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Connections
The Magazine of The Episcopal Academy SPRING 2007
Also inside:
Taking Our History
With Us: The Needlepoint
Kneelers
Episcopal Squash: A
History of Excellence
Modeling Leadership at
Episcopal and Beyond
The Birth of
Team 2234
Coupling competition and love
of learning with applied science
and technology, The Episcopal
Academy Robotics team went
from rookie to award-winner in
less than seven months.

Contents
Features
1 The Birth of Team 2234
Coupling competition and love of
learning with applied science and
technology, The Episcopal Academy
Robotics Team went from rookie
to award-winner in less than seven
months.
4 Taking Our History With Us:
The Needlepoint Kneelers
15 Modeling Leadership at
Episcopal and Beyond
16 Episcopal Squash: A History
of Excellence
DEPARTMENTS
8 Academics
14 Athletics
22 Arts
26 Alumni
29 Spirituality &
Community Service
33 Development
37 Class Notes
44 Milestones
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On the cover: Members of the Episcopal Robotics Team do some last
minute adjustments before the competition starts.
The Birth of Team 2234
Coupling competition and love of learning with applied science
and technology, The Episcopal Academy Robotics team went
from rookie to award-winner in less than seven months.
By Linda Lew
spring 2007 1

On Saturday, November 17, 2006, The Episcopal
Academy Robotics Team was born. One
month earlier, the group that would eventually
become the team had its first brush with
the bigger world of robots when Lower Merion’s robotics
coach Rich Kressly invited Episcopal to compete in an
event with Wissahickon High School’s robotics team. Wissahickon’s
Team 341 offered to lend Episcopal their robot
“The Wombat” for a preseason competition. Erin Rhoads
’10 and Adam Charlton ’09 were quick on their rookie
feet and held their own during the qualifying rounds.
Erin and Adam’s enthusiasm and success at the Duel
on the Delaware competition encouraged Wissahickon
coach, Al Ostrow, to invite Episcopal to compete in another
competition, Ramp Riot 2006, in November. Again,
Wissahickon lent Episcopal its robot, and Teresa Giblin ’07 and
EJ Spofford ’08 joined Erin and Adam at the competition. The
team finished 10th out of 36 teams, and won the Judges Award
for best exemplifying the spirit of the competition.
It was during the lunch break at Ramp Riot that the students,
faculty advisors, and several parents discussed formally
fielding a robotics team this year. The excitement and energy
at the competition were a factor, but it was the core principles
of the competition that compelled everyone. The FIRST
“Being the new kid on the block
isn’t easy, but this team looks like
it has been a member of FIRST for
many seasons.”
(For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)
Robotics Competition (FRC) is about more than building
robots. The FRC was developed by inventor Dean Kamen’s
FIRST organization, which aspires to create a world “where
science and technology are celebrated… where young people
dream of becoming science and technology heroes….” (Kamen
is the inventor of the Segway.) To that end, FIRST fosters many
elements of working as a team. Students focus time on finding
sponsors to help fund their team. They seek out mentors
through partnerships with sponsors and universities and they
reach out to the community through various community service
initiatives. By the end of lunch, the decision was made: the
team would ask the administration if it could join the FRC by
the December registration deadline for the 2006-2007 season.
Upper School Head, Geoff Wagg, agreed that the team
shouldn’t wait another year. “The school was interested in creating
a robotics program and it was obvious from the group’s
experiences at the competitions that we should start a team this
year.” Wagg immediately provided the money for the team’s registration
fee. Shortly thereafter, The Edmar Abrasive Company
offered financial support as well. Maria Mascioli Charlton, Edmar’s
CFO, noted: “We believe (the FRC) is the type of activity
that promotes learning and healthy competition in the field of
science and technology, and allows students to come together
where their talents can be shared to achieve a common goal.”
The team swelled to seven students with the addition of Jackie
Bailey ’08, Christine Chen ’09, and Steven Wu ’09. Three
college mentors from Drexel University came aboard as well:
Haroon Ahmad, Doug Markgraf, and Bryant Nelson. Haroon
and Doug are former members of Wissahickon’s team and
Bryant was on a team in California. With Linda Lew, Middle
School technology coordinator, overseeing the efforts, Lower
School Merion science teacher, Edward Mathisen ’02, supervised
the build team that designed and constructed Episcopal’s
robot. Steven Rhoads, father of Erin, managed the programming
team. Rounding out the team was Matt Memmo, Upper
School technology coordinator, who created the team’s Web
site (www.ea1785.org/robotics) and Charles Buck, technical
services coordinator, who helped to supervise work sessions.
How the Competition Works
Every January, the FRC unveils a game challenge and
teams are given six weeks to construct and program
their robot for competition. Teams compete
in regional competitions to qualify for the national
championship in Atlanta, GA. This year’s game challenge was
“Rack ‘N’ Roll,” a contest in which robots place inflated rings
on the arms of an octagonal structure in the middle of a game
court. Two teams of three robots earn points for placing ringers
on the structure, and for lifting other robots off the ground
at the end of the game.
Episcopal’s team decided to build a defensive robot to push
opponents away from the game structure to prevent them from
scoring. The team also incorporated ramps to lift other robots
and earn extra points. As the design moved from paper to reality,
the team received help from Michael Picciani, father of
Michael ’09 and Elizabeth ’11, who found materials for the robot’s
frame and assisted with the robot’s construction. Team
members made a visit to Picciani’s company, North American
Machine Works, to get help welding the ramps.
For six weeks, the team worked seven days a week to finish
the robot before the end of the build season. Team members
came after athletic practice each weekday and usually stayed
until 8:00 p.m. In addition, work sessions ran every Saturday
and Sunday and during all school holidays. Thanks to Len
Haley, Episcopal’s director of plant and operations, the team
worked out of the school’s machine shop. Len and his staff graciously
allowed the team to increasingly take over much of the
work space as the weeks progressed. Len also generously supplied
the team with the necessary tools to build the robot and
stopped by to check on the team throughout the season. In
gratitude for his generosity, the robot was named “Lenny” in
his honor.
As the season progressed, Sophia Park ’10 and Nithin Reddy
’10 came to observe Lenny’s progress and assisted the build and
programming teams, while the ranks of the sponsors swelled to
four: The Edmar Abrasive Company and North American Machine
Works, as well as RADCorp (Steven Rhoads’ company)
and The Internet Capital Group, run by Buck Buckley ’78, father
of Alexa ’10. As such, the official FRC name for the team
became: Team 2234—The Edmar Abrasive Company/RAD-
Corp/ Internet Capital Group/North American Machine Works
& The Episcopal Academy.
The day before the end of build season, the team scrambled
to finish constructing Lenny and fine-tune its programming. At
the end of that 12-hour day, Lenny was packed into its crate
(which was built by Lower Merion’s team as a gift from one
former rookie team to a new rookie team) and sent via FedEx
to its first destination: the Chesapeake Regional Competition
in Annapolis, MD.
The Regional Competition
Held at the Naval Academy, the Chesapeake Regional
was a three-day competition. The first day was
devoted to uncrating the robot, having it inspected,
and competing in practice rounds. Qualifying
rounds occurred on the second day and for half of the third day.
The afternoon of the third day was for the playoffs and awards
ceremony. Throughout the three-day competition, FIRST judges
stopped by the pit area to speak with teams about safety, ask
about their robot, and inquire about the team, as they determine
which teams should win awards. EA’s team set its sights
on winning the Rookie All-Star Award, which “celebrates the
rookie team exemplifying a young but strong partnership effort,
as well as implementing the mission of FIRST to inspire
students to learn more about science and technology.”
After the first day of qualifying,
Lenny was ranked 8th out of 58
teams, which put Episcopal in good
position as one of the top eight teams
to automatically move on to the playoffs.
Unfortunately, the team lost its
last qualifying match the next day and
dropped to 17th. However, once qualifying
rounds were completed, the top
eight teams each chose two teams to
take with them to the playoffs. Wissahickon’s
team finished in the top eight
and chose Episcopal as one of its alliance
partners for the playoffs. The
alliance won its first playoff round and
moved on to the semifinals, where the great run finally ended.
The team waited eagerly during the awards ceremony after
the competition, hoping to capture the rookie award. Then
the announcement came. “The judges had a very difficult time
choosing just one Rookie All-Star,” the official announced. “Today
we recognize an outstanding new member of FIRST. Being
the new kid on the block isn’t easy, but this team looks like it
has been a member of FIRST for many seasons. They may be
new, but it’s obvious that they get it. Please join us in awarding
the Rookie All-Star Award to Team 2234!” The team collected
its award from the judges and referees and headed back to the
stands only to hear that they had also won the Highest Rookie
Seed Award. Jackie Bailey, Christine Chen, Teresa Giblin, Erin
Rhoads, Adam Charlton, EJ Spofford, and Steven Wu walked
away with two rookie awards and an invitation to the national
championship in Atlanta, GA.
The National Championship
The Georgia Dome in Atlanta became the team’s home
for three days in April. The 344 teams competing
from around the world were divided into four divisions—Archimedes,
Curie, Galileo, and Newton. The
Episcopal team was part of the Archimedes group, and Lenny
competed against 85 other robots in the division. After the
qualifying rounds, Lenny was ranked 27th out of 86 teams and
had a record of 4-3. Unfortunately, the team was not selected
by one of the top eight to continue on to the playoffs. Having
qualified for nationals in its rookie year, the team was happy
with what they accomplished throughout the season. “Looking
back, constructing Lenny and being on the team taught me
about engineering and teamwork. It was a great experience.”
said Steven Wu.
“This group of seven students has learned to work together
as a team both on and off the competition field. They are a family—they
fight, they have fun and they want what’s best for the
team. Who knew that November day at Ramp Riot that they
would bring two rookie awards back to EA and also qualify
for nationals? All of the mentors are proud of the students and
their accomplishments,” said Linda Lew. Geoff Wagg added:
“The students and faculty took this new initiative and created
a program that surpassed all of our expectations.”
With Lenny back from Atlanta, the team is now focusing
on postseason competitions, thanking its sponsors and looking
ahead to next year. It is working with the Community
Service Department to try to start a robotics
program at another school and
mentor that team as Wissahickon mentored
Episcopal. As the team works on
this initiative and looks toward next
year, it is also on the lookout for sponsors
interested in investing in the team.
“Sponsors are a vital part of our team;
they donate time and money to help
the team grow through FIRST and all
it has to offer,” states Adam Charlton.
Along with funding, the team is
seeking out engineers to help assist
the team. Alumni or sponsors with
backgrounds in engineering who are
interested in sharing their knowledge would be welcome. Graduating
team member Teresa Giblin certainly plans to be back.
“When I joined the robotics team in November, I did not realize
the profound impact that it would have on my senior year,”
she said. “It not only inspired me to pursue studies in engineering,
but it also taught me time management skills, cooperation,
and professionalism. I can only hope that next year I can come
back as a mentor to the team.” n
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Taking Our History With Us:
The Needlepoint Kneelers in
Christ Chapel By Virginia Jarvis Whelan
An often overlooked treasure on the Merion Campus, the
Christ Chapel needlepoint kneelers are just a few of the
numerous historic items that will be finding a new home in
Newtown Square.
Kitty Blenko got up at five every
morning to put in a few
hours of stitching on her
cushion before she made
breakfast for her five children, all of
Squire, who at the time was the school’s
new chaplain, remembers: “The project
was underway when I came to EA
in the fall of 1978. Until that time, needlework
was completely foreign to me.
church interiors, was hired to prepare
the designs. In keeping with the Nativity
window at the Chapel’s main entrance,
the intended “stained glass effect” was
echoed within the designs on the cushions.
All design elements were outlined
in black to mimic the leading in the
stained glass and further delineated into
smaller sections to imitate pieces of colored
glass. The linear, stylized drawings,
and the pastel color palette, offered a
contemporary feel to reflect the Chapel’s
interior.
After three or four revisions, there
was a sense of great excitement when
the designs and the color schemes were
finalized. The full-size designs were
drawn on long pieces of paper and rolled
up into tubes for easy transport. Grace
Keffer, chair of the Mother’s Association
The Chapel Kneelers
COMMUNION SCENE WORKED BY
Cushion 1 (103" x 13" x 2") The Birth of Christ Helen Arndt McAvoy
The Three Wise Men
Deborah Goldberg Stinnett
Cushion 2 (103" x 13" x 2") The Flight into Egypt Carolyn Payne Langfitt
Christ Among the Elders in the Temple
Tacey Belden Hole
Cushion 3 (103" x 13" x 2") The Baptism of Christ Fisher Dixon Chapman
The Raising of Lazarus
Elaine Pierson-Mastroianni
Cushion 4 (85" x 13" x 2") The Sermon on the Mount Nancy Kirwin Giles
Jesus Calming the Waters
Elizabeth Hardie Lind
Cushion 5 (85" x 13" x 2") The Loaves and Fishes Katherine MacDonald Blenko
Christ Walking Upon the Water
Florence Hopkins Borda
Cushion 6 (103" x 13" x 2") The Entry Into Jerusalem Lois Walker Susskind
Cleansing of the Temple
Meredith Smith Jones
Cushion 7 (101" x 13" x 2") The Last Supper Jane Ryan Thompson
Christ before Pontius Pilate
Constance Matt Louderback
Cushion 8 (103" x 13" x 2") The Crucifixion Cynthia Becker Holstad
The Resurrection
Nikki Irvin Murphy
SMALL KNEELERS CHRISTIAN SYMBOLISM WORKED BY
Pomegranate (10" x 13" x 2") The pomegranate, with it countless seeds within a single Pauline H. Davis
fruit, is a symbol of unity referring to many worshippers
joined within the authority of the Church. It is also a symbol
of the Resurrection
Lily The symbol of purity, chastity and innocence. A white Unknown
lily is often used at Easter as a symbol of the Resurrection.
Work in progress, 1979
whom attended The Episcopal Academy.
Debbie Stinnett liked to stitch in the
quiet of the evening. Jane Thompson always
carried her canvas and wool with
her to stitch at opportune moments.
The needlepoint kneelers, which have
graced Christ Chapel for more than 25
years, were created by a number of dedicated
Episcopal mothers and involved
more than 6,000 total hours of stitching—not
to mention the time spent
designing, organizing, and fundraising.
An Idea Born
In the fall of 1977, the Mothers Association
(the predecessor to the EAPA)
decided to create communion cushions
to cover the limestone steps beneath
the rails framing the central altar of
Christ Chapel at Merion. Chaplain Jim
When I witnessed the skills of the women
on this committee, I quickly realized
that needlepoint was more than a craft
or hobby—it was truly a high form of
fine art.”
The vision behind the kneelers was to
create a teaching tool so that, no matter
where a student knelt to take communion,
there was an awareness of Christ.
Sixteen events in the life of Jesus were
chosen for the eight long kneelers. “The
project involved a great deal of effort
for many people,” explained Jane
Thompson who became chair of the
committee in 1979 (and who, amazingly,
still had the color charts, an array of
photographs, extra wool, and three of
the original drawings at her home).
Victor L. Pisani, a Philadelphia architect
and designer specializing in
Clockwise l to r: Elaine Pierson-Mastroianni,
Nancy Kirwin Giles, Meredith Smith Jones, and
Kitty Blenko
at the time, remembers how eager she
was to share the final plans at a Board
of Trustees meeting with the Diocesan
Bishop in attendance. “With great dramatic
flair,” Grace recalled, “I unrolled
the drawings on the table and knocked
Bishop Ogilby in the head.”
“I was horrified!” Grace remembered,
adding she resisted the urge to
crawl under the table. Bishop Ogilby remarked,
“That’s the first time I’ve been
knocked over by a kneeler.” With admirable
poise, Grace Keffer continued with
her presentation; she and the kneeler designs
received unanimous acclaim and
support.
When it came time to stitch the cushions,
there were tryouts to select the
needleworkers. Interested volunteers
were given a painted cotton canvas or
Lily with PX between Greek letters The alpha (a) and omega (V) are the first and the last Gabrielle Schwarz Haab
a V (10" x 13" x 2")
letters of the Greek alphabet, referencing “I am Alpha and
the Omega, beginning and the ending, saith the Lord.”
Rev. 1:8. The Jerusalem or Crusaders cross
represents Jesus’ birthplace.
Dogwood (10" x 13" x 2") A modern symbol of the crucifixion. The brown spots on a Elaine P. Mastroianni
dogwood’s four petals represent the stigmata. The wood of
the dogwood tree was believed to have been used to make
the cross on which Christ was crucified.
Poinsettia (10" x 13" x 2") A modern symbol for the Christmas season and is Katherine MacDonald Blenko
associated with the Nativity.
SEATING CUSHIONS
Bishop’s chair (22½" x 17" x 2")
Chaplain’s chair (22¼" x 16½" x 2")
Bench (1) (32½" x 14" x 2")
Bench (2) (34" x 14" x 2")
WORKED BY
Jane Ryan Thompson
Nancy Kirwin Giles
Katherine MacDonald Blenko
Deborah Goldberg Stinnett
Others parents on the committee include Gabby Haab, Grace Keffer, Stephanie Chawaga†, Lisa Cox†. If any names were omitted, please let us know.
† deceased
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scrim to complete and submit. A blind
sampling was arranged (all entries were
identified by number, not name) and the
best entries were selected. Only those
needleworkers who demonstrated proper
techniques and a consistent stitching
tension were asked to participate.
Work Begins
By February 1, 1979, the designs were
drawn on the scrims and color-coded
with numbers corresponding to wool
yarns. Lisa Cox assembled all the materials
at cost through her needlework
store in Bryn Mawr. Gabby Haab offered
her guild-certified canvas-work
expertise to prepare stitching instructions
for the group. A copy of Gabby’s
instructions that were dutifully typed
up and distributed by Elaine Mastroi-
Fisher Dixon Chapman
cushion was sub-divided into two smaller
sections (a rectangular piece and a
corner piece); each one contained its own
titled scene. As the sections were divided
among the needleworkers, Carolyn
Langfitt remembers she was “so disappointed
when Flopsy Borda got to work
the ‘Jesus Walking upon the Water’ section
because I just loved that gorgeous
red sail.” (Note: Carolyn’s ‘Flight into
Egypt’ section turned out beautifully.)
