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The Corbie ChronicleSpring 2015 • Volume 23, Number 2

A Message from the President 3 Fr. Peter Weigand, OSB

Reflections from the Headmaster 5 Mr. Bill Crittenberger

Campus News 6

From the Monastery 10

Panther Sports 12

All-Alumni Reunion 14

Class Notes/Alumni News 15

In Memoriam 18

Above: Over Spring Break, Ms. Hajnalka Enzel and Fr. Javier Castro accompanied a group of 14 students to Spain. Here, the group stops for a picture on a hill overlooking the city of Toledo. Trip highlights included the Prado Museum and Easter Sunday Mass.

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from the President: The Abbey RoadWhen man gives himself to various disciplines of philosophy, history, and of mathematical and natural science, and when he cultivates the arts, he can do very much to elevate the human family to a more sublime understanding of truth, goodness, and beauty, and to the formation of considered opinions which have universal value.

Gaudium et Spes, Pope Paul VI

Dear Alumni, Students, Members of the Board of Trustees, Faculty and Staff, Past and Present Parents, Benefactors, and Friends of St. Anselm’s Abbey School,

to me over and over again how formative their days at St. Anselm’s had been. Several stated that they would not be in the positions they hold today without the education they received at the Abbey School. Not only were they prepared for college, but they continue to have an everlasting commitment to academic excellence and are instilled with a lifelong thirst for learning.

While attending the Model United Nations conference in Boston with seven of our students and Assistant Headmaster Kirk Otterson, I was able to have an evening with three younger alumni, Conor Hearn, ’13, Tom Zorc, ’09, and Christian Schorn, ’09. Conor is studying music, Tom is preparing to study medicine, and Christian has a fellowship at The Harvard Herbaria. I was able to spend a morning with Christian looking at different species of cacti in the Harvard collection. This was an exceptional opportunity for me to visit my imprisoned Cactonian relatives.

While in Philadelphia, I met up with Dr. Mark Smith,’73, who is a professor of Near Eastern Languages and Scripture at NYU. We ended up taking Amtrak to New York. Mark has written over 15 books, and he and his wife, Liz Bloch-Smith (an archaeologist), and their three children, Shula, Ben, and Rachael, live in Philadelphia. Both Liz and Mark spend time in New York and in Israel, where they both teach.

Mr. Richard Stafford, ’53, hosted 15 alumni at the River Club in NYC, with Headmaster Bill Crittenberger and yours truly. Each alumnus spoke about where they went to college and what they are now doing—CEO positions, bankers, law professors, mechanical engineers, managing directors, art designers,

When I started teaching in the Abbey School 46 years ago, before the present Metro subway system was in place, over 60% of our students arrived by DC Transit bus. Most of our students took either the uptown Brookland bus leaving from Union Station and letting them off at the corner of Michigan Avenue and 14th Street, or they took the crosstown Ivy City bus leaving from Friendship Heights and eventually arriving at the corner of 14th Street and South Dakota Avenue.

Once at our gate, these bushy-tailed, bright-eyed, eager young men began their trudge up our hill, laden with heavy backpacks stuffed with books and brown paper lunch bags. Little did they know that continuing their daily journey up “The Abbey Road” would eventually prepare them for a far greater journey, and more importantly, they would also be nourished with imperishable food.

Ascending “The Abbey Road” to our monastic school is ultimately a road to understanding the nature of reality both in divine and in human matters; it is a road to distinguishing—on the ethical plane—those things that are good and those that are bad, and it is a peaceful road to learning any rule of reasoning appropriate for reaching truth and understanding. This is concretely what is encompassed by Saint Anselm’s dictum, PAX IN SAPIENTIA.

Most assuredly, what you have just read is what our graduates articulate during my many “Alumni Gatherings” around the world each summer, as well as just a few months ago. At the end of January in Boston, and during the first week of February while in Philadelphia and in New York City, our alumni stressed

In February, Fr. Peter Weigand, OSB, traveled to Boston and to New York City to visit alumni. Left: Christian Schorn,’09, shows Fr. Peter a cactus specimen from the Harvard Herbarium. Center: At the River Club in NYC, 15 alumni gather with Headmaster Bill Crittenberger. Right: Fr. Peter met up with members of the St. Anselm’s Model United Nations team, who competed in the 61st Session of the Harvard National Model U.N..

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consultant analysts, clothing executives, database engineers, and current college students. Each had a vibrant story of their own with fond memories of their days at St. Anselm’s; all were enthusiastic about their time at the Abbey School and were grateful for their education here.

As an example: Benjamin Oh, ’14, who as you will read on page 17 was selected to represent the U.S. at the Winter Universiade in Granada, Spain, wrote a thank-you note to me for our school’s financial support in this effort. “Thank you all for your tremendous support! I am truly proud to be an alumnus of such an amazing school. My time thus far at the University of Pennsylvania has been amazing and I hope Abbey boys will come to visit or attend soon! Best of luck this year, I hope everything is going well at the Abbey and our sports teams are doing great!”

So how did this all happen, and where did we come from? Our Benedictine heritage remains strong, coming down to us from the early Middle Ages, which have been called “the Benedictine centuries.” In April 2008, Pope Benedict XVI acclaimed the influence Saint Benedict had on Western Europe. The pope said that “with his life and work, Saint Benedict exercised a fundamental influence on the development of European civilization and culture” and helped Europe to emerge from the “dark night of history” that occurred after the fall of the Roman Empire.

History also tells us that by the year 515, Saint Benedict (480-547) already had young boys under his tutelage in the persons of Maurus and Placid. These boys were sent to him by their fathers to be trained and educated in Benedict’s School of the Lord’s Service. So literally, for 1,500 years, the Benedictines have been involved in education.

