FALL 2018 EDITOR Dulcey Antonucci

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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

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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.

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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 lc d s awa r d s $12,000 ja rv i s 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. also the director of the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning (CTTL) at Hiry West and his wife, Mary Beth, are the parents GSt. Andrew’s School, with whom Country Day has become a partner school. On Aug. 16, of Trey ’31, Kai ’26, Jade ’24 and Kobe ’21. He is a he came to LCDS for workshops with teachers, teachers and students, and to deliver an member of the Parents Advisory Committee, is a evening talk to the community about helping children achieve their full potential. All faculty supporter of Horizons at LCDS, and is a member of the Board of Trustees at Nazareth College, Shine at LCDS had read “Neuroteach” as a part of their professional development in 2017-18. Global, and Children’s Village. A small-business consultant and angel investor, West co-founded “We all win from our time with Glenn and our ongoing partnership with the CTTL,” Medicaid and Medicare Advisory Group. said Director of Learning Services Rachel Schmalhofer, who arranged Whitman’s visit Andrea Wanner Miller ’87 John Sarah plays tennis and dances. At her previous school, Annabelle McKenna plays tennis and swims. Jeremy plays soccer and and her husband, , are and is working to incorporate “Neuroteach” ideas into LCDS pedagogy. Classes ranging the parents of Claire ’23 and Joan ’21. She is a member She enjoys the performing arts, was the copy editor of the school She also sings in her school choir basketball. He also plays trumpet from Brenna Stuart’s World Civ II to Sheryl Krafft’s preschool have embraced the idea of the Head’s Advisory Council and is a frequent vol- and is very involved in both newspaper and a member of and plays guitar. and piano and is a member that understanding the brain is critical to learning, and they’ve seen it bear fruit. unteer for the Parents Association. Andrea currently student council. She plays of his school choir and band. school and community theater. serves as President for the Board of Directors of A basketball and field hockey. “This is just the jumping off point. LCDS has made a commitment to staying on the Woman’s Concern. Previously, she was employed cutting edge of mind, brain and education research and our efforts will continue to grow by Chubb & Son Inc. and served on the Board of every year,” said Schmalhofer. “It represents an effort to continue a culture of learning not Directors for The Lancaster Early Education Center, The scholarship honors former Head of School John Jarvis, who sought to make LCDS accessible to a wide range of The Lancaster Center for Classical Studies, and The just for our students, but for our teachers and parents as well.” Lancaster Medical Society Alliance. deserving Middle and Upper School students. Scholarships are renewable each year through graduation.

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Teams Earned Postseason7 District III 21 31 EVIE ALTLAND ’20 Playoff Berths Student-Athletes Student-Athletes o u ts was a District III Earned OVERVIEW 2017-18 Named to TVAA medalist in diving. All-League All-Academic Boys Soccer / Girls Tennis / Boys Tennis Designations Boys Basketball / Girls Basketball Team Boys Lacrosse / Girls Lacrosse The Middle School LEGO Robotics teams, led by Joanne Biltz, won five trophies in four competitions. s h o u t Both teams competed at the State Championship with the Yellow team winning second place overall and the first place Programming Award. On Jan. 13, LCDS also hosted Robot Ruckus, a First LEGO League regional scrimmage. Teams from 15 MATT LANE ’18 schools throughout central Pennsylvania, including two from Country Day, built and programmed was named a U.S. their own LEGO robots to negotiate a ping pong- Lacrosse All-American. sized table filled with obstacles and autonomously accomplish tasks of varying difficulty. hori z ons ’ f ourth year

LCDS MINI-THON This summer Lancaster funding for This year, Crystal IN 12 HOURS RAISED Meashey WINTER SPRING Country Day School horizons comes , the 2018 Boys basketball Boys tennis MORE THAN welcomed 60 elemen- earned their first PIAA earned the PIAA District from grants recipient of the LCDS District III silver medal in the Class A III Team silver medal in the Class tary school students ” Marcia L. Hubbard ’53 and individual tournament. They also won their first- AA Tournament. The team lost in from eight different Endowed Faculty Chair, JONAH REBERT ’20 $ donations and ever PIAA State playoff game. the PIAA State semifinals. schools throughout the joined other talented earned the District III 2 ,000 area for the fourth year is entirely separate Horizons teachers from Boys and girls basketball Boys lacrosse Singles silver medal in FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER earned PIAA set a school record with of Horizons at LCDS. from country the area. LCDS alumnae State Tournament berths by finishing 14 wins, including their first-ever the Class AA Tennis Horizons is a national Maura Jarman ’14 and day’s budget. second and third respectively in the victories in District playoffs. Championships. organization that part- Caroline Gardner ’15 also District III tournament. ners with independent joined the staff, while 55 schools and colleges to help low-in- LCDS Upper and Middle School come students realize their academic students volunteered 4,000 hours in potential. the classroom with the students.

The chief aim is to help at-risk children Once a child becomes a part of avoid the “summer slide” of falling Horizons as a rising first-grader, they behind — or even further behind are welcomed back each summer — their peers over summer vacation. through eighth grade. Strong, con- Funding for Horizons comes from sistent relationships with Horizons grants and individual donations and faculty increase the long-term impact At the 84th annual Pennsylvania Junior Academy is entirely separate from Country for the children. of Science (PJAS) held at Penn State University in May, Matthew Gerace ’19 and Arielle Breuninger ’21 Day’s budget. The program is free for earned first place awards whileEric Ye ’19 and Janani students. They enjoyed weekly field One Horizon’s parent explained, Iyer ’20 captured second place prizes. Roughly 3,000 trips to places like the Strasburg Rail- “Since my daughter has been in the students from grades 7-12 presented their science road and Hans Herr Historic House. program, she’s talked about what she fair projects at this competition. Arielle’s first-place wants to be after college.” Another presentation earned a perfect score and the Junior More than 5,000 meals were served High Excellence in Microbiology Award. Matthew in our dining commons. parent put it this way, “Participating in also received a renewable scholarship of $2,000 from Horizons will help my son succeed in Penn State University for the College of Science or life. It’s a start to helping him achieve College of Engineering. his goals.”

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Daggett spent the summer of 2018 in Harrisburg working as an intern in the Pennsylvania Governor’s Office of Gen- eral Counsel. The OGC comprises lawyers with a broad range of specialties, whose work is akin to that of in-house counsel in the private sector, except the WHEN MERCY SEASONS OGC represents the state.

