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NONPROFITU.S. POSTAGE
PAIDN READING MA PERMIT NO. 121
THE FENN SCHOOL
516 MONUMENT STREET
CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS 01742-1894
Parents of AlumniIf this publication is addressed to yourson, and he no longer maintains apermanent address at your home,please notify the alumni office of hisnew mailing address (978-318-3525 [email protected]). Thank you!
Summer 2012
For the Greater Good
Who is close to Who is close to youryour heart?heart?While boys are at the heart of everything that Fenn is and does, the
School’s faculty remains close to the hearts of all those who
experience Fenn as a student or parent. Your gift to the campaign
can honor that special teacher who made all the difference to you.
A contribution to the new Faculty at the Heart Fund will help
provide teachers with the professional and curriculum development
opportunities that inspire them in their daily work with boys.
Fenn is on the move!Fenn is on the move!With $24.7 million already committed toward the $26 million goal, the Boys at the
Heart campaign is now reaching out to Fenn’s broader alumni and parent community to
raise the final $1.3 million needed to declare victory. Stand up and be counted!
For more information, contact Tom Hudner ’87, Director of Advancement
It’s an age-old question I ask
Fenn boys with the broad,
blank canvas of their lives in
front of them: “So, what do
you want to be when you
grow up?” I sometimes make
a playful guess before they
answer and occasionally a
more serious prediction or
two in my headmaster’s
graduation reflection as a
boy leaves Fenn. Their answers range from a carefree “I don’t
know!” to a passionate declaration of a dream. Tracking a
number of the boys’ and my own predictions over almost
twenty years, I’ve learned that some of my guesses and their
answers have been surprisingly accurate and some could not
be farther from the truth.
A certainty is that a force or influence, present or future,
in these boys’ lives—a mentor, a parent, a teacher, a passion, a
talent, personal circumstance, or external events—will bring
them to their life’s work. Our hope is that they find in their
work what is true to their talents and person so that their
endeavors become a calling to heal or instruct or create or
serve or provide, a calling that makes their lives full and
enriches those whom they serve.
In this current issue of FENN we ask members of the
extended school community—faculty, staff, alumni, and
parents—about their callings. Each of these stories is a
window on dedicated work and a fulfilled life.
I have been asked what called me to the work of
educating boys and running a school. The answer, not
surprisingly, involves
seminal role models
across the years of my
life: my parents, Peg and
John, who taught me
through their earnest
example that caring for
others is paramount; my
grade school teachers,
the Sisters of St. Joseph,
who selflessly dedicated
their lives to God and children and who taught me to love
learning; my older sister, Margaret, who resolutely pursued
teaching in urban schools; my brother Johnny, her twin, who
served as a priest ministering in troubled neighborhoods in
Boston; the social workers of the Boston Juvenile Court,
where I interned in college; later my wife, Lorraine, whose
love and care of all things about schools is unbounded; and
finally, a headmaster, Charles Riepe, twenty years my senior,
who naturally mentored me, generously giving me the
chance to help him run a school for boys. Individually and at
times in unison, their voices speak across time to inspire and
sustain me in the work of my life and profession.
I’m compelled to end with the note that in my own work
I am daily struck by the efforts of hundreds of people I’ve
come to know over time who have consuming and
meaningful professional responsibilities in business, law,
medicine, the arts, or family, yet who are personally called to
serve their sons’ or their own schools as volunteer parents,
alumni, and trustees. Their primary work in life lies outside
education, yet they devote themselves in singular ways to the
work of sustaining a school. Their selfless and dedicated
response to their second calling inspires me every day. I hear
their voices, too, and see their example, as I am certain Fenn
boys will as they answer the call in their own lives.
From the Headmaster
A certainty is that a force or influence, present or future, in these boys’ lives—a mentor, aparent, a teacher, a passion, a talent, personalcircumstance, or external events—will bringthem to their life’s work.
The Fenn School, 516 Monument Street, Concord, MA 01742. Email [email protected] or call 978-318-3520
2FOR THE GREATER GOOD
The Call to Teach; The Call to Heal; The Call to Serve; The Call to Preach: Personal Fenn Stories
26FACULTY AND STAFF DEVELOPMENTS
Jo Anna Jameson Moves On; Susan Richardson Directs Alumni Programs at BostonUniversity; Fenn Fellow Freemon Romero ’04; Research Project Involves Fenn Boys
30ADVANCING FENN
Library and Science Center under construction; $1 Million Challenge Gift to Support DiversityEfforts; R. Vincent “Vinnie” Lynch ’64: Distinguished Alumnus
34AROUND CAMPUS
Founder’s Day; Cultural Heritage Fair; Fenn Grows a Garden; Youth in Philanthropy; DramaRound-up; Treble Chorus; W.W. Fenn Speaking Contest; Visual Arts Awards; Lower SchoolPublishing Party; Andreas Sheikh ’12 in Moonrise Kingdom.
38SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
40CLASS NOTES
Alumni Updates; Mike O’Brien ’09, Soccer All-American; Former Faculty News; Milestones
52REFLECTIONS
“Friends for Life”
VOLUME 80 NUMBER 2 SUMMER 2012
FENN
Editor and Feature WriterLaurie O’Neill
Editorial BoardDerek BoonisarAnne Ames BoudreauThomas J. Hudner III ’87 Laurie O’NeillJerry WardLorraine Garnett Ward
PhotographyLaurie O’NeillAnthony J. SantosJoshua Touster
Design Michele Page
On the CoverHarvard Medical School student Sam Takvorian ’99
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FENN is published twice a year for alumni, parents, and friends of the school. Letters and comments are welcomeand can be sent to Laurie O’Neill, The Fenn School, 516 Monument Street, Concord, MA 01742 or [email protected].
Greater GoodFor the
Acalling, whether it comes as an “aha moment” or it evolves over time,
enables us to utilize our skills and interests in a satisfying way to affect
the greater good. In these pages you will meet several Fenn alumni,
faculty and staff members, and parents who have, whether in education, medicine,
the military, the ministry, or in related endeavors, made the most of their talents,
strengths, and passions to make the world a better place.
“Other guys are given gifts—they might be violinists
or ball players. But I realized that what I can do is to
digest a concept and share with others that ‘Wow!’ I
get. I want them to be as jazzed as I am.”
To Andy Majewski ’83, teaching is the art of
assisting discovery. He does this every day at the
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
where he is an education specialist. Usually in
perpetual motion, Andy sits in his office that is within
earshot of the excited voices of children visiting the
nearby Hall of the American Indian and talks about
his passion for teaching at the museum, which he calls
“a sacred space.”
Andy says that “without a doubt,” he was inspired
in his choice of career by his “magical” experience at
Fenn. He was recently chatting with a former
classmate, Bejan Rufeh ’83, still one of his closest
friends, and “We were saying that we didn’t recognize
it at the time, but later realized how lucky we were to
have been educated by the teachers we had. They
treated us like the men they wanted us to become, and
we rose to that unspoken challenge in the classroom,
on the field, in the art studio, and in Robb Hall, when
we were speaking publicly at All School Meeting.”
Andy mentions Walter Birge, Jim Carter ’54, Joe
Hindle, Jim Carlisle, and Terry Miskell as among
those who had a lasting impact on him.
Andover, too, played a role in the path to Andy’s
life as an educator. It was the international aspect of
the school’s diverse student body that inspired him to
see “the places on the planet” where his classmates
were from and to have “a transformative international
experience” like many of them were having through
study-abroad opportunities.
At Tufts University, Andy was studying biology
when he realized that medicine, an early interest, was
not his true calling; instead, despite completing a BS
in that field, he found that “it was my love of cultures
that flourished.” While at Tufts, he began taking
graduate-level courses through its Museum Studies
program.
Andy first came to the Harvard Museums as a
volunteer in the 90s, teaching classes in animal
adaptation on nights and weekends while he was
studying at Tufts. He was mentored, he says, by Pete
Money, “a seasoned educator who recognized and
nurtured my potential.” At this point, Andy notes,
“You could say I was ‘called’ to teach.” He worked as a
consultant and designed adult classes in natural
history. “Throw me more challenges,” was his constant
request at the time. Andy began working with live
animals, handling birds of prey, for example, and
explaining to visitors the differences between scorpions
and crayfish.
Helping the Past Tell its Story: Andy Majewski ’83
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After Tufts Andy had an opportunity
to teach in Japan, and he put to use “the
most valuable academic lesson I ever got.”
A university professor had once told
Andy’s class that if they wanted to get the
most out of a work of art, they needed to
put in the effort “to meet it halfway”; in
other words, they needed to learn about
the artist’s life, culture, materials, styles
that he or she emulates, and so on. So
Andy took classes in Japanese cinema,
history, performance tradition, and
language before going on the teaching
exchange program. Once there, he taught
all levels of students, from children to
adults, for three years in Matsuo-Machi, a
farming village two hours from Tokyo.
“From then on, I knew what I wanted
to do,” he says. Andy notes that “the
Japanese had it right…they view teaching
as the giving of a gift.” Hearkening back
to his Fenn teachers, he adds, “I treasure
the gifts they gave me and nothing
thrills me more than to give those gifts
to others.” He says his experience in
Japan gave him the confidence that he
could adjust his style to reach people of
all ages.
When a full-time education position
opened at the Harvard Museum of
Natural History, Andy was offered the
job, and in 2009, when the Peabody
decided to form its own education
department, he was invited to join the
team. Andy works with school groups
and with families, helping to design
programs that involve hands-on activities
with artifacts and crafts, and alongside
world class experts, which has taught him
that “I must be at the top of my game.”
Being an educator in a non-traditional
setting is endlessly fascinating to Andy. “I
get to experience the power of teaching
with artifacts on a daily basis, and each
has an amazing story that speaks about
cultures and human ingenuity. It’s my job
to help these artifacts tell their stories so
that people can be as excited and inspired
as I am.”
Sharing his love of “the awesome story
of life on our planet” at the same museum
his parents would take him to almost
every weekend when he was a child is
“thrilling,” Andy says. He paraphrases a
line by Mark Twain, saying it suits him to
a tee: “If you love what you do, you’ll
never work a day in your life.”
Ben says his earliest experience in an
educational setting, at Pomfret School,
was not as a student but “as a curious,
gregarious little cuss who tried valiantly to
be part of every Frisbee and stickball
game the real students were playing.”
He and his brothers agree that their
father, Benjamin D. Williams III, who
taught at the Pomfret School and served
as the headmaster of Lawrence Academy
for fifteen years, was a powerful role
model. But they say that a number of
forces combined to lead them to their
chosen paths. “Dad was my hero,” says
Ben, “and doing what he did always had
its appeal. But it was more than that. Our
“How lucky we“How lucky we
were to have beenwere to have been
educated by the teacherseducated by the teachers
we had. They treated uswe had. They treated us
like the men they wantedlike the men they wanted
us to become, and weus to become, and we
rose to that unspokenrose to that unspoken
challenge.”challenge.”
The “Natural Progression” to a Life in Schools:Ben ’78, Joe ’81, and Fred Williams
Ben WilliamsBen Williams
It was in no small part due to growing up on boarding school
campuses in Connecticut and Massachusetts that Ben, Joe, and Fred
Williams were inspired to pursue lives as teachers and administrators.
Fred, who once taught at Fenn, and Ben, are headmasters, the former
at The Rectory School in Pomfret, CT, and the latter at Cate School in
Carpinteria, CA. Their brother Joe is the assistant head at Kimball
Union Academy.
world revolved around the very things
that matter to such communities—
learning, growing, sharing, and failing (on
occasion). I think we internalized
the very priorities of the schools where
we lived.”
Fred, who began working at Fenn not
long after his college graduation, is
“keenly aware of my father’s most
important attributes: dedication, wisdom,
an ability to relate to students and an
interest in doing so. I cannot match him
in most of these areas, but I can strive to
live up to his example.” Fred says he was
drawn to teaching by his love of literature
and history, his interest in athletics and
coaching, and his desire to work with
young people.
Another observation the brothers
make is that their dad, in Joe’s words, was
able to strike a balance between his
professional life and his family and
personal interests. But among Ben and
Joe’s role models are also several Fenn
faculty members, too. Joe mentions Mark
Biscoe, Jim Carter ’54, and Read
Albright, saying that “they, like my dad,
shared the common thread of poise,
professionalism, commitment, and
talent.” He calls his Fenn years “very
special,” cites the extemporaneous
speaking contest as one of his fondest
memories, and says that “thanks to a very
patient and caring faculty I was able to
grow up quite a bit. Fenn helped me find
my moral compass,” he adds.
Ben, whose teaching career began at
St. Sebastian’s School in Needham, says
having a job with the word “master,” in
the title is “something I try to live up to
every day. Schools are ultimately about
people, and so it is with people, students
and faculty, that a headmaster must spend
his or her time.” When he writes about
why he teaches or why education matters
to him, Ben always refers to those who
taught him at Fenn as having contributed
“to the kind of teacher I became.” He
cites his very first class and teacher,
seventh grade math with Larry Piatelli, as
an example. The two became close
friends years later when Ben entered
administration.
Steve Gardner, who many years later
brought his child to interview at Cate,
made Ben passionate about science,
Madame (Patsy) Edes fostered a love of
the French language, Peter Gilmore
taught him to control his temper on the
tennis court, and Bart Winchell’s biology
class was “a revelation,” Ben says. Jim
Carter hired Ben (and Fred and Joe) to
work with him at the Concord Academy
summer camp after their student days at
Fenn were over. “They remain my
teachers, still, some thirty-five years later,”
Ben says.
Ben, Joe, and Fred followed their
instincts, they say, their callings unfolding
in what Joe terms a “natural progression.”
Echoing his brothers’ comments, Ben
declares, “Schools are that perfect
marriage of virtue and purpose. Whose
life can be more meaningful than a
teacher’s?”
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Fred Williams with a student
Joe Williams with students
“Fenn helped me“Fenn helped me
find my moral compass,” find my moral compass,”
says Joe.says Joe.
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DEREK BOONISAR
When Derek, who is a coach, Latin
teacher, and assistant head of school, was
a senior at the University of Vermont
majoring in English with a minor in
Classics, he was conflicted about his
future. Should he go into law? Finance?
While home during a winter break he
told his mother Kristen, a life-long
educator, that he lacked a plan. His
mom shook her head and smiled. “Now,
am I the only one who remembers what
you’ve chosen to do for each of the last
several summers?” she asked.
Derek did remember: he had worked at
summer camps, at Dedham Country Day
and at Tenacre School, as a counselor and
eventually as a program director. “I’ll never
forget that conversation with my mother,”
he declares. “She told me what my calling
was.”
Not long after his college graduation,
and through a connection dating back to
his days at Nobles, Derek was offered a
teaching and coaching position at the
Salisbury School, where it was baptism by
fire, he says. He not only taught Latin; he
was the whole Classics department, trying
mightily to stay one day ahead of his
students, some of them only a few years
younger than he was. “I operated on
nerves the whole year,” Derek declares, but
he persevered and acquired the kind of
total experience that working at a
boarding school provides.
However, being single in his early
twenties and living on a campus in rural
northwestern Connecticut did not provide
much in the way of a personal life, and
during his second year, Derek began
thinking about making a move, ideally to
a Boston-area day school. That was
seventeen years ago and what followed
was a life filled over the years with
teaching, advising, serving as Secondary
School Placement Director, coaching,
running the Student Senate, and fulfilling
various administrative duties, as well as
marrying Liz and having two children.
Derek says he’s learned much about
teaching in his seventeen years at Fenn,
such as “how good teachers evolve,
retaining time-tested approaches while
changing, too.” He’s also discovered that
the greatest reward of being an educator is
having the chance to make a difference.
Often Derek will receive an unsolicited
letter or email thanking him for doing
just that.
““The greatestThe greatest
reward of being anreward of being an
educator is having theeducator is having the
chance to make achance to make a
difference.” difference.”
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Heeding the Call: Fenn Faculty
Some teachers cannot recall a time they didn’t want to be in a classroom; others say they heard the call
after first pursuing a different professional path entirely. A sampling of Fenn teachers shows that
inspiration can come from a wide variety of muses, from a stint as a volunteer in a Central American
country, from a chance meeting with a Fenn teacher, and even from a conversation with a mom who knows
her son very well.
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TRICIA MCCARTHY
Tricia, who teaches English and is
head of the Middle School,
volunteered right after her college
graduation as a teacher in Belize,
when “it was far from the vacation
paradise it is now,” she says. “I fell in
love with the kids who were so hungry
for knowledge that their families
would forego one dinner a week to be
able to afford tuition and school
supplies.”
When Tricia returned she worked
for a development company as the
manager of a prominent Boston
Harbor marina, where the perks
included enjoying fancy lunches on
visiting yachts and hobnobbing with
captains and crews from around the
world. But education continued to call
her. She began teaching, advising, and
assuming duties including serving as
Humanities department chair and
Director of Student Affairs at the
Brimmer and May School. At the
same time she worked on a master’s
degree in counseling and spent a
month at the Klingenstein Center’s
Summer Institute at Columbia
University.
In 1999 she joined the Fenn
faculty, where lunch is at tables filled
with chattering adolescents devouring
curly fries and pizza and where she
hobnobs with her Middle School
colleagues, organizing such events as
the seventh grade trip to Washington,
D.C. She’d have it no other way.
PETER BRADLEY
Math teacher Peter Bradley’s parents were
teachers, as were many of his other
relatives, but he was “determined to avoid
the family business,” he says. After
graduating from college with a degree in
accounting and spending three summers
working in the Mariner Program at Mystic
Seaport, Peter found himself in the
Seaport’s school program during the
autumn of 1980.
One fall day Bob Duncan arrived from
Fenn, chaperoning a group of students.
Over coffee one evening, Bob asked Peter
what he was going to do with his life, and
the latter told him he wasn’t sure he
wanted to follow in his parents’ footsteps.
Bob looked at Peter and declared, “You
should be a teacher.” Peter listened, he said,
“and the rest is history.” This is his twenty-
second year at Fenn.
“I fell in love with the“I fell in love with the
kids who were so hungrykids who were so hungry
for knowledge that theirfor knowledge that their
families would foregofamilies would forego
one dinner a week to beone dinner a week to be
able to afford tuition andable to afford tuition and
school supplies.”school supplies.”
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Brad, brother of Scott ’79, won the
prestigious Butera Distinguished Teacher
Award in 2007. He heard the call to
education, he says, while “half asleep
during rowing practice” in college, when
his coach announced that he knew a
school that was looking for a history
teacher. The school was St. Andrew’s in
Delaware, and Brad taught there for
fifteen years. Looking back, he says, “I
am thrilled I stayed in education.”
