MiddlesexFall 2012

Taking on Challenge C. Kevin Landry ’62

MIDDLESEX FALL 2012 i From the Head of School

Building from Strength

Recently, I sat with my junior advisee, talk- a person who will view the opportunities ing through her work at school, trading read- gained from an elite education as oppor- ing recommendations, and admiring her tunities to benefit larger communities shoes—those seemingly ubiquitous but now and, with time, the world at large. Thus, hard-to-find L.L.Bean moccasins that I grew our goal of finding the promise in each up wearing as a teenager in Portland, Maine. student envisions the fulfilled student We joked a bit about how those shoes had not becoming a full citizen of the world. changed much over the 33 years between my junior year in high school and hers, and then I find powerful inspiration in these words. we agreed that perhaps that was where most The image of the community fostering the similarities ended. Yes, we both studied development of an ethical person goes right English, math, Latin, and U.S. history—but to the roots of Middlesex’s beginnings; the so much has happened since 1979: personal image of a student leaving Middlesex, having computers, cell phones, Internet, cable TV, taken what we can offer, to become a full citizen etc. Perhaps most striking are the changes in of the world completes the work of the com- how we spend our time and how we connect munity as well as the purpose of “finding the with others—changes that may have altered promise.” The work of teaching young people our world forever. to create, participate in, support, and own, in At our fall Board of Trustees meeting in the best sense of that word, their community Middlesex late September, we set final course for a long- sets them up for full citizenship like no other Fall 2012 range planning retreat to be held this January possible preparation. As we address questions

Head of School in Boston. The Board will explore four general of developing a global mindset across our Kathleen Carroll Giles areas of inquiry, with discussions informed by school; understanding how to harvest tech- Director of Development Heather Parker relevant reading materials and by benchmarks nological advancements and mitigate the Director of Advancement and trends from throughout the secondary losses in adolescent development and learn- George Noble Editor and post-secondary educational world. These ing; and organizing time and energy in the Maria Lindberg four areas—globalism/internationalism; sus- most optimized, efficient, and comfortable Design tainability; wellness and balance; and other, ways, we will hold fast to our traditional NonprofitDesign.com Photography big bucket, 21st century issues—have signifi- community strength: “intimacy and inten- Joel Haskell, Tim Morse, cant strategic implications for the School, sity,” to quote Chase Peterson ’48. Robert D. Perachio, Tony Rinaldo both in the short term and beyond, and all Here on campus, we still work with great

Letters to the Editor Letters to the bear significant work and scrutiny. young people, talking about math, personal editor are welcome and may be edited for clarity and space. Please send your As we set this agenda, we found ourselves goals and dreams, reading recommendations, letters to Editor, Middlesex Bulletin, centering more and more around the idea of and shoes—remembering when we were in 1400 Lowell Road, Concord, MA 01742, or e-mail [email protected]. the intimacy of the school community in a those teenage shoes, with the challenges and Alumni News We welcome news from society both afflicted by and benefitting from glories inherent in youth. There has never alumni, parents, and friends of Middle- sex School. Please send your news and connecting, isolating technology. I was remind- been a better time for ethical communities labeled photographs to Alumni News, Middlesex School, 1400 Lowell Road, ed of the following statement about Middle- to foster the growth of their young, and it is Concord, MA 01742, or e-mail alumni@ mxschool.edu. sex that was once articulated by now-retired from this position of strength that we look Address Corrections Please notify faculty member Malcolm Russell, who wrote: forward to laying the groundwork for the us of your change of address. Write to Middlesex School, 1400 Lowell Road, School’s future. Concord, MA 01742 or e-mail alumni@ We believe that a small, intimate, and mxschool.edu. transparently honest community best fos- Parents of Alumni If this magazine is addressed to a son or daughter who no ters the development of an ethical person, longer maintains a permanent address at your home, please advise us of his or her new address. Thank you! Contents

Mission Statement Features

14 One Speed: Full Throttle Middlesex School is an independent, non-denominational, residential, by Beth Healy college-preparatory school that, for Profiled inThe Boston Globe as he prepared to over 100 years, has been committed retire from a successful career in private equity, to excellence in the intellectual, Kevin Landry ’62 talks about his love of challenge ethical, creative, and physical devel- and competition. opment of young people. We honor the ideal, articulated by our founding Head Master, of “finding the promise” 17 Graduation in every student, and we work Numbering 104 seniors, the class of 2012 set a together in an atmosphere of mutual new record as the largest in the School’s history. trust and shared responsibility to Given the strength of its scholars, athletes, and help students bring their talents to artists, this is just the beginning. fruition as knowledgeable, capable, responsible, and moral citizens of the world. As a community, we 20 Alumni Weekend respect the individual interests, A harmonious Gilbert and Sullivan revue, strengths, and needs of each stu- a glorious exhibition of paintings by Loring dent. We also value the rich diversity Coleman ’38, and a new, multicultural alumni of belief and experience each of reception were just a few of the highlights of us brings to the School. another great reunion celebration. We expect that each student will bring his or her best efforts to the 24 Fond Farewells shared endeavor of learning and The Bulletin pays tribute to four favorite that the School, through its faculty, colleagues on their retirement from lengthy will engage and encourage each and meaningful Middlesex careers. student’s growth, happiness, and well-being. We aspire for all Middlesex students to develop personal integrity, intellectual Departments vitality and discipline, and respect for themselves and for others. We expect each student to engage 2 Life 360 energetically and cooperatively in Promoting Liberty; Sustainability and Service; the life of the School, and we seek Welcoming Colleagues; New Trustees; Mary Mae to inspire in all students the desire Village Underway; Bridging Cultural Divides; to seek understanding of them- Guys and Dolls selves and the larger world, both now and in their futures. 10 Middlesex People Graduation Speaker Joe Watkins ’71; Kevin On the Cover Landry ’62 Honored as Distinguished Alumnus Former Middlesex Trustee and Treasurer C. Kevin Landry ’62, 12 Team Highlights who received the School’s Henry Cabot Lodge ’20 Distingtuished Three All-Americans and a League MVP Alumni Award for 2012. 29 Alumni Notes and News Class Notes; In Memoriam

48 Back Story A Class Act

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women may comprise 50 percent of the pop- ulation, they are not represented at this level in most countries, including the U.S., where women comprise only 17 percent of Congress. “We need to reimagine power and rights in the image of both men and women,” she stressed.

A Global Advocate A well-known human rights lawyer and scholar with a doctorate from Harvard Law School, Dr. de Alwis has worked with a vast network of institutions and government organizations to develop innovative human rights initiatives around the world, also serv- ing as a consultant to UN agencies and offices committed to children, human rights, and social advancement. Prior to her current appointment, she directed the Women in Pub- Thanks to the Hub Lecture Series, the School was fortunate Promoting Liberty lic Service Project’s 2012 Institute at Wellesley to host Dr. Rangita de Silva de College and was also the director of Interna- Alwis, who is much in demand as Offering stories and statistics illustrating the tional Human Rights Policy at the Wellesley she travels the world to develop widely divergent situations of women around Centers for Women, where she is now the and support human rights initiatives. the globe, Dr. Rangita de Silva de Alwis made inaugural Susan Bailey McGee Scholar. her case clear: local communities and the world at large would benefit from the trans- Building Bridges formative power of women’s leadership. Key to creating more transformative women As the first director of the Global Women’s leaders is networking, Dr. de Alwis contended. Leadership Initiative at the Woodrow Wilson “This is an age like no other for connecting, International Center for Scholars in Wash- for creating networks to support and protect ington, DC, Dr. de Alwis spoke to the School us,” she said. “The friends you make here at on September 18 about the need to involve Middlesex will be your strongest network.” equal numbers of women and men in the Appropriately, Dr. de Alwis dedicated her leadership of countries, corporations, and Hub Lecture to the speaker series’ founder: Dr. institutions to bring issues of health, edu- Alan Lightman, noted physicist and author, cation, and security to the forefront. as well as a former Middlesex trustee and parent. With his wife Jean, Dr. Lightman has The Power of Representation tangibly supported educational and leader- “In India and Nepal,” she noted, “when ship opportunities for women in Cambodia women have been involved in forest manage- through The Harpswell Foundation (www. ment, conservation outcomes are improved. harpswellfoundation.org). In Pakistan, mothers who have even one year Praising the Lightmans’ example, Dr. de more of education have children with higher Alwis said in closing, “Please use your liberty test scores.” Conversely, when women are not to promote ours,” quoting her friend, Nobel educated or present at the decision-making Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi, who has long table, she said, research shows that issues fought for democracy in Myanmar. “I know concerning child care, health care, and edu- that you, too, will embrace that tradition,” cation are often not considered. And though she added. M

2 MIDDLESEX FALL 2012 Celebrating Sustainability and Service Service: Bigelow Lecturer Robyn Beavers The Bigelow Lecture It was a homecoming of sorts for former Career Innovation Carlisle resident Robyn Beavers when she “Every job I’ve had never existed before I Charismatic, bright, and returned to the area to deliver the Bigelow entered college,” she pointed out, “and there athletic, Roger Clayland Bigelow seemed destined for Lecture on May 1, 2012. Since graduating are going to be more new opportunities out success when he graduated from Stanford University, Ms. Beavers has there.” Having found a meaningful and engag- from Middlesex in 1944. His become a pioneer in the field of clean tech- ing career that incorporates her own passions, plan—once he had voluntarily nology and renewable energy, building a Ms. Beavers encouraged Middlesex students served his country as a Marine to discern what they care about most. “Be —was to earn a degree at Yale successful career that blends her passions for and then follow family tradition engineering, sustainability, and business— aware of what matters to you and be thought- by pursuing a career in the and has the potential to improve the quality ful about finding your first job,” she advised. foreign service. of life for others. “Having an M.B.A. and “With whatever choice you make, see if Tragically, Roger was killed working for Google may not sound like pub- you can incorporate public service into on Iwo Jima in March 1945. As a way of honoring and remember- lic service,” she allowed, “but public service is your work.” M ing him, his family and friends evolving. It does not have to be a sacrifice or soon established the Bigelow something that you only do on the weekend; Lecture at Middlesex to teach it can be combined with business.” future generations of students about the virtues of public service. In the decades since Forward-Thinking its first guest speaker—Otto A civil engineering major, Ms. Beavers was Fuerbringer, the senior editor inspired by idea of creating the world’s infra- of Time magazine—delivered the inaugural address, the structure, from buildings and bridges to lecture has drawn distinguished streets and subways. “All of these things make leaders from a broad range of it possible for us to get around, to be safe, and professions: ambassadors and to be productive,” she said. “But the way the congressmen, journalists and judges, architects and educators. world was built wasn’t working well anymore. Their careers, goals, I thought it needed an upgrade.” and perspectives have differed, Such thinking led to her first job as but all have held one view in an energy efficiency consultant and then common. As Bigelow Lecturer to a unique position as Google’s first chief Robyn Beavers told the school community last spring, the fact sustainability officer. There, Ms. Beavers that public service is an integral established environmental and clean energy part of her everyday work programs within the company, including the makes it especially rewarding country’s largest corporate solar installation, and worthwhile. which powers much of Google’s California headquarters. While subsequently pursuing her M.B.A. at Stanford, she served as a fellow for the U.S. Department of Energy. Later, Not wanting to focus exclusively on just one of her she joined DEKA Research & Development, interests, Bigelow Lecturer Robyn Beavers has found where she currently focuses on water and several innovative jobs that combine engineering, business, and sustainability. power distribution technologies.

