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Letter from the Editor

A Vision for the 21st Century

By Andrew Menke

In Brief

Reunion 2006

Deborah Willis ’07

Really, New Hampshire is Flat!

From Berry to Bagamoyo

By Terri Place ’86

The International Set

A Message from the Korean Family Association of New Hampton School

By Jae Nam Lee

The Heart and Seoul of New Hampton School

By Sandy Colhoun

Samantha Brann—Hurricane Relief

By Cindy Buck

Winning Spirit

By Derek Parker

Faculty Profile: Sarah Andersen

A Ballad for Jacques & Diane

By Matthew Cheney

Class Notes

In Memoriam

Trustee News

Advisory Board

Jamie Arsenault

Cindy Buck P’01, ’05

Sandy Colhoun

Alan Crocker P’04, ’07

Andrew Menke

Cathy Creany

Lyn O’Callaghan

Contributors

Sarah Andersen

Samantha Brann ’96

Cindy Buck

Matthew Cheney ’94

Sandy Colhoun

Diane Finlay

Jacques Finlay

Andrew Menke

Lyn O’Callaghan

Derek Parker

Brooke Pearsall

Terri Place ’86

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HEADS UP 3

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INTERNATIONAL 16

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SERVICE 30

ATHLETICS 32

FACULTY 35

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CLASS NOTES 38

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TRUSTEES 48

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In this issue, we are proud to introduce you

to several accomplished members of New

Hampton School’s international family. These

leaders and advocates are notable for their

significant investment of compassion, intellect

and energy guiding others, championing

causes, repairing what has been broken,

lifting spirits, and making a difference in the

world. Their reach can be felt from Bagamoyo

to Biloxi, from Korea to Cameroon. Their

presence in our lives has enriched us far

beyond the product of the work they have

undertaken, adding diversity, cultural depth,

and global sensitivity.

In spite of its setting in the foothills of New

Hampshire’s White Mountains, New Hampton

School’s people historically have had a world

view. The desire to serve others is neither new

nor limited by decade and distance. Sarah

Sleeper, an 1829 graduate of New Hampton,

married John Taylor Jones, D.D. and traveled

with him as a missionary to Bangkok, Thailand.

Henry Bacheler, missionary and doctor, was

born in Balasore, India, educated at New

Hampton graduating in 1867, served as a

missionary in Gabon, Africa, for four years,

and spent the remainder of his career in

Midnapore, India. French and German teacher

and NHLI preceptress, Ella May Butts, left the

school in 1886 to serve as a missionary and

teacher in India. During the 1920s, students

from Mexico, Cuba, Russia, French Indo-China,

and Canada enrolled at New Hampton, and

the first students from Korea arrived in the

mid-1950s. Currently, the school’s alumni are

scattered throughout six continents.

In contributing to their respective endeavors,

our featured alumni have found fulfillment,

satisfaction, and meaning. They model New

Hampton School’s core values of respect and

responsibility, and they epitomize our educa-

tional philosophy of total human development.

Their example is inspiring, and we hope that

you will enjoy learning about their work.

Lyn O’Callaghan, Editor

locallaghan@newhampton.org

Letter from the Editor

Alumni Office Staff

Sandy Colhoun, Director ofAlumni and Development

Cindy Buck, Associate Directorof Alumni and Development

Sarah DeBenedictis, Director of Annual Giving

Lyn O’Callaghan, Director of Communications

Brooke Pearsall, AssistantDirector of Annual Giving

HAMPTONIA is published twice

a year by New Hampton School.

The magazine reports news of

the school, its students, teachers,

and alumni. We welcome

submissions for publication, news

from and about alumni, and

letters in response to articles.

Inquiries, comments, and letters

may be directed to Director of

Communications, New Hampton

School, P. O. Box 579,

New Hampton, NH 03256.

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New Hampton School admits

students of any sex, race, color,

creed, national or ethnic origin

to all rights, privileges, programs

and activities generally made

available to students at the

school. It does not discriminate

on the basis of sex, race, color,

creed, national or ethnic origin

in administration of its admis-

sions and educational policies,

scholarship and loan programs,

and athletic and other school

administered activities.

W E L C O M E

COVER STORY

Nicoya Borella ’08 makes the most of her New Hampton School experience. In addition to working

hard in her honors level classes, Nicoya plays soccer, field hockey, and has worked in the New

Hampton School Admissions Office as an intern. Her community service work has included leading

an art workshop for local children, contributing to campus beautification as well as clearing paths

on Burleigh Mountain, and helping the local fire department to implement its 911 initiative. Her

many interests include art, piano, voice, dance, photography, music, and drama, and she is also an

equestrian, snowboarder and skier. (cover photo by Bill Truslow)

Letter from the Editor

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H E A D S U P

A VISION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: STRATEGIC PLANNING

AT NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL

By Andrew Menke

It is a quiet summer evening as I sit on Smith

House porch, watching mist slowly form on

Burleigh Mountain. It is hard to believe that just

weeks ago we conferred 104 diplomas to our

graduating class under the maples in front of

Meservey Hall. At this time of year, when we

have the rare opportunity to reflect more than

react, I am reminded of the phrase “the only

constant is change.” Change is most certainly

in the offing for our seniors, as they depart the

intimate, nurturing world of New Hampton

School. While most embrace this obvious next-

step, graduation from secondary school and

matriculation to higher education, there is

an unmistakable tension that accompanies it.

I believe we “grown-ups” embrace change

intellectually, knowing that it is a natural part

of our evolution—a dynamic life, full of growth

expands us, yet we resist it emotionally for fear

of what it means to us, how it might transform

us or impact our lives or the lives of those close

to us.

I acknowledge the obvious when I state that

change is in the air at New Hampton School.

The past year has been filled with learning about

this new community and working to improve

operational systems throughout the school. We

have attempted to “do what we say we will do.”

And while I am not sure how much of a departure

this consistent approach is, I am sensitive to how

it feels. Change may be as much about perspec-

tive, past experiences, and where one sits, as

it is about its pragmatic impact. On one hand,

with new leadership, change is expected, even

anticipated by our intellectual selves; on the

other hand, if change is misunderstood or not

welcomed, there can be objection by our

emotional selves. I’ve experienced these feelings

myself in this first year at New Hampton.

Change affects us all.

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H E A D S U P

At New Hampton we believe in preparation.

True preparation requires refinement, a shift in

approach if our graduates are going to have

every opportunity for fulfillment in college and

in life. The world is a far different place now

than when most of us attended secondary school

and college. Not only are college campuses far

more diverse, but the world requires a great deal

more consciousness and understanding about

those issues that affect human beings in all cor-

ners of the globe. With this global focus in mind,

knowing that the world is indeed much flatter

than at any time in human history, New

Hampton has undertaken a comprehensive

strategic planning effort to review where we are

today, what we dream to become, and how to

get there.

Two months ago, with process and shared own-

ership in mind, we began an inclusive strategic

planning process to begin to flesh out how

we might best develop a new vision for New

Hampton School. We have contracted with

Symmonds and Associates, a Portland, Oregon,

consulting firm, to help us develop a solid road

map for the next five years of evolutionary

growth at New Hampton School. We have the

good fortune of working with Ian Symmonds,

the principal and owner of the firm, who is a

former university admission officer and works

exclusively with independent schools.

Together, we will map out a strategic marketing

plan, as well as a comprehensive financial plan

and capital and facilities plans. Specifically, Ian

spent three days meeting with over 50 students,

Tangible changes this year have included a

recommitment to our school values of respect

and responsibility, refinement of our student pro-

file (in part to begin to address student attrition),

clarification of organizational structure including

roles and responsibilities, job descriptions

and the scope of committees, departments,

and personnel work—accountability and hiring.

While operational in nature, I don’t underesti-

mate the impact of these changes on school

culture. Dynamic organizations remain healthy

through systematic review, and I am confident

that our self-examination will lead to an even

stronger New Hampton.

Last summer I received a book titled The World

is Flat as a welcome gift no fewer than five times

during my first six weeks on the job. Responding

to this not so subtle signal, I read Thomas

Friedman’s book about how the world has

become much more interconnected and there-

fore competitive as a result of globalization and

access to instant, inexpensive communication.

Stimulated by Friedman’s compelling analysis of

the aggressive capitalist cultures of China and

India, I began to ruminate on the competencies

needed in the 21st Century and the intersection

between these new skills and the ethical com-

pass needed to guide young people joining a

more inter-reliant and globally focused world.

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faculty, staff, and trustees learning about what

makes New Hampton School unique. A steering

committee comprised of faculty, staff, adminis-

trators, students, alumni, parents, trustees, and

community members has begun meeting monthly

on campus. While the present climate can best

be described as equal parts anxiety and excite-

ment (change has that effect), it strengthens my

confidence that we are doing our jobs.

To ensure a healthy, transparent process of

thorough investigation and evolution, we must

be willing to examine the very foundation upon

which we stand. Utilizing key demographic and

market research data, the steering committee

will work throughout the summer, then partner

with subcommittees of the faculty in August to

develop five to eight overarching goals for the

future of New Hampton School. With an empha-

sis on collaboration, we hope to complete our

plan by January 2007.

The work of the strategic planning committee

will be based on the strong foundation of Total

Human Development or Whole Child Education.

Together, we will begin to shape a more globally

focused curriculum in each discipline. We will

consider new courses that explore the central

issues we face today including climate change,

poverty, AIDS, water, the Middle East, immigra-

tion, demographics, food production, energy

consumption, and technology.

Our dreams have no limits, and we will ask hard

questions. Would it be prudent to add Mandarin

as a foreign language and drop French? What

if we taught a course that explores renewable

energy sources or global warming? What about

a science course on hydrology or a math course

focused on exponential population growth and

the global economy? The possibilities to raise

consciousness and expose our students to

the challenges of their time are abundant and

powerful.

We will, of course, remain committed to

delivering fundamental skills—thinking critically,

writing persuasively, intellectual curiosity,

analysis—those skills that will hold our students

in good stead as they enter college classrooms.

But we will develop curriculum that will be

more relevant and more useful as our students

enter a far more complex world than we could

ever have dreamed only a few short years ago.

All organizations, schools included, must be

willing to be self-reflective. While we anticipate

a reaffirmation of our core values and a recom-

mitment to whole child education, the road to a

more healthy school will require that we dream

big dreams. I can assure you our goal is very

simple: to develop a world-class education

for the students of New Hampton School. We

look forward to a transformational process that

yields an ever-stronger experience for all New

Hampton School students. I look forward to

keeping you involved and informed. along the

way! Stay tuned!

I N B R I E F

NHS HELPS WITH FLOOD CONTROL

On May 17, in response to a request from New

Hampton Fire Chief, Dave Clement, about 100

New Hampton School athletes, coaches, and

volunteers gathered at the New Hampton

Highway Department garage to fill bags with

sand. After several days of rain, the Newfound

and Pemigewasset Rivers and area streams

and brooks had risen precipitously, and local

flooding resulted in some road closings.

The Boys’ Lacrosse Team, the Girls’ Lacrosse

Team, the golf team, the tennis teams, the coach-

es, and other members of the New Hampton

School Community boarded school buses and

vans at 3:15 to travel to the town garage, where

they worked until dinner time filling sandbags.

Local public schools were closed for four days

due to flooding in nearby Bristol, and St. Paul’s

School in Concord was forced to evacuate its

students due to high water. Fortunately, condi-

tions in the Lakes Region are less grave and the

campus, though wet, remained safe and in no

danger of flooding.

A GIFT TO PORT CHARLOTTE, FLORIDA

During their Spring Break, a group of 21 New Hampton School students, five teachers, and Rev.

Scott Mitchell of the New Hampton Community Church joined more than 9,000 other volunteers

to raise walls and hammer nails during Habitat for Humanity’s “Collegiate Challenge.” Each year for

the last five years, students have helped build simple, decent and affordable homes with families in

need. The New Hampton group has worked in Port Charlotte, Florida, each March since 2002.

“One of the pillars of our educational philosophy is service to others and to the community,” said

Erica Wilson, leader of the New Hampton School effort. “We are convinced that we must send

young people out into to world who not only are capable of excelling in the classroom but who also

will truly contribute to our society.” Because of this firm belief, New Hampton students are expected

to make contributions to their community.

Habitat for Humanity International, based in Americus, Georgia, is an ecumenical Christian ministry

that welcomes to its work all people dedicated to the cause of eliminating poverty housing. Since

1976, Habitat has built more than 200,000 houses in nearly 100 countries, providing simple, decent

and affordable shelter for more than one million people.

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2006 HEADMASTER'S COUNCIL

On Wednesday, April 12, New Hampton School welcomed The Headmaster’s

Council, a group of volunteers invited back to campus for an in-depth, daylong

workshop to familiarize them with current programs and to assist the school as it

begins its strategic planning process. This group of 24 volunteers was comprised

of alumni ranging from the Class of 1940 to the Class of 2001, current parents,

parents of alumni, and trustees.

INTERNATIONAL DAY 2006

Held in Memorial Dining Hall on Thursday,

May 4, the event was a celebration of New

Hampton's multi-cultural diversity.

Last fall Senior Sang Ho Kim of Seoul, Korea,

began organizing the 2006 International

Dinner. For months, students gathered

authentic recipes. The day before the dinner,

students began chopping and slicing meat

to marinate in special sauces. Students spent

the day preparing delicacies such as Korean

noodles (chapchae) and marinated meat

(bulgogi), Hungarian goulash, Czech strudel,

Taiwanese pork, Cameroonian sea bass, and

other delights. The event was made possible

by Dining Hall Director Neal Shartar’s

ingenious planning and Chef Melody Martel’s

patience and direction.

The dining extravaganza was followed by

entertainment from around the world, with

singing in Czech, Spanish, Hungarian, Korean,

French, and Chinese and both a Tae Kwon Do

exhibition and a Fan dance performed by

Korean students.

VAIL 2006

A happy group of 50 New Hampton School teachers and students spent the

long Winter Weekend on a five-day adventure in Vail, Colorado. The 10th

annual Vail trip was held January 26 through 31. During their days in the

Rockies, the group skied and snowboarded at Vail, where more than four feet

of snow fell. A highlight of the trip was a race at the NASTAR course at Black

Forest, complete with medals for all and a group photo and individual race

photos to preserve the memories.

