” in sports. Kendall and Gianna Luther King Jr. famously said, “because said Henry ’27, who was surrounded researched, brainstormed, and everyone can serve.” That spirit was at by hundreds of books for donation to even made a trip to the State the center of the fifth annual Sidwell Reading Partners, which works with Department before pitching Nike Friends Day of Service and Learning on DC schools to support young readers. the idea of developing an app, called January 20. Organized by the Parents “We have to get the ones that aren’t Kelley Lynch Kelley “Game GrowHers,” that would of Black Students and the Parents that easy but aren’t that hard. It’s really The Sidwell Friends community pitches in on MLK Day. help older girls connect with and Association, the community united to important to help people in need.” encourage younger girls celebrate King’s legacy and work. to play basketball. Dozens of volunteers formed an Sidwell Friends students, parents, assembly line to prepare casseroles for See the full video of the surprise at: alumni, and staff started with a Martha’s Table, Central Union Mission, At the end of the day, everyone met sidwell.edu/magazine. workshop on overcoming bias. Albert and Bethesda Cares. Others assembled in the Robert L. Smith Meeting Room E. Smith, a diversity and inclusion hygiene kits for So Others Might Eat, for a moment of silence and final consultant, asked participants to created place mats for the Children’s Inn reflections. “In silence, you provide examine their biases and explore where at the National Institutes of Health, and the community with the opportunity they came from. “Bias,” said Smith, “is made greeting cards for the DC Veterans to let the world fall away,” Head of the brain shortcutting to a decision.” Affairs Medical Center. Many also joined School Bryan Garman said, “and to

a session by the Free Minds Book Club find another way, a better way, a more Page Kristen When the service part of the day began, and Writing Workshop to discuss the mindful way, to recognize that of God On the second Quaker Day, Upper School students put on a multicultural fashion show. community members dispersed across power of writing for incarcerated youth. in everyone.”

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CULTURE CLUB Inspired by The New York Times’ 1619 Project, which 12 and 14. Among the staff heading up the production and included a podcast episode called “The Birth of American advising the students was Natalie Randolph ’98, the Music,” this year’s BSU Production, And the Beat Goes School’s director of Equity, Justice, and Community. It was The Kids Are Alright On…, examined black music’s effects not only on a full-circle moment for the alum who was once a performer This year’s Black Student Union Production explored American music broadly, but on American culture as a herself in the Black History Month Show, as it used to be the role of black music in American history. whole. Moving from the spirituals of enslaved people to known (see “Leadership Can Look Like Us,” on page 12). contemporary black music, the show traced the history “Part of being a black student at Sidwell Friends during that It only took a few notes of Lil Nas X’s rap-country fusion hit of the black American experience through a songbook time was participating in the Black History Month Show,” “Old Town Road” to get the Middle Schoolers in the Caplin that represents oppression as well as joy. The student she said. “It was just a big part of our experience and a time Theater to begin singing along and dancing in their seats. They performers demonstrated how black music was both a where we got together and produced something for the were waiting for the beginning of the 31st annual Black Student part of and separate from the music of white America— community.” Union Production to begin. They didn’t know it already had. as when white artists co-opted black music, sometimes for inspiration, but all too often for exploitation, as For the community and by the community. Students from When the music stopped, members of the Black Student exemplified by the indignity of minstrel shows. But mainly, every division of the School took part in And the Beat Goes Union (BSU) told the audience that the song had hit the And the Beat Goes On… was a celebration of the black On…, singing, dancing, and speaking about the importance top of the Billboard Country Music chart on its release artists who sculpted the modern American landscape: a of African American music. “The kids really wanted a certain in March 2019—only to be removed for “not embracing heart-wrenching piece from Alvin Ailey’s signature ballet vision, and it was up to us to help them make it happen,” enough elements of today’s country music to chart in its Revelations, a flirtatious medley of Motown greats, a Randolph said. “This is their experience, so I wanted to current vision,” according to Billboard. (“Old Town Road” poignant verse from Langston Hughes, even an exuberant do everything in our power to make sure it was what they simultaneously charted on the Hot 100 and Hot R&B/Hip- nod to the Sugar Hill Gang. wanted.” That included ending on a high note. And the Hop Songs.) The performers asked: What is country music, Beat Goes On… closed with an epic finale in which both and why is “Old Town Road”—which name-checks cowboy Scenes from the Black Student Union Production, And the Beat Goes On... A team of students began writing the show back in the students onstage and those in the audience took up an hats, Wrangler jeans, and tractors, and even features country December. Then rehearsals began in January and continued exultant chant from Pulitzer Prize–winner Kendrick Lamar: superstar Billy Ray Cyrus on one remix—not part of the genre? nearly every weekend until the performances on February “We gon’ be alright.”

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IN MEMORIAM “ Mr. Williams’s presence

“Leadership Can Look Like Us” confidence in knowing that there was a deep understanding ensured that the Middle between the School’s leadership and its students of color was The School’s director of Equity, Justice, and I knew Mr. Williams both as an administrator and as the father empowering. Mr. Williams’s presence ensured that the Middle School was a place where Community remembers the legacy of former of one of my best friends, Maisha Williams ’98. As my principal School was a place where students like me could be truly seen by from 1990 to 1994, I saw him as calm yet strong, measured an administrator and that those difficult-to-explain moments Middle School Principal Bob Williams. yet a force you’d rather not test. However, his exacting nature in the black experience would be understood. If we held up our students like me could be did not make him less available for a caring consultation. He end of the bargain as students, there was someone ready to was all the things that leadership books laud—and he also fight for us if necessary. The stress put on people of color due truly seen.” BY NATALIE RANDOLPH ’98 happened to be an African American man. While this fact did to our country’s history with race is now well documented. Mr. not define him, it did allow him to serve an invaluable role for Williams helped to alleviate some of that stress, even though it When I think about equity and diversity at Sidwell Friends, me and other students of color like me. At a time when Sidwell was not fully acknowledged at the time. When I attended Sidwell Friends, Bob Williams provided a small including during my time as a student at the School, Bob Friends was not as diverse as it is now and the experience for piece of comfort for me in the often-uncomfortable experience Williams is never absent from my thoughts. He looms large in African American students was often as “the other”—or even Perhaps one of the more celebrated ways that Mr. Williams lifted of being a minority. Now that I have the honor of being the many people’s memories. When he died this past December, it “the only”—Mr. Williams represented possibility and normalcy us up was by paving the way for the creation of the Black Student School’s director of Equity, Justice, and Community, I am was an enormous loss for the entire Sidwell Friends community. and real inclusion. As many who knew him can attest, he was Union Production. The production’s dual purpose was (1) to give perpetually aware that without his fierce advocacy for equity unapologetically black, which allowed students of color to also black students a safe space and (2) to educate the rest of the and inclusion at Sidwell Friends, my position would not exist. Bob Williams’s many accomplishments are well known. He feel free not to apologize for or explain their identities. community about issues that were not otherwise prioritized. In When I sit in administrative meetings today, I think of him when was the first African American senior administrator at Sidwell addition to providing an affinity group, the Black Student Union I notice how many students can now see themselves reflected Friends, an accomplished classroom teacher, and a champion for We may not have recognized it then, but being able to see him Production gave students of color the chance to be heard and in the School’s leadership. Without Mr. Williams’s excellence as diversity and inclusion, among many other roles at the School. as both a leader and a black man was powerful. It showed all celebrated for the parts of their identity that were often either an administrator and representation as a black man, that barrier While it is important to remember these achievements as we students and particularly students of color that leadership overlooked or suppressed. The production still serves that may have taken longer to break. In other words, Mr. Williams’s contemplate his legacy, it is also important to acknowledge the can look like us, that we were included in the School at the purpose, and as a producer on the most recent show, it has been legacy continues to guide us and continues to provide me impact he had on all students as an example of what leadership highest levels—especially when for so many years and in so a privilege to ensure that the School continues that tradition for comfort as I help the School move forward in this work—and I can look and feel like. many other spaces, leadership was not inclusive. The subtle students. am honored to serve under his Light.

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CLASS ACTS Barrosse-Antle says. “But one of the point where it’s not scientifically classroom ramifications. They play things I really like doing is making that supported.” out in society, and they do not impact clear to students and saying, ‘Nope, all groups of people in society equally.” Under the don’t know the answer to that. Let’s Matthews agrees. “Usually sciences Microscope figure it out. Or maybe you should.’” are just like, ‘These are the facts,’ and It’s lesson that connects to the you can’t really bend it,” she says. School’s values. “There aren’t a lot of Students discover that forensics is One person she called on to talk about “With forensics, there are personal ways to talk about societal issues in not an exact science. the study of forensics was her former opinions. You’re going to have your chemistry, whereas in forensic science chemistry student Kaylee Simon ’17. own judgments about the way that it’s a philosophical issue,” Barrosse- BY KRISTEN PAGE Though Simon never had the chance forensic science is conducted. It Antle says. For instance, should to take forensics at Sidwell Friends, inspires me to go out and spread scientists be 100 percent certain about The semester exam in the new she is majoring in medical toxicology awareness about how different ways their findings in order to put someone forensic science class was unusual. at Penn State and agreed to speak of analyzing evidence aren’t as valid in jail? If so, some guilty people may to the forensics class on her winter as people think.” never be punished. If not, there will “I used this product called ‘I Can’t break. “Patients can advocate for be false positives, and some innocent Believe It’s Not Blood,’ which you can themselves—dead people can’t,” she Barrosse-Antle invites that kind of people will be punished. That’s a lot of get on Amazon,” says science teacher told them. “You’re the one trying to questioning and skepticism. “Do I ethical ambiguity for a scientist.

and Assistant Academic Dean Laura Barrosse-Antle Laura figure out what happened to them; care that students know how the Barrosse-Antle, who teaches the Faux blood splatter and plastic tarp courtesy forensic science teacher Laura Barrosse-Antle you’re advocating for that person.” In fingerprint forms? Not really—but I do The department may or may not offer class. “Then I used a bunch of plastic that way, toxicology, the science of care that they interpret evidence with forensic science again, but the new sheeting from when I painted my studying poison, is more than science. an appropriate degree of caution,” elective is still emblematic of Sidwell home and hung it up, so I could get Advanced Placement level. “They figure out what angle the blood was Simon thinks it’s a mystery to solve: she says. “Everyone agrees that you Friends and the kinds of creative everything messy. And then I had a want to see some options,” said coming from,” she adds, referring to “You have to learn to piece [clues] have an individual fingerprint, but how initiatives that are possible here. copier box with a Ziploc baggie of the Donley. And Donley and Barrosse- the end-of-semester crime-scene together.” many points do you need to compare Physics, chemistry, biology, justice, fake blood in it and had a friend stab Antle want to encourage the students exam. “You had to talk about gravity in and find identical for it to be a match? and philosophy—the students lobbied it—and that created blood spatter.” to explore science. Forensics was relation to blood, about why it would That tracks with an overarching These ramifications are not just for one class but got a whole lot more. The rest was up to the students. great way to do that, says Donley: “It land a certain type of way on the theme of the class: Forensic science combines chemistry and physics and wall or on the floor. That’s part of the often isn’t scientific at all. “This is a See? Unusual. biology.” problem-solving aspect of school that great course from the standpoint that I enjoy.” there is science,” Donley says, “but a But then, the class started out in an That’s what got Zion Williams ’20 lot of people view science as very cut unusual way. Two students proposed interested. “I had taken biology, To create the curriculum, Barrosse- and dried, when forensics is not.” the course during the 2017/18 chemistry, and physics, and I wanted Antle—who does not have a specific school year. After approaching to see what forensic science had to background in forensic science—had “My expertise is specifically analytical then–Academic Dean Min Kim and offer,” says Williams. “It combined all to do some studying of her own. She chemistry, so I wanted to make sure Department Chair Tom Donley, three of those in different ways.” reached out to other schools and that I was coming at it from the the students completed a survey read books like The New Jim Crow by scientific side,” Barrosse-Antle said. showing there was enough interest “I took physics last year, and there Michelle Alexander and Criminalistics: “That led me to a large number of to get the class off the ground. is physics in blood-spatter analysis,” An Introduction to Forensic Science reports that have been done relatively Barrosse-Antle officially proposed says Jayla Matthews ’20. “You had by Richard Saferstein. “I would recently about the state of forensic the course in 2018, and the rest is to do the sine, cosine, and tangent to argue that I’m still not up to speed,” science.” For example, in 2015 the history—well, science. FBI reported that in over 95 percent of cases involving hair and fiber The elective course even fulfilled testimony, the expert witness had a need in the School’s Science overestimated or overstated the utility Department. “A lot of our upper- “ Forensic ramifications play of that evidence. level courses are traditional survey courses,” Donley says, “and so are our out in society, and they do not That kind of research led the class to introductory classes.” That means focus on another subject: justice. “A there are some students who may impact all groups of people in lot of forensic science has to do with Barrosse-Antle Laura have enjoyed an introductory class the courtroom and law and basically The Upper School’s forensic scientists are on the case. but who don’t want to take another drawing conclusions from the data,” survey course, and they may not society equally.” Williams says. “Often lawyers and be ready to tackle the class at the courts draw the claims out to a

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KIDS ’N PLAY Left to Their Own Devices The Lower School hosts its second Day of Play. Legos in one room. Putty-making in another. Twister next to Battleship and Apples to Apples. Dodgeball in the gym. Train tracks sprawled on the carpet. A cacophony of xylophones. 5 The Lower School’s second Day of Play gave students free time and plenty of options. “Kids today don’t often have time QUESTIONS where they have to figure out what they want to do, how to do it, and how to problem solve,” Eve Eaton, a 3rd grade teacher, said. “Research shows that kids who have unstructured time increase their brain capacity, because they have to figure

things out.” Global Day of Play, a nonprofit dedicated to ’69 Susie Shaffer playtime in schools, encourages educators to host a Day of Kristen Page Kristen Play; now, the group says, more than 500,000 students have for TAMIKA A Lower Schooler demonstrates how Day of Play is done. participated. “I get to play and go anywhere in the School,” said Alyssa ’28, who was making a sculpture from some DUDLEY “disc things” (a pile of discarded CDs). “Sometimes you need to just play around and let your mind relax.” GOOD SPORTS Freed Photography Freed In the Zone JUST CAUSES TAMIKA DUDLEY is the head coach 1. What’s the biggest difference 3. Who are your sports idols? of the girls’ basketball team at between coaching at Woodbridge Michael Jordan because he was so and coaching at Sidwell Friends? intense on the court and also had “Be Good to Each Other” Sidwell Friends as well as a current There’s not a lot of difference when it that serious work ethic. And Coach K Students take time out to talk diversity and identity. parent. (It’s kind of a two-for-one comes to the basketball side of things. [Duke’s Michael Krzyzewski]. He allows “Don’t you put makeup on before the game?” This was the boon for the School: Dudley’s 8th It’s more the relationships. I spent all of his players to play in games and question NFL Films Presents asked Natalie Randolph ’98, grade daughter, Kendall ’24, is eight years at Woodbridge, and it’s not just in practice. That resonates with the School’s director of Equity, Justice, and Community already a Sidwell Friends basketball where I went to high school—so it’s me. Every player gets game experience. (EJC), back in 2013 when they arrived at DC’s Calvin player—she currently plays for home. When I came here, I had to make Coolidge High School to film her. Randolph first made new relationships with the parents, the 4. Do you have any former players the Middle School boys’ basketball national headlines in 2010, when she became the only players, the administrators. It’s been in the WNBA? female head high school football coach in the country. team. See also “Slam Dunk,” on really good, though. Everyone is great. Lynetta Kizer. I coached her when Despite her success on the field, the producers were more page 9.) For nearly a decade, Dudley Quakerism is one of the things that I was at Potomac High School in coached at Virginia’s Woodbridge

concerned about her shoes and appearance. Hellen Hom-Diamond attracted me to Sidwell. It aligns with Dumfries, Virginia. Then she went to my beliefs and values, not just as a the University of Maryland. She’s since The group of Upper School students who helped organize EJC Day. High School. In the 2018/19 season, “No,” Randolph said. “I don’t wear makeup.” Randolph also she took its girls’ basketball team coach but in life. played in the WNBA for Tulsa, Phoenix, didn’t change her khakis or sneakers after teaching five Connecticut, Indiana, and abroad. all the way to victory at the state sections of science. So, in an effort to play up her gender, 2. Do you have a coaching the producers borrowed lipstick and blush from a school featured wellness activities to promote mental health and championships—not unrelated, philosophy? 5. What was your proudest moment staffer—the same staffer who lent the filmmakers a pair student-led workshops to explore identity, such as “Women she was named Virginia’s coach of “Success never rests.” I’ve always in basketball? of ballet flats, which were filmed for b-roll to highlight the in Revolutions,” “Investigating Masculinity in Hip-Hop,” the year. Now, she has crossed the prided myself on hard work and Winning the state championship at coach’s femininity. “Intersectionality Between Cross-Cultural Identities,” and Potomac and in her first year at commitment. Nothing is above me Woodbridge. It took eight years to get “They/Them/Their: Our Non-Binary History.” Sidwell Friends is already helming a or my staff as far as work ethic: It’s there. We worked really hard. We failed Randolph recounted this during her keynote address at the relentless. It’s that constant striving for several times, missed opportunities, nearly indomitable girls’ basketball Upper School’s EJC Day in January. “My identity is at the “I tried to put the ‘C’ back in EJC,” Hayes Davis, the Upper success, for perfection. It’s the striving, and so, when we won, it was really center of this,” she said of the media attention. “And it was School’s EJC coordinator, said. “This is work we can team (runners-up in the 2020 state not the winning, that’s important. meaningful. uncomfortable.” The keynote was part of a day designed to all share if we recognize that everyone in a community championships). get Upper Schoolers thinking about how they interact with represents diversity in some way. We should try to be good each other and get along as a community. The day also to each other.”

