Fall New York Area Alumni Reception
Forty Park alumni from New York City gathered at the home of Christopher Rothko ’81 and Lori Cohen. The evening of catching up, making new connections, and sharing conversations about Park, also included a tour of works by Mark Rothko, Christopher’s father. Many of the works have never been publicly exhibited.
The Park Alumni Office is planning several more New York events this school year. If you would like to be notified of future activities, please email Pailin Gaither at pgaither@parkschool.net.
Link: Mark Rothko at the National Gallery of Art
posted: 11/12/2010 | Contact: Pailin Gaither
The Park Alumni Office is proud to announce the launch of a new online series of alumni profiles.
The new series, titled Park in the World: Alumni in Action, will feature alums who are acting upon the principles of Park's educational philosophy in their daily lives. Our inaugural profile spotlights Ryan Frankel '02 and his newly discovered passion for the sport of triathlon. Ryan discovered his love for the sport while fundraising for Park's Nicholas Watson '03 Memorial Scholarship Fund.
Connect to the Park in the World: Alumni in Action series by clicking below or by clicking on the link in the menu to the left. Also, be sure to check in each month to discover what alums will turn up next in this new feature.
Link: Park in the World: Alumni in Action
posted: 10/21/2009 | Contact: Pailin Gaither
Tie on your cleats and return to Old Court Road on October 3rd for the annual match up between the Alumni Men and the Varsity Boys' Soccer team, to be held at 1:00 on Kelly Field. Before or after the game, fuel up at the Saturday in the Park BBQ, 12:00-3:0O next to the Kindergarten Building.
Or, pick up your stick and play in the Alumnae Women's game against the Girls' Varsity Field Hockey Team. Report to the Girls' Varsity Field at 2:00 on October 3rd.
RSVP to Pailin Gaither, by email (pgaither@parkschool.net) or by phone (410.339.4114).
posted: 10/03/2009 | Contact: Pailin Gaither
Ryan Frankel '02 has taken on the incredible challenge of preparing to race in his first ever Ironman triathalon event in order to raise funds for Park's Nick Watson '03 scholarship fund.
Ryan will be racing in the 2009 Ironman Louisville, Kentucky on August 30th, just a few weeks from now. An Ironman is a triathlon, a race that consists of a 2.4 mile swim, a 112 mile bike ride and a marathon.
Ryan's "Road to the Ironman" is documented on his website Ryan Frankel's Road to the Ironman. Here you can read more about Ironman triathalons and Ryan's training regimen, and you can also connect to Ryan's blog.
If you feel inspired by Ryan's efforts and would like to make a donation to the Nick Watson '03 scholarship fund, please visit the donation page of Ryan's website or navigate directly to Park's secure on-line giving form.
posted: 08/30/2009 | Contact: Pailin Gaither
The final weeks of the Park Annual Fund Campaign are upon us. Thank you to all those who have already generously committed to Park. However, to reach our fundraising goal we still need your support. Please, help Park continue to thrive by making your gift -- first or second -- by June 30, 2009.
Additionally, seize the opportunity to help us meet the Meyerhoff challenge. For all increases in giving and for all new gifts (did not make a gift in '07-'08), the Meyerhoff Foundation will give $1 to Park's Emergency Financial Aid Fund for every $2 you donate to the Annual Fund.
It is easy to make a gift with a credit card. Please click on "Give Online" in the menu to the left of this post and you'll be taken to our secure online giving site. Remember to donate before June 30 in order to participate in the 2008- 2009 Annual Fund.
posted: 06/30/2009 | Contact: Jessica Normington, Annual Fund Coordinator
This past week nearly seventy seniors from the Class of 2009 walked across the stage to receive their diplomas from Head of School Dan Paradis.
Welcome to the Park Alumni Community, Class of 2009!
Good luck in your post-Park adventures! Please keep us up to date on your current news by sending email updates to pgaither@parkschool.net. We'll share your news with your classmates, as well as with former teachers and coaches, through online means or in the Class News & Notes section of Cross Currents.
posted: 06/08/2009 | Contact: Pailin Gaither
Come back to campus to see old friends, to play in Alumni lacrosse and baseball games, or to witness the changes at 2425 Old Court Rd. Raise a glass at the Toast to the Brown & White, grab a burger at the Athletic BBQ, and enjoy the company of your classmates at class parties for the "fours" and the "nines."
Those from the years 1923 to 1959 are invited to join head of school Dan Paradis for the Liberty Heights Luncheon.
Find a full schedule on our events page.
posted: 05/29/2009 | Contact: Pailin Gaither
Do you live in the Boston area?
Park is going on the road and we're heading to Beantown. Join fellow alumni at Rocca Kitchen & Bar, Wednesday, May 20th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm for great conversation, delicious nibbles, great wine, and the chance to meet Dan Paradis, Park's new head of school.
RSVP to Pailin Gaither at 410.339.4114 or pgaither@parkschool.net.
