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DUBLIN SCHOOL • SPRING 2012 ISSUE

BUILDING tHELeaders of Tomorrow

Dublin SchoolBOaRD Of tRUStEES 2011 - 2012

President, Peter Imhoff P’13Dublin, NH

Co-Vice President, Michael J. Mullins ’93Boston, MA

Co-Vice President, L. Phillips Runyon III P ’88, ’92Peterborough, NH

Treasurer, George B. Foote, Jr.Dublin, NH

Secretary, Sharron Smith P ’92Hinsdale, NH

William A. Barker P ’85, Dublin, NH

Bradford D. Bates, (ex-officio), Head of School, Dublin, NH

Robert C. English ’86, Washington, DC

Patricia Fletcher H ’05, Worcester, MA

Joseph C. Gibson P ’12, Waterford, VA

David E. Howe H ’95, Marlborough, NH

Carleton R. Ladd ’60, P ’87, ’88, Milton, MA

Michelle Lange P ’14 (ex-officio) Parents’ Association, Nelson, NH

Jason D. Potts ’96, Boston, MA

Brett S. Smith ’88, New York, NY

Jason E. Smith ’92 (ex-officio) Alumni Association, Bermuda

William C. Spencer ’86, Ft Lauderdale, FL

Alexander T. Sprague ’87, Castro Valley, CA

Timothy Steele P ’11, ’13, Hancock, NH

Nicholas S. Thacher, Dedham, MA

Susanne K. Vogel, Dublin, NH

Carl Von Mertens, Peterborough, NH

LIfE tRUStEESLouisa L. Birch ’57, Dublin, NH

Carlos E. Bosch ’46, P ’78, ’79, ’83, Hamilton, Bermuda

Judith Hoyt Goddard H’11, Chatham, MA

Paul S. Horovitz P ’92, Litchfield, CT

Margaret A. Johnson, Hanover, NH

H. Gilman Nichols, Jr. ’46, Brunswick, ME

Edward F. Whitney H’91, Durham, NH

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SPRING 2012

taBLE Of CONtENtS

Message from the Head of School.....................................2

Academics at Dublin School ...............................................4

Spotlighting our Newest Faculty Members ........................6

My First Year at Dublin School ...........................................8

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Director of Development & Alumni Affairs: Erika L. RogersDirector of Annual Fund: Lucy ShonkEditors: Erika L. Rogers, Donna StoneCopy Editors: Jan Haman P ’80, ’82, ’83, GP ’15, Anne Mackey, Dorine RynerDesign & Printing: R. C. Brayshaw & Company, Warner, NHPhotography: Caroline Doenmez ’02, Bill Gnade, Tyson Laa-Deng ’13, Anne Mackey, Eric Nemitz, Alison Poirier ’12, Donna Stone and Larry Maglott

On the cover: Visiting with the students of the Himal ya Public School

In compiling this issue we have made every effort to ensure that it is accurate. Please send any comments, omissions, or corrections to Erika L. Rogers, Director of Development and Alumni Affairs, Dublin School, P.O. Box 522, Dublin, NH 03444.

Ashley’s Visit ........................................................................9

Student Spotlights ........................................................... 11

A Visit to Costa Rica ......................................................... 13

Reflections on India ......................................................... 14

Noteworthy Events ........................................................... 16

From Campus to College .................................................. 18

For the Love of Flying ....................................................... 20

The Privilege of a Lifetime ............................................... 24

Dublin School Alumni: Leading Extraordinary Lives .......................................... 26

On the Road with Erika .................................................... 28

In Memory Of .................................................................... 31

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2 | the Dubliner | Spring 2012

This winter English teacher Henry Walters, during a community discussion about the universal lure of Mount Monadnock, read

the following piece from Henry David Thoreau’s journals.

November 13, 1851. To Fair Haven Hill.Now is there nothing, not even the cold beauty of ice crystals and snowy architecture, nothing but the echo of your steps over the frozen ground, no voice of birds nor frogs. You are dry as a farrow cow. The earth will not admit a spade. All fields lie fallow.

I see snow on the Peterboro hills, reflecting the sun. It is pleasant thus to look from afar into winter. We look at a condition which we have not reached. Notwithstanding the poverty of the immediate landscape, in the horizon it is simplicity and grandeur. I look into valleys white with snow and now lit up by the sun, while all this country is in shade.

I grew up in Concord, Massachusetts not far from Thoreau’s cabin and Fair Haven Hill and can relate to his longing for the promise and beauty of the hills to the north. Unlike Thoreau, I eventually left Concord and moved to the “Peterboro hills” to live amongst the “simplicity and grandeur” of this area that Dublin School calls home. As a teenager, I remember leaving Concord every Friday afternoon in winter to drive up to New Hampshire with my family for various ski adventures. There is a spot on Route 3, when you leave Massachusetts, where the road bends through Nashua, briefly turns west, and reveals the Peterborough hills around Dublin to the west. Whenever I have rounded that bend heading north, from age twelve until today, I find myself leaving behind the stress of the urban environment, and the excitement and sense of possibility build inside of me.

These feelings do not simply flow from the landscape, the mountains, forests, fields and lakes of the Monadnock Region; they emanate from the people who are drawn to the area and the communities these individuals and families have

built. Paul Lehmann was onto something when he decided over seventy-five years ago to locate his school here on a commanding hill with stunning, endless views. Our students and faculty arrive here each fall from around the world, some enthralled by the natural beauty and others terrified by the abundance of grass and trees, but the place works on us in sometimes subtle ways, and at others it hits us like the pop of a splitting oak tree during an ice storm.

A Dublin alumnus from the late 1950’s recently spoke to me about how our location has created a spirit unique to our school. In his mind he associates Dublin with entrepreneurialism, a can-do spirit, a perfect blend of independent thinking and collaborative work. His remark reminded me of a quote in New Hampshire Magazine from one of our state’s leading inventors, Dean Kamen:

“Intellectually, New Hampshire is the perfect size. It’s small enough you can have access to the people that make decisions and you can help affect those decisions, but it’s big enough that it has significant resources, people and property that you can accomplish big things.”

This statement about our state very much captures the way I feel about Dublin School. Dublin is the most nimble, active, and collaborative place I have lived or worked. This culture of innovation, pragmatism, and self-sufficiency starts with our Board of Trustees who will go to all lengths to support an idea that flows from our mission and is intended to fuel the growth of our students. If you view our recent academic guide you will see that our Academic Dean Sarah Doenmez will do just about anything to support the first line of our Mission Statement, “we strive to awaken a curiosity for knowledge and a passion for learning.” Working with our dedicated faculty, Sarah has brought our mission to life by creating courses and independent studies beyond our traditional curriculum with titles like: Legacy of the Atom Bomb, Culture of Islam, Journalism, Harlem Renaissance, Applied Computer Programming, Vector Space Geometry,

a mESSaGE fROm tHE HEaD Of SCHOOLGranite State of Mind

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Renewable Energy, Our Angry Earth, Turkish, Native Americans on Film, Sculpture, and Music Theory.

Our new Gillespie Hall stands as a testament to this spirit of Dublin School. Charlie Gillespie did everything at Dublin from dispensing medications to the infirmed students, to driving the tractor, to teaching Latin, to reading old English out loud in Morning Meeting, to running the rope tow, and turning out the last light every night. His name will honor a building that was built with Dublin hands and minds. Our Board and staff have spent thousands of hours planning and designing the building, literally building all of the cabinetry and furniture for the interior, hiring subcontractors, and getting it ready for its opening this spring. It was a team effort and the kind of collaboration that I believe one could only find at Dublin School. This same spirit of entrepreneurialism can be found in our recent trip to establish a relationship with a school in India, in the creation of our new mountain biking team, in the blossoming of ideas to strengthen our traditional work gangs or in the development of our new advanced music laboratory ensemble. Every day we strive to fulfill our mission to “instill the values of meaningful work that are necessary for the good of self and community.”

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal titled “How Big Cities Can Lead to Small Thoughts” revealed what many of us have come to suspect: that cities “risk becoming incubators of groupthink.” While people think of cities as diverse places swirling with new ideas, the article suggests that they actually provide people with more opportunities to surround themselves with people who have surprisingly similar ideas to their own. Fast Company magazine co-founder William Taylor points out that “you’re not going to learn faster (or deeper) than everyone else if you seek inspiration from the same sources as everyone else.” Intentionally designed smaller communities like Dublin School are created to counteract the dangers of “groupthink,” to avoid the allure of the amnesiac mimicry that can often cripple independent schools, and instead to create a community of learners by embracing experiences that challenge our assumptions and predispositions and lead to new understandings and new ideas. Our Mission Statement states that we “respect the individual learning style and unique potential each student brings to our School.” We are not trying to create a “Dublin Man” or “Dublin Woman” among our graduates. By inviting students to this campus, surrounding them with inspiring people with different perspectives from their own, challenging them to participate and try new things, celebrating their strengths, and by harnessing the unique natural, physical and intellectual resources of the Monadnock region, we hope to encourage them to follow the advice of another Concordian, Ralph Waldo Emerson, who urged mankind to not only “look at the world with new eyes” but to “build, therefore, your own world.”

