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TRANSITION AT THE TOP

A fter 15 years of academy leadership, Board of TrusteesPresident David M. Underwood ’54 conducted his finalweekend of meetings this spring. During the April

board meeting, members elected Oscar L. Tang ’56 to succeedUnderwood upon his retirement in June and chose Thomas C.Israel ’62 to step into Tang’s former role as treasurer.

Calling him “a brilliant and tireless leader,” Head ofSchool Barbara Landis Chase expressed gratitude toUnderwood for his hard work, generosity and wise counsel atthe school’s helm. “The election of Oscar Tang and TomIsrael,” she said, “continues Andover’s tradition of strongboard leadership. Both men have long demonstrated theirloyalty and generosity to this place. Experienced board mem-bers, they understand what makes the academy great andwhat needs to be done to make it even greater. They are wise,hardworking and totally committed to Andover. We are for-tunate indeed.”

Underwood, a West Texas resident, was educated at YaleUniversity and the Wharton School at the University ofPennsylvania. President and director of Feliciana Corpor-ation, a private investment firm, he has been a charter trusteesince 1983 and president of Andover’s board since 1989. Hechaired the search committee that recommended Chase ashead of school in 1993 and served as national chairman ofCampaign Andover. His lead gift of $10 million to that fund-raising endeavor facilitated the renovation of Cochran

Chapel, established the Underwood Teaching Foundationand supported other PA priorities. In 2003, he was giventhe Claude Moore Fuess Award, Andover’s highest recogni-tion, for volunteer and philanthropic activities in Houston,where he lives with his wife, Lynda.

Tang, whose family moved from China to New Yorkwhen he was 11, holds an engineering degree from Yale anda master’s degree in business administration from Harvard.He is a co-founder of Reich and Tang, an investment man-agement firm he headed as president and chief executiveofficer until 1993. The company is now part of the moneymanagement firm CDC IXIS. A charter trustee at PA since1995, he has served as treasurer of the board, AndoverDevelopment Board executive committee member and vicechair of Campaign Andover. His many gifts to the acad-emy, including $10 million to Campaign Andover and $5million to fund the Tang Theatre and to help restore theAbbot Academy campus in honor of his first wife, the lateFrances Young Tang ’57, make him the largest donor in PAhistory. Prior to Frances Tang’s death, the couple receivedthe Fuess Award for their considerable societal and philan-thropic contributions in New York. Tang and his wife,Argie, live in Manhattan.

“I am profoundly honored,” Tang said, “to assume thepresidency of a board I greatly admire at a school I deeplylove. Phillips Academy gave me my start in a new countryafter my family fled the Communist takeover of Shanghaiin 1949. I am eager to do what I can to ensure thatAndover continues to thrive as a vital, excellent school.”

Also a New Yorker and a Yale graduate, Israel is chair-man of a family investment firm, A.C. Israel Enterprises,and director and president of the A.C. Israel Foundation, afamily philanthropic organization. A charter trustee of theacademy since 1997, he has chaired the trustees’ audit com-mittee, served on the executive committee of the AndoverDevelopment Board and co-chaired the Greater New Yorkcampaign effort for Campaign Andover. Israel and his wife,Barbara, provided $6 million in campaign support to helpget the ball rolling for the funding of the academy’s newGelb Science Center. Part of a three-generation Andoverfamily, Israel is the son of the late Adrian “Ace” Israel ’32;father of Peter Israel ’94; brother of the late Andrew Israel’59; and uncle of James Israel ’86.

Other changes on the board include the retirement of16-year charter trustee Barbara Corwin Timken ’66; theelection of Stephen C. Sherrill ’71 as a charter trustee; theelection of alumni trustees Lucy Schulte Danziger ’78 andLouis G. Elson ’80; and the addition to the board ofClaudia Arrigg Koh ’67 as an alumni trustee. For more onthose transitions, see the Time & Treasure section.

1998 photo shows Head of School Barbara Chase with Oscar Tang (center) and David Underwood. Photo byLawrence Eagle Tribune.

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Summer 2004Volume 97/Number 4PublisherMichael EbnerInterim Secretary of the AcademyDirector of CommunicationsSharon BrittonEditorTheresa PeaseDirector of Editorial Services Art DirectorEllen HardyDirector of Design ServicesAssistant EditorsSharon MagnusonPaula TrespasClass Notes CoordinatorMaggie CarboneContributing WritersKennan DanielTana ShermanDesign and Production AssistantKennan DanielPublications CoordinatorJennifer BarczaPhotography: Lionel Delevingne, Ellen Hardy, Richard Schneider, J.D. Sloan, Bethany Versoy, Hope Zanes

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FEATURES

COMMENCEMENT 2004

2 Andover Launches the Class of 2004 by Tana Sherman

Drawing lessons from the new Gelb Science Center observatory, Head of School Barbara Landis Chase urges graduates to look to the skies.

4 Seniors from Every Quarterby Kennan Daniel, Tana Sherman and Paula Trespas

It takes all kinds to make an academy. Here, we highlight a few of the vibrant and varied personalities and backgrounds that went into building the Class of 2004.

15 WHAT’S UP? BROADENING ANDOVER’S REACHby Theresa Pease

Dean of Admission Jane Foley Fried sheds some light on recent Andover initiatives toward continuing to admit and support the most diverse and capable students possible.

19 THE ADDISON GETS A NEW LEADERA midlife career change took Brian Allen from the law offices and General Assembly of Connecticut to the galleries at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. Now, he moves to Andover’s Addison Gallery.

20 WHO’S HOT? BROTHERLY LOVEby Kennan Daniel

Their days as members of a popular band called the Del Fuegos are past, but music is still the tie that binds siblings Dan Zanes ’79 and Warren Zanes ’83 as they take center stage in surprising new careers.

24 GELB SCIENCE CENTER DEDICATEDThree weeks after its lead donor’s death, community members gather to celebrate Phillips Academy’s first new academic building in 40 years and to remember Richard L. Gelb ’41. For a tribute to benefactor Gelb, see the inside back cover.

26 ANDOVER REUNION 2004The 4’s and the 9’s create new memories and revel in old ones as they gather for Reunion Weekend. Additional photos of the gala weekend can be found throughout the Class Notes pages.

DEPARTMENTS28 Sports Talk

30 Time & Treasure

36 Alumni News

38 News Notes

39 Class Notes

86 In Memoriam

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by Tana Sherman

Amidst the jubilation of Phillips Academy’s 226th com-mencement, the 306 members of the Class of 2004—

153 boys and 153 girls—looked back at the traditions ofprevious generations and up to the sky.

“The spirit of our class lies in our ability to listen tomany voices,” School President Allegra B. Asplundh-Smith told her classmates and the 3,000 parents, facultyand friends who had gathered on the Great Lawn infront of Samuel Phillips Hall on a cool, overcast Sundaymorning June 6. “We learned how to fail, and thisseasoned and sweetened our successes.”

Asplundh-Smith had contacted alumni from theclasses ending in “4” for memories of their owncommencement and Andover experience. “Their gradu-ation captured their moment in history,” she said. Forexample, a member of the Class of 1944 remembered D-Day around the time of his commencement, while a1974 alumnus said politics and Watergate dominatedhis memories of graduation.

What are the memories the Class of 2004 shares?According to Asplundh-Smith, these include the firstsnow-day cancellation of classes in 30 years and two SuperBowl victories for the New England Patriots, tempered bythe bright, clear morning and consequent horror of thefirst day of classes their lower year, Sept. 11, 2001.

They also shared the excitement of raising moneythrough donations, an auction, and the sale of KrispyKreme doughnuts for their class gift. In a surpriseannouncement at the end of her address, Asplundh-Smith

Class of 2004:Looking back to alumni and up to the sky

and Amanda L. Senatore ’04 presented the Class of 2004Scholarship in honor of David M. Underwood ’54, retiringpresident of the Board of Trustees.

But some traditions remained the same for this classon commencement day. In a time-honored Andover tradi-tion, the graduation procession of faculty and students wasled by the stirring sounds of the Clan MacPherson Pipesand Drums of Lawrence, Mass. Boys wore suit coats andties; girls wore white dresses, and, in the tradition ofAbbot Academy, each carried a red rose. Sixty-twostudents were initiated into the Cum Laude Society, anational organization corresponding to the Phi BetaKappa Society in colleges, by retiring faculty membersHale Sturges and Jean St. Pierre.

In her address, Head of School Barbara Landis Chaseoffered three lessons to be learned from stars and planets sheobserved through the telescope in the new Gelb ScienceCenter. Like the rings of Saturn, “most people, things andideas we encounter in life prove to be much more compli-cated than we had at first thought,” she said.

Chase urged the students to consider what will serve astheir North Star or fixed point. “Whatever it is, it must liefar from the vicissitudes of fad and fashion, from the seduc-tion of fame and fortune for their own sake,” she said. “Itmust be something so strong that it asks a lot of us.”

Comparing the Class of 2004 to the Hercules StarCluster, Chase said, “We are not just a random group ofpeople. We have come together and we go out into theworld together because we believe in certain things: in hard

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COMMENCEMENT ’04

(Top) Phillipian staff members sell thespecial Commencement edition of the stu-dent newspaper to families and friends ofthe graduates. (Bottom) Three generationsof the Kingery family from Portland,Ore., include (from left) father John '75,sister Lillian '02, Robert "Scout" '04 andgrandfather Frederick "Ted" '45.

(Top) The Clay familyfrom Ellicott City,Md., celebrates thegraduation of Thatcher'04. Pictured here(from left) are brotherAndrew '08, sisterTiffany, father Peter'74, Thatcher, motherKathleen and grand-mother Mary Jane.(Bottom) Head ofSchool Barbara LandisChase (fourth fromleft) congratulatesaward winners (fromleft) Ryan Chapoteau,Non Sibi Award;Adam Kapor, FacultyPrize; Jenny Wong,Madame Sarah AbbotAward; MatthewGarza, AurelianHonor Society Award;and Cory Schneider, Yale Bowl.

(Top) Day students (from left) PoojaSripad, Ariel Gold, Michelle Easton andAmanda Green are filled with smiles andlaughter on commencement day. (Bottom)School president Allegra Asplundh-Smith(left) and Amanda Senatore surpriseDavid M. Underwood, retiring presidentof the Board of Trustees, with the presentation of the Class of 2004Scholarship in his honor.

work, in the search for excellence, in ‘youth from every quarter,’ in the needfor goodness and knowledge, and in living a life of non sibi, not for self.”

Chase announced five major prizes awarded to outstanding membersof the graduating class:

• Ryan C. Chapoteau of Jamaica, N.Y., received the Non Sibi Award,given to a student who has honored Phillips Academy’s non sibi tradi-tion through efforts on behalf of others.

• Cory F. Schneider (see page 29) of Marblehead, Mass., received theYale Bowl, given to the member of the senior class who has attainedthe highest proficiency in scholarship and athletics.

• Adam J. Kapor of Brookline, Mass., received the Faculty Prize foroutstanding scholarship during the senior year.

• Jenny Wong of Newton, Mass., received the Madame Sarah AbbotAward, given to a young woman for strong character, leadership andoutstanding scholarship.

• Matthew J. Garza of Stockton, Calif., received the Aurelian HonorSociety Award for sterling character, high scholarship and forcefulleadership.

The Phillips Academy Class of 2004 will matriculate at a total of 108four-year colleges and universities. Top choices, accounting for more thana third of the class, include: Harvard, 17; Brown, 15; Columbia and Yale,10 each; Johns Hopkins and New York University, 9 each; Cornell,Northwestern and University of Pennsylvania, 8 each; Georgetown, MITand Princeton, 7 each.

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Seniors from Every QuarterSeniors from Every QuarterFrom its earliest beginnings, Phillips Academy has, in the words of its founders,

struggled to provide “Youth from every quarter” with unparalleled educational

opportunities. Still, even the founders may not have envisioned how literally their

words would be interpreted as the academy’s student body grew from a cluster of

13 young New England men to a community of more than 1,000 girls and boys from

a huge range of backgrounds. The diversity—religious, ethnic, national, gender,

socioeconomic, cultural and intellectual—is something we today take for granted.

As you read about a few of this year’s seniors, give some thought to how young

people from “every quarter” mix at Andover to help create and enrich an excitingly

deep and broad learning environment.

From its earliest beginnings, Phillips Academy has, in the words of its founders,

struggled to provide “Youth from every quarter” with unparalleled educational

opportunities. Still, even the founders may not have envisioned how literally their

words would be interpreted as the academy’s student body grew from a cluster of

13 young New England men to a community of more than 1,000 girls and boys from

a huge range of backgrounds. The diversity—religious, ethnic, national, gender,

socioeconomic, cultural and intellectual—is something we today take for granted.

