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Challenging the Status Quo: Hawken’s Role in Education’s Evolving Landscape 2018-2019 Board of Trustees Officers Summer 2018 Charles P. Cooley, Chair Samuel P. Gerace, Vice Chair Blair K. Haas ‘72, Vice Chair Paul N. Harris, Vice Chair Steven M. Ross ‘84, Vice Chair Hawken Alan D. Rosskamm, Vice Chair Andrew Ross, Treasurer REVIEW Janice W. Hawwa, Secretary Trustees Himanshu S. Amin Daniel Brown Steven M. Dettelbach ’84 Volume 38, No 2 Tamara Durn Doody ’85 Dan F. Grajzl Stacie L. Halpern Kendra Howley John LeMay Brinton C. Lincoln ’94 James “Deej” Lincoln, Jr. ’91 Robert W. Mallett ’93 Head of School Office Feature Julie K. Mangini Head of School Summer Paris D. Scott Looney Natalie Ronayne 2 Hawken’s Strategic Plan Debra Adams Simmons Chief Operating Officer Lauren B. Spilman Stephanie A. Tolleson David Sylvan 4 Mastery Transcript Dominic A. Visconsi, Jr. ’77 Executive Assistant Meredith Smith Weil ’85 to the Head of School Consortium Emily R. Morton Life Trustees Jeffrey M. Biggar ’68 Advancement Department 8 The Brave New World Charles P. Bolton ’57 Co-Directors of Advancement Robert W. Bruml ’72 Jeffrey M. Biggar ‘68 of College Admissions William E. Bruner II ’67 Kathleen Z. Guzzi David A. Daberko Whitney Evans ’51 Director of Constituent Leigh L. Fabens Relations & Events Sally L. Gries Eleanor Hitchcock Anderson ’79 K.P. Horsburgh, Jr. ’65 Departments G. Russell Lincoln ’64 Database Manager William C. McCoy ’38 Robin L. Baringer John Sherwin, Jr. ’53 1 From the Desk of Anthoni Visconsi II ’71 Director of the Annual Fund and Alumni Engagement D. Scott Looney Visiting Committee Meg Boucher Jeffrey M. Biggar ’68, Chair Donald R. Allman ’70 Donor Relations Manager 14 Innovation Lab Robert J. Anslow ’77 Lisa M. Brenner Todd A. Barrett ’83 Scott M. Beatty ’77 Database Coordinator 16 From the Chapel Brooke Buckley ’94 Jenn Jenkins to the White House Dennis P. Fisco ’73 Paul Franklin ’02 Marketing Department Jonathan W. Friedland ’86 Director of Strategic Marketing 33 From the Parents’ Timothy M. George ’70 Gina Zeman Walter Adam M. Guren ’99 Association Todd R. Horn ’73 Administrative Assistant, Peter A. Horvitz ’72 Advancement & Marketing Caleb Hsieh ’94 Susan M. Daunch 34 Board Welcome Wendy Morton Hudson ’86 Daniel Hurwitz Editorial Director Charles N. Jordan ’65 Lisa A. Lentz 36 Latest Developments Henri Pell Junod, Jr. ’59 Blake Kleinman ’95 Graphic Designers William H. Lewis ’86 Connie M. Moon 38 Alumni News P. Jeffrey Lucier Casey L. Zulandt David A. McCreery ’81 Tom Murphy ’89 Photography 42 In Memoriam Sarah Dorenkott Pearson ’06 Jeffrey M. Biggar ‘68 Leon Pryor ’92 Joe Darwal Randy F. Rizor ’70 Jennifer Hartz 44 Fair Play Michael Rosskamm ’97 Kevin Reeves John Schirm ’01 Ripcho Studio Theodore “Tod” Sedgwick ’66 Gina Zeman Walter Paul C. Shiverick ’71 Bryan Wamsley John Shubert ’74 Carl E. Smith ’74 Bradley A. Stirn ’68 S. Tucker Taft ’70 Letters and suggestions are welcome: The Hawken Review Emeriti Visiting Committee Members PO Box 8002 Laura Rosenfeld Barnes ’84, Emerita Gates Mills, Ohio 44040-8002 Kathleen Bole ’77, Emerita Rodger S. Rickard, Emeritus [email protected] 440.423.2965 School Community Representatives Jeffrey B. Milbourn ’94 Alumni Association President Nina Fazio Greenberg ’96 Parents’ Association President From the Desk of D. Scott Looney

eading up to Hawken’s centennial year in 2015, we spent a lot of time looking back, L assessing, and celebrating our rich history. We learned a lot from that – perhaps most significantly that Hawken’s stance has, from its inception, been forward-focused in its efforts to guide students toward a life of personal and professional fulfillment. Hawken’s most recent statement, “Get Ready,” has effectively positioned us as a change agent for that very same purpose. But we are in the midst of a pivot, and what we are embarking on now involves more than just a message of preparedness. We are no longer getting ready for change; we essentially are the change.

This issue of the Review focuses on the change that we represent across several areas: strategic planning, as we aim to fulfill our promise of delivering a real world education; student assessment, as we move toward a mastery and proficiency focused education; and college admissions, as we respond to current trends in that process. In all of these efforts, we strive to make learning and education more authentic and accessible, thereby paving the way toward a higher plane of life for the next generation.

I hope you are as excited about the possibilities and promise of these changes as I am.

Sincerely,

D. Scott Looney Head of School

Editor’s Note In keeping with the theme of change and our forward-focused perspective, we are making plans to refresh the look and feel of the Review beginning with the next issue. While most of the changes will be visual and design related, we are shifting our approach to Class Notes. Instead of alternating between even and odd classes in the two annual issues, we will be collecting Class Notes from all classes, even and odd, to be published once a year in the same issue. Make plans to send your updates to your class agent for inclusion in the Winter 2019 issue of the Review.

We hope you will find these changes helpful and refreshing! Hawken’s Strategic Plan

n behalf of the Board of Trustees, I am happy to share best practices. Maintaining Hawken’s position as a thought Owith you Hawken’s 2018 Strategic Plan, designed to leader demands that we fulfill our goal of organizational guide us in our work over the next five years. excellence and pay particular attention to the well-being of community members, use of time, compensation, and more. While we have made tremendous strides meeting the goals established in our 2012 strategic plan, many are works in The updated strategic plan also includes some new areas progress that will require additional attention in the years of focus identified by sub-goals. Now that our merger with ahead for them to be fully realized and implemented. As Birchwood is about to enter year three, we are dedicated you will see, our focus is on “fulfilling,” “deepening,” “refining,” to finding new ways to foster a spirit of one community “maximizing,” and “securing” goals that are already well among and between our campuses; we plan to explore underway. For example, moving Hawken to a stronger fiscal and implement ways to make learning more personalized, position is part of every strategic plan because it is essential with an increased focus on mastery and student choice; we to our ability to withstand potential setbacks in our nation’s intend to enrich our programming in athletics and team- economy and continue to fund initiatives that will keep based activities; and we will continue to develop more Hawken at the forefront of independent education. Likewise, experiential, hands-on learning opportunities to maximize staying abreast of new advancements in technology and student preparation for the real world. These are just a few pedagogy will always be a priority, as that is paramount to of the strategic highlights that project what lies ahead. Hawken’s commitment to remain on the cutting edge of

Our Strategic Priorities Fulfilling Our Purpose: Deepening Fair Play: 1 Forward-focused Preparation 2 Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice for the Real World a. Develop the character traits in students that foster a. Align curriculum and pedagogy to the Purpose, Fair Play Promise and Principles b. Create and execute the plan for the Fair Play Initiative b. Deepen experiential learning opportunities with real c. Enhance diversity among the faculty, staff, and world relevance for all students student body c. Enhance commitment to the cultivation of character d. Develop PS-12 curriculum and programming around through programming, school climate, and culture diversity, equity, civic agency, and social justice d. Foster an environment for individual growth through e. Build community connections to foster exploration greater focus on personalized learning approaches, of issues related to equity and social justice student choice, and persistence to mastery e. Develop the whole person by enhancing the athletic Refining Our Methods: program and other team-based activities Organizational Excellence f. Analyze and expand educational technology 3 a. Enhance and retain talent in faculty, staff, coaches, opportunities and uses and administrators g. Strengthen local and global partnerships to maximize b. Evaluate programs and systems for continuous preparation for the real world improvement c. Foster a spirit of one community across campuses d. Review and revise employee workload and compensation model to align with mission 2 Hawken Review As you read through the updated plan, you may notice that programming that addresses all aspects of Fair Play, and one of the major goals identified has not been referenced in work toward enhancing diversity among our faculty, staff, previous plans: “Deepening Fair Play: Diversity, Equity, and and student body. Social Justice.” Fair Play has been an integral part of Hawken’s fabric since the School’s inception and encompasses a As you can see, even though we are in a very strong position, range of definitions and interpretations — but at its core, it fiscally and educationally, our work continues. I remain ever incorporates the broad spectrum of traits that epitomizes a grateful to our board members, administration, teachers, person of character. Because the development of these traits and families for their continued support as we work together continues to provide the foundation of a Hawken education, to make these strategic priorities a reality. We are confident the board has decided that it is time to devote more that focusing on these areas will secure the future of Hawken institutional time and energy to a particularly relevant aspect School as a leader and innovator in a world that desperately of Fair Play in today’s society, social justice. Work is already needs the kind of education Hawken delivers. underway with plans for a Fair Play Initiative, the drafting of a Hawken School Diversity Statement, and the creation of a Sincerely, new position to be in place for the 2018-2019 year, Director of Fair Play. This new director will help to articulate the Fair Play Initiative, oversee the development of curriculum and Charles P. Cooley Chair, Hawken Board of Trustees

Approved by the Hawken School Board of Trustees, May 24, 2018

e. Review and revise the use of time for students and d. Expand networks and partnerships with forward- faculty to align with mission focused institutions f. Revise and apply the Hawken Method to guide e. Define and strengthen commitment to practice, professional development, and innovation environmental sustainability g. Promote the health and wellness of our students f. Enhance alumni, parent, and grandparent and employees engagement h. Explore and examine the ideal size of the student body with a balance between positive school Securing our Future: culture and financial sustainability 5 Enrollment, Finance, Philanthropy i. Optimize administrative system integration across a. Stimulate enrollment demand, optimize tuition campuses while maintaining necessary local revenue, and maintain enrollment stability autonomy b. Create student access through Flexible Tuition and other affordability initiatives Maximizing our Impact: c. Manage resources, maximize efficiency, and 4 Leadership in Thought and Community generate non-tuition revenue a. Extend Hawken’s position as an educational d. Build a stronger culture and greater success around contributor and thought leader annual giving b. Develop a refined message and brand identity that e. Grow the endowment maximizes our impact and reach f. Secure funding for special projects c. Expand service learning and community service opportunities

3 Head of School Scott Looney Paves the Way for New Method of Student Assessment Earlier this year, Head of School Scott Looney sent out a communication to parents to introduce them to a consortium he recently founded known as The Mastery Transcript Consortium. Its mission? To replace the traditional transcript with one that focuses on mastery as opposed to grades. Since its inception, the consortium has grown to nearly 200 member schools, and that number continues to rise.

