PegTHE MAGAZINE Board OF DARROW SCHOOL FALL/WINTER 2016–17 MISSION At Darrow School, we are dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student’s individual talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. Photo by Steve Ricci FALL/WINTER 2016–17 Peg Board

12 Animal House Founded in 1932 on the site of the first Shaker A new social studies elective uses community in America. project-based experimentation to gauge social engagement at Darrow 110 Darrow Road and around the world. New Lebanon, New York 12125 P: (518) 794-6000 18 Access Hollywood F: (518) 794-7065 From the foothills of the Mountainside to the www.darrowschool.org footlights of the theater, and the small and big Editor screens, many Darrow alumni have forged Steve Ricci, Director of Communications stellar careers in entertainment and media.

Contributors Gregory Cherin; Nancy Dutton; Art Evans; 26 The Annual Report Sam Harper ’74; Shawn Holcombe; As it has since our inception, the Simon Holzapfel; Chloe Kalna; support of Darrow’s donors enables us Lawrence Klein; Lisa Leary P’10; to continue providing an exceptional Alan Mayers ’50; Eileen Ordu P’20; Joel Priest; Catherine Stines; Tom Tift; education in our close-knit community. John Villinski; Craig Westcott Our 2015–2016 Annual Report salutes their generosity. HEAD OF SCHOOL Simon Holzapfel

46 The People’s Mayor BOARD OF TRUSTEES We remember the accomplishments of one of Robert W. Kee ’71, Chair our most distinguished alumni, William “Bill” Jennifer Cholnoky P’13, ’18, ’20, Vice-Chair Hudnut ’50, the former mayor of Indianapolis, H. Barton Riley, Treasurer who passed away in December 2016. Sharon A. Kennedy P’10, Secretary

Patrice Pisinski Angle P’14 DEPARTMENTS Errol Glasser P’07 2 Learning First 17 From the Board Robert Greifeld ’05 Paul S. Gundlach ’71 4 Scene Around 34 Advancement News Thomas Hallowell ’82 6 On Campus 38 Alumni Notes Daniel Holt ’92 Pei Jing ’11 15 Faculty Profile 48 Legacy Society Christian Masters ’82 Richard O’Leary P’11 Peter Rosemond ’70, P’15 Mark C. Russell ’73 On the cover: Don Singleton, Director of Athletics and Head Coach of the Henry L. Savage, Jr. ’59 Girls Varsity Basketball team, gets his players fired up to start a January Travis Shedd ’04 game in D’s House. Photo by Steve Ricci Laurence Van Meter Peter S. Wadsworth ’72 Robert C. Warner ’60

DARROW SCHOOL 1 LEARNING FIRST

Sailing a Blue Ocean In addition to the day-to-day responsibilities of ensuring that our students and staff are continually learning and growing, my most impassioned work for 2017 has been in the realm of strategic planning.

Strategy, the art of making good decisions about the future, is not easy. There are 280 North American boarding schools actively competing to recruit the approximately 40 new students Darrow needs to enroll each year. Finding and acquiring those students requires a distinctive approach: offering an experience that people will value, and telling the story of that experience in a compelling way. Although that concept may be simple to articulate, executing it effectively demands a long-range strategy.

Toward that end, I’ve been using a framework outlined by Renée Mauborgne and W. Chan Kim in their book, Blue Ocean Strategy (Harvard Business Review, 2005). The blue ocean they describe stands in contrast to a red ocean, i.e., the blood-filled waters resulting from aggressive, head-to-head competition for resources. Rather than engage in protracted and expensive battles with competitors, an organization finding its blue ocean pursues differentiation and low cost as a means of opening new, uncontested market space and creating new demand. So how does a boarding school do that?

Last October, I visited the five boarding schools with whom Darrow most frequently crosses applications to see in person what they look and feel like. At the same time, I’ve been interviewing parents and students to get a finer sense of how they experience Darrow, particularly the joys and the challenges. With nearly two dozen interviews done, I’m forming a more accurate impression of what our constituents value, expect, and need. The next step is synthesizing this information to inform what we should be doing more of (and less of).

In December, Darrow’s Board of Trustees began to consider a few versions of a vision statement, which was then submitted to the staff for feedback and refining. In February, we dedicated an entire school day to a new event called Design Day, in which students and faculty contributed their talents and insights to designing parts of the School’s future. The goal is to help us better understand possible paths forward and consider which of our values will best support the realization of our vision. Gathering input from the students who will live most immediately under those values day to day will be an essential part of our strategic plan’s ultimate success. Our goal is to have the plan’s vision and values established by late spring. We will then begin to specify the focus areas that will enable us to realize our vision. Although we have a general timeline for completion of this process, I have heard repeatedly from strategy consultants that it can’t be rushed responsibly. A strategic plan has to steep over a period of time. It needs to be done as soon as possible, but no sooner.

To properly conclude such an important undertaking, we also need the input and ideas of Darrow’s alumni and friends. Please email me at [email protected] to let me know how you would like to be involved. We won’t find our blue ocean without you.

SIMON HOLZAPFEL HEAD OF SCHOOL

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4 PEG BOARD FALL/WINTER 2016–17 4 1 In November, members of Darrow’s new dance class gave their first public performance in the Darrow School Theater. From left: Derin Cubukcuoglu ’18, Elizabeth Lerch ’19, Nyaiah Lamb ’17, Solana Russell ’18, Jeri Hautzig ’20, Hunter Evans ’17, and Victoria Chen ’19 (Photo courtesy of Chloe Kalna) 2 Max Sidell ’18 holds some of the many pledges he received from fellow students committing not to text and drive. Max’s effort was part of the December Health Fair, which featured interactive displays and presentations on important topics for teens, including energy drinks, opioid addiction, sugar addiction, body shaming, and nutrition. 3 Students in the PACs, Polls, and Primaries class participated in a mock debate on Election Day, representing the viewpoints of each of the candidates: (from left) Desmond Tracey ’17 (Jill Stein), Eric Hernandez ’17 (Gary Johnson), Connor Sakal ’17 (Hillary Clinton), and Xander Kaylan ’17 (Donald Trump). 4 Grandparents and Special Friends Day in November saw a record attendance, as visitors like Stu and Eve Leher, aunt and uncle of David Feinman ’19 (left), joined classes in session, attended receptions and dinners, and saw the debut of the fall play. 5 Laxmi Beard ’19 gets busy cleaning The Living Machine® in the Samson Environmental Center during the first Hands-to-Work in September. 6 Students in the Herbology elective prepared a variety of products to sell at the Mountain Road School Holiday Fair in December. Products the class made include lip balm, handmade soaps (lavender, lemongrass/grapefruit, peppermint, cedar, and eucalyptus), ointments, red clover cough syrup, 5 tea, and more. From left: Ewen McManus ’18, Robert Lee ’17, Max Sidell ’18, science teacher Lily Corral, Paul Ferch ’17, and Felix Sanchez ’18 7 If you’re going to the Halloween parade as Thing 1 and Thing 2, it’s probably a competitive advantage to be twins, just like Cassidy Roberts ’18 and Louis Roberts ’18. 9 Chris Sano ’17 (right) drives against teacher and mentor Joe Paradis during November’s Senior/Faculty Soccer Game. The seniors emerged victorious, claiming a 6-3 win over the faculty.

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Sharing the Shaker Experience

In summer 2016, three members of Left: Workshop the Darrow faculty­—Lisa Leary P’10, participants toured the Administrative Assistant to the Dean Darrow campus of Students; Eileen Ordu P’20, World and the Mount Languages Department Chair; and John Lebanon site, Villinski, History Department Chair—par- including the ticipated in a weeklong professional de- Great Stone Barn. (Photo by Lisa velopment workshop entitled “Religious Leary) Revivals, Utopian Societies, and the Shaker Experience in America.” Part of a National Endowment for the Humanities program called Landmarks of American History and Culture (which offers site-based professional develop- From left: Lisa ment experiences for teachers, cen- Leary P’10, tered on sites of historical and cultural Administrative Assistant to the significance) the workshop was based Dean of Students; at Siena College, in Loudonville, New Eileen Ordu P’20, York. The 36 participating educators World Languages hailed from around the U.S. and learned Department Chair; about the evolution of religion in the and John Villinski, th th History Department U.S. in the 18 and 19 centuries, with Chair particular emphasis on the Shakers. Field trip sites included Hancock “It made me wonder what always been a very spiritual place, and Shaker Village, the Shaker Museum | our site would be like today its history remains a part of the place.” Mount Lebanon, the Watervliet Shaker “It made me wonder what our site Historic District, and the New York State if there had been no Shaker would be like today if there had been Library and Archives for research in village here. For instance, had no Shaker village here,” Villinski said. primary source material. On the Darrow this been a military fort, we “For instance, had this been a military campus, Craig Westcott, Assistant Head fort we certainly wouldn’t be doing of School for Advancement and Exter- certainly wouldn’t be doing Hands-to-Work. The Shakers’ values nal Relations, led a tour of the Second Hands-to-Work.” still resonate with our community today. Meeting House and the Tannery. For me, as a history teacher, the work- Workshop faculty included visiting shop served as a reminder that you can scholars who presented on various —John Villinski teach history in so many ways, and from aspects of American religious history the workshop was a stimulating and so many different perspectives.” and the Shaker experience in America, illuminating experience that provided a “As the mother of a Darrow student, including the sect’s music and material deeper understanding of the Shakers, I have seen how the history of this cam- culture, the Second Great Awakening, their connection to the Darrow campus pus can have a profound effect on its the context of the communitarian/utopi- and community, and how they remain students,” Leary said of her son, Shawn an movement, and the status of the last relevant to our curriculum and to the Leary ’10. “He recently incorporated remaining active Shaker community, modern world at large. Shaker elements into his rehab of an located at Sabbathday Lake, Maine. “After taking the course, I look at old home, not just because he likes the Presentations were also made by two the Darrow campus through different style but because it is a daily remind- master teachers who have incorporated eyes,” said Ordu. “I can imagine it as it er of that Shaker vision. I’m proud of the Shakers into their curricula. was. It was a bustling, industrious, and what we do here. As stewards of this Providing an overview to the full Dar- innovative community, and the head- campus, we are obligated to pass on row faculty in September, the trio said quarters of all Shaker villages. This has their history.”

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New Faces Darrow welcomed a talented group of faculty and staff in the fall

DANNY ALVORD is the NICHOLAS FORCIER, most recent addition to the Director of College faculty, joining Darrow in Counsel­ing, has worked January as a house parent, as an admission officer for coach, and advisor. A Binghamton University and Colorado native, Danny Bennington College. He has has a B.A. from Western a B.S. from SUNY College at State Colorado University. Oneonta and an M.A. from Stony Brook University.

BRIAN GRANGER is an CHLOE KALNA is a visual English teacher, as well as arts teacher and mentor a writer of plays, songs, and with skills in illustration, scholarly essays. He has a print­making, and graphic B.A. from Kenyon College, design. She has a B.F.A. an M.F.A. from New York from the Pratt Institute and University’s Tisch School of is also teaching Darrow’s the Arts, and a Ph.D. from newest noncompetitive UC Santa Barbara. sport this year: Dance.

JOE PARADIS brings a LEAH PENNIMAN, science passionate interest in math teacher, has 15 years of and science to his role as experience as an environ- a teacher and mentor at mental educator and is a Darrow. He has an M.S.T. two-time winner of a national from the University of New award for excellence in Hampshire, and loves play- project-based curriculum. ing soccer and Ultimate She has an M.A.T. degree Frisbee when not teaching. from Clark University.

MIKA SAARELA joined CATHERINE STINES, a Darrow in July as the Pennsylvania native, joins Director of Studies. A native Darrow’s History Depart- of Finland, he has a long ment with an M.Ed. degree career as an educator and from Arcadia University. administrator in the world She has traveled exten- of independent schools. sively in the U.K. and He has M.Phil. and M.A. de- Europe, and also studied at grees from Yale University. the University of London.

To learn more about Darrow’s amazing faculty and staff, LEARN MORE visit darrowschool.org/Our-People.

DARROW SCHOOL 7 September 30–October 1, 2016 FallON Family CAMPUS Autumn was ushered onto the Mountainside for Fall Weekend Family Weekend, as family and friends gathered to celebrate with music, art, and learning. Participants enjoyed mini-classes, Convocation on the theme of “Our Best Selves,” student artwork, and the Ducks competing in soccer and cross-country.

Above (left): Dylan Winne ’18 gets a hug from mom, Natalie Winne P’18 at Friday night’s exhibition in the Joline Artst Center.

Above: Judd Sneirson P’18, Mira Sneirson ’18, and Elisa Mason P’18 at Saturday’s Convocation.

Left: Rich Lindner P’20 and Hillary Lindner P’20 use teamwork to identify species of plants in Biology mini-class.

Below: Nick Adams ’18 (left) fights an Convocation speakers (from left): Director of Studies Mika opponent for possession during Boys Saarela, Anabelle Teetsel ’18, Jayme Andres ’18, and Head of Varsity Soccer action against Storm King School Simon Holzapfel School on Saturday. Looking on at right is Chris Sano ’17.

Photos by Steve Ricci

Above: Music Director Andy Wrba provides an introduction to the Performing Arts Center. Below: Dean of Students Kate Johansen (standing) leads a mini-class on Sacred Texts.

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Introducing the Darrow Postgraduate Program

Darrow School recently announced Independent Study: Working in a the introduction of a new element to makerspace environment, PG students its academic curriculum: the Darrow will create innovative programs of their Postgraduate Program. own design under faculty mentorship Beginning with the 2017–18 school and guidance. year, the program will provide a select “Darrow’s program is something group of high school graduates with very different,” said Director of Studies an additional year of study designed Mika Saarela, who noted that some to help them meet their educational postgraduate programs serve primar- objectives through a focused, self-di- ily as a means for prospective colle- rected, active curriculum. giate athletes to gain an extra year of Postgraduate students will choose high school competition. “It will pro- from three available options. vide a highly customizable opportunity Traditional: A comprehensive se- for students to benefit from our active lection of hands-on, active curriculum curriculum in order to develop their courses that will strengthen and hone The Conrad Challenge: Students academic skills, from critical thinking academic proficiency and study skills, will participate in a nationally recog- to creative problem solving.” and offer extracurricular and sports ac- nized entrepreneurial program named For more information visit www.dar- tivities, to provide a competitive advan- for Apollo 12 astronaut and Darrow rowschool.org, call (518) 794-6000, or tage in the college admission process. alumnus, Charles “Pete” Conrad ’49. email [email protected].

Teachers Present Race Class at National Conference In November, Darrow faculty mem- • Why human variation is not racial bers and Diversity Co-coordinators • Historical creation of race catego- Nancy Dutton, Chair of the English ries and racism Department, and Joel Priest, math • Political, social, historical impacts and science teacher, presented a of racism/racist structures workshop at the Annual Convention • Impacts of racist structures on of the National Council of Teachers of personal identity English (NCTE) in Atlanta, Georgia. • Impacts of racist structures on Titled “Race: Reality and Fiction,” current society, policies, future the workshop was named for a spring “People say they are color blind but elective they co-teach to juniors and Nancy Dutton, English Department Chair, really they are color mute. They prefer seniors at Darrow. and Joel Priest, math and science teacher, not to talk about race,” Priest said. “To advocate for racial justice, at the National Council of Teachers of “There is fundamental knowledge one students need tools to understand English convention in November needs in order to have responsible and dismantle racist institutions and • What does it mean when histori- conversations about race. We have practices,” Dutton said, describing the ans say that race was created in created an academic course that looks workshop’s objective. “We provide the last 500 years? at race from scientific, sociological, rationales, materials, and experiences • How does the idea of race inform and historical points of view that will from our course, which teaches sec- one’s understanding of current inform personal perspectives. We try ondary students to apply understand- policies and controversies? to impact students’ personal under- ings of racism and the construction of • How does it impact people’s lives, standings as well as their understand- race to fictional and real incidents.” inform how people view races ing of race in America, and provide The topics addressed included: other than their own, and influ- safe spaces in which to apply and • What does it mean when biologists ence the development of one’s refine their learning.” say that human races do not exist? identity?

DARROW SCHOOL 9 The Darrow Theater Workshop presents...

ON CAMPUS The Burial at Thebes

For its fall production November 11–12, the Darrow Theater Workshop took on two unique challenges: staging a modern adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy, and per- forming in the unusual setting of the Tannery rather than the Darrow Theater. The play— The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles’s Antigone by Seamus Heaney— is based on the fifth century B.C.E. tragedy Antigone, by Sophocles, which tells the story of the daughter of Oedipus, King of Thebes. Addressing themes of morality, individual free- doms, and the imposition of restrictions by the state, the play featured several variations on the original, said Jennifer Pytleski, Director of Performing Arts. Heaney’s adaptation, she said, blends both current events with classic elements of Greek tragedy.

Clockwise from top left: Maddie Nicholson ’18, as Creon, wrestles with a dilemma; Mickey Mastri- anni ’18, as Antigone, makes her argument before the king; Max Sidell ’18 and Constanza Carty ’19 provide comments and context; Max Paladino ’19, as Tiresias, and Tench Cholnoky ’20, as his boy, provide their testimony; and Rachel Yang ’18 delivers an important message to the court as Ewen McManus ’18, as Hades, observes in the background.

See more photos from The Burial at Thebes at www.flickr. com/photos/darrowschool.

Photos by Steve Ricci

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ON On Friday, December 9, the CAMPUS Darrow Chorus and Jazz Ensemble combined to deliver a stirring and eclectic combination of vocal and instrumental performances for the Winter Concert under the direction of Music Director Andy Wrba and Chorus Director Marisa Massery, pictured conducting the Darrow Chorus, featuring Will Peltz Smalley ’18 on violin.

See more photos from the Winter Concert at www.flickr.com/photos/ darrowschool.

Far left and near left: Jazz Ensemble members Braden Arnold ’18 on guitar and Tyler Jarrett ’19 on drums

Above: Jazz Ensemble bassist Zephyr Maliki ’17

Right: Brother and sister team Zion ’17 and Solana Russell ’18 deliver the finale, The Switch, with support from the Darrow Chorus (from left) Will Peltz Smalley ’17, Griffin Wallace ’17, Julia Ordu ’20, Constanza Carty ’19, Jessica Cooper ’17, Mickey Mastrianni ’18, and Mira Sneirson ’18.