As you read about a few of this year’s seniors, give some thought to how young

people from “every quarter” mix at Andover to help create and enrich an excitingly

deep and broad learning environment.

Profiles by Kennan Daniel, Tana Sherman and Paula Trespas

Photographs by Lionel Delevingne

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WarnerEARLY BEGINNINGS The only pet Warner Robinson’s parents wouldn’t let him keep intheir home on the island of Jamaica was a cat—his sister was allergic—so he raised hermitcrabs, rabbits, chickens, newts, dogs, frogs, birds and fish instead. Birds and fish especially.“Everyone at the pet store knew me,” he says, “because I knew what days the new fisharrived, and I would hustle to get the best ones.” As his passion grew, one bird turned into19, and his father made him build an aviary.

WHAT BROUGHT HIM TO ANDOVER? Though both his brother and sister attendedboarding school, Robinson wasn’t enthusiastic about the idea. “I always thought ofboarding school as a bad thing—some place you were sent as punishment,” he says. But at15 he followed in his sister’s footsteps and came to Andover. “I know now that my parentsjust wanted better opportunities for me,” he says.

HIS ROLE IN THE ACADEMY A serious kung fu artist who could often be found trainingalone at night in front of Oliver Wendell Holmes Library, Robinson was co-president ofPA’s Martial Arts Club and for four semesters taught the sport to other students as part of aphysical education class four times a week. “You have to be very disciplined and focused todo kung fu correctly,” he says. “It’s dancelike. The different poses (eagle, monkey, dragon)fit my personality well because I’m an animal guy.”

PLANS AND DREAMS Robinson, who can recite facts about practically any tropical fishoff the top of his head and who speaks lovingly about his fish and parrots back home inJamaica, plans to major in biology at the University of Pennsylvania. He’s thinking aboutveterinary school, but is leaning toward either becoming an ornithologist or an ichthyolo-gist. “I’m so particular when it comes to animals,” he says. “I’ll probably spend the rest ofmy life trying to find the perfect fish.” —KD

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KaterinaDehart

EARLY BEGINNINGS When Katerina Dehartwas 10 years old, she and her mother packed uptheir belongings, said goodbye to family andfriends and headed north to the unknown.Leaving behind the wealthy suburbs of Dallas,they went to start a new and simpler life inLivingston, Mont., population 7,000. “We weretired of the big city,” says Dehart, whosemother’s rise up the corporate ladder had left lit-tle time for the two of them to spend together.In Montana, her mother got a lower-paying jobas a bookkeeper, and they both made church anewly important part of their lives.

WHAT BROUGHT HER TO ANDOVER? Ather small school in Livingston, Dehart wasunimpressed by her peers’ lack of motivation. “Iwas practically the only person in my class whodid homework,” she says. Buoyed by her mother’sconfidence in her, she hopped on the Internet,looked up boarding schools and applied to five,including Andover. “I want to be around otherpeople who want to learn,” she says. She choseAndover because it offered her a full scholarshipand the chance to study Japanese.

HER ROLE IN THE ACADEMY With herstrong religious background, Dehart found herniche among Andover’s most faithful. She servedfor two years as co-head of C.H.I.L.L.(Christianity Happening in Living Life) and wasa board member for this year’s InterfaithSymposium, organized to create dialogue on therole of religion in world events, internationalconflicts and the roadblocks to peace. “I have areally good friend who is Muslim, and our discus-sions about religion have been some of the bestI’ve ever had,” she says. “I never would havefound that in Livingston.”

PLANS AND DREAMS Dehart will attend theUniversity of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash.,this fall and hopes to study abroad in Japan.She will continue to study Japanese, but plansto major in psychology. She has consideredreturning to Livingston to do social work andhelp broaden the opportunities available toothers in her hometown. —KD

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EARLY BEGINNINGS International politicsdominated dinner-table discussions as WillScharf, the youngest son in an Orthodox Jewishfamily, grew up on Manhattan’s Park Avenue.With his American father, Michael Scharf ’60,who is in the steel industry, and British mother,he spent a year in London at age 7, enjoying timewith his grandfather, a prominent figure in theinternational diamond industry.

WHAT BROUGHT HIM TO ANDOVER?Passionate about history and wanting an intel-lectually stimulating environment, Scharf says,“Andover was the only school I considered.” Healso connected with the nearby OrthodoxChabad congregation, where he attends servicesand studies the Talmud. He observes Jewishdietary laws, with the help of weekly packagesfrom home.

HIS ROLE IN THE ACADEMY Scharf did twoindependent projects, was an Abbot Scholar andspent two summers as a research assistant to ahistorian studying the Battle of the Atlantic—allto pursue intense research on British Admiral

Max Horton, whom he describes as “one of the people responsible for winning WorldWar II.” Scharf also is co-head of Model UN, active in student government and athree-sport cluster athlete. As Blue Key head, he led the cheers at Andover footballgames, cognizant that he was following in the footsteps of another PA cheerleader, George W. Bush ’64.

PLANS AND DREAMS Scharf wants to add to the 150 pages he has written so farabout Admiral Horton, especially since there has been no biography published since1953. He will attend Princeton University, which he describes as “very writing ori-ented.” Planning to major in history or politics, he is considering three careers: busi-ness, politics and education. —TS

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EARLY BEGINNINGS A “faculty brat” whohas spent his entire life at PA, Alex Thorn was,in a sense, king of the castle this year. “I’m an18-year senior,” he says.

WHAT BROUGHT HIM TO ANDOVER?Growing up in Bishop Hall, the son of Englishinstructor Craig Thorn used to look at PA stu-dents and think, “This is my campus, notyours.” After all, he had his own Saturday after-noon radio show on PA’s student-run radio sta-tion, WPAA, when he was only in sixth grade.Early on, there was no doubt in Thorn’s mindPA was the place for him.

HIS ROLE IN THE ACADEMY Thorn is thepied piper of his peers—a young man who, on awhim, can rally students together for a com-mon purpose, be it Toga Day or a basketballgame. “I think it’s because I walk with my chinup and I know how and when to stretch therules,” he says. He became one of the mostinfluential student voices on campus, in part bywriting commentary for The Phillipian, editingBacktracks magazine and serving as generalmanager of WPAA—an assignment perfectlysuited to a rap artist like himself. “Rapping isjust another way for me to express myself,” hesays. “It’s easier to get your point across and getrespect if you start with an accessible medium.”

PLANS AND DREAMS Thorn is headed toNashville in the fall, not to sign with a record label, but to attend VanderbiltUniversity, where he plans to study English literature and government. He also aspiresto go to law school. “I want to be a senator or a member of the House ofRepresentatives,” he says, “and someday, I want to come back here and be a trustee.”In the meantime, he says, he’ll settle for class secretary. —KD

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COMMENCEMENT ’04

EARLY BEGINNINGS Emma Etheridge, theonly child of an African-American mother andan Irish-American father, was born in Orlando,Fla., where her mother was stationed in theArmy. Mother and daughter moved to Lawrence,Mass., to be nearer extended family whenEtheridge was 12. There she found joy in theNew Life Christian Community Church and ajob at a Marshall’s store in nearby Methuen,where she worked throughout high school. “Ineeded to save for college,” she says.

WHAT BROUGHT HER TO ANDOVER? As astudent at Lawrence High School, where she saysshe was “not particularly challenged,” Etheridgespent her off hours on Andover Hill hanging outwith her best friend, who was attending PA at thetime. As eager as she was to apply to Andover,she first decided to attend PA’s summer session.The next fall she entered Andover as a 10-graderon full scholarship.

HER ROLE IN THE ACADEMY Etheridge wasa board member of the Ambassadors, a groupthat conducts campus tours for the admissionoffice. She also supervised and monitored stu-dents as a dorm proctor. Through a course inAndover’s art department, she developed a pas-sion for photography. Last summer she wasawarded the Martin Luther King Jr. grantthrough PA’s Summer Opportunities program totravel to Ghana, where she worked in a healthclinic’s maternity ward in a small fishing vil-lage. The experience ignited a deep love forAfrica and helping those in need, especially ina public health setting.

PLANS AND DREAMS “I never thought about going into the healthprofession before my trip to Ghana,” she says. But after taking the tripand reading the biography Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder’63, assigned by her microbiology teacher, she made up her mind. “Iwant to be Paul Farmer,” she says, referring to the book’s protagonist,who started Partners in Health, a free health-care service in Haiti. Shewill explore the idea of working in public health at Trinity College inConnecticut, but will begin her studies in psychology. —PT

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LeahRussell

EARLY BEGINNINGS Leah Russell grew up in Andover with a dad who worked as a businessconsultant and a landscape designer mom. But when she was 13, a three-week vacation in Chinachanged her life. “I loved everything about China,” she says. “The people were so sincere, genuineand welcoming.”

WHAT BROUGHT HER TO ANDOVER? Her passion ignited, Russell came to PA to study Chinese.“Dr. Yuan Han, the chair of the Chinese department, has been so supportive and encouraging,” shesays. “I like being a day student because I still spend a lot of time with my family.”

HER ROLE IN THE ACADEMY Winner of the 2004 Richard Jewett Schweppe Prize, awarded inrecognition of “an unusual spirit of cooperation and friendliness,” Russell was the teaching assistantfor 19 faculty members learning Chinese in preparation for a trip to China this summer. She devel-oped a Web site with vocabulary sound files and hosted a weekly Chinese table in Commons. Shealso tutored beginning Chinese language students at PA, and she participated in Andover ChineseCultural Outreach, which provides activities for local adopted Chinese children. Behind the scenes,she helped with costumes for several PA theatre and dance productions.

PLANS AND DREAMS “I have been thinking a lot about being a teacher,” says Russell. She willstudy Chinese at Oxford University in England, including both traditional and simplified writingsystems, modern and ancient Chinese, history and culture. Her family plans to meet her in Chinafor monthlong school vacations in December and March. She hopes to be a translator for the2008 Beijing Olympics. After Oxford, Russell would like to return to Andover as a teaching fel-low. “It makes it easier to leave PA if I feel I’m coming back,” she says. —TS

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EugeneKim

EARLY BEGINNINGS Unlike many accomplished musicians, Eugene Kim doesn’t come from a musicalfamily, but as a child he was surrounded by music. His parents, trained in Korea as pharmacists, took him tosymphony concerts and music lessons in Fresno, Calif., beginning at age 7.

WHAT BROUGHT HIM TO ANDOVER? A friend of Kim’s older sister, returning home from six weeks atPhillips Academy’s Summer Session, told the Kim family, “If I could do it all over again, I would go toAndover.” After learning more, Kim reports all he could say was, “Wow!” His mother credits him withmaking all the decisions and doing everything it took to get into Andover entirely on his own.

HIS ROLE IN THE ACADEMY Kim has been co-concertmaster of the academy’s Symphony Orchestra fortwo years and in May was the recipient of the Ainsworth Jones Orchestra Prize. Music instructor WilliamThomas has called him “a brilliant violinist.” Involved in community service since childhood, Kim co-founded Andover-Korean Outreach, a program in which local families who have adopted Korean childrenare matched with student volunteers who teach them Korean culture. A co-leader of the Andover-Lawrence Community String Program, which brings Lawrence inner-city kids to PA for music instructions,he gives weekly violin lessons to a Lawrence charter school student.

PLANS AND DREAMS “I’m going to Yale with a completely open mind as far as what career I’ll pursue,”Kim says. He’s excited about being close to his sister, who graduated from Yale in May and who plans to stayin New Haven to work on an advanced degree. Although he has decided not to follow a concert career, hedoes say he’ll play in Yale’s symphony orchestra, and music will be part of his life forever. —PT

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LaurieIgnacio

EARLY BEGINNINGS The baby of a large, close-knit family whose parents immigrated tothe United States from Oaxaca, Mexico, Ignacio grew up in a bilingual household, speakingSpanish at home and English at school. Her neighborhood in East Los Angeles was popu-lated by families much like her own. It was only during her afternoons at a magnet schoolthat Ignacio encountered cultural diversity.

WHAT BROUGHT HER TO ANDOVER? Ignacio entered a program for gifted students whenshe was in fourth grade. By seventh grade, she was writing articles about the negative effects ofgraffiti for a newspaper she and her friends started. “I got teased for being smart, and I was prob-ably a little arrogant,” she says. Unchallenged academically, Ignacio applied to boarding school.“My mom didn’t want me to leave home at 13, but she never said I couldn’t go,” says Ignacio.

HER ROLE IN THE ACADEMY After a brief bout of culture shock—she’d never seen somuch brick or so many L.L. Bean backpacks—Ignacio made it a priority to fit in. She triedcrew for a year and JV swimming for two; joined debate; played trumpet in the AcademyBand; served as a student coordinator for SIS, a community service program that mentorsgirls from Lawrence; and was elected cluster president of Pine Knoll her senior year. “I’ll tryanything once,” she says.

