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April this year seems to be the time for awards and honors. Especially notable honors went to Tom Reiss ’82, who received the Pulitzer Prize for biography for The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Crown; September 2012). Reiss spent years researching the life of General Alexandre (“Alex”) Dumas, retracing his steps across the globe to ensure that this man’s incredible life would be preserved, not only in fiction, but also in history. General Dumas was the illegitimate son of a black woman slave and a French nobleman who became a hero of the French Revolution and the very real inspiration for The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, novels written by his son, Alexandre Dumas. Read more...
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Seniors’ film in competition
at the New York Festival |
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Indomitable, a film directed by seniors Brian Ryu and Danielle Jacobs, has been accepted
to participate in the competition in the category Documentary Short at the New York City
International Film Festival. Brian and Danielle, who earlier at Hotchkiss won acclaim and
awards for the film My Flag, are waiting to hear from other festivals on their new film. The New
York City International Film Festival takes place June 13- 20.
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| Community Service Award winners honored in campus ceremony
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Students, faculty and staff, and friends of the honorees applauded this year’s Community Service Award winners in a program that took place on April 12. The 2013 recipients are Beth Waitkus ’79, founder and director of the Insight Garden Program at San Quentin State Prison, and Diego de Sola ’91, co-founder of Glasswing International, a nonprofit venture that promotes
social integration through volunteering and strategic social investment. Ms. Waitkus was introduced by Karma Lama ’13 and Mr. de Sola by Sebastian Sanchez ’14. See the video here.
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New director of the
Edsel Ford Memorial Library named |
Dr. Robert Hilliker has been named to head the Edsel Ford Memorial Library. Beginning
his duties here on July 1, Robert comes to Hotchkiss from Columbia University,
where he managed Academic Commons, the University's public access digital
research repository, during a period of rapid growth, helping to make it one of the
top-rated digital libraries in the country. Read more...
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| Alumni artists’ work on view in New York, Berlin galleries |
Christopher Ho ’92
www.christopherho.com
“Yujin Lee: Chronos and Kairos,” the Berlin exhibition of new work by Yujin Lee ’05, runs
through June 1 at Morgen Contemporary in Berlin. Yujin achieved notable success at Hotchkiss
with a concentration in studio art. She received a B.F.A. from Cornell University School of
Architecture, Art, and Planning and has been accepted into the Columbia University M.F.A.
program. Yujin received prizes in art while she was a student at Cornell.
Christopher Ho ’92 is exhibiting his most recent work in a show, “Demoiselles d’Avignon,”
at the Y Gallery in New York City through April. Ho’s first solo exhibition at the space, this
continues his exploration of class and identity. He revisits the concept of the primitive and its
relationship to the history of abstraction in Western culture. An artist, writer, juror, and panelist,
Christopher holds a B.F.A. and a B.S. from Cornell University and M. Phil. from Columbia
University. He is a Critic in the Department of Painting at Rhode Island School of Design.
www.christopherho.com
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| Lufkin Prize presented to Wayne Gaynor |
Dan Lufkin ’49, left, with Wayne Gaynor
Instructor in Mathematics Wayne Gaynor has become the latest recipient of the Lufkin Prize.
Established in 2006, the Prize is given in recognition of faculty members who make a significant contribution to character development within the Hotchkiss community and thus serve as role models for the students. Watch Gaynor’s acceptance speech here.
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April this year is also incredibly busy.
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A campus e-mail to the School community from Director of Global Initiatives Manjula Salomon
on a Friday afternoon effectively makes this point. “Rangitoto College of Auckland, New Zealand will play music for our community from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. tonight. ... Do come give them a full house as you go from Stir-fry Competition [in the dining hall] to the Salisbury Forum” [in Walker Auditorium, where Richard Cohen, President of the Southern Poverty Law
Center, spoke on “Hate and Extremism in the United Statesâ€].
Earlier that same week in an All-School presentation, Randall Kennedy spoke on
“Colorblindness in American Life and Law.” Kennedy clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court before joining the faculty of the Harvard Law School, where he is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law. Here’s the video of his talk.