As the snow fell on Saturday night in Vail, a small cadre of New Hampton

alumni, parents, faculty, and friends gathered at the home of former Trustee

Susan Milhoan. A festive evening was enjoyed as families old and new remi-

nisced about the past and were updated on current New Hampton news by

Headmaster Andrew Menke.

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homecoming + THE FIRST NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL

ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME INDUCTION CEREMONY!Dust off that class yearbook tucked away in

a closet, pull out your old newspaper articles

about New Hampton Athletics, and send along a

nomination (or two) for New Hampton School’s

new Athletics Hall of Fame.

With the school’s longstanding history of athletic

talents, the Athletics Hall of Fame Committee

eagerly anticipates receiving nominations. Please

direct nominations to David Doyle, Assistant

Athletic Director, ddoyle@newhampton.org or

603-677-3515 or Cindy Buck, Alumni Office,

cbuck@newhampton.org or 603-677-3414.

HOMECOMING

“a return home;

the return of a group

of people especially

on a special occasion

to a place formerly

frequented.”

THE MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY

The criteria of eligibility, qualifications and

nomination process can be found on the New

Hampton School website at this address:

www.newhampton.org/programs/athletics

Be sure to include specific information as to

why you feel your nomination warrants consider-

ation. And finally, mark your calendar now for

Saturday, October 28, and plan to be here for a

spectacular weekend!

10:30 a.m.

Athletic Hall of Fame

Induction Ceremony

11:30 a.m.

Brunch

2:30 p.m.

Football

Huskies vs. The Knights

of Salisbury, Connecticut

save the date

SATURDAY

OCTOBER 28, 2006

POPS8

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From Boston to Seoul, Korea, New York City

to San Francisco, Boca Raton to Chicago,

New Hampton School has been reach-

ing out to a larger group of its grow-

ing constituencies. During his first

year as New Hampton’s new

leader, Headmaster Andrew

Menke, faculty members,

and trustees have participated

in a wide range of events and

gatherings throughout the U.S.

Alumni, parents, trustees, and

friends, in groups both large and

small, have shared their stories of New

Hampton while learning more about the

school’s exciting future. Is there a cluster of

alumni in your neighborhood? Are you a current

parent interested in sharing all that is special about New Hampton School with prospective families?

Contact the Alumni and Development Office at 603-677-3414 so that we can organize a gathering close to you!

ALUMN I AND DEVELOPMENT TRAVEL

SEOUL, KOREABOSTON POPS

NEW YORK CITY

WASHINGTON D.C.

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A L U M N I R E T U R N F O R

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MORE THAN 150 ALUMNI AND GUESTS GATHERED

OVER THE COURSE OF A BUSY WEEKEND TO REKINDLE

OLD FRIENDSHIPS AND REMINISCE ABOUT THEIR

SCHOOL. MANY ALUMNI HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO

MEET HEADMASTER ANDREW MENKE FOR THE FIRST

TIME, WHILE OTHERS RETURNED TO SPEND TIME WITH

HEADMASTER EMERITUS T. HOLMES “BUD” MOORE

AND HIS WIFE JINGA.

THE COOL TEMPERATURES AND DAMP CLIMATE OF A TYPICAL NEW HAMPSHIRE SPRING

DID LITTLE TO DAMPEN THE EXCITEMENT AND ENTHUSIASM THAT

INFUSED NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL’S REUNION 2006.

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1971-72 ▼

1996 ▼ 1986 ▼

1981 ▼ALUMNI SPANNING SIX DECADES RETURNED TO

CELEBRATE THEIR COLLECTIVE NEW HAMPTON

EXPERIENCES. FOR A COMPLETE GALLERY OF PHOTOS

FROM REUNION 2006, GO TO WWW.NEWHAMPTON.

ORG/ALUMNI

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R E U N I O N

HEADMASTER’S AWARD

Holli Hamel Siff ’72 has been an active and

faithful volunteer for many years, spending

countless hours on the phone and computer

connecting old friends and classmates with each

other, and with the school. She was the Reunion

Chair for her class’ 30th Reunion and had

tremendous success getting a large group to

come back to NHS, as well as terrific fundraising

success. This year, she has also served as Chair

of the entire Alumni Fund, and her enthusiasm

for New Hampton School has already made a

difference.

New Hampton is not the only lucky recipient

of this volunteer’s efforts. Often described as

“selfless,” her passion for her friends and family,

the arts, politics, and her community has had

a profound impact on many individuals and

organizations.

Those of us who consider ourselves part of

Holli’s New Hampton family are thankful for

her efforts, and were honored to present her

with the 2006 New Hampton School

Headmaster’s Award.

LIFELONG ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Making things work better has been a lifelong

objective for Phil O’Hara ’51. Following a very

successful preparation at New Hampton School

and Brown University, Phil went to work for

Follett Publishing Company in Chicago, where

in due course his expertise and leadership were

recognized with his promotion to publisher.

Phil was also generous with his commitment

to service in his home community.

His loyalty to New Hampton has been demon-

strated over the last 55 years not only by his

faithful financial support but also his volunteerism

at campus events, organization of alumni

gatherings, assistance in student recruitment,

and leadership in fund-raising activities. His

desire to make a difference in the lives of the

students, faculty, and staff led to his election

to the New Hampton School Board of Trustees,

where he soon advanced to Chairman. Among

Phil’s many contributions as a trustee, perhaps

the most significant was the thoughtful restruc-

turing of the Board which set the stage for the

years of growth and effectiveness which followed.

Still seeking to make life better and to fix

things, Phil is the Assistant Director of Students

Activities and Head of the Mediation Program

at Brown University.

It is with great pride and gratitude that New

Hampton School presented a Lifelong

Achievement Award to J. Philip O’Hara.

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June 1-3, 2007.

Hope to see you there!

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NHS Golf Classic at

Owl’s Nest Golf Course

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D E B O R A H W I L L I S ’ 0 7

Deborah Willis, a junior from Ridgefield,

Connecticut, rides Camden at the

University of New Hampshire 2006

Horse Trials. “This was only my second

Cross-Country event,” said Willis. “But it

was alot of fun. It was a good experience

and I learned a lot.” Willis explained her

interest in riding may be in her genes.

“Horseback riding goes way back in our

family, back to the Pony Express in

Nebraska, and my sister went to Nationals

at the Collegiate level.” Willis plans to

apply to Brown, Skidmore and Smith—

all of which have Varsity riding programs.

Meanwhile, here in New Hampshire, the

New Hampton School Equestrian Team

has ten riders who compete year round.

Nancy Guyotte, the team’s coach,

is considered one of the best riding

instructors in the United States. A finalist

on the United States Olympic Team in

1988 and 1992, she has lead the team

for seven years. New Hampton’s riding

team practices five days a week at the

Running Brook Farm, just ten miles from

New Hampton’s campus. The team com-

petes all over the country. In the spring,

student riders traveled to Aiken, South

Carolina, where they practiced and

competed.

The lessons learned on horseback are

many, but chief among them, says Willis,

is trust. “If you don’t trust your horse, the

horse won’t trust you, and without trust

it is pretty much impossible to ride,” she

said. “It is the same as people, I guess.

In life, you need to have these skills.”

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I N T E R N A T I O N A L

Really,

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Farmers and forest rangers in this rural and mountainous

corner of New Hampshire may never concede the world is

flat, at least from their perspective. As they pass by our small

boarding school, nestled in the town of New Hampton, they

might also wonder why so many foreign faces, from Korea,

Cameroon and Taiwan, are roaming our campus?

The answer lies in Thomas Friedman’s best–selling book,

The World is Flat.

Friedman’s book has garnered worldwide acclaim for its per-

spective on the global nature of our interactions as humans.

Everything, from the food we eat, the air we breathe to the

clothes we buy and the education we undertake, is driven by

global competition. Our spheric world, Friedman claims, has

been flattened by stratospheric advances in technology and

communication.

If Friedman is right, and here at New Hampton we think he is,

our students will graduate to face a radically different playing

field—one on which our graduates will compete not just with

alumni from Tilton, Proctor, Holderness and St. Paul’s, but with

students graduating from technology hotbeds in India, China

and Russia. New Hampton students are entering a truly global

community, and our job as educators is to prepare them for

the challenges they will face.

We need not look far to emphasize the point. In the following

pages we will introduce you to students, alumni and friends of

New Hampton from around the world. New Hampton alumni

are making their mark both near and far, from Africa to Korea,

and in sharing these stories, we make Friedman’s point for him.

Even here, in the mountains of New Hampshire, the world is

indeed, flat.

New Hampshire is flat!INSIDE THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL

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I N T E R N A T I O N A L

The first years following my departure from Berry

Hall were normal enough; at least I never got

any tropical diseases back then. I ambled

through college, got married to a wonderful

man, and did some backpacking to places with

long, hard-to-pronounce names. Perhaps fore-

stalling my entry into the “real” world, I then

ambled through graduate school and got an

M.A. in cultural anthropology. Although I loved

my research, I always felt a bit off center just

writing about the lives of subjugated women in

Mexico or economically disenfranchised Native

Americans in Texas. I wanted to do something,

but couldn’t seem to make my way into the

NGO world.

My job with the state government evaluating

social service programs put my research skills

back to work, but it was not very fulfilling. I felt

more comfortable on my site visits to agencies

than I did in my own office. I began to volunteer

in hospitals translating for Mexican immigrant

women in the maternity ward. This gave my life

the service dimension I’d been craving and made

me feel things were going as they should be. The

plan was to have a baby and then later adopt a

child, as I had long been committed to adoption.

But then one day, with no warning at all, and no

sordid scandal to justify it, my husband calmly

and resolutely decided he did not want to be

married anymore. Like ripping a Band-aid off

your arm quickly, rather than painfully pulling

out every hair on your arm, it was over. He

wanted nothing at all, just out.

From Berry to Bagamoyo By Terri Place ’86

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DEVASTATION. SHOCK. Then just a few weeks

later, by prior arrangement, a friend of a friend

came to stay with me for a few days. She was

75, just back from volunteering in Nepal, and

a powerhouse of enthusiasm for the possibilities

in life. We shared our stories and grew to be

close friends quickly. She told me of her life in

hiding during World War II, her work in th field

of child adoption services, and her own divorce

and recovery. There was nothing temporary

about the inspiration she was giving me; I could

feel it being woven into the fabric of my life.

Almost instantly she made me believe I’d emerge

stronger for my pain, so I decided, “why wait

any longer?” I sold the house, packed up, and

left just a few weeks later.

AFRICA. I wish I could take off the shroud of

mystery that hangs over the continent for so

many, and reveal a glimpse of the beauty, and

the misery as well. Before I left, I had all the

same fears as so many people: the bugs, the

heat, disease, poverty. I didn’t know one African

country from the next, but yet I had to go. A

family friend got me a volunteer job in a home

for orphaned babies in Uganda.

I thought I was going to help babies, but those

first forty kids in Kampala gave me far more than

I ever gave to them. It’s hard to explain what

comes back to you when you give love and

attention to a little human being so hungry for

it. Holding babies found just days before in a

latrine or banana patch, I would ask myself

HOW? Could a woman be so desperate as to

dispose of her baby? When I stopped asking this

question, then I knew that I had changed. It was

from there that I looked at my life and saw that

what had once been a crooked path became a

solid line leading me right where I was, and I

knew right where I was headed. Anthropology,

adoption, service, program evaluation…yes, it

all made sense now.

BAGAMOYO,TANZANIA. Here we are. I am

married to an even more wonderful man and

we have a son named Justis. Together, (Justis is

an excellent guinea pig for the project), we are

calling our shared dream into reality. We run a

non-profit organization helping orphans and

other vulnerable children. Our goal is to keep

children OUT of orphanages, including the one

we are founding, and we do this by providing

outreach assistance to help empower their care-

takers. We help feed children or get them to

medical care. If a parent has HIV/AIDS, we help

get them to AntiRetroviral Therapy so that they

can live to take care of their children. We are

realistic enough to know that outreach does not

always work, though, and so we have readied

our home for seven more babies. We are now

very close to getting our license. We recently

bought two acres of land which we will eventually

cultivate and build upon. We envision one

day having a center large enough to be home

to about 40 children as well as house visiting

volunteers and travelers.

SPARE TIME (HA!) . We also sponsor a breakfast

program for orphans and other vulnerable chil-

dren. Each morning before school, the kids

come and get a hot cup or two of mixed grain

porridge. Volunteers are often there to teach the

kids English, teeth brushing, art and games.

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SIX YOUNG MEN

Back in January Board Member Eva Cleynin

asked us to help send six young men from the

local street boy’s home to secondary school. The

boys passed all of their exams, but the people

who ran the home where they lived had no

money to send them. We resisted, thinking we

couldn’t manage the time and money, but Eva

persisted and we and the boys are all so grateful

that she did. She and her colleagues in Europe

raised $800 in a few weeks and we covered the

rest with a donation from Council Rock High

School South. Forget what you think you might

know about “street boys” because Gabriel,

Benedict, Benard, William, Emmanuel and Yassin

break every mold. They are incredibly enthusias-

tic about their education and they don’t take it

for granted for a minute. They didn’t know each

other on the street, but they survived some pretty

rough “relief” houses together. Now all six go

to government boarding schools in the country

and live at the Baobab Home during breaks.

Justis could not be happier to have six big

brothers and we are so proud that they are part

of our family. Asanteni sana Eva, Gaia, Anita,

Maggan and families.

We bought each boy about $100 in supplies.

Their annual fees are $40 for tuition and $150

for food.

Please look for pictures of the young men and

their stories on our website soon. If you know of

how to get chemistry supplies, their schools have

no lab. We will try to find people to carry things

over. Thank you!

MWAJUMA SIASA

Mwajuma Siasa (17) is also studying again! She

had to drop school in the 7th grade because her

family had no money to pay her tuition. Now,

she spends the mornings with us watching Justis

and the afternoons at “night school”. Rest

assured, she gets plenty of time off for exams.

She wants one day to study nursing like Jenn and

Sue, two American friends of Baobab Home. We

hope to have enough one day to send five more

young women to secondary school as preference

is often given to boys in the realm of education

here. Night school seems to be a very affordable

way to do this at only $10 a month plus books.

