At any hour of the school day, it is common to see seniorssign out at the front desk and leave the school. They are

not leaving school simply for a free period or a long lunch,however. Rather they are taking the time to prepare them-selves for a world beyond graduation.

In their senior year, Country Day students are required totake at least two classes at York College of Pennsylvania. “York College is a great resource that is right nearby,” says college counselor Jake Doll. In fact, less than a mile down the road, students have access to a world ofpossibilities beyond the UpperSchool. This fall,students areenrolled in coursesthat span across alldisciplines, including interna-tional studies, psychology, and economics.

Some students use thisopportunity to expand theirknowledge by studying subjects that interest them, but are not available atCountry Day. For example, three students have chosen to take Russian and one has enrolled in Italian 101. Another student, after taking all of the Spanishcourses offered at Country Day, decided to continue her studies at the college level. Other students use this opportunity to accumulate college credit and eliminate introductory classes, allowing them to begin coursework fortheir majors as early as freshman year.

Mr. Doll, who was the associate director of admissions atMcDaniel College, points out that students can also use thiscoursework to their advantage on college applications.“College admissions offices really like seeing college credit on a student’s transcript,” he says. In many cases, according toMr. Doll, college credit can outshine Collegeboard AP credits,as it demonstrates the student’s ability to succeed in the classroom, rather than on a single test.

“Not only will this experience help students get into college,it will also help them to excel once they get there. These students are going to be leaders on campus from the beginningof freshman year,” says Mr. Doll. Moreover, students willadjust more easily to the college environment because they willhave already made the transition to college classes, experiencinga college campus while still in high school. Country Day students are poised for success.

Fall 2012

What’s Next?

In this Issue:

In the ClassroomsSaluting Fall 2012SportsAlumni NotesMystery Photos

Fourth grade teacher Karin Krieger is devoted to scholar-ship. “I think when I stop learning is when I will stop

living,” she says. “I try to see everyone I meet and every situation as a chance to learn new things.”

To recognize her scholastic devotion, the Parents’Association awarded her the Teacher’s ProfessionalDevelopment Scholarship, which funds further training forone Country Day teacher every year. Ms. Krieger used themoney to attend Columbia University’s Summer WritingInstitute, a program that gives teachers new resources forteaching writing to Lower School students.

Ms. Krieger gained much from this experience, includinga new appreciation for writing’s importance. “It is a powersubject,” she says. “The skills students learn during writingworkshop affect how they experience life, not simply howthey read and write.” To reinforce this idea, Ms. Kriegerrefers to writing in all subjects by asking students to reflecton an author’s purpose and style. “I have begun to live mylife as a writer,” she says, “and it is my goal that, by the end

of the year, the fourth graders will also be living their lives as writers.”

Ms. Krieger graduated from Smith College with a BAin anthropology and historybefore earning her masters ofarts and teaching in elementaryeducation from Johns HopkinsUniversity. Although this isMs. Krieger’s second year atCountry Day, she taught forsix years in Baltimore. No matter where she teaches, she says, “I try to ignite a

passion for lifelong learning within my classroom. I make sure to show my students that I’m always learning from them and that their learning doesn’t end when they leave the classroom.”

Karin Krieger and class

PreschoolThe arrival of apples and pumpkins at farmers’ markets

and roadside stands are two traditional signs of autumn.They invoke the same images of leaves turning, coolevenings and the coming of winter. Our Penguin students take those observations to another level when, as part of their science curriculum, they create aVenn diagram comparingand contrasting pumpkinsand apples. They talkabout color, texture, howthey grow and what youcan make with them. Theycut them open and look at the seeds and the flesh of thefruit. They then plot the information to see where the circlesare separate and where the two things overlap. Snack timethat week features applesauce and roasted pumpkin seeds.A tasty study all around.

Lower SchoolOur character education program is a big part of how we

teach our Lower Schoolers to be good citizens and activemembers of the community. The virtues are: responsibility,perseverance, kindness and compassion, citizenship, respect,honesty, integrity, and trustworthiness. This year as part ofour continuing work with responsive classrooms, each class

will be presenting a virtue at the all-school morning meetingon the first Friday of the month. We began with the 5thgrade creating and acting out skits about respect. The 1stgrade then used the October meeting to present the conceptof perseverance. Everyone walked through the halls hummingthe song “Awake, Alert, Alive” for the rest of the day.

