T h e B u l l e T i n • S p r i n g 2014

Inside:Sports at DCD

MLK Jr. Day of Service

Students spent a day engaged in service projects to reach out to others in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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ContentsHead’s Report 2Ways of Living and Leaving: A Tribute to the Late Harry Herrick

by Nick Thacher

...Wild About Harry 4

Sports at DCD: Learning by Play 6

Thrive: The Campaign for DCD 12 Steering Committee Leads Campaign 12 Donor Profile: Bequest by Gil Menna Honors Sons’ Experiences at DCD 14Special Event: Parents of Alumni Gather at the Home of Molly and Rob Cramer 15 Shoe Prints in the Snow: Funding Dreams Through Endowment 16

Campus News 18Retirement News: Ellen Tretter 18 Faith Yetman 19 Janice Niak 19Faculty Initiatives: Exploring Innovative Uses of Technology 20Student Achievements: Mathletes Compete in National Contest 21 DCD Wins Best in Show at SISAL 22 Students Receive Scholastic Art Awards 23 Geography Bee 24 Spelling Bee 24Community Service: Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service 25 DCD Participates in the Walk for Hunger 25

Photo Gallery 26Grandparents and Special Friends Visit the DCD Campus

Celebration of the Arts & Auction 28

Alumni Association 30Alumni News:Young Alumni Gather at Granary Tavern in Boston 30February Challenge Results 30New Networking App 30John Woodard ‘52 Receives DCD’s 2014 Alumni Award 31Alumni Profile: Henry Keene ‘38: An Inspiring Life Journey That Started at DCD 32

Class Notes 34

Sports at DCD are highlighted on pages 6–11.

John Woodard ‘52 receives DCD’s 2014 Alumni Award (see story on page 31).

Former Headmaster Harry Herrick is remembered by Nick Thacher and others on pages 2–5.

Head of SchoolNicholas S. Thacher

Director of DevelopmentTara Spalding

Director of CommunicationsLeslie Bowen

Copy EditorKathryn Sargent

WritersKevin BowenLeslie Bowen

Class NotesDanise Cavallaro

Design ConsultantMichele Page, Design Communications

Layout and ProductionLeslie Bowen

PhotographyLeslie BowenDanise CavallaroJohn GilloolyJohn LeithTom Nash ‘77Hilary Rochelle

PrintingRecycled Printing

Mission StatementDedham Country Day School

•Provides to each child a unique educational balance of challenging academics, arts, and athletics;

•Embraces an inclusive, interdependent community of students, teachers, and parents that fosters trust and encourages children to take risks;

•Creates independent, resilient, lifelong learners through engaging, developmentally-based teaching designed to meet varied learning styles;

•Inspires students to become caring, ethical members of the larger world by emphasizing thoughtful citizenship and respect for self and others.

Statement of Non-DiscriminationDedham Country Day School admits qualified students of any race, religion, or ethnic origin to all rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded and made available to students at the school. The school does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, disability that can be reasonably accommodated by the school, or family composition in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, financial aid program, athletic program, or any other school policy or program.

Admissions inquiries should be submitted to:Director of AdmissionsDedham Country Day School90 Sandy Valley Road, Dedham, MA 02026-5898 Tel: 781.329.0850, ext. 2503 • Fax: 781.329.0551Web site: www.dedhamcountryday.org

Front Cover Photo of Boy’s Hockey by Danise Cavallaro

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, the finest American wordsmith of the twentieth century, was both right and wrong when he set down his famous concluding sentence to The

Great Gatsby: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

When you work in an elementary school you’re vividly reminded on a daily, even an hourly, basis that the current is sweeping us all—kids, teachers, parents—not towards the past but towards the future. The future is unknown but inexorable; each day, each adventure, each choice or decision, road taken or not taken, is steering us towards the end. And, as the mordant European proverb reminds us, “At the end of the game the king and the pawn are put away in the same box.” It’s not a big deal, really, just the human condition. The point, in brief, is to take pleasure in the journey and to do good along the way.

Former DCD Head Harry Herrick clearly took pleasure in the journey of life and accomplished a lot of good along the way. I didn’t know Harry well, though I was privileged to live for a short time in the on-campus house that bears his name. We occasionally visited, corresponded, and chatted as he enjoyed his retirement on the Cape. Our conversations were mostly about family and sailing, the true loves of his rich life and not so much about educational matters, DCD, what it was like in the roaring sixties, how it was evolving under my stewardship in the twenty-first century. Harry offered occasional witty and rueful recollections about his experiments with the open classroom; I shared our blundering recent adventures in new technologies. He was unfailingly polite, curious, mannerly, gracious. After a visit or a conversation with Harry I always found myself wishing I had known him during his DCD years from 1963 to 1981. And I always felt that somehow

I had, in D. H. Lawrence’s words, “missed my chance with one of the lords of life.” This was partly because he exuded fun, right to the end.

The news of Harry’s death on Christmas Eve traveled quickly along the school grapevine. A fine man had reached his ending. Former students, colleagues, parents, and friends called and wrote, sharing memories, offering tributes. For those of us tilling the DCD soil in 2014 these messages were moving, enriching, affirming. Teaching is a lonely, enervating, fundamentally monastic vocation; most of the time it’s just you and the kids, with the door of the classroom shut. Everyone is moving forward, most of the time, but when you’re in charge of a classroom or studio or PE class on the field or the ice or in the gym, it’s easy to succumb to the sense that nobody is making any real progress. And, worse, nobody else actually knows what you’re doing. On the long days, dark days, weary days, it’s a short spiritual hop to the conclusion that nobody else actually cares.

But, of course, everyone cares, especially the kids. That’s what shone through the reminiscences we received about Mr. Herrick, as his acolytes, one by one, gave proof to Fitzgerald’s hypothesis and were “borne back into the past” to reflect on the gifts he so generously and courageously dispensed in his years at DCD. Of course his students are all grown up now, and—truth be told—there’s some grey in the hair of his former sixth graders. No doubt some have lost their hair altogether. They have children. Grandchildren! Life is truly rich.

Rachel Hadas once described a mother’s emotions as she watches her little boy walk to school, for the first time, by himself—on his own at last! Her words capture, for me at least, the many messages of Harry Herrick’s passage:

Ways of Living and Leaving: A Tribute to the Late Harry Herrick

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The watcher’s heart

stretches, elastic in its love and fear,

toward him as we see him disappear,

striding briskly. Where two weeks ago,

holding a hand, he’d dawdle, dreamy, slow,

he is now hustled forward by the pull

of something far more powerful than school.

We all know it’s a great privilege to be a part of Dedham Country Day School. Sailing into our unknown personal and institutional futures, in good times and stressful times, we’ll continue to be stirred by Harry’s bold legacy and his decent example.

—Nick Thacher

...Wild About HarryThose who knew him, whether as a teacher, colleague, or friend, share fond memories.

My first meeting with Harry was my first job interview. I had graduated from college that previous spring and was looking for a teaching job in the arts.

Right away Harry put me at ease with his unpretentious and personable style. I had no previous experience, yet much to my joy and relief, Harry took the risk and hired me as a part-time theater and art teacher. I later learned that helping and supporting fledgling teachers was one of Harry’s specialities. Despite our single year together at DCD, he made a significant and permanent impression on me. By his example, I learned how excellent leadership relies not on having all the answers or managing from above but on galvanizing people to do their best and then making sure that their contributions and efforts are noticed, celebrated and respected. So now we celebrate Harry...his thoughtful leadership, his limitless generosity, and gracious magnanimity.

—Rob Houghton, arts teacher, 1980–1986

Beloved former Headmaster Harry K. Herrick passed away on

December 24, 1993, at the age of 83, after a life dedicated to

education. He oversaw the expansion of DCD during the 1960s

and 70s, and in response to national discourse at the time on

the best way to educate students, he created an experimental

open-classroom model at the school. Longtime trustee Margot

Pyle, whose four children attended DCD, commented, “If there

was a new way to solve a problem, he was not afraid to use

it.” His son, Thaddeus ‘74, said, “The school during those

years took a great leap forward and became a more serious

educational institution.” In the following excerpts, those who

knew him, pay tribute to his legacy.

There could not have been a better or more engaging leader than Harry. In my time as a parent, trustee, and president of the board, Harry and I learned much together.

Starting with an experiment in the new world of open classrooms, and on to the challenge of recognizing the necessity for new physical facilities, we often had to find an imaginative architect to interpret our needs. All this led to embarking on a major fundraising effort. As when any major changes occur in charting a new course, there were some challenging decisions along the way. With the backing of a vibrant and creative faculty, supportive parents, trustees, and friends, Harry led tirelessly, with strength and contagious enthusiasm to build his dream to achieve the foundation of the educational excellence that DCD is today.

—Peter Nash, Board President, 1972–1975

It’s hard to think of this earth without Harry. He was so generous when I first came to DCD, offering advice but never butting in. He knew it was my school now, but he also wanted me to

know that he was happy to help if something came up. And I did call on him—frequently.

—Jim Bower, former Head of School, 1981–1996

He was a wonderful educator and person to work for and with. I remember him being so receptive to my idea of introducing field hockey at the Fifth &

Sixth Grade level, and now it continues to flourish!

—Bev Tyler, Kindergarten teacher, 1962–1965

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One memory I have (and I’m sure many others do) is regarding snow days. During the 1970s, if Mr. Herrick could walk from his house on Highland Street (the current

Herrick House; he lived there when he was headmaster), then DCD had school that day. On those rare days when he couldn’t safely walk from his house to the school, he would call a snow day, and when we returned to school after the snow day, at morning assembly, the students would sing “I’m Just Wild About Harry”— led, of course, by music teacher extraordinaire, Susan Wales—a sweet, kind man.

