The Centennial Newsletter of \3 The Park School 1912 ~ 2012 TheBrown&White jan 2013

centennial come curious, leave smarter Sunday 4:00 pm march 3rd to brain thrust 2013 8:00 pm

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Centennial Weekend events are open Founding Families and Liberty Heights to the entire Park community! Society (Class of 1963 and earlier) centennial weekend: don’t miss it! For more information: 410 339 4114 Centennial Luncheon It’s been an incredible year so far! Park’s Centennial kicked off in September or [email protected]. 1:00-3:00pm with our Birthday Weekend, including Brown and White Day and a carnival Clubs and Activities Reunions with rides, games, and entertainment. Throughout the semester, students have Friday, May 31 2:30-4:00pm learned about Park’s history in assemblies and in their classrooms. In October, People of Color Reception Reunion Year Cocktail Parties Centennial Scholar David Perkins of Harvard’s Project Zero spent three days 5:00-7:00pm Classes of 1948, 1953, 1958, 1963, at Park, meeting with faculty, observing classes, and presenting to parents. Cabaret and Performing Arts Showcase 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998, November was the Centennial Auction – a fabulous evening of camaraderie Featuring Alumni 2003, 2008 and fundraising. Looking ahead, March brings the highly anticipated return 7:00-9:00pm 5:30-7:30pm of Brain Thrust (see inside) and on Friday May 31, the ultimate Park event Dessert Reception Brown and White Night: begins...Centennial Weekend. You will not want to miss this two-day 9:00-10:00pm Centennial Dinner and Party community celebration marking Park’s first 100 years! The celebration starts at 7:00pm. Reunion Classes join the festivities at Kevin Coll, Linda Halpert, Margot baylin Lessans ’80, R ahsan Lindsay ’90, Saturday, June 1 David Sachs ’88, Centennial Co-Chairs 7:30pm. Alumni Games Men’s Lacrosse – 11:00am The Radisson Cross Keys has provided Women’s Lacrosse – 11:00am special room rates for out-of-town visitors. The first all-school photo was taken during the 1919-1920 school year. All-school photos were taken Below. Men’s Baseball – 10:30am Book online at www.radisson.com/ intermittently in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1987, for Park’s 75th anniversary, a photo of faculty and students forming a PS was taken from a crane. On September 28, 2012, the tradition continued in 21st century fashion with an aerial BBQ – 12:30-2:30pm baltimoremd or call 800 333 3333 and use photo on Tompkins Field taken by a drone. the promotional code PKCREU. PARK STORIES: SHARE YOURS

Park Stories, a year-long Centennial project, launched the Centennial kick-off weekend, September 28-29, …Hans Froelicher was decent and cared about 2012. We invite you to share memories of your each student. He tried to live as his conscience experiences at Park and your aspirations for the dictated, not just as an introspective person school’s next century. We want to hear from students, but with a sense of living out his conception of alumni, current and former faculty and staff, parents, a Quaker ethic. Hans was a fine photographer, parents of alumni, and grandparents. We want to a man with a twinkle in his eyes and a sense of hear stories about favorite teachers, coaches, and humor. He was certain that I would improve classmates, or those notable moments when you came with maturity, and I loved him for his faith! to campus as a parent or grandparent. Deborah Katz Hermann, Class of 1944 Park Stories will be posted on the Centennial website, Newton, Massachusetts www.parkschool.net/centennial, where you will find instructions on how to make your submissions. You will be able to browse through the stories already I was a lifer. I started Park in nursery class and collected and read pieces unearthed from the graduated…in 1952….Classes were ‘hands on.’ archives. There are various ways to make your For example, we all took home economics in submission – written (essays, stories, or just a few lower school, boys and girls. The classroom had sentences) or images. Upload them at three or four kitchen set-ups, and after we www.parkschool.net/centennial/stories. cooked the lesson for the day, we properly set You will find Park Story cards and pencils at Centennial our places at the tables and ate the results. events throughout the year. Participate as often Sara Kallins Feldman, Class of 1952 and in as much detail as you like. Check back regularly. Newton, Massachusetts We will post new stories throughout the year.