PLANS AND DREAMS Ignacio will return to the West Coast to attend Pomona College,where she hopes to study international relations. Eventually she’ll settle in East Los Angeles,where last summer she worked with a city councilwoman to understand better the needs ofher community. “That’s home,” she says. “I always knew I would go back. I want to play a sig-nificant role in my neighborhood by funding programs for the arts. I want to show kids thatthere’s so much more out there.” —KD

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EARLY BEGINNINGS Ieva Chaleckyte began life in a one-room apartment in Communist-controlled Vilnius,Lithuania. The family shared a kitchen and bathroom with a floor full of other residents of the Soviet-style con-crete apartment block. Lithuanian folk dancing was her passion as a child, but after injuring her feet practicingfor hours a day she had to give it up.

WHAT BROUGHT HER TO ANDOVER?After completing grade eight at theAmerican International School inVilnius, Chaleckyte had to make a deci-sion about high school. When the schoolsecretary suggested boarding schools inthe United States, Chaleckyte applied toand was accepted at all the top schools.She chose Andover for its varied anddemanding academic curriculum. On fullfinancial aid, she is the first student fromLithuania to attend the school.

HER ROLE IN THE ACADEMY Whenshe first came to Andover, a prefect inher dorm made her transition to life inAmerica easier. Later Chaleckyte servedas prefect—a senior in a junior dorm whoacts as a stand-in for the house counselor.At Andover, Chaleckyte’s newfound pas-sion for economics led her to apply for achallenging position as an AbbotScholar. Her paper, presented in May,was titled “United States–EuropeanUnion Economic Relations.” Herresearch was extensive. “I spent the bet-ter part of spring break crunching booksat the Library of Congress,” she says.

PLANS AND DREAMS At Harvard,Chaleckyte will probably continuestudying the EU–U.S. relationship.After she gets her degree, she plans toreturn to her home country and studyLithuania’s role in the EU and how thatrole affects Lithuania’s relationship withthe United States. —PT

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EARLY BEGINNINGS As a small, shy middle-schooler in San Mateo, Calif., Sarah Sherman became the “bossy”coxswain—the steersman of a racing shell who directs the rowers—for a men’s masters crew team. Six morningsa week she awoke at 4:45 a.m. for practice, winning medals with the older athletes from the start. After school,she sang with the San Francisco Girls Chorus. Starting flying lessons at 14, she took her first solo flight beforeshe had her driver’s license.

WHAT BROUGHT HER TO ANDOVER? Sherman’s roots in Phillips Academy are deep. She’s the 27th member ofher extended family—including father William Sherman ’60 and sisters Jennifer ’83 and Andrea ’86—to graduatefrom Phillips or Abbot since 1884. When she visited as a prospective student, crew coach Peter Washburn askedcurrent rowers to show her around campus; she was convinced she’d found her place.

HER ROLE IN THE ACADEMY As coxswain of the boys’ crew team, Sherman says, “I enjoyed the break from thebustle and stress of campus life when I went to the river for practice every afternoon.” A recording of her callinglast year’s interscholastic crew championship, on the Andover Web site at www.andover.edu/admission/push/crew/,exudes excitement and drama. In the classroom, she excelled at math and science, particularly physics, and was amember of the Engineering Club. She also helped middle school girls conduct scientific experiments throughScience Club for Girls, a PA community service program.

PLANS AND DREAMS Sherman hasn’t decided which of three dreams she will pursue: NASA aerospace engineer,NASA test pilot or commercial pilot. At Princeton University, she plans to study mechanical and aerospace engi-neering and to continue indulging her passion for crew. “It would be cool to be in the Olympics,” she says. —TS

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The Office of Admission is charged with identifying and assembling the most qualified and diversepossible student body for Andover and administering the financial aid that enables those students to

attend. This fall, in spite of tough financial times and a demographic downturn in the school-age population,the academy will once again welcome an incoming class of talent, promise and diversity. Here, Dean ofAdmission Jane Fried talks with Andover Bulletin editor Theresa Pease about how new recruitment initiativesand financial aid resources helped her and her colleagues bring it all together.

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WHAT’S UP?

What’s up in the admission office? We are well settled into our newShuman Admission Center andhave just completed recruiting andadmitting an exciting new group ofstudents. Besides drawing studentswho rank at the top of their middleand high schools in grades and testscores, we were able to attractchildren from a wider geographicrange than usual. I’m particularly

still think of boarding school as aplace you send troubled kids who donot have the ability to succeedlocally. To cite some statistics, ouryield of admitted students—that is,the number of admitted studentswho ultimately chose to matriculateat Andover—was 73 percent, whichis as high as it’s ever been. Our daystudent yield was 91 percent, andour yield of boarding students went

delighted that, due in part to anincreased travel program andmailings targeted through academictalent-search organizations, we hada significant increase in studentsfrom the middle of the country.Seventeen students will join us fromstates like Arkansas, Iowa, Utah,Kansas and Oklahoma—placeswhere few people have heard ofPhillips Academy and where they

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from 66 percent in 2003 to 70percent in 2004. What’s more, arecord 83 percent of black andHispanic students said yes toAndover—up from 71 percent lastyear—as did 100 percent of thestudents we admitted through talentidentification programs. Finally,from the “Admit 6” level—thestudents who get the highest ratingin our admission process—thematriculation rate was a satisfying73 percent.

From a marketing viewpoint, whataspects of Andover draw them soeagerly?

I believe the first thing studentsfocus on is the academic reputationof the school. They appreciate thequality of the faculty, the variety ofcourses one can take and the flexi-bility to do things like taking twoyears of a language in one year orbeing involved in what some peoplefeel is a conservatory-quality musicprogram while also getting a top-notch education. Then they look atthe vast array of extracurricular andcommunity service opportunitieshere, as well as the comfortable,non-hierarchical social context, andthey realize this is a place wherethey not only would like to learn,but would like to live. But theacademic rigor is the hook thatmakes kids jump into our inquirypool, remain interested andultimately select Andover.

Doesn’t Andover always do well inthe competition for great students?

Yes, but this year was particularlychallenging because of thedemographics. Private schoolsoverall have been experiencing amarked decrease in inquiries and

applicants. In Boston, some of thetop private elementary schoolapplications are off by 40 percent.One reason is the softening of theeconomy. Another is the fact thatthere was a dip in U.S. birthsaround 1990—there are literallyfewer kids out there. In spite ofthis , we managed to keep thenumber of completed applicationsstable, with a 14 percent increasein inquiries. This compares with a25 percent drop in inquiries theprevious year, along with a 7percent drop in applications.

How did you manage to turn thataround?

Andover will always have enoughapplicants, numerically, to fill itsapplication targets. But in order toretain the quality and variety ofincoming students—to form a classthat’s uniform in excellence, butdiverse in talents, interests,ethnicity and socioeconomicmeasures, among others—wedecided to go forward this year withan all-out effort to broaden thereach for Andover. What’s more,the Board of Trustees made animportant decision in January toaddress the affordability of anAndover education and to decreasethe number of students we have toturn down because of financial need.

What actions did the trustees take?

First the trustees set a 2004–05tuition rate of $31,160 for boardingstudents, holding the tuitionincrease to only 3.5 percent, whichis lower than in recent years anddramatically lower than ourcompetitors’ tuition increases.Second, the board agreed toincrease the financial aid budget

from just under $9 million to morethan $9.7 million. They were ableto do this without eroding theendowment unduly for two reasons.One is that the endowment declineof the past few years has begun toreverse itself; the other is that theimpact of increased fund raisingand an internal shift in prioritieshave combined to allow thetrustees to redirect spending fromother areas to financial aid.

To translate this into people, lastyear we had only 119 new studentson financial aid, but this year wehave 148. For many years we had40 percent of our student body onaid, but over the past few years thatnumber had dropped to 36.5percent. This was not because ofany cut in the financial aid budget,but because as the tuition climbedstudents qualified for larger grants,so we could fund fewer of them.Thanks to the Board of Trusteesand the endowment gains madeduring Campaign Andover, we areback up to about 39 percent thisyear, and we expect to return to the40 percent mark next year. To putit another way, we increased finan-cial aid from about 29 percent oftuition revenue to about 30.8percent. Because of this, we wereable to more than cut in half thenumber of admitted students whomwe had to pull out of the pool forfinancial reasons.

Can you explain the process of“pulling” admitted students fromthe pool?

We have a long, complex admissionprocess that considers previousschool achievement, test scores,interests, talents and issues ofgeographic and cultural diversity,

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I think many readers might assumefinancial aid students come fromonly the bottom income bands.

People don’t often realize that, astuitions climb, families with annualincomes of $80,000 to $100,000 ayear actually qualify for significantgrants. People think of them ascomfortably “middle class.” Butwhen you’re looking at an annualtuition rate of $31,160, and youbear in mind that the applicant’s

family may have more thanone child, may have substan-tial mortgages, and may haveto worry about other tuitionsfor secondary schools orcolleges, that $80,000doesn’t go very far at all.

When you say the financialaid draw is at 30.8 percent oftuition revenue, what doesthat mean?

What it doesn’t mean—andthis is something we findourselves explaining repeat-edly—is that we take 30.8percent of incoming tuitiondollars and spend them onfinancial aid. Reckoningfinancial aid expenditures asa percentage of tuitionrevenue is merely a conve-nient way of measuring our

commitment year by year and incomparison with other schools.Families who are paying the fullcost of tuition are not supple-menting others; in fact, their ownchildren are being subsidized,because the true cost of educatingeach Andover student is about$52,000 a year, so in effect eachstudent gets a nearly $20,000 schol-arship, even before any financialaid is applied. The difference comesfrom earnings on the academy’s

among other factors. Each student isrequired to have an interview eitherhere in the admission office or inthe student’s home area by either atraveling admission officer or alocal alumni volunteer. By the timethe process is complete, five people,including me, have read each foldercarefully. Students are assigned anumerical index of 0–6, with sixbeing the highest. At that point,we separate the applications intothose who are clearly admissibleand those who are not. Thenwe look at certain distribu-tion measures to make surewe are meeting the diverseneeds of the school: Wecan’t admit a class made upentirely of hockey goalies, orentirely of cellists, orentirely of people fromsuburban New York andBoston. With these criteriain mind, we winnow downthe accepted pool from allthose who are admissible tothose whom we would like toadmit to achieve a classthat’s balanced from avariety of perspectives.

But we’re still notdone. At that point,Director of Financial AidJim Ventre ’79 calculates theamount of financial need, estimatesthe probable yield of acceptedstudents within each category, andtells me how much we havetheoretically overspent. Last year,we had to remove 52 students with$1.1 million in need and replacethem with other admissiblestudents who could pay full price.This year, I’m happy to report, wehad to “pull” only 24 first-roundadmits with $584,000 in need. Westill want to reduce this number!

Do you automatically pull thosewith the greatest need?

Not at all. All the admission officersgather to take a careful look at eachcandidate on a case-by-case basis.We look again at the numericalratings, giving top consideration tothose with a “6” rating. We also re-examine individual talents andinterests and assess how they fit theneeds of the school. Remember, weare trying to shape a class that’s

balanced by gender, by geographicalbackground, by day and boarding,and by what they can contribute tothe life and culture of the academy.Finally, we strive for a socioeco-nomic balance, so we pull peoplefrom across the financial aidspectrum. Thus the process impactspeople across a wide range ofincome bands.

WHAT’S UP?

“I’m particularly delighted that we had a significant

increase in students from themiddle of the country.

Seventeen students will join usfrom states like Arkansas,Iowa, Utah, Kansas and

Oklahoma—places where few people have heard of Phillips Academy.”

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endowment, which is currentlyvalued at more than $500 million,and from other philanthropy. Onthe financial aid side, 80 percent ofour budget is endowed. The other20 percent comes from theacademy’s operating funds andyearly current-use gifts.

How do you imagine the financialaid budget evolving in thefuture, and what roles canalumni and parents play?

The ideal scenario would beto see the financial aid budget100 percent endowed. That’snot an unrealistic goal, giventhat Campaign Andoverdoubled the financial aidendowment from its previous40 percent level. Potentialbenefactors who cannotafford to establish anendowed scholarship fund canmake a difference throughcurrent-use gifts. They may,for example, elect to supportthe cost of one student’sentire Andover education.

Given the number of bothtalented and affluent studentsinterested in attending Andover,why is financial aid so important?

Extending the benefits of anAndover education to “youth fromevery quarter” has always beencentral to the academy’s mission.When Phillips Academy asked thefaculty to help set some budgetpriorities last year, they listed finan-cial aid as one of their top threepriorities for the school. We are nowinvolved in a strategic planningprocess, and I know the strategicplanning committee members arefocused on the accessibility of an

Andover education for talentedstudents from across the socioeco-nomic spectrum. It is inevitable thatfinancial aid objectives will play abig part in future fund-raisingefforts.

