PEDDIE CHRONICLE FALL/WINTER NONPROFIT 2017 ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID CINNAMINSON NJ PERMIT NO. 579 Peddie CHRONICLE Vol. 146, No. 1 No. 146, Vol. FALL/WINTER 2017 FALL/WINTER 201 South Main Street Hightstown, NJ 08520-3349 peddie.org TABLE OF CONTENTS FALL/WINTER 2017 VOL. 146, NO. 1 Your time at Peddie was filled with new friends, new adventures and new ways of looking at the world. Now it’s time to help the next generation of Peddie students experience those same moments. Your participation in the Peddie Fund is a powerful statement about what Peddie means to you. Each year, more than 1,600 of your fellow alumni show their gratitude with a gift to the school. Please join them by making your gift today at my.peddie.org/give. All gifts count. Every gift matters. 26 A legacy gift. A never-ending PEDDIE CULTURE connection. A commitment to 16 Objects that Define building the Peddie Peddie Culture of tomorrow. Since 1864, alumni, parents, faculty, staff and friends have thoughtfully planned for the future of Peddie. There are countless ways to leave ACADEMICS a planned gift that can help support Peddie for generations to come. To learn more about A Guide to Peddie’s naming Peddie in your estate plans, please contact Regina 34 Cool Curriculum Ketting, director of gift BE planning, at (609) 944-7521 or [email protected]. peddie.org/giftplanning INSPIRED 2 FROM THE HEADMASTER 10 PEOPLE Anne Seltzer receives the Thomas B. Peddie Award 6 SHORT STORIES Five things you should know about Will Sodano 20 NEW FACES 45 CLASS NOTES “It was so great to see so many people at our 20th reunion ...” LAUREN SCHNIPPER RAUSCH ’97 HEADMASTER THE BIG PICTURE Headmaster Peter Quinn and Chronicle editor Carrie Harrington discuss the brand new Chronicle, Peddie website and strategic priorities. CH: What is the importance of alumni PQ: Wow! It’s such a powerful magnet for magazines for schools like Peddie? potential students and parents to get to know our school. The site also resonates PQ: When people receive the Chronicle, with our community because it accurately it’s an opportunity for them to grasp – reflects their Peddie experience. literally – something from the school. They see how the Peddie they know continues to CH: Let’s talk about the strategic plan. What evolve, and how the mission of the school laid the groundwork for the four strategic plays out in people’s lives. It inspires a goals? (See pages 24-25.) reflective period. PQ: At the heart of all of our research is this: CH: The Chronicle sustains alumni’s love, We don’t want to be anything different from affection and affinity for Peddie. We kept what we are. We just want to do what we do, that in mind for the redesign. Despite the better. We need to keep progressing, and diminishing role of print media, alumni our strategic plan reflects that. magazines occupy a powerful role in informing and engaging alumni. Even in CH: Goal number one is to enhance our the era of social media, class notes remain excellence in transformational education. some of the most popular content in the How do you think the Peddie experience magazine. transforms students? CH: What’s your reaction to the new PQ: Academic excellence is not enough. peddie.org? At Peddie, we focus on the excellence 2 PEDDIE CHRONICLE 3 FALL 2017 of progress. We take kids from diverse PQ: Yes. If we want to increase our financial backgrounds, united by excitement, curiosity aid commitment, we’re going to have to and character, and transform them into increase our endowment and make sure we capable, ethical and articulate people who maintain conservative fiscal management. want to do good things. We take students further than they think they can go. CH: Why make messaging and marketing a strategic priority? CH: Why do you believe that access to a Peddie education is so critical to PQ: We are not as broadly and accurately our mission? known as we ought to be for a school doing the remarkable things Peddie is doing. For PQ: The Annenberg gift 24 years ago those who know our school intimately, allowed us to provide sufficient financial our reputation is strong. Our challenge is aid to support about 40 percent of the shouting that message more boldly. That’s student body. This has been the single why telling our story is an important fourth biggest operational change to enhance the pillar of our strategic plan. quality of the Peddie experience. We need to push access to a Peddie education as CH: As a member of the strategic marketing broadly as we can. and communications team, I look forward to reaching these objectives. CH: And that will take financial sustainability? 