Brad can still recite “O Captain! My
Captain!,” the poem he presented
during the W.W. Fenn Public Speaking
Contest. And, an avid woodworker, he
continues to use the toolbox he
constructed in woodshop. “I seem to
channel some aspect of my Fenn
experience almost every day,” he says.
In 1988 Matt Baker ’84 was reading
a novel while in Italy for an
International Relations program. It was
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino,
in which a young 18th-century Italian
nobleman rebels against his parents by
climbing a tree and never coming down.
Matt says the author proposes that a
true leader is someone who
communicates his ideas to people rather
than one who simply inherits a title and
a way of life. Inspired, Matt decided to
try writing and teaching because “it
seemed as if it could become a good and
authentic path for my life.”
Ten years later, after working for a
few years at another charter school, he
founded the Metropolitan Institute, a
tuition-free charter preparatory school
for the performing arts, visual arts, and
academics in Phoenix, AZ. “I had a
vision of the kind of high school I
wished I had gone to,” he explains,
“based on some combination of Fenn
and what my closest friends, Alex ’84
and Chris Abele ’82, had experienced at
Concord Academy.”
Matt was in the Intensive Language
Program at Fenn, which not only
enabled him to read aloud better than
most of his classmates when he reached
the sixth grade, he notes, but which
also, due to the hours of reading
homework he had, “set me up to be a
very serious reader for the rest of my
life.” Matt is still in touch with Nancy
Hall, his Fenn reading tutor and
teacher. When his first novel, The Art ofConfession, was published in 2002, “she
read it in one night. It was a special
moment for both of us.”
Among Fenn parents is at least one
headmaster. Dan Scheibe, father of Tad,
who is entering the sixth grade, has been
appointed the new head of Lawrence
Academy. Dan, like Ben, Joe, and Fred
Williams, says his earliest memories
involve a campus. His parents worked at
Wesleyan University and Dan did what
most faculty children might do: he had
birthday parties in the lecture halls,
“body-rolled” down the hill near the
library, and later worked functions in the
faculty club and labored with the
maintenance crew. All the while he
realized that “something powerful” was at
work in the way that students and faculty
“in that otherwise sleepy place in the
Connecticut River Valley occupied
themselves with big ideas and big hopes
connected to a big world.”
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“A good and authentic path”: From Fenn Student—or Parent— to School Leader
Among Fenn alumni and parents who heeded the call to education, several, like Ben and Fred
Williams, currently lead schools. Brad Bates ’84, headmaster of the Dublin School in New
Hampshire, is the son of alumnus Nathaniel “Buddy” Bates ’49, who taught for many years at Belmont
Hill School and who “has been a role model for me throughout my career,” Brad says.
Fenn parent Dan Scheibe
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First as an intern, then as a long-term substitute,
and finally as a full-fledged member of the Fenn
faculty, where he stayed for four and a half years, Rob
Achtmeyer received lots of experience working with
children. After one year of teaching middle school and
nine of instructing fifth graders at the Maret School in
Washington, D.C., Rob was well-prepared for his
current role, that of an at-home dad.
When Rob started out at Fenn as a fourth grader, it
was in Kathy Starensier’s class. She and several other
teachers and advisors, including Lucia MacMahon,
Lynn (Devitt) Duval, Michele Tissiere, Mark Biscoe,
and Jim Carter became his role models. From them he
learned the importance of connecting with students,
he says, adding, “They all wanted me to succeed.”
Rob was a humanities teacher and fifth grade dean
when he and his wife, Kate Lenane, decided that he
would stay at home to take care of the couple’s two
young children. Being with two-year-old Kevin and
newest addition Henry is “magical,” he declares. “I
wouldn’t trade it for anything; I get to see all the
things my kids are thinking, experiencing, and
absorbing, and I know that this is a vital time in their
development.”
Life as an at-home dad has other benefits, too. Rob
has the flexibility to serve as a commissioner for the
City of Rockville’s Historic District, is helping to start
a preschool, and is staying connected to Maret by
tutoring two students.
“I seem to“I seem to
channel some aspectchannel some aspect
of my Fennof my Fenn
experience almostexperience almost
every day,”every day,”
—Brad Bates ’84.—Brad Bates ’84.
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Matt Baker ’84 and students
What transformed his life, Dan says,
was not a particular class or teacher or
sport, but rather it was “the total
experience of finding my place on a
campus that suited my needs and
goals.” Great education, he says,
“replicates a vanishing sense of place, an
experience of community that is about
common purpose, and an excellence
defined by authentic experience.”
ROB ACHTMEYER ’94: FROM LESSONS TO LULLABIES
While Lucinda worked for the
government, Bob, who went on to fill
many roles at Fenn, including assistant
headmaster, for a total of thirty years,
was stationed in a rural village, La
Esperanza, which was twelve hours by
dirt road from the capital city of
Tegucigalpa. For three weeks each
month Bob was itinerant, traveling by
mule within a 100-mile area to visit
schools and help improve them, and to
assist with training not-yet-licensed
young teachers.
The couple was far from emergency
medical care, the area was “hotter than
the dickens and dusty,” the Duncans
often lived on tortillas and salt, and the
country was rife with corruption. Bob
kept a five-dollar bill in his passport
when he knew he had to cross the
border into El Salvador. But he was
once detained at a checkpoint by a
guard who made him drink moonshine
tequila and kept his gun on the table to
remind Bob he could not leave until
told he could do so.
The schools he saw were tiny, with
dirt floors, poor light, and no blackboards,
and they were situated in the middle of
the campo, five miles from most students’
houses. Teaching was hands-on; bottle
caps, for example, were used to figure
problems in math class. Bob would find
out what each school needed most and
help provide it. “It was about whatever the
community wanted,” he says, even when
in one case what it wanted was to create
and install a statue of the Madonna at the
crossroads in town. Bob would organize
the project, round up mule trains to
transport materials, and find skilled labor.
Bob observed classes and worked
with teachers, helping them understand
in one case that they should allow
students to be creative—“To let the
children write a story and not make
them think it was a waste of paper,” he
explains. He helped the Hondurans
function as a community. “I was doing
Sua Sponte even then,” he says with a
smile. A local resident once told him
that if Bob could train one Honduran
to do his job as well as he could do it,
he would be successful.
The problems were overwhelming,
though, and some Peace Corps volunteers
bailed. But Bob and Lucinda persevered.
“No question we were doing good work
and making lives better,” he says.
And how many Peace Corps
volunteers can say a school was named
after them in the area where they
served? The Robert Peary School was
named for Bob. Peary? It seems that the
Arctic explorer credited for discovering
the North Pole was the topic of a
discussion in a class that Bob was
observing, and one boy could not be
convinced that Bob, whom the students
called Robert, was not the same person.
“The Toughest Job You’ll Ever Love”:Bob Duncan and Dave Duane Recall Peace Corps Service
Answering John F. Kennedy’s enthusiastic challenge to young people about service, Bob Duncan and
his wife, Lucinda, who had been teaching school in Lincoln, journeyed to Honduras, where they
spent more than two years as Peace Corps volunteers in the late 1960s.
“I was doing “I was doing SuaSuaSponteSponte even then.” even then.”
Bob Duncan with his mule in Honduras
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For science teacher Dave Duane,
“wanderlust with a purpose” led him into
the Peace Corps for two years in the early
1990s. A backpacker, travel bug, and
adventure seeker who had been teaching
at the Bement School in Deerfield, Dave
wanted “to have an authentic experience
and not a plastic one, and to contribute in
some way,” he says.
Dave remembers that when he was
in high school, he heard the Peace
Corps described as “the toughest job
you’ll ever love,” he says, and after that,
“It was always something I wanted to
do.” He embarked on the long
application process that involved nine
months of multiple interviews, and
when asked to indicate a preference for
assignment locations, he replied only
that he did not want to go to the Pacific
area. “I didn’t like fish,” he explains.
Some time later the Peace Corps
informed him that they had a position
for him, but it was in the Pacific.
Realizing with help from his friends
that hating fish was not a good reason
to decline such a great opportunity,
Dave left for the Solomon Islands.
On his first day, after moving in with
a local family, in their leaf and stick
house, he was offered a meal of buma—
tiny, boiled fish, “their little eyes staring
back at me.” Knowing that turning
down the meal would be an insult, “I ate
it,” he says.
During his two months of training
on the island of Rendova, made famous
by the John F. Kennedy PT 109 incident,
one of his jobs was to set up a model
school to provide would-be teachers with
experience. After training, he was sent to
the island of Malatia, where twenty-five
percent of the population is Pagan and
where most residents were still living
traditional lives.
There were few indigenous science
teachers, he explains, so Dave served as
a science educator, training other
teachers. Like Bob Duncan, Dave says
the aim of the Peace Corps is to have its
volunteers help the country fill
necessary roles in the community, and
not to serve in those roles themselves.
Dave says he woke up every day
thinking that the challenges he faced,
including malaria, dysentery, “and giant
centipedes that can kill a small child,”
not to mention a lack of phones and
difficulty traveling due to washed-out
roads, “were all worth it.” When some
of the students at the Adana Secondary
School began to show up with their
books to study at his little pre-
fabricated house with the “bush
veranda” he had constructed, and when
they would return the next day with a
friend or two, bearing food, Dave was
moved. “In my heart I believed I was
making a difference, but this is when I
really knew,” he declares.
When Dave was about to leave at
the end of his stay, the community
presented him with a pig and the honor
of slaughtering it. He has kept up with
some of his former Solomon Island
students, he notes, and one of his
students named his and his wife’s child
after him. The entire experience was
unforgettable, Dave adds, and left him
with this realization: “We have to
understand that the world is bigger than
we are and that we need to do
something for others.”
“In my heart I“In my heart I
believed I was making abelieved I was making a
difference, but this is whendifference, but this is when
I really knew,” he declares.I really knew,” he declares.
Dave Duane, bottom center, with students in the Solomon Islands
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At the end Jill asked her students how
they felt about what had just happened.
While the boys on the floor said they
didn’t think she listened to them, the ones
in the chairs said they had no idea the
boys on the floor felt that way.
“Wow,” Sam declares, looking back at
that moment. “She wanted to show us
what systematic discrimination was
like by making it real. I’ll never forget
that class.”
When Sam was at Phillips Andover
Academy, he spent a month between his
junior and senior years in Ghana,
volunteering at a rural health center. He
shadowed the nurses and doctors, and
helped them set up temporary prenatal
clinics in isolated villages. “I was only
another set of arms,” he says, “but I
really wished I could come back when I
had the skills to be hands-on.”
The experience “altered my perception
of what I wanted to do,” Sam says. He
had grown up being exposed to
medicine—his father is an oncologist and
his mother, a rheumatologist—and to the
value of service. Mike Potsaid, who
oversees Fenn’s community service efforts,
recalls that “Sam was my ‘go to’ guy,”
adding that “if I needed someone to help
me out with a project, I’d call him, and
despite how busy I knew he was, he
would always say ‘yes’.”
In high school, Sam says, the idea of a
life of service “began to gel.” The
momentum continued while he was an
undergraduate at Harvard. He became
involved with the Roxbury Youth
Initiative, an enrichment program for
inner city kids. Sam was a counselor, then
a director, and continued devoting time to
the organization through his college years,
growing more and more attached to the
community.
Following college, Sam did an
AmeriCorps year at the Whittier Street
Health Center, working mostly on health
care coordination for adult diabetes
patients. That same year the Mass Health
Care Reform was instituted, requiring
everyone to have insurance. “We were on
the front lines,” he says, “helping people
enroll in the subsidized program.” That
experience got him excited about health
care policy, and he spent a year in
Washington, D.C., with the Alliance, a
small non-profit focused on policy, health
education, and outreach. In D.C., he was
close to “the pulse of American politics”
and got a taste of health care policy on
the federal level. The Alliance, a mini-
think tank, sought to make sure the
country’s policy makers were educated in
health care.
Sam’s decision to pursue medicine did
not come to him as “an ‘aha’ moment” but
rather had been “brewing for a while.” As
he approaches the end of medical school,
he says these last few years have been an
“intense” time in his life. Having
completed a residency at Brigham and
Women’s Hospital, rotating among
surgery, pediatrics, and other specialties,
he spent several months doing research
this year at the Harvard Business School,
where he explored how to drive a health
care delivery system with a goal of
prioritizing patient value. He worked with
Deriving Satisfaction from Helping Others: Sam Takvorian ’99
Throughout his life, Sam Takvorian ’99, a fourth year Harvard medical student, says his eyes have been
opened to people with needs that are not being met. This happened when he was a student at Fenn,
and his history teacher, Jill Guzzi, once asked her students to sit in a semi-circle around her. She asked the
first boys who arrived to sit in chairs, and the last ones to sit on the floor. Jill gave no explanation for the
seating, but proceeded to teach the class, acknowledging the boys in the chairs and soliciting their
comments while subtly dismissing or ignoring the boys on the floor.
The Call to Heal
Sam on his wedding day with bestman Andrew Montomery ’99
“When a patient puts his“When a patient puts his
or her trust in you, well, it’sor her trust in you, well, it’s
enormously gratifying.”enormously gratifying.”
Michael E. Porter, a leading authority on
the application of competitive principles to
social problems such as health care and the
environment. This spring Sam took a
clinical elective in the ER, and he is
studying Spanish as he hopes to work in a
Chilean clinic next year.
Sam married Melina Marmarelis, whom
he met in medical school, in a Malibu
ceremony this May, and the couple is
looking for a residency match. Focused and
highly motivated, just like he was at Fenn,
Sam foresees a “fairly intense five years” in
which he wants to become established in a
clinical career—perhaps oncology or
gastroenterology, though he would like to
return to health care policy. For now, “I
want to see patients; it’s where I excel,
where I derive the most satisfaction,”
he says.
“It still gives me a rush to think about
some of the experiences I had in
AmeriCorps. When a patient puts his or
her trust in you, well, it’s enormously
gratifying.”
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“There is a palpable sense of purpose
and progress here,” Robert says of the
Institute, which opened in late 2010 and
houses nearly fifty laboratories. “MIT has
assembled a remarkable community of
individuals who are focused on finding
innovative solutions for cancer and it is
both an honor and a privilege to help
facilitate this type of initiative.”
Born and raised in Texas, Robert grew
up thinking he would become a medical
doctor. Though he comes from an
entrepreneurial family involved in cattle
ranching, construction companies, and
agricultural businesses, one uncle was a
prominent physician, and his mother’s
sister, Mary Ann Fletcher, is a
preeminent scientist who was doing
research on HIV viruses at the time.
“When we sat around the holiday dinner
table, I was far more interested in her life
than in the businesses that my family
ran,” he says.
During his training, Robert spent
significant time in a hospital setting. But as
he went through the University of Texas
system, he grew increasingly convinced, he
says, “that my impact might be greater by
being involved in scientific discoveries that,
if successful, could help millions.”
Sitting in his MIT corner office on an
early spring day, Robert talks about what
led him to his current position. After
receiving his doctoral degree from the
University of Texas Medical Branch, he
came to Harvard to join the lab of
immunologist Jack L. Strominger; the
research conducted during Robert’s time
there led to a collection of medically-
oriented discoveries and eventually to a
Harvard start-up.
Robert, his wife, Dr. Mary Lynne
Hedley, and another Harvard colleague
co-founded the new company Pangaea
Pharmaceuticals in the mid-90s. In the
start-up Robert served in numerous
leadership roles, including overseeing the
company’s infectious disease and oncology
drug development programs and acquiring
new technologies, and was involved in
fundraising. Over time, Pangaea evolved
into another company, Zycos, which
developed several oncology-related
products, among which was a non-surgical
treatment for cervical dysplasia. Eventually
Zycos was sold and the couple has since
been involved in several subsequent
biopharmaceutical organizations.
Most recently, Mary Lynne has co-
founded and become president and chief
scientist of Tesaro, a Waltham-based
biotech company that among other
projects is working to gain FDA approval
of a drug meant to prevent nausea and
vomiting from chemotherapy.
In 2007, Robert was recruited from
another drug development company,
Acretia, where he was serving as
president and CEO, to join MIT. He
says he was “fascinated” by what MIT
was hoping to achieve.
Their vision was to build a new kind of
research institute, one that would collocate
some of the world’s most accomplished
engineers and scientists who would be
given sophisticated resources to develop
highly creative and innovative cancer
solutions, he says. The $100 million kick-
off gift from MIT alumnus David H.
Koch (pronounced “coke”), Robert recalls,
was made during a particularly
challenging time economically.
Yet Koch and MIT were determined
to make the initiative happen. “Every
building project around us had been
stopped or put on hold,” Robert says, but
“I’m honored to play a part”: Robert Urban Involved in Cancer Research
In his role as Executive Director of the David H. Koch Institute for
Integrated Cancer Research at MIT, Robert Urban, father of Ian, a
rising seventh grader, works with a group of approximately 650
research scientists, chemists, engineers, physicians, computer
scientists, postdoctoral fellows, technical assistants, lab aides,
graduates, and undergraduates; among the former and current faculty
are several Nobel Prize winners. Robert Urban and his wife, Dr. MaryLynne Hedley
“We’re working“We’re working
on the next generationon the next generation
of solutions andof solutions and
training a new type oftraining a new type of
cancer researcher.” cancer researcher.”
MIT pressed forward. “It was a
remarkably bold move that truly
reflects exceptional leadership of
MIT’s President Susan Hockfield
and Tyler Jacks, the faculty Director
of the Institute.”
Cancer is not going away,
Robert acknowledges, but
significant progress is being made.
Far fewer people are dying from
many cancers, including breast
cancer and colon cancer, and the
number of cancer survivors in the
U.S. is rising rapidly, he notes. Over
time the new HPV vaccine will
reduce the incidence of cervical
cancer, which is caused by a virus.
For some forms of the disease,
however, including ovarian,
pancreatic, and brain cancer, “we
have much more to learn and lots to
improve upon.”
The Koch Institute aims to
become the gold standard in
interdisciplinary disease-focused
research, fostering collaborations
that extend well beyond the walls of
its towering Kendall Square
building to advance the detection,
treatment, and prevention of cancer.
Robert declares of his involvement
with the Institute, “We’re working
on the next generation of solutions
and training a new type of cancer
researcher,” Robert declares. “I’m
simply honored to play a part.”
