Alumni Horae ST. PAUL’S SCHOOL SPRING 2015

A conversation with former FBI Director Mueller ’62

Stockman sisters build business and community in India

Rick Moody ’79 on being censored Students in Darik Vélez’s Computer Programming: Dataset Creation for St. Paul’s School for the Science on a Sphere class look at a real-time dataset from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, depicting earthquake activity around the world over the last month. Their observations included focusing on the data from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25. St. Paul’s is one of only two high schools in the country with a Science on a Sphere, an animated globe that projects planetary data onto a six-foot-diameter space to help illustrate Earth system science to people of all ages.

Photo by Karen Bobotas

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A Deeper Kind of Learning

It is a Wednesday with students anywhere in the race to the best afternoon and the colleges, whatever “the best” might mean to any PETER FINGER Schoolhouse is student in a given year. empty. Most of our But our calling as an Episcopal, fully residential students have piled school is for a deeper learning. In the introduction onto busses for away to his recent book, The Road to Character, David athletic contests, or Brooks draws a distinction between “résumé are donning home virtues” and “eulogy virtues.” He defines the red. Through the former as “the skills you bring to the job market open window comes and that contribute to external success.” By con- the hornet-like drone of what sounds like a fleet trast, Brooks describes “eulogy virtues” as those of lawnmowers cutting the grass between the “that get talked about at your funeral, the ones Chapel and the Schoolhouse. It is the kind of that exist at the core of your being – whether you spring day you might remember. are kind, brave, honest or faithful; what kind of I am at my desk, regrettably forsaking this relationships you formed.” It has a clunky market- stunning day, because I have put off writing ing and morbid ring to it for sure, but I wouldn’t this letter to you for too long. Ironically, I have mind if St. Paul’s were known as the “eulogy procrastinated not for lack of material but for virtue school.” an overabundance of it. Whether eulogy virtues, deeper learning, or And so instead of cataloging the many notable character building, we have talked a great deal events of the year, let me try to characterize them this year as a school community about the kinds within a theme that might better tell you what is of lives most worth living – conversations familiar happening at the School today; about what kind to every alumnus and alumna. Over the years, we of year we have had. have articulated these virtues in different ways Let me frame these brief remarks within the – those things on earth, the knowledge of which ever-present tension at the School between stu- continues in Heaven; our goodly heritage; the dent achievement and what I would call deeper School Prayer. These texts appeal to our aspiration learning. St. Paul’s School is by no means alone for deeper learning. Every service in Chapel also with regard to the pressure our students are under speaks to this hope. to compete – to “leverage” their educational When it comes to virtues of any kind, there is experience and accomplishments for something a gap between their existence in rhetoric and in else beyond Millville (most immediately, admis- living them. This gap, which exists in all of us, lies sion to the college of their choice). There was a at the center of our imperfect striving to be and time when St. Paul’s School students did not have do good. This year, we have spent a great deal of to compete as fiercely as they do today to find a time looking at how we live with one another in place in any of the most selective colleges and this value- and relationship-based community. universities. But times have changed, and so has I am especially proud of the work the faculty has the School in this regard. While the competition done in helping engage our students in this deeper to demonstrate achievement seemingly stands learning – the kind of education, I believe, that in opposition to the kind of learning we most will serve them for the rest of their lives. confidently espouse, the School has not been naïve or negligent about providing students with innumerable opportunities to distinguish them- selves – to achieve and to compete successfully Michael G. Hirschfeld ’85

2 Alumni Horae Vol. 95, No. 3 Spring 2015

Features Alumni Horae 14 Finding Chemistry in Indian Tradition EDITOR Jana F. Brown by Jana F. Brown DESIGNER With Block Shop, sisters Lily ’01 and Hopie ’03 Stockman Cindy L. Foote are combining ancient printing techniques with social EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS entrepreneurship. Leeann Doherty Tanisha Ekerberg Arielle Greenleaf Driscoll ’99 20 On Being Censored Hannah MacBride by Rick Moody ’79 Michael Matros Carol Robidoux Recounting an episode of censorship, the author digresses on why having one’s book banned is actually a badge of honor. Alumni Association

ADVISORY BOARD Chair 24 Q&A with Former FBI Director T. Brittain Stone ’87 by Brett Forrest ’91 Members David B. Atkinson ’59 A candid conversation with former FBI Director Brett A. Forrest ’91 Robert Mueller ’62. Mary F. Karwowski ’04 Robert H. Rettew Jr. ’69 Lockhart Steele ’92 Nancy E. Weltchek ’78 Departments

Published by 2 Rector 33 Formnotes The Alumni Association 4 Action 44 Community of St. Paul’s School Renovating Ohrstrom 603-229-4770 51 Deceased [email protected] 6 Memories Trustees of St. Paul’s School Nearly 50 years later, the defiant 52 Facetime words of Michael Morgan ’68 still Sia Sanneh ’97 and the Equal Justice resonate with his formmates Initiative 10 Athletics 54 Spotlight John Tweedy ’78 reflects on the life Alumni Association Award recipients and times of his mother and her Theodore Achilles ’54 and storied horse, Secretariat Peter McBride ’89 30 Reviews 56 Perspective The End of Copycat China Noah Ruttenberg ’15 by Shaun Rein ’96 The Essentials of Persuasive ON THE COVER: Former FBI Director Public Speaking Robert Mueller ’62 by Sims Wyeth ’69 I am Because You are Getty Images/Brendan Smialowski by Jacob Lief, Andrea Thompson ’96

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Envisioning a Center for Teaching and Learning Laboratories have long been a part of one we know today. We must educate our ronmental stewardship coordinator, with hands-on learning, but with construction students for that world.” the two lab classrooms at the center of of the Center for the Advancement of Smith considers the CATL to be, first the configuration. To connect the lower Teaching and Learning (CATL) on the and foremost, a place for faculty to adjust, level of Ohrstrom to the main and first lower level of Ohrstrom Library, the attempt, and create teaching methods. A floors, architects have proposed opening School will ensure that laboratories are sign-up process will provide times for the staircase that rises from the building’s integral to hands-on teaching as well. teachers to hold their classes in the lab main lobby to its vaulted ceiling. Plans are currently underway for the spaces to try on different styles, using the Phase II, which will begin in the summer construction of the CATL, beginning in space and technology available. In addition, of 2016, will include further renovation of June. The renovated space will feature two the Center represents larger shifts in the Ohrstrom Library as select spaces on the laboratory classrooms, one for faculty to School’s academic program – term to year- main and second floors will be expanded, test and integrate the latest technologies long courses, for example, that will allow reimagined, and repurposed. Three meet- into their classrooms and the other furn- for more flexibility in a student’s academic ing rooms will be created on the main ished with modular tables and chairs and experience. And Smith is excited about a level of the library, while the lobby will flexible white boards on wheels so faculty pilot program that will create an elec- be reconfigured to provide enhanced can experiment with the most thoughtful tronic portfolio for each student, begin- visibility to the main reading room that and creative ways to engage their students. ning with Third Formers enrolling this overlooks Lower School Pond. The read- The project was made possible by a gift fall. The expectation is that the students ing room itself will receive a substantial from an anonymous donor. will be able to see their own progress overhaul, with an eye toward better The CATL is at the heart of Rector Mike over four years, while the SPS faculty accommodating study hall space for Hirschfeld ’85’s strategic plan initiative of will have a way to measure student pro- students in the evenings. The reconfig- advancing teaching and learning, preparing gress – and analyze their own roles in ured Ohrstrom will also accommodate SPS to take a “leadership role in advancing that progress – during their SPS careers. a growing need for social/collaborative pedagogy and the professional develop- Phase I of the project calls for renova- spaces to offset the quiet rooms desig- ment of teachers, both at St. Paul’s School tion of the lower level of Ohrstrom this nated for library study. The stacks will and beyond.” summer, starting at the landing at the remain largely unchanged, with multiple Lawrence Smith, SPS dean of curriculum bottom of the staircase and using all work areas available for student and and teaching, says a primary goal of the available space on the pond side of the faculty visitors. CATL is to create multi-functional class- building. The Center will house the Office “What we are trying to do,” explains rooms to accommodate interdisciplinary of Academic Affairs, which includes the Smith, “is make new information and learning and teaching in the 21st century. dean of curriculum and teaching, the practices available and eventually wide- “The only thing I know about the world,” dean of studies, the director of academic spread among our faculty so we can create says Smith, “is that the one our students support, the director of Ohrstrom Library, the best possible learning environment 4 will inhabit will be very different than the the academic technologist, and the envi- for our students.” Engineering Honors “People who don’t understand engineering the second ensures that the four elected think it’s just designing, but at its base it Sixth Form officers will not be of the same is creative problem-solving.” The School gender. Both initiatives passed unani- is also in the process of establishing an mously in the 28-member SPS Student JANA F. BROWN JANA F. honors program in engaged citizenship to Council. The amendments were further join engineering and the long-established endorsed by Rector Mike Hirschfeld ’85. Classical Honors program. “When we came into our positions at the end of last spring, we were told that our Record Admission Yield main job was to look after the spirit of the Seventy-nine percent of the 238 students School,” says Sixth Form President Charlie Lee. “We believe we have done so. These Question: What do protein sequencing, admitted to St. Paul’s School for 2015-16 have decided to enroll at the School in the amendments are a big example of that.” auditory neuroscience, anti-virus software, In examining the existing Honor Code, stellar spectroscopy, seashore mapping fall. The 187 new students include 96 boys and 91 girls. adopted in 2008, Lee and the other Sixth with drone helicopters, and computa- Form Officers –Malaika Ogukwe ’15 (vice tional biology have in common? Answer: “That is our highest yield ever,” says Dean of Admission Scott Bohan ’94. “I president), Noah Ruttenberg ’15 (secretary), They are among the topics to be studied and Priscilla Salovaara ’15 (treasurer) – by SPS engineering honors students in a believe it speaks to the process; admitted students feel like they have a connection felt that it read too much like a set of rules series of summer internships at univer- rather than a basic code of conduct to guide sity laboratories and biotech companies. here, that St. Paul’s is the right fit for them.” Consistent with numbers collected from students. Feedback from their peers con- Nine Fifth Form advanced engineering firmed that many felt the same way about students will complete research in an the last few cycles, 1,524 students applied to St. Paul’s for the 2015-16 academic year. the document, which was not easily mem- area of interest this summer, with the orized. The Sixth Form officers determined expectation that they will continue their Of that number, only 15.6% were offered admission to the School in a pool that to simplify the language so students could study in the fall of their Sixth Form year, better understand the Honor Code’s intent. sharing what they have learned with their featured 30% of applicants who registered grade-point averages of 4.0 or above. They worked over the fall and winter to fellow engineers and with the SPS com- craft to appropriate language with a com- munity at large. Among the 238 admitted students are 120 girls and 118 boys from 33 states and mittee that included faculty members The Engineering Honors program was Alisa Barnard ’94 and Aaron Marsh ’97. established two years ago through the 19 countries, including Vietnam, Turkey, generosity of Jim Kinnear ’46 and Douglas Russia, the United Arab Emirates, and the Schloss ’77, with an eye toward providing Bahamas. A total of 995 students applied exposure to engineering for SPS students for the Third Form, 377 for the Fourth Form, BROWN JANA F. before moving on to further study in col- and 152 for the Fifth Form. New student lege. Students must apply for the program enrollment includes 113 Third Formers, as Fourth Formers and complete as Fifth 57 Fourth Formers, and 17 Fifth Formers. Formers an Advanced Engineering course Included in the SPS enrollment numbers designed to prepare them to be produc- for 2015-16 are 77 (41%) new students of color. Total enrollment for the Fall Term The new Honor Code, adopted this win- tive members of university engineering ter, reads: “To live honorably, we as mem- laboratories. is expected to be around 539 students. Bohan says the School had particular bers of the St. Paul’s community strive to “Engineering is the basis for all other be truthful, respectful, and kind.” sciences,” says Advanced Engineering class success this year with reaching students domestically. That is due to additional In April, the Sixth Form officers pro- member Tony Wang ’16. “All advances in posed their second amendment of the the last 150 years would have been impos- efforts recently to attract students from non-traditional American markets and year, modifying voting regulations for sible without the corresponding engineer- future Student Council elections. The ing concepts. Engineers set the pace for also because of the availability of oppor- tunities through several regional scholar- amendment states that, if the first three the advancement of science.” ships. Thirty-eight percent of all students elected positions are ever won by students Terry Wardrop ’73, who advises Engin- enrolled at St. Paul’s will receive some form of the same gender, the next position must eering Honors with Will Renauld, hopes of tuition assistance in 2015-16. be filled by a candidate of the opposite that future student engineers will find gender. While the officers don’t anticipate summer internship opportunities through STUDCO Amendments frequent need for their successors to enact SPS alumni connections. He encourages the amendment, they began considering alumni affiliated with university labora- The Sixth Form officers have worked it, explains Ruttenberg, after the all-male tories to get in touch. diligently to pass two amendments to 2014 Sixth Form officers suggested that “It’s amazing for us to have this oppor- the Student Council Charter. The first they might consider it to avoid a lack of tunity in high school,” says Addy Kimball ’16. amends the student Honor Code, while diversity of opinion in the future. 5 MEMORIES A Rallying Cry Michael Morgan’s controversial 1966 poem became a call to arms for his ’68 formmates in his final days

by Dana Goodyear ’94

6 IE on man, the cynic said, Unbelieving, loving not F Caring, hoping, and fearing not, Kissing feet and plastic smiles.

Your despairs are groundless, cynic; On this we can depend: Under every man’s gloss beats a heart.

Michael Morgan, Form IV

e wasn’t an athlete or an the Horae. It was the initial letter of each actor or a debate champion. line they were interested in. There was a He was a clever kid, a non- hidden message in the poem, a message joiner, a smoke-sneaker, of explosive defiance that made the cynic who taught his friends to of the poem’s first stanza, with his “Fie Henjoy the nonsense of Lewis Carroll and on man,” seem decorous, even mild. understand the structure of jazz stand- Mike had done something unbelievable. ards. He was from Ohio; he was polite. With a sly acrostic that escaped Mr. But there was one thing Michael Morgan Carlisle’s careful eye, he had smuggled was known for at St. Paul’s School, and “F*** You” into print. that was his poem. St. Paul’s School in the mid-sixties, In the winter of 1966, when Mike was to the minds of the boys who lived there, a Fourth Former, he submitted a piece of was a monastery. The students were work to the Horae Scholasticae. Untitled, generally not there by choice but by it was a philosophical exercise in seven obligation, and the goal was rigorous lines. Its opening stanza presented the preparation for college. In spite of the jaded, scornful view of the cynic, faking cultural and political upheaval in the everything, feeling nothing, convinced the outside world, the School remained its rest of the world is similarly duplicitous own snow globe – self-enclosed, still, and mean. The second stanza refuted the impermeable. The dress code was strict – first, in favor of sincerity. No matter what coats and ties – and attendance at Chapel he displays on the surface, the poem was mandatory, eight times a week. If a declared, beneath the exterior of even the student’s hair grazed his collar, the masters smoothest operator lies a beating heart. harangued him until he got it cut. A real The poem (top of page) was elegant, rebel might wear his tie around his waist shapely, classical, and the Horae accepted as a belt. Two years later, members of it, with the blessing of George Carlisle, Mike’s class would present the adminis- the faculty adviser. It was published in tration with The Sixth Form Letter, a call February 1966 to the delight of Mike’s for change that struck at the School’s re- closest friends and confidantes. pressive core, “the pettiness and needless They were proud of their friend, but restriction of school life,” an atmosphere not because of his graceful style or the where “spontaneity, openness, honesty, sophistication of his subject or even the and joy in general are not encouraged.” coup of having his first publication in But in 1966, a tense calm prevailed.

Michael Morgan as a Sixth Former, Christmas 1967. 7 An explosion brated with slim volumes, and the book- No one can fill those shoes Mike’s F-bomb caused the explosion shelves of their house in St. Louis heaved During his illness, Mike brimmed with for which he must have secretly hoped. with their collection. He talked occasion- love for his family and his friends, partic- Not long after the magazine was printed, ally about writing a novel, but as far as I ularly his friends from St. Paul’s. He never word got out, and the punishment for know he didn’t, and he urged my mother exhibited bitterness; on the contrary, his to write, which she eventually did. After Mike was swift and serious. As Mr. Oates, optimism could be startling. But the eeri- graduating from St. Paul’s, I didn’t hear then the administrative vice rector, wrote ness of his situation – words and concepts the story of “Fie on Man” again for a long to Mike’s father, Dixon Morgan, in Cleve- suddenly vanishing, his intellect intact but time, and I never thought to ask him what land, “The School is most displeased with his ability to communicate it sometimes he really meant by it: F*** who, exactly? Mike’s serious indiscretion, and if Mike catastrophically impaired – got to him. He It somehow worked with Mike’s unpre- is guilty of any further breach this year was working hard to hold on to what re- dictable, counter-culture ways. He was of the standards of good conduct, or of the Dylan junkie with a Hermès pocket mained, and it could be overwhelming. A School rules, he will lose his place in the square; it seemed to fit. year after he had forgotten Hillary, I sat in School immediately.” Many in the Form of ’68 had an awkward his living room listening to him play piano. After his friends went home for spring relationship to the School. They didn’t give I complimented him on his eloquence. He break, Mike stayed behind for two days, a lot of money. Some of them claimed to looked at me and said, “I suddenly had sentenced to work duty, painting barns. have hated the place. The Sixth Form Let- this feeling that this was all a fiction and He was also held responsible for the $155 ter, which eventually helped initiate huge that I am really not doing any better, not cost of reprinting the magazine, which he changes – including co-education – had gaining anything back, and I’m about to earned by apprenticing himself to a stained been met with fury by some on the faculty die, that this is my last day or two.” glass artist at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and with disbelief by others. But the rela- in Cleveland. (His mother, with Rector tionships among the classmates were re- The first to take Furlaud’s chal- Matthew Warren’s approval, had paid markably strong, and Mike kept in close lenge was V.J. Pappas ’68, who the church to hire Mike. What would the touch with a large and geographically wrote this: cynic say to that arrangement?) After that, dispersed group of them, mostly through Mike didn’t get into much more trouble e-mail. Whenever possible, he would go Ode to Michael at St. Paul’s, but he didn’t need to. He was back to campus for Anniversary Weekend. From a haven in Philly already a Form of ’68 hero. In 2013, for his 45th reunion, he helped organize a memorial service in the Old Under midwinter sky Smiling plastic smiles Chapel for all the members of his form Comes this ode to a buddy who had passed away since graduation. Knowing this is goodbye. This story played in the background He played the organ. of my teenage years, a little louder when That we weathered St. Paul’s Two months after the 45th, Mike woke I was at St. Paul’s, often trying and occas- Hard pressed to get home up one morning unable to remember ionally succeeding at publishing poems I still fondly recall Hillary Clinton’s name. By the fall, he in the Horae, and mostly evading trouble Such an audacious poem. couldn’t find the words for “fountain – by kissing feet and smiling plastic pen.” A murky patch on his brain scan smiles. Mike had married my mother in In late January, Jim Robinson ’68 and grew from the size of a walnut to the 1983, when I was seven. One of my first Jonathan McCall ’68 went to see Mike in memories of Mike involves me decod- size of an orange; when it was surgically St. Louis. They left with grim news to tell ing his monogrammed belt, which read removed, a few days before Christmas, the ’68 group: Mike was nearing the end MNMNM, for Michael No Middle Name we learned that the lump was a malignant of his life. Morgan. The other occurred before I brain tumor. Mike talked his way out of Richard Furlaud ’68 responded with an ever met him, when, snooping in my the hospital two days later and was home e-mail. “If I were the writer Mike Morgan mother’s drawer, I found a picture of on Christmas, improvising on the piano was, I would compose an eight-line ode to him, sandy-haired and yellow-green- with all his old virtuosity. He talked about him, articulate and precise in his praise, eyed, in a sport coat at St. Paul’s, smok- learning Welsh during what he was sure whose first letter of each line spelled. . . . ing. It occurs to me now that the picture would be a brief recuperation or (for that But I’m not. No one can fill those shoes.” must have been taken around the time matter) becoming a motivational speaker. “Let’s unchain our inner Michael,” of “Fie.” Mostly, he wanted to get back to practic- Robinson wrote to the group, and a dozen ing law. He was steeped in the language more poems followed. There was “F*** It A murky patch of the law, and its terms began to infil- All,” “F*** the Big C,” “F***in A,” “F***ing For a few years, Mike worked as a jour- trate the difficult new arena that he, Hell,” “What the F***.” The poems are full nalist in Boston, and then he went to law hampered, was being asked to master. of references to life at St. Paul’s, inside school. He never lost his love of poetry. He’d talk about “documents” when he jokes, shared memories. For many, it 8 My mother’s birthdays were always cele- meant “chemotherapy.” was the first time they’d ever attempted poetry. Written by men of 64 and 65, My mother read the poems to Mike, sit- Their poems say what 65-year-olds they are exceedingly tender poems, ting by his bedside. It was late in the game, know and 15-year-olds only intuit – that tinted with intimations of their authors’ and I don’t know what he knew or didn’t everyone gets caught, but still you try to own mortality. know. By then he couldn’t say too much. make your mark. Fie on death. But it seems to me the poems did some- Writer Lloyd Fonvielle ’68, who, thing extraordinary. They wrote for Mike From Tom Alden ’68 as it happens, died not long after when he couldn’t write for himself. Forty- sending in his poem, wrote: nine years before, as a fifteen-and-a-half- We love you, Mike, year-old, Mike had tried on rage to see Each of us

Funny how it goes sometimes what it felt like, and if he could get away Look east as dawn Under the visiting moon with it. Turns out it felt good, and he could, Opens into light Cunning fades at least for a time. Rage, however, was not View your next breath, in Knowledge fades an emotion that suited him; in his illness, Each of us understands Into nothing he vacillated between acceptance and Nobody escapes denial, but he never seemed even a little bit Yesterday is still … Gets away clean angry. His friends supplied that, and it fit Om mane padme hum …

Under, over, now Hope abides the occasion perfectly. Even more than all Every act of love echoes of that, the poems drew his class together to celebrate Mike and his audacity. Long after the parade passes Dana Goodyear ’94 is a poet and a staff Long after the band goes home writer at The New Yorker.

