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Andover
Athletics
Hall
of
Honor
2010 Induction Ceremony
Saturday, June 12
4 p.m.
Kemper Auditorium
ca. 1970
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Andover Athletics Hall of Honor
2010 Induction Ceremony
Opening Remarks and
Introduction of the Hall of Honor
Abigail Harris ’96 and Dan Dilorati ’75
Announcement of Inductees
Abigail Harris ’96 and Dan Dilorati ’75
Keynote Speaker
John S. Berman ’90
(introduced by Bill Scott,
instructor in math)
Closing Remarks
Peter R. Ramsey
Secretary of the Academy
John S. Berman ’90
With ABC News since 1995,
John Berman has appeared on
television since 2001 and has
covered stories ranging from the
war in Iraq to the best way to catch
catfish barehanded. He is a regular
contributor to all ABC broadcasts,
including World News with Diane
Sawyer, Good Morning America,
and Nightline, and also writes for
ABCNews.com. Berman covered
the 2008 presidential campaign,
following Senator John McCain and
former Massachusetts Governor
Mitt Romney during the GOP
primaries, as well as then-Senator
Barack Obama in the general
election. In 1999 and 2000, Berman
worked as an off-air reporter for
ABC News covering George W.
Bush ’64’s presidential campaign,
logging more hours with thencandidate Bush than nearly any
other reporter.
Berman also covered the Indian
Ocean tsunami from Banda Aceh,
Indonesia, and the steroids scandal
in American sports. From 1997 to
1999, he was the head writer for
World News Tonight With Peter Jennings.
A native of Carlisle, Mass., Berman
attended PA for four years. His
athletics legacy includes playing
varsity soccer and managing the
girls’ varsity ice hockey team. He
graduated from Harvard, where
he was president of Hasty
Pudding Theatricals.
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Carter Marsh
Abbott
New Jersey native Carter Marsh Abbott became
the first female junior in more than a decade to
start on three varsity sports teams. She went on
to become a four-year starter in soccer, basketball,
and lacrosse, earning 12 letters in her time at
Andover and captaining the basketball and
lacrosse teams her senior year. An All-America
selection for both soccer (1992) and lacrosse
(1993), Abbott also was selected in 1993 as a
member and captain of the New England team
at the National Schoolgirls lacrosse tournament.
She was named one of the Phillipian’s “Athletes of
the Year” in 1993; in 2003 the newspaper named
her one of the top 10 athletes in PA history.
a member of the 1994 NCAA Division I national
championship squad, was a three-time First-Team
All-Ivy League selection, and was named Ivy
League Player of the Year in 1997. In 1995 she
earned lacrosse Second-Team All-America honors
and was a 1996 and 1997 First-Team All-America
honoree. In addition to serving as the Tigers’ team
captain in 1997, she competed on the U.S. Developmental Lacrosse team in 1995 and 1996.
Abbott earned an MEd degree at Harvard and
is now a teacher and coach at Suffield Academy
in Connecticut, where she lives with husband Red
and daughters Campbell and Quinn. She has
coached seven lacrosse players to All-America honors and was inducted into the New Jersey Chapter of the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame in January
2010. She currently is an assistant coach for the
U-19 United States National Team in lacrosse.
Abbott played lacrosse and soccer for Princeton,
foregoing basketball due to the time commitment
needed to play a varsity sport at the college level.
She was a lacrosse standout: Abbott competed as
1993 basketball
team; Abbott is
front row, center.
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1993
Jake Bronk
Traine
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John “Jake” F. Bronk received his formal training in athletic
medicine at Harvard under Dr. Augustus Thorndike, a
pioneer in sports medicine. Upon accepting an offer to
come to Andover in 1944, he left the esteemed position
of head athletic trainer at Dartmouth—to which he
had been named at age 22. There are countless athletes
and teams who attribute their success to Bronk’s unparalleled skill, intuition, and care. Just last year, when
the 1952 football team was inducted into the 2009
Andover Athletics Hall of Honor, the team added a
special note to their induction program writeup to
recognize Bronk for the exemplary care he provided for their undefeated team. For Bronk’s obituary
in the March 1980 Andover Bulletin, former hockey
coach Ted Harrison ’38 wrote: “In my long association with athletics, I have never encountered
a more knowledgeable trainer. He was an expert
on protective equipment, the fastest and most
effective taper I have ever known, an uncanny
diagnostician of athletic injuries.” But Bronk’s
impact was felt far beyond the training room.
“Jake was more than a trainer. He was a friend,
a needy shoulder granting solace, an energizer, a sounding board, a conscience, and
much more to many athletes and lonely
teenagers far from home,” wrote former
PA baseball and football player David
Adzigian ’58. “For me he was, as much as anyone on the PA campus, a life coach who encouraged me
to realize that personal disappointments at PA simply ‘toughened’ me for a successful lifelong bout
with the adult world. His value far transcended his professional responsibilities. I speculate there are
few who passed through the PA athletic community during his tenure who were not substantially and
beneficially touched and influenced by Jake Bronk.”
