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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.

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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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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.

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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

Interior rendering of science labInterior rendering of science lab

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, toloneill@fenn.org. 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 atbstarensier@fenn.org.

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.

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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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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 jrcarter3@comcast.net orFENN at loneill@fenn.org.

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 alumni@fenn.org or call the Alumni & Developmwas? We can reach out to see if they’ve stayed in touch. Please send any leads to alumni@fenn.org 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 loneill@fenn.org.Contact loneill@fenn.org.

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