Head of School

Wish List


ENDOwmENtEndowed Academic Chairs $1,000,000

Endowed Boarding Student Scholarship • $1,000,000

Endowed Day Student Scholarship $600,000

Endowed Student International Travel Fund • $100,000

CaPItaL PROjECtS Dormitory Expansion • $750,000Faculty Housing • $400,000 Wood Gymnasium Floor • $75,000Boat House Renovation • $30,000On-Campus Machine Shop • $10,000 EqUIPmENt & SUPPLIESAP Chemistry & Physics Equipment $10,000

Maple Sugaring Equipment $10,000

Life Science Laboratory Equipment$5,000

Recording Studio Equipment $5,000

Athletic Training Room Equipment $2,000

Smaller gifts to any of these needs are always appreciated. Naming opportunities begin at $50,000


fULL YEaR COURSES:English 9: Classical LiteratureEnglish 10: World LiteratureEnglish 11: American LiteratureEnglish 12: British LiteratureAP English 11: Language and CompositionAP English 12: Literature

World History I, IIU.S. HistoryAP U.S. History

Algebra IAlgebra II/TrigonometryGeometryPrecalculusStatisticsAP CalculusAdvanced Topics in Math

Physical ScienceBiologyChemistryAP Physics

AP ChemistryAP Environmental Science

Spanish I, II, III, IVFrench I, II, III, IVLatin I, II, III, IVEnglish as a Second Language (ESL) I, II

RECENt ELECtIvES:hiStoryAmerican Civil RightsArt HistoryCultural History of the 50’sCulture of IslamCulture of the 60’sEconomicsGovernmentHistory of Latin AmericaHistory of WarfareThe HolocaustIntroduction to World ReligionsThe Islamic WorldIssues of Poverty and DevelopmentLegacy of the Atom BombMaritime HistoryModern China20th Century IrelandWomen in 20th Century America

Science & technologyAdvanced ProgrammingAnatomy and PhysiologyAstronomyComputer ProgrammingFirst RoboticsFlash AnimationMarine ScienceMeteorologyPsychologyRenewable EnergySports MedicineWeb Design

engliShA Critical Approach to Children’s Literature Arthurian LiteratureAutobiographyBlack Poets/SlammingContemporary FictionCreative WritingHarlem RenaissanceLiterature of the Devil and HellScience Fiction in LiteratureShakespeare’s ComediesWomen in Drama

ArtSAP Music TheoryArt HistoryCeramicsChoral SocietyClassical EnsembleDrawing I: Line and ShapeDrawing II: Value and TextureHistory by HollywoodIntro to Music: Theory and HistoryIntro to Music: Theory and PerformanceJam BandJazz Rock ComboJunior/Senior Portfolio SeminarNative Americans on FilmPage to the StagePaintingPhotographySculptureTheatre Workshop for Freshmen

Is a new publication put together this year by Jill Hutchins and the Admissions Office illustrating the academic program at Dublin School. You can view it on the Dublin School website at

www.dublinschool.org/viewbook/

Every aspect of the academic program is covered, including current course listings. With a list like this - What would you elect?

“I ask students to ‘seek’ more fully. Not to hurry to conclusions or answers, but to ask questions…then more questions, and then spend time listening. The process can matter

even more than the result.”

- SARAH DOENMEz, ACADEMIC DEAN


HIGH HONORS (GPA of 3.667 or higher and with no grade lower than an A-)

Lukas Barth ’13 (Nurnberg, Germany)Paige Brnger ’12 (Munsonville, NH)Elizabeth Davis ’13 (Bethesda, MD)Sydney De Tomaso ’13 (Santa Barbara, CA)Stephanie Janetos ’13 (Peterborough, NH)Woo Jun Nam ’13 (Daejeon, Korea)Patrick Nichols ’13 (North Bethesda, MD)Reef Rogers ’15 (Dublin, NH)Mengziying Tu ’12 (Shanghai, China)William Utzschneider ’15 (Chestnut Hill, MA)Hannah Whitesel ’15 (Jaffrey, NH)Peng Zhang ’12 (Jiangxi Province, China) HONORS (GPA of 3.0 or higher and with no grade lower than a B-)

Alexis Andrus ’13 (Spofford, NH)Ashley Arana ’12 (Trenton, NJ)Atsede Assayehgen ’14 (Cambridge, MA)Emily Bascom ’15 (Greenfield, NH)Peter Bascom ’13 (Greenfield, NH)Emily Beaupre ’13 (Cincinnati, OH)Jeffrey Brathwaite ’13 (Brooklyn, NY)Wenzhi Cai ’13 (Zhejiang Province, China)Chien-Hui Chen ’12 (Taipei, China)Mekhi Crooks ’14 (Brooklyn, NY)Kelsa Danforth ’15 (Francestown, NH)Tucker DeSisto ’15 (Cohasset, MA)Peter Dopp ’12 (Bethesda, MD)Mylisha Drayton ’14 (Bronx, NY)Peter Dunphy ’14 (Fairfax, VA)Yuan Feng ’14 (Shenzhen, China)Stephanie Figueroa ’14 (Lawrence, MA)Jesse Garrett-Larsen ’15 (Dublin, NH)Douglas Gibson ’12 (Waterford, VA)Maya Harrington ’12 (Francestown, NH)

Tymira Holman ’15 (Rosedale, NY)Katharine Houde ’13 (North Woodstock, NH)Charles Imhoff ’13 (Dublin, NH)Min Young Jeong ’12 (Seoul, Korea)Alyssa Jones ’14( Jaffrey, NH)Myles Jones ’12 (Brooklyn, NY)Tyler Jones ’14 (Brooklyn, NY)Marc Krumbein ’12 (Annandale, VA)Tyson Laa Deng ’13 (Cairo, Egypt)Alexander Lange ’13 (Nelson, NH )John Lewtas ’13 (Hancock, NH)Ya Qiao Li ’12 (Shenzhen, China)Shutong Luo ’13 (Shenzhen, China)MeKenzie Mattheson ’15 (Jaffrey, NH)Kendall-Brennen Navedo ’14 (Washington, NJ)Yiran Ouyang ’14 (Shenzhen, China)Brendan Palmer ’14 (Dublin, NH)Zhiyu Pan ’14 (Shanghai, China)Benjamin Phillips ’14 (Norwell, MA)Benjamin Pierce ’13 (Dublin, NH)Colin Rogers ’13 (Windsor, MA)Madeleine Rousseau ’15 (Nelson, NH)Jessica Scharf ’13 (Greenfield, NH)Karion Smith ’13 (Brooklyn, NY)Myles Spencer ’15 (Harrisville, NH)Ja’Naya Stacey ’12 (Staten Island, NY)Leah Star ’15 (Lexington, MA)Jillian Steele ’13 (Rindge, NH)Ji Yoon Sung ’12 (Incheon, Korea)Julie Swanson ’12 (Peterborough, NH)Elizabeth Takyi ’13 (Newark, NJ)Erin Tourgee ’15 (Sharon, NH)Joo Hee Ui ’12 (Seoul, Korea)Ikea Wadsworth ’14 (Pleasant Valley, NY)Aliyah Westbrook ’13 (Brooklyn, NY)Tucker Wheeler ’12 (Osterville, MA)Molly Witten ’14 (Potomac, MD)

Winter Trimester {2011-2012 HONOR STUDENTS}



jOHN aDamS, a recent graduate of Bates College, is currently teaching Geometry and Algebra I and is already known for his versatile teaching style. Recently, a student nominated him for a “Shamrock Shirt” because, “He is always trying to fit his teaching style to our needs. He always asks what would help us learn better, and even puts together videos for us to watch as we work on our homework.” A former captain of the Bates Men’s Lacrosse Team, John is also transforming the Men’s Lacrosse team with assistant coach L.P. Runyon ’88. Because of John’s initiative, the team had its first ever pre-season camp, which is already seeing the results of that effort on the field this Spring.

BILL aND SHELLY faRRELL, veteran boarding school faculty members from Tilton School and Kimball Union Academy, have brought a wealth of skills, experience and energy to our campus this year. Shelly, with over 20 years’ experience as a learning skills specialist, has transitioned seamlessly into Dublin’s Learning Skills program and is especially talented in working with students on writing skills. Bill, a hands-on physics and precalculus teacher, has a rare talent for making the abstract more concrete and can be seen regularly outside or at the lab bench illustrating any number of mathematical concepts to students. Bill is also Dublin’s new Director of Snow Sports and has launched the School’s new mountain biking program as well. As a professional athlete in both of the sports, Bill is the perfect choice for expanding and integrating these two areas of endurance sports into Dublin’s athletic program.

Spotlighting our Newest FAculty MeMberS



maRIO fLORES is delivering what he promised Brad Bates when he was hired this Fall - to have our students playing professional music all over campus! A professional musician/composer himself, Mario earned his BA in Music Performance/Theory from Brown University and his Master’s degree in Music Composition and Education from Columbia. With over 15 years’ experience teaching secondary school music, Mario is transforming Dublin’s music program and adding challenging courses such as Chamber Chorus, Classical Ensemble and Advanced Music Lab.

Sam PEYtON-LEvINE’05 returned to Dublin School this year to teach Mathematics after earning his B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Oregon. An avid outdoorsman, Sam has planned and led 14-21 day canoe trips with Northwaters Wilderness Programs in Temagami, Ontario, CA since 2008 and is a Wilderness First Responder. Sam says, “To me the canoe is the ultimate tool to create a bonding, lasting experience in one’s life.” In addition to teaching Algebra II and Statistics, dorm parenting, and assisting with JV Soccer, snowboarding and rock band, Sam plans to lead some of our own students on a canoe trip this summer.

L.P. RUNYON ’88 continues to work part-time as an athletic coach and arts instructor. L.P. is an incredibly versatile coach, working with our Men’s Varsity Soccer, Alpine Skiing, and Men’s Lacrosse teams. L.P. also taught sculpture this year, utilizing his BFA in Sculpture from Maine College of Art and his own extensive background in metal work, which he does professionally throughout the year.

matt taLLEY, our new Athletic Trainer and New Hampshire native, has been an indispensable part of our athletic program this year. A graduate of Keene State College, Matt has accumulated thousands of clinical hours working with student athletes and is an efficient clinician. Recently a student remarked how, “Mr. Talley is the man behind the scenes of our athletic program and has helped many players get back on their feet and back out here to play and do what they love.”



I feel incredibly fortunate to be a part of this wonderful community. Dublin is a school that fosters deep learning, important relationships

and appropriate risk taking. The thirst of the students and the excitement of the faculty and staff are unmatched. Everyone wants to be here!When I first heard about this position and started to think about Dublin, my only knowledge of the school was that it was small. Everything I had heard about it had the word small in it and in comparison to where I was, it was small. When I was invited to interview I was told to come to the School House. In my mind I started to think, “... is this a one building school?”

As I walked onto campus my preconceived assumptions started to transform. Dublin School is much more than small! The campus impressed me right away. The shingle styled architecture in the shadow of Mount Monadnock with a large quad in the center made an immediate impact. As an admissions professional, I am always looking for the gems. I was encountering several! The rest of that day was a bit blurry as I met with many people. With each relationship that started, almost one

year to this day, I was getting a real sense for what this place was truly about... investment, intelligence and intention. Dublin School knows who it is.

During the year those initial impressions have not changed. Every day I come to the School House (which I now know, houses the Admissions Office, was raised by a Work Gang, and has some of the most iconic small school classrooms ever) with the charge of enrolling the school. It is such a pleasure to meet the right families who I know will keep the traditions, purpose, and meaningful engagement of Dublin School moving forward.

One of the greatest gifts of having experience at other schools is that I bring a healthy sense of comparison. It is so apparent to me that Dublin’s strength is its balance of academics, variety of program offerings, and ‘right’ size, which work together to create a nimble tight-run ship with an organic structure that is hard to beat! Our goal in the Admissions Office is to make sure that we are delivering this message.