—Elizabeth Pyle Handler ’79

Every so often, Harry would remind the students, “There is just one rule at DCD—respect for others and their property.” I didn’t appreciate then how important it is to express clearly and

simply the bond that members of a learning community share. The school had quite a diverse faculty when I was a part of it in the 1970s and ’80s—not diverse as the word is typically used today but in the sense that we had different ideas, approaches, styles, personalities. Yet because of Harry we were united in our understanding that we were all there for the children, the children were not there for us. We respected the children; we neither pandered to them nor regimented them. Schools don’t automatically get that priority straight. It takes leadership by example, and that’s what Harry gave us.

—Winston Emmons (Faculty member 1976–1984 and Board President, 1992–1998)

Harry and Pam Herrick at DCD.

Harry with Mrs. Charlotte Loring Lowell, for whom the Performing Arts Center, built in 1980, is named.

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DCD’s sports program offers one of the widest selection of sports among its peer schools. Physical Education (PE) begins in Pre-Kindergarten, and in Grades 4 and 5 children are introduced to team sports and competition. In Middle School, interscholastic sports teams compete against other schools. Sports are an integral part of the day, an active, important aspect of the overall curriculum.

DCD Athletic Director Mark Jackson says the school has made a big commitment to athletics, with a lot of time and facilities devoted to PE and sports.

“It’s a class, not a special, that meets as often as other core subjects,” he says, “and that’s something unique about DCD.”

Sports offer children a number of advantages over the classroom, especially where socialization is concerned. “How to play, how to tolerate others, how to challenge yourself, how to persevere—these are all lessons learned when engaged in a sport,” Mark says.

This social aspect gives teachers a unique perspective on each child. “We get to know the kids in a different way than the classroom teachers.”

Children to get to know each other beyond the classroom as well and have the additional benefit of coaches as role models.

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While instilling such intangible values as effort, desire, kindness, or the willingness to try something new, coaches are also teaching sport-specific skills. It can look like chaos in the Rand Gym as children learn to swing bats at four different stations, but as Mark says, it’s a way of getting them active and engaged, and better than making 30 kids wait in line to take a turn at one bat.

The success of such a multidimensional approach relies on the efforts of Mark and his team of coaches to make such an ambitious sports program work, particularly in Middle School, when there is a three-season sport requirement.

“I spend a lot of time on logistics, getting bodies to fields, vans to games, and making sure everything works. We have a lot of moving parts. Every day is a whole new adventure. It involves a lot of juggling. I can’t take my eyes off the ball.”

Recognizing that some students who come to DCD may not like sports, Mark says, “we work with each child to make sure each experiences sports in a positive way.” Whether or not a child is athletically gifted, he says, “What you get here at DCD, particularly at the middle-school level, will give you a framework to move forward.”

Citing the example of a student who

tried hockey for the first time at DCD and was just recently named an EIL All-Star, he says the opportunity to try a new sport is a huge plus for DCD’s program.

“For what DCD is in size, there’s no school out there that has as many offerings—or classes—as we do,” Mark says. “With more choices, there is more opportunity for experiences students would not be able to get at other schools.”

His spring tennis team, for example, had nine of twelve students who were new to the sport. “These kids at other schools would be told they couldn’t play,” he says.

Going to a match with children who have never played means you can’t be overly focused on winning. Sports are competitive, so coaches have to walk a fine line, fueling students’ competitive spirit while emphasizing learning and trying your best as well as winning.

“It’s a culture of celebrating effort along with the wins,” Mark says.

Despite this cultural and philosophical bias, DCD teams have done far more winning than losing over the last 15 years that Mark has been Athletic Director. DCD’s boys’ hockey team this year was undefeated with a record of 7 and 0. DCD’s field hockey program is “like the Yankees,”

he jokes, so unbeatable that they often have to slow play down in fairness to other teams.

“I like the athletics program here at DCD,” says Mark. “I think we have it just right in terms of philosophical outlook. At the high school level, it’s about winning, but in middle school, it’s more about developing and encouraging students to play hard and to play fair, and while we certainly like to win games, to be a good sport regardless of the outcome.”

“How to play, how to tolerate others, how to challenge yourself, how to persevere— these are all lessons learned when engaged in a sport.”

The Importance of Sports in Education— A Student’s Perspective

“I have had an unbelievably amazing time playing on DCD teams for the past three years. The coaches, my teammates, the zealous drive of all the students, interesting practices, song-filled bus rides to and from games, and more, are reasons I love playing sports at DCD. My first winter season of Middle School, I played on the squash team. I had a blast improving and gaining my first wins throughout the season, but decided to switch to basketball for Seventh and Eighth Grades. I went from never having dribbled a basketball to being awarded Most Improved Player on my varsity team this season! That truly demonstrates how encouraging and special DCD athletics are. Every season you have players beginning fresh who by the end are accomplished athletes.” —Mimi Cabot, DCD Eighth Grader

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Fall 2013Varsity Field HockeyThis was an amazing season led with energy and passion by 12 Eighth Graders. Captains Isabella Collins, Arianna Sougarides, and Julia Cochran, held the bar high and showed excellent leadership with good communication, commitment, and character. We ended the season undefeated, with one tie against a talented Fay team of Eighth and Ninth Graders, which was the biggest challenge we faced. In the game against rival Nobles, the girls played with intensity, scoring in the second half to win 1–0. The pride of winning this hard-fought game at home with so many classmates, parents, and teachers cheering us on made this game a season highlight. We ended the season with 11 wins and 1 tie, scored 49 goals, and had only one goal scored against. Goalie ZeeZee Canning, an integral part of the team’s success, won the Coach’s Award, and Elizabeth Harrity received the Most Improved Player Award. —Deb White

JV Field HockeyIt was an exciting and successful JV field hockey season. The girls learned so much, and this knowledge contributed to a winning season with 7 wins, 3 losses, and 2 ties. The team enjoyed challenging themselves in the yardstick and rectangle pull drills, all showing great improvement

on their stick work throughout the season. Improvement was evident in their dribbling, drives, field vision, and overall knowledge of the sport. I’m so proud of the team’s victories both on and off the field. Congratulations on a great season! —Megan Rothwell ’97

Boys’ Varsity SoccerThe 2013 varsity soccer team compiled an impressive record of 7 wins, 2 losses, and 2 ties. Lead by captains Pat Shiel and Wil Linell, the team played some of their best soccer when they were exhausted and mounted some great comebacks in the waning minutes of games. Wins against Derby and Nobles exemplify this tireless work ethic. The team comprised Sixth Graders Hugo Abramowitz, Ryan Bogar, Chris Golden, and Demetri Tsoumbanos. Invaluable contributions came from Seventh Graders Quin Feeney, James Geraghty, Aidan Kelly, Aidan Murray, and Will Rowan. Setting an excellent example of sportsmanship were Eighth Graders Holden Corcoran, Connor Glynn, Evan Landry, Wil Linell, Colin Mann, Michael O’Connell, and Pat Shiel. The Most Improved Player Award and the Coach’s Award went to Colin Mann and Pat Shiel, respectively. —Kevin Coakley

Boys’ JV Soccer The JV soccer team had a great fall. The team consisted of 17 Sixth and Seventh Graders. As a group, the team was enthusiastic and came to practice everyday ready to play, work on their skills, and compete with each other. In games, the team was hard working and resilient regardless of the score and came back in several games to earn ties or wins. The team’s final record was 2 wins, 6 losses, and 3 ties. —Dan Balk

Girls’ SoccerThe girls’ soccer team had its most successful season yet with 8 wins, 3 losses, and 1 tie. We had a large group of girls, 19 in all, with a strong core of mostly Seventh Graders who led the team. The girls approached each practice and game looking to improve their individual skills as well as develop more as a team. We focused on seeing the entire field, passing with purpose, and improving communication on the field. The girls worked well with each other and supported one another both on and off the field. Mira Mashali, who joined the team as a Seventh Grader and worked hard over two seasons to improve her skills, won the Most Improved Player Award, and Tess Huckaby won the Coach’s Award for her skills, leadership, positive attitude, and passion for the game. —Elaine Gage

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“For what DCD is in size, there’s no school out there that has as many offerings— or classes—as we do,” says Mark Jackson. With more choices, there is more opportunity for

experiences they would not be able to get at other schools.”

