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Opportunity of a Lifetime
Reflecting Inward
When you make a gift to the Annual Nobles Fund, you
support teaching and learning in the new academic
center and throughout the school. Thank you.
To make your gift today, visit nobles.edu/giveonline
or contact Director of Annual Giving Allie Trainor at
[email protected] or call 781-320-7005.
PHOTO OF THE DAY
March 21, 2018
Allison Li ‘18 catches Chidubem Umeh ‘18 for a
pose at the Taj Mahal during the EXCEL spring
break trip to India.
PHOTO BY BEN HEIDER
contents
SPRING 2018
IN EVERY
ISSUE
2 Letter From the Head

3 Reflections
What Nobles folks
are saying on campus
and online
4 The Bulletin
News and notes
16 Sports
Coach Resor records
epic 700th win
18 Off the Shelf
All about the books
we read and write
20 By the Numbers
What in the world?
21 Development
Celebrating milestones
42 Graduate News
What, where, when,
why and how Nobles
grads are doing
64 Archive
Relocating a quiet
landmark
FEATURES
28 Investing in Community 30 Craft and Cause
Doing well by doing good Going organic and keeping
a small footprint
34 Fashion Forward
Embracing a new model for fashion 38 Close Encounters
Do bears really want to eat you?
Cover Photograph by Kathleen Dooher
Nobles
letter from the head
SPRING 2018
Taking Care of Students
Editor
Heather Sullivan
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
Assistant Editors
WHENEVER I AM ASKED what I worry about most as head Kim Neal
of school at Nobles, my answer is always the same. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
OF COMMUNICATIONS
I worry about our students.
Ben Heider
I do not worry about anything related to how DIGITAL VIDEO PRODUCER/WRITER
talented they are, how successful they will be or how
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hard they will work at anything they set their minds WRITER/CONTENT MANAGER
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I worry about how our students are doing.
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I worry that they face pressures, both at Nobles and
Tim Carey
beyond, that so far outstrip anything I faced at their
Jared Castaldi
age it is difficult to compare. I worry that they are not Adam Detour
Kathleen Dooher
getting enough sleep. I worry that they are not giving themselves enough slack when they
Ben Heider
make one small mistake amidst a sea of success. I worry that the pressures of social media Leah LaRiccia
are distractions and a growing source of stress for students. I worry they consider alcohol or Kim Neal
Risley Sports Photography
drugs as a way to cope or to try to be more successful. I probably worry most of all that our Anne Sweeney
students worry alone. I fear they will find themselves overwhelmed with stress, anxiety or
The Editorial Committee
sadness, and that they do not know how to, or choose not to, get needed help.
Brooke Asnis ’90
The reason I have these worries is grounded in data. According to research done by John Gifford ’86
the National Alliance on Mental Illness, 40 percent of college students with a diagnosable Tilesy Harrington
Bill Kehlenbeck
mental illness do not seek help. Suicide remains the second leading cause of death among Kate Treitman Brown ’99
college-age students. I am thankful that we have the gift of time with our students, time to
Nobles is published three times
help them gain the skills, understand the resources, and practice the habits that will enable a year for graduates, past and
current parents and grandparents,
them to thrive while they are students here and in the years that follow. students and supporters of Noble
To begin this work, I first want to understand how students are actually experiencing Nobles. and Greenough School. Nobles is a
co-educational, non-sectarian day
I want to have hard data around the amount of sleep our students are getting, how much time and five-day boarding school for
students in grades seven (Class
they spend on homework, how anxious or stressed they feel at different times, and how well-
VI) through 12 (Class I). Noble and
equipped they feel to get support. We are partnering with Stanford University’s Challenge Greenough School is a rigorous
academic community that strives
Success initiative to administer a student survey and to help us analyze the data we gather. for excellence in its classroom
We are also an early partner with Harvard’s Making Caring Common initiative. What teaching, intellectual growth in its
students and commitment to the
began as an effort to align top-tier colleges around goals to lower student stress and enhance arts, athletics and service to others.
well-being has expanded to include secondary schools, and we are thrilled to be invited. For further information and
As I think about our work ahead, I am eager to resist the trend that equates improving up-to-the-minute graduate
news, visit www.nobles.edu.
student wellness with lowering rigor. I do feel strongly that our rigor at Nobles needs to be
Letters and comments may
“smart rigor,” but I do not think our solution to student stress is to necessarily make things be emailed to Heather_Sullivan@
easier for our students. I do not think leaving our students less prepared or qualified for nobles.edu. We also welcome
old-fashioned mail sent c/o
college is helpful, nor that we are serving our students well to shield them from the chal- Noble and Greenough School,
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to thrive in all ways and in all places. reached at 781-320-7268.