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GOOD SPORTS STATE OF PLAY The 2019/20 winter sports season wrapped up by making history in STROKE two sports: a career high in girls’ basketball and the first all-girls tournament in wrestling. Here are some highlights from an incredible This year, six seniors from the girls’ varsity swim team will graduate, but the varsity season. team is still rich in talent. Ayanna Wu ’21 and Cate Sheridan ’23 had individual successes, qualifying for the Washington SHOOT Metropolitan Interscholastic Swimming and Diving Championships (Metros) in Finishing as the DC State Athletic Association (DCSAA) AA their events. Sheridan, just a freshman, champions for the first time in School history in 2019/20, placed 13th at Metros in the 100 boys’ varsity basketball came on strong this year. The 2019/20 backstroke. The 200 medley-relay team season saw them finish in the quarterfinals of the DCSAA AA (with Sheridan, Wu, Alden Zhang ’22, Colleen Zeugin ’20 championship tournament, along with repeating as Quaker and Isabel Apfel ’22) and the 200 Classic and Governor’s Challenge champions along with freestyle-relay team (with Sheridan, Mikey Photos by Susie Shaffer ’69 winning the Bishop Walker Tournament. The Quakers finished Panner ’20, Apfel, and Wu) each qualified as runners-up in the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAC) for Metros, too. “I have enjoyed seeing the HOLD tournament with Ryan Cornish ’21 named to the All-MAC team. improvement over time with the team,” says Coach Megan Miller. “Swimming This season varsity wrestling had a program first: Kate is a unique sport where you get instant Borkowski ’22 and Julia McCormack ’22 competed in the feedback on development—your time!” first-ever Women’s National Prep Wrestling Tournament. Cameron Gillus ’23 with Borkowski (105 pounds) finished in third place and earned Ryan Cornish ’21 close behind All-American status. The Quakers competed, among other meets, at the Sidwell Friends School Invitational, MAC Superquad,MAC Championships, Melee on the Metro, DC Classic, and National Preps. Matthew Rosenstein ’23 (152 pounds), Lucas Donovan ’20 (160 pounds), and Ian Palk ’20 (182 pounds) were named MAC champions. Borkowski and Myles McPartland ’20 (170 pounds) finished as MAC SCORE runners-up.

Girls’ varsity basketball welcomed new head coach Tamika Dudley to a team that was already the 2018/19 Independent School League (ISL) co-champion. How do you beat that? Finish the ISL as outright regular- season champions. As if that weren’t enough, the Quakers were No. 1 heading into the DCSAA AA Championship and finished their season as DCSAA AA tournament runners-up. Sidwell Friends girls’ basketball Kiki Rice ’22 also played a competitive non-conference schedule, traveling up to New York City for the Rose Super Jam and then back home for the She Got Game Classic. Oh yeah, and Kiki Rice ’22 scored her 1,000th career

point—as a sophomore—and was named Jadyn Donovan ’23 Dylan Rosoff ’20 the Gatorade player of the year. Borkowski Debbie Courtesy

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What’s Old Is New T S I V I H C R A E H T U.S. Green Building Again—and Again Council. Since then, the School has won another LEED Platinum rating Sidwell Friends: Building green for over a century. for taking the old 1958 Kenworthy Gymna- BY LOREN HARDENBERGH sium and converting it into the Robert L. Smith Meeting Room and arts It should come as no sur- center. Two LEED Gold prise that the new Upper projects—the Lower School renovation plans School gym/Groome are making green building addition and the David standards fundamental to P. Pearson ’52 Athletic the design. After all, green Center—cemented the standards were at the cen- Woodrow Wilson Building, built from reclaimed lumber School’s commitment to ter of all of Sidwell Friends’ sustainable architecture. the recent renovations: These early forays into green construction building in time you’re gazing up at the exte- Middle School continued after Sidwell’s death. At the end So the next Lower School Bruce Stewart and Andra Jurist 2006, the of World War II, the student population grew rior of the Groome addi- building covered in reclaimed gym and dramatically and space was in short supply. Middle School the David P. or at the walls and floor of the Rob- tion in 2007, The School purchased a steel Quonset hut wine casks Athletic Cen- Meeting Room constructed from Pearson ’52 that was military surplus. Beginning in 1946, ert L. Smith and the Quaker barns in Maryland, give a nod to our ter in 2010, 1809 Eye Street, built from reclaimed bricks this structure served as the main library for derelict House and Arts Thomas Sidwell, who knew how to Meeting many years. Less than 10 years later, Sidwell founder, Center in 2011. And though its green streak with make the old new again. NW housed Friends School continued architecture a The new building at 1809 Eye Street many may consider sustainable purchase: cafeteria, and a study hall. A a transformative it turns out that using reclaimed classrooms, a recent trend, old stone farmhouse of the study hall faced Eye Street an materials goes back to the School’s porch off building that served as the family and was a great place for people-watching. first decades. residence of an Army offi- Sidwell’s niece, Frances Sidwell Benson ’15, personal physician of the most interesting reg- cer, the At the turn of the 20th century, Thomas Sid- recalled that one Wil- to Woodrow Wilson, and a outgrowing its space in the ular sightings was President Woodrow well’s School was we call walk down Eye Street. CIA director. Today, Eye Street Friends Meeting House. Fortu- son taking his morning took note of the president, too. it Zartman House. nately, the lot immediately to the east of the Thomas Sidwell wood bleach- came up for sale, and Sidwell pur- In 1919, Wilson had temporary building In 2004, that old stone campus expansion. ers constructed to watch the troops returning chased it with dreams of a the first I. Thomas house became heard of an old Capitol Hill home from Europe after World War In 1904, Sidwell several intentionally thrift once again— of that was being torn down to make Sidwell—exhibiting Quaker brick house green buildings when the Office Building. purchased the wood and used it to build a room for the Cannon House it with bought from School retrofitted be wasteful, Sidwell had the bricks structure on land he had recently Not one to an energy-efficient geo- trucked over to Eye the Washington School for Boys on Wisconsin from the dismantled house pump. Two into the thermal heat same with bricks from an Avenue. Over time, this building grew Street. He did the later, when the old primary grades. Sid- years Bank building that was also getting main classrooms for the old Riggs 1950 brick Middle School he constructed well cheekily named it the Woodrow Wilson demolished. And that’s how attention, being torn building needed Quonset Hut Library, built from military surplus dedicated classroom build- Building. It lasted for decades before the School’s first than raze it and the School pur- rather also, but not quite by design, the down in 1962. That’s also when ing—and generate construction waste, the School reno- chased the Edgemoor Lane property. For more about how sustainable architecture School’s first green building. vated and expanded it, turning it into the first is having an impact on the new Upper School K-12 school building in the world to achieve renovation, see “School of Thought,” on page 22. the highest LEED Platinum rating from the

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develop high ethical standards, and walk cheerfully—and lightly—across the world. This mission must be fostered in the hearts and minds of the School’s students and in the bones of its buildings. This is a moment to design a space that is an expression of all that the School values.

Philanthropic partners have already committed more than $53 million toward a transformative effort—the most ambitious capital and endowment campaign in the School’s history. If fundraising goals are reached, the new Upper School will open for the 2026/27 academic year, completing the first step in a strategic effort to unify the campus. First look at the Upper School entrance The plans for a new Upper School are an object lesson in environmental and greenway to connect Upton Street design, ethical stewardship, and education of a “certain kind.” The worth of education must and the heart of the campus BY BRYAN GARMAN now be measured against the

uring a lunch with the architects from Perkins East- One way to do this is through the new Upton campus. The standards of decency and man, Middle School students imagined the features School’s Strategic Plan calls for a unified campus both to care they would like to see in the future Upper School. for the Earth and the School’s students. Sidwell Friends has human survival.” They scribbled notes, stuck them to the wall, and reflected on the chance to provide the community with a new home, one each other’s work. One insightful student reframed the con- where wise and decent citizens pursue intellectual excellence, versation with an essential question: “Would the Earth be happy with the decisions we made?”

This powerful query recalls David Orr, an emeritus professor of environmental studies and politics at Oberlin College who con- sulted on Sidwell Friends’ pathbreaking sustainability efforts more than 20 years ago. Orr observed that each day the planet becomes “a little hotter, its waters more acidic, and the fabric of life more threadbare.” The crisis, he suggested—in a 1991 essay, “What Is Education For?”—resulted from an educa- tional deficiency that left residents of the planet ill-prepared to care for the natural world. “Education is no guarantee of decency, prudence, or wisdom,” he wrote. “More of the same kind of education will only compound our problems. The worth of education must now be measured against the standards of decency and human survival. … It is not education that will save us, but education of a certain kind.”

Orr’s predictions have proved prophetic. The good news is that a new generation, exemplified by Sidwell Friends Middle School- ers, feels empowered to ask questions and take action. Principal architect Sean O’Donnell says he often doesn’t see such authen- tic engagement. “Bringing together the youngest and the oldest children, alongside the faculty and staff, all to build a stronger community is a really powerful idea,” he says. But as impres- Renderings from Perkins Eastman sive as the students are, young people cannot do it alone. Adults must support their imagination by rethinking past practices, adopting new habits, and setting the right example.

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When asked, Sidwell Friends students describe their ideal new school as one with havens for quiet study and reflection, spaces for collaboration and innovation, places to socialize with friends, and areas for individual research projects. They imag- ine a campus that enables a full range of academic and social experiences, because for most of the year, Sidwell Friends is a second home.

The new building will emphasize a sense of community and wellness by honoring Quaker-inspired design principles: sim- plicity, integrity, and stewardship. Drawing on features that appear regularly on college campuses, where learning has become increasingly cooperative, the design relies heavily on glass walls that let in natural light, visually connect students to their peers, and provide acoustic balance. Gathering spaces will Initial conceptual view of the library range in size and function: A dining hall will comfortably serve the full Upper School, allowing for flexible scheduling; “neigh- borhoods” will enable grade levels to congregate and plan activ- ities; common areas will encourage casual student-teacher interactions and foster group conversations; Star’s new Fox Den will offer a collegiate social atmosphere; a Meeting Room will house gatherings and performances for up to 150 people.

New academic spaces will spur programmatic development. A “We value nothing more than illuminating the best in our the community and to consider the relationships between the Science Commons will include a robotics lab, as well as space students,” Upper School Principal Mamadou Guèye notes. built environment, teaching, and learning. To that end, they for individual student projects. Classrooms will be equipped for “We have already begun to address student well-being with embraced an unprecedented opportunity: the purchase of six specific disciplines. Departmental offices will be configured to a revised weekly schedule to allow for much-needed time to contiguous acres on the Wisconsin Avenue campus. “It’s a promote cross-disciplinary relationships. The third floor of reset, play, and recharge. A new Upper School will allow us to once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to realize a unified commu- the Upton property, which will open onto a green that unifies be the village we want to be.” nity on a campus that has a strong heart and sense of place,” the three divisions and the Athletic Department, will host the O’Donnell says. “It’s extraordinary.” The last such transfor- all-school Center for Teaching and Learning and the Center Since 1964, the footprint of the Upper School has remained rel- mational moment came in 1955, when the School purchased for Ethical Leadership. Both will have a direct impact on the atively untouched, expanding only with the 1997 renovation of eight acres, adding Zartman House and the athletic fields— community: Faculty will share emerging practices with one the Harrison Building and the addition of the Goldman Library. which dramatically improved the student experience. another, the School will host visiting scholars, and students In 1964, the Upper School enrolled 330 students; today, there will find new opportunities for growth and leadership. are more than 500. The facility serves students well, but as After the Upton purchase, plans for a new village became more enrollment has grown and programmatic needs have shifted, discernible—and more exciting. The School hired the globally Faculty and staff are already developing programs that will fall the Board of Trustees began to evaluate ways to consolidate recognized architectural firm Perkins Eastman, who then led under the Center for Ethical Leadership, such as community more than 15 gatherings of faculty, staff, students, parents, engagement and affinity group initiatives. The honorable Ann and alumni to help everyone better understand the School’s Winkelman Brown ’55 has generously endowed a capstone proj- It’s a once-in-a-lifetime mission and needs. Submitting and revising the School’s ect in which 4th graders will examine an ethical problem of their application to the Board of Zoning Adjustment precipitated 22 choosing, design solutions, and publicly present their work. The opportunity to realize a meetings with neighbors, traffic consultants, surveyors, engi- Athletic Department has already established the Sports Lead- neers, and two different Advisory Neighborhood Commissions ership Academy, which served nearly 40 students this year (see unified community on a about a host of topics, ranging from construction schedules to “Game Theory,” on page 28). The Dehejia Internship program perimeter-fencing design. These efforts earned approval from currently coordinates college-level internship experiences for campus that has a strong the Board of Zoning Adjustment on February 5 and informed 11th graders. And the Middle School is creating a new health a new master plan. Sidwell Friends is pleased to share these and wellness course that will focus on ethical decision making. initial conceptual renderings—with the understanding, of In other words, the Center for Ethical Leadership will provide a Conceptual renderings (top to bottom): Center for Ethical heart and sense of place.” Leadership; robotics lab; main Science Commons with a cascading course, that they will almost certainly be revised over time. much-needed home and new resources for next-level educa- stairway and seating area; new large-capacity dining hall tional thinking.

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Hands-on practices enable students to The alum-architect not only learn science who’s on the job.

but learn how to be Harry Webb ’11 can’t decide if it is “a bonus or just weird” that he is a member scientists.” of the Perkins Eastman team working on the Upper School project. The young architect and Sidwell Friends alum—a lifer—has a lot of memories of the School. Yet, he didn’t expect to see his colorful finger-painted handprint (circa age 5) hanging from a mural in Zartman House when he and his colleagues showed up to share their design ideas with School administrators. “It was surreal to see it up on the wall when professionally presenting,” Webb says. Luckily, he adds, “Sidwell set me up for success.” An outdoor seating area and terrace to connect the library with the new greenway After earning his bachelor’s in architecture from the University of Maryland, Webb attended the University of Oregon for a master’s Much like the internationally recognized LEED-Platinum Mid- improve air circulation. Neuroscience studies—including by the The new campus will allow the School to forge connections in the subject. He returned to DC to work at a six-person boutique dle School, the Upton campus will teach students about prob- National Institutes of Health and Harvard University—demon- among sustainability, student and employee wellness, and learn- firm on 14th Street, where doing a little bit of everything allowed lems and solutions in sustainability. The School faced its first strate that these biophilic features can reduce stress, lower blood ing outcomes that no other institution has yet imagined. LEED, him to learn a lot. And, when he wanted to stretch his wings at a and most basic challenge when the board determined that 75 pressure, lead to improved creativity, and bolster academic per- WELL, NetZero, and other green-design frameworks, as well as larger firm, he was thrilled to land at Perkins Eastman. “We have all percent of the existing structure will be renovated rather than formance. Additionally, according to the National Alliance on emerging neuroscience research, have improved environmen- different kinds of projects, and we’re all over the world,” he says. razed. This approach conserves the energy and materials that Mental Illness, 20 percent of American students between the tal architecture, but as far as Perkins Eastman understands, no Webb is quick to point out that it is “pure coincidence that I ended are already in the building, and based on construction esti- ages of 13 and 18 suffer from a mental health disorder, meaning institution has integrated these standards into the comprehen- up at Perkins and they got the Sidwell project.” mates, it will be dramatically less expensive. Moreover, experts an emphasis on well-being is a necessity, not a luxury. sive approach Sidwell Friends is taking. Architect Ann Neeriemer will realign HVAC and electrical systems to reduce energy con- says the School will be “an oasis in an urban environment.” Maybe so, but the School does have a deep connection to Webb’s sumption and the School’s carbon footprint. Between power Once the building is complete, students will have an opportu- passion for architecture. It was, after all, as a student at Sidwell purchase agreements for solar energy and geothermal wells nity to learn about the design and evaluate its systems. Heather This urban oasis comes directly from students and faculty who, and a number of other energy efficiency measures, the Wiscon- Jauregui, a senior associate and sustainability expert at Perkins the architects at Perkins Eastman say, think about design in an Friends that he realized what his future vocation would be. “I knew sin Avenue campus could become a net-zero facility, meaning Eastman, assesses environmental performance through rigor- “uncommonly dialectical manner.” Designers typically create I wanted to be an architect since Middle School,” he says. “I was it would produce as much energy as it uses. Both technologies ous data analysis. She frequently works with students to mea- comfort and inspire aesthetically. But Sidwell Friends students there when they did the Middle School building renovation, and I have short payback periods. In fact, geothermal wells could save sure and monitor carbon-dioxide levels, teaching them that seek to sustain the natural world, to improve it, and to imagine saw how that influenced life before and after.” the School nearly $9 million over 30 years, a good reminder that lower CO2 levels lead to higher brain oxygenation and deeper new ways of being in a relationship with it. Their ethical imagina- campus unification has significant economic benefits. levels of student engagement. “I’ve seen a lot of ‘aha’ moments tions, grounded in the “certain kind” of education that Orr wrote Since being back at Sidwell Friends in this new role, Webb says with students when they’re doing lab measurements,” Jauregui about and that Sidwell Friends offers, speak directly to a deeply he has “learned a lot more about the bones and the history of Perhaps the most valuable lesson for students will come from says. “Taking CO2 readings in one location and then opening a human need to care for community, to live positively and peace- the campus.” He says his work on the building calls on this new the land itself. The site’s topography offers opportunities for window and taking them again, the students understand that fully, to act with integrity, and to lead through stewardship. information and combines it with his own memories of the School. innovative design that bolsters native flora and fauna and that there’s a direct connection between fresh air ventilation and “I use my memory to think about what exists already and what we excels at stormwater management. The most recent campus CO2 levels.” If the School follows their inspiration, it will create a campus can do to modify it,” he says. He understands, for example, the need master plan calls for strategic demolition of the eastern side of that places decency, human survival, and joy at its core; that for common spaces that aren’t hallways. He wants to expand on the the building, where architects will connect the greenway from Meanwhile, landscape designers will work with faculty and makes the students proud; and that resonates well beyond parts of the School that are working—like by giving every grade a Upton Street to the central campus green and amphitheater, students to study the local flora and fauna of the Rock Creek Sidwell Friends. creating a campus “heart.” The hydrology management plan watershed and to design a landscape that prioritizes ecological version of the well-liked senior center. will use the gentle slope of the property to capture and recircu- balance. The promise of more access to the outside already has Let’s build a world our students can proudly inherit.

late stormwater, which is especially important to the School’s environmental science and biology teachers eager to catalog And of course, Webb intends to stay true to Quaker values. neighbors. native bee and bird populations, and to help them and other “Simplicity of experiences, simple processes, simple design—if we native species thrive. As one alum put it, hands-on practices don’t need it, we don’t put it in there,” he says. “The Quaker tenet Nestled into the hillside, the building will allow many more enable students to not only learn science but to learn how to To learn more about the School’s Strategic Plan and of simplicity is something I apply to my personal life and the way I access points to the outdoors, use more natural light, and be scientists. uniting the campus, go to sidwell.edu/strategicplan. think about architecture.”

