August 2015 - John Burroughs School

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Thornton Named Presidential Scholar
Burroughs’ tenth Presidential Scholar names his chemistry teacher and
former advisor as the teacher who most influenced him.
James Grove ’88 broke the story. As a former Presidential
Scholar himself, Grove often checks the list of winners
when it comes out in early May. There it was: senior Ryan
Thornton from John Burroughs School in St. Louis was one
of the two Presidential Scholars from Missouri.
“I figured Facebook would be a fun way to share the good
news immediately with the JBS community,” writes Grove,
who posted the news along with a link to the Department
of Education’s list. Ryan’s mother, Shilpa Thornton, saw the
post and texted her husband: “Is this right?”
It was. So, in June, Ryan traveled to Washington, D.C.,
where he was honored as one of this year’s 141 Presidential
Scholars. The U.S. Presidential Scholars Program was
created in 1964 by executive order of the president to
recognize the nation’s most distinguished graduating high
school seniors. The White House Commission on Presidential
Scholars, appointed by President Barack Obama, selected
Ryan based on his academic success, recommendations
and essays, as well as evidence of his community service,
leadership and commitment to high ideals. The program
honors one young man and one young woman from each
state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and from
U.S. families living abroad, as well as 15 chosen at-large and
20 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts.
Ryan is a worthy recipient, according to his principal, Chris
Front. “He is an engaged, enthusiastic and curious young
man with a wide range of academic and extracurricular
interests,” says Front.
• He was a key member of the Burroughs tennis team,
which took third place in the 2014 Class 1 state team
tournament, and he and his doubles partner, Zale
Shah ’16, took fourth in the 2014 state individual
tournament.
• He played bassoon in the Senior Orchestra and
participated in the 2015 State Solo and Ensemble
Festival, in which he performed with an ensemble that
earned the highest rating.
• During the 2013-14 school year, Ryan was a member
of the robotics team that took third place in the world
competition. During the 2014-15 school year, he and
another senior, Charles Sansone, organized a second
robotics team, which was one of only a handful of firstyear teams to advance to the super-regional level of
competition.
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Retired science teacher Sandra Mueller (left) and Presidential
Scholar Ryan Thornton ’15 (right) met Frankie Freeman (center),
who served on the White House Commission on Presidential
Scholars, during events in Washington, D.C., in June.
• In January 2014 and 2015, Ryan participated in The
Hague International Model United Nations program.
His 2015 involvement took him to Qatar, where he
served on the International Court of Justice and as
one of seven judges to hand down a decision about
the legality of Japan’s whaling practices in the South
Pacific.
As part of the Presidential Scholars Program’s application
process, Ryan was asked to identify the teacher who most
influenced his path. He chose his chemistry teacher and
former advisor, Sandra Mueller. For Mueller, who retired
at the end of the 2014-15 school year, being singled out as
a distinguished teacher was a nice culmination to a long
teaching career that included 26 years at Burroughs. She
says that Ryan, whom she has been able to get to know
well in the past few years, epitomizes the qualities that the
Presidential Scholars Program seeks to recognize. “Ryan is a
remarkable individual,” she says. “He is respectful and not a
self-promoter. And he watches out for his peers.”
Ryan is Burroughs’ 10th Presidential Scholar. Others,
in addition to Grove, are Gretchen Barrow North ’69,
Bob Esther ’87, Alp Aker ’91, Sarah Jost Fouke ’92, Jan
Moolsintong ’95, Julie Goran ’96, Katherine Wiltenburg
Todrys ’99 and Veronica Sudekum ’02.
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Cl ass of 2015
Girls Track and Field Scores Its First ‘First’
Where Are They Headed?
Burroughs squeezes by perennial powerhouse McCluer South-Berkeley by a mere 1.5 points to claim
the first State girls track and field championship in JBS history.
Seniors will attend 61 colleges from St. Louis to Dubai.
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Senior Assembly
Arizona State
University
Lucas Schlaefli
Barnard College
Rose Sciortino
Bates College
The Class of 2015 selected chemistry
teacher and college counselor Jaclyn Yetter
(on right) to speak at Senior Assembly on
May 21. Senior class president Sachit Bhat
(on left) also spoke as did Head of School
Andy Abbott.
Julia Mehl
Jack Molho
Beloit College
M.J. Strawbridge
Boston College
Jacqueline McCormick
Boston University
Addison Ogonoski
Bowdoin College
Graduation 2015
Jimmy Lemkemeier
Brigham Young
University
Elizabeth Anderson
Butler University
The Class of 2015 lines up to enter Graduation Grove. From left are Vickie Williams, Shirley Hwang,
Talia Bennett and Darcy Shulman.
Greer Baizer
University of
California, Berkeley
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Tyler Waterman
1. The girls track and field team claimed the Class 3 State title with only
1.5 points to spare, and its head coach, Daniel Harris, was named Coach
of the Year. The boys team finished second in state, just 4 points behind
the number one team. Above, both teams, which also claimed District
and Sectional titles, show off their first- and second-place trophies after
the state meet.
UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA, LOS
ANGELES
Brody Palan
CARNEGIE MELLON
UNIVERSITY
William Meng
2. Lailah Elliott ’17 took first in triple jump and long jump.
CASE WESTERN RESERVE
UNIVERSITY
3. Jordan McClendon ’15 took first in discus and second in shot put.
Spencer Hesse
Elizabeth Jackson
4. On the boys’ side, the 4x100 relay team (Perry Julien ’15, Zavy Miller
’17, John Moten ’15 and Charlie Plax ’15) and the 4x200 relay team
(Christopher Booker ’16, Perry Julien ’15, Zavy Miller ’17 and John Moten
’15) finished first in state. Below, Perry takes possession of the baton from
Christopher in the 4x200.
Other Season Highlights
The boys tennis team claimed the District title and number two
spot in state, led by Michael Peters ’15 and Zale Shah ’16, both
semifinalists in individual competition.
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The girls lacrosse team advanced to the semifinals of the state
tournament before falling (11-8) to St. Theresa’s of Kansas City.
Several athletes accrued a long list of individual honors, including
an All American (U.S. Lacrosse) selection for Barrett Carlson ’16 and
All State honors for Barrett and Corinne Condie ’16.
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY
Ry Gaffney
INDIANA UNIVERSITY,
HUTTON HONORS
COLLEGE
Morgan Rinder
JOHNS HOPKINS
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Efimov
Grace Haselhorst
KENYON COLLEGE
Maddie Ruwitch
KNOX COLLEGE
5. John Moten ’15 took first in the 100-meter dash and third in the
200-meter dash. Ronald Smith ’16 took second in the triple jump.
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
Elise Thomas
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Shirley Hwang
Veda Kamra
Zayna Quader
Katie Schmid
Sarah Taylor
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
(ABU DHABI PROGRAM)
Liam Meier
Jacob Schechter
NORTHWESTERN
UNIVERSITY
Dartmouth College
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
Jasnaam Grewal
GEORGETOWN
UNIVERSITY
Lauren Seibel
Madison Ungacta
MASSACHUSETTS
INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY
Haley Abramson
Amanda Cao
MCGILL UNIVERSITY
Colin Harkins
MIAMI UNIVERSITY,
OHIO
Megan Camenzind
Ryan Eickmeyer
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI,
FLORIDA
Lindsay Garcia
Justin Moon
MICHIGAN STATE
UNIVERSITY
Logan Otter
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Michael Peters
Grant Riew
Emily Zhao
WAKE FOREST
UNIVERSITY
Emma Rowley
John Moten
Elana Stettin
Will Wolfe
Adam McAllister
TULANE UNIVERSITY
Jordan McClendon
Charlie Plax
Jordan Roodman
Sachit Bhat
Sandy Chesterton
Nia Goodman
Eliza Johnson
Colgate University
Connor Krause
Darcy Shulman
TRINITY UNIVERSITY
Dwight Sutter
Natalie Probstein
MACALESTER COLLEGE
DENISON UNIVERSITY
Ericka Marchbanks
Emily Shands
UNIVERSTIY OF LONDON
(GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE)
Gabby Ivy
Maggie Lobbig
Elizabeth McLaughlin
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six-Year Medical Program
Nina Muddasani
Chase Young
TEXAS CHRISTIAN
UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY OF TULSA
Davidson College
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UNIVERSITY OF
MISSOURI, KANSAS CITY
Sina McLin
Jharnae Love
Ryan Thornton
DePAUL UNIVERSITY
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Max Mandel
Alex Sanfilippo
Nick Trzecki
Brendan Roddy
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Vickie Williams
Burroughs was one of four finalists for stlhighschoolsports.com’s
small school athletic program of the year.
UNIVERSITY OF
MISSOURI, COLUMBIA
On May 28, the Class of 2015,
Burroughs 90th graduating class,
entered Graduation Grove. Charlie
Peters, first vice president of the
Board of Trustees, introduced the
speakers: Susan Dee (Academic
Support; Montgomery Plan) delivered
the invocation and benediction;
Michael Peters ’15 and Caroline
Adams ’15 spoke for and to their class;
and Andy Abbott, head of school,
delivered remarks and presented
diplomas. After the commencement
and a brief reception on the head’s
lawn, festivities for graduates and
their guests continued on campus.
