Winter 2012 AAUS Newsletter

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL LATE WINTER 2012 NEWSLETTER ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP DRIVE 2012

UPCOMING REUNIONS Class of 62 Reunion by Hal Pepinsky

Our 2012 Membership drive is going a bit slowly. We have had 55 folks renew for a year or longer, 4 new Life memberships and 3 new Yearly ones.

Thank you so much for your continued support.

Please renew your membership if you have an 11 on the last line of your address label. Yearly membership is $15, Life is $105. Mail to AAUS, 587 Fox Lane, Worthington, OH 43085.

(reunion chair), Dick Baker, Rick Morris and John Jacobs

Our University School Class of 62 Reunion will be on Friday June 29 and Saturday June 30, 2012.

The afternoon/evening (3:00 on) of June 29 will be informal gatherings at the homes of Hal Pepinsky and Dick Baker near each other in Rush Creek Village, in Worthington. On June 30 at noon, the annual meeting of the Alumni Association of University School (AAUS) will be held in Room 100 (Music Room) of Ramseyer Hall (University School building). A tour of the school building will follow the meeting and friends from all years can gather in Room 100 for conversation after the tour plus the obligatory class picture. The Reunion for the evening of June 30 will be hosted at the Holiday Inn Worthington with 5:00 cocktails, and an informal buffet dinner to follow --ending with dance music selected by Rick Morris from his vast collection.

Dick Baker has completed arrangements with the Holiday Inn Worthington.

Currently, 28 of 43 former classmates (from grades 6 – 12) have indicated attendance.

FAREWELLS We are sad to announce the following names to the list of University School family now gone. Our heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of: *Elizabeth Stocking Seale, ‘38 *William Gruber, ‘38 *Frances Meek Rowe, ‘38 *Robert Tucker, ‘39 *Margaret Ann Tifft, ‘42 *Glenn Oliver, ‘43 *Robert Rowntree, ‘48 *Keith H. Lysle, ‘53 *Mary Wilsberg, ‘fac We also wish to send our sympathies to Robert J. Stonecipher, ’45 and his family for the loss of his wife, Jean.

They had been married since 1948.

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OUR WEBSITE: www.tosus.org

Please provide comments or ask questions on the "Contact" page of the Reunion web site. http://www.wix.com/johnfj44/class-of-62

The website is going great guns and getting more on it every day. We still have many, many ideas and things to add. Please be patient, it does take time.

DIGITIZING OF THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL COLLECTION (OSU ARCHIVES)

We would like some input from you.

Our webmaster has found a great membership module for the AAUS members and it is free. Listed below are the features: personalized website, configurable membership database (up to 500 members), secure sign on with email address & password, group mailing list, private event calendar, file repository for email lists, class rosters, etc. (limited to 250 mb), and member forum (blog). He feels that this is a great little

The digitizing of the University School collection has begun. John Jacobs and Dick Baker, Class of 62, have already digitized some items from various donations already sent to AAUS along with items from Paul Jacobs ’60. These items are part of the initial material being scanned to determine how to meet the OSU Archive's scanning criteria. We should soon have instructions on how to scan using home multi-purpose printers to meet the OSU criteria. The process isn't complicated, but it is tedious. The archive materials must be checked out from the OSU Archives by Steffanie Haueisen for distribution to individuals wanting to scan our history. Our effort should ultimately result in our University School Collection being available on the OSU Archive Web Site and/or on our AAUS Web Site. It will initially be put on the USchool Web Site http://www.tosus.org as soon as it is scanned and later be linked to the OSU Archives http://library.osu.edu/find/collections/the -ohio-state-university-archives ) once OSU makes it available at their web site.

Anyone interested in helping on this project should contact Dick Baker at 614-846-0074 or Steffanie Haueisen at 614-846-6494.

membership module. We agree, but still would like your input before initiating it.

First, here are a few comments to further

explain. It is a supplement to the website and does not replace the existing website. It is simply an add-on membership module. The webmaster can put a member login on the main website which would take them to the membership module.

The module would be limited to AAUS members only and their membership would have to be approved by a manager before they gain access to the membership module.

The membership module requires a member sign-on with a password.

Addresses could be maintained in this module and only the AAUS members would have access to the information, not anyone who visits the website.

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If you have comments, concerns, and/or “just do it!” feelings, please contact Steffanie at 614-846-6494 or jswhaueisen@yahoo.com. We will initiate this membership module, probably by the end of March, unless we get a lot of negative input.

