gilmour academy fall 2010 magazine

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The Physics of FloatingPage 37

Congratulations tothe Class of 20104

Unveiling MedievalMary GardenPage 40

StaffEditor

Kathleen C. Kenny

Associate Editor

Kathleen McDermott

Contributing Writers

Nicolene Emerson

James C. Farrar ’59

Mary Kate Farrar Vega ’93

Debra Hollander

Kathleen C. Kenny

Matt Lindley ’89

Kathleen McDermott

Bridget McGinty ’02

Kathy Pender

Arlene Smith

Editorial Assistants

Colleen F. Kiely ’96

Matt LaWell

Bridget McGinty '02

Laura Ondrake ’02

Arlene Smith


Holly Yotter

Photography

John Bashian ’78

Neal Busch

Nicolene Emerson


Ralph Jones, Captured

Memories Photography

Kyle Lanzer, Sun News

Mark Most

Jim Olexa, Sun News

Kevin Reeves

Michael Spear

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Printing

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Director of Institutional

Advancement

Colleen F. Kiely ’96

Director of Development


Director of Annual Fund

and Constituent Relations


Sponsored by the

Congregation of Holy Cross

Notre Dame, Indiana

ON THE COVER . . . Of Generations Past and PresentThe stone gateway in front of Tudor House that marks the path between the Middle and Upper schools and the MurphyResidence Hall once welcomed guests of Francis Drury, the turn-of-the-century philanthropist who built Tudor House, andhis wife Julia. Two alums have committed “their path to thefuture.” Andrea Pinchak ’02 and Ernie Corvi ’02 chose this magnificent site to capture their wedding day memories.Andrea and Ernie met during freshman year, sharing ice time while both played for Gilmour hockey teams, excelled incollege prep classes in Upper School classrooms and competedsuccessfully in track and field. Several Gilmour alumni comprised their wedding party including Anna Pinchak Lillis ’96, Cyril Pinchak ’02, Matt McPherson ’02, David Corvi ’03and Stephanie Kimery ’09. To learn more about the Drurys andthe origins of Tudor House, turn to page 4.


Features

If These Walls Could Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Michael’s Gift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8A Diamond Jubilee for Sister Claudia . . . . .12A Benchmark for Holy Cross and Gilmour . .14

CommencementCommencement Speaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17Valedictory Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20Salutatory Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22College Acceptances, Class of 2010 . . . . . . .24

Campus

The Academy Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32Facing Frenzy Head On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34Top Clinic Poster Prize Goes to Gilmour . . .35Middle School Naturalists . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36The Physics of Floating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37A Canvas that Connects Through Faith . . . .38Unveiling Medieval Mary Garden . . . . . . . .40Close Encounters of a Girl Kind . . . . . . . . .41Netbooks: Spot on for the Classroom . . . . .42History Day Redux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43Kathryn Holleran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44A Jaunting Task for Journalism . . . . . . . . . .45Shakespeare Saunters into New Territory . . .45Fit as a Fiddle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46Spirited Sojourner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47Counseling the College Bound . . . . . . . . . .48A Seamless Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

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Alumni

AlumNews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50Lancer Spotlights . . . .50, 52, 53, 54, 58, 60, 62On the Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56Ondak is Alumni Association President . . . .61Glen Oak Reunion Brunch . . . . . . . . . . . . .71

Lancer Athletics

For Track, A Storied Season . . . . . . . . . . . .64New Volleyball and Softball Coaches . . . . . .65Kazel Named Girls Lacrosse Coach . . . . . . .65Boys Prep Hockey Gets Head Coach . . . . .66Lancers to Play for Colgate . . . . . . . . . . . . .66GA Girls Tapped for USA Hockey Camps . .67Go-to Guy for Sportsmanship . . . . . . . . . . .67

MemorialSet in Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68Gilmour Extends Sympathy to Families . . . .69

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On a warm summer evening, former Gilmour

history teacher Dan Ruminski sits comfortably

in one of Tudor House’s leather armchairs, like

a grandfather about to spin a bedtime story. Only those

gathered to listen are not his grandchildren, but four

dozen members of the Gates Mills Historical Society who

have come to Gilmour to hear the real-life details of

Francis Edson Drury, the turn-of-the-century industrialist

who built Tudor House as his country estate.

With a penchant for weaving an intricate tale,

Ruminski fills in the colorful details that a textbook

cannot. The story of Tudor House and the Drury family

is one of modest beginnings and fortune, heartbreak

and rivalry and, of course, architectural grandeur and

opulence.

Completed in 1925, Tudor House is actually

a replica of Francis E. Drury’s mansion on

Millionaires Row. The original mansion was

If These Walls Could Talk

The History of Tudor House and the Drurys

If These Walls Could Talk

The History of Tudor House and the Drurys

designed by renowned architects Frank Meade and

James Hamilton, who drafted and built dozens of the

area’s historic residences. Located on Euclid Avenue near

East 86th Street in Cleveland, the mansion took about a

year to complete, cost more than $500,000 to build and

measured 25,000 square feet. Today, The Cleveland

Clinic owns the original mansion, and the lush six acres

of gardens across the street that were known as The

Oasis are now home to The Cleveland Play House.

Drury’s beginnings were modest, completing the

equivalent of only a 10th-grade education. But what

he lacked in schooling, he made up for in ingenuity.

Among other things, he

worked in various

railroad machine

shops and patented

a gear to increase

lawn mower

efficiency. His

real fortune

came when he

teamed up

with Standard

Julia and Francis Druryat their home inAugusta, Ga.

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Oil’s John D. Rockefeller at the turn of the century.

Drury was producing the country’s best kerosene stoves

at the time. Kerosene, a byproduct of

refined oil, was being dumped into the

Cuyahoga River. Realizing that Drury’s

stoves created a need for the castoffs of

his oil, Rockefeller approached Drury

with an integrated business idea:

Standard Oil would help Drury market

and sell the stoves that Drury made.

Together they sold 15 million blue-flame

stoves. Drury made between $50 and $100 million

and became a billionaire in today’s dollar value.

Like others of his time with newfound wealth,

Drury desired a rural retirement

estate. He was approaching 70 years

old when he purchased more than

130 acres from an older farmer at

the southwest corner of Gates Mills.

Drury and his second wife, Julia,

already owned a home in Waite Hill,

an apartment on Fifth Avenue in

Manhattan and a winter home in

Augusta, Ga.

In deciding to move to the

country, Drury contacted the

prominent architect, Charles S.

Schneider, who duplicated the

couple’s Euclid Avenue home, but

made it one and a half times bigger.

The country estate, built on Cedar

Hill Farm, cost between $2 and $3

million to build. While construction

was taking place from 1924 to 1925,

Julia Drury, who had a reputation as a difficult and often

peculiar person, was in Europe amassing a rare artwork

collection that would later be rotated

for viewing throughout Tudor House.

Expenses were not spared in

creating Tudor House and its

surroundings. Outside, the property

boasted the most impeccable gardens,

five acres of greenhouses, an orchard

with 350 trees and a state-of-the-art

barn. Two marble pillars stood at the

entranceway to the pond in the back. Julia Drury’s

treasured sunken formal gardens were transferred,

stone by stone, from the estate on Euclid Avenue.

Expenses were not

spared in creating

Tudor House and

its surroundings.

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Approximately 30 staff lived on site to maintain

the burgeoning property. The chauffeur’s quarters were

attached to a four-car garage, which is where Gilmour’s

old chapel was housed. Francis Drury was a large man,

weighing in at about 300 pounds, and he required a

specially-made bed, as well as his own elevator to the

second floor.

A player organ used by Mrs. Drury sat at the top

of the stairs off the grand hallway that then led to the

couple’s living quarters but now houses Gilmour staff

offices. All the woodwork and wood paneling original to

the house were done in New York, numbered and then

assembled on site. Much of the Tudor House flooring is

original, as is the intricate plaster molding and artisan

ceiling crowns. The Tudor House dining room could

host as many as 30 seated guests and still boasts the

original wood dining buffet that the Drurys used.

To announce their move, the Drurys planned an

elaborate white-tie party. Planning took months; staff

served the finest foods and wines; and parking for

400 chauffeured cars was arranged. The cut flowers

alone cost $3,000! Much to the Drury’s chagrin, only

40 people showed up to what was supposed to have

been an event for several hundred people.

Folklore suggests that the Van Sweringen brothers,

Shaker Heights developers and social rivals of the

Drurys, put the word out not to attend the Drury’s party.

The Vans, as they were commonly known, had eyed the

land Drury bought for his country estate for their railroad

extension – now the RTA – and were miffed by Drury’s

acquisition of Cedar Hill Farm.

The couple never recovered from the devastation of

planning this magnificent “coming out” party and having

no one show up. They lived at the estate

for only nine more months and then

abandoned the property for their


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Next Up: A Virtual Millionaires Row

At its height of grandeur, Millionaires Row in

Cleveland stretched four miles along Euclid

Avenue from Public Square. Approximately 250

mansions comprised what was once known as “the

most beautiful street in America.” Millionaires Row

featured the magnificent homes of Cleveland’s most

influential families,

many of which are

still familiar to us

today – Rockefeller,

Mather, Wade, Gund,

Brush, Severance and

Hanna, to name a few.

As industrial

Cleveland grew, many

of these once-stunning

mansions fell into

disrepair and were

destroyed to make

room for businesses,

highways and industry.

Dan Ruminski is hopeful that Cleveland can reclaim

that lost glory by creating a virtual Millionaires Row

exhibit and museum to learn about its grand history.

Together with his business partner and historical

artifacts collector, Steve Erlich, Ruminski is recreating

the splendor of 25 of these exceptional mansions.

Housed in about 10,000 square feet at Cleveland’s

historic Lake View Cemetery, the museum

would lead visitors on an audio and visual tour

of the homes, complete with “narration” from

its original owners. Visitors would learn about

the wealthy entrepreneurs and their families

who once populated Euclid Avenue. Rooms

from the original mansions would be recreated

to give museum-goers the opportunity to learn

how philanthropists of the time lived.

While still in the early planning stages,

Ruminski is hopeful that this project will be

completed in two years. To learn more about

Ruminski’s upcoming speaking engagements

or to read additional articles on Cleveland’s

history, visit www.clevelandhistorylessons.com.

DMH

Dan Ruminski and wife, Susan, at Tudor House

home in Georgia. Francis Drury died there in 1932 at

the age of 81 and Julia passed away 11 years later at

the age of 84 at her apartment near Shaker Square.

Tudor House and its surroundings were maintained

by a skeleton crew from 1928 through 1944, when

the Brothers of Holy Cross purchased 133 acres of

the Drury estate – including Tudor House – and

established Gilmour Academy.

In gathering his research on Tudor House and the

Drurys, Dan Ruminski relied heavily upon Gilmour’s

archives, as well as the Western Reserve Historical

Society and an online website out of Cleveland State

University. Ruminski taught history and economics

at Gilmour from 1970 to 1972. He was the head

basketball coach at the time – a fitting role for the

affable Ruminski, who stands 6-foot-6.

Debra Mayers Hollander


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Jim and I want to thank those of you who are heretoday – Michael’s classmates from the Class of 1990

celebrating their 20th reunion – friends who he loved.

I want to thank one of Michael’s dedicated doctors,

Carl Doershuk, who is here today with his wife. Carl

always stood alongside Michael. Pat Brockway, who

was Michael’s advocate, advisor and friend, is here.

I so appreciate your devotion to Michael. Our two

children, Katie and Marc ’83, now are parents and have

children at Gilmour. They had to live through those

many difficult years when Michael was so ill and adjust

to the roller coaster ride we always had with Michael’s

ups and downs – never knowing what would happen

next with his condition: of course, our beloved grand-

children are here. My brother, Lee, and his wife, Tuni,

are with us, as are our friends, many from a very long

time ago, who have continued with us in our journey

through life.

Thank you, Brother Robert, for taking the risk to

accept Michael into the Middle School at a time when

Michael’s Gift

Jim and Kathy Pender


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it seemed risky to have a child in the school with such

a severe medical condition. Michael loved Gilmour

and gained so much and, I believe, Gilmour did also.

Thanks to Paul Neundorfer ’83, who designed the plan

for this garden and who constructed the bench and the

carvings on it many years ago, and it has been moved

here now. Thanks to Lisa Sefcek who has so carefully

planted this garden to make it beautiful and who will

continue to nurture it as she has with our gardens at

home. Thanks to an advisor and dedicated teacher and

faculty member, Kathy Kenny, who has been a good

friend and stood by me throughout these many years.

The experiences we have in life we do not always

choose and often they are experiences we would give

anything to avoid. These experiences make us different

and often better. Through these times we learn the

lesson that one grows through suffering. And that, too,

was Michael’s lesson and gift to us. He has been my

inspiration often in life today. When things seem

difficult or I do not feel well, I have a visual picture

of Michael in the mornings that last year struggling to

catch his breath as he would go to take a shower and

get dressed. He loved to look his best in spite of how

he felt. He was ready to face the world and his world

had become more and more of a challenge. Michael’s

spirit, courage and belief in living each day to the

fullest is with me each day allowing me to live with

the ups and downs, with the sorrows and joys of life.

A favorite prayer of Kathy Pender’s is the “Prayer of St. Francis.”

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

where there is injury, pardon:

where there is doubt, faith;

where there is despair, hope

where there is darkness, light

and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much

seek to be consoled as to console;

to be understood, as to understand;

to be loved, as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive,

it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

and it is in dying that we are born to

eternal life.

The “Prayer of St. Francis” tells us that we seek to

give, and in doing so, receive blessings that we have

hope in the dark times, that we strive for peace and we

forgive. It continues letting me know that where there

is sadness I can find joy, that I can have love when

there is hatred surrounding me. I believe I learned a

lot of that from Michael, and in his dying, he has been

born to eternal life.

Michael was always different from a baby on –

always curious and always looking at life as an

adventure and a discovery. He expressed himself in

the most unique ways; sometimes as a child he seemed

to have the wisdom of an old soul and had such an

interesting way of looking at life. Although at 3 I do

not know that Michael knew he had this wonderful

sense of humor and unique way of saying things,

he always did. Michael was simply who he was.


Michael’s Gift Continued

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Listen to a story he dictated to his preschool teacher

when he was about 3 years old to catch this lively

spirit.

Have it Your WayThere’s a God all over the place.

They help everybody be born.

He looks like an invisible man.

I know he’s a man.

Cause God’s a boy’s name.

He helped me be born.

I think it was at Burger King.

He wears nothing.

Because I can’t see him.

He’s in this room somewhere.

You can talk to him but he doesn’t say anything.

He helps me with invisible talking.

I go to church in Gates Mills.

God lives there.

So everybody can get married.

When they want to get married he helps them.

He’s invisible but he comes to the wedding.

It’s boring, but he likes to come.

He likes to come to weddings.

My Mom chose(d) me.

I’m adopted.

I think at Burger King.

You know.

You choose.

Have it your way (sings).

(Teacher collapses in laughter).


Michael Pender

Michael Pender’s journey at Gilmour Academy is so much more than the lovely garden by the

new Athletic Center or the stone benchwith his favoriteinscription. The real testaments toMichael are theenriched lives of the classmates whograduated with himin 1990. Many came to the garden’sdedication in Juneduring Gilmour’sAnnual Reunion,which would havebeen Michael’s 20th. These alumni andmany others from theGilmour Family are witnesses to the lives he touched through his courage.

Michael Pender died the year after he graduatedfrom Gilmour. For many years he suffered severe physical disabilities from complications from a boatingaccident when he was a child. He was fragile andrequired special oxygen. Initially, he was not able to be around other children whose colds and viruses mightfurther impair his immune system and he was tutored at home. Despite these difficulties, Michael valiantly prevailed. His educational years in the Middle andUpper schools were enriched by an academic, athleticand social life that defines the Gilmour experience for all students.

Like the inviting entranceway on campus named forhim – a portal to a wondrous world – Michael’s strugglesand challenges opened the door to opportunities forgrowth that come with care and concern for others.

“Given the proper environment, a student with disabilities can make significant lifelong differences in the lives of those who have not, as yet, been forced todeal with adversity,” says Jim Pender, Michael’s father.“This, of course, is education for the heart and the mind.”

Michael and friends

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We have been so blessed to have had two of our

children and now four of our grandchildren attend

Gilmour. It has been a place that has given children,

staff and parents a true sense of what it is to educate

the mind and heart. We did not know many years ago

that the small garden that we placed in memory of

Michael at the old gym would be a place of gathering

for students as they waited to be dropped off or picked

up at school. We had not expected that the name

would soon be the Michael Pender Circle. We feel

privileged to establish a new garden and place of

gathering at this new and magnificent Athletic Center.

Michael loved athletics, even though he could not

participate physically. He was at all the games of any

kind cheering on the teammates. He loved Gilmour

and his friends. He would love to be a part of this

gathering. And, I believe, he is with us today in spirit

at this special gathering of his classmates and others

who were such an important part of his life. Thank

you all for being here.

Kathy Pender


The word from the Greek adames, meaningenduring, seems apropos for Sister Claudia Klyn, O.S.U. She played a pivotal part in the

Gilmour/Glen Oak merger. Celebrating 60 years as anUrsuline – a jubilee marked since the time of QueenVictoria with diamonds – Sister Claudia became director of Glen Oak in 1978 and remained with themerged school until 1985, helping to guide the girls’high school experience through the challenges of transitioning to a new co-ed school.

“Sister Claudia added depth and wisdom, whichenabled the Glen Oak and Gilmour experiences tomold and enhance programs and extracurriculars for all students,” says Gilmour Headmaster Brother RobertLavelle, C.S.C. “I am not sure our merged schoolscould have accomplished so much while being respectful of one another’s traditions without SisterClaudia.

“I am pleased to have had the opportunity to work with Sister Claudia in bringing about this historicaccomplishment, which continues to benefit new generations.”

At the time Sister Claudia joined Glen Oak, theschool had an ecumenical approach to education.Some thought the girls’ high school was too Catholic,others that it was not Catholic enough. Enrollment hadtrailed to the point that the freshman class had only 15 girls. Still, Sister Claudia came armed with years of academic experience as principal and executive director of Beaumont School, a decade of teaching atSt. Ann and Christ the King elementary schools and aperiod teaching at Ursuline Academy. She earnedundergraduate and graduate degrees in music fromUrsuline College and the University of Notre Dame,respectively. Besides that, she was no stranger toGilmour; her brother Jack was a 1952 Gilmour graduate.

Before the merger in 1982, Gilmour and Glen Oakstudents swapped classes that they took at each other’sschool and were shuttled by bus between the two campuses. Sister Claudiarecalls those early years as director being “a time of growth and fulfillment, but difficult.”

Former Upper SchoolEnglish instructor FrankMcCamley waxed poetic in one of his recent blogson Gilmour’s website aboutwhat it was like to teach a class at Glen Oak back in the days.

“For one year, a few other Gilmourians and Isavored a taste of what Glen Oak was when some

A Diamond Jubileefor Sister Claudia

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“I am not sure our merged

schools could have

accomplished so much

while being respectful of

one another’s traditions

without Sister Claudia.”

Brother Robert Lavelle, C.S.C.


Upper School classes were held down there,” he wrote.“It was an idyllic time, a gentle time, perhaps becauseof the acoustics of the building’s carpeting, or the airiness of its open-plan classrooms, but more, I imagine, because of Sister Claudia’s presence…”

For her part, the director notes that she was heartened by the enthusiasm of some of the men whotaught at Gilmour and also taught classes at Glen Oak.“Some of these men told me those were the happiestdays of their lives,” she says. “They loved teachingthere. I thought this was very encouraging.”

During the transition, Sister Claudia worked withthe boards of both schools and met with the Glen Oak students during their regular town hall meetings. “One of the goals of Glen Oak was to develop an environment for the students in which they could excelas an independent person,” she explains. “When I metwith the girls to tell them what was happening, I said‘Remember, do not get swallowed up.’ It was hard forsome of the girls. The Glen Oak students were veryindependent. They had ideas that they wanted to besomebody someday and they did that.”

After the merger, Sister Claudia served as a guidance counselor and in other various capacities at Gilmour. She continued to live in the Glen Oak convent. “I stayed there for a couple of years when itwas just plain empty,” she recalls. “I had to close up at night and I did some of the gardening.”

