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• Tuition covers only 80% of the day-to-day costs of running the school.

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Message from the head of school

Building the Future of Rivers The following remarks were delivered at the Centennial Gala on September 12, 2015.

By NEd PARSONS

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ood evening and welcome to Rivers’ Centennial Gala.

This celebration has been a long time in the making and it did not come together on its own. In typical Rivers community fashion, many dedicated people put in hours and hours to make it happen and I want to say thank you, in particular, to the Centennial Gala Committee: Ellen Ades, Amy dunne, Kristin Harder, Monica O’Neil, Jodi Slifka, and Sandy Swartz.

I’d like to thank dave Burzillo for his sleuthing on all things historical in our research for the school’s centennial book, a compendium of Rivers’ history from its inception to now.

I want to thank our trustees, as well, for their devotion to this school. I could not ask for a more committed, talented, and supportive group of people with whom to work than the trustees of The Rivers School, and I thank them for their guidance and support. That thanks extends to all the former, life, and honorary trustees who have been a major part of making this school the exceptional place that it is.

And finally, though he was not able to be here tonight, I want to thank Tom Olverson for his thoughtful guidance over the last year. I may have violated Rule #1 of leadership: never follow the master—but I could ask for no more gracious a master to follow than Tom and I thank him publicly for his guidance and support in the transition I, and the school, made over the last year and more.

As most of you know, The Rivers School started 100 years ago as an experiment in open-air education. A group of Boston doctors who believed fresh air could combat two prolific killers of that era—pneumonia and tuberculosis—hired Robert Rivers away from a little school in dedham and founded a school at a home they’d leased in Brookline, in two unheated, open-windowed bungalows built in the backyard. Judging by the pictures from those early years, January was a tough time to be a student at Rivers.

It’s easy to look back on the notion of the “Open-Air School” with smugness. But the hypothesis that drove fresh air through the open windows at Mr. Rivers’ School was no whim, rather a carefully thought-out plan designed to create the optimal learning environment in its day. And while the students may not have understood the point of freezing in winter, we can nonetheless know that the school’s origins lie in a spirit of innovation, of adaptation, and of a single-minded devotion to the creation of the safest and most productive learning environment for children.

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Our students trust us because we trust them and the relationships formed provide the meaningful foundation for their work as budding scholars, artists, and athletes.

The open-air philosophy went—well—out the window by 1930, but the school has always moved forward from its inception in ways true to the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit that started it. By 1924, the school had moved further out of the city, added octagonal classrooms which hinted at the student-centered approach to teaching and learning that characterizes the school today, and built a science laboratory hailed as cutting edge for its time. The school offered a boarding school approach with the advantages of the day school, and the amenities of much larger schools, but with the intentional approach of the small school, where children were known well and cared for deeply by an exceptional faculty.

Over the years, innovation and adaptation came in a variety of forms, as the school merged with the Country day School of Boston, moved two more times, created a curriculum that put the arts on an equal footing with other liberal arts subjects, embraced the emerging computer technology, developed a competitive athletic program despite its size, and added international travel and educational opportunities for students and faculty alike.

In the ’70s, the Rivers Music School, precursor to today’s Rivers School Conservatory, opened its doors and expanded the musical opportunities for our students and the community at large.

Throughout our history, we have evolved and developed in innovative and entrepreneurial ways, adapting to the call of the

times and the needs of the students before us, and that innovative spirit—and the exceptional faculty that drives it—is very much alive and central to the success of The Rivers School today.

In today’s school, the influence of technology, of globalization, and of our deeper understanding of the learning process pushes us in our efforts to create and sustain that optimal learning environment for our students. And, true to our history, this faculty has responded. It starts in our Middle School, where exceptional teachers put cutting edge pedagogy to work every day for our students who learn how to identify successful approaches to learning, how to develop problem-solving skills with the help of their adult mentors, how to work collaboratively in project-based approaches, and how to employ creativity in the learning process across and within disciplines. In the Upper School, students can take classes in interdisciplinary studies, engage in science internships over the summer, study engineering, and travel across the country and around the globe. They put technology to work in the service of their learning, even as they learn the skills required of them to manipulate technology for a changing world.

And the challenges before them—and therefore before us as educators—hardly end there. The future that our students are heading out into is more competitive than ever, more technologically savvy, more globally interconnected than it was for us. If we are to keep our promise to our students, we need to build out programs that inculcate the skills and habits of mind they will need to be ready to enter that world. They will need guidance as problem-solvers and project leaders, as the thinkers and the doers of a generation facing challenges of every proportion in social, economic, and environmental realms. Our promise, as stated in our mission statement, is “to prepare [our students] for leadership in a world that needs their talents, imagination, intellect and compassion,” and we will not falter in that imperative. It starts with excellence—in the programs we create, in the teaching we provide, in the expectations we have for our students’ work and approaches.

But it doesn’t end there. Those of you in this room know The Rivers School well enough by now to note that I’ve left something

Throughout our history, we have evolved and developed in innovative and entrepreneurial ways, adapting to the call of the times and the needs of the students before us, and that innovative spirit—and the exceptional faculty that drives it—is very much alive and central to the success of The Rivers School today. out of this talk thus far. That something is the “humanity” component of our approach, the essential component of our identity as a school now and for the last 100 years. From our earliest days as a school, Rivers has always prized the small school approach that knows every child, that teases out the potential in every one of those children and encourages its realization.

To be sure, the stars of our show here at Rivers have always been our faculty. From its inception, the school has focused its energies on the creation of the optimal learning environment, on being a school where children learn and grow in an atmosphere guided by strong relationships. No Head of School can mandate that, not to the extent that it has taken hold in the Rivers culture.

From our very beginning, we have hired and mentored teachers and administrators who understand the value and importance of those relationships to the ultimate goal of bringing young people to and beyond their own goals for themselves. Recent studies in places like the Harvard Graduate School of Education corroborate this fact: students learn better, extend themselves farther, and retain their learning longer in school environments where they feel supported, known, and cared for. Simply put, our students trust us because we trust them and the relationships formed provide the meaningful foundation for their work as budding scholars, artists, and athletes. We didn’t need the studies to make

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that clear to us; it’s in our dNA. The approach is 100 years old at Rivers, and it will guide us into the century ahead, no matter the changes that may come our way as we look to the future.

English teacher by training that I am, I can’t help but return to the image of the open air classroom as an important one in our past, our present, and our future. To be frank, the image serves me better as metaphor than it may have served those cold students in the winters of 1915–1929, but it serves, nonetheless.

Our future is one of open windows, of a place connected to the world outside, open to ideas and influences from around the globe and down the street. Ours is a future marked by an alumni body that is engaged with the world, working to solve the dilemmas of the day, bringing what they learned here of effective citizenship and participatory democracy to a world that needs their talents, imagination, intellect, and compassion. That world—increasingly global, technological, and interconnected—“needs” our graduates, to be sure. We need to bring that world here through those open windows, even as we send our students out into that community beyond our walls so that they might develop the compassion and the necessary skills to help create the world of our dreaming. We have always been committed to this ideal, and the future school will be every bit as committed to it as we have ever been over the last 100 years.

I have one brief story to tell that illustrates both where we are as a school and where we’re going. I had the opportunity last spring to meet with a current parent here at the school who came to say hello and welcome me to Rivers. She told me about the faculty here and what it had meant to her children since their arrival just two years before. And she told me about them.

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Our future is one of open windows, of a place connected to the world outside, open to ideas and influences from around the globe and down the street. them here in the last two years, something we hoped for but weren’t sure we would get to.

“We’re a family that eats dinner together—it’s an important part of our lives. We used to try to talk to the kids at dinner and didn’t always get much out of them about their day. Everything was ‘fine.’ But in the last year, that’s changed. Every night, we hear excitedly about what’s going on in classes, about big ideas they’re grappling with, about something they read or about a conversation with a teacher about the news. My husband and I keep looking at each other across the table, silent—who can get a word in?

“What your faculty have done for my kids is to take smart children and turn them into inquisitive, engaged, and energized young adults. They’re so intellectually curious, they literally wear us out at times with their need to work through the events of the day, global political crises, literature they’re discovering. They are charged. And they’re changed.”

Then she thanked me—and us—for what she called “the gift your teachers have given my family.”

As I thought about this story, it occurred to me that what our teachers are doing here every day is actually bigger than that.

It’s no less than living up to our mission to inspire smart young people to be more than smart. Because the mission statement is explicit that we “prepare our students for leadership in a world

that needs their talents, imagination, intellect, and compassion.”

It’s an imperative. What this faculty does, one foundational relationship at a time, is to provide the gift of our graduates to the world. Nice to have done so for every family in our community. But it’s not hyperbole to suggest that this work is for every community in the world into which our graduates enter. That is the gift.

That is our daily work now and for the next 100 years.