Members of the Sixth Form of 1968, who wrote the infamous “Sixth Form Letter,” were responsible for initiating change at the School, including the shift to co-education three years after their graduation.

9 ATHLETICS CONFESSIONS of Secretariat’s Slower Brother The author shares the true story of his upbringing in the shadow of a horseracing Triple Crown by John Tweedy ’78 “ y mother owned Secretariat.” Ever since the summer before my Third Form year at St. Paul’s, my life story has featured that sentence, a Mflashing non sequitur in an otherwise pedestrian paragraph. As a racehorse, an athlete – a sheer force of nature – Secretariat would have upended the lives of any humans who might claim to “own” him. He certainly upended ours. His 1973 Triple Crown sweep, setting records that still stand today, including winning the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths, shocked the country out of its Watergate torpor. He graced the covers of Time, News- week, and Sports Illustrated all in the same week. A postman delivered 250 pieces of fan mail to our home. Every day.

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Secretariat won the 1973 Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths. CONFESSIONS of Secretariat’s Slower Brother

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John Tweedy ’78 with his mother, Penny, in the 1970s. Penny Tweedy (Chenery) with her Triple Crown winner, Secretariat.

ut my mother, Penny Tweedy ful horses. Mom still gets fan mail, now Giving up hope for a career lit a slow (now Chenery), also played often gushing, “You are such a great lady! fuse. By the time of my 1960s childhood, a key role in Secretariat’s I’ve watched your movie at least 20 times!” our household was a tense place, a genteel story – a role for which she Thus Hollywood becomes our historian. clapboard front to the wars of gender and Bhad, by twists of fortune, been well pre- But as my mother puts it, “In some ways, generation that marked the era. The battle pared. She bred him into an intact racing that’s a lot of BS.” lines were sharper, the injuries deeper, and stable that, two years earlier, she’d had the losses more permanent than today’s to cajole her siblings not to sell. She had “family-friendly” films convey. When Mom in place a brilliant trainer, jockey, and When disclosure had the opportunity to escape and achieve, backstretch team. She had even been she grabbed it with both hands. through a dress rehearsal the previous became unavoidable, The youngest of her children, a skinny year, winning the 1972 Kentucky Derby eighth-grader recently transplanted from with Riva Ridge. And then, once Secre- I would casually Colorado, I felt dazzled by her brilliance tariat’s championship season evolved and lost in her dust. Secretariat’s grandeur beyond any expectation, she did her best mention that thrilled me utterly. And to celebrate his to do him public justice. Penny adopted a victories in the elite recesses of famous democratic persona for the TV audience, my mother owned racetracks, where waiters impassively broadening the appeal of a sport previ- served champagne to a 12-year-old boy, ously dominated by aristocrats. She was “a horse called felt giddily surreal. But these experiences more parental than possessive, reflecting left a hangover too. My adolescent ego her enthusiasm for the horse’s achieve- Secretariat.” grew increasingly frustrated at being ments to fans of any class. And yet she famous for the achievements of someone maintained the social graces of her In real life, my mother belongs to the else. And I resented my parents’ public boarding-school upbringing, sending a World War II generation, with the salty efforts to portray their marriage and personally signed response to every one vocabulary to prove it. She’s like many of family as intact and happy, when privately of those pieces of fan mail. She was some- the mothers of my formmates at St. Paul’s we had fallen apart. how both a ham and a lady. Forty years – smart, ambitious women who went to By 1974, when I arrived at St. Paul’s, later, the racing world still loves her. good schools, served capably during the where both my father, Jack ’39, and my The 2009 film Secretariat, starring war, and were forced back into the kitchen brother, Chris ’74, had gone before me, Diane Lane, vividly captured the partner- in the late 1940s, where they sweated – the last thing I wanted to talk about was ship between horse and owner in mythic and fumed – for the next quarter-century. Secretariat. Thankfully, the School largely Disney tradition. The movie even features Mom worked in a naval architecture firm obliged. I’m sure my peers knew I was a ball scene, with my mother dressed in until D-Day, went to France with the Red a kid from a famous family – like the a gown and elbow-length gloves. Thus Cross in 1945, and came within a month senator’s son, or the girl who came from elevated to the status of Disney princess of finishing her Columbia M.B.A.; until European royalty – but none were gauche fable, Penny’s story has delighted a new her father insisted she quit, so she could enough to mention it. This pattern con- 12 generation of girls who dream of power- plan her wedding. tinued into college, where I became so silent on the topic that friends would My wife, Beret Strong, and I have made as director and editor, I tried to steer be- know me for a year before it arose. When documentaries since the 1990s, and I had tween the opposing shoals of hagiography disclosure became unavoidable, I would long thought of Mom’s pristine film prints and exposé. And a documentary still needs casually mention that my mother owned of Secretariat’s races and other family a story, with a plot that obeys the laws of “a horse called Secretariat.” archives as rich sources for a film. Plus, ancient drama. “Dude,” one classmate laughed. “That’s from the fearlessness of a 90-year-old Among those narrative archetypes is the like saying your dad is a guy named perspective, Mom now wanted to talk – “hero’s journey.” One of my great-grand- Richard Nixon.” about how her own childhood was marked father’s rules of thoroughbred etiquette And so the non sequitur took form, a by conflict and abuse; how her father was, “Don’t embarrass the horse.” If brilliant fragment casting an ill-fitting encouraged excellence but insisted on Penny’s life has elements of heroism, it shadow, persisting for decades. When the submission; how her ambitions chafed is partly because she has worked for four Disney movie came out, my brother Chris under the housewife role; how her anger decades to live up to an animal that many joked, “I’m glad they made up the family grew; how it felt to take over her father’s still think of as the paragon of his sport. part. In real life we were neither functional stable, to find victory with Riva Ridge but But Penny’s journey is also simply that enough, nor dysfunctional enough, to make to achieve a kind of grace in Secretariat’s of many women of her era. I think the a good movie.” transcendence. How, at the same time, she women of the “Greatest Generation” were It struck me that Chris’s remark stated lost her father and her marriage. How she heroes – along with the men who fought the problem dead on. As a culture, we re- found a new path in the loneliness and and died – whether they became famous quire our public figures to be either para- liberation of fame. or not. And in exploring Penny’s private gons or fallen, either accepting the Oscar The resulting film is Penny and Red: The struggles and triumphs, as well as her pub- or checking into rehab. In truth, celebrity Life of Secretariat’s Owner. A documentary lic glories, Penny and Red aims to suggest often combines elements of both. What Mom should offer a fact-based perspective but that, from the perspective of those who and I both needed, for our separate reasons, not make a pretense of truth. In my per- live it, a heroic life is no fairy tale. was to weave the public and personal nar- sonal interviews with her, Mom and I Penny and Red is available on DVD at ratives of her life into a single braid. aimed for catharsis, and we found it. But www.landlockedfilms.com.

Winter Sports Highlights

the offensive leaders. Jenna Rheault ’15 Sports Summary was a force on defense. VARSITY BOYS WON LOST TIE

MARK S. MAHRE Meanwhile, the boys alpine ski team Basketball 1 24 0 won both the slalom and giant slalom Hockey 14 10 6 titles in the Lakes Region, while the girls Squash 5 9 0 Alpine 9 2 0 placed second in those events. Eric Nordic 30 12 0 Greenstein ’17, Oliver Van Everen ’16, Wrestling 12 5 0 71 62 6 Annika Andersson ’16, and Isabel Chobor ’17 each earned all-star hon- VARSITY GIRLS ors in the slalom and giant slalom. Basketball 11 12 0 The girls varsity hockey team won the Hockey 22 4 2 NEPSAC Division I title. The boys squash team (fourth at DIII Squash 2 10 0 nationals) received the New England Alpine 8 2 0 Nordic 28 6 0 St. Paul’s knocked off No. 3 Nobles Team Sportsmanship Award, while 71 34 2 (2-0) and No 2. Williston Northampton Henry Parkhurst ’16 was the ISL’s (1-0) in the NEPSAC Division 1 Girls individual sportsman recipient. The VARSITY TOTAL 142 96 8

Hockey Tournament, en route to a SPS wrestling team went 12-5, placing JV BOYS 6-2 defeat of No. 5 Pomfret and the fourth at the Graves-Kelsey Tourna- Basketball 2 11 0 program’s first-ever New England ment. Drew Saccone ’15 was selected Hockey 6 6 2 Squash 8 5 0 title. Goalie Kerri St. Denis ’15 sported the Boston Globe MVP for ISL wrestling. 16 22 2 a .970 save percentage in the tourna- Saccone was one of five SPS wrestlers ament, while Bridget Carey ’15 se- to earn All-New England honors. The JV GIRLS Basketball 6 8 1 cured the NE championship with a boys hockey team, led by five All-ISL Hockey 15 0 0 hat trick in the final. Carey (10g, 19a, skaters, finished second in the ISL’s Squash 3 8 0 6 GWG), Gillis Frechette ’18 (14g, Keller Division, while the boys basket- 24 16 1

16a), Finley Frechette ’17 (15g, 14a), ball team had a tough season in terms TOTAL SPS JV 40 38 3 Miriam Eickhoff ’15 (10g, 15a), and of record, but was recognized with the Isabel Stoddard ’17 (7g, 16a) were ISL Team Sportsmanship Award. GRAND TOTAL 182 134 11

13 Finding Chemistry in Indian Tradition

Hopie Stockman ’03 tries on a block-printed scarf in Bagru, India. Photo by Lily Stockman ’01 Finding Chemistry in Indian Tradition

With BLOCK SHOP, sisters Lily ’01 and Hopie ’03 Stockman are combining ancient printing techniques with social entrepreneurship

by Jana F. Brown In Bagru, an hour outside Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan she could wear as clothing, having left Bagru with a gar- in Northern India, all 200 members of the intimate com- ment she and Vijendra had printed together. Inspired, munity share the same last name: Chhipa. Stockman sent a block-printed scarf to her sister, The common surname translates to the community’s Hopie ’03, who was at the time working in investment occupation of dyeing and printing clothes. It’s a tradition consulting at Cambridge Associates in San Francisco. that has been passed down for more than 350 years of She, too, was intrigued. cooperative effort. The resulting block-printed textiles “It was really an art project,” says Lily, “that spiraled have typically been sold sparsely in the local market, gloriously out of control.” providing financially for the 18 families in the printing Within six months, and after a constant exchange of community. ideas and images via e-mail, Hopie was on a plane to At first glance, Bagru is not a beautiful place. It sits in India early in 2011. The Stockman sisters discovered an industrial alcove, minutes off the highway in Rajas- that, while Vijendra and the rest of the community of than. Buildings with crumbling exteriors create a visual printers in Bagru maintained a long tradition of block roadmap of history and financial hardship. Livestock printing, they experienced very low demand for their and poultry roam the streets. The village is home to one skill locally. doctor, with limited resources to treat even the most “Vijendra comes from a lineage of hand block print- common conditions, such as nearsightedness or minor ing,” says Hopie. “But the industry has been dwindling skin afflictions. Tainted water sometimes runs through because this is an art form, and there are much cheaper the city’s pipelines, mixing raw sewage with the resi- ways to produce printed textiles these days, such as dents’ drinking water. Waterborne illnesses are common screen printing, which often uses toxic dyes.” irritants; a fact of life from lack of easy access to clean After many conversations about how to best arrange drinking water. the working relationship, the Stockmans developed a But in the midst of all that is less than idyllic about business plan and formed a formal partnership with Bagru, there is also beauty, both in the form of its close- Vijendra and the Bagru textile group. In December 2012, knit community and in the carefully crafted goods the when Hopie was earning her M.B.A. from Harvard and people of the small city create – together. Lily was finishing up her M.F.A. at NYU, the collaboration It was 2010 when visual artist Lily Stockman ’01 was was officially launched as Block Shop Textiles. living for the year in Jaipur, while completing a residency “We figured out a way of bringing Vijendra interna- in Indian miniature painting. A Jaipur-based American tional business,” explains Hopie, “while celebrating this friend encouraged Stockman to skip her painting class ancient craft.” one day to join her on an excursion to the outskirts of The process of moving from design idea to finished the city. There, local textile artists were sharing the work scarf is home-grown on the American side of the of creating handmade block prints, from mixing dyes company too, with Lily and Hopie creating “low-tech” to creating designs to carving the wood to hanging the designs in watercolor out of their studio in Los Angeles. finished textiles from dilapidated rooftops and cast-iron Once the sisters’ designs are hand-engraved into sisam balconies to dry naturally in the sun. wood by master carvers in Bagru, they are transferred It was on that initial excursion that Stockman met to a combination raw silk/cotton fabric that has been Vijendra Chhipa, a fifth-generation master printer, who soaked in a binding acid extracted from the myro- was selling insurance on the side to make ends meet. balan nut and dried in the sun. The extended sheets Because of the complexity of the printing process, Vijen- of fabric are then pinned to long printing tables for dra is also a self-taught chemist. Generous with his time hand stamping of the designs, infusing them with en- and enthusiastic about sharing the ancient techniques, vironmentally sustainable, non-toxic vegetable and Vijendra explained to Stockman the challenges of work- mineral dyes. Finished scarves are left to dry flat in the ing with natural dyes, how the slightest change in the sun for up to three days. Because of subtle imperfec- pH balance will produce dramatic variation in intended tions created by the man-made process, no two finished color scheme. products are exactly alike. It’s that penchant for imper- “I was fascinated by the process,” says Stockman, fection that the sisters and their growing list of customers who earned an M.F.A. in studio art from New York find most charming. University. “I showed him my paintings, took out a Block Shop launched in 2012, with a run of 300 scarves sketchbook, and we talked about designs. It turned into sold only online, through word of mouth. The stock sold a natural collaboration.” out within a few weeks. Three years later, the community Stockman left Bagru unable to stop thinking of her of block carvers, dye mixers, master printers, and seam- meeting with Vijendra. She spent the next several days stresses in Bagru produces between 500 and 1,200 units envisioning his original textiles as dynamic paintings per month.

Lily ’01 and Hopie Stockman ’03 create original textile 16 designs out of their L.A. studio. Photos: Laure Joliet 17 Both Hopie and Lily are cognizant of not overburden- Hopie began researching the social impact Block Shop ing the co-op with more production than its members could have on the family of Chhipa printers – beyond are able to handle. The Stockmans also understand paying fair wages. The research process involved bring- that there are certain seasons – wedding and monsoon, ing a doctor to Bagru to evaluate the general quality of for example – during which production will come to health in the community. As a result of that assessment, a standstill. five percent of Block Shop’s profits were designated for “There is a two-week wedding celebration season,” improving healthcare in the village. explains Lily. “And we plan our production around the “This has to be long-term sustainable,” says Lily. “We Hindu and Muslim holidays.” want Vijendra’s kids to benefit from this.” Understanding the community with whom they have As an example of their commitment to local resources, formed a partnership is central to the social mission at in 2013, Hopie and Lily helped bring to Bagru a mobile the heart of Block Shop. Having spent months in Bagru health clinic, staffed with five medical professionals from among the many families of the co-op, the Stockmans Jaipur. The effort resulted in cataract surgery for eight have come to think of the people as their own family. community members and eyeglasses for close to 70 more. “We immediately noticed the challenges and beauty in Dozens of others received basic medical treatment and Bagru,” says Hopie. “There are stunning fabrics hanging prescription medications for minor conditions. The clinic and drying outside, while whole families are involved has become an annual presence since that time, with in the process. There is a rhythm and a pace to village plans for a future focus on women’s healthcare. The life that we love. But it didn’t take long to realize how sisters’ efforts to improve the community into which addressable certain problems were. We felt that, with they have been welcomed have not been lost on the our resources, we could do a few small things to improve residents of Bagru. the lives of our community.” “They are certainly a perfect combination of passion Joined by a group of Harvard Business School class- and emotions,” says Vijendra. mates, with guidance from a social enterprise professor, Over the last few years, the Stockmans say they have

Vijendra mixes small batches of natural dyes in his workshop. Dye combinations are passed down over generations – and always mixed by hand.

18 LILY STOCKMAN ’01 LILY LAURE JOLIET

Work in porgress: Block Shop designs originate in the Stockman sisters’ L.A. studio.

noticed signs of income growth in the small printing Shop’s operations in Los Angeles to production in Bagru. community outside Jaipur; smartphones, laptops, and It is truly a family that spans two continents. The human televisions in the multi-generational family homes, for connection in the business of Block Shop can be seen example – technology juxtaposed with the challenges of in the fabrics themselves; scarves with hoof prints left providing a basic human need of clean drinking water by a cow walking over undried ink; imperfections in to the residents. the hand-stamped designs; color variations from a On the Stockmans’ most recent trip to India earlier process that is only as precise as the elements will allow. this year, they initiated the installation of new water “One scarf takes three days to make,” says Hopie. “You tanks and water filtration systems to the homes of come in the dead of summer, when it’s 115 degrees, and all 18 printing families. That improvement came as a spend day after day of sampling in those conditions, result of interviewing Bagru residents about their most talking about designs, sharing chai. It doesn’t take long pressing healthcare needs and witnessing community- to become really close to somebody in that environment.” wide epidemics of waterborne illnesses, such as dysen- Though proud of their organically grown business, tery and hepatitis A. that doesn’t mean the Stockmans don’t want to see Block “Our social mission is really driven by the community,” Shop flourish beyond selling its products online. Already, says Lily, noting that the decisions on the company’s bigger business has taken notice of their distinct de- financial contributions to civic improvements are made signs. American retail giant J. Crew recently added four in collaboration with Vijendra. “We are students of Bagru. Block Shop scarf designs to its stores around the world We don’t have all the answers, but we have the emotional and online. A number of wholesalers, from New York investment and the capital to create change. It is really to Paris, have initiated relationships with the India- important to stress that our community initiatives are based textile partnership. Still, the sisters remain mindful driven by the community.” of the very human process that accounts for their dis- Primary among the reasons for Block Shop’s early suc- tribution and are wholly committed to ensuring the cess is that tie to the people of Bagru. The Stockman environmentally sustainable future of the ancient textile sisters know each of the printers by name. They have tradition of Bagru. attended the dance recital of Vijendra’s eight-year-old “Our goal is to continue what we are doing, keeping daughter, Chehika, and shared endless cups of chai with our product line focused,” says Hopie. “We will only their printers’ wives, children, and extended family mem- expand carefully and thoughtfully. We hope to grow into bers. The open communication and kinship that come an international lifestyle brand that people associate with running a family business is what connects Block with authenticity and quality.” 19 On Being Censored

20 On Being Censored Recounting an episode of A number of my very favorite books have been sub- censorship, the author jected to censorship in this country. This is one of the paradoxes of the land that so generously celebrates digresses on why having free speech. Ulysses, by James Joyce, with its frank one’s book banned is descriptions of sexuality and human biology, as well actually a badge of honor as its poignant lyricism, was subjected to censorship until 1933 (when its suppression was overturned in by Rick Moody ’79 United States vs. One Book Called Ulysses). Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs, a novel I loved with abandon when younger, was ruled obscene in Boston in 1965 and had to fight its way back into publication. These books are not without their provocations, it’s true. However, there are a great many books that have been censored in the land of freedom of speech that are not at all provocative by reason of obscen- ity, but which simply ran afoul of other sensitivities. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is a good example. Huck Finn is not above aesthetic suspicion, it seems to me: it has a clumsy ending, and there are times when I am not sure about the depth of the characterizations of the secondary characters. And yet many of the arguments in favor of censoring Huck Finn, of eliminating it from school libraries and curricula, are based not on aesthetic resistance, but on, for example, a historical criticism of dialect.