SAVE THE DATE Spring Family Weekend & Music Showcase April 28–29, 2017 Visit darrowschool.org for details. DARROW SCHOOL 11 IN THE CLASSROOM Animal House New elective examines social engagement in the 21st century

How does a skyrocketing increase in the use of personal technology correspond to record low levels of civic engagement and social interaction? That question formed the basis for a new elective offered in fall 2016: Social Animals? The Rise and Fall of Com- munity in the 21st Century, taught by history teacher Catherine Stines. From its first day, Stines said, the class established itself as a community, setting clear expectations and creating a space in which all voices are heard and validated. As a result, she said, stu- dents found more freedom to discuss their theories while collaborating on projects designed to test those ideas. “I want students to feel confident about the world they’re going into, to know that they are academically, so- Chris Sano ’17 (left) and Connor Sakal ’17 create a mural designed to be a public art installation that cially, and mentally prepared for what- will allow students to register their opinions about important community topics. ever comes next,” Stines said. “Above all, I want them to learn to expect the Stines said, they transitioned to learn- make the difference between a group unexpected.” ing, from a scientific standpoint, about thriving or floundering.” For the first quarter, students worked how humans process information and In the next phase of the class, together to discover strengths and execute tasks. Students were guided students were tasked with creating growth opportunities for themselves, by reading Brain Rules (Pear Press, a social experiment for the Darrow taking Myers-Briggs tests and holding 2008) by John Medina, while exploring community at large, with the aim of discussions in vulnerability circles. various types of communities, such as gathering input from a larger segment Through journal entries, an interdisci- intentional living communities, dystopi- of society while also building skills as plinary study of the human brain, and an and utopian societies, eco-villages, community organizers. individual social experiments, students families, religious communities, virtual Final projects, Stines said, blended learned to recognize that vulnerability communities, and community careers. ethnographic and anthropological and accountability are necessary not “I learned how to recognize and own work, analysis of the Darrow commu- only for making change, but for making my own identity within a community,” nity, and personal reflections on the communities stronger. said Mira Sneirson ’18. “These princi- students’ involvement in their commu- Once students acquired a sense of ples can be scary and difficult to honor, nities. Lastly, they presented their find- self and the dynamics of group work, yet their presence (or lack thereof) can ings to the School community, in effect

“My overall goal was for the students to feel more empowered to change the world around them. They have already discussed implementing changes they’d like to see in the community, while also bolstering their suggestions with qual­itative evidence to back up the research.”

—Catherine Stines, History Teacher

12 PEG BOARD FALL/WINTER 2016–17 teaching their peers and teachers what they had learned. “My overall goal was for the students to feel more empowered to change the world around them,” Stines said. “Their primary takeaway was that accountabili- ty and vulnerability are the cornerstones of communication and community. They have already discussed implement- ing changes they’d like to see in the community, while also bolstering their suggestions with qual­itative evidence to back up the research.” As she had predicted, encountering the unexpected was also a common denominator as the students pro- gressed through their research proj- ects. For their Social Animals project, seniors Connor Sakal ’17 and Chris Sano ’17 developed an art installation Peter Cholnoky ’18 (left) interviews Jason Bumbray ’17, as part of his project, Social Analysis as a way to gauge their fellow students’ and Documentation on Male Emotion and Friendship, for the Social Animals class. opinions and understanding of commu- nity issues in an artistic format. Toward when she conducted a survey com- At the conclusion of their Social Animals that objective, they created a large paring perceptions and stereotypes class, the following students made presentations to the school community painted mural of a human brain, which regarding boarding school vs. public based on their projects: was installed in the Student Center. school students and faculty. Students were invited to write on the “From people who attended both • Mira Sneirson ’18: Social Experiment mural their opinions about various is- public school and private school, there on Good vs. Evil and Dualistic Thinking sues, such as the daily schedule, sports were a lot of negative stereotypes out requirements, Spring Term, and more. there,” she said. “I learned that people • Nyaiah Lamb’17: Gentrification Awareness and the Effects on the “We were trying to allow students need to step back and look at where Harlem Community who had some sense of frustration or their opinions come from. They aren’t • Jessica Cooper ’17: The discontent within the community to ex- always what is actually happening.” Understanding of Empathy after press their feelings in a visually appeal- “Social Animals was an outstanding Trauma—Empathy vs. Sympathy ing and anonymous way,” Sakal said. opportunity for our students not only • Mia Blackwell ’17: Perceptions of They learned quickly, however, that to become familiar with some of the Boarding Schools vs. Public Schools polling on controversial issues doesn’t central concepts of sociology as an ac- • Peter Cholnoky ’18: Social Analysis always yield positive or predictible ademic discipline, but also to engage and Documentation on Male feedback. After a couple of days with in an active inquiry of those concepts,” Emotion and Friendship primarily positive comments written said Mika Saarela, Director of Studies. • Maya Woolridge ’17: Participatory Grades and the Implication on on the mural, the messages became “This is a prime example of the ben- Extroverts vs. Introverts increasingly negative and, in a few efits of Darrow’s curricular approach; • Katherine Moody ’17: Social cases, rude and contentious. the students receive a taste of how Experiment on Group Immersion “The biggest thing I learned is that academic disciplines work in higher and Belonging social experiments don’t always get a education, but also get an opportunity • Connor Sakal ’17 and Christopher perfect result,” Sano said. “The nega- to develop their problem-solving, col- Sano ’17: Social Experiment and Art tive feedback and positive feedback laboration, and design thinking skills— Installation of Community Issues and are both important. But you won’t al- and have a lot of fun in the process.” Understanding ways get the balance you’d like to see.” • Desmond Tracey ’17 and Jason Mia Blackwell ’17 also discovered —Editor’s note: Catherine Stines and Bumbray ’17: Analysis on Emotions and Body Language that there are two sides to every coin her students contributed to this story.

DARROW SCHOOL 13 STUDENT PROFILE A Cambodian Connection

Like many students in Darrow’s diverse student community, Elijah “Ziggy” Rachlin ’17 has roots that stretch thousands of miles from the There is a Buddhist belief that Mountainside. Ziggy—whose nickname derives children should give back to from his dad’s affection for reggae icon their parents to express their Bob Marley, as well as the ubiquitous gratitude. Even though I don’t comic strip character—was born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and was know who my (birth) parents adopted by his current family at nine were, I felt like I wanted to give months old. After living briefly in Bos- back to my people.” ton, he grew up in New York City, at- tending schools there through seventh grade before transferring to a public school in Westchester. —Elijah “Ziggy” Rachlin ’17 Seeking a more challenging aca- demic environment for his son, Ziggy’s father began exploring independent While in Cambodia last summer, Ziggy ic mentor, who has traveled and taught education, narrowing it down to a Rachlin ’17 had a chance to meet Chum in Cambodia extensively since 2011. couple of schools, one of which was Mey, one of only a few survivors of the The pair attended a Cambodian New Darrow. “My dad really liked Darrow at Khmer Rouge’s genocide campaign in the 1970s. Year celebration in April last year in first, although I wasn’t sure,” Ziggy said. Lowell, Massachusetts, which has the “But I was impressed with the wood running water, they have to store water second largest Khmer population in the chopping and maple syrup program. I in barrels.” The cities, on the other U.S. They also got together in Cambo- thought that was unique, so I decided hand, were more modern and western- dia when Ziggy returned for a month to give it a try.” ized, he said, a stark contrast from the in summer 2016 to do volunteer work At first, he had some trouble adapt- impoverished lives of people in rural at a small elementary school outside ing and questioned his decision during areas. Phnom Penh, building tables for the his freshman year. But encouragement He was encouraged, however, by the students, re-cementing and painting from his advisor—former faculty mem- number of nonprofit organizations that tree enclosures, and creating signage, ber Bo Montanye, himself a Darrow provide humanitarian aid to the people among other tasks. graduate from the Class of 2010—and of Cambodia, working to promote “We made a big difference,” Ziggy support from newly formed friendships education, find and deactivate land said. “I feel like this opportunity has helped him grow into the School and mines, and provide health care among made me more determined and more develop as a person and a student. other things. “I decided that I wanted aware of who I am. It gives me more Between his freshman and soph- to do something to give back. There is leverage in creating my identity.” omore years, Ziggy participated in a a Buddhist belief that children should “Ziggy works hard at reconnecting summer program sponsored by Putney give back to their parents to express with his Cambodian heritage,” Corral School that enabled him to return to their gratitude,” he said. “Even though I said. “He’s very determined and con- Cambodia for the first time, visiting don’t know who my (birth) parents are, scientious.” cities like Battambang, Phnom Penh, I felt like I wanted to give back to my In fall 2017, Ziggy—who was a and Siem Reap. people.” co-winner of the World Languages “It was a great experience, but it Back at Darrow, he began an inde- Award at last year’s Baccalaureate Cer- was also kind of sad,” he said. “There pendent study project to learn Khmer, emony—plans to attend Beloit College is a great deal of poverty there and, the official language of Cambodia. He’s and hopes to return to Cambodia for a especially in the countryside, not much also been working with Mike Corral, year after graduating from college. has changed. People don’t even have Darrow’s physics teacher and academ-

14 PEG BOARD FALL/WINTER 2016–17 FACULTY PROFILE Adrienne Lazes: By the Numbers the grade that Math Department 6 = Chair Adrienne Lazes was in when she decided she wanted to be a math teacher. Helping her classmates with their math homework had already kindled an interest in teaching, but an exceptional sixth grade math teacher deepened her enthusiasm for both. “My parents thought it was just a phase,” she said, “but when I went to high school, I fell in love with the high- school-level curriculum and knew I wanted to teach high school math.” the only grade in which she 9 = ever attended a public school. Other than ninth grade, Lazes said, she had attended only private schools. “I prefer the independent school environment,” she said. “You get to Math Department Chair Adrienne Lazes (left) works with Eliza Hughes ’18 in Algebra II. know your students a lot better than you can in public schools, and I like the tive on the History of Math. She has course in which many discover they autonomy that teachers have over their also taught Probability and Statistics, have more aptitude for math than they classrooms.” which is offered every other year. imagined. I’ve gotten notes from alumni saying that my classes made them the number of school years Lazes’s favorite irrational feel more comfortable with math, and 8 = Lazes has been teaching 1.618 = number, also known as phi gave them the confidence to explore at Darrow. As an undergraduate and the golden mean. Phi represents electives like Probability and Statistics at Hampshire College in Amherst, the division of a given unit of length into when they hadn’t believed they could.” Massachusetts, she participated in two parts, the ratio of which is consid- a licensure program through nearby ered aesthetically pleasing. The ratio the number of other roles in Mount Holyoke College, which is found in natural formations and is 3 = which she currently serves provided hands-on classroom time commonly used in art and design. at Darrow. Lazes is the School’s Tech through a senior year pre-practicum. Training Coordinator, working to assist Lazes’s favorite regular num- The everyday teaching experience faculty and students with education- 24 = ber. First because “I just like reinforced her passion for math ed­ al software and platforms used for even numbers,” she said; second, be- ucation and also opened the door to communication, grading, comments, cause she was born on February 24; but Darrow, her first teaching job. and other functions. She is also the most important, because it is the name Assistant Coach for the Girls Varsity the year in which she re- of her favorite TV show, the 2001–2010 Basketball team and a house parent in 2016 = ceived her interdisciplinary Fox action/drama that starred Kiefer Brethren’s. In years past, she served as master of arts degree from Skidmore Sutherland. “My dog is not named Kiefer Spring Term Coordinator and the faculty College in Saratoga Springs, New York. by accident,” she notes. director of the Alpine sports program. Her thesis addressed the influence of the Roman numerals that history and religion on mathematical II = denote Darrow’s advanced the current number of theorems in 17th-century France. 726 = algebra course, Algebra II, which is her movies that Lazes has in her the number of math courses favorite subject to teach. “I love the DVD collection. An impassioned fan of 4 = she is currently teaching at concepts that I teach in Algebra II,” she all things Harry Potter, she also enjoys Darrow: Algebra II, Calculus, Advanced said, “but I also feel like the students video games, writing fictional stories, Topics in Calculus, and a spring elec- at that level are more engaged. It’s a and taking walks and hikes with Kiefer.

DARROW SCHOOL 15 THE DARROW DUCKS Fall Sports Wrap-up

Boys Soccer Evens It Out Led by senior co-captains Zion Russell ’17 and Chris Sano ’17, the Boys Varsity Soccer team logged an even 8-8 record this fall, and achieved some milestones along the way. In Novem- ber, the Ducks defeated a strong Hoo- sac School team 2-1, their first victory against Hoosac in recent memory. The upset came on the heels of a 6-3 home win against Marvelwood School that the opposing coach called, “one of the best Darrow on-field performances” he’d seen, according to Darrow Coach Eric Hernandez ’17 (left) was named an all-star by the Hudson Valley Athletic League, the Shawn Holcombe. Western new England Preparatory School Soccer Association, and the New England Prep Hudson Valley Athletic League School Soccer Association. (HVAL) All Stars Lukeus Gore ’18 and Eric Hernandez ’17 led the Ducks in Cowherd ’18, first-time goalkeeper Paul Holcombe said the team has set scoring for the season, with Eric also Ferch ’17, and the midfield combina- higher expectations for themselves being named to the all-star teams of tion of Marco Amantini ’18 and Connor next season with the return of sea- the Western New England Preparatory Sakal ’17, who were named co-MVPs. soned players like Sam LaPell ’18, School Soccer Association and New The Ducks qualified for the HVAL Nick Adams ’18 (2016’s most improved England Prep School Soccer Associa- Tournament and suffered a narrow 1-0 player), and a solid core of freshmen tion. Filling out the rest of the HVAL all- loss to Oakwood Friends School in the including Jared Woolridge ’20 and Her- stars for Darrow were defender Henry quarterfinal match. on Rapp ’20. Harriers Overcome Wasps for Wins Neither a nest of angry wasps Hu ’17 (13th), Winne (19th), and Braden along the trail, nor the loss of several Arnold ’19 (20th). The girls team was led experienced runners to graduation in by Greer Kramer ’17 (second), Jayme 2016, could deter the Darrow Varsity Andres ’18 (third), and Cassidy Roberts Cross-Country team this year, said ’18 (fifth). Coach Tom Tift. The season’s climax came at the At the Darrow Invitational Tourna- Hudson Valley Athletic League cham- ment on October 1—down a couple pionships at Storm King School. The of teammates who were unable to boys team finished first, their best per- attend—the boys team managed to re- formance of the year, with Yang finish- capture the first-place trophy, as they ing fifth overall and leading the Ducks, did in 2015, thanks to the efforts of who placed all five scorers in the top Seth Carr ’19 and Dylan Winne ’18, who 20 of a field of more than 70 runners. took second and third place overall. The girls also performed superbly— At October’s Marvelwood School with Kramer finishing third— missing a Invitational, the boys were led by Kevin repeat of 2015’s championship by just Seth Carr ’19 powers to a second-place Yang ’17 (first), Carr (eighth), Johnny one point. finish at the Darrow Invitational October 1.

16 PEG BOARD FALL/WINTER 2016–17 FROM THE BOARD Scarlet Letter or Red Badge of Courage?

Recently, during one of my weekly conversations with Darrow’s Head Rather than a place where of School Simon Holzapfel, my ears students are stigmatized for perked up as he described to me a having encountered obstacles theme that had emerged from a series of individual student interviews. Sev- on their educational path, eral students, he noted, had reported Darrow has always been feeling that their Darrow classroom that ‘place just right,’ where experience was diminished because of “second chance” students. In late 2016, students can feel safe and one of our trustees (who has profes- supported while still being sional experience in the field) conduct- challenged and encouraged. ed several focus groups with faculty and students, and again this concept of second chance students was raised. the hundreds the magazine has shared Simon and I immediately began over the years, a familiar theme runs discussing questions about this de- through many of their stories: Darrow velopment, the most pertinent being: Board of Trustees Chair Bob Kee ’71 (left) provided a place where they could Was this a new situation or possibly a and Head of School Simon Holzapfel at the overcome the challenges and setbacks reinterpretation of a long-time reality? Board of Trustees meeting in June they encountered elsewhere, where We realized that, since its inception they found the freedom to pursue their in 1932, our School has always provid- “[Darrow’s Headmaster Lamb] true passions, to explore new ven- ed bright students a second chance. Heyniger had a weakness for the most ues, and to take a chance—perhaps Some came to the Mountainside with ‘challenging’ of the cases. There was a second or even a third chance—on a particular learning challenge, either no such thing as a dull kid, just a bored themselves. Rather than a place where a congenital disability or an inability one, as far as he was concerned... students are stigmatized for having to thrive in traditional school envi- Darrow’s approach was twofold: Put encountered obstacles on their edu- ronments, for whatever reason. Many hands to work (literally) and open cational path, Darrow has always been came to Darrow from other cultures doors to the student’s natural abilities that “place just right,” where students and other nations, where their educa- and passions... Heyniger didn’t have can feel safe and supported while still tional opportunities may have failed any magic bullets. All he could do was being challenged and encouraged. them, or were simply inadequate for hold the bar high, keep encouraging, I guess if you spend a moment to them at the time. And they discovered and remind the boy that there was a reflect on the term, a second chance here that simple Shaker value which destination, a reason for this difficult is really a fresh opportunity. Everyone we hold so dear, that by “turning, turn- but necessary process. Peter would get enjoys being presented with an oppor- ing, we come round right.” through this. He would excel. ” tunity. America itself was founded on One of Darrow’s most famous Pete not only made Darrow’s honor that premise. At Darrow, we embrace examples of the second chance is roll and attended Princeton on a full the fact that we give students of all Charles “Pete” Conrad ’49, Apollo 12 Navy scholarship, he went on to serve backgrounds a new opportunity to be- Commander and the third man to walk as a naval officer, aviator, aeronauti- come better students, and thus better on the moon. A frustrated Conrad, who cal engineer, test pilot, and astronaut citizens of the world. suffered from the then-unknown condi- Upon receiving Darrow’s Distinguished tion of dyslexia, came here having been Alumnus Award at his 50th reunion, he expelled from Haverford School with said if he hadn’t gone to Darrow he grades described as “abysmal” in his never would have walked on the moon. biography, Rocket Man (New American In the profiles of the alumni featured Bob Kee ’71, Chair Library, 2005). The book further notes: in this issue of Peg Board, as well as Board of Trustees

DARROW SCHOOL 17 ACCESS HOLLYWOOD Darrow alums find success in the entertainment industry From the foothills of the Mountainside to the footlights of the theater, the small screen, and the big screen, many Darrow alumni have forged stellar careers in entertainment and media.

