Collection Magazine - Fall 2009

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The Magazine of Friends School of Baltimore

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From the Head of School

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he celebration of Friends School’s 225th birthday merits some perspective-taking. Our School was founded in 1784, one year after the conclusion of the American Revolution and five years before the Constitution was written. Despite all that has changed since then, we have continued to be guided by a simple truth, one that is captured in our recently adopted signature: “The world needs what our children can do.” This statement has resonated powerfully with our community because it speaks of the important work we anticipate our students will be taking on in the world beyond our campus, and puts the focus squarely on them. Friends School is, above all else, a student-centered place.

Some years ago Douglas Heath, a psychology professor at Haverford College, conducted extensive studies of students enrolled at different types of schools, including public, parochial, Quaker and other independent schools. His findings showed that students in Quaker schools described the environment there as “caring, reflective and respectful” at a significantly higher rate than those at non-Quaker schools.

Here at Friends, our students know and appreciate that the adults in their lives love them and are deeply invested in their personal and academic success. In conversations about what they value most about the School, they invariably describe the relationships they’ve developed with their teachers. It is this caring environment, and the essential sense of safety it offers, that emboldens our students to live authentic lives.

“Caring,” “reflective” and “respectful” are terms students at Quaker schools use to describe their environment.

Reflection—the second significant quality Heath identified as prominent in Friends schools—is evident in the degree of thoughtfulness and self-possession our students display as they transition through their busy days. Many factors account for their equanimity, but one undeniable contributor is the experience of Meeting for Worship. A member of the Class of 1958 during a recent campus visit told me, “Meeting allowed me to realize that my classmates had inner lives, which gave me permission to have my own.” What could be more valuable for our children to take with them than the ability to still their minds and “center down” in a world where silence and contemplation are all too rare.

When I ask our students how the environment at Friends differs from that of other schools they’ve attended or those that their friends attend, respect is another defining element. Students value the culture of mutual respect that exists between peers and between students and teachers. One student said, “It’s almost like it doesn’t occur to us to treat each other badly. We know that’s just not how it’s done here.”

As they are learning to respect others, our students also come to respect themselves. “I could always tell which were the Friends students,” a Peabody music instructor, who has worked with students from many local and private schools, told me. “They were the ones who were comfortable in their own skin.” The instructor eventually chose to enroll her children at Friends.

These three qualities—caring, reflection and respect—are the three sturdy pillars of a Friends School foundation from which generations of young men and young women have emerged, ready to do the work the world needs of them. At a time when educators are seeking to equip students with “21st Century skills,” it is worth acknowledging that the core elements of our student-centered program are not a new initiative, but rather are the result of our School’s practice and experience over many years.

Happy 225th, Friends!

Collection

FALL 2009

The Magazine of Friends School of Baltimore

CONTENTS COLLECTION Magazine is published twice a year by Friends School of Baltimore.

FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL inside front cover

Matthew Micciche HEAD OF SCHOOL

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THE SCHOOL AT 225 During an historic anniversary, Friends takes stock of its proud past while looking ahead with a renewed sense of purpose.

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FOSTERING A CULTURE OF SERVICE Our students must complete 50-hours of community service to graduate. More often than not, they go well beyond that.This is the Friends School way.

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ATHLETICS Five members of the Class of 2009 share how Friends’ athletics has shaped them.

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TRUSTEE NEWS Four trustees join the Board; plus, Strategic Plan update and 2009 Employee Recognition Program.

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DEVELOPMENT NEWS An Archives fit for Friends; plus, a tribute to Dr. Oscar Camp, our major donor reception and good news for the 2009-10 Annual Fund.

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TERMINAL PREPOSITIONS AND 50-YEAR PREPOSTERIES Martha Kegan Graham ’59 reflects on her 50th Reunion and offers this lighthearted missive to Friends’ Head of School.

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WEAVING CHANGE IN BOLIVIA Laura Resnick ’07 reports that “fairer” trade is alive and well in La Paz, Bolivia.

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COMMENCEMENT 2009 Senior Awards ceremony, Commencement and college choices for the Class of 2009.

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ALUMNI WEEKEND From the fifth annual Friends School Athletic Hall of Fame to the closing Reception, this whirlwind weekend in May is a must-attend for alumni.

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ALUMNI EVENTS The Alumni Office hosted a trio of California receptions; plus, the annual parents of alumni gathering and something new for soon-to-be alumni:The 100 Nights Dinner.

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CLASS NOTES

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MILESTONES

Bonnie Hearn ASSISTANT HEAD FOR FINANCE AND OPERATIONS

Gayle L. Latshaw

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ASSISTANT HEAD FOR DEVELOPMENT

Karen Dates Dunmore ’82 DIRECTOR OF ADMISSION AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Eleanor Landauer DIRECTOR OF MAJOR AND PLANNED GIFTS

Heidi Blalock EDITOR; DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS

Amy Langrehr

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ALUMNI DIRECTOR

Dena Wheeler ANNUAL FUND DIRECTOR

Amy D’Aiutolo Mortimer ’87 SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTOR

Mary Pat Bianchi, Lee Kelly, Anne Homer Martin ’37, Jeanne Robin, Meg Whiteford DEVELOPMENT OFFICE STAFF

p. 10 MISSION STATEMENT:

Founded in 1784, Friends School of Baltimore provides a coeducational college preparatory program guided by the Quaker values of truth, equality, simplicity, community, and peaceful resolution of conflict.

By setting high standards of excellence for a diverse and caring community, Friends seeks to develop in each student the spiritual, intellectual, physical, and creative strengths to make a positive contribution to the world. Recognizing that there is that of God in each person, the School strives in all its programs, policies, and affairs to be an institution that exemplifies the ideals of the Religious Society of Friends.

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PARENTS OF ALUMNI:

Please help Friends go green!

If this issue is mailed to a son or daughter who no longer maintains a permanent address at your home, please notify us of the new address by writing, or by calling 410.649.3208. We —and the Earth— thank you! p. 25 Printing: J.H. Furst Co. Design & Typography: Allegro Communications Photographers: Heidi Blalock, Harry Connolly ’70, Amy Mortimer ’87, and members of the School community Cover photo: Harry Connolly ’70

Printed on recycled paper.

CIRCLE OF FRIENDS inside back cover

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THE BIG STORY

Friends in History 1607: Jamestown settled.

1620: Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth Rock.

1632: Maryland founded by Lord Baltimore.

1638: Slaves arrive in Massachusetts.

1656: Quakers come to North America.

1682: Pennsylvania founded by William Penn.

1690: Salem Witch Trials 1754-1763: French and Indian War. 1773: Boston Tea Party 1774: First Continental Congress.

1775-1783: Revolutionary War 1776: Declaration of Independence 1781: Quaker Meetinghouse opened in Baltimore at Aisquith and Fayette Streets 1784: Friends School founded.

1787: Constitution of the United States signed.

1792: Baltimore Monthly Meeting established.

1803: U.S. negotiates Louisiana Purchase.

1804: Lewis and Clark expedition begins.

1805: Lombard Street Meetinghouse built.

1814: Francis Scott Key pens “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

1829: Baltimore Public Schools established.

1840s: Friends School moved to Lombard Street Meetinghouse.

1845: Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Raven and Other Poems.

1846: U.S.-Mexico War (1846–1848).

1848: Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and joins the Underground Railroad.

1857: Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision rules that a slave is not a citizen.

1859: Charles Darwin‘s Origin of Species.

1861: U.S. Civil War (to 1865). Lincoln inaugurated. Pasteur‘s theory of germs.

1864: Eli M. Lamb appointed principal of Friends School.

1865: Lincoln fatally shot.

1868: Fourteenth Amendment giving civil rights to blacks is ratified.

1869: First U.S. transcontinental rail route completed.

1872: Friends introduces “collegiate” department for students going to college.

1879: Edison invents practical electric light.

1886: Statue of Liberty dedicated.

1889: Park Avenue Meetinghouse built; Friends’ primary and kindergarten school opened.

1893: New Zealand becomes first country in the world to grant women the vote.

1896: Supreme Court’s Plessy v. Ferguson creates “separate but equal” doctrine.

1899: John Gregg appointed Friends’ principal.

1900: Name changed to Friends School; first boys’ basketball game—defeats Poly 8–0.

1903: Wright brothers’ first flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. Edward Wilson replaces John Gregg as Friends principal.

1908: Electric lighting installed in Friends School.

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Three fourth graders—Ilana Wolchinsky, Tyler Rifkin and Alice Carnell—shared the official ribbon-cutting responsibilities.

The School at 225

by Heidi Blalock

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ow do institutions stand the test of time? In a period that saw the worst economic decline in the U.S. since the Great Depression and the failure, bankruptcy or merger of such venerable companies as AIG, General Motors and Lehman Brothers, Friends School’s ability to not only weather tumultuous times but to thrive speaks to something even greater than fiscal probity.

Is it the School’s values-based mission that keeps it on an even keel? Is it the wisdom of our forebears, who have managed the School through all manner of crises and opportunities—from the Civil War and Edison’s light bulb, to Brown v. Board of Education and the discovery of the human genome?

Joan Thompson, a 1964 graduate and longtime Friends teacher, perhaps expressed it best when she said, “There is something alive in this School that has survived so many events in our nation and world. Friends endures because of the people who are nurtured here, who go on to help our community ask the important questions and meet the challenges of each era.”

Students and teachers do make a school, but not without supportive parents, especially when economic times are hard. Their desire and ability to invest in their children’s education, regardless of hardship, sustain the School as well. In his October blog, National Association of Independent Schools’ (NAIS) president Patrick Bassett noted that, while data analysis was not yet complete, early indicators show that enrollment at most NAIS schools for 2009-2010 fell within normal upward/downward fluctuation rates of 3 to 5 percent as compared to last year. “Our collective outcomes have indicated that, at least for this year, parents committed to independent schools would sacrifice almost anything to keep their kids in our schools,” he says.

This has proven true for Friends. In planning for 2009–10, School trustees and administrators, while hoping for the best, budgeted for what they anticipated would be the worst: a steep five percent drop in enrollment, from the 999 students enrolled in 2008-09 to 950. At 977 students, today’s enrollment is stronger than expected, yet the absence of those other 22 children and their families is still keenly felt. The fact that so many families, despite financial difficulties, remained at the School reminds us all of our collective responsibility to continue to lovingly educate the children entrusted to us in order to prepare them for the challenges ahead.

When Friends School was established, according to the authors of the book Friends for 200 Years, published in 1984, the “guarded education” it was intended to provide “did not mean simply the teaching of religion in school, but rather it meant preparing the child for a way of life in which the spiritual

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THE BIG STORY

Volunteers led by FSPA event chair Shannon Samson created a delicious 225 display out of 1,000 cupcakes!

In addition to its steadfast foundational structures, there is a second essential element that helps explain Friends School’s remarkable longevity: its never-ending process of dynamic renewal. We have a long history of implementing thoughtful and purposeful adaptations in our programs and policies to reflect changing times. and temporal goals were unified.” This objective—to infuse education with Quaker values such as stewardship, peace, integrity, community, equality and simplicity—is perhaps more relevant now than it was so many years ago.

The core Quaker beliefs that there is that of God in everyone, and that truth is continually revealed, remain central to a Friends education. The mutual respect and affability that exists between children and adults on our campus; our School’s culture of questioning the status quo, of engaging with people from different backgrounds, of serving those in need and of settling into the silence of weekly Meeting for Worship is also imprinted in the DNA successive generations have inherited over all these years.

Within those steadfast foundational structures is a second essential element that helps explain the School’s longevity: its never-ending process of dynamic renewal. We have a long history of implementing thoughtful and purposeful adaptations in our programs and policies to reflect changing times. The timeline accompanying this story offers a glimpse into the surprising, often bold, trajectory of Friends’ growth and progress against our national and global events. Even the School’s founding, just seven years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, speaks to a single-mindedness of purpose that is remarkable.

In good times and bad, Friends School remains, in the words of the School’s identity statement, “a vibrant, 21st Century learning community that chooses simplicity over material possession; peaceful resolution of conflict over aggression; integrity over expedience; equality over elitism; and stewardship of the earth as a collective and personal responsibility.” ◾ At the 225th Picnic, reenactors Middle School Librarian Paula Montrie and her husband John, with Cedric Charlier ’13, portrayed a 1784 Quaker couple who’ve come to Friends seeking a “guarded education” for their child.

1912: Purchase of 8½ acres in West Forest Park for athletic field. First football team, first sex education classes.

1913: First May Fete held. Student government organization launched.

1914: World War I begins; first field hockey team competes at Friends.

1916: Jeannette Rankin becomes first woman elected to Congress.

1918: Worldwide influenza epidemic strikes; nearly 20 million die.

1919: Mahatma Gandhi begins nonviolent resistance movement against British rule in India.

1920: Women’s suffrage (19th) amendment ratified.

1921: Friends adopts school uniforms.

1924: Boys’ lacrosse begins at Friends.

1925: Purchase of Friends’ Homeland campus property.

1927: William S. Pike replaces Edward Wilson as Friends’ principal.

1928: Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.

1929: U.S. stock market prices collapse, with U.S. securities losing $26 billion. Friends’ Primary Dept. moved to Homeland campus.

1933: Roosevelt inaugurated, launches New Deal.

1935: Edwin Zavitz replaces William Pike as Friends’ principal.

1936: Friends’ High School moved to Homeland campus. School reorganized: Lower (grades 1–6) and Upper (grades 7–12) School.

1937: Clubhouse remodeled to house nursery and kindergarten classes. Gymnasium built at Homeland campus.

1938: Legendary racehorse Seabiscuit earns victory over War Admiral in head-to-head winner-take-all race at Pimlico.

1941: Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brings U.S. into World War II. 1942: More than 120,000 Japanese and persons of Japanese ancestry living in western U.S. moved to “relocation centers.”

1943: Bliss Forbush replaces Edwin Zavitz as Friends’ headmaster.

1945: V-E Day. U.S. drops atomic bombs on Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. V-J Day. 1947: Anne Frank‘s The Diary of a Young Girl published. Quakers are awarded Nobel Peace Prize for WWII relief efforts. American Friends Service Committee and its British counterpart share the award.

1950: Korean War begins (to 1953). U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy begins anti-Communist crusade.

1952: Woodworking, mechanical drawing instructor Roman Steiner dies after 53 years at Friends.

1953: Watson and Crick publish discovery of molecular DNA model.

1954: Brown v. Board of Education bans racial segregation in public schools. Friends’ Education Committee changes policy to allow desegregation.

1955: Martin Luther King, Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery, Ala., bus system. First black students admitted to Friends School.

1956: Construction of the Forbush Auditorium.

Claire Walker begins teaching Russian language classes at Friends.

1957: Russians launch Sputnik.

1958: U.S. Army’s Jupiter-C rocket fires first U.S. Earth satellite, Explorer I, into orbit.

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THE BIG STORY Join the Celebration!

Friends School is observing its 225th all year long with festivities and programs that affirm the School’s unique traditions and heritage.

December 1, 2009 Historic Hoops: Friends Varsity/JV Girls’ Basketball vs. Sidwell Friends Friends School Gymnasium; JV: 4:15, Varsity: 5:45 p.m. 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of the first-ever Friends School girls’ basketball game, held on February 26, 1910.

March 26, 2010 “Voices from Friends: Celebrating 225 Years— the Oral History Project” CD Release Party, Dining Hall, 6–8 p.m.

225th Anniversary Picnic at Friends Families, alumni and employees enjoyed period reenactments and music by Paul Yutzy & Friends during Friends’ 225th Anniversary Picnic on September 3. Highlighting the evening was the dedication of the new Dining Hall, after which the gathering tucked into a giant “225,” fashioned from 1,000-red and white cupcakes.

Clockwise from right: Soulful back-up singers, teachers Shannon Johnson and Meredith Schlow; Parker ’11 and Caroline MacLure ’13; Four Feet Under’s William Frost ’14 and Andrew Kirkpatrick ’14; Third Graders Allie Mosmiller and Olivia Risser; Friends School moms (l.-r.) Martha Socolar, Caroline Moore, Cathy MorganDendrinos, Rosemary Gately and Leslie Greenwald.

April 9, 2010 Upper School Spring Choral Concert, featuring the premiere of a specially commissioned musical piece by award-winning composer Carrie Mallonee ’93, Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

April 10, 2010 Friends School 225th Anniversary Gala (See back cover for details) May, 2010 Publication of Still Friends, a commemorative magazine tracing the School’s past 25 years, as a supplement to Friends for 200 Years, published in 1984. Read the book at friendsbalt.org/225/200yearsatfriends.pdf.

Visit friendsbalt.org for more information about upcoming 225th anniversary events.

1960: 900 U.S. military advisers now in South Vietnam. W. Byron Forbush, II ’47 replaces his father, Bliss Forbush, as Friends’ headmaster.

1961: U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba.

2,000 U.S. military advisers now in South Vietnam.

1962: John Glenn is first American to orbit Earth.

Rachel Carson‘s Silent Spring is published.

1963: Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers “I have a dream” speech. President Kennedy shot and killed.

15,000 U.S. military advisers now in South Vietnam.

1964: All Friends’ classes are desegregated.

Friends is first U.S. secondary school to be visited by teachers from Soviet Union.

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1965: Friends begins offering free community outreach programs for Baltimore City Public School students.

1966: Friends adds new science building and gymnasium.

1967: Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black U.S. Supreme Court justice. Friends hires first full-time black faculty.

1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy are slain 1969: Apollo 11 astronauts take man’s first walk on moon.

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1970: U.S. troops invade Cambodia. Friends opens a Middle School.

1973: Supreme Court rules on Roe v. Wade. Vietnam War ends.

1974: President Richard M. Nixon resigns.

1976: Nation celebrates bicentennial.

1979: Friends acquires the School’s first microcomputer for student use.

1981: Judge Sandra Day O’Connor appointed as first woman on Supreme Court. AIDS is first identified.

Friends School Russian teacher Claire Walker is first American to receive the Pushkin Medal.

THE BIG STORY

Toward evening’s end, Head of School Matt Micciche gathered families near the entrance of the new Dining Hall for its dedication.

Join us for our 6th annual MLK Day of Service Monday, January 18, 2010 Friends School’s MLK Day by the Numbers:

6 7 133 20 330

number of years Friends’ has sponsored MLK Day of Service number of community service activities in which Friends’ families participated during the School’s first MLK Day in 2004 number of Friends participants in MLK Day 2004 number of community service activities in which Friends’ families participated during MLK Day 2009 number of Friends participants who participated in MLK Day 2009

MLK Day 2010 promises to be the biggest yet!

For more information about Friends’ Sixth Annual MLK Day of Service, go to www.friendbalt.org and click on the “MLK Day of Service” link.

Announcing the 225th Anniversary Annual Fund Challenge In celebration of this landmark year, a challenge has been issued to all donors to the 2009–10 Annual Fund. Every new gift*, or increased portion over a prior gift (by at least $22.50), will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $150,000 by a member of the Friends School community. *A gift is considered “new” if the donor has never made a gift to Friends, or has not made a gift during the last three Annual Fund campaigns. The match portion of any new or increased gift may not be directed or restricted by the donor.

1983: Sally K. Ride is first U.S. woman astronaut in space. In honor of its bicentennial, Friends publishes Friends for 200 Years.

1984: Friends School 200th anniversary.

CORLAC (Center for Russian Language and Culture) is founded at Friends School.

1989: Tiananmen Square crack-down. Berlin Wall opened; East and West Germany reunited (1990).

1990: World Wide Web debuts. Hubble Space Telescope launched. Persian Gulf War (to 1991).

Americans with Disabilities Act passed. Friends adds Lower School addition.

1991: Soviet Union dissolved. Friends expands Lower School to three homerooms per grade.

1992: Bush and Yeltsin proclaim formal end to Cold War. 1993: Friends adds a music education wing to the Upper School.

1994: Nelson Mandela elected president of South Africa. IRA declares cease-fire in Northern Ireland.

Upper School launches May Senior Work Project to combat “senior slump.”

1995: Oklahoma City federal building bombing.

1996: President Clinton appoints Madeleine Albright as first female U.S. Secretary of State.

1997: Hong Kong returns to Chinese rule. Mother Teresa dead at 87.

1998: Europeans agree on single currency, the euro. India conducts three atomic tests; Pakistan stages five nuclear tests in response to India’s.

Byron Forbush retires after 38 years as Friends’ headmaster. Jon Harris named head of school.

1999: World population reaches six billion milestone. Tobacco companies admit to dangers of cigarette smoking.

2000: Human genome deciphered. Supreme Court seals Bush victory by 5–4.

2001: Terrorists using jetliners attack United States, killing more than 3,000. U.S. and British forces launch bombing campaign in Afghanistan.

2002: The Wye Oak, a “living symbol” of Maryland dating back more than 450 years, is destroyed during a storm. Lila Lohr replaces Jon Harris as head of school. The site is preserved within a state park.

2003: Space shuttle Columbia explodes, killing all seven astronauts. The United States and Britain launch war against Iraq.

2004: U.S.’s final report on Iraq’s weapons finds no WMDs. Enormous tsunami devastates Asia.

English teacher Gary Blauvelt retires after 41 years at Friends.

2005: Hurricane Katrina wreaks catastrophic damage on the Gulf Coast. Matthew Micciche replaces Lila Lohr as head of school. Friends opens new Middle School, Jonathan M. Camp Science & Mathematics Wing.

2006: The International Astronomical Union reclassifies Pluto as a dwarf planet. The U.S. population officially reaches 300 million. Friends School receives record-breaking $1.28 million gift to fund two scholarships for Pre-K–5 AfricanAmerican students.

2007: Nancy Pelosi becomes the first woman speaker of the House.

2008: Castro resigns as president of Cuba. Polar bear is listed as an endangered species. Global financial markets roiled by turmoil; Barack Obama elected president.

2009: Public health emergency over swine flu.

Sonia Sotomayor, first Hispanic and the third woman appointed to U.S. Supreme Court.

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SERVICE

This is the Friends School Way

One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Notebook

Friends School fosters a

by Emilio Martinez ’12

culture of service that goes beyond the classroom. The process begins in the Lower and Middle Schools, with initiatives coordinated by teachers, parents and the children themselves. By the time they reach Upper School, our students are beginning to think about what types of meaningful service they will do to complete the School’s 50-hour requirement for graduation.

More often than not, these students go well beyond the minimum.

This is the Friends School way.

In the following stories, students reveal the transformative effect one individual can have in the everyday lives of others. In the process, they discover how community service stops being an act of charity, or an academic requirement, and becomes something profound and enduring.

—Cristina Saenz de Tejada, Upper School Community Service Director, teacher and Friends parent

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—or how I helped build a school with cereal boxes

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hen I was in seventh grade I developed a huge interest in environmentalism and sustainability. By the eighth grade, I started taking action in various ways, both at home and at school. While browsing through one of my favorite websites, treehugger.com, I found an idea for creating noteThree of the children for whom the author led books out of cereal box covers and an art class at a Mozambique orphanage for printer paper that’s only been used children with HIV/AIDS. on one side. With the help of my friends I started an after-school group to make the notebooks, which we then sold for three dollars each.

The project was well received by Middle School students and the administration. The art teachers gave us space in the art room to store all of our supplies and to build the notebooks. We also received financial support from Student Meeting for Business and from the Middle School library, which purchased a binding machine for us. With all this help, the initiative moved forward with much commitment and enthusiasm.

The following summer, my mother, a health communicator at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, was working on an HIV/AIDS project in Mozambique and invited me to accompany her. During this trip I was introduced to the Maro School, a training and social development center in Maputo, Mozambique’s capital, that offers life skills courses to underprivileged students. Professor Alberto Mauricio Armando, the church pastor who founded the Center, offered me the opportunity to help teach English pronunciation to the students, most of whom were 17 to 25 years old. He also let me lead an art class at a local orphanage where many of the children had HIV/AIDS. Both experiences were incredibly rewarding. When Professor Mauricio told me about his plans to expand the Center to allow for more teaching space and additional students, I knew I had to help. That fall, I entered Upper School and, with some friends, began the Recycled Notebook Club, with sale proceeds to benefit the Maro School expansion. The club met after school to make the notebooks with supplies gathered from recycling stations located throughout the School. We sold the notebooks for three dollars in the Quaker Closet and at Holly Fest and other events. By year’s end, we had raised over $500, which we sent to Professor Mauricio to support the school construction.

Today the Upper School Notebook Club is still running. My co-heads, Beverly Lasan ’12 and Ben Lewin ’12, along with our faculty advisor, Ms. Kinder, are its core members. This year we’ll be trying something new: rather than give all the proceeds to the Maro School, we’ve decided that the money we collect will go to different causes, depending on the interests of the group.

That way others can share in the experience that I had—of working toward a goal and seeing one’s ideas become a reality. ◾

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A Passion for Teaching English as a Second Language

by Miles Calabresi ’11

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s poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. said, “Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.” Using language is a magical thing, permitting both expression and comprehension of ideas. Exchanging information with others allows society to develop. If someone is unable to communicate effectively that person cannot participate in society. Millions of immigrants in the U.S. face this problem every day. In Baltimore, many Hispanic immigrants do not speak English. They have problems with even the barest Hispanic imminecessities: getting a job, getting insurgrants who have ance, conversing with police and firedifficulty speakfighters, and explaining emergencies to doctors. Those who came from poorer ing English cancountries often have had little to no not participate schooling, even in their native language. effectively in our The Esperanza Center in Fells Point serves this community. Through their society.

TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) program, which uses volunteers to teach English to non-Anglophone immigrants (most of whom are Spanish-speakers), the Center assists both immigrants and those who have lived in the local Spanishspeaking community all their lives, yet cannot interact in our society.

I started teaching at the Esperanza Center in January 2009.

Eva Jacobs ’09, who last year headed the Upper School Spanish Club, introduced me to the project in the fall of 2008; she had worked there in the past and gave a presentation about it on Quaker Day. I chose this as my service project because I like foreign languages and thought I would enjoy the project. I’ve been going back ever since.

I had never taught prior to this experience and was a little nervous my first day, but Diana Siemer, a teacher and the Center’s ESOL program coordinator trains volunteers and helped me settle into the program. Now every Saturday during the school year, I go to the center to teach English for two hours. During the summer, I teach more often, as classes take place twice each weekday for two-hour sessions.

By far the most gratifying aspect of this project is seeing the results of our work. We celebrate that María got a new job or that José, who came here just a month ago, can now converse in English about his weekend plans. There are frustrations as well. English is a vast and complex language that is difficult

Lois Cannon, a volunteer at the Esperanza Center, teaches English to a small group of clients.

to learn, and the students struggle with it.

Student dedication can be another problem.

Some very gifted students will give up after one or two tries when they realize that they will not speak flawless English after a short time. Some will show up once but not come again for a month, at which point they will have forgotten most of what they learned. It is also difficult to keep track of so many students whose skills and experience vary greatly.

I have tried to raise awareness for this worthwhile project by encouraging my friends to volunteer and inviting them to come out with me. This fall, I plan to hold a Quaker Day session about the Center to attract more potential volunteers. I would also like to organize drives for supplies that the center needs, such as teaching materials.