asey Daggett ’11 is entering her know all the answers. It was a relief, frankly, third year at the University of when I realized no one has all the answers Oregon School of Law, and along and it’s all about hard work. Law school JUSTICE: Cthe way, she’s discovered that a basic is a marathon, not a sprint, and you can lesson from her time at Country Day has be the most clever person in the whole A THIRD-YEAR continued to resonate, from undergrad school, but if you don’t put in the work, LAW STUDENT’S straight through to law school. you’re not going to last long at this level.” “One of the ways Country Day was If there were such a thing as a major WISDOM great was that, with its small classes, you in law school, Daggett’s would have almost have to learn that there’s a way to been international business. Her natural By Michael Schwartz ’98 discuss and disagree with others in a tone inclination and aptitude in that direction that’s respectful,” said the president of the has driven her extracurricular choices and Student Bar Association and lead articles focused her post-graduation aspirations. editor for the Oregon Review of Inter- national Law. “People want to work with As the articles editor for the Oregon people who are amenable to work with,” Review of International Law Journal, it is she continued. “That’s as true in ninth her job to lead a team of fellow editors to grade as it is wherever you go beyond ensure that every footnote in every ninth grade,” Daggett said. published article says what it claims to say, reads well and makes the point it Despite coming to Oregon from Messiah purports to make. In addition to that College armed with that knowledge, Daggett painstaking work, Daggett also works was still as nervous as any first year student with the editor-in-chief to select from when she started law school. among the hundreds of submissions the four or five articles the journal will “It’s really intimidating at first,” she said. ultimately publish. “I’d like to think that I came in prepared, but you can’t prepare for classes that are Last year, Daggett was one of five law fundamentally different from every class students to earn a University of Oregon you took up to that point. I expected the Raymund Fellowship, “chosen on the basis first 10 minutes to be review and then a of their outstanding academic achievement” short lecture, and instead the expectation as well as other complementary factors, was that you show up and understand as according to the university. soon as class begins. “We’re fortunate enough to have a donor, “Plenty of folks at law school have, like, Steven Raymund, who wants to see students six generations of lawyers in their family. learn more about human rights and I’ll be the first in mine,” she continued. have international travel opportunities “I remember thinking that everybody is and experiences they wouldn’t otherwise going to be so incredibly brilliant and have,” said Daggett. She spent a month

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“And earthly power doth then show likest God's WORLD-CHANGERS When mercy seasons justice” WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE “The Merchant of Venice” | Act 4, Scene 1

ARE IN IT FOR creating the school’s first mental “I caught the MUN bug and never got health and wellness week, and rid of it. I was our representative on the being able to be an advocate for human rights subcommittee and I’ve THEMSELVES. her fellow students. kind of stayed there, in a sense,” she said. “It’s really important to understand that It hasn’t been all roses. things are complicated and that you have to work with other people to figure out “I get yelled at a lot,” Daggett how you’re going to — together — work in the summer of 2017 studying at the One experience exemplified said. “People want me to to solve whatever problem it is you’re Oxford Consortium of Human Rights the intractable absurdity of the change the temperature in in Geneva, Switzerland, before leaving migrant crisis as Daggett saw it. their classroom. ‘Casey, it’s focusing on.” the classroom for a real life immersion in freezing in my torts class. Or the curriculum, visiting refugee camps in “We were helping folks pack up the clock’s three minutes slow “Country Day was an exceptional oppor- northern Greece. in a camp that was closing when in some other room.’ I’m just tunity and I’m humbled to have had that we came upon five puppies,” like, ‘I’m sorry. I wish you experience,” Daggett said. “The small class “On the macro level, we focused on the Daggett said. “It had been a de- weren’t cold or late for your discussions, being trained to think on your roles of the U.N., the Red Cross and other pressing day so seeing puppies next class, but I really can’t own and support what you think, and the nongovernmental organizations in helping was a bonus and a bit of a relief. help you with that.’” curiosity of learning and wanting to learn to deal with the migrant crisis. On the micro Then someone asked the camp more: Country Day instilled that in me.” level, being in the camps, it was a profoundly director if the puppies were Daggett spent the summer humbling and, in many ways, deeply frus- going to be OK, and he said yes, after her 1L year working with For Upper School law school aspirants, trating experience,” Daggett said. in fact they were being flown to a lobbying firm in Harrisburg. Daggett offered some advice. Vermont to be adopted. Then She intensely disliked it and “What I saw were people who just wanted the thought hits you, ‘So the would not trade the experience “Country Day’s a one-of-a-kind experi- a better life for themselves and their fami- refugees I’ve been working with, for anything. lies, living in camps that were these women and chil- “If someone tells you they want to IF SOMEONE SAYS THEY ence. It’s a great place to learn about change the world, don’t believe them,” — messy, to put it mildly — These women dren — these people — “People spend their whole lives realizing things, and about yourself. she continued. “If someone says they and hopelessly underfunded, they can’t get into the WANT TO MAKE THEIR they don’t want to do whatever it is they and children — these want to make their town better, to make despite all the help they were U.S., but these puppies do for a living. Learning what you don’t “Not everything on your transcript has to their local community better, they’re receiving from various NGOs. people — they can’t already have a flight like and what you don’t want to go into be AP bio or AP history,” she continued. someone who you can get behind and TOWN BETTER, TO MAKE It was a potent reminder of to Vermont lined up?’ can be just as important as knowing what “Take ceramics, take theater. You never get into the U.S., put your trust in. Focus on one issue the everyday stuff I take for That was a hard-hitting you do,” she said. know how some random extracurricular granted, like having a single way to drive home the that needs to be solved. Start there, and THEIR LOCAL COMMUNITY but these puppies activity might literally change your life.” dwelling that I can leave in bleakness that refugees once you’ve solved that, move on to the What does Daggett want to do? the morning and come back already have a flight face.” next one. World-changers are in it for BETTER, THEY’RE SOMEONE In her senior year, Daggett starred in to in the evening to sleep. themselves.” to Vermont lined up? WHO YOU CAN GET BEHIND “I would love to be in-house counsel for “The Tempest” and fell in love with So how does Daggett a major firm one day. I want to know Shakespeare, hard. “But when I think about the retain her optimism and One way Daggett plans to continue corporate law better than the corporate camps, I always think about faith in the system after affecting change is as the Oxford AND PUT YOUR TRUST IN. lawyers. If can show how thoughtful That literally changed her life. the gross mismanagement and misap- seeing firsthand its gross shortcomings? Consortium for Human Rights’ assistant practices can help the company’s bottom propriation of funds that I saw,” Daggett She stays focused on the possible and keeps coordinator at the University of Oregon, line and help the world, then I’d feel like continued. “Like the catering contract that the wisdom of her mentors in mind at all a position the consortium offered her in Daggett chats with her boss in the Office of I was accomplishing something positive,” “I wrote about ‘The Merchant of Venice’ goes to the camp director’s cousin who has times. General Counsel, Martha H. Brown. Brown light of her performance and dedication works as assistant counsel in the Office of Chief she said. for my law school application essay. Jus- no experience doing this and delivers food “The smaller the goal, the more you can in Switzerland and Greece. Counsel for the Pa. Department of State. tice and mercy as exemplified in Portia’s that’s borderline inedible and that wouldn’t achieve,” Daggett said. “It’s one thing to Daggett traces a direct path from her speech. be enough even if you did eat it. There’s talk about human rights in the abstract, Last March, Daggett was elected president Country Day experience to her work in an ongoing cycle of bitterness and resent- it’s another to figure out how to reconcile of the student bar association, sort of the law school. “Who knew?” Daggett said. ment for folks on both sides. It’s a tough politics and the realities of day-to-day student council president of law school. situation.” life with affecting change. Among her early accomplishments are