UNIVERSITY OF
MICHIGAN
Blake Bellistri
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Faraz Ahmad
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE
DAME
Michael Peters ’15, graduation speaker
Emily Koykka
THE OHIO STATE
UNIVERSITY
Talia Bennett
UNIVERSITY OF
PENNSYLVANIA
Charles Sansone
PURDUE UNIVERSITY
(HONORS COLLEGE)
Austin Miller
UNIVERSITY OF
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Perry Julien
J.J. Lister
SOUTHERN METHODIST
UNIVERSITY
Mark Clinton
David Gans
Nathan Van Slyke
Justin Weisman
WASHINGTON
UNIVERSITY
Damie Choe
Alan Chung
Will Huhn
Vaios Kouvelis
Claire Krupela
Zane Norton
Capri Scharff
Tiffany Yao
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
Caroline Adams
WILLIAMS COLLEGE
Jeremy Smith
WORCESTER
POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
Caroline Adams ’15, graduation speaker
John Stegeman
YALE UNIVERSITY
Tre Moore
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
Kelvin Woods
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SCHOLA R SHIP S
The Gift of
Scholarship
Joyce Williams was born in 1948
in Morrilton, Arkansas, the oldest
daughter in a family with seven
children. She began her education at
Kansas City Community College and
finished with a degree in business
education at North Texas State
University, where her husband, Victor,
was also a student. She taught in the
Fort Worth School District for several
years and, after the couple married
and moved to St. Louis, Joyce worked
for IBM and Southwestern Bell.
Joyce and Victor had two sons, and at
an early age she instilled in them the
importance of getting an education
to prepare for the real world. She
and Victor chose Burroughs for their
sons because they wanted to provide
the best education available. Victor
II graduated in 1989, and Brandon
graduated in 1993.
Joyce was diagnosed with cancer
and passed away before Brandon
graduated. She had a warm
personality, an articulate tongue, a
quick wit, and a strong commitment
to her Christian faith. Much loved
by her family and friends, Joyce left
a positive impression on everyone
she met. Upon her death, the Joyce
Williams Memorial Scholarship
was established and endowed by her
family and friends to honor her, and
it has been supporting Burroughs
students for more than 20 years.
This year, we are particularly pleased
to welcome the Williams family back
to Burroughs and celebrate the legacy
of Joyce Williams, as her grandson,
Victor III, is a member of the Class of
2020.
If you would like to honor someone
important to you or learn more
about our scholarship program,
please contact Dorothy Swicord in
the Development Office at 314/9934040 or dswicord@jburroughs.org.
You can also visit our memorial and
endowment pages at jburroughs.org.
— Jim Kemp
Director of Advancement
314/993-4040, ext. 256
jkemp@jburroughs.org
The Williams family in 1986: from left
are Victor II ’89, Brandon ’93, Victor and
Joyce.
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A New Dimension
Bonsack Gallery Turns 50
Antonio V. Glassberg ’96 Scholarship broadens diversity efforts to
include physically challenged students with financial need.
Fred Dreher, painting teacher from 1947 to 1970, envisioned a
teaching gallery at the center of student activity.
The Antonio V. Glassberg Educational Foundation has
committed more than $800,000 over the next 15 years to
support need-based scholarships for Burroughs students
with physical challenges.
Formally dedicated on October 15, 1965, the Bonsack
Gallery’s first exhibit featured paintings by one of St. Louis’
most prominent modernist artists, Ernestine Betsberg. The
new gallery had been made possible through a bequest from
the estate of Mrs. Arthur Bonsack, who wished to make a
gift to the arts in memory of her son, Arthur A. Bonsack Jr.
’31. Then Head of School Leonard Haertter asked painting
teacher Fred Dreher to propose a use for the gift.
Before he died, Antonio set up a charitable foundation to
provide superior educational opportunities to students
grappling with physical and financial limitations. He saw
the potential in bright young students and was compelled
to leave a legacy of action to help them capitalize on their
abilities.
The foundation broadly defines “physically challenged” —
from blindness and hearing loss, to limb loss and impaired
muscle power, to recovery from serious or life-threatening
illnesses. Like all aid granted by Burroughs, scholarships
will be contingent on the family’s financial need and
awarded by the school.
Two of Antonio’s Burroughs classmates, Matt Schnuck and
Matt Crystal, serve on the board of directors of Antonio’s
Antonio Glassberg ’96 established his foundation to provide the
opportunity for students with incredible potential to get a worldclass education.
foundation along with Jim Walter (MICDS ’96). Schnuck is
president of the board.
“The Glassberg Scholarship will allow us to be much more
active and intentional in our efforts to find students who
will truly benefit from the opportunities that Burroughs
provides and who will contribute to the JBS community in
the most meaningful ways,” wrote Head of School Andy
Abbott in a message to parents. “The scholarship also serves
as a reminder about a group of people who are often underrepresented in our communities and the profound and
positive impact they can have.”
Teachers Named to Endowed Chairs
Drs. Scott Heinzel and Mark Smith honored for excellence in teaching.
In what is a planned rotation of holders of endowed faculty
chairs, Head of School Andy Abbott recently named Dr.
Scott Heinzel (Science; College Counseling) as the new
holder of the Charles K. “Doc” Sibley Chair in Science and
Dr. Mark Smith (History) as the new holder of the Robert A.
Sortland/Kemper Family Chair in American Studies.
Endowed faculty chairs reward and recognize excellence in
teaching. Chair holders carry a full teaching load and are
expected to open their classrooms for observation by other
teachers, to advise the head and the faculty, and to make
contributions to the profession outside of school.
Both Heinzel and Smith are worthy recipients of the honor.
Heinzel, who joined the Burroughs faculty in 1992, is a
member of the Science Department (currently teaching
Science 7 and Biology Achievement), a college counselor,
and the immediate past principal of the 11th and 12th grades.
Prior to coming to Burroughs, Heinzel was a teaching
assistant at Stanford University, where he earned a doctorate
in genetics. He holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the
University of Chicago.
Smith joined the Burroughs faculty in 1998. He is chair of
the History Department and teaches American government,
U.S. History and Bioethics. He holds a bachelor’s degree
in philosophy/history from the College of William and
Mary and master’s and doctoral degrees in history from
the University of Virginia. Prior to coming to Burroughs,
Dr. Scott Heinzel
Dr. Mark Smith
Smith was a graduate assistant and visiting instructor at the
University of Virginia.
The new chair holders join six others at Burroughs. Anne
Rossi holds the Leonard D. and Madeline H. Haertter
Chair in Mathematics; Dr. Ellie DesPrez holds the Mark
Neville/Martin Parry Chair in English; Dr. Jim Lowe holds
the Edwin McClellan Johnston Chair in Classics; painting
and drawing teacher Howard Jones holds the Fred Dreher/
Joanna Collins Chair in Fine Arts; Mark Nicholas holds
the Alice Snodgrass/Kemper Family Chair for Excellence
in Teaching; and Peter Tasker holds the Holekamp Family
Chair in Athletics.
“Unhesitatingly, I zeroed in on an idea I had nurtured
for some years and which I thought would remain but a
hoped-for dream,” Dreher wrote in a letter found in the JBS
archives. Dreher suggested an exhibition area for works by
professional artists that would not be a physical extention
of the Art Department’s classrooms, but a school gallery
readily accessible to the mainstream of student life. “For
some time I had had my hungry eye on the classroom
directly across the main hall from the administrative
offices,” Dreher continued. “Here was the ideal spot:
strategically located, architecturally unique and requiring
little remodeling for conversion to this purpose.”
Though the space shifted slightly to the north during the
Brauer Building’s renovation in the mid-1990s, the gallery
retains the Bonsack name and its mission as a teaching
gallery. Fine arts faculty continue to bring their students
Exhibiting artists visit campus to talk about their work. Above,
students view the work of prominent artist and Outstanding
Alumnus Tom Friedman ’83, who spoke in morning assembly in
April 8, 2011.
to the gallery to study, analyze and react to the works, and
artists whose works are displayed talk to students about their
philosophies and techniques.
The school will mark the gallery’s 50th anniversary with
a special exhibit to run from October 8, 2015, through
January 8, 2016. The Fine Arts Committee invites alumni
and friends to share, photos of exhibits or other memorabilia
from the gallery’s first 50 years to contact Lisa Holekamp
Yost ’78 (lyost@jburroughs.org) in the Alumni Office.
Alumni Speaker Series Launched
During the 2014-15 school year, the Alumni Association
launched a semi-annual Alumni Speaker Series, which
brings alums to campus to speak at morning assemblies.
The inaugural speaker in the series was global businessman
and seven-continent marathon runner Tony Reed ’73,
who visited in September 2014. Reed’s opening remarks
focused on his running. (At the time, he had completed
126 marathons and was one of 225 people worldwide to be
a member of the Seven Continents Club.) His presentation
then became more personal and reflective, about his
experience growing up in the projects and attending
Burroughs in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Reed ended his
remarks with this advice: “There are two sides to the coin.
Don’t be prejudiced. Don’t stereotype. And don’t judge what
you don’t know.”
Chemistry A team of sophomore
chemistry students — Caroline
Creighton, Michelle Fan, Manpreet
Grewal, Jon Ince, Reese Roberts
and Noah Sock (team captain) —
won the first Missouri Chem Bowl
competition on May 2.
