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A Newsletter for Alumni & Friends of Saint Thomas Choir School

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The Class of 2016The arrival of summer offers a chance to step out of life’s routine and reflect with greater perspective on both past and future. I was particularly mindful of this in August when I heard of the death of Gordon Roland-Adams. GRA, as he was affectionately known, served as Headmaster here from 1997 to 2004. Of course, the success of our school today is built on the work of GRA and his predecessors. Similarly, our prestigious musical legacy is built on the work of those who served as Organist and Director of Music; this term we welcome Daniel Hyde, who brings to the post his own unique gifts and vision.

Many of you know that in February, a destructive flood in school severely compromised our ability to operate. Nonetheless a “silver lining” emerged: after much time and care spent rebuilding, the space has been reorganized and repurposed, to more effectively benefit our school as it moves into its second century. We look forward to the work’s completion before the boys return in September.

By the time this newsletter arrives in the mail, summer will be over and our 98th academic year will be well underway, filled with new life and promise. In this spirit, I invite us all to commit ourselves anew to the mission of Saint Thomas Choir School and to enter its common life, reflected in these pages. –Charles F. Wallace, Headmaster

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THE GRADUATES MOVE ONCongratulations to the class of 2016! We wish you all the best in your new schools and new ventures, and we hope to see you back for a visit very soon.Adrian Alexander Castellanos – Portsmouth Abbey School, RISehjin Jo – The Taft School, CTJohn Dominick Mignardi – South Kent School, CTLeif Christian Pedersen – Professional Children’s School, NYCNicholas Paul Rhodes – Cranbrook School, MIDaniel Sunmin William Suter – Milton Academy, MANoah Alan Yow – St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, TXRaymond Luis Zelada – Moravian Academy, PA

AN EXCERPT FROM DR. McFATE’S COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS Sometime between the Mesozoic era and Jurassic age, I sat where you sit now. I was in the class of 1984, 32 years ago. For you, that would be the equivalent of 2048. A lot can happen in three decades. Where will you be in 2048? What will the world look like? What kind of man will you be?

You can’t do much about the world, but you can choose the kind of man you will become – especially as you enter your high school years. Too often people live passive lives, letting the world shape them rather than them shaping the world. Resist this.

High school is your opportunity to become the man of your choosing. Choose well. What kind of man will you be? Strong or a bully? Intelligent or a know-it-all? Confident or arrogant? Courageous or a show off? Compassionate or weak? You have the power to make choices. In light of this, here are three thoughts as you embark on your high school journey.

First, choose your friends wisely. You will become like them, and they will become like you. This happens whether you know it or not, and whether you like it or not. If they are smart or polite or nasty or lazy – that will be you soon enough. Also, resist the siren call of popularity. Being popular is not the measure of a man. The friends you make in high school shape what kind of man you will become, and those experiences will remain with you the rest of your life. So choosing your friends matters. Ask any adult in the audience.

Second, be the friend you want to see in the world. That is, think in your head: what are the features of a really good friend? Then become that person, and you will attract friends like that. For example, if you value empathy, help out those who are struggling. Don’t make my mistake in ninth grade. I went to a boarding school and had zero patience for homesick ninth graders. I thought it disgraceful, acting like a fifth grader. I forgot that very few have our life experiences, and instead of helping these ninth graders adjust to

living away from home, I scorned them. This came back to haunt me later in high school, as mistakes often do. Be the kind of friend to others that you would want for yourself.

Third, choose things you are good at. When you are good at something, you are happy, and when you are happy, you are good. In high school, you may not have a lot of choice over school subjects, sports, and even hobbies. But if you do, choose things you like. We work harder at things we like, and that makes us more successful.

Lastly, there is a saying: people who do not stand for something, will fall for anything. Continue to explore your beliefs, and what you stand for.

The next four years of your life will set you on a path that will determine what kind of man you will become, and what you stand for. In 2048, when you look back on this moment, what will you answer?

The ninety-seventh commencement exercises of Saint Thomas Choir School were held at Saint Thomas Church on June 11, 2016, honoring all the boys and, in particular, the eight graduates. We were delighted to welcome back alumnus Sean McFate ’84 to give the commencement address.

PRIZE DAY & GRADUATION CEREMONY

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ABOUT THE PRIZESPerusing the list of Choir School prizes and recipients can be a dizzying experience. The twenty-four prizes (and counting) recognize excellence in all areas of the boys’ lives and are given to boys of all ages. Many carry cash awards, with direct prizes ranging from $25 to $100, and merit-based tuition awards ranging from $500 to $1000. The recipients are chosen by the faculty, who meet beginning in early May and over time hammer out the final list for graduation.

We asked Father Wallace about the tradition and practice of prize-giving at graduation. He explained that “in days of yore” there were only two prizes, the T. Tertius Noble prize and the Headmaster’s prize. Over the years, prizes have gradually expanded to include recognition of academic achievements, among other things. This was done to motivate the boys academically and to highlight accomplishments beyond the musical. Many prizes are offered in the name of former wardens, former staff, former Directors of Music, and others, so there is an additional

element of memory and honor to the prize-giving. The number of prizes is now pretty well at a maximum, Father Wallace says, but there is still room to name some of the academic prizes; for instance, the Music Theory prize is now the Scott Eyerly prize – presented for the first time this year by Mr. Eyerly – commemorating his many years as music theory teacher.

JOHN SCOTT MUSIC PRIZEThis year saw a new music award given in honor of John Scott. The class of 2016 helped purchase an antique silver cup which will be engraved with recipients’ names. We were honored to have Lily Scott (with assistance from son Arthur) present the first John Scott Music Prize to Daniel Suter. Introducing the award on Prize Day, Father Wallace said:

In August of last year, music lost one of its greatest practitioners, John Scott. By now, John has received countless tributes, ranging from obituaries written by international music critics to memories penned by our junior choristers. Today, however, marks the first Saint Thomas graduation at which our beloved, gentlemanly, ginger-haired maestro will not be present.

Of course, we could commemorate John by rattling off such accomplishments as his twenty-six years at St Paul’s, and his twelve years here; his jaw-dropping list of prizes, recitals and recordings as organist; his Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order, awarded to him as a personal gift by the Queen; and his essential work as editor, arranger and composer. But more significantly, we should commemorate John’s deep love of music as a conduit to the spiritual. He believed profoundly in the transformative power of music to draw us into a deeper communion and fellowship with Almighty God.

While we miss John most painfully, we take solace in the legacy he leaves us, especially for the boys he trained and the professionals he mentored. He had so much to give – and he gave it. Perhaps he gives it still: one imagines John conducting choirs in heaven, politely but firmly correcting the angels’ intonation.

Today, the Saint Thomas Choir School honors John by instituting a new award in his name. Beginning this year, the John Scott Music Prize will be given annually to that boy who, like the trophy’s namesake, best combines musical excellence with spiritual understanding. Just as John Scott valued the purpose of music above music itself, so will the recipient of our new award be a boy who, though young in years, best combines aptitude at music with recognition of its meaning.

OU R M I S SION

The Saint Thomas Choir School houses, nurtures, and educates the boy choristers of the world-renowned choir of Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue. Through rigorous musical training and highly individualized classroom instruction in a familial, Christian environment, the school instills in its students the intellectual skills and ethical values that will enable them to embrace life with confidence, responsibility, and joy.


It’s a great mystery to those outside the Choir School, and even to some within it, how such young boys become the world-class musicians we see at Sunday services, concerts, and tours. Each September, a new crop of little boys turns up, some just seven years old. What does it take to form a Saint Thomas chorister?

We found that it takes a village, or at least a team, including Director of Music, vocal coach, music theory teacher, and assistant organists. The last are in charge of probationers’ daily rehearsals, so we approached Assistant Organist Benjamin Sheen, who for the 2015-16 season was Acting Organist (fall) and Acting Director of Music (spring). Mr. Sheen was a chorister himself under John Scott at Saint Paul’s, so he brings a dual understanding to the task of training our boys. We asked him how on earth he begins with boys as young as our probationers:

“The key with training the boys here,” he said, “is repetition, over several weeks and months. You realize right away if you lose them. If you don’t do something enough – say, five mornings in a row – or if you introduce something just a little bit too advanced, it’s easy to see them forget everything they’ve just learned. So, it’s very much a building block strategy. There are obviously kids who move at different levels, and we have to find that speed and balance, but we also have to push them hard because the choirmaster expects a lot of them. We’re talking about a musical education that some children would get over three or four years, and we have to pack it into one year.

“The first semester often remains quite easy. It’s not only the notes that we’re teaching them, but also the way of being a chorister, the discipline, standing still and upright, following in the music, and of course they have no experience of this when they come. Some of them have never been to an evensong, and some not even to a church service.”

Mr. Sheen explained that one of the most valuable tools was having something to work towards:

“We teach them a simple anthem every week, and they sing it Sunday morning at the nine o’clock service, on their own.”

The third graders go home every weekend, so this service is sung by the Junior Choir, comprising fourth, fifth, and some late-starting sixth graders.

“The music may seem simple to the listener,” Mr. Sheen says, “but it’s chosen to challenge the junior boys. Also, they have to

step up because they can’t rely on the older boys, which is great for them.”

The anthems are selected partially according to a curriculum that’s been determined to build the boys’ competence, and partially in response to the boys’ current skill level.

“The anthems need to get progressively harder, but they also need to be liturgically appropriate. We can’t do an Advent one in May, even if it would be great for them. So, it’s a balance between the church’s needs and their training.”

We asked Mr. Sheen if it’s really so important for boys to enter in third or fourth grade. Isn’t that awfully young?

“What we notice,” he said, “with some boys who come in for fifth grade and have some training, perhaps from their church choir but not the full probationer training, is that they’re behind the other boys. Maybe their sight reading isn’t as good or their rhythm isn’t as good. We’ve seen that whatever they learn in their probationer time sets them up for their chorister life. When they’re in fifth or sixth grade, they can never really catch up if they haven’t done that initial learning.

“We aim to have all the probationers come out with a really solid musical basis – on which they then put Stephanie Tennill’s voice lessons, and then the Director of Music and the choir and difficult music. Within the first couple of years of being a chorister, they’re singing Stravinsky masses, big anthems, Messiah, Saint John Passion, so they haven’t got time to figure out what a major third is, a minor third, and so on. That’s why the repetition is so important, and ear training, but also making sure they’re really reading the music, not just guessing. There’s a habit among young children that if you play enough major thirds they’ll be able to just sing it without thinking about it, so we have to make them really think.

“It’s great to start in third grade because you can absorb a lot, and you’ve got time on your side, even if you feel daunted initially by the long days and just getting used to what Saint Thomas is. But we’ve seen boys who’ve had a somewhat scattered third grade come back in fourth grade and turn it around. If they start in third, they’ve got that adjustment out of the way, whereas if they come in fourth grade, it’s a faster track; by Christmas of fourth grade, they need to be singing real music, and by May they need to be fully ready as a chorister.”

When a boy finishes his probationer training, he is admitted into the choir and receives his white surplice. (Indeed, the admission ceremony used to be called Whiting.) The ceremony only happens twice a year, so oftentimes you may see choristers without a surplice; these are probationers who’ve begun singing with the choir before being formally admitted. How does the music staff decide when a boy is ready to graduate to the choir?

“It’s a judgement call made individually for each boy,” Mr. Sheen says. “We put a lot of thought into understanding when he’s ready, whether he’s outgrown the probationer program, or nearly outgrown it. So some boys – and I was one of them – get thrown in to the choir; you just bridge the gap by throwing them in at

TRAINING THE PROBATIONER

MUSICAL TRAINING


the deep end. With other boys, it’s better to wait, while also making sure they don’t get disheartened by being a probationer for too long. Once they’re singing with the choir, they watch the older boys around them, and we always stand the little boys amongst the older boys so they have a partner.”

When we asked Mr. Sheen his favorite part of training probationers, he said, “I think it’s at the end of a frustrating week, you’ve been teaching them intervals for days, and one of them finally gets it. You can see it on his face: Yup, I can do it. It’s great to see that moment when the training wheels come off.”

After exhausting Mr. Sheen with our questions, we moved on to the third and fourth grade classroom, where we had the chance to speak directly with the Choir School’s youngest students and hear their unfiltered views of their training:

“It’s...”“It isn’t like a regular school. This school is where you get to

sing a lot and get a good education.”What happens during rehearsals in the morning?

“We usually first organize our music, so when it’s time for the service later that day, we have all our music in our zippy. Then the second thing we do is take out an anthem we sing on Sunday and rehearse that. Then if we have enough time, we sometimes practice rhythms or hymn singing.”