Photo: Beowulf Sheehan 21 atch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five, two novels that concealed and some things that happened in my child- introduced this reader to satire and black comedy, hood were shoehorned-in anachronistically. Some situ- have both been banned or removed from school li- ations that were not entirely mine for comment were braries. The Catcher In the Rye is often banned, and metaphorized to protect the incompletely innocent, to Chere I imagine that the problem is simply that Salinger whom I am related. All the teenage and pre-teen sexual knew too much about teenagers. He was too sympa- fumbling of The Ice Storm, unfortunately, was mine, or thetic to the inner teenager. Even The Scarlet Letter my siblings’, or my friends. (too kind to Hester Prynne!) and Moby Dick (some of Nevertheless, it became obvious to me, once a film based those guys on that ship seem to be having sex with one on my novel was released in 1997, that the facts as I had another!) have been banned from school reading lists at presented them in The Ice Storm were somewhat con- one point or another. troversial. Actually, it wasn’t the marital swapping central Censorship, or at the very least active suppression of to The Ice Storm that was most controversial. It was literature, has an illustrious history in the United States the sexuality of the kids. This I came to learn in – of all of America. As a reader, I have often places – Arizona in 2006, when a gravitated toward the obscure, the Nevertheless, professor assigned The Ice Storm disliked, the banned, the controver- in a college class called “Currents sial. And my education at St. Paul’s it became obvious of American Life.” I should say School is partly responsible for that I was honored to be assigned this appetite. Back when I was a to me, once a film in this course. Nevertheless, some student at SPS, when the School’s student at Chandler-Gilbert Com- library books were still in Sheldon, based on my novel munity College objected to The Ice the open stacks there were a jour- Storm, and wrote to his or her state ney of the imagination waiting to was released in 1997, senator, Thayer Verschoor, who happen. It was in the Third Form, was only too happy to step into in fact, that I happened upon Port- that the facts as I the classroom himself, allegori- noy’s Complaint, by Philip Roth, a cally, and who then attempted to book whose sexual frankness was had presented them pass state legislation in which at the limit of what a Third Former students could ignore classroom could absorb. Should the librarian in The Ice Storm assignments to which they objected have forbade it to me? I arrived without penalty (see “Avoid What- at Roth’s book that day simply by were somewhat ever Offends You,” from Inside roaming around the fiction section Higher Ed, 2/17/2006, for more of the Sheldon Library, and grabbing controversial. details). In due course, Senator anything that had an interesting Verschoor got to utter, about my jacket. Portnoy’s Complaint, in those days, was bright book, words that I had always longed for, for their wild, yellow. My admiration for the chutzpah of Portnoy transparent error, and their capacity, if frequently re- led to a great number of other controversial books, to produced, to sell many, many copies of my work: “There’s Naked Lunch, Lolita, Kathy Acker, the Marquis de Sade, no defense of this book. I can’t believe that anyone would Dennis Cooper. come up here and try to defend that kind of material.” Having said all this – that being banned is sort of a I believe he also referred to The Ice Storm as “porn- rite of passage in American literature, and that I have ography and smut.” gravitated toward anything that has the perfume of Of course, the law in question, the ignore- censorship about it – I nonetheless never expected to be the-assignments-if-you-like law would be banned as a writer myself. And why would I? The battle hard to support. If enacted, it would have over obscenity in literature (as opposed to the battle invited abuse on either end of the pol- over obscenity in film and video) was all but settled by itical spectrum (extremely liberal stu- the time Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita was published in the dents could ignore textbooks about United States in 1958. I have written nothing with the Ronald Reagan’s great triumphs, atheists fierce, uncompromising intensity of Lolita. could ignore the bible, and we could all ignore At a certain point in my earlier career, I was mainly any textbook produced in the state of Texas). held to be a writer of “suburban gothic” fiction, the Therefore, even conservative voices opposed relevant case in point being my second novel, The Ice the legislation, pragmatically so. Senator Versch- Storm, which was published 20 years ago, and which oor’s bill went down in flames. To my chagrin. I could mainly concerned the trouble a certain Connecticut have sold so many more copies of The Ice Storm if it family got into over the Thanksgiving holiday of 1973. had passed! Perhaps it is worth confessing here that almost nothing I figured this would close out my career as a censored 22 in The Ice Storm was imaginary. Some identities were writer, because if you’re a fairly genteel writer from the suburbs, you only get to have “pornography” and “smut” of the student objected to the assigned reading. What lobbed at you once in lifetime. But, alas, recently, there resulted was not only a full-court press to censor has been another case where my work has caused Peterson’s reading list (I was not the only writer removed, trouble, again in Arizona. This time in Scottsdale, which, and I was in extremely lofty company: “Hills Like White as you probably know, is one of the most affluent towns Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway was also removed), but in the Southwest. a simultaneous attempt to terminate Peterson’s career at The case this time concerns the reading list of a pro- Arcadia High as well. Peterson was fortunate to have some fessor of honors English at Arcadia High School in Scotts- remarkably energetic students on his side, however, and dale. The teacher’s name is David Peterson, and he studied while the parents apparently have not given up, the school writing himself (he has an M.F.A. in fiction writing), and district has resisted pressure to fire David Peterson, if perhaps predictably his reading list is extremely erudite. not exactly with the brave, principled language that one You can find it online if you poke around a bit. The list might hope for. I am, it’s worth pointing out, still missing features Raymond Carver, Ernest Hemingway, Susan from the reading list. Minot, and Amy Hempel, and it used to, once upon a time, My story “Boys,” I should point out, does have a para- include a story by me called “Boys,” from a collection of graph about masturbation in it (and I could point to short fiction entitled Demonology. Portnoy’s Complaint as an influence here), because this As I understand it, Mr. Peterson gave my story to a was a practice of teenage boys of my acquaintance when student who had had trouble coming up with an essay I was myself a teenage boy, and I imagine myself to be a about something else entirely, and, again, the parents salesman of realities, and thus the inclusion of these lines. Nonetheless, as with The Ice Storm, the larger and more literary flavor of the story in question is overlooked (or perhaps entirely misunderstood) by the pro-censorship parents of Mr. Peterson’s student. This all strikes me as regrettable. Something has changed in me over these 10 years between incidents of censor- ship. It no longer seems quite so funny and predictable, the fact of my own suppression as a writer. Now it all seems a bit sad to me. Sad because one can have an entire political sector of the nation that purports to celebrate our cherished national freedoms, and yet which is none- theless trigger happy as regards abridging the very first amendment in the bill of rights one so vocally supports. Sad because this all implies that people who consider themselves educated do not always seem to me to under- stand the purpose of literature, and the human con- sciousness depicted there. But sad, most of all, because people get hurt in these unnecessary political struggles. Mr. David Peterson has been in fear for his job, because he gave a student my short story, and I feel badly about this, that something I scrawled on my hand (it’s true, I wrote the first sentence of “Boys” on my hand at a reading in Bennington, Vt., in 1995) could lead to grave professional anxiety for a hard-working teacher in Scottsdale, Arizona. It is a badge of honor to be on the list of domestically banned books, because it’s an august list of books. But if literature, at the end of the day, is about the human heart, about the vicissitudes of the human heart, then it’s hard, as a writer, not to care about the people caught up in the daily use of our product, and to worry on their behalf. It would be better, from my point of view, if all the danger- ous ideas were out there in the sunlight, and we could all talk about them, and we could see which have merit over The story “Boys,” from Rick Moody’s collection, was banned from a high the course of time. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Chief school reading list. among the ideas that I would test out in that bright light would be this one: live and let live. Or to put it another way: you read whatever you like, and let me do the same. 23 Q&A: with Former FBI Director Robert Mueller ’62

24 Photo: Getty Images/Win McNamee Q&A: with Former FBI Director by Brett Forrest ’91 Robert Mueller ’62 Robert Mueller ’62 served as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), assuming the office one week before the terrorist attacks of Sep- tember 11, 2001. Mueller subsequently spearheaded a fundamental shift in FBI philosophy, as the Bureau moved from its traditional emphasis on criminal cases to become an intelligence-led national security organization.

Growing up in Philadelphia and Princeton, N.J., Mueller entered St. Paul’s in the fall of 1958. He quickly established himself in athletics, eventually captaining the hockey and lacrosse teams and earning the Gordon Medal as best athlete as a Sixth Former. He joined the Marines and served in Vietnam, where he received the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. Mueller’s time in the military triggered a devotion to public serv- ice in adult life. Before taking over at the FBI, Mueller was a longtime federal prosecutor and a senior Justice Department official. For the last year-plus, since his retirement from the FBI, Mueller has been a partner in the Washington law firm of WilmerHale. He works out of the firm’s Pennsylvania Avenue headquarters, a few blocks from the White House, where he routinely briefed two presidents as the longest-serving FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover. While Mueller now focuses on issues of cyber security for WilmerHale clients, he hasn’t shrunk from the spotlight. Earlier this year, he led an investigation into the NFL’s handling of the Ray Rice affair. From his corner office at WilmerHale, Mueller spoke with Alumni Horae about national security, public service, and his time at the School.

25 The former FBI director sat down in his D.C. office with journalist Brett Forrest ’91

Let’s begin by talking about the concept You went there for hockey, and you were Q of service to one’s country. How did Sep- Q surprised to come away with something else? tember 11th confirm the significance of service, along with the choices you have made throughout Many years later. I did not recognize it at the time. your career? A I’ve been very lucky to have attended institutions Did you have much of a relationship with A that focus – and focus the individuals – on serv- Q Matthew Warren, who was the Rector at ice. St. Paul’s did. Princeton did. I’ve always loved public the time? service, the feeling of freedom that you have to do what’s right, and the desire to give back. I don’t think anyone had a close relationship with A Matthew Warren. He was one of those figures that you would assume would be in charge of something The freedom you have to do what’s right. like a prep school. Back then, the School was all male, Q What does that mean? very constrained, very regimented. He was truly the epitome of that. He also had the power of the church It means you don’t look at the bottom line. And behind him. He was a formidable figure you did not want whether it be at St. Paul’s – being on teams, you A to mess with. He didn’t, now that I think about it, have a sacrifice some of yourself to be part of a team. The same bad smile. But austere is a word that comes to mind when thing at Princeton. In the Marine Corps, it’s leading men, I think of him. sometimes to combat. And certainly as a prosecutor, and then at the FBI. You have the freedom to do what you think is right. The great thing about being the director What did sports at St. Paul’s give you? of the FBI is that you get to be aggressively apolitical, Q which is a huge freedom. And so you have the rewards It was my first exposure to leadership, captain- of interesting work, working with great people, and the A ing a team. There are no handbooks on that kind freedom to make the right choice. Hopefully. of stuff.

How did you make your way to St. Paul’s? At the Justice Department, you oversaw the Q Q Manuel Noriega case, as well as the Pan Am I ended up going to St. Paul’s because I loved 103 case. How did these cases foreshadow the A hockey. They had seven rinks. That was the globalized threat to the U.S. and the extended legal decisive factor. reach necessary to combat it?

I would say Noriega was in a long line of cases Describe the atmosphere at the School when A – narcotics cases – that were all international. Q you arrived. Pan Am 103 was far different in a number of ways. The plane went down in Scotland. We lost persons from many All I cared about was sports – soccer, hockey, different countries. Ninety percent of the people were lacrosse. That’s what kept me going. All I cared A Americans. We investigated the case together – ourselves, about was putting on my skates and going to the rinks. the FBI, and the Scottish authorities. The case involved I was fortunate to go there, because it taught me how Switzerland, Libya, Germany, and other countries. Con- to write. Not everybody has the advantage of getting sequently, when you have these major international that kind of education. And the other thing that made incidents, much of it now depends on the admissibility a difference was religion, going to Chapel every day of evidence in this world where no longer is anything and twice on Sunday. You don’t figure yourself to be localized. You could admit statements in Scotland that particularly religious. But what I found is that it grew you could never admit in a U.S. courtroom. When I first on me over a period of time, particularly in Vietnam. started as a prosecutor in San Francisco, one out of 10 It’s one of those things that you don’t really recognize cases would have some aspect outside of the Bay Area. that you’re going to take away from St. Paul’s. Ten to 15 years later, it was nine out of 10 that would have something to do either with another state or, most likely, internationally. It’s become much more complex and much more difficult to bring people to justice. Is it organized crime operating out of Moscow or Kiev or Eastern Europe? Or is it an 18-year-old hacker in his garage? 26 The former FBI director sat down in his D.C. office with journalist Brett Forrest ’91

In 1993, you went into private practice. But This is a question each President asks Q you returned to federal prosecution shortly Q consistently? thereafter, heading up the homicide division in Washington. What called you back to public service? Consistently, consistently. If it’s not articulated in A each of the sessions, you know that it’s behind the I wanted to try more cases. And I’ve always loved questions to you. For both of them what was foremost on A the investigations – ballistics, DNA, fingerprints. their mind was: How do you prevent the next terrorist Probably the most satisfaction I’ve ever gotten were the attack? years I was trying homicides here in the District. Because of the impact, not just on society, but also trying to bring You have said that the 9/11 attacks might have justice for the victims’ families. Q been prevented if the FBI had followed through on tips from its field offices. How so? Did you really answer the phone “Mueller. Q Homicide?” It’s pure speculation whether we could have A stopped it. We may have been able to stop part of Probably. it, not all of it. For the Bureau there were three areas we A had to address. First was prioritization. You have to make certain that everyone in the organization knows When you returned to Washington in the sum- terrorism is your No. 1 priority, even though you’ve got mer of 2001, you started reading classified Q gang problems in Los Angeles or Chicago. Before you documents that discussed a possible terror attack start to tackle that, you better take care of this business. on U.S. soil. How real was that prospect for you? Secondly, you can’t focus solely on whether something I didn’t have a full appreciation for what was hap- was admissible in a courtroom, but putting together a pening with terrorism at that point, because I lived mosaic of what is happening and what might happen in A the future. The usual metrics of the arrests, indictments, on the West Coast. While there had been a number of cases and convictions are inadequate. The question has to be: – East African bombings, the U.S.S. Cole bombing – they really didn’t affect what I was doing in the U.S. Attorney’s What is the threat? What do we know about the threat? office in San Francisco. There had been the previous What specifically do we not know about the threat? Then Towers bombing, but on the West Coast it didn’t resonate go out and fill in that gap. Third, we needed better part- the same way, particularly if you’re in a target city like New nership with CIA and state and local law enforcement. York or Washington. So I came to it without a full appre- ciation of how the world had changed since I had last been How can the FBI operate in the prevention in Washington. I had not been closely involved with any of Q business, while still making sure to abide by the terrorist attacks in the way I was with Pan Am 103. the Constitution?

I don’t think it’s either or. History will judge us as Describe your initial discussions with to whether or not we were able to protect the President Bush following September 11. A Q United States against terrorist attacks – maintain national One of the formative meetings was when I first security – on the one hand, but also judge us in terms briefed him a day or so after it happened. I go in of whether we did it within the confines of the Constitu- A tion. I tend to think that, from day one after September and see him and [VP] Cheney and [CIA Director] George Tenet, and others. I started off by saying things like, “Mr. 11, we knew there would be that balance. We knew that President, we’ve got command posts at each of the inci- every day there would be issues and decisions. And we dent sites and we’re starting to identify the individuals.” were insistent that we do it in the appropriate guidelines. My memory is the President stopped me and said, “That’s My own belief is that Congress sets those guidelines for all well and good, but my question to you today is: What is us. The courts supervise those guidelines. You have to the Bureau doing to prevent the next terrorist attack?” make absolutely certain that the people gathering intel- I’d always been used to investigating after the fact and ligence are doing it for the appropriate purposes, with gathering evidence to put in the courtroom. Having that the appropriate guidelines. I think we generally have question put to me stood me up in my tracks. And that’s a stayed pretty well within those guidelines. But, still, it’s question that he asked just about every day I briefed him, a delicate balance. which was just about every day in his first term. With President Obama, it’s been the same. The same question: What’s the Bureau doing to stop the next terrorist attack? 27 The FBI investigated one of the Boston How do you combat cyber terrorism? Q bombers before the attack. How did you Q handle that? Amongst the foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq On the night we arrested the Boston bomber, we A are going to be a bunch of hackers, and sooner got their names. An agent comes in and says, or later they’re going to get their act together. We’re just A beginning a discussion as to which cyber events should “Director, you know we had the older brother under investi- gation two years ago.” We informed the President later be handled in the national security arena, as opposed to that morning to assure that he saw it before it was reported. the criminal arena – the same kinds of debates that you have as to what action should the executive take in the military sphere to address terrorism attacks. That brings us to the Edward Snowden case. Q What does the significant domestic support for him tell you about the American understanding You’ve said you’re a prosecutor at heart. about what’s happening in the larger world? Q Where did this come from, the sense that you were going to be the one to make it right? I’m not going to talk about Snowden, because the investigation of him and his activities occurred I just want to be in control of my cases. I want to A make the decisions. I don’t want to be responding while I was still there. I’ll say he’s indicted. And I would A hope that he’d come back and face the music. to somebody else making the decisions. I actually went to law school to be an FBI agent. Then I decided to be a prosecutor. And I kept each year saying, “Why do I want Considering the evolving terrorist threat of to join the FBI? If I were an agent, I would investigate Q groups like ISIS, what are we doing to thwart the case, put a nice red ribbon around it, give it to the an attack on U.S. soil? prosecutor, and the prosecutor would just screw it up.” So I thought, if I was going to screw it up, I may as well I’ve always been under the belief that there do it as a prosecutor. A should be no terrorism threat that goes uneval- uated, uninvestigated. People quibble with that because it takes a lot of time to run down every lead. I’m still of [Former Massachusetts Governor] William the belief that you have to do it. And it’s twice as diffi- Q Weld said that you always wanted to be cult now as it was when I was there because of the social FBI director . . . media capability of ISIS and the inability to thwart and stop the radicalization on the Internet. When it comes You don’t even think about that. I mean, it’s so to terrorism, we’re in a completely new and dangerous A far beyond. My wife and I still sit around and say, time. They have something like 20,000 foreign fighters “Did that happen?” I never thought it conceivable or now who have gone to – or are on their way to – Syria possible. and Iraq. Some number of them will make it back to their home countries with training and experience. People have called you a straight arrow. Q An article in the Washingtonian called you How do you combat foreign fighters returning “The Ultimate G-Man.” Do you find this sort of Q to the U.S.? talk complimentary? A couple months after I took over as the director, Well, it’s better than what can be said. In the end, A I went over to see the head of MI5. I said, “You all A that kind of stuff is meaningless. address the IRA problem, which is somewhat similar. What’s your advice?” She said two things: sources and You handled the Ray Rice investigation. wires. You’ve got to have informants, you’ve got to have Q How did you come to lead that project? sources, and you’ve got to have wires. It’s the only way you can identify the structure and take out the structure. I happened to meet with the NFL three or four A months earlier. And then I got a call the night the AP ran its story about that Rice tape being sent to the NFL. They said “would you be willing to do it” and I said “yes.”