In the months to come, the new Strategic Plan for Rivers will be made public, and we’ll begin the work of engaging the entire community in building the future of this great school. The Plan is the end product of over a year of planning and data gathering, of introspection and dreaming at the Board, faculty, parent, alumni, and student level. It is the brainchild of the community in that sense, the focused blueprint for the school’s next iteration, and I can’t wait for others to see where we’re headed.

The Plan is still in draft phase, still being pored over before its release, but I can tell you this much. The tagline for our centennial year: “Celebrating the Past, Building the Future” is apt for how we’ll move forward. In moving forward, we will celebrate our legacy of powerful student/teacher relationships and generate and support new opportunities for those relationships to take hold. In moving forward, we will honor our legacy of innovation and creativity at the faculty level, of nimble and entrepreneurial approaches to optimizing the learning experience for our students by supporting curricular and extracurricular programming that will engage our students with the world and prepare them for leadership in it.

In moving forward, we will plan academic, arts, and athletic spaces that properly match and support the excellence of our programs and the legacy of powerful teaching that characterizes Rivers, even as the spaces enable new pedagogy and creative approaches to teaching and learning.

In moving the school forward, we will build from our strengths, from the time-tested values of our origins to the everyday practice of encouraging growth in a challenging and supportive atmosphere characterized by the phrase “Excellence with Humanity.”

In moving the school forward, we will, with your help and support, open the windows and let the world in. I hope you will join me in the years ahead as we build the future of Rivers.

R i v e R s W e lco m e s N e W T R u s T e e EilEEn SivolElla is the managing director and chief financial officer of advent international corporation, a global private equity firm focused on buyouts and growth equity investments. Prior to joining advent in 2009, eileen was the cFo of bain capital, where she led its finance organization. Previously, she was a partner at Deloitte and a founder of its private equity practice in 1998 in New York where she worked with many of the largest private equity firms. she served in various leadership roles including as a member of Deloitte’s board council to the u.s. board of Directors and deputy managing partner of the New York audit practice. eileen has been a member of Rivers’ Finance and audit committees. she and her husband, John, who is a member of the board’s education committee, live in Wellesley and have three children, all of whom attend Rivers: Will ’18, Donald ’20, and caroline ’21.

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Celebrating 100 Years of Education

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ore than 500 members of the Rivers community gathered together to celebrate Rivers’ Centennial on Saturday evening, September 12. Filling the festive tent on Carlin Green and gathering in the Campus Center, alumni, parents, faculty, and trustees shared their enthusiasm and support for The Rivers School.

Board President Bob davis and Head of School Ned Parsons addressed the crowd, detailing the accomplishments of the first century and laying the groundwork for Rivers’ future. Guests enjoyed music by the dynamic Urban Renewal band as well as Rivers pianist Steve Sussman, slide shows chronicling Rivers history, and a delicious menu of sweet and savory foods. Many thanks to the Centennial Gala Committee for their months of hard work: Ellen Ades, Amy dunne, Kristin Harder, Monica O’Neil, Jodi Slifka, and Sandy Swartz.

Amy Dunne, Jodi slifka, ellen Ades, sandy swartz

Xiru Zhang, Hongmei li, steve snider

Wendy Falchuk with Todd and claudine sheinkopf

Ned Parsons, michael and Jill stansky

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Above: eric and laurie slifka left: sue and cotty saltonstall with John stephenson

Rivers at 100

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ivers is celebrating its centennial year by publishing a limited edition history of the school’s first century.

This coffee-table volume is filled with hundreds of photos and clippings from the Rivers archives, and includes interviews with dozens of members of the Rivers community as well as reminiscences submitted by alumni around the country.

A story of evolution, innovation, perseverance, and great teaching, this celebration of The Rivers School’s centennial tells the history of this unique and special institution. From its formative years as an open-air school in Brookline, to nearly two decades on a regal Chestnut Hill estate, to its current home on Nonesuch Pond in Weston, The Rivers School has always benefited from the deep bonds between faculty and students. These relationships—a tradition enjoyed for generations—provide the foundation of Rivers’ modern-day mission: Excellence with Humanity.

To order the book, go to www.rivers.org/Page/Centennial.

milk and cookies at the Adie campus in the 1950s

The 2001 NePsAc champs The first female graduate in 1990

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Beyond the Rivers Campus: Embracing Other Cultures

By CHRISTINE MARTIN ANd JIMMY KELLEY Rivers has long understood the importance of exposing our students to other cultures, to enable them to recognize and appreciate the similarities we share and the differences that make us who we are. Today global awareness has become even more essential to 21st century learning as the boundaries of our world expand.

In addition to on-campus events that explore multiculturalism—like the annual Global Fair and the Day of Consideration—Rivers offers a broad range of national and international travel programs for students. Some programs, like the Cádiz-based Summer Session in Spain, the Romanian and New Orleans service trips, and bi-annual concert tours, have been in existence for many years, but new programs, including recent trips to Japan, Peru, and China, are always being organized by the faculty. A quick look at last spring’s offerings makes one want to grab a passport and head to the nearest airport.

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ight Middle School students had a chance to absorb the language and culture of France during eight adventurepacked days in Paris and Normandy. Head of Middle School Susie McGee and Language department Chair Cathy Favreau prepared an itinerary that included not only tourist highlights like Versailles and Mont-St-Michel, but also time for hands-on activities that helped deepen the students’ experience.

Beyond the educational benefits, the annual excursions offered by the Middle School allow students to see the world alongside their peers. For many, it is the first time they travel without their parents and that sense of personal responsibility and independence is an important step in their growth.

“The students love the independence these programs offer— it’s their experience and they can take ownership of it,” McGee said. “This year’s students in particular were fantastic travelers.

They were willing to try everything, they were excited at every step along the way, and they really encouraged each other to try new things and step outside their comfort zone. The opportunity for students to travel and experience different cultures in a way that also connects to our curriculum both in terms of humanities and language is really the goal of these programs.”

While the trip held obvious appeal for students studying French, for the non-French-speaking students—some of whom currently study Spanish or Latin—the experience of being in another country and not knowing the language at all was particularly challenging.

“People speak very fast there so sometimes it can be hard, even as a French student, to understand what they are saying,” said Ella Caggiano ’19. “It was interesting to work with the language in a different context because when you are out in the world and need 8 • Riparian • Fall 2015

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to ask about something you want to buy or where the bathrooms are, it is very different from being in a classroom.”

“There were times where we had to work together to figure out the best way to communicate, whether we had a French student right there or not,” said Marie Jennings ’19. “It was eye-opening because you are so used to being able to express yourself and when you’re put into a new situation you have to adapt and figure it out.”

The students arrived in Paris and, with the help of a local guide, spent three days exploring landmarks like the Eiffel Tower, Notre dame, and the Louvre. One day the students ventured outside the city to Auvers-sur-Oise where Vincent Van Gogh last lived, took part in a painting workshop, and finished the day with a walking tour of Montmarte and the Basilique du Sacre Coeur.

They then travelled to the Loire Valley where they visited the Palace of Versailles and its gardens, and took part in a role-playing activity that explored issues leading up to the French Revolution.

“Going to Versailles you see just how over-the-top everything was, and when you consider what life was like for the peasants

you get a sense of why the revolution needed to happen,” McGee said.

The last site on the itinerary was Normandy where the students were able to see where the course of World War II was altered on d-day, visit the American Military Museum, and look more deeply at the stories of particular soldiers who were there that day in 1944.

“Normandy was really powerful because you were standing in a place where so much history actually took place,” Lindy Billhardt ’19 said.

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eanwhile, a group of Upper School students were exploring southern Italy and Greece with language teachers John McVey and Mike Girard. Again, Latin students were joined by others who were curious to experience the wondrous mix of old and new in Rome, Pompeii, and finally Greece.

“The primary goal of the program is really for the students to see some of these sites first hand,” Girard said. “It makes things come alive in a way that simply reading or talking about them just can’t.”

The itinerary began in Rome with tours of the city and its ancient architecture and monuments. Stops at the Pantheon, the Coliseum, the Roman Forum, and the Vatican highlighted the aboveground portion of the tour before the group went underground to explore ancient Christian catacombs. From there they moved on to Pompeii to explore the ruined city at the base of Mount Vesuvius before catching a ferry to Greece where they would spend the rest of the program.

In their travels students were able to see just how enduring human creativity can be and how our esteem for the work of these ancient civilizations has impacted the current landscape of the modern world in this region.

“To see the ancient world, and how it interacts with the present, is an experience that is unparalleled, especially here in America,” said Ben Walsh ’15. “It is amazing because not only is it normal to be surrounded by so much history, but it’s almost inconvenient. Public works projects and public transportation intersect with that history and you have to build around it.”

One example of this was the new Parthenon Museum in Athens, which sits on top of some ancient ruins and is constructed with glass floors. This not only provides a window into the ruins, but also shows how much lower the street level of Athens was during the height of the Greek empire.