On Thursday of that week, the annual Hunt Concert took place in the Katherine M. Elfers Hall of the
Esther Eastman Music Center. The distinguished Fine Arts Quartet returned to Hotchkiss for
this concert. School Faculty Fabio and Gisele Witkowski joined the quartet to perform piano
quintets by Hungarian composer Ernst von Dohnányi.
Saturday night The Hotchkiss Television and Film Club once again welcomed young filmmakers
to participate in the Hotchkiss Film Festival in Walker Auditorium. And on Sunday afternoon the
School hosted GospelFest, featuring the Gospel choirs of Hotchkiss, Salisbury, Westover, South
Kent, Taft, Miss Porter’s, and Millbrook schools.
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Cheo Hodari Coker
wins award for writing
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Cheo Hodari Coker ’90, supervising producer of “NCIS: Los Angeles” accepted the 44th
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series for his “God's Work”
episode of "SouthLAnd" (TNT). The NAACP Image Awards celebrates the accomplishments of people of color in the fields of television, music, literature and film and also honors individuals or groups who promote social justice through creative endeavors. This was Cheo's second nomination for his work on “SouthLAnd.” You can hear Cheo in an interview here.
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Solo CD by Mary Costanza
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Instructor in Cello Mary Costanza has issued a solo CD – “Bach: The Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello BWV 1007-1012.” The two-CD set, recorded in the Katherine M. Elfers Hall of the Esther Eastman Music Center, is on the MSR Classics label.
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Message to Senior Parents regarding Graduation video preorders
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Every year, the Hotchkiss graduation ceremony is professionally videotaped. If you would like to preorder a DVD, you can do so directly from Video Heritage Productions.
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Language Week at Hotchkiss
sparks new interests
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Earlier in April, the Classical and Modern Languages Department sponsored Language
Week, offering activities affirming the intrinsic value of learning foreign languages and
promoting intercultural awareness and multilingualism. During the week, special activities
and programs introduced students and others in the School community to perspectives from
different cultures and sparked interest in foreign language learning. “This week was an occasion
to provide a forum for reflection and dialogue about language and culture,” said Department
Head Abdoulaye Fall.
There were faculty-led panels on topics related to language learning and intercultural awareness,
guest-speaker presentations, foreign films screening, conversations in foreign languages at lunch
tables, presentations of languages not taught at Hotchkiss, and special “entries” in the Daily
Bulletin. The kick-off event took place on Saturday, April 6, with a presentation on “Languages
in Diplomacy” by former UN translator, Mikhail Belikov P’06,’12.
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Canadian Championships |
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On the weekend of April 6-7, Angus Cowell ’14 went home to Canada to compete in the Canadian National Wrestling Championships. Angus wrestled several matches over four consecutive grueling days, competing in both the Freestyle and Greco-Roman categories. He finished 4th in Freestyle, a significant accomplishment in its own right, and then won the Greco-Roman national championship. “This is no small accomplishment,” said Wrestling Coach Todd Davis, adding, “No one works harder or is more dedicated to his passion than Angus.” Read more here or watch a video of the match here.
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Founders League award for coaching |
Director of Athletics Robin Chandler ’87 has been awarded this year’s Nadal Prize from the
Founders League for outstanding coaching and dedicated service. The recipient of the award demonstrates sportsmanship as defined in the statement: “Play by the rules, accept victory or defeat graciously, respect all who assemble and participate.” Head of School Malcolm McKenzie called the award “well deserved” and Robin “a most amazing coach.”
The award citation reads, in part:
“Robin Chandler was Assistant Athletic Director at Hotchkiss from 1995, and one of two Athletic Directors at the School since 2001. She excels in this role but it is as a coach, especially of field hockey, that she is renowned. Robin's record in this domain speaks volumes: she has coached her field hockey team to 11 New England Championships and 12 Founders League
Championships. Ten of the New England championships were in consecutive years, from 2002 to 2012. It is not likely that such a feat will be repeated.
“Robin takes the talent and enthusiasm that she finds in the school and molds formidable teams in an inspiring way. …”
Congratulations, Robin!
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Spring Dance Performance
April 26, 27 at 7:30 p.m.
April 28 at 2:30 p.m.
