Non-Profit Organization US Postage PAID Greensboro, NC 5401 Lawndale Drive, Greensboro, NC 27455 Permit No. 636 WINTER 2013 Volume 26 FSC LOGO & COPY @GreensboroDay facebook.com/GDSBengals A Fresh Look at our NEW MiddlE School www.greensboroday.org Volume 26 • Winter 2013 On the cover: Claire McDowell ’23 can’t wait to share some secrets about the designs of our new Middle School. Mission Statement: Greensboro Day School BoArD oF Trustees develops the intellectual, Winter 2013 ethical, and interpersonal Sandra Adams Leigh Ann Pool foundations students need to become constructive Patrick Burns russ robinson contributors to the world. Sherry Clark Jim rucker ’82 Greensboro Day School does Catherine Dunham J. Scott ’90 not discriminate on the basis Marion Follin of race, color, creed, national robert Smith AROUND CAMPUS Penny Graves or ethnic origin, disability Adeline Talbot (to the extent that reasonable Campus News page 5 Burney Jennings accommodations are possible), Sports report page 14 Fran Tewkesbury (Chair) or sexual orientation in the Buster Johnson Photos page 25 Marshall Tuck administration of its educational Wade Jurney policies, admissions policies, Student Work page 32 Chuck Keeley ’81 Nancy Vaughan or any other programs administered by the school. robert Ketner Wes Watson FEATURES Cindy Knowles Jack Whitley Stacy Calfo, Editor [email protected] Magic in the Middle page 16 A state-of-the-art new Middle School building will create the perfect environment to enhance Greensboro Day School the adolescent learning of our Bengals in 5401 Lawndale Drive the middle. Greensboro, NC 27455 336.288.8590 Bengal Bookstore page 30 administratioN Fax 336.282.2905 A new location and exciting new products make www.greensboroday.org it even easier to show our Bengal pride. Mark C. Hale, Head of School Facebook.com/GDSBengals Supporting Diverse Learners page 34 Tommy Webb, Assistant Head of School Facebook.com/GDSAlumni Working with students who have a variety Gail Isaacson Bernstein ’76, Assistant to the Head of School Twitter: @GreensboroDay of personalities, strengths, and interests is both a privilege and challenge for teachers. Susan Feibelman, upper School Director GDS Magazine is published Ed Dickinson, Middle School Director three times a year. Learning 2 Lead Page 36 Students lead peer leadership development. Gillian Goodman, Lower School Director Third class postage paid at David Gilbert, Academic Dean Greensboro, N.C. ALUMNI Pam Hemphill, Business officer If you would like to add others Alumni News page 38 Anne Hurd, Director of Advancement to our mailing list, please Class Notes page 42 randy Doss, Director of Admission and Enrollment contact Leigh Munsey Dana Smith, Director of Technology at 336.288.8590, ext. 233. HEAD’S CorNEr CAMPuS NEWS PA Awards $12,886 to Teachers Continuing to Thrive The Parents’ Association is pleased to announce that 19 GDS faculty teaches a combined curriculum and instructional process approach to Dreams do come true! And, thanks to the leadership of the rucker and Keeley families, members will benefit from the Teacher Enrichment Endowment Fund improving reading for struggling students in grades K through 8. They along with the incredible support of the Bell family and so many other donors, we will (TEEF) this summer. The goal of TEEF is to provide funding for teachers will also take a 10-hour online course, Phonics: Breaking the Code. break ground this April on the new Bell Family Middle School. to participate in unique, enriching learning experiences. Applications Terri Maultsby (uS resource Specialist) will attend the Learning and are submitted every year to a committee consisting of the Parents’ the Brain Society conference in Arlington, Va. The conference title Association (PA) President, the President – Elect, the Board Treasurer, The building will feature construction and systems that are built to LEED Gold is, “Executive Skills for School Success: Enhancing Self-regulation, the Fundraising Treasurer, the Secretary, Past Fund-raising Chair(s) if standards and provide us a sustainable structure to serve our 5th through 8th grade reasoning and Working Memory.” students with a healthy learning environment for years to come. As you will see in this any, the Assistant Head of School and one or more recipients of grants from the preceding year. Laura Drewicz-Ewing (uS History) and Robert Mimms (uS History) will issue of the GDS Magazine, our commitment to sustainability continues to be strong, travel to the Eastern Cape of South Africa for a two-week professional and we were awarded the EPA’s Energy Star rating this fall. This year the PA awarded $12,886 to 19 recipients and 11 projects. All development/service learning trip. The trip is in connection with of which will take place this summer. The recipients and projects are: Artworks for Youth which provides free visual art instruction, I couldn’t be prouder of our Middle School faculty who took the lead in developing in Susan Kunar (LS Music Specialist) will attend a 5-day workshop at mentoring, and academic