12 | CONNECTIONS | | ISSUE NO. ELEVEN FALL 2018 | 13 “[I]n the field of contested paternity ... the truth is noticed a pamphlet on the ground about a 14-year-old so often obscured because social pressures create a who had been sentenced to death in Louisiana. The conspiracy of silence or, worse, induce deliberate falsity. pamphlet was from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Recognition of this fact, as well as of the gravity of imposing a parental relationship upon a defendant, “I wrote a generic letter wanting to apply for an should lead us to require a more demanding standard internship and Pamela Horowitz, renowned civil rights of proof than a mere preponderance of the evidence,” hero (and later, joyfully, Julian Bond’s wife) wrote me wrote Justice William Brennan. back a kind of generic letter saying the intern position was filled, but thank you for applying,” Campbell said. Speaking to Campbell, one is immediately struck by “And I wrote back, ‘I don’t think you understand. I’ll be his fierce intelligence and easy delivery of delightfully arriving anyway. My bus gets in at noon and it would memorable phrases. be really nice if you could pick me up and if I had a place to stay For example, his favorite sentence that night.’ of law school, spoken by his administrative rule-making profes- “She picked me up and I got the sor: “In this area of the law, con- internship,” Campbell said. fusion is a correct understanding.” Asked what it was like to He described law school as “a trade work for one of the country’s school,” and, despite his aptitude foremost civil rights organiza- ou still think you’re right,” Justice Thurgood for it, he never felt what one would tions, headquartered in Mont- Marshall asked the young lawyer arguing before describe as a calling for law. gomery, Ala., Campbell chose “Yhim and his eight fellow Supreme Court justices. his words delicately. “I wanted to be a librarian but a For the first time during oral argument, the lawyer professor sat me down and told “There’s a saying that when laughed, softly. “That’s why I’m here, Justice Marshall,” me I was an idiot and needed to you’re in New Orleans, you’ve came his self-possessed response. be a lawyer. And I knew it in- got to travel north to get to volved reading and no labs and Dixie. In Montgomery, there’s a It was March 25, 1987, and the court was hearing oral no math,” he said. lot of friendly, courteous people, argument in the case of Rivera v. Minnich. Arguing and lots of people with a different disposition,” he said. on behalf of the appellant was Will Campbell ’71, After graduating from Country Day, Campbell took Campbell’s time and connection to the SPLC would who had taken the case from the Lancaster County a year off during which he worked as a plasterer remain profoundly meaningful down the years. Court of Common Pleas to the Pennsylvania Supreme and hitchhiked to California and back twice. When Court and finally the U.S. Supreme Court. His client, he decided to continue with school, he enrolled at Today, Campbell is a partner at Nikolaus and Hohen- Gregory Rivera, had been sued for child support and St. John’s College in Annapolis, where the cur- adel, working mainly in Quarryville. “Being a lawyer in a jury, using the preponderance of evidence standard riculum is based on reading and discussing the the country, folks just walk in,” he said. As to the day- used to decide other civil matters, determined him to Western canon with a minimum of distinctions to-day practice of law, “It’s wonderful to cure a person’s be the child’s father. between classes. worry or at least clarify what the worry amounts to,” Campbell said. Campbell’s argument was that, because of the profound “The most fascinating thing was the breaking down — and unique — societal and legal implications of such of artificial barriers and teaching across different He advised Country Day students interested in law a determination, using the lightest standard of proof departments,” Campbell said. “Your Greek to, “Pick courses based on the quality of the teacher amounted to a denial of due process and a violation of professor might be teaching your bio class the and not the attractiveness of the subject matter. Be- the 14th Amendment when applied to paternity cases. next hour. It was very challenging and it was ing a government major is not necessarily better than a blast, to be face-to-face with cultures and being a bio major. What’s important is that you learn Eight of the nine justices disagreed with Campbell. P. 14 ideas and governing concepts without the interposi- to think clearly and critically. TOP Justice William Brennan’s official portrait, 1972. tion of other people and their agendas, however good In a dissenting opinion, however, one of the court’s “I remember Mr. Jarvis saying this to me, and I see BOTTOM The Supreme Court justices who they might be.” most liberal justices sided with him. decided Rivera v. Minnich. Clockwise enough people who don’t follow this advice that I from top left: Sandra Day O’Connor, After three years at St. John’s, Campbell went on to think it’s worthwhile to repeat it: Be nice to everybody. “Brennan said exactly what I wanted to, but better,” Lewis Powell, John Paul Stevens, Antonin law school at Tulane. Looking back, he reflected that, The clerk is more likely to save you than the head of Campbell said. Scalia, Harry Blackmun, Byron White, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, William “I had excellent teachers at Tulane and at St. John’s, the company.” Brennan and Thurgood Marshall. “What is at stake for a defendant in such a proceeding is not but the most interesting and gently rigorous educa- P. 15 tion there was to be had was at Country Day, and merely the prospect of a discrete payment in satisfaction of ABOVE Newsweek profiled the Southern a limited obligation. Rather, it is the imposition of a Poverty Law Center in its June 18, 1977 I’ve seen nothing to change my opinion. It was an issue, under the headline “Friends of the excellent experience.” lifelong relationship with significant financial, legal, Poor.” Campbell (right) is pictured as part and moral dimensions. … A paternity determination … of an SPLC defense team, along with the organization’s co-founder and chief trial As a second year law student, Campbell worked as a establishes a legal duty whose assumption exposes the lawyer, Morris Dees (left). security guard from 11 p.m.-7 a.m. seven nights a week father to the potential loss of both property and liberty. RIGHT Will Campbell today. to help pay his way. One day on the way to his job, he