He grew increasinglyHe grew increasinglyHe grew increasingly
convinced, he says, “that my impactconvinced, he says, “that my impactconvinced, he says, “that my impact
might be greater by being involved inmight be greater by being involved inmight be greater by being involved in
scientific discoveries that, if successful,scientific discoveries that, if successful,scientific discoveries that, if successful,
could help millions.” could help millions.” could help millions.”
For Pat, it was love at first sight. As she
petted the dogs and asked questions of the
people with them, she vowed then and
there that she wanted to rescue a
greyhound.
Some time later, Pat, who is the
assistant to the Headmaster, visited
Greyhound Friends in Hopkinton, MA, a
small non-profit group dedicated to saving
racetrack greyhounds and placing them in
responsible, loving homes. While her
husband, Howard, waited patiently, Pat
agonized over which dog to choose, finally
selecting Toby, who settled right into the
Hall home.
Pat began helping out at Greyhound
Friends, walking and brushing the animals,
and taking photos for their website. Soon
she was the one showing off the dogs at
shopping malls to educate the public on
what gentle, sociable, and loving pets they
are. She will correct the misconception that
greyhounds, because they race wearing
muzzles, are vicious and cannot get along
with other animals, which could not be
further from the truth, she says. Later Pat
began assisting the organization with its
database, and worked on fundraising and
coordinating “meet and greet” events like
the one where she first discovered
greyhounds. After serving as its secretary
for several years, she joined the Board of
Directors. Somewhere along the way, Pat,
it seemed, had found her calling.
Toby was the first in a series of
greyhounds who found a home with the
They Speak for the Animals: Pat Hall and Norma Harrington
Pat Hall had never seen a greyhound the day she was walking through a New Hampshire mall some
twenty-five years ago and spied a group of the lean and agile canines whose name comes from the
Saxon word for “running dog.” The dogs, one of the oldest purebred breeds in the world, were with
representatives from an area animal rescue service.
Pat Hall and her greyhound, Star
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Halls over the years. Sara arrived as a
companion for Toby. When they were
asked to dog-sit Tally, a very shy
greyhound, for a friend, he immediately
bonded with Howard, and never left. They
began fostering greyhounds, and one of
them, Chick, stayed. “She was my heart
dog,” Pat declares. The Halls currently
have Joey, Star, and Fay, all ex-racers or
dogs trained to race. Star, who
accompanied Pat to school one day this
spring to have his picture taken, was set to
race in Lincoln, RI, but the track never
opened.
Some greyhounds that the rescue
organization receives are retired racers, and
some were bred for racing but were not
good at it or never competed. Greyhound
racing is now illegal in New England, but
it is a popular attraction elsewhere, such as
in Florida, where rescue services are
saturated with dogs, says Pat, which pains
her. Each year it is estimated that tens of
thousands of young, healthy greyhounds
bred for racing are killed when they fail to
keep up and are no longer viable racers.
Some are sold to research facilities. “We’re
working hard to bring the dogs up here to
place them,” she says.
Since dog racing was curtailed in the
region, funding of greyhound rescue
groups has fallen off as the public is not as
focused on the issue as it was when the
tracks were open, Pat notes. Organizations
such as Greyhound Friends must work
harder than ever to fund their efforts,
which include spaying and neutering,
inoculations, food, shelter, transportation,
and publicity to attract potential adopters.
Pat and Howard attend gatherings of
greyhound owners held in Delaware and
in Gettysburg at different times of the
year, where they trade stories, swap tips,
and socialize. “When you look at these
dogs you are taken by how loyal and calm
and responsive they are, and how
intelligent,” Pat says. “Right?” she asks
Star, who turns to her voice and gazes
lovingly into her face.
Pat isn’t the only Fenn staff member
whose calling is rescuing animals. Norma
Harrington, director of Learning
Specialists, first learned how to take care
of unwanted and injured animals as a
young child, with her dad’s guidance.
Always passionate about horses, she was
given her first pony when she was nine,
but her keen interest in the animals caused
her to witness what goes on, she says, at
some horse auctions and at the hands of
the wrong owners. She became
“determined to do what I could to help
horses who have been discarded or
neglected.”
Norma has stories about each of her
rescues, and all are heartbreaking. Animals
have arrived on her farm starving, terrified,
blind, paralyzed, or crippled, or with a
combination of problems. Currently she
and her sons, Tim, 25, and Brian, 19, tend
animals that have come from all over, as
she works with rescue organizations in the
U.S. and Thailand, and with the MSPCA
at Nevins Farm in Metheun.
Among her furred, feathered, and
hoofed charges are a Percheron horse
named Remington, two miniature horses
(one of which was from a load of minis
that had been purchased for use by zoos as
lion bait), a donkey that needed life-saving
dental attention, a goose, several ducks, a
pair of ferrets, three black labs, a Thai
ridgeback with three legs, and a terrier that
had been thrown from a car. Remington,
Norma’s most recent addition, was saved
from slaughter by a woman who pastured,
then neglected him. He came to the
Harringtons suffering from frostbite, lice,
scratches, infections, and starvation. Under
their care, he has gained 500 pounds, has
grown sweet-tempered and gentle, and “is
a perfect gentleman,” she says.
Norma is particularly drawn to animals
who have had “to struggle extra hard, who
deal with handicaps, or who are victims of
neglect.” There are lessons children and
adults can learn from animals, she
contends, and she has developed a strong
interest in humane education. Norma has
founded a program called DogTrot
Learning, which provides summer
programs for children to partner with
horses and farm animals to learn more
about them and about themselves and to
develop empathy. Norma says her love for
animals “is just like breathing or blinking.
I do it because in my soul I just have to.”
Norma says her love for animals “is just Norma says her love for animals “is just
like breathing or blinking. I do it because in like breathing or blinking. I do it because in
my soul I just have to.”my soul I just have to.”
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Norma Harrington
Math and science teacher Morgan Hall
is one of the few and the proud, having
made the decision to join the Marines
while he was in college at Bowdoin, during
a period in which he was “taking an
introspective look at my life.” What he saw
was a young man who was a bit immature
and not taking his studies seriously. The
military “was a way to challenge myself,” he
says. Morgan, whose father had been in the
Marine Corps Reserves, decided to leave
school for a while; he took a test to see if he
qualified for the Corps.
While at boot camp in Parris Island, the
bombing of Libyan targets in response to
terrorist acts in Europe occurred. “The real
world hit me,” he recalls. Morgan spent a
year and a half on active duty, posted to a
reserve unit in South Weymouth. He
returned to Bowdoin, newly motivated, and
traveled back to Massachusetts for weekend
duty once a month. He remembers playing
lacrosse and driving to his base on a
Thursday, back up to Bowdoin for a game,
then back down to South Weymouth to
finish duty.
“It was good for me,” he says, adding
that the work of a Marine interested him
and that he liked the people he met. The
spark was fanned into a flame, and Morgan
attended officer candidate school at
Quantico in Virginia. When he graduated
with a degree in geology and environ-
mental studies, he received a commission in
the Corps.
As a second lieutenant, Morgan went off
to do his service. “It was a year by year
thing,” he explains. “You serve at the
pleasure of the president of the United
States.” But Morgan never thought his
initial interest would turn out to be a
twenty-year career in the Marines. Piloting
huge transport helicopters, moving material
and personnel, and instructing other pilots,
Morgan did three tours in Iraq and a
fourth, non-combat, in Okinawa. In Iraq,
his unit operated in the western desert out
towards Syria and south to Saudi Arabia.
Much of his combat flying was done at
night to minimize the risk. “We were a
huge target,” he says.
In the military Morgan learned the
importance of working for a common
purpose and the necessity of learning by
one’s mistakes. He stayed in the service
because “it was all about the people—the
interaction and the relationships I built.”
His being a Marine was not about politics,
he points out. “We simply owned a piece of
the puzzle so big we couldn’t even imagine
the size, and if we took care of our piece,
we’d done our job and trusted that the
others had done theirs.”
When he retired from the Corps in
2010, Morgan considered environmental
work, teaching, and continuing to fly,
possibly doing Medevac work. But schools
were in his blood—he had been a boarder
at St. Marks, where his mom was assistant
director of athletics and his dad worked in
admissions. He did some substitute
teaching in the Southborough, MA, and
other schools, and right before an
opportunity at Fenn beckoned, he
facilitated a master’s level online course in
leadership for other officers on weekends
and nights. Dad to three children ranging
in age from eleven to sixteen, Morgan loves
working with young people; he coaches
youth ice hockey and lacrosse, and referees
hockey.
Morgan is low key about his military
background. “I don’t want that to define me
in the classroom,” he says. “I love working
with the kids as a teacher and coach,
especially the interaction on the field and
ice.” But having been a Marine did help
equip him for the classroom. “A plan is only
good until you meet in battle; then it can go
out the window,” Morgan says with a smile.
“I learned that I need to have something in
my hip pocket, and be ready to roll with it.”
“A way to challenge myself ”: Morgan Hall
It teaches you to be flexible, to have a contingency plan, and to roll with whatever happens. It’s the
military, and the decision to serve one’s country is a life altering one.
“It was all about the“It was all about the
people—the interaction andpeople—the interaction and
the relationships I built.”the relationships I built.”
Morgan Hall in front of the helicopterhe flew in Iraq.
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Chris first thought about
the military in third
grade, when he watched JAG
on television and “wanted to
fly jets.”
CHRISTOPHER KENT ’08
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Then, at Fenn, where he was
affectionately called “C.K.,” he was
building balsa wood bridges in shop one
day and his teacher, Jay Samoylenko, told
the boys about a bridge building
competition at West Point. Chris,
“always interested in designing and
building things,” decided that’s where he
wanted to go.
But it wasn’t until he was a senior at
Andover that Chris was certain about
what he wanted to do: apply to the U.S.
Naval Academy, where he will begin his
second year this fall. Dale Hurley, his
crew coach and an Academy alumnus,
was one of his mentors. “The military is
a creative place,” Chris says. “I knew I
would be doing all kinds of things, from
being aboard a ship, to serving as a
training officer or a department head.”
Not everyone around him
understood or supported his decision.
“Some people said I’d be wasting my
intelligence. They didn’t understand,” he
declares.
Chris is remembered as being “an
incredible history buff ” at Fenn,
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according to Tricia McCarthy, head of
the Middle School. On the seventh
grade Washington, D.C., trip, “he knew
more facts than our tour guides did and
the kids peppered him with questions.”
For the W.W. Fenn Public Speaking
Contest, Chris recited General Patton’s
speech to the Third Army with such
zeal that several faculty members still
recall it vividly.
Derek Boonisar coached Chris in
hockey and says that Chris, like many
players, had to battle hard for ice time.
“But he approached the challenge with
the work ethic and resilience that I am
sure is currently serving him well.”
Chris’s “package deal” with the
Academy is that he will earn a BS in
mathematics and will be committed to
five years of active duty, during which
time he may be deployed. “I haven’t
given the idea of danger much thought;
it’s a fact of life and a part of my job,”
he says.
A sense of having found his calling
particularly struck Chris while he was
watching the Army-Navy game this
year. “We are big rivals, but I was
reminded of the brotherhood we share,
and I’m so proud of that.”
This spring and summer, having
devoted a portion of his training time
to rowing, Chris will spend a few
weeks on a fleet cruise assignment that
could take him to Norfolk, VA, or San
Diego, and will enjoy a month’s leave.
Being a plebe this year was
challenging, he says, due in part to the
many rules he had to obey. He and his
classmates were not allowed to take
curved paths and when they walked
they had to square all of their corners.
Plebes were required to sit at the front
of their chairs and not lean back. But
to MIDN Christopher Kent, the
challenges are worth it. “I am doing
something important for my country,”
he declares.
STAFF WHO
HAVE SERVED
Morgan Hall is one of several
current or recent Fenn faculty
and staff members who are veterans.
JOE HINDLE, who retired in 2011,
served in Vietnam and would pay
tribute to his “band of brothers” in an
assembly each year on Veterans’ Day.
Former faculty member JIM CARTER’54 joined the army in 1960, which, he
says, forced him to “grow up and
develop some discipline.” It also
introduced him to the world as he
served as an armored intelligence
specialist in West Germany and was
able to travel while on leave and
develop an appreciation for and love of
languages and history.
Photography teacher TONY SANTOSenlisted in the Coast Guard in 1969 and
served the majority of his four-year
enlistment on the Weather High
Endurance Cutter Hamilton, based out
of Boston, helping to navigate the ship,
participating in search and rescue
missions, and letting passing jet pilots
who might be having trouble with their
LORAN systems know if they were on
their assigned flight paths.
STEVE GARRISON, a Fenn technical
support specialist, served in the
Marines for three years in the mid-
1970s. He attended Radio Operators
School and was trained in
telecommunications. Part of his
service included deployment to the
Mediterranean with the U.S. 6th Fleet,
which helped evacuate the embassy in
Beirut, Lebanon in 1976.
When he and his comrades arrived
back in the States, Hoagie says, he
soon realized that “the public had
absolutely no respect for Vietnam
veterans. I just held my head high,
knowing what I had accomplished.”
After the Navy, Hoagie returned to
college and graduated near the top of
his class, earning an AS and a BA. He
became a school district administrator,
ending his career as a school district
business manager. He and his wife,
Patty, live in South Burlington, VT.
Their daughter, Tala, is an architect.
Hoagie is “very proud” to have
served in the Navy, and sometimes
when he wears his Seabee Veteran cap,
people finally say ‘welcome home’.”
Hoagie joined the Navy in the early 60s, and was opted into the
Navy Seabees, which are construction battalions. He was a
heavy equipment mechanic, taking care mostly of cranes and
bulldozers. Hoagie recalls working twelve- to sixteen-hour days in
Vietnam making sure that the equipment was “up to snuff ” so that
the men in the bush would not lack food, supplies, and ammunition.
HOAGIE KLINK ’57
For the Greater Good
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For the Greater Good
The photo ran in the base newsletter with Andrew’s story. “Just
seconds after Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler sang the final notes of the
national anthem, the C-5 cargo transport jet from the Air Force’s
439th Airlift Wing flew over the cheering crowd and elicited
glances skyward from Patriot quarterback Tom Brady and tight end
Rob Gronkowski, all on national television,” he wrote.
Andrew served four years on active duty in the Air Force and
rejoined ten years later, just two weeks before 9/11. “Needless to say
the events of that day reinforced my desire to serve my country.”
The son of Mark Biscoe, who taught Latin and history at Fenn
for thirty-six years, Andrew “grew up” on campus, he says. As a
toddler, one day he watched an Air Force jet fly over the school and
“my life changed,” he recalls. “From then on I wanted to be a pilot.”
When Andrew found out his depth perception wasn’t good
enough for him to fly a plane for the military, he fell back on
another passion, writing, and earned a journalism degree at the
University of Massachusetts. Andrew is a full-time technician in the
Reserve, so he works throughout the week and one weekend per
month at the base, but he could be called upon at any time to serve
overseas, he says.
The military is Master Sgt. Andrew Biscoe’s calling. “There is
nothing else like it—its allegiance to America, its pride and its
prominence,” he declares. “I am so proud to be a part of it.”
Cam says the “Marine way” appealed to
him. “I’m an intense person and it was the best
place for me,” he declares, adding that “the way
the Marines handled things reminded me of Sua Sponte.” Captain Wilson worked at Guantanamo Bay “when it was the
biggest story in the world” (and one he documented in the Fall 2002
Fenn Bulletin) because the Taliban were being brought there. He was
an advisor to Gen. Michael Lehnert on media and policy, whom he
prepared for TV appearances and for questioning by the press.
Cam’s three months at “Gitmo” placed him with “some of the most
evil men in the world,” he says. He remembers watching the Super
Bowl about 400 yards from several Al Qaeda members. But “you do
your job and try not to think about it; I was more excited than
anything else.”
Thirteen days into the war in Iraq, in 2003, Cam’s cousin Bryan
McPhillips was killed in combat, and “then my friends began to
come back in body bags,” he says. He had six months before the
end of his contract with the Marines when he was scheduled to be
deployed to Faluja. “I had my shots and wrote my will,” he recalls.
Days before he was to be shipped out, a disagreement occurred
about who would pay for him to be sent over, and he never went.
Cam had headed to Los Angeles to pursue a film and music
career, when two years later he was recalled to the Marines. He
had two weeks to report to Quantico, where he would work in the
historical division, documenting marine activity around the world,
interviewing marines and going on missions in Kuwait, Nigeria,
Norway, Iraq, and Bahrain, for a year. One of the staff members he
interviewed had been Bryan’s commanding officer.
Cam, who held a General Management Apprenticeship at
Fidelity Investments this year and hopes to work in Boston, says being
in the Marines was “an amazing experience, all of it. I fell in love with
the Corps,” he declares. “It was a launching point in my life.”
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As the noncommissioned officer in charge of public affairs at
Westover Air Force Base, Andrew handles a variety of tasks. In
January he arranged for a photographer to accompany the crew on
an Air Force jet that did a flyby over Gillette Stadium in Foxboro,
MA, during the Patriots playoff game.
Cam, whose dad was a Marine officer in Vietnam, was drawn to leadership and service
in part because “I was born into the kind of advantages that every person would want,
and I felt it was my duty to give back.”
ANDREW BISCOE ’79
CAMERON WILSON ’93
For the Greater Good
“For a few seconds
of this life, it seemed
like the eyes of the
world were on our
plane, our base, our
people. Chills didn’t
run up and down my
spine; pride did—in
my job, in myself, in
my fellow Airmen, in
the Air Force, and in
the fact that I was
serving my country.”
–MSgt. Andrew Biscoe ’79,whose unit did a flyby overGillette Stadium in January.
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“What spoke to me then,” Chris
says, referring both to his acting and
the many antic announcements he
made in All School Meeting, “was
what it was like to be in a relationship
with the audience.” Preaching, he
points out, “is a lot like performing.”
Kirsten Gould, who taught Chris
while she was the Drama director at
Fenn, remembers her young student
as “self-possessed and confident” and
“a stand-out in all his drama classes.”
Chris “had a personality larger than
life and lots of enthusiasm. He was a
real risk taker who marched to his
own beat,” she recalls. And when he
performed in Fiddler, Kirsten watched
from the balcony in Robb Hall, in
tears.
All of Kirsten’s observations could
be made by those who know Chris
now, in his role as a shepherd for his
flock of some 400 congregants. His
enthusiasm and energy are palpable as
he sits in his State Street office at the
old church and talks animatedly about
the path that has taken him from
middle school to the ministry. “We
are all here for a purpose,” he says,
“and that is to realize the fullest
expression of our lives.”