In the summer of the year 597, Benedictines were established in England as the result of Pope Saint Gregory the Great sending forth Augustine of Canterbury, then the prior of a monastery in Rome, and 30 companion monks to found an English Church. For centuries afterward, the Benedictines waxed and waned in influence before their cataclysmic suppression and final expulsion by King Henry VIII in 1535-1540. That the great monasteries were also large landowners with significant income was not overlooked by the king. Seventy years later, Benedictine monks from the Continent were sent by Rome to restore monasteries across Britain.

True monastic scholarship in England began under Saint Benet Biscop (628-690), known as the Bibliophile, and Saint Bede the Venerable (673-735). In 682, Abbot Benet appointed Eosterwine as his coadjutor, and the King was so delighted at the success of St. Peter’s Monastery at Canterbury that he gave Benet more land and urged him to build a second monastery, and thus St. Paul’s was built at Jarrow. Benet eventually collected many manuscripts and built a large library for that age—the collection had an estimated 250 titles in scripture, classical, and secular works—and it was here that his student Bede wrote his famous works. This library became world-famous, and manuscripts copied there became prized possessions throughout Europe.

In 1899, Saint Bede was made a Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo XIII; he is the only native of Great Britain to achieve this designation (Anselm of Canterbury, also a Doctor of the Church, was originally from Italy.). Bede was moreover a skilled linguist and translator, and his work made the Latin and Greek writings of the early Church Fathers much more accessible to his fellow Anglo-Saxons, contributing significantly to English Christianity.

Next on the educational scene comes Saint Anselm (1033-1109). Around 1060, as Abbot of Bec in Normandy, Anselm attracts young scholars from all over Europe and some Moslem countries as well with his burning desire for lifelong scholarship and his thirst for seeking God above all things. Anselm spent years writing about and trying to understanding God, and his many treatises and prayers continue to have impact upon scholars and modern Benedictines. Eventually, Anselm became Archbishop of Canterbury, spoke at Church Councils, and was named the Father of Scholasticism and a Doctor of the Church. Anselm died in 1109, so for over 900 years, Benedictine schools have been guided by his wisdom and mystical insight.

St. Anselm’s Priory in Washington was founded in 1923 by Fr. Thomas Verner Moore, OSB, under the auspices of Fort Augustus Abbey in Scotland in 1923, and the first monks arrived in Washington in September 1924. The Priory School opened its doors in 1942.

In 1961, His Holiness Pope John XXIII elevated the Priory to the rank of Abbey, and so here we are today. St. Anselm’s Abbey has just celebrated the 90th year since its founding as a member of the English Benedictine Congregation, and the School is in its 73rd year. Throughout these decades, we have been faithful to our Benedictine tradition of Ora et Labora, and the Priory-Abbey School continues to be an outstanding School of the Lord’s Service, true to our founder’s vision, a haven where prayer, academic rigor, and love of learning flourish among our monks, students, alumni, and parents.

Pax in Sapientia,

Fr. Peter Weigand, OSBPresident

Benet Biscop also known as Biscop Baducing

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reflections from the Headmaster

Dear St. Anselm’s Community,

We near the finish to another excellent school year—a year marked by a small but mighty senior class of 22, a band of brothers that have come to be known as “The Little Engine That Could.” Thank you, seniors (and parents!), and thank you, faculty and staff, for your guidance, support, love, and dedication.

Our admissions numbers are up for the third year running, and the quality of the newly admitted 50 students is quite extraordinary. Thus, we head into the coming year with a student population of 270, the very number that the Board of Trustees identified five years ago in the School’s “Strategic Plan” as the optimal student body target number. Congratulations, one and all, for having met that goal so well, so effectively, and in such a timely fashion. Admissions Director Peter Young, ’01, and new-to-SAAS Assistant Director Blake Hollinger did a wonderful job making these numbers—and this paradigm—a reality, as did Peter’s admissions predecessor, Assistant Headmaster Kirk Otterson. My hat is off to you, gentlemen, and to the many, many others who have gone to such great and thoughtful lengths to support this fabulous school’s admissions/enrollment arm.

Some news and notes:

• Our students continue to be engaged in exciting science research projects in and out of school. Juniors Tim Pecoraro and Mark Nam began volunteering in a research lab at Children’s National Hospital this spring, and will work there as research assistants over the summer. Junior Pablo Ruiz completed research based on an eight-week seminar in Fire Protection Engineering at the University of Maryland. He was interviewed by PBS Newshour in its segment on the course. Following months of work doing research under advisor Jim Zimbelman at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Junior Ryan Montesi presented a poster about volcanoes on the surface of Mars at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston March 16-20. Each of these young men also presented on said topics at the Student Academic Symposium hosted by HSPA (High School Principals Association), held in early March at Catholic University.

• Thanks to the dedication of our Technology Committee—chaired by Director of Finance and Operations Mark Commins—11 new laptops and a wireless printer for students have been added to our library.

• We continued to deepen our Benedictine identity with the second annual Benedictine Heritage week: We had a presentation for students in January with Priory graduate Tom Schlafly, who was a faculty member at St. Anselm’s from 1972-1974 and is now an attorney, co-founder of the Schlafly brewing company, and active in community improvement efforts in St. Louis. During the week of March 16-20, the school had a talk on “Benedictine Education in the Work Place” by Patrick Meyers, Senior Vice President of

Lockton Companies in Kansas City, a screening of the film Of Gods and Men, special Benedictine lessons integrated in the classroom, and the traditional all-school Mass for the Feast of Saint Benedict.

• Our wrestling team took second place in the Mid-Atlantic Wrestling League tournament, with sophomores Aiden Dwyer and Michael Libanati and senior Ryan Dalbec taking first place in their divisions. Junior Pablo Ruiz competed in the National Prep Championships.

• The Middle School A Basketball team took home its third consecutive PVAC championship banner this winter under the direction of Coach Paul Commins (who is also an outstanding teacher of math and economics).

• Spring sports are underway and afternoons find our campus teeming (teaming?) with Panthers practicing tennis, baseball, track and field, fencing and lacrosse. The lacrosse team is off to a great start under the enthusiastic and watchful eye of new head coach, Blake Hollinger (who was the captain of his Hamilton College lacrosse team); recently, the Varsity team posted three consecutive wins.

