PlantherWear Each year the Alumni Board awards a tuition grant to an Upper School Financial aid recipi ent who has demonstrated leadership and Adult/Kids Panther enthusiasm. All profits from Panther Wear Sweatshirts sales support the Alumni Scholarship Fund. Color: Light grey Adult 100% cotton, Show your support!!! Kids 50/50. A dult Sizes: M, L, XL $40 Kids’ sizes: S, M, L Adult/Kids $24 Panther Fleeces Color: Navy with embroidered black panther. A dult full zip Sizes: M, L, XL Panther Caps $65 Color: Khaki with Kids 1/4 zip. embroidered black Sizes: S, M, L panther. One size. $50 $18 PDS PantherT-Shirt Color: White with royal and black panthers. A dult sizes: M, L, X L PDS Panther $18 The panthers are back! Kids’ sizes: XS, S, M, L Large, soft and cuddly, $18 with baby blue eyes. $40 Adult Panther Fleece Vest Color: Navy with embroidered black panther. Sizes: M, L, XL $50 ORDERED BY ITEM SIZE QUANTITY PRICE nam e address city state/zip daytime phone subtotal: class add 6% NJ sales tax on panther shipping? Oyes O no (add $8.00 to total for shipping costs) TOTAL: You will be notified when your items are available fo r pick-up at the PDS Development Office, Colross. Please make checks payable to Princeton Day School. Return order form with check to PDS Alumni Office, PO Box 75, The Great Road, Princeton, NJ 08542. Please call I-877-924-ALUM with any questions. BOARD OF TRUSTEES Daniel J. Graziano, Jr., Chairman PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL JOURNAL Deborah Sze Modzelewski, Vice Chair Richard W. Smith, Vice Chair Volume 37, Number 2 Winter 2000 Jack Z. Rabinowitz, Treasurer Christine Grant Halpern, F E AT URES Secretary/Parliamentarian Susan Burton Campus Center Barbara Griffin Cole ’78 Patrice Coleman-Boatwright displays good taste Judith Glickman Marilyn W. Grounds Photo feature of newly-opened—and enthusiasti­ Brooke R. Gunn cally received—Campus Center. 4 John P. H all, Jr. Jennifer Chandler Hauge ’78 Joseph H. Highland Raman Kapur Aaron Lemonick Andrew M. Okun Different drummer Marc J. Ostro “If a man does not keep pace with bis John M. Peach companions, perhaps it is because he Alison M. Shehadi hears a differe7^t drum mer...” Menachem Sternberg Robert B. Stockman PDS students’ study of music-making highlights Penny B. Thomas music and instruments of the late Harry Partch, Newell M. Thompson ’82 a percussionist/composer/instrument builder who Elaine Torres-Melendez broke new ground in contemporary music. John D. Wallace ’48 C. Treby McLaughlin Williams ’80 Elizabeth C. Dilworth, Trustee Emerita Betty Wold Johnson, Trustee Emerita Olympic spirit lives Samuel W. Lambert III, Trustee Emeritus 2000-2001 ALUMNI BOARD Michael Ferry ’92 stages a comeback: Eight years Newell M. Thompson ’82, president O Q O after being_ sidelined by a football injury his senior Robert H. Olsson ’78, vice president V I year at PDS, he wins a berth on the Olympic row- Philip E. Clippinger ’83, treasurer ing team. Thomas R. Gates ’78 ex ojficio Barbara Griffin Cole ’78 Mary Murdoch Finnell ’76 Nancy Shannon Ford ’54 Thomas R. Foster ’85 Louis Guarino ’79 A Foundation for Judson R. Henderson ’92 Jamie Phares Jacobson ’80 Excellence: PDS Annual Arthur L. Levy ’73 Leslie Pell Linnehan ’82 42 Report fo r 1999-2000 Robert O. Smyth ’57 Rachel Lilienthal Stark ’87 Leslie Straut Ward ’80 PRODUCTION NOTES Editor/designer: Jill Work DEPARTMENTS Class notes editor: Linda Maxwell 2 Letter from the Head of School Stefanelli MFS ’62 Contributor: Jacquie Asplundh In the Spotlight: Teacher of the Year Annual Report: compiled by Ann Wiley ’70 3 1899- 1999' Printed by Contempo Press Inc. 10 Alumni Bulletin Board On the cover: The new serpentine benches 14 In the Spotlight: As You Like It and cafe tables grace the hall in the new Campus Center. 15 Class Notes Photo credits: Cover and pages 4-5 (facilities photos ) by Rob Ikeler 69 In Season: A peek at PDS Photography ©2000, used by permission. Olympic photo courtesy of US Rowing. Other editorial photos: Danielle Nutt, Princeton Day School complies with all federal and state laws prohibiting Jacquie Asplundh, Ann Wiley, Jill Work. discrimination in its admissions, employment and administrative policies. welcome Two fourth graders stop by my office to When a sixth grade well-spoken young man read their latest poetry excerpt. Students con­ asked assertively, “and Mrs. Glickman, what gregate in the Campus Center for a mid­ exactly will you bring to PDS that is some­ morning snack and conversation. An upper thing we don’t already have or know?”, I had a school student is working with a lower school further indication that I had entered a com­ youngster on her writing assignment. A young munity in which well founded self confi­ man is