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VOICES of INNOVATION Try Your Hand at Identifying This Photo SPRING 2017 VOICES OF INNOVATION Try your hand at identifying this photo. Should you discover classmates you can identify, contact Margi Brown at: D PO Box 801 • Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303-0801 O YOU 248.645.3132 • [email protected] REMEMBER? WINTER 2016: DO YOU REMEMBER? Theodosia Spaeth '74, emailed to identify some of the alumni in the photo, Left side group - Nathan Wimberly ‘74, and another email with several names came from John Carman '74. But the Rowene Weems ‘75, Ray Maturo ‘74 following is an excerpt from an email from Clint Moore '74 who remembered Back of Car - Lawrence Richardson ‘74, the photo vividly, saying, “It was with great amusement and joy that I opened Elizabeth Harvey ‘75 the latest issue of Tradition last Friday, December 30th, to find one of our Brook Front of Car - Sue Kalman Andersen ’74 yearbook ad photos as the subject of your “identify this photo” feature. ‘74, Bill Kraft ‘74, Ruthanne Schwartz Clint remembered the ad sales campaign he waged as an editor of the Brook, Fuller ‘75 asserting that “Our faculty advisor was English Master Berl Rider, who was Behind trunk of car - Dosia Spaeth ‘74, also a professional photographer. He revolutionized the new modern look of Greg Wysocki ‘75 the Brook by urging us to use photographs with students in the ads. This great Right side group - Leslie Petersen Price Dodge Charger ad was shot on the banks of the pond just west of Booth House, ‘74, Clint Moore ‘74, Gary Wycoff ‘74 with the road to the right leading to the boat house. Kingswood Lake was behind the tree line behind me on the right, and “Suicide Hill” just to the left. In identifying all of these great friends and classmates, I have had the help of Houston alum and longtime friend and classmate Joyce Wheaton Lander '74. Between the two of us, we were able to ID all 12 of the participants. Hopefully, we’re right about all 12 of them, but please let me know if you discover any discrepancies. All the best, Clint “Sherlock Holmes” Moore n Every Issue 2 President’s Point of View 3 Director’s School of Thought 4 College Counseling 5 Cranbrook Development 6 Alumni Relations 7 Steward's Table 8 Focus: Cranbrook Kingswood eatures 16 Private Education for Public Purpose: The Edgerton Center at MIT 20 Voices of Innovation Students engage in design during “TinkerTime” at the Middle School for girls. Tradition is published twice a year by the For questions about advancement, bout Alumni Cranbrook Schools Office of Development contact the Cranbrook Schools Office and Alumni Relations. of Development and Alumni Relations at 248.645.3140. 24 Distinguished Alumna: Jules Knittel Pieri '77 Write us at: Tradition, Cranbrook Schools • PO Box 801 The Cranbrook signature, crane, and school 26 Distinguished Alumnus: Bob Bechek '77 • Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303-0801 seals are registered trademarks of the Cranbrook Educational Community. 28 Alumni Giving To reach the Office of Alumni Relations, call 248.645.3132. 32 Alumni Moments EDITORIAL BOARD 40 Class Notes Clay Matthews Director of Communications, Schools Susan Strickland Muskovitz ‘97 Director of Development, Schools 89 In Memoriam Susan Aikens Post ‘78 Director of Alumni Relations, Schools Margi Brown Editorial Assistant Liz Lent ‘89 Features Contributor Ann Merseles Reed ’55 Volunteer Assistant Kathy Discenna Volunteer Assistant Due to the wide range of photographic Environmental Responsibility sources used to produce Tradition, the Tradition is committed to advancing reader may experience some inconsistency in Cranbrook’s strategic goal of increasing its photographic quality. While every effort has environmental responsibility. The magazine WOULD YOU PREFER TO READ THE been made to ensure the best quality images is printed on Amerigloss, which is American throughout the magazine, high-end printing made and contains 10% post-consumer waste, ONLINE VERSION OF TRADITION? technology may reveal the limits of the source is manufactured with an elemental chlorine- To opt out of receiving the paper magazine, please let us know by emailing Margi material. free bleaching process, and promotes Brown at [email protected]. responsible forest-management practices. RESIDENT’S Point of View ear Cranbrook Schools’ Alumni, often becoming students themselves. In fact, one third of our faculty has willingly elected to serve on innovation For more than a century, Cranbrook has teams within each division of the Schools. These volunteer provided an extraordinary education to our teams are already making incredible strides, as reflected Dstudents. You and your classmates have made a significant most recently through Cranbrook’s collaboration with the impact upon the world and while the educational field is Edgerton Center at MIT. I thank team participants for their rapidly changing, our commitment to excellence remains direct support of innovative learning at Cranbrook. unwavering. Our perseverance results from a culture of innovation fostered since the inception of the Schools by As you look through this publication, I