18 PEG BOARD FALL/WINTER 2016–17 Sam Harper ’74 at his home in Tivoli, New York

through movies suggested screen- writing as a possible career for the confirmed movie addict. Before that, though, he tried his hand as a writer for Advertising Age. “There was an editor there who just cut my writing to ribbons, but it was so helpful. It was the best schooling I ever got in writing,” he said. The subject matter, on the other hand, was extremely boring. “I had the chewing gum beat, the cigarette beat, and the sporting goods beat. After three years, I was dying to do some- thing more creative.” While visiting his older sister, who had moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, he met an agent friend of hers who encouraged him to move west and pursue screenwriting. “I had Sam Harper ’74 Rookie of the Year been writing creatively in New York but couldn’t get any traction. So I saved The definition of the term “long- large family, so it was not unusual for me what money I had and quit. I moved suffering” has rarely had a more power- to escape to a quiet room and write in to L.A. in 1981 and started out reading ful illustration than the 108-year cham- my journal,” he said. Having attended scripts and writing synopses and pionship drought experienced by fans public schools, as well as more rigid criticism for studios. They paid me $15 of Major League Baseball’s Chicago “coat and tie” private schools, he found a script and $25 per book. I was just Cubs. One of those fans is Sam Harper at Darrow the ideal mix of academic barely getting by but I was still writing ’74, a New York native who moved to and creative stimuli, complemented my own creative stuff on the side.” Chicago at age 10 and grew up a die- by the grounding structure of activities Sam’s first paying studio job arrived hard Cubs fan. Although the Cubs’ 2016 like Hands-to-Work and the collective in 1987 with a film called Revenge of the World Series victory may have rendered support of teachers and mentors such Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise, for which he “long-suffering” inapt, a more appro- as Bob McCannon, Herb Lape, and Mike wrote a version of the script. “I didn’t get priate descriptor might be “prophet,” Clarke, who spent time with him and credited on it, but the experience was because Sam actually “foretold” of a encouraged his development as a writer. fantastic. I was able to quit my other job Cubs championship in the screenplay “My senior project was writing four and things began to pick up. I was getting he wrote for 1993’s Rookie of the Year. creative short stories, and my Hands-to- one script deal a year.” While working in In the film, a Little League bench rider Work job senior year was putting together script development, rewriting scripts that suffers an arm injury that results in an the weekly newsletter with Jane Feldman “might or might not get made,” he wrote uncanny ability to throw a baseball at ’74 and Kemp Parker ’74, so I was writing Rookie of the Year in 1991, which became blinding speed, resulting in a contract a lot,” he said. “It was Bob McCannon a major release in 1993. with the Cubs and a World Series who pulled me aside one day and said, In 1997, in the midst of a career slump, victory. The first original screenplay he ‘You really need to pursue your writing he wrote a romantic comedy titled Just ever wrote, the film made him some- because there’s something there.’” Married, which was based on his 1985 thing of a “Rookie of the Year” himself. After Darrow, he attended Colora- honeymoon with his wife, Anna McDon- Sam took his first steps toward the do College, where he majored first in nell. The film released in 2003, starring big screen when he joined Darrow as English and then in history. Though the Brittany Murphy and Ashton Kutcher. a sophomore in 1972 and cultivated his School had no film program, a teacher “I felt like I was back in it,” Sam said of love for writing. “I was a shy kid from a who taught a course on history as seen the box office success.

DARROW SCHOOL 19 Mining the wellspring of personal ex- to get a reader to see a scene is really on the school tour with her mother and perience, he wrote the script for 2003’s challenging. You have to deliver a script Dara, and after they visited Darrow, Kari Cheaper by the Dozen, starring Steve that says everything, without saying it.” said, “I want to go there!” (So did Dara.) Martin and Bonnie Hunt, based on some —Steve Ricci “Darrow was such a huge part of my short columns about fatherhood that he development as an artist,” Kari said. had been writing for his son’s nursery Guided by her advisor, Bonnie Miller, and school. A film executive at 20th Century drama teacher, Proctor Smith, Kari got Fox read the columns and hired him to involved in the Darrow drama program, write the movie. It was followed by a doing everything from stage managing sequel, Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005), a production of The Crucible to splicing and Open Season (2006), a children’s wires for the lights above the stage, animated feature about the relationship to playing a bit part in A Mid-Summer between a bear and a deer, for which he Night’s Dream. And, then, in her senior received partial writing credit. “That was year, Mr. Smith told her to try out for my first time doing an animated movie,” Bye-Bye Birdie, and she got the lead role. he said. “It was crazily lucrative but “I was thrilled and terrified,” she said. the writing experience is not satisfying Kari Wishingrad ’78 playing a dying woman “But it was a life-changing moment for because, essentially, the animators write on the set of Most of the Time, with director me. It clarified what my life could be.” the movie; you’re brought in to do major Dermot Tynan in Kinvara, Ireland Following Darrow, Kari studied theater plot points and theme.” Another anima- at SUNY New Paltz, performing in stage tion screenplay, Rio (2011), was one of plays on campus and during a semester the most successful movies released Kari Wishingrad ’78 abroad. In 1985, she moved to San Fran- that year. A Life-Changing Moment cisco and landed a part in the award-win- In 2007, he tried his hand at directing ning, Tokens—A Play on The Plague. for the first time, helming a movie based on the Mountainside Produced by Whoopi Goldberg, it had on his screenplay. Titled Housebroken, a long run at the Artaud Theatre, and it and starring Danny DeVito and Katey When Kari Wishingrad ’78 saw Karen established Kari in the Bay Area theater Sagal, the comedy centers on a retired Morrow belting out a song in the Broad- scene, where she worked until 2001. At father attempting to get his adult sons way musical, Applause, she pointed at that point, she decided to get into the film to move away from home. “The movie the actress and said, “I want to do that!” work that she still does today. proves without a shadow of a doubt She was four years old. Over the years, Kari has appeared that I was never meant to be a director,” “I didn’t exactly know what that was in a number of student and indepen- Sam said. “Directing is just not my thing. I at the time, but from then on I was dent films, industrials, and regional and loved the experience but I just didn’t get hooked on theater,” Kari said from her national commercials. She’s also done it.” He also produced movies, including a Sonoma, California, home, where she voiceovers for animated movies and 2007 TV comedy titled The Last Day of continues her more-than-30-year career modeling in print advertising. Currently Summer, and 2015’s Don’t Worry Baby. as an actress. between acting gigs, she’s working Despite forays into other aspects Growing up in New York City with her on a documentary about the women of the industry, he continues to return parents and two sisters, Kari took advan- of the Beat Generation, a piece that’s to his first love: writing. He recently tage of the cultural scene, going to plays based on a poem she wrote. Kari may moved back to upstate New York—“an and movies, attending performing arts have always been clear about what area I fell in love with from my days classes, and working in school produc- she wanted from life but, as she said, at Darrow”—and is currently working tions. “New York was really inspiring, and “I’m not sure where I’d be had I not long-distance on several new projects was sort of the foundation for my dream,” gone to Darrow. I was sort of scared as he plans for a “gap year” of world she said. That dream took a hit when of performing before I arrived, but that travel with his wife. the family moved to the suburbs. “There went away because I felt so embraced “Some writers of prose think that wasn’t a whole lot going on in Westches- by the community. The teachers, writing for the screen is easy; that all ter, and I didn’t really relate to the kids.” my classmates, everybody helped screenwriters are really doing is writing It was around that time that her older everybody else flourish. It was sort of a pictures, but that’s unfair,” he said. “You sister, Dara Wishingrad ’76, began judgment-free zone.” have to be a very visual thinker. Trying looking at boarding schools. Kari went —Sam Harper

20 PEG BOARD FALL/WINTER 2016–17 “I’m not sure where I’d be had I not gone to Darrow. I was to problems because the programs sort of scared of performing before I arrived, but that went didn’t exist,” she said. “Now you have programmers all over the world coming away because I felt so embraced by the community. The up with plug-in programs, which signifi- teachers, my classmates, everybody helped everybody cantly expedite the process.” else flourish. It was sort of a judgment-free zone.” So, the young artist who wouldn’t go near a computer ended up riding its —Kari Wishingrad ’78 evolution as a creative tool in filmmak- ing, earning titles like “visual effects su- pervisor” and “compositing supervisor” While working on her art, Jennifer on dozens of movies and TV shows. also plunged into theater, designing “I learned a lot at Darrow, got good sets for school plays directed by John grades, and became the Art Prefect, but Walmsley, head of the department. “And there was this other kind of learning that I got a lot of encouragement from him, happened there; I learned to show up, and also from Sheldon Flory, one of the do the work that needs to be done, and most generous, warm people I have be honest. The rest followed.” ever known,” she said. “He had this Having worked on the X-Men and way of being totally nonjudgmental and Batman series of films (among many), accepting, which allowed me to see my Jennifer’s latest project is American potential.” Gods, a new television series based on In her application to Otis School of the graphic novels of Neil Gaiman. Art and Design in Los Angeles, Jennifer —Sam Harper insisted that she was done with theater and set design, but after two years in Jennifer Law-Stump ’85 with her husband, college found herself on scaffolding David Stump in an earthquake-damaged building in downtown Los Angeles, marbleizing columns and ceilings—in effect, doing Jennifer Law-Stump ’85 real-life set design. Because she was The Kid Who Could Draw particularly good at trompe l’oeil, she was able to get work as a scenic artist. In the early ’80s Darrow offered “I developed a very close relationship computer classes for the first time, but with Bondo,” she said of the substance Jennifer Law-Stump ’85 wasn’t interest- used to seam together portions of TV ed. She was an artist, oils and pastels and movie sets. only. So, how did she end up mastering This experience led to work in visual the computer and building a career of effects, making flats, painting models, Peter Gordon ’84 with one of the two Rocky more than 30 years creating visual and and creating backdrops for various Mountain regional Emmy Awards he’s won digital effects for dozens of films and productions. As computers and visual television shows? effects advanced, audiences demanded “My father was an industrial designer, more visual sophistication from movies. Peter Gordon ’84 and my mother was a fine artist, so I was “I was in the right place at the right Director’s Cut always the kid who could draw,” Jennifer time,” she said, noting that she had the said from her home-away-from-Los-An- right skill set during a turning point in In the high-energy world of live TV geles in New Mexico. She brought that filmmaking. “(My then-boyfriend David) sports broadcasting, almost anything talent to Darrow, but didn’t really take pointed to a huge computer and told me can go wrong at any time; and it some- it seriously until Art Department head, that if I could apply my artistic skills to it, times does. For professional director Richard Chavka, pushed her to pursue it. I’d have a job doing digital effects.” So Peter Gordon ’84, being able to react “He was the first one, other than my she taught herself to create digital effects. and respond quickly can mean the parents, who told me I had a talent that I “Those were kind of frontier days, difference between capturing a critical should pursue,” she said. where you had to invent solutions play or missing a pivotal moment.

DARROW SCHOOL 21 Peter has been working in sports tors what to shoot, telling the technical director, doing 43 basketball games broadcasting for more than 24 years and director which graphics to put up, when and some baseball games for GCU. His found that video photography, editing, to go to a replay, and keeping the work has won two consecutive Rocky and graphics came naturally to him. After crew informed about each upcoming Mountain Regional Emmy Awards (2015 struggling with dyslexia in large public phase of the program. Using Photoshop and 2016) in the category Director Live schools, he found at Darrow a more ac- design software, he also created the or Live to Tape. He was also nominated cessible educational system that allowed on-screen graphics for his broadcasts, for his graphics work. him to work to his strengths, rather than including transition graphics, score bars, “(Winning the Emmys) was awesome be relegated to remedial classes. and cutaways. because I had just been reorganized “Darrow really helped me figure out “I call the whole show,” he said. “I’m out of my job,” Gordon says with a how to study and take notes,” he said. “I basically communicating with the crew laugh. “But’s it’s okay because there is a spent two years there and repeated 11th about everything that needs to happen. lot of work here and right now I’m doing grade, and that did the trick. I would not The producer is next to me taking care really well. The most important thing have been able to go to college if I had of the talent, relaying to me information about sports TV is that you have to be not found Darrow.” about what they are going to talk about, willing to work hard. It’s a fun job but He also discovered computer pro- and I make sure that happens.” there’s also a fine line between taking it gramming during his time at Darrow, The challenge of doing live sports seriously enough and making sure the learning the program BASIC in the broadcasting is something Peter has work gets done.” School’s computer lab back in the days spent his career mastering. —Steve Ricci of the “big floppy disks,” he said. “That “Stuff happens all the time,” he said. opened a lot of doors for me.” After “Usually we have a great crew, and I majoring in photography at the Univer- don’t have to give them a lot of direction sity of the Pacific, he transferred to and while the action is going on. They know graduated from Arizona State University where I need to go and what’s coming (ASU) and expanded his knowledge up. But sometimes I’ll do shows where I of video art and graphics. His first job don’t always have people like that, and after graduating was managing a public I have to tell every one of them what to access studio for Cox Communications, do on every shot. I’ve worked on a lot where he worked evenings and nights of different shows with a lot of different and taught himself how to use nonlinear people, and I’ve seen directors scream- editing equipment, which allows video ing at their crew. I try not to do that. If editing without physical splicing of tape. something happens, I might raise my Maggie Biggar ’80 in June 2016, on the set He worked his way up the ladder at voice, but I also try to explain the situa- of a short film she produced,A Meditation. Cox, moving into the world of sports tion and make everyone feel at ease.” broadcasting and directing program- Technical snafus can also plague a ming for high school football, ASU and production, requiring quick action in the Maggie Biggar ’80 Grand Canyon University (GCU) sports, middle of a broadcast. Halfway through In Appreciation of and for the NBA’s Phoenix Suns. a recent broadcast of a GCU Antelopes Hard Work “I’ve always loved doing sports,” he game, during an interview with head said. “The movie (and entertainment) coach and former NBA player Dan Being an independent TV series/ industry can be tough to move up in. Majerle, the program audio suddenly feature film producer is hard. First you You have to make the right connections dropped. “We couldn’t hear the an- have to find the project, then you have with the right people. But I found that, in nouncers or the music in the front of the to develop the project, then you have to sports, although you still need to make truck, but I did hear the announcers in find money to produce the project, then strong connections, if you work hard and my headset and wasn’t sure if program you have to find the talent willing to be become really good at something, it’s a audio was being recorded. You don’t in the project. lot easier to get your foot in the door.” want to stop when you’ve got Dan “Frankly, it’s a miracle when a movie, As the director of a sporting event, Majerle mid-interview, but the crew let us TV series, or web series makes it Peter is responsible for every aspect of know it was okay and we rolled with it.” through production,” said Maggie the broadcast that appears on screen, After a recent reorganization at Cox, Biggar ’80, from her Los Angeles home. including instructing the camera opera- Peter became a full-time freelance “But, hey, appreciating hard work was

22 PEG BOARD FALL/WINTER 2016–17 one of the things I learned at Darrow.” “All of my theater experience came In fact, Maggie’s father, a career Navy into play, from the Darrow stage to officer, liked Darrow for his daughter behind the scenes at UCSD.” because it wasn’t a “country club” board- It was during this time that the career ing school. The gorgeous rural setting, of Academy Award-winning actress the Hands-to-Work program, and its small Sandra Bullock took off, and she moved size were all indicators that hard work to Los Angeles to start a production were integral to Darrow’s pedagogy. company. This was the same Sandra Maggie arrived with an interest in Bullock with whom Maggie had waited acting and immediately got guidance tables when they were both struggling from Vic Talbert, Proctor Smith, and to find acting work in New York. Sandra Marjorie Hirschberg in the Theater hired Maggie to help her establish Department. “Initially, I was much Fortis Films. more comfortable behind the scenes,” “Sandra has a remarkable work ethic. Maggie said. “But the teachers really In fact, when the company first opened, challenged me with writing and reading one of our mottoes was, ‘No one is that took me way beyond what I’d been above taking out the trash.’” True to Tom Craig ’68 studying earlier in my life.” the motto, during her 20-year tenure at From those disciplines came a love of Fortis, Maggie did just about everything. storytelling. “It was like those teach- In addition to developing scripts and Tom Craig ’68 ers lit a fire under the interests that I working in production, she set up non- Telling Great Stories brought to the School.” profits, oversaw property renovations, From Darrow, Maggie went to the and pulled together crews for films. You could say that Tom Craig’s long University of California at San Diego “Through it all, Sandra was very kind career as a production executive in (UCSD) and majored in theater, acting and compassionate. Working with her the movie business began in detention in undergraduate plays and working reminded me of the Shaker saying on study hall. behind the scenes in graduate plays. that plaque outside Wickersham, ‘Hands “I wasn’t doing very well in a couple When she graduated, she moved to to Work, Hearts to God.’” Two years of classes when I first arrived at Darrow, New York City to become an actress. ago, Maggie left Fortis and now splits so I spent a lot of afternoons on top of “And four years later, I recovered,” time between producing a short film, Wickersham,” Tom said from his home in she said. A Meditation, and a web series called Seneca Falls, New York. “But the study Her “recovery” from acting included a Break a Hip. (Season 1 is available at hall monitor told detainees that if they move to Los Angeles, where she got a breakahip.com, and season 2 is in post wanted to read novels and nonfiction, temp job at the American Film Institute production.) instead of sweating their homework, it (AFL) as an assistant to the production The work is hard, but, as Maggie said, was okay with him.” coordinator. That position led to a full­ “The work comes easier when you do it Tom took him up on it and, from time job as an assistant to the vice pres- with integrity, kindness, and a sense of re- that point on, he became a voracious ident of AFL, which meant she was able sponsibility to the larger community. And I reader and a lover of storytelling. “I to guide projects through development. learned to work that way at Darrow.” got a real feel for storytelling when I —Sam Harper was supposed to be studying geom- etry, and that focus served me well in Hollywood.” When he wasn’t reading in study hall, he immersed himself in the Darrow drama program, acting in various plays. “It was like those teachers lit a fire under the interests “That experience gave me some that I brought to the School.” perspective later on when I was dealing —Maggie Biggar ’80 with actors and scripts,” Tom said. “It helped me understand how they were seeing written material.” He added that Movie Night at Darrow also broadened his interest in storytelling. Every Satur- day night in the auditorium, classics

