compass magazine | summer 2015

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A Connected Community

An administrator, a teacher, a student and a trustee gather on Vanderlip Lawn.

Summer 2015 // Issue 3

Office of Communications

Executive Director of Marketing and CommunicationsBarbara Najar

Director of Communications, EditorLaurie Hanley

Online Communications SpecialistSalvador Paniagua

Graphic DesignSusan Piper

PhotographyLeslie DavisonDoug MorganSalvador PaniaguaFrances PullaraStephanie Uchima-Carney ’00 Mark Wang ’17and community members

CopywritingScott DaileyMindy GormleyLaurie HanleyNatalie Johnson

The Compass is published by the Chadwick School Office of Communications for parents, students, alumni and the greater Chadwick community.

Please direct any questions, corrections, news items or photographs to:

The Compass EditorChadwick Communications Office26800 S. Academy DrivePalos Verdes Peninsula, CA 90274-3997(310) 377-1543, ext. [email protected]

Frederick T. Hill Headmaster

OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT

Executive Director of Development and Alumni Relations Laura Dicovitsky

Director of Annual Giving Mary Baldovin

Development Associate Leslie Davison

Major and Planned Gifts Anna Lucier

Archivist Frances Pullara

Director of Alumni Engagement Stephanie Uchima-Carney ’00

COMPASS

Founded in 1935, Chadwick School is a nonprofit, nondenominational independent day school accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges as a kindergarten through twelfth-grade school.

Chadwick School does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability or national origin in the employment of any staff, or in the administration of any school programs, policies and privileges, including admission, financial aid, scholarships, academics, athletics and extracurricular activities.

Upper School students’ chalk art at the Open Studios Art Exhibit.

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F E ATU R E S

14 A Global Vision Fulfilled Students experience life as citizens of the world

18 Teaching Character in the Humanities The intersection of history and ethics 20 Disrupting the Universe Senior Apex projects aim for impact

22 Looking Ahead: The Village School A conversation with Director of the Village School Josie Bahedry

24 Paying It Forward Kate McEvilly ’15 inspires others to act

28 What’s Ahead for Chadwick International Incoming CI Head of School Shelly Wille shares her thoughts

D E PA RTM E NT S

4 New Administrators7 Educator of the Year: Natalie Johnson8 2014-2015 New Trustees30 Athletics34 Performing and Visual Arts42 Class of 201549 Alumni Events and Awards54 Class Notes 59 Faculty and Staff Notes60 In Memoriam

Cover photo, left to right: Executive Director of Development and Alumni Affairs Laura Dicovitsky, Choral Director Kevin Babuder, Kate McEvilly ’15 and Trustee Chris Adishian ’87

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OUR MISSION

Chadwick, a K-12 school founded in 1935, is dedicated to the development of academic excellence, exemplary character, and self-discovery through experience. We live in accordance with our core values of respect, responsibility, honesty, fairness, and compassion.

Through active participation in a school community, students prepare to contribute meaningfully to their local, national and global communities. Talented and caring faculty and staff cultivate in each student the joy of learning, self-confidence, well being, and the individual gifts they each possess. By living and learning in an atmosphere of integrity and trust, students come to expect the best of themselves and others.


DEAR CHADWICK COMMUNIT Y MEMBERS ,

In this issue of Compass, our focus is on our engaged Chadwick community – a community that has continued to grow and develop for 80 years. The Chadwick Class of 2015 celebrated their commencement and their launch into life beyond Chadwick on June 13, surrounded by the community that has nurtured them throughout their childhood and adolescence. As our 82 graduates make this momentous transition, they do so knowing that there is a committed core of people in their lives who are truly invested in their success: the loved ones who have raised them, the teachers who have both challenged and encouraged them, and one of the most influential forces in their lives thus far – their classmates. As a group, they have experienced the power of the Chadwick community. Perhaps the 2015 yearbook staff said it best in their latest edition: “Chadwick, at its heart, stirs connection within its community.” Our shared community is one where people genuinely cheer on their peers, celebrate each other’s successes and strive to see the best in others. In fact, Chadwick students and alumni routinely cite the trust afforded them in their relationships with our faculty and staff as a highly valued and defining characteristic of their Chadwick experience. That trust both informs their actions and affirms their basic goodness, inspiring them to become leaders and individuals of exemplary character through earned self-confidence. We live in an age of instant and seemingly inescapable digital “connections,” so much so that we are regularly exhorted to disconnect and experience physical reality! But not all connections are created equal, and the relationships enjoyed by the Chadwick community could not be more real. They have been forged over time through shared experiences, whether learning to be wonderful friends in the Village School, celebrating the positive results of hard work in a challenging Middle or Upper School course, supporting each other on the Senior Trip, or learning to serve the greater good. Margaret Chadwick states in “A Dipperful of Humanity” that “teachers made this school,” and it is as true today as it was in Chadwick’s earliest days. Our teachers and administrators are exceptional educators, providing the positive daily experiences and continual modeling of the core values that are the foundations of life at Chadwick on both our campuses. Our trustees, many of them also alumni, provide an immeasurable service as guardians of Chadwick’s mission, fiscal health and long-term vision. Six new trustees were appointed to the Board in 2014-2015, and all trustees have freely provided their expertise for the benefit of our community. Our alumni stay connected as well. They mentor our students, share college knowledge, give to our Annual Fund and endowment, and serve as a worldwide professional network. They return to campus to visit favorite teachers, enjoy alumni events, and serve as outstanding trustees and dedicated faculty and staff members. Their enduring commitment to Chadwick and its students is a demonstration of community at its finest. Chadwick families provide incredible and much appreciated support to each other and to the school, generously giving of their time and resources and rallying around each other in times of need. In so doing, they powerfully model the value of community for their children. As you read these pages, I hope you will enjoy learning more about our community members as well as how Chadwick’s core values are expressed in action, both in and out of the classroom. Thank you for helping to make our shared Chadwick community a vibrant, positive and principled influence in the lives of our students and, through them, on their future communities.

Yours sincerely,

FR EDER ICK T. HILLHeadmaster

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Chadwick introduced former corporate branding expert Barbara Najar this year in the newly created position of Executive Director of Marketing and Communications. Najar brings over 20 years of experience to the job and is excited about the opportunity to lead Chadwick’s communications efforts. “Chadwick is an amazing place that embodies creativity, collaboration, leadership and humanity,” says Najar. “Communicating the essence of what Chadwick offers, as well as the curriculum and experiences is a creative challenge I’m looking forward to tackling. In my first few months on the job, I’ve already learned that Chadwick is much more than a brand, so the mission of the communications team will be to ‘show, not tell’ the Chadwick story.” As a former marketing executive at Honda, Najar’s responsibilities included developing and directing corporate advertising strategy, and, in particular, diversity advertising to reach Hispanic, African-American and Asian new car buyers. As such, she was the lead creator of an award-winning video series for Honda as well as an innovative music sponsorship in conjunction with America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Najar’s initiatives set all-time highs in brand image ratings, website traffic and social media engagement, and contributed to Honda’s number one position in sales and owner loyalty among key audiences. “The majority of parents and students considering independent schools want communications that are informative but also compelling and personal,” says Chadwick Headmaster Ted Hill. “Barbara’s experience in all facets of marketing will help guide Chadwick toward developing best practices, processes and systems in communications. We are thrilled

that she has decided to join us and lead this important area for our school.” “What inspires me most about working at Chadwick is the culture. This is a place that expects students, faculty and staff to showcase their talents and explore their passions, and supports them in doing it. I decided to enter the world of education because this is a place of perpetual learning and growth,” says Najar. One of the first major initiatives Najar’s team is undertaking is the development of a communications tagline that captures the essence of Chadwick. Noting that it’s impossible to talk about Chadwick in a few words, Najar

believes a tagline can help summarize the Chadwick educational experience for prospective and current parents and students. From there, the communications team will focus on bolstering positive word-of-mouth advertising about Chadwick School. This involves bringing to life positive Chadwick experiences through visual/video storytelling

over a number of communication channels, including an enhanced website, increased social media presence, and other printed and visual materials. Najar notes that results will be measured using enhanced analytics tools for the website and social media in particular. Other priority initiatives include streamlining communications to current and prospective parents so all school audiences can easily find information, understand it, engage with it, and take action as appropriate. Adds Najar, “My long-term goal is that when people hear the name Chadwick School, they will immediately know who we are and what we stand for, and that perception will be powerful and consistent, whether you ask someone in America or Korea.”

NEW ADMINISTRATORS

Getting to Know Barbara Najar, Executive Director of Marketing & Communications

FUN FACTS ABOUT BARBARA

. . . . . . . . . . . .

Hobbies: Spending time with my kids; hiking; going to the beach;

dancingFavorite food:Pepperoni pizza

Guilty pleasure:Ice cream with almonds

Current playlist:Sam Smith, Bruno Mars

Favorite vacation spot:Hawaii

One word to describe yourself:Pioneer

Last book you read:“Thrive,” by Arianna Huffington

“CHADWICK IS AN AMAZING PLACE THAT EMBODIES CREATIVITY, COLLABORATION, LEADERSHIP AND HUMANITY.”


After joining Chadwick last August as the newest Director of the Village School, Josie Bahedry has joyfully embraced life in the Village. “Margaret Chadwick inspires me as an educator,” said Bahedry. “Her philosophy and dream motivate me. Mrs. Chadwick believed that children need to experience learning in both an intellectual and physical way, and to do it in an atmosphere of caring and respect for them as people – both ideals that fit well with my own philosophy.” “I enjoy watching those magical moments with students when they suddenly connect a new idea with their actions or make a leap of understanding, and I understand from a parent’s perspective that all elements of learning should be a joyful process. I think both my experience as an educator and a mum have equipped me to lead Chadwick’s outstanding Village School to even greater heights, working in concert with the incredibly talented and dedicated Village faculty.” Bahedry was born in the United Kingdom, and her family moved to Nigeria when she was a young child. Josie began her formal education there before entering boarding school in England at age seven. She attended college in Scotland, earning undergraduate degrees in History, Early Education, and Religious Education from St. Andrew’s College of Education, as well as a Scottish Certificate of Education from St. Margaret’s Convent in Edinburgh.

Bahedry’s experience includes serving as Assistant Head and Lower School Director at the John Thomas Dye School in Los Angeles, a highly regarded K-6 school. She joined John Thomas Dye in 1996 as a second-grade teacher, moving on to become Dean of Faculty and then Assistant Head and Lower School Director. Bahedry began her career as a kindergarten and first-grade teacher at the International School of Choueifat in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Following her time in the UAE, she moved to the United States and held pre-K and third grade positions at the Virginia Beach Country Day School and Baylake Pines Schools, respectively. Bahedry considers herself a global citizen after having lived and worked all over the world. “I feel very comfortable in all types of situations. Living in these various cultures has shaped me as a person,” she says. “I can meet people from all walks of life, and I’ve been exposed to a variety of curricular systems and educational philosophies. I’m not locked into the mantra that there is only one way to do things.” “Josie stood out as the right person to lead the charge in the Village at this time,” said Headmaster Ted Hill. “Her energy, team-building skills, success in fostering excellence in teaching, and love of children and adults have been major strengths throughout her career and will serve Chadwick well into the future.” Bahedry’s goals for the Village School include

providing even more depth in the learning process to accommodate exceptionally advanced learners, and increasing the number of assistant teachers to allow for more individualization. She is also establishing a research-based mindfulness curriculum that teaches children to pause to reflect and connect with others in a way that balances the fast-paced world

they live in. “I’ve always believed that the social and emotional needs of a child should be met early on,” says Bahedry. “Once that happens, children are more able to successfully tackle academic challenges. Who is going to want to learn if it isn’t enjoyable and stimulating? It’s possible to provide both advanced academics and a nurturing environment where children feel valued for who they are.”

Getting to Know Josie Bahedry, Director of the Village School

FUN FACTS ABOUT JOSIE. . . . . . . . . . . .

Hobbies: Reading and meditating

Favorite food: Indian food

Guilty pleasure: Belgian chocolateCurrent playlist: Fleetwood Mac;

Dave Mathews BandFavorite vacation spot:

ThailandOne word to describe

yourself: Joyful “I’VE ALWAYS BELIEVED

THAT THE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL NEEDS OF A CHILD SHOULD BE MET EARLY ON.”


Chadwick warmly welcomed new Executive Director of Development and Alumni Relations Laura Dicovitsky in April 2015. She joined Chadwick from Chandler School, where she served as Director of Development for the past five years, but Chadwick captured her attention years ago. “I knew about Chadwick as a parent from Poly, as both of my daughters played volleyball and basketball games against Chadwick. I always looked forward to coming down to this beautiful campus and I remember noticing the joy and camaraderie coming from the Chadwick sidelines,” says Dicovitsky. Dicovitsky fondly recalls her first visit to Chadwick to watch one of her daughters play basketball. “Poly pulled ahead at the end of the game to win. Parents who had made the long drive huddled with the coach as he discussed the dining options on the way home. As we exited the gym, there were the Chadwick parents, smiling and inviting us to join them for an amazing dinner spread that had been prepared for Spirit Day at Chadwick. They could not have been more gracious, even after a tough loss,” she said. “As a parent, I saw them model good sportsmanship and generosity. As a development officer, I see what a privilege it will be to work with such an outstanding community.” Dicovitsky plans to first spend time understanding the culture of Chadwick and evaluating what the school does, why we do it, and where we want to be in the future. She believes that her previous experience running annual funds and serving as campaign director for multimillion-dollar campaigns will serve her well as the program’s new leader. In addition, she plans to devote a great deal of attention and dedication to alumni programming. “Independent schools, with their focus on

parents and students, have not always put a huge emphasis on alumni programming. I believe these two pillars should be cultivated at the same time,” says Dicovitsky. “Keeping alumni engaged in life at Chadwick will help them see that we truly value their opinion.” Dicovitsky received her B.A. with high distinction in Sociology from the University of Virginia and her M.A. in Journalism from the University of North Carolina School of Journalism. She worked as a journalist before moving into development, serving as an editor and writer for the Augusta Chronicle and The (Baltimore) News American. She also worked as the Associate Director of the Dartmouth College News Service and started the Television/Radio Office at the University of Virginia News Service. Beginning in 1987, Dicotvitsky worked on and off at Foothill Country Day School, ultimately as Director of Development and Alumni Affairs, before accepting the Director of Development position at Chandler School.

“Laura brings more than 20 years’ experience in leadership and development in education, in K-8 as well as university organizations,” says Chadwick Headmaster Ted Hill. “She led the Chandler Annual Fund to a record 99 percent parent participation rate in 2014, and she led the successful completion of the first phase

of Chandler’s $15 million capital campaign. We are excited to have her join our team and bring her expertise and passion to our development and alumni relations efforts.” Dicovitsky and her husband, Gary, are the proud parents of two daughters, both graduates of the Polytechnic School in Pasadena. Jessie, a Princeton graduate, is now on the creative team at Showtime. Rose graduated from Dartmouth College, where she played varsity volleyball, and is currently working in a biochemistry laboratory in Hanover, New Hampshire, while applying to veterinary schools.

Meet Laura Dicovitsky, Executive Director of Development and Alumni Relations

FUN FACTS ABOUT LAURA. . . . . . . . . . . .

Hobbies: Playing and watching tennis;

travelingFavorite food:

Maryland blue crabsGuilty pleasure:

Eating Maryland blue crabs; chocolate

Favorite vacation spots: Hawaii and Paris

One word to describe yourself:Collegial

Last book you read: “A Dipperful of Humanity,”by Margaret Lee Chadwick

“KEEPING ALUMNI ENGAGED IN LIFE AT CHADWICK WILL HELP THEM SEE THAT WE TRULY VALUE THEIR OPINION.”


