VVISISIONIONFallSS 2007 Annual Report COE-BROWN NORTHWOOD ACADEMY There Are 700 Good Reasons to Support Coe-Brown Northwood Academy’s Annual Fund Here are some of them... Your gift to Coe-Brown Northwood Academy’s Annual Fund directly benefits the students at CBNA. This year’s Annual Fund will support the purchase of a mobile computer cart for the Academy. These carts are designed to bring technology right into the classroom with laptop computers that can be easily distributed then packed up again and moved on to the next classroom. Our fundraising goal for this year is $35,000 and the Annual Fund closes June 30, 2008. Your gift truly helps! Online Giving is Here! You can now make your tax deductible donation to CBNA via our secure web site using your MasterCard or Visa. Visit www.coebrownacademy.com and look for the Make a Donation button on the home page. Follow the easy-to-use instructions and even create a profile to make future donations a snap! Questions? E-mail [email protected] or call You can make a difference! 603-942-5531, ext. 186. COE-BROWN NORTHWOOD ACADEMY 907 First New Hampshire Turnpike Northwood, New Hampshire 03261 603-942-5531 VISIONS VOL. 11 Vidimus, Videmus & Videbimus THE PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE www.coebrownacademy.com Headmaster: David S. Smith Assistant Headmaster: Paul W. Davis, Jr. Front row, left to right: Judith Sanderson, Duane Ford, President James Colburn, J.B. Cullen and B. Lee Mason. Back BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2007-2008: row, left to right: Bunny Behm, Robert Bailey, James Grant, Stuart Mitchell IV, Sheri DeTrude and Roberta Stearns. James Colburn, President B. Lee Mason, Vice President J.B. Cullen, Secretary Contents Duane Ford, Treasurer Robert Bailey ’45 Annual Fund Appeal. Inside Front Cover Bunny Behm Kristal Kostiew Yush Pursues Her Olympic Dream. Page 2 Sheri DeTrude ’73, Past President Welcome New Faculty and Staff . Page 4 Jane Gettens James Grant School News. Page 4 Stuart J. Mitchell IV Two New Scholarships Established. Page 5 Judith Sanderson, Past President Roberta Stearns, Ph.D. ’57, Past President Annual Giving by Donor Category. Page 6 Ashton E. Welch ’60 CBNA’s Top Ten Graduates, Class of 2007. Page 8 G. Wells Anderson, Trustee Emeritus CBNA Alumni Association’s Annual Banquet. Page 10 Robert Carr ’48, Trustee Emeritus George Geers ’45, Trustee Emeritus Alumni Golf Tournament. Page 12 Robert Grant ’53, Trustee Emeritus Annual Giving by Class . Page 14 Robert Johnson ’35, Trustee Emeritus William Lord, Trustee Emeritus The Class of 2007 . Page 15 Commencement 2007, Scholarships and Awards. Page 16 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS 2007-2008: Looking Back at Commencement 2007. Inside Back Cover Debbie Burklund Marden ’75, President Carolyn Knox O’Neal ’87, Vice President Amy Stanley Paine ’78, Secretary Robin Burklund Drown ’76, Treasurer Editor: Margaret M. Joyce Jessica Marden Weeks ’00, Corresponding Secretary Associate Editor: Roberta Wallace Stearns ’57 Genevieve Rogers ’36 Associate, Scholarship Chair Design: Beverly A. Joyce, Joyce Design Solutions, LLC Printing: Keystone Press, Inc. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MEMBERS-AT-LARGE: Brian Allen ’82 Visions is published twice a year for the alumni, parents and friends of Charles S. Bailey ’72 Coe-Brown Northwood Academy. Gretchen Pratt Colpritt ’90 Linda Lovely Eastman ’76 ON THE COVER: Greg Cullen ’01 (left) and Mike Hedstrom ’01 Barbara Holmes Pratt ’65 were part of the winning foursome at this year’s CBNA Alumni and Friends Golf Tournament. Visions — Fall 2007 1 Kristal Kostiew Yush pursues her Olympic dream Kristal Kostiew Yush graduated from Coe-Brown Northwood Academy in 2000. She went on to pursue a degree at the University of Vermont, where she began competing in hammer throw. While at Vermont she collected 14 America East Championships and was a four-time Vermont team MVP, as well as four-time America East Field Performer of the Year. In 2004 she was the America East Scholar Athlete of the Year and an Academic All American. She married Derek Yush in July 2005 and they currently reside in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Kristal qualified for her first USA team in 2007 by finishing second at the USA Outdoor Championships. By winning a silver medal at the national championship, Kristal earned the right to represent the United States at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro in July, where she took fourth place, as well as at the 2007 IAAF World Championship in Athletics in Osaka, Japan, in August. Kristal has now set her sights on the upcoming