DARROW SCHOOL 23 such as Casablanca, The Wild One, and home in Seneca Falls and the director’s requires a lot of creativity, and Darrow’s Marty were screened, and he watched home in Maine. Halfway turned out to emphasis on creativity helped shape them all. be Darrow School, so they shot the how I approached that process.” Bob “Good storytelling, of course, is promo in Wickersham. attended Darrow when Paul Johnson critical to good moviemaking, and those “Right where it all began,” he said. introduced elective classes to the old movies had great, deep stories,” —Sam Harper curriculum. “Believe it or not, that was a Tom said. ground-breaking educational concept at He attended Colorado College and the time, and it kind of opened me up to majored in English until one of his pro- a whole array of learning possibilities.” fessors insisted that all students read, In 1988, ABC moved Bob to New write, and speak in Middle English. York to help produce news and sports That “unique torture” forced him to segments for national broadcasts. For switch his major to sociology. Still, he four years, he worked with renowned kept on reading, and after graduation correspondents like Dick Schaap, Peter sought a job in publishing in New York Jennings, and Ted Koppel. Then, in or Boston. 1992, CBS hired him away to associate “It was all about finding a career produce Ed Bradley’s primetime news that kept me in stories.” During his job program, Street Stories. Bob Winsor ’73 search, he took a trip to Los Angeles When Street Stories was canceled and found that he could make a living in 1994, Bob got the phone call that reading and analyzing scripts for enter- Bob Winsor ’73 changed his professional life entirely. tainment companies. Taking the Plunge A former colleague had become head “In publishing, I’d be reading books of CBS entertainment and asked Bob if for the marketplace. In Hollywood, I’d Years before he went to work for the he wanted to make the leap from news be reading scripts. I figured that in both biggest companies in network television, to entertainment. cases I’d be immersed in storytelling, Bob Winsor ’73 made a name for himself “I had some doubts, but it was a great which is what I loved, so I stayed in Los by answering a dare to jump from the opportunity, and news as I knew it was Angeles.” Dairy Barn balcony into what was then a changing, so I made the change.” Tom started his Hollywood career student smoking area. He didn’t exactly Bob quickly found that his all-in, working for Mel Simon, a wealthy stick the landing, and ended up in the plunge-from-the-balcony style was businessman turned movie producer. hospital, but from then on he was affec- better suited to news than it was to They developed and produced the tionately known as “Bulldog.” enter­tainment. During his first weeks on hugely successful Porky’s movies, and His daring leap also describes his the job, he walked onto a TV set, sat Stuntman. Tom left Mel Simon to work at approach to early career opportunities. down next to the star of the show and Warner Brothers as a story analyst and Before he even received his degree spoke to him about publicity for story editor, then went on to become in broadcast journalism from Emerson the upcoming season. a production vice-president at United College he was behind the microphone “Not done,” Bob said. “In news, being Artists and Universal, where he shep- at a local Boston radio station, broad- aggressive pays off, and there are no herded Bird on a Wire, White Tower, and casting local and national news stories. buffers between you and an interview. Beethoven, among many other films. A “I loved the adrenaline rush of getting In entertainment, there’s protocol to big part of his job was making sure that information for a news story, “ he said communicating with talent. In other films delivered emotion, a consistent from his office at CBS in New York City. “I words, you have to deal with publicists.” message, and a coherent storyline. knew what I wanted to do, and there was There were no media or communi- Since leaving Hollywood, Tom has an opportunity there, so I just went for it.” cations classes at Darrow when Bob been producing independent films. After he got his degree, Bob con- attended, but history teacher Bob His most recent project, Anatomy of tinued in radio until he was hired by a McCannon was very interested in the Tide, is set to make the film festival Boston ABC affiliate to run the news as- media, and put together music and circuit. When he and the director signment desk. That job involved finding slide presentations that were effective- decided that shooting a short promo for local stories worthy of broadcast. ly promotions for Darrow School. the film was probably a good idea, they “Finding and putting together a news “In class and on the football field, he agreed to meet halfway between Tom’s story with video and the proper quotes (McCannon) was an incredibly clear

24 PEG BOARD FALL/WINTER 2016–17 communicator, which I admired, and it’s what I have to be every day in this job.” Bob got the hang of network enter- tainment and he’s been working at CBS ever since, rising to senior vice-presi- dent of CBS Media Group and helping CBS dominate network ratings for 13 of the past 14 years with shows like The Big Bang Theory, NCIS, The Grammy Awards, and Survivor. This time, he totally stuck the landing. —Sam Harper

Emma Berley ’05 The Right Makeup

Emma Berley ’05 describes her high school persona as “angsty and kind of checked out.” Coming to Darrow from Emma Berley ’05 does makeup for Late Night host Seth Meyers. Dobbs Ferry, New York, as a sopho- more, she left to return to public school, After a year at community college, commercials, some films, and for Inter- then decided to return to the Moun- she was accepted at several art schools net content sites like College Humor tainside. Although she was happy to be but wanted to pursue another passion and Funny or Die. back, her downfall was frequent tardi- she cultivated at Darrow: makeup. “I was “The Internet work is very profes- ness, which often resulted in detention. always doing makeup for people,” she sional and is treated the same way as a “My parents didn’t know what to remembers. “I loved darkroom photog- movie or television set,” she said. do with me,” she remembers. “They raphy and loved doing makeup and The downside to the business, thought Darrow would be a better costumes for the photos we were doing.” Emma said, is the gaps between jobs. environment for me. It was strange at Encouraged by her older sister who “Right now I’m in between bookings first because it was so small, I felt like I is a makeup artist, Emma attended the and it’s quiet, but two weeks ago, I was was under a microscope; but it taught Make-up Designory in Manhattan, an in- working every single day for 10 days me about discipline and accountability tensive five-month program in makeup straight. During the downtime, to keep for my actions.” artistry. Her very first job as a makeup myself busy, I like to paint with acrylics, Where she really discovered a artist came one summer for Fox News, something else I learned to love at pas­sion was in art class with teacher filling in for her sister who worked for Darrow.” Brooke Bull, who encouraged and a Fox production company. She’s is considering a move to Nash- inspired Emma to go to art school. She “It was my first job, I’m 22 years old, ville because of the strong glamour also enjoyed working with the Darrow and I’m doing makeup for Bob Costas industry in the country music capital. Theater Workshop. “Art and theater and Tucker Carlson,” she said. “It was so She also recently came out with her were things that made me excited cool; in a way I felt like I hit the jackpot. own stationery line, available through about school.” My sister said, ‘All you have to do is her Etsy shop (starletta­andclem@Etsy), make sure they’re not shiny and that and has her own makeup artist website their hair looks good.’” at www.emmaberley.com.­ “(Darrow) taught me about Following up her Fox News gig, she “Darrow definitely encouraged me worked on several low-budget student to become an artist,” Emma said, “while discipline and accountability films for New York University students, also becoming a more disciplined and for my actions.” who were able to refer her to more responsible person.” —Emma Berley ’05 work once they moved into the field. —Steve Ricci She now works freelance, largely on

DARROW SCHOOL 25 The Darrow School Annual Fund Annual Report 2015–2016

It would take a far more substantial portion of this magazine than the following five pages to fully convey the impact that donations to the Darrow School Annual Fund have on our students, faculty, and staff. Annual giving provides a source of flexible support, bridging the gap between tuition revenue and the day-to-day costs of running the School. As it has since Darrow’s inception in 1932, the support of our donors enables us to continue providing an exceptional education in our close-knit community. In our 2015—2016 Annual Report you will find the names of those whose generosity and commitment helped sustain this institution. Our sincerest thanks to all who gave.

The Darrow School Annual Report 2015–2016, reflecting gifts made between July 1, 2015–June 30, 2016, is now viewable online at www.darrowschool.org/Support Darrow.

26 PEG BOARD FALL/WINTER 2016–17 LIFETIME GIVING HONORAnnual SOCIETY Report 2015–2016 Darrow School honors those donors who have generously given time and again to address the School’s capital needs, endowment goals, and Annual Fund requirements with membership in the Lifetime Giving Honor Society. We thank them for the significant resources they have contributed, which have repeatedly helped the School address important aspects of Darrow’s operating, programmatic, and physical plant needs. Their gifts will make a difference in the lives of students for many years.

$2,000,000+ Circle Tim Moore ‘78 Mr. & Mrs. Robert Greifeld P’05 Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Earl Samson III ‘76 Mr. Edward Groth III ‘62 H. Arthur Smith Charitable Foundation Mr. Clifford Shedd III & Ms. Angela Hawkins ‘76 Ms. Alexa Clay Seip ‘74 & Mr. Tom Seip & Ms. Michelle Miller Shedd P’04 Mr. & Mrs. John Lemery the Seip Family Foundation David & JoEllen Sweet P’01 Mr.* & Mrs. Richard Lidz ‘52, GP’12 Mr. William R. Windsor* ‘58 Mr.* & Mrs. David Markin $500,000+ Circle Mr. Keith Wold Jr. P’13 Mr. Phillips Marshall ‘53 Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. James McManus P’96 Ms. B. Holliday H. Hudimac $100,000+ Circle Ms. Susan Cole Niederhoffer ‘73 Mr. Donald C. McGraw Jr.* ‘43, GP’06 & Anonymous (3) Mr. H. Barton Riley Mr. & Mrs. Robert McGraw P’06 Mr. James G. Brooks Jr. ‘60 Mr. Christopher Russo ‘78 Mr. Abram Poole Jr.* ‘56 Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Helen & Henry L. Savage Jr. ‘59 Mrs. Edith S. Quintana* Mr. & Mrs. Cornelis Drost P’02 P’03 Mr. John & Marion Schlenker ‘57 Edward E. Ford Foundation Mrs. Deborah K. Solbert P’77 $250,000+ Circle Dr. Stuart Fox ‘42 P’67 The Walbridge Fund, Ltd. Anonymous Mr. William Franks ‘64 Mr. Peter Wadsworth ‘72 Mr. David Benson ‘62 & The Benson Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Errol Glasser P’07 Mr. Alan Wiegand ‘67 Mr. Donald Blumenthal ‘61 & Mr. John Gratiot ‘68 the Nathan & Violet David Foundation Mr. Francis Greenburger & Mr. Bradford A. Gardner ‘68 Ms. Isabelle Autones P’14 & the Francis Mr. & Mrs. Denton Hopper ‘62 Greenburger Charitable Fund *deceased GIVING CIRCLE DONORS

Wickersham Associates Heyniger Society Mr. Jeffrey Mayer ‘74 & members are those alumni, parents, Wickersham, the primary Shaker dwelling In 1938, C. Lambert Heyniger took The Witter-Mayer Family Charitable Fund and friends who give leadership gifts of house, was built in 1856 and named for over as headmaster from the School’s Tim Moore ‘78 $2,500–$4,999. George Wickersham, Shaker leader and first headmaster, Charles H. Jones. Dr. Richard O’Leary P’11 architect. The chief building for Darrow Heyniger renamed the School “Darrow Mr. & Mrs. Robert Rechnitz GP’19 Anonymous School since 1932, it currently houses School” and served as headmaster until & The Odyssey Fund Mr. & Mrs. Peter Cholnoky P’13, ‘18, ‘20 administrative offices, Health Services, his death in 1960. During his tenure, Mr. H. Barton Riley & The Millmont Foundation classrooms, and faculty apartments. Heyniger had a profound impact on the Mr. William Ritter ‘50 Perry Cohen & Brooke Bull The Wickersham Associates are alumni, Darrow community. Heyniger Society Mr. M. Jack Rudnick ‘66 & Mr. Willis DeLaCour ‘60 & parents, and friends whose generous members are those alumni, parents, CNY Community Foundation, Inc. the DeLaCour Family Foundation leadership contributions of $10,000 or and friends who give leadership gifts of Mr. & Mrs. Earl Samson III ‘76 Mr. James Ehrlich ‘77 more are as central to Darrow’s success as $5,000–$9,999. Mr. Frank Siciliano & Mr. John M. Erb ‘72 & Wickersham is central to our campus. Ms. Abby Notterman P’10 the Erb Family Foundation Anonymous (2) H. Bronson Smith ‘64 & Sally & David Falck ‘71 Anonymous Jim & Patrice Angle P’14 The Frances & Beverly Dubose Wilson H. Faude ‘65 Mr. David Benson ‘62 & The Benson Heidi & Don Blumenthal ‘61 Foundation, Inc. Mr. W. Law Fotterall III ‘71 Foundation Joseph H. Budge & Mrs. Deborah K. Solbert P’77 Mr. Samuel Harper ‘74 Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Bruce P’16 Sharon A. Kennedy P’10 Mr. Simon Holzapfel Mr. Bradford A. Gardner ‘68 Ms. Dorothy Cholnoky GP’13, ‘18, ‘20 Tannery Circle Mr. Joseph O. Humphreys ‘57 Mr. & Mrs. Robert Greifeld P’05 & The Millmont Foundation The Tannery building, remodeled and Mr. Stafford W. Keegin ‘60, P’99 Mr. Kyungwon Lee & Mr. John P. Gratiot ‘68 dedicated in 1948 as the Laflin-White- Mr. Douglas A. Leslie ‘55 Ms. Yunsook Nam P’17 Angela Hawkins ‘76 head Chapel, is home to major School Mr. John Paladino & Ms. Alexa Clay Seip ‘74 & Mr. Tom Seip Dr. Lansing C. Hoskins ‘46 ceremonies, especially Commencement. Ms. Emily Rechnitz P’19 & the Seip Family Foundation Ms. B. Holliday H. Hudimac & For years, students met regularly for ser- Mr. Sterling Pile III ‘70 & David & JoEllen Sweet P’01 SunTrust Foundation vices in this building, and today students the Pasadena Community Foundation Mr. Xiao’An Wang & Mr. Anderson Lidz ‘12 meet there each Friday for a period of re- Mr. & Mrs. Jay Riley Ms. Minghui Zhang P’16 Mr. Stephen Lidz & flection and sharing. With Tanner’s Pond Mr. Peter Rosemond ‘70, P‘15 Mr. Robert C. Warner ‘60 Ms. Christine Anderson P’12 and the view westward across the valley, Mrs. Althea Soest Mr. Xiao Bo Yu & Mr. Phillips H. Marshall ‘53 this part of the campus touches the souls Mr. Christian Masters ‘82 Ms. Xiang Yan Zhang P’18 of all who live here. The Tannery Circle DARROW SCHOOL 27 Mr. Roger Steckler ‘48 & Horton Durfee ‘43, P’72, GP’99 Mr. David McIlvain Head of School Circle The Kiplinger Foundation Mr. Andrew B. Duvall III ‘62 G. Scott Milnor ‘71 Heyniger, Joline, and those who followed Mr. & Mrs. Jay Townsend Jr. ‘66, P’03 Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Eckstein P’14 Mr. Oscar Morgenstern Jr. ‘82 have made a profound impact on Darrow. Mr. & Mrs. Laurence Van Meter Ms. Janice Ellig GP’17 Mr. & Mrs. James W. Neumeister P’94 Their guidance allowed the Darrow The Walbridge Fund, Ltd. Mr. Herman Fellinger ‘53 Donor Mr. Norman K. Nicholson ‘53 tradition to continue through social Pete Wilmot ‘59 Advised Fund of the Jewish Mr. & Mrs. John Parman P’02 and academic evolution and difficult Mr. Pei-Chung Yang & Federation of Cleveland Mr. Gregory Perkins ‘78 economic times. Alumni, parents, and Ms. Ming-Yu Lee P’16 Ms. Bryce K. Ferguson P’10 Mr. Lawrence K. Pomeroy ‘60 friends who support the School with gifts Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Fox P’02 Mr. Ronald D. Potier ‘52 of $500–$999 comprise the Head of Whittaker House Associates Mr. & Mrs. A. King Francis ‘71, P’87, ‘89 Joel & Marianna Priest School Circle. The first Shaker Meeting House, built in Denise Gayley Mr. Stanley W. Root Jr.* ‘41 1785, is named in honor of Father James Mr. Daniel N. Gibbons ‘78 Mr. Stephen M. Rudy ‘75 & Mr. Ricker Alford Jr. ‘55 Whittaker, who planned the Mount Leb- Mr. Francis Greenburger & Gradian Health Systems LLC Mr. Stefano Amantini anon Shaker Settlement. A place where Ms. Isabelle Autones P’14 & the Mr. Mark Russell ‘73 & Ms. Leslie Lieber P’18 the Shakers met to worship and rejoice in Francis Greenburger Charitable Fund Ms. Heather Sano P’17 Mr. William Anthony Jr. ‘62 their community, it was the foundation of Mr. Robert Greifeld ‘05 Helen & Henry L. Savage, Jr. ‘59 Mr. Thomas S. Auray ‘82 their life together. The Whittaker House David Groth ‘65 Mr. Eugene Schofield Austin & Co Inc Associates are alumni, parents, and Mr. Thomas B. Hallowell ‘82 Mr. Frank C. Schroeder III ‘61 Mr. Donal Bahrenburg ‘55 P’78 friends who contribute leadership gifts of Mr. Robert L. Harding ‘64 Mr. Edwin V. Selden ‘60 Mr. John Bergin ‘84 $1,000–$2,499. John K. Henne Charitable Trust Mr. Clifford Shedd III & Mr. & Mrs. Curtis L. Blake P’74 H. Scott & Linda P. Higgins P’11 Ms. Michelle Miller Shedd P’04 Jonathan D. Bookbinder ‘06 Anonymous (3) Mr. William Higgins ‘11 Mr. Patterson Sims ‘66 Mr. & Mrs. Richard Bookbinder P’06 Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Arnold P’18 Mr. Wolcott T. Hinchey ‘67 Mr. Bradley Smith ‘57 Mr. A. Pierce Bounds ‘67 Mr. Drew Barringer ‘65 Mr. Denton S. Hopper ‘62 Mr. Geoffrey R. Smith ‘64 Mr. John Broome & Ms. Thea Bennett Mr. & Mrs. John Bell P’16 Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Howley P’15 Ms. Suzanne E. Stewart P’18 & Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Browdy GP’17 Mr. Thomas Bird ‘62 & ‘63 Mr. David R. Kamenstein Jr. ‘59 the Gordon C. Stewart Ms. Luella Buono GP’17 Chuck Booth ‘55 Mr. Owen A. Kelly Jr.* ‘60 Charitable Gift Fund Tom Chapman ‘53 Mr. A. Grant Bowry ‘63 Mrs. Kristin Kilgore Kuntz ‘86 Alan & Kristi Strahler Mr. Russell Curry ‘70 Ms. Sadie Burton-Goss ‘73 Ms. Dora Lenfestey ‘01 & Raymond F. & Carolyn A. Strecker P’06 Mr. & Mrs. Peter Daly GP’18 John Carton & Wendy Rowden P’10 the Lenfestey Family Foundation Mr. Guohui Su & Mr. David Darling Jr. ‘66 Mr. Charles Coan ‘13 Mr. David Lewis Ms. Yahong Zheng P’16 Mr. David H. Dickson ‘66 Mr. Peter Coan & Mr. Jingyao Liang & Dick Tauber Dr. William Duncan III ‘54 GP’18 Ms. Lauren Mundy Coan P’13 Ms. Fengjuan Deng P’18 Mr. Walter K. Taylor ‘54 Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Fuller ‘65 Joan & Charles Dattelbaum ‘59 Mr. Wei Lin & Ms. Zhongru Mo P’19 Ms. Barbara Timken P’13 Mr. Stephen T. Golding ‘68 Jeff Davis ‘68 Pierre Loomis ‘62 & the Montauk Foundation Ms. Taylor Goodman Mr. Daniel deMenocal Jr. ‘71 & Mr. William Lloyd Makepeace ‘71 Mr. Peter S. Wadsworth ‘72 Mr. Thomas D. Gorday Jr. ‘68 BNY Mellon Community Partnership Ms. Polly W. Marvin & Mr. & Mrs. George Wailand Mr. & Mrs. Edrick Hall GP’17 Mr. Yaohua Deng & the Anne H. Willard Estate The Westcott Family Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Hills ‘69 Ms. Yurong Wang P’17 Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Matican P’16 Mr. Robert B. Wilson P’93 Paul N. Houston

