AndoverMagSpring2015

John HurleyIn Every QuarterAndover reaches out innew and innovative waysto both youth and adultsby Sarah ZobelJamele Adams(aka Harlym 125) hostsAndover Bread Loaf’s “Speak Your Truth.”“Each student andteacher in AndoverBread Loaf, IRT,PALS, and (MS) 2becomes a part ofthe broad Andovercommunity as theyshare of themselvesand help shape theAcademy.”—Fernando AlonsoWithservice toothers asone of theschool’smostdeeply rootedvalues, PhillipsAcademy students,faculty, and staff understandwhat it means to engage in meaningfuloutreach. In fact, PA’s outreachprograms engage communities as near asneighboring Lawrence, where studentsserve as mentors to middle-schoolers, andas far as the West Coast and South Africa,where scholars of color who have beensupported through PA-based workshopsand guidance are now teaching.“Andover has consistently searched forways to fulfill its continuing mission asa private school with a public purposeto ‘serve youth from every quarter,’” saysFernando Alonso, director of Outreachand Summer Session. “Our four mainprograms help Phillips Academy have apositive influence beyond Andover Hilland the students we serve during theacademic year.”Those offerings include the Institute forRecruitment of Teachers (IRT), AndoverBread Loaf (ABL), PALS, and (MS) 2 ,each of which serves a different constituencythrough a singular approach, bringingparticipants to campus or reachingthem where they are. And each is in manyways continually evolving, adding specialevents or new schools, a refined missionor additional opportunities, only some ofwhich are highlighted here. These are thekinds of programs that are as meaningfulto the providers as they are to the beneficiaries—ifnot more so.“We do this not from a sense of noblesseoblige but instead with a true recognition,understanding, humility, and appreciationthat while we work to have a positiveimpact on the lives of all of those whocome into contact with this marvelousinstitution, each one of those studentsand teachers also helps to build the intricatetapestry that is Andover,” says Alonso.“Each student and teacher in AndoverBread Loaf, IRT, PALS, and (MS) 2becomes a part of the broad Andovercommunity as they share of themselvesand help shape the Academy.”•1944Fuess writes that the two African Americanstudents now attending Phillips Academy are enough.More might cause “trouble and excitement.”| | | Fuess, referring to the liberalizationPA Headmaster John Kemper30 Andover | Spring 2015•1946of admission policies, writes, “I hate tothink of the job the Catholics and Jewscould do on us if they got together.”•1949abolishes the school’s Secret Societies.