Phoenix

PARK TUDOR
Phoenix
SPRING 2007
WHAT’S A WORDS LEARNING OF WAR: STYLE? THE DIRECTOR’S REFLECTIONS CUT ON • SMITH THE WEST COLLEGE BANK PARTNERSHIP ALUMNI REMEMBER • REUNION 2007 LIFE PREVIEW AT PARK TUDOR

ON THE COVER
The original watercolor postcards are from Benjamin D. Hitz’ collection of World War I memorabilia, loaned to the Park Tudor
Legacy Initiative by Evie Hitz Rhodehamel ’42. Hitz, a friend of J.K. Lilly, set up the 32 nd Hospital in France during WWI.
The background photo is of 1st Lt. Neal T. Cobb’s WWII flight crew, 15 th Air Force. See article on page 19.
Park Tudor School Mission
ark Tudor School helps average to high-ability children of good character
develop and achieve their fullest potential in a cumulative preschool through
P
grade 12 program, preparing them for an increasingly complex and diverse
world. We do this by providing the highest quality, well-rounded college preparatory
education within an atmosphere that is responsive to the needs of the child and parents.
From the Archives…
Members of the Park School Lower School baseball team and their fathers posed for this photo on the
Park School campus on Cold Spring Road in the spring of 1925.
Seated, left to right: Dudley Sutphin, Richard Vonnegut ’32, David Chambers Jr. ’30, Quincy Myers
Whitaker ’30, John Modrall ’30, Sheldon Sommers ’33.
Middle row, l to r: Frederic Ayres Jr. ’29, Robert Geddes Jr. ’33, Bob Sherwood ’30, Richard Fairbanks
’30, John Lasher ’31, unidentified, Evan Noyes ’32, Nicholas Noyes Jr. ’32, John Rookwood.
Back row, l to r: unknown; fathers Frederic Ayres, Hartley Sherwood, John Lasher, Henry Danner, Nicholas
Noyes, William Rookwood, Henry Adams.
PARK TUDOR SCHOOL
Head of School
Douglas S. Jennings
Editor
Lisa A. Hendrickson ’77
Class Notes Editor/Writer
Tina Rice
Assistant Head of School for
Development and Alumni Relations
Suzanne T. Maxwell
Alumni Coordinator/
Planned Giving Officer
Gretchen Hueni
Alumni Board President
Holly Hapak Betz ’83
Vice President
Heather Reilly Murphy ’90
Treasurer
Jeff Kimbell ’82
Park Tudor School archives
Secretary
Carolyn Edwards ’00
Corrections
• In the Spring 2007 issue of The Park Tudor Phoenix, Alex Skelton ’10 was incorrectly
identified as Max Berman in the photo of the state champion boys’ tennis team on page 14.
• In the 2005-2006 Annual Report on Giving, Nancy and John Balaguer were listed in the
Silver Category, gifts of $2,500 - $4,999, and should have been listed in the Gold Category,
gifts of $5,000 - $9,999.
Directors
Becky Means Barnes ’91
Debbie Stuart Everett ’69
Candy Smith Gardner ’70
Megan Jones Kight ’91
Kelly Lamm ’87
GB Landrigan ’81
Elizabeth Townsend Laughlin ’95
Kay King ’66
Betsy Moses ’65
Brandon Phillips ’96
Wendy Wright Ponader ’78
Amy Kleymeyer Stevens ’97
Jake Sturman ’98
Rob Brown ’79 ex officio

Contents
SPRING 2007
FEATURES
Words of War Volume III: The Director's Cut. . . 19
By Kathryn Lerch, Legacy Initiative project director
Never forget: A child of the Holocaust
bears witness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
By Lisa Hendrickson ’77
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DEPARTMENTS
News of the School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
From the Head’s Desk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Smith College begins partnership with Park Tudor . . . . . . 5
Global Education in the Lower School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Student/Faculty accomplishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Winter athletic update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Alumni News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Reunion 2007 preview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Where are they now? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Alumni survey results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Alumni in the military . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Class Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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The Phoenix is published three times annually for alumni, friends,
and parents of Park Tudor School. We welcome your comments
and suggestions. Please send them to:
Lisa Hendrickson, Editor
Park Tudor School
7200 N. College Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46240-3016
317/415-2756 Fax: 317/415-2806
lhendrickson@parktudor.org

News of the School
FROM THE HEAD’S DESK by Doug Jennings, Head of School
Doug Jennings
There are many ways by
which Park Tudor School
is continually assessing its
program and making improvements
that ensure that our students
will be successful 21 st
century citizens. My personal
method is to ask friends and
acquaintances who are leaders
in business and not-for-profit
organizations, “What are you
looking for in the next person
you hire?” Putting aside
specific skill sets (which can
often be learned on the job),
the criteria always boil down
to three: communication
skills, the ability to work on
a team, and personal integrity.
When these criteria are
applied to a Park Tudor education,
we feel we are doing
well and we are eager to do
even better. I am proud of
the daily examples I see of
strong character in our students;
and I am pleased that
our graduates report that they
are extremely well prepared
in writing, speaking and technology
skills. Our emphasis
on full participation in academic
and cocurricular activities
ensures that all students
appreciate the challenges and
rewards of teamwork.
In this issue you will read
about our success in one of the
most obvious of team efforts:
athletics. Recently, however,
as I looked around school for
the best practices in teambuilding,
I found a sterling
example on a different side
of campus…in our theater.
Within our theater offerings is
a program that is outstanding
while being literally “behind
the scenes.” The students and
teachers who work together
to present a production that is
technically sound are a model
of group achievement.
Our technical theater efforts
are led by Rob Hueni, a master
builder and member of the Park
Tudor faculty for 18 years.
Rob teaches courses in drama
and technical theater and from
these classes emerge volunteers
for every job needed to
mount a production. From the
moment a play is selected,
the students begin a threemonth
project of designing
and implementing sets, lighting,
sound, props and stage
management. Every piece of
the puzzle is approached as a
Technical Theater Director Rob Hueni talks with junior Elise Whitaker in the
theater workshop about the set design for the production of “Footloose.” Rob
holds 2-year-old daughter Caroline, a frequent visitor to Park Tudor.
learning experience, with Rob
advising but handing the leadership
and decision making to
the more experienced of the
student technicians. “How do
we light the murder scene?
How can we simulate a moving
train? How can we build
sets with multiple functions?
How can we stay within budget?”
The tech crew for a typical
show can be 40 students.
Students train other students
in specialty areas, and rules
of safety are carefully adhered
to. There may be five teams
of carpenters working on five
sets, all of which come together
as the production nears. In
the end, the best aspects of
technical theater are seamlessly
integrated into the show,
and therefore accepted in the
whole of the experience. By
design, the student manager
whispering commands into
a headset is not heard, and
the technician at the lighting
board is not seen. As student
carpenter Elise Whitaker said,
“It’s great when it all comes
together.” Skilled, diligent
students working side-by-side
with a master teacher in a collaborative
project produces a
great feeling of group pride
and accomplishment. Not to
mention a darn good show.
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NEWS OF THE SCHOOL
Smith College begins partnership with Park Tudor
Throughout the world, only
172 students have had the
opportunity to analyze a segment
of their DNA to determine
if they carry a certain “taster”
gene – and 140 of them are
Park Tudor biology students!
Thanks to a generous grant
from Park Tudor alumnus
Dob Bennett ’76 and his wife
Deborah, students in Upper
School biology and AP biology
classes had the unique
opportunity in January to participate
in sophisticated DNA
experiments led by four Smith
College professors. The professors’
visit was the first in a
planned annual collaboration
with Smith College faculty to
work with students in a variety
of disciplines.
Drs. Bob Merritt, Steve
Williams, Sandra Laney and
Lori Saunders from the Smith
College Biological Sciences
Department spent the week of
January 22-27 leading students
in two projects related to genetics
and DNA. The professors
are involved in the Smith Summer
Science and Engineering
Program and an annual Molecular
Biology “Boot Camp” for
elite scientists from corporate
and molecular research centers
around the world.
Upper School Director Jill
Kaechele coordinated the overall
project with Park Tudor
Science Department Chair
Steve Math and faculty members
Justin Dammeier, Mark
Dewart and Scott McDougall.
In one experiment, students
tasted a piece of paper infused
with phenylthiocarbamide
(PTC) to see if they could
taste the bitter, burned taste
of the chemical – a common
lab done with Middle School
science students. (Only about
70% of the population has the
ability to taste PTC – the other
30% does not carry the tasting
gene.) What made this experiment
special, however, is that
the Smith College professors
then taught the students how
to swab their cheek for a DNA
sample and analyze the results
to determine the genotype to
which they belong.
“This genetics laboratory...requires
students to use
not only their knowledge of
molecular techniques in genetics
but also their knowledge
of Mendelian genetics, population
genetics, probability,
and pedigree analysis...and in
determining their PTC phenotype
and genotype, students
are learning something themselves,”
write the professors.
Students said they found
the subject matter challenging,
adding that it gave them a
preview of what their college
studies would be like.
Rosalind Kelcourse ’10
wrote, “Not only did I discover
a great amount about the
myriad of opportunities open
to me, I also was inspired
to begin studying philosophy.
And yes, there is a connection
between little bits of DNA
resting peacefully in a well and
‘life’s big questions.’ I plan on
pursuing my newfound fascination
until my breath is taken
away. I am proud to be one of
the few people in the world
who knows their genotype.”
Students also learned more
about genetics by participating
in a mock crime scene
investigation, determining
who committed a “murder”
by conducting DNA testing of
a blood sample found at the
“crime scene.” The processes
remained confidential, with
only the individual students
having access to their personal
DNA results.
In addition to the classroom
work, the Smith College professors
met with young women
in the freshman, sophomore
and junior classes to provide
them with information about
summer course and program
Smith College professor Dr. Bob Merritt shows AP biology student Alexander
Zience ’08 how to set up an experiment to identify a segment of DNA.
offerings at Smith College,
including possible financial
aid.
Freshman Miranda Voege
said, “This [program] showed
me that not only can men be
established people in the science
world. Women can be
just as established. Men aren’t
necessarily better at math and
science.”
During the professors’
visit, the Smith College Club
of Indianapolis (of which the
treasurer is Park Tudor parent
Wendy Ponader ’78) hosted a
tea for the professors, alumni
and prospective students. Park
Tudor sponsored a reception
for the Smith faculty, Indianapolis-based
scientists from
Eli Lilly and Company and
other laboratories, participating
faculty and AP Biology
students to begin the groundwork
for possible program
linkages for our students and
faculty in the sciences such
as internships, summer programs,
equipment, grants and
independent study. Park Tudor
parents Jim Thomas and Kathy
and Dan Hasler helped coordinate
the meeting.
Tentative plans for the 2007-
08 school year call for a focus
on the arts, with visiting Smith
College fine arts professors
working with students.
The Smith College program
is a component of Park Tudor’s
strategic management plan,
“PT 2010,” which calls for
the school to host guest lecturers
and visiting scholars who
represent a variety of cultural
perspectives and interests.
