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Spring 2011 • Noble and Greenough SchoolNoblesT H EB u l l e t i nPhotograph by Tori O’Connor ’13

Story — Page 6C O N T E N T Ss p r i N G 2 011F E A T U R E S6 Theatre Roundupfrom Mainstage to Middle School, Nobles actors strut their stuff.10 Oh, The Places You’ll GoWhether you travel north, south, east, west or center, you’ll find aNobles grad.15 Remembering the HungryNobles students seek to understand and address hunger at homeand around the world.18 Out of Tragedy, SolidarityHow the Class of ’56 responded to hardship with generosity.21 Nobles Hall of Fame Class of 2011New members will be inducted at Reunion.28 Reunion ProfilesMeet members of this season’s Reunion classes, from ’61 to ‘06.D E P A R T M E N T S2 View from the Castle22 On the Road24 Windows on Nobles26 On the Playing Fields38 Graduate News63 From the ArchivesAbout the CoverThe haunting black and white photograph onthe cover of this Bulletin was created by ToriO’Connor ’13 for her Photo I class. The assignment,reports fine arts faculty member AmandaWastrom, was to reinterpret a piece of narrativewriting such as a myth, poem or a children’sstory through photography. Tori’s image of heryounger sister was inspired by Maurice Sendak’schildren’s classic, Where the Wild Things Are.

As feeble as it sounds—and until theU.S. mail becomes a thing of the past—Iwould like to make a last-ditch pitch for thepreservation of the thoughtful, handwrittennote. In the age of Twitter, texting and“Trust me, for most teachersnothing beats a thoughtful,handwritten letter—and Isuspect that is true for allof us no matter how we earnour living.”Facebook, the new normal in communicationis speed, impulsivity and brevity. Iguess many of us—busier than ever, environmentallyconscious, and watching everypenny—have come to the conclusion thatthere are too many steps and drawbacksinvolved to keep this once-common cour-tesy afloat, especially now that the speedand convenience of the Internet trumps all.While most people now type faster thanthey write and are online all the time,Bill Busseybeing at everyone’s beck and call 24/7, Isuspect, undermines our desire and willingnessto take the time to craft heartfelt communication.Yet, if we, and especially ourchildren, let opportunities slip away, oppor-tunities in which our words may resonateand show appreciation toward the deservingpeople in our lives, we are not, in thegrand scheme of things, living up to ourend of the bargain.Trust me, for most teachers nothingbeats a thoughtful, handwritten letter—andI suspect that is true for all of us no matterhow we earn our living. If your child isgraduating and has not yet thanked theirteachers for writing a college recommendation,now is as good a time as any.Five thank-you cards and a half hour oftime can do a world of good. No matterwhat grade your child is in, there are aslew of folks, not all of them obvious, whohave worked hard on your family’s behalf.Please take the time to write a thank-younote or two over vacation and have yourchild do the same. Besides, if you dropthem off at the front desk, you won’thave to use a stamp.Company with a ConscienceAt the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) annual conference inNational Harbor, Md., in February, Seth Goldman ’83, President and “Tea-E-O“of Honest Tea was a featured speaker. As he told the story of his successfulbeverage company, he gave a great deal of credit for his success to Nobles.The experience gave him, he reported:• The confidence to lead• The confidence to believe in, and live by, his values• A sense of how to build and participate in community• Endurance in dealing with adversity• A sense of his broader responsibilities to societyIt was this confidence and commitment that propelled Goldman to founda socially responsible company, he said.Honest Tea is a successful for-profit company (it sold 100 million bottles in2010) with a conscience, Goldman reported. Last year it planted 10,000 treesin parks throughout the United States, and its goal for 2011 is 50,000.Spring 2011 l the NobLES Bulletin l 3

V I E W F R O M T H EC a s t l eu p d a t e sCastle ConstructionPreparation for the Castle renovation process has begun.In late January the Nobles Board of Trustees enthusiasticallychose to move ahead immediately with the project. Initial prepwork took place over March break. Most of the early phase ofthe project will take place to the west of the existing buildingwhere the site must be prepared for a major addition. Apriland May of this school year will not see a great deal of activityother than some relatively simple site and project preparations,including the installation of fencing. Very soon after the end ofclasses in June, however, the project will begin in earnest. Workwill proceed at a very rapid pace through the summer of 2011and right into the winter of 2012. Throughout these monthswe will continue to use the Castle as always, but there will beconstruction barriers and lots of activity behind them. Almostall of the work in this period will be on the site to the west forthe addition to the building, and in the basement and lowerlevels as the operating systems for the building are reconstructed.By the spring of 2012, work will begin on the existing kitchenarea, and this will require the use of a temporary kitchen formuch of the final months of that school year. The temporarykitchen will be located on the lawn area in front of the northside of the building. Students will continue, however, to dinein the building. Most of the faculty residents of the buildingwill move out by this time (until the project is complete) aswork begins on the thorough renovation of the upstairs apartments.Between the end of classes in late spring 2012 andthe start of school in September 2012, the project willbe completed.Thirty Years on the MatWrestling coach Steve Toubman marks 30 years as a wrestlingcoach at Nobles this spring. In Assembly, Director of AthleticsAlex Gallagher ’90 spoke of Toubman’s influence onhundreds of students through the years. “He deserves tremendousrecognition,” Gallagher said. Although he never wrestledwith him, Paul Foss ’62 came to the same conclusion aboutToubman’s influence on generations of Nobles athletes. Fossmade a donation to the school in honor of Toubman, andSteve Toubmanwrote, “Dear Coach Toubman, $50.00 given—one dollarper year since my last wrestling season at Nobles. Beginningin the 115-lb weight class I participated for six years undercoaches Storer, Bird and Reese, earned four letters, andwas captain and undefeated in the 187-lb and heavyweightclasses (we didn’t have a real heavyweight team member sothe task usually fell to me) during my final season in ‘61–‘62.Although I never met you, sir, nonetheless I hold you in highestregard and know that you have conveyed the same depthof wisdom and of life-enriching lessons to your wrestlers as Ireceived to my lasting benefit. For young men, I know of noother sport that places such a benevolent burden of personalresponsibility on their shoulders and from which the phrase‘physical education’ takes on such a full meaning. It is wonderfulto think unto how many generations of your wrestlersthese benefits will continue to inure.”4 l the NobLES Bulletin l Spring 2011

u p d a t e sClass V and VI students in RomeJustin Jimenez ’14 with baby Angela at the AlfredRusescu Pediatric Hospital in RomaniaAll Over the MapDuring the March break, Nobles students, faculty and staff fanned out across the globe to participate in experiential,language and/or service projects. Here’s where they were and what they did:• Honduras—Marine biology study at the Roatan Institute for Marine Science• Italy—Historical/cultural language study and service• New Orleans, Louisiana—Continuing assistance with post-Katrina reconstruction• Romania—Volunteering with babies and toddlers in orphanages• South Africa—Volunteering with Willing Workers in South Africa to renovate houses• Vietnam and Cambodia—Cycling trip concluding with a service projectIn the GameSeth Priebatsch ’07, the dynamic co-founder of the Internetcompany SCVNGR, has been busy. He keynoted the SXSW Southby Southwest Music + Film Interactive festival in Austin, Texas,in March, speaking to an audience of 4,000 about the nextbig thing in interactivity. He envisions a “game layer,” in whichWeb gaming—on a global platform yet to be created—will beharnessed to solve real problems.SCVNGR reached the milestone of 1 million users in February.Their newest project, LevelUp, will offer local businesses inBoston and Philadelphia a tiered loyalty scheme for customersthat is designed to keep customers coming back to get betterdiscount deals at shops, restaurants and local businesses. “Thegoal is to take the level-up game mechanic and implement it inthe real world,” Priebatsch told the Guardian. “One problem ofthe daily deals space [such as Groupon] is that it creates alocal, social deal but doesn’t get users to come back.”E-AccomplishmentWe recently received word aboutan innovative book by Noblesgrad Daniela Salzman ’03. Salzmanhas worked with HarvardBusiness School professor RobertEccles P’05 ’06 ’07 ’09 and Harvarddoctoral student BeitingCheng on the subject of “integrated reporting,” the combinedmeasurement of an organization’s performance through financialand environmental, social and governance metrics (ESG).Their book on the topic, The Landscape of Integrated Reporting:Reflections and Next Steps, is now available as the firste-book published by Harvard Business School Press. Go towww.smashwords.com/books/view/30930 to download.The e-book is compatible with any e-reader and is alsoavailable on iTunes and Amazon.com.Spring 2011 l the NobLES Bulletin l 5

T h e a t r e R o u n d u pBig Praise for Big LoveWith each production, the NoblesTheatre Collective manages totransport its audience, showing themthe way rather than simply describingthe journey—and the 2011 WinterMainstage play was no exception. Uponentering Vinik Theatre this February,the scenery struck first—tall Venetiancolumns and swags of white silk drapedin front of an Italian mountain view.As the lights dimmed, audience memberswere welcomed to the coast ofItaly by a thickly accented voice:Buon giorno and bienvenuti aBig Love. Tonight we will witnessthe glorious wedding of 50 bridesto 50 grooms. As we say in Italy,when the moon hits your eye like abig pizza pie, that’s amore! Whenthe world seems to shine like you’vehad too much wine, that’s amore!Charles Mee’s play, Big Love, adaptedfor the NTC by Performing Arts facultyIsabella Kursh ‘12member Jillian Grunnah, is basedon the classic story The SuppliantWomen,by Aeschylus. It tells the taleof 50 Greek sisters who seek refugeat an Italian estate after fleeing their50 cousins, to whom they’ve beenbetrothed. As the wedding day drawsnear, the characters deal with issuesThe cast of Big Love6 l the NobLES Bulletin l Spring 20116 l the NobLES Bulletin l Spring 2011

of gender identity, love, violence and relationships. WhileThyona (Caroline Welch ’12), fiercely feminist andoutraged by the antiquated marriage arrangement,convinces her sisters to plot murder, love-sick Olympia(Maggie Yang ’12) works through feelings of conflict,and level-headed Lydia (Isabella Kursh ’12) triesto come to grips with her true feelings for her groomto-be,Nikos (Greg Swartz ’13).— Julie GuptillDown the Rabbit HoleIt might be hard to imagine that Towles Auditoriumcould be transformed into an underground world peopled,among others, with a talking white rabbit and a March hare,a confused duchess, a sleeping dormouse, a sinuous caterpillar,tap-dancing twins, acrobatic playing cards and a raucousRed Queen—not to mention three separate Alices. But theMiddle School players did just that when they staged Alicein Wonderland in February. Director Kelly Jean Mullancrafted a show in which 30 young actors played with suchverve and confidence that Lewis Carroll’s fantasy camevividly to life. Stylized oversized sets by Jon Bonner, lightingby Todd Morton and costume design by Joy Adamscompleted the illusion that an auditorium in Dedham wasactually the other side of the looking glass. The show playedto enthusiastic full houses of families, friends and faculty.Curious questions such as “Why is a raven like a writingdesk?” come up repeatedly in the play as Alice (played inAdriana Ureña ’12Isabella Kursh ’12and Greg Swartz ’13Brooke Strodder ’15 with Kate Bussey ’15Maggie Yang 12 and Lucas O’Brien ’14Spring 2011 l the NobLES Bulletin l 7

T h e a t r e R o u n d u pdifferent scenes by Katie Bussey ’15, Whitney Sanford ’16 andAshley Allinson ’15) negotiates the topsy-turvy world into which shehas fallen, where characters believe “six impossible things before breakfast.”Of course, the central question Alice asks—“Who in the worldam I?—is a critical question for young adolescents. Through opportunitieslike acting in the Middle School play, Nobles students discover,as the White Rabbit said to Alice, “You are where you belong.”— Catherine O’Neill GraceEmma Kotfica ’16 and Kate Bussey ’15Christian Yeh ’16, Whitney Sandford ’16,Gabriela Ureña ’16 and Chase Haylon ’158 l the NobLES Bulletin l Spring 2011Student Directors StepIn early February, four Nobles students took tothe director’s chair to create the annual studentdirectedplays. Haley DeLuca, JeffreyFishman, Ava Geyer and Rosalind Watson,all Class of 2011, overseen by interim Head ofTheatre Todd Morton, presented a series ofdark, twisted and witty one-acts. The studentstook charge of selecting scripts, cast and costumes,conducting rehearsals and creating props.They provided support to one another and threedirectors performed in the others’ plays alongwith seven other cast members. (Ava, who bothwrote and directed her show, did not perform.)Within Reason, written and directed by Ava,depicts Lisa (Haley), a 1950s mother who attemptsto heal her emotionally distraught daughterwith everything from Western medicine toEastern mysticism. Roy (Ben Kent ’12) is a selflesscharacter in love with Lisa. Although Lisapushes Roy away, he remains loyal and standsby her and her daughter (Emily London ’13)during tough times. “It sends a bittersweetmessage,” says Ava. “You can give so muchand not get anything back in return.”In The Edge, directed by Rosalind, Sammy(Julia Brosseau ’12), a satirical character, teasesa teenager ( Jeffrey) who threatens to commitsuicide after seeing the girl of his dreams kissanother boy. Rather than trying to convincehim not to jump off a building, Sammy chaffshim for being melodramatic. “No wonder. Youtheatre people are weird,” she says to the boy.Tragedy strikes in Haley’s directorial debut,It’s Called the Sugar Plum when college studentWallace Zuckerman (Ben) hits and kills anotherstudent riding on a skateboard. The accidentsends an infuriated fiancée (Rosalind) to Zuckerman’shome. Ironically, they fall in love afterspending only a few hours together, erasingall sadness and guilt from the accident.The audience was dragged into a dream inThe Actor’s Nightmare, directed by Jeffrey. PuzzledGeorge (Nolan Thomas ’14) is mistaken for anactor’s understudy. Forced to perform, Georgedoesn’t know his lines and is confused aboutwhether he’s in Private Lives, Hamlet, Checkmate,

into the SpotlightNolan Thomas ’14 and Ben Kent ’12 in The Actor’s NightmareHaley DeLuca ’11 and Emily London ’13 in Within ReasonRosalind Watson ’11 and Ben Kent ’12 in It’s Called the Sugar PlumJeffrey Fishman ’11 and JuliaBrosseau ’12 in The Edgeor A Man for all Seasons, as scenes quickly shift from oneto another. He believes it’s merely a bad dream and triesto wake up before he is killed in the execution scenefrom A Man for All Seasons.The student directors said, “This is like JV theatre,”when comparing their work to the Mainstage plays. But theaudience enjoyed their work just as much as more polishedpresentations. The student-directed plays brought togethera group of 14 students including Stage Manager AlexJohnson ’13, Lighting Controller Zack Ellison ’11 andProduction Assistant Katie Puccio ’11. “One great thingis it’s student fueled,” says Ava. “It’s interesting to see howour dynamics evolve. I think we had a lot of fun beginningday one. It’s cool to see your friends as directors and headsof a project because you learn so much about yourselfwatching them.”—Tiffany TranSpring 2011 l the NobLES Bulletin l 9