Team RecordsVarsity Field Hockey 11-0-1

Coach: Deb White Captains: Julia Cochran, Isabella Collins, Arianna Sougarides

JV Field Hockey 7-3-2Coach: Megan Rothwell ‘97Captains: by game

Boys’ Varsity Soccer 7-2-2 Coach: Kevin CoakleyCaptains: Wil Linell, Pat Shiel

Boys’ JV Soccer 2-6-3 Coach: Dan BalkCaptains: by game

Girls’ Soccer 8-3-1 Coach: Elaine GageCaptains: Tess Huckaby, Mira Mashali

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The Importance of Sports in Education—A Parent’s Perspective“As a parent, it was so great to watch my older son Adam grow as an athlete and take ownership of his sport—cross country. I loved watching the camaraderie among the boys and how they supported each other no matter what kind of runners they were. The cheering and encouragement they would give each other at the finish line was always wonderful to watch. His younger brother Sam followed in his footsteps in always trying to reach his personal best, but never forgetting he was part of a team. Adam went on to be ranked one of the top 10 runners in the ISL and was team captain at Milton his senior year. It was a great sport for the kids to try at DCD and one in which they excelled.” —Hilary Rochelle P ’09, ’12

Awards Coach’s Award Most Improved Player Award

Varsity Field Hockey ZeeZee Canning Elizabeth Harrity JV Field Hockey Samantha Walkey Rachel MannBoys’ Varsity Soccer Pat Shiel Colin MannBoys’ JV Soccer Christopher Hatem Alfie RudnickGirls’ Soccer Tess Huckaby Mira Mashali

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Boys’ Basketball This winter, the DCD boys’ basketball team consisted of five Sixth Graders and five Seventh Graders. The team was made up of a great mix of experienced players and players who were new to organized basketball. All of the players were very enthusiastic about getting better and worked hard during practice, which led to great progress over the course of the season. The team played very aggressively in games and quickly adopted a very fast-paced style. The team’s final record was 6 wins and 1 loss. —Dan Balk

Girls’ Varsity BasketballThe girl’s varsity basketball team had a tremendous season. Led by a solid Eighth Grade class, the team was able to enjoy its first winning season in years. The team incorporated a fast break and pressure defense game plan that enabled them to tire their opponents. Buoyed by our four very talented Seventh Graders, DCD averaged over 40 points per game, allowing no more than about 20points per game. The captains, Arianna Sougarides, Marianna Tsoumbanos, and Maeve Dardinski, created a relaxed, fun environment and a real sense of family among the team. This camaraderie and the acceptance of team play was a big factor allowing the team to enjoy the success it achieved both on and off the court. —Fred McPhee

Girls’ JV BasketballThe girls’ JV basketball team had a terrific season, earning 4 wins, 2 losses, and 1 tie. The losses came at the beginning of the season, and the girls worked extremely hard to improve their skills and game play. Not only did all of the members of the team score a basket this season, but also in three different games everyone scored at least one basket, which is very difficult to do. It was a very fulfilling and satisfying season for the coach in that everyone worked hard, improved, had fun, and was there for each other. Anna Glass, who had never played basketball, won the Most Improved Player award for her wonderful attitude and work ethic all season. Angela Giordano, always the first one out of the locker room to practice, won the Coach’s Award for her passion for the game and positive attitude. —Elaine Gage

SquashSeventeen students played squash this year and learned the intricacies of the sport, including serves, volleys, forehand and backhands, as well as boasts and rail shots. The team played seven matches against Nobles (twice), Dana Hall (twice), Milton, Meadowbrook, and Squashbusters. The team was led by the three captains—Holden Corcoran, Evan Landry, and Mira Mashali. Highlights of the year included wins over Dana Hall and Squashbusters as well as numerous individual victories throughout the year. Olivia Sinnott received the Most Improved Player Award, and Holden Corcoran received the Coach’s Award. Congratulations to the entire team for a fine year! —Rick Edie

Boys’ HockeyThis winter saw an enjoyable and successful season on the boys’ hockey team. The team earned a record of 7 wins and no losses, finished off by a gripping overtime victory against Fessenden in the final week of the season. Practices were a mix of conditioning, instruction, and scrimmage; the boys consistently arrived with positive attitudes and the desire to improve their own play and support their teammates. On Tuesdays, we scrimmaged in mixed lines with the girls’ team, which proved to be a productive opportunity for the stronger players on the team to work on supporting teammates, while developing players were able to test themselves in a competitive environment. —Rob Thacher

Girls’ HockeyThe girls’ hockey team was an eager and energetic group who played hard while enjoying the game of hockey. Each player was motivated to improve her game, whether it was in skating, shooting, stick handling, or passing. The 21-member team had a wide range of experience with everyone working hard each day in practice. The girls competed in seven games with highlights being close games against Derby Academy and Fay School. Captains Sara Falkson and Georgia Cabot, along with fellow Eighth Graders Julia Cochran, Isabella Collins, Madeleine Jordan, and Maggie Swanson, did a fantastic job leading the team this year. —Mark Jackson

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Team RecordsBoys’ Basketball 6-1 Coach: Dan BalkCaptains: Aidan Kelly, Jared Ravech

Girls’ Varsity Basketball 6-2 Coach: Fred McPheeCaptains: Maeve Dardinski, Arianna Sougarides, Marianna Tsoumbanos

Girls’ JV Basketball 4-2-1Coach: Elaine GageCaptains: Julia Bemis, Molly Connors, Alyssa Landry, Susan Rowley

Squash 2-6Coaches: Rick Edie, Megan Rothwell ‘97Captains: Holden Corcoran, Evan Landry, Mira Mashali

Boys’ Hockey 7-0Coaches: Rob Thacher, Pete KelleherCaptains: Wil Linell, Colin Mann

Girls’ Hockey 0-7Coaches: Mark Jackson, Lindsay Bababekov Captains: Georgia Cabot, Sara Falkson

Awards Coach’s Award Most Improved Player Award

Boys’ Basketball Jared Ravech Christopher GoldenGirls’ Varsity Basketball Marianna Tsoumbanos Mimi CabotGirls’ JV Basketball Angela Giordano Anna GlassSquash Holden Corcoran Olivia SinnottBoys’ Hockey Colin Mann James GeraghtyGirls’ Hockey Georgia Cabot Julia Cochran

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Steering Committee Leads the Campaign

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Why did you choose to participate in Thrive?Sheila Hiatt: We feel so fortunate to be a part of the DCD community. Our kids have all grown so much because of their experiences here at DCD that we feel obligated to help in whatever way possible, whether it be in terms of our time or our resources or both.

Tim Mann: All independent schools are tuition, Annual Fund, and endowment dependent. DCD is no different. Tuition payments and Annual Fund gifts did not pay for the Rand Gym, the Middle School, the Lower School, or the new playground. The only reason these kid-critical projects were completed was because of the generosity and leadership of current parents and alumni who made capital investments in their school to improve the program for future DCD children and create a modest endowment to sustain the school over time.

Why is participation so important to DCD?Mark Alperin: Participation is a vote of confidence to all observers.

John Connors: DCD is a small school in terms of the number of families enrolled at any given time. While this lends itself to the strong, tight-knit community we all treasure, it makes fundraising that much more difficult. We need everyone to participate to the extent they can, so we can make an amazing school even better. We want great things for DCD, and it is only through the collective effort of all of our families that we can accomplish them.

How would you encourage a new family to get involved

in the campaign?Tim Mann: My kids and every family who attended DCD in the last 20 years are the direct beneficiaries of the previous generation of DCD parents who stepped up and said, “It’s our turn.” They invested time and significant financial resources to build the school our kids now attend. The Thrive Campaign represents this generation of DCD parents’ time to “step up” and help address the present-day challenges the school faces. And like every independent school, the challenges are real, and investments need to be made.

Skip McKee: I would encourage all new families to be pro-active and learn more about how they can help. DCD is their school now. Each new family chose DCD because they love what DCD is today. None of it would have been possible without the parents who are here now and those who came before them. They shouldn’t look at where we are now as the end of a campaign but as the beginning of a new era.

What priorities do you see for the school?Sheila Hiatt: In First Grade, each of my children was asked, “What are your hopes and dreams?” I think of my priorities for the school more as my hopes and dreams for my children and each child at DCD. I hope that we can provide the very best foundation for our children to become lifelong learners who are able to think creatively and independently. I hope that with a DCD education my children will develop into able and confident members of society who think not only

THRIVE: THE CAMPAIGN FOR DCD

The Thrive Campaign Steering Committee has dedicated a tremendous amount of time and thought to the campaign, holding a weekly phone

conference during the past year, in addition to taking on many other responsibilities. Here, they give the reasons, in their own words, for the

importance of the campaign to DCD.

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of themselves, but also of those around them. To do this, we must all be willing to invest in the people, the facilities, and the programs that will make all of this and more possible for our children and those who come after them.

Tim Mann: Like all independent schools, DCD has a number of key challenges and opportunities that require capital investment. If capital investment doesn’t come from current parents who have the financial means (or access to them), it is unlikely to come at all. This puts the school in a very vulnerable position.

Why is the endowment important to DCD?Sheila Hiatt: Growing the endowment is critical to DCD remaining at the forefront of Pre-K to 8 education in our area. A strong endowment means a strong future for DCD. It can help us to reward our faculty and staff with competitive salaries, support, and professional development. It can enable our teachers to look into further developing and enriching academic and extracurricular programs for our children. It can make a DCD education accessible for more children. A strong endowment is the best guarantee that we will be able to provide the optimal experience for our children and those who come after them.

Tim Mann: Tuition payments from families account for 70 percent of the cost of each child’s annual education. Annual Fund gifts from current parents and friends and alumni of DCD back-fill about 28 percent of that cost. The remaining 2 percent of revenue comes from annual distributions from DCD’s modest endowment. This is how it works every year for independent schools. This is the reality. The goal is to ensure teachers and staff are compensated and that a comprehensive, challenging program is delivered to the children.

What are your objectives for the last leg of the

campaign?John Connors: While we need to finish Phase 1 of the Thrive Campaign strong, we also need to look at the larger picture. We need to see this last push as a stepping stone to begin to lay the foundation for a new mindset towards philanthropy.

Mark Alperin: Finish with a flurry. DCD’s campaigns are not as frequent as those at other bigger schools. It takes an enormous amount of volunteer resources and capital from a limited donor base. So it is essential that this campaign get to its goal.

How do you envision the school moving forward post-

campaign?Skip McKee: Our main goal has always been to provide the very best education for our children—one that furthers our mission of creating a place that develops lifelong learners and global citizens. The only way to do this is to have each one of us accept our role in furthering DCD’s mission. We must work together to preserve the essence of a DCD education while allowing it to develop to keep pace with the ever-evolving world in which our children will live.

Tim Mann: If you are in the position to make a capital and/or annual investment in DCD, now is the time to do so. Please step up and be part of this generation of DCD parents who had the ability to be a leader for their kids’ school and rose to the challenge.

