PRINCETON D SPRING 2004 Selected Paintings Gary M. C. Lott Teacher, Artist and Friend 1935 - 2003 Princeton Day School BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2003-2004 ALUMNI BOARD ALUMNI AND DEVELOPMENT John P. Hall, Jr., Chairman M. Jameson Phares Jacobson ’80, President Andrew C. Hamlin, Director of Advancement C. Treby McLaughlin Williams ’80, Vice Chair Judson R. Henderson ’92, Vice President. Stephanie J. Briody, Director of Alumni Relations Alumni Activities Andrew M. Okun, Treasurer Jenna Hilton, Database Administrator Courtney L. Shannon ’88, Vice President John M. Peach, Secretary/Parliamentarian School Relationships Colleen Mote, Associate Director of Communications Barbara Griffin Cole ’78 Robert H. Olsson ’78, Ex Officio Danielle Nutt, Administrative Assistant to Patrice Coleman-Boatwright John C. Baker ’62 Directors of Alumni Relations and Annua! Fund Evelyn Turner Counts ’74 Carol Katz Connelly ’77 Anne Marie Russo, Director of Communications Judith R. Fox, Head of School Elizabeth Bylin Cook ’90 Kathy Schulte, Director of Major Gifts Julia Penick Garry ’77 Dawn M. Crossland ’83 Ann M. Wiley Hi), Associate Laura F. Hanson Director of Development Joseph H. Highland Louis C. Guarino ’79 Dolores Wright, Administrative Assistant to Director of Advancement Donald J. Hofmann Jr. Sandra Y. Kimbrough ’81 M. Jameson Phares Jacobson ’80 Sarah B. Maloney ’02 ADMINISTRATION Raman Kapur Livia Wong McCarthy ’77 Judith R. Fox, Head of School Nancy Weiss Malkiel Kathrin W. Poole ’71 Dina Bray, Head of Lower School Edward E. Matthews Linda Maxwell Stefanelli ’62 Alex Curtis, Director of Admission Stephen Modzelewski Eric R. Wolarsky '92 Marc J. Ostro Warren Gould, Director of Academic Affairs Carl D. Reimers Jr. Andrew C. Hamlin, Director of Advancement Mark J. Samse Dean Jacoby, Director of College Guidance Menachem Sternberg John Levandowski, Director of Athletics Elaine Torres-Melendez John Ora, Head of Middle School John D. Wallace '48 Cindy Stadulis, Business Manager Robert N. Wilson Carlton Tucker, Head o f Upper School Marilyn Grounds, Trustee Emerita Betty Wold Johnson, Trustee Emerita Princeton Day School complies with all federal and state laws Samuel W. Lambert ///, Trustee Emeritus prohibiting discrimination in its admissions, employment and administrative polices. C ontents P r in c e t o n Day S c h o o l J o u r n a l Volume 41, Number 1 • SPRING 2004 Women & Leadership Alumni Awards Features Alumni News 4 Message from the Head of School 2 4 Alumni Weekend 2004 May 14 & 15 5 Women & Leadership 2 6 Spring Alumni Gathering Photos 9 Giovanna Torchio '98 profile 11 Alumni Service Award William Henry Sayen IV '36 Isabelle Burns Guthrie Sayen '42 Dr. Anthony Frederick Knott '77 Class Notes 3 1 Miss Fine's School 1 5 Alumni Achievement Award Anne Clark Martindell '32 3 9 Princeton Country Day School 1 7 Alumni Board Nominee 4 1 Al umni Focus • Fairman '59 Jon Drezner '81 4 5 Princeton Day School 1 8 Athletic Hall of Fame Awards Douglas G. G. Levick III '51 4 6 Alumni Focus • Sullivan '66 Ramsay (Cherry) Raymond '61 4 7 Alumni Focus • Bushnell '70 Sarah Woodworth-Gibson '79 Hilleary T. Thomas '84 4 9 Alumni Focus • Brown '74 Christopher L. Jones '91 5 1 Alumni Focus • Johnston '78 Patrick Kerney '94 5 6 Al umni Focus • Avery '90 2 8 Celebrating the Life of Gary M.C. Lott 5 7 Al umni Focus • Purushothaman '96 5 9 Al umni Focus • Kuris '99 61 In Memoriam SPRING 2004 JOURNAL Editor: Anne Marie Russo, Director of Communications • [email protected] Associate Editor: Colleen Mote, Associate Director of Communications Designer: Maria Kauzmann, MK Design Printed by Garrison Printing Company, Pennsauken, NJ SPRING 2004 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 3 From the Head of School Core Values Dear Members of the PDS Community: ONE PART OF THE ROLE o f Head o f School that has proven to be even more rewarding than I’d have predicted is visiting with alumni at Excellence the various regional gatherings planned during the year. Since last September, we’ve held get-togethers in Boston, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Princeton and New York City. It is wonderfully inspiring to hear from alumni of not just PDS but Relationships also our founding schools, about those elements of their experiences that have had enduring influence on the course of their lives. What makes it especially uplifting is how many of those experiences derive from values still held and cherished at PDS today. The conversations at those gatherings have helped inform two key Character committees established this year to move the school toward the goal of adding to our Statement of Philosophy, a Mission Statement. The Core Values Committee identified the values that seem to be most broadly held and that best describe what makes PDS special and different. The values most often reiterated had to do with excellence, relationships, Community character, community and independence of thought. The Mission Statement Committee is meeting this spring to