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Query Writer View Portfolio Reports version Digital transcript: masterytranscript.org/joseph.smith access code: 2F371AX4LT A SIGNATURE OF SCHOOL OFFICIAL elow is an Stacy Caldwell Takes the Helm at MTC excerpt B Stacy Caldwell, recently appointed executive director of from an MTC, is a passionate believer in the power of the consortium. interview with “The MTC is essentially removing a barrier to educational Scott Looney, innovation. By removing the barrier, you free up the actual educators on the ground to do the work they want to do.” An an “outspoken advocate for inquiry-based and maker programs, Caldwell change agent,” wants to break through the approach where “more is better” by Netassets.org, and where “the pursuit of the grade often comes at the an independent expense of the learning.” school business It’s all about making learning more personalized, and Caldwell journal. has extensive background in that. “Most of the work I did at the Princeton Review and also at Score Educational Centers was Net Assets: The Mastery Transcript is almost deeply focused on designing programs and using technology in revolutionary in its goal of replacing the order to fully personalize learning. It focused not only on the traditional grade-based approach to assessing motivational piece but on keeping students in that ‘zone of high school students. What’s wrong with the old proximal development,’ where they were continually moving toward the next level of challenge.” model? Essentially, Caldwell explains, the goals of the MTC involve Scott Looney: This is my 32nd year in education and my breaking the paradigm of education as we’ve all known and 30th in K-12 education, and every year I’m more convinced experienced it. ”It means no more lists of courses on the that we’re working off the wrong model. It’s a model full of transcript, and it means no grades, which everybody is familiar wonderfully motivated, dedicated, hard-working people with.” Another challenge involves the higher education piece. who are striving harder and harder, but the net outcomes “I think gaining their acceptance is a manageable but very are getting worse, in part because the world we’re putting real challenge. With enough power in the consortium, which kids into has shifted in so many ways. continues to gain momentum, the colleges will become active supporters. If we can get that circle moving then there will be an actual impact.” For example, Hawken was founded in 1915 by a disciple of John Dewey to bring progressive education to Cleveland. Caldwell, who headed up the College Board’s SAT program For about our first 40 years, we were a progressive school. during the latest re-design, is clearly the right person for the But as we got bigger – eventually becoming the largest job. “My ability to navigate those competing interests of high independent school in Ohio – we got more traditional, schools and colleges is something I’m very familiar with. While swept up in the standardization movement and a sense there was very little resistance to the idea and reasons for the of “we’re going to out-AP everyone else.” All of this has put changes, there was a lot of challenge when it came to on the high schools and students in a subordinate position with ground implementation. They all of a sudden had to flip in a selective college admission deans. As admit rates drop, our moment and take into account this new measure that they kids are pushing out more and more applications, which hadn’t had in some the college’s predictive models.” forces admit rates to drop more. It’s creating a generation of One of the first things Caldwell plans to do is engage the MTC neurotic perfectionists at the top of our academic scale. in a strategic planning effort that will center all of their work. “My hope is that we will come out of the strategic guidance Net Assets: What drove you, as a head of school, to process with the recognition that the power of what we are take the lead? trying to do comes from the network of schools. Having that powerful group of schools will allow us to navigate this, make Looney: When the Hawken Board of Trustees hired me in sure the colleges are listening, and make sure we are well- 2006, they were explicitly looking for a change agent. They positioned to make this happen.” realized that the school had drifted from its progressive moorings, and they wanted somebody to return it to those Like Scott Looney and other consortium members, Caldwell progressive educational ideals. The Hawken I inherited was is committed to the MTC because it moves the admission process to one that is more student-centered. “There’s a bit of a great school populated with terrific teachers, but it took arbitrariness to college admissions,” she concludes, ”but if you some heavy lifting to really move in that direction. In my can move the process to something that is better for students, first two years, I turned over 25 percent of the upper I think that’s better for everyone.”

5 Meet the MTC Team

Stacy Caldwell Jimmy Wynn Ben Rein Patricia Russell Executive Director Chief of Organizational Director of Outreach Chief Education and Advancement Operations Officer

Mike Flanagan Terry Dubow Jenny Barker Katharine Bohrs Chief Product Officer Director of Communications Senior Project Manager Project Coordinator

school – faculty who either couldn’t or wouldn’t make learning through direct apprenticeships with startup those changes. It was hard, but we were soon getting businesses. We very quickly realized that the traditional traction and doing things that distinguished us as a assessment system – letter grades and Carnegie units [a progressive school, maybe even the leader in that effort. time-based standard of student progress] – was getting in the way of giving kids feedback that applies to real- For example, about seven years ago, we began exploring world, problem-solving, group-oriented work. We realized the idea of creating a second high school – a laboratory that none of the elements of a traditional transcript made for achieving what an ideal high school might look like. sense in our ideal high school.

“We very quickly realized that the traditional assessment system — letter grades and Carnegie units [a time-based standard of student progress] was getting in the way of giving kids feedback that applies to real-world, problem-solving, group-oriented work.”

Rather than making incremental change, we imagined The biggest problem is the oldest problem in education: taking a cohort of brave souls and building a completely efficiency. The more thoroughly you want to do anything, new school, tabula rasa, that would benefit from the larger the less efficient it becomes. So our challenge is to flagship school. Students would still be able to be on the create a way to assess high school students for mastery, debate team and perform in plays and have hundreds but synthesize all of that achievement so that college of peers, but they would have a completely different admission officers can read it in two minutes or less. That’s educational experience. I workshopped the idea with the whole ball game. faculty, who approved it 60-40, and then with the Board of Trustees, who approved it 90-10. The board was more Net Assets: How did you get started? progressive than my faculty! Looney: There are 37,000 high schools in the United Our next step was to try to build a proof-of-concept for States, so we assumed there had to be at least one that had this ideal high school. We began by creating a three-credit something close to what we wanted. We hired a research interdisciplinary honors course called entrepreneurial company to scan the industry, and after two complete studies, which provides project- and problem-based searches they identified that somewhere around 1 percent

6 Hawken Review of U.S. high schools don’t necessarily produce letter grades, school would do it, but they never will.” They’re mostly and there are almost none that don’t use Carnegie units. watching and waiting, sitting with their arms folded to see how it plays out. The negative reaction is, “That’s crazy. So we started creating our own transcript models. I shared What’s wrong with grades?” Many of these are unmovable. them with some college deans, and their reaction was, And the reaction that gets us members is, “Thank God. “This is really interesting. I can see why you’re doing it. Finally.” In our first 10 months, we secured about 8 percent We’re going to hate it.” I asked why, and they said, “We can’t of the market share for independent schools. stop everything just to train our admissions offices to read a unique transcript used by one school.” They said they Net Assets: Do you see adoption of the Mastery would probably ignore it and just look at SAT scores and a Transcript beyond independent schools? teacher reference. Looney: Our goal is to open it up to all high schools, We gave up for a while until I ran into an Ivy League dean I including public. Independent schools make up only know. I asked her, “What if I got 25 or 50 other schools like 1 percent of all U.S. high schools. I think we’ve got a mine to go in with us – would you consider transcripts like good shot at several thousand schools being part of this?” She said, “From schools like yours? Absolutely.” our membership as soon as we develop a platform and transcript model that people can see and touch. Net Assets: What gave the effort momentum? But I started with independent schools for three reasons, Looney: I spent six months calling 30 different two of them pragmatic and one strategic. One pragmatic independent school heads, begging them to come to a reason involved simply having a lot of friends in the two-day retreat in Cleveland to explore the idea. Maybe independent school world. It was easy to convince 60 or 70 people came from 30 schools. When the retreat them to come to the retreat in Cleveland. Another was was over, 28 of the 30 schools signed on to the effort. the fact that independent schools, ironically, have a lot fewer variables than public schools do. We rarely use our I also knew The Edward E. Ford Foundation was offering a independence. collaborative leadership grant of $2 million to encourage schools to work together. We got the grant, and because The last reason was strategic. Independent schools have it required a match, we set up our structure so that you 1 percent of the total U.S. student body but produce could be a member, through annual dues, or a founder, 10 percent of the enrolled student body in Ivy League through annual dues plus a one-time capital commitment. colleges and more than 20 percent of full-pay students in We now have $2.25 million of pledges from founding private colleges. We have a much bigger footprint than schools in addition to that $2 million of grant money. our actual size. The practical truth is that if we aggregate and tell colleges we are going to be presenting kids this Net Assets: When will the Mastery Transcript way, they won’t have much choice except to work with us. be ready? Net Assets: What impact will the Mastery Looney: This is going to be marathon, not a sprint. It Transcript have on schools’ operations? requires a relatively sophisticated software platform that will cost between $4 and $8 million to build; that’s why we Looney: Not much. We’re intentionally designing it so have to raise capital. The new transcript and the platform that a traditional school can offer the mastery assessment that supports it probably won’t exist for three to four years, model as an option. We knew it would fail if we required and even then, most schools will introduce it to 9th graders. schools to go all or nothing. You can even have kids take Basically, we’re six to eight years away from the Mastery the exact same classes, with some of them being assessed Transcript showing up in college admissions offices. for grades, some for mastery.

Net Assets: What’s been the market reception within the independent school community?

Looney: It breaks down into three kinds of reactions. The most common is, “Wow, that’s a great idea. I wish my To learn more, please visit www.mastery.org.

7 T HE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF COLLEGE ADMISSIONS

by Lisa A. Lentz

Director of College Counseling Renee Bischoff has experienced the world of college admissions from both sides of the desk - as a college admission officer and, for the last 12 years, as a college counselor. Her husband, Rick Bischoff, is in his 28th year of working in college admissions and has, since 2009, served as vice president for enrollment management at Case Western Reserve University. Renee and Rick are parents of Kirby, Hawken Class of ’20.