While our students are always my top worry, they are also my greatest source of joy. I look © Noble and Greenough School
forward to dedicating the years ahead to supporting them to be their best selves and to thrive. 2018
—CATHERINE J. HALL, PH.D., HEAD OF SCHOOL
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Silence is just as dangerous as anger.
I want to encourage students to
engage. What does that mean?
It means talking, but also listening.
Dialogue is critically important.

—DR. CATHERINE HALL, HEAD OF SCHOOL, ADDRESSING THE
“STRANGE EVOLUTION IN THE NATIONAL DIALOGUE,” IN ASSEMBLY
Hey, Will. Where did the king
keep his armies?
If an oyster can turn a parasite into a pearl, then it is no
Up his sleevies! surprise that my father can turn a kidney into calligraphy.
When I was 13 and he was first diagnosed, he wrote me
—MAYA KEENAN-GALLAGHER ’18 TO
a 15-page letter saying that if anything happened,
WILL SCHWARTZ ’18, DISMISSING
I had to be ready to become the man of the house.
ASSEMBLY WITH THIS YEAR’S
TRADITION OF A DAILY CHEESY JOKE —CLINT SMITH, WRITER, TEACHER AND SCHOLAR,
RECITING HIS SPOKEN-WORD POEM “MY FATHER IS
AN OYSTER” IN LONG ASSEMBLY
We live in a city where the word
It’s still amazing to me
greatness is thrown around a lot.
that I get to talk to these
Yet there are times when there
students from around truly is greatness in our midst.
We sometimes take it for granted,
the world face to face.
but Tom Resor really is our GOAT.
There are so many
—ALEX GALLAGHER ’90, DIRECTOR OF
people out there that
ATHLETICS, CONGRATULATING HOCKEY
share the same passion. COACH TOM RESOR ON HIS 700TH WIN FOR
NOBLES, IN ASSEMBLY
VIA INSTAGRAM, JANUARY 23:
—AYAKO ANDERSON, GLOBAL ONLINE Students using the new academic
ACADEMY SITE DIRECTOR FOR center’s quiet study room
There are times when written communications
NOBLES, IN ASSEMBLY
are necessary, but perhaps we should never write
what we can say.
So, while there may be no perfect place
—MICHAEL DENNING, HEAD OF UPPER SCHOOL,
to come out, Nobles is about as good a
ON “WHY COULDN’T YOU COME TALK TO
place as one can find. I’m sorry that I can’t
ME ABOUT THIS?” JANUARY 2018 NOBLES
promise you rainbows and unicorns when
PARENTS’ ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER
you do eventually come out, but I can
promise you support here. I can promise
you encouragement. I can promise you
acceptance. I can promise you love.
—MICHAEL POLEBAUM ’08, VIA FACEBOOK, JANUARY 10:
Recent graduates spoke to Asian 2
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF
Asian (A2A) about their transition
GRADUATE AFFAIRS, IN ASSEMBLY from Nobles.
SPRING 2018 Nobles 3
the bulletin
A New Chapter
ON FEBRUARY 1, the academic center, which houses
the Putnam Library, officially opened beside the
newly renovated Baker Science Building.
Head of School Cathy Hall welcomed many who
were instrumental to the completion of the two
key capital projects: leadership of the architec-
tural firm Williams Rawn Associates
and Shawmut Construction, Chief
Financial and Operating Officer Steve
“ I’ve already visited many of the
Ginsberg and Director of Buildings
and Grounds Mike McHugh. She gave classrooms, and it is downright inspiring
special thanks to the Buildings and to see faculty take advantage of new
Grounds Committee of the Nobles spaces and new resources...”