28 Has our society become too critical of promi- Q nent people and organizations in recent years? I’m not sure I would agree with that. Through- A out our history, anybody of some prominence gets knocked about. The problem is the vehicle for that criticism is everyplace. Social media now is far more influential than the New York Times or Washington Post. My concern is what we saw happen with the Boston Marathon bombing, where the media identified two persons as being the possible persons responsible. They got the two wrong persons, and the media is jumping on this without adequate facts. This is problematic. I’m not worried about that with you, because you went to St. Paul’s. [Laughs.]

Sure, that’s a guarantee. Some people in Q Washington say the FBI wasn’t your last big job in public service . . . A No. That was the best job for me.

Brett Forrest ’91 is an international jour- nalist, who has reported from more than 40 countries. He is a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine and author of the interna- tional bestseller The Big Fix. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES/ALEX WONG

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The Essentials of with an engaging – sometimes cryptic – – from top executives to street-level Persuasive Public title, luring the reader to discover that consumers – means everyone, not just Speaking page’s gem of public-speaking wisdom. business people, will enjoy learning from by Sims Wyeth ’69 Who wouldn’t be curious about how Rein’s expertise. W.W. Norton & Company, “squirrel-paw hands” undermine a bril- Rein’s main thesis here is that China 192 pages, $14.95 liant speech, or why “glottal fry” is the is primed to enter the third stage of the kiss of death for orators? His chapters innovation curve, in which the country focus on “Preparation,” “Design and will not only create business models and Reviewed by George Chase, Use of Visual Aids” (Should anyone be products that meet the growing needs of humanities faculty subjected to the punishment of one more the Chinese population, but will innovate soporific Power Point?), “Special Occasions,” for the world. Although bribes, corrup- Is the steady stream of people making and more. tion, intellectual property theft, concerns their way to the coffee table during your Keep this entertaining and helpful book about food safety, stifling government presentations distracting you? And why close by. When your moment comes to regulations, and an execution-centric is it that your colleagues sigh and start stand and deliver, you will find comfort, workforce have been restrictive in the doodling on their notepads when you confidence, and craft in its pages. Your past, the climate in China is changing, stand up to make a proposal? Maybe you audiences will let the coffee wait. Rein asserts. The economy has already can’t understand why you earn HHs on made a positive shift toward innovation, your humanities essays, but have yet to The End of Copycat services, and consumption. make the finals of the Hugh Camp Cup China: The Rise of In The End of Copycat China, Rein goes speech contest. Are you starting to think Creativity, Innovation, beyond describing current consumer and that your audiences are clapping at the and Individualism business trends. He offers advice and end of your talks simply because they in Asia insight into the market specific to China, are over? Fear not! These frustrations by Shaun Rein ’96 demonstrating how certain domestic and queries will quickly be addressed by Wiley, 256 pages, $25 companies have succeeded when big- heeding the wise advice of Sims Wyeth ’69 name foreign competition has failed to in his latest book, The Essentials of Per- Reviewed by Hannah MacBride recognize the opportunities and chal- suasive Public Speaking. lenges unique to the Chinese market. It is clear Wyeth has witnessed his fair Shaun Rein’s latest work is a guidebook A few examples of fascinating trends in share of presentations, both lousy and to the dynamic Chinese economy. Build- China include the recent desire for exper- effective, and, as president of his firm, ing on his thesis from his 2012 book, The iences, especially traveling, over material Sims Wyeth & Company, “devoted to the End of Cheap China: Economic and Cul- possessions; the lifestyle choices and art and science of speaking persuasively,” tural Trends That Will Disrupt the World, consumer responses to heavy pollution; he has vast experience as both speaker Rein argues that China has evolved from and the growing market for local, organic, and coach. It seems he never let even the a derivative, labor-based industrial giant and heritage food and beverages. WeChat most tortuous hour of a terrible talk go to to an exciting and burgeoning new mar- is an excellent example of a Chinese waste or failed to notice the most subtle ket for foreign and domestic companies company that understands its market. A techniques behind a brilliant speech. open to the challenge. multi-faceted mobile communication Instead, Wyeth used those experiences As the founding and managing director app, WeChat allows users to send short, wisely, noting the elements of presenta- of the China Market Research Group, recorded voice memos because the tions that bothered, bored, or exhilarated Rein has extensive knowledge of the Chinese language does not lend itself him. In this witty, accessible, and helpful forces at work in the Chinese market. He to texting. guide, the author has compiled an inval- enlivens the data with anecdotes rang- Overall, Rein has produced an eye- uable set of tips to coach those faced with ing from the excessive spending of the opening read, not just for those business- the challenges of public speaking, includ- wealthy (I don’t know what to do with savvy folks, hoping to invest or expand ing conquering inhibitions, fine-tuning my money!) to detailed descriptions of in China, but also for those fascinated by techniques, and revving up deliveries. a middle-income mother’s pantry to his the country and its people. This book contains a nugget of advice own family’s struggles living in a country on each page that is not only helpful in plagued by air pollution. An easy-to- its content, but also entertaining in its follow journalistic style coupled with presentation. Wyeth heads each page access to a wide variety of interviewees

30 I Am Because You Are: join forces in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, how UEF’s early piecemeal projects in- How the Spirit of to help youth in an urban township char- stalling computer labs and libraries in Ubuntu Inspired an acterized by both a rich cultural heritage local schools ultimately proved ineffec- Unlikely Friendship and “extreme poverty and organized chaos.” tive in their long-term impact. After all, and Transformed a Lief’s narrative, introduced with a as he points out, “hours of tutoring or a Community foreword by Desmond Tutu, traces UEF’s health education class meant little when by Jacob Lief and programmatic evolution. Ubuntu (which rain leaked through the roof and there Andrea Thompson ’96 means “I am because you are”) is a South was nothing to eat for dinner.” Rodale Books, 240 pages, $24.99 African concept and is revealed as a com- His accounts of UEF’s shift to a more plex undertaking. In theory, ubuntu is an (w)holistic in loco parentis approach are Reviewed by Mashadi Matabane, operational philosophy for an organiza- acute and compelling. Coming to under- humanities faculty tion that believes in interdependently stand the indivisibility of children’s mul- harnessing the time, knowledge, and com- tiple needs led to the development of a This is an energetic, unflinching memoir mitment of its interracial senior leader- constellation of comprehensive services, about social entrepreneur Jacob Lief’s ship, staff, and clients (children and young including financial assistance, sexual experience building Ubuntu Education adults, many orphaned). In practice, it abuse counseling, HIV/AIDS education, Fund (UEF) from a grassroots startup comes across as a stressful and reward- college preparation, and other “basics of in 1999 into an influential, high-profile ing process that requires perseverance in life” skills. It also led to the construction global development organization. Written negotiating new ideas, entrenched poverty, of an astounding architecturally designed with Andrea Thompson ’96, the book bureaucracy, and cultural relativism Ubuntu Centre. Of his own and Gwaxula’s chronicles how Lief, a white American – racial and class privilege. transformative experiences, Lief writes college kid from a privileged background, Interspersed with descriptions of var- modestly, “We didn’t know the rules of and UEF co-founder Malizole “Banks” ious children’s challenges, statistics, and development; we didn’t care about the Gwaxula, a committed but underpaid and Q&As (with influential UEF supporters external measures of success. And we overworked South African schoolteacher, in development), Lief critically observes didn’t see ourselves as saving anyone.”

On the Shelf . . . Citizens Disunited The Color Symphonies lection is ultimately a study in humanism. Robert A.G. Monks ’50 Wade Stevenson ’63 While the underlying spirit of the world Democratic capitalism, the The latest offering from will eventually destroy us and all we have foundation of our entire Wade Stevenson reads wrought, it is our human stories that economic system, is more like a dramatic novel bring meaning to the world. This is what threatened as never than the typical book of Karnow offers us – layered stories to before. Shareholders no poems, with each color chew on and digest. longer own the corporations in which playing a role as a main character in this they have invested. Emboldened by the meditation on color, light, and love. Ste- Blood on My Hands Supreme Court and enabled by a compli- venson artfully explores the interactions Gerard H. Cox ’56 ant Congress and compromised regulators, and dialogue between these colors, with This book differs from America’s CEOs have staged a corporate reference to Josef Albers and to Johann previous works on hunt- coup d’état. They decide where and how Wolfgang von Goethe’s Theory of Colors. ing because it is the first company resources will be deployed, to treat it as an ecological what laws will be evaded for short-term Just a Bite act, to insist on a defini- gain, where offshore profits will be stashed Curtis Karnow ’71 tion of ecology that includes ourselves. to avoid taxation, and how lavishly the A collection of very, very Such a view enables us to rediscover the CEOs will be compensated. Far too much short stories. Each story radical elements of being fully human – of American business is being run for the “bite” is a window into a consuming together the gifts of the game personal enrichment of its managerkings. world – of bad books, Dairy and celebrating the cycle of life amidst This book discusses how that happened and Queens, and an as-yet- death by feasting and storytelling. Becom- unveils a new study showing that corpor- unbuilt adobe pizza oven; of fried octopus, ing mindful of our relation to other life- ations “un-owned” by their shareholders old china cups, and worn linoleum floors; forms in turn can help us stop being the have significantly lower average share- of unpaid bills, long-term disability in- most invasive and destructive species on holder returns than firms in which owners surance, and the other worries that wake Earth and become the one who begins still exercise authority over management. us up in the middle of the night. This col- cleaning up the mess we have made. Supporting the Next Generation

Rob Claflin ’64 talks about recycling in a way few others do. “My grandfather, Tom, graduated in 1903 and my father, Mort, followed in 1932. Their planned gifts have been recycled to the benefit of the next generation of Paulies, including my sons, Tom ’03 and Henry ’05. I wanted to make a significant gift toward our 50th reunion, so I decided that making an irrevocable planned gift was the best way to do it. Perhaps my gift will benefit my own grandchildren.”

For a confidential conversation about what type of planned gift might be best for you. Please contact Bob Barr, director of gift planning, at 603-229-4875, [email protected]; or visit our website at www.sps.edu/plannedgiving. PHOTO: KAREN BOBOTAS FORMNOTES

These Formnotes reflect infor- your date book. Oxygen will be agonizing details that satisfy mation received through April provided. Cheers!” (most) clients. I have worked 2015. Please send news/photos with numerous excessively of yourself or other alumni for brilliant staff, great colleagues, these pages to: Formnotes Editor, community groups, politicians, Alumni Horae, St. Paul’s School, 1950 and, believe it or not, some re- 325 Pleasant St., Concord, N.H. Dean Howells ally great private- and public- [email protected] 03301 or [email protected]. www.sps.edu/1950 sector clients. I am a fellow of the American Institute of Made a three-day trip with a Architects, past president of the friend to Jerusalem and Beth- Boston Society of Architects, 1940 lehem to see why everybody and current member of the San Clarence Michalis has been killing each other Francisco AIA. [email protected] over the millennia. Masada I have worked in San Fran- Talbot Adamson and the Dead Sea were unique. cisco, Washington, Baltimore, [email protected] Tony Nicholas ’58 enjoying Hendon Chubb recently wrote Boston, Cleveland, Buffalo, and www.sps.edu/1940 reading time with his grand- and published a highly erudite, New York. From 1954 to 1958, I son, Ben. scholarly, selective – not to say was a Marine fighter pilot, fly- eccentric – encyclopedia titled ing SNJs, TV-2s, F9-5s and 7s, son prosper and our grandson The Curious Magpie, which is F3-Ds, and the beautiful FJ-4, grow. I have been lucky all my 1945 available at Amazon in paper- stationed at Atsugi, Japan. Last life, helped greatly by SPS.” Tony O’Connor back or on Kindle. It is designed year, Natasha and I moved from [email protected] for the thoughtful and curious. www.sps.edu/1945 New York to be with our son and George Rose shares: “Married grandson. From 1961 to 2011, I William Painter writes: to wonderful Libby. Won’t see you have acquired slightly more ad- 1954 “Am now retired from being a at the reunion. As Dean knows, I mirers than critics. My experi- Ed Harding law professor, having taught at just don’t travel anymore; doesn’t [email protected] ence ranges from the very small George Washington University work very well when you’re – designing every molecule of We are proud of the presen- Law School and the University stuck on a four-wheel rolling the gorgeous, traditional looking tation of the Alumni Association of Illinois College of Law. I also walker – hips, legs, arteries, and front desk for the high-profile Award to Ted Achilles, on April practiced for four years in New so on. However, I feel lucky and Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston – to 8 in New York City. I think most York with Debevoise & Plimpton at peace. I am immobilized in the very, very large, having been of you are aware that Ted de- LLP. Since retirement, I have one of the world’s nicest places, designated chief architect for the cided that his retirement would engaged in a few public service Charleston, S.C. I miss all of you New York MTA’s gigantic $8.5 consist of creating a school for activities, such as teaching guys. The only way I could see you billion “East Side Access” LIRR girls in Kabul, Afghanistan. He retirees English literature. I am is if you visit Charleston. Give it railroad station (165,000 trips has named it SOLA (School of also a dogaholic, with a chronic a shot ([email protected]; per day), now well advanced Leadership Afghanistan). The dependency on one English set- 843-607-3389).” purpose is to prepare young ter after another as well as an Peter Hopkinson writes: into construction under Park English cocker spaniel (my lat- “I am retired but, at 82, am Avenue at Grand Central Ter- Afghan girls for continuing est). There is no recovery from filled with strong opinions minal. In 2006, I was designated higher education in many of this illness. Only more dogs. about everything, including the chief architect for New Jersey the best secondary schools and We are year-round residents of design processes for architec- Transit’s $8.3 billion railroad colleges in the world. Many Yarmouth Port, Mass. Call us for ture, planning, and managing station (137,000 trips per day), have come to the U.S., includ- a visit (508-362-9990).” interdisciplinary design coor- planned to be built under 34th ing St. Paul’s. SOLA is a 501c-3 Sid Lovett writes: “We have dination with the full range of Street at Penn Station, until and has already found support experienced a winter similar to critically important engineering Governor Christie canceled it. I from major foundations and ’42-’43, with snow and tem- and other specialist disciplines. took this as a sign to retire at 80, individuals. We cannot take a peratures to match. Our 70th I have been very good at con- leaving it for others to put that whole lot of credit for Ted’s reunion is scheduled for June ceptual brainstorming and Humpty Dumpty together again. accomplishments, but we can 3-5, 2016, so begin marking wrestling fuzzy concepts into Natasha and I are watching our be glad we know him. 33 FORMNOTES

1888, is now being written for McFarland. He then plans to write a book on trade and mili- tary uses of the English Channel during the Middle Ages. Tony Nicholas shares: “All the training from Phil Berman on how to open a book and hold it, from Austin Montgomery on how to read it with feeling, and from George Tracy on under- standing its literary roots in Aeneas’s journeys were excel- lent preparation for this recent adventure with Ben. Allan Ayers notes: “Feels weird to spend as much time In this photo are six of the nine grandchildren of Dulany Howland ’62. busy with volunteer work as working – but without a pay- for June 2 and 3. Please mark Canyon de Chelly, the history of check. Putting in time support- your calendars with indelible the Wupatki Navajos, O’odham ing veterans and guiding tours 1955 ink markers. songs describing ancient trails of the great city of Chicago. Morris Cheston to the Pacific Coast, the archi- Slight detour as I upgrade a [email protected] tecture of Chaco Canyon, Zuni couple knees to be ready for the www.sps.edu/1955 religion and philosophy, and summer tour season.” 1957 other topics relating to the deep Larry D’Oench reports: “Re- Bill deHaven indigenous history and culture tirement is stressful because [email protected] of the American Southwest. I am on the job as soon as I 1956 The Form of 1957 had its an- wake up. To fill in the hours Zach Allen nual dinner at the Philadelphia between naps, I am a trustee [email protected] Club on Friday, March 13. It 1958 of my town library, do aviation Contrary to rumors, the Form was started 20 years ago by our consulting, and am a financial Philip Bradley of 1956 is doing quite well, formmate, Fred Clark. Attend- trustee and board member for [email protected] thank you very much. John ees included Sam Beard, Boots my homeowners’ association. I Schley is recovering from back Coleman, Bill de Haven, John Hunt Janin says he’s been get my exercise by following my surgery and reports that he Evans, Bob Fuller, Sandy Hol- getting in touch with his Cali- wife around and turning off the enjoyed being in Key West for loway, David Hunt, John Pe- fornia roots by writing books on lights she leaves on.” a month. Thus, he escaped trasch, Kit Pool, John Prizer, the early history of the state. For Brian Mccauley’s latest the fine winter weather that George Reath, and Rob van example, California Campaigns news: “I am really not doing the rest of us in the Northeast Roijen. The Philadelphia Club of the U.S.-Mexican War of much lately, except trying to get somehow found a bit daunting. did a masterful job providing us 1846-1848 will be published by as many avocado and other fruit Harald Paumgarten, while in with marvelous shad and shad McFarland this year. Another trees as possible providing lots the Adirondacks, was hurt when roe. We’re looking at perhaps book, The Californios, 1769 to of fruit. I also do my best to get slipping on an icy pathway, and moving the date to a different as many mangos, grapes, and is also recovering well. Other season to attract other form- other tropical fruit harvested as than that, your unrelenting mates in the future. I can each season, consistently form agent/director, has heard David Noble shares with using only real manure for fer- no untoward reports. With very us his excitement on his re- tilizer. Our yields were generally welcome help from Harald, the cently published book, Living far higher with the real animal planning for our 60th reunion is the Ancient Southwest. This product than with any special progressing well. A letter will be new anthology contains 18 mixtures of chemical fertilizers. forthcoming shortly, with all the essays, written over the past The only real problem we have exciting details. Anniversary several decades by anthropol- is that the weather is getting Weekend in 2016 starts on June ogist-writers. They speak of hotter and hotter, and many of our trees do not tolerate the 3. We are planning off-site ac- the beauty and originality of Tom Santulli ’62 with late part- tivities not far from the School Mimbres pottery, rock art in ner Pat Lakin. high temperatures we are now 34 ing marathon training (which European Painting Galleries at seems a bit daunting now, I the Metropolitan Museum. We must say), and soon to renew started with a viewing of Cara- my work counseling seniors vaggio’s remarkable painting of in poor health. Any and all are The Denial of Saint Peter and always welcome at our small ended up in front of Pieter and simple Carmel home. Good Bruegel’s The Harvesters, where cheer, happiness, and success the nearby photograph was to each of you in weathering taken. life’s wonders and challenges as spring comes and rebirth begins anew.” Proud grandpa Dulany 1970 Howland has nine grandchil- Tres Davidson [email protected] 1964 Formmates: (l. to r.) Chuck Coggeshall, Jad Roberts, Haven dren, noting, “Grandchildren www.sps.edu/1970 Pell, and Tony Parker observed Skating Holiday on President’s Day keep you young and are always with an afternoon skate on the C & O Canal. available to tell you how to work your iPhone!” confronting. In addition, the fu- us all, especially his parents, ture seems more and more dif- Colin and Shanti. Ashwin James 1972 ficult because of the decreases Santulli seems to have already John Henry Low we are seeing in available water. begun to raise havoc in San 1964 [email protected] So far, our wells are not dry, Diego. A thrilling addition and Rick Sperry Long-lost formmate Derek but the reserves are not being a most blessed gift. Son Chris [email protected] Ryan reports from Idaho: replenished regularly as they and his Sonja are proud home- Rufus Botzow “Last summer, Rector Mike were in the past. Besides that, I owners in Washington, D.C., [email protected] Hirschfeld ’85 visited us here end up riding my racing bikes as and Kate, now 26, is back in the in Sun Valley. It was such a much as possible and trying to U.S., after teaching in Spain for pleasure to meet him! I always keep the young whippersnap- three years. Having been Pat’s feel somewhat apologetic that I pers in the 50 and over racing caregiver for the past three and 1965 bailed on SPS midstream, leav- categories behind me.” a half years, many things slid to David Parshall ing Thanksgiving of our Fourth the back burner. So, the Peace [email protected] Form year, but I’m still very Corps application and those to www.sps.edu/1965 interested to hear what goes other international aid organi- on there. I was just reminded of 1960 zations are getting dusted off. After a reunion organization Dimitri Sevastopoulo We’ll see. Looking for someone meeting in New York in January, the music CD Bob Shepley sent [email protected] to hike the road to Santiago de some of the committee mem- to us all a few years back for a www.sps.edu/1960 Compostela with me or perhaps bers and a few notable guests reunion that I could not attend, visit the Dolomites. Renew- met up for a private tour of the with familiar faces stamped 1962 Seymour Preston [email protected]

