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Fall/Winter 2017 News reporter Sam Goldberg ’12 interviews Dontae Johnson ’10 of the San Francisco 49ers during a game against the Philadelphia Eagles on October 29. page 58 Save the Date! for the twenty-third annual Scholarship Golf Classic Monday, June 11, 2018 Bedens Brook Club, Skillman, NJ S P T S C G Rain Date: October 8, 2018 All proceeds from the Classic support scholarships for students who would not otherwise be able to attend The Pennington School. ii Pennington MagazineFor more Fall/Winter information, 2017 please contact Jane Bott Childrey ’89 at [email protected]. Features 2. Convocation: Dr. Hawkey’s remarks Collections Room help transform this center Save the Date! addressed the importance of honor and this of learning for the twenty-first century. Fall/Winter 2017 Volume 58, No. 2 year’s theme, be honorable. 27. New Sophomore Leadership 4. Opening Week: A new schedule for the Program: The Sophomore Character for the twenty-third annual Headmaster first week of school highlighted Pennington’s Development and Leadership Program William S. Hawkey, Ph.D. core values and focused on community. begins with the Class of 2020. Editor Lori G. Lipsky 6. Homecoming: Hundreds of alumni 42. Bridging Cultures: Talented art Director of Communications and Marketing returned for the weekend of October 13–15. students and boys’ basketball players traveled Scholarship Golf Classic [email protected] 609–737–6156 to China in 2017. 12. Celebrating Success: School Communications Team leadership and faculty, donors, and current 44. Athletic Leadership Program: Monday, June 11, 2018 Lisa O. Aliprando A. Melissa Kiser parents gathered to toast the success of In its third year, this program works with Bedens Brook Club, Skillman, NJ Kimberly Palmucci Pennington’s five-year comprehensive team captains to help them inspire the best campaign. Director of Admission and Financial Aid performances from their players. Sharon Jarboe 18. Striving for Sustainability: Campus- 50. Alumni News: A first annual Asian Assistant Headmaster for Strategic Initiatives wide initiatives are dedicated to supporting Charles D. Brown Alumni Festival in Hong Kong, Alumni and advancing sustainable practices and Theater’s second annual performance, the Contributing Writers thinking at Pennington. New York holiday reception, Class Notes, Tamara Alito, Margo Andrews, Megan Eckerson ’19, Marc Epstein, Sam Goldberg ’12, Billy and more Hawkey ’10, Lisa Houston, Lissa Kiser, Lori 24. Meckler Library: Renovations to Lipsky, Jamie Moore ’03, Gretchen Overhiser, the Library and a new Archives and Special Kimmy Palmucci, Jessie Shaffer, Henry Sheeran ’14, Samantha Stern-Leaphart, Veronica Vesnaver, Lori Washton P’20, Susan Wirsig Contributing Photographers Margo Andrews, Dolores Eaton, Bill Hawkey, Lisa Houston, Bill Hutnik, Jim Inverso, Ellie Jarboe ’14, Lissa Kiser, Lori Lipsky, Rob McClellan, Jamie Moore ’03, Kimmy Palmucci, Colin Schostak ’17, Tim Scott, Mike Schwartz, Jessie Shaffer, Jeffrey Totaro, Lori Washton P’20, Susan Wirsig, Weikang Yuan Printing Prism Color Corporation The Pennington School 112 West Delaware Avenue Pennington, NJ 08534 609–737–1838 www.pennington.org All materials copyright © 2017 by The Pennington School unless otherwise noted. The cupola device, circular logo, and split P are registered trademarks of The Pennington School. Opinions expressed in Pennington Magazine are those of the authors, not Also Inside necessarily those of The Pennington School. 10. Homecoming Awards 30. Board of Trustees News The Pennington School admits students of any race, religion, color, national and ethnic origin to 11. Parents for Pennington News 32. Upper School Athletics all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students 14. Special Events 38. Middle School News at the School. It does not discriminate on the basis 17. Fall Concert 41. Middle School Athletics of race, color, religion, gender, physical disability, national and ethnic origin, or sexual orientation 20. Faculty News 46. Lessons and Carols and in administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and financial aid 22. Fall Play: Romeo and Juliet HomeFront Holiday Party programs, employment policies, and athletic and 29. Academic Honors 61. Upcoming Events other school-administered programs. www.pennington.org 1 Convocation 09.08.17 Highlights of Dr. Hawkey’s remarks his year we welcome 134 new again last year, bringing with them medical students to our community from supplies for over 1,000 individuals in need, twenty-one different countries, which they personally administered during Tand we have this year the largest freshman the weeklong trip. Our twenty-four-year “Honor is not the class in the history of the School. We commitment to