HURUKA AND SALAM

In August we began helping Huruka and her son

Salum. Huruka was in advanced stages of AIDS

and just starting antiretroviral therapy. We

SOME SNAPSHOTS FROM THE APRIL 2006 BAOBAB HOME NEWSLETTER:

“Some days i t feels l ike we are throwing rocks at the sun because people st i l l d ie of treatable i l lnesses

and so many kids can’t study for lack of school fees.”

We are here to stay. It’s not an easy life, but

we have so much joy in it. I miss hot pulsating

showers, 24-hour internet, and my family, in

varying order depending on the day. What don’t

I miss? The assault by advertisements on my

optic and aural nerves and stadium-size super-

markets. I’ve had malaria a few times and, while

it is no picnic, it is also not all it is cracked up to

be if you treat promptly and correctly. There is

good quality medical care available, but the vast

majority of people just can’t afford it.

Tanzania is full of contrasts. Amid desperate

poverty, there is so much beauty and grandeur.

The famed Serengeti National Park is an 8-hour

safari from here, and we are a short sail from

the spice islands of Zanzibar. In Swahili we say

Karibuni Sana: you are very welcome.

“…it is diff icult for me

to render the extremes

of joy and tragedy

I witness here and

give you accurate

snapshots of our l ives

and work…”

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“Then, I see some of our kids gain weight, or I see the joy in their eyes because they get to study

and I am utter ly renewed of purpose…”

brought food to Salum for a few months, and

saw Huruka through the worst of her tuberculo-

sis, and now they are doing much better. We are

getting her started on an income generation

project selling vegetables so that she can soon

be completely independent.

LICENSING AND LAND

In Swahili there is a saying “Harakao Haraka,

haina baraka” meaning that if you go too fast,

you will miss life’s blessings. If going “Pole Pole”

(polay polay—slowly) means more blessings

than we are set for life. Licensing the babies’

home has been a drawn out process, but we just

had a little action on attaining ours. Our social

worker finally made it to the house and really

loved it. All that remains is for her and our

friend James the health inspector to write

reports. Then there’s the little matter of getting

about a year’s worth of funding in the bank,

about $20,000.

Also going a bit slower than we’d like is our

land purchase. Two acres have been bought

and paid for, but it has been nearly a year and

the land in that village has not been surveyed.

So, we wait, wrapped in another government

department’s shade of red tape. We will begin

planting the minute we get assigned a plot.

TATU, HABIBU AND SHABANI

Back in January a woman named Tatu brought

her emaciated son Shabani to the social service

office asking for help. Habibu, her son of 6

years was just as thin as his brother and he has

cerebral palsy. Tatu’s mental illness is not under-

stood by her family so she does not get support

from them. She lives in a one room dirt house

with the boys. Social Services called us and we

got them hospitalized here, and later in the city

of Dar es Salaam. They are now stabilized and

are visited daily by Baobab Home staff. Tatu was

on medication, but she threw it all out. We are

planning to put some volunteers on this case

soon to ensure a higher level of care for the boys.

Three month old Fatuma is a baby we wish

could be under our roof. Her mother died of

unknown causes when Fatuma was a few weeks

old. Her grandmother feeds her the formula we

supply but is too old to give her quality care and

Fatuma has been hospitalized three times for

diarrhea and malnutrition. She is now fat and

healthy and we hope her grandmother can keep

her that way with our oversight.

VOLUNTEER HIGHLIGHTS

Although primary school is free in Tanzania,

required uniforms and supplies still keep hundreds

of children in Bagamoyo from attending. Back in

November, volunteer Meredith Buell initiated a

teaching program for four Orphans and Vulnerable

Children (at the Baobab Home). She taught them

counting, writing, the ABCs and some songs.

Megan Beard and Liz Steele continued the daily

program and added their personal touches. Then,

when they were good and ready and excited

about learning, we all pitched in (about $20 per

child) to get them uniforms, shoes, socks and

notebooks. The individual attention and instruc-

tion that the kids got from the volunteers is

irreplaceable and they miss their teachers, but

they also love being in school with their peers.

If you would like learn

more about Terri Place and

The Baobab Home, please visit

www.tzkids.org

or write to

info@tzkids.org

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I N T E R N A T I O N A L

For decades New Hampton School has had a

special relationship with foreign students from

around the world. In the mid-60’s New Hampton

had a strong connections with families in Brazil

and Argentina. The tradition flourishes on cam-

pus today. The presence of international students

on campus was particularly strong this year with

two student government leaders hailing from

abroad. Their stories shed insight on the New

Hampton experience today.

R A D A R O N G U E T O U — C A M E R O O N

Radar Onguetou stands out in a crowd. Towering

above most high school students at 6’4” tall, he

is a strapping young man. Below an impressive

exterior, however, is a gentle giant. Born and

raised in Cameroon, Radar speaks in a resonant,

gentle and even musical voice. When Radar enters

a room, he naturally captures your attention.

It isn’t a surprise then that he caught the eye of a

collegiate coach and native of Cameroon. The

coach saw Radar dominating an outdoor court

in his home city of Yaounde. “This man was a

role model for the younger students in my coun-

try; he was a star,” Radar explains. “He asked if I

was interested in attending school in the United

States and said that I could be successful over

here.” Before long Radar was put in contact with

New Hampton Varity Coach Jamie Arsenault and

he applied for admission to the school.

Radar arrived in central New Hampshire in

he summer of 2004 with one familiar name

in his pocket—Jamie Arsenault. He spent his

first stateside summer working in the school’s

Maintenance Department, assisting with basket-

ball camps, and struggling to learn the English

language. His first English teachers were

Dempsey and Ryder Arsenault, Jamie’s young

children, with whom he spent hours playing

outside and on the school’s basketball courts.

the international set F R O M C A M E R O O N T O K O R E A , N E W H A M P T O N B U I L D S L E A D E R S A N D C H A R A C T E R

Life in Cameroon seemed a world away. His

hometown school had 100 students in a class

and basketballs were in short supply—sometimes

missing altogether. Radar was quick to recognize

the opportunity before him. “Everything is here

[at New Hampton] to help you achieve your

goal,” Radar explained. “In the classroom,

teachers are always available to help you; in

sports, there are plenty of different activities and

always lots of basketballs available at the same

time; in music, you can pick up a guitar and just

start to play.”

Despite all of this, life so far away from home is

never easy. The New Hampton faculty rallied

around Radar and helped make him feel at home.

“Cathy Creany has been a second mother to me

—she is one of the best things that happened to

me here,” said Radar. “She cares for me like she

cares for her own son, Max.” It was the advice

of his mother, however, that was always in the

back of his mind. “When I was coming to this

country my mom said I could change in every

dimension but one: she always wants me to

smile,” said Radar, a wide grin peeling across

his face. “She made me promise to remain an

enthusiastic person and keep a positive attitude.”

Radar kept his promise. Throughout his New

Hampton experience, Radar has brought a

reflective and discerning presence to the

classroom and the community. It’s not every

day that an African from Cameroon is thrust

into this rural New Hampshire community.

Even so, Radar has felt comfortable to be

himself. “There is no judgment based on skin

color at New Hampton, but racial bias is

evident in other places in the United States.

“New Hampton has given me the confidence to

handle the prejudice of others. People at New

Hampton respect me and accept me for who I

am. I can look at the outside world with some

indifference.”

This perspective has served Radar well in his two

years at school. Last spring Radar was elected

Senior Class President, a responsibility he has

assumed with confident grace. “This is not my

success,” said Radar. “It is not something you

can do by yourself. Like a basketball team, you

have to get people working together, sharing

ideas, learning to compromise, all the time

realizing that someone else may have a better

way. That is what I appreciate the most in my

classmates.”

Since graduation Radar’s new home is the Uni-

versity of New Hampshire in Durham where he

will study international business before pursuing

a graduate degree in political science. After col-

lege Radar plans to return home to Cameroon to

spend some long-anticipated time with his family.

What advice does Radar offer to other interna-

tional students? “Try not to look at how hard it

will be at the beginning,” he recommends. “I

remember telling myself that I want to go home

and that it was too hard to stay here. I was on

the phone in Coach Arsenault’s office every day

calling home,” he recalls. “But there are so many

opportunities here that will make you a better

person and more motivated to achieve your goal.

Look at how easy it is going to be later and that

will make you stronger, tougher. Most important,

believe in yourself.”

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J A E S H I N — K O R E A

In Korea, the educational system requires that

students take 16 subjects during three mandatory

years of high school. With over 300 students

in each class year, it is easy to feel lost and

overwhelmed. For one shy Korean student, the

solution to this strict equation meant leaving

his home country to study in America.

Jae Shin came to the United States and to New

Hampton School as a quiet sophomore. How, in

three short years, Jae blossomed to become the

school’s Student Body President is a story that in

many ways defines the modern New Hampton

experience.

Looking back to the fall of his sophomore year,

Jae recalls that his first months in a much small-

er school 7,000 miles from home were lonely.

He lacked confidence in English and his shy per-

sonality made it hard for him to immerse himself

in the community beyond attending classes and

participating in sports. Despite this, he insisted

on taking regular English classes rather than the

English as a Second Language curriculum.

This meant three times the work and regularly

scheduled sessions for extra help each evening

before or after study hall. “I told myself that I

needed to show who I am to my family because

I promised them I would be successful. I didn’t

want them to regret my decision to come here,”

he explained. With each passing week, as he

became immersed in the school the shyness

slowly began to erode.

“During my junior year, I felt that it was impor-

tant to get involved in the school community,”

said Jae. “Previously, I had spent a lot of time in

my room studying, and felt that people did not

know me very well. I needed to show who I was

to the whole school.”

With a speech and a dance, Jae made his mark

on New Hampton history when he was elected

Student Body President—the first Korean in the

school’s history to hold the post. “The most

important part of this election was taking the

risk,” said Jae, “And being accepted by the

community.”

Jae hopes his involvement in Student Government

will inspire other Korean students to do the

same. “[International students] can see that

they should really get involved in the entire

community and not just hang out with fellow

Korean students.”

On this point Radar and Jae agree. “Do not be

afraid,” Jae explained. “What is most important

is that you try. Be confident about what you are

doing and be positive about your future.”

At Commencement, Jae led his classmates onto

the lawn of Meservey Hall. With the school’s

green and maroon baton he directed his friends

and classmates forward to claim their diplomas.

After 103 graduates received their diplomas,

it was Jae's turn to stand out in front of a crowd.

Jae was the final member of the Class of 2006

to walk across the lawn, and, in front of faculty,

students, cheering parents and guests, he

received his diploma representing three years

of hard word and personal growth and leaving

the shy boy from Korea forever behind.

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Korean parents send our children to New

Hampton School, over 7,000 miles from home,

for a better education and a better future, and

do so at great personal expense. New Hampton

School is close to our hearts and we spend a

great deal of time thinking about life on a distant

campus, in a far away land, where our children

are growing up. The rewards, however, outweigh

the costs. We hope our children will learn

valuable lessons at New Hampton, and like

many parents, we hope our sons and daughter

will enter colleges with the best reputations.

To build New Hampton’s position worldwide

and especially here in Korea, I made up my mind

to organize the Korean Family Association of

New Hampton School. I am confident we can

make our children’s alumni association a strong

organization that they will take over in years to

come. We hope to build ties and friendships

between Korean Families and New Hampton

families.

The first gathering of the Korean Family Association

was held on Saturday, February 18th, 2006 at

Grand InterContinental Hotel in Seoul. Almost

all parents of current students participated in

the event and it was a wonderful night to meet

parents and alumni in person. Four alumni

came to the event and they expressed their

experiences and unforgettable memories of New

Hampton School. They explained that they were

surprised at this unexpected event and they

were so happy to be invited to attend.

The Korean Family Association will meet three

times each year to discuss concerns and ideas

shared by Korean families. We look forward to

building an ever-stronger relationship with New

Hampton and are grateful to the school for

taking such good care of our children. I look

forward to meeting many of you in person in

the coming year.

A MESSAGE FROM THE KOREAN FAMILY

ASSOCIATION OF NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL

By Jae Nam Lee

Seoul, Korea

Father of Seung Hyun Lee

‘Serena’, Class of 2007

THE HEART AND SEOUL OF NEW HAMPTON

I N T E R N A T I O N A L

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SEOUL, KOREA:

In the middle of this surging metropolis, in a

country where flawless English and academic

excellence are valued equally with capitalism

and innovation, a group of nine women have

gathered for lunch to meet with me and share

their thoughts about New Hampton School.

These aren’t ordinary Korean moms—they

are mothers of New Hampton students.

Although their children are 7,000 miles away,

each can tell you exactly what her child is

doing, even as the third course of our meal,

spicy cabbage and fried fish, arrive at the table.

As each setting disappears, the women share

their thoughts about the school, mostly in

Korean, but the impression is unmistakable:

they are proud of their children and deeply

interested in life half a world away.

I’d traveled to Seoul for the first meeting of the

New Hampton School Korean Family Community

and to better understand what motivates parents

to send their children to a small school in rural

New Hampshire, thousands of miles away.

The answers, I discovered, were both simple

and complex.

Interest in American boarding schools among

high school aged Koreans is booming. In a trend

seen across the board, more and more Korean

students apply to New Hampton every year.

“English is the common language of global

leaders,” explained Cathy Creany, Interim

Dean of Admissions at New Hampton. “I think

Korean families want to educate their children

at American universities, and they have a far

better chance at this coming from a New

England prep school like New Hampton.”

by Sandy Colhoun

My host in Korea, Mr. Jae Nam Lee, father of

Serena Lee, Class of 2007, spent years consider-

ing whether he should send his daughter so

far away, but in the end, the benefits of New

Hampton won the day. “To get a good education

is critical for Serena’s future,” Mr. Lee explained.

“Personally, I want her to attend an American

university. When Korean students return with

this kind of education, they will find good jobs.

Executives at the best companies and many key

government officials have graduated from

American universities.”

Getting into college, however, isn’t the only

motivator for these families. “Korean parents

repeatedly tell us that they are not pleased

with the Korean education system because it

is a dawn to dusk endeavor, driven exclusively

by academics,” said Creany. “If these young

people want to participate in any co-curricular

activities, it must be on their own time, of

which there is very little.”

“In Korea we take 16 subjects, and they are all

required,” explains Jae Shin, a senior who was

voted New Hampton School Student Body

President last year. “These [classes] are required

for college exams, so we must take them, even,

for example, sewing. All students study, not for

themselves, but for the exam and a good grade.

