RED & GOLD THE COMMUNITY MAGAZINE of CATHEDRAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS
Editor’s Note
I GREW UP WITH TWO CULTURALLY CURIOUS PARENTS. Curious about the world beyond the border of the small town my family had inhabited for five generations. Mom and dad wanted us to have a deep understanding of where we were from but also about places we might want to go eventually. Unlike their parents, my parents didn’t expect us to hang around after high school, so they opened up the world. We traveled, a lot. No matter where we landed, at least one day was designated as a “Culture Day.” This meant that mom and dad got to choose what they wanted to do, culturally, and they didn’t hold back. Hence, Culture Day was never spent at the kids’ museum or the zoo; their day catered to their interests. One Culture Day, while traveling abroad, we enjoyed Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Did I mention I was nine years old and my brother, six? For the rest of that trip, if my brother did anything to annoy me, I would pull out that famous line, “Et tu, Brute?” From then on, Culture Days offered promise. My parents’ interests were as diverse as they were deep, and their mandatory Cultural Days did more than just force the kids to do “boring” adult stuff. It was in an accumulation of these days that a curiosity about the world and its workings developed in me, and I came to realize that all the world is a classroom. The idea that “all the world is a classroom” seemed to be a perfect theme for this issue of the Red&Gold magazine. Inside and out of our school there are learning experiences-teachable moments. If we are open to what these experiences teach us, we develop as more complex human beings. Stories in the issue such as Learning to Serve and Serving to Learn by Tara Boland, Kindness Matters by Joanne Cohen, and Giving and Receiving by Holden Brown provide good examples of how the best learning experiences position us at once as teacher and as student. I hope you enjoy this issue of the Red&Gold and I would love your feedback on what you have read. Please email me your comments or story ideas for our next issue to ricejones@cathedralschool.net.
RED&GOLD TEAM EDITOR Katie Rice Jones COPY EDITORS Megan Brown Harrison Wilkes DESIGN Jenna Del Vigna PHOTOGRAPHY Katie Rice Jones Aaron Mullen Deb Rockwood John Stuart Riddle Sarah Roggero Nano Visser Kathryn Williams Kirsten Wolfe
Big and Little Brothers sharing a laugh at Grace Cathedral’s outdoor labyrinth.
OUR MISSION
IN THIS ISSUE 1 Message from the Headmaster 3 Editor’s Note 14 Learning to Serve and Serving to Learn 19 How Plan Becomes Action 21 Kindness Counts: Q& A with Author Leon Logothesis 24 ¡Hola! Nicaragua: A Field Trip Blog
34 Graduation: Class of 2017 45 Alumni News 48 In Memoriam 49 Alumni Events 53 Annual Report 72 School Events 74 Moving In, Up, and On 85 Faculty News
To provide an excellent education for boys at the elementary level. To attract a diverse student body of strong academic potential.
To provide a school committed to intellectual inquiry and rigor, centered in the Episcopal tradition, respectful of and welcoming to people of all religious traditions and beliefs. To develop social responsibility through exemplary programs of outreach and service. To create a community bonded by open-heartedness, hope, compassion, and concern.
Cathedral School for Boys, a department of Grace Cathedral, is accredited by the California Association of Independent Schools, and is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools and the National Association of Episcopal Schools. As an institution with 501(c)(3) non-profit status, it relies on the generosity of individual and community support and an active Parents Association to fund its annual operating and capital needs. If you’d like to make a gift to the School or would like more information on how you can make a difference in the lives of the School and our boys, please contact James Schmidt, Director of Development at schmidt@cathedralschool.net. All gifts to the School are fully tax-deductible as allowed by law. CATHEDRAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS 1275 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, CA 94108 (415) 771-6600 www.cathedralschool.net
Happy reading,
COVER PHOTO John Stuart Riddle ON THE COVER: LEFT to RIGHT:
Katie Rice Jones Red&Gold Editor
Big Brothers Evan ’17, Greyson ’21, and Brandon ’17 (far right) with Little Brother Jackson ’25.
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