CMYK ON THE WEB: www.phillipian.net Volume CXXVI, Commencement Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts June 8, 2003 COMMENCEMENT 2003 RETIRING FACULTY COLLEGE ADMISSIONS Robin Crawford 50% of Applications Retires After Accepted; 89 Seniors 32 Years To Matriculate at Ivies DEPARTING FACULTY SECRET SOCIETY FOUND Boehm, Cataldo, All-Male Club Calling Cleare, Driscoll, For “Truth, Unity, Fay, Flynn, Jou, Brotherhood” Koehler, Whites Discovered DISTINGUISHED VISITORS STUDENT GOVERNMENT Famed Guests Hass, Faculty Decide To Jennings, Marsalis, Modify Athletic and Tutu Requirement BUDGET CUTS SAUDI PRINCE’S DONATION Trustees Approve Bin Talal Attracts Sweeping Budget Media Attention Adjustments With $500k Gift Anniversary Weekend Celebrates Trustees and Deans’ Council Approve Founding of Phillips and Abbot Budget Cuts for Upcoming School Year watch the journey during my 40 Mr. Bush stated, “I got a lot out of cial aid, and preserving the current technology and physical plant By ELISSA HARWOOD years of teaching.” my education, and you always By PETER NELSON academic program from future renewal projects in the coming Commemorating the 225th According to Director of want to give back, though you can Responding to the $140 mil- cutbacks. year. anniversary of the founding of Student Activities Kevin Driscoll, never thank people adequately.” lion decline in the market value of Faced with significant chal- In the remainder of its discus- Phillips Academy, the 175th the seminars were designed with In his speech to members of the Academy’s endowment, the lenges posed by the economic sions, the Council sought to focus anniversary of Abbot Academy’s students in mind, as members of the Academy community, Mr. Deans’ Council authorized the recession and the demands of the on the areas of the Academy’s establishment, and the 30th the committee “made a concerted Bush explained the significance of immediate suspension of the faculty, the Board of Trustees con- budget that are not at the core of anniversary of the merger of the effort to make these sessions not his Andover experience as invalu- school’s co-curricular programs vened during their winter meeting the academic program, specifical- two schools, Andover marked only informative, but entertaining able to his success in later life. He earlier this year in an effort to curb to determine an initial solution to ly all co-curricular programs that three milestones in its history this for the students who are required later elaborated, “[My Andover budget expenses during a time of the financial crisis. At the time, take students away from campus. year with a weekend-long celebra- to attend.” education] had a great impact on shaky financial security world- Board President David M. Dean of Studies Vincent Avery tion in April. The event included After Friday’s seminars, a spe- my life. When I graduated, I went wide and on Academy Hill. The Underwood ’54 explained the explained the Council’s logic, not- alumni visits, seminars, banquets, cial All-School Meeting com- right into the service, and it stood Council’s move calls into question Trustees’ plan for approaching the ing that the school loses a signifi- concerts and a visit by former menced, featuring a presentation me in good stead from the moment the areas of the academic program budget deficit, commenting, “We cant amount of money with each President of the United States on the history of the Phillips and I got into the Navy.” the administration values most. will [call] on the faculty to make student that participates in an off- George Bush ’42. The festivities, Abbot Academies as read by the President Bush later spoke The suspensions, effective this decisions on how to continue our campus program. In addition, the which coincided with Trustees’ cast of the winter term play “All about his gratitude towards fall, will terminate programs such mission with a little less Academy also incurs raw partici- Weekend, also recognized the suc- My Sons,” as well as performanc- Phillips Academy for both provid- as the annual Cantata Chorus money…tough decisions are pation fees charged by the institu- cessful completion of Campaign es from pianist Luis Ortiz ’05, the ing him with a priceless education Tour, the Mountain School Term, going to have to be made.” He tion that supports the particular Andover. Fidelio Society and the Concert and for instilling hope within him and the Washington Intern continued, “We are trying to make program. The Committee for the 225th Band. Reverend Ebner stated, for the future of America. “I have Program for a period of three sure that the faculty is in the loop Because such programs draw Celebration, co-chaired by “When people see the art, music, no doubt that the best days of our years. as to decisions that will be needed students away from the on-cam- Director of Alumni Affairs and theater of Andover… they are country are ahead,” he said. Additionally, the school will in the future.” pus social and academic aspects of Michael Ebner ’70, former Abbot overwhelmed with the talent and “…Part of that is because of what delay