SPRING 2007 PARK TUDOR PHOENIX 5

NEWS OF THE SCHOOL
A framework for Global Education in the Lower School
By Dr. Jeffrey Mitchell, Lower
School Director
There is an activity called
“Who Am I” in which
students are asked the simplest
of questions: Who am I?
Imagine that I lead this
activity with the objective
of increasing my students’
awareness of themselves as
global citizens. I might ask
them to think about, or to
write down, who they are. I
give them instructions such as,
“Write down whatever pops
into your head; do not think
too much about it; and one- or
two-word responses are preferred.”
To follow up, I ask
them to share who they are.
Not surprisingly, I get
responses such as: “I am a
girl… a boy… a daughter…
a son… an American… an
Italian American… a Park
Tudor student… a good soccer
player… a good artist,” etc.
After sharing, we discuss
all the things to which they
are connected: team, family,
school, neighborhood, country,
world, and so on. We
discuss the different responsibilities
that emanate from
these connections. I have done
this activity many times and
not once has a student said
that they were a “global citizen,”
or some approximation
thereof. Certainly, it is not
wrong to say you are “a boy,”
“a girl,” etc.; however, it tells
us something about how we
are educated if we systematically
do not recognize our role
as global citizens.
Educating global citizens is
timely and critical. Rischard
(2003) and Friedman (2005)
have poignantly pointed out
how our world is changing
exponentially. There is unprecedented
growth in population,
substantive change in the
world economy, and a virtual
explosion in all things technological.
As Rischard notes,
these factors lead to, or complicate,
issues with poverty,
the environment (e.g., global
warming, deforestation, water
distribution), and human conflicts
(i.e., genocides, wars,
invasions). We seem to recognize
the serious problems
that have the potential to tear
us apart. The goal is to formally
recognize these problems
within the school structure.
Teaching practice must
directly follow from this recognition.
A depth and breadth
of curricular and cocurricular
events must be the outcome.
This is what we hope to
achieve at Park Tudor Lower
School.
First, thought must be given
to how global education curriculum
fits into existing curriculum
structures (e.g., state
standards, curriculum maps,
benchmarks, unit plans and
differentiation goals). Specific
curriculum enhancements
such as Writers in Electronic
Residence (WIER) might be
considered as well. WIER connects
student writers across
the country with each other
and with professional writers.
The three-way collaboration
on student writing becomes a
catalyst for learning.
Programs, committees, departments
and personnel that support
the tenets of Global Education
also might be appropriately
instituted. Some schools
have created a Global Education
Center with a full-time
director. Many schools have
something akin to a Community
Values Committee
or a Coordinator of Diversity
Activities, as Park Tudor
does. Finally, faculty goal-setting
might also incorporate the
global education dimensions.
There are numerous programs
available designed
to promote character/moral
development. Some specific
instructional activities in the
classroom might also be useful.
Many teachers use weekly
class discussions or incorporate
environmental programs
(e.g., recycling) into daily
activities. Any way to recognize
and celebrate cultural,
racial, and religious differentiation
is, of course, a worthy
pursuit. The construct of
differentiation can be taken
one step further by asking
the counseling department or
educational psychologists at a
school to connect research and
theory with practice.
Any philanthropic activity
would naturally suit, as well.
For example, Thanksgiving
and holiday charity drives and
community outreach programs
are popular. Cultural exchanges
Seminar Room dedicated in
honor of Jim Leffler
The Upper School Seminar
Room (which many years
ago served as a Latin classroom
and as an office) has
been renovated in honor of
retired Upper School Director
Jim Leffler. On December
7, Leffler and his wife
Joni were honored by current
and former students and
faculty at a dedication reception
for the “Leffler Seminar
Room and Art Gallery.”
abound in all shapes and sizes.
The counseling department
also may have a number of
significant initiatives. In the
Lower School the counselor
runs two unique programs
that target some at-risk students.
In “Banana Splits,” the
counselor meets with students
experiencing challenging family
situations such as divorce
and parental death. In “New
to Park Tudor,” she regularly
meets with all new students,
helping them adjust to the
school.
Curriculum can be invigorated,
re-thought and reflected
upon so as to include the
continued on page 7
The room boasts new furniture
and a gallery wall on
which student and professional
artwork is displayed.
Head of School Doug Jennings
said, “The Leffler Seminar
Room and Gallery is a
fitting tribute to a man who
inspires thoughtful reflection.”
Leffler retired in June 2006
after 17 years as director of the
Upper School.
Jim Leffler (center) talks with Head of School Doug Jennings (right) and
Director of Guidance and Counseling Larry Eckel in front of the plaque for
the Leffler Seminar Room at a reception in his honor on December 7.
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NEWS OF THE SCHOOL
continued from page 6
dimensions of global education.
For example, Problem
Based Learning (PBL) is
becoming more popular in
grade schools. PBL is essentially
a version of the Case
Study Method, well known
in colleges. The essence of
the approach requires the
presentation of complex, yet
developmentally appropriate,
problems to small groups of
students, who in turn work
together to solve the problem.
Outside of curriculum,
again, there is no shortage of
things that could be done. It is
critical, for example, to give
educators a chance to participate
in professional opportunities.
Conferences, all-faculty
reads, web sites and especially
professional goal-setting
should all be incorporated into
the process.
Global Education is in our
DNA. We are one tribe and it
is high noon, and I believe that
Student trips to China, South Africa planned for summer
Two groups of Upper
School students will head
to far corners of the world
in two new school-sponsored
trips this summer.
Nineteen students will
embark on a 16-day, multi-city
cultural tour of China in June,
while 22 students will head
to Capetown, South Africa in
July to participate in a community
service trip organized by
the Indianapolis service group
Ambassadors for Children.
“In today’s world, so much
learning can take place beyond
the classroom and the campus.
The value of experiential, onsite
learning and study abroad
can’t be overestimated,” says
Head of School Doug Jennings.
The school is seeking
funding to make more of these
study-travel opportunities
available to students, regardless
of their family income.
The trip to China was organized
and will be led by Upper
School social studies teacher
Margo McAlear, who has
studied in China and wrote her
master’s thesis on the effects
of the Cultural Revolution.
Other chaperones are social
studies teacher Jeff Johnson
and Director of Communications
Lisa Hendrickson, who
have traveled extensively and
studied and lived abroad.
The trip will begin in Beijing,
where students will visit
Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden
City, the Great Wall,
and a traditional hutong neighborhood.
They will spend
the night at the high school
attached to Beijing Normal
University, meeting with Chinese
students and receiving
training in Chinese language,
art appreciation, calligraphy
and Chinese painting. They
also will practice Tai Chi with
Chinese people in a local park,
meet and talk with local students
at the English Corner of
People’s University, and participate
in classroom activities
with Chinese students.
The group will fly to Xian,
visiting the Terra Cotta Warriors
and the Muslim Quarter
and riding bicycles on the
city wall. Students then will
board a flight to Lijiang, an
ancient town that during the
Song Dynasty was the “last
step” for caravans heading
over the Himalayas via the
Silk Route. It is the home of
the ethnic group Naxi, and
students will explore the old
town and become acquainted
with Naxi music. They will
bicycle to Baisha village to
view Buddhist temples and
frescoes, then fly to Shanghai.
In Shanghai they will visit
the Bund, take a boat ride on
the Nuangpu River, visit old
Shanghai and see a Chinese
acrobatics show. They also
will make excursions to the
towns of Suzhou and Tongli.
Another group of students
will head to South Africa in
July. The students will spend
four days at the Christel House
Academy, a school founded
by Indianapolis philanthropist
Christel DeHaan, where they
will teach peace modules,
and two days volunteering at
the Baphumelele Children’s
Home in Cape Town, which
houses abandoned or orphaned
children from six months to
16 years of age. Students then
will travel to Robben Island to
visit the prison where former
President Nelson Mandela was
housed for 17 years. The island
provides an insight into South
what students do today influences
what they do tomorrow.
Thus, a pathway toward Global
Citizenship is proposed.
I think of the framework as
the Lower School’s foreign
policy. As global citizens we
will acknowledge and act on
this policy.
Africa’s Apartheid past and
the future of racial reconciliation.
They will also tour the
scenic Cape Peninsula, including
the Cape of Good Hope
Nature Reserve.
Chaperones for the trip are
Montez Currin, Park Tudor’s
coordinator of service learning,
and Upper School English
teacher Tyra Seldon.
Lower School teaching assistant Bonne Lovelace shared traditions of her
Muslim religion with students at a Lower School assembly this fall.
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NEWS OF THE SCHOOL
Students learn first-hand about Latino culture
Upper School Spanish
students had the opportunity
to learn first-hand
about Latino culture this fall.
Ten students participated in
Hacia la Excelencia, a 10-
week program in which the
students studied with five
Latino families in the Indianapolis
area. Students spent
two or more hours each
week with their Latino family
exchanging cultures and
speaking Spanish. Through
the program, each student has
formed new friendships and
gained confidence in his or
her Spanish language skills.
“It was such a warm welcome
into their family,” said
senior Lauren Braun, who
teamed with junior Alaina
Urbahns to visit with the Lopez
family from Mexico. “They
liked us to show them how
to make cheesecake and we
had to translate the recipe into
Spanish, and we helped them
make tamales. There were a
lot of similarities between us
that were nice to see.”
Sophomores Heidi Chen and
Ila Anand also found sharing
recipes to be an important way
of connecting cultures. Heidi
says that when they invited
the Guillen family from El
Salvador to the Upper School
Open House, “Margarita especially
loved the cornbread that
she had at dinner in the Commons.
We decided that during
our next visit it would
be fun to try to recreate the
cornbread…. We gathered the
necessary ingredients thinking
that we would only make
one serving of the bread, [but]
the Guillens exclaimed that
they wanted to make another
loaf. This time Margarita just
began dumping ingredients
into the bowl, approximating
everything as if the recipe
were a traditional Salvadoran
dish….
“We didn’t have quite
enough supplies for a second
serving, so Margarita just
improvised with stuff she had
in the refrigerator.”
The program was developed
by Upper School Spanish
teacher Sheila Young and
supported by a grant from the
Park Tudor Mothers’ Association.
It was so successful
in its introductory semester
that it is continuing in the second
semester with additional
students who are enrolled
in Spanish III, IV, V or VI
classes.
The school’s strategic
management plan, PT 2010,
encourages programs such
as this one to “help students
gain a global perspective and
appreciation of cultures different
from their own.”
Middle Schoolers celebrate Día de Los Muertos
Eighth graders in Ms.
Nicole LaBrecque’s Spanish
class learned about the
Mexican tradition of Día de
Los Muertos (Day of the Dead)
by creating their own remembrances
of departed family
members, pets or friends.
The students’ projects,
which were on display in the
Middle School, featured items
that reminded them of their
loved ones.
Below is a sampling of the
comments describing their
work:
Synthia Steiman – “This car
represents my father, Ben. He
loved to drive and collect cars.
This car also has small surfboards
on it and says South
Beach. My dad also loved to
go to the beach and listen to
the waves.”
Halston Edmonds – “This
rifle represents by deceased
grandmother. She fought in
WWII and passed away shortly
after of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Fighting in the war was a great
honor to her, and she earned
many medals for her service.
I wish that she was still here
today to tell me more about
herself, but it makes me happy
to honor her on el Día de Los
Muertos.”