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neighborhood I have,” she told The New “With respect to the DA’s office in general, For the first time, she had the crystal clarity quickly I realized that I can compete at this a typical workday York Times. Between inmates, or inmates people think we’re just out for blood and of knowing the right path to follow. level because that’s what I’d been doing for Sarah Clements and corrections officers, the violence trying to lock ’em all up and throw away for pretty much all of Upper School. typically takes the form of slashings, the key, but there’s a lot more going on,” “I always knew I end up in criminal law. I is often the worst stabbings and other assaults, while Clements said. “A lot of my job comes always knew,” Clements said with a note “Country Day had a friendly competitive- officer-on-inmate violence tends toward down to evaluating people as individuals. of exasperation at herself for not acting ness that honed that confidence and 000 DAILY JAIL, POPULATION on that knowledge sooner. “Civil law felt drive. In law school, I used that same 10 day of someone's brutal beatings. Maybe they’ve got mental health issues or maybe they’ve got a drug addiction meaningless and just empty, pushing idea and it made me compete academi- life. With perpetrators and victims on both or even just lack certain job skills. If we paper around. [In the DA’s office] I’m cally with myself to reach another level,” sides of the law, the jail presented an can get them the help they need, we’re working hard but I’m surrounded by Clements said. “It’s hard to balance between emotionally ongoing crisis that demanded action, all better off keeping these people out other people who are “And learning to be a caring about victims and caring intel- so Clark sent out a call for volunteers of jail and giving them a chance to turn working just as hard there's something weird lectually about the law. And then there’s for the new Rikers-based bureau. and enjoying their free thinker,” she con- 85% their life around. ARE PRETRIAL DETAINEES or broken in the system tinued. “At Country the balance between investing yourself Clements signed up as soon as she saw work, and that’s the and have not yet been the job posting, two months after the “Maybe the biggest misconception is difference between a Day, you didn’t just in giving victims a voice, but not getting when people we ve convicted of a crime too invested because I have a job to do bureau opened. that it’s the prosecutor’s job to put the job that meaningful ’ accept things because and I need to think clearly to do it well. accused in jail. Well, sometimes it is, but and one that’s mean- removed from society for you were told. You had “I thought it sounded interesting,” the question isn’t — or shouldn’t be — ingless.” to learn things for “And,” she continued, “If you bring your Clements said brightly. Her tone turned how many people you can lock up, but committing crimes are still yourself and draw con- cases home with you, it can consume reflective. “Another reason is that there’s rather, is society safer with this person It wasn’t in the DA’s clusions and figure out you.” something weird or broken in the system in jail or is this someone who can safely office, however, that committing crimes, they’re how to make an argu- when people we’ve removed from society Clements first expe- ment to support those be on the outside?” Clements said. Times The New York Source: Clements ’05 is an assistant district just doing it in a smaller, for committing crimes are still com- rienced the profound conclusions. Country ACRE400 ISLAND attorney for the Rikers Island Prosecu- mitting crimes, they’re just doing it in a She found analyzing questions like that, difference between a segregated society. Day taught me to stick tion Bureau, part of the Bronx County smaller, segregated society. and making sure they were the right meaningless situation up for what I believed, located in the East River between DA’s office. That she would find meaning questions, to be the most engaging part and a meaningful one. but also not to be the Bronx and Queens, not 300 and fulfillment in law was hardly written “Regardless,” she continued, “People of undergrad and law school, both of deaf to what other people are saying. I feet from La Guardia’s runways in the stars, and the place where she’s need to be held accountable for their which Clements attended at Widener That happened in eighth grade, when think that’s unique. There’s not a lot of rikers at a glance found it is also decidedly distant from actions no matter where they are when University. “I majored in political science she saw the grade she’d gotten on her educational experiences that help you learn the heavens. Rikers Island is New York they commit a crime.” for a year and then dropped that because first earth science test. to think beyond the surface and see the City’s main jail, an extraordinarily violent it was too boring. But I found myself bigger story behind whatever words Sentiments imbued with an earnest “I’d always gotten A’s in public school but I complex that houses around 10,000 enjoying my criminal justice classes more you’re reading.” law-and-order certitude pepper the got a B-minus on that test,” Clements said. inmates. In 2016, in addition to the day’s than any other,” she said. inmates, roughly a dozen lawyers also conversation when Clements talks about “I remember thinking this is a different Finally, Clements had some advice for 93% MALE INMATE POPULATION started reporting to Rikers every morning. her job. And why would one expect After law school, the first gig Clements ballgame now. This place is no joke.” today’s juniors and seniors thinking Clements and her fellow ADAs rotate, anything different from someone who got with her shiny new J.D. was working about law school. “Honestly, Country Day defined me,” working one week a month out of a dou- represents the people in a court of law on foreclosure and compliance law for a she said. ble-wide trailer where they collaborate and prosecutes crimes on our behalf? mortgage company. “Go into it for the right reasons,” she said. “You’ve got to actually want it, not just with other agencies to investigate and “Before that, I didn’t realize my writing But Clements has a great deal to say She detested every one of the relatively think you want it or go anyway with the prosecute cases to bring justice to the was terrible. Country Day turned that that’s different from the by-the-book few minutes she spent there. Not only idea that a law degree is a useful thing most dangerous district of New York. around. When I got to college, I was in statement above. A lot of people, she was the work itself monotonous and to have even if I end up deciding I don’t classes with smart people who couldn’t Clements’ boss, Bronx District Attorney said, have preconceptions about pros- deadening, but the seed first planted in really want to be a lawyer. You’ve got to put clear sentences together or didn’t Darcel Clark, created the Rikers Island ecutors that fundamentally misunder- her undergrad criminal justice classes actually want it, because if you don’t, it know how to study. I never thought of Prosecution Bureau in 2016 because, stand what an ADA does and what drives had continued to grow throughout law is so, so not worth it.” myself as incredibly smart; I always had “There’s no sugarcoating it. We face a them to do it. school and had finally bloomed, just to work for the grades I got. At first, crisis at Rikers Island. … [I]t’s the worst in time to rescue Clements from her college felt intimidating, but pretty precocious professional nadir.

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BY MICHAEL SCHWARTZ ’98

n her decade and a half of practice, Laura Everything Bingham has achieved, she has Her story begins where so many other Country Bingham ’97 has landed and left more earned, and every position she has reached, she Day alumni stories begin, in MUN with Chip dream jobs than the average lawyer sees came upon by following a passion and vision Smedley. in a lifetime, clerked for two federal judges, that has animated her career as a lawyer, and her I “I’m not just pandering to Country Day when helped bring war criminals to justice in Chad experience as a person. and Rwanda, earned a graduate-level teaching I say this, but I was in Smedley’s MUN class as gig at NYU and today might spend a morning Her experiences have been grand, but Bingham one of two representatives on the human rights helping out at her son’s elementary school, when doesn’t have an ounce of grandiosity about commission and I remember discovering hu- she takes a break from working to ensure that her. For example, Bingham described how she man rights and delving into this database filled everyone everywhere has recourse to the law secured her role with the U.N. International with articles with all these great principles and and a system of justice. Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: aspirational language.

A conversation with the Barnard grad who also “I applied and they had a spot for me and that “I was transfixed and that has stayed with me,” ABOVE Laura Bingham marching for finished in the top 10 percent of her law school was basically it,” she said. Bingham said. human rights with friends and class at Berkeley, quickly revealed a diamond-sharp classmates in Dakar, Senegal. “Ha!” she added. Today Bingham works for the Open Society intellect, her profound empathy and caring, as well Justice Initiative as its senior managing legal as a superfluity of easygoing warmth and charm.

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OPPOSITE PAGE The sun sets over the Gorée Island Harbor, off the coast of Dakar.

LEFT Joseph Ndiaye helped found the House of Slaves Museum on Gorée Island in 1962 as a memorial to the thousands of slaves who passed through this house onto ships bound for the Americas. Above the doorway facing the sea is a poem by Ndiaye that reads, “From this door, for a trip without return they went, eyes fixed on the infinitude of suffering.”