Noah Sock ’17 took first place in the
regular division, and Amanda Cao
’15 took second place in the advanced
division of the American Chemical
Society (St. Louis Section) 2015
High School Chemistry Contest.
Henry Arneson ’17, Ian Bradley ’17,
Caroline Creighton ’17, Jon Ince ’17,
Jake Kovalic ’17 and Olivia Long ’16
received honorable mentions.
MathCounts Jason Zhou ’19
took fourth place in the Missouri
MathCounts competition, qualifying
him to compete as a member of the
four-person team that represented
Missouri at Nationals.
French Carly Galvin ’19 earned the
highest award as the top scorer at
her level in Le Grand Concours, the
national test for high school French
students. Katie Kuhlman ’19, Tyler
Palan ’19 and Aidan Taylor ’19 took
second nationally, and Madison Fuller
’19 took third nationally. Nathan
Hoagland ’17 took first in the French
essay competition.
Businessman and seven-continent marathon runner Tony Reed ’73
(on left) talked with students after his assembly presentation in
September 2014.
The second alumni speaker talked about his career in
entertainment. Beau Willimon ’95 — creator of Netflix’s
original series House of Cards and the play Farragut North,
which was made into the Academy Award-nominated feature
film Ides of March, starring George Clooney — spent the
morning of April 20 on campus. He was interviewed during
assembly by classmate Stephanie Sanditz, an accomplished
actor and award-winning screenwriter.
Willimon talked about the writing process, the political
research that he and his team of six writers undertake to
“create a world from scratch,” and the demands of seeing
the production of House of Cards through from the creation
of an episode to the first rehearsal to the final shot. As show
runner and producer, Willimon works about 100 hours a
week, 50 weeks a year. “I’m working with the directors, the
actors, the wardrobe department, the art department ...” he
said. “When somebody needs to filter the vision and get an
answer, I always have the answer. It’s not always the right
one. Sometimes I make it up on the spot, but the train needs
to keep moving.”
Student Honors
Science Olympiad The Science
Olympiad team took third in state.
Team members included Amanda
Cao ’15, Will Howlett ’18, Josh
Kazdan ’16, Schroedter Kinman ’17,
Olivia Long ’16, Ruth Selipsky ’16,
Noah Sock ’17, Luanna Summer
’18, Lucy Summer ’16, Tara Suresh
’16, Shoshana Williams ’16, Vickie
Williams ’15, Will Wolfe ’15, Emily
Zhao ’15 and Jenny Zhou ’17.
For 50 years, the Bonsack Gallery has brought the work of
professional artists into the heart of the Burroughs campus.
The scholarship honors Antonio Glassberg, who was a
member of the JBS Class of 1996. After completing seventh
grade at Burroughs, Antonio and his family moved to
Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Several years later, Antonio was
diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease. Despite his illness,
he graduated from Jackson Hole High School, enrolled at
Georgetown University and completed 31/2 years of study
toward degrees in English literature and government before
his illness prevented him from graduating. Antonio died in
2001 at the age of 23.
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Keep Us Informed
John Burroughs School publishes the
Reporter for distribution to alumni,
current and past parents, grandparents, faculty, staff and friends
of the school.
Editor: Lynn Hoppe Phelps
Photographer: Andrew Newman ’87
Director of Communications
and Community Relations:
Ellen Leschen Bremner ’67
Beau Willimon ’95 (on left), interviewed by classmate Stephanie
Sanditz, talked about writing for a television series at an assembly
in April. He stayed on campus the rest of the morning to talk to
students in theatre and American history classes.
Please keep us posted on job changes,
degrees, honors, marriages, births
and adoptions, deaths — any news
you may have. To notify the school of
news, please contact Cindy Schnabel
at cschnabel@jburroughs.org or
314/993-4040, ext. 264.
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Activity Moves from One Thing to the Next
The 2014-15 school year drew to a close, and students and faculty scattered to busy summer schedules
both on campus and off.
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6. Bomber Sports Camp added a one-week girls’ program in 2015. About
100 young female athletes received coaching in field hockey, soccer,
swimming, tennis, basketball and PE games from 23 JBS student athletes
(Abigail Oglesby ’18 in photo above) led by Carrie Goodloe Chapman
’98, Margaret Altvater Clark ’73 and Emily Goodloe ’13. On the boys’ side
of the camp, 30 student athletes led about 225 campers in flag football,
basketball, baseball, soccer and floor hockey. The two-week program was
led by Davey Desloge ’94, Jud Dieffenbach ’97 and William Feuerbacher
’06.
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7. Sam Trzecki ’17 was one of 37 JBS students who served as counselors,
lifeguards or counselors-in-training at Burr Oak Camp. School nurse
Casie Tomlinson and her husband, Matt, ran the camp this year.
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1. This year’s spring play, The Glass Menagerie, was presented in the
Salomon Black Box Theater. From left are Sarah Taylor ’15 as Laura, Ry
Gaffney ’15 as Tom and Maddie Ruwitch ’15 as Amanda.
2. In mid-May, the Young JBS Players presented David Lindsay-Abaire’s
Snow Angel, about a group of teens who encounter a mysterious girl on
a snow day from school. Above, Helen (Eliza Hurwitz ’19, on left) is one
of several kids who claim to have had run-ins with the mysterious Eva
(Juliet Mahony ’19, on right).
3. Hundreds of students and their parents attended the Four-School
College Fair held in the Taylor Family Athletic Center. About 130 colleges
in the U.S. and abroad were represented at the fair, which is sponsored
each year by Burroughs, MICDS, Ladue and Clayton.
4. Since the early 1980s, Bio Drey Land has been the culminating
experience of the two-semester ninth-grade biology course. During an
intense four days in May, students conducted research and analyzed data
from the forest and stream ecosystems at the school’s wilderness camp
in the Ozarks. Above, Nathan Tung and Kristen Mason use electronic
sensors to measure the humidity and temperature of the lower slope
forest.
5. With the Commons tented in streamers and circus performers
including stilted jugglers and a contortionist, the juniors handily pulled
off a successful Cirque de Soleil theme for the 2015 prom.
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8. Seven students (Sam Holmes ’18 shown here) and faculty sponsor
Brian Connor (Theatre) participated in Sailing in the Wake of Our
Ancestors, the first year of the three-year Global Youth Leadership
Institute. The five-day program introduced students to the GYLI curriculum
while they set sail on the Atlantic Ocean for three days aboard a tall ship.
Three other JBS students participated in level three in Costa Rica.
9. During August Days, 36 Burroughs students befriended 40 kids from
the Youth Family Center in downtown St. Louis for a two-week camp
that included field trips to the City Museum, the zoo and a bowling
alley, as well as many activities on campus. Seniors Tyler Bernstein,
Whitney Gartenberg, Sarah Gaffigan (in back) and Kat John led the camp.
Margaret Altvater Clark ’73 served as faculty sponsor for the fourth year.
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10. Sixteen students of French participated in three weeks of cultural
immersion in Paris, Provence and the French Alps. The biennial trip
is part of an exchange with Burroughs’ partner school, Lycée Arbez
Carme. The Burroughs students hosted their French siblings in April,
who then returned the favor for a one-week homestay in June. French
teachers Allégra Clément-Bayard, Jennifer Kinney and Allison Prabakar
accompanied the students.
11. Twenty-one students of Spanish participated in 10 days of cultural
immersion in Spain in June. Destinations included Madrid, Segovia,
Besullo, Comillas, Bilbao and Barcelona. Spanish teachers Maria Cohen
and Carlos Carvajal led the trip.
12. Faculty sponsors Margaret Bahe (Science), Olga Russell (Modern
Languages), Jerry Estes (Music) and Rebeca Dávila Graboyes ’01 (Science;
Academic Support) accompanied 37 eighth graders on the annual trip to
the Grand Canyon. At right, Ella Schactman (on left) and Maya Shetty
peek from a niche in Lower Antelope Slot Canyon on the Navajo Nation.
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Bitsy Harris Farnsworth ’46 writes, “I am living happily
on the waterfront of Long Island Sound in Norwalk,
Connecticut, in a 109-home private community that
is not gated and has all kinds of ages, people, kids and
dogs. I’m on the governing board and am in charge of
community events. We keep alive many old traditions
like the July 3 fireworks that we can watch going off
across the harbor followed by a July 4 celebration with
kids’ parades and public speakers. Labor Day is honored
with a five-day game and gathering extravaganza that is
perfectly wonderful.”
Jim Schiele ’47 earned a doctorate in liberal arts from
Washington University in St. Louis in May. His thesis
was titled “19th Century American Expansion.”
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Wil Long ’52, a longtime resident of Austria, has a
recommendation for Burroughs ski fans. “If you are
planning to be in Europe during the coming year’s cool
months, include a visit to a delightful place named Saint
Johann in Tirol. The scenery is beautiful and the ski
slopes are wonderful. Moreover, the prices are relatively
reasonable compared with those imposed by more
glamorous and famous Austrian resorts.”
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1. A group of Los Angeles-based alums representing
classes from 1957 to 2012 — many with their families —
gathered before the Cards vs. Dodgers game on June 7 for
a meet and greet with Dodgers left-fielder Scott Van Slyke
’05 (center, kneeling).