The benefits of this project are consistent with Friends School’s philosophy of community service. The School first introduced me to “service learning”: the idea that community service is an opportunity for the steward to learn and gain understanding from the experience while doing good for the community. Not only have I improved my Spanish, my communication abilities, and a multitude of other skills gained through teaching, I’ve met some incredible people. ◾ Esperanza Center, 430 S Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21231; 443.825.3437. Rosa Azcarate, Volunteer Coordinator; Diana Siemer, TESOL Program Director/Coordinator.

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SERVICE

Friends supports public-private Middle Grades Partnership

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he Middle Grades Partnership (MGP) in August completed its third summer at Friends. Founded in 2005 by the Morton and Jane Blaustein and Baltimore Community Foundations, MGP seeks to prepare 600 academically-promising Baltimore City Public middle schoolers for success in the city’s most challenging public high schools, including City College and Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.

MGP draws on expertise from public and independent school educators, who jointly conceive and teach lesson plans during summer and after-school sessions. The program also makes use of independent schools’ well-equipped classroom facilities. At Friends, students from Connexions Community and Hampstead Hill Academies take advantage of spacious classrooms and laboratories in the Jonathan M. Camp Science and Mathematics Wing. Upper School English teacher Felicia Wilks was once again Friends’ site director and Middle School math teacher John Watt served as an MGP instructor, teaching students and working side by side with teachers from Connexions and Hampstead Hill. ◾

Lower Schooler Shelby Strickler spearheads service initiative to rebuild vandalized city playground

Children enrolled in the Middle Grades Partnership participate in a math class taught by our own Middle School math teacher John Watt.

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helby Strickler was deeply affected last September when arson destroyed the playground at Stadium Place. The Friends third grader, who lives with her family near the award-winning GEDCO development project, enjoyed spending time there, especially on the climbing wall.

In the weeks following the fire, a groundswell of local support to rebuild the playground grew; Shelby, too, was moved to act. “She wanted something good to come out of the loss of this green space,” according to her second grade teacher Cindy Burggraf.

Shelby Strickler ’19.

With Burggraf ’s support, Shelby rallied her classmates around the effort. Using talking points and a PowerPoint presentation she made in class, she then approached the Lower and Middle School communities, suggesting ways that students and teachers could contribute to the rebuilding effort.

“It was exciting to Friends’ response to Shelby’s call to action see how this effort was overwhelming. The eighth graders spent a day at the playground site helping with conhelped students feel struction. Several Lower School classes held connected to their book fairs, selling each other their gently-used books from home and donating the profits. community and to Other grades contributed snacks for the workother children in the ers and created banners with encouraging city,” said teacher words to titivate the building site. Shelby’s grade, the Class of 2019, held a chore camCindy Burggraf. paign to earn money at home. Faculty and staff contributed, too. By May 8, Shelby and Friends had raised $568 for the new playground.

In July, Shelby learned that her efforts had earned her the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP, Maryland Chapter) Outstanding Youth Fundraiser award; her teacher, Cindy Burggraf, had nominated her. On October 26, Shelby accepted the award at the association’s annual luncheon, held at the Hyatt Regency Inner Harbor. An audience of more than 700 guests gave the beaming eight-year-old a standing ovation. “I was excited but a little nervous,” said Shelby of the experience.

In addition to honoring Shelby for her good work, AFP donated $250 in her honor to the Stadium Place playground rebuilding project.

In the days following the school-wide playground drive, Burggraf ’s classroom reflected on Shelby’s actions and their work together for the playground. “They were able to see how one person’s ideas could help positive change begin and grow,” she says. “It was exciting to see how this effort helped them feel connected to their community and to other children in the city.” ◾

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Uthando Doll Project

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hen Susan Bartolini, Friends School nurse, began planning a trip to South Africa last spring to visit her son Philip ’06, she had an additional goal in mind. An avid knitter, she had learned about the Uthando Doll Project through a knitter’s website. The Uthando Project (Uthando is the isiZulu word for “love”) distributes donated handmade dolls in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, where one-quarter of the nation’s children live. Poverty and HIV/AIDS are rampant, and as many as 20 percent of the children are orphans. The dolls are used for imaginative play and to help children with their feelings of loss and grief.

Bartolini spread the word that she wanted to take as many dolls as possible when she and her husband Bob left for South Africa in June. By the time they boarded the plane, she had with her 137 knitted, crocheted and sewn dolls packed in two suitcases. Doll makers included members of the Middle School knitting club as well as adult knitters and crocheters from the Friends School community. ◾

Above, Philip Bartolini ’06 with local volunteers at the Ubuntu Children’s Crisis Center, an orphanage and safe home in Edenvale township, South Africa. He spent a semester at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Knitting Takes Off at Lanvale

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t’s 10:30 on a Saturday morning and inside Room 203½ in the Lanvale Building, a repurposed public school near Broadway and North Avenue, 12-year-old Travis and his friend Antoine eagerly await the arrival of the Friends School knitters. Travis clutches the three-inch section of knitting he’s already completed, his pride evident in his smile. Antoine wants to learn, too. He and a group of mothers and daughters standing nearby are newcomers. Within moments, five Friends volunteers arrive. The group exchanges greetings and soon the familiar click of knitting needles, punctuated with quiet chatter and the occasional, if mild, expletive, fills the hallway. For 90 minutes, members of two very different communities have come together to knit, sew and get to know each other.

The knitting sessions grew out of a brainstorming session between Becky Dolls made by members of the Boynton, Friends’ Service Learning Coordinator, Tim Williams, president/CEO of Friends School community. the Supportive Housing Group (and father of three Friends alumni) and Carissa Cartalemi, program manager of the Lanvale Transitional Housing Program (THP). The three organizers were seeking activities that would bring the Friends School and Lanvale communities together. Lanvale is a nonprofit organization in East Baltimore that provides affordable housing and support services to 36 homeless families who are reuniting after separation caused by substance abuse. Its residents work towards stable housing and employment, and many attend school for G.E.D. and career training.

“Carissa had this larger idea of focusing on skills that might lend themselves to making things that would sell,” said Boynton. Knitting surfaced on the list. A call went out to Friends employees to find those interested in a Saturday morning knitting experience. A core group of ten knitters with varied experience emerged, and classes began in early May. During the summer months a Tuesday morning class was added. When Susan Bartolini joined the group, she showed some of the knitters the dolls that were created for the Uthando Project and many expressed interest in joining the effort.

By all accounts the stitching experience was a success: in just two months, 15 adults and four children learned to knit with Friends School. The experience has created a bond and a creative outlet for members of both communities. Next up for the Friends-Lanvale handcrafters? Jewelry making, says Boynton. “I’ve put Carissa in touch with two possible jewelry teachers.” ◾ For more information about the Friends School-Lanvale THP project, contact Becky Boynton at bboynton@friendsbalt.org.

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Growing Food, Flowers for Education, Service The Friends School and Stony Run Friends Meeting communi-

Friends Community Garden Grows!

ties in April broke ground on

Above: The garden provides another avenue for structured interaction across academic divisions.

Below: David Bruder ’13 helps Kaila Kurtz ’21 and Quinby Sohlberg ’21 water the basil.

the Friends Community Garden.

Located just inside the School’s entrance, the 960 square foot garden is supported by grants and donations of time, money and expertise, including that of the Guilford Garden Club, whose members designed the garden using established “square foot gardening” principles. The garden enhances the School’s education program by providing students with handson opportunities to plant and harvest food and observe flowers and insects; teachers use

any Scott ’21 w Above: Robb iar chin-high m ders through ’13 at op W : Lyssa golds. Below 1. ’2 ery and Laila Low

these experiences to foster ongoing discussions about stewardship. The garden strengthens Friends’ community service program by enabling the School to provide fresh, healthy food to the CARES food pantry in Govans. Diane Proctor, a Meeting member who helped spearhead the garden project, estimates that by late September about 60 bags of produce had been donated to CARES, with a late fall harvest to follow.

Here, photographer Harry Connolly ’70 captured ninth graders in Deb Kinder’s food science class working with their first grade buddies to keep the garden watered.

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SERVICE

Friends, Park Team Up for Habitat for Humanity

Let’s Do It Again!

Joyful dedication ceremony caps year of hard work On May 30, the Friends and Park School communities celebrated as Habitat for Humanity handed the keys to the homeowners at the newly-renovated Jefferson Street houses. The dedication ceremony was a joyful occasion, with speeches, prayers, songs and many smiles.

On the heels of its successful co-sponsorship, with Park School, of a rehabbed Patterson Park home, Friends’ Habitat for Humanity Club this fall announced that they’re doing it again. With their Park counterparts, students will raise hammers and dollars to restore a rowhouse at 1151 Ward Street in the Washington Village/Pigtown community.

Last year, Friends students raised more than $30,000,

Above: The Quaketones performed a lively number: (l.-r.) Nate Foster '11, Sam KeamyMinor '12, Billy Scaletta '12, David Socolar '12, Alex Young ’11, Declan Meagher '12 and Eric Ritter '12.

including in-kind donations, for building materials. They’re hoping for an equally strong response from the Friends community in 2010. (Chesapeake Habitat for Humanity estimates the cost of a single Baltimore city rowhouse rehabilitation at approximately $100,000.) The Upper School

Above: Janie Gordon and Stella GordonZigel ’11. Below: Class of 2009’s Mitchell Awalt and Kylie Davis were Habitat for Humanity co-heads.

Habitat club is once again sponsoring fundraising events, giving corporate presentations and painting houses to raise donations through its HabiPainters program.

Students are also providing on-site labor at the Habitat

Below and right: The house at 2124 Jefferson Street before…and after.

Above (l.-r.): Tony Boswell ’10, Hannah Gartner ‘11, Dana Davis ’11, Stella Gordon-Zigel ’11, Kylie Davis ’09, the new homeowner Monyetta Johnson and her family, John Reilly, Arielle Allentoff ’10, Mitchell Awalt ’09 and Michael Paulson.

house and invite members of the community (age 16 and older) to join them. This year’s Habitat build dates are: December 12, January 9 (FS alumni), Monday, January 18 (MLK Day), February 27, March 6, April 17, May 8. To sign up, or for more information, contact Michael Paulson at mpaulson@friendsbalt.org.

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Through Salsa Sales, Clean Water for Honduran Villagers

E Charlotte Heyrman ’09 (l.) translates English to Spanish for a local family.

Katy McConnell ’10 (r.) translates for nurse Mary Banks in the emergency room.

Rachael Tellerman ’09 helps build a water filtration system.

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ach June for the past ten years, a group of some 50 doctors, builders, students and adult volunteers has traveled to Atima, a small village in the Santa Barbara province of Honduras. They set up camp in an elementary school and, for the next eight days, provide important services to the residents whose lives were upturned in 1998 after Hurricane Mitch destroyed villages and devastated the country’s infrastructure, including water and sanitation systems.

Three Friends students—Katy McConnell ’10, Charlotte Heyrman ’09 and Rachael Tellerman ’09—have regularly participated in the Atima service project, organized by The Church of the Redeemer (the McConnells and Heyrmans are longtime parishioners). Two of the girls’ fathers, Bill McConnell and Ken Tellerman, both physicians, have been involved since its inception.

The expedition comprises a medical clinic, a stove project, clothing distribution and a clean water project—the latter being the brainchild of Ken Tellerman, according to Rachael. “He was trying to come up with ways that we could have a more permanent and lasting effect on the village and felt that providing clean water would be relatively simple.” He researched the best purification methods the villagers could use and, after some trial and error, came up with a workable solution. In the fall of 2006, he suggested that Rachael start a School service club to raise money for the A finished filter purification systems. She took the idea to Heyrman and system in a local McConnell, and the Clean Water Club was born. resident's house.

The girls gathered ideas and decided that selling homeThe filters greatly made salsa would be a good way to raise money and aware- reduce the inciness of the pressing need for clean water among the dence of waterHonduran poor. “We were trying to think of something that borne illnesses. we all loved about Honduras that we could incorporate back into the project to sell,” recalls Katy McConnell. “It wasn’t hard to settle on food, because luckily while we are down there we enjoy some of the best meals you will ever eat from a friend, Amelia Mendoza. One of her specialties is her salsa.”

For three years, the Clean Water Club has participated in the School’s service days—collecting orders and recruiting peers to prepare large batches of the salsa cruda (raw sauce) in the Meetinghouse kitchen. (Atwater’s, a local café, donates many of the ingredients.) The club also prepares several batches to sell at Holly Fest, where their booth features background information about the Honduran Clean Water project, including demonstrations of Dr. Tellerman’s water filtration system. Heyrman estimates the club has prepared and sold about 400 pints of salsa in the past two years, at $5 a pint. All proceeds are used to purchase materials for the systems.

Heyrman and Tellerman are now freshmen, respectively, at Wesleyan University and Washington University in St. Louis; McConnell will graduate from Friends in June. Not surprisingly, all three plan to continue their advocacy of the Clean Water Project. In 2010, the project will take an exciting turn, says Ken Tellerman. “We are hoping to work with someone who actually makes the filters in Honduras so the funds will stay in the Honduran business community.”

“Being at Friends has definitely shaped my views about service,” says McConnell. “The fact that we were able to bring up this project, which was completely separate from School, and form a club, give presentations during Collection, and fundraise on community days, is really a testament to the School’s commitment to service.” ◾

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In Their Own Words: Five Students Speak About Friends Athletics FSAA (Friends School Athletic Association) Awards Night is held three times annually at the close of each athletic season to honor individual athletes and teams for their accomplishments. The evening’s highlight is the traditional senior speech, when one or more athletes from the graduating class takes the podium to share what their Friends’ athletics experience has meant to them.

Last year, five members of the Class of 2009 were asked to speak at FSAA Awards Night. COLLECTION is pleased to offer excerpts from their speeches.

On participation: “At Friends, sports are neither worshipped nor disparaged. Not everyone is a Varsity athlete, but nobody is judged by their ability to perform on the athletic field . . . No student is ever told, they aren’t ‘good enough’ to play sports.

Here, the emphasis is not on how many goals you score, or how many wins your team has accumulated, but rather on the fact that you participated. This attitude is responsible for the great social experience I’ve had at Friends.”

—-Kurt Herzog ’09

The 2009 Varsity Girls’ Soccer Team celebrates after winning the B Conference Championship.

On joy: “An athlete will shine by being joyful and that means by having fun . . . I can be tired, hungry and sore at the end of a practice or game and I can still say I had fun. Fun is hard. Fun is attaining togetherness. Fun is realizing harmony of purpose. Fun is how the team played or practiced that day; the assist that was provided for someone else to finish big on. It is the opportunity to be part of a team, whether supporting your friends from the sidelines, or taking charge on the field and not allowing your team to be beaten.”

—-Ryan DeSmit ’09

On dedication: “At Friends, I have seen the coaches’ dedication give a team hope when we thought all was lost. I have seen the fans’ dedication lift up a team with their cheers and the singing of ‘Simple Gifts.’ I’ll always hate to lose, but at least I know that losing doesn’t define a team; what that team does with a loss, and how they move forward to prepare for the next game, is what truly defines a team.”

—-Flannery McArdle ’09

Kurt Herzog ’09 heads to the goal during a spring 2009 Varsity Lacrosse game on Deering Field.

On mentoring: “When I was younger, having older teammates as mentors helped me adjust to high school and made me feel like I was a part of something special. Now I am an upper classman and I am proud to follow in their footsteps. As a senior I feel so protective and proud of my younger teammates. I love watching them blossom in front of my eyes.”

—-Hannah Patterson ’09

On winning a championship: “This fall season was the year all the hard work paid off . . . We seniors never wanted practice to end early because we knew this was our last soccer season at Friends, and we wanted to play together as much as we possibly could. This year we won the championship. It was the best feeling in the world and I couldn’t have asked for a better ending to my high school career…I’ve had an amazing education and an unforgettable athletic experience. I’ve been coached by great coaches, played with great players and friends, and have been supported by a great community.”

—-Lindsay Cooper ’09

Hannah Patterson ’09 pitches during the Quakers’ final 2009 home softball game.

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TRUSTEE NEWS

New Friends Board Members Tom Brooks, an independent energy investment consultant, serves on the Finance Committee and presently has two children enrolled at Friends.

Mac Tonascia ’10 is in his 14th year at Friends. A member of the Varsity Golf team, he is also an accomplished musician and has studied piano for 13 years, cello for eight years and, lately, has been experimenting with guitar. He serves on the Development Committee.

Mark Weinman is president of The Morris Weinman Company, a commercial real estate development and management firm. He serves on the Building and Finance Committees and is the father of three Friends students.

Bill White, vice president of client development for Corbyn Investment Management, serves on the Development Committee. He has one child presently enrolled at Friends. With his wife, Blair White, he co-chaired the 2007–08 Annual Fund.

Returning Trustees John Baer, ophthalmologist; owner, South Penn Eye Care.

Member, Quaker Mission Oversight and Finance Committees and the Financial Aid Subcommittee. Parent of a Friends student, Quaker, attends Stony Run Friends Meeting.

Elizabeth McKennon, principal, McKennon, Shelton & Henn LLP law firm. Member, Finance and Quaker Mission Oversight Committees and Audit Subcommittee. Parent of two alumnae.

Sue Carnell, retired college administrator.Vice Chair of Board. Co-clerks Diversity Committee; member, Committee on Trustees, Quaker Mission Oversight Committee, Joint Nominating Subcommittee and Executive Committee. Parent of four alumni and grandmother of four current students.

Member, Stony Run Friends Meeting.

Geraldine M. Mullan, attorney, Coventry Resources Corp. Clerk, Auxiliary Enterprise Subcommittee; member, Development Committee. Parent of a current Friends student and an alumnus.

Alice Cherbonnier, president, Allegro Communications

Dorothy H. Powe, director, investor relations, McCormick & Co., Inc. Board Secretary; member, Quaker Mission Oversight and Executive Committees. Parent of two alumnae.

and editor, Baltimore Chronicle. Member, Quaker Mission Oversight, Diversity and Development Committees; Board liaison to Stony Run Friends Meeting (member and former Clerk). Parent of an alumnus.

Anne Powell, longtime Friends School volunteer. Clerk,

Alison Fass ’77, psychotherapist. Clerk, Committee on

Edwin Remsberg ’83, professional photographer. Coclerk, Quaker Mission Oversight Committee. Parent of two current Friends students. Member, Little Falls Friends Meeting.

Trustees. Alumni liaison to the Board. Parent of a current Friends student and an alumnus.

Development Committee; member, Committee on Trustees and Finance Committee. Parent of two alumni.

Nick Fessenden, history teacher, Friends Upper School.

Member, Quaker Mission Oversight and Building Committees.

Parent of two Friends School alumni. Member, Stony Run Friends Meeting.

Stephen Rives, teacher, St. Paul’s School for Girls.

Member, Diversity and Quaker Mission Oversight Committees.

Clerk, Gunpowder Friends Meeting.

Suzy Filbert, speech pathologist, Baltimore County Public

Development and Finance Committees and Investment Management Subcommittee. Parent of two Friends students.

Member, Stony Run Friends Meeting.

Schools. Co-clerk, Quaker Mission Oversight Committee; member, Committee on Trustees. Parent of a current Friends student. Member, Stony Run Friends Meeting.

Norman Forbush ’78, marketing consultant.Clerk, Financial Aid Subcommittee; member, Development, Building, Finance and Executive Committees. Parent of a current Friends student. Son and grandson, respectively, of former Friends Headmasters W. Bryon Forbush, II ’47 and Bliss Forbush, Sr. Member, Stony Run Friends Meeting.

Carole Schreck, researcher, CoStar Group. Member,

Wanda Sitzer, customer service consultant. Member, Diversity Committee. Parent of two Friends students.

Bill Smillie, business consultant. Chair of the Board. Clerk, Executive Committee; member ex officio on all committees.

Parent of two alumni.

Deirdre Stokes, college professor. Member, Committee on

Wallace Gatewood, professor and businessman. Co-

Trustees and Joint Nominating Subcommittee. Parent of two Friends alumni.

clerk, Diversity Committee; member, Quaker Mission Oversight and Finance Committees. Parent of two alumnae and a current Friends student.

Mark Stromdahl, principal, Edmeades & Stromdahl

Thora Johnson ’88, partner, Venable LLP law firm.

Member, Committee on Trustees. Parent of two Friends students. Member, Stony Run Friends Meeting.

Architects. Board Vice Chair; clerk, Building Committee; member, Executive and Finance Committees and Committee on Trustees. Parent of an alumnus. Member, Little Falls Friends Meeting.

Howard Loewenberg, managing director, Signal Hill Capital Group. Board Treasurer. Clerk, Investment Management Subcommittee; co-clerk, Finance Committee; member, Audit Subcommittee. Parent of two current Friends students.

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Strategic Plan Update

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he tactical phase of Friends’ strategic plan continues. Based on the recommendations proposed in March by the 19-member advisory committee, eight standing committees have been formed, each with an action plan to guide its efforts in the coming months. The committees include: Quaker Principles, Teaching and Learning, Diversity Committee, Compensation, Financial Aid, Student Services, Service Learning and Marketing.

Friends constituents can look forward to a series of ongoing articles on the committees’ workings that will appear in this publication as well as our new quarterly on-line UPDATE newsletter and other web-based communications.

Diversity Initiatives Felicia Wilks has been named a Diversity Council co-clerk. In this role she will help coordinate efforts between the Diversity Council, a parent-faculty body, and the Board of Trustee’s newly-formed Diversity Committee.

With colleagues Lisa Filer, John Watt and Lisa Countess she will also work to develop a series of thoughtful community conversations about diversity, and will support the School’s efforts in the critical area of recruiting faculty of color.

Wilks’ appointment to co-clerk expands her ongoing work in this area. Since 2007, she has coordinated the School’s BEST Leadership Program, a grant-funded initiative designed to ensure that students who come to Friends under the auspices of the Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust (BEST) successfully adapt to the School’s culture and academic program. She is also site director for the Middle Grades Partnership (MGP), a public-private school partnership for motivated middle school students enrolled in Baltimore City Public Schools. Friends has been a host school for MGP since 2006. ◼

TRUSTEE NEWS

Employee Recognition

At the eighth annual Employee Recognition Awards celebration on May 6, the School’s Board of Trustees honored 23 faculty and staff members for their longtime service to Friends:

1. Merilyn Brothers enjoys an ovation from her colleagues. 2. Margaret Richardson, pictured with Board chair Bill Smillie, was celebrated for 20 years at Friends. 3. Middle School art teacher Evan Gifford, pictured with trustee Carole Schreck, was honored for his 35 years at Friends. 4. John Gifford (right), a 25year honoree, caught up with old friend and former colleague Meredith Brothers. 5. Fifteen-year honoree Cindy Burggraf with Bill Smillie. 6. Smillie regales veteran Latin teacher Lisa Countess with his tribute. 7. Friends trustees (l.-r.)

Edwin Remsberg ’83, Alison Fass ’77, Sue Carnell and Norman Forbush ’78 served beverages at the event, which was held at the Zamoiski Alumni Center.

Service Milestones TEN YEARS Ken Fowler, Upper School mathematics teacher Margee Zemarel, Middle School secretary Lynne Warns, Middle School secretary Marty Woolford, Maintenance Josh Valle ’89, Pre-K head teacher

Lyn Ostrov, Upper School art teacher Ralph Parham, Housekeeping Margaret Richardson, Pre-Primary assistant teacher Carol Sieck, Third grade teacher John Watt, Middle School mathematics teacher

25 YEARS

Cindy Burggraf, Second grade teacher Gayle Latshaw, Assistant Head of School for Development Mary Logan, K/Pre-First art teacher Carl Schlenger, Upper School mathematics teacher Pamela Zavitz, Lower School Assistant Principal

Merilyn Brothers, Housekeeping Lisa Countess, Upper School Latin, English teacher John Gifford, Music Department coordinator Terry James, Middle School French, Spanish teacher Anne Martin ‘37, Alumni Office assistant Stanley Mrozinski, Maintenance Department

20 YEARS

35 Years

Barbara Carew, Business Office, Accts. Receivable associate

Evan Gifford, Middle School art teacher

15 YEARS

Production Notes Readers will notice that this issue of COLLECTION is in full color throughout. Formerly the magazine was printed in two sections, one in full color and the other in two colors.

Thanks to improved, more affordable technologies and the availability of environmentally-responsible soy inks, it is now possible to print the entire issue in color. Enjoy!

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DEVELOPMENT

Major Donor Reception Friends School hosted a reception for its major donors on October 7. The evening featured music, courtesy of pianist Mathew Lane P ’21, and a toast to celebrate Friends School’s 225th anniversary.

Above: Chuck and Ann Holland P ’79, ’82, ’94, Pete and Joan Partridge P ’89; left: Galen Haggerty ’00, Esther Sharp P ’00, ’13; below: Flemming and Laura Madsen P ’17 with Annual Fund Co-Chair, David Todd P ’14, ’16, ’18.

Sally Leimbach ’64, P ’84, ’88, Sally Michel GP ’16, ’18.

Above: Matt Micciche P ’22, Mary and Paul Roberts P ’81, ’83 GP ’17; right: Kay and Bill McConnell P ’02, ’05, ’10.

Ellen and Mark Stromdahl P ’08.

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Left: Annual Fund Co-Chair Betsey Todd P ’14, ’16, ’18, Judy Witt P ’14, Sandy Sidle P ’11, ’14; above: George and Laura Thomas P ’06, ’08, Gordon Gilbert P ’07, ’09.

DEVELOPMENT

An Archives Fit for Friends Gift from Class of 1958 makes accessible historic treasure trove of Baltimore’s Oldest School

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t took 225 years, but the Friends School Archives have finally found a permanent home. No more moving from building to building, living out of cardboard boxes and braving the occasional basement flood. Thanks to the Class of 1958 and professional archivist Elizabeth DiCataldo, the treasures from Friends’ storied past now reside in a newly enlarged space off the main lobby of the James L. Zamoiski ’68 Alumni Center.

The School’s first-ever customized Archive space is equipped with storage units and professional-quality archival shelving. Such equipment not only aids in the accessibility and organization of materials, but also ensures the prolonged life of the School’s venerable photographs, documents, textiles and other artifacts. An on-site workspace makes research and viewing materials easier.

The Class of 1958 In planning its gift to the School, the Class of viewed the archives 1958’s 50th Reunion committee was offered a few suggestions, including the Archives project, which as essential for the the group unanimously agreed to support. The School’s future as class raised $26,542 to fund the Archives’ furnishwell as its past. ing and professional storage units, according to Eleanor Landauer, Director of Major and Planned Gifts. “They viewed the project as not only significant to the future of the School, but also essential in maintaining its past,” she said.

Of course, creating a dedicated space for the Archives and actually creating order from the piles of boxes of materials are two different things. Enter Ms. DiCataldo, a full-time archivist at Bryn Mawr School whom Alumni Director Amy Langrehr met during a professional development workshop. “I was trying to get some basic knowledge about organizing an archives collection,” recalls Langrehr. “After speaking with Elizabeth, I quickly realized we needed a trained professional.” DiCataldo agreed to help Friends organize its materials on a temporary basis. Over the 2008–09 school year, working one day a week, she transformed the space and, in the process, unearthed many treasures.