Intelligent and innovative. A rigorous historian. A compelling teacher open to new ideas. These are a few of the phrases used by peers to describe History Department Chair Natalie Johnson, who was honored as Chadwick’s Educator of the Year at the 34th Annual Palos Verdes Peninsula Rotary Club’s Educator of the Year Dinner this past fall. The annual event salutes outstanding educators at local schools. During her nine-year tenure at Chadwick, Johnson has taught ninth-grade World History, 11th-grade U.S. History and A.P. U.S. History, and 12th-grade A.P. Government. “I became a teacher because I loved the school environment. I enjoyed being challenged,” says Johnson. “My goal is to prepare critical and creative thinkers to make informed, ethical decisions. By understanding the factors that shape individual, national, and global identities, Chadwick students will be able to embrace and respect cultural differences and alternative perspectives.” “Natalie combines her rigorous approach to history with a remarkable openness to discussion and dissenting opinions,” says Headmaster Ted Hill. Widely respected for her keen intelligence, character and leadership, Johnson has contributed to several Chadwick initiatives. From developing new curricula to leading Chadwick’s participation in the National Association of Independent Schools’ Attitudes in Inclusivity and

Multiculturalism (AIM) Survey, to creating a custom reader for history classes, she has made a permanent impact on students’ educational experience. Says Assistant Head for Academic Affairs Dr. Deborah Dowling, “Natalie’s teaching exemplifies the traits we value at Chadwick: her lessons are student-centered, experiential, and academically excellent. She cares for her students and they love being in her class.” Johnson credits an English teacher she had at Deerfield Academy with influencing her teaching style. She strives for a course where fostering a love of learning is the primary mission, and openly sharing opinions and discussing perspectives is the norm. “Ms. Johnson’s teaching style is the perfect mix of discussions and communal work,” says freshman Thomas Oldrieve. “She also focuses a lot on reinforcing essential elements – whether reading essentials, discussion essentials or writing essentials. But my favorite thing about Ms. Johnson is her patience and kindness. She is willing to help you with any problem you have.” Natalie’s involvement with students outside the classroom has included coaching the softball team and serving as the Upper School Gay/Straight Alliance faculty advisor; she also has served as an advisor to juniors and seniors. Asked what advice she would give Chadwick students, Johnson responds, “My advice to Chadwick students would be to

work hard for the right reasons. Figure out what it is you care about and try not to get wrapped up in the expectations of others. Consider opinions other than your own.” In 2013, Johnson had the opportunity to expand on her advice when the senior class chose her as their faculty commencement speaker. During her speech, Johnson proposed that acknowledging what you can and can’t control in life may be the best way to introduce some grace into an otherwise chaotic world. Her advice was based on hard-won experience – that of suffering a fractured spine during a freak rugby accident in the fall of 2010. Johnson suddenly went from being an active teacher and athlete to a patient facing a yearlong recovery, and found herself more dependent on others than she had ever been – or was comfortable being. “Eventually I started to realize that what I could control was my thinking, my attitude,” Johnson told students. “Instead of being angry at my own spine, I started imagining teeny, tiny bone repairmen working away in there with their little hard hats and scaffolding, and [told myself that] I shouldn’t rush them. If you just make the slightest conscious effort, it’s not all that difficult to tell yourself a different version of your own story in any given situation. One version of my story had me feeling weak, broken, helpless. Another version cast me as lucky, strong and so incredibly grateful. That’s the version I chose.” Now completely recovered, Johnson is adding to her B.A. in History from Princeton University and M.A. in American Studies from Pepperdine University by working toward a doctoral degree at UCLA. In her free time, Natalie enjoys staying active through a variety of sports (but not rugby!), and spending time with her wife Stefanie and their boxer, Henry.

History Department Chair Natalie Johnson, Educator of the Year

“MY GOAL IS TO PREPARE CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKERS TO MAKE INFORMED, ETHICAL DECISIONS.”

Natalie Johnson speaking at Commencement 2013


2014-2015 NEW TRUSTEES

Investment manager Gregg Tenser says that when he’s not on the hunt for undervalued equities, he can be found eating sushi with his family, taking a long run or, in a typical parent’s lament, “trying not to get beaten too badly by my ten-year-old on the golf course.” That ten-year-old is son A.J., who is currently finishing fourth grade at Chadwick. Tenser’s daughter, Addison, is completing second grade. Along with Chadwick’s hundreds of other students, they represent the reason Tenser has chosen to give his time as a trustee. But even though he’s excited about his new responsibilities, he’s also upfront about the commitment involved. “The challenges posed by running a K-12 college preparatory day school, particularly one that operates on a global basis, can be significant,” Tenser says. “I find myself somewhat humbled to be facing the task of helping to guide our school forward through the inevitable complexities of the now-broader platform. The good news is that I firmly believe I am joining a team that has already been charting a very positive course.” Despite his sense of humility, Tenser is well-prepared to serve on Chadwick’s board. He’s a managing director of NWQ Investment Management Company, a subsidiary of Nuveen Investments, where he helps manage $15 billion in value equity assets and runs the NWQ global equity strategy. He also oversees the company’s research in the healthcare and staples sectors. With his financial expertise, Tenser is also serving Chadwick as a member of the school’s endowment investment committee. His academic background has also readied him to help manage investments, about which he says, “I look forward to continued conservative stewardship of the assets entrusted

to our care.” Tenser received his M.B.A. from the University of Michigan and bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Psychology from Duke University. Highly active in Duke University affairs, he currently serves as the Chair of Duke’s Annual Fund Executive Committee, and is the Chair of the Los Angeles-south division of the Alumni Admissions Advisory Committee. He’s also on the Board of the Freeman Center for Jewish Life at Duke. During his tenure with Duke’s annual fund, the university launched a $3.25 billion giving campaign, which Tenser describes as being “as challenging as it was exciting.” He plans to bring his fund-raising experience to Chadwick, and also hopes his involvement with Duke’s admissions committee will “provide further insights to help bolster our college admissions success.” Now, if only A.J. can help him improve his golf game…

GREGG TENSER

“I look forward to continued conservative stewardship of the assets entrusted to our care.”

2014-2015 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

OfficersMark Woodruff,Chair

Nick Richardson,Vice-Chair

Lynn Hopton Davis,Treasurer

Kenneth J. Baronsky,Secretary

MembersChristopher M. Adishian ’87 Linda M. Calhoun ’79David M. CarterPhilip Chen ’90Kurt R. GibbsFrederick “Ted” Hill, Ex OfficioPeter Yun HuhRuth B. MacFarlaneLisa A. PetrieJ. Allison QuinlanJennie Nash RobertsonLynne Rosenberg ’81Wayne W. SongGregg TenserCharles E. Toups

Permanent TrusteesJoseph Chadwick ’41Robert Roessler ’40

Trustees EmeritiWilliam V. Davidson ’63Gladys Quinlin (deceased)William Pascoe, III (deceased)Dodd Young ’45 (deceased)

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Sports run through the life of David Carter. He and his daughter, Paige, a rising 11th-grader at Chadwick, are nearing completion of a multi-year tour of every Major League Baseball stadium in the country. (Their favorite hot dog so far: The two-foot-long, three pound, “Boomstick” at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas, home of the Texas Rangers.) He’s also devoted to working out and running on The Strand. But more than a hobby, sports are also Carter’s profession. He’s Executive Director of the USC Marshall Sports Business Institute and Associate Professor of Sports Business at USC’s Marshall School of Business. He is also the founder and principal of The Sports Business Group in Los Angeles, a consultancy that has advised the Los Angeles Kings, the City of Los Angeles, and the Rose Bowl Operating Company, among other clients. In addition, he has served as an expert witness in numerous trials and arbitrations, and has written four books about the sports industry, including “Money Games: Profiting from the Convergence of Sports and

Entertainment” and “On the Ball: What You Can Learn about Business from America’s Sports Leaders.” Beyond writing books, Carter is also the go-to guy on the sports business for numerous media outlets, providing around 250 interviews

each year. For three years, he was the sports-business commentator on National Public Radio’s “Marketplace Morning Report,” and he has authored more than 50 first-person commentaries and op-eds as a periodic contributor to Business Week, The Sports Business Journal and The Los Angeles Business Journal. He also serves as

Editor-in-Chief for thefieldsofgreen.com, a sports business website operated in conjunction with the USA Today Sports Media Group. As a Chadwick volunteer, Carter has already put his USC bachelor’s degree and M.B.A. to work on both the school’s finance and audit committees over the last two years. Now, as a trustee, he’ll take on the even-greater responsibility of helping guide Chadwick as a whole. “My desire to serve as a trustee is a combination of pride in the school, a feeling of personal responsibility to contribute to its ongoing success, and the privilege to serve alongside so many others who are vested in Chadwick’s success,” he says. “I hope to contribute in helping further extend the school’s extraordinary academic brand and reputation.” The Carters reside in Redondo Beach.

DAVID CARTER

“I hope to contribute in helping further

extend the school’s extraordinary

academic brand and reputation.”


Providing educational opportunities to extraordinary students has long been a passion of new Chadwick trustee J. Allison Hill Quinlan. An alumna of Marlborough School in Los Angeles, she served from 2008 to 2010 as Vice President for the school’s Angel Project, a fundraising initiative run by alumnae for financial aid scholarships. Then, in 2013, as Chadwick parents, she and her husband Bret founded and served as Co-Chairs for the Delphinus Fund for Financial Aid, which raises money to increase Chadwick’s budgeted financial aid available each year. “Ensuring that Chadwick has the resources to enroll the most diverse and highly qualified student body possible is really important to Bret and me,” Quinlan says. “Chadwick’s commitment in this area was a major factor that attracted us when we were considering the school for our children.” A parent of three Village School students – sixth-grader Madeleine, third-grader Kenneth and incoming kindergartener Elizabeth – Quinlan says she noticed that Chadwick’s affordability during the Great Recession became an issue for families. The Delphinus Fund, she says, “has been a wonderful vehicle to raise awareness of the need for and community-wide benefits of increased financial aid.” To date, the fund has accumulated more than $162,000 for restricted financial aid to provide tuition assistance to new and returning students at Chadwick.Such bottom-line success is gratifying to a business leader such as Quinlan, who worked in various managerial capacities for Pepsi-Cola and The Coca-Cola Company before becoming Western Region Managing Director of Executives Unlimited, an executive-search firm, in 2006. So is the opportunity to put her interview skills to work on Chadwick’s behalf; she recently served on various search committees to hire new faculty and staff. Besides increasing financial aid, her other goal is to create a greater sense of connection between the school and alumni. “The more meaningful and valuable experience a student has while at Chadwick, the more likely I think they will be to remain engaged as an alumnus and active in the school community long-term,” Quinlan says. “The strength of our future alumni network is only as strong as

the dynamics of our current student body, and I believe our alumni recognize this, as well.” Quinlan has remained connected not only with Marlborough, but also with her college alma mater, Georgetown University, where she served for three years on the Board of Regents’ Mission and Ministry Committee. Other meaningful volunteer commitments have included work for St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles where she first met her husband. She also recently joined the Advisory Board for Good in Deed, an online portal that connects charitable causes with potential donors, and has re-joined National Charity League as a Patroness with her oldest daughter. Although as a new trustee Quinlan is committed to the entire Chadwick community, she holds a special fondness for the Village School. “In a K-12 college prep environment, the value of an elementary education can be overlooked,” she says. “Bret and I feel strongly that the Village is a special gem at Chadwick School. The belief in core values, love for experiential learning and ability to problem-solve are invaluable tools students will carry with them as they progress into their Middle and Upper School educations. Our family has had a fantastic experience, and I want to ensure that continues to happen for even more generations of Chadwick students.”

J. ALLISON HILL QUINLAN

“The strength of our future alumni network is only as strong as the dynamics of our current student body.”


Like many Chadwick alumni, Chris Adishian ’87 vividly recalls outdoor education. He went rock climbing at Joshua Tree National Park, made two weeklong camping trips along the Colorado River, camped and hiked on Catalina Island, and participated in a “home and away” exchange with a private school in Connecticut. “These are just tremendous learning experiences for young students that stay with them for a lifetime,” Adishian says. “I still remember mine over 30 years later.” But more than just for the fun of being outdoors, Adishian appreciates Chadwick’s outdoor education program for what it brings to each student’s sense of being. “Chadwick’s commitment to educating the whole child is rare,” he says. “I believe it helps each child discover and develop his or her confidence, perspective, abilities, interests and potential.” As a student, says Adishian, he “seemed to be always playing sports either during or after school.” He rowed

during his freshman year at the University of California at Berkeley, and still takes yoga and martial arts classes every week. His other exercise, he says, comes from wrestling with his two children, Mark (4) and Talar (2). Adishian resides in Hawthorne with his wife Lena, and their children.

For Adishian, time out for fun and family can be hard to find. He balances his workdays between his legal practice, where he focuses on business, real estate and employment law (he earned his J.D. from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles), and his real-estate firm, where he manages approximately $33 million in residential and commercial property and makes good use of his B.A. in Mathematical Economics from UC Berkeley.

As busy as he is, Adishian suddenly felt like a man with time on his hands when Chadwick approached him about a trusteeship. “Chadwick was such a positive, growing experience for me in so many ways,” he says. “When I was asked to join the board, it seemed like the natural thing to do.” As an experienced world traveler, he admires the school’s global perspective, especially the opening of the campus in Songdo, Korea. “When I first heard about Chadwick International,” he says, “my first thought was, ‘That is simply brilliant!’ What a visionary idea.” Now it’s his turn to help form the vision for Chadwick’s future. “My hope,” he says, “is that I can contribute my skills to help Chadwick achieve its short- and long-term goals so the school can continue to fulfill its mission for the students at Chadwick School and Chadwick International.”

CHRISTOPHER ADISHIAN ’87

“My hope is that I can contribute my skills

to help Chadwick achieve its short- and

long-term goals...”


As a former U.S. Army officer, Wayne Song exhibits a strong sense of duty and commitment. The graduate of West Point and the USC Gould School of Law has served on the board of his church and is presently a partner in Morgan, Lewis and Bockius, LLP, a Los Angeles-based international law firm

where he focuses on the energy sector. Now, as a Chadwick trustee, he’s helping the school as a way to express his gratitude for the opportunities

Chadwick has provided his son, Steven ’20, and daughter, Sharon ’22. “The school and the larger Chadwick community have been so important not only to our children, but to our entire family,” Song says. “I hope to work with the talented school administrators and trustees to continue to move Chadwick forward on its path of excellence.” “Excellence” might best describe the volunteer activities of Song and his wife, Grace. As the Board Secretary at their church in Torrance, Wayne Song helped lead a large fund-raising drive to construct

a new sanctuary and expand office space. He also assisted the church with financing for the project and with negotiations for the construction contract. Grace Song, meanwhile, has been a member of Chadwick’s Annual Fund committee and will serve as the Chair-Elect of the Chadwick Parents’ Association (CPA) in 2015-16. In the past, she has served as a CPA room parent, Village School Chair and Scrip Chair. In recruiting Song for its Board of Trustees, Chadwick attracted an experienced professional who is Deputy Managing Partner of his firm’s Energy Transactions Group and Co-Head of its Renewable Energy Group. He also has been recognized in Leading Lawyers for Business, published by Chambers USA, which annually ranks attorneys nationwide. A leading voice on renewable energy and project finance, he speaks regularly at conferences around the country. Song also served in multiple leadership and staff positions as an officer in the U.S. Army over seven years, including two in South Korea, and he held a top secret clearance. In recognition of his service and accomplishments, the U.S. Secretary of the Army awarded Song the Legion of Merit for meritorious service. Song earned a B.S. in International Relations at West Point, where he was also captain of the volleyball team. Outside work, Song finds himself rejuvenated by spending time with his family. The Songs especially enjoy traveling, skiing and playing with their dog, Dipper, at their home in Palos Verdes. As a parent, Song believes strongly in the significance of a Chadwick education. “My wife and I deeply value the love of learning that Chadwick instills in our children,” Song says. “It’s a gift to our children for their entire lives.”

WAYNE SONG

“I hope to work with the talented school administrators and trustees to continue to move Chadwick forward on its path of excellence.”


Aerospace executive Charles E. Toups has one overriding reason for becoming a Chadwick trustee. “I love Chadwick School. I think there is no better place for my sons to have gone, and to go, to school. I feel like my entire family got so much from Chadwick that I want to give back and help Chadwick become even better in the future.” Sons Jason and Ryan graduated from Chadwick in 2010, and Connor is a member of the class of 2018. Their father believes that Chadwick’s distinguished outdoor education program, in particular, has served them well. “Our sons have always come home from trips with new insights, deeper friendships and increased confidence,” Toups says. “I think this program is one of the truly unique elements of Chadwick that sets it apart from any other top independent school in the country.” Toups knows a few things about outstanding schools. After receiving his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering from the UC Irvine and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, respectively, he later spent a year as a Sloan Fellow at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. His education has provided the basis for a 32-year career in the aerospace industry, where he held several positions at Hughes Space and Communications

Company before joining Boeing Satellite Systems as Director of Spaceway Programs. He has worked in executive capacities for numerous Boeing units, and is currently Vice-President of Development Program Excellence, a company-wide initiative to transform the creation of new products. Working with a relatively small organization such as Chadwick will be new for Toups. At Boeing, he’s been in charge of divisions as large as 30,000 employees, with missions including defense, navigation and communication systems, satellites and intelligence systems. He describes himself as “a results-oriented leader” who focuses on strong communication, continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.As a trustee, he says, “I hope to support and strengthen some of the unique elements of Chadwick – the outdoor ed program, writing, science and math, sports for all, and, most important, the culture of openness and inclusion among the student body. The student body at Chadwick gives me hope for our world and for humanity.” A native Californian, Toups holds a passion for both surfing and sailing. His wife, Lenny, is from Hawaii, so Toups says he doesn’t object when they “have” to visit relatives. For the near future, at least, those island sojourns may have to be limited; Toups is a dedicated executive who takes assignments seriously, and it’s a safe bet he’ll bring that strong sense of commitment to his new job at Chadwick.

CHARLES E. TOUPS

“Our sons have always come home from [outdoor education] trips with new insights, deeper friendships and increased confidence.”