Oh, The PlacesCatching Up with Nobles Grads Across the U.S.How many times has this happened? You’re hundreds of miles from 10 Campus Drive, or at leastthe school is the furthest thing from your mind, and then you spot it: the familiar Nobles shield,emblazoned in blue on someone’s hat, sweatshirt or car decal. Graduates share these anecdotesall the time, usually saying something like, “You’ll never guess where I ran into another Noblesgrad…” We went to the corners of the country (or at least as close as we could get) in search ofthe northernmost, southernmost, easternmost and westernmost graduates. They told us about lifeaway from Dedham and the surprising things they miss (or don’t!). Think your latitude/longitudetops our picks? Write to us and let us know where you fall on the grid.N o r T H E r N M O S TJeffrey Urbanus ’92CHUGiAK , ALASKASometimes the urge to “get up and go” strikes. The feeling hit Jeff Urbanus ’92 just after college. He leftthat summer for a cross-country trip, with an ultimate destination of Alaska—because he’d always wantedto see it. He arrived in 1997 and never left. Today, he lives inChugiak, 45 minutes north of Anchorage, with his wife Amy,and their three boys, Ryan, 5, Collin, 3, and Quinn, 1.For the past decade, Urbanus has worked for the Municipalityof Anchorage in the PublicWorks DepartmentJeffrey Urbanus ’92Diana Falchuk ’95Rin Carroll Jackson ’86Jeff Urbanus ’92, hard at workin 20-below temperaturesGordon Grant ’58Charlie Rudd ’73John “Manny” Mansfield ’65Charlie Davis ’49Bob Goodband ’8010 l the NobLES Bulletin l Spring 2011Hannah Gardener-Fisch ’96

Arts Connect partners with PierceCounty Juvenile Court and uses handsonarts, creative writing, service learning,public presentations and philanthropyto help girls overcome the risk factorsthat lead to recidivism. “This work isincredibly rewarding, and I am constantlyinspired by the resiliency of thegirls and women I work with,” saysFalchuk. “They have endured horribleabuse and loss and have not had accessto opportunities for creative expression.But they are still at it, still trying tobetter their lives.”In addition to working on herown art, several years ago Falchuk wasappointed by the City Council to theSeattle Arts Commission, a citizenadvisory group to city government.She lives in Seattle with her husband,Brett Hamil, and their dog, Wheezy.Though more than 3,000 milesaway, she thinks of Nobles often. “Duringmy senior year, Bob Freeman andVisual Arts Teaching Fellow JonahSchiller let me curtain off a sectionof the drawing studio and use it as mypersonal space. It’s where I learned thestudio habits I have today. It’s a storyI tell my friends to give flavor to whatNobles was like—a place where everystudent’s dreams mattered.”S O U T H E r N M O S TGordon Grant ’58HONOLULU, HAWAiiWe expected Hawaii to show up whenresearching the school’s westernmostgraduates, but were surprised to learnthat our Honolulu natives are situatedfarther south than any other U.S.residents.After many years in Japan andseveral more in New England, GordonGrant ’58 and wife Fusako decidedto settle in Hawaii, where today theirdaughter and grandchildren also live.Gordon Grant ’58 and wife Fusako withtheir grandchildren, Amory and OwenGentle weather, friends and a chance toteach history and literature at PunahouSchool in Honolulu made the switchattractive and effortless. Grant says,“The subtropics have spoiled us insybaritic ways: the aroma of bakingpineapple, ocean swims on New Year’sDay, celebratory sunset mai tais.”Of his time at Nobles, Grantrecalls fondly classes with RichardVanKleeck: “I can still hear his voice,telling us a tale of how some Germanscholars, admirers of the EnglishRomantic poet William Wordsworth,called on ‘this talented, but notoriousegotist’ to ask him to explain a difficultpassage in his work. Wordsworth receivedthe Germans graciously, readthe passage, and said: ‘I cannot recallwhat I meant when I wrote it, butI remember it was the finest thing Iever wrote, and you cannot do betterthan devote your lives to the discoveryof its meaning.”S O U T H E r n b O N U SHannah Gardener-Fisch ’96MiAMi, FLOriDAWhen Andrew Fisch got a job in Miamiin 2006, his wife Hannah Gardener-Fisch ’96 thought “with the weatheralone, it couldn’t be half bad.” And,while they both miss the faster paceand general vibe of New England,Miami’s sunny days and broad multiculturalismmake the city a great placeto raise their 2-year-old daughter.After graduating from DartmouthCollege, Gardener-Fisch worked asa public health consultant for a Cambridge,Mass., company. One day sheoverheard a co-worker talking aboutattending graduate school to studyepidemiology and thought it soundedinteresting. It seemed like a great wayto combine two interests, statistics andmedicine. Gardener-Fisch studied atthe Harvard School of Public Healthand now works as an epidemiologistat the University of Miami’s MillerSchool of Medicine in the NeurologyDepartment.E A S T E r N M O S TCharlie Davis ’49GOULDSboro, MaiNEA true Mainer knows the phrase“downeast” has nothing to do withdirection; it refers to a way of life specificto a region where “lobstahs” ruleand the ocean breeze and tides set thepace. Charlie Davis ’49 has traveledthe world, but says the pull of theHannah Gardener-Fisch ’96 and husband Andrew12 l the NobLES Bulletin l Spring 2011

Charlie Davis ’49John Mansfield ’65 Charlie Rudd ’65coastline, skiing and back roads ofMaine has kept him coming back formore than 28 years.After Nobles, Davis attendedBowdoin, where he participated inthe Reserve Officers’ Training Corps(ROTC). After serving in the KoreanWar, he earned his MBA at Harvardand started a career in the highly competitivefood business. Davis went onto become CEO of two frozen-foodharvesting and processing companies.He married, settled in Wellesley andlater Weston, and welcomed threechildren, Linda ’76, Katherine andChip ’84. He later moved to downeastMaine to run a large wild blueberrycompany in Washington County.Davis’ life changed dramaticallywhen he was 59 years old. Skiing withfriends in the Alps, he suffered an accidentthat left him near death. “When Ireturned to the business world after theaccident, something changed in me,”he recalls. “My competitive nature wasreplaced with a strong desire to helpothers by counseling and teaching.”Davis began his new journey as amember of a task force for economicdevelopment in Maine. He developedan interest in providing counsel to smalllocal businesses. He lives with his wifeYvonne, who works for ArcadiaNational Park.E A S T E r n b O N U SJohn “Manny”Mansfield ’65Bangor , MaiNEGrowing up, John Mansfield ’65had a powerful connection to his father,who was raised in Blue Hill, Maine.They spent hours together, woodworkingand building furniture andboats. That lifelong connection notonly brought Mansfield back to Maine,where he says he always knew he’dend up, but led to a 30-year career asa carpenter. Now, he owns his owncompany and spends his days workingalongside his own son.Mansfield played hockey, both atNobles and Northeastern University.When his son, Jamie, now 26, tookup the sport, Mansfield and his familymoved to Bangor in order to provideJamie with the best environment inwhich to excel. When he wasn’t at therink to watch his son practice or compete,Mansfield was coaching. He sayshe’s tried to pass along to his childrenand players a few of the lessons helearned at Nobles. “Mr. Putnamconsidered the entire person in hisapproach to education. It wasn’t justabout classes,” he says. “He paid greatattention to our character, and gave usroom as a class to step out of the boxa little bit.”W E S T E r N M O S T( C O N T i N E N T A L U . S . )Charlie Rudd ’73ArCATA , CALiFOrniaCharlie Rudd ’73 is another graduatewho felt the urge to get up and goafter graduation. After visiting relativesaround the country, he wound up livingin the Mojave Desert for a few months,before heading to northern Californiain early 1974. After moving aroundthe area for several years, he settled inArcata, in Humboldt County, in 1979,and has been there ever since.Rudd taught an Irish Gaeliclanguage course at Humboldt StateUniversity for more than 10 years andcontinues to teach private lessons.He’s been working on a book based onthe documents he gives to his students.“I have a ways to go before publication,thanks in some part to my computerineptitude,” he jokes.Spring 2011 l the NobLES Bulletin l 13

Bob Goodband’80 poses withthe sign markingthe geographiccenter of thecontiguousUnited States.Rin Carroll Jackson ’86W E S T E r n b O N U SRin CarrollJackson ’86PorTLAND, OrEGONAfter college, Rin Carroll Jackson’86 packed up her Subaru wagon, withher bike and windsurfer, and traveledto Portland, where a friend had secureda duplex in the northwest part of thecity. “I had been drawn to the westafter spending two summers livingin Jackson, Wyo.,” says Jackson. “Theoutdoorsy, laid-back feel of the citywas very appealing.” Today, she livesin southeast Portland, a more urbanenvironment, in a house with a smallyard where, along with her husbandJoe and two sons, Corri and Sawyer,she raises two chickens, tends avegetable garden and collects rainwaterto use in her business.Jackson is a working artist and herfreelance business has morphed frombeing a home-based business into acommercial-based art studio and productionspace. Since 2003, she has beenproviding design services includingillustration, graphic design and muralwork to a variety of clients. In addition,she focused on seeking out areaartists who would be interested inshowcasing their work in the neighborhoodfor a weekend art tour. In2004, she introduced ARTWalk, acommunity-driven, two-day eventfeaturing more than 100 artists showingin 50 indoor locations. Althoughshe no longer organizes it, the eventcontinues to thrive and is approachingits eighth year this spring.There is a “family-run” aspect tothe business, too. Together, Rin andJoe Jackson create a line of vibrant artclothing utilizing the batik methodand various dye techniques. Joe, alsoa musician, is the dye specialist as wellas the main “educational guide” fortheir sons, ages 12 and 9. “We havebeen home-schooling our kids, utilizinglocal resources, organizations, communitycenters and sports facilities inPortland. We approach learning froman open-minded, non-religious vantagepoint, and continually work to bringnew experiences, skill development andhealthy activities into our boys’ education.‘Life-long-learning’ has becomeour mantra,” she saysAlthough she doesn’t miss theBoston traffic, she finds herself in adifferent type of bumper-to-bumper:“We live adjacent to one of the manybike routes that run through the city,and I try to bike as much as possible.I often have to wait for bike traffic!”R i G H T i n T H E M i D D L EBob Goodband ’80MANHATTAN, KANSASDuring his days as a Nobles student,Bob Goodband ’80 had an interest inagriculture and knew it was the careerpath he wanted to pursue. He went toPenn State, where he majored in animalscience. There, his professors encouragedhim to go to graduate school,so Goodband went to Kansas for hismaster’s and Ph.D. degrees. After completinghis Ph.D., he accepted a positionat Kansas State University, where hehas been ever since.Goodband is a professor in theDepartment of Animal Sciences andIndustry and is involved with teachingand research in the area of animalnutrition. He also works with farmersboth in Kansas and throughout theMidwest to address nutrition- andmanagement-related issues. He liveswith his wife, Dani, and son, Brady, ona small farm just outside of Manhattan,Kansas, which is about a two-and-ahalf-hourdrive from the sign markingthe official geographic center of thecontiguous U.S.14 l the NobLES Bulletin l Spring 2011

