CANADIAN ACADEMY

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Fall 2009

Graduation 2009 —Oh My!

The REVIEW is published by the Advancement Office for alumni, parents, students, faculty and friends of Canadian Academy. Editor: Robert Hengal. Graphics consultation: Todd Welbes. Please send letters, news items, and address updates to the Alumni Office (alumni@canacad.ac.jp). Fred Wesson—Headmaster, Charles Kite—Assistant Headmaster Melanie Vrba—High School Principal, Michael Colaianni—Middle School Principal Matthew Flinchum—Elementary School Principal Jon Schatzky—Elementary School Assistant Principal Amy Wesson—Director of Advancement, Robert Hengal—Director of Alumni Relations

CANADIAN ACADEMY, 4-1 Koyo-cho Naka, Higashinada-ku, Kobe 658-0032 JapanPhone: 81-(0)78-857-0100 Fax: 81-(0)78-857-3250

http://www.canacad.ac.jp

Cover photo of Nozomi Nakajima ´09 by Darrick Mosser. Read more about Nozomi on page 3.

2009: Yuka Nagaoka, Ken Starling, Karina Thakur

2008: Nicole Jordan, Ayukta Thakur2007: Lillian Madrigal, Johann Qua

Hiansen2006: Shridevi Bajaj, Takuma Tanaka2005: Maria Cho, Namita Lal, Hironori

Maeda, Lovina Sachdev2004: Anisha Jhaveri, Min Joo Lee, Mai

Nitta, Blake Pierce2003: Rie Wang, Jovan Yamagishi 2002: Arpana Bothra, Anupam Kumar2001: Ashok Pillai, Moritz Plischke2000: Stephanie Arndt, Tara Wakely1999: Kwang Joon Kim1998: Sarah Kashani, Kaoru Yamaguchi 1997: Manisha Motwani 1996: Maria Yakura 1995: Pitch Ruanglek 1994: Alex Young 1993: Naomi Halewood, Charles Hill 1992: Hani Debs, Scott Prebola 1991: Caitlin Broderick, Kamal Ramani 1990: Sheri Shamdasani Sen1989: Peter Shane, Janelle Nine-Guidry1988: Greg Smith 1987: Lisa Eby Coscia 1986: Andrew Meehan Migita 1985: Yuki Sugimura Robinson, Jackie

Dadlani1984: Kojiro Dan, Naoko Tani Fukuchi,

Seiji Okamura, Marie Liang Ryo 1983: John Jun Hirai 1982: Johanna Leonhardt Hirota 1981: Debbie Bergh 1980: Karin Johansson Tims 1979: Garet Gluck 1978: David Emanuel 1977: Steve McArtin 1976: Pauline Baldwin 1975: Beverly Cunningham Washichek,

Phil Friesen 1974: Celia Oyler, Joel Likins 1973: Ellen Cary Bearn1972: Joan Griswold, Ann Parsons

Scheleen 1971: Tim Gillespie 1970: Greg Maxey 1969: John Cunningham 1968: Meggan Moorhead, Gordon Sakaue1967: Stanley Flewelling 1966: Mark Ericson 1965: Mike Fay, Stanley Wayne 1964: Cookie Jarmain Smith-Otani 1963: John Gillespie 1962: Barbara Johnson Rogers 1961: Karen Cole Lockwood, Joy

McGarvey Bupp 1960: Robert Steffey 1959: Sharon Herrgott 1958: Mary Helen Hilburn Kuehner 1957: Representative needed *Pre-war: David Bach ´42, Karina Dahmen

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To serve as a Class Representative or to contact a representative, please visit www.canacad.ac.jp

Alumni ClassRepresentatives

Canadian Academy inspires students to inquire, reflect, and choose to compassionately impact the world throughout their lives.

Kyotoʼs Shozan Garden Photo by Michael Colaianni

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Class of 2009

Back row: Marcus Rosati, Mio Kimura, Xinyan Zhang, Andrew Ng, Peter Jaggy, Brandon Solvie, Thomas Kaczkiewicz, Tetsuya Fujii, Hiroki Tanaka, Genki Tamiya, Kaito Higashida, Kwang Fai Leung, Oscar Velazquez, Jack LinThird row: Christella Yuka Nagaoka, Hibiki Morishita, Ronan Bligh Sato, Yukari Shimizu, Dominic Razon, Dharam Chadha, Karam Chadha, Arman Kassamali, Hong San Kim, Ji Young Kim, Serah Han, Rena Manseki, Sumire KakizakiSecond Row: Sho Nakashima, Marina Osame, Aya Cervantes, Dylan Woodham, Loretta Bradley, Paula Bradley, Karina Thakur, Priyanka Thapar, Wieger Kop, Ken Starling, Mary Vest, Nadia Nabulsi, Eri Isaka, Erica KitamuraFront Row: Elizabeth Martin, Kathryn Congleton, Koji Takagi, Emily Polachek-Yamanaka, Yuki Ohmori, Khanh Trinh, Ruri Shirahama, Tom Hosack, Omar Ramadan, Mateen Moghbel, Sarah Krikke, Nozomi Nakajima, Jocephine Chai, Mohit Nair

Here are some of the thoughts shared at the commencement ceremony by Mohit Nair and Nozomi Nakajima of the Class of 2009 and their commencement speaker CA faculty member Ela Ghadimi 72.

Do not underestimate our grade. Although we are a slightly smaller group and less

intimidating than our predecessors, do not forget what we have accomplished together as a grade. Since Canadian Academy was first established in 1913, we are the first graduating class to have endured two different class schedules, the first to have a Sophomore speech contest, the first to not take a class picture in Koya-san, the first students ever to tour a Nestlé coffee factory and the first (and hopefully last) group of seniors to take IB exams wearing face masks.

Nozomi Nakajima

As I stop and look at the people standing beside me on this stage right now, I know that I can’t guarantee the extent to which each one of us will positively impact the world and work toward change for the better, but I do know this: each and every individual you see on stage today will

shape their life the way they see it, the way they want it to be. I ask you to stop and take a moment to glance at these young faces next to me; you will see the young, aspiring faces of future doctors, engineers, lawyers, artists, musicians...soccer players, Eric Claptons...I could be here for a while. This individuality, this wide

Diversity of interests and talents, is what we come to realize and appreciate as graduates of Canadian Academy.

Mohit Nair

I wish to share with you an aspect of our school that has meant a great deal to me as a Canadian Academy alumna. I share them with you with the hope that they will remind you

of the distinctiveness of our school and will serve as a guiding light in your life as you leave CA behind and move on to greater experiences.

First I believe that you have been lucky to have had the opportunity to study and to work in a multicultural environment on a daily basis. Here at CA, you have learned to transcend the anachronism of age-old distinctions of race and nationality so common outside the confines of our CA environment.

You stand before us, a class that includes students from 18 different nationalities. Yet, you have learned that no matter where you call home, where you come from, or what your ethnicities, you are one student body, one graduating class that has made it so far, sharing joy and sorrow, enthusiasm and disenchantment, hope and despair; you know that these are all shared and common human experiences that transcend outward differences.