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Bill Brown
1934
William H. Brown spent his sports time at Andover
busy on the tennis squad and as manager of the
baseball and basketball teams. He later attended
Harvard, where he became involved with rowing.
He joined the PA faculty as an English instructor
in the fall of 1938 and founded the Academy’s
rowing program 17 years later. After locating
a place to store the boats and oars—the old
Lawrence Canoe Club—Brown began the task
of acquiring that equipment. He approached a
number of Ivy League rowing programs and
asked each to donate a shell, which Harvard,
Yale, and Princeton graciously did. When the
school reopened after spring vacation in 1955,
107 boys signed up for crew—one of whom was
Oscar Tang ’56. Three years later PA sent its first
crew to Henley.
Prior to starting PA’s rowing program, Brown
coached an undefeated golf team, founded the
sailing team, assisted in hockey and basketball,
and early on was coach of six-man football. He
retired in 1979 and recently returned to campus
for the 50th anniversary of crew at Andover, when
five boats, filled with alumni eager to row their old
course, were launched into the Merrimack. The
day also honored Brown as the founder of the
program and celebrated a new crew fund named
in his honor. Brown recounted that evening:
“The trustees in the ’50s had tried to dissuade
me from establishing a crew program. Little did
they know that 50 years later we would have the
president of the board [Oscar Tang] rowing on
the Merrimack.”
Coach Brown with 1956 crew
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Archibald Bush
1867
Archibald McClure Bush came to Andover at the
same time as his cousin, James McClure; both had
played in junior amateur baseball clubs in Albany,
N.Y. In those days, baseball at Andover was played
on a rocky field. With cross-class representation,
Bush and McClure organized the Academy’s first
official baseball team, and the trustees built a new
field (behind the present-day Peabody Museum),
which served as the school’s main baseball field
for the next 40 years. The team organized by Bush
and McClure was the first preparatory school
“nine” in the nation and won its first away game,
at Tufts, 35–4. Elected captain his first year, Bush
was considered the best baseball player in the
country during his time at Andover—and during
his four years at Harvard.
morning, he and a friend skipped geometry to
watch a ball game in Boston. The two friends,
along with several others who had cut classes
that day, were expelled by Principal Samuel H.
Taylor. Enraged that a leader of their class was
being expelled, 25 of the remaining 42 members
of the Class of 1867 purposely broke curfew that
evening, and they, too, were expelled—and thus
were unable to pass Yale’s entrance exams. The
classmates hired tutors, studied all summer, and
passed the exams for Harvard—where Bush
became captain of the baseball team for three of
his four years and never lost to Yale. Shortly after
getting married, he and his wife sailed for Europe,
where Bush died of typhoid pneumonia in 1877.
On April 20, 1903, the trustees unanimously
approved a recommendation to reinstate the
expelled students from the Class of 1867 in “good
and regular standing.”
However, Bush’s love of baseball would have
unfortunate consequences. One early summer
PA baseball team ca. 1875
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Joe Cavanagh
1967
Even before stepping foot in Massachusetts,
Joseph V. Cavanagh Jr. had made a name for himself on the ice when he was named Rhode Island’s
most valuable high school player in 1965 and 1966.
He came to Andover as a PG and was part of a
high-scoring 1967 line that included classmates
Ford Fraker and Norman Cross Jr. During his
first foray into college hockey as a Harvard sophomore in 1969, he made a big impression. Incredibly, he was selected as a First-Team All-American,
a First-Team All-East, a First-Team All-Ivy, and
a First-Team All-New England, received the
Walter Brown Award (given to best American-born
player), and was named most valuable player of
the annual Beanpot Tournament—which the
Crimson won by beating Boston University.
All-East, All-Ivy, and All-New England squads—
and he won the Walter Brown Award again
during his final season at Harvard. He was the
team’s leading scorer all three seasons (tied with
Robert McNamara as a junior) and also was
given the John Tudor Memorial Cup Award as
team most valuable player after his junior and
senior seasons. Upon graduating in 1971, he
joined the U.S. Olympic hockey team headed
to Sapporo. Cavanagh suffered a career-ending
injury in practice for those Olympics and retired
from hockey. Recognized by numerous hockey
organizations over the years, he was inducted
into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in Minnesota
in 1994. Now a lawyer with Blish & Cavanagh
in Providence, Cavanagh and his wife, Carol,
live in nearby Warwick, where they raised their
nine children.
Following his junior and senior seasons, Cavanagh
again was named to the first team All-American,
Cavanagh, number 9, in action on the 1967 hockey team
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Ashley Harmeling
2000
First-Team Womenslacrosse.com All-America
honors. Also ranked Amherst’s top women’s
squash player, Harmeling was a co-winner of
the Howard Hill Mossman Trophy, presented
annually to the senior who has brought Amherst
the greatest honor in athletics. She will receive an
MBA degree from Harvard this spring and plans
to pursue a career in entrepreneurship.
