Collection Magazine - Spring 2012

THE MAGAZINE OF FRIENDS SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE

SPRING 2012

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Redefining the classroom through social media

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TAKING IT TO THE

NEXT LEVEL Nine Quakers to watch on the college playing fields

The Bible as a springboard to service learning

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November 22, 1963.

Where were you that fateful day?

From the Head of School

Collection MAGAZINE Published twice a year by Friends School of Baltimore.

Matthew Micciche Head of School Bonnie Hearn Assistant Head for Finance and Operations Gayle L. Latshaw 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 Alumni Director Meg Whiteford Annual Fund Director Julie Kolankiewicz Assistant Annual Fund Director Lisa Pitts ‘70 Campaign Manager Mary Pat Bianchi, Ann Homer Martin ‘37, Caroline Rayburn Development Office Staff M I S S I O N S TAT E M E N T

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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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!

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DEAR FRIENDS, This year’s Alumni Weekend saw Friends graduates from as far back as the Class of 1937 to as recent as the Class of 2007 return to campus for three days to reconnect with one another and reminisce about their Friends School experiences. As always it was a joyous occasion that brought together alumni from across the country and around the world, all of whom share one special quality: an abiding gratitude for their Friends School education.

One particularly powerful manifestation of that gratitude was the announcement, during our Alumni Weekend, that Class of 1954 alumna Shiny Black Evans and her husband Bob Evans had made a leadership gift to seed the “quiet phase” of a comprehensive campaign that the School has recently initiated. A key goal of the campaign will be the transformation of our existing auditorium into a more spacious and modern fine and performing arts facility. The Evanses have requested that the lobby of the transformed space be named in honor of Gayle Latshaw, Friends’ Assistant Head of School for Development, who is retiring in June after 18 years of service.

At its core, Quaker philosophy embraces a fundamental tension between absolute certainty, the belief that there is that of God in every person, and unequivocal openness, the conviction that the truth is continually revealed.

While the fundraising is still being done quietly and the campaign has not yet entered its public phase, the spirit of generosity, the belief in our mission and the passion for the opportunities this campaign will provide for our students continue to speak quite loudly.

My conversations with our graduates — at Alumni Weekend and beyond — confirm that Friends School has profoundly and positively affected the way they view themselves and how they relate to the world around them. As F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” At its core, Quaker philosophy embraces a fundamental tension between absolute certainty, the belief that there is that of God in every person, and unequivocal openness, the conviction that the truth is continually revealed. Within the stimulating crucible that this tension creates, a Friends School education develops just the kind of supple and adaptable minds that Fitzgerald describes.

Having seen the extraordinary results that this process generates, we can promise our families and constituents with confidence that Friends School will develop in its students a vigorous intellect and the habits of a peaceful heart. What greater gifts could we offer our children, and the world?

Best wishes,

Matthew Micciche Head of School

Contents

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The Interconnected Classroom Skyping, blogging and tweeting add new dimensions and fresh perspectives to classroom lessons.

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The Good Samaritan Reinterpreted

SCHOOL NEWS The Arts; Diversity Notes; FSPA Spring Gala; “Reflections On Combat;” “Bye Bye Birdie;” “West Side Story.”

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AT H L E T I C S Class of 2012 student-athletes take it to the next level.

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ALUMNI NEWS Generations at Friends; “Where were you when JFK was assassinated?;” Dylan Waugh ‘03’s VISEDAL vision; GLSEN Educator of the Year; Helen Underwood’s latest novel.

Upper School students use the Bible as a springboard for social action.

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DEVELOPMENT NEWS E.E. Ford Foundation issues a challenge grant; Mission Fund helps students fully participate in school life; Philanthropy at Friends now online; Remembrance: Joseph Klein, Jr. ‘49; Annual Fund update.

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The Interconnected Classroom

By Heidi Blalock

Skyping, blogging and tweeting add new dimensions and fresh perspectives to classroom lessons

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Skype, Tumblr, Twitter, YouTube, Google+ … the list of social media channels and tools boggles the mind. Once decried as distractions to learning, such collaborative networks are now being embraced by educators, who use them as they would any educational tool: to connect students, and colleagues, to the world of ideas and enhance classroom learning.

EXCHANGING IDEAS THROUGH SKYPE Tenth grade modern world history students this spring used Skype to engage in a bicoastal exchange of ideas and information with counterparts from Oregon Episcopal School (OES). The experiment was the brainchild of teacher Molly Smith ’82 and OES’s Mike Gwaltney, who connected through the Twitter group #socialstudieschat, an online clearinghouse of ideas, queries and resources for educators and enthusiasts.

World history is a broad topic, and the Friends and OES curricula differ in scope.

“The content is similar,” says Smith. “They have a more project-based approach. We cover a wider range of material.” Friends students prepared and presented overviews of the Haitian revolution, albeit condensed versions, while OES students shared what they had learned about social class differences, slavery and servitude in colonial America.

The class has since conducted a second video conference, again working in small groups and this time connecting with

Working in small groups, students cluster around computers and gamely make introductions before digging into the material. “It’s a little awkward at first,” says teacher Molly Smith, “but they get used to it.

It’s another skill they need to have.”

different OES peers. “Mike told me his kids really enjoyed it and got a lot out of it,” says Smith. As did the Friends students. “It’s not necessarily that they took a lot of information out of it,” she explains. “You always learn by teaching.

The experience of explaining and connecting and trying to get across something you think is important and why it’s important to an unfamiliar audience … I think that was valuable.

And even the awkwardness — that’s part of growing up and getting ‘out there.’

“Their first job interviews might be conducted on Skype … who knows? ”

Oregon Episcopal sophomores shared their knowledge about class differences in colonial America.

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STUDENT BLOGS PROMOTE SOCIAL JUSTICE For their independent research project in the senior elective modern Middle East, Leslie Franklin and Mike Sweet examined the role of social media on the Arab Spring uprisings.

Over the course of three months the pair followed three stories in news and social media reports about political prisoners in the region and wrote about them on a blog they created, “Middle East Censorship and Stuff!!!” http://leslieandmik.blogspot.com/.

Among the detainees Franklin covered in her posts were Saudi writer Hamza Kashgari, who received death threats and was imprisoned after tweeting defamatory remarks about the Prophet Muhammad; Bahraini human rights activist Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, who in April 2011 was sentenced to life in prison for his role in his home

accomplish through their blog: “I don’t want people to think that this is just a high schooler’s blog; I want them to read it, think it’s interesting, and tell their friends … I mean, just from researching my blog posts I’m already more informed. And I’m going out and tweeting and telling others about what’s going on. Fingers crossed that the letters, blogs, tweets, everything gets heard and actually make a difference over there.”

Smith has asked the students in the class to think about their project goals and consider how they’ll know if they are successful.

Reader comments are one such way of measuring a blog’s effectiveness. Asked if the idea of high school students writing for, and reading comments posted by, strangers on the Internet is problematic, Smith is undaunted.

“High school kids are out there in the world anyway, and if they’re not, then they need to be — and they need to do it responsibly,” she says. “We can very easily think that our view of the world is the prevailing one and the right one, and that’s not true. I want them to talk to other people and to write for other people, not just me.”

DRAWING INSPIRATION THROUGH TUMBLR

Seniors Mike Sweet and Leslie Franklin created the blog “Middle East Censorship and Stuff!!!” for their independent research project.

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country’s uprisings; and Palestinian hunger striker Hana Shalabi, who was arrested in 2009 and detained for 30 months without charges or trial, freed and then rearrested this February.

Teacher Molly Smith ’82 describes Franklin and Sweet’s blog as “blurring the lines” between reporting and activism.

“They’re following social media and actually getting people to actively tweet about these stories, to get them to trend on Twitter.

It’s very cool.”

In a March 16 post titled “Reflection Time” Franklin wrote passionately about what she and Sweet were trying to

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The Upper School Art Department is experimenting with the social networking site Tumblr for its art major program. Each of the 30 art major students presently manages a micro-blog on the site, which they use to supplement their traditional journals by posting homework assignments, project updates and works of artists who inspire or influence them. “We use Tumblr for many things,” says teacher Ramsay Barnes-Antonio.

“It provides another layer of dialogue with our students and lets them explore and share interests with one another.”

The site is especially useful for students’ semester projects because it allows them to work independently while providng teachers an opportunity to track their progress and offer input online. Tuira Van de Graaff ’14 found inspiration for her linoleum block print from a wood block work created by German expressionist painter and printmaker Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, which she posted to her site. “Some of Kirchner’s paintings show very apparent brush strokes, which is one

Above: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Head of a Sick Man (self-portrait), 1918, woodblock print. Left: Tuira Van de Graaf ‘14’s Kirchner-inspired piece, “Carnival.”

part of this block that matches his paintings,” she observes. “The wood block looks like it was cut as if he were painting the block.”

FRIENDS FACULTY ENGAGE IN POWERFUL LEARNING PRACTICE Six Friends teachers are engaged in a yearlong professional development initiative to help their Lower, Middle and Upper School colleagues, and themselves, become more connected learners. Working under the auspices of Powerful Learning Practice (PLP), the Friends cohort — whose members include Paula Montrie, Middle School librarian, Linda Fowler, Lower School technology educator, Heidi Hutchison, fourth grade teacher, Micheline McManus, Upper School English teacher, Kimberly Meisel, Middle School learning specialist, and Molly Smith ’82, Upper School history teacher — is exploring the “world flattening” educational possibilities available in social and Web 2.0 technologies though PLP’s “connected learning community” model.

“The program is a blend of collaborative media and face-to-face networking,” says Montrie. “Our School is doing this with over 60 other educators from our region.” The Friends cohort has met for networking sessions with participating schools from the Associations of Independent Maryland and Greater Washington Schools. In addition, each member has embarked on online collaborative learning ventures with educators from beyond our community. “We Skyped with two classes in England, a class in Virginia and a class in Egypt,” says Hutchison. “It’s

been a great experience. I’m in a community with other teachers who are learners and want to be risk-takers but who also feel scared to try things, like I did.”

As part of the practice, each PLP cohort must complete an “action research project” as its culminating activity. For its project, the Friends teachers want to learn how their colleagues learn professionally. “It may be through talking with other teachers in the faculty lounge, reading journals, attending conferences,” explains Montrie. The group administered a six-question online survey for all faculty in April. Based on the results they will develop an action plan that they hope will inspire colleagues to find similar ways to embrace these 21st century teaching and learning practices.

“One of things that’s helped me the most is reading other educators’ blogs,” says Linda Fowler. “In the past I read one or two blogs, but I didn’t make the time for it, or I told myself I didn’t have the time for it.

This year I’ve learned to find blogs that really speak to me, that I’m interested in, people that I want to respond to and posts that I want to comment on; and I actually feel like we’re connecting and talking and sharing ideas. Now I make the time. It’s important to me now.” FS

Friends’ PLP cohort includes (front row, from left) Kimberly Meisel, Molly Smith ‘82, Paula Montrie; (back row, from left) Linda Fowler, Micheline McManus, Heidi Hutchison.

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[R E I N T E R P R E T E D] Upper School students use the Bible as a springboard for social action

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nglish teacher Micheline McManus was seeking a compelling way to connect Friends’ English curriculum to the work of the Samaritan Community, an emergency food pantry and outreach center in Bolton Hill. She found it in the Bible. Or, rather, in the The Bible as/in Literature, one of the texts used in 10th grade English.

“As part of our study we explore ‘The Parable of The Good Samaritan,’” says McManus, who is a Samaritan Community board member. “We consider the etymology of the word ‘Samaritan’ and reflect on how the concept of being a ‘Samaritan’ or a ‘Good Samaritan’ has evolved over time.” The class also reads about the famous 1973 Princeton experiment (Batson and Darley), in which undergraduate divinity students literally stepped over a planted “victim” en route to a hastily arranged speaking engagement — ironically, on the parable of the Good Samaritan. “We discussed how personal ethics could be compromised by the speed of our daily lives” says McManus.

Thanks to her efforts and those of service learning coordinator Becky Boynton and English Department colleagues, Stephen Morton ’14 gets advice on how to craft a letter to his local Congressman from Steve Howard, chair of the Samaritan Community Board. sophomores will now supplement their classroom knowledge Ruppersberger: @Call_Me_Dutch help those vets with firsthand experience in being Good with Medicaid — they fought for our country!

Samaritans. On November 11, Veterans Day, “I also wrote to his office,” adds Mann, “but the class traveled to Samaritan Community’s didn’t get a response.” headquarters at Memorial Episcopal Church Courtney Booker ’14 wrote on another on Bolton Street, where they met with clients client’s behalf. He, too, was a veteran. and learned about some of the issues and “He told us how hard it was to get the handichallenges facing Baltimore’s needy residents. capped seat on the bus because of the other The students then engaged in letter writing [non-handicapped] people who take them,” and “Twitter advocacy” — sending succinct she says. She wrote Representative Joan messages, or tweets, of up to 140 characters Conway, whose office sent a letter requesting on the popular online social network — on additional information, according to Booker. the clients’ behalf.

“She asked me for the bus route and said After hearing about one Vietnam War she’d do her best to try to help him,” veteran’s struggles to access dental care after she says. he had recently lost his remaining teeth, For their homework assignment the Julia Mann ’14 tweeted Congressman Dutch students reflected on their visit in blog posts.

English teacher Tom Buck guides students in writing advocacy letters.

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“I learned some new things about what it means to be a Good Samaritan,” wrote Caroline Hardie ’14. “A Good Samaritan evaluates their resources and knows which to use to make the largest impact. They are able to listen to others’ stories and sympathize with them, but also help in an organized way to the best of their ability.”

McManus hopes to make the trip an annual event. “I am so grateful for the opportunity to connect the curriculum to the world outside my classroom,” she says. “During our walking tour of the neighborhood surrounding The Samaritan Community, we came across a monument to F. Scott Fitzgerald. One of the students noted, ‘It’s like English 10 is everywhere.’

I couldn’t have agreed more.” FS

School News TH E A RTS

Friends senior wins Scholastic Art gold medal SENIOR EMILIO MARTINEZ has earned a gold medal in the 2012 national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. He will be among a group of 1,500 gold and silver medalists in grades 7-12 from 48 states, as well as Washington, D.C. and American schools

Emilio Martinez’s prize-winning sculpture, “Inside Out House,” will be exhibited at Parsons The New School for Design in Manhattan through June 16, 2012.

abroad, who will be honored on June 1 in a ceremony at Carnegie Hall. Additionally, Emilio’s prize-winning sculpture, “Inside Out House” (see photo), will be exhibited at Parsons The New School for Design in Manhattan through June 16, 2012. This year’s competition attracted more than 200,000 submissions in 28 categories, including painting, sculpture and photography. Emilio was curator for a recent Art Majors retrospective on exhibit in the Forbush Building Gallery. (See below for a sampling of works from that exhibit.) In the fall he will attend The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, a 153-year-old art, engineering and architecture school that offers full-tuition scholarships to all registered students. “If I didn’t already live in Baltimore I would’ve loved to have gone to MICA, it’s a great school, but I really wanted to go away for college, and New York is an amazing city. I feel really lucky.” FS

Art majors Spring Retrospective Works created by this year’s art majors were on exhibit in April in the Forbush Building Gallery, established through the Jay Katz ’45 Art Fund. “I wanted to highlight the wide range of mediums, materials and subject matter the students used and experimented with,” says Emilio Martinez ’12, (see article above) who curated the show. “I always think it’s exciting to see how different everyone’s work is when it’s independent. Also, the fact that there is very strong work from all three art-major grades, it is certainly not a senior-dominated show.” Collection offers readers a glimpse at a few of the artworks that were included in this retrospective. FS

Above: Ebi Causey ‘14’s circus-inspired sculpture; Kate McDonough ’14’s race-car painting.

Clockwise from uppler left, works by Jordan Hartman ’14, Adrienne Jankowski ’14 and Chandler Bordick ’12.

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Spring gala raises $30,000 for Friends

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volunteers, donors of silent auction items and parents, staff and alumni who supported its March 10 fundraiser, An Evening with Friends.

The festive event, which was held in the ballroom of the city’s historic Hippodrome Theater, featured an elegant sit-down dinner and silent and live auctions, and raised nearly $30,000 for Friends School. Gala proceeds will be used to pay for such vital Parents Association programs as Family to Family and Freedom From Chemical Dependency, as well as for guest speakers, field trips, post-prom and senior week activities, the School directory, and Wish List items not covered in the School’s annual budget. FS

1. Bill and Kelly Hardy.

2. Lynn and Gillis Green (left) with Ron and Peggy Maher.

3. From left: Laura Prichett, Densua Bloom, Marcee and Andrew Senker, Jeffrey and Stephanie Geller and Allison Buchalter.

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4. Lisa Meagher (left) and Kathleen Forbush.

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5. Karen Merritt (left) and Peggy Angelone peruse the silent auction table.

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Diversity Notes

Artist Nora Howell models her “cracker” dress.

WHEN FRIENDS ANNOUNCED that we would be starting a White Identity Exploration group for parents this spring, we received a range of responses. The School had successfully launched affinity programs for parents of children of color as well as for same-sex, adoptive and single or divorced parents — all of which are minority groups at Friends. Why, some argued, would white parents, as a majority on campus, need to meet around their racial identity? Other parents decried the notion of a singular white identity, arguing against the notion that there’s only one way to be white.

The truth is we all have a racial identity. Understanding it, and how it impacts those with whom we interact, is not about further separating ourselves from those who are different from us. Quite the opposite: Such identity exploration among majority and minority groups can facilitate relationships by dispelling stereotypes and identifying shared values and characteristics.

Diversity exists within any group. Striving not to see differences when we look at each other — the once-popular “identityblindness” theory — presumes that difference is inherently bad when, really, it provides exciting opportunities for learning and mutual sharing. Artist Nora Howell demonstrated this for Upper School students when she visited Friends earlier this year.

A former teacher in a predominantly black Baltimore City Public high school where the majority of her colleagues were white, Howell says she struggled with her “whiteness” and the legacy of oppression it represented. She created a “cracker” dress, composed entirely of saltines and oyster crackers, as a way to engage the students and adults at school and in the community in challenging conversations about racial identity.

would white parents, as a majority on campus, “ Why need to meet around their racial identity? ” As one who’s charged with promoting dialogue and building awareness for all kinds of diversity issues on campus — from family structures to gender and sexuality, ethnic, racial and socioeconomic — the experience was an eye-opener. In hindsight, there’s little wonder for the passions our announcement aroused.

The idea of a white identity group comes with all sorts of baggage. White supremacist groups have given such gatherings a bad name by suggesting the only reason a group of white people would come together around identity would be to oppress non-whites.

Howell continues to use her art and sense of humor to serve as a catalyst for conversation and social change, believing, as do I, that the more fully we understand ourselves, the better attuned we can be to others’ gifts. I invite all members of the Friends community to join me in exploring the many groups to which we belong. FS

Friends senior awarded Princeton Prize in Race Relations Friends senior Cinneah El-Amin has been awarded this year’s Princeton Prize in Race Relations. The prize, including a $1,000 cash award and an invitation to the annual Princeton Prize Symposium on Race, is presented annually to U.S. high school students in 24 regional areas.

In some instances, the regional prize is shared by multiple recipients; El-Amin is the sole beneficiary for the Baltimore region.