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New faculty members this fall include (front row, left to right) Sarah Hardin, Kathy Smithwick ’08, and Alex Hanken ’08; (back row) Mike Harrington, Sam Bigelow, Chuck McDonald, and Rob Munro. Welcoming Colleagues

Retirements, relocations, and promotions science. He served in a similar capacity and created new opportunities for several faculty headed the science department at a Provi- and staff members this year, bringing strong dence high school for 20 years and has been credentials and a fresh set of perspectives to an adjunct professor at Rhode Island College. campus. With years of experience in college Taking on the teaching of introductory admissions, first at Boston University and and Advanced Placement art history classes, then at Choate Rosemary Hall, Sam Bigelow Sarah Hardin recently completed her mas- is eminently prepared for his role as associate ter’s degree at the Institute of Fine Arts. Her director of college counseling. He has settled New York gallery and museum experience into a dorm with his family and will coach will undoubtedly inform her teaching, too, squash this winter. and she will assist with dorm supervision Though new to Middlesex, Jo-Ann and the dance program. Lovejoy is well-versed in fundraising as the After covering a midyear leave last year former director of annual giving at BB&N. at Middlesex, Ben Kulas has returned to join Now a major gifts officer, she is joined in the history department full time, as well as to this role by longtime history teacher Paul coach crew and serve as a dorm parent. With Harrison, who is looking forward to catching his Ph.D. now in hand, Rob Munro also adds up with 35 years of former students and their his extensive research, writing, and teaching families as he travels on behalf of the School. experience to the history department, in Also taking on the title of major gifts officer addition to assisting in a dorm and coaching is Meggie Patterson ’01, who has directed squash and tennis. annual giving for the last five years. In turn, A veteran rowing coach and teacher of Mollie Mattuchio ’04 stepped up this physics and astronomy, Mike Harrington is summer from her associate director position applying his quantitative skills to teaching to lead the annual fund. Serving as the new math at Middlesex; naturally, the spring will assistant director of the annual fund is find him on the water with the boys’ crew Alex Hanken ’08, a recent graduate of program. Davidson College who was a mainstay in Ably supporting faculty members in the development office there during her their use of classroom technology, Chuck undergraduate years. McDonald is serving as the School’s academic Another alumna returning to campus is technology specialist and teaching computer Kathy Smithwick ’08, who is an assistant in

4 MIDDLESEX FALL 2012 the admissions office and in a dorm. A crew captain New Appointments at Middlesex and Duke, she is looking forward to the spring rowing season. Admissions also welcomed Ellen Ryan this summer as its new office assistant. Having worked in school offices for more than a decade, she is knowledge- ably lending her support to all aspects of another busy application cycle. Previously the admin- istrative assistant in the academic office, Sarah Roland S. Davis Cabell H. King Telford deftly made the Assistant Head of School Director of Spiritual & Ethical Education transition to becoming the A seasoned administrator, Roland comes to After earning his B.A. in human geography at assistant to Head of School Middlesex from Bates College, where he earned Dartmouth and his M.A. in divinity at the Kathy Giles this summer. his B.A. in history and sociology—and began University of Chicago, Cabell began his career Following that move, Katy his career in admissions. While subsequently as a religion teacher and assistant chaplain at O’Connor was appointed working for Harvard University as an assistant St. George’s School, where he also coached to the administrative post coach for the track and field program—also and supervised a dorm. He subsequently in the academic office, serving in several residential and counseling returned to Chicago to pursue a Ph.D. in the- where her experience with posts—he completed his M.S.W. at Boston ology, taking on additional responsibilities as coordinating the office of College. After three years at Dartmouth College a lecturer and as coordinator of an undergrad- cooperative legal education as an assistant dean and director of the Integrated uate humanities major called “Fundamentals: at Northeastern University’s Academic Support Program, he returned to Issues and Texts.” School of Law is certain to Bates, where he served most recently as the “The challenge of running a chapel pro- come in handy. first director of intercultural education and gram at a nonsectarian school can be formida- Also bringing consider- as an associate dean of students. ble,” Mrs. Giles allows, “yet Cabell brings both able expertise to her com- “Roland’s work will focus on the integration his experience of working at an Episcopal plex responsibilities in the of our Community Life Program, from leader- school and his studies in philosophy to the business office is Payroll ship training to diversity to community service,” task of directing our attention to larger ideas and Benefits Administrator says Head of School Kathy Giles. “He will also and issues.” His work in this vein began last Stacey Bellone, who has develop more productive and meaningful con- spring, when he thoughtfully selected the 15 years of payroll manage- nections with places beyond Middlesex, help- summer’s All-School Read—The Spirit Catches ment experience to her ing our students to understand our aspirations You and You Fall Down—which will inspire credit. With such capable for them as people, not just scholars.” community discussions this fall (see page 8). and enthusiastic new col- Since 2003, Roland has also been a con- Cabell is also a founding trustee of the leagues on board, the school sultant with the Stanley H. King Counseling School for Ethics and Global Leadership, year is off to a smooth start, Institute, conducting workshops for indepen- which he helped to develop into a unique, and soon it will seem that dent school teachers to help them with coun- experiential semester program for high school they all have always been seling techniques and other issues. Last year, students in Washington, DC. He will oversee an integral part of the he was awarded a Ph.D. from the University Middlesex’s Chapel Program, teach religious Middlesex community. M of New Hampshire. Roland will also teach studies and English, and coach girls’ cross- English and coach track. M country. M MIDDLESEX FALL 2012 5 360° Life on the Circle

David McKenna P’14,’15 David has 19 years of private equity experi- ence and focuses on buyouts in the industrial sector. His work at Advent International includes distribution sector transactions, and for two years, David headed the Hong Kong office, where he focused on buyouts in Great China and Southeast Asia. David’s private equity experience also includes three years as a senior dealmaker with Bain Capital, work- ing on large buyouts in the industrial, retail, and consumer sectors. He began his career as a consultant with The Monitor Group, a lead- ing strategy consulting firm. David graduated cum laude with an A.B. from Dartmouth College. He and his wife Julie have four chil- dren, two of whom, Taylor ’14 and Matt ’15, are Middlesex students.

Andrew J. Pitts ’84 As the second president of the Middlesex Alumni Association, Andy previously served Among the five trustees joining on the Board in a pro-tem capacity from the Middlesex Board this fall are New Trustees 2007–10. He is a corporate partner at the law current parent David McKenna, firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New Kate Stearns Symonds ’87, and Five new members joined the Middlesex York City and has long served the School as Andy Pitts ’84. Board of Trustees this fall, adding educational, a class agent. A graduate of Trinity College, legal, and financial acumen to an already Andy also earned a J.D. and M.B.A. at Boston well-informed group. Whether they are University. He serves on the Greenwich alumni or current parents, each knows the Library Board of Directors and on the board School well and is clearly committed to of The Stanwich School. Andy and his wife supporting Middlesex in its mission. Kirsten have two daughters.

Robert S.M. Lawrence ’76 Scott Powers P’13,’15 Rob is vice president and corporate counsel Scott is president and chief executive officer for Prudential Financial, Inc., where he serves of State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the as chief legal counsel for the structured investment management arm of State Street finance group and CDO group of Prudential Corporation and a global leader in asset Investment Management, Inc. He began his management. Prior to joining State Street, legal career at Pillsbury, Madision & Sutro in Scott served as CEO of Old Mutual US, the San Francisco and moved on to Battle Fowler U.S. operating unit of London-based Old in New York before joining Prudential in Mutual PLC. Previously, Scott held senior 1992. Rob completed his B.A. in history at management positions at Mellon Institutional Dartmouth College and earned his J.D. at Asset Management and The Boston Company the University of Texas’ School of Law, where Asset Management. He began his career as a he was a member of the Thurgood Marshall financial services advisor with Dean Witter Society. This is his second trustee term at Reynolds. A graduate of St. Paul’s School, he Middlesex, having served from 2005–09. holds an A.B. in economics from Harvard

6 MIDDLESEX FALL 2012 College. Scott serves as an incorporator of Cardigan Groundbreaking Mountain School and as a Mary Mae Village Underway board member of The United Way of Massachusetts Bay. With his wife Nancy, he has three children; Emily ’13 and Brian ’15 attend Middlesex.

Katherine Stearns Symonds ’87 Kate is the director of ad- mission at St. Hilda’s & St. Hugh’s, a private, coeduca- tional school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan Middlesex where she has worked since Trustees, donors, 1997. Having been in ad- administrators, and faculty attended missions in New York for the official ground- 10 years, she enjoys long- breaking on standing relationships with September 22. educational organizations such as the Independent School Admission Associa- Just a little more than a year ago, Middlesex time,” she elaborated. “Learning takes place tion of Greater New York was invited to apply for a $500,000 grant everywhere on campus, including in the (ISAAGNY), the Parents’ from the Mary Mae Foundation, a nonprofit living rooms and kitchens of faculty homes.” League of New York, and the that fosters academic excellence at select In order for faculty to give of themselves New York State Association independent schools by helping to fund the so extensively, Mrs. Giles said, they must feel of Independent Schools construction of faculty homes. that their own families are cared for, safe, and (NYSAIS). Kate began her With that funding secured—and greatly comfortable. “These homes are a statement teaching career at Rippowam augmented with gifts from several Middlesex from our school community to our faculty Cisqua School in Bedford, families, who enthusiastically responded to members that the safety and comfort of fac- New York, and has taught in the project’s needs—the School held an official ulty families are recognized as important and nursery, pre-kindergarten, groundbreaking ceremony for the Mary Mae valuable by the larger parent community.” and first grade classrooms. Village on September 22, 2012. “How grateful In addition to acknowledging the major Initially, after graduating we are to you for your leadership,” said Board contributors on hand, Mrs. Giles gave special from Trinity College in President Pete Olney ’66 to those donors thanks to Jeanne Jessup, executive director of Hartford, Connecticut, Kate present for the occasion. “Key to our residen- the Mary Mae Foundation, who could not be worked in music manage- tial program is faculty members who live— in attendance but who has been an invaluable ment, first with opera singers and enjoy living—with students. We want to resource throughout the grant application at Columbia Artists’ Man- acknowledge your generosity because these and project development process. agement and then, primarily, homes are pivotal to the mission of Sited in an old apple orchard across with Bobby McFerrin. Kate our school.” from the School’s main entrance, the five new has enjoyed working with As Head of School Kathy Giles noted, homes will be modest in size and efficient in the Middlesex Alumni Asso- boarding schools have known that it “takes a their use of space and energy. If construction ciation since 2010. She and village to raise a child” long before the phrase plans continue to proceed on schedule, the her husband Toby have became popular. “For faculty members, the Mary Mae Village should be ready for three sons. M lines between home and work blur all the occupancy next summer. M