“Also, if we finish with the hymn, we sometimes do intervals.”“Sometimes if we’re good we have these trips where we go

to the church to look around. One time, we went and saw the inside of the big organ. Another time, we saw the other organ that’s also really big. There is a secret passageway that led into the electric organ, and we got to go through that.”What are your music teachers like?

“Mr. Buzard is really, really good at conducting and really helping us learn the music, and Mr. Sheen is a hugely great organist.”

“Mr. Buzard at the beginning of pieces tells us what the time signature is so we know what the rhythm is.”

“Mr. Sheen uses his musical abilities with the organ to help us with singing. There’s a piano in the room, and he plays on the piano like he’s playing the organ, and if we start following the organ, he tells us keep singing our part, but sometimes the organ can help, so focus on both.”

“Sometimes when there’s no organ part, he does some really great improvisations.”

“Ms. Tennill teaches us our own private lessons and teaches us solos.”

“Ms. Tennill wants you to have a lot of breath in your diaphragm so you can sing through the long notes.”What are some of your favorite things about being a Saint Thomas probationer?

“I like how you can sing and you also get to do a lot of other cool stuff at the school. You never get to go on a ski trip in a public school.”

“And camp.”“I used to be really afraid of camps. There were a lot of

predators like snakes and bugs, so I was afraid before.”“Before we came to this school, we used to go to an after-school

where we would sing and play the piano.”“Before I came, I was worried I would be the only one who

didn’t know how to sing, but it was ok.”What advice do you have for boys just starting their Choir School training?

“Always write down your markings.”“If you don’t give the right answer, remember the world’s not

going to end.”“Don’t be afraid of the music. Some people, when they start

their singing career, they’re afraid to sing high notes. If you’re afraid, don’t think: It’s a high note, be afraid. You want to think: Try extra harder.”

Many thanks to Eduardo, Jonathan, Ben, Christopher, Leighton, Daniel, and Ethan; to the housemothers and classroom teachers; and to Mr. Sheen for their time and generous candor.

ORGANISTS OF TOMORROWWhen circumstances demand, the Choir School’s instrumental music program can expand to include instruction in the organ. This year, Mr. Buzard trained Daniel and Dylan, two choristers-turned-acolytes, on the “king of instruments.” Each young organist made his debut playing a Sunday prelude on the Arents organ.

At the end of the year, Mr. Buzard gave the entire eighth grade a tour inside the Arents organ, just before it was dismantled. They can claim the honor of being the last choirboys to go inside this great breathing instrument.


NOYE’S FLUDDESUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2PM. After a spell of mild winter weather, the temperature plunged, hitting a record low of -1°F in NYC. Father Wallace was at his desk and heard a noise that sounded like...the ceiling coming down. He tore out of his office to find black water streaming out of the door of the finance room. A pipe had burst, and the entire sprinkler system tank was emptying itself in biblical style. The water rushed out, not only destroying Finance, Admissions, and Father Wallace’s office, but also running into the hall, down the main stairs, through the floor into the rec room, into Rick Viera’s office, and into the practice rooms and downstairs hallway, taking the elevators out of commission, and eventually flooding the entire basement, gym and mat room included.

Mid-flood, Sophia Bryant-Scott entered the building, carrying some groceries, and after one or two steps, found herself up to her ankles in cold water. She high-tailed it up to the main office, dropped her shopping, and set to saving her paper files. Many

people helped that day with cleanup and material rescue, including Ruth and David Cobb, Karen and Jess Wentling, Noah Appleton and the maintenance staff. Lieve Buzard saved the files from the finance office; Father Wallace got out brooms and mops and pushed

water down the main stairs to keep it from flooding the dining room and living room (he succeeded). Thankfully, no one was ever in danger throughout the ordeal (though Sophia and Mrs. Eyerly narrowly missed being hit on the head by chunks of sub-ceiling). By six o’clock, the professional clean-up crew had arrived. The boys were on vacation at the time, and their break was extended three days so that the building could be made safe for their return.

Final damage report: main office wrecked, relocated to living room; rec room wrecked, probationers rehearsal moved to dining room; gym wrecked, PE exclusively outdoors in Central Park, choir practice in library; practice rooms wrecked, boys distributed through school to practice instruments; lower six inches of drywall on second floor and below, wrecked. Mat room, wrecked.

It was later discovered that two other pipes were also frozen and near bursting, but thankfully they were caught and fixed before... let’s just say the Lord promised Noah never again to destroy the earth with floods, and he kept his promise this day at the Choir School.

Repairs began quickly and were finished over the summer just in time for the boys’ return. Most of the restoration work was covered by insurance, but since renovations had been under consideration already, that work was rolled in with the repair. As

such, the school now looks better than ever. The rec room boasts new bright lighting as well as new interior windows and storage. The main office has been reorganized and given a more open look. Father Wallace is looking less peaked now that order has been restored. We advise readers, for the Headmaster’s sanity, not to recall the trauma to his mind but to leave the flood where it belongs, in the pre-Abrahamic past.

CLASSROOM NEWS


EIGHTH GRADE TRIP TO ENGLANDIn early June, the graduates of the Choir School participated in a perennial and final rite for Saint Thomas Choristers – the eighth grade trip. This year our travels took us over the pond to London. For five days, the boys travelled all around the English capital, often receiving unique and special access.

The city felt both familiar and foreign. The pace and hubbub weren’t so different from New York, and the rich diversity of historic landmarks mirrors that of Manhattan. Nevertheless, the boys were vexed by some subtle differences, at least initially: recognizing the difference between ground floors and first floors, realizing that the subway is not the same as the Tube, and, most notably, negotiating public “waterclosets” with a 30p entry fee. Despite the trivial oddities, the rich cultural, social and religious landscape fascinated them.

The boys spent hours wandering the streets of London, admiring the fashions, double-decker buses and storefronts, not to mention loading up on English “sweets,” but several attractions took place either below street level, or far above it. The boys descended for “Escape the Room,” a mystery-solving experience in a subterranean, ersatz detective’s office. Next, they roamed through the moats and dungeons of the Tower of London. A highlight came a few days later in the Imperial War Museum, where a stunning multimedia exhibit brought students face-to-face with weaponry from the Great War, including mazes of mock trenches.

Like busy British businessmen emerging from the Underground, we had to ascend for some of the more stunning experiences. On our visit to Saint Paul’s Cathedral, we climbed the wide spiral staircase to the Whispering Gallery, overlooking the Great Dome, and up to the Stone Gallery, providing an expansive view of the city and the Thames. On our final day, the boys boarded the London Eye, a 443-foot ferris-wheel overlooking Parliament, Big Ben and the myriad destinations we visited throughout the trip.

Despite London’s attractions, the high points of the trip actually occurred outside the city, thanks to the generous hospitality extended to the boys. At Windsor Castle, the Dean of Windsor, David Conner, gave the boys a special look into Saint George’s Chapel. He also showed them a seldom-seen wonder – large wooden panels in his study, filled with the heraldic seals of the Knights of the Garter, the highest order of chivalry. The same warmth was shown in Oxford, as the boys attended Daniel Hyde’s final evensong at Magdalen College. Mr. Hyde gave the boys a wonderful tour of the grounds, deer park and cloisters around Magdalen, so while these graduates will not be singing under Mr. Hyde, they did get to meet the man who will be having such influence on their friends at the Choir School. On the final day of our trip, the choristers and staff of Westminster Abbey Choir School welcomed us for lunch and a game of soccer, which the Saint Thomas boys graciously lost.

The eighth grade trip serves as a fitting finale for Saint Thomas choristers. It provides a memorable cultural, religious and musical capstone to their many years here. The opportunity to connect with the greater world of the Anglican choral tradition, and to see how their experience fits into this, allows the boys to better comprehend what they have been a part of during their time at Saint Thomas. – Kevin Carpenter, History Teacher

The Eighth Grade Trip is financed by the Boys’ Fund. To donate and help support cultural opportunities for future choristers, please contact the Headmaster at [email protected].

In May, the boys also visited the New York Art Fair.

As an end-of-year treat, Madame Bonsignour took her French classes to Le Pain Quotidien. In distance, the trip may only have taken them across the street, but since the boys ordered and spoke in French, they felt they had taken un grand voyage. Merci, Madame!


CONCERTSIn addition to the spring tour and the heavy schedule of Lent and Holy Week liturgy, the choir sang two home concerts this spring. On March 18, under the direction of Guest Conductor David Hill, they presented works by John Taverner, Sir John Tavener, as well as the New York Premiere of James MacMillan’s Seven Last Words from the Cross. Widely admired as one of MacMillan’s finest achievements, the Seven Last Words is a masterful setting of the traditional text based on a compilation from all four gospels to form a sequential presentation of the last seven sentences uttered by Christ. Of the Taverner “Quemadmodum”, Theater Scene wrote that “the boys’ sweet, ethereal voices foreshadowed the anguish of longing for peace and rest that Jesus experienced.” Describing Sir John Tavener’s Last Discourse,

ConcertoNet said, “The boys had to sing with full voices in minor seconds, a task which they handled as if born to be psalm singers.”For the final concert of the 2015-16 season, Guest Conductor Daniel Beckwith led the

Choir of Men and Boys, the Orchestra of Saint Luke’s and soloists in a program featuring the music of Bach and Handel. Maestro Beckwith is not only assistant organist at Temple Emanu-El and interim director of music and organist at the Church of the Holy Trinity, but he is also a former Gentleman of the Choir at Saint Thomas. Theater Scene wrote that “Rare musical excellence and uncontainable exuberance made of the choral ‘implebit ruinas’ the most gorgeous possible team-spirit fight song: happy, happy boys!”

On September 18, Sir Simon Rattle conducted the choir and the Orchestra of Saint Luke’s in a special, pre-season benefit concert, the last in a yearlong series of performances offered in honor of John Scott. Mr. Rattle has a history with our choristers since they sang under his direction in Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion at the Park Avenue Armory in 2014, and he generously gave his time and talent to honor John Scott and to welcome our new Director of Music, Daniel Hyde, who made his Saint Thomas concert debut playing Bach on the Loening-Hancock organ. Proceeds from the concert are being used to endow a scholarship in John Scott’s memory to assist choristers in need.

TOURSSpring Concert TourThis spring the choir toured North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Alabama for a series of concerts. It was Ben Sheen’s first tour as Acting Director of Music, and he said he enjoyed giving the same program more than once because, in contrast to the choir’s normal procedure, it gave both him and the choir opportunities to refine their performance. The spring tour is a great experience for the younger boys especially, Mr. Sheen told us. They grow more confident over the repeated performances, particularly boys who still struggle with sight reading. Receiving applause is a big boost, as is being out on the road, socializing with staff and the gentlemen of the choir, free from lessons and study hall.

In Roanoke, Greene Memorial Methodist United Church was particularly excited to welcome the choir since it had once played host to John Scott’s first US performance. The choir marked the occasion by singing the anthem Mr. Scott wrote for the Queen’s Golden Jubilee in 2002, “Behold, O God our defender.” Trivia: Mr. Sheen sang in the first performance of the piece as a chorister.

Acolytes to Washington, D.C.While the choir was wowing the east coast, the four non-singing acolytes got a treat of their own – or several treats – on a trip to the nation’s capital. In addition to the usual must-see stops in the city, the boys got special access to two landmarks. Alum Sean McFate ’84 arranged a private tour of the Pentagon, details of which remain Top Secret, and Erik Suter, father of

Daniel ’16, gave the boys a personal tour of Washington National Cathedral, where he had been organist for ten years. At the end of it all, the boys enjoyed a day in Colonial Williamsburg.

Summer ConcertsOn June 13, the day after Leaving

Sunday, the choir traveled to Stanford, Connecticut where the Association of Anglican Musicians was having its annual conference. The choir was invited to give a concert for the conference at Christ Church, Greenwich, and the program included pieces by Philip Moore, who was present.

On June 22, the choir reconvened in Houston, Texas for the American Guild of Organists’ annual convention. They sang a concert at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart to an audience of over two thousand organists. The entire concert was recorded on video and is available on YouTube. It’s a terrific video, with close-ups of Messrs. Buzard and Sheen at the organ (even their feet) as well as some of the choristers. See the Saint Thomas website for a link: www.saintthomaschurch.org/music/choir. The last time the choir performed at this cathedral was in the 1980s with Gerre Hancock. He wrote his now-famous “Judge Eternal” for that occasion, and the choir performed it again this June.

For these post-season tours, Mr. Buzard and Mr. Sheen took turns in their roles as Director of Music and Organist, swapping halfway through each concert. At both events, the choir sang John Scott’s “Behold, O God our defender” and Gerre Hancock’s “Deep River,” in grateful tribute to these titan Directors of Music.