Mine your memory and share your Park Stories. Help us create a collection to celebrate 100 years of Park! marking 100 years on campus

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1. Resident Scholar David Perkins speaks to Middle School students.

2. The Centennial Auction raised a record-breaking $360,000 for financial assistance and faculty salaries.

3. Brown and White Weekend included a carnival with rides and games.

4. and 5. The Centennial was officially kicked off with an all-school parade, and cupcakes and pennants for all. 4 5 BRAIN THRUST: sunday march 3 Come Curious. Leave Smarter. Session 1: 4:00-4:50 PM SUPPER: 5:00-5:50 PM

1-A: Author to Author: A Conversation / Laura Amy Schlitz, Park 1-F: A Modern Globe Theater in Downtown Baltimore / Scott 1-K: The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention / Christopher Lower School librarian: Newbery Medalist for Good Masters! Helm, Parent: Trustee, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company / Leighton, Parent of Alumni: Executive Director of the Sweet Ladies! and author of Splendors and Glooms and The Lesley Malin, Parent: Managing Director, Actor, Chesapeake Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies / Join a discussion Night Fairy / Adam Gidwitz, Alumnus (2000): Author, A Tale Shakespeare Company / Chesapeake Shakespeare Company about the ethical responsibilities of the United States in the Dark and Grimm and In a Glass Grimmly / Join Laura and her wants to change the way people think about Shakespeare and face of humanitarian catastrophes. How should our country former student Adam – both New York Times bestselling children’s break down the barriers between his great works and modern determine the appropriate response to various atrocities, authors – for an out-of-the-box question-and-answer session. audiences – so join Scott and Lesley for this entertaining and including genocide? What strategies should the United States interactive session. They’ll help you understand why iambic deploy to bring about change in foreign regimes? What criteria pentameter is not as scary as you think! In its short history, CSC do we use to move from non-intervention to economic and 1-B: Not for the Faint of Heart: An In-the-Trenches View of has gained a reputation for innovative and energetic productions political pressure to military action? Examine these questions in U.S. Politics and Policy-Making / The Honorable Ben Cardin, that appeal to a wide range of audiences. Now, with its recent relationship to classical formulations of the “just war” theory. Parent of Alumni, Former Trustee: United States Senator / acquisition of the 130-year-old Mercantile Building, Shakespeare Shelly Hettleman, Parent: Campaign Director, Ben Cardin for and the Modern Globe Theater will be expanding to downtown Senate / In this discussion-formatted workshop, you’ll have the 1-L: Youth Sports: Restoring Sanity to the Sidelines / Mark Baltimore. Hear the exciting vision for the renovation and how the opportunity to learn from, and talk politics and policy with, one Hyman, Parent of Alumni: Sports Journalist, co-author of Company plans to connect to the community and its neighbors. of the state’s leading federal legislators and his campaign Concussions and Our Kids / Drawing on his books and manager. Re-elected in 2012, Senator Cardin is serving his articles about kids, parents and sports, Mark leads a discussion second term in the U.S. Senate after having served 20 years in 1-G: Directing Dissent / John Roemer, Former Faculty: Former about the three traps that 98 percent of adults fall into and the House of Representatives. Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland / reveals fail-safe strategies for model sports parenthood. Sophie Hamacher, Alumna (1999): Director of the film Directing Dissent / Join a lively conversation about Directing 1-C: Putting it Together: A Life in the Theater / Margo Lion, 1-M: Sculpting With Wire in a Wireless World / Devin Mack, Dissent, based on John’s life and work. After viewing excerpts Alumna (1962): Tony Award-winning Producer; Co-Chairman, Alumnus (1996), Parent: Wire Sculptor, Mackwire Studios / of the film, participants will examine the innate dichotomy the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities; Devin is a wire sculptor who has been working in and around between civil disobedience and the rule of law, and between Adjunct Professor, Dean’s Council, NYU-Tisch School of the Baltimore for more than 10 years. He creates his sculptures family/work responsibilies