Update by Tom Santulli: “Adjusting, as perhaps many of us are, to life’s still amazing cycle. At Christmas, Pat Lakin, my beautiful partner of the last several years, died after living with breast cancer for four years. She was a remark- able artist and poet and an extraordinarily compassionate, generous soul. A huge loss. And, with a glorious smile, my first Formmates and spouses from 1965 (l. to r.): John Ingram, Berny Gray, Rhett Prentice ’06, Penny Put- grandchild arrived at the begin- nam, Nat Prentice, Randy Morgan, Terry DeKalb, Peter Twining, Bucky Putnam, Robin Wilcox, ning of March to bring cheer to Ed Bartlett, Anita Prentice, and David Parshall. 35 FORMNOTES

vehicles. The other San Fran- ciscans, Halsted Wheeler and Doug Chan are around.” Charlie Bronson reports: “I had the good fortune to be on the East Coast over Christmas, actually seeing all three siblings for the first time in years, and it was a treat. I did look pretty silly jogging on the streets of Bronxville in shorts, since I do Mimi and Mark Wainwright ’72, celebrating Mark’s birthday in not own any Lululemon tights, San Francisco with Susan and and I had one delightful run Pres Stone ’72. up the Bronxville River, which Ian Hughes ’76 in his studio. was really nice, despite it being right onto the disk itself. He is really cold and icy. I was able to hockey and skating, we were so right that the music of that see Frazer Pennebaker and his sadly unable to get in quite 1975 time played mightily on our wife, Pam. Frazer is still a ge- enough practice sessions to be Randy Blossom nius in the kitchen, warm with able to qualify for this year’s spirits. I still love to spin the randy.blossom@ records I had in my dorm room. his stories, and lucky to have Crashed Ice (ice cross downhill) blossominsurance.com They are dear to me, so much Pam. Also saw Ian Laird and finals in Edmonton in March.” www.sps.edu/1975 so that I air them on our local Matt Mandeville. Our photo Better luck next year, Mike and non-commercial community appeared in the winter edition Shep! radio station here in Idaho. You of our formnotes. In our photo, While most of us in the can stream my Blind Vinyl we looked like three complete Northeast or Upper Midwest, 1976 show live at www.kdpifm.org idiots, although charming, I’m or even some south central Don Keyser on Thursdays (6 to 8 p.m. MST), certain, and definitely legends locales enjoyed a winter that [email protected] set to your time zone wherever in our own minds.” would remind us of Millville you are. When I’m not playing Lin Giralt writes: “I am in the early 1970s, let us not imposter DJ or exercising my working on a startup to connect forget our formmates from the ski bum habit, I’m practicing top U.S. cancer centers with Great White North, who take 1978 architecture. Yes, I still love that Latin American insurance com- these old-fashioned winters as Arthur Bingham day job.” panies to make long-distance a normal way of life. [email protected] Here is a late-breaking fol- cancer diagnostics accessible to Our tireless Northern Climes Rob Rout reports: “As I did low-up to the plans reported their policyholders, without the Correspondent David Holt last year, I have spent the winter in our last Alumni Horae form- trip to Houston, New York City, (who also writes for his day in Atlanta, volunteering with notes column by our intrepid or Baltimore. IT and telemedi- job) reports: “February and now the International Rescue Com- Bay Area Club Social Secretary cine have grown enormously, March = snow, rain, ice, repeat. mittee (www.rescue.org) as an Pres Stone: “Mr. and Mrs. Stone but cancer diagnostics seem On the positive side, I am pre- English teacher. We support did help Mr. and Mrs. Mark to lag behind overseas and paring a seminar on leadership recently arrived refugees from Wainwright usher in his 61st looking to the U.S. for help is and related matters, bolstered challenging places in Africa, year at a festive dinner in San not on the agenda of most lo- by a fine showing at trivia at Asia, the Middle East, and else- Francisco. As you will see in cal Latin-American insurance the tavern last night, where where. It’s so heartwarming to the attached photo, it is amaz- companies. My M.B.A. alma we won a huge plate of healthy engage with folks who literally ing how many desserts you mater, the University of Penn- nachos. Helen, the organizer, won a lottery in order to get to can get with a Groupon! The sylvania Medical Center, was said, ‘David is good at history.’ the U.S., who are thrilled to be Wainwrights are also proud to the first major center to come I had to respond, ‘Helen, you here, and who are wildly eager announce that they are happy on board. I am still looking for are accusing me of being old!’ to absorb what we have to offer first-time grandparents, as a major international insurance So, please, keep your cards and in order to quickly embark on their daughter, Addie ’01 had company to join up.” letters and photos (old and new) their new American lives. All a child. Meanwhile, Pres is Bob Shepley and Mike coming in. Until next time, good that positive energy is so good doing the San Francisco thing; Sweeney report: “Our black night, and good luck.” for the soul!” a startup in green tech, PSI ice season in Massachusetts Technologies, supplying eCNG, was sweet, but woefully short, an emergency natural gas stor- before the many feet of snow age and transfer system for the arrived in Greater Boston. While 36 growing fleet of natural gas we enjoyed some great pond Nora Tracy Phillips submits an artist named Jackie Su- news on the following form- mell, who asked Wallace, “What mates: The March-April 2015 kind of a house does a man in edition of Harvard Magazine solitary confinement dream of?” features an article entitled What grew from that parlor- “Good Design” that tells the game question developed into a story of the birth and evolution unique interrogation of Ameri- of the Public Interest Design can justice and punishment, the movement in architecture, substance of the film. and how it is redefining what Curtis Bohlen shares: “Car- architecture is. Bryan Bell, oline Norden and I are still in founder and executive direc- Maine, living not too far from tor of Design Corps, the article Portland. I’m still running the Polly Wakeman ’81 (r.) with her daughter, Hannah (l.), and Polly (c.), tells us, has stood as a seminal Casco Bay Estuary Partnership, daughter of Julie Mott Munger ’81. figure in this movement for the an anchor organization to a past 20 years, most recently regional partnership of orga- Fla., at what is now known as pressing his fellow architects to nizations and individuals that 1980 the Tampa Bay Times. Fellow address the question of value of work on behalf of the health of journalist Al McCabe stays Jennie Kaplan in close touch with Bill and design for the public. How can the Casco Bay. What makes the [email protected] filed that report. Al remains at one “put a value, quantifiable or job fun is that it’s a little bit of www.sps.edu/1980 qualitative, on design’s return everything – aquaculture, mu- Bloomberg News, where he has on investment” when what one nicipal politics, land conserva- Sally Scott sends some sun- worked for 21 years. He’s back does with one’s art is enrich the tion, balance sheets, community ny news from Florida: “Mem- in the Big Apple since 2003 after lives of the 98 percent?” engagement. My three kids are bers of the Sistarean Society many years with Bloomberg in Loring McAlpin, now a New growing up. My oldest, Turner, reunited in Florida. Since our Hong Kong and Shanghai. His York-based artist and media graduated from MIT last year, 20th reunion, we’ve met up daughter, Maja, is 17, a junior at producer, served as executive and is now living and working almost every year, though we Packer in Brooklyn and looking live in Massachusetts, Colo- producer to the film Herman’s in San Francisco. No. 2, Sarah at colleges. Son Lucas, 15, is a rado, Iowa, Florida, and New House, which won the 2014 Norden, is finishing her sopho- freshman at Brooklyn Tech. News and Documentary Emmy more year in high school and Jersey. Looking forward to the John Duer reports that win- Award for Outstanding Arts and will be performing this summer 35th reunion this spring!” ter in Connecticut, like most Culture programming, among with the “Smirkus Big Top Tour,” of New England, was brutal. other significant film awards. a traveling youth circus. Our “Lots of dirty, six-foot-high Herman’s House documents the youngest, Katrina, is wrapping 1981 snow banks.” His kids – Avery, 13, and Nancy, 10 – are grow- 12-year relationship between up fourth grade, doing fourth- Biddle Duke ing up nicely. “Wife Tyler and Herman Wallace, the longest grader things like school plays [email protected] serving prisoner in solitary and karate lessons and drawing I will be empty-nesters for confinement in the U.S., and imaginary creatures.” First and foremost, a hail the month of July this sum- and reminder to the class: It’s going to be 35 years next June. That would make it a significant reunion. Simple math – always a struggle – informs me we are all now in our mid-50s. The School, your dutiful agents, and I are planning a fun and reflective weekend. Put it on your calendar: June 3 and 4, 2016, with Graduation June 5. Now, the news I was able to gather: Bill Duryea recently Formates from 1980 (l. to r.) Jennie Hunnewell Kaplan, Louise Ingalls, Sally Scott, Susannah Robins Albright, and Augusta Tilney moved to Politico in D.C. after Alan Murchie ’81 at his enjoyed a wonderful February weekend in Florida. many years in St. Petersburg, ordination.

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ski instructing and racing. We’ve tried to meet up every year – last summer in Rhode Island, and the 1982 spring before on Maui.” Trisha Patterson [email protected] Ailsa Moseley and Phil Cut- ting were married in a beautiful Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers beachside ceremony on March writes: “I’m happy to share news 6 at Palm Beach. Details were of my new album, Almost There, sketchy, but this much I do which a number of SPS friends know: Phil is a terrific skier and supported via Kickstarter. The used to live near me in Stowe. album just won a Sammy Award He’s a serious aviator, pilot, (our regional music awards up and flight instructor. The wed- here in Central New York) for ding photos showed a glowing Best Americana. People can Formmates from 1982 recently enjoyed dinner at Nicole Gallagher’s couple; Ailsa looked gorgeous. hear the music on my website, home. Front row (l. to r.): Tracy Tullis, Nicole Gallagher; back row: Elizabeth Schmitz, Louisa Benton, Emily Fisher, Trisha Patterson, I ran into Jarvis Slade in Feb- jeffreypepperrodgers.com.” Gusty Thomas, Alison Horne, and Rebecca Johnson. ruary. Looking fit and happy, Elizabeth Schmitz writes: Jarvis lives in East Hampton, “Had a mini winter reunion with mer for the first time and are ous process. Alan reports that N.Y., and runs from there his Alice Coogan and Natalie Ed- not quite sure what to do with “the esteemed (and elusive) Nick finance business, which makes monds. In my 20th year editing ourselves.” John reports some McConnell” was in attendance loans to residential housing books at Indie publisher Grove/ formmate sightings: “Saw Tom at the ceremony. Congratula- entrepreneurs. He reports that Atlantic and celebrating a New Dewey and Peter Paine for tions, Alan. Alan’s ordination he remains in close touch with York Times Top Ten Book of the lunch earlier this month. They begs the question: Is he the the enigmatic Dave Janney. Year with Euphoria by Lily King remain unchanged, if not grayer. Form’s only priest? The only By the end of March 2015, and a New York Times Best- Dewey looks as if he never left one who heeded the call heard I will do something unlikely seller H is for Hawk by Helen his twenties and threatened at Chapel long ago? Any other in the digital era – sell most MacDonald.” me again not to tell SPS tales religious or spiritual leaders of a newspaper and magazine Tina Pickering shares this or publish any photos from my among us? There is of course, company and do okay in the news: “I have said goodbye classified negative file. As you Ben Bidlack, who clearly heeded bargain. I’ve been fighting local to living on the SPS grounds may or may not be aware, Tom the call to care about things that Vermont battles as the pub- for the second time in my life has defied convention, market matter. Something of a high lisher of my weeklies for almost and am now working for an- forces, and the odds and created priest of conscious business and two decades, while building a other Hirschfeld – The Rt. Rev. what is considered one of (if not) living, Ben blends Joe Campbell surprisingly viable business, Rob Hirschfeld, bishop of New the finest complex commer- spirituality and the study of and I wanted out. A good buyer Hampshire. I am living and cial litigation firms around. If myth into his career as “brand- came along for the company, working in downtown Con- you have committed securities strategy consultant, strategic pot which has grown to include cord, N.H., and still welcome fraud, engaged in white-collar stirrer, music artist/producer, two weeklies, two magazines, all alumni visitors to give a call crime, or otherwise trans- and public speaker.” Ben lives websites, and a strategic and when passing through.” gressed in a significant way (or in L.A., but travels a great deal. successful marketing and sales Trisha Patterson writes: want to seek vengeance against Check out his Ted Talk, “The partnership with seven papers “Gathered for dinner at Nicole someone who has), look no fur- Hero’s Journey in Modern Life.” in northern Vermont. The buyer, Gallagher’s house to celebrate ther. Paine, on the other hand, News from Julie Mott Robert Miller, who in his career the Augusta Read Thomas gabbled on about crew and how Munger, who sounds swell, is at Time Inc. and later on his Portrait Concert at Miller The- best to age grouse (hang it until that she’s living, teaching high own, has employed several atre of Columbia University, the head falls off). He did not school, raising two children, and SPSers (Perkins Miller ’86 and where her pieces, ‘Selene,’ have to threaten me not to tell surfing a lot (including groovy Mason Wells ’80, among them) ‘Resounding Earth,’ and ‘Sun SPS tales, because his wife did moonlight sessions) on the cen- owns weeklies in California. Threads’ were performed.” so the last time I spoke to her.” tral coast of California: “My only That’s not the only Duke transi- Alan Murchie was ordained SPS sighting since our last big tion. Daughter Ellie ’11 gradu- into the Sacred Order of Priests reunion has been Polly Boswell ates from Brown in May and son at St. Thomas Episcopal Church Wakeman, who continues to Angie will begin Middlebury in in New Haven, Conn. Reaching inspire me with her amazing the fall. Next for Idoline and me? ordainment is a long and ardu- stand-up paddle board skills and Stayed tuned.

38 St. Paul’s School Alumni Association Annual Meeting and Awards Presentation in N.Y.C. (l. to r.) Rudy Scarito ’82, Lauren McKenna ’00, Peter Bostwick ’74, and Perot Bissell ’77. A family photo submitted by Jonathan Gal ’84.

is rather modest by northeast children, Mateo and Sophia, standards, I am learning a great were among the first students. 1984 deal about house construction 1987 We all stopped by SPS last Jane Kalinski and also getting a lot of exercise Mona Gibson month amid the mounds of [email protected] [email protected] as I work, which is helping me to snow and I remembered how Jono Gal writes from Utah: lose unwanted extra pounds and Theodore Timpson: I am much I still love the place. “After our stint in North Texas, get in shape. During my limited four years into my second my wife, Angela, and I moved free time, I enjoy a plethora of school startup (School of Art to Provo, Utah, to be closer to outdoor activities here in the and Science) in Silicon Valley her parents and family. Our four mountains of Utah, including (similar to a high-tech startup 1989 children, ages 5 to 10, are all doing hiking, biking, skiing, hunting, without the investors, stock Laura Munro [email protected] well in school here. They are all and fishing. Fresh trout from the options, and opportunities for getting as much skating and ski- pristine mountain lakes makes a buyout). I guess it must be a Matt Aston shares exciting ing as possible, providing a good for a wonderful meal!” labor of love. We have a happy news: “It is with great pride connection to my own upbring- little group of elementary- that I announce the release of ing, which otherwise seems very age children, who are learning my wife Wendie Aston’s book, distant to me here in Utah. I am 1985 mindfulness practices, stage Going Green Before You Con- working as a construction laborer performance, and inquiry- ceive (available on Createspace Don Sung based explorations. Co-Direc- for some very active home flip- [email protected] and Amazon). The book offers pers in the area. Though the pay www.sps.edu/1985 tor Julia is also my wife. Our insights and wisdoms, recipes and detox schedules to help couples who are planning to have children or having dif- ficulties doing so. In addition to discussing her own journey into motherhood and overcoming many obstacles of her own, she shows us just how dangerous the environment has become, what to avoid in our homes and bodies, and even how to choose the sex of your baby.”

SPS friends gathered at the Harvard/Union hockey game included: Back row (l. to r.) Clay Yonce ’82, Adam Snow ’82; Jos Nicholas ’83; Bobby Lapsley ’83; Porter Gifford ’82; front Row (l. to r.) Ben Scully ’82, Tod Brainard ’83. 39 FORMNOTES 1990 Megan Scott [email protected] www.sps.edu/1990

Marie Schley Morton shares exciting news: “I had the plea- sure of designing the costumes for the TV series Transparent, which airs on Amazon Prime and won the Golden Globe for Best TV Comedy Series. The show depicts many different characters dealing with issues of personal identity, sexual- ity, and the social constructs Jamie Douglass ’94 married Rachael Lawrence last June. around identity and gender. It’s also a really funny and to be recognized and acknowl- some – if not all – of the family to regular basis. Also, I have kept realistic portrayal of a family edged for their true selves will see St. Paul’s this spring.” in touch with SPS through the living in Los Angeles. It was an watch the show. Check out my Arnaud Jerome writes from AASPS, the association gather- exhilarating creative experi- interview with MTV fashion on Paris: “Thanks a million for your ing French Weicker SPS alumni ence working with creator Jill the ideas behind the clothes limitless efforts to get info from and now running the Weicker Soloway and lead actor Jeffery of Transparent at www.mtv. us foreign formmates lost in the Scholarship. Last week we had Tambor and all the other writ- com/news/1962385/tranpar- furthest reaches of Earth. I was a Skype meeting with Alessia ers, actors, and creative minds ent-wardrobe-interview/.” at St Paul’s for a year only, as Carega ’95 from SPS admis- who make up the crew. It was An update from Anne Fulen- a Weicker Scholar – a French sions. I married Isabelle, a vet, especially exciting to be a part of wider: “I’m currently living in guy sent to SPS for a year, all in 2002, and we have three chil- something that broke creative Brooklyn with my husband, expenses paid, thanks to the dren (all boys), including twins. and political barriers for both Bryan Blatstein, and our two generosity of a great woman Workwise, today I am a language the LGBTQ community and kids, Evie (8) and Sam (6). In called Elisabeth Weicker, who coordinator and lecturer at a television itself. I hope all those 2012, I became editor-in-chief wanted to build strong experi- French graduate school that students at St. Paul’s who want of Marie Claire magazine, which ence- and emotion-based ties trains students in the arts of reminds me a little bit of days at between our two countries. design and engineering here The Pelican and keeps me busy.” For more than 25 years, I have in Paris. Particular thanks to Becky Rush writes: “I had kept in touch with Anthony Megan Scott for her tireless an exciting year teaching K-8 Arther ’89, who was my next efforts in liaising with us and Spanish and French, while di- door neighbor in Center Upper. organizing reunions. Would re- recting and performing for Anthony travels extensively for ally love to visit SPS again in the various theatre companies in work and visits me in Paris on a near future. Fingers crossed.” Southern New Hampshire and the Boston area. I was honored as N.H. world language teacher of the year last spring.” Seth Schelin shares: “I’m living in North London with my wife, Jennifer, and our five- year-old son and four-year-old daughter. Looks like we’re en- trenched in this side of the pond for the long term. I work during the week in Berlin and Munich for a German Internet company and spend entirely too much Formmates Ned Rauch ’94 and Tim Wallack ’94 savor a cold Julien and Armand, children of time on Lufthansa. Hope to bring one 30,000 feet above Argentina. Arnaud Jerome ’90. 40 Courtney Dunleavy and Owen Weiman ’96 celebrated their wedding with SPS friends (l. to r.): Max Lamont ’96, Lloyd Walmsley ’96, Joe Zorumski ’95, Jason Angell ’95, Vittorio Cottafavi ’95, Julia Sortwell Cottafavi ’01, the groom and bride, Andy Bay ’95, Nick Cohen, and Mike Getz.