officer for equality and citizenship. “Our aim is “Working in a prosecutor’s office in D.C., I got pened. And where justice happens is in getting to make justice systems permeate everywhere. a window into the criminal justice system and to tell your story. For those involved, it can be Everyone should have access to justice and the roles people play to make that system func- empowering, and it can be disempowering. that’s not the world we live in today, but we’re tion. Irrespective of the outcome, I knew I didn’t Being on the witness stand can be a difficult, working on it,” she said. want to be a prosecutor,” Bingham said. “When unpleasant experience for anyone, but when you you win, people go to jail. I always had a hard consider what a witness in a case like this has The Open Society Foundations were founded time with sentencing day.” been through and the power and the system by billionaire hedge fund manager George they’re standing up against, it can take an Soros in 1993. In October 2017, Open Society After ruling out U.S. Attorney as an enticing incredible personal toll. announced that over the previous several years, career path, Bingham focused her studies on Soros had given the foundation $18 billion, international and comparative law, earning “The sentence wasn’t beside the point,” she making it the second-largest philanthropic a master’s in human rights law at Central continued, “but it wasn’t what I was focused on.” organization in the United States, behind the European University in Budapest. The following Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. year, she entered law school at the University In May 2016, Habré was found guilty of of California, Berkeley, where she immersed human-rights abuses, including rape, sexual Bingham has spent a good deal of her profes- herself in international criminal justice, first as slavery and ordering the killing of 40,000 sional life fighting on behalf on human rights an intern with the U.N. International Criminal people, and sentenced to life in prison. in one form or another. But despite her early Tribunal for Rwanda and Bingham’s work with the enchantment with the subject and the cause, she later spending a semester It’s such an eerie Rwanda tribunal made, found herself at a crossroads in her senior year in Senegal conducting in- feeling when if not a deeper impression, of college. dependent research on the you’re there in then perhaps a more intended trial of Chadian “I was interested in anthropology and English complete one. dictator Hissène Habré for the present tense, literature and trying to decide what I wanted to torture and crimes against 10 or 15 years later, do,” Bingham said. “So on the one hand I could “Talk about long-term humanity. take the academic path, but I felt like I needed trying to conjure justice. This was a long time coming,” she said. to get practical experience before anything else, “The most important up this dark past. to get a taste of supporting myself and what thing to me about any The U.N. established the that was going to entail.” international criminal court in November 1994 to justice enterprise is the victims, and that tends Her first job after graduating from Barnard was bring to justice those responsible for the Rwandan to be the prism through which I see everything,” a position as a paralegal specialist, a two-year genocide earlier that year, a tribal slaughter in Bingham said. program offered to recent graduates, at the U.S. which the Hutu-majority government killed between 500,000-1 million, or about 70 percent, Department of Justice Civil Rights Division’s “A trial like that is about establishing a record of the Tutsi minority over 100 blood-soaked days. Criminal Section, where Bingham got a vivid and getting the facts out and getting the world look at an aspect of the law that she didn’t find to acknowledge that these horrible things hap- particularly appealing.

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The tribunal is in Arusha, Tanzania, and Bingham then found another effective way to Bingham found herself in Rwanda as part of a broaden her legal horizons, clerking for U.S. fact-finding mission for the prosecution team District Court Judges Lawrence F. Stengel she was part of. of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and Raymond J. Dearie, then the chief judge of the “Two things that really imprinted on me were Eastern District of New York. seeing how the local mechanisms of the court functioned and how they affected the local “It’s a privilege. It’s amazing. You have such people, and how permanent the whole thing exposure to the inside of courts. It’s invalu- felt, even though it was a fleeting institution able,” Bingham said. “It’s also a really intimate by nature. experience. I mean, you’re in chambers. And they’re called chambers for a reason! A lot of it “Being in Rwanda gave you a real sense of how is a small group of people trying to figure out many layers there are to this history,” Bingham big issues, and writing opinions on all sorts of continued. “I was there with the senior lawyer cases, from constitutional law to criminal law and still gathering data and evidence about to contracts.” what happened. For me, when researching atrocities like that, I’m always grappling with So, would the “amazing privilege” of being a f how it could have happened. And it’s such an ederal judge lure Bingham away from her human eerie feeling when you’re there in the present rights work if the opportunity presented itself? ABOVE Geneva Camp in Bangladesh, tense, 10 or 15 years later, trying to conjure up February 2018 “If there’s ever a groundswell of support for this dark past. LEFT appointing lefty human Bingham teaching a class at a “Humanity has a great Being in Rwanda rights lawyers to the federal regional course on statelessness in capacity to do good and bench, that would be a really Bogota, Colombia, in 2017. gave you a real bad and if you don’t interesting opportunity to engage with that whole sense of how many consider. But it’s hard to spectrum, you’re miss- layers there are say. I enjoy being able to ing out on something. strategize and create my own to this history. It’s not that I wasn’t interventions. shocked or didn’t find these crimes abhorrent, “But I probably don’t need but I wasn’t surprised that humanity is capable to worry about making this decision any time of that. I went into it with my eyes open. It was soon,” Bingham said. about what can I do,” Bingham said, displaying Following her clerkships, she made a foray an optimistic, unflagging seriousness that man- into the lucrative world of corporate law and ages to not to get mired in solemnity. private practice. It was at Berkeley that Bingham received her Bingham was hired as a litigation associate formal schooling in changing the way things at Debevoise & Plimpton. In the space of 11 are. She loved law school. months, she joined and left arguably one of the “I like studying,” she confessed in a quiet, world’s most prestigious law firms. almost abashed explanation. “I wasn’t there long but I really enjoyed it. “It was the first time I really opened myself If any single experience was responsible for up to learning a lot from my peers. Not just in teaching me to write, it was those 11 months. classes, answering questions, but interacting And I had worked in teams before, but these and talking about what people wanted to do were very high functioning teams thrown and how to use the material and understand together to work quickly on complex cases. everything. There were limits on deciding what you work on. That was an aspect of being in a corporate “It was like the moment in Smedley’s class, but law firm that didn’t match what I was into. extended,” Bingham said. “I loved being able to dive deep into constitutional law, for example.” “It wasn’t that I didn’t understand it was a She hastened to clarify that she had learned for-profit operation, and I’m glad I did it,” from other peers in other schools as well, but Bingham continued. “But I always envisioned that her law school experience was unique. having more control over what I did, and a clearer, more personally meaningful reason for doing it.”

22 | CONNECTIONS | Few things are as enduringly meaningful to It was serendipity that led Bingham to leave “Our aim is to make justice systems permeate “It was such a beautiful place to go to school,” members of the Bingham clan as teaching. Debevoise for her current job at the Open everywhere. Everyone should have access to she said. “That sense of community, it’s not Laura’s grandmother was a teacher. For Society Justice Initiative. justice and that’s not the world we live in today, just classmates; the people I went to school decades, her mom taught elementary school in but we’re working on it.” with are like family.” Hempfield. Her dad’s teaching career started “I was at work one day and I saw a job posting when John Jarvis hired the young Franklin for human rights on the topic of discrimina- Bingham spoke more broadly on pioneering Of course, for Bingham, some of the people & Marshall grad to head the school’s science tion in citizenship/statelessness. It was the new legal ground, as international law contin- she walked the halls with were more like department in 1967. Mr. Bingham was an punctuation that made me stop, because I ues to evolve. family than others. LCDS institution and generations of science- couldn’t figure out why you would put a slash “I don’t know if all lawyers do this, but I Was it weird going to school where her dad minded alumni remember him fondly. Laura’s there. Could you not decide between citizenship do this, and I imagine it comes from being taught? older brother, John ’94, teaches middle school and statelessness so you just put them both?” inculcated with a U.S. law in Wilmington, Del. And, as is the true destiny Bingham said. background,” Bingham “Of course it was weird! I think maybe the of the Bingham-surnamed, Laura Bingham That slash wasn’t a Everyone should said. “I see every case as nerd in me helped out. I really liked the teaches too. subjects, especially AP bio, so I found typo or the product of have access to an opportunity to change my way through it by sheer fascination She is an adjunct professor at NYU’s Center indecision. It represents things on some scale. justice and that’s not with the textbook,” Bingham said. for Global Affairs graduate school and her perhaps the central Working in areas where So Much problem that Bingham the world we live there’s not a lot of hard law course focuses on human rights, migration and “But one incident totally scarred me. I was sitting and her team are trying is exciting. When we have citizenship. For as much as the material means in today, but we’re in the front of the class, playing with one of for the Sage to solve. the right tools, relationships to her, her connection with her students means working on it. those model molecules. I rearranged it and made and communities support- more and keeps the course spirited. a molecule dog, and then, from the back of the on the Stage “For most of us, the idea ing our clients, we push to class, I hear this shout: ‘Hey Laura! Did you “I love teaching and come from long line of of citizenship is probably bend the law in a way that One day in 1992, John Bingham “Being an effective and engaging make a self-portrait?’ and dad is just standing teachers,” Bingham said. “With this class, something abstract that we don’t think about I’m confident is going to make things better. was teaching a seventh grade teacher is about building relation- there, cracking up. And I’m like, ‘Aren’t you there’s the law, which I have to know inside much. But it’s not abstract at all for many people physical science class when he ships with students. It’s caring going to defend my honor or at least and out and yet I still know I’m going to get all around the world,” Bingham said. “Achieving that — that’s what you’re reading noticed a student acting up. about who they are, getting to say something? Really? Nothing!?’ know them and getting them to questions I don’t know the answer to. It’s hard, about in all those documents in MUN,” she said. “The project is about the fact that citizenship, “I looked up and saw she was poking feel that you care about what they and [the students are] engaged and they ask and all the rights and privileges that go along Laura Bingham is a lifer, and she looks back on “But I’m over that,” Bingham said. someone with a field hockey stick,” do. If you can do that, you can get penetrating questions that make the whole “As you can tell, I can hardly John said. “I’m not sure why she kids motivated to work,” said John. with it, can be taken away. It’s only as strong her Country Day experience with warmth and n ot e

