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How CFS is working to make environmental stewardship take root

How CFS is working to make environmental stewardship take root

Sustainability isn’t a recent discovery at CFS, but rather astrand that is woven throughout our philosophy, programs,and physical plant since our founding 45 years ago.

To give you glimpses of how environmental stewardshipcontinues to flourish at CFS, we’d like to welcome you to theGreen Issue of We & Thee!

In the pages that follow our coverage of the Class of2010, you’ll find articles and information about how theenvironment and environmental awareness is a central part

of what we do at CFS—and what many of our alumni aredoing in their adult lives.

This is the second of three thematic issues of We & Theebuilt around components of Meeting the Challenge, the CFSLong-Range Strategic Plan approved by the Board ofTrustees in December 2008 (you can find the document inthe About CFS section at www.cfsnc.org). The first issuehighlighted international/intercultural education and thethird will showcase the arts. Enjoy!

A Walk on The Wild SideFrom The Principal

My favorite way to meet is, well, on a walk. I enjoy weekly walking meetings (weather

permitting) with Renee Prillaman, MiddleSchool Head Teacher, and have consideredadmissions, enrollment, and many a commu-nication issue or opportunity with KathleenDavidson, Director of Admission. I’ve likelylearned more about early childhood educationthan I have contributed on strolls with theChapel Hill Early School’s Head Teacher, Sue

Donaldson, and even interviewed candidates(Don’t worry! I let them choose.) who’vebecome staff members, including RebeccaSwartz, our new Annual Giving Coordinator;Elise London, Upper School CollegeCounselor; and Anthony L. Clay, when heinterviewed for that same role in 2002.

My most memorable walk with a studentwas also one of my longest. I was convincedthat a young man wanted me to know more,i.e., the truth, than he was finding it easy to

share, and three hours proved just enough.I love to walk, and, fortunately, the CFS

campus and surrounding neighborhood andwoods make for friendly spaces in andthrough which to stroll.

On a recent Friday I had the great privi-lege of walking the campus with 15 membersof our Friday Meeting administrative team,accompanied by our longtime architect EllenWeinstein. The focus of our stroll was visualidentification and heightened understanding

by Mike Hanas

Carolina Friends School Summer 2010

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Congratulations, Class of 2010!

Hannah Louise Anderson-BarangerHaley Rachel BarakNaomi Elizabeth Baumann-CarbreyAsher Bruce BlackmoreEmily Ames BookerShane Donovan BurbageSarah Nydick CheshireLarkin Snow CoffeyEsther Zoe CohnTyson John DouglassAntonio Christian DurhamAydin Miguel GultekinLuke Justiniano Thomas HartfordKate Jennings IngramAdam Mountcastle JoinesAidan Li-pan Ke-LindSpencer Ross KennedyHannah Lee KramerJames Cary Kramer

Brian David LeeMorgan Donerly LinneyEvan Won Ho McGilvaryAndrew Wythe Prillaman MeriwetherSarah Erica MerrittTessa Blair NayowithMadeleine Rosemary Orgren-StrebAlexander James RayRosie Irene RenkowJeron Ricole RobertsonKelsey Marie ShafferMarley Lassen TobenAna Sophia ToddRebecca Fusi Whetten-GoldsteinJazmun Detric WilliamsChloe WitkinXiaona ZhouEric Thaddeus Zoltners

Members of the Class of 2010On Sunday, June 13, Carolina FriendsSchool gathered in the Gym for a Meetingfor Worship with Attention toGraduation, centered on the 37 studentsin the Class of 2010. After many mean-ingful messages were shared with thegroup, each student received a diplomaand a hug from Principal Mike Hanasand Upper School Head Teacher CarrieHuff. After a standing ovation, hugs wereexchanged all ‘round.

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Appalachian State UniversityBennett CollegeBrevard CollegeCampbell UniversityClark UniversityColumbia College ChicagoDrew UniversityDuke UniversityFranklin and Marshall College

The George Washington UniversityGoucher CollegeMaryland Institute College of ArtMount Holyoke CollegeNorth Carolina State UniversityOberlin CollegeParsons the New School for DesignPratt InstituteSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago

Smith CollegeUNC - Asheville UNC - Chapel HillUNC - Greensboro UNC - Wilmington University of Vermont Warren Wilson CollegeWashington University in St. LouisWheaton College (MA)

The Colleges that the Class of 2010 Will Attend

Other Schools Offering Admission to the Class of 2010California College of the ArtsCatholic University College of WoosterDenison UniversityDrexel UniversityEarlham CollegeEckerd CollegeElon UniversityEugene Lang College - The New School

for Liberal ArtsGuilford College

Juniata CollegeKalamazoo CollegeLees-McRae CollegeLoyola University (Chicago)Macalester CollegeMeredith CollegeNortheastern UniversityPaul Smith’s CollegePennsylvania State UniversityPlymouth State UniversityPurdue University

Sarah Lawrence CollegeSchool of Visual Arts Skidmore CollegeUniversity of Massachusetts - BostonUniversity of PittsburghUniversity of Puget SoundUniversity of Washington - SeattleVirginia TechWake Forest UniversityWashington College

Howard Gardner’s decision in 1999 to add natu-ralistic intelligence to his theory of multiple intelli-gences resonated with the values and practiceinforming CFS since its founding. Set in woods,next to the farm of one of our founding families,and with “a creek running through it,” CFS haslong taken seriously the importance of nurturing asense of environmental stewardship in students.

That same year, CFS began construction of agym, and in response to a student who hoped thatsomething could be done to acknowledge the treescleared for this purpose, the Board of Trustees des-ignated eight acres of creek bed and hillside as anature preserve. A nature trail around campus wasenvisioned, and by the time that student graduatedtwo years later, the class had made it possible forthe path to traverse the creek by constructing abridge as their gift to CFS. The nature trail is usedby the CFS cross-country team, for silent walks inplace of meeting for worship, and for staff whoenjoy “walk and talk” meetings, like principal MikeHanas.

As this issue of We & Thee explores, environ-mental stewardship significantly informs our dailyhabits, our curriculum, and our hopes and plans forthe future.

Throughout our campuses, compost bins ripen,while the implementation of waterless urinals, low-flow toilets, and close monitoring – especially byJohn McGovern and Terry Pendergrast in the Shop– have resulted in a significant reduction of water

usage. John has also guided students through theprocess of building and maintaining a greenhouse,complete with student-constructed photovoltaicpanels and modified trickle-down (MTD) collec-tors, to maintain a healthy greenhouse temperaturethrough cold nights.

