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stay connected...in memoriamDavid and Goliath and was really interested inwhat he had to say. Then I read The Tipping Point,Blink, and finally Outliers.”Lydia Goetze writes that Ha Jin’s A Map ofBetrayal “gives a good (fictional) sense of Chinatoday and the dilemma of our relationship toit.” On the local scene, Tony Rotundo reports,“This fall, I read Snow Hunters by Paul Yoon, aformer PA writer in residence. It’s a remarkablenovel, engaging and written in the quietestprose I’ve ever read.” He also recommends “theexcellent audio book version of Tan Twan Eng’sThe Garden of Evening Mists, about personalaftermaths of World War II in Malaysia.”Ed Germain offers a quote from a reviewof The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles Finney,published in 1935: “ [It] follows no regularconventions, has no chapter breaks, no centralcharacter and...brings the rural, rustic Arizonatown with its dusty streets to life, then injects thewonders of mythic creatures.”Neil and Betsey Cullen cast another “wow”for Unbroken and write, “We also recentlylistened to The Invention of Wings, Sue MonkKidd’s novel about the Grimké sisters fromSouth Carolina.”Meredith Price recommends Japan 1941 byJapanese author Eri Hotta, “which illuminatesthe deep divisions among Japan’s leaders overwhether or not to attack the United States andtheir refusal to surrender after the tide began toturn at the Battle of Midway in 1942.”1Susan McIntosh Lloyd, A Singular School: AbbotAcademy, 1828-1973 (Phillips Academy, 1979), 17.2Mary Elizabeth Brown, The Story of John Adams:A New England School Master (New York: CharlesScribner’s Sons, 1900), 275.3Brown, The Story of John, vii & 111.4Obituary in Abbot Scrapbook Vol II, March 9, 1900,Phillips Academy, Andover, MA.5Brown, The Story of John, 211. & “Abbot AcademyGeneral Catalogue,” Phillips Academy, Andover, MA.6Brown, The Story of John, 222.And from Joe Wennik ’52: “I recommendStephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve. Wellresearched, beautifully written. A mesmerizingprizewinner about Lucretius’s 2,000-year-oldpoem On the Nature of Things (De rerum natura).It’s about how the world became modern!”We turn from books to two belovedcolleagues. On Nov. 15, 2014, CochranChapel was filled with family and friends tocelebrate the life of Hale Sturges II. Led byRev. Diana W. Phillips, a very close, longtimefamily friend, and Rev. Philip Zaeder, theservice also included these participants: Hale’sson-in-law Bob Gatewood, former facultyLinda Cregg Nielsen ’67, Hale’s son-in-lawJay McDermott ’80, Hale’s brother, Sheldon,math instructor Jacques Hugon ’79, facultyemerita Natalie Schorr ’62, Hale’s grandsonJake McDermott, Hale’s daughter AnnieGatewood ’87, and Hale’s wife, Karen. Afterthe service, the family hosted a reception inthe Smith Center.Many Academy friends and familyattended the Requiem Eucharist forRobert L. “Robin” Crawford on Dec. 13, 2014,at the Parish of the Good Shepherd in Waban,Mass. Leading the memorial service was InterimPriest Rev. Margaret K. Schwarzer ’81, who alsoshared memories of her former teacher. Furthermemories were shared by Robin’s daughterElizabeth Gilmore ’87 and Rev. Philip Zaeder. Areception for family and friends followed in theWaban home of Annie Sturges Gatewood.Thorndike Internship Paper Footnotes from page 527Georgia Osborne, comp., Brief Biographiesof the Figurines on Display in the Illinois StateHistorical Library (Springfield, IL: PantagraphCO. Bloomington, 1932),11, accessed January26, 2015, https://archive.org/stream/briefbiographies00osbo#page/n3/mode/2up.8Clara Moore, “The Ladies’ Education Society ofJacksonville, Illinois: Founded October 4, 1833,”Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 18, no. 1(April 1925): 196-198, accessed January 24, 2015,http://www.jstor.org/stable/40187256.9Moore, “The Ladies’ Education Society,” 200.10Philena McKeen and Phebe McKeen, Annals ofFifty Years: A History of Abbot Academy, Andover,Mass., 1829-1879 (Andover, MA: Warren F. Draper,1880),108, accessed January 26, 2015, https://archive.org/stream/annalsfiftyyear00mckegoog#page/n9/mode/2up.11Brown, The Story of John, 126 & 275.12McKeen and McKeen, Annals of Fifty Years, 11.13Obituary in Abbot Scrapbook Vol II. & “Emily JaneAdams Bancroft,” Find A Grave, accessed February 20,2015, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=62530542.14Brown, The Story of John, 114-115.15Ibid., 116-117.16Lloyd, A Singular School: Abbot, 10.17Brown, The Story of John, 171.18Lloyd, A Singular School: Abbot, 22.19Ibid., 9 & 15.20Brown, The Story of John, 120.21Ibid., 211-212.22Ibid., 126.23Lloyd, A Singular School: Abbot, 9.24Moore, “The Ladies’ Education Society,” 196.25Philena McKeen and Phebe McKeen, Annals ofFifty Years: A History of Abbot Academy, Andover,Mass., 1829-1879 (Andover, MA: Warren F. Draper,1880),107, accessed January 26, 2015, https://archive.org/stream/annalsfiftyyear00mckegoog#page/n9/mode/2up.FORMER FACULTYValleau Wilkie Jr.Sunapee, N.H.; Dec. 23, 2014Valleau “Val” Wilkie’s tenure at Phillips Academy(1948–1959) as a highly regarded history instructor,house counselor, and coach was just the beginningof a long career committed to the education ofyoung people.Born in Summit, N.J., in 1923, he matriculatedat Yale University. When the United States enteredWorld War II, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps,piloting the B-17 in a Flying Fortress unit basedin England. Shot down over Holland in 1944, hewas captured and imprisoned by the Germans fornearly a year.After the war, he completed his education at Yale,earning a BA degree in history in 1948 and a master’sdegree, also in history, from Harvard in 1953.In 1959, after 11 years at Andover, he resigned tohead Governor Dummer Academy (now The Governor’sAcademy) in Byfield, Mass. He led the prepschool for the next 13 years, where he was lauded as“a strong, decisive, and inspirational leader.”In 1973, the late Mr. and Mrs. Perry Bass of FortWorth, Texas, recruited him to head the Sid W.Richardson Foundation, which provides grants tothe state’s educational, human service, health, andcultural organizations. Mr. Wilkie served as thefoundation’s leader for four decades. “He will longbe remembered for his role in improving publiceducation in Texas,” said Edward P. Bass ’63, thefoundation’s board chair.“Val was very interested in improving teacherand principal training for our schools and boostingthe quality of our Texas teachers’ colleges,” said formerForth Worth school board chair and Andovertrustee emerita Mollie Lupe Lasater ’56. “He alsocollaborated with other large foundations to tacklecommunity issues such as housing for the homelessand health clinics. He will be greatly missed inForth Worth.”Predeceased by his wife, Donna, Mr. Wilkie issurvived by two daughters, a son, two stepsons,three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.128 Andover | Spring 2015