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STAFF NEWSPROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTPeter Dugan, music theory teacher for the past two years, also has a busy and varied career as a pianist, performing both classical and crossover music for a wide range of events. This February, he performed at Carnegie Hall, and the boys attended the performance. As they walked to church past Carnegie Hall and saw the poster, boys were overheard saying, “Hey, that’s my teacher!”

We caught up with Mr. Dugan at lunch on the last day of spring term. After finishing his Choir School lessons, he had a whirlwind schedule ahead – playing the next day at the Liberty Science Center Genius Gala, and then the following night performing “The Way We Were” with Glenn Close at a Marvin Hamlisch tribute. The next week he took a short break, for his wedding to opera singer Kara Sainz in California and their honeymoon in Hawaii. Soon enough, though, the newlyweds were back on the road, first to California, where Mr. Dugan was in residence as piano faculty at the International Music Sessions at La Jolla, which brings students from underdeveloped countries to study music alongside local students. Next there were concerts in Maine; in Crested Butte, Colorado at a festival that included top TV chefs pairing food and music; appearances at Piano Sonoma, at the Danbury Chamber Music festival, and then back to Crested Butte for another concert. When we asked Mr. Dugan how he became involved in so many different things, he explained that most opportunities come through his former classmates at Juilliard, who are now forming organizations of their own and building their own careers. “It’s an important network that develops very, very gradually,” he says.

Because of his increased teaching load at Juilliard and his busy performance schedule, it perhaps comes as no surprise that Mr. Dugan has been forced to pull back his teaching schedule at the Choir School come fall. He will be staying on as a piano teacher, but Simon Frisch will be taking over music theory instruction (see page 12).

Congratulations to Amy Francisco (English) for being selected as a Klingenstein Fellow at Columbia University. She spent two full-funded weeks this summer with other early-career teachers from around the world exploring teaching styles, educational philosophies and issues, as well as developing her leadership skills in education.

FAREWELLVictor AustinThis June, we bade a sad farewell to Victor Austin, Theologian-in-residence at Saint Thomas Church, and resident of the Choir School. Father Austin has accepted the call to be Canon Theologian of the Diocese of Dallas, Texas. Before allowing Father Austin to leave us, Father Wallace presented him with the same cross that choristers receive at graduation, accompanied by the same prayer:

Almighty God, who through the generations hast enriched this parish by the faithful service of its members and those who support its daily life, we commend to thy protection Victor, now to leave our fellowship. Preserve him from all that may harm in body or in spirit all the days of his life; give him the companionship of faithful friends, trustworthy neighbours and loyal colleagues; but most of all, continue to assure him of thy presence and thy love on his pilgrimage in this world, and unto the joys of life eternal. This we ask for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Father Austin writes:I came to live in the Choir School with my wife, Susan, early in 2005. Susan was handicapped by her brain disease, but was welcomed by the boys, particularly, through the graciousness of the Headmaster, to their meals. She was often delighted (and delighted to tell her sisters) that the boys were trained to stand when she arrived in a room. I will myself remember the training in courteous and somewhat old-fashioned ways that Saint Thomas gives to its students here. It is unusual, and it makes the boys impressive company wherever they go.

I had been here a few months when I fell into the role of assisting Father Wallace with preparing the boys for confirmation. Although I came to Saint Thomas to teach adult classes at the church, it has been a joy for me to talk with the boys about the important things of our faith. I will most remember their exquisite kindness, and sheer normal-ness, following Susan’s death in Advent of 2012. They were awesome.

I am moving this summer to Dallas where I will be Theologian-in-residence for the diocese and also at Church of the Incarnation, a parish where our boys have sung and our organists have played. In the diocese I will also have the title of Canon Theologian. I will get to teach and preach at Incarnation and at other churches through the diocese. And I will be working with the bishop and other clergy on a number of projects to lift up the level of theological understanding of all of us there. I am looking forward to this new challenge. But I will never forget, and will always be grateful for, my years living in the Choir School, a unique institution in the United States.

Father Austin’s breathtaking new book was released this June to great acclaim – Losing Susan: Brain Disease, the Priest’s Wife, and the God Who Gives and Takes Away.


Lily ScottAt Prize Day, Father Wallace paid tribute to Lily Scott:

Three years ago, many of us shared in the wedding of John and Lily here at Saint Thomas. Lily went on to become a valued member of our community – first socially, and then administratively, as Director of Admissions. Having served in this role with distinction for two years, Lily is now leaving us. We at the Choir School are grateful to count among our family Mrs. Lily Scott, and – since September 2015 – one more ginger-haired fellow, Arthur John Gavin Scott.

Stephen BuzardWe wish Godspeed to Stephen Buzard, Assistant Organist (2013-15) and this past year Acting Director of Music (fall 2015) and Acting Organist (spring 2016). In addition to his duties with the choir, Mr. Buzard has been indispensable to the Choir School’s instrumental music program. He has even trained boys in the organ (see page 5).

Mr. Buzard leaves us to become Director of Music at Saint James Cathedral in Chicago, former home of composer Leo Sowerby. Saint James has an adult choir with sixteen professional and ten to twelve auditioned volunteers. They sing two services on Sunday mornings and, each month, one Sunday evensong. Saint James hopes to expand its musical offerings under Mr. Buzard’s leadership, and they are also looking to him to help start a chorister program, which the cathedral has been lacking since it lost its men-and-boys program in the 1920s. Mr. Buzard is particularly excited about his new apartment, which happens to include a practice organ! We wish him and his wife, Lieve, all the best in their new chapter.

Sue EyerlyAt Graduation, Father Wallace paid tribute to Sue Eyerly:

Life as a housemother at Saint Thomas Choir School is a high calling. Morning, noon, or night, someone is always looking for the housemother, be it for remedy of broken shoelaces or bumps on the noggin.

We count our lucky stars that we found Mrs. Eyerly. Since arriving in 2004 by way of her native Australia, followed by stints at New York City hospitals, Mrs. Eyerly has demonstrated a remarkable commitment to the Choir School family. Staff or student, parent or parson, she’s been on hand to keep us out of harm’s way. Need a Tums? A tissue? Perhaps, a Tylenol? After a brief rummage through her trademark blue pinny, or what Americans call an apron, Mrs. Eyerly produces a salve for every sore.

But alas, boys will be boys. Fortunately, Mrs. Eyerly’s background as an emergency room nurse prepared her to work with raucous, accident-prone children and their myriad afflictions, including fractures, fevers and unmentionable bodily fluids. Countless are the hours spent by “Mrs. E” with boys at

clinics, doctors’ offices and emergency rooms – where, like a Mama Bear, she protected her charges from surly physicians and hospital bureaucracy, ensuring that only the best care was administered.

Speaking of care, let’s not forget another benefit Mrs. Eyerly provided: Health Class. Or so it’s called on the schedule. Our seventh and eighth graders prefer to call it “Sex Ed.” This rite of passage for the senior boys consisted of Mrs. Eyerly speaking to them forty-five minutes per week on... more delicate subjects. Such a task would be daunting for most, yet “Mrs. E” remained unfazed. Not so her students: after every class, the boys could be seen staggering out of the room, silent, with a thousand yard stare plastered on their faces.

Now, after twelve years of dedicated duty at Saint Thomas, Mrs. Eyerly is moving on to Columbia Grammar, where she’ll assume the newly created position of Middle School Nurse. It is hard to imagine life here without her. From regaling skeptical American boys with the wonders of Vegemite at breakfast, to doling out her trademark “sleepy drops” at bedtime, she’s always rendered service with a smile. Her door, literally, has been open to all of us, whether we needed a bit of advice, the proverbial kick up the backside, or – if we timed our visit just right – one of her freshly baked cookies.

Just as Mrs. Eyerly has been a part of the students’ life here, her influence will remain part of the fabric of our school. Each boy takes with him the cumulative effect of her knowledge and devotion, and we hope that likewise, she’ll take a part of us with her.Just before her departure, we sat down with Mrs. Eyerly in

her office to hear more about her plans. She told us that her new school is very close to her new apartment, though she admits the commute will be longer than across the hall. Mr. Eyerly will continue his work at Juilliard and in the Berkshires, where about twelve times a year he gives commentary and lectures for the HD broadcasts from the Met. Now Mrs. Eyerly will be able to attend his events and even travel with him to the Berkshires.

When we asked Mrs. Eyerly what she will miss about the Choir School, she required no further prompting:

“Watching the kids grow and thrive and go on their journey,” she began. “I’ll miss the parents and their input. The faculty and staff and their over-and-above dedication: off-duty teachers helping at study hall, Mr. Appleton spending his off-duty Friday nights playing magic cards with the boys, Dr. Gilbert coming to breakfast every single morning, his quizzes and ditties, other teachers helping the boys get into high school, the high-end meals from Heidi and her staff, the unseen caring of the housekeeping staff cleaning, repairing, and mopping up after us all.

“Then there are things the kids teach you, they way they look at things with fresh eyes. The goofy stuff, the way they express a thing without cliche, within the limits of their lifetime. There was the boy once who said to Mr. Eyerly, ‘So, you’re married now. You’ve got a ring. Does it hurt?’

“I’ll miss the incredible resilience of the kids. The way the boys just come out and say what they think and then move on without holding resentment.

“I’ll miss the incredible space, even in the current upheavals inside the building and in the neighborhood, having access to


Lincoln Center, the theater, Carnegie Hall, being able to walk to and from the church through the city, hearing singing waft up from rehearsals every morning.

“I’ll miss getting up and being there with the kids, trying each day to make them a little more independent. Some boys you teach to tie their shoes, to tie a necktie, even to take their first shower if they’ve only had baths, to use a knife and fork. You watch them grow, their teeth fall out, some of them grow two feet...and the next thing you know, they’re going through puberty and you’re teaching them sex ed and fielding the interesting questions they come out with.

“I’ll miss the gap students, who are phenomenal. They’re only about four years older than our graduating boys, but they show incredible responsibility, incredible joy for life, brotherly love.

“And I love how all the boys are so different but are brought together by and in their singing. They’re a bunch of individuals, but in the choir, they’re more than the sum of their parts. It’s such an incredible gift of God for them, and from them. I think they recognize this by the time they leave.

“When you’re in it, you take it for granted, but when they’re your last boys, you stop for a second and cherish them. It’s why so many enjoy coming back, I think.”

Mrs. Eyerly told us that this will be the first time she’ll have weekends off in forty-two years. All of us hope she’ll come downtown and visit us, often.

WELCOMEDaniel HydeThis fall, Saint Thomas welcomes its 22nd Organist and Director of Music, Daniel Hyde, who comes to us from Magdalen College, Oxford. Mr. Hyde is a giant both musically and physically – he is 6 foot 8, “taller in the morning than at night,” he tells us, “having shrunk at bedtime by a day of stooping.” We sat down for a quick chat with Mr. Hyde on a muggy August

afternoon. Like Noel Coward’s Englishman, he is happily taking long walks in the midday sun (sans mad dogs, thankfully), getting to know New York and its neighborhoods. He says he is really enjoying the change and that it has been easier than he expected to get used to all the noise. He has his work cut out for him learning the subway system and getting used to American paper currency, which confusingly is all the same size and color. “I’ve taken to counting it out like Monopoly money,” he says.

Mr. Hyde has long been immersed in choral music. When the age of our boys, he was a chorister at Durham Cathedral. During his last year there, at age twelve, his voice broke, and he began “messing around on the organ.” Thus began his great love of the instrument. Later, at university, he landed the plum post of Organ Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge. You can read his full biography at www.danielhyde.co.uk to see where he went from there.

When asked why he decided to leave England and come to Saint Thomas, Mr. Hyde spoke about the importance of fresh challenges: “It’s important to keep turning the soil on myself.” Of course, he knew Saint Thomas and had many times met and visited with John Scott. While he never expected the post to become available, and certainly not under such tragic circumstances, he says that he had always thought, “Wow, that would be an amazing job,” and that it was one of the only places that would tempt him to leave Magdalen. What’s so special about Saint Thomas? “It’s so iconic,” he says; what’s more, he is excited about being part of a parish, particularly one that is both serious about its faith and passionate about seeing its music attain the highest level possible. He’s looking forward to having more time and opportunity to perform, via the concert series, and he is particularly excited about the project of installing and voicing the new Miller-Scott organ.

