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2013 Induction Ceremony Saturday, June 15, 2013 4 p.m. Kemper Auditorium
Opening Remarks Eleanor Tydings Gollob ’86 Cochair Athletics Committee of Alumni Council
Announcement of Inductees and Remarks Closing Remarks John Palfrey Head of School
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Cover artwork by Guy David MacKenzie ’54, Pot Pourri, 1954
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For outstanding efforts in soccer, hockey, and lacrosse, Lee Apgar earned 10 varsity letters at Andover. As an incoming junior, he switched from football to soccer. With just six weeks of organized play under his belt, he quickly became varsity’s starting goaltender—and remained so for the next four years. By his senior year, Apgar was a two-time All–New England selection and Andover’s team captain. He capped his final PA soccer season with seven shutouts, including a “masterful whitewash in the 1–0 victory [vs.] Exeter,” as described by the Phillipian. He was the male recipient of the 1978 Press Club Award.
“Athlete of the Term” in fall 1977, the Phillipian headline read “Apgar = Excellence.” At Dartmouth, Apgar played varsity soccer and lacrosse. For lacrosse, he was named to the All-Ivy first team and the All-American third team in 1982. He remains on the college’s all-time top lacrosse scorer list with 54 goals total. An investment banker, he continues to play hockey and soccer and participates in all three alumni games at Andover. He is active in the HamiltonWenham (Mass.) youth soccer and lacrosse associations and is chair of and a coach for the Agawam-Ipswich Youth Hockey Program. Lee and wife Laura will add “parent” to their nametags this fall when their son Alex joins the Class of 2017.
“I have never seen a better high school goalie,” said Coach Meredith Price. When named
1977 soccer team: Apgar is front row, center.
Judy Morton Bramhall won 11 varsity letters— three in soccer, four each in swimming and lacrosse—and was the first girl in the Class of ’78 to be awarded a letter sweater. She was captain of her soccer and swimming teams, and her 200-yard Individual Medley time (2.35.1) stood as an Andover record for several years. Her lacrosse team was undefeated in three out of her four seasons; with 78 goals in one 11-game season, she was the team’s high scorer. When Bramhall landed in the number 3 spot for Athlete of the Year behind two seniors, the Phillipian wrote, “Upper Judy Morton excels in anything she attempts with apparently little effort.”
the long winter, cold “wet season” and a hardto-like coach prompted her to explore the dance studios instead. Bramhall taught grade school humanities and coached soccer and lacrosse for eight years. After marriage and the birth of her three children, she continued to substitute and coach, and traveled to national tournaments in tennis and paddle tennis as well. In 2008, Bramhall and a friend created Woven Journeys, a nonprofit that serves under-resourced elementary schools and orphanages. They have since led eight groups of adults and middle schoolers to Peru and Tanzania to run art camps, create libraries, and help with numerous other projects— “a crazy, heart-filling adventure,” says Bramhall.
Bramhall was “too waterlogged to continue [with swimming]” at the University of Vermont. She played varsity lacrosse freshman year, but
1978 lacrosse team: Bramhall is front row, third from right.
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La u r i e N . Coffey 1995 A new upper in 1993, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Laurie “Mocha” Coffey soon became a leading scorer for girls’ varsity basketball and a varsity rower, leading both teams to New England championships that first year. In just two years, she achieved the second-highest career scoring record in PA basketball history (685 points). Although accepted to various Ivies, Coffey, based on her desire to commit her life to non sibi, decided to attend the U.S. Naval Academy. “Serving others is a big message at Andover,” she told the Phillipian. “I wanted to serve my country.”
National rowing team—as a freshman. After graduation, Coffey was invited to train for the 2000 Olympic basketball team, but a serious Achilles rupture ended that aspiration. Lt. Cmdr. Coffey is trained as an F/A-18 Hornet Fighter Pilot and currently flies with Strike Fighter Squadron 37. She has logged more than 2,000 flight hours, including 100 combat hours on 25 missions in Iraq. In the service, competition—along with a large dose of bravery—has allowed her to progress and improve as a pilot. “I still compete on a daily basis with my peers…. Whether you are landing on an aircraft carrier or shooting a free throw, you have to mentally visualize going through those actions”
A starting forward at Navy, Coffey led the basketball team to the school’s first-ever 30-win season and the Patriot League Championship. She also made the varsity eight—and the U.S.