A GLOBAL VISION FULFILLED

Founder Margaret Chadwick believed that a Chadwick education should prepare graduates to become engaged citizens of the world and to contribute positively to their local, national and global communities. In 2014-15, nearly 175 Chadwick students took part in 20 international learning and service opportunities on several continents, designed to further that vision by expanding students’ perspectives and cultural compe-tency. Meanwhile, the Chadwick School community brought the world to its door by hosting Round Square and ASSIST exchange students from Germany, Peru, Japan and Australia, and both Chadwick School and Chadwick International (CI) benefited from student exchanges of seventh- through 11th-graders. Beginning in seventh grade, students in Palos Verdes and in Songdo, South Korea, can attend the opposite campus, learning firsthand the differences and commonalities among cultures. In 2014-15, more students

than ever before exchanged places, and the entire CI junior class visited Chadwick School in May, taking part in outdoor education and college counseling while getting to know their counterparts. Upper School students and faculty members journeyed to Nepal and Zambia during their spring break on service trips that saw them working at orphanages and on projects designed to protect endangered elephants. Other Middle and Upper School students represented Chadwick at Round Square conferences in India and Columbia. The Middle School Model United Nations (MUN) teams from Chadwick School and CI teamed up in Hong Kong to compete in an international Junior MUN Conference, and Chadwick’s Upper School MUN team took home multiple awards from the Harvard International MUN Conference in Beijing, China. (See story on page 17.)

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PHOTOS ABOVE1. At the Round Square Regional Conference in Colombia on a graffiti tour of La Candelaria 2. In Colombia on top of Monserrate 3. Students and faculty leader on a boat headed across Phewta Lake in Pokhara, Nepal. 4. Students from CI and PV at the end of a hike overlooking the Himalayan foothills. 5. Receiving the traditional Hindu blessing 6. Enjoying a sculpture garden on Montserrate in Colombia 7. Closing ceremonies at the orphanage in Nepal


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On a hike overlooking Pohkara in Nepal. From back-left to front-right: Gemma

Geist, Ben Brown, Kaiden Doody, Lauren Hahm, Sarah Choi (CI) Maya

Sood, Melanie Mpanju (CI)

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MODEL U.N. TEAM WINS BIG IN BEIJING

Great Wall of China


The group’s designated country at the competition was China, allowing them to gain in-depth knowledge of the country and culture before setting off on the trip and enhancing their overall experience. (As part of the MUN process, each delegate is expected to thoroughly research their subject area before the conference and is required to submit a position paper prior to the conference.) Chadwick’s delegation was made up of Kyle Civale ’16, Faith Gay ’16, Jessica Hale ’16, Daniel Harris ’16, Jack Johnson ’16, Vikash Mody ’17, Andrew Piazza ’16, Harini Shah ’16 and TaeSun Shim ’18. Each of the 1300 delegates at the conference was assigned to one of 15 Model UN committees, and each committee gives three awards to individuals: best delegate (1st place), outstanding delegate (2nd place) and honorable delegate (3rd place). The best delegation award is given to the school that has the highest average score at the end of the conference. Each delegate is on a different committee, and each committee scores all delegates serving on the respective committee. Points are given for research, position papers, speeches, comments, creating and passing resolutions, and working with other delegates. While in China, students also took part in service projects in Shanghai and Guizhou, ending with a four-day trek in Yunnan Province. Economics teacher and MUN faculty advisor Patrick Wallace and English teacher Kate Elortegui accompanied the students on the two-week trip.

Kyle Civale ’16 Best Delegate, Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee, 2030

Jack Johnson ’16 Best Delegate, Legal Committee

Jessica Hale ’16 Outstanding Delegate, Executive Committee, UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Daniel Harris ’16 Outstanding Delegate, Historical General Assembly

Harini Shah ’16 Outstanding Delegate, World Health Organization TaeSun Shim ’18 Outstanding Delegate, UN Development Programme

CHADWICK STUDENTS WINNING INDIVIDUAL AWARDS AT THE CONFERENCE INCLUDED:

Nine Upper School delegates represented Chadwick at the Harvard Model United Nations (MUN) China Conference over Spring Break, competing against 130 schools from around the world and garnering six individual awards and the overall conference “Best Delegation” title.

Vikash Mody ’17, Harini Shah ’16 and Kyle Civale ’16 at the Harvard Model United Nations China Conference in Beijing.

Faith Gay ’16, Jessica Hale ’16, TaeSun Shim ’18, Kyle Civale ’16, Jack Johnson ’16, Andrew Piazza ’16, Harini Shah ’16, Patrick Wallace, Kate Elortegui and Daniel Harris ’16 trekking in Yunnan Province.


TEACHING CHARACTER IN THE HUMANITIES

The Chadwick history department is committed to developing students who apply the skills and lessons of history in order to participate actively and effectively as informed global citizens. We seek to prepare critical and creative thinkers who make informed, ethical decisions and take courageous action in the face of personal and social issues. By understanding the factors that shape individual, national, and global identities, our students will be able to embrace and respect cultural differences and alternative perspectives. Chadwick history students will collaborate and communicate effectively in a variety of contexts, ultimately preparing them to adapt and thrive in a changing world.

– CHADWICK HISTORY DEPARTMENT MISSION STATEMENT

Hannah Goodloe ’20 studies in the Leavenworth Library.


Clear “right vs. wrong” decisions abound in history. Slavery. The Nanking Massacre. Apartheid. Genocide. Watergate. All would fail what we call the “gut test,” a way to quickly gauge whether a decision you’re facing has a definite right and a definite wrong path. Will one choice keep you up at night, gnawing away at your insides? These historical moments also fail the “front page test,” which asks us whether we’d feel proud or ashamed if our actions were reported on the front page of the newspaper. And they clearly trample our core values of respect, responsibility, honesty, fairness, and compassion. Chadwick history students study these historical wrongs to better understand how and why humans have done horrible things to one another, in the hope that we can minimize or prevent such things from happening in the future. But our students also go quite a bit deeper. Where ethical decision-making gets really tough is when we’re faced with “right vs. right” decisions, moments when several choices could be viewed as morally acceptable. Truman dropping the atomic bombs, which destroyed two Japanese cities and killed hundreds of thousands of people, but which also ended the brutal Pacific war in WWII and arguably saved hundreds of thousands more lives is a notable example of “right vs. right.” The creation of the United Nations, which would link nations in an effort of collective security but at the risk of threatening the interests of individual countries, is another. Raising or lowering taxes, waging war, restricting gun ownership… countless choices, today and throughout history, represent complex ethical dilemmas in which multiple paths may be “right” in some legitimate way.

In both history and English classes at Chadwick, students learn a vocabulary and a way of thinking about ethical dilemmas and moral decision-making. We break down ethical decisions to look at the tensions, at what’s at stake. How do short-term and long-term interests compete? How does one decision prioritize compassion, while another promotes fairness? When is one choice good for the individual, while another might be best for the community? And what should ultimately guide our choice - the greatest good for the greatest number, an adherence to some larger principle, or a consideration of what we would have others do to us in the same situation? These questions don’t have easy answers – in history or in literature, in the contemporary world, or in students’ lives. And, at the end of the day, an intellectual ability to critically analyze ethical decisions exists only in the head. By fostering empathy and emotional connections through discussions of history and literature, we also hope to develop in students the compassion and the courage – the heart and the gut – to make meaningful ethical choices, particularly when those choices aren’t easy or popular ones. Chadwick’s new two-year humanities sequence in 9th and 10th grades, Global Studies I and II, puts ethical decision-making at the center of the curriculum. Beyond learning discreet historical facts, dates, and events suspended in the amber of their historical contexts, students make connections between the tensions and moral

dilemmas in history and the problems facing the world today. Perhaps most importantly, the history and English classes are designed to help students also consider the ethical decisions they have to make in their own lives as young citizens. Acquiring a body of content knowledge and developing strong reading and writing skills remain crucial. Engaged, ethical citizens must first understand the past, so our students continue to learn broadly and deeply about historical events and literature while strengthening their reading, writing, and discussion skills. We strive to send Chadwick students off with extensive “walking around knowledge,” acquired content that they simply know, without having to check their smart phones. But it’s the added attention to character development and ethical citizenship that truly differentiates Chadwick’s humanities courses. Chadwick students develop exemplary character on the athletic fields, through community service, and in countless other areas of Chadwick life. We in the history and English departments believe that a meaningful study of history and literature can contribute significantly to students’ character education. In this way, Chadwick’s humanities classes prepare students to lead courageously and morally in an increasingly complex world.

BY NATALIE JOHNSON, HISTORY DEPARTMENT CHAIR

History teacher Natalie Johnson leads a class discussion.

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The project’s name illustrates the intent behind it: both to serve as the pinnacle of the Chadwick Upper School experience and to draw upon all of the academic skills students have developed along the way that support its achievement. “The Apex project is part of a broader effort to connect Chadwick students with the wider world,” says Dr. Deborah Dowling, Assistant Head for Academic Affairs. “Students in the last semester of senior year are starting to look beyond the walls of high school to their adult lives and their ability to make a difference in the world. Apex allows them to draw on their internal interests and motivations to work on something engaging, challenging and personally meaningful. At the same time, they must use critical and creative thinking, collaboration, oral and written communication, and cultural competency to research and implement their project.” In a sense, it’s the intellectual equivalent of the Senior Trip, in which students draw upon years of outdoor education experience to successfully complete a daunting three-week

wilderness backpacking trip. Key to both tasks? Persistence, planning, transferring learned skills and the ability to navigate around roadblocks. So how did seniors go about stirring up the cosmos? The first step was finding a problem or issue that they cared about and were motivated to help solve. Next came extensive research into their issues that included both primary and secondary sources and would form the basis of in-depth research papers as well as their actions. In many cases, that primary research involved identifying experts in the field and then convincing them to spend time talking to a high school student – not always the easiest task. “Simply put, research projects can be really frustrating – true research requires perseverance, comfort with ambiguity, and dealing with barriers beyond one’s control,” says Nordlund. “These are all important qualities to strengthen, but I think they posed a challenge for many students.” Once their preliminary research was completed, students made plans to positively impact their chosen issues. Those issues ranged from

English Department Chair Erin Nordlund thinks Chadwick students should “dare to disturb the universe” – even if creating that disturbance is uncomfortable or frustrating. Aiming high and striving to make an impact are two goals students were challenged to achieve as part of the Senior Apex Project introduced this year.

DISRUPTING THE UNIVERSE

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poor nutrition and lack of healthy food in disadvantaged Los Angeles neighborhoods, to low voter turnout and voter apathy, to protection of Southern California’s ocean and coastline. Once again, some students found that even the most well-intentioned efforts can be difficult to implement. “Students would invest a lot of time in developing one stage of their project, for example, but then they would hit a wall – financial, legal, whatever – and they would need to completely change course,” says Nordlund. Senior Lydia Krauss’ project is a case in point. Her idea – a mobile app to enable easier carpooling among Chadwick students by allowing them to search in real time for lifts to and from campus – hit a legal snag when it came time to release it. Unbeknownst to Krauss, California law requires parental consent in advance for a child to be released from school to anyone other than a parent, thus undoing the real-time flexibility of the proposed solution. But never fear, fellow carpoolers, the inventive Krauss is still searching for ways to implement “WickRides.” “Sometimes the original projects

couldn’t be completed as planned because of these barriers; however, that’s the beauty of the Apex projects,” says Nordlund. “They don’t need to work out exactly as planned, and students’ grades were based on the process, not results that may have been outside of their control. It’s all about the critical and creative thinking and adaptation that the project demands. In tackling their Apex projects, students learned academic and real-world skills that leaders need to be successful in the world.” And, of course, some of the projects did come to fruition. Chadwick’s second-graders now have a new appreciation of vegetables, thanks to the efforts of seniors Meghan Kennedy and Lindsey Waller. As part of their nutrition education and gardening projects, the duo also taught nutrition lessons at Lomita Magnet School. More than 80 Torrance-area foster children served by the non-profit Impacting Hearts enjoyed a barbecue dinner and an evening of games and attention from Chadwick Upper School students, thanks to Kevin Ulman’s determination to create connections

between their experience and the resources of the Chadwick community. Ulman is already working to continue the interaction after he graduates. One of the best aspects of the Apex project for the overall Chadwick community? The chance to attend a day of oral presentations made by each senior on his or her research, its implications and their actions. Whether parents, faculty or fellow students, all went away impressed with the seniors’ ability to complete such ambitious undertakings. Says Nordlund, “I loved having the whole community come together to celebrate our seniors and their commitment to engaged citizenship. After the presentations, I was happy that sophomores and juniors came up to me wanting to share ideas for their own Apex projects. They were really excited by the project; some even asked if they could start now.” And why shouldn’t they harness that enthusiasm and plan ahead? As Anne Frank so memorably wrote, “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

1) Liz Haile ’15 delivers plants to an urban garden in Watts. 2) Liz Haile ’15 and student volunteers constructed an urban garden as part of her Apex project. 3) Chadwick second-graders plant their vegetable garden. 4) Andrew Trinh ’15 (right) presented information about ADHD at local elementary schools. 5) Katelyn Beggans ’25 focuses on careful planting.

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“We want to provide even greater depth to our curriculum to fully engage each student and optimize their learning potential.”

First-graders’ character map illustrates Chadwick core values.


Do you anticipate changes to the curriculum next year?

JB: I’ve been reviewing our curriculum with Village Curriculum Specialist and Assistant Director of the Village School, Jacqui Cameron, Math Department Chair and Village Math Specialist Kimberly Tatman, and all our teachers. We are re-examining the math curriculum and further refining our teaching of literacy skills such as critical reading and writing. For example, we have been holding workshops with Dr. Frank Serafini, a national expert on reading education. As a result, we will be enhancing both the literacy and math curriculum next year, particularly enriching the curriculum for exceptionally advanced learners. Beyond establishing a solid foundation of these crucial skills, we want to make sure that our curriculum both challenges and engages all of our students. We will be updating and making our curriculum maps more user-friendly so that parents can easily see what students are learning and on what timeline. Finally, we will be revising our report cards so that they are as informative and useful to parents as possible.

What are your priorities for the Village School next year?

JB: A high priority is to provide more one-on-one time with teachers to allow for more individualization of the curriculum. We want to provide even greater depth to our curriculum to fully engage each student and optimize their learning potential. We’re addressing this by hiring another full-time associate teacher for next year so that both fourth and fifth grade will have support all day. We’re also decreasing the number of students in sixth-grade advisory groups from 20 to 10, to allow for more individual attention and relationship building. One of the most important transitions for our young people is the jump from sixth to seventh grade. I’ll be working

closely with Middle School Director Jeff Mercer on an initiative to make this transition as smooth as possible. This may include addressing organizational skills, coordinating the sixth-grade and Middle School schedules to allow more collaboration and shared experiences, and managing work habits so that sixth-grade students hit the ground running as soon as they enter the Middle School. We are already working on plans for activities that will bring sixth- and seventh-graders together over the course of the year, so they can learn from and support each other. I’m also committed to establishing a research-based mindfulness curriculum in the Village. Research has shown that well-implemented mindfulness education programs can increase students’ ability to focus, enhance self-understanding, help students sustain motivation in the face of challenges, and contribute to healthier social and emotional relationships. These skills are essential to optimal learning and personal well-being, especially as students advance through the grade levels and take on increased responsibilities.

How will the iPad and digital citizenship programs develop?

JB: Next year, all third- through sixth-graders will participate in the one-to-one iPad program. We will be expanding on the digital citizenship program, so that students begin learning our expectations and their responsibilities as early as second grade. In the first and second grades, teachers will have access to as many iPads as needed for in-class projects, but students won’t need to provide their own iPads daily. While the iPad is a wonderful supplemental learning tool, it’s so important that our early learners build their “knowledge framework” on concrete, real world experiences and interactions with their teachers and classmates. We have been careful to base our use of digital devices on solid research into

the educational value of such tools across the grades represented in the Village School. We will focus on best practices in the use of these important tools, including choosing one’s words carefully and using the Internet consciously, with all Village students at a level appropriate to each grade. We want our students to enjoy the advantages of the Internet and the digital universe, but also to use digital resources safely and in accordance with Chadwick’s core values.

What will you and the Village faculty be doing this summer in terms of professional development?

JB: Chadwick teachers never stop learning! During this year, we’ve had several well-respected educators and specialists on campus for professional workshops on reading and literacy, digital literacy, and child and adolescent development. This summer our teachers will be focusing on responsive classroom training, character education and best practices in integrating technology into the classroom. Continuing to embed the development of exemplary character into the Village School curriculum is also one of our highest priorities, and Chadwick’s core values are woven into every aspect of Village life. Personally, I will be participating with other education professionals in a weeklong social-emotional learning conference at UC Berkeley. I’ll also be tackling an extremely long “to do” list that I’ve been adding to all year. It’s exciting to look ahead to next year, given the many plans we have in place to make the Village School even stronger, and I can’t wait to get started.

LOOKING AHEAD IN THE VILLAGE SCHOOL: A Conversation with Josie Bahedry

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PAYING IT FORWARD


SENIOR KATE McEVILLY INSPIRES OTHERS TO ACTIONWhen Kate McEvilly, Class of 2015, walked into a Chadwick Middle School assembly in 2010 to listen to former Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti, she had no idea that his words would profoundly impact her high school career and her life. Garcetti’s presentation about the dire problems faced by the people of West Africa, particularly those in Niger, due to the lack of clean water stirred up both compassion and outrage in McEvilly.

