AndoverMagazineFrontWinter2013

Recommendations

Info

Gil Talbot Wendy Ewald ’69; Lesley McIntire and Evelyn Knowles, daughter and wife of William Knowles ’35, accepting on his behalf (daughter Elizabeth was present but is not pictured); Stacy Schiff ’78; and Peter Sellars ’75. Honoree George H.W. Bush ’42, unable to attend the event, sent along a special video acceptance. Five Honored with Andover Alumni Award of Distinction by Jill Clerkin A highlight of Leaders’ Weekend, the inaugural induction ceremony of the Andover Alumni Andover Alumni Award of Distinction (AAAD) was held in Kemper Auditorium AwArd of distinction on Friday, November 9. The AAAD was conceived to annually recognize and honor alumni/ae of Phillips Academy or Abbot Academy who have served with distinction in their fields of endeavor. 2012 Opening remarks were provided by Alumni Council President Tom Beaton ’73, followed by presentation of the awards by five members of the AAAD Committee: Leslie Callahan ’68, committee chair; Susan Urie Donahue ’73; Michael Schmertzler ’70; Lee Sullivan ’68; and Alfred Blum ’62. Committee members Christopher Auguste ’76, Peter Hetzler, MD ’72, Sara Su Jones ’91, and Karen Humphries Sallick ’83 also were present. Head of School John Palfrey offered closing remarks before guests proceeded to Paresky Commons for dinner. R ead more about all five AAAD recipients at www.andover.edu/magazine. Please visit www.andover.edu/alumni/awardofdistinction for an AAAD nomination form. For further information, contact Jenny Savino in the Office of Alumni Affairs at jsavino@andover.edu. 44 Andover | Winter 2013 George H.W. Bush ’42 Honored for his service as a global leader On his 18th birthday— also the day of his Andover graduation— George H.W. Bush enlisted in the Navy, becoming the nation’s youngest Naval aviator in 1943. For an act of “heroism and extraordinary achievement in aerial flight,” Lt. j.g. Bush received the Distinguished Flying Cross award. He graduated from Yale in 1948. Key appointments and offices held prior to being elected president of the United States in 1988 include U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office in the People’s Republic of China, CIA director, and vice president for two terms under Ronald Reagan. As president, he oversaw the end of the Cold War, Iraq’s withdrawal from the Persian Gulf War, and the creation of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. He also created the Environmental Protection Agency in response to the 1989 Exxon-Valdez oil spill, initiated the Clean Air Act Amendments, and created the Americans with Disabilities Act. Bush was knighted in 1993 by Queen Elizabeth II for service to his country and the world, and was awarded the Eisenhower Medal for Leadership and Service (2003) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2011). In 2004, he co-created the Bush-Clinton Tsunami Relief Fund in response to the disaster in Southeast Asia.
Wendy T. Ewald ’69 Honored for her contributions to education and the visual arts The summer following graduation, Wendy Ewald—inspired by her Abbot photography teacher—taught children on an Innu reserve in Labrador, Canada, how to use cameras; she was impressed by the honest imagery that resulted. From 1974 to 1982, she taught photography to children in rural Kentucky through her Literacy Through Photography (LTP) program, with a goal of capturing genuine images and writings about life in Appalachia. Today, LTP continues to thrive as Ewald collaborates with people around the world to express identity and cultural diversity; an LTP offshoot trains teachers in Tanzania to use visual images in their classrooms. LTP images frequently are displayed in art galleries across the country and in Ewald’s themed publications, which include Portraits and Dreams, the American Alphabets series, In Peace and Harmony: Carver Portraits, and Secret Games: Collaborative Works with Children 1969–1999. The exhibition Pekupatikut Innuat Akunikana/Pictures Woke the People Up: An Innu Project with Wendy Ewald and Eric Gottesman [’94] recently was on display at the Addison Gallery (see page 12). Currently a senior research associate at Duke University’s Center for International Studies and visiting artist at Amherst College, Ewald was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1992 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2012. William S. Knowles ’35 Honored posthumously for his contributions to chemistry and biotechnology Although already accepted at Harvard, future Nobel Prize–winner William Knowles was advised to spend a postgraduate year at Andover—where he enrolled in his first-ever chemistry course. Knowles graduated from Harvard with a degree in chemistry in 1939 and earned an accelerated doctoral degree from Columbia University. In 1942, Knowles began working as a research scientist in organic chemistry for Monsanto Company. Soon he would couple his knowledge of catalyst reactions with chiral molecules—molecules that come in mirror images of each other that cannot be superimposed (like left and right