Maggie Rezek – “My item
is cheese puffs because when
I was a little girl, I had a
Nanny named Ruth. She meant
everything to me. I thought
of her as more than a Nanny.
I thought of her as a best
friend. Whenever I went to her
house, she always let me have
some cheese puffs. One day
she said she was going on an
airplane and I asked, ‘Where
are you going Nanny Ruth?’
She replied by saying “I am
going on a plane to heaven. I
love you so much. Goodbye.’
She was the best Nanny I ever
had.”
Synthia Steiman ’11, Halston Edmonds ’11 and Maggie Rezek ’11 show their Día de Los Muertos displays.
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NEWS OF THE SCHOOL
Barbara Rominger retires after 28 years
First-grade teacher Barbara
Rominger, who calculates
that she has taught 540 first
graders in nearly three decades
at Park Tudor, retired from
the classroom in December.
Mrs. Rominger, who says
she has loved teaching first
graders because they are “spontaneous,
enthusiastic and eager
to learn,” started her career at
the American School in Cincinnati,
then spent one year
teaching at both St. Richard’s
School and Indianapolis Public
Schools before joining the
Park Tudor faculty in 1978.
During the first semester of
this school year, she shared the
classroom with her daughterin-law,
Mary Rominger, who
moved from teaching preschool
to first grade to prepare
for Barbara’s departure.
“Teaching with Mary has
been a highlight,” says Barb.
“We both enjoy each other….
I think I have learned equally
as much from her as she has
from me.”
Mrs. Rominger says she
and her husband Harold “felt
fortunate” that their own two
children, Kristen ’84 and Mark
’88, were able to attend Park
Tudor.
She cites the opportunities
for professional development
as an important part of her
career. She took study-travel
trips to both Oaxaca, Mexico
and to Ireland on Park Tudor
Fortnight “mini-sabbatical”
grants, noting that the travel
“helped to broaden my horizons.”
She also says she highly
values her colleagues. “Park
Tudor is made up of the best
group of faculty you could
work with. This is the hardest-working,
most dedicated
group of teachers,” she
says. At a going-away party,
Lower School faculty mem-
continued on page 10
Teams sought for Applefest Golf Classic
This year’s Applefest Golf
Classic will take place
just a few strokes away from
the Park Tudor campus at
Meridian Hills Country Club.
The Florida Scramble tournament,
which raises funds for
Park Tudor athletic programs,
will be held Monday, June 4
and is limited to 36 foursomes.
The event begins at 11 a.m.
with registration, followed by
a putting contest from 11 a.m.-
12:30 p.m. The shotgun start is
at 12:30 p.m., with box lunches
provided on the golf carts.
Hors d’oeuvres will be served
from 5:30-6:30 p.m., with an
awards ceremony and dinner,
including student athlete recognition,
at 6:30 p.m.
Participants may register as
a team or individually. Entries
will be given priority in the
order they are received. Full
payment must accompany
your registration form.
Detach and return with payment
to:
Park Tudor Applefest
c/o Susie Maxwell
7200 North College Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46240
Deadline for registration is
Monday, May 14.
PLAYER INFORMATION
___ Individual player $300
___ Foursome $1,200
I am unable to play, but have enclosed my contribution of
$___________ .
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Sponsorship Opportunities
__ Event Sponsor $10,000
__ Dinner Sponsor $5,000
__ Prize Sponsor $2,500
__ Lunch Sponsor $1,500
__ Hole Sponsor $400
__ Dinner Only $45
In order to be listed in the Applefest Golf Classic Program as a
sponsor, we must receive this form and your contribution no later
than April 9, 2007.
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NEWS OF THE SCHOOL
Barbara Rominger retires after 28 years
continued from page 9
bers thanked Barbara for her
own caring attitude. She was
a mainstay of the “Sunshine
Committee,” a group of Lower
School teachers that coordinates
birthday and other special
celebrations for their colleagues.
At the recent Founders’
Day ceremony, Head of
School Doug Jennings praised
Barb for being “a real community
builder here at Park
Tudor.”
Although she has left the
classroom, Mrs. Rominger
continues to work part-time at
the school with small groups
of Lower School students. She
hopes to “have more time to
exercise, walk, and pick up a
few new hobbies like quilting
and knitting,” she says, as
well as to take art classes and
become more involved with
her church.
Over the years, many alumni
return to visit Mrs. Rominger
in her classroom, always looking
for their first-grade class
photo among the collection
hanging on the wall.
“I hope they all become lifelong
learners,” she says.
Senior Alex Scherer, a former student of Mrs. Rominger, presents her with
a bouquet during a Madrigals concert for the Lower School in December.
Barbara Rominger with her first class at Park Tudor (1978-1979 school
year).
Founders’ Day celebrates multi-generational families
Retired first-grade teacher
Barbara Rominger
and first-grade teacher Mary
Rominger were the speakers
at this year’s Founders’ Day
celebration on February 6.
The tradition of Founders’
Day dates to 1933, when the
Tudor Hall Grandchildren’s
Society was established to recognize
students whose family
members had attended Tudor
Hall. Today, the entire school
community gathers in the varsity
gym each February for a
program that honors families
with multi-generational ties
to Tudor Hall, Park and Park
Tudor School.
“I cherish this one day as
we gather as a true community
of teachers and learners,”
Head of School Doug Jennings
told the audience of more than
1,000 preschool through 12 th
graders, faculty and alumni.
The two Mrs. Romingers
interviewed Park Tudor students
of all ages to develop the
theme for their presentation,
“The Development of the Park
Tudor Student.” They noted
that one-third of this year’s
preschool class consists of
children of alumni.
Their speech highlighted the
growth of a Park Tudor student
over their years at the school.
They noted that preschoolers
reported their favorite school
activities were “snack and
recess,” while third graders
said they valued the “gifted
teachers and students.” Middle
Schoolers liked the “no-cut
policy” that enables them to
try many different activities,
while the senior class singled
out the “sense of belonging
and feeling of community” at
Park Tudor.
The Park Tudor Renaissance
String Ensemble provided
music and senior Greg
Webber led the school in
singing the alma mater. The
senior class representatives to
the Alumni Board, Courtney
Cantor and Elliott Thomasson,
and Head of School Doug
Jennings, Alumni Board President
Holly Hapak Betz ’83 and
Park Tudor Board President
Sharon Sullivan also spoke at
the assembly. Susan Stoops
Watson ’70 and Richard Bennett
Jr. ’57 presented framed
archival photos on behalf of
Tudor Hall and Park School.
Board President Sharon Sullivan and Richard Bennett Jr. ’57 look at the
archival photos presented on behalf of Park School and Tudor Hall during
the Founders’ Day ceremony on February 6. The Tudor Hall photo showed
Tudor Hall students in the Grandchildren’s Society on October 26, 1933.
The other photo showed the Park School Class of 1957.
10 PARK TUDOR PHOENIX SPRING 2007

NEWS OF THE SCHOOL
Senior class has a record five Presidential Scholar candidates
For the first time in school history, five members of the Park Tudor
Class of 2007 – the equivalent of five percent of the graduating
class – have been named candidates for one of the nation’s highest
honors for high school seniors. Kyle Bemis, Kathryn Crabb, James
Lipshaw, Ravi Parikh and Alexander Scherer were chosen as Presidential
Scholar candidates because of their outstanding SAT results.
Each year 2,600 candidates are identified nationally for the academic
component of the program and up to 141 students are named
Presidential Scholars. The majority of the recipients are selected on
the basis of broad academic achievement, while approximately 20
additional students are chosen for their academic and artistic scholarship
in the visual arts, the performing arts or creative writing.
Recipients for 2007 will be announced in June.
Students earn top honors
(Left to right) Presidential Scholar candidates Kyle Bemis, Kathryn Crabb,
Ravi Parikh, Alexander Scherer and James Lipshaw.
NATIONAL MERIT
Seniors Kathryn Crabb,
Michael Harris, Sara Jetty,
James Lipshaw, Ravi Parikh,
Luke Robbins and Alexander
Scherer have advanced to
finalist standing in the 2007
competition for Merit Scholarship
Awards in the National
Merit Scholarship Program.
About 90 percent of the
16,000 Semifinalists named
last September met the
requirements to advance to
finalists. The selection of
some 8,200 Merit Scholarship
winners from the group of
more than 15,000 finalists will
be announced in a series of
four media announcements in
April, May and July.
BRAIN GAME
Park Tudor’s Brain Game
team emerged victorious in
the first round of the competition
of the 2006-07 season.
After an exciting match during
which the lead changed several
times, Park Tudor defeated
Cathedral High School by a
score of 50 to 49. Team members
are captain Kathryn Crabb
’07, Karl Selm ’07, James Lipshaw
’07, Michael Harris ’07
and alternate Tom Schroeder
’08. Team advisors are David
Kivela and Joanne Black. The
next round of competition will
take place in March.
PHI BETA KAPPA
The Indianapolis Chapter
of Phi Beta Kappa has recognized
Michael Harris ’07
with an Outstanding Academic
Achievement Award for
High School Juniors for 2006.
Michael and his math teacher
Joanne Black represented Park
Tudor at the award ceremony.
BUSINESS/ECONOMICS
A record number of Park
Tudor students participated in
the local DECA competition
at Carmel High School in January,
with all 20 scoring high
enough to advance to the state
convention in late February.
The Park Tudor Business Club
affiliated with DECA competed
against seven schools.
Students participated as
teams of two or as individuals,
solving selected problems
and presenting their solutions
to a pair of judges. In the individual
events, Michael Massel
’07 placed first and George
Hornedo ’09 third in Sports &
Entertainment. In team events,
juniors Nathan Baldwin and
Cameron Johnstone placed
first in Sports & Entertainment;
juniors Rachel Braun
and Alaina Urbahns placed
first and Patrick Lloyd and
David Sedgwick placed third
in Business Law & Ethics;
juniors Madeline Patterson
and Margaret Ponader placed
first in Buying & Merchandising;
juniors Henry Lanham
and Alex Zience placed first
and Meg Peterson ’07 and
Marissa Braun ’10 placed
seventh in Travel & Tourism;
juniors Jonathan Risting
and Nick Huster placed
second in Financial Analysis;
juniors Lee Mandel and Toby
Sedgwick placed first in E-
Commerce; and juniors Mark
Rusthoven and Charlie Quilhot
placed fifth in Hospitality
Services.
MATH
• Park Tudor students won
honors at the annual Franklin
College Math Day in October.
Math Day consists of two competitions:
the Polya Division,
open to seniors only, consists
of six challenging mathematical
problems for teams of
three; the Scholarship Division
is a multiple choice exam
open to non-seniors. The team
of seniors Ravi Parikh, Kentaro
Matsuoka and Cindy Zhang
placed second in the Polya
Division. In the Scholarship
Division, Amy Maxwell ’08
placed fifth and Jon Risting
’08 placed seventh.
• Park Tudor’s Math Team
earned second place in the
Rose-Hulman Institute of
Technology Mathematics
Competition in November.
More than 400 students from
schools in Indiana and surrounding
states participated.
