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Shady Side Academy Celebrates 125 Years of Academic Excellence 8 ShadySideAcademywww.shadysideacademy.org MAGAZINE WINTER 2008–2009 A Legacy of Learning Shady Side Academy celebrates 125 years of academic excellence 8 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Dear Shady celebration. Please hold the date of May 2, and those who learned, being a part of Side Academy 2009, on your calendar so as to be certain the Academy suggested each had made a Community: to be part of a daylong, most memorable commitment to the importance of truth Let me begin by (125 years worth!) celebration. and sound learning. As Carlyle would wishing each of As we entered this 125th year and I took suggest, such dedication to that which is you all the very advantage of this special opportunity to excellent has never died, and the difference best in what I read and reflect further upon the history of which was and is Shady Side Academy hope will be a Shady Side Academy, I continued to recall continues to live (and thrive) and work wonderful, the words I read years ago as shared by through endless change. healthy and author, Thomas Carlyle: “The true past Enjoy your journey through this edition prosperous 2009! departs not; no truth or goodness realized of the magazine as you experience the Since July 1, 2008, your Shady Side by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still current life and history of the Academy in Academy has been celebrating the 125th here, and, recognized or not, lives and light of the 125 years it has taken to bring year of its founding, dating back to 1883, works through endless change.” From the us to this point in time where the “truth and what a significant and memorable beginning, Shady Side Academy set forth and goodness” continues to evolve, change year it has been thus far! We look forward an unapologetic determination to be an and be realized. Take some time to reflect to the next few months as we move toward academically challenging and rewarding upon our history; I feel there is nothing the crescendo of our Quasquicentennial center of learning. For those who taught that solidifies and strengthens a school like 2 Shady Side Academy Magazine In this issue… 2 President’s Message 4 A Legacy of Learning 8 Homecoming 2008 20 2008-2009 Parkin Fellows Reflect on the Opportunity of a Lifetime 24 Vilsack Named Secretary of Agriculture New Trustees 4 27 New Staff 28 SSA Launches New Web Site New Seal and Logo 30 The Grandizio Athletic Complex 32 Sports Briefs 36 Alumni Events 38 Alumni Filmmaker Comes Home 42 Faculty Art Show 20 44 Class News 53 In Memoriam 58 Important Dates to Remember the reading of its history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied 30 in its customs, artifacts, traditions and stories past and present. This, as I noted in the beginning of this message, is “your On the front cover: In September 1883, Shadyside Academy first opened its doors in this one-room schoolhouse on Shady Side Academy” and as such, you, Aiken Avenue in the Shadyside section of Pittsburgh. too, are an important part of our history. Editor: Lindsay Kovach I urge you to continue to walk with us Associate Editor: Jennifer Roupe Contributors: Jamie Brush ’98, Jennifer Roupe, Sarah Marino, Dave Havern as an active participant in our ongoing Photography: Jamie Brush ’98, Terry Clark, Getty Images, Lindsay Kovach, Jennifer Roupe, Jack Wolf history in the making. Class News photos are submitted by alumni and class correspondents. Design Consultant: Peggy Warnock With every good wish, I am Printed by: Herrmann Printing and Lithography If you are interested in becoming a contributor to the Shady Side Academy Magazine, please contact Lindsay Kovach at Sincerely, [email protected] for details. Shady Side Academy Magazine is published by Shady Side Academy for its alumni, parents, and friends of the school. Letters and suggestions are welcome and should be sent to Lindsay Kovach, Shady Side Academy, 423 Fox Chapel Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15238. Address corrections should be sent to The Alumni Office, Shady Side Academy, 423 Fox Chapel Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15238. Thomas N. Southard, President Junior School, 400 S. Braddock Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15221, 412-473-4400 Middle School, 500 Squaw Run Road East, Pittsburgh, PA 15238, 412-968-3100 Shady Side Academy Senior School, 423 Fox Chapel Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15238, 412-968-3000 www.shadysideacademy.org Winter 2008-2009 3 A Legacy of Learning Shady Side Academy celebrates 125 years of academic excellence by Jennifer (Gross) Bails ’94 Brief Historical Timeline for Shady Side Academy 1883 1909 1916 • Members of the Shadyside Presbyterian • A Junior Division is added to the school • U.S. entry into World War I (as well as Church decide to found college preparatory the emergence of public institutions such academy for their