Left to right, Thrive Steering Committee members Skip McKee, John Connors, Tim Mann, Sheila Hiatt, and Mark Alperin

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Love of family and DCD motivated Gil Menna to include a bequest to DCD in his will. As a lawyer who knows something about tax practices, at this stage in his life, he decided

it was time to start thinking about where he wanted his money to go after his death.

At 57, after 32 years of practicing law, he has recently begun to focus on estate planning. “You have to figure out what you want to leave to your loved ones and the organizations you care about, because otherwise the government will take it in taxes. In that context, gifts become important, and you have to think hard about how to manage them.”

He talked to his boys, Brian ’01, Michael ’07, and Eric ’10, who were behind his decision to make a gift to DCD. “They were excited and supportive, and they understand the construct of coming up with organizations they all care about. We thought of DCD, because it’s a common denominator for all of us. DCD is on a short list of organizations through which we share a common interest and that we know would benefit from a gift.”

After Michael started in Pre-Kindergarten, Gil says they liked DCD so much that they applied for their eldest son Brian to attend in Sixth Grade. “I’ll never forget watching him cry at graduation. He had only been there for three years, yet he was so sad to be leaving his friends.’’

“We fell in love with the Upper School through Brian at same time we were falling in love with the Pre-Kindergarten program through Michael.” They eventually sent their youngest son, Eric, to DCD, who, like Michael, was a “lifer.”

He remembers Nick Thacher greeting Eric with a handshake on his first day as an Eighth Grader and how he felt seeing his “baby” becoming so grown up, “the last one to enter the gates of DCD and the last one to leave.”

Watching his sons develop friendships over the years, seeing how the teachers engaged them, he says, “DCD strikes the right balance in educating children. As I watched my sons in plays or at sporting events, I could appreciate the wonderful gentle environment, and at the same time, know they were being well educated.”

Eric, who graduates from Milton Academy this spring, is going to Georgetown in the fall, as a student in the School of Foreign Service. Michael, who begins his senior year at Columbia University in the fall, has been studying economics and English. A student of Shakespeare, he received a scholarship to Stratford on Avon in England to study this summer. Brian, who was married last August, attended graduate school at the Boston College Lynch School of Education and is now teaching at Framingham High School. Brian’s wife, Charlotte, teaches in the Boston public school system.

“People who work hard during their lifetime and generate some amount of wealth want to make sure the recipients of gifts are great stewards of capital. With Nick Thacher’s leadership and watching what DCD has done over the years, I know that DCD will be a great steward of our gift.”

Bequest by Gil Menna, P ’01 ’07, ’10, Honors Sons’ Experiences at DCD ’09,

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The Menna boys joined their father on Team Goodwin Procter for the Pan-Mass Challenge in August 2012. Left to right, Gil, Brian ‘01, Eric ‘10, and Michael ‘07.

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Parents of Alumni Gather at the Home of Molly and Rob Cramer P ’05, ’06

Parents of DCD alumni gathered at the home of Molly and Rob Cramer, parents of Bo ’05 and Callie ’06, on November 13, for a casual evening get-together focused on ways of

supporting DCD’s Thrive Campaign.

Following the cocktail hour, guests took a walk through the beautifully landscaped property from the main house to the Stone House, a warm, welcoming structure built in the early 1900s as a gardening shed and converted about 10 years ago to serve as a pool house. The program continued in the Stone

House with coffee and dessert, the viewing of a video outlining the goals of the Thrive Campaign, and remarks by Molly Cramer, Mark Alperin, and Nick Thacher.

Molly Cramer talked about what DCD meant to her family and the importance of supporting it. Mark Alperin spoke about the importance of parents of alumni remaining close to the school and staying involved. Head of School Nick Thacher gave a brief update on the school, including the change to two classrooms per grade and other new initiatives.

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Shoe Prints in the Snow: Funding Dreams through Endowment

As we embark on the final stages of Thrive, the campaign is focused on raising $2 million for DCD’s endowment. Small in comparison to those of its peer schools, the endowment is like a savings account that

helps the school weather difficult times and allows it to be less dependent on tuition revenue. But more importantly, a substantial endowment will ensure that DCD maintains the standards of excellence that have been its hallmark over more than a century.

Up until now, DCD has sustained its current program through a combination of fiscal austerity and the incredible dedication and commitment of its faculty and staff. Such a strategy is mired in short-term thinking, however. If we are to thrive as an institution, as the campaign slogan suggests, we need the freedom and flexibility of adequate funding to continue providing innovative programming for our students and competitive salary packages for our teachers, as well as aid to families who add to the richness of our community but need assistance to meet their educational costs.

A small endowment means constraints on all these important goals. While this may work in the short run, in the long term, we end up compromising our standards and ideals, covering costs instead of funding dreams. Excellence has a price, and it is up to us, the next generation of parents, to step up and do what is necessary for the school.

The late Harry Herrick, who presided over the school as Head for 18 years, once shared a story about hiring the legendary Pat Tynan, a teacher at DCD for 34 years who passed away in 2009. As Harry relayed the story over the phone from his home on the Cape just following Pat’s death, he recounted how there had been a terrible snowstorm, one of those with which we in New England are very familiar, and he never expected Pat to show up for the interview. He heard something unusual outside, and when he got up to investigate the noise, he saw Pat’s shoe prints in the snow circling the school. Needless to say, he hired him, so in awe was he of Pat’s dogged determination.

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What are the goals of Thrive?

The Thrive Campaign hopes to raise

$2 million in endowed gifts so the

school can achieve the following goals:

• Offer competitive salaries and

opportunities for professional

growth so DCD can attract and

retain the best teachers

• Provide sufficient financial aid

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What are some of the funds I can support through the Endowment? The Nick Thacher Leadership FundThis fund has been established to honor Nick Thacher for his

leadership of DCD from 2005 to the present. It is a permanently

restricted discretionary fund whose income will enable future

DCD Heads of School to support creative educational initiatives,

faculty pursuits that go beyond traditional professional

development activities, research for curricular innovation, special

stipends for employees who have gone “above and beyond,” and

other initiatives that otherwise would not fall into the normal

operating budget.

Faculty “Dream” FundThis fund will support faculty pursuits that go beyond traditional

professional development experiences such as conferences and

workshops and will encourage DCD employees to “dream” and

pursue a particular passion.

Financial Aid and Scholarship FundsNamed endowment funds to underwrite tuition and related

educational expenses, awarded to a specific child through the

school’s financial aid program.

It is that kind of determination that has seen DCD to this point in its evolution. And, this is what the campaign is about—repaying the generation that went before us with the promise to preserve its investment, and all that means, for future generations.

Excellence has a price, and it is up to us, the next generation of parents, to step up and do what is necessary for the school.

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...a substantial endowment will ensure that DCD maintains the standards of excellence that have been its hallmark over more than a century.

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Ellen TretterFrom Kindergarten teacher to Director of Admissions to Interim Head of School, Ellen Tretter Made the Needs of Children the Center of the Admissions Process.

Ellen Tretter has played so many roles in her 22-year career at DCD that you might have known her in

one and not in another. Comfortable in all of them, she started out as a Kindergarten teacher in 1992, went on to become Director of Admissions in 2000, and in 2004, served as interim Head of School when Sonia Valentine became ill for an extended period of time. She was a source of strength and stability during that time, “holding Sonia’s place,” in her words, so that the school continued to run smoothly in Sonia’s absence.

Co-teachers, children, parents, and faculty all felt her influence. Nothing could faze her, and she often greeted even the most difficult of situations with her quick-witted sense of humor. Her job as Admissions Director included refurbishing the Emmons Lobby, which she periodically continued to clean and freshen with new pictures and student artwork. An avid sports fan, she made sure Opening Day at Fenway was duly celebrated with Red Sox decorations in the Lawrence Room and hot dogs for lunch. And, on Halloween, she decorated the Admissions Office with blinking lights and spider webs.

She had her eye on all aspects of the school as they might be seen by an inquiring family, and her attention to their needs continued long after they enrolled, worrying about how this or that child was doing in class or out on the playground.

She made it all look easy, and in fact, she kept an “easy button” on her desk. Administrators and staff were rarely able to walk by her office without being called to attend to one detail or another. In the end, it was the children who mattered the most to Ellen, and her legacy will be the fine future each one has in store now because of his or her educational experience at DCD.

—Leslie Bowen

Ellen Tretter, left, wore many hats during her tenure at DCD, including this one for greeting children arriving at school on Halloween with Gail Schnopp.

Ellen as a Kindergarten teacher

CampusNewsRetirement News

After 23 years at the helm of the Extended Day Program (EDP), Faith Yetman retired in June 2013 and was acknowledged for her dedicated service during Closing Exercises.

Faith’s first involvement at DCD was as a parent. Her sons Lyle ’92, Brad ’95, and Kevin ’02 were all students at DCD before Mom joined them at school in her role as the Director of EDP.

Running an afterschool program is a complicated job and requires just the right person, one who is flexible and patient, and who has the ability to warmly welcome students at the end of their busy school day. Faith possessed all of these qualities. Every day she navigated the afternoon from lunch with the Primary School students right through to homework help with the Lower and Middle School students.

The best programs are built on routines, and Faith had this down to a science. Her Pre-Kindergarteners and Kindergarteners looked forward to their daily agenda: lunch came first, followed by bike path and recess time, then on to a theme-based art project, a relaxing story, and capped off with a few group games. What many of her

colleagues and parents did not know is that Faith is a fierce card player! Every afternoon between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m., Faith and a posse of boys would gather at the table to play Uno, Rat-a-tat Cat, and Go Fish. These students learned much about math, not to mention fair game play, during these competitive card games.