2. On June 10, Burroughs hosted a happy hour at La
Piazza at the Grove in Los Angeles. Above from left
are Nancy Birge-Osborne ’57, Mark Jeter ’90 and Mark
Niemeyer ’10.
3. About 50 Denver-based alumni and friends attended a
cocktail reception at Elway’s in Cherry Creek on April 30.
From left are Annie Collins ’07, Henry O’Connell ’06 and
Tamara Holekamp Lutz ’78.
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The New Face of Young Alum Pr ogramming
The Alumni Office welcomes Emma Birge-Osborne ’04
to work with other young alumni, assist with campus
photography and video production, and manage alumni
social media. Emma comes from a family of alums.
Her mother, Nancy Birge-Osborne ’57, taught biology at
Burroughs for 10 years, and Emma has aunts, uncles and
cousins who graduated in the 1950s, ’60s, ’80s and ’90s.
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4. For nearly two decades, the school’s black alumni
have been getting together for both formal and informal
gatherings. In July, the Black Alumni Alliance was
formed and hosted a kickoff party at Blueberry Hill
that drew about 40 attendees. Pictured (from left) are
Greg Smith ’07, Evan Fowler ’06, Kim Prather ’05, John
Meehan ’06, John Torrey ’05, Rodney Prather ’99, Angel
Emerson ’03, PD Davis ’05 and Andrea Woods ’05.
5. The annual golf tournament, Links & Drinks, was held
at Algonquin Golf Club on May 7. From left are Courtney
Docter Gable ’96, John Kemper ’96, Kyle Chapman
’97 and Allison Flynn Engelsmann ’95. After a great
afternoon of golf on a beautiful day, many other alums
and friends joined the fun at a cocktail party.
6. Many members of the Class of 2011 and their parents
gathered on campus on June 2 to catch up and find out
where everyone is headed after graduating from college.
From left are Philip Dearing, Keaton Armentrout, Will
Bliss, Sydney Philpott, John Krupela, Ryan Torno, Nilesh
Patel and Greg Emmenegger and his friend.
Rolla Wetzel ’52 reports that his oldest grandson, Keaton
Wetzel ’11, graduated cum laude from Washington
University in St. Louis in May and plans to attend
graduate school at Cornell in the fall. Keaton’s brother,
Christopher ’14, attends Colgate where he plays
Division I lacrosse. His team won the Patriot League
championship last spring.
Georgia Kurrus Sledge ’53 reports that at 80, she and
her husband live on Westport Island in Maine with two
dogs. They are frequently visited by four children and
12 grandchildren.
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Bob Cranston ’61 sends his best to all in the Class of ’61.
Tom Weir ’55 reports that he still enjoys hiking and
biking in the Pacific Northwest. He looks forward to a
trip to Munich, Germany, to visit his elder son, Todd.
Another son, Brian, married in the spring and recently
earned a doctorate in public health from Johns Hopkins
University.
The late John (Harford) Hartford ’56 — folk, country
and bluegrass composer and musician — is likely the
only JBS alum with a national music festival named
after him. The annual John Hartford Memorial Festival
was held in Bean Blossom, Indiana, in June.
Walter Metcalfe ’56 will be recognized as an honorary
member of the American Society of Landscape
Architects (ASLA) at the organization’s annual meeting
in November. Walter, senior counsel and chairman
emeritus of Bryan Cave LLP, has been instrumental
in the re-imagining of the St. Louis riverfront, the
Gateway Arch grounds and the Gateway Mall. Honorary
membership is among the highest honors ASLA
bestows on nonarchitects in recognition of notable
service to the profession. Since its inception in 1899,
ASLA has inducted only 175 honorary members.
Ann Sutherland Hughes ’57 writes, “Moved again to a
cozy nest all my own. Still enjoying my two part-time
jobs. Loving Facebook contact with many classmates.”
Among the Washington University in St. Louis alums to
attend their 50th reunion were John Dubinsky ’61 (not
pictured), Barb Smith Mitchell ’61 (on right) and Ben
Senturia ’61 (on left).
John Dubinsky ’61 writes, “Just finished a fabulous
one-year fellowship at Harvard. Now back in St. Louis,
splitting my time between corporate boards and leading
the CORTEX effort to develop biotechnology in St.
Louis.”
David Clark ’62 writes, “Not retiring. The Internet
keeps evolving, and I don’t want to stop.”
Carl Hirth ’63 retired in 2011. He recently took a
bike-and-hike trip to New Zealand and attended the
Australian Open Tennis Tournament in January.
Jim Wiegand ’64 completed a reverse merger to form
Rosewind Corporation.
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Dr. Ben Eiseman’s Life-Saving Therapy
In 1958, Ben Eiseman ’35, a surgeon at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Denver, published four case
reports in the journal, Surgery. In that article, he described fecal microbiata transplantation (FMT), an unorthodox
therapy that had saved several of his patients who had become deathly ill after a requisite pre-operative course of
antibiotics.
Dr. Eiseman’s treatment involved transferring stools from healthy people into the colons of his sick patients.
His theory was that the antibiotics given to reduce the risk of post-surgical infection had also destroyed normal
pathogen-suppressing gut flora in his patients. When he replaced the naturally occurring “good” bacteria, his
patients got better.
Needless to say, skeptics abounded, and for years, the only proponent was a gastroenterologist in Sydney,
Australia, who in 1988 treated a patient who had contracted an intestinal ailment in Fiji. His patient also got
better, and that physician estimates that he has since performed 5,000 FMT procedures.
Today, FMT is at the forefront of medical treatment, according to an article in the December 1, 2014, issue of The
New Yorker, which cited Dr. Eiseman’s work. The Cleveland Clinic identified FMT as one of the top 10 medical
innovations for 2014, and biotech companies are competing to put stool-based therapies on the market.
Dr. Ben Eiseman ’35
According to the article, “New research suggests that the microbes in our guts — and, consequently, in our stool —
may play a role in conditions ranging from autoimmune disorders to allergies and obesity, and reports of recoveries by patients who ... have received these bacteria-rich
infusions have spurred demand for the procedure. A year and a half ago, a few dozen physicians in the United States offered FMT. Today, hundreds do, and OpenBiome,
a nonprofit stool bank founded last year [2013] by graduate students at M.I.T., ships more than 50 specimens each week to hospitals in 36 states.”
Although Dr. Eiseman’s pioneering work was important in this new field of medical study, it was only one of his many contributions in a career that spanned eight
decades and included more than 450 scientifc papers and seven books on general surgery. A gifted surgeon, teacher, researcher and mentor to generations of medical
students well into his nineties, Dr. Eiseman died in November 2012.
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Early Warning by Jane Smiley ’67
was released. The book, the second
installment in the Last Hundred
Years trilogy, continues the
intimate retelling of American
history through the eyes of an Iowa
family.
Dick Vogt ’67 recently retired
and moved to Seattle. He writes,
“The University of Southern California promoted me to
distinguished emeritus professor, a title I probably get
to keep well into the next life.”
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independent national law firms in Germany with more
than 100 lawyers.”
John Meyer ’76, chair of the Business & Real Estate
practice group at the law firm Capes, Sokol, Goodman
& Sarachan, P.C., was elected chairman of the board
of Loop Media Hub and a member of the board of The
Loop Trolley Company. Both are nonprofit corporations
devoted to improving the area of the St. Louis
community known as The Loop.
Works by Michael Rosenfeld ’79 are part of the grand
opening exhibit of New Museum Los Gatos (California),
running through September 27.
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A Wedding Song for Poorer People,
the latest book by Alfred DePew
’70, was named a finalist for
Foreword Magazine’s Indiefab Book
of the Year award.
Stuart “Trip” Symington ’70 is
a special representative for the
Central African Republic with the
U.S. Department of State.
Congratulations to Terry Schnuck ’71, one of a group of
St. Louis producers of Fun Home, which claimed five
Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
Frank Trotter ’72, a pioneer in online banking as a
founder of everbank.com, was a guest on Inside True
Wealth with Steve Sjuggerud in late June.
In January, marathon runner Tony Reed ’73 logged his
40,000th mile. He’s run marathons in all 50 states and
on seven continents.
Holly Thayer Eggert ’74 writes, “After 18 years of
exhilarating corporate relocations for our family, we are
home in St. Louis, looking forward to a new beginning
in a place with family, friends and familiarity.”
Michael Siebold ’75 writes, “The firm I founded in 1989
with just one associate grew to more than 60 attorneys
over the years. By way of merger effective September
1, 2015, ARNECKE SIEBOLD will be one of the largest
“Watching His Taillights Disappear,” an image by
photographer Joan Hustace Walker ’80, was selected
for the May 2015 cover of Southern Exposure, the
Southeastern Professional Photographers Association
magazine.
Randy Hayman ’81 serves as general counsel for DC
Water, the water utility for the nation’s capital. In 2014,
he was recognized twice by Washington Business Journal,
— first with the Minority Business Leader Award and
then with the inaugural Legal Champions Award, which
recognized him as one of the top general counsels in the
Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
Christy Jones Sorensen ’81 moved back to St. Louis
last summer, and her daughter entered Burroughs as a
freshman. “Rachel loves it,” writes Christy. “And I really
enjoy being back in the Burroughs community!”
