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By Taras Ferencevych, History and Outdoor Education Teacher
OnWEDnESDay, DECEmBEr 5, 2012
,
the Advanced Placement Economics class took a class
trip to New york City. The day started out with a visit to the Wall Street risk management firm,
Investor Analytics. There the students were given a presentation by company CEO Damian
Handzy, about the limitations of mathematical models used to predict the movement of
financial assets. At the end of the hour spent with Mr. Handzy, the students walked away
thoroughly confused, but intrigued.
Afterwards the class proceeded to the Federal Reserve Bank of New york for a tour of the
facility, highlighted by a visit to the gold vault 80 feet below street level. Being in the presence of
$360,000,000,000 in gold left an impression on the students. While at the bank, students were
able to reinforce some of the lessons they recently learned in class. After the tour we were met
by Storm King School Trustee Hilary Ackermann. Ms. Ackermann, a veteran of Wall Street,
showed us a few historical places in the financial district. Some of the students had a terrific
opportunity to speak with Ms. Ackermann about her time at Goldman Sachs.
This was the second annual trip to the Federal Reserve Bank of New york, and the hope is to
continue it in the future with additional educational presentations and meetings.
SKS students with SKS Trustee Hilary Ackermann
near the Federal Reserve Bank of New york City.
Cultural Trips
WHO SayS Film
iS DEaD?
Not the
students in Amanda
Penecale’s photography
class. Penecale, the
chair of Storm King’s
visual arts department,
is working with her
PHOTOGRAPHy EquIPMENT
DONATED TO VISuAL ARTS
DEPARTMENT
students to rebuild
the School’s historic
darkroom so that future
SKS students can learn
not only how to shoot
with film, but how
to develop their own
pictures.
Many of you have
been generous
enough to donate
your old photography
equipment—we
recently received some
wonderful donations
from Jill Malouf, The
Arts Center of the
Capital Region, and
Jack Downing ’71—
but we could always
use more. So if you’ve
got an old manual
film camera sitting in
the back of a closet
somewhere—or
even film developing
equipment you’re not
using anymore—why
not donate it to SKS?
For more info, get
in touch with Brian
PJ Cronin in the
Development Office by
calling 845.534.7892
x221 or email at
bcronin@sks.org.
The Storm King darkroom in
action in 1963.