“I thought it was so unfair that people were suffering because they lacked something as basic to life as clean drinking water,” says McEvilly. “Something I took completely for granted, just because I was lucky enough to be born here. On top of that, Mr. Garcetti told us that women and girls had to spend every day carrying five-gallon jugs of water for miles so their villages could survive, and that meant the girls couldn’t go to school.” Garcetti told students of his work with Wells Bring Hope, an organization raising funds to provide clean water wells to villages in Niger, and encouraged Chadwick students to raise money for a well. McEvilly left the assembly that day determined to help, and she hasn’t stopped since. “I started raising money however I could,” McEvilly says. “Once I went to Upper School, I founded the Wells Bring Hope Club to raise funds and educate people about the huge impact a well can have on people’s lives, especially those of women and girls.”

MAKING A MAJOR DIFFERENCEThrough fundraising efforts including cupcake and candy-gram sales, and even a celebrity autograph auction, McEvilly and the Wells Bring Hope Club have raised $25,000 for the cause–enough to install four wells in Niger. In 2013, Wells Bring Hope honored Chadwick’s club members and McEvilly for their work at a reception in Gil Garcetti’s home, where other supporters were so impressed that they donated an additional well in Chadwick’s name. But the best was yet to come.

Early in 2015, Wells Bring Hope’s leaders invited McEvilly to join them on a March trip to Niger, where Wells Bring Hope planned to dedicate a new well in Makalondi to Chadwick School in recognition of the Wells Bring Hope Club. “I was surprised and honored,” says McEvilly. “I was a little nervous about traveling halfway around the world alone, but also really excited to see Niger and to meet the people who would benefit from the well.”

FIRST-GRADERS JOIN THE CAUSEUnbeknownst to McEvilly, her passionate commitment to bringing clean water to Niger was also emerging on the opposite side of Chadwick’s campus among Maureen Shannon-Chapple’s and Elizabeth Echternach’s first-grade students. Soon, the two efforts would converge. “Every year in first grade, we teach a unit on being allies and putting Chadwick’s core values into action,” says Shannon-Chapple. “We talk about what it means to stand up for others when something is unfair or hurtful. Part of the unit involves reading stories about kids who’ve made a difference with their actions, so that students see that they can have a positive impact, too. “One of the books we read this year was ‘The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind’, about a boy who builds a windmill to bring clean water to his village. We talked about why that was important and how it changed people’s lives.” Like McEvilly, the first-graders were struck by the unfairness of the situation – both that people suffered from preventable diseases due to the lack of water and that girls


were denied an education. They decided they wanted to help and began brainstorming ways to do it. Shannon-Chapple and Echternach remembered that McEvilly, their former student, was involved with Wells Bring Help and asked if she would visit and talk to the first-graders about the organization. McEvilly gladly obliged, and her comments inspired the first-graders to create their own fundraiser. “This was a completely student-generated effort,” says Shannon-Chapple. “They went through a list of ideas and decided they wanted to hold a trike-a-thon. Then they set up committees, created guidelines and pledge sheets for sponsors, painted publicity banners, set goals, and organized the entire event. It’s amazing what even the youngest students can do when they’re passionate about an idea.” McEvilly left for Niger while the first-graders were working on their plans for the trike-a-thon, communicating with her younger friends via an online blog and sharing photos that captured the joy on villagers’ faces as water poured from the newly dedicated well. In return, the Chadwick students plied her with questions about her trip, ranging from what Africa was like to how many vaccinations she had needed to travel to Niger. “They were fascinated by the number of shots I had to get,” laughs McEvilly. “That was a big topic. It was really special to bring them along on the trip through the blog. I also was able to film some of the children in Niger saying hello to our first-graders and post it on the blog for them.” McEvilly returned to Chadwick in time to attend the trike-a-thon, now named “Pedal Power,” and to cheer the students on. By then, the first-graders had recruited sponsors (who pledged donations according to the number of laps or the time period pedaled), organized the riders and

determined the course around the Lower Village playground. After a massive amount of pedaling (and pushing on the uphill sections), the students met both their fundraising goal and their participation goal of 400 laps during the 35-minute-long event, which was overseen by official lap counters (also first-graders) and included refreshments for the riders and their audience of parents and other Village students. “One of the benefits of being a K-12 school is the way older students act as positive role models for the younger ones,” says Village School Director Josie Bahedry. “Being involved with Kate, and seeing her commitment to Wells Bring Hope and the people of Niger, was a powerful learning experience for our students. And being able to make a difference for people through their own actions was empowering and fulfilling. They feel so good about their efforts, and that’s one of the most important lessons we’re trying to instill at Chadwick – that doing something that benefits others is one of life’s most rewarding experiences.” McEvilly couldn’t agree more. As she looks ahead to her freshman year at Johns Hopkins University, she’s sure that Wells Bring Hope will continue to be an important part of her life. “My involvement with Wells Bring Hope has been so rewarding on every level,” says McEvilly. “I’m grateful to Mr. Mercer [Chadwick’s Middle School Director] that he invited Mr. Garcetti to speak that day; otherwise, I might never have gone down this path. “And I’m grateful to Wells Bring Hope for giving me the opportunity to go to Niger. I’ll never forget how gracious the people in Makalondi were to me, or the smiles on everyone’s faces when the first water flowed out of the pump. It was one of the most memorable moments of my life.”

First-grade students crafted Pedal Power’s publicity materials.On your mark… get set… go!


“I thought it was so unfair that people were suffering

because they lacked something as basic to life as

clean drinking water.”

Kate McEvilly with the women of Makalondi, Niger. Kate McEvilly inaugurates the new well in Makalondi.

Sadie Handler ’26 works her way up the hill.

Embracing a new friend.

A pause in the Pedal Power action.


WHAT’S AHEAD FOR CHADWICK INTERNATIONAL

Chadwick International School in Songdo, South Korea


Shelly Wille joined Chadwick International (CI) as the Village School Principal in 2010. She resides in Songdo with her husband, Michael Wille, and sons Braden and Seamus. Braden is currently in second grade at CI, and Seamus is in fourth grade.

What have you learned during your years as CI’s Village School Principal?

SW: I often tell students that I have three jobs – to support students, teachers and parents. Anything that falls into those buckets is how I spend my day, and I try to make sure I am doing a little bit of all three each day. Being in the Village and working with our community, I have a sense of the needs of all three of these groups. I have also been able to form strategic partnerships related to educational best practice with the Incheon Ministry of Education, South Korean Ministry of Education, Gwangju National University of Education, and other agencies. These relationships have offered me wonderful insight into Korean education and our role in the community. The most important things I’ve learned have come from supporting the ongoing development of the school from its early days to its current stage.

How do you see your new role as Head of School, and what do you hope to contribute to CI?

SW: I hope to support all members of our community toward a deeper understanding of the mission and vision of Chadwick International. Certainly I bring the perspective of independent schools, and I think the perspective of watching the school grow is valuable. My goal is to focus on strategic initiatives that benefit the entire community and set the school up for long-term sustainable growth.

What would you most like to accomplish over the next few years at CI?

SW: We have a few strategic initiatives in need of development, including the unifying of the International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum across CI’s three divisions. I look forward to seeing the IB Learner Profile, which correlates with Chadwick’s core values, more deeply embedded in the life of the entire school. Our reputation in Korea and the international educational community is quite strong, and as our graduates begin to move into university that reputation will be even stronger. Supporting students in finding the right fit in universities is a high priority, and I have a lot of confidence in our process and the college counseling office. In the Village School, we have two flagship programs that are expanding into the Middle and Upper Schools – the

integrated design curriculum and our intern programs. Additionally, I look forward to seeing both the Outdoor Education and Service Learning programs grow across the school. These programs not only connect us to Chadwick School, but also align with the Creativity, Action, Service (CAS) Program of the IB through the general idea of service connected to action and experiential learning.

What do you see as the greatest future opportunities at CI?

SW: CI is so full of potential, and I look forward to seeing how our population grows and develops. In particular, it has been wonderful to see our students develop over the years – they have truly become students of the world with international perspectives and excellent skills. The greatest future opportunities are in our graduates and the impact they will make in the world. Already, they are doing projects where their own inquiry has led to action, and I am watching that multiply in so many ways.

Now that you’ve lived in Songdo for several years, what are your favorite aspects of life in South Korea?

SW: I love so many things about life in Korea, and Songdo in particular. First of all, I love the energy – there is such a desire to improve and grow and this, combined with the innovation present in Songdo, is refreshing and energizing. Generalizing, I have found the people I meet in Korea to be amazingly open and kind. I love how deeply embedded the culture is in daily life and love learning their perspective from my Korean friends and colleagues. I also appreciate having seasons – the change is really refreshing. I also really enjoy riding my bicycle around town with my boys. I have always wanted to have an easy bike commute to work and have certainly taken advantage of this over the years.

Incoming Chadwick International Head of School Shelly Wille shares her thoughts on the future

New CI Head of School Shelly Wille reads to Village School students.


ATHLETICS

ROUND UP2014-2015

The fall, winter and spring athletic seasons provided substantial sporting success for Chadwick teams. Highlights included Prep League championships in both football and boys basketball, second-place Prep League finishes for boys water polo, girls soccer, boys volleyball, boys tennis and girls softball, and a 12th-place finish in the California State Meet for the girls’ cross-country team. Eleven teams qualified for CIF Southern Section playoffs: football, cross country, girls and boys water polo, girls and boys soccer, girls and boys volleyball, boys basketball, softball and tennis. In addition, several standout athletes made the CIFSS individual finals in golf, tennis, swimming and track and field. >

Phillip Hui-Bon-Hoa ’17 sizes up a pass.


SPRING SEASON ALL-PREP LEAGUE AND ALL-REGION ATHLETES

BaseballEsai Leanos ’15West Lewis ’16Vince Memmo ’15Albert White ’17

Girls LacrosseAll-Region: Maddie Culver-Kerr ’16Taylor Wolf ’15

SoftballPrep League Most Valuable Pitcher and All-CIFSS first team:Nicole Shearin ’16

All-LeagueMadison Benson ’17Maya Jackson ’16Amanda Perez ’15Nicole Shearin ’16 Alexa Schulten ’18

Boys TennisPrep League Singles MVP: Greg Sumen ’15Shan Desai ’16 and David Seo ’16 (doubles)Austin Farris ’16 and Blake Lazarus ’15 (doubles)Greg Sumen ’15 (singles)

Track and FieldJackson Bartlett ’15Nick Benson ’17E-Jayy De’Vaughn ’17Alec Foster ’15Laura Goy ’15Meg Knox ’15Juan Valle ’15

Boys VolleyballRyan Apfel ’15Quinn Jones ’16Connor Lucier ’15Xavier Proctor ’16

SPRING HIGHLIGHTS It’s been an excellent spring for Chadwick athletics! Girls softball had a fantastic season filled with ace pitching, and multiple home runs and grand slams. Their skill took them to the quarterfinals of the CIFSS playoffs; along the way, they defeated St. Mary’s Academy 16-6 and a strong Anaheim High School team 10-0. The Dolphins’ overall record was 16-4, with a 9-3 Prep League record, and Nicole Shearin ’16 was selected as the Prep League Most Valuable Pitcher. Both boys tennis and boys volleyball finished second in Prep League competition, moving on to the CIFSS playoffs. In CIFSS individual tennis competition, doubles team Shan Desai ’16 and David Seo ’15 represented Chadwick in stellar fashion, and Greg Sumen ’15 was honored as the Prep League MVP in singles.

Chadwick track and field boasted two Prep League Champions: Juan Valle ’15 in the boys 800m run and Laura Goy ’15 in girls pole vault; both went on to compete in the CIFSS championships. Nick Benson ’17 also qualified for the CIFSS championships in the long jump. Laura finished sixth in the pole vault, clearing 9 feet, and Nick came in eighth in the long jump with a jump of 18-11.5 at the championships. Track and field team members medaling at the Prep League finals included Meg Knox ’15 (silver, girls 3200m), Jackson Bartlett ’15 (bronze, boys 400m dash and boys 300m hurdles), Nick Benson ’17 (bronze, boys long jump), and the boys 4 x 400m relay team of E-Jayy De’Vaughn ’17, Jackson Bartlett ’15, Juan Valle ’15 and Alec Foster ’15 (bronze).


On the football field, the Dolphins went 9-2, winning the Prep League before falling to top-seeded Thacher, 48-26, in the semifinals of the CIF Southern Section Division I playoffs. The boys basketball team, meanwhile, created thrills all winter with no fewer than six victories on buzzer-beating shots. The team finished 16-6 with an undefeated league record, and put away the championship by beating Polytechnic School, 71-69, in overtime on two foul shots by senior Ryan Apfel ’15 with seconds remaining. Chadwick captured the Prep League title outright for the first time since 2001 despite graduating several senior players in 2014. At the end of basketball season, boys varsity team captain Ryan Apfel was selected to the all-league and all-CIF Southern Section teams; in addition he was named most valuable player for both the league and the section. He was also tapped to play in the South Bay Athletic Club’s 25th annual All-Star Boys Basketball Classic, made up of top senior basketball players from the South Bay region.

On the cross-country course, the girls varsity team started its memorable post-season competition by capturing third place at the Prep League meet at Pierce College, then grabbed third again in its division at the CIF Southern Section finals at Mt. San Antonio College. From there, it was on to Fresno for the team’s excellent finish at the state meet. In the pool, the boys water polo team cruised past Brentwood in its final game of the regular season en route to a second-place Prep League finish and a CIF playoff invitation. Back in the gym, the girls volleyball team took third in Prep League to qualify for the CIF Southern Section Division 5 tournament. The Dolphins defeated Moorpark in the first round before losing in five sets in the second round to eventual Southern Section champion South Torrance High School. Girls soccer ended the season as the Prep League runners-up, and both boys and girls soccer qualified for CIFSS playoffs.

FALL AND WINTER HIGHLIGHTS FALL AND WINTER ALL-LEAGUE ATHLETES

FALL SEASONGirls VolleyballCourtney Bond ’16Clare Lenihan ’17Claire Mihm ’16Jillian Parks ’15

Cross CountryAll-CIFSSJacquie Hoot ’18, 1st teamMeg Knox ’15, 3rd team

All-LeagueHenry Cox ’15Elizabeth Haile ’15Jacquie Hoot ’18Meg Knox ’15Andrew Trinh ’15

Boys Water PoloCurtis Bingemann ’15Ben Chappell ’15Phillip Hui-Bon- Hoa ’17Zach Speroni ’16Sam Wheeler ’17

Girls TennisAlex Bauer ’15, Singles

Girls GolfAlison Sim ’15

WINTER SEASONBoys BasketballAll-CIFSSRyan Apfel ’15, 1st Team

All-LeagueRyan Apfel, ’15 Prep League MVPKyle Civale ’16Xavier Proctor ’16

Girls Basketball Madison Benson ’17Ellen Furgis ’15

Boys SoccerSpencer Henry ’15Conor Range ’15Kyle Ulman ’15Juan Valle ’15

Girls SoccerKiley Cassidy ’15Elizabeth Haile ’15Daisy Houle ’17Nkem Iregbulem ’16Jackie Kunesh ’17Chantal Poitras ’18

Girls Water PoloRachael Chait ‘15Rebecca Richardson ‘15


THEATER & DANCE

2015 spring dance concert, “Made in L.A.”

H I G H L I G H T S

“We started the year by celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Geoffrey Alan Laverty Center for the Performing Arts with an alumni/student showcase on Homecoming Weekend,” says Williams. “Our Upper School students were invited to take part in two extraordinary opportunities this year. Zorro Inc. President John Goetz selected Chadwick to produce the first-ever U.S. high school production of ‘Zorro, the Musical,’ and our cast and crew will be presenting “Zorro” at the world-renowned Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer.” The Upper School students also staged an award-winning production of “Animal Farm” in the fall. The cast was invited to perform at the California Educational Theatre Association Festival, where they won the coveted Best Ensemble award, among others. In addition, Los Angeles’ Impro Theatre invited the Chadwick Improvisers (ChImps) to perform with them in a professional show.

Two student-run productions, the original play “Teenage Dream” and the Peer Mentor Talent Show, completed the Upper School theater season. The Middle and Village School students mounted the stage as well, with the Middle School singing and skating their way through “Xanadu,” directed by new Middle School theater teacher David Bloom. Sixth-graders continued Chadwick’s tradition of Shakespeare performances with productions of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “The Taming of the Shrew.” Chadwick’s K-12 dance program also excelled, both in student involvement and innovation with two outstanding dance concerts: “Embodied Stories,” choreographed and produced by Dance Director Kindra Windish, and “Made in L.A.,” an evening of student-choreographed pieces. Says Williams, “It’s inspiring to work with such talented students and colleagues in both theater and dance.”