But here [at New Hampton], you can choose

what you want to study.”

The results speak for themselves. Korean students

have a major impact in the classroom. “Our

culture has been enriched by what they have

added to the arts and what they’ve added to the

classroom,” said Creany. “Many of these kids are

at the top of their class, and offer a wonderful

challenge to all of our students.”

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Jung-Yoon Seo

Won-Seok Sung

Joo Freddy Hak Lee

Keun Hae Lee

Jin Woo Huh

Han Jae Sung

Dong I Hahn

Hye Soon Shin

Jin Soo Kim

Jung Won Choi

Jin Ho Park

Mee Yeon Park

Seung O. Park

Sin Rye Park

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Chang-Un Lee

Sei-Wook Oh

Namsoo Im

Seung-Pyo Hong

Tae-Young Kim

Kyung Jin

Soo-Young Cho

KOREAN STUDENTS AT A GLANCE

Total number of students

in 2005-2006:

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Total number of Korean alumni:

53

Oldest Korean alumnus:

Edward Whanghee Ghang ’56

KOREAN ALUMNI &

CURRENT STUDENTS

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Jong-khuan Baek ’99, Hye Soon Shin ’97 and Mark Im ’99

The international influence Koreans bring to

America has grown steadily. Over the last decade

more than 50 Korean students have attended

New Hampton School, including Namsoo

“Mark” Im ’99, who returned to Korea after

graduating from Columbia. Namsoo had been

granted a hard-earned pass from a compulsory

Saturday evening management training program

in order to attend the New Hampton reception

in Seoul, a two-hour train ride each direction,

when I caught up with him. “Attending New

Hampton was a critical experience in my life,”

he said. “The faculty at New Hampton gave me

the skills and confidence I needed to take on the

challenges I have faced in college and in my

career.”

It seems both Koreans and Americans benefit

greatly from the experience of attending New

Hampton. “Korean students make up an important

piece of New Hampton’s student body,” said

Headmaster Andrew Menke. “These students

offer a different world perspective that our

students need to understand and be aware of.

When our kids graduate they are just four years

away from entering the world marketplace.

Like it or not, our kids will be competing for

jobs with peers from around the world. Any

introductions we can make today, introducing

New Hampton students to the greater world,

is extremely positive.”

The feeling appears to be mutual. “I was the first

Asian student leader in 185 years,” says Jae Shin

with a smile suggesting the notion still surprises

even him. “I ask myself, ‘How can an Asian kid

become the student body president?’ At New

Hampton it is possible, and I think Korean

parents dream that their children might be able

to do this, too.”

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Soo-Ryeo Lee

Jae-Hyun Chung

Jiwoong Choi

Seung Ho Hong

Min-Young Kang

Hye-Jin Lee

Hee Yeon You

Yoon-Hwa Han

Joo-Hae Lee

Tae Won Lee

JiSun Moon

Soh Hee Hwang

Oh Young Kim

Hoyoon Hwang

Jae Hun Shin

Sei Hwan Ju

Sang Ho Kim

Joo Hyang Kim

Seung Ye Hong

Jin Hun An

Yoon Joo Jung

Seung Hyun Lee

Hyun Taeck Seo

Seung Yeon Lee

Hyo Chun Um

Hyun Seo Tak

Jae Hyon Moon

Ee Chang Kim

Ji Hoon Shim

Young Jun Kim

Jae Ro Yun

Taehyuk Kim

Joo Hyeong Lee

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To learn more about how to

get involved with the

Grassroots Volunteer

Network, contact Samantha

at samantha.brann@grvn.org

or visit their website at

www.grvn.org

Samantha Brann watched in shock and disbelief

from the safe surroundings of Columbia, South

Carolina, as Hurricane Katrina bombarded the

Gulf Coast with repeated rounds of wind and

rain. A graduate student at the University of

South Carolina, Samantha explains, “I’m a

hands-on person…here I was sitting in South

Carolina studying political science theory with-

out any real application while people were

homeless, hungry and without electricity.” She

adds, “I didn’t have a job or a family and was

at a point in my life where I could commit to

something with a higher level of value.”

She eagerly contacted the Red Cross and quickly

obtained the required health certifications. Her

proactive efforts were stalemated as the days of

waiting for a call to volunteer service spilled into

weeks while Katrina’s victims continued to suffer.

More determined than ever, Sam researched

alternate organizations looking for volunteers

and discovered Global Crossroads, a for-profit

company in Baton Rouge which accepted her

immediately and sent her to Biloxi, Mississippi

as their Volunteer Coordinator for Global

Crossroads.

A month after Katrina’s powerful assault, “Biloxi

still looked like Katrina had struck the day

before,” Samantha recalls as she describes the

overwhelming stench of building rot and human

waste, with the mountains of debris on the street

obscuring the view of the houses still standing.

“People were living under tarps, waiting in long

lines to get a mere change of clothing; there was

no electricity, no vehicles, and no ice to keep

food cold.” She added that on the rare occasions

when ice became available, people would come

by bicycle to retrieve it; however, by the time

they returned to their temporary residences, the

ice would have already melted.

“With food provided by the Salvation Army and

the Red Cross, and the availability of fresh water,

people were surviving,” Samantha comments,

“but they had no place to live, no job to return

to and no more than the clothing on their

backs.” By October, Samantha looked to friends

and family back home in New Hampshire to

help organize a clothing drive. The temperatures

in Biloxi were dropping well below 40 degrees

and many of its citizens remained without

permanent shelters or warm clothing. Samantha

called her alma mater and New Hampton

School’s response was immediate, a campus-

wide clothing drive resulting in several boxes

of sweaters, pants, jackets, blankets, hats and

mittens for the struggling citizens of Biloxi.

By the end of November, Global Crossroads was

finished with Katrina Relief in Biloxi and shared

the news of their imminent departure with

Samantha. With the overwhelming amount

of work still needing to be accomplished and

more volunteers pouring into the area each day,

Samantha was by no means ready to pack up

and go back to school. Instead she created a

new organization, Grassroots Volunteer Network

(GRVN). Samantha is President of this full-time

disaster relief organization which has made the

commitment to the city of Biloxi to stay and

help for at least another year.

Samantha explained that GRVN has directed

its focus to helping the residents of East Biloxi

Point, a low-income region which collectively

suffered extensive damage from the 30 foot tidal

surges during the hurricane. Their work includes

tedious, labor-intensive task of mold treatment

before rebuilding can commence. First, each

house is stripped down to the studs and sub-

floors. Next begins the extensive process of

literally removing all molds from the house:

HURRICANE

S E R V I C E

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every wooden surface is sanded using grinders

and wire brushes, then vacuumed, and scrubbed

with a strong, pine-based solution. Finally,

the wood is sealed with an industrial primer to

prevent the mold from returning. It takes a day

and a half to get beyond the surface grinding

and another week and a half for the wood to dry

before applying the primer.

While this wearisome work will enable some

families to eventually return home, other entire

neighborhoods have been completely demolished.

Samantha notes that most residents typically

had storm insurance, but no flood insurance.

The cause of damage from Katrina has been

attributed to flooding rather than by storm. She

adds that the maximum a family can expect

from FEMA is a total of $26,200 and only if the

family’s home is completely destroyed. There is

also the sizable number of people who were

homeless before Katrina swept through Biloxi,

those for whom rebuilding does not exist.

Nine months later, Biloxi is slowly making

progress. To volunteers like Samantha who arrived

last fall, the progress is measurable and encour-

aging. The piles of debris are diminishing,

electricity has been restored, and the prevailing

stench is disappearing. To those newly arrived

volunteers, the devastation still seems over-

whelmingly enormous. In a thank-you letter to

New Hampton School, Samantha writes, “While

most residents continue to live in temporary

trailers, a few are beginning to move back into

their homes. Major roads that were completely

wiped out are beginning to reopen as well as

one casino. The rebuilding of some homes has

begun. We have almost finished the demolition

phase in the East Biloxi area and are looking

forward to rebuilding the homes we have ripped

apart to fight the rampant black mold. However,

many low income families are still without jobs,

living in tents or travel trailers and just trying to

meet their basic necessities…with so much

attention focused on New Orleans, Biloxi often

seems like a forgotten city. It is especially mean-

ingful to me that New Hampton could endear

the residents of Biloxi and step up so highly to

the challenge providing so many people warm

clothes to wear.”

With graduate studies on hold, Samantha will

continue to lead Grassroots Volunteer Network

for the foreseeable future. She was disappointed

that she not able to join her friends and former

classmates at their recent 10th Reunion held in

May at New Hampton School. There is important

work to be done elsewhere, however, as

Samantha continues the seemingly endless and

frequently rewarding work that is part of some-

thing special, making a difference for the people

of East Biloxi as they struggle each day to regain

their homes, their jobs, their lives, and their

dignity in the fallout of nature’s fury.

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It is a scene that is repeated several times each

winter as New Hampton fans find themselves

drawn to two games at the same time and split

their time between their favorite teams. It doesn’t

matter if it is boys’ or girls’ hockey or basketball,

New Hampton fans turn out in unprecedented

numbers to cheer on their winter teams.

But what is it about Husky basketball and hockey

that inspires such fervent loyalty in Husky Nation?

While the answer is complex, it can be boiled

down to three main ingredients: passion,

integrity, and success.

New Hampton’s basketball and hockey programs,

while taking different paths to success over the

last few years, have been remarkably successful

because of the passion and integrity of coaches

and players. While the basketball programs

have seen three New England championships in

S P O R T S

The afternoon of Wednesday, February 15, was

not at all unusual at New Hampton School.

Throngs of students, parents, teachers, and faculty

families bundled in warm jackets, hats, and mit-

tens and crowded into the Merrill Lindsey Arena

to cheer on the boys’ hockey team as they took

on top-ranked Hebron Academy.

The crowd was boisterous as the Huskies took

the ice and the battle began. Parents and teachers

clapped and cheered every shot by senior forward

Kenny Torsey and every save by post-graduate

goalkeeper Joe Gauvin. Students shouted and

rattled the boards to celebrate hard checks.

The pep band played spirited rock music at

every stoppage of play. As the buzzer sounded

and the teams shuffled off to the locker rooms

for the first intermission, the crowd hurried

out of the arena and into the Frederick Smith

Gymnasium just in time for the opening tip-off

of the boys’ varsity-A basketball team.

As the fans peeled off layers of wool and fleece,

the Huskies traded lay-ups and rebounds with

the Tilton School Rams. It was a tough game for

New Hampton, as the Rams came out strong

and hung with the Huskies throughout most of

the half. In the gymnasium, as in the rink, parents

and teachers cheered and students shouted.

Students pounded on five-gallon water bottles as

improvised drums each time the visitors brought

the ball up the court. The cacophony increased

in intensity as the Rams worked the ball around,

trying to find a crack in the Husky defense.

When senior forward Radar Onguetou pulled

down another New Hampton rebound, the

pounding became frenzied. When senior guard

Brady Morningstar hit a key three-pointer at the

buzzer to push New Hampton’s lead to seven,

the pandemonium peaked. As the basketball

players headed off to their respective locker

rooms, the students and teachers pulled on hats

and gloves and prepared to once again brave

the cold as they headed back to the hockey rink.

By Derek Parker

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the last five years, the hockey teams have gone

through a long and difficult rebuilding process.

Both programs, however, define success in ways

far beyond a simple tally of wins and losses.

“Success is demonstrated by our effort and team-

work,” said boys’ basketball coach and athletic

director Jamie Arsenault. “If our teams play hard

and together, then we are successful. That goes

for practices, games, and pickup games. With an

unselfish attitude, we can concentrate on our team

and team will always win against individuals.”

The boys’ varsity-A basketball team has firmly

established itself as an elite program in the

highly competitive New England Prep School

Class A division. Each year, Arsenault’s squad

features several D-1 college prospects and

dozens of college scouts pass through New

Hampton’s gymnasium. While the boys’ last

championship came in 2001, they have played

in the New England tournament each year

against the best teams in the northeast.

Does the championship drought bother Arsenault?

“My goals remain the same year in and year

out,” he explained. “Play hard and play together.

Winning takes care of itself when we play as

hard as we can and play like a team.”

Girls’ varsity basketball coach Mark Tilton could

write a book on building a successful basketball

program. Since taking over the team three years

ago, Tilton’s girls have won two championships

and have moved up a division each year.

In 2004, they won the New England Class C

championship. In 2005, it was the Class B

championship. For the 2006 season, the Huskies

moved up to Class A and posted an impressive

19-4 record. While the season ended without

a third championship, players and coaches

are encouraged by the team’s progress and are

excited to try again next year.

“Our record speaks for itself, but there’s a

more important measure of success,” Tilton said.

“The questions that we have to ask ourselves

are: did we reach our potential as student-

athletes and as a team, and did we contribute

to making this a better community?”

This attitude is not held only by the coaches.

Kristen McWhirter, junior co-captain on the girls’

basketball team, defines success as “feeling

good about the things you accomplished. We

didn’t win the championship this year, but we

left everything out on the court in the game we

lost. Success for the team is when you actually

become a team.”

The New Hampton hockey teams have had a

different type of success—success based on

building the program and improving each year.

After five years of slow-but-steady growth, the

boys’ team skated to a 12-15 record, their best

record of the 21st century.

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“Our program was extremely successful this year.

In terms of wins and losses, the team carried the

momentum it gained last year and defeated sev-

eral opponents the Huskies had been unable to

conquer in previous years,” coach Mike Levine

’99 said. “The last few years for these boys were

certainly a learning experience. Their spirits

were uplifted after several disappointing seasons.”

“The program’s definition of success has changed

dramatically over the last ten years,” coach Jaffrie

Perrotti said. “In the past, success was defined

simply by wins and losses. Since that time, there

has been a gradual evolution in the program

placing an emphasis on younger players with

strong characters and the ability to contribute

to several areas of the school community.”

Levine agrees that wins and losses do not define

success. “Regardless of wins and losses, if all

members of the team learn what it takes to work

hard, communicate, and unite for a common

goal, I feel they have taken steps toward being

successful.”

Levine and Perrotti are excited about the progress

New Hampton’s boys’ hockey team has made

and are enthusiastic about next year.

“We need to continue to attract young student

athletes who will be with the school for several

years and are willing to contribute in various

facets of to New Hampton School life,” Perrotti

said.

For the girls’ hockey team, just playing has made

them successful over the last five years.