8 Hawken Review ccording to Renee Bischoff, Hawken’s director of college counseling, A college admission news is big business these days. “It sells papers. And, if you look at most frequently read articles in the New York Times, the LA Times, and the Wall Street Journal, they’re all about higher education. It used to just be part of the April news cycle, but it’s year-round now.”

hy this heightened interest? Most likely because This frustration can lead some families to near panic, Wthe game, as some would call it, has changed resulting in a “hit or miss” approach, with students sending substantially in recent decades, triggering in parents and out as many applications as possible in an attempt to students alike varying degrees of anxiety and stress. increase their chances of admission. But both Renee and Rick recommend a more thoughtful, strategic approach, Part of the frenzy is driven by the well-documented fact beginning with the obvious: finding authentic ways to that the percentage of acceptances at colleges across stand out so that college admission officers take note. the nation has dropped significantly in recent years – the result of the dramatic increase in applicants. Technology According to our resident experts, one of the most is in part to blame. Not only is it easier for students to valuable aspects of a Hawken education is the many apply to more schools via the Common Application and opportunities it provides for students to distinguish other online platforms, but it’s easier for colleges and themselves. Renee explains, “Our kids get to do so many universities to reach students from a broader spectrum of interesting things in the courses they take at Hawken. the population. So when they sit down for college interviews and are asked to talk about a class they like, they just jump right As Vice President for Enrollment Management at Case in to talk about an inspirational experience they had in Western University Rick Bischoff explains, “There is entrepreneurship or in the Intensive class where they read increasing pressure on admission offices to focus on and discussed Thoreau out in the rainy woods as opposed ethnic, socioeconomic, geographic, and international to in a cozy, remote classroom.” She goes on to tell about diversity in shaping a freshman class.” He cites the a student who discovered a passion for cyber security American Talent Initiative, which is designed to expand through exposure to his accelerated math study and to a access and opportunity for talented lower-income cryptology class. “Now he’s at the Air Force Academy,” she students, as just one example. Add to this the fact that the shares, “and I just had an interview with the Department of College Board has expanded the AP program into urban Defense to give him an extra set of clearances.” and rural schools, giving kids across the board access to higher quality curriculum that colleges can comprehend Rick comments that these kinds of experiences give and interpret, and the pool expands even further. This both students and their teachers a story to tell, making means that students who previously may have been college essays, interviews, and recommendations that given an advantage in the process – for example, legacy much more compelling. But the benefits don’t end with applicants – could get pushed aside. “For many families,” the application; they extend to the college experience, Rick acknowledges, “all of this can be frustrating, because where kids from schools like Hawken are much more it means fewer spots for their kids.” likely to take advantages of the many resources available

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to them on college campuses. “Independent school opportunities, Hawken students are not at all timid about environments facilitate faculty mentoring; students are moving out of their comfort zone because they’ve done it accustomed to seeing their teachers as peers in the before. That’s where the value of a Hawken education lies.” learning process, so they aren’t at all hesitant to engage with them.” This means that when they get to college, The human engagement part of the equation is indeed a they are comfortable connecting with faculty and compelling one. But how does that translate in a college conducting research as an undergrad. “It’s just not a big process that is also about numbers, metrics, and available deal because they’re used to it,” he contends. Hawken slots? students are also more likely to take advantage of other resources on college campuses given their experience As is so often the case in this field, it depends on the with travel Intensives or the Fab Lab, for example. “When institution. Rick notes that at Case, the application review Hawken kids come to Case and walk into the Think Box, process has recently shifted to a committee-based they aren’t intimidated; other kids may stay away because approach – a method of evaluation that is becoming it seems too foreign. And when it comes to travel abroad increasingly popular. With this approach, two staff

10 Hawken Review members read applications concurrently. Rick explains, and more often, and, if possible, decide on a major before “They work individually but check in with each other applying. The downside of this strategy? “It can translate to to make sure they understand the curriculum, the more pressure at an earlier age for kids,” Renee cautions. community engagement piece, and the faculty and counselor recommendations.” This check and balance But it can also pay off. She goes on to explain the sharp approach reduces the chance that an applicant might fall drop in college acceptance rate when you compare early through the cracks or be misread. This committee-based decision and regular decision. “Colleges are taking as approach also saves time when compared with the more much as 50% of their freshman class in the early decision

” ach year brings a new set of students and a new set of enrollment Epriorities for the colleges; the alignment of the two groups is how a match is made. Our process is designed to ensure students have choices that are good fits, and we are proud of the matches our students make in this process. ” -Renee Bischoff

laid-back, solitary approach of previous years, but it is a round – so if you find the right match, your chances are much more intense experience. “There’s nothing leisurely often much better if you apply earlier. We try to get kids about it,” he asserts. “So much focus is required, and at the and families to understand this data.” And apparently they end of a reading day, my staff members are exhausted.” are doing a good job of that. This year at Hawken, 90% of the senior class had applied to at least one school by Admittedly, no method of evaluation is perfect, especially December 1; more than 40% of the senior class submitted at many of the larger state universities that utilize binding early decision applications. predictive models and place maximum value on APs, honors classes, and GPAs. The best way of coping with all Rick acknowledges that some students really need to be of the variables, Renee suggests, is to recognize that much in the early pool to increase their chance of admission, of the process is data driven, and then to use that data to and he goes on to explain some of the reasoning behind help inform the college search process. “What you knew this shift. “Handling the early volume in six weeks is hard about a school five years ago is not what you knew about on the admission staff. But because the majority of early it last year, so we really have to understand real-time data applications come from relatively affluent families – and how that plays out for families so we can help them families who don’t feel the need to compare aid offers make the best possible decision. Our office stays on top from other institutions – early decision helps manage the of that. But we’re also doing that with an eye to the fact volatility that can happen as admission officers attempt that there are beating hearts behind this process – 17- and to meet their revenue requirements.” Case, he adds, fills 18-year-old kids who have hopes and dreams. And to us approximately 20% of its freshman class during the early they are not a piece of data.” decision round.

One “trick of the trade” driven by all of this data analysis Testing adds yet another level of complexity to the has made a noteworthy impact on the college process equation. Renee points out, “It’s either test scores are super timeline. According to Renee, current conventional important or they are not, depending on the institution. wisdom encourages students to apply earlier, test earlier So we have to play both sides of that.” Not only that, but a

11 32 ACT score or 1300 SAT score doesn’t mean much these affordable schools. People tend to think everyone is days, particularly at top schools that value test scores. “It’s wealthy in independent schools, and that’s actually not the nothing,” she says. “They are looking for top, top scores, case. We have families coming in and telling us “I can pay and more and more kids are able to get those scores.” 40, or I can pay 25, or we are full need.’ It’s really important The result? Kids take more frequent advantage of free or for us to stay on top of that as a trend, because some low-cost test prep, and they take the tests earlier and more schools do a really nice job of meeting full need; others often in order to remain as competitive as possible. are better at providing scholarships. We have to track that in order to be helpful to our students and families. A relatively recent addition to the mix of variables is Certainly we’ve seen much more interest in financial aid an intensified focus on the part of some colleges for and scholarships at Hawken, and our kids do a really nice students to select a major. Rick explains why. “Colleges and job of staying competitive for scholarship money. Last year universities have more choices – more kids to choose from we had over $7 million dollars offered for scholarships.” to fill programs. This puts more demand on deans because you actually have the ability to meet the programmatic Rick explains another byproduct of rising costs.

he upside of the changing landscape is that students and families Tare beginning to focus more on fit rather than name recognition.

demands of the faculty and administration. Many are “Families with incomes in the $200K - $300K range are looking more closely at majors students are choosing and often surprised that they don’t qualify for need-based using it as one of the determining factors. They will then aid at most institutions. This has forced colleges and read kids through that lens.” That means that they will be universities to demonstrate value.” At CWRU, they do looking for evidence in the application that will support this by putting more focus on outcomes, providing data their choice. Renee provides an example. “If you say you about employment and graduate school and, more want to major in engineering, what are the experiences recently, by strengthening career services on campus. The you had in high school that lead to that? They have an Case administration recently announced an initiative to expectation that the student has prepared for that by formalize and structure its career counseling to support taking the highest level classes offered in that field.”

This push to choose a major and a school early in the game does students a disservice in many instances, Renee contends. “From a developmental point of view, some kids just aren’t there. They don’t know what they want – and there is less time and room for them to explore. I get why they are all stressed out.”

Many of their parents are stressed out as well, but often for different reasons. With college costs climbing above $70,000 at some schools, many parents are encouraging their children to look more broadly than they otherwise might have. “This is really new for us,” Renee shares. “We have a much better understanding of where a family’s process needs to be in terms of matching them with

12 Hawken Review students from the very beginning of freshman year to The Class of 2018 submitted 658 applications to ensure that they utilize all available resources during their 215 different colleges and universities. This includes applications to Canadian and United Kingdom time on campus. Rick gets it: “Parents want to know that Universities. The average number of applications their children will be well-positioned to get a job when they per student was 5.8. graduate, or to have a clear path toward a job or career.”

All of these trends and shifts, while somewhat daunting, have ultimately made college better for students, Rick posits. Just as students have had to focus more on upping their game, so have colleges. “Families who come visit campuses don’t recognize colleges as they knew them back when they were students,” he claims. Clearly the facilities, services, and student body don’t look the same. And then there’s the renewed focus on helping students thrive by providing a wide array of experiential learning opportunities, research opportunities, and internship opportunities – all representing what Rick calls “a huge investment in the student experience.”

From Renee’s perspective, the upside of the changing landscape is that students and families are beginning to focus more on fit rather than name recognition and prestige. In this climate of unpredictability and competition, she aims to strike a balance. “We have to find ways for our kids to stand out in authentic ways. Yes, you have to take the Hawken students are more than twice as likely to get right classes; you have to take the right testing. All of that into top national universities and liberal arts colleges. is true. You need to play the game. And we are experts in understanding the game. But I think you can play the game while remaining humble and authentic. Our goal is not to package kids, because then they don’t come across as real people; our goal is to have our kids identify schools that are great fits and demonstrate to those schools that they are really going to be great contributors on those campuses.”

Rick’s advice to college hopefuls is this: “Listen to your college counselor. When your counselor tells you that a given school is a reach, ask if it is an appropriate reach or an inappropriate reach.” He says that he sees too many families and students chasing inappropriate reaches that take them away from places that are more likely admits – and also 49% of the class has been possibly a better fit. “This is harmful in two ways,” he explains. offered scholarships totaling “First, it’s hard to complete 17 applications well. And second, if you have 17 reaches and all 17 are no’s – that doesn’t feel good. And why would you do that to a kid? That doesn’t $7,197,564 happen if you listen to your college counselor.”

Renee has her own succinct way of putting it: “Don’t sacrifice yourselves to the college gods.” Congratulations Class of 2018

13 New Innovation Lab Opening this

awken’s commitment to preparation for the real Hworld can be seen yet again in the opening of the Innovation Lab at the Lyndhurst Campus this fall. In 2017, the School decided to convert the underutilized Brown Gym on the Lyndhurst campus into an Innovation Lab, named for the Cathy and Larry Goldberg family in appreciation of their lead gift. square foot, lofted Innovation Lab will engage students in real-world projects that will inspire students to explore Research shows the benefits in nurturing students’ their own ideas, giving them permission to create, interests and creativity while they are young. This new imagine, and build. This space will promote student space will house programming for preschool through engagement in design, robotics, computer coding, eighth grade students, providing many more opportunities architecture, 3-D printing, engineering, sound editing, for them to create, tinker, explore, and discover using a video production, and other tangible work, enabling variety of tools. The Lab will accommodate innovative, students to produce something novel that exists in the interdisciplinary programming currently being designed physical world and has utility. by faculty members at each grade level. Students will work with programs such as Arduino, Scratch Students will have access to the latest technologies and Raspberry Pi, robots, rockets, gears, circuit boards, and tools and the Lab will provide them with more LED lights, sensors, motors, computer-assisted drawing opportunities to explore, design solutions, build working software, vinyl cutters, laser cutters, CNC milling machines, prototypes, and solve real-world problems. The 3,600 3D printers, and much more.