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Sidwell Friends’ Sports Leadership Academy is redefining the School’s culture and transcending athletics.

BY SACHA ZIMMERMAN

Photography by Tim Coburn

Elena Michael ’20

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alking into the David says Janssen. “But they weren’t trained to play he coach in the documentary is losing it. He P. Pearson ’52 Athletic that role. I saw that we needed to identify and train is screaming, confronting the refs, and acting Center, you experience a coaches and athletes.” officially disgusted by his team, all while the stadium-like effect. From T 38 Sports Leadership Academy students an imposing brick exterior, In other words, leaders are not born; they are at Sidwell Friends watch on a big screen and eat a you descend a few flights cultivated. Janssen’s detailed program first asks pasta dinner. “Hey guys, what color is the coach on?” of stairs, pass through a coaches and athletes to be accountable for their shouts Mormino, who coaches baseball and soccer. relatively narrow corridor, own behavior and actions. Then he asks them to It’s an inside joke. The coach in the film is obviously thenW suddenly emerge in a vibrant, open sphere help others by motivating teammates through on red. “I think he’s way past red,” a nearby student of play. And that sense of humility one has in the encouragement and by example. It aligns neatly quips. It’s a stoplight metaphor: Green is positive and face of noble sports spaces—be it Nats Park or with Quaker thought: Look inward, not outward; ready to play; yellow is a bit off or not fully present; a favorite neighborhood basketball court with and be of service to others. While this notion and red is, well, a total loss of self-control. no nets on the rims—grabs you. That humility is pleases Janssen, his true aim is to “provide a no accident. At Sidwell Friends, athletics is an framework, so each school can take the general It’s amazing is how normalized red behavior can essential component of a Quaker education and principles and then add their own values or unique be in sports, as evidenced by the documentary culture—a culture where winning takes a back seat spin.” the students are watching. It’s hard to imagine a to leading, where success is defined not by the literature teacher with veins bulging, screaming best score but by the best effort. To be sure, the To that end, Janssen worked with Sidwell Friends at a student for getting an A- when the student Pearson Athletic Center has beautiful facilities—a coaches Samantha Ziegler, Jon Mormino, and could have gotten an A with a bit more time in the track that doubles as the mezzanine over glossy Megan Miller over the summer to create a Sports library. But in sports, yelling has become routine, basketball courts, a cutting-edge gym that actually Leadership Academy tailored to Sidwell Friends. even romanticized (think John McEnroe). While inspires workouts, exits that lead to some of the “We wanted to become facilitators so we could some schools and colleges have dismissed coaches most expansive greens in the city—but the story of help our athletes become leaders,” says Miller, who for verbal abuse, like UNC’s Sylvia Hatchell and the building is not one of aesthetics. It is more akin coaches field hockey, girls’ lacrosse, and swimming Michigan’s Tom Izzo, dozens of other schools have to one of honor. and diving. Moving from coach mode to teacher stood by coaches who claim that students are too mode was a distinct change for Miller, though. sensitive and that yelling is motivational. “We are creating a culture of respect,” says Keith “It is definitely different from being on the court,” Levinthal, the director of athletics at Sidwell she says. “Standing in front of a classroom, I was But studies don’t bear that out. In a 2013 landmark Friends. “We want student athletes to look their nervous.” Nevertheless, Levinthal says he is blown study of Division I college athletes, for example, opponents in the eye when they shake hands, away by the coaches’ level of enthusiasm for the researchers at Clemson University found just the clean up the cups and trash at away games. When project. opposite. “Players who were exposed to a verbally you get the little things right, the big things fall aggressive coach reported significantly less into place.” That’s why Levinthal asked sports The Sports Leadership Academy requires motivation to perform,” The Chronicle of Higher leadership guru Jeff Janssen to come to the School students to submit an application essay, commit Education reported, “and viewed such coaches as to train some of the Sidwell Friends coaches. “I to attending six evening sessions throughout significantly less competent than did athletes who want our coaches to be thought leaders, to really the school year, and make a sincere attempt played for coaches with a more affirming style.” make an impact on the educational experience,” to practice what they learn. It’s also a two-year Athletes also were more likely to transfer out of Levinthal says. “That’s how we add value to the program. Each year focuses on Janssen’s two schools with toxic programs. School.” overarching themes: personal responsibility and emerging leadership. The academy launched What’s interesting is that this logic applies to the In the world of sports, Janssen is a bit of a legend. last fall with 38 students from 10th through 12th student athletes as well. One angry, mopey, or The founder and president of the Janssen Sports grades. Levinthal hopes to add another 40 next arrogant player can infect an entire team. “Players Leadership Center, he has written more than a year. At a School with 50 to 70 percent of the sometimes accept that at times, they’ll disappoint dozen books—including The Seven Secrets of students participating in athletics at any given their coach,” Levinthal says. “It’s a lot harder for them Successful Coaches, Peak Performance Playbook, moment depending on the season, sports are a to let down their teammates.” Which is why student How to Build and Sustain a Championship Culture, vital part of Sidwell Friends. leadership itself is so important. To illustrate this and The Team Captain’s Leadership Manual— point, Ziegler—the head coach for girls’ lacrosse— and created leadership academies across the But Levinthal is quick to point out that students do asked the students in one Sports Leadership United States, including at the University of not have to be on a sports team to participate in the Academy session to guess how many drops are in Arizona, Notre Dame, Yale, Georgetown, Stanford, academy, saying, “As Jim Valvano put it, ‘Working a bottle of water (it’s 20,000). Then she added a Baylor, Colby, and Boston University. “I saw how hard doesn’t guarantee success, but you can’t have drop of food coloring, and the entire bottle instantly important leaders were for athletic success and success unless you work hard’—and that goes far turned yellow. It was a simple exercise, but it started the culture of the team—on and off the court,” beyond athletics.” a conversation—and that’s the point. Arjun Thillairajah ’20

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“Their honesty, that’s my favorite part,” Ziegler says, kept telling his incredulous teammates they could “how honest they are with themselves and each other.” become the NCAA champions until one day they did. They are learning, among other things, that character Unsurprisingly, he is now a coach. is more important than strategy, that doing what is right is different from doing what is tactical. And that has been reflected in their attitude toward the program. “The kids have been highly invested in each of the modules we’ve done so far,” Mormino says. “We’ve seen “ Junior year, I led by example; awesome commitment and follow-through. Even after an away game, they show up for a meeting.” but this year, I’m more of a Arjun Thillairajah ’20, a track and cross-country runner and team captain, became interested in the Sports Leadership Academy after his coach had him and vocal leader.” others read The Team Captain’s Leadership Manual before the start of school. “I’ve always been dedicated,” he says, “but in terms of speaking up and being a It’s just like a story Miller had previously told her leader, that didn’t come naturally.” Elena Michael ’20, students—about when she tried out as a walk-on a soccer and lacrosse player, shares that feeling. “I’m for the University of Maryland’s lacrosse team. “I a more confident leader now,” she says. “Junior year, decided my role was being on the sidelines, not I led by example; but this year, I’m more of a vocal putting the points on the board,” Miller said. “I was leader.” Alden Zhang ’22, who runs cross-country and leading from the heart, pumping up the team, high- does swimming and crew, says the Sports Leadership fiving everyone. The record books don’t capture that. Academy has been a boon to her self-esteem. “I just But it was the most fulfilling role and great practice had meeting with Coach Miller,” Zhang says, “and she for becoming a coach.” Mormino agrees. “Leadership said I had more confidence in my behavior on the team comes in a variety of ways from a variety of people,” and that I lead people in activities now.” he says, “and the assumption that the team leader needs to be the highest performer doesn’t bear out.” hile waiting for class to start, the seniors in the Sports Leadership Academy are Leadership also needs to be flexible. Different sports brainstorming ways to get more students have different needs. As a senior, Thillairajah realizes W out to their games. As upcoming graduates how important leadership is to his sport, which can of Sidwell Friends, they won’t be around for the seem monotonous. “Running isn’t always as fun as a second year of the academy, which focuses on leading game,” he says. “A lot of the younger guys aren’t into others, but that hasn’t stopped them from trying. running at first, so it’s important for seniors to make “There’s no reason there shouldn’t be 300 kids at it fun.” Being a senior ramped up the stakes for Elena every game,” one student announces. Suggestions on Michael as well. “It’s senior year, and both soccer and how to accomplish that range from partnering up with lacrosse teams mean a lot to me,” she says. “I wanted underclassman to ensuring that an especially popular to have leadership skills going into them.” (Michael classmate is always present to lure others in. “I mean, is not only the captain of the girls’ soccer team; she I expect all freshmen to come,” one notes. It’s all part designed the team’s new uniforms, too.) of the philosophy that when one wins, everyone wins. Or, as Levinthal puts it: “How do we get these kids Student athletes also see the School’s Sports psyched to watch other people succeed?” Leadership Academy as transcending sports. “I definitely think there’s a lot about red-light/yellow- Before the seniors’ academy class starts in earnest, light/green-light that applies outside of sports,” says Ziegler gives them a pop quiz. They refresh Elliot Woodwell ’20, who wrestles, plays soccer, and themselves on the “commitment continuum,” discuss plays lacrosse. “How to control yourself and how to get monitoring their own traffic-light color, and talk about back to a better mentality is something I’ve definitely their reading, which covered the story of Josh Pastner, thought about outside of sports.” Zhang agrees and an invaluable member of the University of Arizona’s says that the module about composure was especially 1997 NCAA tournament-winning basketball team— relevant to her. “People can get frantic before meets an invaluable member who never played a moment or races,” she says. “It’s really important to think about Alden Zhang ’22 in the championship game. The walk-on freshman composure. It also relates so much to me in a different

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phrase “working as a team” may seem cliché, but “ These are skills that will Levinthal wants student athletes to actually come away from Sidwell Friends with an understanding of what that really means and how difficult it can transcend sports over a be. He gives the example of a top team member skipping a championship meet to retake his SATs. “I lifetime.” understand it,” Levinthal says. “It’s in his best interest individually. But that student has basically now taken the team out of winning a state championship when way: for tests. It’s important to keep your composure he’s one of the favorites to win. We look at the effect under pressure.” This is something Janssen hears all a decision like this has on others: very good for the the time. “These skills we teach student athletes have individual, bad for the group.” a lot of practicality for sports teams,” he says. “But I get a lot of calls from former athletes saying, ‘I’m using Being on a team means respecting the work that the this professionally.’ These are skills that will transcend whole team has put in and respecting the value of sports over a lifetime.” commitment. Levinthal wants students to find test dates that don’t fall on championship weekends, trips oach Mormino’s small office in the David to visit their aunt in Toledo that don’t happen on game P. Pearson ’52 Athletic Center is filled with days, senior skip days that don’t interfere with practice, books about coaching and life. A quick scan and athletes who are willing to stand before their C reveals titles like The Man Watching: Anson teammates and explain their decisions if they must Dorrance and the University of North Carolina miss a game. He draws a line where individual interests Women’s Soccer Dynasty by Tim Crothers, Second affect the whole team. “How do I explain skip day to the Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks, kid who’s never missed a practice? What am I teaching and War Room: The Legacy of Bill Belichick and the the kid who routinely sits on the bench?” Levinthal asks. Art of Building the Perfect Team by Michael Holley. “A healthy culture is one in which people are working “Since the very beginning of his time here, Keith together. They’re thinking about how their decisions Levinthal has been talking about his belief that a affect others. They’re thinking about whether their positive culture is central,” Mormino says. “Working decisions actually help or hurt a team.” with student athletes outside of a specific team on leadership is totally in line with that. And it is Levinthal wants the spirit of the Sports Leadership applicable across life. I hope the Sports Leadership Academy to infuse the whole culture of the School. Academy is not just an add-on but a key component “It’s very aligned with Quaker ethos,” he says. “The of the athletics program going forward—and maybe students have to do a lot of reflection in the Sports it even has the side effect of helping teams win.” Leadership Academy about themselves, their teams, and how to be the best at what they can control.” It’s It just might. According to a peer-reviewed study no different than how he sees the David P. Pearson published in the journal PLoS ONE, “Shared leadership ’52 Athletic Center itself. “From the people who across and within leadership roles was seen as the are cleaning the gym floors, to the coaches, to the most effective leadership structure for male and athletic director—all of our goals are different, but female teams.” In fact, athlete leaders can have a they’re all really important,” Levinthal says. “At the potent effect on their team’s accomplishments and end of the day, if this facility doesn’t look good, we victories: “High-quality leaders fostered the intrinsic don’t look good. A lot of people contribute to what we motivation of their teammates, strengthened their are building here. I want the kids to see that and see team confidence and their team identification, where they can fit in to make a difference.” while also instigating cohesion within the team, and ultimately improving team performance. In short, And so, the story of the building is not about leadership within the team is considered an important aesthetics or winning or even competing. The athletic driver of sports success.” center is a microcosm of the School’s culture. Which is why the story of the building is one of honor and However much student leadership may affect the respect.

bottom line, high scores are ancillary to Levinthal’s strategy. “The Sports Leadership Academy is an educational experience,” he says. “We get people to stop thinking about wins and losses and more To learn more about the School’s Strategic Plan and about: What are we teaching these kids?” The ethical leadership, go to sidwell.edu/strategicplan.

Elliot Woodwell ’20

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MEAT WITH APPROVAL Beyond Meat’s Ethan Brown ’89 talks to Sidwell Friends about Charlotte’s Web, food as an energy issue, organizing ingredients outside of animals, and his abiding passion for McDonald’s.

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an adult. So much of what we are talking on the world. The challenge was that a lot about today was captured so well in that of the products were not good; they didn’t book, and it was written in 1971. The gen- start with the idea that you could truly eral observation there is that you can take construct meat from plants. So, knowing much more protein directly from the field something about technology, and a bit versus going through an animal. And that At Sidwell about science, I started to ask questions is what my business does. It’s interest- and learn. The animal is simply a con- ing to me that this general premise—that Friends, the version mechanism, right? What they are running plants through an animal for doing is taking large amounts of plants, protein is less efficient than getting pro- context was consuming them, drinking a lot of water, tein directly from plants—is seen by the and then using their digestive tracts. They public as new, when it’s an old and estab- around racial are using their skeletal-muscular system lished idea that has patiently waited on to organize those ingredients into muscle. the fringe. Today, as with most disrup- justice. I just tive trends, the fringe idea takes hold and There’s a lot in that muscle that humans progress occurs. broadened don’t necessarily even need or want in terms of meat. There are things like heme I was not always vegetarian. Though I that thinking iron and a lot of cholesterol. There are grew up going to Sidwell, we had a farm other agents in animal muscle that are in western Maryland. It was a regular across species. deleterious to human bodies. But because occurrence to pack up our car and drive we evolved consuming meat, we were out there. We spent many weekends there conditioned to think that killing an animal hen Ethan Brown ’89 and longer periods during the summer as is the only way to produce a piece of meat. founded Beyond Meat in I grew up. My dad, a professor who him- But if you actually look at what meat is, it is 2009, it was the culmination self has an entrepreneurial streak, also really these five things: amino acids, lip- of years of questions that stood up a dairy farm of 100 Holstein among species mattered. Plus, I went to ids, trace minerals, vitamins, and water. started when Brown was a cows there. As early as I can remember, Sidwell, where you are told that superfi- The ability to harvest those ingredients