This knowledge of our commonality, I strongly believe, is the spirit our alma mater inculcates within each one of us graduates. This spirit is what makes us proud to be associated with CA; we are one people, not bound by the constraints of place and race, and we will carry this lifelong diadem with much pride and confidence. Never forget this axiom, and let this slogan of the oneness of humanity guide you as go out to meet and work with the diverse members of our vast yet ever-shrinking world.

Believe me when I say that as you move on to your respective environments across the globe, you will find yourselves smiling knowingly, as I did, at the absurdity of the question you will often be asked: “Where are you from?” You will smile when people look at you askance when you answer, “ Well, it depends on what you mean.” You will find yourself unable to summarize your experience here at CA with a simple answer to that deceptively simply question, “Where are you from?”

Ela Ghadimi ´72

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High School welcomes new principalMelanie Vrba has assumed the

position of high school principal in August of this year. Melanie is a graduate of McGill University in Canada and has an MA from Michigan State University. Melanie and her husband, Brian, and daughter, Zoë, have been at CA since August 2003. Melanie has taught English and Drama. As drama teacher Melanie directed productions of Mary Chase’s Harvey, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s

2009 International Baccalaureate Results in a word: Stellar! by Tony Bellew, IB Diploma Programme Coordinator

This year’s IB Diploma results are unrivaled by any in Canadian Academy’s history. Not only was the number of full Diploma candidates the highest in the school’s history but also the average Diploma Programme score was the school’s highest at 35. Highlights of this year’s results included Tom Hosack’s and Ken Starling’s perfect scores of 45. This is the first time this has been achieved at CA. Mateen Moghbel scored an outstanding 44 points, closely pursuing them. To put Tom’s and Ken’s achievements in perspective some statistics are of help. Last year over 22,000 students were enrolled in the Diploma Programme. Only 80 students throughout the world achieved 45 points. Another highlight was the high number of students who achieved 40 points or more. Of this year’s 36 candidates 7 students managed this achievement, the highest number ever in CA’s history. Only the top

Ken Starling´09 is attending the London School of Economics.

Tom Hosack´09 proudly showing off his IB Diploma. Tom will have a gap year before studying medicine

at University of Bristol. 5% of candidates in the world achieve in this point range.

The Field of Dreams Event, March 2009Many thanks to the huge number

of people involved in making this event both fun and successful in raising awareness and over ¥1 million in support of Canadian Academy’s Field of Dreams project. Special thanks to Rola Ramadan and Kiyoko Narita for leading the committee of organizers:

Rola Ramadan and Kiyoko Narita

Tanya Huvenne, Sumathy Manivannan, Barbara Johnson, Jill Fukae, Jude Henty, Mimi Morimura-Sunderland, Hanhee Yun, Delia Khosrowshahi, Miho Kuyumgyan, Michelle Kudva, Anita Anderson, Yuka Stone, Manisha Pangam, Miyuki Miyaji, and Amy Wesson.

Sound of Music and Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus. In 2005 Melanie became our IB Diploma Programme Coordinator. Melanie’s previous international experience includes teaching in Beirut, Lebanon at the American Community School and in Bangkok, Thailand at the Ruamrudee International School. Since her arrival in Kobe Melanie has become a devotee of chado, Japanese tea ceremony.

Canadian Academyʼs Field of Dreams project is the acquisition and development of the land adjacent to our campus to accommodate sports and activities for our students. Included is re-development of outdoor areas to promote life-long, healthy, daily activity. The project aligns with our schoolʼs Core Values and Learner Profile, and is supported specifically by our Physical Education and Health Classes. The project also benefits our greater community through an environmentally positive impact on Rokko Island. Our concept includes planting trees for shaded “sun-safe” areas, replacing sand fields with a green surface, and creating natural physical use spaces such as a walking trail. CA opens its campus facilities to community activities when not in use by the students.

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2009 Grad Invited to G-20 Summitas reported in The Daily Yomiuri, April 11, 2009

High School welcomes new principal

North America:Queen’s University

University of TorontoUniversity of Michigan (2)

Northwestern University (2)Endicott College

University of LouisvilleAcademy of Art UniversityUniversity of Notre Dame

The George Washington UniversityAcadia University

Virginia Commonwealth UniversityNew York University (2)

Virginia Commonwealth UniversityUnion University

Pratt InstituteUniversity of Toronto at Mississauga

Miami UniversityUniversity of Pennsylvania

University of British Colombia (2)University of Illinois at Chicago

Cornell UniversityWesleyan College

Yale CollegeSanta Clara University

University of San DiegoEmory University

Soka University of AmericaBarnard College

University of Rochester

Northeastern UniversityBentley University

University of CincinnatiSouthern Oregon University

California College of the ArtsJapan:

Sophia University (3)Temple University of Japan (2)

Europe:University of OxfordUniversity of Bristol

Leiden UniversityUniversity of Westminster

London School of EconomicsUniversity of Bath

Members of the Class of 2009 are attending the following universities:

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Thank you to our 2008–2009 Donors

Patron (¥ 2,500,000 up to ¥ 9,999,999)Akane ´06, Mai ´07, and Yu ´10 Lee Associate (¥ 1,000,000 up to

¥ 2,499,999)Kobe International Medical Foundation Trustee (¥ 500,000 up to ¥ 999,999)Field of Dreams EventLeah Colson ´91Chris and Barbara Johnson, P, T, ACThe Kassamali Family, F, PSayo Shibata ´16Greg Smith ´88The Zulueta Family, P, AC Founder (¥ 100,000 up to ¥ 499,999)Soprano Recital Event5 Star International, CJapan Bowl Committee, CJapan Bowl Kansai Round, CClass of 1971*Class of 2015

CA Korean Community, PRichard and Kate ´67 Brueggemann, P,

T, CL, ACRavi and Vitti Chaturvedi, P*Yuhong Erica Cho ´07*Yukyung Yuki Cho ´05Chang Hwa Chung, PJohn K. Gillespie ´63, ACMaría Luisa Diez and Juan Carlos Gómez, PAe Kyung Kim ´94Yon Bong and Jinyoomi Kim, PMasakazu and Yuki Kono, PEikou and Ilse Mizutani, P*Tomo Nishizawa ´08*Yui Nishizawa ´05Ramadan Family, P, TIchiro Sekimitsu ´75Kiran Sethi ´83, P, ACNisaburo Setoguchi, PDonna Tatsuki, P, T*Winsor Wesson ´08

The 1913 Society

Maya (¥ 50,000 up to ¥ 99,999)Anonymous (2)Madrigal Feaste EventMinamimorimachi Ladies Clinic ´83, P, TMark Ashida ´73Motoko Taniguchi Deane ´67Bruce L. Downs ´64Charles Hill ´93Imano Family, PJunya Kawashita, PChuck and Yuri Kite, F, CL, PSandra Ota, FJongho Rhee, PAmy and Fred Wesson, F, P, T, AC

Red and Grey (¥ 10,000 up to ¥ 49,999)Anonymous (2)DANIEL, C, PHSBC, C

Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation Inc., CSono Medical Corp., C, PFlorian Baier, fFBellew Family, F, PBond Family, fFAllen Brady ´77Gerad and Rhonda Carrier, F, PCordell Caudron ´60Yuko and Kevin Chambers Family, FYeong Se Chang, PT. T. Chen ´68 Mr. and Mrs. Chotiwit, PT. Daniel Christenbury, ESQ ´71Gerardo and Carlota Constantini, P, FMayumi Daiki and Percival Cruz, PJohn Cunningham ´69, fFHolly Derbyshire, FKevin Elliott and Family, F Con’t.