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Bridging Cultural Divides The 2012 All-School Read

director of the Community Building Unit of the Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants, on the evening of September 21. At the outset, Ms. Randolph described the difference between the terms “immigrant” and “refugee,” clarifying that the latter is fleeing a country of origin and seeking asylum Diane Randolph, director in another because of war, persecution, or of the Community Building enslavement. About 2000 refugees settle in Unit of the Massachusetts Massachusetts each year, requiring assistance Office for Refugees and Immigrants, spoke at with finding homes and jobs, as well as length with students after needing help with adjusting to innumerable her September 21 address. changes in a new country. In choosing his first All-School Read assign- Sharing short videos and personal ment for the Middlesex community, Director stories of several individuals, Ms. Randolph of Spiritual and Ethical Education Cabell King adeptly illustrated the challenges facing hoped to find “something that would engage refugees, from communicating in a foreign issues of ethics and social justice, and that language to navigating a new place to coping introduced religion, or faith in the modern with a vastly different climate and culture. world, as a topic.” His selection, The Spirit When working with refugees, she stated, “I Catches You and You Fall Down, touches think of their humanity, that this is a person upon all of these themes, providing students, who has survived.” Reminding herself of faculty, and staff with great discussion this fact makes her more determined to help material for the year ahead. refugees get the support and services that they need to build a new life for themselves. Different Diagnoses Written by Anne Fadiman, the book chronicles Comparative Experiences the journey of the Lees, a family of Hmong The following morning, the community refugees, as they try to navigate Western got an even closer look at the experience of medical culture to find help for their daughter refugees through watching a film, God Grew Lia. While their Californian doctors diagnose Tired of Us, which centered on the lives of Lia with severe epilepsy, the Lees believe that several Sudanese “Lost Boys” who were granted their child’s soul is lost and trying to find its asylum in the U.S. in 2001. Joy and stress, way back. Raising questions about health guilt and loneliness, hope and fear—all the care, religion, and cross-cultural interaction, conflicting emotions of their experience the Lees’ story is a complex and tragic one. were compassionately conveyed. The book has since become standard reading Dividing into small groups afterwards, in programs in medicine and anthropology. students and faculty compared and con- trasted the film, book, and evening presen- Challenging Transitions tation. As the year progresses, the commu- Taking a closer look at one aspect of the nity will consider other themes illuminated book—the experience of refugees in America by Fadiman’s book during upcoming —the School heard from Diane Randolph, evening chapels. M

8 MIDDLESEX FALL 2012 360° Life on the Circle Guys & Dolls May 3–5, 2012

Music by Frank Loesser With its winning combination of song and dance, comedy and romance, Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, Guys and Dolls lit up the Middlesex stage for three nights in May. And based on stories by Damon Runyon while most players of the “oldest established permanent floating crap game Directed by Tom Kane in New York” managed to evade capture, the same could not be said of Technical Design & Direction by Ryan DuBray two determined bachelor-gamblers, Nathan Detroit and Sky Masterson. Choreography by Barb Cadell Ultimately, Nathan and Sky could not ignore the charms of vivacious Miss Costume Design by Kim Brown Adelaide and earnest Sarah Brown, each of whom avowed to “marry the Photography by Robert D. Perachio man today and change his ways . . . tomorrow.”

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Lessons from a Life Well-Lived Commencement Speaker Joe Watkins ’71

one who was not accepted to four of the eight colleges to which he had applied—and yet who has established a successful career and family life—he could rightly tell the seniors, “The wonderful thing about life is that my story is not predicated upon where I was admitted. My story is all about what I’ve done

“You will have some successes in your life and some failures,” Joe stated. “Learn from all of them. Let the world know who you are and why you’re here.”

and where I’ve been—and so will your story be.” With four decades of post-Middlesex experience to his credit, he came prepared to give the School’s newest alumni three sugges- tions that they might take with them when Having liked what they had heard when he heading off to different colleges and careers. spoke to the School on Diversity Day last Feb- ruary, the class of 2012 invited the Reverend Choosing Wisely and Selflessly Joseph P. Watkins ’71 to serve as the com- “Live your life as if you expect someday to mencement speaker on June 3, 2012. A pastor have to give account for your life, for what and frequent commentator on MSNBC and you’ve done, for the choices you’ve made,” CNBC—as well as a Middlesex alumnus—he was Joe’s first piece of advice. Among the was exceptionally qualified for the honor and examples illustrating his point was the story readily combined personal anecdotes with of a classmate who did not complete the constructive advice for this year’s graduates. graduation requirement of carving a plaque Thinking back to his own graduation day —and was then surprised to receive a blank at Middlesex, Joe congratulated the seniors sheet of paper instead of a Middlesex diploma seated before him and commiserated with at commencement. (He soon decided to them on having made it through “the college finish his plaque.) “Don’t make frivolous acceptance wars,” as he characterized it. As choices,” Joe stressed. “Consider the fact

10 MIDDLESEX FALL 2012 that for every choice you make, there are consequences.” Financier and Philanthropist His second recommendation was to “con- sider living your life like it’s important to help Distinguished Alumnus somebody else.” Reminding students of his Kevin Landry ’62 message back on Diversity Day, Joe reiterated, “You weren’t blessed to go to Middlesex just Established in 1993, the Henry Cabot Lodge ’20 Distinguished to be a casual bystander, to just look at things Alumni Award is annually pre- as they are and say, ‘Boy, isn’t it a pity.’ Rather, sented by the Middlesex Alumni you were blessed with a Middlesex education Association to a graduate whose to do something about it, to change it.” Through- life and career have made a sig- nificant and lasting contribution out their lives ahead—in their colleges, neigh- to society, bringing great credit borhoods, and the world at large—he urged to Middlesex. The 2012 recipient, the seniors to help those who are in need. C. Kevin Landry ’62, was de- scribed in his Yearbook as “one Learning from Failure of those rare individuals whose performance in any field is always Lastly, Joe counseled, “Live your life like well above average and some- character matters,” noting that character “is times spectacular.” How prophetic often best seen not in moments of happiness those words proved to be! Kevin graduated from or victory . . . but when the chips are down Harvard in 1966 and, upon and you’ve failed.” receiving his M.B.A. from the For Joe, one early, keen disappointment University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, joined the venture capital firm was not making his university’s varsity bas- T.A. Associates. Four years later, he became a general partner and was later named managing partner and CEO in 1983. Under his tutelage, the firm in- ketball team after training hard all summer vested in many successful companies, displaying what The Boston Globe for the tryouts. “In my life, at that point,” he described in 1990 as “the Midas touch, breathing money and life into most said, “I had succeeded in almost everything of the great Massachusetts start-ups of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.” that I had really put my mind to. I thought At the same time, Kevin has been a pillar in the community—especially my life had come to an end. ” at Middlesex, where he joined the Board in 1975 and, apart from a brief hia- tus, served until 2009, spending 21 of those years as treasurer. His philan- But with the help of a friend—now his thropic support of causes and institutions that are dear to him and his wife wife of 37 years—Joe came to see this failure Barrie is legendary. Here at Middlesex, they funded the Landry Center, which as an opportunity to explore other pursuits. provided two international squash courts, a viewing gallery, and a warm A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania respite for chilled hockey fans. Kevin was also a driving force behind the addition of tennis courts and turf fields in the East Fields and has generously and Princeton Theological Seminary, he has supported countless other initiatives, too. Most recently, he and his family enjoyed a busy professional life that has set up the Landry Family Challenge to encourage Middlesex parents, past included an interest in politics, including and present, to support the School’s initiatives. Kevin and his family have stints as a staffer to U.S. Senator Dan Quayle also been major benefactors to Harvard University, Westover School, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts General Hospital, UNICEF, and as an aide to the first President Bush in and Maranyundo Initiative. the White House. For 10 years, Joe also For his accomplishments in the world of finance, as well as his served as a Middlesex trustee. profound impact on several institutions, the Middlesex Alumni Association “You will have some successes in your is proud to name Kevin Landry the 2012 recipient of the Henry Cabot Lodge ’20 Distinguished Alumni Award. M life and some failures,” he stated. “Learn from all of them. Let the world know who you are and why you’re here. You’ve got talents and abilities that we’re anxious to see you share. Class of 2012, we are so proud of you, and what excites us most is the thought about what each of you will become and the mark you will make on this world.” M

MIDDLESEX FALL 2012 11 Team Highlights For more sports news visit http://athletics.mxschool.edu

Girls’ Lacrosse The team leader in goals and assists, Hadley Brooke ’12 stick handles through Lawrence’s defense to put another ball in the cage. She was named All-League and a NEPSWLA All-Star.

Boys’ Lacrosse As the top point scorer in the ISL last spring, AJ Lucchese Girls’ Crew ’13 helped Middlesex Wearing their hard-won medals, the earn a share of the members of the varsity’s second boat ISL Championship savor their third-place finish at the and was named NEIRA Championships in Worcester. All-League for the season. AJ will cap- tain the varsity hockey and lacrosse teams as a senior.

Boys’ Tennis Captain Matt Morrison ’12 lines up a backhand against Lawrence Academy; under Matt’s strong leadership, the team finished with a record of 13-3, good enough for third place in the highly competitive ISL.

Baseball Captain Michael Woo ’12 (#2) and his teammates congratulate Joe Frye ’14 after his game- winning single clinched a victory over St. Sebastian’s for the first time since 1998.

12 MIDDLESEX FALL 2012 MIDDLESEX Fall 2012 At the Top of Their Game Senior Athletes Garner Honors

Cohesive teams and outstanding athletes made the 2012 spring season a great one at Middlesex, especially for several seniors who won post-season recognition.

First Team All-American and Varsity Captain Working toward a victory over Thayer, Co-captain Sam Tweed ’12 scoops another Julia Burns ’12 earns yet another draw control All-League Co-captain Bryson Gilbert-Bono ground ball and clears it upfield, earning against Lawrence. ’12 winds up to score a goal in his 2012 All-League and All-American status for his All-American season. consistently strong play.

All-Americans Abound of the game—and she is not only Another key contributor Stark ’12 Finishes Strong As captain of girls’ varsity a tremendous player but also a to the ISL Championship season Right up until the end of her lacrosse, midfielder Julia Burns compassionate and dedicated was Bryson Gilbert-Bono ’12, illustrious Middlesex athletic ’12 was a force at both ends of leader.” Julia is slated to play the only four-year starter on the career, Emily Stark ’12 kept set- the field, making big plays in the for Stanford next spring. squad. Finishing the season with ting records and earning honors. defensive unit and producing Both captains of boys’ 30 goals and 22 assists from Having been named the league plenty of goal-scoring opportuni- varsity lacrosse were also named the midfield, Bryson was among MVP twice in cross-country, it ties. Soon after the season closed All-Americans. A three-year the top scorers in the ISL. “As a was only fitting that she receive with an impressive 15-3 record, starter for Middlesex, Sam Tweed co-captain this year,” adds Ned, that title in track and field as well, she was named to the U.S. ’12 took the lion’s share of the “Bryson was outstanding in sup- particularly after being named Lacrosse Regional All-American team’s face-offs in the past two porting his teammates and in All-League and All-New England First Team. “Julia did a lot of the years, winning a high percentage serving as a role model of how to in the sport for three seasons. As tough work for the team, includ- and swiftly moving the ball up the work and play the game.” While she moves on to compete for Yale ing earning a record high 54 draw field. “Sam was also our leading Sam has headed off to play for University, Emily holds the New controls and leading the team in defenseman,” says Coach Ned the University of Vermont, Bryson England record in both the 1500 caused turnovers,” says Coach Herter ’73, “and he made an enor- plans to play football and lacrosse and 3K—with her time of 9:56 Natalie Martinez. “These statistics mous impact on the chances of at Williams College. in the latter event standing as can often decide the outcome our winning a game.” the fastest recorded in the state in 2012.