Walker Auditorium
The Dance program and Hotchkiss Dance Company will present its annual spring concert, showcasing commissioned works by 2012-13 guest choreographers and artists in residence, Molissa Fenley and Lilliana Candotti, as well as new works by Director of Dance, Alice Sarkissian-Wolf.
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Visual Arts
Double Leader, relief print
by Bryan Nash Gill
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Bryan Nash Gill
Tremaine Gallery
March 26 - May 5
Artist's reception: April 6, 4 - 6 p.m.
Bryan Nash Gill is an artist from New Hartford, Connecticut, well-known for his work with trees native to the woods surrounding his home. Gill creates sculpture and relief prints from sections of fallen pine, hemlock, Norway spruce, ash, oak, and maple, among other species. “Sometimes the simplest things are the most complex things,” Gill has stated. He presents this paradox to viewers with work that honors both biology and beauty. 2012 marked the publication of a collection of Gill's prints, Woodcut (Princeton Architectural Press), a New York Times best book of 2012. The Tremaine Gallery will show recent prints and related sculpture.
Avery Danziger - New Photographs from the Harlem Valley Project
Tremaine Gallery
May 14 - June 16
Reception: May 25, 4 - 6 p.m.
Avery Danziger has been photographing the abandoned buildings of the Harlem Valley State Psychiatric Center in Wingdale, NY, for the past three years. The site has stood empty since closing in 1994 and is slowly turning toxic; Danziger has to wear a respirator and Hazmat suit to enter any structure. Yet in this dismal setting, Danziger finds beauty. The Tremaine will exhibit large-scale photographic prints and transparencies.
Photography and Film
Film Night
Thursday, May 23, 7:00 p.m.
Walker Auditorium
Films by student filmmakers studying with Instructor in Film, Ann Villano, will be screened.
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Voice Studio Recital
Thursday, April 25, 6:00 p.m.
Katherine M. Elfers Hall
The Esther Eastman Music Center
Voice students will offer a recital.
Instrumental Studio Recital
Wednesday, May 1, 6:00 p.m.
Katherine M. Elfers Hall
The Esther Eastman Music Center
Students of string, woodwind, and brass instruments will offer a recital.
Spring Choral Concert
Sunday, May 12, 7:00 p.m.
Hotchkiss Chapel
This annual concert, which traditionally falls on Mother’s Day, will be the first concert for the
Hotchkiss Chorus under the direction of Sarah Kohl, the Hotchkiss music program’s new
Instructor in Voice.
Hotchkiss Ensembles, The Hotchkiss Orchestra & Right Brain Logic
Friday, May 24, 7 p.m.
Katherine M. Elfers Hall
The Esther Eastman Music Center
The Hotchkiss Orchestra and school jazz ensemble, Right Brain Logic, will perform the last
concert of the year under the expert direction of Hotchkiss music faculty Fabio Witkowski and
Michael Musillami.
Senior Music Recital
Thursday, May 30, 3:30 p.m.
Katherine M. Elfers Hall
The Esther Eastman Music Center
Graduating seniors will perform on the Elfers stage for the enjoyment of the Hotchkiss
community and families visiting for graduation.
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Dog Sees God by Bert V. Royal
Hotchkiss Dramatic Association
Spring Production
May 3, 7:30 p.m.; May 4, 8:30 p.m.;
May 5, 2:30 p.m.
Walker Auditorium
(Tickets are $10, $5 for students and senior citizens. Cash or check only. Phone 860-435-3203
or buy at the door.)
Proceeds from the May 5 matinee will benefit the Tyler Clementi Foundation.
In 2004, Dog Sees God was one of the breakout hits at the New York International Fringe Festival, winning the Excellence Award for Best Overall Production, among other awards. An “unauthorized parody,” the play imagines characters from the popular comic strip “Peanuts” as teenagers. Charlie Brown’s chance meeting with an artistic kid, the target of his peer group’s
bullying, offers Charlie the peace of mind he has been seeking and sets in motion a friendship that will push teen angst to the very limits.
