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Frozen Fenway
The SPS girls hockey team has been invited
to play at Fenway Park as part of Frozen
Fenway’s Independent School League
hockey day. The Big Red will face ISL
opponent Governor’s Academy on Jan-
uary 8, 2014. Game time is 1:30 p.m.
Fenway Park has been a venue for ice
hockey games since January 2010, when
the Boston Bruins hosted the Philadelphia
Flyers in the National Hockey League’s
Winter Classic event. When the SPS girls
team plays at the 101-year-old home of
the Boston Red Sox, it will mark the third
edition of Frozen Fenway, an event initiated
to showcase the many levels of hockey
that exist in and around the Boston area,
including regional and league rivalries.
The 17-day ice event will run from
December 28 to January 13 and will in-
clude seven public and private high
school hockey games and nine men’s
and women’s college hockey games.
“The team is both honored and ecstatic to
be invited to play at Frozen Fenway,” said
Head Coach Heather Farrell, who enters
her third year at the helm of the SPS girls
program. “It’s a great opportunity to play
a unique game in a unique setting. We are
excited to play a team like Governor’s, which
has such a storied history in hockey, in
front of what we hope is a great crowd.”
The SPS girls hockey team comes off
its best campaign in program history, a
23-2-1 mark that included a trip to the
New England semifinal.
“We are excited to be a part of this great
tradition,” said SPS Athletic Director Scott
Heitmiller ’81. “What an amazing oppor-
tunity for the girls and the School to have
this experience. I hope many SPS fans will
come to support the team.”
Tickets can be purchased online at
www.redsox.com/frozenfenway or by
calling 877-733-7699.
Reviving the Reredos
Scaffolding that seemed a mile high adorned
the altar of the Chapel for much of the
summer as restoration artists armed with
cotton swabs and small paintbrushes
worked to reinvigorate the nine paintings
on the reredos.
The entire section of the altar, which
includes the paintings and yards of intri-
cate woodwork, was donated near the turn
of the century by the Vanderbilt family in
memory of William Henry Vanderbilt of
the Form of 1889.
The eight-week reredos restoration,
spearheaded by Connecticut-based John
Canning Studios, included revival of the
paintings, some of which were flaking
and cracking, using tiny brushes and a
neutral-pH aqueous solution. The project
also included cleaning the masonry and
the fumed oak woodwork and replacing a
starlight fixture at the peak of the ceiling.
“The most noticeable difference will be
in the paintings, which will show more
detail, vibrancy, and depth of color,” said
restoration artist Cynthia Fiorini from
her perch on the second level of the multi-
tiered scaffolding. “We will spend between
20 and 30 hours [each] on the paintings
that need the most reconditioning.”
Into the Wild
When the pilot Fourth Form Wilderness
Adventure was conceived last year, its
goals included welcoming and orienting
participants to the Fourth Form year,
helping them to establish friendships and
community before the start of the school
year, developing problem-solving and
teamwork skills, learning outdoor skills,
and deepening participants’ appreciation
for the natural world.
“Getting to know four other returning
students very well and two faculty mem-
bers at the School before I came to SPS
was a huge help to me, and it put me in a
new friend circle,” said Luther vom Eigen,
a new Fourth Former from Hampden,
Maine. “I had much more confidence
coming to school after the camping trip.”
Vom Eigen was one of 19 Fourth Form-
ers to participate in the three-day wilder-
ness journey designed to introduce new
students to St. Paul’s and to help new and
returning Fourth Formers in their transi-
tion to what can be a challenging high
school year. He was one of 11 new mem-
bers of the Form of 2016 to join eight re-
turning Fourth Formers, three returning
upper-formers, and eight faculty chaper-
ones from September 3 to 6 on a camping
and hiking trip in New Hampshire’s White
Mountains. The trip included a 5.5-mile
hike up and down Mt. Chocorua and a night
at Steele Farm in Wonalancet, N.H., com-
plete with a jamboree and contra dancing.
Dean of Students Chad Green was one
of the faculty members to initiate and
develop the pilot program. In addition to
helping new students acclimate to St. Paul’s
before the bustle of the new school year,
Green said he hoped the wilderness trips,
and, he hoped, future ones, will serve as
reminders to students of the beauty of the
School’s natural surroundings.
Dream in Gold
At a lunch with 60 students in the Lower
Dining Room, three-time Olympic gold
medalist Misty May-Treanor spoke of the
dedication required to be an Olympian,
relating her experience to what it takes to
be successful in the classroom.
“You are all at this school to stay one
step ahead,” said May-Treanor, who visited
SPS on October 7. “Do the little things be-
cause those are the things that are going
to make a difference, even though nobody
is going to see you doing them.”
Recognized with partner Kerri Walsh
Jennings as the most successful beach
volleyball duo of all-time, May-Treanor
spent the day at St. Paul’s as a Conroy
Visitor. She first ate lunch with the smaller
group, taking questions and posing with
one of her three (2004, 2008, 2012) gold
medals before moving on to Memorial Hall,
where she addressed the entire school.
In both sessions, May-Treanor delivered
a consistent message: success comes as a
result of hard work, and it should not be
taken for granted. She told the students
KAREN BOBOTAS