Successful candidates for the Princeton Prize demonstrate a commitment to advancing the cause of positive race relations by engaging in volunteer activities that have a significant impact in their schools or communities. El-Amin has twice represented Friends as a facilitator at the National Association of Independent Schools Student Diversity Leadership Conference. She serves as student body representative to the Board of Trustees’ Diversity Committee and, for the past two years, has co-headed both the Black Awareness Club and the Student Diversity Council. Most recently, she initiated a partnership with the Black Male Identity Project in which she invited students from a variety of backgrounds to engage in conversation and art-making around negative images of black males in the media. Outside of School, El-Amin volunteers as a peer educator at Planned Parenthood of Maryland. She plans to attend Barnard College in the fall.

Felicia Wilks, Director of Diversity For more information about Friends’ Parent Affinity Gatherings or other Diversity Council-sponsored activities, contact Felicia Wilks at fwilks@friendsbalt.org.

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From uniform to pulp, battlefield to workshop, soldier to artist:

Friends welcomes “Reflections On Combat” FRIENDS PRESENTED THE GROUNDBREAKING ART EXHIBIT “Reflections on Combat: The Work of the Combat Paper Project” from January 9 to February 17. Featuring works produced by veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the project engages artists, writers, activists and veterans across the United States in paper- and print-making workshops, using the soldiers’ combat uniforms as the medium for creative expression. With installations at such important venues as the Library of Congress in Washington. D.C., the Bavarian State Library in Munich, Germany and the Fleet Library at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Friends was one of the latest among a distinguished roster of exhibitors, thanks to the generosity of The Jay Katz ’45 Art Fund. Many Friends classes visited the exhibit during its six-week installation, including Upper School art students, who responded to the “combat paper” prints with written and visual works centered on Friends’ 2011-12 themes of “Reflection, Resilience and Renewal.” FS

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1. Middle School English students responded to the work through journal entries.

2. The exhibit featured interactive QR (quick read) codes that viewers could access using their smart phones to gain additional information about the work and the artist. Here, Head of School Matt Micciche and Suzy Filbert, a trustee and parent, give the technology a whirl.

3. One of 14 selected artworks from the Friends School exhibit.

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4. Art Department coordinator Ben Roach (left) with Upper School Principal Steve McManus at the January 12 opening.

5. Friends School trustee Barbara Katz at the exhibit entrance.

The installation was made possible through a fund she and her late husband established in 2007.

6. Upper School art students created visual works inspired by the exhibit.

Here a piece by Mary Collins ’13.

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“Bye Bye Birdie” brings big laughs THE MIDDLE SCHOOL in March presented the musical comedy “Bye Bye Birdie” to standing-room-only audiences.

Featuring such classic toe-tappers as “Put On a Happy Face” and “One Boy,” the production boasted a cast and chorus of some 75 Middle Schoolers. FS The cast.

Albert Peterson, played by Manuel ’16, with his “mama” Mae, played by Nina ’16, on the set of The Ed Sullivan Show, where Conrad Birdie, played by Mark ’16, has been knocked out cold.

“We’ve got a lot of livin’ to do!”

“Hello Mrs. Miller, this is Harvey Johnson. Can I speak to Debra Sue?“

After 44-year respite, Upper School stages “West Side Story” FORTY-FOUR YEARS after the Sharks and Jets last rumbled on Friends’ main stage, the Upper School presented the 1957 Broadway musical “West Side Story” for three thrilling performances, May 18-20.

Music director Michael McVey says he’s waited a long time to stage this particular show. “I had always said I would never do ‘West Side Story’ because it was too difficult for kids on so many levels,” he told Collection. “The dancing — especially for so many of the men’s roles, the singing, the orchestra parts … This year the stars aligned just right. We have the pieces, the talent, the skill. It’s a dream come true.”

Featuring music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, with

a book by Arthur Laurents, the 1968 Friends production featured none other than veteran Friends history teacher and alumnus Rich Seiler ’68 in the role of Tony, with Carol Firminger ’68 as Maria. In the current version, directed by English Department chair Micheline McManus, the star-crossed lovers are played by seniors David Socolar and Ali Allen with a host of talented Jets and Sharks filling the bill.

In the spirit of Friends, the talent and participation in the spring musical runs deep, with dozens of players performing both onstage and backstage and even in the orchestra pit, performing alongside professional musicians such classics as “Tonight,” “America” and “Somewhere.” FS

Sharks and Jets initiate a challenge dance at the school gym.

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Taking it to the next level N I N E Q U A KE RS TO WATCH ON TH E COLLEGE PLAYING FIELDS 1. Arnie Capute III, Baseball Williams College, Division III

NINE MEMBERS of this year’s graduating class have been recruited to play a sport in college.

“It’s not often we see this many of our studentathletes go on to compete at the college level,” says Athletic Director Greg Whitley. “Each has contributed significantly to Friends’ athletic program. It will be exciting to watch them develop in their college playing careers.” Here, the seniors share with Collection their views on athletic competition, what they most love about their respective sports and what it means to be a Friends School student-athlete.

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In a city where baseball is often considered the “other” spring sport, pitcher Arnie Capute has distinguished himself as a power on the mound. “Baseball is a game of inches,” he tells Collection. “If I miss my mark by just a tiny bit it can be the difference between a ground out and a home run.”

A legacy and “lifer,” he’s attended the School since kindergarten, and his father, Arnold Capute, Jr. ’71, is an alumnus. “Baseball has been a huge part of my life since I was 4 or 5 years old,” he says. “My objective since freshman year was to use baseball to get into the best college I could. It’s satisfying to finally have accomplished that goal.”

2. Ella Cooper, Lacrosse

University of Virginia, Division I

Like Capute, Ella Cooper has attended Friends for 14 years, and

her father, Andrew Cooper ’73, is an alumnus. A 12-Varsity-Letter athlete, she has played soccer, basketball and lacrosse throughout Upper School but is drawn to the latter for its speed. “It requires an athleticism and quickness that’s unlike any other sport,” she says.

aware of the level of competition required to be part of a team,” he says. “Then I learned that playing sports requires work and a competitive attitude.”

Don’t let this more mature outlook fool you, however. The lacrosse midfielder and soccer left-fullback delights in the rough-and-tumble aspects of his two favorite sports and says he loves to “knock people on their backs,” noting: “When you see an opponent on the ground

“I can’t imagine my life without it.”

and the ball rolling out of his stick,

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her junior year. “I know it will be

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commitment,” she says, “but it’s

4. Matt Lambros, Lacrosse Swarthmore College, Division III

one of the things I’m most looking forward to. The leadership, teamwork and skill gained by playing at such a high level are things you cannot learn elsewhere.”

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Jonathan Kum, Soccer, Lacrosse Goucher College, Division III

When he joined Friends in the eighth grade, Jonathan Kum admits he thought playing sports was all fun and games. “I wasn’t

Like Capute and Cooper, Matt Lambros is a Friends legacy and “lifer” whose earliest School memories date back to Pre-Primary, where his mother, Cristin Carnell Lambros ’79, was also a student.

The soft-spoken defender is passionate about his chosen sport.

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excited than I am at the start of a game.” Lambros welcomes the more thoughtful aspects of his Swarthmore education and feels well prepared to take on the student-athlete mantle. “It’s just what you’re supposed to do, in my mind,” he explains. “Friends has made it clear that I can easily play a sport and do well in my classes.”

5. David Magdeburger,

Lacrosse

Christopher Newport University, Division III

Attackman David Magdeburger has known the high of winning last year’s B Conference championship and the low of a nearly winless season (when the Quakes competed in the A Conference during his freshman year). These vastly different experiences have shaped his views on competition and have taught him the true value of sportsmanship. “I remember how it felt back then,” he says. “Now, after we win a game I never want to rub it in (our opponents’ faces). I know from experience that nothing is guaranteed. I don’t take anything

for granted, especially the wins.

Everything that you get is earned, and each game is important.”

6. Claire McGagh,

Lacrosse

St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Division III

Though playing lacrosse is second nature to her now, Claire McGagh recalls her stick skills were well behind those of her classmates when she began playing the game in seventh grade. She stuck to it, as her coaches will attest, and was rewarded with valuable playing time. “It’s the experience of playing in games that’s helped me grow as an athlete,” she says.

“I’m not sure I would have been able to get real experience had I attended another school.”

McGagh embraces her role as a student-athlete but says the term fails to capture the fullness of her School experience. “Friends has prepared me to be a student-athlete by showing me that outside of the classroom and off the fields there are many ways to stand out and to express yourself.”

7. Nabil Odulate, Soccer Bowdoin College, Division III

Center-midfielder Nabil Odulate has been playing soccer since he was 2 and loves the freedom of expression the game provides. “I’m not an artist in the conventional sense, but I feel like I can be artistic on the field,” he says. He takes seriously his role as a mentor and School representative. “Friends has shaped my views on athletic competition by emphasizing the team aspects of the sport and by helping me to realize that one of the most important things I can do on the field is to help my teammates play better. If they improve and we win as a team, then that’s the best part of competition.”

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9. Emma Sissman, Lacrosse Davidson College, Division I

Like her teammate Ella Cooper, Emma Sissman is a 12-VarsityLetter athlete who’s played soccer, basketball and lacrosse at Friends.

“I’ve never minded the daily practices or the time commitment because I truly love playing,” she

8. Paul Orrson,

says. “I’ve learned so much from

Lacrosse, Soccer

my experiences playing sports.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division III

I couldn’t imagine not continuing

“I thrive on a good balance of academics and athletics,” declares Paul Orrson. “There’s nothing better than getting out on the playing fields for a few hours after a long day of school. It lets me unwind all the pent-up energy and enables me to focus much better

to do so in college.” Friends’ emphasis on a balanced education has been central to Emma’s experience. “I learned that it’s possible to participate in many activities and still put forth a good effort in each,” she says.

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on my homework afterwards.” No doubt, he’ll have ample opportunity to do just that at M.I.T., where he’ll compete on the Engineers’ soccer and lacrosse teams. “We’re all students first at Friends,” says Orrson. “Our education is the top priority, schoolwork comes first in all situations, and there’s no cutting corners for athletes. Friends does a great job of stressing this.”

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Development News

E.E. Ford Foundation matching grant will support innovative professional development FRIENDS has received a $50,000 one-to-three matching grant from The Edward E. Ford Foundation to support the implementation of a comprehensive professional development program called G.R.O.W. (Growth and Renewal in Our Work). To take advantage of the $50,000 challenge, Friends must raise $150,000 in new or increased gifts by July 31, 2012.

Donors may direct their Annual Fund gifts toward the match by expressly identifying “G.R.O.W” on the memo portion of the check. (If giving online, click the designated “G.R.O.W. Fund” link on Friends’ online giving page.)

“Every aspect of the G.R.O.W. Program is designed to better prepare teachers to achieve the outcomes we’ve set for ourselves in our Teaching and Learning Paradigm (see image below),” says Head of School Matt Micciche.

For more information about the matching grant, contact Eleanor Landauer at 410.649.3316 or elandauer@friendsbalt.org. FS

First graders enjoy a spring visit to the Maryland Zoo. Mission Fund monies support field trips for families with substantial financial need.

Friends School Mission Fund: Helping students fully participate in the life of the School FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE plays a critical role in helping hundreds of Friends families afford the cost of tuition. For those with significant need, however, it’s the things not covered by tuition — like tutoring and counseling, field trips, even Prom — that can cause hardships. For these families, Friends offers financial support through its Mission Fund. “The Mission Fund is an explicit acknowledgement of our responsibility not simply to make it possible for these children to

attend Friends, but to ensure that every one of our students can be full and active participants in School life once they are here,” says Friends’ Head Matt Micciche.

Growing the fund is one of his priorities.

Donors to the Annual Fund may direct their gifts to the Mission Fund — either online at friendsbalt.org/giving/online/ or by using the enclosed giving envelope.

Either way, be sure to check the “Mission Fund” box. Thank you! FS

Philanthropy at Friends Now Online AT A TIME when careful stewardship of our natural resources is more important than ever, Friends is pleased to offer its donors an electronic version of Philanthropy at Friends, our 2010-11 report on voluntary giving, at www.friendsbalt.org/giving. FS

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REMEMBRA N C E : Joseph Klein, Jr. ‘49

Joan and Joseph Klein in 2007.

JOSEPH KLEIN, JR. ’49, an insurance executive and noted Baltimore philanthropist, died on March 4, 2012. He was 80. A stalwart Friends School supporter, Klein, with his wife Joan, was a vocal advocate for strengthening the School’s endowment. “It’s important to me that Friends remain a viable institution,” he told Collection in a 2008 interview. “Without endowment funds you don’t have the diverse student body, your faculty will not be properly paid, your physical plant will not be what it should be … the whole nine yards.”

“Joe was passionate about increasing the number of planned gifts at Friends School,” recalls Eleanor Landauer, director of major and planned gifts. “He always told us ‘when an organization’s constituents step up to the plate and adopt a ‘Do what I do, not what I say’ approach … that’s leadership!’"

To that end, in September 2010, Klein

issued a challenge to Friends’ Board of Trustees: If the School’s governing body achieved 100 percent participation in the Circle of Friends, the planned giving recognition society that he helped to establish in 1985, then he would substantially increase his own planned gift to the School. At the time, nine of the 25 members of the Board had made planned gifts. Klein gave the remaining 16 members one month to meet the challenge. They did, and he happily followed through on his promise.

Both Joe and Joan Klein were raised in families with a strong service ethic in which the concept of giving back was instilled. “We were taught that you take care of those that need taking care of,” he told Collection. “You make the world a better place for your having been in it.” In addition to his work on behalf of Friends’ planned giving program,

Help Push Friends’ Annual Fund Over The Top! FRIENDS is closing in on its goal of raising $1.5 million for the 2011-12 Annual Fund. Won’t you help push us over the top?

As of May 25, the School has raised $1.36 million, or 91 percent of its target. according to Annual Fund Director Meg Whiteford.

“It’s a huge effort, but thanks to our Annual Fund co-chairs Michelle and Stephen McNear, and the dozens of fantastic volunteers who are pulling for us every day, I know we’ll make it

Klein served on the School’s Board of Trustees and on the boards of The Associated Jewish Charities, Baltimore School for the Arts and the American Jewish Committee, Baltimore Chapter. In recognition of his distinguished professional career and service to the School and the greater community, Friends in 1994 presented him with the Outstanding Alumnus Award.

A 1953 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business, Klein served two years in the United States Army. In 1960, after working for several years in his father’s furniture business, he opened Joseph Klein Associates, Inc., a Towson-based estate planning and life insurance company.

He retired from the company in 2000 but maintained close ties through his daughter, Friends alumna Cynthia Klein Goldberg ’76, CLU, who works for the firm, and Tom Brown, his business partner for more than 30 years and the company’s current president.

During a moving memorial service on March 6, Brown said of his friend and mentor: “He operated like a sledgehammer and clients knew he was sincere and genuine, and most of all, cared. He was very persuasive and the most honest man I’ve ever known.”

In addition to Joan, to whom he was married for 58 years, and daughter Cynthia, he is survived by his son Joseph “Skip” Klein ’79, and six grandchildren, including Alex ’11, a Friends alumnus, Lucy ’12 who will graduate in June, and Noah ’19, a rising sixth grader. FS

by the June 30 deadline,” she says. The Annual Fund supports critical programming for every facet of a Friends School education — from textbooks and state-of-the-art technology to field trips, professional development, athletics, arts and much more. Every gift, no matter the size, is greatly appreciated. Gifts to the Annual Fund are tax deductible and may be made in the form of cash, checks, major credit cards and gifts of stock. Use the enclosed envelope to make your gift or give online using our secure website: www.friendsbalt.org/giving.

Thank you for your support! FS

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Alumni News

Generations at Friends CHILDREN & GRANDCHILDREN OF ALUMNI Ashley Applefeld ‘14 David Applefeld ‘83

Jonathan Carnell ‘14 J. Kevin Carnell ‘84

Jordan Ball ‘16 George Ball ‘82

Kyle Christoff ‘20 Allison Jensen ‘88 Haley Connor ‘18 Denise Galambos ‘80

Samuel Barber ‘17 Natalie Barber ‘22 Kathleen Standiford ‘81

Ella Cooper ‘12 Andrew Cooper ‘73

Nicolas Binford ‘13 Manuel Binford ‘16 Dahira Lievano Binford ‘81 Robert Blanchard ‘18 Diana Fleischer Schofield ‘62 Timothy Bricken ‘15 Holly Catzen Bricken ‘73 Benjamin Bunkley ‘24 Jennifer Brown Bunkley ‘87

Daniel DeSmit ‘16 Baylee DeSmit ‘21 Douglas DeSmit ‘80 Carlos Domacassé ‘20 Anne Marie Rafky Domacassé ‘88 Joseph Dye ‘20 Samuel Dye ‘22 Elizabeth Gohn Dye ‘93

Justin Garcia-Bunuel ‘14 Jacob Garcia-Bunuel ‘18 Elizabeth Williams Garcia-Bunuel ‘83 Martin Garcia-Bunuel ‘83 Matthew Goldbloom ‘15 Allison Goldbloom ‘18 Bradley Goldbloom ‘84 Grace Hand ‘14 Logan Hand ‘17 Lucy Williams Hand ‘80 Eli Henslee ‘17 Julia Henslee ‘22 Anne Friedlander Henslee ‘88

Kathleen Butler ‘13 Jean Young Butler ‘81

Edward Forbush ‘21 Norman Forbush ‘78 W. Byron Forbush ‘47

Alexander Howard ‘14 Carmen Jaramilo Howard ‘80

Arnold Capute ‘12 Arnold Capute ‘71

Louise Foster ‘14 Mary Louise Flowers Foster ‘74

Zoë Jones-Cohen ‘20 Marcie Jones Brennan ‘91

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Julian Frost ‘19 Lila Frost ‘22 Elisa Shorr Frost ‘88

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Lucy Klein ‘12 Noah Klein ‘19 Joseph Klein ‘79 Joseph Klein ‘49 Kayla Kurtz ‘21 Susan Rugemer Kurtz ‘58 Matthew Lambros ‘12 Sarah Lambros ‘13 Cristin Carnell Lambros ‘79 Ana Lane ‘21 Rebecca Rossello ‘92 Samuel Little ‘17 Sarah Little ‘19 Joan Sullivan Little ‘82 Emily MacGibeny ‘12 Julia MacGibeny ‘16 Lisa Lott MacGibeny ‘85 Clarinda Harriss ‘56 Charles Mallonee ‘20 William Mallonee ‘22 Charles Mallonee ‘89 Mason Marchetti ‘20 Julian Marchetti ‘21 Robert Marchetti ‘81

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Alumni News

Middle School

Theodore Mattheiss ‘15 David Mattheiss ‘68 Alexandra Miceli ‘18 Trish Backer-Miceli ‘83 Daniel Millspaugh ‘17 Nicholas Millspaugh ‘20 Rachel Millspaugh ‘23 Sarah Johnston Millspaugh ‘88 Katherine Monk ‘24 H. Gage Monk ‘92 Linda LaMonica Monk ‘63 Anna Mortimer ‘13 William Mortimer ‘17 Mary Charlotte Mortimer ‘20 Amy D’Aiutolo Mortimer ‘87 Henry Mortimer ‘58 Ona Neumann ‘18 Gregory Neumann ‘64 Charles Ney ‘21 Peter Ney ‘85 Melanie Jensen Ney ‘85

Upper School

Bennett Remsberg ‘12 Emma Remsberg ‘13 Rebecca Remsberg ‘15 Edwin Remsberg ‘83

Christopher Shephard ‘15 Paige Shephard ‘16 Halle Shephard ‘18 Michael Shephard ‘79

Alice Riley ‘23 Reed Riley ‘80

Benjamin Sherbakov ‘18 Elias Sherbakov ‘20 Thora Johnson ‘88

Lauren Riley ‘12 Lee Riley ‘78 Jackson Roberts ‘17 Philip Roberts ‘81 Michael Rudow ‘12 William Rudow ‘79 Kailie Saudek ‘15 James Saudek ‘18 Paige Saudek ‘22 Mark Saudek ‘85 Sander Schulhoff ‘20 Sevien Schulhoff ‘23 Stephen Schulhoff ‘84

Abigail Preston ‘12 Robert Preston ‘73

Samuel Shapiro ‘14 Jennifer Smelkinson Shapiro ‘80

Alexander Prichett ‘19 Zachary Prichett ‘21 Stephen Prichett ‘87

Madeleine Shay ‘15 Nicholas Shay ‘18 Constance Naden Shay ‘82

Brandon Sklar ‘22 Gabrielle Sklar ‘20 Ellie Goldbloom Sklar ‘87 Anthony Smith ‘23 Benjamin Smith ‘23 Mary Adolph Smith ‘82 Hope Haggett Adolph ‘43 Asuman Smith ‘24 Ali Smith ‘94 Zachary Smith ‘19 Quinlan Smith ‘22 Sawyer Smith ‘24 Burck Smith ‘88 Sarah Smith ‘20 Evelyn Luebbers Sinwell ‘54 Tara Smith Wallace ‘24 Erika Smith ‘93

Ezekiel Texter ‘18 John Texter ‘83 Margaret Valle ‘22 Joshua Valle ‘89 George Van Dyke ‘14 George Van Dyke ‘85 Isabella Voshell ‘23 Suzanne Benson ‘96 Alice Walker ‘12 Lucy Walker ‘15 Duncan Walker ‘78 Susan Russo Walker ‘79 Elie Walsh ‘23 Lucien Walsh ‘88 John Whiteford ‘16 Thomas Whiteford ‘18 Thomas Whiteford ‘85 William Whiteford ‘57 Madison Yost ‘15 Winslow Yost ‘17 Kiefer Yost ‘19 Sally Evans Yost ‘77 Anne Black Evans ‘54

David Socolar ‘12 H. Chace Davis ‘45

See these pictures and many more! Visit Friends’ Flickr page at flickr.com/photos/friendsbalt.