Follow Chadwick theater news at: chadwicktheater.blogspot.com

“It’s been one of the most exciting years ever for Chadwick Performing Arts.”– Nigel Williams, Performing Arts Department Chair and Director of Theater


Directed by David Bloom, performed by Middle School students

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ANIMAL FARMDirected by Nigel Williams, performed by Upper School students and honored with CETA’s Best Ensemble award


orro:Z Directed by Nigel Williams, performed by Upper School students and winner of two Jerry Herman awards

the musical


CHORUS & ORCHESTRA

Upper School Orchestra

Middle School Chorus

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From multiple choral and orchestra concerts to musicals, Rock Fest and talent shows, Chadwick’s campus is alive with music throughout the year. Student groups such as Village Voices and Ovations spread their brand of musical joy in the community as well, singing at retirement communities and spreading holiday cheer on the pediatric ward of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Our Upper and Middle School choruses also performed at local and regional music festivals, earning top honors. Along with more than a dozen formal concerts and two musicals this year, Chadwick K-12 musicians stepped up to add extra allure to other community events. Whether playing jazz at the Open Studios Exhibit, singing “We Shall Overcome” or the “Core Values Song” at the Martin Luther King Day Assembly, or entertaining families at Family Open House Day, our students are a constant reminder of the power of music to connect a community and add joy to life on campus.

H I G H L I G H T S

The Chadwick Upper School Chorus traveled to San Francisco in April to perform at the invitation-only Heritage Festival of Gold. While there, the chorus had the privilege of attending master workshops led by two renowned choral conductors Dr. Anton Armstrong and Dr. Sigrid Johnson from St. Olaf College in Minnesota. The chorus culminated the five-day experience with a performance at the University of San Francisco’s stunning St. Ignatius Church conducted by Chadwick Choral Director Kevin Babuder. Twenty-one choruses from around the country participated in the San Francisco festival, one of only five such festivals in the U.S. Only choirs attaining a “Gold” rating at a regional Heritage Festival, indicating an average score of 90 points or higher from a panel of three judges, are invited to the Heritage Festivals of Gold. The Upper School qualified in April 2014 at the Anaheim Heritage Festival. Both Chadwick’s Middle School Chorus and Ovations Concert Choir are invited to perform at a Festival of Gold in 2015-16, having qualified at the most recent Anaheim Heritage Festival in April.

UPPER SCHOOL CHORUS IS GOLDEN


FINE ARTSThis year saw Village students creating both collaborative and individual paintings, crafting wooden, ceramic and metal sculptures, and drawing fantastical scenes – all while building specific skills in ideation, drawing, painting and construction. Field trips to local museums and the Watts Towers also added to their visual vocabulary. For Middle and Upper School students, progressively sophisticated projects in mediaranging from drawing and painting to glasswork, photography, ceramics and more, helped students move to new levels of expertise and artistic expression. The popular Fall Open Studios Exhibit gave parents and others a chance to see our student-artists at work, while Middle and Upper School spring art exhibits showcased students’ finished creations. In addition, three seniors saw their hard work rewarded with accolades in two national art competitions. (See sidebar on page 41.)

H I G H L I G H T S


Randy Friedman ’16 and Ignacio Sedano ’15 were honored with Gold Key awards in the Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards Western Regional competition for their ceramic works, a dragon tea set and a series of vases, respectively. As Gold Key-winning entries, their ceramics are eligible for national Scholastic awards, which will be announced in late March. Both Friedman and Sedano are students of ceramics teacher and Fine Arts Department Chair Annie Webster. The Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards were established in 1923 and are widely considered to be the most prestigious student arts and writing competition in the nation. Former national winners include painter Andy Warhol, designer Zac Posen, photographer Richard Avedon, filmmaker Robert Redford, and writer Truman Capote.

Approximately 90,000 teens in grades 7 through 12 submit more than 185,000 works of art and writing annually. Winning students earn opportunities for recognition, exhibition, publication and scholarships. Senior Amanda Perez’s original painting, “Smiling Eyes,” took First Place in the Grade 12 Individual Division of the Wyland National Water is Life Mural and Art Challenge, sponsored by the Wyland Foundation. This year’s art challenge drew entries from more than 3,500 students across 40 states. Amanda also designed a sea-inspired mural to grace the side of the building at Chadwick as part of her senior Apex project. For more information about the Apex projects, see page 20.

Senior Artists Win Scholastic Arts & Writing Competition and Wyland Foundation Awards

Randy Friedman ’16

Ignacio Sedano ’15


Congratulations to the Class of 2015, Chadwick’s 76th graduating class. These 82 outstanding new alumni bring Chadwick’s alumni ranks to 3,991 since the school was founded in 1935. On behalf of the entire Chadwick Community, we wish you the best in all of your future endeavors, and we hope to see you on campus again very soon.

Congratulations, Class of 2015

Rachael Chait ’15 and Spencer Henry ’15


2015 GRADUATES AND COLLEGE ADMISSIONS The 82 students of the Class of 2015 were offered admission to the universities and colleges listed below. Numbers following college names indicate the number of students offered admission. College names in bold type indicate at least one member of the Class of 2015 matriculating for the 2015-2016 academic year.

2015 GRADUATESRobert Yale AbrahamsonAdrienne Claire AlvaradoRyan William ApfelAlexandria Marie BauerKurtis Rhon-Shin BingemannAiden David BloodZoe Hellene BloomfieldMadeline Blackburne BogertGeorgia Claire CalhounKiley Lea CassidyRachael Marisa ChaitBenjamin Louis ChappellAlexandra Marisa ClamanHenry Philip CoxMary Kathleen DawsonTaylor Nicole DillonTaylor James DolengaLeslie Yesenia EscalanteSofia Christine FarentinosJessica Elaine FlowersAlec Ruett FosterEllen Grace FurgisMichelle M. GellerJacob Ezra GestenRyan GhanianJake Harrison GoldsteinSamantha Julia GordonTrue Ni Mika GoyaAshley Callaway GraumanElizabeth Claire HaileEmily Jill HemingwaySpencer Daniel HenryEmma Stockton HillJack Robin HillEllysabeth Lynberg HoltzeTori Shanel JacksonTaylor Gregory JamesMeghan Anne KennedyZoya KhalilMargaret Kathleen KnoxLydia Rebekka KraussAdam Eugene KriegerEdward Sheppard KurtzBlake Alan LazarusEsai LeanosJordan Miriam LongConnor Francis LucierEmily Christine MacQuarrieStephen Wilson MayerKate Margaret McEvillyNestor MelgarVincent Martin MemmoAlexander John NanjiPhillip Matthew NazarianChima Curtis OchoifeomaVictoria Olubunmi OjetundeEmma Ruth Anne OldreiveAlexander Luke PaoJillian Elise ParksAmanda Victoria PerezMorgan Whitney PhillipsSara Rebekah PlatnickYolande Germaine PoitrasD’Artagnan Shakespeare Radell

Conor Bennett RangeEmily Fischer RichardsonRebecca Luchon RichardsonIgnacio SedanoDavid J. SeoAlison Young SimEkaterina Caitlyn-Grace SmithJillian Caroline SolbergStephen Christopher SpennatoGregory Paul SumenAndrew TrinhKevin Charles UlmanJuan Manuel ValleCharlotte Cameron WallaceLindsey Mae WallerTaylor Marie WolfElisabeth Michelle ZakAlexis Keiko Ziegler

COLLEGE ACCEPTANCESAmerican University 2Arizona State Univ 2Azusa Pacific Univ 2Babson College 1Bard College 1Barnard College 2Baylor University 1Biola University 2Boston College 3Boston University 4Brandeis University 1Brown University 1Bryn Mawr College 1Bucknell University 5Butler University 1Cal Tech 1California Lutheran Univ 2Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo 2Cal State, Channel Islands 2Cal State, Chico 1Cal State, Dominguez Hills 3Cal State, East Bay 1Cal State, Fullerton 4Cal State, Long Beach 2Cal State, Monterey Bay 1Cal State, Northridge 5Cal State, San Marcos 1Carnegie Mellon University 1Case Western Reserve Univ 7Chapman University 6Claremont McKenna College 1Clark University 1Colby College 3Colgate University 3College of Charleston 1Colorado College 3Colorado State University 1Concordia University-Irvine 1Connecticut College 1Cornell University 1Creighton University 1Dalhousie Univ (Engineering) 1Dartmouth College 1DePaul University 1Dickinson College 1

Drake University 1Drexel University 1Earlham College 1Elon University 6Emory University 1Fordham University 1Georgia Institute of Tech 1Goucher College 1Hamilton College - NY 1High Point University 1Hofstra University 1Humboldt State 2Indiana Univ –Bloomington 10Iowa State University 1Ithaca College 1Johns Hopkins University 3Kalamazoo College 2Kenyon College 2Lafayette College 3Lewis & Clark College 6Loyola Marymount University 6Macalester College 1Marist College 1Marymount California University 2Miami University, Oxford 2Michigan State University 1Middlebury College 2New York University 7Northeastern University 5Northern Arizona University 2Northwestern University 1Oberlin College 2Occidental College 3Ohio Wesleyan University 1Pace University, New York City 1Pepperdine University 1Princeton University 1Purdue University 1Randolph College 1Reed College 1Regis University 1Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1Rhodes College 2Roger Williams University 1San Francisco State University 2Santa Clara University 10Scripps College 1Seattle University 3Sonoma State University 6Southern Methodist University 13St. John's University-Queens Campus 2Stanford University 1Syracuse University 7Temple University 1Texas Christian University 4The American University of Paris 1The George Washington University 4The Ohio State University 1The University of Arizona 5The University of Georgia 1The University of Iowa 1The Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1The University of Tampa 1The University of Texas, Austin 2Trinity College 2

Tufts University 1Tulane University 4Union College 1University of British Columbia 1UC Berkeley 12UC Davis 5UC Irvine 5UC Los Angeles 7UC Merced 3UC Riverside 10UC San Diego 9UC Santa Barbara 13UC Santa Cruz 9Univ of Colorado at Boulder 17Univ of Colorado at Colorado Springs 1University of Denver 3University of Hawaii at Manoa 1Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2University of Kansas 1University of La Verne 2University of Maryland College Park 1University of Miami 5University of Michigan 9University of Mississippi 1University of Nebraska at Lincoln 1University of Nevada, Reno 1University of New England 1University of New Hampshire 1University of New Mexico 1University of Oregon 9University of Portland 1University of Puget Sound 4University of Redlands 2University of Rochester 2University of San Diego 4University of San Francisco 3University of Southern California 15University of St. Thomas 1University of the Pacific 2University of Utah 1University of Vermont 3University of Victoria (Science) 1University of Virginia 2University of Washington 1University of Wisconsin, Madison 3Vanderbilt University 2Vassar College 1Villanova University 1Virginia Tech 1Washington State University 1Washington University in St. Louis 2Wellesley College 2Wesleyan University 2Westmont College 1Wheaton College IL 1Wheaton College MA 1Whitman College 3Whittier College 3Willamette University 2Wittenberg University 1Xavier University 1Yale University 1


1) Class of 2016 President Isabelle Garvanne and Class of 2015 President Meg Knox ’15 open the graduation gates.2) Spencer Henry ’15 receives his diploma from Roessler-Chadwick Board Chair Mark Woodruff as Headmaster Ted Hill looks on.3) Headmaster Ted Hill congratulates his daughter Emma on her graduation.4) Emily MacQuarrie ’15 and Stephen Spennato ’155) Jordan Long ’15, Alec Foster ’15 and Mich elle Geller ’156) Student Body President Sofia Farentinos ’15 addresses the crowd.7) Jillian Parks ’15. Connor Lucier ’15 and Elly Holtze ’158) Bobby Abrahamson ’15 stands for his tribute.9) Meg Knox ’15 and Kevin Ulman ’1510) Headmaster Ted Hill welcomes the graduates at Commencement.

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Robert AbrahamsonAdrienne AlvaradoAlexandria BauerGeorgia CalhounKiley CassidyTaylor DolengaEllen FurgisTrue GoyaEmma HillJack HillTaylor JamesMargaret KnoxAdam KriegerTeddy KurtzJordan LongKate McEvillyAlexander NanjiMorgan PhillipsYolande PoitrasAndrew TrinhKevin UlmanElisabeth Zak


FIFTEEN SENIORS EARN NATIONAL MERIT RECOGNITION Fifteen members of the Class of 2015, representing 17 percent of the 82-student class, were honored as National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists and Commended Students based on their scores on the College Board’s Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists are now eligible to compete for National Merit Scholarship Finalist status and approximately $32 million worth of college scholarships. Approximately 1.5 million high school juniors took last year’s PSAT/NMSQT, with honors going to those scoring in the top 1-2 percent of their respective states. Chadwick’s National Merit Semifinalists include Robert Abrahamson, Kurtis Bingemann, Adam Krieger, Philip Nazarian, and Stephen Spennato. Madeline Bogert, Taylor Dillon, Jake Goldstein, Elizabeth Haile, Zoya Khalil, Vincent Memmo, Alexander Pao, David Seo, Lindsey Waller and Elisabeth Zak earned Commended Student honors. Congratulations to all!

At the end of each school year, outstanding Chadwick students are honored at an event known as Tree and Awards. This name originated in 1940 when Margaret Chadwick, wanting to turn the nearly treeless campus into a lush green one, decided to plant a tree in the name of each honoree. Today the campus looks just as she had envisioned it, and the annual ceremony recognizing exceptional students continues to carry the moniker Tree and Awards. As is the Chadwick tradition, the 2015 Tree and Awards ceremony took place in the Rosenwald Amphitheater. The following students were honored in 2015.

Left to right: Village Citizenship Award recipients Cooper Powers ’21, Gabriela Valle ’21 and Aidan Eliasson ’21 with Village School Director Josie Bahedry

Sartorius Award winner Ellen Furgis ’15 with Athletic Director Tom Goodspeed

CUM LAUDE SOCIETYClass of 2015: Robert Y. AbrahamsonKurtis R. BingemannMadeline B. BogertGeorgia C. CalhounAlexandra M. ClamanJake H. GoldsteinElizabeth C. HaileMeghan A. Kennedy Zoya KhalilEmily C. MacQuarrieVincent M. MemmoPhillip M. NazarianAlexander L. PaoSara R. PlatnickAlison Y. SimLindsey M. Waller

Class of 2016: Emily C. ChaoKyle C. CivaleMadeleine C. Culver-KerrRandy P. FriedmanMaya M. Jackson Alexandra M. NewtonKyle H. RosenHarini ShahMatthew B. Sonnenblick

UPPER SCHOOL AWARDSCitizenship Award: Sofia C. FarentinosJake H. Goldstein Andrew Trinh

Founders’ Award: Elizabeth C. Haile Lindsey M. Waller

Headmaster’s Award: Alexandra M. Claman Kate M. McEvilly

Unsung Service Award: Lydia R. Krauss Sartorius Award: Ryan W. Apfel Ellen G. Furgis

Bina Mandal Swimming Award: Emily C. MacQuarrie Zachary J. Speroni

Athlete of the Year Award: Elizabeth C. Haile Kevin C. Ulman

Art Purchase Award: Ignacio Sedano

Performing Arts Award: Sofia C. Farentinos

Frank Quinlin Journalism Award: Sara R. Platnick Alison Y. Sim

Round Square King Constantine Award: Kyle C. Civale Michelle M. Geller

Model United Nations Award: Kylie P. Bronchick Jessica M. Hale

Lee-Stephens Award: Brennan J. BurrowsDavid P. FigelFrancesca Maramonte Alexandra M. NewtonHarini Shah

MIDDLE SCHOOL AWARDSVirginia Chadwick Award: Katherine R. GarrettHailie Goldsmith David T. Malone

John Fiske Award: Samuel C. BogenCharlie M. Boiler Katherine C. ChambersKatharine N. Chappell

VILLAGE SCHOOL AWARDCitizenship Award: Aidan M. EliassonCooper J. Powers Gabriela I. Valle

CLASS OF 2015 ALUMNI ATHLETESRyan Apfel, Wheaton College basketball

Meg Knox, Middlebury Collegecross country/track

Rebecca Richardson, Bucknell Universitywater polo

Jillian Solberg, UCLAcrew

Greg Sumen, UC Santa Barbaratennis

TREE AND AWARDS 2015

CLASS OF 2015 CLASS AGENTS

Lindsey Waller, Emma Hill,

Liz Haile, Jake Goldstein and

Sofia Farentinos


ALUMNI:

David Harris ’14What surprises David Harris ’14 the most about college? How much it feels like home – and, more specifically – Chadwick. Harris is completing his freshman year in mechanical engineering at Santa Clara University, a Jesuit institution in Santa Clara, Calif. From temperate weather to accessible faculty to inspiring classmates, so much reminds him of his 13 previous years of schooling that Harris says a day rarely passes “when I don’t experience a ‘Chadwick moment.’” Much of what contributes to that sense of déjà vu, he says, is the preparation he received and the influence Chadwick had on his development, not only in academics but also in leadership through his participation in outdoor education, athletics and the robotics team. “They talk about leadership here [at Santa Clara] a lot,” says Harris, who played basketball and baseball at Chadwick and was named a first-team all-conference offensive lineman in football. “The opportunities I had at Chadwick put me ahead of the curve.” He credits especially what he terms the “hands-off leadership style” of Dr. Trish Stevens, Chadwick’s robotics advisor. “She wouldn’t tell us what to do,” Harris recalls. “She’d just give us a list of what had to be built, and say, ‘Here – you figure out how to do it.’ It forced us to take risks, work as a team and be persistent.”