and the consequences of activism. Arts / Amanda Lipitz, Alumna (1998): Tony-Nominated in his Remington studio and exhibits at street festivals, museum Sophie, based in Germany, will join the conversation via Skype. Producer, Amanda Lipitz Productions; Producer and Creator, gift shops, and traditional galleries. Join him for a hands-on MTV Series / Park alumnae, now united on the “Great White studio session to twist and shape wire sculptures. Fun and easy, Way” to develop a new musical, talk about their lives on and 1-H: Sushi: An Edible Art Form / Ronald Choi, Parent: Chef, with no prior experience necessary. Studio fee: $15. off-Broadway. Hear from these two powerhouses why it’s PABU at the Four Seasons / Modeled on traditional Japanese not “acting or bust” when it comes to a career in the theater. drinking establishments, PABU takes its name from the Japanese 1-N: Military 101: Myth vs. Reality / Bethany Kibler, Alumna How do creative ideas go from the “back of a napkin” to a phonetic translation of “pub.” It incorporates elements of (1998): former U.S. Army Staff Sergeant; Ph.D. Candidate in full-fledged Broadway production? Learn how creative projects Japanese izakayas, where people congregate post-work for Anthropology, Harvard University / Jessica Schiavone, come to fruition from their own experiences with the process relaxed yet refined food and drink. Join Chef Ronald Choi Alumna (1995): former U.S. Naval Flight Officer; Manager, of developing successful Broadway productions (such as for a sushi-making session where you will create and sample a Baltimore Gas & Electric Smart Grid Operations / You never Ms. Lion’s Hairspray and Catch Me if You Can and Ms. Lipitz’s curated selection of Japanese pub food. Studio fee: $15. really know what you’re signing up for when you join the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Legally Blonde), and hear about military. Park School grads discuss their own expectations and their exciting new collaboration. 1-I: 21st Century Medicine: The End of Disease? / George J. realities – and welcome you to share in an open discussion of a Dover, M.D., Grandparent: Given Professor and Director variety of topics including peacetime vs. wartime leadership, 1-D: Moving From Success to Significance: The Challenges of the Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University; following orders vs. making thoughtful choices, training and Rewards of a Mid-Career Switch / Greg White, Alumnus Pediatrician-In-Chief, Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children’s requirements, transitioning challenges, transferable skill sets, (1981): President and CEO, LEARN Charter School Network; Center at Johns Hopkins Hospital / Will super-computers and and the comparison of the Top Gun generation of recruits Adjunct Professor, Kellogg School of Management, North- gene therapies end illness as we know it? How long and how compared to today’s youth growing up against a backdrop of western University / After earning his MBA, Greg White took well can we live? Is pediatric intervention the key to geriatric global conflict. a traditional path, working in commercial banking, investment health? This session raises the provocative issue of what is banking, and private equity. After about 15 years in finance, possible with our ability to predict and prevent illness rather 1-O: Why You Can’t Afford NOT to Care: Assessing the his career took a radical change and he became the president than waiting to react to it. Dr. Dover asks the ultimate question: Impact of the Affordable Care Act / Maria Harris Tildon, and CEO of a not-for-profit charter school with ambitious growth Can hospitals put themselves out of business? Parent, Trustee: Senior Vice President, Public Policy and plans. Greg will discuss: the challenges, risks, and rewards of Community Affairs, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield / a radical mid-career switch; what others should consider as they 1-J: Dude, Where’s My Robot? / David Weiss, Alumnus Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality contemplate pursuing their passion; his thought process and the (2003): Ph.D. Candidate, Computer and Information Science, of the federal health care law, what does that mean for all of final factors that convinced him to pursue this path; and finally, University of Pennsylvania / Can we teach a robot to think and us? Join us for a high-level overview of the Affordable Care Act why the last five years have been the best of his work career as he learn as we do, or is this an impossible