Wstudent at Sidwell Friends School. Why Meat Beyond Courtesy I loved animals. My favorite books as a cial differences shouldn’t influence how directly from plants and then use technol- do some animals become pets and oth- Beyond Meat is one of the fastest-growing food companies in the United States. young child were written by James Harri- we apply our moral structure. At Sidwell, ogy to organize them in the structure of ers food? Why do people treat nonhuman ett, the English veterinarian. I wanted to the context was around racial justice. I just meat was something that endlessly fasci- mammals so differently from themselves? be a vet for a long time, and I would bring broadened that thinking across species. nated me. It was a thought that started to How can I add value to the world through The theme of this feature, “Lives That fascinate me. I first applied that thinking as many wild creatures into the house as knock quietly, then every year it got a lit- my career? His answers added up to a Los Speak,” is really something that’s import- in the energy sector. I worked for nearly I could get my hands on—something now SF: At what point did that become enough tle louder, and it finally became so loud, I Angeles–based company that makes meat ant to me. I’m 100 percent sure that Sid- a decade for Ballard Power Systems, a I regret because I understand the terror of a passion to start a business? couldn’t afford not to listen. I got to that products exclusively from plants. In the well Friends had a big role in what I’m leading developer of proton-exchange they must have felt. But it was this expe- very late stage where I just had to do it. process, Beyond Meat is creating a health- doing today—in terms of just helping me fuel cells. It was terrific, and I was moti- rience—one foot in the city, one out—that EB: I wish I could say it was right away. I ier population, a cleaner planet, and a understand that education and material vated by the greenhouse implications of I think shaped a lot of my thinking. You really admire the people who come out of SF: Do you have a taste philosophy? Is it happier cow, chicken, pig… progress can be used to solve global issues using hydrogen as an energy carrier. But it know in Charlotte’s Web where the father school and just follow their hearts. I did important that your products taste like and create social good. That’s a very clear dawned on me that a lot of people in my says to the daughter: Hey, this is the way the not have the courage to do that. It was just traditional meat products, or should SIDWELL FRIENDS: Tell me about your expe- message you get at Sidwell and through- generation were entering the alternative- world is—Wilbur’s going to get slaughtered? something I thought about a lot in my 20s, people start to reform their tastes and rience at Sidwell Friends School. out the Quaker church. That’s something energy space and using technology to I was around animals and agriculture, but and I didn’t really know how to do it. At one choose new flavors? that has always resonated with me. solve for climate. But food was an area that nobody ever to said that to me. My dad, point, I called up the Morningstar Farms, ETHAN BROWN: I just can’t say enough about was very much underdeveloped in terms whose field is philosophy, refused to recite which made early plant-based products. I EB: That’s an excellent question, and it’s Sidwell. When I think of family, I defi- A Quaker education prepares you and of the application of technology. Specifi- dogma. In the West, and others parts of had invested in them but was engaged in one I get asked often: “Why are you try- nitely include Sidwell Friends because of gives you a perspective on the world that cally, it seemed fixed—immovable—that the world, it is our practice to treat partic- clean energy as a career. I said something ing so hard to have it taste just like meat? the relationships and experiences I have is really important. It is about using your meat had to come from animals. ular species, like a dog or cat, so nicely that to effect of: “I just want to help. This is a Why not just create a delicious new form from there. I have a group of people I grew gifts: What are you accomplishing with they can sleep in our bed at night. But we good thing for the world, what can I do?” of protein for the center of the plate?” My up with who I’m still very close to. DC is a the education you’ve been given? That SF: Have you always been interested in treat others, say a pig, so poorly that they And the woman on the phone was appro- answer is: I know that people love meat big city, but there is a small-town feeling was forefront for me coming out of Sid- vegetarianism? Did you read Diet for a are confined their entire lives and then priately puzzled—I think she asked if I and that we evolved eating meat. We have to Sidwell, because you stay so close to the well Friends. There was always a practi- Small Planet at a young age? slaughtered. Yet the differences boil down was seeking employment (I wasn’t), and such a close relationship to meat. We people and so involved in their lives. cal perspective to whatever I was pursu- to hoof versus paw, pigment, maybe level the conversation ended fairly quickly. would not be having this conversation as ing, including in my professional career. EB: It’s funny you mention Diet for a Small of interest in humans, and other features an intelligent species had we not become I’m a Quaker. Currently, I go to Santa Mon- The idea that you could use technology Planet. That book has banged around my that aren’t relevant to moral standing. I But I had that passion, knowing that this more carnivorous. It is ingrained in us. ica Friends Meeting out here in California. to solve large global problems began to house for decades—as a child and now as didn’t understand why these differences was something that could make an impact Also, meat plays a big role in our evolution,

38 SIDWELL FRIENDS MAGAZINE | SPRING 2020 SPRING 2020 | SIDWELL FRIENDS MAGAZINE 39 GREEN EATS LIVES THAT SPEAK In 2018, the University of Michigan conducted a peer-reviewed Life Cycle Assessment comparing a quarter-pound beef burger to a quarter-pound Beyond our history, our holidays, and our tradi- products on the market—and do so with Burger. The study found that Beyond Burger uses: tions. And it’s not a great idea to compete ingredients (non-GMO, nothing artifi- with those experiences. I’d rather cele- cial) that our partners can be proud of. brate them and create something through technology that allows people to continue I’ve never been interested in high-end to have those experiences in a way that’s chefs and their clientele. Very wealthy 99% healthy for them, better for the planet, people can eat really well with the model and better for animals. That’s why I’m so of local farms, fresh leafy greens, and focused on that perfect replication of ani- the occasional organic hen. I’m not con- LESS WATER LESS mal protein. vinced this approach is scalable for the 93% LAND mainstream for a number of cultural and And we are chasing a static target. When logistical reasons. And so, working with I was in fuel cells, one of the early appli- McDonald’s has always been my focus. cations was industrial power. And those And it’s a privilege. They can bring change. 90% FEWER systems, many of them diesel, kept get- Working with KFC is the same, and the ting more efficient. As we hit milestones, many other quick-serve restaurants that GREENHOUSE 46% they would make a slight adjustment partner with us. Plus, these are the brands and go a little bit higher in efficiency. I experienced as a kid. Think about what’s GAS EMISSIONS LESS ENERGY Here, though, the animals are not getting down the street from Sidwell: a McDon- more efficient. And we are able to invest ald’s (back then it was a Roy Rogers). I had resources into research to close the gap my first date (Hi, Elizabeth!) in 6th grade

GOOD EATS between our plant-based meats and the at McDonald’s at Mazza Gallerie—it was Meat Beyond Courtesy animal equivalent. We do this work at the great. My kids eat more protein than most Beyond Meat matches or exceeds the nutritional Manhattan Beach Project—and that’s a kids, because they are able to get high lev- less land for burgers than conventional gladiators who are thriving on our plant- profile of its animal protein equivalents, with: very purposeful name. I wanted to invoke els of amino acids and protein. They are animal proteins. We use 99 percent less based meats. If we are going to take on that sense of urgency in response to a able to get that with much less saturated water. We have 90 percent fewer emis- that entire bias, I want to show that the EQUAL OR MORE global set of threats. Let’s put together fat, with no cholesterol, with no heme sions, and we use roughly half the energy. most vital people in the world are using LESS the best scientists in the world, the best iron, and no carcinogens. Beyond Meat That’s efficiency. If you take any eco- Beyond Meat to flourish. That to me is the PROTEIN engineers in the world, the best manag- products enable us to have more of those nomics course, they’ll talk about getting most compelling advertising possible. TOTAL FAT ers, give them that clear mandate, and fun McDonald’s experiences and feel the middleman out, getting the bottle- To that end, years ago I hired the origi- get out of their way. And that’s what we good. If you take that attitude, if you don’t neck out. That’s what we’ve done. nal creator of the “Got Milk?” campaign do at Beyond Meat; we combine the best denigrate the customer, if you celebrate and asked him to help me start what we 25%-44% of science and engineering with all-nat- what they do, and if you try to improve it, SF: Athletes talk about reducing their now call the “Go Beyond” campaign. The LESS SATURATED FAT NO CHOLESTEROL ural ingredients to build meat directly those are quintessential American values. meat consumption to feel more vital. directive was to build the “Got Milk?” of from plants. Is that why Beyond Meat uses celeb- this generation. We’re trying to take something that’s rity athletes to gain traction in popular EASY EATS SF: How do you convince fast-food joints good, which is meat, and make it better. culture? SF: What is next for you and for Beyond to take a shot on you? And everybody can play a role in that. The Meat? EB: Beyond Meat has nearly 70,000 points of farmers will make more money if they are It’s fun to talk to you about this EB: First, you’ve got to love your cus- growing crops that go directly into our because so many of these ideas came to EB: We are constantly iterating to col- distribution worldwide, including at: tomer and meet them where they are in products, rather than into the mouths of me while I was a kid growing up at Sid- lapse the gaps between our plant-based RESTAURANTS: MAJOR GROCERY CHAINS: their lives. I love the process of seeing animals. If you look at feed costs on the well Friends. I love athletes and I love meats and animal meats across three MCDONALD’S, SUBWAY, KROGER, SAFEWAY, WHOLE them change their lives and feel better commodities market—whether it’s corn, sports, and this is a debate I had count- core platforms: beef, pork, and poul- about themselves as they awaken to the soy, or wheat—the farmer will make less times very early on with marketers try. I’m focused on expanding interna- DUNKIN’, CARL’S JR., DENNY’S, FOODS, PUBLIX, TARGET, WEGMANS, WALMART impact of food on their bodies, the Earth, more money growing plant protein than in and around the company. Many sea- tionally—we are active in the European DEL TACO, TGI FRIDAYS and animals. I love when you are able feeding animals. soned marketers could not understand Union now and are setting up production to do that at scale. Also, it really helps why I was using male athletes to promote capacity there with a partner. And we are FAMOUS EATS when your brand and a broader move- SF: It’s like the cow is the middleman. our products; the conventional wisdom committed to doing the supply-chain ment become intertwined. We are very is that consumer goods in the grocery and operations work necessary to under- fortunate that such a fusion is occurring. EB: Yes! Why spend all this time and energy store should be marketed to moms. But price animal protein. If the product can Beyond Meat has more than 30 high-profile athlete and Among our investors, for example, we’ve growing feed for the cow, when you can I wanted to attack the mental model that be indistinguishable from animal meat, celebrity investors and ambassadors, including Snoop had both Tyson Foods and the Humane actually grow much higher-quality crops associates animal meat with masculin- is good for you and the planet, and is Dogg, Kyrie Irving, Victor Oladipo, Chris Paul, Lindsey Vonn, Society. That’s in part because we insist directly for human consumption and ity (and its associated traits of strength cheaper, it becomes an unusual consumer Jessica Chastain, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Kevin Hart. on, develop, and deliver the very best make more money. We use 93 percent and vitality). I wanted to use modern-day who doesn’t buy in.

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Dear Friends,

As my term as Alumni Association Executive Board clerk draws to a close, I’ve been reflecting on my four-decade experience as a member of the Sidwell Friends community. In parallel, my fellow AAEB members have been asked to reflect upon their own experiences and what they have gained from it. We all agree the Sidwell Friends story is unique in how it endures.

That story begins the first day we set foot on campus, but unlike many other experiences, it is a community for life. As AAEB members sought to characterize our shared experience, we realized that calling our community an Alumni Association fails to capture what it means to be a member. Instead, the interconnected nature of our lifelong relationships with one another and the School makes us a true network.

To this end, we have reimagined the Alumni Association as the “Sidwell Friends Alumni Network”: an inclusive community guided by Quaker values whose mission is to enhance and foster connections with fellow alumni, faculty, and current students. Members of our network let our lives speak through friendship, service, and learning opportunities, generating goodwill and support for each other and the School. Above all, we share a common bond that is powerful and lasting.

In the spirit of powerful and lasting relationships, and on behalf of outgoing Vice Clerk Marika Meyer ’94 and Recording Clerk Naabia Ofosu-Amaah ’98, I share my gratitude for our fellow AAEB members, who have made the past three years an absolute joy. The AAEB is fortunate that Marika will be taking the role of clerk for the next three years, joined by incoming Vice Clerk Nina Santiago ’98 and Recording Clerk Philip Rihm ’09. We are all in fantastic hands with these amazing volunteers at the helm, and I can’t wait to see ALUMNI ACTION what the entire AAEB has in store for the future.

I hope to see you all on campus sometime very soon and for years to come.

Ali Mohamadi ’94 Alumni Association Clerk Allison Crockett ’88 attends the Black Alumni Association Reception in February. The event was held after a performance of the Black Student Union Production.

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In this issue’s batch of recently published alumni-penned books, Grandmothering: Building radical women, matriarchal women, and mysteriously ill women Strong Ties with Every Generation share a page with the mafiosos of Trumpland, the evils of the Ozarks, By Keen Stassen Berger ’59 and the souls of Civil War soldiers. Below are excerpts from each. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019 “Grandmothers The Lady’s Handbook For Her The Children of the Creek make the gears of a Mysterious Illness: A Memoir Trilogy: Wellspring of Evil, FRESH INK family machine mesh Stream of Life, and Life is a River By Sarah Ramey ’99 and move, clicking By Todd Parnell ’65 together in harmony. Doubleday, 2020 They help babies Pen-L Publishing, 2020 “I have become a well- sleep, toddlers eat, preschoolers read, known woman with “Few alive could school children study, adolescents find a mysterious illness remember the Big themselves, and young adults become (WOMI). I am sure you Pig Flood which had happy and successful. Smooth clicks know a WOMI already. devastated both the are not automatic: some grandmothers A spouse, a little sister, a cousin. The village and the creek, or are uninvolved, others destructive. signs are unmistakable. She is exhausted, the brutal antics of the yellow-eyed Demon But most older women are wiser and gluten-free, and likely in possession of Lady and her followers directed toward happier than their younger selves, more at least one autoimmune disease. She the extermination of all Hardlyvillains. sanguine, more patient, and more willing is allergic to (everything), aching The children of the creek had only heard to sacrifice for the younger generation.” from tip to toe, digestively impaired, and the stories and had written them off as on uneasy terms with her reproductive dementia-induced meanderings among a system. She is addled, embarrassed, select set of antique Hardlyvillains. The Sinking In The Swamp: How ashamed, and inflamed. She is one of us.” tales were simply too tall to be true.” Trump’s Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington By Asawin Suebsaeng ’07 Daring To Be Bad: Radical Remembering the Civil War: and Lachlan Markay Feminism in America 1967–1975, The Conflict as Told by Those Thirtieth Anniversary Edition Who Lived It Viking, 2020 By Alice Echols ’69 By Charles D. Kupfer ’80 “It was both an absurd and Michael L. Barton spectacle and a perfect University of Minnesota encapsulation of our Press, 2019 Globe Pequot / escapades as journalists Lyons Press, 2019 “In the fall of 1967 in the Trump era in small groups of radical “Most Civil War soldiers Washington, D.C. We women began meeting wrote letters home, were surrounded by the gilded splendor in the United States to many kept diaries, and that is the Trump hotel lobby, flanked discuss the problem some wrote memoirs by a crew of mobbed-up-in-Trumpworld of male supremacy. At that time the after the war was over. luminaries with whom we’d been having majority were committed to organizing Civil War memoirs thence became an farcically overpriced cocktails and very a women’s movement within the larger American literary genre. They are an amiable conversation just a few minutes radical Movement. Indeed, most early account of the most momentous events earlier. And suddenly the whole thing was women’s liberation groups were dominated in a man’s life, and a record of his part degenerating into a screaming match, by ‘politicos’ who attributed women’s in his country’s history. They cover duty, with each party looking increasingly likely oppression to capitalism, whose primary boredom, fatigue, distance from home, to throw a punch to the teeth. … We were loyalty was to the left, and who longed and yearning for family. They detail the there mingling with people with whom for the imprimatur of the ‘invisible soldier’s ground-level view of tactics we’d become friendly, even though they audience’ of male leftists. ‘Feminists,’ and strategy, his admiration for his think we’re part of a borderline-treasonous or radical feminists, who opposed the superiors or else disdain, his fellowship disinformation apparatus and we think subordination of women’s liberation to with comrades or else rebuke. Memoirs they’re part of an incompetent graft

Meghan Leavitt Meghan the left and for whom male supremacy tell about his encounters with the enemy machine. And in true Trumpian fashion, was not a mere epiphenomenon and the enemy’s country. The reveal the though tempers flared, threats were made, of capitalism, were an embattled shock of gore, the gasp of death, and and heated words were exchanged, in minority in the movement’s infancy.” the turns between bravery and fear.” the end not much was accomplished.”

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LEFT: Duke and UNC College Dinner with Nicky DeParle ’18, James Dohlman ’18, Amelia Paulsen ’19, Bruce Peyser ’75, Alexander Pierson ’16, Gillian Card ’16, and Samuel Rabinowitz ’17. CENTER: DC College Dinner with Chase Rollins ’18, Crag Nilson, Meredith Karam ’03, Kelly Anderson ’19, Magdalena Paz ’18, Danny O’Sullivan ’16, and Danny Theodros ’16. RIGHT: Barnard and Columbia Dinner with LinDon Harris ’16, Jordan Kalai ’18, Mira Tignor ’16, Emily Ringel ’18, and Alan Zhang ’17. Community/College

Sidwell Friends’ College Dinners connect alumni who are attending the same university or are attending universities in the same city. During these gatherings, local alumni hosts and young alumni get to know each other and connect over stories from their time at Sidwell Friends. Above are some snapshots of alumni at this winter’s dinners.

Want to help host a college dinner? Contact Sarah Duda, assistant director of alumni engagement at [email protected].

OCT 16-18, 2020

At a moment when social media often A teacher watches over her students in a primary school overwhelms, proseltyzes, or vanishes before classroom on the Eye Street campus in 1935. your eyes, Class Notes humbly offers respite. Here, you have a lasting, curated, and quirky window into the lives of your fellow alumni.

REUNION WEEKEND FOR CLASSES ENDING IN 0 AND 5 MORE INFORMATION: Whether you knew them then, follow them HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO OCTOBER 16-18, 2020. SIDWELL.EDU/REUNION now, or never met, you are all Friends.

