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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 RECTOR 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 3 ACTION 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.

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