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Alumni News

F R I E N D LY

Ga t h e r i n g s

The Alumni Association this year hosted festive get-togethers for Friends graduates on the School’s Charles Street campus and on the West Coast. Look for future alumni receptions in Philadelphia this fall and in the District of Columbia in eary 2013.

ALUMNI VS. VARSITY SOCCER GAME The newly formed Athletics Committee of the Alumni Board hosted an Alumni vs. Varsity soccer game last October, which the Alumni won, 4-1. Afterward, all the players gathered for refreshments and a group photo.

Front row (from left): Ken Kolodner ’72, Austin Gifford ‘07, Sarah Matteson ‘07, Charlie Russell ’07, Greg Russell ’04, Charlie Totten ’04, Lindsey Syropoulos ’04, Eli Dresner ’04 and Peter Heller ’04.

Middle row (from left): Lauryn Goode ’05, Louie Weeks ‘07, Gary Williams ‘04, Maeli Poor Zacchetti ’98 and Bobby Michel ’97. Back row (from left): Nabil Odulate ’12, Harry Gately ’12, Mike Sweet ’12, Teagan Cook ’15, Teddy Weeks ’13, Aislinn Cook ’12, David Zeger ’15, Spencer Lichtenberg ’13, Corey Schmidt ’12, Cedric Charlier ’13 and Lauren Riley ’12.

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from the 1980s through the Class of 2011 gathered on March 28 at the home of Matt and Frances Micciche to catch up with old friends and reflect on their children’s Friends School experiences.

1. Lee Williams (left) and Mara Garcia-Bunuel.

2. Lisa Pitts ’70 (left) and Sheri Miller-Leonetti.

3. Bobbe and Denise Frasier.

4. Anne MacLure (left) and Cindy Heller.

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100 Nights Dinner IN FEBRUARY, the Senior Class marked the official countdown to graduation with an elegant “100 Nights” dinner party at the James L. Zamoiski ’68 Alumni Center. This popular event is hosted by the Alumni Board, whose members were on hand to meet and greet their future counterparts.

1. From left: Sarah Emrich, Caroline Stanley, Laney Mathias and Claire McGagh.

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2. From left: Michael Rudow, Harry Gately and Ned Hopkins.

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San Francisco Event APPROXIMATELY 20 alums attended a reception in February at Urban Tavern in San Francisco.

FRIDAY NIGHT BASKETBALL Local alums gathered for a Friday night basketball game reception in January.

1. From left: Jen Asplen Corrigan ’89, Amy D’Aiutolo Mortimer ’87,

From left: Mei Ling Connor, Gale Connor ’76, Mark Guthrie ’86 and Ashley Bastinelli ’01.

Tom Whiteford ’85, Norman Forbush ’78 and Jamie Pitts ’01.

2. The kids enjoyed the food and fun in the Dining Hall!

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ALUMI PORTAL Sign On and Stay Connected

Friends’ new password-protected Alumni Portal makes it easier than ever to find your classmates, get the latest news and update your information.

To register, go to http://alumni.friendsbalt.org. For more information, email Amy Langrehr at alangrehr@friendsbalt.org.

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Where Were You When JFK was Assassinated?

An Open Invitation to Reflect On Our History

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By Sue Grathwohl Dingle ‘64

Jan. 1, 1960 - Born into a wealthy, politically connected Boston family, John F. Kennedy, pictured here campaigning in New York City in 1960, was the youngest person elected President and the first Roman Catholic to serve in that office. For many, his presidency came to represent the ascendance of youthful idealism in the aftermath of World War II. His shocking death stood at the forefront of a period of political and social instability in the country and the world.

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NOVEMBER 22, 1963 BEGAN LIKE ANY OTHER DAY for Donna Ariosa, Marianne Benson and me. The three of us were on the third floor in the art room. “This old world is full of sorrow” we sang, just like our heroine Joan Baez. In our stiff blue uniforms, with the white collars and cuffs and the eight pleats front and back, we looked like Puritan waitresses. We knew something about sorrow, or so we thought. As members of the Class of 1964, we were taught to care about the world around us. Each morning in Collection, teachers like Claire Walker, Robert Nicolls, Frank Shivers and Eleanor Mace spoke to us about our “potential” and our role in society. There was the expectation that we, the Class of 1964, had a responsibility to change the world. Even the alma mater exhorted us to heed “thy clear high call to service.” That’s a lot to ask of teenagers. Our adolescent brain chemistry didn’t quite have the neurons to process those messages consistently. Such ideals often felt way beyond me.

The Civil Rights movement had come to Friends School. Already that fall, three civil rights workers who had been in Selma, Ala. spoke to us in Collection, and our class had traveled to Philadelphia for a weekend “work camp,” where we painted Inner City residents’ homes and attended services at a South Philadelphia Baptist Church. The people there sang “We Shall Overcome” like it was life and death. Then, too, the anti-war movement was beginning to stir.

Suddenly, Greg Neumann entered. Out of breath, his eyes glistening, he cried, “Kennedy’s been shot!” We ran down the stairs through the silent School and over to the gym, where Bazaar had been bustling an hour ago and was just now shutting down.

Days later when Kennedy’s body was lying in state, Avijit Chatterjee, our exchange

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Was it only a month later that we first heard a group from Liverpool sing “I Want To Hold Your Hand” ? Two years later, Norman Morrison, our religion teacher, immolated himself on the steps of the Pentagon “to express his concern over the loss of life in Vietnam.” What would Friends School say about that, I wondered. But it would be 40 years before I would summon the courage to ask.

We lived in times no school could prepare for with counseling sessions or bereavement groups — such options did not exist. (That’s why our generation invented them!) Now here we are, almost a half-century later, a widely scattered group of extraordinary individuals beginning to connect in deeper ways, coming up on a big milestone — our 50th Reunion. The story of our experiences, our strengths and our hopes could contribute to that event and offer a legacy for Friends students and teachers. FS

Donna Ariosa

Join the conversation!

Collection invites members of the Class of 1964 and others to share recollections and reflections on that time.

Where were you when JFK was assassinated? How did you respond? How did that event resonate for you as you went on to college and beyond? What would you say about it now?

Here are three ways to connect with Sue Dingle, who will gather your responses: Email: s123dingle@aol.com Phone: 917-309-0988 Mail: P.O. Box 56 New Suffolk, NY 11956 We look forward to hearing from you!

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The Beatles play The Ed Sullivan Show in February, 1964.

student from India, left School and took the train down to Washington to attend the viewing. Forty years later Avi says, “I just wanted to pay homage.” Greg and Savitri Gautier (formerly Donna Ariosa) remember walking to the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in the middle of the day, risking possible suspension for leaving campus. The day of the Memorial Mass, I went to the Cathedral by myself. I had never been to Mass before. It was half over by the time I got there. The place was packed, the Mass was in Latin, and I couldn’t follow what was going on, sitting when others were standing, standing as they sat down.

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Alumni News

Off the streets and into the classroom, VISEDAL brings hope to Managua’s children

By Dylan Waugh ‘03

I’LL ALWAYS REMEMBER meeting those three children. I was walking to my bus stop after a Spanish class in Managua, Nicaragua when they ran up to me and asked, in English, for “one dollar.” As an American living in Nicaragua, I was asked for money all of the time, and usually I just smiled and said, “No, sorry.” This time, I asked them if they wanted to have lunch.

Over fried chicken and sodas, we drew pictures and they tried to teach me Spanish.

Afterward, we walked back to the street corner, and they went back to work, washing car windshields and begging for money.

It was early October 2007, and I had just moved to Managua with some college graduation money. The internship I had lined up before leaving the States, doing communications work for a microfinance organization, had fallen through. I was searching for a way to serve others.

Over the next few months I took the kids to lunch nearly every weekday. Our group quickly expanded to 14, as I invited their siblings and friends who also worked on that street corner. Most of the children had dropped out of school because their parents couldn’t afford the nominal school expenses.

Additionally, their families needed the money they could earn on the streets. I wanted to give these children a few hours off from begging every day.

was launched. The name VISEDAL comprises three Spanish phrases meaning “clothe me,” “educate me” and “feed me,” and it captures the essence of our program.

Sponsors in the United States provide monthly support that pays for each child to receive a food stipend, clothing and a scholarship VISEDAL children pose with volunteers during a group trip Dylan Waugh and Brad to the school of his Johnson sponsored last December. Waugh (in dark blue shirt) is in third row, far left; Johnson is at the back of the group, center. or her choice.

Brad Johnson, program and eventually purchasing a facility a friend I met in Nicaragua, joined the to provide them with a safe place to study effort, and we launched a website and began and socialize. For now, we are working to find raising funds. We hired a part-time employee, sponsors for all of our children.

Esmir Calero Calderon, to direct operations Thinking back, I know that the seeds of my and to serve as a mentor and role model decision to launch VISEDAL were planted to the children. during my 13 years at Friends. The School Now, four years later, VISEDAL has 23 presented me with many opportunities to serve children, ages 4 to 18, in the program. Several and helped me experience at a young age the of them have skipped grades and earned real joy that comes with helping others and academic awards. They are healthier and being part of something bigger than myself. more confident. They smile more and they Friends has a strong commitment to dream of starting careers. They even talk service, which I have witnessed through the of the importance of giving back to the tremendous support the School has shown for less fortunate.

VISEDAL. The Fifth Grade Philanthropic

The name VISEDAL comprises three Spanish phrases meaning “clothe me,” “ educate me” and “ feed me.”

I began thinking about ways to provide them with long-term support. I would be leaving Managua soon to begin an internship at Baltimore magazine. It didn’t seem right that they would continue to spend their days begging, without a chance to reach their potential.

I resolved to start a sponsorship program that would allow the children to return to school.

In January 2008, with support from friends and family, VISEDAL Partnership

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Twice a year, Brad and I return to Managua with volunteers who delight in meeting the VISEDAL children. A highlight for the children is when we drive around Managua and hand out bags of food to people working on the streets and begging for money.

We’re excited about VISEDAL’s future and hope to expand our staff presence in Managua, enrolling more children in the

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Club sponsors 12-year-old Manuel; the Upper School invited Brad, my mother and me to share VISEDAL’s story during last fall’s Quaker Community Day; and VISEDAL was represented at this year’s MLK Day of Service.

Running VISEDAL is an absolute joy for me, and connecting with Friends has been a personal highlight. I am humbled by the support of Friends students. Through the VISEDAL program, I hope to instill that same passion for service in our children. FS Please visit www.visedal.org for more information about the program and how to sponsor a child. Dylan can be reached at dylan@visedal.org.

Alumni News

GLSEN Educator of the Year Rich Espey ’83 helps make schools safe for all children

AT 46, RICH ESPEY ’83 has become the adult he and countless others of his generation could have turned to for guidance during their formative years. If only such supportive adults had existed. Now a science teacher at Park Middle School, Espey, who is gay, says he was aware of his sexual orientation very early. “It was the mid-’70s and a lot of adults were saying horrible things about gay people,” he recalls. “The hardest thing about it was there was no vocabulary and, of course, no adult to talk about any of this with.” He doesn’t blame anybody.

“That’s just the way our society was at the time,” he says.

Last May, GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, named Espey its “Educator of the Year” for his role in spearheading a school-wide effort at Park to address gender and sexuality education in thoughtful, age-appropriate ways across the curriculum.

A longtime faculty advisor for the school’s gay-straight alliance, Espey built an educational model that was guided by the results of a survey the alliance conducted about pejorative language use in the middle school. “We found that 90 percent of kids reported hearing the term ‘that’s so gay’ at school at least once a week, but only

38 percent of kids reported that they frequently use it,” he says. Espey posited that the reason children use the term as a putdown is because they don’t see gay people in a positive context. “They have no reference for understanding why that’s such a hurtful thing to say,” he adds.

During two weeks in the summer of 2010, Espey and 11 colleagues compiled resources created by such diversity education organizations as GLSEN and Teaching Tolerance to help the Park teachers incorporate gender and sexuality diversity into the curriculum. “We’re not teaching about gay issues, just acknowledging that there are gay people out there in the world,” explains Espey. They also developed a list, “12 Things You Can Do Right Now To Increase Safety And Affirm All Students In Your Classroom.”

Park faculty embraced the measures, according to Espey. “Dozens of teachers stepped up and said ‘I’m going to do this [one thing],’” he recalls. Middle school French and Spanish teachers, for example, created card and board games featuring all kinds of families, including those with two moms and

sexuality spectrum exactly where society says they should. When you’re invisible you obviously get no sense of self or validation.”

Outside of the classroom, Espey — a left-brain science person — also has a well-developed right-brain side. He’s an award-winning playwright whose works have been produced throughout the United States.

He also teaches playwriting at CenterStage.

“I didn’t come to playwriting in a serious way until a dozen years ago,” he says. “I always loved theater and acting and was involved in theater at Friends when I was there. Some of my happiest memories of Friends School are the spring musical, which I loved and still remember fondly. Hilda Imhoff and Libby Pennachia were big influences on me.”

Not surprisingly, and to the delight of his students, Espey brings his dramatic flair to his classroom teaching. “When we do the immune system we act out what happens when you get a splinter. So there’ll be bacterial invaders coming through that door,” he says, with a sweep of his arm, “and there’ll be T cells and B cells and macrophages … everyone has a role to play.”

“ It was the mid-’70s and a lot of adults were saying horrible things about gay people,” Espey recalls. “ That’s just the way our society was at the time.”

two dads. A math teacher incorporated percentages of same-sex married households into census data used in a graphing lesson.

Such proactive measures taken by the school to normalize gays and lesbians in the curriculum caught GLSEN’s attention.

“They’d heard a lot about educators who were reactive — who were dealing with kids getting their heads slammed into lockers,” says Espey. “We didn’t have that, but we had an incredible invisibility of gays and lesbians in the curriculum. That’s the hardest part for kids who don’t fit on the gender and

Espey says he’s honored to have received the GLSEN award and acknowledges his role as the driving force behind the Park School program, but adds, “If the school hadn’t taken to it and gotten behind it, then I would have nothing to report to GLSEN.” He hopes other schools will be inspired to do similar work. “In my ideal world I would take some time off from classroom teaching and travel to different schools to say, ‘Here’s what we did at our school’ and help them find ways to take their institution to the next place, if that’s where they want to go.” FS

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Alumni News

Helen Underwood’s latest novel is a multicultural tour de force

Former English Department Chair Helen Underwood’s second novel, The House of Lakshmi Chatterjee, is set in Calcutta, India in 1968. “If any of my students read the novel, they will be reminded of my love for Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, from which I borrowed the idea of writing a story that takes place in one day in the life of a woman named Clarissa,” she tells Collection.

Here’s an excerpt.

TEN O’CLOCK

The sun disappeared behind a cloud, and a slow dripping rain continued to fall. It was not easy to predict just when the monsoons would end. Clarissa was glad Pema had taken an umbrella. How could anyone survive without an umbrella in India? Not only in the rainy season but also during the hot days before the monsoons, an umbrella was an absolute necessity against the sun’s blazing rays.

Clarissa listened as the clock in New Market struck ten. The gongs seemed to drag on endlessly. Pema had been gone less than an hour, but it seemed longer. Perhaps she should have gone with Pema after all. She didn’t like the uneasy feeling creeping up on her. She thought she heard the woman crying again.

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voice of a woman. Abdul would say it was Lakshmi’s ghost. But surely this could not be Lakshmi crying. Didn’t Lakshmi cry only at night? No matter! How ridiculous even to entertain such thoughts. She did not believe in ghosts! It was only her imagination and the rain and the fan’s rhythmic clacking she heard.

Abdul had said the night crying would stop when they made the House of Lakshmi Chatterjee “look good again.” She had confronted him about it one day in the garden.

“Abdul, does it really make sense that a ghost would cry about something as trivial as wanting the house fixed up? There must be more to the story. What could be the real reason Lakshmi cries at night?”

Abdul hesitated. After a long moment, he said, “Maybe it because she had baby and baby die.”

“What do you mean maybe? Can that be true, Abdul? Did that really happen?”

“It true, Memsahib. It so sad. When she hear baby die, she cry and cry. She not eat.

She get sick. After while, she die. Chatterjee Sahib sell house and move away. I stay on here, and I hear her cry every night.”

Yes, she decided, Abdul was certainly a good storyteller.

Sanjay had said Bengalis were the best storytellers in the world. “They’re the artists, the writers, the intellectuals of India.”

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She’d accepted the possibility that Abdul might be giving free rein to his imagination, but she was not particularly interested in hearing a ghost story about a woman who had lost her baby.

Clarissa thought of the painting Sufi had found in the godown. She and Pema had spent several hours cleaning away the soot and dried dirt. In the painting, a woman in a deep purple saree trimmed with gold threads sat in a rope swing against a sky of dark, puffy monsoon clouds. When she had asked Sanjay about the painting, he said it was reminiscent of a particular portrait style of early nineteenth-century India.