MIDDLESEX FALLFall 2012 13 One Speed: Full Throttle Private equity veteran Kevin Landry reflects on a fast-paced career at TA Associates that started as a summer job and spanned 45 years.

By Beth Healy Reprinted with permission from The Boston Globe, August 5, 2012

o Kevin Landry, even play is competitive. A good summer Saturday means dueling on a tennis court, trying to land his ferocious lefty smash shot, followed by a round of golf.The BoilerEvery Room:hole comescurrently with the primarya source of heat for most of Middlesex’s buildings. wager—longest drive or closest to the pin. For the afternoon swim, it’s a race to the dock. For 45 years, Landry has brought his signature energy and drive to Boston’s TA Associates, a leading private equity firm that helped put Boston on the map as a center for buyouts and venture Tcapital and groomed a generation of talent in the business. Landry was an early backer of companies such as biotechnology firm Biogen, now Biogen Idec, and Continental Cablevision, a cable TV company. He’s wooed investors around the world, raising $15 billion over his career, and delivering returns averaging 20 percent a year to endowments, pension funds, and other large investors. “He’s just always going max for everything, whether it be work or play,’’ said Steve Woodsum, a former col- league at TA who left to run a competing firm, Summit Partners in Boston. “Kevin can’t sit still for 30 seconds. You feel like at the end of every day, Kevin wanted to accomplish everything possible.’’ So it came as no shock to friends and colleagues that when Landry was diagnosed with lung cancer, he beat it back relentlessly. More than two years ago, doctors said he had 10 months to live. He’s proven them wrong, but at 68, he has reluctantly decided to retire. Stepping aside is not easy for Landry. He’s never been one to walk away from the action, whether on the football field at Concord’s Middlesex School or the poker table at Harvard, in tough negotiations for TA or at the controls in a jet cockpit. He waited until after TA Associates’ recent annual meeting to tell clients he was leaving. He did it in late May, via e-mail because, he said, “I cannot stand to see a grown man cry, especially when it is me.’’ Few in private equity can imagine the business without Landry, known as its straightest shooter and a big-hearted mensch. Admired for telling it like it is, Landry can also be gruff. Just ask anyone who’s been on the receiving end of one of his withering right-wing political rants (his wife, Barrie, a Democrat, has not been spared) or a partner in tennis who misses an easy shot in a doubles match. And pity the young associate who fails to promptly call back a business prospect. He is famously unfond of whiners. Landry has often gone against the tide. When his younger partners wanted to do Internet deals in the bubble of 1999, he allowed it only briefly. “There was generational tension. So I said, ‘OK, we will consider some early-stage investments,’’’ Landry said. Then he shut it off in March 2000—just as the market peaked.

14 MIDDLESEX FALL 2012 © John Tlumacki/Boston Globe/Getty Images In 2007, when some in private equity didn’t make terrific grades, he says, but were celebrating easy credit markets, he pre- “I probably had more fun than they had.’’ dicted dire consequences for the economy, Landry, however, always combined savvy which proved painfully accurate. with luck. In a favorite story among his college And while he generally opposes raising friends, they’d planned a raucous party at taxes, he says he can’t defend his industry’s Harvard’s Quincy House one night. While advantageous tax treatment, which allows most of the group wound up suspended people like him to pay much lower tax rates afterward, Landry escaped punishment. He on their earnings. had decided to go away for the weekend. “He’s highly, highly principled. To a As one of his friends, money manager fault sometimes,’’ said Andy McLane, one Michael Holland of New York, wrote, “Kevin of Landry’s longtime partners. “It sets a great Landry: Lucky or smart? Yes.’’ example here about doing the right thing, After Harvard, Landry entered the Army taking the high road. He doesn’t tolerate Reserve, where he learned to be a helicopter people who hide things. He wants people mechanic (not a great one, he says), and then to tell the truth.’’ went to the University of Pennsylvania’s Landry, who grew up in Arlington and Wharton School to study finance. In 1967, Andover, said he learned about honest deal- Landry landed a summer job at TA Associates, ing from his father, a teenage runaway who which was just getting off the ground. He im- became a neurosurgeon and insisted that his pressed TA’s founder, venture capital pioneer five children tell the truth. He graduated from Peter Brooke, even though, Landry now con- the Middlesex School and is one of seven fesses, he didn’t know what venture capital was. in his extended family to go to Harvard, Even as a young man, Brooke recalled, including his two daughters. Landry was the most confident person he’d He started as a physics major and decided ever met. When Brooke offered Landry a it was too hard, switching to economics. He permanent job, and tried to persuade him to

MIDDLESEX FALL 2012 15 stay instead of finishing at Wharton, cannot match my enthusiasm for the task Landry said no thanks. at h an d .’’ After graduation, and another That’s up for debate. You’ll still find stint with the Army Reserve, a spot Landry in his office on the 56th floor of was still waiting for Landry at TA. the John Hancock Tower a few days a week, The firm was doing small deals then, albeit in a polo shirt instead of an oxford and from $50,000 to $150,000, mostly in tie. He still serves on two company boards. technology. Landry’s first deal: an His office remains piled with papers, his investment in a computer printer shelves lined with photos of his nine grand- company. children and models of four of the favorite In the 1970s, Landry became airplanes that he’s owned and flown. Scores interested in genetic engineering, then of letters written to him by friends (many of In 2008, Kevin was on hand a controversial field still far from commercial them bound in a book by his wife) thank him to celebrate the completion of success. At a 1978 meeting in Geneva with a for raising the bar and tell the tales of Middlesex’s East Fields, a project he generously supported. group of scientists, Landry was persuaded of a life never lived on the sidelines. one company’s potential. TA invested about $1 Mitt Romney is among Landry’s fans. million to help start Biogen, which would be- In Romney’s letter in the book, he says he come a giant in multiple sclerosis drugs and never would have gone as far in politics with- help establish Cambridge as a biotech hub. out Landry. “I have counted on Kevin for 16 “This was before biotech was biotech,’’ years, and he has never failed me,’’ Romney said Phillip A. Sharp, an MIT scientist who writes. Landry has given $120,000 to the cofounded Biogen. “There was no word, super-PAC supporting Romney’s presidential ‘biotech.’ ” campaign, according to public records. About 1981, when Brooke left to start Over the years, Landry sometimes another Boston private equity firm, Advent enjoyed fat, celebratory steaks at the down- International, Landry took over as chief town restaurant Locke-Ober. executive. He worked on deals in the finan- He would pilot his airplanes cross-coun- cial sector, such as Datek Online, a trading try to meetings, often with colleagues in tow, company that was merged into Ameritrade and once required a terrified young associate Holding Corp., and Keystone Group, an to hand-crank the landing gear when it investment firm. jammed. Through all the success, he wasn’t TA differs from many buyout firms in above dumpster diving to retrieve a lost that it focuses on investing in established, check from a client. profitable companies, rather than troubled Landry credits his wife for making his firms or turnarounds. 80-hour work weeks possible: “It was my job The approach has paid off handsomely to make the money. It’s her job to love for investors. Over the past 40 years, TA everybody.’’ has delivered returns averaging 20 percent Retirement doesn’t exactly suit Landry. annually, compared to about 9.5 percent But it’s giving him more time to take his for the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index. grandkids to the art museum and go fishing Such returns also made it easier to in Boston Harbor. And to complain about attract new investors to the firm’s funds, one the Obama administration’s approach to, of Landry’s chief responsibilities. Asking for well, most everything. money is not a job that many people enjoy, And when people suggest Landry is un- but Landry, as usual, tackled it with relish. lucky to be fighting cancer, he laughs. “You’ve “The more challenging the better,’’ Landry got to be kidding,’’ he says. “Look at the total- said. “I almost view it as a war. A hundred ity of my life. I’ve been so lucky.’’ M prospects? Let’s go see ‘em. It was fun.’’ But two years of chemotherapy took a Editor’s Note: Kevin Landry ’62 is also toll. When he decided to retire, Landry told this year’s recipient of Middlesex’s Henry Cabot clients, “There are too many days when my Lodge ’20 Distinguished Alumni Award energy level, and even my intelligence level, (see page 11).

16 MIDDLESEX FALL 2012 Graduation 2012

School President Nina Harrison ’12, Vice President Nathaniel Heller ’12, and Senior Class President Atiya Walcott ’12 led The ceremony officially begins as the School’s student leaders cross their classmates to Eliot Hall. the Circle to Eliot Hall. At the head of the procession are, from left to right, Senior Class President Bryce Parsons ’11, School President Lindsay Newton ’11, and School Vice President Max Brown ’11.

Mary Toth (mother of Nick ’08, Peter ’10, and Anna ’12) helped Robbie Paine ’12 with his Diplomas in hand, Vivian Liu ’12, Justin Partyka ’12 (in back), Suz Kent ’12, boutonniere. John Kennedy ’12, and Danyoung Kim ’12 were ready to celebrate the day.

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Surrounded by the School’s earliest plaques in the Terry Room, Emily Berntsen ’12, Lydia Barit ’12, and Sophia Gish ’12 collected their roses before the annual class picture was taken. Like every graduate before them, the 104 members of the class of 2012—the largest class in Middlesex history—each had to carve a self-chosen design on a wooden panel before earning a diploma. This longstanding tradition of plaque carving was much on the minds of commencement speakers on June 3 and recurred as a metaphor or message Following the tradition of her grandfather, of advice throughout the morning exercises. Henry ’36, and her father, Gaylord ’66, Olivia Dillingham ’12 became the third generation of her family to graduate from Middlesex.

For Valedictorian Blake Cormier ’12 (crossing the Circle here with Parisa Oviedo ’12), his plaque—depicting a scene from a favorite Dr. Seuss book, Oh, the Places You’ll Go—expresses the confidence and will to persevere that he learned at Middlesex. Looking forward to the next step in the journey ahead, he repeated for his classmates the story’s well-known lines: “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where to go.”

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Yih-Jen Ku ’12— here with his mother, Annie Ku, head of Middlesex’s Chinese Department—was one of four seniors to earn diplomas with highest credit this year. Ali Forelli ’12, Samantha Morrison ’12, and Emily Stark ’12 joined him in that honor.

Sasha Kramer ’12 received her diploma with high credit from Head of School Kathy Giles. Mrs. Giles praised the class of 2012 for its strong leadership and investment in the school community, thanking them for consistently “show- ing up.” Explaining that simple phrase, she said, “Showing up is an attitude, not just a physical event; it’s about taking responsibility; it’s about turning your attention and your energy and your will to what needs to be done, to what should be done, to what you know will make the problem or situation or issue better…. Keep showing up.”

Ausie Brooks ’12 made his way down the line of faculty and staff who assembled to congratulate every graduate.