Faith was a consistently warm and gentle presence at the Huntington House. And, at the end of a day, she would often be just the right mix of mother and teacher. The mother in her was ready to sympathize with a child who may have had a difficult day at school, while the teacher in her was able to say, “Okay, now it is time to get that homework done.”

For more than two decades, Faith shaped the afternoon program, supporting the social and emotional development of hundreds of children at DCD, and for that we are all immensely grateful.

—Caroline Swan

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After 27 years working as DCD’s kitchen assistant, Janice Niak retired in December 2013 and was acknowledged for her friendly, “mother-to-all” personality during

the Annual Holiday Assembly, which was also dedicated in her honor.

Janice began her tenure at DCD when the former assistant, Ginny Rush, a friend of Janice’s, was leaving the position and asked Janice if she would be interested in “helping out” in the kitchen. Janice did not hesitate in accepting the position. Over the years, Janice has worked with two head chefs and witnessed three Heads of School take the reins at the school.

Everyone who entered the kitchen could not help but stop and chat and catch up on the latest Niak family news, as Janice shared her cherished pictures with us!

When asked what she will do now that she is not feeding our community, Janice chuckled, saying that her large extended family will keep her cooking skills up to their highest standards.

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Exploring Innovative Uses of Technology iPads present teachers with new ways of enhancing learning.

Faculty Initiatives

Learning truly is a way of life for both teachers and students at DCD when it comes to using

technology in the classroom. Technology use among the faculty varies according to need and comfort level, but many teachers have been using it in innovative ways to enhance classroom instruction and take advantage of the incredible resources available to them at DCD.

The laptop program in Middle School has been in place for more than 10 years, and more recently, the school has made an investment in iPads. Next September, every child in Grades 3 through 5 will be given an iPad, and Grades 1 and 2 will have iPads available in all their classrooms.

Librarian Marge Farquharson stresses the importance of iPad use

being integrated into the curriculum. “I think about the skills that I want to reinforce and plan a project to integrate that skill as it relates to the topic of study,” she says.

In her Third Grade unit on William Steig’s book Rotten Island, for example, she asked students to draw a monster in the style of the author. For the writing component, they named their monster, told where it

lived and what it ate, and described its personality. Using the app Yakit Kids on the iPad, students took a picture of their monster, defined where the mouth should go, recorded their written description, and added such special effects as smoke coming out of the monster’s nose. The finished product was an animated monster they created.

Grade 4 and 5 Reading and Math teacher Stephanie Chiari took a two-day iPad workshop this winter that helped her develop online lessons on math topics, such as figuring area and perimeter.

Using Educreations, a free app, she can create a video on a topic the children haven’t studied yet in class and have them preview it at home. Away from classroom distractions,

the students can listen at their own speed and review the lesson if they want. Once back in the classroom, Stephanie does a quick review, asking students to tell her about what they learned.

“It makes my classroom time more efficient, and the kids seem to like it. They get excited when I assign it for homework.” Looking at a video or playing a game can seem like more fun than completing a worksheet, but as she says, “It’s one of the nice things about using technology in teaching, that it offers a different way to tackle a subject and gives students practice with the concept being covered.”

Having access to technology is an advantage for parents, as well. “The way we teach math has changed over the years. We want to make sure that when parents help their child, they’re not confusing them. The online lessons give parents an opportunity to hear what the child is learning in class.”

Besides giving teachers more options and greater flexibility in dealing with a range of student learning styles and preferences, Stephanie says it allows her to be more of a “guide on the side,” facilitating the learning experience but putting the tools in the hands of the students.

Librarian Marge Farquharson works with students on a project that incorporates use of the iPad.

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An ambitious group of eight Middle School students represented DCD at the annual

MathCounts national competition in February at Melrose High School. Math Coordinator Brenda Leith worked with the group over several months to help prepare them for the test.

Students who were interested in competing took a qualifying test made up of questions from past years’ tests. Because they hadn’t yet studied most of the material covered on the test, it required them to use their reasoning abilities instead of just memorization or computation.

DCD competed in the most competitive chapter in Massachusetts in which 250 students in Grades 6 through 8

answered questions in three rounds, two independently and one in groups of four.

The answers were timed, and students had to work quickly without making errors, paying careful attention to reading each question in detail. In the final stage of the competition, the top ten scorers from the three rounds competed Jeopardy style.

Brenda, who also hosts a Math Club once a week, says the competition is not for everyone. “The contest is very intense,” she says. “Not every student wants that type of competitive experience. It can be very stressful for some of them, even the strongest ones.”

She says the DCD students who competed really enjoyed the experience and came away from the

contest amazed at their peers’ math knowledge.

The important thing, she says, is that the students have a chance to challenge themselves. Besides being willing to give up a Saturday to participate in the contest, students had to take on extra work to prepare for it. All eight Math Team members came to school early once a week for Math Club at 7:30 a.m.

“The challenge is there if they want it,” she says. “The Math Team had to do a lot of preparation over the months preceding the contest, and that required their full commitment.”

Mathletes Compete in National Contest

Left to right, Angela Giordano, Charlie Volpe, Brady Chitkara, Maggie Swanson, Arianna Sougarides, Marianna Tsoumbanos, Isabella Collins, and Mimi Cabot

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DDCD Middle School students received six awards at the annual SISAL (Small

Independent School Art League) juried show, including an award for Best in Show for the digital photograph by Charlotte Epker and Angela Giordano, “Hanging Lamps.”

Three additional first place awards went to Molly King in

the mixed media category for her mosaic, “Elephant,” ZeeZee Canning in the wood category for her Shaker box, and Isabella Collins in the metalsmithing category for her bracelet. Campbell Resnick received second place in the woodworking category for his rustic bench, and Pat Shiel received an honorable mention for his drawing, “Lunchtime.”

All the work entered by DCD

students was displayed at Cape Cod Academy, where an awards ceremony was held on April 12.

SISAL is an organization of small independent schools in southern New England that holds an annual competition and exhibition of student artwork. Sixteen schools from Massachusetts and Rhode Island participated in this year’s show, judged by three well-known Cape Cod artists.

DCD Wins “Best in Show” at SISAL

Bracelet by Isabella Collins, First Place, Metalsmithing

“Elephant,” by Molly King, First Place, Mixed Media“Hanging Lamps,” photograph by Charlotte Epker and Angela Giordano, Best in Show

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Dedham Country Day School Eighth Graders Sara Falkson and

Isabella Collins have earned recognition from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, a prestigious regional and national competition for young artists and writers in grades 7–12.

Sara received a Gold Key for her photo, Icicle (right). Isabella, who won a Gold Key last year for her rustic bench, received one again this year for sculpture. Both students were eligible to also take part in the national competition, which is administered by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, Inc. each year in New York.

The awards ceremony for this year’s Massachusetts winners was held on Saturday, March 8, 2014, at the Blackman Auditorium at Northeastern University. Works by Gold Key award winners were exhibited at Boston City Hall, March 7–28.

The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards have an impressive legacy dating back to 1923 and a noteworthy roster of past winners including Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Richard Avedon, Robert Redford, and Joyce Carol Oates. They continue

to be the longest-running, most prestigious recognition program for creative teens in the United States.

The awards are an important opportunity for students to be recognized for their creative talents and to have their works exhibited or published. Submissions in 28 different categories are juried by a panel of luminaries in the visual and literary arts who look for works that best exemplify originality, technical skill, and the emergence of a personal voice or vision.

“Icicle,” by Sara Falkson, won a Gold Award from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

Visual Arts Displayed at Gallery Week

Middle School students exhibited their art during Gallery Week at DCD, April 7–14.

A reception for the artists was held on Thursday evening, April 10. Selected students made presentations during the event, which was attended by family and friends and open to the entire community, including the Alumni Council, who visited before their meeting that night.

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Holden Corcoran Wins DCD Geography Bee

Ten students in Grades 4 through 8 participated in DCD’s annual Geography Bee, which was held in the Lowell Center on January 9.

This year’s winner was Holden Corcoran, an Eighth Grader. Fifth Grader Mia D’Angelo was the runner up.

The other participants this year were Parker Collins and Joey Shagoury (Fourth Grade); Noah McFarlane (Fifth Grade); Brady Chitkara and Alfie Rudnick (Sixth Grade); Spencer Beakey and Clare

Quinn (Seventh Grade); and Marianna Tsoumbanos (Eighth Grade).

Each year thousands of schools in the United States participate in the National Geographic Bee using materials prepared by the National Geographic Society. The contest is designed to encourage teachers to include geography in their classrooms, spark student interest in the subject, and increase public awareness about geography. Holden joined other winners from around the country in taking the statewide test to determine eligibility for the national exam held at National Geographic Headquarters in Washington, D.C., in the spring. The winner of that contest receives a $25,000 scholarship.

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Maggie Swanson Wins Annual DCD Spelling Bee

Eighth Grader Maggie Swanson bested the other two finalists, Sixth Grader Charlie Volpe, who was last year’s champion, and Seventh Grader Sarah Leder, by correctly spelling “precocious” at the DCD Spelling Bee on February 27.

Maggie has twice before represented her grade (in Fourth and Seventh Grades), so she is a seasoned veteran of DCD spelling bees.

The finalist round went on for quite a long time, as the finalists fielded “miscellaneous,” “metamorphosis,” and “meticulous,” sometimes all correct, sometimes all wrong.

Other contestants: Parker Collins and Maeve Haggerty in Fourth Grade, Charlie Sinnott and Eddie Shin in Fifth Grade, Charlotte Epker in Sixth Grade, Julia Bemis in Seventh, and Wil Linell in Eighth.

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DCD’s annual celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took place on Friday,

January 17, 2014, engaging children, faculty, and parents in a morning spent doing and planning various types of community service activities.