Stitching had to be similar and precise
to have a unified appearance when
the rectangular and corner sections
were stitched together to make a single
long cushion top. Every volunteer also
worked the two-inch pale green needlepoint
sides of the cushions, and “signed”
her first, middle, and last name and
“1980” in dark green stitching along
The camaraderie among the committeewomen
was strong. “We were all
enthusiastic and single-minded about
the project,” recalls Meredith Jones.
Many met monthly to stitch, chart
their progress, and to bolster each other’s
spirits; the project was demanding
and seemingly endless. One industrious
committee member calculated that there
are 146,608 stitches in each large kneeler
averaging about 690 hours of work
per kneeler.
There may have been some self-imposed
pressure felt by those involved.
As Kitty Blenko remembers: “Although
it was not a race, you certainly didn’t
want to be the last one to finish! It was
a wonderful project, consumed our lives
for two years but we all knew it would
be a legacy that would remain with the
A Piece of History
The kneelers have been part of Episcopal
Academy’s history through several
terms of leadership. Headmaster James
McK. Quinn and Reverend James
Trimble were involved in the project’s
beginning. Head of School Jay Crawford
and Chaplain Squire led the 1980
dedication ceremony and witnessed
their uninterrupted use in school activities,
and current Head of School Ham
Clark remarked: “We look forward to
their continued presence at the Newtown
Square campus. We are excited to
move the best of our history with us and
the kneelers are at the top of that list.”
In fact, Bob Venturi and his architectural
team were asked (and enthusiastically
agreed) to rework the plans so that the
communion cushions are employed
Transportation to the New Campus
The Episcopal Academy is committed to supporting the transportation needs of its students.
Outlined below is our transportation plan for the 2008-2009 school year. As with any
significant change, we know we may encounter situations we have not anticipated in our
transportation planning. This will be a work in progress for the 2008-2009 school year as
we all settle into new routines and a new location.
Public School District Busing
The following public school districts
have confirmed they will transport
students residing within their district
to the Newtown Square campus:
(Please contact the transportation
1
department of your local school
district for details on hub locations
and schedules)
3
R5
Chester-Upland, Garnet Valley,
Thorndale
Dowingtown
2
Whitford
Exton
Great Valley, Haverford, Interboro,
Malvern
Paoli
Daylesford
Lower Merion, Marple Newtown,
Berwyn
Devon
Strafford
Wayne
Methacton, Philadelphia,
St. Davids
Schuylkill River
Radnor
Phoenixville, Radnor, Ridley,
Villanova
Rosemont
Bryn Mawr
Rose Tree /Media, Southeast Delco,
Haverford
Ardmore
Wynnewood
Springfield Delaware County,
Narberth
Merion
Tredyffrin/Easttown, Upper Darby,
Overbrook
Wallingford /Swarthmore,
30th Street Suburban
Station Station
West Chester
Transportation on SEPTA/Paoli Shuttle
Shuttle service to the new campus from the Paoli SEPTA station will be provided in the
morning and at regular intervals after school. Students should plan to board westbound or
eastbound trains that will arrive in Paoli by 7:45 a.m. After school riders will be able to make
departing trains at 4:00 p.m. and again at 6:00 and 6:30 p.m.
The shuttle to and from the Paoli SEPTA train station is provided at no cost to families.
Philadelphia Options
Students residing in Philadelphia are encouraged to use the SEPTA R5 and the shuttle
service described above . Using monthly, unlimited-use passes, students can ride from
Center City to Paoli for $90 a month or $810 a year. Families wishing to use SEPTA, and that
qualify for financial assistance, will have the monthly train pass costs factored into their aid
package.
For younger students and those not choosing to ride the train, Episcopal will make available
a daily shuttle service from a hub in Society Hill and another hub in West Philadelphia. Pick
up in Society Hill will be @ 6:45 a.m. and pick up in West Philadelphia will be @ 7:00 a.m.
The shuttle will return to the same hubs in the afternoon @ 4:45 p.m. in West Philadelphia
and @ 5:15 p.m. in Society Hill. If there is interest from Upper School students for a later
return shuttle, we will add a run that departs Newtown Square at 6:10 p.m. We will add
vehicles, as necessary, to this route as families commit to the service.
We are in the process of securing hub locations that offer easy access for parents, safety for
children waiting, as well as shelter for bad weather. The cost for this service will be $2,850
per student for the 2008-2009 school year. Families wishing to use this service, and that
qualify for financial assistance, will have the shuttle costs factored into their aid package.
Transportation by Car
The new campus will feature a Lower School drop-off area and a drop-off location for
all other students. Student drivers in V Form and VI Form will be given assigned parking
spaces. We will be able to accommodate parking for all student drivers.
anni still exists and includes guidelines
such as, “The center is on horizontal
lines #10 thru 15 (inclusive) with nine
above and nine below” and “Use 18"
lengths of yarn. To decrease twisting:
Separate all of the triple strands into single
strands before starting. Pull out two
strands from the pile and check to see
that you do not have two thicks or two
thins. Check strands to see they each
turn in opposite directions.”
With this much attention to detail,
there is a specialized language and technique
that the untrained needleworker
might not appreciate.
All cushions contained side edges with
45-degree angles so that when two such
edges were aligned they would effectively
‘turn’ the corners on the altar. Every
Meredith Jones
the back of her cushion. The pieced needlework
was sewn together, edged with
green piping, and backed with an unbleached
linen. A long zipper down the
center of the linen backing allows access
to the pillow form inside.
The project was so successful that
even before the communion kneelers
were completed, it was decided to create
five smaller needlepoint kneelers for the
altar steps (each highlights a single flower
found within the large communion
cushions), a seat cushion for both the
Bishop’s chair and the Chaplain’s chair,
and two seat cushions for the benches
near the pulpit. The seating cushions
contain a beautiful geometric pattern
that, through a combination of stitches
and shading, creates an optical illusion
of rows of parallel stairways.
school long after our children graduated.”
The Mothers Association gave the
completed set of needlepoint cushions
to the school in May 1980 and, as Lois
Susskind Muscheck recalls, “they were
dedicated as part of a special chapel
service.”
Twenty-six years later, the needlepoint
cushions are an integral part of
all services performed in the Chapel.
The EAPA’s Altar Guild has assumed
the responsibility of their care. At the
end of every academic year, the cushions
are removed from their positions in the
sanctuary, wrapped in cotton sheeting,
and placed in the sacristy’s drawers to
protect them over the summer months.
Every fall, they are back in place for the
school’s opening chapel service.
Jane Thompson
as kneelers in the new chapel. The
smaller kneelers, the Chaplain’s and
Bishop’s chairs, and the benches and their
cushions will also find a home in the
new chapel.
The needlepoint kneelers are an
important part of Episcopal Academy
history and will help create a bridge
between the Merion and Newtown
campuses. n
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Academics
Parade of Nationally
Recognized Speakers and
Educators Highlights Year
Quality speakers have never been in short supply at
Episcopal, but over the past six months, the school
hosted some of the most respected educators in the
country. The programs were geared in various ways
toward all of Episcopal’s community members (faculty members,
students, parents, and alumni), and all have helped bolster
Episcopal’s reputation for excellence in critical thinking, civic
action, and promoting a healthy school environment.
In April, Dr. Gordon Gee, the Chancellor of Vanderbilt University,
and Dr. Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania
visited Episcopal. Chancellor Gee was the 2007 Maura Murphy
lecturer and spoke eloquently in Chapel about the need to
challenge oneself, to embrace spirituality of all forms, and on
the importance of community. Dr. Gee is one of the most experienced
chief executives in higher education, and has served as
Dr. Gordon Gee, (third from the right in the front row) the Chancellor of
Vanderbilt University, poses with members of the Murphy family, Ham Clark,
and Chaplain Jim Squire. Gee was the 2007 Maura Murphy Lecturer, a lecture
series endowed through a gift from the Murphy family named in honor of their
late daughter.
president of Brown University, The Ohio State University, the
University of Colorado, and West Virginia University as well as
Vanderbilt. He is the co-author of six books, and the author of
numerous papers and articles in fields relating to both law and
education. The recipient of a number of awards and honors,
he was a Mellon Fellow for the Aspen Institute for Humanistic
Studies and a W.K. Kellogg Fellow.
Dr. Martin Seligman is the Director of the University of Pennsylvania
Positive Psychology Center and founder of Positive
Psychology, a new branch of psychology which focuses on the
empirical study of such things as positive emotions, strengthsbased
character, and healthy institutions. His research has
demonstrated that it is possible to be happier — to feel more
satisfied, to be more engaged with life, find more meaning, have
higher hopes, and probably
even laugh and smile
more, regardless of one’s
circumstances. Seligman
spent the day with
Episcopal’s faculty during
an in-service prior to
spring break in a workshop
designed to help
both Episcopal and Seligman’s
team find ways
to incorporate positive
psychology into the classroom.
His bibliography
includes more than 20
books and 170 articles
Dr. Michael Thompson, noted educator,
psychologist, and author of “Raising Cain:
Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys,” met
with faculty members and parents in an
afternoon session on May 8th.
on motivation and personality. He is the recipient of two Distinguished
Scientific Contribution awards from the American
Psychological Association, the Laurel Award of the American
Association for Applied Psychology and Prevention, and the
Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society for Research in
Psychopathology and has served as the President of the American
Psychological Association.
In May, Dr. Michael Thompson, noted author, consultant,
and psychologist was on campus for the day to talk with faculty,
parents, and students about the unique ways that girls and
boys learn and how understanding these differences can help
students, parents, and Episcopal achieve greater social, emotional,
and academic balance and success. He, and co-author
Dan Kindlon, wrote the New York Times bestseller “Raising
Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys” (Ballantine
Books, 1999). Thompson also hosted the PBS documentary series
of the same name, “Raising Cain,” exploring the emotional
development of boys in America today. After spending the day
speaking with faculty from all three units, as well as students,
Thompson spent two hours with parents in the afternoon discussing
the issues facing children today, particularly boys, and
how Episcopal and parents can help continue to build a more
encouraging and safer environment for all of our students and
children.
Correction…
We regret that on Page 10 of the Winter issue of Connections
we accidentally omitted Alex Kornienko’s name from the
caption of National Merit Commended and Semi-Finalist
Scholars. Alex was honored as a Commended Scholar and can
be seen in the upper left hand corner wearing a solid blue shirt.
Episcopal Fares Well at
Model UN Conference
Episcopal Upper School’s Model UN Club
attended the Philadelphia Area Model United
Nations Conference, the nation’s longest running
Model UN Conference, at the University of
Pennsylvania Museum this spring. Episcopal
attended with 38 other Philadelphia-area schools
and was honored to represent the United
Kingdom delegation. The Model UN program
allows high school students to debate topics that
are currently being debated in the actual United
Nations, such as the global warming, the crisis
in Darfur, and nuclear technology. The program
requires each student to write a Draft Resolution
Paper from the perspective of their assigned
country.
To ensure student readiness for the Model
UN Conference, the World Affairs Council of
Philadelphia developed an extensive preparation
process that includes briefing sessions, a fullday
preparatory conference, and a mentorship
component, consisting of doctors, political
advisers, and reporters. The council then chose
the four most comprehensive and accurate
resolutions per topic to be amended and
voted on during the conference. In the Social,
Humanitarian, and Cultural Committee regarding
the Crisis in Darfur, Edwin Wee’s ’09 resolution
was chosen, and then voted on by the General
Assembly. Edwin’s resolution was the only one
to pass through the General Assembly with a 23
to 13 vote. In an actual United Nations session,
Edwin’s resolution would then continue to the
Security Council to be amended and voted on,
and if approved, would be implemented by the
United Nations.
Others that participated in the conference were
Maria Alexander ’07, Tinni Maitra ’07, Julia
Tamaccio ’08, Sean Shirali ’09, Ankur Arya ’08,
and Teresa Giblin ’07, who also chaired one
of the committees and ran one of the morning
sessions.
(From l to r) Edwin Wee ’09, Maria Alexander ’07,
Tinni Maitra ’07, Julia Tamaccio ’08, Sean Shirali
’09, and Ankur Arya ’08 pose outside the Model UN
Conference at Penn. Missing from photo: Teresa
Giblin ’07.
Curriculum Expansion Continues
Creative Writing to be offered to Upper School Students;
New faculty member selected for the Howard Morgan
Creative Writing Chair post
This fall, the Episcopal English department will expand
its elective course offerings to include creative writing.
For the first time ever, students can devote an entire
semester to honing their short story, fiction, poetry,
and drama writing skills. While other English courses have included
creative writing assignments, none has focused solely
on the creative writing process and the exploration of publication
opportunities. The position was made possible through an
endowed fund provided by Howard Morgan ’57 and his family
this past year.
In an effort to stimulate critical thinking from a new vantage
point, the English Department added creative writing as a
means of exploring the interactions, work, and social conversations
that shape an Upper School student’s day. The creative
writing class will enable students to distill their observations
and thoughts through a focused writing process.
Kate Sullivan joins
Episcopal as a creative
writing instructor and
writer-in-residence this
fall.
As is the case with all disciplines, finding the right teacher and program coordinator
was critical to the process. Geoff Wagg, Upper School Head, poured through hundreds
of resumes before bringing four candidates on campus for interviews.
Selected for the role of both creative writing instructor and writer-in-residence,
was Kathleen (Kate) Sullivan. A graduate of the University of Iowa’s masters program,
Amherst College’s bachelor’s program in English and Phillips Exeter Academy,
Ms. Sullivan comes to Episcopal with outstanding credentials. She has taught composition,
creative writing, and literature at the Erin Gruwell Education Project, the
University of Iowa, the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio, the Blue Hill Summer Writing
Workshop (founded by Ms. Sullivan), and the Taft School.
In addition, Sullivan also has experience as both an advisor and a coach. Her responsibilities
with the Erin Gruwell Education Project and the Taft School included
working closely with a group of advisees and serving as dorm parent. She played lacrosse
and basketball for Amherst, was captain of both teams, and was twice selected
as an NCAA First Team All-American in lacrosse.
Seventh Graders
Present Science
Project on Global
Warming at
Friends Central
Four Episcopal seventh graders—
Marion Prim, Caroline Rando,
Amber Davis, and Faith Mascioli—presented
their “Global
Force” science project on global warming
at Friends Central this spring as part
of their Earth Day Fair.
Episcopal seventh graders (seen in the back row
from left to right, with curious passers-by in the
foreground) Marion Prim, Caroline Rando, Amber
Davis, and Faith Mascioli presented their Global
Force project at the Earth Day Fair at Friends
Central this spring.
8 Connections spring 2007 9

Academics
Courtney
Portlock Named
New Director
of Diversity and
Community Life
Portlock replaces Eric Jones,
the new head of school at
the Community Partnership
School in Philadelphia
Courtney Portlock, who currently
serves as a middle
school math teacher, has
been named Episcopal’s new
Director of Diversity and Community
Life. Portlock will
assume her new
position on July
1st. A graduate
of Germantown
Friends and the
University of Pittsburgh,
Portlock
joined Episcopal’s
faculty in 2005
after teaching at
her alma mater. In
addition to her faculty duties, Portlock
teaches and coaches dance at Episcopal
and has served on the Diversity Council.
“I’m excited to be taking on this new
role at Episcopal and I can’t wait to get
started,” said Portlock. “Diversity is a
core value in all that we say and do at
Episcopal and it enhances our efforts
to create a learning environment that
demonstrates the unique worth and perspective
of all human beings and helps
us retain a broad range of families and
employees.”
Portlock replaces Eric Jones, who is
leaving Episcopal to become head of the
Community Partnership School, a joint
venture between Germantown Academy
and Project HOME to educate elementary
students in North Philadelphia.
The school is located in the Honickman
Learning Center and Comcast Technology
Labs and currently has 36 students in
PK-1st grade.
Lower School Students
Honor Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Creating Quilt
Each student in Pre-K through 5th grade create swatch
with key message
In honor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, students at the Lower School at
Devon came together at their regular morning meeting in April to create a quilt
reflecting the “big words” of the civil rights leader.
The project began several weeks prior to the holiday, with students reading
“Martin’s Big Words,” in Chapel. Following that exercise, individual homerooms
(Pre-K– 5th) engaged in discussions about King, his work, his words, and his vision.
Once returning to school after the holiday, the community came together and
explored the history and meaning behind quilts (the AIDS quilt, Amish quilts, friendship
quilts, quilts used in the Underground Railroad) before each student created a
square or swatch expressing what King’s words, message, and work meant to them
personally.
Students in Pre-K through
5th grade create their own
swatch to be included in
the Martin Luther King Jr.
quilt.
The finished Martin Luther
King Jr. Quilt created by
Episcopal Academy Lower
School students.
Episcopal
Announces 2007
Kulp/Oxbridge
Fellowship
Selection
Lower School drama teacher
Mandie Banks to study
at Oxford University this
summer
This spring, The Episcopal
Academy named
Mandie Banks, Lower
School drama teacher,
Middle and Upper School choreographer,
and dance instructor,
the 2007 Kulp/Oxbridge Fellow.
This professional development
opportunity, endowed by former
assistant head of school
Jonathan Kulp, provides an opportunity
for faculty to become students
again and study at the one of the world’s
most distinguished universities.
This summer, Banks will attend the
Oxford Teacher Seminar for 10 days at
the prestigious Mansfield College. She
will attend various presentations and
seminars led by a distinguished group of
educators and will also be participating
in a discussion group, which she was able
to choose. “I chose ‘Western Civilization
in the Curriculum’ as my first choice
because of my love of history and my
passion to bring history to life through
drama,” said Banks. She will also visit
museums, historic sites, and other cultural
and social events. “I want to take in
as much of England’s incredible history
as possible and to immerse myself in the
rich academic offerings in order to better
myself as an educator.”
In its third year, the Kulp/Oxbridge
Fellowship is part of a larger initiative
by Episcopal to foster a community of
learning not only among its students,
but also with faculty and staff as well.
The program excels at enriching participants
through group discussion, cultural
immersion, and lectures from renowned
English scholars, writers, and historians.
Elizabeth Cocco, Kindergarten at Merion, and Joyce Gavin, Pre-Kindergarten at Merion,
have each been granted a half-year sabbatical next year. Cocco will begin her sabbatical
mid-year. She plans to spend her time visiting different schools and volunteering at
Germantown Academy’s new school at the Honickman Learning Center. Gavin will use
the first half of the year to create a children’s book of the Merion and Devon campuses
as a memoir. After 16 and 27 years at Episcopal respectively, Episcopal is delighted to
be able to honor them both in this way… Anne Barr, Upper School English teacher, will
be giving a presentation at the Pennsylvania Writing and Literature Project’s Celebrate
Literacy teacher conference in late June. Her presentation is entitled “A Poem Must Not
Mean But Be” and highlights best practices for teaching poetry in the upper grades….