2 PEDDIE CHRONICLE 3 FALL 2017 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Remembering Dr. King’s visit to Peddie Your thoughtful article about Martin Luther King Jr.’s visit to Peddie 60 years ago reminded me that Dr. Herb Mariboe took our senior history class to hear Dr. King speak at the Princeton University Chapel sometime in 1952 or 1953. I certainly did not appreciate what a privilege it was at the time. I do remember that the church was packed, three to four people deep in the aisles. I thought you would like to know that the Dr. King/Peddie association goes back even further than 1957. BRUCE GILBERT ’53 The impact of I was sorry to see residential life Bob Tucker’s name at Peddie in the In Memoriam. Bob preceded me I noticed a small error in “The impact of residential life at Peddie.” Peddie did not as assistant alumni raze Wilson Hall in 1976. secretary in the late There were still students living in Wilson Hall when I arrived at Peddie in 1976. We had mail 1940s. He welcomed service on the first floor and the canteen was in operation on the second floor. Bob Burns and I classmates to his removed some banisters and other furnishings from the building in 1977 in order to create the home during alumni set for the faculty production of “Dracula.” To the surprise of Headmaster Potter, my brother gatherings and was an and Bob Muller removed the Peddie bell from Wilson Hall in 1978. outstanding alum. GARY BOILLOTAT ’77 JACK CAMPBELL ’44 Editor’s note: Indeed, Wilson Hall was razed in 1978. Thank you, Gary! 4 PEDDIE CHRONICLE 5 FALL 2017 PEDDIE CHRONICLE Peddie Hurdler Editor: Carrie Harrington Director of Strategic The archive photo showing the hurdler Marketing and was probably taken before 1958 as Peddie Communications: upgraded its hurdles in the late 50s to the Wendi Patella P’17 ’20 modern type that are still used in track events today. Contributors: Barbara Grudt It looks like the hurdler is wearing black Deanna Harkel Spalding shoes. By the late 50s, most of us Doug Mariboe ’69 P’10 ’14 wore Adidas. The only place one could buy Patricia O’Neill P’13 ’15 ’17 ’20 Adidas track shoes in the U.S. then was at the Peter Quinn P’15 ’18 ’21 Carlson Import Shoe Company on Canal Street Megan Sweeney in New York City. They cost $15.00 (expensive at the time), but the shoes were great quality, light with permanent spikes and form-fitting. Design: Generation I still have mine and they are like new. Trouble Branding & Communication is there are no cinder tracks on which to use (generation.is) them. The story of the modern Adidas track shoe and its American connection started Photography: Andrea Kane, when the company gave their shoes to Andrew Marvin, Jon Sham Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics for promotional purposes. Printing: Prism Color Corporation ED KING ’60 The Peddie Chronicle is published twice a year by the Office of Strategic Marketing and Communications for alumni, families and friends of the school. Peddie School 201 South Main Street Hightstown, NJ 08520-3349 Tel: (609) 944-7500 peddie.org/chronicle We welcome your input: [email protected] 4 PEDDIE CHRONICLE 5 FALL 2017 SHORT STORIES FIVE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WILL SODANO Early each morning, hours before he arrives at Peddie from his home in Brielle, N.J., Will Sodano takes a two-hour trek through ocean waters. Peddie’s assistant director of athletics is training for the Carolina Cup, the annual stand up paddle board race that attracts dozens of the world’s fastest athletes as well as hundreds of recreational paddlers. Sodano has set his sights on placing in the top 10, elite male class, at next April’s event in Wrightsville Beach, N.C. Will Sodano paddles across Peddie Lake. 1 2 3 He’s been stand up He considers the He gets up at 4 a.m. paddle boarding Carolina Cup to be the Even in the winter. for almost ten years. most difficult challenge. By the time I arrive at Peddie in the morning, I’ve put in two hours on the The sport was hard to pick up. The It’s much harder than the Iron Man, water. January and February are the equipment was not good back then. century ride or the Boston Marathon. hardest months. It’s cold, and I’m But I was determined. I fell a lot. I got You have to deal with changing paddling in the pitch black. I have to a lot of bruises. But I figured it out. conditions … wind, tide and surf. wear a headlight so I don’t get run And I’ve been doing it ever since.