RE Log Spring 2019

SPRING 2019 Ransom Everglades LOG 1 Table of Contents Ransom Everglades Log Spring 2019 FEATURES DEPARTMENTS Team Player 4 Antonio Ardila ’75: business mogul, soccer impresario… and, now, ambassador BSA’s 30th Anniversary 10 Thirty years ago, black students from different backgrounds came together DEI at RE 16 Working to enhance diversity, equity and inclusion Clearing a Path 22 Ransom Everglades enters a new phase of its REinvention Remembering Dan Leslie Bowden 62 From the Pagoda 2 From Our Faculty 20 On Campus 24 Student News 28 Sports 30 Book Review 32 Executive Editor: Amy Shipley Associate Editor / Photography Director: Suzanne Kores Art & Design: Kim Foster Contributing Editors: Mike Townsend, Vicki Carbonell Williamson ’88 Contributing Writers: Penny Townsend, Danielle Ellis, Kelly Jackson Photographers: Jenny Abreu, Jonathan Dann, Carl Kafka, Suzanne Kores, Joshua Prezant, Vicki Carbonell Williamson ’88, RE Archives Contact Us: Ransom Everglades School Office of Communications 3575 Main Highway, Coconut Grove, FL 33133 T: 305 460 8212 E: REnews@ransomeverglades.org To change your address or remove yourself from our mailing list , please send an email to REnews@ransomeverglades.org . W: www.ransomeverglades.org/page/Publications- Archives The Ransom Everglades Log aims to connect, inform and engage readers in the life of Ransom Everglades School. It is published by the Ransom Everglades Office of Communications. Link to the photo galleries: https://ransomevergladesschool.smugmug.com Alumni Events 33 Class Notes 37 Former Faculty 56 In Loving Memory 56 From the Archives 68 Why I Give 69