Chris’s parents were very involved
with the church when he was
younger. His late father, John, was a
professor who became ordained at
sixty-two. His mother, Susan, and
stepfather, Joe Snyders, continue to be
active in their church, and have served
in pretty much every leadership role
available to lay people.
Chris delivered his first sermon
when he was eighteen, at his mother’s
church. “It was about love, and I used
a lot of quotes,” he recalls, wincing.
Still, he knew that preaching was his
passion.
After his graduation from Nobles,
during which time he was active in
his church youth group, Chris earned
a BA in Comparative Religion at
Boston University. All the while, “My
sense of call deepened and clarified,”
he says. Chris headed to the Starr
King School for the Ministry in
Berkeley, CA, a progressive seminary
which “focused pedagogically,” he
explains, “on the formation of
ministers to go out into the world to
combat systemic/systematic
oppression.” He started seminary just
a week before 9/11, and found himself
living in the Mission, knowing no
one. This prompted him to “dig deep
into school and people,” and to find a
support system, an experience that led
to his conviction that community is
essential.
Chris served as a minister of
From Fenn Stage to Church Pulpit: Chris Holton-Jablonski ’91
When he was on stage at Fenn, playing Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof and a number of other roles, Chris
Holton-Jablonski realized what he wanted to do with his life, he says. But Chris’s calling wasn’t to
become an actor; rather, he wanted to preach. Now he leads worshippers at South Church, a Unitarian
Universalist congregation in Portsmouth, NH, with his wife, Lauren.
The Call to Preach
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religious education at the Unitarian church in Berkeley for six
years after seminary, administering a program involving some
fifty volunteers.
Meanwhile, he had met his future wife at the Arlington
Street Church in Boston while she was working in development
at Harvard Business School. They became fast friends, “with an
instant and deep connection,” Chris says. Lauren followed him
to California, entering seminary a year behind Chris. They wed
and she began a ministry in San Mateo. The couple arrived at
South Church last August, joining the approximately eight to
ten married partners who head Unitarian congregations in the
country.
Lauren “brings a love and care for people which is deeper
and quieter than mine,” Chris says, adding that the couple work
well together, “like yin and yang,” as ministers and as parents to
Ben, four, and Jack, two.
Chris feels there is a real place for fostering a sense of
community in today’s society. “We need to remind people we are
connected to each other at a time when the act of coming
together on a Sunday morning is countercultural,” he says.
One of Chris and Lauren’s goals as ministers is to teach their
younger congregants that they must serve the world beyond
themselves. “Our mission is clear,” he declares. “We need to help
people carve out lives of meaning and wholeness.” “We need to remind people we are“We need to remind people we are
connected to each other at a time whenconnected to each other at a time when
the act of coming together on a Sundaythe act of coming together on a Sunday
morning is countercultural,” he says. morning is countercultural,” he says. Photo by Ellen Harasimowicz
Faculty and Staff DevelopmentsDevelopments““LLife-loife-lonng Lg Leearnerarner””
Jo AJo Anna Jamesonna Jameson Movn Moves On es On
HHer colleagues call Jo Anna Jameson a “formidable
mind,” a “life-long learner,” and a “consummate
professional.” Jo Anna, who has been Fenn’s coordinator of
Special Academic Services and director of the Intensive
Language Program for nineteen years, is leaving Fenn this
spring to become a licensed behavior analyst who works
with families and schools.
“I am pursuing what I consider the cutting edge in my
field,” Jo Anna says, adding that she will miss working with
Fenn faculty, who “really want to learn how kids learn and
have always been willing to explore that with me.” Jo Anna
is known at Fenn for her generous support of
teachers. “I think of her as the voice of reason,”
says Learning Specialist Linda Abernathy. “She
has always been available, non-judgmental, and
incredibly helpful. Her knowledge of the boys
and their learning styles is amazing.”
Jo Anna, who holds a BA from Northeastern
University and an EdM from Boston University,
where she has completed her doctoral
coursework, says her job here has been both
challenging and rewarding. “Every boy requires
an individual plan; there’s no ‘one size fits all’,”
she says.
On a typical day Jo Anna could be found
testing boys to determine their learning
difficulties, observing students in their classes,
consulting with teachers, discussing boys with
Secondary School Placement and Admissions
staff, meeting with parents, talking to outside
testers and therapists, reading professional
journals to keep up with current research and
technology, sending summaries of what she
learns to faculty, and recommending specific
“She has always been available, non-“She has always been available, non-judgmental, and incredibly helpful. Herjudgmental, and incredibly helpful. Herknowledge of the boys and their learningknowledge of the boys and their learningstyles is amazing.”styles is amazing.”
Jo Anna received the Martin Luther King, JrJo Anna received the Martin Luther King, Jr. Medal this year. Medal this year. Also. Alsopictured with Diversity Director Tpictured with Diversity Director Tete Cobblah are awarete Cobblah are award recipientsd recipientsLorraine WLorraine Warard, left, and Jo Albright, right, who accepted thed, left, and Jo Albright, right, who accepted theawaraward posthumously for her husband, Read.d posthumously for her husband, Read.
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CConsulting School Psychologist Dr. Charles Streff attended the annual conference of the American Society of Clinical
Hypnosis in Charlotte, NC, during the March break. He continued to present his work regarding adult males who have
experienced trauma. Dr. Streff was invited to submit a proposal for next year’s annual scientific meeting in Lexington, KY. The
conference drew clinicians from across the country and from Canada, Mexico, France, and Jamaica.
IIn 2009, Dr. Adam Cox came to Fenn as part of
his project called “Locating Significance in the
Lives of Boys” for the International Boys’ Schools
Coalition. Dr. Cox visited twenty boys’ schools
worldwide, stopping first at Fenn, and the results of
his study were released this spring.
Assistant Headmaster DDerek Boerek Boonisaronisar attended a
conference in New York City in April led by Dr.
Cox, who shared his research. “I was intrigued,”
Derek says, explaining why he attended. “Anything
that focuses on the topic of best practices for
educating boys grabs my attention.” Derek reports
that Dr. Cox “invoked Fenn” in his presentation,
referring to the “great job” the school does in
fostering “oral literacy” by giving boys time to
develop public speaking skills.
“I plan to take ten items that jump out from the
pages of his research,” Derek says, “and keep that list
near me.” One, he notes, is that boys want to be able
to communicate in a place where they are not
judged. Dr. Cox will speak at Fenn in November.
“Jo Anna’s collegiality and professionalism will be missed, but evenmore so her positive approach to the boys and their families.”more so her positive approach to the boys and their families.”
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strategies that might be helpful in accommodating students
with learning challenges.
Those who worked with her say Jo Anna was always
willing to stop what she was doing and give them her full
attention if they had a question or needed feedback. “Every
time I would walk away with a new perspective, idea, or
suggestion,” says Learning Specialist Julie Siegal. “She has
always put a student’s best interests first.”
Dr. Charles Streff, Fenn’s consulting psychologist, recalls
attending a meeting about a student that Jo Anna was
chairing, the first time he had observed her doing so.
Charlie “was struck by the depth of her understanding of
the testing that had been done for the boy, the clarity of
explanation to those present, and the way she clearly
facilitated the development of a plan that would enable all
of us to support the student.” He adds that “in the many
years I have worked with her, that same depth and clarity
have been there.”
Charlie speaks for his colleagues when he says that Jo
Anna’s “collegiality and professionalism will be missed, but
even more so her positive approach to the boys and their
families, and her on-going support to faculty and staff.”
Derek Boonisar with (l to r) Andreas Sheikh, Jivan Purutyan, andDerek Boonisar with (l to r) Andreas Sheikh, Jivan Purutyan, andBen Stone, all class of 2012Ben Stone, all class of 2012
Faculty and Staff Developments
Susan RichardsonSusan Richardson, Fenn’s director of
Constituent Relations for eleven years,
has joined the senior leadership team
in Alumni Relations at Boston
University. As Director of Alumni
Programs and Events, she “will play a
critical role in continuing our efforts
to engage BU alumni in meaningful
ways that advance the university,”
according to the vice-president of
Alumni Relations, Steven A. Hall.
At Fenn, Susan worked closely
with the leadership of the Parents’
Association to support their many
volunteer activities that add so much
to school life. She assisted the Alumni
Council in planning and
implementing activities to connect
Fenn graduates with each other and to
bring them closer to the school. Susan
organized countless events, including
Grandparents’ Day, reunions, major
retirement celebrations, regional
alumni receptions, and the Board of
Visitors Annual Meeting. She worked
on the Board’s inaugural meeting in
2002 and handled all aspects of the
group, from nominations to communi-
cations, for ten years. For the past
seven years she taught ninth graders in
the Youth in Philanthropy program.
With an interest in professional
outreach, Susan continues to volunteer
for the Council for Advancement and
Support for Education (CASE), for
which she served as District 1
Conference co-chair in 2010. She has
also served as president and program
chair of the Advancement Alliance of
New England, a regional professional
group for independent school
advancement professionals.
Susan was the subject of a two-
page article in the June 2012 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine, titled “The
Art of the Detour,” which was about
her path from flight attendant, to
cooking teacher, to her “dream” career
in school fundraising and
development. Fenn will miss Susan,
but we wish her luck at BU.
Susan RichardsonSusan Richardson
Freemon Romero ’04Freemon Romero ’04 served as a Fenn Fellow for the winter and spring terms
and will be joining the faculty next year, teaching Middle School math and
Spanish, coaching, and assisting in Admissions.
Freemon graduated from St. Mark’s School and Bryant University, where he
earned a BS in Business Administration, majoring in marketing with a minor in
psychology. He decided to pursue teaching while working at Star Camps last
summer. The coaches “saw how I was with kids,” Freemon says, and one, David
Rouse, Fenn’s assistant director of Admissions, “said he could see me in the
classroom.”
When he applied for the position of Fenn Fellow, a non-compensated, one-
trimester appointment intended to encourage and inspire young people to
pursue teaching, he wrote: “Fenn has undoubtedly played a significant role in
helping me become the man I am today. I have yet to find a community as
supportive and loving.”
Susan Richardson Directs Alumni Programs at BUSusan Richardson Directs Alumni Programs at BU
Fenn Fellow Rises to the ChallengeFenn Fellow Rises to the ChallengeFenn Fellow Rises to the Challenge
Faculty and Staff Developments
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MemoirMemoir
Earning Earning
Rave ReviewsRave ReviewsCritics are praising
Kambri Crews’ memoir BurningDown the Ground (Villard: 2012).
Kambri, who is married to Christian
Finnegan, stepson of Deborah FinneganDeborah Finnegan,
an advancement assistant at Fenn, looks
back on her unconventional childhood in
rural Texas, growing up with deaf parents
in a tightly knit Deaf community.
Kambri explores her complicated
relationship with her father, who is
serving a twenty-year prison sentence for
attempted murder. Her attempt to
reconcile her past and present is “a
remarkable odyssey of scorched earth,
collateral damage, and survival,” according
to Publishers Weekly. Christian is a stand-
up comedian who appears frequently on
television. He and Kambri live in New
York City.
Faculty and Staff . . . Once RemovedFaculty and Staff . . . Once Removed
TThomas J. Hudner, father of TomTom
Hudner Jr. ’8Hudner Jr. ’877, has been awarded
a rare honor by the U.S. Navy, which is
naming a new guided missile destroyer
after the retired Navy captain. The
decision was made this spring by Navy
Secretary Ray Mabus. Capt. Hudner is
the last living Navy recipient of the
Medal of Honor from the Korean War.
Upon learning the news, Capt.
Hudner “was surprised and humbled,”
Tom says. “Though my father would
say he was just doing his job and that it
was the right thing to do, his story has
always been inspiring to me.”
Capt. Hudner, a Concord resident,
received the medal for intentionally
crashing his fighter plane in an attempt
to save Ensign Jesse L. Brown, his
wingman, who had crashed after being
hit by anti-aircraft fire. Ensign Brown
was the Navy’s first black fighter pilot at
a time when the armed forces had been
integrated for just two years and critics
of desegregation continued to question
whether men of different color would
risk their lives for each other.
Though he injured his back, Hudner
remained with Brown until a rescue
helicopter arrived. He and the
helicopter pilot worked in sub-zero
temperatures in the snow trying to
extract the ensign, but his leg was
pinned in the wreckage. Capt. Hudner
remained on active duty, completing an
additional twenty-two years of naval
service. He flew combat missions in
Korea and served as the executive
officer aboard the USS Kitty Hawk
during the Vietnam War.
Naming a destroyer after a living
war hero is extremely uncommon,
according to the Navy. “Thomas
Hudner exemplifies the core values of
honor, courage, and commitment the
Navy holds dear,” said Secretary Mabus.
USS Thomas Hudner Named for USS Thomas Hudner Named for Advancement Director’s Father Advancement Director’s Father
Freemon says he has been
impressed by the demands of a
teaching career. “I have sensed that
this is definitely not easy and that you
really need a talent to do it.” A
teacher’s job, he has observed, is “to
focus students yet keep them happy
and motivated.” It’s a challenge, he
adds, “that I’m willing to take.”
It has also been a challenge, he
says with a smile, to call his former
teachers by their first names now that
they are his colleagues. Those teachers
include Ben Smith ’85, Dave
Sanborn, Bob Starensier, Amy Stiga,
Gisela Hernandez-Skayne, Jason
Rude, Dave Duane, Tete Cobblah,
and Mike Potsaid.
Freemon played soccer, basketball,
and baseball while at Fenn. “I have
always loved sports,” he says. “It’s a
big part of who I am.”
A first-generation Honduran,
Freemon acknowledges his interesting
first name, and says that his parents,
Jose and Lizzette, named him for an
uncle who was childless. But around
the house, he adds with a smile, he
answers to “Junior.”
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Faculty and Staff Developments
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AdvancingAdvancingFennFenn
To the strains of
the national
anthem sung by
members of the
sixth grade class, and to the cheers of
faculty, students, and families gathered on
the sidelines, the Reynolds baseball field
was officially opened on April 20.
The ceremonial first pitch was thrown
by Headmaster Ward, former headmaster
and baseball coach Walter Birge, former
baseball coach and woodshop teacher
Peter Hyde, and faculty member and
alumnus Ben Smith ’85, who played
baseball while a student here.
The upgrading of the existing field,
affectionately called Fennway Park, was
made possible by a generous gift from
Bob and Laura Reynolds (Will ’11),
which also funded the installation of an
adjacent synthetic turf field that was
dedicated last fall. The baseball field has
improved drainage, clay and soil
enhancements, and new backstops,
benches, and fencing. A double electronic
scoreboard faces both the diamond and
the synthetic soccer, lacrosse, and football
field, and together they are called the
Reynolds Fields.
Reynolds Baseball Field Opens
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When Vinnie Lynch took a sabbatical in 2007 from
working in finance, he wanted to shift his priorities
to helping the schools that mean so much to him,
including the one he attended in the early 1960s. Vinnie says he
used to envy his brother Alex ’66, who, while Vinnie was living
and working in Italy and London, was actively involved with his
children’s schools in Connecticut. “I never had that chance,” he says,
“and I felt that something was missing in my life.”
With more time to devote to other interests, Vinnie felt strongly
about committing significant energy to institutions that had
shaped his life and where he thought he could make a meaningful
contribution. He quickly made Fenn a principal focus.
During the last six years he has worked tirelessly on Fenn’s
behalf, helping raise some $24.7 million on the way to a $26
million goal in his role as co-chair of its “Boys at the Heart” capital
campaign. As a member of the Board of Visitors and then the Board
of Trustees, Vinnie has championed the alumni cause, helping
alumni rekindle their love of their school and encouraging them to
support the Fenn of today.
Headmaster Jerry Ward first came to know Vinnie about
fifteen years ago, when he visited him in his New York office.
“From the first moment in our conversation, Vinnie’s huge heart
and love for Fenn were clear,” he says. “When I think of Sua Sponteand its call to Fenn boys to be responsible for not only their own
education but also for each other and for their school, I think of
the shining example Vinnie offers in his extraordinary work of
stewardship of Fenn. It’s my personal honor and pleasure to
know him.”
Vinnie, who while at Fenn lived
in a Concord house that was on the
Underground Railroad, remembers his
Fenn teachers “incredibly well,” he says,
particularly Peter Keyes, Bill Dunnell,
Mark Biscoe, and John O’Keefe. A
trumpet player, Vinnie played in the Jazz
Band with Headmaster Dave Edgar on
drums, Dave Huston on oboe, and David
Malcom ’63 on trombone.
For the W.W. Fenn Public Speaking
Contest, Vinnie memorized Alfred, Lord
Tennyson’s “The Charge of the Light
Brigade.” He still remembers some of the
verses, and quoted them during a recent
conversation without missing a beat.
When asked how he fared in the competition, Vinnie says he
didn’t win but adds with a chuckle, “I thought at the time that I was
pretty spectacular.”
After his graduation from Fenn, Vinnie attended Belmont Hill
School and Princeton University, where he majored in history and
played two varsity sports. From Princeton he began a career on Wall
Street that spanned more than thirty years, joining JP Morgan in
1974 and moving to Lehman Brothers in 1991, where he spent the
next sixteen years until retiring from the firm in early 2007.
Two thirds of Vinnie’s career was spent in Europe, first in Milan
and then in London. During that time he managed Lehman’s
relationships with some of the UK’s largest multinational
corporations and was appointed to head its European Investment
Banking business. In that capacity he was a member of both the
Lehman Brothers (Europe) Executive Committee and its Global
Investment Banking Executive Committee.
On his return to New York, Vinnie was asked to help build
several businesses within the growing Investment and Private
Wealth management Division of Lehman and served on its
Executive Committee.
When he left Lehman, he volunteered to support his three alma
maters, but “I felt I could make the biggest impact at Fenn,” he says.
Upon joining the Board of Visitors, Vinnie says he was “incredibly
impressed with the plan that Fenn had laid out, both physical and
fiscal. And now, I’m unbelievably impressed with the way the plan
has taken shape and the backing it has gotten.”
What strikes Vinnie most is “the way the capital campaign
pledges marched upwards even during the dark days of ’08 and ’09,”
he says, “which says an enormous amount
about the school and its constituents.”
Vinnie lives in New York, not far from
his three children: Barclay, 33, his wife,
Amanda, and their children, Red and Mia;
Rebecca, 30, and her husband Chris
Rutherford; and Hallie, 25. He enjoys
traveling, which includes visiting family,
playing tennis and golf, and tending to his
Fishers Island property.
Introduced by his brother Alex, and
with his mother, Rose, in attendance,
Vinnie accepted his Distinguished Alumnus
Awad at Fenn’s June 1 Alumni Celebration
and Reunion.