CORRESPONDENCE From Joyce Higgy Miller, ‘47/’48 (received in Aug. 2011) “First I want to thank you for all you do to help us keep up to date with our University School friends and their activities in the past and present.

I graduated with the class of 1947, but my heart is with the class of 1948 because I grew up from kindergarten to eleventh grade with them. I live on a farm near the town of Athens, Ohio and Ohio University. I believe that moving here has been one of the most important decisions I have ever made. My passions continue to be Art and Nature and I have found many like minded friends in this community. My family likes to visit me here, and I am often on the road (or in the sky) to visit them.”

Again, if you do wish to make a donation to the website, or for any reason, AAUS would certainly appreciate it. Please send your contribution to AAUS to the same address as membership on pg. 1.

NEW DIRECTORY I am working on the new directory.

Enclosed is an order sheet as well as a time line of completion. Hopefully it is self explanatory. If you don’t wish any of the directory offerings then please just ignore it.

But, if you have an upcoming address, e-mail, or phone change or special instructions regarding any of this information, then please do fill out the top part and mail it or e-mail me with the specific information requested.

I must have specific requests, in writing, to fulfill your directory wishes and I need to receive them by May 1st to be able to finish up in a timely manner.

From Robert I Louttit,‘46.

“I attended only for my senior year in 1945-46. It was by far the best school of the 12 different ones I attended before graduating. Too bad it’s gone!”

CONVERSATIONS

ANOTHER INQUIRY

While preparing for their 50th Class reunion, members of the class of ’62 have started some interesting conversations on various topics. Here are their comments:

From Robert D. Gardner,’53 “ I know of three U-Hi alumni who have been awarded as Distinguished Alumni from OSU. Does any one know their names and are there more?”

“CORE impacts”… …discussion started by Chuck Taylor.

“In our own "Life Reports", what have been the impacts of our U-Hi experience

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Nadel was the theater critic for the Columbus Dispatch and was hired by one of the New York City newspapers to be a critic there (one of the famous “7 Assassins of Broadway”). Arlene left USchool before her senior year and played host/guide for many of us when we visited NYC on that trip. I still have wonderful memories of those theater performances. I attended six shows and I believe we only had seven nights in NYC (don't remember what I did the other night, but do know that the theaters are dark one night each week); Fantastiks, Man for All Seasons (Paul Scofield), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Robert Morris), Gideon, Purlie Victorious, and Take Her She's Mine. Prior to attending those performances in NYC, I attended many of the plays by the Kenley Players each summer in Columbus and I still attend many of the traveling stage performances when they come through Nashville. Those NYC shows are still very good memories.”

on what we have done poorly and what we have done well by our own assessment; our "Core Impacts", if you will.

I'm looking for some volunteers who would be willing to write a life report that describes, however you choose, how you perceive your U-Hi experience has impacted what you have done poorly in life and what you have done well.

Here is one response: “Dear Chuck, Here is what uschool did for me for worse and better: I was so spoiled that I lost 2 jobs primarily because I learned at uschool that grades get in the way of learning. I learned that I was a social deviate who believed no teacher is qualified to grade students. I still believe this.

Uschool taught me to rely ultimately on myself on how I learn, what I learn, and to encourage students in turn to feel entitled to do likewise. For better and worse, life at uschool taught me how to let students teach me—taught me that I am entitled to know differently from others without being obliged to know better than others. For better and worse, uschool has freed my living and learning. I’m grateful. Love and peace”, Hal Pepinsky

from Hal Pepinsky, “Thank you again to Mr. Norman Nadel for your efforts on behalf of me and our classmates. Arlene told me that her father died in October 2010 at the age of 95. Yeah Arlene, as I recall, your dad was theater critic for the Cols Citizen-Journal before he moved to NYC to become critic for which paper, the New York Herald-Tribune? Pardon my own lapses; I appreciate help in correcting and filling in my memories. I noticed in the archive evals about me that I sent yesterday that Rex Carre taught at uschool when we were in the 10th grade, not the 8th as I had remembered. May our memories continue to become richer together.

Speaking for myself, sharing and sorting

“Memories of Senior Class Trip” from John Jacobs, “As I was going through one of the folders of my USchool class work (that my mother saved these many years) I found a short essay I wrote in our senior year after the senior trip. I wrote glowingly about the Broadway (and off-Broadway) shows I attended and specifically gave thanks to Mr. Norman Nadel (father of Arlene) for getting tickets for many of us. Many of our classmates will remember that Mr.

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9. Why is the ocean study important to our future?

out stories is a pleasure, many thanks again.