Rememberingthe HungryHunger DOES NOTTAKE A SPRING BREAK.Each spring, however, suppliesat food pantries acrossthe country grow scarce. Thegenerous contributions that roll induring the holiday season run low,or give out entirely, but the pressingneed remains.On May 14, 2011, during Reunion,Nobles will partner with the Dedhamcommunity to help combat hunger forthe 19th annual Stamp Out HungerDrive, sponsored by Campbell SoupCompany and the United States PostalService. For the 12th consecutive year,Nobles will serve as the Dedham collectionsite for the largest one-day fooddrive in the nation. Donations will goto the Dedham Food Pantry, an organizationthat Nobles assists in a varietyof ways throughout the year.B y T i f f A N Y T r A NClem Chanenchuk ’11On that Saturday, Dedham residentsleave bags of nonperishable foodnext to their mailboxes, which lettercarriers collect and deliver to Noblesthroughout the day. The food is unloadedand sorted by volunteers fromthe Dedham and Nobles communities.Thirty sorting tables loaded with mailcrates transform the Buildings andGrounds (B&G) shop into acommunity service site.Graduate Eliza Goode ’10 says,“The Stamp Out Hunger drive broughta lot of people together on our campus.It’s a good time to socialize with teachers,parents and students, while alsogiving back.”“It’s a lot of fun,” adds DennisHatch P’07 ’11. “It’s informal, and itdoesn’t lock you into a commitmentthat is hard to keep. You can do aslittle or as much as you want.”Spring 2011 l the NobLES Bulletin l 15

Nobles’ efficient organizing systemis similar to a grocery store’s.The drive is currently the largestcommunity-wide service event atNobles. “We have had so many peoplecome that the time goes really fast,”said Community Service CoordinatorLinda Hurley. “Anyone can help,even kids. They don’t need to knowhow to read. As long as you can recognizea particular product like peanutbutter, you can help.”Nobles’ involvement with theStamp Out Hunger Drive dates backto the 1990s, when the Dedham MiddleSchool served as the collection site.The site moved to Nobles in 2000.Over the years, sorting that once tooktwo to three weeks has been reducedto a two-day process thanks to all thesupport from the school community.“We’ve worked out a system toallow this to run smoothly,” says LouisBarassi, community service coordinatorof the Afternoon Program. “Wewant to help the food pantry as best wecan so they don’t need to devote timeto sorting and deciding where to putthe food once it’s delivered.”The community service initiativewraps up the Monday after ReunionNobles students help load the truckduring the 2010 Stamp Out Hunger Drive.with the help of about 100 Noblesvolunteers from classes, afternoon programs,clubs and organizations, andathletic teams who continue sorting,loading and delivering the food to thepantry. Each year the drive brings inabout three moving trucks full of food—enough to feed some 200 familiesthe pantry serves each month. Foodfrom the drive typically sustains thepantry through most of the summer.Nobles has made a long-term commitmentto the Dedham Food Pantry.This fall, ArtAid—an annual studentdesignedexhibit that connects art withservice—incorporated a school-widefood drive into a show focused onworld hunger in the Foster Gallery,with all donations contributed to thepantry. The Community Service Boardand the ceramics afternoon programvolunteer every Thursday at the foodpantry sorting donations in preparationfor Saturday’s clients. They also helpwith the pantry’s recycling program.And in February, the ceramics afternoonprogram donated proceeds fromthe first-ever Empty Bowls event atNobles (see sidebar on page 17).“We’ve always been involved withthe Dedham Food Pantry,” says Hurley.“It’s something that is important to usbecause it’s a local organization thattouches many lives. Kids get to see neighborshelping neighbors. and recognizethat there are hungry children andadults in their own community. It’s notjust a global or inner-city problem.”16 l the NobLES Bulletin l Spring 2011

Filling Empty BowlsAt the Castle on Feb. 26, some 100 guests from theNobles community and surrounding towns took partin the first Nobles Empty Bowls event—a fundraisinginitiative to address local and global hunger issues. Guestsselected from an assortment of handcrafted ceramic bowlsfashioned by students and faculty members and enjoyedwarm soup and bread. Attendees kept their bowls to remindthem that many people are hungry every day. The eventhosted by the afternoon ceramics program, raised morethan $1,500 for the Dedham Food Pantry.The Empty Bowls project is an international grassrootseffort developed by the nonprofit Imagine/RENDER Groupto raise funds and awareness for hunger relief through artprojects. Five students in the afternoon ceramics program,Edward Adams ’12, Caroline Giandomenico ’11, Alexis Lelon’16, Katherine Paglione ’16, and Ashley Wang ’12, along withceramics teacher Nora Creahan, handcrafted close to 200ceramic bowls this winter. The students learned everythingfrom the basics of creating and glazing pottery to the challengesof producing an event to sell their work. The projectbecame a collaboration among other groups at Nobles: thephotojournalism class, led by John Hirsch, produced a videothat played in Assembly to help promote the event; studentsin Amanda Wastrom’s graphic design class created a logofor the event; and chemistry teaching fellow Gail Corneau’ssophomore class incorporated a chemical mixing lessonto create a variety of glazes for the bowls.“It’s amazing how far you can get in one season,” saysCreahan. “It was really exciting to watch kids experience thatkind of service. They learned that you can bring your skillsand passion together to help others.”a b o v e :Ashley Wang ’12,throwing on apottery wheell e f t:CarolineGiandomenico’11, paintingpotteryb e lo w :Handmadeceramic bowlsmade withdifferent shapes,designs andcolorsSpring 2011 l the NobLES Bulletin l 17

Out of Tragedy, Solidarity:The Story of the ’56 PathB y B e a T r O W B r I D G e S A N D e r sDecades of Nobles graduates havetraversed the trail down to the gymknown as the ’56 Path. It remains thefastest and easiest way to get from theupper campus to the fields on thelower campus. Many have wonderedwhy it is called the ’56 Path; somemay not even know its name.a standout class—connected with eachother and with the faculty. And if therewas one thing these 28 boys had incommon, it was their shared admirationand respect for their headmaster.As one graduate put it, “We wouldhave done anything for that man.”Then tragedy struck: The Putnams’The ’56 Path remains the fastest and easiest wayto get from the upper campus to the fields on thelower campus. Many wonder why it is called the’56 Path; some may not even know its name.The Class of 1956 built the pathas a senior project. It was no ordinarysenior project, and no ordinary path.To understand its significance inNobles history, one must travel backto the 1955–’56 school year and learnabout the sequence of events that ledthe class to show its school spirit andsupport their headmaster in a mostunusual way.1955 was a robust year in thehistory of Noble and Greenough School.Led by headmaster Eliot T. Putnamand his wife, Laura, the school stoodon firm ground and had a strong senseof identity. The Class of 1956 was inits Class II year, ready to assume leadershipof the school in September.Already it had distinguished itself asbeautiful and ebullient 13-year-olddaughter, Betsy, a student at MiltonAcademy, contracted leukemia. Aftera valiant struggle, she died on July 31,1955. The entire Nobles communitymourned.The school opened neverthelessin September, with soccer and footballas the two favorite fall sports. Putnamcoached varsity football, and the Classof ’56 had a strong showing on theteam. Then tragedy struck a secondtime: an outbreak of polio.For those too young to remember,it is important to try to imagine thefear that the word “polio” struck in thehearts of parents around the world atthat time. In the post-World War IIperiod—indeed until 1955, when aneffective vaccine was introduced—thedisease was an enormous public healthproblem. In 1952, the year of the worstepidemic, more than 3,000 people diedand more than 21,000, mostly children,were left with mild to disabling paralysis.As a 2009 PBS documentary bluntlyput it, “Apart from the atomic bomb,America’s greatest fear was polio.”That September, four startingmembers of the varsity football teamcontracted polio: three seniors in theClass of ’56—Dev Barker, JohnRaye and Whizzer Wheeler—andone junior, Tom Edwards ’57. Concernwithin the Nobles communityescalated rapidly. Two of the studentshad to be placed in iron lungs in thehospital. While Jonas Salk had announcedthe discovery of a successfulvaccine on April 12, 1955, its distributionwas still not widespread, and noone knew how the disease was transmitted.To avoid further spread of thedisease, and to allow time to decidehow to deal with the crisis, Putnamand the board of trustees closed theschool following the first football gameof the season. While the school wasclosed, the board of trustees encouragedthe Putnams to take some timeoff campus to regroup from this crisisand from the loss of Betsy.Unbelievably, during this period,tragedy would strike one more time for18 l the NobLES Bulletin l Spring 2011

the Putnams and the Nobles community.On October 7, 1955, the Putnams’11-year-old son, Arthur, who was a Sixie,was playing with a classmate, PeterWard ’61, on a sandbank overlookingthe playing fields. In a freak accident,a huge stump broke free from an overhangand rolled on top of Arthur, carryinghim down the bank and killing himinstantly. Eliot and Laura Putnam hadreturned to campus just that afternoonfrom the vacation intended to ease theshock of their daughter’s death, only tolearn the dreadful news about Arthur.Many people faced with these consecutivetragedies would have crumbled,but not the Putnams. Somehow theyfound the strength to persevere, andthe school needed them to do just that,for the polio outbreak was still castinga shadow over the school. Althoughthe school had reopened, it took severalmore months before all four afflictedstudents recovered and were able toreturn to their studies.This is the context in which theidea for the ’56 Path came to fruition.Having lived through such a difficulttime together, and having watchedtheir headmaster and his wife endureunimaginable tragedies, Class I bandedtogether to do something positive andspecial for the school, something tosupport and honor their headmaster,and something that spoke to theunity and camaraderie of a greatsenior class.Class President Fred Wells ’56was instrumental in rallying his classmatesto undertake the project. “Iremember we had a meeting to considerwhat we might leave as a classgift to the school,” says Wells. “Wecould have pooled our resources to buysomething like a bench. But when theoption of turning a washed-out gullyinto a real, usable path was put forth,the whole class jumped on the ideaSpring 2011 l the NobLES Bulletin l 19

A Note from Mr. PutnamIn the opening pages of the 1956 yearbook, Eliot T. Putnam wrote directly toClass I. His “Headmaster’s Message” follows:“It is unlikely that we shall again see a class quite like this one. Throughouttheir years at Nobles, these boys have deservedly earned our affectionand respect, but never to such a degree as in their final year. I donot recall a time when misfortune has struck a group of boys in morevaried ways or with greater impact. Their response to these blows hasbeen spontaneous and magnificent.“The standard of leadership which the Class of 1956 passes on to theiryounger brothers was born of a fundamental bigness of character, theingredients of which are spiritual depth, complete sincerity, and unflinchingcourage. Their lives will be richer for the service they have performedfor the school. “United we stand” seems to have been theirmotto, and our farewell to them can only be said with a heavy andgrateful heart.”Ascending theClass of ’56 pathunanimously. There was no debate.We all experienced a need to actuallyphysically do something together. Thefeeling was, ‘Don’t buy something, dosomething.’ That was part of the spiritof the class. We wanted our legacyto be something that would be reallyused by students and faculty, foreverand ever.”“Freddy was a great moral andphysical leader of our class,” says RockyWhitman ’56, Class Correspondent.“He was the rallying point who reallygot us going. He was the embodimentof leadership in our class, exhibiting allthe good things. Without Freddy, thepath would not have happened.”The class voluntarily devoted everySunday of their senior spring—aboutthree months—to building the path.They manually placed the wooden railroadties that served as its steps, andthat have lasted more than 50 years.Out of adversity came a monumentthat decades of Nobles graduateshave put to good and constant use.The Class of 1956 remains one ofthe most close-knit classes at Nobles.For 55 years they have stayed in touch,with excellent attendance at reunions.Each year Dev Barker, NewellFlather, Tim Leland and RockyWhitman call each of their classmatesfor the Annual Nobles Fund. Theyare one of only a handful of classes toreach 100 percent participation in theFund on a regular basis. On May 13and 14 the Class of ’56 will return tocampus to celebrate its 55th Reunionand to rededicate the path in anticipationof the Castle renovation project.Through the path, the legacy and historyof the great Class of 1956 willlive on in perpetuity.20 l the NobLES Bulletin l Spring 2011

Jill Havlicek ‘91L E F T: The 1984–’85 basketball team, includingHall of Famers Steve Jordan ’86 (third row on theleft) and Garcia Major ’86 (second row on the left)R i g h t: Nobles Crew, 1929. Hall of Fame inducteeGerard Cassedy ’29 is pictured on the far right.Nobles Hall of Fame Class of 2011Six athletes will be inducted into the second class of theNobles Athletics Hall of Fame on Reunion/GraduatesDay.Gerard Cassedy ’29 and Austin Harding ’35 will beinducted posthumously for their accomplishments in rowingand ice hockey, respectively.Cassedy, “possibly the best knownof Coach Monk Terry’s oarsmen,was a great Nobles stroke,” accordingto The Story of Noble andGreenough School by the lateRichard T. Flood ’23. He rowedin the 1936 Olympic Games andwas inducted into the Harvard Hallof Fame in 1970. Harding, whosethree brothers were also superb of athletic distinction.Nobles athletes (Goodwin ’39,Ned ’41 and Bill ’42), played football and baseball and was astandout in hockey. He was inducted into the Harvard Hall ofFame in 1971 and the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in 1975.Two members of the 25th Reunion Class of 1986 will beinducted: Garcia Major (basketball) and Steve Jordan(football). Major was twice All-League in football, but it was onthe basketball court where he left his mark on Nobles athletics.He is the second-leading all-time scorer in boys’ basketballhistory. He was the Most Valuable Player in the IndependentSchool League in 1986 and went on to a successful collegebasketball career at Williams, where he was an All-Americanand once scored 47 points in a game. Jordan, who joinedM i S S i O N S T A T E M E N TThe Hall of Fame honors and celebrates theproud athletic tradition of Noble and GreenoughSchool; reflects a standard of excellence to whichcurrent Nobles students might aspire; and emphasizesthe character, leadership and teamworkthat are fundamental to the Nobles definitionMajor on the basketball team as well, is described by formerhead football coach Nick Marinaro as “the most dominatingfootball player I have ever coached.” A defensive tackleand tri-captain, Jordan was the ISL Player of the Year in 1985when the Nobles team was undefeated and outscored itsopponents 169-58.Tom Welch ’82 and JillHavlicek ’91 were standoutthree-sport athletes, NoblesShield winners and successfulcollege athletes. Welch, a trisportcaptain who played football,basketball and baseball, isrecognized as one of the school’smost well-rounded overall athletes.He earned a total of 11varsity letters—three in football,five in basketball and three in baseball. Havlicek earned ninevarsity letters in three years at Nobles, three each in soccer,basketball and lacrosse. A decorated All-League player in allthree sports, she won three ISL championships in basketballand an NCAA Division I National Championship in lacrosseat the University of Virginia.All are welcome to attend the Hall of Fame inductionceremony on Saturday, May 14, at 2:00 p.m. in the MorrisonAthletic Center.For more information on the Class of 2011 or to nominatea fellow graduate for the Hall of Fame Class of 2012, pleasevisit www.nobles.edu/halloffame.Spring 2011 l the NobLES Bulletin l 21