Sister Claudia remained at Gilmour through 1985and spent five years starting and developing theUrsuline congregation’s development office beforeworking as director of institutional advancement at what later became Oakland Catholic School in Pittsburgh. There, she was able to put herGilmour/Glen Oak experience to work in the merger of two girls’ schools that were both 75 years old. She

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“It is kind of fun when I walk into the

Lower School and see the young children

still learning in open classrooms.”

Sister Claudia Klyn, O.S.U.

taught part-time at Robert Morris College in Pittsburghand moved to Columbus to work in development atBishop Ready High School. A couple of other careersidelines added spice to her varied career. She evaluated schools in Spain for the U.S. DefenseDepartment, earning the rank of colonel, and visitedAfrica and then Holland, her father’s homeland, whereher grandfather was a nurseryman. She is probably one of a select few with a pink rose named after herthat came from her father’s test garden for roses.

In a sense, Sister Claudia carries on the Klyn familynursery tradition, maintaining the courtyard gardens atthe St. Angela Center on the Ursuline campus whereshe lives. As an honorary Trustee of Gilmour she hashad occasion to revisit Glen Oak, now Gilmour’s LowerSchool, and says, “It is kind of fun when I walk intothe Lower School and see the young children still learning in open classrooms.”


Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the skies? Lay first the foundation of humility.

St. Augustine

St. Augustine must have been prophetic when hewrote these words centuries before Brother AndréBessette, C.S.C., was born in 1845. The frail and

unassuming little doorkeeper who welcomed all to aHoly Cross School in Montreal built his own tower to“pierce the sky” when he founded a 319-foot-high basilica (more than 30 stories) for his favorite saint.Now millions of pilgrims find their way to St. Joseph’sOratory each year to honor the patron saint of theCongregation of Holy Cross. When Brother André iscanonized by the Vatican on October 17, he will be the first member of the Congregation of Holy Cross to formally become a saint.

“In each age the Holy Spirit raises up such humblewitnesses of the Gospel, who turn things topsy-turvey,”Pope John Paul II said of Brother André, who is oftenreferred to as the miracle man of Montreal. The “healerand miracle worker,” was said to have used a balmcalled St. Joseph’s oil that he burned beneath the saint’sstatue and rubbed it on those who were sick or injuredand counseled them to pray to St. Joseph.

“Brother André never saw himself as a healer, butone who directed those who came to him to place theirrequest to St. Joseph,” says Headmaster Brother RobertLavelle, C.S.C. “He was always welcoming to thosewho came encouraging them in their faith in God andthe intercession of St. Joseph.”

To honor Brother André’s commitment to the poorand afflicted, several years ago, Gilmour Academynamed its service program the Blessed Brother AndréService Program. While Brother André literally openeddoors for others, students are encouraged to follow hisexample and open the door of their hearts to the needsof others and to learn firsthand about those having verylimited resources.

“In canonizing Brother André, the Church isacknowledging that the Holy Cross life, mission andcharism, is indeed a way to holiness – both individually,as manifested in the life of Brother André and others,and as a community of people,” says Father JohnBlazek C.S.C. ’58, Campus Minister at Gilmour. “Thiscommunity embracesnot only the religiousBrothers and Priestswho live the vowedreligious life of HolyCross, but also all ofour families, students,benefactors and others whose livesare touched by theHoly Cross charismsand way of life.”

With very littleeducation, BlessedBrother Andréworked as a cobblerand a baker beforehe joined theCongregation in 1870. In becoming a Brother, he servedas a barber, tended to the sick and kept the College Notre-Dame du Sacre-Coeur warm, welcoming, well lit and tidy.

“Brother Andre’s position as receiver of guests gave him the opportunity to welcome all who camewith an openness to hear their story and spread theirgift of faith in seeking answers to their troubles,”Brother Robert says. “André possessed a gift wellworth emulating.”

Despite personal suffering and serious health problems, Brother André lived a life of compassion and service. Desperately poor, his parents died whenhe was 12 years old and he spent his adolescence as

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an orphan living with relatives and heeding his mother’s words to love and depend on St. Joseph, the foster father of Christ. At the college, he oftenwould accompany students on long walks and theyfound him to be amiable.

“The youngsters saw him as a kind and jovial religious hardly ever without a quip or pun, but alsoable to maintain their respect and discipline,” accordingto Father Thomas Barrosse, C.S.C., author of “AMoment of Grace: Preparing for the Canonization ofBrother André.”

A letter from Superior General Father Hugh Cleary,C.S.C., shows the saintly porter’s sense of humor.“When I entered the community,” Brother Andréremarked, “my superiors showed me the door, and Iremained there 40 years without leaving.”

During his years at the college, Brother André visited families in distress at their homes and counseledthe sick causing consternation among those doctorswho accused him of being a quack. Some of the students’ parents feared the risk of their children’sexposure to disease. Eventually, Brother André beganworking with the sick at a tramway station. When hewas 59, he moved to the Oratory and remained thereassisting the sick until he died at age 91.

“This humble, uneducated man with few discernable ‘useful’ gifts, embodied God’s compassionin his greeting of others,” Father Cleary says. “As timewent by, many began to say that the prayerful BrotherAndré embodied God’s healing power.”

Following the official ceremony in Rome, aEucharistic celebration will be held at Olympic Stadiumin Montreal on October 30. The Liturgy will be celebrated at Gilmour’s Lower School on October 18and at the Upper and Middle schools on October 21.Besides the special liturgy, there will be numerousopportunities for students to learn more about BrotherAndré throughout the school year. The time betweenFounders’ Day in September and the canonization willbe focused on preparing for this event.

While Brother André literally opened doors for others,

students are encouraged to follow his example and open

the door of their hearts to the needs of others and to learn

firsthand about those having very limited resources.

“The canonization of Brother André and the soon-to-come canonization of Father Moreau is like a‘signpost’ to us, assuring us that this way of life is trulyin accord with the Gospel teachings of Jesus,” FatherJohn says. “It is a way of life that leads to eternal lifewhen it is embraced with our whole mind, heart andsoul.”

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2010 Gilmour AcademyCommencementGilmour Academy Celebrates Its 61st Commencement Exercise

Gilmour Academy, as accredited by

the North Central Association of

Secondary Schools and Colleges and

Independent School Association of

the Central States, chartered by the

Ohio Department of Education, is

vested by the state of Ohio with

authority to confer diplomas in

recognition of those having satisfied

the requirements of a college-

preparatory curriculum. Gilmour

Academy’s graduating Class of 2010

is the 61st graduating class of the

Academy.

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Gilmour’s commencement speaker Brian Stepanek ’89 is a familiar face to many who might recognize him as “Arwin,” from the Disney Channel’s Emmy-nominated “The Suite Life of Zack

and Cody.” The program reached 240 million homes worldwide.Although Stepanek left Cleveland more than two decades ago, he

became interested in acting as a Gilmour student and performed in plays and competed in statewide drama competitions. The actor/writer and his brothers William ’76, John ’78, Michael ’79 and Timothy ’82 boosted Gilmour’s enrollment for two decades.

A graduate of Syracuse University, Stepanek was with the Second City National Touring Company and went on to appear in “The Drew Carey Show” and “Six Feet Under.” In addition to hosting the Disney Channel Games, he has been in Disney Channel movies. He also created and starred in its silent short series “Brian O’Brian.”

Stepanek has leant his voice for animated films such as “Bolt” and has appeared in more than 150 commercials.

Brian Stepanek ’89


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Good morning parents, friends, faculty and most important, the graduating Class of 2010. So I want to thank the graduates for having me

today. I was a little confused by your choice. I looked at some of the previous commencement speakers. It wasa pretty distinguished group: Steve Skrovan ’75, who created “Everybody Loves Raymond,” Michael Porath ’93,senior vice president of programming at BUZZMEDIA.But you guys, the Class of 2010, you picked this guy. Iget the feeling that somebody lost a bet.

Quite a bit has changed since my time here atGilmour. For example, every single building. Two icerinks? Really? Is it like having an extra set of keys? Well,we built the first rink, and Brother Robert lost it, so thenwe built the second one, and just as we were finishing it,Brother Robert found the first one between the cushionsof the couch. I also noticed the new Athletic Center. Eh.It’s all right if you’re into the whole perfect thing. When Iplayed ball here, we had wicker apple baskets for rims.But you have your new-age glass backboards and metalrims. You know, not to sound old, but ah, my ChuckTaylors were actually signed by Chuck.

But let’s get back to the real reason that all of yourfriends, and family, and faculty are surrounding you today.Me. I am a huge star. Obviously an amazing draw.Women adore me and men want to be me. Dogs want to lick my face. Now you may think that my life is allglamour and excitement, flying from one exotic locationto the next, meeting famous people and breaking theheart of supermodel after supermodel, and you’d be right,but I’d like to take this opportunity to tell you how Ibecame this profoundly charismatic, folic-ally challengedAdonis you see before you.

To do so, I have to revisit my original question, whichis, why me? Why would your class choose me to be acommencement speaker? I mean, let’s face it; I trip overthings for a living. But then I thought, well maybe that’swhat they want. A good pratfall up to the podium, and I could do that, and it would be mind-blowing. But Ithought, maybe they want to find out how I got fromwhere they’re sitting now to being a working actor in TVand film. That maybe there was something specifically Ihad done that they could apply to their journey forward.As I pondered this question, my mind kept drifting to one or two times in my career that on the face seemedhorrific, but with further retrospection were life-changing.So here we go.

My senior year at Syracuse I did a one-man musical, 13characters, two-hours long, that was picked up by a youngupstart theatre producer in Chicago. So I packed my ’89Corsica, drove west, went through the rehearsal process andthought, this is it! I am going to be huge! I’m going to breakinto the Chicago theatre scene, and never look back. Therewas only one problem: no one came. I performed a two-hour musical for two people on three separate occasions. Itopened on the coldest winter in the history of Chicago. Iwould sit backstage before the show and at intermission in adown jacket and a knit hat. I couldn’t wait to get out onstage because it was warmer there. And I just want to explainwhat this was like. One of the characters in the show was anarrator who spoke directly to the audience. And it occurredto me five minutes into one of these performances that Icouldn’t look at the empty seats. I actually had to make eye contact with the same two people for two hours! I felt worse for them than for me. I couldn’t imagine sitting in theaudience with my program going why’s he still looking at me?I’m just going to read his bio for the 12th time. Ah, there heis. He’s singing me a song . . . I really wish he’d look at that other guy. When I think back on that 22-year-old versionof me, sitting backstage fighting off hypothermia, I can’t helpbut smile, because on all three occasions, those two peoplestayed. They could have left at intermission. They’d havenever seen me again, but they stayed. I gave them the bestperformance I possibly could. It didn’t matter if there were300 people or three people, I was taking them with me onthat journey, because I loved what I did. And I know it’s anoft repeated theme at commencement speeches, to love whatyou do, but there’s a reason for that: it’s absolutely true. Ifyou love what you do, then even in the worst times, like

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performing for two people for two hours, you still lovewhat you do, and it helps you push through to the reallygreat times.

A few years ago I did some animation voiceoverwork for a movie called “Over the Hedge.” In theprocess of doing that I got to meet an actor by the nameof Gene Wilder, who is most fondly remembered forplaying Willy Wonka in the original movie “Willy Wonkaand the Chocolate Factory.” You know, the good one.And we were sitting at lunch one day and I asked him,“How did you land that role?” And he said, “Well, theproducers approached me and asked me if I’d play WillyWonka. And I said, Well let me see the script.” And hetook the script home and read it and came back the nextday and said, “I’ll take this role on one condition.” Hesaid, “When Willy Wonka first comes out of the factory, I want him to be limping with a cane, and I want him toslowly limp up to the gate in total silence, and at the lastminute, I want him to do a somersault and jump up on to his feet and be totally healthy.” And the producer said,“So you won’t do the movie unless you can do that?”And he said, “Right.” And they said, “Well, why?” And he said, “Because from that moment forward, theaudience won’t know whether I’m lying or telling thetruth.” And when you think about that movie, that’s whatmade it work. Gene Wilder brought what was uniquelyhim to the part. He didn’t just show up and read thelines. He became a collaborator in the storytelling process.

So a few months later I found myself at an audition, for the role of a dumb, fat hairy guy. And Ithought, I’m not fat or hairy. And as I sat there and Ilooked at these guys, these guys looked like they wereauditioning for the role of Hagrid in “Harry Potter.” As I sat there and looked at all these ridiculously fullheads of hair, all these negative thoughts started cominginto my head. I have no business being here. I’m never going to get this role. I wonder if that guy usesconditioner. And then I thought of Gene Wilder. Ithought, well, I can’t do what these guys do, but I can do what I do. I can take what’s me and apply it to therole. So instead of making him dumb and slow, I madehim a hyper savant. I put on a pair of goofy glasses, and that’s how I became Arwin.

You are a unique product. Every one of you. Thereis no one like you. There has never been anyone likeyou. And there will never be anyone like you. Your lifeexperiences and your talents. Embrace it. And use it.That’s your secret weapon.

Now, before I wrap up, I want to talk to your parents for a second, ’cause after all they came to see me today. So, I am the father of three children under theage of six. One of them is 10 weeks old. I am in thedeep, deep weeds. About a year ago, my son graduatedfrom preschool, and I bawled like a baby. They had tinylittle caps and gowns; you had to be there. I can’t imaginewhat you’re going through, watching your babies graduatefrom high school. Graduates, as a father of small children, I would like to take a moment on behalf of your parents to remind you of a few things. They changed your diapers.They gave you midnight feedings. Do you know what it’s like to not sleep for a year!? They cleaned up your boo-boos; they gave you advice, and two years ago, againstall of their better judgments, they let you drive their cars.So graduates, I want to give you this opportunity to giveyour parents 18 years worth of well-deserved applause.Let’s give them a round. Okay, parents, don’t get cocky.And grads, now that they’re buttered up, you might want tohit them up for some spending money after the ceremony.I’m just saying.

I can’t tell you how honored I am to have been invited here today. Working for Disney I get to do somepretty cool things, perks of the job, and I have to say that of all the cool things I’ve been able to do, this ranks in thetop 150. Thank you. This is really an honor, and I reallycan’t thank you enough. You guys have been given anincredible gift, coming to this school and having access tothis faculty and these facilities. Look at this place! I’ll behonest with you. I don’t know why you want to leave. I’m actually looking into reenrolling, but I think BrotherRobert would agree that once was enough. I’ll just do my speech and then I’ll leave.

Gilmour has given you a full tank of gas, guys. Dowhat you love. Pour what is uniquely you into it, and Iguarantee you will have a “Suite Life.” Thank you.

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Gilmour Academy

Valedictorian 2010Olivia SabikValedictory AddressMay 30, 2010

Despite being yourvaledictorian, Ihave a bizarre

aversion to dictionaries.They are unwieldy andlarge and make me feelbad about myself becauseI am a horrendous speller.So when I happen tocome across a word Idon’t know I do twothings. First, I whine, saying, “Mom, what doesexpergefacient mean?”

But if, perchance, she is notaround, I usually rely on a guesstimation of sorts, a type of Grejtakian solution. What roots might this word and my limited knowledge of roots have in common? Usuallyit’s not even that complex. I just wonder what I feel likethe word might mean. When I hit the word valedictorian,though, this method was a ghastly failure.

Attempt number one: -dict, dictator? Not likely –although I can be a little bossy, I guess. Attempt numbertwo: dictation? Maybe. It has to do with words. Attemptnumber three: vale? Valet parking? A dictating, valet-seekingdictator? He just wants to park his car! NOW! This wasclearly getting me nowhere until it hit me. “A ValedictionForbidding Mourning!” In AP Literature this year we read17th-century poet John Donne’s “A Valediction ForbiddingMourning” and I can recall Megan Ruff reading the definition of each word in the title in her one-of-a-kind,matter-of-fact definition recitation voice. A valediction is a farewell oration, and mourning is the state of sorrow following great loss.

So I figure that I’m here to say goodbye to our class, to the faculty, to this school where we have all spent atleast one year, if not 15 like Sam Klonaris, Ashleii Kono, and Leigh Richards, but as John Donne conveys in his title,sorrow should be the last thing on our minds. We have allexperienced moments of doubt in our love for this place,moments or whole chunks of time maybe in the month ofFebruary, maybe the week before spring break started, butI don’t think that any one of us can deny that this place isunique and has served us all well in ushering us towardthe next stage in our lives.

Olivia Sabik ’10

Gilmour’s valedictorians over the last couple

of years have, by way of my observation,

had more in common than uncommonly

high grade point averages. More in common, in fact,

than being polymaths, in the classic Greek sense of

being persons of great and varied learning. What has

struck me is that those who emerge at the very top of

Gilmour’s graduating classes combine intellectual power

with intellectual playfulness. There is joy in their

learning and joy is evidenced in the work they produce.

Olivia is, by nature, a joyful person. She brings

enthusiasm to all that she does, whether it is her work

on the honor council, as an environmental steward in

her role as a leader of the Environmental Club, as a

socially conscious member of the student team that

brought the Lost Boys of Sudan to campus or as part

of the Inter-Religious Task Force on Central America

working to support fair trade and fight workplace

injustices. Yet, all of this, though impressive, strikes me

as too austere to fully capture Olivia’s sense of fun and

imagination. During her four years at Gilmour, Olivia

could always be counted on to think through and

identify a unique perspective on an argument that

will deepen and enrich a discussion, to write from a

perspective that adds to our mutual understanding of

text, or to imagine new connections between disciplines

that others don’t pick up on. Olivia was made for a

liberal arts education, not because it will serve her

well, but because she will serve liberal education well!

She will bless Kenyon College with her joyful learning

next year and she will arrive with an interest in

neuroscience, the ultimate interdisciplinary area of

study on campuses these days; however, I will not be

surprised if she emerges with a commitment to

something completely different and having changed her

mind multiple times over her four years of academic

exploration. However her journey unfolds, I am most

confident that she will enjoy the ride and bring joy to

the others who are lucky enough to be travelling with

her! Please join me in welcoming to the podium, the

Class of 2010 Valedictorian, Olivia Sabik.

J. Brian HorganDirector of the Upper School

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This school has given us gifts: confidence, courage,creativity. You need to be quite the complex thinker andcreative problem solver to smuggle seven cookies out ofthe commons, past Mr. Teisl, who has the eyes of a starvedhawk. We developed the ability to articulate, communicate,and as much as possible not procrastinate, but any graduate here will attest to the fact that it was not easy to develop these skills, and we had quite a bit of helpthroughout.

Mr. McCamley introduced us to second chances ourfreshman year with unlimited rewrites, allowing us to growfrom the five-paragraph doldrums to the high tide of vividverbs. Mr. Beach – and only heard this secondhand –danced across tabletops to techno beats, and had his classes engrossed in his stories, employing his own uniquebrand of subliminal education. Señor Monaco and SeñoraCandau helped us to navigate through multiple verb conjugations and the perfect storm of the subjunctivemood, commonly known as the bad mood. These teachershave been more than just means of dispensing information;They have been mentors, confidants, friends.

Teachers aside, our peers are what have made this particular class unique. We proudly acknowledge Jane Kaufmann, scheduled to enter basic training at the Air Force Academy this summer. We will cheer on ourclassmates including Rickey Layton, Bekka Simko, TaylorVolpe, Rachel Noall, Grace Brennan and Nate Fiala as theytriumph in the athletic arena in college. We will scan thenewspaper for names like Helen Zoller, as she commandsthe runways of Europe, Matt Stouffer as he continues todedicate his life to the service of others and Pat Fagan, perhaps Gilmour’s next Arwin or Gilmour’s first GregorMendel. After today we will be forever apart, but as Donnesays, like the twin legs of a compass are two, connected

despite their independentmovement.

You know how weall wondered how Mrs.DiCillo’s geometry classwould serve us in thefuture? Well the answeris in 17th-century poetry.Here, in his compassconceit, Donne is referringto a geometric compass –used to make circles. We,like this compass’ two legs,have a common hinge, and that is Gilmour. So despite thefact that we will be leaving this place, our parting is not asevering of ties, but, as Donne says, “an expansion.” Wewill not be in this place, but this place will always be in us.