“We had a team of ten players and one goalie.

We went out and played against teams with

twice as many players and stayed in the games,”

coach Kerry Maher said. “Our team had so

much heart and such a positive presence that

it could not be broken.”

“These ten girls would go out onto the ice and

give it their all, whether they were winning or

losing,” Maher added. “The one thing I kept

hearing from opposing coaches was that our

team never game up, and they didn’t. No matter

what the score was, they played their hardest.”

One of the key ingredients in New Hampton’s

winter success has been the passion and dedica-

tion that the athletes and coaches bring to their

games. More than any other season, winter

athletes define themselves by their winter sports.

While many of them play on fall and spring

teams, it is their winter sport, whether basketball

or hockey, that they consider their favorite sport.

Given the commitment to teamwork and the

high levels of passion and dedication, being

an athlete is no small feat.

“I look for kids who are willing to listen and

who want to work hard,” said Arsenault.

“Obviously, kids must have skills, but I am also

looking for kids who are just looking for an

opportunity to get better and who are willing

to be coached.”

All of the coaches agreed that a positive attitude

and a genuine love for the game are character-

istics that they look for in a potential player.

“The kids I’m interested in are not just basketball

players,” Arsenault added. “They are students,

musicians, singers, and artists. I want kids who

appreciate what New Hampton is all about.

When those kinds of kids come to New Hampton,

we are all successful.”

Q : How did you get started in teaching?

A : I went to medical school for two-and-a-half

years and decided I didn’t want the lifestyle of

a doctor, but I really enjoyed the sciences and

the human body. So I thought it would be fun to

teach and instill that appreciation in high school

students.

Q : Where did you study in college and what

did you study there?

A : I went to Stanford University and my major

was human biology, which is a mix of psychology

and biology.

Q : What makes New Hampton School a

special school?

A : The overall feel of the community makes

it special. People truly like each other and truly

enjoy living with one another.

Q : What is interesting about the NHS science

program?

A : We have a great selection of electives. The

people who teach them are very qualified and

enjoy the material, so you can study a lot of

subjects in depth at New Hampton as compared

with other schools. Ecology, anatomy and

physiology, geology, and sports medicine are

a few examples.

Q : What is your teaching philosophy?

A : It depends on the class. For seniors, I am

trying to prepare them for college, prepare them

for a career and further study in college. For

Conceptual Physics, a freshman course, I want

my students to develop an interest and curiosity

about how the world around them works.

Q : Sports have been a big part of your life.

Could you tell us about that?

A : Sports have made me who I am. I played

college softball in the strongest American

conference, which led to my trying out for the

Olympic team and spending a summer on Team

F A C U LT Y P R O F I L E

SARAH ANDERSEN

2002

B.A., STANFORD

ACADEMIC ALL AMERICAN

SUMMER 2002

TEAM USA

(WOMEN’S SOFTBALL)

2002-2004

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

MEDICAL SCHOOL

ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI

2004-PRESENT

NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL

FACULTY

ANATOMY, PHYSICS

SOFTBALL, VOLLEYBALL

RICE HOUSE DORMITORY

SUMMER 2005

NEW ENGLAND RIPTIDE

SUMMER 2006

MOTHERHOOD

USA. That experience

opened the door for

me to join the Women’s

Professional Softball League

(now the National Pro

Fastpitch League) and

play for the New England

Riptide.

Q : What advice do you

have for aspiring high

school athletes?

A : It’s really simple: You have to love the game.

Love it, breathe it, practice it, and never settle

for what you think is second best.

Q : What do you do over the summer?

A : Last summer I played softball. This summer

I’ll become a mom.

Q : New Hampton School has a new headmas-

ter. What impact is this having on the school?

A : It’s giving us a new direction and a new focus

on where we want to head in the years to come.

It is making us more cohesive. Before, we did our

own thing, and now I feel we are more united.

Q : What are you most excited about in New

Hampton School’s future?

A : There are lots of things to be excited about!

We have a great foundation of caring for kids,

and I’m excited to build on that and push our

students to become better.

Q : If you could share one story with the NHS

community, what would it be?

A : So many things happen here every day.

Finding one New Hampton moment is hard. It is

a collection of moments: Working with students

in the dorm and seeing them finally understand.

Or seeing a girl who has never played softball

get her first hit in a game. The sum collection of

these things is why I teach.

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36

F A C U LT Y

I first met Jacques Finlay during the fall term of

my freshman year at New Hampton in 1990,

when Jacques was both my Latin teacher and my

soccer coach. I was probably one of the worst

Latin students ever to graduate from New

Hampton School, and I was certainly one of the

worst soccer players, but nonetheless, Jacques to

this day maintains that there is hope for me yet,

and inevitably when he sees me walking around

campus he asks, “Quo vadis?” and I reply,

“Gesundheit.” He has a truly indomitable spirit.

When it became clear within the first term of my

Latin studies that the declensions of nouns and

the conjugations of verbs would forever remain

mysteries to my impervious brain (“impervious”

comes from the Latin word for, well, impervi-

ous), Jacques shifted our focus a bit to include

not only grammar and vocabulary, but lots of

history and culture, too, because those were

things that interested me. Eventually, we even

got to read parts of a play by Plautus. (One of

the plays he wrote for Roman toddlers, I think,

the equivalent of a Latinized One Fish, Two Fish,

Red Fish, Blue Fish.) Jacques’s flexibility in the

face of my stupidity and lethargy (from the late

Latin “lethargia”), his joyful ignoring of my igno-

rance, could be a sign of a congenital mental

disorder, but I prefer to think of it as a kind of

friendliness, a politeness, a joy in humanity.

Speaking of joys in humanity, let’s talk about the

Reserve Soccer teams of 1990 and 1991, which

Jacques coached. We called ourselves Reverse

Soccer, and I did my best to live up to that label

during our first game, against White Mountain

School, I believe, when I was playing defense.

We lost the game 18-0, and I got so excited the

one time I got the ball that I couldn’t stop myself

from shooting at the nearest goal: our own.

Many coaches would have screamed at me and

belittled me, and perhaps I would have deserved

it, but Jacques merely told me my shot on goal

was a good try, but not quite what we needed.

Eventually, we started winning some games, and

I even moved up to play forward, where, though

I never scored a goal, I did score quite a few

assists. For someone who trips better than he

runs, this is an accomplishment, and that

accomplishment would never have been possi-

ble had Jacques not had the patience of a saint

with me, because I was so self-conscious about

my lack of coordination that any sharp criticism

would have caused me to give up.

Jacques was as patient with our mode of trans-

portation as he was with us. Being the bottom

feeders of the athletic department, we were

given the least reliable transportation: a gasping,

rasping, chugging, clanking, trembling mini-bus

nicknamed The Toaster. Inevitably, it broke

down. I remember sitting on the side of the road

on the way home from a game at Brewster one

chilly autumn evening, just as I remember sitting

on the side of the road on the way home from a

game at just about everywhere. It was then that

I learned Jacques had grown up in France, and

it is to the Toaster that I owe my knowledge of

French profanity.

I did not meet Jacques’s wife Diane until I

returned to New Hampton as a faculty member.

Diane and I both started teaching here in 1998,

and we have always shared at least a few

students—she taught them in her Advanced

Reading class while I had them for general

English. Many of Diane’s students have the same

attitude toward reading and writing for English

class that I had toward grammar and vocabulary

in Latin class, but as a young teacher I had

trouble knowing what to do with such students,

because English is the subject I most love of any.

Diane taught me many approaches to working

with students who were less excited by English

than I, and we even got a few people through

Shakespeare who had never read any Shakes-

A ballad for JACQUES & DIANE

By Matthew Cheney

Director of Performing Arts

New Hampton School

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peare, or much of anything else, in their lives.

If Jacques is a saint, Diane is a miracle worker.

I could praise Diane’s teaching for hours and

hours, but I’d rather tell stories about some of

the things not everybody knows about her.

Jacques and Diane decided during my first year

of teaching that an aspiring and struggling free-

lance writer such as myself should have a retreat

in the middle of nowhere. Since they live in a

big farmhouse in Pike, New Hampshire (a town

distinguished by the fact that it shares a sign

with East Haverhill, New Hampshire), and since

they love to travel, they asked me to house-sit

for them during various vacations, during which

time they hoped I would write great art. Pike is

a bit northeast of the middle of nowhere, but

that was just fine with me.

House-sitting for the Finlays is a marvelous

adventure. When I began, they had a dog named

Hugo, a creature who believed as deeply in my

potential as did Jacques, although Hugo couldn’t

have cared less about my skill with Latin. You

see, I am not a dog person. Hugo, however,

decided from the moment he met me that I

was definitely a Hugo person, and he was happy

to train me how to be a better one (it mostly

involved dog treats and going in and out of the

house 30 times every day). We came to enjoy

each other’s company quite a bit—he put up

with my endless typing, and I put up with his

breath—and the day I learned he had passed

away was a very sad one indeed; the many

photos of Hugo adorning the house in Pike still

bring a wistful smile to my face, because his

intution was correct: I was most certainly a

Hugo person.

Hugo was not the only animal at the Finlays’

house. There are the cats—Bandit, who is miss-

ing an eye and a leg from a hunting accident

(yes, he was shot) but who nonetheless hops

around with great gusto and friendliness; Chutney,

who is neurotic; and Banshee, who is even more

neurotic than Chutney. There are also billions

of birds, all of them carefully fed from feeders

scattered across the property. The crows are a bit

different from the other birds though, because

they not only get peanuts to eat, but Diane talks

to them.

Yes, it’s time for the world to know that Diane

Finlay talks to crows. Entire conversations. She

suggested that I should do the same, but the

crows were even less interested in my English

than most of my students.

There’s also a bear. He gets his own bird feeder,

because that way he leaves the other feeders

alone. When Diane first told me to be sure to

feed the bear, I was a bit…hesitant. Talking to

crows and feeding bears is not something I have

been well trained for, despite living much of my

life in rural New Hampshire. Nonetheless, I

made sure every day that the bear’s feeder was

full, and every morning when I went out to

check, it had been emptied. (Thankfully, I never

saw the bear. I doubt I would have known how

to talk to him any more than I did the crows.)

I could mention so much more. I could talk

about the books Jacques has shared with me

over the years, I could talk about Diane’s

sewing, I could say how I owe my passion for

the movie Paris, Texas to Jacques and my knowl-

edge of Pike society to Diane (oh yes, there is

Pike society). I could say many things, but I’d

rather just say this: I will miss seeing them on

campus every day. It sounds like a cliché, but

this time it’s true—New Hampton will not be the

same without them. I know I will visit the house

in Pike many more times, but nonetheless, the

Finlays are a vital part of what makes New

Hampton a special place. Quo vadis, indeed.

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think of Bud Moore! Whatta guy!

Say hello and give my warmest

regards and the best of everything

to him (and Jinga) for me.”

1966

After finishing his Ph.D. at Brown

University and serving 24 years as

a U.S. Foreign Service Officer in

Beijing, Hong Kong, Rangood, Tel

Aviv, and a variety of other posts,

Chris Szymanski founded the

Artley Group, which assists U.S.

corporations in the greater China

market. He “commutes” to China

from his home in Sarasota, Florida.

1969

Henry Goode has been named

Deputy Director of the New Hamp-

shire Division of Travel and Tourism

Development. His responsibilities

include the division budget, inter-

nal operations, and coordination

with outside contractors. Henry

formerly was chief of administra-

tive support for the Division of

Economic Development. He holds

a Ph.D. in educational leadership.

1970

Our sympathies are extended to

John Horton of Clinton Township,

Michigan, whose remarkable father

died in February at the age of 91.

John writes, “He was a U.S. Coast

Guard licensed ocean captain from

World War II’s end to the time of

his death. He sailed as captain

only two trips after receiving his

license, then worked in the Marine

Department of Cleveland Cliffs Iron

Company until he retired with 35

years of work credited to his retire-

ment (this included credit for time

in WWII). He was recognized for

bringing high standards for safety

to the Great Lakes bulk cargo fleet.”

C L A S S N O T E S

1932

Congratulations to Robert Leonard

of Keene, NH, on his 92nd birth-

day. He writes that he is “physical-

ly a bit worn out but mentally top

notch.”

1937

In Lawrenceville, Georgia, Fred

Newman continues to play “more

therapeutic than competitive” golf.

Fred and Eva celebrated their 60th

wedding anniversary in January,

and the couple spends as much

time as possible with their far-flung

six children, 14 grandchildren, and

one great-grandchild. One son-in-

law and a grandson have been in

Iraq and a granddaughter teaches

school in Saipan. Fred and his wife

Eva are very active, entertaining

with “Songs and Serious Nonsense”

at nursing homes, assisted living

facilities, churches, and private

parties.

1941

“Totally retired,” writes John J.

Gilbert, Jr. from Ithaca, New York,

where he has lived since 1997.

John graduated from Cornell

University in February 1949 and is

presently serving as Class President

of the Cornell Class of 1949.

1946

Dick North was awarded a trophy

by the Dawson City Hockey

Association commending him as

“Still Getting Up for Games, Oldest

Player, Dawson City Old Timers

Hockey Tournament, 2006.” Dick

writes, “I never really thought much

of how old I am until I ran across a

photo taken exactly 60 years ago

when I played defense for the New

Hampton Junior Varsity team in

1946.” Dick has another book

coming out soon. It is entitled

Sailor on Snowshoes and is about

his following Jack London’s trail.

1956

Edward Whanghee Ghang, Sr.

recently contacted the school.

“My wife, Mary, and I returned to

our native country, Korea, in July

of 2003 right after I retired from

working on Saipan. We’re currently

residing here in South Korea and

enjoying retirement immensely.”

James Butler is making the most

of retirement. He divides his time

between homes in Venice, Florida,

and the Poconos, and enjoys visit-

ing his daughters in Manhattan and

New York State. He was sorry to

miss the 50th Reunion of his class.