In addition, the team of Cindy
Zhang, Ravi Parikh, Kentaro
Matsuoka, Michael Harris and
Alex Scherer placed second
among senior teams and the
team of Amy Maxwell, Svetlana
Fedorikhina, Jon Risting
and Tom Schroeder placed
third among junior teams. In
the individual competition,
Ravi and Michael tied for
third place and Cindy placed
seventh among seniors. Jon
placed seventh and Tom
placed 12 th among juniors,
while Cameron Cecil placed
sixth, Scarlett Wang placed
ninth and Caroline Huang
placed 11 th among sophomores.
Michael Wintermeyer
placed tenth among freshmen.
• Students are faring well
at the midway point of the
national Mandelbrot Mathematics
Competition, which
consists of four rounds of individual
and team tests given in
October, November, January
and February. The scores for
both individuals and teams are
cumulative and are reported
after each round for each division.
In the Eastern Region division,
Park Tudor students
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NEWS OF THE SCHOOL
Students earn top honors
continued from page 11
ranked among the top individuals
after round one were
seniors Ravi Parikh and
Michael Harris, whose scores
were the second highest, and
junior Jon Risting with the
fourth-highest score. All three
ranked in the first tier. In the
second tier were senior Cindy
Zhang, with the fifth-highest
score, and freshman Neena
Parikh with the sixth-highest
score. Junior Tom Schroeder
ranked in the third tier with
the seventh-highest score.
After round two, Michael
ranked fifth, Ravi sixth, John
ninth, and Neena 13 th .
The team scores consist of
the sum of the top four individual
scores plus the score on
a team test worked cooperatively
by four students. After
the second round, the team
of Michael, Ravi, Cindy and
senior Kentaro Matsuoka were
in fourth place in the Eastern
Region. The team of Jon and
juniors Tom Schroeder, Kyle
Bemis and Amy Maxwell had
the 27 th -highest score.
WRITING
• Five sixth graders were
winners in the Sertoma Club
Essay Contest, “What Freedom
Means to Me.” Grace
Yedlicka won second place in
the contest out of more than
900 entries, receiving a $250
savings bond. Abbey Buroker,
Peter Dakich, Owen Hartman
and Sharla Steiman each
received a $100 savings bond
for their compositions.
• Freshman Genna Yedlicka
has been named an editor for
“Y-Press,” a children’s news
network that publishes stories
written by kids about kids.
Stories are researched, reported
and written by reporters
ages 10-13 and editors 14-18.
WORLD LANGUAGES
Four sixth graders were
honored for projects at the
Indiana Foreign Language
Teachers Conference. Collier
Huntley won first place and
Scott Ibsen won second place
for the Fiesta projects they created
in Señora Claudia Nole’s
Spanish class last year. The
posters of Hope Casey Allen
and Grace Yedlicka were
displayed at the conference.
Grace was awarded second
place and $50, while Hope
won honorable mention.
SPELLING BEE
Fourth grader Nick Hornedo
was the winner of the Lower
School Spelling Bee on January
19. He correctly spelled
the word “ambulance” to win
the competition. Runner-up
was fifth-grader Ali Lebovits.
Nick represented Park Tudor
at the District Spelling Bee in
February. He follows in the
footsteps of his older brother
George ’09, a three-time competitor
in the National Spelling
Bee.
Debaters qualify for national competition
Juniors Madeline Patterson
and Rachel Braun have
earned a bid to the National
Forensic League National
Tournament in Wichita in June.
They are the first Park Tudor
students to compete nationally
in Policy Debate and only the
second team to earn a bid to the
national tournament in debate,
joining six Park Tudor speech
team members since 2001.
The season, which begins
in October and ends in March,
encompasses nearly 20 tournaments.
Speakers started off the season
with a fifth-place finish at
Lawrence North and a thirdplace
finish at Southport in
November.
Of particular note is the
strength of the freshman class.
Two freshmen have won tournament
championships in their
first-ever tournaments. Tom
Galstian was champion in the
Humorous Interpretation category
at Lawrence North and
Alex Sventeckis was tournament
champ in US Extemporaneous
at both Southport and
Fishers.
Freshmen Marissa Braun,
Jack Gilligan, Ovini Rodrigo,
Erin Tuckman and Genna
Yedlicka and sophomore Lara
Naanouh all have placed in the
top 10 of their events. Junior
Hannah Kennedy, in her first
season with the team, took second
place in Dramatic Interpretation
at Lawrence North.
Veterans Kristen Rogers ’09
and Reshma Kalimi ’08 were
event champions in Dramatic
Interpretation and Foreign
Extemporaneous at Lawrence
North. Senior Kathryn Crabb
started her final season with a
second-place finish at Southport
and, along with senior
Luke Robbins, earned second
place in Original Performance
at Fishers. Luke also earned
second place in Humorous
Interpretation.
Many other team members
have placed in the top ten at a
number of meets.
Meanwhile, Debbie Stuart
Everett ’69, head coach of the
Speech and Debate Team, has
received the Donus Roberts
Quad Ruby Coaching Award
from the National Forensic
League for achieving more
than 1,000 coaching points in
her career. Coaches earn onetenth
of a point for every one
point their students earn at
speech or debate tournaments.
On October 12, several members of the Park Tudor speech and debate
team helped direct guests as they arrived on campus for the Indiana
Broadcasting Pioneers Hall of Fame banquet. Special guest and Hall of
Fame inductee was broadcaster Jane Pauley, who was a member of the
Warren Central Speech and Debate team and grew to national recognition
as host of NBC’s “The Today Show.” Speech and Debate Team President
Luke Robbins ’07 and Vice President for Debate Rachel Braun ’08 greeted
Ms. Pauley and escorted her to Clowes Commons.
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NEWS OF THE SCHOOL
Park Tudor’s art history program
wins national AP award
Park Tudor is one of only four schools in the nation to
receive honors for its “Exemplary AP Art History Program”
in the Advanced Placement Report to the Nation 2007.
Park Tudor was honored as the only “medium-size” school (300-
799 students in grades 10-12). Art history teachers are Carol Cummings
Rogers ’59 and Heather Teets, who have been team teaching
the class for the past three years.
The report notes, “We recognize the schools in each AP discipline
that in 2006 achieved the tremendous success of helping a
larger proportion of their total school population succeed on a particular
AP Exam than any other school in the nation.” The award
is based on the number of students who receive an exam grade of
3 or higher in AP Art History.
The other three schools receiving the honor are Louisville Collegiate
School (small-size school), Montgomery High School
in Skillman, NJ (large-size school) and Barbara Goleman High
School in Miami (school with the largest number of Latino students
scoring 3+).
Faculty, students attend national
diversity conference
Six sophomores and juniors
and five faculty and staff
members attended the National
Association of Independent
Schools People of Color Conference
(PoCC) and Student
Diversity Leadership Conference
(SDLC) in Seattle, Washington
at the end of November.
This is the fifth year Park
Tudor has participated in the
conference, which brings
together more than 1,000 students
and nearly 2,000 adults
from across the country.
The goal of the SDLC is
for students to return to their
schools with more confidence
in speaking to their peers about
issues of difference and equity
and taking leadership roles in
their student diversity groups.
Adults attending the PoCC
learn that while their work in
diversity can be akin to swimming
upstream, it will help
to ensure an inclusive school
community that will enable
students be more successful.
Sophomore Sterling Summerville
says the workshops at
the conference taught him that
“one person can make a difference.
It was a mind-blowing
experience. It taught me more
than I thought I would learn.”
Junior Deja Morton adds, “I
thought I knew what diversity
was, but when I got there I
realized I had no idea.”
Students apply to attend the
conference by writing essays
on diversity issues. Other students
selected to attend were
junior Hank Powell and sophomores
Anthony Graves, Lara
Naanouh and Kristen Rogers.
Middle School Director
Evelyn McClain, one of the
founding organizers of this
national conference, notes,
“The students come back with
a strong sense of empowerment.”
The participants make
a presentation to their fellow
students and work with the
Diversity Club to introduce
new initiatives based on what
they learned at the conference.
Other adults attending the
conference were Coordinator
of Diversity Activities Dr.
Rhonda Graves, Diversity
Recruitment Coordinator Joyce
Tucker, Middle School English
teacher Shants Hart and
Upper School English teacher
Dr. Tyra Seldon.
Fine Arts news
VISUAL ARTISTS
• Freshman Max Berman is
featured as Artist of the Month
in the February 2007 issue of
“Scholastic Art,” a national
magazine for art teachers and
students. Max won a national
award in last year’s Scholastic
Art & Writing competition for
a photo he took for a photography-in-motion
project in Mrs.
Kathy Campbell’s Visual Arts
class (which appeared in the
Summer 2006 issue of The
Park Tudor Phoenix). The article
includes color photographs
of Max and his award-winning
photograph, along with an
interview about his work.
• Park Tudor students have
won five Gold Key awards,
eight Silver Key awards and
three honorable mentions in
this year’s regional Scholastic
Art & Writing competition.
The work of Gold Key
award winners now advances
to national competition in New
York City. Winning Gold Key
honors are eighth grader Blake
Kennedy in Photography,
senior Matthew Lanter in both
Photography and Photography
Portfolio, senior Victor van
den Bergh in Photography and
sophomore Danielle Fishman
in Drawing.
Silver Key winners were
Abby Frank ’12 in Painting;
Tyler Thomas ’08 in Ceramics;
Cindy Zhang ’12 in Computer
Art; Anna Sitzmann
’07 in Drawing; Victor van
den Bergh, Amanda Morgan
’07 and Ted Somerville ’07
in Photography; and Denise
Tomlin ’07 in Sculpture. Honorable
Mention went to Peter
Scherer ’11 in Photography,
Emily Stewart ’08 in Ceramics
and Denise Tomlin ’07 in
Drawing. Their instructors are
Kathy Campbell, Barb Beattie
and Heather Teets.
• Park Tudor art students
won the NCAA’s “Really Big
Shoe” promotion by earning
more than 500 votes for their
design. Students in Upper
School art teacher Barbara
Beattie’s 3-D art class designed
and decorated the Park Tudor
shoe (covered entirely with
duct tape!) that was put on
display at Conseco Fieldhouse
during the KeyBank Tipoff
Classic and later moved to the
NCAA Hall of Champions.
Seven high schools participated
in the promotion. Pedestrians
voted on the shoe that
they viewed as having the best
design.
The NCAA presented the
Park Tudor art department
with a $1,000 check for creating
the winning design. Freshmen
Richard Beaton, Haydon
Osborne and Meg Patterson
and junior Madeline Patterson
designed and decorated
the shoe, which is now on
display in the lobby of the Park
Tudor gym. Freshman Katharine
Kulka also helped with
the project.
• Senior Matthew Lanter won
two awards in the 2006 Meridian
Kessler Neighborhood
Association Photo Contest.
Matthew won first place in the
High School/College category
and an honorable mention in
the same category for a blackand-white
photograph.
PRELUDE AWARD
Senior Kathryn Crabb won
first place in the Vocal category
in year’s Prelude Awards
fine arts competition for Marion
County high school students.
She performed Gabriel
Dupont’s “Mandoline” in
the finals competition. Kathryn’s
voice instructor is Elise
Marshall, retired Park Tudor
vocal music teacher. The Park
Tudor Renaissance Ensemble
was invited to perform at the
awards banquet.