Jacquie Sabat and Linda Smith, co-directors of the library, will continue for another year
as co-presidents of the PREP consortium (local independent school library directors).
This spring, they were instrumental in organizing and facilitating the national American
Independent School Librarians conference in Philadelphia. They also hosted a group
of 20 librarians for dinner one night at a local restaurant. Also
on hand were Linda Hassett, Nina Coffin, and Gretchen Simon,
who joined them for the final banquet with guest speaker Terry
Gross from National Public Radio... Upper School history teachers
Kris Aldridge, Justin Brandon, Chuck Bryant, Lynne Hay, Holly
Johnston, and Anna McDermott will complete a 15-month curricular
revision project for 9th and 10th grade world history this summer.
Bryant will also be presenting “AP US History Writing Labs: A
Collaborative, Technological Approach” at the Advanced Placement
Annual Conference in Las Vegas this summer... Assistant Director
of Community Service, Susan Swanson, and Upper School English
teacher, Doug Parsons, will take a group of five rising seniors back to
Tanzania for two weeks this summer to work with AIDS orphans in Tanzania. According
to Swanson, they also plan to teach math, English, and art in the village school, paint
the orphanage, and help with the meal program. Their fundraising efforts for the Mika
Foundation will also continue… Upper School music teacher Ryan Dankanich recently
recorded a track for Atlantic Records with a new R&B artist, Laura Izibor… Upper School
math teacher and ice hockey coach Madeline Weeks’ ice hockey team qualified for the
U.S. national tournament for the second year in a row. They made it through the first
round and into the quarterfinals. Thanks to one of the school’s travel grants, she will also
spend a week rafting through the Grand Canyon… Assistant head of Middle School,
Andrea Killian, graduated on May 15th from the Teachers College at Columbia University
with her master’s degree in education and private school leadership. Killian spent the
past two summers in New York completing the intensive program. She completed her
research project at Episcopal researching how the increasingly competitive college
admissions environment challenges Independent schools to fulfill a mission of mind,
body, and spirit. Her research was combined with that of six other independent schools
evaluating the same criteria… Second grade teacher at Merion, Joan Devon, became a
grandmother again this spring when her son Josh ’85 and wife Mitra welcomed daughter
Lili… Classics Chair Lee Pearcy has been busy. On January 7th he responded to papers
in a panel on his book “The Grammar of Our Civility: Classical Education in America”
at the American Philological Association annual meeting in San Diego. In February, he
led a seminar on his book for faculty at Ohio University and later in the month lectured
on “Classical Philology, Classical Humanism, and American Pragmatism” at the Center
for the Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia University. He also published “Erasing
Cerinthus: Sulpicia and her Audience” (Classical World 100(2006), 31-36). This summer
he hopes to begin working on his next book on literature and the moral imagination.
Faculty & Staff News
10 Connections
spring 2007 11

Academics
Jack Saile (at left) and second grade
daughter Julia with her classmate Claudia
Teti and her alum dad Mark Teti ’75.
(l to r): Mark Aitken,
Lynn Testaiuti,
Charlene Deuber, and
Chris McConnell all
wait for their second
graders before going to
class.
Second grader Daryn Youngblood
poses with her mother DaShaun
Youngblood.
Steve Berrard with daughter Brittany Berrard.
Grandparent/
Special Guest
Day at Devon
Grandparents and special guests
enjoyed a fabulous day of classes
with their respective students
at the Devon Campus this past February.
Grandparents and special guests met
and talked with Ham Clark and Cannie
Schafer, Head of the Lower School at Devon,
and then attended a special schedule
of classes with E and D formers. It was a
great day for all involved.
2007-2008 Student Council Members Introduced
Episcopal announced the elected members of the
2007-2008 Student Council this May. For the freshman
class: Hayden Walling (president), Paul Riley
(vice president), Graham Smith (discipline committee
member), and Zachary Wolfe and Brian Bradley (council
members). For the sophomore class: Peter Flynn (president),
Sloane Snyder (vice president), Timothy Suspenski (discipline
committee member), and Gigi Constable, Merrial Foster, and
Charlotte Kelly (council members). For the junior class: David
Rinnier (president), Michael McNulty (vice president), Randy
Teti (disciplinary committee member), and Tyler Luff, Matthew
Paterno, and Edwin Wee (council members). For the senior
class: Alexandra Van Arkel (president), Alexander Buzby (vice
president), Truett Dwyer (disciplinary committee member),
and Gregory Nealis, Jack McCallum, and Blake Shafer (council
members).
The 2007-2008 Student Council
The Episcopal Academy
Class of 2007 Matriculations (as of May 2, 2007)
Franklin & Marshall College 7
University of Pennsylvania 7
Georgetown University 4
University of Richmond 4
Bowdoin College 3
George Washington University 3
Gettysburg University 3
Brown University 2
Colgate University 2
Cornell University 2
Davidson College 2
Harvard University 2
Johns Hopkins University 2
LaSalle University 2
Northwestern University 2
Princeton University 2
Roanoke College 2
Southern Methodist University 2
Syracuse University 2
Trinity College 2
University of Chicago 2
University of Colorado,
Boulder 2
University of Delaware 2
University of Southern California 2
Vanderbilt University 2
Wake Forest University 2
Albright College 1
Boston College 1
Boston University 1
Bucknell University 1
Columbia University 1
Drexel University 1
Duke University 1
Emory University 1
Kenyon College 1
Lebanon Valley College 1
Lehigh University 1
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology 1
Moravian College 1
Muhlenberg College 1
New York University 1
Northeastern University 1
Phillips Academy Andover 1
Purdue University 1
Sarah Lawrence College 1
Savannah College of
Art & Design 1
St. Joseph’s University 1
Stanford University 1
Susquehanna University 1
Tufts University 1
University of Hartford 1
University of Maryland 1
University of Miami 1
University of New Hampshire 1
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill 1
University of Rochester 1
University of Tampa 1
University of the Sciences 1
Villanova University 1
Washington & Lee University 1
Washington College 1
Yale University 1
Three Named National Merit Scholars
Seniors Mallika Khandelwal, Erin Espe, and Jon Trumbull were named National
Merit Scholars this spring. Khandelwal was named a winner by the
National Merit Scholarship Program, Espe was named as a corporate sponsored
scholar, and Jon Trumbull was offered a college-sponsored National
Merit scholarship by New York University. Seven Episcopal seniors advanced to the
finalist stage of the competition. In addition to Khandelwal, Espe, and Trumbull, congratulations
go to finalists Katrina Long, Meghan McCormick, William Oldfather,
and Clifford Satell.
Merion Book
Fair Focuses
on “Characters
with Character”
This year’s Merion Book Fair was
a huge success. The theme was
“Characters with Character”
and parents and students alike
enjoyed the usual host of book talks,
guest readers (see the photos below), and
summer reading guidelines and recommendations.
Students were also able to enjoy “Donuts
with Dad” and “Muffins with
Mom” on separate mornings and many
classes made their way to the Wrestling
Room to peruse the offerings.
One of this year’s surprise guests at the Book
Fair was Bill Giles, owner of the Phillies and EA
grandparent. Giles and Head of School Ham Clark
read “Casey at the Bat” to students in the Lower
School. Giles recently released his own book
entitled, “Pouring Six Beers at a Time; And Other
Stories from a Lifetime in Baseball.”
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Athletics
Girls’ Squash Takes
National Championship
Modeling Leadership at
Episcopal and Beyond
Lauren Bobzin ’04
Audrey Ziomek ’03
Team lands the school’s first known
national title
Five Episcopal graduates serve as captains
of their Ivy League squads
The Girls’ Squash team took home the school’s first
known national title this winter, claiming the U.S.
High School Team Championships at Yale University
in February.
Led by co-captains Ann Madeira ’07 and Logan Greer ’07, the team’s success came
not only from its depth of individual talent, but from a cohesive approach. With
the national championship their preseason goal, the girls also set individual growth
goals, including maintaining top physical shape through conditioning, honing their
squash skills through team and extra-curricular play, and developing mental toughness
through grueling weekends of play.
Competing against top-flight competition was critical
to their success and the team started the season
in New England to play in the Groton Invitational.
Greer led the way by winning the main draw as
Lexi van Arkel ’08 won her division over Sarah Mumanachit
’09, both having decisively eliminated all
other competitors. Newcomer and freshman Elizabeth
Eyre ’10 captured the title of her draw while
Monica Stone ’10 took second in the finals.
Gaining confidence from the win in New England,
the team moved on to Inter-Ac competition, where
they quickly wrapped up an undefeated season,
assisted by Liza Walling’s ’07 win over Shipley. Additionally,
Lawrenceville fell as Emily Halpern ’08
and Kim Kirkpatrick ’08 pounded out wins coming
from behind in New Jersey. The finals of the MASA
tournament consisted of match play between
Co-captain Logan Greer ’08 during a Episcopal girls in each draw except one.
match against Agnes Irwin.
Despite playing at Springside, the team
sustained the highest level of play.
That brought the team to the national tournament. After winning
their first match on Friday afternoon and two other matches on Saturday,
the team secured the title on Sunday with a 5-2 victory over
Greenwich Academy.
“I am extremely proud of this team and coaching staff,” said athletic
director Gina Buggy. “It is a perfect combination of talented athletes
who were as committed to the concept of team as they were to individual
success. The combination of teamwork and dedication made this National
Championship a reality.”
Greer, Harrity Take National Singles Titles
To cap off what has been a fantastic year for the squash program, Logan Greer
and Episcopal boys’ squash member Todd Harrity ’09 both won their respective
Squash Under 19 Junior National Singles Titles this spring.
National Champions (front row, left to right):
Lexi Van Arkel ’08, Monica Stone ’10, and Sarah
Mumanachit ’09; (back row, left to right) Libby Eyre
’10, Logan Greer ’07 (co-captain), Annie Madeira ’07
(co-captain), Kim Kirkpatrick ’08, and Emily Halpern
’08. Missing from the photo is Liza Walling ’07 and
coaches Dawn Gray and Erika LaCerda.
Perfetti Hits
1,000 Points;
Gallagher Gets
100th Win
Girls’ basketball guard Brittany
Perfetti ’08 earned her 1,000th
career point this season and
wrestler Glenn Gallagher ’07
notched his 100th win.
Perfetti reached 1,000 point
mark in a 57-48 win over
Baldwin on January 30th.
She is only the second
Episcopal girls’ basketball
player to reach the
1,000 point mark. Alison
Hadden ’98 is the other.
A senior, Gallagher
earned his 100th career
victory against
Westtown on Jaunary
27th. His
6-4 decision at
the 135 lb. weight
class helped clinch
a 36-33 Episcopal
victory.
Brittany Perfetti and
Glenn Gallagher
In a perfect illustration of Episcopal’s athletics program
providing the proper balance of athletic prowess, strong
leadership, and academic responsibility, five recent graduates
recently served or are currently serving as captains
of five Ivy League athletic teams. They are: Margaux Viola ’03
(Cornell, women’s lacrosse 2006 and 2007 seasons), Ashley
Heist ’04 (Dartmouth, field hockey 2007), Audrey Ziomek ’03
(Harvard, field hockey 2006 season), Lauren Bobzin ’04 (Harvard,
women’s lacrosse 2007 season), and Matt McMonagle
’03 (Cornell, men’s lacrosse 2007 season).
“To be selected captain of any of these impressive college programs
is a tremendous honor,” said Episcopal athletic director
Gina Buggy. “As much as we emphasize the importance of developing
student athletes of strong character, it is not always
easy to measure this valuable quality. We are as proud of these
five athletes for their leadership ability as we are of their athletic
and academic accomplishments. Clearly these gifted high school
athletes have made the most of their college experience.”
Margaux Viola Viola’s versatility and all-around skills make
her one of the nation’s top midfielders. The two-year captain
has skills and solid fundamentals on both ends of the field. She
is enrolled in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at
Cornell and earned IWLCA third-team All-America honors as a
junior co-captain in 2006. She was a first-team All-Ivy and All-
Northeast selection in 2006.
Ashley Heist Heist will captain the field hockey team this
fall, and in 14 games last year, she made 92 total saves in 851
minutes for Dartmouth. An outstanding student, she has been
named to the NFHCA Division I National Academic Squad
twice.
Audrey Ziomek Majoring in anthropology, Ziomek helped
Harvard hold opponents to 1.45 goals per game for the 15th
best scoring defense in the country as a junior. She was also selected
to the NFHCA Division I National Academic Squad in
both 2005 and 2006.
Lauren Bobzin Bobzin served as a junior captain this year
and was named Ivy League defensive player of the week for
April 30th after totaling 10 ground balls in games against New
Hampshire and Cornell. Last year as a sophomore, Bobzin
started 15 of 16 games and tied for second on the Crimson with
16 caused turnovers and ranked fourth with 14 draw controls.
Matt McMonagle McMonagle was named Ivy League player
of the year for the 2007 season. He is the winningest goalie in
Cornell history and is also the winningest active goalie in Division
I lacrosse with 43 career victories to date. At press time, he
ranked fourth in the nation in both goals against average (6.45)
and save percentage (.634). He is a two-time All-American and
McMonagle is also a nominee for the Tewaaraton Trophy, given
to the top lacrosse player in the country each year (at press
time the winner had not yet been announced).
Matt McMonagle ’03
Ashley Heist ’04
Margaux Viola ’03
14 Connections spring 2007 15

Athletics
A History of Excellence By James Zug
Episcopal Squash celebrated its first national championship this spring, but
decades of dedication and commitment to excellence helped pave the way.
As Episcopal Squash looks ahead, it’s helpful to reflect on a storied past.
On Monday, November 10th
1930 one of the world’s
greatest high school squash
programs began.
It occurred at the dedication of the Jefferson
Shiel Squash Courts, a modest
building of just two hardball courts and a
simple balcony gallery. For The Episcopal
Academy it marked the end of a remarkable
run. In September 1921, the school
had moved from Locust Street to its 14-
acre estate in Merion, and the prospects
then were a bit dim: just two buildings
on the campus—a French Provincialstyle
stone house and a garage—and a
city ash dump lay across the street. Nine
years later, however, a gymnasium, a chapel,
two neighboring houses, new fields,
and seven tennis courts had sprouted up
and enrollment had more than doubled.
Yet, the school was incomplete. Greville
Haslam, head of school since 1921,
had come to Episcopal
from a
squash hotbed,
St. Paul’s School,
which had built
the first squash
courts in the United
States in 1884.
By the late 1920s,
the game of squash
Jefferson Sheil, the
father of Episcopal
Squash.
was flourishing
in the U.S., and
dozens of clubs
and colleges were
building courts
and hosting tournaments. Most of all, it
was rivalry. Although no Inter-Academic
League school had its own squash courts,
Haverford School had announced plans
in April 1929 to build a new gym with
three squash courts.
In early 1930, Haslam persuaded William
Harman, whose son, William, Jr.,
was a junior at Episcopal, to pay, anonymously,
for a squash facility on the
Robinson property on Latches Lane.
Work began that summer and by October
the little stand-alone squash house
was finished.
“The courts are unusually well ventilated,
perfectly lighted, solidly constructed
and have an ample gallery space. They
are the par of any in this country,” wrote
Donald Kennedy, a Lower School teacher
and administrator at the time. “It is a
game which requires a keen eye, an alert
mind and a ready body. There is something
about the game which has the
same fascinating appeal as golf. Its devotees
are seized with a thrill when crisp,
fall weather heralds the opening of the
squash season.”
There was a big celebration at the dedication
of the courts that autumn day
nearly 77 years ago. Haslam and Lambert
Whetstone, the assistant head,
addressed a large crowd, Kennedy outlined
the history of the game and then
joined three leading local players—Joe
Keefe, Bud Walsh, and future national
champion Neil Sullivan—in a series
of exhibition matches. Shiel naturally
did the official honors. The master math
teacher had been at Episcopal since 1882
(and would clock in 63 years of service
before departing in 1945). Shiel was not
a squash player, but a huge fan of athletics—he
had coached the baseball team
for decades—and was seen as someone
who was unafraid of change. The courts
“joins one of Episcopal’s oldest joys with
its youngest sports,” Frank Strobhar ’31,
wrote, “He has never allowed the routine
of the school day to overpower his
belief in the ever-present adventure of
school life.” Shiel ceremoniously ripped
away the cloth that barred the front door
and then deliberately stepped on a slab
of wet concrete, leaving, as one Academy
Scholium writer noted, “two footprints
that now have hardened and will remain
for years.”
Interest Explodes
The courts were immediately filled.
Nearly 50 boys took squash as their required
winter sport and within months
the students were clamoring, as they
would evermore, for more courts. Kennedy,
as varsity coach, launched a school
tournament, named the B. Brannen
Reath, III Memorial Cup, which Clothier
Jones won over Wakelee Swartz (Big
Bill Tilden’s cousin) in four close games.
The one match that first year was
against Haverford. Despite the fact
they did not have courts (their new gym
opened in the spring of 1931), Haverford
crushed Episcopal 6-0 without loss
of a game. The reason was a key factor
in Episcopal’s future dominance: the
Haverford students played squash at the
various country clubs across the Main
Line—Cynwyd, Philly Country, and
above all, Merion Cricket. As the years
went by, both Haverford and Episcopal
boys usually first learned the game at
their parents’ club and very often would
practice twice a day, once at school and
then later at the club.
This was a critical factor because after
Kennedy left in 1932 to run Camp Kieve,
not a single coach at Episcopal was
actually a squash player until the late
1960s. These dedicated teachers organized
practice, ran the ladder challenge
matches, scheduled and drove the team
to matches, and often supplied key emotional
support. But they left it to the
professionals at the area clubs to teach
the mechanics of the game.
Despite this fact, the schedule bloomed
as the 1930s wore on. Episcopal began
playing college teams, usually the freshman
or junior varsity team, and perennial
opponents like Penn and Princeton provided
stern lessons. One year the Tabula
wrote that the Churchmen “seemed awed
1946 Squash Team. Back row (l to r): Murphy, C. Smith, Dixon, Crawford,
Maxwell, J. Walton. Front row (l to r): Mateer, Ringe, Hentz.
by the sophisticated manners” of the
Princeton players.