Harris also devoted much of his time at Chadwick to mentoring students in outdoor education. He accompanied the seventh-graders to the southern Sierra on their first Chadwick outdoor sojourn, and last year helped lead the seniors on a backpacking trip to Joshua Tree National Park. His passion for being outside inspired him to spend this summer earning his Wilderness First Responder certification to assist hikers, climbers and others who run into trouble in the back country. Harris’s affinity for first responders is also connected to his engineering aspirations. He wants to design advances to fire trucks, military vehicles and other equipment “to help save people who work to save others, and make sure they get back to their families at the end of the day.” Like many students in entrepreneurial Silicon Valley, he sees himself eventually owning his own company. He has been impressed with Santa Clara’s ability to connect its young engineers and scientists with the region’s leading tech firms for internships and jobs. His advice to those following him at Chadwick? Savor the moment. “Don’t spend all your time stressing about where you’re going to get into college,” he says. “You’re going to go someplace great. Take some time to grab dinner with your friends or go see a movie. Chadwick is a great place and there are so many great people there. Enjoy it all while you can.”

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

FUN FACTS ABOUT DAVID. . . . . . . . . . . .

Hobbies:Reading, movies Favorite food:

Ben and Jerry’s mint chocolate chip ice cream

Favorite vacation spot: Joshua Tree National Park

Fondest Chadwick memory: Senior year – winning back the Gold Cup from Flintridge Prep

in footballOne word to describe

yourself:Determined

Last book you read: “The Sixth Extinction”

by James Rollins

Anige’r Oriol ’14, Vanessa Contratto ’14 and David Harris ’14


Jennifer Calfas ’12 Since arriving in Ann Arbor three years ago, Jennifer Calfas ’12 has piled up successes including a summer spent studying at Oxford, receiving the Betsy Carter Award and news-writing internships with The Hollywood Reporter and, this summer, USA Today in Washington, D.C. Now, in just her junior year, she’s Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Daily, the university’s independent student newspaper. It’s a fast-paced, 40-hour-a-week job on a publication with approximately 13,500 readers throughout both the university and the town of Ann Arbor. Calfas is responsible for managing 250 staff members and a $500,000 budget, editing every story that goes into the paper, and serving as the Daily’s face to the public and the media. Downsides include missing classes and getting to bed at 3 a.m. five days a week; upsides include interviewing President Obama and honing her reporting skills on major stories involving the university administration and athletics program. (In the past 18 months, the university has named both a new president and a new head football coach). An English major, Calfas naturally gravitated toward writing and quickly found a home on the paper during her freshman year. And she says Michigan, with its enrollment of more than 43,000 students, offers something to suit just about every interest. “You can immediately find a group of people who are like you or not like you, and who are going to support your beliefs or challenge your beliefs,” she says. “It’s really a cool place to learn and grow as a college student.”

Having spent four years working on The Mainsheet, Chadwick’s student newspaper under the mentorship of longtime Chadwick English teacher and Mainsheet advisor Terry Andrews – as well as contributing stories to the Palos Verdes Peninsula News – Calfas felt well qualified to stride into the offices of one the nation’s most prestigious college publications. She additionally points to her academic preparation with English teacher George Ramos, who also coached her on Chadwick’s cross country team. “He taught me a lot about critical thinking and how to analyze texts, and that’s something I really love doing in the classroom now,” she says. “He also taught me a lot about leadership and following your passions and working within an organization, and those are the main things I’m really trying to do now at Michigan.”She’s already becoming one of the university’s most enthusiastic boosters. This past year, in part through her encouragement, four Chadwick students enrolled there, and three more will matriculate this coming fall. Meanwhile, she advises students back home in Palos Verdes to do as she has done – find a passion and follow it. “You’ll be happiest when you’re doing what you love. Follow what you enjoy and you’ll get the most out of it, and you’ll also work the hardest at it.”

FUN FACTSABOUT JENNIFER

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Hobby: Running

Favorite food: Sushi

Favorite vacation spot: Mountains of VermontFondest Chadwick

memory: Driving back with the

cross-country team from the state championships

in FresnoOne word to describe

yourself: Optimistic

Last movie seen: “Selma”

Last book read: “Look at Me,”

by Jennifer Egan

Lower left: Jen Calfas ’12 cheers on the Michigan

Wolverines with friends; Right: On the

University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor


Ryan Halvorsen ’11

CHAMPIONING GREEN EFFORTS AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS

For Washington University senior Ryan Halvorsen ’11, advocating on behalf of students and student-led initiatives is a passion that he developed by serving as a student senator. In this position, he advocated on behalf of a large constituency of freshman through senior students studying in Washington University’s College of Arts and Sciences. The position is a natural outgrowth of his interest in political science, a subject that makes up one half of his dual major; the other half, international and area studies with a concentration in sustainable development, reflects his ongoing commitment to the environment. A student senate initiative reflective of both his interests grew out of a seemingly trivial shopping trip at the student store. As Ryan waited in line, he noticed that students were still placing their purchases in plastic bags – bags that would eventually end up in a landfill. In his eyes, this was a situation ripe for change. Ryan felt that improving sustainability initiatives on campus was an attainable and worthwhile goal. Soon he had begun collaborating with a variety of groups on campus including student leaders, the Washington University Office of Sustainability, the WU Student Union and WU Dining Services. Listening to several different perspectives, compromising on how things should be accomplished, and researching plastic bag usage on campus were all elements used to ultimately draft a resolution to remove disposable bags from student stores and replace them

with eco-friendly choices. “Students’ actions, at the end of the day, can have a huge impact on our world: using what you already have, reusing and not taking more. At first, the student response was mixed. Change is hard,” Ryan commented. Ryan knew it was going to be challenging to change the habits of students. But through education and outreach, he was confident that others would begin adopting greener practices. Along with other students, Ryan founded Tote Green, a

campaign to eliminate disposable plastic bags from Washington University’s Danforth Campus. The group created Tote Green bags to hand out on campus. They also used social media to help raise awareness for their cause. On their Facebook page, they asked fellow students and faculty to post pictures of themselves making responsible bag choices, all tagged with “How do you Tote Green?” The Tote Green campaign was even recognized by the Clinton Global Initiative University in 2013. After meeting with Ryan and other students, the store managers of the on-campus grocery stores (Paws & Go and Millbrook Market) joined the cause and removed plastic bags from their stores. Ultimately, this drastically reduced plastic bag usage on the Danforth Campus.

Ryan views the remarkable success of the Tote Green campaign and the enactment of the university senate resolution as his greatest accomplishments at Washington University. “Through hard work and tenacity, I learned firsthand that change can be implemented,” says Ryan. Looking back on his time at Chadwick, Ryan says that Chadwick opened his eyes to different ideas of leadership that have served him well. “As a peer mentor, I learned how to lead by example. Your actions can help others change. I also played water polo and learned that being a part of a team involves leadership skills as well,” he says. “Whether serving as my fraternity president or advocating as a student senator, I’ve been able to enhance these leadership qualities each and every day.” Ryan looks forward to learning more about effecting change post-graduation, most immediately through the Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs in St. Louis. As a Fellow, he will spend nine months rotating through an experiential learning program that explores complex social challenges. Eventually, he hopes to put his talents to work in government addressing international development issues such as public health, the environment or youth education. Whether as a mentor to others, an athlete or a two-term student senator, Ryan’s commitment to change and willingness to lead should serve him, and society, well in the future.

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Favorite food: Pastaria’s Strozzapreti pasta

Favorite vacation spot: The Kona coast on the

Big Island of HawaiiFondest Chadwick memory:

Being part of the cast in the 2010 spring musical, “HAIR”

Advice for Upper Schoolers: Explore your different passions:

get outside of your comfort zone

Last movie seen: “Wild”

One word to describe yourself:

Humanitarian

Ryan Halvorsen ’11 at an Alpha Phi Omega fraternity awards event.


THREE HONORED AT 2014 ALUMNI AWARDS BRUNCH Jim Hall ’64 was named Chadwick’s 2014 Distinguished Alumnus, and both recently retired soccer player John Thorrington ’98 and former Chadwick soccer coach John Marmelstein were inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame at the annual Alumni Awards Brunch on October 26. The Athletic Hall of Fame recognizes and honors former student athletes and coaches for excellence, both on and off the playing field. John Thorrington ’98 joins fellow inductee Lindsay Davenport ’94 as the second Olympic athlete inducted into Chadwick’s Athletic Hall of Fame. Coach Marmelstein is one of a select group of Chadwick faculty inducted, all of whom have made exceptional contributions to the Chadwick athletic program and to the student athlete experience as teachers and mentors. The Distinguished Alumni Award was established to honor Chadwick alumni for their contributions to Chadwick School, the greater community, and the world. Previously inducted distinguished alumni include Dodd Young ’45, Sheila Prell Sonenshine ’63, Peter Davis ’53, Sherre Zwelling Hirsch ’87,Robert Roessler ’40, Sam Brown ’47, Lance Bowling ’66, and Rick Learned ’62.

2014-2015 ALUMNI EVENTS

The Class of 1964 celebrated its 50th reunion in 2014. Alumni Barbecue, October 2014

Dezri Smith ’70 with Headmaster Ted Hill at Homecoming 2014. The 2014 Alumni Awards Brunch was held in Rosenwald Amphitheater. English teacher Terry Andrews with Laura Griffith ’94


DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS

Hall attended the University of Southern California and UCLA’s Writers Program and is a U.S. Army veteran who served with the Army’s 12th Special Forces Group from 1967-1970. Hall is the founder and owner of his eponymous production and marketing consultancy firm – a firm best known for producing the Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival, an event that holds four Guinness World Records. His past and present clients include large law firms, the City of Redondo Beach’s King Harbor Association and Pier Association, and the International Lobster Festivals, Inc. Hall also produces broadcast and cable television commercials, websites and concerts, as well as designing print advertising, and won a 2012 Telly Award for Best Television Commercial. The event arm of Hall’s company has produced concerts for such acts as Mumford & Sons, Band of Horses, Sergio Mendes, Pete Escobedo & Sheila E, the Psychedelic Furs, Jason Mraz, Fitz & the Tantrums, and other major bands. Hall, an active Chadwick alumnus, has served as a member of the Chadwick Alumni Association for an impressive number of years, but he’s also involved in other South Bay and state organizations. He serves on a number of committees and boards, and has won numerous awards for his service to the community, including the Harbor Interfaith Services 2013 Corporate

Citizen of the Year Award. Hall also received a Certificate of Congressional Commendation for his exemplary commitment to the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces in September 2014. Active in marine resource issues, Hall is known for championing Assembly Bill 77 (Morrow), a 1995 law that declared the Garibaldi fish a protected species, established it as the official state marine fish of California, and protected the waters around Catalina Island from fish collection by the pet trade. In 2000, California Diving News presented him with the California Scuba Service Award in recognition of his service to the California diving community. Appointed by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife as a representative to the Marine Life Protection Act Southern California Working Group, Hall represented recreational divers on the Marine Life Management Act Evaluation Advisory Committee. Passionate about scuba diving and marine preservation, Hall is a past president of the Catalina Conservancy Divers and a former contributing editor to Skin Diver magazine. A San Pedro resident, Hall’s family truly bleeds Chadwick blue. His wife of 38 years, Marci Hall, was the Chadwick School Registrar for more than 25 years and both of their children, Brian Seibert ’93 and Jennifer Hall ’96, are Chadwick WOWs.

James L. Hall ’64Jim Hall ’64 attended Chadwick only for his junior and senior years, but the school left a lasting imprint on Hall’s life. Especially telling is his lifelong commitment to serving both his community and his country, and his dedication to protecting the environment.

2014 Distinguished Alumnus Jim Hall ’64


JOHN THORRINGTON ’98

John Thorrington ’98 has had one of the most illustrious soccer careers in Chadwick athletic history, both as a Chadwick varsity athlete from 1994-97 and during his successful 17-year career as a professional soccer player. He played varsity soccer for Chadwick from his freshman through his junior year, earning numerous awards along the way and setting records for all-time goals and assists that still stand today. A two-time Prep League and CIF-SS Division V Player of the Year (1995-96 and 1996-97), Thorrington was also named a Parade Magazine All American and a National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) All American in 1996-97. Thorrington’s talent stood out, and by the time he was a junior, the professional soccer world was taking notice. In 1997, he became the youngest-ever American player to sign with an English Premier League Club when he joined the storied Manchester United Football Club at the end of his junior year. After three years as a midfielder with Manchester United, Thorrington went on to play for Bayer Leverkusen (1999-2001) and Huddersfield Town (2001-04) before returning to the United States in 2005. He played for MLS team Chicago Fire from 2005-10, helping the team win the 2006 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. After a stint with the Vancouver Whitecaps, Thorrington played his final year for D.C. United, winners of the 2013 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. In addition to his professional soccer achievements, Thorrington represented the United States as a member of the U.S. U-23 Olympic Team in 2000, and the 2001, 2008 and 2009 U.S. National teams. He also played for the U.S. Under-20 National Team in 1998-99. After sitting on the Executive Board of the Major League Soccer Players Union as a player, Thorrington joined the staff upon his retirement in 2013. He is currently guiding the players through the collective bargaining process with the league and its owners. He is also attending Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management part-time and is on track to complete his M.B.A. by the end of 2015. He earned an undergraduate degree in International Relations in England, studying part-time while a professional player. Thorrington is married to Chadwick classmate Krista Jensen ’98. They are the parents of Elle, age 3 ½, and Jensen, age 1 ½, and currently reside in Chicago.

ALUMNI ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME 2014 INDUCTEES

COACH JOHN MARMELSTEIN

John “Johnny” Marmelstein is a man of many talents – an award-winning coach, a dedicated and respected teacher, and a beloved “guide by the side” of hundreds of students over an educational career spanning nearly three decades. Coach Marmelstein joined Chadwick as a physical education teacher and coach in 1988. Over the course of 12 years here, he coached varsity football (1988-91), boys soccer (1988-2000), and softball (1999-2000), as well as junior varsity water polo (1991-2000) and Middle School water polo, soccer, and baseball (1988-2000). He also taught physical education and swimming to Chadwick’s first- through third-graders. The Chadwick boys soccer team enjoyed great success under Coach Marmelstein’s leadership, winning back-to-back CIF Championships in 1996 and 1997, and ending the 1998 season as the CIF Runner-up. During his tenure as boys soccer coach, Coach Marmelstein’s overall record was 154-90-26. Coach Marmelstein was named CIF Coach of the Year in 1996 and 1997, and Daily Breeze Coach of the Year, California Coaches Association State Coach of the Year, National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) California State Coach of the Year, and NSCAA Far West Region Coach of the Year, all in 1997. In 1998, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Federation Interscholastic Coaches Association (NFICA). Chadwick students also honored him with the Senior Faculty Recognition Award in 1997,1998, and 2000. Coach Marmelstein has continued to excel as a teacher, administrator, and coach at St. Margaret’s Episcopal School in San Juan Capistrano, where he has been on the faculty since September 2000. He has served in a variety of administrative roles at St. Margaret’s including Director of Student Life, Dean of Students, and Advisory Program Coordinator, and is currently the longest-serving Upper School Dean of Students in the school’s history. The holder of dual bachelor’s degrees in Religion and Physical Education from Hope University and a master’s degree in Education from Azusa Pacific University, he earned his Specialized Certificate in College Counseling at the University of California, San Diego in 2012. Coach Marmelstein has coached girls varsity soccer at St. Margaret’s since 2000, leading the girls to four CIF championships, and being named CIF-SS Coach of the Year four times between 2006 and 2014. Honored as Orange County Coach of the Year by the Orange County Register in 2011, he has an overall record of 248-82-29. With his wife of 25 years, Lara, Marmelstein is the parent of two children, 22-year-old Mitch and 20-year-old McKenna.

Coach John Marmelstein with his mother, Irene Marmelstein, daughter McKenna and wife Lara.

Peter, John ’98 and Monique Thorrington


YOUNG ALUMNI RETURN December 2014 and January 2015 were filled with young alumni home for the holidays. Over 100 alumni from the classes of 2003, 2004 and 2009 celebrated their 5-, 10- and 11-year reunions, respectively, at Ocean Bar in Hermosa Beach on December 20. A special thanks to the class agents who helped make the evening so memorable! More than 30 alums came back to campus for the ChImps and ChAmps Holiday Show on December 23, putting on an uproarious evening of improv. Young alumni still in college also came back to Chadwick for an In-N-Out lunch with their former teachers followed by a young alumni college panel discussion for current juniors and seniors in Laverty Center.

