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More than 300 parents, faculty, staff, andfriends of Seattle
Country Day Schoolreserved their seats for our annual auction,A
Night to Fly, on May 13. Our destinationthis year was a fun-filled
evening in support of SCDS.
This top-flight event was especially memorable for itsvenue,
Seattles Museum of Flight. Guests could experience the flight
simulators, explore the Museum as they browsed the silent auction
items, or simply enjoya cocktail in the Sky Lounge. At dinner,
passengersmoved upstairs where they were greeted by the flickerof
landing lights and flight attendants. Auctioneer LarryTaylor
brought his wonderful enthusiasm to the evening,helping SCDS raise
over $200,000 including a record-breaking amount in the Raise the
Paddle for athletics. Soccer guru and well-known coach PeterFewing
spoke about the importance of athletics, andCaptain Michael Murphy
revealed our new mascot, theWildcats! Bursting in from the
sidelines, faculty member
Winnie Young did a supersonic dance routine as a clever wildcat
to energizethe crowd. As the lights dimmed on the auction,
passengers claimed their bagsand said that they looked forward to
flying these friendly skies again next year.
Thank you Auction Ground Crew:AUCTION CO-CHAIRS: Nancy Senseney
and Beth Israel.TEAM LEADS: Renee Bang, Patti Burke, Lisa Carroll,
Shelley Cross,Kristi Dwight, Deb Fandel, Sally Frankenberg, Janet
Hanify,Nancy Hanneman, Paul Julin, Karen Kent, Bill Kuper,
DebbieMedved, Tracy Robinson, Kimm Viebrock, Jeanette Villagran,and
Ruth Warren.
Go Wildcats! The Wildcat is the newmascot of SCDS as voted in by
ourcommunity this spring.
Captain Michael Murphy prepares to ride offinto the sunset after
a lovely evening!
Alumni parent Gywn Fowler chats with SCDSs first Head of School,
Lucile Beckman.
An aerial shot of volunteers setting up for the event in
theMuseum of Flight.
Parent CouncilPresident and AuctionCo-Chair
NancySenseneyenjoying theevent.
Construction Begins on A Place to Grow!
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN NEWS
SCDS has chosen S.D. Deacon, a regional firm withlocal offices
in Bellevue, as the general contractor forA Place to Grow. The
building and renovation projectwill take approximately 15 months to
complete.Highlights include a new middle school building, anew
on-campus drive, substantial improvements fortraffic flow, and
renovated space in existing buildingsto better meet current program
needs. As Kineticswas being prepared for the press, four
school-ownedhouses were removed in order to prepare for the
newdriveway and turnaround which will be ready for thestart of
school this coming fall.
For more details on how to make a gift, please click on A Place
to Grow on the lower left hand corner of theSCDS website at
www.seattlecountryday.org.
GET YOURHARD HATSREADY!
ANNUAL FUNDSUSTAINS PROGRAMSDURING CAPITALCAMPAIGN
The theme of thecapital campaign isA Place to Grow,
and that phrase is an apt description of Seattle CountryDay
School, where each day brings new discoveries in our labs,
classrooms, and beyond. Every year, gifts to the Annual Fund
support the costs of daily life atSCDS, including teacher salaries
and materials. Thelibrary, always a center of activity at SCDS, is
also a beneficiary of the Annual Fund. These funds go intothe
operating budget where they support library needsso that new books
and videos can be added to the collection. (The library is also
supported by the annualBook Fair).
Librarian Debbie Pearson and Library Assistant Sue Brown shared
with Kinetics books added sinceSeptember:
Mummies: The Newest, Coolest, and Creepiest by Shelley Tanaka:
Mummy discoveries and how scientific advances help us learn about
these ancient,preserved bodies.
I Know a Shy Fellow Who Swallowed a Cello by Barbara S. Garriel:
An adaptation of the folk rhymefeaturing musical instruments.