Among the most notable: ▶Arthur Lincoln Lamb’s diploma, sent in this year by members of his family, along with printed material, photos, and a family tree. Lamb graduated in 1883, his diploma is signed by Principal “Cousin Eli” Lamb, and among the teachers are Rachel and F. Emerson Lamb, as well as Thomas Sidwell. Arthur Lamb later taught at Friends himself before moving over to The Country School (later renamed Gilman), where he was a much-loved instructor for many years. ▶Scrapbook of Claire Von Marees Stieff, Class of 1917, filled with letters, photographs, hand-drawn invitations, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia of her days at Friends and life in Baltimore at the beginning of the 20th century. (The Archives would welcome many more scrapbooks and photo albums like this!) ▶Photographs, photographs, photographs. Wonderful images depict the School’s history. Some show students and teachers busy in the Park Avenue building, and from the period of construction of the Charles Street campus’ fields and buildings. ◾

In October, Friends welcomed Valerie Vanden Bossche as the School’s new part-time archivist, working two days a month. Visitors to the Archives are welcome by appointment. To schedule a tour, email Vanden Bossche at archivist@friendsbalt.org. If you have a Friends School treasure you would like to donate to the Archives, please contact Amy Langrehr at 410.649.3208 or alangrehr@friendsbalt.org. Thank you!

IRA?

Charitable Gift Annuity?

Life Insurance?

Charitable Remainder Trust?

Have you included Friends in your estate plans? If so, then we want to hear from you!

Notifying Friends when you’ve included the School in your estate plans not only gives us the opportunity to express our heartfelt thanks and welcome you to the Circle of Friends, the School’s Planned Giving Society, it also allows the School to plan more thoughtfully for the future.

Today almost 200 members of the Circle of Friends are helping to ensure Friends’ financial future. Won’t you join them?

If you’d like help in establishing a planned gift for Friends School, or if you’ve already included us in your estate plans but have not yet informed the School, contact Eleanor Landauer in the Office of Planned Giving at 410.649.3316 or e-mail elandauer@friendsbalt.org.

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Dr. Oscar B. Camp, 1920–2009 Board certified surgeon, healthcare pioneer, entrepreneur and philanthropist Excerpts from Dr. Michael R. Camp’s eulogy for his father, delivered at a July 9 memorial service at Friends School.

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which, within five r. Oscar B. Camp, my years, provided father, died at the age of 88 affordable health care on July 4, 2009, from a fall coverage to well over at home. He was born on August one million partici23, 1920, in New York City. His pants in New York father, Romolo Camponeschi, was and New Jersey. a waiter and maitre d’ who always Dad served with the made sure there was food on the U.S. Agency for table; his mother, Angela International DevelopBambace, was the first female vicement (AID), and estabpresident of the International lished a health clinic Ladies Garment Workers Union in Lebanon. He served (ILGWU). He grew up during the as a healthcare conDepression and attended Long sultant to the Clinton Island University, where he Oscar Camp with his wife Lorraine (left) and children Mindy administration, was a excelled in academics and athletand Michael at the 2005 donor reception to celebrate the chairman of the School’s newly-constructed Middle School and the Jonathan ics, including track, rugby and Baltimore-Genoa M. Camp Science & Mathematics Wing. football. He transferred to the Sister Cities CommitUniversity of Maryland, where he tee, was awarded Merit of Honor of Cavalieri by the President of Italy and received his undergraduate degree in 1941. He then received a humanitarian service award from the Jewish enrolled at the University of Maryland School of National Fund.

Medicine, graduating among the top in his class.

Over the years, his philanthropy has benefitted Dad served in the U.S. Public Health Service from numerous nonprofit organizations with large gifts, 1946–48 and then completed a general surgery resiespecially to Friends School, the Baltimore Symphony dency at New York Medical College. He moved to Orchestra, and the Hannah More School. In memory Baltimore to begin his general surgery practice, operatof his younger son, Jonny, who died tragically as a pasing in several hospitals in the Baltimore/Washington senger in an auto accident at the age of 17 during his area. He established his own hospital, Laurel General, senior year at Friends, Dad’s gift to the School allowed where he pioneered the practice of pre-admission testfor the construction of the Jonathan M. Camp Science ing to minimize hospital stays. Dad occasionally per& Mathematics Wing and the establishment of the formed surgery on ILGWU members who had little Jonathan M. Camp Memorial Scholarship Fund, which health coverage. His mother, Angela, would tell them, has provided support to numerous students with “Oscar won’t charge you.” And he didn’t. financial need.

In response to his mother’s urging to provide vision My family and I were lucky to have my father leadbenefits to ILGWU members, Dad established United ing the way, with his commitment to excellence in eduOptical, Inc. Many other small and large groups signed cation, to the well-being of those less fortunate, and to up for coverage, including, in 1968, the City of Baltithe highest quality health care for working men and more, and the company soon became established women. His entrepreneurial spirit, tenacity and vision throughout the country. Other divisions were subsewere years ahead of his time. ◾ quently added—for prescription cards, a dental HMO and PPO, and utilization review—and the company’s Dr. Camp is survived by his wife Lorraine P. Camp; his son Dr. name changed, first to United Healthcare, Inc. and Michael R. Camp and daughter Mindy Camponeschi and their later to Spectra, Inc. When the company was acquired in spouses; his grandchildren Nina M. Camp ’89 and Benjamin P. 2001 by United Health Group, it had 1.5 million policy Camp ’00; a brother, Philip Camponeschi; and numerous holders. Its 400-plus employees, who owned over 70 nieces and nephews. percent of the company through their stock options, Donations in Dr. Oscar Camp’s memory may be made to received substantial cash payments in that acquisition. the Jonathan M. Camp Memorial Scholarship Fund at In 1990, Dad provided financing for the start-up of Friends School of Baltimore. Contact Eleanor Landauer at what became MagnaCare, a New York medical PPO elandauer@friendsbalt.org or call 410.649.3316.

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DEVELOPMENT

Using IRA Transfers to Support Annual Fund:

Betsey and David Todd Lead Annual Fund

Easy, Good for the School and Beneficial to You Every year since 2006, when a law was enacted that allows people age 70½ to make charitable donations directly from their traditional or Roth IRA accounts, Sue Gross ’53 has taken advantage of this easy way to support Friends School.

Suzanne Hoffberger Gross ’53

“I am pleased to regularly support Friends’ Annual Fund, and making a gift directly from my IRA for the last few years has been very convenient. It’s a simple transfer of funds that's fast, easy, good for the School and has tax benefits for me.”

The Charitable IRA Rollover Provision in the Pension Preservation Act of 2006 has been extended through December 31, 2009. Donors have until then to transfer funds from their IRA accounts without incurring income tax on the withdrawal. While you cannot claim a charitable deduction for IRA gifts, you will not pay income tax on the amount.

There are two major benefits to using IRA transfers to support the Annual Fund: ◗ Qualified charitable distributions can total up to $100,000 in each tax year (if your spouse has a separate IRA account, you can each contribute up to $100,000 per tax year); ◗ Such distributions, subject to limitations on your itemized deductions, can be excluded from your gross income for federal income tax purposes on line 15a of Form 1040.

Although Congress has temporarily waived minimum required distributions for tax year 2009 as part of the Worker, Retiree and Employee Recovery Act of 2008, the IRA Rollover opportunity may still provide you with an excellent opportunity to make a gift to Friends.

For more information or to request a sample IRA transfer request letter, please contact Eleanor C. Landauer at 410.649.3316 or elandauer@friends balt.org. Visit the website at www.friendsbalt.org/giving/planned. Thank you.

New Assistant Annual Fund Director Meg Whiteford has joined the Development Office as Assistant Annual Fund Director. In her new role, she will coordinate the alumni giving effort to the Annual Fund. A graduate of Cornell University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in hotel administration and played for the school’s varsity field hockey and lacrosse teams, Whiteford Meg Whiteford also earned a J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law. If her surname looks familiar, that’s because COLLECTION readers have frequently seen it in the pages of Class Notes throughout the years: Meg is married to Tom Whiteford ’85, whose father Bill Whiteford ’57, and whose siblings, Todd ’83 and Craig ’87 are also alumni. Meg and Tom are continuing the Friends tradition: the couple’s sons, John ’16 and Ham ’18, are enrolled at the School.

For the second consecutive year, Betsey and David Todd will cochair the Friends School Annual Fund. The parents of three Friends students—Noah ’14, Samuel ’16 and Grace ’18—the Todds were heartened by the School community’s generous response to last year’s Annual Fund, despite the global financial crisis. Friends raised $1,378,955 in 2008–09, or 98 percent of its goal.

For the Todds, the experience of chairing the Annual Fund and learning more about the School’s development efforts was gratifying. “We met so many families who, like us, feel fortunate to have our children at Friends and who value the sense of community that the School and the parents actively work to create,” says David.

The 2009–10 Annual Fund is off to an excellent start, thanks in no small part to a core group of parents, parents of alumni, alumni, grandparents, and trustees who raised almost $100,000 over six calling nights during the fall phonathons. “We are so grateful to our volunteers,” says Annual Fund Director Dena Wheeler. “We couldn’t do it without them,” The Annual Fund closes on June 30, 2010. This year’s goal is $1.45 million. To learn more about becoming an annual fund volunteer, contact Wheeler at dwheeler@friendsbalt.org or 410.649.3205.

At a time when careful stewardship of our natural resources is more important than ever, Friends is pleased to inform donors that Philanthropy at Friends, the 2008-09 report on voluntary giving, is now available on-line. To view the report, go to: friendsbalt.org/giving/ philanthropyatfriends.pdf

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ALUMNI IN FOCUS

On Terminal Prepositions and other 50-Year Preposteries…

Dear Matthew Micciche, Headmaster of Friends School:

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s a woman of the Class of 1959, I am concerned for the future of your young women and their men. I enjoyed so much seeing the growth at Friends but I am worried that progress has dismissed some important aspects of education. I am referencing the new buildings and programs you toured with us in May during our 50th

Members of the Class of

Reunion. Please indulge me by ’59 (l.-r.) Margaret reading on. [Sorry, Miss Dibert, Murgatroyd, Rosagene for that terminal preposition.]

Weakley and Martha Kegan. All are accomIt is on the topic of values I plished professionals: wish to expand, Mr. Micciche, Murgatroyd owns an and the education to be conantiques store, Weakley is ducted in those new labs and a nurse midwife and Kegan facilities. Where and when did is an interior designer, the Home Economics lab/room artist and occupational become “dismissed”? We young therapist. Inset: the sterling women of the Class of ’59 learned salt spoon she received for her trousseau, compliments to do fine hand stitching, to salt lightly the spinach and boil vigor- of Stieff Silver Co. ously, to prepare and serve a meal to the boys, and to always have three clean tea towels in the kitchen—one for the glasses, one for the dishes and one for the faucets, so that they sparkled at the end of clean-up.

Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Gorsuch were available for “private talks” and appropriately so, as one of the girls at her lunch table group was heard to have boldly admitted to French kissing at the drive-in. We all knew that could lead minimally to family disgrace or a worse fate. Hats and gloves demanded by Miss Dilworth for all off-campus trips, and our learned ability to bend our back legs when reaching over, gave us the lady-like appearances that would make us welcomed wherever we might venture.

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Proper table etiquette was encouraged by the Stieff Silver Co., which sent a bus to take us to their showrooms to select our “silver pattern,” and we all proudly wore a small salt spoon pin with our special choice to advertise for our trousseau.

Do not take this lightly, as with this preparation and excellent academic guidance, we ladies marched gracefully into the cultural revolution of the ’60s and cleared the way for our daughters to have more free choices than we ever imagined possible. Ladies that we were, we did not have to burn our bras, but we showed the world that we could do it all, jobs and families. We set examples for our daughters by winning political offices, owning businesses, preaching as clergy, doing library museum research, and creating art/design. We became professors, engineers and midwives. We ran cancer foundations. We were committed, but it was not easy being a modern woman, as the “boys” took a while to join into the family life beyond financial support. We lived on the cusp, with the media encouraging us through the words of Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan, while our mothers were saying, “My dear, why are you doing that?”

So, Mr. Micciche, I hope that somewhere on the campus of Friends School you offer the importance of good manners and gracious decorum, to accompany the obligations to serve our communities and our families. The ladies of the Class of ’59 are still charming and capable. I think we are all down to one tea towel and a big roll of paper ones. The boys have become men and are gracious to talk with about business, the politics of the day, and their children. Henry Hammond ’59 says that upon occasion they discuss “feelings and relationships.” I believe him. Upon occasion, I set my table with Stieff Rose, put the linen napkins in the rings and serve my family and friends.

We accomplished it all, and are content. We have a tremendous sense of satisfaction and we are forever grateful for the way in which we were prepared at Friends School to meet the challenges of our lives. Was it really 50 years ago?

—Martha Kegan Graham ’59 P.S.: If you do consider a Home Ec. Lab, please buy a large, energy-efficient, gas-operated Barbecue for the gentlemen. ◾

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Weaving Change in Bolivia

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has to take care of her children; yet Illanes is happy. he El Alto Market in Bolivia, just outside the capital She laughs with Bellomy about the first sweater she city of La Paz, is one of the world’s largest. I expected ever made for Artesania Sorata. “We’re like family,” to experience miles of stalls overflowing with goods, she says. with energetic vendors calling out to passersby, including Another artisan, Sergio, does very fine work in largetravelers like me. The reality was quite different. I walked the sized wall hangings. “When we first started working dirt streets in disbelief. with him over 25 years ago, he Trash littered the

by Laura was living in one room with his ground, giving off a horriResnick ’07 whole family,” says Bellomy. ble stench. Vendors dis“Now he’s a homeowner.” For played their wares on Sergio and hundreds of other blankets spread across the rubble— artisans, Bellomy’s venture has scuffed goods ranging from hardware been a miracle, but Bellomy tools to Barbie dolls. They looked at me doesn’t think of her work that with heavy eyes, seeming not to care way. “I always felt like I had to be whether I bought their goods. Worse, the here,” she tells me as we sit in the scene lacked the hustle and bustle of a workshop.

A little girl and a woman model textiles healthy marketplace. created by Artesania Sorata artisans.

In addition to managing Artisans are on the bottom rung of Artesania Sorata, now located in Bolivia’s economic ladder—and Bolivia is the poorest country in South America. One bright spot in La Paz, Bellomy supervises a school for the deaf and an arts workshop for orphaned children. She also runs a this difficult environment is the fair trade organization nonprofit volunteer program that she says “will help to Artesania Sorata, which makes it possible for women artibring our cultures to a place of better equilibrium.” sans to improve their standard of living dramatically while I spent my last day in Bolivia at the workshop. working at home so they can be with their children.

Valeria, a long-time artisan, showed me how to use the Diane Bellomy is the organization’s founder. In 1977, at crochet needle to delicately pull a thread through the the age of 27, frustrated with American consumerism, she weave, and tie a tag to the thread. For several hours, I moved to Sorata, a small town near La Paz. There, Soratan sewed Artesania Sorata tags onto alpaca gloves and women taught her Bolivian weaving techniques learned thick woven hats, working across from Valeria in comfrom their mothers and grandmothers; and she, in turn, fortable silence, surrounded by shelves of lovingly taught them to make items like sweaters and gloves, and made blankets and sweaters. helped them sell their textiles to tourists. Once there was In Bolivia, organizations like Artesania Sorata are enough profit, she used the earnings to provide health care rare.

Many women in La Paz spend all day selling for the artisans and their families, as well as educational bruised fruit for a seventh of an American dollar opportunities for the community, such as literacy classes. apiece, sitting hunched on dirty street corners, their Today, Artesania Sorata provides work for over 200 women, and a few men. They use alpaca and wool to create children hiding behind them or playing among trash heaps. The artisans at Artesania Sorata live a far better beautiful textiles, like tapestries, sweaters, and purses that reflect the artisans’ creativity and social concerns. Most dyes lifestyle, but they’re only a fraction of the women in La are handmade out of walnut leaves, eucalyptus, carrot tops, Paz. As Bellomy said, “Happiness is a way of accomplishing.” If the impoverished women of La Paz are and onion skins. Red dye is made from dead, boiled unhappy, they can’t accomplish a change in their stancochineals, a common South American insect. dard of living. “Artesania Sorata helps to empower peoThe few artisans who are needed in the workshop dye yarn in vats, sew tags onto merchandise, and take inventory. ple with a greater sense of self, which comes from the development of their creative expression. What follows Artisan Eva Illanes usually works at home, but today she is change, positive change.” ◾ has come to the workshop to give her finished weaving to Bellomy and to collect her payment. A radio plays traditional Bolivian folk songs softly in the background.

Illanes tells me that jobs in Bolivia are scarce. Her husband has a good job as a military engineer, but she sees him only once a month for several days and says he doesn’t give her enough money. She’d like to work more, but she

Visit www.artesaniasorata.com to buy textiles or to contact Diane Bellomy with questions about her work or volunteering in Bolivia.

Laura Resnick ’07 attends Barnard College of Columbia University. Contact her at laresnick@gmail.com.

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Class of 2009 Senior Awards The Letitia Stockett English Award: Michael Mandelkorn, Alexa Ercolano The Richard West Clarkson Modern Language Award: Jacki LaBua, Cory Yates The Joan Alma Eckert ’49 Award in Honor of Robert C. Richardson: Eliza Gilmore La Société Honoraire de Français: Eliza Gilmore, Kathryn John, Jacqueline LaBua, Sarah Lewin, David Cerny ’10, Ben Leiner ’10 The Award for Proficiency and Sustained Effort in the Study of Latin: Sam Jennings National Latin Honor Society: Breanna Ercolano, Connor Jennings, Sam Jennings, Flannery McArdle, Bryce Schmidt, Maggie Tennis ’10, Michael Argo ’10, Katie Boyle ’10, Arielle Allentoff ’10, Tony Boswell ’10, Marion Donald ’10, Loni Fink ’10, Matt Malis ’10 The Award for Proficiency and Sustained Effort in the Study of Spanish: Eva Jacobs La Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica: Laura Borinsky, Lindsay Cooper, Kylie Davis, Sam Doyle, Katie Dunn, Eva Jacobs, Jessica Magdeburger, Bryce Schmidt, Rachael Tellerman, Cory Yates, Arielle Allentoff ’10, Abby Cheney ’10, Marion Donald ’10, Aubrey KeadyMolanphy ’10, Stephen May ’10, Kathryn McConnell ’10, Esmé West ’10 The Claire G. Walker Award for Excellence in the Study of Russian: Lizzy Frost Slava: The National High School Slavic Honor Society: Lizzy Frost, Emily Keamy-Minor, Jacki LaBua, Michael Mandelkorn, Matt Moses The Eleanor D. Mace Award for Excellence in the Study of History: Michael Mandelkorn The Eugene Denk Award for Proficiency in Mathematics: Sarah Lewin The Bliss Forbush, Jr. ’40 Award for the Student Showing the Most Growth in the Study of Mathematics: Marcie Schwartz, Nicholas Lehn The William S. Pike Award in the Study of Science: Flannery McArdle

The Award for Proficiency and Sustained Effort in the Field of Art: Anna Paul, Rachael Tellerman, Mitchell Awalt, Hannah Patterson The Christopher R. McGraw ’82 Dramatics Award for Appreciation, Understanding, and Contribution to the Theater: Sallie Robinson, Emily Keamy-Minor The Gerry L. Gomprecht Mixed Chorus Award: Sarah Lewin The Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Vocal Music Program: Sallie Robinson The Isabel Woods Award for the Greatest Contribution to the Department of Music: Emily Keamy-Minor The Adrian M. Cephas Award for Contribution to the Instrumental Music Program: Johari Frasier The Friends School Digital Media Award: Bryce Schmidt The Award for Independent Enrichment through Reading: Sarah Lewin The Friends School Athletic Association (F.S.A.A.) Award: Kurt Herzog, James Torain, Flannery McArdle, Libby Nichols The L. Lawrence Peacock Scholar-Athlete Award: Emily Orrson, Flannery McArdle, Kerry Townsend, Catherine Rosenberg The Bliss Forbush, Sr. Award for Spirit of Fellowship Practiced by a Senior Throughout his or her School Life: Kylie Davis, James Torain The Award for Outstanding Contribution to Quaker Values at Friends School: Nick Lehn, Caroline Gonya Cum Laude Society: Class of 2009, inducted during their junior year: Johari Frasier, Eliza Gilmore, Eva Jacobs, Samuel Jennings, Emily Keamy-Minor, Jacki LaBua, Sarah Lewin, Jessica Magdeburger; Class of 2009, inducted during their senior year: Kylie Davis, Connor Jennings, Emily Orrson, Kathleen Dunn, Kathryn John, Flannery McArdle, Kerry Townsend, Charlotte Heyrman, Catherine Rosenberg; Class of 2010, inducted during their junior year: Marielle McDonagh, David Cerny, Luisa Hallmaier-Wacker, Alex Casella, Benjamin Leiner, Margaret Tennis, Margaret Reed, Ian Oxenham, James Tonascia, Emily Faber

Left: Upper School science teacher Tom Binford presented the Award for Proficiency and Sustained Effort in the Study of Spanish to Eva Jacobs.

Right: (l.-r.) English Department chair Felicia Wilks presented The Letitia Stockett English Award to Alexa Ercolano and Michael Mandelkorn.

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Graduation 2009

The Class of 2009 lt ll Awa Mitche , t s o r izzy F (l.-r.) L nig. ah Koe e L and

John Stokes flanked by his sister Camille ’06, left, and mother Deirdre Stokes, a Friends trustee.

Reema Sood receives her diploma from Matt Micciche.

Legacy Alumni The Class of 2009 included 12 legacies—children or grandchildren of alumni. Front row, l.-r.: Marrio Davis, Marilyn Harris-Davis ’71, Henry Taylor ’70, Anna Taylor, Barbara Zadek ’80, Matt Moses, Erin Weinblatt, Paul Weinblatt ’77; second row: Doug DeSmit ’80, Ryan DeSmit, Duncan Walker ’78, Max Walker, Andy Cooper ’73, Jake Cooper, Amy Gould John ’80; third row: Jake Trout, Jerry Trout ’80, Greg Pabst, Mary Strouse Pabst ’70, Chris Holter, Jr., Susan Russo Walker ’79, Katy John; back row: Chris Holter ’80, David Ball, Doug Ball ’76.

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Class of 2009 College Choices Albright College (3) Alfred University (2) Allegheny College American University (5) Arizona State University Auburn University (2)* Barnard College Bates College* Bay State College Bennington College Bentley University Boston College* Boston University (6)* Bowdoin College (3)* Bowie State University* Brown University (3)* Bryn Mawr College (2) Bucknell University Burlington College Canisius College Carleton College (3)* Carnegie Mellon University (2) Case Western Reserve University (4) Champlain College* Clemson University (3) Colby College College of Charleston (6)* Colorado College (3) Colorado State University Columbia College Connecticut College (5)* Coppin State University Dartmouth College* Davidson College* Davis & Elkins College Denison University (2) DePaul University Dickinson College (2) Drew University (2) Drexel University (3) Earlham College (2) * Elmira College (1) Elon University (2) Emmanuel College* Emory University Fairfield University Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison* Fisher College Florida Southern College Fordham University (3) Franklin and Marshall College (3)* George Mason University Georgetown University* Gettysburg College (2)* Goucher College (2) Grinnell College Guilford College Hamilton College, NY* Hampshire College (2) * Harvard University (2) * 24

Harvey Mudd College Haverford College (3)* High Point University (2)* Hobart and William Smith Colleges (4)* Hofstra University (3) Hood College (2) Indiana University at Bloomington Ithaca College (2) * James Madison University (2) Johns Hopkins University Juniata College (3) * Kenyon College (2) * Lake Forest College Lehigh University (2)* Loyola College in Maryland Loyola University New Orleans* Lycoming College (4) Lynn University* Macalester College (2) * Manhattanville College Marquette University Marshall University Maryland Institute College of Art Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2)* McDaniel College (4)* Mercyhurst College Miami University, Oxford (3) Middlebury College (2) * Moravian College Morehouse College Morgan State University* Muhlenberg College New York University (2)* Northeastern University (5)* Northern Arizona University Oberlin College Occidental College Ohio Wesleyan University (5) Oxford College of Emory University (2 Pennsylvania State University, University Park (2) Randolph-Macon College Ringling College of Art and Design* Rochester Institute of Technology Rollins College Rutgers University Saint Joseph's University Sarah Lawrence College Savannah College of Art and Design Skidmore College (5)* Smith College (2)* Southern Methodist University* St. John’s University, Queens Campus (2) St. Mary’s College of Maryland (5)* Stevenson University Suffolk University Susquehanna University (2) Syracuse University (5 Temple University (5)* The Catholic University of America The College of Wooster (4)

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The George Washington University Towson University* Trinity College Tufts University (2) Tulane University (9)* Union College University of Alabama University of California, Santa Cruz University of Charleston University of Chicago (2) University of Colorado, Boulder (2) University of Connecticut (2) University of Delaware (7)* University of Georgia University of Hartford (2) University of Maryland, Baltimore County (5)* University of Maryland, College Park (14)* University of Massachusetts, Amherst University of Miami (6) University of Michigan (2) University of New Hampshire (3) University of North Carolina, Asheville University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2) University of North Carolina, Wilmington University of Pennsylvania* University of Pittsburgh (4)* University of Richmond University of Rochester (3) University of South Carolina (3) University of Tennessee, Knoxville University of Vermont (6) University of Virginia Ursinus College (2) Vanderbilt University (2)* Vassar College Villanova University (2)* Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (3) Virginia Wesleyan College Wagner College Washington and Jefferson College (2)* Washington and Lee University Washington College (6)* Washington University in St. Louis (4)* Wesleyan University (3)* West Virginia University (4)* Williams College Wittenberg University) York College of Pennsylvania (2)*

(#)=students accepted *=2009 FSB graduate is attending

ALUMNI WEEKEND 2009 Alumni from near and far returned to 5114 North Charles Street during the first weekend in May to celebrate the past, renew old ties and get a feel for Friends School today through campus tours and presentations led by longtime faculty. The festivities kicked off on Thursday evening, April 30, with the fifth annual Friends School Athletic Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Ceremony. This year’s class included 14 alumni, five teams and one coach.

Lindsay Leimbach ’84, Monica Wilson ’87, Melissa Feliciano ’86 and Jonelle Woodard ’85, members of the “unstoppable” 1984 Varsity Girls’ Basketball Team, pose with their plaques.

THE 2009 FRIENDS SCHOOL ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES COACH: Dick Watts ATHLETES: Robert A. Wetzler ’49 Nancy Lang Whedbee Brown ’54 Anne Hoke Humphrey ’59 Edie Hoffmaster Bradt ’64 Joe Cowan ’64 Downie McCarty ’64 Frank Bond, Jr. ’69 Linda Datcher Loury ’69 Lynn Peddy Wailes ’74 Lori Peddy Spencer ’79 * Darryl M. Coleman ’79 Edward N. Kane, Jr. ’84 B.J. Entwisle ’74 Elizabeth Faecher Crabill ’84 TEAMS: The 1944 Varsity Boys’ Basketball Team The 1954 Varsity Boys’ Basketball Team 1984 Varsity Boys’ Wrestling Team 1984 Varsity Boys’ Tennis Team 1984 Varsity Girls’ Basketball Team

A recipient of the FSAA Award and the Marian B. Millard Award, Lynn Peddy Wailes ’74 accepted Hall of Fame honors for herself and, moments later—with niece Adele Spencer by her side—for her sister, Lori Peddy Spencer ’79, who died in April 2008 of breast cancer.