Each unit has been tending and enjoying thefruits (and veggies!) of garden beds and noworchards. The Lower School waters its beds withrain water collected in barrels outside Forest Classand nourishes its soil with the mulch its compostbin provides. Upper School has orchestrated stu-dent explorations of permaculture, the construc-tion of a cold frame, and the creation of an orchardof wildflowers, plants, and trees.

Middle School students investigate the life cycleof a T-shirt or sneaker, and the student-led Eco-Chicos have heightened consciousness regardingreduce, re-use, recycle and taken this message to otherschools struggling to sustain such efforts. EarlySchool students are some of our best teachers, withtheir trash-free snack and lunch, thanks to plenty ofhelp from parents and teachers.

Younger students design models using wind orsolar power, while older students help to constructthe real deal. We anticipate eagerly what might bepossible now that a gift of land has increased theacreage on main campus to 121. And we delight innews of what our alums who have chosen careersrelated to environmental stewardship are doing tomake the world a better place.

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A Greener Future - Now

The Eco-Chicos celebrate their Recycling Fair, featuring gently used clothing and recycled bags.

by Kathleen Davidson, Director of Admission

photo by Henry Walker

I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the humanmind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place.

Howard Gardner, 1999

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Classrooms Without WallsA look at what’s been going on in the gardens of Carolina Friends SchoolUpper SchoolFrances Brindle

Imagine a spring day at the UpperSchool. Painted Lady butterflies arereleased, to the delight of AdvancedBiology students. A ninth-grade scienceclass observes blue-black mason bees,along with honeybees with overstuffedpollen baskets, working the yellow flowersof bolted brassica plants. These sameplants provided fresh greens all winterfrom the cold-frame outside the UpperSchool Meeting Hall. Students also visit thesmall orchard to the side of third base onthe baseball field and note the blueberriesswelling on the bushes we planted thisspring and the apple and pear tree whipsnow sporting fresh leaves.

The slope facing the Meeting Hall hasyielded to splashes of color among itsmany shades of green as the seasonprogresses. With maintenance work almostcompleted, the Gardening class canappreciate the succession of plantsflowering there and along the side of theResource Building. To provide furtherplants for later planting, the students havetaken cuttings for rooting and sown seedsof a variety of perennials.

Meanwhile, the Landscape Design Class,with the help of CFS parent Brian Dobyns(who has an extensive background inconservation planning and landscapedesign), has examined the area known asCentral Park (within the circular roadwayconnecting the Lower School, Center,Middle School, Quaker Dome, and Gym).Our proposals will add functionality to thesite, providing several gathering spaces offa meandering pathway. We have alsoconsidered ways to enhance Central Park’svisual appeal as the entrance to our school.

Middle SchoolNancy Parsifal

The Middle School garden celebrates itsfirst anniversary through a year of makingcompost and germinating seeds. This yearthe garden, tended by a dozen-plus

students, has really taken off. The appleand pear trees, for example, made itthrough their first winter and one is alreadyproducing half-inch apples.

Middle Schoolers, ever true tothemselves in their quest for independenceand choice, marked off individual plotswith unique plantings of vegetables andflowers. All are coming to fruition in rowsof lovely patchwork, individual and yet awhole. They still share work, weeding,mulching, and planting. With a bluebirdfamily at one end, a killdeer family at theother, mason bees pollinating, and yellowfinches lining up to eye our bloomingsunflower, the garden is a thriving place.

Gardening roots us to our untappedessence while at the same time providingreal-world skills students can build on asthey grow. Our goal is to begin to produceenough to share with the greatercommunity, within and beyond CFS.

Lower School Michael Bonsignore

We are in our second year of gardeningin our new Lower School garden space. Wehad very successful fall gardens with lots offlowers and salad greens. Our studentscleaned up our raised beds and harvestedgourds way back in January. Many of the

harvested “birdhouse gourds” have sincebeen made into birdhouses and many nowadorn the garden, waiting for potentialresidents. We also put up a few bluebirdhouses and have a nesting pair of bluebirdsin the house on the corner of the garden.We have introduced mason bees aspollinators and we will be providing themhabitat for the future.

Classes have planted at various timesthis spring and now all of the beds havesome greens coming up. One class has alettuce bed already being harvested forsalad bars on Topchi pizza days (monthlylunches whose proceeds go to the AfghanSister Schools Partnership). It’s amazinghow many students choose to have lettucewith their pizza when they’ve had a hand ingrowing it. We also have an herb bed withmints and other aromatics. Duringrecesses it is not unusual to see childrengrazing on greens and collecting herbs forpotions.

Spring planting will help us to growloofah gourds on the gourd house this yearand ensure lots more popcorn for a fallharvest. The popcorn we grew last yearwas the best popcorn any of us had evereaten. The loofahs will be made into avariety of “scrubbies.”

The garden is always open to visitors, soplease come by and visit.

Frances Brindle earned her B.A. in Botany andPh.D. in Plant Pathology from Dublin’s TrinityCollege. In 2009 she was awarded a CFS PACEgrant to spend five weeks studying PermacultureDesign at the Camassia Institute’s Lost Valleyecovillage in Dexter, Oregon.

Nancy Parsifal holds a B.A. from Duke and anM.A. from UNC-CH. She recently received aPACE grant to develop a permaculture habitat inthe vegetable garden beyond the Gym. She’ll visitsites in NC and surrounding states beforeinitiating design and implementation of the ediblelandscape with CFS students.

Michael Bonsignore, a Forest Class teacher inLower School, holds a Master’s degree in EarlyChildhod Education from UNC-CH. Heconvenes the CFS Stewardship Committee.

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A year-long environmental issues themeweaves through the topics studied by fourth-year Midddle School students in theirEcology and Physical Science course.

In the fall we focus on ecology, where theconnection to the environment is prettystraightforward. We look at the interconnect-edness between organisms and their environ-ments and the human impacts on those natu-ral resources and ecosystems.

During a short two-week unit after that,we look into where our resources come from.We research the processes involved in the lifeof a T-shirt, from the pesticides, fertilizers,and water used in the growing of the cottonto the transportation involved in moving thecotton from one country to another as it iswoven, dyed, and sown into a shirt that iseventually sold in a store here in the Triangle.

In the winter we find ways to relate whatwe are studying in chemistry to environmen-tal and global issues like acid rain, globalwarming, and water pollution and innovativesolutions to these issues.