“The swing has long been a dominant theme in Indian art,” he said. “It symbolizes love. The threatening clouds in the background suggest desire.”

“Who would throw such a lovely painting in a place where only junk is kept?” she had asked Pema.

“I not know, Memsahib,” Pema said.

“She much pretty.”

Yes, she was pretty, Clarissa thought.

“But she so sad, Memsahib.”

Clarissa found Abdul squatting under the lemon tree. She showed him the painting.

“Who is the woman in the painting, Abdul?

Do you know?”

“She Lakshmi,” he whispered.

Clarissa had suspected as much. “But who put the painting in the godown? Where did it come from?”

“It hung on great room wall for long time.

Maybe Chatterjee Sahib put it in godown.

Painting gone after she die.”

“So we must put it back,” Clarissa said.

She felt compelled to hang it on the great room wall. It belonged there. Surveying the painting in its original place, she could see how the swing extended forward, hanging in midair as if the woman were ready to jump out of the portrait. Her demeanor was graceful and grave at the same time. Her eyes were intense and piercing. Wherever Clarissa stood in the room, the eyes seemed to follow here. Surely she was imagining things! FS

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Marguerite Frost writes,”I’ve been living in Canada, mostly in or near Vancouver, since 1957 and am sorry to have lost touch with Friends School. I vividly recall my years there, from 1940 to 1942, and all my teachers. Before attending Friends I lived in Costa Rica and was mostly home-schooled, so it was initially a little hard to fit in. I still remember Miss Remmert, our German teacher, and a poem I learned in her class, which began ‘Am Rosendorn, am Rosendorn, da blieb mein Herze hangen.’ (My heart is hanging on a rose thorn!) Then there was Miss Stockett — so well-named! With her back as straight as a ramrod, she stalked up and down in front of her class, while we waited, petrified, until she turned suddenly and called on one of us by our last name. ‘Frost, explain the meaning of this passage!’ It was from Macbeth and it began, ‘If it were done when ‘tis done ...’ Ah, but she was a wonderful teacher! I drew a funny picture (I still have it) of Mr. Pike in physics making us play ‘Dance around the Leyden jar.’ We held hands in a circle and a current passed through us from the jar. I doubt that this would be done these days. Who could forget dear, kind Mr. Beetlestone, and how we all grieved when he died? He could make math clear to even the worst mathophobe. A quirk of the aging brain has made me forget the name of my favorite teacher, who made Vergil fun and sometimes even funny. My best friend Katherine Heller and I really enjoyed our Latin assignments.

I remember also being in a play with beautiful, exotic costumes, which were such a pleasant change from our rather unbecoming uniforms. I had to kiss the boy who played the lead, which gave rise to all sorts of giggles and jokes.

‘Other times, other customs!’ And a more mysterious memory is of my painting a big picture that was part of the scenery of a different play. It was a gory scene showing Agamemnon in his

bath, being stabbed by his wife Clytemnestra after his return from Troy.

My mind refuses to disgorge the name of the play. Surely we didn’t attempt a Greek tragedy! After leaving Friends I went to Bryn Mawr College, where the good education I received had helped me to win a scholarship. Later on, I was a graduate student at Johns Hopkins (THE Johns Hopkins in those days) and then at the University of British Columbia. I can truthfully say that I have never met with better teachers anywhere than those who taught me at Baltimore Friends. An update: I now live in New Westminster, next to Vancouver, with my husband Owen Hertzman and our cat Orlando. We have 60 or 70 rose bushes on our property and a great number of wild birds. I have three daughters, all well and happy with their different talents, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild. I am very fortunate in that all my daughters live in this area, especially since I don’t travel very much anymore. Greetings to all.”

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Susanne Davis Emory vermontsue@aol.com It is with sadness that I report the death of Ronnie Kamphausen’s husband, Carl. He had been struggling for two years in assisted living and was in much pain due to Parkinson’s. Ronnie’s daughter Linda is now living with her in Maine. Ronnie continues to do her nature activities and also her competitive swimming. Last year, she was her age group’s all-star! Speaking of all-stars, Dick O’Connell was inducted into the Friends School Athletic Hall of Fame in May 2012. Congratulations, Dick!

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Richard Wagner is currently serving his third term in the Maine State Legislature. He says, “It’s a great retirement career.”

1955.

Pat Peake Tisdale glent24@aol.com Sadly, Mary Louise Robinson Patterson died on January 11, 2012 of congestive heart failure. She entered Friends School in 1942 as one of our class’s founding members. She was a person of grace and kindness, lively and fun, a compassionate friend, an honor roll student, a super athlete and the role model of organized skills. Our 1955 yearbook, of which she was the co-editor along with Charles Thomas, cites her prowess on the athletic fields: Hockey J.V. 1 and V. 2, 3, 4, Basketball J.V. 1, 2, 3, V.4 and Tennis V. 2, 3, 4.

She was in the Glee Club for four years, on The Quill in her senior year and on the dance committee for two years. Mary Louise grew up in Homeland and many ‘55 parties were held in the Robinson club basement. She taught bridge to the girls in the School library, went on dates and enjoyed a social life that was the envy of many.

She and Charles Thomas took dancing lessons at Arthur Murray studios and they became the “55 dance couple.”

After graduation from Friends, Mary Louise attended Randolph Macon College, rooming with Betsy LeBrun Merrick her first year. In 1957, she married Charles Patterson and they moved South, to the Atlanta area, where they raised their four children — Cathy, Chuck, and twin boys, Rob and Jim — and enjoyed time with their 11 grandchildren. Mary Louise attended our 40th Reunion in 1995. She had been divorced and was sorting out her life and moving forward. She and Ellie Johnson Dubbelde stayed with Glenn and me that weekend, and we had our own mini-class reunion. By our 50th Reunion, she was experiencing health problems and was unable to travel. I stayed in touch with her by phone and letters and knew that her illness was becoming grave. Classmates shared the following memories of Mary Louise:

Cynnie Miller Rosenwald writes, “My first day at Friends in the seventh grade, I was terrified. A red-haired girl said ‘Hi, I’m Mary Louise Robinson!

We’re in Mrs. Dibert’s class together.

Let me show you where to go.’ She took me everywhere, introduced me to everyone and even had me sleep over at her home, a block from Friends, so I could be part of Halloween and other class activities. At 75 years old, I can still say she was the kindest person I’ve ever met.” Bob Kriel says, “Mary Lou was a cherished classmate. She brought life to every party. I suspect many of us (certainly I) had a crush on her for many years and look back on our times with her with great fondness.” Lolly Schorreck shares, “Mary Louise was a good friend and a lovely lady. I still remember looking over my shoulder to see her handling whatever came her way in a field hockey game. She was a terrific center fielder.” Linda Flack Bunce writes, “I am so sorry to hear the news about Mary Louise. She and I were very good friends in high school, and I spent many afternoons after school at her house.” And for me, Mary Louise lived directly across the street from me and my family. Every school morning, Mary Gettemuller Waller walked up the street to my house and joined my sister Barbara Peake ‘56 and me to meet Mary Louise at her house for the two-block trek to Friends. We solved the problems of the world in that 10-minute walk to School. It was a great way to begin each day.

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Lorinda Rugemer McColgan lrmccolgan@verizon.net Bill Patterson wrote, “Janet and I became great-grandparents of two little boys — Josiah Ensz in May and Owen Herman in December. We also downsized to a condo in August and managed to sell our house.”

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BIG BIRD LAKE, taken by Richard Jeanneret ’58 during a horseback and hiking trip up Dead Man’s Canyon in the Sequoia National Forest.

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LIZ COCHRAN DELIMA ‘57 (left) and Nancy Hearn Aronson ‘57 catching up over lunch

in Washington, D.C.

Clarinda Harriss is busier than ever now that she has “retired” from fulltime teaching. Her publishing company, BrickHouse Books, is producing on average a new book each month.

But she happily took time out (and a several-hour plane flight) to go hear her next-to-youngest, bass guitarplaying grandson Liam make his rock-band debut in a big-time blues joint! Penny Nichols Watts writes that her son, Mickey Nicholson, a twostar general in the Army, recently returned from Afghanistan and has taken over command of the 182nd Airborne Division in Ft. Bragg, N.C. She had a special Christmas, as her two nephews and their families, from Boston and from Jackson, Wy., visited with “the three generations of Baltimore relatives!” Penny also enjoyed time this winter with her two sets of grandchildren, from McLean, Va. and Jackson, Wy. Estelle Stephens Knapp’s granddaughter has graduated college with a degree in neuroscience and may go into research. Her grandson works as a stringer in photojournalism for such papers as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Nick Badart writes that during a hurricane he and Lisa were woken in

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the middle of the night by a large tree that crashed through the roof of their house. They are fine but the house was destroyed. “Talk about a rude awakening,” says Nick. John David writes that he was expecting his seventh grandchild on Tax Day, April 15. “We hope that is not a bad omen.” Thanks to everyone who contributed to the Florence Fund and have a great summer!

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Carol Harrington Fitting sends news from San Jose, Calif. “Lots going on, including cataract surgery, 50th wedding anniversary, week in Mexico, hiking group, book club, senior strength training class, 45-year-old son Chris engaged to be married for the first time, downhill skiing after an eight-year hiatus, participant in Alzheimer’s study at Stanford University (since both parents declined with that dreaded disease), trips to Oregon and Washington, Dallas, Texas, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio, fifth year of work in our neighborhood community garden, volunteer at Humane Society every Tuesday, eldest grandson graduating from high school in June.

Tempus fugit; life is good!”

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Richard Jeanneret writes, “In September, 2010 Sandy and I went to Africa for several weeks. Toward the end of the trip we traveled to Biwindi, Uganda, and I climbed the Impenetrable Forest (a 14-mile hike up and down two mountains) to find a family of silverback gorillas. In July 2011, I took a horseback and hiking trip up Dead Man’s Canyon in the Sequoia National Forest to find Big Bird Lake. According to the Park Ranger who led the way, only about 20 people ever reach the lake (or find it) in any given year. Most of the travel can be done on horseback, but the last 1,500 feet is climbing up the granite face on your own.

Future trips include a riverboat cruise down the Danube beginning in Prague and cruising to the Black Sea before landing in Bucharest. In the summer we are also planning a 10-day trip to Alaska by cruise ship and then a few extra days on land sightseeing. On a more personal note, Sandy is walking much better now after having a full knee replacement last fall. She also celebrated birthday No. 70, and we had 100 people to the house to celebrate.

Hope all are well and continue to have good health.” Susan Rugemer Kurtz writes, “It has been a good year filled with family and friends. My granddaughter Kayla is 9 and in the third grade at Friends School. She is a good student, loves music, sings and plays the guitar. She is a wonderful big sister to Nicholas, who is delightful, bright,

busy and very funny. I spent New Year’s with the family on a cruise to the Caribbean with stops at Port Canaveral to visit Disney World and Nassau for sightseeing.” Betsy and Hap Mortimer are having fun and keeping busy with their grandchildren. Mac Price’s grandson, who lives in Easton, was awarded his Eagle Scout Badge in March. His Eagle project was refurbishing the walkway at the Easton Community Center, which took many hours of hard work. Kandi Foell Slade continues to be active in the fantastic Paint and Powder yearly productions. Her grandchildren are at McDaniel College, Garrison Forest School and St. Paul’s School. As for me, Carl and I just returned from Revelstoke, B.C. in Canada. It is located on the Columbia River, between Lake Louise and Whistler, and is completely surrounded by snow-covered mountains. Carl skied with the International Rotary Ski Club, while I helped with the silent auction to benefit the Adaptive Ski Program. This program can get just about any disabled person on the ski slopes with special adaptive equipment. In March, we took the family to Snowmass, Colo. for spring-break skiing and in April, we visited Greece and Barcelona for three weeks. We have to keep traveling as long as we can!

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Ann Green Slaybaugh friends59@verizon.net Bob Field’s son David is now out of the Marines after five years and has been accepted at Georgetown University. His

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daughter Elizabeth has a daughter named Sydney, 21 months. He writes, “John Pollard and I are still playing doubles tennis at Bare Hills.” Speaking of John Pollard, he is busy teaching Notre Dame of Maryland graduate courses in leadership and human resource management. The rest of his free time is taken up with his 4-year-old granddaughter, Elizabeth Hope. Dan Reed writes, “Claire and I have been traveling to Finland, Denmark and Norway, and Hawaii is next on our agenda.” And I took a wonderful trip to Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic last fall and continue to do my usual trips to Virginia and Florida.

1960.

Mary McElroy mem2008@comcast.net Mike Jackley is feeling better and has resumed more activities since recovering from recent health issues.

His daughter has been appointed as director of the Seattle regional office of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Team in Training Program. He would love to hear from people now that his computer is virus-free. Dellie Strickland James says that her massage business is going well and is gradually adding new customers. She finds she enjoys doing the gentle massage on “older people like us!” Last August she visited her brother Guy Strickland in Santa Barbara, Calif. and saw the new house being built to replace the one he lost in the mudslides. He hopes to be in the house by March. Dellie said that her visit to see Guy coincided with the Kardashian wedding, which caused some traffic headaches, street closures and loud partying late into the night!

While there, she and Guy went to LA to see a Cirque d’Soleil show, which she really enjoyed. Sandra Sutley Kull reports she and her husband are taking a three-week cruise from Santiago, Chile, around Cape Horn to the Falkland Islands, and up to Rio. She has been busy volunteering for the Maryland Zoo with its ZOOmobile, a program that takes animals to elementary schools, day-care centers

and assisted-living centers to present educational programs. She also enjoys genealogy research and has discovered that her great-grandfather, Zack Sutley, worked on the Drake Oil well in Oil City, Pa., which was the country’s first oil well. Her mom, age 94, still lives independently at Blakehurst. Her daughter Suzanne, a nurse, has returned to college to become a nurse practitioner. Her youngest daughter, Sallie, and her 5-year-old granddaughter, Maddie, live with her. Brad Meyer is happy to report that he and Melissa are proud grandparents again! He writes, “Sam’s baby brother Oliver was born to son Nat and his wife Erin on January 23, and their uncle Nick and his wife Michelle were expecting a girl in mid-February.” Nat and Erin live in Brookline, Mass., 20 minutes from Lincoln, so both Brad and Melissa see Sam and Oliver regularly. Their third son Jake is getting married this September and will no doubt join the ranks of parents in due course. Brad is semiretired from his audio business but is working with the local public radio station to promote the cause of high-quality classical FM broadcasting.

He continues to pursue his musical career, both as a solo guitar act and in ad hoc groups. “Playing with other musicians helps you get better,” he says, “and it feeds the soul.” Jeannie Downs Pohlhaus has moved to a new real estate office, Yerman, Witman, Gaines and Conklin, which she enjoys very much. At press time, she was enjoying her winter stay in Florida, sitting by the pool, golfing and taking a bridge class. Susan Huff Schmitt is thoroughly enjoying her new Shell Point residence in Ft. Myers, Fla. Her passions are a small herb garden, the Democratic Club, photography, African violets, her United Universalist Church and volunteering. She has found friends and even a few soul mates in the community of 2,300. She has traveled to Seattle to visit her daughter and to Baltimore to visit her sister, Sally Huff Leimbach ’64, and her brother Jay Huff. She takes many trips, but also welcomes visitors. As for me, the winter months were too busy as usual with craft shows, wrapping at the mall for charity, a holiday party given

for the condo residents, mailing presents to family on the West Coast and a weekend visit on the Cape with my brother, who lives in Falmouth, Mass., and my brother and sister-in-law from Glen Arm, Md. But it was all fun. The craft shows were not as busy as last year, except for the last one, which was so successful it made up for the others.

January and February were filled with hours of taking bead inventory, not the most fun task! In March, I visited relatives in Oregon, as usual.

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Barbara Turnbull Davis akitabay@gmail.com Anne Wasserman Luther writes from Little Rock, Ark., where she retired as an ophthalmic R.N. after serving more than 25 years at University Hospital. In her 50s, she endured heart problems, and had stents and bypass surgery.

These medical issues continued until 2004, when she discovered the link between her progressive neuropathy and gluten sensitivity. Over the next two years her health issues reversed, and she has since returned to a normal healthy life that she happily shares with a significant other. Bob Dalsemer, writing from Haynesville, N.C., recently received the Country Dance and Song Society of America’s 2011 Lifetime Contribution Award for his music and dance instruction. Congratulations Bob, we are all very proud of you. Visit www.cdss.org for details. Lisa Dresser Stewart lives in Wharton, N.J. with her husband Michael and their 14-year-old son, whom they adopted from Guatemala when he was just 9 months old. She is the librarian/manager at the local Christian Science Reading Room.

“We live in the woods!” she writes.

“Last Halloween morning we awoke to find a black bear sitting on our patio table while drinking milk out of a carton.” She says they have their hands full with an active middle school student. “Everything from driving to Maine for summer camp and down to Florida for visits with grandparents.

And then there are the challenges of trying to keep up with all of the electronics, the guitar classes,

“We live in the woods!” writes Lisa Dresser Stewart ’61. “Last Halloween morning we awoke to find a black bear sitting on our patio table while drinking milk out of a carton.”

basketball practices, tennis matches, website designing, followed by cooking for lots of teenagers!” Bob Seabold, in Ocean View, Del., has retired and enjoys time with his four children and eight grandchildren, “especially in the summer!” He recently joined the local historical society, which he loves. He and his significant other, Nancie, found each other on Facebook. They visit his brother Bill in Florida often. Jeannie Wright Meyer lives in Owings Mills, Md. with her husband Glenn. They share their home with their “children,” Cujo and Carmen, the pot bellied pigs, and three “very tolerant” dogs. She is a full-time Spanish teacher at Mt. St. Joseph High School with no plans to retire. She says she’s “addicted” to her condo in Mexico and goes there at least three times a year to “keep her tan.” Her summers are filled by taking students on tours across Europe and South America. Jim Woodcock, in Millersville, Md., writes that he retired a couple of years ago from a long career with Commercial Credit. He lives with his second wife of 28 years and has three children. His oldest daughter lives in Vermont with her three sons. His son works for Bain Capital in Boston and his youngest daughter starts college this year. Martha Welch Taylor is in North Bellmore, N.Y., where she is a psychotherapist, with a doctorate in psychology, and a nurse practitioner.

She served in a clinic for 35 years before expanding her personal practice in 2010 to 30 hours a week, with some volunteer work at the local medical center. Bruce Steinwald and his wife Ronnie live in Washington, D.C., where he is semiretired from the federal government as a consultant in health economics and financing. His oldest son Peter graduated from Johns Hopkins and is now working on his master’s in health sciences, also at Hopkins. Younger son Alex graduated from high school in 2011 and is now at Northwestern pursuing an engineering degree. Jackie Horner Plumez lives in Larchmont, N.Y. with husband Jean Paul. Their son Jean Paul III died about 10 years ago from Hodgkin’s disease.

“He was smart, loving and funny,” writes Jackie. “He brought us a great deal of joy.” Their daughter Nichole married “the perfect man,“ until he was transferred to Hong Kong, where Nichole is about to have their first child.

They won’t be back for three years and Jackie is not a happy camper! Jackie is a psychologist concentrating in adult marriage therapy and career counseling.