hope you will pause George and Ellen Booth. on the messages of our Director of Cranbrook Schools, Arlyce Seibert, and other Schools' leaders. In their words, Around the globe, radical changes are occurring in the you will discover how our MIT partnership is expanding ways we learn and teach in order to better prepare the world-class educational experience that all of us at students to meet the challenges of a dynamic, global Cranbrook strive to provide each day. workplace. Advancements in technology have sparked stunning innovations across the field of education and For those of you who may not know, Arlyce has announced today a 4G mobile connection can transform a smartphone her plans to retire in June of 2018. For over 40 years, into a classroom unbound by walls. The integration of she has guided our Schools by playing a leading role in design thinking in education encourages students to delve the development of Cranbrook’s exemplary curriculum. deeper into any given problem, linking the solution to the Please know that I look forward to working with Arlyce technique used to get there. as she transitions into retirement as well as working with her successor to ensure a smooth assimilation into our Cranbrook’s students have always benefited from a community’s special culture. I hope you will join me in blended-learning environment. From the Art Museum and congratulating Arlyce on beginning the final leg of her Institute of Science to the grounds and architecture of our historic Cranbrook journey. internationally recognized campus, Cranbrook provides integrated learning experiences that few other private My personal thanks to each of you for all that you do for independent schools can match. Cranbrook! The core of Cranbrook’s innovative culture and excellence, Sincerely, however, has always been its people. Everyone at Cranbrook, regardless of position, is collectively committed Dominic A. DiMarco, President to engaging our students in creative and meaningful ways, Cranbrook Educational Community 2 IRECTOR’S School of Thought suppose it is not unusual for the head of a school to innovative approach to incorporating technology into her speak glowingly about his or her institution. However, classroom. the past few months at Cranbrook Schools have stood out as truly singular. Over the course of 2017, The Global Online Academy (GOA), of which Cranbrook Iour students, faculty and coaches have demonstrated Schools is a founding member, continues to expand the depth and breadth of their talent and commitment, curriculum to students and faculty in a thoughtful way. and have distinguished themselves—and Cranbrook—in Remarkably, the three Cranbrook faculty members who extraordinary ways. are teaching courses with the GOA this year have been invited to continue teaching in the 2017-18 school year. A The Cranbrook Kingswood Boys Swim/Dive Team was special congratulations to Miranda Crowl, Dr. Ara Brown, awarded the state title for the fourth consecutive year, and Fred Higgins. due to its outstanding performance at the 2017 Division 3 Swimming and Diving State Finals. This is truly an Even as Cranbrook’s groundbreaking educational unprecedented event in state athletics as the boys become collaborative with the Edgerton Center at MIT continues the first team to ever win four consecutive state swim and to ignite teaching and learning in the classroom, Cranbrook dive titles. is moving the idea of innovation into other arenas. This spring marked the fourth consecutive year that Cranbrook In March, Michigan’s professional organization of school Schools hosted a TEDx event. TEDx was created in the athletic directors, the Michigan Interscholastic Athletic spirit of TED’s mission, “ideas worth spreading.” It supports Administrators Association (MIAAA), recognized independent organizers who want to create a TED-like Cranbrook Schools with the Exemplary Program Award: event in their own community. All of the presenters who one of two schools statewide to be honored by the MIAAA. shared their vision were a part of the Cranbrook Schools In partnership with the Michigan High School Athletic community, many of them students. Association (MHSAA), the MIAAA conducted an extensive review of their program this fall prior to recognizing It has been a very exciting and rewarding year so far! I look Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School as one of Michigan’s forward to seeing you at Reunion this year, and wish you all model high school athletic programs. the best for the remainder of 2017. Eighth grade physical science teacher, Ashlie Smith, was Sincerely, recently selected by the Astronauts Memorial Foundation (AMF), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Arlyce M. Seibert (NASA) and the Space Foundation to receive the 2017 Director of Cranbrook Schools Alan Shepard Technology in Education Award due to her 3 OLLEGE Counseling s my third year at Cranbrook Kingswood Upper For Cranbrook families, our College Counseling Team’s School closes, I finally find myself completely ability to work expertly and efficiently is paramount in the settled in my new home state of Michigan.
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