Indeed, Mr. Hyde’s face lights up when he talks about working with choirs and organs. Voicing an organ, he explains, means designing its whole tonal concept once the actual pipes are installed, much like balancing the voices of a choir. We asked him how he typically breaks in a new choir, and he said that rather than coming in with a preconceived notion, or with expectations based on his previous choir, he preferred to see what the choir served up and then figure out the best way to work with it and develop it. He is eager to hear the boys sing and get to know the way they think, work, and speak. Sometimes, he says, it’s a matter of translation, as in which words or terms they understand and how they understand them. “When I want a boy to breathe, for example, I never simply say breathe! They immediately tense up. Instead, I say release, which is what actually happens when you breathe. The precise words you use can create wildly different effects.”

When pressed for a favorite setting and anthem, Mr. Hyde struggled to pick one, but he did confess to a particular love of Byrd. He’s done a lot of work and research with English Renaissance music, and he is ardent about those composers, calling them widely under appreciated. As for the service music he is selecting for the fall, he says he is keeping many of the pieces from past years, mixing in some new things here and there, and perhaps choosing a few more unaccompanied pieces, in part so he can “get inside the choir,” as he puts it, and hear how it works.

Still on his to-do list for summer: buy a bike. Citibikes are too small for his frame (morning or night), and he is eager to begin taking advantage of the city’s great gymnasium: Central Park. Ride on, maestro!

Loraine EnlowWelcome to Loraine Enlow, our new Director of Admissions. Mrs. Enlow first joined our ranks this August as Director of the Saint Thomas Girls’ Course (see page 13), and now Father Wallace has recruited her to recruit our boys. She comes to us from Saint James Church uptown, where she is Music Associate for Children and Youth, working with four separate choirs, from pre-K to high school, as well as the semi-pro adult Canterbury Choir. Previously, she founded and directed the Washington Heights Choir School, where


where some of our choristers got their start, and she is on the board of trustees for VOICE charter school in Long Island City, a non-audition K-8 school where every student receives singing instruction every day. Mrs. Enlow not only holds a double degree with highest honors from the New England Conservatory of Music, but she has done graduate and postgraduate work in such fields as ethnomusicology, Coptic liturgy, and early childhood music education. We are thrilled to have her!

Miriam AllmanThis fall, Miriam Allman joins Mrs. Wentling as Housemother. From 2009 to 2012, Mrs. Allman was Housemother alongside Mrs. Eyerly, but when Mr. Allman took a job at the University of Tennessee, the family relocated to Memphis. Fate might have had a hand in Mrs. Allman’s return to us: her husband was considering taking a job at Juilliard, and Mrs.

Allman called the Choir School to see if any positions might be opening up. It turns out Father Wallace was in the middle of

interviewing for Mrs. Eyerly’s replacement – no kidding! Certainly, we all thank God’s providence in sending Mrs. Allman back to us. As she takes up her duties at the school, her husband will take charge of Juilliard’s health center, and her two children (ages 4 and 6) will be starting school in the neighborhood. We suspect the little Allmans don’t quite know what they’re in for, but who can resist a building full of big brothers?

Simon FrischWe welcome Simon Frisch, who will be teaching music theory beginning in September. Mr. Frisch is a composer based in New York and in Brittany, France, where he was a founder of Festival Daniou, a chamber music residency entering its third season. A recent graduate from the Juilliard School, Mr. Frisch held a Teaching Fellowship in Music Theory and was commended for contributions to tutoring while pursuing his bachelor’s and master’s degrees.

GORDON ROLAND-ADAMS (1947-2016)Gordon Roland-Adams, Headmaster of Saint Thomas Choir School 1997-2004, died at his home in Worcester, England on August 7, 2016. GRA, as he was known, is fondly remembered by students, colleagues, parishioners, and friends. Father Mead, who was Rector during GRA’s tenure, wrote the following tribute:“Father, the Headmaster of Westminster Abbey’s Choir School is here and wants to see you,” said Douglas Robbe the Rector’s Secretary. It was the fall of 1996, my first season as Saint Thomas’s Rector, and we had hardly unpacked. The Wardens and Vestry had told me our first priority was to find a Headmaster for Saint Thomas Choir School after Mr. Clem’s distinguished 1967-1995 tenure, and Westminster Abbey’s great choir was giving a concert at Saint Thomas as part of an American tour. Their choirboys were staying – as is often the case with such visitors – at our Choir School. The irrepressible Gordon Roland-Adams burst into my office and got right to it: he offered himself for the position of Headmaster, and he laid down two big conditions: we had to make up our minds as to his candidacy by Christmas, and he couldn’t come till September 1997. “Besides, Rector,” he said, “you wouldn’t want me if I were willing to come without giving my school proper notice.” That was pure GRA.

After interviewing several good candidates, the Choir School Committee, Wardens, Vestry and I decided on GRA and met his conditions. I never regretted it, either. GRA, after ten years at Westminster and a full career as a teacher and leader of British schools, greatly strengthened the bonds between the Church and the Choir School. He began the process, consolidated by his successor Fr. Charles Wallace, of governance clarification that culminated in our self-definition of the Choir School as a ministry of the Church. It is not a school with a choir. It is a choir with a school. And it was GRA who brought us to this clarity in his seven years as our Headmaster. Beyond this, GRA’s boldest and best structural development of the school was the long-debated addition of the fourth grade. It proved to be a singular improvement for the Choir and for the choristers themselves.

GRA had to take medical retirement in 2004 following a severe stroke that hobbled him, though he bravely undertook physical and occupational therapy, and carried on for a final year. I styled him Headmaster Emeritus for his good service to Saint Thomas Church and Choir School. For nine months GRA lived with Nancy and me at the rectory – with his beloved cat Humphrey – during which time we became family in addition to friends. I would read sermon drafts to him, and I appreciated his edits, which were always in the direction of simple clarity: Would the choirboys understand this? GRA later told me that he wanted to write a book praising his American charges, to be called My American Children. Nancy and I shall never forget the time when, stuck in the Rome airport and waiting hours on end, we heard an Englishman complaining about our choirboys being in front of him. Like the great British lion he could be, GRA stood toe to toe with this man and told him that after all his years in England he had never seen boys as good and well-behaved as these Americans. The objecting person was reduced to silence.

GRA returned to England in the spring of 2005, first to London and then at last to Worcester, where he had first sung as a choirboy at the cathedral. He was very happy to be there; he kept mostly to himself, and he died in his apartment. This extraordinary man, devoted to his charges and to the glory of God in music, now returns to the Lord he served. May he rest safely in Christ’s peace, and rise with him in the Resurrection.

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EACH SUMMER FOR THE LAST ELEVEN YEARS, the Choir School has hosted the Saint Thomas Girls’ Course, an intensive program for girl choristers. This summer saw quite a changing of the guard as Ruth Cobb retired after ten years as Director, handing the reins to Loraine Enlow, a dynamic musician and evangelist for young musicians. (See page 11 for more about Mrs. Enlow.) We also welcomed a new Director of Music, Katherine Dienes-Williams (profiled in the last issue of the newsletter), who, we are pleased to learn, has agreed to return next summer for the Course’s twelfth year. Back home in England, Mrs. Dienes-Williams is Organist and Director of Music at Guildford Cathedral. We can report that she successfully checked “take run in Central Park” off her to-do list, despite the steamy summer weather.

FAREWELL TO RUTH COBBThe girls, staff, and alumnae honored Mrs. Cobb at the first Sunday lunch of the session. The girls presented a quilted banner in Mrs. Cobb’s honor, to hang amongst the Choir School’s own quilted banners. The gorgeous artwork came from a watercolor by Mrs. Johnson, the Course’s Nurse and Head of Residential Life. She explained that she took inspiration from the Parable of the Mustard Seed, since that’s what the Girls’ Course did for its students and for the communities where they return. The Girls’ Course also received a processional banner in Mrs. Cobb’s honor, and it was carried in procession when they sang Choral Eucharist at church on August 7.

Mrs. Cobb and her husband now live in Sewanee, Tennessee at the University of the South. She will be working with the Dean to promote the arts – visual arts, film, music, theater – as she puts it, “putting the arts back in liberal arts.”

A DAY WITH THE GIRLS’ COURSE

GIRL CHORISTER COURSE

We spent a day with the Girls’ Course this August, getting to know the students and faculty. We learned, among other things, that the course is wildly popular among those who know it; more than two-thirds of this year’s girls have attended before, and that’s not counting the alumnae who comprise the pre-college-age leaders, college-age interns, and even some faculty. Most heard about the course through their home choirs, and this year there were girls from as far away as New Mexico (other years had seen students from Europe as well).

Attending the Saint Thomas Girls’ Course is no leisurely summer camp, however. The girls are expected to prepare all the music for the course before they arrive. This year, Mrs. Dienes-Williams asked them to prepare all the parts for all the pieces (rather than just one part) because she wanted to hear them sing before sectioning them. This took many hours of private rehearsal, whether with their choirmasters, voice teachers, or at home on their keyboards.

When we asked the girls what other choral programs they’d attended, we were told firmly that the Saint Thomas course was best that there was. What made it the best? Olivia from Connecticut explained that compared to other courses – none of which were all-female – the Saint Thomas course had fewer students, presented a bigger and more difficult repertoire, and furthermore, was in the heart of New York City.

After lunch, the girls were scheduled for a break (Mrs. Enlow enjoined them to lie down and rest their voices and their minds) before an afternoon and evening rehearsing, singing evensong, and exploring the High Line. The rest of the week included other

jaunts around town, a Broadway show, and of course more classes and plenty of rehearsal for the three services they sang.

As Mrs. Dienes-Williams rehearsed the girls in the newly repaired gymnasium, her enthusiasm, humor, and joy pervaded the room. Her instructions, there and in the church, ranged from musical direction, to a lesson in how to pick up and carry binders gracefully, to an anecdote about taking charge of the act of worship: “If something happened in the nave and the organ stopped and everyone got distracted, what would you do? You would continue singing the psalm, because if you don’t, who will?” This year, because of construction in the chancel, the girls had to squeeze into one side of the choir. As with everything, they took constraint in their stride and maneuvered around each others’ binders with good humor.

It’s hard to escape the impression that these girls represent the creme-de-la-creme of middle and high school female choristers. Most girls are leaders or even stars back in their home choirs, with the medallions to prove it. What’s more, many of these choirs are themselves high-powered (such as the choir at Trinity Wall Street, conducted by Julian Wachner ’83), giving the girls experience singing for concerts, services, and recordings. Nevertheless, the girls find they have to “up their game” at Saint Thomas as they meet other advanced choristers and sing in a world-class setting where expectations are always the highest. It is this challenge that brings many of them back year after year.

Their repertoire, from Bach to Blatchly, is available to stream on the Saint Thomas website (Evensong on August 2 and 4, and Choral Eucharist on August 7). Listen and be inspired.


A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORSDear fellow Choir School alumni,Greetings from Boston! I write this trying to stay cool during a very dry and hot August in anticipation of much more pleasant weather during my trip to New York and the Alumni Reunion weekend this Fall! We are moving the Reunion Weekend to what should be a more attractive date, November 12-13. I hope these dates allow more alumni than ever to return home and reconnect with the school, alums and old friends. Not to be missed, the Fauré Requiem is on the program Sunday morning the 13th! I am most excited to see and hear for the first time the men and boys under the direction of the newest member of the Saint Thomas family, Organist and Director of Music, Daniel Hyde. While last year the Choir School experienced significant loss, the rebuilding and rebirth that has emerged is inspiring. For those ‘boys’ who visit often and for those who have never returned after their graduation, visiting this year will have something new to see and hear. As always, we would love to hear from you! Please feel free to email me and by all means, connect with Saint Thomas via social media [see Contact Us below]. Better yet, please come and visit the school this coming November for Reunion and enjoy New York in the Fall!

Warmest Regards,Tom Carroll ’88, President, Saint Thomas Choir School Alumni Association Board of Directors, [email protected]

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ALUMNI EVENTSDr. Philip Moore, President of The Royal College of Organists, attended dinner at the Choir School following Tenebrae service on March 23. After dinner, Dr. Moore presented to Lily Scott the Medal of the Royal College of Organists, which had been awarded posthumously to John Scott at the Diplomas Ceremony at Southwark Cathedral. John was a distinguished Fellow of the College. The boys were excited to meet Dr. Moore, but perhaps even more excited by the reactions of young Arthur Scott.

The Alumni Board was present for Dr. Moore’s visit and took the opportunity to tour the school and survey repairs-in-progress after the flood (see page 6).