• Our It’s Academic Team has had a remarkable run this season, winning its first two rounds (including a resounding victory over Thomas Jefferson Magnet Technology School) and then losing recently by a heartbreaking five points in the DC metro area’s semi-finals. Congratulations to Coach Gingi Enzel and participants Ryan Montesi (Form V, team captain); Harry Daley-Young (Form IV); Nat Monahan (Form III); and alternate Philip Flannery (Form III). Few schools in the DMV have the stomach to read the following: every St. Anselm’s It’s Academic participant will be back next year. Gulp...

• Senior Jack Clark was recently named a National Merit Finalist.

• Eleven of this year’s Form V students have reached Commended Student status (so far): stay tuned.

What an honor and a privilege it is for me to work at this fine school, a place where frequent and varied sources of inspiration abound and good cheer and humor are everywhere.

God’s Peace,

Bill CrittenbergerHeadmaster

Mr. Crittenberger greets the attendees at the All-Alumni Reunion Banquet

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Campus NewsAP World History: How New is Globalization?By Nishant Carr (Form IV)

In our AP World History course, which students take during Forms III and IV, we have studied history in a way that goes beyound memorizing names and dates. World history is predicated on the notion that change most often occurs on the basis of interaction between societies and cultures; in our increasingly globalized contemporary world, this is an invaluable approach. With our teacher Mr. Gabriel Young, we study history not simply as the accomplishments of famous leaders or a series of battles, but rather as a record of the world’s past in which we can recognize common patterns of causality, continuity, and change. We learn to adopt a critical framework for interpreting the world, and to realize that our time and place are not quite so unique as we might often assume. Indeed, systems of labor, gender relations, and patterns of technological innovation have all, to some degree, both changed and remained the same over the centuries.

The most striking continuity is evident in a phenomenon we consider fundamentally modern: globalization. In fact, the blending of the world’s economies, peoples, and cultures has ancient roots and precedents. We found that, centuries ago, merchants in the medieval world of the Indian Ocean basin used new nautical technologies to catch the seasonal trade winds. The cross-cultural invention of the lateen sail, the Hellenistic astrolabe, and the Chinese compass enabled them to bring goods from the Swahili city-states of East Africa to India in order to trade for Indian or even Chinese goods. The Silk Roads—that web of overland and maritime routes which connected China, India, and Europe—likewise bound together people across several historical periods, as jewels, Asian spices, and silk flowed into the Roman Empire in exchange for precious silver and gold. Trade of goods was only one part of the interaction along the Silk Roads; Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity also spread along

the network. Elites like the classical-era Chinese ambassador Zhang Qian regularly visited foreign countries on diplomatic missions, and so too did less well-known individuals journey and migrate, such as the many Christian missionaries who doggedly spread their faith to non-Christian peoples. There, it often could be altered and combined with their local traditions, as when the peoples of early modern Latin America reconfigured their indigenous deities as Christian saints.

These exchanges were not always benign. They also circulated diseases such as smallpox, which traveled along the trade routes and devastated the populations of whole continents. Interdependent economies thrived when demand rose on the basis of increased production and common currencies, but they also contracted painfully when an influx of precious metal inflated the value of currency with widespread ramifications. In the 17th century, for instance, Spanish silver imported from the Americas increased bread prices in Europe by almost 400%, and Eastern European nobles subsequently tightened control over their grain-producing serfs to ensure higher prices for themselves.

In our contemporary age of global economic tumult, such developments offer a sobering commentary about the positive and negative consequences of economic integration.

The time scale of world history has shown us that many societies have experienced fluctuating levels of influence over their neighbors. We have learned that the modern age of Western dominance was new and remarkable rather than inevitable, just as the golden ages of China, India, or the Islamic world depended on the coincidence of many different historical processes. The Chinese were incredibly influential and inventive during the classical and medieval periods, to the point of calling themselves the “Middle Kingdom”. By the 19th century, however, China was powerless to halt the imperialist encroachment of a resurgent Europe, and the Middle Kingdom was carved up like a cake into separate spheres of influence by the European powers.

Viewing history on this larger time scale and wider geographic scope allows us to recognize such pattern of historical development and have the tools to make more informed decisions as engaged citizens of not only our individual nation but of our shared world.

Drawing of Marco Polo’s Caravan along the Silk Road from a 14th century Catalan Atlas

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Gardening Club Flourishes Under Tutelage of Botanist MonkI am part of the student Gardening Club., which has about 10 members, excluding Fr. Peter, the “master gardener” of the group. In the late summer and fall, we met every Friday we could. We started out with the basics: weeding, transporting plants, more weeding, etc. That’s the thing a lot of people forget about gardening: it’s no easy task. I enjoy the work, though, because it gets me outside.

We don’t go unrewarded for all of our hard work. In the first few weeks of Gardening Club, we all got to take home a plant of our choosing. I chose an aloe plant for its healing properties, as my family can be clumsy in the kitchen. It has survived and unfortunately gets used every once in a while.

I remember when winter was about to begin; I went to talk to Fr. Peter. I asked him, “Won’t the plants all die in the winter? Will we have to start from scratch in the spring?” He looked at me and said with confidence, “My plants never die.” Winter came, and of course, he was right. I later figured out that he used a steam heating

system in the monastery courtyard to warm the banana plants’ roots during the winter. I was impressed.

One thing I appreciate about Gardening Club is the aspect of teamwork to get work done quickly and more efficiently. One time, Fr. Peter asked us to dig a hole in the school courtyard, a very large one. We had three shovels and a pickaxe, and eight guys present. We had to figure out how to divide up the work. The oldest guy got the pickaxe, and two other members and I got the shovels. The three of us dug; one loosened the soil, two moved the dirt to the wheelbarrow, one removed the rocks in the ground, and the other emptied the wheelbarrow when needed. I remember coming back to school on Monday and seeing a behemoth of a cactus plant where the large hole used to be. I felt we had accomplished something really useful.