Not to have overdone Donne, but in his “MeditationXVII” he states, “No man is an island. Entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main . . .any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whomthe bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” Now the bell tolls for us,not to signal the end of a life, but the end of an era, and as Donne regards his connection to all mankind, so shouldwe savor our connection to one another, now and in thefuture, because as a part of the Gilmour Community, eachone of us can always find comfort, friendship and a familiar face here at the Academy.

So in closing, we’re done. Done with sprints to convocation, done with breakfast for lunch, done with hiding our hoodies beneath bulky blazers, done with John Donne. It is my honor, my privilege, to say to theClass of 2010, well done.

Olivia Sabik with Brother Robert Lavelle C.S.C. and Brian Stepanek ’89

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Most, if not all, in the Gilmour Community are

aware of Lexi’s phenomenal academic record.

From the time she enrolled as a promising

fifth grader, Lexi has impressed her teachers with both

her intellectual talent and uncompromising work ethic –

and both have served her well, attested by her

appearance before you today. But what has impressed

me most about Lexi is that she has actually transcended

the rarefied air she occupies as a truly gifted

and accomplished scholar. What impresses

me is that the mother of a struggling

freshman this fall thought that one way to

buoy her daughter’s spirits and provide her

daughter with inspiration would be to have

her mentored by Lexi, who had already

reached out to her daughter during early

camp and made her feel special and

welcomed; that her AP calculus teacher

chose to write more in her college letter

of recommendation for Lexi about Lexi’s

engagement of others, particularly the

underclassmen during after school extra help

sessions, than of her considerable math skills. I am

impressed that in whatever she does, Lexi finds her

way to the top, whether it is in a leading role in the

spring musical, on the volleyball court for the state

championship game or in Speech and Debate where

she placed fifth nationally in her specialty, Student

Congress. As an AB Duke Scholar, one of 15 students

from around the world recognized for academic

promise and awarded full tuition plus room and board

for four years along with six weeks of summer study at

Oxford University in England, Lexi will have a chance

to test her talents at one of the leading universities in

the nation. As an aside, but one that this proud Upper

School director cannot let go by, Lexi will join fellow

AB Duke scholar-recipient Beth Beam, a member of

Gilmour’s graduating Class of 2009, as representatives

from Gilmour, the only secondary school in the world

to have an AB Duke Scholar named in each of the last

two years. Please join me in welcoming Lexi to the

podium to deliver the salutatory address.

J. Brian HorganDirector of the Upper School

Gilmour Academy

Salutatorian2010Alexis Antunez

Salutatory AddressMay 30, 2010

Will we be remembered? As Iwelcome all of you,

parents, teachers, grandparents,friends, extended family and,most importantly, the Class of2010, I have to wonder, whatmakes our class a memorableone? After time has passed, the chairs are put back intostorage, the ice refreezes, diplomas are put onto shelvesand Gilmour prepares foranother senior class to take our place, who, besides those

of us onstage and our mothers,will look back and reminisce

about how special today was? Well, I can proudly say thatthe people we will be remembered by, those who willshare our nostalgia, are the people we have inspired. Ihave grown up with them over my years here, and fromthe stories they have told me about my classmates, thelook in their eyes when one of us has taken the time tocare, and the friendships that have been a part of our dailylives, I am certain we will not be forgotten. We have notmade this impression because of our achievements,although we have numerous accomplishments. Instead, ourlegacy is in our attitudes, our passion and our dedication to all the things we have done here. The Gilmour AcademyClass of 2010 will never again gather in its entirety, sotoday is a day of celebration, to express the joy of what we are leaving behind.

On such a significant occasion, we look back at what has brought us here, and look forward to many exciting unknowns, and in the future when someone asksus about our high school experience, we will definitelyremember today. But our time at Gilmour is not limited tothis day, or to any single day, or event or moment duringthe past four years. I would love to be able to describeexactly what the Gilmour experience is, but I also wonderwhether that’s even possible.

One skill that is uniquely Gilmour that I will never forget is the use of anecdotes in stories. Last spring, myfamily and I went to the Elton John and Billy Joel concert,

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Lifers Sarah Siedlak and Bekka Simko

and it was amazing. Besides laughing at the old peoplewho would stand up and dance, we loved seeing two brilliant artists coming together, fusing their distinctivestyles and making something new and even more excitingfrom this combination. I don’t share this story just to mention my loving, supportive and outstanding family, orto give all of you an idea of my musical taste, but rather, Italk about this “coming together” of diverse music becauseit mirrors what we have done as a class. Our time here hasbeen a crazy mix of the strange and wonderful, and ourclass can be described in the same way. This characteristicis a large part of how we as a group have inspired others.We have been brave enough to venture outside the spheresof our individual talents, and when we have explored theworlds that our peers inhabit, we have come to admire theskills and enthusiasm found there. We have shown peoplethat blurring these lines is a hallmark of the best artists.

I think Billy Joel stated it best when he said, “When Ilook at great works of art or listen to inspired music, Isense intimate portraits of the specific times in which theywere created.” Looking at our class completely assembledhere today, I see nothing less than an inspired work of art.We are an incredibly unique and varied group that somehow has found identity in our differences. Sportsgames are just as well attended as concerts by our class;we volunteer with as much enthusiasm as we socialize andthe list goes on. We are a mosaic, with each small partplaying a different and vital role in the stunning completepiece. I have been inspired by every one of my classmatesat some point during my time here. Just look at what wehave done.

We have run through rain and snow to make it toconvo on time. We have grown together in stimulatingand memorable classes and we have taken naps together in the not-so-memorable ones. We have painted each others’ faces and cheered until we lost ourvoices while our friends competed on fields, on courtsand in arenas too numerous to count. We have sufferedthrough late nights of stressful studying and dancedthrough even later nights of great parties. We havestolen each other’s gum, borrowed notes and sweatshirts, shared Pop-Tarts and worries and foughtthrough the freshman hallway on a daily basis. Who can say which one of these memories encompassed ourGilmour experience? I don’t think any of us can say thatthere is a distinct time when Gilmour suddenly becamemeaningful. It is because of this that our time here cannot be defined and it cannot be contained. Gilmouritself is forever changed because of the impression wehave left. But also, Gilmour has woven itself into nearlyevery aspect of our lives and we will carry it with us inan infinite number of ways.

So, in the words of Billy Joel, let’s celebrate thisspecific time, during which we have created our memories, forged our characters and discovered thewonders in each other. I have no doubt that every single member of the Class of 2010 will continue toinspire the multitude of people in their lives, whateverpath each one of us takes. So what I charge all of us to do, so that we will shape our lives into memorable masterpieces, is to go out and be inspired.


BRIAN ANTONPROVIDENCE COLLEGE

Additional Acceptances:University of DaytonFairfield UniversityHobart and William Smith Colleges

Loyola University, MarylandMiami University, OxfordSt. Lawrence University

ALEXIS ANTUNEZDUKE UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:Boston CollegeBrown UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityMiami University, OxfordUniversity of PennsylvaniaPrinceton UniversityRensselaer Polytechnic Institute

University of Virginia

DANIEL ARMAGNOKENT STATE UNIVERSITYCOLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE

Additional Acceptances:Bowling Green State University

University of CincinnatiJohn Carroll University

EDWARD ASHERUNIVERSITY OF DAYTON

Additional Acceptances:Xavier University

BREANNA BELLLYNN UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:Arizona State UniversityDefiance CollegeLake Erie CollegeMount Union CollegeNotre Dame College of Ohio

MICHELLE BLAIRBOSTON COLLEGE

Additional Acceptances:Loyola University, ChicagoUniversity of RichmondUniversity of RochesterSkidmore CollegeUniversity of South CarolinaVillanova University

GRAHAM BODUSZEKUNIVERSITY OF DAYTON

Additional Acceptances:Baldwin-Wallace CollegeCanisius CollegeJohn Carroll UniversityMiami University, OxfordWashington and Jefferson College

JULIA BORDENHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:Belmont Abbey CollegeCoastal Carolina UniversityLynn UniversityWestern Carolina University

GRACE BRENNANBUCKNELL UNIVERSITY

MATTHEW BRIGEMANPURDUE UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:John Carroll UniversityMiami University, OxfordThe Ohio State University, Mansfield

ZACHARY BUEHNEROHIOWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:University of DaytonDefiance CollegeJohn Carroll UniversityWashington and Jefferson College

Xavier University

Brett ’08, Eric ’22, Brian ’10and Paige ’14 Anton

Alexis ’10 and Spencer ’12 Antunez

Robert ’07, Joseph ’14, Daniel ’10 and

Thomas ’05 Armagno

Thomas ’02, Michelle ’10 and Erika ’04 Blair

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Graham ’10 and Jocelyn ’13 Boduszek

Kristine ’95 andJulie ’10 Borden

Courtney ’04, Grace ’10 and Brian ’07 Brennan

Alyssa ’09, Matthew ’10 and Scott ’07 Brigeman

Paul ’16, Rachel ’10 and Jennifer ’06 Burger

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Hannah ’10 and Nathaniel ’10Burke

RACHEL BURGERSTETSON UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:Purdue UniversityUniversity of South Carolina

HANNAH BURKETHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF

AMERICA

Additional Acceptances:Bucknell UniversityUniversity of DaytonDenison UniversityDePaul UniversityLoyola University, MarylandProvidence CollegeQuinnipiac University

NATHANIEL BURKETHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF

AMERICA


Trine UniversityWittenberg University

DANIEL CACCAVELLAPROVIDENCE COLLEGE

Additional Acceptances:Clarkson UniversityUniversity of Massachusetts,Lowell

Merrimack CollegeUniversity of New HampshireSt. Lawrence UniversityUnion CollegeUniversity of VermontWorcester Polytechnic Institute

ROSALIE CANDAUCASEWESTERN RESERVE

UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:Saint Mary’s College

KATRINA CARABOOLADSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:Miami University, OxfordProvidence College

BAILEY CLARKARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:University of DaytonFlorida Atlantic University

ANDREW COOPEROHIOWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:Allegheny CollegeUniversity of DaytonMarietta CollegeOtterbein CollegeWashington and Jefferson College

Xavier University

MEGAN CURRANUNIVERSITY OF DAYTON

TARRANEH DADGARST. NORBERT COLLEGE

Additional Acceptances:East Carolina UniversityNorth Carolina State University

SUNY Oswego

WILLIAM DAVISUNIVERSITY OFWISCONSIN,

MADISON

Additional Acceptances:Butler UniversityLoyola University, ChicagoMiami University, OxfordPurdue University

MADELINE DeFINOWAGNER COLLEGE

Additional Acceptances:University of Central Florida

KIMBERLY DICKERSONCASTLETON STATE COLLEGE

Additional Acceptances:Minnesota State University, Mankato

University of North Dakota

RYAN DRAKEMIAMI UNIVERSITY, OXFORD

Additional Acceptances:The Ohio State University, Wooster

Syracuse University

MARSHALL DREWPURDUE UNIVERSITY

KATHRYN DREWDEPAUW UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:Loyola University, ChicagoMiami University, OxfordOhio Wesleyan UniversitySyracuse University

ANDREW DUVALPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY,

UNIVERSITY PARK

Additional Acceptances:Colorado State UniversityUniversity of Denver

PATRICK FAGANUNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME

Additional Acceptances:Denison UniversityDrew UniversityMuhlenberg College


KATELYN FERRARAJOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:The University of AkronBowling Green State University

University of DaytonSlippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

NATHAN FIALARENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC

INSTITUTE

Additional Acceptances:Capital UniversityMiami University, OxfordThe College of Wooster

WILLIAM FISHERMERCYHURST COLLEGE

Additional Acceptances:Baldwin-Wallace CollegeGannon UniversityHiram CollegeJohn Carroll UniversityMount Union CollegeMuskingum UniversityOhio UniversityPennsylvania State University, Erie: The Behrend College

Trine UniversityWashington and Jefferson College

JENNIFER FITZGERALDSUNY COLLEGE AT CORTLAND

Additional Acceptances:Arizona State UniversityNorthern Arizona University

MARK FORLANIUNIVERSITY OF DAYTON


John Carroll UniversityMount Union CollegeOhio UniversityOhio Wesleyan UniversityXavier University

SHELBY GERLUNIVERSITY OF DAYTON

Additional Acceptances:Lehigh UniversityMercyhurst CollegeOhio Northern UniversityUniversity of Rochester

DANA GLUBIAKSAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE

Additional Acceptances:University of Dayton

EVAN HALVERSTADTOHIO UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:University of CincinnatiMiami University, Oxford

JOSEPH HEBDAJUNIOR A HOCKEY

Additional Acceptances:Michigan State University

RYAN HEPHNERUNIVERSITY OF DAYTON

Additional Acceptances:The Ohio State University, Mansfield

Miami University, Oxford

ALLISON HERBEUNIVERSITY OF DAYTON


Ohio University

JAMES HURLEYUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

Additional Acceptances:Case Western Reserve University

Elon UniversityUniversity of South CarolinaSyracuse UniversityXavier University

BRIAN HYLANDMERCYHURST COLLEGE

Additional Acceptances:Ashland UniversityOhio Wesleyan UniversityOtterbein CollegeXavier University

ZARI IVEYARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:University of DaytonMount Union CollegeSaint Louis University

ALEC JANDATHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

Honors

Additional Acceptances:Carnegie Mellon UniversityCase Western Reserve University

Hillsdale CollegeMiami University, Oxford

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Benny ’14, Abigail ’11,Bailey ’10 and Ryan ’08 Clark

Ryan ’08, Katrina ’10 and Nicole ’05 Caraboolad

Leonard ’09, Madeline ’10 and Duncan ’12 DeFino

Lyndsay ’13 and Ryan ’10Drake

Gregory ’74, Andrew ’10 and Patrick ’13 Cooper

Megan ’10 and Carolyn ’12Curran

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Marshall ’10 and Kathryn ’10 Drew

Christopher ’08, Patrick ’10and Molly ’13 Fagan

Katelyn ’10 and Joseph ’13Ferrara

Emily ’04, Nathan ’10 and Robert ’71 Fiala

Stephen ’06 and Mark ’10 Forlani

Jeffrey ’73 and Shelby ’10 Gerl

BROOKE MARIE JARVISLOYOLA UNIVERSITY, CHICAGO

Additional Acceptances:The Catholic University of America

Dominican University of California

Drew UniversityGeorge Mason UniversityGoucher CollegeHigh Point UniversityJohn Carroll UniversityLoyola University, New Orleans

Regis University

JANE KAUFMANNUNITED STATES AIR FORCE

ACADEMY


Hamilton College, New YorkPennsylvania State University, University Park

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

J. ALEX KEENEAMERICAN UNIVERSITY


DePaul UniversityDrexel UniversityFordham UniversityGettysburg CollegeXavier University

MAUREEN KENNYMIAMI UNIVERSITY, OXFORD

Additional Acceptances:The Catholic University of America

University of DaytonJohn Carroll UniversityLoyola University, ChicagoProvidence CollegeSaint Louis UniversitySaint Mary’s College

PAIGE KEPICHPURDUE UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:University of Colorado at Boulder

DePaul UniversityPennsylvania State University, Beaver

DO HAN KIMVANDERBILT UNIVERSITY


JEONG HOON KIMNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:Boston CollegeUniversity of California at Berkeley

University of California at Los Angeles

Carnegie Mellon UniversityCornell UniversityUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of MichiganNew York UniversityUniversity of Notre Dame

PATRICIA KINGTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:Miami University, Oxford

SAMANTHA KLONARISCARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:Bucknell UniversityLehigh UniversitySyracuse UniversityVillanova UniversityWashington University in St. Louis

GEOFFREY KNIGHTALBION COLLEGE

Additional Acceptances:Eastern Michigan UniversityJohn Carroll UniversityWestern Michigan University

ASHLEII KONOROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF

TECHNOLOGY

MARY KRAMERTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

Honors

Additional Acceptances:University of DaytonJohn Carroll UniversityMarquette UniversityMiami University, OxfordUniversity of Miami


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TREVOR LANDGRAFJUNIOR A HOCKEY


Canisius CollegeClarkson UniversityHobart and William Smith Colleges

Mercyhurst CollegeRochester Institute of Technology

SUNY College at Fredonia

RICKEY LAYTON, JR.LEHIGH UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:Baldwin-Wallace CollegeHillsdale CollegeXavier University

KELLEN LEACHUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI

Additional Acceptances:The University of AkronThe Ohio State University, Mansfield

GYU-TAK LEENEWYORK UNIVERSITY

SUNG BIN LEEUNDECIDED

Additional Acceptances:Loyola University, Chicago

ERIK MAYOHIO UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:University of Dayton

BRENDAN McHUGHMIAMI UNIVERSITY, OXFORD

Additional Acceptances:University of DaytonOhio University

BART MERKELBREVARD COLLEGE

Additional Acceptances:Appalachian State UniversityDuquesne UniversityNorthland CollegeUniversity of Wisconsin, Stevens Point

ALEX MOSSBOSTON UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:Connecticut CollegeUniversity of ConnecticutUniversity of Vermont

ALLISON MURRAYDENISON UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:Bucknell UniversityMiami University, OxfordOhio Wesleyan UniversityThe College of Wooster

PHILLIP NASCAJUNIOR A HOCKEY

MONICA NEFFMIAMI UNIVERSITY, OXFORD

Additional Acceptances:Ohio Wesleyan UniversityThe College of Wooster

PETER NEUNDORFERUNDECIDED

Additional Acceptances:The University of AkronAshland UniversityBowling Green State University

RACHEL NOALLUNION COLLEGE

ROBERT O’BRIENSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:American UniversityFordham UniversityIndiana University at Bloomington

Loyola University, MarylandMarquette UniversityMiami University, OxfordTulane University

DANIEL O’MALEYCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY,

SACRAMENTO

SARAH OSBORNEUNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA

Additional Acceptances:Stetson University

CARLI PAPPASOHIO UNIVERSITY

KELLEN PATRICKJUNIOR A HOCKEY

NICOLAS PILLACASEWESTERN RESERVE

UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:University of DaytonDrexel UniversityFordham UniversityNortheastern University

Melissa ’97, Allison ’10 and Donald ’96 Herbe

Connor ’13, Jake ’10 and Peter ’14 Hurley

Sean ’04 and Brian ’10 Hyland

Jessica ’07, Alec ’10 and Scott ’80 Janda

William Navarre ’02, Maureen ’10, Mary ’07 and

Michaela ’05 Kenny

Peter ’09 and Paige ’10 Kepich

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GREGORY PITTMANWESTERNWASHINGTON

UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:Central Washington University

JACQUELINE PORTERLOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND

Additional Acceptances:University of DaytonJohn Carroll UniversityLoyola University, ChicagoUniversity of MichiganNortheastern UniversityXavier University

LINDSAY POWELSONUNIVERSITY OF DAYTON

DALLAS PROVOSTLAKELAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE

STEVEN PRYATELASHLAND UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:The University of AkronBluffton UniversityHiram CollegeJohn Carroll UniversityKent State UniversityTiffin University

EDWARD RAPPFORDHAM UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:University of ConnecticutLoyola University, ChicagoMiami University, OxfordNew York UniversityPennsylvania State University, University Park

LINDSAY REESINGUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

Additional Acceptances:University of California at Los Angeles

University of DaytonThe Ohio State University

HonorsUniversity of Vermont

LEIGH RICHARDSTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:Indiana University at Bloomington

Pennsylvania State University, University Park

MEGAN RUFFJOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:American UniversityThe George Washington University

University of MississippiTulane University

OLIVIA SABIKKENYON COLLEGE

Additional Acceptances:Duke UniversityEmory UniversityUniversity of MichiganThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Oberlin CollegeUniversity of Virginia

SARA SALIBAOBERLIN COLLEGE

CODY SARMIENTOJUNIOR A HOCKEY

Additional Acceptances:Michigan State University

JULIANA SCHILLINGBOSTON UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:American UniversityUniversity of ConnecticutRutgers, The State University of New Jersey at New Brunswick