support to underserved students in South our students the leadership skills that they will use throughout their lives. If you wonder if our students value what they Musikgarten, one of the leading authorities in Early Music Education. Africa. The trip will lay the foundation for faculty to lead future trips are learning in this program, you will be as inspired as I was when I read Morgan Winstead’s ’18 quote on page 37, “our This will allow her to learn how to best teach our Bitty Bengals and to South Africa with GDS students. school really understands that we are the leaders of the future and… the foundation of America.” Junior Kindergarten. Carey Jackson-Adams (uS Art) will travel to Italy this summer to Marie MacKay (2nd Grade) will attend the 2013 Association for observe and study the Masters of the renaissance. She will fill her I was encouraged with the work that our Learning resource Department does in helping students to discover their unique Supervision and Curriculum Development Conference on Teaching journal with sketches from the works of masters and scenes of daily learning styles and support them. This is what vibrant learning communities do, and the teachers in this department Excellence in Washington D.C. life and will be able to speak from experience when teaching about have the skills and the attitude that make a difference in a child’s life. renaissance Art. Laura Shue (LS Assistant Director) and Paz Noel (Kindergarten Assistant Teacher) will attend the Gesell Developmentalo bservation- Every five years we go through a thorough reaccreditation process for our membership in the Southern Association of revised workshop focused on 2½-6 year old children. This will assist Independent Schools (SAIS) and the Southern Association of Schools and Colleges (SACS). The accreditation report, as our Early Childhood team in determining unique needs and abilities Lower School Character you will see, was filled with accolades for GDS. And, as with any organization constantly working to improve, supportive of students and in planning appropriate curricula. suggestions were also made and heard. Parker Stall (1st Grade) will attend ano rton-Gillingham Multisensory Development Program While there are many exciting things in our future, it is hard not to recognize our wonderful successes this year. This Comprehensive Training Program in Winston-Salem. It is a phonics based program that teaches the basics of word formation before winter our boys’ and girls’ basketball teams vied for State titles, our boys’ swim team won its 15th consecutive conference Touted in National Book whole meanings. It utilizes the three pathways through which people championship, four wrestlers won conference titles, and our Middle School production ofThe Little Mermaidprovided us learn: visual, auditory and kinesthetic. GDS is one of only six schools featured in a new Character Development with a spectacular show to remember. We also raised over $40,000 at the Parents’ Association “Art Exposed” fundraiser, book, “Making our Pact: Lower School Programs for Character put on the largest student-run blood drive in the state, collected canned goods for Greensboro urban Ministries, placed Megan Judy (4th Grade) will attend the 2013 Supporting Emotional Development,” produced by the Center for Spiritual and Ethical students in the All-State orchestra, and inducted 64 students into the National Honor Society and 18 into the Cum Laude Needs of the Gifted Conference in orlando to help meet needs of Education (CSEE). In particular, our Lower School Second Step and Society. gifted children emotionally as well as academically. Four respects program was touted as one of the best in the nation. John King (MS Counselor) and David Blake (8th Grade History) In the book, Lower School counselor Michelle Bostian was asked To say it’s been a busy winter term would be an understatement! Greensboro Day School is thriving and we are incredibly will attend Freedom ride: A Tour of the Civil rights Movement, to write a chapter about GDS’ Four respects and Second Step grateful to our faculty, parents and students who work together in making GDS a great place to learn and grow. sponsored by Providence Day School. The four-day tour of the historic programs. Both programs were started at the school to help South includes stops in Atlanta, Birmingham, Montgomery, Selma, students develop and use compassionate behaviors in their I hope that you will always feel free to stop by, experience the excitement that I feel each day and take some time to say Memphis, the MLK Final resting Place, the Southern Poverty Law collaboration with others to become positive contributors to the hello. We are always interested in sharing what we are doing, and learning more about you. Center and more. world. The Four respects (respect for Self, others, Property and Four members of our Institute for Global Ethics Leadership Team (Karen Time) provides students with a well-known and embedded set of Baldwin, Charli Kelly, Bridget Gwinnett, Michelle Bostian) will attend core values.