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Contents
2 Greetings from Dr. Tom Kelly,
Horace Mann Head of School
3 Greetings from Melissa Parento '90,
Director of Development
Features
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Bookshelf
Class Notes
Memorials
Philanthropy and You
Horace Mann School Journal
New Initiatives at HM Enhance Learning News of the School
5 HM and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC)
20 Michael Colacino '75, P '22
Team Up in First U.S. K-12 Partnership
A partnership that Horace Mann School launched with the
Education Department of England's Royal Shakespeare Company
(RSC) in 2015 is bringing the RSC's own "Rehearsal Room-Stand Up
for Shakespeare" method of learning the works of the Bard into HM
classrooms K-12, while involving the HM and outside community with
a transformative way of engaging with Shakespeare.
15 Horace Mann School's Women in Science &
Engineering (WISE) Program Inspires Scientific
Exploration
HM girls, from Kindergarten on up, are being offered extra opportunities to explore science and engineering, that may pave the way
toward advanced STEM studies, and possibly professions.
Leads the HM Board of Trustees
22 New Trustees Help Guide HM
23 Horace Mann School Graduates 189
28 News Briefs:
New Robotics and Engineering Lab Stimulates STEM Studies;
HM Builds Two Habitat Homes; HMPA Voter Registration Initiative
Assists Graduates, and more
Horace Mann Alumni Journal
Alumni Council Corner
31 Horace Mann School Alumni Council (HMAC)
President Wesley Mittman LePatner '99 reviews
an exciting year of HMAC events.
Cover: The 2015-2016 Horace Mann School academic year included a celebration of the 50 th
anniversary of HM's John Dorr Nature Laboratory in Washington, Conn. Over its half-century
of enhancing the education of HM students "Dorr" has evolved in many ways. Visits to HM's
Nursery and Lower Division classrooms by Dorr's faculty, and day trips and overnights at
Dorr inspire in HM students, grades K-12, a knowledge and appreciation of nature. Dorr helps
nurture in HM's younger students a sense of independence, and empowers students of all ages
through its physical and intellectual challenges. Dorr is also where HM students deepen their
sense of responsibility toward one another, and to the greater community, as they connect
at "Dorrientations" for rising sixth-graders and for new students, and work together during
HM's legendary eighth-grade Dorr.
The John Dorr Nature Laboratory increasingly serves HM in many other ways. Contributing
greatly to our curricular and co-curricular life Dorr provides a retreat space for various
student organizations, a "classroom" for science students exploring the environment, and a
"studio" where students in visual and performing arts classes can stretch their imaginations.
The photograph on the cover of this issue of Horace Mann Magazine was taken by Alexander
Wolfsohn '16 in the early morning during a "Photo Dorr" expedition to the Nature Laboratory,
for advanced photography students. Photography is among the subjects taught as part of
the Visual Arts discipline that is an essential aspect of a Horace Mann School education, from
Nursery through the Upper Division. All students are exposed to photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, digital imagery and film production in their Middle Division and Upper
Division years, through required classes and electives. A growing number of HM students
continue on in the visual arts in the Upper Division, focusing on one or more of these disciplines
through the Advanced Placement levels, and pursue art in college and beyond.
32 HM Homecoming 2015 draws thousands to campus
and reunions
34 HMAC Honors 2015 Distinguished Alumnus Justice
Milton A. Tingling '71
36 Alum Profile:
In an ongoing series on HM alumni engaged in groundbreaking work
Horace Mann Magazine highlights Chidiebere (Chidi) Akusobi '08.
Photo by Alexander Wolfsohn
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