•37 new donors•Unrestricted Annual Fund ¥9,870,871•Field of Dreams ¥1,658,622•Averbeck Memorial Fund ¥312,128•Early Learning and Activities Center

¥36,700•Restricted Gifts ¥1,000,000•Matching Gifts ¥136,000•Scholarship Fund ¥30,000

•Ljlijana Hope Award established by Jovan Yamagishi ´03 in honor of his late mother. The Award is given

to a senior who is inspired and who inspires and positively infl uences those around him or her to make the world a better place. Through personal achievement and encouraging the achievements of others, this senior believes in hope and action, as well as the power of helping others. This student lives hope every day and compassionately impacts our world. The fi rst student to receive the Ljlijana Hope Award is Erica Kitamura, Class of 2009.

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Thank you to our 2008–2009 Donors Donations to from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009Canadian Academy received ¥13,044,321 in donations ranging from ¥500 to ¥4,000,000 from 164 donors.

Dave and Jane Ferguson, F, PMatthew Flinchum, FAlan F. Flynn, Jr., fFJerome and Masami Fugami, F, PJoseph Gani (Pre-war)Geiger Family, PGhadimi Family, Amin ´08, Mary ´07,

Moin ´05, Ela Katirai ´71, F, PJane T. Reagan Greenberg ´72Mohan Gulrajani ´83, PHarris Family, F, PHisanobu Hayashi, PBob Hengal, FTyler M. Herbst, fFMaiko Hoshino ´86, PKesyin and Lichu Ssu Hsueh, PAlain and Tanya Huvenne, PKen Ishii ´42Kasdan Famiy, PChumin Kato, PGerald ´68 and Louise Goldberg ´62

KernerBijan and Delia Khosrowshahi, PHatsunori Kiriyama, ACHiroki and Cahna Kitada, PToyotaro and Elizabeth Kitamura, PDeborah Sanders Krause ´89Frank and Martha Kuhlman, fTKaspar and Miho Kuyumgyan, PKuni and Serge Labrecque, F, PTaana Maeda ´19Jacqueline Matthews ´67Mike and Kyoko McHugh, FNoriko and Tony Middleton, FYoshihiko and Martell Miki, PMiyuki Miyaji, FMonks Family, F, P

Douglas Morrill, fFNarita Family, PNayak Family, F, PAnne and Frank Nicastro, PElisabeth Nielsen (née Konings) ´70Kouji and Ayumi Nomura, POkada Family, PPangam Family, Shweta ´13, Aarohi ´21, PKarin Przygocki, FJon and Celia Schatzky, FEva Sebastian, FBen Shaman, T, PJennifer Shirota, FElon Simon ´82Kumiko Matsumura Suzuki ´78Joy Thomas, FVelazquez Family, PBrian McEwen and Melanie Vrba, F, PKirsten and Todd Welbes, F, P

Falcons (up to ¥ 9,999)Anonymous Marie Beaupre, FHolly and Richard Becker, fFFrances Bray, fPBarbara Moran Brickett ´42Mike and Jeanie Colaianni, F, PPeter Stevenson and Liz Durkin, F, PJill Fukae, PJohn and Kathryn Hodge, PSuzanne Hough ´37Gautam Kudva, PLaura Leahy, FLucas Family, F, P

Denise McArtin-Lewis ´80Gordon Sakaue ´68Sachiko Takihara, FRon and Pete Tougas, fFVest Family, F, PEmi Yonekura, F

Matching GiftsMerrill LynchMicrosoft**Microsoft Matching Gifts were made

possible by the donations received from Microsoft employees Greg Smith ´88 and Leah Colson ´91. Microsoft’s total estimated fair market value of the Offi ce Mac software to CA: ¥7,407,025 and ¥1,851,756.

Averbeck Memorial Music FundAverbeck funds demonstrate to students

the support and commitment by Canadian Academy to inspire them to explore their curiosity and passion for music, and offer opportunities for exposure and enrichment at musical performances.

•Maya Hayakawa ´08, was awarded a scholarship fi rst year at Thames Valley University, London, where she is studying music performance.

•Mary Vest ´09, was awarded a partial scholarship to attend summer music camp, focusing on studies in clarinet.

•An accompanist enhanced student performances at our middle school spring concert.

Thank you to our Graduation Award Donors

Eli Lilly Japan America Women of KansaiKobe Hanshin Lions ClubNestlé Cathy and David Ottaviano PTAP&GJovan Yamagishi ´03 (Read more about

this new award on page 4)Student Body Council

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P: Parents F: Faculty C: Corporation fF: former Faculty

T: Trustee AC: Advancement

Committee CL: Council

Advancement Committee : Mohan Gulrajani ʻ83, Amy Wesson, Secretary/Director of Advancement; Kiran Sethi ʼ83, Chair; Alfonso “Chito” Zulueta, Edward K. Dong, Chris Johnson, John Gillespie ʻ63, Hatsunori Kiriyama, Rick Brueggemann, Vice Chair/Board Representative (Not pictured: Fred Wesson, Jim Lee)

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Vidhan Chaudhari*, Nariko Hirai ʻ83, Fritz Leonhardt, Rick Brueggemann*, Vice Chair/Treasurer; Ben Shaman*, Chair; Donna Tatsuki, Secretary; Charanbir Sarao*, Imad Ramadan, Barbara Johnson, Fred Wesson*, William Moore, Council Chair *Finance Committee

Total Funds Raised: ¥ 3,528,815

Special Projects Awarded ¥ 1,200,000•5 Microscopes/3 Science ModelsThe microscopes and science models

supplement the middle school’s current equipment that is beginning to show wear.

•Wenger Stage BoxesThese boxes offer multiple uses in the

Fine Arts Department and basically serve as an addition to the stage.

•Middle School Japanese A/V equipmentThe addition of this equipment to the

Japanese Department allows students more access to AV resources that were previously shared among many teachers.

•Rolling BasketsThese baskets serve as collection

receptacles for the Ecology Club. •25 Digital CamerasDigital cameras were purchased so that

each elementary school classroom

teacher has one readily available to

take pictures of student activities. With the number of pictures posted on class web pages these cameras prove to be indispensable.

•240 Pedometers The purchase of pedometers enabled our

Physical Education Department’s implementation of a school-wide program to promote more physical activity by our students.

Lasting Gifts ¥ 450,000•Library Reading AreaFunding for purchases to set up a

comfortable reading area much needed by middle school students.

•ScoreboardAn outdoor Baseball/Soccer scoreboard

will serve the many teams of middle and high school games and tournaments and also allow spectators to see the score with ease.