“Each plaque,” reflected Board President Pete Olney ’66, “represents a microcosm of your experience here at Middlesex.” Learning to carve, he elaborated, was a new challenge requiring unfamiliar tools; in the process, students sometimes procrastinated, panicked, and sought the support of classmates. “Ultimately, you got it done,” he confirmed. “And you’ll do that again and again and again: new challenges, new deadlines, new tools.”

Danny Chung ’12, John Simmons ’12, Anders Hill ’12, Chris Haley ’12, and Grant Barnhart ’12. MIDDLESEXMIDDLESEX FALL FALL 2012 2012 1919 Alumni Weekend

The class of 1962 kicked off its 50th reunion with dinner at the Head of School’s House on Friday night and assembled for a commemorative photo. First row, from left to right: Dow Davis, Ted Underwood, David Weil, Irnie Johnson and Kevin Landry (holding between them the 1961 football from the varsity’s 34-18 victory over St. George’s), Bill Clark, and John Tulp. Second row: Phil Dechert, Bill Mathers, Jack Bradlee, Rob Paine, and Russ Kettell. Third row: Hank Parker, Curt Curtis, Jay Duryea, Chip Elfner, and David Smith. Back row: Bill Gibson, George Sinkler, Wells Dow, and Bill Weld.

A number of 1987 graduates were present for a 25th reunion photo in the afternoon. Seated, left to right are: Kevina Beall, Marcia Kebbon, Abby Marr Doft, Wanji Barrington Walcott, Diana Grimberg, and Libby Nelson Hiltabrand. Standing: Joy Connolly, Melissa Levis, Toby Kahan, Beth Saulnier, Nick Wuorenheimo, Jonathan Burke, Allie Wald, and Jim Luchars.

20 MIDDLESEX FALL 2012 Gorgeous spring weather greeted the nearly 500 alumni and guests who returned to Middlesex for Alumni Week- end events held on May 18-19, 2012. The festivities began Friday night in the Chapel with a Gilbert and Sullivan revue, featuring performances by current students and faculty. Conducted by Music Department Co-Chair Pierson Wetzel, the songs evoked many memories—especially for former little maids and Mikados in the audience who could vividly recall being directed by the legendary Arthur Motter Lamb. Alumni then dispersed to class dinners on campus and in the local area. The Old Guard Dinner (for grad- uates who have already celebrated a 50th reunion) again drew a lively crowd in Ware Hall and has quickly become a popular addition to the Alumni Weekend A key coordinator of every annual Alumni Art Show, Adji schedule. Concurrently, the class of 1962 held its 50th Gadson ’90 greeted former reunion dinner at the Head’s House. While celebrating Middlesex Art Department this milestone with his classmates, Kevin Landry ’62 Chair Loring Coleman ’38 was presented with this year’s Henry Cabot Lodge ’20 at this year’s special exhibit of his paintings in the Wood Distinguished Alumni Award by the Middlesex Theatre Gallery. Loring’s Alumni Association. autobiography, Painting in Saturday’s on-campus activities opened with the a Changing New England, alumni memorial service in the Chapel, where deceased includes still more of his favorite works and the members of each reunion class were remembered. Head stories behind them, some of School Kathy Giles and Board President Pete Olney of which he shared at the ’66 then updated alumni on the state of School before show’s opening. heading to the steps of Eliot Hall, where five new inductees were welcomed into the Middlesex Athletic Hall of Fame. Following a break for lunch and afternoon athletic contests, a reception was held in the Wood Theatre Gallery for this year’s Alumni Art Show. This year’s exhibit was a particularly special one, as it featured the work of Loring Coleman ’38, distinguished artist and former Middlesex faculty member. Loring was on hand for the opening, which also featured a gallery talk with Henry Adams ’67, a professor of American art at Case Western Reserve University, and Senior Master Emeritus Hugh Fortmiller, who edited Loring’s recently published autobiography, Living and Painting in a Changing New England. A multicultural alumni reception at the Head’s House preceded the annual clambake, where members of the 5th through the 60th reunion classes hit the Jon Simonds ’48 and Pat Melton ’77 met at the multicultural alumni dance floor and celebrated with one another. Mark your reception at the Head’s House on Saturday evening. calendars for the next Alumni Weekend, scheduled for May 10–11, 2013!

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Alumni who had already celebrated a 50th reunion enjoyed gathering at the Old Guard dinner on Friday night. (Below) Nancy and Bill Kingman ’49 (on left) caught up with John Pratt ’48 and Edith and Linc Boyden ’49, while (left) Minturn Wright ’43 talked with George Stevens ’42.

Athletic Director Joe Lang enjoyed swapping stories with several 2007 graduates. From left to right are: Chessye Moseley, Terrence Agbi, Prentis Robinson, Christian Ebert, Joe, Tyler Green, and Nina Van Brunt.

Alumni Weekend was apparently also a family reunion for grandchildren of Middlesex’s formidable classics master Charles W. Locke (on the faculty from 1918–59). Ed Locke ’67 (on left), his sister, Pril Locke ’77, and their cousin, George Senkler ’52 are among the second Locke generation (which includes Frank Locke ’61 and Charlie Locke ’65) to graduate from Middlesex.

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Hall of Famer Chip Elfner ’62 (at far left) presided over his last induction ceremony as the chair of the nomination committee. With him are four of the 2012 inductees (from left to right): Jen Landry Le ’94, Jim Oates ’65, Rob Cotter ’02, and Allison Kaveney Farkes ’02.

Wendell P. James M. Jennifer E. Robert Allison Kaveney Raymond Oates ’65 Landry Le ’94 Cotter IV ’02 Farkes ’02 While serving as the Jim won 12 letters during A tri-varsity athlete in At Middlesex, Rob won Earning four letters in School’s head baseball his Middlesex career, field hockey, ice hockey, a total of 10 letters, soccer, four in basketball, coach from 1912 to 1950, including four in football, and lacrosse, Jen earned including four in lacrosse, and three in lacrosse at Mr. Raymond led his five in hockey, and three 12 letters in her Middlesex four in hockey, and two Middlesex, Allison was teams to victory in 295 in crew. In his senior year, career. She served as in cross-country. An All- named All-League twice games. Appropriately, the he captained Middlesex’s captain of the field hockey League selection once in in soccer, three times in award given annually to varsity hockey team and and ice hockey teams as hockey and three times basketball, and twice in the most accomplished was named All-League a senior and was named in lacrosse, he captained lacrosse. Elected captain Middlesex hitter is named in both football and All-League in ice hockey the hockey and lacrosse of all three sports as a in his honor. A talented hockey. Jim also lettered that year, also taking teams as a senior and was senior, she deservedly athlete in his own student in hockey and ran track home the School’s named All-American and won the School’s Out- days, Mr. Raymond played while an undergraduate Outstanding Senior Girl League MVP in lacrosse standing Senior Girl varsity baseball at Brown at Harvard. Athlete Award on Prize in 2002. Rob then played Athlete Award that year. and was inducted into Day. Jen continued to four years of lacrosse at In her collegiate career, the Athletic Hall of Fame compete at Harvard, Brown, serving as captain Allison played soccer there in 1971. where she played ice in his senior year. and lacrosse at Harvard. hockey.

MIDDLESEXMIDDLESEX FALLFALL 20122012 23 Fond Farewells to Retiring Faculty and Staff

Last June, the School wished a happy retirement to four favorite members of the community whose service to Middlesex spanned 12 to 35 years. Whether working in the classroom or in an administrative office, on the athletic field or in any number of school activities, they have left their mark—each in his or her own inimitable way—on students and parents, faculty and staff, alumni and friends.

Malcolm Russell

ack in the 1980s, when we used all surprising that a man with an a hand in shaping the introductory arts to hold our day-long faculty astonishing ability to retain information courses that still distinguish the Middle- meetings in the Warburg —about the elevation of specific Gothic sex program. Furthermore, Malcolm Library, Malcolm and Al Nelson cathedrals, the conventions of Japanese established the Advanced Placement ’53B used to wile away the time playing films, the training regimen of British Art History course and turned it into a surreptitious game of chess. Al would milers, and the sumptuary laws of one of the flagship courses of our cur- stand behind the chest-high book case, Renaissance Venice—could clearly riculum. Hundreds of students have with the chess board set on a shelf at envision chess moves in his head. elected that course since its inception, his waist—out of Headmaster David It is hard to remember a time and their uniformly high scores on the Sheldon’s view—while Malcolm sat when Malcolm’s talents did not play AP exam put the Middlesex course with his back to the shelf, facing David a central role in the School’s academic on the national map. and the picture windows overlooking program, yet his beginnings at Middle- Malcolm, we know, is a very quick Bateman’s Pond. Al would make his sex were relatively humble. Although study, and he “studies” all the time. move and pass a note forward to he had graduated from Harvard Col- Sometimes, he acquires information in Malcolm, who would then make his lege with a degree in anthropology and the pursuit of one of his ongoing research own move “blind.” Malcolm almost also completed a year of Harvard Law, projects—most recently, he completed always won these games. it was his experience as an apprentice an article for publication raising serious It’s oddly revealing that a man who in the shop of a Boston harpsichord questions about the subject matter, spent most of his career at Middlesex, maker that captured the School’s atten- and even the title, of Van Eyck’s The noticing everything, who devoted his tion: we needed somebody to supervise Marriage of Arnofini; sometimes, it energies to the visual arts, would also the carving of senior plaques. In a fairly arises from his interest in the material have the additional ability to “see” with- short time, however, Malcolm’s intellec- he’s teaching. So, when teaching the out looking. Yet, for those of us who tual strengths came into view, and the Iliad one year, he unearthed a good have worked with Malcolm, it’s not at fine arts curriculum flourished. He took deal of information on ancient battle