Downie McCarty ’64, a member of the 1963 Boys’ Lacrosse team, with his award.

NOMINATE SOMEONE TO THE FRIENDS SCHOOL ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME! Go to friendsbalt.org/alumni/ athletichall/nomination.asp

David Millard (center) and Richard Gochnauer (right), players on the 1944 championship Varsity Boys’ Basketball Team, enjoy the limelight.

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ALUMNI WEEKEND Many alumni attended morning classes led by Lisa Countess (right), David Heath (below left, with Lynn Smith ’84) and NASA geophysicist Greg Neumann ’64 (below right), who presented a session titled, “Why are we going back to the Moon… did we forget something?”

Back to the Classroom

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Bull Roast

Above: Former faculty member Steve Balser, biology teacher George Wright and Staige Davis Hodges ’84.

Below: Bo Vaughn, son of Chris ’89 and Julie Vaughn.

Terry Halle ’69 with former faculty member Gary Blauvelt and, in the background, Steve Balser, Tom Buck and Randy Cooper.

Kelly Vaughan Edwards ’99 with her daughter Caile.

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Some 150 alumni and their guests enjoyed a casual family barbecue prepared by the one and only Milt Brownstein ’68 of Milt’s Catering Company.

Following the annual awards presentations, many alumni toured the campus and stopped by the Quaker Closet to update their Friends School wardrobes.

Artist Sam Robinson (parent of Lehn ’05 and Sallie ’09) and Anne Nicolls Haendiges ’64 unveil the portrait of Anne’s father, longtime Friends teacher and coach, Robert “Mr. Nick” Nicolls. The painting, which now hangs in the Zamoiski Alumni Center, was commissioned by the Class of ’64 to mark its 45th Reunion.

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ALUMNI WEEKEND Outstanding Alumnus: Frank Bond, Jr. ’69

Alumni Awards

Outstanding Alumnus honoree Frank Bond ’69 asked his award presenter, former Friends history teacher John Roemer, to focus his remarks on the Class of ’69 rather than on Bond’s own accomplishments. Roemer recalled an episode in 1964 that “remains the most vivid moment in my life as a teacher.” During a class discussion on the promise and perils of the non-violent methods used by protesters during the Civil Rights movement, Roemer posed a question to his seventh grade history class: “Could a mass movement have been built in opposition to Hitler—or will we always revert to fear, selfish calculation, violence or submissiveness in the face of world cruelty?” The next day Roemer entered the classroom wearing a faux military hat and, without warning, gave a Nazi salute and imperiously commanded: “All the Jews will stand up!” What followed was stunned silence, he recalls. “And then, simultaneously, all 20 kids, perhaps 18 Christians and two Jews—all 20 seventh graders stood up,” said Roemer. “It has never gotten any better than that in my long life in education and activism. Twenty seventh graders in the Class of ’69 reminded me, for the rest of my years, of the human capacity to make life beautiful.”

Distinguished Alumnus Award recipient Frank Bond ’69 with his presenter, former faculty member John Roemer.

Alumni Service Award: Bob Christopher ’54 Head of School Matt Micciche presented Bob Christopher ’54 with the Alumni Service Award. Noting that the award is not given every year, Micciche told the gathering, “Every so often there is an alumni volunteer who contributes so much to the School that we are led to recognize these efforts with a special award.” A longtime Reunion volunteer, Athletic Hall of Fame Committee member and unofficial class secretary who keeps the School informed about the goings-on of his classmates, Christopher is “the ‘volunteer’s volunteer,’” said Micciche, “someone who’s always willing to help the School in any way we need.”

NOMINATE SOMEONE TO RECEIVE THE FRIENDS SCHOOL OUTSTANDING AND/OR HONORARY ALUM AWARDS. Go to friendsbalt.org/alumni/news to access our on-line form.

Alumni Service Award recipient Bob Christopher ’54 with his presenter, Head of School Matt Micciche.

Reunion Class Giving Award

Members of the Class of 1979 accept their Reunion Class Giving award from Head of School Matt Micciche. Pictured are (l.r.) Beth Zadek, Nancy Marchetti, Melissa Hulse, Bill Rudow, Matt Micciche, Cam Griffith, Mitchell Holland and Barbara Shulman-Kirwin.

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ALUMNI WEEKEND Gala Reception The annual Alumni Weekend evening reception at the Zamoiski Alumni Center was our biggest to date, topping out at around 325 guests.

Reunion classes mingled under the tent, enjoyed hors d’oeuvres and refreshments and gathered for class photos before heading off campus to their individual class parties.

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Ann Ramsey ’79, Barbara ShulmanKirwin ’79 and Lynn Peddy Wailes ’74.

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The Class of ’89’s Jen Asplen Corrigan, Chris Vaughn, Leslie Belgrad Finton, Susie Schoppert Wallengren and Phil McIntyre (far right) with former faculty member Steve Balser (second from right).

Class of 1984’s Dixon Waxter, Brad Goldbloom and Thomas Goldstein.

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ALUMNI WEEKEND 50th Reunion Dinner The Class of 1959 enjoyed a festive dinner at the Zamoiski Alumni Center on Friday, May 1, to celebrate their 50th Reunion.

Above: The Class of 1959 Reunion Committee presents Matt Micciche with their Class Gift—totaling $27,518. The class has designated the money be used to establish the Claire G. Walker Fund for International Exchange for Friends School students; left: Chip Bupp and Dan Reed, pictured with Head of School Matt Micciche, accept the Reunion Class Giving award on behalf of the Class of ’59 during the Mr. Nick Bull Roast on May 2.

Front row, l.-r.: Dee Gee Brandemour, Dan Entriken ’54, Evans Johnson Taylor ’49, Ellie Jennings Hearn ’49; back row, l.-r.: Patricia Tillinghast McCain ’54, Bob Christopher ’54 and Nancy Lang Brown ’54.

Breakfast with the Micciches Members of the Classes of 1949 and 1954 gathered at the home of Head of School Matt Micciche and his wife Frances for a lovely breakfast and shared stories of the “old days” at Friends.

The Class of 1984 had great turn-out for its 25th Reunion. Front row: Paul Graves, Lynn Smith, Ben Walker, Steve Carlson, Staige Davis Hodges, Edward Kane, Monzella Saunders Owings, Rob Manfredi, Oya Turkman Borovali, Eric Orlinsky; second row: Kathy MacPhail Cheek, Ellyn Weisfeldt Margulies, Jennifer Galambos, Brad Goldbloom, Greg Houston, Thomas Goldstein, Pam Smith Sipher, Sally Klein Filling, Alexis Kays Rautio, Catherine Newcombe, Peter Bradford; back row: Kian Djawdan, George Russell, Lindsay Leimbach, Dan Kenzie, Sam Brody, Patrick Moran, Kim Coshnear, Devlin Back Uy, Doug Caplan, Laura McGraw-Cook, Amy Iwata Darrow, Kevin Carnell, Steve Coxe, Steve Schulhoff, Dixon Waxter, Lisa Schock, Chris Swan. Not pictured: Wade Wilson, Jon Meyers, Scott Sacks, Daryl Edwards, Martha Craig, Dianne Richey Bauer, Tonya Brown Ingersol, Therron Brown, Bill Tarbert, Strick Bonner.

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ALUMNI EVENTS

Alumni Events The Alumni Office hosted three separate California gatherings to connect with our West Coast friends. In San Diego, a small but enthusiastic group of alumni gathered at the Glorietta Bay Inn in Coronado. In San Francisco, approximately 20 Bay-area alumni gathered at the home of Carrie and John Goodman ’82.

In Los Angeles, about 20 alumni gathered at the home of Adam Kosloff and Claire Cherlin Kosloff ’97.

LOS ANGELES: Claire Cherlin Kosloff ’97, Pete Levin ’97, Debbie Smith ’83 and Adam Kosloff.

SAN FRANCISCO: Left, Christian Gullette ’91, David Schummers ’95, Jahan Sagafi ’90 and Kristin Law; middle, Carol Harrington Fitting ’57, Mabel Miyasaki ’56; right, John Goodman ’82 and Head of School Matt Micciche.

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SAN DIEGO: Kim Goldstein Eisenberg ’94, Carolyn Alkire ’76, Sam Hatfield ’96 and Robin Behm ’75 sample the Berger’s cookies “imported” from Baltimore.

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ALUMNI EVENTS

PARENTS OF ALUMNI GATHERING Above (l.-r.): Sheila Peter, Mary Logan, Tom Peter and Marie Diener-West; right, Julie Gilbert, Annual Fund Director Dena Wheeler and Pat Gilstein.

Approximately 60 parents of alumni from the Classes of 1999 through 2009 gathered at the Zamoiski Alumni Center in February to reminisce and update one another on their children’s post-Friends paths.

100 NIGHTS DINNER In March, the Alumni Association hosted an elegant dinner reception for the Class of 2009 to mark its 100-day countdown to Commencement. Faculty members, including many of the students’ Lower and Middle School teachers, were on hand to celebrate with the Seniors.

(l.-r.) Above left, Ellen Mehring, Kyla Minton, Flannery McArdle and Kerry Townsend; left, Austin Lasky, Ben Gilstein, former Upper School Assistant Susan Mund, Ryan DeSmit, Greg Pabst, Chris Holter, Kurt Herzog and Kelly Dayton; above, Leah Koenig, Charlotte Heyrman and Lizzy Frost.

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Florence Oldham 1329 Glendale Road Baltimore, Maryland 21239

Margaret Jette writes, “I’ve turned my living room into an art gallery, complete with halogen track lighting; a second bedroom is my art studio. I had an opening in July, with a show of 21 new small works, including pastels, drawings and prints. My granddaughter Erica graduated from Kansas City Art Institute, where my other granddaughter, Sarita, is presently in her sophomore year. Both won full merit scholarships, so the ‘art beat’ goes on! Would love hearing from classmates.”

Ruth Baldwin writes, “I am 92 years old and feeling good. I still remember my days at Friends with great affection. My two children live nearby and watch over me. I have lived in the same house for 35 years, and am still enjoying Sun City, AZ.”

’36 Eleanor Hatch Brooks 615 Chestnut Avenue, #335 Towson, Maryland 21204 Victor Bloede writes, “Greetings and bless-

ings to the survivors of our class! My recollections of my years at Friends School are still clear and memorable. On July 17, I reached my 93rd year and still enjoy good health, minus the need for medicinal aids. I spent over 30 years as legal counselor for University of Hawaii’s international programs in Canada, France, etc.”

’37 Jeanne Wolf Shreeve writes, “I don’t move

as far or as fast as I used to, but I am still moving. My three children live nearby on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. My four grandchildren live in Maryland, New Jersey and Wisconsin. I have two great-granddaughters, and the third is due in October— right around my 89th birthday!”

’46 Hal “Sonny” Ness retired in 1997 from his

insurance business and moved from Maryland to Pawleys Island, SC. His love for the game of lacrosse motivated him in 2000 to become a founder of the South Carolina Chapter of US Lacrosse. At the time, the state had just one high school lacrosse team; today, thanks to the efforts of volunteers like Sonny, the state has more than 50 teams and lacrosse is now an official interscholastic sport in South Carolina’s public schools. Sonny says his

Hal “Sonny” Ness ’46.

life is blessed with his lovely bride of 15 years, Pam, their combined seven children and 13 grandchildren. His grandson, Drew Ness, a wide receiver on USC’s football team, is the fourth generation of Nesses to play lacrosse.

’51 Carol Lee Fordyce May 126 Shore Rush Drive St. Simons Island, Georgia 31522

carolleemay@gmail.com

’47 Elsie Tollefson Carter writes, “Thanks to

the Internet, I had a happy reunion in Naples, FL with my long-lost classmate (and bridesmaid!), Jane Seiler Britton. It was fun to visit after over 60 years! My husband Charles and I went to Portland, OR to see our granddaughter graduate from high school. What beautiful country and mountains. My grandson climbed Mt. St. Helens while we were there. We are happily retired and enjoying retirement living in the Franklin Methodist community. There are so many volunteer opportunities and fun things to do. Our three other children live in Indianapolis, which is only 30 minutes away. We have 11 grandchildren and expect our first two great-grandchildren this summer. We celebrated our 58th wedding anniversary in July.” Caroline Hopkins Hoyle writes, “Retirement living is great and I’ve made lots of new friends. My oldest son is the financial officer here in Pennswood where I live and, no, he doesn’t pay my bills. I have nine grandchildren—seven boys and two girls.

Jack Phillips helped organize his University of Maryland Dental School 50th reunion. Of the remaining 82 members of the class, 25 percent attended the June event. “It’s the oldest dental school in the United States and is number one in the world,” he says, noting that the school recently completed a $16.5 million stateof-the-art facility. As for me, in March I was fortunate enough to visit my son and daughter-in-law in Tokyo, where they’ve lived for two years. Michael began teaching there after finishing college, and both he and his wife are fluent in Japanese.

During our stay, we toured around Tokyo, visiting museums and shrines. We also went to the fish market at 6:30 a.m. to watch a fish auction. It was cherry blossom time, too, and the city celebrates those spring weeks as a festival.

’52 Susanne Davis Emory PO Box 125 Glen Arm, Maryland 21057

vermontsue@aol.com Please e-mail me with your news—otherwise you’ll keep hearing about the same people! Fred “Buzzy” Hodous writes, “I moved 65 paintings to and from Key

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CLASS NOTES West, FL this spring when my wife Joan exhibited and signed her new book at a one-woman show at the Custom House there. The Art Historical Museum was recently named Best Museum in Florida for the second year, so her two-month show was a big opportunity. Visit www.kwahs.org to learn more. When not moving paintings, I’ve won several state backgammon tournaments.” There is also some sad news since I last wrote, with the recent deaths of five members of our class: Don Baker, Barbara Buffington Rutherford, Kit Heinold Wilson, Miriam Tollefson Stockton and Bill Toland. Their departures leave a huge hole in our circle of friends. I guess we have to face the fact that we are getting older. Have you noticed how close to the beginning of the class notes 1952 is? On a much happier note, I have reconnected with Joan Cate Grimes, a classmate of ours through the eighth grade. She now lives in Florida with her husband Bruce. From her scrapbook, she sent me pictures of our class picnics, classmates and teachers. She would like to be in touch with anyone who remembers her. Her e-mail address is: bshermang3@att.net. At press time for the last issue of COLLECTION, I was in the hospital recovering from a broken hip and femur. I slipped and fell on the ice on our driveway in late January. Now, three back operations and one hip surgery later, I have 24 pins and two rods in my body, holding me together. I hope everyone else is holding together well, too.

’54 Barbara Saunders Olson writes, “Our 50th

wedding anniversary was on September 20, 2008, but because gathering our four kids and their families is like herding cats, we celebrated it in July 2008 with a week on Anna Maria Island, FL, a resort area on the Gulf, south of Tampa. Our kids rented a beautiful multi-story home, big enough to comfortably handle our son, three daughters, their husbands, and their kids. It was without doubt the best anniversary gift that I could ever imagine.

We live in an active retirement community and I play five sports—tennis, table tennis, pickle ball, golf and synchronizedswimming.”

’55 Patricia Peake Tisdale 13 Windward Drive Severna Park, Maryland 21146

glent24@aol.com Lolly Schorreck writes, “Fifty-four years

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busily shepherding grandchildren to and from activities. John retired from his medical practice in 2004, while Marisha continues working 30 hours a week.

’57 Barbara Saunders Olson ’54 and her husband Norman.

‘Luncheonettes’ group of 1955 alums (minus Pat Peake Tisdale because she was on Cape Cod) met at the same Crowther house on the river. Pat Morrill, Ginny Mitchell, Betsy Merrick, Iris McFaul, Robin Dodd and I enjoyed reminiscing, eating and discussing our grandkids!” It would seem that Dave and Roz Carlson are at home in New Hampshire infrequently.

They drove across the country in February, stopping in St. Louis and at the Truman Library in Independence, MO; Mount Rushmore and The Badlands, SD; Little Big Horn and Bozeman, MT, to see relatives, and ultimately, Big Sky, MT to ski. For two weeks, all of their children and grandchildren joined them on the slopes. On the return trek, they went to Yellowstone, touring on their own and with friends, loving every minute of winter in the big park. They flew to New Hampshire to touch base, flew back to Bozeman to retrieve their car, and then drove across Canada for a week before arriving on their home doorstep on Newfound Lake, where they stayed through June to be with their grandkids, celebrate college reunions and prepare for a European vacation. The itinerary included Budapest, followed by a river cruise from Vienna to Bucharest. August and October were family times in Bermuda. Robert and Wynelle Seiler are in Williamsburg, VA, where they continue on their career paths—Robert is putting his plumbing expertise to work with a part-time position at Lowe’s and Wynelle does interior design for Ethan Allen.

They report that a grandson graduated from Clemson and another is playing college lacrosse.

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Carol Harrington Fitting writes, “Two classmates visited us here in San Jose, CA in May—Carol Christopher Weiskittel and Marcia Smith Clark. As a surprise for my East Coast friends, Mabel Miyasaki ’56 and her friend Tom Layton joined us for dinner! Then, we three 1957 grads, along with my husband David, attended a 50th wedding anniversary celebration in Carmel, CA for Tom and Pat Keim Grace.

This festive dinner party was hosted by the Graces’ four children, and a most memorable and happy time was had by all. Tom Cleaveland writes, “First the bad news: I broke my back in November of 2008. Since I was having difficulty walking, Marlys and I are spending time at our lake cabin, often with our five children and six grandchildren. Now life in Minnesota is pretty good.” Tony Bryan writes, “I received the ‘Telling the Friends School Story’ booklet. I’m not happy with the new School seal. It contains no Latin.

While the window looks nice, I miss the old book as the main part of seal.” He added, “I’m now awaiting official appointment for a second five-year term as a church co-operator.” Marcia Smith Clark writes, “I went on a walking tour of Italy this fall, with visits to Tuscany, Umbria, the Almafi Coast and Rome.”

’58 Susan Shinnick Hossfeld 12311 Michaelsford Road Hunt Valley, Maryland 21030

shossfeld@comcast.net Barbara Long O’Brien writes, “Last year I asked my 15-year-old granddaughter Erin to choose a place anywhere in the world she’d like to visit. Who knows how long

Barbara Long O’Brien ’58 learning to throw a boomerang on a recent trip to Australia.

CLASS NOTES lots of grandchildren visits. Susan DeHoff Montgomery had a nice visit to

Friends from the Class of ’60 enjoyed lunch at the home of Dick ’53 and Susan Whiteford ’60 in Sherwood Forest, MD. Back row (l-r): Mary McElroy, Diane Howell Mitchell, Susan Mears Whiteford, Susan Huff Schmitt. Front row (l-r): Cholly Hisle, Arlene Lacher Clauss, Corky Smith Gibson, and Jeannie Downs Pohlhaus.

I’ll be able to travel or how long she’ll want to go! Being a lover of animals, she chose Australia, with my proviso that she tell me why she wanted to go, and then research the program and places to tell her parents and me what she learned.

She’s an amazing photographer—as I, her father Patrick O’Brien and my father Daniel Reid Long Jr. ’33 have all attempted to be—and took about 2,000 photographs. We were constantly comparing notes on sights, angles, patterns, etc. Our trip far surpassed all expectations. We spent days exploring Sydney, Queensland, Fraser Island and Cairns, feasting our eyes on the flora and fauna via kayak, canoes, catamaran, jungle, beach and trail walking. We shared wonderful adventures, like eating bush tucker (no wiggling grubs), holding koalas, petting kangaroos and becoming landing-strips for butterflies, including a Blue Imperial. The trip created lifetime memories for each of us and an even closer relationship between Erin and me. What a joy!”

Disneyworld in January with 12 family members, four of whom are under the age of seven. She says the walking would have been better with a magic carpet, and that “It’s a Small World” rang in their ears for days afterward! Jeannie Downs Pohlhaus again arranged a fun luncheon when Mary McElroy visited in May. This year, the group met at Susan Mears Whiteford’s house in Sherwood Forest, with its wonderful river-front view. Susan was a very gracious host and we all had a fantastic time. In attendance were Jeannie, Mary McElroy, Cholly Hisle, Arlene Lacher Clauss, Susan Huff Schmitt, Diane Howell Mitchell and Corky Smith Hoshall. After some enjoyable winters in Ft. Myers, FL, Susan Huff Schmitt has decided to move there permanently. In just ten weeks, her house was cleaned out, uncluttered and staged for sale. Shell Point Village is the life care retirement community where Susan’s mother lived and where Susan is headed in October. There will be a view of Sanibel Island from her window. As for your class secretary, Mary McElroy, I continue working on my beaded jewelry business, and have participated in several craft fairs. It’s a very steep learning curve.

Right now, I’m having fun buying beads and making jewelry, but am not selling as much I’d like! I’m preparing to sell my work on Etsy.com, which is a website for handmade crafts. Since the Wellness Community of Greater Boston closed in January, I’ve been working on two sepa-

’60 Mary McElroy 10 Hammond Pond Parkway, Apt 508 Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467

mem2008@comcast.net Michael Jackley just celebrated the birth of his first grandchild, Dano Lanier. He continues to recover from last year’s openheart surgery, and is enjoying retirement after more than 35 years with the same law firm. Johns Hopkins University has agreed to receive all of the items connected with his father’s artistic and architectural talents. An example of his work can be found if you Google “Lustine Chevrolet Hyattsville.” Michael has photos of the family on their website, www.welcomehomefarm.net. Corni Ham Lingley had an enjoyable summer, with

Susan Montgomery ‘60 with her grandson Sam Modesitt at Disneyworld.

rate committees—one for operations and the other for grants/fundraising—to help establish a new cancer support organization called Facing Cancer Together: A Community of Hope. It’s been very rewarding.

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eaerobic@hotmail.com Anita Peterson Baker wrote, “I thought I’d

retire after I left The World Bank, but instead I’m teaching in the M.B.A. program at University of Maryland University College and enjoying it very much. I still travel—I conducted a workshop in Abu Dhabi earlier in the year, and participated in another workshop in Panama in June with the U.S. Department of Commerce. I still live in Columbia, MD with my husband John Lampe. If you are in the area, give me a call.” Judith Bernstein Wilson writes, “I have moved into a retirement community and I love it. I am in much, much better health since 2007, when I had pneumonia with MERSA and my son and daughter-in-law had a motorcycle accident. Last year I had pneumonia again and learned that my ten-year-old breast cancer had metastasized to the sternum and right lung area. Hope to be there for our 50th in 2012!” Chris Sherman Raywood had a busy spring.

(Yes, I’m going to tell you about her travels.) She went to England for two weeks, visiting Eastern England—York, Lincoln, Cambridge area, Norwich. She saw many wonderful cathedrals, historic houses (loved Castle Howard), Sutton Hoo and several burial tombs, including one at the British Museum containing a complete Viking ship with warrior and all the wonderful gold, etc. The weather was cooperative this time, too. Upon arriving home, she learned that her 19-year-old grandson would be staying with her for some time in the summer. He was good company and she didn’t have to make too many adjustments. Chris went to Baltimore in June to celebrate becoming an official senior citizen with her brother Bill Sherman ’69 and family. (I personally am not sure that’s a good reason to celebrate, but that’s just me.) She also spent a delightful evening with Wayne Sutherland and his wife Colette and Diana Fleischer Schofield. They talked for four hours about life experiences, their families and Friends School. It was a fun evening.

Chris feels we are all lucky to have had the Friends experience and a wonderful group of classmates. Her summer was quiet, although Bill and family were visit-

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CLASS NOTES entertainment.

Linda continues her water aerobics regimen to help with her rheumatoid arthritis. This past summer Bruce Goodwin

was in Baltimore, where he got together with John Slingluff, Terry Walker and Nick Nicolls at John Slingluff, Terry Walker, Nick Nicolls, Bruce Goodwin—all Class Nick’s Eastern of ’62.

Shore home.

They had a great time telling old ing for two weeks. In September, Chris Friends School stories. He wishes everywas to go to the south of France, then one the best. Summer comes and goes too drive to Bilbao, Spain and return to the fast for me. This year I’m excited to tell UK on the overnight ferry. She will fill us you all that my daughter Meredith, who in on that later. Emily Holman visited lives in Florida, gave birth in March 2009 Florence, Italy in July and was expecting to a beautiful baby boy, Max. Needless to to visit the Galapagos, the Amazon, and high Andes in Ecuador in September with say, I will be spending more time in Overseas Adventure Travel. Her diocese is Florida. He has an extra kidney, so we will be dealing with some medical issues, but beginning a new relationship with he is really just perfect. Meredith’s husEcuador and this will allow her to see more of the country. Barbara Ensor Sena is band had to spend three months in Dubai shortly after the baby was born, as he is a not happy with the hot weather and pilot and must take a job where he can record temperatures she experienced this find it, so that has been difficult. Cliff and past summer in Arizona. She traveled to I will have been to Alaska on a cruise by Seattle for a conference, where she the time you read this. It was a birthday enjoyed the cool weather. She had anothpresent from me for his 70th—scary, huh? er filly born last May, a full sister to the Of course, I would prefer a lot further filly born the previous year. Both are south, but it was his birthday. If you are NRHA futurity prospects; their sire has not receiving an e-mail from me a few won over $243,000 in NRHA prize times a year at least asking for an update, money, so hopefully these gals will have please send me your e-mail address so talent. She is still the budget administrathat I can include you on my list. My tor for the town of Queen Creek, AZ, address is eaerobic@hotmail.com. Everyone where it’s been a difficult season due to the economic downturn. Arizona is one of tells me they enjoy the updates, so please add your name to the list. the worst-hit states, at least out West, with job losses and foreclosures. She is still pushing for a “western 50th reunion,” guys—I’m sure she means AZ. Let’s conDonna Hasslinger vince her to ride one of those horses East 12 Bentridge Court for the 50th. Linda Kardash Armiger says Potomac, Maryland 20854 that she and Buck have had their hands Dhassli@aol.com full this summer with parents. His mom is Elizabeth Fetter Deegan 90 and her dad is 92. Both require lots of attention and trips to and from the hospi- 3220 Amherst Avenue Dallas, Texas 75225 tals. They have spent their small amount deeganchicke@aol.com of free time with the grandchildren, the

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oldest of whom accompanied them on a tour of mid-Atlantic lighthouses, as well as the wonderful Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, MD. Their youngest daughter visited in July from South Carolina. They were expecting to take in a local “Blue Crabs” baseball game and also enjoy one of the summer series river concerts from their boat. The river otters are especially prevalent this year and provide much

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Bill Dawe reports that he and his wife Sheila are still practicing law. Their oldest son, Bill, is married and living outside Philadelphia, where he and his wife both teach kids with learning disabilities at the Delaware Valley Friends School. They’re expecting their first child this October, a boy whom they intend to name Billy. Bill and Sheila’s second son, Topher, lives in Manhattan and is a vice president at

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Goldman Sachs in the private equity division. Their third son, Nick, is a junior at the University of Iowa, where he’s majoring in psychology and is active in a choral group. Their fourth son, Alex, will be a junior in high school and is interested in becoming an artist. Bill’s mother and sister now live in Iowa and they see them often. His mom is 88 and is in excellent health; she’s active in their church and regularly attends yoga and jazzercise classes. It’s been a while since Bill visited the Baltimore area, but he enjoys getting news about our classmates via our e-mail group and COLLECTION. Marge and Jeb Felter are really enjoying watching their children as parents and being part of their grandchildren’s lives. Their daughter Liz Felter Farrell ’88, along with her husband Bill and one-year-old son Jonathan, live and work (hard) on their small farm in Lyme, CT. It’s a very different life than London, where they lived until about six years ago. They have a cow, pigs, sheep and a flock of chickens. They also do beekeeping, sugaring and vegetable gardening, and they are beginning an orchard.