BUDDING MUSICIANS
• Sophomore Cameron Cecil
was selected to play with
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NEWS OF THE SCHOOL
Fine Arts news
continued from page 13
the Indianapolis Symphony
Orchestra (ISO) in its annual
Side-By-Side Concert on
March 7 at the Hilbert Circle
Theater. Cameron, who plays
the clarinet, and other selected
central Indiana high school
students will rehearse and perform
with their professional
counterparts in the ISO. Cameron
also plays with the Indianapolis
Youth Wind Ensemble
and Park Tudor’s Band, Pep
Band, Jazz Ensemble and
Quintet.
• Violinist Heidi Chen ’09
and bassist Reggie Nesbit ’10
were two of only 70 young
string players in the state chosen
to perform with the Indiana
All-State Orchestra. The
orchestra performed during the
music teachers’ MENC convention
in January.
• Middle School Orchestra
students represented Park
Tudor at the American String
Teachers’ Association Middle
School Orchestra Festival on
November 18. After rehearsing
for a full five hours, they
performed in concert for family
and friends at Carmel Middle
School. Violinists were
seventh graders Abby Frank,
Monika Tilmans and Emily
Williams, and cellists were
eighth graders Grace Barlow,
Kevin Lee and Iacopo Santini.
• Upper School Orchestra
members began the holiday
season with their 16 th annual
Winter Tour on December 1.
They performed a holiday concert
for the students of the
Indiana School for the Blind
and a Hanukkah program at
the Hasten Hebrew Academy.
After each performance, the
musicians worked individually
with the children, letting the
youngsters get hands-on experience
with the string instruments.
In addition, students
performed two concerts at
Marquette Manor retirement
community.
• Renaissance Ensemble
musicians performed for the
Crossroads Guild Holiday
Home Tour, a National City
Bank reception, the Timmy
Foundation Donor Dinner and
the Prelude Awards Banquet,
while the Madrigal Singers
performed for the Indianapolis
Council of Women, the Indianapolis
Garden Club, and at
several other community holiday
events.
ON STAGE
• The Upper School is presenting
the musical “Footloose”
March 9, 10 and 11. The
Park Tudor Mothers’ Association
sponsors the annual
Dinner Theatre preceding the
event on Saturday, March 10.
For tickets to the performance,
call the Fine Arts Office at
317/415-2705.
• First grader Noah Huber
and sixth grader Calvin Smith
performed in “A Christmas
Carol” at Indiana Repertory
Theatre during the holiday
season.
Park Tudor’s winning entry in the NCAA’s “Really Big Shoe” competition.
The shoe is on display in the gym lobby (story on page 13).
• Four students danced
in “The Nutcracker” at The
Murat Theater in Indianapolis
in December. Brittany Messer
’11, Quinn Divens ’14, and
Caitlin ’16 and Kateri Cutsinger
’19 performed in the Russian
Ballet Academy of Indiana
and Indiana Ballet Company
production. Taylor Cassidy
’15 performed in “The Nutcracker
Suite” at the Fishers
Symphony Holiday Concert.
The Upper School presented “Death Takes a Holiday” by Alberto Cassella on November 4 and 5. The play tells the
story of “Death,” who suspends all activities for three days to live among mortals and discover why they fear him.
“Death,” disguised as “Prince Sirki,” falls in love with young Grazia and learns what it means to be truly human. L
to r: Prince Sirki (Luke Robbins ’07) takes his leave of Grazia (Kathryn Crabb ’07) while the Princess of San Luca
(Hannah Kennedy ’08), host Duke Lambert (Michael Harris ’07), Duchess Stephanie (Aubrey Little ’08) and Corrado
(Greg Webber ’07) look on. The production was directed by Jerry Grayson, with Rob Hueni as technical director.
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NEWS OF THE SCHOOL
Community service program nets great results
Park Tudor students’ community
service projects
touched hundreds of families
in the Indianapolis area this
holiday season. The Lower
School donated more than
2,300 items to the Indianapolis
Family Support Center and
the Middle and Upper Schools
collected money and shopped,
wrapped and donated gifts and
healthy snack food for students
at our partner school,
IPS #14, gathering for a party
the afternoon of December 21
(see related story on page 16).
Lower School students collected
items for the Family
Support Center, a Children’s
Bureau emergency crisis shelter
for newborns and children
up to 17 years old. First
through fourth graders donated
new and gently used toys and
books, warm clothes, CDs and
more. Fifth graders collected
and assembled welcome kits
with personal hygiene items
for care packages that were
delivered in December.
Upper Schoolers raised a
record $3,876 in their annual
Penny Wars competition
– enough to provide heart surgery
for a boy in Ecuador and
to buy food and holiday gifts
for students at School #14. The
annual philanthropic effort pits
Upper School classes against
one another to see which class
can raise the most funds.
Upper Schoolers also participated
in Project Gift Box,
for which students researched
and located Park Tudor graduates
currently serving in the
military. Senior Ben Marcus
and junior Patrick Lloyd
spearheaded efforts to collect
more than 150 pounds of gifts
sent to three Park Tudor graduates
serving in the Middle
East – Class of 2001 members
Michael Thompson and
Ivan Hodes and Bob Shoopman
’05.
• The Park Tudor Varsity
Club sponsored Thanksgiving
dinners for 20 families in Indianapolis,
collecting more than
1,000 non-perishable items and
more than $500 in donations.
In addition, the Park Tudor
hockey team raised more than
$1,500 for Wheeler Mission
– twice as much as last year
– at its third annual Turkey
Bowl on November 4. Thirteen
turkeys also were also
donated for the Thanksgiving
meal at the mission and/or care
baskets for underprivileged
families.
• The new Upper School
Culinary Club raised more than
$125 from a pancake breakfast
for medical aid in Nicaragua
and the French Club raised
$268 to benefit Doctors Without
Borders at a bake sale.
• Park Tudor students, parents,
faculty and friends raised
more than $1,600 and a firstplace
standing in the school
team category in the Juvenile
Diabetes Research Foundation’s
Walk to Cure Diabetes.
Participants were Evelyn
McClain, Joan Woodard Staubach
’66, Steve Curry, Julie
and Will ’12 Davis, Nancy and
Adam ’12 Gaynor, Reggie ’10
and Elaine Nesbit, Mary Ann
Scott, Jill Scott, Mary Zajac,
Chris Hammock, Courtney,
Beth and Nolan Whitehead
and Toby Presnal and family.
• On October 1, nine Park
Tudor cheerleaders volunteered
for the Light the Night
Walk to support the Leukemia
and Lymphoma Society.
Taking part in the Walk
were seniors Alissa DiMarchi,
Kristy Horvath and Alexa
Shoff, junior Deja Morton,
sophomores Annie McKown,
Kristen Rogers and Lili Eiteljorg,
and freshmen Miranda
Voege and Katie Purucker.
• Juniors Reshma Kalimi
and Elizabeth Emhardt represented
Park Tudor at Senator
Richard J. Lugar’s Symposium
for Tomorrow’s Leaders at the
University of Indianapolis.
• Student Council members
and Class Officers attended
the Indiana Association of Student
Councils State Convention
at Clarksville High School
in November. Student Council
President Elliott Thomasson
’07, Senior Class President
Cameron Thomas, Senior
Class Secretary Courtney Cantor,
Senior Class Treasurer Liz
Pascarelli, Junior Class President
Henry Lanham and Junior
Class Vice President Jennifer
Burns, and Student Council
members Kent Winingham
’08 and Alexander Zience ’08
were among the 800 students
taking part.
• Juniors Madeline Patterson,
Elizabeth Emhardt and
Margaret Ponader represented
Park Tudor at the Mayor’s
Youth Town Hall Meeting on
November 8 at Arlington High
School. They joined efforts
with Mayor’s Youth Council
members to discuss how to
lower the city’s increasing
crime rate.
• A number of students
attended the Middle School
Leadership Day sponsored by
Youth Philanthropy Initiative
of Indiana and St. Richard’s
School. The November program
brought together students
from several independent and
public schools to discuss leadership
and service learning.
Grade 7 students attending the
program were Abby Frank,
Adam Gaynor, Scott Kincannon,
Kate McCarter and Jack
Mitzell. Grade 8 students
attending were Lindsey Blum,
Alyssa Kasher, Meagan Neal,
Popi Santini, Peter Scherer
and Rina Yadav.
• Brendan ’12 and Nick ’14
Tannenbaum each were awarded
the Gold Level President’s
Volunteer Service Award, a
national award recognizing
volunteer service of 100 hours
in 2006, by the President’s
Council on Service and Civic
Participation. They prepare
and serve meals to the needy.
• Senior John Stewart was
inducted into the Eagle Scouts
in October. For his Eagle
Scout project he built a large
bay window at Second Presbyterian
Church and two sets of
storage units for the church’s
preschool program. John
received help from David ’13
and Michael ’10 Wintermeyer,
Ian ’11 and Colin ’10 Fry,
Grant Church ’10 and Kris
Polzin ’08.
The fifth grade class raised $1,040 at its annual Lower School Garage Sale
on December 2. Class members donated “gently used” items to sell to
fellow Lower School students to raise money for charity. The funds were
donated to the Indiana Children’s Wish Fund. Here, first graders Jameson
Parker, Jack Kite and John Cohen (l to r) check out the items for sale as
Stuart Summerville ’14 touts their benefits.
SPRING 2007 PARK TUDOR PHOENIX 15

NEWS OF THE SCHOOL
Middle School creates peer-to-peer philanthropy program
The Middle School service
learning group,
Panthers CARE, this year
initiated a new approach
to service learning called
Peer-to-Peer Philanthropy.
Building upon the Lower
School after-school program
already underway with students
from the Westminster
Neighborhood Center (highlighted
in the Spring 2007 issue
of The Park Tudor Phoenix),
the Middle Schoolers joined
students from the Westminster
Center and presented a plan to
the principal of Indianapolis
Public School (IPS) #14 for
potential collaboration. The
majority of the students from
Westminster attend IPS #14,
which has a student population
of more than 600 students
in grades kindergarten through
six and has the greatest number
of children in need in the
state of Indiana. The proposal
was accepted, and the project
was launched.
Middle Schoolers plan to
The Indiana Foreign Language
Teachers Association
(IFLTA) has named World
Language Department Chair
and Lower School Spanish
teacher Claudia Nole Teacher
of the Year for Grades K-8. She
was selected for the honor from
among five teachers of Spanish
and Portuguese, German,
French, Japanese and Classical
Languages at the Indiana
Foreign Language Teachers
Conference on November 3.
Last May, Señora Nole was
selected as World Language
Teacher of the Year by the
Indiana chapter of the American
Association of Teachers
of Spanish and Portuguese
(AATSP). As a result of that
honor, she was nominated as
Indiana Foreign Language
form a lasting partnership with
the kindergarten students and
will follow their progress as
they progress through sixth
grade at IPS #14.
Already this school year,
Middle School student representatives
have helped escort
IPS #14 kindergarten students
on a field trip to an apple
orchard, hosted a Halloween
party, read and donated books,
and worked individually and
in small groups with the kindergarteners.
