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ISSUE ELEVEN | FALL 2018 EDITOR Dulcey Antonucci ASSOCIATE EDITOR Michael Schwartz ’98 10 ART DIRECTION, DESIGN & LAYOUT WHEN MERCY Nicole Patterson SEASONS JUSTICE: CONTRIBUTING WRITERS A THIRD-YEAR LAW Shelby LaMar STUDENT’S WISDOM Steve Lisk Meg Reed contents Michael Schwartz ’98 PHOTOGRAPHY Joanne Blitz Courtesy Laura Bingham ’97 Courtesy Will Campbell ’71 Courtesy Wallace Gerdy ’13 Courtesy Meghan Kenny Courtesy Rachel Reiss ’14 PROSECUTING Courtesy Kristin Wolanin Anne Dandridge ’98 THE CASE for a Nick Gould Matt Lester Library of Congress 16 meaningful life Lifetouch Steve Lisk Meg Reed Michael Schwartz ’98 Ellen Simpson ’73 David Sinclair In the News The Supreme Court of the United States 5 Sports Highlights Todd Trout ISSUE NO. FALL 2018 8 Twelve Publisher When Mercy Seasons Justice: A Third-Year Law Student’s Wisdom Donna Wilcox 11 10 W.W. Norton More Than a Mere Preponderance of Intelligence ON THE COVER 14 Prosecuting the Case for a Meaningful Life LCDS CONTACTS Casey Daggett ’11 (right) stands outside the Pennsylvania State 16 The Whole Idea is to Change the Way Things Are’ Sandi Abraham Capitol with Martha H. Brown (left). Daggett is a third-year 18 ‘ Director of Admission ext. 227 law student at the University of Oregon School of Law and 26 110th Commencement [email protected] spent the summer in Harrisburg interning in the Pennsylvania Class of 2018 Award Recipients Governor’s Office of General Counsel. 27 Dulcey Antonucci 28 Class Notes Director of Communications ext. 229 14 The Gschwend Archives [email protected] MORE THAN A MERE 29 People & Places PREPONDERANCE OF 32 Anne Dandridge ’98 INTELLIGENCE In Memoriam Director of Constituent & Alumni Relations ext. 328 38 FundFest 2018 [email protected] 39 CONNECT Shelby LaMar Chief Advancement Officer ext. 231 [email protected] FACEBOOK NEXTDOOR Lancaster Country Day School www.oldschoollanehills.nextdoor.com Lcds Alums LCDS Parents of Alumni TWITTER LCDSchool INSTAGRAM LCDSsports Lancaster Country Day School LCDSchool YOUTUBE 725 Hamilton Road | Lancaster, PA 17603 LINKEDIN Lancaster Country Day School 717-392-2916 Lancaster Country Day School Fans www.lancastercountryday.org CONNECTIONS is published twice a year. ©2018 Lancaster Country Day School ‘THE WHOLE IDEA IS TO 2 | CONNECTIONS | 18 CHANGE THE WAY THINGS ARE’ {news } the great Principles Aspirations of Law A M essage F ro M the head O F school | ste V en D . lis K Following our tradition of highlighting Sarah Clements ’05 has placed herself on alumni who share a profession, this issue the front line of criminal law. She is an Wallace Gerdy with of Connections presents four graduates assistant district attorney for the Rikers bandmates Hannah Pugh and Adam who chose law. Their individual walks are Island Prosecution Bureau, part of the Figurelle. 3/29/18 LNP as varied as their personalities, yet their Bronx County DA’s office. Each day she Lancaster Country Day Grad Makes stories collectively affirm that LCDS has and her colleagues collaborate with other Guitar-driven Music with a ’90s Feel long empowered students to create lives agencies to investigate and prosecute cases Wallace Gerdy ’13 released her first single, of meaning and genuine contribution to bring justice to the most dangerous “Sunny Monday,” which garnered comparisons to society. district of New York City. to Liz Phair from WXPN’s “The Key.” For Laura Bingham ’97, real contribution Finally, on any given weekday you can means helping the stateless and voiceless stop by the Quarryville office of Will as the senior managing legal officer for Campbell ’71. His main practice today [ [ equality and citizenship at the Open involves estates and general aspects We see students Society Justice Initiative, the second- of law, yet this quiet country lawyer largest philanthropic organization in began his career working for one of the in our halls today the country. She credits Chip Smedley’s country’s foremost civil rights organizations, IN THE NEWS who search for Model United Nations class with sparking the Southern Poverty Law Center. her interest in human rights. This experience informed his work as a news . lancastercountryday . org / in - the - news meaning and dive young practicing attorney and, years later, 3/12/18 | The New York Times 5/12/18 | LNP “I remember discovering human rights prepared him to argue a case before the energetically and delving into this database filled with Two Novels, United by Troubled Manheim Twp.-Based Central United States Supreme Court. Daughters of Damaged Fathers American Relief Efforts Provide into areas of articles with all these great principles and aspirational language,” Bingham said. Lancaster Country Day is proud to English teacher Meghan Kenny Food, Medicine and Wheelchairs real interest. “I was transfixed and that has stayed with me.” continue our tradition of developing received a glowing review for her to Honduras minds, fostering intellectual curiosity and novel, “The Driest Season.” Rick Manix ’62, Bridget Keating ’07 Casey Daggett ’11 will earn her J.D. from and Andrew Appel ’65 traveled to cultivating a sense of civic connection. 