The day began with a special assembly during which the Chorus performed. This was followed by classroom time for students to work on their projects, which they later presented to the whole school community at a mid-morning gathering in the Lowell Center.

Community Service

Fifth Graders Taylor McCourt, left, and Aleesa Borghi record a book on tape for Kids Are People Too Charter School in Boston.

DCD Participates in the Walk for Hunger

Twenty-seven students, six parents, and two faculty members walked the 20-mile Walk for Hunger on Sunday, May 4, raising over $3,600 for Project Bread.

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Sally McOsker shares a moment in class with grandson Wil Linell, an Eighth Grader.

Fourth Grader Sophie Hiatt and grandmother Gloria Hoke discuss an assignment in class.

Fifth Grader Alex Burmeister and her grandmother Julie Burmeister work on math problems together.

John Canning and Eighth Grader ZeeZee Canning work together on a project in the woodshop.

Friday, April 11, was a particularly lively day at DCD. Classrooms were bulging and buzzing, the halls were lively, and every last parking space was taken as grandparents and special

guests had the opportunity to share a day in the life of a DCD student! From a classroom discussion to a worktable in the woodshop to studying bone structure in the science lab to a music workstation in the computer lab, our guests learned what it is like to be a student at DCD. There was a feeling of nostalgia in the air…Oh, to be a child again, and learning at DCD!

Grandparents Kongsu and Sungbun Shin work on a math problem with grandson Eddie Shin, a Fifth Grader.

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Susan Falkson visits with granddaughter Nina Falkson, a Fifth Grader.

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Jingyi Sun visits with Kindergartners Maisie Gronemeyer and Jeffrey Welham.

Kathy Mann visits the science classroom with granddaughter Rachel Mann, a Sixth Grader.

Sixth Grader Hugo Abramowitz works on his Adirondack chair while grandmother Kathleen Kelleher looks on.

Tony Angeli works on a project with his grandson Quentin, a Kindergartner.

Joyce Bacardi and granddaughter Christiane Fallon-Bacardi, a Third Grader, listen together in class.

More than 200 party goers attended Dedham Country Day School’s Celebration of the Arts and Auction, a glittering evening event held on March

7 at the Endicott Estate in Dedham.

The event raised more than $54,000 to support professional development opportunities for DCD faculty and financial aid for students.

The Endicott Estate sparkled as guests moved among the rooms, each providing just a glimpse of the depth of talent that exists within the DCD community.

Parents, alumni, parents of alumni, grandparents, current and past faculty and staff along with a number of local artists and artisans donated more than 80 works of art and handmade items to the auction.

The Live Auction featured a print by DCD art teacher Lisa Houck and an original oil painting by the well-known Boston School painter Robert Douglas Hunter, parent of Dee Dee ’01 and husband of Liz Valsam Hunter ’58. A number of Dedham Square Artist Guild members also donated works to the auction. The event was co-chaired by Anna Beakey and Erin Keith Epker ’86.

Among the guests were 45 parents of alumni and 20 alumni, along with grandparents, faculty members and friends. It was truly the community-wide event we had hoped it would be.

The outpouring of interest and generosity of donors and bidders, volunteers, committee members, and our faculty and staff were a reminder of the closeness and commitment of the many generations of families who share a connection to DCD.

Left to right, Erin Keith Epker ‘86, Susanne Joyce, and Anna Beakey

Elaine and Tim Mann, left, with Sharisse Cail Perry and Steven Perry ‘85

Bettina Toner, left, and Kelly Honohan

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Tracy and Steven Angeli

Jane Cheever ponders the collection of auction items in the mirror room.

Nancy Doyle, left, with John and Shelley Keith

Liza Connelly ‘81, center, and her husband Paul Toomey, left, with Tim Jackson ‘58

Anastasia Tsoumbanos, left, with Third Grade teacher Lynne Mayard

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Co-ChairsAnna BeakeyErin Keith Epker ’86

Art CommitteeAnna BeakeyLinda CabotLiza Connelly ’81Erin Keith Epker ’86Marge FarquharsonSusan GlaserMelanie Guerra ’86Lisa Houck

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Young Professionals Gather at Granary Tavern in Boston

Over 20 DCD alumni came out to the Alumni Association Happy Hour and Networking Event at the Granary Tavern on February 6, 2014. Alumni reminisced

together about their days as students and caught up on current student life with Head of School Nick Thacher. The Alumni Council plans to make this an annual event. Thank you to current DCD parent Mike Glynn for hosting this networking event!

Head of School Nick Thacher, left, with Jason Indelicato ‘94

Jamie Stoddard ‘97, left, and Nick Crocker ‘96 Left to right, Louisa Harrison ‘04, Torie Allen ‘01, and Dee Dee Hunter ‘01

Photographs by Danise Cavallaro

We received 31 new gifts from young alumni as a result of the February Challenge, a contest among 10 schools on Facebook. Alumni participation

in DCD’s Annual Fund more than doubled and is now over 10 percent. DCD was 4th in overall alumni participation! We are grateful to all who participated for their generosity and for rallying classmates, friends, and siblings. A big thank you goes to Alumni Association President Erin Keith Epker ’86 for matching all gifts.

February Challenge ResultsNew Networking App

Dedham Country Day School now offers a mobile networking app by EverTrue. Stay connected with this free app for your Apple or Android smartphone with access to the

entire searchable alumni directory, as well as DCD news and events, reunion information, and more. You can connect with graduates from your hometown or around the world. Get updates on everything DCD! Download it today from the iTunes or Google Play store.

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John V. Woodard ’52, an attorney who has dedicated his life to service and volunteerism, has

received DCD’s 2014 Alumni Award. DCD Alumni Association president Erin Keith Epker ’86 presented the award at a reception for alumni on May 2.

John has a long history of serving both his community and DCD. He has spent the last four decades working in the nonprofit world as a board member, often in leadership roles, and as a volunteer consultant working with small nonprofit organizations.

At DCD, John served as a trustee and was board president from 1983 to 1987, leading the school during a capital campaign that funded new science facilities.

He has also been involved in Dedham town and community activities, serving as director and president of the Dedham Community Association, Inc., since 2001. In addition to being active in his own Dedham parish, he has served as a consultant to the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts.

Since 1971, he has served as a trustee of The Boston Home, Inc. where he was board president from 1985 to 2002. As chair of the Faulkner Hospital board from 1986 to 2000, he was involved in the process that led to its affiliation with the Partners Health Care System.

His involvement with Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, first as legal counsel, then trustee and chair, dates back to the early 1970s. After Spaulding went through a period of consolidation with Mass General and eventually merged with Partners, he stayed on as chair of the new entity, Partners Continuing Care, from 2001 to 2008. He was a trustee at Partners from 2008 until 2012, and now serves as honorary chair.

John’s siblings, Anne Tucker ’69, William ’63, Tom ’59, and Charles Jr. ’51, all graduated from DCD as did John’s wife Linda Mixter Woodard ’58, a member of the DCD Alumni Council, and their daughters Heather Ritter ’89 and Robin Westerberg ’90. With his father Charlie’s service on the board during the 1950s, his

family’s involvement at DCD spans three generations.

At the reception, John thanked his family for their support over the years, which allowed him to pursue his volunteer activities, which caused him to spend time away from his family on evenings and weekends.

Remembering his time as a student more than a half century ago, he said, “DCD has been a formative and enduring part of my life. I received a sound, well-grounded education from a dedicated faculty who instilled in me values that I have maintained over the years. I had memorable experiences in plays, sports, music, art, and sloyd (woodworking) and made endearing friendships with classmates, all of which have been life shaping.”

John Woodard ’52 Receives DCD’s 2014 Alumni Award

Left to right, Head of School Nick Thacher, Alumni Association President Erin Keith Epker ‘86, John Woodard ‘52, and Linda Mixter Woodard ‘58

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To visit Henry Keene ’38 in his home in Dedham is to take a walk through history. Paintings of

ancestors line the walls, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and old family photos fill the bookcases to bursting. An extensive collection of books on marine topics as well as an incredible collection of paintings of ships and wooden models of boats of all shapes and sizes testify to a family history of boatbuilding stretching back to to the old shipyards of Thomaston, Maine.

Curiously enough though, Henry traces a good part of the origin of his own boatbuilding history to his landlocked days at DCD.

“Working with wood at DCD was something that ran through my life,” he remembers. “We built just about everything.” He recalls fondly how “One classmate I remember made lobster traps that he used in the summer to catch lobsters.”

“Back in those days,” he recalls, “if you wanted something you had to make it yourself. It was the thirties, the Depression.”

Henry remembers those days at DCD’s High Street location at the corner of Bullard Street. “All the teachers were young. I remember Miss Boyd, who lived on the corner of Bullard. The teachers used to park

their cars there. Our baseball field was next door, and there were many times a ball would hit against her house and we’d have to go and fix a window the next day.”

It was Mr. Ladd, the head of school then, who did much of the making and fixing at DCD, and who became a role model for Henry, as he was for many of the students of that era.

“I remember him building the toboggan run in back of where the school stands now. It lasted for many years. He had to do it himself. There was no money to pay anyone.”

Hard times didn’t mean bad times though. It was at DCD that Henry would come to build his first boat. “It was a kayak,” he remembers. “We had kits we had to put together. The kayaks were made of canvas and we’d pour water over them to shrink the canvas.”

As always there was need to improvise, especially to get them to the water. “I took some wheels from my sister’s old bike and made a little tow and put the kayak on it and attached it to my bike and rode it to Norwood or Dover to the water. We all did things like that, somedays riding out together along the roads with our kayaks in tow. I can’t imagine doing that now though,” he adds.