Marge and Jeb’s son Wilson Felter ’90, his wife Jeanne, and their children Josh, 7, Darcy, 5 and Casey, 2, live in Philadelphia. Wilson is associate head of Greene Street Friends School, where Josh and Darcy are enrolled. Jeanne, a counselor, works with troubled, disadvantaged children. Jeb is mostly retired, but has taken on a new line of very important work—golf! Marge and Jeb grow vegetables and flowers, and continue to pitch their tent in Maine each August. Marge says she is still doing admission work for Friends—32 years and counting. She invites everyone to return to see the campus and says we wouldn’t recognize it from our days in the 1960s. Marge also offered that it’s amazing how we can go for years without seeing each other, and yet it feels so comfortable being together again when we do meet. She hopes everyone will plan to come to our 50th Reunion in a few years. Steve Greif spent several weekends this spring watching and e-mailing with his children and childrenin-law about their performances in various athletic feats. He claims there must be something in the water in and around NYC, where they all live. His daughter did an Olympic distance triathlon in Austin, his son did a century bike ride (100 miles) around Lake Tahoe and then his daughter-in-law ran in a halfmarathon in Lake Placid. All of these events involved fundraising for leukemia and lymphoma. Watching them helped inspire Steve to start training to participate with his son in the Seagull Century, a 100-mile bike ride in Salisbury, MD in

CLASS NOTES October—so maybe there’s something in the water where Steve lives as well. Chuck Harlan reported that for Father’s Day his son, Chad, gave him the New York Times bestseller Younger Next Year. Chuck recommends it not only for “aging” men (for which it was primarily written), but also for “gracefully aging” women. (I added ‘gracefully’ as an editor’s choice.) Joan Kreeger and her significant other John do a lot of sailing on the Chesapeake Bay. In July they spent a week exploring the bay and Chestertown, MD, on the Chester River. Last spring they visited China for almost a month, where they had an incredible time. They found China to be a friendly country, exciting, historical and beautiful. After enjoying many meals of every kind of Chinese food you can imagine, for their last dinner in Hong Kong Joan claims they almost knocked over other patrons rushing to the pizza and salad bar at a Pizza Hut! Joan is still a tour director for national travel companies and recently led a group to Turkey and Greece, including stops in the Greek Islands, Athens and Istanbul. Linda LaMonica Monk reflected that when she was married 42 years ago in Parkton, it rained, and someone told her that it was good luck. She and Harrison continue to enjoy their children and three grandchildren and feel extremely fortunate to have them in the area. Her mother (“89 years young”) spent much of the winter with them and is now home for the summer, where she is surrounded by lots of family.

In July, Linda and Harrison returned from their annual trek to Prince Edward Island for some rest and relaxation, and

in May they took a river boat cruise from Normandy to Paris. They described Normandy as breathtaking and proclaimed the entire trip magnifique! When time permits, Linda enjoys painting, craft hobbies and arranging flowers. She and Gretchen Taylor did the flowers for a Sherwood wedding in June, and it was especially fun for Linda working with such a dear friend. Linda and Harrison have been blessed with fabulous children and grandchildren, wonderful friends, and of course let’s not forget that good luck that was promised many years ago.

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Susan Lang Yohn writes, “All is well from Grantville, PA. I’m still ‘horsing’ around as much as possible and have been working part-time in the same travel agency for 25 years. I’m also a bookkeeper for a high-end bridal shop in Hershey, PA. I’d love to hear from classmates via Facebook.”

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Arlene Dannenberg Bowes 7917 Clifton Hunt Court Clifton, Virginia 20124

adbowes@cox.net

New Class Secretary Sue Grathwohl Dingle Post Office Box 56 New Suffolk, New York 11956

Wink Briddell Cowee Post Office Box 126 Neavitt, Maryland 21652

cowee@friend.ly.net

S123dingle@aol.com

Melinda Burdette writes, “In February

’65 Gretchen Garman Post Office Box 162 Solebury, Pennsylvania 18963

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Chris Windisch Keightley reports, “My husband Chase and I will be moving to Avila Beach, CA from Santa Fe, NM, where Chase will work for one more year as a psychiatrist. Then we’ll return to Santa Fe and maybe he’ll retire, but probably not.

He enjoys working, I suppose. I, however, am enjoying my retirement. Last year my “employment” was as a paid singer with the Santa Fe Symphony and Chorus and the Santa Fe Women’s Ensemble. This coming year I will rejoin Cuesta Master Chorale in San Luis Obispo and also the Lacey Ravens, a small female ensemble that sings at Renaissance fairs around California. I hope to see more of my year-old grandson Lachlan, who lives in West Sacramento, CA with my son Keir and his wife Joy. My older son Will, a freelance writer, will watch the house in Santa Fe while we’re away.” As Friends School celebrates its 225th anniversary, one of the events will be a very special Alumni Weekend. Please mark your calendars now for April 29 to May 2, 2010, and make plans to join us. I hope to see as many of you there as possible, so we may celebrate our Susan Lang Yohn ’66, atop her horse Winsome Gucci, 45th Reunion and the with her husband Jerry at the 2008 Quality Plus Ford School’s 225th birthday Classic Quarter Horse Show and Futurities in together.

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2009 I was promoted from assistant to the president to vice president for development and planning at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Cortex, CO. I’m in my sixth year at Crow Canyon, a 25year-old institution dedicated to advancing knowledge of the human experience through archaeological research, education programs and collaboration with American Indians.” Steven Hesky writes, “My wife Iana and I have three children— Andrew, 26, James, 23, and Dimanna, 16.

I work as a Ph.D. psychologist in solo private practice in Pittsburgh, PA. Outside of work, I enjoy horseback riding and golf.”

In June, 2009, Arlene Dannenberg Bowes, her husband Stephen and a crew of eight raced their sloop Apparition at Block Island Race Week in Rhode Island, a biennial race that attracted 170 boats this year. You can see action photos of the crew at: http://marinephotography.biz/search.php?sear chtype=all&searchoption=all&searchtext=B IRW09%20apparition%20irc35&more=5.

’69 Julia Frank 9203 Linden Grove Court Silver Spring, Maryland 20910

frankenpsych@starpower.net Our 40th Reunion brought an extraordinary number of classmates to celebrate Frank Bond, the third class member honored as Distinguished Alumnus/a. He spoke eloquently and wittily about his commitment to free speech, expressed in his efforts on behalf of the Newseum, and about his ongoing, good-natured humiliation at the hands of his accomplished children. John Roemer, to whom our class dedicated the yearbook, attended the Bull

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CLASS NOTES Roast and later at dinner shared his always engrossing stories of his work in the civil rights movement. He now teaches at Park School. Terry Halle and his wife Wendy McAllister hosted the Saturday night class party.

Too many classmates were present to list them all, but Terry had the brilliant idea of trying to locate former members who had left before graduation. Peter Nash, with his wife and daughter, joined us as our “mystery guest.” Terry also heard from Jimmy Burkhardt, who was unable to come but sent best wishes. It was great to see so many of the usual suspects at Reunion, and a special joy to see others who don’t come so regularly.

In particular, Michelle Bosch, who hadn’t been back since graduation, was there. She is a professional photographer on Cape Cod and she took many pictures of classmates and sent them around afterwards.

Mary Carroll Moore’s ’72 twelfth book, her first novel, Many of the class, including Qualities of Light, is available on amazon.com.

Frank Bond, Terry Halle, Elizabeth Holman, Vicky Nelson Harvey, Rebecca Love, Michelle Bosch, Bill Houston and I are now on Facebook and happy to be “friended” Richard Riley writes, “I am working to by those lucky enough to know teenagers raise $3.5 million to transform a toilet who can explain to us just how the whole seat manufacturing building into the new thing works! home for the Brattleboro Music Center, which I direct. This fall my daughter Lissa started a Ph.D. program in biomolecular pharmacology at Boston University, and Peter Kaestner writes, “On June 9, 2009 daughter Hannah entered her junior year my family and I had the honor of meeting at the New School, majoring in psycholoHis Holiness, the Dalai Lama, in New gy. I’m counting on my daughters to help Delhi. During a 45-minute audience, we analyze and medicate their father as he chatted, joked and listened as he dispursues his latest harebrained scheme! cussed his people’s quest to reach accomMeanwhile, my wife Susan continues to modation with the Chinese government paint beautifully.” on autonomy for Tibet. He said that he remains optimistic because of the many Chinese individuals whom he had touched in his travels around the world.

Sally Slingluff There is a magical aura about him that 400 Symphony Circle, Apt 252 D left us tingling with excitement. As we Hunt Valley, Maryland 21030 prepared to leave, we were all surprised salslinger@aol.com when my daughter Katie reached up to Lynn Peddy Wailes writes, “I enjoyed hug him. It was a spontaneous manifestareconnecting with classmates at our 35th tion of the love and peace he had impartReunion, as well as my sister Lori Peddy ed to us, and he loved it! The meeting ’s classmates of 1979. Everyone Spencer was a fitting climax to our exciting threewas so kind after her death last year. I’m year posting in India’s dynamic capital, still in Andover, MA, just north of Boston, New Delhi.” and have been married to the same wonderful man, Jay, for 27 years; we are now officially empty-nesters. Jessica, 23, grad-

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uated from the University of Denver in 2008 and has spent the last year working as a nanny in Geneva, Switzerland, while she waits for the economy to recover.

Taylor, 19, is completing her freshman year at Babson College in Wellesley, MA, where she is a member of the women’s lacrosse team currently ranked in the Top 10 of Division III schools. She had to sit out this season due to major knee surgery this winter but looked forward to playing again at full strength this fall.”

’75 Roy Russell is enjoying influencing his

wife of 26 years, Robin Chase, who was recently selected as one of Time Magazine’s “100 most influential people in the world.” Roy thinks that the ability to influence someone regarded as highly influential is excellent.

’76 John Humphries 1324 Salem Lane Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516

jehriver@aol.com Keith Tabatznik has been busy traveling with the Olympic Development Youth soccer teams. They went to Costa Rica in March, Italy in April, Germany in May and Bermuda in June. This fall he will be on TV covering 12 college soccer games on Fox Soccer Channel. Mike Saxon and his wife Annette are empty nesters beginning this fall, when their daughter Sarah enters the University of Maryland, College Park, where she will be studying engineering. Their son Jacob is now a junior at Syracuse, where he’s studying economics. Stew Lyons plays in two

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Sally Evans Yost writes,

Caryl Connor 1539 Pickett Road Lutherville, Maryland 21093

“This past summer I volunteered for a week with my church and Habitat for Humanity to help restore a house in the Sandtown neighborhood of Baltimore. It was rewarding but much harder than I thought. I have new-found respect for construction workers everywhere. That is one tough job!”

’78 Natasha Gaganidze MacPherson has been

working on the Countrywide/Bank of America merger for the past year, managing the transition projects Jon Patz ’76 and his wife Jean with their son Jake and designed to bring the cendog Sunny. tralized sales groups of both companies together onto one sales platform. bands, Wharf Rats (www.myspace.com/ Still residing in sunny Southern whrats) and The Fountainheads California, the MacPherson family has (www.myspace.com/thefountainheadsband). now successfully graduated a daughter, He also spent two weeks exploring Turkey Kelsey, from high school and a son, Kevin, in April. A research team headed by Jon from middle school. Kelsey is taking a Patz published new evidence that deforyear off before heading out to college in estation in the Amazon is increasing the upstate New York. Kevin is looking forrisk of malaria. Jon works on health risks ward to playing high school baseball. posed by global environmental changes.

carylconnor@msn.com Michael Stern writes, “The Stern family

moved back to St. Louis in 2007 after spending two years in Chicago. I am still working for Monsanto as president of one of the company’s US commercial divisions. My oldest son Josh is off to college next year. Jordan is our high school junior and is captain of the hockey and lacrosse teams, while our seventh grader Sam keeps everyone happy! Karen is doing great and is happy to be back in school.”

Stephen Pocock writes, “I live in Oakland and make artisanal salumi (Italian for cured and prepared meat) with Boccalone. I’m bummed I missed everyone at Reunion. My kids, Henry and Charlotte, are now eight.” Barbara Shulman-Kirwin writes, “It was great seeing so many faces at our 30th Reunion.

I’m still living in Guilford, CT with my husband Paul and our three children, Corina, 18 and off to college this fall, David, a high school sophomore, and Isabella, a fourth grader. I own Chroma Gallery in downtown Guilford, where I have a glass-fusing studio and sell some of the pieces I make, including dichroic glass jewelry, fused glass plates, sculpture and architectural installations. I would love to see any of you if you are passing by the shoreline of Connecticut.”

’81 Dahira Lievano-Binford 6223 Ridgeview Avenue Baltimore, Maryland 21206

baltimorebinfordbunch@verizon.net Dahira here, wishing you all well as

Mike Saxon ’76 (second from right) with (l.-r.) son Jacob, wife Annette and daughter Sarah at her high school graduation.

Baltimore goes through a long stretch of sweltering weather at Class Notes press time. As they say here, hon, “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.” But by the time we’re all reading this, I’ll be wishing for the long, lazy days of summer. Our family of five took a fantastic trip out to New Mexico in June. Highlights included spicy Southwestern enchiladas and huevos rancheros, Santa Fe’s museums, churches and charming shops, silver and turquoise vendors, red rock mountains near Jemez Springs, a tram ride up the Sandia Mountains in Albuquerque, prairie dogs and roadrunners, and tall ladders up to cave dwellings at Bandolier National Monument. It was wonderful! In other news, I’m now homeschooling my youngest son, David. This is a new challenge for me, so if anyone else does this, please get in touch with me. I’m still

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CLASS NOTES into Gary Blauvelt power-walking in the neighborhood and on the JHU campus. I’ve also bumped into Phil at Meadowbrook Swim Club, where two of our children were signed up for swim classes.

My dear friend Paula Russo has been “parenting” in an invaluable way, too. She reports, “This year I became the guardian of two Palestinian boys who live in a refugee camp near Bethlehem. I Jackson Roberts ’17, son of Tracey and Phil met the boys in their camp last Roberts ’81, building a rocket at summer camp. year and now they are at my school on a four-year scholarship. tutoring/teaching Spanish and French to This year, I was proud to see them speak individuals and small groups. My students to the Quaker Meeting in Great range in age from four years old to adult.

Barrington about their volunteer work at One of my favorite students this past Defense for Children International, and spring was Liz Wilson, John Griffith’s wife, to hear them speak in chapel about their who has recently taken a year’s leave to lives and their hopes for peace. I’ve live and study in Costa Rica with her kids. thought about how wonderful it would be I wish her safety and wonderful times in if Friends would be willing to bring a boy Ticolandia. I also still work in my or girl from the camp to Baltimore. After Melaleuca business, a health and wellness all, it was my teachers at Friends who manufacturing company. Thanks to Lynn instilled in me a curiosity about the Goodrich Riley for sharing, “I’m still a Middle East and the hope of progress stay-at-home mom, living in Monkton towards peace there.” Andrew Topping with my husband, Paul, an architect, and writes, “I am VP, deputy general counsel our three boys who are now 14, 11, and 7. and co-chief compliance officer at With one child in each level of school, I Comcast. I live with my wife Laurene and feel I’m needed at home for a little our two boys, A.J. and Alex, in the historic longer, so I’m desperately holding out Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia. I’m while I watch my peers get back out in the on the board of directors of T. Howard work force! I’ve been revisiting my love of Foundation in DC, the Harrisburg, PA painting and drawing. Though it’s still Chamber of Commerce, the tough to find (and justify) the time to Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, and indulge myself, I managed to get a couple the Preservation Trust of Christ Church of works in Friends’ Alumni Art Show this Burial Grounds in Philadelphia.” Phil past year!” Lynn, I understand. I feel like Boling still lives in West Towson and has my parenting obligations and skills are in been married to Sarah for almost 22 even more demand as the years pass! Phil years. “We have three sons—Blake, 16, Roberts works as associate general counsel Matt, 13 and Jack, 8. I’m at Zurich at Johns Hopkins’ Homeland campus. He Insurance managing a team of lives nearby and walks to work most Surety/Fidelity claim professionals. My mornings. He reports that he often runs wife also works there—in the same building, on the same floor! I keep busy with my sons as a leader in Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and coaching sports. We just finished a vacation to Cancun and try to spend as much time as possible with Sarah’s family at the beach in Lewes and Rehoboth, DE. Next year’s vacation is planned for Yellowstone National Park. I correspond daily with Tim Goodell Philip Boling ’81 and wife Sarah with their three sons Blake, and I wish he and 16, Matt, 13 and Jack, 8, vacationing in Cancun, Mexico.

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Drew Feng ’83 at Volcanoes National Park in Hawaii.

their acts together to see each other more often. I also hope to drop by the Friends Meetinghouse some Sunday morning to see what it’s like.” Mike Lurie is now working at the University System of Maryland’s central office in its Office of Communications, as media relations and web manager. Elizabeth Buckingham writes, “I married John Owens on June 6, 2008, and my daughter Erica, 11, served a dual role as my fashion consultant and sole attendant.” Finally, friends, I’m putting out a plea to someone in our class to replace me as Class Secretary, as I could use a break. I always feel guilty when I don’t manage to get some news for COLLECTION. Of course, Facebook has been a great way for many of us to reconnect. So, please contact Amy Langrehr or me if you would be willing to take my place, even for a year or two. Thanks a lot!

’83 Shawn Dorman-McKenzie 2117 Our Lane Stevenson, Maryland 21153

Shawndor@comcast.net Thomas Greenman says, “My documentary, ‘Fatal Promises,’ premiered in September in NYC. For details and updates, please see our website, www.fatalpromises.com. Donations are always welcomed.”

’84 Robert Spencer-Strong 1257 Sandy Cross Road Burlington, North Carolina 27217

robertstrong@hotmail.com Staige Davis Hodges 7575 SW Copel Street Portland, Oregon 97225

To say that our 20th Reunion was an absolute blast is a huge understatement.

Fun, laughter and memories abounded, and it was truly one of those weekends that comes by only a few times in a lifetime. I returned to Oregon wishing that I

CLASS NOTES graduated with our class attended, which added another special layer to the experience. We loved seeing former teachers who came from near and far (Cape Cod, New York, Pennsylvania and the Eastern Shore) for our class celebration: Micki Bond (second grade), Jeannie Urban Meyer (third grade), Claire Loecher Ebeling (fifth grade), David Pines, Steve Balser, Carl Ortman, Catharine Nass, Doris Neumann, Randy Cooper, Karen Birdsong, Gary Blauvelt, George Wright, Evan Gifford, Nick Chris Swan ‘84's children, Camryn, Shelby and Fessenden and Diana McGraw. Here Nathaniel. are a few updates, especially for those who were unable to be with us. In July, my family and I took a vacation to Seattle and we had the pleasure of a lunch visit with Thomas Goldstein.

Thomas was getting ready to do the “STP” (Seattle-to-Portland) annual bike ride. He bikes to work a few days a week and really has his finger on the pulse of Seattle and, I’m convinced, on numerous other US cities as well! Jennifer Galambos just completed her first year as the head of the middle school at Bryn Mawr School and not only loves being back in Baltimore, but also loves her job!

(She also has the most wonderful cat, Laura McGraw-Cook ’84 with her children, Samson, whom I wanted to kidnap.)

Clarice and Nathan.

She bought a house in Homeland, right around the corner from Susan and Steve Schulhoff. Laura McGrawcould see my classmates on a more reguCook lives in Wind Gap, PA with her huslar basis, as it was so natural and rewardband Jeff and children, Clarice, 7, and ing to pick up a conversation and conNathan, 5. She is a psychologist, currently nect. Forty-eight of us (59 percent of the consulting part-time in schools so that she 82 found and invited—wow!) made it to can be home with her children. Pam Smith events over the course of the weekend, Sipher made a big move in July with her and it was touching, yet surreal at times, husband and three sons—from Northern watching friends recognize one another after so many years, and welcoming teach- Virginia to Indonesia, where they’ll be for a few years. It was great to see her at ers from as far back as second grade.

Reunion—Pam, send updates! Chris Swan Many of our classmates who had not is happily ensconced in Bermuda as a lawyer (actually he is a barrister and solicitor, as he would say in his most charming British accent) and he and his wife Linda are the proud parents of three children: Nathaniel, Shelby and Camryn. Chris’ surprise appearance at Reunion was a complete kick Former Friends teacher Carl Robbins with Class of ‘84’s Sam in the pants and I Brody and Ed Kane at Alumni Weekend 2009. think our 30th

should be on his home turf! Jon Meyers travels to Bermuda for business on occasion, and Chris and Jon discovered their offices are next door to one another! One of the most special conversations I had at Reunion was with Kim Coshnear. Kim is a social worker, helping teens who are on the streets in San Francisco. She works tirelessly to help them learn to care for themselves and to get off—and stay off— the streets. I am in awe of what she does and the calm, loving nature she maintains. Dan Kenzie lives on beautiful Lake Chatauqua in New York and is a fourth grade teacher of special needs children. If Dan is not on the golf course, he loves being out on the lake with his wife Tracy and their sons, Adam and Nick. They were visited in July by Peter Bradford and his wife Morag and daughter Lily, while en route to Niagara Falls. Kevin Carnell and his wife Tea welcomed a new son, William Alphaeus Carnell, in September 2008. Sam Brody and his wife Courtney welcomed Samuel Timothy Brody in March 2009. Little Sam joins big sister Caitlin Rose, born in September 2007.

They recently moved back to Baltimore from Annapolis. Sam is still flying for United, so listen closely next time when you are on a United flight for the names of the pilots! Lastly, both Therron Brown and Billy Tarbert joined us—at the same time—proving that they are, indeed, not the same person, which had been debated at length by many classmates. It was great to see everyone. Thanks for a fabulous weekend!

’85 New Class Secretary Amy Chen 4916 Paseo Tranquillo San Jose, CA 95118

ajochen@sbcglobal.net Hello, Class of ’85! I’m pleased to let you all know that I’ll be your new Class Secretary. You can e-mail me your updates or just find me on Facebook by doing a search for Baltimore>Friends School> Class of 1985 if you haven’t already “friended” or e-mailed me via Facebook.

I’m sure you’ve all heard about our upcoming 25th Reunion, which is the weekend of April 30-May 2, 2010. Save the date! I’ll be creating a Class of ’85 Facebook page as well. As for me, I moved from San Francisco (where I lived for ten years) to San Jose with my fiancé last year. I’m working in Silicon Valley, and this past April I ran the Santa Cruz Half Marathon. I look forward to hearing all about your adventures, so don’t be shy.

Send me your stories, and if you don’t have any stories to share, send me your

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CLASS NOTES founded. Burck says that driving across the country with three kids in an RV is top priority. Thayer Young and his wife Elisabeth are enjoying their new Baltimore home in Arcadia (Greater Lauraville). “I finally finished a master’s in environmental engineering at Hopkins after many fits and starts,” he says. “I haven’t quit my day job yet, but will soon be looking for a job in risk assessment.”

Proud mother Kimberly Hubble DeSha-Doll traveled to Houston, TX this past May to see her oldest daughter Gwendolyn George graduate from high school. “She will be attending college in Texas beginning in the fall. My other two daughters are entering middle and high schools in the fall, so I have my hands full. I welcome anyone to contact me via Facebook or e-mail (kimberlydeshadoll@yahoo.com).” Proud father Scott Beckman and his wife Christine welcomed child number two into their lives: Anna Caroline Beckman was born on April 13, 2009. Scott and Christine have their hands full caring for her and their son Palmer, 2. You can catch up with Scott on Facebook. He’s not shy about sharing.

By contrast, Dan Moylan steadfastly resists any temptation to join Facebook and thus probably doesn’t realize that his Star Trek shirt in the 1979–1980 “4A” class photo was the catalyst for a lengthy string of comments by classmates who have reconnected on the social networking site. Dan reported that he and his wife Heidi and their sons Josh, 8, and Noah, 5, are all doing well. “Proving the genius of George Lucas, my boys have caught the Star Wars bug, compliments of Lego Star Wars. My big news is that I’ll be playing goalie for an over-35 lacrosse team this fall. I’ll send photos of both my moment of glory (the one save I make) and of ignominy (the season-ending injury I suffer right after making my one save).” Good luck, Dan—I must say that I don’t miss stepping in front of 90+ mph projectiles! On the entertainment and news side, CNN producer Sara Weisfeldt spent long hours covering the Michael Jackson story immediately after his death. She camped out at Neverland for most of the coverage and chatted with neighboring ranchers and folks in town. Sara didn’t mind hanging out in the same area where the movie “Sideways” was shot. “Needless to say, we met some interesting characters. We did

Charley Case ’86 and his wife Toni at their April 2008 wedding.

Michael Hoffman ’86, his wife Jessica and their daughter Dorianna at her eighth grade graduation from Chicago's Solomon Schechter Day School.

Twitter ID so I can follow you. (If you want to follow me, my Twitter is amyjochen.) I look forward to hearing from you!

’86 Charley Case writes in from beautiful

Aspen, CO. “I am here managing the Annabelle Inn. The hotel was recently recognized as Aspen’s #1 bed & breakfast by tripadvisor.com. We have the same rating as the St. Regis Hotel and Hotel Jerome, both nationally recognized hotels. That’s pretty cool for a new hotel like ours. We offer a 20 percent discount for all Friends alumni and look forward to hearing from you.”

and I know Mme. Garcia would be proud. It’s only taken me 39 years, while my five-year-old daughter is bilingual after only two.” Scott extends an open invitation to all classmates who may be visiting the area. When he e-mailed me this summer, he was about to spend 10 days backpacking in Glacier National Park with Burck Smith, who is seeking out new challenges after 10 years with SMARTTHINKING, the company that he co-

’87 Shelley Coates Stein 1217 S. East Avenue Baltimore, Maryland 21224

sstein@lifebridgehealthandfitness.com Kate DeVore continues to work in Chicago

as a voice coach and therapist. This July marks the release of her book, The Voice Book: Caring For, Protecting, and Improving Your Voice. Alex Salkever has finally managed to escape the magnetic force field of Hawaii and gone to live in a city that is perhaps even more expensive—San Francisco. His wife and children decided to accompany him, despite their doubts about the sanity of relocating to a place where average temperatures are 20 degrees lower.

Kimberly Hubble DeSha-Doll ’88 with daughter Gwendolyn Doll at her high school graduation.