stretched out on his stomach in the art dence, direct communication and questioning gallery reading intently. And I walk through were highly valued. When my husband, Bud, the campus with a broad, silly smile on my and I read The Spokesman and saw how well face which sticks like glue. If you think I am written the articles were, how the students smitten with PDS, you are ‘spot on.’ were guided to speak with informed thought, Judith R. Glickman Margaret Mead said so well what I have not just mere opinion, we were here for the observed: “Never doubt that a small group of asking. thoughtful citizens can change the world. In­ Now we have a full year together while we deed, it is the only thing that ever has.” PDS is poise PDS for its exciting future. In addition a school with remarkable strengths and no­ to the most basic and most obvious— promot­ table accomplishments due, in large part, to ing a graceful transition, being a highly visible the efforts of so many of you—alumni, fac­ member of the school community, and being ulty, parents, grandparents, friends, trustees, of support to the faculty as it continues to and administration. I have walked in at a address the recommendations of the Middle point in the school’s history of which you can States Action Plan—I have two additional be tremendously proud: goals which incorporate my recent experience • Once again, we opened at capacity, ad­ with particularly compelling needs and inter­ mitting only 30% of the applicants ests of the school. school wide. First off, we are developing a master plan • Our faculty continues to be recognized for the use and redesign of the entire campus. statewide and nationally for its work not Fortuitously, the arts department has led the only in the classroom, but for its contri­ way in this effort producing a comprehensive, bution to other educators’ professional thoughtful study of its program and space development. needs. The full scale PDS master plan is a bit • The Campus Center is fully funded and of deja vu for me, having been highly involved operational. Its design speaks to the fu­ in completing the master plan at The Ameri­ ture. It is one of the few spaces in an can School in London. To have returned to independent school of its size in which London this past summer, two years hence, all of the student body can convene at and to see the plans on paper transformed into one tim e. a strikingly beautiful reality, was tremen­ • The new fields are in the final stages of dously gratifying. Now, to have the opportu­ their construction. nity to be at PDS and to enlist the support of • The Annual Fund exceeded $900,000 an architectural design team to translate what last year and is slated to hit the we define as the school’s educational needs for $1 million mark this school year. the future into improved space for our stu­ You cherish the momentum you have, dents and faculty, is exhilarating. Led by a resolved to not only not let it go, but to move representative committee of faculty, staff, par­ further along a clearly defined track. ents, students and trustees we will build our 2 I N T H E SPOTLIGHT: USA Today Teacher o f the Year story and watch it become a master plan. PDS is known for having an excel­ Secondly, I wish to seize the moment, lent faculty, and USA T oday has recog­ each time it presents itself, to share what I nized that fact by naming one of the learned as an independent school educator school’s outstanding educators to the living overseas—how very small, yet how newspapers’s 3rd annual All-USA highly diverse our world is. I want us to Teacher Team. ponder how we can guide our students to Third-grade teacher Beverly view the world beyond these shores so that Gallagher, with 1 8 years of classroom they, our future leaders, guide the promising experience, is one of 20 teachers from around the country named in this rec­ ognition program for outstanding educators. She is the first independent school teacher so honored. PDS parent and trustee Debbie Modzelewski, whose children were students of Ms. Gallagher’s, submitted the nomination. “She treats every child as her own,” Ms. Modzelewski said. The USA T oday report stated that Bev Gallagher “inspires students to approach reading with the enthusiasm of a trip to Walt Disney W orld,” and she “phones each pupil’s parents every two weeks or so to report the child’s tiny triumphs, new interests and great achievements.” From l-r, Hillary Hayes (sister o f Whitney Ross ’84), Some of Ms. Gallagher’s initiatives have included the school-wide Courtney Shannon 88 and alumni director “Imagine the Possibilities” program that brings nationally known poets, Stephanie Briody are joined by interim head of school Judith Glickman at a New York.