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TOBY RILEY: “Hey, can you believe it was at year’s end in the House impeach- In Memoriam KEEP IN TOUCH! only 70 years ago that we were walking ment hearings, focused on Eastern Go to sidwell.edu/classnotes in pairs down the back stairway of Zart- 1954 Europe, and in May–June we went back Karla Hennings Phillips ’57 December 18, 2019 and let us know what you’ve been man House to our Sidwell Friends grad- RICHARD NICKLAS to Poland to celebrate a century of dip- up to. Don’t see your class year? uation? Do you remember who gave our [email protected] lomatic relations and the 30th anniver- Contact [email protected] to graduation address? There are still about sary of the 1989 elections that finished become a class representative. 40 of us classmates left, and wouldn’t it Communist rule. In a cheery reunion be great to reconvene for our 70th Class with Lech Wałęsa, I suddenly real- 1958 Reunion? We wouldn’t necessarily have ized Wałęsa was still speaking to me as CRAIG MORGAN to physically show up at 3825 Wisconsin 1955 the Polish president to the American [email protected] Avenue to share the occasion, with all the NANCY ABOLIN HARDIN ambassador: cool. (See photo at right.) Courtesy Tom Simons Tom Courtesy new ways to view, listen, and converse at [email protected] In September–October, we housesat LARRY AARONSON: “I have nothing new Former U.S. Ambassador to Poland Tom Simons ’55 1950 a distance. Please let me know whether in Vienna, Austria, for friends, and in with former President of Poland Lech Wałȩsa in 2019 or interesting to report to this venue. TOBY RILEY you’re IN (at least to learn about it), or LOCHI GUNARATNA: “Having prepared mid-October we took a fine boat trip Save for the fact that I’m dealing with [email protected] OUT. And then contact classmates you’re a technical proposal, I worked closely down the Danube, me lecturing to Har- FROM THE CLASS REP. all kinds of chronic medical conditions still in touch with to talk it up—today! It’s with the National Academy of Sciences vard alumni, and stopped off to see old concurrent with approaching 80. God The tragic news for us this time around was the ANN TYLER FATHY: “70 years: Wow! I am coming up.” in Sri Lanka to arrange for a Regional friends in Austria, where I studied; in willing, all goes reasonably well. Plow- death of Cindy Collins Foster, who succumbed sure they have been eventful for all of Workshop on Managing Urbanization Bulgaria and Romania, where we served; after a long battle with cancer that was first ing along with the memoirs, still man- us. No way to condense them into a few in Asia, which eventually came to fru- and in Hungary, Croatia, and sad post- removed a mere month after we saw her at our In Memoriam aging the Cinema Club of Boston—an paragraphs. I’ll just say that I am in good ition on June 25 and 26, 2019. Funding war Serbia, where we made new friends. 60th Reunion. In addition to being such a soul- original creation of my cousin David ful, loving classmate, she was a premier athlete, health, have been living in San Diego since Humphrey Fisher ’50 was provided by the world apex scien- Lots of East Coast family visitation, too, Levy ’55—and still hopeful about work- ahead of her time, excelling in field hockey, swim- 1969, had a 25-year career as a land-use May 20, 2019 tific body known as the InterAcademy but those were the highlights.” ing another summer at Camp Shohola ming, tennis, and basketball. Her only oppor- planner, then a 14-year career as a land- Partnership and channeled through the tunity to play at Sidwell Friends in this era was under the fabulous leadership of direc- use attorney advocating for the things Joan Crosby Tibbetts ’50 Association of Academies and Societies intramural. She contributed to the boys’ sports tor Duncan Barger, grandson of Pop that were important to me, then spent October 26, 2019 of Science in Asia based in Seoul, Korea. as a cheerleader. At Tufts University, where she Barger and son of our classmate Frank met her husband, Van, she had the opportunity quite a few years taking cruises all over Although it was soon after the terror- 1956 “Kit” Barger. I’m still living in Somer- to play intercollegiate sports and excelled. After the world, and now I am doing my trav- ist attack on Easter Sunday, the event ville, Massachusetts. Looking forward graduation, she followed Van on State Depart- eling through books. If any of you plan to was well-attended. The proceedings CHARLIE HOLLAND ment postings to the Philippines and Liberia, to finding my Horton the elephant to sit visit San Diego, please contact me.” have since been published. After that [email protected] with adventurous side trips to neighboring coun- 1951 on my nest. Ifunowhaimsayn!?” event, Shanta and I flew to Los Angeles tries. This she did while raising two daughters Want to be a class representative? and teaching elementary school, taking her first FROM THE CLASS REP. to spend a few weeks with our daughter, THOMAS CURTIS: “Last year, a new volume Contact [email protected]. JOHN COX: “Mary and I moved from teaching job at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. son-in-law, and our little grandson. We of my portrait art was published under Sadly, Humphrey Fisher died last May. He was the Miami, Florida, area to Charlotte, As she aged, she increasingly sought challenge in a great friend to all of us, active in many class are now back home in Colombo. Since the title Cloud of Witnesses: A collection North Carolina, about six years ago, the natural world—hiking, kayaking, snorkeling, involvements, and a very caring person. We hiked In Memoriam then, we have elected a new president of portraits by Thomas Pelham Curtis II. It and skiing. Indeed, at the age of 64, she finished and we haven’t looked back. This is a the Appalachian Trail, performed in class plays, here and are awaiting the general elec- includes both text and photographs of climbing all 47 of the 4,000-foot-plus peaks and participated in sports. He and I spent many Miriam Rubin Anders ’51 great town to live in, as everyone will in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. For her tions, which will hopefully happen in 77 portraits in full color, originals done afternoons listening in his room to all the Tom January 18, 2020 see later in the year when we host the classmates, her death was a complete surprise. a few months. We are of course closely in oils on canvas. This is a gathering of Lehrer LPs; we lived together in London, where he Republican National Convention. We She was so self-effacing as to never let us know was a lecturer in Islamic studies at London Univer- following as best we can the political some of my finest work, done over the have mixed feelings about this: It will of the struggle she faced. sity; and I visited him at his Rose Cottage in Wales, developments in the United States and past 30 years and reflects my develop- be great for Charlotte, but during the where he was an ordained Anglican priest. He fully in the United Kingdom.” ment in style during that time frame. STEVE STOVALL remembers Cindy Collins engaged with his wife and four active sons. Ask me days the Republicans are in town, life 1952 Should a copy be desired, it is available Foster well. Here is part of his remem- for his obituary and life history. will be difficult for those of us who TOM SIMONS: “I keep my office and do by emailing me.” [email protected] brance: “Cindy was an accomplished CAROL BLACK live here, especially if you have to odd jobs around Harvard University, but athlete with a very competitive spirit in LALLA PEARSON HAYS: “We celebrated our [email protected] take the transit line to work, as I do; it the 2019 news was mainly travel. Our both field hockey and basketball. I can 63rd wedding anniversary with our two goes right past the Convention Center Foreign Service life, which glowed again still see her playing hockey as I trudged sons, a daughter, and five grandkids. where the Republicans will be meet- to football practices in the fall, and I also I don’t write much anymore, but I am 1957 ing, so we might get detoured. Oh well, can picture her in games as a very com- always willing to send out pictures of our Want to be a class representative? I’ll get to the hospital (where I work as 1953 petitive basketball player in our old gym, newest: a pug named Yoshi Hayes!” Contact [email protected]. a volunteer chaplain four days a week) face red with energy and grit. Her sense GLORIA GIRTON somehow. Life goes on pretty well with CATHERINE WINSLOW PRIEST: “I’m writ- [email protected] of humor was unique and very honest. JOSIE BACHMAN ROSKIN: “My dear hus- no major health issues to report for ing my memoirs, still painting, and get Senior year, she attended a soccer game band, Sam, died in October, and a great- either one of us. We are looking for- around a lot. I am active in a quilting GLORIA GIRTON: “I have recently returned at Landon that ended in a tie. As I walked grandson was born at the same time. I ward to our next Reunion, and espe- group, making items to give away. Sadly, from my annual trip to Naples and Rome. past her when it was over, I muttered the recently saw a copy of our 1957 Sidwell cially future ones when we’ll have a friends are dying off by the tons. Plan to Here’s a photo of me taken at the crater very overused and absurd sports anal- Friends yearbook: I wonder what each of unified campus!” get to our 70th Reunion!” of Vesuvius, after a nice little hike up the ogy, ‘Well, a tie game is like kissing your our slogans would be in 2020?” sister.’ With her kind of sly smile, she

volcano.” (See photo at right.) Gloria Girton Courtesy Gloria Girton ’53 on Mt. Vesuvius

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replied: ‘What are you talking about? that they retrofitted with more power- CAROLYN MULLIKEN DUBUQUE says, “I’m major conventions from time to time, FROM THE CLASS REP. How would you know when you don’t ful cannons. This led Tsar Nicholas II to sorry, I have no news.” She also told me such as the 1998 World Science Fiction President Richard Nixon resigned the presidency even have a sister?’ Even though I hav- be certain of victory against the Japa- not to eat too much in Cabo. It was great Convention and the 2014 World Fantasy 1962 of the United States in August 1974, in the face of en’t seen her in close to 60 years, I miss nese. He went to war. In a crucial battle advice that I hungrily ignored. Sorry, Convention. I am happy to announce that PETER ENEMARK almost certain impeachment and removal from office. The two Class Notes below are recollec- the Cindy I knew very much. My only for one of Japan’s harbors, the Russians Carolyn. we will host the 79th World Science Fic- [email protected] tions of Nixon’s impeachment. daughter, just days away from 49, is a lined up something like 40 gunboats, tion Convention in DC in 2021. You can great athlete, too, and her name is Cindy, their broadsides to the land/harbor, and SUE HUGUELY: “News from Geoff ’58 and find information at discon3.org. Come STEVE WOOLPERT: “I taught an under- ART HILL: “From 1970 to 1975, I was a and she is a cancer survivor. Same name fired the now-more-powerful cannons me is that life is moving along rapidly! join us!” graduate course on impeachment at legislative assistant to Republican Sen- and same athletic prowess. I just wish on one side all at once. This caused the However, we are grateful for good health, Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, Cali- ator Jim Pearson from Kansas. I had that the two could also be co-survivors gunboats to roll over and sink. This and which has allowed us to take wonderful fornia. When I proposed the course in recently returned from Vietnam, and I and have something else in common.” other stupidities caused the Russians trips and enjoy our growing family. We March 2019, I couldn’t have foreseen how became involved in many issues—wage to lose a war most thought they’d win. had our third granddaughter get married closely it would coincide with President 1961 and price controls, amendments to Title JOAN FRIEDMAN SEYMOUR: “After 20-plus Three things are of note: (1) Teddy Roo- this past year, and we were blessed with Trump’s impeachment. My students held IX of the Higher Education Act, efforts years, I have moved back from Australia, sevelt won a Nobel Peace Prize for bro- our third great-granddaughter. With all LINDA DEMING RATCLIFF a community forum to examine three to reform amateur athletics and the U.S. and I am now living in Cary, North Car- kering a status-quo-anti peace; (2) this the girls in the family, we are so happy [email protected] questions: (1) Under what conditions, Olympic Committee, and measures to olina, in the same building as my older humorous happening gave a great push to welcome the new grandsons-in-love! if any, could a president’s racist speech end the war in Vietnam. But the most daughter, Lisa. This decision predates toward fitting warships with recoilless It was great to be together for our 60th BUNNY ROSENFELD: “With a grace note or action be impeachable? (2) Did the important issue was the Nixon impeach- the horrible fires that are now torment- cannons that don’t roll the ships over; Reunion and hoping we can gather again of real sadness for the Class of 1961, Jay Mueller report find sufficient evidence ment. In the days leading up to his res- ing much of Australia. After a very dif- and (3) I fell in love with history.” for our 65th!” Rosenbaum died peacefully on October to impeach Trump, either for conspiring ignation, all work in the Senate ceased, ficult year dealing with some ongoing 28, 2019, at his home in Sante Fe, New with Russia or obstructing investigations as senators and staff became preoccu- medical problems, I felt I needed to be ANN MCINTIRE COCKRELL: “I learned world CLARK GRIFFITH: “During the 60th Mexico. In hospice, Jay was so cared for into Russian election interference? (3) pied with the drama playing out at the closer to my kids and grandkids. I have history from Richard Etchison’s History Reunion, several women who knew I knew and loved dearly by so many. He lived a Should the Senate convict Trump of the White House. I recall hearing rumors of already enjoyed longer visits with all of of Art class. My most treasured memory of Amy Klobuchar, asked me to find out where good life among many friends, artists, House’s impeachment charges—abuse of a military coup, a nightmare that didn’t them, which has convinced me this was a him was going on a trip to New York with Susan Cornell Wilkes is. She’s married to book lovers, and gourmets. Jay was a power and obstruction of Congress? The help alleviate the tension. Fortunately, good decision. Tony and I are working to Miss Etheridge. Listening to the dialogue Amy’s father, Jim. It took me a while, but I bon vivant, a wonderful storyteller, very students found: the rumors were false. Of course, Nix- maintain our close relationship by email between those two at the Frick Collection found her and will send her email address well-read, and continued expanding and on’s resignation meant there would be until March, when I’ll return to spend was an art education I’ll never forget. I and cell number to those who request it. growing on his own in his later years. (1) A majority agreed that if presidential no trial in the Senate. Pearson was no a month in Adelaide. I look forward to loved Mr. E’s cultured Virginia accent. It The Class of 1959 (sounds like a long time As a lifer at Sidwell Friends School, Jay acts have a racially discriminatory purpose fan of Nixon, but he kept his views on getting up to DC soon and would love to was so pleasant to listen to him. I loved ago!) dedicated its yearbook to Mr. Charlie remained a very dear close friend who and effect, and if those acts are sufficiently impeachment to himself. Still, the idea catch up with anyone who is available.” the way he would draw little horned ani- Biggs, who died in January after spend- was fiercely loyal. He was also a confi- grave or frequent, that would be impeach- that he could have been a deciding vote mals in the margins of your blue books if ing 30 years teaching science at Sidwell dante: Jay knew where all the bones were able. Racist speech, however, would only on any of the three articles of impeach- THANOS SKOURAS, in response to an anx- you lapsed into bullsh*t. I visited him in Friends. He pushed us and supported our buried. During his last 10 months, intol- be impeachable if it incited lawlessness. ment—Article I, obstruction of jus- ious query from Thatcher Morse, writes: Richmond years later when he became learning with his affable and gracious erable pain from a severe spinal stenosis tice; Article II, abuse of power; Article “Thanks, Thatcher. Seems like Octo- curator of an art museum there.” style. Lastly, your devoted correspon- infection and a broken hip curtailedJay’s (2) Students recognized the Justice III, contempt of Congress—was at once ber has become fire season in the Napa dent is at this moment looking at Med- mobility, and he could no longer take Department’s policy of not indicting a thrilling and terrifying.” Valley. We seem to have lucked out this In Memoriam ano Bay in the Sea of Cortez near Cabo San care of his beloved schnauzer, Brenda sitting president meant the report inten- year so far with fires currently devastat- Lucas. This happens to be a long way from Lee. Jay turned to hospice. He will be tionally didn’t make criminal judgments. TRACY MULLIN MORONEY: “Steve Woolp- ing Sonoma, about 50 miles northwest Cindy Collins Foster ’58 Minneapolis, which is a good move in missed. However, the students agreed impeach- ert’s impeachment course has me of us and heading west toward the ocean. January 6, 2020 January.” ment doesn’t require criminality. A reflecting on my time working for Sen- Last night, we experienced 100-mile- LINDA DEMING RATCLIFF reports fond majority found there wasn’t convincing ate Republican Leader Hugh Scott during per-hour winds—truly scary. Hopefully, memories of Jay Rosenbaum, and man- evidence of a conspiracy between Trump In Memoriam the Watergate era. As a Republican leader, power will be restored by midweek, wind aged to find a submission he had shared and Russia. However, a majority did find Scott’s job was to promote the president’s conditions will be back to normal, and Ellen Flood Talbott ’59 in Class Notes many years ago, which convincing evidence Trump obstructed 1959 policies and positions. So, day after day, some rain will come. The short answer December 2, 2019 reads as follows: “When I think of Sid- investigations into Russian election inter- Scott went to the Senate floor to defend is: We are okay for now in St. Helena. CLARK GRIFFITH well Friends School, the first word that ference, an impeachable offense. Nixon—to convince his colleagues to Please forward to the group, and I appre- [email protected] comes to mind is ‘HOME.’ The second trust the president. As evidence against ciate your concern. Best to all.” word is ‘LOVE.’ ” It’s a wonderful sen- (3) Two-thirds favored convicting Nixon mounted, the staff struggled to DOUG WHITE and his wife are off to Viet- timent. Linda also recently reconnected Trump of abuse of power for outsourcing 1960 understand. But Scott explained: ‘When BOB MYERS, in our class email, asked his nam, where he served in 1970. He says, with classmate Henry Beale, as the two opposition research on a political rival to the president of the United States puts classmates: “Does anyone remember “We hope to find it in better shape than JODY HUTCHINSON both share the experience of having lost a foreign government. A smaller majority his arm around you and says, I swear I am this? In 9th grade, Rod Cox taught world when we left it.” A more complete report [email protected] a spouse in 2019. Linda writes: “Henry also favored conviction on the obstruc- telling you the truth, you have to believe history. I think it was a required course. will be coming later. describes our 1st grade classroom and tion charge—there was uncertainty about JOHN SAPIENZA JR.: “I have been a science him. He’s the commander-in-chief.’ Back I liked him but wasn’t sure I was going our daily naps with a perfect memory! the reach of executive privilege. then, it was unfathomable that a presi- to like world history—until he offered KEEN STASSEN BERGER reports that her fiction fan since grade school and have He talks about Sally, Dick, and Jane as if dent would lie. Ultimately, Scott recog- up an anecdote about the Russo-Japa- new book, Grandmothering, is doing very been a member of the local sci-fi club they were books he read yesterday. Small All agreed partisanship will exacerbate nized the depth of Nixon’s lies and, along nese war of 1904–1905. It seems Russia well. I’ve heard that it is really excep- for decades. I am also the vice president world!” the political consequences of either con- with Sen. Barry Goldwater and House had a lot of somewhat aged battleships tional, but I’ve learned to expect that of a nonprofit corporation that sponsors viction or acquittal.” from Keen. (See “Fresh Ink,” on page 48.)