What impressed Girard about this particular group was its attentiveness to the local guides and willingness to participate in every aspect of the experience.

“They were super engaged. John [McVey] and I were just amazed at how interested in everything they were—they were total sponges the whole time,” Girard remarked. “The guides commented at every stop how attentive they were, and they appreciated how insightful their questions were. It was just a really great group.”

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French Exchange Doubles Cultural Impact

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iddle Schoolers weren’t the only ones to travel to France this year. After hosting 15 French students at Rivers for two weeks in April, participants in Rivers’ French exchange program spent two weeks in June with their hosts in Aix-en-Provence and neighboring towns.

“A month is a huge time commitment for the students,” said French teacher and chaperone Sarah Klein. “But we feel strongly about the value of keeping this a true exchange program— with just a few exceptions we were able to pair up with the same students on the return trip to France. Because they’re staying with people they already know, our students feel comfortable and are able to fully enjoy the experience of being part of another family and culture.”

Rivers has partnered twice now with the Lycée Georges duby in Luynes, just outside the city of Aix-en-Provence. The school has an active international exchange program, and as a result has a very organized host family system. The trip was a balance of formal FLE classes (French as a foreign language) and visits to nearby historical and cultural sites.

In addition to their classes, including one held in the famous Santon figurine factory, students visited a number of nearby

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locales, including Cassis on the Côte d’Azur, where they took a boat tour of the calanques (the Mediterranean’s version of fjords); Marseille where they visited the Old Port, the Frioules Islands, and the famous cathedral Notre dame de la Garde; and the Luberon where they toured the castle at Lourmarin.

In Arles, Latin teacher and chaperone Cathy Favreau gave them valuable background information about the amphitheater and the Gallo Roman theater there, followed by a guided tour of the “Musée d’ Arles antique” with its unique archaeological treasures, like a Roman barge pulled up from the Rhone River, mosaics, and a bust of Julius Caesar.

There were plenty of stops at small towns like Roussillon and Gordes where students explored the town markets. They also spent a long weekend with their host families, absorbing the daily routine of a French family, much as the French students did when they visited Rivers.

“Sunday evening was special, because all of France celebrated the annual ‘Fête de la Musique’ with music in towns all over the country,” said Klein. “Many of our students met in Aix-en-Provence with their hosts but some families went out in their own communities. One host family even arranged for a Fête to be held at their house!”

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An Alternate View of America

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ometimes you don’t even need a passport to immerse yourself in a completely different world. For seven Rivers freshman who began their summer break with a service trip to Montana, days of hard work on a Cheyenne reservation were interspersed with a mix of sightseeing and cultural activities, all revealing a side of American life a world away from their customary surroundings.

The students threw themselves into the adventure, waking at dawn, tackling work projects, going to a powwow and a rodeo, visiting some of the West’s natural wonders, and coming away with a new appreciation for the diversity of our country.

The group, led by English teacher Meghan Regan-Loomis and art teacher Chris Love, set up a “teepee-tent village” in a field within the southeastern Montana reservation overlooking three mountain ranges, then rolled up their sleeves and got to work.

“We have been doing a ton of work on the reservation, from cleaning up the sandbox to painting fences, buildings, and gardens,” blogged dylan Keusch ’19 after their first day there. “It’s unbelievably beautiful here, like something you would see out of a movie. Overall, we’re having a ton of fun, making memories, and getting a lot of work done.”

One day, the group traveled the entire reservation, re-stocking and repairing the “free library” boxes that dot the reservation and provide the Cheyenne residents with their main source of reading material. The students filled the boxes with books they had collected during a campus drive in June and had shipped out prior to the trip. Along the way, they took time to swim in the Tongue River Reservoir, then watched the sunset before settling in around the campfire at nightfall.

“We are on the land and living with respect for things we take for granted—running water, bugless beds, and just an overall awareness of ourselves and nature,” wrote ReganLoomis. “The abject poverty we see stands in such stark contrast with the luscious landscape.”

“Today we visited the great state of Wyoming,” blogged Bradley Stoller ’19 when they took a day off to explore. “We got a good look at all the huge trucks and shovels they use at the Spring Creek Coal Mine. To give you a mental picture of the size of these things, I felt like a mini action figure next to these things. After the mine we traveled to Medicine Wheel, where the views were spectacular!”

Highlights of their reservation stay included the Busby Powwow where they were reunited with some of the children they had met earlier in the trip when they volunteered at the Boys’ and Girls’ Club at Lame deer. The children looked spectacular as they danced in their native costumes. They also watched Indian Races—bareback races with quick switches between horses—and went to a re-enactment of Custer’s Last

At the Boys and girls club of lame Deer, montana

Stand in the 100 degree heat, before finishing up with a professional rodeo in Hardin and a fireworks show at Crow Native days.

With the service portion of their program completed, the students and leaders headed off to Yellowstone National Park to take in the dramatic natural wonders for a few days. They went on a trail ride, caught glimpses of buffalo and bears, hiked to Cascade Lake, and watched Old Faithful erupt. Best of all were the showers and real beds everyone enjoyed before heading back east.

Rivers’ travel programs vary from year to year, but all are based on the desire to expose students to educationally and personally enriching experiences that advance the academic and service learning objectives of the school. The faculty who chaperone the trips have their own professional or personal interests in leading the trips, bringing a rich background in and deep enthusiasm for the cultures they help our students explore. In the planning stages for this year are a Middle School program in Peru, and, for the Upper School, a concert tour to Venice and Croatia, a language/ cultural trip to China, and a service trip to New Orleans. on the cheyenne Reservation

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Campus News

summer internship Reflections

The technology help desk

1:1 iPad Program launched

Rivers introduced its 1:1 iPad initiative this fall with all 490 students receiving an iPad Air by the first day of school. A very generous gift from alumnus Eric Shapiro ’86 funded the purchase of iPads for the entire faculty as well as a critical piece of funding needed to lease the students’ iPads. His significant contribution enabled his long-standing vision for the 1:1 program to become a reality.

Both the EdTech Committee and the Information Technology department worked tirelessly to ensure the program got off the ground smoothly, including a comprehensive training curriculum for faculty on several core apps, research into other apps to enhance individual classes and subjects, and a substantial upgrade to the school’s existing wireless network.

An upgraded help desk and new collaboration center in Macdowell Library was made possible through the generosity of the Rivers community at the 2015 Parents’ League Auction.

There, the newly-established Student Tech Team, under director of Academic Technology Fred Kosak, is helping their peers work through challenges; promote new apps; and share tutorials, tips, and tricks with the rest of the community.

Upgrading the network to prepare for the additional usage was a two-year process for the IT department, but the result is a network that can more than sustain over 500 devices and is on par with institutions much larger than Rivers. Last summer IT upgraded switches on campus to accommodate all of the new wireless access points being added, which increased the network’s capacity 10-fold. In just the first three days of the 2015–16 school year, more than one terabyte of apps and books were downloaded

by Rivers students and faculty.

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This summer, five students took on rigorous internships through Rivers’ Summer Internship Program. They found the time to post reflections on Rivers’ Facebook page that show the depth and breadth of their experiences [go to www.facebook.com/therivers school].

Grace Lees ’16 was a pediatric simulation intern at Boston Children’s Hospital where she learned about SIM, a relatively new medical field that combines social science, robotics, and medicine to create realistic simulations of scenarios that doctors and nurses would encounter in their work. Her descriptions of the simulations she watched read like television scripts.

Ross Carter ’16 explored mass spectrometry at Bruker daltronics.

His goal was to learn how to use high pressure/performance liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry well enough to analyze and identify the presence of drugs in liquid samples, using software developed by Bruker that contains the spectra of known drugs of abuse.

Victoria Nedder ’16 interned with an endocrinologist who specializes in internal medicine—specifically diabetes—at Medical Associates of Greater Boston, shadowing the doctor throughout the day as she saw patients. Victoria was given the independence and responsibility to interact with patients on her own by taking vital signs and administering EKGs in the course of appointments.

Lauren Heuer ’16, interned in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she had many levels of learning opportunities, including having direct interactions with patients, exposure to various complicated cases, access to procedures, and meaningful conversations with doctors.

Charlie Watkins ’16 interned at the Surgical Navigation and Robotics Lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a subdivision of their radiology department, where his project involved working with researchers to create a gear system for a robot used to guide a needle during cancer treatments, and allowed him to draw on his experience in robotics at Rivers.

grace lees ’16 discussing her internship

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Jim mcNally and liz Webber ’16

maria Burzillo ’16 (center) at Women2Women

Rivers Athletes Celebrated at varsity Awards

Red Wings highlights included the field hockey, girls’ ice hockey, and boys’ ski teams earning NEPSAC Championships; the girls’ soccer team’s ISL Championship; a pair of Rivers Holiday Tournament championships by the boys’ and girls’ basketball teams; Chloe Smith ’17 winning a New England Championship in the 3000-meter race; and two players—Kristen daley ’15 and Jermaine Samuels ’17—scoring 1,000 career points each. There were 18 All-New England selections, four All-State, eight New England All-Star selections, 37 All-League selections, and 19 All-League honorable mentions. Jermaine Samuels ’17 and Liz Webber ’15 were both named Boston Globe All-Scholastics after earning ISL Player of the Year awards, and Liz was also an All-American soccer selection.