With winter ending and spring coming up, I know Gardening Club will resume. I can only imagine what Fr. Peter and Mother Nature have in store.

Green Panthers Reduce Waste with Reusable BottlesBy Jack Leathers, Faculty Moderator, Green Panthers

The Green Panthers environmental club’s major effort this year is to rid the campus of disposable water containers by promoting reusable water bottles. The almost exclusive use of disposable plastic containers at major school events, such as sports games, House Day, Field Day, and dances, fired up Green Panthers’ presi-dent Nishant Carr (Form IV) to lead an enthusiastic group of Third and Fourth Formers to promote a significant school-wide reduction in disposable containers. The Green Panthers were committed have the school leave a smaller environ-mental footprint as well as save money by not purchasing caseloads of bottled water in tiny 8 ounce containers.

To publicize the problem and provide a solution, the club sponsored two events this year. In the fall, official St. Anselm’s Reusable Water Bottles made from recycled material were de-signed and sold to the student body for the bargain cost of just one dollar each. This spring, “The Story of Bottled Wa-ter,” an eight-minute movie by Annie Lenard was screened at

an all-school assembly to help educate the community and raise awareness for the club’s goal. Students and faculty learned that only about 20% of dispos-able water bottles are actually recycled or downcycled, and even those often end up used to make other products that will be discarded soon after. In addition, the industrial processes used to manufacture the disposables and worldwide transport use untold barrels of oil each year. Iron-ically, about a third of the bottled water we drink comes directly from municipal sources, right out of the tap!

Already this year, we have seen a drastic reduction in the number of disposable wa-ter bottles used at St. Anselm’s. The bas-ketball, wrestling, baseball, and lacrosse teams have switched to reusable water

bottles for sporting events, thanks to the acquisition of new team bottles by Athletic Director Steve Roush. Many school events, such as Movie Night, eliminated disposable bottles through ef-forts by the students to set up large coolers. The Green Panthers want St. Anselm’s to be 100% disposable-water-bottle-free, and we need the cooperation of all parents, students, and faculty to succeed. Thanks for helping us to achieve our goal!

The cacti in the school courtyard are cared for by the Gardening Club.

Many students, including A Formers Lorenzo Marra and Stephen Hand and Third Former Qunicy Blackstone, have switched to reusable St. Anselm’s water bottles at lunch instead of disposable plastic bottles or paper cups.

By Kevin Clark (Form III)

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Faculty Notes

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By Charles Downey, Faculty Moderator, Chess Club

A chess craze is taking over at St. An-selm’s. From the official meetings of the Chess Club to the giant-sized board in the Admissions Office, the number of stu-dents looking to master the strategic game is on the rise.

This January, the Chess club, including Faculty Moderator Dr. Charles Downey, hosted the first St. Anselm’s Abbey Invi-tational Chess Tournament. Our Middle and Upper School players hosted teams from Gonzaga College High School, McKinley Technology High School, Georgetown Preparatory School, and Washington Jesuit Academy for a round-robin tournament. The long day of chess consisted of over a hundred matches, played simultaneously in The Commons.

Both Middle and Upper School teams, selected from the resurgent Chess Club, were the strongest teams overall in the tournament, winning the Team Champi-on’s trophy for the highest combined score (22.5 in the Upper School; 10.5 in Middle School). In the individual compe-tition for Middle School, Michael DiLe-onardo (Form II) took first with seven points (he was undefeated. Alex Foley (Form II) took second with 2.5 points.

In the high school in-dividual competition Jonathan Lorentz (Form V) took second with seven points.

After the tournament, new possibilities for competition opened up, including two in-vitations to head-to-head matchups with rival schools.

On February 27, Dr. Downey took eight students to play the top eight chess players at Georgetown Preparatory School in Bethesda. Each pairing played two matches, switching from white to black pieces, and the over-all score showed the depth of the St. An-selm’s chess team, who scored 11.5 points to Georgetown Prep’s 4.5.

On March 10, St. Anselm’s sent a team of Upper and Middle School students to play against Gonzaga College High School, hosted at Washington Jesuit Academy. Six Upper School players were joined by three of our top Middle School players to face off against nine top chess players from Gonzaga. Of 25 matches played in the course of the meeting, St. Anselm’s won 23. Other members of the Middle School team competed against

Growing Chess Club Hosts New Invitational Tournament

Recently, Mr. Michael McCarthy, En-glish teacher and Director of Student Affairs, consecutively performed roles in three plays: as Roger, in Tennessee Wil-liam’s Eccentricities of a Nightingale; as Duncan, in Macbeth, and as a Citizen in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.

Mr. McCarthy and Theatre and Speech teacher Mr. Philip Dickerson both made

apearances in episodes of the this season’s House of Cards. Mr. McCarthy appears in episode 12 of the Netflix series. In epi-sode 5, Mr. Dickerson takes a “selfie” with one of the main characters.

On Sunday, March 22, Science teacher Dr. Herb Wood accompanied his son Captain Chris Wood, an Army nurse from the 1st Cavalry Division, to the White Sands Missile Proving Grounds in New Mexico to participate in the 26nd Me-morial Bataan Death March. The father-and-son team escorted a Wounded War-rior, whose left leg had been amputated just below the knee as a result of an IED explosion in Iraq. The explosion killed

all the other members of his squad. The Warrior was accompanied by his wife and 12-year-old son. The March was initiat-ed by the New Mexico Army National

middle school chess players from Wash-ington Jesuit Academy, and won five out of the seven matches played.

Later in March, St. Anselm’s had its sec-ond annual schoolwide chess tourna-ment. This year, Joseph St. Pierre (Form VI) took first, and Jonathan Lorentz placed second.