We have more and more families visiting campus during the school year. Most visitors spend a significant amount of time in our Head of School’s office, something they always comment on favorably when they return to the School House. The other comment that I love to hear (and hear often) is how happy the current students seem, and that they all look our visitors in the eyes and are willing to engage them in conversation. Most families leave Dublin campus with a very positive impression and a promise to apply.

As this season comes to a close, I am pleased to report that we have a wonderful group of students joining us in the Fall and others who are anxious to come off the waitlist. We have so much to offer and it is evident from our high yield of accepted students that people are talking about us in a very positive light. As many of these initial inquiries come from friends of the school, please help continue to spread the word!

My First Year At dublin School

BY JILL HUTCHINS


Ashley’s VisitBY CAROLINE DOENMEz ’05

“I don’t know how she gets the courage to speak about all the things she described; her life. It was amazing and touching.” This

was one of the comments made by Tyson Laa-Deng ’13 while reflecting on a class in October that was fully run by Ashley Arana ’12. Ashley visited a section of Spanish II to share her family’s story of coming to the United States from El Salvador and Guatemala. Spanish II has been focusing on issues of Central American immigration and deportation as part of the cultural component of the class, and the myriad perspectives, controversies, and meanings surrounding these topics. Ashley’s visit illuminated these conversations and gave them a human dimension.

Ashley described how her mother, one of seventeen children, and her grandmother came to this country after the earthquake in El Salvador in 1986, and lived in Texas and California before settling in Trenton, New Jersey, where Ashley was born and raised. Her mother met her father there. Much of Ashley’s extended family also lives in Trenton, which has a significant Central American population.

Ashley’s presentation included descriptions of the deportations of her father, when she was nine, and her aunt, when she was seven. Ashley’s father was deported during a restaurant raid at his job; Ashley’s aunt, who had been granted refugee status because of the earthquake, had not completed necessary paperwork to stay in the country. Ashley described being present at the deportation of her aunt: waking up early in the morning to police raiding the house and taking her aunt away. The experience was degrading, terrifying and resulted in Ashley’s young cousin suddenly finding herself without a mother. Two of Ashley’s uncles were also deported. Both were murdered upon returning to Guatemala, which has been ranked as a the 4th most dangerous country in the world due to its murder rate.

The students in Spanish II asked Ashley a variety of questions. One of the first was: “What do you and other Guatemalans living in the US miss about home?” Ashley responded: “We miss the lifestyle…everything in Guatemala is more slow-paced, more focused on the true meaning of life, taking the time to enjoy and appreciate each other and the things around you. Here, everyone is always working, working, working, and in a hurry. Even in terms of the way we greet each other, there’s a difference; back home, when you enter a room, you have to go up to every person and kiss their cheek. Here, people usually just say hi and walk past each other or wave from a distance. We also miss our code of morals. At home, we have great respect for our elders; we can’t be rude to our parents, or call them by their first names. When I see or hear kids in this country talking to their parents, I’m shocked. We also love our grandparents and would never take them for granted or put them in a nursing home. The way we see it, the elders hold the spirit of the family.”

Another student asked, “How has deportation defined you or your family’s experiences?” Ashley replied: “I wouldn’t say it’s defined me, but it’s definitely affected me. Basically what it comes down


to are broken families; me growing up without my dad, my cousin growing up without her mom. You learn to move on, but that has changed your life.”

Ashley, a high-honors student and 2-year proctor, said that one of the worst aspects of being Latino in this country is the way in which people assume that she is somehow less worthy or less competent than any other person: “Sometimes people have talked to me as if I were stupid or I didn’t understand English. I think this doesn’t only apply to Latinos, it happens to other minorities as well, but we often feel that as a whole we are treated less equally, given less opportunity, and considered less capable than a ‘white’ person. That’s one reason I get so angry when I see other Latinos at home making mistakes, getting involved in crime, or joining gangs, or not trying for something better– it reflects badly on all Hispanics and makes it harder for us to be taken seriously and get ahead. We as a community, all Latinos, need to work together as a group, not be divided and bring each other down. At the end of the day, I’ll tell anyone where I’m from, and I’m proud to be Guatemalan.”

“The story that touched me the most was that of her uncles’ deportations. I found it interesting how much the deportation changed the course of their lives. When she told us how they were shot when they went back, I wondered how different their lives could have been if they stayed in America…One question I had going into the talk was, ‘Is the pain worth it? Is American all it is said to be’ Before I even was able to ask it, she answered it by saying both yes and no…Yes in terms of the education you can receive and the safety; but no when it comes to the culture and customs you lose by leaving Guatemala.”

- Tyler Jones ’14

“All of the stories she illustrated about gang violence and children eating off of piles of garbage [back in Guatemala]- make me so angry that people have to live that way. The most obvious questions like, ‘Why can’t we all just work together,’ are the most difficult to answer…Most people can relate to compassion. I think if we made a bigger effort to shed light on the reality of how people are living in other countries, more people would support each other.”

- Jessica Scharf ’13

“The one argument that was always on my mind when Ashley was talking is related to work and jobs. That illegal immigrants and legal immigrants can bring gang violence and supposedly take our jobs. That is what all the Americans are arguing about, but the truth is, “we” don’t want most of the jobs that they have…We also assume that immigrants are all in gangs and are increasing violence in America. This is not true at all. There are people like Ashley all around us, I bet.”

- Reef Rogers ’15 “Ashley’s visit to our class was really inspiring. When hearing about the troubles of immigrants through stories or through movies you really don’t get it. At first you are shocked, but because it’s a story you put it in the back of your mind, and think that it doesn’t really happen. I believe that most Americans do pass off the horrific tales that they hear about immigrants and the border as just stories. Ashley’s coming to our class and being able to talk to us about the troubles her family experienced was really amazing. Because she came and talked to us it finally clicked in my head that things like this really happen to people every day, and we are just completely blind to it because we choose to be.”

- Ikea Wadsworth ’1410 | the Dubliner | Spring 2012

tHE SPaNISH II StUDENtS RESPONDED tO aSHLEY’S vISIt IN wRItING. ExCERPtS fROm tHEIR RESPONSES INCLUDE tHE fOLLOwING:

Ashley’s Arts-Threaded project for the Art of Autobiography class.


tYSON Laa-DENG ’13

where Are you FroM? I am from South Sudan, but I was born in the North of Sudan. I moved to Maadi, a suburb of Cairo, Egypt when I was five; my family still lives there.

which teAcher hAS hAd the MoSt iMpAct on you And why? Mrs. Doenmez, because she pushes you to do something you think you can’t do. I remember that from my experience writing papers with her last year; for example, I wrote a 13-page paper about creating my own civilization- I couldn’t believe I wrote that much! As a matter of fact, I still have the paper.

whAt iS SoMething new thAt you’ve done At dublin thAt you would never hAve done otherwiSe? There’s a lot of things! Snowboarding, Cross-Country Skiing, Telemark skiing down Mt. Washington- a lot of snow activities. Also, I never thought I would play lacrosse, but I played it last spring. This year, I’m trying crew. Also, hiking- I used to hate hiking, but now I like it. Since the campus and this area is so hilly, you really have no choice other than to hike.

SYDNEY DE tOmaSO ’13

where Are you FroM? Monterey, CA.

which teAcher hAS hAd the MoSt iMpAct on you And why? Mrs. Johnson, who has coached me in basketball

and lacrosse, and Mr. Weis, who is my advisor and Algebra II teacher. They both helped me through a lot and helped me to grow as a person. I can talk to them about anything.

whAt iS SoMething new thAt you’ve done At dublin thAt you would never hAve done otherwiSe? New sports; I only played volleyball before coming here. Now I play soccer, basketball and lacrosse. Another “new” aspect of being here is that I used to be really shy before I came here, but that’s changed, too. Everyone here is themselves and no one’s going to make fun of you for being who you are.

mIN YOUNG jEONG ’12

where Are you FroM? I am from Seoul, South Korea.

where Are you going to college next yeAr? University of Pennsylvania; I am very excited.

which teAcher hAS hAd the MoSt iMpAct on you And why? I owe a lot to every single teacher I had in Dublin. Among them, Mr. Imhoff and Ms. Doenmez have had the most impact on me, due to who they are, not necessarily what they taught; it’s symbolic. From them, I learned the wisdoms of life. I can’t describe in specific terms; it’s more abstract. It’s the feeling of “In the long term, this man or woman changed me.”

whAt Are you going to MiSS the MoSt About dublin when you leAve? Its warmth. Dublin embraced every part of me, my individuality. People here care about other people. In real life, it’s tough to find that. If I go on to big schools, I’ll really miss that warmth. I will miss a lot of this. On the other hand, I feel like I should not be too sad about leaving, I should be looking to my next challenge, just like how birds leave their parents in order to fly higher.”

Student SpotlightS


aLExaNDER LaNGE ’13

where Are you FroM? I am from Nelson, NH. I found Dublin because Mr. Bates went on one of his first visit to my school as the newly appointed Head of School and got me excited about Dublin.

whAt Are your FAvorite AcAdeMic SubjectS? why? My favorite academic subjects are by far history and science. History appeals to me because there’s so much to learn from past events that prepare us for the future. I enjoy science because it’s a field where so many things can be discovered.

do you hAve Any role ModelS on the dublin cAMpuS? iF So, who Are they And why? My role models on campus are Mr. Johnson and Jan. Both of them have exemplified strong leadership to me and I owe them a lot of what I have learned over the past years.

whAt Are you going to MiSS the MoSt About dublin when you leAve? How easy it was to move between different kinds of people. It’s so easy in such a small school. If I feel like hanging out with any group of people, I can; I can talk to anyone I want to. At the root of it, it’s easier to make friends in small places.

mYLES jONES ’12

where Are you FroM? Brooklyn, NY.

how did you Find dublin? Because of Mr. [A.B.] Whitfield– when I was a student at the Trey-Whitfield School in New York, I sang in

the choir, which visits Dublin School every year on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to perform in morning meeting. I came here every year since fourth grade, and my older brother Blair went here. When I came to visit him, seeing Winterfest was what got me. Everyone was into it. Being from New York, all of the snow games seemed like so much fun - we can’t just play in the snow like that where I’m from!

whAt Are your FAvorite AcAdeMic SubjectS? why? Besides AP Environmental Science, my favorite class right now is the American Presidency elective with Brooks Johnson. We get to share our opinions, and listen to other opinions; it’s really discussion based, which I love. Plus, I’ve gotten to meet two Presidential candidates!

whAt iS your beSt quAlity AS A huMAn being - And AS A Student proctor? Optimism. I’d rather smile and be outgoing any day than be sad or stay in my room. As a proctor, I try to involve people in a lot of ways; in conversation, in creating events, in bringing people out for things on the weekends, or just going to play in the gym.