certain technology and Over the course of the week- the Andover program that the teacher and current Andover dedication.” is going on right here at Andover, physical plant renewal projects in end, the Trustees voted to increase administration believes are the Instructor in English Jean St. Students, faculty, and guests an institution where excellence is the coming year, and all academic tuition levels for the coming most important parts of a student’s Pierre, and Tamara Elliot Rogers also enjoyed a special dinner sought and sound values are incul- departments have been instructed school year by 5.5 percent, setting PA career, Dr. Avery said, “As a AA ’70, met on a regular basis served in the Case Cage on Friday cated.” to reduce their non-personnel tuition at $30,100 for boarding seven-day boarding school, [sup- beginning in November to prepare evening, following the meeting. While politics and foreign pol- spending by three percent. students and at $23,400 for day porting] the students on campus for the weekend. According to While the Phillips Academy Jazz icy remained only a minor part of The Council’s ruling brought a students. should be our top priority.” Director of Communications Ensemble provided entertainment, his speech, Mr. Bush briefly allud- tentative end to student and facul- In response to the results of Head of School Barbara Chase Sharon Britton in an earlier inter- the dinner featured food from four ed to the situation in the Middle ty discussion about how to address the Working Group’s survey, the echoed Dr. Avery’s assertion, view with The Phillipian, the com- geographic regions of the United East, where, he claimed, corrupt the significant budget deficit. As Trustees also approved a 2.4 per- adding, “Our highest priorities mittee, comprised of faculty mem- States. Muslim regimes use their school endowment income accounts for cent increase in compensation for will continue to be the people in bers, administrators, alumni, and On Saturday, a seminar enti- systems to spread false religious nearly 40 percent of the faculty and staff. the institution: faculty and stu- Student Council President Kanyi tled “Broadening Horizons” was propaganda. He cautioned, Academy’s $70 million operating The Board also echoed the dents.” Maqubela ’03, hoped to “show- offered to select Uppers and “Education can be distorted in budget, any decline in investment Working Group’s concern for the Among the programs sched- case the talents of students, faculty Seniors. The program featured schools. Young minds are poi- revenue carries with it a similar preservation of the Academy’s uled for suspension are the term- and alumni and that celebrate the notable alumni, including soned and a legacy of hate is being decline in support for the school’s financial aid offerings, voting to contained opportunities to study spirit and heritage of Andover and “Muppeteer” Brian Henson ’82, passed on. We can be a part of the extensive academic, athletic, and add $400,000 to the aid budget for abroad that are currently spon- Abbot.” internationally renowned poet problem or a part of the solution outreach programs. 2003-2004, bringing total student sored by the Academy’s Division Co-chair Ms. St. Pierre, who Chris Agee ’74, and a variety of and what goes on here at Phillips In the fall term, faculty mem- aid to $9 million. of World Languages. According to taught at Abbot from 1963 until its other actors, writers, and corporate Academy is a part of the solution.” bers were encouraged to voice “The Deans’ Council and the Continued on Page A4, Column 1 merger with Phillips in 1973, leaders speaking on their career Mr. Bush concluded his their opinions on the subject faculty more broadly have been reflected on the weekend’s festivi- paths after graduating from speech by warning students not to through a “Ranking Priorities” deeply committed to providing ties, “No one at PA is ever short on Andover. take their Andover education for questionnaire distributed by the financial aid,” Associate Head of INSIDE As the culminating event dur- granted, stating, “You’ll never School Rebecca Sykes said in an dreams, but the practicality of Faculty Working Group on NEWS making them happen is the real ing Saturday’s “Cochran Chapel know until later on what you’ve Facilities and Budget. earlier interview with The challenge. It is amazing that it [all Celebration,” members of the gained from this great institution.” The instructors were asked to Phillipian, “Once a student is Section A fell] into place.” Andover community and invited The “Cochran Chapel rank in order of greatest impor- admitted and is granted financial The anniversary celebration guests were addressed by Celebration” also featured speech- tance three of eight sectors “to aid, we continue to meet that stu- COMMENTARY began with Friday afternoon semi- President of the Board of Trustees es by President of the Board of protect from significant adjust- dent’s need throughout his or her Section B nars for students, which ranged David Underwood ’54, Head of Trustees and Chair of Campaign ment” and three in which they career here.