The top part of the plaque
features a view of the Lower
School Pond docks, with the
stone circle ‘Stonehenge’ proj-
ect completed by a group of
students that year. The lower
half shows the Athletic and
Fitness Center, opened for use
in the fall of 2004. In the bot-
tom left corner is a baseball,
with the dates (1918–2004),
representing the Boston Red
Sox World Series win and the
breaking of the “curse.” The
bottom right corner depicts
a closed book with the initials
“CBA,” marking the end of the
Right Reverend Dr. Craig Barry
Anderson’s term as Eleventh
Rector of St. Paul’s School.
The lower half of the plaque
displays two penguins on a
frozen pond. The penguin on
the left, sporting formal attire
with a red bow tie, represents
the first-ever Senior Prom.
The penguin on the right, with
hockey stick and puck, repre-
sents the girls varsity hockey
team’s invitation to play at
Frozen Fenway in Boston. The
background features three
evergreen trees – Isthmian’s
symbol – in honor of their
win of the Club Cup. The upper
half of the plaque features a
ribbon banner with the words
“Many more hills to climb,”
an excerpt from the Nelson
Mandela quote below. The
initials “NRM,” and the dates
(1918–2013) mark his passing
on December 5, 2013.
The central image of the plaque
is a heart with a ribbon of
musical notes commemorating
the (S)P.S. I Love You musical
event held at OhrstromLibrary
on Valentine’s Day that year.
The upper left corner shows a
house on wheels, represent-
ing the brick faculty house
that was moved to make room
for the Lindsay Center for
Mathematics and Science. The
upper right corner features a
map of Haiti and the epicenter
of the devastating earthquake
that occurred on January 12,
2010. The bottom half of the
plaque depicts a camera and
a photograph with the initials
“BC,” commemorating fac-
ulty member Brendan Cohen,
who, in addition to being a
favorite teacher, documented
all four years of the Form
of 2010 through his many
photographs.
Form Plaques
Over Anniversary Weekend, the School displayed wooden plaques carved by
Lisa Laughy for the Forms of 2005, 2010, and 2014.
2005
2010
2014
Faculty Emeriti
On the weekend of September 25, the
trustees of St. Paul’s School unanimously
voted to designate faculty emeritus status
to six former longtime faculty members.
Mathematics teacher Jane Brandt, science
teacher Ellen Bryan, Executive Director
of the Alumni Association Robert Rettew
’69, Spanish teacher Fidel Rodriguez, and
Music Department Head David Seaton
were honored by the School as former
members of the faculty who served SPS
for 18 or more years and who “showed in
their work the highest degree of profes-
sionalism in their service to St. Paul’s and
its students.” Faculty emeritus status is
the highest distinction a faculty member
can receive.
Summer Service
In a late-September Chapel announce-
ment, the officers of the Missionary
Society highlighted the varied service
work completed by SPS students over
the summer. Projects included a free
ESL camp for migrant children, run by
MISH secretary Mary Louise Kehaya ’15;
volunteer work at a therapeutic riding
center for children with special needs;
teaching children in Harlem to play
squash; teaching English to the children
of migrant workers in India; volunteering
at the Philadelphia Zoo; and assembling
care packages for indigent members of
a church in California. Jingyi Zhang ’17
worked with sixth-graders at a junior
boarding school in China and, through
New American Africans, Sophie Pesek ’16
worked with teenage refugees from
Concord, N.H., to write and illustrate
books that will be sent to the SPS sister
school in Haiti. Cam Mackintosh ’16
and his brother climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro
to raise money for Facing the Future
School. Drew Eckler ’16, Peter Curtin ’16,
and Harrison Garrett ’16 taught football
to 300 Filipino children through Empow-
er2Play, while Gaden James ’16 worked for
Generation Enterprise, which provides
business training to entrepreneurs in the
third world. Becca Thomson ’16 spent June
in Zambia, helping to construct homes
for children orphaned by the AIDS epi-
demic. MISH President Maggie Polk ’16
asked students and faculty to give a round
of applause for “all who have gone above
and beyond this past year, leaving remark-
able impacts on communities in need.”
COURTESY JINGYI ZHANG ’17
COURTESY SOPHIE PESEK ’16
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