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Minority Leader John Rhodes, went to the LEA JABLONSKY UHRE describes her recent White House to persuade the president to move: “We’re off on a new adventure. LEFT Joan Thompson Koehler ’65 and family at her wedding resign. I remember thinking, even if the After 36 years in the DC area, we moved country recovers from Watergate, it will to San Diego, California, in 2019 to be RIGHT Cheryl Doddy Howard ’67 and her husband, Jeff, in Greece never be the same. Now I wonder where closer to our children and grandchildren. we’ll be in another 50 years.” Sold the house and stayed long enough to successfully recover from my second knee-replacement surgery. For a few months, we traveled to see family and 1963 friends and had dinner with Dusty Mur- dock and Dianna in Ohio. On Thanks- MARGO LEE HOFELDT giving, we moved into our new house— [email protected] our furniture arrived two weeks later. Then we were busy unpacking, shop- ping, holiday decorating, and prepar-

ing for houseguests on December 28. It Koehler Joan Courtesy Howard Cheryl Doddy Courtesy 1964 was wild. Despite downsizing, we’re still in a sea of boxes. When I need a break, I husband, Sean, and son, Charlie. Ken’s organization that helps seniors stay in HANS CARTER trekked through New LOUISE BERRY STRAIT explore our community. So far, the San [email protected] two sons and their spouses and children, their homes if they wish to, rather mov- England this autumn, finding the beauty Netflix Diego freeways aren’t much worse than except the one in Hawaii, helped a ton ing into an assisted-care facility before of the fall palette. Hans is enjoying Rich Fisher ’64 brought the lawsuit that the the Beltway. The weather from Novem- also. Marie Kline Heffelfinger was there they really need it. Sara continues as retirement in San Francisco where he NANCY BEITER brings us good and bad Netflix series Unbelievable is based on. ber to February is the rainy season here also and did yeoman duty to make sure a proficient enamelist, producing her and his family live. In his spare time, news: “I’m so sorry I missed the and rather cool. I’m wearing knits and that everything went off smoothly. In own work as well as organizing work- Hans has become an expert-level pick- Reunion, but my husband’s health was ‘An Unbelievable Story of Rape,’ that turtlenecks and am looking forward fact, everyone pitched in, helping with shops for other aspiring artisans; you leball player in the master’s category. Go rapidly deteriorating and my daugh- helped transform how police depart- to warmer weather. On one side of the flowers and cleanup.” (See photo above.) can find her work at the Enamelists Gal- Hans! ter’s wedding was looming, so getting ments around the country handle sexual house, I discovered some lemon and lery at the Torpedo Factory in Old Town to DC was not workable. But my daugh- assault. In 2016, NPR aired “Anatomy orange trees. I’ll need to learn more TODD PARNELL: “I’m releasing a new tril- Alexandria, Virginia. Most important to CHRIS KNOWLES continues to write full- ter, Meg, had a glorious wedding in June of Doubt” about the case on This Amer- about West Coast gardening—and I’ll ogy, The Children of the Creek, in March them, though, is keeping in touch with time in his retirement. He moved to accompanied by her father, Sid, and ican Life. Armstrong and Miller later need to get rid of the gophers tearing up 2020! It is a sequel to my Ozarkian Folk their children. Charlotte and her hus- Martha’s Vineyard in 1991 in his career some spectacular fireworks—a Jaffrey, published a book, A False Report: A True the yard. Trading Maryland deer for Cal- Tales trilogy. Individual book titles band, Sean, are Amazonians—i.e., they as a health-care executive and retired New Hampshire, wedding tradition. Sad Story of Rape in America. In 2017, at the ifornia gophers!” include Wellspring of Evil, Stream of Life, there in 2014. His most recent novel, The to say, Sid passed away in August, but Sidwell Friends Founder’s Day Let Your work for Amazon—and live in San Fran- and Life is a River. Details available at Polar Silk Road, came out in September I’m staying on in Jaffrey where, in spite Life Speak event, Armstrong and I gave a cisco. Kristoff now lives in Milton, Mas- toddparnell.com. Got to do something to 2019. His current project is Hiroshima of the cold winters, the community is talk: ‘One Person Can Make a Difference: sachusetts, with his wife, Tara, and very stay out of trouble as a retired banker Redux. (See covers below.) strong and makes me feel cherished.” How a Civil Rights Case Inspired Pulit- cute baby, Otis. Arne and Sara still make 1965 and university president!” (See “Fresh time for other travel when they can and zer Prize Award–Winning Investigative Ink,” on page 48.) JEFF COHEN notes: “I recently moved to RICH FISHER writes in with an outstanding Journalism, Improvement of the Crim- Want to be a class representative? are planning trips to Mexico, Portugal, Boca Raton but am still working in the achievement: “In 2019, Netflix released inal Justice System, an NPR Program, Contact [email protected]. Germany, and Carmel, California, this Berkshires where I also chair the Great Unbelievable, a series based on the true a Book, and a Netflix Series.’ In 2020, year. We hope that other Sidwell Friends classmates are also enjoying enrich- Barrington Conservation Commission story of ‘Marie,’ a young woman I rep- Unbelievable earned four Golden Globe JOAN THOMPSON (SECREST) KOEHLER: “I and am involved with the Mahaiwe Per- resented in a civil-rights case against nominations, four Critics Choice nomi- was married to Ken Koehler on Sep- 1966 ment at this stage of their lives, whether forming Arts Center. Happily married to the Lynnwood, Washington, police nations, and one Critics Choice Award.” tember 28, 2019, in Fort Myers, Flor- they are still working or have found new CHRIS DEMATATIS Beth as we share 12 grandchildren! Hope department. In 2008, Marie was sexu- ida, where I live. Our families were here, pursuits. [email protected] that all is well with my classmates.” ally assaulted. The police didn’t believe RICHARD MAY has a new venture in West including all but one granddaughter, CHERYL DODDY HOWARD her—despite corroborating physical evi- Chester, Pennsylvania: “I’m starting who was on a trip with her new hus- writes: “I retired dence—and prosecuted Marie for filing a a new business at age 73. Beginning in band in Hawaii. The wedding included in June 2018, and I do not miss the demands at all! Jeff and I spent a truly false report. Years later, two indefatiga- April, a small group of us are starting an my brother, Tony Thompson ’59, and glorious month in Naxos, Greece, check- ble female detectives in Colorado cap- Entertainment Technology and Crafts my sister, Betsy Young, who went to the 1967 tured her assailant. Marie might under- training operation in the local commu- Lower and Middle School. All of my sib- ing off a big bucket-list item. Our grand- STEVE BATZELL standably desire vengeance against the nity center. It will train young adults, lings’ children were in attendance also. A son’s University of Virginia lacrosse team [email protected] Lynnwood police; instead, she wanted especially from underserved commu- real family affair. My daughter Samantha won the 2019 NCAA National Champion- her story to educate law enforcement nities, in technical skills like set design Barnes and her husband, Drew, attended ship—his gold-and-diamonds cham- ARNE PAULSON and his wife of 46 years, about how to properly investigate sexual and construction, lighting and sound, with their three children. Her son Bill pionship ring is totally ridiculous. UVA Sara, continue to enjoy “retirement,” assault. Enter journalists Ken Armstrong with the plan to expand the operation to sang for the wedding. My son, Lance won the NCAA Tournament Champion- which sometimes seems to be a full- of the Marshall Project and T. Christian other local communities over the next Secrest, and his wife, Sarah, and their ship in basketball in 2019, as well. Family time (but unpaid) occupation. Arne Miller of ProPublica. They wrote a Pulit- several years.” four children were there, along with is all good. We are blessed, indeed.” (See

spends quite a bit of time as president Chris Knowles Courtesy zer Prize–winning article about the case, my daughter, Muriel Croston, and her photo above.) of Palisades Village, a local voluntary The latest novels from Chris Knowles ’67

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and visit my children and grandchil- cuff, for which I’ll have surgery after a dren. Of greater import is the fact that long-awaited trip to Antarctica (no way 1968 1969 the person I’ve always known existed I’m missing that!). Our four children are ROLLIE FRYE Want to be a class representative? finally appeared in my life. I found Ali- thriving: By fall, three will be married, [email protected] Contact [email protected]. son Robinson. She’s the most extraor- and we’re expecting our first grandchild dinary woman—person—I’ve ever in March. I gather from friends that this PAUL BIRNBERG: “At the beginning of this ALICE ECHOLS: “The 30th-year anniver- known. I asked her to be my wife, and is a very exciting club to which to belong. year, I retired after about 25 years as an sary edition of my very first book, Daring she accepted. Not only will we be start- During a recent trip to Atlanta, I visited attorney at HOME Line, a Minneapolis to Be Bad, which is a history of the wom- ing a new life together, we’ve co-cre- the NAMES Project, which commemo- nonprofit tenant-advocacy agency.” en’s liberation movement, has just been ated a new adventure, which you’ll be rates AIDS victims. I searched for Don [email protected] published by the University of Minnesota hearing more about. Thank you to all Parker in the archives and found a quilt Press. It includes a substantial new intro- my friends and colleagues in the West piece in his memory. I was very fond of DEBORAH HORNER CRAYDON: “Glyn and I duction.” (See “Fresh Ink,” on page 48.) who’ve become a part of my life during Don and moved to see this. Age creeps (married in Scotland 38 years ago) now my sojourn in Utah, and especially for up—the thought of a 50th Reunion is reside in the little beach town of Capitola those who worked, and let me work with daunting—but as my father used to say, in Santa Cruz County, California. Glyn still them, to make Encircle the miracle it is. ‘It’s a lot better than the alternative!’” teaches science part-time at Summerfield 1970 I’ll stay involved in Encircle, because of Waldorf School in Santa Rosa—the high what it is, and because it’s destined to school he founded. I run an online busi- MARGARET WEAVER KRULL grow beyond Utah. Alison and I look for- ness teaching students vibrational medi- [email protected] ward to visiting Utah soon to celebrate 1972 cine and floral acupuncture—a technique with family and friends there. Courtesy: Liza Donnelly Liza Courtesy: I co-developed. The vibrational medicine JOYCE JACOBSON that I practice are flower essences—ini- GERRY PEEREBOOM: “Margie and I are now [email protected] One of the pictures Liza Donnelly ’73 created while simultaneously running the NYC Marathon. tially made by Dr. Edward Bach in the 1971 once again living in Austin, Texas, since 1920s. I make mine in Hawaii using the I retired about a year ago. We moved LIZA DONNELLY: Liza digitally drew while JEFFREY MUMFORD received an Ohio Arts flowers there. As people become aware MARY REYNER back from Vancouver, Canada, where she ran the NYC Marathon last Novem- Council grant for individual excellence in of the body and the unconscious mind, I [email protected] I spent a couple of years working for a 1973 ber. She ran for the Leukemia & Lym- 2016. Last June, he premiered a new string teach them how to use these elixirs top- small liquefied natural gas company, phoma Society to raise money for cancer quartet co-commissioned by the LA Phil- ically. We were in the fire in Santa Rosa JOHN EMORY: “I am still working (too which culminated 40 years in the energy APRILLE KNIEP SHERMAN research; prints of her drawings done harmonic and the Library of Congress as two years ago. Luckily, our house didn’t much) at BAE Systems, but I switched industry, 31 of them with BP (originally [email protected] on the course were then raffled off to part of its Noon to Midnight festival at burn, although 5,000 or more other my work site from Annapolis Junction, Amoco before its takeover). Today, I am REGINA DESSOFF KESSLER donors (which included a lot of Sidwell Disney Hall in Los Angeles. In August, he structures burned just several doors away. Maryland, to Sterling, Virginia. I still play staying busy and hopefully fit as a soc- [email protected] Friends alumni). Liza and her support- premiered a trio for tenor sax, harp, and That’s why we relocated this summer. tennis and won my second mixed-dou- cer referee. I’m trying hard to keep up ers raised $10,000, and she was pro- cello at the Kennedy Center’s Millen- bles tournament last fall. I wrote two But we’re still close enough to our fam- with high school kids and having a blast STEVE BERNHEIM: “We continue to live filed in Runner’s World. Liza plans to run nium Stage. In October, he premiered a songs (parodies called “Dumb Down” ily—all engaged in botany, tech, and solar doing it. Margie and I are also looking for in happy retirement on Orcas Island, the marathon again this November and new work commissioned and performed and “Stand With Your Man”) that are nearby—to have holidays together.” a permanent retirement spot, which will Washington. My wife and I work on a hopes to raise even more for the Leuke- by the BBC Philharmonic in Manches- now on YouTube. We still live in McLean, undoubtedly be in the Eastern time zone, co-op garden and tend to our chickens mia & Lymphoma Society. When not on ter, England. In February, Jeffrey was in Virginia, but we are now empty-nesters, DAVID THOMSON: “I continue in retirement closer to the rest of our family. Austin and elderly dogs.” the run, she continues to draw and write mini-residency at Chapman College in with high school testing, working with since our youngest got a condo last year, has been great, but we will still make a for The New Yorker, The New York Times, California. This involved panel discussions the Career Exploration program, substi- one block from Sidwell Friends. And so, move by the end of this year. We haven’t JERRY CAPLIN continues to live just out- and various other publications. (See pic- about diversity and inclusion in classical tute teaching, and volunteering at Teresa we got a second dog to compensate. I pinned down the destination (maybe side of Charlottesville, Virginia. His ture above.) music and a performance of a recent work House (hospice care) and the Livingston played guitar at my niece’s wedding last North Carolina?), but I’ll update folks company, Silk Purse Properties, LLC, for violin and piano featuring William County Nursing Home and its glee club. summer in Germany, proof that Uncle when we make a decision.” recently hit a milestone by acquiring and BARCLAY JONES KOPCHAK: “My 41st year Fitzpatrick, an African American violinist The next generation moves ahead with John’s Band (Sidwell Friends alumni all) putting online its 70th affordable rental in Alaska, and I finally filled the freezer. who heads Chapman’s string program. In careers and children. I am still trying my still lives. A year from now, I hope to be ELIZABETH SCHEUER: “I’m looking for- house in the formerly exclusively Afri- While directing last fall’s production of summer 2020, Jeffrey will premiere a con- hand at writing short stories.” retired and able to do some traveling.” ward to our 50th in 2021! Over the past can American neighborhood known as Mamma Mia! for our local community certo featuring cellist Mariel Roberts and 18 months, we organized a move to Man- 10th and Page adjacent to the Univer- theater group, Stage of the Tide, I also the String Orchestra of Brooklyn. DAVID HARDY: “Some happy news. I’m hattan after nearly 28 years in Riverdale sity of Virginia. His goals have centered worked—successfully—to fill my sub- packing up and moving back to Wood- KEEP IN TOUCH! in the Bronx. We offloaded as much as around preserving the architecture and sistence moose tag. It took a week for my GEOFF REED continues to practice com- stock, Vermont, where I lived from Go to sidwell.edu/classnotes we could on our four children, other rel- the culture of that neighborhood while husband and me to butcher and wrap all mercial photography and teaches pho- 2013 to 2016 while creating an internet and let us know what you’ve been atives, and friends; donated 75 boxes of attempting to limit the intrusion of stu- the meat. (See photo on next page.) Cor- tography in Phoenix, Arizona, as well as start-up. I’ll be keeping my business up to. Don’t see your class year? books to Housing Works; stored another dent and faculty rentals that dominate dova, an off-the-road fishing town of in Prague and Berlin for Maricopa County and my law practice for start-ups—now Contact [email protected] to 70 boxes; and finally moved to our new the local market. On a personal note, just 2,200, is also home to Chantelle and Community College’s International Study fully reestablished. As my work is mainly become a class representative. apartment. For anyone who knows this fall he officially became an emp- Luca Adelfio ’01 (son of Guido Adelfio!) Abroad Program. Last fall, he traveled to online, and most of my clients are on the Manhattan: We share a party wall with ty-nester, when his fourth child went off who welcomed little Callie into our lit- Guatemala as part of an Arizona-Gua- coasts, this works perfectly. I’ll period- Zabar’s. Unfortunately, all the schlepping to Duke University. tle community last fall. Let’s hear it for temala photographic exchange with ically head to Utah to meet with clients resulted in a complete tear of my rotator grandchildren! Through Each Other’s Eyes, a nonprofit