The spring unit on Physics focuses onenergy. We investigate electricity productionfrom coal and natural gas to alternative formsof production like wind, solar, and biofuels.Sstudents also prepare for the Electic VehicleChallenge, a highlight of the year.

The EV ChallengeEach year the Middle School’s fourth-year

students look forward to NC StateUniversity’s Electric Vehicle Challenge. For

two months, students design, build, and testelectric vehicles that will run on energy sup-plied by solar charging stations of their owndesign. On Saturday, May 22nd a group ven-tured to NCSU to participate in the EV Rally,where they raced their vehicles along withthose of students from eleven other NC mid-

dle schools. Students receive rechargeable batteries

and use the solar energy available that day tocharge their batteries for the race. The charg-ing stations that generate the highest voltageand the cars that use energy most efficientlytend to have the highest speeds. Judges fromthe NCSU School of Engineering interviewcontestants about their designs and review

the notebooks that document students’research, design and building process, andtesting results. Teams are awarded pointsbased on finish times; innovation and creativ-ity of designs; and documentation of theirresearch, building, and testing activities.

This project is a pilot program from theNCSU Department of Education andEngineering and part of a much largerSustainable Transportation EducationProgram (STEP), which involves middle andhigh school students working with modelvehicles to learn about the future of electrictransportation and the issues involved in

switching over from fossil fuels. For CFS students, this project was

extremely successful. We were able to inte-grate the project into our physics curriculumand find practical applications and examplesof how the concepts applied to our vehiclesand charging stations. We studied electricityand circuits, electrical motors, rechargeablebatteries, electrical energy and production

from sources like coal,nuclear, water, wind, andsolar power. We learnedabout Newton’s laws ofmotion and the conserva-tion of energy and appliedthese concepts to our vehi-cles. We valued hands-onexperience in the designprocess and the opportunityto experiment with a varietyof materials and tools indetermining what wouldhelp us meet the challengesin a limited amount of timeand within certain restric-tions of cost and materials.Working in teams was animportant part of theprocess as well, stressingcommunication and coordi-nation of activities. Plus itwas a lot of fun to makethese cars, race them, andthen meet students fromdifferent schools who hadgone through similar experi-ences. We hope such experi-ences will open students upto the possibility of pursu-

ing careers in engineering tofind solutions to our trans-portation needs, and tobecoming well-informed con-

sumers who make wise choices about whatkinds of cars they will drive in the future.

Tommy Johnson teaches a variety of science cours-es in the Middle School. He received his bachelor’sdegree from Earlham College and an M.A.T. fromUNC-CH. He came to CFS in 2004 from theEducation Department at the NC Museum of Lifeand Science, and in 2008 traveled to Ecuador for asummer program sponsored by the NC Museum ofNatural Sciences and Habitat International. Thissummer he was accepted to an online BirdwatchProgram sponsored by Cornell University’sDepartment of Ornithology.

Three Seasons of Environmental Studyby Tommy Johnson, Middle School Science Teacher

Fourth-year Middle School students get their solar cars

ready for the EV Challenge at NC State.

photos by Tommy Johnson

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The “Goldsworthy Sculptures” of DES

Hope, Anthony, Jack, Lillian, Frances, andDavi—members of the Eco-Chicos (the MiddleSchool environmental club)—attended the 10thannual Friends Environmental Education NetworkConference, “Service and Sustainability: A World ofPossibilities.” These Middle Schoolers were the onlystudents at the conference to make a major presenta-tion, as was true when they presented at the NCAssociation of Independent Schools conference onGlobal Citizenship last year. Staff membersMichael Bonsignore, Mig Little Hayes, TommyJohnson, and Nancy Parsifal accompanied them.Hope, Anthony, Jack, and Lillian authored thearticle below during the bus ride back from the con-ference. CFS hosted the 2008 FEEN gathering.

We arrived at Sandy Spring Friends Schoolin time for lunch, which was called

“Feastaville.” Great homemade dishes! TheFeastaville was a potluck of delicious ethnicfood that the kids prepared. The food wasaccompanied by projects that they did tobring awareness to the community aboutwhat we eat. We met our hosts, and social-ized until we were called into the library.

The first event we attended was studentsharing. Students from several Friendsschools described their recent environmentalor socially-conscious projects. There wasone about Haiti and the aftermath of theearthquake, one about nuclear disarmament,and another about how awful fast food is foryour body.

Then our Sandy Spring tour guidesshowed us their thriving “energy garden.”We learned about bees and chickens (they

use the fresh eggs in their cafeteria). Next,we went outside and were divided into threegroups, where we got a chance to get out allour energy as well as talk to kids from theother eight Friends schools. We finished theday with Meeting for Worship and then wemet up with our various hosts to head home.

First on the program the next morningwas our presentation on the Eco-Chicos(how to start and sustain a successful envi-ronmental club). Our talk was very well-received and both students and teacherswere very interested in our on-going work(terracycle, the Recycling Fair, Haub bagsales, trash-free Tuesdays). We finished theday with excellent sessions on a variety ofeco-related topics. We look forward toattending the FEEN conference next year!

Middle School Eco-Chicos Carry CFSEnvironmentalism to the Wider World

Anyone who has taken a walk with ayoung child knows that they are instinctive-ly drawn into a close and loving relationshipwith the natural world. Whether pausing toponder the path of a tiny ant or simply tak-ing time to smell the roses, young childrenpresent a beautiful appreciation for the giftsthat our natural world shares with all of us.Nature is an essential part of children’severyday life and a daily curricular focus atFriends School.

This fall and winter the children atDurham Early School engaged in an investi-gation of the work of the artist AndyGoldsworthy. Through their explorations ofhis work with natural materials, they deep-ened their awe and reverence for nature andbuilt upon their reliance on their own cre-ative resources, two key pieces of our phi-losophy and Early School environmentaleducation curriculum.

It all began last year when the childrenengaged in a project about trying to elimi-nate trash from their lives as much as possi-ble, from doing neighborhood cleanups, tocommitting to trash-free lunches, to reusingas much trash as possible in their art work.This year, instead of purchasing collagematerials from catalogs, we were inspired bythe children to ask their families to bringdonations of beautiful recycled and naturalmaterials.

Since the children showed a great joy inworking with the natural materials, we teach-ers decided it was the right moment to intro-duce them to one of our favorite artists,Andy Goldsworthy, who uses materialsfrom nature to build large sculptures out-side.