The lessons he learned at DCD would serve him well when the war came. “I finished up at Tabor on the 27th, and on the 28th, the Army came for me. We were brought to the old Packard Building by Boston University and sworn in after our tests and physicals. A few days later, we gathered again at the court house from where we were shipped out for training.”

For Henry, the war meant serving as a combat engineer at 18 and spending years in the Pacific. “I remember just before we left the ship, after the Sunday service, the familiar speech about some of you are not going to be alive tomorrow.” And, there would be losses. He remembers standing almost next to the legendary journalist Ernie Pyle when the bullet struck that took his life on Okinawa. In the end, Henry’s company would suffer the loss of only two of its men.

Again, in the war, in the combat engineers, as it would be after, it was the same problem-solving ethic and sense of teamwork that saw him through, he recalls.

“Nobody knew what they were doing. Should it be this thick, that thick? What’s going to work? Some of it was just talking it out. It was all trial and error.”

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After the war, things were not easy. “At the end of the war there was a lack of things. There was no wood, no clothing, nothing really available, but then everyone shared in the hardships,” he recalls.

It was in these years after the war that he built his maritime business, designing and making marine hardware. Henry never would leave

Dedham though, commuting the hour back and forth to New Bedford each day. His two sons now run the business, leaving Henry to entertain his grandchildren, sharing his models, showing them new ones under construction in his workshop.

He shows no signs of slowing down. He still takes in work on models for museums, and this spring,

he organized the 70th reunion of his graduating class from Tabor.

“I wanted to do things,” Henry says recalling those days back at DCD and after. An inspiration for us all, in his life, in his family, in his workshop, in his relationship with DCD, he continues on with that doing.

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ClassNotes

1950s

Hope Baker ’56 writes, “I served on Suffolk

County Grand Jury March to July, 2013…

very interesting. So glad I did it and doubly

glad it was NOT Federal Grand Jury (Bulger,

the Marathon Bombers etc., etc., etc.).”

Laurie Gardos ’59 writes, “It has been quite

the year as a move from New Hampshire to

North Carolina is not what I had seen myself

doing, I am going to blame it all on George

who loves surfing and warm weather! I am

a New Englander at heart, but the move has

given us all many new opportunities. It is

the total opposite of the very quiet life in the

New Hampshire forests. We are all enjoying

the changes and also the ability to grow and

experience new things, with a totally new

climate all the way around.”

1970s

Nancy Sarkis Corcoran ’79 writes, “My son,

Holden, is in 8th grade at DCD. It’s been a

great 10 years! Can’t believe he’ll be in high

school next year!”

1980s

Laura Basanese ’80 writes, “Twins are now

nine, almost ten, and in a similar school

here in southern California. Cheering on

triathlon husband and enjoying the great

outdoors. Getting teaching certification

in 2014 to re-engage in leadership

organizational change training. Getting

back into research, writing, and teaching is

fascinating and fun.”

Lisa Lieberman Weiss ’89 and her husband

Ran celebrated his birthday in a bit of a

different way this year. She writes, “For my

husband’s 40th birthday, he asked me not

to give him anything but instead to give to

others. His idea was to give warm winter

gear and a hot meal to homeless people in

New York City. We are going to make HOT

BUMS a family tradition. It is our goal to

expand to HOT BABES (children) and HOT

DOGS (animals). We invite you to join us in

your hometown.”

“What you can do to help: We made five

gift bags. Each gift bag contained a warm

blanket or sleeping bag, winter gloves, a

scarf, a hat and two pairs of warm socks. In

addition, we bought hot Dunkin’ Donuts

meals and extra large coffees. We looked

for homeless people on the streets, under

scaffolding and tarps. Their reactions ranged

from sheer gratefulness to asking to see us

again. Our kids were amazed.”

“I live in Rye, New York, with my husband

Ran and my sons Tom (10) and Ben (8). I

work in New York City and would love to

see any alums in the area!”

1990s

Jimmy Spengler ’90 and his wife Kathryn

welcomed Ione Julia Cosgrove Spengler, 9

lbs. 4 oz., on April 15, 2014. Ione joins their

son Kobs (2).

Colby Hunter-Thomson Previte ’91 writes,

“Greg and I are doing well in Rochester.

Both of us have taken management roles in

our practices in the past six months, so we

Ione Julia Cosgrove Spengler, daughter of Jimmy Spengler ’90 and his wife Kathryn, was born on April 15, 2014.

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are adjusting at home! Carter is loving first

grade, and we are reveling in watching

him learn to read. Ainsley is 2 1/2 and

never stops moving. She is learning

songs, “memorizing” her favorite books

(Madeline and others), and just learned to

spell her name.”

Kristin Kara Tsipis ’91 writes, “My

husband Yanni and I live in downtown

Boston, and we are both in the real estate

industry. We welcomed our son Henry

into the world on January 30, 2013.”

Katie Cochran Delaney ’92 writes, “My

husband Tim and I welcomed our son,

John “Connor” Delaney, to the world on

November 2, 2013. He weighed 8 lbs. 12

oz. and measured 21.25 inches long. We

are enjoying every minute with him.”

Emily Tynan McDaniel ’93 married Adam

McDaniel on June 21, 2013, in Deer Isle,

Maine. Emily and Adam now live in

Asheville, North Carolina.

Sara Hagan Parker ’93 and her husband

Jason welcomed a baby boy on November

6, 2013. Luke joins older siblings Eric (4.5)

and Olivia (2.5).

Nick Crocker ’96 and his wife Jennifer

welcomed a baby boy, Charlie, on

December 14, 2013. Charlie joins older

brother Thomas, who is two.

Jenny Lawson ’96 married Brian Bates

in North Haven, Maine, last summer.

Janet Lawson writes, “Jenny and Brian are

living in Baltimore. She has completed

her master’s at Johns Hopkins and is

a Certified Nurse Midwife. Brian is

completing his fourth year of medical

school and is waiting to find out where he

will end up for his three-year residency

program in family medicine.”

Stephanie O’Keefe McKenna ’96 writes,

“My husband, Michael McKenna, two

sons Logan (3.5) and Owen (1.5), and

I are looking forward to attending the

Fair this year. I’ve been working for the

Department of Revenue for almost three

years. Other than work, I have my two

beautiful boys to keep me busy. As for my

brother, Matthew O’Keefe ’91, he lives out

in Deerfield with his wife Jenn and two

sons, David and Matthew.”

Bowen Posner ’96 married Emily

Arensman on September 21, 2013. Emily

is a Princeton and Williams graduate

and works in public programming at

the Whitney Museum in New York City.

Bowen is a UPenn and Harvard graduate

and is now the Associate Director of

Admissions at Yale.

Kimberly Maloomian ’97 is engaged to

Ted Iorio from Millis, Massachusetts,

and West Palm Beach, Florida. Terry

Cunningham Maloomian ’55 writes,

“She continues her work as lead dietician

for Miriam Hospital’s Bariatric Center in

Providence, Rhode Island. She also keeps

up with riding and showing her horses all

year long.”

Lindsay Marich Owen ’97 and her

husband Chris welcomed Cameron

Christopher Owen, 7 lbs. 10 oz.,

affectionately known as “Cam,” on April

5, 2014.

Ben Harrison ’99 married Allison Sears

on August 17, 2013 in Chestnut Hill,

Pennsylvania.

Cameron (Cam) Christopher Owen, son of Lindsay Marich Owen ’97 and husband Chris, was born on April 5, 2014.

John “Connor” Delaney, son of Katie Cochran Delaney ’92 and husband Tim, was born on November 2, 2013.

Kristin Kara Tsipis ’91 and husband Yanni welcomed a son, Henry, on January 30, 2013.

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Greg Maloomian ’99 bought a house

and lives in Carlsbad, California. Terry

Cunningham Maloomian ’55 writes, “He is

currently working as a financial officer for

Crunch Gyms, a fitness corporation based on

the West Coast.”

2001Brian Menna ’01, who was married last

August 17, attended graduate school at the

Boston College Lynch School of Education

and is now teaching at Framingham High

School.

2002Kristie Gillooly Dean ’02 married Archie

Dean on January 4, 2014.

2003Diana Duryea writes, “George Duryea ’03

graduated from Trinity several years ago

with a degree in neuroscience and was

working as a QA Analyst for Genzyme. He

then worked for a year at the Judge Group,

a recruiting firm for the biotech industry in

Providence. Most recently, he just returned

from four months in Europe (mostly Italy

and Germany) working on organic farms

in return for room and board. He is trying

to determine what to do next and is leaning

towards teaching—he loves intellectual

challenge and sense of community.

Hmmm…wonder if he got that from DCD?”

Madeline Pongor ’03 is in graduate school at

Georgetown.

Mark Boyer, Lily Posner ’03, Bowen Posner ’96 and bride Emily Arensman, and Barbara Millen.

Carter Harrison, Ben Harrison ‘99 and bride, Allison Sears, Louisa Harrison ‘04, and Caroline Harrison ‘02.

Kristie Gillooly ‘02 married Archie Dean on January 4, 2014.

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Lily Posner ’03 is a UPenn graduate and is

completing the post-baccalaureate pre-med

curriculum at Columbia University. She also

works as a research manager at Mt. Sinai

Hospital in the area of women’s health.

2005Olivia Beckwith ’05 is working at PAN

Communications, a PR agency in Boston. She

is also working at Harding-Lane doing social

media and communications work and has

been coaching squash at Dana Hall.

Myles Bowen ’05 is working as an assistant

teacher at the Tremont School in Weston.

He will attend graduate school in the fall at

the Massachusetts School of Professional

Psychology.

2006Katharine Barker ’06 was awarded NESCAC

Sportsmanship award for Connecticut

College Field Hockey in fall 2013 and was

named to the Dean’s Honors list for the fall

semester.