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Features of Hawken’s Innovation Lab at Lyndhurst The Goldberg Family Innovation Lab will feature four distinctive learning areas in addition to the large central common space. Discovery Zone Innovation Zone This space will be an enclosed project-based environment This area of the Innovation Lab will allow students to for students of all ages to actively engage in hands-on transfer project ideas to the digital fabrication equipment projects and collaborative STEM-based experiences. Teachers and create 2D and 3D prototypes. Utilizing 21st century can utilize the special features of this zone for science design technology, students will be able to model, print, projects; wet-lab experiments; engineering challenges; and cut, and assemble using sewing machines, a vinyl cutter, focused class discussion, experimentation, and discovery. laser cutters, and 3D printers.

Fabrication Zone Engineering Loft The Fabrication Zone will give students access to hand One feature of the Engineering Loft is the Collaboration tools, power tools, and workshop equipment to build Zone, which will be outfitted with innovative technology larger projects. The Fabrication Zone invites kids to use the and flexible furniture to enhance the collaborative project correct tools and materials to safely construct and build experiences. The other main feature of the loft will be the their designs. The space will include a CNC router as well Robotics Zone, where kids will get hands-on experience as saws, drills, hammers, sanders, and hand tools that you building and programming robots. In the loft, students would find in a traditional woodshop. will have access to the electronics station, where they can use soldering irons, programming boards, and electrical components to create electronic circuits and prototypes.

If you’re interested in helping us complete this project, please contact Kathleen Guzzi, Co-Director of Advancement, by email at [email protected] or by phone at (440) 423-2918.

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Hawken Students Claim 3 of 4 Speech & Debate Team Grand Prizes at NEOSEF Places 2nd in State Tournament

Hawken had a phenomenal showing at the 65th Annual Congratulations to the Hawken Speech and Debate Team Northeast Ohio Science and Engineering Fair (NEOSEF) for being named Runners-Up at the 90th Ohio Speech held March 12-15 at Cleveland State University. and Debate Association State Tournment held in Toledo in early March. This marks the fourth time in the last six Not only were all Hawken students participating at the seasons that the Hawks have finished in the top three fair presented with at least one award at the Awards teams in the state at this event. Ceremony, but they also took four out of the nine first prizes: Claudia Hamilton ’19 took first place in the In addition to the team’s finish as runners-up, the following engineering category; David Lyons ’19 in the math- students achieved stellar results: United States Extemp: computer category; Allison Sewell ’19 in the health- Esther Bedoyan ’18, state runner-up; Vikash Modi ’18, medicine category; and Clayton Ferguson ’19 in the semifinalist; Krishna Sanaka ’21, semifinalist. Lincoln physics category. Even more impressive, three out of Douglas Debate: Zade Akras ’18, semifinalist; Allison the four grand prizes went to Hawken students: Claudia, Sewell ’19, semifinalist;Liz Frissell ’18, octafinalist. David, and Allison were all awarded the grand prize in International Extemp: Sam Li ’20, 5th place; Soren their respective categories. Palencik ’21, quarterfinalist. Congressional Debate: Andrew Griffin ’18, finalist;Cassandra Berlin ’20, In addition, the following students won prizes for finalist; Samia Menon ’19, semifinalist; Ella Attell ’19, second place: Ella Attell ’19 in math-computer science; semifinalist. Original Oratory: Ross Krantz ’19, semifinalist. Marilena DeGennaro ’19 in biology; Brennen Keuchel Policy Debate: Michelle Zhang ’19 and Sinan Aktay ’19, ’19 in biology; Samia Menon ’19 in engineering; quarterfinalists;Andrew Liu ’19 and Amrita Mukunda ’19, Victor Pan ’19 in chemistry; and Neil Tewari ’19 in quarterfinalists; Jake Wei ’20 and Collin Stasiak ’20, health-medicine. Sinan Aktay ’19 placed third in the octafinalists, Mira Getrost ’21 and Valerie Laurianti ’21, health-medicine category. octafinalists.Duo Interp: Jacob Cashman ’18 and Michael Abramovich ’18, quarterfinalists.Public Forum Debate: The fair featured 423 projects from 72 schools, and judges Sauren Khosla ’18 and Brian Sun ’18, octafinalists;Izzy award one first place prize in each of nine categories in Culver ’19 and David Lyons ’19, double-octafinalists. the 11th and 12th grade division. The four high school grand prize winners qualify for the International Science The future is bright for this team: 65% of our state and Engineering Fair (ISEF) and win an all-expense-paid qualifiers advanced to elimination rounds, and only 22 of trip to the international fair, which was held in May. our 60 sweepstakes points were earned by seniors.

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Student Accomplishments

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Thomas Wong ’21 was recently named a semifinalist in a Congratulations to Hawken Middle School Chess Team competition offered by Future Engineers and NASA called members Austin Daly ’22, Destynn Keuchel ‘22, “Two For The Crew.” This standing put him among the top Dillon Perni ’22, and Ishan Vyas ’22 for becoming state 10 in the teen category. Congratulations, Thomas! champions for the second year in a row at the State Chess Championships held in Columbus on May 25 and 26. In Congratulations to Maggie Murray ’19, who took home addition, Ishan tied for eighth place out of 48 players and top honors at the Ohio History Day state competition. Her received an honorable mention trophy, and Destynn tied short film earned her first place in the Senior Individual for first and was named one of four Ohio Middle School Documentary category. co-champions.

Congratulations to Maria Schreiner ’19, who placed as Hawken’s Upper School team placed third among six a semifinalist at the 35th Annual National Shakespeare schools in the high school section. Brennen Keuchel ’20 Competition. She competed against 55 high school entered the last round tied for first place but missed the students from around the United States on stage at title by just a half a point, capturing third place among 27 the Mitzi Newhouse Theater in Lincoln Center as the players. culmination of a year-long competition hosted by the English-Speaking Union (ESU).

Middle School Energy Team Places First in State Competition

This year’s middle school energy team, composed of students from 6th through 8th grade, traveled to Columbus on May 15 to celebrate the work they had done this year to promote energy education. Their portfolio, titled “Going Green in 2018” was judged as the best middle school submission in the state, making Hawken School the “Ohio Junior School of the Year”. That winning portfolio was featured at the National Energy and Education Development (NEED) Youth Energy Conference and Awards in Washington, DC in June.

17 Congratulations and Farewell Academic Challenge Team to our Faculty Emeriti Wins National Championship in Chicago Jack Breisch was hired in 1980 as an Upper School English teacher. During the 1980s, Jack served as varsity tennis coach and dean of students. After a short stint as associate director of admissions at the Upper School, Jack became director of senior projects, a position he held from 2007-2014. Jack’s compassion for people inspired him to teach a class called Homelessness that ultimately became one of Hawken’s most impactful Intensives. In 2010, Jack was granted honorary alumnus status. Students Congratulations to Hawken’s Elementary Division will always fondly recall Jack’s wit, infectious smile, and Academic Challenge A team, which dominated at the penchant for employing yoga as a teaching tool. Chicago National Tournament in early June. These Hawks moved steadily through the preliminaries, finishing with Peter Scott started at Hawken in 1974 a 5-1 record. Seeded second in the playoffs, they faced a as an Upper School English Teacher. tough opponent in the championship match but once From 1974-1999, he oversaw again prevailed, winning the National Championship. Hawken’s Outdoor Leadership program, The Middle School A team also made it to the playoffs, and in 1988, he taught at the Mountain having won five of their first six matches, moving on to the School. A Vietnam veteran and army quarterfinals, and finishing the tournament in third place. officer from 1967-1971, Peter has published several novels, one history book, over 20 short stories, and over 20 magazine articles. In 2001, Peter achieved honorary alumnus status from Hawken School. Always a favorite Scott Looney Named among students, Peter continued to connect with Hawken alumni and friends through the School’s Centennial and Administrator of the Year Scott Looney was named 2018 Administrator of the Year beyond through his “First Thursdays with Peter” series. In at the 2018 National Speech & Debate Nationals Award addition to writing, his hobbies include open sea rowing Assembly in Fort Lauderdale in June. and biking with family.

“Recipients of this prestigious award not only demonstrate Holly Scott began her 23 years at Hawken as a exemplary contributions to their profession, but continually kindergarten teacher in the early 80s. From 1997-2005, provide high-quality opportunities for students in speech she served as the executive director of the Cleveland and debate programming,” said J. Scott Wunn, executive Council of Independent Schools. Holly began her work in director of the National Speech & Debate Association. admissions, serving Hawken Middle School as associate Wunn praised him for supporting and developing the team director of admissions before transitioning into that and added, “Scott Looney serves as a tremendous advocate same role at the Upper School, where she was beloved and role model for his students, the community, and the by students and colleagues alike. Her interests include speech and debate activity. His continued dedication for reading, gardening, and spending summers in Maine speech and debate makes a significant difference in the with family. success of his students and the school.”

18 Hawken Review A Letter from Scott Looney: The Strategic Importance of Athletics

As James A. Hawken declared over 100 years ago, “The school in Cleveland and the near doubling of the Upper purpose for which Hawken School exists is the development School applicant pool at a time when many peer schools are of character.” Character, like intellect, develops in the space seeing either flat or declining enrollment. Now is the perfect marked by the intersection of nature and nurture; it is shaped time to put more energy, expertise, and resource into our by our experiences and evolves over time. Throughout its athletic programs. history, Hawken School has continually sought new ways to provide the best environment and experiences to enable all We launch this effort from an already strong base, with of our students to become their “better selves.” Hawken School claiming more total state championships (individual and team combined) than any other high school I’ve spoken with scores of alumni from all over the country in Cleveland. But there is room for improvement in order to who have commented that the most profound, impactful ensure that our athletic program is on par with our academic moments during their time at Hawken resulted from their program. This effort should result not only in more successful involvement in co-curricular activities. This isn’t particularly athletic teams, but more importantly, in greater participation surprising when you think about it. Team-based activities in competitive athletics. that ask students to work collaboratively towards a difficult but shared goal help to build character and develop traits The mission of our school, with its central goal of character including empathy, leadership, teamwork, resilience, development, demands that we move in this strategic persistence, and communications skills. Likewise, individual direction. To this end, under the direction of our Chief achievements – like having to hit the high note in a solo for Operating Officer Stephanie Tolleson, we have launched the musical with an audience filled with family and friends or an Athletics, PE, and Wellness Task Force that is formulating surpass your personal best in a track or swim meet – elevate exciting and ambitious plans that we hope to unveil both a sense of achievement and risk of failure, thereby later this school year. Some changes are already being strengthening character. implemented, including the restructuring of certain head coach responsibilities into program director roles responsible I once heard former Hawken Athletics Director Tom Bryan for varsity, middle school and youth development refer to athletics as a “crucible for character,” and it struck programs; we have launched a new athletics microsite at me that for many students, participation in sports provides hawken.edu/athletics; and we have hired our first full-time the quintessential context for character development. strength and conditioning coach. As our plans progress, we Involvement in athletics not only nurtures those skills that will be raising the funds, hiring the people, and enriching result from working to achieve a collaborative goal, but also the professional development of our coaches and faculty to builds the skills required for competition: courage, strategy, take Hawken Athletics to a higher plane, providing an even counter-strategy, pushing through fatigue, tolerating pain to stronger crucible for character development. achieve gain, dealing with ambiguity, and more.