R. Vincent “Vinnie” Lynch ’64: Distinguished Alumnus 2012
Advancing Fenn
Advancing Fenn
Construction has commenced on
the new Library and Science
Center, which will serve as the
academic heart of the campus and which
“will dramatically enrich the academic life
of the school and the education of
generations of Fenn boys,” according to
Headmaster Jerry Ward.
The center has been designed by Imai
Keller Moore, architects of the Meeting and
Performance Hall, to be knit seamlessly to
its surrounding buildings and to provide a
natural, sun-filled connection between the
Boll Building and the School House,
showcasing several new spaces along the
way
The new library, which will triple the
square footage of Fenn’s current library, will
feature multiple points of entrance from
two levels; it will be visually open to
students and faculty as they pass by its glass
walls on the way to their classes. Key
amenities of the space include an upper
level reading area with casual seating, a set
of carpeted reading steps under a forty-foot
skylight, and the lower library area, which
will be the center of study, holding print
and digital collections and a variety of
seating and display spaces.
In the library space will be dedicated
rooms for instruction and group studies,
and an office and workroom. Digital
resources, including emerging mobile
media, will be supported throughout, with
individual access to power and wireless data.
Print collection shelving will be nearly
doubled, allowing shelves to remain low.
Storage and display space will be provided
for Fenn archival material.
The new science center will dramatically
improve Fenn’s academic facilities for the
middle and upper schools. Four new labs
will be large and airy, with support spaces
designed to complement the hands-on
inquiry based science education for which
Fenn is known. A science prep room is
designed for secure preparation and storage
of class demonstration and laboratory
materials, a storage room will house
equipment, and moveable central lab desks
will allow for a range of teaching styles.
As in the Meeting and Performance
Hall, a sustainable approach to building
construction and performance will be taken
and features include natural ventilation and
lighting, high-efficiency boilers, low-flow
faucet aerators, and the use of sustainable
materials including linoleum, cork, local
granite, Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)
wood, and recycled carpet content.
For disabled access, the center will
contain two vertical wheelchair lifts where
the floor levels differ, which will allow the
School House to be completely accessible.
The existing elevator in the Robb Hall
lobby will continue to provide access to the
Boll Building and to the new first floor link
that will run from Boll to the School
House, past the library.
Initiation of construction of the new
Library and Science Center follows the
recent opening of the new Meeting and
Performance Hall last November. Mr. Ward
notes, “The school community across all of
our constituents has raved about the new
hall. Visitors, faculty, and students see its
transformational effect on daily school life
along with the creation of a beautiful center
to the campus, complete with a school
green that boys play on daily. It is a dream
realized for Fenn.”
As the school anticipates completion of
the Center next summer, fundraising for
Fenn’s current $26 million “Boys at the
Heart” capital campaign continues
vigorously to gain leadership, major, and
general gifts to achieve full funding of the
$7.8 million Library and Science Center,
which includes a redesign of the front
circle on Monument Street, and to
complete funding of the campaign’s
$5 million endowment objective.
The campaign to date has been an
outstanding success with a record setting
number of gifts ranging from $25 to
more than $5 million, received broadly
across the greater Fenn community. A $1
Library and Science Center Will BeThe Heart of the Academic Campus
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million anonymous challenge gift for the
Library and Science Center was met this
past January and was preceded by a $5
million challenge gift that was met last
November for both the Meeting and
Performance Hall and the Library and
Science Center construction.
“We are thrilled and grateful to receive
this historic outpouring of philanthropic
support for Fenn from trustees, parents,
alumni, parents of alumni, and so many
others,” says Mr. Ward. “As we enter the
final phase of the capital campaign, we seek
to enlist all of the members of the Fenncommunity, whose support will ensure our
achievement of full funding of the new
Library and Science Center and our
endowment needs.”
As Fenn strives for even greater diversity and talent in its student
body to offer the best possible education to all Fenn boys in their
middle school years, some generous Fenn families have made a
$1 million challenge gift for Fenn’s endowment to fund tuition and
other educational expenses.
Following many other independent schools, Fenn this year
established a relationship with the Boston-based Steppingstone
Foundation that has resulted in the enrollment of three talented
boys as new students for next fall. Steppingstone is a non-profit
organization that develops and implements programs to prepare
urban school children for educational opportunities that will
ultimately lead to college admission and success. For fourteen
months students in the program attend classes after school, on
Saturdays, and during two summers, demonstrating an exceptional
commitment to their education while deepening their academic
preparation.
The $1 million challenge gift depends on its being matched in
equal amount by contributions from other Fenn donors. The secured
endowment funds in total will enable Fenn to enroll students from a
broadened geographical area, including Boston and Cambridge. The
challenge donors also made a generous current-use gift of $750,000
to provide initial funding for scholarships and outreach efforts for
talented students from under-represented ethnicities and
communities. This second gift, which is already in hand, is not
contingent upon Fenn’s ability to raise matching funds.
“We are deeply grateful to those in the past who have shown
such faith in Fenn’s vision and possibility,” says Headmaster Jerry
Ward, “and to all members of the current Fenn community who
generously accept the responsibility of supporting Fenn to realize its
evolving vision and to never cease in becoming an even better school
for boys.”
Mr. Ward encourages those who are interested in supporting the
current endowment challenge to contact Tom Hudner in the
Advancement Office for details.
$1 Million Challenge Gift to Support Diversity Efforts
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In the Wes Anderson film MoonriseKingdom that opened in June to
rave reviews, Andreas Sheikh ’12
plays a Boy Scout and shares the
screen with several Hollywood
actors including Edward Norton,
Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Frances
McDormand and Harvey Keitel.
Andreas won a role in the movie in
2011 and spent about eight weeks
filming in Rhode Island last spring.
It was Andreas’ first foray into
professional acting, but he says he is
more interested in working behind the camera. He
studied video production at Fenn this year and received an
award for Outstanding Video Short for a film he wrote
and directed with two classmates. Andreas is looking
forward to taking courses in film at Phillips Andover
Academy, where he will be a student in the fall.
In the seventh grade at Fenn, doing research on one’s family tree is
an annual project. This year Henry Griffin explored the history of
his great-great-grandfather, who fought in and survived eighteen
Civil War battles. His classmate Alec Reiss learned more about
three great-grandparents who were held prisoner during WWII
and sent to concentration, labor, and POW camps.
Henry and Alec and their classmates presented the research
they had been doing for months about their ancestors at the annual
Cultural Heritage Fair in early May. The boys’ subjects included
WWII servicemen, community and business leaders, and family
members who started new lives in America. As part of their
Integrated Studies class work, they conducted hours of interviews
and research with the help of The New England Genealogical
Society, which each year sends a representative to help the boys
begin filling in their family trees, and Ancestry.com, for which they
are given free accounts. Each boy writes a paper about his project.
This year, on tables that stretched from one end of the gym to
the other, folding story boards displayed photos, letters, medals,
newspaper articles, copies of ship manifests, and many other
documents and mementoes. At each display, a student stood ready
to talk to visitors about his ancestors.
“I am proud to be related to my brave and strong great-
grandparents,” Alec told a visitor. “There are no words to describe
how it feels to know that they managed to live through the horrors
of the Holocaust.”
Teachers involved in the Cultural Heritage project are Ellen
Campbell, Lynn Duval, Amy Stiga, and Luke Thompson.
The ultimate public speaking challenge takes place at Fenn each winter in
the form of a memorized, approximately three-minute presentation of a
poem, a speech, or a passage from a novel.
The W.W. Fenn Public Speaking Contest, named for William
Wallace Fenn, a scholar, preacher, and public speaker who was the father
of the school’s founder, Roger Fenn, was held in February, for the first
time in the new Meeting and Performance Hall. Thirteen finalists in
grades six through nine recited the words of such figures as Harper Lee,
Susan B. Anthony, Walt Whitman, F.D.R., and Steve Jobs.
Seventh grader Maahin Gulati was named the winner. Honorable
Mentions were awarded to ninth grader Andreas Sheikh and sixth grader
Ben Kelly.
Judges for the competition this year were Kay Cowan, head of
Nashoba Brooks School for twenty years; Michael Nerbonne, assistant
head of school, director of studies and Latin teacher at St. Sebastian’s
School; and Jay Beaulieu ’06, a student at Boston College majoring in
communications and a former winner of the W.W. Fenn
Speaking Contest.
AroundCampus
Boys Stand and Deliver at Boys Stand and Deliver at
W.W. Fenn Speaking ContestW.W. Fenn Speaking Contest
Who Do You Think You Are?Cultural Heritage Fair Held in May
Ryan Musumeci with his Cultural Heritage project
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Andreas Sheikh in
Moonrise Kingdom
If you build it, they will come. Roger and Eleanor Fenn’s dream came true when the five and a
half-acre farm they bought on Monument Street, with its two and a
half-story house, three apple trees, one-horse stable, asparagus and
strawberry beds, and hayfield, opened as a school for boys in
September 1929. It had a kindergarten, eight grades, and fifty-three
pupils, ten faculty members, and two and a half buildings.
Fenn celebrates its founder every year on or close to Mr. Fenn’s
April 19 birthday. This year assembled students, faculty, and staff
viewed photos dating back to the school’s earliest years, a
presentation narrated by Athletic Director Bob Starensier and
former faculty member Jim Carter ’54 in the Meeting and
Performance Hall.
When a photo showed the beams rising for the New Gym in
the mid-1970s, Lower School teacher Jon Byrd ’76 recalled playing
in the very first basketball game held in the building. “The
enthusiasm was overwhelming,” he said. Coached by Mark Biscoe,
the Fenn team “crushed” its opponent, Fessenden, that day.
Following the Founder’s Day presentation, the Fenn Marching
Band, dressed in snappy blue blazers, white shirts, school ties, and
white trousers, made its traditional loop around campus, drums
pounding and horns blaring, led by banner and flag bearers.
Riding atop bright blue convertibles, Marilyn Schmalenberger,
who works in admissions, the front office, and as an art teacher, and
Bob served as honorary grand marshals for their twenty-five and
thirty years of service, respectively. The parade ended in the
Headmaster’s backyard, where the band played another number and
the boys tucked into pieces of birthday cake.
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Around Campus
Fenn Grows a GardenFenn Grows a Garden
Founder’s Day Held under Sunny Skies
The Fenn Marching Band makes its traditional Founder’s Dayloop around campus.
“Convince me that you have a seed there,” writes Henry David
Thoreau, who grew beans at nearby Walden Pond, “and I am
prepared to expect wonders."
Such “wonders” are appearing in the new campus garden.
On Tuesday afternoons in early spring, science and woodshop
teacher Mike Potsaid supervised boys who volunteered to work
on the garden, situated behind the Headmaster’s house, turning
over the soil, cutting and installing its rot-resistant cedar
framework, and assembling a 4- by 12-foot wooden compost
bin designed by Sustainability Director Cameren Cousins. The
bin has three sections, one for each stage of composted material
that is producing what Mike calls “gardeners’ gold.”
Cameren invited the community to plant herbs, vegetables,
and flowers. A record of who has planted what is displayed on
the bulletin board outside of her classroom, and she requested
that all gardeners log in their crops. “Since the garden is tucked
away on campus, using the bulletin board will help make it
more visible and relevant to the community day by day,” she
says. By late May the list included peas, carrots, watermelon,
marigolds, sunflowers, lettuce, radishes, and an assortment of
herbs that Jerry Cabral may incorporate into his dining hall
cooking.
Fenn will be growing beets for Gaining Ground, which had
a problem with its crop last season and cannot replant the root
vegetables for another year. Gaining Ground grows food for
people in need in the community. During vacation, Summer
Fenn campers will tend the garden.
Boys tend the school garden in early spring.Boys tend the school garden in early spring.
Sixth Grader Competes in StateSixth Grader Competes in StateGeo Bee ChampionshipsGeo Bee ChampionshipsThe contest was “nerve wracking,” says sixth grader Louis Gounden, but
he persevered, finishing twenty-first out of a field of 100 competitors at
the Geo Bee State Championships held in Worcester on March 30.
Louis “was amazing” at the Geo Bee, says Social Studies Department
Chair John Sharon. “He was poised, calm, and confident.”
Louis competed against “some of the best geography minds in the
entire state,” John adds, “and we are all so proud of him for getting as far
as he did.” The Geo Bee, for which students in grades four through eight
are eligible, is designed to encourage teachers to include geography in
their classes, to foster interest in the subject, and to increase public
awareness about geography. Louis won the preliminary contest at Fenn
this winter and went on to qualify for the state finals.
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The Treble Chorus performed in an unusual venue in March when they sang “Sweet
Caroline” from the stands at a Providence Bruins game. The performance was captured
on the Jumbotron. In April, Fenn hosted its first ever Invitational Choral Festival, held
in the Meeting and Performance Hall. Besides the Trebles, the festival featured groups
from Brookline, Nashoba Brooks School, and the Handel and Haydn Society.
Trebles Warble at Bruins Game, Festival
Most writers would thrill to
critical reviews such as “I
was hooked by the first
line,” and the fourth and
fifth grade boys who
displayed the stories,
poems, and memoir pieces
they created this winter
were no exception. The
boys’ work was spread out
on tables in Robb Hall and their
classmates were asked to provide specific
praise (for word choice, dialogue writing,
sensory images, strong beginnings and
endings, character development, and
other elements) on paper laid next to
each creative piece. Students circulated
around the tables, reading the pieces and
jotting comments such as those above.
“The boys showed courage in sharing
their writing with others in the
community,” noted Laurie Byron, who
teaches fifth grade and chairs the
English department.
Lower School HoldsPublishing Party
GeoBee contestant Louis GoundenGeoBee contestant Louis Gounden
Members of the Treble Chorus sing “Sweet Caroline” at a Providence Bruins game.
AroundCampus
Art StudentsArt StudentsRecognizedRecognized
Fenn students who
were honored by
the SISAL (Small
Independent
School Art
League) this
spring were
Malcolm
Zuckerman and Cole Winstanley, who won
first and second place, respectively, in the
Graphic Design category. They produced
their work in their photography class with
Tony Santos.
Three boys were among local students
celebrated in the Concord Journal for their
artistic endeavors. Willie Page, Leo
Feininger, and Gates Dupont were profiled
in separate articles for a feature titled “Art
Student of the Week.” All talked about their
passion for art, with Willie saying that he
tries to make each of his paintings and
sculptures “a living, breathing thing.”
Around Campus
The Fenn School Youth in
Philanthropy group presented three
area service organizations with a total
of $9000 in contributions this spring.
Representatives from Heading
Home, the John Andrew Mazie
Memorial Foundation, and the
National Education for Assistance
Dog Services received checks from
ninth graders involved in the
philanthropy program.
Ninth graders applied to take the
class with Susan Richardson, former
director of Constituent Relations, and
the size of the group varied from year
to year. The group worked closely with
the Foundation for Metro-West,
represented during the awarding of
checks by Jennifer Ubaldino.
The boys researched a variety of
service organizations in the area and
made site visits before deciding which
groups to support using funding from
an anonymous donor.
Youth in Philanthropy Donates $9000 to Area Non-Profits
The Middle School Players revisited the world of Agents 86 and 99 in their
winter production of Get Smart, a play based on the television series’ pilot episode
and adapted for the stage by Christopher Sergel. Directed by Tiffany Toner, the
production involved nearly thirty boys in acting roles, with several more helping
out backstage and on the tech crew, and a number of parent volunteers.
The annual Fenn/Nashoba Brooks Upper School collaboration titled HighSchool Musical 4.0 was produced and directed at Nashoba this year in March.
The play provided a series of scenes illustrating high school life through
dialogue, song, and dance.
Sixth graders presented
“Scenes from Shakespeare” under
the direction of Rob Morrison
this spring. They performed
excerpts from Hamlet, Macbeth,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and
Julius Caesar, which was performed
outdoors. The Treble Chorus
presented musical interludes. In late
spring the Upper School Players
offered The Complete Works ofWilliam Shakespeare, Abridged (andThen Abridged Some More) and the
seventh grade finished off the year
with a round of student-written
and performed original plays.
Drama Round-Up
Maxwell Smart, aka Nick Schoeller, inthe Middle School comedy, Get Smart
Youth in Philanthropy group presents a check to Gerry DeRoche of theNational Education for Assistance Dog Services.
Above painting by Gates Dupont ’12
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FennSports
SQUAD BASKETBALLThe team’s 11-7 record does not reflect how excellent
they were, says Coach Tony Santos, who says highlights
were beating Fessenden by seven points and coming
from behind to tie a game against BB&N in regulation
time and winning it in overtime by two points. Tony
was assisted by Kwame Cobblah and Alan O’Neill, who
adds that the Hillside game was “a defining moment”
for many of the players, even though Fenn lost. “It
brought the guys closer together, and after that game
their attitude and their offense and defense improved,”
says Coach O’Neill. Captaining the team were Kojo
Edzie and Mike Demsher.
VARSITY WRESTLINGHighlights of the season included the Fay School
Invitational Tournament for boys in fifth to seventh
grade. Fourteen Fenn sixth and seventh graders
participated, coached by Derek Cribb, John
Fitzsimmons, and Steve Gasper. Team captains were
Max Gomez, Jivan Purutyan, Odom Sam, and
Andreas Sheikh. Henry Griffin took first place in his
weight, Pipo Fitzsimmons took a second place and a
sportsmanship award, Joey Conroy took a third place,
and Hal Groome, Charlie Hibben, and Charlie
Fitzsimmons took fourth place in their weights. It
was one of Fenn’s best showings at the tournament.
JV BASKETBALLOf the team’s nine losses, seven of the games
came down to the final minutes, and four of
the six wins were decided under ten points,
says Coach David Rouse, who was assisted
by Freemon Romero ’04. Coach Rouse calls
the team “a highly athletic and competitive
group who continued to get better
throughout the season.” Team captains were
Will Baxter and Ben Stone.
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Varsity Wrestling
JV Basketball
Squad Basketball
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Fenn Sports
VARSITY BASKETBALLDefeating Fay in the first round of the
basketball tournament was a season highlight,
says Peter Bradley, who coached with Bob
Starensier. Having twice lost to Fay, Fenn had
to defeat their rivals if they wanted to play in
the championship game of the tournament,
which they did, 62-53. “We played an inspired
game, one in which Fay never quit,” he says.
Captain Austen Dorsey led all scorers in that
game with twenty-five points, with Austin
Hoey and Co-Captain Jack Lyne each
chipping in eleven points. The team tallied a
hard-fought record of 7-6.