State University of New York Professor Mitch
Earleywine ’82, chair of NORML, was featured on the
launch of Cannabis Radio.
Christine Callahan Malle ’83 writes, “I was lucky to
catch up with classmates in Dublin, St. Louis, Ann
Arbor and New York City. I continue to make fine
jewelry by hand, using recycled gold and responsibly
sourced gemstones. Please get in touch if you are in
New York!”
Geographic Books. The book includes practical tips
and creative advice to motivate and nurture the visual
storyteller in all of us.
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Engineer Chris Ottsen ’88 was featured on the History
Channel’s video about supersizing the Panama Canal.
Judge Stith Named Outstanding Alum
Director Amy Barrett ’89 was selected to produce a new
short film/series as a 2015 participant in the prestigious
American Film Institute Directing Workshop for
Women!
At morning assembly on April 17, the Alumni Association presented the 2015 Outstanding Alumna Award to
Laura Denvir Stith ’71, a judge on the Supreme Court of Missouri. Stith, a member of the court since 2001, served
as its chief justice from 2007 to 2009, the second female to hold the position.
Jon Hamm ’89 received two Emmy nominations — one
for best lead actor in a drama series for his role as Don
Draper in Mad Men, the other for his guest appearance
in The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
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Eliza Rubenstein ’91, artistic director for the Orange
County (California) Women’s Chorus, reports that
the group recently returned from a tour of the United
Kingdom, where it placed third in its division at the
International Musical Eisteddfod in Llangollen, Wales.
Eliza writes, “We had 35 singers on the trip (including
my assistant conductor, who is a graduate of Webster
Groves High). We performed in Cambridge, Bristol and
Chepstow, in addition to our participation in the festival
in Llangollen, which attracts up to 200 performing
groups from around the world every year.”
During remarks made to students, Judge Stith explained that her mother and father raised their children to
believe they could do anything they set their minds to do. “As you might imagine, raising five children to believe
they can do anything led to some not-insignificant conflicts within the family. Through these ‘debates,’ we all
learned how to defend our viewpoints strongly; but just as important, I learned how to find common ground and
reach consensus — something that has come in very handy in my profession.”
Judge Stith went on to explain her responsibility as a judge. “Our founders established a country based on a
system of laws to protect the life, liberty and property of its citizens. This system of laws strives to ensure laws are
enacted and applied openly, fairly and consistently. Everyone — even the government and its officials — especially
them — should honor and be held accountable under the law. This is called the ‘rule of law.’
“If judges first decide the result they want and then just make up reasons to decide the case that way, then they
would not be doing their job as judges. The law would not be consistent and public and stable. It would vary
Judge Laura Denvir Stith ’71
depending on who was in office or who became a judge. We might have the very tyranny of the majority that this
country’s founders sought to avoid. We would never have had decisions like Brown v. Board of Education, giving
all people of whatever race or ethnicity the right to a free and equal and desegregated public education, or Gideon v. Wainwright, guaranteeing a lawyer to criminal
defendants who can’t afford one. ...
“Being a judge often is not an easy job; it can be a heavy responsibility. But I feel incredibly lucky and honored to have that responsibility. I never would have considered
taking on the role of judge had I not been taught here at Burroughs so long ago that the only limit on my future was my imagination. The same is true for each of you.”
Richard Brophy ’98 works for Armstrong Teasdale law
firm in Clayton doing intellectual property law. Richard
was promoted to equity partner in the firm.
E.B. Little’s ’99 debut novel, Dear
Daughter, is part mystery, part
witty social commentary.
Variety 411.com featured an interview with Joe Leonard
’98 about his work as editor on the TV series Empire and
Glee and on the use of music in television.
Krista Seymour ’99 (below, center)
reports that she and her husband,
Brian Maurizi (on left), ran into
Eleanor Dubinsky ’94 (on right) in
Tulum, Mexico, in February 2015.
“A nice surprise!” writes Krista.
In its freshman season, The Unbreakable Kimmy
Schmidt, starring Ellie Kemper ’98, received seven
Emmy nominations, including a nomination for best
comedy series.
Elizabeth Flora Ross ’87 had one of her images chosen
for Getting Your Shot, the latest book from National
High School Mock Trial Championship. Adam teaches
at Duchesne Academy in Omaha.
Oregon. She is working as development coordinator at
Ecotrust.
Lauren Brophy ’01 was recently promoted to director of
communications for Major League Soccer. She works in
New York City.
Alex Kinsella ’07 graduated from the University of
Colorado School of Law in May.
Author and Temple University
assistant professor of political
science Sarah Bush ’01 released a
new book, The Taming of
Democracy Assistance. The book
talks about how and why the
United States and other developed
countries turned to democracy
promotion at the end of the Cold
War and what the impact has been.
“Wordplay,” the crossword blog of The New York Times,
featured puzzles by JBS math teacher Paul Salomon ’02.
Since graduating from Stanford Law School, Barbara
Smith Grieco ’03 has clerked for Judge Thomas Griffith
in the DC Court of Appeals and most recently as an
associate at Bancroft, a small Washington, D.C., firm
that specializes in Supreme Court cases. Next up for
Barbara is another clerkship, this one with Supreme
Court Justice Samuel Alito!
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Drawn to Africa
Mardi Kendall ’73 trained as a cellist and then worked for many years as a model in France. When she retired
from the runway in 1988, she moved to Australia, where she opened shop as a yoga teacher and shiatsu massage
practitioner. Nowadays, her focus is Africa.
That change in direction developed as a result of a 2000 trip to The Republic of Guinea. She went to study the
kora, a traditional 21-string harp, returning with a deep respect for the Guinean people. “Guineans of all ages
continue to inspire me with their resilience and spirit in the midst of profound poverty,” she said. “While there
in 2000, I made many friends and was moved to work with the people to help alleviate the challenges they face.
Since then, I have supported many families and children with health care and training, and I have been involved
in developing a volunteer community program, doing vital, neighborhood sanitation projects.”
Kendall conducts her new life’s work through EcoGuinea (ecoguinea.org), an agency she founded and directs.
During the height of the Ebola epidemic, the foundation sent volunteer Guinean teams to many isolated at-risk
Mardi Kendall ’73
villages with masses of soap, Clorox and educational programs. “Trained by the Red Cross, we reached upwards of
2,000 people in the countryside and the capital city,” she said. “Our present attention is on developing eco-methods
of sanitation in all its varieties, as well as supporting several Ebola orphans. Our future plans are to build an eco-center as an educational hub and working organic farm,
for Guineans (or anyone) to learn the many effective, low-cost sustainable technologies.”
2000s
Sarah Ann Jones ’00 completed her doctorate at
Harvard in 2012 and is completing post-doctoral
research in genome engineering at the Broad Institute
of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Social studies teacher Adam Klepper ’00 coached the
mock trial team that claimed the 2014 Judge Lyle Strom
Opera singer Julia Bullock ’05 was awarded one of five
prestigious Annenberg Fund awards. Julia received a
graduate certificate in opera studies from The Juilliard
School in 2015. She will perform at The Sheldon in St.
Louis in March 2016.
Dan Matlock ’06 received an MBA from Valparaiso
University in May.
Allison Brinkhorst ’07 recently earned a master’s
degree in nonprofit management, with a concentration
in equity and social justice, and a certificate in
intercultural competency from the University of
Teddy Maritz ’08 has taken a job with Lockheed Martin,
where he is working on the Insight Martian Spacecraft
and Lander.
2010s
Edirin Okoloko ’10 graduated from the Yale School of
Public Health with a master’s degree in health policy
and global health. She has accepted a job as a health
care reform policy researcher and analyst with DaVita
Healthcare in Denver.
Soccer standout Winston Boldt ’11 received West Point’s
highest athletic honor during the annual awards
convocation in May.
After graduating from the musical theatre program at
the University of Michigan, Alex Prakken ’11 moved
to New York, found an agent and very soon got a job
with the national tour of Disney’s NEWSIES. Alex plays
Oscar Delancey and understudies Jack Kelly. “It’s been
an unbelievable few weeks,” writes Alex. “I couldn’t be
more excited to start this new chapter in my life.”
Jenee Rideaux ’11 earned a bachelor’s degree in global
economic development with a minor in corporate
strategy and financial economics from Vanderbilt
University. She has taken a job with Huron Consulting
Group.
Keaton Wetzel ’11 recently graduated from Washington
University in St. Louis and will pursue a degree in
urban and regional planning at Cornell University in
the fall.
Kendall is passionate — “some would say obsessed,” she said — about her work in Guinea. Though she still teaches yoga for a living and runs EcoGuinea from Sydney,
she reports that a move to Africa is in her future.
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Mike Murphy and Sandy McCarroll Hunsaker ’56 on
May 26, 2014.
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Daniel Keefe ’04 and Caitlin McArthur on June 7, 2015.
Mark Ryan and Erica Shifflett ’93 on June 21, 2015.
Joe Zmudczynski and Megan Layton ’04 on May 15,
2015.
Zach Fay ’96 and Margaret Kuenzle on May 2, 2015.
Cory Rothschild ’04 and Hibben Silvo on April 25, 2015.