It makes sense, then, that athletics should become a strategic priority for a school like Hawken, which values the development of character above all things. We have completed Hawken’s Centennial Campaign and the funding D. Scott Looney of Stirn Hall, which has resulted in the best facilities of any

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2018 Athletics Hall of Fame Inductees

Hawken School congratulates the Class of 2018 Athletics Hall of Fame inductees. These athletes – like those previously inducted and those who will join them in years to come – represent student- athletes, coaches, and contributors who have significantly impacted Hawken’s athletic programs and demonstrated the highest standards of character, leadership, sportsmanship, and Fair Play.

Thomas A. Hall ’72 Bradric T. Bryan ’83 Football and Wrestling Soccer, Basketball, and Baseball

Tom was captain of the varsity Brad was an all-star soccer, football team for two seasons (1970 basketball, and baseball player while and 1971) and was on the second at Hawken and matriculated to Hawken football team to have an Williams College where he played undefeated season. He also played D-III soccer. He was an Old Board baseball and wrestled, winning the national prep school award winner in soccer, basketball, and baseball; captain of wrestling tournament in 1971 and coming in second in 1972. the baseball team his senior year and co-winner of Tom is on Hawken’s Wall of Fame. the Strong Award. He went on to play semi-pro soccer after college.

Victor Schmelzer ’74 Basketball David C. Henkel ’88 Football, Swimming, Baseball Elected in 2017, but unable to and Track attend the induction, Vic has been described by Tom Bryan as “one of David was a top performer in the two best basketball players I swimming and football. He coached.” More than 40 years after captained the state finalist football his playing days, Schmelzer continues to hold school records team in 1987 and went on to play in rebounds in a season and career rebounds. He served football at Michigan, winning two Big Ten titles. He was as team captain and was named to the Cleveland Press All captain of the first state swimming team and was a two-time Scholastic Team, All-Plain Dealer, and Honorable Mention state champion. He is on the Hawken Wall of Fame. All-Ohio.

Brittany L. Strumbel ’08 Marla Esgar Robbins ’75 Swimming and Soccer Volleyball, Tennis, Field Hockey, Basketball, and Softball; Coaching Brittany is a 13-time State swimming champion, and all four of her teams Marla was in the first class of female were state champions. She was graduates of Hawken and winner of team captain and made All-Ohio five varsity letters: tennis (undefeated and All-American. She swam at tennis team in 1974, 11-0), field Indiana University, was a Big Ten hockey, volleyball, basketball, and softball. She was a team Champion and still holds multiple top ten times in Big Ten captain in tennis, volleyball, and basketball, and was a four- history. Brittany was an Olympic Trial qualifier, and is on time Old Board Award winner in tennis, volleyball, basketball, Hawken’s Wall of Fame. and softball. She has taught or coached at Hawken for 32 years. Marla has coached softball, field hockey, girls basketball, and girls and boys tennis. She was the recipient of the Fair Play Award in 2011 and the Marsh Award in 2013.

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Celebrating Coach Walton

On May 12, over 200 people came together to honor and celebrate the legacy of long-time, retiring Hawken teacher and football and wrestling coach Cliff Walton. Guests included many former players and coaches, friends, family, and other members of the Hawken community. On display during the reception were amazing memorabilia and reminders of the Walton era, including photos, uniforms, memory books, game footage, awards, game balls, and more. Guests were treated to heartfelt and entertaining tributes from John Christie ’89, long-time assistant coach Gary Moses, and Cliff’s three sons, Scott ’93, Dan ’96, and Jeff Walton ’99. Good luck in retirement, Coach Walton! To view more photos, visit hawken.edu/CelebratingCoachWalton

Welcome to New Hawken Coaches The Hawken Athletics Department would like to announce the recent hires to our coaching staff. We feel honored to have these amazing coaches join our Hawken Community. To read their bios, visit hawken.edu/WelcomeCoaches.

Brian Stephenson Dan Usaj Ahyodha “Fuzzy” Director of Football Associate Director of Kishna Operations, Head Football Athletics, Admission Officer, Head Field Hockey Coach Coach Director of Boys Lacrosse

Kris Lewandoski Cassie Bucceri ’09 Heidi Wilbrandt Director of Strength Softball Head Coach Girls Soccer Assistant and Conditioning and Field Hockey Varsity Coach Assistant Coach

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Girls Swimming Captures 20th Consecutive State Title

“It was a meet for the ages tonight, one to add to the incredible legacy of Hawken Swimming. It was a meet where our swimmers saw triumph, heartbreak, agony, and exhilaration,” commented Athletic Director Jim Doyle after the girls swim team won the State Championship for the 20th consecutive year on February 24.

The girls dominated the meet from the start, opening with a state record finish in the 200 medley relay. Their 20-year state championship streak is unmatched in Ohio high school history in any sport. Portia Del Rio Brown ’18, a University of Georgia recruit, earned four gold medals at the state meet and was named the News-Herald Girls Swimmer of the Year. Zeb Hart ’18, who will be swimming at Williams College, was named the News-Herald Boys Swimmer of the Year.

The boys team finished as state runners-up, capping a season with many spectacular races and great accomplishments. Their season included a dual meet win over rival and eventual state champion University School. This marks the third consecutive year with a podium finish. To add to these accolades, Coach Todd Clark was named girls coach of the year.

Middle School Swimming Captures Championships

Congratulations to the Middle School girls and boys swim teams on being named champions at January’s Independent Private School League (IPSL) Championship meet held at Linsly School in West Virginia.

This was the first championship for the boys in at least 20 years, and the victory was determined in the final relay. According to Coach Wamsley, “The girls repeated their championship from last year. They took control of the meet early and never looked back.” 22 Hawken Review sports news

Boys Basketball Girls Basketball

Boys basketball finished their season at 14-10, 1-1 in the Girls basketball finished their season at 12-11, 1-1 in the state playoffs and had a season with many spectacular state playoffs. Carly Perusek ’20 eclipsed the 500 career highlights. On December 8, the Hawks defeated rival points mark as a sophomore and was named first team University School 77-65 in a thrilling game on the Prepper’s Chagrin Valley Conference and second team All-District. home court. Senior Hugh Brown had a great season, eclipsing the 1,000 career points mark at home in front of a packed house. Hugh finished his Hawken career with CONGRATULATIONS & 1,165 career points, second-most in school history behind Maurice Gray’s ’86 1,719 career points. Brown was also named the Chagrin Valley Conference MVP for the second straight year. GO HAWKS!

Wrestling Senior JP Hlifka and sophomore Jackson Reineke each finished third in the District Wrestling Tournament, qualifying them for the OHSAA State Tournament in Columbus. Neither wrestler placed at States, but wrestling at the highest level at the OSU’s Schottenstein Arena is a hallmark to any wrestler’s career. JP finished the season 38-8, a two-time state qualifier, and with 113 career victories. Jackson finished 34-8 and as a state qualifier. Great season, Jack and JP!

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Track and Field Tennis

Track and Field had a Tennis finished their great season. Both girls season with 13 wins and boys were crowned and only 2 losses. Chagrin Valley Conference They won the Chagrin Champions, and Ella Valley Conference Gilson ’21 and Michael Championship, the Region Snyder ’19 were named Championship, and for the CVC MVP’s. Both Ella and Michael qualified for the state third consecutive year finished in the top three in the state track meet, Gilson in the 800 meter run and 1,600 meter team tournament. The Hawks lost in the state semifinals run and Snyder in the high jump. Gilson was the region to eventual champion Wellington School, then defeated champion in the 800m and finished as state runner-up Lexington High School 3-0 to capture the third place in both the 800m and the 1,600m. Ella earned podium finish. Sauren Khosla ’18 and Stephanie Shulman ’19 finishes and All-Ohio honors in three different sports this finished third in the OHSAA State Doubles Tournament year: cross country, swimming, and track and field. Snyder and were named first team All-Ohio. Ryan Leizman ’18 also earned a podium finish at the state meet, placing was a sectional and district champion, state qualifier, eighth in the high jump. Chagrin Valley Conference MVP, and second team All-Ohio.

CONGRATULATIONS TO HAWKEN ATHLETES The following students are athletes from the Class of 2018 who intend to play at the college by which they were recruited.

Becca Arn Jimmy Clark Danny Murphy Anna Shaulis Malone University, swimming Kenyon College, baseball University of Toledo, baseball Kenyon College, field hockey Henry Arslanian Colleen Como Matt Orloff Calvin Tecson DePauw University, swimming Indiana University of Pennsylvania, swimming Drew University, baseball Case Western Reserve University, swimming Hugh Brown Spencer Crawford T.J. Perusek Charles Winans Lake Erie College, basketball Denison University Washington University, football McGill University, baseball Portia Del Rio Brown Eli Ehrbar Isabella Ratino Zeki Zai University of Georgia, swimming Ithaca College, baseball University of Pittsburgh, swimming Dean College, soccer Nick Canitia Zeb Hart Will Rowley Ohio Wesleyan University, football Williams College, swimming Baldwin Wallace University, football & baseball sports news

Girls Lacrosse Softball

Playing one of the toughest schedules in Ohio, girls Softball completed their first season in two years. After lacrosse finished their season 8-12 but won two playoff not having enough players to field a team in 2017, the games in convincing fashion before falling to Hathaway Hawks rostered 21 players and had a terrific season. While Brown School in the region semifinals. winning only one game (11-1 over Lawrence School) in a tough varsity schedule, the Hawks showed great Ari Cohen ’19 was named 2nd Team All-Ohio. Cohen, growth and development – and had no seniors. Under the Sadie Jacobson ’19, and Heather Arslanian ’21 were guidance of Hawken softball alumnae Cassie Bucceri ’09, named 1st Team All-Region. Julia Newman ’20 was head coach, and Katie Nelson ’04, the future is bright for named 2nd Team All-Region, and Sydney Kates ’19 was Hawken softball. Honorable Mention All-Region.

Baseball Boys Lacrosse Baseball finished their season 16-7, 10-2 in the conference After a tough season in a difficult schedule, boys lacrosse and won the Chagrin Valley Conference title for the third won their first round OHSAA playoff game, a 14-11 consecutive year. This year’s senior class has five win over Kent Roosevelt High School. They then fell to members going on to compete in baseball in college: Archbishop Hoban in the second round. It was a great start Danny Murphy (D-I Toledo), Quinn Orloff (D-III Drew), for Head Coach Dan Usaj in his inaugural season with the Charles Winans (McGill, Montreal), Jimmy Clark (D-III The following students are athletes from the Class of 2018 who intend to play at the college by which they were recruited. Hawks. Scott Hill ’18 and Jack Kelly ’18 were named Kenyon), Eli Ehrbar (D-III Ithaca), and Will Rowley (D-III Honorable Mention All-Region, and Charlie Ross ’18 was Baldwin Wallace). named an Academic All-American by US Lacrosse.