Is anyone advocating for a goal ofbeing completely need-blind?

That’s a standard people always talk

about trying to achieve. If any ofour peer schools has achieved it, Idon’t know about it. And, to tellyou the truth, being need-blind isnot necessarily the ultimate goal initself. You have to look at the largercontext. For example, if a schooldrew most of its applicants from thewealthier sectors and a few fromamong the very poor, it might besaid to have “need blind” admis-sion. A chart of its financial aiddistribution, however, would looklike a barbell, with a few full schol-arships at the poorer end, a lot ofvery small scholarships at the

wealthier end and virtually nothingin the middle. In other words, aschool can be “need-blind” and stillhave very little economic diversity,depending on who applies. AtAndover, we draw applicants inrelatively equal proportions fromacross the financial spectrum, andwe have one of the most diversestudent bodies imaginable.

Are there any particularmessages you would like todeliver to Bulletin readers?

Yes! The first is that wehighly value their extraordi-nary philanthropic support.Andover would not be theschool it is today without itsdistinguished history ofaccess to all classes in society.Another key message,though, is that we stronglyneed more alumni admissionrepresentatives, particularlyin areas off the beaten path.We need people who canhelp identify and recruitlocal talent, make contactsfor us within area school sys-tems and interview students

in their home regions. We needalumni who are willing to talk topotential students and tell themwhat boarding school was like forthem and how it contributed totheir lives.

I can’t tell you how helpful it isfor a family in a remote area to havea chance to interview withoutdriving hundreds of miles, or to beable to contact a local alumnus oralumna and say, “Tell us aboutAndover.”

“The Board of Trustees made an important decision to

address the affordability of an Andover education

and to decrease the number of students we

have to turn down because of financial need.”

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When the Addison Galleryreopens after its usual August

hiatus, it will be with a new director inplace. Brian T. Allen, formerly directorof collections and exhibitions andcurator of American art at the Sterlingand Francine Clark Art Institute inWilliamstown, Mass., was selected inMay to succeed Adam D. Weinberg,who left the Addison to become direc-tor of the Whitney Museum ofAmerican Art in New York.

In making the appointment,Head of School Barbara Chase said,“Brian Allen has a deep knowledge ofAmerican art, extensive curatorialexperience and an appreciation forthe power of art to teach. These traitsmake him a particularly good matchfor the Addison.”

A Connecticut native, Allenreceived a B.A. degree in governmentand history from Wesleyan Universityin 1978 and a J.D. degree from theUniversity of Connecticut School ofLaw in 1982. He practiced law for twoyears with the firm of Day, Berry &Howard in Hartford, then worked aschief of staff to the president pro temporeand minority leader of the ConnecticutGeneral Assembly until a midlife careerchange put him on a new track.

“I’d gone to college,” Allenexplains, “expecting to become anattorney, and I did so happily. But as Igot older, my interests evolved. Ifound myself spending more timereading about art and traveling to visitart museums. I was fascinated by thehistory of collection. Finally, I took agraduate-level evening course atWesleyan on Minoan art, and I lovedit. Eventually I went back to schooland earned an M.A. degree in arthistory from Williams College and aPh.D. degree in art history from Yale.”

Since 1997, Allen has worked atthe Clark, which is known for itsoutstanding collections of Europeanand American painting and sculpture,master prints and drawings, Englishsilver and porcelain, and earlyphotographs. Closely affiliated withWilliams College, the Clark alsohouses the Williams-Clark GraduateProgram in the History of Art, theWilliamstown Art ConservationCenter and one of the finest art refer-ence libraries in the world.

At the Clark, Allen oversawexhibition and educational offeringsand directed collection developmentefforts in collaboration with othercurators. He participated in long-

term planning initiatives and a newbuilding program and organizedshows on subjects as disparate as 19thcentury American art, contemporaryarchitecture, French painting andOld Master drawings.

At the Addison, Allen will be incharge of all phases of museumoperation, from the exhibitionschedule and collection developmentto community outreach activities andcollaborative art education program-ming within the academy. He willalso oversee Andover’s outstandingElson Artist-in-Residence programand work on fund-raising efforts tiedto the gallery’s strategic plan.

Expressing pleasure at his selec-tion, Allen said, “The Addison hasan extraordinary collection and anadventurous and distinguishedexhibition program, as well as highstandards in curatorial work, exhibi-tions and educational programming.The Addison offers a director rareopportunities—the chance to workwith and continue to build anoutstanding collection, to engagewith students and teachers and tocollaborate with museums, schoolsand living artists both nationally andinternationally.”

Allen was selected from a pool ofmore than 60 candidates during anine-month search by an advisorycommittee of administrators andalumni. Committee member CarrollDunham ’67, a noted New Yorkartist, said, “The Addison is fortu-nate to have Brian Allen as its newdirector. He has the perfect combina-tion of skill and experience for thisphase of the museum’s history.” gg

The Addison gets a new leader

BrotherlyLove

Music is the tie that binds former Del Fuegos Dan

and Warren Zanes.

by Kennan Daniel

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In the 1980s, the Del Fuegos wasa Boston band known for playing

the most, dancing the most, drinkingthe most and staying up the latest ata time when guitar rock was goingout of style. These were guys whoshared a stage with Bruce Spring-steen and INXS and who werenamed by Rolling Stone magazine as1984’s best new band. So it’s proba-bly an unexpected boon to formerfans of the now-defunct quartet tohear that, nearly 15 years after theband broke up, lead singer DanZanes ’79 and guitarist WarrenZanes ’83 still rock.

While many stars burn out aftera couple of decades and retire intheir 40s, never to be heard fromagain, the Zanes brothers matured as men and musicians, bothchanneling their musical talent intosuccessful, yet surprising, careers. Amodern-day Pete Seeger, Dan writesand performs what critics often referto as children’s songs but what helikes to call “all-ages music” topacked houses across the country.Warren has found his niche as anacademic in charge of music educa-tion at the Rock and Roll Hall ofFame in Cleveland.

Starting out togetherBorn in New Hampshire, Dan andWarren spent a lot of time as kidsat Phillips Academy visiting theiruncle Chris Cook, who wasdirector of the Addison Gallery ofAmerican Art from 1968–1988,and their cousins.

“We thought our cousins had aparticularly blessed existence,” saysWarren. “We thought of Andover asa huge playground, so when ourmother told us we were free to goaway to boarding school if we couldget scholarships, we knew where wewanted to go.”

Neither was involved informal music instruction at PA, butboth had small bands on the side.While Dan excelled academically,Warren hovered at the bottom ofhis class and cringed whenevergrades were posted in GeorgeWashington Hall.

After graduation, Dan enrolledat Oberlin College in Ohio, withplans to start a band. “That was thereason I went to college,” he says.

At Oberlin, Dan linked upmusically with Tom Lloyd ’79. Later,they recruited drummer SteveMorell, whose father, Clem Morell,had taught math at PA, and in 1981the trio became the Del Fuegos.

“We thought the name DelFuegos made us sound like a doo-wop band, and we were all foranything that associated us with1950s-style music,” says Dan.

In need of a fourth member,Dan asked Warren to join the Del

Fuegos when Warren was only 17,recognizing in him a free-spiritedapproach to life that Dan felt wouldbe valuable to the group. Warren,who figured the experience wouldgive him a chance to meet “amillion girls,” replied with anunequivocal yes.

In 1984, after the release oftheir first album, “The LongestDay,” Rolling Stone named the DelFuegos “Best New Band,” and inthe years following the group wenton to play with music legends likeZZ Top and Tom Petty. Dan says henever questioned the group’s abilityto be successful.

“We were so naïve,” he says.“From the very beginning weassumed we’d make records. Wethought, ‘This will be our career.’ Idon’t think it was arrogance, wejust didn’t know what the obsta-cles were. We figured it was meantto be.”

In 1987, when the band was atits peak, Warren left the Del Fuegosto write music on his own.

Going their separate waysAfter leaving the Del Fuegos at age23, Warren moved to New Orleansto concentrate on writing songs, butlanded in school instead. To impressa woman he says he was “obsessedwith,” he pulled out a map of NewOrleans, picked the school closest towhere he lived—Loyola Univ-ersity—and headed over to theadmission office. “I told them I hadgone to Andover and they said that

WHO’S HOT?

Photos by Zanes’ mom, Hope,of Dan (left) and Warren showthe more we change, the morewe stay the same.

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was good enough,” he says, “so Ienrolled in a couple of classes.”

Ironically, Warren, who hadstruggled to get 2s in geometry atAndover, loved college. Plunginginto school full time, he graduatedwith a 3.9 grade-point average, thenwent on to earn two master’sdegrees—one in art history and theother in visual and cultural studies—as well as a doctoral degree in visualand cultural studiesfrom the Universityof Rochester.

“I never reallyapplied myself atAndover,” saysWarren, “but incollege I was heavingmyself into it. I thinkthe part of me thatwasn’t nurtured in arock band wasnurtured in school.”

During thewritingof his dissertation,Warren called his oldgirlfriend from Phil-lips Academy, ElinorBlake ’83, and askedher to go to their15th reunion withhim. She agreed andthey were engagedthree weeks later.They married in1999 and have a one-year-old son,Lucian. Blake also happens to have asuccessful music career, singingmostly French pop music under thename April March.

After the reunion, Warren was sosmitten with Blake he wrote half adozen songs for her. She sent themto music producers the DustBrothers. Within weeks, they signedWarren to their label, Ideal Records.

In 2000, he took a leave of absencefrom teaching at Manhattan’sSchool of Visual Arts to begin workon his first solo album, “MemoryGirls,” which was released in 2003.He has since gone on tour with TheWallflowers and published a bookabout Dusty Springfield called Dustyin Memphis.

In September 2003, the Rockand Roll Hall of Fame announced

Warren would become its vice presi-dent of education.

“I took the job because I have ababy at home and I don’t want himgrowing up with only one parent,”says Warren. “The rock and rollculture remains incredibly close tome. I think music is one of themost worthy objects of study. Atthe Hall of Fame, I have an oppor-tunity to take it seriously.”

On the flip sideAfter Warren and drummer WoodyGeissmann left the Del Fuegos in1987, Dan and bassist Tom Lloydtook some time off to figure outwhat to do next. That year, Danmarried Paula Greif, the director ofthe Del Fuegos video for “I StillWant You.”

Not ready to give up on the DelFuegos, Dan and Lloyd enlisted two

new musicians to play guitar anddrums for the band, and in 1989 thegroup released its fourth and finalalbum, “Smoking in the Fields,” to afan base that was turning its atten-tion toward grunge rock.

In 1991, the Del Fuegosofficially broke up, and Dan and hiswife moved to the Catskills togarden and listen to music “that hadnothing to do with rock and roll.”

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When his daughter, Anna, wasborn, Dan began looking for musicthat they could listen to together.

“I found some great things, but notwhat I was looking for,” Dan says.“There was a sound in my head that Iwanted to share with her, but I couldn’tfind it, so I had to create it myself.”

Shortly thereafter, Dan beganplaying music with a group ofparents he met at his daughter’splayground. They called themselvesthe Rocket Ship Revue, and theirCD, “Rocket Ship Beach,” was a hitboth with children and with theirparents. Music critics called itchildren’s music that “won’t makeadults cringe,” but Dan calls itsomething else.

“What I’m really trying to do iscreate all-ages music,” he says, “musicyou would play in the kitchen at afamily reunion that everyone in theroom would be excited about. I neverwant to lose anyone along the way.For me, it’s a way of connecting onegeneration to the next.”

Since he founded Festival FiveRecords in 1999, Dan has releasedsix highly acclaimed albums, all of which rank among the top-selling family music CDs in thecountry. And critics adore them.Variety magazine calls last year’s “House Party” “uncommercialized sweetness.” His latest release,“Widdecombe Fair,” is a reissue of hisfavorite family album by folksingersand musicians David Jones and BillShute.

Dan Zanes and Friends, as hisensemble is called, has been ontour for much of 2003 and 2004,playing to sold-out audiences ofpredominantly preschool childrenand their parents in theatres acrossthe country.

“I think it’s important for olderpeople and younger people to enjoymusic together,” Dan says. “I thinkI’ve found my calling. Everything sofar has led up to this. I actually feelsomewhat useful in the world, and

Who’d have thought Warren (above) would become adoctor of rock and roll and Dan (right, with daughterAnna) would find new musical voice to communicateacross generations?

Opposite page: the Del Fuegos circa 1980s

that feeling was never a byproductof playing rock and roll.”

Looking back, Dan says hisyears at PA helped make himcurious about the world, which, inturn, has helped him be a bettermusician.

“No matter what you do in life,it’s important to have a good educa-tion,” he says. “I used to think thatyou couldn’t be a real rocker if youhad gone to private school. But Iwas wrong. It has helped me have amore creative life.”