After poring over the photos inGoldsworthy’s beautiful art books, the chil-dren decided they also wanted to work on“Goldsworthy Sculptures,” as they calledthem. We talked about the differencebetween natural materials and human-madematerials, and the children went out to col-lect the most beautiful materials they couldfind. The older students took responsibility

for sorting and displaying materials for use.The children decided to make their sculp-tures inside and outside, alone and ingroups, for several months. They even choseto make all our decorations for our wintercelebration, the Festival of Lights, from nat-ural materials! This work dovetailed with ascience study of the nature of ice this coldwinter, and many of the children’s sculp-tures involved ice as a key natural material.

The ideas explored during this focusedinvestigation continue to live on in our class-room on a daily basis. The children now usematerials from nature and recycled materialsmuch more than bought materials, and takegreat pride in bringing in special treasures,such as a shiny piece of crinkly gold candywrapper, to share with their friends.Through their joyful exploration of“Goldsworthy Sculptures,” the DES chil-dren have developed many new understand-ings about conserving, appreciating, andbeing good stewards of all their materials,both natural and human-made.

Sara Orphanides graduated from Oberlin Collegeand received a Master’s degree in Early ChildhoodEducation from the Banks Street College ofEducation. She has taught at Durham EarlySchool since Fall 2007.

by Sara Orphanides, Durham Early School Teacher

photo by Sara Orphanides

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photo by Laura Shmaniaphoto by John Ladd

photo by Laura Shmania

From Biology Field Trips to Water Law

What teacher(s) and what experiences standout in your memory?

Henry Walker and Norm Budnitz. I havea lot of memorable experiences, but particu-larly doing lighting for plays, playing Bilbo inThe Hobbit, and spring biology trips to SouthCarolina and Florida with Norm. Although Ilove birds and we saw a lot of birds on thattrip, one of the things that makes it specialnow is that we also saw a lot of frogs, somevery unusual species, and with the worldwidedecline in amphibians that sadly may be anexperience that future generations can’t have.

As a child, what did you want to be?

I can’t say that I was one of those kidswho always wanted to be something. I lovednature so I was interested in being a biologistbut wasn’t sure. I never thought seriouslyabout law until my junior year of college.

What path did you follow after CFS?

Earlham College (double major inBiology and Political Science, 1984),University of Michigan Law School (1987).

What about your work excites you?

Water is incredibly important in California(and everywhere, of course) and I have beenfortunate enough to work on a number ofcutting-edge cases where the law is veryunclear. In those instances I essentially get tocreate my vision of what the law should beand then attempt to convince a judge I’mright. I love the opportunity to be creative intrying to solve resource allocation issues. It’sfascinating to discuss water problems andsolutions with lawyers from all over theworld. One sees the same patterns and prob-lems almost everywhere.

As a managing partner, working with andtrying to lead people is always a challenge.The exciting aspect of it is that almost everyday brings a completely new challenge,whether that is with personalities, trying tounderstand the latest information technology,dealing with economic issues, or talking withclients I don’t directly work for. It is neverboring.Are there connections you draw between yourCFS experiences and your work or life today?

I could go on for hours about this. Theimportance of listening to, and respecting,everyone’s perspective, even if I disagree, issomething that I have discovered a lot ofpeople never learned. That is immensely help-ful to me in being managing partner.

In my water law work, it’s important toseek solutions by drawing from different dis-ciplines. In life, subjects aren’t compartmen-talized, and CFS does a much better job ofhelping students think across subjects and notbe confined to the artificial lines created by

most schools. Water law is a mixture of law,politics, economics, psychology (emotionsrun very high), and history so to be effectiveone has to be cross-disciplinary. Looking back, what do you value most aboutyour CFS education?

That I was treated as a unique individualand that my talents were nurtured andallowed to blossom. That the CFS environ-ment supported respect for everyone’s views,beliefs, and differences. That piece of mutualrespect, that if a person wants respect theymust respect others, was so important tolearn. Lastly, but most importantly, the peo-ple. My fellow students were some of themost amazing and talented people I’ve everknown.If you had 30 seconds to describe CFS to afriend, what would you say?

A virtually unique school where studentsare treated as individuals. The academics areexcellent, so students are well prepared forhigher education, but whether they choosethat path or not they will emerge as fullerhuman beings. A place where students can beopen to the wonders of learning because theydon’t have to don the armor that sadly is anecessity to survive in some schools.

What’s on your environmental reading list?

Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom,who won the Nobel Prize in Economics forthis work about the problems with managingcommon resources. One of her key areas ofstudy was California groundwater. Membersof my firm and I have been involved in sev-eral of the groundwater basins that she dis-cusses. Managing common resources is aproblem all over the world.

Eric L. Garner, a CFS student from 1972 until his graduation in 1980, is the managing partner of one of California’s largest lawfirms. He has litigated cases and negotiated key agreements involving major water bodies in the United States; helped craft water laws in

Pakistan, South Africa, and Trinidad; and serves as the first American (and youngest person) to chair the International Bar Association’sWater Law Committee. He’s co-written the leading text on the history, law, and policy of California water and taught at the University of

Southern California Law School. Here, he looks back at his CFS days.

We know many other members of the CFS community are involvedin environmental efforts. John Richardson (‘97), for example, earned hisB.S. in Biology from Davidson College and a Master’s inEnvironmental Planning and Growth Management from Florida StateUniversity; he now serves as the Sustainability Officer for the Town ofChapel Hill.

CFS parent and green developer Tim Toben is the chair of the NC

Energy Policy Council, the UNC Chapel Hill Energy Task Force, andthe Board of Visitors for the UNC Institute for the Environment; heco-founded Pickards Mountain Eco-Institute, a 350-acre farm and sus-tainability learning center.

If you’d like us to share on the CFS website how are you involved,either professionally or personally, in environmental stewardship, pleaseemail Anthony at aclay@cfsnc.org.

What teacher(s) and experiences stand outin your memory even now?

Dee [Dudley-Mayfield] saw me everyschool day from my first day in LowerSchool until I graduated and holds a veryspecial place in my heart. She has the mostamazing patience. Even when it may nothave seemed like I was listening, I alwaystook her advice under consideration. Mybrother Will (the youngest of the four Sallkids) graduated in 2007…making it an even20 years of our family tormenting (and lov-ing) Dee.