1963

Bill Turville writes from Massa-

chusetts, “I am still trying to do as

much sculpture/drawing/art teach-

ing as possible, but I am swamped

right now with a lot of architecture

projects. I am practicing architec-

ture as a sole practitioner here in

Arlington (additions/renovations/

new construction, historic work,

commercial, institutional and resi-

dential; interiors; fine art; etc.).

l have recently shown my work at

Brickbottom Gallery/Brickbottom

Open Studios in Somerville, have a

piece currently in the Art Museum

Complex in Duxbury, teach kids

sculpture in Concord, Massachusetts,

at Emerson Umbrella Center for

the Arts and (through the Fuller

Craft Museum in Brockton) taught

Brockton elementry school children

during Spring Break 2005 and

have been showing my work also

through both Emerson Umbrella

and the Concord (MA) Art Assoc-

iation.” Bill was unable to attend

NHS’ Holiday Celebration at the

Science Museum in December,

but offered these remarks about

the IMAX film Antarctica “[brrrrr],

I hope everyone has seen March of

the Penguins!!!” He adds, “I often

Hockey player Dick North then

(as No.16) and now.

Feb. 1946 ▲ ▼ Feb. 2006

left: New Hampton alumni gathered at

Christmas in Boston! Pictured from left to

right re PJ Hunt ’89 and wife Jen, Alison

Kirk ’90 and husband Stephen, Jenny (girl-

friend of John Kelley), and John Kelley ’90.

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1976

“Thirty years have passed quickly,”

writes Neil Samuels. “I’ve been

married for almost 24 of them and

have two sons—one (Benjamin) a

freshman at Tufts University, the

other (Oliver) a high school sopho-

more.” Neil and his wife Brooke

and their family live in Doyleston,

Pennsylvania. Neil is a 1980 grad-

uate of Vassar College. “I make my

living as a creative director at a

marketing firm but spend most of

my time trying to reclaim America

from the fundamentalists and con-

servatives. I’m chair of the local

Democratic committee and deputy

chair fo the county.” Anyone inter-

ested in politics will want to visit

Neil’s website, www.NeilSamuels.

com or http://neilsamuels.blogspot.

com! “I know New Hampton pre-

pared us all to ‘be the change you

wish to see in the world’,” he adds.

Laurie Vereen lives in Naples,

Florida, and invites friends visiting

southwest Florida to call her. As an

additional enticement, she men-

tions that she has a motorcycle!

1977

Peter Vairo’s oldest daughter, Logan,

celebrated her Sweet 16 birthday

with a party at Terrace on the Park

in Flushing Meadow-Corona Park.

Peter and his wife Felilia recently

visited Hawaii.

1980

Tom Bryson lives with his wife

Margaret in Toronto, Canada, where

he designs software platforms for a

Global Financial Services company.

1982

Mike Gallagher says hi to Tony Reid,

Trip Giovanella, Mike Kasner, and

all the teammates of the 1981-1982

hockey team. Good memories of a

great year!

1983

Bob Vetromile lives in Rhode Island

with his wife, Beth, and their three

children, ages 10, 6 and 5. Bob

still plays hockey once a week,

and he would love to hear from

Rich Ryan.

1985

Anna Prinitzer Perry currently lives

in Old Town, Maine, and is pursuing

a master’s degree in Occupational

Therapy. Her husband is a nursing

student at Husson College. The

Perrys have two children: Lucas,

8, and Cathleen, 5.

Katherine Distler Pugliesi loves

her life in St. Croix, where she and

her husband have owned a very

successful restaurant for nine

years. Their son Dominic is almost

five. Katherine’s husband competes

in half-iron man triathlons and has

encouraged her to join him; she

says she is “breaking into sprints.”

The Pugliesi family is traveling a

lot this year to California and New

England, but were delighted to host

a visit from Shari Lichter Philipps

to celebrate a special birthday.

1989

Chris Daikos has been accepted

to the University of Washington’s

Danforth Program of Education

Leadership and Policy Studies.

He will complete his Principal

Credentials while working towards

his Doctorate in Education.

1991

Brad Ingermann is Vice President

of Dimension Z Golf, Inc. He

recently wrote to fill his old school

in on the last seven years of his life:

“I married Mariann Barlow of

Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1999.

We celebrated the birth of our first

son (Collin Robert) in 2000, fol-

lowed by the birth of our second

son (Garret Donald) in late 2001.

We recently decided to try for a

girl to balance out the family, and

were lucky enough to get a baby

girl (Briann Sebec) on February 1,

2006. We continue to live in

Arvada, Colorado, right at the base

of the great Rocky Mountains. I

hope that everyone reading this is

doing well. You can email me at

bingermann@dimensionz.com.”

Joseph Plaia, Jr. has returned to

New Hampshire after five years in

New York City. Currently living in

Portsmouth with his daughter

Catherine (Cat), JP Jr. is attending

law school.

1994

Valerie Fischler graduated in 1998

from the University of New Hamp-

shire with a degree in English and

has established a successful career

as an artist. Valerie has exhibited

extensively throughout the North-

east and other parts of the U.S.

Since her recent move to Denver,

Colorado, she has been working

with Chuck Forsman at the

University of Colorado at Boulder

Graduate School of Fine Arts.

She has shown both privately and

publicly, most notably in the Inter-

national Fringe Arts Festival in

Boulder, Colorado. She is planning

an exhibition this spring at the

Imperato Gallery in Baltimore,

Maryland.

left: Peter and Cary Allen ’88 are the

parents of Odin, who was born on

St. Patrick’s Day in 2005; Cait, who is

now 3 years old; and Vanessa, now 10.

right: Vivian and Steven Moeglein ’94 at

their wedding in Stevensville, Maryland.

Stephen Bentfield ’91 holds his

infant son, Jack, on his shoul-

ders. Jack was born on Super

Bowl Sunday, February 6, 2005,

just 15 minutes before kick-off.

Baby Briann Sebec Ingermann

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1995

Congratulations to Taylor Heal on

his engagement to Mackenzie Daly

of Stonington, Connecticut. The

couple is planning a September16

wedding. Taylor received his

Bachelor of Science degree in eco-

nomics and entrepreneurial studies

from Babson College in 1999. He

is currently employed by Brooks

Systems, LLC in New London, CT,

as a sales development manager.

His fiancée is a healthcare consult-

ant employed by Pricewaterhouse-

Coopers in Hartford. She is a 1998

graduate of Quinnipiac College

and holds a Master of Business

Administration degree from the

University of Colorado.

1996

Deeply touched by the devastation

and misery caused by Hurricane

Katrina in the Gulf States, Samantha

Brann volunteered for several weeks

in Biloxi, Mississippi, where she

was appointed Katrina Program

Coordinator. Among many other

actions, in November she imple-

mented an Lakes Region area-wide

clothing drive and was successful

in returning to Mississippi with

numerous boxes of warm clothing

for the victims, many of whom

were still living in tents.

Caryl Goldstein Sindoni is very

disappointed to be unable to

attend the 10th reunion this year;

she and her husband Mark will be

in Brazil attending a wedding in

which Mark is a member of the

bridal party. The Sindoni family

welcomed a new addition on July

25, 2005: Madelyn Celia Sindoni.

Being at home with Maddie and

Emma, now 4, keeps Caryl very

busy. Emma attends preschool now

and Caryl enjoys observing her

intellectual growth and helping

her learn.

1997

Gretchen Leisenring is living in

Hawaii. “My time at New Hampton

is more special to me than all four

years in college. I think I probably

learned more about myself and

what I wanted to do with my life

there as well (I was discouraged

of that in college and then had

to remember what I originally

knew…go figure…30 grand later).

I am actually living on Maui in

Hawaii and have been for the last

four years. I am singing in a band

I created called Lucid Fusion; we

play jazz, funk, hip-hop and origi-

nal music. I have been doing this

for a living ever since I got out

here. I surf when the waves are

up...it’s a pretty good life. Nancy

Collins was living out here a cou-

ple of years ago for a little while,

I heard, but we missed each other

by a couple of weeks.” Gretchen

is planning to attend the 10th

Reunion next year and hopes

most the class will be there, too.

Molly Schiot is a filmmaker living

in Los Angeles. Check out her web-

site at www.mollyandmariah.com.

1998

Dean Jonann Torsey received this

message from Patricia Ditolvo,

“This is Patricia, your ‘daughter’

from Brazil in the fall of 1998…

I am now an architect, with a

degree from the best architecture

school in all Latin America. (As

you can see, I’m very proud of this

achievement!) Life here is really

good. I’ve been working with my

father, who is a civil engineer, and

we have an apartment building

called New Hampton, named after

the school. I have a boyfriend,

with whom I’ve been going out for

over four years, maybe soon we

will even get married!… I really

miss you, Ms. Torsey, and there

isn’t a day that goes by when I

don’t use something I learned at

NHS, in every aspect of my life.

Thanks again for everything and

for making me a better person.

Um Beijo, Patrícia.”

Jarred E. Cowart still lives in the

Atlanta, Georgia, area, where he

works full-time at the Inner Harbour

with children 6 to 12 years old and

goes to school full-time. He antici-

pates graduating in 2006 from the

Morehouse School of Divinity with

a Master of Divinity degree.

Mandy Cronin is now starting goalie

for the Toronto Aeros. She writes,

“It will totally depend on if I keep

playing well, but I have been at the

top of my game so far this season,

so they just decided to call off the

rotation and stick with me. Accord-

ing to my dad, (he’s my personal

statistician) and the NWHL website

(www.nwhlhockey.com) I am now

4th in the league for goaltenders

with a 2.70 GAA (Goals Against

Avg) and a 91.5% Save Avg (.915).

Also I was named a star of two

games (one was vs. my old team,

the Lightning, and the other game

was against Brampton, which was

televised!) and was given MVP of

another (at an outreach game up

north vs. Oakville). Looks like mak-

ing the change from the Lightning

to the Aeros was a smart decision

after all!”

Jason Montanaro writes, “I finally

moved back to the East Coast from

Montana after realizing Mullets

really aren’t my style. Spent the

summer on Cape Cod (Wellfleet),

where my family manages pristine

oceanfront cottages (www.well-

fleetbythesea.com). I didn’t realize

how much I missed the New

England until I came back here,

and I now know that this is where

Goalie Mandy Cronin ’98 of the

Toronto Aeros (left) poses with

teammates Amanda Barre, Alison

Edgar, fellow goalie Nic, and a

little Quebecois named Julie.

above: Taylor Heal ’95 and

Mackenzie Daly are planning

a September 16 wedding.

Maddie and Emma Sindoni,

daughters of Mark and Caryl

Goldstein Sindoni ’96

Little Anthony Javier Labanda

arrived at 2:49 a.m. on

February 21, 2006, weight 5

pounds, 14 ounces. His mom

is Nancy Davis Labanda ’96.

Mom, Dad (John), and little

Anthony live in Manassas

Park, Virginia.

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I’ll be (at least for a long time).

Billy (William Schwidder ’98) is

holding it down out West in

California and is quite the profes-

sional. New Hampton was a really

fun time for me, and I regret losing

connections with a lot of the peo-

ple I met there, so anyone who

wants to email me and reconnect,

please feel free.”

Scott Maxwell has completed his

Master in Special Education degree.

He loves his work and is doing

well in his teaching career.

1999

Gussy Kilmer is a nursing student

at St. John Fisher College in

Rochester, New York. She is in her

junior year and on the Dean’s List.

Remembering Gussy’s sartorial

flare, it’s difficult to envision her

in a nurse’s uniform!

Jordan Kaufman wrote in December.

“I am a Real Estate broker and was

fortunate enough to have recently

been nominated for the 2005

Rookie Retail Investment Sales

Broker of the Year, awarded by the

Chicago Association of Realtors.”

He added, “One thing is for sure,

my three years at New Hampton

were the most special three years

of my life (better than college). I

have such fond memories of friends,

coaches, teachers, mentors that I

carry with me and guide me every-

day. It has been too long since I

have been back and I would love

to join in on one of the upcoming

reunions, and I would very much

like to meet our new headmaster.

All my best wishes to everyone

in the New Hampton community

during this holiday season,

especially Mrs. Berry.”

Sincere sympathy is extended to

Robbie Reynolds, his brother Jason

’00, sister Katie ’02, and mom Kim

in the loss of their father/husband on

October 23, 2005. Robbie and Jason

live in Raynham, Massachusetts.

Sabina Bischin writes from Idaho,

“I have not had the chance to hold

an issue of The Hamptonia in my

hands in more than a year, but I

have finally looked at the 2005 Fall

issue online. It’s nice to hear what

other classmates have accomplished

since graduation. I would person-

ally like to congratulate Derek

Forrest on his first Emmy. Great job,

Derek! I am proud of you! I wish

we still emailed each other but,

somehow, we lost track of email

addresses. An alumna of the New

Hampton School Ski Team, I now

live in Sun Valley, Idaho, a very

prestigious and sunny ski resort.

I am now the Administrative

Assistant for a fractional ownership

private residence club at the base

of the mountain. I have lived here

for over two years and enjoy the

powder very much. I remain in

very close touch with my best

friend, Alice Milu, who by the way

is married and living in Aspen,

Colorado, with her wonderful hubby.

I hope all my 1999 classmates are

doing well—maybe we can all get

together for our 10th Reunion!

Good old times at New Hampton

School! You all can remember it!”

2000

Bernard Robinson invited his for-

mer teacher, Mrs. Diane Finlay,

and Mr. Finlay, to watch him play

for the Charlotte Bobcats against

the Celtics. The Finlays visited with

him prior to the game and shared

many memories and laughs about

his time at New Hampton School.

He is doing very well, says hello to

all, and hopes to visit NHS some

day. Attached are two photos of

Bernard with each of us, taken at

the Four Seasons Hotel—quite a

change from Draper dorm.

First Lt. Alicia Burrows is currently

stationed with the U.S. Army at

Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq.

The recipient of the 2000 Meservey

Medal, Alicia continued her educa-

tion at Colby College, bringing not

only her academic prowess but

also her basketball ability to the

college where she played as No.

12 for the Colby White Mules. She

graduated from Colby in 2004.

2001

Jacob Heal won the New Hamp-

shire Idol Competition on July 1.

Jake was one of ten finalists com-

peting for the honor in the contest

sponsored by radio station WLNH

of Laconia, NH. The judges com-

mended Jake for his “great control,

and deep and powerful voice.”

In addition to the cash prize he

received for winning the New

Hampshire Idol Competition, the

big prize for Jake is the opportunity

to record a demo with Virgin

Records!

During his four years at New

Hampton School, Jake was deeply

involved in the school’s performing

arts, participating in plays, music

concerts, and dance productions.