The tie that bindsIt’s been a long time since Dan andWarren have shared a stage, but thebrothers talk regularly and are proudof each other’s work, as different asit is; however, the days of Dan andWarren performing together arelong past.

“These days, we just enjoy beingbrothers,” says Warren. gg

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The dedication of the Gelb Science Center on April 24 was a proud and impor-tant chapter in the history of Phillips Academy. But with the death of the

center’s lead benefactor, Richard L. Gelb ’41, three weeks earlier, the celebratoryevent took on a note of loss. In a tent set up next to the new state-of-the-art sci-ence center, the Gelb family, along with invited guests, listened to an invocationby PA’s Protestant chaplain, the Rev. Michael Ebner ’70, followed by remarks byschool dignitaries, family, alumni and friends in appreciation of Richard Gelb.(See memorial tribute for Gelb on inside back cover).

Gelb Science Center dedicated

Donald Marshman ’41, RichardGelb’s close, longtime friend,delivers the speech Gelb wasunable to make at his retirementdinner in 1994 due to a severesnowstorm that kept Gelbstranded in New York. Thespeech, Larry Gelb said, “wouldmake people understand why thisscience center was for him muchmore than an act of generosity. Itwas a gift of love.”

Above, Gelb family members, 13strong, gather before the GelbScience Center. Shown, left toright, are Matt Sisto, Anki Gelb,Andy Sisto, Lucy Gelb, FrankSisto, Phyllis Gelb, Bruce Gelb’45, Larry Gelb ’69, Emy Gelb’05, Joe Nason, Toma Rastad,Jane Gelb and Jason Rastad.

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Robert J. Campbell ’66, who made significant contributions to the Gelb ScienceCenter, is pictured before the dedicatory plaque. Besides the Gelbs, other majordonors to the center include Thomas C. Israel ’62, Donna Brace Ogilvie ’30,Katherine D. and Stephen C. Sherrill ’71 and David M. Underwood ’54.

Left to right, Larry Gelb ’69 and his mother,Phyllis “Rusty” Gelb, accept congratulationsfrom the new president of Andover’s Board ofTrustees, Oscar L. Tang ’56.

Phyllis “Rusty” Gelb prepares to open a gift photograph of the GelbScience Center, named for her late husband. The gift was presented byJohn E. Rogers, head of the Division of Natural Sciences, who expressedhis satisfaction at the center’s completion after “years of imagining,dreaming, planning and building.” Shown to Rusty Gelb’s left is her sonLawrence N. Gelb ’69; to her right are outgoing President of the Board ofTrustees David Underwood ’54, Head of School Barbara Landis Chaseand charter trustee Thomas C. Israel ’62.Noting that the many features of the Gelb present a range of learning options to students,Chase said the science center is “as flexible asthe minds of Andover’s gifted teachers andbright, ambitious students.”

Allegra Asplundh-Smith ’04, presidentof the student government, said at thededication ceremony, “The Gelb ScienceCenter, with its astounding resources,nurtures excellence in scholarship, creativity and expansive thinking.”

The PA campus was glorious after two weeks

of rain ended just in time for reunion weekend

June 11-13. The weekend featured traditional events

such as the alumni parade, class cocktail parties and

dinners and open houses at the library, art gallery

and Office of Community and Multicultural

Development. In a more innovative vein, the Classes

of ’39 and ’44 hosted bus tours of the campus. Reunion

attendees, most from classes ending in 4 or 9, had sev-

eral opportunities to admire the new Gelb Science

Center. “Back to the Classroom” courses were pre-

sented by physics instructor Kathleen Pryde, who gave

a demo class in a high-tech lab, and history instructor

Peter Drench, who engaged alumni on issues such as

globalization, terrorism and U.S. foreign policy.

Alumni Council President Grace Curley ’81

warmly welcomed alumni to Saturday’s annual

meeting in Cochran Chapel. Curley thanked

departing Secretary of the Academy Peter Ramsey for

his nine years of exemplary service to the academy.

(See page 30.) Interim Secretary of the Academy and

Protestant Chaplain Michael Ebner ’70 offered an

opening prayer. David M. Underwood ’54 described

his tenure as the 22nd president of the Board of

Trustees as a “transcendental, unbelievable” experi-

ence and called Abbot and Phillips alumni “without

peer.” Underwood added his gratitude for Ramsey’s

successful leadership of Campaign Andover.

In her address, Head of School Barbara Landis

Chase said alumni reunions fuse memory with hope

for the future. She also spoke of Andover reunion

weekend’s crystalline, sweet intensity. Chase honored

reuning PA faculty members and asked all alumni

educators to stand and be applauded.

Although the 50th Reunion Class of ’54 had an

impressive 40 percent participation, the Fifth Reunion

Class of ’99, with 45 percent of the class returning,

captured the Class of 1891 Bowl for the highest

percentage attendance. —Sharon Magnuson

Andover Reunion 2004fuses memory and hope

Barry Phelps ’49, center, unveils a plaque to be installed onDunbar House honoring Douglas Dunbar, former Williams Hallhousemaster, and his wife, Mary. Looking on are, left to right, ’49classmates Clem Hastie, Ben Potter, Win Jordan and formerSecretary of the Academy Peter Ramsey.

Hayes Clement ’54 presents to Head of School Barbara LandisChase a mock check that represents the Class of ’54 gift of more than$8 million. Looking on are, left to right, co-chair of the AlumniFund Paul Gallagher ’64 and 50th Reunion gift co-chairs MargaretMoore Roll, Dave Mackenzie, Tim Hogen and P.D. Block.

A portrait of outgoing presidentof the Board ofTrustees DavidM. Underwood’54 was unveiledat the annualmeeting. Underwood (left) commends portrait artist Chas Fagan ’84, a renowned painter whose subjects have included several U.S. presidents. Chas is the son of Charlie Fagan ’54. The work was commissioned by Underwood’s classmates as a gift to the academy.

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Top: As always, the CAMD (Community andMulticultural Development) open house is a popularevent. Standing left to right are Marian Bonner ’79, herhusband, Brian Richardson, and, in the center, their sonErnest; Denise Simon ’94; Fiona Conway Cumberbatch’94; Leslie Brown ’94; Camille Manning ’99; DanielChen ’99; CAMD Dean Bobby Edwards; AngelStanislaus ’89; and Sachiko Ozawa ’99. Seated areDavid Callum ’94, Jewel Gear ’94, Stanislaus’ guestTony Ravener, Sherry Martin ’89, Erica Sills Gaines’89 and Adviser to Asian Students Aya Murata and herson Aki. Middle: Physics department chair ClyfeBeckwith holds 5-year-old Dylan Woodhead up to theGelb Science Center astronomical dome telescope asDylan’s dad, Jeff Woodhead ’84, looks on from behind.Assisting is Ken Gass ’64. Friday evening’s cloudless skyrevealed a clear view of Jupiter and four of its moons.Bottom: The weekend is a family affair for 25th and 50threunion participants (left) Dick Starratt ’54 and sonMike ’79 and Taylor Bodman ’79 and his mom, HollyDunn Grinnell ’54.

Top: Retiring English and theatre instructor Jean M. St. Pierre was honored for 41 years of teaching at Abbotand Andover. Left to right are Natalie Schorr ’62, newAbbot Academy Association faculty coordinator; LizDeLucia ’85, new head of the Abbot Academy Association;St. Pierre; and Barbara Landis Chase. At Saturday’s AbbotTea, DeLucia announced the creation of a new scholarshipin St. Pierre’s name that will give preference to applicantsfrom Lowell, Mass., St. Pierre’s hometown. Middle:Getting together before Friday’s Abbot dinner are, left toright, ’54 classmates Diane Cookman Stallworth, HollyDunn Grinnell, Edie Williamson Kean, Betsy HilgenbergHeminway and Paula Prial Folkman. Bottom: In the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library Diane and Tom Cushing’54 admire the display of books written by PA alumni from reunion classes.

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SPORTS TALK

by Andy Cline

Both Adam Crabtree and CorySchneider have dreamed ofbecoming professional athletes

since they were young boys. ThisJune, only days after the two gradu-ated, those dreams seemed close tobecoming reality. On June 7 Crabtreewas selected by the Anaheim Angelsin the 15th round of the MajorLeague Baseball draft, and less thanthree weeks later Schneider was cho-sen in the first round of the NationalHockey League draft by theVancouver Canucks. A right-handedpitcher, Crabtree throws a 92-mphfastball and a late-breaking slideralong with his curveball and change-up. At 6 feet 5 inches tall and 190pounds, he also hits with power andhas excellent speed. Schneider is agoalie who not only led his PA teamto a second-place finish in the NewEngland Prep School hockey playoffs,but also played a major role in helpingthe U.S.A. Under-18 team earn a sil-ver medal in April at the worldchampionships in Minsk, Belarus,where he limited opponents to ameasly average of 1.4 goals per game.

Since both boys have beenaccepted at Boston College withplans to continue their academicand athletic careers there, it isuncertain at this writing exactlywhen either might sign a profes-sional contract. What is clear fromtalking to each is his burning desireto play at the highest level of

competition. And it is clear that thescouts and personnel directors of theAngels and the Canucks considerthese two young men to be amongthe most talented in the country—in Schneider’s case, the world—attheir positions.

Both students came to Andoveras 10th-graders, Schneider fromSwampscott, Mass., and Crabtreefrom Bourne, Mass. In recallingtheir decisions to attend PA, eachcited the combination of strongacademic and athletic programs andwas encouraged by knowing otherstudent-athletes from his hometownwho attended Andover.

The first day of classes is onethey will never forget. It was Sept. 11,2001. While Schneider missed beingcloser to family and friends at home,he recalls thinking about the impactof the day’s world-altering events onfellow students from all over thecountry and the world. As the shockof 9/11 eased, Crabtree had to dealwith another shock—being in aplace with very different rhythmsfrom those he was used to. “I used togo to bed at 9 p.m., and here kidswere up at all hours,” he remembers.He expected the academic work tobe challenging, and it was a struggleat times, but his teachers and housecounselors helped him to adjust.Schneider, even while making thehonor roll eight times, also foundhimself pushed academically.

When asked about memorableteammates, both boys spoke of theirteam captains during lower year.Schneider said Zak Smotherman ’02helped him fit in on the hockeyteam and understand what to do.Crabtree said Ben Chang ’02, alongwith Adjatay Nyadjroh ’03, lovedbaseball and took it seriously whilestill knowing how to have fun.

In addition to practices, busrides and box lunches, one of theexperiences Crabtree and Schneiderhave shared is that of playing insomething of a fishbowl. At nearlyevery game they played this yearwhen Schneider was between thepipes or Crabtree was on themound, professional scouts werethere to watch. Congregated behindthe glass or the backstop, the scoutsobserved the goalie’s movements,clocked the speed of the pitcher’sfastball and took careful notes. Thenafter the game they often wanted afew words with the young man theywere evaluating. “You get used to itafter a while,” says Schneider. “Itmade me focus and learn how toplay under pressure. If you getcaught up in worrying about whatthey think, it hurts your game.”

“There is nothing you can doabout them,” echoed Crabtree, “so Ijust tried to be aggressive and playmy game. It’s good for you to knowyou need to perform.”

Dream and It Might Come TrueTwo athletes from the Class of 2004 have the chance to turn pro.

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SCORES ON THE WEBFor the latest team results in all sports, go to

www.andover.edu/athletics.

likely come sooner. The Angels willneed to convince him to sign aprofessional contract beforeenrolling at Boston College.Otherwise he will remain anamateur for now and be eligible tobe drafted again by any team afterhis junior year in college. Schneider,on the other hand, will definitelybegin at Boston College in the fallwhile the Canucks retain his profes-sional rights. The NHL club maythen ask him to leave college andbecome a professional when theybelieve he is ready and they haveneed for a goalie in their organiza-tion. It is an exciting time for thesetwo friends and classmates, hopingfor the chance to make their dreamscome true.

Andy Cline is Phillips Academy’ssports information director.

was further honored for hisoutstanding scholarship and athleticability with the academy’s presti-gious Yale Bowl.

Crabtree, who also playedvarsity basketball, joined an alreadystrong Andover baseball club inspring 2002 and helped the team go17–3 and win its second consecutiveCentral New England Prep SchoolLeague championship. With a 7–0pitching record and .566 sluggingpercentage, he was named theleague’s most valuable player.Crabtree finished his PA career thisspring with 13 wins in all and a 1.78ERA. A three-time league all-star,Crabtree racked up 176 strikeouts in117 innings pitched and receivedthe Harrison Baseball Award as thisyear’s team MVP. Like Schneider, hewas also busy playing during thesummer and participated in severalshowcase events.