Board members Tom Stires ’76, Trevor Weston ’81, Tom Carroll ’88


Edward C. Morgan ’52 passed away on July 13, 2016. Ed was one of the original leaders of the Steering Committee in 2005 that established the Saint Thomas Choir School Alumni Association. We are most grateful for his dedication, vision, and hard work. He was a kind and thoughtful man, much admired and respected. We received many remembrances of Ed, such as this one by Roger Black ’62: “Ed Morgan was proof that the Choir School has a persistent, rich culture that survives the students and the faculty. That it continues with the same dedication and faith is a testament to people like Ed. When I first met him, he talked about the music, the church, and the school with enormous enthusiasm – and told a number of great stories. Ed started at Saint Thomas the year I was born, so to see him at alumni gatherings, among many of his juniors, was reassuring – hearing him speak so warmly about the meaning of Saint Thomas Choir School, and seeing everyone nod. It makes me feel that this spirit will be around for a long time to come. Requiescat in pace.”

Ed’s family has requested that donations in his memory be made to the Choir School. Please contact Ann Hall Kaplan [email protected].

Congratulations to Dana Marsh ’79 for his new posts at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He has been appointed associate professor of music (early music/voice) and director of its Historical Performance Institute.

War in the Shallows: US Navy Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam, 1965-1968 by John Darrell Sherwood ’81 received the North American Oceanic History’s John Lyman Award for the best book of naval history published in 2015. A free digital version of the book can be downloaded at http://www.history.navy.mil/research/publications/publications-by-subject/war-in-the-shallows.html. John sent us a photo from the awards ceremony and writes: “The blue-and-gold tie represents the US

Navy (my employer) and Saint Thomas Choir School, the place where I learned to write.”

Trevor Weston ’81 and member of the Alumni Board has released a new CD, Choral Works. The recording features the Choir of Trinity Wall Street and the Trinity Youth Chorus, under the direction of Julian Wachner ’83.

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Sean McFate ’84, in addition to giving the commencement address at the Choir School Prize Day this summer, also saw the release of his debut novel, Shadow War (William Morrow).

Fr. Greg Gresko OSB ’84 has been appointed Professor of Moral Theology at the Pontificio Ateneo di Sant’Anselmo in Rome beginning in the 2016/17 academic year. He completed his Doctorate in Sacred Theology (Science of Marriage and Family) at the Pontifical Lateran University’s John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in 2015, with dissertation entitled “The Consecration of the Family to the Heart of Jesus in Light of the Pastoral Ministry of Father Mateo Crawley-Boevey, SS.CC.”

Greg Larsen ’02 was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and will be attending Duke University this fall as a PhD student in the division of Marine Science and Conservation. Greg writes: “I’ll be based out of the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort, NC, and I plan to study seals on the Antarctic Peninsula. I’ll be leaving New York in July, but I still hope to return now and then to hear the choir!”

Nathan Holst ’99 (faculty 2008-11) married Allison Clark at The Barns in Wesleyan Hills, Middletown, CT on August 14th. Both Nathan and Allison work at Darlington School in Rome, GA, Nathan as Assistant Director of Boarding Admission and Alli as interim Student Counselor. Stephanie Tennill was in attendance with her husband, David Brandsteder, who was one of Nathan’s groomsmen.

Augustus Sawatzki ’08 graduated this spring from the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York. He received a Bachelor of Science degree, Cum Laude, in Logistics and Intermodal Transportation. Augustus was also recognized as a Kings Point Scholar. His thesis was entitled “Understanding the Education and Training of a Twenty-First Century Deck Officer.”

Samuel Sargunam ’10 stopped by this summer to say hello and let us know that he is going abroad to study Japanese. He is enrolled at the University of Albany, but he will be doing a year-abroad homestay in Kansai Gaidai, Osaka, Japan.

Sidney Wright ’12 graduated from The Millbrook School this June and will attend Hobart College in the fall.

The Wall Street Journal reviewed this summer’s Glimmerglass Festival and made mention of the performance by Richard Pittsinger ’13 in “The Remarkable Rocket,” calling it “particularly delightful.”

CLASS NOTES


The Rev. & Mrs. David C. Cobb PA ’01 & 03Mr. & Mrs. Doug Daugherty ’48Mr. & Mrs. Peter L. FaberMr. Jeffrey FigleyMr. & Mrs. Paul Fletcher PA ’07Mr. Joseph D. Gioe & Mr. Stephen T. KellyMs. Mary Sue HauckMs. Susan Hess HerskovitzMs. Ann Hall KaplanMs. Kathryn KenneallyMr. & Mrs. James Kollin PA ’15Mr. Vincent E. LautenRichard D. Lester, MD

& Mr. Willem P. PruissersDr. & Mrs. G. Gregory Lozier ’58Mr. & Mrs. John L. A. LyddaneMs. Moira Malone CP ’17 & ’20Dr. Dana Marsh ’79Ms. June Hunt MayerDr. Marise B. McNeeley

& The Rev. Dr. David F. McNeeley PA ’08Ms. Ginger F. C. MillerMrs. JoAnn MinshallMr. & Mrs. Charles H. MooreMs. Edith L. MorrillMr. Greg Moten ’75Mr. & Mrs. John C. Newsome ’81 PA ’13Ms. Louise Nicholson

& Mr. Nicholas WapshottMr. & Mrs. John NozellMr. Abayomi Olusegun OdunugaMs. Celia OngMr. & Mrs. David C. PattersonMs. Ann PattonMs. Barbara W. PettusPrudential Financial IncMs. Inge Reist & Mr. Rob FreemanEdmée B. Reit

SAINT THOMAS CHOIR SCHOOL

DONATIONS

THE SELF SOCIETYRecognizes those donors who have contributed $1,000 or more in the current giving year.The Ambler Family FoundationMr. Jonathan E. AmbrosinoMr. & Mrs. Ira T. AndersonAmbassador & Mrs. Thomas H. Anderson, Jr.The estate of The Rev. Canon

John G.B. Andrew, OBE, DDMr. K.F. AndrewsThe Rev. Victor L. AustinDr. Charles T. Barron & Mr. Rolando VasquezMrs. Louise H. BeardMrs. Margaret S. BearnMr. & Mrs. Willem BransMr. Nicholas G. BrowneMs. Deirdre ByrneDr. Robert J. Campbell

& Mr. Cesare SanteramoMr. Howard G. Chua-EoanMs. Susan B. ClearwaterThe estate of Mr. Gordon H. ClemMr. George W. Cogan ’71The Dana FoundationMrs. Joyce Tyler DickenMr. Paul R. EmmonsMr. & Mrs. Colin FergusMr. & Mrs. Jeffrey FriedmanMr. & Mrs. Stephen W. Gauster-FilekGeorge Forrest Chichester TrustMr. & Mrs. Alan F. GettnerMr. Frank C. GoodwinMs. Agnes GundMr. & Mrs. John C. HarveyMr. Christiaan A. Heijmen ’94Ms. Marilyn J. HeinemanThe Carl B & Ludmila S Hess FoundationMr. & Mrs. Donald Rowland Hill, Jr.

PA ’97 & ’98Ms. Susan HoneMr. & Mrs. Murray HoodMs. Laura IngeMr. Keith R. JohnsonMr. Christian K. KeeseeMr. & Ms. Dan KiserMr. Kenneth F. KoenMadden & Warwick, LLCMr. & Mrs. Terrence Mahon

Dr. Pamela MarronMr. & Mrs. Joseph MarshallMs. Anne McIlvaineThe Rev. & Mrs. Andrew C. MeadMr. & Mrs. John E. MerowMs. Karen MetcalfMr. Ian Murphy ’73Estate of Philip NobleMr. Alan T. ParishMs. Laura J. PelsMr. Richard W. Pendleton, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Stephen PottersMr. Paul A. RandourMr. B. Franklin Reinauer IIIMrs. Kathleen J. Rhodes PA ’16Ms. Suzanne C. Rice & Mr. John SchopferMr. William Simonet Ryall, Jr.Dr. & Mrs. Karl C. SaundersMr. Donald R. Schepper ’36Mr. David C. SchultzMr. & Mrs. Stanley DeForest ScottR. Stephen Seibt, MDEleanor, Lady ShearingMr. & Mrs. John W. Spurdle, Jr.Mrs. Cecilia D. Sweeney PA ’82Mr. Ronald Lee ThomasMs. Theresa S. ThompsonMs. Linda Chatman ThomsenThe Whitehead FoundationMr. Miles Archer WoodliefMr. & Mrs. Donald G. WorkmanMs. Janet H. YoungMr. Gregory C. Zaffiro

& Mr. Matthew R. AileyMrs. Joanne Zorn

THE CANDLYN SOCIETYRecognizes those donors who have contributed $500 or more in the current giving year.Mr. & Mrs. Archibald AllenMs. Betsy F. Ashton & Mr. James StepletonMr. Christopher BehaMs. Virginia H. BesasMr. David L. BrownMr. & Mrs. Howard CampbellDr. Barry John CapellaDr. & Mr. Thomas L. Carroll ’88Mr. Lewis F. CenterMr. & Mrs. Paul ChelminskiMs. Lillian H. Clagett

A NOTE ABOUT GIFTS TO THE CHOIR SCHOOLSaint Thomas Choir School acknowledges the many faithful and generous people who contribute to the mission of the school. The list below includes all people who have made gifts from January 1, 2015, to July 31, 2016. Please contact Kevin Hearne ([email protected]) to report any discrepancies.

Annual pledges made through Saint Thomas Church are noted in the Every Member Canvass section and provide for the ongoing expenses of the school through the General Operating Fund. Gifts made directly to the Choir School are designated to special funds and may be put to immediate use or held (as in the case of camp funds, which are used each spring). Designated gifts are always used for the purpose intended by the donor.

* Deceased


Mr. Douglas M. RobbeMrs. Susan RotenstreichMs. Jean SavageMr. & Mrs. Richard Sawatzki PA ’08Mr. & Mrs. Allan G. SawatzkyDr. James R. Schreppler ’75Miss Susan E. SeamanMr. & Mrs. Raymond D. Smoot, Jr.Mr. J. Timothy Snavely ’89Dr. Juergen J. Stolt & Ms. Mary B. WoolseyMr. & Mrs. Edward StreatorMr. & Mrs. Erik W. Suter PA ’16The Albion & Natalie Metcalf Fund

of the New York Community TrustMr. & Mrs. Anthony R. ThompsonMrs. Beverly Benz TreuilleThe Rev. Charles WallaceMr. Raymond G. WellsDr. John H. Wilson ’51Mr. John R. Wilson, Jr.

THE CENTENNIAL CLUBRecognizes alumni who contribute at least $100 each year until the school’s 2019 centennial.Mr. Anthony Joseph Accinno ’93 2011-13