Alumni who played chess during their years at the school or who cherish the game now are encouraged to contact the chess club director, Dr. Charles T. Downey, by phone (202-269-2382) or e-mail (cdowney@saintanselms.org). We are hoping to create some contacts be-tween chess alumni and current chess players, perhaps by hosting a friendly tournament here at the school.

Stock photo of the Memorial Bataan Death March

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ous 14-mile walk began with a ceremony at dawn, accompanied by a group of 15 bagpipers, and continued on a path that wound through the beautiful mountains surrounding the army base.

In March, Chemistry teacher Dr. Anita Chernovitz was awarded a US Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) summer educa-tion and outreach program grant for this summer at the University of Maryland. She will work there for 6 weeks devel-oping instructional materials that can be used in chemistry classes that will intro-duce students to particle physics and the research being done at the Large Had-ron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland. Dr.

Guard to commemorate the members of the Guard who had been sent to the Phil-ippines prior to the beginning of World War II and were captured, along with sev-eral thousand Philippine soldiers during the Japanese invasion. They were forced to march 65 miles without food or water to POW camps. More than 4000 of the soldiers died along the march, either from exhaustion or at the hands of Japanese soldiers. An uncle of Dr. Wood’s wife was stationed as a Marine in the Philippines and was captured. Many of the 5600 hik-ers carried signs with information about relatives who had been forced to make the Death March, and ten survivors of the original March were present. The rigor-

Chernovitz will travel to the Illinois Fermi-lab, “America’s premier particle physics labora-tory” for two days to learn about scintilla-tion detectors. The results of her work, which will have the aim of increasing high school students’ interest in physics, will be presented in the fall at a workshop for high school chemistry teachers from the D.C. area.

Soon-to-be Abbey graduate Jack Clark refuses to believe that Latin is a dead language. Jack gained most of his command of the ancient tongue by speaking with his father. Now, as he gets ready to head off to college in the fall, he has an extra textbook to worry about: the one he is writing.

Clark transferred to St. Anselm’s at the beginning of the academic year, when his family moved to the area. His experience

of Latin classes—made up of written work, memorization and translation of old texts—was very different from the way he had mastered the language.

“I would do skits in Latin, read dialogues in Latin, [my dad and I] would play catch outside and talk about the weather, or food—all in Latin of course,” Jack says. “I thought that was a good way to do it, a more active way, especially for people who don’t have a more structured, formal ‘school’ Latin education.”

Clark became more convinced of the method when he began studying Greek from a dialogue-based textbook in his free time, and decided to act on his idea to create a resource for others who may want to study Latin in the classroom or on their own. So far, he has written about two weeks’ worth of lessons. Each unit begins with a conversation to be read aloud, and continues with an accompanying vocabulary list, grammar section, and series of exercises to practice. He composes all the dialogues, doing his best to keep them interesting.

In the fall of 2014, Clark had received enough encouragement from other Latin educators to take his project seriously. He took a set of sample lessons to Catholic University of America (CUA) Press, and asked them if they were interested. After a few weeks

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of review, CUA Press came back with an offer: a contract for 2 volumes, equivalent to 2 Latin courses, one to be finished by December 2016 and the second by December 2018.

Though the Classics are high on the list of his interests (he hopes to study Classics and Philosophy and Harvard University is at the top of the list of colleges where he has been accepted), he is certainly not a one-sided teen. He also just finished the season with the Varsity basketball team, helped to found a Math club at the school, and acted in the school’s performance of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure.

From 6 to 49 StringsOn April 13, St. Anselm’s was host to a one-of-a-kind musician. Paolo Schianchi, an internationally-known guitarist. Showcasing works on electric guitar, lute (correctly identified by one of our student scholars as a medieval instrument), classical guitar, jazz guitar, and his patented 49-string guitar, Schianchi had the whole student body and faculty at the edges of their seats and on their feet to give a standing ovation. The concert was made possible thanks Eugene Peters,’ 47.

Student to Publish Latin Textbook

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This February, three of the monks at St. Anselm’s Abbey marked the 50th anniversary of their ordination to the priesthood. To celebrate, the monastic community and friends held a Mass of Thanksgiving, followed by a buffet supper on their 50th anniversary of. Abbot Aidan Shea, OSB was ordained on February 10, 1965, in Boston so that his elderly mother could attend the ceremony, and Fr. Michael Hall, OSB and Fr. Christopher Wyvill were ordained on February 14 of the same year at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in northwest D.C., along with Fr. Mark Sheridan, OSB, who is now a monk of Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem.

In addition to many offices and positions they have held in the monastery over the years, each of the monks has served on the faculty at the Abbey School, as chaplains to sisters in the area, as assisting priests in parishes, and as masters of retreats. Abbot Aidan served as elected abbot of the community from 1990-2006 and taught for more than four decades in the School, including Greek, Latin, French, English, and Spanish. Fr. Michael, who graduated from the Priory School in 1956, served as Headmaster from 1974-81 and 1983-92, has been Prior of the Abbey for many years, taught History and Civics, and is presently Chaplain of the school. Fr. Christopher taught Chemistry and Algebra, then served as Bursar and Treasurer of the Abbey and School for more than 20 years. He is currently the Vocation Director for the monastery.

We are grateful to all three of these men for their half-century of service to the school, the community, and, ultimately, to God. Please continue to pray for our monks!

Celebrating 50 Years

The 1965 Priory Perspective dedicated a page to the four newly-ordained priests.

From the Monastery

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I ran out of excuses. If one were to ask me why I decided to discern my voca-tion with the Benedictines, in a nutshell that is my answer: I ran out of excuses. After 40 years of life, of serving my coun-try in the US Marine Corps, of serving the Church as a parish musician for many years, of discerning my vocation for the diocesan priesthood, of teaching children with special needs, of working in the for-eign exchange market while teaching En-glish and Spanish as second languages, I, myself, needed what...?