Soon, each of these outstandingyoung men will approach a bigdecision in his life. Due to differ-ences in the draft rules for baseballand hockey, Crabtree’s decision will

Schneider has been outstandingas PA’s No. 1 goalie during the pasttwo years and has played on TeamU.S.A. national select teams as well.This year the Andover team posteda 17–5–2 record, with Schneiderallowing just 1.5 goals per game andstopping 96 percent of the shots hefaced. After receiving the SumnerSmith Award as the team’s mostvaluable player, he also was awardedthe Carleton Trophy by the BostonBruins as the top male player inEastern Massachusetts whocombines exceptional hockey skillswith academic excellence. At thisyear’s commencement, Schneider,also a catcher on the baseball team,

Adam Crabtree, left, and Cory Schneider, right.

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AN UPDATE ON ANDOVER PHILANTHROPY AND VOLUNTEER SERVICE

When the Phillips Academy trusteesset out a decade ago to mount a cam-paign aimed at generating more philan-thropic dollars than any independentschool had ever raised in history, theyknew they needed expert help.

They found it in Peter RathboneRamsey, a veteran of fund drives atHarvard Business School, WellesleyCollege and other institutions.Ramsey and his colleagues had justcompleted raising a record-setting$168 million for Wellesley, where heserved as vice president for resourcesand public affairs. In 1995, heaccepted Head of School BarbaraLandis Chase’s invitation to come toAndover as secretary of the academy.

The wisdom of that selection isnow apparent to the Andovercommunity, which said goodbye toRamsey in June as he left to pursue anew role as vice president for develop-ment and public affairs at BabsonCollege in Wellesley, Mass. In writingto academy volunteers about hisdeparture, Chase said, “Peter hastaken our fund-raising program to anew level and taught us much aboutthe important business of buildingconnections with our alumni andparents. We are much indebted tohim, and we wish him and his familythe best of luck.”

At the same time, Chase an-nounced the pending selection of asearch firm to assist the school in findinga new fund-raising chief. Not long after,she named a transition team to overseethe Office of Academy Resources during the search. (See page 35.)

AN INSPIRING LEGACYThe hallmark of Ramsey’s tenure atAndover was the success ofCampaign Andover, which broughtin $208.9 million, exceeding its origi-nal $200 million goal in spite of aslumping economy. At the time ofCampaign Andover’s launch, therecord for private school fund raisingsat with Lawrenceville Academy inNew Jersey, at $131 million.

Andover’s pride in this achieve-ment was not about numbers,however. It was about the state-of-the-art Gelb Science Center, PA’sfirst new academic building in 40years, the graceful renovation ofCochran Chapel to house the entirecampus community, and the additionand refurbishment of faculty housingto increase the adult-to-student ratioin the dorms.

It was about cutting the ribbon onthe handsome new Shuman AdmissionCenter and securing Andover’s abilityto continue reaching out to youth fromevery quarter by increasing from 40 percent to 83 percent the amount of the financial aid budget that is endowed.

It was about technology and infor-mation science advances, facultysupport and better facilities forteaching languages and art, aboutperpetuating the school’s ability toserve the public good through outreachprograms and museum services.

It was about great sports facilities,better building maintenance and therehabilitation and creative reuse ofthe once-deteriorated Abbot campus.

THE HUMAN ELEMENTAs Chase’s remarks reflect, Ramsey’striumphs were not limited to fund rais-ing, but touched upon what fund rais-ers call “friend raising”—enhancingthe sense of connectedness amongcommunity members. In Ramsey’swords, “What’s at the heart of philan-thropy is understanding and embracingthe power of relationships among peo-ple, including the relationship of class-mates to one another, to the academy,to the faculty who taught them and tothe people at Andover today.”

Moreover, Ramsey expresses hugepride in the “professional, respectfuland supportive” fund-raising staff—hecalls them the “team”—he assembledin PA’s Office of Academy Resources.Their competence and grace, he says,have commanded the esteem of thefaculty, administration and alumni, aswell as his own admiration. Theregard is mutual; colleagues speak ofRamsey’s integrity, creativity, fairnessand good humor.

THE EMERGING AGENDABecause of the relationships they haveforged together during and beyondCampaign Andover with alumni, fac-ulty and the school’s Dean’s Council, aswell as the strong leadership of BarbaraChase, Board of Trustees ChairmanDavid M. Underwood ’54 and othertrustees, fund raising for future prioritieswill be easier, Ramsey predicts.

The fund-raising menu for theproximate future includes the rehabil-itation and possible expansion ofCommons, the completion of a

AT PHILANTHROPY’SHEARTPeter Ramsey returns to higher educationafter teaching Andover some advancedlessons in raising funds and friends.

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second ice sheet at the new HarrisonRink, the refurbishment of theMemorial Bell Tower and thecontinued augmentation of resourcesfor the strategically vital areas ofstudent financial aid and facultysalaries, Ramsey says. Other emergingpriorities may include an AddisonGallery addition and the renewal ofthe Andover Inn and Bulfinch Hall,he adds.

“Campaign Andover may beover,” he says, “but I think we’velearned philanthropy will be an impor-tant part of this academy forever.”

A CALL TO ALMSRamsey says he’s leaving Andoverwith ambivalence. Calling his experi-ence at the academy “enriching andmarvelously fulfilling,” he admits hecould have followed what he describesas the Andover tradition of staying onuntil retirement. But a fund-raiser isby nature always eager to rise to a newchallenge, and the one that presenteditself at Babson proved irresistible.The 85-year-old institution, ranked byBarron’s as a “highly competitive”school of management, is in theprocess of redefining itself, growingand elevating its fund-raising and edu-cational sights for the future.

To help Babson succeed in theambitious capital campaign it is aboutto launch and to help pave its waytoward realizing its long-range aspira-tions, Ramsey hopes to replicate theAndover dynamic, which is, he says,based on “a shared commitment toeffective planning, volunteer leader-ship and philanthropic support.”

“My life,” he says, “has been sortof geared to campaigning, and, yes, amajor campaign will be part of mynext chapter.”

Identical twins Margaret “Margi” Johnson-Gaddis and Winifred“Winnie” Johnson Sharp, both from the Class of ’54, have markedtheir 50th Abbot Reunion with gifts of $50,000 each to the endow-ment of Andover’s (MS)2 Math and Science for Minority Studentsprogram. The fund they have established, the Double J Ranch Fund,will assist in the operations of (MS)2, with preference for support ofa Native American student from the Four Corners area of theSouthwest for the three summers’ duration of the student’s educa-tion in (MS)2 . The Four Corners is the only spot in the countrywhere the borders of four states, Colorado, Arizona, Utah and NewMexico, intersect. The fund is named for a ranch the sisters ownnear the Four Corners, an area from which (MS)2 draws a substan-tial number of Native American students.

(MS)2 enrolls 110 talented students from urban public schoolsand Native American communities around the country in its five-week residential program at Andover. A total of 17 NativeAmerican students enrolled in summer 2004, all on full scholarship.(MS)2 was founded in 1977 as part of Andover’s effort to helpstrengthen educational opportunities and quality of life for econom-ically disadvantaged public school minority students. The programhelps students develop competence for the demanding courses inscience and mathematics that are crucial for work in the medical,engineering and scientific professions. Of nearly 775 alumni, 97percent have gone on to college, with 78 percent majoring in math-and-science-related fields.

Johnson-Gaddis and her husband, Robert, live in a house onDouble J Ranch in Mancos, Colo. A clinical psychologist special-izing in Jungian analysis, she is currently phasing out a privatepractice in Ventura, Calif., and developing a practice in Mancos.She and her sister both attended Vassar College, graduating in 1958.Johnson-Gaddis earned a Ph.D. degree in 1971 from the Universityof California at Berkeley.

Sharp is a judge in the State of Florida, 5th District Court ofAppeal. She and her husband, Joel ’53, reside in Windermere, Fla.She attended law school at the University of Virginia and StanfordUniversity, where she earned an LLB degree in 1961. She is amember of the Florida Bar Association and a former member of theGovernor’s Commission on the Status of Women. The Sharps havefour daughters, including Jennifer Sharp Thielhelm ’81 andMargaret Sharp-Douglas ’90.

—Paula Trespas

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Among the tasks the Andover Board of Trustees setfor itself on the busy weekend of the dedication

of the Gelb Science Center in April were the electionof new board officers and a new charter trustee.Highlighting the agenda was the election of Oscar L.Tang ’56 to succeed board President David M.Underwood ’54, who retired in June after serving 15years in the post. They also elected Thomas C. Israel’62 to succeed Tang as board treasurer. (See insidefront cover.)

Stephen Sherrill ’71elected charter trusteeStephen C. Sherrill ’71, whoserved as ex officio trustee duringCampaign Andover and nationalvice chair of the campaign, waselected to an eight-year term ascharter trustee, effective in May.Sherrill is chair of the AndoverDevelopment Board, a volunteerorganization that helps raise giftsto the school of $100,000 or more.

He has been a member of the ADB since 1990. Sherrill’spast volunteer efforts have included work as a class agent,25th Reunion Gift Committee leader, admission represen-tative, Non Sibi agent for the alumni fund and member ofthe Gelb Science Center Advisory Committee. He iscurrently a Parent Fund Special Gifts volunteer and amember of the Addison Gallery Advisory Committee. Amanaging director and principal at Bruckmann, Rosser,Sherrill & Co., a private investment firm in New York,Sherrill sits on numerous corporate boards. He is amember of the Board of Managers of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and co-chairman of the board oftrustees of Second Stage Theatre in New York. Agraduate of Yale University, he holds a law degree fromColumbia Law School.

Sherrill is married to Katherine Duncan Sherrill, andthey have three children, including Stephen C. Sherrill’05. Their son William will enter Andover’s Class of ’07in the fall. The family resides in New York City.

Claudia Arrigg Koh ’67to lead academy’sAnnual Giving Board

Claudia Arrigg Koh ’67 has beennamed to head Andover’s AnnualGiving Board (AGB), on which shehas been a member since 1995,serving as co-chair since 2002. Inthat role, she will serve as a memberof Phillips Academy’s Board of

Trustees. She replaces Paul Gallagher ’64, who hasserved on the board since 1999. The AGB advises theacademy on fund-raising policy and strategies for theannual class and reunion giving campaigns. A member ofthe Abbot Academy Association Board of Directorssince 2000, Arrigg has been on the Alumni Councilsince 1995 and on its Executive Council since 2002. Shestepped up to her new role as alumni trustee in July. Herpast affiliations saw her as head agent for her class, vicechair of Campaign Andover and chair of the Non SibiAssociation.

Arrigg has held numerous local leadership positions,including work as a trustee of East Rock Institute, chiefof ophthalmology and executive board member of HolyFamily Hospital, executive board member of theCataract and Laser Center and director of the BunkerHill Eye Center. She was also nominated for the Womenin Business and Industry Award. Active in many medicalprofessional societies, she has written numerous articlesand book chapters in the field of ophthalmology.

Arrigg, an ophthalmologist specializing in cataractand glaucoma surgery, and her husband, Howard K. Koh,also a physician, have two Andover alumni children,Steven ’00 and Daniel ’03, and a child currentlyattending the academy, Katherine ’05. Arrigg received abachelor’s degree from Emmanuel College in 1971, amaster’s degree from Harvard in 1974 and an M.D.degree from Tufts Medical School in 1978. The familylives in Andover.

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Two new alumni trustees elected

The alumni body this springelected two new alumni trustees.The trustees were chosen by bal-lot mailed in early spring.

An editor of magazinesand newspapers for over two decades, Lucy SchulteDanziger ’78 is currently editorof Sel f magazine, a leadinghealth and lifestyle magazinefor women. Prior to joining themagazine in 2001, she was thefounding editor of Condé NastPublications’ Women’s Sports &Fitness. A graduate of HarvardUniversity, Danziger hasserved on PA’s AlumniCouncil . She l ives in NewYork City with her husband,James, and two children.

Louis G. Elson ’80 ismanaging partner of PalamonCapital Partners, a London-based private investment firmhe co-founded in 1998. Heattended Eton College in

England and earned a B.A. degree with honors fromHarvard College and an M.B.A. degree with honorsfrom the University of Virginia. He has served Andoveras a member of the executive committee of theAndover Development Board, a founding director ofthe Andover Association of London and a member ofthe Institute for Recruitment of Teachers (IRT)advisory board. He and his wife, Sarah, and threechildren live in London.

Barbara Timken ’66retires from boardafter 16 years

Barbara Corwin Timken ’66retired in June after serving as acharter trustee since 1988. Anarchitectural historian, Timkenserved on the trustees’ buildingcommittee and was a founding

member of the academy’s design review committee. Overthe years she brought her expertise to bear on a range ofacademy building projects, including renovations toGraves Hall and the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library. Mostnotable was her work, with other dedicated and visionaryvolunteers, on the reclamation and adaptive reuse of theonce-imperiled Abbot Academy campus. DuringCampaign Andover, she made a $1.5 million gift to PA forcampus maintenance and preservation.