Earning recognition were Paddy daley ’15, who received the ISL Eberhart division Flood Shield; Jordan Cross ’15, who was named the MVP of the NEPSAC division II Girls’ Ice Hockey Tournament; and Kaitlin Wood ’17, who was named the MVP of the NEPSAC Class C Field Hockey Tournament.

The James A. Navoni Athletic Prize was awarded to Ryan McCaffrey ’15, while Jamie Navoni ’15 won the Priscilla Wallace Strauss Athletic Prize. Sean Sullivan ’15 and Jordan Cross won the new ISL Award of Excellence. Receiving the distinguished Service to Athletics Award was director of Advancement Jan Hicinbothem.

Maria Burzillo ‘16 Makes international Connections

Maria Burzillo ’16 was one of 120 young women from 27 countries to participate in Empowering Peace’s 2015 Women2Women’s International Leadership Program, hosted by Wheelock College

middle school Pajama Project

this summer. On the go from morning to night, the girls visited local institutions like the Edward M. Kennedy Institute, talked with social activists and local politicians, and attended panels on topics ranging from the challenges for women in government to the nuances of equality and justice in different countries to innovations in our food systems.

Interfaith panelists gave an overview of their religions, followed by a discussion to promote an understanding of the different religions and how to communicate respectfully and effectively across faiths. Another panel talked to the delegates about the importance of having women involved in science, technology, engineering, and math, discussing the strengths that women in particular bring to these fields, and which areas of STEM are in need of female leadership.

Middle schoolers support “Pajama Program”

Members of the new Middle School Community Service Club finished up their inaugural year by participating in the “Pajama Program,” raising enough money to purchase 30 pairs of pajamas and 30 books for children forced to seek shelter away from home for some reason. The pajama and book packages were delivered to a local agency for distribution to undisclosed emergency shelters.

Two juniors, Caitlin Reardon ’16 and Lauren Heuer ’16, led the group, with the help of co-advisors Laura Brewer and Rachel Costello. After creating a list of potential beneficiaries for their servathon, the middle schoolers ultimately chose the Pajama Program because their donation would be going to children of a similar age in an easily relatable situation. They combined the money raised from individual servathons and a pay-your-way dress down day to purchase pajamas and books. In the Middle School, all students participate in school-wide service learning Fall 2015 • Riparian • 13

Campus News activities—classroom-based projects, as well as advisory group activities—such as music performances for senior citizens, snack preparation for a Saturday lunch program; campus-wide food, clothing or toiletries drives; environmental awareness and recycling projects; and work at local community farms and wild-life sanctuaries.

student Artwork shines at sisAl

The Small Independent School Art League (SISAL) hosted its annual exhibition at the dexter Southfield School in Brookline in April and of the 56 artworks submitted by Rivers students, 28 received recognition. In the Upper School age group, Rivers students received five first-place prizes, three second-place prizes, four third-place prizes, and 11 honorable mentions.

Haley Burroughs ’15 (Printmaking), Kate Knight ’17 (Ceramics, hand built), Molly Eden ’15 (Ceramics, wheel thrown), Hunter dempsey ’15 (Woodworking), and Alexandra Gaither ’15 (B&W Photography) earned the top award in each of their respective disciplines. Rivers Middle School students also had a strong showing, earning one second-place prize and four honorable mentions. Callie Kamanitz ’19 received a second-place prize in digital Photography for her photo, “Reflection By The Sidewalk.”

Rivers students Present at National service learning Conference

Five Rivers students attended the National Service Learning Conference in Washington, d.C. in April to present the school’s unique service learning programs, Rivers Givers and RISE, to an audience of students and educators from across the country.

Will Carlin ’15, Samantha Milne ’15, and Justin Snider ’15, all three-year veterans of Rivers Givers, presented the history of the program and how it has been successful in teaching philanthropy to schools interested in implementing a similar program.

Presenting the RISE program were Marissa Birne ’15 and Edgar Miranda ’16. Both students were deeply invested in the program when they were in 10th Grade and felt they could accurately convey what RISE is all about to their audience. RISE, which stands for Reflection and Introspection through Service Education, challenges 10th Grade students to develop their own

service learning conference

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service initiatives. Beyond the service, however, is a detailed feedback process through which students ask people in their lives for honest feedback about their strengths and weaknesses.

Rivers Musicians Take home Awards

Throughout the spring, Rivers musicians kept competing “cityscape” by emily saperstone ’16 and coming home winners.

The Big Band earned a Gold Medal at the 2015 MAJE State Competition and was invited to play at the Hatch Shell in June.

Members Rachel Hawley ’15, Jake Stenquist ’15, and Joseph Nedder ’18 were each awarded an Outstanding Musicianship award for their performances, while John Nydam ’15 received the MVP award for the Small School division.

Both the Select 1A and 1B Combos competed at the MAJE State Competition and earned Gold and Silver Medals, respectively. Rachel Hawley ’15, John Nydam ’15, and Jake Stenquist ’15 were given Outstanding Musicianship Awards for their Select 1A performances. Bryan Cleveland ’15, Christopher Minklei ’15, Nick Revers ’15, and Saipriya Valoth ’15 each received an Outstanding Musicianship Award for the Select 1B Combo.

The Middle School Select Chorus performed at the Music in the Parks Festival at Six Flags New England and placed first in its division. In addition, the ensemble received its first ever “superior” rating from the judges, based on tone quality, intonation, diction and pronunciation, note accuracy and rhythmic precision, and musicality.

Finally, nine soloists and ensembles represented Rivers at the Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association (MICCA) Festival in May and four received Gold Medal “superior” ratings from the judges: an Upper School quartet, trio, and vocal ensemble, as well as a Middle School chamber ensemble. Three ensembles also received Silver Medals while two soloists received Bronze Medals to round out what was an extremely successful day for Rivers musicians.

Congratulations to the Class of 2015

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Brendon Argueta, Philadelphia University Ryan Bellavance, Colgate University Marissa Birne, Tufts University Madeline Branka, Villanova University Haley Burroughs, Hamilton College Kyle Calder, Middlebury College William Carlin, Fairfield University douglas Carp, The George Washington University Andrew Chang, Boston College Jonah Chates, University of Miami Nicholas Churchill, The College of Wooster Bryan Cleveland, Tufts University Samuel Cleveland, Colgate University William Cohen, Colby College Ryan Colena, Merrimack College Erin Connolly, Boston College Thomas Corcoran, Boston University Jordan Cross, Connecticut College Kristen daley, University of Pennsylvania Patrick daley, Colby College Trevor davock, Boston College Hunter dempsey, Connecticut College Gabriella Eberth, Boston University Molly Eden, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Antonia Eidmann, Carleton College Patrick El Khoury, Connecticut College Olivia Ericsson, Elon University Sydney Fisher, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Hannah Frankel, Tufts University Alexandra Gaither, Elon University

dozier Gardner, Ithaca College daniel Gil, The George Washington University Jake Goldberg, Tufts University Ani Harlan, University of Vermont Nicholas Hawkins, Wesleyan University Rachel Hawley, Northwestern University Patrick Hennessey, Claremont McKenna College debbie Herrera, Trinity College Wiley Holton, Colby College James Jennings, Georgetown University Kyle Katamba, Boston College Kristen Kinchla, Colorado College Joshua Kirson, Ohio State University Savannah Knisley, University of Virginia Alison Kraft, University of Michigan Elizabeth Lewis, University of Vermont Jefferey Lin, Colby College Matthew Lombardozzi, Junior Hockey Katherine Longfield, University of Vermont Jennifer Lowell, Harvard University Ryan McCaffrey, University of Richmond Joseph McCartney, Boston College Patrick McNally, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Olivia McSweeney, New York University Samantha Milne, dartmouth College Christopher Minklei, Colby College Meghan Morgan, Cornell University Jamie Navoni, Connecticut College James Nydam, Yale University John Nydam, Princeton University

Pedro Oliveira, College of the Holy Cross Benjamin Pasculano, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Kayleigh Rahbany, Washington and Lee University Caroline Rakip, Boston University Jack Reid, Tufts University Nickolas Revers, Bowdoin College Stephen Richlen, College of the Holy Cross Benjamin Rogers, Emory University Austin Rook, Junior Hockey Joseph Sacco, Junior Hockey Aimee Schechter, University of Texas, Austin Laura Schmidlein, Amherst College Nicholas Sia, Bucknell University Peter Simmons-Hayes, New York University Alexa Sisitzky, Skidmore College Timothy Sistrand, Fordham University Lyndsey Smith, Whitman College Justin Snider, Colgate University Jake Stenquist, Bowdoin College Julia Strauss, Harvard University Sean Sullivan, dartmouth College Rhea Teng, Yale University Olivia Thomajan, Lafayette College Emily Treveloni, Villanova University Cole Turissini, Colby College Saipriya Valoth, Barnard College Benjamin Walsh, Hamilton College Claudia Wittenberg, New York University Kendall Young, Northwestern University Maria Zafiropoulos, Trinity College

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IT’S ABOUT TIME

[Excerpted from the 2015 graduation address by Chris Holownia, Language Department]

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r. Parsons, faculty, staff, honored guests, and, most importantly, Rivers’ graduating class of 2015: Writing a graduation speech is like traipsing through a minefield of clichés.