Middle SchoolSpanish students in the middle school are beginning their

unit on house vocabulary. One of the tools they will use thisyear is floorplan.com, a website that allows you to designfloor plans and houses and furnish rooms. Students will build the floor plans, choose the furniture for the rooms and then present their completed houses to their classmates.Using their newest vocabulary, they will, in Spanish, describethe rooms, what is in them and where they are in the house.Señora Hess looks forward to seeing how creative they canbe and helping them to improve their presentation skills. Mi casa es su casa.

Cultivating “The Writer’s Eye”

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In the Classrooms…

Nathan Hiscox’s Miracle TieIn the summer of 2011, Nathan Hiscox ‘24 was

diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma and started treatment at Johns Hopkins. In October, he entered adrawing in the Miracle Ties contest, alongside many ofthe hospital’s other pediatric oncology patients.

Each year, patients in Johns Hopkins Children’s Centerare asked to draw their favorite thing. Of these pictures,several are selected by Jos. A. Bank to be printed on a tieand sold during the holiday season to fund pediatric cancer research and care.

Upper and Middle School math teacherMichelle Hiscox, mother of Nathan, recallshow surprised she was when she found outthat he had been selected. “My son, on the

other hand,” she says, “was beaming withpride.”

Nathan chose to draw Beyblades, hisfavorite toy at the time. Along with the otherwinners, Nathan’s tie went on sale at the end

of October. The back of each tiehas a tag with the child’s name,age, and diagnosis. The tie alsocomes with a card telling thebuyer about the child and the picture they drew.

Nathan is in remission, but stillreceives chemotherapy. Despitehis prize-winning picture, art is

not among his hobbies. “Nathan likes playing sports andvideo games,” says Mrs. Hiscox. “He is a typical boy.”

I like capturing a moment,”says Upper School teacher

Eric Fleming, who has dabbled in photography andsongwriting since an earlyage. A native of Emmaus, Pa.,he has been on the facultyat Country Day for fouryears, teaching Spanish andmagnet programs in photog-raphy and songwriting.

Mr. Fleming began playing the guitar and writing songs at 13, whenhe formed a punk band witha group of friends. Later on,he traded in his electric

guitar for an acoustic one and turned to a more relaxedgenre he calls “acoustic rock.”

Currently, Mr. Fleming pours most of his creative energyinto his photography. “I am always looking through a photographer’s eye,” he says, “with a heightened sense fora striking scene.” At first, Mr. Fleming focused on natureafter a 20-day road trip through the country’s national parks inspired him to buy a professional camera. Now, hephotographs everything from sporting events and pets, toweddings. Last February, two of his photographs were featured in Country Day’s Faculty Art Show, and for the past few years he has done professional photographythroughout the Red Lion area.

Beyond his personal enjoyment of photography, Mr.Fleming also enjoys sharing his knowledge with students. “I like showing them all the different settings on a camera,”he says. “It’s cool to see them realize what their camera istruly capable of.” He thinks art is valuable for communicating.“It helps you to process things,” he says, “and to expressthings when words fall short.”

Eric Fleming with Max Hoffacker ’13

Through a Different Lens

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Nathan Hiscox

UpperSchool

A cemetery seemsan odd destinationfor a biology fieldtrip, but that waswhere our 9thgraders headed onesunny morning inOctober. They wentto collect data onlocal birth and deathrates for males and females before and after 1950. They willfactor in historical and cultural events and use the informa-tion to demonstrate survivorship curves and patterns in populations. They hope to use their data to predict future population trends.

Country Day’s Athletic Director JimMustard shares his love of sports with

more than just the Upper School students inhis physical education classes. He has alsospent the past eight years teaching SpecialOlympics’ athletes.

