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Andover
Remembers
WORLD
WARII
On the70th Anniversary
of Pearl Harbor
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he Class of 2012 launches its senior yearith the traditional Vista Walk to the steps
f SamPhil on September 13 before the firstasses of the academic year. Head of Schoolarbara Landis Chasean honorary memberf 2012began the walk as a personal ritualarly in her tenure, and began inviting seniorso join her in 2003. The walk anticipates theirommencement procession next June.
CONTENTS
DEPARTMENTS
Dateline Andover .
Sports Talk..................
Reunion 2011 ........
Connection...............
Campaign Update .
Andover Bookshelf
Class Notes .............
In Memoriam .........
Tales Out of School
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Andover remembers World War II 4On the 70th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor, alumni tell their own stories
Shall we enter the war? 6
Pearl Harbor 8
In Uniform: Andover goes to war 12
Western Front 15Pacific Front 20
Andover honors its World War II dead 26
War work 28
Life in a war zone 34
The homefront 38
At school 43
Why its important to remember World War II 47
PhillipianphotograOrdeman 43 capturin the spring of 1943 a
carried Roy CamerFerguson 43 down Ethe Andover train sta
him off to war. Ferone of the first studeAndover mid-term
Ferguson survived thsuccessful career as a
and passed away
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FROM THE EDITOR
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k McClain Mac Reinhart 38 was a quiet ladnation and integrity who embraced life with zest
ment, Leonard James wrote in Phillips Academy,World War II. Clearly Reinhart had traveled far
esh-faced Andover boy (page 14) to the hardenedthis cover. Sgt. Reinhart's efforts earned himar Medal, a Purple Heart, and a battlefield to second lieutenant just before he was kil led inOdheim in April 1945. Awarded the Silver Starsly, Reinhart represents the best of all that Andoverr. At bottom, center is Abbot Academy graduateBaker Wood 15.
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PLEASE SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS WITH US
Andover, the magazine of Phillips Academywelcomes your comments, suggestions,and involvement. Letters may be edited for length, grammar, and style.
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Placed just off the main trail
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Dear Editor,
I had to chuckle when I read student Julia Deans article A School of Tolerance? in the Spring 2011 issue dithe challenges of expressing conservative views on campus. When I was a student Andover was known for itsribbed conservatism. I remember a teacher informing us that Andover helped shape the leaders of America athat time the leader of our country was President Richard Nixon. Having been born and raised in the Socialist
of Massachusetts I thought the remark to be remarkably prescient.
Another Andover memory is of a conversation with one of the more senior faculty members who confided inas a junior faculty he created an uproar by announcing he was going to vote for Franklin Roosevelt and was rostracized for his pronouncement. He then stated that while the political leanings of the Academy had changhadnt changed much.
While political perspectives may have changed at my high school alma mater, what remains the same is the yointolerance of intolerance. Thank you, Julia, for your conviction.
Ran
Dear Editor,
Your most recent issue was in every way impressive. A publishing triumph. You have an old grads heartiestcongratulations.
Was particularly touched by the last page, Playing the Andover Carillon (that used to be). The editorial noteEdwin Hopkins was most interesting (if saddening at the end). But it should have been expanded, as I have sc
in, mentioning the towers foremost carillonneur [the late Sally Slade Warner].
A.CN
Dear Editor,
Thank you for the insightful article in the Spring 2011 issue titled An Education of Her Own. The issue of pand national empowerment is too rarely addressed in discussions of social and economic development. Aid agspend too much time measuring the success of their projects, instead of focusing on sustainable outcomespeople being assisted.
Lawry Chickering, profiled in the article, played a major role crystallizing the former approach in the mid-198I was at USAID, and we worked with him to bring into reality his innovative approaches at the International C
Economic Growth. As ICEG made clear in one country after another, the value of one key policymaker in a decountry making the right, growth-oriented decision far outweighed a boatload of jobs directly funded with faid. And by making that case time after time, with results in Latin America and Asia, he created a platform foeffective leaders in one country to persuade officials in regulatory positions in other countries to get out of thof ordinary people wanting to start businesses, invest, and work hard at better jobs. Lawry may have moved oequally important issuegirls educationbut the same insights apply that catalytic foreign aid has to be ma
local leadership and popular support. Its great to know that the wisdom behind his programs continues to sp
RichardWas
Dear Editor,
As a recent PA alum and a now a carillonneur at Yale University, I was surprised and delighted to read the Sprissues Tales Out of School featuring Edwin Hopkins 56. During my three years at PA I lived in Day Hall, andmusic from the Memorial Bell Tower accompanied my activities each afternoon. Yet I had never once steppedinside the tower, nor did I understand the mechanisms behind the beautiful sounds. After I arrived on Yales clast fall as a freshman, I joined the Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs, and we are responsible for playing thcarillon inside our Harkness Tower. Since then, I often have wondered if Andovers Bell Tower also houses a c
and if it is still possible for people to play it.
Thank you very much, and congratulations on yet another great issue of the Andovermagazine.
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[Editorsnote: AndoversMemorialBell ower no longer housesacarillon. When the tower wasrebuiltin 2006, itwas determined thatto upgrabuildingto code, an elevator would haveto be installed to reachthe old carillon keyboard in thetop of thetower. Tiswas deemed impracticalandcostly, so an electronicsystem wasinstalled on the ground floor thatallowsmusic to beplayed on a keyboard there, and remotelyprogrammed as
A las, he World War II issue oAndovermagazine, a labor o love ha has akenmore han a year, spilled mil lions o words and memories ono he page, engagedsome o us in American war hisory more deeply han anyhing since college, anddragged many o us back o days and nighs lived long ago in ha oher world oour pass. Our senior graphic designer, Ken Puleo, and Iboh born afer he waro wo proud soldiers who served on boh ronsound ourselves lisening oGlenn Miller and Vera Lynn as we worked, fighing ears some lae afernoons, andeeling ha undeniable presence in he room.
Te powerul eelings came rom your sories, and your willingness o share hem,wihou which his issue wouldn have happened. Tank you or your enhusiasm,your effors, and, o course, your service. Wihou he superb research and wriingskills o hisorian David Chase, direcor o sewardship and conribuing edioror his issue, wih his inense ineres in boh miliary and Andover hisory, hisspecial issue would no have been nearly so rich. Vic Henningsen 69 and SusanLloyd each dug down ino heir own memories and knowledge o hisory bohclose o home and ar afield o bring he war years back o lie or us wih clear andsirring prose. And o Jonahan Aler 75, a heary hank you or so houghullyresponding o our need o speak across generaions abou why hi s issue is soimporan. We are deeply in all heir debs.
Tanks, oo, o class secrearies rom hose years around W WII or encouraging,and in some cases, assising heir classmaes in elling heir sories. SkipOrdeman 43, Angus Deming 44, Eric Wenworh 50, and Skip Elsas 51
were especially wonderul in his regard.
You no doub will noice ha a number o regular secions are missing. Tey will beback nex ime around. In order o ell as many o your sories in prin as possible(and in mos insances, only excerps made he prin cu), we had o make exraspace. Bu sill our cup overflowed! All olled, more han 95 sories came in, andonly abou hal o hem fi ino he prined magazine, even hough many had o
be gravely excerped. Te res are online in an expanded ediion o our ExendedConen eaure. Whenever you see his icon, eadR , you can go online o
www.andover.edu/magazine o read more sories by alums or enire versions o heprined ones.
We are pleased o release his special ediion oAndovermagazine in conjuncionwih he launching o he Andover Miliary Affiniy Group and look orward owelcoming you o campus or our special Veerans Day even on November 11.
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FEATURES
Andover remembers World War IIby David Chase & Sally Holm
It has been 70 years since the UnitedStates entered World War II. Truly globalin scope and horrific in fact, the warprofoundly altered the destiny of all whoselives it touched. In almost every realm ofendeavor, from geopolitics to economics,from technology to popular culture, theworld was transformed. But the scope ofWWII and the changes it wrought wereexperienced one person at a time, oneday at a time, one moment at a time. Thisspecial issue ofAndovercaptures some ofthose moments, those days of personalengagement.
What follows is a series of firsthandvignettes, most written by alumni abouttheir wartime experiencesas youngsters
living at home, as Abbot or Andoverstudents, as adults living and working onthe homefront, as men and women inuniform. Most reminiscences have beenwritten by living alumni, many especiallyfor this issue; some were written previouslyby alumni now deceased. To give fullscope to these WWII recollections, a largeportion of these stories and many photoswill be found in our Extended Contentsection at www.andover.edu/magazinein some cases, short excerpts will appearin print; others will appear entirely online.(The eadR icon will appear at the endof excerpted pieces. We urge you to goonline for full access to these compellingrecollections.)
Anyone attempting to write about theschool and Andover alumni in WWII owesa debt to the work of Leonard F. James and
his Phillips Academy, Andover in WorldWar II, published in 1948. Len Jamestaught history at Andover for 38 years.His book contains the war records ofhundreds of alumni in the military. In themain, these are third-person accounts, andthe book does not record the experiencesof Abbot alumnae. [The entire text ofLeonard James book is now availableonline at bluelinkalumni.andover.edu/group/andoverandthemilitary.] In2000, under the leadership of J. ReadMurphy 38, the Class of 1938 producedits Recollections of World War II. We areindebted to James and to Murphy and hiscolleagues for material essential to ourwork in producing this issue.