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ALUMNI CELEBRATE LANDMARK REUNIONSChadwick alumni came together to celebrate landmark reunions ranging from 20 years through 50 years in 2014. While the Class of 1989 celebrated its 25th reunion in June, the Classes of 1964 (50th), 1984 (30th) and 1994 (20th) planned their reunions to coincide with Chadwick’s 2014 Homecoming and Alumni Weekend. The Class of 1964 toasted their friends and its 50th reunion at the Typhoon Restaurant in Beverly Hills, while the classes of 1984 and 1994 enjoyed festive evenings at the homes of Bunny Price ’84 and Tracy Davis Gibson ’94.

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CHADWICK PROFESSIONALS MIXERS AND NETWORKING BREAKFASTS Chadwick alumni, parents, past parents and friends continue to turn out for the Chadwick Professionals series of networking breakfasts and evening mixers. The networking breakfasts provide interesting speakers and a relaxed setting to meet other members of the Chadwick community and share information about yourself and your pursuits. The annual evening mixer is a fun social evening for all adult members of the Chadwick community.

ALUMNI ATHLETIC DAY SCORES WITH ALUMS

On Friday, December 19, more than 50 alumni came back to campus to battle varsity teams and each other in water polo, soccer, volleyball and basketball. Parents, alumni, students and friends turned out to support each of the teams. It was a fun-filled afternoon of “friendly” competition, capped by the evening’s revival of the Varsity vs. Alumni basketball game. The varsity players fought hard but, in the end, experience triumphed over youth as the alumni won, 81-72. Along with Athletic Director Tom Goodspeed, current and past Chadwick coaches participating in Alumni Athletic Day included Robert Lynn, Will Didinger, Brian Weaver, Steve Norberg, Moniquee Alexander, Jason Jaramillo and Sal Diaz. Saturday morning, December 20, brought out a crowd of Chadwick cross-country alumni for a leisurely run accompanied by Coach George Ramos.


CHADWICK SCHOOL CLASS NOTES

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1944Richard Iverson has a request: “Does anyone know how to contact Patricia Fitzpatrick? If so, would you please ask her to contact me. She was in my class in 1944.”

1952Robert Lukian writes, “I have published a book on my life, my mother’s, and father Alexis Romanoff on Greatcommission.com, if anyone is interested in it. I had the name Romanoff at Chadwick School, later changed to Lukian when I graduated from high school in Ossining, New York. My grandmother had changed my name legally in 1937, and I was made aware of it when I was a senior in high school. The title of the book is ‘Alexis Romanoff Autobiographies.’”

1953Peter Davis says, “I have a novel coming out in late March. It’s my first. “Girl of My Dreams” is the story of a young screenwriter who comes of age in the 1930s at the intersection of Hollywood, the Depression, and the Communist Party. I’m both nervous about this and kind of enjoying doing something new for the first time.”

1954Tiberio Lizza sent this interesting tidbit: “Chadwick deja vu in Washington D.C. in 1944 – My father was a major supplier of ordnance items for the Navy. Everyone was amazed by his production records: ten-fold over expectations. On one of his visits to D.C. (headquarters for Bureau of Ordnance), Admiral Paul Lee sent down word that he wanted to meet this Italian who reached unbelievable production. In a short time in the Admiral’s office with small talk, they discovered that the Italian’s young son was attending the Admiral’s sister’s private school: Chadwick. They were both delighted.”

1955Bob Coates writes, “As you see, I have moved again. I’m in a senior retirement center. They let me keep my dog, Happy. Age 77 now, I use the Long Beach Vets Hospital when I have to do so. I was there for over a month with pneumonia; in good shape now. My wife died sometime ago. Still drive my P/6 Truck to doctors and elsewhere. Don’t know if I want to stay here. Happy is a Collie mix (white and brown).”

1956A note from Hoagy Carmichael: “Hello everyone, I am still working full time, and have yet another book on the sport (number five) coming out in the fall. The really fun news is that I am producing a musical using Dad’s music which will open in London in October 2015. Come one – come all. “Our eleven year-old daughter, Anesha, is doing very well, although girls of that age are, shall we say, ‘tricky.’ My son of thirty-two years, Ben, is soon to get married, and so I might see a grandchild of some description before I fish around the bend. “Here is hoping that my Chadwick pals pass a healthy 2015, and that this world of ours finds some way to free itself from the threat of armed oppression. My best to all.”

1968Tom Pollak writes, “My fantasy turtle sanctuary and pelican retreat located on the ocean in Playa El Cuco, El Salvador, is being very well received by both the local community and international travelers. I am inviting all Chadwick Alumni to come visit and stay for free and help return baby turtles to the sea and injured pelicans back to flight. Hope to see you at the beach!”

1970In October, Fred Fuld III gave a speech at the Museum of American Finance in New York City entitled “Stock Market Trivia: Who Says Wall Street is Boring?” He also held a book signing afterwards for his book “Stock Market Trivia.”

1973Peter Christensen is currently working for the DOD Test Resource Management Center on Intergovernmental Personnel Assignment as the Director of the National Cyber Range. In that role, he is responsible for the overall execution of cybersecurity T&E events conducted at the NCR and for program management of the NCR contract. Pete is currently employed by the MITRE Corporation, where he just completed 20 years serving in many roles, most recently as the test and evaluation portfolio manager. Pete has supported the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Developmental Test and Evaluation (DASD DT&E), the Test Management Resource Center (TRMC) and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (OSD DOT&E). Pete is an active member of the International Test and Evaluation Association (ITEA) and a past Board of Directors member. He has been a short course and

tutorial instructor and he has co-authored several articles in the ITEA Journal. Pete is also an Adjunct Professor in the Information Assurance Program at Capitol Technology University in Laurel, Maryland. He teaches courses in Network Systems Security Concepts and in the Malicious Software Cybersecurity Masters curriculum. Pete retired from the U.S. Navy in 1995. He had a wide range of assignments as a Naval Flight Officer flying EA-6B Prowlers. Pete has been married 33 years to Maryanne Friedrichs, from Menasha, Wisconsin. He has three children and is the proud grandfather of William, Victoria, and Bernadette Luckey.

1979In January, Timothy Adams wrote, “Happy New Year, Everyone!! If you get a chance, reach out and say hello. I would love to hear from you.”

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1987In August 2015, Sherre Zwelling Hirsch will publish her second book with Random House, called “Thresholds: How to live a regret-free life.”

Michael Sheldon writes, “I have four kids playing basketball and soccer, 12, 10, 8, and 4 years old. Nancy and I are just about finished building a new house on the beach and can’t wait to move in. We rebranded our company this past summer, becoming Curvature, which was a remarkable experience. Who knew when you changed your name, you would have to change 3000 other things as well. Santa Barbara is paradise. Steve Schlens and Don Wise also call SB home.

1989Karen Chandler Cain writes, “In 2013, my husband, Ben, and I took our two sons, Carter (then 6 years) and Desmond (then 3.5 years) to Cape Town over Thanksgiving. We went to visit Bot River, the town where I lived as a WorldTeach volunteer twenty years ago. The trip was too quick but we loved spending time with old friends, seeing penguins and taking the cable car up Table Mountain. We also got to take in a Dave Matthews Band concert. In regular life, I

still work for the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative; my husband works for Revolution Foods (providing healthy school lunches to schools); Carter started kindergarten at a Spanish Immersion neighborhood school in the fall of ’13, and Desi attends preschool part-time. We are still in San Francisco, around the corner from Laurie (’85) and a mile from Christy (’87). I saw Alexandra Ross at the art gallery event earlier in 2013 and we talked about a Bay Area – Chadwick Bay reunion. Let’s do it!”

1996Melody Schmid completed Ph.D. in entomology with a designated emphasis in Vector-borne Diseases at UC Davis and now is teaching biology at American River College in Sacramento.

2000Julie Kravitz Gannon married Brian Gannon on August 31, 2014, at the South Coast Botanic Garden. Julie met Brian in Chicago 10 years ago. They were both film editors in Chicago before moving to their company’s Santa Monica location in September 2014.

Alexa Forsyth writes, “2015 is a very big year for me. I was promoted to Lieutenant Commander April 1. I will be

getting married to one of my Naval Academy classmates, Rod Jenkins, on Sept. 6, in Annapolis, MD, and sometime before October 2 I will take command of my own warship, USS TORNADO PC 14. The TORNADO is stationed out of Mayport, FL, and I will do a Caribbean deployment. Someone has to protect America from cocaine drug runners out there...might as well be me. Much better than doing operations vs. Iran in the Gulf, where it is 125 degrees.”

On November 7, 2013, Samir Shah and his wife, Olea, welcomed their daughter, Mila Shah, to the world.

Chrystal Lee married Raza Ahmad on March 15, 2014 in downtown Los Angeles. Many Chadwick alumni attended including her sister and maid of honor, Jeannette Lee ’01, and friends Sandra Miletich, Rima Sejpal, and Stephanie Uchima-Carney.

2003Chad Detloff is a member of Chadwick’s English Department as well as Director of Global Programs for the Upper School. He coordinates (and participates in) student travel across the globe.

Andrew Herzik and Alyson Bourne were married on September 27, 2014 in Hilton Head, South Carolina. The ceremony was officiated by their siblings, Claire Bourne and Nick Herzik ’05. Chadwick alumnae in attendance included Grady Gamble, Josh Neff, Miles Yoshida, Shane Gallas, Andrew Wolstan, Sara Neff ’05, and Hilary Neff ’09. After the ceremony, much dancing and merriment ensued.

2004Meredith Graham and Brian Taliaferro were married on September 27, 2014 in Palos Verdes. They had a beautiful ceremony at St. John Fisher and a gorgeous reception at Terranea. In attendance were other class of 2004 classmates Sarah Kitson, Onike Williams, Megan Crum, and Heidi Turpin.

2005In June of 2013, Shane Blackman, Mike Snyder, Nevil Khurana, and Kyle Chan spent two weeks traveling in Japan. In the summer of 2012, the same quartet visited Eastern Europe for two weeks, where they met and spent a few days with Ian Ross.

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1) Julie Kravitz Gannon ’00 and new husband Brian Gannon. 2) Andrew Herzik ’03 (center) and groomsmen 3) Baby Mila Shah 4) Chrystal Lee ’00 is surrounded by Chadwick friends at her wedding.

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2006Melissa Foster married Sean Scofield on June 24, 2014 at the Ka’anapali Coffee Farm in Maui, Hawaii. Their tropical destination wedding was a fun vacation for all of the guests! Four of her bridesmaids were Chadwick alumnae: Laura Ohta, Jessica Foster ’05, Sabrina Foster ’09, and Jessica Garland ’07. Also present was Lisha Kim ’11.

2011Lucas Lebovitz finished 16th for Amherst College to kick off his senior cross country season.

Sarah Lindstedt is a senior at University of Pennsylvania and was featured in a profile in Penn News in 2011. You can read find it at: http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/2014-09-11/interviews/student-spotlight-sarah-lindstedt Sarah’s music is available on SoundCloud.

Ryan Halvorsen writes, “I have been involved with Alpha Phi Omega (APO) National Service Fraternity since the spring of 2012 at Washington University in St. Louis. APO is the premier national service organization that develops leadership skills through a program of service to the campus, community, and nation.

“During my time in APO, I have held several key leadership positions on the executive board overseeing the chapter operations of over 200 active members. In December 2013, I was elected to serve as the chapter President during the spring 2014 semester and re-elected to serve a second term in fall 2014. “In December 2014, the chapter presented me with a Chapter Distinguished Service Key, the highest award given at the chapter level and recognized by the National Fraternity. Moreover, the 2014 National Convention was held in Chicago between Christmas and New Year’s. During this 4-day event, I was asked to be a part of the Installation Ceremony for the incoming officers of the Board of Directors. It was an honor and privilege to conduct the installation in front of the 2000+ members in attendance. I am so grateful for all of my experiences in this organization as I continued the legacy of leadership and service that I had gained from my time at Chadwick.” (See story on page 48.)

2012Jennifer Calfas is Editor in Chief at The Michigan Daily. (See story on page 47.)

Reporting on cross country alumni, Coach George Ramos says, “Sam Cartwright continues to excel as a runner for Middlebury. Katie Courtney started her 2014 collegiate cross country season at Bates College by finishing tenth in her first outing. Great jobs, Sam and Katie!”

2013Coach George Ramos reports that Alex Geffner-Mihlsten is back for his second season of cross country at Cal Tech. Runners at Chadwick report that he’s gone ‘full nerd,’ whatever that means. Evan Hamilton finished 13th for Haverford College in their race against their alumni to start the season.”

2014Emily Robertson finished 14th in her age group at the Hermosa-to-Manhattan Beach Pier-to-Pier swim, according to her former cross country coach, George Ramos.


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FACULTY AND STAFF NOTES

WELCOME, MINI-DOLPHINS!1) Kindergarten teacher Adrienne Rizk and her husband, Sam, welcomed a daughter, Ava Grace, on November 19, 2014. Ava’s big brother is Isaac.

2) Amanda Karlsgodt surprised her parents, Spanish teacher Carmen Karlsgodt and husband Steve, and big brother John by arriving a month early on October 5, 2014.

3) English teacher Kate Elortegui and husband Dan greeted their first child, son Sebastian, on November 3, 2013.

4 and 13) Claire Irene Babuder joined Middle and Upper School Director of Choruses Kevin Babuder, wife Annie, and big brother Patrick on September 29, 2014.

5) Fourth-grade teacher Brittany Olayele and her husband, Ibukun Olayele, welcomed David Oluwafisayomi Olayele, whose middle name means “God has doubled my joy again”), on January 8, 2015. His big sister is Layla-Marie.

6) Chemistry and physics teacher Trish Stevens and robotics teacher and YEA instructor Matt Stevens welcomed their first child, Michael Wyatt Stevens, on September 26, 2013.

7) Dean of Students Lauren White and her husband, Ryan, welcomed a son, Carter, on February 4, 2014. Carter’s proud big sister is Hannah.

9) Luke Patrick Inglis was born to fifth-grade teacher Samantha Inglis and her husband, Patrick Inglis ’98, on September 16, 2014.

10) Luke Christopher Pepe was born to Village music teacher Sarah Schaffner Pepe and her husband, Richard, on May 29, 2014.

11) Math teacher Michael Cass and wife Karen also welcomed their second child, son Ryan, on September 18, 2013. Also awaiting Ryan was his big brother, Nathan.

12) Fifth-grade teacher Michelle Carr and her husband, David, welcomed their second son, Xavier, on February 5, 2014. Xavier’s proud big brother is Sebastian.

Samuel Daniel Llorente, son of Spanish teacher Samantha Krasne and her husband, Juan Llorente, arrived on September 3, 2013. Samuel’s big sister is Mia.

WEDDINGS First-grade teacher Elizabeth Echternach married Rob Giffin on June 21, 2014, in Stanford Memorial Church.

Congratulations to the following faculty and staff members on their recent accomplishments:

History teacher Natalie Johnson, who was honored as Chadwick’s 2014 Educator of the Year. (Read the accompanying story on page 7.)

Art teacher Karla Commins, who received the 2014 Dr. Tom Rischke Art Education Award awarded by the City of Torrance Cultural Arts Foundation for excellence in art education for both children and adults. 8) Associate Outdoor Education Director Deborah Powers, who joined former OE instructor Rafi Abramovitz and others to guide a group of six Maasai women on a trek over Mt. Kenya. The trek included a summit of Point Lenana at 16,500 feet and was part of the Naretoi (“women helping women”) project.

History teacher and Middle School Global Programs Coordinator Casey Quirarte Sarantos, who earned her Doctor of Education degree in Educational Leadership for Social Justice from Loyola Marymount University’s School of Education in May 2014. Dr. Sarantos also received the prestigious Myra Sadker Foundation Dissertation Award.

Chinese Language teacher JianMin “Jassy” Luo, whose study guide for the AP Chinese Language exam, 5 Steps to a 5: AP Chinese Language and Culture was published by McGraw-Hill in 2014.