sons, called “Shadyside 1913 as Schenley High School) results in a Academy” • Crabbe retires after 30-year career at the considerable drop in the Academy’s • Initial grades for the school were 7-12, Academy enrollment, and it almost closes its doors known as “Forms I-VI” • New principal Luther Adams invites the forever in 1918 • William Ralston Crabbe becomes the first Country Day Association of America to meet 1919 “principal” of Shadyside Academy in Pittsburgh, hosted by Shadyside Academy • The school begins its first substantial “capital campaign” and begins to plan for its “Country School” The tradition of excellence culminate with a daylong celebration on An illustrated coffee table book, written began with a single teacher and 16 May 2, 2009. Plans for the May event and compiled by Pittsburgh author Mary students crowded in a one-room, red-brick include the dedication of an historical Brignano, will soon be available for schoolhouse in the heart of pastoral gallery in honor of one of Shady Side’s purchase, detailing the rich and storied Shadyside. This year, Pittsburgh’s largest most distinguished alumni, two-time past of the academy. The book is based on independent college preparatory school is Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David the research of former faculty member commemorating its quasquicentennial McCullough, as well as a family-friendly Jonathan L. Silver, who wrote his doctoral anniversary — marking 125 years since the carnival and an evening benefit concert. dissertation in 2004 for Carnegie Mellon idea was first conceived by the city’s leading “We’re hoping that through this anniversary University on the history of Shady Side. industrialists and financiers to form this people will really come to understand the And the school also is honoring its legacy “classical academy” in the East End. value of having a school in Pittsburgh with through a standout series of dance and To pay tribute to this historic milestone, as much history and as many graduates music performances by the Pittsburgh Shady Side Academy is hosting several with such a positive influence on civic Ballet Theatre, Squonk Opera, and celebratory events during the 2008-2009 and community life as Shady Side does,” Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, among academic year for students, parents, faculty says former director of programs David others, at the newly constructed Hillman and alumni. The yearlong celebration Liebmann, who has been involved in Center for Performing Arts on the Senior officially kicked off during Homecoming several archival and historical projects at School campus in Fox Chapel. weekend, Oct. 10-11, 2008, and will the school. 4 Shady Side Academy Magazine 1922 1935 1940 • Ground is broken at 423 Fox Chapel Road in • Shady Side Academy Class of 1903 • Shady Side Academy merges with the May; builders begin work on Morewood graduate E.J. Kaufmann and his wife, Arnold School for Boys; Arnold School House and Rowe Hall, and plans call for a Liliane, commission famed architect Frank campus on Braddock Avenue becomes September opening for the new campus Lloyd Wright to build “Fallingwater,” their the Academy’s new Junior Division • Grades 7-12 move to Fox Chapel; Junior summer home in the Laurel Highlands. • Original Academy property in Shadyside is Division stays in Shadyside, and the school Fallingwater goes on to become the most sold to the University of Pittsburgh (and later becomes “Shady Side Academy” important example of organic American to the Winchester Thurston School) • First women faculty hired as the Junior architecture ever constructed School is separated from the more “manly” world of the Upper School Much has changed since influential Today, Shady Side students can study train their boys to go to Princeton or Yale, men like Henry Clay Frick, H.J. Heinz, disciplines as varied as inorganic chemistry, but they also wanted them to come back George Westinghouse, and Andrew Mellon Web design, and Chinese language in a home and take over their businesses and decided that they wanted more and better LEED-certified “green” building. They can keep Pittsburgh moving forward.” education for their sons. This extraordinary try out ice hockey in the NHL-sized on- Shady Side quickly outgrew its small transformation is documented in more campus rink or join the swim or golf space and in 1885 moved to the block than a century of student and teacher teams. They can play saxophone in the bounded by Ellsworth, Bayard, and records, board minutes, yearbooks, and school’s jazz ensemble or take part in a Morewood in Shadyside — current site of other materials carefully preserved in Kung Fu movie or environmental clubs. the Winchester Thurston School — a Shady Side’s archival records. But at the turn of the last century, the property large enough to accommodate What began in the fall of 1883 as a place choice in the one-room school was the addition of a Junior School in 1909.
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