We are indebted most especially to thosealumni who chose to share their wartimememories with the Andover community.
They are telling, poignant, and powerfuTo eachto allthank you.
This issue is devoted to memories ofthe war years. It is dedicated to the 142alumni who died in WWII. One of thefallen, Connor Laird 32, wrote home wwe take as watchwords for this issue ofthe magazine: Homer wrote a tale forpeople who understood war as a personstruggle, who pressed on to the last ditLike Laird, thousands of Andover andAbbot alumni pressed on, each in his orher own way.
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Frederic A. Stott 36
Richard H. OKane 30 (center)
Philip M. Drake 43
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Shall we enter the war?by David Chase
The United States became a World War II combatant
in December 1941, following Japans attack on Pearl
Harbor and other U.S. Pacific territories. But the war
began long before around the globe.
Despite escalating conflict abroad, political sentiment
in the United States remained heavily isolationist. This
took legal form in the Neutrality Act of 1935, later
augmented by further legislation. A few American
leaders bucked popular sentiment, calling for direct
action to counter aggression. Several outspoken
advocates of intervention were Andover alumni,
including statesman Henry Stimson, Class of 1883;
foreign correspondent Negley Farson, Class of 1910; andEpiscopal Bishop Henry Hobson, also 1910.
Stimson was Andovers most distinguished alumnus
of the early 20th century (and president of the
Academys Board of Trustees, 19351946). He had served
every Republican president since Theodore Roosevelt,
including service as Tafts Secretary of War and Hoovers
Secretary of State. When Franklin Roosevelt became
president, Stimson returned to his New York law practice.
Unfettered by the constraints of public office, Stimson
remained vocal regarding international affairs, lecturing,
writing letters to editors, and testifying before Congress.
The most prominent Republican urging counter
measures to aggression, he lobbied vigorously against
the Neutrality Acts. Because of his outspokenness, his
Republican credentials, his administrative and diplomatic
skills, and his distinguished service in World War I,
Stimson was appointed Secretary of War by Franklin
Roosevelt in June 1940. He served under Roosevelt
and then Truman throughout WWIIAndovers oldest
alumnus engaged in the conflict.
Foreign correspondent Negley Farson covered the war
for the North American Newspaper Alliance. His account
of a Thames ferry ride on a fine September day in 1940 at
the height of the Battle of Britain (and of the star-lit night
before, when German bombing had been particularly
heavy) is excerpted from Bombers Moon, published in
1941, a book Farson dedicated to The Last Nazi.Twice wounded during the Battle of Saint-Mihiel
during the First World War, Henry Hobson received the
Distinguished Service Cross for bravery. Major Hobson
was ordained an Episcopal priest in 1920 and appointed
Bishop of Southern Ohio in 1931, based in Cincinnati.
Elected a Phillips Academy trustee in 1937, Bishop
Hobson served with Henry Stimson. In 1941, the Fighting
Bishop became spokesman for the Fight for Freedom
Committee that was dedicated to getting the United
States into the war using every means of communication
to do sofrom rallies to radio broadcasts, from printing
fearsome posters to lobbying Congress.
Americans Are OutragedHenry L. Stimson, Class of 1883(18671950)
From a letter to the editor of the New York Times
October 7, 1937
Americans are outraged by what
is taking place in the Far East. But to
many it presents merely a confused
picture of distant horrors with whichthey think we have no necessary
connection and to which they can
close their eyes and turn their backs in
the belief that we owe no duty to the
situation except to keep out of it and
forget it. It may be useful under such
circumstances to try to recall briefly
certain broad factors inherent in this situation which do relate
to us and our ultimate future.
In America, occupying the most safe and defensible
position in the world, there has been no excuse except faulty
reasoning for the wave of ostrich-like isolationism which
has swept over us, and by an erroneous form of neutrality
legislation threatening to bring upon us in the future the very
dangers of war which we now are seeking to avoid.
No one knows better than I the difficulties which confront
our Government in such a situation. No one has a keener
desire than I to avoid making more difficult the position
of my successor in the State Department, for whom I have
the greatest respect. But the task of those entrusted with
guiding its course in such a crisis will be made easier or harder
accordingly as the attitude of the public is intelligent and
far-sighted or the reverse. I therefore conceive it to be a time
when every effort should be made by citizens to contribute
to the general discussion which is taking place in such a way
as to help the understanding of his fellows to the end that it
may be intelligent and far-sighted. It is with this object that Iventure these reflections upon the subject.
As if to teach us the folly of our ways, since [the Neutrality
Laws were] adopted, fate has paraded before our shocked
conscience two instances of glaring aggression in Ethiopia and
the Far East. Progress is not made in the world by attempting
to exclude a consideration of the difference between right
and wrong, nor is it wise legislation to attempt to impose
upon the President, to whom the Constitution gives the
duty of the conduct of our international affairs, shackles
of restraint to hold him helpless in all future conditions no
matter how complex or unanticipated.
Freedom Is Worth Fighting FHenry Wise Hobson, Class of 1910(18911983)
Excerpted from an April 1941 address describing thFight for Freedom Committee
We believe, first, that freedo
is worth fighting for. Second, tha
for us to say that Hitlers defeat i
essential to ensure mans freedo
cowardly and immoral position u
we are willing to face the dange
sacrifices others are suffering in t
struggle for freedom. Third, that
dishonest to engage in a wholes
material support for those fighti
to defeat the dictator aggressors
who seek to enslave man, without facing and admitting
fact that we are in this war. Fourth, unless we act now, w
recognition of the fact that we are at war and a readines
do whatever is necessary to make certain Hitlers defeat,
shall lose the present war.
Hitler and His GangNegley Farson, Class of 1910(18901960)
An excerpt fromBombers Moon(1941)
I was on one of the emergency
river-ferries, run by the London
Transport Board, going down the river
from Westminster to Woolricha
matter of some 11 miles and three
and a half hours against this lusty
tide. The tram conductor grinned like
an accomplice as he took my fare. He
punched and handed me a sixpenny
tram-ticket. It read for fare stops on
Londons streets. Other passengers
smiled as they inquired about the price to Greenwich or
Cherry Wharf, everybody, including the conductor himself,enjoying this unorthodox river picnic. I thought with disgust:
This is a fine day to have a war on to spoil such an exhilarating
river scene.
The sun made the water shine on the swift flood-tide
sweeping up under Londons bridges. Everything on earth,
except Hitler, seemed lovely. I recollected the previous night.
I could not curl up in my bed in defiance of what was without,
for the Banshees had gone off. A roum-roum-roum of Nazi
bombers was overhead. Bru-mp! bru-mp! went the guns.
There were sinister cruu-mps from over Chelsea way as the
bombs exploded. For so many nights had I lain listening to
Chelsea getting it (where the Germans were trying to get the
bridges, but missing them), that I had begun to be surprised
to find that all my friends were alive every morning. Let us
admit it; many of us have a positive distaste for life these days.
I think, in one way, it is a good mood; Hitler and his gang
have made life so unpalatable for most of us that while any
of them are in a position to affect our lives, none of us will
surrender anything to preserve it. A bad mood to put your
enemy in. Butand this is the main pointhe has only made
us have a distaste for life as it is at present. Remove Hitler and
life after that might be one of the grandest adventures we
have ever known.
Therefore, when I watched the mood of the Thames, the
panorama unfolded like a sunrise of surprise. For I saw that,
with all its silvered church spires, its arched bridges, flat fronts
of wharves and indented docks, its still-burning warehouses
and skyline of cranesThames River was hitting back.
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Pearl Harbor
On Sunday, December 7, 1941, at 7:48 a.m. Hawaii Time, theJapanese attack on Pearl Harbor began. Surprise was complete.The United States and Japan were at peace. Military installations inHawaii were on low alert. In the 90-minute attack 2,386 Americansdied. Eighteen ships were sunk or run aground, including fivebattleships. News of the attack reached the East Coast via radiobroadcast at 2:30 p.m.
Four alumni bring that infamous day and its aftermath to life.
George Bush 42 describes his resolve to join the Navy. The late SaulHorowitz, also an Andover senior in 1941, wrote a detailed letterhome on December 9 describing student and faculty responses tothe attack. Roger Morgan, a British evacuee enrolled as a member ofthe Class of 1943, felt secret elation, knowing that now the UnitedStates would join Britain in the war. On that Sunday morning PeterMcIntyre 52 was an 8-year-old listening to the radio in his familyssuburban New York home.
Our Nation Came TogetherGeorge H.W. Bush 42(1924 )Navy, Lieutenant Junior Grade
I distinctly remember December 7, 1941. I recall walking across the
campus there at Andover with several friends when we heard the newsand
like everyone, I remember feeling stunned that someone would attack
our country. President Roosevelt had navigated America along a course of
neutrality, trying to keep us out of the building conflagration in both Europe
and Asia. Pearl Harbor settled that policy debate with horrific clarity, erasing
any question whether we could remain above the fray.
