The Lake Forest Academy SPECTATOR VOLUME 98 NUMBER 7 1500 WEST KENNEDY ROAD, LAKE FOREST, IL 60045 MAY 29, 2020 Features NEWS SPORTS It was an unprecedented The Spectator conducted Even with the spring year for José De Jesús to an in-depth look at the athletic season canceled, take the reigns as Head measures the school is there are still college of School. Yet even after taking to reopen safely commitments to cele- all that’s happed, he’s and responsibly while brate, with or without a still smiling. mainating LFA’s spirit. signing ceremony. page 4 page 5 page 16 STUDENT LEADERSHIP 2020-2021 Prefects: Constantine Alexos, Sebastian Delgado, Lizzie Dozois, Christina Franco, Frank End of Year Awards Gu, Ramya Herman, Rachel Johns, Briana Murphy, Calvin Osborne, Gigi Taillon, and SENIOR PRIZES Tyler Watts Aurelian Book Prize.........................................................................................................Angelina Chan Proctors: Frank Gu, Thomas Langston, Tri Vien Le, Sebastian Delgado, Dylan Quane, Ra- For the students who embodies the values of the Aurelian Honor Society. chel Johns, Trang Pham, Tyler Watts, Aiina Wang, Christina Franco, Abby Dandrow, Alexander Award......................................................................................................................Alex Zhou Briana Murphy, Eden Kalaj-Rice, Ed Nunez, Halbert Kim, and Arthur Pan For the senior boy who best exemplifies the spirit and ideals of LFA. All-School President: ............................................................................................................Nick Alutto American Legion Award...............................................................................................Anna Schilling For the senior who exemplifies honor, courage, scholarship, leadership, & service. Discipline Committee Chair for 2020-2021: .............................................................Lizzie Dozois Butler Award.......................................................................................................................Annie Gifford Master Keys: ..................................................Antonio Costa, James Kuhns, and Natasha Sokhi For the senior who has earned academic achievement through persevence. Masters of the Houses: ........................................Sebastian Delgado and Constantine Alexos DAR Award.............................................................................................................Michael Lentskevich For the senior who exemplifies service, leadership, patriotism & dependability. STUDENT COUNCIL ELECTIONS WILL BE HELD IN THE FALL Faculty Award.......................................................................................................Michael Lentskevich For the student who has in thought, word, and deed embodied the ideal of scholarship. Chief Editors of The Specator...............................Ramya Herman and Garrison Sloan (print); Freeland Award.............................................................................................................Sophie Waimon Nick Alutto (digital) For the senior girl who best exemplifies the spirit and ideals of LFA. Hixon Award...................................................................................................................Audrey McGrail For the senior who is outstanding in friendliness and concern for others. Service Above Self Award.......................................................................................Elizabeth Campisi Moments with Bill Dolbee For the student who is persoanlly committed to creating postive, public change. Speidel Award......................................................................................................................Caitlin Anasi For the senior girl who is outstanding in sincerity, courtesy, and thoughtfulness. Vaile Award........................................................................................................................Anna Schilling For the senior who has most imaginatively discharged administrative responsibilities. Wetzel Award.............................................................................................................Elizabeth Campisi For the senior girl who has best exemplified the spirit of Ferry Hall. Waldie Award......................................................................................................................Giselle Annan For the senior who, by the nature of his or her presence, has substantially impacted LFA. DEPARTMENTAL AND UNDERCLASSMEN AWARDS Harvest Hope Award: ..............................................Michael Lentskevich and Sophie Waimon Jonathan Fremd Award: .............................................................................................Rachel Claxton McLaughlin Prize: ..............................................................................................................Ricky Ascroft Jewel J. Jackson Award: ..................................................................................................Lizzie Dozois E.J. Barry Language Award: ..............................................................Nicole Tong and Isis Burgos Kulieke Award for Spanish: ..............................................Lauren Salliotte and Angelina Chan Nelson Award: ....................................................................................................Michael Lentskevich Overdorf History Prize: .......................................................................................................Hannah Liu Photo by Bill Dolbee Bill Dolbee, a long-time teacher of history, is a force to be reckoned with, much like a Roman soldier. Delaplaine Burnet Prize in Economics: .............................................................................Rich Park English Award: ..............................................................................................................Audrey McGrail Three current memebers of The Specta- believe that I could ace that test, or win a Dana W. Niswender Prize: ..........................................................................................Simone Cathey tor staff are advisees of retiring Associate regatta, or run that track meet. Even if I English as a Second Language Award: ...................................................................Anna Freyman Head of School, Bill Dolbee, so while a didn’t do as well as I wanted to, especially Ainsworth Award: ..............................................................................................................Min Jae Shin history of his tenure and unparalelled im- in track, he always showed up to them, in Math Department Award: .........................................................................................Calvin Osborne pact follows on the next page, we thought the bleachers, cheering me on. He was at Louch Award: ..................................Elizabeth Campisi, Michael Lentskevich, and Alex Zhou McCormick Prize in Drama: ..............................................................................Xueyun “Flora” Zhai we’d begin with favorite memories of hav- every musical performance, whether I was McCormick Prize in Music: ................................................................................................. Lina Wang ing him as an advisor from juniors James backstage or on the spotlights, and enjoy- Mc Cormick Prize in Visual Arts: .................................................................................Ani Plambeck Kuhns, Briana Murphy, and starting with ing the experience the whole time. From Everett E. Grace Music Prize: ............................................................................................. Alex Zhou senior, Nate Koh. the lighthearted jokes in our advisory about Fine Arts Department Award: ...............................Michael Lentskevich and Sophie Waimon my sailing to cheering on members of the Pridmore Award: ..................................................................................................................Graham Lin Nate’s Story: advisory in the annual rock-paper-scissors Taylor Award: .............................................................................................................................Sky Wang Theater Tech Award: ...................................................................................................Conor Dranfield I was a sophomore, completely new to contest, Mr. Dolbee made all of us more Yearbook Award: .........................................................................Giselle Annan and Shaliya Heard Lake Forest Academy, and I had very little than just a group of students from different Library Media Innovation Award............................................................................. Giselle Annon idea where to go. My classes were confus- years tossed together. He made sure that his Journalism Award: ...................................................................Angelina Chan and Mia Walvoord ing, especially with the block schedule. My advisees were friends. advisor was someone called Mr. Dolbee, It’s hard to not smile in Mr. Dolbee’s Cum Laude (seniors inducted this year): Isis Burgos, Elizabeth Campisi, Mia Castle, Ange- who I didn’t really know much about be- advisory, with all the dad jokes being told lina Chan, Charnice Hoegnifioh, Michael Lentskevich, Jiayang (Cher) Li, Olivia (Liv) Mar- key, Rich Park, George Reavis, Lauren Salliotte, Marlena Stathos, Nicole Tong, Cholapat sides his impressive-sounding