Board of Trustees, including Chair
Paul Ayoub ’74 P’12. —CATHY HALL
Hall also acknowledged the
faculty members poised to help
students take full advantage of the
new spaces. “I think about our incredibly talented
faculty and the best gifts we can give to them. We
can just let them loose with the resources and
the spaces and the tools to do their thing—and I
really can’t imagine better spaces than these for
supporting that.”
Standing in the Putnam Library, Hall said how
quickly the facilities have been expanding oppor-
tunities for teaching and learning. “This building
has really done remarkable things already. We
opened the building last week, and everyone
keeps commenting that within about 45 minutes,
it felt like home.
“I’ve already visited many of the classrooms, and
it is downright inspiring to see faculty take advan-
tage of new spaces and new resources to bring new
life into the program and our school.”
aasssseemmbbllyy hhiigghhlliigghhttss School, led the school Miracle Max advertised for the that’s not true! We
through meditations “Great moments boys junior varsity could not have lower
Inhale; Exhale after Christopher designed to relieve are born from great hockey team tryouts. expectations.”
The Nobles commu- Willard, psycholo- chronic stress. opportunity,” a “If you’re think-
nity began the day gist and professor charismatic Max ing, ‘I’m not good
relaxed and ready at Harvard Medical von Schroeter ’19 enough at hockey,’
4 Nobles SPRING 2018
NEWS FROM OUR CAMPUS & COMMUNITY
Blood Donors Nobles blood drive the blood drives that Mental Health explaining that “every take advantage of the
Save Lives with an emotional provided what he Checkup SEAL, before deploy- school counselors.
Scott Wilson, account of his son’s needed to survive. Director of Counsel- ment, sees a psycholo-
mathematics faculty birth and how he ing Jen Hamilton gist.” She encouraged I Think
member, explained the wouldn’t be alive described working students to follow the Students from the
importance of the today if it weren’t for with the Navy SEALs, SEALs’ example and International Affairs
SPRING 2018 Nobles 5
the bulletin
Jaquiline Bailey, grandmother of
Kajayla Boyd ’18, remembered the
desegregation of Boston public schools.
Riding the bus to her new school in
South Boston, she remembered men
covered in white sheets throwing stones.
She found a death threat on the school’s
walls, which led to an evacuation.
Present-day solutions include support-
ing educational opportunity programs
like Beacon Academy, Achieve and
Madeleine Charity ’19, Jelinda
Metelus ’18 and Mikaela Martin ’19 Upward Bound, and policies that help
perform Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise” fund schools in need.
for the annual Martin Luther King Jr.
Diana La Paz and Magdalena Blaise,
Day assembly.
both ’18, sang Miguel’s “How Many
(Black Lives).” Devon Minor ’19
performed his poem about losing his
Still We Rise childhood home to gentrification (see
next page). Umeh encouraged support
for programs that prioritize access to
ON THE DAY AFTER Martin Luther King Jr. hate, such as the Southern Poverty Law affordable housing in Boston, including
Day, Students United for Racial Justice Center and the Anti-Defamation League. City Life and Nuestra Comunidad.
and Equity (SURJE) led assembly with Streeter said that police brutality Vikram Aldykiewicz ’19 described the
stories of resistance and offered some never directly affected her until she heard first time he was pulled out of line at air-
solutions. The program began with an the story of her cousin being wrong- port security, when he was 13 years old.
explanation of the “Pyramid of White fully accused of stealing, wrestled to the “He had the ‘respect’ to call me a gentle-
Supremacy,” which portrays the building ground, and thrown in jail for a night. man,” said Aldykiewicz, “even though
blocks of systemic racism. “In a pyramid, Despite being innocent, calm and well- I had committed the serious offense of
every brick depends on the ones below it dressed, the police officers saw him only skin discoloration.” Jankey encouraged
for support,” explained Priscilla for the color of his skin. Chidubem Umeh the crowd to support the American
Singleton-Eriyo ’19. “If the bricks at the ’18 encouraged support for “better police Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP,
bottom are removed, the whole structure training and systems for conduct review.” and each individual to confront state-
comes tumbling down.” Juli Fernandez ’18 shared the story ments of stereotyping or generalizing.