John McLean writes: “Still in Brooklyn with my wife, Jen, From Husani Barnwell: “I’m living in the D.C. area. If you are and our daughter, Meleana (11), 1994 currently an associate creative ever in town, let’s get together and son, Will (8), and a dog.” director and art director at an Chris Gates ([email protected]).” What is David Brownstein ad agency called BBDO Atmo- [email protected] Annie Luetkemeyer shares: up to? “Still in the Foreign sphere Proximity. Outside of the “I am living in the San Francisco Service and still in Washington I’ve had the fortune to see agency, I created a partnership Bay Area with my husband, Ben, D.C., until July, when we will a number of formmates over between the Wounded Warrior and two children, Louisa (10) decamp to Yaounde, Camer- the last few months, includ- Project and Harley Davidson and Nate (8). We have two dogs, oon, for three years. Visitors ing Taylor Plimpton, Benjy with my ACD copywriter part- a minivan, the whole suburban welcome. We will have gorillas Federbush, Phil Warner, Ned ner, Jason Lambert. And last, thing. It’s funny to be raising and do not have guerrillas. Have Rauch, Tim Wallack, Alison Charles Best ’98, Dahni-El true Californians – no concept seen a fair amount of Sam von Devine and Danielle Faris at Giles ’99 and I are doing a of snow days, humidity, or real Trapp up in Stowe. In a moment a recent SPS event in New York relay for the New York City seasons, but it’s a great place of insanity, we bought a 1970s- as well as Dana Goodyear and Triathlon in July for a nonprofit to live and raise a family. I still era, fondue-palace-style A- Rupert Sandes on the West called ScriptEd, which strives to work at San Francisco General frame chalet in Stowe (also Coast. I’m in the process of provide underserved kids with in the HIV division, taking care available for rent). Have seen moving to a new house as my coding skills and professional of patients and doing research some (but not enough) of Ali- boys have destroyed the last experience in technology.” in tuberculosis and hepatitis C. cia Narvaez and her awesome one and currently cooking up From Jo Horn: “I’m living in Looking forward to our 25th.” family, who live nearby here in plans with a few others from ’94 Ann Arbor, Mich., with husband Katy Lederer is living with Virginia. Looking forward to in various parts of the country. Aaron and son Oscar (3), with her husband, Ben Statz, in Park Anniversary and seeing folks. Hope everyone has a wonderful a baby girl on the way. Spend Slope (N.Y.). Her twins, Isaac and Will be my first time in Millville spring.” my days inspired by leading Zoe, just turned two. since 1990.” From Emily Gumper: “I a national cancer research Charles Buice writes: “I work Alicia Narvaez writes us: moved a little over a year ago foundation, my nights playing for a place called Tiger Foun- “I’m working for Sesame Work- to Portland, Ore., from Billings, music in an all-girl rock band dation, which partners with shop and living the hectic but Mont., with my husband, Mike, and teaching yoga. Life is full N.Y.C. nonprofit human service ‘oh-so-glamorous’ life of a and three kids, Ella (12), August and good and fun.” organizations involved in the working parent with a second- (9), and Charlie (3). I just opened Josiah Hornblower has education, employment, child grader, kindergartener, and a solo law practice and plan to moved back to his birthplace, welfare, youth development, preschooler in the mix. My focus, at least initially, on im- Austin, Texas. He’d love to hear family support, and criminal husband, Aaron, and I live migration law. We are loving from anyone coming through justice sectors. We provide just outside of D.C. Have been Portland and enjoy getting to- town (which I can person- funding and technical assis- scheming on reunion plans with gether with Sally Wilber (now ally validate, having had a great tance to organizations working Amy Turnbull, Anne Fried- Webster) and her wonderful night out with him and his wife). with individuals and families rich, Connor Turnbull, and family. I was sorry to miss the From Anne Stires: “I founded in low-income communities David Brownstein. Can’t wait!” reunion last summer and hope Juniper Hill School (www.ju- across the five boroughs. I live to make the 25th.” niperhillschool.org) for place- based education at my grand- 41 FORMNOTES

Ford William Gordon was born Max, son of Elise Loehnen Annabelle Drabick Haffajee, Allison Dailey ’99 welcomed on December 28, 2014, to Sam Fissmer ’98, is quite the daughter of Rebecca Haffajee ’98 daughter Ferra Dailey Lasala in Gordon and Patti Lin ‘96. little artist. and husband J.R. Drabick. August 2014.

mother’s former home and professional side, I have become welcomed David Martin Hayne ing our second child in August/ 40-acre piece of forest/field/ more involved with the clinical on March 10. He joins siblings September. This time it’s a girl.” estuarine riverfront property training and supervision of Adelaide (7), Henry (5), Rose- in Alna, Maine. We have both a marriage and family interns mary (3), and Dorothy (2). Alana nature-based early childhood from San Diego State at an Pietragallo Bedoya welcomed program for children ages 3-6 autism spectrum site, where her first child, Ricardo “Breuer” 1998 and a place-based elementary we provide therapy services to Bedoya, in November and is Rebecca Haffajee and hus- school, serving students ages children, teens, families, and in her final year of residency band J.R. Drabick welcomed 6-10. We are in our fourth year couples on the spectrum. I con- at Penn State. Patti Lin also their second child, Annabelle and have been adding an age tinue to provide therapy from a welcomed her first, Ford Wil- “Annie” Drabick Haffajee, in level each year. We have nearly postmodern perspective in my liam Gordon, in December and December. Writes Rebecca, “We 50 students and are fully en- private practice and am discov- is enjoying life in Baltimore with are enjoying a lot of quality time rolled this year, with a waiting ering my love and passion to her husband, Sam, and choco- indoors, given all the snow in list in every class for next year provide services to families who late lab, Filly. Owen Weiman Boston. And Sam just loves (full with 65 students for next have children with disabilities.” married Courtney Dunleavy being an older brother.” year, pre-K to fifth grade). Our Jamie Douglass shares: “Got last September. Emily Chang board of trustees is a fantas- married to Rachael Lawrence Brands and family will be in tic mix of development folks, last June. We have a son ar- D.C. for a year, starting in Sep- 1999 educators, policy people, and riving soon. Been ultra-busy tember, and would love to con- Ben Bleiman local leaders. I live with my drumming in L.A., with tons nect with any and all Paulies. [email protected] husband, Jon, and nine-year- of amazing live shows, plus old son, Eben.” recording with Shooter Jen- Joshua Resnikoff reports: Rocio Ocampo-Giancola nings, Billy Ray Cyrus, Julie “Emet turns two this year and writes: “I have been enjoying Roberts, The Hang, and many 1997 has a baby brother due at the parenting my two darling girls other bands/artists. More info Amy singer end of June. Left Wyss Institute [email protected] and racing the kids between at drumsetartist.com.” at Harvard to focus full-time ballet and Shaolin Kung Fu. Lily Stuart Russell shares: “My at Cuppow. Also acting as was the youngest performer at wife, Marley, and I are expect- editor for Labconscious, an the Downtown Chinese Festival. I was a proud momma. On the 1995 Nick Van Amburg [email protected] www.sps.edu/1995 1996 Emily Brands [email protected]

Lloyd Walmsley welcomed the adorable Anne Campbell Margaret Claire Dobson was Tracy Catlin ’99 and husband Emet, daughter of Joshua Walmsley into his world last born on January 6, 2015, to Gabriel Alvarez welcomed a Resnikoff ’99. August. Jessica Martin Hayne Caitlin Farr Dobson ’99. baby girl, Mia Isabel Alvarez. 42 SPS friends celebrate the safe return from Afghanistan of John Members of the Form of 2010 who gathered for dinner in Cronin ’08. Back (l. to r.) Trent Blossom ’08, Andrew Peabody ’08, Washington, D.C., recently included (l. to r.) Deane Schofield, Corey McGrath ’08, John Cronin ’08, Fred Vennat ’08, Jason Bour- Hanna Helms, Calla Chase, Zoe Williams, Pieter Fossel, and gea ’08; front (l. to r.) Tyler O’Brien ’07, and Charles Vennat ’07. Charles Rice. open community that allows Margaret (Maggie) Claire scientists from all disciplines Dobson was born on January 6, 2008 to ask questions, exchange 2015, to Caitlin Farr Dobson. 2014 Diego Nuñez ideas, and highlight ways that Maggie weighed 7 lbs., 6 oz., and Tekla Monson [email protected] [email protected] we can decrease the envi- measured 20 inches long. ronmental footprint of basic John Cronin was celebrated at Nicholas Romanov is study- research.” the Eastwood Club in Fitchburg, ing at Northeastern Univer- Trevor Wommack shares: Mass., by SPS formmates for his sity, pursuing his chemical “I was elected as a partner at 2000 return from Afghanistan. He is engineering degree, and will Bracewell & Giuliani LLP in Kathryn Duryea an Infantry Officer with the U.S. be participating in a chemical [email protected] February.” Army, stationed in Ft. Hood, Texas. engineering research exchange www.sps.edu/2000 Soohyun Chang writes: “My at Universitat Rovira i Virgili office has built a project, Knot News from Elizabeth Far- for 10 weeks in Tarragona, House, that is now a finalist well: After teaching in Phila- Spain, beginning in May. He’ll for an architectural magazine delphia public and charter 2010 be working on self-assembling award. It’s open for a public schools since 2004, she is now Deane Schoefield polymers for novel proton [email protected] approaching education reform vote online.” www.sps.edu/2010 transport membranes. Tracy Catlin shares baby from the side of policy. A cur- news: “My husband and I had rent master’s of education pol- a baby girl on February 16. icy student at the University of Her name is Mia Isabel Alvarez Pennsylvania, she and a class- and she weighed 7 lbs., 11 oz. mate won the 2014 Philadelphia and measured 20 inches. We Public Policy competition and have been living in New York are working to implement the and I work at Lenox Hill Hos- program with the local school pital, where I am an attending district. Elizabeth is working as physician in the Emergency a research fellow with Philadel- Department.” phia City Council and teaching Allison Dailey welcomed at a local high school. daughter Ferra Dailey Lasala, born last August at Mount Sinai in New York City. Ferra weighed 2005 in at 5 lbs., 14 oz. Lizzie Mills elizabethalabamamills@ gmail.com www.sps.edu/2005 Tekla Monson ’14 with Tom Whipple ’11 in Fairbanks, Alaska, after Tom hitched a ride out to a trailhead for a spring break skiing trip. 43 DECEASED

The section was updated May 1, 2015. 1939 Mr. Hilliard was predeceased in 2011 Please note that deaths are reported Thomas Jones Hilliard Jr. by his wife, Audrey. He is survived by as we receive notice of them. Therefore, a businessman a sister and brother-in-law, Elsie and alumni dates of death are not always and World War II Henry Hillman; five children, Thomas J. reported chronologically. veteran, who Hilliard III, Constance C. Hilliard, Elsie H. 1939—Robert Willard Flint dedicated his life Humes, Peggy H. Martin, and James F. April 28, 2013 to bettering his Hilliard, and their spouses; 11 grand- 1944—Frank Hutchison Peavey Wells II hometown of children; and two great-grandchildren. December 20, 2014 Pittsburgh, Pa., died in his sleep 1944 1947—William Henry Hays III on January 29, Frank Hutchison February 25, 2015 2015. He was 94. “Peavey” Wells II 1947—Edward Sawyer Born in Fox Chapel, a suburb of Pitts- who founded a newspaper in his adopted October 13, 2012 burgh, Mr. Hilliard was the son of Thomas home of New Mexico and was known for 1948—Joseph Gazzam Clarkson J. Hilliard of the Form of 1913 and Marianna his varied talents and interests, died on February 27, 2015 Talbott Hilliard. He came to St. Paul’s December 20, 2014. He was 88. School in 1935, following in the footsteps Mr. Wells was born on August 7, 1926, 1952—Perry Lorimer Burns of his father, and uncle, Henry R. Hilliard in Los Angeles, Calif., to Frank H.P. Wells February 28, 2015 of the Form of 1910. and Helen Mary (Yost) de la Chesnaye. He 1953— Frederic Clinton Reynolds Jr. He participated in football and hockey was raised in Excelsior, Minn., where he March 23, 2015 for Delphian, crew for Halcyon, and alpine played hockey, rode horses, learned to gar- 1953—John Downey Soutter skiing. He was also a member of the School den, and loved the outdoors. He attended April 4, 2015 Council, the Missionary Society, and the the Blake School in Minneapolis before Glee Club. He served as a supervisor. entering St. Paul’s School as a Third Former 1956—Morris “Mickey” Lloyd Jr. in 1940. March 16, 2016 Mr. Hilliard attended Princeton, where he studied business and finance. He joined At SPS, Mr. Wells was known as a hard 1960—Alan Lyle Corey III the Army Air Corps after graduation and, worker and an honest and reliable boy. April 3, 2015 at the end World War II, returned to Pitts- He played football and hockey for Old 1965—Henry Douglas Cox burgh, where he became a prominent Hundred, competed on the track team, March 18, 2015 businessman and devoted philanthropist. participated in the Glee Club, and was a member of Der Deutsche Verein. 1968—Lloyd William Fonvielle Jr. Mr. Hilliard’s business ventures included After graduation, he volunteered for February 19, 2015 ownership of American Steel in Ellwood City, Pa., and Keystone Brassworks in Erie, the American Field Service in World War 1986—Margery Lawrence Pa. In addition to his business pursuits, II, serving as a medic in Burma. Upon his “Laurie” Henneman he served as chairman of the board for return from service, he attended Yale. In July 27, 2014 Shadyside Hospital, Chatham University, the late 1940s, having fallen in love with the Frick Art Museum, and the American the Sangre de Christo Mountains and the Respiratory Alliance. He was also a board people of New Mexico after a visit to Taos, member for the Carnegie Hero Fund, the Mr. Wells decided to make the state his Pittsburgh Golf Club, and the Dollar Sav- permanent home. He co-founded the Taos ings Bank and a vestry member and senior Star, a weekly newspaper with articles in warden at Calvary Episcopal Church. both English and Spanish, with John de SEND A TRIBUTE Married to Audrey Hillman Hilliard for la Chesnaye. Mr. Wells gifted a subscrip- Honor your friends and loved 63 years, Mr. Hilliard liked mixing family tion to St. Paul’s for Spanish teachers to ones in Alumni Horae. We accept life and civic life, according to the obituary use as reading material in their class- any number of materials to help that ran in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. rooms. The newspaper was later sold. us in preparation of obituaries. He often brought one of his five children Mr. Wells was a member of the Lion’s Mail your information and a along with him to special events or pro- Club in Taos and in Tucson, where he photograph to: Editor, Alumni jects, including voter outreach efforts. served as president. He was also a member Horae, 325 Pleasant Street, Con- of the Kiwanis Club and the Order of the cord, NH 03301 or e-mail the Eagles. In 2010, he was named an unsung information and photos to us at hero by the Taos News for his longtime [email protected]. commitment to community service. 44 A world traveler who loved skiing – That was also the year he married his Mr. Hays is survived by his wife, Lucile; which he continued well into his 80s, Mr. first wife, Katharine Heard, who died in his daughters, Katharine Hays McBride Wells also enjoyed a lifelong obsession 1970. The couple had two daughters, and Elizabeth Hays Carroll; his four with hockey and listening to a variety of Katharine and Elizabeth. grandchildren, Elizabeth McBride Ford, music, from classical to jazz to mariachi. Mr. Hays married Lucile Thornton Samantha Hays McBride, William Walker He was a patron of the arts, a gifted writer, Walker in New York City in 1971. They Carroll, and Emily Hays Carroll; and his and an avid reader, especially on the moved to Nantucket in 1974, after falling brother, F. Whiting Hays ’52. history of New Mexico. He enjoyed good in love with the views on the island. After conversation and possessed a wonderful touring their future property, Mr. Hays 1947 sense of humor. asked his wife, “Can you live here for Malcolm Douglas Mr. Wells was predeceased by his par- good?” Looking over at the dilapidated MacDougall ents, his aunt, Mary Drew Peavey Staples, farmhouse, she replied, “Well, I guess we a legendary adver- his uncle, Loring Staples Sr., and his can try it.” Decades later, they were still tising copywriter, cousins, Frederick B. Wells Jr. and Loring enjoying their beautiful home and the whose slogan Staples Jr. He is survived by his children, views it afforded of creeks, the harbor, “just for the taste Frank H.P. Wells III, Mary Penny Shannen, and Brant Point Lighthouse. of it” sold millions Katherine Chavez, Mary Ann Wells- For 25 years, Mr. Hays was a partner in of Diet Cokes, Williams, Frank Wells IV, and their spouses; the Nantucket-based law firm of Holmes died from comp- and his grandchildren, step-grandchild- and Hays (later, Holmes, Hays, and Fitz- lications of bone ren, and great-grandchildren, with whom gerald). He was quite devoted to the firm, cancer on October he shared close relationships. often working 12 hours a day and six 31, 2014, in New days a week, but he did find time to play York City’s Lenox Hill Hospital. He was 86 1947 golf, tend his vegetable garden, and enjoy and had divided his time between Man- William Henry Hays III the island. hattan and Lakeville, Conn. will be remem- The family also enjoyed time on Spring Born on August 21, 1928, in Brattle- bered as a quiet Island in South Carolina, where Mrs. Hays’s boro, Vt., Mr. MacDougall attended and devoted man, family wintered. There they played golf Garden Country Day School in Jackson who loved the sea and hunted ducks and quail. Heights, N.Y., before enrolling at St. Paul’s. and was passion- Mr. Hays was a member of the board He also spent a year of his high school ate about helping of governors and past secretary of the education at the Berkshire School in others. Mr. Hays Nantucket Yacht Club and a member of Sheffield, Mass. died on February the board of trustees, secretary, and legal Mr. MacDougall graduated from Har- 25, 2015, at the counsel for the Sankaty Head Golf Club. vard in 1952 with a degree in English, age of 84. He also served on the vestry of St. Paul’s soon thereafter launching his lifetime He was born in New York City on Church for many years. career with a Boston posting at BBDO, March 24, 1930, to William Henry Hays Jr. One of the strongest ties for Mr. Hays the famous ad agency. and Elizabeth Whiting Hays. Mr. Hays and was to the Nantucket Cottage Hospital. “I was still in Harvard, and I was work- his younger brother, F. Whiting Hays ’52, He joined the board of trustees there in ing on The Lampoon, had written the spent their summers fishing with their the late 1970s and was secretary of the Hasty Pudding show,” he explained in his parents in Morrisville, Vt. board and chairman of its nominating usual droll manner during a 2003 Adweek He came to St. Paul’s as a Third Former committee for several years. Although interview. from Greenwich Country Day School in he retired as a trustee in 1997, he re- “A guy named Frank Hatch, who was Connecticut. At SPS, he was a member mained active as a corporator until 2009 the dean of Boston advertising, was also of the Glee Club, the Cadmean Literary and served as a founding member of a Hasty Pudding guy and a Harvard guy. Society, and the Library Association. He both the advisory council and the patient I sent up everything I had written that rowed with Halcyon and played football, advisory council from 2009 to 2012. He year, and he was too busy to read it, so baseball, and hockey for Delphian. He remained active in promoting the hospital he hired me. I wanted to be in some form graduated cum laude and went on to Yale, until his death. of writing that would actually pay, and where he belonged to York Fraternity. copywriting pays more per word than Mr. Hays served in the Mediterranean as anything in the world – except ransom an active-duty deck officer in the U.S. notes, as somebody once said.” Navy from 1951 to 1954. He attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1957. 45 DECEASED