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Scholastic Awards Students for Creativity in Art/Writing Congratulations to the following Upper School students who received Scholastic Art and Writing Awards earlier this month:

Gold Key: Lauren Ellis ’22 (printmaking), Marcus The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards is the longest- Soltzberg ’18 (film and animation),Milena Fernsler ’22 running, most prestigious recognition program for (short story), Ella Attel ’19 (flash fiction); creative teens in the U.S., and the nation’s largest source Silver Key: Samia Menon ’19 (comic art and personal of scholarships for creative young artists and writers. A essay/memoir); Honorable Mention: Jocelyn Chin noteworthy roster of past winners includes Andy Warhol, ’20 (poetry and personal essay/memoir), Samia Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Richard Avedon, Robert Menon ’19 (flash fiction and poetry),Jane Nilson ’21 Redford, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, John Updike, (short story), Raymond Tao ’21 (short story), Rithika and many more. Yalavarthy ’22 (fashion).

First Annual Belle Artes Event Highlights Hands-On Visual Arts Workshops

The visual arts department’s first annual Belle Artes Extravaganza was a joyful event! Children from preschool through high school expressed their creativity by making quirky sock puppets, personalized sketchbooks, animal drawings inspired by Senufo art, mixed-media hot air balloons, paintings on canvas, and gorgeous prints.

Upper School art students commented on how much fun they had assisting and interacting with the younger children, and teachers enjoyed having young children with their high energy explorations. It was a memorable time, and many participants commented that they look forward to next year’s Belle Artes.

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Lower School students performing Pajama Party

Middle School students performing Pirates of Penzance

Lower School students performing Pirates Past Noon Hawken Players’ Society performing Mary Poppins

Hawken Musicians Excel at OMEA Conference Three Upper School musicians received the highest rating in class A performance at the Ohio Music Education Association Solo and Ensemble Contest on Saturday, January 27. Freshman Michael Butler (tuba), senior Andrew Gerace (trumpet), and sophomore Anna Ulatowski (vocal solo) earned a superior rating for their solo performances. Congratulations to our talented Hawks!

Thirteen Lower School students performed in the Ohio Music Education Association All-State Children’s Chorus concert in Columbus on February 8. Hawken students were part of a statewide choir consisting of 4th and 5th grade students. The 125-member choir was under the direction of Dr. Patrick Freer from Georgia State University. Faculty member Sarah Kozlowski was the state chair of the event. Congratulations to these young musicians: Marin Allyn ’26, Luisa Castellanos ’26, Sofia Castellanos ’26, Bridget Daly ’25, Mackenzie Ecker ’26, Vanessa Grajzl ’25, Maddie Halliday ’25, Molly Halliday ’25, Sonia Loshakov ’26, Annabelle Sieger ’26, Lona Walter ’25, Izzy Young ’25, and Arden Zegura ’26.

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1 In the Hawken Kitchen Spring Book Fair The Parents’ Association partnered with Hawken parents Parents and students purchased summer reading books at the Doug Katz ’88 and Aylin Ozdemir-Lorenz in the White Spring Scholastic Book Fair in the Lower School, which was House kitchen for an evening of culinary delights. They organized by Marlene Klein. demonstrated and prepared a delicious meal of Moroccan chicken and couscous for event attendees. Field Day Students in grades four through eight participated in an Teacher Appreciation afternoon of friendly competition at Field Day. The events were Teacher Appreciation co-chairs Jen Cosgrove, Kelly Covitt, overseen by Field Day co-chairs Nikki Forte and Sandy Metz. Andrea Hill, Adrienne Korsmo, Kat Price, Shani Spiegle, Sherry Toth, and Branka Zivic organized buffets to keep Parent Appreciation Luncheon our teachers nourished throughout the year. Thank you to all To thank parent volunteers for the countless ways they of the parents who contributed to these meals. enrich the life of the school, the Parents’ Association hosted an appreciation luncheon. The event paid tribute to Karen 2 Health and Safety: Educational Discussions Canitia for her selfless service to Hawken.Tonya Thomas In January, the Parents’ Association presented an evening talk received commendation for her two years of service as about the nation’s growing habit of vaping among young president of the Parents’ Association, while Nina Fazio adults and the associated risks of this activity. Health experts Greenberg ’96 was welcomed as incoming president. Dr. Nicholas Eilbeck and Susan Hoicowitz educated parents on the topic; another young woman shared her views on the Lyndhurst Campus Welcomes Visiting Authors impact of using vape pens. Additionally, in April the Parents’ Proceeds from the Scholastic Book Fair sponsored by the Association hosted nationally recognized internet safety Parents’ Association helped fund two visiting authors for expert and TEDx presenter Jesse Weinberger, who spoke students on the Lyndhurst campus. Sharon Draper, an American about managing and improving the digital lives of children. children’s writer, professional educator, five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, and New York Times bestselling After Prom Fundraiser author, presented to grades three through eight. Meanwhile, Two events were held to support the Hawken After Prom, Polly Holyoke, author of the award-winning science fiction which is sponsored by the Hawken Parents’ Association. Neptune Trilogy, spoke to students in kindergarten through Lynne Marcus Cohen ’82 and the After Prom Committee grade two. planned a Hawken Family Night Out at Play Arcade + Kitchen. Meanwhile, Jen and Chas ’87 Grossman held a gathering 4 Congratulations to the Class of 2018 in their home for the parents of juniors and seniors. After Perhaps the most exciting times in a senior’s life are the year- Prom, a parent-organized, parent-run, and parent-supported end activities leading up to Commencement. Students look event, is free for all juniors and seniors. Thank you to the After forward to reflecting on their Hawken memories at the Senior Prom Committee, parents, and volunteers who contributed Breakfast, which was co-sponsored by the Parents’ Association. to the post-Prom event. Thank you to the Senior Breakfast and Gates Mills Closing Ceremonies Committee members Kim Ulatowski-Bislich and 3 Spring-A-Ma-Jig 2018 Michelle Flores, as well as a dedicated group of volunteers, for Jamie Kessler and Natalie Kupinski arranged a fun-filled the memorable event. Following Commencement, Hawken’s day of events for Lower School students to celebrate the newest alumni returned home to find congratulatory signs in end of the school year at Spring-A-Ma-Jig. The end-of-year their yards. This effort was led by Jill Snyder. Congratulations carnival celebration featured a photo booth, balloon artist, to the Class of 2018 and their families. plant sale, cake walk, games, prizes, and more. 33 Welcome&Thanks Hawken Welcomes New Members to the Board of Trustees and the Visiting Committee Hawken is proud to announce the appointment of the following members to the Board of Trustees and the Visiting Committee. Working collaboratively, they will ensure the long-term strategic development and fiscal soundness of the School. The Board of Trustees and the Visiting Committee are made up of individuals with a vast array of talent and experience who share a commitment to help guide Hawken School.

New to the Board of Trustees: and human resources. He also held several consulting roles at GE Commercial Finance. Jeff and his wife Sara, a preschool Kendra Howley is a vice president of Wealth Management teacher at Hawken, live in Gates Mills with their three children, Technology Audit at Morgan Stanley. She is a subject matter Lindsay ’21, Kate ’23, and Colin ’26. expert in digital banking, cyber security, and anti-money laundering, and is responsible for supervising internal reviews of key client-facing and digital banking products as well as New to the Visiting Committee: interfacing with bank regulators and senior management. Outside of work, Kendra is a member of the Cleveland Clinic Paul I. Franklin ’02 is principal of Franklin Capital Strategies. Children’s Leadership Council. She and her husband Michael He is also a member of the Greater Washington Jewish reside in Gates Mills with their three children, Charles ’30, Federation Strategic Planning and Allocations Committee. Madelyn ’33, and Sienna ’33. Paul represents New York Life as a political involvement leader and is a member of The Million Dollar Round Table, School Community Representatives: The Association for Advanced Life Underwriting, and The National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors. He Nina Fazio Greenberg ’96 becomes president of the Parents’ previously served as assistant vice president of the Alumni Association beginning with the 2018-2019 school year. A Board for George Mason University’s Schar School of Public Hawken Lifer, Nina is a volunteer in the School community, Policy. Paul was a Lifer at Hawken School. He currently resides having served such roles as Alumni Board member, class in Arlington, VA with his wife Andrea and their daughter agent, phonathon volunteer, and Class Parent Committee Madeleine. co-chair and representative. She was formerly employed by University Hospitals Health System in human resources and Sarah Dorenkott Pearson ’06 is currently serving as GE’s recruiting. Nina and her husband Joseph reside in Pepper Pike global director for the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) with their sons, William ’25 and Mitchell ’27. Solutions. Prior to working at GE, Sarah served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy. During her five years of active duty, Jeff Milbourn ’94 becomes president of the Alumni Board Sarah served in various roles that impacted both peacetime commencing with the 2018-2019 school year after serving and wartime efforts. Sarah’s passion is to leverage technology as vice president. He also served as chair of the Party of the to solve some of the world’s social challenges. She actively Century Attendance Committee and has been a phonathon supports and guides many philanthropic organizations that volunteer for the Hawken Fund. Professionally, Jeff is principal focus on both military veterans and women in technology. of Boot Island Group. Prior to this position, he was senior vice In 2017, Sarah was inducted into Hawken’s Athletics Hall of president and chief financial officer for corporate services Fame. She resides in Chicago with her husband Michael and and risk management at National City Bank. His tenure at son Colton. National City included leadership roles in financial planning and analysis, outsourcing, real estate, project management,

34 Hawken Review Howley Greenberg Milbourn Franklin

Pearson Pryor Schirm

Leon W. Pryor ’92 is a senior technical program manager Hawken Thanks Volunteer Leadership Rotating Off of for Amazon.com. He currently manages the Seller the Board of Trustees and the Visiting Committee Communication Platform at Amazon.com and is responsible for building and managing scalable communication systems Laura Rosenfeld Barnes ’84 served as an inaugural member for millions of customers worldwide. Leon also founded of the Visiting Committee beginning in 2010. the non-profit Press Play Detroit, which teaches game programming to youth in the Metro Detroit area. Previously, Kathleen Bole ’77 has served as a member of the Visiting Leon worked on various game products as a developer, Committee beginning with the 2010-2011 school year. project manager, and account manager at Microsoft. He participated in the launch of the Xbox and Xbox 360 game Jen Grossman was elected a Hawken Trustee in 2014. consoles and managed the commercial release of many She served as treasurer of the board and chair of the software titles including Mass Effect, Vanguard, and Asheron’s Finance Committee. An active volunteer within the Parents’ Call. Since leaving Microsoft, Leon also spent three years Association, Jen was chair of the Ways and Means Committee designing and building interactive training simulations for the and twice served as a Class Parent Committee representative. Air Force, the Army Research Lab, and DARPA. Leon returns to Hawken to speak to Upper School classes regarding his career, Shaquira Johnson ’94 served as president of the Alumni and, most recently, participated in Alumni Give Back Day Board since 2016. She joined the board in 2003. Shaquira was 2017. Leon resides in Detroit, MI with his wife Malaika. recognized as a Hawken Fellow in 2018.