Syracuse University

TAYLOR SEAYUNIVERSITY OF DENVER

Additional Acceptances:Elon UniversityMiami University, OxfordRhodes College

AUSTIN SEVERSONPOST GRADYEAR

MORGAN SHEPARDJOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY

LEO SIDERASINDIANA UNIVERSITY AT

BLOOMINGTON

Additional Acceptances:Ball State UniversityCapital University

SARAH SIEDLAKUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI


Clemson University

REBEKKA SIMKOPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY,

UNIVERSITY PARK

TYLER SMITHMOUNT UNION COLLEGE

Additional Acceptances:The University of AkronMuskingum University

John ’09 and Patricia ’10 King

George ’17, Samantha ’10 and Diana ’12 Klonaris

Heather ’01 and Ashleii ’10 Kono

Lawrence ’08, Mary ’10 andMeghan ’11 Kramer

Rickey ’10 and Brittany ’11 Layton

Michaela ’14 and Kellen ’10 Leach


JACK SOUKENIKLYNCHBURG COLLEGE


College of Mount St. JosephThe Ohio State University, Mansfield

Trine University

MATTHEW STOUFFERTHE COLLEGE OFWOOSTER

Additional Acceptances:Butler UniversityOhio Wesleyan UniversityTransylvania UniversityWittenberg University

ALYSSA TREBILCOCKHOBART ANDWILLIAM SMITH

COLLEGES

Additional Acceptances:Drexel UniversityEckerd CollegeOld Dominion UniversityUniversity of Rhode IslandSalve Regina UniversityWashington College

ANNE VENZORUNIVERSITY OFWISCONSIN,

MADISON

Additional Acceptances:Loyola University, ChicagoMichigan State UniversityPurdue University

TAYLOR VOLPECOLGATE UNIVERSITY

MATTHEW WARRENXAVIER UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:Butler UniversityHigh Point UniversityWittenberg University

MOLLY WILLIAMSST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY

VALERIE YAXJOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY

Additional Acceptances:The University of AkronBaldwin-Wallace College

JOHN YOUNGUNIVERSITY OF DAYTON

Additional Acceptances:Ashland UniversityJohn Carroll University

HELEN ZOLLERUNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS

LONDON

Additional Acceptances:Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, Los Angeles

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Gyu-Tack ’10 and Hyun-Young ’07 Lee

Jane and Allison ’10 Murray

Mark ’06 and Phillip ’10 Nasca

Tiffany ’05 and Monica ’10 Neff

Eric ’09, Peter ’10 and Paul ’83 Neundorfer

Rachel ’10 and Weston ’14 Noall

Ann Chiarucci G.O. ’76, Robert ’10 and

Kathleen ’11 O’Brien

Michael ’13 and Daniel ’10 O’Maley

Julia ’14, Nicolas ’10 andAlexandria ’09 Pilla

William ’84, Jacqueline ’10 and Nicole ’12 Porter

Michael ’08, Meghan ’13,Steven ’10 and Steven ’78 Pryatel

Holly ’12 and Drew ’10 Rapp

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Matthew ’08, Tyler ’10 and Alec ’13 Smith

Joseph ’80, Anna ’12 and Jack ’10 Soukenik

Grace ’08, James ’15, Anne ’10 and

Alexandra ’11 Venzor

Ted ’07 and Molly ’10 Williams

John ’80, John ’10 and Charles ’07 Young

Adrian ’06 and Helen ’10 Zoller

John ’07 and Leigh ’10 Richards

Tania ’13, Danny ’22 and Sara ’10 Saliba

Cameron ’08, Courtney ’14and Austin ’10 Severson

Ryan ’11 and Morgan ’10 Shepard

Katherine ’11 and Leo ’10 Sideras

Sarah ’10 and Dennis ’08 Siedlak

Eddie Asher, Hannah and Nathaniel Burke, Brian Anton

Class of

College Placement

Statistics

Fast Facts on Gilmour Academy’s Class of 2010

(106 graduates)

Number of graduates reporting scholarship assistance: 66

Total amount of scholarshipassistance reported:$7,044,862

Number of National Merit Finalists: 1

Number of graduates signed to play Division Iathletics: 6

Number of graduates committed to play DivisionII and III athletics: 12


Congratulations to those students in theClass of 2010 who werehonored at the 2010Senior Awards program. The following studentswere recognized with special awards and commendations:

VALEDICTORIANOlivia Sabik

SALUTATORIANAlexis Antunez

2009-2010 NATIONAL MERITSCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM FINALISTAlexis Antunez

COMMENDED STUDENTSJane KaufmannNicolas Pilla

NATIONAL HISPANIC RECOGNITIONPROGRAMAlexis Antunez

PHI BETA KAPPA RECOGNITIONPatrick Fagan

GILMOUR TROPHIESNicolas PillaJacqueline Porter

BR. THEOPHANE SCHMITT TROPHIESBailey ClarkKatelyn Ferrara

APPOINTMENT TO THE UNITED STATESAIR FORCE ACADEMYJane Kaufmann

2010 GRADUATING SENIORS WHOMAINTAINED 4.0 GRADE POINT AVERAGEFOR FOUR YEARSAlexis AntunezMichelle BlairPatrick FaganJennifer FitzgeraldAlec JandaJeong Hoon KimSamantha KlonarisJacqueline PorterMegan RuffOlivia SabikSarah Siedlak

THE DIRECTOR OF THE

UPPER SCHOOL AWARDKatrina CarabooladAlex KeenePeter NeundorferRachel NoallJuliana SchillingSarah SiedlakTyler Smith

THE DENIS HOYNES ’51 AWARDJames HurleyMary Kramer

THE CHARLES A. MOONEY ’52 TROPHIESZachary BuehnerRebekka Simko

Jane Kaufmann and Nicolas Pilla

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CUM LAUDE SOCIETYDr. Elizabeth Fesler, consultant and former director of the

Upper School, was the featured speaker during the 2010 Cum

Laude Society’s ceremony. Rosalie Candau, Katrina Caraboolad,

Jennifer Fitzgerald, Shelby Gerl, Jane Kaufmann, Patricia King,

Mary Kramer, Allison Murray, Nicolas Pilla, Edward Rapp and

Lindsay Reesing were inducted joining classmates Alexis Antunez,

Michelle Blair, Patrick Fagan, Alec Janda, Jeong Hoon Kim,

Samantha Klonaris, Jacqueline Porter, Megan Ruff, Olivia Sabik

and Sarah Siedlak. Inducted as juniors were Mackenzie

Alexander, Kathleen Bloom, Caitlin Brett, Megan Covington,

Hyeun-Seung Hong, Jenna Klein, Brittany Layton, James Miller,

John Mohorcic, Michael Phillips and Laura Wasnick.

The Academy Awards“

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THE CHARLES MURRAY ’60 STUDENTHUMANITARIAN AWARDMatthew Stouffer

THE BR. DAVID BALTRINIC AWARDRosalie Candau

THE ROBERT B. TOMARO ’67 HONOR AWARDEdward Rapp

THE THOMAS P. MULLIGAN AWARDBrooke Marie JarvisTaylor Seay

THE BR. JAMES O’DONNELL CAMPUSRESIDENCY AWARDAlex MossCody Sarmiento

THE BASIL MOREAU AWARDRosalie CandauLeo Sideras

THE BR. ROBERT KELLY OUTSTANDINGSTUDENT SERVICE AWARDMatthew Warren

THE BLESSED BR. ANDRÉ AWARDJulia BordenLeo Sideras

THE CHAPLAIN’S AWARDDaniel ArmagnoHannah BurkeMaureen KennyPaige KepichAllison MurrayMonica NeffRobert O’BrienSteven Pryatel

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN

AP BIOLOGYPatrick FaganAlec Janda

THE PAUL PRIMEAU SCIENCE AWARDJeong Hoon Kim

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN FOREIGNLANGUAGERosalie CandauSara Saliba

THE WILLIAM G. MOORE II ’51 ENGLISH AWARDMegan Ruff

THE JOHN GALE ENGLISH AWARDOlivia Sabik

2010 HOLY CROSS LITERATURE AWARDMichelle BlairJane Kaufmann

JOURNALISM/YEARBOOK AWARDJames HurleyJacqueline Porter

JOURNALISM/LANCE AWARDCarli Pappas

THE WINSTON CHURCHILL AP MODERNEUROPEAN HISTORY AWARDAlec JandaAlex KeeneRachel Noall

THE THOMAS JEFFERSONAMERICAN GOVERNMENT AWARDAlexis AntunezAlec JandaEdward Rapp

DISTINGUISHED MUSICIAN AWARDAlec Janda

DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT IN ARTAWARDAshleii KonoRachel NoallHelen Zoller

Arin Tait and Matthew StoufferSister Mary Ann Mehling, Julie Borden and Leo Sideras

Mary Kramer and James Hurley

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Sara Saliba, Cindy Candau andRosalie Candau


EDUCATINGTHE HEART:

A MORAL COMPASSGILMOURACADEMY SPEAKER SERIES

FACING FRENZY HEADON

Crossing the line

between busy

and crazy is a route

many harried

parents travel daily.

Crowding too much

into everyday life

has almost become

a sacrosanct part

of our frantic

schedules.

Psychiatrist and

New York Times

bestselling author,

Edward “Ned”

Hallowell, will tackle

this issue when he addresses parents at noon Monday,

October 18, in the Residence Hall’s Community Room at

Gilmour Academy at a box lunch lecture.

Hallowell has been in practice for more than 25

years and is the founder of the Hallowell Centers in

New York and Boston. He is nationally known for his

expertise on ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), ADHD

(Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) and mental

health and well being. He is the author of “CrazyBusy:

Overstretched, Overbooked, and about to Snap!:

Strategies for Handling Your Fast-Paced Life.”

He will talk to Gilmour parents about stress, illness,

accidents and errors and rudeness – all things that being

overly busy can cause – and how they prevent people

from controlling their lives. The speaker will offer some

solutions and show parents how to create their own

solutions to this endemic problem. He also will explore

ways to create a positive emotional environment and to

find one’s own rhythm.

The author of 14 books, Hallowell has been featured

in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times and USA Today

and has appeared on “60 Minutes,” “Today” and “Oprah.”

His talk is part of a series of family workshops and

lectures called Educating the Heart: A Moral Compass,

supported by the family of Michael Pender, a 1990

alumnus who died the following year. The Pender

family established the speaker series in his memory.

For reservations, please contact Arlene Smith at

(440) 473-8057 or by email at [email protected].

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Five Gilmour Academy students were honored

May 27 by the Cleveland Clinic for their poster

and PowerPoint presentation analyzing the ethical use

of a prescreening tool for high-risk breast and ovarian

cancers. Graduating seniors Julia Borden, Brooke

Marie Jarvis and Patricia King and Alison Althans ’11

and Matthew Pender ’11 won the

Cleveland Clinic’s Bioethics Distance

Learning Program’s first Research

Day Poster and PowerPoint

Competition.

“The students assumed the

duties of an internal review board

meant to protect the rights of human subjects

in research,” says Dr. Deanne Nowak, dean

of institutional and curriculum research at Gilmour.

They identified and analyzed potential ethical issues

associated with a project carried out last summer by

Randi Michel, a student intern at Hillcrest Hospital.

At the Cleveland Clinic’s Bioethics Research Day

last spring, the students showcased their work through

Top Clinic Poster Prize Goes to Gilmourthe PowerPoint presentation and their poster was

displayed for one week in the Lerner Research Institute

skyway.

The Gilmour project was part of Nowak’s elective

class Controversial Issues in Science where students

use controversies to hone critical thinking skills by

articulating arguments, questioning

premises, identifying assumptions,

seeking explicit definitions and

demanding evidence. In their

analysis of the Pedigree Assessment

Tool (PAT), a patient survey of the

history of breast and ovarian cancers

within families, the students expressed concerns about

nonmaleficence, which means “First, do no harm,”

autonomy and justice. The tool uses points to assess

incidences of cancer indicating increased risk, says

Nowak. The concerns stem from poor societal

understanding of genetics, insufficient resources for

follow-up care and disparities among ethnic groups

in seeking cancer prescreening.

“The students assumed the duties

of an internal review board

meant to protect the rights of

human subjects in research.”

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Rosalind Strickland, Ali Althans ’11, Matthew Pender ’11 and Dr. Deanne Nowak


The Orange Village Community Board was morethan attentive in June when seventh graders

from Gilmour Academy’s Middle School presenteda PowerPoint presentation about the findings oftheir second annual BioBlitz bio-survey.

In the spring, 36 students, four Middle Schoolteachers and a freelance naturalist from theCleveland Botanical Society and Museum scouredthe woods in the community park studying plants,animals, flowers, trees and fungi, and recordedtheir observations. They also used biology booksto identify insects and other creatures found in the woods and boosted their statistical analysis by blocking off sections of the woods in a grid to count all the plants and animals and create a database.

Megan Porter, James Venzor, Ryan Seibert andMax Hanson talked to the board about what theylearned doing the bio-survey and the challengesthey faced gathering, coordinating and culling theinformation from the entire seventh-grade class.

The board directed questions to the studentsabout the differences they found in the park ecology from last year. The students prepared two posters about the various types of trees found in the park and a comparison of leaves and bark, which will be posted on kiosks in thepark. Prior to visiting the park, the students took preparatory trips to the Gates Mills LandConservancy to raise their acuity as naturalists,according to Jennifer Ault, Middle School scienceinstructor.

This is the second year the students participated in the BioBlitz. Previously, the students suggested places to add trail signs andways to properly identify the plants by their scientific names noting those that might be invasive to the woods.

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MIDDLE SCHOOL NATURALISTS

Jim Olexa, Sun News

Jim Olexa, Sun News


Eighth graders in Gilmour’s Middle School masteredphysics with boats they designed, tested and raced

in Gilmour’s new natatorium. Michael Mallak andAgnes Mirando won the grand prize – a rubber ducktrophy – in the fifth annual Boat Float. Awards werepresented for the fastest, densest and least dense boatsand for shipbuilding engineering.

The Boat Float is an integrated art-science projectwhere students design scale models in art class andbuild full-size boats in science class, then race them inthe pool as they explore experimental design, densityand buoyancy.

This year’s theme for the art class was based on the seven Holy Cross charisms so each boat wasrequired to represent a charism – zeal, hope, inclusiveness, the Cross, forgiveness, hospitality and option for the poor.Matthew Vanek, art instructor for theMiddle and Upper schools, and hisclass focused on concept development,design and scale model building.

The students’ mission was todesign cardboard boats, held togetherwith duct tape that would carry studentteams from one end of Gilmour’s poolto the other. The participants had tohuff and puff a little harder this yearsince the new natatorium is almost

double the size of the original. More than a few boatsflipped over dousing their crews.

With the “density-based science project,” studentswere asked to calculate the density of their boats when they were building them to make sure that the boats’ density would be less than the water’s. The engineering design investigation of density and buoyancy helped students understand these influenceson how a boat is designed, modeled, tested and built,notes Jennifer Ault, Middle School science instructor.

As part of the science class, students investigatedstewardship of water resources and water’s chemicalproperties: surface tension, capillary action and water as a solvent.

THE PHYSICS OF FLOATING

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A Canvas thatConnects Through Faith

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The first

Friday

of the

school year

found eager

young faces

from Gilmour

Academy’s

Lower School

staring up at a

symbolic new

interfaith mural

in the International Exhibition Hall. Just below the

ceiling, the 40-foot-wide mural exhibits the children’s

connection through faith, yet also celebrates and

recognizes the children’s four faiths.

Entitled “The Search for Truth,” the mural is a gift

from the Zai family who commissioned artist Todd

Volkmer to create the work. It is a combination of

acrylic and latex paint on canvas and visually displays

the faces and hands of people who are brown, white,

yellow and red symbolizing inclusiveness through

words from the Bible, Torah, Koran and Bagavadgita.

“Our Holy Cross mission calls us to cross

borders of every sort by understanding different beliefs

and respecting diversity,” says Dr. Monica Veto, director

of the Lower School and Montessori Preschool Program.

The mural, which sets off the hall like graphic

crown molding, is designed “to inspire a better

understanding of peoples of all faiths,” says Gilmour

parent Eddy Zai. Even though the four holy books are

written in different languages – Greek, Hebrew, Arabic

and Sanscript – the words feature a similar belief.

“The message of all these holy books has

one common thread, expressing one language of God

and centered on one commandment: to love one

another,” says Campus Minister Father John Blazek ’58,

C.S.C. The message is written in each religion’s native

script. “The mural represents all of the religions of

our Lower School families,” Veto noted at the mural’s

dedication August 27.

At the blessing and dedication, Father John made

reference to the vision of Blessed Father Basil Moreau,

founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross, who

believed that the Congregation’s ministry was to allow

every person to come to know God better and to

worship God with his or her whole heart and soul.

Gilmour’s Middle and Upper schools also reflect this

vision through a display of carved wooden plaques in

the Frantz Atrium. They portray the inclusion of the


Dr. Monica Veto and the Zai family


Holy Cross mission and the ministry of its priests,

brothers and sisters. In educating people in the

Catholic faith, it is important to understand and

appreciate the similarities and differences among

all different cultures of the world.

“It is part of our Holy Cross mission to make

ourselves at home among all the different cultures

of the world,” Veto says.

The hope is that Lower School families will

continue their children’s education at home, Veto says,

through meaningful discussions about the similarities

between faiths and appreciate the differences.

The mural speaks to the core values of Holy Cross –

inclusivity, hospitality, forgiveness and hope – that

“binds us together in the life-giving commandments

of God, which call us to love,” Father John adds.

During the mural’s dedication, the exhibition

area was renamed the International Exhibition Hall

to reflect the heritage of the Gilmour families in the

Lower School. The hall displays 34 flags representing

the students’ countries of origin.

“The Search for Truth”Artist’s Statement

“Throughout history, religion has

had a powerful effect on mankind.

Religion can motivate us in such

powerful ways, it can draw people

together just as easily as drive us

apart. The interesting thing is that,

when one takes the time to research

the various religions, we begin to

see some striking commonalities.

For me it is proof that all religions

are centered around one central

truth, that all religions emanate from

a singular source, and somewhere in

all that writing, the truth that men

seek can be found. It is my hope that

when we all find it we can find true

peace and a complete relationship

with God.”

Todd Volkmer, June 2010

“It is part of our Holy Cross mission tomake ourselves at home among all thedifferent cultures of the world.”

Dr. Monica M. Veto

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Armed with their trowels, eight children in Gilmour

Academy’s Traditional Kindergarten program and

their mothers planted spring flowers in a Mary Garden

at the Lower School. The medieval custom of honoring

Mary, the Mother of Jesus, started in Europe and spread

around the world. The Mary Garden typically features

a statue of the Madonna along with flowers and herb

plants that symbolize her virtues. The children planted

daffodils, ox-eye daisies, tulips, geraniums, grape

hyacinth and mint, then sang for their mothers and

participated in a short prayer service. The Lower School

Parents Organization donated funds for the project.


“Kindergarten

is a time when

children are very

attached to their

mothers, and the

mother-child

relationship

expressed by

Jesus and Mary

is reminiscent of

the Kindergarteners’ relationships with their own

mothers,” says Eileen Pryatel, a long-term substitute

teacher at the Lower School. Pryatel worked with

Montessori Directress Mary Beth Hayes-Zatko in

designing the garden and with Miklus Florist, which

provided a significant discount, in selecting plants that

would be suitable for the climate in Northeast Ohio.

The students studied Mary and her life and

virtues in their religion class. They learned gestures

to accompany the Hail Mary prayer and wrote prayers

and petitions to Mary, says religion instructor Edie

Joyce, who helped identify Marian flowers for the

project. In science, the students explored roots, buds,

flower parts, pollination and the differences between

annuals and perennials plants.

UnveilingMedieval Mary

Garden


CLOSE ENCOUNTERSOFA GIRL KIND

Girls and compatibility – this pretty much describeswhat the Gilmour Girls for Girls project is all about.

Fifth and sixth graders in the Lower School are getting a healthy dose of how to form and sustain healthy relationships with each other at this critical juncture in their lives when they often derive self-esteem fromtheir friends.

The Gilmour program builds on activities and concepts developed through the Ophelia Project calledCreating a Safe Social Climate in Our Schools. The program has been modified to fit the needs of Gilmourstudents. Pat Brubaker, dean of student development,and Susan Goldberg, Lower School counselor during the 2009-2010 school year, have trained six Upper School mentors to work with the older Lower School girls through sessions to help them navigate the roughwaters of preadolescence often marked by tentative and challenging girl-to-girl relationships. The girls arelearning to find their voice in socially challenging situations in a school environment that is supportive and accepting of all girls.

