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News of the School news of the school | horace mann school journal © Bruce Fuller Horace Mann Celebrates Community Horace Mann School came together as a community this year as never before through a series of especially meaningful events. On November 25, 2008, the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, Upper Division students, faculty, administrators, and members of HM’s support, maintenance, and security staff gathered in the Cohen Dining Commons for the school’s first-ever communal meal—or the first in many decades. Nearly 1,000 people dined together, many speaking to one another for the first time. To accommodate the many people involved in this effort the diners were split into two groups, one group attending an assembly while the other enjoyed a traditional festive meal, and then switching off. Middle Division students ate together in their homerooms, before an assembly. Lower Division students followed suit later in the holiday season as two grades at a time got together to share a family-style meal. The idea for the communal meal originated with Head of School Dr. Tom Kelly, who proposed having a family-style meal to recognize HM’s adoption of a reusable, environmentally-friendly dishwashing system this year. Theater Department Chair Woody Howard and Photography Department Chair Karen Johnson developed the idea into a Thanksgiving feast. The communal meal moved HM junior Ethan Karetsky ’10 to write in a column in The Record “Thanksgiving presented us with a chance to reflect. We enjoyed a traditional meal in the company of our Advisory groups, and performances and speeches from a range of community members. We learned about those around us. This is how communities are built.” Two months later the entire School gathered together again, with the academic schedule adjusted to accommodate an historic event. On January 20, 2009 class work was suspended to allow students and faculty to watch live coverage of the inauguration of President Barak Obama. Lower Division students and their teachers, dressed in red, white, and blue, filed into the gym and sat on the floor in front of a huge screen watching those gathered in Washington D.C. take their podium seats. Cheers erupted as the President’s daughters, Sasha and Malia, lower school students themselves, appeared on the screen. Middle Division students watched in Gross Hall, along with Upper Division students, while other Upper Division students packed into the Recital Hall or the floor of Prettyman Gym. Said Upper Division Head Dr. David Schiller, “I hope that when people look back on their lives and remember this moment, they remember experiencing it at HM.” Black History month offered another chance for community members to share a significant occasion together. This time they hailed from Horace Mann, Fieldston, and Riverdale—the Hilltop schools—for an evening organized by the diversity offices of each of the schools. On February 13, 2009 audience members watched a performance by the “Our Voices” African-American Culture on Stage theater group, and participated in a discussion following the thought-provoking production. Spring brings the community together again for Earth Day in the Lower Division, Book Days in the Upper and Middle Divisions, and the second-annual All School Center for Community Values and Actionsponsored day of volunteering. $ © Barry Mason 26 Horace Mann Magazine Spring 2009
news of the school Horace Mann Teams Triumph The Record (pictures on left and right) © David Boris HM gymnasts capture AAIS championship for the 11 th time. As this issue of Horace Mann Magazine went to press a few of Horace Mann’s teams had triumphed in competitions completed at the winter season’s end, winning Ivy League titles in swimming, wrestling, and fencing, and an Independent School title in gymnastics. HM’s wrestlers also captured the States championship. Horace Mann’s wrestlers, a mixed men’s and women’s team, continued to dominate the Ivy League as the team, coached by Greg Quilty, won its ninth consecutive Ivy title, and its eighth New York State Private School Championship in the last nine years. Lions wrestlers tied the team’s own HM record of having six individual champions: Gideon Wertheimer ’11, co-Captain Cameron Wertheimer ’09; Michael Kurtz ’09; D.J. Amirsaleh ’09, co-Captains Dan Marcusa ’09 and Justin Meltzer ’09. Meltzer was also voted “Champion of Champions”, an honor bestowed by the vote of all other participating wrestlers at States. Winning his third State title he was the third wrestler in HM history to achieve that distinction. Co-Captains Cam Wertheimer and Eleanor Lewis ’09 won the Iron Horse award for placing all four years they competed in the tournament. Lewis was the first woman wrestler to win the Iron Horse in the history of the States tournament. The Boys’ Varsity Swim Team won its second consecutive Ivy League Championship in February 2009 by a jaw-dropping 78-point lead, winning against archrival Hackley—a team that beat the Sea Lions just a week before. Coach Michael Duffy said the team took the title because of its consistency and depth, evident in the individual 100 free, with the Sea Lions taking 2 nd , 3 rd , 9 th and 10 th place. Looking toward next season, Duffy is confident that the team will remain as successful as it has been over the last several seasons. The Lions gymnastics team captured its eleventh AAIS Championship, and its ninth championship in row. Coached by Caroline Surhoff the team placed first on vault, floor exercise and balance beam routines. Boys’ Fencing won its first-ever Independent School Fencing League (ISFL) team championship behind Jake Kuhn’s ’09 dominating performance in all twelve of his tournament matches. Girls’ Fencing captured first-place in the ISFL and third in States. Coach Tim Delanty was ecstatic over the teams’ successes and accomplishments, noting that the program’s growth and improving reputation has the potential to attract strong fencers for years to come. Combining sports with service Horace Mann hosted its annual Coaches vs. Cancer Basketball Classic raising $40,000 for cancer research. Sports results and schedules, including details featuring all teammember names can be found on www.horacemann.org/athletics and in archived issues of The Record http://record.horacemann.org. $ Horace Mann Magazine Spring 2009 27
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