JV HOCKEYCoached by Luke Thompson, Jason Rude, Dave Duane,
and Sean Patch, the team posted a season record of 3-5,
with wins against Carroll, Pike, and Hillside. Among the
players distinguishing themselves were James Sanderson,
Nick Moscow, Kyle Hickey, Spencer Pava, Mark and Dan
Herdiech, and Winslow McDonald, who was new to the
sport and proved to be a fast learner, Coach Thompson
says. Team captains were Will Haslett, Nick Moskow, and
James Sanderson.
Varsity Basketball
JV Hockey
Varsity Hockey
VARSITY HOCKEYThe team, achieving a 16-4 record, impressed their coaches,
Derek Boonisar, Jeff LaPlante, and Morgan Hall with their
work ethic and desire to compete. Sam Hesler captained the
team, assisted by Will Robertson and Jonathan Tesoro. The
eighth grade class “stepped up in an enormous way,” Coach
Boonisar says. Leo Saraceno played every minute of every
game, and gave up only twenty-one goals in twenty games.
Fenn tallied key victories over Nobles, Belmont Hill,
Fessenden, Fay, and Dexter, and seniors Brendan Seifert,
Gates Dupont, Scott Correia, and Jonathan Tesoro deserve
special recognition, the coaches say, for their leadership.
Class of 1934Abbot Fenn wrote, “As the first student
enrolled in the Fenn School in 1929, I am
pleased to have reached the age of 90. As I
scan the daily obituaries in the paper, I see
few others aged 90 or more. So 90-year-
olds must be in generally good health, as I
am.”
Class of 1945Donald Thompson has been retired for 20
years and still manages to hike, canoe, and
folk dance, though not as fast or as far as
20 years ago. He is still in a literature dis-
cussion group and a part-time docent at the
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
Class of 1949In November a bench was installed in West
Concord in memory of Kim Smith. Kim
was an ardent supporter of the Bruce Free-
man Rail Trail, which will eventually make
its way through Concord Junction, across
the Assabet River, and on to points further
south. Fenn classmate Buddy Bates spoke
at the ceremony, noting, “I hope this bench
will inspire the citizens of Concord and
Sudbury to expedite the construction of the
Bruce Freeman Rail Trail. I envision Kim’s
bench as being a gateway to a small park
from here to the Assabet River.”
Class of 1950In February, Fritz Kraetzer died suddenly
of a heart attack. Following thirty years of
practicing law, he was appointed to the
bench in Alameda County in August 1992
and served as a superior court judge until
his retirement in 2005. Fritz retired to
Orcas Island, WA, where he was an active
volunteer for the Orcas Public Library, the
Senior Services Advisory Council, and the
Statewide Health Insurance Benefits Advi-
sors (SHIBA). Fritz also served on the
Board of Trustees of the Orcas Center, a
non-profit arts and cultural organization,
and was a member of the vestry of
Emmanuel Episcopal Church. Besides his
family, Fritz loved travel, puzzles, and his
vegetable garden. All those who knew him
would describe him as a gentleman.
Class of 1951Fred Lovejoy was honored April 2 at an
event at the Harvard Club. Jeffrey Flier,
M.D., Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at
Harvard Medical School, announced the
creation of a faculty chair in Fred’s honor
which will be called the Concord Profes-
sorship in Pediatrics. Joel Naom
Hirschhorn, MD, PhD was appointed as
the first holder of the chair.
Class of 1954John Hall spent 44 days working on a Coast
Guard vessel in icy northern waters this past
summer and got within 90 miles of the
North Pole in early September.
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Class Notes
Class of 1955Stan Kellogg is working for Exxon Mobil
covering installation projects offshore around
the world. The main support vessel used on
the BP blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, the
G-4000 semi-submersible, is his design.
Class of 1959John Chandler will be retiring as the headmas-
ter of Robert College in Istanbul. Hoagie
Klinck ’57 wrote in that his brother Jay’s death
in December was due to lung cancer and
noted, “He will be missed by many around the
world.”
Class of 1977Clint Bajakian and his associates enjoyed
recording the orchestral score for Playstation’s
Unchartered: Drakes Deception at Abbey Road
Studios in London. Clint made this a family
trip with his wife, Deniz, and children, Lara
and Deren, joining him. Chip Orcutt shared
holiday cheer last December with Nigel
Bently and family.
Class of 1978Fenn detective Jim Carter ’54 discovered
that Chris Stigum works at The Holderness
School in Plymouth, NH.
Class of 1982Clark Aldrich will serve as a “guide” for the
2012 Acton Rising Star $10,000/$50,000
Challenge (see www.actonedinnovationchal-
lenge.org). Clark is a top educational
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Class Notes
When Bill Thurber ’44 and his wife, Anne,
traveled from their home in Massachusetts this
winter to the Nebraska Medical Center, where Anne
underwent a multiple organ transplant, he didn’t
expect to discover that a fellow Fenn alumnus was
one of her surgeons.
Following the successful procedure, a transplant of
the liver, kidney, and portal vein, the Thurbers met
with his wife’s surgical team, as Bill says, “to help us
come down to earth.” One of the surgeons was Dr.Michael C. Morris, who is co-director of the Kidney
and Pancreas Transplantation program at the hospital.
During the conversation, Dr. Morris asked Bill where
he went to school and the latter mentioned Fenn. The
surgeon, Bill says, was “astounded,” and declared that
he, too, went to Fenn.
“We see patients from all over, but this is the first
time I have met a Concord or Fenn connection,” says
Dr. Morris ’68, who spent one year here, in eighth
grade, before his family moved to Philadelphia. “Fenn
was a fascinating and busy year for me,” he recalls. “I
felt welcomed and enjoyed the camaraderie.”
After attending college and medical school at
Temple University, Michael completed a fellowship in
transplant surgery at the University of Pittsburgh in
2008. Prior to joining the Nebraska Medical Center as
an associate professor of surgery, he served as the
director of Solid Organ Transplantation at the Avera
McKennan Hospital and University Health Center in
Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Bill says he was amazed that two Fenn graduates
would meet in Omaha and that one of them would be
the provider of life-saving medical care “while both
were beneficiaries of Fenn’s great training and
development.”
An “It’s a Small World” Story from Bill Thurber ’44
Recognize the guy in the Fenn cap? He’s Steve Carell ’77 with his son at an NBA gamelast season. Send a photo of you wearing your Fenn gear, wherever you might be, [email protected]. Don’t have a Fenn hat? Find caps, ties, jackets, and other classic Fenngear and specialty items at https://www.fenn.org/gear or contact Bob Starensier [email protected].
Class Notes
NNed Perry ’60ed Perry ’60 has close tieshas close ties
not only to the Town ofnot only to the Town of
Concord but also to Fenn, andConcord but also to Fenn, and
particularly to the school band, inparticularly to the school band, in
which he performed while awhich he performed while a
student and which “came marchingstudent and which “came marching
through” the last Town Meeting hethrough” the last Town Meeting he
ran as Town Moderator in 2010.ran as Town Moderator in 2010.
The band played The band played ““AnchorsAnchors
Aweigh,”which was especiallyAweigh,”which was especially
meaningful because Ned served inmeaningful because Ned served in
the U.S. Navy during the Vietnamthe U.S. Navy during the Vietnam
era, assigned to a guided missileera, assigned to a guided missile
cruiser as part of itscruiser as part of its
communications department.communications department.
Another alumnus, Another alumnus, StanlyStanlyBlack ’60Black ’60, a Concord selectman,, a Concord selectman,
was largely responsible forwas largely responsible for
arranging for the band to appeararranging for the band to appear
at that Town Meeting, Ned says.at that Town Meeting, Ned says.
When Ned was selected to leadWhen Ned was selected to lead
this year’s Patriots’ Day Parade inthis year’s Patriots’ Day Parade in
Concord as its grand marshal, heConcord as its grand marshal, he
asked Stan and three others toasked Stan and three others to
join him: the local fire chief, ajoin him: the local fire chief, a
police patrolman, and a Concordpolice patrolman, and a Concord
Independent Battery member. ItIndependent Battery member. It
was Ned’s way of recognizing andwas Ned’s way of recognizing and
honoring the elected officials andhonoring the elected officials and
boards and the emergencyboards and the emergency
personnel in town.personnel in town.
Ned and Stan have workedNed and Stan have worked
together closely over the years,together closely over the years,
especially when Stan was theespecially when Stan was the
chairman of the Board ofchairman of the Board of
Selectman, and they are their ownSelectman, and they are their own
mutual admiration society. “Stanmutual admiration society. “Stan
has done well for and byhas done well for and by
Concord,” Ned declares. StanConcord,” Ned declares. Stan
replies that his work in townreplies that his work in town
“pales in comparison to Ned’s“pales in comparison to Ned’s
public and private efforts on behalfpublic and private efforts on behalf
of Concord’s government andof Concord’s government and
non-profits.” non-profits.”
Ned jokes that his term asNed jokes that his term as
“Secretary of Labor” in classmate“Secretary of Labor” in classmate
and Fenn School President and Fenn School President JohnJohnBemisBemis’ “administration” trained’ “administration” trained
him well for a legal career as ahim well for a legal career as a
civil rights attorney, and Stancivil rights attorney, and Stan
recalls that as “Secretary ofrecalls that as “Secretary of
Defense” at Fenn, he once raisedDefense” at Fenn, he once raised
the Stars and Stripes on thethe Stars and Stripes on the
flagpole in the circle upsideflagpole in the circle upside
down. Stan is “mostlydown. Stan is “mostly
retired,” but still works as retired,” but still works as
an architect with manyan architect with many
residential and institutionalresidential and institutional
projects in Concord andprojects in Concord and
research facilities for theresearch facilities for the
space sciences communityspace sciences community
around the country to hisaround the country to his
credit. credit.
Stan’s volunteer work forStan’s volunteer work for
organizations including the Oldorganizations including the Old
Manse, the Concord ArtManse, the Concord Art
Association, and the PlanningAssociation, and the Planning
Board “must certainly come fromBoard “must certainly come from
Fenn’s emphasis on participation,”Fenn’s emphasis on participation,”
he says, adding that Connie Crook,he says, adding that Connie Crook,
his Fenn art teacher, and Carlhis Fenn art teacher, and Carl
Ward, his woodshop teacher, wereWard, his woodshop teacher, were
influential in his decision to pursueinfluential in his decision to pursue
architecture. architecture.
Ned worked in theNed worked in the
employment and labor relationsemployment and labor relations
field, first with the U.S.field, first with the U.S.
Department of Labor inDepartment of Labor in
Washington, D.C., and then inWashington, D.C., and then in
private practice in Boston for theprivate practice in Boston for the
last thirty years. He adds that hadlast thirty years. He adds that had
he pursued his second choice inhe pursued his second choice in
careers, environmental law, hecareers, environmental law, he
would have attributed it to Rogerwould have attributed it to Roger
Fenn’s science classes and to theFenn’s science classes and to the
outdoors activities in which Nedoutdoors activities in which Ned
was active at Fenn. was active at Fenn.
Class of ’60 Alumni Lead Concord ParadeClass of ’60 Alumni Lead Concord Parade
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Ned PerryNed Perry
Stanly Black pictured at left.Stanly Black pictured at left.
simulation and interface designer, with
clients such as Harvard Business School
Publishing, the Department of Defense,
Microsoft, Cisco, and Hewlett Packard. Paul
Bellantoni married Patricia Comstock in
November 2011 at Home Studios in NYC.
Award-winning New York playwright Dun-
can Pflaster performed the ceremony and
Norm Veenstra was in attendance.
Class of 1983Tim Cipriani and his wife, Holly, welcomed
a son, Spencer, age 10, into their lives last
November. They are looking forward to
finalizing his adoption in 2012. Andy
Majewski won a Faculty of Arts and Sci-
ences “Impact Award” at Harvard for “sus-
tained and oustanding contributions to the
University.” Andy is an Education Specialist
at the Peabody Museum at Harvard. Read
more about Andy on page 3.
Class of 1984Sandy and Sky Blackiston returned to Fenn
last December to perform for the students in
Robb Hall. The brothers played dueling key-
boards and a creative rendition of “Rock
Robb Hall.”
Class of 1985In May Andy Krantz became a partner at
The Elmore-DeRose Group of Royal Bank
of Canada (RBC) Wealth Management, one
of the leading investment advisory and
wealth management firms in the country.
Andy’s new firm is located in Denver.
Class of 1986This past fall Roger Duncan completed the
Essential Skills Video Course (ESVC) con-
ducted at Navy Public Affairs Support Ele-
ment East aboard Naval Station Norfolk,
VA. The course teaches students camera
familiarization, shooting techniques, inter-
view techniques, script writing, voicing, and
video editing. In May Roger was deployed
to Afghanistan where he is managing the
embedded media.
Class of 1987Tom Hudner and his wife, Jennifer, wel-
comed new daughter, Reese Georgea, to the
family on March 2. Reese joins older sister
Lily (7) and brother TJ (5).
Class of 1988Peter DeRosa reports that he is married with
two daughters, ages 7 and 5. After working
with an internet startup in Cambridge, Peter
moved back to Concord in 2004 and now
builds software systems at Raytheon. Micah
Stubblebine lives a few doors away and has
children the same age. Peter persuaded Evan
Zall, whose kids are a year younger, to move
into the neighborhood as well, so mini-
reunions are frequent. Ben McLane writes
that he lives in Bridgewater, NH, with his
wife, Shani, and three children: Chaselyn
(12), Teal (9), and Whitaker (5). Their life is
busy, but they are enjoying it. Ben currently
owns a number of Plymouth State Universi-
ty off-campus rental properties, which keeps
him busy teaching college kids how to
behave. Ben adds, “I stay in forever contact
with Brooke Coleman, his wife, and brand
new daughter.”
Class of 1989Chas Adams is still in the Navy and this
summer will deploy to Afghanistan for the
second time. Andrew White has his own
psychology practice in Portland, OR. He just
purchased a Fenn sweatshirt from the
school’s online “gear” store and reports, “The
sweatshirt is great; I’ll wear it in Portland to
see if anyone knows what Sua Spontemeans.”
Class of 1990Kevin Keegan writes that his wife, Nicole, is
the executive producer of a film titled TheInvisible War, which premiered at the Sun-
dance Film Festival in January. It is a docu-
mentary about the high rate of rape in the
military and will be coming to PBS’s Inde-
pendent Lens series during the 2012-2013
season. Josh Schohn married Carina Toledo
in Tulum, Mexico, on April 6.
Class of 1992An update from Reid Adams reveals that he
served as a Surface Warfare Officer in the
U.S. Navy for five years after graduating
from Tufts. Upon his return, Reid completed
his JD degree at Fordham University Law
School, and in 2009 he joined Ropes &
Gray as an associate practicing in the corpo-
rate department of the firm’s New York City
office.
Class of 1993Kevin White works for a hedge fund in
Chicago.
Class of 1994Sean Kolloff is living in Boston and working
for Merrill Lynch. On weekends he relaxes
by flying airplanes. Jon Rosen has headed
west for the internet frontier and is having
an amazing time. When not trekking the
globe evangelizing new companies or prod-
ucts, he loves surfing, scuba diving, and run-
ning the largest camp at Burning Man each
summer. Tyler Streetman is President of
RE-STEEL Supply Co., a supplier of aero-
space and electronic alloys located in Col-
orado. He is engaged to Cori Plotkin who
started her Barefoot PR company a year ago.
Eren Tasar is currently on a postdoc at
Washington University in St. Louis. This
summer he’ll take up an assistant professor-
ship at Indiana University-Purdue Universi-
ty at Indianapolis (IUPUI) in Islamic world
history. That means Eren, Lola, daughter
Sitora (7), and son Timur (3) will be making
their second move in as many years.
Class of 1998Matt Glassman has been living in Manhat-
tan and working for Goldman Sachs in
institutional sales on the fixed income side
of the business since he graduated from col-
lege in 2005. Adam Kolloff is teaching golf at
the Jim McLean Golf School at the Doral
Resort in Miami, FL.
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It was the night before the mucht was the night before the much
anticipated seventh grade trip toanticipated seventh grade trip to
Washington, D.C., But to the south,Washington, D.C., But to the south,
it had begun to snow. And snow.it had begun to snow. And snow.
The trip was cancelled, much to theThe trip was cancelled, much to the
dismay of the boys who haddismay of the boys who had
packed, chosen their roommates,packed, chosen their roommates,
and put away their books for theand put away their books for the
next few days. next few days.
Kwame CobblahKwame Cobblah and his bestand his best
pal pal Mike SpiakMike Spiak, both class of ’03,, both class of ’03,
were devastated. Kwame had neverwere devastated. Kwame had never
been on a trip of that length, andbeen on a trip of that length, and
now the two boys, like theirnow the two boys, like their
classmates, faced going to schoolclassmates, faced going to school
instead of touring the nation’sinstead of touring the nation’s
capital with their friends.capital with their friends.
“I remember being excited the“I remember being excited the
whole first half of seventh grade,”whole first half of seventh grade,”
says Mike, who works as a policysays Mike, who works as a policy
fellow for a non-profit calledfellow for a non-profit called
OurEnergyPolicy.org in D.C.OurEnergyPolicy.org in D.C.
“Staying in a motel for a few nights“Staying in a motel for a few nights
was just as exciting a prospect aswas just as exciting a prospect as
seeing the attractions inseeing the attractions in
Washington.” Kwame, who isWashington.” Kwame, who is
Fenn’s Teaching and Diversity InternFenn’s Teaching and Diversity Intern
this year and will return in thatthis year and will return in that
position in the fall, recalls, “Weposition in the fall, recalls, “We
were disappointed and miserable.” were disappointed and miserable.”
The boys trudged back toThe boys trudged back to
classes, but sympathetic teachersclasses, but sympathetic teachers
allowed them to go outside andallowed them to go outside and
play for part of the day. The boysplay for part of the day. The boys
made snow sculptures and wagedmade snow sculptures and waged
normally illegal snowball fights. Andnormally illegal snowball fights. And
later in the year the class took alater in the year the class took a
shorter trip to Philadelphia. But itshorter trip to Philadelphia. But it
wasn’t the same. wasn’t the same.
This spring, however, wrongs gotThis spring, however, wrongs got
righted. When Middle School Headrighted. When Middle School Head
Tricia McCarthy asked Kwame if heTricia McCarthy asked Kwame if he
could serve as a chaperone on thecould serve as a chaperone on the
excursion, he jumped at theexcursion, he jumped at the
opportunity. “I don’t think Trishopportunity. “I don’t think Trish
realized at first,” he says, “that thisrealized at first,” he says, “that this
was the trip I never got to go on.”was the trip I never got to go on.”