’88 Pio Angelo Valle 229 Canal Road South Bound Brook, New Jersey 08880

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Julie and Chris Vaughn ’89 with their sons Bo and baby Chase, who was born in June 2009.

some live shots for CNN and some stories and still pictures for CNN.com/CNN International about fans arriving from around the world to pay their respects.”

Finally, big congratulations go to Rob Berman, whose work on “The Kennedy Center Honors” on CBS earned him an Emmy Award nomination for Best Music Direction! The category is part of the Creative Arts Emmys on September 12, 2009, not the primetime Emmy Awards show that is televised, so you probably won’t see Rob’s face on the national broadcast, but, hey, it’s an Emmy nomination!

’89 Meghan Stern 32 Homestead Street San Francisco, California 94114

meghan@stern.net Chris Vaughn writes that his son Bo

Group. Despite the insane pace of covering Congress, life is good and she is happy to be employed. Her husband Holger is a professor of political science at George Washington University, specializing in civil wars and the UN and conflict mediation. Devoted Washingtonians both, they have just moved from Adams Morgan to Glover Park, going down a few notches in hipness, but getting more space and greenery in return.

’90 Jahan Sagafi-nejad 547 Page St. #6 San Francisco, CA 94117

Trish Harding Merson ’91 with her daughter Halla.

jahan@post.harvard.edu Sarah Farrant writes, “I ran two marathons this year (Harrisburg and York, PA) and finished both under 3:45, qualifying me to run Boston in 2010. So, Holter, if you’re running it again, let me know and we can meet up! Otherwise my life is the same, teaching English at Penns Valley High School near State College, PA. My husband Jeff Turner and I recently celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary.”

Jason Winer writes, “After four years writing and directing television pilots for ABC, FOX and CBS, one of my shows is finally going to series! ‘Modern Family’ is a ‘mockumentary’-style comedy starring Ed O’Neil, Julie Bowen, Sofia Vergara, Ty Burrell and Jesse Tyler Ferguson. I directed the pilot and will co-executive produce and direct most of the episodes.” Chris Pittenger joined the faculty at Yale University two years ago. “I am in the psychiatry department, where I direct the Yale Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Research Clinic and do laboratory research, along with some teaching and some clinical work as a psychiatrist. I live outside New Haven in the town of Bethany, CT, with my wife Jenny Turner

became big brother to Charles “Chase” Emerson Vaughn on June 12, 2009. “I play Megamillions regularly in search of their college tuition.” Plato Hieronimus is living in Baltimore and growing his strategic marketing and business consulting firm, The Selling Well (www.thesellingwell.com). He’s very excited to have recently secured a client in Naples, FL, and is planning a business trip there. He also just created and performed his first performance-art piece entitled, “The Meaning of Life is Life.” A video of this first performance may be viewed on YouTube and found easily under a name search. Finally, Plato really enjoyed seeing old classmates at Reunion and looks forward to strengthening the old bonds of friendship which, in this hectic world of ours, too often fall by the wayside. Helen Fessenden reports from Washington, DC, where she is managing editor of Congress Daily PM Emily Mikolayunas Rich ’91 with her husband Oliver and at the National Journal son Ezra.

and our three boys, Ian, 7, Silas, 4 and Angus, 1. I’ve been roped into joining the Bethany Board of Education and am gaining new appreciation for how hard it is to run a school! In my free time, I try to catch up on sleep, but rarely succeed.”

Sarah Miller writes, “My big news is that I finally completed my Ph.D. in art history at the University of Chicago! Now I’ll spend a year turning the dissertation into a book about photography in 1930s America.” Read Carter, his wife Marci and daughter Keely welcomed Lailah Fay Carter, born in April 2009. Remember— our 20th Reunion is coming up in May 2010! We will have more announcements about it in the coming months. If you would like to be involved in planning, please contact me at jahan@post.harvard.edu.

’91 Tricia Merson Harding 26 Wexcombe Way ELLENBROOK, WA 6069 Australia

trish@adventureout.com.au Emily Mikolayunas Rich writes, “Oliver

and I welcomed our son Ezra Michael Rich in November 2008. He is happy and healthy and keeps us on our toes. We recently enjoyed a relaxing and memorable July 4th weekend with Stacey Cagan and her family, and also vacationed over the summer with Rob Lyles ’95 and family in Nantucket. Pierre Caramazza moved from Boston to San Francisco three and a half years ago and needs some Friends alumni to give him an invitation to visit the East Coast, as he is finding it hard to find reasons to return to the “home of the Ravens.” He works for Franklin Templeton, where he has a lovely view of the Golden Gate Bridge. Marcie Jones Brennan, her husband Matthew and

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Above: Holly and Chris Baughman ‘93’s son, Samuel Roland Baughman. Below: Noah Cameron Oppenheim, son of Marc and Dana Oppenheim Chodos ’93.

for one year while my husband Dave Schwartz, a pediatrician in the military as well, Suneefinishes Claud an allergy & immunology fellowship at Walter Reed.#We 3369 S. Wakefield Street, A have an 18month-old daughter, Dylan Kate. Of Arlington, Virginia 22206 suneeclaud@gmail.com course, we think she’s perfect and spend as much time with her as possible. I occaSarah Taylor writes, “I currently reside in sionally see Lisa Engel Maiorana. She has Silver Spring, MD, while finishing up my her hands full with two sweet little boys. dermatology residency at Walter Reed I’d love to hear from others in the area!”

Army Medical Center as an active duty physician. I will be stationed at Ft. Meade for one year while my husband Dave Schwartz, a pediatrician in the military as Elizabeth Leonard Clifton well, finishes anAvenue, allergy & immunology 47 Collegeview Apt. 3 fellowship at Walter Reed.

We have an 18Poughkeepsie, New York 12603 month-old daughter, Dylan Kate. Of leonardew@hotmail.com course, we think she’s perfect and spend Chris Baughman welcomed Holly andtime as much with her as possible.

I occaSamuel Roland to their family April . She has sionally see Lisa Engel Maioranaon 25, lbs.!sweet They little are thrilled her 2009. handsHe fullwas with9 two boys. with Samtoand gets to I’d love hearhope fromheothers in meet the area!”

Chris’s Friends School friends soon. Dana Oppenheim Chodos writes, “My husband Marc and I welcomed our first child, Noah Cameron, onClifton January 31, 2009. I Elizabeth Leonard amCollegeview a stay-at-home mom Apt. now 3and I love it!

47 Avenue, Marc’s orthopedic is growing and Poughkeepsie, Newpractice York 12603 leonardew@hotmail.com we just bought a house in La Mesa, CA. If you are in the area, we’d love to have visiHolly and Chris Baughman welcomed tors.” John Miles writes that he’s enjoying Samuel Roland to their family on April the helter-skelter pace of under-5 soccer 25, 2009. He was 9 lbs.! They are thrilled as he coaches his daughter Ada’s team. with Sam and hope he gets to meet When he’s not coaching soccer, John Chris’s Friends School friends soon. Dana “coaches” his Asheville, NC-based web Oppenheim Chodos writes, “My husband development company, Integritive.

Marc and I welcomed our first child, Keeping his business practices green, he Noah Cameron, on January 31, 2009. I now offers his clients 100 percent solar am a stay-at-home mom now and I love it! powered web hosting by way of an enviMarc’s orthopedic practice is growing and ronmentally-friendly facility in Bakerswe just bought a house in La Mesa, CA. If field, CA. Check it out at www.integritive. net. “This innovative approach to client service is just one of the reasons Integritive is thriving in a down economy,” John says. I was fortunate that Tori

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Kyler Steinmeier andwe’d I both to you are in the area, lovehappened to have visiJohn Milesatwrites that he’s be in Baltimore the same timeenjoying this tors.” the helter-skelter pace of under-5 soccer spring.

We had a great visit and I can as he coaches Ada’s team. attest that her his lifedaughter is most definitely less When he’s notmost! coaching soccer, John ordinary than Diving is not just her “coaches”but hisalso Asheville, NC-based web lifestyle, her passion.

She has development company, Integritive. highly-entertaining stories about working Keeping his business practices green, on an enormous private yacht and thehe now offers his clients 100 percent solar amazing diving opportunities it has powered her—including web hosting by way of anshe enviafforded the time ronmentally-friendly facility in Bakers unknowingly dove into a shark feeding field, CA. Check it out at www.integritive. frenzy!

With her expertise, she was also net. “This innovative approach to client able to provide guidance and information service is just one of Lonely the reasons to the author of the Planet Guide to Integritive thriving in aBelize. downI econoDiving and is Snorkeling also had John says.

I was fortunate that Tori amy,” lovely time catching up with Karen and I both recent happened visit to to Kyler Hudson Steinmeier Burd on another be Baltimore. in Baltimore She isatworking the same astime a therapist this in spring.

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ThanksShe to everyone has highlyfor keeping in entertaining touch! stories about working on an enormous private yacht and the amazing diving opportunities it has afforded her—including the time she unknowingly dove into a shark feeding frenzy!

With her expertise, she was also able to provide guidance and information to the author of the Lonely Planet Guide to Diving and Snorkeling in Belize.

I also had a lovely time catching up with Karen Hudson Burd on another recent visit to Baltimore. She is working as a therapist in Johns Hopkins’ Employee Assistance Program and is really enjoying her work.

She’s also enjoying owning her 11-foot-wide rowhouse in Back (l.-r.): Seth Niman ‘92, Carrie Niman, Andy Snyder ‘92, Wendy Knowles, Federal Hill with herDavid husband Knowles ‘92, Matt Miller ‘92, Susie Counselman, Mark ‘92; (l.-r.): for Arsh Mirmiran ’92 and Lauren Lemus were married in Counselman Travis. Thanksfront to everyone Arsh Mirmiran ’92, Lauren Lemus Mirmiran.

June. keeping in touch!

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daughter Zoe welcomed a beautiful baby boy named Maxfield St. Paul Brennan into the world in March 2009. Zoe is in second grade at Friends, following in Marcie’s footsteps. As for me, I’ve just returned from two weeks of caving and abseiling in Margaret River with my daughter Halla and partner Alastair. It is one of the greatest places to go—adventure by day and wineries by night! Halla is in the first grade and has started her second season of soccer, where she is already better than her mum. We plan on coming home in Februarycoming so she home can play in in the snow for the first time!

If anyone February so sheis ever in the Perth area, please feel in free to can play the give us a call and visit! If snow you can’t getfirst an for the e-mail to me, please feel time! free toIfsend it to anyone me on Facebook. I love hearing from is ever in the everyone.

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I Sarah TaylorLegge writes,’93 “I currently reside in and Franny hearing Silver MD, while love finishing up my duringSpring, a May 2009 everyone. dermatology residency atfrom Walter Reed visit to Venice, CA. Army Medical Center as an active duty physician. I will be stationed at Ft. Meade

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Lauren Hubbard Johnson ’94 with her children, Lily and Zachary.

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taylor.c.smith@gmail.com Trevor Soponis

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’94 Rich Santos 283 E 4th Street, Apt 1D New York, New York 10009

richie1124@gmail.com Sean Armstrong writes, “By day I’m a visual merchandiser for Adidas, working in DC, MD and VA, and by night I am DJ Face playing clubs in DC. I’ve done DJ gigs in Hong Kong, Amsterdam and London. I also toured Germany, France and England with 9th Wonder and Tru School Productions. Look me up on myspace.com/djface.” Daryn Nakhuda writes, “We welcomed daughter Ruby Lucille Nakhuda on April 30, 2009, which is my excuse for missing our 15th Reunion. I also recently took over as chief technology officer at TeachStreet, a start-up that helps connect students with teachers, specifically in the area of lifelong learning (yoga, cooking, languages, etc.). Busy, busy times.” Lauren Hubbard writes, “Zachary Michael Johnson was born on May 28, 2009 and I enjoyed the summer off with Zach and his big sister, Lily.”

Bradley Zisow writes, “I have owned Bradley Images (www.bradleyimages.com) in Baltimore for over 15 years and work in photography, video and graphic design. My clients have flown me all over the world to shoot weddings, mitzvahs and other events. I have another company that shoots models and we have done work for all of the top magazines.”

Friends alumni feted Class of ‘95’s Whitney Manger and Mike Fine at the couple’s June 2009 wedding. Back row (lr): Maron Deering ’99, Jessie Owen ’95, Mike Fine ’95, Whitney Manger ’95, Denny Bell ’71, Mary Caroline van de Weghe ’44, Kate Manger ’92, Suzie Bell Manger ’67, Bruce Manger ’66. Front row (l-r): Heath Shapiro '95, Peter Gaines '95, Laura Fine '99. Not pictured: Becky Browne Reynolds ’67 and Taylor Smith ’95. Inset: Whitney and Mike display the t-shirts made especially for their wedding day by Mike’s parents, Stanley & Bailey Fine.

It took nearly 15 years, but a Class of ’95 couple has finally tied the knot! Whitney Manger writes, “On June 20, 2009, Mike Fine and I were married in a beautiful waterfront ceremony and reception at my grandparents’ house in Chestertown, MD. A tornado watch during the day cleared up just in time for the early evening ceremony, which was followed by a gorgeous sunset. Our dear friend Pete Gaines officiated and did an amazing job—we think this is his second calling. Between our families and friends, we had a solid number of Friends School alums in attendance including my parents, Bruce Manger ’66 and Suzie Bell Manger ’67, sister Kate Manger ’92, grandmother Mary Caroline Biedler Van de Weghe ’44, uncle Denny Bell ’71, cousin Becky Browne Reynolds ’67, and Mike’s sister Laura Fine ’99, as well as our good friends, Jessie Owen Kostelnik, Heath Shapiro, Taylor Smith and Maron Deering ’99. It was an incredible day and we felt so lucky to be surrounded by our nearest and dearest. In lieu of favors, Mike and I made a donation to the Hiram Holton II ’95 Scholarship Fund.” Whitney left out their amazing first dance performance—which was leaps and bounds better than the dance skills displayed at Middle School mixers! Congratulations to the happy couple. Tosca and Heath Shapiro recently made a West Coast road trip and caught up with Geoff Sanders in Los Angeles, where they toasted the long and storied career of retired Ravens wide receiver Drew Bennett and enjoyed visiting many of LA’s finest independentlyowned donut shops. Doug Nilson recently moved to Maine and writes, “I am finishing up my emergency medicine residency

Josh Seipp ’96 and his son Cooper.

Doug Nilson ’95 with son Eli Barasch Nilson.

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Above: Ismini Naos ’96 and her husband Jerry Nijmeijer. Below: Alli Coppell ’96 and her husband Gonzalo Guerrero.

Emily Santos ‘96, Rich Santos ’94 and Natalie Santos Ferguson ’90 with Natalie’s daughters, Drew and Charlotte, in the summer of 2009.

’96 Andrew Dale

atdale@gmail.com Leading off with great news, Linley Smith Dixon and her husband Peter are having a baby in January! Also in baby news, Janelle Milam Schmidt and her husband

at Brown and have taken a job at Southern Maine Medical Center in Biddeford, ME. Rachel and I are still riding the wave of excitement over the birth of our son, Eli Barasch Nilson, born in March 2009. We welcome visitors!”

Andrew Gohn joined the Maryland Energy Administration in Annapolis as a clean energy program manager and writes, “I work to support development of wind power in Maryland. This is really a dream job for me, and I’m thrilled to be able to work on renewable energy policy and still live in Baltimore.”

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Mike (not the Hall of Fame third baseman) added Connor Adam to their family on June 24, 2009. Janelle says that their son Drew loves being a big brother.

Speaking of kids, Suzanne Benson’s daughter Isabella Voshell entered Friends Pre-Primary this fall. Now…some other news direct from Charm City. For a month-long stretch this winter it seemed that everywhere I turned, I saw Brandon Maslan, Esquire. First, I saw him at a Baltimore County Bar Association event where we had a few beers and reminisced, then I bumped into him out on the town in Federal Hill, and then again at a fundraiser a friend of mine organized in Little Italy (Joe Johnston ’98 was there too.) Brandon is practicing law for his family firm and doing very well. He speaks to Brad Surosky often and says that Brad is doing great in LA. Brandon also told me that Josh Hantman is still in DC practicing law. I also saw Atman Smith recently and we had a good time catching up. Atman and his brother Ali Smith ’94 continue to do great work with the nonprofit they founded, the Holistic Life Foundation (www.hlfinc.org). HLF just completed its second year of a yoga/mindfulness study involving fifth grade innercity youth. The study was a partnership with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Penn State’s Prevention

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Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development. Ali says the program went so well that the research will continue for another two years, expanding the scope to include more schools. Dr. Dan Munoz continues to work like crazy in his cardiology fellowship at Johns Hopkins and began his job as one of the chief residents of internal medicine in July. Edith Dietz is in her second year of medical school and is really enjoying her work with patients. And, while I missed it this year, her dad’s big event—the Maryland Film Festival—was another big success. Of course Edith’s brother, “Big Time” Bob Dietz ’99, was in town, but he’s so Big Time these days that he arrives by limo and is ushered quickly in and out of

Jeannie Achuff ’96 and Ernest Morrow were married in August.

CLASS NOTES everywhere he goes by his security people. I hear that Big Time is doing well in Chicago. Edith hung out with Anjana Jindal earlier this year, who is about to finish her glaucoma fellowship at Wills Eye Institute in Philadelphia. After that, she’s joining the ophthalmology department at Temple University while staying on at Wills parttime. Gwen Armbruster reports, “I moved back to San Francisco, again, this past June (I swear, second time’s the charm!). I am in graduate school at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in their new Dan Kahn ’96 with tattoo artist and television personality M.B.A. in design strategy Kat Von D at her book signing. program and will be getting my degree in June 2010. I am also interning for six months in the strategy department at Yves Behar’s award-winning industrial design and brand identity studio called fuseproject (www.fuseproject.com) in downtown San Francisco. I love being back on the West Coast, and am excited to finish up school sooner than later!” Dan Kahn e-mailed, “My wife and I went on a cruise to the Panama Canal and Costa Rica. The rainforest was amazing and now I wish I had taken that class trip to Costa Rica. I also ran into Kat Von D (‘LA Ink’ star) and had her autograph a copy of her book.”

Alec Hawley was in town in May. Edith, Alec and some of our parents had brunch together one day and also had a fun night Mike and Janelle Milam Schmidt ‘96’s sons in Hampden. Alec is a landscape architect and he was, until May, living in Canada.

Drew, 3 and Connor, born June 24, 2009.

His drive from Canada to California, where he now lives, was an epic journey; he wrote to me about some of his adventures on the road, saying, “The plateaus of Minnesota gave way to the crazy landscape of the South Dakota Badlands, then on to the mountains and American flags of Wyoming, where there was still about five feet of snow! Yellowstone was also covered in snow, with steam rising from the geysers. I saw big-horned sheep, elk and some kind of antelope.” Alec is living in San Francisco again, the site of his famous breakout TV role as “Mark,” the angry abusive murderer on one of those crime reenactment shows. I’ll never forget the look in his eyes as he set fire to a Jeep and stared coolly at the wreckage. While in SF, he’ll continue to operate his side Claire Cherlin Kosloff ’97 and “Uncle” Reid business selling animal pelts, syrup, rare Cherlin ’99 show off Claire’s new daugheggs and non-ferrous metals on the ter Alexandra Lang Kosloff in Los Angeles Internet. (You can’t make this stuff up.) in August 2009.

While Alec was in town we also hung out with Jay “Moves” Mund. “Moves” continues to work at Kennedy Krieger while attending graduate school and generally dominating Route 40. I missed a karaoke birthday party for Madeline Franklin in New York, but got a text from Maddie during the festivities affirming that they were having a good time. I heard Trevor Soponis ’95 and Emily Santos were there.

Maddie said she did a rendition of our classic “go to” Starship duet, “Nothin’s Gonna Stop Us Now,” but she had to use alternate (read: lesser) talent for the male vocals. Maddie and Emily were in attendance this summer as Lydia Ries married Tom O’Halloran. Cary Pirone and Jeannie Achuff and her husband Ernest Morrow were also there. Ismini Naos wrote from New York, “We moved from Manhattan to Larchmont in Westchester County a few months ago. The move was a good one, as we have a lot more space and the town is super cute. I am engaged to a wonderful guy, Jerry Nijmeijer, who hails from the Netherlands. He is a physicist and a specialized optics project manager for a company that designs microchip manufacturing machines. Jerry’s company designed the lenses for the Hubble telescope. The wedding will be sometime next year. I continue to work as a senior medical planner for HOK Architects and am enjoying seeing the progress of one of my projects, a new hospital for the University Medical Center at Princeton, NJ, which is set to see its first patient in 2011. I see quite a bit of Jill Meister Feldman and her husband Art. They take the train to visit us and Jill—who incidentally is the new editor-in-chief of GetMarried.com and the senior supervising producer of ‘Get Married’ on Lifetime—has been a huge help in the wedding planning.” Another New Yorker, Jessica Lichtenfeld, wrote: “I

Mehul Parekh ’97 and Mather Preston ‘97 at Golden West Café in Hampden.

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Amanda Busher Lane ‘98’s twins, Aubrey Claire and Graham Alexander, born November 2008.

spectacular. I sat in the front row of the chorus and in front of me was a guy playing a VERY EXPENSIVE 160-year-old bass, and the preeminent clarinet player in the country was playing about three feet away from me.” Great update from Jessica, but have to say that while I respect the “preeminent clarinet player in the country,” he’s no match for Dan Munoz, who, in high school, switched from saxophone to bass clarinet for the “good of the team.” I’d like to see “preeminent clarinet guy” switch instruments, ace Mr. Wright’s biology class, build an igloo worthy of local news coverage AND play varsity baseball. Class of ’96 keeps on believing and achieving. Keep it up, all!

’97 Claire Cherlin Kosloff 442 1/2 S Maple Drive Beverly Hills, California 90212–4714

cherlin@aya.yale.edu Class of ’97 alumni celebrate at Christina Counselman ’97 and husband Owen Patrick’s October 2008 wedding. Back row (l-r): Amit Shashidharan, Sarah Melville, Christa Sterrett Gatewood, Christina Counselman Patrick, Claire Cherlin Kosloff. Front row (l-r): Anna Maria Gapuz, Melissa Ciesla, Rebecca Leonard.

Erica Winters ‘97’s son, Dave Winters, Jr.

wish I’d been able to say that I passed the initial test for ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire,’ but I only got 26 or 27 of the 30 questions correct, so I failed. (One of them was, ‘In which city does John Waters set most of his films?,’ so you KNOW I got that one right!) I am now manager of audience research at MTV, which sounds very fancy, but I still don’t have access to Brody Jenner or Stephanie Pratt. I ran into Dee Snider in the lobby last week, though, and I saw the dude from ‘Tough Love’ (on Vh1) and his mom. On the singing front, I recently sang Britten’s ‘War Requiem’ with the Dessoff Choirs and the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Lorin Maazel. That doesn’t mean a lot to most people, but Maazel is one of the top conductors in the world today, and he’s retiring, so the ‘War Requiem’ was one of his ‘send-off ’ pieces. It was

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Garrett Smith 698 Green St. #4 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

garrettmichaelsmith@googlemail.com

Hugh Peterson ’97 in Alaska while filming “Ice Road Truckers” for the History Channel.

Perry, on March 20, 2009. He is keeping us busy in Providence and he’s already made several trips to Maryland to visit family, to celebrate Lydia Ries ’96’s wedding and of course to attend his first Orioles game.” Congratulations Abby and James! I must report, however, that I saw a picture of little Sam in a Patriots onesie and I am hoping Abby can get some Ravens blood flowing through him before he is lost to New England forever.

Congrats are also in order for Christina Counselman Patrick, who writes, “I married Owen Patrick in October 2008 in Baltimore. Our wedding party included my classmates Sarah Melville, Rebecca Leonard, Christa Sterrett Gatewood and Melissa Ciesla, as well as my brother and sister, Katie Counselman ’95 and Mark Counselman ’92. Also in attendance were classmates Anna Maria Gapuz, Claire Cherlin Kosloff and Amit Shashidharan.”

Garrett Smith just finished graduate school and will stay in Boston doing management consulting for school districts with a small company called the District Management Council. He will be focused on building managerial capacity at Boston Public Schools…whatever that means!

Garrett also reports that he lived with Paul Masson for six months last year before Paul fell in love with Krystal Boeren, a beautiful girl from Charm City,

Hello FS ’97! Lots of good news to go around this time. We got a long update from Jennifer Insley-Pruitt, who reports, “I’m still married, living in New York and have two adorable and perfect cats. I enjoyed a trip to Turkey and then started a one-year clerkship with a federal district court judge here in NYC. After that clerkship, I will do another one with a federal appellate court judge in the Second Circuit, current home of Sonia Sotomayor (but she’ll be out by the time I get there).

Following the second clerkship I’ll probably go back to my law firm, Debevoise & Plimpton, which I really like and is not like the movie ‘The Firm’ at all—the people are lovely. But 2011 is just a bit too far away to be sure. I recently saw Ellen Morrow for the first time in three years.

She’s a general surgery resident at Stanford and is doing great. I also see Ed Chen and some of the rest of the Friends crew here in NYC periodically. I also saw Pete Levin a few months ago.” Abby Owen Perry has very exciting news to share, “James and I are delighted to announce the birth of our son, Samuel Ernest Ruth Draper ’97 with her partner Dana Prince.

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CLASS NOTES and moved back to Baltimore and got engaged. Paul was a fantastic roommate and he has turned into a great singersongwriter. Marci McLachlin Morgan writes, “Apparently I love school, as I just started my M.B.A. at Kellogg this past spring. I’m pursuing it part-time while I continue to work at US Cellular doing accounting. So far, I’m loving the program, though it definitely is keeping me busy and will continue to do so until the summer of 2011, which is my target completion date. Other than that, the first year of married life was great for Jeremy and me and we are looking forward to starting a family AFTER I finish the M.B.A.!” Good luck with everything, Marci! Rida D’Agostino writes in, “I graduated from George Washington University this past May with an M.B.A. (marketing concentration) and within days closed on

a house in DC that I bought with my boyfriend Andy. It’s a recently renovated 100-year-old rowhouse, much like those you find in Baltimore. So now I am dividing my time between job hunting and unpacking.” Congratulations and good luck, Rida! Continuing on the higher education theme, Erica Steed Winters reports, “My husband, son and I moved to Texas so I can go to nursing school. It’s a lot hotter here than Baltimore.” Mather Preston has this update, “I met up with Mehul Parekh for lunch at Golden West in Hampden in May to celebrate our 30th birthdays and to discuss important topics like Matt Weiters’ promotion to the Orioles and the Ravens’ lack of a deep threat at receiver. We also made plans for a backyard barbeque before he headed to Alaska. I celebrated my actual birthday at an O’s game with my girlfriend Anne

James Harlow ’98 and his wife Katie at their May 2009 wedding.

Class of ’98 members Alison Schwarzwalder, Justine Alger Forrester, Jennie Ray and Savithri Nair at Justine and husband Bill Forrester’s June 2009 wedding.