The students also
made take-home food bags for
the Thanksgiving and winter
holidays, so students would be
able to prepare food for themselves
when their parents were
at work.
Seventh graders Brooke
Hasler and Reilly Martin
shared details of their experiences
during an Upper School
assembly, and Upper School
students became involved over
the holidays, collecting donations,
buying gifts and participating
in a holiday party
Claudia Nole named World
Language Teacher of the Year
Teacher of the Year. She now
is one of 17 teachers entered
into competition for Foreign
Language Teacher of the Year
for the 17-state Central States
Conference of Foreign Language
Teachers, which will
be announced in May. Upper
School Spanish teacher David
Malcom received the IFLTA
Teacher of the Year award
for Grades 9-12 in 2004. He
is currently vice president and
president-elect of AATSP.
Señora Nole also was
selected to serve as the grades
K-8 representative on the Indiana
Department of Education
panel charged with revising
the state’s standards for World
Languages for grades K-12.
The revised standards will be
published in June.
for IPS #14. The School #14
students also had the opportunity
to “shop” for gifts for
their parents, which were then
gift wrapped by Park Tudor
volunteers.
The successful school partnership
was recently highlighted
in a feature story in “The
Indianapolis Star.”
Eighth graders Grace Barlow and Jacque Oppelt fill grocery bags with
healthy snack food before the Thanksgiving holiday to share with students
at partner school IPS #14.
Samantha Moulier ’07, Hannah Ladendorf ’12 and Madalyn Vonderohe ’12
celebrate with students from School #14 at their holiday party on December
21.
16 PARK TUDOR PHOENIX SPRING 2007

NEWS OF THE SCHOOL
Faculty in the news
• Director of Physical Education
and Health Sylvia Fleck
authored an article on Indiana’s
high obesity rate published
in the Spring 2007 issue
of “Indiana Insight” magazine.
She outlines four factors she
believes are responsible for the
high rate of obesity in the state:
genetics, education, geographical
location and economy. She
stresses the importance of early
and continual health education
in teaching children how
to make healthy food choices,
using as an example the food
diary kept by students in her
health classes.
• Upper School Media Services
Coordinator Jane Kokotkiewicz
has been awarded a
$5,000 grant by The Library
Fund of The Central Indiana
Community Foundation. The
grant will fund library resources
for a collaborative information
literacy project with Upper
School art teacher Barb Beattie
and social studies teacher Jeff
Johnson. Mrs. Beattie’s 3-D
design class will study masks
and poetry and Mr. Johnson’s
Nonwestern Civilizations
classes will investigate bias
in world history, developing
their information literacy skills
while producing a product for
their class.
• In addition, Mrs. Kokotkiewicz
and Upper School science
teacher Justin Dammeier
are piloting the Central Indiana
Bioethics Portal with Mr.
Dammeier’s biology classes.
Students will use the portal
developed by the IUPUI Medical
Library to research bioethics
topics, providing them with
a unique opportunity to test
and evaluate a new research
tool.
• Upper School social
studies teacher Jeff Johnson
attended the Regional Coordinating
Meeting of the National
Consortium for Teaching
about Asia held at IUPUI. Mr.
Johnson is serving a five-year
term on the national advisory
board of the Consortium.
• Director of Guidance and
Counseling Larry Eckel has
been appointed to a three-year
term to the Admission Advisory
Board of Miami University
of Ohio. The Board, which
consists of 20 college advisers
from schools in 11 states,
meets annually on the campus
in Oxford, Ohio to review the
University’s admissions practices
and programs as well as
to discuss national issues and
trends.
Mr. Eckel and Associate
Director of College Counseling
Sue Stemen attended
the annual conference of the
National Association for College
Admission Counseling
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
While in Pittsburgh they visited
Carnegie Mellon University
where they met with Caitlinn
Cork ’05, Elizabeth Kulka ’06
and Ali Oppelt ’06.
Prior to the conference, Mr.
Eckel was a guest at nearby
Washington and Jefferson College,
the nation’s 11 th -oldest
institution of higher education,
and Ms. Stemen participated
in a six-college tour in New
York State that featured Colgate
University, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, Union
College, Skidmore College,
Syracuse University and Hamilton
College.
Three awarded study-travel grants
Three faculty members
have been awarded Park
Tudor Fortnight Grants
in Round One of the program
for this school year.
World Language Department
Chair and Spanish teacher
Claudia Nole received a grant
to attend the Ixtapa Language
Conference in Ixtapa, Mexico
this summer. At the conference
she will learn techniques
of Total Physical Response
Storytelling that enhance foreign-language
teaching.
Upper School tutor Dee
Schwartz was awarded a grant
to attend either the Arthur
and Rochelle Belfer National
Conference for Educators or
Museum Fellowship Program
in Washington DC this summer.
Both opportunities are
sponsored by the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum
and provide instruction to
become an official resource
and speaker about the aspects
of the Holocaust. (See related
article on page 25.)
Upper School English teacher
Dr. Tyra Seldon received a
grant to serve as an adult chaperone
for the upcoming community
service trip to South
Africa sponsored by Ambassadors
for Children. She will
help coordinate daily activities
and guide Park Tudor students
in journal-writing exercises to
help them articulate their experiences.
The educational experience
also will provide her
with an opportunity to enhance
Park Tudor’s multicultural literature
curriculum.
A tree has been planted on the Park Tudor campus in honor of Tudor Hall
and Park Tudor piano teacher Elizabeth Brock. Head of School Doug Jennings
and the Fine Arts Department faculty presented Miss Brock with a
bouquet of flowers at the ceremony dedicating the European birch tree,
which is located near the east end of the Middle School building. The
plaque beside the tree reads, “In recognition of Elizabeth Brock and her
lifelong devotion to her piano students.” Former and current students honored
Miss Brock for her decades of teaching excellence at a celebration
last spring.
Photo by Vincent Walter, Vincent Walter Photography
SPRING 2007 PARK TUDOR PHOENIX 17

NEWS OF THE SCHOOL
Athletic news: Girls’ basketball team wins conference championship
By Brad Lennon, Athletic Director
GIRLS’ BASKETBALL
The season began with a new coaching
staff and a fresh canvas. Coach Bill Silvey
infused a new sense of enthusiasm and
energy into the program and the results
were quite remarkable. On the heels of a
7-15 season last year, this year’s squad finished
the regular season with an impressive
14-5 record that included an unblemished
6-0 Indiana Crossroads Conference run,
resulting in the conference championship.
At season’s end the girls had won nine
of their last 10 games and opened up state
tournament play with a 54-39 victory
over Guerin High School to advance to
a second round match-up with conference
rival Scecina, winning 55-40 before
being defeated by Heritage Christian 55-
38 in the sectional championship game.
Seniors Erin Trimpe, Ellie Flores and
Kelly Scanlon became instant leaders for
Coach Silvey, while sophomore Hannah
Farley added much-needed athleticism to
the successful equation.
Farley and Erin Trimpe topped all scorers
with 14.2 and 13.0 scoring averages
respectively. Hannah led the team in
rebounding at a 9.2-rebounds-per-game
clip. Freshman Kristin Trimpe added
strength at the point-guard position with
her court awareness and ball-handling
skills. Junior Molly Pallman bolstered the
guard spot with heady play and experience
from previous years. At season’s end the
girls’ winning percentage turnaround from
the previous season represented the second
best percentage improvement in the state.
BOYS’ BASKETBALL
The team has endured a season of ups
and downs, beginning with three opening
The Park Tudor cheerleaders had the opportunity to show their talent
on the floor of Conseco Fieldhouse during half time of the KeyBank
TipOff Classic competition in November.
losses to state-ranked teams. The winter
campaign began with participation in the
KeyBank TipOff Classic at Conseco Fieldhouse
against crosstown power Cathedral.
The Irish were one of the top-ranked
teams in class 4A and proved their strength
with a strong second-half showing to down
our young Panthers. Following the opener
we fell short on the scoreboard to No. 6-
ranked (3A) Edgewood and No. 2-ranked
(2A) Tri-West. The cagers rebounded soon
thereafter with consecutive wins to capture
the Shanon Fields tourney championship,
in which we placed three players on the
all-tournament team. In addition to senior
Austin Turner being named tournament
MVP, junior Kevin Roth and senior Matt
DeVito joined him on the honor team.
The end of February found the Panthers
with a 10-10 record overall (4-2 in conference
play), good enough for second place.
Junior Hank Powell was leading the team
in scoring with a 13.3 average, followed
closely by junior Kevin Roth at 12.0 ppg.
Senior Matt DeVito led the team in assists
with 4.0 per game. The team is looking
forward to a wide-open sectional tournament
hosted by Triton Central, in which
the Panthers meet rival Speedway in the
first round.
BOYS’ and GIRLS’ SWIMMING
The swimming seasons are difficult to
measure in terms of won-loss records due
to the number of multiple team invitationals.
The girls’ team was 11 members strong
this year, while the boys had only four participants.
Grace Tuttle and Caitlin Stanley
were the only seniors this season, while
all four boys (Isadall Fung, John Stewart,
Matt Wise and Matt Lanter) graduate
this year. Junior Tori Norris had a strong
performance in the ICC meet in January,
taking three firsts. The
girls finished third as a
team in the conference
meet, while the boys
finished fourth. Both
teams compete in the
state’s most challenging
sectional against
the likes of North Central,
Lawrence North,
Lawrence Central and
19-time state champion
Carmel.
HOCKEY
Prior to state tournament
play, the hockey
team owned an impressive
21-12-3 record. The record was bolstered
with a strong showing in November
when the team won an impressive 10 out
of 12 games. The team’s Hoosier High
School Hockey League record was 8-2-
2. One of the best records of the season,
however, was that the team had “0” game
misconduct penalties.
Two players scored 30 or more goals,
led by junior Erik Skjodt and freshman
Chris Cannon. Top defensive players were
senior Ben Marcus and junior Elliot Sweeney.
Newcomer freshman Tommy Rogers
Seniors Luke Robbins (tennis) and Lauren Rapp
(volleyball) were recipients of the Booster Club’s
Fall 2006 Crown Awards. The awards are given
each athletic season to two outstanding male
and female student-athletes. In November,
Lauren signed a National Letter of Intent to
attend the University of Kentucky to play volleyball
next year. She is ranked 47 th in the nation
on the Prepvolleyball web site, which ranks the
top 100 volleyball seniors in the nation.
has had a strong season as well. The team
started February with impressive back-toback
wins over Carmel and Noblesville as
it prepared for the league tournament, and
earned the right to a No. 4 seed spot in the
3A state tournament to be played in South
Bend in early March.
As a side note, more than 20 alumni
participated in the annual alumni game in
December.
COACHING HONORS
Congratulations to girls’ Varsity Track
Coach Ryan Ritz, who has been named
2006 Single A Indiana Girls Track Coach
of the Year. Coach Ritz was honored at the
state conference of the Indiana Association
of Track and Cross Country Coaches
(IATCCC) as a result of his performance
with our spring 2006 girls program. The
IATCCC members vote on the recipient.