o n T H E r O A Dby JOYCe leffler eldrIDGeTHE ESPN CONNECTIONLinking Passion and ProfessionB r i S T O L , C O N N E C T i C U T —If overseeing the broadcasting of 1,100 college basketball games seems like yourdream job, stand in line. Nobles graduate Dan Steir ’80 already has a lock on the assignment for ESPN and itsaffiliated networks. “We’re particularly interested in covering games that feature the ‘hot’ stories,” Steir said whenI visited his office in the vast set of buildings that comprise the ESPN complex.Steir sees ESPN (himself included) as being in the “content delivery” business, which includes helping coachesand fans make meaningful decisions about who’s hot and who’s not. According to Steir, some five to seven staffmembers determine which games air on any given night. As Senior Coordinating Producer and Event Producer,he is involved in virtually every decision that is made about college basketball on ESPN.“It’s a dream job,” Steir said, noting that he hires the talent (color analysts, game commentators, etc.) andcoordinates matching the sports facilities with the television trucks, and more. In other words, he helps manageand dictate all the production aspects for ESPN’s content delivery.To get it all done, he oversees a staff of 30 to 40 plus another 200“ The MOST eSSeNTIAl SKIll s INto 300 freelancers. “I have an insatiable sports appetite,” he said.TODAY ’s WOrkplACe are THOSe of “The main rule of thumb is not to let the talent or technologyget in the way of the game but enhance the product,” he said. HeCOMMuNICATION, deCISION-MAKING noted that although the technology has advanced tremendouslysince he began working in the field, “the objectives are the same.”AND crITICAl THINKING,” SAYS Steir.While Steir’s love for sports was expressed at Nobles on thebasketball court and the soccer field in Middle School, his professionalexperience began during his undergraduate years at the University of Michigan where he moonlightedas a production assistant for Detroit television station WDIV. He also met his wife, Heidi, mother of their fourdaughters, there. Steir moved up the ladder to become an associate producer in sports, and in 1986 accepteda position as research associate at the ABC affiliate, WABC, which positioned him uniquely for an eventualopening at ESPN in 1989.The number of Nobles faculty who shaped his life is legion, including Dick Baker, John Paine, ChrisMabley, Ned Bigelow, Bill Kehlenbeck and Peter Mansfield Jr., with a particularly loud shout-out toTed Gleason, who was headmaster during Steir’s years here. “The school and the faculty prompted free andquite forward thinking,” he said.Asked how today’s graduates might break into the highlyEDITOR’s NOTE: Joyce Leffler Eldridge is atcompetitive sports journalism field, Steir recommended, interestinglyenough, attending a school “like Nobles that uses a curricu-work on a history of Noble and Greenough tobe published in celebration of the school’s 150thlum that develops critical thinking.… The most essential skillsanniversary in 2016. This profile is the secondin today’s workplace are those of communication, decisionmakingand critical thinking.” On a more practical level he suggestedexperiential learning opportunities such as internships, graduates during the course of her travelsin a series based on her visits with Nobleswhich allow “up close and personal” on-the-job training.for that project.22 l the NobLES Bulletin l Spring 2011

Dan Steir ’80 inhis office at ESPNSpring 2011 l the NobLES Bulletin l 23

WiNDOWS ON NObLES By JOHN HIrSCHElucidating the EverydayThese images are from an ongoing body of work comprised of tintypes of quotidian objects. Tintypesare a direct positive photographic process invented in 1853. Each image is made on a sheet of metalthat has been coated with collodion, a base for photo emulsions, and then sensitized to light withsilver nitrate. While still wet, the plate is loaded into the camera, exposed to light and then processedby hand in the darkroom. The resulting image is one of a kind. These images are explorations of thephysical objects that make up our everyday lives, and how these simple objects become icons andrelics when removed from all contextual information. For more information visit www.tincanco.com.John Hirsch teaches photography at Nobles.24 l the NobLES Bulletin l Spring 2011

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On the Playing Fieldswinter VarSIT Y SporTS ResulTS AND AWArDSAlpine SkiingGirls’ Overall Record: 24–1ISL ChampsBoys’ Overall Record: 31–1ISL ChampsAwards: James H. BrideSki Bowl (for enthusiasm, spirit and sportsmanship)—EllisTonissi and Caroline Vietze,both ’11; Coaches’ Award (for selflessattitude and consistent effort)—GigiAnderson ’12 and Ashley Conley ’13All-League: Ashley Conley ’13, Alex Katz’13, Nicola Katz ’16 and Caroline Vietze ’11Honorable Mention: Lucas Hicks ’14and Ellis Tonissi ’11All-New England: Lucas Hicks ’14, AlexKatz ’13, Nicola Katz ’16 and CarolineVietze ’112012 Captains: Boys’—Connor Hickey ’12and Curt Petrini ’12; Girls’—Gigi Anderson ’12Tommy Kelly ’11Nicola Katz ’16Boys’ VarsiTY BasketballOverall Record: 12–14ISL Record: 9–6New England Class B QuarterfinalistAwards: Clarke Bowl (for contribution toteam spirit)—Tommy Kelly and Phil Stansky,both ’11; 1983-’84 Basketball Award(for the player who best exemplifies thespirit, dedication, determination, attitudeand improvement of the 1983–’84 team)—Phil Hession and Brian Edgerley, both ’11All-League: Phil Hession ’11Honorable Mention: Brian Edgerleyand Tommy Kelly, both ’112012 Captains: TBAGirls’ VarsiTY BasketballOverall Record: 21–5ISL Record: 12–0ISL Champs (8th consecutive)New England Class A FinalistAwards: Seadale Bowl (given by theSeadale family for overall contributionto the basketball program)—Reilly Foote,Nora Kelly and Darla Wynn, all ’11; RichardNickerson Award (in honor of the 21-yearcoach, awarded to a non-senior for courageand determination)—Lauren Taiclet ’12All-League: Lauren Dillon ’14, Nora Kelly’11 and Lauren Taiclet ’12Honorable Mention: Reilly Foote ’11and Kate Kerrigan ’142012 Captains: Karly Finison ’12,Alli Parent ’12 and Lauren Taiclet ’12Boys’ VarsiTY HockeyOverall Record: 17–10ISL Record: 8–6New England Division 1 QuarterfinalistAwards: Todd Flaman Award (for the JVplayer who demonstrates spirit, enthusiasmand love of hockey as exemplified by ToddFlaman ’97)—Cody Todesco ’14; ’74 Award(for improvement in hockey)—Max Franklin’12; Sziklas Hockey Trophy (for contributionto the team)—Thomas Park ’11All-League: Andrew Doane ’12 andMatt Harlow ’11Honorable Mention: Tim Boyle ’12,Chris Calnan ’13, Brandon Shea ’14 andThomas Park ’112012 Captains: TBA26 l the NobLES Bulletin l Spring 2011

Girls’ VarsiTY HockeyOverall Record: 20–2–2ISL Record: 11–0–1ISL Champions (12th consecutive)New England Division 1Tournament: 2nd placeAwards: Anne Dudley Newell Hockey Cup(for dedication and excellence)—TaylorBlake and Michelle Picard, both ’11All-League: Taylor Blake ’11, MK Cruise’12, Mary Parker ’12 and Michelle Picard ’11Honorable Mention: Kaleigh FitzPatrick ’112012 Captains: TBABoys’ VarsiTY SquashOverall Record: 12–2ISL Record: 9–1Awards: Cutler Cup (for the team memberwho shows the greatest devotion to thesport)—Aneesh Chuttani and Cam Rahbar,both ’11All-League: Aneesh Chuttani, and ScottDeSantis, both ’11, and Liam McClintock ’13ISL Sportsmanship Award:Aneesh Chuttani ’112012 Captains: TBA Girls’ VarsiTY SquashOverall Record: 11–2ISL Record: 5–2 (3rd place)Awards: Cutler Cup (for the team memberwho has shows the greatest devotion to thesport)—Zoey Carey and Lily Grant, both ’12All-League: Caroline Monrad ’13Honorable Mention: Zoey Carey and LilyGrant, both ’122012 Captains: Lily Grant and MadeleineSmith, both ’12Cameron Rahbar ’11VarsiTY WrestlingOverall Record: 9–5ISL Record: 8–4Awards: Warren E. Storer Award (for hardwork and improvement)—Caleb Kirshnerand Belle Tuttle, both ’13; Wilbur F. StorerAward (for the most outstanding wrestler)—Clem Chanenchuk ’11All-League: Clem Chanenchuk andHans Vitzthum, both ’11Honorable Mention: Ben Kirshner ’11and Dan Toubman ’13Graves Kelsey Medalists: RyanDiamond ’11, Clem Chanenchuck ’11, ZachEllison ’11, Ben Kirshner ’11, Caleb Kirshner’13, Jackson Timm ’12, Dan Toubman ’13,Hans Vitzthum ’11 and Brendan Yucel ’132012 Captains: Caleb Kirshner ’13,Jackson Timm ’12 and Dan Toubman ’13Michelle Picard ’11First-Time VarsiTY Letter WinnersAlpine Skiing: Noelle Anderson ’14,Milan Chuttani ’14, Cat Dickinson ’13,Henry Dixon ’14, Lucas Hicks ’14, HannahJones ’12, Nicola Katz ’16, Jake Oh ’12,Mary McDonald ’13, Charles McIntyre ’12,Ilana Solomons ’13, Nike Usen ’11 andMorgan Yucel ’11Basketball: Timmy Demirjian ’14,Devin Caccavaro ’13, Colby Chanenchuk ’14,Alexandra Charron ’14, Tyler Martin ’13and David Rosner ’12Ice Hockey: Brigit Bergin ’14, Tim Boyle’12, Chris Calnan ’13, Adam Gilmour ’13,Lexie Laing ’14, Connor Maher ’13, BridgetMcCarthy ’16, Stephen Miller ’12, MaryParker ’12, Will Sleeper ’13, Molly Slowe ’15and Mallory Souliotis ’14Squash: Becky Brownell ’14 andSarah Riley ’13Wrestling: Omar Augustin ’13, RaheemBarnett ’13, J’Quan Oliver ’11, HannahRobinson ’11, Jay Son ’12 and BrendanYucel ’13Spring 2011 l the NobLES Bulletin l 27

5 0 t h r e u n i o nA Passionate LifeJ i m N E W E L L ’ 6 1Nobles is a school that inspires lifelongpassions. For Jim Newell ’61one of those passions has been foreignlanguages. “Largely because of studyingGerman with Mr. Bird and Frenchwith M. Bevillard—both great teachers—in1960 I went on a summer programas an American Field Servicestudent in Berlin,” he says. “That was alife-changing event. I hadn’t had muchexposure to different cultures, and thatexperience inspired me.”Newell went to Harvard College,where he majored in international lawand relations and began studying Russian.After college, he enlisted for fouryears in the Army Security Agency,which sent him to the West CoastDefense Language Institute and thento Germany from 1967 to 1969. Hestayed on in Europe, studying at theU.S.S.R. Institute and the Universityof Paris. He met his wife, Sally, in Paris—though it turned out that she was aMassachusetts native and the two hadlived on the same street without knowingone another. The pair spoke onlyFrench for six months, Newell recalls.They returned to the United States andNewell earned his Master’s in Russianat Middlebury College in 1972. Heand Sally married that fall and in 1973moved to the rural Northeast Kingdomin Vermont, where they raised threesons and continue to live today.In 1975, a call came from Noblesseeking a substitute for George K.Bird Jr. ’39, who had fallen ill. Newellspent one semester covering the Germanteacher’s three classes—and discovereda passion for teaching. In 1981,he and Sally helped found the RiversideSchool in Lyndonville, Vt. He wenton to serve as its head for 15 years.A master of understatement,Newell says he “keeps pretty busy” inretirement. He and Sally enjoy foreigntravel, and Jim serves on several boards,including Riverside School, CatamountArts and the Northeastern VermontRegional Hospital.Through it all, he has been writing—another passion that might have hadits roots in his experience at Nobles.“I came to Nobles in seventh grade,’”he recalls. “Mr. Coggeshall praisedstuff I wrote that year, and I’ve neverforgotten it.”Newell has written several screenplays—includingone about Sam Patch,who jumped over Niagara Falls in 1828Jim Newell ’61 withhis grandson, Kingstonand lived to tell about it, and anotherabout the young Herman Melville.“None of them have been produced—yet,” he says. He is currently writingabout another passion: his convictionthat Edward de Vere, 17th Earl ofOxford, wrote all those 16th-centuryShakespearean plays and sonnets.“I’m a fervent believer that the authorisn’t the guy from Stratford,” he says.“When you mention that to academicsthey go crazy.”And those foreign languages?When we spoke to Newell for this profilehe had just started in on Memoirs ofHadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, thefirst woman elected to the Académiefrançaise. He was reading it in French.—Catherine O’Neill Grace28 l the NobLES Bulletin l Spring 2011