John C. Schirm ’01 is Google’s director of executive Rick Marabito was elected a Hawken Trustee in 2009 and compensation. He has developed and evolved Google’s served as treasurer of the Board. As the parent of two Hawken pay for performance philosophy, a cornerstone of Google’s Lifers, Rick was an active volunteer engaged as a member of strategy to attract and retain the world’s best talent. John the Executive, Talent Development, Investment, and Audit works closely with Alphabet’s Leadership Development and committees. He also chaired the Finance Committee. Compensation Committee representing People Operation’s strategy and managing the committee’s meetings. He has Sam Neider was elected a Hawken Trustee in 2016. Prior to experienced Google/Alphabet’s rapid growth of employees joining the Hawken Board, Sam served as the Vice Chairman and the arc from a “search only” company to the fully of Birchwood School’s Board of Trustees. diversified portfolio of Alphabet companies. Prior to working at Google, John worked in National City’s Investment Banking Tonya Thomas concludes her two-year term as president of Division. John and his wife Julie live in Mountain View, CA. the Parents’ Association. She also served as vice president They are both members of Middlebury College’s Museum and from 2014 until 2016 and was a member of several leadership Visual Art’s Council. committees. She was a CPC representative and an Annual Fund Parent Leadership team member. She was elected a Hawken Fellow in 2018.

35 from Hawken’s Advancement Office Latest Developments

A Celebration of Leadership In April, more than 130 guests attended the James A. The Board of Trustees was pleased to be able to honor Hawken Society and Hawken Fellows recognition event Anthoni Visconsi II ’71 during the James A. Hawken in Stirn Hall on Hawken School’s Gates Mills campus. This Society and Hawken Fellows reception. In December, the evening was a celebration of the leadership of James A. board passed a resolution to elect Tony as a Life Trustee, a Hawken Society donors to the annual fund and of the distinction earned only by a select few. dedication of Hawken Fellows. Head of School Scott Looney and Chair of the Board A highlight of the reception was a showcase of Intensives, of Trustees Charles P. Cooley also acknowledged the one of Hawken’s signature programs in the Upper School. philanthropy of leaders within the Hawken community Guests visited with faculty members representing 25 who support The Hawken Fund with a gift of $2,500 Intensives, learning more about the experiential, in-depth or more as members of the James A. Hawken Society. programs that each Upper School student completes Every year, support from the James A. Hawken Society twice a year. Guests also heard from Bob Shurtz, director sets the foundation for The Hawken Fund by providing of Hawken’s STEMM Pathways program, and Melanie approximately 70% of all dollars raised. Nakonachny, principal of Mary McLeod Bethune School, about the ways that Upper School students engage with the real world through project-based learning.

Hawken Hosts Visiting Committee In April, 20 members of the Visiting Committee returned to Hawken School for the annual retreat held in joint session with Hawken’s Board of Trustees. The meeting of the Visiting Committee and the Board focuses on strategic discussions, long-range planning, and the most relevant issues facing the School.

During their visit, the Visiting Committee spent time delving into strategic planning for athletics, inquiry-based School. Other highlights included a look at Birchwood learning in the Lower School, integrated learning in the School of Hawken’s signature programs and a presentation Middle School, and assessing for mastery in the Upper on Hawken’s football program.

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In particular, Hawken celebrated new Decade Leaders The evening concluded with the induction of the 2018 who have made gifts at the James A. Hawken Society level Class of Hawken Fellows. for 10, 20, 30, or 40 years. The tradition of Hawken Fellows began in 1989 and is Decade Leaders one of the highest honors that Hawken bestows upon David ’81 & Elizabeth ’82 McCreery a member of the Hawken community. Hawken Fellows Kitty Schirm are alumni, parents, and friends who have demonstrated Stephanie Tolleson & Peter Johnson extraordinary service throughout their time at Hawken. Gordon Weir ’55 Hawken is honored to recognize the Class of 2018 Hawken Fellows: Double Decade Leaders James ’77 & Karen Aronoff Frank Brandt Lisa Bercu Levine ’85 Lynne Gerace Polly Marabito Quadruple Decade Leaders Blair Haas ’72 Shani Spiegle The Firman Fund Shaquira Johnson ’94 Tonya Thomas

Thank you for believing in Hawken! Thanks to the generosity of each and every donor, Hawken is empowered to continue to invest in the flexible tuition program; professional development opportunities for faculty and staff; travel fees for local, national, and international experiential learning opportunities; and enhanced academic, athletics, arts, and student life programming for students. Look for final results of the 2017-2018 Hawken Fund in the Annual Report that will be published later this summer.

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A note from Alumni Board 2018–2019 Alumni Board president Jeffrey B. Milbourn ’94: Jeffrey B. Milbourn ’94, President I am honored to have been Isabelle B. Bolton King ’01, Vice President elected to serve as your Indrani Mallik Egleston ’93, Vice President Alumni Board president Glen M. Guyuron ’98, Vice President for the next two years. Josiah A. Haas ’99, Vice President Much progress has been Richard H. Bole ’60 Edward M. Kuss ’64 made over the past few Stephen A. Caviness ’03 Lisa Bercu Levine ’85 years in strengthening our Morris Everett Jr. ’56 Susan Yarus Meisel ’78 relationships with alumni across all generations and Jacob E. Gries ’12 Julie Roth Namy ’88 across the country. Major initiatives under way include David H. Gunning ’85 Lauren R. Pacini ’59 building an alumni “marketplace” where Hawken David C. Henkel ’88 Jacques J. Payne ’92 seniors, along with alumni who are still in college or David R. Horowitz ’04 Marla Esgar Robbins ’75 recent graduates, can more easily tap into the vast Brian D. Horsburgh ’06 Matthew A. Salerno ’92 network of Hawken alumni and parents who are Shaquira M. Johnson ’94 Benjamin M. Vodila ’99 willing to serve as mentors or provide internships. The J. Albert Klauss ’66 Oliver J. Weil ’12 Alumni Board is focused on holding more regional gatherings for alumni, linking into, when possible, the travels of Scott Looney, Head of School. Finally, we are Where are Class Notes? excited to introduce Red & Gray Friday – a gathering Class Notes will now be published once a year as part of our for young alumni and their parents in late November. Review redesign. Make plans to send your updates to your class agent for inclusion in the Winter 2019 issue of the Review! -Jeffrey B. Milbourn ’94

GATES MILLS MARCH 8, 2019

Hawken School is seeking Alumni volunteers whoMARCH are interested 8, in 2019 teaching a class on March 8, 2019 to Upper School students during Alumni Give Back Day 2019. Upper School students are interested in the following careers:

Entrepreneurship Mental Health Architecture Investment Banking Sports Management Environmental Science Military Computer Science Journalism Travel Fine or Performing Arts Music Industry Economics Marine Biology Urban Planning Forensic Science Radio/TV/Film Engineering Medicine Veterinary Medicine Graphic Design Screenwriting/Film Directing

If you are interested or have suggestions of alumni in these or other careers, please contact Kathleen Z. Guzzi at [email protected] or (440) 423-2918.

38 Hawken Review Introducing The Circle W Hawks alumni The Alumni Board is pleased to introduce The Circle W Hawks, those alumni whose graduating class has celebrated its 50th reunion from the Gates Mills campus. The goal is to create opportunities for these alumni to stay more connected in the ensuing years.

The name honors the farm property acquired from the White family in 1959, upon which Hawken built its Upper School campus. For the first 15 years, the Gates Mills campus was commonly known as the Circle W campus.

The Circle W Hawks is the second alumni affinity group established by the Alumni Board. The first, known as the Old Guard, refers to alumni who attended Hawken’s Four-School Reception Lyndhurst campus from 1915 to 1960. Also in mid-May, Hawken alumni joined alumni from Hathaway Brown, Laurel, and University School at the The Circle W Hawks include alumni from the classes of annual Four-School Cocktail Party, this year graciously 1964 to 1967, with the class of 1968 joining them this hosted by HB. Attendance from the Hawks continues to fall when it celebrates its 50th reunion. Every fall will see grow as alumni enjoy catching up with friends and former another 50th reunion class become the newest members athletic rivals on the courts and the fields. Next spring of The Circle W Hawks. Hawken hosts this gala event on Saturday, May 18, 2019.

Head of School Luncheon Welcome Class of 2018 to the In mid-May, 30 of Hawken’s senior alumni met at the Alumni Association Chagrin Valley Hunt Club where they had a chance to The Alumni Board hosted a series of lunches for seniors socialize with each other and then hear from Head of during Senior Week in April, where members of the School Scott Looney about enrollment trends at Hawken, graduating class engaged in discussions about the value college admissions, and Athletics and Physical Education of the Alumni Association. Seniors were asked for feedback strategic planning. Senior alumni include those fondly on their Hawken experience and their requests from the referred to as “old guard” (those who attended through 9th Alumni Association. The common theme was the need for grade at the Lyndhurst Campus), and those who are now connections, internships, and mentors. The seniors were members of The Circle W Hawks (those whose graduating asked to make a video statement about what they plan to class from the Gates Mills Campus has celebrated its 50th be doing in 10 years. The video will be shown to them at reunion). This annual event remains a strong tradition that their 10th reunion in 2028. spans decades.

39 SAVE THE DATES!

OCTOBER 5–6, 2018

Friday, October 5 Saturday, October 6

Opening Reception/Kickoff Lunch Hawken Today conversation with Scott Looney hosted by the Alumni Association Red Gray Alumni Family Picnic Athletics Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Varsity sports (more information to come) Meet & greet Hall of Fame honorees with students Class Reunion parties – cocktails and dinner

Alumni Tailgate Party at the White House Post-dinner entertainment

Hawken varsity football game To learn more visit hawken.edu/alumni

YOUNG ALUMNI NOVEMBER 23 Young alumni and their parents are invited to join us for happy hour the Friday after Thanksgiving. More details coming soon!