task? In this interactive and its practical implications for individuals and families in led this charter network from one school serving 330 students to presentation, journey into the worlds of artificial intelligence, Maryland in the near and long term. six schools serving over 2,400, primarily from low-income families. theoretical computer science, and neuroscience, and discover how the scientific process makes progress on the big questions 1-P: Chanoyu: The Way of Tea – A Japanese Ceremony / 1-E: Joseph Conrad: Pessimist and Idealist – Discussion of about intelligence and robotics. Emily Weber, Lower School Faculty: Former Faculty Member, the 1912 Book The Secret Sharer / Dr. F. Parvin Sharpless, Columbia International School in Saitama, Japan / Leave former Head of School, Parent of Alumni / Dr. Sharpless your shoes at the door and join first-grade teacher Emily Weber leads an insightful discussion about this Joseph Conrad in a Japanese tea ceremony from the Urasenke tradition. allegorical short story published in Park’s founding year, 1912. Experience the ritual rooted in Zen Buddhism, taste traditional Come prepared to participate in this Centennial Book Club; Japanese sweets while sipping a cup of matcha tea, and savor books can be borrowed from the Parents’ Association library the present moment. Studio fee: $15 in advance. Welcome to Centennial Brain Thrust! In 1973, Netsie Lieberman, Park’s first Director of Development, 2-L: The Nude in Photography / Malcolm Daniel, Ph.D., created Brain Thrust, “an academic festival” that featured 15 presenters from the Park community. ¶ Alumnus (1974): Senior Curator, Department of Photographs, Brain Thrust is back, an anchor event in the Centennial Celebration. ¶ 62 presenters (alumni, parents, Metropolitan Museum of Art / Since the beginning of art, and in every medium, depicting the human body has been among grandparents, faculty, and staff)+ 49 sessions = a program of stimulating discussion, fascinating artists’ greatest challenges and supreme achievements. Tapping conversation, and engaging entertainment. ¶ From 4pm-8pm on Sunday, March 3, 2013, you’ll veins of mythology, carnal desire, and aesthetic pleasure, experience thought-provoking sessions, plus a delicious supper from The Classic Catering People depictions of the nude have also triggered impassioned discus- and Stone Mill Bakery. ¶ Register online at www.ParkSchool.net/Centennial/BrainThrust for sions of sin and sexuality, cultural identity, and canons of beauty. the sessions of your choice. Watch your email for a registration reminder. Tickets for 3 sessions Such controversies are often aroused even more intensely when and dinner are $40. ¶ The Upper School Civil Rights Club will provide care for children 5 and up for the artist’s chosen medium is photography. The session surveys a fee. ¶ Questions? 410 339 4147. the history of the photographic nude using examples from the Met’s collection, recently shown to wide acclaim. Sarah Baird, Betsy Berner, Adrienne Peres, and Eric Rice, Brain Thrust Chairs Kevin Coll, Linda Halpert, Margot baylin Lessans ’80, R ahsan Lindsay ’90, David Sachs ’88, Centennial Co-Chairs 2-M: Preserving 100 Years of Park History: A Peek at the Treasures in Park’s Archives / Michelle Feller-Kopman, Parent: Park School Archivist / Join Michelle in the Archives, where you SESSION 2: 6:00-6:50 PM can see and read and touch the treasures accumulated during 100 years of Park School. She will present an overview of basic archival 2-A: The Future of the Book / Leigh Feldman, Alumna (1984): 2-G: Google en Español: How the Internet Is Changing the functions, including cataloguing, balancing access to, and Literary Agent, Writers House / Michael Cader, Alumnus Way Latin America Connects, Communicates, and Does preservation of, these historical records and objects. Participants (1979): Founder, Publishers Marketplace, Publishers Lunch, Business / David Hyman, Alumnus (1999): Regional Manager, will have a rare opportunity to examine and discuss highlights and Cader Books / With the rise of e-books and internet Online Partnerships Group, Google Latin America / Come from this very special collection. Limited to five participants. bookselling and the disappearance of real bookstores, the once chat about Google’s reach and impact in emerging economies stable book publishing business is now the focus of much many miles outside Silicon Valley. Topics will include trends in 2-N: Using Genetics to Unlock the Puzzle of Autism and speculation and interest. Literary agent Leigh