GIFTS TO PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED ENDOWMENT FUNDS A. Scott Leake ’62 Scholarship Marjorie Hirschberg Scholarship The Darrow Endowment David Benson ’62 & The Benson Foundation for the Performing Arts Anonymous Mr. Alan Leake Mr. Russell Halley ‘80 Mr. John W. Talbot* ‘40, P’69 Ms. B. Holliday H. Hudimac Class of 1961 Scholarship Mr. & Mrs. Richard Moore & Warren A. Gardner Scholarship Mr. Sloan Auchincloss Jr. ‘61 & the Auchincloss Family The New York Community Trust Mr. Bradford A. Gardner ’68 Fund of The Foundation for Enhancing Communities Tim Moore ‘78 & The New York Community Trust Mr. & Mrs. John Lemery Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Currie ‘61 Dick Tauber Mr. Oliver B. Taylor ‘61 Mr. Richard Tompkins William Travis Shedd ’04 Scholarship Dr. Andrew Wells ‘61 P’89 Mr. & Mrs. Richard Yeskoo P’03 Mrs. Mary Catherine Miller GP’04 Edward M. McIlvain ’64 Scholarship Mr. Clifford Shedd III & Ms. Michelle Miller Shedd P’04 Mercy Ewing ’75 Endowed Art Scholarship Douglas Currie ‘64 David & Sharon King ‘64 David Ballenger ’75 Richard & Holly Stover P’91 Scholarship Mrs. Marion Whyte* P’61 P’64 Mr. & Mrs. Richard K. Stover P’91 Quasi (unrestricted) Endowment Hoopes Family Faculty Award Dr. & Mrs.* Stuart Fass P’99 John K. Henne Spring Term Scholarship B. Holliday H. Hudimac & the SunTrust Foundation Mr.* & Mrs. Richard I. Lidz ‘52, GP’12 John K. Henne Charitable Trust 28 PEG BOARD FALL/WINTER 2016–17 Annual Report 2015–2016 Dwight Howes ‘77 Mr. Matthew W. Sears ‘74 Ms. Katie P. Humes ‘76 Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Severy P’16 a close, family-like community. Today, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Dennis P’05 Mr. Stephen Isom ‘61 Carl M. Sharpe ‘62 the Center Family comprises Ann Lee Mr. Charles H. Detwiller III ‘61 Kate Johansen Ms. Lori Speranzo P’15 Cottage, Medicine Shop, Cherry Lane Dr. Ethan Dmitrovsky ‘72 Mr. Jeffrey Jones Mr. & Mrs. Richard K. Stover P’91 Cottage, Valentine, the sheep barn, Merrilee & Hamilton Dodge Jr. ‘77 & Ms. Elaine Schott-Jones P’03 Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Swenson & pond, and sugar house. Alumni, parents, Ms. Susan Drucker ‘77 David & Sharon King ‘64 the New Hampshire Charitable and friends who support the School with Mr. & Mrs. William Earley P’16 Ms. Andrea Lamm P’16 Foundation annual gifts of $250–$499 are members Mr. Charles P. Emerson Jr. ‘61 Mr. T. Harry Lang Jr. ‘62 Mr. Oliver B. Taylor ‘61 of the Center Family Society. Ms. Constance Englert ‘85 M. Barton Laws, PhD. ‘72 Mr. Michael B.Terry ‘60 Mr. Ira Feinman & Alan Mayers ‘50 Mr. Peter A. Thacher ‘69 Anonymous (2) Ms. Marjorie Feinman P’19 Mr. & Ms. Peter McCorkle P’15 Ward’s Nursery Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Anastasio P’15 Mr. Peter B. Frothingham ‘53 Mr. James M. McLean ‘52 Mr. Carter White P’86, ‘89 Mr. Andrew Barnett Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Gagnon P’17 Mr. Miles McManus Mr. & Mrs. James Whitin ‘67 Jake Bell & Regina Rodwell Bell P’05 Mr. Timothy Galvin & & Ms. Kate Shepherd P’18 Anne Heyniger Willard* Mr. Henry Bird ‘58 Ms. Ellen Sheppard P’09 Mr. Jeffrey Mose P’16 Mrs. Nancy Wolf Evelyn & Herb Bloom Melissa Gardner Mr. Martin Mullen ‘78 Mr. John Wolfe ‘48 Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Borten P’16 Mr. Jason C. Gish ‘87 Mr. Patrick Murray ‘89 Murray J. Yudin P’80 Mr. Eric Brown ‘08 Mr. David R. Halperin ‘73 & A. Kennedy O’Brien (Ken) ‘61 David Campbell ‘70 Ms. Carol Schifman Mr. Richard Oliver ‘68 Center Family Society Mr. & Mrs. Alan Carr P’19 Mr. W. James Harman II ‘49 Ms. Maria Papa P’16 As the Shakers built the Mount Lebanon Robert Castro ‘05 Mr. William H. Hays III ‘63 Julie & Seth Rachlin P’17 Village, they created family groupings Ann & Doug Clark Ms. Jamie Hicks-Furgang Mr. Michael M. T. Romanow ‘74 for village residents. Darrow’s campus Amy & Michael Clarke Annie & Ken Hilton ‘66 Mrs. Harriet H. Savage comprises the North, Church, and Center Mr. & Mrs. David Cohn P’10 Mr. William A. Hintermister ‘72 Dr. Sydney W. Schneidman ‘68 Shaker Family buildings, where current Ms. Elaine Cooper P’17 Mr. Dan Holt ‘92 Mrs. Constance Sears* P’74 students and faculty live together as Mr. James D. Darby Jr. P’89 Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Hoopes Jr. RESTRICTED AND UNDESIGNATED GIFTS