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Times Magazine, Ladies’ Home Journal and Cosmopolitan. She’s had three nonfiction books published, Mother Power, Divorcing a Corporation and Successful Adoption, and is presently working on a novel that she hopes to have published before our 55th Reunion. Bert Taylor writes from Denman Island, B.C., Canada that he’s become very self-sufficient. He cuts down 70 to 80 trees a year and averages six cords of wood for heat. He has been married to Carroll for a long time. For those of you with Maryland ties, Carroll is a Canadian whose family dates back directly to Maryland. Their “children” are their horses, with whom they’ve taken up dressage. (I am very impressed). There is a town of 1,200 nearby, which keeps Bert busy helping to manage business matters. Bert says he can be reached by email at cm-aht@teluspanet.net, and would love to hear from all of us. His philosophy is “my life is full of things I want to do, although I may not always feel like doing those most urgent, so there isn’t much time to ponder the meaning of it all. Anything can be pure work or it can have a large element of pleasure to it.”

Pat Clouse Epifanio writes from Fort Myers, Fla. that she and John just celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary. They both work at the Shriners’ Hospital and are active in the Shriners’ organization. They are the proud parents of four daughters and 11 grandchildren, whom they visit in Baltimore every June. Dave Windisch hopes to be in Jacksonville, Fla. by the time you read this. His son moved there recently and is building an in-law suite for Dave, who says he can’t wait to leave cold, lonely Ohio to spend time with his new grandson. Dave has been on his own for some time. After his stroke he had to stop working and driving. His mode of transportation is a seven-speed electric bike and his communication is limited to hand radio operators and the computer. He has totally lost the use of one eye but still likes to tinker with electronics.

Nina New Cohen, checking in from Newport, R.I., has so much to say but so little room! She and Marty went on a land-sea tour of Alaska and Vancouver last September and loved it. They spent the fall hosting visiting diplomats to the U. S. Naval War College. In May 2012 they will be visiting Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia. They are the busiest people I know. Carol Greif Sandler, in Pikesville, Md., writes that her daughter Jean Sandler ‘89 lives in Brookline, Mass. with her two sons, and her son Jon lives in Los Angeles.

She and her husband Jonathon visit

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with them frequently. Carol retired five years ago as coordinator of volunteer services at the Jewish Community Services. She is currently volunteering as vice president of the Edward A. Myerberg Senior Center and is program chairman for a lecture group and a few other organizations. In her spare time she has learned canasta and mahjong.

Linda Brecht Stevens and Don Stevens write from Richmond, Va. that they plan on retiring in two years. They hope to visit Paris this summer. Their two daughters are doing well and their son is an attorney in Charlottesville, Va. And, yes, Linda is still playing the hand bells at church. One last reminder — I am missing email addresses for at least half of you, so please contact me.

When you read this I will be recovering from surgery and will need some cheering up.

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Eleanor Blake Fuller eaerobic@hotmail.com Diana Fleisher Schofield has had a year of unexpected events and stress. In July, she was hospitalized for 17 days at Howard County General Hospital for renal failure. She had a low-grade kidney infection that turned septic and she ended up in ICU at 2 a.m. getting emergency dialysis. As of February, she was on dialysis three times a week and getting ready to go on the transplant list. She retired last December and is now working part time in private practice, treating a couple of kids and supervising young social workers. Larry is still teaching math at Centennial High and coaching the girls’ volleyball team. The volleyball season never ends at her house. Their oldest grandson Grey is now a sixth grader at Friends and is doing fantastic. Bill Whiteford ’57 and my prom date “Ciccarone” both have grandsons in his class — small world. Her younger grandson Henry, 6, is at The Church of the Redeemer for Preschool. He has just finished testing for Friends and Gilman — she is trying to stay out of that decision! Diana is looking forward to seeing everyone at Reunion and hopes maybe to even have a new kidney by then. Georgeanna Jones “Bee” Klingensmith is a professor of pediatrics at the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes at the University of Colorado Denver. She is unable to attend Reunion but hopes to participate in the “picture” updates we plan to do. I am glad to have Bee’s email so that we may keep in touch with her.

Sadly, Wayne Sutherland’s brother,

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SKIP DUGDALE ’63 sledding with his two grandkids, Mathew and Morada.

Gerry Sutherland ’59, passed away last year. Wayne spent a week in Salem, Mass. for his wife Colette’s last living aunt’s 100th birthday. They then traveled to Maine, visiting Rockland, Dayton and Searsport before spending a few days in Bath, where they looked at houses with a Realtor. They are still undecided. Other travels included some time in New York City, where they enjoyed one eatery after another, including the Carnegie Deli. They took their first cruise in December on the Norwegian Sun out of Port Canaveral, and visited Nassau, St. Thomas, San Juan and Stirrup Cay. After a two-day visit with Colette’s sister and her husband, they flew home. Colette’s daughter Nicole is engaged; the couple has set the wedding date for May of 2013. Wayne and Colette are now looking at all things “wedding.” In the meantime, he’s looking forward to our 50th Reunion. “Life in Tennessee is wonderful,” according to Carol Davidson Methven, “and retirement is awesome!” She says there’s never enough time to do all the activities she wants to do. She and her husband still travel back to Florida every three months or so to visit the kids and the grandkids there. They have eight grandchildren now — four girls and four boys ranging in age from 14 down to almost 2. Five of the grandchildren live in Florida, two live in Nashville and one is in Virginia Beach. They love being Mimi and Papa! She is looking forward to Reunion also. Emily Holman has some exciting news: She recently had a book published, Gospel Journeys: Travels of a Deacon. It is a compilation of some of her sermons and articles for her church newsletter. Last July, she traveled by train from Beijing to Moscow and St. Petersburg, on the

German-chartered Trans-Siberian Express. Crossing the vast and exotic expanse of Siberia was amazing and her stops along the way showed the colorful folk life and highlights of Mongolia, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg and Kazan. She saw vast forests of birch and evergreen between towns and villages of country houses with white-blossomed potato patches outside. Museum visits in Moscow and St. Petersburg revealed the vast wealth of the tsarist families. I must agree that my trip to St. Petersburg, Russia was wonderful, too, visiting all of the beautiful museums and palaces. Emily’s next trip is a pilgrimage to Israel with her diocese. For now, she is keeping busy with church committees and activities and trying to rebuild her travel budget.

She also is excited about our 50th Reunion. Bernice Bunnecke Howe is looking forward to our Reunion and may just wear her blazer and uniform.

Well, Bunny, we know you must have stayed in good shape. I know you’ve done a lot of biking so we are looking forward to seeing you in that uniform.

Bunny plans to also visit Gibson Island while in the area. Dianna Yeager Rankin is currently the director of equestrian programs for the Madeira School in Washington, D.C. Her husband Tom retired from neurosurgery and he and Dianna moved to McLean, Va. two years ago. Their five children are all grown; four of them are married. Of Dianna and Tom’s five grandchildren, only one rides horses; the other four are into ice hockey.

Linda Kardash Armiger is so happy she recently located her Vanderbilt roommate from 1962 to 1964, Diane.

They’ve had lots of fun reconnecting.

One strange coincidence Linda mentioned was that Diane and her husband

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BIFF FORBUSH ’63, with his daughter Tina, landing a vintage sailplane in Sterling, Mass.

had acquired a 53-foot boat and traveled the Intracoastal Waterway from 1996 to 1998. They left from Longboat Key, Fla. and traveled to Baltimore, where they stopped over both going and coming into Solomons Island, which is where Linda and Buck live.

What a small world! I also had connections with Longboat Key as you may recall; my dad built a motel there and I spent many summers and spring vacations on that lovely island on Florida’s West Coast. Linda advises that her family is doing well and they are awaiting the arrival of grandchild No. 5 in April. Their son, age 42, will be a first-time father. Linda recently had leg surgery and, hopefully, should be recovered by Reunion. She is looking forward to it. The year 2011 was an eventful one for Bruce Goodwin and his wife Lucy. They enjoyed lots of great travel: Turkey and Egypt for pleasure, and Panama, El Salvador and Mexico for business. “Very exciting to be in Tahrir Square just before the parliamentary elections,” he reports. His fourth grandchild — and first grandson — was born and should be ready for his first lacrosse stick in another six months. Bruce, I still have mine in the closet if he needs someone to practice with — only one gut needs to be repaired. Lucy formally retired from the San Diego School District. All in all, a nice year with old and new friends.

Bruce is looking forward to seeing everyone in May. It was so nice to hear from Stock Buck. He’s the owner of Chabil Mar, Placencia, Belize, whose website is www.chabilmarvillas.com.

He’s attempting to plan something for

Reunion — along with Lane Barron Williamson, which would be great.

He just wants to make sure we don’t have too many canes. He remembers the 25th Reunion where he saw a container almost full with canes. That certainly can’t be true for our class!

He’s also looking forward to seeing everyone. Lane has offered her help for Reunion. She and Stock have remained old, close, weird friends — however you wish to see it — for all these years.

She will be helping with updating a photo album for all of us to enjoy at Reunion. We all must thank John Slingluff for offering his home for the Saturday evening get-together after the Alumni Weekend cocktail party. He is looking forward to seeing everyone.

Carol Geyer Furtwangler was recently trying to finish editing a children’s book. She says, “Publishers keep imposing deadlines which I studiously ignore until push comes to shove.” Nothing changes. She organized her college 45th reunion and we will look forward to seeing Carol at ours. Surprise, Chris Sherman Raywood took another interesting trip last September. She visited Prague and Karlsbad in the Czech Republic, Innsbruck, Austria, Lake Como and the small town of Asti, Italy, capping it off with a final week in the south of France in Arles and Nice. Great trip but lots of driving, especially in Austria and Italy.

At Christmas, she had a busy week in Baltimore with Bill’s family — great fun to be a part of their celebrations and to add a few of her personal touches: Liz (Bill’s oldest child) and Chris spent four hours together making a Buche de

Noel, a fancy French chocolate cake! She is traveling to England in March, where she’ll probably spend a few nights in the Cotswolds before heading north to York and back through Lincoln to London. She hopes to meet Susie Seiler Haw, if possible.

She plans to take her niece Becky to Italy in late spring for her college graduation present. At this point, she has reservations to Rome, back to London from Venice and then home but must figure out the middle part. That will be in our next update,Chris. I have to say that we got a great response to both Class Notes and to the 50th Reunion. Glad to hear from people from whom we have not heard in a while. My husband Cliff and I recently went on a getaway cruise to St. Kitts, St. Maarten and San Juan, which was very relaxing and enjoyable. We are still going back and forth from Florida to Pennsylvania, where we have our little business. Still hoping to do more in the “retiring” area sooner rather than later! My grandson in Orlando will be three very soon and is delightful. The grandgirls in Pennsylvania are 15 and 18 and in high school and at Temple University, respectively. Since this comes out after Reunion, I trust we all had an amazingly wonderful time reconnecting!

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Donna Hasslinger Dhassli@aol.com

Chick Fetter Deegan deeganchicke@aol.com It is wonderful that so many of our classmates are still staying in touch and getting together after all these years.

Over 30 of us are presently in an email group that shares updates and Friends School stories, and we welcome other classmates to join in the conversation.

In October, we organized a Class of ’63 luncheon in Baltimore that was attended by Steve Greif, Joan Shinnick Kreeger, Gail Moran Milne, Marge Rowe Felter, Anne Skinner White, Skip Dugdale, Alice Long Gersh, Judy Klingelhofer O’Mara,

Hank Kaestner, Joe Albert, Ellen Taylor Lyon, Chick and me. Ellen left Friends after the 10th grade and brought some pictures of the girls’ JV field hockey and basketball teams to remind us of what we looked like in the early 1960s. We found that more of our classmates are working less than a 40-hour week as we ease into full-time retirement. Steve Greif continues with his four-day work week and, due to the mild winter, was able to play golf more than usual through the end of 2011.

In January he and his wife Maggie attended the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, and in March he joined his brother Geoff Greif ‘67 for a trip to Cancun, Mexico for some golf. Joe Albert finally retired, but returned to work as a contractor for a 24-hour week. Joan Shinnick Kreeger continues to lead tour groups to such locales as Hawaii, Williamsburg, Va., the Badlands and New York City. Skip Dugdale is still selling real estate; he spends most weekends with his 6-year-old twin grandchildren, Mathew and Morada.

Hank Kaestner recently formed a new hedge fund, which he is now managing in addition to his consulting work. He and his wife Josie bought a retirement condominium in Vermont and plan to relocate there in the spring. Chick is working a 30-hour week from home much of the time, and I am retired and taking classes at the Johns Hopkins OSHER Institute. Last fall, Bob Caffee came north from sunny Florida, but he missed our luncheon because he and some friends from his yacht club in Tampa were crewing on Jade, a CSY 44, one of the 60 sailboats in the 22nd Caribbean 1,500 Rally that left from Hampton, Va. to race to the British Virgin Islands. Once they put a couple of cold days behind them, it was a great trip with light winds, good food, and time to read and enjoy the scenery and the good company. After 13 days at sea Bob said the happy crew arrived in Tortola, enjoyed welcoming rum punches on the docks and headed to the showers that were well deserved and much needed. Debbie Bloucher Irvin and her husband Tom also live in Florida and were joined on a cruise in the fall by Pam Hick Hanlon, a new Florida resident and Barbara Nolte Kearney, who traveled from Maryland for the trip. Biff Forbush emailed to let us know that he is still teaching and working in the lab at Yale, studying the protein machinery that moves electrolytes in and out of our bodies. It’s an exciting time in the field as they finally understand how these molecular machines work. In the past three years Biff learned to fly sailplanes (gliders),

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and last March he received his pilot’s license to fly them. So far his longest flight has been three hours from 10,000 to 14,000 feet over the Sierras.

We also heard from Lin Parker who sends greetings from frigid Maine. He noted that he is particularly proud of his third grade grandson Jake, who is already doing wall drills for lacrosse with two hands. Lin remembered. “It wasn’t until the 11th grade that Mr. Nick forced me to ‘get weak-handed’!”

Chick and I will do our best to arrange class luncheons each fall and spring in advance of our 50th Reunion in May 2013, and we hope many of you will be able to join us.

1964.

Sue Grathwohl Dingle s123dingle@aol.com The Class of 1964 continues to share moments from the sublime to the ridiculous. Dan Taylor writes that his novel, “Cairns,” about Tibetan treasures, adolescent love and the Dalai Lama’s guerrilla warriors is available through Amazon. It’s a compilation of stories Dan gathered over his 44 trips to Tibet, during which he was helping to establish the Mt. Everest National Parks. In October, Oxford University Press published Dan’s book “Empowerment on an Unstable Planet — From Seeds of Human Energy to a Scale of Global Change,” written with his father, Carl, and one of his sons, Jesse. It’s about how to make the world a better place. Just in time! Dan’s perspective includes having worked as an advisor in the office of HH the 14th Dalai Lama in 1968. In September he headed off to design another national park — this time in Sichuan, China! Dan’s older son teaches at University of Maryland and his younger son is in graduate school at Harvard. When Dan’s daughter, in law school in Arizona, was married on the front lawn of his home in August 2011, King Seegar attended, making the trip all the way from the other side of the mountain at the headwaters of the Potomac. Dan and King agree: It’s the most beautiful place in the world. They’ve invited us to come see for ourselves and can accommodate 20 people! Road trip, anyone? But let’s not forget our invitation to visit Paul Newbury in Emlenton, Pa., where he has room for everyone — and an amazing idea for a game based on James Thurber’s 13 Clocks! (Details next time!) Retired from the Endicott College community, Betsy Wagner loves being “a full-time volunteer,” one day at the information

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desk at Addison Gilbert Hospital in nearby Gloucester, Mass., another day driving for the Ipswich Council on Aging. As chair of the Historical Committee at a church founded in 1634, Betsy administers archives that are “a unique resource for people researching family trees!” Keith Korschgen describes spending two days on street corners in Pittsburgh “collecting donations” and three nights of sleeping on floors (“one with a mattress”) as “just part of the fun” of participating in his college fraternity’s 42nd annual walk-a-thon to benefit the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh’s “free care fund” in early December. He notes, “There must be an arithmetical error: I was on the first walk, too.”

With this year’s walk collecting $26,000, the total raised is now over $1.25 million. His fraternity is Thiel College, Phi Theta Phi. His hometown pride discreetly concealed, Keith adds, “The fact that the Ravens won both games this year vs. the Steelers made this walk a little easier. Not being one to emphasize the wins, I shared crabflavored chips and Tastykakes with the Ravens logo on the box.” Responding to an unasked question, Downie McCarty wrote, “No, I have not been in a coma — at least not yet.” He and Helen have been spending about nine months each year in Bozeman, Mont. on their ranch, where they enjoy hiking, fly fishing, taking photos, skiing and exploring the back country, returning to Maryland for holidays and eight weeks each spring. They have two sons in the Baltimore area: the elder, a computer engineer at the Applied Physics Lab of Johns Hopkins University; the younger, the owner-operator of an auto “conversion shop” in Bel Air, Md. where he “turns street Subarus into race cars.” Downie loves retirement, enjoys being involved as president of their ranch community and chair of the racquet committee at the local country club. As for me, newly licensed as a clinical social worker, I’m beginning private practice as a therapist with adolescents and adults on Long Island’s East End. I continue to perform my writing, most recently exploring the connection between poetry and healing in a poetry reading with two other social worker-poets at a local library. Just as some ‘mates are savoring retirement, your Class Secretary proposes a project — in case you have a moment: November 22, 1963 was a day that changed the world. Where were you when JFK was assassinated, and how did that day influence your life?

Downie says, “We lived in an extraordinary time, and are just now

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really getting to know each other!” So far, Sally Huff Leimbach, Downie McCarty, Greg Neumann, Savitri Ariosa Gauthier, Avijit Chatterjee and Dan Taylor have responded to this question. All classmates are invited to participate, see the article (p. 20) in this issue, and let me know your thoughts.

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Gretchen Garman Hampt gitch@tradenet.net Lynn Edwards and her husband Richard are currently living in Nicaragua. Learn more about their adventures on Richard’s blog: http://rkrobohm.wordpress.com/2011/1 0/04/hello-world/.

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Arlene Dannenberg Bowes adbowesdmd@gmail.com Melinda Burdette recently visited Baltimore from her home in rural Colorado for her 40th Goucher College reunion and a meeting of the college’s alumni board, of which she’s a member.

Chuck Barton says, “I took two trips to South America this year to visit my son Taylor, who’s teaching in Bolivia.

The first trip included a tour of Lake Titicaca, a bike ride down ‘The World’s Most Dangerous Road’ and Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flats. The second trip included a stop in Buenos Aires for New Year’s Eve, followed by a trip to Tierra del Fuego, hiking in the national park and playing golf at the ‘southest’ golf course in the world.

Family is gradually getting closer to Rhode Island. My older son Chip and his family moved from Arizona to Hampton, Va., where he is on the staff of Air Combat Command headquarters at Langley Air Force Base. In March, my

daughter Maggie, a tech sergeant and public health specialist in the USAF, moved with her family from Lakenheath Air Force Base in England to Alamogordo, N.M. And Taylor has applied for doctoral programs in education at Harvard, Michigan and Texas — any of which is closer than Santa Cruz, Bolivia.” As for me, along with a crew of 10, I raced the family’s sloop Apparition as one of 300 boats participating in the annual Charleston Race Week in late April.