Karen Maund P’18 described her of her family’s immigration from the As Aldykiewicz said, “This conversation
first interaction with members of the Dominican Republic and the years of only happens if you start it.”
Ku Klux Klan. “They looked like people separation from her mother and siblings Madeleine Charity ’19, Mikaela
I’d see at work or out on the street,” she during difficulties in the process. Norah Martin ’19 and Jelinda Metelus ’18
said, “except for those red bands on their Jankey ’22 encouraged the audience to concluded with a performance of Maya
arms signifying whom they hate.” Sophie “learn more, so you can dispel myths Angelou’s “Still I Rise”: Bringing the gifts
Streeter ’22 encouraged the Nobles com- and spread awareness about undocu- that my ancestors gave / I am the dream
munity to support nonprofits that fight mented immigration.” and the hope of the slave….I rise.
Club announced the The Limitless pencils, bent keys and and Shi Williams, Uniforms at Nobles forms at Nobles. Maya
third issue of Cogito, Gerard Senehi, the predicted the future. all ’18, performed a Cathy Hall faced Keenan-Gallagher and
the school’s journal of “ExperiMentalist,” mashup of Tatiana shocked whispers Will Schwartz, both
international affairs used the assembly Remix! Manaois’ “Helplessly,” when she announced ’18, entered the stage
and social science. stage to “explore the Tomas O’Brien, The Beatles’ “Let It the impending incor- in full uniform, while
limitless.” He levitated Jamie Patterson Be,” and others. poration of school uni- Schwartz described
6 Nobles SPRING 2018
UNTITLED, BY DEVON MINOR ’19
For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live
in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
—NELSON MANDELA
Two minutes, that’s all I need to tell my story through one short poem.
SEPTEMBER 5TH, 2000 NOVEMBER 30TH, 2017
Born 6 pounds 8 ounces 20 inches long I stand yet again
Lemon shaped dark brown eyes No longer overlooking a pond
Brown skin with dark brown straight hair I stand in an ocean
Ears dark like the oil you pump for fuel Of young faces and new identities
Two brown-skin parents There is no ice on this ocean to break through
Malaika Adams-Minor and Marvin Dewitt Minor Sr. No one is misunderstood here
The latter of which grew up in the projects in Baltimore Yes I can be a poor black kid from Roxbury, and attend private school
Ate welfare cheese and mayo sandwiches No white people are not “the enemy”
And when he wanted to fantasize, Yet the man evicted from his home because that white family
Put plastic colored film on the black and white tv wanted to build on the property next to his would say differently
Colored tv!
Just like the wealthy boys had MARCH 9TH, 2018
Moving day?
SEPTEMBER 3RD, 2013 Or eviction day?
Not quite a sea That man becomes me
Yet not a lake either I no longer will make those short walks to the subway station
A pond perhaps! I no longer will walk the thin, wide steps to my home
I stand overlooking this ice-covered pond I no longer will shut the white flimsy door that always seems to swing right open
Far off I spot one small cavity But where will I stay?
As though someone has fallen through—unnoticed I don’t know
The few students of color aren’t hard to spot Ask the man who built that beautiful home right next to ours
He didn’t see the beauty of the community already developed,
AUGUST 19TH, 2014 But an opportunity to allocate his knowledge of “truly beautiful societies”
What’s the hardest decision you’ve ever made?
Well before you answer,
Have you ever had to make a decision that could kill
or save your mother’s life?