The Inter-Ac was officially formed for
squash in 1934 and in the early years,
Haverford was dominant. After one
6-0 drubbing, the Scholium reported
that “Episcopal seemed afraid to take
chances and in trying to be steady made
their games too soft. It was perhaps this
pretense at steadiness which gave the
spectators the impression that the games
were even.”
By 1940, squash was wildly popular.
Because of demand, only sophomores,
juniors, and seniors were allowed to take
it as a winter sport and then only for 40
minutes per week. Architects drew up
blueprints for an additional three singles
and one doubles court, to be tacked on to
the back of the Shiel courts. It took two
years and a scaling back of plans, but in
1942, Episcopal had two more courts.
The First Golden Age
Two years later, after an interim season
with Middle School teacher Stuyvesant
Barry as coach, Episcopal squash entered
its first golden age under the guidance of
Fitz Dixon ’42. The legendary Episcopal
man led the Churchmen to their first Inter-Ac
titles, grabbing eight in a row and
winning 58 straight prep school matches.
Dixon was not a squash player, so he recruited
Wally Johnson, the former squash
and tennis coach at Penn, to help train
the boys twice a week. Dixon formalized
the team’s schedule, hosting a preseason
practice week during the Christmas holidays
and taking an annual train trip
The 1970 Undefeated Squash Team
to southern New England to play prep
schools, Yale, and Trinity. He also started
the tradition of traveling to Annapolis
to play the Naval Academy.
Dixon was a visionary leader. Once, he
saw a boy playing well in the Philly Districts,
the only open junior tournament
in the country at the time. In the gallery,
he asked the boy’s father how long he
had been playing. Two months was the
reply. Would the boy like to go to Episcopal,
Dixon then asked. The father said
he would, but he could not afford the tuition.
Within weeks Dixon had arranged
for a scholarship (he was then director of
admission) and the following September
the boy enrolled at Episcopal. The boy
was Diehl Mateer ’46. Mateer played
number one on the team and lead them
to their first undefeated season and Inter-Ac
title (see photo above). He then
went on to become one of the greatest
American squash players in history, winning
two national intercollegiate titles,
three national singles titles, 11 national
doubles titles, and two North American
Opens.
Other standouts from the Dixon era
include John Hentz ’48 who captured
four national doubles titles with Mateer
as a partner; Jimmy Whitmoyer ’49
who won a national doubles title; Roger
Campbell ’51 who won two national intercollegiate
titles; Bill Barhite ’53 who
later coached at Vassar and ran the intercollegiate
squash association; and
Bill Sykes ’54, who was a five-year letter
winner.
That success continued into the late
1950s and early 1960s with players like
the McMullin brothers, David ’55 and
Hunter ’58; Jim Zug ’58, who won the
national junior title and two national
doubles titles; Maurice Heckscher ’60,
who won two national doubles titles and
numerous pro tournament titles; and Bill
Morris ’61 who won the national junior
title one year, beating Heckscher in the finals,
and then lost in the finals the year
after.
The Second Golden Age
The second golden age of Episcopal
squash came in the 1960s and early
1970s. Episcopal won the Inter-Ac every
year from 1966 through 1975. Twice,
in 1970 and 1972, they were undefeated.
The school completely renovated the
courts in the summer of 1965, giving
them their first facelift in a quarter century,
and they again repainted walls and
added new lights (discarding the old Chinese
lantern fixtures) in 1978.
Bringing a fresh approach to the program
were three coaches with strong,
competitive willpower and dazzling oncourt
talent. Tom Poor, a top amateur
player in both singles and doubles, came
to teach at Episcopal in 1965 and took
over the then struggling squash team.
He started the immediately prestigious
EA Invitational tournament for local
schools (each got to send four players)
and hosted the 1967 national juniors
tournament. Unwilling to accept the lack
of court time, he made the team jump
rope when the courts were full, come
to practice in September, and stay late
into the night. He formed a faculty team
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Athletics
One of the finest squash programs in the country will have matching
facilities when Episcopal opens in Newtown Square in September of 2008.
Ten Episcopal families have each contributed $100,000 to name a squash
court on the new campus. In addition, two families have each contributed
$50,000 to name a squash gallery seating area. An upcoming issue of the
Campaign Newsletter will recognize these donors, as well as Jim Zug’s ’58
efforts leading the fundraising.
that played against the boys and brought
in Mohibullah Khan, one of the world
champion Khan pros, to talk to and play
games against the students.
In 1970, Poor left Episcopal and Darwin
Kingsley stepped in for the next five
seasons. The head of the Middle School,
Kingsley was an avid doubles player and
president of the U.S. Squash Association
at the time. He took the varsity to the national
five-man team competition, where
they reached the finals beating highly
fancied adult teams. The only blip was
in late February 1974 when the team lost
its second match to Penn Charter 3-4
(after beating them 6-1). Kingsley had
announced his departure (to become the
first executive director of the U.S. Squash
Association) and things began to unravel.
“Disheartened by their loss to Penn Charter,”
the Tabula reported, “many players
on the team seemed to play mainly for
themselves. Much of the past structure of
the team fell into oblivion.”
Mateer Returns
To help revive the program, Diehl Mateer
returned to his alma mater to coach
the team in the late 1970s. They won the
Inter-Ac his first season, with a team of
eight seniors in the top 10, but then the
talent soon dried up and Haverford came
back into ascendance. “I loved coaching
the team,” Mateer said, “especially
with my son Jeffrey on the squad, and
it wasn’t bad for my own game, keeping
me in shape for doubles, as I got to get
out and hit with the top players.”
There was no national championship
for high schools until 2004, but Episcopal
easily claimed the unofficial title. It
had an unblemished record in the toughest
interscholastic league in the country
(usually playing evens or odds in the
matches) and it won at the Nichols
School Invitational in Buffalo and later
the Choate Invitational.
This era boasted an incredible number
of top players, many coming from the
same family. There were the Page brothers:
Ray ’66; Palmer ’68, who went on
to win the national intercollegiates and
then become executive director of the
U.S. squash association; David ’71; and
Tom ’77, who won the national singles
title, two national doubles titles, was
a top pro on the hardball singles tour
and won numerous pro doubles tournaments.
There were the Mateers, Gil ’73,
who won the national juniors and four
national doubles titles and Jeffrey ’79.
There were the Havens: Tim ’64, Peter
’72, and John ’75. There were the Bottgers,
David ’70 and John ’72, who won a
national doubles title. In addition, there
was Joe Swain ’71, who got to the semis
of the national singles while at Episcopal
and won an unprecedented three straight
school titles; George Bell ’75, who went
on to be a columnist for Squash News
in the 1980s; Bob Callahan ’73 who is
now the legendary coach at Princeton;
and John Nimick ’77, a lifer, who went
29-1 in his varsity career in prep school
maters and then won a national intercollegiate
title, a national singles title, and
went onto a successful pro hardball career
(including two North American
Open titles) before becoming the executive
director of the pro softball tour and
then a pro tournament event director.
But there were some unsung heroes
down at the lower part of the ladder that
played as important roles as the famed
stars above. One was Clayton Platt ’73,
who gutted out a tough win with the team
match tied at 4-4 to beat a favored Penn
junior varsity. And much of the success
of the program stemmed from the junior
varsity and Middle School coaches, especially
Chip Hollinger, who led the 7th
and 8th grade team for 30 years. Above
all, there was a feeling of good will; the
most coveted annual prize for the team
was the Wayne C. Astley Award “for
ability, courtesy, and sportsmanship.”
The Girls Arrive
While the boys’ team went into another
decline (Haverford won the Inter-Ac
every year from 1978 through 1993),
Episcopal found itself with a new wrinkle
in the age-old issue of court time: girls.
As the co-educational process brought
girls into the upper grades, girls started
wanting to play. In the mid-1980s,
a couple of enterprising 7th grade girls
played on the boys Middle School team.
One girl, Alix Golaski, was cut from the
team in 8th grade and, in 1985, after a
miserable year spent sitting on the basketball
team bench, she and a few friends
formed a girls squash club. Bill Whelan,
who coached the boys’ team from 1980-
83, served as their coach; practice was in
the morning before school.
In 1988, the team received varsity
status with Betsy Lippincott, an English
teacher, as coach; they used two
old courts at the Green Briar Country
Club, an apartment complex that used
to house the Overbrook Country Club.
“It’s a great thing at that age when you
have a new team and adults take you seriously,”
said Golaski ’88.
Like the boys a half-century earlier,
the first teams struggled. Christina Jones
coached for one year and then Donna
Heckscher, Maurice’s wife and mother
of Kellen ’97, took over and built up the
program for four years until it was on
the cusp of defeating the local girls juggernaut
Agnes Irwin. The Tabula noted
her “supportive attitude and interesting
practices.” In 1996, John Spofford ’74, a
Lower School teacher at Episcopal, took
over the team and suddenly undefeated
seasons began cascading down. The success
that year was astounding: the team
won 250 individual games and lost just
12. Among the standouts were the Hall
girls, Colby ’98 and Louisa ’00, who
won three straight national junior titles
while at Episcopal; Andrea McNeely ’98;
and Sarah West ’99.
In 2000, Holly Barnes took over and
continued the skein of victories. In 2004-
05, the coach was Demer Holleran. If
Episcopal was lucky to have Diehl Mateer,
one of the greatest American players
ever as coach, then it was equally so with
Holleran, who had won more than two
dozen national singles and doubles titles.
Cam Hopkins then coached for one year
and then this past winter, Dawn Grey
took over.
In February 2007, for the first time ever,
an Episcopal team was able to unequivocally
lay claim to a national squash title
when the Episcopal girls blasted their
way to a surprising first place finish at
the national high school championships
in New Haven (see page 14). Recent
standouts include the Riley sisters, Casey
’00 and Brooksie ’03, and Logan Greer
’07, who just won the national junior title
in March 2007.
MASA Formed; Reclaiming
the Inter-Ac Title
It took the girls’ team 19 years to
go from a rookie program to national
champions, and it took the boys the
same amount of time to regain the Inter-
Ac title. But those seemingly dark years
were not so bleak. Tim Kent, the classics
teacher who captained the team at
Hamilton, took over in 1984 and helped
strengthen the program. There were
strong players like Bill Marvin ’88, who
played number one for three seasons,
Sam Halpert ’89, Scott Hammond ’92,
and Andrew Purcell ’93. After arguments
about ladders, Kent and Hill School
coach Wendell Chestnut formed the Mid-
Atlantic Squash Association (MASA), a
league that included all Inter-Ac teams
plus Hill, Lawrenceville, and Shipley.
MASA helped broaden squash in the
Philadelphia-area, especially with its festive
season-ending tournament at Penn.
Kent encouraged the last renovation of
the courts in 1990 and helped finesse the
troublesome transition from hardball
to softball squash, with the split season
of 1993 and the full shift to softball in
1994. He also demanded that court time
be equally split between girls and boys,
so that the girls program would have a
chance to prosper.
The big moment for the boys program
was its return to Inter-Ac glory on February
1, 1994 in front of 100 screaming
fans in the Shiel courts. Episcopal topped
Haverford 4-3. The boys also claimed a
mythical national title when it won at
the Taft Interscholastic Tournament that
same year. The team also won Taft in
1995 and went undefeated, like the girls,
in 1996. Those teams were led by Dave
McNeely ’96, who won three straight
national junior titles and captured one
national singles title while in college; the
Sebring brothers, Harrison ’94 and Marshall
’97; and Addison West ’97.
John Spofford, who had assisted the
team for years, took over from Tim Kent
in 1999 and the team, although not as
dominant, continued to produce great
players. Most noteworthy were Trevor
McGuinness ’06, who won the national
junior title and Todd Harrity ’09, who
became one of the youngest national junior
titlists when he won the tournament
in March 2007.
Continuing the Legacy
How do you judge a program? In the
96 years of combined varsity play, Episcopal
has been the epitome of excellence.
Three undefeated seasons; 24 league
titles for the boys and nine for girls. National
junior champions: six boys and
two girls. Future national singles champions:
five, so far. Episcopal has played
everyone: 25 different high schools and
16 different colleges.
With both Todd Harrity and Logan
Greer as current national junior champions,
it is the first time in U.S. squash
history that both the best boy and best
girl in the country play at the same
school. But no one should be surprised.
Episcopal is a school that values history.
Every time they step onto the court,
they walk, literally, in the footsteps of
Jeff Shiel. n
James Zug is the
author of Squash: A
History of the Game
(Scribner, 2003) and
a senior writer at
Squash Magazine.
He is the son of Jim
Zug ’58.
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Athletics
Paddle Tennis
Introduced as
New Sport
Last year, Episcopal Academy began a paddle tennis
program. Established by Elspeth Boynton ’07 and Mia
Kent ’08, the team began with just six members, who
travelled three times a week to the Merion Cricket Club
(MCC), which generously allowed the team to use its courts.
This year, the team
doubled in size as
excitement about
Episcopal’s newest
sport has grown.
This last winter,
12 Episcopal
students enthusiastically
made the
trek to MCC every
Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday where they refined their skills and worked on
basic tactics.
Coaches Tim Kent, varsity boys’ tennis coach and member of
the classics department, and Whitaker Powell, varsity girls’ tennis
coach and teacher of 5th grade students at Devon, worked
together to help the beginners with the key fundamentals of the
game and push the more experienced players to improve their
court sense and competitive skills.
This year also saw the first outside competition for this intrepit
group—the team had the opportunity to play two matches
against a team of juniors from the Waynesborough country
club. The first of two battles took place on February 7th and
the second two weeks later on the 21st. Everyone involved had
a great time and there is genuine excitement about the growth
of this game in the years to come. Both Ann O’Shea, head of
the junior program for MAPTA, and the two Episcopal coaches
were thrilled with the progress made this year and are eager
to keep the momentum going next winter.
EA Crew Has
Strong Showing at
City Championships
The Episcopal crew team had a strong showing at this
year’s City Championships. The team took home two
titles and performed admirably in its other events.
The JV girls’ double won the city championship
with Kelly Burke ’08 and Brittany Bruder ’08 at the helm. The
JV boys’ four (Gardner Butterworth ’08, Jeremy Asch ’08, Alejandro
Rettig y Martinez ’08, TJ Carson ’08, and Verity Johnson
’08) also won the city championship. The varsity girls’ double
came in second, and the varsity boys’ four finished fourth.
Dance Team Joins
With Theater Department
Athletics and arts departments collaborate
on celebration of movement and drama
The Episcopal Academy Upper School recently hosted
“An Evening of Dance and Student One Act Plays.”
The collaborative event was created to showcase dance
performances perfected by the dance sports team and
original works written for the stage by students from across the
Upper School.
The program featured four dance numbers and five studentwritten,
produced, and acted plays. The drama selections were
chosen by the Domino Board, Episcopal’s student thespian
club. The dance selections included Broadway choreographies
along with a team-arranged piece.
The Episcopal Dance Team. Pictured above are, in front from left: Martina
McPhail ’09, Sarah Mehalick ’10, Hannah LaPalombara ’09, Olivia Glass ’10.
Second row: Shanika Griffiths’10, Jasmine Pope ’09, Kirsten Petrocelli ’10,
Ashleigh Matthews ’10, Novari Bailey ’10, Teighlor Bonner ’10, and Veronika
Krasteva, an exchange student from Bulgaria. Coach Mandie Banks can be seen
at the top center.
The Episcopal Academy 2007 Winter Athletic Awards
Next Year’s Varsity Captains and Improvement Certificates:
Boys Basketball Captain Daniel Hilferty
Most Improved Matthew Byrne
Girls Basketball Captains Brittany Perfetti &
Emmaline Imbriglia
Most Improved Brittany Perfetti
Ice Hockey Captain Jack McCallum
Most Improved Stephen Faulkner
Boys Squash Captain Gregory Hillyard
Most Improved John Steele
Girls Squash Captains Emily Halpern &
Lexi Van Arkel
Most Improved Lexi Van Arkel
Boys Swimming Captains Matthew Carpinello &
David Fell
Most Improved Andrew Juliano &
James Turner
Boys Diving Captains N/A
Most Improved Zachary Hawkins
Girls Swimming Captains Krista Camp &
Jennifer Suspenski
Most Improved Kristen Robinson &
Christie DiSilvestro
Boys Winter Track Captains Francis Nassau
Most Improved Douglas Ammon
Girls Winter Track Captains Nicole Carrido & Rachel Chung
Most Improved Mary Khella &
Marisa Spagnolo
Wrestling Captain Benjamin Mickel
Most Improved Cody Isdaner
Special Awards:
Class of 1929 Gold Basketball – Blair Fox
Daniel J. Dougherty Basketball Alumni Award – Michael Nealis
The Mind, Body, and Spirit Prize – Shane Isdaner
Team of 1983 Girls Basketball Plaque – Caroline Komlo
Girls Basketball High Scorer Plaque – Brittany Perfetti – 513 Points
The Mind, Body, and Spirit Prize – Ashley Aruffo
Ice Hockey - George Hebbard Award – Taylor Hess
Roger C. White Award – William Brinks
The Mind, Body, and Spirit Prize – William Oldfather &
Jack McCallum
Wayne Astley Award (Squash) – Todd Harrity
BB Reath Plaque (Squash Tournament) – Todd Harrity
The Mind, Body, and Spirit Prize – T. Brandon McLaughlin
1989 Girls Squash Cup – Anne Madeira
The Heckscher Bowl (Girls Squash) – Logan Greer
The Mind, Body, and Spirit Prize – Logan Greer
1969 Swimmers Bowl – Carter Murdoch
Team of 1999 Boys Swimming Award – Carter Murdoch
The Mind, Body, and Spirit Prize – Christopher Cox
Swimming Bowl for Girls (A Moyer Kulp Award) – Kerri EMcShane
The Most Outstanding Swimming Award – Jessie Small
The Mind, Body, and Spirit Prize – Kerri McShane
The George Greenwood Winter Track Award – Geoffrey McQuilkin
The Mind, Body, and Spirit Prize – Gregory Cohn
The 1994 Team Winter Track – Nantale Nsibirwa
The Mind, Body, and Spirit Prize – Alexandra Jahnle
Bates Sharp Wrestling Trophy – Kyle Brooman
Wrestling Career Contribution (Allman Award) – Glenn Gallagher & Peter
Paradiso (coach)
The Mind, Body, and Spirit Prize – Glenn Gallagher
School Awards and Championships:
Girl’s Squash – Inter-Ac Champs; MASA Champs; National Champs
Boy’s Squash – MASA Sportsmanship Award
Wrestling – Valley Forge Duals Champions
Swimming – Girls’ Easterns Swimming Championships – 5th Place
Basketball – West Chester East Girls’ Basketball Tournament – Finalists
Special Awards:
First Team All Main Line Times:
Girls Basketball Brittany Perfetti
Boys Squash
Todd Harrity
Girls Squash
Logan Greer, Anne Madeira, Lexi VanArkel
Girls Swimming Jessie Small, Lauren Berry, Krista Camp
Boys Swimming C.J. Murdoch, David Fell, Tom Bergstrom
Wrestling
Kyle Brooman
Ice Hockey
Will Oldfather, Will Brinks
First Team All Inter-Ac Certificates:
Boys Squash
Todd Harrity
Girls Basketball Brittany Perfetti
Boys Swimming David Fell
Girls Swimming Lauren Berry, Krista Camp,
Kerri McShane, Jessie Small
Girls Squash
Logan Greer, Anne Madeira,
Lexi Van Arkel
Wrestling
Kyle Brooman
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Arts
Domino Club Presents
“Damn Yankees!”