In another vein, Timken helped create and chairedthe Committee on Trustees, which improved the processfor selecting trustee candidates to insure broader andmore representative leadership for the academy’s future.

Timken majored in art history at Smith College andlater did graduate work in architecture and preservation.She devoted a portion of her career to educating othersabout those passions. For instance, she ran summereducational institutes for architects in the stone-cuttingyard of St. John the Divine in New York, the world’slargest Gothic cathedral, and worked with the U.S.Committee of the International Council on Monumentsand Sites to shape middle-school curriculum materialson some of the world’s most significant natural andarchitectural marvels.

In addition, Timken helped lead successful campaignsto preserve two historic buildings, the Smith CollegeAlumnae Gym and the H.H. Richardson-designed UnionStation in her hometown of New London, Conn. Today,she and a partner, Todd O’Donnell ’69, own the historicrailroad terminal, which they lease in part to Amtrak.They have restored the lobby to its original grandeur andhope to turn the facility into a cultural and educationalcenter that will be a catalyst for the revitalization ofdowntown New London.

Timken, who is the mother of two children, residesin Belmont, Mass.

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Shortly after his PA graduation, BryanG. Miller ’66 was convincingteenagers in Asia that an Andovereducation was within their reach, too.

Although postponing college toexplore other interests was unusualthen, the Andover native headed toThailand two weeks after commence-ment and began teaching at BangkokChristian College. He soon received aletter from his mentor, Josh Miner,then PA’s dean of admissions, askingMiller to interview a 14-year-old Thaistudent who was interested in comingto Andover.

Miller’s enthusiasm for PhillipsAcademy hasn’t wavered in the past40 years. “The school continues toexemplify the very best in education,”he says. “The commitment to excel-lence and the commitment to serviceto others are things that have stayedwith me. The inspiration to turnaround and help support the academyis a natural occurrence.”

His volunteer service extendsbeyond interviewing prospectivestudents. Ten years ago, at an alumnievent on campus, Miller met Dean ofAdmission Jane Fried, who mentionedshe had an Asian trip scheduled.Miller got together with the two otherAndover alumni in Singapore at thattime—Jonathan Wonnell ’77 and

Ying-Dat Ho ’77—and organizedseveral events for Fried, includingvisits to all the schools in Singaporefrom which applications were coming.He has continued to help organizeFried’s subsequent visits to HongKong, Singapore, Tokyo andMainland China. He also has beeninvolved with alumni from the presti-gious King’s Scholars program, whichsends two Thai students each year toAndover.

“Bryan opened up China to me,”says Fried, “and helped spearhead myefforts in Asia. This year I said Iwanted to go to China, and he and hiswife, Patricia, flew to Beijing andelicited the assistance of Yi-ChenZhang ’82, who had come to Andoverthrough the Harbin Institute ofTechnology’s exchange program, andhis wife, Barbara.”

Miller grew up on South MainStreet in Andover, in a house situatedbetween the homes of two facultymembers, Arthur Darling and PhillipK. Allen ’29. He was the third genera-tion of his family to graduate from theacademy. Following a number of yearsworking in Asia, he received a B.A.degree from Friends World Collegeand a J.D. degree from Vermont LawSchool. He returned to Asia in 1981and was one of the first non-tourist

Americans studying in Shanghai.Formerly a practicing attorney

with Baker & McKenzie in HongKong, San Francisco and Singapore,Miller currently is the head ofCambridge Associates in Asia, wherehe is responsible for the firm’scomprehensive research program onAsian capital markets and institu-tional investment opportunities, aswell as helping Asian philanthropiesand families to invest globally.

Although his career takes him allover the world and his leisure activi-ties range from trekking in themountains of southwest China tosupporting nomad schools to buildinghigh mountain village water systems,Miller is always willing to spend timeassisting Asian families who are inter-ested in Phillips Academy. “Familieshave a range of emotions aboutsending their children so far away foran education,” he says. “Some of themare dead set against their childrengoing to the United States, some haveleft it entirely in their children’shands, and some are open to learningabout the Andover approach.

“Ten years ago, Asian familieswere very concerned about security,drugs, sex and lifestyle in the UnitedStates,” he says. “Today they are moreconcerned about the limitations of theeducation offered in their localcommunities. They feel there will bean enormous expansion of opportuni-ties if one of their children gets toNorth America.” He also finds thattoday’s prospective students come totheir interviews knowing a lot aboutthe academy, primarily from theAndover Web site.

Miller gets back to Andoverseveral times a year to visit hisparents, who still live on South MainStreet near the new Harrison Rink.“What I think is quite extraordinary,”he says, “is to visit the school so manyyears later and see the same standardsof excellence and commitments tonon sibi manifesting themselves intoday’s complex, sophisticated socialand educational environment.”

—Tana Sherman

Bringing Andover to AsiaBryan Miller ’66 extends PA’s presence across the Pacific.

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Transitionteam at Officeof AcademyResourcesannounced

Head of School BarbaraLandis Chase hasannounced the appoint-ment of two OARstaffers as an interimteam to replace Peter R.Ramsey, who left hispost as secretary of theacademy at the end ofJune. A search will beconducted for a perma-nent replacement forRamsey. Michael J.Ebner ’70, formerlydirector of alumniaffairs, has stepped in as

interim secretary of the academy, and ChristineM. Atwood as interim associate secretary.

Ebner, who is also the academy’s Protestantchaplain, began his duties in the alumni affairsoffice in spring 2000. After graduating fromRollins College in Florida, Ebner pursued abusiness career, then, after heeding a call to theministry, he began seminary studies at BostonUniversity. In 1995, after serving as a pastor inthe nearby town of North Reading, he washired as chaplain at Andover. Ebner and hiswife, Terry, have been house counselors inBancroft Hall for the past six years.

Atwood, who was appointed director ofdevelopment in fall 2000, is a veterancampaign fundraiser. Before coming toAndover she worked for WGBH, WheelockCollege, Wellesley College and Beth IsraelDeaconess Hospital. Her role at Andover hasbeen the management of the leadership giftsteam and the guidance of the AndoverDevelopment Board, the national committeeof major gift volunteers.

Online giving increasesAndover alumni are becoming increasingly fond of electronic giving, especially those in the younger classes. Between July andDecember last year, 244 people made online gifts to the school,totaling $79,246. This year, during the same time frame, 304 people made online gifts totaling $126,958.

While that number is just a drop in the bucket when it comesto annual giving, an increase of 25 percent in online donors andmore than 60 percent in online dollars is by no means insubstan-tial. Associate Director of Annual Giving and Online ServicesEric Steinert says the increase is in line with what other schoolsare experiencing. “People are making online giving more of ahabit because it’s easier and faster,” he says. “As people get morecomfortable doing it, it will become more beneficial. It’s importantfor us to continue to make it available.”

Steinert also indicated that alumni who graduated between1980 and 2003 make up a greater percentage of overall onlineparticipation, both in online giving and BlueLink registrations.BlueLink currently has 7,878 registered members.

To give a gift online, go to https://www.andover.edu/verisign/.

Students take to the phonesChuck Richardson ’82 is creating a mean, lean fund-raisingmachine—an espirit de corps of student phonathoners that has,over the past few years, been effective in reaching out to Andoveralums. How do they do it?

“We set goals; we teach students how to converse, be politeand listen; and they get results,” he says.

Student phonathons, which are held three times a year inDecember, March and June, typically raise upwards of $200,000 ayear. On average, two dozen students participate and make morethan 3,000 phone calls a week. Over the course of four nights lastDecember, student callers raised $53,094.

Richardson, who is an assistant director of the Andover Fund,and his assistant, Diane Glynn, run the phonathons. By making itclear the calls students place are important to the academy,Richardson has created a pool of experienced student callers whoare vested in the program and confident and natural on the phone.A small paycheck and free pizza don’t hurt, either.

“We regularly assess what works and what doesn’t, and as aresult we have been able to expand the number of people we callto include past and lapsed donors and those with pledges due. Wehave also incorporated thank-you calls into the rotation.

“The long and short of it is, students feel they are learningsome new skills, the pay is pretty good, and, as much as we try tostructure the time and keep it focused, we also have some fun,”Richardson says.

—Kennan Daniel

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Faith is focus of two events

On April 17, approximately 125 people attended Phillips Academy’s first

Interfaith Symposium. Sponsored by the Andover Interfaith

Roundtable, PA’s student-led religious discussion group, the symposium

aimed to foster dialogue around the role of religion in world events, current

international conflicts and roadblocks to peace. Those participating in the

weekend of workshops, interfaith worship and panel discussions were author

and Boston Globe columnist James Carroll; Rabbi Everett Gendler, a retired

member of PA’s chaplaincy; historian Todd Brewster; and professor of Islamic

Studies Ingrid Mattson. Workshops, conducted by authors Tom Beaudoin,

Tom Levinson and others, prompted conversation on topics ranging from

popular culture to women’s roles in different religious cultures.

In another faith-related initiative, some 40 alumni, parents, and friends

attended a dinner and discussion on Faith at Andover at the Chilton Club in

Boston May 19. The event was sponsored by the Andover/Abbot Association

of New England and hosted by Alumni Trustee Martin Begien ’46. The Rev.

Michael Ebner ’70, Protestant chaplain, Rabbi Neil Kominsky, Jewish

chaplain, and Fr. Francisco Nahoe ’80, Catholic chaplain, discussed a wide

range of spiritual practices on campus and ways students explore faith in a

school where religious expression is not compulsory.

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Alumni Councilholds spring meeting

The Alumni Council, one of theschool’s most important advi-

sory boards, held its annual springmeeting on Andover Hill April23–24 under the leadership ofCouncil President Grace Curley ’81.New on the schedule this year wereseparate workshops giving each ofthe council’s committees the oppor-tunity to reflect on its year’s workand plan goals for the upcomingyear. Council members toured thenewly dedicated Gelb ScienceCenter and attended science classeswith students. The weekend pro-vided an important opportunity forvolunteers to participate in campuslife, enhancing their motivation tocontinue engaging with Andover.

A L U M N IN E W S

Members of 1970’s undefeated football team were invited back to campus with their families in May to celebrate their team’sachievement and catch up with old friends. Included among the players were New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick ’71 andPatriots Research and Development Director Ernie Adams ’71, who gave teammates a tour of the Patriots facility in Foxboro,Mass., earlier in the day. Front row, from left, are Lawry Bump, Ernie Adams, Trip Anderson, Dana Seero, Bob McDonald,Bill Belichick, Milt Holt, Bruce Poliquin ’72 and Bruce Bruckman ’72. Second row: Scott Hughes, Louis Lampson, Steve Sherrill,Weldon Baird, Tim Gay, Bryant Seaman, Pat Grant ’73 and Dan Lasman ’73. Guests enjoyed a cookout and remembereddeceased teammates John Malo ’71 and Tom Earthman ’71.

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Broadening Horizonsbecoming a tradition

The Alumni Council and theOffice of Community Services

sponsored the third annualBroadening Horizons program onApri l 3 . Broadening Horizonsbrings alumni with unusual lifeexperiences back to campus toexpound on their view of theworld and open up new possibili-ties to students. In past years theprogram has taken place duringthe Alumni Counci l ’s spr ingmeeting weekend and been openonly to students and council mem-bers. The success of the programled the council to give the pro-gram its own weekend this yearand extend invitations to localalumni as well. Eighty alumni and60 students attended the event.

This year 15 panelists wereinvited to lead discussions. MichaelAin ’80, an orthopedic surgeon whohas overcome the potential obsta-cles presented by a physical chal-lenge, was the keynote speaker.

ANTHONY QUAINTON ’51

‘Fight terrorism with all you’ve learned here’

When Anthony Quainton ’51 was a PA student, the warthat concerned him was the Cold War. “Your war is

the war on terrorism,” the former director general of theU.S. Foreign Service told current Andover students andfaculty at an all-school meeting May 18 in Cochran Chapel.“But ‘war’ implies there are victors and losers. It’s hard forme to see a time where we can say with confidence that ter-rorism is behind us.”

Calling PA an international school, Quainton urgedthe students to realize America can’t combat terrorismalone. “You’re going to go out of here with a desire to

change the world,” he said. “Fight the war on terrorism with all you’ve learnedhere. We have to create a citizenry open to dialogue.”

Following his Andover graduation, Quainton received degrees fromPrinceton and Oxford, then went on to a distinguished 38-year career in theU.S. Foreign Service. While he was U.S. ambassador to Peru, his house wasblown up. “We were left with no windows and doors and with lots of mosqui-toes. Terrorism isn’t fun,” he said. Later he served as director of the Office forCombatting Terrorism and adviser to numerous U.S. presidents; he currently isdiplomat-in-residence at American University in Washington, D.C.