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PTA Executive BoardBT Toews, PresidentJill Fukae, 1st Vice PresidentHeather DeBorde, 2nd Vice PresidentNeha Jhaveri, TreasurerKatie Woodcock, SecretaryJude Henty, Communications

Standing Committee Board MembersCyd Spanring-Forster and Susanne Lindop, FBC FundraiserIzumi Komori, HospitalityIlena Kasdan and Rohaya Maruyama, Food and Fun FairIzumi Komori, Sayonara SaleIngrid Handl Geiger, Teacher AppreciationMie Kanazawa, New Teacher WelcomeBeth Miles, Keiko Sasaki and Heather DeBorde, Welcome Back

BarbequeEiko Toews and Jude Henty, Sports DayMegumi Harker, New Parent OrientationIzumi Komori and Yuka Stone, Volunteer CoordinatorDelia Mary Khosrowshahi, Strategic Planning Coordinator

AnonymousAU LIMO French BistroCezars KitchenEli Lilly Japan, K.K.Estate WinesEste Salon BijouForeign Buyers’ ClubHakuba Hotel TERRYHankyu Kitchen Yell, Inc.Hilton, OsakaKai Bike Shop

Kaspar Pearl Co., Ltd.Kobayashi SeiyakuKobe Bay Sheraton Hotel & TowersKobe Coral CompanyKokuyo Office System Co., Ltd.Nestlé Japan, Ltd.Neverland/Peter PanOZ TravelPersian PalacePlanners International Ltd.Price Club

Procter & Gamble Japan K.K.Raja RestaurantShioya Tochi Co., Ltd.Swissotel Nankai, OsakaTaiwan BoothTakenaka CorporationThai Airways International PCLThe Ritz-Carlton Hotel, OsakaThe Williams FamilyYanmar Inc.

Thank you to PTA Food and Fun Fair Raffle Donors

One of Canadian Academy’s Strategic Objectives for each student is to–“enthusiastically and continually engage in actions that positively impact the world.” Following is a list of the major events students were involved in 2008-2009:

•The World Children’s Summit–organized by NPO Peace and Nature and Kobe City

•CA Summer School aides–volunteer positions for four weeks•Japan Bowl, Kansai Round–CA hosted in partnership with

the Japan America Association of Washington, DC, Japan America Women of Kansai, and US Embassy in Tokyo

•Habitat for Humanity–auction/dinner fundraiser•ACCJ Walk-a-Thon–event logo designed by Erica Kitamura ´09, CA student performers, booth volunteers,

guides, video/photographic coverage•Red Feather Campaign–helps Higashinada Ward’s needy•Thai Village Children’s Project–¥1,568,600 raised via student-

led efforts in support of education for Thai Village Children•Soccer Match for Hope 4–established by CA’s Jovan

Yamagishi ´03 in 2005, cancer awareness with a day of soccer including professional volunteers and student soccer clinics; funds raised support the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo

•Food Drives–elementary school students collected rice:115 kilos and canned foods: 537 cans, for Food Bank Kansai

•KISS/ACCJ Charity Concert–proceeds distributed to a local orphanage, hospital, and clinic

•Field of Dreams–awareness/fundraising event for CA’s campus (see page 6)

•Kobe International Fair•Earth Week–to celebrate Earth Day, daily themes school wide

such as Clean-up Monday, Paperless Wednesday; energy savings were encouraged all week and saved nearly 6,000 kilowatts/¥100,000 in electricity

•Fight for Alzheimer’s–awareness/fundraising by Mohit Nair ´09•DREAM (Dominican Republic Education and Mentoring

project)–supporting quality education for children born into poverty; established in 2008 at CA by Darius Khosrowshahi ´14 and Azar Khosrowshahi ´12

•Sports team managers•Clothing Drive–fifty garbage bags of winter clothes for

mariners, five boxes of summer clothes for Philippines•Visits to Rokko Island Nursing Home•Mentoring program–older students “big buddy” with younger

students•Martha’s Mission–¥220,000 in support of medical treatment

and education for Martha, a Liberian girl who frequently made visits to CA while a student at Yusei Yogo School (for Japanese speaking children with special needs)

•Recycling–bottles, paper, cardboard-reuse, recycle, reduce!

Faculty Representative Board MembersLori Vest, Elementary SchoolBT Toews, Middle SchoolCarlota Constantini, High SchoolLeadership Team Representative Board Members: Headmaster Fred Wesson and Elementary School Assistant

Principal Jon Schatzky Council (The Council is made up of the Board members and

Council Members)Kate Brueggemann ´67Sujata ChaudhariJill FukaeMichael Grubel Mary JaveriChuck KiteAna-Maria Leonhardt ´58Kenji TerashimaLisa Qua HiansenChristine VosJulia Warner

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Community Service

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Cellin Gluck 76 Directs Japanese Movie: Sidewaysby Cellin Gluck 76

SidewaysA heart-warming tale of two old friends, who on a

journey to rediscover their friendship find themselves.Michio (Fumio Kohinata) is a struggling, middle-aged

scriptwriter in Japan. Daisuke (Katsuhisa Namase), is about to get married to an American girl. Together, they venture out on a weeklong road trip to the Napa Valley, where they meet local residents Mayuko (Kyoka Suzuki) whom Michio tutored 20 years past, and her free spirited friend Mina (Rinko Kikuchi).

Filmed entirely on location in California with an all-American crew, Sideways, was directed by Cellin Gluck 76, photographed by Garry Walker with a sound track composed and supervised by Jake Shimabukuro.

The coming of age movie for those past the point of no return.

This version of Sideways to me is more of a “fish out of water story” than the ‘original.’ A story about people and their quest to finding themselves, as well as a place ‘where they belong.’ An experience I’m sure may of us who grew up in Japan and elsewhere, whether we went to CA or not, can identify with.

It’s also “a coming of age movie, for those past the point of no return...” (We had to deal with the midlife crisis theme in there somewhere didn’t we?) All I have to say on that point is as my dad used to say, ‘you’re never too old to grow up.’

In making the film, I drew heavily on my experiences of having been what we always referred to as, a ‘third culture kid’. A kid whose first culture is that of his parents, wherever they may be from and the second, that which inundates him daily, in our case Japan. The third is that culture in which we really lived, our own amalgam of both and everything else around us. This is a place which seemed in one sense very much our own and therefore portable but at the same time not. Without the contradicting external influences it sometimes had the tendency to disappear when we moved away.

I truly appreciate the opportunity I was given growing up overseas and know you will all realize one day how special your days at CA are, as well as how much of an advantage you all are being given going out into the world. What you do with it all is up to you.

To quote Michio from the film “live where you want to live, wherever that place may be, it will be right for you...”

I hope you find your “place” and enjoy watching Sideways as much as I did making it.

New York Reunion Dinner May 2009

From left to right: Standing: Lardner Moore ´76, Melissa Neel ´84, Solveig Gronning-Ericson ´71, Steve Ericson ´71, Clark Okawa ´69, Sandra Stacoffe, Mark Rabiner, Avi Pemper ´83, Monica Derchi ´86, Stan Wayne ´65, John Gillispie ´63, Elsie Weir, Ling-Lin Burckley ´84, Tim Weir, Al Flynn, Emi Tanaka Flynn, Janelle Weir, David Weir, Isaiah Weir, Bonnie Spear Weir ´84. Seated: Rodger Braley ´60, Billy Boyer, Suzi Wayne, Tom Hartman ´63. Missing: Guri Monsen McKinnell ´61.