class think, and what keeps it fresh and fun is as the rule of law wherever you are. It seems gratitude. remember it.” was doing that. But I remember that we’re all on this journey together and one thinking I can’t treat her different “What keeps [class] fresh and fun technical and bureaucratic, but because it’s a question can set you down entirely new line of than any other student, so I repri- is that we’re all on this journey formality, that’s how so many people’s rights thought and take you somewhere you couldn’t manded her.” together,” Laura said. are abused,” she continued. s i d e have planned.” Thus chastened, Laura Bingham After he left Country Day, John put the field hockey stick down. spent 10 years teaching at McCaskey and McCaskey East, but “It’s not easy having your own chil- occasionally it was a student who dren as students or in school with taught him. you,” said longtime Country Day science teacher and father of John After the third day of class, a ’94 and Laura ’97, John Bingham. freshman said, “Mister, you can’t be talking so much. You’ve got to “It puts you in the position of give us stuff to do.” having to be somewhat of a disciplinarian so as not to be the “So much for the sage on the lenient parent letting his kids get stage,” John said, laughing. “She away with stuff other students was right, so going forward I can’t,” he said. always made sure to change activities every 15 minutes or so.” John spent the first three of his four decades teaching Middle “If you want to be — and stay — and Upper school at Country Day, an effective teacher, you can’t let while Laura’s foray into teaching your approach become calcified. has begun with a graduate course You have to be open to change.” at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs. Their audiences are different, but they share a philosophy of what makes a class meaningful. Pointe des Almadies, outside Dakar, is the westernmost point of continental Africa.

| ISSUE NO. ELEVEN FALL 2018 | 25 carleton college carnegie mellon university coastal carolina university college of charleston college of the holy cross cornell university 110 th co m m ence m ent | class o f 2 018 davidson college denison university dickinson college drexel university elizabethtown college elmira college elon university emerson college emory university fordham university harvard university kenyon college 2 1 loyola university of maryland macalester college mcgill university millersville university north carolina state university penn state university 0 8 pennsylvania college of health sciences purdue university rensselaer polytechnic institute saint mary’s college temple university tufts university tulane university university at buffalo university of pittsburgh university of virginia villanova university wake forest university washington university west chester university of pennsylvania york college

lauren emma samuel mackinnon stover davis cristian tineo jr.

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the trustee prize faculty award matthew evan lane samuel beckley davis bryan emeric adolph michael ashton etter lauren rose mackinnon Awarded to the senior with the highest grade Given to the student who embodies what the nicholas joseph allen xiaotong fang maya himalaya mcdougall point average. faculty most respect in a scholar and a person, alex michael altland kiara zshadé flowers hannah lynn morales an individual who has a true love of learning delphi cordelia aubry sarah margaret cerullo frick and is a model citizen. ryan matthew muzzio ruth s. hostetter award carter terrence auman joseph bernard gelgot bryce edward myers kathleen day waters alexandria adair barrett max andrew gotlieb matthew samuel walter nelson lane This award honors the memory of a Shippen head of school award calvin penn barrett tristan nicholas haas cristian antonio tineo jr. laura abelló price meet the class School graduate from the class of 1931 and hunter james bentley lucas tae haggerty recognizes a senior who, over an extended lauren rose mackinnon claire helen rush dory elizabeth bittle eva emmanuella hartman-cooper period of time, has worked selflessly and Presented annually by the Head of School, this jillian grace sebelist of 2018 award herbert alejandro bryner clare erin jackson enthusiastically to enhance the school award recognizes the seniors most deserving emma kathryn starzyk sabrina joy byrd bethany smirna jimenez community. of special praise for exhibiting qualities such emma catherine stover recipients helen marie bender clark aidan michael katz as leadership, school spirit, persistence and cristian antonio tineo jr. civic virtue. joseph francis cunningham daniel paul kelly-buckley ann musselman award haley nicole davis carly mae kleintop kathleen day waters emma catherine stover samuel beckley davis katherine rose kolva samuel clark wege Given in honor of Ann Musselman, natalia michelle delgado daniel owen lane zongdao wen who was an LCDS teacher for 30 years, samuel allen duncan matthew evan lane meredith anne wynne this prize is awarded to the student who has enthusiastic curiosity, takes intellectual risks, noreen beyan el hosini fenglie li xiaoyu zhang loves to learn and lives life to the fullest.

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1966 1950s Joseph A. Myers Jr. 1980s 1951 717-394-9854 Sandy Hodge Cross, 1982 Margaret Haller Hannum [email protected] Margaretta Light Jonathan Kane has been living in 717-299-3798 Edwards, Francie Canada for the past 15 years and [email protected] 1968 Alspach Wenner and become a citizen four years ago. Deborah Murray Martin Kathy Hughes Dadley. He has retired from teaching at the 1954 717-290-2082 University of Calgary and opened Sally Rich Rohrer [email protected] a tea shop. www.thenakedleaf.ca 717-394-0847 1971 His son started at the polytechnic this 1955 Melissa Byers year and is loving it. Life if very good Eunice Fulton Blocker 818-719-6550 overall! 502-895-2691 [email protected] ’59 1983 1958 1975 Proudly wearing John F. Hinkle III Barbara Jaeger Gillis Diane Eshleman Djordjevic 717-898-5728 717-299-3374 their LCDS Alumni 410-919-7219 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] hats, the class 1984 s 1976 of 1959 held a Kathleen Murphy Jasaitis The 1960 Margaret Hall Norton 1960 781-631-7899 503-638-6127 reunion at the Anne Campbell Slater [email protected] [email protected] Woods Resort in Gschwend Archives 610-896-6468 1985 [email protected] 1977 Hedgeville, W.V. Deborah Dodds Lancaster Country Day School has a Kate served LCDS for many years, teaching Eileen Eckenrode Vroom 1961 this past summer. 310-415-7796 history it’s justifiably proud of, and over Middle School English and coaching 540-338-3630 Alix Shuman Roth [email protected] the years we’ve amassed a rich collection cross-country, and later, becoming the 717-507-8227 of artifacts that animate that history and school’s alumni director. It was a natural fit 1979 1986 [email protected] Sarah Miller Dorgan Barbara Hill Szoradi, preserve moments and memories that for Kate, who not only shared her father’s Do you have Mary Walter Foor, Joanna Underhill 717-687-6466 many hold dear. In October, Country affection for Country Day, but possessed a Sharon Gibbel Kaufman 717-468-3788 something to add 1964 Day named the archive after two alumni deep institutional knowledge as well. The and Molly Batchelder [email protected] Phyllis Morgan-Rupert whose love and devotion to the school combination of these qualities gave Kate to the collection? 717-768-3322 Solbak. 1987 spanned decades, father and daughter Paul a gift for telling the story of the school Kristen K. Gedeon Gschwend 3d ’62 and Kate Gschwend through some of the very pieces that the If you would like to donate something you 703-283-6187 Miller ’90. Gschwend Archive was created to preserve feel would be an important addition to the [email protected] and celebrate. Paul was a Renaissance man, known for Gschwend Archives, the school is currently 1988 his skill and compassion as a surgeon accepting items to expand the collection. Jack Fulton and his creativity and passion as a cook. Because proper storage and occasional 717-394-2255 Paul was a fixture on the school’s Alumni restoration needs carry associated expenses, [email protected] Council and served for years as its presi- we are always grateful for financial support, dent, but it was his unique commitment which helps to ensure the conservation 1989 to the school’s history and its preservation of our collection. Bob Porter that distinguished him as more than just [email protected] one of many worthy alumni.