4 5 t h r e u n i o nPursuing the Inner LifeJ O S H U A C U T L E r ’ 6 6During his six years at NoblesJoshua Cutler ’66 enjoyed hisacademic classes and his athletic teams.“Under Eliot Putnam athletics was veryimportant,” he says. “I played footballand hockey and I rowed crew. All ofthose taught me discipline, and I amgrateful for that.”Cutler’s life has taken him farfrom the athletic arena. Today, he isdirector of the Tibetan BuddhistLearning Center in Washington, N.J.,where he has lived since graduatingfrom Harvard. The Center is a nonprofitdedicated to the study, practiceand preservation of Buddha’s teachings.The first Tibetan Buddhist dharmacenter in the West, it was founded in1958 through the efforts of GesheNgawang Wangyal, who received histraining in Tibet and became Cutler’sguru in the 1970s.Cutler says that while his familyobserved Easter and went to churchoccasionally, his early life was not centeredon religion. That began to changein college. “I had a few experiences thatgot me thinking in religious terms,”he says. “One powerful experiencewas that I had to help a close friend atHarvard from committing suicide. Thatwas very traumatic for a young man of20, and it got me thinking about lifeand death issues.”He looked for a teacher to helphim explore those questions—andEastern religion and practice were verymuch in the air in Cambridge in thosedays. “Gradually I got exposed toBuddhist ideas—by coincidence andserendipity, really—and it clicked forme. I tried Zen meditation, and thenJoshua Cutler ’66 at the TibetanBuddhist Learning Centerin my senior year I became very involvedin studying Tibetan languageand Buddhism.” Two weeks after graduatingfrom college he moved to theCenter. “I have been here ever since,”he says.“When I think about the totalityof the education I got at Nobles, it wasquite helpful for what I do nowadays,”he says. “I thank all the teachers I hadthere for having trained me well, especiallyin languages, because now I spenda great deal of time doing translations.”While studying with Geshe Wangyal,Cutler formed a strong bond with histeacher. “The teacher-student relationshipwas also very important in myexperience at Nobles and Harvard.”In 1983, just before Geshe Wangyaldied, he gave his work over to Cutlerand his wife and fellow student, Diana.Today, the Cutlers work together atthe Center. “We don’t take a salary,”he says. “We get room and board andmedical insurance. I am very happydoing what I am doing. A human hasa need for an inner life and an externallife. Our education falls short of teachingus about an inner life, so I camehere to search for that. You can alwaysgo deeper for an inner life.”—Catherine O’Neill GraceSpring 2011 l the NobLES Bulletin l 29

4 0 t h r e u n i o nA World of OpportunitiesJ O H N D E W E Y ’ 71John Dewey ’71 never imaginedthat he’d move to Texas, but he haslived there for more than two decades.The Massachusetts native was a Californiaresident before relocating to theLone Star State—a decision that ledhim to a career with American Airlinesand an opportunity to travel the world.Dewey was finishing up his master’sin business at the University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles, when AmericanAirlines conducted interviews on campusfor a job in finance. “The positionmeant I would have to move to Dallas,Texas,” says Dewey. “It’s the last placeI thought I would end up. But theyhooked me by saying you could workduring the week and on the weekendsyou could visit your family in Bostonor go to California to see friends—not to mention the perks of travelingaround the world.”The last opportunity sold himand since then he has traveled to all50 states, seven continents and some75 countries. Dewey’s multifacetedcareer at American Airlines began inthe financial and budgeting area andtransitioned to the new business division,where he helped expand projectssuch as the duty-free business. He’s alsobeen involved in international businessand customer relations managementat the airline.Dewey says he maintained an importantbelief throughout his career—to sustain a diverse perspective in life.That’s something he learned from hisNobles education. He says, “Even inthis era of specialization, I think it’svery important to maintain a generalistperspective whenever possible. Whenyou’re not doing different things, it’seasy to get lost in a single perspective.”The September 11, 2001, attacksprofoundly affected American Airlines,leading to deep budget cuts and massivelayoffs. Dewey chose to take anearly retirement option in 2003 andtransitioned to teach parttime at theUniversity of Phoenix in Dallas, Texas.He also works as director of marketingand sales for Rich-Heape Films,a company that covers overlooked historicaltopics about Native Americans.Ironically, Dewey—whose father wasa part-time teacher at Nobles from the1960s to 1980s—didn’t want to teachafter he earned his BA in sociologyand philosophy from Harvard College.“I loved what I learned at Harvard, butit wasn’t very practical unless I plannedto teach,” he says. “Given the time, Ididn’t see that I could make a decentliving from teaching. It’s a delayedreaction. But it is in my blood.”—Tiffany TranJohn Dewey ’71 leads a canoeing group on the Trinity River in Dallas, Texas.30 l the NobLES Bulletin l Spring 2011

3 5 t h r e u n i o nTrue to SelfE l i i N G r A H A M ’ 7 6Eli Ingraham ’76 has been all overthe map—literally and figuratively—and she couldn’t be happier about it.After Nobles, Ingraham attendedWellesley College, where she majoredin political science, history and French,which fueled an interest in internationalaffairs. She also took pre-law classes,thinking law school was the next step.Before committing to law school,she worked at Hale and Dorr as a corporateparalegal, but quickly becamemore intrigued by the emerging technologiesthat were changing the businessworld. Realizing technology wouldlikely be essential for any career choice,she enrolled at MIT where she spenttwo years building microprocessorsand writing code in the pre-PC world.Ingraham went on to work ininvestment finance as a technologymanagerialhybrid, designing databasesystems and creating internal startups.Through a series of fortuitous mergersand acquisitions, she was able to taketime off every five years to travel.Ingraham explains, “I took the buyoutevery time, grabbed my backpack anddisappeared until the money ran out.”Her colleagues called her crazy for“getting off the fasttrack” during theseyears, but Ingraham preferred beingunconventional. She says her senseof adventure and risk-taking was firstsparked at Nobles. “Nobles was soimportant to my self-confidence,” shesays. “It was there I learned to believein myself, to be bold, to take chances,to rely on my track record as anindicator of my future.”Eli Ingraham ’76By age 29, Ingraham was a seniorvice president in the investment world,but she felt unfulfilled. She quit—andjoined the ministry. For 10 years shecontinued that work, traveling to SouthAmerica, Africa and Eastern Europe.Ingraham became increasingly conflictedas she finally came to terms withher sexuality. She left the ministry andreturned to Boston, where she startedher own consulting company developingtechnology solutions for corporationsand law firms. Yearning for somethingmore creative, she moved toToronto just as the move to all thingsdigital was getting underway. She spentfour years there, working in the filmindustry and for IMAX as a creativedirector and consultant.Ingraham has been back inBoston for nine years and now worksfor WGBH advising a number of theirdigital television and Web programminginitiatives. According to Ingraham,“It is a perfect blend of my creative,technical and cultural interests.” Evenher WGBH office is a blend of uniquestyles; the sleek cabinetry provides aminimalist background for the colorfulartwork created by her 6-year-olddaughter, Tasman, adopted fromKazakhstan, who lives with Ingrahamand wife Nancy in Newton. Alongsidethe newest tech gadgets and computerson her desk sits a Tiffany-style lamp,bursting with color. It’s truly an eclecticspace—true to Ingraham herself.—Julie GuptillSpring 2011 l the NobLES Bulletin l 31

3 0 t h r e u n i o nComing Alive in the College ClassroomJ O H N F i S K E ’ 8 1John Fiske ’81 admits that hispath to college teaching was a meanderingone. “I have not had a linear,focused post-Nobles existence, but Ifeel as though I am where I should be,”he says. That place is a classroom atBunker Hill Community College inBoston, where Fiske has been teachingEnglish and writing since January 2010.During his years at Nobles a careerin college teaching was the last thingon his mind, Fiske says. “Even when Igraduated from Trinity I wasn’t thinkingmuch beyond the present moment.I was interested in boat building andgoing on canoe camping trips in thesummer, so I did that for a while.”By 1988, he realized that he wasinterested in teaching—and landed ajob at Landmark School in Manchester,Mass., where he taught geography—and caught the travel bug.“All I had at the time was anapartment and a job. I quit the joband dumped the apartment,” he says.Unencumbered, Fiske traveled aroundIndonesia, Thailand and Australia, thenreturned to a middle-school teachinginternship linked with the graduateschool at Lesley College in Boston. Heearned his M.Ed. from Lesley in 1992.But, he says, “I’m just not wiredright to be a middle school teacher.”After a period of job hunting and subbing,he decided to try writing for aliving. He starting freelancing for theAppalachian Mountain Club and wenton to be what he calls “minimallyJohn Fiske ’81 at BunkerHill Community Collegeprosperous,” writing brochures andbylined articles for corporate clients,as well as creating river guides forthe AMC.Then, in 1999, he and his wifeMary, a bond trader, adopted Alex, “Hewas born in Romania, and had been inan orphanage for two and a half years,”says Fiske. “I immediately becamethe at-home person. My presence wasessential, crucial for Alex.” Duringhis at-home-dad years, he wrote andpublished a novel, The Library Book.Fast-forward a decade. “In the fallof 2009, I realized that my full-time,on-call role for Alex had become increasinglyunnecessary,” he says. Thepossibility of college teaching appealedto him, so he contacted the dean of theeducation school at Boston University,who put him in touch the dean atBunker Hill Community College,who put him in touch with the chairof the English Department.“I interviewed on a Saturday morning;he gave me the book and told mewhich classroom to show up at onMonday morning,” Fiske laughs. Hehas been teaching at the communitycollege ever since.“I really like BHCC,” Fiske says.“The students come from all over theworld. I have students from Vietnam,Morocco, Japan, India, Togo, HongKong…. Their diversity is the bestpart of the job.”Fiske says he as found his nicheteaching at BHHC.“I am in the right place. I want toteach college kids how to write.”—Catherine O’Neill Grace32 l the NobLES Bulletin l Spring 2011

2 5 t h r e u n i o nFinding BalanceS T E P H E N J o r D A N ’ 8 6Stephen Jordan ’86 and a furry friendat D.E.W. Animal Kingdom in MaineCollege sweethearts Kristin andStephen Jordan ’86 needed achange. The fast pace of city livingwasn’t for them, and with no real tiesto Boston, they decided in 2003 tomove to a quiet town in Maine. “Wewanted a simpler life,” explains Jordan.“We wanted to stop living in the pastor always looking to the future. Werealized that we just wanted to enjoythe present.”The couple loved their new location,but considering the downward turnin the economy, Jordan decided it wasbest to keep his job at Putnam Investmentsin Boston. He had been workingin financial services since he and Kristingraduated from Boston College. Thefour-hour daily commute gave him alot of time to think. His job at Putnamwas respectable work, and Jordan excelledin his role in client services andsales. But there was something missing,so when the company downsized in2007 and had to let Jordan go, he consideredthe situation a positive thing.“Even though I was laid off, I knew itwas the right time to figure out whatI really wanted to do,” he says.Still looking for change, Jordandecided to go back to school to get hismanicurist license. He opened his ownnail salon, Panthera Natural Nail Bar,and ran the small business for almost18 months. During this time, the economycontinued to spiral, and despiteloving his new venture, Jordan realizedthe salon couldn’t support his family.He returned to the corporate world in2008, accepting a position with Bankof America. The work was more reliable,but not what Jordan would call fulfilling.Unlike his days at Putnam, however,Jordan wasn’t feeling that therewas a void in his life. He and Kristinhad found something unexpected tofill that space.During the time when Jordan wascommuting to Boston, his days werelong and tiresome. Kristin started planningweekend activities so the couplecould have as much quality time togetheras possible. One weekend shesuggested they go the D.E.W. AnimalKingdom and Sanctuary in Mt. Vernon,Maine. The two fell in love with it.The Jordans were blown away by thefacility. There, in the middle of Maine,was an amazing animal sanctuary,home to some of the world’s mostexotic animals. Owned and operatedby Bob and Julie Miner, the farm hasmore than 200 animals, including lions,tigers, leopards, kangaroos, monkeysand more. Steve and Kristin returned toD.E.W. Animal Kingdom every weekend—andeventually became closefriends with the Miners. They helpwith farm chores, like feedings andcage cleanings, and Steve set up theirwebsite (www.dewanimalkingdom.com).He even wrote a book about a lion cubwho was born during the 2008 presidentialcampaign, named MufasaObama.—Julie GuptillSpring 2011 l the NobLES Bulletin l 33