Feldman and mobile media consumption, Google’s role in building an Other Brain Conditions / Jonathan Pevsner, Alumnus (1979): industry chronicler Michael Cader will offer some answers on interconnected Internet ecosystem, and how growing up as a Research scientist, Kennedy Krieger Institute; Faculty, Depart- where it all leads, and will answer any question except “How can Bruin makes life in the corporate world a piece of cake. ment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins I get my book published?” University School of Medicine / You’ve heard about the human 2-H: The Stock Market and the Madness of Crowds / Dan genome. Learn what it is, and how we can now sequence the 2-B: Prosperity Economics: Inequality and American Cummings, Alumnus (1983): Head of International Wealth genome of children with brain conditions. The discussion will Democracy / Nate Loewentheil, Alumnus (2003): J.D. and Investment Management, Bank of America Merrill Lynch / focus on the amazing double helix with all its 3 billion base pairs, Candidate, Yale Law School; Founder of the Roosevelt Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowd, the discovery of the genes responsible for certain conditions – Campus Network / Examine inequality in America with a focus written by Charles MacKay in 1841, is the seminal work on and the possibility of new treatments. on its political dimensions. The discussion will highlight how groupthink, economic bubbles, and speculative excess. More our public policies have exacerbated inequality, how inequality than 150 years later, Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal 2-O: Toward a World of Sustainable Cities: Creating Models distorts our political process, and what we can do about it. Reserve, expressed concern over “irrational exuberance” in the to Meet our 21st-Century Challenges / Susan Blaustein, Ensuring that today’s economic winners don’t dominate our U.S. economy. Given the opportunity, most investors want to find Alumna (1970): Director, Earth Institute / What factors politics may be the most important way to improve the quality of the next great company (before it is common knowledge). Great determine success for any city and its citizens? Solving urban economic life for Americans – “all will benefit if more are secure.” companies are not always great stocks – just ask a Facebook user poverty requires sustainable solutions to the thorniest global and a Facebook investor. This session will provide an unconven- issues today, including climate change, quality education, tional look at the modern-day stock market. This is NOT a lecture 2-C: Finding Comedy in Life: Performances and Panel / shelter, and health care, and access to economic opportunity. on corporate finance or security valuation. Rather, the discussion Ben Rosen, Alumnus (2004): Comedian / Andrew Schaffer, Real, empowering changes are happening now. Hear how will focus on the psychology and momentum of financial markets. Alumnus (2005): Improviser / Daniel Student, Alumnus (1999): Millennium Cities Initiative, a small research organization that Producing Artistic Director, Storyteller / R. Eric Thomas, is part of Columbia University’s Earth Institute, is developing Alumnus (1999): Playwright, Teaching Artist, Storyteller / 2-I: The Yoga of Engagement: Exploring the Gifts of Breath the pathways needed to address these challenges – one city at In the tradition of storytelling styles like NPR’s The Moth and and Body / Vivian Campagna, Parent: Certified Anusara Yoga a time, across sub-Saharan Africa. Baltimore’s Stoop Stories, Park alums perform sets in the school’s Instructor / Experience yoga as a path to cultivate your innate Macks-Fidler Theater. Their original, first-person narratives will awareness and awaken more fully to the heart’s powerful 2-P: Exploring the Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope, be followed by a brief panel discussion. At the center of each longing to love and serve. Using the Park philosophy of positive and More / Dr. Matt Mountain, Parent, Trustee: Director of performance is the humor we all must find in our daily lives. expectations, learn to listen to – and hear – the messages of the the Space Telescope Science Institute; Professor of Physics Mind-Body-Spirit and respond in a life-affirming way. Please and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University / The Hubble Space bring clothing that you can move and groove in and your own 2-D: Loving What You Do: People and Food / Alfie Himmelrich, Telescope has been described as the most important telescope yoga mat, if you have one. Additional mats, blankets, and blocks Alumnus (1974), Parent: Owner, Stone Mill Bakery / For over since Galileo lifted his to the sky 400 years ago. The New York will be provided. 