24 MIDDLESEX FALL 2012 formations, religious rituals, and tribal serve as a teaching moment: strolling in my life, took a personal interest, and law. But more often, it just happens through the dining hall with his cup ultimately ended up—gently but quite because his mind is always searching, of tea in hand, driving a van to an away powerfully—shaping my whole life and the search is informed by his desire meet, standing outside the theater as trajectory.” to know a subject in deep detail. Indeed, students entered for Assembly, even Malcolm’s coaching achievements that appetite for detail lay behind his chaperoning a dance. Malcolm could inevitably garnered respect from col- pedagogical commitment to frequent find a way to turn a chat into a brief leagues around the league. Last spring quizzing—with questions often at Middlesex, at the presen- focused on minute, but telling, tation of a tree in Malcolm’s particulars. honor, Brooks School Coach Yet Malcolm’s classes, at all Donald Cameron (representing levels, were about far more than both NEPSTA and the ISL) the delivery and development of enumerated Malcolm’s many information; his primary proj- coaching accomplishments, ect was illumination. Sally Titt- but he went on to celebrate mann ’81, currently showing her him in terms that echo Adeline’s. own art work at the William “Malcolm’s career illustrates Holman Gallery in New York, what it means to be gifted, vividly recalls Malcolm giving intense, and unique. He has freshman students an exercise done ordinary things in a truly where they were to imagine how extraordinary way, [and] he they would depict a person desires no other reward for studying. “We all came up with his accomplishments than the fairly prosaic scenes of kids satisfaction of having shared seated at desks with books piled with young people his life, high (this was pre-laptop). He hope, faith, and passion.” then projected a slide of a paint- One of those satisfactions ing on the screen: a magnificent is an outstanding record of pattern of sunlight on a wall in an successful seasons; another otherwise dark, shadowy room. is the enduring loyalty of Only after a moment did you runners like Adeline. see the small silhouette of a man, and tutorial, shedding unexpected light on In his last semester at Middlesex, only after some looking could you tell something that might otherwise go by Malcolm was, not surprisingly, still that the shape in front of him was of a unnoticed. going strong—and keeping it fresh— book. I was shocked. This was an image A natural teacher, Malcolm has also as a teacher and coach. To meet the not of frantic cramming for an exam, been a gifted running coach. Indeed, constant demand, he offered two sec- but of solitude, quiet, and concentration. the record of his teams’ achievements tions of the AP Art History course, My entire understanding of what study- is unmatched in recent Middlesex his- with students now studying art works ing was got turned on its head. Even tory. Since 1987, his girls’ cross-country in high-resolution photos he personally more thrilling was the revelation that teams have won 18 New England Cham- took in museums throughout Europe. a painting—a mere painting!—could pionships and finished, 13 times, in the He also taught an English elective express such feeling and meaning and top three of the ISL ranks. On the track, called Adventure Stories, with texts that could actually change what I thought.” his middle-distance runners have were not the usual ones—Homer’s Such an experience is entirely reached high standings on national lists Odyssey or even John Krakauer’s Into typical of students who have enjoyed compiled by the USATF. Yet Malcolm’s The Wild; instead, his students read Malcolm’s tutelage. In a farewell tribute, coaching, like his teaching, succeeds Jane Goodall’s My Life with Chimpanzees at the end of the school year, Senior because he always puts the well-being and Alvin Kernan’s WWII memoir, Master Ron Banay astutely observed of kids first. Adeline Azrack ’98, one of Crossing the Line, as primary texts. In that “teaching is Malcolm’s imperative, his most successful athletes, now work- June, well after many colleagues were which he has turned into his profession.” ing in international health in Nairobi, comfortably ensconced in Maine (or the Thus, Malcolm’s classroom was only the Kenya, remembers that Malcolm “picked equivalent) for the summer, Malcolm formal setting, but any occasion might me up at an incredibly vulnerable time accompanied three runners to the New

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Balance national track meet in North Carolina. Resourceful, imaginative, tireless: just a few more epithets to characterize Malcolm’s exceptional career. Malcolm’s wife Ann has been his companion along this journey, patiently tolerating his long absences from home, applauding his athletic successes “on the scene,” as they have occurred, and even helping Malcolm’s students with internships in her own profession of art restoration. She welcomed countless Middlesex students and colleagues to their permanent home in Concord (for lunches and dinners) as well as to their temporary “homes” in Paris and Venice. Generosity, and the nurture of young minds, is a family trait. Steve Freiberger All of us teachers hope that we make a positive, and positively memo- ne former student, Sarah earned his master’s and Ph.D., and rable, impact upon our students. Few Armitage ’08, may have cap- was honed during the 20 years that he of us imagine, however, that our own tured Steve “Doc” Freiberger taught in New Jersey public schools legacies will travel as far, and run as best with this simple summary: before Middlesex. Turning down teach- O“He’s a historian who loves what he ing offers from three colleges, he moved deep, as Malcolm’s has. Andrew Davis ’96, a former runner and art history does but who also loves his students.” to campus with his wife Ronni and student, speaks for many others about Throughout his tenure at Middle- their children, Ashley and Joshua ’04. Malcolm’s continuing presence in his sex, Doc freely conveyed that passion to He fully embraced residential life, own life. Now head of the middle school students and colleagues alike, whether initially living in a dorm and coaching at Crystal Springs Uplands School in he was generating debate in his class- football and girls’ third squash, leading San Francisco, he writes, “In my experi- room with a provocative question; or the history department, and cultivating ence, staying motivated as a teacher and encouraging the uninitiated to give the Model UN program that Elliott school leader requires having aspira- Model Congress a try; or suggesting new Trommald had founded. tional models. Thanks to Malcolm, I ideas for creative, collaborative courses; “Elliott used to take 12 kids to still know what contrapposto is, but, or loaning a book or film (or several) Georgetown each year, and I expanded more importantly, I have a vision of from his ever-expanding library. the whole thing,” Doc says with some success as an educator. I strive to be “He helped me to see why you can satisfaction. Soon, at least 50 students the Malcolm of my school, inspiring get excited about history, to see how would participate in Model UN or students for a lifetime in all areas of drama unfolds on the world stage,” says Model Congress annually, winning campus life.” Tapley Stephenson ’10, a political science numerous commendations and gavel Malcolm may have retired after major at Yale who spent last summer awards. As former History Department 35 years from Middlesex School, but studying at the London School of Chair Paul Harrison elaborates, “Those he continues to teach wherever his Economics. “Doc would always do kids would come to meetings every students live and work throughout these voices and impressions that were week, even with their packed schedules, the world. M hilarious. He would assume an accent and figure out how to get their prep- and use it as long as he needed to, aration and position papers done. Still a mainstay in Middlesex’s English often countering people’s points while But Steve loved it—and his Society Department, Jim Beaton has been speaking in the accent.” of Skeptics.” Malcolm’s colleague since 1980. Doc’s playful (sometimes corny) The Skeptics, essentially a current humor and encyclopedic knowledge of events club he transformed, was another his subject were two hallmarks of his venue in which to teach students how engaging style, which developed as he to approach the complexities of history.

26 MIDDLESEX FALL 2012 “Doc was really the first to say to me impression he made was out of the that history is political, and you can’t classroom, when I was struggling or take for granted how history is told,” says needed straightening out with some- Ann Leason Sarah, remembering that salient point thing. He always got the message from her AP U.S. History class. “He through, and I always took it seriously. o hear Ann Leason tell it, her got us to read very different historical I can’t even count the number of times tenure at Middlesex was “the accounts of the same event and discuss I went to his house—or how many happiest 20 years I’ve ever had the merits of each. It was so central to times I helped Mrs. Freiberger move —and I’ve loved my previous Tjobs, too!” what he was teaching us.” her holiday decorations around.” That AP course was memorable The Freiberger home was a haven This is quintessential Ann: upbeat, in many ways, she notes. “Doc’s humor for many, from Yankee fans to students animated, and bighearted, always em- made it so enjoyable and fun, even needing extra help to anyone interested bracing possibilities rather than dwell- though it was a huge amount of work. in enjoying a Seder on high holidays. ing on difficulties. “There’s my friend!” We even had a class reunion dinner “Certainly he put his students very high she would greet visitors to her fishbowl with Doc a year after the class—and in his life,” observes English teacher Mark office on the ground floor of Ware Hall, there was no other class I took at Foster. “He thought highly of them and where she cheerily answered switch- Middlesex that had a reunion dinner gave generously of his time, training, board calls, dispensed candy and deliv- like that!” and library.” eries of bouquets and packages, and Moreover, Doc had made it possi- For Mark—and Paul Harrison— assisted the business office with what- ble for Sarah to enroll in the class in co-teaching a new elective with Steve ever tasks needed to be done. the first place. “There was some sort of was a collaborative, intellectual challenge. scheduling conflict with another course “We started thinking about teaching that meant I would have to miss one a course on Iraq and Vietnam,” Paul history class every week,” she explains. recalls, “and every day there would be “Doc offered to make up that one missed a new book on my desk waiting for me. class per week—and he did. That was Steve made me read more because he a pretty amazing Middlesex moment. was reading more, and we shared that We would talk about books and history excitement about the course.” for 45 minutes, which was awesome.” “He has read more than anyone I Having just completed a history degree know,” Mark contends, “and I’ve never at Yale, Sarah is now earning her mas- met anyone for whom what he had read ter’s at Cambridge University as a was so present to his mind. This was prestigious Gates Scholar. the gift he gave this place: he convinced “I think Doc had this wonderful people of the reality of the world of the balance,” she reflects. “He cared so much mind. What better gift could we give in about students, both academically and a school but how the world of ideas is personally, but he wasn’t afraid to call real and potent and not to be dismissed you out when you were wrong or —that it can engage us every bit as our needed to defend your point. That’s the physical lives.” best kind of teacher: one who makes It is staggering to imagine the you earn your stripes but always has volume of reading Steve will accomplish your best interests at heart.” in retirement, though he hopes also to Her first decade at the School “I knew if I slipped up, Doc was go- travel, volunteer with Habitat for Human- was spent in facilities and operations, ing to call me on it,” Tapley admits. “One ity, and perhaps advise his local library where she took charge of the phones, day, I thought I had done well speaking about book purchases. Steve might even invoices, work orders, and other details about something in class, but afterwards, offer discussion groups about the Mid- with the same positive outlook. “Ann’s he called me over and said, ‘If you didn’t dle East, giving him a chance to flex his humor, energy, and optimism always do the reading, don’t even talk.’ He had debating muscles. If this plan comes to leave you laughing,” affirms longtime let me go for a while, but he didn’t let fruition, he might have some familiar colleague Kathleen DeFlorio, assistant me think that I had fooled him.” company. “I would love to be able to go director of facilities and operations. While Doc’s classes were among back to some of those classes and fight “She has a nice way of putting things his favorite, Tapley adds, “The biggest it out for a while,” says Tapley. M in perspective.”

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In her tribute at the year-end dinner last June, Chief Financial Officer Margie McHale Terry Cunningham thanked Ann for her thoughtfulness, enthusiasm, and f you have been in Eliot Hall for an community spirit, noting that she was a appointment or event within the mainstay not only in the Holiday Con- last 15 years, you have undoubtedly cert Chorus but at numerous Middlesex met and been cordially assisted by festivities. “There you always are,” Terry MargieI McHale in the head of school’s said, “celebrating whatever the event office. Stationed at her desk near Eliot’s may be, dressed to the hilt—or perhaps front doors, she has frequently been a even dressed as the school mascot,” as lifeline for many a mystified student, Ann was on one occasion. “You teach parent, or visitor, calmly offering her us to be hopeful and bring out the child- warm hospitality while proficiently like side in all of us by demonstrating solving problems of all kinds. your mastery of embracing your Initially working part time for youthfulness.” Middlesex, Margie assisted adminis- Given her personality, it is doubtful trative offices with whatever projects that Ann’s pace will slacken in retire- needed her conscientious attention, ment. “I’ve been working since 1948,” from hand addressing holiday cards to she divulged in a conversation during proofreading advisor letters to covering her last week at school. “Monday will for vacationing colleagues. Then, just as be the first day I haven’t gotten up to go The Campaign of a Century was about to work in 64 years.” Still indefatigable, to culminate with a spectacular centen- she predicted, “I’m going to find some nial celebration, she became the full- volunteer work because I’ve got to do time assistant to former Head of School something with people. I’ll miss the Deirdre Ling, taking on a host of new friendships and the activity here, but responsibilities. “It was a very busy I want to keep doing my workouts time,” Margie recalls. “I think one of and yoga—and start taking my piano the best rules of thumb I learned is that attending their recitals and perfor- lessons again.” If anyone can manage if someone thinks something is impor- mances to providing a “daily dose of all that, it will be Ann. M tant enough to call the head’s office, it common sense.” In short, they sum- is always best to respond quickly— marized, “Margie has a way of making and kindly.” everyone feel like they are her favorite Providing continuity and exper- by fostering a unique relationship.” tise, she later welcomed fifth Head of In 2007, the School was bolstered School Kathy Giles, who has appreciated by the services of another McHale: Margie’s support and extraordinary Margie’s husband Bruce, who joined the interpersonal skills. “Margie takes great technology staff as the faculty helpdesk pleasure in meeting and interacting technician after a 40-year career in the with people,” Mrs. Giles attests. “She computer industry. Now, having both has an authentic interest in people and retired this year, the McHales are look- great empathy—and she’s a lot of fun.” ing forward to enjoying their new Florida No one knows this better than home, continuing their world travels, Middlesex’s students, who have been and keeping up with their many the beneficiaries of Margie’s candy, Concord and Middlesex connections. encouragement, and counsel for many “I’ve been very happy in my entire time years. At the annual farewell chapel that I’ve worked at Middlesex,” Margie in June, Frany Diaz ’12 and Shannon reflects. “I would never find another Daly ’12 enumerated the many ways job that would give me the satisfaction in which Margie —or “Mom,” as they and the friendship of so many kids dubbed her—took care of them, from and adults.” M