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Health and Human Services. My kids are NOEL “MISSY” HOLBROOK: “I spent win- neighborhoods. And we are lobbying DC mostly grown, with our youngest a bud- ter break with my husband, Tony, and Public Schools and the DC Council to take ding photographer and ready to graduate son, Tenzing, visiting my mother (92 Wilson’s name off the school. Read all from the Corcoran School of the Arts & and doing well), followed by a trip to about it at renamewilsonhs.org.” Design at George Washington University. Egypt. The idea of a culture so focused I’m looking toward retirement but don’t on the afterlife of their rulers is a bit PEGGY MASON: “I had a great visit from know exactly when or where quite yet. I hard to understand (suggest not men- Jonathan Southard and his son, Shawn, had fun seeing folks at Hello, Dolly! in New tioning this to our current prez). I was who is thinking of the University of York City. A nice extra little reunion.” amazed by the beauty of Karnak Tem- Chicago for college. Jon and I are mak- ple, the still-vibrant colors in the Val- ing this an ever-so-pleasant habit, as it JODI CAFRITZ: “Not sure how we became ley of the Kings, and the narrow strip of comes on the heels of Jon’s recent visit empty-nesters so quickly, but that time green along the Nile that has sustained with his other son. I would love to see has arrived. Our son Jack is a junior at the Egyptian civilization for thousands of others whose children are considering Cornell School of Hotel Administration. years. Egypt is a great place to think University of Chicago.” He’s off to Florence for the semester. about sustainability, especially now that Our son Mick is a freshman, also at Cor- the Aswan Dam keeps the water table JON SOUTHARD: “Indeed, yes, Shawn and Courtesy Barclay Jones Kopchak Jones Barclay Courtesy West Skip Courtesy Gamser Matt Courtesy nell SHA, and enjoyed a first semester in high year-round (good for crops in the I enjoyed a lovely visit, and it was great LEFT Barclay Jones Kopchak ’73 and her subsistence-wildlife moose, part of the Alaskan way of life CENTER Skip West ’73 and his son, Robert, at the Grand Canyon Paris! Mark and I are celebrating 23 years short term, bad for soil health—salini- to see Peggy Mason. We had the spe- RIGHT Matt Gamser ’74 and Craig Wilson ’74 in Bangkok of awesome marriage, and I’m still doing zation—in the long term). It was a bit of cial privilege of attending her neurosci- graphic and interior design for my stu- a working holiday: I had to give a series ence class on the structure of the brain. whose vision statement is: “making the RONNI LINOWITZ JOLLES: “Hello class- dio, Signature Design. I’m thinking it is of lectures focused on the Nile (climate I actually understood a tiny bit, proving world a better place through photography mates! I recently had the pleasure of time for another Broadway show in New change, hydrology, agriculture, history). that Peggy really is a great teacher!” by coordinating photographic exchanges, seeing Susan Mudd, and she filled me 1975 York City or some mini-DC reunions. Some of the preparation was pretty fun, BING SHAW: “Jim Lehrer was our com- educational programs and traveling exhi- in on the festivities at the Reunion. It ALAN DRUMMER Who’s in?” in particular watching Agatha Christie’s mencement speaker, and I still remem- bitions to help people around the world sounds like it was a wonderful event; I’m [email protected] Death on the Nile and Elizabeth Taylor in understand and embrace cultures differ- sorry I had to miss it. I’ve been busy as VERNON COWELL: “Vernon here. All is well Cleopatra, plus reconnecting with lots of ber a lot of what he said. He was a superb ent from their own.” He says he “thor- a paper artist, having shows and cre- in Portland, Oregon. My wife, Rene, is history: Alexander the Great, Napoleon, journalist and a stellar human being. oughly enjoyed hearing Bill Nye at the ating new work. We moved into Chevy a very busy allergist here. My daughter etc. Everyone was in Egypt at some point. Also, on the eve of the Chinese New Year, Arizona Speakers Series evening event. Chase, Maryland, about three years ago, just graduated early from the Univer- Now it’s back to the academic salt mines. I wanted to give a shout out to our class- He’s a hoot!” and I am still working on establishing 1977 sity of Tampa and has been accepted into Would be happy to connect with anyone mates who were born on or after January myself as an artist in the DC-Maryland ADAM STERN veterinary school. My son is a freshman visiting Boston.” 28, 1960. Turning 60 is the most signifi- SKIP WEST: “I’m still working and teach- area. Rob is doing well as a speaker and [email protected] at Colorado College and made the varsity cant birthday in Chinese culture. The cal- ing on the side at George Mason Univer- author, and he has added auctioneering lacrosse team. I am getting into shape JAY HOWARD, who now lives in Reno, endar cycle consists of 12 animals and five sity and living in Fairfax Station. I had to his résumé. (He’s a talker—a perfect to attend some of his games in Colorado Nevada, was in DC for Christmas and had elements (earth, fire, wood, water, and the good fortune to hike the Grand Can- and fun gig for him.) Our three kids are Springs (6,035-foot elevation). My sur- coffee with Peter Beveridge and lunch metal) so a full life cycle is reached on the yon with my 18-year-old son, Robert, happy, healthy, and out in the world— gery practice is very rewarding in many with Bill Peyser and his wife, Ann. He 60th birthday. Happy 2020 to us rats!” after attending the Consumer Electron- 1978 ways. Wishing everyone the best 2020.” also connected with Janet Pomeroy ’80 two of them in the comedy world. (I never ics Show in January. Looking forward to thought our household was that funny, PETER MACDONALD via LinkedIn and to his amazement, she our next Reunion.” (See photo above.) but apparently we did something!) Our [email protected] BRANDEL FRANCE DE BRAVO: “I recently lives in Reno, too. youngest is studying to become a phys- became a certified instructor in Compas- 1979 ical therapist. No one is married yet, and BARBARA ANDREWS: “I have been working sion Cultivation Training, an eight-week JUDY INGRAM: “Outside of work, kids, Want to be a class representative? no one appears to be in much of a hurry. in the Montgomery County, Maryland, meditation course created by a team of and trying to keep this nearly 60-year- Contact [email protected]. I try to live in the present, and I try even government for eight years leading Early contemplative scholars, clinical psychol- old body and mind humming, my cur- 1974 ogists, and researchers at Stanford Uni- harder not to take for granted the many Childhood Services in the Department of rent project is a grassroots campaign MARK AUSLANDER is currently the direc- PAUL MARKUN good things in my life. I look forward to versity. The curriculum is designed to to change the name of my kids’ pub- tor of the Michigan State University [email protected] hearing reports about how you are all strengthen your innate capacity for com- lic high school, the one I would have Museum, the university’s museum of doing!” (See photo at right.) passion, empathy, and kindness—toward attended had I not ridden my siblings’ MATT GAMSER was treated by “local” Craig yourself and others. Props and gratitude coattails to Sidwell Friends. Our gener- science and culture in East Lansing, Wilson to one of the best Thai meals he ANDREW LAZARUS: “I retired in Decem- to our classmate Larry Ottinger, who ation knows Woodrow Wilson as a great Michigan, and is an MSU faculty member has ever eaten. Matt was visiting Bangkok ber 2019. I had a wonderful time at our agreed to be a guinea pig (along with 11 statesman and peacemaker, but one of in anthropology and history. He and his in January 2020 as part of his prepara- Reunion, which unfortunately was the others, including Sidwell Friends par- his administration’s most lasting lega- team recently opened an award-winning tions for a large international meeting— last time I saw my father in (fairly) good ent Portia Robertson Migas P’17, P’18) cies is segregation. My partners and I are exhibition, “Finding Our Voice: Sister the SME Finance Forum—that he’s head- health. We even got in a bridge game. He the first time I taught the course for my working to educate our neighbors about Survivors Speak,” co-curated with the ing up in the city later this year. Craig is died in July. Hopefully by the next issue, practicum. I’ll be teaching the course Wilson and the black community at Fort survivors of the vast, infamous sexu- now retired in greater Bangkok, where he my retirement will have some focus; I’m again in the spring. Anyone interested in Reno—right across from the school and al-abuse scandal centered at MSU. The museum has also opened an exciting gal- clearly is prospering in the local environ- especially interested in making Novem- FRONT ROW (left to right) Ronni Jolles ’74 with her daughter learning more should feel free to email half a block from my family home— ment. (See photo above.) ber 2020 better than November 2016.” Jessie, husband Rob, and daughter Sandy me.” [email protected] which was purged to make way for white lery featuring the National Oceanic and BACK ROW son Danny and his girlfriend Jess

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write as much in this chapter of life, but I HELEN DAVIS: “I am delighted to be Cox-Hill, and Margaretha McGrail. I sector in copyright law and publish- think of it as always just around the cor- reconnected with Sidwell Friends and also recently saw Roshini Ponnampe- ing. Blessed to witness both children ner. Love to all!” would love to hear from friends. I am in ruma at the viewing for her mother. I graduate from Sidwell Friends. Isa- Los Angeles with my two young-adult recently moved my parents out of their bella ’15 is in the International Devel- NEPHELIE ANDONYADIS: “I am still here in children.” home of 55 years on Thornapple Street. opment Program at the University of DC, for the most part, working on proj- In the basement, my mother found my Oxford, and Spenser ’17 is a musical ects and continuing to ‘flex’ life as I sup- LOUISA SCHNEIBERG HOLLMAN: “We Lower School gray-flannel blazer with prodigy at the University of Southern port my dad (who is doing great) and recently traveled to Torres del Paine the SFS emblem on the pocket.” California.” figure out where I really want to live and in Patagonia, Chile. It quickly became what I want to do next. I’ve been reno- apparent that me and Steve’s days of CHRIS HYUN: “I’ll be at the 40th Reunion LISA IANNUCCI: “I am enjoying life on the vating a house I own in Tenleytown and keeping up with our children are long to compare hairlines, hair color, mid- Jersey Shore and doing lots of volunteer- will move in there soon, at least tem- gone. We took uphill hikes for hours riffs, spouses, children, careers, etc. ing and activism. I am in the middle of porarily, so I’ll be in the neighborhood. over scree and boulders; rode horses I’m sad to report the loss of both my my third year as an instructor librarian I’ve designed a few plays here in the across rivers, up narrow inclines, and parents: Montgomery K. Hyun in 2016 at Monmouth University. My husband, DMV—with Studio Theatre, Theater J, down steeps slopes; went kayaking in and Ariel Hollinshead Hyun in 2019 (on Craig, and I live four blocks from the Mosaic Theater, Adventure Theatre, and frigid water in dry-suits and neoprene my birthday, which I share with Lau- beach, and we have a very spoiled tuxedo UrbanArias, and I am currently working booties; and did technical mountain ren Tucker). My parents were very kitty named Faye. Life is good.” on a project at the Alliance Theater in biking (actually I declined that one). It fond of so many of you. Sidwell Friends

Antoine Olivier Antoine Atlanta. Kerry Pelzman, Maryland Pao, was a fabulous adventure. (See photo alumni attended one or both memorials CHARLES KUPFER: “I have a new book, The demolition crew, including Andy Luthringer ’79 (third from left), stands in the courtyard of the 12th-century home that and I met up at the annual Alumni Holi- below.) I’m executive director of the to support me and my brother, William co-edited with a friend, Michael Barton. Matthew Frey ’79 (second from left) and his wife recently purchased in Lagrasse, France (Languedoc). day Party and had a good time connect- Defiant Requiem Foundation, dedi- Hyun ’77, including Arshad Moham- It’s Remembering the Civil War: The Conflict ing with others from our class, including cated to sparking dialogue and action med, Steve O’Neil ’77, Steve Clark ’77, as Told by Those Who Lived It. I’m gratified Atmospheric Administration’s “Science bought a second within a fortified medie- Ros Epps and Emily Klayman Jacob- to combat anti-Semitism and hate. The Adam Kolker ’77, and Jeff Pierson ’77. to have some nice endorsements, includ- On a Sphere” system, through which val Plus Beau Village. It’s the 12th ruin we son. Also, I recently reconnected with same weekend as our 40th Reunion, Some even attended Silent Meeting for ing one by James M. McPherson.” (See faculty and students author multimedia are restoring, and we are converting it to Radhika Rajagopalan Hariharan and we’re bringing our hallmark concert to Worship at our family’s Quaker burial “Fresh Ink,” on page 48.) projects on climate science and social an elder community for our next chapter Sandra Bronfman—what a treat! Hop- Amsterdam. For those on the fence about grounds in New Jersey. I laughed during justice. Mark continues his research in in life. Merci Madame Astore et Madame ing we will all be able to get together at the Reunion, I’m skipping Amsterdam to the massive class email discussion last ARSHAD MOHAMMED: “My wife, Lois, and African American history, most recently Pavlovich! Vous avez profondement touchez the Reunion in May.” see you! So please come. Mark your cal- year. I see Dan Kramer often. I’ve been I celebrated our fifth anniversary in tracing the lives of enslaved and free ma vie au coeur.” (See photo above.) endars, start your diets, go to the gym, happily attempting to make the world a December. These have been wonderful persons of color associated with the ALEJANDRA BRONFMAN: “After 15 years in and get some Botox! Tom MacIsaac better place, most recently with a bio- years for us, and our five children are grounds now occupied by the Sidwell Vancouver, Canada, we fled the real-es- will host a Saturday night party, and tech company, carrying on a family leg- thriving. Lois’s eldest, Ben (30), fin- Friends campus and the National Cathe- tate madness and resettled in Delmar, Arshad Mohammed is planning a Sun- acy in immunotherapy of cancer, which ishes business school at the University dral (see: tinyurl.com/vogprjw). Mark’s New York, just outside of Albany, where day brunch. At the memorial service for the cancer establishment has pivoted of Michigan this spring and gets mar- 1980 my husband and I teach at the University ried this summer; her twins, Steve and wife, Ellen Schattschneider, still teaches Helen Stern (see photo below), mother to over the last five years. Privileged to anthropology at Brandeis University, ARSHAD MOHAMMED at Albany. We have two daughters, Maia of Eve Stern and David Stern ’78, I saw watch my spouse change the world, a Will (28), are, respectively, in medi- where Mark previously taught. Mark and [email protected] (17) and Nina (11). Happy to be back on Patti Spady Ross, Cindy Howard, Izette living example public-service and pol- cal school in Pittsburgh and pursuing Ellen continue to delight in their ener- the East Coast, but missing the sushi and Folger, Michael Williams, Christine icy ideals in government and the private theater, photography, and architecture getic cat, Max, who recently has shown a ELIZABETH ALEXANDER: “I now mark time getting to see the ocean every day.” surprising, if unnerving, talent for hid- from the unexpected passing of my hus- ing himself in cabinet drawers. band almost eight years ago. I am grate- IAN BURNEY is spending the current aca- ful for life and things are well! In that demic year at the National Humanities MATTHEW FREY: “I continue to be pro- time, I’ve moved to New York from New Center, where he is beginning work on a foundly grateful for my many good for- Haven after a long academic career, and new book focused on Erle Stanley Gard- tunes in life in my 59th year. Feeling vital, I’ve been working in philanthropy, first ner’s Court of Last Resort, a (pretty playful, and mostly joyous in my DC life at the Ford Foundation and now at the strange) 1950s version of today’s Inno- two years after returning. Leading a pro- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where cence Project. Burney was also awarded gram for a global-health organization I am the president. My sons are 20 and a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on the that is strengthening health systems in 21, a junior and senior at Yale, loving project. He says, “If anyone is in shout- the Global South to better support chil- being together and re-experiencing the ing distance from Durham, North Caro- dren in reaching their developmental town they left as boys. My parents left DC lina, from now until the end of May, do potential. My wife, Laura, and I have two after almost 50 years and moved to New get in touch.” 20-something young men who mostly York when I did, to my building; my dad make us marvel and less frequently make has had a lot of health challenges, but ALICE CLARK COOGAN: “I have been named us moan. Considerable travel to Geneva they are well. I feel fortunate to be able interim chair of the Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunol-

and Africa that affords me many oppor- to support the arts and humanities in Hollman Schneiberg Louisa Courtesy Hollman Schneiberg Louisa Courtesy tunities to stop in Southern France, where my work, especially when there is such ogy at Vanderbilt University. I look for- LEFT Members of the Class of 1980 attended the memorial service for Helen Stern, mother of Eve Stern ’80 and David Stern ’78, in the Sidwell Friends Robert L. Smith Meeting Room. Front we’ve owned a home for 20 years and just renewed animus in the country. I don’t ward to seeing everyone at the Reunion!” Row: Cindy Howard ’80, Louisa Schneiberg Hollman ’80 Back Row: Patti Spady ’80, Christina Cox Hill ’80, Izette Maccoby Folger ’80, Michael Williams ’80 RIGHT The Hollman family visited Patagonia in January: Steve Hollman, Ali Hollman ’06, Louisa Schneiberg Hollman ’80, Max Hollman ’09

