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This year he will celebrate his
70th anniversary since graduating
from SKS. We are encouraging
Henry to attend his special reunion
year festivities the weekend of June
8-10. In the interim, we fulfilled his
request for an SKS sweatshirt, mug
and coaster.
Boston
A lively group of SKS alums gath-
ered at Post 390, former post office
turned bar/restaurant in the Back
Bay area. Trustee Anne Davidson,
Assistant Head of School Jonathan
Lamb, Irene Seguin, Director of
Advancement, chatted with Jeff
Licht ’64, an environmental science
professor at UMass Amherst, Doug
Hall ’76 and his wife, Mei Huang
and Tony ’54 and Pat Pallotta. Tom
Delaney ’58, an avid SKS ambassa-
dor, also attended. Doug’s brother,
Jeffrey graduated from SKS in 1974
and went on to climb Mt. Everest.
As always, the conversation turned
to how instrumental a role their
SKS education played in shaping
their character and their future.
Thank you all for sharing your
stories and memories with us. We
always love to hear them.
SKS
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On the Road with Steevie
Nine Cities in
Nineteen
Days
Another trip to visit with the good
parents of my students. This year,
once again, I traveled to Seoul first
for a lovely dinner with parents,
arranged by the mothers of our
seniors. I again had the opportunity
on my first evening to go to the
National Museum, always a special
treat, and back to the Leeum Sam-
sung Museum of Art. It does take
me a day to recover from 22 hours
of travel, however.
This trip was a much more
condensed journey. Nine cities in
19 days. With David Flynn, I went
to a couple of admissions meet-
ings to meet candidates for our
School, and tackled the Beijing
conference on my own, interview-
ing and giving out our materials.
More enjoyable were the dinners in
Shanghai, the individual meetings
in Beijing, and a wonderful lunch
in Guangzhou, a Beta World City
(wonderful designation that appel-
lation involves many economic and
cultural aspects), where we talked at
great length about history, politics,
education while eating a delightful
traditional meal. The openness in
these meetings, where I am depen-
dent upon a good and intelligent
translator, always educates me
further about the culture not only
of the country I am in, but also the
particular province. The growth of
certain cities and areas, in China
particularly, has been apparent in
my five years visiting families.
Back in Taipei for my fourth vis-
it with a dear family of one of our
seniors, I could almost say I felt at
home but was there for only twelve
hours, a bit of a rush although
someday I hope I will return.
This particular visit also involved
inviting our alumni in each city,
and once again those in Tokyo, as
well as a parent of a first year stu-
dent, made us feel the excitement
of that city and the new attitudes
and ideas from thoughtful young
people — our alumni.
My final country was Vietnam,
first Hanoi and then Ho Chi Minh
City, two busy and friendly places,
where again the parents were help-
ful and informative and, of course,
wanted to know in detail how their
children were doing in everything
from academics to soccer and vol-
leyball. An alumna came to the last
dinner and is doing well as the top
executive of her firm. She had loved
the diversity and energy of our
School but found she was disap-
pointed when she attended a much
less diverse college, something for
us to consider although times have
changed.
Throughout these years of travel
out of country for our School, I
cannot say that I have had more
than a glimpse of each culture. I do
remain close to the families after
their children move on; it would be
good to imagine connecting with
them in the future.
—Helen “Steevie” Chinitz
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