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Inside This Issue TASIS TODAY Spring 2006 A Magazine for Alumni and Friends of The American School In Switzerland Inside this issue: Theater at TASIS Misfortune on Everest Making Music Work Building Character Spring 2006 6 8 6 Building Character BY SIERRA QUITIQUIT ‘07 TASIS students make their mark by building homes in Rumania with Habitat for Humanity and come home with more than they ever imagined. 8 Abode of Snow BY HANS FIGI ‘75 Some Called Them the Romeo and Juliet of the Cold War: Fran Yarbro ‘76 was the first American woman to summit Mount Everest without using supplemental oxygen, a goal some thought impossible… 11 Music Maker Alumna Jeanie Cunningham ‘75 meets her idols Ike & Tina Turner TASIS TODAY TASIS at a concert in Zurich in 1974 and launches a life-long career in singing and songwriting. 14 Much Ado About Something - Theater at TASIS From “street theater” to musicals to Shakespeare, TASIS students 2 Letter from the Headmaster act and integrate theater into their curriculum despite the current 3 Letter from the Chairman need of a real place to perform. of the Board 4 Around Campus 18 Elementary School Takes Flight TASIS has great success opening the first English-language elementary 22 Board News school in Ticino. 26 Financial Summary 27 Report on Alumni Giving 20 Asking Questions. Getting Real Answers. 31 Alumni Reunions Tokyo, Idaho, Kosovo. What do they have in common? 38 Travel Connection 30 Making Time Live: Bertha Seifert, 1905-2005 BY Dr. M.D. AESCHLIMAN 40 Parting Shot A great teacher and memorable character in the history of TASIS 41 Alumni News leaves a legacy of living life to the fullest. Mission Statement Publisher/Editor Sharon Figi TASIS is a family of international schools that welcomes young people from all Contributing Editors nationalities to an educational community Lynn Fleming Aeschliman ‘63 Hans Figi ‘75 which fosters a passion for excellence along 11 with mutual respect and understanding. Consistent with the vision of its founder, M. Crist Fleming, TASIS is committed to transmitting the heritage of Western civilization and world cultures: the Graphic Design creations, achievements, traditions, and Michele Kestenholz ideals from the past that offer purpose in the present and hope for the future. Photographic Director/ Seeking to balance the pursuit of know- Contributing Designer ledge with the love of wisdom, and Kim Nelson promoting the skills of lifelong learning, an appreciation for beauty, and the Production Assistant development of character, each school Yvonne Procyk combines a challenging academic program with opportunities for artistic endeavor, physical activity, and service to others. Believing in the worth of each individual and the importance of enduring 14 relationships, TASIS seeks to embody and instill the values of personal responsibility, Contributing Photographers civility, compassion, justice, and truth. Barton Ballard Hans Figi 20 Sharon Figi The TASIS Schools and Summer Programs Michele Kestenholz are fully controlled by a Swiss, independent, Kim Nelson not-for-profit educational foundation, the Lesly Seta TASIS Foundation, registered in Delemont, Sierra Quitiquit Switzerland. Donations to the Swiss Foundation, as well as to the US TASIS Foundation, Inc., a 18 publicly supported, section 501(c)(3) non- profit, educational organization, are tax deductible to the extent allowable in the Cover photo by Kim Nelson: donors’ respective countries. Phillip Astein plays Touch- 30 tone in TASIS’ Fall Shakespeare production of As You Like It. Address Changes: [email protected] Alumni Office c/o TASIS CH-6926 Montagnola, Switzerland © Copyright TASIS Story Submissions: The American School In Switzerland [email protected] Printer: Lepori & Storni, Lugano V/2006 - 8500X Attention Sharon Figi From the Headmaster hen Mrs. Fleming arrived in Ticino a half century Today TASIS is marked by diversity—with more than 50 ago, she planted a seed in the form of a winning nationalities represented among 380 students grades K-13— W idea: a boarding school that and yet we still boast an uncommon would bring together the best of unity. Th e School is as committed today American and European culture and as in 1956 to creating an educational values, providing students the chance community that draws the best out of to learn through close contact with students by surrounding them with talented faculty, all framed by a beautiful elements essential to a quality education landscape. Over the ensuing decades —people, facilities, and programs that she nurtured her idea along, feeding it, provide broad preparation for higher protecting it, and watching it mature education and for a life of ongoing into the school we see today. service in an increasingly needy world. We travel to sites near and far A seed bears little resemblance to the tree each year, providing students