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writing in Chicago. (Check out Will’s a wonderful life! My own mother, Valli as I now have to actually finish it. It’s a Thanksgiving on Cape Cod with Al Mot- website, brickofchicago.com, for some Ponnamperuma, passed away suddenly tad hard to describe, but it is basically tur ’85, a new Sidwell connection for her. exceptionally beautiful photographs of in December at age 91. She considered a book about God for people who don’t 1982 otherwise prosaic objects.) My son, Aziz our Sidwell Friends years a golden age believe in God. During a recent trip to TED MORROW-SPITZER BIRGIT FERRAN-BAQUE: “Three years after (19), is in his first year at Oberlin Col- and had volunteered in both the Mid- Washington, I enjoyed my first visit to [email protected] my husband’s death, which could con- lege and my daughter, Sophia (18), has dle School and the Upper School librar- the amazing National Museum of Afri- ceivably have marked a turning point in just begun at Haverford College. I con- ies. Many thanks to local classmates for can American History and Culture, as LUISA ADELPHIO and ERIK NEIL recently my life, I am still working at the Cata- tinue to write about foreign policy as their sympathy and support.” well as dinner with Arshad Moham- celebrated 30 years of marriage, which lan Department of Education (which has Reuters’s diplomatic correspondent in med and his lovely wife, Lois (they means 41 years since they first met in the certainly been interesting in the light of Washington, and Lois leads Pathfinder WILLIAM RICE: “Last fall, I was hon- serve very nice meals, if you need any hallways of the Upper School! Erik is the the Catalan independence movement), International, which provides sexual- ored to help my wife, Cathy Robertson further incentive to come for brunch director of the Chrysler Museum of Art living in the same house (which I have and reproductive-health services in 20 (NCS ’81), with her nonprofit. DC Peers over Reunion weekend). Three and a in Norfolk, Virginia. He recently curated been painstakingly renovating while countries. I also support an inclusive brings together neurotypical and neu- half years after the death of my spouse, an exhibition there called “Thomas Jef- living in it—a real challenge, especially rodivergent kids to learn from each when they had to dig trenches through- school in northern Pakistan for people Gina, I am readjusting to life as a single ferson, Architect,” which drew positive Adelphio Luisa Courtesy with, and without, physical and men- other and improve social interaction. I person and very much enjoying being attention from NPR, CBS, and The New out the ground floor to replace corroded Onda di Memoria, 2019, by Luisa Adelphio ’82. Cast glass tal disabilities. The school, which has helped the middle school group, invent- a stepmom to two wonderful young sewage pipes), and spending time with symbols on wooden panels, on view at St. Andrew’s School, York Times for its inclusion of the stories Amos Science Center, Middletown, Delaware about 700 students, is named for my ing games to illustrate social skills while adults, one of whom got married last of enslaved craftsmen. Luisa is an artist my kids and grandkids. I am thrilled that younger sister, Mehnaz Fatima (‘Mini’) attempting to keep the noise from ener- April. So the demise of our democracy exhibiting internationally. She recently the eldest, who is 14, loves art and some- Mohammed, who has Down syndrome; getic kids at low-riot levels. Cathy has and the planet aside, life is good!” installed a large work at Amos Science times comes and spends weekends with in person but have been playing inter- it is the fruit of many years of dedicated received well-deserved media and pro- Center in Middletown, Delaware, called me in Barcelona, taking advantage of all net Scrabble with (and mostly losing to) work by my mother and late father, fessional attention—plus kids’ and EVE STERN is living in Tucson, Ari- Onda di Memoria (see photo at right). Erik the fantastic art exhibitions and events Charlie Freeman on an almost daily basis. as well as my older sisters, Zeba and parents’ heartfelt gratitude—for her zona, as of 2017, and thinks moving to and Luisa have four daughters ranging in the city has to offer. Speaking of which, He is extremely good at that game.” Afroze Mohammed ’77. I look forward program. My stepson, Walter, is thriv- a place where you don’t know even one age from 18 to 28. if anyone is planning to come to Barce- to seeing as many of you as possible at ing at an Atlanta independence-build- other person is the “best decision I ever lona, I have lots of space and would be CHARLIE FREEMAN shared the exciting our 40th.” ing program. He attends classes at a made.” She divides her time among KIM BOHEN: “I decided to take on an happy to put them up. Just last year, the news that he and Cecilia Van Hollen ’83 local college, is looking for volunteer tending to the fruit trees in her garden, entirely new role this year, abandon- daughter of Cindy Coffin, Aidan, came were married last June. She lives and EVE POLLAK: “I’m doing well. I sepa- activities, and his cooking continues to painting, and teaching through the Alz- ing my nonprofit-consulting life to dive with a couple of friends, and it was great teaches most of the year in Singapore, rated from and divorced my husband, wow his roommates. My stepdaugh- heimer’s Poetry Project. “Anyone who’s into a full-time executive director role seeing her again and reminiscing about while he lives in DC, but his job run- Michael, after 33 years together. It has ter, Sophie, completed her transition nearby or looking for a reason to come at one of the oldest childcare centers in the times she had come to Barcelona as a ning the Asia team at the U.S. Cham- been heartbreaking and rewarding. to the University of Michigan, aided in to Southern Arizona, look me up: It’s the country, serving a diverse group of child with Cindy.” ber of Commerce takes him to that part I feel happier and more myself. I am part by the universal language of the- gorgeous here!” She’ll be at the 40th about 100 children in New Haven, Con- of the world with some frequency, so building a house that is a little bit rural, ater. She appeared in Metamorphoses, an Reunion. necticut. I’m finding it exhausting and JONATHAN FRANKLIN: “I am still liv- that makes things a bit easier. Congrats outside of Boulder, Colorado. I’m con- award-winning adaption of Ovid. Coin- exhilarating in turns, testing every bit of ing in Bethesda, Maryland, and work- Charlie! tinuing to do MovingVoice work, help- cidentally, Sophie’s mom was close to SIGNE WILLIAMSON: “I’ve found a whole my professional expertise (early child- ing as the head of the appellate group at ing people to overcome physical and the playwright, Mary Zimmerman, when new way of living in the low-country hood education and policy, fundraising, a large international law firm, where I JON GOULD: “My family (wife Tina, son emotional blocks to the voice. And our both worked at Northwestern University. of South Carolina, in beautiful Beau- personnel management, board develop- litigate high-stakes appeals in the U.S. Marcus, daughter Emma) and I had a 20-year-old, Cole, is studying indus- I still pump out polemics on the virtue of fort to be exact. Instead of talking about ment…) and exposing me to whole new Supreme Court and other federal appel- good visit to see my mom on Upton Street trial design at the Rhode Island School higher taxes on the rich and occasionally what they do for a living, people down areas I am learning to figure out (anti- late courts throughout the country. In my for Christmas. I got to see Alex Rossides of Design. Don’t know yet whether I’ll have my name associated with my work. here talk about how early the tomato vax policy, facilities management, con- spare time, I have become an avid cyclist, and his family, and played baseball with make it for our 40th, but I’d love to see I’m trying to better train the voice that crop might come in, if it’s too hot for tracting, audits…). I am very grateful for logging more than 5,000 miles a year, Marcus and Emma at Hearst Playground. everyone.” first found expression in June Cleaver’s the watermelons, all things barbeque, the opportunity to reinvent myself at including my daily bike commute of more There appeared to be renewed interest in Sidwell Friends chorus by taking lessons about the heat some more, and when on this stage of life and be part of a vibrant than 12 miles each way mostly along the the game of baseball in DC after the Nats ROSHINI PONNAMPERUMA: “2019 has been at the Levine Music School. I’m also a DC earth are we going to get a movie theater community of young families. I joke that beautiful Capital Crescent Trail and then fluke. More Sidwell Friends neighbor- a year of loss for many of us. Our parents Public Schools volunteer tutor. I’m fol- back in town so we don’t have to drive I traded my empty nest for a nest full the National Mall. Sharon and I just cel- hood news: Construction is underway are entering the autumn of their lives. lowing in Cathy Brown’s footsteps, laid all the way to Bluffton. Seriously, I love of 3- and 4-year-olds! My own three ebrated our 30th wedding anniversary, at Hearst on a new outdoor swimming In September, along with many fellow down 40 years ago when she crossed it down here, and my two boys are doing kids were all in college this fall (gulp!), and the kids are now both out of col- pool. Nice! Back in New England, Tina classmates and alumni, I attended the 37th Street to volunteer at Hearst.” well—my youngest graduates from the but my oldest graduated in December lege. Our daughter, Stephanie, has been and I are enjoying a mild winter with memorial service at Sidwell Friends for University of Michigan on our Reunion (phew!). We are all eager to see what he a jet-setting management consultant our dog and cat. Marcus graduated from Robert Klayman, father of Emily ’80, TOBA SPITZER: “I am now in my 23rd year weekend, so I am sadly going to miss ends up doing. Anyone hiring?” for more than three years, flying around Trinity College in May, and Emma is a Rachel ’78, and Ben ’84. His was truly at my congregation in Newton, Mas- you all. I might have to phone in!” the country and the world and almost second-year student at Connecticut Col- sachusetts (!), and currently enjoying SUSAN POPKIN CAHN notes that she spent never staying in the same city for an lege. I’m enjoying work as a district staff a three-month sabbatical. I am near a busy summer and fall with her sisters, entire week. Her younger brother, Noah, member for State Senator Adam Hinds. KEEP IN TOUCH! to signing a contract with St. Martin’s Anne Popkin ’83 and Louisa Popkin ’84, has just started the very difficult job of All the best from Western Mass!” Go to sidwell.edu/classnotes and Press for a book I have been work- 1981 and also enjoyed a pizza dinner in DC with teaching 4th grade English in the Balti- let us know what you’ve been up to. ing on for a number of years, which is Jenny Bryant and Bruce Friedland after more public schools through Teach for ART LINDE: “I have returned to the begin- both exciting and somewhat terrifying, VIDISHA DEHEJIA PATEL presenting research on diabetes and tele- America. I don’t see any of our classmates ning, and I am living across the street [email protected] health in Medicare. She and Anne also had

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CLASS NOTES 1997–2007

MEREDITH FINEMAN’s Brag Better: Master RANDA TAWIL: “Hello! After six long years, the Art of Fearless Self-Promotion comes I am set to finish my PhD in American 2004 out May 19, 2020, with Portfolio Penguin studies, and I will be starting a position CAT DAWSON Random House. as an assistant professor of women and [email protected] gender studies at Texas Christian Uni- BRIAN GOLDSTEIN recently launched the versity in Fort Worth, Texas. We can all JON GOLDMAN: “My husband, John, and “KAYAK” of sports betting, abe, which thank Mr. Garman’s “History of Gen- I have moved to Baltimore where I have people can visit at abebets.com. der and Sexuality” class for that. I can’t begun working as the chief curator of believe I’m moving to Texas. If any of the B&O Railroad Museum. Get ready for ARIANA LIGHTFOOT: “I’m resettling in you happen to be in the Fort Worth/Dal- the 200th Anniversary of American Rail- DC after a yearlong cross-country trip las area, please reach out. Or come visit.” roading in 2027!” through Canada and the United States. I’d encourage everyone to visit more of WILL VAN HEUVELEN: “Zoe Abram ’06 and North America, as the nature, sights, I had a baby! We have a daughter, her and people brought a new beauty and name is Phoebe, and mother and baby understanding to my world. I’m cur- are in good health.” 2005 rently job hunting and sorting out a RANDA TAWIL neurological visual defect called “visual [email protected] snow” and migraines. I hope I will regain full vision again. I’ve also com- NASSER MUHAMMAD 2006 pleted my first race, a 5k with my father [email protected] on New Year’s Day, which brought a JOHN SANDERS fresh start to 2020!” [email protected]

Courtesy Lauren Johnson Lauren Courtesy AVA DANVILLE: “Hi everyone! I’m cur- Lauren Johnson ’03 wed Szymon Rus in September. From left to right: Naabia Ofosu-Amaah ’03, John Dell’Osso, Victoria Chang ’03, Jason Oaks, Kate Chiappinelli ’03, Joe Gorodenker, Margot rently living in Long Island, New York Dankner ’03, Szymon Rus and Lauren Johnson ’03, Brian Kessler with Morgan Kessler, Ayesha Johnson Kessler ’95, Crystal Quintanilla ’03, Carly Lehrer ’03, Matt Margelony, Katie Mathews ’03, VICTOR SOWERS: “Hey y’all, hope I can (just outside Manhattan), and working and Matt Struhar make it to the Reunion! My wife and I at New York University’s Stern School of quit our jobs (partly as an excuse to get Business. My first role at Stern was run- 2007 races at the CBS News Decision Desk.” to Jake Travers’s wedding) and have ning the MS in business analytics pro- (See photo on next page.) been on the road since last July trav- ALEX AKMAN gram, but I was recently promoted to 1999 2003 eling in the United States then on to [email protected] associate director of corporate relations. NAABIA OFOSU-AMAAH and John Dell’Osso Bulgaria, England, Hong Kong, Japan, Want to be a class representative? NAABIA OFOSU-AMAAH I’m really excited for the new opportu- welcomed their daughter, Dina Ahinay Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia, New Zea- Contact [email protected]. [email protected] nity. Over the past year, I have slowly Arabla Dell’Osso, on October 29, 2019. land, and Australia. So far, we’re at 30 KATIE MATHEWS become more involved with different NICK WILLIAMS: Dina has enjoyed meeting many of her national parks and hundreds of miles “I recently got tenure as New York City Sidwell Friends events, 2008 [email protected] Sidwell Friends uncles and aunties. (See hiked. Wrapping up the trip soon and associate professor of Chinese literature and I look forward to becoming even photo on next page.) deciding where to live next. Adventures DELANEY KEMPNER at the University of Hong Kong, so I’m more engaged in the coming months. WILLA BROWN, while loudly claiming that are all on packsandpeaks.com.” [email protected] still working with languages and poetry, she would be very normal and extremely Hope to see more of you soon!” just like in Sidwell Friends days, though NICK VALENTE: “At the beginning of this chill about it, adopted a dog. He now has not deploying my mathematical side as year, three years after moving to Ashe- both a specialty diet and his own Insta- much. Would be happy to connect with ville, North Carolina, to work for Moog gram account. Sidwell alumni in Asia!” Music Inc., I was promoted to vice pres- ident. Moog is an industry leader in the LAUREN JOHNSON married Szymon Rus synthesizer-manufacturing industry, (Ross School ’03) on September 15, and it has been amazing to be able to 2018, in their current home of Cleve- continue to work in music. This year, land, Ohio: “50 years since the Cuyahoga 2001 I will be overseeing the formation and River caught on fire! Goals.” (See photo ELIZA ORLINS launch of our first international sub- above.) [email protected] sidiary in Berlin, Germany, and I will be moving there with my new wife (but KABIR KHANNA: “The past year was a big partner of nearly a decade), Jonna.” one for me. I completed a Ph.D. in polit- ical science at Princeton University; DANIEL WINIK: “My wife, Sonja Ralston, married the love of my life, Alexandra 2002 and I just welcomed our second child, Geiger, in June; and moved with her to CAMILO ACOSTA Eli Ralston Winik, on November 12, New York City in the fall. We currently [email protected] 2019.” (See photo on next page.)

live in Hudson Yards with our beagle, Karli Cadel Naabia Ofosu-Amaah Courtesy Winik Daniel Courtesy Morty, and I’ll be spending 2020 calling LEFT Kabir Khanna ’03 married Alexandra Geiger in June CENTER Naabia Ofosu-Amaah ’03, John Dell’Osso, and their daughter, Dina Ahinay Arabla Dell’Osso RIGHT Daniel Winik ’03 with his wife, Sonja, and two children, baby Eli and big sister Zoe

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SHAW MCKEAN: “After an incredible four- NAME THIS MAGAZINE! year adventure with Allbirds, I recently Sidwell Friends the magazine is rather easy Words with Friends: joined Modern Animal, a next-gen- 2010 to confuse with Sidwell Friends the School. We’d like you to help us come up with a new eration veterinary company, to lead KAI ZHENG title for the magazine. Some early suggestions their strategy and operations functions. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 [email protected] include Fox Tales, Fox Light, and Star Fox. “Feeling Sly” Accompanying this career evolution was Email [email protected] to vote for 14 15 16 a move down the California coast from one of those or to suggest your own title. San Francisco to Los Angeles. I am very 17 18 19 much looking forward to spending time with the Sidwell Friends alumni in the 2011 ACROSS 1 20 21 22 area. Please shoot me a note if you ever KIKI OCHIENG 1 Gush find yourself out west!” [email protected] 6 A chip or two, usually 23 4 24 8 25 2014 Creator of some mass media? 10 AVIKAR GOVIL 14 Compare 26 27 7 28 12 29 [email protected] 15 Greens and whites 30 5 31 32 10 33 34 2009 2012 16 Natural balm 17 Fast-moving Sidwell MARIELLE “ELLE” YOUNG 1 2 3 35 36 37 13 14 15 SALENA HESS Friends students? [email protected] [email protected] 2015 19 Water for Elephants 38 39 40 6 41 11 42 43 44 45 novelist Gruen CAROLINE ULWICK recently was promoted JOHN VERGHESE EMILY MILLER 20 Willing to let things slide 46 4 47 48 9 49 50 to the position of segment producer at [email protected] [email protected] 21 Author who coined the MSNBC. She currently writes and pro- term “robotics” 51 52 8 53 12 54 duces news segments for live daily news 23 Peter Pan’s rival coverage on the network. As the 2020 55 7 56 57 15 24 Pool tool election approaches, she is preparing 2013 25 Eye locale for some late nights reporting out the 2016 58 5 59 60 61 CECILIA LAGUARDA 26 Hit high in the air results of early presidential primaries [email protected] TALHA JILANI 28 Fives and tens by hoarding snacks and getting a new 62 5 63 10 64 [email protected] 29 Place to hibernate glasses prescription. 30 Draftable 65 5 66 10 67 31 Group for 50+ 33 Some tournaments Puzzle by Aimee Lucido 35 Second place-winning Sidwell Friends student? DOWN 38 Mill meal 41 Home of most people 1 North Pole denizen 32 Use 42 British bum 2 Thousand thousand 34 Class struggle? Summer in the City! 46 PC linkup 3 Canyon With Crows artist 36 Words spoken after a door opens 47 Hindu titles 4 Many a quinceañera attendee 37 Millennium There’s still time to register for summer 49 Rue 5 Pull in 38 Downplayed, with “over” camp—and every child from age 3 to 51 As good as it gets 6 Apologize, perhaps 39 Blondie song with the lyric “And grade 12 is invited. 53 Duke’s conf. 7 At the top of the waitlist out comes a man from Mars” 54 Showy scarf 8 Bo 40 Meantime We’ve got camps for kids who want to design 55 “ Universe” 9 Bacon products? 43 Sunnybrook Farm lass and build, camps for kids interested in STEM 56 Seconds 10 Pasta sauce flavoring 44 Equipment used in fin-swimming projects, camps for kids who love art and 58 Daughter of Tom Cruise 11 Pie order 45 Greek vowel literature, and much more (like swimming!). and Katie Holmes 12 Diadem 48 Sought, in a way 59 Sidwell Friends student 13 “Goodness!” 50 Demands attention, perhaps Let’s make Sidwell Summer 2020 count! wearing foot warmers? 18 Like medieval Europe 52 Brown and others 62 Waters by Buffalo 22 Average fella 53 “Dragon Ball Z” style 63 Tony winner Leslie Jr. 23 Half of a 2020 halftime 56 Impulse transmitter Register at sidwellsummer.org 64 Sore spot? duo, for short 57 Mobius strip feature or call 202-537-8133. 65 Those feeling blue? 25 Mid-calf pant style 60 Honorary poem 66 Painter Magritte 27 Soviet news agency 61 31-Across members: Abbr. 67 Tintinnabulations 28 Salad green

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What legacy would you like to leave?

The Thomas and Frances Sidwell Society The Thomas and Frances Sidwell Society recognizes the more than 150 individuals who have made the thoughtful decision of including Sidwell Friends in their estate plans. Modern-day bequests follow in the tradition of Thomas Sidwell, who survived Frances and left his estate in the care of the Board of Trustees in 1936. Bequests, charitable trusts, gift annuities, and other planned giving arrangements continue to bolster the School’s financial sustainability and have great bearing on every aspect of the work and future of Sidwell Friends.

“I believe strongly in philanthropy and giving back in many ways, including through planning giving. And I know that I can have a big impact through my bequest. I share the results of my life’s work with Sidwell Friends to ensure that its Quaker values, community, and Night Moves culture will thrive.” “The inspiration for this piece came from a class assignment to paint a nightscape. I created a night —MARTA FERRO ’89 market, as I really enjoy all the tiny details, lanterns, and vibrant colors that I find in pictures of street markets. I was also able to visit China a couple of years ago and saw an actual street market, which really inspired me because of its intriguing atmosphere and abundance of culture. Asian culture is important to me because my mother’s side of the family is Chinese, and Chinese culture plays a big role in my everyday life. My favorite parts of this piece are the frogs scattered throughout the scene. For additional information on how to create your legacy (Fun fact: I personally enjoy painting frogs, and often place them throughout most of my art!)” as part of the Thomas and Francis Sidwell Society, please visit us online at plannedgiving.sidwell.edu. —OLIVIA DIETRICH ’24

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