Over the years, my family has had theopportunity to learn about and visit manyamazing rainforests of the world and seeboth destruction and successes first hand. Ioften think back fondly upon my time inForest class when Michael Bonsignore led ayear focused on South America and tropicalrain forests. I would have never thought thatsomeday I would get to see and try to helpthese amazing ecosystems.

My interest in science began in MiddleSchool when I took a class called ‘UnderPressure’ with Spencer [Lemmons]. Howcould I have not fallen in love with a subjectwhere we stood on top of the Middle Schoolpouring colored water into a long glass tubeto measure the atmospheric pressure?

Basic science concepts were engraved inmy mind via inventive ‘labs’ the teachersdreamt up. Bob [Druhan] had us comparethe coefficients of friction for asphalt andgravel (against tires) by slamming on thebrakes of trucks on the CFS driveway and onFriends School Road. This had the addedbenefit of demonstrating to us UpperSchoolers with fast driving habits that therewas a real safety justification for the 10 mphspeed limit. Other fun learning experiencesincluded shooting catapults in Algebra IIwith Cam [Gott] to demonstrate parabolasand fishing stuff out of the creek with Norm[Budnitz] to study in Biology class. What is your favorite spot on the campus?

The Upper School stairs are undoubtedlymy favorite addition to campus and havebeen a wonderful community space. Theywere the perfect spot for Silent Meeting orlistening to the Upper School band. What educational path did you follow afterCFS?

After being part of a small tightly-knit

community, I decided to see how well Iwould do in ‘the real world’ and went to N.C.State to study engineering. After a brief flingwith genomics and fruit flies, I settled on aCivil Engineering degree. In 2003 I went onto an even bigger (then ‘the biggest’) univer-sity for my master’s degree: UT-Austin,where I specialized in transportation engi-neering and city and regional planning.And then what professional path?

I am a transportation planner who focuseson urban system modeling. In addition totypical transportation planning, it’s my job topredict how people will behave under vari-ous future conditions so decision makers canmake informed investment and policy deci-sions. Urban system modeling mixes aspectsof sociology, econometrics, statistics, andtraffic engineering. You get to put yourself inother people’s shoes and see if yourhypotheses are supported by statistics.

After graduate school, I worked for a verycollegial consulting firm in Washington, D.C.where I did transportation planning for avariety of clients, but mainly worked on rid-ership and revenue forecasting for thestatewide High Speed Rail project inCalifornia. I moved to San Francisco threeyears ago and eventually transitioned to workfor the San Francisco County TransportationAuthority. Working at an agency that directlyserves the public good is a dream come trueand allows me regularly to span the bridgebetween technocrat and policy wonk. What about your work excites you?

I love being able to use my technicalexpertise to help develop innovative sustain-

able development policies. California hasseveral very progressive greenhouse gas poli-cies, and I’ve been involved in many discus-sions at the state level. My job is also verydynamic. In the same day, I could have ameeting with Nancy Pelosi’s office, contem-plate how people make decisions on wherethey live and work, and evaluate integrals.

A few interesting things I’ve been workingon:

The City is studying whether to imple-ment a greenhouse gas impact fee forevery new development in order to haveno net new auto trips in San Francisco. Weare tasked with figuring out how much thefee would be, and what we should spend iton that would effectively offset new autotrips (and whether it would hold up in thecourts). We are leading the country in quantifyingfuture environmental and congestion ben-efits of various bike infrastructures. Thisachievement opens new funding doors tonon-motorized transportation investment.We even developed our own iPhone/Android application to collect the data(CycleTracks) and have already shared thedata, code, and findings with several pub-lic agencies across the country to helpthem give cycling infrastructure a fairshake in their neck of the woods.Our agency is leading a feasibility studyfor a cordon-based congestion fee, intend-ed to limit the number of autos enteringdowntown during peak hours. Revenuefrom the fee would be used to finance sig-nificant investments in transit. The studyattempts to answer a multitude of ques-tions: how much the fee would have tobe, where it should be charged, what tran-sit investments we should invest in, eco-nomic development impacts, and impactsalong various socio-demographic and geo-graphic strata.

What lead you to your current career?

I came into transportation planning as adirect result of commuting every day toFriends School from Cary. When I startedLower School, I-40 wasn’t even built to 15-501. By the time I graduated, I-40’s size hadmultiplied, but so had the traffic. I did somecalculations of how much time I was wastingin traffic along with the massive stress andunpredictability it added to my life. Itoccurred to me that no

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photo by Kathy Schenley

On and Off The Road Elizabeth Sall started at CFS in 1986 as an “Earthling” in Lower School and graduated in 1999. Here, she explains how

her daily commute to Friends School helped lead to her current work as a Bay Area transportation planner focused on urban system modeling, trying to help move people efficiently and environmentally responsibly, in a city where there are 9,932 registered vehicles per square mile.

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On our new farm in midcoast Maine, inour 1950s ranch house, in the middle ofDecember, no more water would go downthe drain. We tried patience, we plunged, andwe cleaned traps, but to no avail. Eventually,we sawed apart crumbling pipes in the base-ment and discovered that they had cloggedup until only a tiny half-inch channelremained for outgoing water. It also becameapparent that our sewage—which shouldhave been safely out in the septic tank andmaking its way into the leach field—wasbacking up in the pipe and hanging out therein our basement, inches from overflowing.The septic-pumping truck eventually cameto the rescue and pumped our tank…only itwasn’t a tank. My partner Seth said it lookedlike a hole in the ground lined with rocks,and our bill said, “Pump Cesspool—$195.”

It was just one more of the many dayssince purchasing and moving to our farmthat I thought, “This is farming too,” whichalso happens when I chase escaped pigs, pickapples from ancient trees, order Quick-Books, and jump a tractor’s dead battery.The romantic episodes of driving a disc har-row over deep, rich soil or hauling out fire-wood with a sweating draft pony alternate inour schedule with scrambling to narrowlyavoid impending crises. Farming requiresstamina, innovation, and stewardship; farm-ing is like being a responsible homeowner,but your home is really big.

It was during a semester away from CFSat the Outdoor Academy that I first gaveserious thought to the possibility of farmingfor a living, and it was upon returning to theUpper School that I knew I was in the rightplace to pursue it. After twelve years at CFSof learning through study, work, and play tolove the out-of-doors and care for the envi-ronment, alternative agriculture took thatfoundation and pushed it farther. I thoughtfarming fit my ideals as well as my tempera-ment and was important work at which Imight actually be able to make a living, so Idecided to test my hypothesis. I ran afterfarm experiences of every kind to see if Icould actually hack it: three farming intern-ships during my last year in Upper School,WWOOFing at a goat dairy in France duringa gap year before college, and seasonal farmlabor throughout college punctuated by an

assistant-managership of my college’s 200-member Community Supported Agriculturegroup. I was sure that at the end of it all, Iwould know if I wanted to farm.