Mr. George O. Allaman II ’67 2013

Mr. Heath Allen, Jr. ’08 2012

Mr. Daniel Bachman ’66 2014

Mr. Dana S. Bailey ’73 2009, 2013

Mr. Philip H. Baldwin, Jr. ’57 2008-13

Mr. William C. Berry ’61 2009

Mr. Eric P. Bierrie ’43 2008

The Rev. John B. Birdsall ’40 2012-15

Mr. Roger D. Black ’62 2008

Mr. Karl Boulware & Dr. Leotta W. Jones-Boulware ’93 2013, 2015

Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Bristol ’47 2013, 2015

Mr. John P. Burlington ’91 2008-10, 2012, 2014-15

Mr. Robert C. Burlington, Jr. ’84 2014

Mr. Ross C. Burnam ’94 2015

Mr. & Mrs. Jerome C. Buttrick ’73 2009

Mr. Teo Camporeale ’79 2008

Dr. & Mr. Thomas L. Carroll ’88 2010-15

Mr. Andrew Sheridan Cobb ’03 2010, 2012, 2014-15

Mr. John F. Cobb ’01 2010

Mr. George W. Cogan ’71 2008-11, 2013, 2015

Mr. Richard A. Daily ’46 2013-14

Mr. & Mrs. Doug Daugherty ’48 2008, 2010-11, 2013-15

Mr. & Mrs. James R. Davis ’56 2008

Mr. Richard de Villafranca ’64 2014

Mr. & Mrs. James J. Douglas ’99 2013

Mr. Edward N. Draffin ’46 2008-09, 2011-12

Mr. Russell E. Dreikorn, Jr. ’68 2014

Mr. & Mrs. John E. Duffy ’73 2008

Mr. & Mrs. Richard F. Edmonds ’58 2009-16

Col. Thomas C. Fields ’42 2008-12

The Rev. Brent Fisher ’53 2011

Mr. Ian R. Fisher ’95 2008-09, 2011-15

Mr. Alan Edward Fleisig ’72 2012, 2014

Mr. Nathan Fletcher ’07 2016

Mr. Robert E. L. Fow ’62 2008-10

Mr. Thomas Godfrey ’80 2012, 2015

The Rev. Gregory A. Gresko, O.S.B. ’84 2012-13

Mr. Gregory Guy ’62 2012

Mr. & Ms. Jonathan D. Hall 2010

Mr. Christiaan A. Heijmen ’94 2015

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Heijmen ’92 2014

Mr. Theodore S. Hewson ’70 2012-16

Mr. Richard Jarrett ’05 2011

Mr. Donald Jelliffe ’43 2008-14

Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Jillson ’49 2008, 2010

Mr. & Mrs. C. William Jones ’52 2008-16

Mr. Douglas B. Jones ’66 2011

Mr. Stefan B. E. Karlsson ’94 2009-15

Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Ker III ’73 2009, 2012

Mr. Victor E. D. King ’87 2011

Mr. & Mrs. David A. Klement ’80 2008, 2012-14

Mr. William C. W. Lamb ’92 2013, 2015

Mr. & Mrs. Albert E. Lehmkuhl ’59 2016

Mr. & Mrs. John H. Low ’78 2014

Dr. & Mrs. G. Gregory Lozier ’58 2008-15

Mr. Dual A. MacIntyre Jr. ’52 2011-12, 2014-15

Dr. Dana Marsh ’79 2016

The Rev. & Mrs. Lynde E. May ’47 2016

Mr. Dylan T. McKeon ’98 2014

Mr. William G. Mead ’46 2011-12

Mr. Theodore Meyers ’93 2015

Mr. & Mrs. Edward C. Morgan ’52 2008, 2010, 2012-13

Mr. Greg Moten ’75 2013, 2015

Mr. Steven Mueller ’74 2011-12

The Rev. Sean Edward Mullen ’81 2010

Mr. William E. Mullestein ’25 2008

Mr. Alan C. Murchie ’77 2009-12

Mr. Ian Murphy ’73 2008, 2013-16

Mr. Grant T. Murray ’89 2008-10, 2015

Mr. Jack Neithammer ’60 2012, 2014-15

Mr. & Mrs. John C. Newsome ’81 PA ’13 2008, 2010, 2012-16

Mr. Timothy E. Noble ’50 2009-11

Mr. & Mrs. William L. Noble ’45 2009-10, 2012

Mr. Christopher D. O’Meara ’85 2008

Mr. Frederick B. Onderdonk ’49 2011

Mr. Jon D. Papps ’44 2008

Mr. Andrew Pierre ’47 2012-16

Mr. Aaron C. Primero ’05 2012

Mr. Kenneth F. Pyle ’64 2013

Dr. Douglas L. Relyea ’52 2009-15

Mr. Calvin Reynolds ’42 2012

Mr. James A. Riddell, Jr. ’32 2012

Mr. William T. Robinson ’42 2008-15

Mr. Jonathan Sproul Ross ’86 2015

Mr. Detrick T. Rothacker ’74 2008-16

Mr. Treadwell Ruml II ’66 2008, 2011-12

Mr. Atticus Sawatzki ’07 2011, 2013-14

Mr. Augustus G. Sawatzki ’08 2011, 2013-14

Dr. Stephen G. Schaeffer ’61 2009, 2011-12, 2014-15

Mr. Edmund P. Scharpf ’80 2008-14, 2016

Mr. Allen E. Schepper ’38 2010-11, 2014

Mr. Donald R. Schepper ’36 2015

Dr. Michael H. Scholla ’69 2013

Dr. James R. Schreppler ’75 2010, 2012-13, 2015

Dr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Schreppler ’74 PA ’09 2009, 2011-15

Mr. W. P. Schultz ’59 2009

Mr. Stephen L. Shafer ’80 2012-13

Mr. David Shaw ’95 2013-15

Mr. John Darrell Sherwood ’81 2008, 2010-15

The Rev. Geoffrey S. Simpson ’78 2011-15

Mr. J. Timothy Snavely ’89 2012

Mr. David G. Soderberg ’93 2013

Mr. Charles W. Soltis ’52 2008-16

Mr. Thomas Homer Stires ’76 2008, 2015

Mr. Clark Taylor ’65 2010, 2012

Mr. William J. Taylor ’47 2013

Mr. Donald R. Tench ’37 2011-14, 2016

Mr. David Thomson ’71 2009, 2011

Mr. George E. Toothman, ’02 2010, 2014-15

Mr. Henry G. Toothman ’03 2013-14

Mr. & Mrs. James R. Van Gaasbeek ’62 2008-15

The Rev. Richard Van Wely ’48 2010, 2013-14, 2016

Mr. Richard Verdery ’40 2008

Dr. Julian Wachner ’83 2011

Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Walton III ’40 2008-15

Mr. William Wamester ’59 2011, 2014

Mr. William H. Warren ’73 2008-15

Dr. Trevor Weston ’81 2015

Mr. David P. Willis ’80 2016

Dr. John H. Wilson ’51 2015

Mr. Justin Windholtz ’93 2013

Mr. Robert M. Wohlforth ’38 2008-13

Mr. John Yong ’95 2011

Lt. William Wade Zirkle ’92 2008, 2010-13


T. TERTIUS NOBLE GUILDAcknowledges & thanks those who have remembered the Choir School in planning their estates.Mr. K. F. Andrews*The Rev. John B. Birdsall ’40Mr. Nicholas G. BrowneThe Rev. & Mrs. R. Craig Burlington

PA ’84 & ’91Mr. Darby Cannon IIIDr. Barry John CapellaMr. Ronald Ciavolino*The Rev. & Mrs. David C. Cobb PA ’01 & ’03Ms. Janice L. Conzet*Ms. Martha J. DodgeMr. Paul R. EmmonsMr. Bruce Englebrecht, Esq. ’57Mr. Donald H. Goodyear, Jr.Mrs. Judith HancockMr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Jones PA ’10Mrs. Esther KammMr. Christopher M. KingMr. Kenneth F. KoenMr. Jeffrey Lawrence*Mr.* & Mrs. Ogden Northrop LewisMs. Elaine LinerMr. Sean Sapone McFate ’84Ms. Karen MetcalfMr. & Mrs.* William R. MillerMrs. JoAnn MinshallMr. & Mrs. Eugene G. MintzDr. Richard B. NelsonMr. & Mrs. John C. Newsome ’81 PA ’13Ms. Janice Parkinson-Tucker

& Mr. James S. TuckerMr. Richard W. Pendleton, Jr.Mr. Andrew Pierre ’47Mr. B. Franklin Reinauer IIIEdmée B. ReitDr. Stephen G. Schaeffer ’61Miss Susan E. SeamanR. Stephen Seibt, MDEleanor, Lady ShearingMr. & Mrs. Richard Slattery PA ’01Mr. Charles W. Soltis ’52Mr. Robert G. Strachan

BOYS RECRUITMENT FUNDInspired by the generous gift of Frank Goodwin, a long-time friend of the school.The Rev. & Mrs. David C. Cobb PA ’01 & ’03Mr. Ronald LortonMr. & Mrs. Joseph G. Pike

in honor of Frank Goodwin

CAMP FUNDLaura Pels, a generous supporter of the Choir School, inspired this fund to secure the continuation of the school’s annual stay at Camp Incarnation in Connecticut.Mr. Jonathan W. Chapman ’74

in memory of Gordon ClemMr. David K. Dimmock

in memory of John ScottMr. Harland H. EastmanMr. D. Rowland Hill III ’98Mr. William Wickliffe Hill ’97Ms. Laura J. PelsMr. Jonathan Sproul Ross ’86

GIRL CHORISTER COURSEAcknowledging gifts in support of the annual nine-day residential summer course for girl choristers.Ms. Deirdre ByrneMrs. P. J. KennedyMiss Sarah E. Macdonald

in honor of Heidi ThomasMrs. Cecilia D. Sweeney PA ’82

in memory of Bromley Wharton Love

HEADMASTER’S AWARDMr. Thomas Godfrey ’80Ms. Karen MetcalfMr. Grant T. Murray ’89Mr. & Mrs. Elidoro Primero PA ’01 & ’05Mr. George E. Toothman, ’02Dr. Yuri Yamamoto &

Dr. Akihiko Yamamoto PA ’11

Mr. & Mrs. Neal Stuber PA ’86Mr. J. Stanley TuckerThe Rev. Charles WallaceMs. Charlotte WiggersMr. John R. Wilson, Jr.

ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP FUNDFounded in 2007 by the Alumni Board of Directors & funded by the generosity of Choir School alumni, this fund allows a scholarship to be presented annually through the Alumni Award.The Dana FoundationMs. Esther J. Long & Mr. Steve Long PA ’13Mr. Donald R. Schepper ’36Dr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Schreppler ’74 PA ’09Mr. David Shearouse ’97Mr. J. Timothy Snavely ’89Mr. Thomas Homer Stires ’76

BOYS EDUCATION FUNDEstablished by members of the Choir School community in recognition of the need for a fund to support an enriched education for every boy.Mr. & Mrs. Peter Accinno PA ’93 & 98Mrs. Ruth A. Chynoweth

in memory of William P. Rhodes III PA ’16Done Right Gutters LLEC

in memory of William P. Rhodes III PA ’16Mr. Bruce Erickson

in memory of William P. Rhodes III PA ’16Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Frost

in memory of William P. Rhodes III PA ’16Mr. James T. Heenehan

in memory of William P. Rhodes III PA ’16Ms. Ruth E. Knapp

in memory of William P. Rhodes III PA ’16Ms. Jeanne LevinsonMr. Stephen A. Mastro

in memory of William P. Rhodes III PA ’16Ms. Edith L. MorrillMr. Abayomi Olusegun OdunugaMr. Alan T. Parish

in memory of John ScottMr. & Mrs. Stephen PottersMs. Mary A. Walker & Ms. Joyce A. Howell

in memory of William P. Rhodes III PA ’16

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LEARNING ASSISTANCEEstablished with a gift from Joanne Zorn in memory of her son, Trent, a faithful parishioner and supporter of the Choir School.Dr. & Mr. Thomas L. Carroll ’88Mr. & Mrs. Stephen W. Gauster-FilekMs. Edith L. MorrillMr. & Mrs. Hee-Gwone Yoo PA ’12Mrs. Joanne Zorn

in memory of Trent Zorn

OTHER RESTRICTED FUNDSAmbassador & Mrs. Thomas H. Anderson, Jr.The estate of The Rev. Canon John G. B.

Andrew, OBE, DD in memory of Anne Andrew Jarman

Mr. Karl Boulware & Dr. Leotta W. Jones-Boulware ’93

Mr. John P. Burlington ’91The Estate of Mr. Gordon H. ClemThe Rev. & Mrs. David C. Cobb PA ’01 & ’03Mr. Matthew Feldman ’05Mr. Joel Aron FlashmanMr. & Mrs. Stephen W. Gauster-Filek

in honor of Norma S. Gauster at ChristmasMr. Joseph D. Gioe & Mr. Stephen T. KellyMr. Christiaan A. Heijmen ’94Ms. Marilyn J. HeinemanMr. Oliver Holt ’05Mr. Albert T. Holtz ’52Mr. & Mrs. Murray HoodMr. Keith R. JohnsonMr. William C. W. Lamb ’92Dr. & Mrs. Dan S. Locklair

in memory of John ScottMs. Edith L. MorrillMr. Greg Moten ’75Mr. Ian Murphy ’73Mr. Haig R. NalbantianThe Estate of Philip NobleMr. & Mrs. John C. Newsome ’81 & PA ’13Mr. Richard W. Pendleton, Jr.Mr. Aaron C. Primero ’05Mr. Jonathan Sproul Ross ’86Mr. & Mrs. Richard Sawatzki PA ’08Mr. David C. SchultzMr. J. Timothy Snavely ’89The Rev. & Mrs. Michael D. SpurlockMr. Christopher Stuber ’86Mrs. Louise Temple-RosebrookMr. George E. Toothman, ’02Mr. & Mrs. James S. TragerMr. & Mrs. Charles W. Walton III ’40Dr. Trevor Weston ’81The Whitehead FoundationMr. David P. Willis ’80

UNRESTRICTEDMr. William C. Amos &

Ms. Josephine Eccel PA ’06Ms. Varya V. Anderson

in memory of William L. Noble ’45The Rev. Victor L. Austin

Mr. William T. Baker Jr. in memory of Ogden Northrop Lewis

Mr. & Mrs. Ken Baldeosingh PA ’14Mr. James R. Barry PA ’00Mrs. Deanna BatesThe Rev. Dr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Bauer, Sr.Mr. Christopher BehaThe Rev. John B. Birdsall ’40Mr. & Mrs. Harold BontekoeBoston Duck ToursMr. Alan M. Bradshaw

in memory of Canon John AndrewMr. & Mrs. Willem BransMr. & Mrs. Robert L. Bristol ’47Mr. David L. BrownMr. Nicholas G. BrowneThe Rev. & Mrs. Brian K. BurgessThe Rev. & Mrs. R. Craig Burlington

PA ’84 & ’91 in honor of RCB & JPB

Mr. Ross C. Burnam ’94Mr. Darby Cannon IIIMr. & Mrs. Donald Cantone GA ’15Dr. Barry John CapellaMr. Jonathan W. Chapman ’74Mr. Christopher Chase &

Ms. Jane Money PA ’06 & ’02George Forrest Chichester TrustMr. Howard G. Chua-EoanMr. Robert L. ClarkMr. Andrew Sheridan Cobb ’03The Rev. & Mrs. David C. Cobb PA ’01 & ’03Mr. George W. Cogan ’71Miss Barbara L. Como

in memory of Hector Bone, Kurt Mazur, John Scott, Frank Sinatra, Jr.