Feelings of shock, of course, soon gave way to a national sense ofoutrageand a determination by millions of Americans to do their part
to defeat the aggressors. Another sentiment soon took hold, toothat of
patriotism as our Nation came together as never before and built the wartime
infrastructure necessary to defeat fascism.
I recall how a beautiful young girl named Barbara Pierce of Rye, New York,
did her part during the war working in a factory as a Rosie the Riveter.
Six months after Pearl Harbor, I received my diploma at Andover. Secretary
of War [and Andover board president] Henry Stimson, himself an Andover
grad, delivered the commencement address. He told members of my class that
the coming war would be a long one, and though America needed fighting
men, we would better serve our country by getting more education before
getting in uniform. By then, I had already decided that college would have to
wait. Given my love of the sea dating back to my earliest childhood summers
spent in Maine, I was determined to become a naval aviatorand the sooner
I could enlist, the better.
Still, after the graduation ceremony, my father approached me in the
crowded hallway outside the auditorium. Dad was an imposing figure at
six feet four inches, with deep-set blue-gray eyes and a resonant voice. My
respect for him was complete. George, he said, did the Secretary say
anything to change your mind? No, sir, I replied. I am going in. Dad
nodded and shook my hand. On my 18th birthday, I went to Boston and
was sworn into the Navy as a Seaman Second Class. Not long thereafter,
Dad took me to Penn Station to put me on a railway coach headed south to
North Carolina and pre-flight training. As we parted ways that day, it was
the only time I ever saw my father shed a tear.
Driving this decision to forego college and join the war effort
immediately, I am sure, was my Dads own service in World War Ibut therewas more to it. I was also heeding the Andover motto, Non Sibi, and as I
say, our country was united. United in outrage, to be sure, but united also
in a noble purpose to defend our homeland and defeat the forces of fascist
imperialism that threatened the world.
There wasnt anything unusual about this decision, mind you. Millions of
Americans put their lives on hold to serve their country, and selflessly placed
themselves in harms way. Far, far too many of them never came home to their
families. Together with the martyrs of freedom at Pearl Harbor, they gave that
last full measure of devotion so that America and our allies might remain free.
May Almighty God bless their memory, so that future generations
understand both the blessings and burdens of liberty.
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A Letter HomeSaul Horowitz Jr. 42(19251975)
Tuesday night, December 9, 1941
Dear Mom and Dad,
Well its here at last. You probably
know more about whats going on than
we do, but what we have heard has certainly made quite an
impression up here. I have never seen anything change as fast as
this country has in three days.The first I heard of the war was on Sunday afternoon when
one of the masters told me about the Japanese attacks on
Hawaii and the Philippines. I got to a radio as soon as possible
and heard all the reports filtering in from the Coast. By Sunday
night every senior up here was ready to grab a gun. Then we
began to seriously think how long it would be before we would
be called up. I am practically the class babyonly 16. That night
we listened to the news on our housemasters radio, but it was
still very incomplete.
The next morningMondayat least brought us a
newspaper; this was not much help as all the reports were
unconfirmed. Most of the teachers ignored the war as they went
on with their review for finals. In assembly, Dr. Fuess being away,
Dean Lynde gave a stirring speech (for him) and announced that
lunch would be postponed so that the school could assemble
in the meeting room to listen to the Presidents war message.
A few other guys and myself listened to it in Alberto Vollmers
room and were duly impressed. Lunch on Monday still featured
a carefree attitude on the part of the students although a few
were beginning to think. That night was a quiet one (we had a
fire drill that turned out to be a farce) and we were still waiting
for some real news.
I Wanted ToCelebrateRoger Morgan 43(1926 )
How I heard the news of the
attack on Pearl Harbor on that
Sunday, or exactly at what hour, I
do not remember. But I recall that a
stunned silence had fallen over the
campus. The news was terrible. This couldnt have happened.
And I wanted to celebrate.
I walked out of Johnson Hall, wanting to dancebut
alone. At last, you really would join us. Britain had fought
alone, often admired, often unbelieved. I was sent to Andover
because my father, who knew what Britains defenses were
after Dunkirk, thought a Nazi occupation was more than
likely. Incredibly generous Americans offered us sanctuary,and in late August 1940 my mother, my sister and I sailed for
America formaybe forever.
I wanted to be in Englandmy country. I finished my
second year as an upper just before my 16th birthday, and
such were the oddities of that time that I, as a male, was able
to get a passage home. In August 1942, I sailed for England
from New Yorkat the height of the U-boat attacks along the
American coast and on the Atlantic convoys. My ship sailed
alone, far from the convoy routes, for 14 peaceful days. I was
disappointed: there were no heroic stories of survival in an
open lifeboat. My personal contribution to the war effort was
another two years at Eton before I was able to join the army
in September 1944 and occupy Germany after it was all over!
It was a fantastic experience to have had those two years
at Andover, but I am glad that I returned to experience the
remaining wartime years back in Britain.
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An 8-Year-OldSitting AloneD. Peter McIntyre 52
(1932 )I was an 8-year-old sitting alone
in the living room of my familys first-
floor apartment in Eastchester and
listening to our big, pillow-shaped,
tabletop AM radio. Suddenly, John
Dalys resonant voice interrupted regular programming t
announce that the armed forces of the Empire of Japan h
attacked the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor early that Su
morning. (Pearl Harbor? Wheres that?)
Days later the Big Brother squawk-box hanging high
on the front wall in Miss Charlotte Matzkas third-grade
classroom ordered us all to pour out into the corridor.
Only the hall speakers wiring was patched in to the
principals office radio. We pupils and teachers stood liste
in real time as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt nasal
addressed a Joint Session of Congress about a date that
live in infamy.
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This morningthings started rolling. Fuess is not back yet
but we were again reminded of our duty by Lynde; and classes
went on as usual. After lunch, I went up to a friends room
instead of going to athleticsa bunch of fellows came running
from their Red Cross class and said that we were all to go to
our rooms as there was an air raid. Naturally we were a littlescaredand we heard Gov. Saltonstall telling everyone to be
calm that the attack would be beaten off. Just then we heard
plane motors and ran out to watch the bombs. The planes
turned out to be 2 high-powered trucks rolling up Main Street
and we all laughed it off. By three oclock the all clear had
sounded, and we wandered around (all athletics had been called
off) trying to find out what had happened. Then the great
Andover efficiency got into high. We were all told that athletics
would be held again as usual. On reporting we were informed
that this was false. On reporting back to our dorms someone
heard that classes would be suspended. This was confirmed
by as many masters as denied it. Finally it was all straightened
out, and we settled down to await the casualty lists from New
York. When the radio announced that it was all a phony, we
were pretty sorebut at least it showed that well have to learn
what to do in case of an attack. Half the school was out playing
football during the raid.
That was about all except that tonight I went to a lecture
by some 90 year-old kid on the R.C.A.F. It was a farce as the
man, a former Secretary of the League of Nations, knew nothing
about airplanes and gave a faltering and unintentionally
humorous speech. Then later tonight we listened to the
President whose speech was very goodI thought.
That concludes my impressions of the first few days of the
war. Youve been wanting a newsy letterso here it is. Ill tell
you one thing now, though. I would prefer not to spend my
vacation wandering around in a New York blackout. Please letme know what is happening down there so Ill be prepared for
whatever might greet me.
Im getting tired now soLove, JR
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Andover goes to warby Victor W. Henningsen 69,Independence Foundaion Insrucor in Hisory and Social Science
IN UNIFORM
Deep roots of the conflict lay in the vengeful peace that
ended World War I. (If that conflict had been a war to end
war, said one observer, the 1919 Treaty of Versailles might
be termed a peace to end peace.) The Versailles settlement
contributed to the worldwide economic collapse of the late
1920s: Germany defaulted on reparations payments required by
the treaty, and most European nations couldnt pay
their debts to the United States. Economic depression
spurred the rise of totalitarian regimes committed
to expansion: fascism emerged early in Italy under
Benito Mussolini; its message of extreme nationalism
helped Adolf Hitler take power in Germany in early
1933. In 1934 Hitler announced German rearmament,
defying the Versailles pact; the following year
Mussolini invaded Ethiopia; and both Germany and
Italy aided the fascist Francisco Francos forces during
the Spanish Civil War. Desperate to avoid a repeat of
the carnage of World War I, western European nations pursued a
ruinous policy of appeasement, giving in to Hitlers territorial
demands in the vain hope he would ask for nothing more. By
1939, Germany had reclaimed the Rhineland, annexed Austria,
taken the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia, and then occupied
the rest of that nation. Hopes that Germany might go to war
with the Soviet Union evaporated with the Nazi-Soviet Pact
of 1939, which cleared the way for Hitlers invasion of Poland,
catapulting Europe into war.
Meanwhile, Japan, which had emerged from World War I as
a major military and economic power, faced its own difficulties
during the Great Depression, fueling the political strength of
ultra-nationalist armed forces. Dreams of a new Pacific empire to
give Japan badly needed fuel, raw materials, and markets led to
the invasion of Manchuria in 1931 and an assault on the rest of
China in 1937.