“Susan and I began talking about developing a program that brought Upper and Lower school girlstogether in a mentoring/role modeling program with agoal to build healthy relationships,” Brubaker says. “We worked with the Upper School students on understanding the nature of peer aggression and the use of problem solving in dealing with peer aggression.”

Three sessions in the pilot project last spring focusedon storytelling, role-playing, structured activities and discussion circles to help the younger girls becomeengaged. “Girl-to-girl relationships can be great but alsoconfusing,” Goldberg says. “We want them to understandthat we all face similar challenges that we can learn fromand help each other.” The Lower School students alsoare discovering a new vocabulary to discern betweenrelational, verbal and physical aggression; bullying andovert and covert aggression. The Lower School isexpanding the program adding sessions and participants.

Parents play a crucial role in the success of this effortbecause they are the most influential people in their children’s lives. Whether they have sons or daughters,parents should take their children’s concerns to heart and avoid minimizing theirchallenges as they learn to negotiate conflicts inhealthier ways. Theyshould emphasize familytime and limit their children’s exposure to the media and its possibleimpact on behavior. The counselors advise thatparents get to know theparents of their children’s friends and encourage theirown children to have friends and activities beyondGilmour. At the same time, parents should not stresspopularity as a family value or push children into thesocial scene too early.

The girls are learning to

find their voice in socially

challenging situations in a

school environment that is

supportive and accepting

of all girls.

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Be prepared for third graders to come home

eager and more excited about the new school

year. The Lower School is about to launch

them into the world of netbooks, a mini laptop

computer that will expand their learning landscape.

“Gilmour has purchased an HP Mini Netbook for

every third-grade student,” says Dr. Monica Veto,

director of the Lower School and Montessori Preschool

Program. “Classmates will be better able to collaborate

on projects and communicate with their counterparts

around the world as this initiative sparks their sense of

wonder and discovery and spurs their creative spirit,”

she says. The addition of netbooks also reinforces

learning as a social and experimental process.

The netbooks operate with Windows 7 and weigh

less than three pounds. They have a long battery

life and can be easily transported from class to class.

Consistent digital access will allow students to collect


Netbooks: Spot on for the Classroom

data for analysis, evaluate real-world content, apply

critical thinking skills to writing and oral presentations

and find solutions to actual problems as they become

independent learners.

What might a third grader’s day be like using a

netbook?

Students could start the day writing an online

journal, then check the weather and news online. Math

and science instructor Laurie Gajda and humanities

instructor Theresa Stark will send assignments on the

netbook. Students will complete them online and

several examples will be discussed using the SMART

board. They also will take notes online. If an

interdisciplinary project is assigned, they will gather

information from a class web page where the teachers

post links to pre-approved websites. The students will

download images and collaboratively write a group

narrative on their

computers. They will

graph data comparing

dimensions, post maps

and prepare detailed

reports that include

digital photos and

history.

“In a 21st-century

learning environment,

the tools and activities

should be consistent

with those used outside

of school,” says

Cathleen White, director of instructional technology.

Instead of just teacher-directed questions, activities

and assessments, the third graders will use their

netbooks to assess and evaluate information, develop

notes, create electronic concept maps for analysis and

develop critical thinking skills that will be applied to

writing articles, email exchanges and web publications.

Information can be continuously updated and text size

Laurie Gajda and Theresa Stark

“Classmates will be better

able to collaborate on

projects and communicate

with their counterparts

around the world as this

initiative sparks their sense

of wonder and discovery and

spurs their creative spirit.”

Dr. Monica Veto


History Day Redux

Twelve sixth graders advanced to National History

Day in Ohio after qualifying at the district

competition at Case Western Reserve University in the

spring. Their exhibits, documentary and performance

entries ranged from polio vaccines and the Prohibition

to recycling and X-rays. The students’ enterprising

works focused on the theme “Innovation in History:

Impact and Change” and were entered in the junior

category for fifth- and sixth-grade students.

The 12 Gilmour students who advanced to the

state competition are the following:

• Nicole Kastelic – The X-Ray: The Mistake

That Changes the World

• Annalise Minello and Caroline Ursu –

Passage to Freedom: An Innovative Network

• Adam and Zach Asher – Prohibition:

“The Noble Experiment”

• Berkley Kruschke and Theresa Egan –

Recycling: An Innovative Solution

• Chelsea Christian, Kelly Davis, Brooke

Wurzburger and Christian Borkey –

The Beginning of the End: Polio Vaccines

• Tim O’Neill – The Cleveland Clinic Group

Practice Model: An Innovation in Medical Care

During National History Day, students examine

pivotal people, places and events in world history

through documentaries, exhibits and performances.

According to the event’s organizers, the program

provides “an opportunity for students to push past

the antiquated view of history as mere facts and dates

and to drill down into historical content to develop

perspective and understanding.”

and reading level can be adapted for each

student.

“For most people, learning to use a new

tool does not mean abandoning other ones

(except when others become obsolete),”

says White. “Young people need to know

how to use and choose their tools well and

we can help them with that, whether the

tool is a pencil or a netbook.”

Gajda and Stark plan to create and

design innovative lessons and are confident

that even though students have different

computer skills, they will be able to get

them to a consistent comfort level with

netbook tasks and applications. The

instructors will be better able to teach to

students’ varying learning styles and enhance

learning through multisensory activities that

empower students to achieve their potential.

“We also will provide students with real-

world experiences and skills that will enrich

learning and increase their engagement in

learning,” the two teachers say.

Students will be able to communicate

with the teacher electronically and will be

continuously engaged because they are not

sharing a computer with other students.

Those who complete an assignment before

their classmates can visit a Moodle site that

has activities to boost their skills in

language, science, math and social studies.

Parents also will be beneficiaries of the

new program. Teachers can share student

work immediately with them and communi-

cate on curriculum matters regarding student

work and achievement.

“A 21st-century skill,” Veto says, “is the

ability to recognize technology’s potential to

transform the learning environment.”

“Young people need to know how to

use and choose their tools well and

we can help them with that, whether

the tool is a pencil or a netbook.”

Cathleen White

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Hello, my name isKathryn Holleran.

I am a sixth-grade student and presidentof the Lower SchoolStudent LeadershipCouncil.

This is a sad andhappy day for most of us. Happy, becauseit’s summer! But sad,

because some of us are moving on. The thoughts that Iam sharing with you are mine, but I’m sure all the othersixth graders are feeling the same kinds of things too.

I started here at Gilmour when I was in Montessori,one month after I turned three, that’s 10 years ago! So,yes I’m a “lifer.” I’ve enjoyed my yearsat Gilmour a lot, so much that I wanted to tell everyone, including myparents, brother, teachers, classmatesand all the Lower School students how I felt.

What Gilmour has done for me is made me a good person. WithGilmour’s help I have become a well-rounded, intelligent person. Every daywhen I walk into the school, I amhappy and ready for the new dayahead of me. I feel excited to learn and ready to havefun. I know that each of us students has a place in Dr.Veto’s heart, all the teachers’ hearts, and the staff’s hearts,even I hold a place in my heart for everyone here. Afterall, Gilmour does educate the mind and the heart.

At Gilmour you don’t walk the halls wondering whoanyone is, because you know most everyone by name!You feel safe and secure so even if you need help, youknow you have friends and teachers by your side everywhere and you can go to any adult in the building.

Because of the smaller-sized classes you really get to know the teachers and they can help each student individually. You always leave a classroom feeling likeyou learned something valuable. Because the teacherscan help each student one-on-one, this brings our workto its highest ability.

Every day students are at Gilmour they each learnso much. We learn basic and advanced skills. When weare in class we aren’t just sitting there watching theteachers write notes on a board. We are applying theskills through fun projects, math and science activities,and research or creative writing.

Mrs. Fantelli, or Fan, who is one of my teachers,always says to read between the lines. What Mrs.Fantelli means by “reading between the lines” is that we are not just reading the words, or reading on the lines, but we think deeper to make personalconnections, connections that are meaningful for understanding life or basically anything you do.

Here at Gilmour, that is what we do. We learnhow to do things and actually use our minds. We trulyread between the lines, because it’s not as much aboutthe answer as much as it is about HOW you got the

answer.Over the course of my years at

Gilmour I have grown into who I amtoday, something that I couldn’t havedone without Gilmour. I just wisheverything would slow down, becausethese last few days have gone by tooquickly. But, eventually, everythingmust come to an end, and this is it for me and my classmates. We will be exploring the Middle School here

at Gilmour or, for a few, exploring new adventures at other schools. No matter where the summer’s end takes you, I would like to thank you all.

I would also like to thank the Gilmour staff, teachers, aftercare, the parent board, and maintenanceand housekeeping. I would also like to thank myfriends. You were always there for me when I neededyou most. I would also like to thank Harriet and Tom Holleran, otherwise known as Mom and Dad, for sending me to this wonderful school full of people that I can trust and care for.

So, this is it. The last few moments of callingmyself a sixth grader. It’s all come to an end too soon,but life will go on. I will miss the Lower School nextyear, but I will visit as much as possible. Thank you,Gilmour Lower School.

Kathryn Holleran ’14Speech on Friday, June 4, 2010

Here at Gilmour, that is what

we do. We truly read between

the lines, because it’s not as

much about the answer as

much as it is about HOW

you got the answer.

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Shakespeare Saunters into New Territory

Can Shakespeare compete with Facebook andTwitter in the literacy arena? Gilmour Academy

English instructors Elizabeth Edmondson and CoreenGorbett Schaefer ’02 make a case that they can.Research suggests that students today feel a disconnectbetween the types of literacy activities they participatein during their free time and those that educators use in teaching in the classroom, Edmondson says.

Although the task to rectify the two can be daunting, Edmondson and Schaefer shared their insightsin March at the Ohio Council of Teachers of Englishand Language Arts Conference in Worthington, Ohio. They examined their findings in their presentation“Shakespeare Meet Wiki: Creating Relevance in the 21st Century Classroom.”

“Teenagers are known to favor real-life literacysuch as blogging, social networking and digital media over formal classroom reading assignments,”Edmondson says. Studies show they want choices in what they read and the ability to multitask, interact

How can schools adapt their journalism programswhen the prospects for print journalism are

uncertain? Gilmour Academy English instructor John Overman addressed this issue at the ColumbiaScholastic Press Association (CSPA) Convention March 17-19 at Columbia University.

Rather than teach to the industry, Overman says,teach to the power of journalism. He believes the skills journalists develop – balance, objectivity, clarity, credibility, precision and accuracy – will benefit students pursuing any career. Overman suggestsschools might want to consider producing a news video instead of a newspaper. This will help studentsadapt to a digital medium, an approach he used lastyear when his students produced a televised tour ofGilmour’s new Athletic Center. “Digital media mayreplace print media, but quality news will always be in demand,” he says.

A Jaunting Task for Journalism

Overman also teaches printjournalism and video productionat the Academy and is the adviser for Gilmour’s studentpaper, The Lance, and for ThePrep yearbook. He joined theGilmour faculty in 2004, afterreceiving his bachelor’s degree inEnglish and a master’s degree ineducation from John Carroll University and teaching in the Baltimore City School System.

Last year, Overman worked with students in hisaudiovisual production class on interviewing skills, filming and editing as they learned what it takes tobecome an entrepreneur. In a pilot program, the students interviewed six entrepreneurs, including A. Malachi Mixon, board chair and CEO of InvacareCorporation. Ashland University features the film series on its website.

John Overman

and get immediatefeedback.

The Gilmourteachers talked tothe educators about practical classroom-ready lessons on the topics of independent reading and student-selected texts,media literacy and digital applications for traditionalreading assignments. They also discussed their ownDigital Learning Communities project in which their students work in small clusters reading a classic noveland building a wiki – a website they can co-construct and edit similar to Wikipedia. The project bridges the interest gap and demonstrates the students’ understanding and analysis of the books they select.

“The students begin to discern their own preferences in literature,” Edmondson says, “and develop a lifelong love of reading.”

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Elizabeth Edmondson


Fit as a Fiddle

Nancy Janasek ’85 really thought she started offon the wrong foot with Barbara Vaughn the first

time her freshman class went to the Gilmour natatorium for swimming.

“Do you know your brother Dave ’71 picked meup and threw me in the pool in front of my entireclass?” Vaughn asked her. “I thought I just startedfour years of hell,” Janasek says. Today she remembers Vaughn “as one of the most dedicatedteachers and coaches who always played by therules. She was kind, fair, honest and human.”

After more than 40 years on the faculty of GlenOak School and Gilmour Academy, Vaughn retired in June. “Barb has had a great influence on manystudents and colleagues through her dedication andcommitment,” says Gilmour Headmaster BrotherRobert Lavelle, C.S.C.

Barb Vaughn was in the vanguard of physical fitness for children long before it was a causecélèbre. “Barb has always found the balance forattending to students who excel at sports as well as those who are just finding how to hone theircoordination skills,” says Dr. Monica Veto, director ofthe Lower School and Montessori Preschool Program.“She always researched alternate activities to meetstudents’ varying abilities, interests and needs andpromoted teamwork and problem solving andhelped them accept their mistakes.”

As a physical education instructor at the LowerSchool, Vaughn pioneered changes to the curriculumthat incorporated exercise into recess and 30-minutepull-out sessions from classes for exercise and teamgames. She also introduced separate quarter-semester concentrations in swimming, ice skating,team sports and strengthening and conditioning.

“The Lower School’s physical education programprovides opportunities for all students to develop anappreciation for the enjoyment of movement,”Vaughn says. “They participate in a wide range ofactivities that develop their motor skills, improveflexibility and increase fitness levels.” She is a proponent of teaching in a supportive and non-threatening atmosphere in which every student can be successful.

One of the founding faculty at Glen Oak,

Vaughnjoined theschool in1969 after earning a bachelor’s degree from Notre DameCollege. She liked the idea of teaching health andphysical education and the concept of the openclassroom appealed to her.

Her idea of a good physical education programis one that “enables all students to enhance theirquality of life through active learning.”

After Glen Oak merged with Gilmour in 1982,which Vaughn believes turned out to be the bestthing for both schools, she continued teaching physical education and health in the Upper Schooland coached tennis and girls basketball. Going fromteaching girls to teaching coed classes took a whileto get used to, she recalls. “It actually helped to getsome of the girls to work harder,” she says, “so theywouldn’t be shown up by the boys.”

After pinch-hitting for a Lower School teacher in 1996, Vaughn found that she really enjoyed theyounger students and asked to stay on. She hasbeen there ever since.

Laurie Gajda, Lower School math and scienceinstructor, believes that Vaughn changed physicaleducation in the Lower School with her innovations.“She emphasized the need for children to stay fit andactive,” Gajda says, “and successfully used engagingand challenging games to reinforce skills and promote physical movement and exercise.”

Now that she has retired, Vaughn spends hertime traveling, playing tennis and enjoying herhobby, photography. Some of her prints are on display in the front hall of the Lower School.

Frank McCamley, former longtime Englishinstructor, noted on his blog that he was “truly sad”when he opened an email that Barb Vaughn wasretiring. “Quite apart from her having taught mychildren, her having a glowing friendliness and herhaving an amazingly placid disposition, she is one ofthe titans of the school, a female Grejtak or Teisl,and I will miss her,” he says. “She leaves Gay Janisas the Last of the GO-hicians, the final thread totimes and places past.”

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Gilmour Academy just won’t be the same anymorenow that Brother Robert Kelley, C.S.C., has retired.

“I know I am going to miss Gilmour. You can’t besomewhere for 30 years and not miss it,” BrotherRobert says. “Being at Gilmour and St. Ed’s have beenthe two biggest things in my religious life.”

In early August, Brother Robert, a Campus Ministryassociate, moved to Columba Hall on the campus ofthe University of Notre Dame. “I just cannot getaround like I used to anymore so I know it’s time toretire,” he says. He has been a Holy Cross Brother for 56 years and celebrated his 50th Jubilee in 2004 at Gilmour. Brother began at Gilmour in 1980 as a guidance counselor. Back then, Gilmour was an allboys’ school with an enrollment of 350. Over his threedecades here he also served as spiritual moderator of the Men’s Club, Superior of the local religious community and helped start the school’s communityservice program with Campus Minister Father JohnBlazek, C.S.C. ’58.

“Having an opportunity to engage many differentage groups in conversation while acknowledging theimportance of our mission as a Holy Cross school wasa wonderful gift Brother Robert Kelly shared during his many years at Gilmour,” says Headmaster BrotherRobert Lavelle, C.S.C. “He is adept at being light hearted and yet serious at appropriate times with students one-on-one and in larger groups such asmorning convocation. His gift of hearty engagement

also was shared atthe Men’s Clubmeetings and othergatherings. Heenjoyed being withothers and theyappreciated him as well.”

Always afavorite of the students, BrotherRobert worked tirelessly with themon the ThanksgivingFood Drive, the

SpiritedSojourner

Cleveland Food Bank and volunteerefforts at St. Augustineand St. MalachiChurches onCleveland’s West Side.Gilmour named aservice award inhonor of him for his 50th Jubilee. Practicing what he preaches about staying active, Brother Robert’s parting advice to students is to study, work hard andparticipate in extracurricular activities. “Taking care ofprayer life and religion are also important,” he adds.

After earning a bachelor’s degree from theUniversity of Dayton, Brother Robert taught fifth gradersat Holy Family School in Dayton. At St. Edward’s HighSchool in Lakewood, he taught English, religion andmarriage and the family, was a counselor and wasdirector of student activities and alumni affairs. During his years as a Holy Cross Brother, he served hiscongregation as school counselor, assistant superior andvocation director in Ohio and part of Michigan workingfrom Archbishop Hoban High School in Akron. BrotherRobert also pursued graduate studies in guidance andcounseling at John Carroll University.

The mirthful man with the distinctive laugh saysthat he plans to remain active and read, go out to dinner and attend plays and performances – but hismemories of Lancer games, Drama Club events andGilmour parties go with him. “I just love the people at Gilmour – the students, teachers, parents, alumni and staff,” he says. Brother Robert hopes that Gilmour people will visit him when they are at Notre Dame andhe looks forward to seeing students during the annualfreshman retreat and alums who are now Notre Damestudents.

“We will miss Brother Robert’s presence and hisgreat sense of humor at many varied campus activities,”the Headmaster says. “His dedication and spiritualdepth is evident. Brother Robert touches lives in significant ways and always appreciates engaging in good conversation.”

Brother Robert Kelley, C.S.C. and Jamie Kazel

Brother Robert and Erin and Sal Caruso with Sam


For the last 23 years, Michele Klaus has been anardent advocate for Gilmour Academy students on

the brink of attending college. As director of collegeplacement, her commitment to gaining the knowledgeneeded to advise and prepare students for the most critical juncture in their education – the college selectionprocess – has been crucial for their success.

“Mrs. Klaus played a vital role in my attendingLoyola University of Chicago” says Molly Wheeler ’06.“She contacted Loyola many times and made sure that Iwas always on track and doing the next thing necessaryfor acceptance.”

Student exuberance, though, can be an occupationalhazard for Klaus from what Wheeler says. Mrs. Klauspulled her out of class one day, and when Wheeler gotto her office, Klaus handed her the phone and said,“Loyola wants to talk to you.” Wheeler discovered shehad been accepted. “I was so happy I scared Mrs. Klauswith my scream and big hug,” she says.

For her part, Klaus admires Gilmour students forbeing “energetic and involved” and sees them as “givingand forgiving.” She also finds their focus on the needs ofthe community and the world “awesome,” noting that“their goals inspire me.”

No novice herself to the college selection process,Klaus earned a Bachelor of Science in elementary education from The Ohio State University and a Masterof Arts from there as well. Her degree is in student personnel in higher education with a minor in guidanceand counseling. Prior to joining Gilmour in 1987 asdirector of college counseling, she had been an academic advisor at Lakeland Community College and at Cuyahoga Community College’s Western Campus. She worked in residence halls at Ohio State andBinghamton University in upstate New York and was a counselor at Beachwood High School. At one point, she was a first-grade teacher.

At Gilmour, Klaus was senior class counselor andcollege counselor for most of the class. She oversawcounseling and the college selection process for seniorswith the help of other counselors. In other capacities atGilmour, she served as guidance counselor for one yearand headed the Admissions Office on an interim basis.

“Michele has been a model of dedication inchallenging students to widen their horizons in considering college choices and helping them, in concert

with their families, find the best fit,” says GilmourHeadmaster Brother Robert Lavelle, C.S.C.