In May of 2008, while looking for an answer, and to “get [the idea of religious life] out of my system,” I was on an ex-tended visit to St. Anselm’s Abbey, where I found myself entering into the prayer life of monks who had been praying in our nation’s capital since 1924. The daily routine of prayer begins at 5:20 a.m. and is returned to four more times throughout the day. The monk’s steadily chanted prayer life brought a peace to the depths of my soul -—a peace that had long been missing. Even more, the opportunity to be still before the Blessed Sacrament for half an hour each day in anticipation of Vespers gave me a sense of what I had longed for and had missed since leaving the seminary. But my experience also made me afraid, for my contemplation made me to think about the rich young man who asked Jesus what one must do to gain eternal life. After Our Lord’s reply, the man said, “I do all that already! What still is missing?” Then came the difficult call of Jesus that sent the young man walking away “because he had many possessions.”

Don’t get me wrong—I knew the call of Jesus is surely a joyful call, one that unites the person all the more to Him. Everything of value has a cost, however, and the more valuable the item, the higher the cost. Religious life is neither for wimps nor for the fool-hearty. This is why it takes years of discernment before one finally makes solemn profession. Back to the rich young man—I didn’t want to be that guy. I didn’t want to walk away from Jesus. I knew in my heart He was calling me to a more disciplined way of seeking and finding Him. Compared with others, I may not have had many possessions, but still, what I had was mine. Most of all, I had my freedom to come and go as I pleased. In this life before entering the monastery, I had all I needed and some of what I wanted, but I knew something was still missing. I was longing for a more direct connection to Our

Lord. That is what I was to find in con-secrated religious life.

The excuses I gave to God were many, all beginning with the question, “yes, but what about...?” “Let me worry about that” was His reply. “If you are seeking Me, let that go.” Again and again, with one objection after the other came the same reply. Oh how easy it was to hold onto the things of this world and not of this world—things that brought me se-curity and uncertainty, happiness and de-jection, joy and frustration, contentment and emptiness. But above all was an intangible longing for something more. The monastic life, I have learned, has all

that and much more as well. There is security in the structured way we live. I get to do what I love by teaching in the Abbey School, and yes, there can be much frustration living in such close proximity with my brothers (who by the way, continue to put up with me!). And although I have found genuine happiness in the monastery, at times here, too, there is emptiness—when the sea of Our Lord’s grace leaves me at “low tide” and all is exposed. But then the tide returns and I am no longer at the water’s edge, but am submerged in a mer-ciful and grace-filled ocean where nothing matters but Him.

No longer do I have to wonder what God wants from me; I am liv-ing it daily. I sometimes fail miserably, but I am nonetheless supported by His merciful love and grace. I now have the fraternity and accep-tance of others who have answered a similar call by God to seek and en-counter Him in the consecrated religious life. Monastic life continues to provide deep peace in the depths of my soul—peace that “surpasses all understanding,” and that grows deeper as each day passes.

Why am I writing all this to you? To share a bit of the joy I have come to experience by deciding to at last stay with Jesus, and not to walk away from Him. No more excuses. By submitting my will to His through the vowed religious life, I am able to see how my monastic vocation is His gift, for which I daily say, “thank you.” To be able to do so sincerely makes all the difference.

In this year of consecrated life, please pray for all who have been called to this life, and for those whom Our Lord is calling even now. By your prayers, please help us to hear Our Lord’s voice that trumps all excuses. Help us hear Him when he says, “let Me worry about that; if you are seeking Me, let that go.”

Vocation: Why Walk aWay from true joy? By Br. Ignacio González, OSB

Photos of Fr. Michael, Abott Aidan, and Fr. Christopher in the classroom, from the 1965 yearbook.

Middle School Team Clinches Third Consecutive ChampionshipThe Middle School basketball “A” team brought home their third consecutive PVAC championship banner, guided by coach and St. Anselm’s math teacher

Paul Commins. As in the 2013 and 2014 championship games, St. Anselm’s faced a tough squad from Grace Brethren, but once again the Panthers outplayed the Eagles, this year 41-33. This is the first time a St. Anselm’s Middle School team has won the championship three years running.

Just before loading onto the bus for the big game, the Panthers were treated to an unexpected boost when Adrian Dantley, refereeing the JV game at St. Anselm’s, took a break to wish the team good luck. The NBA Hall of Famer, former star for DeMatha, the University of Notre Dame and the Utah Jazz, also graciously posed for a picture with the Middle School team.

L-R: Jimi Olopade (Form II), Xavier Preston (Form II), Carlo Pizzano (Form II), John Commins (Form II), Na-than Alakija (Form II), Myles Mosely (Form I), Bob Ger-rety (Form II), Aidan Wiley (Form II), Jalen Best (Form II), Kyle Whitlock (Form II), Kino Lilly (Form I), Peter Clark (Form II), Matt Noone (Form II). Not pictured: Coach Paul Commins

Panther SportsWrestlers Finish Strong Season in Second PlaceBy Steve Roush, Athletic Director and Wrestling Coach

The Panther wrestlers had perhaps their best season in school memory. The Upper School had 21 boys on the roster, filling all but the lightest and heaviest weight classes. As a team they finished the season 12-8 with wins over all of the Mid-Atlantic Wrestling League (MAWL) teams: Potomac School, Georgetown Day School, Wilson High, Washington Latin and CES Jewish Day School.

The team finished second in the MAWL Tournament and in the St. Alban’s Tournament, they placed above Bishop McNamara, Bishop Ireton and eight other schools. In the D.C. Championships, four Abbey wrestlers took second place in their weight classes, and one finished in fourth place.

On a national level, the Panthers ended the season tied for 109th place. Pablo Ruiz (Form V) was invited to the National Prep Championships, where he was beaten by the two-time Texas state champion and a strong wrestler from Southern Maryland.