Heading towards D.C. on theHeading towards D.C. on the
bus, Kwame suddenly rememberedbus, Kwame suddenly remembered
that his buddy Mike lives in D.C.,that his buddy Mike lives in D.C.,
and called him. Kwame sent himand called him. Kwame sent him
Fenn’s itinerary and the next dayFenn’s itinerary and the next day
Mike met up with the group at theMike met up with the group at the
National Air and Space Museum.National Air and Space Museum.
“He pretty much went on the rest“He pretty much went on the rest
of the trip with us, from theof the trip with us, from the
Holocaust Museum to the LincolnHolocaust Museum to the Lincoln
and Martin Luther King memorials,”and Martin Luther King memorials,”
,Kwame said with a chuckle, and he,Kwame said with a chuckle, and he
had dinner with the boys and theirhad dinner with the boys and their
teachers.teachers.
Though they hadn’t seen eachThough they hadn’t seen each
other for six years, the formerother for six years, the former
seventh grade buddies had kept inseventh grade buddies had kept in
touch and when they met up intouch and when they met up in
D.C., according to Kwame, “WeD.C., according to Kwame, “We
talked non-stop and cracked jokes.”talked non-stop and cracked jokes.”
Adds Mike, “It was as if the time weAdds Mike, “It was as if the time we
would have spent chatting aswould have spent chatting as
roommates on the trip got bumpedroommates on the trip got bumped
forward eleven years. We didn’tforward eleven years. We didn’t
miss a beat.” miss a beat.”
D.C. or Bust, Eleven Years Later
Mike Spiak and Kwame CobblahClass of ’03, in Washington, D.C.
Class of 1999Harry Boileau is reportedly living in Los
Angeles and doing well. Deacon Swift lives
in Boston’s North End and works for a
landscape design and install company while
he finishes his BA in landscape architecture
at Boston Architectural College. Andrew
Montgomery married Courtney Morgan in
New York City on April 8. The ceremony
took place at 623 On Hudson. Fenn was
well represented with Sam Takvorian serv-
ing as best man and Nick Azrack as one of
the groomsmen. Like Andrew, Courtney
graduated from Georgetown. She is origi-
nally from Palo Alto, CA, and teaches first
grade. The Fenn brotherhood also turned
out for Sam Takvorian’s wedding to Melina
Marmarelis on May 19, with Deacon Swift,
Robbie Swift, Ryan Connolly, and Garen
Riedel attending. Read more about Sam on
page 12-13. In a switch of roles, Andrew
Montgomery served as Sam’s best man. Mar-
riage is also on the horizon for Nate Swift
who is engaged to Lindsay Gillette.
Class of 2000Michael DeSantis married his fiancée,
Caitlin, in Vero Beach, FL, on May 21,
2011. They are living and working in New
York City. Scott DeSantis ’08 was best man
for his brother. Peter Vigneron is living in
Santa Fe, NM, where is he working as an
editor for Outside magazine. He is still run-
ning and claims he will do so unless his legs
fall off !
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Class of 2001Ben Levy has graduated from Lake Forest
College, where he was captain of the soccer
team. He spent some time post-graduation
living in Boston and working for an out-
sourced sales company. He moved over a
year ago to be the assistant manager when
the company opened a location in Denver.
Class of 2002Nate Greenberg has been living in Seoul for
the past 2 ½ years, while Meng Tan has
been living in Beijing during the same time
period. In 2011 Geoff Hewer-Candee
taught a graphic design class at the School
of the Museum of Fine Arts during the
winter and summer. He was last known to
be doing an internship at a design/market-
ing/advertising firm in Boston. Xander
Mansel is working in Hong Kong, teaching
literature at an international school, and
loving it. He’s planning a poetry slam for
his students, bringing back memories of
being at the Wards’ house.
Class of 2003Jack Carroll is living in New York City
with fellow 2003 alumnus Bronson Kussin.
He is working for investment bank Piper
Jaffray in equity sales. Jack played in Fenn’s
alumni golf outing last fall and promises to
be back next fall. Christian Manchester is
working long hours in New York City at
Goldman Sachs but was able to sail on
Long Island Sound most weekends during
last summer and fall. He also managed to
make it up to Boston to help coach and
train against his former sailing teammates
at Boston College. Jackson McCloy graduat-
ed from Endicott College last month.
Class of 2004Peter Crowley was selected as the All
American goalie for Division 3 soccer
while playing for Babson College. Eamon
Hegarty graduated from the University of
Wisconsin last spring and was commis-
sioned into the Marines as a second lieu-
tenant. KC McCarthy graduated from Suf-
folk University this past December. Will
Ricketson is working on the support staff of
the United States Olympic Sailing Team.
One of Will’s friends, Amanda Clark, and
her crew will represent the U.S. in the
women’s 470 competition at the London
Olympics in August. Rufus Urion spent last
spring interning for 826 CHI, a non-profit
tutoring agency in Chicago with a focus on
creative writing. Rufus graduated from
Northwestern University in June 2011.
Class of 2005Marc Buckland is studying electrical engi-
neering at the University of Hawaii at
Manoa. Krish Jaiman was accepted at his
dream school, New England Conservatory
of Music, for graduate work. Ben Miller
was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Amherst
College. He is majoring in both mathe-
matics and economics; he is ranked number
one in both departments After he greadu-
ates, Sam hopes to continue his studies at
the London School of Economics. Graham
Roth will begin a master’s degree program
in computer science at Stanford University
this coming fall. After spending the fall
semester in Shanghai and loving it,
Christopher Woo returned to Duke and was
busy applying for summer internships in
both the U.S. and China.
Class of 2006Ben Lamont managed to find time for sailing
at Harvard while majoring in South Asian
studies. Luke Rogers spent last spring in
Barcelona at the same time as fellow Fenn
classmates Tyler Davis and Both Long. Max
Swanson captained the Wheaton College
soccer team last season. He and Scooter
Manly will be co-captains of the team next
year. Henry McNamara, who spent his second
semester at Bowdoin studying abroad in Cape
Town, South Africa, embarked on a quest to
climb Mt. Kilimanjaro at the beginning of
June. His ascent is raising funds to help sup-
port the building of a new library and teacher
resource center at the Nyegina Secondary
School in Tanzania. As of the press deadline,
Henry had almost reached his goal of $3,000
in contributions. Check out http://henry
climbskilimanjarofortds.bbnow.org/ for more
information on Tanzania Development Sup-
port, the organization arranging Henry’s
climb.
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HHistory is his passion, andistory is his passion, and
now now S. Levi “Sam”S. Levi “Sam”Doran ’09Doran ’09 has edited a bookhas edited a book
of essays by the late Lexingtonof essays by the late Lexington
resident S. Lawrence Whipple.resident S. Lawrence Whipple.
TitledTitled Lexington Through theLexington Through theYearsYears, the book contains , the book contains
thirty-nine essays and vintagethirty-nine essays and vintage
photographs that cover thephotographs that cover the
first 300 years of the town’sfirst 300 years of the town’s
history. history.
It has been published by the Lexington Historical Society,It has been published by the Lexington Historical Society,
an accomplishment that has landed Sam on the pages ofan accomplishment that has landed Sam on the pages of
local newspapers and the local newspapers and the Boston GlobeBoston Globe. .
Steeped in town history since he was a child, SamSteeped in town history since he was a child, Sam
knew Mr. Whipple, who would frequently come to dinnerknew Mr. Whipple, who would frequently come to dinner
at his home. Sam’s parents, Elaine and Guy, presentedat his home. Sam’s parents, Elaine and Guy, presented
their son with his own lifetime membership to thetheir son with his own lifetime membership to the
historical society when Sam was three or four. Hishistorical society when Sam was three or four. His
mother, Elaine, works as collections manager for themother, Elaine, works as collections manager for the
organization. organization.
Mr. Whipple served as the unofficial town historianMr. Whipple served as the unofficial town historian
for Lexington for many years. He had been urged tofor Lexington for many years. He had been urged to
compile the essays he wrote for community groups andcompile the essays he wrote for community groups and
the the Lexington MinutemanLexington Minuteman, but wasn’t able to pursue the, but wasn’t able to pursue the
project before his death at 88 in 2012. That’s when Samproject before his death at 88 in 2012. That’s when Sam
stepped in, pulling the project together “from A to Z,”stepped in, pulling the project together “from A to Z,”
and demonstrating “exceptional maturity in showing theand demonstrating “exceptional maturity in showing the
life’s work of his mentor,” according to the historicallife’s work of his mentor,” according to the historical
society’s executive director, Susan Bennett.society’s executive director, Susan Bennett.
To make sure that every page of the essay collectionTo make sure that every page of the essay collection
would be typewritten, Sam used Mr. Whipple’s 1940swould be typewritten, Sam used Mr. Whipple’s 1940s
Royal typewriter to write the introduction. When he wasRoyal typewriter to write the introduction. When he was
finished compiling the collection, he had to be persuadedfinished compiling the collection, he had to be persuaded
to have his name appear with the essayist’s on the cover. to have his name appear with the essayist’s on the cover.
Sam, who serves as a guide to Lexington’s history,Sam, who serves as a guide to Lexington’s history,
portrayed Minuteman Timothy Blodgett in this year’sportrayed Minuteman Timothy Blodgett in this year’s
Patriots’ Day battle reenactment on the LexingtonPatriots’ Day battle reenactment on the Lexington
Green and has worked in the archives of the societyGreen and has worked in the archives of the society
since his middle school years. At Lexington Christiansince his middle school years. At Lexington Christian
Academy he was yearbook editor and captain of theAcademy he was yearbook editor and captain of the
cross-country team this year, and he will attendcross-country team this year, and he will attend
Wheaton College in the fall.Wheaton College in the fall.
This summer Sam is working as an intern for StateThis summer Sam is working as an intern for State
Representative Jay Kaufman, who has said it is unusual forRepresentative Jay Kaufman, who has said it is unusual for
a high school student to hold such an internship. But “it’sa high school student to hold such an internship. But “it’s
also unusual for a high school student to be as focusedalso unusual for a high school student to be as focused
and self-energized as Sam,” he adds. and self-energized as Sam,” he adds.
Sam Doran ’09 Helps Preserve Lexington’s PastSam Doran ’09 Helps Preserve Lexington’s PastSam Doran ’09 Helps Preserve Lexington’s Past
Sam Doran, center, as a PatriotSam Doran, center, as a PatriotSam Doran, center, as a Patriot
That’s when Sam stepped in, pulling theThat’s when Sam stepped in, pulling the
project together “from A to Z,” andproject together “from A to Z,” and
demonstrating “exceptional maturity indemonstrating “exceptional maturity in
showing the life’s work of his mentor . . .”showing the life’s work of his mentor . . .”
Class of 2007Andy First is studying finance at University
of Richmond. Sean Gannon is currently at
Brown University where he rooms with
Fenn classmate Dan Giovacchini. Sean
played baseball for Brown last spring.
Class of 2008Scott DeSantis has just finished up his fresh-
man year at Amherst College. Tucker Mac-
Donald had an amazing senior year at Pom-
fret, studying abroad for two terms. Check
out his website/blog at tuckermacdonald.net
for a record of his experiences. In Septem-
ber, Tucker will be entering the Savannah
College of Art and Design for a major in
film production. Winston Pingeon served as a
student advisor at Rivers this past year. This
spring he interned with the Weston Police
Department as part of the school’s senior
project program. Winston was accepted early
decision to American University, his first
choice college. Like his brother, James Pin-
geon was also accepted at his first choice col-
lege and will be attending Franklin and
Marshall this fall. JC Winslow will join his
brother Stephen ’06 at Holy Cross at the end
of the summer, and Michael Woo will head
west to Stanford University for his under-
graduate years. In sports news, Chris Walker-
Jacks was named a Dual County All Star in
soccer last winter for his outstanding play for
Concord-Carlisle High School (CCHS),
while Andreas Valhouli-Farb was elected
captain of the Saint Mark’s baseball team
earlier this spring. Chris Knollmeyer just
completed his freshman year at California
Institute of the Arts just north of LA where
he is studying digital music composition and
production. As a senior at Lawrence Acade-
my, Chris created a curriculum for a year of
independent study in music, which included
taking a college course from Berklee College
of Music, receiving private guitar composi-
tion and piano instruction, studying digital
music production and AP music theory,
interning at a recording studio, and perform-
ing at Lawrence
Class of 2009Taking on a significant leadership role last
year was Griff in Kay, who served as the stu-
dent body president at Rivers School. On
the college front, Wyatt Bramhall will be
attending the Rhode Island School of
Design next year. After taking a year off,
Thacher Hoch will enroll at the University of
Virginia. Julian Huertas was accepted early
decision to Bowdoin. Both Peter Hughes and
Jeffrey Mara are headed to Lehigh Universi-
ty. Mike Pigula will be close at hand study-
ing at Boston College. Both Christian Wes-
selhoeft and David Shapiro will set off for
North Carolina this fall, with Christian
headed to Davidson College and David to
Wake Forest University. David just took up
lacrosse last year but still made the Middle-
sex varsity team this spring. Connor Neill,
who was named a Dual County All-Star in
track, will be taking his talents to Trinity
College. Adam Lamont was one of the varsi-
ty football captains at Groton last season,
and Nick Weigel will lead Phillips Exeter
Academy’s varsity soccer team in the fall as
one of its co-captains. In other athletic news,
Carl Hesler has already made the formal
commitment to attend Dartmouth College
even though he will just be starting his sen-
ior year at Belmont Hill this fall. It was no
surprise that to anyone at Fenn that Carl
was named an Independent School League
(ISL) All-Star in hockey. Andrew Wester was
named a Dual County All-Star for his stel-
lar performance as a member of the CCHS
golf team. Andrew vanderWilden and Henry
Bumpus were selected to play on the Massa-
chusetts High School Coaches Association
All-State team. Henry was selected as the
Dual County League Small School MVP
and also named a Scholastic Division III
All-Star. For the second year in a row,
Andrew was chosen as the Dual County
League Small School Lineman of the Year.
He was also named a Division III All-Star.
Sam Doran has compiled and had published
a collection of essays by S. Lawrence Whip-
ple, the unofficial Lexington town historian.
Sam will be attending Wheaton College in
Norton, MA, this coming year. For more on
Sam, see page 46. Mike O’Brien was captain
of the CCHS varsity hockey team during his
junior and senior years. He was named a
Merrimack Valley/Dual County Hockey
All Star in hockey. See page 48 to read
about Mike’s honors for his excellence as a
soccer player. Last spring Charlie Peters
gave his senior speech during Chapel at
St. Mark’s. See page 52 to find out how
Fenn featured in his talk.
Class of 2010Dylan Dove has been working on a book
titled Adobe InDesign CS6 Interactive: WebPublishing for the Internet and iPad. It is
scheduled to be published by Cengage in
January 2013. It’s hard to imagine how
Dylan also had the time to be the stroke of
Tabor Academy’s first boat, which was the
number one seeded crew team in New
England in late April. Phil Skayne, a junior
at Middlesex, was named an ISL All-Star
in soccer this past December, while Arthur
Whitehead was once again named an Eastern
Independent League (EIL) All-Star for his
performance on Concord Academy’s cross
country team.
Class of 2011Sabri Eyuboglu, who competed for Belmont
Hill, was recognized as an ISL-All Star in
alpine skiing. In his first season playing
lacrosse, Matt Boudreau received the Best
Teammate Award by vote of his Brooks
School JV teammates.
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Class Notes
Nate Sintros '11, left, and rising eighthgrader Titus Wilson, at Field Day thisJune.
Mike O’Brien ’09: All-American in Soccer
ATTENDED:
Concord-Carlisle High School
SOCCER HONORS: High School Scholar All-AmericaAll-AmericanAll-New EnglandAll-StateAll-Scholastic
AT FENN:Lovejoy Prize winnerFenn ScholarSenatorSoccer, hockey, and lacrosse captain
NEXT: University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business
“It was a tough decisionnot to play college sports,but I knew I wouldn’tmake a living as anathlete. I wanted tofocus on academics, but
I’ll still play for fun.”
Fenn is proud of you, Mike!
Former Faculty News Jim Carter’54 is helping us keep trackof former faculty, so please contacthim, or FENN, with any news. You canemail him at [email protected] orFENN at [email protected].
Rob Achtmeyer ’94 is taking some time off
from teaching to take care of his and his wife
Kate’s children, Kevin and Henry. The family
lives in Rockville, MD, where Rob is a com-
missioner for the city’s Historic District.
Mark and Jane Biscoe reside in Brunswick,
ME, where they serve as “casual monitors” at
Bowdoin College, working in the three ath-
letic facilities on campus. They check student
ID’s and “keep everything orderly.” Last July,
the Biscoe-Richardson-Fallon family donated
four-acre Carlisle Island, which they call “Big
Huckleberry,” in Maine to the Damariscotta
River Association to ensure it will remain
open to visitors well into the future.
Silvy Brookby is an assistant professor of
Education at Framingham State University,
and “teaches teachers how to teach math and
science,” she says. Her son Charles loves
Fenn, she declares, adding, “Who would have
guessed in 1997 that I would have my own
son attending fourteen years later?” Dave
Conti teaches at Casilleja School in Palo Alto,
CA. Mary Coogan is retired and lives in
Westborough. Kimberly Evelti is assistant
academic dean at Williston School, where she
teaches geometry. She and her family have
moved into school housing “so there’s never a
dull moment,” she says.
Sue Finney is retired and living with her hus-
band, Roy, in Wilmot, NH. Jull Guzzi lives
in Lincoln with her husband Eric Harnden,
Kathy Starensier’s oldest son, and their four
children. Rob Gustavson is the headmaster of
Fay School in Southborough. Nancy Hall,
who started the Intensive Language Program
at Fenn, runs Independent Testing Service
and continues to write her Explode the Codebooks. She lives on Cape Cod. Joe Hindle is
living in Lebanon, NH, where he and his
partner, Jane Higgins, are skiing, hiking, bik-
ing, and otherwise spending time outdoors.
Joe continues to enjoy baking and loves the
fact that King Arthur Flour is headquartered
nearby.
David Hughes lives in New Hampshire and
still runs his camp, Masquebec Hill.
Dave Huston is retired and living in Concord.
Peter Hyde retired from growing hydroponic
tomatoes in Wellesley, where he lives. Dave
Irwin still works at Camp Belknap in New
Hampshire, and he and his wife, Erin, are at
Deerfield Academy, where Dave assists in
admissions. Clark Johnson lives in Wayland
and is president of the Seth F. Johnson
Sales Co.