ELIZaBEtH taKYI ’13

where Are you FroM? Newark, NJ

whAt clubS Are you pArt oF? I’m a member of Amnesty International, the Orchestra, and Girls’ Club. This year, I’m running the Hip-Hop

Dance club, which I’ve wanted to start since last year. It was my idea, and Tyson Laa-Deng co-founded the club with me. Even people from outside the school have come to some of our sessions.

how did you leArn how to dAnce? I’ve never been in a dance class. It just comes naturally to me. When I see someone do a move, I want to try it. It’s in my blood. I think to be a dancer you have to have the “music ear.” When you feel a certain rhythm, emotion or movement through music or beat, you know you’re a dancer!

which teAcher hAS hAd the MoSt iMpAct on you And why? This is a very hard question for me to answer because every teacher who has ever taught me here at Dublin has had an impact on me, but if I had to choose, I would have to say Jan Haman. This is not just because she is my advisor, but because ever since my first elective class with Jan my freshman year, I have learned a lot about real life situations instead of just lessons from a textbook. Jan has shared many stories about her life with me. Also, she keeps me in line (as an advisor) she makes sure I’m on top of my game at all times. (I dare not do anything to disappoint her because she is sometimes terrifying!)


Faculty member Caroline Doenmez ’05 and I took nine students on a unique linguistic and cultural immersion experience in

Costa Rica during the School’s March break this year. We arrived in Sámara, a beach town on the Pacific coast, during a particularly hot week of weather. We stayed with host families in the little neighborhood called “Cangrejal,” (translation: “where the crabs are”). There we were able to experience the local way of life, communicate in Spanish, and in some ways, adjust to a less comfortable lifestyle.

The trip was a good balance between adventure and community service. We had the opportunity to try surfing, zip-lining, and visiting hidden beaches, but we also engaged in several Costa Rican style “work gang projects.” These included painting trees to protect them from insects and diseases, beach cleaning, and teaching lacrosse to local elementary students.

All of the Dublin students did very well, particularly Charley Neisner ’14, who fully embraced the experience by engaging with his host family and participating actively in all the community service projects. Charley pointed out to me that the fact that we were all together in the same neighborhood helped us to fit in very well. People there were extremely friendly and all homes were open to visitors.

I would like to express a special thank you to Sydney, Katie, Jessica, Riley, Atsede, Eli, Doug, Charley, and Jonas; Miss Doenmez and I could not have asked for a better group of students with whom to share this adventure!

A travel blog of the trip can be read by scrolling down the posts located on the home page of the Dublin School website - www.dublinschool.org/home


A Visit to Costa Ricanot your AverAge trip

BY RODRIGO VILLAAMIL


On the way to India, our group’s collective luggage was pushing the limits of the airline’s allotment for international travel,

weighed down by the many books, art supplies, and pieces of Dublin School apparel that we intended to leave as gifts for the Himalaya Public School (HPS). On the way home from India, the things we carried could not be stuffed into backpacks or duffle bags, nor could they be easily quantified into tidy units like kilograms on some airport scale. As far as I know, there was no place on the customs form to include “lasting friendships, pride in our students, and some much needed perspective” among the goods I wished to declare. Long after the clothes have been washed and souvenirs doled out to friends and family, the students and I now find ourselves left with the more difficult task of figuring out how exactly to unpack the lessons we learned during our 17-day adventure.

From the moment that Jay Hardikar (founder of the Peterborough-based Himalayan Education Foundation) and I first met in early September to begin planning, it was evident that this trip would require high levels of adaptability and open-mindedness of its participants. There would be no

detailed itineraries, no mints on our pillows, and no surefire sense of just exactly how we would fill each of our days in the hilltop village of Chaukori. In fact, the entire trip was really just one elaborate exercise in trust. Based on his previous visits there, Jay was placing his in the kindness and hospitality of the people at HPS. I, meanwhile, was placing

mine in what I knew to be the strong character of the seven Dublin students we would be taking with us. Perhaps the most impressive exhibition of trust, however, came from the parents of those students by willingly offering their children as guinea pigs for such a groundbreaking journey. In the end,

Reflections on India

I’ll spare you the poetics, the India trip was the hardest, longest, shortest, scariest, most alien, beautiful, mind-bogglingly insane, best trip I have ever departed on. I see everything slightly different now, and that is both frightening and extremely important as I grow up. No matter what I end up doing in life, be it in politics, teaching, programing, acting, writing, or anything else, I see myself constantly using this trip as a jumping off point for many of my viewpoints, morals, and ideas.

-CHARLIE IMHOFF ’13

BY ERIC NEMITz



everyone’s good faith was rewarded in spades, as the two schools came together in what was an impressively natural fit.

As much as we enjoyed the elephant rides, photo ops at the Taj Mahal, and countless bands of roadside monkeys along the way, it was the relationships we forged in India, particularly at HPS, that made this trip so meaningful and unique. It is one thing to watch a segment about the Holi festival on the Travel Channel, but it is quite another to find yourself suddenly doused with cold spring water and vibrant pigments by a group of young Indian boys who, until that moment, had been entirely good-mannered and unnervingly deferential. Even a sight as intrinsically awe-inspiring as the Himalayas took on a special beauty when viewed from the back yard of an 11th-grade day student named Hemlata, who was kind enough to show us around her home for a glimpse of her family’s daily routine.

Back at the school itself, our hosts (students and adults alike) did an incredible job of making us feel at ease in what was an obviously foreign setting. Through shared conversation, music, dance, games, cuisine, and innumerable cups of tea, we quickly learned that any differences between our schools

and cultures only deepened our mutual curiosity, ultimately serving as catalysts to reveal our profound commonality. Venturing outside the bounds of any textbooks, set curricula, or classroom walls, both groups

had the opportunity to immerse ourselves in the purely altruistic side of education, learning for the simple joy of better understanding and relating to our fellow humans. I can’t help but think of what great strides our own country might make if only a few of our key leaders and public figures would go spend a week or two at the Himalaya Public School. (I daresay a bucket bath or two might do them some good). But rather than waiting for that unlikely scenario, it appears that Dublin School will just have to continue a more proactive approach, investing in the leadership of tomorrow, seven brave students at a time.

I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude for everyone who helped to make this experience possible, especially Ashley, Alison, Maya, Ja ’Naya, Tucker, Charlie, Alyssa, and Jay. May it be the first of many trips to come!

A complete travel blog of the trip can be found at the Dublin School Website www.dublinschool.org.

India overall is an amazing country, the culture and its people are all unique. The hospitality we all received from the people of the school was something that I doubt we could ever repay, their kindness and humility won many of our hearts. It is definitely a trip that I recommend to every current and future student of Dublin, it is something that I will never forget!

-ASHLEY ARANA ’12



NoteworthyeventS

mOUNtaIN BIKINGLast fall, we launched our new competitive Mountain Bike Program. Coach Bill Farrell says, “Along with our envious natural setting at 1500 feet above sea level, we are blessed with some of the best Class IV training roads, rail trails and single track trails in the northeast.” In late October, our School hosted its first mountain bike race, with 120 competitors representing over a dozen schools from six states.

tHE POwER Of wORK GaNGWork Gangs loomed large this year, with several “all school” marathons taking place. In late September, two major projects were undertaken on one Saturday morning, consisting of planting an apple orchard on the slopes leading down to Alumni Field and the creation of a trail between the Art Studio and the summit of the Norm Wight Ski Slope. At the completion of the new trail, Mr. Bates dedicated it to trustee, Peter Imhoff.

SCHOLaStIC aRt COmPEtItIONAlso in January, our art students won a record number of awards in the Scholastic Art Competition. Ten Dublin students were awarded 30 gold and silver keys and several honorable mentions. The standout artist was senior, Joo Hee Ui, who won 3 silver keys, 5 gold keys, a gold key for her portfolio and 1 American Vision Awards (only 5 given to best of show in the whole state of around 1500 entries.)


aN INCREDIBLE GIft

In January, we received word

from Lifetime Trustee Ned

Whitney H’91 that he would

like to donate his boathouse

on Dublin Lake to the School

for the use of our faculty and

students. Located right next

to our small dock on the lake,

the boathouse is a beautiful

two-story building with

terrific views of Mt. Monadnock.

It is a fantastic addition to our

growing sailing and racing

programs.


tHIS YEaR’S PLaY

The winter musical this year

was “The 25th Annual Putnam

County Spelling Bee.” The winner

of several Tony Awards

during its Broadway

run, the play was a

great success during its

four-night run to full

audiences in the Fountain

Arts Building. The cast

and crew of 30 students

and several faculty had

a delightful time in the

fast-moving, laugh-filled

musical comedy.

ROBOtICSIn March, our robotics team, Team #1729 built an original robot and competed in the FIRST® Regional Competition in Manchester, New Hampshire. FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is a not-for-profit organization founded by Dean Kamen. The

Dublin team was one of 900 high school teams taking part in the competition, which required the robots to play basketball! Team mentor, Jason Cox, and Director of Development, Erika Rogers, attended the FIRST® kickoff celebration at Dean Kamen’s home this past winter.

mEEtING maRYOne of the most unforgettable highlights of the year was having “Mary” and Henry Walters as part of our community. Mary came to us through Henry Walters, English teacher, who served his falconry apprenticeship in Ireland and has been working with birds of prey for several years. Mr. Walters, who

had been looking to catch his own hawk out of the wild, was given this hawk by an acquaintance who had held her in captivity since she was very young. Throughout the year, Mary has lived in a special home called a “mews” at the base of the

Norm Wight Ski Slope and thanks to the steadfast care of Mr. Walters, has learned to hunt and fly on her own. Throughout the year, Mary and Mr. Walters have shared their unique bond with the Dublin School students and faculty, as well as the local Dublin community, through numerous hunting trips,

lectures and presentations. It was bittersweet when Mary was set free this May, but her time with us has truly been a remarkable gift.

a NEw SCHOOL StOREThe Pump House was our first School House and Mr. Lehmann said it was like his first child, “warm, friendly, and peaceful.” It has also been pretty peripatetic, but this spring it took its last

trip, via crane, to its current location

next to the new Gillespie Hall. The Pump House will become the new School Store, thanks to a gift from alumnus Peter Shiras’44, who died in 2010, and will help to create a courtyard between Lehmann House and Gillespie Hall.



vaNESSa maRtINEZ, CLaSS Of 2007college: Mount Holyoke College Class of 2011MAjor: Spanish and TheatergrAduAte School: Simmons College

After Dublin, Vanessa went on to Mount Holyoke College where she

majored in Spanish and minored in Theater. While in college, she went abroad to Seville, Spain, worked as a Resident Assistant, and interned at “Teach for America” and “The Atlantic Theater Company.” She has always loved the performing arts, specifically theater, and was fortunate to have had the opportunity to intern at two theater companies, where she was able to explore the inner workings of arts management. Currently, she is acquiring her Master’s in Communications Management at Simmons College in preparation for a career in Arts Management.