Episcopal Academy Showcases
Innovative Artwork of Leo Sewell
Carolin Sisters Perform at
PMEA District 12 String Fest
The Episcopal Academy Domino Club presented “Damn
Yankees!” as this year’s spring musical. The story centers
around Joe, who is so consumed with his favorite
baseball team, the Washington Senators, that he makes
a pact with the devil to become their new superstar player in
order to see them win the pennant and beat those damn Yankees!
The show featured memorable songs and dances, a fun
story line, and lots of interesting characters.
The cast included over 37 students and also featured a student
technical crew. The students worked long and hard to
make the show a success. Several Domino board members were featured in the
production, including: Jordan Haddad ’07 as Joe, Spencer Squire ’07 as Applegate,
and Samantha Aronchik ’07 as Lola. The production was led by director and choreographer
Mandie Banks, musical director John Powell, technical director Brandon
Koenig, and assistant director Susan LaPalombara.
Top Right
(From l to r): Spencer Squire ’07, Samantha
Aronchik ’07, Jordan Haddad ’07, and Hannah
LaPalombara ’09.
Middle
(From l to r): Meghan McCormick ’07, Carter Cox
’07, Jordan Haddad ’07, and Spencer Squire ’07.
Left
Jordan Haddad ’07, who played Joe, and Kelsey
Platt ’07 as Sister.
Middle School
Student Selected
for National
Honor Choir
Over 1,200 vocalists
auditioned for 180-member
chorus selection
Episcopal Academy eighth grade
student Kate Ruggiero was selected
to participate in the
National Honor Choir and
performed at the National Convention
of the American Choral Director’s Association
in Miami in March. The choir
performed under the direction of Jean
Ashworth-Bartle, who is the conductor
of the Toronto Children’s Choir and an
international music specialist.
Selected from over 1,200 candidates,
Ruggiero, who plays the piano and flute
in addition to her vocal pursuits, joined
179 other students ranging in age from
11 to 15. Ruggiero has held significant
roles in Episcopal Academy’s annual
Middle School musical productions,
works privately with a voice instructor,
and participates in two singing ensembles
at Episcopal.
A total of five Episcopal students submitted
audition tapes for consideration.
Working with Middle School choral director
Joanne Ward, students Katie
Fell ’11, Maggie Familetti ’12, Jordan
Marinchak ’12, and Karen Christianson
’13 worked exceptionally hard to prepare
their selections.
Philadelphia artist and sculptor of found objects, Leo Sewell, held an exhibit
at Episcopal Academy this spring, drawing rave reviews from parents and
students alike. The month-long installation was initiated by the Art Edge
Committee of the EAPA and was by far one of the most popular exhibits
ever sponsored by the group. The Art Edge committee invites local artists to display
their work in the school’s main lobby a few times each school year. These exhibits are
alternated with student-created artwork displays.
Sewell’s work has been collected by corporations, museums, private collectors, and
foundations alike. Using discarded materials from everyday life, Sewell fashions large
Art Edge Committee members (from l to r) Vicki Le Vine, Evelyn Fell, and Janet
Smith pose with Leo Sewell (second from left) and his sculpture “Apple” during
a reception for the artist on March 15th.
and small-scale
sculptures, including
such oddities as
a life-sized house
cat and a 24-foot
stegosaurus.
Sewell also spent
time with Episcopal
students at
both the Merion
and Devon campuses.
As an interesting
side note, the
Class of 2007 has
commissioned
Sewell to create an
“Episcopal” sculpture—fashioned
from materials
from the current Merion and Devon campuses—as their gift to the new campus. It
will be created over the next year and installed permanently once the school makes
the formal move to Newtown Square in the fall of 2008.
Two of Leo Sewell’s unique
pieces that were on display
at Episcopal this spring.
(From left) Victoria and Alexandra Carolin
(Classes of 2013 and 2014, respectively)
pose after performing at the PMEA District 12
Intermediate String Fest in April. Along with
music teacher Deborah Newnham, the sisters
worked exceptionally hard at preparing for the
music all-star event.
Middle School
Harlequin Club
Presents “The
Phantom Tollbooth”
The Middle School Harlequin
Club produced “The Phantom
Tollbooth” by Susan Nanus as
their spring play this year. Based
on the book of the same name by Norton
Justin, “The Phantom Tollbooth” is the
story of a boy named Milo and his adventures
in an imaginary world.
Milo is a child who has forgotten how
miraculous and exciting the world is and
has fallen into a state of pure apathy and
boredom. The mysterious appearance of
a small car and a tollbooth in his room
one day starts him on a heroic adventure
where he must rescue the princesses
Rhyme and Reason in order to restore
order in a world where their brothers,
The Mathemagician and King Azaz,
have been fighting over the supremacy
of numbers versus words. Milo meets a
variety of strange and interesting characters
along the way and discovers a great
deal about himself and the world in the
process.
The production, which was directed by
drama teacher Susan LaPalombara, was
a huge success and played to a packed
house.
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Arts
2007 Dora Khayatt Award
Winners Announces
The winners of the annual Dora Khayatt music and fine
arts competitions were announced this spring. Established
in 1990, in memory of Dora Khayatt, painter
and wife of the late John Plant, former chairman of
The Episcopal Academy Classics Department, this fund provides
annual support for student awards for excellence in the
fine arts and music.
Episcopal’s 2007 Dora Khayatt Award Winners for music were (from left to right): Jon Trumbull ’07, Lindsey
Wilkinson ’07, Jordan Haddad ’07, Spencer Squire ’07, Hannah LaPalombara ’09, and Bruce Leto ’10.
The winners of the music awards were:
Voice Quartet Winner
Lindsey Wilkinson ’07, Hannah LaPalombara ’09,
Jon Trumbull ’07, and Jordan Haddad ’07.
Performance: “Sing Me to Heaven” by
Daniel Gawthrop
and “The Way You Look Tonight”
by Jerome Kern, arr. Kirby Shaw
Piano Solo Winners
Jon Trumbull ’07
Performance: Three Preludes
Frédéric Chopin
NO. 22 – Motto Agitato,
NO. 21 – Cantabile, NO. 12 – Presto
Bruce Leto ’10
Performance: Sonata, Opus 2
(Movement 1 & 4) – Ludwig van
Beethoven and Etude, Opus 10 #12
“Revolutionary” – Frédéric Chopin
Spencer Squire ’07
Performance: Faschingsschwank aus
Wien (Carnival of Venice) –
Robert Schumann
The winners of the fine arts awards
were:
III Form – Emily Rea for her diverse
and whimsical body of work
IV Form – Sarah Coote for her
fascinating series of figurative paintings
V Form – Brian Young for his beautifully
expressive turned bowl
Kristin Grogan for her creative ceramics
and three dimensional work
VI Form – Luke Miller for his
monumental and delightful portrait of
the football team he captained
Andrea Fieger, whose photographs
capture the beat of life and Americana at
its funkiest
Episcopal Academy
Middle School Students
Teach Theater to Local
Second Graders
This spring, Episcopal Middle School drama
teacher, Susan LaPalombara, piloted a new elective
called Community Theatre. Nine Episcopal
students worked with LaPalombara to learn
how to design and lead creative drama classes. The emphasis
was placed on learning a particular type of drama
lesson called story dramatization. Students in the class selected
a children’s story, focused on a theme, and then designed a 40-
minute drama lesson. They then worked with a second grade
class at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School in Philadelphia
to produce the piece. Over the course of the spring trimester,
the students led drama class six times with the 24 eager and enthusiastic
second graders.
The kids enjoyed the class even though many were apprehensive
at first. “This experience took me outside of my comfort
Fourth Grade Performs
“Memories Renewed: An
Oral History Project”
Nancy Haas’ fourth-grade class performs at the Golden Slipper Senior Center in
March.
Episcopal Academy Middle School students pose with second graders from
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School of Philadelphia during a recent community
theater session.
zone. I looked forward to going,” said Paul Riley ’11. “I was
hesitant to join the class at first, but I found out I really like it,”
said Mark Herzog ’11. “This is not what I expected the class
to be. I thought we were going to prepare little skits to perform
for kids. This is better,” said Jane McConnell ’12.
The play “Memories Renewed” was performed at the
Golden Slipper Senior Center by Episcopal fourth
graders in March.
Nancy Haas’ fourth grade class visited the Golden
Slipper on two occasions to meet with, get to know, and taperecord
the life stories of their senior partners.
After those visits were completed, parents transcribed the
tapes, and drama teacher Susan LaPalombara selected stories
for the children to script. In pairs, students created dialogue for
their seniors’ scenes. They were told to keep the integrity of the
memories intact as they created dialogue and filled in the gaps
in the stories. LaPalombara then sat down with the students’
scenes and created a script that included their work as well as
other words and images from the transcriptions. LaPalombara
also decided to weave in some famous quotations that spoke to
the themes of the stories.
The students loved meeting men and women who willingly
shared memories of all kinds: happy, sad, bittersweet, frightening,
hilarious, and embarrassing. History came to life very
poignantly along the way. Ultimately, the students discovered
how much they have in common with their senior partners, despite
the difference in their life experiences.
Senior Luke Miller’s Dora Khayatt winning painting.
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Alumni
Message from the President of the
Alumni Society Board of Managers
I
am pleased to announce the
election of the following
individuals as new members
of the Alumni Society’s
Board of Managers. Each will serve
three-year terms that begin on July
1st and conclude on June 30th, 2010:
Erin O’Brien Dugery ’89, JoAnne Fortin
Hopkins ’93, Kellen Heckscher ’97, and William E. Rapp ’56.
In addition to these new board members, the following incumbents
have been re-elected to the Board of Managers to serve
second terms also ending in 2010: Frederic N. Dittmann ’71,
Peter W. Duncan ’53, and John H. Hodge ’62.
I am also pleased to announce that Holly Sando Rieck ’91
has been elected as an alumni trustee for a three-year term, representing
the Alumni Society on The Episcopal Academy Board
of Trustees. Holly joins Rick Northrop ’70 and Henry Nassau
’72. Both are currently serving as alumni trustees and their
terms end in 2008 and 2009, respectively.
On behalf of the Alumni Society, I want to congratulate both
our new and reelected members of the Board of Managers,
express my appreciation to those other alumni who have expressed
interest in serving on the board, and give thanks to all
alumni who took the time to vote.
I want to be sure that all Alumni understand that the Episcopal
Web site also provides a forum for the nomination of
candidates for alumni awards and the Athletic Hall of Fame.
Alumni are now able to go online anytime during the year to
make their nominations. Nominations received now will be automatically
placed into the selection pool for 2008. Moreover,
those nominated but not selected in any given year will receive
consideration in future years. I encourage all alumni to visit the
Web site and provide us with your nominations for the important
awards we give each year.
Finally, on behalf of the Board of Managers, I want to invite
all alumni to review our revised by-laws, which were approved
at our annual meeting during Alumni Weekend in April. They
can be viewed through the Episcopal Web site at www.ea1785.
org/reunions and on the Board of Managers link through the
Alumni portal. Any comments or questions about them should
be directed to me at charlesogelsby@yahoo.com.
Charlie Ogelsby ’63
President, Board of Managers
Episcopal Academy Alumni Society
Alumni Gather in California and Florida
Alumni living in Northern and
Southern California had a chance to
meet with Ham Clark and Clayton
Platt ’73, Director of Alumni, and to catch
up with each other while learning more
about progress on the new campus and
other news from back East. The alumni
communities are thriving in California
and it was a joy to see John Wager ’29,
Episcopal’s oldest living alumnus, who
made the trek to the Los Angeles regional
again this year!
This spring, alumni and Episcopal families
enjoyed a Phillies spring training game in
Clearwater, FL thanks to the generosity
of the Giles Family and the Philadelphia
Phillies.
San Francisco
Clearwater, FL
Alumni Hit the Ice…
Twice!
More than 30 alumni hockey players returned to the
ice for two reunions this past December. The annual
Blue & White Ice Hockey Game, played at
the Skatium, was the perfect warm-up before the
2nd Annual EA versus Haverford Alumni Game held the following
week.
Pictured below at the Blue & White game are: Jeff Nansteel
’05, Jerry Marks ’82, Matt Dobbins ’05, Brendan Welsh ’06,
Chris Pope ’04, Bryan Aronchick ’99, Matt Ciccotti ’06, Drew
Evans ’02, David Adler ’06, Adam Murray ’02, Joe Auteri ’88,
Chris Familetti ’04, Josh McLane ’06, Alex Terzian ’06, Steve
Venzie ’96, Marc Mandeville (Varsity Coach), Doug Blatchford
’87, Pete Read ’93, Eric Kraus ’94, Lee Allman ’84, and Scott
Huston ’91.
Alumni who participated in the EA versus Haverford game
were: Doug Blatchford ’87, David Adler ’06, Lou Merlini
’99, Ben Glauser ’98, Eric Kraus ’94, Josh McLane ’06, Jamie
Evans ’96, Drew Evans ’02, Steve Venzie ’96, BJ Stone ’05,
Joe Auteri ’88, Jan Koziara ’94, Scott Huston ’91, and Bryan
Aronchick ’99.
Los Angeles
September 10, 2007
9th Annual EA Alumni Golf Invitational
October 3, 2007
New England Regional Alumni Reception
October 10, 2007
Washington DC Regional Alumni Reception
November 9 & 10, 2007
Homecoming
EA/Haverford/AIS Weekend
(last time in Merion)
November 10, 2007
Alumni Awards Dinner
November 21, 2007
Class of 2007 1st Reunion
November 22, 2007
Thanksgiving Alumni Soccer Game
November 23, 2007
Alumnae Field Hockey Game
November 23, 2007
Class of 1997 10th Reunion
November 24, 2007
Class of 2002 5th Reunion
November 29, 2007
New York Regional Alumni Reception
alumni events
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Alumni
3rd Annual Alumni Water
Polo Match
The Alumni Office had its biggest turnout yet for this
year’s water polo reunion match held this winter.
Alumni of all ages participated and it proved to be a
great competition with the white team bringing home
a win by a score of 18-11.
Water polo alumni pictured: (front row, left to right) Matt
Welde ’03, Danny Demento ’03, Brint Markle ’04, Matt
Deasey ’03, Brian Kline (coach), Ryan Egan (asst. coach),
Stephan Connelly ’05, Austin Frieman ’99, Ann Kratzinger
’97, Dan Connelly ’99. (Back row, left to right) Bruce Godick
’71, Robert Havens ’04, Ed McAnany ’94, Christie DiSilvestro
’10, Ryan McShane ’02, Ashley DiSilvestro ’06, David Fell
’08, Ross Godick ’07, Kevin DiSilvestro ’08, Josh Krotec ’96,
Bruce Leto ’10, Mike Good ’99, Ben Jones ’08, Lauren Griesser
’06, Courtney Asher ’05, Matt McMonagle ’03. (Not pictured,
Susie Talbot ’04, Katie Harris ’04, and assistant coach
Duncan Kraig.)
Alumni Return to Campus for Career Day
Each year the Alumni Society Board of Managers hosts
a Career Day program for the senior class as a way
to introduce them to Episcopal’s vast alumni network
and maybe spark some possible “career” ideas.
This year’s program boasted a lineup of successful speakers,
most of them new to the Career Day circuit, and a brand new
career category focusing on the arts and graphic design. Seniors
were asked to choose two workshops from the following
list of categories: Business, led by Gene Lefevre ’67; Law, led by
Gordon Cooney ’77; Medicine, led by Mike Ciccotti (EA parent)
and Becky Demorest ’91; Journalism, led by Ron Burke
(EA parent) and Amy Donohue Korman ’86; Arts/Graphic
Design, led by Sarah Iams ’84 and Sarah Karp ’99; and Advertising/Marketing/PR,
led by Joe Giles ’80 and Alexandra
Golaski ’88.
In addition, Holly Rieck ’91 and Carolyn Shaud ’88 conducted
a networking workshop for the seniors, giving them some perspective
on the dos and don’ts of making a business connection.
Larry Light ’67, editor at Forbes magazine and author of thriller
Many thanks to all those who completed the
Alumni Survey. Your input will help all of us at Episcopal
who work with alumni-related activities to do our jobs more
effectively. It will also assist the school in better understanding
how our alumni feel in retrospect about their student years
at Episcopal. We will make available the results of the survey
to all those who participated in the process and we expect to
have that completed by the end of the summer.
We are constantly working to keep the Alumni Section of
the Episcopal Web site up-to-date with listings of upcoming
activities, photos from recent events, and links to many
aspects of school life that are of interest to our alumni
community. One class, 1950, has its own class page, which
it maintains with news that is pertinent to their classmates.
If you are interested in exploring such a page for your class,
please contact Clayton Platt ’73, Director of Alumni, at
platt@ea1785.org.
Every day our office receives inquiries from alumni about
contacting friends or classmates and looking for phone
numbers and/or email addresses. It is always our pleasure to
help connect our alumni to one another, but there is an easier
way! You can log onto the alumni portal of the Web site and
access the Online Directory. Looking to network with fellow
alumni in a certain industry? Moving to San Francisco and
want to see what alumni live in California? Then EACareerNet
is for you! You can access it by logging onto the alumni portal
as well. If you don’t know your username and/or password,
please contact Nancy Taylor, at taylor@ea1785.org, and she
will send you what you need.