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Jen Townsend gave a presentation The assembly was capped by the surprise ’93 followed by a Q&A at Upper School appearance — and heartfelt embrace — of Jen’s assembly in April. She spoke about her work favorite high school English teacher, Linda as a metalsmith and how she and co-author Campbell, who so influenced Jen’s love of writing ’ 01 Renee Zettle-Sterling came to write their book, that she called her out specifically in her Lisa (Walp) Romano “CAST: Art and Objects made using Humanity’s presentation. Transformational Process.” The students were a and Brian Romano welcomed warm and enthusiastic audience and they asked “CAST” has won eight book awards, including the Grand Prize in NonFiction from the Next a boy, Wyatt Carmine, great questions. Generation Indies, the largest nonprofit book in March. awards program for independent authors and publishers. 1995 Betsy Wademan Ahlstrand 415-845-7654 [email protected] Jennifer Mikes s Tara Holm Riley ’93 781-558-5293 1990 [email protected] 1990 writes, “Hannah Louise Riley arrived May 29, Mary Fulton Gingrich joining brothers 1996 717-560-4908 Benjamin and Paul. Dennis M. Baldwin [email protected] 484-269-4309 [email protected] 1991 Susan Hull Dworsak Josey Kerry Diamond Rinato 717-464-3537 Evonne Brigitte Bennethum ’98 [email protected] [email protected] enjoyed bumping into 1997 Ashley Walker ’98 at 1992 Adventure Aquarium in Mark Ewing Kate Matwiczyk Hemmerich Camden, N.J. when they 303-859-4994 [email protected] were both on a field trip. [email protected]

1993 Jordan Rogove ’93 1998 Jennifer Gschwend McGough and wife Laura Quyvan Le ’98 and husband Alexandra Goodman 610-430-7671 welcomed Sedi Star Liz Ollar and Brad Kerr Tito welcomed twins [email protected] [email protected] Rogove on May 14. Evonne and Josey April 9 in were married Philadelphia. Classmates Brigitte Bennethum lives in Elkton, Tara Holm Riley writes, “Hannah Ashley Walker and Md. with her husband, Ian Haneke, Louise Riley arrived May 29, joining June 4, 2017, in Anne Dandridge visited whom she married in 2014. She’s brothers Benjamin and Paul. So far, Charlottesville, Va. with mom in July. taken a temporary leave from social Tim and I are managing to get close to work to raise her youngest daughter, enough sleep and Hannah is getting Alyssa. Her oldest daughter, Sierra, is accustomed to being dragged all a sophomore at Alvernia University around the countryside.” while her middle daughter, Micaela, is in high school and turned 16 this past Jordan Rogove and wife Laura Dr. Ravi Kittappa earned a Fulbright ’94 summer. welcomed Sedi Star Rogove on May’ 93 fellowship and will be a visiting composer 14. Sedi joined her 7-year-old brother, at the Performing Arts Academy of Prague from Quyvan Le and husband Tito wel- Julian, and 4-year-old sister, Jada, September 2018-June 2019. There, he will comed twins Evonne and Josey April 9 at home in Park Slope, Brooklyn, develop new works with various European in Philadelphia. Classmates Ashley the following day. ensembles and begin work on a new opera. Walker and Anne Dandridge had the pleasure of meeting the little Cougar 1994 cubs and visiting with mom in July. Stacey Gregg 919-622-4284 1999 [email protected] Meagan W. Dodge 415-846-8715 [email protected]

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February 3, 2018 | Gettysburg, PA LCDS alumni and friends enjoyed a historical reunion featuring two alumni from the class of 2004. Max Felty and Yianni Barakos hosted a tour of the Gettysburg battlefields, including a stop showcasing where Yianni grows and harvests grains used for spirits at Mason Dixon Distillery. A private reception tour was held at the distillery. January 2018 | Marina del Rey, CA A group of alumni living in Southern California met for dinner in Marina on ca m pus e v ents del Rey. Pictured from left to right are John Heath ’05, Teddy Mathias, Meredith Russo ’04, Corie Patterson Burton ’02 and Chief Advancement Officer Shelby LaMar.

Shippen Luncheon | May 9, 2018 Alumni of the Shippen Society gathered on campus for the annual Shippen Society Luncheon, composed of alumni who graduated 50 or more years ago. MARCH2018 21 | LIFERS LUNCHEON Bryan Emeric Adolph Matthew Evan Lane Nicholas Joseph Allen Bryce Edward Myers Lucas Tae Haggerty Jillian Grace Sebelist Carly Mae Kleintop Emma Catherine Stover Daniel Owen Lane Samuel Clark Wege Jarvis Scholar Luncheon | May 3, 2018

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2003 Lauren Allwein-Andrews [email protected]