2 0 t h r e u n i o nGirls EmpoweredW h i T N E Y P O S T ’ 9 1Whitney Post ’91 came to Noblesas a shy ninth grader in the fallof 1987. She remembers English teacherBill Bussey encouraging her to taketo the morning Assembly stage andperform a Shakespeare soliloquy. “Itwas scary! But I couldn’t turn downthe challenge. It’s funny that this is oneof my enduring memories of Nobles...but it set the stage for learning to takerisks and put myself out there.”A former world champion andOlympic rower, Post is now committedto creating tools and opportunitiesfor girls and women to have positiveself-image. She holds a bachelor’sdegree from Brown University anda master’s in counseling psychologyfrom Lesley University. As a consultant,she has provided wellness trainingworkshops and individual coachingto high school, collegiate and nationalteam athletes, and has designed andimplemented eating-disorder treatmentprograms at Boston hospitals. Over thepast 10 years, Post has run hundreds ofgroups helping women develop healthierrelationships with their bodies.Post currently serves as the directorof the Women’s Sports Foundation’sGoGirlGo! Boston. GoGirlGo! wasfounded in 2001 by Billie Jean King.Upon hearing that only one in threeAmerican girls was physically activeat the time, King raised the question,“What about those other two girls?”GoGirlGo! works across the countryto improve the health of sedentary girlsand to keep girls involved in physicalactivity through education, funding,public awareness and networking. Postbrings to the position her dedicationto the transformative power of sport,and every girl’s right to have accessto it and to a healthy, active life. “Myfavorite part of the work is being outon the fields with the girls who benefitfrom GoGirlGo’s programs,” she says.“I am humbled by their exuberance,athleticism and transformation.”“When I was at Nobles and askedwhat the school motto, spes sibi quisque,meant, I was told it could be looselyinterpreted as ‘paddle your own canoe.’ ”Post says. “I think it is funny that I leftNobles and went on to learn some ofthe greatest life lessons from the sportof rowing. I talk a lot about the notionof self-reliance in my work, where Imake the pitch that a huge part of beingself-reliant is acknowledging thatyou sometimes need help from otherpeople. For many of us, sports taughtus that we rely on ourselves and on ourteammates for success. I want to teachyoung women how to have relationshipsand communities to rely on for the restof their lives. In my work in both thesuburbs and the inner city, I’ve seenover and over again that girls need toknow how to have healthy relationshipswith others. It goes so far in the developmentof a positive self-concept.”Post draws a parallel between lessonslearned through sports and workingwith young women: “Girls are set upto encounter negative self-image andbody image issues in our society, and,by their very nature, eating disordersare isolating. Our job as women is toteach girls strategies to help them copewith body image pressures in a healthyway. I believe self-reliance includes theability to let people know when you arenot doing okay and could use somehelp from those around you.”—Brooke Asnis ’90To learn more about GoGirlGo! visitwww.gogirlgoboston.com.Whitney Post ’9134 l the NobLES Bulletin l Spring 2011

1 5 t h r e u n i o nRecipe for SuccessS A L LY J A C K S O N ’ 9 6Food writer and actor Sally Jackson’96 combined her passions to createher career.The broad range of activities thatwere part of her Nobles experienceprepared her well for the multifacetednature of her work today. “Being encouragedto try new things at Noblestaught me to be open to all experiencesand, by extension, to all career paths,”she says. “I learned from my teachersto discover what you love and to makeit into a life for yourself.”Jackson graduated from ConnecticutCollege in 2001 with a degree in English—anddreams of becoming an actorin New York City. She moved into anapartment with classmate VanessaRaptopoulos ’96 and joined the repertorytheater Eastcheap Rep. Overthe next nine years, the group wrote,directed, produced and starred in a seriesof off–Broadway plays that includedFriction, Natalie and Jumper. Jacksonremembers it as one of the busiestperiods of her life. “At one point, wewere putting on six shows a week fora month straight—and that was ontop of my day job!”At that time, her “day job” consistedof hostessing at Bolo, a Spanish restaurantowned by celebrity chef Bobby Flay.A foodie herself, she had spent hercollege summers in a restaurant kitchen.She enjoyed the work at Bolo but hadno intention of making it a career, soshe was surprised when, in 2003, shewas invited to interview for a newlyopened position as Flay’s personal assistant—andeven more surprised whenshe got it. She took the position withouthesitation and has not looked back.What began primarily as anaccounting, scheduling and researchjob quickly expanded when she wasasked to write a proposal for Flay’scookbook, Grilling for Life. The FoodNetwork star loved the proposal andasked Jackson to join the book’s fulltimeteam of writers. Grilling for Lifewas published in 2005 and was an instantseller. Since then, Jackson has been acontributing writer for three more hits:The Mesa Grill Cookbook (2007), GrillIt (2008) and Burgers, Fries, and Shakes(2009). A fifth book, The Bar AmericainCookbook, comes out in October.These days, Jackson considers foodSally Jackson ’96 and herhusband Luke Rosen at theirwedding in Zihuatanejo,Mexicoand writing to be her primary pursuits,but she continues to act on the side.She still performs in one EastcheapRep show a year—A.R. Gurney’sLove Letters, a play that she first heardErika Guy and Bill Bussey recitefrom in Assembly.Looking back, Jackson is still surprisedat how her career has unfolded.While she could never have predictedwhere she is now, she is delighted withthe direction her passions have takenher. “My job combines two of myfavorite things: food and writing. I canhonestly say that I love what I do.”—Megan RyanSpring 2011 l the NobLES Bulletin l 35

1 0 t h r e u n i o nServing Those Who ServeJ E S S i C A K O N i N G i S O r ’ 0 1Need help packing for a trip? JessicaKoningisor ’01 is the person toask. Whether you’re traveling lightlyfor a monthlong backpacking trip ortrying to take a semester’s worth ofclothes for a term abroad, most likelyshe’s already done it. Koningisor’s globalinterests and passion for travel havetaken her all over the world. Her newestadventure will allow her to marrythat love of travel with another one ofher life’s passions—public service—asa lawyer with the United States NavyJudge Advocate General’s Corps(U.S. Navy JAG).The Koningisor family ( Jessica,dad Jim, mom Trish, who has workedas Nobles’ school nurse since 2003,sisters Chrissie ’03 and Jenny ’05and brother Danny ’08) has alwaysloved traveling together. But Jessica’sfirst solo exploration came during herjunior year at Nobles, when she studiedaway from campus for a semester withthe Class Afloat program. “It’s amazingthat Nobles not only allows studentsbut encourages them to study awayduring their high school years,” saysKoningisor. “The school played a crucialrole in developing my passion.”After Nobles, Koningisor attendedMcGill University in Montreal, whereshe studied political science and history.She always knew she wanted to go tolaw school, but before she did, Koningisortook two years off after graduation.She backpacked through the MiddleEast and Southeast Asia, and visitedCentral America before applying toBoston College Law School. (As anundergraduate at McGill, she also dida semester abroad in New Zealand.)Her initial interest was in internationallaw, which isn’t as widely practicedas other fields. Although she hadn’tconsidered it when first applying tolaw school, after she gave thought to acareer in the military—where she couldpractice international law and somedayoperational law—it started to makesense. “I grew up in a family that put astrong emphasis on service,” she says.“The thought of military service wasn’ttoo far off.” She started interviewingwith the Navy and got word in springof 2010 that she had been acceptedinto the elite JAG program.This April, Koningisor will leavefor Sasebo, Japan, where she will bebased for the next few years. She’ll beproviding legal assistance to men andwomen serving in the military. “I thinkit’s the most important job I could do,”Koningisor says. She’ll also have theopportunity to do defense work forcourts martial, among other things.Her command, Navy Legal ServiceOffice Pacific, provides legal servicesto the forces of the U.S. Seventh Fleet,which covers an area of 50 millionsquare miles, including Japan, Hawaiiand Guam.Although not 100 percent surewhat to expect, Koningisor says she’svery excited about the opportunity.“Nobles always stressed the importanceof trying new experiences and takingrisks,” she says. “It taught me to beopen to any possibility.”—Julie GuptillJessicaKoningisor ’0136 l the NobLES Bulletin l Spring 2011

5 t h r e u n i o nGoogle “Adventure”C H A S E H E N S E L ’ 0 6M“ y dad once said to me that mylife was going to get a lot moreinteresting when I found multiplethings that I have to balance,” saysChase Hensel ’06. And Hensel’s lifehas been anything but static since hegraduated from Columbia Universitywith a bachelor’s in computer sciencein 2010.Hensel, a former Natick, Mass.,resident, describes himself as a “big cityperson” with a passion for traveling andforeign language. After completingcollege a semester early in December2009, he fulfilled his desire to travelabroad with a solo backpacking tripto South America, beginning in Texasand traveling as far as Argentina.During three months living mostlyin hostels, he soaked up the cultureand revived his Spanish.“I realized how much I appreciatedtraveling,” says Hensel. “I didn’t knowwhat to expect. But this type of travel,learning and seeing new things, is somethingI really value. And when you’reliving by yourself, you have to makefriends and do as much as you canto meet people.”Shortly after returning, Henseltraveled to Washington, D.C., to internas a public policy fellow for the ComputingResearch Association as thewinner of the 2010 Eben TisdaleFellowship. The fellowship awards a$5,000 grant to explore public policyissues in high technology.Now living in San Francisco,Hensel is an associate product managerfor Google—a position that he securedbefore graduation—developing andenhancing online products such asChase Hensel ’06 in El Chaltén,Argentina, on a backpacking tripGoogle News. Most recently, Henseland his team launched Google OnePass, a service that allows publishersto sell digital newspaper and magazinecontents or subscriptions on the Webor mobile devices. (Hensel was a softwareengineering intern for Googlein New York in the summer of 2009.)Hensel developed an interest inengineering during his senior yearat Nobles when he had a chance to explorerobotics in an independent study.After learning the basics of creatinga computer program, he built a tic-tactoegame that allowed a human playerto compete with a computer. Towardthe end of the semester, he constructeda remotely operated submarine. “Itrequired a lot of self-discipline, and Iwouldn’t have continued unless I reallycared about the material that I waslearning,” he says. Hensel also landedan internship at Machine Science, anonprofit organization that supportsengineering programs, the summerafter graduation—an accomplishmentthat he credits to science teacherDavid Strasburger.Landing a job at Google hasn’tslowed down Hensel’s travel plans; the22-year-old’s next big adventure willbe climbing Mount Kilimanjaro thissummer.—Tiffany TranSpring 2011 l the NobLES Bulletin l 37

the beaker—who knows where—got a fingernick that progressed to blood poisoning, andhad to stay home, unable to take dear AlisonStrieder to the dance. Other lasting memorieswere Charlie and Dave Hoffman’s cut-downMerc; all the Model As we had, like a fad;Eliot Putnam’s annual ‘put-her-on-a-pedestal’speech to seniors (isn’t that the old days?)and his annual Opening Day reading of ‘Caseyat the Bat’; our post-grad party at GeorgeWaterman’s in Rhode Island, where I wasintroduced to his stump-lifter. But what Iprobably remember most is ‘The Path,’ ormore accurately, the steps. Glad to see thatthe Castle’s renovations will save it!”“I’ve been thinking about late one night inour sophomore year when short-term boarderBob Bach’s mattress managed to slide outof the Castle’s third-floor long-dorm window,”recalls Newell Flather. “It landed right nextto where [master] David Horton was parkinghis car. Is it funny or sad that I am using limitedmemory storage to save such a thought? Whatwas funny was the way Mr. Horton handled thesituation. He raced to the third floor, as onlyhe could, peered into the room, and declaredin a serio-comic voice, ‘Well it couldn’t havebeen these boys. Like the angels they are,they are all sleeping!’ We started laughing;he started laughing; end of story. No circles,no detentions, nothing.”Dev Barker remembers: “In a football gameat Belmont Hill in our Fourth or Fifth Class year,my chin hit the ground when I was tackled. Outpopped a central lower tooth which I pickedup and headed for the sideline to give to myfather. He apparently found a phone and calledthe dentist, and when the game was over, wesped into Boston. The tooth was put in placeand lasted at least 15 years. My first, andthus far only, bridge replaced it.”“We continue to bounce from Chatham toNaples,” reports John Raye. “We’ve had afantastic winter so far here in the south, withmost days in the low 80s! So happy to avoidthe icy/snowy winters which are treacherousfor us. Our ’big event’ this year was Paula’s 70thbirthday. We took the whole family (15 of us)to the Beaches Resort in the Turks and Caicosto celebrate. It was the most fantastic familyholiday ever. Fantastic spot and we recommendit highly. Getting the whole family together isone of our greatest pleasures, and seeing allthe grandchildren interact and really loveeach other is the best!”Suggests Whiz Wheeler, “Why not reportthat certain members of the Class of ’56 haverecently spent more time hammering out aplaque text than we did deciding to build ThePath in 1956? Can you imagine if we had thewhole class involved in the wording? Twofactors were at play: we are a lot older nowand we didn’t have Bea [Sanders] then.”“Just learned I passed the board certificationexam in palliative care medicine. It’s good for10 years, so I guess it’s good for a lifetime,”writes Bob Bach. “Looking back, the one thingthat has always stayed with me is Eliot Putnam’semphasis on our being very privilegedand the need to give back to society. This morningI thought of Mr. Putnam starting the daymany years ago when he read Kipling’s ‘If’ likenobody else. On the lighter side, I think thatNewell [Flather] was the chief instigator inmy mattress being thrown out of the castlewindow. One more thing—I will never forgetthe courage of Whizzer [Wheeler] andJohnny Raye.”This from George Waterman: “How aboutthe time, after evening study hall, as we weresaying goodnight to Mr. Putnam in his den aswas the custom? Taking me by the ear—he wasquite good at that—he said, ‘I want to see youafter everyone else has left.’ Then he said, ‘Wehave about had it with you.’ It seemed harsh,as I am certain I had only broken about 10 rulesthat day. Anyway, his good heart and patienceprevailed and I made it to graduation.”The proud entrepreneur of S. Fernald’s CountryStore, Kit Hayden, reports that “as the winterwears on, it becomes increasingly evident, asany eighth grader should know, that it is almostimpossible to achieve a profit through a smallbusiness in Maine. But that’s okay; the storeadds ambiance for the locals, and where elseis one to spend his money, frugally accruedover the years? Give it to some school?”(For Kit’s current view on education, visit to:http://knox.villagesoup.com/blog/blogpost/dumb-and-dumber-not-really/379065).“One of my enduring memories of life atNobles (there are many others, of course) isbittersweet,” recalls Tim Leland. “It involveda bitter event and a sweet result. The bitterpart occurred during a hockey game againstMiddlesex on Motley’s Pond. Hockey was asport I loved, but I was skinny and light, easyto knock around as a defenseman on theopposing team discovered early in the secondperiod when he checked me into the boardswith a resounding smack. (Collisions withJohn Felton often had the same effect in ourpractices.) I was a boarder at the time and wokethe next morning with a terrible, scarlet-bluehematoma on my hip that sent me limpingto the infirmary, where I stayed for the nextweek, feeling very sorry for myself. But everynight I was there, I received a visit from theman we all idolized. Mr. Putnam would suddenlyappear at my bedside, his blue eyesglinting behind his wire-framed glasses. ‘Hello,old boy,’ he’d say in that gravelly voice of his,putting his hand on my shoulder. ‘How areyou feeling, sport?’ That was the sweet part,and I’ve never forgotten it.”Babs and Dave Carroll ’56Dave Carroll writes, “After 14 months in ournew house in Dexter, Mich., Babs and I havedecided that we’re tired of knocking ourselvesout with hard labor, costly improvements andunending fix-up. We’re planning to move a miledown the road to a brand-new senior livingcommunity. It’s beautiful, well built and highlyrated. The biggest draw: no maintenance. We’veput our money down and plan to move inaround late May. Meanwhile, we’re heavilyinto downsizing, a big job in itself.We celebrated our second wedding anniversaryon Feb. 5, and haven’t regretted one second ofour second chance together. In spite of thework, we’re having the most fun we’ve everhad. Love to you and all our classmates.”“My turn,” sez Rocky Whitman. “After obtainingmy heavily redacted surveillance files from theFBI under the Freedom of Information Act in1974, I discovered that, in their zeal to keepan eagle eye on this dangerous Nobles grad,the feds made inquiries even at my old school.To my everlasting delight, on page 4 wasNobles’ formal reply, to wit: ‘He was generallyconsidered to be a good student and a goodSpring 2011 l the NobLES Bulletin l 41