It may not be the best hospital,
But let me tell you that hospital saved my mother’s life
I called my mother this morning,
So lucky am I to have made the right choice
the “disgusting” fash- laughter filled Law- Patrick Stevenson ’18 was determined to land Disabled Sports, Six Years of Cheer
ions he regularly sees rence Auditorium. explained that, after “give him the best life where he learned that Twins Caroline and
in the hallways. Then his young cousin’s possible in however service can be fun, Courtney Collins-
they revealed the The Best Life Possible Duchenne muscular long a time span he how to get back up Pisano, both ’18, gave
joke: “The Nobleman In a NEDTalk (Nobles’ dystrophy diagnosis, has.” Patrick now after he falls down and their final annual
is here.” And relieved version of TEDTalks), Stevenson’s family coaches for New Eng- the power of a smile. holiday assembly per-
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the bulletin
Anderson Mural Receives Recognition
HOW DOES A 10-PAGE HISTORY paper for of a delicately balanced compro- Desmond Herzfelder ’19,
a required course lead to far-overdue mise between the conservative and Department of the Interior Secretary
government recognition of the first the revolutionary. Ryan Zinke and Marian Anderson
Historical Society Chief Operating
monument to American civil rights? The mural took the place of a
Officer Jillian Pirtle in front of
As Desmond Herzfelder ’19 can attest, planned protest, but white leaders Mitchell Jamieson’s “An Incident in
it takes a lot of research, dozens of overhauled the process, choosing Contemporary American Life” mural.
letters and a great deal of patience. white federal arts administrator
Herzfelder grew up listening to Edward Bruce and white artist
Marian Anderson, an African-American Mitchell Jamieson. However, at
contralto and an early civil rights leader. the last moment, Jamieson made
In Doug Jankey’s “U.S. History: unauthorized changes to the
Themes of Modern America” course, painting and included portraits
Herzfelder learned more about of contemporary African American
Anderson’s role in the early civil rights civil rights leaders Charles
movement. After the Daughters of the Hamilton Houston and Mary
American Revolution refused to let McLeod Bethune.
Anderson sing at their venue, ignoring In Herzfelder’s argument,
her talent because of the color of her those unauthorized changes
skin, Anderson sang instead on the turned petty mollification into the
steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter first monument to the civil rights
Sunday 1939, to an audience of more movement. A good grade on his paper worked with the Interior Department
than 75,000 people. wasn’t enough for Herzfelder, though, and the Marian Anderson Historical
Researching for the rite of pas- and he wanted to take action. “It turned Society to plan an event to honor
sage that is the Class III history paper, into a passion for him,” Jankey smiles. the mural and install it as the first
Herzfelder discovered the obscure mural Herzfelder reworked his paper into monument in the new U.S. Civil Rights
“An Incident in Contemporary American an op-ed for the Washington Post: “The Network of civil rights monuments. The
Life,” by Mitchell Jamieson, which Nation’s First Civil Rights Monument network, a result of the African American
depicts a racially integrated audience at Turns 75.” Civil Rights Network Act of 2017, docu-
Anderson’s concert. There was almost The piece generated a response ments monuments to the movement
no literature on the mural, but what from the Marian Anderson Historical while recognizing “the relevance of the
Herzfelder did find was fascinating. Society, which encouraged Herzfelder African American Civil Rights movement
Jankey had never come across the to keep writing letters to push for the in fostering the spirit of social justice and
mural before, although he had studied mural’s recognition. Eventually, the national reconciliation.”
the concert itself extensively. He says, Interior Department replied with As Herzfelder explains, “That’s why I
“One of the things that I really like about excitement, which Herzfelder received felt [the mural] needed to be recognized:
the project is that the best ones teach with more excitement: “The mural is The message is still really important. I
me new things about things with which I in their building; they had the power to think that’s part of the importance of
am pretty familiar.” Teacher and student actually do something.” recognizing all civil rights monuments. …
learned that the mural was the product Over the next few months, Herzfelder Obviously, there’s still a lot of work to do.”
formance, while a guitar for the last My Failure Confession worst-behaved dog in resolved to be a better The Bomb Cyclone
slideshow of all their time, the crowd Hall began the new Massachusetts.” She dog trainer and en- Tomas O’Brien ’18
previous performances congratulated them year with her “failure explained, “Jack is so couraged students in invited the school to a
played behind them. with a standing confession”: Her poorly behaved be- their own resolutions. round of applause for
When they put down ovation. puppy, Jack Bruce, cause I have not had Hall after two consec-
their saxophone and is reportedly “the time to train him.” She utive snow days, when
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