Ri c h a r d J . Collins Legendary teacher and coach Dick Collins has had a positive impact on generations of youth in the town of Andover and at Phillips Academy. During his PA years, Collins’s athletic prowess was most evident on the gridiron. In his senior year he scored 12 touchdowns in an undefeated seven-game season, which culminated with PA winning the New England prep school championship. He was awarded the Yale Bowl at Commencement.
two straight Massachusetts high school Super Bowls as coach of the Andover High Golden Warriors (and made it to a third), was named National Track and Field Coach of the Year, and is a member of the Massachusetts football and basketball halls of fame. The field house at Andover High School was named for Collins, who recently stepped down after 18 years on the town’s school committee. “Literally thousands of kids have benefited from Dick’s tutelage in the classroom, on the playing fields, and throughout the community,” says Athletics Director Mike Kuta. “He has inspired many to follow the non sibi path—to teach, to coach, to work with children, and to serve the broader community.”
At Dartmouth, Collins continued to excel in football, earned three letters, and was inducted into the Dartmouth Hall of Fame. In 1959, he became a history teacher at Punchard High School in Andover and coached the school’s football and track teams. In the 1970s, he won
1995 basketball team: Coffey is front row, far right.
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1948 football team: Collins is front row, fourth from right.
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Zackary R. DeOssie While growing up in North Andover, Mass., just a few miles from campus, Zak DeOssie was steeped in football; his dad, Steve, played for three NFL teams. A four-year student at PA, the younger DeOssie was a varsity athlete in football, basketball, and baseball. He captained football and basketball his senior year under “Coach Mo” (Leon Modeste) and was named to the All–New England Prep Team.
The New York Giants snatched DeOssie—a linebacker and long snapper like his dad—in the 2007 NFL draft and went on to win Super Bowl XLII against Coach Bill Belichick ’71 and the New England Patriots. (The DeOssies became the first father-son duo to win a Super Bowl as members of the same franchise.) In the 2011 season, DeOssie was selected as special-teams captain. He called the coin toss in Super Bowl XLVI, which the Giants won, again, against the Patriots.
At Brown University, DeOssie switched from quarterback to linebacker. He played in 36 games with 29 starts and recorded 315 tackles (187 solos) with 10.5 sacks, 36.5 stops for losses. As a senior, DeOssie earned firstteam All-American recognition from the NFL Draft Report and first-team All-Ivy for the third consecutive season.
Although he wears a New York uniform, DeOssie grew up as a Patriots fan. He recently married Kate Hammond, his college sweetheart.
Below, with Coach Modeste. Right, raising the Lombardi Trophy in 2012.
Maj. Gen. Thomas “Mike” Harvey lettered at Andover for three years in hockey and for two years in football and lacrosse. He was captain of the hockey team in 1954 and was selected for all-team honors at the Lawrenceville hockey tournament that same year.
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Maj. Gen. Harvey’s service in the U.S. Army, which included three voluntary tours of duty in Vietnam, spanned 33 years. He retired as a two-star major general in 1991. His military awards include the Distinguished Service Cross (second highest award for valor), the Silver Star (for valor), four Distinguished Flying Crosses (for heroism), the Distinguished Service Medal (for achievement), and the Master Aviation Badge (15 years’ service and more than 3,000 flight hours).
Harvey went on to West Point. While a cadet, he lettered for three years in hockey and lacrosse. His skill on the ice earned him All-East squad honors and the Hal Beukema Memorial Award as the outstanding hockey player in 1958. That same year, he was a starter on the national championship team for lacrosse and was named second team All-American. He received the Army Athletic Association Trophy as the senior who rendered the most valuable service to athletics during his cadet career.
“Andover was a valued and cherished experience that provided a cultural diversity rarely found elsewhere,” notes Harvey, proud parent of Todd ’80. “The military became a calling where duty, honor, country were, indeed, a way of life.”
1954 hockey team: Harvey is front row, center.
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Robert P. H u lb u r d The origins of the perennially intense AndoverExeter lacrosse rivalry can be traced back to the life and lacrosse career of PEA “faculty brat” Bob Hulburd. A lacrosse standout at Exeter, Hulburd served as team captain in 1939, his senior year. At Princeton, he was chosen lacrosse captain and named an All-American. After serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he returned to Andover as an instructor in German, becoming department chair from 1961 to 1965.
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Exeter through 1994. Hulburd was named New England Coach of the Year in 1969 and New England Lacrosse Man of the Year in 1980. His final three teams were New England champs. He retired in 1986 with a 153–35–1 record. Dubbing Hulburd “the father of Andover lacrosse,” current PA varsity coach and former PA lacrosse captain Steve Moreland ’82 writes: “Coach Hulburd coached in an era when few boys had played lacrosse before entering high school, and he successfully converted newbies to skilled players in short time. He drilled the fundamentals, demanded hard work, but always kept it fun.” In his memory, the Hulburd Trophy is awarded each year to the winner of the Andover-Exeter contest.