Diego Rivera: Legendary Mexican Painter by Laura Baskes Litwin:
The life and career of thecubist painter and muralist.
Point Blank by Anthony Horowitz: Fourteen-year oldAlex continues
his work as a spy for the British MI6,investigating a school in the
French Alps.
Molly Moons Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure by Georgia Byng:
Molly is hypnotized and transportedto 19th century India where she
meets a maharajah andformer versions of herself.
Do you know how many itemsare in the SCDS library?
POPQUIZ:
ANSWER:13,000 cataloged items including books, videos, audio
books, and periodicals!
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class WHATS HAPPENING IN YOUR LIFE?Share your news with the
SCDScommunity! Contact Allison Bass at
[email protected] or mail your latest news to 2619
4thAvenue N, Seattle, WA 98109.
ERIC DAWES 71 writes, Ive been back in the Seattle area since
1975, and it doesnt really seem like over fourdecades since I was
looking up at thewater fountain in the basement at St.Elizabeths
Church in Burien. In fact, just a few weeks ago, I went back
andreclaimed several memories from theoriginal SCDS venue, and that
was thefirst step in the effort to begin findingother classmates
and staff from the1960s! Hope to get in touch with all ofyou soon
and maybe even coax youinto one of the informal SCDS reunionsat the
Nickerson St. Saloon! If you wantto trade howdys before we have
thatchance, Id love to catch up with you:[email protected].
ANASTACIA (SIMS) DILLON 81 gavebirth to JuliaSatsuki Dillon
onDecember 31.She was 8 poundsand 21 inches.Her name meansazalea
inJapanese and is
also an old-fashioned way to say May,which is the middle name of
bothAnastacias maternal grandmother andgreat-grandmother.
MAX ISRAEL 85 trained for 12 monthsfor the Ironman NewZealand
Triathlon onMarch 4. When the swim competition wasunexpectedly
cancelledthe day of the race dueto high winds, he wasable to
arrange last-minute registration in
the Ironman Arizona, which still requiredhim to complete a
2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike race, and 26.2-mile marathonrun. An
additional step of Maxs endeav-or was to collect pledges to the
BallardFood Bank where he serves as Presidentof the Board of
Directors.
TRINA LINDAL 86 graduated from St.Martins College and the Art
Institute ofSeattle, and lives in West Seattle withher dog, Leo, an
Australian Shepherd.She also regularly takes in foster dogsneeding
homes. She spends days work-ing at the family business, and
evenings
and weekends either playing pool orworking on her house.
LAUREN SELIG 90 and her husbandKyril Faenov wel-comed
AveryMadeleine Faenovon November 24,2005 at 11:44 a.m.She was
7.5
pounds and 19 inches. It was quite aThanksgiving!
MICHAEL DANNUNZIO 92 is an attorney for the U.S.Army. Currently
basedout of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, he hasdeployed overseas
multi-ple times. He received aBronze Star in 2004.
ADRIEN FOWLER 92 lives in Berkeley,California and has a company
that sellshigh-performance outerwear. She is alsoillustrating her
first childrens book andwelcomes mail and illustration projectsat
[email protected]. She and herfianc Brandon Andre, professional
pho-tographer and outdoor guide with REI,are planning a wedding for
this summer.
GREG FREIDMAN 92 writes, Im livingin Philadelphia, getting an
MBA atWharton, and I just got married inOctober to the woman of my
dreams(my apologies to all SCDS alumni whowere holding out for me).
My wife is fromPennsylvania, but we have our eye on amove to
Seattle in a couple of years.
ERICK MATSEN 92 spent January toApril in Christchurch, New
Zealand,working with a top-notch group in theBiomathematics
Research Centre at theUniversity of Canterbury. This spring,
hereturned to Harvard to defend his PhDthesis. He writes that the
official sub-ject is math, but in practice Im workingsomewhere
between math, statistics,computer science, and biology. Whatsfun is
that I get to prove theorems anddevelop algorithms which actually
canhelp biologists solve problems, such asquantifying the level of
selection pres-sure on the flu virus. After giving sometalks and
meeting with collaborators inboth Boston and Berkeley, and
spend-ing the summer kayaking with friends,
Erick will be returning to New Zealandfor another year and plans
to end up ata university somewhere.