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Frank Bond fbondini.bond@gmail.com The Class of ’69 is a group on the move! Perhaps it’s because this is the year we turn 60 … and 61 … and so on. Bobby Decker called me the night before his 62nd and confessed, “I can’t believe it. I really can’t wrap my mind around that number!” Julia Frank has a different take on “The Way We Are” — “I have spent the past year editing two books, performing multiple parenthetomies and asking myself WWGBD (What Would Gary Blauvelt Do?). Being a post-parent is grand — a little lonesome, but grand.” The one word that seems to capture our class spirit is TRAVEL. Ron Kovach reports that he spends a lot of commuting time between D.C. and Baltimore helping his 93-year-old mother. “She still lives independently but is becoming more and more dependent on me.” But Ron and his partner Chad have booked a much longer journey. Says Ron, “We are set to go to Dubai in April on a cruise encompassing the Indian Ocean, Petra and Egypt. We’ll end in Monte Carlo.

So, hopefully we will survive the Somali pirates, the Egyptian unrest and the strife between Israel and Iran.” Bon Voyage! Not to be outdone, Wendy

CHUCK BARTON and his son Taylor in Bolivia on the world's largest salt flat,

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Democratic National Committee. The details of the job are still being worked out, but it will be an exciting time to be in the political mixing bowl! In late February I took a service vacation in Arizona with Road Scholar (formerly Elder Hostel) to Lee’s Ferry — the put-in area for people rafting down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon.

We will be restoring and stabilizing two historic buildings under the supervision of the National Park Service. Some think it’s crazy to pay to work, but I think it will be a great experience.”

1974.

Sally Slingluff salslinger@aol.com

KATHY AND BLAZER CATZEN ’76 with their children Nellie, Hannah, Bert and Erin at the

December 24, 2011 Ravens vs. Browns game.

and Terry Halle took an “evolutionary adventure” in February. Terry’s words, “Another way to write this since the trip will already be taken when the magazine comes out is: “Terry Halle went to the Galapagos for a week and spent some quality time with giant tortoises, blue-footed boobies, ancient lizards and his wife.” Mosie Lasagna checked in from the road. “I’m just a few miles from Baltimore as I write this.

I’m visiting Krissy Lasagna ’72, David Lasagna ‘67, Mom, and my younger brother Christopher in Charlottesville, Va. Then, we head northward to the Adirondacks, then to Boston. Road trip!

I’m still making Fairfield, Iowa my home — Love it there. And, I’ve become a cat person — eek! Come visit!” Kathy Neustadt writes, “Big news. In February, my husband Tom’s daughter Molly had identical twin baby girls, Lila and Hattie. After an unusually complicated pregnancy (mono-mono: both babies in one sac) that required parental steadiness and high moral courage, it’s a true gift to have these little hearts and souls in the world.” Graham Yearley took some midwinter surgery in stride. “I had the first of three ear surgeries at Union Memorial to take out a tumor that is eating the bones of my left ear.

After that I plan to go to Greece and Turkey in the spring and sing at a convention of gay/lesbian/transgendered choruses in Denver this July.” Mary Kay Lyman works at American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia and she, too, is on the go. “I’m heading for Jerusalem, Gaza, and West Bank in March for three weeks to teach our general ledger software to staff in those places. Hope to travel (on my

own dime and just for fun) to Alaska and Africa in the next two years.” Ruth and Don Goldbloom will celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary in October. Don maintains his law practice in Grantsville, Garrett County, Md. The last three years Don and Ruth have provided a home for a church youth member whose parents were given lengthy prison sentences. He is now in college, studying to become a certified nursing assistant. With no children of their own, they are mentors to many, including three kitties, Mini, Merlyn and Marley. (Don and Ruth, you need to talk to Mosie!) Bill Sherman writes, “61–ouch, 37 years married, three kids, all finished college and one is married.

Still doing commercial real estate deals, Saturday Hopkins lacrosse games, and vacations in South Florida and the Hunt Cup. All in all, it’s still a good gig.” As for me, I continue my work at the Newseum. It’s always a pleasure for me to host Friends friends! The recent roster includes Hollace Snyder ‘66, Shawn Harlan (son of Ruth and Mike Harlan ’66), Melissa Hulse ’79 and siblings, Nina Siebens ’78 and Chris Siebens ‘72. I am working on a team creating a new media gallery in partnership with Hewlett-Packard … totally interactive, totally cool, and it opens this spring.

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Lisa Mitchell Pitts Pittsmmbee@comcast.net Andy Dannenberg writes, “I am now working as a part-time contractor at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and teaching part time at

the University of Washington in Seattle, having retired from a full-time U.S. Public Health Service position at the CDC last year. My new book “Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-being and Sustainability” was published by Island Press last August. The book focuses on the relationship between public health and the built environment and is being used as a textbook for courses on healthy community design in a number of universities in the U.S. and in Australia.” Check it out at: www.makinghealthyplaces.org.

Jim Merfeld says, “Nothing new to report other than the baby boy that Berta Scott helped to deliver while working as a nurse at Sinai Hospital on June 22, 1978 is now a father. Our first grandchild, Jordyn Elizabeth Merfeld, was born on June 21, 2011: 7 pounds, 9 ounces and 20 inches long. She has big blue eyes and red hair and is an absolute delight! Please pass along my regards to all our classmates. I can’t believe I turned 60 — when did we grow so mature? Make today a great day.” Kathy Cox writes, “I retired in August and quickly jumped into activities to keep me out of trouble.

I am working at the National Zoo as a behavior watch volunteer, monitoring the giant pandas. They are entering mating season, so we are charged with recording any behaviors that indicate they are becoming amorous! I also am working at the American Red Cross as a ‘volunteer partner’ in the disaster operations division, overseeing teams that are reviewing and updating some ARC courses. And most recently I have been recruited to lead the seniors’ constituency outreach table at the

Sue Hewett Davis writes, “After several years working in recruiting as a vice president with Bank of America, I joined a partner three years ago to create a professional services firm called Green Sign Consulting. We place experienced professionals into temporary projects with our clients, which include banks, private schools, higher education institutions and manufacturers.

Our professionals have experience in accounting, finance, technology and project management. It’s been fun starting a company and growing it every year! I live in a mid-century modern house five miles from downtown Charlotte, N.C. We are looking forward to the DNC arriving here and invite anyone who is venturing to Charlotte to look me up.”

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John Humphries jehriver@aol.com Steve Stuart reports that he has started a new position as key accounts manager for mutual funds and exchange traded funds at TD Ameritrade in September 2011. Lisa Davis writes that “Don’t Fence Me In … Or Out,” an art exhibit featuring works by her female students in the Hunter College M.F.A. program, opened in September at the Lesley Heller Workspace in New York City. The exhibit is her first curatorial foray and examines the artists’ relationship to feminism. Lisa’s accompanying essay, “Goddesses, Ovaries and the Seductress … Bring It on Home to Me,” was published in the September 2011 Brooklyn Rail. She had solo shows of her work at New York’s Gavin Spanierman Gallery last September, and in March at the New York Studio School’s lecture series.

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grade) submitted a comprehensive update: She graduated from Western High School, then from Morgan State with a B.S. in psychology. She received a master’s degree in gerontological studies from Miami University in Ohio and a master’s degree in social work from the University of Maryland. She’s been working as a licensed clinical social worker at a community mental health center in Torrington, Wy. for the past 20 years. Prior to moving to Wyoming, she worked at the Association for Catholic Charities, Aging Division, in Fells Point for 10 years. She notes that she moved to Wyoming because of the wild outdoors and horseback riding — she’s had five horses, including a wild mustang. She lives with her dog and eight cats, “though no horses at present.” Cecily Morrow (Class of ’76, Pre-K through Fourth grade) writes that she studied at Columbia University and at Oxford in the U.K. before graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts. She has taught competitive figure skating at all levels, from beginner to Olympic champions in New York City, Lake Placid, N.Y. and Canada. She continues to skate and teach skating. Professionally, Cecily wrote, produced and directed, with Doug Wilson and Dick Button of ABC Sports, the video series “Systematic Figure Skating: The Spin and Jump Techniques of Gustave Lussi,” in which she appears as a demonstration skater.

She also wrote, directed, produced and narrated “Stroking Exercises on Ice: The Dance Training Methods of Natalia Dubova.” Cecily is also a busy single mother, raising her son Prime, 15, a competitive rower, paddler and tennis player. She now lives near her mother in Easton, Md. This past summer Keith Tabatznik was named head coach of the Region 1 (East Coast) Olympic Development Soccer Program (one of four regions in the U.S. for boys ages 13-18). Keith continues his work as color commentator for college games on Fox Soccer Channel, and is now doing USL (United Soccer League) Pro League games for Fox as well. Blazer Catzen has been exceedingly busy in the computer forensics business, working multiple cases and attending forensic classes. His kids are well. Erin is working for IMG in Winston-Salem, N.C.; Hannah is in Boston after graduating from Wellesley College, Nellie is in college at University of Pennsylvania and Bert is at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Blazer’s wife Kathy continues in the catering business.

Rachel Talalay just directed a western movie for Hallmark and Sony starring Sarah Canning, Danny Glover and Billy

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Zane. The movie, titled “Hannah’s Law,” will air in June. Sadly, Rachel says they didn’t let her ride a horse. On the upside, she enjoyed a lovely dinner (traditional “First Nations” at Salmon ‘n’ Bannock Restaurant) last fall with Hank Entwisle and Rick Rosenbloom, who visited after attending the Ravens vs.

Seahawks game in Seattle. Hank and Rick then took a small plane into the mountains for further adventures in British Columbia. Since publishing her book of poetry, “Silhouette of a Loon,” MaryAnne Bues Bartlett has been busy with her shop, Ancient Light (www.ancientlight.info), and has now embarked upon a new publishing project. She is putting together a coffee table book featuring photographs of the black work embroidery she’s created over the years. She says she’s well into planning for the pan-pagan gathering held each fall and adds a final note that she and her husband Sam recently celebrated their 25th anniversary.

1978.

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Natasha Gaganidze MacPherson is living in Charlottesville, VA., where her daughter Kelsey, 20, is in her second year at the University of Virginia.

Natasha is a senior vice president at Bank of America, where she manages large technology and change projects for the company’s home loans division.

Her son Kevin, 17, is a junior at Western Albemarle High School, where he plays baseball and runs track.

Natasha’s husband Gary works for Delta Airlines.

1979.

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Stephen Pocock writes “I’m still the salumiere at Boccalone, making those RACHEL TALALAY ’76 with actor Danny

Glover on the set of “Hannah’s Law” on a ranch near Calgary.

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CECILY MORROW ’76 and her son Prime celebrating third place in a parent/child

tandem canoe race.

tasty salted pig parts. I also have a side business, Damn Fine Bacon! www.damnfinebacon.com. I started making bacon 10 years ago and decided to start selling it when the twins, Henry and Charlotte, 11, needed orthodontia. I live above the salumi plant with the kids (sometimes) and my partner, Jill Cohen (all the time), plus our cats Bridget and Nynx and the ball python, Squeezers. Big shout out to my compadres from ‘79.”

1981.

Dahira Lievano-Binford BaltimoreBinfordBunch@verizon.net Morrie Ruehsen recently returned from a five-week tour in Iraq, working on a USAID-funded Financial Sector Development Project. Morrie, who is a full-time professor at Middlebury College’s Monterey Institute of

International Studies, is also a certified anti-money laundering specialist. While in Baghdad she did some training of trainers and also consulted with the Federation of Iraqi Private Banks on the importance of regulatory compliance.

She had a great time and is tempted to go back, but her family and friends — including me — are hoping she stays put. Morrie also sent in news regarding her brother Jack Ruehsen ’86 and Frank Guarnieri ‘86. They are both practicing internal medicine at Miles Memorial Hospital in Damariscotta, Maine. They tend to acutely ill patients as hospitalists, not unlike television’s Dr. House. Jack is married to his Swarthmore College sweetheart, Kate Stubbs, with whom he has two kids, Ella, 11, and Theo, 7. Frank is married to Susan Holmes and they have three children — Lucy, 14, Vann, 12, and Martin, 9. The two families live just minutes apart and get together often.

DAVID AND DEBBIE BROWN ‘76 with their children Donny and Emily.

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CLASS OF 1981 GRADS (from left) Dahira Lievano-Binford, Nell Smith, Carol Drobisz, Moyara Ruehsen and Paula Russo enjoying a mini-reunion in Baltimore last summer.

Jack and Frank have been practicing together for most of their careers, after having gone through the same residency program. What a bromance!

1982.

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Jon Krome writes, “Last summer, my wife and I moved from Trinidad and Tobago to Chester, Cheshire, United Kingdom. I continue to manage the production of oil and gas for BHP Billiton (Petroleum), now through offshore facilities in the East Irish Sea. We are having a great time, learning about the rich history of the U.K. and the rest of Europe. Our oldest daughter, Sam, headed west to San Francisco State University (where she sees John Goodman often), while our youngest, Cassie, attends an American school outside of London. I look forward to seeing many of you at Reunion this year.”

1984.

Staige Davis Hodges sdhpdx@gmail.com

Robert Spencer-Strong robertstrong@hotmail.com Lindsay Leimbach writes that she was made director at Parkhill School in West Hill, Calif., a special education school for second through 12th grades. Being director is the same as headmaster/ headmistress. She states, “The tolerance, respect and caring that Friends School modeled for me, I bring to Parkhill School. Also, I was married on December 27, 2010 to Randall Shiffman. I am very happy to say I have two wonderful boys, 13 and 15, a stepdaughter, 16 and stepson, 20.”

1985.

Amy Chen ajochen@sbcglobal.com Cary Anderson recently co-wrote and is an associate producer on the feature film, “The Vortex.” He also produced a couple other projects and has written and directed a few short films for Will Ferrell’s “Funny or Die” website. All of the films, “Chad and the Alien Toupee, Spotlight, Reformed Tramp, Blood Sisters” and “The Making of Spotlight” premiered last spring in Los Angeles.

Cary is presently developing a few more features and is looking for investors. Hint, hint — seriously! So, if anyone needs a tax write-off ... Outside of the Hollywood hustle, Cary worked on “Veep,” the new HBO series starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and has been teaching a screenwriting class at Towson University. Congratulations on such wonderful achievements, Cary! Paul Armstrong writes, “I am steadily and happily progressing into obesity. My habits include too much food, a steady diet of adult beverages and an occasional fugue to somewhere I have not been before without my wife’s permission. I went to New Orleans for Jazz Fest with my brother and some friends.

While there we plastered Natty Boh symbols all over town. A couple positive notes: My face has healed well and I have a couple of cool scars from my January 2011 ski accident in Alta, Utah.

I returned to the scene in January with Jonathan Sacks ’87, my brother Yon Armstrong ‘87, Mark Eckley and my wife Gwyn, who came to supervise me!

My softball team, Faze Electric/Nacho Mamas, ranked No. 1 in Maryland this past year and went to the World Series tournament in Michigan, where we placed fourth. Jim Palmer also mentioned us on the O’s broadcast that weekend because Baltimore was playing Detroit at the same time we were there. The biggest accomplishment of

Staige Davis Hodges ’84 and Atif Zaman ‘83 and their families gathered for dinner last fall. Pictured here showing their Baltimore spirit are (from left) Evelyn Zaman, 13, Kaelyn Zaman, 17, Landon Hodges, 15, and Larsen Hodges, 12.

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my year was convincing my wife that she wanted to spend our 10th wedding This class needs a secretary. anniversary outside of Detroit, If you’re interested in helping Michigan at a men’s softball tourney. with this volunteer job, please Dinner at the highest five-star restaucontact the Alumni Office. rant there on the 72nd floor of the GM towers was just the beginning of Charley Case writes, “My wife Toni my attempt to appease her. We have and I are proud parents! Charlotte been together since 1994, married joined the family on September 27, since 2001.” Keep up the good work, 2012, a bit ahead of schedule thus Paul! And thanks for the stories! As for proving that she is her mother’s me, I’m just waiting patiently for the daughter. We are enjoying being a Facebook IPO so all the newly minted family.” Christopher Preston writes, millionaires here can start driving up “For any of the class that was in the the price of real estate in Silicon Valley decade club of the Class of 1986, you for the rest of us — a small consolation might remember James Henney. to make up for that brilliant decision James was part of our class in Grades I made back in 2007 not to join the 1-4. I connected with him on Facebook company after getting recruited. Speaka few months back. He came into ing of Facebook, a big applause goes town in January and we were able to out to Dr. Ken Wilson who posted his grab lunch. Back in Lower School, he talk, “Using Wearable Augmented left for Seattle when his Dad decided Reality as a Clinical-Decision Support to take a job there in the biotech field.

Tool for First Responders” during the Coincidently, he moved to Seattle the Health IT Summit. I also got to see a same year Ellen Bledsoe’s family photo of Bob Scher briefing the Pentagon press corps back in November. As TONI AND CHARLEY CASE ‘86 welcomed baby Charlotte on September 27, 2011.

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South & Southeast Asia, Bob spoke of the recently submitted Department of Defense report to Congress on its relationship with India. Bravo, Dr. Wilson and Mr. Scher!

And I hope for the next issue of Collection, I will be reading it on my iOS device. As we like to say here in Silicon Valley, “There’s gotta be an app for that!”

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moved there. He stayed in touch with her through high school. James now lives outside of Los Angeles and is married with two boys. He works in marketing and seems to have settled in to the SoCal way of life. He wanted me to make sure that I said hello to all of his old ‘Friends.’ Feel free to reach out to him on Facebook.” Jack Ruehsen and Frank Guarnieri are both practicing medicine at Miles Memorial Hospital in Damariscotta, Maine. See Class of 1981 notes for the full scoop.

1987.

Shelley Coates Stein shelley.stein@gmail.com Mike Woolf‘s documentary “Man on a Mission: Richard Garriott’s Road to the Stars” opened theatrically across the country in January. The movie follows super geek Richard Garriott “aka Lord British” as he becomes the first son of an astronaut to go to space.

He used his millions from creating the Ultima franchise to pioneer private space travel. He wrote a $30 million check, trained for a year in Russia and launched aboard a Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station, where he spent 12 days in space. The movie ends with never-before-seen footage from inside the capsule during the fiery re-entry.

PARTICIPANTS at the second annual LaMonica 5K Trail Run at Genesee Valley Outdoor Learning Center. Back row (from left):

Hannah Preston, Chris Preston ’86, Andy Spawn, Zachary Spawn ’14, Linda LaMonica Monk ’63, David Savitz, Joe Corvera ’89, Plato Hieronimus ’89, Larry Smith ’83, Jake Swann ’89 and Dan Sale ’01. Front row (from left): Gage Monk ’92, Katherine Monk K-P1, Christine Monk Huxtable ’87, Jamie Pitts ’01, Joaquin Feliciano ’89, Nate Smith, Logan Helman Winn ’90 and Jason Anderson ’98.

now have a farther trip to make the Reunion. He and his family moved to Vancouver, B.C. in August. “It looks like we’re here for good (or at least for now!). I always pictured myself ending up on the West Coast, although this is a little farther North than I imagined.

We miss New York, but Vancouver is a really nice place to live.”

1988.

1989.