Remembering Elaine Childress
Cameron Docter ’00 and Marielle Ruscitti on April 18,
2015.
Among the JBS alums attending the wedding of Daniel ’04
and Caitlin McArthur Keefe were (from left in front) Ben
Sommer ’04, Clayton Bury ’04, Amelia Simoncelli ’04, Caitlin
Keefe, Kate Keefe ’02, Barbara Behrens ’71, Bill Lemp ’75, Ann
Lemp ’71 and Laura Denvir Stith ’71; and (in back) Michael
Corcoran ’04, Andrew Emory ’04, Luke Springer ’07, Daniel
Keefe, David Nangle ’04, Langston Antosek ’07, Bryn Stole ’07,
Toby Lowe ’06, Travers Lingle ’07, Kevin Keefe ’07 and Chris
Lubniewski ’07.
Mark and Erica Shifflett Ryan ’93
JBS friends at the wedding of Zach Fay ’96 and Margaret Kuenzle included (in
front) Leslie Kehr (PE/Athletics), Todd Kaye ’95, Michelle Pruett Pottebaum ’82,
Harrison Pruett ’20, Morgan Pruett ’17, Zach Fay, Margaret Kuenzle Fay (daughter of
former JBS basketball coach Jane Ellen Kuenzle), Ellen Port (PE/Athletics), and Kris
Margherio ’96; and (in back) Adam Birenbaum ’96, Colin Creel ’92, Joe Shifflett ’96,
Barry Albrecht ’96, Todd Nissenholtz ’95, Andy Scavotto ’96, Adam Ward ’92, Brian
Swift ’95, Andy Kerckhoff ’89, Chuck Price (former JBS coach), Courtney Docter
Gable ’96, Ryan Gable ’95, Kirby Mack ’96, Nicole Moore Wohlford ’97, Matt Crystal
’96, Greg Toumayan ’96, John Kemper ’96, Steve Wohlford ’96, Blake Thompson ’96
and Umer Siddiqui ’96.
Cameron ’00 and Marielle Ruscitti Docter
JBS friends at the wedding of Cory Rothschild ’04 included
(from left) Christine Bugnitz (PE/Athletics), Hibben Silvo
Rothschild, Cory Rothschild, Jack Macdonald ’04, Anton
Troianovski ’04, Rob Kerth ’04, and Tyson Wepprich ’04.
Elaine (Kilmer) Childress, who taught science at
Burroughs for 28 years and was principal of grades 9
and 10 for eight of those years, died on July 18, 2015.
On learning of her death, Head of School Andy Abbott
said, “It is very rare to find someone who can be a
great teacher at Burroughs; it is even more rare to find
someone who can be a great principal at Burroughs; and
it is rarer still to find a truly, truly great friend. Elaine
Childress was all three.”
Retired chemistry teacher Sandra Mueller said Ms.
Childress was a natural teacher who related well to all
students, found their strengths, built on them and in
the process made them more confident and successful.
Another colleague, Margaret Bahe, added, “After 28
years of teaching together, setting up and designing
labs, and running the Bio Drey Land program together,
the one thing that stands out to me about Elaine,
was her ability to combine empathy and care for her
students with a little tough love, helping them mature
into responsible and trustworthy young adults in the
process.” Bahe remembered how Childress encouraged
ninth graders who were stressed about finishing their
Bio Drey Land packets. “Elaine insisted that they stay
with it as she walked around the lodge giving everyone
shoulder rubs and hot chocolate. I think I will miss
most her hearty laugh that emanated from her office as
she set aside piles of papers to work with her students or
give a friendly ear to her colleagues.”
Ms. Childress earned a bachelor’s degree in education
and a master’s degree in biology from the University of
Missouri-St. Louis. She taught at Rosary High School
for 13 years before coming to Burroughs. Recognized
by her peers for teaching excellence, she was named
an Access Excellence Fellow by the National Science
Teachers Association in 1995 and Outstanding Biology
Teacher for the State of Missouri by the National
Association of Biology Teachers in 1999.
The school offers condolences to Ms. Childress’ family,
including her husband, Doug Kurka; mother; two
step-children; seven sisters, one of whom is Nancy
Vogt (Admissions); three brothers; and 50 nieces and
nephews. She was preceded in death by her daughter,
Susannah Kilmer.
Former biology teacher and principal Elaine Childress
The ‘Drey’ Behind Drey Land Dies at 98
Births and Adoptions
Brad Spencer ’91 and Erica Hartman on the birth of a
daughter, Evelyn Grace Spencer, on July 12, 2015.
Daniel ’99 and Brandi Burke on the birth of a son,
Daniel Joseph Burke III, on May 5, 2015.
Jason and Kate Lovell (Sauerhoff) Ward ’02 on the birth
of a son, Coulter “Cal” Allen Ward, on April 22, 2015.
Bharah Nath and Kara Braciale ’94 on the birth of a son,
Aditya Rishi Nath, on June 21, 2015.
Ryan and Julie Clark Gay ’99 on the birth of a son,
Nathan Ryan Gay, on June 9, 2015.
Teddy ’04 and Katie Taylor Felker ’04 on the birth of a
daughter, Henley Taylor Felker, on February 15, 2015.
Jeff ’96 and Carrie Rogers Burgess ’99 on the birth of a
son, Tyler Jeffrey Burgess, on May 1, 2015.
Ross and Allie Banning (Lintz) Mangin ’00 on the
adoption of a daughter, Audrey Katherine Baiyuan
Mangin, on March 1, 2015.
Sloan ’04 and Lauren Stuart on the birth of a son,
George Harrison Stuart, on June 12, 2015.
Kevin ’97 and Alison Joyce on the birth of a son, Patrick
Willard Joyce, on April 15, 2015.
Ben and Sarah Adams Schwartz ’00 on the birth of a
son, Griffin Wade Schwartz, on April 1, 2015.
Mark and Lauren Walsh Sucher ’04 on the birth of a
daughter, Kinley Grace Sucher, on May 18, 2015.
Leo A. Drey ’34 died at his home in St. Louis on May
26, 2015. Though he is best remembered in the state
of Missouri as the environmentalist landowner who
established the 143,000-acre Pioneer Forest, to many
members of the Burroughs community, he is the
benefactor who in 1969 offered to lease 44 acres of
Ozark woodland to the school for $1 a year.
After graduating from Antioch College and serving
in the U.S. Army in World War II, Mr. Drey began
purchasing small parcels of Ozark timberland with
a plan to restore the forest. When he learned of
clearcutting plans for 90,000 acres owned by a whiskey
distillery, Mr. Drey purchased the land, previously
assembled by Pioneer Cooperage Company.
Pioneer Forest, as it is now named, comprises 143,000
acres in Shannon, Reynolds, Dent, Texas, Carter and
Ripley counties in Missouri. Over the decades, Mr. Drey
and his foresters have demonstrated that Ozark oak
forests can regenerate, flourish and be profitable without
clearcutting. Forest land is managed using uneven-age,
single-tree selection, which results in continuous forest
improvement by cutting the worst trees and leaving the
best. Careful record-keeping and university research
have validated their success.
Patrick Willard Joyce, son of Kevin ’97 and Alison Joyce
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Griffin Wade Schwartz, son of Ben and Sarah Adams
Schwartz ’00
During the 1960s, Mr. Drey was a leading advocate
for protection of the Current, the Jack’s Fork and the
Eleven Point Rivers, which became the nation’s first
Henley Taylor Felker, daughter of Teddy ’04 and Katie
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federally protected rivers. In 1988, Mr. Drey bought
Greer Spring, now part of Mark Twain National Forest,
to protect it from commercial development.
At one time, Mr. Drey and his wife, Kay, held more
property than any other Missouri landowner. Then, in
2004 they donated Pioneer Forest to L-A-D Foundation,
which they established in 1962 to preserve Missouri’s
outstanding natural, scenic and cultural resources. Their
gift was one of the largest philanthropic donations in
the nation that year. L-A-D Foundation manages the
land donated by Leo Drey, including a dozen properties
managed in conjunction with the state of Missouri as
parks or conservation areas.
In the nearly 50 years since Mr. Drey offered the use of
44 acres of his land to the school, Drey Land has served
as an extended campus, reinforcing the school’s interest
in nature and outdoor life and teaching thousands of
students to understand and love the larger environment
of a remarkably diverse state. The camp, located on
the bank of Sinking Creek in Shannon County, serves
as home base for the school’s orientation programs,
biology field research program, and outdoor education
and service outings. Mr. Drey arranged that the Drey
Land lease terms would continue after his death under
the management of L-A-D Foundation.
Mr. Drey’s work includes membership or leadership
roles in the Missouri Forest Industries Committee, the
Leo A.Drey ’34
Missouri Nature Conservancy, the Missouri Coalition
for the Environment, the St. Louis Open Space Council,
and the Missouri Parks Association. He was honored by
the logging industry and by numerous environmental
organizations. In 1985, he was named the school’s
Outstanding Alumnus.
The school offers condolences to Mr. Drey’s wife; his
two daughters, Laura and Eleanor; and his son, Leonard.
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1930s
Marie Hermine Bischoff Miller ’34 died on May 24,
2014.
Mrs. Miller graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1938
with a degree in art history. She married Paul Morgan
Miller Jr. in 1940 and that same year earned a degree
in occupational therapy. The couple moved to Tucson,
Arizona in 1964.