ANDREW NAHON 95 writes, Ive beenliving in Japan since graduating
fromCarleton College in 2004. Im teachingat a junior high school in
a small mountain town. Im having a great timetraveling around Asia
and learningJapanese; I will probably stay anotheryear and then
come home.
JESSICA EBBERSON 96 is in her firstyear of medical school at
University ofPennsylvania.
MARTA JOHNSON 96 spent fourmonths this winter backpacking
acrossEurope, couchsurfing with strangers,and attending more than
35 operas indifferent cities including Vienna, Berlin,Helsinki,
London, Prague, Munich,Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Tallinn, andIstanbul.
She writes, The weather hasbeen something to get used to, but
Imhaving a grand time seeing Europe,reconnecting with old friends,
meetingnew ones, warming up with varioustypes of mulled wine,
trying funky local foods (blood sausage, mare-milk chocolate, sautd
Rudolph with lingonberries...), sobering up on thegrounds of
Auschwitz/Birkenau, readingvoraciously, and attending some
trulyspectacular (and some absolutely dreadful) opera productions.
Prior to her departure for Europe, she began studying German and
pursuing theatre/opera work more seriously. Lastsummer, she worked
on Seattle Operasproduction of Wagners The Ring, andshe resumed
work there in February as an assistant stage manager.
BEAU LEWIS 96 released a new full-length album last summer
titled The SkyBeneath: The Floor. The record was pro-duced on his
label, Sky Beneath Records (www.skybeneathrecords.com) and features
artists from both coasts of theU.S. and four other countries.
ALEX RAINES 96 graduated fromWhitman College in 2004 where he
was a resident advisor, majored in biochemistry, biophysics, and
molecularbiology, and minored in music. His otheractivities
included studying voice, piano,
and composition, singing in the CollegeChorale, Opera Scenes,
and ChamberSingers which toured in Italy, recordinga CD with the
mens a cappella group,coaching a flag football team, and
participating in numerous theater productions. His experiences
there, as well as two summers working in aUniversity of Washington
research labstudying stem cell regeneration in theeye, and a summer
at Princeton lookingat stressed stem cells in the brain,inspired
his decision to apply to medicalschool. In his search for the right
pro-gram, he had a memorable one-on-onehour with James Watson of
DNA fame,and finally decided on the MD/PhD program at University of
North Carolina,Chapel Hill, where he is now in his second year of
an 8-year program. Thissummer he will transition from medicalschool
curriculum into graduate studiesin neuroscience, and plans to focus
on pediatric neurology as a medical specialty. He continues to play
intramu-ral sports and sing with local choirs.
EVAN WRIGHT97 attends theUniversity ofRochesterwhere he singsin
the mens acapella group
The Midnight Ramblers. The Ramblershit the Northwest over Spring
Break thisyear, and one of the many stops on theirschool tour was
Seattle Country DaySchool! Evan is shown left (second fromright)
performing for 2nd-5th graders.
BRENDAN MAHAN 98 graduated thisspring with a BA in economics
fromWestern Washington University in thewonderful city of
Bellingham. Heapplied to law school and has decidedto accept the
offer from Cornell LawSchool. He writes I plan to become acivil
rights attorney after receiving myJD (and paying off student
loans). Herecently attended the annual YDWA(Young Democrats of
Washington)Convention in Tacoma and is an activeparticipant in
Westerns local chapter,where he serves as an executive boardmember
and as treasurer.
JAMES EBBERSON 99 is a junior atMiddlebury where he plays on
therugby team and is majoring in Englishliterature and skiing. He
spent the mostrecent semester abroad in Scotland.