20 years, Stone Mill has been a family business known for artisan Times says it has “taught us to see the properties of a universe bread and high-quality, natural, fresh food. What are the other humans have been able, for most of their history, to probe only “ingredients” that create a successful, well-run company? Stone 2-J: Does the World Need Nuclear Power? / David Elbert, with their thoughts.” Tour this universe, illustrated by many Mill has developed a recipe for satisfied customers and employees, Parent: Acting Program Director for Environmental Studies of Hubble’s greatest images, and get answers to life’s biggest with the right proportion of talent, vision, collaboration, and pride in Advanced Academic Programs and Associate Research questions. How big is the universe? Are there other habitable in a job well done. When Alfie shares his philosophy, recipes and Scientist in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins planets, and are we alone? What will come after the Hubble? food, you will understand why he so loves his work. University / Energy production lies at the nexus of innumer- able social, economic, and environmental issues. Recognition 2-Q: Inverting the Pyramid: Remaking American Education for that fossil-fuel burning is at the center of a growing climate 2-E: What is This Thing We Call Musical Beauty? / Markand the 21st Century / Jal Mehta, Alumnus (1995), Ph.D.: Assistant crisis has created new popularity for nuclear power and made Thakar, Parent: Charles A. & Carolyn M. Russell Music Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education / advocates of previously staunch critics. David will lay out the Director, Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra; Music This talk and discussion will draw on a range of historical and pros and cons for a debate about whether nuclear power is Director, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra; Co-Director, international evidence to argue that the American educational necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change. Graduate Conducting, Peabody Conservatory / Classical sector is essentially organized “backwards.” Contemporary music can provide an experience of beauty. We absorb sounds. reformers are trying to do on the back end what they should have Sounds move us, change us, and make us better. Based on his 2-K: The National Disaster Medical System: A Medical done on the front end: build a strong, skilled, and expert teaching recent book, Looking for the “Harp” Quartet: An Investigation Officer’s Account of Life in Deployment / Michael Millin, force. The current pattern is to draw less than the most talented into Musical Beauty, he will examine the nature of the sound M.D., M.P.H., Parent: Disaster Control Physician, people into teaching, equip them with little relevant knowledge, experience and how we can achieve beauty. Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins train them minimally, put them in a weak welfare state, and then Hospital; Medical Officer, New Jersey-1 Disaster Medical hold them accountable when they predictably do not achieve what Assistance Team, National Disaster Medical System / we seek. What we want is the opposite approach. Hear how we 2-F: The Secrets of Nim: Finding the Mathematics in Games / You’re at work seeing a patient in Baltimore, and – BEEP! can break from the patterns of the past and become a top- Anna Marmor, Upper School Mathematics Faculty, and Upper The text states that you need to be at Newark Airport in four performing educational nation in the future. School Students / Re-discover the joy of childhood games like hours. You’re now headed to Haiti for two weeks to take tic-tac-toe and dots and boxes and sharpen your analytical skills. care of patients, post-earthquake. This session will expose the Join Upper School Math teacher Anna Marmor and her students audience to the daily life of a federal disaster deployment to play some simple math games, such as “Nim” – and uncover officer, the highs and lows of disaster work, and the framework the mathematics behind the winning strategies. of the federal disaster response system. Register now at www.ParkSchool.net/Centennial/BrainThrust tickets for three sessions & dinner: $40.00

SESSION 3: 7:00-7:50 PM