The school offers condolences to Mrs. Miller’s family,
including her daughter, Sarah Miller McGarry ’59;
three sons, one of whom is John Miller ’65; eight
grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. Mrs.
Miller’s husband of 45 years and her sister, Justine
Bishoff Weissenborn ’30, preceded her in death.
1940s
Maud Gordon Thomas ’46 died on June 21, 2015.
Mrs. Thomas earned a bachelor’s degree in business
from All Saints’ College. She volunteered for many
years with Meals on Wheels and the Optimist Club.
Mrs. Thomas loved to travel, her most notable trip being
a 1949 cruise on the SS Noronic during which she
escaped a catastrophic fire.
The school offers condolences to Mrs. Thomas’ family,
including her sister. She was preceded in death by her
husband, Gilbert Thomas, and a sister, Mary Christy
Gordon ’49.
The school offers condolences to Dr. Shanley’s family,
including his wife of 53 years, Jean Shanley; two
sons, one of whom is Michael Shanley ’86; and four
grandchildren.
Arthur “Art” Barnes Heuer Sr. ’49 died on May 9, 2015.
Mr. Heuer earned an undergraduate degree in geology
and a master’s degree in education from the University
of Virginia. He served in the U.S. Army in Panama
as an E2 Private for the 501 Airborne Infantry of Fort
Jackson, South Carolina, from 1954 to 1956. Mr. Heuer
worked for City Service Oil Company in New York City
and was then transferred to St. Louis. He spent most
of his years working for Engel Industries, St. Louis,
Missouri, as their head salesperson. After his retirement
from that position, Mr. Heuer worked as a substitute
teacher in the Clayton School District, where he enjoyed
interacting with the young people.
Mr. Heuer enjoyed spending time with his
grandchildren. He loved challenging card games such
as cribbage. He had a great love of the outdoors and
enjoyed canoe trips and cookouts with family and
friends. Mr. Heuer was a charter member of Camp
Kooch-i-Ching in northern Minnesota. He enjoyed
playing tennis and watching college sports. Mr. Heuer
also enjoyed his reunions at Burroughs and never
missed a Holiday Program.
The school offers condolences to Mr. Heuer’s family
including two daughters, a son and eight grandchildren.
Mr. Heuer’s brothers, Scott Heuer Jr. ’42 and Lon
Stephens Heuer ’44, preceded him in death.
was a political aide to Franklin D. Roosevelt III, a
grandson of the former president. In St. Louis, he was
a partner in the firm of Fischer & Hawker. An advocate
for social justice and the environment, Mr. Fischer was
the attorney for Lawyers for Housing; he represented
the Special School District of St. Louis County in the
St. Louis metropolitan desegregation case; and he was
president of the Deer Creek Foundation,
Memorial and Tribute Gifts
In 1986, Mr. Fischer’s parents established the Gateway
Foundation, of which he served as president. The
foundation’s contributions to downtown St. Louis
include lighting significant architectural works such
as the Arch and installing works of contemporary
sculpture around the city. Citygarden, a public
sculpture garden in the heart of St. Louis, was one of
the foundation’s projects. In 2009, Mr. Fischer was
given the St. Louis Award for his role in Citygarden’s
development.
In Honor of
The school offers condolences to Mr. Fischer’s family
including his wife, Suzanne Fischer; daughter, Martha
Fischer ’91; sons, Matthew Fischer ’93 and Michael
Fischer ’94; and four grandchildren.
1970s
Virginia “Ginny” Harris ’70 died on May 13, 2015.
We are grateful to members of the Burroughs community who honored friends and loved ones
through memorial and tribute gifts from April 1 through July 14, 2015.
Retiring Faculty and Staff
(Elaine Childress, Nancy Cusanelli,
Susan Dean Dee, Pat Groneck,
Gloria Ezekiel Kweskin,
Sandra Mueller, Tom Norton,
Jim Roble and Barb Thach)
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Dr. and Mrs. Gershon Spector
Dr. Shanley graduated from Brown University and
then Washington University School of Dentistry. After
serving in the U.S. Army in Germany, he returned to
St. Louis and began practicing orthodontics with his
father. He continued to see patients until he retired in
1993. He also taught at Washington University School
of Dentistry and was awarded professor emeritus.
Dr. Shanley enjoyed fishing, photography and birding.
He was a member of the St. Louis Rambler Club.
1950s
M. Peter Fischer ’53 died on July 23, 2015.
Mr. Fischer received a bachelor’s degree from Duke
University, a law degree from the Washington
University School of Law and a master of laws degree
from New York University.
In his legal career, he worked as an attorney in the
Internal Revenue Service’s office of legal counsel and
In Memory of
In Memory of
In Memory of
Macon Paine Finley ’73
Mrs. Fred H. Leyhe
Alexander Lewis Schmid ’70
Natasha Strauss ’92
Robert Paine III ’69
Andy and Katie Abbott
Bud Carlson ’66
Ann Clark
Clark Costen ’76 and Sarah Forbes
Orwig ’75
Jeffrey and Debby Horner
Dieffenbach ’67
Ellen and Henry Dubinsky ’59
Mr. and Mrs. J. Curtis Engler
Gary Lee ’65
Leo B. Schmid ’72
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In Memory of
George S. Gerlach ’51
John L. Gerlach II ’56
Rhoda and Richard Mesker ’51
In Memory of
Hanalore Gerlach
In Honor of
Retiring Faculty and Staff
John L. Gerlach II ’56
Mary Beth and Allen Soffer
Mary Beth and Allen Soffer
Tom ’66 and Barbara Bohren
MacLeod ’66
Debra and Fred McConnell ’66
Joyce Rogers
Edwin J. Spiegel III ’65
Barbara and Andy Taylor ’66
David & Mary Kristen Valentine
Louise H. Wilson
In Honor of
In Honor of
In Memory of
(Elaine Childress, Nancy Cusanelli,
Susan Dean Dee, Pat Groneck,
Gloria Ezekiel Kweskin,
Sandra Mueller, Tom Norton,
Jim Roble and Barb Thach)
To the Shahan Scholars Fund
Retiring Faculty and Staff
(Elaine Childress, Nancy Cusanelli,
Susan Dean Dee, Pat Groneck,
Gloria Ezekiel Kweskin,
Sandra Mueller, Tom Norton,
Jim Roble and Barb Thach)
In Memory of
Thomas L. Gladders
Kathryn Hizar Johnson ’86
In Honor of
Suzanne Hamon
Suzanne Hamon
To the Jason K. Lohr Memorial
Scholarship
Bud and Susie Wilson
In Memory of
An artist, Ms. Harris earned a bachelor’s degree from
Webster University in 1976.
To the Roz Schulte Spirit Fund
Bud and Susie Wilson
Rhoda and Richard Mesker ’51
The school offers condolences to her family, including
her sisters, Judy Harris Whiton ’64 and Bitsy Harris
Christmas ’71.
In Memory of
In Memory of
Janet Arter
Barry Pessin, a member of the JBS Board of Trustees
from 1998 to 2001, died on June 9, 2015.
The school offers condolences to Mr. Pessin’s wife of 45
years, Carol Pessin; sons, Adam Pessin ’92 and Zachary
Pessin ’94; daughters, Abigail Pessin Goldberg ’96
and Eleanor Pessin Correa ’00; seven grandchildren;
brother; and sister.
Carolyn Henry
Steve Mathes ’74
In Memory of
In Memory of
To the Edward Cissel Jr. Memorial
Scholarship
Former Trustee
Oscar P. Hampton III ’51
Hays Arter
C. Perry Bascom ’54
Leo Stifel Shanley ’48 died on July 3, 2015.
In Honor of
Barbara M. Gervais
Terri and Eric Lemon ’60
Connie Lohr
In Memory of
Rennie Beauchamp ’80
Byron and Beatrice Buder
Clemens ’79
Paul and Carol Hatfield
Peter and Kelly Corbett
McLoughlin ’80
In Memory of
Raymond P. Beckman
To the Ray Beckman Soccer Field
Kevin Geckeler ’85
Christopher W. Hobler ’83
Peter Hobler ’75
In Memory of
Cordelia Wilson Holmes ’51
Virgil R. Day ’51
Quint ’71 and Cicely Jordan
Drennan ’73
Joyce K. Driemeyer
Paul and Sallie Flum
Marilyn and Arnold Goldman ’51
Linda and Robert McKittrick Jones ’51
Margaret Stark McKinney ’51
Carolyn Crossen McMillan ’49
Rhoda and Richard Mesker ’51
Julia Price Scott ’48
Carol Metcalfe Spann ’51
Richard ’49 and Mary Stark
Strassner ’51
Ted and Etta Lubke Taylor ’51
In Memory of
Condolences
Condolences are offered to:
Tad Foote ’55, Julia Foote LeStage ’86 and William Foote
’86 on the death of their wife and mother, Roberta
“Bosey” Foote, on May 5, 2015.
Jeanne Behrens Lewi ’57 on the death of her husband,
Kenneth Edward Lewi, on April 7, 2015.
Geoffrey Gilbert ’58 on the death of his wife, Joan
Gilbert, on May 27, 2015.