Committed to exercising power unilaterally, the United
States distanced itself from European affairs during the 1930s
with a series of Neutrality Acts and sought to avoid serious
confrontation with Japan. As the world descended into conflict,
President Roosevelt walked a tightrope between trying to
prepare the U.S. for a war he believed it couldnt avoid and
respecting the political reality that the American people
overwhelmingly opposed overseas involvement.
On Andover Hill, anxious faculty and students pursued
the day-to-day business of keeping school while very muc
aware of the developing menace of world conflict. Most of
their attention was drawn to Europe and the steady drumb
of bad news: Hitlers blitzkrieg invasion of Scandinavia and
low countries, the fall of France, the Battle of Br
the London Blitz, the debate over American ai
Britain, and the increasing activity of German U-
in the North Atlantic. By the fall term of 1941, th
United States had instituted its first peacetime dr
and was engaged in an undeclared naval war wi
Germany. The Pacific seemed very far away.
Even Fritz Allis, already a distinguished histo
found himself in difficulty when trying to bring h
students up to speed on events in Asia. One of h
favorite teaching stories involved a late spring cl
1939 or 1940 when he struggled to explain American policy
regard to the conflict between China and Japan over Manc
Turning from the blackboard he saw to his horror that the
Stimson Doctrine himself (former Secretary of State, past a
future Secretary of War, and president of Andovers Board o
Trustees, Henry L. Stimson, Class of 1883) had taken a seat a
back of the classroom. After flailing for another few minut
Allis finally bowed to the inevitable. Gentlemen, he said,
youll see we have a visitor. Colonel Stimson, you know mo
about Americas China policy than anyone elseits named
you. Would you mind explaining things? An amused Stims
strode to the front of the room and held forth for the rest o
period on the finer points of American Far Eastern policy.
said Fritz years later, Im still not sure I understood it.
If Allis had difficulty, it wasnt likely that the rank-and-fi
Andover or Abbot student would do much better. Asia was
distant and strange; events in Europe commanded greater
attention. But even with war looming, the immediate press
of day-to-day school life distracted students from foreign af
Next weeks game garnered more attention than the Blitz,
upcoming math tests took attention away from the implica
of Lend-Lease and direct aid to Britainlet alone heighten
tensions in the Pacific, where Americas freeze on exports to
The several upper middlers skipping lunch gathered in
their housemasters study in Johnson Hall to hear President
Franklin Roosevelt ask Congress to declare war on Japan.
They knew immediately that their lives had forever
changed. Within 18 months all of them, including my father
(Victor W. Henningsen Jr. 43) and his housemasterhistory
teacher Frederick S. Allis 31were in uniform, scatteringacross the globe: to sea, to the skies over Europe and Asia,
to Pacific islands no one had ever heard of, to a place in
Europe called the Bulge.
What forces and events engulfed that small group in
Johnsonand so many othersin the worst war in
world history?
Allis
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Japannotably oilput the two countries on a collision course.
Like many Americans on December 7, some Andover students
had difficulty remembering exactly where Pearl Harbor was.
They were the exceptions. More
typical were two young men who
ultimately gave their lives. Robert Keen
Barron 41 was already in combatthe
first from Andover to see actionhaving
left school at the end of senior winter
to join the Royal Canadian Air Force. His
classmate H. Schuyler Royce, who would
be severely wounded at Okinawa and
go on to teach history at Andover, never
forgot Barrons passionate desire to get
into the fight. A Jew, Barron was well aware of what would later
become known as the Final Solution. Were fascism to triumph,
Barron wrote, there would not be any place in the world for my
people. If for no other reason, I must go to war. After serving in
North Africa, Europe, India, and China, Barron was killed in 1944
on a bombing run over a body of waterthe Gulf of Tonkin
whose importance Royce would explain to my generation ofAndover students.
Frank McClain Reinhart 38 (cover
photo and at right) abandoned
the study of international affairs
at Princeton and saw combat as an
infantryman in both the Pacific and
Europe. He repeatedly refused offers
of a commission, preferring to serve as
a private in order to understand and
share the lives of ordinary enlisted men.
Finally commissioned on the battlefield
during bitter fighting on the Rhine in
winter 1945, Reinhart cut short a leave when his unit went back
into action and hitchhiked to rejoin his men. Providing covering
fire as his platoon retreated to avoid being cut off, Reinhart
gave his life to save theirs.
Bob Barron and Mac Reinhart were only two of the many
Andover and Abbot graduates who experienced World War II,
but they typify the entire group. Each represented Andovers
commitment to youth from every quarterBarron, a Jew
in an era of deep anti-Semitism; Reinhart, a day student on
scholarship who worked to support his widowed mother. The
intellectual awakening that led each to seek an active role in the
conflict occurred at Andover. Here, each first heard what became
a strong call to serve others, even at the riskand eventually,
the costof his own life. As former president George H.W.
Bush 42 has suggested, the war was the ultimate challenge toAndovers non sibitradition. When Franklin Roosevelts fateful
words rang out on the Andover campus and around the world
in December 1941, Barron, Reinhart, Bush, and more than 3,000
other graduates stepped forward to demonstrate that not for
self was not a slogan, but a summons to action. Here are some
of their stories.
[Editors note: Reinhart is pictured above as a seniorand just si x
years later as a sergeant (helmeted, above right) with the 398th
Infantry Regiment in France, where he was awarded his Bronze
Star Medal for heroic action.]
Reinhart
Barron
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1888
Richard G. Eaton
1906
Frank T. Leighton
1910
Harry E. Dow
1912
Carroll G. Riggs
1915
Edwin D. Rattray
1917
Raymond B. Miles
1920
Alfred W. Paine
1924
Seymour C. Hammond
1925
Albert W. Hawkes
1926
Frederick R. Grace
Warner Marshall Jr.
Layton Platt
Willard Reed Jr.
1927
Gerard G. Cameron
Frederick S. Roe
1928
John Creighton Jr.
1929
John DeWitt
1930
Roger D. Brown
Harold K. Hughes Jr.
1931
Richard T. Chapin
James R. Gillie
James R. Griswold
Charles O. Jenkins Jr.
Leonard W. Parker
Lucius T. Wing
1932
William C. Laird
John H. Richardson
William H. Robinson
Abraham Sophian Jr.
Waldron M. Ward Jr.
1933
Roger B. Martin
Raymond E. Packard
Robert H. Wilds Jr.
1934
Sherman Brayton
Roderick S.G. Hall
Henry T. Irwin Jr.
Wells Lewis
Walter H. Paige Jr.
John A. Strauss
1935
Walter E. Bell
Elmore Bostwick Jr.
Wirt R. Cates
Paul B. DeWitt
Charles E. Leary
Alexander A. McDonell Jr.
John G. Mersereau
Frederick J. Murphy Jr.
Kevin G. Rafferty
William W. ReiterHenry B. Stimson Jr.
1936
Henry F. Chaney Jr.
Edward A. Dunlap 3d
James D. Emerson
Robert M. Flanders
John W. Graham
George H.B. Green III
Roger W. Herrick
James L. Israel
George T. Land
Nixon Lee Jr.
David McG. Mersereau
Leonard F. Paine
Howard B. Pfaelzer
Walter H. RichardsonRobin Scully
Cyrus R. Taylor
Robert T. Thompson
1937
Edward P. Cunningham
Willard B. Eddy Jr.
Richard P. Howard
Raymond E. Keeney
Malcolm G. Main
Edmund Ocumpaugh IV
Robert O. Potter
Philip Williams Jr.
1938
Thomas K. Brown
Andrew M. Campbell
John C. CobbSamuel R. Detwiler Jr.
Alonzo G. Hearne Jr.
Vaughan Kendall
James E. Price II
Frank McC. Reinhart
Hovey Seymour
Frederick J. Shepard III
Parker C. Snell
1939
Edward S. Bentley Jr.
William B. Cole
Sheldon R. Coons Jr.
Theodore C. Corwin Jr.
Philip C. Dryden
Ainsworth B. Jones
Edward A. Marshall
Walter C. Wicker Jr.
Robert T. Wilson Jr.
1940
Eugene P.C. Constantin III
William T. Dargan
Norman H. Eaton
Nathaniel D. Gamage
Roger C. Kiley
George C. Nicoll
George W. Papen Jr.
Edward P. Poynter
William D. Rees
Donald F. Snell
1941
Robert K. Barron
Charles S. Burns
Thomas Cochran 2d
Richard T. Crossman
Paul L. Davidson
James R. Dicken
Daniel R. Hanna III
William R. MacDonald
John B. Miller IIJoseph E. Otis III
Charles C. Parker
Herbert E. Stilwell
Ralph N. Sulis
1942
William A. Adams Jr.
Benjamin G. Calder
James B. DeJarnette
John W. Gault Jr.
Lawrence C. Goodhue Jr.
James R. Gorman
Talbot M. Malcolm Jr.
James P. Markham
David F. Reilly
Peter W. Sommer
John H. Thompson
Gerard N. Twomey
1943
John C. Book
David W. Brown
Calvin Burrows
Jesse R. Clarke 3d
Pierre B.R. Cournand
James S. Hills
John D.P. McChesney
Raymer Schmid
Harold J. Sheridan Jr.