Mr. MacDougall’s ad debut, a live pitch “I was always a liberal Republican,” he 1949 for Polaroid cameras on the Today show, said in the 2003 Adweek interview, “and David Walker Plumer was a near-disaster, he explained in the there aren’t such animals anymore. Poli- Adweek interview, when the photo of host tical advertising now is the cheapest, Dave Garroway’s monkey pal, J. Fred Muggs, chintziest, dirtiest, crookedest advertising didn’t appear from the instant camera as being done in America.” it should have. “They had rigged the cam- In more recent years, a frequent and era so there was already a good picture obvious question for Mr. MacDougall was there,” Mr. MacDougall confessed, but, how accurately the AMC show Mad Men when no photo was to be found, Garro- depicts his industry. way said, “Well, the great thing about this “The booze, the sex, the cigarettes, the camera is, if it doesn’t come out the first suits, the haircuts, the harassment, the time you see it, you can shoot it again.” office politics, the ‘we own the world’ a kind and compassionate man with a “Then,” Mr. MacDougall said, “he took a attitude – even the offices – are absolutely quick wit, died on August 30, 2014, in real picture of J. Fred Muggs, and it came dead-on true,” he wrote. Woodstock, New Brunswick. He was 83. out beautifully. It turned out to be one of However, he continued, Mad Men makes Reverend Plumer was born in Tientsin, the best lessons I ever had in the adver- us all look like crass, sex-crazed idiots. China, in 1931, but grew up in Ann Arbor, tising industry: Honesty beats out fakery In real life, we were better than that. We Mich., with his parents, James Plumer of every time.” took the job of selling our clients’ pro- the Form of 1917 and Caroline (Ingham) Among Mr. MacDougall’s significantly ducts very seriously – and we were pretty Plumer, his sister, Gussie, and his brother, more successful attempts over his long damn good at it.” Langdon. From infancy to young adult- career were ad slogans that reverberated At age 77, in his contribution to a report hood, he crossed the Pacific five times by with an eager public, such as Revlon’s for his Harvard class, he wrote, “I’m now steamship with his parents. “She’s very Charlie” and Burger King’s “It finishing a novel, writing a book of golf Reverend Plumer attended St. Paul’s takes two hands to handle a Whopper.” poems, a partner in a speech-writing from the Second through Fifth Forms, In developing an approach for Coca- firm, as well as our agency, and am just but graduated from the Tokyo American Cola’s new diet drink, “MacDougall ana- too damn busy to retire.” School in Japan. He recalled Chapel fondly lyzed 17 years of diet-product advertising At the time of his death Mr. MacDougall and claimed the School gave him a “good before concluding that Coca-Cola had was a principal at Prides Crossing Stra- theological education base.” He was unable an opportunity to exploit a new market,” tegic Writers Group, a communications to participate in sports because of a bad according to his obituary in the Los consulting company in New York. back, but Reverend Plumer distinguished Angeles Times. “He was upbeat and one of the best himself as “a boy of high integrity and “The advertisers he studied ‘only want- creative talents I’ve ever seen,” former considerable independence of thought.” ed to characterize diet drinks as some- colleague Ed Eskandarian told the Globe. He earned his B.A. in geology from the thing very special for women only,’ he told “He had such great instincts, and clients University of Michigan in 1954 and his Adweek in 1990. He decided to emphasize loved him.” M.Div. from Berkeley Divinity School in taste over health benefits to tap the male “He was writing up until a week before 1959. Raised in a religious and communi- market. he died,” his son, Malcolm Jr., of Dobbs ty-focused family, Reverend Plumer was “The ‘just for the taste of it’ TV com- Ferry, N.Y., told the Boston Globe’s Bryan interested in the church from a young mercial, which ran in 1982 and featured Marquard for his father’s obituary. “He age. At the end of the Korean conflict, he the Rockettes on stage at Radio City Music was writing copy and working. To me, served two years in Panama, where he Hall, is considered one of the most suc- that’s amazing.” met and married his wife, Conway Maphis, cessful product launches in history.” Mr. MacDougall, whose 1951 marriage who was a nurse. The couple raised four Turning briefly to politics in 1976, to Joan Wheelock ended in divorce after children, while doing missionary work Mr. MacDougall coined the phrase “Vote 20 years, married Mary Maltby Catlin overseas. Republican for a change,” when brought in 1976. In addition to his wife and son, Ordained as a priest in the Episcopal in late for President Gerald Ford’s survivors include daughter Leslie Hoff Church while in Panama, Reverend Plumer campaign to hold onto his office against of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass.; step- returned to the U.S., splitting time between challenger Jimmy Carter. He eventually daughter Camilla Catlin Sorenson, of Maryland, Tennessee, and Michigan, be- wrote a memoir of the effort, We Almost New York City; two stepsons, Sam Catlin, fore moving to Newfoundland, Canada, Made It. Later he abandoned campaign of Hollywood, Calif., and George Catlin where he spent 13 years with the Anglican advertising and his political affiliation. of Austin, Tex.; and 11 grandchildren. Church. Reverend and Mrs. Plumer, a visiting nurse to the fishing outposts along the coast, were much loved by the people in their adopted community.

46 Reverend Plumer had an infectious gift 1952 After his retirement, Mr. Burns spent for talking with people, but knew when to Perry Lorimer Burns six years as a volunteer and board mem- sit in silence, console, or share his humor. ber with Literary Volunteers of America He fit in well with the locals, savoring the of Greenwich/Stamford. In 1994, he joined “poor man’s caviar” his wife made from the Greenwich Council and became a the local catch, and dancing along to board member and Cub Scout leader for Newfie folk music at the local dances. Boy Scouts of America. He co-chaired the He enjoyed a good drink on occasion and annual Boys Scouts golf tournament for once, when a fisherman took him out on nearly 20 years, raising more that $20 his boat to see an iceberg, he remarked, million. In 2003, he received the Green- “think of the scotch on the rocks one wich District Award of Merit and in 2011 would make with that ancient ice!” the distinguished Silver Beaver, the high- Reverend Plumer enjoyed visits to of Gulf Stream, Fla., and Greenwich, Conn., est award given to a volunteer. the family farm on Stowe Mountain in died peacefully, surrounded by his family Mr. Burns was a family man with a Hillsborough, N.H. The Plumers retired to and his beloved Labrador, Stryker, on sense of humor. He loved golf, fishing, Hartland, New Brunswick, in 1995. He February 28, 2015, after a battle with bird shooting, and gardening. He was a became a Canadian citizen in 2005. Rev- Lewy body disease. He was 79. lifelong member of the Round Hill Club erend Plumer was active with veterans Born on April 10, 1935, in New York in Greenwich and a member of Club Lim- groups, including the Kiwanis Club. His City, he was the son of Maryella Warner ited for more than 45 years. hobbies, including working on antique and David P. Burns. Mr. Burns grew up in Mr. Burns is survived by his wife of 30 phonographs and re-caning chairs, kept Larchmont, N.Y., preparing for SPS at Rye years, Joan Blissert; his four children, him happily out of the modern world. Country Day School. He joined his brother, Lorimer ’80, Perry Jr., Samantha, and He was an active genealogist and encour- Peter ’50, at the School. Mr. Burns was a Robert; five grandchildren; his brother’s aged his children to look for their family member of the Missionary Society and sons and five sisters-in-law, and their roots in overgrown cemeteries, town halls, wrote for Horae Scholasticae. He excelled families. He was predeceased by his and libraries. He stayed busy with the in athletics, particularly, basketball and parents and two brothers, David and church even after retirement, but enjoyed baseball. Peter ’50, and his first wife, Linda Fulton. that he only had to rise early on Sundays Mr. Burns remembered his time in in later years. He corresponded faithfully Millville just before his 50th reunion, 1952 with members of the St. Paul’s commu- writing, “St. Paul’s gave me an excellent Theodore Stark Wilkinson III nity throughout his life and traveled often education, a creed centered more on a diplomat, fluent for reunions and to visit his children and the Golden Rule than on strict religious in many languag- their families. beliefs, several lifelong friends, and a es, who distin- In summarizing his life shortly before deep appreciation of friendship.” guished himself he died, Reverend Plumer said he “moved Mr. Burns graduated cum laude from as a true citizen 17 times, worked a seven-day week and SPS, and joined the Class of 1956 at of the world long many 14-hour days, gave to my church- Princeton, where he was a member of before the global es, saved a few souls, kept up with a few the University Cottage Club. He served era, died on Jan- classmates, enjoyed life, and now have two years in the U.S. Navy as a lieutenant uary 25, 2015, in slowed down.” (junior grade) aboard the mine sweeper Washington, D.C. Reverend Plumer was predeceased by U.S.S. Fearless, mostly in the Mediterra- He was 80 years old. his wife, Conway Maphis, and his sister, nean. After his honorable discharge, he Born on August 27, 1934, the son of Gussie Wiess. He is survived by his child- worked in sales in the family coal busi- Admiral Theodore Wilkinson (1905) and ren, Caroline Barkaszi, Clarissa Canning, ness, but ultimately spent his career on Catherine Harlow Wilkinson, Mr. Wilkin- Marshall Plumer, and Charles Plumer Wall Street, having joined institutional son enrolled at St. Paul’s School as a and their families; his brother, Langdon equity sales at First Boston in 1959. He Third Former in the fall of 1948. His Plumer; nine grandchildren; and two remained there until 1967, before mov- leadership skills were evident even at a great-grandchildren. ing on to Faulkner, Dawkins & Sullivan. young age. He received high marks in Mr. Burns eventually shifted his focus academics, participated in numerous to fixed income research and created sports and activities, including hockey, “Bondstat,” a predictor of corporate bond squash, and alpine skiing, and was a rating changes. He survived several member of the debate team and the Cum mergers and finished his career as an Laude Society. He served as treasurer of executive vice president and director the Library Association. He was named a of fixed income research at Lehman Ferguson Scholar as a Fourth Former, an Brothers in 1990. honor that held particular meaning, as 47 DECEASED

his father, who died in an accident when Even as he traveled the world, Mr. rowed with Shattuck, and was a mem- Mr. Wilkinson was 11, had earned the Wilkinson remained fond of his St. Paul’s ber of the Library Association and the same distinction. roots, giving generously and attending Cadmean Literary Society. He sang with Mr. Wilkinson believed his years at alumni events. “He was always very loyal the Choir and Glee Club and served as a St. Paul’s School equipped him with the to his schools,” said his wife, Xenia Vunovic chapel warden and as a supervisor in necessary mettle to achieve his goals in Wilkinson, a retired foreign service officer. Brewster House. life. “SPS life was much more Spartan After his retirement, Mr. Wilkinson Mr. Soutter went on to Princeton than most high school students experi- continued to teach, write, and consult. He University, where he was a member of the enced in U.S.,” he wrote in a reunion chaired a new course on the U.S.-Mexican Ivy Club and the Princeton crew. He questionnaire. “I think it instilled discipline border at the Foreign Service Institute for earned his A.B. in 1957. That same year, and mental toughness that served many officers being sent to high-risk consul- he was married to Julie Hattersley. The of us well later.” ates in Northern Mexico and government marriage ended in divorce. He was later Mr. Wilkinson attended Yale, where he professionals working on key border married to Madora Cooke. earned a degree in political science. He issues. He contributed frequently to the Mr. Soutter spent his professional served as an officer in the U.S. Navy from online journal American Diplomacy, on career in business and financial manage- 1956 to 1961, before joining the Foreign whose board he served, and chaired the ment, serving as treasurer then president Service. He received his master’s in inter- Membership Committee of the Washing- of Inverness Management Corp., vice national relations from George Washing- ton Institute of Foreign Affairs. president of First National City Bank, ton University in 1964. Mr. Wilkinson enjoyed racquet sports, treasurer for international business at For the next 35 years, Mr. Wilkinson sailing, and bridge and was a member of Bristol-Myers, and senior vice president held a variety of diplomatic assignments the Chevy Chase and Metropolitan Clubs at Brown Harris Stevens. in Latin America and Europe, including and the Society of the Cincinnati. A remarkable endurance athlete, Mr. Venezuela, Sweden, Brussels, Mexico, Along with his wife, Mr. Wilkinson is Soutter ran his first Boston Marathon in Honduras, and Brazil. An arms control survived by three children, Rebecca, 1964 and peaked at 12 competitive expert, he was a member of the U.S. dele- Jennifer, and Julia; four grandchildren, marathons in one year in the mid-1980s. gation to the Conference on Disarmament Maxwell and Madeline Rose Wilkinson, He also ran several ultramarathons, in Geneva during the 1960s, the U.S. and Christopher and Ian Schiffgens; including the 100k London to Brighton mission to NATO in Brussels from 1970 and a sister, Joan Susannah Sadler. He Challenge and the 89k Comrades to 1974, and the Conference on Security was predeceased by his son, Theodore S. Marathon in South Africa. He was still and Cooperation in Europe from 1975 to Wilkinson IV. running regularly until a few days before 1976. He served on the drafting group his death. that prepared the chapter of the Helsinki 1953 A golfer and fisherman, Mr. Soutter Declaration on Military Security and Con- John Downey Soutter was a member of many sporting clubs, fidence Building Measures, was director who spent his including the Racquet and Tennis Club of Nuclear Technology and Safeguards career in business (which he served as president from 1980 from 1986 to 1989, and co-chaired bilateral management and to 1996), Piping Rock Club, the National nuclear commissions with the Republic of delighted in his Golf Links of America, and the Mid Ocean Korea, Taiwan, Egypt, Indonesia, and the time outside of Club in Bermuda. He loved the Metro- Soviet Union. He spoke Spanish, French, work training for politan Opera and held subscription seats Portuguese, German, and Swedish and competitive mara- for several decades, generously sharing wrote engaging articles about his adven- thons, died on them with friends and relatives. tures and misadventures in foreign serv- Saturday, April 4, Mr. Soutter took pride in his five ice. He served on the ambassadorial-level, 2015, in Burling- children and in his lifetime commitment four-nation Guarantor Support Commis- ton, Vt., following a brief hospitalization. to physical fitness, an affinity he sion, which helped reach a 1998 accord to He was 79 years old. attributed to his time as an athlete and end a bloody, long-running border dispute Born in New York City on August 10, sportsman at St. Paul’s. between Peru and Ecuador. 1935, Mr. Soutter was the son of James Mr. Soutter is survived by his children, Mr. Wilkinson was elected president of Taylor Soutter and Sarah Louise Downey. Lindsay Boyer, Amy Oxford, Lucy Soutter the American Foreign Service Association He grew up in Rye, N.Y., where he attended ’86, Morgan Soutter ’93, and Madora in 1989 and was a strong advocate for the Rye Country Day School, before enrolling Soutter; his grandchildren, Alaina role of America’s professional diplomatic at St. Paul’s as a Second Former in the fall Roberts, Colby Soutter, Thomson Soutter, service. He remained an active board of 1948. Mr. Soutter followed his maternal Violet Barber, and Madora Elliser; his member after his retirement and chaired grandfather, John I. Downey of the Form siblings, Susanna Livingston, James T. the editorial board of the Foreign Service of 1893, to the School. At SPS, Mr. Soutter Soutter Sr., and Robert Morgan Soutter; Journal from 2005 to 2011. played football and hockey for Isthmian, and his former wives, Julie Hattersley Righter and Madora Cooke Soutter. 48 1968 Held in high regard by his classmates In answer to an SPS questionnaire sent Lloyd William Fonvielle Jr for his intelligence, independence, and some years after his graduation, Mr. originality, Mr. Fonvielle received a pres- Fonvielle wrote, “St. Paul’s taught me tigious John Jay National Scholarship to Latin and Greek, and introduced me to attend Columbia, but decided instead to fellow students who became my stron- go to Stanford, where he completed one gest friends and artistic collaborators, year before dropping out to pursue his providing me with a firm sounding board writing. In 1983, he married Toni Bentley, for my rebellious rhetoric.” an author and a dancer with the New Mr. Fonvielle is survived by his mother, York City Ballet. They separated in 1992. Laura Roe Fonvielle; his sisters, Libba Mr. Fonvielle was a working writer in Marrian, Lee Rossi, Anna Gratale, and Hollywood for more than 20 years. His Roe Goch; and numerous nephews and a writer, whose prolific career encom- produced screenplays included The Lords nieces. passed erudite essays on photography, of Discipline (1983), The Bride (1985) and This obituary was prepared by Mr. screenplays for Hollywood, and free- Gotham (1988), starring Tommy Lee Jones Fonvielle’s friend, Hugh McCarten ’68. wheeling short stories about the Ameri- and Virginia Madsen, which Mr. Fonvielle can West, died on February 19, 2015, at also directed. In 1996, he wrote Little 1968 his apartment in Las Vegas, Nevada. He Surprises, a 36-minute comedy directed Michael Morgan was 64 years old. The cause of death was by Jeff Goldblum, which earned an Acad- hypertension and COPD, according to the emy Award nomination for Best Live Las Vegas coroner’s office. Action Short. He was accorded story credit Mr. Fonvielle was born in Wilmington, on the 1999 blockbuster The Mummy N.C., on March 22, 1950. His father was and on Cherry 2000 (1985), which he also an Episcopal minister and his mother a executive produced. grammar school teacher. He grew up in Among his writings on photography North Carolina and Washington, D.C., are the introduction to a book on the where he attended St. Alban’s School. iconic photographer Walker Evans, pub- He entered St. Paul’s School as a Second lished by Aperture, and the afterword to Former in 1963. At St. Paul’s, Mr. Fonvielle Election Eve, a book of photographs by a devoted husband, adoring father, and excelled in classics, and was honored with William Eggleston, published by Cotty enthusiastic member of the Form of 1968, Latin Dickey Prizes as well as the Goodwin Chubb ’67. Essays on ballet and a divers- died on February 6, 2015, in St. Louis, Classics Prize. Active in the arts, he per- ity of other subjects appeared in the New where he lived. The cause was a malignant formed in many Dramatic Club produc- York Times, Salon, and Slate. brain tumor, glioblastoma multiforme. He tions, shot his own scripted Super-8 For 30 years, Mr. Fonvielle lived in New was 64. movies, and avidly pursued an interest York City and Southern California, before Mike Morgan was born in Cleveland, in still photography. He belonged to a relocating to Las Vegas in 2004. There he Ohio, on June 14, 1950, and arrived at number of extracurricular groups, in- reinvented himself as a blogger and author St. Paul’s as a Third Former in the fall cluding Le Cercle Français, which he of Western fiction. His blog, Mardecortes- of 1964. He lived in the Lower, where served as secretary in his Sixth Form baja.com: A Journal of Visual Culture, his room was a small alcove, with just a year. That same year, Mr. Fonvielle was a platform for his literate, highly curtain for privacy. He made fast friends co-founded the Cinema Society, which opinionated, often irreverent views on with fellow alcove-dwellers, and soon screened Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless popular culture, art, history, and religion, some of them formed a band, The Black and other film masterpieces. He was a with the occasional vintage pin-up thrown Knights, for which Mike played keyboard. dependable participant in sports at the in, attracting hundreds of thousands of By Sixth Form, he had recorded an album club level, playing Delphian hockey and page views. with a second band, The Jazz Bag. In yet lacrosse. Shortly before graduation in Mr. Fonvielle was an early adopter of another band, The Loudest Noise in the 1968, Mr. Fonvielle, along with Sixth Form Amazon as a vehicle for publishing his World, Mike performed under a black president Rick King, wrote and dissemi- noir novellas and Western short stories, light, in pants painted Day-Glo colors. nated “The Sixth Form Letter,” a notoriously which found an enthusiastic audience He was always dashing, and always his divisive document, which urged sweeping among discerning readers. He died at his own man. changes at the School, several of which, writing desk – in other words, he died including co-education, were eventually with his boots on. adopted.