Angelo Valle

Meghan Stern Cochran

gelovalle@gmail.com

meghan@stern.net

I know that it’s hard to believe, but next May we will be celebrating our 25th Reunion! I hope to make the trek home and see as many of you in Baltimore as possible. Among the people who will not be able to play the distance card as an excuse to miss the Reunion are Elisa Shorr Frost, who is teaching Russian at Towson University, and Anne Friedlander Henslee. Anne is a top-selling realtor in Baltimore with The Henslee Conway Team of YWGC Realty. In fact, she represents many Friends alumni and parents. For anyone looking to buy or sell a home in Maryland, she can be reached at Anne@HensleeConway.com. Anne and her husband Marshall, a private criminal defense attorney, recently celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary.

Their son Eli is a seventh grader at Friends and lead singer/guitarist/songwriter for the band Garbage Run. Her daughter Julia is a second grader at Friends and sings in the Peabody Children’s Chorus. Gary Nakhuda will

Erin Keating and husband Phil Hopkins became parents last February to twins Finnegan and Faye Hopkins.

Erin lives in Brooklyn and is a development and production executive at IFC TV, where she fosters original comedy programming including “Portlandia”

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with SNL’s Fred Armisen and “Whisker Wars,” a series about competitive facial hair growing. Seriously. Amy McDougal Hutchens writes, “I separated from the Air Force JAG Corps in 2008 and settled in Northern Virginia. Had a challenging 2009-2010, as my father was diagnosed with ALS and passed away in May 2010. After traveling in Alaska for a few weeks after his memorial, I started a new position as general counsel of a government contractor risk management firm and have been focusing my practice on corporate compliance and ethics. In the few minutes of spare time I have, I am lucky to be able to continue to play flute and piccolo with two incredible groups — the Capital City Symphony in D.C. and the Columbia Flute Choir, which has performed at the White House for the past two holiday

ERIN KEATING ’89 and her husband Phil Hopkins welcomed twins Finnegan and Faye in February 2011.

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seasons and of which I was honored to be a part.” Jake Swann relocated from Moscow to Haverford, Pa. with his wife Sonya their two children, Yan and Misha. They are enjoying the proximity to family and the change in climate after many years in the North.

And … my husband Dwight and I are happy to introduce our son Axel Cochran born last November. When not changing diapers or making funny faces to elicit giggles, I work at Sephora. It has been six years since I moved to San Francisco, and every weekend still feels like a vacation.

AXEL COCHRAN, son of Meghan Stern Cochran ’89 and Dwight Cochran, born last November.

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David Sagafi ‘91 and Audra Stewart.

I continue to represent employees and consumers in class actions and have begun representing state attorneys general in similar cases as well. Kristen continues her similar work, also at Lieff Cabraser, where we met 11 years ago.

We are loving living in sunny, spacious, diverse Oakland.

1992.

Sunee Claud suneeclaud@gmail.com

GARBAGE RUN band members (from left) Sam Barber ‘17 (son of Kakie Standiford '81), Cailin Cornett ‘17 and Eli Henslee ‘17

(son of Anne Friedlander Henslee ’88).

1990.

Jahan Sagafi jahan@post.harvard.edu Rob Sullivan writes, “I have completed a book set for publication this spring titled The Royal Arch of Enoch: The Impact of Masonic Ritual, Philosophy, and Symbolism. The book is the result of 20 years of research and it presents a previously undiscovered historical anomaly. It will have a website shortly and in the meantime, you can “like” my page on Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/ theroyalarchofenoch. Sarah Kremen

writes, “We welcomed Abigail Rae Aurnou into the world on August 3, 2011. She’s doing great and her older brother Ethan, 4, is taking very good care of her. I am now working as a behavioral neurologist at the UCLA Easton Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research. Kurt Schwarz writes, “In August, I married Erika Muhl in Sonoma with Friendsters Jahan Sagafi and Matt Baughman at the wedding, a week after having had the pleasure of seeing many more amazing Friends friends at Carey Schock‘s wedding.

My daughter Isabel was a happy junior bridesmaid; it was so much fun I’d like

CLASS OF ’89 MEMBERS (from left) Plato Hieronimus, Joaquin Feliciano and Joe Corvera with Jane LaMonica at the 2011 LaMonica 5K Trail Run at Genesee Valley Outdoor Learning Center.

to do it again. Erika’s an attorney in Palo Alto, and I continue to work in business development at a technology company.” Kate Knott writes, “In December I graduated from Hopkins School of Nursing with a master’s in nursing and am a nurse practitioner at Johns Hopkins Hospital. I am heading up a new transplant program there — it’s an autologous islet transplantation program for patients with chronic pancreatitis. I still live in Baltimore with my husband.” Robert Gaudet writes, “I visited Dublin, Ireland in October to moderate a panel on the Roma and Irish Travelers at an American Bar Association conference. While I was there, I attended Meeting for Worship at the local Society of Friends in downtown Dublin in the Temple Bar area.

They were very nice and shared tips with me, during coffee, about the local Roma population. In my work, I am currently representing Oikocredit, a micro-finance institution founded by members of the World Council of Churches. Oikocredit is based in the Netherlands. I still live in The Hague, which former U.N. Secretary-General Boutrous Boutros-Ghali called the “legal capital of the world.” As for me, my wife Kristen Law Sagafi and I welcomed Benjamin David Fox Sagafi (named in honor of my brother David and the founder of Quakerism) in October. His interests include eating squash, rolling, staring, getting licked by the dog, and, gradually increasingly, smiling. Ben looks forward to meeting his cousin Cameron Thomas Sagafi, born in November, son of

Thanks to the rallying skills of Shawn Peterson, a group of us met at Jesse Tischler‘s mother’s house in December for a post-holiday gathering. Jesse served up a delectable gourmet meal, the wine was flowing, and everyone enjoyed the chance to catch up. A heartfelt “Thanks!” to Frauke Tischler for allowing us all to gather in her cozy home. Jesse is living in Los Angeles, where he practices orthopedic massage and craniosacral therapy. He’s not on any social networks and therefore welcomes people to contact him directly at tischler@prontomail.com or 310-424-0353. He writes “I hope all is well on the East Coast. I miss it already!

It was good to be back home and I hope to make it again soon.” Shawn, also in Los Angeles, continues to live the good life with his wife Sy Smith.

Aside from doing various national commercials, he was last seen on “Castle” (I once spied him on “Entourage.” You never know when he’ll pop up!) More recently, he directed a comedy pilot titled “Forever Young at Heart” and is in the process of shopping it to networks and/or securing independent funding. He also just booked a film, but he’s superstitious and isn’t telling any more than that until the time is right! Claudia Marbaix Scheidle lives in Baltimore, where she and her husband are raising their son, Axel, 18 months. Claudia and Axel were also at Jesse’s, but the photo was taken well past Axel’s bedtime.

Chris Henry married Marisa Rospos in Brooklyn, N.Y. in September 2011.

He continues freelancing as a writer and photographer for Peloton and Switchback. His recent trips for these magazines have taken him to France and Italy. Besides his work with the magazines he has traveled to Los Angeles and environs for several urban planning projects for his full-time gig at AECOM. Ezra Easley writes, “I am the director, call center operations for Health Net Federal Services. Last summer the company transferred me to Greensburg, Pa., from Washington

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state, where I’d lived since September 2007. One of our clients is the Department of Defense, for whom we manage health care for active duty military personnel and their dependents living in 23 states and Washington, D.C. Professionally things are going very well for me; I have bicoastal, multisite responsibility. Personally, I have entered the ministry and am currently an associate minister at my local church.”

Dabney Neblett Bowen reports that life is good in Fairfield County, Conn. with her husband Michael and their two daughters — Wesley, 4, and Leighton, 2, and two dogs. She hopes to make it to Reunion. Carla Perry Paisley, in my humble opinion, would make for a far better romcom/ docudrama than Sarah Jessica Parker’s “I Don’t Know How She Does It.” With all due respect to SJP, really, I don’t know how Carla does it. While smiling ... most of the time. She even got all five children to smile at the camera simultaneously for our group photo.

That in itself is an accomplishment. She writes: “Aaron is 13, Xavier is 11, Ezra is 8, Seraphine is 6 and Niobe [will be 4 by the time this issue of Collection is published]. Aaron works as an intern at Aqua Culture Swim School in Forest Hill, Md. Last year, he traveled with his championship baseball team to compete in Cooperstown, N.Y. He is looking to compete again this year.

Xavier swam for Aqua Culture’s Swim Team last year and broke his own records for backstroke, as well as team

records for fly. Ezra auditioned for and now dances with the Dance Conservatory of Maryland. He and Seraphine were in the Nutcracker this year with guest professionals from the New York City Ballet, and they are rehearsing for a spring performance of “Rapunzel.” Niobe started ballet this fall and is thrilled to be joining her brother and sister at the barre! All three boys will play baseball in Harford County again; Aaron and Xavier are swimming for Aqua Culture’s Swim team (Ezra and Seraphine need some convincing) and our entire family plans to enjoy the spring and summer alternating between baseball, ballet, swim team and relaxing weekends at a friend’s lake house in Harper’s Ferry.

Oh, and I am still studying midwifery at a snail’s pace. I spent a year interning with nurse midwives in the area and volunteering with initiatives to help under-served women receive care.

I would love to be able to do relief work with midwifery, but ... right now, my role as lifeguard, baseball mom, ballet mom, homeschooling mom, and get-the-tank-of-a-dog-acclimated-toour-family mom is taking over.”

Ilse Levin continues her work as an internist in Washington, D.C. She’s happily living in Silver Spring with her husband Seth Flagg, a family medicine doctor with the Navy, and their ridiculously cute son Alistair, who turned 2 this April. As for me, I’m taking a year’s leave of absence from teaching elementary special education in order

CHRIS HENRY ’92 and his wife Marisa Rospos at their September 2011

wedding in Brooklyn.

BROOKE MCCRYSTLE MULHOLLAND ‘93 and her husband Jason welcomed twins, Stevenson “Evie” and Wesley, on January 13, 2012.

to stay home full time with our daughter Satya, who turned 1 in February. She’s gone easy on her parents by sleeping well, eating sans fuss whatever we give her, and being mostly quiet in restaurants, wineries and airplanes. This makes me wonder what’s around the bend ... but for now, Spencer, Satya and I are enjoying ourselves immensely.

Satya has regular playdates with Alistair at D.C.’s museums and parks, and they, like their parents, are eagerly awaiting the next pool season. If anyone wants to join us, email or find me on Facebook. Oh, and I spoke with former fifth grade teacher George Benson at last fall’s Scarlet and Gray Day BBQ. He and Upper School history teacher Rich Seiler ‘68 agreed that our class, along with a few others who didn’t graduate with us, were in fact the “most challenging” of their teaching years. It’s

hard to believe it’s been 20 years since our class took that one last walk down the steps from the Meetinghouse. By the time many of you read this, we will have reconnected at Alumni Weekend.

Even though some of us have caught up on Facebook and the like, it’s great to actually see each other live and in person, not Memorex. (Now that sounds dated!)

1993.

Elizabeth Leonard Clifton elizclifton@gmail.com Class of ’93, we have new babies, new jobs and new adventures to celebrate!

But first, I want to plant a seed about our 20th Reunion, coming up next year.

See if you can’t fit a trip to Baltimore into your schedule in May 2013! It

MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1992 gathered on December 26, 2011 at the Baltimore home of Jesse Tischler. Back row (from left): Ilse Levin ‘92, Shawn Peterson ’92, Sy Smith, Jesse Tischler ‘92, Aaron Paisley, Satya Reisinger, Carla Perry Paisley ’92 and Sunee Claud ‘92. Front row (from left): Xavier, Seraphine, Ezra and Niobe Paisley.

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MARIKA HOLLAND KNIGHT ‘94’s son

Tristan Carpenter, born last November.

HENRY ERICSSON HUEBNER was born on October 27, 2011 to Carrie Mallonee Huebner ‘93 and Eric Huebner.

would be great to see everyone. On to the news … Nancy Snyder Irons, her husband John and daughter Claire welcomed a new baby boy, Steele, on December 29, 2011. Steele is named after John’s father, and Nancy says that he’s a sweet little guy! Lisa Jacobson, her husband Danny and their first-born Leo welcomed their second son, Toby, into the world on November 8, 2011.

Congratulations, Lisa! Caroline Mallonee shares the wonderful news that Henry Ericsson Huebner was born on October 27, 2011. Says Carrie, “Eric and I love being parents!” Brooke McCrystle Mulholland and her husband Jason Mulholland had twins!

Brooke writes, “Stevenson McCrystle Mulholland (our baby girl, calling her Evie for short) and Wesley Jack

Mulholland were born on January 13, 2012. We are all happy and healthy and settling in, living in White Marsh, Md.” I had the pleasure of meeting up with Leslie Olsson and her family (husband Christopher Dove and daughter Rose) over Thanksgiving weekend and watching our kids play on the Friends playground. Leslie has recently begun working as the senior health and wellness coordinator at the Mission YMCA in San Francisco. As part of her job, she gets to teach line dancing to seniors and says she’s glad to be putting her Upper School gym class line dancing skills to use. Elise Pittenger (cello) and her husband Fernando Rocha (percussion) performed a concert of “Contemporary Music for Cello and Percussion: A program of solos, duos,

JAMIE JOHNSTON ‘94’s wife Kristin reading to the couple’s son Andrew and dog Gus.

improvisation, electronics, and theatre” at An Die Musik in Baltimore in February. Sarah Standiford writes, “After eight terrific years as director of the Maine Women’s Lobby, a nonprofit advocacy group working to improve the social, economic and political status of women, I left my post this summer to join Planned Parenthood Federation of America. I’m still living and working in Maine but spending about half of my time on the road throughout New England and the mid-Atlantic helping Planned Parenthood affiliates and partner organizations ramp up their advocacy, community organizing and political programs. It’s great to have one foot in the national scene while still living and working with the communities I know best — all while promoting life-saving preventative health care and reproductive health access for all. Husband Jeff Fetterer and I are adjusting well to a travel-heavy lifestyle, and I was fortunate that a recent trip south coincided with Elise Pittenger’s visit from Brazil. We enjoyed a wonderful meal at the home of Frannie Hochberg-Giuffrida, with only occasional fits of giggling.”

1994.

Steve Peterson oxenstjerna@yahoo.com Hello, Class of 1994! I hope everyone enjoyed the unseasonably warm winter — thanks a bunch, global warming!

Here is the news. The illustrious and handsome Ryan Bader married Austin Scott on February 11, 2012, in Richmond, Va. In attendance were Mikey deLara, Andrew Geison, Jamie Johnston and his wife Kristin, Rich Santos, Mike Stringer and his wife Denise, Lou Rouse, John Renner, Lauren Hubbard Johnson and her husband Bird (Michael), Ali Smith and Nora Bucke, Myles Perkins, Steve

Travieso, Rob Travieso ‘97, Trevor Soponis ‘95, Heath Shapiro ‘95 and his wife Tosca, and me. (I hope I didn’t leave anyone out — my apologies if I did.) After a lovely wedding at St. James Episcopal Church, we trooped over to the reception at the Country Club of Virginia and did our best to out-dance each other to such classics as “Shout,” “Sweet Caroline,” and “Da Butt.” There were go-circles aplenty. On November 8, 2011, Marika Holland Knight had a boy — Tristan Carpenter. He joins Charlotte, 5, and Roland, 2. Marika writes, “We are feeling appropriately overwhelmed by it all, but for the most part we are very happy.” If that weren’t enough to manage, Marika has also completed her coursework toward her doctorate in math and is now busy with research and writing for her dissertation. She will soon finish maternity leave and return to teaching high school math at Friends Academy in Locust Valley, N.Y. Jamie Johnston is living with his family — wife Kristin, son Andrew, and dog Gus — in Rochester, Minn. Amy Kremen and her husband Boz Wing had another son in October — Luc Benjamin. Amy says, “He’s a happy, easygoing fellow and is dearly loved by his older brother Isaac.” Emily Leffler Schulman reports that she and her husband Mat welcomed their second child, a boy — Luka Nebraska — on June 10, 2011. Ali Smith has had a busy few months. He and Nora Bucke had their second child, Amar Kanoa Bucke Smith, on January 7, 2012.

(Amar was due on December 23 but decided he would spend a little extra time on vacation before returning to work.) His older brother Asuman is 5 and in the Friends School Class of 2025. I get to hang out with Asuman from time to time when he comes over to visit his Aunt Liz and Uncle Isaac, who live in my apartment building. Ali, his brother Atman Smith ‘96 and their friend Andy Gonzalez have lately been enjoying great success with their nonprofit organization, Holistic Life Foundation, which provides a range of yoga, mindfulness and environmental advocacy program for at-risk youth and seniors. In December, Ali, Atman and Andy were featured on a “Making a Difference” segment on the “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.”

They’ve also been invited to present at the White House Symposium on Yoga and Meditation in April. Let us hope, for our sakes, that 2012 turns out to be an honorable and glorious year for us all and does not end up looking like that horrible John Cusack movie of the same name.

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AMY KREMEN ’94 and her husband Boz Wing welcomed

Luc Benjamin last October.

ASUMAN and baby Amar, sons of Nora Bucke and Ali Smith ’94.

1995.

Trevor Soponis tsoponis@gmail.com Mazel tovs are in order this year as the Class of 1995 seems to be knee-deep in advanced degrees, bold business plans and a slew of bouncing babies.

Taylor Smith gushes, “Ana and I welcomed our second daughter, Lucia Elizabeth Smith, on November 6, 2011.

Our older daughter Natalie turned 2 last October. She is enjoying life as a big sister (so far) and as the boss of our household.” Sujay Pathak, in addition to his medical endeavors, has also been singing and posting a series of songs on YouTube, including versions of Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice,” Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” and a devastatingly beautiful French piece, “Les Feuilles Mortes.” Check it out! Paul Rubinson (Sujay’s Friends School bandmate circa ‘90), with his Ph.D. finished, is now in Massachusetts with his wife Kristin and daughter Harper, working at Bridgewater State University. Heath Shapiro and wife Tosca welcomed a son, Val, late last year, who has already received his first Ravens jersey. Adam Dougherty and wife Melissa are also experiencing the joys of parenthood with their young boy, Dodge. The family is running Brooklyn-based Paw Paw Pet Care, assisted by their English Bulldog Albert. Trevor Coe is busy lawyering in the Baltimore area and

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crib-building after the February birth of his first child, Evelyn. Whitney Manger and husband Mike Fine are back in New York, living in Williamsburg, just two blocks away from Mike’s newly engaged sister Laura Fine ‘99.

Aviva Gray, going on Year 13 in New York City, received a master’s degree from Columbia University in art history, and then took “the next natural step” and found a job at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She’s also been spending time with her brother Owen Gray ‘93 and his new baby boy. Sarah Scott explains, “I’m taking a break from chasing the elusive three-hour marathon and teaching philosophy by going to Georgetown Law and by having a baby. Don’t know which is scarier: being responsible for another human or being in class with people who were born after I bought some of the clothing in my closet.” In a whirlwind of a year, Allison Eden had a daughter, Hazel, received her Ph.D. in communication from Michigan State and moved with her husband, baby, dog and two cats to the Netherlands, where in September she’ll start as a professor in media psychology. In our nation’s capital, Jennifer D’Agostino is getting ready to remodel the kitchen in her Adams Morgan apartment and asks for “the good contractor gods to watch over me.” In New York City, Sherene Strausberg and her husband Todd Drucker welcomed a baby boy, Yuri Bronson Drucker, on November 11,

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2011. Congratulations, Sherene. Out in Denver, Annie Holder Campbell has founded a bold new business venture in tippybob, a digital network that connects investors with financial advisors.