Unfortunately, by the time I graduatedfrom Hampshire College, all I could say wasthat I still loved growing and eating food—and I realized I had missed out on a crucialpart of almost every farming career: stayingput. To become the best possible steward ofa piece of land, a person has to spend a lotof time on that land and not plan on leaving.Not only that, but farming is a professionwhose basic cycles are completed over thecourse of a full calendar year, and for fiveyears I didn’t live in one place for more thansix consecutive months. After I saw that Ihad skipped over one of the biggest compo-nents of the kind of farming that I considerto be truly sustainable, I thought, “I loveNorth Carolina, and there’s nowhere I’drather be. I’ll settle down there, but first Ihave to spend a few months with my closestcollege friend in Maine.” Famous last words.

I find myself now not just settled butcompletely anchored, and I’m nine-hundred-plus miles from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.I first met Seth, a fellow farmer, the week Igraduated from college and arrived in Maine.By the time November rolled around we

were sweethearts, and when we looked atour options of who might move where if wewanted to stay together, it turned out that anestablished apple orchard is a lot lessportable than vegetable seeds and somebooks on soil chemistry. I eventually saw myway to being excited about the culture, theclimate, the community, and the land itselfin midcoast Maine, and within three monthsof moving here permanently, a heartthrob ofa farm--which Seth and his brother had beeneyeing for years--became available. The threeof us shocked ourselves (and our generousfamilies, whose pockets are now emptier) bypulling together the resources to purchase it.

And where from here? I guess I’m stayingput—on 130 acres of prime cropland and200 acres of beautiful forest—and I’malready finding out that real-world farming isbetter than I ever imagined. I go to bed afterfeeding and watering two cows, two drafthorses, and twelve laying hens. My co-farm-ers and I attend workshops on farmers’ mar-kets and organic farm business planning. Wehaul hay, buy equipment, and pack last sea-sons’ root crops for bulk sales. We do all thethings farmers dream of doing, but also allthe things farmers have to do: plumbing,roofing, wiring, mechanics, carpentry,finances, and even a little writing.

Best of all, I have a place to make home.Like Annie Dillard, Wendell Berry, ScottRussell Sanders, Aldo Leopold, and manyother writers I first encountered thanks toFriends School teachers like Henry Walker,Mig Little Hayes, and Cotton Bryan, I havethe privilege to love, observe, learn, and earna living from a specific place. I also have theresponsibility to care for it, with my co-farmers, in the best ways we can: maintaininga working relationship between the wild andthe cultivated and feeding our communitywhile feeding the land. And if CarolinaFriends School ever decides to plow up ath-letic fields or horse pastures to grow somemore food, I will applaud you all, and I hopeto be there to stick a shovel through the sod.Anna and Seth are expecting a baby at the end ofSeptember, and their North Branch Farm can befollowed online at http://www.northbranchfarm-monroe.blogspot.com/.

This Is Farming, TooAccording to the Department of Agriculture, the United States had 4.1 million farms in 1959, but has only 2.2 million today.

Some 40% of our farmers are 55 or older. Anna Shapley-Quinn, a 2003 graduate of CFS now in her mid-twenties, is bucking the trend as she helps steward her 330-acre North Branch Farm in Maine.

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Carolina Friends tries to model goodstewardship not only through our curricu-lum, extracurricular offerings, and physicalplant practices, but also through our invest-ment strategies. CFS Business Manager SueSummers and the Board of Trustees’Investment Committee, clerked by MikeHennessy (Managing Director of MorganCreek Capital Management and formerlyemployed at both the Duke and UNCManagement Companies) oversee theSchool’s endowment of $8.2 million.

In 2005 the Investment Committeedecided on a new approach. According toSue, “Rather than have investment man-agers who screen out companies not social-ly responsible per the American FriendsService Committee Social InvestmentsPolicy and Guidelines, we wanted managerswho invest in socially responsible compa-nies or in companies the managers think arereceptive to being more socially responsi-

ble. Boston Common Asset Managementand Trillium Asset Management, our twomanagement firms, are leaders of sociallyresponsible investing.” CFS’ investmentstrategy is now more reflective of our phi-losophy.

Massachusetts-based Boston Commonseeks to “integrate environmental, social,and governance (ESG) criteria into thestock selection process” and “pursues com-panies with best-in-class ESG practices,screening out egregious violators, seekingout firms that are finding innovative solu-tions to the problems of their industries,and encouraging the firms we own toimprove their practices.” The firm engagesin dialogue with management, advancesshareholder resolutions, works with U.S.and international organizations, and pro-vides public policy testimony on issuesfrom child labor and sustainable agricultureto executive pay and workplace safety.

Boston Common has solicited CFS’ sup-port on initiatives to increase diversity intop management, seek more equity in paystructures, and discuss with company offi-cials BP’s oil sands strategy.

Trillium, founded in 1982, is the country’soldest and largest independent investmentmanagement firm focused on sustainableand responsible investing. It believes “com-panies with strong environmental, social,and governance (ESG) profiles are bettermanaged for the long term, have lower riskprofiles, and are positioned to outperformtheir peers.” The firm engages directlythrough shareholder engagement and advo-cacy and indirectly through allocating capi-tal to companies and sectors with positiveeconomic, ecological, and social impact.CFS parent Farnum Brown is the compa-ny’s Chief Investment Strategist and man-ages its Durham office.

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The members of the Board of Trustees of the Carolina FriendsSchool wish to express our deep gratitude to Peter Klopfer for hislong and remarkable service to Carolina Friends School.

Peter was part of the small group of Friends who birthed theidea of CFS in the 60s, and CFS has benefited from nearly 50 yearsof his vision, generosity, and leadership. He has served continu-ously on the Board during those years, participating as a foundingmember, as Clerk of the Board, and as clerk or member of innu-merable Board committees.

Peter has been a constant reminder to the Board of how Quakerfaith, practice and values can bear upon the life of the school. Hehas helped guide the Board through issues such as whether or notto administer standardized tests, pave the roads, or include com-petitive sports. He has modeled leadership based on integrity andcareful listening. Often, he has worked quietly to facilitate whatneeds to be accomplished. On other occasions, he has been out-

spoken, standing firm in his beliefs, but also willing to hear allsides of a controversy and even occasionally changing his stance.