3-A: Success Through Failure / Larry Doyle, Parent: Award- 3-F: Is The Big Screen Shrinking? The New World of Film 3-K: The Future of News / Josh Tyrangiel, Alumnus (1991): winning novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter / Distribution / Ramona Diaz, Parent: Filmmaker / Julia Kim Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg Businessweek / Twenty years Doyle explains how his career – writer for The New Yorker and Smith, Parent: Artist, Filmmaker / Matt Porterfield, ago, daily papers were the preferred method of information The Simpsons, author of the award-winning novel I Love You, Alumnus (1995): Filmmaker / Moderated by Jed Dietz, delivery. Today, people consume news instantly via mobile, Beth Cooper and screenwriter of major motion pictures such Parent of Alumnus: Director/CEO, Maryland Film Festival / social, and web channels. What does the future of news as Looney Tunes: Back in Action – was actually the result of While filmmaking has been thoroughly democratized – anyone look like given the dramatic decline of print media? In this mistakes, misjudgments, and minor disasters, and that’s how can make a movie – traditional channels of distribution are interactive session, discuss how the digital news landscape it really works. roughly the same bottleneck they have always been. Dramatic influences both coverage and consumption. changes are just beginning in the independent film world and this panel will give you an up-to-the-minute snapshot of where 3-B: Beneath the Surface of the Chesapeake Bay Restoration / 3-L: Paint a Bowl, Feed a Soul: Empty Bowls Project of St. we are, as seen through the eyes of three very different and Tom Pelton, Parent: Host, The Environment in Focus, WYPR / Vincent de Paul of Baltimore / Debbie Ruston, Staff / talented filmmakers. Why is it that so many people drive around with “Treasure the Paint a bowl while you learn about the Empty Bowls project, Chesapeake” license plates, but even modest efforts to an outreach program designed to support the work of St. regulate and reduce pollution into the nation’s largest estuary 3-G: Savor and Flavor / Harriet Dopkin, Parent: Partner, Vincent de Paul of Baltimore. This organization raises money prompt lawsuits, protests, finger-pointing, and political The Classic Catering People / In a culture obsessed with food for citizens for whom hunger and homelessness are a daily backlash? Part of the answer might be that things aren’t what issues – political, environmental, health, and emotional – how struggle. The completed bowls will be donated for its they seem with the Bay, and support for its cleanup is like often do we stop and savor our food? Through a series of fundraiser later in March. No talent necessary! Studio fee: $15. the estuary itself: broad in a few places but shallow. Discuss guided tastings, mindfulness meditation exercises, and lessons how to build a bridge between aspiration and action for the in balancing flavors, Harriet and The Classic Catering People 3-M: New Trends for Developing Artists in the Music Industry / Chesapeake Bay. chefs lead an interactive exploration of what it means to truly Jake Friedman, Alumnus (2003): Co-founder, Lovepump United taste your food, and they offer suggestions on how to translate Records and We Are Free Management, representing Dirty that experience into everyday life. Drawing inspiration from 3-C: Leavers: From the Centennial Festival of Plays / Written Projectors, Beach House, Yeasayer, Purity Ring, Wild Nothing, lessons learned on a personal journey, this session aims to by Ken Greller, Alumnus (2010): BFA Candidate, Dramatic HEALTH and other emerging artists / Jake will discuss growing return us to a simpler and deeper appreciation of our food. Writing, New York University Tisch School of the Arts / trends in the music industry from his perspective as a band Directed by Mai Asmerom (2013), Upper School Student / manager who works with developing artists. Pulling from his Take a seat for a performance of a one-act play from Park’s 3-H: Observing the Night Sky from Park’s Rooftop: professional roster of bands for case studies, he will provide Centennial Festival of Plays. Prom – it’s an American tradition, From Jupiter to Orion and Beyond / Ben Sugerman, Ph.D., candid insight about the creative business decisions that bands a rite of passage, and the best night of your life. In a life that Parent: Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy and artists are making in a shifting industry. seems to be one disaster after another, Joseph and Larissa try and Manager of the Hoffberger Astronomy Observatory, to find a way to dance the night away at prom. That is, until Goucher College / Contemplate the mysteries of the universe. 