18 PARK TUDOR PHOENIX SPRING 2007

Feature
Words of War Volume III:
The “Director’s Cut”
BY KATHRYN LERCH,
LEGACY INITIATIVE PROJECT DIRECTOR
AND SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT CHAIR
In May 2007, the Park Tudor Legacy Initiative will
publish the third volume in its “Words of War” book
series. “Words of War: Wartime Memories from America
and Abroad” is a compilation of oral histories and
excerpts from the diaries and letters of soldiers and their
loved ones from the Civil War through World War II.
What makes Volume Three so special? As always, the stories,
which come from far and wide, represent a diverse body
of unique individuals, all of whom were caught up one way or
another with the problems and events of war. How did they
cope? Where did they get their inner strength? What continuity
of issues is there from one decade to the next, from one century
to the next, or from one country to the next? How can wartime
words of wisdom from the 19 th and 20 th centuries help us in the
21 st century?
This anthology presents stories of opposing sides during
the Civil War, WWI and WWII; it details America’s forays
into other countries’ affairs during the Philippine-American
War and Mexican Border War, as well as shares stories by
and about African-Americans during the Civil War and WWI
respectively.
In WWI, we read letters written not only by the men in
the trenches, but also by those men and women who served in
administration and support—whether establishing hospitals,
kitchens, roads, air stations, or dispensing nursing care. The
great Spanish Influenza pandemic was also a central topic.
During WWI and WWII different perspectives of war are
told by civilians—American, Norwegian and English—as well
as soldiers: by Germans on the Western and Eastern fronts, and
by six Midwesterners who landed on Okinawa in 1945. Within
each of these stories are the universal threads of homesickness,
love of family and country, devotion to patriotism, and an obligation
to serve and do one’s duty.
When our recent manuscript reached an astounding 424
pages, painful decisions had to be made. Which story must be
shortened or cut? Which chapter segments would be “dragged”
from the computer folder for Volume III to Volume IV—or to
the “Director’s Cut,” which appears in these pages?
Also included are a teaser or two, which will be included
in the forthcoming book. Enjoy!
The Legacy Initiative was established in 2001. Teacher
Kathryn Lerch initiated the project in an effort to actively
engage Upper School students by providing them with
original, unpublished historical documents so they could
learn first-hand how to research and write effectively and
connect with their parents’ and grandparents’ by recording
oral histories. A team of student editors gathers, culls
and edits the manuscripts under the direction of Mrs.
Lerch, a published Civil War historian.
SPRING 2007 PARK TUDOR PHOENIX 19

FEATURE
The Civil War
A SOUTHERN GENTLEMAN
SUNFLOWER COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI 1862
The southern ideals were alive and well during the Civil War
in Sunflower County, Mississippi. This letter was written in
the northwestern part of the state in 1862. Although the names
of the author and recipient are not known, the letter provides a
colorful insight into the lives of soldiers during the Civil War.
Rumors have evidently been circulating that Rufus has become
a little too liberal in his ways. His cousin has been asked by
Rufus’s sister to remind him how he is expected to conduct
himself. The cousin, though, does not seem to see eye-to-eye
with Rufus’s concerned sister.
May 2, 1862
Sunflower County
Dear Cousin Rufus,
I take pen in hand this
day to brief with you a subject
near to my heart. Your
dear sister has spoken to
me of rumors she has heard of your conduct in the army, heard
from members of your own company. Sharon speaks with
tear-dimmed eyes of the corrupting influence
camp life has had on you and begs that I
will speak with you.
I must admit, however,
that I cannot comply
with your sister’s request
in the manner she would
desire instead, I will take this
opportunity to impart to you
some advice gained from my
experiences through the years.
My first suggestion for you is
that all consumption of hard spirits
take place only in the presence of
faithful comrades who can be depended
on to have a care for yourself at these
times when you yourself do not. Second,
any gambling should be done with a head
unbeffudled by whiskey. And third, carousing
with lurid women should be done with
care and, if I may say so, “cheesiness.” Otherwise,
enjoy yourself.
Your friend Theodoric is also being spoken of in
hushed tones, Cousin Rufus, so you may wish to tell him of
these things I have suggested. And you must write your sister
and let her believe that I have chastized you severely. But enjoy
your period of service in the army, Cousin, and don’t let yourself
take it too seriously. Take care.
Until we meet again, I am
Your Cousin
World War I
“DINGY” WRITES TO A LETTER TO “SQUEAL”
SCHOOLBOYS IN CORNISH, MAINE
Following the battle of Stones River: “I did not arrive on
the field until Friday night just as the great fight of that
day had been finished but I saw enough on the field to
sicken me of war.”
—Corporal Henry Mason, 1863
When the Armistice
was declared on November
11, 1918, some individuals
could not contain
their excitement. Allied
soldiers and their families
were relieved to have the
war ended. This was true,
too, for these two young
school friends in Maine, as this letter indicates:
Cornish, Me
Nov. 12, 1918
Dear Squeal,
I’m writing this letter before I even
get my head combed. Isn’t it just great
that Germany has really surrendered.
I wouldn’t believe it yesterday morning.
But I had to when we got the
papers. We had great fun up here. A
whole pack of the boys stayed out
of school Monday morning and
rang the church bells. Wasn’t
Miss Hett mad though. She
said, “What do you think
the boys ‘over there’ would
think if they knew you
people were celebrating
this way, disobeying
the laws of the country
and not going to school.” It
makes me sick. I think the boys ought
to stay out and celebrate. But we didn’t have to
20 PARK TUDOR PHOENIX SPRING 2007

FEATURE
Influenza victims are buried during World War I.
go to school in the afternoon and don’t you think
we didn’t do some celebrating. Mr. Plummer made
an image of the kaiser (notice it doesn’t begin with
a capital letter). It looked just exactly like him. He
painted his face and made one of those helmets to
go on his head. Honestly, it was the perfect image
of the kaiser. Well, they carried this image around
through the village in an auto followed by some
other autos with kids blowing horns and making
a racket, the autos were decorated with flags and
they were banging on drums. After they had gone
around through the village with him the[y] tied a
rope around his neck and hung him on the ropes
[of] the Service Flag and American Flag, so he
hung way up in the air between the two flags. Then
Dr. Lambertson took his old shotgun and put a
bullet right through him. Then they left him hanging
there until evening.
The boys were
pelting him with rocks
and everything else. At
night they got an old
donkey and rode him
all around through the
village. They had a
bonfire on the ball hill
that was bigger than
the other one. Then
they took the old kaiser do[w]n just as though it
was a dead body and four of the boys took him on
their backs, just like any one would carry a dead
body, and marched around the park with him.
Leaving the Philippines after the Philippine-American
War: “As we pulled out of the [Manila] bay the
band . . . struck up “The Stars and Stripes Forever”.
Never before nor since has band music thrilled
me so much and it is still my favorite band music.”
—Corporal James Miller, 1901
Then they tied him to a stake and burned him on
the ball hill. The boys blew off dynamite. And one
of them would get on the old donkey while another
kept firing a gun in back of him until they scared
him and got him running fast.
Mrs. Jameson is going to have a Red Cross concert
Monday night and I am going to play “Souvenir
de Wieniawski.” (I guess that[‘s] the right
spelling). I have got Cressy Pendexter for a violin
pupil and then I shall have Mildred [?] Dow.
And what do you think, I have got to teach
Bernice Woodbury and Mildred [?] Dow to play
a piece and play it with them at the Red Cross
concert.
I couldn’t stop to paragraph this thing. And now
you mustn’t mind the wording, writing, spelling,
or anything. Must close now or be late to school.
With piles of love, Dingy
P.S. How is Spunk? Thanks for getting the ornament.
Dorothy Warren has began school again.
World War II
ALMA DE LUCE
AMERICAN IN EUROPE
Alma Chalupnik was married in California in 1938 to Daniel
De Luce, an Associated Press correspondent for the Los Angeles
Times. He was sent to England in April 1939 as a foreign
correspondent—just as Europe was poised on the brink of
war.
Alma accompanied him and
wrote letters to her friends
about their travels and experiences
and kept them in a journal.
Following the De Luce’s
voyage to England on the
S.S. Normandie, they settled
briefly in London before he
was posted to Budapest and
bringing them both closer to
the war. These excerpts are
from her 125+ page journal, but a portion was “cut” from the
final chapter. Alma’s letters provide an interesting first impression
of Europe.
SPRING 2007 PARK TUDOR PHOENIX 21

FEATURE
April 13, 1939
We arrived in London
just in time for
a heat wave. The
temperature rose to
74 one day, and the
leaves budded just
like magic Japanese
paper flowers….
During this lovely
Spring weather I
have been sightseeing
as long as my
feet will carry me.
Westminster Abbey,
the Parliament Building, Buckingham Palace, St.
James Palace, and the Horse Guards have become
as familiar as the North Broadway Tunnel. I pass
them every day, whether I go to Piccadilly, or for
a walk along the Embankment….
Dan is out visiting the Gracie Fields set, and
he’ll have lunch at Simpsons. His letters of
introductions to studios have apparently assured
us of movie entertainment, although we’re seen
every picture now showing. A double bill of Monkey
Business and Gangs
of New York is playing
nearby. Londoners love
gangster movies. Many of
them sincerely believe that
all Americans carry guns.
American news in the
papers always includes at
least one item about gangsters.
. . .
We walked past No.
10 Downing Street Monday
and joined the crisis
peepers standing there. A
crowd stood there looking
at the house, hoping to get
a peek at Chamberlain.
Yesterday there was another crowd in from of the
Parliament Building – waiting while Chamberlain
spoke. And when I visited Buckingham Palace
there was a crown there, too, watching the guard
do sentry duty…. So much for the travelogue.
American troops in Siberia during World War I.
“It takes a lot of grit, and determination along
with a lot of pride to do the things we must and
if we knew the folks back home could know
each day what we do, it would make us all feel
a lot more bold and vicious. Things happen that
change a fellow in an instant. The fear-filled
one becomes brave and heroic without realizing
it. Brave men sometimes break down without
cause. Men can live 5 years in a moment and
60 in an hour—get gray haired overnight. But
we must win and we will win.”
—Regt. Sergt. Ed Kern, 1918
I suppose I should
mention the war. I’d
expected to be met at
Southampton by a gas
mask fitter, but so far
I haven’t even seen a
mask, or a bombproof
wigwam. The unfinished
shelters that
were dug in the parks
last Fall are being
grown over with grass.
No one here seems
worried about war as
I was in Los Angeles
– they seem to regard it as wool underwear in the
wintertime – mighty unpleasant but inevitable.
Being a typical newspaperman’s wife, I don’t
read the papers . . so the only time War seems
threatening is when I hear from home – I suppose
American newspapers make the most of every little
crisis. Dan, however, keeps in touch with the situation,
so I’ll quote what he wrote yesterday to a
friend of his:
“Everybody talks about the next war. The English
go on and on telling
what they’d like to and
are going to do to Hitler.
Bus conductors size me
up immediately for American
and breathe in my
face remarks, ‘If it hadn’t
been for your bloke Wilson,
we wouldn’t be in
this bloody fix.’
“The next war seems to
be as inevitable as death
and taxes, but the one big
question is when will it
come. The French just
decided tonight to toss
about 13 billion francs
into their war machine. The English are slow to
make up their minds, but there’s no way out of
having to spend more money for armaments.