I would start writing what I considered to be a powerful new idea, and then BAM! a cliché would explode before me: follow your dreams; never give up; discover your passion; failure is good; be your best self; take risks; I’m sure you can think of many more. Clichés contain powerful truths, but you might not remember a speech replete with them.

One cliché in particular is often referenced at commencement ceremonies: the Future. You have made it through high school, and now you must face… the Future. Maybe you can imagine some scary organ music in the background every time I say that word. Much of your high school career has been fixated on the future. Once you near the end of college, you will once again be faced with… the Future. Well let

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me assure you that you’ll always be facing the Future. And you know what? The Future will never arrive. No one has ever experienced it. Even with a time machine, the future you may visit immediately becomes your new present. So I don’t want to talk about the Future.

Let’s talk about time instead. Think about it: how many times a day do you reference time? It’s about time; time is short; time flies; I’ll find the time; I’ll make the time; time management; wasting time; there comes a time…; for the last time; time out; the right time; ahead of time; all in good time; anytime; for the time being; time’s up …

We are obsessed with marking the passage of time: birthdays, weddings, reunions, anniversaries, New Year’s resolutions, throwback Thursdays… Yet for all our obsession with marking time, we never seem to have it. We zip around from one life event to the next, rushing from school to piano lesson to soccer game in a perpetual state of haste, because there’s

no time to waste! And every post, every tweet, every snap and ’gram comes with a handy-dandy timestamp. All of these technologies dinging and vibrating seem to emphasize the urgency of ‘now.’ Yet these updates aren’t about now. They are about the past. Consider Twitter, Facebook, news headlines, text messages and emails … arranged neatly in reverse chronological order, they cause us to spend our present time sifting through a ton of little things that just happened instead of enjoying what is actually happening.

So when it comes time to slow down and focus intently on something that is actually happening for an extended period of time, something must be wrong. Social media has conditioned us to think of knowledge as the little tidbits of information we glean while sifting through status updates. It’s right there on the screen, sorted, tagged and categorized: what could be more “real?” deep thinking is now a distraction from consuming, rather than the other way around.

Then, naturally, we begin to presume that the very act of thinking should mirror the rest of our fast-paced, exciting reality.

We should instantly know things, and we often pretend to have reached conclusions on our own, even if we really haven’t. It’s easy to get away with this. Why come up with my own theory about what constitutes a great piece of art if I can simply go online and browse a Buzzfeed listicle of the 20 most expensive paintings in history?

Why read a novel when I can read a summary online? It takes time!

I read less than I used to. Fewer books.

Shorter articles. I was watching a YouTube video that summarized 300 pages of philosophy into three minutes of animations… and I still caught myself skipping forward! I want the knowledge without having to do the work of claiming it. And I see this pathological impatience entering real life—we want to have friends, but we are loathe to do the work of cultivating and maintaining friendships. Why? No time. We complain that we don’t have big muscles, but we also don’t have the discipline necessary to eat healthily or go to the gym regularly. Why? No time. We bemoan our perpetual exhaustion, but somehow still refuse to sleep enough. Why? No time. We’re living at the speed of light, at a pace determined by machines, and we’ve lost the ability to live at the speed of life.

You do not just get mental alacrity, a beautiful physique or good friends by downloading an app or clicking “like.”

You need to spend time on them. How you choose to spend your time, and not to spend your time, defines who you are.

Spending your time texting five friends while binge-watching “Orange is the New Black” means you aren’t honing your culinary skills. Skimming through a YouTube video, you may pick up a few tidbits of trivia. But the trivial is the opposite of the meaningful, and ultimately, isn’t it meaning that we seek to give to our lives?

The only way to gain true meaning is through contemplation: spending time thinking. There is no shortcut.

Are we afraid to do this because it doesn’t seem productive? I am reminded of a recent rehearsal for a musical I’ll be working on this summer. The two leads had just sung an amazingly powerful duet, and everyone else in the rehearsal stood in awe, obviously imbued with the wonder of the present moment. Then, a curious thing happened. Breaking from the trance, the rest of the cast took out their phones and asked us to “do it again” so that they could record it. Simply experiencing something is no longer enough. It’s not real unless it’s documented somehow, somewhere, unless we “do” something with it or someone else sees it. We are so outwardly focused on ourselves and the perception of what we’re doing that we lose sight of what’s actually happening and how it feels on the inside.

When we forget ourselves, when we forget the time, when we lose ourselves in a beautiful piece of music or an impressive

landscape or a deep conversation with a friend: that’s happiness. Escaping into a digital feed—mentally traveling anywhere, any time but right here, right now —impedes that happiness and actually makes us anxious or depressed, because we fail to find satisfaction in the moment we are living, the only moment actually available to us. You’re in the car in traffic.

You’re sitting in class. You’re at dinner with your family. You’re listening to a graduation speech. What are you tempted to do? It’s calling you… It misses you…

And you might be missing out!

No! You are not missing out on anything! Resist! Next time you find yourself tempted to escape the moment, try arresting and capturing it instead. don’t let it escape. By concentrating fully on it, by smashing it under the intensity of your gaze, you’ll release a powerful energy. Life should be an aim unto itself, a purpose unto itself, not something to avoid. If you can clear your vision and live in full awareness of the world as it is, you will never be bored with life. People wait all week for Friday, all year for summer, all life for happiness. But I’m sorry to say, you can’t actually be anywhere or any time other than right here, right now, so stop trying! Inhabit the present.

In the end, the only thing you can control is what you’re doing and thinking right now, so don’t skip forward. Take your time.

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#rivers100 Auction Sets a Record

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he Parents’ League #rivers100 Auction drew hundreds of Rivers fans on May 2 to celebrate and support Rivers’ faculty and students. Nearly 400 parents, faculty, and staff, dressed in all manner of Rivers gear, raised more than $230,000 for professional development, student technology, and a new collaboration center to enhance the 1:1 iPad program launched this fall.

Co-chairs Carol Kirson and Lynda Voghel coordinated more than 100 volunteers over the course of several months of planning and executing the auction. Cindy Burroughs masterminded the Centennial-themed decorations, transforming the Macdowell

Auction co-chairs carol Kirson and lynda voghel

Arena with streaming pennants, vintage athletic gear, and sparkling decorations in Rivers red and white.

Bidding was full of friendly competition for tickets to a variety of games and concerts, custom paddle boards sporting the Rivers Red Wing, and a cooking class and dinner for 10 at Barbara Lynch’s demonstration kitchen. As the evening wound down, bidders raised their paddles to contribute more than $72,000 for the collaboration center in the library where students and staff can share their expertise and encourage their fellow students to explore creative and innovative uses of the iPads.

Warren and cindy Burroughs, monica o’Neil, steve Jennings

At the silent tables

Heads and Tails: eileen sivolella vs. Peter saperstone

The live auction

Rivers’ own Red Wing

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Winning bidder Jennifer lemley

Annual Golf Tournament

RAISES FUNDS FOR FINANCIAl AID

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ivers alumni, parents, and friends gathered at Charter Oak Country Club in Hudson on Monday for the 15th Annual Rivers School Golf Tournament to Benefit Financial Aid. The tournament raised nearly $80,000, all of which will go toward tuition assistance for deserving students to attend Rivers. Since its inception, the tournament has raised more than $1 million and supported dozens of Rivers students who have gone on to attend top colleges around the country.

“The golf tournament generates enough revenue to provide the Rivers experience for three qualified students each year,” said Marc Stroum ’98, who co-chairs the Golf Committee with Bruce Clifford ’83. “The impact of having these students as part of the Rivers community is felt every day in the classroom, on the playing fields, and in the diverse perspectives they bring to their daily interactions with students and teachers.”

The year-in, year-out success of this tournament is due to the hard work of the Golf Committee and the generosity of the daley Family, Pat ’84 P’13,’15,’18 and his brother Fred P’12,’14,’16, who once again donated Charter Oak for the day. The Super Raffle, donated by the Kraft family, included four tickets to see the New England Patriots take on the dallas Cowboys in dallas.