3D Printer James W. & Martha B. Ms. Janice Soto Steven & Joan Rosenthal Mr. Robert Kee ‘71 Neumeister Fund for Faculty Mr. Robert St. George Mr. James L. Rudolph Professional Development Athletics Mr. Vincent St. George Ms. Sawyer Mr. and Mrs. James Neumeister P’94 Mr. Thomas Bird ‘62 & ‘63 J. Michael Schell New Trustee Books John K. Henne Spring Term Joan & Michael Sclar Biology Textbook Project Helen & Henry L. Savage, Jr. ‘59 Scholarship Debbie & Allen Sheldon Real World Scholars, Inc. Richard Sincere John K. Henne Charitable Trust Outdoor Education Financial Aid Mr. & Mrs. Leonard A. Sloan Faculty Life Ms. Naomi Aberly Keith Norman Holt P’92, ‘94 Stewart & Marilyn Smith Ms. Linda Tishman ‘78, P’15 & Steve & Anne August Scholarship Fund Cheryl & Stephen Stelljes the Alfred L. Morse & Annette S. Patricia & Kevin Bengtson Anonymous (14) Robert & Jennifer Stello Morse Foundation Elliot & Anne Bloom Mr. Bradley Adams Ms. Cynthia Strauss & Mr. Harry Sherr Patricia & Jim Brett Film Program Equipment Mr. Douglas Alford Kenneth & Elissa Yanco Mr. David E. Canter & Ms. Lisa A. Strope Mr. & Mrs. Bartlett W. Paulding P’89 Mr. Justin Bakota Debra Yanofsky & Steven Shulman Nancy & Bobby Casper Ms. Linda Bakota Ira & Janet Zaleznik Financial Aid Ms. Marcy Braselton Ms. Victoria Garcia Drago Mr. Denton S. Hopper ‘62 James & Gilda Calvin Ms. Pamela D. Everhart Robotics Mr. Peter Lynch & Mr. Louis Centore Beth & Rich Fentin Mr. Robert Kee ‘71 Ms. Blaine Ryan-Lynch P’09 Mr. Alan Croft John & Andrea Glovsky Hans J. Solmssen ’55 Helen & Henry L. Savage, Jr. ‘59 Ms. Diane Dauer Ms. Lia Glovsky Faculty Award Melissa Gardner Wendy & Peter Grabler Hands-to-Work Mr. Hans J. Solmssen ’55 Kevin Keller & Keith Brengle Caleb Adams Mr. Dan Holt ‘92 David & Robin Kimball Ian Adams Mr. Jonathan Holt ‘94 Special Operations Unrestricted Mr. James R. Langevin Megan Mallory Aleks & Eric Johnson Anonymous John & Randi Lapidus Jordan Shelburne Ms. Gina Kevas Sharon & Richard Levine Technology Dr. Kate Shelburne Lawrence & Sarah Klein Mr. Frank Milazzo Ms. Erin Manganello Linda Tishman ’78, P’15 & the Alfred James “Des” McCracken Norman & Ruth Ann Muller Michael & Dawn Nathanson L. Morse & Annette S. Morse Faculty Residence Fund Ms. MaryJane Phyllis Norris Amy & Neal Reiner Foundation Anonymous Pam & Rich Remis Ms. Geraldine North DARROW SCHOOL 29 Mr. William O. Hopkins ‘54 Altamont Dentistry Rev. Peter J. Gorday ‘62 SUMMARY OF Mr. Christopher T. Howes ‘70 Boyd & Carolyn Anderson Mr. Timothy Gore P’18 Ms. Peyton N. Jefferson ‘86 Mr. Thomas Atkin ‘60 Mr. Stephen Griffing III ‘70 GIFTS TO DARROW Mr. & Mrs. John Jolly P’07 Mary & Stephen Auzenne ‘71 Mr. Paul S. Gundlach ‘71 ANNUAL FUND Ms. Alissa K. Keenan ‘86 Mr. James B. Baker ‘50 Ms. Ingrid Gustavson Dr. Lawrence Kraftowitz & Mrs. Nancy Ballenger P’75 Ms. Lori Friedland Guttman ‘73 Ms. Amy Dunkin P’15 Mrs. William Baltz P’78 Mr. Laurence M. Hagar ‘51 Trustees $79,324.54 Mr. Adam Kriveloff ‘74 Mr. Thomas Barclay ‘72 Mr. & Mrs. Walter Hallowell P’82 Alumni $209,595.91 Mr. & Mrs. David H. LaMotte P’15 Alison L. Baxter Mr. Michael Harris ‘81 Current Parents $88,961.93 Mr. Gibbs LaMotte ‘15 Donald deB. Beaver Mr. Jonathan K. Hart ‘73 Current Grandparents $14,295.00 Mr. Fred Leinfuss ‘78 Mr. Edward Bolle ‘78 Mr. Hargreaves Heap III ‘55 Kirk B. Leone ‘72 Mr. Richard K. Brown Cyrus Henry Jr. ‘49 Parents of Alumni $35,613.59 Mrs. Helen Longley P’74 & Ms. Anita Loose-Brown “Nick” Heyniger ‘48 Faculty /Staff $6,107.30 Ms. Denise Lutz P’18 Mrs. Martha T. Buck William R. Horowitz ‘71 Other Individuals $130,015.27 Mr. Jonathan Martin Mr. Brian Burkhart ‘76 Katherine W. Jarrett P’88 Mrs. Mary Anne Mayo & Parker Burroughs ‘67 Dr. J. Thomas John Jr. & Organizations $5,525.90 Mr. Stephen Nelson P’03 Ms. Nancy Dunn Byers ‘75 Dr. Brenda J. Butka Mr. & Mrs. James McManus P’96 Mrs. Douglas Campbell W’53 Helen “Bitsy” Joline Annual Fund Total Ms. Janet Meleney Mr. William Campbell ‘67 Mr. & Mrs. Aldred Jones GP’17 $569,439.44 Annie & David Miller Mr. Edwin Ceballos ‘95 Mr. Lars Takaya Kai P’19 Mr. Peter Milton ‘48 John Chin ‘66 Mr. James Keipper P’99 Loren Mintz ‘53 Jonathan Clement & Barbara Hawn P’09 Mrs. Heike Kilgore P’86 CAPITAL & RESTRICTED Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Murad R. Scott Conant ‘70 Mr. & Mrs. Clyde Killian P’05 Richard Newfarmer & Marty Conn ‘56 Mr. Harold Knox ‘66 Restricted Gifts $64,967.41 Margaret Sarles P’05 Consumer Optical Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Kramer P’17 Financial Aid $63,314.80 Mr. Arthur A. Parks ‘57 Mrs. Marjorie C. Cowardin W’38 Mr. James M. Kronick ‘58 & the Pfizer (non-endowed funds) Andrew Pemberton ‘08 Sarah & Tom Crowell P’16 Foundation Matching Gift Program Mr. & Mrs. Kwame Poku P’16 Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Currie ‘61 Ms. Natalie Lawrence ‘95 Endowments $163,124.80 Raymond M. Polley ‘53 Douglas Currie ‘64 Mr. William Le Mon ‘50 Mr. Peter Raff ‘71 Mr. Mark A. Curry ‘65 Mr. Paul Leake ‘64 Capital Gifts $866,861.63 Mr. Steven Ricci & Ms. Mary Jo Daly & Mr. Rob LaPell P’18 Mr. Allen Lee ‘71 Ms. Rhea Tannenbaum Anne De Coster P’76 Mr. Benjamin Levine ‘61 Capital & Restricted Total Mr. & Mrs. Simon Litten ‘95 Mr. Mark Robinson ‘63 Mr. Alfredo Del Valle ‘83 $1,158,268.64 Mr. Stuart Rothkopf P’84, ‘88 Mr. Jonathan Delano ‘66 Mr. George J. Lyford ‘54 Mr. & Mrs. Gary Ruff P’97 Mr. & Mrs. Richard Diamond P’87 Matt & Maggie Malatesta Mr. & Mrs. Earl A. Samson Jr. P’76 Mr. Andrew Dickson Mr. Derrick Mancini & Total Annual & Capital Ms. Nancy Slamin P’08 Douglas DiSalvo Ms. Elizabeth Gardner P’15 Contributions Mitchell Slotkin ‘58 Mr. Evan Downey Mr. Efrem Marder P’98, ‘01 Pat* & Nick Speranzo GP’15 Ms. Linda J. Durfee ‘72 Ms. Heather McDermott $1,727,708.08 Mr. Harlan Strader Jr. ‘70 Ms. Nancy Dutton Robert T. McLean ‘50 Chih Su ‘94 & Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Earle Jr. P’87 Ms. Cathy Ashby McMinn ‘80 Molly Russo W’51, P’78 Travelers Community Connections Mr. Jonathan W. Ely ‘68 Dr. & Mrs. Louis Michalski GP’18 Mr. Peter Ruth ‘60 Don & Marie Sutherland Mr. Richard Ely II ‘67 Mr. Allen F. Moench ‘54 Ms. Crysta Ryan Mr. William Tyler ‘68 Mr. Richard Everett III ‘79 Mr. & Mrs. William Morrison P’16 Mr. Andrew Schain ‘72 Mr. Warner G. Vaughan ‘66 Ms. Lise Ewald Mr. Tim Mulcahy ‘73 Mr. Sam Schmidt & Mr. David D. Wood ‘42 Mr. & Mrs. David Fabiano P’02 Mr. John Nicholson & Ms. Amanda Powers P’14 Ms. Janine Young ‘87 Mr. Brian Fairbank & the Berkshire Taconic Ms. Casey Cooper P’18 ‘20 Monica Schneider ‘99 Community Foundation Mr. George L. Norton ‘67 Mr. Schneiter Hands-to-Work Society Jeffrey Fox ‘67 & Mary Beth Fox Kate O’Brien ‘85 Mrs. Marian Schwaikert P’71 Since Darrow’s inception, students have Ms. Roberta Fox GP’18 Ms. Anne E. Paddock ‘72 Thomas E. Severn ‘63 helped sustain the community by actively Mary H. Frost & Oscar Frost P’13 P’15 Mr. & Mrs. Alan Parke P’03 Mr. & Mrs. Scott Sidell P’18 participating in Hands-to-Work. Each Mr. Michael Fuchs & Ms. Myra Jacobs P’16 Ms. Dominique Paul ‘10 Mr. H. Jerome Smith ‘68 member of the community contributes to Mr. & Mrs. William B. Funnell Mr. Eric H. Pookrum ‘71, P’89 Mr. Edward R. Smitkin Jr. ‘66 the success of the School. The Hands-to- Mr. & Mrs. Earl Gagnon GP’17 Mr. James B. Renwick ‘67 Mr. Judd Sneirson & Work Society comprises alumni, parents, Ms. Erin Gerrity ‘05 Ms. Colleen Richards Ms. Elisabeth Mason P’18 and friends who contribute to the Darrow John Gette ‘59 Linda & Jay Riegelhaupt Mr. A. Keith Spence ‘71 community with gifts of $100–$249. Mr. William O. Gette ‘62 Ms. Jennifer Rodriguez ‘02 Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Springer Mr. Paul Gilfillan ‘72 Mr. Frank S. Rosenberg ‘62 Mr. Peter J. Stephens ‘69 Mr. Nathan Abel ‘09 Patricia Givens GP’18 Ms. Sarah Arnold-Rossetti & Mr. John W. Stewart ‘48 Mr. & Mrs. John P. Adams P’18 Mr. Roger Glenn ‘57 Mr. Frederick Rossetti Jr. Ms. Elizabeth Strickler Mr. John Albers P’05 Alan & Linda Goodman Dr. & Mrs. Harry Roy P’87 Jack Sturgis ‘68 Mr. & Mrs. James Russell P’18 Mr. Raynor Sturgis III ‘64 30 PEG BOARD FALL/WINTER 2016–17 Ms. Dawn Poster Sullivan ‘74 Ms. Linda Goldstein Frickman ‘74 Annual Report 2015–2016 Target Corporation Mr. Adam Fuchs ‘16 Jane F. Taylor P’05 Eugene Gaddis & Mr. & Mrs. Louis E. Manfre P’98 Mrs. Suzanne Shepherd GP’18 Mr. & Mrs. Vincent Teachout P’17 Alison Lane-Reticker P’07 Ms. Roslyn Mann P’03 Dr. Laura Siegel GP’16 Ms. Lisa Telemaque P’19 James & Wanda Gardner Ms. Donna McDonald & Family Ms. Nancy Sjoberg GP’17 Mr. & Mrs. Clark Thomson Ms. Evelyn Garstang P’19 James K. McGhie ‘71 Christopher & Martha Slocombe Tom Tift Ms. Carolyn Georges Martha & Kevin McLoughlin Mr. & Mrs. Procter Smith III Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Howard & Elizabeth Gordon Ms. Sophia Morrison ‘16 Ms. Elizabeth Stobart P’07 Tilghman GP’13, ‘18, ‘20 Katherine Gordon ‘04 Mr. & Mrs. Perry Moss P’15 Nan & Mark Stolzenburg Mr. Peter Tillson ‘66 P’99 Mrs. Leonard Greenbaum GP’16 Mr. Lewis Murdock Jr. ‘50 Target Corporation Mr. Trevor Vasey ‘76 Mr. Michael Hardiman ‘75 Drs. Lawrence & Danielle Mutty P’79 Ms. Nancy W. Thomas Mr. John Way ‘67 Beverly Harrington Samuel R. S. Nevin ‘07 Ms. Linda Tishman ‘78, P’15 Ms. Adria Weatherbee P’16 Ms. Alexandra Heddinger P’13 P’14 Mr. Theodore T. Odell ‘40 Mr. Alex Vaughn ‘58 Ms. Pamela Weatherbee GP’16 Mr. & Mrs.* Alexander C. Hoffman GP’12 Amelia O’Leary ‘11 John & Rosemarie Wagner Sherry & Fred Wells III ‘67 Herbert B. Hudnut Jr. ‘49 Cindy & Jack Pollard Mr. Jason Wells ‘89 Thayer West ‘67 The Hon. William H. Hudnut III* ‘50 Mr. Stephen Purington Raleigh Werberger Carol & Rob Williams Mr. John R. Hultgren ‘70 Ms. Jennifer Pytleski Mr. & Mrs. R. Wilson Wilmer P’95 Mr. John Willis Jr. ‘55 Lola & Mel Isaacs Les & Carol Relyea Mr. Peter Wolcott ‘56 Mr. Henry K. Wingate Marlyn McGary Klee P’85 Mr. George Roberts, Esq. P’18 Mr. Barry Wolfson P’18 Ms. Natalie Winne P’18 Lawrence & Sarah Klein Mr. Lee Romanow P’74 Harriet Wollman P’85 Mr. Ted Winschel ‘83 Don & Betty Kline Ms. Tina Rook Arthur & Carole Yates Mr. & Mrs. James Wood P’74 Mr. Herbert Lape Susan Rothchild & Jeff Lustick Mr. Andrew Yeskoo ‘03 Mr. Oliver G. Wood ‘47 Mr. Donald M. Laronge ‘51 Joelle Russo Mr. Thomas Laurent Mr. James Wurst & Dr. G. Richard Samale ‘71 Legacy Society Ms. Rosa Rivera P’16 Ms. Adrienne Lazes Brad Sargent ‘52 Mr. Roy Leinfuss ‘80 Peter & Ann K. Seidman P’02 The Darrow School Legacy Society Contributors Mr. & Mrs. Louis Levy P’04 Mr. Michael Seserman P’15 P’19 members listing can be found on Mr. Carl Akin ‘58 Mr. Charles Loveland III ‘62 Mr. W. Travis Shedd ‘04 page 48. David Ballenger ‘75 Mr. & Mrs. James Low P15 Ms. Cheryl D. Sheehan Miss Anne C. Beach ‘72 Mr. Anthony Mack ‘51 Mr. David Shepherd GP’18 Mr. Stuart Beard ‘79 Mr. & Mrs. John Biancheri Sr. P’88 Samuel D.T. Bieber ‘05 Ms. Chloe Blackshear GIFTS IN MEMORY Ms. Jennifer Browdy P’17 Mr. Leon Brown GP’16 Darrow School is grateful to alumni, Ms. Colleen Richards James “Des” McCracken Porter & Susan Caesar family, and friends who honor their Linda & Jay Riegelhaupt Mr. & Mrs. William Funnell Mr. Hibbard Casselberry Jr. ‘42 loved ones—often Darrow alumni and Ms. Tina Rook Mr. George L. Norton ‘67 Ms. Caitlin Church former faculty—with gifts to the School. Susan Rothchild & Jeff Lustick Mr. Philip Clough The following memorial gifts were Mr. & Mrs. Henry L. Savage Jr. ‘59 Edward M. McIlvain ’64 Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Coady P’99 made during the 2015–2016 year: Ms. Cheryl D. Sheehan Mr. David King ’64 Mr. George S. Cobb ‘56 Nan & Mark Stolzenburg Mrs. Maureen Conway P’83 Georganna Dickson P’66 Ms. Nancy W. Thomas Roger Dardis McNamee Mr. Patrick Cooke Mr. David H. Dickson ‘66 Mr. & Mrs. Laurence Van Meter Lauree & Gregory Hickok John & Rosemarie Wagner Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Cooper P’08, ’12, ’15 William Ewald ’61 Richard Nunley Mrs. Nancy Wolf Caleb Corliss Ms. Lise Ewald Mr. A. Pierce Bounds ‘67 Arthur & Carole Yates Mr. Michael Corral P’94 P’99 Mr. Stafford W. Keegin ‘60, P’99 Ms. Georgia M. Decker Anne Fass P’99 Charles W. D. Gayley ‘44 Kieran Dennis ‘03 Altamont Dentistry Marjorie Schmid P’71 P’75 Denise Gayley Ms. Donna Derrick Boyd & Carolyn Anderson Lawrence & Sarah Klein Ms. Linda Devenpeck Evelyn & Herb Bloom Earle Gilbert III ‘68 Mr. Paul Diaz ‘81 Consumer Optical Beatrice Schneider GP’15 Caleb Adams Douglas Donnellan ‘78 Ms. Georgia M. Decker Mr. & Mrs. James Low P’15 Stephanie Drake ‘12 Ms. Linda Devenpeck Ian Adams Megan Mallory Mr. Mark H. Dressel ‘48 James & Wanda Gardner Mary Wadsworth P’72 Jordan Shelburne Robert & Lisken Van Pelt Dus P’96 Alan & Linda Goodman Mr. Peter S. Wadsworth ‘72 Isabel Ezrati Beverly Harrington Dr. Kate Shelburne Ms. Sheila Fane P’96 Lola & Mel Isaacs Marion Whyte P’61 P’64 Mrs. Helen Howe David Felmly & Kristin Leesment P’06 Don & Betty Kline Douglas Currie ‘64 Mr. Stephen Foote ‘62 Ms. Donna McDonald & Family Mr. Harlan L. Strader Jr.’70 Mr. & Ms. Garnet Foster P’16 Martha & Kevin McLoughlin Robert Wolf John Forsythe Joline Ms. Sarah Frederick & Cindy & Jack Pollard Mr. Charles Loveland III ’62 Helen “Bitsy” Joline Mr. Ryan Frederick Les & Carol Relyea Mr. & Mrs. Richard K. Stover P’91 DARROW SCHOOL 31 The Darrow School Annual Fund #mydarrowselfie GRAB THOSE SELFIE STICKS AND SUPPORT THE DARROW SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND We want to know... How did Darrow change you or someone close to you? Who inspired you? What are your most memorable Darrow experiences? Let your classmates, family, and networks know that you’ve made a gift to the Annual Fund, and encourage them to do the same.

#mydarrowselfie

32 PEG BOARD FALL/WINTER 2016–17 Here’s how:

Cut out the #mydarrowselfie card below. Write inBOLD marker how Darrow helped you be- 1 come your best self, and grab that selfie stick.

Share your photo with us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Use the hashtag: 2 #mydarrowselfie. Tag friends! 3 You don’t have to donate to participate, but please consider a gift to the 2016–2017 Darrow School Annual Fund. Visit www.darrowschool.org/SupportDarrow to give online today.

DARROW SCHOOL 33 ADVANCEMENT NEWS What Do These Things Have in Common?

Join us for Reunion 2017, June 9–11, to learn more about designing a school for 21st-century education and to reconnect with classmates and former faculty.

Reunion MUSIC designing 2017 darrow j u n e 9-11, 2017 DESIGN YOUR EXPERIENCE: CLASSMATES

oPlay in the newly designed program spaces. oDiscover history at an archaeological dig and in the School archive. oShare memories with classmates and friends. oLearn about Darrow today with current trustees and faculty. oLaunch the Designing Darrow Search for Campaign in style! MEMORIES Darrow 34 PEG BOARD FALL/WINTER 2016–17 Reunion 2017 Visit www.darrowschool.org for more information or contact Sarah Frederick with any questions at 518-794-6555 or [email protected] ADVANCEMENT NEWS

Three New Members Elected to Board of Trustees

At its June 2016 meeting, the Darrow School Board of Trustees voted to accept three new members, representing former students, faculty, and a parent.

Pei Jing ’11 Richard O’Leary P’11 Travis Shedd ’04 MUSIC After graduating from Darrow, Pei Richard A. O’Leary P’11 (pictured A resident of Arlington, Virginia, Travis Jing ’11 went on to earn a master’s of above with daughter, Amelia O’Leary Shedd ’04 went on to earn a bache- public policy from Brown University ’11) is vice president and chief human lor’s degree in English from Willamette Reunion with a focus on education policy. She resources officer for Hopkins Manu- University after graduating from Darrow. currently manages an education con- facturing. Most recently, he was the Returning to the Mountainside as a sulting firm in Beijing, China, that helps faculty member in 2010, he recalled how designing corporate vice-president of human students and their parents form a bet- resources and chief human resources “Darrow was the same for new teachers darrow 2017 ter understanding of studying abroad officer for Milacron LLC. His educa- as it was for new students: welcoming, today so they can make well-rounded tional background includes a B.A. in trusting, open, and dedicated.” choices, and guides them in the men- sociology and a master’s degree in Over the course of his four-year tenure, j u n e 9-11, 2017 torship process after they enroll. college counseling, both from the Uni- he taught English, Spanish, and Social A significant aspect of Pei’s motiva- Studies; coached varsity basketball and DESIGN YOUR EXPERIENCE: CLASSMATES versity of Delaware; and a doctorate in tion for joining the Board of Trustees counseling psychology, from Western baseball; and served as head house oPlay in the newly designed is to help the School connect and Michigan University. parent, assistant theater director, tutor, program spaces. reconnect with our recent Chinese “Darrow is a special and rare place advisor, Hands-to-Work crew leader, and alumni and to help direct prospec- on this earth,” Rick said. “Students Spring Term leader. Teaching at Darrow, oDiscover history at an archaeological tive students to Darrow’s Office of and faculty come together to create he said, was “harder work than I’d ever dig and in the School archive. Admission. a community of learning where the done in my life, but I wouldn’t trade a She is also assisting Head of School second of it for anything.” oShare memories with classmates expectations are high and the support Simon Holzapfel and Director of In- even higher. I joined the board as a Travis received a master’s degree in and friends. stitutional Advancement and General person who hopes to see the legacy of liberal studies from Georgetown Uni- oLearn about Darrow today with Counsel Lawrence Klein with planning what Darrow is continue to evolve into versity and now teaches middle school current trustees and faculty. for their March-April 2017 visit to Asia. a precious gift for future generations of English at Flint Hill School in Oakton, students. Virginia. oLaunch the Designing Darrow Search for Campaign in style! MEMORIES Darrow Reunion 2017 DARROW SCHOOL 35 Visit www.darrowschool.org for more information or contact Sarah Frederick with any questions at 518-794-6555 or [email protected] ADVANCEMENT Regional Gatherings NEWS Darrow alumni, former faculty, trustees, and friends recently got together at regional gatherings in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Boca Raton and Naples, Florida; Barrington, Rhode Island; and in locations throughout Colorado. For more information about at- tending or hosting a gathering in your area, contact Sarah Frederick, Associate Director of Annual Fund and Events Coordinator, at [email protected] or (518) 794-6555.

Boca Raton, FL

From left: Keith Wold P’13, Lawrence Klein, Loren Mintz ’53, and Simon Holzapfel Naples, FL

Front (l-r): Dick ’49 and Dorothy Barzin GP’12, Board of Trustees Chair Bob Kee ’71, Brad ’68 and Pam Gardner, Head of School Simon Holzapfel, Allyson and Trip Samson ’76, Holly Hoopes Hudimac, Law ’71 and Kathy Fotterall, Holly and Charlie Erker ’69, Esther P’02 and Jennifer Rodriguez ’02, Miles (and Parker, not pictured) Collier P’13; rear (on stairs): Alex MacDonell, Jackie Bitters MacDonell, Sean Squire, George MacDonell ’74, Meghan MacDonell, Josh Barton, Director of Institutional Advancement and General Counsel Lawrence Klein

Denver, CO

From left: Assistant Head of School Craig Westcott, Tim O’Donoghue ’11, Grant Bowry ’63, Dave Hoon ’62, and Brad Bryant ’81 (not pictured: Pam Bowry, Ben Roshia ’04)

Harrisburg, PA Barrington, RI From left: Jennifer Masters, Trustee Tom Hallowell ’82, A. Pierce Bounds ’67, Sloan Auchincloss ’61, Oscar Morgenstern ’82, and Front (l-r) Scott Carlisle ’73, Barbara Ritter, Amie Henderson ’84, hosts Brad ’68 and Trustee Christian Masters ’82 Pam Gardner, Bill Ritter ’50 (seated), and Tess Bassett; rear (on stairs, ascending) Audrey Waldman ’85, Director of Studies Mika Saarela, Joan Hopper, Denny Hopper ’62, Assistant Director of Admission Kyle Akely, Lawrence Klein 36 PEG BOARD FALL/WINTER 2016–17 ADVANCEMENT NEWS Darrow is on the Road in Asia

March 15: U.S. to Hong Kong Simon Holzapfel, Head of School, March 16: Hong Kong to Beijing and Lawrence Klein, Director of Institu- March 17–19: Beijing tional Advancement and General Coun- March 19: Beijing to Ningbo sel, will be traveling throughout Asia March 20: Ningbo from March 15 through April 5, 2017. March 21: Ningbo to Nantong Their schedule includes stops in China March 22: Nantong to Shanghai (Beijing, Ningbo, Nantong, and Shang- March 23: Shanghai hai), Taiwan (Taipei), Japan (Karuizawa March 24: Shanghai to Seoul and Tokyo), South Korea (Seoul), Hong March 25: Seoul Kong, and ZhuHai/Macau. March 26: Seoul to Karuizawa Simon and Lawrence are eager to March 27: Karuizawa to Tokyo meet alumni, current students, future March 28: Tokyo March 29: Tokyo to Taipei families, parents, and educational March 30–31: Taipei consultants during their travels. The April 1: Taipei to Hong Kong itinerary for the tour is at right. April 2: Hong Kong If you would like to visit or simply The image above, created by Hammill Design, April 3: Hong Kong to ZhuHai/Macau connect, please email Simon at: is the official graphic design of the 2017 Darrow April 4: Hong Kong [email protected]. School Asia Tour. April 5: Hong Kong to U.S.