3-N: The Myth of Martyrdom: What Really Drives Suicide they get a little too swept up. Join Park parent Ben Sugerman for a trip to the school’s Bombers, Rampage Shooters, and Other Self-Destructive rooftop observatory to gaze at the stars. In the event of cloudy Killers / Adam Lankford Ph.D., Alumnus (1998),: Criminal or inclement weather, he will discuss “Why Pluto Is No Longer 3-D: How to Transform Public Will into Political Power to Justice Professor, University of Alabama / Are suicide a Planet, and How it Might Explain Life on Earth.” Achieve Public Health Goals / Vincent DeMarco, Parent of terrorists motivated by self-sacrifice or the desire to die? Alumni: President, Maryland Health Care for All! Coalition / For decades, government experts and terrorist leaders alike How can we push past “we can’t” to achieve public health 3-I: The Artful Side of Politics / Walt Handelsman, Alumnus have insisted the answer is sacrifice, but Lankford’s research, goals? Explore how public health advocates can use the power (1975): Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and nationally which has been praised by experts and leading thinkers in trifecta of grassroots coalitions, the media and strategic syndicated editorial cartoonist for Newsday / Walt is one the field, suggests otherwise. Participants will get to see the planning to overcome opposition. Gain an insider’s perspective of the most widely reprinted cartoonists in America today. evidence and decide for themselves. in this lecture as Vinnie shares how leveraging these advocacy His work appears in The New York Times, USA Today, and tools directly led to successful Maryland campaigns: raising The Washington Post. He is a sought-after, featured guest on 3-O: Racial Disparity in Medical Care / Ebony Boulware, tobacco and alcohol taxes, reducing gun violence, and CNN and Nightline. Join him for a lively presentation of his M.D., M.P.H., Parent: Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns expanding health care coverage. award-winning cartoons and animations on political and social Hopkins University; Associate Director, Welch Center, Johns issues of the day. Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health / Understand 3-E: Managing Your Media: Recognizing the Patterns, Rituals, how racial disparities in medical care affect both personal and Trends in Your Family Life / Sheri Parks, Ph.D., Parent: 3-J: Bridging Cultural Divides: The Tipping Point in Creating medical choices as well as broader policy decisions. Professor Associate Professor of American Studies and Associate Dean New Communities / Thibault Manekin, Alumnus (1996): Boulware will share her insight surrounding today’s very real, of Arts, University of Maryland, College Park; Cultural Critic Co-founder of Peace Players International (PPI) and Seawall very relevant implications of available medical choices in for “Midday with Dan Rodricks” on WYPR / Do you and your Development / Peace Players International uses basketball to the community. family live in an unmanageable media minefield? Examine and bring together communities in conflict. Hear how the lessons gain deeper clarity on the role of television and other media in learned on the court, among divided global communities such 3-P: Zumba®: Dance Your Way to a Healthier Self / your own home. Uncover and understand your patterns, as South Africa and the Middle East, can lead to building new Di Bobrow, Middle School Spanish Faculty: Licensed Zumba® routines, and rituals. How do families use television to come societies of unlikely neighbors. Where PPI uses sports to find fitness instructor / You’ve exercised your mind, now work out together, be apart, and manage relationships? What does common ground, Seawall Development is building housing and your body. Zumba® Fitness is an exhilarating, effective, the arrangement of the furniture around the screen say about office space in Baltimore – and now across the country – to Latin-inspired dance-fitness program that’s moving millions of family power? Leave this session with specific tools that will attract teachers and non-profits to cities. The resulting new people toward joy and health. Wear comfortable workout gear enable you to diagnose and take control of the roles that communities are transforming cities – and lives. and tennis shoes, and bring a small towel. media play in your life. 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