Frederick A. Stearns
1944
Edward C. Woodruff II
1946
Kennedy M. Smith
Andoverhonors itsWWII
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Far from the front lines, plenty of Andover Hill students and alumni contributed their
time and talents to the fight. They worked in Europe, America, and the Pacific, in fields
ranging from manufacturing to medicine to the arts. Their jobs included the incidental
as well as the monumental; chemist Joe Averback 38 worked on the Manhattan
Project, and architect G. Edwin Bergstrom (Class of 1893) designed the Pentagon,
completed in 1943.
They joined one of the largest workforce mobilization efforts in history. In 1940,
eight million Americans were unemployed; a year later, there were job shortages in
some industries. According to The Smithsonian, American workers built 14,000 ships,
88,000 tanks, 300,000 airplanes, and millions of guns by the end of the war. Ubiquitousposters touted the dual nature of the war effort; one read Its a two fisted fight
under two hands, one clutching a rifle and the other a wrench.
Many women joined the workforce for the first time, replacing men who had gone
off to fight. Some employers, including the Ford Motor Company, had never before
allowed women to hold non-secretarial jobs. Inspired by the image of Rosie the Riveter
and her We Can Do It! spirit, women embraced their newfound responsibility. By
1945, women comprised 36 percent of the nations workforce. Isabel K. Arms 32 worked
as a naval paymaster. You wanted to be doing something that was useful, says Emily
Amie McMurray Mead 44, who took a factory job to help the war effort during the
summer before her senior year. It really was a great feeling. We were all pitching in.
Here are the stories of just a few Andover alumni whose work helped to successfully
end the war.
War workby Susan H. Greenberg, insrucor in English
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Life in a war zoneby Sally Holm
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They were young children trapped in webs of enemy aggression, allied
paranoia and prejudice, and cruelty on both sides. Yet these four alumni
of Andover and Abbot survived their ordeals, absorbed their losses, and
brought the wisdom borne of tragedy with them to the safe haven of
boarding school in America.
Overshadowed by the December 7 bombing of Pearl Harbor, the
Japanese invasion of the Philippines later that day wreaked havoc on the
Young family, among many thousands of victims. The family, including
Gene Young 48, recently had settled in Manila from their home in Chinawhen Genes father, Clarence, became the Chinese consul generala
home to which they would never return. Gene was 11 years old. Also in
Manila, a young Peter Parsons 55 shivered as Japanese troops led his
father away.
As a small child in Japan, Steve Yamamoto 51 lived through multiple
air raids, bombings, evacuations, and tragic loss. His grandfather was
minister of munitions supply in the Japanese cabinet, his father a senior
Japanese navy officera path he had hoped to follow. The Americans
changed all that.
Across Europe, life was changedbrutally and irrevocablyfor so many.
One who would survive, with vivid memories and deep scars, was a young
French boy, Emmanuel dAmonville 50, who was caught up in the Nazis
sweep into France in 1940.
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The homefrontby Sally Holm
"There is one front and one battle where everyone in theUnited Statesevery man, woman, and childis in action.That front is right here at home, in our daily lives.
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Wartime athletics
de-emphasized team
sportsinterscholastic
competition being
curtailed by rationing
and added bodybuilding:
weightlifting, net or
rope climbing, and
hurdle-jumping. Some
students signed up to
work on local farms,
often including weekend
chores; others dug
ditches and accomplished
heavy outdoor work
ordinarily done by staff.
Faculty and students
served as air raid wardens and organized first-aid units a
fire brigades, gathered scrap metal, and sold war bonds.
Infirmary was designated the town of Andovers commu
hospital in case of emergency.
Every boy was required to make his own bed now and
table-service in Commons ended in favor of self-service. I
the teaching of foreign languages, James Grew drew on
aural teaching models being developed for the armed fo
concentrating on competence in speaking as well as the
mastery of reading and writing.
Altogether, more than 3,000 PA alumni joined the
military. Celebrations were jubilant on V-E Day in May 19
and on the return of the teacher-soldiers soon after Japa
unconditional surrender in August. The GI Bill brought
roughly two dozen veterans to PA to work intensively to
an Andover diploma. Housed on the edges of the campu
At schoolby Susan M. Lloyd,aculy emeria
Phillips Academy
At first, war seemed unlikely to the boys and men atop
Andover Hill. Most of the students parents, like their PA
teachers, were solid Republicans and automatically dismissive
of President Franklin Roosevelts foreign policies.
Gradually, at the
urgings of Stimson,
Hobson, and others,
Phillips Academy awoke
to the crisis. In the fall
of 1940, a small group
of British studentsescaping from Nazi
bombing had been
admitted. Headmaster
Claude Fuess described
European strife as a
war between right
and wrong. Fuesss
frosty dignity lent
importance to his words
and began to convince
the naysayers. The school entered 1941 with a growing
determination to become involved.
Fuess and the faculty agreed on temporary changes
on campus. Most ephemeral were new electives such as
Navigation, Mapping, Pre-Flight Aeronautics, and Riflery.
Much more durable would be the Andover Summer School,
created in 1942 to enable graduates to move more quickly
to a diploma. A number of Summer School participants were
able to graduate in February 1944 and 1945 and join right up,
diplomas in hand.
Stimson and Fuess
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they lived under rules far more flexible than those governing
the usual senior dormitory; still, their example inspired many
a slacker to hit the books. Beyond the tragedy of the 142
alumni who never returned home at all, victoryand the part
the school had played in achieving itappeared very much in
tune with Phillips Academys core values of leadership
and service.
Abbot Academy
War and peace contend in many adventurous souls;
certainly they did so at Abbot Academy, beginning more
than two years before Pearl Harbor. Evidence suggests that
many of Abbots women felt diminished by societys refusal
to allow them fully to share in wars ultimate sacrifices:
they would prove their strength by way of a boundless
commitment to the war effort. The Academys constitution
obliging the school to cultivate the useful rather than the
ornamentalimpelled the abandonment of business as
usual in wartime. If they could not battle for the cause, they
could prepare to advance it in every course taught or enrolled
in, every special activity undertaken.
Abbots World War II principal was
the learned and energetic Marguerite
Hearsey, schooled like many of her
faculty to worship European culture
in general and English culture in
particular. Only days after the Blitz
began, Hearsey made support ofBritish citizens and soldiers one of
Abbots primary educational missions.
Early in 1941, she and the Student
Council received an invitation to
join in funding a British ambulance unit. Council members
persuaded their peers to enter whole-heartedly into the job
of raising about $1,000 for their 10 percent contribution.
The ideal project! thought Hearseyonly, why cant Abbot
fund the entire unit itself? Overwhelmed with exhortation,
recalls one alumna, we dazedly voted away our allowances
and every other little amenity of our somewhat option-lacking
lives. In the first of a five-year flurry of fundraisers for similar
causes, their efforts raised an unprecedented $2,000, sent to
fund British war relief as well as the ambulance.
Faculty agreed to cancel weekends awayeven spring
vacation. With students they ate simple foods, rolled
thousands of
bandages, drilled
in front of
Draper Hall, and
made the best
of homegrown
entertainments
even combining
a few carefully
selected Abbot
girls with Phillips
Academy boys
in yearly coedGilbert and
Sullivan productions. A host of defense-related courses
were instituted, including First Aid, Motor Mechanics, Plane
Spotting, Weather, and a Protection-Production Plant in
which students learned to be air raid wardens, made dolls for
children in war-torn nations, and knit garments of all kinds.
Science teacher Eleanor Tucker
remembered that the sense of
community was stronger during the
war than it would ever be again.
Applications soared. And the Abbot
community grew more diverse
than ever, as it was a patriotic duty
to admit teenaged refugees from
abroad: two sisters from India, four
daughters of Oxford University
professors, a very few Jews, and
the first of three Young sisters who arrived from China by way
of the Philippinesall granted full tuition/board scholarships.
Abbot was a haven of order and stability, yet equally of
dedication and purpose. Wartime achievements underscored
the strength and efficacy of Abbots mission.
Tucker
Burns
Gorham
Twome
Hearsey
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When I was a student in 1975, An-dover celebrated the 200th anniversa-ry of Paul Reveres midnight ride witha fun and, for me, thrilling reenact-ment. I was living in a dorm named forhim! Revere had designed the PhillipsAcademy seal! With wonderful U.S.history teachers like Ed Quattlebaum,Tom Lyons, and the late Fritz Allis, I felthistory close around me.
Around the same time, my father,Jim Alter, told me that as a boy in the
1920s he met some elderly Civil War veterans. American his-tory is short, he told me. That Civil War veteran could haveshaken hands with a Revolutionary War veteran, which mademe only two degrees of separation from the founding ofthe Republic.
World War II is much closer to our own era but it feelsas remote for some people as the times of Paul Revere orAbraham Lincoln. The difference between something thathappened 50 years before ones birth and 150 or 200 yearsbefore can fade amid the pressures of modern life. For thosewithout much historical imagination, the events of the pastare equal in their irrelevance.