William Hassett Jr. ’58 on the death of his sister, Anne
Hassett Zelle, on June 4, 2015.
James Guth ’60 on the death of his wife, Karen Guth,
on March 13, 2015.
Mary Leyhe Burke ’62 and Nancy Leyhe Allen ’66 on the
death of their mother, Louise Kraus Leyhe, on March 31,
2015.
Calvin East ’71 on the death of his father, Calvin H. East
Jr., on April 3, 2015.
Dusty Bricker ’72 on the death of her father, Neal
Bricker, on May 11, 2015.
Dave Sisler ’76 on the death of his mother, Janet Beck
Sisler, on July 8, 2015.
Jamey Alverson ’74, Tina Alverson Morefield ’76, Susan
Alverson ’76 and Bill Alverson ’78 on the death of their
mother, Gretchen Alverson, on July 9, 2015.
Curt Wolf ’83 on the death of his father, Charles Curtis
Wolf Sr., on June 7, 2015.
Wes Geissal ’75 on the death of his stepfather, Richard
Anthony Matheis, on April 8, 2015.
Susan Hollander ’75, Robert Hollander ’78 and
Jack Edison ’06 on the death of their mother and
grandmother, Joan Feld Hollander, on May 26, 2015.
Tim Luehrman ’75, Nancy Luehrman Sauerhoff ’77,
Julia Luehrman ’82, Kate Lovell (Sauerhoff ) Ward ’02
and Peter Sauerhoff ’06 on the death of their mother
and grandmother, Marilyn Teligman Luehrman, on
June 5, 2015. The school thanks the family for suggesting
that memorial donations be made to the school.
Andrew Plack ’85 on the death of his father, Philip
Plack, on March 11, 2015.
Whitney Withers ’86 on the death of her father, Wayne
Withers, on June 16, 2015.
Tasja Mallory ’89 on the death of her father, Morton
Mallory, on May 25, 2015.
Chris Thach ’92 on the death of his mother, Sigrid
Thach, on January 27, 2015.
Robert Jacobs ’94 on the death of his father, Richard
Jacobs, on June 7, 2015.
John W. Minton Jr. ’46
In Memory of
Sheri Sherman
Ellen Leschen Bremner ’67
Kathy Rainey Bussmann ’75
Marion Hoppe
Julie and Steve Mathes ’74
Gilbert and Martha North
Bill and Lynn Hoppe Phelps
Douglas and Nancy Rommelmann
David and Nancy Luehrman
Sauerhoff ’77
Richard and Betty Scherrer
William Thomas and Kathleen
Standley
John W. Minton Jr. ’46
In Memory of
Wayne Malzahn
Mary Beth and Allen Soffer
In Memory of
Barbara Shapleigh Murphy ’70
Jane Cunliff Gray ’70
In Memory of
Jack Orchard ’85
To the Jack Orchard Fund
Scott and Ashley George Gill
Alexander B. Permutt ’01
In Memory of
The Srivisal and Fleck Families
Jim Streett ’51
Rhoda and Richard Mesker ’51
In Memory of
Gautam Sundaram ’86
In Memory of
To the Gautam Sundaram Scholarship
Natasha Strauss ’92
Miguel Alcivar ’92
Emily Anton Bobrow ’92
Dan Bomze ’92
Sara Wolverson Brebbia ’92
Matt Brokaw ’92
Sarah Anne Burke ’92
Julia Hunter Cavanaugh ’92
Michael Clifford ’92
Colin Creel ’92
Christy Denes ’92
Amy Greenwood Dunaway ’92
Sarah Jost Fouke ’92
David Grand ’92
Farnaz Haghseta ’92
Emily Hickey ’92
Tiffany Frimel Hilton ’92
William H. Hinrichs ’92
Cuong Hoang ’92
Michiko Inaba ’92
Akira and Cecilia Iwane
Christina Iwane ’92
Michele Berger Jeans ’92
Amar Kuchinad ’92
Caroline Gaskin LaVigne ’92
Kortney Adams Martin ’92
Doug Miller ’92
David Mitchell ’92
Brennan Mulligan ’92
Lawrence Park ’92
Lesley Kim Pedersen ’92
To the Chris Jacobsen Scholarship
Adam J. Pessin ’92
Josh Pevnick ’92
Elizabeth Philpott ’92
Will Robinson ’92
Rob Rogers ’92
Joshua Roman ’92
Micah T. Roufa ’92
Amy George Rush ’92
Amy J. Ryan ’92
Clayton Saulka ’92
Jon Schoenecker ’92
Laura Senturia ’92
Christine Thayer Sherner ’92
Jessica Musgrave Shuff ’92
Aubrey Henderson Siegel ’92
Priya Simonelli Sundaram ’92
Carrie Gervais Walsh ’92
Chip Walther ’92
Adam Ward ’92
Diana Schutte Weir ’92
Andy Wolff ’92
In Memory of
In Memory of
Leigh S. Strassner ’53
Barry I. Pessin
J. Chris Jacobsen ’79
Marc A. Seldin ’47
Marilyn W. Luehrman
Raphael Nemes ’01
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Chris Wimmer and Kelli
Dornfield ’86
Carter Walker Saeteren ’89
Aparna Sundaram ’89
In Memory of
Betty Howard Troth ’57
Community Foundation of Collier
County
In Memory of
Mrs. Lambert C. Trovillion
Julie and Steve Mathes ’74
Mary Beth and Allen Soffer
In Honor of
Beth Waterman
Mary Beth and Allen Soffer
In Honor of
Beth Waterman
To the Jason K. Lohr Memorial
Scholarship
Bud and Susie Wilson
In Memory of
Anne Watt
Richard and Joy Banahan
In Honor of
Linling Xu
Mary Beth and Allen Soffer
Helen Jacobsen Pierson
In Honor of
The Class of 2015
In Memory of
James M. Chleboun
Jonathan M. Kayes ’75
To the Jonathan Kayes Library Fund
In Memory of
Susan R. Corrington ’58
Kathryn Hizar Johnson ’86
In Memory of
Leo A. Drey ’34
To the Edward Cissel Jr. Memorial
Scholarship
Anonymous
Peggy Fiala
Stephanie Riven and
Roger Goldman ’59
In Memory of
Calvin East Jr.
Laure and Jim Hullverson ’71
Matthew M. Kayes ’77
In Honor of
James M. Lemen
To the Jim Lemen Scholarship
John W. Minton Jr. ’46
In Memory of
Kenneth Lewi
Gilbert and Caroline Pitzman
Early ’57
In Memory of
Stephen McKee Lewis ’76
To the Stephen McKee Lewis Memorial
Library Fund
Julie and Lee Bearman ’76
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In Memory of
In Honor of
Jeanne Rassieur Casey ’47
In Memory of
Gary and Gail Gerchen
In Memory of
In Memory of
Hugh Scott Jr.
John W. Minton Jr. ’46
Sabrina Lohr ’97
John W. Minton Jr. ’46
In Memory of
Ernest and Carolyn Clarke
In Memory of
In Honor of
John W. Minton Jr. ’46
Kathryn Hizar Johnson ’86
Barbara Ballinger, Steve and Lucy
Buchholz Liebowitz ’02 and
Joanna Buchholz ’00
Ellen and Henry Dubinsky ’59
Susan and Steve Felker ’70
Lynne and Scott Johnson ’65
Jim ’47 and Joan Singer Schiele ’52
Richard W. Horner ’32
Tucker Calkins
To the Roz Schulte Spirit Fund
To the Jason K. Lohr Memorial
Scholarship
Terry Balaban Capsay ’74
Judy Howell
Roslyn Schulte ’02
Jason K. Lohr ’91
Nedra Carp and
Dena & Lewis Carp
In Memory of
In Memory of
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Bonsack Gallery Exhibit
Garth Lenz Photographs: “The True Cost of Oil”
August 26 through October 5
Reception from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, September 11
Blue and Gold Weekend
September 25 and 26
For a complete list of games against MICDS, visit the athletic
pages on the Burroughs website (jburroughs.org).
Fun Run from MICDS to JBS: 8 am, September 26
Bonsack Gallery Exhibit
Bonsack 50th Anniversary Exhibit:
October 8, 2015, through January 6, 2016
Reception from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, October 8
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Janelle Jones ’05 Photographs
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Alumni Wine and Cheese Reception: 5:30 to 7:30 pm,
October 8, Kuehner Gallery
Alumni Cocktail Party: 5:30 to 7:30 pm, October 9, Commons
Alumni Family Picnic: 11 am to 1 pm, October 10,
The Quad (Featuring Gen Obata’s ’75 band, City Folks)
Varsity football game vs. Lift for Life Academy (Spirit Tent
at game time)
Fall Play: To Kill a Mockingbird
8 pm, October 23 and 24, Haertter Hall
November Concerts
Choral: 7:30 pm, November 10, Haertter Hall
Orchestra: 7:30 pm, November 12, Haertter Hall
Band: 7:30 pm, November 17, Haertter Hall
Grades 7 & 8 Play: TBD
8 pm, December 4 and 5, Haertter Hall
Holiday Program
5:30 and 7:30 pm, December 16, Haertter Hall
Winterlude Reception: 6:30 pm, December 16, Commons
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Thank you,
Leo Drey ’34
AUGUST 2015