Editor’s Note: Cellin has taken the 2004 Alexander Payne film Sideways and made a Japanese adaptation. Sideways Japan opening-October 31, 2009.

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Back row: Karan Singh, Aya Hamano, Anisha Jhaveri, Krystal Chen, Uday Singh, Katharina Yoshida, Melina Fakoukakis, Sally Bittinger, Arto Ryynanen, Jiro Kohl, Manesh LalFront row: Mai Nitta, Danielle Goodwin, Tiina Hulko, Kana Ito, Emmanuel Manzanares, Laura Van Wagener Missing from photo: Ken Raj

On Saturday, September 5, about twenty of us who, at one point or another, were a part of the CA Class of 2004, met at Apple Restaurant in New York City. For some of us it had been more than ten years since we had last seen each other! We had a great time catching up with old friends, making some new ones, reminiscing about school, and hearing what everyone has been up to since they left. It was wonderful to see that no matter how long it had been, we could easily reconnect with memories that only CA alumni can share. Thanks to everyone who came out and made it a success! Anisha Jhaveri ´04

Mini-1980’s Reunion

Four CA alumni staged their own mini-reunion in July 2009 when Philip Fawaz ´86, Alia Fawaz ´87, Sereen Juma ´87 and Nick Hartmann ´89 caught up in downtown Beirut. Philip and Alia live in Beirut where Nick has been posted since 2007 with the UN. Sereen came by on a visit from Washington, DC where she works for The World Bank. They urge all to come visit Lebanon, which was voted a #1 travel destination by the New York Times in 2009! Nick Hartmann 89

5th Reunion Class of 2004

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Back row: Henri Hiraga 89, Taku Kambayashi 89, Don Matsubayashi 89, Stephanie Pfetscher-Ricketts 90, Janelle Nine-Guidry 89, Carla Gahwiler-Feagans 89, Hiroshi Howell 89, Gordon Pfetscher 89, Narumi Maniwa-Tei 89, Stephen Chick 89, Bob Hengal, Director of Alumni RelationsFront row: Takashi Kobayashi 89, Toshiyo Tominaga, Chiyo Matsubayashi 90, Melanie Redira Mascis 91, Anna Arzaga 89, Sheri Shamdasani 90, Kathy Graham Koller 89, Katherine Gardiner ʼ89.

Anna, Carla and Janelle Don, Stephen and Hiroshi

The Class of 1989 gathered in Las Vegas, Nevada from July 24 to July 26, 2009 to celebrate their 20th Reunion. Eighteen alumni along with family members gathered for the weekend. A special thanks goes to organizers: Jannelle Nine-Guidry 89, Don Matsubayashi 89, Anna Arzaga 89 and Hiroshi Howell 89.

Carla Gahwiler-Feagans 89 expresses the sentiments of many when she writes: “I had an absolutely amazing time and it was so nice to be around the CA gang again. Really felt like coming home. I’m amazed at how strong our connections are after so many years and how connected I felt to even those I hadn’t met before. So glad I came and will definitely be at future

20th Reunion: Class of 1989

reunions! CA is truly something special that transcends time and distance. We are amazingly lucky to have shared such an experience.

“Thanks, too, to the organizers, who were sooooo generous with time, effort and money! It takes a mammoth effort to pull something like this off and it was soooooooo appreciated.”

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Alumni Mailbox

Kasumi Kuwahara, elementary school Japanese language teacher, shares a story from our PTA’s Welcome Back Barbecue. She writes, “I saw an elementary school student leading a new classmate by the hand in the cafeteria to give information about how to clean up after eating. Then I remembered what I heard at the BBQ and wanted to share it!

“I was sitting at a table with a family. When we started to talk, I found out that they were the elementary school student’s mother and grandmother (Neta Jansson 61). I was with the grandmother for a while and she told me that she was an alumna of CA when it was up on the hill. We were talking for a while and she said that she was happy to see her granddaughter attending CA. She told me how CA has changed, including how she did not recognize teacher faces anymore but that CA is still a good school. When I asked her how CA has not changed over the years, she said, the CA spirit is still alive. I asked her what she meant, and she said, students always feel welcomed at this school and do not want to leave the school. That spirit is still here. She said that she is proud to have graduated from CA. We then talked about how new CA students are welcomed into our elementary school program and she said that CA is very caring about newcomers and they see a difference between CA and other international schools in Japan.

“Although I never taught her granddaughter, Mahya Kitada 15, I mentioned that I remember her and saying hi to her in the hallways. Her grandmother said that the whole community is involved in welcoming new students and that all students are cared for by all teachers, not only by teachers who teach them.

“This was a nice chat at the BBQ.”

1960’sFaculty

1950’s

Wilma Kresel former elementary school principal is now living in Indiana where she pursues a number of interests from traveling to performing in a local band and writing a column for the local newspaper.

Morgan O’Hara59 Photographed with Darrick Mosser, CA’s Theater Tech Director, when Morgan returned in June to complete the site specific wall drawings with storyboards to further enhance her stunning art work in ELAC (Early Learning and Activities Center). See REVIEW, Spring 2008 for more about Morgan’s art at CA, or visit her website: www.morganohara.com

Congratulations to our Award Winning Alumni!Dr. Margaret (Meggan) Moorhead 68 is the 2009

recipient of the prestigious Mary G. Clarke award from the North Carolina Psychological Association. She received the award at a luncheon at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 25th. This lifetime achievement award is given based on “Outstanding Contributions to Psychology in North Carolina”.

Dr. Moorhead began her work in North Carolina in December 1989 after moving from Cape Town, South Africa, to be closer to her parents in South Carolina. She took a position as a UNC Clinical Professor of Psychology with responsibilities on the Rehabilitation Unit at John Umstead Hospital, Butner, NC.

While attending a workshop in 1991, Moorhead was inspired by an innovative mindfulness-based form of therapy called Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). The therapy seeks to give patients tools to deal effectively with self-destructive behaviors.

Since 1991 Moorhead’s work has largely revolved around the implementation of DBT practices in hospital, mental health and private practice settings. Over the past decade the therapy has become widely successful. It is also now being researched and implemented for a variety of difficulties. Moorhead can be credited with a large part of DBT’s success in North Carolina.

Moorhead has worked with graduate students at UNC-Chapel Hill Psychology, giving seminars on DBT around the country as well as internationally. Moorhead currently maintains her private practice specializing in DBT and provides DBT Skills Groups, training of DBT therapists, and ongoing consultation across the state.

Dr. Moorhead has demonstrated a passionate, long-term

commitment to the community throughout the public and private service sectors of North Carolina.

by Laurel Moorhead

The Japan Society of Boston recently honored Tim Nagaoka ´97 with the prestigious John E. Thayer Award for outstanding leadership and service. This is a prize given to an individual who shows particular dedication to strengthening Japan-U.S. friendship and mutual understanding on a personal or grass-roots level. The award is named for a former Japan Society of Boston Board member. It is presented each year by Keiko Thayer, Jack Thayer’s widow and is intended to commemorate Jack’s unique spirit. Tim teaches Japanese at a number of Boston schools.

