Hawken School - Onyx / Red and Gray Yearbook (Gates Mills, OH)

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With his cocked gold-rimmed glasses and that powerful Morris Minor ( Four on the floor and bucket seats! What more could you want? an en- gine? ), Sam Jackson grows more distraught with each added year of advising our yearbook. An English teacher, graduate of Yale and Cambridge Univer- sities, a few years back he unsuccessfully attempted to vary the Hawken teacher ' s image with an Abe Lincoln beard. He greatly enjoys sports and is known for his basketball antics, his unusual sportswriting for the Geauga Times Leader, and his gridiron suc- cess both as a victorious frosh coach and an evasive pass catcher in the faculty-smdent touch football games. Often the wielder of a biting wit, he some- times is speechless, such as when he got his teacher ' s retirement form notifying him that he could look forward to doing so in 2001 A.D. Right: Miss Christine Kast wearing a sweater by Villager. Miss Kast was graduated from Manhattan- ville College in 1964 with a B.A. in English Liter- ature. She came to Hawken in January of 1965 as an apprentice teacher and taught Mr. Thomson ' s jun- ior and senior English classes. It is rumored that her lectures on the Romantic Period instilled new vigor into the old juniors. It is also rumored that former Trustees ' President, Mr. R. L. Ireland, was concerned by the Upper School ' s failure to take full advantage of Miss Kast ' s presence. In the fumre Miss Kast plans to travel abroad and to study for an ' M.A. in English Literature. 28

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Lee Henry, the Head of the French Department, was graduated from Amherst in 1935 and received his M.A. from Middlebury in 1948. Besides teaching French, Mr. Henry is the faculty advisor for the fresh- men and one of Hawken ' s most vifidely traveled faculty members. In addition to having traveled throughout Europe and the United States, Mr. Henry has studied overseas at the University of Dijon and the University of Montpellier. He also had a wide range of teaching experience in the U.S. before join- ing the Hawken faculty in 1956. Recently his col- leagues honored him when they chose him Hawken ' s Jennings Scholar for 1964-65. Mr. Ismail, Hawken ' s import from Istanbul, Turkey, teaches 9th and 12th grade French. Good-natured, tolerant, and sympathetic to the senior work-load, he rarely gives an unreasonable assignment. His ironic amusement at wiseguys and big chizzes and his animated characterizations in illustrating philoso- phic arguments lend a whimsical atmosphere to his classes. He has assigned such memorable nicknames as Bzzzt and Nick the Greek to his more illustrious senior students. He likes sports, Proust, 17th Cenmry French philosophers, and his students. He is not so fond of La Chanson de Roland and Bull GDnnor. Mr. Ismail received his M.A. in French at W.R.U. He taught at John Carroll and night school at Qeve- land College before coming to Hawken in 1963. 27

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Quiet yet decisive, Paul Kenepp, one of this year ' s new faculty faces at the Upper School, came to Haw- ken as a result of meeting and talking with fellow students Steinen and Davies during Ohio State ' s sum- mer math courses. Previously Mr. Kenepp taught at the College Area Schools in State College, Pa., and before that he was graduated from Shippensburg State College, also in Pennsylvania. Penn State rewarded some of his post-graduate labors with a Master ' s degree. An excellent addition to our highly touted but never tested faculty basketball team, he exercises his abilities primarily through coaching the freshmen in both basketball and football. Between games and practices he teaches a few algebra and trigonometry classes. Tom Lightbody joined the Hawken faculty this year as a full-time member after a year of trial-by smoke as an apprentice teacher. A 1963 Harvard graduate, he conducts courses in geometry, algebra, and English, and annually collects the studentry ' s award for the hottest faculty car with the coolest muffler. In addition to coaching freshman swim- ming and football, he advises Calliope and the creative writing group. Mr. Lightbody spends his spare time at school and devotes his extra-mural hours to the real work of his life: helping ladies, sometimes old but usually young, across the street and dreaming about a practical way to run a Parisian sidewalk cafe in Cleveland ' s winter climate. 29