Several of the 2007 Career Day speakers (from l to r): Gene Lefevre ’67, Joe
Giles ’80, Gordon Cooney ’77, Sarah Karp ’99, Sarah Iams ’84, Larry Light ’67,
Alexandra Golaski ’88, and Mike Ciccotti (EA Parent).
novels, gave the keynote address, entitled: “Never Knowing
What You’ll Encounter At A Job and Being Open To The
Possibilities!”
community service update
Spirituality & Community Service
Update from the Community Service Office…
This year started off with “A Day of Community Building”
in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Many students, families
and friends participated in service projects both on and off
campus all day. Episcopal supported many organizations in
feeding the hungry, caring for the elderly and homebound,
and helping students in West Philadelphia. The Community
Service Department also encouraged students to think about
what their dream is for society today… Books, books, and
more books! Thanks to so many generous families and good
readers, Episcopal was able to donate hundreds of books to the
Reach Out and Read Program at Children’s Hospital, and to our
partner school in Mika, Tanzania, the Mika Village School…
In Upper School, the school continued many existing projects
or programs. The Episcopal chamber orchestra performed at a
school in West Philadelphia that is without a music program, the
clothing drive and blood drive were both enormously successful,
and the department made sure that the community did not forget
those who are still suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
by hosting a fundraising dinner for the Episcopal Relief and
Development Fund… Mika March Madness was a great success,
raising nearly enough money in one month to fund a complete
latrine at the Mika Village School. The school was about to be
shut down because it lacked one. Thanks
to our students’ creative efforts in raising
awareness and money, no shutdown will
be necessary. Five students and two faculty
members will again visit and work in Mika
this summer… Students continue to serve
dinner every week at a homeless shelter for
women & children in addition to a local soup
kitchen… After-school assistance at the
local day care center goes on and students
continue to play Bingo with the residents of
Inglis House… Students helped Carousel
House in Fairmont Park with their annual
SUN*Y Celebration on May 12th… The
Upper School ended its year of service with
the annual play-n-picnic for the residents
of St. Barnabas on May 16th… In Middle
School, students continue to read to children
at local day care centers, and work with physically challenged
students at St. Katherine’s Day School… In Lower School,
students have worked hard to raise money for the Biamba Marie
Mutombo Hospital in the Congo through the “Spare Change to
Save a Life” program. Students in all forms have been collecting
spare change in empty tennis ball cans. To date, over $1,500
has been raised… Lower School students have also visited food
banks, retirement homes, and a homeless shelter.
Chapel Theme, Vestry
Members Announced for
Next Year
Members of the Vestry, Middle School Chapel
Council, and Chaplains Squire, Zug, and Patton-Graham
met this past April to formulate the
2007-2008 Chapel theme. After much discussion,
and some inspiration from Episcopal alumnus and Drexel basketball
coach James “Bruiser” Flynt ’83, who recently spoke
to students (see p. 34), the theme for next year will be “Reach
Back to Go Forward.”
The theme focuses not only on the institution reaching back
into Episcopal’s history and celebrating its past as the school
leaps to the Newtown Square campus, but also in making sure
students remember where they have come from as they move
on in life.
In addition, next year’s new Vestry members were announced
this April. They are: Christie DiSilvestro ’10, Kelsey Gula ’10,
Tommy Bergstrom ’09, and Bob Wassell ’09. In addition, Kevin
DiSilvestro ’08 was elected Senior Warden, and Alex Jahnle ’08
was elected Accounting Warden. The new members join Michael
Harvey ’09, Ben Mickel ’08, Kevin DiSilvestro ’08, Rich
Rosati ’09, and Alex Jahnle ’08.
The 2007-2008 Vestry (front row, l to r): Kelsey Gula ’10, Christie
DiSilvestro ’10, Michael Harvey ’09, and Alex Jahnle ’08; (back row,
l to r): Bob Wassell ’09, Kevin DiSilvestro ’08, Tom Bergstrom ’09,
Rich Rosati ’09, and Ben Mickel ’08.
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Spirituality & Community Service
Episcopal Academy Lower and Middle Schools
Raise Money for Dikembe Mutombo Foundation
“Spare Change To Save A Life” campaign has raised more than $5,000
to date; Merion pre-kindergarten class raises over $1,200 for Mutombo
Foundation
In an ongoing project, which began this winter, students
in the Middle and Lower Schools have been engaged in
the “Spare Change To Spare A Life” community service
campaign, collecting loose change to support the Dikembe
Mutombo Foundation’s Help Heal Kinshasa project.
The brainchild of two Episcopal students—Meredith and
Alex Nelson (of the 6th and 9th grade classes, respectively)—
students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade have been
collecting funds to help the Mutombo Foundation’s construction
of a hospital in the Congo. The students came up with the
idea after watching a short video explaining the lack of suitable
health care facilities in Kinshasa.
Mr. Mutombo, an Episcopal parent and member of the Houston
Rockets of the NBA, visited with several classes already
to thank them for their support. The fund drive will continue
through the end of the year.
The Lower School at Merion has been hard at
work all spring raising money through the “Spare
Change to Save a Life” drive. At left: the Merion
kindergarten class poses with teachers Jen Tierney
(at right) and Buffy Brown.
The pre-kindergarten class at Merion (below),
which along with their families, helped to raise over
$1,200 for the Mutombo Foundation.
Pre-Kindergarten Students Choose to Give
Rather than Receive
In a separate event for the same foundation, five pre-kindergarten
students with birthdays in March joined together for a
combined birthday party to which the whole class was invited.
The catch? Instead of bringing gifts or toys, the students
requested that each family make a donation to the Help Heal
Kinshasa Project. The students (Emily Wagg, Paige Gerardi,
Nicholas Christos, Quinn Day, and Olivia Walsh), their classmates,
and their families ended up raising over $1,200.
Episcopal Hosts Reception for the Most
Right Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori,
Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
Episcopal hosted a reception in the Annenberg Library this past February
for The Right Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori, shortly after she was
elected Presiding
Bishop of the Episcopal
Church. The reception was
hosted on behalf of the Academy
and three city parishes,
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
in Overbrook, Historic Christ
Church in Center City, and
St. Peter’s Church at 313 Pine
Street.
More than 400 people attended
the reception to meet
the church’s first female presiding
bishop, who leads more
Episcopal Academy chaplains (from l to r) Rev. Heather Patton-
Graham, Rev. Albert Zug, and Rev. James Squire, along with
than 2.4 million members in 16
student Angelique Israel ’07, presented the Most Right Reverend
countries and more than 110
Katharine Jefferts Schori (second from right) with several gifts
dioceses around the world. from the school during a reception in February.
Two Episcopal Students Host
“Fashion for a Cause”
Taylor Durovsik (second from right) and Samantha Field (far right)
were aided by (from l to r) Elizabeth Thompson ’10, Eve Gural,
Rachel Howard ’10, Courtney McKinney ’10, Seanie Burke ’10,
Clemens Cox ’10, and Emily Sax ’09 during their “Fashion for a
Cause” event this spring.
On Saturday, April
21st, Taylor Durovsik
’10 and
Samantha Field
’10, along with several of
their friends, teamed with
the People’s Emergency
Center in West Philadephia
to set up a “store” for
underprivileged teenage
girls. The event was called
“Fashion For A Cause” and
the idea was to let teenage
girls from various shelters
across Philadelphia “shop”
free of charge for some new
fashions.
Taylor and Samantha
spent the better part of the
spring collecting new and
gently used clothing and accessories from friends and family. In addition, they received
generous donations from Anthropologie, Tory Burch, and Charming Shops.
The two students also provided music and food making for a festive event.
More than 100 girls from across Philadelphia attended, making it more successful
than the students ever imagined. The girls said it was extremely rewarding to see
how happy the girls were to receive the clothing and they hope to continue the event
in the future.
Students’ Squash
Pediatric Cancer
Event Draws More
Than 400
Founded by student Lexi
van Arkel in 2005, this
year’s event raised more than
$35,000 for CHOP
Over 110 Philadelphia-area junior
squash players organized
the 3rd annual “Squash Pediatric
Cancer” event this past
spring and raised over $35,000 for pediatric
cancer research at the Children’s
Hospital of Philadelphia. Episcopal was
very well represented.
Founder, Lexi van Arkel ’08 was
joined by vice co-chairs, Anne Madeira
and Logan Greer, both members of the
class of 2007. All the members
of the varsity and
junior varsity boys’ and
girls’ squash teams, and
many Middle School
squash players, joined
the Junior Committee
to help organize and run
the event.
The fundraiser gave the
Inter-Ac squash players an
opportunity to collaborate
for a good cause after a
highly competitive squash
season.
Junior Lexi van
Arkel founded
the Squash
Pediatric Cancer
Event in 2005.
The fundraiser was held again at The
Haverford School and included squash
clinics for kids taught by top local squash
professionals who kindly donated their
talents and time for the cause. Following
the clinics were three exhibition matches
and a silent auction and raffle also
helped raise funds.
More than 400 people were on hand
throughout the afternoon to support the
event, which was founded by van Arkel
in March 2005. van Arkel decided to
put her passion for squash to good use
when her younger brother’s schoolmate
was diagnosed with cancer. She recruited
Shipley Junior, Clare Kuensell as co-director
and received additional help this
year from Greer and Madeira.
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Episcopal Academy Lower
School Students Participate
in “Read to Feed”
More than $2,500 raised to help Heifer
International’s program
What do cows, chickens and goats have to do with
reading? Lower Schoolers at the Devon Campus
can tell you. Starting in March, students
from pre-kindergarten through 5th grade started
reading books to support Heifer International’s Read to Feed
program. The more books the students read, the more money
they raised to provide hungry families with farm animals. The
students received pledges from family members and friends per
book read or the amount of time spent reading.
The 225 students at Devon collected a total of $2,738, which
will help to provide food- and income-producing farm animals,
and the training needed for their care, to hungry families
around the world.
Pictured above are third graders (from left to right)
Sidney Maple, Jeffrey Coote, Darian Smith, and
Kabir Gupta.
Members of the environmental
ethics class in the 5th grade spent
time at Lincoln Financial Field
earlier this year to learn about the
Eagles’ environmental and recycling
initiatives.
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Episcopal Academy
Lower School Students
Visit Lincoln Financial
Field to Learn About
“Go Green”
Members of Episcopal’s 5th grade class at Devon
visited Lincoln Financial Field and the Philadelphia
Eagles early this spring to learn more about
the team’s “Go Green” environmental and recycling
initiative as part of their environmental ethics class.
Teachers Catherine Bennett, Rev. Heather Patton-Graham, and
Susan Swanson teach the class and chaperoned the children on
the trip.
Episcopal’s environmental ethics class focuses on recycling,
maintaining green spaces, and environmental accountability.
The students met in the press room with Julie Hershey, community
relations director for the Eagles. She explained that the
Eagles’ owners were dedicated to giving something back to the
environment when they built the new stadium. As part of that
giving back, they have donated thousands of trees to local organizations,
including 300 that were planted at Philadelphia
public schools.
The Eagles are the first team in the NFL to address environmental
responsibility. Their mission statement reads: “To
create and sustain championship performance on the field and
in the community through programs that promote the quality
of life in our region, green the environment to improve our impact
on the planet, and enhance our profitability as a business.”
The students learned that they do this five ways: striving to be
carbon neutral, purchasing clean energy, green purchasing, recycling,
and publicity.
It was a wonderful opportunity for Episcopal’s students to
see an environmental program in action and they were thrilled
to actually walk on the field.
Development
Harold Starr ’50
Discusses An
Opportunity
Too Good
to Pass Up
did I, a member
of the Class of
1950, contribute
“Why
to Episcopal’s current
Capital Campaign? It started as
our class was preparing for our 50th reunion,
when I returned to EA for the first
time in years and had a chance to see
the school as it is today. I was pleased
to note that EA was continuing to stress the importance of values—that
EA’s motto, ‘To Be, Rather Than To Seem To Be’ is
still seen as the standard to live by. It was not difficult for me to
conclude that Episcopal was truly worth supporting.
“It was my classmate, Dave Crockett, (a formidable fundraiser)
who convinced me that an easy way to make a gift would be
to include Episcopal in my estate plan—and that if I did, that
this planned gift would be credited to our class gift. How best
to do this? On learning that I had an IRA, Dave pointed out
that from a tax standpoint it made much more sense to have the
gift come from my IRA and not from my other assets. I changed
my IRA to provide that EA would get a percentage of my IRA
on my death.
“Then two things happened: (1) EA, finding itself needing
a lot of cash to pay for the very exciting new campus at Newtown
Square and to greatly increase its endowment, announced
an ambitious Capital Campaign; and
(2) on August 27, 2006 the Internal
Revenue Code was amended to make
it possible for people to make cash
gifts from their IRAs (including Roth
IRAs) to charities without paying any
taxes. This new provision has important
restrictions: the IRA owner must
be at least 70-and-a-half at the time of
the gift; the maximum amount of such
IRA gifts may not exceed $100,000 in
any year; and the gifts may be made
in 2006 and 2007 only.
“I concluded that the change in the
law provided me with an opportunity
too good to pass up. What I did was
propose to Episcopal that I scrap the
old arrangement under which Episcopal
got its money from the IRA after I
James “Bruiser”
Flynt ’83 Speaks to
Episcopal Scholarship
Recipients
Harold Starr ’50 poses with grandson Nicholas Wagg ’18
died and replace it with a new one—a gift now from my IRA to
the Capital Campaign
“The outcome? A win-win for everyone. From Episcopal’s
standpoint, it got a substantial gift now at a time when it really
needs funds. From my standpoint, although I will get somewhat
less from my IRA during my lifetime, I have the satisfaction of
knowing that I am helping EA now when it really needs it and
that I will be able to see the tangible results of my gift during
my lifetime.
“I urge all members of the EA family over 70-and-a-half who
have IRAs and who want the pleasure of supporting an outstanding
independent school to take advantage of this change
in the law by making gifts to Episcopal’s Capital Campaign
now out of their IRAs.”
Ham Clark (far left) and coach/
faculty member Dan Dougherty
(second from left) caught up
with James “Bruiser” Flynt ’83,
current head coach of the men’s
basketball team at Drexel (in
center), as well as Helen and John Meehan ’86 (shown at right), during Episcopal’s Annual
Scholarship Lunch. Flynt spoke eloquently to current scholarship recipients and benefactors
about his time at Episcopal and how it helped prepare him for the future. Current
scholarship benefactors, the Meehan family established a scholarship in memory of Tom,
Helen’s husband and John’s father, in 2004.

Development
The Power of Charitable Bequests
The $90 million campaign for the future of
The Episcopal Academy includes a $15
million goal to nearly double the school’s
endowment. Ensuring Episcopal’s reputation
as one of the finest day schools in America will
require not only superb facilities but also an endowment
that will enable the school to attract and retain
the highest quality faculty and enroll the finest students
from all economic backgrounds.
Studies reveal that up to 70% of endowment gifts
come from bequests. Most Americans build wealth
by saving and investing over a lifetime, and some prefer
to retain control over their assets. Gifts that you
may be reluctant to make today may become feasible
through your will. Bequests are powerful tools that
can give you a meaningful role in the future of The
Episcopal Academy.
Planning pointers…
• Discuss your intentions with your attorney, or contact Episcopal’s
planned giving office at 610-617-2252 for names of
attorneys who practice estate law.
• A bequest can significantly reduce the tax burden on your estate.
If, for example, you are subject to an estate-tax rate of
45%, a $100,000 charitable bequest saves $45,000 in taxes,
and you exercise the privilege of directing your lifetime accumulations
as you wish.
“If life’s first act is about growing up, coming of age,
learning the lessons that shape you, and the second is
about acquiring things, getting ahead, building a career,
shouldn’t the third be about doing something, leaving
something, creating something that makes life better
for somebody else?”
—Bill Gates, as quoted in The New York Times
• Naming Episcopal to receive a percentage of your estate—
even a small one—can be tremendously helpful to the school.
Instead of giving each of three children 33.33% of your estate,
consider giving each one 30% and naming the school as beneficiary
of 10%.
• Not all of one’s estate is governed by a will. Life insurance,
savings bonds, and qualified retirement plans are transferred
to heirs via a simple beneficiary designation form. Your IRA or
other qualified retirement plan may be the ideal asset to leave
to charity. For estates fully subject to the estate tax, up to 75%
of the value may be consumed by estate and income taxes be-
People sometimes include
Episcopal in their will
as a way of expressing
appreciation for the
profound impact the school
has had on their lives. Dr.
Stephen L. Patt, ‘56, who
has remembered EA in his
estate plans, wrote these
words in his 50th Reunion
Tabula:
“I have a very positive
memory, hopefully not over-idealized, of my two years
at Episcopal. With few exceptions, the Academy
taught and lived by high standards in every way, and
being there had the effect of waking me up to my
own potential.”
fore your child or grandchild receives these funds. The sensible
alternative: name The Episcopal Academy as the beneficiary of
all or a portion of your retirement plan and use other less taxburdened
assets to make gifts to your heirs.
• If you support annual giving during your lifetime, consider
continuing your support in perpetuity. A gift of $20,000 to
the endowment will produce $1,000 each year at Episcopal’s
current payout rate of 5%. Prudent investment will keep the
principal in tact to benefit future generations.
Episcopal welcomes bequests of all sizes. If you include the
school in a bequest provision, please let us know. It helps us
in our internal planning and we would like to welcome you
to membership in the Bishop William White Society. All notifications
are confidential and you may elect to remain
anonymous.
“I started soul-searching about 10 years ago, and
began to face the fact that legacy is more than money
and property. Good, bad or otherwise, we’re all going
to leave a legacy of some kind. Once my clients have
outlined the disposition of their money and property, I
urge them to consider the moral heritage they’ll leave.”
—Kenneth Wheeler J.D. ’58, as quoted in
The Philadelphia Inquirer
IRA Tax Saving
Opportunity Expires
December 31, 2007
The Pension Protection Act of 2006, signed into law
last August, includes new tax incentives to encourage
charitable gifts from donors who are 70-and-a-half
or older. Under the IRA Charitable Rollover provision,
you can make lifetime gifts up to $100,000 annually in
2006 and 2007 from your individual retirement account (IRA)
to qualified charities without incurring tax on the withdrawal.
This is good news for people who want to use retirement assets
during their lifetime but have been discouraged from doing so
because of the income tax penalty. The provision is effective for
tax years 2006 and 2007 only, so you must act by December
31st to take advantage of the ruling.