Eight years ago, a parent invited him to dosome guest coaching with her son’s SpecialOlympics soccer league in Maryland. For the past twowinters, he has also worked at the Winter Olympics ofCentral Pennsylvania, coaching Olympians for skiingevents. He recalls the appreciative smile and hug hereceived during his first year with the organization whenone of his athletes scored his first goal. “It is so fun tobe with those kids,” he says, “who are so eager to learnand willing to do their best. That is why I find this workso invigorating and refreshing.”

Beyond the personal rewards of volunteering, Mr. Mustard also believes that it is an important part of citizenship. “I never forgot who’s helped me along theway,” he says, “and in order to complete the circle, giving back is a necessity.” To students, he says, “Beinvolved! Find something you’re passionate about anduse it to help others.”

Everyone Can Play

Saluting the Start of AnotherGreat Year

in Future Leaders of York, a program that teaches high schoolstudents about community leadership through mentorship and

service projects. Kinsley’s group volunteeredwith the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree program,where they matched donated gifts to therequests of needy children. From the experience,

Bobby Kinsley says, “I learned how easy it is to make a differenceand met others whowanted to help ourcommunity.”

Girls’ sports met some fierce competition this fall at Country Day.Under the leadership of coach JimMustard, the soccer team ended theseason 4-8. “We worked hard, grewthe program, and bested a fewrivals,” shared Mr. Mustard. In girls’field hockey, coached by AllisonRoush, the group worked to build the team and won several games.

Emma Harrelson ’14 had a great cross-country season, qualifying for the district finals. Way to go, Emma!

Middle Schoolers were off to the races! In its second season, co-edcross-country performed well, with many fifth grade students joining the expanding team. The boys’ Middle School soccer team had a greatseason, as well, finishing the year with seven wins.

Country Day students have many opportunities each yearto demonstrate citizenship helping those in need in both

the York and global communities. Most students participate in canned food drives and collections for overseas disasters.Some students take their citizenship to the next level,however, like seniors Jake Danner and Bobby Kinsley.

Jake Danner is a hardworking citizen in his hometownof Stewartstown. For two years, he has volunteered withEureka Volunteer Fire and Ambulance Company, respondingto medical emergencies and fighting fires in the greaterStewartstown area. He enjoys the work and says the job is important to him because, “It’s a small town. Withoutus, it would be a lot harder for people to get the help that they need.”

Bobby Kinsley is another citizen and upcoming leader ofthe York community. Last year, he was asked to participate

“Senior” Citizens

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Bobby Kinsley ’13 (left)and Jake Danner ’13 workon a Habitat for Humanityhome in York.

Development UpdateScholarship Partners

Last summer, the Commonwealthannounced a new program to help studentsin Pennsylvania’s lowest performing schooldistricts. The Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) program provides scholarships for these students to attend a participating public or private school oftheir choice. The scholarship funds comefrom business donations, which entitle thebusiness to a tax credit.

“York Country Day was one of the firstschools in the state to apply to be an OSTCapproved school,” said Nat Coffman, Headof School. “We are excited to participate inthis program and to fully fund our talentedstudents from the York City School District.”

Last month, we accepted our first OSTCdonation from PNC Bank. Thank you, PNC,for helping us launch our OpportunityScholarship program!

Many businesses continue to supportscholarships through Pennsylvania’sEducational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC)program, which offers tax credits to companies who donate to approved scholarship organizations.

Rutter’s, Ski Liberty,Kinsley Companies,M&T Bank, FrontierCommunications, and

LSC Design all donated $10,000 or morethis fall to support scholarships at CountryDay.

Thank you, Scholarship Partners!

Expectations Exceeded Last spring, Country Day parents

broke all records for parent participation inthe Annual Fund. Prompted by the Get it Done in 31!e-mail, phone and mail campaign, current parent giving reached 76 percent, a new record.

Thank you, parents!