Mrs. Nealda Corallo in memory of Richard J. Corallo

The Cornell University FoundationMr. Richard A. DailyMr. & Mrs. Doug Daugherty ’48Ms. Beatrix Davies PA ’13Mr. David DicilloMr. David K. DimmockMr. & Mrs. Richard F. DouglassDr. Kevin R. Dungey ’64Mr. Harland H. EastmanMr. & Mrs. Richard F. Edmonds ’58Mr. William H. ElderMr. & Mrs. Ernest EllisonMrs. Mae Lorraine Hall EversleyMr. & Mrs. Michael S. Feldman PA ’05 & ’01Mr. Jeffrey FigleyMr. Ian R. Fisher ’95Ms. Cynthia W. FitzgeraldMr. & Mrs. Paul Fletcher PA ’07Mr. Raymond FoyeMs. Prudence GaryMr. & Mrs. Alan F. GettnerMr. & Mrs. Stephen E. GilhuleyMr. Edward E. GillDr. A. William Godfrey PA ’75Mr. Frank C. Goodwin

Ms. Agnes GundMr. & Ms. Jonathan D. HallMr. Cide He & Ms. Yong C. Ma PA ’03Mr. & Ms. James B. HealyMr. Christiaan A. Heijmen ’94Mr. Theodore S. Hewson ’70Ms. Elizabeth Higgins GA ’13

in memory of John ScottMs. Kathryn A. Higgins PA ’13

in honor of Matthew HigginsMiss Margaret P. High

in memory of Ogden Northrop LewisMr. & Mrs. Donald Rowland Hill, Jr.

PA ’97 & ’98Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Hoopes Jr.

in memory of Ogden Northrop LewisMrs. Nancy G. HugginsMr. Harrison Hunt

in memory of John A. Hunt ’36Ms. Jill V. HuntMs. Ying Ling HwangMs. Laura Inge

in memory of William Herz, Jr.Mr. Keith R. JohnsonMr. & Mrs. C. William Jones ’52Gerald P. Jones, PhDMs. Olga Kalandova-Ramirez

& Mr. Carlos Ramirez PA ’14Mr. Stefan B. E. Karlsson ’94Mr. Christian K. KeeseeMrs. Theresa Keiser & Mr. Rudolph Keiser

in memory of Ogden Northrop LewisMr. & Mrs. Robert KellumMs. Kristine Andrea KippinsMs. Zosera A. KirklandMr. & Mrs. John Klinger PA ’12Ms. Ellen Cooper Klyce

in memory of Ogden Northrop LewisMr. & Mrs. David KoehringMr. & Mrs. James Kollin PA ’16Mr. & Mrs. Garrard KramerMr. David KrohneMr. William C. W. Lamb ’92Mr. Hendrik LavergeMrs. Cynthia Lehmkuhl

in memory of Thomas LehmkuhlMr. J. Larry Loftis

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Mr. & Mrs. John L. PatesMr. Richard W. Pendleton, Jr.Mr. Richard PerrierMrs. Marilyn D. Perry

in memory of Walter B. Perry ’44Mr. Andrew Pierre ’47Mr. Drew S. PopjoyMs. Gail Potts

in memory of Edward C. Morgan ’52Miss Lucinda S. PriessMr. & Mrs. Elidoro Primero PA ’01 & ’05Prudential Financial IncMr. Kevin PurroneMiss Cynthia Ann RahaMs. Deborah W. Rathbun

in memory of Ogden Northrop LewisMr. B. Franklin Reinauer IIIEdmée B. Reit

in memory of John ScottDr. Douglas L. Relyea ’52Ms. Aldania ReyesMr. Calvin Reynolds ’42Mrs. Kathleen J. Rhodes PA ’16Mr. & Mrs. David R. SeeMrs. A. H. RobertsMr. William T. Robinson ’42Mr. Donald J. Rogers

in memory of Cynthia LodgeMr. & Mrs. Dwayne Ross GA ’10

in honor of Forest WarrenMr. Detrick T. Rothacker ’74Dr. Stephen G. Schaeffer ’61

in memory of John ScottMr. Edmund P. Scharpf ’80

in memory of George ScharpMiss Hazel E. SchleiferDr. James R. Schreppler ’75Dr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Schreppler ’74 PA ’09Ms. Patricia K. Schultz

in memory of Ogden Northrop LewisMr. & Mrs. Nathaniel Seeley PA ’14Mr. & Mrs. Glen Segger PA ’15 CP ’19Mr. David Shaw ’95Ms. Lisa ShawMr. John Darrell Sherwood ’81The Rev. Geoffrey S. Simpson ’78

in memory of Gordon ClemMr. & Mrs. Raymond D. Smoot, Jr.Mrs. Sheila SollosiMr. Charles W. Soltis ’52Mr. Michael StrawMr. & Mrs. Erik W. Suter PA ’16Mrs. Cecilia D. Sweeney PA ’82Mr. William J. Taylor ’47

in memory of the years 1946-1947Mr. Donald R. Tench ’37Ms. Ileen M. Thompson

in memory of Elsa & Eileen GrantMs. Theresa S. ThompsonMs. Linda Chatman Thomsen

in memory of Ogden Northrop LewisThrivent Choice

Mr. Lucien Todman in memory of E. Vanterpool

The Honorable Farley D. Toothman, Esq. & Dr. Ingrid K. Toothman PA ’03 & ’02 in memory of John Scott

Mr. George E. Toothman ’02Mr. Henry G. Toothman ’03Mr. Craig A. TozzoMr. & Mrs. James S. TragerMr. & Mrs. Mark Trimmer

in memory of Edward C. Morgan ’52Universal Network Television LLCMr. & Mrs. James R. Van Gaasbeek ’62The Rev. Charles Wallace

in memory of John ScottMr. William H. Warren ’73Dr. & Mrs. John A. WeaverDr. Andrew T. WellerDr. Trevor Weston ’81The Whitehead FoundationMr. Robert E. Williamson

& Ms. Janet R. KeaneMrs. Elizabeth G. S. WillsDr. John H. Wilson ’51Mr. William Lee YoungerMr. Wilson ZhouMr. W. Denman Zirkle PA ’92

EDWARD CHILDS MORGANEdward Childs Morgan, Class of 1952, died on July 13, 2016. Ed was one of the original leaders of the Steering Committee that founded the Saint Thomas Choir School Alumni Association. Ed’s family have requested that gifts in his memory be made to the Choir School.Mr. & Mrs. David BoydMs. Gail L. PottsMr. Charles W. Soltis ’52Mr. & Mrs. Mark Trimmer

OGDEN NORTHROP LEWISOgden Northrop Lewis, a longtime friend & generous supporter of the Choir School, died on June 25, 2016 at age 73. Affectionately known by his friends as Denny, he & his wife Susie created the Ogden Northrop Lewis, Jr. Choristership as a memorial to their son. Susie Lewis has requested that donations made in memory of Denny be allocated to the John G. Scott Scholarship Fund at the Choir School. The following people have made gifts in memory of Denny:The William T. Baker, Jr. Family

Bayard, Bobbi & BillMr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Hoopes, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Rudolph KeiserMs. Ellen Cooper KlyceMr. Alfred L. Malabre, Jr.Mr. Ralph A. MonacoMr. William Parsons, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Robert RathbunMs. Patricia K. SchultzMs. Linda Chatman Thomsen

Mr. & Mrs. Chester S. LoganMr. Ronald LortonDr. & Mrs. G. Gregory Lozier ’58Ms. Colette LumsbyMr. & Mrs. John L. A. LyddaneMs. Yong C. Ma & Mr. Cide HeMr. Dual A. MacIntyre Jr. ’52

in memory of Dr. CandlynMadden & Warwick, LLCMr. Thomas F. MahoneyMr. Alfred L. Malabre, Jr.

in memory of Ogden Northrop LewisMarsh & McLennan CompaniesMr. Sanford R. Martin

in memory of Gerre HancockMs. Phyllis Mattill

in memory of Gerre HancockMrs. & Mr. Carol B. Mayer

in memory of Edward C. Morgan ’52Mr. Charles F. McCownMr. & Mrs. John C. McGuireMr. George A. McKeon

in honor of lan McKeonThe Albion & Natalie Metcalf Fund

of the New York Community TrustMs. Marilyn Meyer

in honor of Forest WarrenMr. Theodore Meyers ’93Mrs. JoAnn MinshallMr. Ralph A. Monaco

in memory of Ogden Northrop LewisMrs. Olga Mora PA ’86Mr. Greg Moten ’75Ms. Eleanor V. MulhernMr. Ian Murphy ’73Mr. Jack Neithammer ’60Mr. & Mrs. Chad Newsome ’81 & PA ’13Mr. Joseph Pace

in memory of Richard KnappMr. William Parsons, Jr.

in memory of Ogden Northrop Lewis

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Ms. Martha J. DodgeMr. & Mrs. Joseph William DonnerMr. & Mrs. Peter DrasherMr. Ernest James DuckettMr. Kirk M. DuffyMs. Karen DuncanMs. Tessa DunningMs. Catherine M. DurginMs. Claire Elizabeth EdwardsMiss Victoria C. EkweyMr. & Mrs. Peter J. EliopoulosThe Honorable & Mrs. Thomas E. EngelMr. Thomas W. EnnisMr. & Mrs. Carlos de Leon EsguerraMs. Melinda G. EwingDr. Helen M. FerenceMr. & Mrs. Colin FergusDr. Ana E. FerreiraMr. James Norwood Finklea IIDr. & Mrs. James N. FinkleaMr. Joel Aron FlashmanMr. Michael A. FloresMs. Chris FordMr. & Mrs. George D. FosdickMiss Karen L. FosdickDr. & Mrs. Brian J. FosterMr. & Mrs. T. Vernon FosterMr. V. Taylor FosterMr. Daniel L. FowlerMrs. Keith FrancisMr. Edward S. Frese, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Glenn T. FullerMrs. Walter W. FurrMr. Virtue G. GabbidonMr. Daniel E. Gabriele, Jr.Mr. Adam R. GaleMr. Michael William GalliganMr. Alberto GarciaMr. & Mrs. Stephen W. Gauster-FilekMs. Barbara A. GencoMr. Thomas GiallorenziMr. & Mrs. Robert J. GiannettaMr. Edward GibsonMrs. Jane Hughes GignouxMr. & Mrs. Stephen E. GilhuleyMr. Edward E. GillMr. Joseph D. Gioe & Mr. Stephen T. KellyMr. David GlassMr. Stephen A. Glauber

& Ms. Nancy C. Bredar

EVERY MEMBER CANVASSRecognizes those donors who have contributed to the Choir School by making an annual pledge through the Church.Ms. Rita M. AbbottMiss Brigita AbolinsMiss Ruta AbolinsMr. Jesse AdelaarMs. Terry D. AdkinsDr. & Mrs. Theodore K. AgbleDr. & Mrs. Gregory AlexanderMr. & Mrs. James V. AlimenaMrs. Mary L. AlkanMs. Barbara A. AndersonMiss Claire H. AndersonMs. Linn AndersonMiss Rose AndersonAmbassador & Mrs. Thomas H. Anderson, Jr.Mr. Albert AngrisaniMr. & Mrs. Rand V. AraskogMs. Betsy F. Ashton & Mr. James StepletonMiss Elizabeth N. AyiteyfioMr. Ryan BakerMs. Una BakerMr. Joseph C. Balbo, Jr.Ms. Nancy S. BaldwinMrs. Kathleen M. BalestierMr. David J. BargerDr. William A. BarlettaMrs. Deanna BatesDr. Barbara H. BattleMr. Matthew BauersfeldMs. Diana Lee BeckMr. & Mrs. John BeierMr. & Mrs. David M. BenderMs. Myra BermanMrs. Ellen D. Beschler PA ’84Mrs. Marion BiallotMr. & Mrs. J. Truman Bidwell, Jr.Dr. Stephen Bates BillickDr. & Mrs. Robert C. BlackwoodMr. Benjamin Eric Blair-JoannouMr. Brian Bland-ClarkMr. & Mrs. Austin W. Bramwell

Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. BrandowMr. & Mrs. Willem BransMs. Roberta S. BrillMr. & Mrs. Robert L. Bristol ’47Mr. Timothy G. Brown & Mr. Frank RiouxMs. Millicent BrowneMr. John F. Bullough, Sr.Mr. & Mrs. Christopher ButnerMr. Troy A. ButtoneMr. & Mrs. Stephen BuzardMr. & Mrs. Harold R. Byers PA ’97Ms. Elizabeth Varley CampMr. Irvin CampbellDr. Barry John CapellaMr. Michael T. CappielloMs. Jeanne B. CaraleyMr. Ronald W. CarrollMr. & Mrs. Thomas T. CarrollMr. & Mrs. John Henry Carter, Jr.Mrs. Isabela Castellanos PA ’09 & ’16Ms. Diana CastroMs. Karen J. ChapmanMs. Susan CharetteMiss Siqi ChenMr. C. Rick ChittumMrs. Blanche Lark ChristersonMs. Elizabeth A. ClarkMr. & Mrs. George Erskine ClarkeMs. Joan C. ClarkeMs. Barbara ClarkinMs. Susan B. ClearwaterMr. John Chester CleaverMs. Cristina C. ClementMr. Peter C. R. ClunieMr. & Mrs. Charles W. Clute, Jr.Ms. Carolann Clynes & Mr. Robert BourneMr. Oliver CobbMr. Paul Colombo & Ms. Sarah SchultzMiss Barbara L. ComoMr. Gerald L. Cooper & Ms. Jenifer Y. LiuMr. & Mrs. James F. CornwellMr. Ivan W. Cort & Ms. Cora E. JacksonMr. Gerald CraftMr. William C. Creevy, Jr.Dr. Jere L. CrookMs. Heather CrossMr. Robert E. CrozierCmdr. John Francis Vance CupschalkMr. David M. DanielMr. & Mrs. James D. DanielsThe Rev. Joel C. Daniels & Ms. Lystra BatchooMr. Sterling P. A. Darling, Jr.Mr. Dennis A. DaughertyDr. William T. Davis, RN PhDMr. & Mrs. Patrick J. DawsonMs. Anna de BakkerMr. Thomas M. DeanMr. Kenneth DecinaMr. Glenn A. DeibertMs. Patricia Y. DemmittMr. Ronald E. DeVeau

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Mr. & Mrs. Gary A. GlynnMr. & Mrs. Brian C. GoehringMr. & Mrs. Lucky GoldMr. Joseph GrafwallnerMiss Jean C. GraingerMr. William M. GreenMs. Damara L. GreeneMr. Gary E. GreeneThe Rev. William & Jane GreenlawMs. Amy GruszewskiMr. & Mrs. Theo GruttmanMr. G. W. Haas & Mr. George J. Moeschlin IIIMr. Scott J. HaberkornMr. Christopher M. Haley & Mr. David KnappMr. & Mrs. Charles D. HallMr. & Mrs. John H. HallMr. & Mrs. John R. HallMrs. Judith HancockMs. Erin HankeMrs. Shauna HankoffMrs. Walter H. B. HansenMr. Michael A. HarrisThe Rev. Canon John G. HartnettMiss Alexandra B. HarveyMr. & Mrs. John C. HarveyMiss Katherine St. John HarveyMr. Theodore R. HarveyMiss Laura D. HeinemanMs. Marilyn J. HeinemanMr. & Mrs. Roland HendersonMr. & Mrs. Frederick C. HermanDr. Richard HeschkeMr. Timothy L. Higdon & Mr. Patrick AthyMiss Margaret P. HighMr. & Mrs. Donald Rowland Hill, Jr.

PA ’97 & ’98Miss Bronwen E. HobbsMr. Eliot A. HoffMr. Christopher W. HofmannMr. & Mrs. Bill HollandMr. Mark HolupMr. & Mrs. Murray HoodMs. Sarah S. Hsu & Mr. Frank ProvenzanoMr. & Mrs. James A. HugMr. & Mrs. Derek HughesMiss Rita A. HughesMs. Robin J. HumbleMs. Jill V. HuntMs. Sarah HusseyMs. Laura IngeMr. & Mrs. Harry M. InglisMs. Roxane W. Isbey, Jr.Mr. Fred Taylor IsquithMs. Christine JapelyMr. Matthew JaroszewiczMr. & Mrs. Robert W. JensonMr. Keith R. JohnsonMr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Jones PA ’10Ms. Katherine R. JordonMr. Savvas KaminaridesMr. & Mrs. Thomas E. KammMs. Ann Hall KaplanMs. Machiko Kashiwagi

Mr. Lawrence KeigwinMrs. Linda E. Ketchum-Pompili

& Mr. Paul M. PompiliMr. Joonhyeon Kim & Mr. Rodman RichterMs. Karen Beecher KimberMr. Christopher M. KingMr. Frank Cecil Percival KippinsMr. K. Bryan KirkMs. Sandra KirschDr. John KittrellMr. Richard W. Knapp*Mr. Johannes M. P. KnoopsMr. Stephen John KochMr. Kenneth F. KoenMrs. Sheila KohlerMr. & Mrs. Paul KonneyMrs. Imre C. KovacsMr. & Mrs. Robert KramerMr. John F. KreutzMr. David KrohneMr. Tim KrygerMr. Andrew A. KryzakMs. Laura KszanMr. Andrew M. LaingMr. Frederick W. Lapham IIIMs. Rebecca LaReau & Mr. Marc TaslitThe Very Reverend C. Alexis LaRue, Jr.Mr. David J. LaurensonMr. Richard J. LawsonMr. William J. LawsonMr. William LemmonRichard D. Lester, MD

& Mr. Willem P. PruissersMs. Valerie A. LettanMs. Jeanne LevinsonMiss Fay M. LewisMr.* & Mrs. Ogden Northrop LewisMiss Pamela A. LewisMrs. Nicole LourasMs. Colette LumsbyMs. Berry C. Lynch & Mr. Robert E. KempMr. Henry S. Lynn, Jr.John S. MacGregor IV, Esq.Mr. & Mrs. Richard MacrisMr. Stuart MangerMr. R. Zachary MannaMr. Michael ManningMr. Clyde Vernon MarchMr. W. Michael Margolin

& Mr. Michael H. CharlesMr. Peter MartinMiss Merrie MartinsonMs. Judith V. MasonMs. Kristin MateoMr. Michael R. MatternDr. Mary C. MattisMs. June Hunt MayerMr. John H. McCann, Jr.Ms. Kathleen D. McCarthyMr. Charles F. McCownMr. Dennis McCraryMrs. Margaret M. McDonaldMs. Mary Lou McFate PA ’84

Mr. & Mrs. Douglas G. McGrathMs. Anne McIlvaineMr. Robert Foster McKeonMr. Easton T. McMahonDr. Marise B. McNeeley &

The Rev. Dr. David F. McNeeley PA ’08The Rev. & Mrs. Andrew C. MeadMr. & Mrs. John C. MehrlingMs. Luchette V. MeiliElizabeth G. Melillo, PhDMr. & Mrs. Carlos E. Mendez-PenateMs. Karen MetcalfMr. James C. Michael, Jr.Ms. Ginger F. C. MillerMr. Glenn A. MillerMr. Harold W. MillerMr. William R. MillerMr. & Mrs. Eugene G. MintzMiss Joan Taylor MischoMr. & Mrs. Michael S. MoehlmanMr. Stuart E. MoneyMs. Sarah MookDr. & Mrs. Robert O. MooneyMr. & Mrs. Charles H. MooreMs. Edith L. MorrillMr. Robert F. MorrisMr. Brian Tetsuo MotoMr. Brian Patrick MullaneyMs. Ann MunkenbeckMs. Allison MurrayMs. Marty F. Myers*Mr. & Mrs. Peter A. NadosyMr. Mark NattierMr. Charles R. NelsonMr. & Mrs. Paul NelsonMiss Ellen P. NelsonDr. Richard B. NelsonMr. William P. NelsonMs. Martha NesbittMr. Paul R. Newbury &

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Mr. Nicholas WapshottDr. Charles NicolsonMr. & Mrs. John P. North, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. John NozellMr. Charles J. O’ByrneMr. & Mrs. John O’Connor


Mr. & Mrs. Edward StreatorThe Rev. Nancy StreufertMr. & Mrs. Henry M. Strouss IIIMr. Robert SutherlandMr. & Mrs. Joseph C. SweeneyMr. Daniel J. Tarapacki & Mr. Jarrad ScottMr. James D. TaylorMr. Richard P. TegtmeyerMr. Ronald Lee ThomasMs. Beverly B. ThompsonMs. Ileen M. ThompsonMs. Theresa S. ThompsonMrs. Janet P. TidwellMr. Richard O. Tiff IIMr. David N. Tisdale-Woods

& Mr. Gary L. Tisdale-WoodsLoretta A. Tomasiello, PhDMr. & Mrs. James S. TragerMs. Katlyn TraxlerMrs. Tricia TraxlerMs. Anne K. TreantafelesMrs. Beverly Benz TreuilleMr. J. Stanley TuckerMr. John G. TurnbullMr. & Mrs. Oliver TylerMr. Charles J. UpdegraphMr. Samuel E. UrmeyMs. Lynn C. ValentiEdward S. Valentine, MDMr. George W. van der PloegMr. John W. Van SantMr. Stuart VarneyMr. David VerchereDr. Jeremy WaldronMrs. Barbara Walker PA ’86Mr. Robert Kent WalkupDr. Christopher D. WallaceMr. & Mrs. Douglas P. WarwickMr. Oliver Wendell WelchDr. Andrew T. WellerMr. & Mrs. William M. WelterMrs. Karen L. Wentling PA ’10Dr. Eugenia WestMr. & Mrs. Lawrence N. WestonMr. John P. White, Jr.Dr. & Mrs. Peter M. WhiteleyMr. & Mrs. Donald E. WhittakerMr. & Mrs. Richard P. WiddicombeMs. Charlotte WiggersMr. William A. C. WilliamsMr. & Mrs. Michael A. WillsMr. John R. Wilson, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey L. WiltMs. Rachel WingerterMr. William H. A. Wright IIMiss Julia WunkerMs. Janet H. YoungMr. William Lee YoungerMr. Gregory C. Zaffiro

& Mr. Matthew R. AileyMr. Craig ZeichnerMr. Wilson ZhouMr. & Mrs. Frederic Zonsius

Mr. & Mrs. Peter W. RobeyMr. Donald J. RogersMrs. Joan S. RothermelMr. & Mrs. Robert J. Russell PA ’80Mr. William Simonet Ryall, Jr.Mrs. Joan M. SaundersDr. & Mrs. Karl C. SaundersMs. Jean SavageMr. & Mrs. Allan G. SawatzkyMs. Patricia S. SchaeferMr. Charles D. Scheips, Jr.Ms. Bonnie Lee SchifferMr. Charles N. W. SchlangenMiss Hazel E. SchleiferMr. Raymond V. Schonder, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. David SchraaMr. & Mrs. Stanley DeForest ScottMr. & Mrs. Gil SeadaleMiss Susan E. SeamanMr. Webb Cranston SegurR. Stephen Seibt, MDMr. Jesse G. SelzerMr. David ServisMs. Nawal ShalabiEleanor, Lady ShearingMr. & Mrs. Gerald D. ShepherdMr. & Mrs. Stan ShimkusMr. John H. SilvisMr. & Mrs. Michael SinclairMs. Susanne SingletonMiss Christine A. SmithMs. Myra S. SmithMs. Patricia L. SmithMrs. Georgeann C. SohnMs. So-Yon SohnMs. Esther W. SpauldingMr. Chenault Spence & Mr. Guido ArenMr. Lloyd G. StanfordMs. Velma SteeleMr. Christopher E. SterlingMr. & Mrs. John C. Sterling IIIMr. Randall Lee StewartMr. Gregory A. StoskopfMs. Shannon E. StottsMr. Robert G. Strachan

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