How to Make a Gift
Simply contact your IRA custodian for the forms necessary to
transfer your desired gift amount, or call Episcopal at 610-617-
2252 for a sample letter you can use to request a distribution.
Questions and Answers
Q. I’ve already named Episcopal as the beneficiary of my IRA.
What are the benefits of making a gift now instead of from my
estate?
A. By making a gift during your lifetime you can see your philanthropic
dollars at work. IRA distributions are outright cash
gifts, and cash gifts are needed today for new campus construction.
Quite literally, you are giving yourself the joy of watching
your philanthropy take shape.
Q. I am taking distributions each year from my IRA. After
I receive a distribution check, can I send it to Episcopal and
avoid taxes on the withdrawal?
A. No. Distributions must be made directly to Episcopal by
your plan custodian. Contact your custodian and tell them of
your desires. Such distributions will count as a distribution for
purposes of meeting your required minimum distribution.
Q. I have several retirement accounts—a pension, a 401(k),
and an IRA. Does this tax incentive apply to charitable gifts
from my 401(k)?
A. No. You must make a qualified transfer of money from
your 401(k) into your IRA and then request a distribution from
the IRA.
Q. I am 83 and have been receiving the required minimum
distribution for several years. Is the charitable rollover only for
people who are turning 70-and-a-half and just beginning to
take distributions from their IRA?
A. No. Anyone 70-and-a-half or older by December 31, 2007
can take advantage of the charitable rollover.
This is not intended to be legal or tax advice. We encourage you to
consult your own legal or tax advisor.
Alumni Giving Participation by Class
Through May 22, 2007
Class Percent
Class Percent
1929 100.00%
1968 21.28%
1930 66.67%
1969 12.07%
1931 100.00%
1970 19.67%
1932
1971 21.82%
1933 75.00%
1972 19.70%
1934 25.00%
1973 21.67%
1935 33.33%
1974 16.98%
1936 63.64%
1975 14.49%
1937 50.00%
1976 12.70%
1938 53.33%
1977 20.31%
1939 40.00%
1978 15.87%
1940 42.11%
1979 15.07%
1941 55.00%
1980 34.48%
1942 42.86%
1981 19.05%
1943 52.63%
1982 58.54%
1944 36.00%
1983 10.45%
1945 2.00%
1984 17.24%
1946 38.89%
1985 13.51%
1947 39.13%
1986 17.11%
1948 31.91%
1987 32.14%
1949 55.88%
1988 10.81%
1950 94.12%
1989 10.64%
1951 31.82%
1990 10.81%
1952 32.43%
1991 12.82%
1953 35.71%
1992 22.22%
1954 35.42%
1993 14.89%
1955 27.91%
1994 8.14%
1956 24.39%
1995 6.67%
1957 28.00%
1996 27.16%
1958 28.95%
1997 14.14%
1959 33.33%
1998 18.75%
1960 29.79%
1999 16.50%
1961 22.92%
2000 9.90%
1962 37.78%
2001 17.24%
1963 16.98%
2002 12.73%
1964 16.98%
2003 10.00%
1965 23.53%
2004 6.60%
1966 21.88%
2005 14.29%
1967 30.91%
2006 16.52%
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Development
Hard Hat Tours
of the New
Campus Begin
1
Class Notes Edited by THE Alumni OFFICE
If you are interested in becoming a class agent,
please contact Bruce Konopka at 610-617-2233,
or Jen Slike 610-617-2294 ext. 3143, for more
information.
A series of hard hat tours
were run this spring, giving
those in attendance a
glimpse of the future
In a series of Hard Hat Tours of
the new campus this spring, many
members of the Episcopal community—from
donors to faculty
members—made an official visit to the
new campus to see firsthand the progress.
On Sunday April 22nd, some 75 donors
toured the property with Head of
School Ham Clark and Director of Development
Paige Peters. Aided by warm
temperatures and clear skies, those in attendance
were pleasantly surprised with
the progress and enjoyed being able to
see the campus take shape.
Earlier this spring, Jeremy and Susan
Coote organized a Hard Hat Tour
of the new campus on Sunday, March
11th. The weather was perfect to view
the new buildings but boots were a necessity!
All enjoyed a personal tour with
Ham Clark, as well as an update on the
fundraising to date for the Ever Episcopal
Campaign. Episcopal is particularly
grateful to Jeremy and Susan for their help
organizing the tour and for their leadership
support of the campaign.
If you are interested
in making a
contribution and
organizing a Hard
Hat Tour of the new
campus, please contact
Paige Peters,
at 610-617-2251 or
ppeters@ea1785.org.
2
4
6
1. On April 22nd, (from l to r) Harriet and Gary Madeira ’72 and Frank ’77
and Anita Leto enjoyed a Hard Hat Tour of the new campus.
2. (from l to r) Ham Clark, Paul Hondros, and Jamie McLane enjoy the
afternoon on the new campus on April 22nd.
3. Raye Johnson (at right) spends time with her son Jon Johnson ’02 on
the new campus.
4. The March 11th Hard Hat Tour group (from l to r): Susan Coote, Susan
McCann, Mike McCann, Donna Deasey, Teresa McCormick, Jeremy Coote
(partially hidden), Ham Clark, Bill Deasey, Lauren Royer, John Royer, Mark
Testaiuti, Steve Chance, Anna Slack, Kirby Slack, Krista Kloppenburg, and
Doug Kloppenburg.
5. The group pauses near the top of the Campus Green during its tour.
6. Ham Clark passes by the Lower School Bell Tower on March 11th during a
Hard Hat Tour of the new campus organized by Jeremy and Susan Coote.
3
5
Honorary Alumni
Judy and Bob Linker were in Maui last
July to celebrate the marriage of their son
Keith Linker ’87 to Grace Kim. Judy and
Bob have both retired from Episcopal
and recently moved to mid-coast Maine.
They are also proud to announce the arrival
of their granddaughter Ava Judith
Linker, who was born March 22, 2007
to Keith and Grace.
29 John Wager joined fellow alumni at
the Southern California Regional Reception
held at Casa del Mar in Santa
Monica, CA this February.
31 Class Agent: Needed
32 Class Agent: Needed
33 Class Agent: Bart Linvill
34 Class Agent: Needed
35 Class Agent: Needed
36 Class Agent: John Haas
37 Class Agent: Kingsley Weston
38 Class Agent: Needed
39 Class Agent: Needed
40 Class Agents: Harry Toland, R.T.
Toland, and Jack Hopkins
41 Class Agents: J. Tyler Griffin, Roger
Miller, and Karl Rugart
42 Class Agents: Bill Nagle and Woody
Woodring
43 Class Agents: Jim Carson, Joe Gordon,
Bill Lander, and Davis Pearson
44 Class Agents: Al Hume and Doug
Raymond
45 Class Agent: George Robinette
46 Class Agent: Wink Bennett
Judy Linker, Hon., Bob Linker, Hon., Grace Kim, Keith Linker ’87, and Eric Linker ’87 celebrating Grace and
Keith’s marriage in Maui last July.
47 Class Agent: Brooks Keffer
48 Class Agents: John Hentz, Hamill
Horne, and Dick Schneider
49 Class Agents: Jim Blatchford and
Stan Miller
50 Class Agent: John Rettew
Richard Hiers recently had a chapter
published in Convergence, a publication
by Eckerd College. His piece was entitled
“Justice and Compassion in Biblical
Law.” Richard writes: “I continue to recall
with gratitude the ‘Sacred Studies’
courses taught at EA by Richard Lyford
and Kim Balsley. These two men in particular,
clued me to the contemporary
relevance of biblical tradition, a subject
I have continued to pursue through several
years of divinity and graduate school
at Yale, and a somewhat long career in
teaching.” Richard is an emeritus professor
of religion at the University of
Florida.
51 Class Agent: Barry Pennell
52 Class Agent: Craig TenBroeck
David Fricke reports: “(Through) the
Scientific Technology Language Institute,
we are still involved in the teaching of
family practice, surgery, administration,
and nursing, including (publishing) the
first nursing textbooks in Russian in 70
years. We may return to Washington DC
area in a few years, Lord willing.”
Craig TenBroeck reports: “Ray Green’s
eyesight has improved to the point that
he can now drive at night Jim Siege is
building a house in Portland, OR, and
Bob Gerhardt has sold his house and
business and will retire to The Villages,
in Florida. Bob has to stay in Chestertown
for a year to train the buyer of his
financial planning business.”
53 Class Agent: Peter Duncan
54 Class Agents: Birch Clothier, Walt
Moleski, and Bill Sykes
55 Class Agent: David McMullin
56 Class Agent: Bill Rapp
57 Class Agents: John Clendenning,
Carl Deutsch, and Howard Morgan
58 Class Agents: Hunter McMullin and
Jim Zug
Save the Date—50th Reunion celebration
over Alumni Weekend—May 2
and 3, 2008! Your Reunion Committee
is already hard at work preparing
for the big event. The committee is made
up of the following members of the
Class of 1958: Tom Baxter, Rich Liver-
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Class Notes
The Duchess of Cornwall greets Deb Boardman,
wife of Gene Lefevre ’67, on a recent trip to
Philadelphia.
Bill Clark ’73, with son Miles and wife Puddy.
Anthony Fisher ’74, president of the Reed College
Alumni Association.
Brad Frank ’85, with his daughter Eliana, and Michael Frank ’82, with his daughter Adeline.
sidge, Bob Bishop, Hunter McMullin,
Bill Lamb, Jim Zug, Morrie Heckscher,
Heatly Sebring, and Steve Carmick.
Other classmates are welcome to participate.
Please contact Clayton Platt
’73, Director of Alumni if you’re
interested. Everyone is encouraged to
submit photos, bios, remembrances, and
other memorabilia for inclusion in the
50th Reunion Tabula. Please send materials
to Nancy Taylor in the Alumni
Office at taylor@ea1785.org or 376 N.
Latches Lane, Merion, PA 19066.
59 Class Agent Needed
60 Class Agent: Geb Burden
George Watson writes: “Now, I’m the
proud grandfather of three. My two
youngest daughters are a first-year law
student at BC and a sophomore at Union
College. I retired four years ago and do
as little as I can get away with!”
61 Class Agent: Cappy Markle
62 Class Agent: Ed Vick
63 Class Agents: Drew Jackson and
Charlie Ogelsby
64 Class Agent: Tom Zug
65 Class Agents: John Gregg and Loyd
Pakradooni
66 Class Agent: Steve Dittmann
67 Class Agent: Needed
Deb Boardman, the wife of Gene Lefevre,
was recently given a bouquet of flowers
by a friend to take home with her. On
her way, Deb decided to try to catch a
glimpse of Prince Charles and Camilla
on their recent visit to Philadelphia.
The Duchess of Cornwall made a beeline
for Deb (aka Duchess of Delhi Street),
engaged her in conversation, and
thanked her for bringing the flowers,
which she accepted graciously—if not
presumptuously!
Dr. Bert Whetstone recently began
working with a national workshop organization
to promote his teacher and
parent training called “Child-Centered
Team Building: Using Relationships to
Promote Learning.” Over the past 33
years, Bert has developed a model for
looking at the world through a child’s
eyes, and has used this perspective to
promote agreement among the teachers,
parents, coaches, and other professionals
who surround each child. Visit Bert’s
Web site www.drbertwhetstone.com
to learn more about his workshop and
worldwide adventures, including summer
tours to France.
68 Class Agent: Needed
69 Class Agent: Needed
70 Class Agents: John Dautrich and
Ron Rothrock
71 Class Agent: Chris D’Angelo
Tony Brown is the proud grandfather
of Jack Carter Wagoner, born to Tony’s
daughter Annie (Brown) Wagoner ’98.
72 Class Agent: Chuck Taylor
73 Class Agents: Rex Gary, Jerry Holleran,
and Bill Luff
Jim Brooke writes: “After leaving Tokyo
and the Times last June, I reinvented myself
as a roving Russia feature writer for
Bloomberg, arriving in Moscow last fall.
In February, I became bureau chief for
Russia and Central Asia. Not only is it an
exciting political transition year in Russia
(Putin is to step down in May 2008),
but it is an exciting time to take over
Bloomberg’s Russia operation. We are
essentially doubling the news staff, hiring
television and print reporters, and opening
news offices in St. Petersburg (May)
and Kazakhstan (summer). On the home
front, Elizabeth is keeping track of the
boys from Katonah (Westchester) where
James is finishing up high school. William
is a freshman at Andover, and Alex
is a freshman at St. Paul’s—the school
I migrated to after completing middle
school at EA in 1969.
“If any Episcopal classmates come
through Moscow, look me up: jimbrookemoscow@yahoo.com.
Cheerio!”
74 Class Agents: Pierce Archer and Jeff
Morrison
Shippen Bright has lived in Maine for
many years, a favorite place of his growing
up. Ship’s passion for Maine led him
to found the Maine Lakes Conservancy
in 1999 (www.mlci.org) for which he
now travels nationally to raise funds.
Anthony Fisher writes: “Still love living
in Portland, OR, still working in municipal
finance, and amazed that I just took
my daughter on a college tour—how did
that happen? I’m also serving as president
of the Reed College Alumni Association,
showing no good deed goes unpunished.
Would love to hear from other alums
who are in the area!”
75 Class Agent: David Crockett
76 Class Agent: Roly Morris
Peter Hay Halpert writes: “I have opened
a new gallery in Chelsea, on what the
New York Times called ‘The Hot Block
in the Art World.’ We’re also right off
the High Line, so when the city finishes
the High Line renovation/public
parkway project (anchored by the new
Whitney Museum to be built down on
Gansevoort St.), you’ll be able to step off
the High Line, directly into our building,
on our floor. An exhibition, ‘Out of
Darkness: The Contemporary Revival
of Early Photography’ at the University
of Central Florida Museum in Orlando
featured quite a few pieces from my personal
photography collection. I gave a
lecture at the museum earlier, in November.”
For more on Peter’s work, visit his
Web site at www.phhfineart.com.
77 Class Agents: Gordon Cooney, Peter
Hare, and David Howard
Matt Sheridan and his wife Elizabeth
welcomed their third child, James Richard
Sheridan, on February 23, 2007.
They also have a son Louis, age six, and
a daughter Lily, age four.
78 Class Agents: Jim Borum and
Larry Mascioli
Henry Michell married Catherine Pemberton
on September 23, 2006.
79 Class Agent: Ned Lee
David Raymond and his wife Renee have
two daughters, Stella Rose and Dylan
Grace.
Tucker Van Dyck recently wrote: “I
graduated from the University of Virginia
in 1983, and the Pennsylvania College
of Optometry in 2002, and work with a
private group practice providing vision
care services for nursing homes and rehabilitation
centers all over Virginia, as
well as several other states. I moved to
Williamsburg in 2000, and several years
ago moved to a wonderful home in the
historic district, fulfilling my childhood
dream of moving to the colonial area. I
enjoy sailing and I race with a great crew
of guys throughout most of the year.
Most importantly, I live with a girl who
is not only the love of my life, but the
smartest person I know. Life is good. I
hope all is well at EA!”
80 Class Agent: Joe Giles
81 Class Agents: Ted Coxe and Ben
Thompson
82 Class Agents: Rich Crockett, Jim
Farrell, and Brooke McMullin
Michael Frank writes: “Everything is
great on the West Coast. I live in San
Francisco with my partner, David Adams,
and our five-year-old daughter,
Eliana. She just started kindergarten. I
was just promoted to assistant city manager
of the city of Santa Rosa, a city of
160,000 in wine country north of SF. I
would love to hear from classmates who
are visiting!”
Clayton French and his wife Pam welcomed
their third child, William
“Dawson” on January 14, 2006.
Mike McAlaine has been married to Gail
Lasprogata for 13 years and has lived in
the Seattle, WA area for almost as long.
He works in sales in high technology
and has held a variety of management
and non-management sales positions.
He has been with Microsoft for the last
six years, working with large- and medium-size
customers throughout the Pacific
Northwest. Gail is a professor of business
law at Seattle University. Mike and Gail
have three boys, Liam, Aidan, and Con-
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Class Notes
Rev. Jim Squire, Hon. blesses Cathy James Mascioli and Bob Mascioli ’86.
EA Alumni pictured at Bob ’86 and Cathy Mascioli’s wedding are: Lee Allman ’84, Larry Mascioli ’78, Tom
Mascioli ’72, Christian Red ’86, Rev. Squire, Hon., Gina Kwak, Andy Kwak ’86, Rick Kwak ’88, Tim Jannetta
’86, Anthony Saler ’86, Jon Stinnett ’86, Fran Forte, Hon. ’86, Jack Zinman ’87, Joe Hilger ’86, and Jamie
Richter ’86, Chris Roe ’86, Faith Mascioli ’12, Adam Charlton ’09, and Ben Mascioli ’10. EA Alumni not
pictured: Kim (Zinman) Richter ’88, Anne (Heilman) Brown ’88, and Lauren (O’Connor) Sullivan ’88.
Duncan Andrew McLuckie, son of Drew ’88 and
Susan McLuckie, dons his first kilt in preparation for
a future as an Alumni Weekend bagpiper.
Nathaniel Kline, son of Bill ’92 and Amy Kline,
wearing his new EA sweater.
Tom Farrell ’92 returned to Episcopal to speak with Geoff Wagg’s digital video production class this
winter. Pictured with Tom are seniors Paige Donaldson, Jon Trumbull, Ainsely Brinton, Pierro Russo, and
Meghan McCormick.
nor, ages nine, six, and six respectively.
The family enjoys the Northwest, skiing
in the winter and visiting the mountains
and lakes in the summer. All three boys
are sports enthusiasts with baseball, basketball,
and soccer dominating playtime
—but Mike is working hard on getting
lacrosse in the mix!
Roger Van Allen is the Director of Development
at Fordham University.
83 Class Agents: Jamie Hole and Todd
Walter
84 Class Agents: Bill Conlan, Bill Keffer,
and Karl Mayro
85 Class Agent: Won Shin
Wendy (Zug) Brown and her three
daughters (ages eight, 10, and 11) moved
to Southern India in January. Wendy is
teaching English and religion in the Upper
School at the Koaikanal International
School in the Kerala area of Southern India.
Wendy is an ordained UCC minister
and has been a chaplain in a hospital in
Bozeman, MT. Wendy’s husband kept
his job in the Yellowstone National Park
and will regularly visit the family while
they are in India.