A lumni Notes

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Carolyn Steinhauser ’57

Few people speak as passionatelyabout their life’s work as

Carolyn Steinhauser. “I like tobuild things and make things happen,” she says. Much of Ms. Steinhauser’s work has beendedicated to improving educational

opportunities for young people. She beganthis endeavor when her children wereyoung, working with their schools and laterwith organizations such as the York CountyCommunity Foundation, the Women’sGiving Circle, and York Country Day. She isparticularly proud of Focus on Our Future, a community initiative focusing on earlychildhood education, and Dollars forScholars, which supports post-secondaryeducation for York County students.

Ms. Steinhauser says she is interested in“strategic philanthropy,” rather than simplygiving money to a good cause.

Ms. Steinhauser, a member of CountryDay’s first graduating class, recalls the culture shock she experienced enteringninth grade. She says there was a “leapfrom reading Nancy Drew mysteries toWinston Churchill’s Triumph and Tragedy.”She soon became appreciative of the highexpectations of headmaster and Englishteacher Kenneth Snyder and his wifeElizabeth, who taught History and Latin.She says that together her class “rose to the challenge.”

When asked about future plans, Ms.Steinhauser points out that citizens mustcare for their community. “If not us, whowill?” she asks. To current students sheurges, “Pursue what is stimulating and satisfying, something that presents newchallenges for personal growth.”

’57 Virginia Thornton Craleywrites, “I see Suzi Anstine Norbeckregularly in Florida. We play welltogether! My grandsons, Tom and Jake Wymard, like being atCountry Day in the middle school.”

’60s The classes of 1961,1962, and 1963 celebrated their50th reunion on September 29,2012. Under the enthusiasticleadership of Reunion Chair Bill Frey ’62, committee membersAnne Whiteley Lowe ’62, MikeSterner ’63, and Fred Wilton ’61recruited about 40 alumni andtheir spouses to return to campus.

’73 Ross Edgar is working as senior geographic informationsystem analyst for the Metro-politan Washington Council ofGovernments in Washington, D.C.

’88 Travis Woolley and GaryStewart, who attended Country Day,are serving on the York Country DaySchool Board. Both have childrenwho are students at the school.

’03 Megan Donley keeps busyas owner of Lotus Moon Yoga andMassage in York, and playing withher band, Megan and the Wheelmen.At a First Friday Open House lastspring, Megan displayed the art ofher classmate Emily Hake.

’04 Ethan Benedict graduatedfrom the mechanical engineeringprogram at York College.

Sung Cheol Kim was just enteringhis senior year at Radford Universitywhen he was called back to Koreato serve two years in the KoreanArmy. He was trained in Special

Jesse Eiben ’97

For Jesse Eiben, scholarship and entomology fit together seamlessly. “I was always interested in insects,” he says, “and early on, I realized that teaching and

researching were extremely rewarding.” After graduating from Albright College and teaching in the biology labs for a year,

Dr. Eiben entered the entomology master’s program at the University of Oklahoma.Then, in 2005, Dr. Eiben began his Ph.D. at the University of Hawaii Manoa, finishing

his dissertation in February 2012. Dr. Eiben thoroughly enjoyed his high school years at Country Day. He stays in touch with many students

and teachers, which “has connected me to such a broad professional sphere.” Currently, Dr. Eiben lives in Hilo, Hawaii, with his wife, and has begun work on some post-doctoral research

as one of the university’s junior researchers. Much of his work requires “hiking through farms, tropical forests,grasslands and alpine mountains with a net and a jar,” he says, “but for me, it’s a very rewarding field.”

Dr. Eiben plans to “continue working in entomology, hopefully as a professor.” For current students heoffers this advice: “No matter what your chosen career path is, enjoy and learn from everything else. And beprepared for opportunities because you never know where they will take you.”

Jesse and brother Gabel Eiben ’99 in Hawaii

Reunion photo of the classes of 1961, 1962, and 1963 courtesy of Julie Stauffer ’63

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Erica Fensterbush ’05

Erica Fensterbush has a definite passionfor athletics. “I love everything about

playing sports,” she says. She played onnumerous teams atCountry Day, includingfield hockey and basket-ball, and continues toplay these sports. Afterhigh school, she wenton to earn a BS in sportsmanagement fromIthaca College andworked for sports programs at Cornell,Dickinson, and PennState Harrisburg.