hands). Based on his research on asymmetric hydrogenation, which began in 1968, Knowles and his team at Monsanto developed a more efficient and cost-effective means of manufacturing L-dopa, vital to this day in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and for the production of various antibiotics and heart medications. Knowles was very surprised to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001—15 years after retiring from Monsanto. The $1 million prize money was split between Knowles and his two fellow researchers. Knowles donated his share to Harvard, Columbia, and various colleagues who helped him with the discovery. In 2004, he was admitted into the National Academy of Sciences. Knowles died in June 2012. Stacy A. Schiff ’78 Honored for her contributions to literature Pulitzer Prize–winning author Stacy Schiff graduated from Williams College and worked in the publishing industry for eight years. While reading Saint-Exupéry’s Wind, Sand, and Stars in 1989, she became inspired to research and write a biography of the pioneering aviator. Published in 1994, Saint- Exupéry: A Biography garnered stellar reviews, won several awards abroad, and was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize. Schiff’s second book, Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize. A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, published in 2005, won the George Washington Book Prize, the Ambassador Award in American Studies, and the Gilbert Chinard Prize of the Institut Français. The blockbuster Cleopatra: A Life, published in 2010, won the 2011 PEN/Jacqueline Weld Award for Distinguished Biography and was named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by the New York Times. A Guggenheim Fellow, fellow of the National Endowment of the Humanities, and fellow at the New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers, Schiff received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2011 was named a Library Lion of the New York Public Library. She currently is working on a book about the Salem Witch Trials. Peter M. Sellars ’75 Honored for his contributions to the performing arts Opera, theatre, and festival director Peter Sellars is known for groundbreaking interpretations of classic works. Whether it is Mozart, Handel, Shakespeare, Sophocles, or the 16th-century Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu, Sellars strikes a universal chord with audiences, engaging and illuminating contemporary social and political issues. Sellars has staged 20th-century and contemporary operas at prestigious venues worldwide. He and longtime collaborator composer John Adams also have created many new works, including Nixon in China, El Niño, Doctor Atomic, and A Flowering Tree. Their latest work, The Gospel According to the Other Mary, will be seen in the United States and Europe early in 2013. His noteworthy theatre projects include a 2009 staging of Othello, inspired by and set in the America of newly elected President Barack Obama. Desdemona, Sellars’ collaboration with novelist Toni Morrison and Malian composer and singer Rokia Traore, was performed in Europe and the United States in 2011, and presented in London as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. A professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA and resident curator of the Telluride Film Festival, Sellars is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the recipient of the Erasmus Prize, Sundance Institute Risk-Takers Award, and Gish Prize, as well as a MacArthur Fellowship. Andover | Winter 2013 45
Page 1 and 2: Alums Social Collaborative Communit
Page 3 and 4: Contents The Campaign for Andover E
Page 5 and 6: to tHe eDItoR Dear Editor, Could yo
Page 7 and 8: Photos by Damian Strohmeyer Andover
Page 9 and 10: An Elegant “New” Bulfinch Hall
Page 11 and 12: Phillipian Wins National Recognitio
Page 13 and 14: Photos by Gil Talbot Maqubelas Head
Page 15 and 16: Jazz sax player Tom Chapin ’71 di
Page 17 and 18: Photos by Gil Talbot Mike Ebner ’
Page 19 and 20: TED Gives Birth at Andover I have a
Page 21 and 22: L ike Andover, Abbot Academy nurtur
Page 23 and 24: injury and to ensure compliance wit
Page 25 and 26: cacophonous fragmentation and confo
Page 27 and 28: ovative Transformative Home Home In
Page 29 and 30: P ers each student understands why.
Page 31 and 32: Lionel Delivigne Oscar Tang ’56 H
Page 33 and 34: is a lack of non sibi and greater s
Page 35 and 36: No one is in this room, however, no
Page 37 and 38: conference featuring leading minds
Page 39 and 40: Set in colonial Andover during the
Page 41 and 42: The Sugar Plum Fairy and the Prince
Page 43 and 44: attending pediatrician at Montefior
Page 45: (MS) 2 physics instructor (and curr
Page 49 and 50: with students and building lists th
Page 51 and 52: connection Six Receive Distinguishe
Page 53 and 54: Chicago Phillips Academy Alumni Eve
Page 55 and 56: Cancer and the Kidney: The Frontier
Page 57 and 58: Len Rubenstein The Enduring Importa

AndoverMagazineFrontWinter2013

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?