“We didn’t perceive what was coming at us until 9/11, but it was comingfor a long time and will be with us for a long time,” he said. “I am absolutelycertain we will see more bombs going off around the world.”

Quainton said the real cost of the war on terrorism to society is the“tradeoff between freedom and security. Start with the fundamental realizationthat this is a war that cannot be won in the traditional sense. We will have toaccept some risks. We can’t be safe all the time.”

Following his address, Quainton met with students and faculty at lunch inCommons, where he discussed current events.

—Tana Sherman

Alumni play lacrosse andbaseball; Sturges honored More than 40 Andover alumni gatheredover the Andover–Exeter spring weekendto challenge Exeter in lacrosse and battleeach other in baseball. They also honoredHale Sturges, head baseball coach from1969–1985 and assistant coach for 19more seasons, upon his retirement fromPA. A maple tree was planted in his nameat Phelps Park, and he received a plaquerecognizing him as one of the foundingcoaches of the Central New England PrepSchool Baseball League. From left arecoach Tom McGraw, David Frisch ’02,Zak Smotherman ’02, Patrick Linnemann’02, coach Hale Sturges, Paul Chiozzi ’03and Ben Chang ’02.Gabriela Ardon of the Office of Alumni Affairs helps compile the news for this section.

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Former U.S. Poet Laureate reads work at Kemper

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins visited campus and read his poetry to apacked Kemper Auditorium on Friday, May 7. The event was sponsored by the

Sandra Isham Vreeland Fund and the Phillips Academy English department.Collins, the author of several poetry collections, has also been published in The

New Yorker, The Paris Review and The American Scholar. He is a professor of English atLehman College of the City University of New York.

Friends of Andover Athletics hold senior banquetThe Friends of Andover Athletics (FOAA), created to nurture links among student andalumni athletes and coaches and to encourage support for Andover athletics, held itsannual Senior Friends Banquet May 16. Guest speakers were Jon Karlen ’90 and PeterKarlen ’98, who both played squash at Andover and Harvard. The evening’s highlightwas the presentation of Phelps Awards to two seniors. The awards honor students forsportsmanship, loyalty, humility and commitment to the success of others, reflecting thevalues of benefactor Richard J. Phelps ’46. Shown left to right are Lauren Dougherty ’88;2004 award recipients Tyler Sims and Catherine Maffione; and Len Moher ’74. Formore information on the FOAA, contact Jenny Savino at 978-749-4293 orjsavino@andover.edu.

McCaslin appointedassistant dean of faculty

Susan McCaslin has beenappointed to the newly created

position of assistant dean of facultyfor a six-year term. She will workwith Temba Maqubela, who wasnamed dean of faculty in April.

McCaslin holds an A.B. degreein religion from Smith College and aMaster of Theological Studies degreefrom Harvard Divinity School. Sincecoming to Phillips Academy, she hasserved in a number of roles: staffwriter for Andover’s BicentennialCampaign, director of publications,director of the Addison GalleryCampaign, instructor in philosophyand religious studies, dean of studies,director of the InternationalAcademic Partnership, chair of theDepartment of Philosophy andReligious Studies, chair of the FacultyBudget Committee, chair of theFaculty Development Committee, co-director of the Teaching FellowProgram and co-chair of the StrategicPlanning Committee.

McCaslin will relinquish herposition as chair of the department ofphilosophy and religious studies,which will be assumed by ThomasHodgson. Hodgson has served in thatrole twice previously, from1987–1994 and again from 1995–99.

New dean speaksin ChicagoThe school’s new dean offaculty, TembaMaqubela, was the fea-tured speaker at a dinnersponsored by theAndover/Abbot

Association of Chicago April 21. Some 40 alumni, parents and friends heardMaqubela reflect on his experiences as advocate, teacher and parent of twoAndover students. Maqubela also greeted several Chicago-area alumni ofPA’s summer program (MS)2, Math and Science for Minority Students.Pictured, from left, are Praveen Gupta, father of Krishna Gupta ’05; AlexOrbon ’94; Dean of Faculty Temba Maqubela; and Jessica Gonzalez ’91.

Committee named to plan Commons renovation

The academy has organized a Commons Program Planning Committee to planfor the renovation of Andover’s dining facilities. The committee has been

charged to address questions like, How could Commons enhance the interactionbetween students and faculty? What are the current and potential advantages ofhaving a student center in Commons? Do we need more small meeting rooms?

The renovation of Commons has been made possible by a $10 million leadgift from an Andover alumnus—the only gift of that size ever made to the schoolanonymously.

Members of the planning committee are Daniel Adler ’05; Kathy Birecki,athletics trainer; David Chase, director of stewardship; Cindy Efinger, interimdirector of student activities; Aya Murata, adviser to Asian and Asian Americanstudents and international student coordinator; Bob Noyes, director of foodservice; Marissa Sobelson ’05; Craig Thorn, instructor in English; MarlysEdwards, dean of students; Michael Williams, director of facilities; John Galanis,project manager; and Paul Murphy ’84, cluster dean and instructor in math.Murphy will chair the committee.

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The celebration of Phillips Academy’s newGelb Science Center on April 24 took ona bittersweet tone as community members

gathered not just to enjoy PA’s first new academicbuilding in 40 years, but also to remember thebuilding’s namesake and principal benefactor.

Richard L. Gelb ’41, former chief executive of Bristol-Myers Squibb and trustee emeritus ofPhillips Academy, died of cancer April 4 in NewYork.

Born in New York in 1924, Gelb was the sonof a chemical manufacturer who foundered duringthe Depression and, with the help of his market-conscious wife, rebounded with a new productthat would establish a family fortune. Gelb’smother was named Joan Gelb, but professionallyshe called herself Joan Clair, and the signatureproduct was Miss Clairol—the first home hair-coloring product to gain mass-market acceptance.

At Andover, Gelb favored history and English.He majored in economics at Yale and attendedHarvard Business School. After serving three yearsin the Army during World War II, he entered thefamily firm, which was still relatively small.

“By starting out in a small family company,”he told the Andover Bulletin in 2000, “I foundthat everything I’d learned at Harvard BusinessSchool—advertising, manufacture, finance, youname it—I was able to put to work right away.”

When Bristol-Myers, a major pharmaceuticaland health products company, decided to buyClairol in 1959, Gelb stayed on as president ofClairol and became a director of Bristol-Myers in1960. He was named president of Bristol-Myersin 1967 and chief executive officer in 1972. Overthe next 21 years, he grew the company’s netearnings from $76 million to $2 billion, addingalong the way home cleaning products likeWindex and Drano and nutritional products likeEnfamil baby formula. What Gelb called the“crowning acquisition,” though, was Squibb,which merged with Bristol-Myers in 1989 toform what would become the second largest drugcompany in the world. In 1992, Business Weeknamed Gelb “an executive to watch” and Forbesfeatured him in an article called “CorporateAmerica’s Most Powerful People.”

Acknowledging his commitment to labora-tory research and product development, Bristol-Myers Squibb honored him upon his retirementin 1995 by renaming its gigantic Connecticutlaboratory the Richard L. Gelb PharmaceuticalResearch Center.

A trustee of The New York Times Co., TheFederal Reserve Bank of New York and othercorporations, he also served on the governingbodies of non-profits that included LincolnCenter for the Performing Arts, the Council onForeign Relations and the Memorial Sloan-

Kettering Cancer Center. He helped found theNew York City Police Foundation with MayorJohn V. Lindsay, and with his brother, BruceGelb ’45, he ran the Lawrence M. GelbFoundation, a family philanthropic foundationnamed for his father.

A longtime PA benefactor and volunteer,Gelb served as a charter trustee from 1976–1994and was honorary vice chair of CampaignAndover. He also served on the ExecutiveCommittee of the Andover DevelopmentBoard, the Headmaster Search Committee, theSteering Committee of the BicentennialCampaign and the Alumni Council.

“Dick Gelb was a man of dignity, integrityand commitment,” said PA Head of SchoolBarbara Landis Chase. “I will miss his wisdomand his counsel, and Andover will miss a gen-erous, loyal alumnus.”

It was in October 1999 that Chase and PeterRamsey, secretary of the academy, called uponGelb in New York to engage his interest in sci-ence education at Andover. At the time,Campaign Andover listed among its prioritiesthe raising of $15 million to rehabilitate the oldEvans Hall science center. The building wassorely out of date, however, and after hearing ofAndover’s needs, Gelb quickly offered a gift of$11 million as seed funding for the $28 million,state-of-the-art facility that opened its doors inJanuary 2004. His gift was the largest PhillipsAcademy had ever received.

Although Gelb did not live to see the sciencecenter in use, he was present for a constructioncelebration in April 2002, and just before hisdeath he was given a videotape on which stu-dents and faculty led him on a virtual tour of thenew facility, explained to him how it hadimproved the science teaching and learningexperience at Andover, and expressed their grat-itude for his extraordinary contribution.

At the April 24 festivities, comments on thenew building and Gelb’s largesse were offered byHead of School Chase; David Underwood ’54,president of the Board of Trustees; Thomas Israel’62, a member of the Trustee Building Committee;John Rogers, head of the Division of NaturalSciences; Allegra Asplundh-Smith ’04, schoolpresident; and Gelb’s son, Lawrence Gelb ’69.

The most poignant presentation, however,was by Gelb’s longtime friend Donald “Mac”Marshman ’41, who shared reminiscences aboutAndover Richard Gelb himself had planned toread upon his retirement as a trustee in 1994.The weather, however, had kept Gelb groundedin New York, unable to deliver the speech.

Assuming Gelb’s voice, Marshman spoke ofGelb’s arrival at Andover, donning his freshmanbeanie or “prep cap” two weeks late and hobbling

on crutches after a sports injury. He related talesof Headmaster Claude Fuess and other “facultygods” and recalled the easy mix of relativelyaffluent students with “scholarship boys” whowere assigned to the least desirable dorm roomsand forced to wait on tables. Of the scholarshipboys, Gelb wrote, “Their status carried no stigma:Rollo … was president of his class and Jackbecame captain of football and co-captain oftrack. Nor did status come from having a closetfull of custom-made clothes and plenty ofspending money. One acquired status by beingexceptional: an exceptional student or athlete,an exceptional debater or writer for The Phillipianor Mirror … . Most admired of all were those whoscored high in several of these categories withoutnecessarily being at the top in any of them: all-around men. It wasn’t a perfect society, but I readabout worse ones in the newspapers every day.”

Voicing gratitude for the opportunity to servePhillips Academy, Gelb wrote that he wouldmiss his fellow board members and the stimu-lating relationships with headmasters, adminis-trators and faculty.

“Most of all,” he said, “I will miss a reason toreturn again and then again to Andover Hill,there to wander across the campus I know so well,listen to the bells as they ring the hours, watchthe students come and go and, in my mind’s eye,once more catch a glimpse of that 14-year-old boyin his prep cap, with his books under his arm, hurrying to class in the autumn sunshine.”

In addition to his brother Bruce and sonLawrence, Gelb is survived by his wife, Phyllis“Rusty” Gelb, three other children and six grand-children, including Emily Gelb ’05.

—Theresa Pease

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Top faculty post goes to MaqubelaTemba Maqubela, a chemistry instructor at Andover since 1987 and

chair of the chemistry department from 1994–99, has been named to

succeed Stephen D. Carter as dean of faculty. The South African-

born scientist will step down Aug. 30 as director of Andover’s sum-

mer enrichment program (MS)2, Math & Science for Minority

Students, a program he has directed since 2000.

A graduate of the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, Maqubela

also holds an M.S. degree in chemistry from the University of

Kentucky, earned during a 1992-94 sabbatical from PA. Within the

academy, he was elected twice to the Faculty Advisory Committee

and served on the Faculty Compensation System Committee. He

currently serves as a member of the Strategic Planning Committee.

In announcing the appointment, Head of School Barbara

Landis Chase said, “Temba Maqubela enjoys the respect and admiration of all constituencies. He is a

superb teacher, a supportive colleague and a wise and principled educational leader. The academy is for-

tunate to have him moving into this position.”

Maqubela’s life journey is also inspirational. Arrested for anti-apartheid activities as a teenager

in South Africa and subsequently released, he fled to Botswana and then Nigeria, where he attended

college. Returning to Botswana to teach, he learned he was on a list of anti-apartheid militants marked

for death. With the help of U.S. Ambassador Dane Smith ’58, Maqubela managed to elude capture

and flee to New York with his wife, Vuyelwa, and their newborn son, Sikanyiselwe, in 1986.

Today, Sikanyiselwe ’03, known as Kanyi, is a student at Stanford University. The Maqubelas

also have two other sons, Pumelele ’06 and Tebogo. Vuyelwa Maqubela has been a house counselor

at Andover since 1987.