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Last year our community stepped forward to support Princeton Day School in remarkable ways The 2012-2013 Annual Fund ended on June 30 with record-breaking results. Princeton Day School received $1,399,513 in gifts made possible by 1,934 individuals. The Annual Fund supports the efforts of our faculty, coaches, staff and students whose teaching and learning are the true work of this incredible school. The PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL Annual Fund { • » ) •j www.pds.org Photo above: [Front row, I to r] Allison Persky ’13, Leah Falcon ’13, Anjuli Kama ’13, Colby White ’13, Ellen Bartolino ’13, Ron Gerschcl ’13, Carolyn Kossow ’13, Abha Kulkarni ’13, Amanda Mac Donohue ’13; [Back row, I to r j Sophia Eisenberg ’13, Patten Mills ’13, Thomas Martino ’13, Zeeza Cole 13, Alec Jones ’13, Brian Dudcck ’13, Jack Laylin ’13, Elizabeth Snyder ’13, Bob Madani ’13 Work is nearly complete on the new entrance sign gracing the Great Road, October 2013 FEATURES 05 The Class of 2013 IN EVERY ISSUE 18 Teaching Wellness, Teaching Balance Princeton Day School Kicks Off an Ambitious PreK-12 02 Letter from Head of School Health, Wellness, and Human Sexuality Curriculum 03 s c h o o l l if e : News and Events 23 The I and the IPhone: Shira Concool '06 09 s c h o o l l if e : Arts Notes 25 From the Archives: 12 s c h o o l l if e : Sports Notes Dress Code Mirrors Attitudes 15 Faculty Notes 31 From the Classroom to the Boardroom: 28 Board of Trustees News Jack Wallace '48 Retires as Longest Serving Trustee 34 Annual Report 70 Alumni News On the Cover: A wordle represents student responses to a health and wellness survey. 76 Class Notes 95 In Memoriam Fall 2013 Journal Volume 51/Number 2 96 Snapshots Editor: Kathryn Rosko, Director of Communications Designer: Margery Miller, Art Director Contributing Writers: Linda Maxwell Stefanelli '62, Evan Thomas Class Notes Editor: Ann Wiley '70 Photography: Bentley Drezner, Nancy Erickson, Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick, Margery Miller Printed on 100% post Printed by Garrison Printing Company Fall 2 0 1 3 LETTER FROM Paul J. Stellato, Head of Sck ool Director of College Counseling Sarah Graham always has one eye trained on the next big thing. Several years ago, as she prepared to offer the first in a string of college nights for junior parents, she asked herself this question: Instead of providing for our parents and their children the best, most up-to-date advice from college admissions deans on how to gain admission to their hallowed institutions, what might we learn if we used the night to gain some insight into what colleges are seeing and experiencing once our students pass through their ivy-covered gates? Sarah fash­ ioned an answer to her own question with her choice of speaker for the night: the director of health services from a local, highly selective university. For nearly an hour, this remarkable health professional manage disappointment and enjoy success. Conquering the told a tale of joy and sorrow: of welcoming to her campus daunting task became the work of our health/wellness/human the best and brightest young men and women our country sexuality task force. Its efforts and inquiry are the stuff of - and the world - could offer to its universities, only to see this Jou rn a ls focus. them undone by the sheer weight of expectation, competi­ As I look back to that college counseling program and tion, and lack of sleep! She described, in sharp detail, a reflect upon the work completed last year by the task force, generation of students who had organized their young lives I am struck by both the progress we have made and the around achieving one goal: gaining admission to one selective questions we have struggled to answer. Perhaps my disquiet university or another; who filled their resumes with AP comes from the uncomfortable truth washing over every courses, extra-curricular and community service activities, word of the task forces first-year report: looking always to internships, world travel, and one club after another; and their teachers, parents, friends, and peers for guidance and who, having won the prize (a fat envelope in November direction, our students may feel that the only answer is to or May), dragged themselves to the threshold of those ivy- try harder, work longer, and sleep less. Or, to paraphrase covered gates, unsure of what to do next and unable to Walt Kelly’s Pogo: we have met the taskmaster, and he is us. recall why they had labored so long and sacrificed so much. So you see the dilemma. The work of the task force thus A standing-room-only, eager and boisterous audience fell far has been to understand, as fully as we can, our students’ silent, as