She says, “I carry so many great memories with me from Dublin. When I hear the words Dublin School I think of my four years in Lehmann with Mrs. Doenmez and Ms. Yun as dorm parents, Jan Haman and her May Pole Day and Mrs. Rogers and the dance team. Dublin School is a magical place that only a few will be fortunate enough to experience!”

jamES KIRK, CLaSS Of 2008college: Worcester Polytechnic InstitutebAchelor’S in Robotics Engineering

grAduAte School:Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Currently working on a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering and Management James Kirk is

From Campusto college

finishing up his Bachelor’s degree in Robotics Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and will continue at WPI to pursue his Master’s in Mechanical Engineering and Management. His Master’s thesis is focused on the controls and dynamics of bipedal walking robots. He says, “Robotics has always been an interest of mine, and I’m excited by how quickly the field is growing and advances are being made. We just finished up our capstone senior design project and it was an immensely satisfying accomplishment. Our team developed helicopter robots that were capable of landing on and taking off from a ground robot. It took all year to develop, but it’s been an enormously educational experience.” He is a member of the college fraternity, TKE, where he just finished the year as president.

James says, “The best advice I can give a graduating senior is, do not be afraid to try new things once you get to college. Any campus has so much to offer, trying new ones is the best way to learn what you really enjoy and meet some friends along the way. Lots of things can defy your expectation and often for the best. I never pictured myself as a “frat boy,” a ballroom dancer, a lacrosse or soccer player, or a barbershop singer but college would never have been the same experience if I hadn’t tried.”

jEN ZaKRZEwSKI, CLaSS Of 2009 college: Amherst College MAjor: Psychology

Currently a junior at Amherst College, Jen Zakrzewski is majoring in

Psychology and studying abroard in Vienna, Austria. Jen is active in various extracurricular activities, including fencing, equestrian teams and several community service groups. When she arrived at Amherst she decided to try something new to her: fencing. She is now part of the team and competes in several tournaments a semester. She says, “This is another reason to try new things: it will help you connect with people and find where you fit in, something that becomes harder when you leave the small Dublin community.”


Jen recalls, “I remember various things from my time at Dublin, anything from Winterfest to the yearly musical to morning meetings. No matter what the specific memory, I think of the sense of community. I love Dublin’s small size, the close friends I made and the fact that those friends come from all over the country and the world. No matter what the specific memory, I think of the sense of community. Being a small school, and being a boarding school, even as a day student I felt the closeness of this group of people. We all shared in experiences, and we all looked out for each other. That closeness, and knowing every single person you run into, is what I consider to be one of Dublin’s greatest strengths.”

ZaK DOENmEZ, CLaSS Of 2010college: Clark UniversityMAjor: Political Science

Zak Doenmez is working on a degree in Political Science from Clark University with

a concentration on American Politics. He says, “Trying to juggle my academics, my social life and sports, I have definitely been staying busy.” Currently doing a semester in Washington, D.C., Zak is taking an intensive American Politics seminar that is associated with American University. He also is interning for New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen; both of which have been amazing experiences.

He recalls, his most exciting memory of Dublin School is when Mrs. Doenmez (his mom), Mr. Bates and Mr. Marquis tried Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” dance in morning meeting for no apparent reason. Zak says, “The fact that the three most powerful people in the school didn’t take themselves too seriously to do crazy dances in front of everybody says a lot about Dublin, and the kind of community it is.” To the Class of 2012, Zak says, “Always keep the big picture in mind. It is definitely easy to forget to have fun. It’s not that life after college can’t be fun, but I think that in reality the stresses of being in the working world are far greater. Because of

this, I think you would regret it if you forgot to really enjoy yourself along the way, and meet as many people as you possibly can.”

mEREDItH HOffmaN, CLaSS Of 2011college: Rhode Island School of DesignMAjor: Painting

Meredith Hoffman is a freshman at the Rhode Island School of Design,

majoring in painting. This year RISD held its Foundation Studies Triennial Art Show for work from the freshman class and Meredith’s project was selected for the show. She says, “It was one of the most bizarre projects I have ever done and was completely unexpected, but I was satisfied with the results.” Her passion for painting began at Dublin. She says, “Mr. Schofield taught me everything I know about painting, and he greatly influenced the path I have chosen. Mr. Schofield was the one who realized that a paintbrush is a natural tool for me.”

Last summer Meredith was a camp counselor for the Aloha Foundation having previously attended as a camper. She says, “As a camper I learned life skills, like fire building and problem solving. As a counselor I have learned about William Glassar’s Choice Theory and a problem-solving technique developed by one of the camp directors based on this theory. Because of camp I have learned that any situation is exactly what you make it, and that you are in complete control of life, your place, and your passions. My advice would be, do not take Dublin for granted. It will teach you more life lessons than you could possibly expect. After Dublin, get out there! This doesn’t mean Velcro your face to technology. Get out of your room, turn off your phone, and go watch that sorry excuse for a mascot dance around the field during half time. If you’re as lucky as I am, you have an absurd mascot and you will not regret this.”


Right before graduation last spring, Erik Steele ’11 shared with us an essay on learning to fly (see insert). The essay got

us thinking about the number of Dublin alumni who have chosen to pursue a career or pastime in aviation. We soon realized that the number of pilots seemed almost disproportionate for the size of our School. So we starting contacting flying Dubliners, asking questions about how they became inspired to fly. Here’s what we learned….

In Mr. Lehmann’s 1975 memoir about the School, henry “pete” hoyt ’41 wrote, “I recall as yesterday driving with Boris Holmes to the old Keene Airport and making the first solo flight in a Piper Cub. For some reason or other I was in your (PWL) bad graces that afternoon and thought it prudent not to mention this event at supper that night lest I compound the problem. However, Boris let the cat out of the bag, and all was well.”

Pete Hoyt also describes how in 1944, three years out of Dublin, he gained hero status when “In the late winter of 1944, now a Second Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps. I was enroute from McCook field Nebraska to Suffolk, England in a B24 liberator bomber to join the 8th Air Force. Our routing took me to Grenier Field, Manchester, NH, and a lay-over of several days for final tune-up before leaving for Goose Bay, Labrador, Iceland and the North Atlantic route to England. I took this occasion to fulfill what the famous cartoonist H.T. Webster called “the thrill that comes once in a lifetime.” Throttles wide open on four Pratt and Whitneys, props in high RPM, up the old road from Peterborough toward the Dublin church steeple, right on the deck and over school. Try and explain to a Kansas co-pilot what a New England prep school is! I remember being worried lest Red Smith, state trooper, might get my numbers, but rationalized the worst they

could do to me was send me to combat and that’s where I was headed anyway. There was the whole school assembled on the lawn on my second pass up the Harrisville Road and to hell with Red Smith. Two days later I was having breakfast with an air transport pilot in Iceland, eastbound, who carried a message to Orv Emmons, now in A.T.C. at La Guardia, with a message to my family on a paper napkin which they still have. Thus the long arm of Dublin across the North Atlantic. I was delighted that P.W.L. gave a holiday in honor of this event after I returned to Dublin safe and sound.”

When asked, “When did you first begin to dream about flying?” MichAel light ’81 wrote: “I first began to dream about flying at an early age, about 8 or so. Aviation suffused my family, in an intense and immediate way. My father, who died when I was a freshman at Amherst College in 1981, was a bombardier-navigator in World War II. At the age of 20 he was shot down over France in an A-24, six days before D-Day, one of two survivors, and was very lucky to survive. He spent the remainder of the war in German prison camps and his epic fall and the aftermath became the seminal story of his life. My stepfather was a private pilot and had a four-seater Beechcraft Bonanza that he would fly around the U.S., occasionally with me in it. Last but not least, the patriarch of the family, my great-uncle

For the love of Flying

Dublin


Richard Light, was an explorer, geographer and the first person to fly around the world in a private seaplane, which he did a few years after Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic. My grandfather died when I was very young, so Dick stepped in and filled that role. As you might imagine, aspects of his life – not least the flying – were incredibly romantic to a little boy, and he cast a very long shadow.”

Mike pilert ’67 also flew for the first time while at Dublin School when a faculty member who had a private pilot’s license invited him and a classmate on an adventure. “We went to Keene Airport and rented a single-engine Cessna, and flew all around Mt. Monadnock and Dublin Lake. Beautiful!”

Mike says, “Another flying inspiration has been my lifelong sky diving experience. I began sky diving while at the University of Northern Colorado and still today am an avid skydiver, averaging about 100 dives a year. My father had been a B-17 bomber pilot in WWII, over Germany, so that was another influence that led me towards the sky.”

dAvid FountAin ’73 has had his pilot’s license since 1977, just about the time he graduated from Dartmouth College. It was there that Dave first began flying gliders; and in fact, proudly “earned physical education credit for doing so!” While at Dublin School, David says, “I wanted to have as many adventures as possible: flying, parachuting, scuba diving. I wanted to do it all.”

Flying has been one of my favorite things ever since I can remember and now at the age of 19 I am really taking big steps

towards getting my private pilot’s license. I am currently taking flight lessons at Monadnock Aviation out of Keene airport. Today was a flight lesson I will never forget. This lesson required me to miss a crew practice, so I decided that I would ask my instructor, Rick, if we could fly over the Dublin boats, and he said, “Sure.” Then, I got an even better idea: I would drop a package from the plane as I flew over! I ran to my car and pulled out a dark red bandanna and two parachutes. (Yes I always have this in my car). I quickly put it all together, with 15 minutes left till my next class, I had to test it so I went to the top of the stairwell in the science building and threw it out the window. The parachutes opened up perfectly! I added in some “stress ball” like material along the sides to help it float, but that was not tested. With 5 minutes before class, I ran to the bathroom filled up the sink and dropped it in. It did float!