28 MIDDLESEX FALL 2012 In Memoriam

survived by his wife Carolyn; three Bradford S. Kingman Sidney O. Smith, Jr. ’41 children, Charters Smith Wilson, Ellen Smith Andersen, and Sidney Judge Sidney Oslin Smith, Jr., died O. Smith III; a stepson, Steve Longtime Middlesex on July 14, 2012, at the age of 88. Sorrolls; and 11 grandchildren and faculty member Bradford A lifelong resident of Gaines- two great-grandchildren. An enthu- Sumner Kingman died ville, GA, Sid was born on Decem- siastic spectator and sportsman— suddenly and unexpect- ber 30, 1923, to the late Sidney O. having played varsity football at edly on August 17, 2012. Smith and Isabelle Charters Smith. Harvard—Sid was always thankful He was educated in the Gainesville for his life, his wife, his family, Brad was born on June City schools before winning a Prize and friends. 4, 1934, and was a 1956 Scholarship to come to Middlesex, graduate of Wesleyan where he was a top student and University. He served in athlete (who was inducted into the School’s Athletic Hall of Fame in Harry M. Drake ’45 the Navy for four years, 2006). Following 39 months of ser- and, in the fall of 1960, vice in the U.S. Army during World Harry McClurg Drake died sud- joined the Middlesex War II, Sid was discharged as a cap- denly at his home in St. Paul, MN, faculty, serving in a variety of roles until his retirement tain. He subsequently graduated on July 3, 2012. in 1999. It was here at Middlesex that many of his lifelong from Harvard and earned his J.D. The third son of Carl B. Drake, at the University of Georgia Law M.D., and Louise H. Drake, he was relationships began and flourished over a nearly 40-year School, where he was named to born in St. Paul on September 20, career. Brad was a dedicated teacher of math; tenacious Phi Beta Kappa. 1925. Nearly totally deaf at birth, coach of football (including the undefeated varsity squad Following admission to the Harry first attended the Central in 1967), basketball, baseball, and golf; versatile leader Bar, Sid began private practice in Institute for the Deaf in St. Louis, as a dorm parent, dean of faculty, assistant headmaster, Gainesville in 1962. He was elected MO, where he learned to lip-read, sole Superior Court Judge for a skill that would serve him well and senior master; and friend and advisor to many. He Dawson, Hall, Lumpkin and White throughout his life. Upon his return had a profound impact on the experience of thousands of counties. In 1965, he was named home, he attended St. Paul Acad- alumni during his tenure at Middlesex, and he and his wife U.S. District Judge for the Northern emy and then spent his senior year Chris—who also coached and served as assistant director District of Georgia, where he served at Middlesex. After graduation, of athletics—were valued colleagues for hundreds of until 1974. Resigning to accept a Harry earned his B.A. at Macalester senior position in the Atlanta firm College, majoring in art. He pursued faculty members. of Alston and Bird, Sid remained a his passion for the arts at the Art Golf had a special place in Brad’s heart, and—after partner and counsel there until the Center College of Design in Los he served as the School’s golf coach for 14 years—the ISL end of his career. A member of the Angeles before heading to New York Golf Championship Bowl was named in his honor. He honed American College of Trial Lawyers, City to join the graphic design firm his own golf skills at the Concord Country Club, where he he was honored by both the Geor- of Frank Gianninoto & Associates. gia and Atlanta Bars for his service Several years later, Harry had been a member since 1972. Brad volunteered on many to the Courts and the profession. In returned to the Twin Cities to join committees and held many board positions there, including 1996, he received Middlesex’s Henry the advertising firm of McManus, serving as president from 1985–87. He also served as a Cabot Lodge ’20 Distinguished John and Adams, and to design a board member at The Fenn School from 1977–83. Friends, home for himself that he lived in Alumni Award. family, and former colleagues filled the Chapel at Brad’s Long interested in education, for the next 50 years. Throughout Sid served as chairman of the Gaines- his life, he was an avid sportsman memorial service, which was held at Middlesex on ville Board of Education, as a (skiing, tennis, and golf), archivist, September 23, 2012. member and chairman of the State art collector, and philanthropist. In addition to Chris, Brad is survived by his three Board of Regents, and as a trustee He amassed an impressive private sons, Phil ’82, Brad ’84, and David; three grandchildren; collection of modern photographs, of Brenau University for over 35 and two sisters, Jane McDonough and Ann Valpey. years. The graduate school at Brenau some of which were proudly dis- is named for him. At the time of his played at the Minneapolis Institute death, he was the longest serving of Arts in a 1997 exhibition entitled, member of Grace Episcopal Church, “The Poetics of Vision: Photographs Macalester’s 2005 Distinguished in many other charitable organiza- and he was a member of the Gaines- from the Collection of Harry M. Citizen Award. He was similarly tions as well, and in his spare time, ville Rotary Club. Drake.” involved with St. Paul Academy, he compiled an extensive family Sid was preceded in death by Harry was a staunch supporter serving as archivist and art benefac- genealogy and loved to travel and his parents; his first wife, Patricia of Macalester College, serving for a tor there for many years. The Acad- keep in touch with friends and Horkan; and three sisters, Charters decade as college’s archivist; endow- emy dedicated its centennial history family throughout the world. Smith Embry, Caroline Wallace, ing a professorship in the humanities book to Harry and named a gallery Predeceased by his parents and June Smith Woodruff. He is and arts there in 1998; and meriting in his honor. He was actively involved and two brothers, Harry is survived MIDDLESEX FALL 2012 45 In Memoriam

by seven nieces and nephews, Bell Academy before Middlesex. and three nephews. His late uncle, 18 grandnieces and grandnephews, William B. Carruthers ’47 Beginning his undergraduate Dudley Bransford ’29, also and nine great-grandnieces and studies at the University of the attended Middlesex. great-grandnephews. William Buttrick Carruthers died South at Sewanee, TN, John left on August 16, 2011. to join the U.S. Air Force during Born on August 1, 1929, Bill the Korean War and returned to Graham U. Johnson ’50 Richmond F. Johnson ’46 came to Middlesex from the Fenn Nashville to earn his B.A. at School, where he had spent the Vanderbilt after his tour of duty. In receiving word about the death Richmond Fletcher Johnson previous four years. Moving back In 1955, John became a sales of Richmond F. Johnson ’46, the died on February 25, 2010, in to England in May 1945, he later manager at Springfield Woolen School learned that his brother, Tucson, AZ. earned an L.L.B. at the University Mills. Subsequently, he began a Graham Underhill Johnson, had Born on November 29, 1927, of Cambridge. He practiced at the career as an entrepreneur, starting died on January 30, 1998. Richmond followed his father, Bar in London for a time before successful companies in manu- Graham was born on May 17, George H. Johnson ’19, and his falling in love with Africa and facturing and health care, and 1931, to Sara and George H. uncle, Hobart S. Johnson, Jr. ’23, moving to a law firm in Northern becoming early pioneer of online Johnson ’19, and followed family to Middlesex, attending the School Rhodesia. Bill married Jennifer database publishing. He co- tradition in attending Middlesex. from 1942 to 1944. He graduated Stevens on April 15, 1961, and they founded Cumberland Shoe Corp. Transferring to Lake Forest Acad- from Lake Forest Academy in 1945 lived in Ndola in the Copperbelt and Durango Boot Company in emy in 1949, he graduated from and spent the next three years as a as Northern Rhodesia gained its 1958, serving as its president and there and spent two years in the hospitalman apprentice in the U.S. independence as Zambia. In 1965, director until it was sold to Georgia U.S. Army during the Korean War. Navy. Continuing his education Bill bought a farm in Chisamba Shoe Company. John co-authored Graham then earned his under- at the University of Wisconsin, nearer Lusaka at the same time “The Wakefield Report on the graduate degree in history at the he earned a B.S. economics and as their first child was born. Two Need for an Automated Medical University of Wisconsin. In 1955, business. years later, as a family of four, they Examination System in Conjunc- he married Penelope Gill, and In 1962, Richmond was the went to live on the farm. Their tion with Expected Social Legis- they had three children: William, director of plastics at Gisholt youngest child was born in Lusaka lation in the Coming Decade,” Jennifer, and Polly. Prior to his Machine Co., his family’s business. in 1969, and a year later, the fam- which provided insight into the divorce in 1972, Graham was the He left Gisholt in 1966 to pursue a ily moved back to England. There, problem of rising health care president of a travel agency in career in the theatre, principally Bill joined the newly formed Indus- costs. This led to his founding of Madison, WI. He subsequently in Pittsburgh and New York. After trial Tribunal service as a part- American Health Profiles, Inc., moved to Thailand and, later, the earning his M.F.A. at the Academy time chairman and then became which developed systems for Philippines, where he remarried. of Dramatic Art at Oakland Uni- a full-time chairman in Bedford. providing health screening and Although an obituary for Graham versity in 1970, Richmond moved Finally, he retired as the regional physical examinations on a mas- could not be located by the time in 1978 to the Templeton/Pasa chairman of the eastern region in sive scale. In 1978, John founded of the Bulletin’s publication, it is Robles area of California, where Bury St. Edmunds and Bedford Occupational Health Services, known that Graham is survived he was very active as an actor, in 1995, but he continued as part- Inc., in conjunction with Physi- by his brother, Hobart S. Johnson director, and instructor in local time chairman for another four cians World Limited. The company ’47; and his nephew, Hobart C. theatre. Married to Rae Claybourne years. provided fee-based computer ser- Johnson ’81. in 2005, he moved to Seattle, WA, Bill his survived by his wife vices and database access to cor- for four years before settling in Jenny and their three children: porations and was a pioneer of Tucson, AZ, in 2009. Caroline, Alexander, and Judith. commercial online data sales prior William B. Sprout III ’51 Richmond was preceded in His late cousins, William to the widespread adoption of the death by his parents, George and Buttrick ’51, David Amory ’51, World Wide Web. John was also William Bradford Sprout III died Sara; his sister Kaia; and his and Stedman Amory ’56, also chairman of the Health and Safety on April 8, 2012, at the Golden brother, Graham U. Johnson ’50. attended Middlesex, as did his Committee of the American Soci- Living Center in Cohasset, MA. His survivors include his three surviving cousins, John Buttrick ety for the Testing of Materials The son of the late Sybil daughters, Julia Franco, Kristin ’50 and John Amory ’51. (ASTM), a consensus organization Vroom and William B. Sprout, Jr., Day, and Kim Chapin; six grand- that incorporates the views of the Bill was born in Boston, MA, on children; his brother, Hobart S. International Program for Safety July 16, 1933. He attended Derby Johnson ’47; and his nephew, John S. Bransford, Jr. ’50 and Chemicals (IPSC), based in Academy before transferring Hobart C. Johnson ’81. the Netherlands. to Middlesex; on graduating, he John Sterling Bransford, Jr. died Preceded in death by his par- went on to earn English degrees peacefully of natural causes at his ents and his brother Jacob, John at Princeton and Columbia, also home on June 2, 2012. is survived by his wife of 58 years, attending La Sorbonne in Paris, A native Nashvillian, John Nell Hudgings Bransford; two where he earned a Certificat was born to Helen Dickinson sons, John Sterling Bransford III d’Etudes Françaises. A U.S. Army and John S. Bransford, Sr. ’25 on and Robert Hudgings Bransford; veteran of the Korean War who November 23, 1930. He attended five grandchildren; a sister, Helen served overseas in Japan, Bill was Parmer School and Montgomery Bransford MacInerny; two nieces; primarily a language teacher by