the canvas painted before them was not of the lives. We have asked them to tell us a great deal about freshman class at Princeton, Columbia, or Stanford, but themselves, and they have done just that. Armed as we are of their own sons and daughters. with this trove of information and insight; and dedicated as Several months before, in the accreditation report issue we are to growing and graduating bright, productive, curious, by the visiting team from the Middle States Association of and healthy young adults, we now endeavor to build a Colleges and Schools, we found this potentially transformative curriculum - and a school culture - that does just that. recommendation: The School should establish a system o f curricular coordination so that the School's program can reach its fu ll potential. Of course, the recommendation was directed at our academic program and the opportunities present in a curriculum that stretches across 14 grades. But given the Middle States charge; and sensitive to the reality that our children travel a path as much emotional and spiritual as Head of School it is academic, we expanded our interpretation of the committee’s charge: to build a PreK to 12 health and well­ ness curriculum to strengthen and support every child, and provide for the balance and perspective they would need to JOURNAL SCHOOL LIFE News and Events Sustainability at Princeton Day Sckool: An Update As part of Princeton Day School’s sustainability initiative, the cafeteria operated by Flik Dining Services d) [ F P T y i^ received a three-star certification from the Green Restaurant Association. © M A U LS M Only 15 other schools below the college level nationally have received this certification and only five schools have three stars. Princeton Day School and Flik have partnered for the past several years to create a more sustainable food service to provide delicious, healthy, fresh cooked meals in a way that is less harmful to the environment. “Every part of a student’s experience at Princeton Day School should be educational,” said Liz Cutler, f e a t u r in g Sustainability Coordinator and Upper School English teacher, “and lunch is A re -fchfc eco n o m y and no exception.” The Green Restaurant Association HEIDI CULLEN certifies restaurants all over the United Chi e f cum aio 1091st atcumodbt ce n tra l Hotu ujiit cumatjLChouige atfect motiwr? States and grades institutions in the ■-----^ ; ---------- D mmnW gM t --- ----- ---------- -—------ ' • areas of water efficiency, waste reduction a r u l a ls o and recycling, sustainable furnishings and building materials, sustainable HOW TO FORAGE food, energy, disposables, and chemical and pollution reduction. Ms. Culter went on to note, “We live in a world where fewer and fewer children sit REG ISTER BY APRIL 2 6 a t ulhuuj.pd5 . 0r g /e t0c 0 n fe re n c c down to a family meal and where at least a quarter of all Americans eat fast A\ / a \ food every day. We have an opportunity I I — 1 105 pm here to model healthy eating habits and help students understand that r x PDS EnAct Club members created the posters to promote the second annual everything we do, including how eco-conference at PDS in May. and what we eat, has an effect on the environment.” “The next goal is to achieve four most American beef. It should also Among the many reasons Princeton stars,” notes Ms. Cutler. taste better.” Day School received this certification In addition, Ms. Cutler and Chef are the high percentage of locally Brian Mochnal of FLIK announced “ Our Future, Our Challenge" purchased foods, the successful com­ a new source for all beef served in the Eco-Conference at PDS posting program, the many recipes cafeteria: Meyer Natural Angus The Upper School student club, that are nutritious, but low on the (http:/ / meyernaturalangus .com/our- Environmental Action Club food chain, the reusable utensils and promise). Ms. Cutler remarked, “The (EnACT), organized their second dishware, the daily food cooked from beef now served in our cafeteria will eco-conference on campus in May scratch, and the green cleaning be from animals who are raised more for fellow students and community supplies. The School achieved 177 healthfully, treated more humanely, members. EnACT assembled an out of 200 possible points. and processed more carefully than impressive line-up of speakers, including Fall 2 0 1 3 Top left, LS students plant apple trees with science teacher Aaron Schomburg to revive the orchard by Pretty Brook Farm; top, LS students perform at the closing ceremony; bottom, MS students line up for the closing ceremony; right, Former Head of Upper School Carlton Tucker at Commencement where he became an honorary member of the Class of 2013.

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