sportsmanship, respect, courtesy and the like.Based in Rocky Hill, the organization workswith 47,000 kids in the state. It’s a rewardingcareer at this stage of my life and I’m havinga very good time.”Polkie lives in West Hartford with his wife,Rennie, and lives one mile from his granddaughter,Lucy Jane Polk, 6 months old. Hisoldest son, Tyler, works in financial services inHartford, as does his daughter-in-law. “We aretruly blessed. Our second son, Benjamin, issingle, lives in NYC, and comes home often.”“Incidentally,” he adds, “I terribly enjoyed our40th Reunion catching up and reconnecting.More fun than I anticipated.” He was picturedon the inside back cover of the last NoblesBulletin, sitting on the bench (with crutches)with baseball coaches David Horton andDick Flood Jr. some 40 odd years ago.Peter Litman is living in Wellesley with hiswife, Deborah. “My son Henry is a junior atPenn. I practice law and run a developmentstage medical device company.Generally speaking, I am feeling pretty good.I am, however, concerned about climate changeand even more concerned about the inclinationof humans to ignore facts that require realchange and/or do not fit with their ideologies.In this regard, Jared Diamond’s book Collapsewas an eye-opener for me. I hope that it isrequired reading at Nobles. I have decided notto travel to Mumbai as an advance man forStew Young’s campaign but was flatteredthat he asked me. Kudos to Leigh Seddonfor leading the way on alternative energy.”Toby Burr checked in from Marion and sayshe and his wife, Barbie, recently moved ontothe same street as Jeff and Craig Lawrence.“We are only about 50 yards away and delightedto be neighbors.” Toby’s son Tucker is workingat Burr Brothers Boats and his daughter Alaskais working in Boston. Toby noted, “This maybe the first news I have ever sent to Class Notes.”(Class Correspondent’s note: Not often enough!)Farther up the New England coast in Portsmouth,N.H., J.T. Clark is “fighting age with immaturity,occasional smart eating and mostly riding mybicycle to work as often as I can—15 mileseach way along almost all of New Hampshire’scoastline. After 60 round trips in 2010, I amlooking forward to starting the 2011 ‘Tour deFoss’ soon. My best to all of my classmates.”Not too far away, Chip Harding is living inSouth Berwick, Maine, with his wife, Madeleine.“We’ve raised three sons, all of whom are nowout making their way in the world. We’ve beenin southern Maine since 1986. I’ve been aworking musician pretty much forever…and havebeen teaching music at Berwick Academy formore than 15 years. The headmaster at BAis another (much younger) Nobles graduate,Greg Schneider ’92, who is simply one ofthe most amazing people I’ve ever met. I spenda lot of my time working with teenagers andtheir music—running open mics, summer festivalsand coffee houses. I have many privatestudents, at school and in my home studio, andlove learning new tunes together, recordingwith them and just getting to know who theyare. I also teach guitar classes to middle schoolkids, do sound for major events on campus andhelp coordinate the applied music program.I spent most of my 20s and 30s performingmy own music around the Northeast withvarious bands. In the late ’70s/early ’80s I hada contract with RSO Records, who also had theBee Gees and Eric Clapton at the time. Theyreleased several singles that got a lot of airplaynationwide, but didn’t sell much. After my secondson was born, I decided to start playing weddingsand doing music more as a business toraise my young family. I also started recordingmy original music on my own label, doing sostrictly as a creative outlet while I worked withmy band. In 2001, CBC Radio in Canada gothold of a song I wrote about John MorrisRankin—a legendary Cape Breton fiddler whodied a year earlier in a tragic accident—andended up playing it a lot in the Maritimesand then nationwide on the first anniversaryof his death. Most of the creative work I do nowis in supporting young songwriters in the processof making their songs, and in the studio.I can’t tell you how gratifying it is to havethem share their ideas with me.Lately I’ve been performing and recording witha trio called La Madeleine (www.lamadeleine.info), which features my wife, Madeleine,singing classic songs from her native Quebecas well as tunes from Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel,Charles Aznavour and other French artists. Weare joined by an amazing young fiddler namedMelissa Waterhouse. Melissa and I balancethe romantic French ballads with a varietyof really fun Celtic instrumentals.”Peter Gates was just back from a weekendof club ski racing in New Hampshire when weconnected. I didn’t get his results, but he wastouting the first place finishes of his son Sam’98 and daughter Callie ’01. Sam is in hissecond year at Suffolk University Law Schooland Callie is studying for a master’s degree ineducation at Harvard. Peter remains busy tryingto stir up deals in the health care private equitybusiness. His wife, Debbie, is active with GorePlace, a historic house in Waltham, where sheis president of the board of governors.Wes Wellington stopped his world travelslong enough to write. “Although I still considerNew England my spiritual home, I uprooted thewife and two boys in early 1995 and headedwest to take a job with a somewhat obscureLos Angeles money management firm witha quirky but compelling investment strategy.Our friends and family were perplexed that wehad chosen to leave a lovely Victorian homein Needham and move to the smog capital ofthe country without knowing a soul there. Wetold them we were on the five-year plan andwould move back if things didn’t work out.Sixteen years later we’re alive and well andliving in Pacific Palisades, an easy bike ride tothe office in Santa Monica on Ocean Avenue.Yes, it overlooks the beach—somebody hasto live here.Working at a firm with Nobel laureatesroaming the halls has been a great learningexperience and it’s now somewhat less obscure,having grown to become the ninth-largest mutualfund firm in the U.S. I spend a lot of time on theroad making presentations to professionalfinancial advisors as well as their individualinvestor clients. The pitch is straightforward:most of us are wasting our time and moneywhen we hire so-called experts to identifyappealing investment opportunities for us. Oddsare we’ll do better just holding a simple diversifiedportfolio (and we do mean diversified—12,000 stocks!). Needless to say, this viewpointraises a few hackles among conventional moneymanagers, and the intellectual combat thatcomes with the job is part of the appeal.There are many clichés about the SouthernCalifornia lifestyle and I can report that thereis some substance to almost all of them. Butwith several million neighbors you can alwaysfind some kindred spirits if you search longenough. When I’m off duty, I can usually befound in the garage tinkering with one of severalHarley-Davidsons or making a little too muchnoise on the Pacific Coast Highway.Spring 2011 l the NobLES Bulletin l 45

In MemoriamWe offer the following corrections and additionsto the obituary for Robert Bradley “R.B.”Cutler ’31, which appeared in the Winter2010–2011 issue of the Bulletin:R.B. Cutler had three brothers, Roger, JosepBradley ’35 and Eric ’36. He received theMiller Medal in 1931 and was a member of theRiverside Boat Club for 75 years, from 1935to 2010 (not 89 years, as was previously printed).Cutler was the first of his generation to attendNobles and was followed by 11 brothers andcousins. His father, Roger W. Cutler V’07, wasone of five Cutler brothers from the VolkmanSchool, which merged with Nobles in 1917.Philip Thayer ’32 died on January 28, 2011,at the age of 96. He was born in 1914 in WestNewton and raised in Boston. He came to Noblesas a freshman and, according to his classmates,“immediately assumed the scholastic leadershipof the class.” He received the Trustees’Prize three years in a row, and he was also astandout on the baseball and the crew teams.Thayer went on to Harvard and graduated in1936 with an A.B. in physics and A.M. in communicationsengineering. He then went to workfor Bell Laboratory, where he was employedfor more than 50 years, retiring as executivedirector of computer technology. Thayer wasalso a veteran of the U.S. Navy, in which heserved from 1943–1953. Outside of work, he wason the Montclair College Board of Trustees,Board of Trustees at the Morris Museum of Artsand Science and, throughout his life, he wasan avid golfer, swimmer, sailor and volunteer.He leaves his daughter, Margot Morris, andthree nephews, Peter, John and Nelson Clapp.He was predeceased by his wife, MarjorieBrown, and his daughter, Juliette Thayer.Richard Williams ’43 died on January 19,2011, after a brief battle against cancer. He wasborn in 1925 and came to Nobles in Class III.At Nobles, Williams (also known to his classmatesas “Shorty”) took part in the Glee Club,Quartets, Orchestra, Student Council, as wellas the football, baseball and track teams.He attended Harvard College and left in histhird year to join the Navy. He served for threeyears on the U.S.S. Champlin during WorldWar II. After returning from the war, Williamstook a job at the Shawmut Bank of Boston. There,he worked his way up to senior vice presidentin charge of the real estate department, retiringafter 39 years. He enjoyed his retirementby playing tennis and golf and by traveling.Williams is survived by his wife, Cynthia; his twodaughters, Sarah and Susan; and his threegrandchildren, Emily, Richard and Courtney.Robert Huson ’45 died on November 26, 2011,at the age of 84. He was born in 1926 andspent his childhood years in Wynnewood, Pa.,and Boston. Huson came to Nobles in Class IV,where, among other activities, he played football,hockey, and crew and was in the Glee Club.He went on to Amherst College and then servedin the U.S. Navy on the USS Herbert C. Jonesdestroyer escort in the South Pacific during WWII.In his career, Huson worked in the buildingmaterials field in sales and marketing. He retiredfrom Lumberman’s Merchandising Corporationin 1994.Huson loved his family and friends, his cottageon Biscay Pond, Maine, sailing, tennis, skiingwith his children, and all dogs. He is survivedby his wife of 60 years, Elizabeth “Betty” DalbeckHuson; his children Robert, Richard, andElizabeth Finegan; and his grandchildren Mark,Kimberly Zorch, Noah Finegan, Jack Finegan,John Relic, and Matthew Fair.James Walker ’45 died peacefully at hishome on January 6, 2011, in Avon, Conn.He leaves his loving wife of 46 years, Audrey;two children, James Jr. and Holly Nixon; sixgrandchildren; and two siblings. Walker wasborn in Bryn Mawr, Penn., and joined his olderbrother Peter ’44 at Nobles as a sophomore.At Nobles, Walker was involved in numerousactivities, including Student Council, Glee Club,Dance Committee and three athletics squads.He received a B.A. from Williams College, aM.D. from the University of Pennsylvania anda M.S. in Hygiene from Harvard University. Aftergraduation from medical school, he entered theU.S. Army, where he served as a captain in themedical service branch during the Korean Conflict.Walker returned to Boston to begin programsto benefit urban poor by establishing preventativemedical outreach programs. In 1965, hehelped found the University of ConnecticutMedical Health Center, where he worked asa professor for many years. In the mid-1980s,Walker became medical director at Avery Heightsin Hartford. He gave to his community in numerousways, including serving as the associatedirector of the Center on Aging at the Universityof Conn.; Chairing the Boards of the Conn.Community Care Inc., Duncaster, and theAlzheimer’s Coalition of Conn.; and as a wardenof St. John’s Episcopal Church in West Hartford.In his spare time, he was an avid sailor andwoodworker.Elliott Joslin ’54 died at home in the lovingcare of his family on January 15, 2011, followinga brief battle with cancer. He was thecommitted partner of Mary Anne Walker; belovedbrother of Carolyn Donovan; devoted fatherof Allen, Rachel Whitehouse, and David; andthe loving grandfather of five.Joslin spent six years at Nobles, where he workedenergetically in the Dramatic and Glee Clubsand played football and hockey. He went onto Yale University and then a rich and variedcareer that included work for the television showCandid Camera, building scenery for off-Broadway plays, running the Old StoningtonFoundry, and continuing his foundry work atDaystar Farm, pouring keels for sailboats. Joslinwas actively committed to the peace movementin New England. His family and friends rememberhim as a “humanist and a man of caring,both in his work and in his life, he shared freelyof himself and his talents.”Maynard “Bunt” Powning ’49 died onFebruary 23, 2011, from complications ofAlzheimer’s. Powning leaves his wife Andrea,son Philip, daughter Caroline Arbury andthree beloved grandchildren.Although he traveled the world, he was bornin Boston and spent most of his life in Massachusetts.At Nobles, Powning was well-likedamong his classmates for his “varied outsideinterests and quiet modesty.” During his threeyears at Nobles, Powning received the HarvardClub Prize for Scholarship and the Davis Cupfor Sportsmanship, on top of his involvementin Glee Club, the Quartets, and StudentCouncil, and other activities.Bunt graduated from Harvard in 1953, with adegree in psychology, and then served in theU.S. Air Force in Korea as an aircraft controller.He ran Koehler Manufacturing Company inMarlboro, Mass., for 40 years. Outside of hiscareer, Bunt was an avid hunter, fisherman, andskier. He was a member of the Somerset Club,the Harvard Club of Boston and Acoaxet, Mass.,and the Spindle Rock Club of Westport, Mass.Spring 2011 l the NobLES Bulletin l 61