40 Hawken Review Cindy Guertin Dale Porter & family Mark Coffin Michael Heeter David Rosenzweig Bob Timoteo Lynn MacArthur faculty footnotes Cindy Guertin shares, “I have sad to hear about the passing of Mike since May 2016. I sing in the Gay Men’s wonderful memories of my art Iorio. He was Hawken through and Chorus of South Florida and have teaching days at the lower and middle through.” recently submitted my composition, schools and would love to hear from “Someone Unknown,” to our director my former students. I have retired to Mark Coffin writes, “For the past for consideration as a possible future Yarmouth, Maine. People can stop five years I’ve been running an ACT/ performance piece. I have also enjoyed by and visit, or write me at SAT prep business on the east side playing my clarinet as part of the [email protected]. of Cleveland (Academy Test Prep). Florida Intergenerational Orchestra of Fortunately for the students, I’m not a America. My sisters and I are planning a Dale Porter enjoys being a full-time tutor, but I do train and oversee 20+ cruise to Alaska this summer to which I coach at The Bolles School and serves tutors for 300+ students per year. In am looking forward.” as a manager for USA swimming. In the a number of cases, we’ve helped the summer of 2017, he traveled to Arizona sons and daughters of students I had Bob Timoteo sent in a wonderful State University to manage a select at Hawken back in the ’70s! Next, it will reminiscence, writing, “I hope in some camp and served TEAM USA in July as be their grandchildren. Meanwhile, I’m way I was able to be a good part of an assistant manager at Jr. Worlds in in my 21st year of a terrific marriage the school.” Indeed he was! Bob and Indianapolis. His wife Catherine is in and have a 9th grade tennis-playing Tom Bryan initiated the HIT (Hawken’s her second year at Bartram Trail High daughter and an 11th grade baseball- Invitational {wrestling} Tournament, school as a math teacher and loves to playing son, both at Mayfield High which has grown from an 8-school paint in her free time. Maggie ’14, a School. They keep me young and age tournament to an over 30-school national merit scholar, is a rising senior me at the same time. Fabulous physical tournament. Bob and his wife loved at the University of Central Florida; improvements at Hawken, by the way. attending the class of 1966’s 50th she is majoring in science education, The school looks great.” reunion in 2016, and he wears his teaches swimming, and is a lifeguard Hawken jersey (inscribed with his at Universal Studios. Jacob ’16 has Michael Heeter lives in L.A. and name) with great pride. “I wear it often finished his sophomore year at Case writes, “After eight fulfilling years at and promise to wear it when the Hawks Western Reserve University, where he Marlborough School, I made the move come to play Lutheran West.” Bob is studying mechanical and aerospace last summer to Yeshiva University signed his note, “Bob Timoteo, a former engineering with a minor in music. He of L.A. Boys High School, a Modern teacher and coach and always a Hawk.” is a member of the school’s Glee Club, Orthodox Jewish school. The position ushers at Severance Hall, and plays in is much less time-consuming, allowing Lynn MacArthur, former the University Circle United Methodist me to grow my independent college kindergarten, second grade, and Church Bell Choir. Dale writes, “We miss counseling business.” science teacher, is recovering from back our Hawken friends! It was fun to be on surgery. Her great friend and former campus when the new Upper School David Rosenzweig brings news from colleague Liane Beier is helping Lynn was under construction and good to the sunny South: “Bruce, Daisy, and I as she recuperates and goes through see the school moving forward. I was have been living in Fort Lauderdale rehabilitation.

41 Photo credit: Photo ‘68 M. Biggar Jeffrey

n Memoriam IRemembering Fellow Alumni, Faculty, Staff, Parents & Trustees

David G. Mock ’40 Jim taught government and history at Dynamics Space Systems as an electrical Passed away on November 11, 2017. South High School in the Willoughby- engineer in 1991. Eastlake School District until his retirement David attended Hawken School in grades in 1984. Edward held a commercial license with seven through ten and was selected as instrument rating; he enjoyed flying. He also Head Boy. Following his studies at Hawken, Jim is survived by his wife, Beverly. He was sang barbershop harmony with a quartet David graduated from the Gilman School. predeceased by his mother, Helen, and and two choruses. He served in the United States Army father, H. Mortimer Smeed, who was one Air Forces as a mechanic. He earned a of the first and most beloved teachers at Edward was predeceased by his wife, bachelor’s degree from Amherst College, Hawken School. His great-uncle was James Beatrice. He is survived by three daughters: a master’s degree from Harvard University, A. Hawken, the School’s founder. Audrey, Andrea, and Marcia. and a law degree from the University of Baltimore. William E. Davidson ’48 Platt R. Safford ’68 Passed away on January 25, 2018. Passed away on May 29, 2018. In 1962, David joined the trust department of First National Bank of Maryland. He William was a student at Hawken School Platt attended Hawken School before retired in 1995 as vice president of the in grades six through nine and graduated graduating from Mercersburg Academy. department. from University School. He then earned He earned degrees from Rutgers College a bachelor’s degree from Ohio Wesleyan and Baldwin Wallace College. He served as For nearly four decades, David served on University. First Lieutenant in the United States Marine the board of the Family and Children’s Corps. Services in Baltimore as treasurer as well as William was chief executive officer of a member of its executive, developmental Davidson Industries. He was also an active Platt was vice president of manufacturing services, and nominating committees. member of the Rotary Club. at Kobelco. He later became a financial He was the recipient of the organization’s investment advisor with Wachovia Securities, Bobby Russell Award for his years of William was the husband of Margot; father LLC. He enjoyed music, literature, theater, volunteerism. In 2017, David was also of Julie Sanson, Robert Davidson and the travel, sailing, tennis, and rowing. inducted into the Roland Park Baseball late William Davidson; brother of the late Leagues’ Hall of Fame for his 58 years of Charles L. Davidson ’48; grandfather of five; Platt was the son of the late Louis and service to the organization. and great-grandfather of two. Margery Rogers. He is survived by his wife, Lisa; children, Gabriel, Audrey, and Anthony; David is survived by his children, Melissa and siblings, Esther and Tom ’72. Riorda and Geoffrey Mock; sister, Peggy Edward B. Herron ’51 Obrecht; and five grandchildren. He was Passed away on December 9, 2017. predeceased by his wife, Virginia. Jonathan “Jon” Richards ’73 Edward attended Hawken School in grades Passed away on March 21, 2017. one through nine and then graduated from James “Jim” Hawken Smeed ’43 Shaker Heights High School in 1954. He Jon attended Hawken School in grades one Passed away on January 24, 2018. earned a degree from Lehigh University. through eight and graduated from Indian Hill High School. He earned a degree in Jim attended Hawken School in grades Edward attended Officer Candidate School communications from Allegheny College. one through nine. Following his studies and Navy Technical Schools. He served as at Hawken, Jim attended Charles F. Brush ground controlled approach maintenance Jon began his professional career with High School. He served in the United States officer at NAS Key West. He then worked Samna and then began creating web- Army from 1946 until 1948. He then earned in military engineering on low noise based businesses. He operated one a bachelor’s degree from Allegheny College radar amplifiers. He retired from General of the first online weather services, and a master’s degree from John Carroll Lawrencevilleweather.com. Most recently, University.

42 Hawken Review Photo credit: Jeffrey M. Biggar ‘68 business. withaB.S.University inengineering and andfrom inUtah School Auburn High City lacrosse teams. Hegraduated from Park he wasamemberofthesoccer and until 2007. student, While anUpperSchool from attended School Hawken 2004 Mark Passed away onMarch 24,2018. Allen Mark West, Jr. ’10 grandfather to onegrandson. Caraboolad Hayes; and ’72, andNancy Caraboolad, thelate Richard S.Caraboolad Salim Caraboolad; brother ofGeoffrey Eve; and thelate sonofMaureen Donnell and Katrina, Royston, Ryan, of Eric, Nicole father wasthehusbandofMelanie; Michael Cleveland. was arealtor withKeller Williams Greater Most the financialindustry. recently, he fortraining experiences individualsin Training Solutions, where hedeveloped was alsoowner ofMSCCustomized salesmanager.of Cleveland district Michael asseniorvicepresident Investment Services industry. Hewasemployed by Key services spentover 25yearsMichael inthefinancial Pennsylvania. 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Hewas amemberof Hall, and Hurwitz Lincoln Gymnasium, including theIngalls and renovation projectsoncampus, the coordination ofnumerous construction staffs at Lyndhurst. Hewasinvolved with themaintenance andcustodial supervised Throughout histenure Mike atHawken, in 2001. named therecipient Award oftheMarsh alumnus statusin2007andwas honorary community. addition,hewasbestowed In to School amemberoftheHawken 2015, oneofthehighesthonorsawarded also recognized Fellow asaHawken in upon hisretirement in2013.Hewas and washonoredemeritus asafaculty to Hawken 46 years ofdedicated service completedsupervisor. theyears, Over Mike before beingnamedmaintenance employee inthegrounds department summer, hebecameafull-timeHawken that after time summerhelp, andshortly 1968,hewasemployedschool. asfull- In asacustodian School after Hawken at worked While inhighschool, Mike Passed away onFebruary 10,2018. Michael “Mike” J. Iorio death by hiswife, BaldwinKing. Jane great-grandchildren. 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Hewasalsonamedan of faculty andbestowed onhimthehonor service recognizedHawken George’s 27years of Festival.and creator ofthepopularRaku chairman time, hewasthedepartment until hisretirement this in1996.During from School atHawken 1969 taught art George, arespected potter andsculptor, Passed away 23,2017. onDecember George A.Roby 43 Blake Kleinman ’95 was a lifer at Hawken. While a student, he participated in football, tennis, wrestling, and track. He was an Old Board award winner for tennis at Lyndhurst and is a member of the Cum Laude Society. Currently, Blake serves as a member of Hawken’s Visiting Committee. He resides in London, England with his wife Sevda and their three children. air l ay FThe last time I wrote an article for a and basketball, in particular)p generated and girls sports programs, its recognition Hawken publication was November 1994. revenue that was critical to support the of the different ways that boys and girls It was my senior year in high school, and I lower revenue-generating girls’ programs. learn, or its commitment to increase wrote an op-ed article for the Affirmative I offered substantial fact-based evidence socio-economic diversity in the student No entitled “Gender Equity in Sports at to support this economic argument and body through a large and growing Hawken.” The column was in response drew the final conclusion that “the notion financial aid system. “Fair Play” is not just to a classmate’s article that had been of gender equity in sports is not so much about treating people well – it is bigger arguing in support of more funding for a social issue as it is an economic one.” than that: It is a collective ambition about the girls’ sports program at Hawken. how we want the world to be and not Twenty-four years later, as I was sitting just accepting it as it is. The first half of the piece offered down to pen this Fair Play column, I evidence to show that athletic funding realize that despite the potential validity Now, I’m sure there are those who would at Hawken among boys’ and girls’ sports of some of the economic arguments, argue that, however differentiated was in fact equitable in terms of facilities, I missed the bigger picture point: that Hawken is in its approach, there is more equipment, and overall financial support. continued funding in line with historic to be done. And I’m sure that is true. It Hopefully, that was true then and is still norms would only create a vicious cycle is a path of continuous improvement true now. As an important component where nothing would ever really change. and self-reflection…even if that comes of both educational and character And that, of course, the observable 24 years late! But with an institutional development, equitable support and economic disparity was the very commitment to creating a broad culture opportunity must exist in order to foster definition of a “social issue!” of equity embedded in the Fair Play a culture consistent with James Hawken’s ideal, I have no doubt that Hawken will notion of Fair Play. Today, as a father to a 6-year-old continue to lead the way in creating daughter, I appreciate more than ever a community where educational The second part of the article, however, Hawken’s commitment to creating an opportunity is available across gender, noted that beyond Hawken’s campus, environment where gender equity is racial, and socio-economic spectrum. there was systemic disproportionate prioritized and valued. And more broadly, funding for boys’ sports programs. I I’ve come to appreciate the myriad ways Blake Kleinman ’95 penned a passionate (and “teen-agedly” in which Hawken embodies the notion self-righteous in tone!) defense of this of Fair Play in its educational mission – by arguing that those programs (football whether it be equitable support of boys

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