CHUN MENG NOLAN 99 is studying atMcGill University in Montreal,
Canada.She spent a recent holiday in Brusselsvisiting her
cousin.
LUKE STEFURAK 99 spent a semesterabroad at the University of
Melbournewhere he ran into Sara Axelrod 99. Hereturned to Bucknell
University where heis studying computer science.
JOSH WEINER 99, a junior at StanfordUniversity, recently
returned from a fallterm in Managua, Nicaragua, with theSchool of
International Training (notaffliated with Stanford). While there,
hestudied Spanish, history, politics, andeconomics. Over the final
four weeks of the semester, he executed an independent study
project focusing on the upcoming presidential electionsof November
2006, interviewing presidential candidates and politicalactivists.
Upon his return to Stanford inJanuary, he assumed the
editor-in-chiefpost at The Stanford Progressive, amonthly political
publication with a distribution of 4,000 (online editionavailable
at progressive.stanford.edu).He is kitchen manager for his
35-personco-op house on campus and is knownfor his succulant roast
tenderloin. Thissummer, he plans to intern at the UnitedNations
Development Programme in New York as part of the water governance
team.
PAUL STROMBOM 00 rowed bow seatin Brown Universitys first
freshman eight-boat last year. His boat was undefeatedduring the
regular dual season and wenton to win the gold medal at the
2005Eastern Sprints in May, defeatingPrinceton, Harvard, and Penn
in thefinals. He has continued rowing as asophomore, on the varsity
squad.
ELIANA HECHTER 01, senior mathmajor at the University of
Washington,was named a Rhodes Scholar lastNovember. Eighty-five
students wereselected for the honor out of 903 appli-cants from 333
colleges and universities.
Eliana entered the University ofWashington Early Entrance
Programafter nine years at SCDS. She is the 2ndyoungest to ever win
the scholarship,and plans to use the opportunity to pursue a DPhil
in Mathematics when sheenters Oxford this October, ultimatelyhoping
to be a professor of math andimplement changes in how math istaught
at various levels.
During her career at UW, Eliana hasstudied cell division with a
grant fromthe Vertical Integration of Research andEducation in the
Mathematical Sciencesproject, served as a research assistant atthe
Center for Cell Dynamics, was ateaching assistant for advanced
calculus,and taught a math enrichment class atThe Option Program at
Seward, (TOPS),a kindergarten through 8th grade alternative school
in the Seattle PublicSchool District. Her senior thesis is
inhomological algebra.
Her other interests include creative writing and poetry,
cooking, playingUltimate Frisbee, and running.
BRAHM RIFINO 02 writes Ill be graduating from South Eugene IHS
inJune. Ill be attending the University ofOregon in the fall of
2006. I plan tostudy mechanical engineering. Ive beenhaving fun
rock climbing and snowboarding here in Oregon. I have a part-time
job as a cook at Rons Grill. Hopeto see my old friends soon.
Yourealways welcome here.
LAURA HAGEN 03, a junior at SeattlePrep, was named a Seattle
TimesAthlete of the Week last fall for her contributions to the
Panthers soccerteam as team captain and midfielder.She was a
defensive leader and helpedthe team achieve a 15-3-3 record
andplace fourth in the Class 3A state playoffs. Laura was also
selected to theMetro League Mountain Division FirstTeam and Class
3A All-State First Team.
ALUMNI HAPPY HOUR FEBRUARY 16, 2006
Back: Dave Foley 89, Max Waugh 90, Jason Vincion 94, Jason Kroll
92, Pro Roy 83, Jason Froggatt 83.
Front: Eric Dawes 71, Wendy (Sunderland) McDermott 85, Allison
(Doyle) Bass 91,Amy (Hintz) Ojendyk 87; Cathy Saltwick 85, Lisa
(Wolfendale) Shook 87.
Not pictured: Shira (Kost-Grant) Brewer 94.