Aaron Joncas is the head of a METCO pro-
gram for the Concord Public Schools; he
married Erin last summer. Liza Jones teaches
at Shady Hill School in Cambridge and lives
in Jamaica Plain. Julie Jospe recently retired
from teaching in San Francisco and is spend-
ing time with her six grandchildren. Arnold
Klingenberg is associate head of Middleburg
Academy in Middleberg, VA.
Stacey McCarthy is a visual arts teacher at
Middlesex School, where she lives with her
husband, Geoff, and children William and
Elyse. Bob McElwain retired to Portsmouth,
NH, ten years ago and paints for the Straw-
bery Banke Historical Society. His daughter
Helen gave birth in March to Bob’s first
grandchild, a daughter named Shane Dubois.
Todd Nelson is the headmaster of The School
in Rose Valley, in Pennsylvania. After Fenn he
taught in Cambridge, San Francisco, Chica-
go, and Maine. Kit Norris heads a math con-
sulting firm.
Kate Padden Lee-Dubons teaches English at
Concord-Carlisle High School and lives in
Lexington. David Okada is in his third year
of medical school at the University of Penn-
sylvania. He says “the learning is rich, excit-
ing, and challenging.” David has met a “won-
derful girl” with whom he plans to “match,”
meaning that they will do their residencies in
the same city. Brooks Pettit worked at Bel-
mont Hill School after Fenn, and is now
retired in Tallahassee, FL. Jen Pineau lives in
Baltimore with her husband, Scott, and son
Colten; she is assistant college admissions
director at the McDonough School there.
Bill Purdy recently retired as head of student
health services at Duke University. Dr. Purdy
says he will be playing a lot more golf in
Lakeside, MI.
Michael Rosovsky teaches writing at Harvard
and at Emerson College, and has had his own
work appear in several literary magazines,
including the Mississippi Review, VirginiaQuarterly, and Harvard Literary Review. Win
Sargent retired from a career in international
education, during which he taught in
Lebanon, Iran, Saudi Arabia, India, Sri
Lanka, and Venezuela, and he and his
wife, Bea, run a B&B in Tobago. Jon
Schmalenberger, husband of Fenn admissions
assistant, receptionist, and art teacher
Marilyn, is a master cabinet maker in the
Emerson Umbrella building in Concord.
Curtis Singmaster recently completed a grad-
uate degree in sculpture at the Rhode Island
School of Design and says he is open to
gallery, proposal, and grant opportunities.
Mitchell Stern teaches math at Peabody Mid-
dle School in Concord. Heather Thomson
recently retired from teaching elementary
school in Newcastle, NH, nor far from her
home in Portsmouth, where she continues to
work as a substitute teacher. Lindley (Hall)
vanderLinde is an admissions assistant at
Holderness School. Tom West, who began his
long teaching career at Fenn, is writing full
time. The Colorado school where he was
teaching literature, history, Greek mythology,
and creative writing closed last year due to
budgetary problems. Tom has had more than
thirty short stories published in literary jour-
nals and magazines.
Pierson Wetzel is co-head of the music
department at Middlesex School. Jim
Class Notes
49
The Biscoes on Big HuckleberryIsland in Maine. The plaque honorstheir ancestors. L to r: Kate (Biscoe)Turlo, Mark, Jonathan Turlo, Jane,and Emma Turlo.
Wiggenhorn is living in Scottsdale, AZ, and
occasionally does tech work, he says. He’s
been a high school computer teacher and a
director of technology for the Springfield,
VT, school district, has studied at King’s
College University in London, and has
worked with a non-profit partnership
between Dartmouth College and the
Montshire Museum of Science to bring
internet access to the Upper Valley of New
Hampshire and Vermont. In an attempt, as
he told Jim Carter, “to spend my days trying
to get young again,” Jim rides his bicycle
thousands of miles a year, swims several
times a day, and says that although he some-
times feels wistful for New England, he
doesn’t miss the long winter nights here.
Elsie Wilmerding worked as a tutor in Eng-
lish, reading, and spelling at Park and
Brimmer and May, and continues to tutor.
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Class Notes
Please help us find our “lost” 2013 reunion alumni.
CLASS OF 1933CLASS OF 1933
Warren F. Walker, Jr.
CLASS OF 1938CLASS OF 1938
Gordon Allen, Jr.Eric BillingsAllen FossThomas Gorham, Jr.David GramkowDavid HoldenPeter F. Winant
CLASS OF 1943CLASS OF 1943
Thomas E. Barber, Jr.Harold Cabot, Jr.Richard V. GouldPeter V. L. HamiltonJohn H. Hollis, Jr.Gifford D. MaloneWesley E. Rich IIFrederick E. RobbinsFrederick E. Snow IIWilliam V. V. Warren, Jr.
CLASS OF 1948CLASS OF 1948
Douglas J. ArnoldDonald A. BurgessJohn G. CameronChristopher M. GravinaJames R. KnowlesJames L. McMastersRonald O. MillerBernard C. Nelson, Jr.Sherman PealeJames R. PenningtonJonathan G. PowersDavid W. Sherman
James P. WalkerPaul C. Washburn, Jr.Kent M. Weld
CLASS OF 1953CLASS OF 1953
Jeffrey M. ArnoldAnthony S. BeckwithKenneth CowanNicholas DavisonRobert H. Miller, Jr.William G. Moody, Jr.John C. MorseDavid NobleMichel RozsaDudley L. ShortRoger D. SmithDavid P. Yens
CLASS OF 1958CLASS OF 1958
Class of Gifford Allen, Jr.Bruce U. FairbairnDavid L. KennedyJames D. Tew IIIDavid B. Turner III
CLASS OF 1963CLASS OF 1963
Frederick W. Bradley, Jr.Richard W. BroomeHenry R. EdgartonBruce M. FallwellF. Bruce FosterRichard W. HarteFrazier C. HollingsworthEdward L. JacksonDavid E. JudaCharles J. LeeIrwin B. Levine
A. Graham McIlwaineRobin B. MoorePierre D. Seronde
CLASS OF 1968CLASS OF 1968
Neil AlexanderFrederick S. Bigelow, Jr.John T. J. ClunieFrancis P. Coolidge, Jr.Norman L. DegelmanRhodes G. Lockwood, Jr.Scott M. MillikenMichael C. MorrisSteven C. PerryStephen T. SanfordRichard F. SouzaBradford P. StevensPeter M. Stout
CLASS OF 1973CLASS OF 1973
Geoffrey B. BickfordJohn B. EnoRobert FortesJonathan A. HerzPaul R. HeuchlingHarry IrvingGeorge P. KingMark S. LeeEdward M. PickmanChristopher C. RaymondAndrew ReynoldsSteffan SendersMark A. SnyderDarryl W. StowePeter W. Taylor
CLASS OF 1978CLASS OF 1978
Stephen B. BartonTodd A. BerksonFrancis L. BryJohn C. Coughlin IIIAndrew C. B. DolanKenneth C. HarrisAndrew J. LangtonEric S. MahlowitzJonathan S. MarleyJoseph P. O'ConnellJason PittsTimothy M. PrendergastFrederick L. ReynoldsJohn SpauldingWinfield S. Stanley III
CLASS OF 1983CLASS OF 1983
William J. BryDwight M. DavidsenNathaniel P. DeanAaron S. GoldbergJames T. GormanJon K. JohnsonDavid P. KochPeter A. KuykendallAnthony C. MorrisThomas M. O'ConnorMassimo De PaoliWilliam E. RothChristopher SandersMichael D. TaubJonathan B. TewR. Christopher TurnerPaul A. VingerMurray J. WandTimothy Y. Wenger
CLASS OF 1988CLASS OF 1988
Jeremy B. ButtonPaul Tsung-Fu ChenSteven ChungR. Brooke ColemanKevin P. DavidsenChristopher W. KaiserMichael A. MoffaMark P. MullaneErik D. NorwoodCarl D. RobinsonJames B. SeamansDamian A. B. Sutton
CLASS OF 1993CLASS OF 1993
Seth M. ChristianDavid F. GarofaloPatrick O. HarneyNathan J. B. KraftAdrian M. LigginsBenjamin F. W. SargentGuido J. WennemerBenjamin O. Zotto
CLASS OF 1988CLASS OF 1988
Adam R. KolloffJonathan D. LawrenceDaris J. H. Paddock
CLASS OF 2003CLASS OF 2003
Sean P. ButzeAndrew T. Pedulla-ProutyIan A. Wrangham
CLASS OF 2008CLASS OF 2008
Charles W. Hoff
Some of your classmates have gone missing, and we hope you can help us f ind them before your reunion in June 2013. Do you have Some of your classmates have gone missing, and we hope you can help us f ind them before your reunion in June 2013. Do you have ananaddress, a phone number, or an email that you can share? Do you know how to contact a relative? Do you know who their best Fennaddress, a phone number, or an email that you can share? Do you know how to contact a relative? Do you know who their best Fenn friend friendwas? We can reach out to see if they’ve stayed in touch. Please send any leads to [email protected] or call the Alumni & Developmwas? We can reach out to see if they’ve stayed in touch. Please send any leads to [email protected] or call the Alumni & Development Off iceent Off iceat 978-318-3525 to pass along your suggestions.at 978-318-3525 to pass along your suggestions.
To Becca and Gary Artinian ’97a daughter, Emma Madison
April 17, 2012
To Bethany and Tim Gibson ’85a daughter, Faye
September 26, 2011
To Kathryn and John Boger ’94a son, Brady Digman
October 24, 2011
To Kate and Edward Welles ’98a son, Brendan Thomas
November 26, 2011
To Kate and Rob Achtmeyer ’94a son, Henry Williams
January 17, 2012
To Jennifer and Tom Hudner ’87a daughter, Reese GeorgeaMarch 2, 2012
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William G. Doe ’37April 26, 2012
George W. Fang ’50
April 13, 2011
Brother of Bernard Fang ’63
Virginia Gay
November 29, 2011
Grandmother of Brendan ’08and Connor ’11
Edward H. Harding ’36April 28, 2008
Mary Jones
October 9, 2011
Mother of Michael ’69 and Bob ’80Grandmother of Timothy, 7th
grade and Peter, 4th grade
Wallace A. Jones
March 30, 2011
Father of Michael ’69 and Bob ’80Grandfather of Timothy, 7thgrade, and Peter, 4th grade
Jay C. Klinck ’59December 27, 2011
John F. Kraetzer ’50February 14, 2012
David T. MacLaneFormer Faculty 1944-1959
November 25, 2011
Julia Meier
May 23, 2011
Grandmother of Conrad ’13
Ruth B. Murphy
November 23, 2011
Mother of Weezie JohnsonGrandmother of Tim ’83, Mark ’86, and David ’92
Frank O’Brien, Jr.
February 2, 2012
Father of Frank O’Brien ’77
Edward S. RedstoneFenn Trustee 1995-1996
December 23, 2011
Grandfather of the late
Adam Redstone ’99
Russell C. Steinert
July 26, 2011
Grandfather of Nicholas, 6thgrade, and Max, 5th grade
Gordon R. Williams, Jr.Fenn Trustee 1990-1996
February 17, 2012
Father of Gordie ’93
Edric A. Weld ’38September 25, 2011
Frederick S. Richardson ’42August 8, 2011
John W. Leahy ’46November 4, 2011
Robert C. RunyonJanuary 16, 2012
Father of Scott ’03
Faith C. Smith
May 8, 2012
Mother of Ben Smith ’85
Donald M. Wilson
November 29, 2011
Grandfather of
Sam Breault ’16
Eleanor Winstanley Childs
May 2, 2012
Grandmother of
Adam Winstanley ’82
and Carter Winstanley ’84
Great grandmother of Cole, 8th
grade, and Jalen, 6th grade
Patricia and Paul Bellantoni ’82. Courtney and Andrew Montgomery ’99
Milestones
Births and Marriages
Rob Achtmeyer’s new son, Henry
Tom Hudner’s new daughter, Reese
Caitlin and Scott DeSantis ‘08
Jon Bonoma ‘98 To Jen Gaj
May 19, 2012
Michael DeSantis ’00 To Caitlin Higgins
May 21, 2011
Josh Schohn ’90 To Carina Toledo
April 6, 2012
Andrew Montgomery ’99To Courtney MorganApril 8, 2012
Sam Takvorian ’99 To Melina Marmarelis
May 19, 2012
In Memoriam
52
Reflections
Charlie offered as evidence a story about the time he
was walking across the Fenn campus with his lacrosse stick
and ball, “and this kid came out and took the ball from me
and wouldn’t give it back.” They began to argue, then push
and shove, and Charlie walked away and began to cry.
Relating this story in front of his St. Mark’s classmates
and teachers, Charlie surprised them all with his next
comment: “The crazy thing is that this kid I once hated
more than anyone is sitting to the left of me, and he’s my
best friend.” Charlie explained that eventually, Michael
Hoffman ’09 and he became “inseparable,” spending everyweekend together with a group that included classmates
Wyatt Bramhall ’09, Nick Weigel ’09, and Ryan
MacDonald ’09.
When Charlie graduated from Fenn, he was terrified
that he would lose touch with his best friends. But that
didn’t happen. When Mike, also a St. Mark’s student,
learned that Charlie was to speak in chapel about
friendship, he contacted Nick, Wyatt, and Ryan. Nick got a
ride home from Exeter; Ryan, who is at Westford
Academy, and his mom, Donna, headed to St. Mark’s; and
only Wyatt, a senior at Concord-Carlisle High School, was
unable to make it.
When Charlie’s mother, Karen, recently related the
story to Headmaster Jerry Ward, she reminded him of a
remark he made at the evening celebration of the eighth
grade class in 2008. “When you said that Fenn boys would
form friendships for life,” said Karen, “you were right!”
WWhen Charlie Peters ’09 delivered a chapelhen Charlie Peters ’09 delivered a chapel
speech at St. Mark’s School this spring,speech at St. Mark’s School this spring,
he shared his memories of Fenn and the manyhe shared his memories of Fenn and the many
friends he made here. One classmate, however,friends he made here. One classmate, however,
was “intimidating, and extremely smart, which Iwas “intimidating, and extremely smart, which I
envied. I hated him and he hated me and myenvied. I hated him and he hated me and my
eleven-year-old mind told me nothing wouldeleven-year-old mind told me nothing would
ever change.” ever change.”
Best friends Mike, Ryan MacDonald, Nick Weigel, andBest friends Mike, Ryan MacDonald, Nick Weigel, andCharlie, all class of 2009, after Charlie’s chapel speechCharlie, all class of 2009, after Charlie’s chapel speechthis spring at St. Mark’s School. this spring at St. Mark’s School.
FFRIENDS FORRIENDS FOR LLIFEIFE
Did you make a friend for life at Fenn? Let us know and we’ll write your story.Did you make a friend for life at Fenn? Let us know and we’ll write your story.Contact [email protected] [email protected].
Michael Hoffman, left, and Charlie Peters, both classMichael Hoffman, left, and Charlie Peters, both classof 2009, receiving the Biscoe Award at Fennof 2009, receiving the Biscoe Award at Fenn
Who is close to Who is close to youryour heart?heart?While boys are at the heart of everything that Fenn is and does, the
School’s faculty remains close to the hearts of all those who
experience Fenn as a student or parent. Your gift to the campaign
can honor that special teacher who made all the difference to you.
A contribution to the new Faculty at the Heart Fund will help
provide teachers with the professional and curriculum development
opportunities that inspire them in their daily work with boys.
Fenn is on the move!Fenn is on the move!With $24.7 million already committed toward the $26 million goal, the Boys at the
Heart campaign is now reaching out to Fenn’s broader alumni and parent community to
raise the final $1.3 million needed to declare victory. Stand up and be counted!
For more information, contact Tom Hudner ’87, Director of Advancement
It’s an age-old question I ask
Fenn boys with the broad,
blank canvas of their lives in
front of them: “So, what do
you want to be when you
grow up?” I sometimes make
a playful guess before they
answer and occasionally a
more serious prediction or
two in my headmaster’s
graduation reflection as a
boy leaves Fenn. Their answers range from a carefree “I don’t
know!” to a passionate declaration of a dream. Tracking a
number of the boys’ and my own predictions over almost
twenty years, I’ve learned that some of my guesses and their
answers have been surprisingly accurate and some could not
be farther from the truth.
A certainty is that a force or influence, present or future,
in these boys’ lives—a mentor, a parent, a teacher, a passion, a
talent, personal circumstance, or external events—will bring
them to their life’s work. Our hope is that they find in their
work what is true to their talents and person so that their
endeavors become a calling to heal or instruct or create or
serve or provide, a calling that makes their lives full and
enriches those whom they serve.
In this current issue of FENN we ask members of the
extended school community—faculty, staff, alumni, and
parents—about their callings. Each of these stories is a
window on dedicated work and a fulfilled life.
I have been asked what called me to the work of
educating boys and running a school. The answer, not
surprisingly, involves
seminal role models
across the years of my
life: my parents, Peg and
John, who taught me
through their earnest
example that caring for
others is paramount; my
grade school teachers,
the Sisters of St. Joseph,
who selflessly dedicated
their lives to God and children and who taught me to love
learning; my older sister, Margaret, who resolutely pursued
teaching in urban schools; my brother Johnny, her twin, who
served as a priest ministering in troubled neighborhoods in
Boston; the social workers of the Boston Juvenile Court,
where I interned in college; later my wife, Lorraine, whose
love and care of all things about schools is unbounded; and
finally, a headmaster, Charles Riepe, twenty years my senior,
who naturally mentored me, generously giving me the
chance to help him run a school for boys. Individually and at
times in unison, their voices speak across time to inspire and
sustain me in the work of my life and profession.
I’m compelled to end with the note that in my own work
I am daily struck by the efforts of hundreds of people I’ve
come to know over time who have consuming and
meaningful professional responsibilities in business, law,
medicine, the arts, or family, yet who are personally called to
serve their sons’ or their own schools as volunteer parents,
alumni, and trustees. Their primary work in life lies outside
education, yet they devote themselves in singular ways to the
work of sustaining a school. Their selfless and dedicated
response to their second calling inspires me every day. I hear
their voices, too, and see their example, as I am certain Fenn
boys will as they answer the call in their own lives.
From the Headmaster
A certainty is that a force or influence, present or future, in these boys’ lives—a mentor, aparent, a teacher, a passion, a talent, personalcircumstance, or external events—will bringthem to their life’s work.
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Summer 2012
For the Greater Good