10. What is project Vanguard?

“Specific Classes” 11. What is the purpose of the first satellites the U.S. hopes to launch?

from John Jacobs: “In going through some attic "junk", I found some papers from the 8th grade. We were studying the International Geophysical year and one of the study questions was the possible effect from cars and factories on weather. See the scan of the mimeo sheet attached (remember mimeograph?) (It has been rewritten for the newsletter.)

12. What information will the “adult” satellites gather?

Response from Jane Taylor: “Bravo for saving something longer than I have. :-) I rediscovered my 8th Grade International Geophysical Year Report some time ago, while cleaning out and packing up for one of my geographical moves. I think my paper was on Sun spots. I have thought of how forward thinking University School was in having raised our consciousness 50 yrs ago about ecological events, so current and timely in the present. Too bad it wasn't on the National priority list then.

As a part of that study, the teachers at UHI arranged for Werner Von Braun come and talk to our class. He autographed a piece of paper for me, I was very impressed and kept his autograph for quite a while, but it has also gone the way of mellowing little bits of paper. In Oct of '57, I remember being all herded into the seldom seen the faculty room to watch the launching of Sputnik on TV. It was a "here and now" experience for me.

The questions on the mimeo sheet, are still good and need to be continually addressed.

Thank you John for this.”

Study Questions l. Is there a possibility that automobiles and factories have an effect upon our changing weather? If so, how? In what way?

2. What effects may meteors have on our weather?

3. How do they find out how deep the ice layers are in the arctic and Antarctic regions?

4. Is the arctic and Antarctic all ice and snow or is there land there?

5. How does the cold and weather of Antarctica effect all the world’s weather?

6. Why are they firing rockets in the arctic and Antarctic and what are they finding out? In what ways will this information help weathermen?

“CORE” 7. How do they “sound” oceans?

From Hal Pepinsky, 8. What information are they getting from ocean studies?

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Madison Square Garden, attended the awarding of the Heisman Trophy to Howard ‘Hopalong’ Cassidy, and (most fun of all) John, Margaret and I were on Time Square at midnight. We ate cheesecake at Lindy’s where we sat next to Sid Caesar who gave me his autograph and introduced me to his daughter about my age. What a Christmas that was!”

“IGY was my first quarter at uschool in the 8th grade. I tested the limits of clearing in Core. All fall in shop I worked on cutting glass without breaking it for a for a 4x6x1 glass box, held together with tape, in which I put cork fragments. I gave it to our core teacher with a shammy on top.

I'd probably have the teacher's name wrong so I won't try to name her. She was new to uschool too. She called me into her office beside our core room and asked what my project represented. I told her the glass box was an electroradstatitron. If you rubbed the top of the box with the cloth, the cork bits would jump off the top of the box the way radio waves bounce off our ionospher. I’m not proud of it, but I cleared. When I explained the electroradstatitron to the teacher, she took it off her shelf, handed it to me, and asked me to demonstrate how it worked.

I rubbed and rubbed on the glass (which I had never before tried to do). Nothing happened. I rubbed again. I just said, "You gotta rub longer" and put the electroradstatitron back on the shelf. To repeat, I cleared. I'm not proud but I'm not exactly repentant either.”

What interesting discussion topics: specifics about a class, problems or ease of “clearing” classes, “Core impact…”, most memorable Christmas while at University School, Senior Class (or any class trip) memories.

Thank you class members of 1962 for getting the discussion rolling!

Now, how about some of you getting involved in these questions? What was going on in science for you in the classes of the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s? Where did seniors go for your trips and what are your memories? How were your experiences “clearing”? How about celebrating the holidays at University School; does anyone remember the Christmas programs in the gym with all the classes getting up to decorate the Christmas tree during the “Twelve Days of Christmas” song?

Let us hear from you. Send comments in writing to AAUS, 587 Fox Lane, Worthington, OH 43085. or e-mail to jswhaueisen@yahoo.com.

“ a Most Memorable Christmas” From David T. Van Ness “My most memorable Christmas was 1956. In fact, it is the only clear memory I have of any holiday. Mom and Dad took all of us to New York City for Christmas. No tree and no presents.

Just the trip. We traveled over night on the train in a sleeping compartment. We saw the lighting of the tree in Rockefeller Center then ice skated there, saw Boston College with Bob Cosey play in the Holiday NIT tournament at

Also, please remember that if you want a new directory, class lists or have specific instructions about your contact information, please send or e-mail the Directory Order Sheet to be received by May 1st.

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