You'll find Rocca at 500 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA 02118. Take the Silver Line on the T, or enjoy Rocca's free on-site parking. Directions provided on Rocca's website: www.roccaboston.com.
posted: 05/20/2009 | Contact: Pailin Gaither
If your memories of Park were shaped by time as an AC Leader, come back for the program's 35th reunion, April 25th and April 26th.
We will be re-constructing the former, universally popular aerial sequence. This all time favorite had to be taken down in 2000 to make way for the new Athletic Center and swimming pool complex. It has been on every leader?s wish list ever since. The new zip line will be 100+ feet longer and approximately 10 feet higher at the take-off than the former zip line. Volunteers should be comfortable with working 50+ feet up and performing carpentry, cable stretching, through-bolting, etc., from such heights. Sunday's activities will be followed by a picnic lunch for you and your family.
If you are interested in joining the build, contact Jim Howard at jhoward@parkschool.net.
posted: 04/25/2009 | Contact: Jim Howard
Alix Spiegel '89 is a reporter with NPR's National Desk, covering social policy. She is this year's Weinberg Upper School Resident Journalist. On Friday, February 27th, she will return to Old Court Road to speak to the Upper School at an assembly, and meet with smaller groups of students throughout the day. A special session will be held with the staff of Park's award-winning newspaper, Postscript. Please see Park's home page (www.parkschool.net) for a link to more information on Alix's journalistic accomplishments.
posted: 02/27/2009 | Contact: Pailin Gaither
Do you live in the Chicago Area?
In case you have not heard, Park is coming to Chicago for the NAIS (National Association Of Independent Schools) Annual Conference.
Alumni hosts Greg White '81 and Amy Kaplan '84 are hosting a reception for Chicago-area alumni to meet Park's new Head of School Dan Paradis and to welcome Park staff Loiuse Mehta, Mike McGill, Tony Asdourian, Traci Wright, Debbie Roffman, Laura Schlitz, and Betsy Leighton to the Windy City.
If you live in or near Chicago and would like to attend, please see the details on the Chicago Alumni Group page or email Alumni Coordinator Pailin Gaither at pgaither@parkschool.net.
posted: 02/26/2009 | Contact: Pailin Gaither
Upper School A Cappella to Appear with International Performers.
Did you sing when you were at Park? Do you remember the heady feeling of standing before a crowded room with nothing but your voice for an instrument?
Well, the Park singing tradition continues. The Eightnotes, Park School?s Upper School female a cappella group is performing in New York City as part of the Liyana 2009 USA Tour sponsored by the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus and the PG Foundation.
Over the course of several performances, on January 26 and 27, the students will perform several numbers on their own and also sing with Liyana, a Zimbabwean Afro-fusion band. Liyana's eight band members, ranging in age from 17 to 23, are self-taught musicians with severe physical challenges. They met as students at King George VI School in Bulowayo, Zimbabwe.
For dates and times visit the New York Alumni Group page. For more information on Liyana follow the links on Park's home page.
posted: 01/26/2009 | Contact: Pailin Gaither
Park Alumni from the Classes of 2005-2008:
The Alumni Office invites you for Donuts with Dan (and some of your favorite teachers) on January 9 at 3:30 pm in the Ries conference room. Here?s your chance to meet the new Head of School, catch up with old friends, and find out what?s happening on Old Court Road.
After you?ve dunked enough donuts, watch the Bruins do their own dunking on the Brooks Lakin Performance Court:
JV Girls v. St. Tim?s @ 4 pm
Varsity Girls v. St. Tim?s @ 5:30 pm
Varsity Boys v. Sts. Peter and Paul @ 7:30 pm
RSVP by January 5: pgaither@parkschool.net or
Pailin Gaither at 410.339.4114
posted: 01/09/2009 | Contact: Pailin Gaither
Alumni Anand Wilder ?00 and Chris Keating ?00 will be performing with their band Yeasayer in a venue not too far from Park and Baltimore on Wednesday, December 3 at 8:00 pm. They will be playing at the Sixth and I Historic Synagogue in Washington DC. If you have not heard their music, check out music samples and all upcoming tour dates at www.myspace.com/yeasayer. If you live in DC, Maryland, or Virginia, make a night of it and reconnect with your Park past. Tickets can be purchased at www.sixthandi.org/Events.htm.
To catch you up on two other bands with members from Park, here is some news. Animal Collective, whose members include Josh Dibb ?96, David Portner ?97, and Brian Weitz ?97, is currently on tour in Europe. For more on their adventures, check out their current info on www.myspace.com/animalcollectivetheband.
Golden Animals, the band in which Tommy Eisner ?01 plays and sings, is also kicking off a tour. Over the course of December the band will be performing in a slew of US cities. Check out tour dates and music samples at www.myspace.com/goldenanimals.
Enjoy the tunes! And, if you are in a band and it is not mentioned here because we at Park have yet to hear about it, please let me know the details so we can share the news with your fellow alumni. Thanks.
posted: 12/03/2008 | Contact: Pailin Gaither, Alumni Coordinator
The Park School Parent's Association invites you to come check out the wonderful wares of 39 vendors from within the Park School Community. Shop for unique holiday gifts, such as ceramics, photographs, jewelry, wood inlay pictures, knit and crocheted items, painted scarves, felting and fiber art, quilting, fleece blankets, glass and metal sculpture, fabric purses, beaded bags, chalk and ink caricatures, and wire sculpture. Event includes a special "Make & Take" craft station for kids.