Except that World War II, the greatest military conflict inall of human history, is not yet beyond living memory, as Presi-dent Bush so evocatively suggests. He and people likemy 89-year-old father, who flew 30 missions ina B-24 over Nazi Germany, are a preciousif rapidly dwindling resource. Thoseof us who know veterans of thatwar owe it to ourselves andour children to connect withthese great Americans be-fore they go on to theirreward. The stories theytell are not just excit-ing (imagine havinga war story handyfor the 100th an-niversary of PearlHarbor in 2041),they help us copewith some of thegreat issues of ourown time.
World War II offers two great lessons. The first isappeasing aggressors doesnt work. That doesnt meanwe have to fight every villain around the world. In Vieand Iraq, the lessons of appeasement were over-learnedthe basic point that bullies (even in domestic politics) nebe confronted, not coddled, still applies.
The second big lesson of the postwar era is that tionism, while tempting when we have so many cchallenges at home, is not an option. This was the lessonHenry Stimson (Class of 1883) imparted to George Busand that Bush, my father, and others in the Greatest Getion are trying to impart to us. We live in an interdepeworld and must stay fully engaged to keep the peacehelp build a better world.
It wasnt just what the men and women of the WorlII generation did in the war that shaped our lives. Conwhat they did afterward. The postwar world they crewasnt perfect but it featured a commitment to educinnovation, security (at home and abroad), and equalitytransformed the country and, eventually, the world. Thetive for these changes was a sense that they had put theion the line for something more than the advancement orow self-interest, and that, as President Bush memorabin 1989, no life is complete without some service to othe
Its hard to imagine any memories and lessons relevant to our lives and our posterity. Maybe someo
Andover in 2145 will drive an ancient tank on cato celebrate the 200th anniversary of th
of World War II. Maybe some newdent will experience the same f
of history that I felt outsideRevere South more tha
years ago. Lets hope so
Jonathan Alter is a cnist for Bloombergan MSNBC analystthe author of twNew York Timessellers: The DefiMoment: FDRsdred Days and Triumph of Hoand The PromiPresident ObaYear One.
Why its important to remember World War Iby Jonathan Alter 75
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Also o noe, says Fried, is he growing impor-ance o Alumni Admission Represenaives(AARs), some 540 alumni around he counryand abroad who help he Academy manageincreasing demand or inerviews. AARsinerviewed 1,132 sudens las yeara nearly200 percen increase since 2003.
Our Alumni Admission Represenaives arean indispensable par o he admission eam,says Fried. Teir abiliy o ac on behal o headmission effor in heir local ciies and ownsexends our reach o youh rom every quarer.
Tracy Sweet
Head of School SearchInterviews and Evaluations Underway
Te Search Commitee began is work in earnes over he spring and summer on selecion o a successor o Head o School Barbara Landis Chase. Chaired by rusPeer Currie 74, he commitee is comprised o rusees and aculy, including BoaPresiden Oscar ang 56, ex officio: rusees Dan Cunningham 67, Susan Donahue 7Louis Elson 80, Amy Falls 82, Bill Lewis 74, and Josh Seiner 83; and aculy membClye Beckwih, insrucor in physics; Caherine Carer, insrucor in classics; SeCarer, chie operaing and financial officer; Linda Griffih, dean o communiy anmuliculural developmen and insrucor in English, and Diane Moore, chair and isrucor in philosophy and religious sudies. Te commitee has sourced candidarom backgrounds ha include independen schools, public educaion, higher educion, and he nonprofi secor. We have ocused on he bes schools in he counrhe mos relevan colleges and universiies, and leaders in educaional work in oundaion world, says Currie. We also have been sensiive o he specific eedbawe received rom he exended Andover communiy, boh abou he atribuneeded or he nex Head, as well as specific nominaions. Te process has yieldeapproximaely 300 candidaes.
Tis all he commitee has ocused is effors on evaluaing and meeing wicandidaes, some o whom are exraordinarily alened wih he energy, leadershbackground, defness o ouch, and ambiion or he Academy ha would ser ve wonderully well , Currie says.
For he laes updaes on he Head o School search, visiwww.andover.edu/headsearch.
Michael Reist Promoted to CIO
Michael Reis, Andovers ormer direcor o invesmenspromoed o chie invesmen officer in June. Reis, who also as inerim CIO, leads Andovers New York Ciybased invesoffice and is responsible or managemen o he Academys enmen asses. He succeeds Amy Falls 82, who lef he posiispring o become CIO and vice presiden or invesmens aRockeeller Universiy in New York Ciy.
I gives me grea pleasure o promoe someone rom wihin wih such ousacredenials and characerisics, said rusee om Israel 62, chair o he search comreasurer o he board, and chair o he invesmen commitee. Michael had been righ-hand man since he early days o he invesmen office, and has developed manysysems and proocols ha have made he office so successul.
Esablished in 2005, Andovers CIO posiion was he firs o is kind among radindependen schools.
Seve Carer, chie operaing and financial officer, added ha Reis sood ou among an imsive, seasoned group o candidaes, ciing his expansive knowledge o endowmen mmen coupled wih his co mprehensive undersanding o he Academys goals and value
Prior o joining he Andover invesmen office in 2006, Reis was employed by he Hley School in arryown, N.Y., where he helped execue he schools larges capial camo dae, he consrucion o a new middle school, and is firs public deb financing; haugh mahemaics and economics. A CFA charerholder, Reis began his proecareer in he invesmen banking division o Bear, Searns & Co. He holds a BA degreAmhers College and an MBA rom New York Universiys Sern School o Businelives in arryown, N.Y., wih his wie and wo daughers.
Budget, Campaign, andAdmission Top TrusteeSpring Agenda
Te Board o rusees approved he Fiscal Year 2012 budgeand increased he proposed aciliies renewal budge by $2 milliono begin o address iems on he deerred projecs lis. PeerCurrie 74, chair o he Finance Commitee, commended heAcademy or is coninued fiscal prudence during challengingeconomic imes. Tis is, in ac, he new normal, he said. I admirehe ac ha he whole place has coninued o keep hings snug.
In oher business:
Peter Ramsey, secretary of the Academy, and Tracy Sweet,direcor o communicaions, made a presenaion ha ocusedon an ambiious undraising agenda in FY12. Swee said
ha messaging sraegy over he nex year will ocus on hecampaign as caalys and he ways in wh ich philanhropyis changing he complexion o he campus and making adifference in he lives o sudens and aculy. Te Campaignor Andover closed FY11 a $234.6 million.
Jane Fried, dean of admission and assistant head for enrollment,research, and planning, repored on he recen recruimenseason, which marks he Academys ourh year under a need-blind policy, and acknowledged he ongoing conribuions oAlumni Admission Represenaives (see sory a righ).
e board authorized the purchase of the Methuen boathousepropery or $1.95 million. Te Academy has obained herequired permis, as well as phi lanhropic commimens o undhe purchase o he propery. Sie renovaion and consrucion,however, remain coningen upon achieving addiionalundraising goals.
Trustees toured the newly renovated R.S. Peabody Museumo Archaeology. Tey were joined by he Peabody AdvisoryCommitee and heard updaes on he aciliy and program romcommitee chair Marshall Cloyd 58 and museum direcorMalinda Blusain.
Trustees honored retiring alumni trustee Mary-Ann Somers 82.Board Presiden Oscar ang 56 described Somers as addingremendous dimension and diversiy and special markeingexperise o he boards work.
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BIG BLUE Welcome!
Tis years opening All-School Meeing was puncuaed by hehunderous cheers o he Class o 2012, words o wisdom rom Head oSchool Barbara Chase, and he annual procession o flags, one rom eacho he naions represened by members o he suden body.
Te firs official meeing o aculy, saff, and sudens also is an occasiono celebrae he communiys newes membershe 361 sudenswho consiue he enering class o 20112012. Coming rom 269differen schools and represening 41 saes and 25 counries, he classis characterized by its diversity, achievement, and promise. A few factsrelaed o he recen admission season:
e admit rate held steady at 14 percent, while the matriculation rateincreased 1 poin o 79 percen.
e entering class has a median estimated class rank of 99 percent anda median Secondary School Admission es oal score o 94 percen.
Of the entering class, 21 percent interviewed with Alumni AdmissionRepresenaives.
Jane Fried, dean o admission and assisan head or enrollmen,research, and planning, recognized that this is the rst year the entiresuden body was admited under he Academys need-blind policy.Since 2003, he year preceding he Sraegic Plan, he percenage osudens on aid has risen rom 36 percen o 46 percen. Te policy also
has allowed he Academy o increase access or ull scholarship sudens.
Tis year, 14 percen o he junior class is suppored by a ullscholarship compared o 8 percen o ninh-graders in 2003. Teimplemenaion o he 2004 Sraegic Plan has made an imporandifference in he lives o sudens and heir amilies across his naionand around his world, says Fried. We are very hankul o all alumni,parens, and riends who have generously suppored his iniiaive.
Fundraising effors coninue as he Academy seeks o raise he final$14 million oward is $72 million goal or financial aid.