“At Country Day, I had experiences that I wouldn’t change for the world,” says Ms. Fensterbush. Her favorite memories?Making districts with women’s basketballand senior prank day.

In 2010, she returned to Country Day asthe field hockey coach. “I felt so blessed tohave the opportunity to coach other talentedathletes,” she says. Her favorite coachingmoment was the team’s first win. “It took alot of hard work,” she says, “and my girlsknew they had accomplished a lot.”

In January 2011, Ms. Fensterbush beganworking for York Revolution. This year, she“stumbled on” the Everett AquaSox, aminor league affiliate of the Seattle Mariners.In January, she moved to Washington stateto become their account executive forsports sales and marketing.

To students pursuing a career in athletics,she says, “It is about setting yourself apartfrom the pack. You need to make youruniqueness shine through.” To all students,she says, “Work hard at everything andpursue the path that makes you happy.”

Forces and served in Seoul, thenwas sent to the Lebanon/Syriaborder as a medic in the UnitedNations Peacekeeping Forces. Hereturned to Seoul in September tocomplete his service. In January,he will return to the U.S. to complete his college education.

’05 Beezawit Wossene taughthigh school English in China for

two years. Shetaught SAT prep aswell as literatureand culture ofAmerica to studentswith English as theirsecond language.

This fall, she began studying forher master’s degree at theUniversity of Pennsylvania.

Alexandra London-Gross completeda master’s degree in public healthfrom George Washington Universityand moved to Charlottesville,Virginia, to take a job as projectdirector for the Commissions onChildren and Families. She alsowrites a blog on healthy living.

Jenny Donovan was cast as kidnapvictim “Jessica” in RorschachTheatre’s production of “A Maze”in Washington, D.C. The play has

received a Helen Hayes recom-mendation and stellar reviews.

’06 Samantha Cherry-Garciawrites, “I was married to Michaelin March 2010 and recently movedto Corvallis, Oregon. I am a nursing student at Linn BentonCommunity College and work as anursing assistant and medicationaide at an assisted-living facility.”

’08 Shavonia Corbin-Johnson,a junior at Georgetown University,is interning for Senator Bob Casey.

’10 Molly Kinsley is studyingin Florence for her junior year.

’12 Stephanie Mitschelematriculated at The Berklee Collegeof Music in August. She had amulti-generational audience duringher last concert at Country Day.

Shown here are (l-r) grandmotherJoan Hassel, Stephanie holding herniece Bella Diaz, mom Donna Brownand sister Tricia Mitschele.

Al Sgro ’97

For Al Sgro, life is not just a stage, but a recording studio as well. He has been heavily involved in performing arts and music since high school, majoring in theater at Towson University, helping to

organize a nonprofit acting ensemble in California, and touring all over the world with singer/songwriterGary Jules. To date, Mr. Sgro says touring has been the highlight of his career. “We played four dates supporting Bob Dylan. Hard to beat that,” he says.

In 2004, Mr. Sgro and friend Wilson Golden opened their own recording studio in Hollywood andbegan working with independent artists and doing soundtracks for television shows, such as ABC’s“Cougartown.” Of his job, Sgro says, “Knowing that my parents get to hear my work is pretty cool.”

Mr. Sgro has fond memories of Country Day, where he participated in numerous theatrical productionsand made many lifelong friends. “I always felt like I was held to a higher standard [at Country Day],” he says. “Being given a great education helped my confidence when I ventured across the country.”

What will Mr. Sgro do next? “I just finished a new record with my talented wife, Holly Conlan,” he says, “and I hope to be on the road [performing] with her.” His advice to students pursuing a careerin music or film? “It’s certainly a tough road with no guarantees,” says Mr. Sgro. “You’ve got to getwhere the action is, find people who are doing things you respect, and start cultivating relationships.”

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The three young students lookingat the globe are (left to right):Meredith Eisenhart, MichaelDebakey, and Alex Corcoran.

The four “Beatles” (left to right)are Anne McCormack,Susan Glatfelter,Cathy Frey, andSandy Harvey,performing duringa talent show inthe mid-1960s.

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