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At SPS, Mike was also a member of the 1986 In her professional life, Ms. Henneman Dramatic Club, Le Cercle Français, and Margery Lawrence was an entomologist and became an expert the Poetry Society. He served as secretary “Laurie” Henneman in the causes and consequences to eco- of both the Concordian Literary Society professor and mu- systems of invasive species. She received and the Folk Society. He captained the sician, wife and national attention in 2001 for her post- Isthmian football and soccer teams, played mother, died of doctoral research on invasive species tennis for Isthmian, and spent two years complications used in biocontrol. Most recently, she as a member of the SPS boxing team. He from cancer on taught biology and music as an adjunct managed the SPS hockey team in 1967 Sunday, July 27, professor at the University of Montana and 1968. He was a National Merit finalist. 2014, at her home Western in Dillon. After graduation, Mike matriculated to in Dillon, Mon- Ms. Henneman brought joy to her wide Princeton University, where he continued tana. She was 46 network of family and friends and was to enjoy many of the friendships formed years old. exceedingly loyal to those she knew and at St. Paul’s. He was a member of the Born July 9, loved. She was a loving mother and Class of 1972. 1968, in Hamilton, Ontario, Ms. devoted wife. She possessed a sharp wit He began his career as a journalist in Henneman was the youngest of three and an easy and boisterous laugh. She Boston. After four years, he enrolled in children and the only daughter of Margery was a lifelong fan of the Iowa Hawkeyes law school at Case Western Reserve in Clifford Henneman and the late John Bell and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Cleveland. He graduated in 1979 and Henneman. A scientist first, Ms. Henneman gave started a job at Bryan, Cave in St. Louis. She grew up in Iowa City, Iowa, attend- life to her tremendous creativity and love The firm eventually sent him to Riyadh, ing Herbert Hoover Elementary School for the natural world in the blending of London, and Hong Kong, where he opened and Southeast Junior High before enrol- art and science. She wrote and recorded a an office in 1994. He returned to St. Louis ling as a Fourth Former at St. Paul’s cycle of songs called “Ants of the Desert,” in 1996, and continued to practice law School in 1983. Ms. Henneman was a enjoyed by entomologists all over the and play piano as long as he was able. gifted scholar and musician, who played world, and used images in folk quilting of In 1983, Mike married Mary Armstrong piano, oboe, and first saxophone in the native insects of Hawaii. In recent years, Goodyear. (A previous marriage to Lynn SPS band. She also rowed with the varsity she maintained a regular blog on matters Dozier ended in divorce.) crew, played J.V. field hockey, and was of science, ethics, and her own experi- Mike adored his St. Paul’s friends and an enthusiastic participant in technical ences as a cancer patient in the American the camaraderie he found among them. theater, managing the stage lighting for healthcare system. For his 45th St. Paul’s reunion in 2013, he many SPS productions. Through it all, Ms. Henneman re- started a new tradition for his form, a After graduating with First Testimoni- mained close to her childhood friends memorial service in the Old Chapel for als from St. Paul’s, Ms. Henneman earned from Iowa City, classmates from Princ- members who had died. He played the her A.B. in biology from Princeton in eton, and many friends from the places organ at the inaugural service. 1990, where she wrote songs for the she had lived, including her home town Mike was deeply loyal to those he Triangle Club, served as a drill master of of Dillon. loved, faintly rebellious toward what he the Princeton University band, rowed Ms. Henneman is survived by her hus- didn’t believe in, generous, passionate, with the women’s crew, and served in the band, Eric Dyreson; her daughter, Eleanor and down-to-earth, a gentleman and Air Force ROTC program. She went on to Dyreson; her mother and stepfather, an Everyman. He reveled in gratitude for earn a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary Gerry Henneman and Bosley Crowther; his family and friends. He will be missed biology from the University of Arizona in her father-in-law, Del Dyreson; her tremendously. 1997. Her postdoctoral research was done brothers, Jack and Charlie, and their In addition to his wife, Mary, he leaves at the University of Bristol in England. spouses, Kerry Rowden and Laurel behind his sister, Martha Estes; his brother, During that period, she served for a time Henneman; her brothers- and sisters- Dixon Morgan; his daughter, Phoebe as a visiting scholar at the University of in-law Mark and Jodella Dyreson, Curt Morgan; his son, Nicholas Morgan; and Hawaii, conducting field work on native Dyreson and Jennifer Reeve, and Arn his stepdaughters, Cameron Goodyear insects in the Alakai Swamp on Kauai. Dyreson and Davi Kanewa; and many, and Dana Goodyear ’94; four grandchil- When she was not studying, she paddled many friends. dren; and his beloved Westie, Isabel. for a competitive women’s outrigger This tribute was written by Mr. Morgan’s ocean canoeing team. stepdaughter, Dana Goodyear ’94.

50 COMMUNITY

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS SPS Alumni and Parents Reception, Artists for Humanity EpiCenter, May 5 CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE Alumni Association Induction Dinner for the Form of 2015, St. Paul’s School, May 1 NEW YORK CITY Alumni Association Awards, NYC Alumni Association Meeting & Awards Ceremony The Millennium Broadway Hotel, April 8 NYC Pelicans Event: The Heidi Chronicles The Music Box Theatre, April 23 Upcoming Events BLUE HILL, MAINE Community Reception, home of Mark Cluett ’51 August 20 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS The Heidi Chronicles, NYC Boston Pelicans Outing: Boston Red Sox vs. Atlanta Braves, Fenway Park, June 15 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Midwest Pelicans Event: Pre-Grateful Dead Concert Gathering, Palmer House Hotel, July 5 CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE SPS Sparks Neighborhood Day of Service Pope Memorial SPCA/NH Audubon, May 29 Anniversary Weekend and Graduation St. Paul’s School, May 29-31 FISHERS ISLAND, NEW YORK Community Reception, home of Thor Thors ’78 The Heidi Chronicles, NYC August 15 MARTHA’S VINEYARD, MASSACHUSETTS Community Reception, home of Burke Ross ’69 August 6 PARIS European SPS Alumni/Weicker Scholar Reception TBD, June 19 SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA LA Pelicans Reception: hosted by Ned Doubleday ’81 51 Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club, August 2 Alumni and Parents Reception, Boston FACETIME

Photos courtesy of Sia Sanneh ’97 Sia Sanneh ’97 Equal Justice Initiative

Sia Sanneh ’97 has worked as an attor- As an organization, we have long been Through our research, we found that ney for the Equal Justice Initiative since struck by the links between our history Montgomery was a busy site for the 2008. In addition, she began teaching and the problems we are facing in the domestic slave trade. Our office, where the Capital Punishment Clinic at Yale present. we work today, was a warehouse that The Equal Justice Initiative is based in housed slaves. Law School in 2012. Her work with Montgomery, Alabama, where there are It was a stunning revelation. He we are, EJI includes representing the men and 59 monuments and markers celebrating an organization trying to address racial women on death row and children the Confederacy, but very little history discrimination, and our office used to be sentenced to adult prisons, and sup- documenting the struggles of African- a warehouse for slave trade. porting the civil liberties of indigent American people, who are a huge part of defendants denied fair and just treat- the State and our client base. We started We set out to research and document ment in the U.S. legal system. For five our race and poverty project because we the history of lynching, with the idea years, she worked with an EJI team didn’t see much documented about slavery, that the true lingering evil of slavery to study and document the history and we believe that a more accurate is the mythology used to justify the of lynching in America. The result is historical record is necessary if we are system of slavery we had in America. a revealing report, co-authored by serious about confronting the challenges This mythology of black inferiority didn’t Sanneh, that she and others hope we face today, especially in the criminal end when slavery was abolished, and so justice system. will educate the public on the truth neither did slavery – it evolved, and that is what we continue to see in the lynch- of this previously underreported ing era. We spent five years documenting period in American history. every instance of lynching in 12 states. We discovered more than 700 additional cases than had been previously reported. 52 The notion that black people – black men Something we hope comes out of the terror in the black community as a whole, in particular – are dangerous and criminal report is a sense of reconciliation for and how effective this was at halting has sunk deep into the American con- some of these people and recognition progress. sciousness, and the lynching era is import- of their trauma. ant to helping people understand its roots. The first step to this is truthful account- We argue in the report that lynching ing. We’ve talked with people whose uncles, was the primary reason for mass Lynchings were not about keeping the grandfathers, or great-grandfathers were migration away from the South – community safe from crime, but keep- lynched, but they never talked about it. why over 5 million African Americans ing racial order intact. They have felt deep trauma about this. fled the South during the first half of I did not understand that until I read We have also spoken with others who the Twentieth Century, and moved to these accounts. I used to think lynchings told us they were six years old when they Oakland, Detroit, Gary, and other cities were responses to crimes – dramatic, un- were brought to a lynching, and who feel in the North, and West. We argue they justifiable responses, but frontier justice tremendous shame from being a part of were not economic migrants, but refu- run amok. that experience. gees from racial terrorism. The threat of a lynching was always there. It was Instead we found that so many of One case that stands out to me is real enough that it sparked relocations these killings were not about crimes, the lynching of John Carter in Little of entire families. but about social transgressions. Rock, Arkansas. There was a man who bumped into a He suffered from mental illness and was We believe that reconciliation is white person rushing to a train and was abducted by the community in response what can help us move beyond this lynched for that. Another man returned to a crime in which he had no involvement. as a country. from World War I wearing his Army uni- More than 5,000 people participated in Part of the challenge is accepting the form and it was so provocative, so against his lynching. They brought his dead body truth. In reality, this period in our his- the social norms, that he was lynched. A to a corner in downtown Little Rock in tory was not that long ago and it has black man went in the front door instead the African-American business district. profoundly changed the landscape of of the back door of a white woman’s house our country. With better understanding and was lynched. I recently stood on that street corner of the history, it’s easier to have an in Little Rock and thought about how understanding of why intergenerational Our staff visited more than 150 dif- John Carter’s story shows dramatically poverty exists, and why mass incarcer- ferent lynching sites. that these lynchings were really about ation exists on the scale it does today, We discovered that there was absolutely targeting black progress. with over 2.3 million people in prisons nothing commemorating these killings It was not enough to kill this person, but and jails, a disproportionate number of – no markers, no monuments. It was they had to make a public spectacle of his whom are people of color. The issues go complete silence. corpse to send a message. It shows how beyond physical relocation. The legacy these lynching were designed to instill impacts all of us. One of the things we talk about in our report is how traumatizing these events were for everyone in the community. The cover of our report is from a lynching in Paris, Texas, which was attended by 10,000 people. These were huge, com- munity-wide events. The Paris case is remarkable because it captures this idea of public-spectacle lynching. We heard over and over again, “This is something I have never talked about.” It underscored to us the deep, deep trauma from these experiences, and the way people are still dealing with it.

53 SPOTLIGHT

graduation from Middlebury College, it is the school she now runs, with guidance Alumni Association from Achilles, following his intent of creat- ing an Afghan school run by Afghans. Achilles credits Shabana for helping Award Recipients SOLA “become a real school” after her The Alumni Award is the highest honor the graduation from Middlebury. The goal of SOLA is to provide educational oppor- Association can bestow on an alumnus/a tunities for Afghan students, regardless to recognize the excellence of his or her of economic status, with the intent that lifeworks and commitment to the spirit they return to Afghanistan ready to initiate of community. This year’s honorees positive change as substantive leaders in included Theodore C. Achilles ’54 its public and private sectors. Over the and Peter M. McBride ’89, who were last five years, SOLA has helped to educate close to 100 girls (and a few boys) as young recognized at an April 8 ceremony as 12 and as old as 23, who otherwise held at the Millennium Broadway would almost certainly never have had a Hotel in New York City. The event chance at secondary education. combined the award presentations Though he got a good start at St. Paul’s with the Annual Meeting of the and, subsequently, at Yale, Achilles did Alumni Association. not take a traditional route to boarding- school administration, spending the major- ity of his career in finance and manufac- turing. The son of a career diplomat, he spent his youth traveling the world and becoming comfortable in vastly different cultures. He served as an infantry officer (airborne, ranger qualified) for the U.S. Army and earned a master’s in develop- ment economics from Tufts University’s Achilles ’54 Fletcher School of International Law and Educational Visionary Diplomacy. His father, he says, taught him an In July 2008, Ted Achilles ’54 hiked important lesson in three simple words: through the Karakorum Mountains of “Don’t be judgmental.” Heeding that advice, Pakistan, contemplating his future. Days two days after the September 11, 2001, earlier, he had resigned as director of a terrorist attacks on the United States, U.S. State-Department-funded program Achilles called an old friend, Lou Mitchell, that enabled Afghan youth to participate and asked the Episcopal priest, who had in exchange and study programs in Amer- served as Peace Corps director in Afghan- ica. The program had lost nearly half of istan, if he could help out in the nation in its students to Canadian asylum, a statistic any way. By 2003, when Achilles made his that frustrated Achilles. first trip to the country, the Taliban had “I said to myself, ‘Okay, Achilles. What destroyed 80 percent of Afghanistan’s are you going to do now?’” says the 2015 school buildings, sending teachers fleeing Alumni Association Award recipient. “I over the border. was absolutely intent on taking this pro- “Yes, bad things happen in Afghanistan,” gram forward and doing it the right way, he says, “but never in my well-traveled whatever that meant.” life have I known a kinder, more thought- In 2006, Achilles had met Shabana ful, more decent, more hospitable people Basij-Rasikh, a 15-year-old Afghan than the Afghans I now live and work woman, who attended public high school among every day.” The girls he helps, in the United States through the State Achilles adds, are the “hardest-working Department program. It was Shabana students you can imagine. They under- who inspired Achilles to open SOLA, stand the meaning of education denied School of Leadership Afghanistan, two as we Americans never will.” 54 years later. Five years removed from her Achilles has forged ahead to other endeavors supported by an Afghan- “I have just helped to take something and best short film at the Banff (2014) American Foundation. In 2012, he turned that is often considered not that interest- and New York Wild Film Festivals (2015). over school leadership to Shabana, now 25, ing and made it a little more compelling In 2014, McBride was named a “fresh- and her Afghan teammates and American by using art,” says McBride of his grow- water hero” by the National Geographic supporters. Their vision of SOLA is that ing body of work, particularly his study Society for his work documenting India’s of a premier boarding school that will of water-based subjects. Ganges River. eventually take the place of American Crediting scientists with asserting The High Country News assignment secondary school education for its students, much greater influence, McBride shrugs aside, McBride’s career was truly launched instead focusing on preparing them for when asked about how his photography years ago, when he pitched a photo essay higher education at home and abroad. and filmmaking have contributed to rais- to National Geographic and the magazine “There is virtually nothing American ing awareness of environmental concerns, declined it. about SOLA,” Achilles says. “We are most notably the watershed issues by “To my good fortune,” he recalls, “they not imposing our solutions, but helping which he is personally compelled. Curiously said no. I was nobody to them – a green Afghans figure out how to create a enough, McBride, a recipient of the 2015 photographer.” world-class boarding school in their Alumni Association Award, began his Undeterred, McBride and a team of own country. That’s a major contribution career as a 25-year-old journalist, penning collaborators pursued the assignment – acknowledging that Afghans can and articles for newspapers and magazines. independently, reenacting the first African will ‘fix’ their country their way.” While working for the High Country News, air passage with a World War I biplane. The Achilles is emotional when talking a Colorado-based publication that covers plane crashed, McBride and company were about his pride in SOLA and of the girls natural resources, he reported on a story intercepted by fighter jets, and detained in and boys who have earned scholarships about cattle branding, photographing the Djibouti. McBride documented the group’s at boarding schools and colleges around piece for good measure. His editor, says misadventures in photos and words for a the world. McBride, “raved about the images,” and National Geographic cover story. “Out of all I have done in my life,” he featured the article as a center-spread In the years since that bit of good says, “there is nothing that even comes photo essay. (mis)fortune, McBride has tackled stories close to my years in Afghanistan.” “I realized that photography was easier on the Snowman Trek in Bhutan and on than re-writing,” he says, with a little laugh. the lifestyle of the indigenous Shamans Two decades later, the native Coloradoan in Guatemala. He documented the life of has studied the world through the lens Sherpas on Mount Everest for a month of a camera, completing assignments in in 2006. In 2008, he was part of a team more than 70 countries for the publica- that kayaked down the western side of tions of the National Geographic Society, the Antarctic Peninsula to pursue a story Smithsonian, the Audubon Society, and about the region’s booming tourist industry. many others. He has created images for He accompanied Ed Stafford for five days dozens of companies and organizations, in 2009, in the midst of the British adven- ranging from Patagonia to Microsoft to turer’s two-year excursion following the the Nature Conservancy. Over the last path of the Amazon River. McBride has decade, McBride has shifted his focus to captured images in Cuban fishing villages, stories that raise awareness about fresh- at remote beaches and waterfalls, and on water challenges. He spent four years the Khumbu Icefall, the most treacherous leaning out of airplanes and traversing stretch of Mount Everest. He has been barren riverbeds on foot, documenting unintimidated by sputtering airplane the plight of the Colorado River. The engines over the Grand Canyon or the project resulted in the publication of a deadly shock of electric eels in the murky coffee-table book, The Colorado River: waters of the Amazon. And, of course, his McBride ’89 Flowing Through Conflict, and a series work to create awareness for the drought Photojournalist of short films, including Chasing Water, that plagues his backyard river in Colorado I am Red, and Delta Dawn. has reached millions. Though he is quick to acknowledge that The consummate photojournalist, “I just try to find stories that mean there is “no impact meter” to measure his McBride’s work has been recognized by something to me,” he says. “I play a contributions, Peter McBride ’89 has de- the Banff Mountain Film Festival, the small role. People a lot smarter than I livered more than 300 lectures on water North American Society of Journalists, am use my book and my films to help issues and matters of conservation. He and Lowell Thomas Travel Writing, among influence their work. Scientists do a estimates that more than a million people many others. Delta Dawn has earned great job explaining the details of what’s have seen each of his award-winning several honors, including the 2014 award happening. I hope I have helped to push documentaries on the devastation of the of excellence for documentary journalism the needle to the public; show them why drought-ridden Colorado River. from Pictures of the Year International they should care.” 55

PERSPECTIVE

Not a Means to an End Noah Ruttenberg ’15

I’d like to take this would offer me a new lens through which to view opportunity to rede- the world. I believed, for some reason, that my PETER FINGER fine how I had always first day at SPS was my last day of childhood. I viewed St. Paul’s thought enrolling in a boarding school and living before I came to away from home marked the final time I would understand the place live in the moment. I was incorrect.

fully. At first, it was St. Paul’s is not just a route to college. It is not simply a college prep- the end of childhood either, but a bridge that aratory school to me, eases the transition between childhood and with all that label adulthood. It is an experience in itself. I took it encompasses. at face value, reflecting, perhaps, that I was still If you had asked the Fifth Form Noah about very much a child when I arrived. Although I may St. Paul’s School, he would have said the time is not have realized it at the time, St. Paul’s has a bit of a blur, a four-year period during which certainly fostered personal growth for me and, I each student is expected to find his or her niche know, for my friends and formmates too. I have and then do everything with an eye toward become a product of this nurturing community. getting into a highly selective college, as the All it took was letting myself live in the many label suggests. moments of my time here. As I reflect on my time at St. Paul’s, days ahead Having had the opportunity as a Sixth Former of my graduation, I confess that I fell victim to to serve as secretary of the Student Council, I that misguided mission. As I saw it, St. Paul’s have become acquainted with a side of myself I was my ticket to post-graduate success; a super- had not previously known. I’ve fought for student highway to a good college, which would allow me causes, promoted the spirit of this community, to get a good job, where I would work hard to and tried to be a part of ensuring the welfare of provide for my family until I could retire comfort- future generations of Paulies. I did all of that to ably, modeling all the way the same rigorous facilitate the St. Paul’s experience for those who lifestyle I adopted in Concord, N.H. In retrospect, will come after me, regardless of where they (or I) I messed up. will attend college. I was looking at my time at St. Paul’s as a I have been blessed this year with the opportu- means to an end, rather than living it for the nity to work alongside three incredibly motivated, experience itself. More than a year ago, when intelligent, and lovely people, allowing me to look I was in the throes of Fifth Form stress (We all at this place in a different light. Charlie Lee ’15, know it, right?), my father asked me if I would Malaika Ogukwe ’15, and Priscilla Salovaara ’15 allow my own children to attend SPS. I answered (and our adviser, Frau Hornor) have pushed me to with little hesitation, giving him an emphatic, stay true to myself and to appreciate my time at “Absolutely not.” St. Paul’s. I now realize that I was a little foolish in my As I look back on my days at this school, I realize assessment of the future, because I was basing that St. Paul’s is more than a college preparatory it on the SPS I thought I knew. Simply put, I main- experience. Instead, it offers the rare gift of inde- tained a limited view of the School, focusing on pendence, academic rigor, and self-exploration. It the academic rigor alone, the competition for is a time to be cherished, not ignored. What has grades and classroom standing, and not as a St. Paul’s prepared me for? That’s an easy question chance to dive into a new community, which to answer. Life.

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