At 2:35 p.m. I went to the lake and looked at the boat I was aiming for, it was the only bright yellow one. I told the crew of that boat to keep a look-out for me around 4:45-5:00 p.m. I then drove to Keene airport, where I asked Rick if we could drop the package when we flew over the lake. He said, “O.K.” but we had to follow the FAA rules for air drops. The rules are “Don’t hit anyone.” There was a very strong wind coming from the west that day, so strong that I even was wondering if we still would fly. We took off and I navigated us to Dublin over-flying the school at an altitude of 3000msl (above sea level). I could now see Thorndike Pond, I started the descent and we began looking for the boats. Once we were at about 1000 feet from the ground, I could



billy tiernAn ’00 is based out of Florida and ever since his Dublin days has been smitten with flying. “While at Dublin School I remember playing soccer on the Upper Field, and I saw Military aircraft fly overhead every once in a while. It may be a training route. Sailing with Skip Collins was helpful in learning to fly: some aspects are transferable. I know Skip offered to get me into flying lessons, which was a very nice offer, but I wasn’t ready for that yet. Dublin gives you some freedom to learn what you want to learn which is great. I grew up around airplanes. My parents had a Mooney, a single engine airplane. I flew in it a lot and loved it. My mom found out I could fly for free when I was a kid so I went on tons of flights as a baby. I was named after my grandfather who was a World War II pilot. He flew 39 missions over Japan in a B-29. After the war he bought his own airplane. My uncle was a great aerobatic pilot and I was lucky enough to fly with him. Flying aerobatics with my uncle was definitely a real motivator to learn to fly.”

when ASked, “how did you coMe to FinAlly reAlize the dreAM oF Flying?” the pilotS’ AnSwerS were vAried Said Michael Light, “A classic geek with a small body, big mind, and loud mouth, I started to build radio-controlled model aircraft in middle school, mentored by a pilot who flew corporate aircraft for Doubleday Publishing. It was only natural to make the jump from models to the actual thing, and at age 14 and a Dublin freshman, I soloed in my first engineless aircraft, a Schweitzer 1-26. By the age of 16, I was a fully FAA certified private pilot with a glider rating. I was a private pilot with all rights and privileges before I could legally drive a car. Thankfully the year after I soloed I grew 12 inches at Dublin, but I kept the loud mouth and geek part through graduation, alas.”

Mike Pilert pursued his desire to fly when a friend who flew ski patrol in a Piper Cub encouraged him; eventually he obtained a commercial license

at the age of 30. He has flown air ambulances, Lear Jets for corporations, charter flights, and many light aircrafts over the years. These days he earns his wings as a flight instructor. His advice to young wanna-be-pilots, “You have to stick with it. Myth #1 is that pilots make a lot of money. Most commercial pilots must work their way up combing charters and flight instruction.” He had spent 13 years flying overseas humanitarian services in Asia and Africa, where he moved refugees and supplies for charitable NGOs. He served several years in Mozambique after the civil war there destroyed 99% of that country’s infrastructure and US aid was needed.

Since obtaining that first license, David Fountain has continually worked at upgrading his training with regard to instrumentation and specific aircraft. David emphasizes that his is a private pilot’s license, not a commercial one. He says he loves flying because of “the escape factor” and the convenience, “especially since 9/11.” He speaks enthusiastically about the many smaller airports in the US that are not commercial but allow access to all sorts of interesting places.

These days brett SMith ’88 flies frequently for work, but also loves the accessibility flying affords him, and the convenience and freedom that private flight allows, and flies 15-20 hours a month, mostly up and down the East coast. Brett is the founder of Propeller Investments LLC and is currently involved in a plan to develop a second airport in Atlanta.

“Most of my training,” says Billy Tiernan, “was at Lynn University. After college, I worked flying a Super Cub towing banners all over the country including NASCAR Races, NFL games, MLB games, California and New York beaches, also Florida and New Jersey. It was amazing flying all over the country in a Cub. I worked as a flight instructor and flew my airplane to the Bahamas all the time. Now I fly a Lear Jet, mostly ambulance, and some executive flights. It has been amazing so far. I have


see the crew team all lined up at the far side of the lake, about to start a race. Rick took the controls while I got ready to drop the package. He then asked what boat I was aiming for. I pointed out the yellow one. He brought us around and over-flew the docks and then went above the Boy Scout Camp. We were right where I wanted to be, so I grabbed the package, stuck my hand out as far as I could. I threw it as hard as I could and I saw through the back window that the parachutes had opened. Rick then brought us around the lake and we tried to spot it falling. At first, we could not see it at all. Then I noticed one of the crew boats hauling towards the east bank, and I spotted the marker buoy and a small pink dot, maybe 50ft to the northwest of it. That was the drop! Now two more boats were racing to pick it up. Throughout, all of this, Rick was staying low and at one point went right over the two boats and gave the plane full power and then rolled into a 60 degree bank and then flew over the docks. (Those pilots out there know why a 60-degree bank is such a big deal.) After that Rick and I went back to the airport and did some crosswind landing practice and called it a day. The flight was a complete success. Oh, the drop? Candy!

– Erik Steele ’11

flown to Brazil, Canada, Peru, Mexico, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Barbados, St. Kitts, Dominican Republic, Ecuador and all over the USA.”

when ASked About their current Flying AdventureS, Michael Light wrote: “While at Dublin photography also began to loom large in my life, and along with Amherst College and its concerns – would subsume my budding interest in aviation for a decade or more. I finally wound up coming back to it after getting a Master’s degree in fine art photography from the San Francisco Art Institute, when the aerial photographic perspective kept on coming back into my artwork from 1993 or so onwards. In 2000 I began renting planes and pilots to fly them and making my own aerial images in a quest to find a kind of ‘planetary landscape.’

So in 2003 I began searching for a strutless aircraft with removable doors that my studio could own. My search for the perfect aerial photographic platform was solved with the FlighDesign CTSW, a cantilever-wing, strutless, carbon-fiber Light Sport Aircraft designed in Germany and built in the Ukraine with very low operating costs. I happened to also do a consulting deal with a Hollywood IMAX film at the same time, and that paid for the aircraft. It seats two, has a 100 hp engine, weighs about 600 pounds unloaded, and can fly from San Francisco to Albuquerque in about seven hours. It’s a great little craft. Emphasis on little! I took delivery in May 2005, and that April added a single-engine powered rating to my still-valid (though long unused) engineless private pilot’s license that I’d gotten when at Dublin in the late 70’s. I now have about 500 hours in powered aircraft, mostly my own.”

David Fountain’s newest plane is his third Pilatus PC-12, a single engine turbo prop that can fly a pilot and five passengers, 1500 nm and lands with 100 nm NBAA IFR reserves. Aviation Week reported on David’s purchase of this aircraft because it was the 1000 unit to roll off the Pilatus assembly line. He and his family traveled to Switzerland to take delivery of the plane and celebrate the 1000th Pilatus with the company’s employees. “We had a great time; it was a big milestone that took 16 years to happen, so there was quite a bit of celebrating,” he said.

Says Billy Tiernan, “I love flying for many reasons: the speed, going to new places, the technology and challenge it provides. There are so many different jobs in aviation, such as crop dusting, skydiving, patrol, helicopters, airlines, military, corporate, ambulance, sea planes, and sight-seeing tours. The use of airplanes is so grand!”

Finally, when asked, “whAt Advice would you give dublin StudentS And recent AluMS who Might be conSidering Flying?” Billy’s advice to Dublin students contemplating aviation was, “Becoming a pilot is fun but is very challenging and expensive. Getting qualified for the job you want can be frustrating. Working nights, weekends, holidays, it’s not for everyone. However, if you really like to fly and stick with it, the forecasted need for pilots in the future is looking very good.”

Brett Smith’s advice to aspiring pilots is, “The present is a good time to start thinking about flight instruction because there will soon be a shortage of pilots. Thirty to forty percent of current pilots will be retiring in the next 5 years.” He says, “Follow your dreams, kids, and maybe your passion and profession might become one!”

From Michael Light comes this: “For all Dubliners, listen to what keeps you awake at night, pursue hunches till they become revelations, be disciplined and focused but also loose and exploratory, allow yourself to jump off the occasional cliff so terrifyingly high you think you’ve lost your mind, and don’t forget to read the Classics.”

I’m always a little sheepish when somehow a conversation leads around to where I went to high school. I don’t have the typical high

school stories to tell, about the prom, or trying out for the cheerleading squad. So when I say I went to a private school, a boarding school no less, I immediately feel the need to clear up the inevitable assumptions.

“I went to a boarding school,” I’ll say, “but it wasn’t that kind of a boarding school.” Even so, I see people’s faces betray their imagination: a country club for teenagers, an ivory tower of elegance and privilege.

Dublin wasn’t a cushy place, I try to explain if they’re still listening. We cleaned toilets. We cleared ski slopes. It was so cold down in the Wing and Hollow dorm on a February night, that my drink of choice at the time - a can of TAB - often began to freeze on my bedside table when my alarm summoned me to breakfast in the morning.

The water pressure in the showers was pitiful. We crowded into the Main House for breakfast, bleary-eyed and sleepy, most of us in rag wool sweaters, our breath visible in the cold morning air— and this was inside the dining room. Upon close inspection, bits of crinkled fall leaves could be found in any one of those sweaters, remnants of a frisbee game, a hike up Monadnock, or a nap on the schoolhouse lawn. The high fashion footwear came in two styles: Timberland or LL Bean.

I try to dispel the illusions of elegance, of white linen lunches and polo ponies. Elegant, it was not. But a privilege? It was the privilege of a lifetime.

I have no doubt that the academic education provided to me at Dublin was rigorous and excellent — it provided me with a foundation to excel in

college, graduate school and in my career. But what I have carried with me from Dublin School, and what have served me most profoundly, are the things I learned outside of the classroom.

I’m surely not the first Dubliner to give thanks, belatedly, for Peter Benes and his devotion to the value of hard work. However I cursed and poked fun at him during those Saturday morning work gang outings, something immensely valuable was happening to me. A work ethic was infused into my character, almost at a cellular level, like muscle memory. Mr. Benes often appeared to us an aging relic of Calvinist history, but he was actually ahead of his time. When the Nike tag line “Just do it” was emblazoned across every T-shirt and television commercial a decade later, I was reminded of him, and what I could now appreciate as his wisdom.