“Opinion right now is war will be a matter
of years instead of months…. Lots of limeys in
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uniform about London. Lots of defense posters. If
a street here hasn’t a memorial to the dead of the
last war it isn’t a first-class street.”
My very, very best regards…. Alma
May 1, 1939
….We’re still at Nell Gwynn House in spite of
a severe financial headache. We cant’ bring ourselves
to accept the uncomfortable quarters that
are offered for less money…
…Here are some of the words that seem strange
to an American:
Tins – No storekeeper knows what a “can’
of soup is, food comes in tins, and is generally
regarded as an American idiosyncrasy.
Que – No one stands in line, only in ques. . . .
Biscuits – never cookies.
Legacy Initiative Steering Committee “studies the past”
Accumulator – battery.
Air Screw – propeller.
Lift – elevator. The lift starts as the main floor
and goes up one story to the first floor. We’re living
four stories up but are only on the third floor.
Litter – (pronounced littah) is what picknickers
leave scattered on the lawn (and against which
there is a fine). There are litter baskets in parks
and on streets.
Fit – People feel fit if they are well.
Wireless – radio.
An Englishman pronounces tissue as it is spelled,
not as tishue. And he pronounces schedule as
shedule, not skedule. . .
“Study the Past”
These words are inscribed on a marble edifice in front of the
National Archives in Washington, D.C. How appropriate. The
Legacy Initiative Steering Committee took a research trip to
Petersburg, Virginia and the National Archives in Washington,
D.C. in October 2006.
Three of the five Park Tudor students (the Civil War team of
Andrew Pauszek ’08, Julianne Sicklesteel ’07 and Drew Grein
’07) attended a two-day Civil War symposium in Petersburg.
The weekend symposium included nationally known authors
and historians who presented a program on “The Borderlands
in the Civil War.” After learning a tremendous amount about
each border state’s unique situation prior to and during the
Civil War, we returned to Washington, D.C. Two additional
steering committee members, Adriana Keramida-Strahl ’08
and Grace Tuttle ’07, representing the WWII and Modern Wars
teams, joined us there.
We started our work early Monday morning at the Archives.
Students obtained their researcher photo-ID cards, they were
oriented to the process of ordering specific military pension
files, and they also learned how to use microfilm to find
additional information. The students soon became comfortable
working in the Archives Reading Room along with other
researchers and academicians. The steering committee’s goal
was to locate crucial information in specific military pension
files as well as photographs for our third book, “Words of War:
Wartime Memories from American and Abroad.” Through
their diligent efforts, this was accomplished.
We continued to work at Archives the next day and located
materials for the Spanish-American War. During the day, we
also took the Archive’s shuttle bus out to Archives II in College
Park, Maryland to work in the Still Photography collection.
Here, students located more materials, including numerous
photographs, which featured scenes from WWI Siberia and
France; photos of the Mexican Punitive Expedition led by Pershing
in 1916; as well as WWII photographs from Okinawa.
After completing our work at the Archives, Tim Schurtter,
our liaison to the Veteran’s History Project Office at the
Library of Congress, took us on a two-and-a-half-hour behindthe-scenes
tour of the Library of Congress, where we met the
director of the Veteran’s History Project. After restoring our
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energy with lunch in the Madison
Building, we also toured
the Capitol, guided by a student-aide
from Senator Richard
Lugar’s office. Finally, having
completed miles and miles of
walking (at a virtual run), we
flew back to Indianapolis laden
with piles of photocopies, photographs
and great memories of
studying the past.
How did this trip benefit
the students and the Legacy
Initiative’s publication efforts?
The students who attended the
Civil War conference have a
much better understanding,
for example, of the difficulties
experienced by the border
states during the Civil War.
This awareness, in turn, helped
our students better understand
the context and intent of the
letters that we were considering
for the Civil War chapter in the
next “Words of War” volume.
It also was rewarding to see
the students work together at
“Words of War” student editors Grace Tuttle, Julianne Sickelsteel and
Adriana Keramida-Strahl research documents at the National Archives
in Washington, D.C. Student editor Drew Grein carries documents in
the background.
can be seen in the Legacy Initiative’s
third compiled anthology,
which will be available at a
book unveiling and signing the
first week in May.
Historians—including our students—have
a habit of wanting
to save any and everything historical,
especially materials that
have been a part of our current
research efforts, which began in
2004-2005. By collecting original
and copies of letters, diaries,
oral history transcripts, photographs
and supporting research
documentation, it is easy to
become overwhelmed.
Room 228 in the Upper School
has been buried at times under
boxes and stacks of papers;
there are jammed file bins as
well as filled hard drives. This
situation is typical for each of
our Legacy publication projects.
Each and every student (including
their teacher) often becomes
emotionally attached to “his” or
“her” pet projects.
Archives II, helping one another find the perfect photos for Naturally, the Initiative wants some of the best stories to
items on our punch list. This was certainly not an easy task. see the light of day. It was decided, for example, to shift two
Each student had to search through numerous files drawers to fabulous oral history accounts to Volume IV, where they will
locate a specific topic and the corresponding file number. Then, be featured in our first all-oral history anthology of veterans’
students had to convert the numbers with the help of a second stories from World War II through the present day. Volume IV
finding aid and fill out an order form—all before the “pull will debut during the 2007-2008 school year.
time.” We were always racing to get our orders placed before The Legacy Initiative invites students, parents, faculty,
each new deadline. Soon, carts arrived laden with boxes. Each alumni, veterans and others from the community to celebrate
student selected one file at a time, and while wearing protective the unveiling of our latest anthology, and to participate in the
cotton gloves, searched for the perfect photos. Once the photos program and book-signing event in May. Contact Kathryn
were selected, they took additional notes and made digital copies
for our use. Some of the tangible evidence of their efforts further information or to contribute to our future
Lerch at klerch@parktudor.org or 317/415-2700, ext. 3102, for
projects.
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Never forget: A child of the
Holocaust bears witness
BY LISA HENDRICKSON ’77
It was November 1938 and Isidor and Ida Muschel were
desperate to escape the Nazis in their native city of
Vienna. They quickly gathered up their most precious
possessions – their eight-month-old daughter and Isidor’s
fur sewing machine – and fled to safety in America.
Sixty-eight years later, their daughter, Dee Schwartz, received
news that her father’s fur sewing machine would soon be safely
housed in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., telling
her family’s story of escape from Nazi persecution.
The Muschels left their home in Vienna on November 11,
1938, the day before 26,000 Jews were transported to concentration
camps as a result of the Kristallnacht pogrom.
Isidor Muschel was one of six children in a “deeply religious
household,” says Dee, a tutor and language arts teacher at
Park Tudor since 1983. His family had been very successful
in business and Isidor had intended to follow. But during the
rise of the Third Reich in Austria, Jews were banned from
attending university and young Isidor knew that in order to
make a living he must learn a trade. At the age of 14 he began
an apprenticeship program, planning to work for relatives who
were furriers.
Isidor purchased a Pelznähmaschine (fur sewing machine)
and began his career designing and making fur coats just at the
time when “life was getting more and more difficult for the
Jews,” Dee recounts. On March 13, 1938, Adolf Hitler annexed
Austria into the German Reich. Her father was 31 years old,
and Dee had just been born.
“When the Anschluss occurred, my parents realized they
had to get out,” Dee says.
The question was how. The Nazis had imposed a quota
system, allowing only a certain number of Jews to leave the
country. In order to seek refuge in the United States they had
to have an American sponsor.
During this frightening time, fate intervened for the Muschels.
One day, a postcard fell from a prayer book Dee’s grandmother
was reading. The card had been sent by Myro Glass, a
student whose music school education she had sponsored years
earlier. Glass had moved to the United States and became a
Cantor at Beth El-Zedeck temple in Indianapolis.
Believing that he might be able to help her daughter’s family,
Dee’s grandmother penned a letter to him. Glass subsequently
arranged for Herb Davidson, who was president of Indiana Fur
Company, to sponsor the Muschels as refugees.
“My father determined that we all go or we all would die,”
she says. “My mother wanted to stay.” Her mother was reluctant
to leave because the immigration quota system meant that
other family members would have to stay behind. After an
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emotional deliberation the Muschels decided to leave, planning
to take a train from Vienna to the Netherlands, where they
would board a ship that would bring them to America.
“My great grandmother went to the train station and collapsed
because she knew she would never see me and my
mother again,” she said. The Muschels barely escaped – they
fortuitously missed the train they were supposed to have taken
to their ship’s port of embarkation in the Netherlands. They
later learned that the train was stopped by the Nazis and all on
board were shot to death.
The Muschel family arrived in Indianapolis in the winter of
1938. The few belongings they had been allowed to ship landed
on their doorstep in January 1939. Among the items were the
family’s Shabbat candlesticks and Isidor’s fur machine. “He
knew this fur machine was the only means he had to make a
living” in America, Dee says.
Life in Indianapolis was initially very difficult for the family.
Neither of her parents spoke English, and “coming to America
for them was like going to Mars,” says Dee. She remembers
“translating from English to German and German to English at
the age of two.”
Renting a half-double at 29 th Street and Park Avenue in
Indianapolis, Dee’s father was offered employment at his
sponsor’s fur company, and later at William H. Block & Company
department store. After spending most of his career at
Block’s he returned to Davidson’s fur salon, not retiring until
the age of 88.
After Dee’s father died in 1998, the fur machine sat in her
garage for eight years. She knew it had historical value, but
didn’t know what to do with it. “For some reason, in the middle
of the night it came to me – ‘Why don’t you contact the Holocaust
Museum, and see if they want this,” she said. The next
day, she sent an e-mail to the museum and received an immediate
response, asking her to send documentation for the sewing
machine in order to establish its provenance.
Then Dee’s mother became ill, and because she was occupied
with caring for her, Dee did not immediately respond.
After her mother died, she sent another e-mail to the Holocaust
Museum, and immediately received a response saying they still
had a copy of her original e-mail.
She was asked to send photographs and measurements of the
fur machine, along with copies of her parents’ Austrian passports.
A few months later, a committee of curators convened
to review the materials and she was notified that the museum
“would be honored to receive the machine for our permanent
collection.”
Dee Schwartz holds a copy of her father’s Austrian passport, as well as her
mother’s original passport that also held Dee’s baby photo. These were the
first documents loaned to the Legacy Initative in 2001 and resulted in an
article by Meredith Thomas ’04 published in the Spring 2002 Phoenix.
The museum sent a crew to pack and ship the machine on
November 12, 2006 – exactly 68 years to the day of the Naziled
Kristallnacht.
It was a difficult for Dee to watch the fur machine leave her
home. “It represented a major connection between America
and Europe to me,” she says, but now feels that “to me it’s gone
back to Europe.”
Dee says that her parents “lived a good life – [but] they lived
a very careful life,” having never forgotten how close they
came to losing their lives. Of herself and the other children of
Jewish refugees from the Holocaust, she says, “We carry the
pain that our parents endured, as well as our own.”
However, she believes her father’s sewing machine will
mark a bright spot in that terrible moment in history by telling
its story of escape and hope to visitors to the Holocaust
Museum.
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