Individually, Ryan Dalbec (Form VI) won the MAWL championship in his weight class, placed eighth at St. Alban’s, and placed second in the District. (He lost in the District Championship to the eventual seventh-place finisher at the Nationals in Pennsylvania.) Aidan Dwyer (Form IV) took first in his class at the MAWL, placed fifth at St. Alban’s and second in the District. (His losses at St. Alban’s and the District were to wrestlers that finished their seasons winning the national championship and placing fifth in the nation). Pablo Ruiz placed second in the MAWL and the District, and eighth at St. Alban’s. Quinn McFeeters (Form V) placed second in both the MAWL and the District. Nathan Dangle (Form V) placed second in the MAWL and was fourth in the District. Michael Libanati (Form IV) won the MAWL championship. Charlie Paquette (Form VI) placed second in the MAWL. Matt Borden (Form V) and Clay Rosica (Form V) both placed 3rd in the MAWL. Another great year for the Panther wrestlers!

Quinn McFeeters (Form V) pins his opponent laced fourth in the MAWL tournament this year, and fourth in the District competition.

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The team with Adrian Dantley

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Panther Sports

L-R: Assistant Coach Jack Leathers, ’06, Conrad Vecchione (Form VI), George Anninos (Form IV), Evan Schoomaker (Form IV), Tyler Pirovic (Form IV), Quincy Blackston (Form IV) , Stephen Kpundeh (Form VI), Cameron Underwood (Form V), Thomas Bui (Form VI), Kenny Wright (Form IV), Head Coach Paul Grenaldo. Not pictured: Jack Clark (Form VI)

VARSITY BASKETBALL

JUNIOR VARSITY BASKETBALL MIDDLE SCHOOL BASKETBALL “B”

Back Row L-R: Brenton Alegbeleye (Form I), Jack Muoio (Form I), Declan Friel (Form II), Kyle Whitlock (Form II), Austine Le Van (Form II), Coach Mike Manglitz,’ 00, Thomas Caballero (Form I), Josh Paniagua (Form II); Front Row L-R: Xavier Grimaldi (Form A), Pierce Commodore (Form A), Jaden Crosson (Form I), Robert Thompson (Form A), Anthony Harrison (Form I), Isaiah Wright (Form II), Lucas Traver (Form A). Not pictured: Charlie Mowry (Form I), Chris Sherman (Form II)

L-R: Coach Jack Leathers, ’06, Alex Shipe (Form III), Jackie Zhong (Form III), Rémy Slimp (Form IV), Michael Henshaw (Form III), David Bulla (Form IV), Samuel Bulla (Form IV), Conor O’Connor (Form III), Ray Brown (Form V), Evan Schoomaker (Form IV), Marcus Domson (Form III), Antonio Marra (Form IV)

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SEVENTH ANNUAL ALL-ALUMNI

REUNION WEEKENDAPRIL 24-26, 2015

A Gaudy NightOver 120 alumni and guests gathered for the 2015 Alumni Banquet on Saturday, following Vespers and a reception. They did not quite “mock the midnight bell,” as the Bard had it, but nearly so. The Class of 2005 had one of the largest showing, as attested by the group of 16 pictured below.

Members of the Class of 1965 display their 50-year anniversary medals with Fr. Peter Weigand, OSB.

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On Friday, Henry Asbill, ’65, attorney at Jones Day and former DC public defender, gave the Distinguished Alumni Address.

Class Notes1956 John Radner, English Professor Emeritus at George Mason Uni-versity, was recently awarded the Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize for his 2013 book, Johnson and Boswell: A Biography of Friend-ship. The book examines the close friendship of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, who gives out the award, said of Radner’s book that it is an innovative and “remarkable exercise in biography” written in “elegant and attractive” prose.

1976Thomas Favret is currently a graduate student at the National Defense University’s Eisenhower School. A long-time member of the U.S. Foreign Service, he will be heading for a post at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada this summer.

2000In a scenic ceremony along the Potomac on the lawn of the Jef-ferson Memorial, Mike Manglitz married Jessica Den Hauter of Lowell, Mich. on April 11. Mike has returned to his alma mater and is a well-loved English and P.E. teacher and coach.

2005 Last September, Andrew McCabe married Katherine Thomas of Denver, Colo. The wedding took place in Tabernash, Colo.

2011Joseph Downs ran into Coach Steve Roush around town and reported that, after graduating with a triple major in Physics, Math, and Computer Science, he will be working next year at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

2012Daniel Magee has been selected for the Summer Research Program at MIT’s Lincoln Labora-tory. Daniel will spend the summer working in the Lexington, Mass. lab, which is dedicated to the application of advanced technology to pressing national security issues. Currently a Junior at Washington University in St. Louis, he expects to graduate with a BS in Physics, Mathematics and Classics in May 2016 and then pursue a PhD in Physics.

Daniel Magee, ’12

L-R: Class of 2005 alumni Ralph Kettell, Blair O’Connell, Jimmy McAndrews, Greg Auclair, Andrew McCabe (top), Ruben Brown, Phil Calabro, Matt Hallam, Eamon Nolan, Jeff Tardiff, and Martin Feeney.

Dr. David Missar, ’83, received the Abbot Alban Boultwood Alumni Award for his service to St. Anselm’s and to the Archdiocese.

John Hurley, ’55, was one of the eldest attendees at the Banquet. He received a medal for the 60th anniversary of his graduation.

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Benjamin Oh, ’14, took up speedskating five years ago, when he was in Form III at St. Anselm’s. In that short time, the ice rink has become a “second home” to the Maryland native, thanks to the hours he dedicates to training and to hockey practices. His hard work is paying off: he won the 2014 U.S. National Championship in his age group and earned one of the 12 spots on the American team for the 2015 Winter Universiade. The Universiade, which is comparable to the Olympics for college athletes, took place in Granada, Spain, from February 4-14.

Though Benjamin was one of the younger men on the US team, he was the only individual American skater to advance past the first round. In the 500m, Benjamin skated his personal best, 43.8 seconds, and placed 23rd overall. He also skated in the men’s 5000m relay. Team USA placed first in their heat, ahead of Canada and Poland, and advanced to the Finals—quite a challenge for

Benjamin’s first international competition!“I had watched and cheered for many of the skaters who com-

peted in Granada,” Benjamin said, “so meeting them in person was incredibly surreal, but racing some of them was extremely daunting.”