Among other theatrical performance

on the McEvoy stage, Jacob is

remembered for his humorous

portrayal of Mr. Bumble in “Oliver!”

as well as his role as the scarecrow

in “The Wizard of Oz.” He was a

soloist at Graduation and worked

with the summer program

Performance PLUS. Following

his graduation from NHS, Jake

worked, studied and performed in

San Francisco and New York City.

left: Jordan Kaufmann ’99

Alicia Burrows ’00

Bernard Robinson ’00

with the Finlays.

Jacob Heal ’01

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2002

Rashad McCants is playing for the

Minnesota Timberwolves. After a

recent game against the Boston

Celtics, Rashad caught up with

Jamie and Lara Arsenault, and their

children Ryder and Dempsey.

“Rashad seems like he is enjoying

things and it was wonderful to see

him!” Lara reports. Rashad former-

ly played for the North Carolina Tar

Heels with NHS roommate and

teammate, Wes Miller. Wes Miller’s

smart play and hard work for the

Tar Heels was the subject of a fea-

ture in the December 17 edition of

the News Observer. Wes’ 3-pointer

helped clinch a 75-63 win over

Saint Louis. Going into the game

against Santa Clara, he averaged

6.7 points per game, most of which

came from behind the 3-point arc,

and played an average of 18 minutes

per game. Wes spent a year on

scholarship at James Madison, before

transferring to UNC Chapel Hill

where, under NCAA rules, he was

required to sit out the 2003-2004

season. Those who know Wes won’t

be surprised to learn he worked

hard at every practice, perfecting

his defensive technique and in-

creasing his speed. After most of the

national title squad’s top scorers left,

Wes realized that he would have

to work even harder. He spent his

summer practicing four hours a day.

Cassie Plourde has spent the last

four years studying Psychology and

Education Studies at New England

College in Henniker. While there,

she has focused on Elementary and

Special Education. Cassie has

served on the Campus Activities

Board, was and R.A. in her junior

year and has participated as a

Mentor in the “Friends” program.

In May she will be graduating and

is contemplating going on for her

master’s degree. In her spare time

she enjoys spending time with her

fiancé David C. Prescott. An April

21, 2007 wedding is being planned.

John Naparlo is making a name for

himself in music circles; it’s Johnny

Napp! He is a country music per-

former. Check him out online at

http://www.johnnynapp.com/home.

html

2003

Sean Smith and 2002 graduate

Mike Malvesti, along with three

others, have been named captains

of the 2006 Bentley College Foot-

ball Team. Sean was also selected

to Northeast-10 Football All

Conference First Team—Defense

(Safety) and to New England Sports

Writers Division II-III Football Team.

2004

Meghan Cervini has completed

her sophomore year at Maine

College of Art in Portland, Maine,

which she loves, and has declared

photography as her major.

News of Steve Larkin was submit-

ted by his parents, Stephanie and

Steven Larkin, who write, “He is

back at Lynn University and really

enjoying himself. Presently, he is

taking a business communications

course and it’s a review of grammar

and he says all that he learned at

the Carroll School and NHS are

‘coming together.’ He is playing

intramurals and getting involved

a little bit in school ‘happenings’;

he is in charge of fund-raising for

Relay for Life, and he is using the

skills he learned with Mrs. Berry

and Habitat… The past two years

he has skied on a team (one

celebrity, one Special Olympian,

and four other skiers) to raise

money for Special Olympics in

the San Francisco area. It’s an all

expense paid trip provided by one

of the sponsors (the sponsor’s son

goes to school with Steve at Lynn).

Steve is striving for a 3.0 this

semester. And, he’s even thinking

about going to grad school. We’ll

see…but I just wanted you and the

NHS community to know what a

great job you all did to encourage

and nurture our son along the way.

It’s been a journey! Happy trails to

you, keep smiling!”

In February, eight members of the

New Hampton School family gath-

ered at Northeastern University in

Boston to watch Gabe Chami, now

at James Madison University, play

against Northeastern. Gwen Randall

of the NHS Business Office and

Julie Randall ’07 drove to Boston

with NHS Switchboard Operator

Gretchen Gilpatric. They met

Kendra Gilpatrick ’02, Krystin

Hickey ’05, Kristen Casadona ’05,

Lauren Casadona ’04, and Kasia

Bezosnka ’04 and went together

to the game to cheer Gabe on.

Gabe was very happy to see his

old friends from New Hampton.

Returning to the McEvoy Theater

stage in February to reprise their

“Billy Jean” number were Alicia

Hammond, currently a sophomore

at Mt. Holyoke College, and

Chelsea Graham, a sophomore

at Simmons College. The two

performed as guest artists during

NHS’s Winter Dance Concert. This

summer Chelsea will go to China

for six weeks to study traditional

Chinese medicine; during the

school year, she has been volun-

teering at the Dana-Farber Cancer

Institute in Boston.

Gloria Kobb writes from Australia,

“A quick, little update on my

whereabouts and what-abouts!

After graduating in 2004, I spent a

year at home mostly catching up

Rashad McCants ’02

Cassie Plourde ’02

C L A S S N O T E S

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with my family, but also doing

some volunteer work. I spent three

months volunteering as a tutor at a

local orphanage teaching kids aged

6 to 16. It was challenging but

extremely exciting and gratifying.

After that I reunited with my third

grade teacher (who now teaches

5th grade) and volunteered as her

teaching assistant at the interna-

tional school for six months. None

of my friends could understand

why I would possibly want to

spend my year off in a school! I,

on the other hand, couldn’t have

asked for a better experience;

rather than scaring me off from my

childhood dream of becoming a

teacher, it solidified it and made

me all the more anxious. In June I

was accepted to the University of

Newcastle in Australia where I am

now studying towards my Bachelor

of Arts/Primary Teaching. Australia

is lovely, warm (although I must

admit I miss the foliage and SNOW

of NH), beautiful, and the people

are friendly and laid back. University

life is enjoyable—NHS obviously

did a good job of preparing me for

all the different aspects of it! In short,

I am happy, healthy, and warm!”

NHS alumnae Ashley Clark ’04

and Kelly Williams ’02 were part

of the Plymouth State University’s

women’s rugby team that recently

traveled to California to play for the

Women’s Rugby Collegiate Division

II National Championship. PSU

placed second in the nation despite

having the first ranked seed. Ashley

writes, “Mrs. Diane Finlay from

New Hampton was in California at

the time and came to watch and

support Kelly and me. She brought

signs that read ‘NHS loves you’

and ‘Go Ashley & Kelly.’ It certain-

ly made our day!” Ashley also skis

for the Plymouth State Ski Team,

while Kelly was captain of both

the women’s rugby team and the

women’s hockey team.

Amanda Herman transferred this

year from Washington and Jefferson

College to Granite State College,

where she is pursuing a bachelor’s

degree in History. A year ago, she

is also became engaged to Nathan

Adams (a graduate from Bentley),

and the couple is planning a fall

wedding. “Some more big news,”

Amanda writes, “Our baby daugh-

ter, Isabella Annette Adams, was

born July 7, 2006 at 8:51 p.m. She

weighed 7 lbs 13 ounces, and was

21 inches long. I couldn’t be

prouder.”

2005

Jamey Watkins is doing well at

Colby-Sawyer College. Although he

finds it challenging, it is also lots of

fun. He is happy to be close enough

to home to be able to visit on

weekends (“laundry in tow, of

course,” his mom writes). He has

remained in touch with friends

Jonah Hanowitz, Travis Williams,

Nick Robillard, and others.

Krystin Hickey, a freshman at

Wheaton College, was honored

with New England Women’s and

Men’s Athletic Conference (NEW-

MAC) Rookie-of-the-Year and All-

Conference awards during a post-

season meeting at Worcester

Polytechnic Institute (WPI). “Krystin

is the first Wheaton basketball

player to have recorded rookie-

of-the-year laurels and the first

women’s hoops player in 10 seasons

to earn all-conference accolades.

She is also the school’s first player

since the 1994-95 season to have

earned a major conference award.

The freshman forward turned in

arguably one of Wheaton’s top

first-year performances in program

history, completing the season with

368 points, which stands first among

freshmen and ninth overall in the

school’s annals. She led the team

in scoring 10 times, including a

15-point showing her second

career game against Elms College

in the Blazers Invitational, ultimately

leading to her being named the

most valuable player and to the

all-tournament team. Hickey leads

all NEWMAC freshmen in scoring

average (14.2), field goals (145)

and steals (57) while placing sec-

ond in rebounding (5.8) and free

throw shooting (.762). Overall,

she stands fifth in scoring and free

throw shooting, sixth in steals and

eighth in field goal percentage.

Hickey made 19 consecutive free

throws during a 10-game stretch

from January 21 through February

14. Starting in all of Wheaton’s 26

games, Hickey contributed double-

figure scoring in 19 of those contests,

including a season-best 24 points

in the Lyons’ upset victory over

conference leader Springfield

College on February 18. She post-

ed a pair of double-double per-

formances and scored 20 or more

points on six occasions. Hickey’s

145 field goals are tied for eighth

in program history. Hickey led the

Lyons to their most wins since the

1999-2000 season, as Wheaton

registered a 14-12 overall record

and 6-7 NEWMAC mark. The Blue

and White finished seventh in the

regular season standings before

falling to Mount Holyoke College

in the conference tournament.

Wheaton began the season winners

in five of its first six games.”

CLASS NOTES REPORTS NEWS

OF ALUMNI/AE, FORMER

FACULTY/STAFF, AND OTHER

MEMBERS OF THE NEW

HAMPTON SCHOOL FAMILY.

WE WELCOME SUBMISSIONS FOR

PUBLICATION. EMAIL NEWS TO

alumni@newhampton.org

right: Hye Soon Shin ’97 and 1999 Classmates Jong-khuan Baek and

Mark Im were among the New Hampton School family members

gathered for a reception in Soeul in February during a visit there

by NHS Trustee Pete Galletly ’73 and Director of Development

Sandy Colhoun.

Congratulations to former NHS

faculty members, Eric Nygaard

and Katrina Brown Nygaard,

on the birth of their first son,

Theo.

Isabella Annette Adams

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I N M E M O R I A M

1938

Dave Heald

of Elkin, New Hampshire, a true

son of New Hampshire, died on

February 20, 2006, succumbing to

complications from pneumonia.

Dave was born in 1919 in Milford,

the son of Emory D. Heald and

Alice Lawrence. He grew up in

Milford and Nashua, graduating

from Nashua High School in 1937.

He attended The New Hampton

School in New Hampton for a

post-graduate year, graduating in

1938. From New Hampton, Dave

followed his father and enrolled

at Dartmouth College in Hanover,

class of 1942. During his Dartmouth

years, he was active in the Dart-

mouth Outing Club and served

as Hutmaster at Mt. Moosilauke.

With World War II fast approach-

ing, Dave took senior exams early

and graduated in December 1941,

enlisting in the U.S. Army. Before

heading to war, he married Jane

Winey, whom he met at Colby Junior

College in New London. During

the war, he served as an instructor

at the Bakers and Cooks School,

and was a mess sergeant in France.

Following the war, Dave returned

to Hanover to manage the Hanover

Inn from 1946 to 1948. While in

Hanover, he advanced the Ford

Sayer ski program for area youth.

When the state of New Hampshire

wanted to develop Mount Sunapee

into a ski resort, Dave left Hanover

to develop the area and become

the first manager of the Mount

Sunapee State Park, leading that to

become a premier ski and summer

park. He was famous for his

mountain-top clambakes and

fireworks held in the summers.

Dave left the park in 1952 to become

the head of pubic relations and

tourism for This Is New Hampshire

Inc., a non-profit publicity firm,

under then-Governor Hugh Gregg,

appearing extensively on radio and

television shows promoting the state.

He even brought snow to Puerto Rico

where a “Snow Princess” was chosen.

In 1956, Dave joined R.P. Burroughs

in the retirement plan business.

Subsequent to that, Dave took his

marketing and sales skills to the

Putnam Group of Mutual Funds in

Boston, becoming the national sales

manager for the fund group. While

at Putnam, he became famous for

his passion for lobster clambakes

by serving them to investment pro-

fessionals across the country. In his

later years at Putnam, he developed

a “boot camp” for training investment

professionals, held at his cottage on

Pleasant Lake in Elkins. Other than

a relatively short time away from

Putnam, he was with them for nearly

40 years.

Dave was a former trustee of The

New Hampton School and endowed

the Heald College Resource Center

there. He was active in Dartmouth

College alumni activities, serving as

president of his alumni class of 1942

and chairman of many reunions.

Dave was well known for his

culinary skills. His famous bean-

hole beans, lobster clambakes and

traditional July 4th poached salmon

with new potatoes and fresh peas

were all classic Dave Heald pre-

sentations. He had many other

interests, including woodworking,

furniture making, watercolor paint-

ing and the history of railroading,

as well as being a voracious reader

of American history.

Dave is survived by his wife of 65

years, Jane, of Elkins; their children,

Dave of Riverwoods, IL, Ed of

Carlisle, MA, Sally Winship of

Hopkinton and Peter of New Haven,

CT He leaves eight grandchildren

and four great-grandchildren.

New Hampton School lost a dear

friend and loyal alumnus with the

passing of David Heald, Class of

1938. To say that David Heald

lived life to the fullest is an under-

statement at best. He was a man of

enviable integrity with an enormous

commitment to family, friends and

service to others, who possessed an

energy which would exhaust most

people decades younger. In addition

to serving on New Hampton

School’s Board of Trustees, he was

the Commencement Speaker in both

1953 and 1979, a charter member

of the school’s Alumni Council, a

devoted participant at reunions and

other events, including the NHS

Golf Classic and NHS at the Boston

Pops. During the school’s last capi-

tal effort, David provided the funds

necessary to create and name the

Heald College Counseling Room

in the Academic Research Center.

He was also the first alumnus to

contribute books to the school’s

new library and has continued to

do so on a regular basis.

David’s intuitive insight, eagerness

for learning, quiet humility, and

Yankee work ethic served him well

throughout his entire life. He

understood that wisdom and kind-

ness are as important as ambition

and intellect. He was completely

devoted to his family, and a good

friend with a flair for the culinary

arts. His dry humor and keen wit

were in part the result of his

voracious love of the written word.

His life and his legacy of love and

support for the school he attended

for only one year is an inspiration

to us all. He is missed by many, our

forever friend of New Hampton

School.