In 1956, Hulburd took the reins of PA’s lacrosse program, which, in the first 30 years of matches against Exeter, had suffered 26 defeats. Largely thanks to Hulburd’s leadership—and including an undefeated season in 1965—Big Blue would win 25 of the 30 contests played against
1969 lacrosse team: Hulburd is far right.
For 34 years, Jon Stableford was the quintessential PA triple threat—teacher, coach and housemaster. But before becoming any of those, he played football, baseball, and hockey as a PA student-athlete, receiving the Raymond T. Tippett Memorial Award for loyalty, courage, and modesty. He continued his career in the net for Williams College, where he was captain his senior year.
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in the region.” His teams won the Division I Interscholastic Championship five times. Stableford ran 25 consecutive Boston marathons. Many students trained with Stableford to run marathons, and sometimes he even ran marathons with them. In 2009, Stableford wrote a piece for Dartmouth Medicine, the magazine of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, called “The Longest Run,” which described his 2006 battle with acute respiratory distress syndrome. He marked his recovery by running, for the 15th time, the “sadistic” 7.6-mile Mount Washington Road Race. “I finished further back than I ever had,” he recounts, “but it may have been the most satisfying race I’ve ever run.”
Stableford returned to Andover in 1976 as an instructor in English and eventually served as department chair. He ably coached football, hockey and track, but his true legacy is his 20 years of inspirational coaching of girls’ and boys’ cross country. He never had a losing season, finishing his final fall 2009 meet with a dual victory over Exeter. The Eagle-Tribune called him “one of the most successful coaches 1963 baseball team: Stableford is front row, far left.
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John F. Bronk, athletic trainer (d)
Becky Dowling Calder ’94 H. Richard Duden ’43 Fred H. Harrison ’38 (d) Frank Hinkey, Class of 1891 (d) Sarah E. Mleczko Kasten ’76
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Aisha Jorge Massengill ’88 John L. Morrison ’63 Richard J. Phelps ’46 Shirley J. Ritchie, faculty emerita
Judge Macauley Letchworth Smith was born in 1905 in Louisville, Kentucky. He found great success as a runner at Andover and received the Yale Bowl—awarded for the highest proficiency in scholarship and athletics—at Commencement. When just a freshman at Yale, Smith won the IC4A cross-country championship. After graduation, he set his sights on the Olympics in Amsterdam.
Smith returned to Louisville and served as a circuit court judge. His legacy continues off the track and outside the courtroom via a 170-acre parcel of land that he and his wife, Emilie, donated to the Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission in 1979 for “the express purpose of preserving the land for passive recreation.” Smith named the state’s first nature preserve Blackacre as a wink to the fictitious legal designation often used to distinguish parcels of land. The Smiths also established a conservancy to ensure Blackacre’s upkeep.
Smith placed second in the 1928 Olympic trials for the 5K and hit a personal best time of 14:57.4 that year. He “amazed track experts during the eastern sectional trials in Yankee Stadium” and went on to compete in the 5K and 10K in Amsterdam. Though he made it to the final heat of the 5K, he did not medal.
Natalie Ware Ryherd ’63 (d) 1948 Swim Team
2009 Inductees Stephen S. Sorota, coach (d) Daniel G. Bolduc ’72 Frank F. DiClemente, coach (d)
John passed away in 1993, and Emilie in 2011, although it is said that their presence “can still be felt by all who visit Blackacre.”
William H. Brown ’34 (d) Archibald M. Bush, Class of 1867 (d) Joseph V. Cavanagh Jr. ’67 Ashley A. Harmeling ’00 Gerard E. Jones ’55 Harvey M. Kelsey Jr. ’41 Carter Marsh Abbott ’93 Arthur K. Moher ’45
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2011 Inductees William S. Belichick ’71 Arthur R.T. Hillebrand, Class of 1896 (d) Thomas J. Hudner Jr. ’43 Meredith Hudson Johnston ’01 Paul Kalkstein ’61 Raymond A. Lamontagne ’53
Martha Hill Gaskill ’78
Thomas E. Pollock III ’61
William C. Matthews, Class of 1901 (d)
William S. Smoyer ’63 (d)
John P. McBride ’56
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James P. McLane Jr. ’49
James H.H. Carrington ‘42 (d)
C. Anthony Pittman ’90
John G. Clayton ‘47
Robert W. Sides ’34
Thomas F. Fleming ‘72
Eleanor Tydings Gollob ’86
Henry G. Higdon II ‘59
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Edward W. Mahan, Class of 1912 (d)
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Michael A. Moonves ‘62
1922 cross country team: Smith is third from left.
Julia Trotman Brady ‘85 Joseph B. Wennik ‘52 Randolph B. Wood ‘82
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Artwork by Hilda Wood Lynde ’32, The Circle, 1932