Over the years, Klaus says, “Gilmour students havebecome more sophisticated with the subtle nuances ofthe college admission process, and have stepped uptheir high school curriculum choices to put them in contention for admission to very selective colleges anduniversities.” The students are also more “tech savvy”she says, “a skill demanded by the college applicationprocess.”

Klaus contends that the mounting cost and selectivityof colleges combined with the economy has influencedthe search process and accessibility. The ease of filingapplications electronically has boosted the number ofapplicants driving colleges and universities to becomemore selective. To help counter these challenges, shewas determined that each of her students received herbest care and counseling skills and a work ethic thatsupported their personal and academic needs.

Gilmour Trustee and parent Ann Chiarucci O’Brien’76 says Klaus’s strong suit is that she makes the collegeapplication process manageable – more like a process ofdiscovery rather than acceptance of rejection. She alsocredits Klaus for telling parents and students as early asfreshman year the message that with each class studentstake and each interest they pursue, they are painting apicture for colleges of who they are.

“What makes Michele so good at this process is that she develops relationships with admissions staff atcolleges and universities across the country and witheach student she counsels,” O’Brien says. “As a parent I appreciated her focus on what Bobby ’10 and Kathleen’11 are about, not necessarily what I thought they wanted, but what they were able to convey to her. She guides students and gives them options to considerand the tools to find the colleges where they can grow,develop and be successful.”

Now that Klaus has retired, she has already travelledto China with the Cleveland Hiking Club. She plans tospend time with her three daughters and volunteer at aninner-city high school, helping students study for theACT and “define their post-secondary education plans,”she says. She will return to her hobby of gourmet cooking, work in the yard and ride her John Deeremower, which she picked up at a Gilmour’s Gold Ticketraffle.

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Counseling the College Bound


Gilmour Upper School students started off the school

year learning to unravel the workings of the college

admissions process with the Academy’s new director of

college placement, Tracy Stockard. She joins Gilmour

from Hawken School where she was associate director

of college counseling.

“Tracy impressed all on the search team,” says

Gilmour Headmaster Brother Robert Lavelle, C.S.C.,

“with her energy, poise and professionalism, her deep

understanding of the increasing complexity of the college

search process, and the emotional challenges that this

phase of student growth places on students and families.”

At Gilmour, Stockard will work closely with juniors,

seniors and their families toward a successful college

placement experience. She will guide new programming

initiatives and publications and meet with college

admissions representatives who visit Gilmour.

“I love the fact that every student

comes to the college process with different

needs and interests,” Stockard says.

When she was senior associate director

of admissions at the College of Wooster,

Stockard was an expert on just one school,

she says. At Gilmour, she will search a

wide variety of colleges with students.

“I think this makes it fun and keeps it

refreshing,” she says. “Just seeing students

fall in love with the colleges they select at the end of the

process is so rewarding.”

Lancer fans will probably run into Stockard at softball

games, a sport she played at Cuyahoga Heights High

School when she faced off against Gilmour. Her friend,

Jennifer Russo Lowery ’93, was on the Lancer team.

“She raves about Gilmour and growing up in the area and I

felt it would be a great community to join,” Stockard says.

Prior to her high

school counseling and

college admissions

experience, Stockard

worked at Carnegie

Mellon University as a

career counselor for

the school’s Graduate

School in Industrial

Administration and as

an industry consultant.

She earned her

bachelor’s degree

from Allegheny

College and a master’s

degree in student

affairs in higher

education at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Before Stockard assumed her Gilmour

duties July 1, she collaborated with Michele

Klaus, her predecessor in the position whom

she has known for 10 years, on a strategy to

assure students and families a seamless

transition.

Stockard believes that among the key

strengths she brings to the position are her six

years of experience on the admissions side of

the desk in college admissions. “I know what colleges are

looking for when they read applications and essays,” she

says. “I can help students navigate through the challenges

and market themselves, so they put their best foot forward

when they make an application.”

A Seamless Switch

“Just seeing students

fall in love with the

colleges they select at

the end of the process

is so rewarding.”

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“Spotlight? I spent a significant part of my professional life staying out of the spotlight,” says Raymond Muench ’53 when asked to be a Lancer Spotlight for Gilmour Magazine.Talk about working undercover – he flew night missions from runways without lights and workedin covert communications and special operations.

When Muench transferred to Gilmour in 1949,he was 5-foot-4 and weighed about 100 pounds.By the time he graduated he was a foot taller anda hundred pounds heavier. After graduating fromVillanova University with a bachelor’s degree inphysics, Muench wanted “to build dams and power plants in the jungles of South America.” He even had an engineering job lined up. Instead he was drafted to serve in Vietnam.“Wrong jungle!” he jokes. “That isn’t in the plan.”

After completing Navy Flight School, Muenchwas sent to Japan in 1964 and lived 20 miles fromHiroshima flying intelligence missions over theSouth China Sea and the Sea of Japan. Hesearched for survivors and wreckage after the Gulf of Tonkin Incident that led to greater U.S.involvement in the Vietnam War. While stationedin Saigon, Muench witnessed a Vietnamese militarycoup. During his 21 years with the Navy, he was a test pilot for the Collision Avoidance system andworked for four years doing research on aviationand communications systems for the NavalLaboratories. He retired from the Navy as programmanager for Airborne Strategic Communicationsoverseeing work that allows the president tolaunch nuclear missiles. While in the Navy, heearned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineeringfrom the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, a master’sdegree in systems engineering from the University

1950s Lancer Spotlight

Raymond Muench ’53

of Florida and did postgraduate work in informationtheory at George Washington University.

Gilmour’s aerospace adventurer went to work for Booz Allen & Hamilton in 1981 and was director for avionics systems developing Star Warsand was part of a team that produced the SpaceStation. When the Berlin Wall came down, Muench witnessed the event and keeps a piece of the wall on his desk.

“Gilmour’s meager, but strong, introduction to ‘arts’ subjects served as the foundation to build a somewhat well-rounded individual,” he says, “who was required to discuss current events withscientific and management leaders from the UnitedStates and foreign countries.” During his career,Muench also was principal scientist for EG&G, a U.S. national defense contractor, before retiring in 1995.

After living all over the world in places such as Japan, Spain and Sicily, Muench and his wife,Joyce, have settled in Vienna, Va. They have fourchildren and several grandchildren. Over the years he says, “I learned that life is similar to being a pinball; bouncing from one unexpectedbump by the machine of life to another; adjusting continuously for surprise encounters.”

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1950Now retired, TED SCHAFERvolunteers at PADS, a program thatprovides shelter and services to thehomeless, sings at funerals andplays golf.

1951JIM MATHIEU now lives in Cebu,the Philippines, where he has business interests. He can bereached at [email protected] . . . JOE MCGLYNN and his wife,Helen, are using bicycle power totour Europe for several weeks thissummer.

1958Deacon ROGER MULLANEY hasbeen nominated to the EquestrianOrder of the Holy Sepulchre ofJerusalem with the Papal title ofKnight of the Holy Sepulchre. This ecclesiastical order is one ofthe oldest in the Catholic Church.He was invested and knightedSeptember 26 at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Cleveland.

1964In recent months, retired ArmyReserve JAG colonel and authorMARK SULLIVAN has been to Alaska, Washington, DC,Wilmington, DE and New Orleans,testifying, advising and educating

various groups on issues pertainingto military divorces, custody andvisitation rights.

1968The oldest son of NICK DUNCANand wife, Peggy – Burke, 29 –was married in May in Napa Valley.The ceremony took place at theSilver Oak Vineyards in St. Helena.

1983In March, CRAIG HERNANDISaccepted a position at JPMorganChase Bank in Akron as vice president, senior managed assetsofficer. His responsibilities includeloan restructuring, modification,financial and credit analysis andoversees loan workout of a

portfolio of small business clients.Craig previously was employed atKeybank for five years as a portfoliomonitoring officer in CommercialRisk Management . . . GREG FERRAZZA has been appointedsenior vice president, corporatebanking at Park View FederalSavings Bank in the GreaterCleveland area. He has over 20 years of credit, retail lending, commercial underwriting and business banking experience. Greg is a member of the Board ofTrustees/Executive Committee anda Business Plan Coach/Judge for ECity (Entrepreneurship: Connecting,Inspiring and Teaching Youth).

1987CATHY BUTZ HUGHES is an associate professor at The OhioState University College of Medicineand a Pediatric Psychologist atNationwide Children’s Hospital.She also keeps busy with 6-year-oldson, Matthew, and 5-year-olddaughter, Helen.

1988PAT RHODE and his brother,

CHRIS ’93, climbedMt. Rainier this summer. They werealmost to the summitwhen high winds and a cautious guidehalted the attempt.

1990Born April 29, 2010,Charlie is the secondson for BRIAN FRANCO and wife, Courtney.Great friends since graduating from Gilmour in ’82,

Jim Evans, Frank Childs, Jack Byrnes (in from London) and Marty Fallon gathered for Ryan Coyne’s(GA Class of 2014) graduation from Gesu elementary school. Ryan is the son of Rick (in the center of the

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GA ‘pioneers’ meet for lunch. Left to right, Denny Hoynes ’51, Ray Burke ’51, Ray Rhode ’51

(standing), Phil O’Neil ’50, Ed Sullivan ’54, Bill O’Neill ’51 and Don Junglas ’51.

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Tom Ashley ’60 knows what “Mad Men” was allabout. During the 1960s and 70s, he lived the

life of a New York ad men. After earning a degreefrom Georgetown University in foreign management,he did audience research for CBS, sold advertisingfor ABC and teamed up with Ted Turner to runCNN’s advertising sales department when the network was getting off the ground.

Ashley, who lives in New York City, formed hisown production company, Total Video Inc. For mostof the 90s he lived in London and worked all overEurope. Somewhere in between Ashley worked forAcademy Award-winning costume designer EdithHead and created three short television series focusing on this day in history, sports andHollywood. Earlier this year, he completed a documentary on the Empire State Building.

He has rubbed elbows with the likes of JohnWayne, Frank Sinatra, Bobby and Teddy Kennedy,Muhammad Ali and a few presidents. Ashley’sfamous father-in-law was St. Louis Cardinal’s legendand baseball Hall-of-Famer Stan “The Man” Musial.Destiny put him in the right place when ReverendMartin Luther King, Jr., made his “I have a Dream”speech in Washington, D.C., and when Secretariatwon the Kentucky Derby. He watched the TwinTowers topple from his Greenwich Village apartmenton 9/11. “Trying to comment on that would readlike a cliché,” Ashley says, adding that it awakenedhim to the idea that safety is far from a given.

“Over the years, I‘ve often thought about thepeople who have had the most positive impact onmy life,” Ashley says. Vern Weber and Brother IvoRegan, C.S.C., always make the list. As a student hehad attention-deficit disorder and recalls that histeachers were very patient. “I’ve lived in 10 differentcities over my 68 years, but I’d have a hard timethinking of any better two years than those spent inGates Mills at the corner of Cedar and SOM Centerroads,” he says. “I loved Gilmour.”

Today, Ashley is the father of three children –Tommy, Christopher and Camille – and the grandfather of three, and is enrolled at New SchoolUniversity where he takes non-credit classes taughtby “older” students.

Like his 93-year-old mother who drives aroundin a baby blue Jaguar, Ashley shows no signs ofslowing down despite double bypass surgery accompanied by a staph infection six years ago. The experience made him realize he had a lot to begrateful for and to never take anything for granted.

When Ashley returned to Gilmour in June for his 50th reunion, he took his traditional lap aroundthe track. “It’s great to see old classmates; it’s likecoming home.”

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Scholar-researcher Barbara Knuth ’76, who studies natural resource management, was

recently named vice provost of Cornell Universityand dean of the Cornell Graduate School. Knuth,who graduated from Glen Oak School, whichmerged with Gilmour Academy in 1982, is professorof natural resource policy and management atCornell.

“My back-up plan if I did not receive tenure at Cornell was to move to the Adirondacks and open a bake shop,” she quips, an attitude that serves her well in being open to new possibilities.

“The open education philosophy at Glen Oak suited me extremely well,” Knuth recalls. It positioned her to thrive in an alternative academicprogram at Miami University and for her master’swork in environmental sciences, which was multidisciplinary as well.

“This open, welcoming and supportive approachto education and a cross-disciplinary, integrativeapproach to learning had its foundation for methrough my experience at Glen Oak,” the educatorsays.

Knuth holds two bachelor’s degrees and a master’s degree in engineering, all from Miami. Sheearned a doctorate in philosophy from Virginia Tech.

“To this day, I derive the most satisfaction andbelieve I have the most impact when I am workingon complex, challenging societal issues that crossdisciplinary boundaries,” she says.

At Cornell, Knuth also is senior associate dean in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and associate director of the Human DimensionsResearch Unit in the Natural Resource Department.Her research focuses on human attitudes and behaviors toward the environment. Knuth also is

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on the National Academies’ Ocean Studies Board,which advises the federal government on ocean science, engineering and policy.

As a teacher and administrator, Knuth advocates“listening to all sides of an issue, gathering information, and making a decision that is reasonedand fair for those involved and affected, whether family, friends, colleagues or employer.” She advisesstudents and others to keep a to-do list for small andlarge goals. “Work on your list daily, but always beready to take advantage of opportunities that presentthemselves or that you can create – in other words,actively manage your to-do-list and your goals.”

The close relationships Glen Oak fosteredbetween students and teachers where everyone wason a first-name basis also served her well at Miamiand Cornell, she believes. Thirty years later, she stillkeeps in touch with some of her Glen Oak teachers.

“As a professor at Cornell, I, too, have lived withmy family on campus in a student residential setting,and continue to be on a first-name basis with my students,” Knuth says. She is married to Kurt Jirkaand they have two daughters: Caroline, who will be a junior at Cornell, and Kelly, who will be a senior at Ithaca High School. Mery (deHaas) Tomsick ’77 is godmother for Knuth’s daughters. Knuth alsokeeps in touch with Susan Pogany ’77, a freelance art designer in New York.

Knuth likes to read, bake and travel. She alsoenjoys canoeing, kayaking and backpacking with herfamily. She developed her interest in backpackingduring her mini-week experiences at Gen Oak.“Keep your priorities straight,” she says. “For me this means family first.”


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As a Gilmour student, Paul Neundorfer ’83says he learned respect, empathy and dignity

from many individuals who demonstrated and nurtured these values. Today, Neundorfer appliesthem in his work as a landscape architect and inhis efforts to resettle refugees from Burma andSoutheast Asia who have moved to Cleveland.

Neundorfer is founder, principal and presidentof Aristotle Enterprises Inc., a landscape designand land-planning firm. He was on hand atGilmour’s Alumni Reunion last June when GilmourTrustee Jim Pender and his wife, Kathy, dedicatedthe new Michael Pender ’90 Garden outside thenew Athletic Center. It is named for their son,Michael ’90, who died in 1991. Neundorferdesigned the plan for the garden and built thecarved bench in it. He worked with the Pendersand architects David Holzheimer ’64 and PeterBolek on the project.

The alum also is an executive director of TheRefugee Response, which empowers refugees tobecome self-sufficient and contributing membersof their new communities. Neundorfer and DavidWallis started the nonprofit last year after assistingrefugees in Northeast Ohio for several years.Recently, The Refugee Response worked withother community groups to develop a six-acre garden in Ohio City to provide fresh food for low-income residents in the neighborhood and togenerate revenue for immigrant farmers. GreatLakes Brewing Company plans to use the producein its restaurant and ultimately the produce mightbe used to make salsas and salad dressings forcommercial use.

Paul Neundorfer ’83 and Lisa Sefcek with Kathy and Jim Pender in the Michael Pender ’90 Garden

He believes that a person’s capacity for success is framed by his or her values, character, motives,habits, traits, style, behavior and skills. “Success iscreated through extraordinary performance whetheron the playing field; designing and creating a unique,beautiful space or teaching a refugee child the alphabet,” he says.

After graduating from Gilmour, Neundorferearned a Bachelor of Science in LandscapeArchitecture from The Ohio State University and amaster’s degree from Harvard University’s GraduateSchool of Design. He was a landscape architect in Boston and Cleveland before starting AristotleEnterprises. He is currently working on an irrigationsystem in Kenya. His travels also have taken him to Nepal, Thailand, Africa and Hong Kong.

In 1988, Neundorfer was inducted into theGilmour Athletic Hall of Fame and he received several fellowships for independent study as aHarvard student. He runs marathons and bicyclesrecreationally, recently participating in the 320-milePan Ohio Hope Ride to support the American CancerSociety. Every winter, he is a visiting lecturer andsenior thesis studio critic in landscape architecture atChulalongkorn University in Bangkok. Each spring,he and his family and friends make 50 to 100 gallonsof maple syrup on the family property in Chardonwhere he was raised.

Last May, Neundorfer proudly sat watching hisnephew, Peter, graduate during Gilmour’s 61st

Commencement – while sitting with his othernephew, Eric, who graduated from the Academy the previous year. “Gilmour was a great experience,”Neundorfer says, “and prepared them well for collegeand for life.”

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1991After considering offerings fromJohns Hopkins University and theInternational Business School inGeneva, Switzerland, CHRISPORATH accepted a position at Georgetown University . . . FREDCHENEY and wife, Kate, have anew baby in the family! Keon wasborn August 1; daughter, Kendra(8), is a very happy older sister.

1992 KEVIN NOVAK and wife, Randi,announced the birth of their new baby, Reese Palmer . . . MARTINE CONWAY and husband,Tyson Bennett, welcomed son,Adrian Bennett, on August 2, 2009.

1993KELLY BRUNELLO BOBECZKOand husband, David, are the proudparents of Anthony James Bobeczko. . . MIKE PORATH recently joinedBUZZMEDIA, the largest publisherof pop culture on the Internet, as senior vice president of programming. He will be responsible for overseeing all editorial for BUZZMEDIA’s morethan 40 sites and will help implement editorial best practicesand cross-site coordination. This includes Search EngineOptimization, quality control andmanaging cross promotion of content across BUZZMEDIA’s portfolio of pop culture sites. In his former position as news editor-in-chief at AOL, Mike Porathmanaged content across all AOLnews sites, and building and overseeing an editorial team of 30

journalists. Mike and wife, SARAHGIFFORD ’93, and their family arenow making Los Angeles home . . .Making his debut April 6, 2010,Francis Michael joined the Santellifamily – brother, Martin; sisters,Nora, Mary Felicia, Katrina andVeronica; dad, Mike, and mom,NOREEN LENTZ SANTELLI . . .Congratulations to ROBYN KELLNER SCHADICK and husband, Kevin, on the July 2, 2010,birth of their son, Logan Ian.

1994MARK CHIACCIARI and wife,MICHELLE DEBACCO ’96,announced the December 13, 2009,birth of daughter, Aurelia Marie.Michelle is a technology educationteacher with Streetsboro City SchoolDistrict and Mark, an IT managerwith Progressive Insurance, wasrecently elected national presidentof Delta Sigma Pi, a coed professional business fraternity . . .DAN FARRAR and wife, Leah, welcomed their daughter, AnnaClinton, on May 23, 2010 . . .Congratulations to JOHNPAWLOWSKI and wife, Julie, on the birth of their third child,Luke Michael, on August 18.

1995MICHAEL TEISL and wife, Jenny,welcomed daughter, Elina Ruth, on May 3, 2010. She is the firstgrandchild of Tiho Teisl, dean ofstudent life and discipline and former GA boys soccer coach . . .Congratulations to ROLANDO TIUand family on the May 10, 2010,birth of son Rolando David Tiu III.

1996JACKIE PAWLOWSKI COLETTAand husband, Dominic, celebratedthe April 29, 2010, birth of their first daughter, Lucy Marie. Brothers, Dominic and Connor, welcomed her into the family . . .MICHAEL PAWLOWSKI and wife,CHERYL DuCHEZ, announce thebirth of daughter, Marissa Gayle . . .Congratulations to AMY FARRARWALSH and husband, Mike, on theSeptember 5 birth of daughterAinsely Molloy.

1997Mollie Anne, daughter of BRIDGETMURPHY UHRICH and her husband,MARCEL UHRICH, was born May4, 2010. The family now resides inPhiladelphia . . . Congratulations toADAM NEMASTIL and his bride,Sarah, on their recent wedding . . .