Bill Whittemore ’69 was this year’s honoree in recognition of his longstanding commitment to the tournament. He has been a member of the Golf Committee since 2004, and has supported the tournament as a beverage sponsor, lead sponsor, and hospitality sponsor.

michael saperstein, matt Tobin ’90, Jon stevens Nick Petri ’02, marc verrochi ’01, Jonathan Hill, Brad Karelitz ’04

Bob Williams, Tom swaim, Rod macPhie, Warren Ferguson, all class of ’66 Andrew Proter, Pat Daley ’84, gary Todd ’84, Jim corsi

marc stroum ’98, Bill Whittemore ’69, Bruce clifford ’83

Alan Rose ’87, James Duffy, Head of school Ned Parsons

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Alumni Day Celebrates Rivers’ Centennial

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he Rivers School celebrated its Centennial Alumni Day on Saturday, May 16, with picture perfect weather as backdrop for a full day of activities, beginning with lunches around campus for alumni from a variety of years and affinities.

Dozens of “Boys of Brookline” enjoyed lunch at the new Head of School’s house, reminiscing about the legendary faculty at the grand old Adie Estate in Chestnut Hill.

Members of the Class of 1965 pored over a 50th reunion edition of the Current that included updates on classmates from the past five decades.

Bradley Hall was the scene of a lunch for the 25th anniversary of the Pioneers—the women who helped make coeducation a reality at Rivers in the early 90s. Finally, a group of LGBT/GSA advocates gathered midday to hear from current students about initiatives at Rivers today.

Between lunch and the varsity lacrosse game on Waterman Field, alumni enjoyed a brief history of Rivers presented by faculty member and school archivist Dave Burzillo.

The audience saw photos from the various decades and campuses as well as insights into the philosophy and faculty members that helped shape the school.

The evening program featured a festive outdoor reception, followed by dinner and an awards ceremony during which faculty members past and present were honored. Receiving special recognition were Dave Burzillo, Kathy Dorrien, and Paul Karasch for their 25 years of dedicated service to Rivers.

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Class of 1965: Chris Kelly, John Arnold, John Hardenbergh (in front), Sandy Anstey, Ed Cushing, John Bottomley, Bob Simonds, Pierre Morenon, Bob Wood, Peter Yaffe.

Heather Ganitsky ’98 and Melissa Dolan ’98 at the Pioneers lunch

Anngie and Bill Tyler ’43 with Ned Parsons at the Boys of Brookline lunch

Class of 1970: Ross Perry, Alan Dana, Rich Cohen, Bob Brink, Tim Kernan, JP Dunn, Jack Williams, Arthur Rossi, Dave Davis

Class of 1957: Ken Sherman, Myles Lee, Bill Christmas, Dwight Baldwin

Larry Glazer ’86 and Mark Schuster ’72

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At Dave Burzillo’s History of Rivers talk

c.J. Fraser ’92 and myles lee ’57

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David marshall, Rob cronin, geoff Harris, class of 1990

At the evening reception

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class of 2010: Front, l to r: geordie carrick, marco eberth, christian Dallmus, Adam lowenstein. middle, l to r: Hannah Armstrong, grace Robinson, eliza Butler, Kathryn Najarian, erika Flavin, Brigitte laukien, leah stansky, emily Hoberman, Debra edelman, Alexis Antonelli, Julia Williams. Back, l to r: Dan Dileso, Jacquie Ham, David stanton, Andy Furman, Hannah Nardi, Daniel Korff, Joe Rockland, chris Allen, Tim corey, Dave Tackeff, Brendan Domos.

Trustee Mark Schuster ’72, who was joined by his wife Audrey and children, Nikki, Class of 2007, and John. daughter Lyz, Class of 2004, was unable to attend.

“As a member of the Facilities Committee, his sense of design and function has had an influence on every major building project since 1999,” said Alumni Council President Larry Glazer ’87, in presenting the award. “Mark has been a driving force behind the renovation of key areas on campus, including Schuster Hall, the Admissions reception area; Haynes Hall; and the Prince Building. In addition, he served as the lead representative from the Facilities Committee on the Bradley Hall design and construction team, and was instrumental in helping to see that building completed on time and on budget. during his tenure, Rivers also built the Macdowell Athletic Center, installed the Waterman turf field, added classrooms in Haffenreffer, and renovated davis Fields.”

Two Alumni Excellence Awards were also presented at the dinner, including the first to a Rivers alumna.

Myles E. Lee ’57, a board-certified surgeon who has practiced in Los Angeles for nearly four decades, was honored for his “dedicated career in cardiothoracic surgery and his passionate involvement in the performing and visual arts.”

Cecilia J. (C.J.) Fraser ’92, President and CEO of Fraser Engineering, a construction company specializing in mechanical engineering, HVAC, and general contracting services, was recognized for her “successful business career as well as her commitment to service to the community.”

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student News Alumni News

Class Notes 1941

Frank Waterman recently published a family history entitled 378 Years in America—The Future of America in the New World. still active at 93, this year he celebrated 74 years since his Rivers graduation and his 70th harvard reunion.

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Bill Bridges wrote, “i loved Rivers then went on to st. mark’s school after Rivers. my son, adam ’74, has a son and grandchildren, and i’m a proud great grandfather.

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Renny little emailed last spring, “it’s been a rough winter, but we made it through with little difficulty aside from the expense connected with shoveling out paths and cars and roofs. i am looking forward to the ‘boys of brookline’ lunch as well as seeing all my old students in the class of 1965, one of my favorite classes. i recently watched two Rivers women grads play hockey against harvard. it was great to know we are graduating athletes who play on Division 1 athletic teams.”

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Dan Wilkinson lives in memphis, TN, but gathered with Rivers classmates at his family’s home in Parsonsfield, me. “i had my 50th college reunion while i was in the northeast, but the Rivers gathering was much more fun. We attempted to solve riddles such as who ate sherman schriber’s sandwich, who took the ice cream from the cafeteria, and who dropped the firecracker. our memories proved to be surprisingly accurate.”

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Joe scott has had two books published in recent years by waysidepublishing.com for language learners: En Parlant (for French) in 2014 and Conversemos juntos (for spanish) in 2015.

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John hardenbergh emailed, “i’m in Wolfeboro, Nh, with my wife Jini, coming up on 35 years at the end of this month! i retired from the information Technology Department of The university of connecticut health center in 2004. last year we bought a ‘snow bird’ condo in venice, Fl. We are NoT missing the New england weather! Golf takes up most of my time along with lions international and many volunteer activities.We have one son, brent, who got married in may, and just finished law school.”

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steve Alpert, Tim ellis, Harry cutts, Art calfee, Winger West, and Dan Wilkinson, all class of ’56.

Chris Kelly is still working part-time teaching physics at mass maritime academy in bourne.

Nick Miller, a retired federal employee and veteran, wrote, “Where do i start! a great experience with my years at Rivers. Great mentors and teachers who added dimension in my life, like mr. Gallagher and mr. shaw.”

Biff sutherland sent a note, “i’ve been working at starbird, my wife caroline’s shop in camden, me. We met in boston where she was head of the art department in arnold and company, and were married on monhegan island, where she was raised. our son sam, an accomplished tennis player, was born in 1982. i am a cat lover and an avid reader.”

Jim swaim graduated from the university of virginia in 1969, then went right into teaching and stayed with it for 42 years. “i married another teacher, shelli, and we have two great daughters, hannah, who is out in Prescott, aZ at college and Jordan, who teaches fourth grade in Newton. Toward the end i was a principal at schools in brookline and Newton. i am retired now, but mentoring new teachers in boston and working for a lung cancer charity. i still play tennis and have had season tickets to the Red sox since 1978. living in brookline, i can actually walk to Fenway Park.”

Three generations: Paul Karofsky ’62, sydney epstein ’17, larry epstein ’87 Jay sweetnam emailed, “We are presently living in las vegas, but are both retired and travel around a lot in our motorhome and return to our summer home on lake Winnipesaukee for four months each year. after i retired in 1995 as vice commander of the aF inspection agency as a full colonel, i flew with cessna out of Wichita, Ks, as a jet demonstration pilot and then taught JRoTc

Alumni News

one Man, one Cause, one long swim

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ean Bragonier ’91, founder and self-proclaimed “executive dyslexic” of the non-profit NoticeAbility, set a goal for himself this summer that he was pleased and relieved to achieve. dean swam the first official 55-mile circumnavigation of Martha’s Vineyard over the course of five weeks, in 27 legs, between July 11 and August 16, as the center-point of a national crowd-funding campaign for the non-profit.

NoticeAbility’s mission is to “unlock the potential of dyslexia,” by designing curricula to provide inquiry-based experiences in vocational subjects that capitalize on the neurological strengths of students with dyslexia, including entrepreneurship, engineering, architecture, and the arts.

“No sharks, just an incredibly rewarding experience,” Bragonier commented when the swim was over.