HomeFront continues to appendage of any social believe that all of these new students make a difference in the lives of our friends from grades 6 through 12 will join our and neighbors here in Mercer County. class. It is a way of life returning ones to make Pennington an And last year, a group of our Upper School which may be freely even stronger, more vibrant place than it is students formed a partnership with a third- today. grade class at the Christina Seix Academy chosen by any man or in Trenton to help bring STEM education woman, regardless of Pennington students are some of the most to their school. accomplished students anywhere. race, color, or creed.” Our students bring honor to Pennington when they compete on our award-winning —Professor T. Braxton Woody computer science and math teams, on University of Virginia our Middle School Odyssey of the Mind teams, and in writing, drama, and language competitions. But we are not just academic wizards: Our students traveled to Haiti 2 Pennington Magazine Fall/Winter 2017 Pennington’s history is 180 years old. The so many different areas—as well as our I want you to live lives of principle and Methodists who founded our School surging reputation that we are not only to inspire others to do the same through embraced differences and put Pennington a school that cares about providing you example and encouragement. at the forefront of being an inclusive and with a first-rate academic education, but welcoming institution to many different also a school that cares very much about I’d like to invite each of you to think faiths, races, and nationalities. Before it you as a developing young person. Our about how you can be more honorable was in vogue for schools to seek diversity, commitment to you, our students, goes this year. It may come in the form of your Pennington was leading by example. Our far beyond learning in the classroom to interactions with friends, classmates, teachers, beliefs have never wavered since 1838, and include your continuing development parents, opponents, or even strangers. Be as you start school this year, it is important as thoughtful, ethical, and curious young courageous, have integrity, and act with to embrace these fundamental values. people who don’t just acquire knowledge dignity. Whether you are a student, a parent, or part but who seek truth and ask incisive of our faculty and staff, being a member questions. There is such beauty and grace in the of this tight-knit community requires this simplicity of the statement “Do the right commitment. Last year I challenged our community to thing.” I am happy to offer you students a year live a life with virtue, and the year before to filled with opportunities, and opportunities This past week we explored some other consider humility first. And this year, I want to be honorable—at home, at school, and ideals that we believe are equally important, to celebrate the third of Pennington’s core wherever your path may take you this year. like respect, compassion, kindness, values—honor—and this year’s theme, be empathy, and inclusion. These ideals are a honorable. No matter who you are, or where you have part of one of our School’s most important come from, or what you did this summer, core values: honor. We expect our students to think about we have important work to do this year, and honor in all facets of their lives, and with we can accomplish it together as a School All of you are part of a School community every choice they make. You are all proud community, committed to honoring the that is enjoying unprecedented growth in representatives of our fine School, and values of humility, virtue, and honor. www.pennington.org 3 “I wrote this poem [excerpted below] with the intention of bringing something personal and smashing it together with a message that’s relevant today. I am so proud of my height and who I am, and I wish others could love themselves and all of the beauty they have to offer. To share this message in front of the entire School and to perform before Mr. Mali is an experience I will never forget.” —Megan Eckerson ’19 Poem I am a woman. I am a woman of unique proportions, Standing at six feet and three inches, seeing the top of many heads instead of faces. If you could name the average height of a female in today’s world, It’s not me. Let me tell you a little something about the average New Community Week height of a woman, It’s 5’4”. Do I look like I’m 5’4”? If I were 5’4”, opens school year My arms wouldn’t extend out so far, when I reach out in front of me. Perhaps I wouldn’t have to his past summer, School administrators designed a different “grow into certain parts of my body.” Perhaps I wouldn’t have gotten called “Sasquatch” program for students for the first week of school. Teachers in fifth grade.