46 MIDDLESEX FALL 2012 profession. Early in his career, he In the late 1980s, he and his wife In addition to his wife Chris, lived in Europe for five years, three Richard H. Murphy ’54 Kate lived for three years in Japan, Iver is survived by his four chil- of which were spent as an assis- where they taught English as a dren, Heath, Kelicia, Holly, and tant d’Anglais in a French lycée. The School recently learned that second language and wrote and Lars; his sister Karen and two He subsequently taught English Richard Hansen Murphy died edited English language textbooks. brothers, Eric and Lars; five grand- and film at the Rhode Island School on May 24, 2004. Returning to East Africa with children, and dozens of nephews, of Design for eight years, also Dick was born on August 18, his son in 2007, the two lived in nieces, grandnephews, and grand- serving as a staff reporter and 1936, and attended the Center Kigali, Rwanda, for nearly a year, nieces. Sunday feature writer for The School in Acton, MA, before join- where Jim taught English and Providence Journal and The Rhode ing the sixth class at Middlesex. HIV awareness to Rwandans. A Islander. Later, while completing On graduating, he earned his man of broad interests and talents, Edward P. Sullivan ’79 his M.A. and Ph.D. in Romance undergraduate degree at Cornell he was an avid runner and hiker; languages at Harvard, he served in 1958 and served as president of a master of languages who loved Edward Patrick Sullivan passed as a teaching fellow there in Bellows Farm Hospital in Acton. literature and poetry and wrote away on July 13, 2012, at Lowell French and English. After his retirement in 1976, he several children’s books; and a General Hospital. An accomplished athlete, Bill enjoyed traveling extensively and lover of music and photography. Born in Stoneham, MA, on played the European tennis circuit was pleased to be able to say that Jim is survived by his son Iain; August 8, 1961, he was the son and was highly ranked nationally he had climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. his sister Gail; his partner, Joanne of the late Robert P. Sullivan and for two years in France in men’s At the time of his death, Dick Payne; and his former wife, Kate Susan McLaughlin Sullivan. Ed singles and ranked in A Level was survived by his daughter, Mueller. attended Tewksbury Public Gram- Bundesliga in Germany. Subse- Elaine Patrikis; two sons, John mar Schools and St. Stanislaus quently, he held national and New and William; three brothers, Parochial Grammar School in England rankings in tennis and David, Michael, and John E. Iver E. Peterson ’60 Lowell. Following his graduation squash in the U.S. Murphy ’67; three sisters, Marie from Middlesex, he attended Bill is survived by his sister, Tobeason, Amy Keane, and Susan Iver Echart Peterson died of Syracuse University, where he Sarah S. Lovett. Holland; four grandchildren; complications from leukemia received his degree in economics and many nieces and nephews. on August 1, 2012. in 1983. He was born on June 30, 1942, Since the day he was old Jeremiah Clarke, Jr. ’53 in Brattleboro, VT. After gradu- enough to carry a hammer, Ed James H. Wallace ’55 ating from Middlesex and Har- worked in residential construc- Jeremiah Clarke, Jr. died on Janu- vard, Iver spent several years in tion. Together with his late father, ary 13, 2012 at Newport Hospital James Herbert Wallace died Vietnam working for the U.S. he constructed and remodeled in Newport, RI. on May 8, 2012, at Westchester Agency for International Devel- numerous homes throughout Born in Brooklyn, NY, on Medical Center in Valhalla, NY. opment and for The New York Greater Lowell, Southern New April 24, 1934, he was the son Born and raised in White Times as a correspondent. He con- Hampshire, and Essex County. of the late Jeremiah and Virginia Plains, NY, Jim attended a one- tinued his career with the Times Ed enjoyed a passion for youth Beguelin Clarke. Jerry entered the room schoolhouse down the road at several U.S. bureaus, including sports; he served as vice president fifth class at Middlesex from the from his home before moving Denver and Trenton, NJ. Most of the Tewksbury Youth Baseball Green Vale School and, after grad- on to attend the Harvey School, recently, Iver was the public affairs Program, was a founder of the uation, served in the U.S. Army. Middlesex, and Williams College, officer at the Jordan International Tewksbury Challenger Baseball He then earned a B.S. at Bradford- from which he graduated magna Police Training Center in Amman, League, was coaching the Tewks- Durfee College and later com- cum laude with a degree in Eng- Jordan, for the Iraqi Police Pro- bury U-17 All-Star Baseball Team, pleted his master’s degree in art lish literature. He spent a year in gram, where his wife Chris was coached the “Chiefs” and the education at City College in New Norway on a Fulbright and then the deputy chief of firearms. “Mohawks” in the Tewksbury York. Jerry worked as a school attended Yale University. In the Iver loved working on vintage Youth Football Program, and teacher in North Kingstown, early 1960s, Jim earned a diploma cars, was drawn to the open road, served as secretary for the Tewks- Jamestown, and Narragansett, in education from London Uni- and spent countless family vaca- bury Youth Basketball Program. RI. He was a member of St. Paul’s versity and joined Teachers for tions driving cross-country and An avid sportsman, Ed enjoyed Methodist Church in Newport East Africa for three years, teach- camping in the desert. He spent golfing, hunting, fishing, skiing, and enjoyed collecting old chil- ing English as a second language much of his retirement freelancing horse racing, and being outdoors. dren’s books, games, and toys, in Kampala, Uganda. Later, Jim stories of these travels. Iver loved In addition to his wife Joan, as well as postcards. was senior editor at McGraw-Hill to sing around the campfire and Ed is survived by his children, Jerry is survived by his brother, in New York City for six years in the choir at the Presbyterian Connor and Sarah; his brother, John W. Clarke; his sister, Ann A. and then acquisitions editor for Church of Lawrenceville, NJ. He James M. Sullivan ’78; his sister, Clarke Smith Spivey; his nephew, another two years. was devoted to his family, hard Cyndi Sullivan Scarano; and many Capt. John H. Smith III; and two In the early 70s, he moved work, the beauty of nature, and nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, grandnieces. to Vermont, where he worked driving the car around “just one cousins, and friends. variously as a freelance editor, more bend” to discover what disk jockey, and car mechanic. might be there.

MIDDLESEX FALL 2012 47 Back Story

A Class Act

A rendering of the future Profound, lasting friendships are among the Ned’s lifelong love of sports and compe- 1962 Room, as drawn by great benefits of a Middlesex education, as tition. “For their 50th reunion, they wanted CBT Architects. the class of 1962 can attest. “We were always to create a lasting tribute from their class that pretty close, even when we were going through would also have an impact on the School.” school,” confirms Trustee Curt Curtis ’62, “and From their work as trustees, Curt, Chip we’ve gotten closer as the years have gone on.” Elfner ’62, and David Weil ’62 knew that a Every five years, the group would enjoy few dorms on campus still needed renovations. a strong turnout at Alumni Weekend—until Attention soon centered on funding a new sometime around the 20th reunion, when common room in one of those dorms and they decided to extend those celebrations. naming it “The 1962 Room.” Gathering for dinner in Boston with their The genesis of the idea was to find a wives on Thursday night, the classmates meaningful way to remember their fallen would enjoy a round of golf on Friday, and classmates. “I think we’ve lost seven guys in end with a visit to Middlesex on Saturday. the class,” Curt says, “and they were all really “Around the time of the 25th,” Curt laughs, good guys. We thought we’d start a plaque “we started our reunions on Wednesday!” in the room with the names of those who are Given their camaraderie, it is not sur- gone, and then, as each person leaves us, his prising that they have remained strongly name will go on the plaque. When the last connected to Middlesex—serving as trustees, man falls, the class of ’62 will be back on sending their own children to the School, and campus and together again.” responding generously when called on for In their senior year, as documented in support. “This is a class that has a history of their Yearbook, the annual “talent” show and doing big things,” says Director of Advance- auction called “Hook Night” was closed with ment George Noble, noting that in 1996, the the proclamation: “Let it be known that we, death of Ned Northrop ’62 inspired his class- the class of 1962, love Middlesex!” Decades mates to help found the Edward H. Northrop later, they have made it clear that they still Chair for the Athletic Director, commemorating really mean it. M

48 MIDDLESEX FALL 2012 Middlesex Alumni Association Gala Benefit and Auction April 5, 2013

Please join fellow alumni and parents for the second Middlesex Alumni Association Gala Benefit and Auction at The Four Seasons Hotel in Boston on April 5, 2013, at 6:30 p.m.

The inaugural Gala raised over $150,000 for the Middlesex Alumni Association (MxAA), which has used those funds to help support a variety of annual alumni outreach programs:

Summer Internship Stipend Program Alumni Career Panels in NYC & Boston On-Campus Alumni Art Exhibit Young Alumni Holiday Receptions College-Age Alumni Gatherings Parent & Alumni Golf Tournaments

The success of the 2011 Gala also allowed the MxAA to make a $15,000 grant to the School’s financial aid budget to help cover scholarship students’ incidental expenses, such as the cost of trips taken by athletic teams or academic departments, athletic equipment, and travel to and from campus during school vacations.

For more information about the Gala— or to inquire about donating an auction item— please contact Director of Alumni Affairs John Morrissey at 978-369-5110 or [email protected] Nonprofit Org. U.S. Postage PAID 1400 Lowell Road Concord, MA 01742 P.O.Box 9122 Permit No. 116 Concord, Massachusetts 01742-9122 www.mxschool.edu

Luck Be a Lady A perennial favorite, Guys and Dolls entertained Middlesex audiences with 50 MIDDLESEXthree lively FALL performances 2012 last May. Along Lowell Road, October 2010; photo by Jonathan Milne ’12