Join Us at • Friday, March 17: 10:00–11:30 Reception at Hyde Academy One of the No. 9, An Fu St, Hou Sha Yu, Shun Following Yi, Beijing Receptions • Tuesday, March 21: 19:00–20:30 New Student Reception Pudong Shangri-La, East Shanghai

• Saturday, March 25: 18:00–19:30 Alumni/Parent Reception Location TBD Simon and Lawrence had a great Seoul, South Korea time meeting and visiting with alumni and friends on their 2015 • Wednesday, March 29: 19:00–20:30 Asia tour and are looking forward Alumni/Parent Reception to seeing even more people on Hotel Éclat, Taipei the 2017 tour. • Saturday, April 1: 18:00–19:30 Reception Hotel Indigo, Hong Kong Island

Contact Us You can contact Lawrence on WeChat as klein- law, and Simon is on WeChat as simey72. Or email Simon Holzapfel at holzapfels@darrow- school.org for details, RSVPS, and directions.

DARROW SCHOOL 37 Alumni Notes includes news received prior to January 15, 2017. To have your update included in our summer issue, please send news ALUMNI and photos to Steve Ricci, Editor, 110 Darrow Road, New Lebanon, NY, 12125, or email [email protected] by June 30, 2017. In NOTES the interest of space, only class years for which we have news are listed. 42 50 52 Class agent needed Alan Mayers Terrell Graves [email protected] [email protected] Head of School Simon Holzapfel and Director of Institutional Advancement After attending Darrow for the 1948–49 Terry Graves and his wife, Pat, stopped by Lawrence Klein met with Hib Casselberry school year, Bertram Bandman went on the Mountainside in October and enjoyed (below) on a recent trip to Florida. Hib let the to Hebron Academy, ME, graduating in a stroll around “his old stomping grounds,” School borrow an amazing album of photos 1950. After marrying Elsie in 1951, he spent visiting the new spaces and enjoying lunch and other Darrow memorabilia that we will almost a decade studying at Columbia with Lawrence Klein (pictured below, right, scan and add to our growing archive. University, where he graduated from the with Terry) in the Dairy Barn’s Dining Hall. School of General Studies, receiving his M.A. in 1955 and his Ph.D. in 1962. After decades of teaching philosophy at Long Island University, he retired in 2000 and moved with Elsie to the Applewood Retirement Community in Amherst, MA.

In the fall, Darrow Trustee Emeritus Jim Baker (below) received a commemorative Shaker peg board in honor of his service to the School. He received the gift from Mao Flude ’05 (not pictured) at a reception in England, where Jim lives. On receiving the award, Jim wrote, “Mao is delightful and charming; I am sure she was/is a happy addition to Darrow. Thank you, Mao, and Darrow, for the peg board. It is much 61 appreciated and will find an appropriate Charles Detwiller III place on one of our walls, probably in [email protected] Devon!” Having just returned from a two-week holiday in Italy, Steve Isom (below) recently spent the afternoon with Assistant Head of School for Advancement and External Relations Craig Westcott, touring some of his 12 active projects in and around Eagle, CO. He and his firm, Isom & Associates, 44 continue to design and build individual Class agent needed

Althea Soest (below, right), the widow of Orin Soest, visited the Mountainside on a beautiful fall day with former Head of School Nancy Wolf. The pair toured the campus’s new spaces, as well as those that had been memorable to Orin during his days as a student at Darrow.

Darrow Trustee Emeritus Jim Baker ’50 with his commemorative Shaker peg board

38 PEG BOARD FALL/WINTER 2016–17 ALUMNI NOTES homes and multifamily residential hippie, ex-bartender Chinese major). Stuck complexes in Eagle County. Even as he with it and recently retired as senior V.P. contemplates slowing down soon to join and CMO of Boston Mutual. Along the way I his recently retired wife, Leslie, he imagines married twice, the latest to the love of my life. that he’ll continue to do some design/ I’ve been graced with four splendid children. building work, while starting to travel more, Depending on the season and the usual both on the road and in the air, to visit obligations, we divide our time between the locales in the U.S. and abroad. An avid Boston area, Martha’s Vineyard, and Vero aviator, Steve flies volunteer missions for Beach, FL. Still burning the candle at both the nonprofit group Light Hawk—which flies ends and trying to evade the Grim Reaper. So over protected, open-space land parcels far, so good. Have fun out there, dudes.” to do aerial surveys—and spends time with his grown children and grandkids. received in recognition of his membership Andy Wells is semi-retired after 40 years in the Planned Giving Legacy Society in general medicine and emergency care. (see page 48). A resident of Silverthorne, “Going back to the way I began,” Andy CO, he was excited to review a list of his said, noting that he still sees patients and classmates and looks forward to being in can “take care of 90 percent of issues for a touch over the next few years in planning flat fee. Just me call or stop in Tuesday or for their 55th reunion. Thursday.” 62 66 Edward “Ned” Groth III Patterson Sims [email protected] [email protected] 68 Stephen Golding Denny Hopper and his wife, Joan, (below) Patterson Sims primarily lives in NYC, and visited Darrow recently and met Jason is spending more time on a former farm in [email protected] Bumbray ’17, who is the benefactor of a northeast Pennsylvania that he and his wife scholarship funded by the Hoppers. Denny own. He serves as a co-chair of the Board Jonathan Ely and his wife, Caroline (above), th is looking forward to his 55 reunion in of Independent Curators International, live in Spencer, MA. They are both retired, June. managing director of the Saul Steinberg have two kids, and grandkids. They were Foundation, and is president of the Leon both emphatic about how Darrow positively Polk Smith Foundation, as well as a board impacted Jonathan’s life. Most of the trim member or advisor and consultant for work on their house was done by Jonathan, several other visual artist foundations and skills he said he learned in Hands-to-Work. arts boards. In recent years he has curated They are looking forward to attending the th one-person exhibitions of the work of Willie 50 reunion in 2018. Cole, Richard Estes, Lavern Kelley, Joyce J. Scott, and Betty Woodman. His wife, Katy Homans, is an art book designer. Their two daughters, who are in their early twenties, are based in Southern California. He really enjoyed his 50th reunion and the chance to see classmates and the Darrow campus looking well and happy.

65 Peter Tillson writes, “After Darrow, I headed off to the University of Pennsylvania, and David Groth after an abbreviated stay, Uncle Sam gave [email protected] me the opportunity to visit Vietnam. After 18 months, a bronze star, and, most importantly, David Thompson Jr. survival, I returned to Penn and got a degree The sisters of Peb Gilbert, Brooke and [email protected] in Chinese. Next stop was Martha’s Vineyard, Amanda (pictured above), visited their late where for five years I ran two bars and a brother’s alma mater in October with their David Groth (top of next column, right) and restaurant. Lots of feverish recreation but spouses. They selected a spot in a Hands- Assistant Head of School Craig Westcott little chance for advancement. Got my first to-Work orchard for an apple tree and a recently shared a toast using the Darrow ‘big boy’ job at age 30 in the insurance pear tree to be planted in Peb’s memory, School “Tree of Life” glasses, a gift David business (the only industry that would hire a along with a commemorative plaque.

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Clay Small to Colorado, where he’s been ever since. (right) recently After a time working for a company that released his first 69 prints 75 percent of the billboards made novel, Heels Kevin O’Neill worldwide, he recently retired and is looking Over Head forward to doing more camping in his [email protected] (Greenleaf Book beloved mountains and desert, especially at Group Press, his camp in Red Feather Lakes near the WY 2017). Available Peter Stephens border. through Amazon [email protected] and Barnes & Noble stores, the Tom Hills (pictured below with his wife, novel is a grip- Colleen) retired recently after 37 years ping tale of high- in sales and management at the Brooks stakes intrigue Brothers Madison Avenue flagship store and revenge. During his 30-year career at PepsiCo, Inc., Clay served as general counsel for nearly all of PepsiCo’s current and former divisions, including Frito-Lay, Pepsi-Cola, Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and PepsiCo Wines & Spirits. As senior vice-president/managing attorney for PepsiCo, he was responsible for all le- gal matters arising out of the corporation’s global operating divisions. Clay received his JD from Southern Methodist University in Dallas and received his BA in English from Ohio Wesleyan University, where he in NYC. Wasting no time in enjoying was a two-time All-American soccer player retirement, Tom and Colleen, took the trip and later drafted to the Dallas Tornado. He of a lifetime to Ireland, where they played is currently a professor in the Cox School of 10 links courses, including Royal Portrush, Business and a member of the Law School Portstewart, Ballyliffin, Donegal, and 72 Executive Committee at Southern Method- Lahinch. Ireland was followed by a river Thomas Barclay ist University. For more information about cruise from Paris to Normandy and many [email protected] Clay and his book, visit www.claysmall.com. days walking the streets of Paris, enjoying the museums and fine restaurants. Tom and Lawrence Klein (below, left) and Mika Colleen live in Harmon Cove, a townhouse Saarela, Director of Studies (right), met community in Secaucus, NJ, though they with Bart Laws (center) in Providence, RI. spend a lot of time in NYC and look forward Bart is an assistant professor at Brown to attending upcoming Darrow events. University’s School of Public Health. He recently won a grant from the National Dean Whiteside moved from California Institutes of Health (NIH) and is waiting to back to upstate New York about nine hear about one more. years ago. In his younger years, he was an elementary school teacher and then became a construction worker. He and his wife, Rebecca, were married in 2014. 70 John Hultgren [email protected]

As the lead photographer on the Darrow yearbook staff for three years,Fred Lewis (top of next column) was pleased to see the Anne Paddock is moving to Maine next quality of the 2016 version shared with him year with her husband and is looking by Assistant Head of School Craig Westcott forward to being nearer to Darrow. She Heels Over Head (Greenleaf Book Group in October. Fred took his talent from Darrow plans to be on campus this June for Press, 2017) is the first novel by Clay to the Rochester Institute of Technology, her 45th reunion and wants to be more Small ’68. then Kodak, then IBM, which moved him out involved with “things that matter to her.”

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Rob Hale (below, left) lives in Aurora, CO, he reminisced about his fond Darrow mem- where he lives and works as an indepen- ories, including a trip to Russia, and faculty 74 dent travel agent. Rob was happy to help members like Mike Corral and Sheldon Kate Sargent Director of Admission Betsy Strickler with Flory. Alan comes east to visit his parents [email protected] her recruiting trip to Asia in fall 2016, as well in Monticello, NY, and is looking forward to as Head of School Simon Holzapfel and visiting campus next time. Phil O’Donoghue (below, left) met for lunch Director of Institutional Advancement Law- recently with Darrow’s Lawrence Klein and rence Klein with their upcoming trip to Asia Mika Saarela (right). After updating them in March and April 2017 (see page 37). on his current educational adventures, Phil spoke about the ways that Darrow has made a difference to people like his wife, Valle Dwight ’75, and his son, Tim O’Donoghue ’10, and was intrigued by Darrow’s development of project-based learning.

Roy Leinfuss lives in sunny Salida, CO, and travels around the entire country recording live music shows, sometimes also working 78 as a crew member. He is an avid cyclist, Kari Wishingrad logging many miles all over Colorado and 86 [email protected] the West. Read more about Roy and his love for music, and Darrow, in the Planned Giving Teri Heumann-Meyer Linda Tishman P’15 was married on July 23, Legacy Society profile on page 48. [email protected] 2016, to her long-time beau, Randy Kahn. August Gangi (pictured below with Law- rence Klein), lives outside Boston and is the 81 senior vice president/corporate counsel 80 Burke Jones at Risk Strategies Company. He plans to come to Darrow this spring to talk with the Pamela Carpenter [email protected] lacrosse players and take a bike ride with 707-815-2922 Head of School Simon Holzapfel. Orrin Schonfeld [email protected]

Brad Bryant joined a group for a recent gathering in Denver, CO (see Regional Gath- erings on page 36), where he has lived for close to 35 years. Brad works in cell phone tower design and recently had a daughter graduate from college. 83 Laura Ball (above, with Lawrence Klein and Class agent needed Simon Holzapfel) lives on the east coast of Florida, where she is a hospice nurse/ Alan Gottlieb (top of next column, left) lives supervisor and an independent distributor in Colorado Springs, CO, where he operates for Alphay Products. She has three kids and a vintage postcard and memorabilia busi- two grandsons. ness. Meeting recently with Craig Westcott,

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projects like the justice center and parks. His fond memories of Darrow include 87 climbing on the facade of the Stone Barn, Janine Young which sparked a passion for climbing that [email protected] he pursues to this day.

Spencer Compton (below, left) recently Jason Wells (below, right, with Craig had lunch with Helen “Bitsy” Joline (center), Westcott) moved to Manitou Springs, CO, and Craig Westcott. Bitsy is the daughter a few years ago, where he is the town of former Head of School, the late John administrator. F. Joline III (see Former Faculty page 45). Spencer has lived in Durango, CO, for 15 years with his nine-year-old son, Oliver. Spencer works with the Durango Wheel Club, the oldest cycling club in the nation, doing events around the state. He is excited to return in June for his 30th reunion.

91 Kevin Krohner [email protected] 99 Emily Keegin James Kontos (below, right) moved to [email protected] After Darrow, Chris Welde (below, right) grad- Crested Butte, CO, a few years after uated from Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre, graduating from Darrow, and has been Ms. Jamie Wallace Weiler PA. He has lived near Aspen, CO, for close there ever since, directing the children’s ski [email protected] to 30 years, where he owns a property man- program for many years and working as a agement company that maintains interiors, ski instructor. He and his wife have a two- Michael Daoud says he is doing fantastic, exteriors, and landscaping for high-end year-old son, Milo, and live on a ranch with work­ing for Berkshire Hathaway in real clients. Chris is an avid outdoor enthusiast a view of the mountains. who enjoys hiking, road and mountain biking, estate in Avon, CT. He loved his time at and golf in the summer. He is looking forward Darrow and would like to connect with to connecting with his classmates and others classmates from those days. at their 30th reunion this June. Nathan Nerland recently took a new job as the senior manager, media for style, at Target Corporation. His job is to deliver contemporary and strategic media com- munication plans, steward activation, and produce results for design partnerships, ap- parel, accessories, beauty, and home. This includes partnering with internal and agency associates to develop a smart, innovative, and effective media strategy that sets Target 95 apart and connects with guests’ interests. Natalie Lawrence 89 [email protected] Matthew Piazzi (top of next column) is still 02 Patrick Murray performing with The Debonairs and has done [email protected] voice-over roles in cartoons, TV, movies, Noelle E. Moore video games, and more. Matthew has several [email protected] Seth Jacobs lives and works in Boulder, great collections, including the vintage CO, where he is an architect for Boulder clothing pictured here, that he hopes to show Rousa Breton was recently married to the County, designing and managing municipal off at an upcoming Darrow reception. love of her life, Johnny Bustos.

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Ben Roshia has been doing very well with several businesses, including a bar/restau- rant/catering operation and a 12,000-sq.-ft. indoor/outdoor event venue in Brooklyn, NY.

Rachel (Mosher) Rose is a massage thera- pist in the Pittsfield, MA, area. Her husband, Franz, and dog, Ada (below), recently joined a group of Darrow students and members of the Town of New Lebanon Conservation Advisory Council for a field verification site visit on her father-in-law, Uli’s, beautiful New Lebanon property.

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Julia (Kaplan) Dauer (above) remembers Jon Bookbinder her Darrow years very fondly and believes [email protected] they laid a strong foundation for future suc- cess both academically and professionally. Mika Saarela, Director of Studies, and Julia graduated from University of Denver Lawrence Klein recently met with Kate with a degree in communications. After Cholakis-Kolysko (below, center) in Flor- graduation she moved to Boston to pursue ence, MA. Kate is helping with Designing a career in the pharmaceutical industry. Darrow: The Campus Campaign, specifically For the past nine years, Julia has worked with the green-space planning. Kate is a full- in biotech, gaining roles with increasing time faculty member at the Conway School responsibility within the field of clinical of Landscape Design in Conway, MA. operations. Currently she is a senior clinical trial manager, responsible for the oversight and execution of early phase trials at a small bio-pharmaceutical company focused on the development of treatments for infec- tious diseases and liver diseases. In 2016, Julia began pursuing a master’s in science degree at Brandeis University, with a focus Members of the Town of New Lebanon on program and project management, and Conservation Advisory Council joined expects to graduate in 2019. In 2013, she with Darrow students in September for a married the love of her life, whom she met field site visit. From left: Craig Westcott, in 2008. Her husband, Benjamin Dauer, is a Assistant Head of School; David Farren; computer programmer. They live together Peg Munves (not pictured); Rachel in Waltham, MA, just outside of Boston. (Mosher) Rose (with Ada); Cassidy Roberts Julia remains close with Meg Sweet ’01, ’18; Olivia Yu ’18; Desmond Tracey ’17; and and both enjoy reminiscing about past ad- Franz Rose. 07 ventures and planning new ones. Julia says Amanda Glasser she wasn’t always the easiest student but Lauren Seif is a successful stylist in Phil- [email protected] she hopes very much to reach her former adelphia. She is very active in the Darrow teachers to let them know their influence community, attending regional gatherings, Brendan Fagan has been working in Ireland was a significant piece of her success. serving on the capital campaign commit- at Intercom for close to three years as a She writes, “I hope all Darrow students tee, and visiting campus, most recently in product designer, leading design for mobile know how lucky they are to receive such a December 2016, when she was able to see apps. He was recently featured in an inter- wonderful education that prepares them for her former advisor, Director of Athletics national article as one of “Five Designers to whatever they endeavor or desire.” Don Singleton (top of next column). inspire.” Read more at http://bit.ly/2lzlWSA.

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08 12 13 Emily Cooper Jordan Shepard Class agent needed [email protected] [email protected]

After more than Stephanie Drake four successful [email protected] years at Douglas Elliman, Eric Brown recently joined Compass. He is ecstatic to use the cut- ting-edge tech- nology and marketing offered at Compass to provide clients with exceptional service, and will leverage this partnership to bring signifi- cant value to the buyers, sellers, renters, and Above: Noor Minhas (left) and Nina Tobin building owners he represents. He can be (right) stopped by the Mountainside in emailed at [email protected]. January for a visit with Anooshah Minhas ’19, who is currently a student at Darrow. Peter Carlisle moved recently to the Mount Airy/Germantown, PA, neighborhood, and will be coaching middle school and high school squash, and substitute teaching at 14 Springside Chestnut Hill Academy. Ben Eckstein Christopher Coakley works as a skills spe- [email protected] cialist at the Center for Disability Services in Schenectady, NY.