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In Gilmour’s quest to stay in touch with alumni, graduates fromacross the country reconnected with classmates, teachers and

friends through outreach events in Florida, California and Illinoislast spring.

Board Chair Jerry Murphy ’64 and Headmaster Brother RobertLavelle, C.S.C., welcomed 40 people to the Naples, Fla., home ofMolly and Tony Musca, former Gilmour parents. The couplejoined Bob and Lisa Forino, also parents of an alum, CherylForino Wahl ’87 in hosting the March event.

About 20 from the Californiaalumni contingent caught up withEnglish instructor Kathy Kenny inMarch at the Pink Taco, a Mexicanrestaurant in Los Angeles. Thewindy city was the venue in Maywhen 20 Gilmour alums gatheredfor a reception in the Chicagooffice of Guy Maras ’82.

Keep an eye out for an outreach event near you: New York City, October 13, Boston, October 14 andWashington, D.C., October 28.

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On the Road Christine Porath ’91 and Susan Napier ’00 in California Cheryl Potenziani, Cyrena Potenziani Brenneis ’01

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Kathy Kenny andRick Schenkelberg ’02 in St. Louis

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Lisa Forino, Kathy Kenny, Jerry Murphy ’64, John DiCillo, Molly Musca and Brother Robert Lavelle in Florida

Courtney Lemister, Jay Crotty ’97, Mimi and John Crotty and Jim Farrar ’59 in Florida

Lisa Forino, Kurt Leidli ’87 and Kathy Kenny in Florida Don and Donna Pirc and Vince Campanella in Florida

Chris Yonan ’02, Shahzad Khan ’02, Kathy Kenny, Dylan Tanous ’04and Pete Yonan ’02 in California

Brian Herbe ’05, Rina Restaino ’05 and Michaela Kenny ’05 in California

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Salim Zayat ’97 embodies every kid’s childhooddream of becoming a real Game Boy. He is

senior programmer at The Children’s Hospital ofPhiladelphia where he develops online games totherapeutically help children with Autism SpectrumDisorder (ASD).

“People with ASD have difficulties in face recognition, both recognizing individual identitiesand their emotions,” Zayat says. “The games we create use face matching as a key game mechanic,”he explains, “making the experience both fun andhelpful.” He also works as a web developer.

Even as a Gilmour student Salim, or “Zimo” ashe was known across campus, was interested in artand communication. He confesses that the best gifthe received from Gilmour was the ability to write.He wrote so many papers that “the five-paragraphstructure became second nature,” he says. “Youwean yourself from such crutches as passive voiceand ambiguous references, thus leaving your intentions and ideas clearer. You are able to quickly organize your thoughts and express themwell, which are skills that can be used anywhere in life, whether it be in application essays for gradschool or in your daily conversations.”

It would be hard to imagine what Zayat wouldhave done with his life if computers had not beeninvented. Technology has played such a key role for him. Still he remembers advice from Gilmourteacher and coach Vern Weber who told students,“Get a liberal arts degree. It makes you a well-rounded person.”

After graduating as salutatorian from Gilmour,Zayat earned a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degreein entertainment technology from Carnegie MellonUniversity. In graduate school, he was a tools developer at Vanguard Animation in London. Zayat worked as a software intern at Pixar beforebecoming a software engineer at Shaba Games. “I spent almost four years there working on a variety of video games including “Spiderman: Web of Shadows” and “Shrek the Third,” he says.

Last year, Zayat married Bridget Hill, an attorneyhe met at the University of Pennsylvania. ClassmateOliver D’Silva was a groomsman along with PhilPrusa ’98. The couple lives in Haddonfield, N.J., and has a new son, Colin Bruce Zayat, who wasborn June 21.

The Gilmour graduate believes that “one should do what he or she loves,” adding that, “I look forward to work every day and I am sadwhen I punch out at night.”

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JOHN WROBEL and KristinaFitzgerald were married on August 7in Bend, OR. Among the attendeeswere fellow classmates CRAIGPADULA (best man), BRIAN MURPHY, JAMIE DRYSDALE andJOHN MURPHY.

1998MEGHAN MORRISSEY joined theSteamboat Springs, CO law firm ofKlauzer & Tremaine in 2009 as anassociate attorney. She received aJuris Doctor from the University ofWyoming College of Law and aMaster of Studies in EnvironmentalLaw from Vermont Law School in2008 and worked as a law clerk forUnited States District Court JudgeAlan B. Johnson . . . BRANT SMITHand wife, Erin, are the proud parents of Brooke Elizabeth, born July 7, 2010.

2001ALEX and wife, MARILYN HAVELSOMERS, are very proud of theirnew son, Alexander Hayes SomersIII, born on February 7 . . . Look for a more extensive profile on C.J.GAMBLE in the spring issue of theGilmour Magazine. For 10 plusyears a small group of dedicatedinline hockey players and coachesfrom across the country have foughtto both create a unified, nationwidesemi-pro league and to get it backon a major U.S. sports network.C.J.’s efforts resulted in the first time

since 1998 that Inline Hockeyappeared on ESPN.

2002Talk about a busy spring: Aftergraduating from WashingtonUniversity Medical School,RICHARD SCHENKELBERGmarried Jackie Weibel in St. Louis.The couple currently live inPittsburgh where Rick has begun his residency in psychiatry at theUniversity of Pittsburgh MedicalCenter . . . CORINNE DODEROcan add small business owner toher impressive list of communityinvolvement. Her recently-openedstore, The Black Orchid, is locatedat 28450 Chagrin Blvd. inWoodmere, OH, across from Eton Place. The boutique has a beautiful array of women’s accessories that includes jewelry, handbags, hats andclothing . . . EVAN TRAUBis the general manager of The Southern, a trendy butcasual tavern located in theBucktown section of Chicago.With a southern style menuand extensive selection of “refreshments,” The Southernis quickly becoming one ofChicago’s most popular spots.During a recent Gilmour gathering of Chicago alums,Evan hosted the Lancers andtreated them to delicious appetizers and specialty drinks.

Corinne Dodero’s new boutiquein Woodmere

The Schenkelberg clan was in full force for Rick’s wedding to Jackie Wiebel. Lisa Schenkelberg ’98,

Connor Karakul ’07, Charlie Kamen ’07, Rick Schenkelberg ’02, Eliot Kamen ’07 and

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Craig Padula ’97, Kristina Fitzgerald Wrobel, John Wrobel ’97 and Brian Murphy ’97

Evan Traub ’02 is the general manager of Chicago’s The Southern.


Wild mountain goats and sheep might notexcite everyone, but Julia Novak ’03

finds them pretty interesting. Novak went headto head with a few on an expedition in OuterMongolia run by her employer EarthwatchInstitute. Based just outside of Boston,Earthwatch conducts global field research on the sustainability of the environment in terms of rainforests, wildlife conservation, marine science and archaeology.

“I am thankful for all the fantastic teachers I had at Gilmour,” Novak says, “for helping mebuild the basis for successfully pursuing a paththat I love.”

As a corporate engagement coordinator,Novak oversees 125 participants in the ClimatePartnership Fellowship Program each year whovolunteer for field programs, and she is involvedin their recruitment, training and post-programwork. The Gilmour graduate has a bachelor ofarts degree in environmental studies from theUniversity of San Diego where she earned theschool’s Student Leadership Award in 2005. In February 2009, she also trained Earthwatchstaff in India about health, safety and risk management protocols for the India RegionalClimate Center, which researches the effects ofclimate change on forest ecosystems with theIndian Institute of Sciences. Novak also has participated in similar research at the NorthAmerica Regional Climate Center housed at the Smithsonian Environmental Research campus in Maryland.

“My experience with Earthwatch has givenme many learning opportunities and ultimatelyhelped me to narrow my research interests,”


Novak says. She plans to study for her doctorate infisheries and wildlife at the University of Michiganin the fall after completing a fellowship to studyHindu. Prior to her work with Earthwatch, Novakwas a park ranger for the Massachusetts Departmentof Conservation and Recreation.

Novak believes the study and time managementskills she learned at Gilmour have benefitted hercareer as well as the importance of building solidworking relationships. “The professors at Gilmourwere fantastic role models who had a huge impacton my preparedness for both undergraduate studiesand the beginning of my career,” she says.

When Novak is not on the job, the Boston resident enjoys white water and sea kayaking, international travel, backcountry camping and backpacking. When she is back in Cleveland during the holidays, Novak gets together withGilmour classmates Meredith Batcheller and JacobBoeshans in the Coventry area. Her offbeat careerhas factored into her philosophy of life and shesays, “Always keep an open mind and expose yourself to as many new experiences as possible.”

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The Gilmour Academy AlumniAssociation has a new man

at the helm. Attorney RobertOndak, Jr. ’91 is the organization’snew president and plans to createopportunities for alumni to interactwith each other and with Gilmour.A partner with Benesch, Friedlander,Coplan & Arnoff LLP, Ondak represents developers, property owners, landlords, tenants and financiers in commercial real estatetransactions for office buildings, shopping centers and industrialparks. In accepting this role with the alumni association, he says he was “looking for an opportunity to reconnect with Gilmour andmake a meaningful contribution.”

Listed in “The Best Lawyers in America 2009-2010,” Ondak cites the lifelong friends he made at Gilmour and the education hereceived both inside and outside the classroom. “They have had aprofound impact on my life,” he says. To this day, Ondak maintainsfriendships with classmates Chris Maynard ’91, Bill Mattis ’91 andBrian Franco ’90.

Ondak began at Gilmour in seventh grade after attending theschool’s day camp and sports camp. His parents were impressed by the Academy’s small class sizes and reputation. He believes thatGilmour taught him to be a critical thinker, a benefit strengthened by his participation on the Speech and Debate Team, StudentCongress and Mock Trial. His Gilmour education has proven to be an asset for his work as a group leader representing retail, office and industrial landlords and tenants across the nation. Other aspects of his job involve counseling parties in negotiating purchase and sale agreements and working with lenders and borrowers in financing transactions.

A member of the International Council of Shopping Centers,Ondak chairs legislative affairs for the Northern Ohio Chapter ofNAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association. He also is a member of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Associationand the Ohio Bar Association.

Following his graduation from Gilmour, Ondak earned a bachelor’s degree and graduated cum laude from Fairfield Universityin 1995. Three years later he received his Juris Doctor from CaseWestern Reserve University’s School of Law. Prior to his currentposition, the alumnus was a partner with Hurtuk & Daroff Company.

Ondak and his wife, Meredith, a social worker at Louis AgassizElementary School, have two children, Mia and Lyla.

Ondak Is New AlumniAssociationPresident

2003Congratulations to BRITTANYJANIS who received the Volunteerof the Year Award from the JuniorLeague of Brooklyn, NY. Theaward is given annually to an individual in the entire league . . .After graduating from Vanderbilt in2007, BRIANNA PRIMOZIC enteredlaw school at Pepperdine Universityin California and graduated thisMay. While at Pepperdine she was involved in the Asylum Clinicand worked as a research assistantto the retired immigration judge thatruns the program.

2004After earning a degree from IndianaUniversity in 2008, BRIDGETKOENIG graduated this year fromThe Fashion Institute of Design andMerchandising in Los Angeles, CA.She recently started a new job as an allocation planner at PacificSunwear of California, Inc . . .KATHARINE PERKO will attendSUNY Stonybrook this fall to beginstudying for a Ph.D. in English literature.

2005CAROLINE GRECO was elected to the board of Women in Film and Video, a national networkingorganization. She continues to volunteer for the Hugh O’BrianYouth Leadership Organization andwill likely be elected to their boardof directors this summer. She isworking full time as a productionassociate at Henninger MediaServices, a post-production house inWashington, DC. The firm makesvideos for the National Park Service,museum exhibits, businesses such


Sitting regally astride her Arabian horse,Phoebe Afire, Gilmour alumna Brooke

Marie Jarvis ’10 looks like she was meant toride into championship history. And she did inAlbuquerque, N.M., in July at the U.S. YouthNational for Arabians and Half-Arabian Horses.Not only did Jarvis win nationals in the ArabianEnglish Pleasure category – where, she says,“horses trot high and are beautiful in the bridle”– but she also won in the Arabian EnglishPleasure Junior Owner to Ride and the ArabianEnglish Pleasure Junior to Ride competitions with her horse Lady Ava Isabella, a Half-Arabian. It is rare to win nationals in both of those events because more horses are entered and the equestrians do not need to own the horse theyride in the latter event. All three judges voted for Jarvis.

Even more important thanwinning three championships to Jarvis was that she surpassedtrainers at a regional competitionthis past year. Amateurs, juniorsand trainers showed horses aroundthe ring to exhibit three gaits: the walk, the trot and the cantor.It was the first time a junior equestrian beat trainers that wereshowing national champion horses. “That meant more than a national championship ever could,” Jarvis says.

The college freshman, whonow attends Loyola UniversityChicago, has even competed in the

International Arabian Horse Show inthe United Arab Emirates. “Being an equestrian is my biggest passion,” she says. Jarvis, whoplans to study international relations and hopesto be a diplomat in the Middle East, comes byher interest in horses naturally. Her mother owns

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an insurance agency that specializes in equine andexotic animals and her father breeds horses.

Although she began riding when she was 2 years old, Jarvis did not start out on ponies.Instead she rode a horse that was 15 hands high,more than five feet tall. “I don’t think that I wasfrightened because I was at the barn all of thetime,” she recalls. By the time she started as a firstgrader at Gilmour, Jarvis was an old pro and reallyknew her way around horses. She understands theimportance of using body language and emotions to connect to horses and explains that they can pick up information just from intonation. “Horsesare extremely smart and sensitive,” she says.

Riding is all about balance and she believes thevarious kinds of dancing lessons she has taken havebeen beneficial. “Determination is the biggest thingI apply to both dance and horses,” Jarvis notes.“With dance it is all about being one step betterthan you were before and trying new things and it is the same thing with horses.”

During her senior year, Jarvis felt fortunate that her schedule at Gilmour allowed her to spendmore time with her horses at their barn in Mantua.Juggling her work as an equestrian with academicsand extracurricular activities was no small feat.Jarvis competed on the Speech and Debate Teamfor four years advancing to nationals two years and to state four years. She also was on the GirlsVarsity Lacrosse team and was a cheerleader.

Going off to college will be bittersweet forJarvis, who rides every day. She plans to returnhome frequently to work with Phoebe Afire becauseher trainer does not ride the horse and Jarvis plansto resume competition next summer adding, “I amleaving part of my heart here.”

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as State Farm and PSA commercials. . . Living in Missoula, MO, JENNAMOAG is working at Head Start andhoping to get a part-time job as adirect support professional for anonprofit agency called the ChildDevelopment Center where shewould be working one-on-one with children with developmentaldisabilities helping them achievespecific skills for their everydaylives . . . After graduating fromGeorge Washington University in2008 with a double major in economics and international affairs,MEGAN SCHMIDT-SANE spent a year in India on a RotaryScholarship studying economics andvolunteering with underprivilegedyouth through a non-governmentorganization. After a few months athome to take the LSAT and the GREto apply to graduate schools, shereturned to India last January formore volunteering – this time toteach English and math to youngchildren in a slum. Returning home in late May, Megan is nowpreparing to move to Vietnam on a Fulbright Scholarship to teachEnglish in the Mekong Delta . . .One of the reasons BRANDONSMITH selected Miami University in Oxford for his college educationwas its incredible hockey program.Having no playing time as a

freshman or sophomore, he practiced hard and dedicated himself to getting stronger spendingextra time in the weight room withconditioning and strengtheningequipment. As a junior, Brandondressed for 25 games scoring twogoals and five assists. In his senioryear, he not only played regularlyas a forward, but was also calledupon to play some defense. A finance major with a 3.6 GPA,Brandon hopes to continue playinghockey . . . KELLEY JO WILSONand Joshua Hibschman were married June 12 in Willoughby, OH.The couple now resides inDowners Grove, IL.

2006CAREY BELL writes that he will betraveling to Kenya with a team ofPenn State students to implement apilot telemedicine program theyworked on all semester. In additionto spending three weeks in Kenya,he plans to spend time inAmsterdam and Uganda. Carey and four others hope to raft downthe whitewater rapids on the Nile.They are twice as high as anywherein the United States. Accepted into the honors college after hissophomore year, Carey has beenworking on his undergrad thesis

looking at the relationship betweengovernment type and public healthoutcomes in developing states . . .Completing her B.A. in MiddleChildhood Education, AMANDAFIORELLI began a Masters ofEducation at The Ohio StateUniversity in June . . . JONATHANMISNY graduated summa cumlaude with honors in businessadministration from The Ohio StateUniversity. He will be attending theMoritz College of Law at The OhioState University this fall, where hewas awarded the Moritz LeadershipScholarship . . . PATRICK RYANand fellow classmate and teammate,KYLE MAGGARD, are in their thirdyear at West Point . . . GREGCORKRAN has moved to Dallas,TX, and works for BostonConsulting Group.

2008JOE DONIKOWSKI spent the summer interning at General Electricin Erie, PA. Joe said college isn’t ashard as Gilmour.

2009Violinist CAROLINE GOULDINGwas featured with the ClevelandOrchestra’s July 4th Star-SpangledSpectacular on Cleveland’s PublicSquare . . . KYLE CORRIGAN wasin Scotland this summer piping atthe world championships; his bandplaced fourth out of 38 bands.

2010Running and winning her heat atthe New Balance Nationals in June,BEKKA SIMKO placed fourth overall in the nation earning themark of all-American.

Stay In touch . . .

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adventure, recently married or had an addition

to your family? Share your recent updates with

the GA Alumni Office. Send news to Mary Kate

Farrar Vega ‘93 at [email protected], call (440) 473-8009 or visit www.gilmour.org.


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With distancerunner BekkaSimko ’10

and sprint star CandaceLongino-Thomas ’11leading the way,Gilmour’s Girls VarsityTrack team lookedpoised to repeat as statechampions. In the end,the Lancers took secondplace at the Division IIIstate meet in June.

Early season resultslooked promising.However, the injury bug bit, felling Longino-Thomas. Many teamswould have shrunkfrom the resulting challenge. The Lancersare cut from a differentcloth and – rallyingaround Simko and graduating seniors Grace Brennan, Kathyrn

Drew and Jackie Porter – Gilmour demonstrated its true character.

Winning the Independent School Conference championship and the district title were satisfying waysto begin the postseason. At the regional championship,the Lancers secured the team title behind Simko’s winsin the 800- and 1,600-meter runs. Meghan Pryatel ’13also qualified for state by finishing fourth in the 1,600.Porter scored valuable points with a sixth-place finishin the 300 hurdles.

The Lancers also swept the 3,200 relay (Simko,Brennan, Pryatel and Alexis Anton ’13) and the 1,600 relay (Simko, Brennan, Drew and Anton). The following week in Columbus, the odds against a Gilmour victory were long, but the girls stepped upto the challenge. The 3,200 relay cruised to the goldmedal on the first day, and on the final day, Simko ledthe charge with a victory in the 800 and silver in the

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1,600, then anchored the 1,600 relay to a second-placefinish. Pryatel finished 10th in the 1,600 as well.Gilmour secured enough points to take the team runner-up trophy back to Gates Mills. In the last sixyears, four team titles and two runner-up titles makeGilmour one of the more successful teams in Ohio.

With her notable performance this season, Simkofinished her prep career with the second-most goldmedals – 10 in four years – in the history of the statetrack meet, regardless of gender or school size. Shealso has her name on three all-time state records andnine Gilmour school records. With her graduation,along with the other seniors, this will leave a gap to fill. But knowing the history of this team, it’s a safe bet that it will be filled.

The 2010 season also showed the Boys VarsityTrack team’s true mettle in many ways. The Lancersfaced the prospect of entering the season with manyveteran All-Ohioans having graduated the previousyear. Many teams would have been content to quietlyrebuild, but the Lancers endured one of the tougherschedules, competing week in and week out with topprograms from around the state, including manyDivision I and II teams.

Captain Bart Merkel ’10 rightly earned praise fromopponents throughout the year, as he led the team with many outstanding performances in the distanceraces. Merkel ran personal bests in all of his events,including 4:26 in the 1,600 and 9:25 in the 3,200, anevent in which he won both the district and regional championships and finished fifth at the state meet in a tough field.

