{"id":3467,"date":"2016-10-31T11:54:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T15:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/?p=3467"},"modified":"2020-07-01T15:37:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T19:37:16","slug":"an-andrew-lapidus-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/an-andrew-lapidus-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"An Andrew Lapidus Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Andy<\/a>
Andy Lapidus with his dog, Radnik. (Click on images to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Andy Lapidus \u2013 Andrew Stone Lapidus \u2013 wasn\u2019t at Williston Academy for very long.\u00a0 Having spent three years at Avon Old Farms, he was tempted north to Williston\u2019s greener French Department and pastures in 1964.\u00a0 Away from the classroom and the soccer field, he was rarely without a camera, and at a time when Williston didn’t offer a photography class, organized a camera club.<\/p>\n

He left Williston in 1966 for the Cate School in Carpinteria, California, met his future bride Roxanne, and eventually shifted his professional attentions from French to counseling and advocacy for youth.\u00a0 They raised three sons, Peter, Alex, and Paul. Sadly, he left us, aged 72, in 2010.\u00a0 A few months ago Roxanne sent the Archives a cache of photographs he\u2019d taken at Williston.\u00a0 We exchanged a couple of letters \u2013 she was initially surprised that anyone remembered him.\u00a0 Roxie visited the campus at Reunion last May and met others who had fond recollections as well.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
The gang from upstairs in Manchester House, 1964-65. From the top, John Robinson, Larry Shapiro, Bill Buckley, Andy Wernick, and Charlie Wilder, all class of ’68. Thanks, Larry, for the IDs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But of course I remembered him.\u00a0 Andy was unforgettable.\u00a0 Perhaps I should qualify that memory.\u00a0 In 1964 I was 12, a somewhat nerdish, classically-trained Williston faculty brat.\u00a0 Brats of my ilk found Andy fascinating.\u00a0 Here was an adult who didn\u2019t take adult-ness too seriously, who would break off a grownup conversation to deliver a wicked aside meant only for juvenile ears, or deliver a straight-faced pun so horrible that even Horace Thorner<\/a><\/strong> would shudder.\u00a0 He was subversively funny.\u00a0 I think we understood that deep down, he was one of us.<\/p>\n

And his camera was an essential accessory.\u00a0 Some of Andy’s native whimsy comes through in his photographs, especially in certain portraits, which often capture something unspoken about their subjects.<\/p>\n

Here is a sampling.\u00a0 Where images are uncaptioned, it is because we don\u2019t know who the people are.\u00a0 Readers are invited to help us with that; please email archives@williston.com<\/a><\/strong>; if you can fill in a blank, or if anyone is mis-identified, we’d like to know!<\/p>\n

\"Chief<\/a>
Chief cook Alphonse Barry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Richard<\/a>
Richard Gregory applying stage makeup to Rogelio Novey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Rogelio<\/a>
Rogelio Novey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bob<\/a>
Bob St. George<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"T-Bar\"<\/a>
T-Bar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Faculty<\/a>
Faculty kid and co-conspirator Mary Randall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"guitar\"<\/a>
Rogelio Novey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Richard<\/a>
Richard Gregory’s comic opera “Artemis Undone,” with Shirley Mullally, Janet Couch, Rogelio Novey, Stephen Randall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jack<\/a>
Jack Cody<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Tom<\/a>
Tom Gilbert<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"John<\/a>
John Carroll<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Barrett<\/a>
Barrett Benton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"snake\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Another<\/a>
Another fellow campus kid, Paul Henchey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finis.\u00a0 Coming soon: the Absolutely True History of the Campus Lion.\u00a0 Subscribe to “From the Archives” and never miss a post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andy Lapidus \u2013 Andrew Stone Lapidus \u2013 wasn\u2019t at Williston Academy for very long.\u00a0 Having spent three years at Avon Old Farms, he was tempted north to Williston\u2019s greener French Department and pastures in 1964.\u00a0 Away from the classroom and the soccer field, he was rarely without a camera, and at a time when Williston … Continue reading An Andrew Lapidus Gallery<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[164,68,453,12],"tags":[424,106,159],"class_list":["post-3467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-recent-gifts-acquisitions-and-discoveries","category-student-life","category-williston-academy","tag-andrew-lapidus","tag-photography","tag-portraits"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3467"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4891,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions\/4891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}