After attending the Culinary Institute of America, Roy Sayewitz transferred and Last summer, Stephanie Drake (above) graduated from New York University in moved from Jackson, WY, to Aspen, CO, 2014 with degrees in environmental stud- and is now teaching English at Aspen High ies, political science, and philosophy. In School. Stephanie is eager to connect with addition to working for GrowNYC at several as many classmates as possible in the farmers’ markets around New York City, coming months, as she plans to come back Roy is a principal at Trademade, Inc., an to Darrow for her 5th reunion in June. app that aims to protect the environment by getting users to make choices that reduce carbon footprints. Kylie Wyskochil (above, right) had lunch in September with her former advisor, Craig Westcott, before departing for Bath, 11 England, for the fall semester, where she- studied vernacular architecture and had an Amelia O’Leary internship. She has since returned to the [email protected] U.S., where she is doing well at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and competed in the Tim O’Donoghue joined a recent regional Division III nationals in rowing last year. gathering in Denver, CO (see page 36), where he was visiting his mom, Valle Dwight Dan Cavanagh is “halfway” through his ’75, who was there for a conference. After major in criminal justice at Curry College. graduating from Earlham College, Tim In May 2016, Qiming Li (above) finished his He was in Mexico for summer 2016 doing moved to San Francisco, where he worked undergraduate program at Roger Williams volunteer work in environmental conserva- for a while as a special needs educator and University (RWU), double majoring in legal tion (sea turtles, bird inventory), and credits builder. Tim recently moved to New Zealand studies and history. He is now in a master’s Darrow with his interest in this area. to continue doing construction work in the degree program in historic preservation at wake of the recent earthquake. RWU.

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While visiting a close friend at Dickinson College, Susquehanna University student Emily Handler (right) stopped by to catch up with Kyle Ragland and Dulce Lopez, who introduced her to their new friends. Though it was a quick stay, plans were Amanda Low (above, left) snapped a selfie hatched to visit Emily at Susquehanna, with Mia Blackwell ’17 on a recent visit to and for her to return to Dickinson campus. Amanda had a great first year at soon. Wheaton College and says she’s thriving academically and socially. She has even been invited by her English professor to be a writing tutor. Former Faculty News

Helen “Bitsy” Joline, daughter of former 16 headmaster John F. Joline III, has been living in Durango, CO, for 14 years and Class agent needed working as a nurse. She will retire within the year to become an art dealer, starting with the work of her late brother, John IV.

Farrell and Barbara [Erwin] Trask (right, top) were celebrating the final night of the Dixie Chicks tour from their home in Pagosa Springs, CO, as Barbara’s daughters played the Hollywood Bowl in California to a crowd of more than 20,000. The two have 12 grandchildren and often go on tour with the Chicks to take care of the kids. Barbara has fond memories of her years on the Mountainside, raising the girls alongside Dick and Sue Nunley’s girls, Diana and Felicity, from whom Barbara had recently received some black-and-white images from back in the day. They are eager to connect with Helen “Bitsy” Joline, who also grew up on the Mountainside during that era and lives in nearby Durango, CO.

Can Taylan (above, left) and Aaron Yang got Former Trustee Arno Neimand (right, together recently at the University of Miami, bottom) is enjoying retirement in Boulder, where they are both freshmen, and snapped CO, just around the corner from the a selfie for the Annual Fund campaign. Can bustling University of Colorado campus. and Aaron also met with Head of School Si- mon Holzapfel and Lawrence Klein on their Seth O’Bryan and Julie Pasternak (who recent Florida visit and recorded a video met while both were teachers at Darrow) that was played for the Darrow community wrote: “Nora O’Bryan, our second at a recent Morning Meeting. daughter, was born October 18, 2016.”

DARROW SCHOOL 45 In Memoriam Oran Kelley ’60 Oran Allen Kelley, 72, of Hamp- Bill Hudnut ’50: The People’s Mayor stead, NC, died on September 25, 2012, at New Hanover Regional Med- Darrow School was saddened ical Center. Classmate Mike Terry ’60 to learn of the recent passing of writes: “Oran and I both grew up in one of the School’s most accom- Worcester, MA, but we did not know plished alumni, William H. “Bill” one another until Darrow. I followed Hudnut III, Class of 1950, the my brother, Ed ’58, entering Darrow longest-serving mayor (1976–92) as a freshman in the fall of 1955. in Indianapolis history. He died When I returned sophomore year, I on December 18, 2016, at the was assigned a room in Wickersham age of 84. with Bob Warner ’60, Dennis Walker A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, ’60, and Oran. (Quite the foursome!). the 6-foot-5 Hudnut’s passion He and I became friends that year, for leadership blossomed on the and remained so through graduation. He was a fun guy, a very good soc- Mountainside, where he was In 2014, the city of Indianapolis dedicated a life-sized class valedictorian and a star of bronze statue of its former mayor, William “Bill” cer goalie, and a three-year member the basketball team. Hudnet ’50. His figure is posed sitting on a park of the varsity hockey and baseball At Princeton he was a Phi bench, and is inscribed with the title, “Mayor Bill.” teams. After graduation, though, we Beta Kappa scholar, and went our separate ways, and our earned a master’s degree in theology major building projects, including ren- paths did not cross again until our th from Union Theological Seminary in ovations and expansions to Monument 50 reunion at Darrow. It was great New York City before becoming an Circle, Indianapolis Union Station, the to see him again. We shall miss him.” ordained minister. In his first bid for Indiana University School of Medicine, political office in 1972 he defeated a and the Indiana Convention Center. Owen Kelly ’60 four-term incumbent to win a seat as After his final term he relocated to Owen Kelly passed away on August a member of the 93rd United States Chicago, and later to the Washington, 30, 2016. Classmate Bob Warner Congress. D.C., area. He was elected mayor of ’60 writes: “Owen came to Darrow When Hudnut was first elected Chevy Chase, Maryland, serving from in our junior year. He was a ‘townie’ mayor in 1975, Indianapolis was an 2004 to 2006. from Pittsfield, but he boarded at the economically depressed Rust Belt In 2015, Hudnut was one of several School. In his senior year, he lived city. Over the course of 16 years, he former mayors who wrote a public letter with Mike Terry ’60, Tom Atkin ’60, laid the groundwork of a plan to boost amid uproar over a religious objections and Don Woytowick ’60 on the top economic development, business, and law signed by Indiana Gov. Mike Pence. floor of Hinckley House. Owen went construction, turning the city into a hub Hudnut and other mayors said the law on to graduate from Norwich Univer- for conventions and sporting events. threatened to undo efforts made since sity and to serve in the U.S. Army. He “The vision I have for Indianapolis 1967 to “build an inclusive, caring and never married. He lived in Florida for is a city that is both economically hospitable city.” Pence and lawmakers the past four decades, and was reclu- competitive and compassionate toward later approved changes to the law. sive. Owen never came to any of our urban and human problems,” said the A statue of Hudnut sitting on a bench Reunions, until the 50th in 2010, but gregarious Hudnut, known affection- was erected in downtown Indianapolis his coming then showed that his time ately as “the people’s mayor.” in 2014. Current Mayor Joseph Hogsett with us was still a precious memory In perhaps his crowning achievement, called for all state and county officials for him. In spite of that history, the he spearheaded construction of the to fly flags at half-staff during the week remarkable thing about Owen was his “Hoosier Dome” football stadium in following Hudnut’s death. financial commitment to Darrow, most 1982, and then persuaded the Baltimore Bill Hudnut is survived by his wife, recently making a $50,000 gift to the Colts to move to Indianapolis in 1984 Beverly, and four children. Legacy Society.. Each and every year when construction was completed. he was one of the most consistent Hudnut’s tenure saw the city’s —Editor’s note: Alan Mayers ’50 donors in our class. He clearly had a downtown complete more than 30 contributed to this article. quiet loyalty and love for Darrow.”

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or Jonathan Philip Matson ’67 was held at Memorial Park Cemetery went. He was remembered as some- in Skokie, IL. Memorials can be made one who knew to look at others for Jonathan Philip Matson, age 67, to the Boca West Cancer Research who they are in their heart, and he also died unexpectedly of heart failure Chapter, 19861 C Planters Blvd., Boca had a gift for remembering people’s on January 31, 2017, in his home of Raton, FL 33434. names. He lived an active, purposeful, 41 years. Born in Greenwich CT, he determined and joyful life. The follow- was the son of the late Harold and ing journal entry from earlier in David’s Ann (Toomey) Matson. Jonathan was Cara Christensen ’93 life was shared with those present at president of the Harold Matson Co. Cara W. Christensen, 42, passed the memorial: “I am not ‘David Thomp- literary agency in New York City, where away on October 4, 2016, at her home son.’ I am a stream of consciousness for 30 years he continued his father’s in Syracuse, NY. Born in Cleveland, OH, that was convinced that it was. I have legacy of collaborating with talented she graduated from Marymount College never been happier. The fact that I and accomplished authors to bring crit- in Tarrytown, NY, and completed a sec- know this makes me more free. I am ically acclaimed and best-selling books ondary social studies teaching program allowed to experience many emotions. to publication. After graduating from at SUNY Cortland. She taught for sev- This body is very odd at times, for it is Darrow he attended Hamline College eral years in the Syracuse City School not like the others I see. Except that in St. Paul, MN, after which he returned District, and continued as a teacher and these other bodies I see are all just to New York City, where he began his a mentor afterward, with a passion for random coverings, and that what is publishing career at Simon & Schus- history and helping others. Devoted to within them is sooo much cooler.” ter. He later worked for 15 years at her family and her beloved dog, Lucy, Harvard University Press as manager Cara was a friend to many in both the of subsidiary rights. In 2009, he helped Syracuse and Boston areas. She is sur- Ao Xu ’13 to found Christ the Redeemer Church vived by her parents, Joan Christensen, The Advancement Office recently in Danvers, MA. A lifelong singer and of Syracuse, and Craig Christensen, of learned from Charlie Coan ’13 and instrumentalist, in 1983 he and friends Ventura, CA. A mass of Christian burial Sullivan Wang ’13 that their classmate, formed the Walker Creek Band. For was celebrated on Monday, October 10, Ao Xu, passed away in late 2016 due more than 20 years he performed with 2016, at Holy Cross Church in Dewitt, to injuries received in a car accident. If them across New England. NY. Donations may be made to the you can provide any additional informa- Central New York SPCA. To leave a tion, please contact Lawrence Klein, Di- Peter Haden ’70 note of condolence to the family, please rector of Institutional Advancement and visit www.burnsgarfield.com. General Counsel, at (518) 794-6031, or The Advancement Office recently [email protected]. learned that Peter Haden died on September 17, 2014. Peter was an ac- Jose Vera ’94 complished professional recording en- The Advancement Office recently FORMER FACULTY gineer with diverse credits, from Iggy learned of the passing of Jose Vera, Pop to Dolly Parton. He had worked at but no additional information was Paramount Recorders in Hollywood, available. If you have any information Philip Clough CA, among others. Peter was also a you can share, please contact Law- Philip B. “Phil” Clough, 90, passed great photographer, artist, and chef. rence Klein, Director of Institutional away on Monday, April 11, 2016, at the He had been married to Beth Haden Advancement and General Counsel, Bridgton Hospital due to renal failure. and is survived by family and friends. at (518) 794-6031, or kleinl@darrow- A consummate educator, Phil spent He attended Ohio Wesleyan University school.org. years teaching at various schools and graduated from California College (Westminster, Darrow, New Hampton) of the Arts. A group of friends from David Thompson ’00 until 1963, when he began a 32-year around the country recently gathered tenure at Northwood School, Lake David Thompson passed away on to remember him at a service in Topan- Placid, NY. In 1995 Phil retired and November 10, 2016. A celebration of ga Canyon, CA. bought a home in Bridgton, ME, where his life was held in December at the he lived until his passing. Old Chatham Quaker Meetinghouse. Steven Garlovsky ’89 Family and friends shared stories of Steven J. Garlovsky, 46, died on the great joy, smiles, bad jokes, and August 26, 2016. A graveside service laughter that he spread everywhere he

DARROW SCHOOL 47 or ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Roy Leinfuss ’80: A Legacy of Music

Roy Leinfuss ’80, Darrow’s most recent mem- ber of the Legacy Society, developed his love for music as a student on the Mountainside, under the tutelage of teachers like Proctor Smith. Today, Roy has amassed a collection of Roy Leinfuss ’80 at his home more than 15,000 CDs that, along with posters, in Salida, Colorado. Roy has albums, prints, and other memorabilia, line the amassed a collection of more walls of his home in Salida, Colorado. than 15,000 CDs, as well as Peg Board recently visited with Roy to albums, art, and memorabilia related to rock music. learn what motivated him to leave a legacy at Darrow. Photo by Craig Westcott Peg Board: When did you first think about a legacy gift? that my legacy will inspire Darrow students nie, Ed Noggle, Norris Howard, Rick Brown, “When I think about how much I learned to discover music, and enable them to get who is a great leader and a funny person, and about music at Darrow, I wanted others to something out of it as I have.” Dick Tauber, who was a great father figure.” have the same experience at the place where Peg Board: Why do you feel that it’s im- I discovered that passion. I was at a regional portant to leave a legacy? gathering some years ago and talking with “So that the School can support the growth (former Head of School) Nancy Wolf and oth- of people toward the best, and happiest, ver- For more information about the ers, and I just felt such a great community with sions of themselves that they can be. I want to Legacy Society, contact Lawrence the Darrow people there.” donate to the good of all because when one Klein, Director of Institutional Peg Board: What do you wish to accom- succeeds we all succeed.” Advance­ment and General Counsel, plish with your gift? Peg Board: Who most inspired you during at [email protected] or (518) “To give something that many people can your years at Darrow? 794-6031, or visit use and enjoy. Much can be learned by listen- “People like John Baird, Lauren Baldwin, http://darrowschool.giftplans.org. ing to and sharing music that we love. I hope Sheldon Flory, Rich Tompkins, Dan Piner, Ben- Planned Giving Legacy Society Members The Darrow Schoool Legacy Society recognizes those who have generously included Darrow in their estate planning.

Anonymous Dr. Samuel W. Golden IV* ‘72 Mr. Alan Mayers ‘50 Vera Molly & Mr. William F. Arnold Jr.* ‘48 Mr. John Gratiot ‘68 Ms. Abby Mayou P’03 Anthony* M. Russo P’78 Mr. James Baker ‘50 Mr. David Groth ‘65 Mrs. Campbell McComas W’47 Ms. Alexa Clay Seip ‘74 & Mr. Thomas Barclay ‘72 Mr. Edward Groth III ‘62 Ms. Frances McCurry Mr. Tom Seip Mr. Drew Barringer ‘65 Estate of Hope R. Groth* P’62, 65 Mr. Edward M. McIlvain* ‘64 Mr. Edwin V. Selden ‘60 Ms. Anne Beach ‘72 Mr. Paul Gundlach ‘71 Ms. Janet Meleney Mr. H. Arthur Smith* ‘40 Mr. A. Grant Bowry ‘63 Mr. David Halperin ‘73 & Mr. Peter Miles ‘60 Mr.* & Mrs. Orin Soest ‘44 Mr. Thomas Bull* ‘47 Ms. Carol Schifman Ms. Eugenia Murray ‘89 Mr. Hans Solmssen ‘55 Ms. Sadie Burton-Goss ‘73 Mr. Michael Hardiman ‘75 Ms. Susan Cole Niederhoffer ‘73 Mr. John Stewart ‘48 Mrs. Virginia Bussey* Mr. William H. Hays III ‘63 Mr. Edward Overton* Dr. I. Donald Stuard* ‘52 Mr. D. Eugene Callender II* ‘58 Mr. Hargreaves Heap III ‘55 Mr. Arthur Parks ‘57 Mr. David S. Thompson* ‘35 Mr. David Campbell ‘53 Dr. Kenneth Hilton ‘66 Mr. Gregory Perkins ‘78 Mr. Warner Vaughan ‘66 Mr. & Mrs. Michael Clarke Mr. Christopher Howes ‘70 Mr. Raymond Polley ‘53 Mr. Peter Wadsworth ‘72 Mr. Hamilton Dodge Jr. ‘77 Rev. William Hudnut III* ‘50 Mr. Abram Poole Jr.* ‘56 Mr. Robert Warner ‘60 Dr. William Duncan III ‘54 GP’18 Mr.* & Mrs. John Joline III Mr. Wallace Powers Jr. ‘36 Mr. & Mrs. James T. Whitin ‘67 Mr. Bruce Eskew ‘64 Mr. Donald Jones* ‘55 Mrs. Edith S. Quintana* Mrs. Marion Whyte* P’61 P’64 Dr. Stuart & Mrs. Anne* Fass P’99 Mr. T. Harry Lang Jr. ‘62 Mr. Peter Raff ‘71 Mr. Alan Wiegand ‘67 Mr. Herman Fellinger ‘53 Dr. M. Barton Laws Jr. ‘72 Mrs. Claire A. Rantoul* P’65 Mr. William R. Windsor* ‘58 Mr. Charles W. D. Gayley* ‘44 Mr. Roy Leinfuss ‘80 Mr. John B. Rhodes Sr.* ‘42 Nancy & Robert* Wolf Mr. John O. Gette ‘59 Ellen & Douglas Leslie ‘55 Mr. Stanley Root Jr.* ‘41 Earl “Peb” Gilbert* ‘68 Mr. * & Mrs. Richard Lidz ‘52, GP’12 Mr. Henry Rosenthal* ‘41 *deceased 48 PEG BOARD FALL/WINTER 2016–17 Darrow kids lean into learning.

Students at Darrow come from all over the world, but they share some interesting traits. For example, they all thrive in an environment that champions individuality and creativity. ey all like smaller classroom sizes, an active approach to academics, and learning experiences that are based in real-world project completion. Most of all, Darrow students have in common their respect for each other, and their sense of belonging to a very special school.

Be sure to share Darrow with people who are seeking a new type of high school experience.

To schedule a visit, or to learn more, go to darrowschool.org. 110 Darrow Road New Lebanon, NY 12125-2608 www.darrowschool.org

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Convocation 2016 Leah Seserman ’19 and Jocelyn Marden ’19 by Steve Ricci