5/28/18 | Lancaster County Magazine the University of Oregon School of Law Honduras to help hurricane relief. As in years past, we see students in our Flower Power this spring. Like Bingham, she plans to halls today who search for meaning and use her legal education for humanitarian Elizabeth Weaver ’98 discussed her dive energetically into areas of real interest. management of Lancaster Farmacy. ends. On a fellowship at the Oxford They inspire our confidence that future Consortium of Human Rights in Geneva, generations of LCDS graduates, like Switzerland, last year, she spent time in those of decades past, will continue to refugee camps in northern Greece. step into the larger world and contribute 1/26/18 | CBS21 meaningfully. Lancaster Country Day’s Luke Walling Hits 75-Foot Shot to Beat the Buzzer VIDEO: Luke Walling ’19 ended the first half against East Juniata with a basket from the other end of the court. 4 | CONNECTIONS | | ISSUE NO. ELEVEN FALL 2018 | 5 new Faculty & sta FF Faculty NEWS Since January 2018 Sandi Abraham Blake Marshall Director of Admission Maintenance Staff Euler Celi Jean Noecker Maintenance Staff MS Life Science Faculty Alison Charles ’13 Eva Sharpe Long-term LS Substitute Maintenance Staff Starleisha Gingrich Bridget Umble ’14 US Administrative Teaching Intern Assistant and Registrar Javier Valentin Enduring and Prevailing Zac Kraft Maintenance Staff aria Toorpakai Wazir, among the world’s best squash players, visited Country Day Middle School English teacher Meghan Kenny In August, Theater Department Head Kristin Physics teacher Director of Athletics received positive reviews from The New York Times Wolanin, along with Madison Brown ’17 and Lily JIM RINGLEIN won in late November. The human rights activist and author has spent more than a third Delle-Levine ’17 Mof her life in some form of hiding. The first thing she hid was her gender, masquerading and The New Yorker for her novel, “The Driest , gave a presentation at the American The North Museum Board of Season.” A coming-of-age tale set on a Wisconsin Alliance for Theatre and Education conference Farewells as a boy so she could play squash against the boys rather than being confined to her home farm during World War II, the novel’s protagonist in Minneapolis. They spoke to other high school Directors’ Prize for Excellence as other girls were in the Wazir tribe. Later she would hide for her life, receiving death is Cielle, a 16-year-old girl who finds her father’s and middle school theater teachers about Country Our love and thanks go out to the following faculty in Science Education. threats from the Taliban in reaction to her rise to the top of international squash and her body following his suicide. The story follows Day’s 2017 production of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and and staff members for their service to our school. embrace of multiculturalism. her family through their period of mourning. Juliet,” with Romeo and Juliet as a gay couple. The Lori Brill Shelly Landau goal was to promote creative thinking and inspire 10 years 2 years During her day at LCDS, Toorpakai spent twice as much time talking to Middle and risk-taking in drama education. Maintenance Staff Special Projects Admin. Upper School students as she did playing squash on the new courts. What makes her Barbara Bromley Connie Mears compelling is that she speaks with more than just the indomitable will and laser focus 36 years 6 years one would expect from a competitor of her caliber. Toorpakai’s MS Life Science Faculty MS French keen intelligence and resilient character allowed her to over- Claire Dempsey Genevieve Munson come numerous difficulties, any one of which could reasonably 2 years 10 years Development Officer Assistant Head of US have stymied someone slightly less driven. She shared stories of English Faculty enduring ceaseless bullying and harassment from the boys, who Paul Dillon 1 year Aimee Nelson were apparently allowed to carry on that way with impunity. Director of Admission 6 years US Registrar and Faculty Toorpakai recently published her first book, “A Different Kind John Emig 8 years Cathy Witmer of Daughter,” and was chosen to become a member of the Inter- Physical Education Faculty 13 years national Olympic Committee. In addition, Pope Francis tapped LS Faculty Nick Freysz Toorpakai to join his organization, Sport At The Service Of 2 years Humanity. Its mission is to explore “the power for good that Maintenance Staff [faith and sport] could deliver in partnership with one another.” new board M E M bers LCDS AWARDS $12,000 JARVIS SCHOLARSHIPS SARAH BILTZ ANNABELLE COPELAND MCKENNA KRAFT JEREMY OUILIKON LCDS named two new board Ninth-grader Eleventh-grader Sixth-grader Sixth-grader Born to Learn lenn Whitman is a teacher and coach, as well as the co-author of “Neuroteach.” He is members for three-year terms.