craft a mission from those concepts. An extraordinary number of our alumni and their families recall their experiences at PDS and its founders as life altering in the most Independence positive sense. It is an honor to be associated with this school and a privilege to commit to sustaining the quality that characterizes it. of Thought Sincerely, Judith R. Fox Head of- School 4 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • SPRING 2004 WOMEN & LEADERSHIPBy Jacquie Asplundh ixteen teenage girls fin d their way through the austere hallways o f the New York City headquarters o f the Wall Street Journal, and are ushered into a glassed- walled conference room overlooking the city. Once seated, they engage Deputy Managing Editor Joanne Lipman and Pulitzer Prize winner Karen Elliot House, the Journal’s first female publisher, in a lively hour-long discussion. Later that day, the girls tour the midtoivn studios o f MTV Networks, hosted by architect Ellen Albert ’75, M T V Senior Vice President of Planning and Design, who also takes them to meetings with top female executives in merchandising, programming and marketing. Afterwards they head uptown, to the corporate headquarters ofEstee Lauder Inc., where Deborah Krulewitch ’61, Senior Vice President o f Corporate Administration, has arrangedJor six twenty-something employees to talk about what it’s like to work in various divisions o f the cosmetics firm, while the girls are treated to refreshments and goodie bags stuffed with beauty products. WHAT HAS OPENED THE doors of hands-on projects designed into the working lives of these women and to develop skills in teamwork, many others like them is Princeton Day interviewing and research, public School’s Women and Leadership Program. speaking, entrepreneurial thinking Held during the early summer, the pro­ and professional behavior. gram educates seventh-through-ninth Upper School history teacher and grade girls about leadership, career oppor­ Dean George Sanderson and former Head tunities and the skills needed to succeed of School Lila Lohr originally conceived professionally. the program in 1997. “We would sit and 1 lie girls board at Princeton University, brainstorm about what we would do if we where the program is based. From there had all the time in the world,” says Mr. they travel to visit local professional women Sanderson “And we thought wouldn’t it be in their workplaces. They also do a variety cool to do something for middle school “Women’s girls around business and leadership?” styles of leadership are Although they share a belief in coedu­ often very different. That is “We felt it was important cation, Mr. Sanderson says that he and something that’s good for girls to for girls to meet women Ms. Lohr felt that in certain instances, hear about,” she adds. “So many kids just single-sex programs could be beneficial. have no idea what the work world is like; who were leaders ...and “We wanted to offer something for girls we wanted them to see it up close. And we to understand better how because, even though much has changed wanted to make sure to include Wall over the years, there are still lots of issues Street, the world of finance, and other they came to be leaders.” around women in the professional world,” fields where women are still very much in says Ms. Lohr, who now heads the the minority.” Baltimore Friends School. Ms. Lohr asked Mr. Sanderson to SPRING 2004 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • develop their ideas and implement them as leaders in New York City. Over the years “I enjoyed meeting so a summer program, which he agreed to do. they have visited not only The Wall Street So after many meetings, and hundreds of Journal, MTV Networks and Estee many different women letters and phone calls, the PDS Women Lauder, but the Womens National Basket­ who were successful and and Leadership Program debuted in 1998. ball Association (WNBA), Lord & Taylor, “We wanted it open to girls from the offices of several investment banks, the happy in their endeavors,” different schools and backgrounds, and design studio of Malia Mills, the Broadway — ELIZABETH WEI ’06 we wanted hoarding at the university to show Aida, and Elle Girl Magazine. be a component, because we felt that One o f the New York PDS alumnae immersion was key, and we knew that the who supported the program dorms would provide a good base from its beginning is Ellen of activities, both academic and extracur­ o f operations,” says Mr. ^ Albert ’75. A senior executive ricular. “1 must say, I really learned to write Sanderson. “We felt it was at M 'lV Networks, Ms. Albert says that there,” she adds. “Anne Shepherd was an important for girls to meet women who one of the reasons she agreed to host the inspiration to me.” were leaders in a wide variety of fields, girls stems from her longstanding interest It is not only alumni of the school who and to understand better how they came in career development, which includes past make the program a success however; there to be leaders.