The play addresses the timely issue of teenage bullying as well as “how identity plays into the
high school experience,” explains director R. Allen Babcock, Instructor in Theatre, Resident
Designer, and Director of Technical Theatre at Hotchkiss. “It is difficult to talk about bullying,
even on a close-knit boarding school campus. Theatre is a way to put that behavior out in
front of students, forcing them to consider (or reconsider) their actions.” On April 9, the cast of Dog Meets God participated in a student-led anti-bullying conference at The Hyde School in Woodstock, CT, where they performed excerpts of the play.
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Announcing the 2013 Alumni Award honoree
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Since 1931, the Hotchkiss Alumni Association has honored 80 alumni with the Alumni Award. Selected by the Nominating Committee of the Board of Governors of the Alumni Association, each recipient, through personal achievement, has brought honor and distinction to him or herself and Hotchkiss.
T. Russell Shields ’59 is a businessman and entrepreneur. He has spent the past 40 years creating and developing companies that have helped define entire segments of information-technology-based business, such as call centers, data mining, and computer map databases. Learn more about Russ’s accomplishments here.
Hotchkiss will celebrate our 81st honoree at a ceremony in Lakeville on Friday, October 4, 2013.
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We want to help you stay in touch with alumni and parents in your area! In an effort to support those of you who get together on your own, we've created a kit of Hotchkiss-branded event supplies.
E-mail or call Caroline Sallee Reilly '87, Director of Alumni Relations, at creilly@hotchkiss.org or (860) 435-3892 for more information.
All we ask for in return is news of the event, and pictures of the supplies in action!
Look how the Class of 2008 used their kit to liven up their reunion “pre-game” bash in NYC.
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Grandparents Day Saturday, April 27, 2013
Lakeville, CT
Don’t miss this opportunity for grandparents to visit the School and experience a day at Hotchkiss with their grandchild(ren)!
For more information about Grandparents Day, click here.
To see a copy of the invitation that includes a schedule of activities offered, click here.
To register online go here.
For questions please contact Patty O’Connor, Assistant Director of Alumni Relations and Parent Programs at poconnor@hotchkiss.org or (860) 435-4428.
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Click Here to Register now!
Reunion for classes
ending in 3 and 8
June 14-16, 2013
Don't forget to visit the class pages to see who has already responded!
Fall Reunion for the Classes of 1963 and 1953
October 25-27, 2013
For questions please contact Caroline Sallee Reilly ’87, Director of Alumni Relations at creilly@hotchkiss.org or (860) 435-3892.
Retirement Dinner
Friday, May 3, 2013
Lakeville, CT
Join us in celebration of Geoff Marchant and Nancy Bird’s combined 66 years of service to Hotchkiss!
Register here.
For questions, or to submit photos, letters, stories, and memorabilia for one of the memory books, please contact Patty O’Connor, Assistant Director of Alumni Relations and Parent Programs at poconnor@hotchkiss.org or (860) 435-4428.
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Day of Service
Presented by The Hotchkiss School Alumni Association Board of Governors
May 11, 2013 in Atlanta, Boston, Houston, Lakeville, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.
A few hours of time can make a difference. On one weekend in May, at sites across the country, alumni, parents, and their families will unite in a day of service on behalf of our communities.
For a list of site locations and coordinators, click here.
For questions please contact Caroline Sallee Reilly ’87, Director of Alumni Relations at creilly@hotchkiss.org or (860) 435-3892.
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The 2012-13 Hotchkiss Fund — Every gift matters. Make yours today.
When you make a gift to The Hotchkiss Fund, you join thousands of alumni, parents, and friends who support the School each year. All of those gifts—most under $100—add up in a big way. So even if you can part with only a few dollars, you can still do your part for Hotchkiss.
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We will return next month with more Hotchkiss Happenings. In the meantime,
do visit the website for School news.
Roberta Jenckes
To shop online, go to the campus store and the athletic store.
To access Alumnet, with our searchable alumni directory and improved, alumni user-friendly features plus online career networking, here.
View a calendar of upcoming events.
Read more stories in alumni news or parent news.
Read about the Alum of the Month.
To find news of classmates and friends, go to Facebook and Twitter.
Support The Hotchkiss School with an online donation.
Send your news, announcements, updates, and photographs for Class Notes in the Hotchkiss Magazine to Divya Symmers.
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