Charlton, Jim Nicholas, Bob Michel and Marc Pries (Anne Pries ’99’s brother.) Chris Wilson ’96 was invited but he decided to go to a parent-teacher conference instead.” Chrissy Sterrett Gatewood reports that she and her husband Kristian have moved to Cincinnati, OH for a few years so that Kristian can manage sales for the Tide brand at Procter & Gamble.

She would like everyone to know that they would welcome any visitors to take in a Bengals-Ravens game. Count this Ravens fan in…though I’m a bit afraid of getting beaten up in my head-to-toe purple. And now, we move on to the West Coast dispatches. First, Nigel Sanders writes, “After working in the music business for five years, I switched gears and went back to school to get my degree. I just graduated with a B.F.A. in illustration and graphic design from Otis College of Art and Design. I’m living in Los Angeles and working as a printmaker and a freelance illustrator. I see Pete Levin and Emily Hopkins all the time and love living on the West Coast with my girlfriend and my dog.” Next, Hugh Peterson reports, “I’m still living in LA & loving life. I spent two months this past year in Northern Alaska producing ‘Ice Road Truckers’ for the History Channel. It was a great experience that I’m glad is over. It would get down to 40 below (or 80–90 below with the wind chill) regularly, but it was absolutely gorgeous. Oh, I also randomly met Sarah Palin at a junior hockey game in Fairbanks—it was too funny! I’m currently a producer for a new show on ABC called ‘Find My Family’ that reunites people with long-lost family members (adopted children with birth parents and vice versa, etc.). If you know of anyone who is trying to find someone, let me know and I’ll see what I can do. I rarely see anyone from Friends out here…you bunch of lazy East Coasters!” Unfortunately, Hugh was out of town shooting when I hosted the LA Friends Alumni gathering in March.

We had a great time reminiscing about our Scarlet and Gray Days. Pete Levin was there to help me represent our class. He is doing great and recently set up an animation studio at his home, where he is busy working on several projects. A few weeks before the event, I had the pleasure of joining Christian Muirhead and his wife Jen for dinner at their house. We feasted on delicious risotto, but mostly cooed over Christian’s one-year-old daughter Penelope, who is absolutely gorgeous. As for me, my husband Adam and I welcomed Alexandra Lang Kosloff on July 30, 2009. She is perfect and we are so overjoyed to be parents! On the professional side, I just wrapped up as the supervising producer on the second sea-

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Class of ‘98’s Ed Van Wesep (far left) and Brett Gordon (second from left) having lunch with friends in the Selkirk and Monashee Mountains, in British Columbia.

Sarah Alba Warner ’99 with her daughter Isabelle.

education field, but only work parttime, which gives me plenty of time to stay home and be with the babies.”

Congratulations, Amanda! You must be keeping very busy. Marc Broady reports, “I continue to face life’s challenges and enjoy the blessings of each day. I’m still working to Marc Broady ’98 (left) with Baltimore City government colimprove the delivleagues. ery of [municipal] services to son of Discovery/Animal Planet’s docuBaltimore City and its residents, and also series “Whale Wars,” and I encourage you continue to work with the Holistic Life to check it out. I’m very proud of the Foundation on our mission to enrich the show—it’s great. I recently marked my lives of children who’ve been left behind.

30th birthday with Chrissy Sterrett I am unmarried and have no children, Gatewood, who traveled to LA to celethough I do have two nieces and a brate and we co-hosted a great party. I am nephew and hope to one day be celebratcounting down the days until Chrissy ed on Uncles and Aunts Day. I’ve written returns to Southern California! That’s it letters to Congress regarding this issue to for this go-round. Have a wonderful fall no avail.” Ed Van Wesep bought a house and winter everyone, and keep the news in downtown Chapel Hill, NC this July coming! and generously offers, “I have a guest room with an incredible bed, so anyone wanting a free vacation in Chapel Hill can come visit.” Who wouldn’t want to enjoy Justine Alger Forrester some time away in North Carolina? jalger1@yahoo.com Michael Brumfield also recently moved, returning to Brooklyn, NY after a stint in Hello, ’98ers! Hope this issue finds you Jersey City. He tells us, “I’m still playing well. We didn’t receive much news this guitar and still a confirmed bachelor.” time around, but the news we did get is really good. For one, Amanda Busher Lane Clearly, this is by choice only. Emily Baum and her husband Josh Burke just moved writes, “On November 9, 2008 I gave from Austin to Philadelphia, where Emily birth to our first children, a set of boy/girl will be completing her internship at Penn, twins, Aubrey Claire and Graham so she will “finally” graduate next sumAlexander. The babies are now a year old mer. “Although we miss Austin, we’re and doing great. I also recently took over enjoying Philly. It’s also wonderful being the job of director of children’s education so close to Baltimore.” Brett Gordon at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Wayne, writes, “I enjoyed a two-week trip for busiPA. The job allows me to remain in the

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ness and pleasure to Shanghai and Beijing and was amazed at how much things have changed since I was there only two years earlier!” Dara Salcman is experiencing success in the realm of business! She opened her full-time alternative healing practice, Freehand Healing, in January 2009 in San Francisco and is enjoying its growth. And then there’s the wedding news: Elena Johnson tells us she was uncharacteristically spontaneous when she got married in Las Vegas in June. Her then-boyfriend of 10 years, Tony Sideris, was working in Nevada for the majority of the summer and a week before Elena was heading out to visit him, they decided to get married! They had a private ceremony in the mountains outside of Vegas and then spent the rest of the weekend relaxing. Katie and James Harlow got married on May 23 in a beautiful ceremony on Sunset Cliffs in San Diego, followed by a honeymoon in Kauai! Jason Anderson was in attendance as a groomsman and James’s brother Doug Harlow ’96 was his best man. And…I, Justine Alger Forrester, married Bill Forrester in June in an intimate outdoor ceremony at The Liriodendron in Bel Air, MD. Savithri Nair, Alison Schwarzwalder and Jennie Ray were my somewhat non-traditional bridesmaids/readers, and Amanda Lower—recently engaged to Justin Bakaian—also made the trip down from Boston to attend. We were sorry that Lisa Viscidi couldn’t make it, as she and her husband Mateo Samper were in Colombia visiting family and celebrating their oneyear anniversary. We were very lucky with the weather and could not have been happier with the way the whole night came together! Highlights, in addition to the personal and heartfelt ceremony officiated by Alison’s boyfriend of four years, Paul Rebman, included an outstanding toast by my brother Jordy Alger ’02 and an elaborate, choreographed flashmob-style dance to “Jai Ho” (“Slumdog

CLASS NOTES Millionaire”), which had been secretly learned by about half of the guests there.

It began with just the three girls dancing and then in turn, more and more of the crowd joined in, until so many of our friends, family, and coworkers were involved that our jaws were on the floor.

What an awesome surprise—we were blown away! We had a great time and I only wish the night hadn’t gone by so quickly. We followed it up with a honeymoon in St. Lucia. Since then, we have been taking more time to get settled in our new house in Towson, which we bought this past April. Maggie Beetz is still working as a writer and attending

graduate school. By the time of publication, Maggie will also have married Jesse Whyte and enjoyed a honeymoon in Greece. Hopefully we’ll hear more about that next issue. We missed hearing from so many of you this time around—hope to get more from you next time. Until then, hope you have a wonderful fall and winter. I’ll be in touch in 2010!

which was unbelievable! Our classmates descended onto the Friends School campus from all across the country, including California, Miami and New York. In attendance were Sanjay Seunarine, Reid Cherlin, Chara Johnson, Johanna Tassone, Deana Carr-Davis, Kelly Vaughan Edwards, Temika Britton, Matt Sherman, Jake Martin, Laura Fine, Brian Barker, Ben Baker-Lee, Will Terrin, Kelly Bouxsein, Sophia Silbergeld, Becca Pollak, Amanda Bates Parks, Shannon Clark Early, Lucia Rosalie Parker Treasure, Greg Binstock, Tim Sweeney, rorosalie@gmail.com Steve Cooper, Dan Sieck, Josh Stone, Wilson Taliaferro, Ben Kennedy, Jessie Greetings from your new Class Secretary, Rosalie Parker! Thanks to everyone for the Adkins, Drew Shelton, Colin Tuebner, Maron Deering, Elizabeth Sampson, Ben information that , Kenny Thompson, Chris Franzoni Pollak you’ve sent to me, and yours truly. We had an amazing time and major props to catching up—it was as if time hadn’t even Chris Condlin for passed. Later that night at our after-party keeping us all updated for the past we connected with Mary Beth Stricker, Dave Richman-Raphael and Alec Heuisler 10 years. Chris just at Fletcher’s, along with members of the graduated from Class of 1994. Earlier that day, a few of Stanford Law us, including Jessie Adkins, Ben Kennedy, School and is Wilson Taliaferro, Kenny Thompson and spending quality I, went on a tour of the campus, which time with his son, Nikita, 4½, who’s in has changed immensely since we were at Friends. There’s a new Middle School, an the US from Russia addition to the Math/Science building and for the summer, a new “green” Dining Hall, scheduled to hanging out and open in September. I spent some time at learning a bit of English until Chris’s the Mr. Nick Bull Roast with Jessie Adkins and her husband Bob, who are moving to job starts this fall.

Seattle, where Jessie will be starting a Now, on to the most Dave Richman-Raphael ’99 and Lesley Wojcik ’00 at their June grad program in education at the exciting news—our 2009 wedding.

University of Washington. I also had a 10 year Reunion, LEN SPODEN PHOTOGRAPHY chance to see Ben Kennedy and his wife Jennifer, who currently live in Minneapolis, MN. Also at the Bull Roast was Kelly Vaughan Edwards with her husband Jonathan and daughter Caile, who was full of energy and immensely cute!

Some of the other wonderful people that I had a chance to catch up with at Alumni Weekend were Josh Stone, who just moved into a condo in Inner Harbor East after living in Federal Hill for the past two years with Chris Franzoni. He said he finds himself at RA Sushi and Taco Fiesta way too much! Deana Friends gather for a group shot at the wedding of Lesley Wojcik ’00 and Dave Richman-Raphael ’99 (l-r): Carr-Davis says that Warner Siebert '01, Andrew Kelly ‘00, Andy Gabriel ‘00, Joe Fleury ‘00, James Yolles ‘00, Chris Guggino ‘00, Anna Carroll is

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CLASS NOTES engaged and moving to Philly to continue her ESL work, Matt Sherman is getting into the restaurant business with his brother, and Laura Fine refuses to come back from New York (despite Deana’s pleas for over five years), and instead continues to pursue graduate degrees. As for Deana, she starts graduate school at University of Maryland School of Social Work this fall. Tim Sweeney has graced us with his presence at various performances in Baltimore and DC, in between weekend trips to DJ in various cities all around the world. Some of the most exciting news that I have to report are two Friends Schoolers’ weddings: Dan Sieck and Mary Beth Stricker will be married in Baltimore (naturally) on October 24, 2009. The wedding party will be composed entirely of FSB’ers. Will Sieck ’95 and Dave Sieck ’01 will be the best men and the groomsmen will be Matt Sherman, Tim Sweeney, Gene Williams, Ian Mills and Brian Valle. Guess who will be providing the flowers for the wedding? Equally exciting is that David Richman-Raphael and Lesley Wojcik ’00 got married in Baltimore on May 9, 2009.

I don’t have an exact count, but I estimate that FSB’ers made up close to 75 percent of the non-family component of the guest list. Dave’s brother, Matt Richman-Raphael ’03 was the best man, James Yolles ’00 and Brian Valle were among Dave’s groomsmen, and Sammy Williamson ’00 and Lesley’s sister, Joellen Wojcik ’13, were among Lesley’s bridesmaids. Dave is in his final year of dental school at the University Maryland and Lesley just graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Once Dave finishes up, they’ll be moving to Portland, OR, where Lesley will be an anesthesiology resident at Oregon Health & Science University. Will Terrin started medical school at St. Louis University in the fall of 2009. Reid Cherlin, as everyone probably knows, is assistant press secretary for President Obama. He was nice enough to invite Brian Valle to hang out in the West Wing. As for Brian, who gave me so much of the detailed information about the two weddings, he moved to Boston in the fall to start graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he’ll be pursuing a master’s degree in city planning. He says, “That probably sounds more interesting than it is, but in a nutshell, I’ll be focusing my studies on creating more sustainable and equitable communities and cities through responsible real estate development. I’ll be living in Cambridge with Jeremy Barofsky, who is pursuing his Ph.D. in health economics at the Harvard School of Public Health. I missed our 10 year Reunion, but I was fortunate to meet up with Jeremy, Reid

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Cherlin, Chris Condlin, Robert Dietz, Drew Shelton, Will Terrin and Ryan Welch in Las Vegas this past spring. From there, we went to Death Valley National Park and camped for a few nights.” Ryan Welch, who incidentally helped Ziger/Snead Architects with the design of Friends’ new Middle School a few years back, reports, “I just returned from six weeks of travel in Russia, Ukraine and Georgia, where fellow Yale School of Architecture classmate Aidan Doyle and I were filming a documentary on late Soviet architecture. Several buildings of the 1970’s and 1980’s USSR defy categorization. Through a series of interviews with architects, builders and scholars, we explored the political and artistic impulses that made such works possible. I’ll continue to put my Friends School Russian to use, translating over 30 hours of footage into English to help share these amazing stories with a wider audience.” Back in February, I had the opportunity to go to the NYC Friends alumni gathering, where I was glad to see some of our classmates, including, Laura Fine, Elizabeth Sampson, Charlie Achuff, Greg Binstock, Molly O’Connor and Becca Pollak. Molly is still teaching Spanish and living in Brooklyn. She graduated from Teachers College in May with an M.A. in educational leadership. She spent most of summer 2009 in Guatemala, where she volunteered with various schools; she also ran the Antigua Half Marathon! Charlie Achuff continues to live in NYC and work on his master’s in library science, which he should finish in December. This summer he volunteered at the National Archives downtown and at Sony Music’s archives. He just moved into a gorgeous new apartment with his boyfriend Adam and their 4-month-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Leroy. This past June, Amanda Bates and Shannon Early stopped by my place for a roof party.

Amanda was married last August to Devin Parks, but they’ve been together since the summer of 2000. He is a chef at Citronelle in DC. Amanda works for Agora, a publishing company in Mt. Vernon. They spent a long weekend in August at Charlie Achuff ’s Bethany Beach house with Shannon Clark Early, Lucia Treasure, Greg Binstock and Jackie DuPont. It was kind of a Senior Week 10year reunion. I had a chance to catch up with Lucia a couple of times over the past few months at parties and happy hours.

She continues to work at the Maryland Film Festival, that great organization that is headed by our classmate Rob Dietz’s father, Jed. In other news, Rebecca Clemens reports, “My husband, Clinton Mikel, and I were married in June 2008;

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Davida Eisenberg and my sister Maggie Clemens Gorji ’96 were bridesmaids. After

a honeymoon at Peter Island, British Virgin Islands, we returned to our home in San Francisco. A few months later we made the decision to move to back to Michigan to be closer to my family, who relocated there after I graduated from Friends. In January we bought a five-bedroom home in Grosse Pointe, MI, less than a mile from my parents. While owning an older home comes with all the problems you’d expect from a 90-year-old structure, we wouldn’t trade the character and workmanship that define vintage homes for the world! We both love our new jobs. Clinton is a corporate lawyer and I work with autistic children as a behavior therapist. We spend the majority of our free time working on decorating our home, traveling to Kentucky to visit with Clinton’s family and (very occasionally) relaxing at the yacht club. I think about Friends often and hope I will be able to make the next Reunion!” I recently attended Artscape with Kate Erwin and ran into a bunch of other Friends Schoolers—too many to list! She’s happy at her new position as sous chef at Corvino in Federal Hill, a great restaurant. Go and pay her a visit, she’ll feed you well. Emily Reeder is still living in Austin, TX after receiving a master’s degree in water resources engineering from the University of Texas. Now she works for an engineering consulting firm and spends her days allocating water to the different water rights holders in the state. Justin Sussman’s big news is that he is living in Boston with his fiancée Amy, whom he will be marrying in early 2010 in Manhattan. He’s currently working for an investment bank. He says, “Life is pretty hectic right now with the trips back and forth from NYC for the wedding planning. I’m looking forward to the upcoming Ravens season and hope to make a few trips back to Baltimore each month to see some of you guys.” Ben Bodnar is in a combined residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at Yale New Haven Hospital, where he’ll be for the next four years. John Cronin is living in Dublin, Ireland and attending business school at UCD Smurfit School of Business. I’m hoping to pay him a little visit when I go to the UK in the coming months. Watch out, John! Meagan Ciesla writes, “I just graduated with an M.F.A. in creative writing from University of Wyoming and I’m headed to University of Missouri to start my Ph.D. in the fall. My novella, Me, Them, Us, recently won the Iron Horse Novella Contest and will be published as a single-author book in the fall. Nick Wilson is living in New Haven, CT, completing

CLASS NOTES his dissertation on the English East India Trading Company. In his spare time he enjoys gardening. Lastly, some other wonderful news! Sarah Alba Warner and her husband Chris moved to Los Angeles this past year and also had a baby girl, Isabelle Marie Warner, who turned one on September 10. She writes, “I am currently figuring out the whole motherhood thing and am enjoying the fact that we live three miles from the beach.” I don’t have much to report for myself. I’ve loved volunteering on the Friends School Alumni Board. I am on the events committee and we promise to continue to send happy hour invitations! I also just started up an arts committee, so stay tuned for an alumni museum or theatre night in the coming year. It was really wonderful to be in touch with so many of you, and especially see so many of you during Alumni Weekend.

Until next time, stay safe, happy and most of all healthy!

’00 Samantha Williamson

slwillia@gmail.com Congrats to recent law school graduates Christina Schoppert, Katrina Rouse and Kelly Swanston! Lucky for me, all three are heading back to Charm City. Kelly and Katrina have year-long judicial clerk-

ships in the area and Chrissy will be working at the Community Law Center in Hampden, representing neighborhood associations and nonprofits to help bolster Baltimore’s communities. James Yolles graduated from Columbia Journalism School this spring. He and Laura McCombDiPesa ’02 live in a wonderful apartment in NYC’s Morningside Heights that has slept many a Friends Schooler, including James Flinn, currently in law school at Tulane. As some finish school, others begin. Jenna Bond-Louden wrote that after four years of working for President Bill Clinton, most recently as a speech writer, she will begin Columbia Business School in the fall. Ben Warfield is moving back out to Palo Alto, CA to start graduate school in the civil and environmental engineering department at Stanford, specifically in atmosphere and energy.

Ana Munoz is making her way through Yale Law School and spent the summer experimenting with both coasts. She lived in New York for the first half, doing direct deportation defense at the Bronx public defender’s office and the second half in San Francisco, at the ACLU immigrants’ rights project. Her verdict? “I like that New Yorkers walk fast and get to the point, but the burritos are better in San Francisco.” Speaking of good food, Emily Heinlein wrote that she was in France and Spain, walking the camino de Santiago,

an old pilgrimage trail across northern Spain, and eating and drinking very well!

I am jealous, Emily. Mazel tov to our many recent newlyweds! This spring saw the marriage of Sima Fried and Theo Robins, Mike Chapper and Sara Zager ’01, Lesley Wojcik and David Richman-Raphael ’99, Liz Yeager and Peter Guianeri. That’s seven out of eight Friends Schoolers! Next up? Craig Hollander recently got engaged to Jeni Steinhardt, a Baltimorean who now lives in New York. Congrats! Craig is slaving away on his dissertation for the history Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins, which will undoubtedly be brilliant. Lesley graduated from University of Maryland School of Medicine in May and is completing her intern year at GBMC. She and Dave will then move to Portland, OR, where she will complete a residency in anesthesiology at Oregon Health Sciences University. Sima says Andy Gabriel moved in across the street from her and Theo, and she has also seen Ed Chen ’97 twice at Dunkin Donuts. I recently saw Vance Tucker, Joe Fleury, Galen Haggerty and Rob Lower at trivia night. Vance had recently been a groomsman in a wedding in Nashville and supposedly gave an amazing speech. Rob is starting graduate school in criminal justice at University of Maryland in the fall. Galen is growing a beard. I’m happy to report that they were defeated in trivia by another Friends

Friends School alumni pose at the School’s entrance before the summer 2009 wedding of Liz Yeager ’00 and Peter Guarnieri ’00: (l-r) Billy Flook '00, Priya Shashidharan '00, Laurens Broekhof '00, Jon Yeager '97, Peter Guarnieri '00, Liz Yeager Guarnieri '00, Katherine Richardson '00, Craig Hollander '00, and Lynne Mied Paulsen '00.

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alumni team comprised of Brian Valle ’99, Rob Travieso ’97 and me. Andrew Kelly is in the midst of a Ph.D. program in political science at Northwestern in Chicago and will soon be a proud uncle thanks to his brother Mark Kelly ’97 and his wife Kari.

Sasha Bergey is entering his second year of business school at Georgetown and spent part of the summer crunching numbers for the shrimp farming business run

by Friends School alumni Guy Furman ’98 and Scott Fritze ’98. Susie Peterson graduated from Johns Hopkins Medical School this past spring and started her residency in emergency medicine at Hopkins. So cross your fingers that she’s on call next time you’re in the ER. In other big news, she and Phil Ghassemieh ’01 are engaged.

The Friends School cupid strikes again!

I’m back in Baltimore to finish my last year of medical school after a year of research in New York. Thanks, as always, to everyone who keeps in touch. Looking forward to our 10 year Reunion in May!

’01 Carrie Runde 3626 Fremont Lane N #204 Seattle WA 98103

crunde@alumni.upenn.edu Hello from sunny Seattle! Here are some of the recent happenings of the Class of 2001. Sara Zager married Mike Chapper ’00 on June 14, 2009 at her family’s home in Baltimore. In attendance from our class were Kim Clark and Adam Green. While I wasn’t able to attend the wedding, I did get to celebrate in Sara’s honor at her bachelorette party in Baltimore in May. I also got to catch up with Kim, who’s

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After getting married, Sara spent her summer working at Sidwell Friends School in DC, fulfilling a 150hour internship requirement for her graduate degree. Paul Kritzler graduated from Quinnipiac Law School and is now working for the Connecticut Sara Zager ’01 Department of and Mike Chapper the Environment ’00 at their June in Hartford. In 2009 wedding.

August, Paul married Jenny Stewart, whom he met at Lafayette College. Emma Viscidi is engaged to David Gallagher and is living back in Boston. She just completed her master’s degree in public health at Johns Hopkins and is starting a Ph.D. program in epidemiology at Brown University this fall. Yaron Miller e-mailed me this summer from “somewhere in CT,” where he was about 1,460 miles into a 2,200-mile hike of the Appalachian Trail. He expected to finish sometime in September, and then planned to cross the Atlantic for a 10-day vacation in France. Molly Kastendieck is most likely jealous of Yaron’s European vacation, as her 10-day kayak trip in Sweden “got canceled because of the stupid economy.” I was lucky to host Molly here in Seattle while she attended a work conference back in March. Molly is still working in the Student Activities Center at George Washington University in DC and has a new puppy named Ruby. Jennifer Tufaro is living in Canton and is excited about her recent acceptance into an interior design graduate program at the Corcoran College of Art and Design. She will continue working in real estate development while she’s in school to “keep her foot in the door.” Jennifer is still passionate about film design, working on little films here and there and also helping out with the Maryland Film Festival. She is happy to report that she is keeping in touch with her Friends classmates. Lauren Stone married Eric Prendeville in October and Emma Viscidi, Jennifer Tufaro and Lizzie Cusack were all in the wedding party.

Peggy Kremen recently received an M.S.W. from NYU. She’s living in

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Greenwich Village and is a social worker at a Brooklyn outpatient substance abuse clinic. She e-mailed updates on the classmates she keeps up with: Rachel Lipman graduated from Penn with her M.S.W.; Peggy is trying to convince Rachel to move to NYC to pursue a social work career there; Rachel is looking at jobs in Philly, DC and NYC. Christine Pappas has been living in San Francisco for a few years and works at Schlesinger Associates doing marketing research. Peggy had plans to visit her this summer. Warry Siebert moved to NYC in January and is on the front line of a company called Branded Evolution that does on-line advertising. Lizzie Cusack lives in Fells Point and is a nurse at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Please continue e-mailing me with updates about yourselves and your friends from the class of 2001!

’02 Camille Powe

camille.powe@gmail.com As usual, the Class of 2002 is doing amazing things—traveling the world, earning all kinds of degrees, making important scientific discoveries and even producing Hollywood movies. With our reputation, who would expect anything less? Margaret Sampson is starting her second year of a master’s program at Purdue in sport and exercise psychology. She completed a summer internship working at a pediatric obesity clinic in an Indianapolis hospital, and found it so rewarding that she hopes to make a career out of it! She writes, “There is a definite need for weight management programs here in the mid-West.”

Before grad school, Margaret was in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic.

“If anyone is thinking of joining the Peace Corps or is planning on taking a vacation to the Dominican Republic, let me know. I

Anita Myers ’02’s sons, Quentin and Quavion Alexander.

CLASS NOTES have plenty of tips for both. Hope everyone is well!” Meg Baldwin is in her second year of service in the Peace Corps in South Africa. She writes, “My village, Phelendaba, is located in Mpumalanga province, which is in the northeast part of the country. I am close to both Kruger National Park and Blyde River Canyon.

I’m in the education program, but my service concentrates mostly on youth and community development. I’m also doing some work in literacy and developing libraries in two schools. I have mango, peach, paw paw and avocado trees in my yard. Yum! I’ve gotten to travel around southern and east Africa this past year, which has been incredible. One trip took me to Rwanda, my favorite place so far. I will be finished with service in September 2010. Anyone traveling to SA for the World Cup should contact me!” Anita Myers writes, “I am currently living in Atlanta, GA with my two sons, Quentin and Quavion Alexander.” Elizabeth Brannan returned to Baltimore in January and started working at Hopkins Bayview as an orthopedic nurse practitioner this summer. She has enjoyed catching up with various Friends School alums since returning to Baltimore. Jake Allen works as a government contractor for the US Army doing information technology at Aberdeen Proving Grounds; he lives in Lutherville. Dorothy Williams finished grad school with an M.S. in occupational therapy and is now a pediatric occupational therapist at Kennedy Krieger in Baltimore. Arielle Goldman lives in Richmond, VA, where she works for Chesapeake Design Group. Carrie Keelty is living in DC and working in public relations at Neiman Marcus in Tyson’s Corner. Does “public relations” include offering your class secretary a discount toward a wardrobe upgrade? Nicole Durand is in Boston working as a software developer. Beth Copeland is living in Oregon and working for the Environmental Protection Agency while she finishes her master’s in hydrology.

Ben Chodroff is living in Cleveland, OH and working for IBM in sales and strategy. Caki Zamoiski, who is doing marketing for an NYC restaurant group, writes, “Amy Rouse, Katie MacLean, Laura McComb-DiPesa and I get together regularly to catch up and relive good ol’ Friends School times.” I met up with Laura in May on a recent NYC trip and we chatted over omelets in Morningside Heights, where she lives. She is working on a master’s degree in social work at New York University and interning at an outpatient mental health clinic in Manhattan. Anna Rubin is in London, working on her Ph.D. at University

College London. She hopes to finish at the end of 2011. She is studying early brain development in mice and is interested in finding genes that are important in specifying the cell types involved in movement control. She writes, “If anyone is coming to London and wants to meet up, I’d love to hear from them.” Ken Mallott returned from China and spent the summer in Baltimore. He will be in London in the spring of 2010, starting a master’s program in translation with a focus on Chinese. Dan Grayson writes, “Of course, all of life is a journey to grow as a thinker and as a person, but I prefer to set more attainable goals for my summers.