Beyond the Board, Peter has shared his life in countless wayswith the school, from sharing his passion for biology with studentsand his pastures with athletes, to being a guidestar to multipleschool principals. As anyone who has crossed his path in andaround the school can tell you, CFS lies not just near, but in Peter’sheart.

Thank you, Peter, for your presence, your persistence, your gen-erosity, your sense of history, and your sense of the endless possi-bilities at CFS.

Presented May 18, 2010Carolina Friends School Board of Trustees

A Minute of Appreciation for Peter Klopfer

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Marion McMorris: A Legacy of Giving“I wish more schools would graduate students with the preparation CFS gives.” With this statement several years ago, Marion

McMorris, grandmother of Evan (’99) and Stefan (’02) McMorris-Santoro, told us she had included Carolina Friends School in herwill. Asked recently about her bequest decision, Marion added, “My two grandsons went all the waythrough CFS from Early School through Upper School, so I had a long experience with the School.I liked the relationships between teachers and students. My late husband and I visited the Schoolwhen we traveled down here. We enjoyed meeting parents and other grandparents at various events;everyone was very friendly. Grandparent Days were fun.” The bequest Marion designated will cometo the School after her death.

More recently Marion decided to establish a charitable gift annuity (CGA) through the School’spartnership with the Friends Fiduciary Corporation. Marion’s gift established an annuity that paysher a regular quarterly income. At her death, any money remaining in the fund comes to the School.Marion said, “I had always enjoyed the dance program so much. They always did such a terrific job.I thought that directing the gift to support the dance program would be a good thing to do.”

Marion has always felt good about her decision to support the School through her charitablegift annuity. And these days she has a second reason to feel this way. Marion explains, “comparedto the roller coaster stock market, the CGA is constant and reliable. I can always count on this forregular income.”

Please consider following Marion’s lead. Include the School in your will and/or establish a CFScharitable gift annuity. You’ll feel good about your decision. For further information, contact John

Ladd at 919.383.6602 x270 or jladd@cfsnc.org.

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More than 100 grandparents and grandfriends, from as far away as Hawaii andNorway, spent half a day in April enjoying school at Carolina Friends.

photo by Anthony L. Clay

photo by Laura Shmania

photo by Laura Shmania photo by Anthony L. Clay

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of the impact of land and facilities recom-mendations highlighted in Meeting theChallenge, our most recently completed strate-gic plan. This walking study was alsoinformed by the extraordinary efforts of theCFS Board’s Land and Facilities Committee,co-convened by Liz Pungello and MarshaGreen.

At its February meeting, the Board ofTrustees approved the Land and FacilitiesCommittee’s recommended Master Plan forCFS. The plan reflects the input of students,staff members, alums, parents, and countlessfriends of the School. It also reflects theexhaustive efforts of Liz, Marsha, and theircommittee members to meet our obligationsto Orange County in order to secure a SpecialUse Permit (SUP) and to glean and elevateour priorities: an even more pedestrian-friendly campus, a school “in the woods”rather than merely surrounded by woods,

stewardship made manifest in both greenbuilding practices and responsible use of ourexisting resources, and programmatic impactthat makes clear CFS is here to stay.

The recommendations take the form ofrenovations, expansions, and new construc-tion and include the following: The list is long and the price tag high, but,

as many of you have heard me say, at CFS ourreach ought to exceed our grasp. And thetruth is that the work is already underway. Asyou “walk” through the pages of this editionof We & Thee, I hope you can picture your-self on campus, as well as appreciate the manyefforts on behalf of the environment by thestudents, staff, parents, board, and alums ofCFS. And if you’d like to take a walk and helpme imagine how we might realize those highhopes we have for a CFS poised not only toendure, but to thrive, rest assured I keep apair of socks and walkin’ shoes beneath mydesk.

matter how many lanes they added on I-40,we would still always be stuck in traffic …and if I could figure out a way to fix thisissue, it would be a huge contribution to thegross national happiness not to mentionsubstantial health, safety, and environmentalbenefits.

So in college I did a lot of research aboutregional planning and infrastructure invest-ment decisions, and realized that decisionmakers based their decisions (or justifiedthem as the case may be) on technical analy-sis with inherently flawed methodologies. Infact, the models currently used in theTriangle combined with national transporta-tion policy almost guarantees that trans-portation dollars are spent on single occu-pancy vehicle roadway capacity. The addedcapacity opens the door for even more inef-ficient development patterns, which thenclogs the roadway again, and so on. It is theopposite of a sustainable pattern: financially,environmentally, and socially. I decided that

I could (while my math skills were fresh) atleast try and fix the flawed models that werebeing used so that decision makers and thepublic would at least be presented with amore accurate menu of choices and be heldaccountable to them. Ten years later, I’m stillon the same mission!

Are there connections you draw betweenyour CFS experiences and your work or lifetoday?

More than anything else, the concept ofbeing part of and contributing to a commu-nity has stuck with me from CFS. I thinkthat’s the main reason why I love my job inthe public sector now. We are accountable toa community of people who trust us.

Sometimes it is difficult for an engineerto understand the belief that truth is contin-ually revealed . . . and dynamic! However,this core CFS principle fosters importantcritical thinking and discussions and pre-vents us number crunchers from hiding

behind a single value/‘answer’ even thoughit is much easier.

Taking responsibility for your own well-being is one of the most important lessons Ilearned at CFS.

The trust, flexibility, and freedom givento CFS students allowed us to make plentyof our own mistakes . . . but more impor-tantly it meant that when we were in theclassroom learning, it was because we want-ed to be.

What’s on your environmental reading list?I think my favorite book is Small Wonder

by Barbara Kingsolver, which I read in grad-uate school but still think about often. MarcReisner’s books about the West and JaredDiamond’s work are also very interesting.Related to my work, Tom Vanderbilt’s Traffic:Why We Drive the Way We Do is entertaining.