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1942

Robert A. Phillips

of Saratoga Springs and Kattskill

Bay, New York, died on January 1,

2006, after a period of declining

health. He was 81 years old.

Bob was born March 20, 1924,

in Schenectady, New York, and

attended the city schools there.

After his graduation from New

Hampton School, he served in the

U. S. Army Signal Corps in Germany

in World War II and was discharged

with the grade of Master Sergeant.

Later, he attended and graduated

from Lehigh University and Rens-

selear Polytechnic Institute.

He was Manager of Analytical

Engineering at the General Electric

Company in Schenectady for 25

years of his 38 years service.

He served on the Schenectady

Building Codes Committee. He was

a Cubmaster in Pack 1, a District

Training Commissioner for the Cub

Scouts and served as an Assistant

Scoutmaster in Troop 18. Since

1999 Bob had lived, with his wife

of 33 years, in the retirement

community of Prestwick Chase at

Saratoga and served as Chair of the

Resident Council there in 2003. At

the time of his death, Mr. Phillips

was Chair of the Alumni Fund at

New Hampton School and was a

generous support of his alma mater.

He is survived by his wife, Donna

E. D. Phillips, and a son, Richard

Hayes Phillips of Canton, New

York. A daughter, Pamela Jane

Proctor, a sister, Eleanor Phillips

Hutt, and a brother, Frank Dewey

Phillips, Jr, predeceased him.

In his memory, the Robert A. Phillips

Scholarship has been established at

New Hampton School.

On January 12 Cindy Buck traveled

to Saratoga Springs, New York, to

speak at Bob Phillips memorial

service. She shared these thoughts

with the many people in attendance

who loved and admired this amaz-

ing man:

“Each of us has our own memories

of Bob—to me he was a man of

incredible vision, compassion, and

generosity.

“Bob was a loyal New Hampton

alumnus who attended many of his

school’s reunion celebrations over

the years. In appreciation of the

New Hampton teachers and coach-

es who made a positive difference

in his life, he made a substantial

gift in support of our school’s

capital needs. New Dorm 1 became

Phillips House through Bob’s

thoughtful and generous plan to

make a tangible difference in New

Hampton’s future.

“In subsequent years, Bob’s philan-

thropic interests would be consis-

tently directed in support of New

Hampton School. He served as

Alumni Fund Chair for three years

and most recently created The

Robert A. Phillips Scholarship Fund,

which he described as a scholar-

ship for scholars, a way to offer a

bright student in need the unique

opportunities of a New Hampton

education.

“Bob articulated his philosophy of

philanthropy quite succinctly: He

commented that growing up in the

era of the Great Depression taught

him to save. ‘I was taught to save

for a rainy day,’ he told me, ‘but

it never rained on me, and I found

myself in a position to make a

difference in a charitable way.’

“Bob was determined that his phil-

anthropic efforts would one day

make a difference in a place which

had made a difference in his own

life. He told me he wanted to set

an example, to let others know that

they could do the same… a senti-

ment expressed with Bob’s charac-

teristic humility.

“At New Hampton School, Bob’s

vision and generosity have made

more than one dream come true

and New Hampton is forever

a better place because of him.

Robert Phillips is a rare gift, an

inspiration to us all and, most

importantly to me, a dear, dear

friend. I miss him.”

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1937

Robert C. Mason

of Exeter, New Hampshire, former-

ly of Hancock, New Hampshire,

and Greenwich, Connecticut, died

April 22, 2006, at the age of 88.

Born in Waterville, Maine, he spent

his early years in Winthrop and

Damariscotta Mills, where he

established a long relationship with

St. Patrick’s Church. He attended

St. John’s Prep prior to his year

at New Hampton School. He was

a graduate of the University of

Pennsylvania Wharton School of

Business.

He started flying at the age of 16

and, after World War II, he flew for

37 years for Eastern Air Lines.

He loved his retreat time in Walpole

and Christmas Cove each summer

with his family. His leisure pastimes

included boating, art and antiques,

which he bought at area auctions.

He had an avid interest in the study

of finance and shared his knowledge

with family and friends.

1951

David R. Kelley

of Homosassa, Florida, formerly of

Arlington, Virginia, died of cancer

September 25, 2005, at the age of 72.

Born in Poughkeepsie, New York,

he grew in Connecticut and spent

his summers at Little Squam Lake

in Holderness, New Hampshire.

After graduating from New Hampton

School, he attended Bates College

from 1951 to 1953.

He joined the Navy during the

Korean War and was a fighter pilot

with secondary duty in accident

investigation, training, and flight

safety. He transferred to the Marine

Corps and was discharged as a first

lieutenant in 1958.

David worked for federal air safety

agencies for 31 years, beginning as

an air traffic controller and retiring

in 1990 as chief of the operational

factors division of the National

Transportation Safety Board. He

received numerous awards from

the NTSB for improving safety in

the nation’s airspace. After retiring

from the government, David joint-

ed Mitre Corporation, a McLean

systems engineering research and

development center, where he was

a member of the technical staff

developing programs to improve

federal air and airport safety. He

retired a second time in 2002 and

moved to Florida in 2004.

1951

Robert T. Smith

of Melrose, Massachusetts, died

August 31, 2005.

Born in Everett in 1934, he was

raised in Melrose and graduated

from New Hampton School. He

attended Tufts and Northeastern

University.

In November of 1952, Bob enlisted

in the Massachusetts Air National

Guard 102nd Combat Support

Squadron. He continued as a

member of the US Air Force Reserve

as a liaison officer between the

Air Force Academy and many

New England area high school

and colleges. During this time, he

received the USAF Commendation

Medal for his service as a Disaster

Preparedness Officer serving in the

9006th Air Reserve Squadron in

Denver, Colorado. In 1985, he was

transferred to the USAF Retired

Reserve until his official mandatory

retirement at age 60. He had

achieved the rank of Major USAF,

Retired.

For 35 years, Bob was a claims

approver at New England Mutual

Life where he earned the distinction

of Certified Life Underwriter. For

24 years, he drove a school bus for

nursery school children in Melrose

and surrounding communities.

1954

George L. Seldon

of Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachu-

setts, died November 22, 2005.

A war veteran, George was a real

estate management specialist with

Moskow & Company of Boston.

1959

Ralph E. Shackett

of Bristol, New Hampshire, died

suddenly on March 28, 2006, at

his Florida home at the age of 65.

He was born in Suncook and grew

up in Bristol, graduating from

Bristol High School in 1958, New

Hampton School in 1959, and

Plymouth State College in 1963.

He began his career as an educator

and coach before joining his father

in business and later becoming

owner of Shackett’s Store in Bristol.

He was involved in local and state

government, having served the

town of Bristol as a member of the

Planning Board, the Budget

Committee, and Board of Selectmen,

and later the Newfound area as

state representative.

He was an honorary member of

the Bristol Rotary Club. He had

been a member of The New

I N M E M O R I A M

Hampton School Board of Trustees,

the Laconia Hospital Board of

Trustees, and a director at the for-

mer Bristol Bank. He was currently

serving on the Board of Directors

for the Associated Grocers of New

England.

He was a communicant of St.

Timothy Church in Bristol and St.

Bernard Church in Holmes Beach,

Florida.

1977

Debra Sterling

of Lynn, Massachusetts, was killed

in a motor vehicle accident,

February 24, 2006. She was 46

years old.

Born in Los Angeles, California,

Deb was raised by her brother after

the death of her mother. Following

her graduation from New Hampton

School, Deb served in the U.S.

Army and later earned an Associate

of Arts degree from St. Thomas

Aquinas College.

For the last several years, Deb had

found her life’s work as a nanny,

lovingly caring for two young boys.

She had previously worked as a

dental technician.

Deb also found many friends, great

happiness, and fulfillment as an

active participant in the ministries

of the Calvary Christian Church of

Lynnfield, Massachusetts.

1982

Guy S. Madigan

of Mechanisburg, Pennsylvania,

died March 23, 2006, at home at

the age of 43.

Following his graduation from New

Hampton School, Guy went on to

Ocean City Community College in

Tom’s River, New Jersey, where he

was a two-time National Junior

College All-American as an ice

hockey goaltender.

Guy worked as a technician at

Bobby Rahal Toyota in Mechanis-

burg for 15 years.

Guy’s passions were his wife,

Sandy Dixon, his four cats, and

sports car racing. He and Sandy

were frequent visitors to the vintage

races at Watkins Glen. At the time

of his death, Guy was enthusiasti-

cally preparing his 1967 Fiat Spider

SCCA H-production race car for

competition.

1996

Lt. Christopher Hugh Snyder

of Mt. Holly, New Jersey, was

killed in a Navy helicopter crash

on December 13, 2005, off the

coast of Columbia. He was 28

years old.

He was a 2000 graduate of the

U.S. Naval Academy. Lt. Snyder

majored in history and played

intramural sports. He was a member

of the Golden Hawks Naval Air

Society, the Oceanography Club,

and the Latter Day Saints Students

Association. He also belonged

to the Churchill Society, a group

dedicated to promoting literature

and the arts at the Naval Academy.

Before attending the academy, Lt.

Snyder attended New Hampton

School on a Naval Academy

Foundation scholarship.

1998

Kurt Eric Bolstad

of Lexington, North Carolina, died

of complications from diabetes on

February 16, 2006, in New Orleans,

Louisiana, at the age of 26.

Kurt was in Knoxville, Tennessee,

and moved to Lexington, North

Carolina, that year. After attending

Forsyth Country Day School in

Winston-Salem, he graduated from

New Hampton School in 1998.

At the time of his death, he was a

student at Tulane University.

Kurt spent more than a quarter of

his life in New Orleans. He was

an intelligent, talented young man

who was a follower of music,

creator of beauty and a true friend

who inspired loyalty.

2001

Shaun Ryan Buttermore

of Gunnison, Colorado, died

suddenly December 31, 2005, of

a defective coronary artery. He was

23 years old.

Shaun was from Newport Beach,

California. From early on, nature,

the environment, and the wilder-

ness were Shaun’s passions. This

interest led him on numerous trips

to Mammouth, Lake Tahoe, and

Yosemite. After graduating from

New Hampton School in 2001,

he ultimately chose to study

Environmental Sciences at Western

State College in Gunnison,

Colorado. He was looking forward

to graduating this spring.

Shaun was deeply devoted to his

rescued dogs, Roxy and Snoopie,

and greatly enjoyed good times

with his family and friends. His

interests also included skiing,

snowmobiling, hiking, rescuing,

and river rafting. Shaun will be

remembered for his kindness, his

love, and his enthusiasm.

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SARAH DEBENEDICTIS

NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL’S NEW DIRECTOR OF ANNUAL GIVING

Prior to joining New Hampton’s Development Office staff, Sarah served

as the Director of Alumni Affairs and Development Officer at Wakefield

School in The Plains, Virginia, (a pre-K through 12 independent day

school). She also coached the girls’ field hockey and lacrosse teams.

A graduate of Bowdoin College (B.A. Government and Legal Studies),

Sarah began her career working for Schwartz Communications, Inc., a

public relations firm in Waltham, Massachusetts. Missing the educational

world, she made the move to Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts, where she worked as

an admissions counselor and student recruiter. After making the move to Virginia, Sarah joined

the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, as the Annual Giving Officer working primarily

with the Chairman’s Guild, the Museum’s lead donor group.

While at Bowdoin, Sarah played field hockey and was named captain her senior year. She

maintains active in the Bowdoin community serving as an admissions volunteer, associate class

agent, alumni class president and reunion planning chair. Sarah’s other interests include cook-

ing, traveling, art, and skiing. She and her husband, Patrick, enjoy leading the youth group for

middle and high school students at their church. She also recently completed her first marathon

(26.2. miles) through The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training program.

PAUL HAMEL

Paul Hamel P’07, P’08 is a partner and

Chief Information Officer of Wellington

Management Co., LLP in Boston, Massa-

chusetts. Paul earned his undergraduate

degree at the University of Massachusetts

and holds an M.B.A. from McGill University.

An IT expert with 30 years of experience

at financial institutions, his management

perspective is a valuable resource to the

Board of Trustees. New Hampton School is

a family affair for Paul and his wife Cheryl;

they are the parents of two sons, Marc and

Matt, currently attending NHS, and the

couple are co-Chairs of the NHS Parents’

Fund.

WILLIAM A. HARLOE, JR.

Bill Harloe P’06 is President and CEO of

Harloe Management Corporation, of Bel

Air, Maryland, a franchise of Burger King

Corporation. Bill owns and operates eight

Burger King restaurants. In addition to his

extensive business experience, Bill commit-

ment to service as a trustee includes 11

years on the Board of Harford Day School

near Baltimore, Maryland; there he was

Board Chair for seven years and also chaired

two successful capital campaigns. Bill

attended Nyack Prep School and holds a

B.B.A. from the University of Miami. He and

his wife Diana are the parents of B.J., a

member of New Hampton School’s Class

of 2006.

NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2006

Dr. Sanders Abrahams P’07Raleigh, North Carolina

Erik A. Dithmer ’49New York, New York

Peter W. Galletly ’73, P’09Vice Chairman

Mahwah, New Jersey

M. David Giardino ’49Princeton, New Jersey

Candace S. Graham P’03Portola Valley, California

William F. Guardenier ’62Mt. Kisco, New York

Ruth J. Haivanis P’04West Newton, Massachusetts

Paul Hamel P’07, P’08Walpole, Massachusetts

Luke J. Haran, Jr. P’97Finance Chairman

Basking Ridge, New Jersey

Lynda M. Haran P’97Basking Ridge, New Jersey

William A. Harloe, Jr. P’06Bel Air, Maryland

Herman Hassinger AIA P’77, P’78Trustee Emeritus

Block Island, Rhode Island

Robert D. Kennedy ’50Chairman Emeritus

New Canaan, Connecticut

Deborah Woodward Leach P’96Attleboro, Massachusetts

Edwin F. Leach II P’96Attleboro, Massachusetts

Richard W. Maine ’60Avon, Connecticut

Michael F. Mumma P’98Jefferson, Iowa

Jason M. Pilalas ’58Chairman

San Marino, California

Robert W. Pollock, Jr. P’95, P’97Secretary

New Hampton, New Hampshire

Hugh B. Richardson ’57Bristol, Rhode Island

Claude P. Sheer P’03, P’04Scarborough, Maine

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