FA Points of Reflection PETE DYBDAHL FOR FRIENDS ACADEMY Students, from Kindergarten and older, along with faculty, share memories of their Favorite FA places. Page 7 insideVol. 50, No. 3 Around the Quad. 7 Points of Reflection An eyewitness to history Drumming to a rhythm of their own Learning, Showing and Lots of Hugs A 20-year tradition at the Nassau County Victory Games Students and faculty stay quiet to make their voices heard Passing the FA torch A Founder’s Day challenge of equality What’s in Your Sludge? The Arts. 12 Return to Germany with GSS 39 plays, 80 minutes ... no problem! Shakesplosion! Feature Story. 16 Distinguished Alumni Paul Hand ’68: Simple Gift: How a bowl of ‘Bunny’s Chicken Soup’ changed lives in San Diego. Sports: Go FA! 20 Teams meet challenges of top Class A conference with unwavering competitive spirit, grace and teamwork during the Spring Sports season. Faculty Milestones. 29 Alumni News. 30 Alumni Profile. 32 Duncan Guild ‘68: ‘People Maker’ Class Notes. 36 In Memoriam. 55 The Meeting House Staff Editor Andrea Miller, Director of Communications and Marketing 516.393.4295 | [email protected] Writers Natalia Good ’93 and Andrea Miller Photographers Amanda Fisk ’99 and Alan Quackenbush on the cover A PORTRAIT OF OUR COMMUNITY. This spring the entire FA student, faculty and staff community posed for an all-school photo. PANFOTO, LLC ISLAND PHOTOGRAPHY FOR FRIENDS ACADEMY FOR FRIENDS ISLAND PHOTOGRAPHY Congratulations Class of 2015! 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Kind Hearts. The Meeting House | Spring/Summer 2015 Around the Quad 7 Points of Reflection Community groups share memories of favorite places around campus Community Group Selfies n mixed-age community groups, students from IKindergarten to 12th grade used colored star stickers to mark their favorite FA places – places where they felt joy, peace and most connected to the FA community. Then groups ended their year with a spontaneous group selfie in a favorite place. Take a look... AMANDA FISK/FRIENDS academy Community group members discuss what places on campus bring them joy, peace, inspiration and connection. By Andrea Miller feel...?” (Green – Joy; Blue – Peace; Red – Director of Communications Connection to FA community; and Yellow – laces can be very important Inspired to be the best version of yourself). to us,” read one student from Director of Quaker Education Angie “Pher final Community Group Martin retrieved one map from each group instruction sheet. “Certain places can and with US TASQUE students tallied the sometimes make us feel happy, sad, excited, sampling. Here are the top results: or many other emotions,” shared another. n Joy: Quad, Gym, Commons, Lower School “The FA campus is important to us all in playground and Theatre different ways. One way to build com- n Peace: Meeting House and Quad munity is to learn about how this place is n Connection: Quad, Library and Meeting important to different people,” yet another House student said. n Inspired: Meeting House A “Where’s Waldo” icebreaker session and Gym relaxed group members, before they leapt into the activity. Separating into four “We spend smaller groups, students of all ages gathered a lot of time on around a hand-drawn map of the FA cam- this campus, and pus with different-colored stickers. it feels good to take Slowly and deliberately students and a moment to reflect faculty marked points on campus with on this place, what it means to us and what colored stickers (right) that answered the PETE DYBDAHL FOR FRIENDS ACADEMY question, “Where on campus do you we bring to it,” reflected Martin. The Meeting House | Spring/Summer 2015 8 Around the Quad Early Childhood Connections Drumming to a rhythm of their own amanda FISK/FRIENDS academy Junior Liam Bardong listens to author Kristen Iverson, left, and Reiko Yamada, a survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima and part of the hiba- kusha, Japanese for “bomb-affected-people). An eyewitness to history oinciding with the UN Review CConference of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Friends Academy students and faculty became one of the last to hear eye- witness accounts from a group of Hiroshima survivors known in Japanese as the “hibakusha.” With the help of an interpreter, Hiroshima survivor Reiko Yamada spoke quietly as she recounted the AMANDA FISK/FRIENDS academy day the bombs fell. “My home was Spirit Sky Drum owner George Schulze demonstrates a rhythm for Julian Constantine and Maddie Esquenet. 2.5 km from where the bomb was dropped,” said Yamada. Upwards of ith heads uplifted and eyes 140,000 died that day in Hiro- closed, children soaked in shima. Survivors were shunned by Wthe rhythms of Spirit Sky their government, who mistakenly Drum. believed that their subsequent “We teach children and adults to find radiation exposure was “like an their own unique natural rhythm and infectious disease.” to transcend that into a a deeper aware- “We faced discrimination as a ness of self, so they can pursue a positive group in Japan. But we never felt path,” explained George Schulze, a like there was anything to forgive. percussionist and self-proclaimed drum We felt no resentment, anger or healer, and owner of the Freeport-based revenge,” stated Yamada. “We never Spirit Sky Drum. want Hiroshima or Nagasaki to This spring, Early Childhood amanda FISK/FRIENDS academy happen again.” children explored the percussion of the Pre-Kindergartners Luca Kraska and Dylan Keefer feel the beat. Krisen Iverson, author of Full animal world; from the bear to eagle, Body Burden: Growing up in the Shad- crow and frog, children beat out a Gradually Schulze layered in a ow of Rocky Flats also spoke about particular rhythm. freestyle orchestra of sounds, growing up near a secret nuclear “1-2-1, 1-2-3, 1-2,1-2,1-2,1,” instruct- including humming, the caw of a crow facility located three miles from ed Schulze. Tapping feet in concert, and a tambourine. her childhood home in Colorado. the children turned the drums around, “It’s all about using the drum to show experimenting with different holds. the kids how to connect with others.” The Meeting House | Spring/Summer 2015 Around the Quad 9 Learning, Showing and Lots of Hugs AMANDA FISK PHOTOS/FRIENDS academy Eighth graders (above and below) assist young physically challenged athletes