2004 Andrew England [email protected] Adrienne Radwanski Elizabeth Reidenbach Worley ’07 and husband Cody welcomed 717-560-9470 Parker-Wren March [email protected] 30 in Marietta, Ga. 2005 Libby Roman Caldwell Chloe McPhillips Rich ’02 won the Lancaster 717-669-8307 Chamber Young [email protected] Professionals Network Ashley Charles married Lead Award. Evan Dean May 12 at Drumore Estate in Pequea. In the wedding party were Ashley Charles ‘05 Alison Charles ’13 and Alison married Evan Dean Butler Morin ’05, with Libby Roman May 12 at Drumore Estate in Pequea. Caldwell ’05 in attendance. Elizabeth Raff ’08 and s 2000 Samantha and Chas Kurtz welcomed husband Jeremy announced 2000 baby boy Eli in November 2017. Nicole Richie the birth of their son, 404-216-2053 Libby Roman Caldwell married ’08 [email protected] Cody Caldwell on June 10, 2017, Owen James Raff, March 15. in Lancaster. Other LCDS alumni in Piera Moyer attendance included mother of the 610-376-7546 bride, Cathy Cross Roman ’73, [email protected] maid of honor Mary Roman Harnish ’ 05 ’08, Barbara Cross ’72, Ashley 2001 Libby Roman Bianca M. Heslop Charles ’05, Liz Grimm ’05, Sarah [email protected] Caldwell married Clements ’05, Ellen Simpson ’73, LoLo Fuhrman ’73, Susan Long ’73, Elizabeth Sudhakar Vidor Cody Caldwell on Erica Flood ’74, Bob Brandt ’72, and [email protected] June 10, 2017, Barbara Talbot ’54. Lisa (Walp) Romano ’01 and Brian in Lancaster. Nora Joyce Sampaio and her family Romano welcomed a boy, Wyatt participated in ASSETS Lancaster’s Carmine, in March. Social Enterprise Pitch. They are crowdfunding to open the first HUBUB 2002 international small grocer in Lancaster. Corie Patterson Burton [email protected] Dr. Benjamin Keyser joined the vascular team The Houston Chronicle was a finalist ’02 at The Heart and Vascular Center of Evangelical for a Pulitzer Prize in the break- in Lewisburg, Pa. in the fall of 2017. Keyser received his D.O. Matt Hurley gave an Alumni Lunch Talk titled “Computational ing news coverage category. Keri ’10 from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, did Chemistry: Answering Questions Outside of the Lab” in Blakinger was one of the Chronicle his general surgery residency at the Medical College of November 2017. reporters who contributed to the Georgia and completed his vascular surgery fellowship at paper’s outstanding coverage. After graduating from LCDS, Matt went on to earn a B.S. in chemistry from Geisinger Medical Center. Fordham University in 2015. During the summers he interned at a synthetic Chloe McPhillips Rich won chemistry lab in Lancaster, where he developed NeverWet, an ultra-water- the Lancaster Chamber Young repellant coating with numerous industrial and consumer applications. Professionals Network Lead Award. Hurley is pursuing his doctorate in chemistry at Temple University, focusing on problems in computational biophysics.

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’08 Mary Roman Harnish married Mark Harnish March 10, 2018. In December,

alumni will gather 2006 Brendan Drewniany for happy hour and [email protected] 2007 the performance of Mrs. Adrienne Radwanski Worley ’ 15 Nick Gerace gave an Alumni Lunch Talk titled “Why Computer Science?” and husband Cody welcomed PRiMA's Piano Men. in January 2017. Parker-Wren March 30 in Marietta, Ga. … Gerace completed his junior year as a computer science major at Wake Forest 2008 Erika Vernet details to follow. University this year and hopes to earn a minor Sarah Hafiz ’14 gave an 484-269-7483 in entrepreneurship. Alumni Lunch Talk titled [email protected] “Why Pre-Med?” in January 2017. Kelly Phillips graduated from Temple University Medical School in May and alumni weekend october 12th & 13th is a first-year resident at Lancaster Richard Manix ’62, General Hospital’s family practice. Bridget Keating ’07 and She currently lives in Philadelphia. associate alumnus Andy Appel ’65 traveled to 1958 1993 2003 Andrew Phillips graduated with a Honduras last year with 6 p.m. Class Party to be held October 27 5 p.m. master’s degree from Sarah Lawrence Central American Relief Location TBD 6-11 p.m. ’98-’13 Cluster Reunion May 2017. In September, he began Efforts to provide food, The Pressroom Restaurant LCDS Courtyard teaching full-time at Sacred Heart of medicine and wheelchairs 1963 26 W. King Street to those in need. Lancaster 2008 Jesus School in Manhattan. Saturday, 6 p.m. The Home of Betsy Calder 1998 5 p.m. Elizabeth Raff and husband Jeremy october 204 Spottswood Lane ’98-’13 Cluster Reunion announced the birth of their son, Lancaster 4 p.m. LCDS Courtyard Owen James Raff, March 15. th Class of 1998 Tour of LCDS 1968 5 p.m. 2013 Mary Roman Harnish married Mark 6 p.m. ’98-’13 Cluster Reunion 5 p.m. Harnish in March. Alumni in atten- 1 LCDS Courtyard The Home of ’98-’13 Cluster Reunion dance included Libby Caldwell ’05, 3 Debbie & Jim Martin LCDS Courtyard 7 p.m. Ellen Simpson ’73, Alex Swanson 1307 Homestead Lane Adults-Only After-Party ’08, Blake Dudek ’08, Cathy Ro- Lancaster Lancaster Dispensing Company Reunion Parties 35 N. Market Street, Lancaster man ’73, Katie Mersky ’08, LoLo 1988 Fuhrman ’73, Barbie Talbot ’54 and Barbara Cross ’72. 6 p.m. Class Party information for 1973, 1978 and 1983 The Home of Brian Rundle 2009 2571 Hill Road contact Alumni Director Anne Dandridge '98 Mt. Penn [email protected] 717-431-2592 Kristen E. Casale 484-772-5376 [email protected]

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2010s 2010 Molly Umble [email protected] Matt Hurley gave an Alumni Lunch Talk titled “Computational Chemistry: Answering Questions Outside of the Lab” in November 2017. After graduating from LCDS, Matt went on to earn a B.S. in chemistry from Fordham University in 2015. During the summers he interned at a synthetic chemistry lab in Lancaster, where he developed NeverWet, an ultra-water-repellant coating with numerous industrial and consumer applications. Hurley is pursuing his doctorate in chemistry at Temple University, focusing on problems in computational biophysics.

2012 Kelsey Gohn 717-575-9034 [email protected]

2014 2015 04.07.18 Katie Jacobsen Elizabeth Warfel Cou 0y [email protected] [email protected] ntry Da ’ 14 Sarah Hafiz gave an Alumni Lunch Nick Gerace gave an Alumni Lunch Talk titled “Why Pre-Med?” in January Talk titled “Why Computer Science?” Rachel Reiss ’14 won the World 2017. Hafiz graduated from Franklin & in January 2017. fundfest Federation of National Baton Marshal College with a bachelor’s in public health. Gerace completed his junior year as Twirling Associations silver medal. a computer science major at Wake Rachel Reiss won the World Forest University this year and hopes Federation of National Baton Twirling to earn a minor in entrepreneurship. Associations silver medal in Lillehammer, Norway, in April. 2017 Lauren MacKinnon ’18 IN MEMORIAM Andrew P. Frey earned a B.S. in stra- 717-855-0051 tegic communications and advertising with a minor in political science from Katherine Kubis was named to the dean’s list for the fall 2017 and Emily D. Uhl ’41 the University of Colorado Boulder in ( January 6, 2018) May, and was named to the dean’s list spring 2018 semesters at Penn State for the spring semester. Frey plans to University, University Park, where Hudson Cattell ’49 ( June 25, 2018) attend graduate school at the Univer- she is pursuing a double major in recreation, parks and tourism man- Derek Huey ’89 (November 21, 2017) sity of Denver. agement and Spanish. She was also John Robison ’94 (May 31, 2018) Christopher E. Maley Jr. graduated awarded the Mills Family Honors summa cum laude from Ursinus Col- Scholarship. Alex Umble ’12 (August 14, 2018) lege in May with a B.S. in biochemistry and molecular biology. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Maley entered Columbia University College of Dental Medicine this fall.

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