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DATEL INE ANDOVER
Educators from Across the GlobeDiscuss Common Challenges
Dubbed he unlikely coaliion, seven dissimilar schools wih very similar goals ormedhe nucleus o an inaugural conerencespearheaded by Phillips Academyo sharebes-pracices innovaions or creaing globally compeen sudens. More han 100 educaorsrom nearly 40 public, privae, and charer schools rom as ar away as China and Souh Aricaatended he May 6 and 7 even, iled Sharing Bes Classroom Pracices: Conex or Change.
Te Academys Global Perspecives Group (GPG) sponsored he orum in Ke mper Audiorium oencourage paricipans o hink ouside he confines o heir amiliar conex hrough he sharing oinnovaions by schools ha are unlike each oher, says GPG coordinaor Peer Merrill.
In empirical expression of the conferences mission, organizers provided myriad ways to take part.Andover sudens saioned in he audioriums conrol booh aced as inerpreers or Chineseparticipants, who listened to real-time translations via headphones. Organizers also provideda simulcas o he orum in he Underwood Room nex door or ineresed communiy
members. A ape o he simulcas, dubbed in Chinese, was subsequenly provided o a groupo educaors in China.
Te inclusion o primary, secondary, and eriary insiuions rom many pars o hecounry and indeed rom our coninens was our answer o he global naure o heconerence, explains emba Maqubela, dean o aculy and assisan head or academics.Te choice o hree keynoe speakerswo rom colleges (Harvard and ufs) and onerom he LEAP School in Cape ownwas inended o provide objeciviy. Merrill added,Impeus or he conerence was embas awareness ha GPG had unique opporuniies oconnec wih remarkable insiuions around he counry and he world. Te conerence was anoureach effor wih hree goals: allow he PA communiy o learn rom hese programs; allow hepartners to interact with one another; allow other schools and organizations to participate both bylisening andatending how-o workshops.
One paricipan helped urher spread he orums message. Among his many wees, DennisRichards o he Global Educaion Collaboraive implored his ollowers o ge involved: Grea day aPhillips Academy con. Te need or Global Ed leading o acion is urgen. oo ew see his.
Tis is GPGs firs oureach effor since is incepion in 2006 by Maqubela, who, wih he supporo Head o School Barbara Landis Chase, developed he mulidisciplinary aculy advisory group owork oward he goals o Andovers 2004 Sraegic Plan. Funding or he conerence was provided byhe Chrisian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundaion. Plans o r addiional conerencesin May 2012a Howard Universiy in Washingon, D.C., and in 2013 a he LEAP Schools in Cape ownare underway.
Amy Morris 92
Welcome New Trustees!
Tree new members joined he Board o rusees in July. Amy Falls 82 oNew York Ciy and Rober Campbell 66 o Rockpor, Maine, were elecedo six-year erms as charer rusees, and Seven Ho 74 o Vancouver, BriishColumbia, has been appoined o a wo-year erm as an alumni rusee.
Amy Falls:Afer serving as Phillips Academys chieinvesmen officer or six years, Falls recenly joinedTe Rockeeller Universiy as CIO and vice presidenor invesmens. Falls became Andovers firs CIO in2005, overseeing he Academys invesmen office andmanagemen o he schools endow men. Prior o herAndover posiion, she was a managing direcor andglobal fixed income sraegis or Morgan Sanley.
An acive voluneer and philanhropis, Falls has serv ed PA in a number ocapaciiesas a member o he Insiue or Recruimen o eachers Advisory
Board, Andover Developmen Board, and rusee Finance Commitee, and asclass agen and career menor.
She holds a BA degree rom Georgeown Universiy and an MA rom he JohnF. Kennedy School o Governmen a Harvard Universiy. She lives in NewYork Ciy wih her husband, Harley Rogers, and heir hree young children.
Robert Campbell:Campbell joined U.S. rus in1970, Beck, Mack & Oliver in 1980, and FiremansFund Insurance in 1986. Afer a brie sin wihSeamboa Capial, he rejoined Beck, Mack & Oliverin all 1990. He serves as parner in he employee-owned firm, which manages $3.5 billion or invesors.
He has been generous boh in his philanhropy andin his voluneer effors on behal o Andover. He currenly serves as cochairo he Financial Aid ask Force and as a member o he Campaign SeeringCommitee. His pas alumni aciviies include serving on he Gelb AdvisoryCommitee and Alumni Council, and as class co-head agen.
Campbell holds a BA degree rom Williams College. He lives in Rockpor,Maine, wih his wie, A my. Tey have hree grown children.
Steven Ho:Ho joins he board as an alumni ruseeand cochair o he Annual Giving Board (AGB), onwhich he has ser ved since 2007. He is presiden oFairmon Shipping (Canada) Ld., a ull-service ship
managemen company based in Briish Columbia.
Hos voluneer work and philanhropy exend omany areas o he Academy, mos recenly he AGB.He is a reiring member o he Alumni Council and he Alumni ParenCommitee. He also serves as class co-head agen and has served as AlumniParen Fund cochair.
He holds a BA degree rom Columbia Universiy. He and his wie, Jaymie, livein Vancouver, B.C. Teir srong legacy connecion o Andover includes heirhree children, Anna 06, Sara 08, and Ben 11.
Kemper ScholarsWelcome New Recruiter
A reunion o Kemper Scholars in Goetingen, Germany, onAugus 21 brough ogeher he deparing program recruier, OtoVehrenkampwho has served since 1975and his successor,Anje Lewien 02, wih one curren and seven ormer Scholars.Standing, from le, are: Carl Koeckert 09, Manuel Rodriguez 08,Philipp Giro 12, Jonas Allerbeck 07, Lewien, Oto Vehrenkamp,and Dunja Vehrenkamp 77; kneeling, rom lef, are: PiaAehnlich 10, Laura Moreno Morales 10, and SvenjaVehrenkamp 09. For more han 35 years, he Kemper Scholarsprogram has chosen one or wo European sudens o spend heirsenior year a Andover.
Andover Musicians WinPrestigious Fischoff Bronze
Cellis Madeleine ucker 11 (picured ar lef) and pianisDavid Lim 12wih ellow New England Conservaory o Musicviolinist Ingrid Yenwon the bronze medal at the 2011 Fischo
Naional ChamberMusic Compeiion aNore Dame Universiyin Indiana in May. Terio was enered in hejunior division o whahas become he worldslarges chamber musiccompeiion awarding oneo he mos coveed musicprizes today.
ucker, he winnero anoher fiercely
compeiive scholarship o an elie join program in New York aJuilliard School o Music and Columbia Universiy, is coninuingher sudies here. Lim is a senior a Andover.
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2011INDUCTEES
This years standing-room-only
induction of Andover alumni andfaculty emeriti into the Athletics
Hall of Honor took place in Kemper
Auditorium on June 11 during
Reunion Weekend. The eight
inductees, selected from more than
300 nominees, were recognized for
their outstanding accomplishments
in athletics and the exceptional
ways their lives have reflected the
values of the Academy.
Opening remarks and the
introduction of new inductees by
Athletics Committee cochairs Dan
Dilorati 75 and Abigail Harris 96
were followed by a moving
keynote address by ESPN sports
reporter George B. Smith Jr. 83.
Director of Athletics Michael Kuta
provided closing remarks.
eadR more about
the 2011 inductees @
www.andover.edu/magazine
Nominations for the 2012Andover Athletics Hall of Honorare now being accepted online atwww.andover.edu/alumni/hallofhonor.