Timothy Nagaoka´97, Congressman Barney Frank and Keiko Thayer at the recent Japan Society of Boston dinner, where Tim was presented the John E. Thayer Award.

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1990’s

Kim Howell 06, Julie Howell (Faculty 1986-1997), Rick Howell (Faculty 1986-1997), Carlee Howell 96 and Daniel Cindric.

Carlee Howell 96 and Daniel Cindric were married on September 3 in Pemberton, British Columbia at Drumkeeran House on Ivy Lake with twenty family members and friends present. A reception with eighty relatives and friends was held in Whistler, BC.

Maiko Hirokawa 99, Emmanuel Th. de Luca 99 and Carlo Sogono 99 during their visit to CA in April.

Natalie Pearson ´94 celebrated her wedding in Kobe with classmates Yoshie Arai-Park ´94, Holger Palla ´94 and Nora Fisher ´94. Yoshie came down from Tokyo. Holger flew in from Thailand and Nora from Turkey to join in the festivities in early September.

1980’s

Renu Koghar 88 is living in Bangkok with her husband Kamol, twins Tanya and Meghna and their son Saurav.

Class of 1978 ReunionThe Class of 1978 will be holding their reunion from

Thursday, July 29 to Sunday, August 1, 2010 in Evanston, Illinois. Evanston is a bordering surburb of Chicago, about 20 minutes by train to the city. It is a small city of around 70,000 people and is home to the world renowned Northwestern University and headquarters of The Rotary International. You can contact Ajay Gidwani (ajaydg@aol.com) for more details.

1970’s

Judi (Gardner) Breeding 73 writes: “It IS a small world! Of all the Ann Arbor High Schools my daughter could go to she ends up where my classmate and fellow dormie Joan Brueggers 73, is a teacher. My daughter, Ali, just graduated from Pioneer High School where Joan teaches various history courses, and Ali, just by luck of the draw, was one of Joan’s Humanities students. Ali will attend the University of Michigan beginning this fall. Joan has been teaching at Pioneer High School for 11 years. She has two children, Mara, 15, and Liam, 13. Her husband Jim Sullivan works at the University of Michigan.

I retired from teaching elementary school, although occasionally I take a substitute position. I am also a Therapy Dog handler at Mott Children’s Hospital. I have two other girls, Nicole and Jacquelyn, who live in the Seattle area, a grandson, Hayden, and last week my granddaughter, Brooklyn, was born. Luckily my husband is a pilot for Delta, so frequent visits are possible.

It looks like Joan’s and my love of learning may have had its roots at CA!”

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Hirona Matayoshi 91 writes, “I am an associate professor at Osaka University. Recently, I published a textbook as a co-author at Osaka University. The textbook is on Amazon and Osaka Shuppan. The title is: ‘Academic Topics for Listening Practice’.”

Richa Kumar 97 recently was awarded a doctorate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is seen here celebrating with her brother, Anupam 02, her husband, Arunav Patnaik, and her parents, Rita and Pradeep Kumar. Richa and Arunav are living in New Delhi where Arunav practices law.

1990’s

Kwang Joon Kim ´99 visited Kobe from Singapore and had the opportunity to meet up with CA’s Elementary School Principal Matthew Flinchum. Kwang Joon has since moved to Hong Kong.

Koghar clan: Jasnam 02, Rajiv 92, Rekha 94 and Renu 88

Puja with her husband, Kabir; eldest son, Yuvraj and her younger son, Aarav.

Puja Chugani 96 writes, “It’s been ages...just had to touch base. My four year old son, Yuvraj, has just started K-1 at the American School of Dubai. Memories of CA have come flooding back to me. I now can really appreciate the education and academic caliber of CA! I look forward to the day when I can bring both my kids to CA and enroll them in summer school so they can have a little taste of what I had. A big hi from me to all the older faculty members... ‘nice to see that they’re still some

faces I recognize!”

Eric Asaba 90 and his wife, Akie, along with Jonathan Cheng 90 visited Kobe from their homes in Okayama and had lunch with Bob Hengal, Director of Alumni Relations. Jonathan visited CA and commented, “It was very nice to see the campus and to chat with you about many things about the school. Although I did not attend CA at the new campus, you and Ms. Ota being there made me feel very much at home. It brought back a lot of good memories. It makes me wonder why I hadn’t been back to visit earlier. I look forward to seeing you again soon.”

Rekha Koghar 94 and her family are now living in Bangkok with her husband Gaghan, son Navi and daughter Nadiya.

Carlo Sogono 99 a systems analyst with Qantas Airlines visited CA in April. After meeting with Ms. Ota, CA Admission and Theater Director and Dr. Kite, Asssistant Headmaster, he went on to visit other CA friends in the Kobe area. His sister, Carmela Sogono 01, is now studying in San Francisco.

Madoka Ito ´92 writes: “I recently moved back to Japan with my husband after living in the US for 16 years. After graduating, I was working at the Museum of Fine Arts & the Children’s Museum, Boston as an Art Program Developer. I then stepped into focusing on my own art work and in the last five years, I was a full time artist in the US having shows in Portland, Boston, Tokyo and Kyoto. My main focus in my career is still working as an oil painter, however, I have landed the plusARTS job since May and it has been a great challenge and opportunity to work in Japanese working environment.” You can view Madoka’s works at: www.madakoito.com.

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2000’sEdward Sumoto 00 writes, “Hello friends of the CA community. I have recently

left my job at the UN Centre for Regional Development situated in HAT Kobe. Over the years, it has been a delight to receive many underclassmen volunteers. Volunteer and research intern (graduate school students only) opportunities are still available and I encourage you to try them or neighboring UN/OCHA (United Nations Office of Humanitarian Affairs) if you are interested in learning about sustainable development from a unique angle.

“I have now started a new job at the British Embassy and Consulate as Science and Innovations Officer, promoting scientific R&D cooperation between the UK and Japan. No doubt this will be another interesting opportunity and I welcome any students interested in UK scientific policy or international relation work to contact me about my job or with any questions you may have.

“Finally, the critically acclaimed multicultural or mixed roots youth workshop and concert series, Shake Forward!, which I launched last year and was featured as a NHK documentary, will once again take place in Tokyo on November 13th, this time featuring not only mixed roots’ hip-hop and R&B artists but also diverse acts such as Keith Gordon from Ryukyu Underground with live Eisa drummers, Ainu performance, and Kachimba4, a critically acclaimed Okinawan-Cuban salsa band. Please check us out at Shibuya O-East! http://www.mixroots.jp

“Best of luck to the soon graduating seniors and everybody in the CA community!”

Takuma Tanaka 06 is currently studying at the National University of Singapore, a two year exchange program offered by Waseda University. His stay in Singapore did not stop his love of a cappella music and early this year Takuma joined a Singapore based a cappella group: After Six. Their repertoire ranges from pop ballads to smooth jazz and the group has performed several times at the Esplanade concert hall. They will be performing in Singapore’s biggest a cappella concert, AKA A cappella VI, in January 2010.

Satsuki Muramoto 08 performed in August in Yokohama with the ice show Friends on Ice 2009. Satsuki had the opportunity to work with skating stars including Olympic Gold Medalist Shizuka Arakawa.