A Profile of Elizabeth Sallfrom page 9

From the Principalfrom page 1

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a dedicated Performing Arts Centera Lower School expansion to create art,storage, and additional classroom spacea Middle School renovation to add art, sci-ence, classroom, and kitchen spacea renovated Quaker Dome likely to be usedby even more students, staff, parents, andalums and likely to reduce the pressure onthe gym to serve the growing number ofCFS athletic teamsdedicated meeting space to accommodatethe Campus Early School communityadditional storage and teacher work space

at the Chapel Hill Early Schoolrelocation of our wastewater treatmentplanttennis courts a new Shop

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We & Thee is published byCarolina Friends School

4809 Friends School RoadDurham, NC 27705

Mike Hanas, PrincipalAnthony L. Clay, Editor

Kathleen Davidson, Assistant EditorDoug Johnston, Design Consultant

x 17,600 =Estimated number of gallons of fresh water saved every year by the 11 waterfree urinals

installed on our main campus.( )*

*Answer: 440,000

Did you know?CFS saved nine mature trees

from destruction in 2009simply by participating in a

shredding & recyclingprogram for confidentialpapers. This total doesn’tinclude our regular paper

recycling program.

CFS Goes Social (Media)If you’re up on social media, you can follow CFS on Twitter at CarolinaFriends. And please check out the new CFS alumni

Facebook page: Quaker Dome.

Cutting Down on Paper Mail?

If you’d like to receive a colorpdf of We & Thee by email, let

Laura Shmania know at lshmania@cfsnc.org.

The color pdf is also availableat www.cfsnc.org.

Hearty thanks to all our parent volunteers, who devote so many hours to supporting CFS in countless ways. Pictured above left: Lisa

Hess (‘89), Chair of the Recycling and Waste Reduction Commiteee, who helps us to have as many reusable items as possible at

events like the volunteer appreciation ice cream social. Right: At the last gathering of the Parent-Staff Association (PSA), Jackie

MacLeod was presented with flowers to express appreciation for her two years as PSA Co-Convener. Surrounding her are Marybeth

Dugan and Jane Anderson, PSA Co-Conveners for 2010-11. CFS would not be the community it is without our dedicated parents.

photos by Laura Shmania

Another full, busy year of athleticsis “in the book” at CFS. More than75% of the students (112) in theMiddle School participated in one ormore sports, and more than half (89)of the students in the Upper Schooltook part in interscholastic sports.

Several Middle School teams partic-ipated in the newly formed CentralCarolina Middle School Conference.Conference sports included boys’ andgirls’ soccer, volleyball, boys’ and girls’basketball, and baseball. Highlightsincluded regular season championshipsfor the boys’ and girls’ soccer teams. Theboys’ team also won their tournament cham-pionship, while the girls’ team lost an excitingovertime match in their championship.Additional sports offered during the yearincluded boys’ and girls’ cross-country, ten-nis, and ultimate Frisbee.

The Upper School program continued itsmembership in the North CarolinaIndependent Schools Athletic Association

and the Triad Athletic Conference. We field-ed teams in cross-country, basketball, soccer,swimming, tennis, and volleyball. The ulti-mate Frisbee team played in the TriangleYouth Ultimate League. Of special note isthat for the first time ever all of our girls’teams whose participation in the state tourna-ment is based on a seeding process—volley-ball, basketball, and soccer—were selected toplay. All-conference honors during the yearincluded the following:

This was certainly another year totake great pride in the accomplish-

ments of our teams and individual players.We enjoy the high finishes in the conferencestandings and all-conference recognitiongiven to our students. We also recognize,though, that the ultimate success of our pro-gram lies in the quality of the experience thateach student has on a team. Special thanks goto our coaches, other faculty and staff, andparents for their efforts on behalf of the ath-letic program.

Boys’ Soccer: Dani Meyer (’13).Volleyball: Emily Booker (’10).Girls’ Basketball: Esther Cohn(’10); Zoe Vernon (’12) (alsoselected for all-state!); JamilahWatson (’12). Also, CFS Girls’Basketball coach PatienceVanderbush was named Coach-of-the-Year in our conference.Girls’ Soccer: Anna McClain(’12); Frances McDonald (’13).

Mike Hanas, Principal, has initiated the Athletic EndowmentFund in memory of his father, who died in February 2010. Mikeexplains, “Perhaps to a fault, I’ve tended to focus ondifferences between my father and me, but overmany years we shared an undeniable interest in ath-letics. My dad rooted for the White Sox and Packers,while I cheered for the Cubs and Bears. We bothplayed sports growing up and knew the joy and sat-isfaction that came with pursuing what was possi-ble, physically, as individuals and members ofteams. Dad was a local legend as a talented andfiercely competitive athlete and, later, umpire. In2002 he was inducted into the Chicago 16 InchSoftball Hall of Fame. Over the last ten years ofhis life, I experienced the great joy of watching mydad enjoy watching his grandchildren play. Withthis endowment we get to do some good togetheron behalf of student athletes at CFS.”

The Athletic Endowment Fund will “. . . cover operating expens-es, e.g. equipment, fees, officials, coaches’ salaries, et al. related to

the participation of students in athletics atCFS.” It’s the newest curriculum supportendowment fund, joining funds that supportdance, mathematics, science, and world lan-guages. As with all endowment funds, anyonecan add to this fund, at any time, and with anysize gift. If you would like to support thefund, please write a check to the CFS AthleticEndowment Fund and mail it to CarolinaFriends School, 4809 Friends School Road,Durham, NC, 27705. To honor Mike Hanas’wish to “to do some good together with hisdad,” with your gift, write that on the checknote line. We’ll let Mike know who has givenwith this purpose in mind . . . without tellinghim the amount of such a gift.

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The Year in Athleticsby Alex Gordon, Athletic Director

Remembering My DadRemembering My Dad

The CFS girls basketball team celebrates a great season

photo by Laura Shmania

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More than 75 CFS alumni and current and former staff gathered at

Alivia’s Bistro in downtown Durham to kick off Alumni Weekend, June 12-13!

Pictured here (clockwise from top left): David Baranger (‘06), Rose Anna

Laudacina (‘06), and Caitlin Conner (‘06); Hopie Fulkerson (‘97), Jason

Parker (‘05), and Lower School staff member Kathy Schenley; Monique

Nijhout (‘95), Kristyn Yelton (‘96), and Upper School staff member Willy

Rotella; Matt Wehrle ('98), Maria Ikenberry ('91), guest Deb Cunningham,

and Norm Budnitz (former teacher); and Erin McGovern (‘00) and her father,

Assistant Principal John McGovern.

photos by Laura

Alumni Weekend 2010 More Photos fromGrandparents Day

And last, but not least, a cartoon.Drawn exclusively for We & Thee by Dr. ToddShapley-Quinn, proud parent of CFS alumand Maine farmer Anna Shapley-Quinn—whois featured in this edition of We & Thee.