rich it will become. Yet even the tiniest seed opportunities to learn on-site and contains all the genetic information to spark in them an appreciation for necessary to direct its growth. Th e seed beauty and curiosity to know more. knows what kind of tree it will become. We teach languages, history, math, Mrs. Fleming’s original idea was that science, and the arts. But we don’t stop kernel, packed full of the critical themes there. Our school continually seeks that, sowed properly and in the right to instill in students those values that soil, have blossomed into the thriving, marked Mrs. Fleming’s original mission one-of-a-kind place called Th e American —responsibility, civility, compassion, School in Switzerland. and truth, among others. We are motivated by the belief that education Th ousands of students from all over that includes such values can make a the world have benefi ted from a TASIS positive diff erence, in fact, must make education. Like the rings that expand a tree’s girth each a positive diff erence in the lives of young people, no matter year, we add layer upon layer of students and teachers, their nationality. Some values don’t grow old, even after 50 while this tree grows more and more impressive with each years. passing year. After a half century, TASIS has stayed true to its roots. When were you at TASIS? Like the interior ring of a tree, you Sincerely, are still a part of us, and we still depend on you. Jeff rey C. Bradley, Headmaster 2 - TASIS TODAY From the Chairman of the Board t is always a delight to be in touch with our alumni, with As we prepare a book on the history of TASIS for the 50th the high hopes that each of you is fl ourishing and “doing anniversary, I am reminded of many of the extraordinary teachers I TASIS proud”! It is also a pleasure to report on affairs and other personnel who have made TASIS the memorable and at TASIS. Each year seems to fl y by and here we are preparing life-transforming experience that it has been for thousands of our to celebrate the 50th anniversary of TASIS in Lugano at Arts alumni. Our new Headmaster, Jeff Bradley, has brought in some Festival Weekend May 19-21, after successful reunions in Tokyo, very fi ne new teachers to complement our veteran master teachers Los Angeles, and New York last fall, and Sao Paolo, Madrid, such as Cynthia Whisenant, Mark Aeschliman, Kay Hamblin, Horst and Istanbul this spring. We are pleased that so many alumni are Dürrschmidt, Paul Greenwood and Howard Stickley. As Henry planning to join in the festivities in May. My Adams said, though it is usually impossible mother at 95 is planning to stay alive to welcome to quantify, a teacher can affect eternity through as many alumni as possible to their alma the lives of his or her students. (John Wither- mater, so please don’t disappoint her! The spoon’s students at Princeton---including week leading up to the Golden Anniversary James Madison---had a crucial, benefi cial Reunion will see meetings of the new TASIS effect on the young American republic.) Board of Directors the Foundation Board, and I always fi nd it exciting to hear good reports the Development Board, all important Boards about the academic, athletic, and extracurricular with separate foci and responsibilities. endeavors of our students and to see the progress My mother, Founder and Director Emerita Mrs. of our students over their years at TASIS. We M.C. Fleming, has completed her donation aim to prepare them well for the challenges ahead of both TASIS and TASIS England Schools in college and adult life. and campuses into the TASIS Foundation, It is also exciting to see the new TASIS a not-for-profi t Swiss educational foundation. Elementary School take fl ight. To handle this During this past year, the Foundation Board expansion in Hadsall and Coach House, we has implemented changes in the governance have acquired, through the generous help of of both TASIS and TASIS England. These an alumni parent, Ca’ Gioia (ex-Gini), a building governance changes were put in place to overlooking the campus, and through bank further ensure the perpetuation of both schools, fi nancing are building Aurora, a new which was the objective of the Founder in classroom building above Ca’ Pietra, both donating these schools to the TASIS Foundation, for use by the High School. and consist of new Boards of Directors at each school. These newly-formed Boards of I am very pleased to welcome as head of Directors will play an increasingly important our Development and Alumni team, Hans role in governing the schools to keep them Figi, TASIS class of 1975, and his family to fi scally and scholastically sound, although fi nal responsibility TASIS. Supported by Frank and Mei-Ling Klein, Hans will be for the whole organization rests with the TASIS Foundation leading TASIS to new heights of alumni involvement and support.
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