Yu Lee 10 visited CA and had a chance to speak with Miyuki Miyaji. Yu attends high school in California.

Duncan Pitt ´07 visited CA from Kyoto where he is studying for a year. He met with Mr. Hengal and other faculty members.

Jennifer Ishigami ´08, Ryang Cho ´08 and Yoshizumi Shimizu ´08 stopped by CA at the end of their summer break before returning for their second year at university.

As reported in Wesleyan University’s Newsletter: Kate Ottaviano 05 graduated from Wesleyan University with an Anthropology and Science in Society major. As a daughter of international educators [Editor’s Note: David Ottaviano was Headmaster and Cathy Ottaviano was a counselor at CA from 1998-2005], she attended school in Italy and Japan, built a concrete house in a Filipino slum, delivered school supplies to impoverished children in Romania, and taught English to imprisoned women in Peru. Kate will continue her cultural immersion in 2009-2010 as a Fulbright scholar, teaching English language in

the European country of Macedonia. Administered by the Institute for International Education, the Fulbright US Student Program awards full research grants to graduating seniors and young alumni.

“Each culture speaks and breathes within me, influencing my personal outlook on the world in a unique way,” Kate says. “The life my parents chose for me has enabled me to feel at home in any country and has taught me tolerance, empathy, and the merits of diversity.”

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In Memoriam

continue playing soccer when he gets to university.

Michitaka Arima ´05 visited CA in early September. He has recently graduated from Tokyo’s International Christian University. In March 2010 he will be entering the officer candidate school for the Japanese Navy.

Takuma Tanaka 06 is currently studying at the National University of Singapore, a two year exchange program offered by Waseda University. His stay in Singapore did not stop his love of a cappella music and early this year Takuma joined a Singapore based a cappella group: After Six. Their repertoire ranges from pop ballads to smooth jazz and the group has performed several times at the Esplanade concert hall. They will be performing in Singapore’s biggest a cappella concert, AKA A cappella VI, in January 2010.

Maki Sumitani ’08 writes: “This summer, I helped out at a 4-day summer school/camp held in Rokko, and found out that the mother of one of the participating students is a CA graduate.

We only had a short time to talk, but it was exciting to hear that she used to attend CA before the campus moved to Rokko Island, but we both remembered Mr. Hengal and Mr. Guthrie.”

Chris Reid 10 is a senior at Newington College in Australia. Chris has been playing representative high school soccer and made it to the first eleven of the State Combined Private High School team as a goalkeeper. Chris hopes to

Stanford Smith 29 was born on May 17, 1912 in

Kobe, Japan, and passed away quietly on November 20, 2008 in Santa Barbara, California. His long, interesting, full life still remains a testimony to his faith in Jesus Christ and his selfless giving to others. His father, Roy Smith, went to Japan as professor and minister in 1903, and taught at the University of Kobe. Roy married Charlotte Hess in 1911. Charlotte later taught at Kobe College. Consequently, Stan grew up in an environment of cultural richness, vibrant faith, and a good education at Canadian Academy.

Stan joined CA in second grade in 1919, graduated in 1929 at the age of 17, and enrolled in an additional year in the fifth form in 1930. Stan was involved in many activities, including playing violin in the CA orchestra, playing on the basketball team, and writing for the literary society. His family lived in the Rokko area, and he rode his bike to school every day with his lunch in his pocket. After CA, he spent a year teaching English to bankers and officers on a training ship anchored in Kobe Harbor.

On his way to college at the University of California Berkeley, Stan traveled alone for two and a half months going west from Japan instead of east. He visited Manchuria, Mongolia, Siberia, Russia, Germany, Italy, France, and England. He carried a box of oatmeal cookies baked by his mother, and a typewriter, and faithfully sent letters to his mother every few days.

He graduated from UC Berkeley in 1935 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry. He immediately landed a job as a chemical engineer at Airco, a company that made anesthetic gases for hospitals. He proposed to Bernell Warren on their second date (the first one was a “blind date”), and they were married on November 22, 1945 (four weeks later!). He moved the family to Cleveland, Ohio in 1954 to become Manager of Airco. Stan retired in 1977.

Stan’s dedication to God and passionate involvement in community affairs inspired him to open the doors of his home to international students, to be a lay minister in various churches in Ohio and California, to participate actively in the Santa Barbara Channel City Camera Club, and to transport viewers to places the world over through his beautiful slide presentations.

After retirement, Stan and Bernell moved to Santa Barbara and lived over 20 years at Valle Verde Retirement Center. Stan is survived by his five children: Marcia, Kevin,

Terrell, Sharon, and Roy. His brother, Roy Andrew, passed away in 1982, and his sister, Carla Wicks, passed away earlier this year. (See Carla’s obituary above) Stan is also survived by ten grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.

Stan in the 1930 Red and Grey

2000’s

Cathy Lovell 1947-2009 Cathy taught Japanese at CA from 1995-1997. She

passed away on June 16, 2009 surrounded by family and friends. Cathy lost a courageous battle against breast cancer. She is survived by her daughter Angela. They are pictured here in 1996 at a Childrens’ Day ceremony.

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In MemoriamEdwin McClellan 41, a noted Yale professor of

Japanese literature whose translation of Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro, helped make its Japanese author known in the West, died in Hamden, Connecticut on April 27, according to his son Andrew McClellan. The cause was lung cancer.

McClellan was born in Kobe in 1925 to a British father, an early representative of Lever Brothers in Japan, and a Japanese mother. His mother and older brother died when he was two. McClellan and his father were repatriated to Britain in 1942 aboard the Tatsuta Maru, a passenger liner requisitioned by the Japanese navy (and later torpedoed by a US submarine).

In London, McClellan taught Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies as part of the war effort. At 18, he joined the Royal Air Force, hoping to become a pilot, but his fluency in Japanese made him more useful to allied intelligence. He spent the years 1944-47 in Washington, DC, analyzing intercepted Japanese communications. In 1948, he went to the University of St. Andrews, where he earned a degree in British history and met his future wife, Rachel Elizabeth Pott. At St. Andrews he also met the noted political theorist Russell Kirk who took him on as his graduate student at Michigan State University. Two years later, McClellan transferred to the University of Chicago to work with economist and philosopher Friedrich von Hayek. McClellan appealed to Hayek to write his doctoral dissertation on the novelist Natsume Soseki, whose work was much admired in Japan but unknown in the West. To persuade Hayek of Soseki’s importance as a writer and interpreter of Japanese modernity, McClellan translated Soseki’s novel Kokoro into English. McClellan’s definitive translation of Kokoro was published in 1957.

Awarded his doctorate in 1957, McClellan taught English at the University of Chicago until 1959 when he was asked to create a program in Japanese studies, housed in the university’s celebrated Oriental Institute. Appointed assistant professor of Japanese in 1959, he became full professor and founding chair of the Department of Far Eastern Languages and Civilizations in 1965, and later was named the Carl Darling Buck Professor. In 1972, McClellan moved to Yale and served as chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature from 1973 to 1982 and again from 1988 to 1991. He was made Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies in 1979, the first chair at a U.S. university to be endowed by a Japanese sponsor. In 1999, McClellan was named Sterling Professor of Japanese Literature.