The time in Granada also meant being exposed to a whole new horizon of the speedskating scene.

“Without this experience, I never would have guessed the size of the international short-track speedskating community, which is simultaneously motivating and pleasantly surprising,” he said. “Politics and poor international relations between nations, for example between Ukraine and Russia, had no influence on how everyone interacted with each other.”

At the end of competitions each day, the bus ride back to the hotel gave the athetes from all over the world time to discuss their sport, exchange pins, and even overcome the language barrier to crack jokes. Benjamin says the experience gave him new energy to work toward com-petitions in the future.

Benjamin is a fresh-man at the University of Pennsylvania, where he plays on the hockey team. He also contin-ues to train through his Maryland club, United Cap i ta l B lades Speedskating.

Top: Benjamin competes in Spain.Bottom: The 2015 U.S. Short-track Speedskat-ing Team during warm-ups.

A Need for Speed

By Lawrence Hamm, ’68, Alumni Affairs Director

In the early 1990s, the Alumni Association transitioned from a purely old boys’ network that held a variety of annual events for alumni—from golf outings to pool tournaments—to a social organization that also raised money for the school. The Association created the Alumni Scholarship Fund and, in its annual dues letter, asked alumni to add a contribution to the Fund to their dues payments. Every February from then on, the Association also held a three-night phone-a-thon in which the Association’s Board members attempted to call every alumnus who had not yet contributed to the Fund that year. Annual ‘gifts’ from the alumni Fund to the school, some as large as $50,000, became the foundation of what is now the Endowed Scholarship Fund, which has grown to approximately $8,000,000.

Then came Caller ID. The phone-a-thon soon became an exercise in frustration for the alumni dialing for dollars for the School. Cell phones were the nail in the phone-a-thon coffin. But what technology taketh away, technology also giveth.

In late March of this year, the Association conducted its first social media campaign—a week-long series of email messages and Facebook posts asking alumni who had not already given to the 2015 Annual Fund to make an online donation. The campaign was announced by Fr. Peter Weigand, OSB and focused on the graduating classes of 1983 through 2014—alumni who knew Fr. Peter as a teacher and administrator.

A different alumnus sent a message each day of the campaign: John Corrigan, ’83, Mark Romano, ’86, Santiago Arené, ’99, and Jim Leathers, ’04. Association president Tim May, ’83 wrapped it up.Communications Director Kristin Hurd jazzed up the emails with photos, graphics and links to the online giving site and to a page with Class participation rates which were updated daily.

The objective was simply to increase alumni participation in the Annual Fund. The Annual Fund drive is launched each year after the Gala in late October. By March, responses have usually slowed to a trickle. When the social media campaign

Alumni Social Media Campaign Replaces Phone-A-Thon

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was launched in late March, 198 alumni had contributed to the 2015 Annual Fund since October 2014. During the week-long campaign, 97 additional alumni made online gifts. As a point of comparison, during the 2012 phone-a-thon—the last of any note—83 alumni made annual fund gifts. Twelve of the 35 members of the Class of 1986 responded to Mark Romano’s appeal and joined three who had already made their 2015 Annual Fund donation for a total class participation rate of 43%, tops in the campaign!

Next spring, the social media campaign audience will include alumni from all classes.

Note: If you are an alumnus and the year you graduated from St. Anselm’s does not appear with your name on the address block of this Corbie Chronicle, the Alumni Office does not have your email address. You will not receive notices about the wakes and weddings, etcetera, of your classmates, Alumni Association events and activities, regional meetings, and, of course, next year’s social media campaign. Please email Alumni Affairs Director Lawrence Hamm: lhamm@saintanselms.org. Thank you!

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Graduates and brothers Bren-dan, ’10, and Conor, ’13, Hearn, along with their sister Caitlin, released their first full-length studio album earlier this April as the acoustic music trio TriHearn. The album, enti-tled Activate, features a mix of original and traditional folk/fiddle songs and instrumentals. The mixture in repertoire par-allels the style in which TriHearn arranges and performs their mu-sic; they combine the traditional Irish and Scottish tunes that they grew up hearing with explorations into bluegrass, jazz, Americana, and indie music. They play a variety of instruments on the record as well, but the predominant lineup consists of Caitlin on fiddle, Brendan on cello, and Conor on guitar. They were able to fund the recording project by way of a successful crowd-funding campaign on Kickstarter throughout the summer of 2014, which included contributions from other Abbey alumni. Throughout the fall, the band spent months composing and arranging new material from their separate residences in Cleveland and Boston in order to pre-pare for a week in the studio at Asparagus Media in Takoma Park, Md. while they were home for the holidays. Also featured on the album are graduates Jim, ’78 and Michael, ’80 Hearn; the siblings’ father and uncle, respectively. You can follow TriHearn and buy the album from www.trihearn.com.

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We Extend Our Deepest Sympathy to the Families of Those in Our Community Who Have Died

In Memoriam

Katherine Mary BrooksGrandmother of Matthew Brooks, ’01 and Timothy Brooks, ’06

Patricia Pfaff Sister of Robert F. Clark, ’55 and Stephen J. Clark, ’60

Carmeline PelosiMother of faculty member Delora Pelosi

Maria Teresa RiveraMother of Director of Facilities José Morales

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The Corbie ChronicleSpring 2015 • Volume 23, Number 2

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Reflections from the Headmaster 5 Mr. Bill Crittenberger

Campus News 6

From the Monastery 10

Panther Sports 12

All-Alumni Reunion 14

Class Notes/Alumni News 15

In Memoriam 18

Above: Over Spring Break, Ms. Hajnalka Enzel and Fr. Javier Castro accompanied a group of 14 students to Spain. Here, the group stops for a picture on a hill overlooking the city of Toledo. Trip highlights included the Prado Museum and Easter Sunday Mass.

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