SPORTS TALK
William S. Belichick 71
Strong performer on thegridiron as a center during hisAndover PG year
Lettered in football, squash,and lacrosse at WesleyanUniversity
Currently in his 12th seasonas head coach of the New England Patriots, his 36thas an NFL coach
Only head coach in NFL history to win three SuperBowl championships (2002, 2004, 2005) in a four-year span
Actively involved in many communitycharitable events
Arthur R.T. Hillebrand(Class of 1896)
Standout tackle during histime at Andover
Captain of Princetons foot-ball and baseball teams; earnedfootball All-American honors
Football coach at William Penn Charter Schoolin Philadelphia
Varsity baseball coach at the U.S. Naval Academy
Varsity football coach at Princeton; won nationalchampionship in 1903
Elected posthumously to the College Football Hall ofFame in 1970
Thomas J. Lou Hudner Jr. 43
Received ve varsityletters while at Andover
Graduated from U.S. NavalAcademy in 1946
Designated a naval aviatorin 1949 and assigned toFighter Squadron 32 aboardthe USS Leyte
Presented with the Medal of Honor byPresident Truman in 1951 for heroic actionin the Korean War
Served as Massachusetts Commissioner ofthe Department of Veterans Services from1991 to 1999
Meredith Hudson Johnston 01
Awarded 11 varsityletters while at Andover
Field hockey and ice hockey
team captain her senior year Participated in 1999 Junior
Olympics as a member ofthe U.S. National U16 FieldHockey Team
Named Boston GlobeNew England Prep-SchoolFemale Athlete of the Year in 2001
Led Yale in 2003 to the ECAC eld hockeychampionship
Overcame Hodgkins lymphoma to run the ChicagoMarathon in 2006
Paul Kalkstein 61
Played basketball andlacrosse while at Andover
Joined PA faculty in 1970as an instructor in English
Coached both boys andgirls in a variety of sports at all levels
Holds the record of 168 varsity wins, thany PA lacrosse coach
Served as athletic director from 1984 t
Founded AndoverAgain, an online leprogram for alumni
Raymond A. Lamontagne 53
Played multiple sports atAndover, including football,track, and baseball
Running back on theundefeated 1952 footballteam; won Coachs Awardfor baseball
Won baseball MostValuable Player Award at Yale
Declined a major league offer to teachEnglish in China for two years
Became a group leader for Crossroads school in West Africa
Worked with Sargent Shriver as an earof the Peace Corps
Helped raise funds to build Hole in the for children with life-threatening diseasto serve as board chair
Thomas E. Pollock III 61
Captained PAs 1961 rowingteam under the tutelage ofCoach Bill Brown 34
Inducted into the HarvardVarsity Club Hall of Famealong with the entire1965 Varsity Mens Heavy-weight Crew
Competed in the 1964 Summer Olympin Tokyo
Rowed in the winning boat in the 1965Championship in Lucerne, Switzerland
Served as Alumni Admissions RepresenAndover for two decades
Author of The Rising: Journeys in the WGlobal Warming
William S. Smoyer 63 At Andover, earned three
varsity letters in soccer,three in hockey, and two inbaseball
Earned All-Ivy honors insoccer at Dartmouth, plusthree letters in both soccer and hockey
Described as a superb athletecompalways gracious
Served as a second lieutenant in the Mwas killed in action in Vietnam in 1968
Smoyer Family Field was created at Anto honor Bill and his brother David 59
Taking Center Stage at The Fringe
Fory-hree PA sudensan ebullien mix o hespians, dancers, andmusiciansook heir alens o he srees and sages o Edinburgh,Scoland, in mid-Augus a he renowned Fesival Fringe. For he firsime, Andover presened wo separae perormances, an original danceiledPhysical Graffitiand a rousing musical,Hot Grog.
Sudens were accompanied by Erin E. Srong, dance insrucor and chairo Andovers heare and dance deparmen; dance insrucor JudihWombwell; heare and dance insrucors Mark Efinger and Billy Murray;musical direcor Chrisina Landol; and cluser dean Cindy Efinger, whoprovided addiional suppor.
On previous ours we were guaraneed an audience, explains MarkEfinger. Tis ime as we were oally on our own, perorming or purelywilling and paying cusomers. Te sunning cosumes ha Billy Murrayand his sudens designed and creaed were a compelling inviaion oboh shows. Blackbeard (Andrew Schlager 12), in he srees o Edin-burgh wih a 5-year-old under his arm, declaiming I babysi! was hardo urn down.
Tanks o an Abbo Academy Associaion Gran, sudens also de-signed eye-caching -shirs and sophisicaed flyers. One o
he mos exciing momens o he rip, says Srong, waswaching our sudens promoe heir shows on he
Royal Mile (picured above) amids housands ooher perormers.
Direced by Wombwell, Physical Graffiti wasperormed by he Andover Dance Group, anensemble o PAs bes suden dancers, and cho-
reographed by Wombwell and Srong. Se o hemusic o Led Zeppelin, he mulimedia producion
eaured a usion o dance orms, including hip-hop,ap, swing, and conemporary.
Hot Grog,a pirae musical direced by Efinger, was perormedby sudens rom PAs heare program. Te producion is a Musi-cians Teare showcase, a hearical orm creaed in he 1970s by BlandSimpson and Jim Wann, and urher refined by Te Red Clay Ramblers,whose members insruced sudens in Blue Grass syles during work-shops suppored by an Abbo Gran las January.
Tis was Andovers eighh rip o he Edinburgh Fesival Fringe, helarges ars esival in he world.
Jill Clerkin
Along with
describing PAs Hot
Grogperformance
as lively and
swash-buckling,
Three Weeks, a
major professional
reviewer at the
festival, noted:
Direction is
inventive and
interesting, making
excellent use of the
space and creating
more than youd
imagine possible
out of step-ladders
and sheets.
Brilliance ahoy!
HEADLINE
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LETIC
PA
Named Coach of the Year:Paul Murphy 84 (girls swimming)and Peter Drench (softball), by theLawrence, Mass., Eagle-Tribune
Honored:Jun Oh 12 as WinterSwimmer of the Year, by theEagle-Tribune
Captured:Big East Championshipin softball, PAs first in a decade
Earned:Big East MVP honors, byKayla Maloney 13
Named:Maloney, Ann Doherty 11,and Nicole Pelletier 13, to nine-player All-Tournament team
Nabbed:First place in the NewEngland Prep School Ultimate Leaguechampionship for the secondstraight year
Seized:Boys tennis Class A NewEngland Championship victory,following an undefeated season
Reclaimed:New England Prep SchoolDivision 1 Track championships, bythe boys and girls track and fieldteams, the second consecutive titlefor the boys and a record fourthconsecutive title for the girls. The girlsteam racked up 150.33 points, thehighest team total in a decade.
Broken x 3:NEPSTA records andschool records in the 4x100m relaywith a time of 49.50 sec., by DianaTchadi 14, Rebecca Wagman 13,Aniebiet Abasi 11, and AlexisWalker 12; 9th-grade class record inthe 300m intermediate hurdles witha time of 47.85 sec., by Tchadi
Toppled: Exeters seven-year reign,with Andovers 2011 New EnglandRoad Cycling Championship victoryits first in a decadefollowing anundefeated season. Best and first placeoverall in girls A: Alex Morrow 12.Second overall in boys A: MattLloyd-Thomas 12
Won:Silver, by Andover crewin the mens eight grand finalat the USRowing Youth NationalChampionships in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Earned:All-American status fromthe National Interscholastic SwimmingCoaches Association, by AmyZhao 14 (50m freestyle) and sistersKendall 11 and Lilybet MacRae 13(diving); represents the first AA statusfor a member of the Andover girlsswim team since 2005.
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CONNECTIONCONNECTION
Reunion 2011Nearly 1,500 alumni, family members, and guests gatheredon campus in early June for Reunion 2011. Catching up withclassmates, favorite dormmates, and long-lost friends was, ofcourse, the most popular activity. Other weekend highlightsincluded festive cocktail receptions and class dinners, theAndover Athletics Hall of Honor induction ceremony, andopen houses at CAMD, the Brace Center for Gender Studies,the Andover Inn, the Peabody Museum, and the AddisonGallerys new Sidney R. Knafel Wing.
Lively and informative learning opportunities were offeredin nine Back to the Classroom sessions. Led by current PAfaculty, courses included Global Islams, Gene Silencing,and a hands-on introduction to archaeology. Two timely andwell-attended alumni panels addressed the topics of health carereform and current foreign policy challenges.
eeS hundreds of reunion photos on BlueLink, PAs onlinealumni community, at http://bluelinkalumni.andover.edu
The Class of 06s Aba
Temeng, Mgbechi
Erondu, Chichi
Erondu, and Whitney
Dublin at an event to
socialize with faculty
and former faculty in
Borden Gym
Awarded annually to the class with
the highest percentage of reunion
attendance, The Class of 1891
Bowl is presented by Oscar Tang 56to Class of 2006 class agents Derek
Strykowski and Kassie Archambault.Nick Mele,
Christopher
Callahan,
and Andrew
McKinnon, all
Class of 2001,
meet for lunch
in the Cage on
Saturday.
Caroline Towbin 06
and her mother,
Lisa Barlow 76, in
Cochran Chapel
following the Annual
Meeting of theAlumni Association
In Adventures in Astronomy, physics
instructor Clyfe Beckwith explains the
workings of the Gelb Science Center
observatorys 16-inch reflector telescope.
hn Macomber, Rick Hudner, Cliff Crosby, and Bill Creelman,
Class of 1946, at Friday evenings cocktail reception
Photos by Gil Talbot and Bethany Versoy
At Fridays Welcome Buffet Di
instructor Seth Bardo (center)
(second from right) with 06 c
Wadland, Jevan Jammal, Jami
Dublin, and Tess Scott
From left, Betsy Cadbury 63, Pri Richards Phenix 37, Flosje Palacios
Duterloo 51, and Clemency Chase Coggins 51 gathering for Friday
evenings Abbot dinner in Davis Hall
Newest inductees into the An
Athletics Hall of Honor includ
left, Lou Hudner 43, Bill BelicMerri Hudson Johnston 01, P
Kalkstein 61, and Ray Lamon
Leslie Stroh 61, Jon Charnas 61, and Liliane Rubin
(wife of Jim Rubin 61, not pictured) at the 50th Reunion
Lobster Bake on Saturday
George Bartlett 61
daughter Kate Bar
Kimball 01 and he
husband, Greg Kim
in Cochran Chapel
Lindsay Baker 05 with Head of School
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Washington, D.C. Providence, R.I.Nantucket
Chatham, Mass.Chatham, Mass.
Philadelphia
Wash
Phillips Academy Alumni/Parent Events,October 2011Mid-February 2012
Oct. 2123 Andover Parents Weekend
Oct. 22 Boston Head of the Charles Regatta
Oct. 24 New York 1980s Reception
Oct. 25 St. Louis College Young Alumni Ev