Callie Cramer ’06 delivered a presentation

titled “The Collective Effect of Appearance

Change Instruction and Co-Witness

Manipulation” at Bates College’s Mount David

Summit, the college’s annual campus-wide

celebration of student academic achievement.

Diana Duryea writes, “Nadia Duryea ’06

transferred to Northeastern after Freshman

year at Connecticut College and is much

happier there as a communications major

(but no more field hockey...). She has one

more year left. Her first co-op was for Jill’s

List in Boston—her office was directly in

front of the second explosion during the

Boston Marathon, so Nadia was very much a

part of all that terror—and so were we, as she

texted to us: ‘There is a bomb. Love you guys.’

And then we didn’t hear back from her for

almost an hour!”

Helen Queenan ’06 participated in the Study

Abroad Program at the University of the

South Pacific, Alafua Campus, Samoa, in

fall 2013, and conducted an Independent

Study Project “Establishing Priorities for

Mental Health Services in Samoa.” The study

examined resources and services available

to the mentally ill and the effectiveness of

those resources. Helen graduates from Smith

College in May 2014 with plans to pursue a

career in public health. She also was awarded

associate membership in the Smith College

Chapter of Sigma Xi, a national scientific

research society and honor society.

Emily Tynan McDaniel ’93 married Adam McDaniel on June 21, 2013, in Deer Isle, Maine.

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Thomas Crocker, 2, gets to know baby brother Charlie, who was born on December 14, 2013, to Nick Crocker ’96 and his wife Jennifer.

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2007Neddy Beckwith ’07 studied in Perugia,

Italy, at the Umbria Institute, a Connecticut

College program.

Michael Menna ’07 begins his senior year

this fall at Columbia University, where he

has been studying economics and English.

A student of Shakespeare, he received a

scholarship to Stratford-on-Avon in England

to study this summer.

Mariah Pongor ’07 is a junior at Georgetown

and an honors student.

2008Ellie Barker ’08 was named to the Dean’s List

at Bucknell University for the fall semester.

2009Ben Castagnola ’09 is a freshman at

Quinnipiac University.

James Fiore ’09 will attend Union College in

fall 2014, where he will play football for the

Dutchmen.

Kristina Koskores ’09 is now a freshman

at Bryn Mawr College with intentions of

majoring in classics.

Jessica Lee ’09 graduated Cum Laude from

Andover, and is now a freshman at Yale,

where she is exploring many different things

as well as playing women’s squash.

Eva Murray ’09 was named to the Dean’s

High Honors list for the fall semester at

Connecticut College.

2010Jenny Barrack ’10 was named a NEPSAC All-

Star for Girls’ Hockey.

Taylor Block ’10 was named a NEPSAC All-

Star for Girls’ Basketball.

Leah Ciffolillo ’10 made the high honor roll

at The Rivers School during the first term of

this year and will attend Colorado College in

the fall.

Jimmy Cochran ’10 was elected senior class

president at Buckingham, Browne & Nichols.

Juliana Fiore ’10 was named a NEPSAC

All-Star for Field Hockey, and was named to

the NEPSAC Field Hockey All-Tournament

Team.

Eric Menna ’10, who graduates from Milton

Academy this spring, is going to Georgetown

in the fall, as a STIA (Science, Technology,

and International Affairs) student in the

School of Foreign Service.

The Ayles girls celebrated their final game of the season game playing for ISL co-champion Nobles. Maddie ‘11 is on the left, and Allee ‘12 is the goalie on the right.

Sam Hornstein ‘11 and his mother Abby met with Cardinal James Michael Harvey, at St. Paul outside the wall during their visit to the Vatican.

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2011Maddie Ayles ’11 was named a NEPSAC All-

Star for Field Hockey

Zach Castagnola ’11 is a junior at Xaverian

Brothers and achieved Second Honors for

the first marking period.

Sam Hornstein ’11 met with Pope Francis in

fall 2013. Abby Hornstein, mother of Sam

and Shira ’13 writes, “In 6th grade at DCD,

Sam announced at dinner that he would

study Latin. Mark was skeptical saying,

‘Where are you going to use it, are you going

to speak to the Pope?’ Sam did just that. He

accompanied me to a reunion at the Vatican

to celebrate the Patrons of the Arts. He met

and was able to speak Latin with several

Cardinals and Bishops who were members

of the Papal Curia and classical scholars at

the museum. Greg Burke, director of Vatican

communications, was so thrilled to learn that

Sam’s Latin class followed the Pope’s Latin

Tweets. A special treat included speaking

privately with the Pope in Latin.”

Matthew Kearney ’11 achieved Honors

during the first quarter and High Honors for

the second quarter at Boston College High

School.

2012Allee Ayles ’12 was named to the NEPSAC

Field Hockey All-Tournament Team.

Jeffrey Lee ’12 is a sophomore at Andover

and still enjoying hockey and lacrosse.

2013Svenja O’Marah ’13 earned honors at

Brimmer and May for the first quarter.

current And PAst FAculty news

Librarian Marge Farquharson and her

husband Andy welcomed their first

grandchild, Aubrey Elizabeth, who was

born on April 25, 2014, to Scott and Heather

Farquharson of San Diego, California.

Peter Rapelye writes, “After 40 years in

education, I retired as headmaster of

Princeton Junior School (2005–2012).

Some of the benefits include travelling

with my wife, Janet, Dean of Admissions at

Princeton University, auditing courses, and

spending more time with grandchildren. We

reconnected with Sonia and Bill Valentine

over lunch in Duxbury. I have the fondest

memories of DCD, and will always hold it

close to my heart.”

Bev Tyler writes, “Since I retired as the

Principal’s secretary at Kearny High School

in San Diego, I have been able to travel to

Bermuda, Alaska, the Caribbean, Australia,

New Zealand, Hawaii, Bora Bora, Papeete,

and Canada. My life seems extra busy now

with the addition of my third grandchild,

Emily Marie, born on January 22, 2014. So I

now have Brianna Lynn, age 5 1/2, Jonathan

Caleb, age 3, and now Ms. Emily. My only

big wish would be that they all could attend

DCD. It was a wonderful school when I was

teaching and continues to get better and

better.”

Nancy Zoller writes, “Las Vegas is good to

us. Larry and I are both still teaching. This is

my 40th year teaching 1st and 2nd graders.

Time flies! We are good—happy at work and

healthy. Our kids are great. Daniel is still a

chef in Oregon and doing art projects. Sarah

is a vet in New Hampshire. Granddaughter

Rory is now three and a delight. Be well!”

deAths

Andrew Bailey, father of Elizabeth Bailey

Graham ’58, John Bailey ’65, Andrew Bailey

Jr. ’67, and Evelyn Bailey ’68 (d), died on

December 25, 2013.

Virginia Biddle M.S. ’41, sister of Katharine

Biddle More ’43, died on March 28, 2014.

Paul Cabot Jr., father of Lydia Cabot ’67 and

Jen Cabot Breslin ’87, and grandfather of Hope

Breslin ’18 and Henry Breslin ’19, and Timmy

Breslin, died on January 15, 2014.

Barbara Carlson, mother of Susan Carlson Kirk

’78, died on March 24, 2014.

Pasquale Fuccillo, father of Mary Ellen

Maloney, and grandfather of Shawn Patrick

Maloney ’00, Patricia Maloney ’03, Michael

Maloney ’02, and Brendan Maloney ’06, died

on January 30, 2014.

Anne Gleason, former Head of the Primary

School, wife of the late Ted Gleason, and

mother of Eliza Gleason Kean ’79 died on May

3, 2014.

Harry Herrick, former Head of School, and

father of David Herrick ’70 and Thaddeus

Herrick ’74, died on December 24, 2013.

Ellen Swann Leupold ’45 died on November 9,

2013. Her husband Richard writes, “She always

had fond memories of her days at DCD.”

Judy Mumford, stepmother of Lee Mumford

Peterson ’86, and grandmother to Gunner ’18

and Avery ’22, died on April 30, 2014.

Antonia Thacher ’80 died on November 19,

2013.

James Wheeler, husband of Emlen Lowell

Wheeler ’36, father of Mary Emlen Wheeler

Anderson ’61, and father-in-law of Catherine

Dobson Wheeler ’62 died on April 13, 2014.

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The color red was in vogue on Monday, February 3, as Chinese New Year was celebrated in the Rand Gymnasium with crafts and activities designed to teach students about the customs and traditions associated with the holiday. Parent Shirley Woo organized the event, which she opened with a short presentation.

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Cape Cod artist Elizabeth Mumford has created a unique painting of the DCD campus that captures its most characteristic features and traditions. The original painting hangs in the Emmons Lobby. Notecards and prints are available through the Development Office. Contact Ashley Linell, alinell@dcds.net, for more information.

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Liza Connelly ‘81

Lizzie Crocker ‘00

Nick Crocker ‘96

Kristie Gillooly Dean ‘02

Odile Weissenborn Gordon ‘84

Zander Grant ‘70

Melanie Guerra ‘86

Elizabeth Pyle Handler ‘79

Louisa Harrison ‘04

Beth Woelfel Harvey ‘92

Whitney Hunter-Thomson ‘98

Jason Indelicato ‘94

Alex Nessa ‘02

Lindsey Marich Owen ‘97

Steven Perry ‘85

Lee Mumford Peterson ‘86

Brooke Phinney ‘05

Colby Hunter-Thomson Previte ‘91

Ted Russell ’53 (Emeritus)

Jamie Stoddard ‘97

Elizabeth Ward ‘77

Jen Bigelow Williams ‘86

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2014 Alumni CouncilErin Keith Epker ‘86, President