Besides my work ethic, another value learned at Dublin has served me well in every aspect of my life. Eleanor Roosevelt has often been credited with the quote “Never, never, never give up,” but the person who taught me this was a handsome Colombian soccer player in a three piece suit. Like many faculty who “adopted” me during my time at Dublin, he always had time and a listening ear for my adolescent struggles and bewilderments. Most of these conversations ended with his words, (please pronounce this with the thickest Colombian accent you can muster) “Always remember..............and no one can take that away from you.” I don’t precisely recall the varied combinations of words in the middle of that sentence. But I know in my bones that he was talking about attitude, perseverance, and dignity. I did always remember, Señor, and I always will.

It’s ironic that the person responsible for teaching me about fiction and the production of

The privilege of a liFetiMeBY PENELOPE PERRI ’82


artifice through theatre is also the person who demonstrated to me the value of authenticity. Stretched out across her desk dressed as a caterpillar smoking a hookah as we prepared for our sojourn with Alice in Wonderland in freshman English, pushing us past clichés and trite platitudes in our writing, or allowing us to witness her grief or her joy as she shared something (always passionately) in school meeting, Jan was steadfastly true to her own quirky, wonderful self. Truth and Courage are the words on Dublin’s insignia; but it was Jan who showed me what it looks like when one has the courage to tell the truth.

My singling out these faculty in no way diminishes my gratitude toward so many others who took the time to know me, and saw potential in me that I didn’t see myself. Unlike other boarding schools, Dublin wasn’t about competition or reputation; its singular focus was the individual student, and fostering social and emotional growth was just as important as academic achievement.

Dublin’s unique size in and of itself was transformative for me, for it instilled in me a value of connection, and the power of a group of individuals. Dublin was too small to be divided into the typical high school cliques; as much as our emerging adolescent identities sought that out, in the end we were all in it together. Whether as a human chain hauling wood out of the lower valley, or in collective silence bearing witness to the death of John Lennon, the power of our connection to each other was ever present in the Dublin experience.

And then of course, there is the place itself: its epicenter a red house on a mountainside. From the physical environment at Dublin, I developed an appreciation of nature that borders on dependence. It is where I find solace and joy, respite and recovery. It is the reason I returned to New Hampshire after years of travel and living elsewhere. There is an intimacy with the natural world here that I treasure, and that value came to me at Dublin School. Dublin forever ruined me for any sort of suburban existence.

And what of all these values, these riches bestowed upon me? I have tried not to squander them. Perhaps they were the most dear to me in my thirties, when I fought the battle of my life with ovarian cancer. Thankfully that is a distant memory now, and they serve me well in my career as a teacher and social worker, where I have tried to assist people in finding their own inner strength, perseverance and authenticity.

Now I face the daunting task of passing these same values on to my two little boys. Perhaps one day they’ll find themselves clipping a Dublin ski slope on a cold Saturday morning. They’ll probably be cursing it too....for a while.

Penni Perri ’82 is currently a clinical social worker at Concord Hospital, in Concord, NH. After 10 years of teaching, Penni earned a Master’s degree in Social Work. She lives in Concord, NH with her husband, Ted, and their two sons, Simon age 10, and Abe age 9.



jIm COLE ’66 Jim Cole ’66 says that as an 18-year-old just out of Dublin, he made “the right choice for the wrong reasons.” He switched his major from Chemical Engineering at Bucknell University, to Physics, “Because the lab schedule for Chemical Engineering was brutal.” When asked how “The Road Chosen” has made a difference in his life, Jim says, “The Roads Chosen have been my life work: 1st Road Chosen – Physics, 2nd Road Chosen – Fiber Optics.” Jim has been a research physicist since earning his Master’s degree in Physics from Pennsylvania State University in 1972. He has worked for TRW the space systems division, and later co-founded his own company, the Dylor Corporation, from 1986 to 1999. Having worked for the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) from 1978-1986, he has since returned to NRL where he continues to do research on fiber optic sensors. Jim has received multiple Navy Awards for patents obtained during his tenure

Dublin School Alumni: leAding extrAordinAry liveS

at NRL, contributed to the early development work of the fiber optic sensors which are now deployed on the Virginia Class Submarines, and made critical contributions to today’s most advanced fiber optic sensor array systems. Yet despite all of these accomplishments, Jim considers being married to his wife Diane for over 40 years, his most satisfying accomplishment.

When asked: At some point in your life, did you hear yourself saying: When I was at Dublin . . . Jim said, “I experienced a “mountain day” that was incredible. Overnight Dublin had been hit by an ice storm. PWL’s holiday hat appeared on a bright sunny morning. Terry Pratt, Dave Sharp and I chose to cross country ski and climb to the first ridge of Mount Monadnock. Although the storm was devastating to the area, the tree branches were covered with about an eighth of an inch of ice. The sun was in the eastern sky and from the ridge, the refraction of the light by the ice made each tree appear as a rainbow. Anyone who questions the existence of a higher power could not have experienced that display of nature.”

The advice Jim gives to Dublin seniors is “to find a profession that you love; if you don’t enjoy going to work nearly every day, you must continue your personal search.”

DESERt HORSE-GRaNt ’96Desert Horse-Grant has traveled all over the world, including Dubai, England, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Japan, Croatia, France and the Caribbean. A graduate of Stanford University, Desert works at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, where she partners with a physician/scientist and together they run a Brain Tumor Center that they created in 2007. Desert says, “It is great work in all aspects of cancer research, including blending math and physics. I am


Deset Grant in South Dakota with Board Member, Tatewin Means (the daughter of Russell Means), speaking with middle school Native students about their careers in law and science.

surrounded by students and post docs and am able to make an impact by awarding funds raised through successful grant requests to organizations such as the National Institutes of Health.”

Desert and her sister Cherese H. Grant-Giordano have founded the Give K’U Foundation, a non-profit organization which contributes to the needs of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) children on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Many of those children live in poverty and have limited capability to complete their education. Cherese and Desert were able to provide a playground at Red Shirt Elementary School on the Pine Ridge Reservation, and recently returned from a trip to Red Shirt.

When asked about her memories of Dublin, Desert replied, “When I was at Dublin, I loved being in Spanish class with my friends. I loved doing the makeup for our plays and being around Jan Haman’s energy; I loved the calmness and grace of Carl Von Mertens, who taught but also built a number of things on campus. I loved the weekends, of course, and skiing, and girl talk with Tsege Barros ’96 in our dorm. It was a time of snow storms, adventure, dreaming and learning.”

If you would like more information on the Give K’U Foundation go to www.giveku.org.

tODD wILLIamS ’75Todd Williams ’75 is a research professor in the Chemistry Department at the University of Kansas (KU) where he is the director of an analytical service lab specializing in mass spectrometry. He received his BA in chemistry and biology at Middlebury College, his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Maine and was a Post-Doctoral fellow at the University of California/Berkeley. His wife, Kristine, is a professor of nursing at KU, and according to Todd is “smarter than me.” Todd and Kristine have three children: Zachary is attending Missouri Science and Technology, Aaron is a grad student at KU, and their daughter, Leah, has been in a premiere soccer league since the age of 8. Todd considers raising his children to be his most satisfying accomplishment.

Todd says that when he thinks of Dublin, he remembers work gang and wood working with John Wight and he remembers John’s father, Norm, jumping off the South Slope on his cross-country skis. Math teacher Gerry Lawler once told Todd that he should go into research. “Interesting,” says Todd, “that he recognized that in me in 1974.” When asked what teacher has the most influence in his after Dublin life, he says, “Bonnie Allen Riley, who taught me how to write an essay. I’ve used that all my life.”

“One of the best things I learned at Dublin was to keep kids busy in the afternoon with sports. I saw my children coming home from school at 2:00 every afternoon, and I thought that’s not a good idea. Keep ’em busy! So I put them right into sports!”


I have had a wonderful year traveling across the country visiting with Dublin School alumni, parents, and friends. Brad Bates and Michelle

Lange, President of the Parent Association, joined me for many of these gatherings and we were consistently impressed by the amazing lives our alumni are leading and the many fond memories they have of Dublin School.

These gatherings often included alumni who span 60 years of Dublin School’s 75-year history. However, I am constantly struck by how the shared experience of being a student at Dublin bridges all

on the roAd with erikAVisiting with friends across the country

BY ERIKA ROGERS

gaps of time or space. At each event, we talked, laughed, shared old stories, got caught up on the latest news, and by the end of the evening, we were toasting like old friends. What a wonderful gift it is to know that each of our graduates can find supportive friends all over the world! If you would like to help arrange a gathering for us in your area next year, please contact me. With the new Alumni Directory, finding each other should be easier than ever!

Safe Travels - Erika [email protected] • (603) 563-1230

BERmUDa RECEPtION • HOSt: jaSON SmItH ’92 • OCtOBER 5, 2011

Jung Yun ’02, Aryna Battle ’03 and Sabrina DiMeglio ’03

Jung Yun ’02, Erika Rogers, Carlos E. Bosch ’46, Aryna Battle ’03, Jason Smith ’92 and Nichola Littlejohn ’04

Carlos E. Bosch ’46, Carlos J. Bosch Jr. ’78, and Erika Rogers

NEw YORK RECEPtION • HOSt: aRYNa BattLE ’03 • jaNUaRY 12, 2012

Erika Rogers and Jim Porto ’78 Tarvea John ’03 and Shatema Reedy ’02 Alexander Farrell ’08 and Jonathan Connell ’03


SaN fRaNCISCO RECEPtION • HOSt: ZaNDER SPRaGUE ’87 • fEBRUaRY 7, 2012

LOS aNGELES RECEPtION • fEBRUaRY 8, 2012

Kevin Stephens ’94 and Connie

Yunan and John Mattson ’71 and Brad Bates

Charles Moizeau ’50 and Rama Jaima ’02

Maurice Willoughby ’84, Richard Seo ’99, Erika Rogers and Rama Jaima ’02

Matthew Allan ’96, Taylor Phillips-Hungerford ’05 and Rhea Cassell ’03

Joy Holmes ’94, Ellen Sollinger ’98 with daughter and Mary Noxon

Lauren Goodwin ’04, Tamara Berkeley ’04 and Richada Grant ’04

zander Sprague ’87 and Nathaniel Foster ’98

Norm Kitching ’55 and wife Kathy

Funke Emodi P ’11, Michelle Lange P ’13, and Donna Brathwaite ’13

Christine Noel ’03, Sheila Bogan and Alexander Farrell ’08


BOStON RECEPtION • HOSt: StU LaUGHLIN ’48 • aPRIL 20, 2012

Trustee, Mike Mullins ’93 and Jim Riley P ’10 in the background Mr. & Mrs. Limero P ’10