About the time she learned to walk, Ashley A.
Harmeling started playing soccer in her hometown
of North Reading, Mass. She took up lacrosse in
seventh grade and added squash at PA “because
Andover requires you to do something active
each term.” She excelled in all three—earning
four varsity letters in soccer, four varsity letters in
lacrosse, and three varsity letters in squash; she
captained her squash and lacrosse teams. In her
senior year she received All-American honors in
both soccer and lacrosse and, as the recipient of
Andover’s coveted Yale Bowl prize, was likewise
recognized for her academic accomplishments.
Harmeling matriculated at Harvard, but the
university was not a perfect fit. Coming from
Andover, where the classes were small, the studentfaculty ratio favorable, and the discussions intimate
and animated, Harvard seemed impersonal. “It
was really frustrating,” she recalls. “My classes
were 600-kids big, so I wasn’t getting much
personal attention from faculty.” She transferred
to Amherst College, where she played all three
sports. In her junior year, she won NESCAC’s
Player of the Year and also was named to FirstTeam All-America in soccer and lacrosse. That
same year she shattered single-season school
records in both sports, leading the NESCAC in
goals, assists, and points. She was named FirstTeam All-NESCAC, NESCAC Player of the
Year, First-Team IWLCA All-New England, FirstTeam IWLCA/US Lacrosse All-America, and
Harmeling, right,
in action in 2000
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Gerry Jones
1955
Andover’s legendary ice hockey coach, Ted
Harrison ’38, taught Gerard E. Jones how to play
goalie. Jones played football and ice hockey at
Andover, where he also served as a class officer
and president of the debating society, and tried
to master American History—then reputed to be
Andover’s most difficult course. As a graduating
senior, he won the Fuller Medal for exemplifying
the ideals and traditions of Phillips Academy. He
served as a trustee of the school on two occasions.
His three daughters, Virginia ’86, Catherine ’90,
and Leila ’93, attended Andover and later played
Division I ice hockey.
At Yale, Jones was selected as an All-Ivy goalie
and, in his senior year, as an All-American. He
holds the Yale record for most saves—66. At
his graduation he received the Mallory Cup for
sportsmanship and representing the Yale tradition
in athletics.
After serving as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy,
Jones attended Yale Law School. Thereafter he
enjoyed a career in corporate law before retiring to Woodstock, Vt. He now teaches history
in Dartmouth College’s continuing education
program.
1955 hockey team; Jones is front row, far left.
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Harvey Kelsey
1941
“The fastest schoolboy” was the much-deserved
superlative earned by Harvey M. Kelsey Jr. in the
1940s. As captain of PA’s track team, he ran the
100-yard dash in a blazing 9.5 seconds in 1941—
1/10th of a second off the then–world record.
That same day, he set a second long-standing
record: he ran the 220-yard dash in just 21.1
seconds. The successes of that season continued
when Kelsey placed first in the New England Interscholastic sprints. From PA, Kelsey headed to
Princeton where, as a freshman, he set a record as
a sprinter, winning his “Major P.” He was living
under a U.S. Army program “in barracks” when
in 1943 he won the Princeton Relay 100 and later
ran six heats in one day to win the 100- and 220yard dashes in the intercollegiate championship.
The next day he went on active duty to Fort Bragg.
Professionally, Kelsey retired from Johnson and
Higgins as a senior vice president and director.
1941 track team; Kelsey is
front row, third from right.
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Artie Moher
1945
1947, and Moher was Yale’s starting shortstop;
he was named the outstanding shortstop in the
1948 College World Series. In hockey, he was
Yale’s starting center from 1946 to 1948, ranking
as high-scorer in 1947 and 1948. In both seasons,
he scored more than 40 points. He led the team
as captain his junior year.
Arthur K. Moher excelled in two sports—hockey
and baseball. It is of note, however, that he
achieved a varsity letter in football: for one year
Coach Stephen Sorota used him as a drop kick
specialist. Moher earned four varsity letters in
both hockey and baseball and was captain of
both teams for two years. As a senior, he led his
undefeated hockey team to victory over St. Paul’s
on their home ice in Concord, N.H., the first time
any prep school team had done so. Moher served
as class president for three years, was a member of
the student council for four years, and was elected
student council president his senior year.
In 1948, he was drafted by the Detroit Tigers and
played baseball for their AA team in 1948 and
their AAA team in 1949. At that point, he decided
to retire from baseball. Moher enjoyed a successful
43-year career as a yarn sales agent, eventually
becoming the owner of his own company,
Moher Associates.
At Yale he played both varsity baseball and hockey.
The first-ever College World Series took place in
1945 baseball team. Moher is front row, center
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