86 Class Agents: J.D. Cassidy and Bruce
Walsh
Bob Mascioli married Cathy James on
December 30, 2005 at St. Patrick’s in
Philadelphia. Bob was recently elected to
be a shareholder at McCausland Keen &
Buckman.
87 Class Agents: Jim Blenko, Peter
Dugery, Ed Jones, and Mindy Phelps
Keith Linker married Grace Kim July
16th, 2006, in Maui. Keith works for
the city of Anaheim, CA as a civil engineer
and Grace is a paralegal for the firm
Greenberg Traurig, LLP, located in Santa
Monica where they reside. Eric Linker
was the best man. Eric lives in Ardmore
and is an Information Technology Specialist
for Elwyn Institute. Keith and
Grace are also proud to announce the
birth of their first child, Ava Judith Linker
born March 22, 2007.
Laura (Hampel) Verrekia is a professor
at West Chester University. She has her
Ph.D. in psychology and lives in West
Chester with her husband of 13 years
and her three daughters (ages 10, eight,
and six).
88 Class Agent: Michael Jordan
Andrew McLuckie and his wife Susan
recently welcomed their first child,
son Duncan Andrew McLuckie, born
November 7, 2006.
Gerard Rosato and his wife Danielle recently
welcomed a new baby girl to the
family. Colette Elizabeth Rosato was
born January 31, 2007.
Cordell Whitlock earned a 2006 Emmy
Award for his coverage of an explosion
at a compressed gas plant. He was also
named St. Louis’ best reporter by The
Riverfront Times. In December, Cordell
was promoted to weekend anchor at
NBC affiliate KSDK.
89 Class Agents: Erin (O’Brien) Dugery
and Charlie Moleski
90 Class Agent: Needed
Heidi Chagan and her husband Clark
Bristol have two children, Cole, who
turned four in March, and Nathan, who
turned two in March. They live in Savannah,
GA.
91 Class Agents: Joe Bongiovanni, Sean
McDermott, Holly Rieck, and Jenn Tierney
92 Class Agents: Charley French and
Ben Prusky
Jeff MacBean currently lives in Marin
County, CA. He works for a small asset
management firm in San Francisco and
also coaches high school lacrosse (something
he’s been doing for the past five
years). Jeff writes: “Hopefully one day I
can bring the team back to Philadelphia
to play a game against EA on one of the
beautiful new fields. My brother Doug
’95 recently moved from San Francisco
back to New York.”
Peter Strid recently moved to Wayne
with his wife Trish and son Pablo (twoand-a-half-years-old)
after spending 10
years in New York City. Peter is working
for Trion, an employee benefits firm,
and Trish is a bilingual speech language
pathologist.
93 Class Agents: Steve Cardone, Elissa
Helt, and Megan (Haley) Noller
Kara (O’Connor) Chisholm and her husband
Tim recently welcomed their first
child, Caroline Elizabeth, who was born
on November 7, 2006.
94 Class Agents: Tema (Fallahnejad)
Burkey, Anna (Morgan) Cassidy, and
Tara Stitchberry
Brett “Spike” Eskin is working as the assistant
program director/music director
for WKQX (Q101), an alternative station
in Chicago, IL.
Abigail Walker married John Kasselakis
on December 16, 2006 in Philadelphia.
The couple lives in New York City.
95 Class Agents: Katie (Kurz) Mc-
Comb, Doug MacBean, Laura Rooklin,
and Austin Whitman
Hazel (Imbesi) Bentinck and her husband
Caspar welcomed their second
child, Francesca Hazel Bentinck, on January
10, 2007. Francy joins big brother
Christian. The Bentinck family lives in
Manhattan.
Carrie (Long) Greenfield and her husband
Jeff welcomed their first child,
William Baker, on April 7, 2007.
Jamie Griffin returned to Episcopal in
January to address the students in Chapel.
A transcript of the address can be
found by going clicking on “Spirit” on
the home page (www.ea1785.org) and
then “Chapel Program” and “Chapel
Talks.”
Brian Guernsey married Allison Rivera
on January 13, 2007. EA Alumni in
attendance included: Rob DeMento, Jesse
Shute, Matt Chagan, Blake Sando,
Rich Wilson, Christine (Wilson) Merrill,
Chris Diliberto, Mike Petock, Buzz
Poole, Robert Owens and Kevin Park, as
well as Just Wilson ’97, Megan Guernsey
’97, and Kristen Guernsey ’02.
Andrew Marvin returned to Episcopal
in December to speak to the World Affairs
Club and other interested students
about his experiences on active duty in
the Army. During his eight years of service,
which ended January 15th, Andrew
was stationed in Hawaii, Australia, Japan,
Bosnia, the Philippines, and most
recently Iraq. He has received several
awards, including the Army Commendation
Medal and the Bronze Star.
Blake Sando married Jennifer Ann Ward
on July 29, 2006 in Philadelphia. Ralph
Sando ’89 served as best man. Classmates
Chris Diliberto and Richard Wilson were
in the wedding party.
96 Class Agents: Jamie Barrett, Mike
O’Connor, Maria Solomon, and Jenny
(Williams) Weymouth
Page Pearcy Cash and David Cash welcomed
their first baby, a son, “Ford”
(Winford Pearcy Cash), on March 15,
2007. The family lives in North Palm
Beach where Page is teaching math and
coaching at The Benjamin School and
Dave is in real estate development.
Nick French married Samantha Wang on
July 15, 2006.
Josh Krotec married Cathy Zorc in Baltimore,
MD on September 23, 2006. After
meeting nine years ago as undergraduates
at Penn, they have spent the past seven
years pursuing their respective careers
in different states: Josh in Connecticut
and Tennessee; Cathy in Maryland. This
summer, however, Josh and Cathy will
finally settle down together and move
back to the Philadelphia area. Josh will
continue in his role as vice president at
Aerospace Products International, Inc. in
Memphis, TN, but will spend much of
the next two years in Philadelphia earning
an MBA from Wharton. Cathy
begins her residency in pediatrics at du-
Pont Hospital for Children (Wilmington,
DE) in June.
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Class Notes
EA alumni celebrating the marriage of Abigail Walker ’94 to John Kasselakis:
Scarlett Campitelli ’94, Jeffrey Porter ’99, Amanda Martin ’94, Trevor Walker ’99,
Sarah Glick Johnson ’94, Geoff Walker ’92, Heather Keeney Balsley ’94, Ashley
Schuh ’94, and Brooke Doherty ’95. Also in attendance were Jennifer Aronchick ’94
and Drew Palmer ’92.
Josh Krotec ’96, Cathy Zorc, Lexi Krotec ’98, and Nick Krotec ’04.
James Casey ’97, Paul O’Conner ’97, Bradd Haley ’97, Marshall Sebring ’97 hanging out in
Thingvellir National Park in Iceland this January.
Pictured in the front (from l to r): Claire Munnelly, Taryn Anrig,
Andrew Addis ’99, Lauren Addis, Courtney Scanlin, Megan
Collins, and Carla Nikitaidis. Pictured in the back (from l to r):
Patrick O’Neill ’99, D’Arcy O’Neill ’98, Tim Stisser, Jeff Porter ’99,
Jeff Addis’02, Will Addis, Jason Risk, and Trevor Walker ’99.
Jennifer Nansteel is moving to Boston
to begin her residency at the Tufts New
England Medical Center in internal
medicine. She looks forward to connecting
with her old friends and classmates
from Episcopal who are living in the
greater Boston area.
97 Class Agents: Julie (Manser) Ganz,
Kellen Heckscher, and Dan O’Donnell
Members of the Class of 1997, your reunion
isn’t too far away! Grab a pencil
and write this down: Class of 1997 10th
Reunion—Friday, November 23, 2007.
Please send any updated contact information
(home and/or business) to Jen
Slike, Assistant Director of Alumni, at
slike@ea1785.org, so she can keep you
in-the-loop regarding reunion plans!
Drew Calder graduated from Penn
State/Dickinson School of Law in
May 2006 and subsequently passed
the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bar
exams. Currently, she is working as a
litigation associate for Bennett, Bricklin
& Saltzburg in Philadelphia. Drew married
Zachary Long on October 7, 2006
in Christ Chapel at Episcopal. Reverend
Squire presided. Maureen (Stachowski)
Griffin ’95 was the matron of honor.
The reception was held at Merion Golf
Club. Drew and Zachary now reside in
Lawrenceville, NJ.
James Casey, Paul O’Conner, and Marshall
Sebring visited Bradd Haley in
Iceland this January. Bradd is studying
marine pathogens in Reykjavik as
part of the Fulbright Scholar Program.
James is self-employed in New York
City, Paul is in his second year at the
London Business School, and Marshall
is a vice president and fixed income
portfolio manager at BlackRock in
New York City.
Ryan Gelbach recently made a career
change from the fashion industry and is
working for Prudential Fox & Roach as
a full time realtor’s assistant in Rittenhouse
Square.
98 Class Agents: Rob Melchionni, John
Salvucci, and CJ Walsh
Katy Haas married Mark Wallacavage
on August 2, 2003. They have two
children, Isabel, born June 1, 2004,
and Gabriel, born September 8, 2006.
Katy is now a stay-at-home mom raising
her beautiful children and living in
Philadelphia.
Annie (Brown) Wagoner and her husband
Brian welcomed their first baby,
Jack Carter Wagoner, on December 14,
2006. Jack was born at 1:09 p.m. and
weighed 7 lbs. 5 oz. The proud grandfather
is Tony Brown ’71.
99 Class Agent: Win Lippincott
Andrew Addis married Lauren Elizabeth
Anrig at the Church of Holy
Trinity in Rittenhouse Square on
December 9, 2006. D’Arcy O’Neill
’98, Patrick O’Neill, Jeff Porter, Trevor
Walker, and Jeff Addis ’02 were in the
wedding party.
Casey Halpern was selected by the faculty
at the University of Pennsylvania
for the school’s neurosurgery training
program. Casey completed his
undergraduate work at Penn and will be
awarded his M.D in May from Penn, as
well. He will begin his internship as a
prelude to a six-year residency in neurological
surgery in June 2007.
Catherine Hunt will graduate from Harvard
University’s Kennedy School of
Government in June and has accepted a
job at Bechtel Enterprises, a private equity
firm in Washington, DC.
Amanda McDermott married Mark
DeGenova on October 7, 2006 at the
Avalon Yacht Club. Amanda owns Sole
Motive, a women’s shoe boutique in
Clermont, NJ.
Sarah Smith is working with a federally
funded education program to set
up a teacher training system throughout
Liberia.
00 Class Agents: Kimmy Gardner, Mike
Hoffman, and Ben Rogers
Rebecca Allen returned to the United
States in November after spending
two years with Campus Outreach in
Johannesburg, South Africa. She is currently
enrolled in the MA program of
international development at Eastern
University.
Rachael Garrett graduated magna cum
laude from Boston University in 2003
with a dual major in environmental
analysis and policy and history. She
received her MPA in environmental
science and policy from Columbia University
in 2006. Rachael is currently an
environmental consultant with Green
Restaurant Association in Boston, MA.
She helps approximately 300 restaurants
around the country achieve ecological
sustainability by providing concrete solutions
for energy and water efficiency,
waste generation, natural resource and
chemical use, and sustainable food.
Ben Rogers married Candice Chandler
on February 3, 2007.
01 Class Agents: Sarah Baker, Evan
Coughenour, Drew Crockett, and Pete
Tedesco
Elizabeth Pillion is a business development
associate with Clearbrook
Investment Management Services, an
independent investment platform located
in Princeton, NJ. She also volunteers
with the Princeton women’s lacrosse
team.
Lisa Smith returned to campus this
spring to speak to the Upper School
students during chapel. She spoke of
her experience as a U.S. Peace Corps
volunteer stationed in Morocco. A transcript
of the address can be found by
clicking on “Spirit” on the home page
(www.ea1785.org) and then “Chapel
Program” and “Chapel Talks.”
02 Class Agents: Kevin Dugan and Tim
Mahoney
Members of the Class of 2002, your
reunion isn’t too far away! Grab a pencil
and write this down: Class of 2002
5th Reunion—Saturday, November 24,
2007. Please send any updated contact
information (home and/or business) to
Jen Slike, Assistant Director of Alumni,
at slike@ea1785.org, so she can
keep you in-the-loop regarding reunion
plans!
Courtney Gatter is a sales representative
for VWR International. VWR services
the industrial, government, life science,
education, electronics and pharmaceutical
markets as a leading worldwide
distributor of scientific equipment, supplies,
chemicals and furniture. Courtney’s
territory is southwest Virginia, including
Virginia Tech, her alma mater.
Jake McKeon graduated cum laude
from Middlebury College last spring
with a degree in English and political
philosophy. He moved to San Francisco
at the end of October to take a job
at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati,
a corporate law firm based in Palo Alto
that represents much of Silicon Valley.
His group at the firm focuses heavily on
technology startups, IPO’s, mergers and
acquisitions, and corporate governance
issues.
03 Class Agents: Julia Crawford, Matt
Deasey, and Matt Szporka
Congratulations to all of our alumni
graduating from college this spring!
Please send the Alumni Office your new
contact information and any news on
the job front.
Scottie McQuilkin was named senior
class president of Cornell University and
will be speaking at Cornell’s commencement
ceremony. Her brother Geoffrey
McQuilkin ’07 is senior class president
at Episcopal this year.
04 Class Agents: Nick Brown, Mike
Ciccotti, Brian O’Neill, and Lauren
Owens
05 Class Agents: Nick Morris and
Kit Zipf
06 Class Agents: Jen D’Angelo, Sam
Daly, Allie Fitzpatrick, Rob McCallion,
and Michelle Thomas
Jen D’Angelo is a member of Northwestern
University’s improv team,
called Titanic Players, and Vertigo Productions,
a theater board that produces
student written theater.
42 Connections spring 2007 43

Milestones
$ 1,750,000 Goal
Marriages
Catherine Pemberton to
Henry Michell ’78
9/23/2006
Katie Hartnett to
Timothy Jannetta ’86
12/30/2006
Grace Kim to Keith Linker ’87
7/16/2006
Suzanne Landren to Pace Duckett ’92
9/29/2005
Allison Rivera to Brian Guernsey ’95
1/13/2007
Jennifer Ward to Blake Sando ’95
7/29/2006
Samantha Wang to Nicholas French ’96
7/15/2006
Catherine Shea Zorc to
Joshua Krotec ’96
9/23/2006
Zachary Long to Drew Calder ’97
10/7/2006
Kenneth Houser to
Jessica Broadbent ’97
8/14/2004
Mark Wallacavage to Katy Haas ’98
8/2/2003
Lauren Elizabeth Anrig to
Andrew Addis ’99
12/9/2006
Mark DeGenova to
Amanda McDermott ’99
10/7/2006
Candice Chandler to Ben Rogers ’00
2/3/2007
Births
Liz & Jon Erickson ’84
Will Erickson 4/26/2004
Ned Erickson 4/26/2004
Eileen & Robert Gibson ’84
Shane Gibson 1/22/1998
Maura Gibson 5/7/2002
Grace & Keith Linker ’87
Ava Judith Linker 3/22/2007
Susan & Andrew McLuckie ’88
Duncan Andrew McLuckie 11/7/2006
Danielle & Gerard Rosato ’88
Colette Elizabeth Rosato 1/31/2007
Clark & Heidi (Chagan) Bristol ’90
Cole Bristol age 4
Nathan Bristol age 2
Allison & Peter Crowe ’90
Brady Jonathan Crowe 7/25/2006
Heather & Daniel Carella ’91
Ryan Taggart Carella 11/27/2005
Raffaele Scalcione &
Jane Oberwager ’91
Isabella Scovill Scalcione 7/29/2006
Diana Spagnuolo & Sasha Ballen ’92
Elio Felice Ballen Spagnuolo
12/15/2006
Marina Lillian Ballen Spagnuolo
12/15/2006
Brent & Jennifer (Mirandy) Raue ’92
Colin Thomas Raue 12/21/2006
Tim &
Kara (O’Connor) Chisholm ’93
Caroline Elizabeth Chisholm 11/7/2006
Caspar & Hazel (Imbesi) Bentinck ’95
Francesca Hazel Bentinck 1/10/2007
Brian & Annie (Brown) Wagoner ’98
Jack Carter Wagoner 12/14/2006
Mark & Katy (Haas) Wallacavage ’98
Isabel Wallacavage 6/1/2004
Gabriel Wallacavage 9/8/2006
Deaths
David Maddux Tennent ’32
11/5/2006
J. Allison Cochran ’39
8/30/2006
Charles Penrose, Jr. ’40
1/19/2007
Thomas C. Stellwagen, III ’42
12/16/2006
M. Daniel Daudon ’44
4/28/2006
Howard Henry Roberts ’44
2/10/2007
Walter T. Armstrong ’46
3/29/2007
Ward L. Mauck ’47
4/6/2007
Richard R. Snape ’72
3/1/2007
Karharine Dolan Hon.
1/12/2007
Richard Boekenkamp Hon.
1/6/2007
The Episcopal Academy’s Annual Giving
Campaign ends on June 30, 2007. To date, more
than 1,800 donors have contributed over $1.6
million dollars towards our campaign goal of
$1.75 million dollars. We need your help today to
reach our goal.
Each and every contribution demonstrates a
commitment to Episcopal’s tradition of excellence
and helps each student every day by going directly
to this year’s operating budget.
Please use the enclosed envelope to make your
gift or pledge and thank you in advance for your
support.
$ 1,657,577 Raised
$ 400,603 Alumni
$ 612,811 Parents
$ 156,934 Grandparents
$ 72,485 Past Parents
$ 47,339 Matching Gifts
$ 367,405 Other
Elizabeth & Matt Sheridan ’77
James Richard Sheridan 2/23/2007
Renee & David Raymond ’79
Stella Rose Raymond 7/16/2003
Dylan Grace Raymond 9/26/2005
Pam & Clayton French ’82
William French 1/14/2006
Jeff & Carrie (Long) Greenfield ’95
William Baker Greenfield 4/7/2007
Page (Pearcy) ’96 & David Cash ’96
Winford Pearcy Cash 3/15/2007
Daniel & Julie (Manser) Ganz ’97
Ella Grace Ganz 2/26/2007
Contact Bruce Konopka, Associate Director
of Development, at 610-617-2233 or
bkonopka@ea1785.org, for more
information.
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it’s your reunion year or not. We
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