Tom Rockwell ’37 and Diane Huster

David Shiras ’50 and Peter Schenck ’50

Karen Limero P ’10 and Lisa Bates

Denise and Lars Linden ’88 with Brad Bates

Lee Varon P ’13 and Clifford Pafford ’75

Darryl Ouellette ’83 and Jack Sanderson ’84

Alumni & Development Associate, Lucy Shonk and Parents’ Association President Michelle Lange P ’13

Karl Beck, Trustee, Mike Mullins ’93 and Molly Phillips-Hungerford ’00

Tom Jackson ’58, Justin Cottes, and Meghan Foucher ’99



Attended LOS aNGELES RECEPtION • fEBRUaRY 8, 2012

Matthew Allan ’96 (CA)Peter Antonellis & Susan Sedor P ’12 (MA)Feleke Assayehgen & Abenet Habtemariam P ’14 (MA)Ashley Bascom ’02 (NY)Aryna Battle ’03: (Bermuda), (NY)Carlos E. Bosch ’46 (Bermuda)Carlos J. Bosch Jr. ’78 (Bermuda)Elo & Donna Brathwaite P ’13 (NY)David Brown ’53 (MA)Mary Brown ’75 & Tove Matas(CA)Martha Carol ’09 (CA)Rhea Cassel ’03 (CA)Alfred & Roma Connable ’48 (NY)Jonathan Connell ’03 (NY)Zanelia Chevalier P ’15 (NY)Anthony & Rhonda Cutler P ’05 (MA)Mike & Laura Dempsey P ’16 (MA) Todd & Laura DeSisto P ’15 (MA)Sabrina DiMeglio ’03 (Bermuda) Roger & Suzanne Donahue ’73 (MA) Funke Emodi P ’11 (NY)Alexandria Farrell ’08 (NY)Abbot Foote ’61 (CA)Nathaniel Foster ’98 (CA)Meghan Foucher ’99 & Justin Cottes (MA)Chet & Betsy Gibson P ’12 (MA)Lauren Goodwin ’04 (NY)Brian & Cynthia Holman P ’15 (NY)Joy Holmes ’94 (CA)Joyce Hopkins ’96 (CA)Spenser Horgan ’09 (MA)John Huynh ’08 (MA)Robin & Thomas Jackson ’58 (MA)Felicitas & Rafi Jaima ’02 (NY)Tareva John ’03 (NY)Kenyatta Johnson ’13 (NY) Junior & Leslie-Anne Jones P ’09, ’12, ’14 (NY)Kathy & Norman Kitching ’55 (CA)Michelle Lange P ’13: (NY), (MA)Stu Laughlin ’49 (MA)Michael Light ’81 (CA)Karen & Bill Limero P ’10 (MA)Denise & Lars Linden ’88 (MA)Nichola Littlejohn ’04 (Bermuda)John Mattson ’71 (CA)Avery Maher P ’92 (MA)Richard Maher ’92 (MA)Gail & Charles Moizeau ’50 (NY)Michael Mullins ’93 (MA)Katherine Nagler ’06 (CA)Christine Noel ’03 (NY)Stephen O’Neal ’83 (CA)Darryl Ouellette ’83 (CA)Clifford Pafford ’75 (MA)Scott Peterson ’84 (CA)Catherine & Daniel Phillips P ’14 (MA)Karl Beck & Molly Phillips-Hungerford ’00 (MA)Taylor Phillips-Hungerford ’05 (CA)Jim Porto ’78 (NY)Charles Rathbone ’53 (MA)Susan & James Riley P ’10 (MA)Diane Huster & Thomas Rockwell ’37 (MA)Jack Sanderson ’84 (CA)Darren Sands ’01 (NY) Peter Schenck ’50 (CA)Rachel Schine P ’15 (MA)Kateri Wright & John Scriven P ’16 (MA)David Shiras ’50 (CA)Brett Smith ’88 (NY)Jason Smith ’92 (Bermuda)Nicole Smith ’09 (MA)Michelle & Jay Snyder ’76 (MA) Ellen Sollinger ’98 (CA)Zander Sprague ’87 (CA)Kevin Stephens ’94 (CA)Catherine & Robert Utzschneider P ’15 (MA)Lee Varon P ’13 (MA)John White ’59 (CA)Jung Yun ’02 (Bermuda)


CHaRLES LaNGSHaw ’43, passed away December 16, 2011 at the Hospice of the Golden Isles, in Brunswick, Georgia. He was 86. After attending Dublin School, Mr. Langshaw enlisted in the United States Navy and saw action in the Pacific theater

as a gunner’s mate with Motor Torpedo Squadron 27. Upon his return from the war, he married, had two sons, Walter Seymour Langshaw and Coleman Carnegie Langshaw ’76. He was employed by the Cincinnati Milling Machine Company and later retired after 25 years from AMF where he was a project engineer in government contracts. He belonged to a number of organizations nationally and was a member of the Navy League in Camden County, Georgia.

ERNESt DaNE ’51, died at home with his family beside him on, August 8, 2011 at the age of 78. Educated at Dublin School, Milton Academy and Harvard College,

he received a Master’s degree from Cambridge University. He served in the United States Navy as Navigation Officer in the Near East before joining the State Department, serving in Guinea, India, Haiti and Washington, DC. Upon retirement, “Eb,” as he was known by all, entered into educational pursuits with energy and enthusiasm. He lectured frequently at schools on the history of the Cold War, as well as introducing young children to the wonders of the myriad insect populations, and promoting environmental issues and awareness. He retained an unquenchable curiosity about the world and the amazing fauna in it.

REED CUSHING ’60 of North Point, Florida, passed away on May 3, 2011 at the age of 69. He is survived by his wife Therese and two children, Pascal Cushing and Therry Cushing, his brothers Michael Cushing ’67 and Kirk Cushing. While at Dublin, Reed played soccer, baseball and was a member of the Glee Club. In the 1960 yearbook, his profile ended with a fitting tribute, “Reed’s effervescent personality will certainly be missed by these who graduated with him.”

a. taYLOR BaLDwIN, III ’76, died on October 12, 2011. He was 53. A message follows from Martha Whelan ’76 who has a unique story to share: “Many of us enjoyed his company at the reunion last May. Taylor and I exchanged phone numbers that night. After returning home he

and I started talking every day, and Taylor told me he wanted to come to Cohasset where I grew up. He arrived in June with a bag ready to stay a month! During that time, we got together with Chris Tosi ’77 and Roger Hill ’79. Within two weeks of Taylor being in Cohasset, he and I fell for each other, neither one of us expecting this to happen! But on September 25th our lives changed drastically. That evening I rushed him to the hospital and they admitted him immediately. Taylor never got out of the hospital. We came into each other’s lives for a reason. I know that we all have our memories of Taylor - cherish them all.”

jOE CavaNaUGH died peacefully on February 28, 2012, in his Dublin home. Joe and his wife V. Jacqueline moved to Dublin in 1996, where his love for restoration led to the improvement of the town’s library, Town Hall, and Emmanuel Church. He was also involved with the expansion of the cemetery, the Lake Road project and the clean-up of ice storm damage from town roads receiving the Dublin’s Citizen of the Year Award in 2010 and the Outstanding Municipal Volunteer Award from the local N.H. Government Center in 2008. He served on the Select Board for the Town of Dublin from 1999 to 2007 where he was involved with many other town improvement projects and was on many town committees. Before he became a selectman he was a member of the Dublin School Board of Trustees. We cannot thank him enough for his generosity, time and service; he was a loyal supporter of the School.

NORRIS G. NImS, 99, father of alumnus Norris Nims Jr. ’55, passed away on August 12, 2011. Norris was born in Keene, NH on October 25, 1911. Norris graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Dartmouth College. Before starting a career in the wholesale grocery business, he proudly served his country in the Army in World War II. Norris was predeceased by Barbara, his loving wife of 65 years. He will be greatly missed by his daughter, Sydney; son, Norris, Jr.; his grandchildren, Joshua (Lillian), Seth Nims, Kelly (Mike) Ralph and Timothy McGurl and his great-grandsons, Sean and Logan Ralph and Jayden McGurl, along with several nieces and nephews.

In Memory Of


SPECIaL REUNION YEaRS: 1937-75th, 1942-70th, 1947-65th, 1952-60th,1957-55th, 1962-50th, 1967-45th, 1972-40th, 1977-35th, 1982-30th, 1987-25th, 1992-20th, 1997-15th, 2002-10th, 2007-5th

Plans are underway for a wonderful fall reunion; a chance to reconnect with classmates, tour the campus, meet current students, enjoy fall sports and lots more.

Because this year’s Reunion will be held at the height of fall foliage season, we strongly encourage alumni, who will be staying in the area, to make reservations NOW at the Woodbound Inn in Jaffrey. www.woodbound.com, 603-532-8341 or 800-688-7770.

The Woodbound Inn has 36 lovely rooms plus cabins. The Inn has a beautiful dining room, a large separate bar, and its own par 3 golf course. We will be having the Dinner/Dance in the Inn’s ballroom on Saturday evening. It is about a 20-minute drive from campus to the Woodbound.

There are also other lodging options listed on our website at www.dublinschool.org

Questions? Call Lucy Shonk at (603) 563-1232 or e-mail [email protected]

HERE IS a tENtatIvE SCHEDULE fOR tHE wEEKEND:

fRIDaY, OCtOBER 5, 2012 9:00- 4:00 Registration in the School House 2:00 Golf Outing 6:00 Dinner on campus or Class Reunion Dinners (off campus) TBA by Class Agents 8:00-9:30 Contra Dance in FAB. Cider and Donuts 9:30 Perkin Observatory will be open

SatURDaY, OCtOBER 6, 2012 9:00-4:00 Registration in the School House 8:00 Breakfast 9:00 Work Gang-for all ages and abilities / with students. Bring your gloves! 11:00 Bike Ride 12:00 Lunch in Lehmann / Class Agent lunch in School House 11:00-2:00 Campus Tours 2:00 Sailing Race / Boat House reception 4:00 Soccer Game: Alumni vs. Students & Faculty 7:00-11:00 Dinner and Dance at the Woodbound Inn

SUNDaY, OCtOBER 7, 2012 9:00 Brunch 10:00 Monadnock Climb

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