G r A D u A T e N e W SWilliam “Hart” Perry ’51 died on February3, 2011, after a brief illness. He is survivedby his wife, Gillian; his five children, William,Theodore, Alissa Gumprecht, Alexandra Millsand Colin; and 12 grandchildren. Perry wasborn in Newton in 1933 and came to Noblesin Class V. He was a terrific three-sport athletewhose skill and “undying spirit” made him anasset to the soccer and hockey teams. It wasalso at Nobles that he was introduced to thesport of rowing, leading to a lifetime of “passionand dedication that would touch thousandsof lives beyond his own.”After Nobles, Perry attended DartmouthCollege and then joined the faculty of KentSchool for more than 40 years. He leaves atremendous legacy within the rowing community.Throughout his life, Perry held numerouscoaching positions at Dartmouth, Kent Schooland the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, amongothers. He also worked as an official at numerousworld championships, including the WorldRowing Championships, the Olympic Games,and, in 1974, he became the first non-Britishcitizen to be elected a steward of the HenleyRoyal Regatta. He served as the president ofthe National Association of Amateur Oarsmen(predecessor to USRowing) and was the ExecutiveDirector of the National Rowing Association.Perry received numerous honors throughouthis career, including the U.S. Rowing Medal ofHonor, the 2010 World Rowing DistinguishedService to Rowing Award, and induction intothe National Rowing Hall of Fame.David Perry ’59 died peacefully on January23, 2011, in San Francisco, Calif., after a longbattle with cancer. Perry was born in 1940 andgrew up in Dedham. He attended Dexter Schoolwith a number of his soon-to-be Nobles classmatesand lifelong friends, including the lateEdward Bond ’58, Whitford “Whit” Bond’59, Richard “Dick” Frazee ’59 and William“Bill” Frederick ’59. At Nobles, he playedsoccer and tennis; was a member of the Debatingand Dramatics Club; and was on theNobleman Board. After Nobles, Perry attendedAmherst College and then Law School atBerkeley. Ultimately, he settled in San Franciscoand worked at Kaiser for many years beforebecoming their General Counsel.His classmates write that, “Dave was veryloyal to his Nobles classmates, attending mostReunions and quietly sponsoring many classevents. His kind and gentle approach to lifewill be sorely missed. Our 50th Class Reunionin 2009 was one of Dave’s happiest memoriesas well as the trip in 2007 to France that heenjoyed with several classmates in Strasbourgand Paris. It was on this trip that he hostedone of our most memorable dinners.”John Warren ’64 died at his home in Natickon February 6, 2011. He was born in Boston andgrew up in Dedham. Warren spent six years atNobles, where he was a member of DeutscherVerein and the Dramatic Club. He attendedHarvard College and then pursued his studiesof German language and literature at theGerman for Foreigners Institute in Munichand at the University of Indiana.Warren’s lifelong vocation and talent was inmusic, beginning in his childhood with the studyof piano. In the 1964 yearbook, his classmatesnoted that he would be “best remembered forhis diverting performances on (and off) themusic room piano.” Later, he studied compositionwith Herman Weiss and composed numerouspieces, including string quartets, pianosonatas, symphonies, concerti and other chambermusic. Warren leaves his sisters, Janet Rogersand Constance Mery; his brother Richard; andnumerous nieces, nephews, great-nieces andgreat-nephews.Kim Smith; An AppreciationKim Smith, longtime business manager atNoble and Greenough, died at his home inConcord, Mass., this winter. We asked formerHead of School Dick Baker to share hismemories of Smith.Kim Smith was one of those individuals whocame across as larger than life—an ebullienceof humor, a stentorian voice, a directness in hisapproach to almost everything and an inspirationalgenerosity of spirit. While forceful whenit was necessary, his personality was gearedmore to tact and diplomacy, listening carefullyand drawing others out. Optimism was hishallmark, and he sprinkled it liberally in allaspects of his life.He was a man of independent schools,possessed of an eclectic resume that spannedthe full range from teacher/coach to headmasterwith lots of administrative experiencein between. He came to Nobles as somethingof a knight in shining armor prepared to rescuethe school after a particularly devastatingadministrative loss. Ben Lawson, the venerableBusiness Manager for decades, who had superblyguided the school financially for decades, hadretired in spring 1979. An able replacementlasted only a few months and then decidedthe job was not to his liking. He departedimmediately. Headmaster Ted Gleason drewon an old friendship, asking Kim to becomethe Business Manager (Kim had probablyplanned a few gentle years of retirement afterserving as the Head of Fenn for nearly a decade.)But, he rode in, took control and at least inthe years of the late ’80s and early ’90s, wasthe primary force for upgrading the entireinstitutional infrastructure. He was, in a sense,the architect for much of the school thatexists today.In 1987, he must have an almost overwhelmingsense of increased responsibility when thetried (Gleason) was replaced by the untried(Baker). I often wondered whether he askedhimself, “do I have enough still in me tobreak in a new Head?”He did and he did, and I was always thewiser for his counsel.The image of the knight whose role was alwaysslanted toward rescue was reinforced by Kim’smost magical innovation, a kind of alchemicaltransmutation of base metal into gold. At momentswhen decisions about the constructionof new buildings teetered on the knife-edgeof the achievement of the Development Officeand time pressure was acute, Kim always founda financial way to resolution. And, because ofhim and his replacement, Bill Chamberlin,the buildings went up—one, two, three, four,five. No single person was as responsible forthat architectural transformation as Kim Smith.And, to take that transformation one stepfurther, the school’s identity, its psyche, differstoday because of what Kim accomplished. AsChurchill once said, “We shape buildings andthen our buildings shape us.” In a sense Kimis still “shaping us.”His final years must have been difficult. He lostthe power of his legs in his later years becauseof a youthful skiing accident and finally wasconfined to a wheelchair. But if the word “indomitable”deserves application to any humanbeing, I think Kim qualifies. Nobles owes himprodigious applause.—Dick Baker62 l the NobLES Bulletin l Spring 2011

F r O M T H E A r C H i V E SAnyone You Know?Noble and Greenough Archivist Isa Schaff isin the process of cataloging images and objectsas Nobles’ 150th birthday draws nearer. Canyou help provide details about either of thesephotographs? We would particularly like to knowthe identity of the gentleman with the pipe.The picture of the group of girls was taken atgraduation in 1977—but we would like to knowthe names of everyone in the photo. If you canhelp, please contact Director of CommunicationsCatherine O’Neill Grace at catherine_grace@nobles.edu.ISO Missing YearbooksTo complete the school’s collection,the Archives is in search of yearbooksfor the following Nobles classes. Ifyou can provide a copy or loan usone to scan, please contact ArchivistIsa Schaff at isa_schaff@nobles.edu.191619181919192219251946197619791982198519901992199720072008Spring 2011 l the NobLES Bulletin l 63

A Young Family’sGratitudeWhy Jeremy Delinsky '93and Sherrie Selwyn Delinsky '94give to NoblesJeremy is senior vice presidentand chief technology officer atathenahealth. Sherrie is a clinicalpsychologist in private practice.Both are contributors to theAnnual Nobles Fund.64 l the NobLES Bulletin l Spring 2011Jeremy and Sherrie Delinsky withRuby, age 3, and Max, age 1.

What three titles would you choose to describe yourmain roles in life?Jeremy: Dad, citizen and athenista (what we call ourselvesat athenahealth).Sherrie: Mother, wife and therapist.Favorite place to be on earth?Sherrie: Outside in our yard in the summertime or in bedsnuggling with the kids on a weekend morning.Jeremy: I have to agree with Sherrie: snuggling and watchingTV in bed with the kids on Saturday mornings.Favorite food, or favorite thing to cook?Jeremy: I wish I could make an authentic Asian stir-fry ornoodle dish. They taste so fake when I do it.Sherrie: We just got a waffle maker and are having a greattime making waffles every weekend. I would really love to learnto cook many more dishes, especially on the fly, and hope tofind the time to take some lessons.Hobbies and guilty pleasures?Jeremy: I am a fantasy football savant. Seriously, I had paralleleight-week win streaks going this season in two separate leagues.My guilty pleasure: watching True Blood on HBO.Sherrie: I used to be a prolific knitter before the kids were born;I really like making afghans and scarves. My guilty pleasure,when the stars (and kids) align, is napping with my cats.Thoughts on the economic recovery?Jeremy: I’m seeing fierce competition for skilled softwaredevelopers right now, and there is unbelievable start-up activityhappening. I’m extremely bullish on another tech-fueled waveof productivity gains and growth.Sherrie: It’s clearly tough for lots of people to make endsmeet, especially as food prices and other costs continue toincrease. The government has a key role in stimulating jobgrowth and injecting cash into the economy, especially inindustries that will develop alternative energy technologies.Your thoughts on the health care industry?Sherrie: I appreciate the economic dilemma of rising healthcare costs, but also appreciate the tremendous investment ofobtaining a medical education. To control costs, evidence-basedand preventative medicine are the best options. As a psychologist,I am particularly aware of the connection between physicaland psychological health and the importance of self-care.Jeremy: The national debate depresses me, because rapidnews cycles and voters’ proclivity for heavily reduced soundbites have become the enemy of nuanced, respectful debatesover ideas. I think the reality is that a stew of European-stylerationing, increased consumer responsibility for our choicesand health care costs, government intervention, qualitytransparency and private sector innovation are all required.Favorite form of exercise these days?Sherrie: I do cardio on the elliptical trainer and lift weightsregularly. In good weather, I like to walk outdoors. Lifting andchasing my kids is great exercise.Jeremy: “Favorite” is a strong word; I use the elliptical machinein our basement two or three times a week.Activities you did while a student at Nobles?Sherrie: Editor-in-chief of The Nobleman, Peer Help Program(which turned into my vocation as a clinical psychologist), SeniorProject with Kate Coon/Dr. Gail Dines of Wheelock College onthe objectification of women in the media, and Aerobics withErika Guy.Jeremy: I was a prefect and news editor of The Nobleman.Meeting my wife also stands out as a worthy activity!Things you learned at Nobles that have been mostuseful in life?Jeremy: To appreciate and take advantage of opportunities;that character matters; to communicate ideas effectively.Sherrie: (1) Do something important with your life that involveshelping people—this is ultimately what will provide meaningand fulfillment. (2) Hard work does get rewarded. (3) Whatother people think doesn’t really matter all that much. Youcan’t please everyone, and you shouldn’t bother trying.Why do you both give to Nobles, and Sherrie, why doyou serve on the Graduates Council?Jeremy: I feel so fortunate to have experienced a Nobleseducation, and I credit Nobles for opening a world of opportunityfor me. I feel an obligation to give back.Sherrie: Supporting Nobles contributes to my sense of communityand allows me to express my gratitude for what I foundthere: the springboard for developing my true sense of self, mycalling in life as a clinical psychologist and my dear husbandof 11 years. I’m so lucky I met Jeremy there!Please give to the Annual Nobles Fund this year.Visit www.nobles.edu/giveonline or contact Director of Annual Giving Vidya Kaganat Vidya_Kagan@nobles.edu or 781-320-7003 for more information.

NoblesT H EB u l l e t i nNoble and Greenough School10 Campus DriveDedham, MA 02026-4099NON-profitU.S. PostagePAIDBOSTON MAPermit No. 53825A D D r E S S S e r v i C E r E Q U E S T E Dw w w. n o b l e s . e d uHouseholds that receive more than one NoblesBulletin are encouraged to contact Kathy Johnsonat 781.320.7001 to discontinue extra copies.Exploring EmpathyJust before Spring Break, Middle School students spent fiveschool days learning and thinking about the needs of others—particularly concerning issues of hunger at home and aroundthe world. As part of their work during Empathy Week, theykept journals to record their reactions to what they learned.“To me, empathy means caring and sympathy mostly, but alsounderstanding and loving,” one student wrote. “The place tostart helping is your own community,” wrote another.