“Being verbal and visible got me lots of press. I exceeded my fundraising goal by 13 percent and the buzz from all of the social media coverage has generated some great conversations about our mission. It’s been an opportunity for the dialogue to shift from the

we’re developing now. I have a great partnership going with people from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Carroll School, and Tufts University. We’re excited to be off and running.”

Bragonier, an entrepreneur at heart, has owned a successful Martha’s Vineyard restaurant, founded several nonprofits, and served on the boards of a number of others—all pursuits which he says “maximize the talents which dyslexics often develop in response to the challenges they face.”

at Temecula valley high school, ca, for 14 years. i totally retired in June 2012 and moved to las vegas where i enjoy Rotary club, golf, tennis, shooting, archery, camping, and R/c airplane flying.”

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dustry. i hope all is well and everyone enjoyed the reunion.”

Bob Wood retired from the chilton club in December 2012. “susan and i have been muddling along in Georgetown ever since. i’ve done a little consulting with a. von schlegell & co, but have spent most of my time wrapped up with Rotary since 2002. i became district treasurer in 2011, and at the moment am spearheading a homelessness and hunger initiative in District 7930. susan continues her watercolor work. bradley graduated from syracuse, then got a master’s in nano science and nano engineering and is now working at entegris in billerica in the semiconductor industry.”

Andrew Flake emailed, “The vineyard is still very agreeable and i am enjoying my work. our three daughters are all gainfully employed off-island. looking forward to our 50th!”

Photo by mark alan lovewell, vineyard Gazette.

disadvantages of dyslexia to the benefits.”

Bragonier’s swim garnered local and national media attention, and drew support from celebrities as well as the local community through daily videos posted on www.noticeability.org. He capped off his swim with an appearance at the second annual TEdx Martha’s Vineyard Conference on August 31 where he crammed as much of the historical and neurological background about dyslexia as he could into his 18-minute presentation.

“I also was able to talk about the solutions we’re working on and the curriculum

Rod MacPhie retired from uTZ Quality Foods in January and is now working as an usher/ambassador for the Portland sea Dogs baseball team.

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1970

Yance Yancey emailed, “We have seven children, ten grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. Zane and i will be celebrating our 22nd anniversary and we’ve resided in harwood, mD, for the last 18 years. Zane retired from Nasa two years ago. i will be retiring in 2017 from the va hospital in Dc, after 45 years in the eye care in-

1974

Doug MacPherson wrote, “This summer flew by. our oldest daughter got married in July after a one-year postdoc in chicago. after the wedding and honeymoon, off we all went to ohio state university where she was hooded, earning her PhD in psychology. Now she is at harvard university in the psychology department.”

1982

Ned McCarty emailed, “i recently connected with Rolf Gates (Glessner while at Rivers) in santa cruz ca, where he is a successful yoga teacher.

We had dinner in February during a business trip there and had lots of fun remembering classmates, coaches, and teachers from our days at

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student News Alumni News

The sniders: Justin ’15, Jeff ’82, emily ’12

lisa sandoval ’90 and David marshal ’90

charlotte lewis ’02 and michael Aylward

Rivers. Wrestling at Rivers was a big connection for Rolf. i had not thought about Rolf’s wrestling coach and my poetry teacher eric suby in a long time. so, i’m grateful to Rivers for reconnecting me to my best friend from grade school.”

1984

howard leeder wrote, “my oldest daughter graduated from brimmer and may in may with high honors and an award for her outstanding work on her senior thesis project. she will be attending Furman university in the fall.”

1986

Bill Bullard was promoted in march to senior vice president of The abaris Group, a healthcare consulting firm specializing in emergency services, where he has been since 2005. he continues to serve his local community as the deputy fire chief as well as scoutmaster.

1990

David Marshall paid classmate lisa sandoval a visit in her hometown of las vegas during a recent business trip. marshall hopes to visit more classmates during his travels.

1993

matt Doherty ’05, spencer corkin ’05, mike mcguinness ‘05, matt mcguinness ’08, meghan mcAneny ’12, mike mcAneny ’10, Jenna Jasinski ’12, Pat mcAneny ’08, Brian sullivan ’05, Amanda mcguinness ’12 and first boy, mason James, on November 26. it was quite a hectic winter with lots of adjusting for my two girls, Parker (4) and Dylan (3), having mom home all the time aND having a new baby brother. Now i’ve returned to work full time.”

TJ hill and Jay heiserman married in beverly hills, ca, in December. They have a daughter chloe marie heiserman-hill, who was born in april 2013.

2001

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leslie silberman and her husband are directors of camp matoaka (www.matoaka.com)

Danielle levine was married to samuel steinman at the cap cana resort, Dominican Republic, in December 2014.

2000

2002

Rob Prenovitz and his wife alexa welcomed eva Wren into the world on august 19. “The whole family is doing great!”

Kristen White wrote, “We had our third baby

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Kathryn Jigarjian Fagin emailed, “i got married last august, with lots of Rivers friends there.

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Charlotte lewis and mike aylward were married June 27 in Kensington, Nh. Kathryn Jigarjian Fagin ’01, melanie Platten ’02, Jackie Templer Fletcher ’02, chris Ferullo ’02, steve valair ’02, Jeff Kotzen ’02, liz schuster ’04, Ricki askin ’00,

eva, daughter of Rob Prenovitz ’00

Jess Toochin ’01, Jb Karelitz ’01, Jill hoffmeister Demello ’01, and maggie lahey Raymond ’02 joined in the celebrations.

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2003

Dave Donahue and his wife margaret welcomed daughter charlotte on march 27 in virginia.

2004

stephanie Bailey and PJ hendrick were married on august 1 at shining Tides in mattapoisett, ma. “We currently live in Westchester, NY, with our chocolate lab, bergie. i am a pediatric nurse and PJ is a project manager in residential construction.”

2005

Chris Bliss and his wife welcomed baby sofia at the beginning of april.

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Alumni News

Miles Crettien ’05: Farming for the Future

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iles Crettien ’05 and a group of fellow enviro-minded individuals are revolutionizing the way we think about sustainable agriculture. High above the hustle and bustle of New York City, Crettien and his co-founders of Verticulture Farms, LLC are growing fresh herbs, raising tilapia, and doing all of it within a closed system that conserves 95 percent of the water it uses through a process called “aquaponics.” The term comes from the combination of two other types of farming: aquaculture and hydroponics.

The plants are grown in water and nurtured by the natural waste of the fish, which is then filtered out by the plants and recycled back into the system. “[Co-founder] Ryan Morningstar and I grew up together in Hopkinton and farmed together on his brother’s farm in Sudbury,” Crettien said. “We came back in touch after college and both of us wanted to get involved with agriculture within the city. We met Peter Spartos in January 2012 and then brought in Jacob Hill to build and run the first system that summer.”

That first system—a 100-gallon setup made up of tubs, 2x4s, fence posts, and anything else the quartet could rustle up—was a far cry from the beautiful 300-gallon system they currently run on the top floor of the Pfizer Building in Brooklyn. But the beauty of that first system was its success and the opportunity for growth it presented.

“That first season was very successful—none of the fish died and we gave a lot of the food and fish to local nonprofits, then threw a fish taco party before we really sat down to talk about next steps,” Crettien remembers. “At that point, we didn’t have the financing and weren’t ready for a large-scale facility, so we sat on the idea for about

18 months while we researched and networked before ultimately launching an Indiegogo campaign.”

Verticulture was able to raise $12,661 through the crowd-sourcing platform in december 2014, allowing it to build its current facility in the Pfizer Building’s penthouse. Its customers include artisan chefs from neighbors in the Pfizer Building, which has become something of a hub for food-related startups, and its basil is currently being used as flavoring by Brooklyn Sodaworks.

The rapid growth of the company attracted the attention of Forbes.com this summer and the resulting publicity has been a boon for Verticulture as it moves toward a for-profit structure that will not only provide sustainable food, but also job opportunities. The co-founders’ goal is to become the first large-scale aquaponics farm in New York City and they are well on their way.

“I have always had this deeply ingrained sense of gratitude to the earth and that I owed it something in return,” Crettien said. “Given my skillset and my abilities, this is the best thing I can be doing to further sustainable agricultural technology that can be used anywhere. It will never replace good-old-fashioned soil agriculture, but it’s a perfect alternative for places in the world where growing food that way is incredibly challenging. Food scarcity is a real issue, and we believe we have a real solution that can be scaled.” — Jimmy Kelley

miles (on left) and the verticulture team.

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student News Alumni News

Will haywood is in victor, iD running wilderness trips to help troubled and abused adolescent boys. he is an avid “boarder” and tests the limits of avalanches in Jackson, WY. Mike McGuinness was married in september to maura Walsh with many Rivers friends and their parents in attendance.

2006

B.J. Dunne led the united states of america’s men’s basketball team at the 2015 european maccabi Games in berlin, Germany from July 27 through august 5. bJ, who finished his second season at the helm of vassar college, brought a 12-man roster of athletes with Jewish heritage between the ages of 18 and 35 to the games.