On a young team, having a top performing veteranlike Merkel made a substantial difference to the manysophomores and freshmen who relied on his guidanceand followed his example in both daily practices andmeets. The team had other strong performances fromRickey Layton ’10, who advanced to regionals in boththe shot put and discus, and solid relays that relied onSteven Pryatel ’10, Kevin Vargo ’11, James Miller ’11,Justyn Greene ’12, Ben Radcliffe ’12 and Rob Zeller ’13.With so many young athletes gaining valuable experience,the 2011 Lancers look to an even greater season.

Matthew Lindley ’89

Bekka Simko ’10 receives baton from Alexis Anton ’13

(Kyle Lanzer, Sun News)


Gilmour Academy recently namedMartin “Kelly” Coughlin, as its

new varsity volleyball coach and JimGalloway, a Gilmour assistant softballcoach, as its new head softball coach.

Coughlin, who was an assistantvolleyball coach at Cleveland StateUniversity, succeeds Jeff Grzybowski,who resigned in February after coaching at the Academy for fouryears. Coughlin assumes leadership of a Gilmour team that has a 100-13record, and was the 2008 runner-upand 2007 state semifinalist. The

Lancers have also advanced to the regional finals forthe last four years.

Coughlin has been coaching 19 years. He was anassistant volleyball coach at Olmsted Falls High Schoolfrom 2004 to 2008 and before that he was the juniorvarsity coach there. Coughlin coached boys’ and girls’volleyball at Brunswick High School from 1991 to 2000and previously was club director of the PC Flyers/P.O.P.Volleyball. He was a provisional referee for the Ohio

New Volleyball andSoftball Coaches Onboard

Kazel Named GirlsLacrosse Coach

Gilmour’s new head coach for the Girls VarsityLacrosse team knows his stick work. Jamie Kazel

launched the Boys Varsity Lacrosse team in 2000 andcoached it for five seasons. Since then, he has assistedwith lacrosse operations developing Varsity and JuniorVarsity lacrosse teams for the girls and Junior Varsityand Middle School lacrosse teams for the boys.

“Jamie has an exceptional understanding of the student-athlete here at Gilmour,” says Tom Bryan,Gilmour athletic director. “This, along with his enthusiasm, should result in great things for the girls’ lacrosse program.”

Jamie Kazel

Martin ‘Kelly’ Coughlin

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Valley Region for Junior Olympic volleyball tournaments and has a bachelor’s degree fromCleveland State.

Tom Bryan, Gilmour’s athletic director, says“Kelly not only had tremendous experience, but hereally set himself apart with his charisma and strongwork ethic.”

Galloway has been assistantcoach of the Lancers for the last four years. “Jim understands theGilmour philosophy having beeninvolved as a coach here since 2005,” says Tom Bryan. “His familiarity with the softball program made him a logical choice to fill the head coaching position.” Galloway was an assitant coach at Eastlake North High School prior to coaching atGilmour. His undergraduate degree is from Bowling Green State University. Galloway’s daughter, Erin, graduated from Gilmour in2007 and son, Joseph, is a sophomore at Gilmour.

Jim Galloway

Kazel’s players made the OhioSchoolgirls Lacrosse Association All-District First Team, Second Team andone received honorable mention.“Next year, we will put our coaches’observations into action,” Kazel says.“We will increase the team’s stamina and endurance, fortify thedefense, ignite teamwork, accelerateleadership and put a bucket more ofballs in the goal.”


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Lancer to Play for ColgateGilmour Academy graduating senior Taylor Volpe

will play hockey for NCAA Division I ColgateUniversity. For two seasons, she played on Gilmour’sGirls Prep Hockey team, serving as captain this pastseason and assistant captain the previous year. The Lancer was selected for Cushing Academy’s AllTournament team last December and NorthwoodSchool’s All-Tournament team in Lake Placed, N.Y., inJanuary. Girls Prep Hockey Coach Rick Filighera says

Scott Stirling, formerlyan assistant coach at

Bowling Green StateUniversity (BGSU) and a professional hockeyplayer for eight years, will be Gilmour’s BoysPrep Hockey head coach.Stirling replaces MikeMcNeill who steppeddown after six seasons to be Gilmour’s arenaoperations manager, afull-time position.

“Hiring Scott is a strongindication of how far our program has come and whereit’s headed,” says John Malloy, director of ice programs at Gilmour and head coach of the Boys Varsity Hockeyteam. “Coach Stirling’s tremendous hockey backgroundand experience is just the tip of the iceberg in what hebrings to Gilmour. As a mentor, I believe the greatthings he will bring to the team on the ice and off willfoster each player’s personal growth.”

Stirling most recently served as the assistant men’shockey coach at BGSU, an NCAA Division I school andprogram. This past season he focused on forwards andgoaltenders, helping improve the team’s goalie save per-centage from .840 to .896. Stirling also spent a year as anassistant for his alma mater, Brown University, where hecoached the team’s starting goalie to a .933 save percentage.

Boys Prep Hockey Gets Head Coach“The opportunity to be a head coach was extremely

intriguing,” says Stirling about his move from the collegiate arena to the high school level. “The Gilmourprogram has received much exposure and there is theability to help the players move on to the next level.”

Playing at the next level is something quite familiarto Stirling. As a player at Brown, he was named Second-Team All-Ivy in both 1999 and 2000, and was also a two-time Academic All-Ivy honoree, earning Academic All-ECAC (Eastern College Athletic Conference) as a senior in2000. Today, he remains in the top 10 among statisticalleaders in several goaltending categories at the seasonand career levels, having amassed 1,958 saves with threeshutouts and a .906 save percentage in his college career.

After graduating from Brown with a degree in economics and organizational behavior and management,Stirling began his professional hockey career with theTrenton Titans in the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL).In his rookie season, he was named ECHL Goalie of theYear, Rookie of the Year and First-Team All-ECHL. Hewent on to play for the ECHL’s Atlantic City BoardwalkBullies and Fresno Falcons, the American HockeyLeague’s (AHL) Worcester Ice Cats, Bridgeport SoundTigers, Portland Pirates and San Antonio Rampage, andthe United Hockey League’s Danbury Thrashers. Heearned such honors as ECHL Most Valuable Player, aswell as additional ECHL Goalie of the Year and First-Team All-ECHL accolades. He concluded his professionalcareer in the Norwegian Elite Hockey League with theValerenga Ice Hockey Club during the 2007-08 season.

Volpe is a consistent point producer and believes herability to score will be an asset to Colgate. She led the team with 39 goals and 23 assists in 60 games.

“Taylor is a very determined person and is able toapply what she is taught to her game,” Filighera says.“Her size sets her apart from other players given thatshe is tall with a long reach. She has a great shot andcan take the puck off the wall quickly and get it to thenet. She’s a natural goal scorer and a penalty kicker.”

Scott Stirling


GA Girls Tapped for USA Hockey National CampsGilmour Academy juniors Sarah Geisinger and Jayme

Castillo, and senior Ally Ross, all members of theGirls Prep Hockey team, were selected for the USAHockey’s Select Player Development Camps, which ranfrom June 25 to July 1 in St. Cloud, Minn. The campsidentify, train, educate and assess the best female hockey players in the country. Geisinger qualified as aforward, Castillo for defense and Ross as a goaltender. Throughout the week, players selected for the NationalCamp received outstanding coaching while professional

scouts and college recruiters evaluated their performance. According to Rick Filighera, head coachof Gilmour’s Girls Prep Hockey team, the student-athletes qualified as the best in their age group in theirdistrict. Geisinger was selected by the Mid-Am District;Castillo, the Southeast District and Ross, the AtlanticDistrict.

Gilmour has the only girls prep hockey high schoolteam in Ohio. The team finished its regular season earlier this year with a 16-9 record.

Go-to Guy for SportsmanshipWhen it comes to sportsmanship, John Malloy

doesn’t have to take a backseat to anyone.Sportsmanship is not just some lofty thought for Malloy,director of Ice Programs at Gilmour and head coach ofthe Varsity A Hockey team. He takes it to heart and he makes sure his hockey players do too both on andoff the ice.

Malloy received the Sportsmanship, Ethics andIntegrity Award from the Ohio High School AthleticAssociation. He was honored last March in Columbusat the state championship game. One of the many reasons Malloy was honored with the award is that he believes that competition provides a great platformto use the Golden Rule with teammates, opponents, referees and spectators.

Over the 12 years that he has coached at Gilmour,Malloy has set the bar high for his players, his staff andhimself. He says he wants to extend Gilmour’s missionstatement into the everyday experiences of being amember of the hockey program and believes sportsmanship will be a natural outcome. He says that two teams can go at it but still respect the game

and show that respect through sportsmanship. Malloytold a reporter from The Sun News, “You play hard for a common cause. At the end, you congratulate the winners.”

Malloy joined Gilmour as arena and hockey director. He also coached Boys Prep Hockey too andwas assistant coach for the Lancers Varsity Golf teamfor two years. Prior to that, he coached at ClevelandHeights High, Rocky River High School and the MiamiClub hockey team after earning his Bachelor of Scienceand Master of Education from Miami University. In hiscurrent position, he oversees all aspects of Gilmour’sIce Arena and its programs, and assists in admissionsand development as well as coaching hockey. Last season, the Lancers’ record was 27-16-1.

Malloy is committed to being a good role modeland to pushing his players to being the best they canbe in all aspects of their lives. “We live in a societywhere the results on the scoreboard play too large arole in defining players and programs,” he says.“Instead, we should be defined by how we treat each other.”

Sarah Geisinger ’12 Jayme Castillo ’12 Ally Ross ’11

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Set in StoneBob Spisak left his imprint all over Gilmour Academy. Now his indelible mark will be

seen by everyone in the Gilmour Community. One rainy day last April, his family, friends,colleagues and students remembered him at the dedication of a stone placed over a time capsule near the entrance of the new AthleticCenter. The time capsule houses items documenting Gilmour’s history for more than 50 years. Spisak, Gilmour’s maintenance technician, joined the Academy in 1984 andremained an employee until his death last year.

Gilmour Headmaster Brother Robert Lavelle,C.S.C., recalled that “Bob was always steadfast and calm despite any problem on campus,” andthat “he was an integral part of the GilmourCommunity and was essential to our journey.”

Bob Spisak was able to repair any lock andnavigate the intricacies of telephone systems, computers, equipment and just about any mechanism on campus. He also was a liaison with the outside contractors who erected the newbuildings at Gilmour over the last quarter century.

“I asked Brother Robert about dedicating the time capsule in Bob’s memory shortly after Bob passed away,” says Dan Kohn, Gilmour maintenancedirector. “As a long-time member of the GilmourFamily, I thought it was appropriate to have a lastingreminder of his presence.”

The 28-inch diameter stone is made of thick green granite to match the paving stones by theAthletic Center. The polished stone is offset withengraved letters dedicating the stone in memory ofRobert A. Spisak. Those words stand out against a frosted natural background with a matte finish. The stone also features the phrase: “The man whowalks with God always gets to his destination,” a verseon a marble plaque Spisak kept on his desk at workand that his wife, Leah, had on hand at his funeral.

During the blessing, Campus Minister Father JohnBlazek ’58, C.S.C., noted that “Even though Bob was abehind-the-scenes person, he always walked with us.”

Leah Spisak and Br. Richard Keller, C.S.C.

Father John Blazek ’58, C.S.C. blessing the stone

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M e m o r i a l

MEMORIAL

Gilmour Academy expressessympathy to the families of

the following:

RICHARD C. BOUCEK ’64

THOMAS E. BRAIDECH ’58

S. ROGER COX ’64

JOHN P. DICKEY ’56

ROBERT F. PRUNER, JR. ’56

RAYMOND E. ZANGLIN ’76

Our sympathy also is extended to the alumni

and families of the following:

ELAINE M. AMBROSE, mother of Michael ’75; grandmother

of Kaitlyn ’11 and Connor ’17

GEORGE ANDREWS, husband of Lucille Andrews, retired administrative assistant to the Upper School director

VIRGINIA ANSON, great aunt of James ’76 and

Timothy ’78 Haffey

HELEN ARMAGNO, grandmother of Thomas ’05,

Robert ’07, Daniel ’10 and Joseph ’14

BETTY ANN AUGUSTA, mother of James ’80

HASINA BAIG, grandmother of Shahzad Khan ’02

HARRY BAKER, father-in-law of Anthony Geraci ’88

RALPH J. BERNOTAS, father of Robert ’72, Raymond ’74

and Ronald ’77

SERENA BONA, great aunt of Margot Reid ’17

HELEN BONACCI, mother-in-law of Florence Bonacci,

Lower School instructor

GEORGE BRANTON, grandfather of Craig Frey ’04

BETTY CALEBICH, great aunt of Ronald Ryavec ’16

JEREMY BRAYTON CALLAHAN, stepmother of Kevin ’75 Gilmour

Trustee; step grandmother of Kevin ’11and Mary Kathleen ’12

NICHOLAS CAPUTO, father of Christopher ’85;

uncle of Jeffrey ’83

CARMEN CARBONE, grandfather of Jason ’92

NANCY CARBONE, grandmother of Michael ’75 and

Barbara ’87 Fisco

MARGARET CASTRIGANO, daughter of James ’76; niece of

Michael ’68, Vincent ’70, Timothy ’77,Christopher ’81 and Gregory ’81; cousin of Matthew Knight ’90, Heather Knight Ahearn ’92 and

Anne Ashdown Rossi ’94

KATHERINE CEFARATTI, grandmother-in-law of

Christi Lucas Cefaratti ’88

ANNA E. CHENIN, mother of Avery ’81

JAMES P. CONWAY, great uncle of Bridget McGinty ’02,

Gilmour Institutional Advancement officer

JOSEPH COTTON, brother-in-law of Gloria Cotton, assistant dean of Residential Life

TERRENCE DAGG, uncle of Kevin ’11 and Matthew ’13

ADRIAN F. deKROM, father of Adrian ’77

MELODIE DICKERSON, sister of Kimberly ’10

CARMELA DiFRANCO, grandmother of Remo DiFranco ’86

and Tony DelPrete ’95

EMIL R. DODERO, grandfather of Corinne ’02

CHARLES DRIGGS, grandfather of Charity ’13

DON DUFF, grandfather of Brandon ’08 and

Jacqueline ’13 Schmidt

BARBARA GAJDA, mother of Laurie Gajda, Lower School instructor

THOMAS M. HAUSERMAN, brother of William Hauserman,

Gilmour Academy honorary Trustee;uncle of Terry Hauserman GO ’74,

Cynthia Hauserman Little GO ’75 andPatricia Hauserman Winder GO ’76

TED HOLCOMB, grandfather of Caitlin Farley ’11

MARIE L. HOLZHEIMER, grandmother of Nathan ’13 and

Brendan ’14 Coyne; mother-in-law ofRichard Coyne ’82

RUTH CAROLINE HOLZHEIMER, mother of Robert ’63, David ’64 and

Martha Holzheimer Dempsey GO ’73;grandmother of Benjamin ’94

and John ’04

WILLIAM A. HURT, father of William ’73, Jeffrey ’76 andJames ’79 (deceased); grandfather of

Julia ’12 and Jeffrey ’13

CLARA JERZERSKI, grandmother-in-law of James Kazel,

guidance counselor and girls lacrosse head coach


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HENRY JOSEPH KIMBOROWICZ, SR.,grandfather of Katherine ’01

JOHN KRISTOF, uncle of Patricia Szaniszlo,

Our Lady Chapel administrative assistant

GLORIA C. LAWAS, mother of Frank ’92

ARTHUR A. LAWRENCE, SR., grandfather of

Irenna Lawrence Taylor ’95

RICKY S. LONDRICO, father of Alyssa (deceased)

MARY LUCAS, great aunt of Madeline ’16,

Michael ’18 and Charles ’24 Shade

TERRANCE MacDONALD, grandfather of Jennifer ’08,

Chelsea ’09 and Kristina ’11 Snyder

DAVID MADISON, grandfather of Brian Sharnsky ’09

FRANCES MARANUK, mother of Allison ’04

JOHN E. MARRIE, brother of Thomas Marrie, Gilmour

Trustee; uncle of Kevin ’81 and Sean ’85 Marrie and Megan Marrie

Schlickmann ’90

RON MASON, uncle of Lawrence ’08, Mary ’10

and Meghan ’11 Kramer

MAUREEN MAY, aunt of Gabrielle DeFrancesco ’11

JEFF FRANCIS McDONALD, father of Mark ’09

HERMAN MENGES, grandfather of Kyle ’12

JOHN J. MILLS, SR., grandfather of Morgan ’11

MICHELE MINO, sister of John ’77; aunt of Anne ’18

FRANK A. MOHORCIC, JR., uncle of John ’11 and Patrick ’14

PATRICIA R. MOSLEY, mother of Kevin Connors, assistantdirector of Information Technology

PRISCILLA NIGHMAN, grandmother of Jeffrey ’00,

Christine ’02, Michelle ’06 and Patrick ’08 Embleton

MARY U. O’BRIEN, wife of Robert ’72

JANICE OCCHIONERO, mother of Matthew ’93, Michael ’96

and Daniel ’00

ANGELA MARIE PADULA, grandmother of Craig ’97

RAYMOND PASQUALE, father of Adrian ’85 and Russell ’87

MOLLIE PLUSH, mother of Beckie Korn, Business Office associate

HELEN RICHARDS, grandmother of Jared ’07

and Leigh ’10

JULIAN RIFFLE, cousin of Eric ’04, Nicole ’05,

Ryan ’08 and Katrina ’10 Caraboolad

CATHERINE RUSH, grandmother of Michael ’01,

Rickey ’10 and Brittany ’11 Layton

MARY JANE SAMMON, stepmother of Timothy ’56

JACK G. SCHMOLLINGER, father of Mark ’75

SANDY SCHMOLLINGER, wife of Mark ’75

MARY SHAIA, grandmother of Anthony ’84 and James ’88 Asher, and Kristi Fistek

Bedingfield ’91 and Kara ’92 and Thomas ’95 Fistek;

great-grandmother of Riley ’08, Edward ’10, Madison ’13, Adam ’16,

Zachary ’16 and Michael ’18 Asher; andmother-in-law of Anthony Asher,

Gilmour Trustee

DUDLEY P. SHEFFLER, former Gilmour Trustee, father of Henry

’85, James ’87 and John ’92

JAMES R. STAFFORD, grandfather of Gianna ’18 and

Vincent ’22

JAMES R. STOVER, former Gilmour Trustee

ANNIE THOMPSON, grandmother of Glenda Davis ’13

ALLEN STANLEY WEST III, son of Allen S. West, Jr. ’83

DAVID MORGAN WHITE, father of Cathleen White, director of

Instructional Technology

DR. ROBERT J. WHITE, former Gilmour Academy Trustee

WILLIAM WILKINSON, grandfather of Kevin Sonnhalter ’13

ROSEMARY YERT, mother of Bradley ’99

DANIEL ZAVARELLA, grandfather of Gino ’86

ANGELINE ZELENAK, great aunt of Alexander ’05,

Vincent ’07, Nicholas ’09 and Zachary’15 Hostoffer

ROBERT A. ZOBER, grandfather of Aaron ’96


Sitting: Barb Vaughn, Gay Janis, Sr. Claudia Klyn First Row: Joyce Barmen, Nancy Benjamin, Gail Senior, Lisa Waxman, Ann Chiarucci, Elissa Weizman, Shelly Thompson, Gina Chiarucci, Lauren Kriessler, Beth Chiarucci Second Row: Pippa Henderson, Lori Gallo, Lisa Svec, Louise Gilbert, Anne Corrigan, Patty Morgan, Berti Guarino, Patty O’ Neill Back Row: Lisa Forino, Dorothy Coerdt, Susan Silverberg, Donna Deioma, Jill Gassaway, Colleen Stoll, Mary Lu Burkhart, Karen Snyder Not Shown: Renee Stoll and Dawn Campbell

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Gina Chiarucci O’Brien ’74 and Barb Vaughn

Lisa Forino and Susan Silverberg ’80

Patty O’Neill ’79 and Dorothy Coerdt

Gay Janis, Ann ChiarucciO’Brien ’76, Barb Vaughn andDonna Deioma Singerman ’82

(sitting) Barb Vaughn, Sr. Claudia Klyn O.S.U.,

Dorothy Coerdt, Lisa Forino(standing) Karen Snyder and

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