WHERE: Davison Lobby & Beyond
WHEN: 4:00-7:00pm, Thursday, December 4, 2008
posted: 11/04/2008 | Contact: Joan Peyton or Melissa Riorda
Park's alumni writers are represented by a remarkable collection of fiction and non-fiction works. Here are some of the most recent publications:
Ecosystem Planning in Florida, by Dr. Sam Brody '88 recognizes the need to address ecosystem problems at local and community levels. Dr. Brody is Associate Professor at Texas A&M University. He is Director of the Environmental Planning and Sustainability Research Unit, Acting Director of Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center, and Co-Director of the Center for Texas Beaches and Shores in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at the University.
Read an excerpt (PDF). Read more about Dr. Brody.
Mac Montandon ?89 has written Jetpack Dreams (Da Capo Press), which will be released November 1, 2008. Jet Pack Dreams chronicles the colorful past and current science of jetpacks, from the first flimsy, shoulder mounted wings to Bill Suitior?s 1984 Olympic flight; from a gruesome pack-driven murder in Houston in the mid-1990s to the secret laboratories and goverment facilities of today.
Mac explores Hollywood?s fascination with the subject from The Jetsons and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow to the cultural jetpack phenomenon represented by Buck Rogers, James Bond, and Boba Fett. He travels the world to meet jetpack enthusiasts who are readying their own personal flying machines for takeoff. Ultimately, it?s the search for an answer to one simple question: Where is the the jetpack that was promised to him, and to all of us, years ago? And if it?s out there, can he catch a ride?
Read an excerpt from Jetpack Dreams. Read more about Mac.- "Amristar," by Jess Row '88, appeared in Atlantic Monthly's 2008 Fiction issue. Jess Row?s story collection The Train to Lo Wu was shortlisted for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Award. His work has appeared in Witness, Slate, The New York Times Book Review, and Granta, which named him a ?Best Young American Novelist? in 2007. He is a professor and Buddhist chaplain at the College of New Jersey.
Read "Amristar" now.
- Kabbalistic Teachings of the Female Prophets: The Seven Holy Women of Ancient Israel, published by Inner Traditions, was written by J. Zohara (Zoh) Meyerhoff Hieronimus ?72. The book examines the spiritual teachings of Israel?s biblical prophetesses?Sarah, Miriam, Devorah, Chanah, Avigail, Chuldah, and Esther?whose lives reflect a kabbalistic path of spiritual evolution. Using the stories of their lives and their teachings, relationships of each prophetess are made to the seven days of the week, the seven sacred species of Israel, the human body, and Jewish holidays and rituals. The prophetesses show that every person has a part to play in the repair of the world, and the reader discovers a practical set of maps and spiritual guidelines for that journey.
Zoh is an award-winning radio broadcaster, social justice and environmental activist, and professional artist. She founded the Ruscombe Mansion Community Health Center in Baltimore in 1984 and hosts the national radio program Future Talk.
Read an excerpt from Kabbalistic Teachings of the Female Prophets
posted: 09/04/2008 | Contact: Hillary Jacobs
In the November/December 2007 edition of the Penn Gazette, Adam Small '01 recounts his decision to attend The University of Pennsylvania, and the mentor that got him there.
To read the essay, please go to:
Penn Gazette.
posted: 11/13/2007 | Contact:
Have some open space on your iPod? Download the Park School Week in Review, a podcast produced by Park Upper School students. The weekly show, hosted by Ben Redgrave '10 and Evie Sachs '10 brings you the latest in Park news, sports, and commentary.
To listen, and for more information, please go to:Park Podcast (Please note this link will take you away from the Park School Website)
posted: 10/04/2007 | Contact: Podcast Staff
Want to keep in touch with classmates between reunions? Need to find Park graduates in your field, or who went to your college? Register for Alumni Online, a database of Park School graduates and former faculty accessible only by those who register. Even if you are already registered, please take a moment to review your profile to make sure you?re your information is up to date. In addition, if you have classmates who have not yet registered, please ask them to do so. You can reach Alumni Online by going to: Alumni Online.
posted: 02/07/2007 | Contact: Alumni Office
Yes, even after over thirty years, the Appalachian Challenge Course is still in full "swing," and is still a requirement for all Middle School students.
At several points during the school year the Appalachian Challenge program puts out a newsletter highlighting the activities on the course, as well as reflections of former Challenge leaders. To read the most recent edition, please go to Appalachian Challenge Newsletter
To see an online slideshow of the course,go to: Challenge Slideshow.
posted: 02/06/2007 | Contact: Jim Howard, Director of Appalachian Challenge
Let us know what you are doing!
First, Register for Alumni Online: Alumni Online
Second, you can elect to fill out a survey at: Alumni Survey.
posted: | Contact: Alumni Office