McClellan was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1977. In 1998 he was honored by the Japanese government with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon. Other major awards include the Kikuchi Kan Prize for literature in 1994, the Noma Literary Translation Prize in 1995, and the Association for Asian Studies Award for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies in 2005. Beyond extensive committee work at Chicago and Yale, he served on the Board of the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, the American Advisory Committee of the Japan Foundation, the American Oriental Society, National Endowment for the Humanities, the editorial board of the Journal of Japanese Studies, and on visiting committees in East Asian studies at Harvard and Princeton.

A Festschrift published in his honor by the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, notes: “Among McClellan’s students his seminars have become lore. The depth and breadth of readings these seminars required were a revolution in pedagogy when McClellan first began them over twenty years ago; and they continue to represent an ideal of graduate training in the field. He taught his students to ask the most fundamental questions about the literary imagination: how language functions within the history of literary forms and in the context of society, history, politics, and the existential yearnings of a singular imagination.”

McClellan remained a British citizen until his death. His wife, Rachel, died in January of this year, He is succeeded by a son, Andrew, of Belmont, MA, and a daughter, Sarah, of Somerville, MA, and five grandsons.

Andrew McClellan

Edwin in the 1941 Red and Grey

Art Vande Water 1945-2009 Art died on June 15, 2009 of a

massive heart attack. Art was 64 years old. Born in Holland, Michigan, he graduated from Holland High School, and later attended Hope College, Michigan State University, and Trenton State College, graduating with his masters in education. Art had vast international teaching experience. In addition to CA (1987-1988) he taught

in Germany, Cuba, Greece, Morocco, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. For thirty-eight years, he loved teaching and interacting with his students, many of whom have remained in communication with him. His students remember him as a funny storyteller, mentor, and their favorite teacher.

In addition to his teaching career, Art was a skilled and passionate woodworker who built a 20-foot sloop sailing boat.

Art is survived by his wife, Dana of Sault Ste. Marie and his parents, Mel and Virginia Vande Water of Holland, Michigan. Art and Dana Vande

Water 1988

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Thomas J. Reilly 1933–2009 Canadian Academy parents come and go. That’s the

nature of the gig; families parachute in when Dad or Mom gets that big job in Kansai, and three to five years later they fly off again. As in most international communities, though,

there’s that handful of families who stick around — who make Kobe their home and CA their headquarters. We belonged to that latter camp. From 1974 to 1991, there were up to four Reilly kids attending (or artfully skipping) classes. We did the math. All told, our Dad, Thomas J. Reilly, Jr., paid 50 years of tuition to Canadian Academy. He always hoped the school would erect a statue of him holding out his

empty pockets.Tom Reilly died on May 14, 2009. The official cause was

aspiration pneumonia, but we know he died of a broken heart. His wife and our mother Hiroe had died of colon cancer just nine months earlier. Her dire condition led to a bittersweet reunion with CA; Emy Reilly Seeley 90 enrolled three of her four children there while we settled our parents’ affairs. But it also marked the end of an era: at the close of 2008, we sold our house in Mikage and moved Dad with us to New Jersey.

Our favorite memory of Dad at CA — maybe our favorite memory, period — is at the 1987 athletic awards dinner held at the Matsushita Gym. Clearly the awards had been fixed, because as the night wore on most of them wound up on our table. At the close of the ceremony, the coaches ribbed our Dad into giving a final speech. Tom Reilly loved a microphone, but instead of launching into his usual stand-up routine, he asked us all to use the occasion to thank the moms. It was one of the few times we saw him cry.

Tom Reilly is survived by his four children — George 87, Lisa 89, Emy 90 and Ken 91 — and 11 grandchildren. We miss him every day.

Lisa Reilly 89

Robert Cunningham 1926-2009 It is with a heavy heart that I write to say that my father,

Bob Cunningham, died on July 9. Dad was active on the Board at CA for many years. His five children: John ´69, Dorothy ´71 (did not graduate from CA as we were on furlough that year), Mary ´73, me (Beverly) ´75 and Karen ´77 all went through many years at CA, sometimes living in the dorms when our parents were placed too far to commute.

Bob was born to Lutheran missionaries in South India in 1926. There he attended Kodaikanal International School. After serving in the Army Signal Corps during WWII he attended both Augustana Lutheran College and Seminary. He married his high school sweetheart, Eleanor, also a

missionary child from South India (they just celebrated their 61st anniversary). They had two small children when they arrived in Japan in 1953. During their almost forty years in Japan, they had three more children. Bob was an active member of the Nuclear Disarmament Committee of the Lutheran Church and spent his lifetime actively involved in Hiroshima’s Peace Park and promoting peace. Very much a people person, it was his greatest pleasure to help others. He always enjoyed ecumenical discussions and was interested in learning other’s points of view on religious matters. Last summer he returned to India on a sentimental three week trip and left his grandson, Tyler, at his high school, K.I.S. for a junior semester abroad. In December he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He entered his eternal home peacefully with family by his side on July 9.

Beverly Cunningham 75

Carla Palmer Smith Wicks 38 was born in Karuizawa, Japan on July 18, 1921 and passed away on December 11, 2008 at the age of 87, just three weeks after her brother Stan Smith ´29 died. (Stan’s obituary is on page 15) She had been living in Santa Barbara at Valle Verde at the same retirement home as her brother, Stan and his wife Bernell. She moved there from Los Angeles about twenty years ago.

Carla was the youngest child of Roy and Charlotte Smith. Roy Smith not only taught at Canadian Academy, but also taught at Kobe University for over fifty years. Carla spoke Japanese before she learned English, and her life was full of cultural richness. Carla started kindergarten at Canadian Academy in 1927 and graduated in 1938 and then enrolled for a 13th year. She married Frederick Joseph Gassman, a radiologist, in 1945 and she had the honor of entertaining Albert Einstein among others in their beautiful home.

Carla led a very full and interesting life. She traveled around the world and explored even farther in her imagination. After her husband died in 1962, she followed in her father’s footsteps, becoming a teacher and taught school for over twenty years. She has touched the lives of thousands of children. She was a very liberal, free thinking spirit who often thought outside the box. She loved to learn and she was always studying something new and expanding her awareness with new ideas. She was a Japanese art aficionado and a lover of philosophy.

She is survived by her daughter, Lene (Gassman) Vallelunga ´66 who also attended Canadian Academy. She will be greatly missed.

In Memoriam

Carla and Stan

Countdown to CA’s Centennial Celebration in 2013

As we prepare to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Canadian Academy we will be reprinting photos from CA’s history. Please share your photos with us!

June 1969: The Duke of Gloucester, alongside Otis Cary, Chairman of the Board of Trustees (1968-70), reading the stone tablet at Canadian Academy, Nagamine Heights. The inscription on the tablet reads: This cairn was unveiled by H. R. H. The Duke of Gloucester on May 21, 1925 in commemoration of the visit of His Royal Highness and the removal of The Canadian Academy to this site. The cairn now resides in the courtyard of Gloucester House Dormitory.

Photo kindness of the Cary Family previously printed in the Mainichi Daily News June 13, 1969.