Olympic trials and the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, China. How did you begin participating in hammer throw? I began as a freshman at the University of Vermont. My coach, Ed Kusiak, introduced me to the hammer to help score more points for the team at the conference meet. I went into college as a good discus, javelin and shot putter with marks that were competitive in the America East Conference. I believe I finished third in the conference as a freshman with a high mark of 152’ and things just got better from there. As a sophomore I broke the UVM school record (formerly held Kristal Kostiew Yush by Olympian Anna Norgren) with a best mark of 182. In my junior year I became more competitive in the NCAA region throwing 188, I attended the University of Vermont on a full athletic and as a senior finished ninth in the region with a best mark of 191 scholarship. I majored in education and exercise and sport feet, seven inches. While at UVM I also set the indoor and outdoor sciences and graduated in 2004 with my teaching degree shot put records as well as the indoor 20-pound weight throw record (physical education for K-12). Right before graduation I signed for UVM and the America East conference. a contract to teach high school physical education in Montville, Connecticut. This year I have relocated to Baton Rouge with my Exactly what is the hammer throw? husband who has a coaching job at Louisiana State University The hammer I throw is not the one that people typically and I will be teaching K-8 physical education and social studies imagine when I tell them what I do. It is not your traditional at Crescent Elementary School as well as coaching volleyball and hammer used to drive nails at a construction site. It is actually an track at Plaquemine High School. Working full time, coaching event that derived from the Scottish Highland Games and modified and training sure keeps me busy, but I love all aspects of my life! for track and field. The hammer implement itself is a 4kg (8.8 lbs. Work helps me to have something non track-related that I am for women, 16 lbs. for men) steel ball on a swivel. The swivel is good at and enjoy; coaching helps me to give back to kids and attached to a wire and the wire is attached to a handle. The whole participate in sports that I love; and the training is just a bonus! system is just under four feet long. The thrower enters into a 7’2” ring and must complete a series of winds (typically 2 or 3) where Did your academic and athletic experience at they remain stationary at the back of the circle (back to the direction Coe-Brown contribute to your desire to pursue of throw). After these winds/swings the thrower then turns to the compete at the international level? left (if right handed) on a heel or toe and completes a turn. If anyone had told me when I was in high school that someday soon I would be one of the best athletes in my sport, What was your major in college and what career I wouldn’t have believed it. When I was in high school I had path have you pursued? dreams of someday making an Olympic team, but I guess I never really believed that it was a true possibility for me. I always 2 Visions — Fall 2007 thought that I would play college basketball somewhere and that What awards/titles/medals would be it. That was where my love was. Then the calls started have you won thus far? coming from track coaches across the country and I started to think, • 2007 USA World Team (finished as second best in the “Hey, I could be pretty good at throwing in college.” One thing led to US and number 23 in the world) another and now here I am—one of the best in the world! • 2007 USA Pan American Team (finished fourth, was I think that a lot of what I took from academics and athletics number one American hammer thrower at the meet) from Coe Brown was the drive for excellence no matter what the • USA National Meet (2007: 2nd, 2006: 5th, 2005: circumstances were. I remember with basketball, Mr. Hall always told 9th) my team that we were capable of so much, not to give up, and work • USA National Indoor Meet (2007: 3rd, 2006: for our goals and get out there and achieve them. Being a part of two of his state championship teams really helped to develop a core 5th, 2005: 8th, 2004: 5th, 2003: 9th) feeling that I could achieve anything that I put my mind to through Personal Best Progression hard work and dedication. My dad showed me similar lessons (he 2007: 227’3” 2003: 188 coached me in throwing when I decided to try track my sophomore year), as well. His patience, dedication and belief in me really helped 2006: 215 2002:185 me to see what I was really capable of.