This past summer’s goal was to become a known quantity at a karaoke bar. I set my sights on Razzys, a complete dive with a legendary reputation for its supportive patrons, and now go every Wednesday.

Jesse Siegel and Ken Mallott have made appearances and Maggie Flook joined me nearly every single week. Hardly high art, but there’s no feeling quite like screaming the words to “Living on a Prayer” with a room full of people, no? Professionally, I’ve become responsible for Tufts admissions’ social networking presence and created what I believe is the largest admissions Facebook group on the Internet.

Perhaps we’ve become eclipsed since our inception—the Internet, and Facebook, in particular, is a fickle mistress—but my work at Tufts appears to have led the way for other schools’ effective use of Facebook. In addition to reading Maryland’s applications (that’s right, I’m reading Miss Fetter’s teacher recs!), I’ll be reading the applications from, and traveling to, Singapore, Thailand, Jakarta, and Manila this fall. My plan, fingers crossed, is to see Kueng Srisuma when I’m in Singapore. In June, I was one of six American delegates to attend a massive education event hosted by the city of Beijing. I ate two sea cucumbers when there: two more than I ever had before.

I’ve been doing a great deal of international travel, and have visited Panama, the Czech Republic, Israel, Switzerland, Germany and China in the last year.

Domestically (mostly for work) I’ve been to Colorado, Connecticut, NYC, New Jersey, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois.

Working in higher education doesn’t exactly provide a lot of money, but I’m immensely happy, learning new things and pleased by nearly everything in my life.” Jason Berman just finished producing his first feature film, “The Dry Land,” starring America Ferrera, Wilmer Valderrama and 2009 Academy Award nominee Melissa Leo. The film is about how a soldier coming home from war

Ben Pittman ‘03 and Katie Fisk ‘03 (right) at Jazz Fest in New Orleans with friend Jessica Knott.

copes with post traumatic stress disorder.

The film will debut this winter. Jason writes, “Look for it at the Charles Theater, Baltimore!” Megan Richie is starting her fourth year as a medical student at Penn and is almost certainly going to be a neurologist. She writes, “A month ago, Becca Fogel Erwin and Carter Erwin ’03 joined me for a weekend in the Poconos, in which we fed three large snapping turtles, caught a baby one and canoed the Delaware River.” As for me, your secretary, I am taking a year-long break from clinical medicine to do research on gestational diabetes with an epidemiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. I hope to graduate from Harvard in the spring of 2011 with an M.D. I love hearing from everyone, so be sure to keep updating me on your engagements, achievements and locations!

’03 Jessica Vanderhoff

jessicavanderhof@aol.com It was nice to catch up with a few of you, and I am continually blown away by how interesting and accomplished my classmates are. I hope everyone is doing well!

Please feel free to e-mail me any time.

Courtney Carlson writes, “I spent the summer in Montreal interning at a translation company before I returned to finish my second and final year of graduate school at Kent State University. Dylan Waugh has recently founded a nonprofit child-sponsorship program that provides clothing, education and food for street children in Nicaragua. After graduating from William and Mary in 2007, Dylan met with a group of kids every day, becoming a part

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Mike Levin

mlevin23@gmail.com Emma Bartlett writes, “I just

got back from a year in Paris.

Nothing beats living and studying in France and traveling and biking all around Class of ‘04’s Laura Zager and Alex Nelson taking in Europe. Oh wait, scratch that: an O’s game. a second summer in beautiful Vermont to finish my Middlebury French master’s and then teaching high school French at Baltimore’s very own Bryn Mawr School. The adventures never end!” Laura Zager graduated from the George Washington University in May of 2008 with a B.A. in psychology and minor in sociology. “I’ve been working in plastic and reconstructive surgery at Mercy Hospital since November 2008 and am enrolled to take prerequisite classes so I can go back to school to be a physician’s assistant. Charlie Totten began Law School at the University of Baltimore in August after working at a New York law firm for the past year. Charlie also recently worked at Whitlows in Arlington for six months. Nick Colvin got a job with BB&T and went through Emma Bartlett ’04 at the Eiffel Tower during her year a six-month leadership develof studying in Paris. opment training program in Winston-Salem, NC. He’s now of their lives and serving them as a friend a corporate credit officer in the equipand mentor. Before leaving last winter, the ment finance headquarters in Towson.

VISEDAL Partnership was founded Shruti Kumar writes “I’ve been working at (VISEDAL is from Spanish words for dress Yale with a group of professors for a think me, educate me, feed me.) Now, VISEDAL pays for tuition, school supplies and food stipends for 20 young children, with local agents overseeing their academic and social progress. Stephen Sauder will be starting a master’s degree in disaster and emergency management in the fall at York University in Toronto. Lily Mendelson is still in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic. She’s working as a national coordinator for a country-wide initiative called Escojo Mi Vida, which works with teenagers, teaching such life Charlotte Baldwin ’04 and sister Hillary skills as self-esteem, decision-making, Baldwin Ruley ’95 share a sweet pregnancy prevention, AIDS, and drug moment with Hillary’s daughter, and alcohol awareness. The program also Hannah.

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tank called the Yale Economic Growth Center. We focus on various development economics projects in Ghana, South India and Peru. The twist is that with a fouryear economics Ph.D. probable in the near future after completing this program, I decided to take time to devote just to the study of music before continuing on the other path. So this fall I started the film scoring program at NYU, and that’s what I’ll be doing for the next year.”

Alyson Bastinelli writes, “I backpacked through Europe this summer, then moved to Australia in October to work and explore through May 2010. I’m getting it all out of my system before I go broke and get a real job!” Alexandra Nelson reports, “I bought a house in Baltimore County in July 2008 and have been living there with roommates for a year. I am a licensed chiropractic assistant and have been working for an area chiropractor since October 2008. I just registered to begin prerequisite classes at CCBC (with Laura Zager) in order to apply for various physician assistant master’s programs around the country.” Alanah Webb writes, “After graduating from Howard University, where I played lacrosse, I’ve been doing research in a cardiovascular biochemistry lab at Johns Hopkins Medical Institute for the past year. I will hopefully have a scientific publication by the end of the year. I am also now in the process of applying to medical school for 2010. Also, Lindsey Syropolous and I will be living together soon!” Rachel Fitz just finished her master’s degree in social work at Washington University, where she specialized in expressive therapy, life review and pediatric hospice. She lived in Washington, DC for the summer before moving to Israel in October, where she will spend five months working with refugees seeking asylum, and will also be in India for four months doing various social justice work. She also worked at The Reef in Adams Morgan alongside her brother, Sam Fitz ’02. Vanny Khoo has been working for the Maryland Department of Vital Records for three years now and is also earning a master’s degree in healthcare administration at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. Alex Broekhof finished his degree in electrical engineering at Johns Hopkins and bought a one-way ticket to Amsterdam this summer. Alexei Pfeffer-Gillett works for the American Federation of Teachers and is interested in graduate programs in conflict resolution. His Friends School education must have made an impact! Ben Barchey writes, “I just graduated from Whittier in May 2009. I earned a degree in economics and was captain of the lacrosse team—all good things. I’m now living in Orange County, CA, working for a wealth/financial advis-

CLASS NOTES Carly Flint ’06 in Kenya in the fall of 2008.

ing firm, something for which I am extremely grateful. I am still staying closely connected with all of my friends from Friends; three of my classmates are living nearby in West Hollywood.” Samantha Swisher is beginning her second year of veterinary school at Tufts. She spent two months living in a tent and documenting the veterinary problems with livestock in and around Limpopo National Park in Mozambique. As for me, I began working in Governor O’Malley’s office of Correspondence and Constituent Services in July, helping Maryland’s citizens solve problems and navigate their government.

’05 Brittney Bogues says, “I recently graduated from Wake Forest University and am now interning at a public relations firm called Swanson Communications. I plan to continue working in public relations after my internship. My family is healthy and doing well, so I have no complaints!”

Charlotte Baldwin graduated summa cum laude from Catholic University of America this May with a B.A. in drama and education. “Through the Operation Teach pro-

Maxx Davis ’06 receiving the MVP award at the International Lacrosse Friendship games in Japan during the summer of 2009.

gram, I will attend graduate school this fall at the College of Notre Dame in Maryland while teaching fifth grade at St. Philip Neri School.” Lauren Richie writes, “I just graduated from Swarthmore College this past May and I will be starting at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies to get a master’s in environmental management in the fall of 2009.”

’06 Nicole Runde

nicole.runde@gmail.com Natalie West spent spring semester study-

ing in Grenoble, France, where she lived with a family who spoke no English. She took all of her classes in French as well, and experienced the typically French phenomenon of academic strikes. One of her professors was on strike from March onward and her university got blockaded with chairs, tables, shopping carts, park benches, etc. All in all, it was a great six months of linguistic and cultural immersion. This past summer Natalie was home in Baltimore taking Spanish classes and working at the Hopkins School of Public Health. Ouranitsa Abbas stayed in Alexandria, Egypt for ten weeks during summer 2009, where she got certified to teach English as a foreign language through TEFL International. She also participated in a teaching internship in Egyptian Arabic courses for six weeks.

Ouranitsa writes, “I mainly signed up for the program because of the Egyptian Arabic, but I’m finding that learning about teaching English is really interesting for me. I prefer teaching adults to young learners. The students that come for the conversation classes are all brilliant—their English is very good and

they’re all studying to get M.A.’s or M.D.’s, etc. My accommodation was in a suburb of Alexandria that’s right on the beach, which was wonderful. I’m very grateful to be able to go to the beach after classes!” Mita Sahu spent two months this past summer in Klerksdorp, South Africa, a small city two hours outside Johannesburg, where she worked on a research project in HIV/TB at the local hospital. Mita says, “If anyone is planning to come to South Africa for the World Cup next year, it’s quite chilly there in June!” Carly Flint studied Swahili at Vassar for two semesters before going to Kenya last fall with the School for International Training. There, she continued her language studies and gained some anthropological field experience. For two weeks of her time there, Carly lived in a small town with members of the Maasai tribe and conducted a research project on the transition from their traditional religious beliefs to Christianity, a move that had only taken place in the past 15 years.

Upon returning to Vassar in the spring, she won the Marilyn Swartz Seven Playwriting Competition for her two short plays about post-Katrina New Orleans, which she had written during her sophomore year. Inspired to continue writing, Carly is currently delving into a longer play about the issues she encountered while living with the Maasai, such as the benefits and drawbacks of missionary education and development. She kept a consistent blog throughout her travels at http://carlyinkenya.blogspot.com/, so if you’re interested, you can read more about her adventures! Owen Baron went to Greece at the end of last year and is still pursuing a major in chemistry. Jeb Cook settled in at Gettysburg and soldiered through the most difficult history courses he had to

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CLASS NOTES take for his major and also started working on a radio show called “The Josh and Jeff Experience.” At the end of the school year, he presented a paper on Lord Byron’s “Sardanapalus” at Gettysburg’s 2009 Celebration colloquium for student research. This past summer, he worked at the Phillips Academy, Andover’s summer session as a teaching assistant for such courses as “Great Issues and Controversies of the Modern World” and “International Relations”; he also served as a house counselor for Foxcroft Hall. Jeb writes, “It was an exhausting, eye-opening foray into the world of teaching and it’s convinced me that I want to teach in an independent high school after I graduate!” Tommy Adolph transferred to ITT Tech to pursue his love of computer programming.

David Weinman now works as a firefighter in New Market, MD at Station 15. His class was the 15th recruit class of professional firefighters to go through Frederick County’s academy. He was trained in firefighter I and II, EMT-B, Rescue Technician and firefighter survival. At his January 2009 graduation, he was the valedictorian of his class of 27 (cumulative GPA of 94 percent) and had the honor of giving a speech in front of a huge crowd! Your class secretary, Nicole Runde, and fellow ’06er Kaitlin Boswell spent the summer working at Friends Summer Camp, keeping Tom Randall in line and catching up with fellow alumni staff members Patrick White ’03, Catie Black ’05, Anna Swicklik ’07 and Kathyrn Stanley ’08.

Alumni Director Amy Langrehr is the go-to gal for networking alumni

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irst a disclaimer: Friends School Alumni Director Amy Langrehr can’t promise she’ll find you the perfect roommate, nor can she line up your next job interview. What she can do is connect you with fellow grads who may have what you need—or know of someone who does.

Langrehr is the “go-to” gal for Friends grads: when one person’s opportunity matches another’s need, she likes nothing better than to join the two parties for a potentially-successful collaboration. “A big part of my job involves helping Friends alumni connect with one another,” she explains.

“I network with people every single day.”

These days, much of that networking occurs on Facebook. Langrehr shepherded the School’s presence on Facebook a year ago, creating the “Friends School of Baltimore Alumni Association Group” after learning from colleagues and constituents alike that the popular web-based social network was the way young alumni (and others in-the-know) now communicate. More than 800 group members later, Langrehr has created Twitter and Facebook Fan Pages. Unlike Friends’ earlier foray into Facebook, these 2.0 versions of the booming social networks will serve all Friends constituents—alumni, parents, faculty, even students.

Even those who shy away from Facebook in favor of more traditional communication channels can benefit from their Friends School ties by simply reading Class Notes in its entirety. “That’s the best advice I can give alumni who are looking for networking opportunities,” says Langrehr.

“There’s so much information in Class Notes. It’s very helpful, whether you’re trying to reconnect with people, find a job, or investigate a particular area of study or an interest. When you read all of Class Notes, you never know what you’ll learn.”

’08 Malik Knox

tekkenrat@gmail.com Kayla Miller performed in the Drew University spring dance concert.

Douglas Miller writes, “I worked in the Mayor of Baltimore’s Office of Sustainability this summer, designing a green business certification program, sustainable site development guidelines and a “greening” plan for the Baltimore Running Festival, among several other projects.”

HOW TO SHARE YOUR NEWS IN CLASS NOTES! Please send your news to your Class Secretary or directly to the School (mail to COLLECTION, Alumni Office, Friends School, 5114 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210; or e-mail alangrehr@friendsbalt.org. Please provide your contact info if we need to check facts.

If you are submitting digital photos, please: (1) Set photo size to 4” x 6” or larger, at 300 dots per inch; (2) Set your camera to the best quality photo setting; (3) Save photos in TIF or JPG format; (4) E-mail photos to Friends as attachments—not in the message or in a word processing file; (5) Provide a caption identifying everyone in the photo.

Please submit traditional photo prints on glossy paper. Note that we cannot reproduce photos from photocopies, magazines, or newsprint. Deadline for next issue: Feb. 15, 2010.

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CLASS NEWS

Save the Date!

Karim Nagi engaged Paul Yutzy (left) and Felicia Wilks in a movement routine in which sticks are tapped and twirled.

Completing a Year of History Studies, Class of ’89 Visiting Scholar Program Launches into Science The Class of ’89 Visiting Scholar Fund once again provided the School with matchless opportunities to enrich the experiences of our students.

In 2008–2009, the History department brought three people to campus who illustrated the diverse nature of their field of study.

Lower School students had the bounty of hearing the stories of Diane Macklin, an educator and storyteller. She gave two dynamic presentations of African tales, incorporating instruments, movement and song. Her stories entertained while interweaving a “message from the elders” of hope and justice that transcended cultural boundaries.

Ed Burns, former teacher, Baltimore city detective, author of The Corner and producer of the HBO series “The Wire,” addressed the Middle and Upper Schools during their respective Collection assemblies.

He held his audiences spellbound with stories about his professional experiences as well as his personal thoughts on how to heal the city.

Finally, Karim Nagi, a native Egyptian who specializes in Arabic culture and music presented two assemblies—one for Middle School and one for the Lower and Upper Schools together. His presentations included music, movement and stories with an Arabic cultural perspective.

Get Friends pictures on-line!

Alumni Weekend April 29May 2, 2010 A celebration so grand it’s been 225 years in the making!

For more information, go to friendsbalt.org/ alumni/alumweekend or e-mail Amy Langrehr at alangrehr@friendsbalt.org

Members of the Friends School community can now view and order photos on-line through www.snapshotculture.com. Alumni Weekend, Scarlet & Gray Day, Commencement…we’ve got ’em!

Log on to www.friendsbalt.org. Go to “News & Events” and scroll down to “Snapshot Culture Photo Gallery.” You’ll have instant access to hundreds of photo albums. Photos you order will be delivered to your door, usually within three business days. Friends School receives 25 percent of all revenues.

Connect with Friends!

Volunteer for MLK Day activities [see p. 5] or help build a Habitat for Humanity house [see p. 11].

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MILESTONES MARRIAGES 1981 Elizabeth Buckingham and John Owens 1992 Arsh Mirmiran and Lauren Lemus 1995 Whitney Manger and Michael Fine 1996 Allison Coppel and Gonzalo Guerrero 1996 Jeannie Achuff and Ernest Morrow 1996 Lydia Ries and Tom O’Halloran 1997 Christina Counselman and Owen Patrick 1998 Elena Johnson and Tony Sideris 1998 James Harlow and Katie Kronquist 1998 Justine Alger and Bill Forrester 1999 Rebecca Clemens and Clinton Mikel 2000 Lesley Wojcik and Dave Richman-Raphael ‘99 2000 Liz Yeager and Peter Guarnieri 2000 Sima Fried and Theo Robins 2001 Sara Zager and Mike Chapper ‘00 BIRTHS 1984 1984 1987 1988 1989 1990 1990 1991 1991 1993 1993 1994 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998

Kevin Carnell and Tea Sam Brody and Courtney Scott Oldham and Alison Scott Beckman and Christine Christopher Vaughn and Julie Read Carter and Marci Stephanie Hesson Monaghan and Brian Emily Mikolayunas Rich and Oliver Marcie Jones Brennan and Matthew Christopher Baughman and Holly Dana Oppenheim Chodos and Marc Daryn Nakhuda and Brooke Lauren Hubbard and Mike Johnson Doug Nilson and Rachel Janelle Schmidt and Mike Abby Owen Perry and James Amanda Busher Lane and Mike

1999

Sarah Alba Warner and Chris

IN MEMORIAM: 1933 Dorothy Greer Benbow 1937 Virgiline H. Hodges 1938 Virginia Wooden Crocker 1941 Carolyn Landon Parker 1942 Helen Coale DiBlasi 1952 Barbara Buffington Rutherford 1952 Kit Heinold Wilson 1952 Carol Lee David Tolzman 1961 Brooke Janney

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June 6, 2008 June 27, 2009 June 20, 2009 March 31, 2009 August 16, 2009 June 13, 2009 October, 2008 June 20, 2009 May 23, 2009 June 13, 2009 June 7, 2008 May 9, 2009 June 20, 2009 March 14, 2009 June 14, 2009

a son, William Alphaeus, September 24, 2008 a son, Samuel Timothy, March, 2009 a son, Alec, October 20, 2008 a daughter, Anna Caroline, April 13, 2009 a son, Charles “Chase” Emerson, June 12, 2009 a daughter, Lailah Fay, April 29, 2009 a daughter, Faye Elizabeth, May 15, 2009 a son, Ezra Michael, November 2008 a son, Maxfield St. Paul, March 19, 2009 a son, Samuel Roland, April 25, 2009 a son, Noah Cameron, January 31, 2009 a daughter, Ruby Lucille, April 30, 2009 a son, Zachary Michael, May 28, 2009 a son, Eli Barasch, March 20, 2009 a son, Conner Adam, June 24, 2009 a son, Samuel Ernest, March 20, 2009 a daughter, Aubrey Claire, a son, Graham Alexander, November 9, 2008 a daughter, Isabelle Marie, September 10, 2008

July 6, 2009 June 20, 2009 May 6, 2009 May 3, 2009 August 13, 2008 October 5, 2008 February 29, 2008 August 27, 2009 May 11, 2009

Circle of Friends 1927 Howard Buffington 1934 Florence G. Oldham 1935 Ann Burgunder Greif 1936 Eleanor Hatch Brooks Carmian Forbush Davis and Carle M. Davis 1937 Dorothy B. Krug Anne Homer Martin 1938 Ethel Kegan Ettinger Emma Belle Shafer Wagner** and Carle Wagner Donald H. Wilson, Jr. and Marion Wilson 1941 James G. Kuller Mary Elizabeth Jones Price Dorothy Eastwick Seaton 1942 Anonymous 1944 David R. Millard 1945 Harry L. Hoffman III and Mary Louisa Hoffman 1946 Gisela Cloos Evitt 1947 W. Byron Forbush II and Elizabeth Forbush 1948 Anonymous 1949 Joseph Klein, Jr and Joan G. Klein Shirley Cox Seagren Richard A. Simon 1950 Joel D. Fedder 1951 Anonymous (2) 1952 Anonymous Janet E. Mules 1953 Anonymous Jane Whitehouse Cohen and Howard Cohen Sara R. Kellen E. Laird Mortimer Viginia A. Mortimer 1954 Anne Black Evans 1955 Robert L. Kriel Mary Allen Wilkes 1956 Albion Bacon John P. David

Clarinda Harriss Robert B. Heaton and Ann H. Heaton Martha F. Horner Mabel T. Miyasaki Linda Windsor Siecke* 1957 Marcia Smith Clark* J. Henry Riefle III 1958 Elizabeth Banghart Flaherty Susan Shinnick Hossfeld Henry L. Mortimer J. McDonnell Price Ronald H. Renoff Frank A. Windsor and Ann McAllister Windsor ’60 1959 Robert S. Patterson and Barbara Patterson Dan Reed and Claire Reed 1960 Elizabeth Beatty Gable Diane Howell Mitchell Joseph C. Ramage Ann McAllister Windsor and Frank A. Windsor ’58 1961 Elizabeth New Cohen Joan Yeager Cromer David M. Evans Sylvan J. Seidenman and Sandy Seidenman 1962 Mary Ellen Fischer Emily C. Holman James B. Willis 1963 Elizabeth F. Deegan and Michael J. Deegan, Jr. Charles W.Harlan and Mary Dell Gordon Harlan ’65 Gail Moran Milne Alice Smith Reid Barry S. Stott* 1964 Joseph W. Cowan Peter Paul Hanley Susan B. Katzenberg Sally Huff Leimbach Harry D. McCarty Marilyn Miller Thomas Elizabeth A. Wagner Donald H. Wilson III Faris L. Worthington Patricia K. Worthington Carl W. Ziegaus 1965 Gretchen A. Garman Mary Dell Gordon Harlan and Charles W. Harlan ’63

Frederick W. Moran 1967 Thomas P. LaMonica Alan B. Rosoff 1968 Jay E. Boyd Melinda Burdette Robert L. Mackall W. Berkeley Mann, Jr. David A. Wilson 1969 Louise Wagner Gibson 1970 A. P. Ramsey Crosby Lisa Mitchell Pitts and Toby Pitts Carl B. Robbins 1972 Stuart S. Hutchins Laura Ellen Muglia Judy F. Strouse 1974 David R. Blumberg 1975 Robin E. Behm Katherine E. Bryant 1976 Cynthia Klein Goldberg Winston W. Hutchins 1977 Alison Nasdor Fass and Andrew Fass F. William Hearn, Jr. 1979 Philip B. Gould Joseph Klein III and Judy Sandler Cristin Carnell Lambros 1980 Christopher Holter Amy Gould John 1981 Anonymous David H. Alkire Eileen S. Goldgeier Katherine A. Hearn James M. Matthews Diana Price Matthews 1983 Louis T. Hanvoer Sean R. Sweeney 1985 Evan C. Shubin Katherine G. Windsor 1988 Wendell B. Leimbach, Jr. 1989 David Henry Jason Innes Gregory Moody 1990 William M. Rubenstein and Sandy Rubenstein

The Circle of Friends recognizes individuals who have made a deferred or current endowment gift to Friends School. These gifts will help ensure the excellence of Friends School in the future. It is easy to join. Simply name the School in your will, or as beneficiary of a life insurance policy or a qualified IRA; make a life income gift, such as a charitable gift annuity; or establish a current endowment gift of $25,000 or more.

1991 Sherri Shubin Cohen Parents, Faculty, Staff and Friends Anonymous (5) Nancy H. Berger Deborah and Howard M. Berman Karen Birdsong and Carl Roth Heidi and David Blalock Patricia H. Blanchard Gerritt H. Blauvelt Anne R. Brown Sharon C. and D. Perry Brown Helen E. Bryant Dr. and Mrs. Michael R. Camp Dr. Oscar B. Camp** and Lorranie Camp John and Sue Carnell Alice Cherbonnier and Larry Krause David S. Cooper, Jr. and Kryssa J. Cooper Rebecca and Bruce Copeland Albert R. and Margaret K. Counselman Connie C. Covington and Wally Covington III Dr. and Mrs. Chi V. Dang Anthony W. and Lynn R. Deering Pieter and Phyllis DeSmit Jeffrey H. Donahue Claire K. Ebeling Martha Elliott Christina B. Feliciano Susan and William Filbert Sarah Finlayson and Lindley DeGarmo Lora and Greg Gann Julie Fader Gilbert and Gordon Gilbert Irvin R. Gomprecht Ann C. Gordon Vincent L. and D. Iveagh Gott Stanley B. and Joan Gould Esther S. Hearn David M. Heath Mary E. Scott and Gary E. Heinlein Charles O. and Ann Holland Laura Holter Grant L. Jacks and Margaret S. Jacks

Sanford G. and Ann Jacobson Joyce Johnston Deloris Jones Adine C. Kelly Michael and Narindar Kelly Ferne K. Kolodner Cartan B. Kraft Eleanor and Peter Landauer Gayle L. Latshaw Susan P. Macfarlane John and Joyce Maclay Garvin S. and Pamela M. Maffet Diana R. McGraw Mary Ellen McNish and David Miller Freda M. A. and Douglas L. McWilliams* Matthew Micciche John and Beverly Michel Douglas J. Miller, Sr. Sheri B. Miller-Leonetti Lee S. Owen C. E. and Joan Partridge Marylynn and John Roberts Mary S. and Paul E. Roberts Jean B. and John V. Russo Mary Ellen and William Saterlie Barbara and Gordon Shelton Dr. and Mrs. Charles I. Shubin Daryl J. Sidle Lisa and Alfred L. Singer Jerome Smalley Lynne Smalley William Smillie Turner B. and Judith R. Smith Phillip Snyder Mark C. Stromdahl Gerry Mullan and William J. Sweet, Jr. Audrey and John C. Taliaferro Marilyn and David Warshawsky Thomas E. Wilcox *Indicates new gift in 2009–10

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SAVE THE DATE!

Friends School 225th Anniversary Gala Saturday, April 10, 2010 The Engineer’s Club 11 West Mount Vernon Place

Dinner, dancing and silent and live auction to benefit Friends School.* Black tie optional.

Details to follow.

Stay tuned. *a portion of the ticket price will be tax-deductible.