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Global traveler to seven continents, lifelong sports enthusiast and a man committed to social justice, Curtis Sanford Reis, 79, passed away on February 25 from complications of heart failure. He served as a Roessler-Chadwick Foundation Trustee from 1989 to 1995. Curtis, a kind, loving and

generous man devoted to family, friends and colleagues, was born June 15, 1934 in New York City. He was the son of L. Sanford Reis and Josephine Mills Reis. He grew up in and around Ridgewood, New Jersey, and Brooklyn Heights. After graduating from Ridgewood High School, Curtis attended Cornell University, graduating in 1956 with a degree in Economics, and from Rutgers University’s Stonier School of Banking in 1966. He served in the United States Army in Fort Dix, New Jersey from 1957 to 1959. A lifelong banker, Curtis was the Vice President and Chief of Staff for the Bankers Trust New York Corporation, a Senior Vice President of Crocker Bank,

and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alliance Bank headquartered in Culver City from 1986 until his retirement in 2009. He served as Chairman of the Domestic Lending Council of Robert Morris Associates, a national association of bank lending and credit officers. He also served for many years as a Director of the California Bankers Association (CBA) and as its Chairman from 2002 to 2003. In 2008, he was honored as its “Distinguished Banker of the Year.” Curtis considered Cornell a defining element in his life and remained active in the university throughout his life. He was President of the Class of ’56 from 1959 to 1981. In 1968, he co-founded Cornell’s Adult University, one of the first of its kind and a model for similar programs at other universities. In 1983, he was elected a Trustee and remained a Lifetime Trustee Emeritus. He also served on the Cornell University Council, College of Arts and Sciences Council, Athletics Advisory Council, Tower Club National Committee and the Boards of the Cornell Clubs of Greater New York and Southern California. He received the Frank H.T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Award in 2000. Among his many civic activities, Curtis was President of the Upper Ridgewood Tennis Club, Chair of the Fair Housing Council of Northern New Jersey, Chair of the Culver City Chamber of Commerce, President of the Jack Kramer Tennis Club in Rolling Hills Estates, and a Board member of the California Council for Economic Education. Curtis was a prolific traveler. He took three around-the-world trips and visited more than sixty countries over the course of his life, including such far-flung places as Borneo, Bhutan, Iran, Afghanistan, New Guinea and Namibia. Curtis loved to write stories and poems that reflected his many passions and mischievous sense of humor. He was a lifelong philanthropist and an advocate for giving back to one’s community. He was actively engaged, civically and intellectually, a strong believer in fairness and equity, and a mentor to many. Curtis is survived by his wife of thirty-five years, Pamela Petre Reis; three children, Blythe Reis, Perryn Reis Rowland and Kyle Reis; six grandchildren, and a sister and brother-in-law, Dale and Dick Johnson.

IN MEMORIAM

CURTIS REIS June 15, 1934 – February 25, 2014

Curtis and Pamela Reis


J. Edgar Thomson “JET” Rutter II, passed away at age 83 after a short bout with cancer. JET Rutter was born in Santa Monica, Calif., on March 6, 1931, to Thomas Renaud Rutter and Abby Holstein Rutter. He graduated from Chadwick School in 1948, where he was known as “Ned” or “Ed.” He next graduated from Princeton University in 1952 with honors from the Department of Religion and Philosophy and a minor in Economics. As a Princeton senior, Jet was the captain of the Princeton fencing team and was named as an alternate for the 1952 Olympics. He married Lenore “Kit” Kittredge on June 18, 1952. After graduating from USC Law School, JET was drafted into the U.S. Army. He began practicing law in Los Angeles after leaving the Army. In 1959, he formed a law partnership with

Dennis Carpenter and practiced law in Newport Beach until 1968, when he was appointed to the Municipal Court and then to the Superior Court. JET organized the Family Law Panel for the Orange County Superior Court, resigning from the bench in 1985 as the panel’s senior judge. Thereafter, he worked as a mediator, private judge, arbitrator, and appellate law consultant. JET lived most of his life on Lido Isle in Newport Beach and served on the Boards of the Lido Isle Community Association and the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum, including as the Board President for both organizations. JET is survived by his wife of 62 years, Kit, and by their four children and three grandchildren.

J. EDGAR THOMAS “JET” RUTTER ’48 March 6, 1931 - May 31, 2014

Gordon Earl McRae, Jr. was born on June 28, 1946 in Santa Monica, Calif., and passed away peacefully on December 3, 2013 in Torrance. Gordon is survived by his fiancée Christy Fisher, his mother Relna McRae, siblings Lynn and Steven (Martha), his children Matthew (Deena) and Cheryl and his grandchildren Kaitlin and Tanner. His collegiate accomplishments include an undergraduate engineering degree and graduate business degree from the University of Southern California. With a deep love for Redondo Beach, Gordon previously owned the Redondo Beach Boardwalk, acted as president of the Redondo Beach

Marina, originated the popular Lobster Festival, and served as an important contributing member of both the city’s Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club. He was also a respected member of the International Wine and Food Society’s Southern California branch, where he shared his mastery in gourmet cuisine and expertise in wine pairing. Property management and online retail were additional ventures. Always an enthusiast of photography and the latest technology, Gordon’s cordial nature, magic tricks and joke telling made him a beloved friend of many.

GORDON EARL McRAE, JR. ’64 June 28, 1946 – December 3, 2013


RICHARD J. JACOBSEN ’49 November 26, 1931 - August 22, 2014

Richard J. Jacobsen, 82, of Palos Verdes Peninsula, Calif., died peacefully at home on August 22, 2014 after living with Parkinson’s disease the last few years. Richard “Dick” Jacobsen was born in San Pedro, Calif., on November 26, 1931. His parents were Captain Jacob Andrew Jacobsen and Elise Gulbransen Jacobsen, both from Norway. At the age of 5, Dick met his wife Sandy McCracken when they became neighbors growing up in Miraleste. They were married on September 22, 1956 in Westwood Community Methodist Church, in West Los Angeles. Dick graduated from the California Maritime Academy in 1952 and served in the U.S. Navy, reaching the rank of Lieutenant.

After the Navy, he gained experience on merchant ships. In the mid-1950s, he came home to work with his father in the family business, Jacobsen Pilot Service, Inc. in the Port of Long Beach. Dick worked as a port pilot before he became President of the company in 1960. He was well respected as a strong leader, being active in the maritime community and setting new safety standards in the piloting industry. Under his leadership, JPS pioneered the use of new technologies enhancing safety that subsequently became standard in the industry. He influenced many lives through his wisdom and compassion. He loved being around the business and continued to go to the office on a regular basis, even just weeks before his death. Dick was a loving husband and father

who cherished family times together. He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Sandra; children Katherine Anderson (Borgan), Thomas (Michele), and Linda Fester (Chad); seven grandchildren; and his sister Andrea Ulin. He was preceded in death by his parents, his brother, Jack, and two sons, Kristian Jacob and Richard Andrew.

Arnold Garcia, Class of 2011, passed away on May 4, 2015, in a tragic bicycle accident. A memorial tribute to Arnold will run in the next issue of COMPASS.

Chadwick School also received word that the following alumni have died, although no obituaries have been received.

Barbara Dyer Jordan ’46Thomas Madden ’47Gail Prendergast Carver ’58


Mary Wallace Wheat ’42, known to her family and friends as “Mickey,” died in Carmel Valley, Calif., after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease on May 9, 2013. Mickey was born September 27, 1924 in Los Angeles. The only daughter of James and Mary Blair Wallace, Mickey graduated from Chadwick School in 1942. She was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Occidental College in the Class of 1945. At Occidental College, she met her husband Richard P. Wheat,

who later graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. They were married on December 26, 1945. Mickey and Dick spent 67 years in a devoted and happy marriage, living primarily in Los Altos, Calif. They had three sons – David, Kenneth and James – who were the pride of Mickey’s life, as were their wives, Barbara, Shelley and Valerie. Her six grandchildren and her two great-granddaughters brought her much joy and happiness. Mickey co-founded the Los Altos Cooperative Nursery School and, with Dick and their boys, made three extensive treks in the Himalayan Mountains. She served three terms on the Los Altos High School District Board of Education, and was then elected to the Foothill-DeAnza Community College Board, serving four terms. She was a Trustee of Occidental College and a Commissioner on the Accrediting Commission for

Senior Colleges and Universities, Western Division (WASC). Mickey served nationally as a Board member and President of the Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities (ABG); at the state level, she served on the Board of the California Community College Trustees and the California Elected Women for Education and Research. Mickey also served as the Executive Director of the El Camino Hospital Foundation in Mountain View and the Director for Fund Development, Sensor Access Foundation in Palo Alto. In 1985, Mickey was honored with the Los Altos Community Service Award. Mickey will be deeply missed by all of her family, whom she loved so much, by her many friends and by the community she served with devotion and distinction.

MARY WALLACE WHEAT ’42 September 27, 1924 - May 9, 2013

Sandra Lea “Sandy” Mullen of Fallbrook, Calif., passed away peacefully on September 23, 2013 at home. She was born in Torrance, Calif., on October 20, 1952. She attended Marymount High School and Chadwick School, where she was a member of the Class of 1969. During her lifetime, Sandy worked in the restaurant and insurance industries. She had an absolute love for animals, especially monkeys and her precious Dalmatian dog, Patches. She loved decorating, traveling and Harrah’s Casino. Sandy was preceded in death by her father, Jack Smith. She is survived by her husband, Harold “Lett” Mullen ’69, of Fallbrook; her mother, Juanita, and her brother Michael.

SANDRA LEA “SANDY” MULLEN ’69 October 20, 1952 - September 23, 2013


Joshua “Josh” Allen was the first child of Jeff and Victoria Allen, born on February 8, 1994, in Torrance, Calif. He passed away unexpectedly at home on March 6, 2015, following a brief illness. Growing up, Josh was blessed with a wonderful home filled with loving friends and family. He strove to be a caring and protective older brother to his younger siblings, Daniel and Jesse ’18, making time with them a priority throughout his life. He began attending Chadwick School as a kindergartner, where he developed close friendships that would last the rest of his life. He loved participating in sports including baseball, basketball, football and more, often with his father on the sidelines coaching. While at Chadwick, he competed in football, basketball and baseball. Born into a family of music makers, he developed his own passion for music. Josh’s friends describe him as intelligent, funny, good-hearted, adventurous and loyal. During his high school years, he made a friend who became the love of his life, Jessie Ralph, also Class of 2012. Josh shared with anyone who would listen his great experiences and memories as a member of the Chadwick community. He graduated as a Chadwick “WOW.” Josh approached college in his own inimitable way. He began at Fordham University, but found that his heart remained back in California. He soon transferred to Loyola Marymount, where he reconnected with his California roots and commitment to service as a member of Ignations.

His dream of becoming a Trojan at USC would be realized in his sophomore year of college. At USC, he told his friends he had finally found the school, challenging studies and campus life he had been seeking. Josh believed that every day was a gift to be savored and not wasted. His personal motto, “live life for the story,” encouraged those around him to do the same. His adventurous spirit and his love for creating memorable moments, whether by driving from L.A. to Middlebury to surprise Jessie on her birthday, spontaneously buying a chicken or taking friends flying, were testimonies to how much Josh valued everything and everyone around him. The only thing Josh loved more than having a good story to tell was sharing that story with someone he loved. Josh had big dreams and high expectations for his life. He intended to marry Jessie, had committed to becoming a Marine, and, of course, vowed never to stop having adventures. Josh lives on in the stories and memories of his family, many friends, and the Chadwick community. Josh is treasured and remembered by all those who knew him. He is survived by his parents, Jeff and Victoria, brothers Daniel and Jesse ’18, grandmother and co-conspirator, Jill “Nana” Collins, his aunts, uncles and cousins, and the longtime love of his life, Jessie Ralph ’12.

JOSHUA BENJAMIN ALLEN ’12 February 8, 1994 - March 6, 2015

Left: Josh Allen ’12 Left to right: Daniel, Josh ’12, Victoria, Jesse ’18 and Jeff Allen Right: Jessie Ralph ’12 and Josh Allen ’12 at Commencement 2012.


HAZEL IRIS BOWLES BULLIN December 8, 1919 - March 20, 2015

Longtime Chadwick teacher and alumni parent Hazel Bullin died peacefully on March 20, 2015, in Long Beach, Calif., at age 95. At the time of her retirement in 2006, Hazel had worked for Chadwick School for 47 years; she remains the only faculty member to have served under every head of school since the school’s founding. Hazel Iris Bowles was born in Hamilton, New Zealand, on December 8, 1919. She graduated from Hamilton Technical College and worked as a milliner until she was called to military service during World War II. Hazel married her late husband, Ken Bullin, after the war and their daughter, Christine ’65, was born in 1948. In 1959, the Bullins relocated to California to work for Chadwick. Ken Bullin taught history and served as the theater director, and both Hazel and Ken served as dorm parents. Besides that of dorm parent, Hazel’s many roles included crafts and theater teacher, chaperone and guide for Chadwick student trips to Europe and costumer extraordinaire. It was her responsibility to design and construct the costumes for Chadwick’s performing arts productions, and her creativity and ingenuity were legendary. Hazel also patiently taught the intricate English maypole dances, still performed each year at Family Open House Day, to several decades of sixth-grade girls.

More than 300 people turned out to celebrate Hazel’s remarkable career at a retirement high tea in her honor in 2006. Following her retirement, she spent time visiting with friends, enjoying classical music, attending theater performances, and traveling both in the U.S. and New Zealand. Speaking at her retirement tea, retired Middle School Director John Fiske said, “Her artistic abilities are legendary, but her abilities in the area of costuming remain irreplaceable. Hazel is one of the most self-effacing people I know, rarely surfacing for the public recognition se so richly deserves. She is one of Chadwick’s treasures.” A small on-campus memorial for Hazel will be held this fall on October 24 in conjunction with Homecoming. More information will be provided as it becomes available. Hazel’s daughter, Christine Bullin ’65, survives her. If you wish to send condolences to Christine, her address is 618 Fillmore Street #3, San Francisco, CA 94117. Gifts in memory of Hazel can be made through the Chadwick Development Office.

Left: Hazel Bullin and Michael Saltzman ’82 at her retirement tea in 2006. Middle: Hazel Bullin adjusts a costume. Right: Hazel Bullin with sixth-grade Maypole dancers in 2006.


All in for Chadwick!On behalf of the students and teachers whose lives are touched by your generosity, we thank you for your support of Chadwick’s 2014-15 Annual Fund.

It is the strength of our community’s support for the Annual Fund that allows Chadwick to go from a good school to a great one. Thanks to your contribution:

> Our students have increased opportunities to learn through experience in athletics, the arts, sciences, outdoor education and community service

> Our teachers have the classroom resources they need, our faculty salaries are more competitive, and there are more opportunities to pursue professional development

> We are able to provide tuition assistance so that outstanding students are able to enroll at Chadwick regardless of their families’ financial situation

> Our campus and facilities are beautiful, well-maintained and provide a welcoming learning environment

Thank you for being all in!

In short, the Annual Fund enhances every aspect of education at Chadwick –

beyond what is possible with tuition alone.


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Award: Distinguished Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame

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Mail to: Chadwick School Alumni Office, 26800 South Academy Drive, Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA 90274. You can also email nominations to [email protected].

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI & ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME AWARDSFirst Call for 2015-2016 Nominations

A ceremony will take place to honor all inductees during Alumni Weekend, June 3-5, 2016.

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARDThe award is given to a person whose life experience embodies the core values of a Chadwick School education: respect, responsibility, honesty, fairness and compassion. The name of the inductee will be added to the Distinguished Alumni Award recognition plaque located in the Leavenworth Library.

Qualifications:• Attended Chadwick School for a minimum of one year• Graduated a minimum of 20 years ago• Made a significant contribution to the advancement of others and to the improvement of his or her community • Made significant accomplishments in his or her career or field of interest.

ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME AWARDThe award recognizes and honors former student athletes and coaches for outstanding contributions to athletics at Chadwick School. The name of the inductees will be added to the Athletic Hall of Fame plaque.

Qualifications: • Alumni must have attended Chadwick School for at least one year.• Alumni must have graduated a minimum of 10 years ago.• Coaches must have coached at Chadwick School for at least 10 years and must have left the school a minimum of 10 years ago.

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CHADWICK SCHOOL EVENTS – September - December 2015

7th Annual Chadwick School Golf Tournament Monday, October 19, 2015 – 10 a.m.Palos Verdes Golf Club Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.

Chadwick Homecoming Saturday, October 24, 2015Commander Chadwick Field and Pascoe Pavilion

8 a.m. Chadwick Invitational Girls Volleyball Tournament 11 a.m. Hazel Bullin Memorial – Vanderlip Lawn2:30 p.m. Alumni BBQ 3 p.m. Alumni Football Ceremony3:30 p.m. Homecoming Game versus Rock Academy

Individual Reunions – locations to be determined

Chadwick Professionals Networking and Holiday Mixer December 3, 2015 – 6:30 p.m. Tin Roof Bistro, Manhattan Beach, CA

Chadwick Alumni Athletic Weekend December 18 and 19, 2015

7 p.m. Friday, December 18, 2015 Alumni versus Varsity Basketball Game Pascoe Pavilion 10 a.m. Saturday, December 19, 2015 to 2 p.m. Chadwick Athletic Day Pascoe Pavilion and Commander Chadwick Field

Individual Reunions – locations to be determined

For more information about any of the above events, please contact the Chadwick Development Office at (310) 377-1543, ext. 4149, or via email at [email protected].

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To the Class of 2015:You’ve conquered mountains and discovered new paths in your challenging academic courses, outdoor education, global experiences, athletics and the arts. You’ve expanded your learning outside of your comfort zone and discovered your place in the world.

You’ve cultivated an open mind, open heart, independent spirit and the courage to take action and ask questions – in pursuit of big ideas and the greater good.

You THINK deeply in critical and creative ways. You reflect, collaborate and DO the work to uncover solutions, while discovering your talents and passions. You earned the self-confidence and developed the character to LEAD classmates and even instructors.

You bring honor to your families and ultimately to the communities you will serve. At Chadwick School, you never sat on the sidelines. In whatever comes next, continue to THINK, DO and LEAD.

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