Team usa played four preliminary games against israel, France, Russia, and Germany, qualifying for the Gold medal Game which they lost to Russia.

2007

Max Maguire completed his training as a naval flight officer in December and was assigned to the First Fleet air Reconnaissance squadron at Naval air station Whidbey island, in oak harbor, Wa. “i’ll be stationed here for about three and a half years, and am leaving for my first deployment in early september 2015.”

2008

Brian hoefling has gone into business for himself, giving cocktail lessons at private parties and professional functions (www.herzogcocktail school.com)

Becca Yau ’09 and chris Kasdorf

charlotte, daughter of Dave Donahue ’03

Jeremy Moskowitz emailed, “i will be the associate vice president for leadership and governance for hillel international. i married Jane meyerson on march 7 at the mandarin oriental in New York city. Jane grew up in New York city, attended the Dalton school, and we met at Duke university. she is working at NYu stern business school in their Development Department. sarah Weinstein ran the Falmouth Road Race and raised over $1750 dollars for individuals and families affected by alzheimer’s. she ran in memory of her late grandmother marmee— who was loved by all of sarah’s Rivers friends and who suffered from the illness.

Back: sarah Bailey ’06, Annie eisenhart ’04, Ned Wallroth ’03, cam Dale ’03, cara Nicoletti ’04, PJ Hendrick ’04, stephanie Bailey Hendrick ’04, Pat Tuohy ’04, marcus De castro ’03, Ryan Daly ’05, Pete Wallroth ’03.

Front: samantha Bailey ’01, Pat gallagher ’03. [Not pictured: Todd macDowell ’99] 26 • Riparian • Fall 2015

sofia, daughter of chris Bliss ’05

Jennifer grabler ’04, Jeff Kotzen ’02, monica Walsh mosseri ’01, Kathryn Jigarjian Fagin ’01, Jill Hoffmeister Demello ’01, Ali grabler stein ’01, Amelia Hutchinson ’01, Danielle levine steinman ’01, Becca soule ’01, Jeff stone ’01, Alexis levine Hochleutner ’99

colin Jackson ’01, sean irving ’01, JB Karelitz ’01, charlotte lewis ’02, Amelia Hutchinson ’01, Bobby Wright ’01, Kathryn Jigarjian Fagin ’01, Jill Hoffmeister Demello ’01, chad gray, monica Walsh mosseri ’01, Becca soule ’01, Danielle levine steinman ’01

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Alumni News

John Krause ’02: Five Words to succeed By

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thletes, coaches, and families at the Varsity Awards evening in June enjoyed an inspirational talk by John Krause ’02, who was a member of the 2001 boys’ soccer team that captured ISL and NEPSAC Class A championships. After Rivers, John attended Boston College and Vanderbilt University, helping both programs reach new heights. His career as a professional soccer player took him all over the world and peaked with his call-up to the Puerto Rican national team for a friendly match in 2012 against the reigning World Cup champions, Spain.

John spoke about the impact Rivers had on his life and how the lessons imparted to him by his coaches, teachers, friends, and classmates guided him through his soccer career and now inform his current profession in sales for a medical device company. He left the students with some words of advice on how to best benefit from their Rivers experience and beyond.

“I would not be able to do any of this without the qualities I learned here at Rivers. These qualities I’m going to list are buzz words that you have probably heard a million times and I wanted to stay away from them. But then I realized they are buzz words for a reason.

They are what I think define success in anything you do:

2009

Becca Yau and her husband chris Kasdorf were married on may 24 at the Fruitlands museum in harvard, ma. “allison macintosh ’09, John matthews ’09, and my sister, megan scherbarth ’06 were all in my bridal party! it’s great to have so many wonderful friends from Rivers.”

2010

Alex Ginsberg is living in brooklyn, NY, and working for a tech startup in NYc called electric objects (www.electricobjects.com) that offers an

• Perseverance: I was told I wasn’t going to get in to BC, then told I was going to red-shirt but ended up becoming a starter and played the most minutes on the team that year. The same with pro soccer: I was told to give it up but stuck with it and made a memorable career out of it.

• Preparation: This goes side by side with hard work to me. do everything possible before whatever it is you are doing so you put yourself in a position to succeed. With every situation I have been in, starting with Rivers, I had doubts if I was good enough or smart enough to be able to hack it. I realized that if I became one of the hardest workers I could make it.

• Confidence: You have to believe in yourself and your abilities. It was very hard to travel across the world by myself

but I believed in myself and it made the journey a success. In my job today walking into a surgery can be intimidating because you are overwhelmed by the responsibility you have to the patient and surgeon. But I am reassured because I have done the preparation which gives me confidence to perform.

• Respect: Respect for everyone— teammates, classmates, competitors, co-workers—is something that Coach Pipe mandated for all of his players from the minute I met him.

I am extremely grateful for this because after Rivers I was able to get along with players and people from all over the world to accomplish a common goal. This has helped me in my current job today. If you can’t find common ground with people from all walks of life, they will never want to follow your lead or work with you.

• Fun: If you aren’t smiling and loving what you do then you can never give it everything you have. You have to be happy or it’s not worth doing.

In conclusion, I want to congratulate all of you athletes for all of your successes now and in the future! Thank you for having me and enjoy the ride because the best is yet to come but remember where it all started. I know I do!”

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student News in Memoriam

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Peter h. Dwight ’50, June 21, 2015

stephanie lie graduated from boston university with her bs in may, and just began her first year of medical school at the bu school of medicine this august.

Richard Foster, former faculty, october, 2014 Norman C. logan ’48, June 12, 2015

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Summer Kick-off in the City

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ozens of Rivers alumni, more than ready for summer to begin, gathered at Tia’s on the waterfront , trading tales of winter’s woe and looking ahead to well-deserved vacation plans. The evening, one of many events organized by the Rivers Alumni Office to help alumni connect and reconnect, has become as traditional as the pre-Thanksgiving gathering.

marissa DelFavero, eric Newman, margaret Taylor, Becca greiff, mitchell Newcomb, all class of ’11

gilliam Pinkham ’10, steve manning ’09, Bryan ginsberg ’09, leah stansky ’10

Dan Bloomstone ’06, cathleen connors ’09, Rachel Tovin ’06, meggie Woodruff ’09

Kaleigh Hunt ’09, Jacqueline gannon ’09, Jamie lapides ’09 Jacqueline Bouchie ’10, Jacqui Durand ’08, Nicole stenquist ’08, Julia Williams’10

Back: Will Duffy, Kyle Reardon, megan Kerbs, Julia Taylor, carson Knisley.

Front: emily snider, Danny Walsh, Kelsey Young, all class of ’12

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Jack Birger, Jacqui Durand, Nicole stenquist, all class of ’08

2015–2016 alumni events at

THE RIVERS SCHOOL oC T o B E R Tuesday, 10/20/15 8:00 a.m.

Business Breakfast series at bain capital llc 200 clarendon street, boston

NovEMBER sunday, 11/1/15 7:00 p.m.

Washington, DC Networking Reception with head of school Ned Parsons at The mission, Washington, Dc Tuesday, 11/10/15 6:00 p.m.

Young Alumni Career Fair Wednesday, 11/11/15 9:15 a.m. veterans Day Ceremony and Reception Wednesday, 11/25/15 7:00 p.m.

Pre-Thanksgiving Event for Young Alumni lir, 903 boylston street, boston

N o v. – F E B. sundays, 11/15/-–2/28/16 Community Free skate 11:50 a.m.

Alumni hockey Games 7:40 p.m.

DECEMBER Thurs. – sat., 12/17/15 –12/19/15 holiday Basketball Tournament

JANuARY Tuesday, 1/12/16

8:00 a.m.

Business Breakfast series at bain capital llc 200 clarendon street, boston saturday, 1/30/16 7:00 p.m.

New York City social with head of school Ned Parsons at The Wren, 344 bowery, NYc

FEBRuARY sunday, 2/21/16

11:50 a.m.

Alumni hockey Game, lunch, and Family skate

APRil Friday, 4/8/16

7:00 p.m.

Boston Celtics Game to celebrate the end of Nonesuch madness TD Garden, boston

M AY saturday, 5/14/16 All Day Reunions & Alumni Day all classes welcome, especially reunion classes ending in 1 and 6

JuNE Tuesday, 6/7/16 8:30 a.m.

Alumni senior Breakfast

Thursday, 6/23/16 6:00 p.m.

Boston summer social Tia’s, 200 atlantic avenue, boston Stay tuned for information about the 16th Annual Golf Tournament to Benefit Financial Aid We hope to see you at an event soon! all alumni events are at The Rivers school unless otherwise noted. be sure to check www.rivers. org/alumnievents to stay up to date on all of the alumni events. Please contact alumni Program coordinator meg speranza at m.speranza@rivers. org to RsvP to all events or with any questions regarding networking opportunities or becoming an alumni career mentor.

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