Leila Khan reports, “We welcomed our first kiddo into our family in August — Olivia — and my husband, Jerome, and I are living in snowy Cleveland.

Friends alumni are welcome to contact me if they travel to the area.” And according to nothing more than the hearsay of Facebook, Jon Bailey is still making music and touring in the Jon Bailey Band and should have a new album out by press time, Will Sieck is now living in Redondo Beach, Calif., and Geoff Sanders is still sporting the Joe Flacco Fu Manchu. As for me, Trevor, I’m hoping to visit Sara Pfaff at her vineyard estate this summer while I finish my dissertation writing in Florence, Italy.

1996.

The wedding was filled with Quaker attendees. My fiancée at the time (I’ll get there), Lauren, and I went, as did, Edith Dietz, Cary Pirone, Susannah Gust Holmberg, Sara Hubbard, Kathleen Cusack Lyon ’97, Janelle Milam Schmidt, Heath Shapiro ‘95, Ryan Bader ‘94, Emily Santos Fisher, and Anjana Prasad Jindal. It was an incredibly fun wedding. The Franklins threw a bash reminiscent of the old Thanksgiving parties back in the day, and it also had subtle undertones of Maddie’s Sweet 16 party. A great time was had by all, especially so, when Heath and Bader told us about how they tried to go to the casino in jeans and were forced by hotel staff to put on “loaner pants” to enter. OK, next wedding … Dan Muñoz married Kelly Schledorf in Baltimore in July. I had the honor of being Dan’s best man and got to deliver a toast I had been preparing for roughly 20 years. David Schummers ’95 was in the wedding too, along with Garrett Fittizzi and Leif Dormsjo (neither of whom went to Friends but equally deserve their names in lights). We celebrated with Ana Muñoz, Maddie and Kai, Edith and all of Dan’s Princeton buddies who made

Andy Dale atdale@gmail.com I was remiss and did not get an update together for the last issue of Collection.

As a result, this will be an encompassing hodgepodge of stories, anecdotes and other tidbits gathered over the last year. As is commonplace for the early 30s crowd, this update is rife with weddings, babies and the overall continued dominance of the world by the Class of ’96. Madeline Franklin married Kai Gross on March 26, 2011 at the Greenbrier. Maddie met Kai at Columbia Grammar and Prep School, where they are both music teachers.

SHERENE STRAUSBERG ’95 and Todd Drucker’s little boy, Yuri, born on November 11, 2011.

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Kai, David Schummers, and his (at the time) fiancée Laura Browne (I’ll get there). Lauren and I loved every minute of it. Just an incredible weekend and amazing that it was part of an epic back-to-back celebration! But, we weren’t done … Just two weeks later, we flew to California for the Schummers-Browne affair. This one was held in northern California on Tomales Bay at the Marconi Center. It was a beautiful setting and a great time.

David’s siblings Laura Schummers ‘01 and James Schummers ’91 were there of course, as were Muñoz and his wife Kelly, Will Sieck ‘95 and his wife Katie, who was (at the time) expecting another child! David and Laura had a Quaker wedding ceremony in a little green patch overlooking the water — it was epic! Fast forward to September … the Cusack-Lyon wedding was another awesome night, filled with Friends School alums. Kathleen married Chris Lyon a fellow attorney and a damn nice guy. FS alums in attendance included Kathleen’s sister Lizzie Cusack ‘01, Maddie and Kai, Edith, Sara Hubbard, Joe Johnston ‘98, Mike Malin ‘98, Chris Murray ‘97, Garrett Smith ’97, Abby Owen Perry ‘97, Jessie Owen Kostelnik ’95, Jake Martin ’99, Jennifer Tufaro Nolley ‘01 and Christina Tufaro ‘05. OK, wedding updates finished … on to babies. Maddie and Kai are expecting in June! Way to DO WORK Maddie and Kai! Alec Hawley and Jaimie Van Pernis have a little girl

named Talulah who is super cute. Alec is still working as a landscape architect in San Francisco and running his Internet business selling Canadian syrup and animal pelts. He also added another rare bird to his collection, this one is a Kakapo named Jules who has a brilliant brown plumage. Christopher Wilson and Stephanie Hanes Wilson relocated to Andover, Mass. in June 2010. Chris is the head of school at Esperanza Academy in Lawrence, Mass., a tuition-free middle school for low-income girls, and Stephanie continues to work as a freelance journalist, reporting stories in the U.S., Africa and Caribbean. Their daughter Madeline Thuli Hanes Wilson was born last February. Jeannie Achuff Morrow moved to Canada last winter with her husband JEANNIE ACHUFF MORROW ’96 and son Ernest. They live on Vancouver Island in Curzon, born April 2011. the city of Victoria. Their son Curzon was born in April 2011. Jeannie is fools of themselves on the dance floor, practicing as a naturopath part time especially an uber-sweaty Carlos and Ernest is working for the Anglican Fernandez. Dan’s dad Alvaro was in rare Church to develop a contemplative form, both at the rehearsal dinner and community. Every time I hear from during the wedding. It was a thrilling Jeannie I remember when she and weekend, but there was more to come.

Abby Birdsall Beauregard got into The following weekend, Muñoz flew to my mother’s pond for a “swim.” Abby Massachusetts for my wedding to Lauand her husband Pete are expecting ren Lipcon. Dan was my best man and their second child, another boy in April. hit a home run in his toast, weaving in They live in Sudbury, Mass., and Abby the great story about our fateful trip to teaches second grade. Alright … the 2004 American League Champiweddings and babies aside … James onship Series. We had several Friends Simermeyer is in his second year of School attendees: Alec Hawley, Edith, law school at University of New Mexico Kathleen and her (at the time) fiancé and is probably still terrorizing freshChris Lyon (I’ll get there), Maddie and men (or “1L’s” as they say in law STEPHANIE HANES WILSON ’96, Chris Wilson ’96 and their baby girl, Madeline, born in February 2011 school). Instead of throwing them in the dumpster behind the Caf though, he probably corners them and

makes them recite the Rule Against Perpetuities. Back in Baltimore is Anjana, who joined Katzen Eye Group as one of their glaucoma specialists and has been busy building her practice.

Welcome back to Charm City! Let’s hope your return does not create another situation that results in Jell-o shots being “spilled” on my mother’s white chairs! Just kidding, I actually kind of hope that happens again.

Jamie Nissly Falcon is still in Los Angeles, in her 12th year working for LAUSD schools. Her family took a trip to Big Bear this year to see some snow.

Up in Northern California, Gwen Armbruster continues to live and work in San Francisco. She graduated in May 2010 as a member of the Pioneering Cohort 1 from the M.B.A. in design strategy (DMBA) program at the California College of the Arts. She is currently working as the program coordinator for the DMBA, a two-year, full-time, low-residency M.B.A. program focused on innovation, sustainability and entrepreneurship utilizing the “design thinking” methodology. For more information: www.designmba.org. Lacey Levitt ’91 graduated from University of Virginia last year with a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is completing a postdoctoral fellowship in forensic psychology at University of Massachusetts Medical School. Edith Dietz, apart from being on the wedding circuit like we were, is doing a pediatrics residency at Hopkins. I ran into her at the Baltimore Marathon (not running it) and we hung out on Super Bowl Sunday. Apparently her brother “Big Time Bob Dietz ‘99” is married and living in Chicago, but he’s often shielded from the media, so we don’t get much access to his dayto-day activities. I’m imagining board

JAMIE NISSLY FALCON ’96 and daughter Serenity in Big Bear, Calif.

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meetings, press requests … the general life of superstardom. Jessica Lichtenfeld is still at MTV and living in Queens but will be on the move soon depending on where her boyfriend decides to do his Ph.D. They hope to stay in New York City, but D.C. is a possibility, too. Jessica ran into Justin Anderson ‘94 after a concert and claims he conceded that she was a better clarinet player than he was back when they manned the wind section in Mr. Gifford’s band. What a thrilling moment! I’m sure you were good Jessica, but did YOU switch from saxophone to bass clarinet for the “good of the team” like Munoz did?

When the game was on the line, Munoz left it all out on the field.

Speaking of Dr. Munoz, after wedding season, he moved to Durham, N.C., where his wife Kelly, a cardiology fellow, is doing a special heart transplant program. Dan is doing research and continuing his fellowship in cardiology.

David Schummers and I traveled to Durham recently to visit them and went to the Duke-Davidson game. Then the next day we played 50 put-out. Not joking. It was just like 9th-10th grade on the courts behind the Caf (that’s two “behind the Caf” references if you’re counting). Munoz hit two halfcourt shots. He’s still got it, just like his record-breaking game against Arlington Baptist. Jay Mund and I hung out on New Year’s and had fun catching up.

He’s still working at Kennedy Krieger and lives in Hampden among the hipsters. Dan Kahn, aka “Dank,” wrote that he has “a lot of things in the hopper.” He didn’t elaborate … very incognito Dank … very James Bond. Happy 2012 and keep the updates coming in!

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Claire Cherlin Kosloff clairekosloff@yahoo.com Hello classmates, it was great to hear from so many of you this time around. I had the privilege of sharing bagels and coffee with Jen Insley-Pruitt, her husband Matt and her adorable son Oliver Winter Insley-Pruitt over Christmas. Oliver joined the world on May 14, 2011. Also brunching with us was a very pregnant Abby Owen Perry, who sent her update exactly at press time.

Abby and James were thrilled to welcome another son Nathaniel James (Nate) on February 21, 2012. He joins big brother Sam and is eager to cheer on the Princeton Tiger football team to a winning season next fall. Jim Nicholas writes, “I just bought a

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RIDA D’AGOSTINO ’97 and Andrew Qualls were married in Washington, D.C. on October 15, 2011. Pictured are (from left) Trevor Soponis ‘95, Mark Pries, Charla Platt-Doble ‘97, Beth Lawrence, Katarina Carlin Polito ‘97, Rida, Andy, Vanessa Harbin ‘97, Rebecca Leonard McWilliams ‘97, Jen D’Agostino ‘95 and Amit Shashidharan ‘97.

historic rowhouse in Butchers Hill in Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Baltimore with my girlfriend Jen Rhodes officiated by a dear friend of ours. The and we’re loving it. Lots of projects, but reception was amazing, complete with it has a lot charm. We just got back a Baltimore-D.C. danceoff (I think from a ski trip to Vail with a bunch of Baltimore won, though it was close).

FS peeps — Steve Meredith, Amit We honeymooned immediately after Shashidharan, Will Totten ‘05, Jon for a week in Jamaica.” CongratulaPollak ‘00 and even Jamie Kations, Rida! It’s been a little while since vanaugh stopped by for a night. We’re we’ve heard from Erik Franke, who probably going to head back there next shares the following good news, “The year.” I am very jealous, Jim! Charla major update is I had a second son — Platt-Doble writes, “Recently I moved Colton Prescott Franke — on December from Germantown to Manayunk, both 28, 2010.” Wonderful news, Erik! in Philadelphia, where I’m working with Sarah Melville writes, “My husband a public relations/social media company Adam Molaver and I welcomed our first in Center City. I’m still doing art — child, Daniel, on February 12, 2012.” mostly paintings and drawings.” In Hugh Peterson writes, “Peta and I just other great career news, Erica Winters celebrated our first wedding anniverwas nominated for best nurse in Texas sary and now I’m heading back up to by the International Nurses Association Alaska — on the West Coast, where and informs us, “I’m still working hard you really can see Russia — for two in nursing school. I want to be a NICU months as co-executive producer of nurse. I start Texas Tech next summer “Flying Wild Alaska” on Discovery. I for my B.S.N.” Christina Counselman Patrick writes, JEREMY and Marci McLachlin Morgan ’97’s son, “I am still living in Portland, Wesley Robert Morgan, born last September.

Maine and working for TNTP, a national education nonprofit.

Although I am sad to miss Reunion this year, I have felt lucky to see several classmates in recent months — Claire Cherlin Kosloff and Melissa Ciesla out in Los Angeles, Christa Gatewood, Sarah Melville, and Anna Maria Gapuz during a Baltimore visit, and Rebecca McWilliams in New Orleans.” Rida D’Agostino writes with big news, “I married my boyfriend of five years, Andy Qualls, on October 15, 2011. We had a small wedding held at the Sewall-Belmont House on

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was supposed to work with Claire Cherlin Kosloff on “Swamp People,” but that never happened because of her new baby. Once again, we are ships passing in the night. Peta and I are hoping to make it to Reunion this year to see everyone and hold up another $86 check for our class gift.” Yes, my maternity leave did prevent me from sharing an office with Hugh — that would have been so much fun. We could have held Meeting for Worship in the break room. My son Ellis Martin Kosloff was born September 28, 2011.

He’s an incredibly calm little guy, and we are so thrilled to have him in the family — his older sister Alexandra, 2½ years, is beside herself. Seems as ERIK FRANKE ’97 and sons Thatcher, 5,

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MARY BETH STRICKER SIECK ‘99's daughter Savannah is enjoying her role as

big sister to Dan Sieck ’99 and Mary Beth's son, Maxmillian Stricker Sieck.

CATHY and Mike Malin ‘98’s son, David.

though Ellis was born on a popular day for Friends School offspring — because classmate Marci McLachlin Morgan had her son the very same day! She writes, “2011 was a momentous year for us. In August I completed my M.B.A. at Kellogg — it was a great 2½ years but I am glad to no longer have to plan my week around school work.

Instead, I plan my week around a new addition to the family! Jeremy and I welcomed our first child, Wesley Robert Morgan, in September. He is a super baby and we are absolutely loving parenthood! I’m hoping to make it out to Baltimore for the 15-year Reunion and bring the little guy with me.” Congratulations, Marci! Ellis and Wesley will have to meet and plot their world takeover. Also, Garrett Smith and his wife Catie welcomed a baby girl, Alexandra (Lexi), on Sunday February 19, 2012. Congratulations, Garrett!

Joining those two little guys at Reunion will be John “Jack” Tennant McWilliams, Rebecca McWilliams’ darling new baby boy, who was born exactly on his due date, January 28, 2012. Rebecca is supermom already, managing to find time to organize our Reunion in the midst of all the baby chaos! And finally, the award for most original news entry comes from Pete Levin, who writes, “I was the concept artist for the Justin Bieber-based toy, the singing ‘Justin Beaver’ plush doll.

This is actually true. When I haven’t been designing singing beavers, I’ve been directing music videos (including one for the Foo Fighters) and commercials and working as an animator for several TV series.” Awesome, Pete.

Can’t wait to see everyone at Reunion in May!

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Hello, everyone! I hope you are enjoying a lovely spring after the mild winter we had this year. Class of 1998 is a little short on notes this time around, but all the news is good. Liz Lauren Lauros writes, “We are doing well, enjoying Reuben’s mischief very much, and my only real update is that I started a new and challenging job in October 2011 as chief of staff to the commissioner of NYC’s child welfare and juvenile justice agency, which is where I’ve worked in various roles since 2006.

Between that and Reuben I am very busy!” Mike Malin is also doing well.

He is the clinical operations manager at the Center for Autism and Related Disorders at The Kennedy Krieger Institute. Mike’s wife Cathy is teaching English at Jemicy School. If you recall, Mike’s dad was one of the school’s founders, so it’s a special connection for their family. Mike and Cathy’s son David turned 2 on March 13, 2012, and on March 2, 2012 they welcomed a daughter, Abigail Molly. Congratulations! Alicia Atkinson tells us that she does not have any major changes to report, but she is enjoying being a parent and seeing pictures of all the future Friends School students (our classmates’ little ones) on Facebook. She regrets that she doesn’t live close enough to other alumni to arrange for play dates, although she is looking forward to returning to Baltimore in April for Alison Birch‘s wedding, when she hopes to connect with other Friends alumni. Hope to hear from more of you throughout the year. Just think: This time next year we’ll be sharing our news in person at our 15-year Reunion!

Salute from vacation in sunny Florida, as I slave over writing Class Notes (just kidding). By the time this comes out we’ll have already seen daffodils and tulips in our yards and parks. I can’t wait to see the bulbs that I planted last fall start to come up in the front yard of my new house! Wilson Taliaferro, one of our newest members of the Friends School Alumni Board who also bought a house this year, reported; “Well now I’m an official grownup! Anne, Eliza and I have moved into our new house.

Renovating an old farmhouse while raising a toddler is an adventure, but we’re having a great time. We can’t wait to be all settled in and begin work on a vegetable garden for the summer.” Mary Beth Stricker Sieck and Dan Sieck wanted to share their exciting baby news: Maxmillian Stricker Sieck was born on August 23, 2011 at GBMC. “He is a very happy baby. Dan and I are enjoying him beyond belief.

And Savannah is an amazing big sister!

We are going to California in two weeks to visit Dan’s brother Will Sieck ‘95 and his wife Katie and their two children, Bennett and new baby Caroline.” Laura Fine is happy to share the exciting news. “I got engaged to my wonderful fiancé Ben at the end of December. We are planning a December 2012 wedding in Baltimore. We are happily living together in Williamsburg, Brooklyn — only three blocks away from my brother Michael Fine ‘95 and his wife Whitney Manger Fine ’95.

Maron Deering also got engaged to her awesome fiancé Sandy just four days before us. They are planning an August wedding. Should be awesome!” Laura wanted me to send her best to Kate Erwin Ward who has

been promoted to executive chef of 13.5% Wine Bar in Hampden! The menu is only getting better and changes daily. Come visit Kate, and you might just see me there too being fed like a king. Moving back up to NYC, Greg Binstock informed us that he is “still in NYC, doing the lawyer thing.

Technically, I’m helping other people become lawyers (I work in Kaplan’s Bar Review division). It’s actually quite fun and rewarding. I’m also singing in a rock band. Yes. We have a great time doing covers of hit female rock and pop songs. I even convinced Ben Bodnar to attend the last gig on the ultra-hip Lower East Side of Manhattan.

I felt extremely cool!” As he should — Greg, count me in on the next gig! Last but not at all least, Chris Franzoni says, “Nothing much has changed since the last time ... I’m still practicing labor law in D.C. and staying busy, so much so that our Christmas tree didn’t come down until mid-January. I’d really like to get a dog, but Stan and I are not home enough and don‘t think we should trap a dog in our tiny apartment. Speaking of tiny apartments, we just bought a fancy universal remote control so that we don’t have six others lying all over the coffee table (we have to reduce clutter wherever possible). In the meantime, we’ve been trying to go to every restaurant in D.C., and still have literally hundreds to try. The only problem we’ve really had since we moved down here is that the buttons keep popping off of our couch. Other than that, all is good. Oh yeah, and I’ve been seriously contemplating making the switch from Facebook to Twitter.” Chris, keep sending the updates as I’m closing with a smile on my face. And to the rest of the Class of 1999, thank you for keeping us all up to date! Ciao for now, and keep in touch, you know where to find me!

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Sammy Williamson slwillia@gmail.com Hi, Friends. Tiffani Sterrette Collins wrote in with happy news. “I am thrilled to share that last year my husband Reco Collins and I celebrated our one-year anniversary by welcoming our first child into the world: Our son Reco Cayman Collins was born October 4, 2011 in Baltimore, Thomas Bennett ‘02 was among the first people to hold him.” Congrats to Tiffani and her husband! From a different continent, Zachary Wilcock says, “After spending 51/2 years in the oilfield, I will be trading the early

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MICHELE and James Woodson ’01 with their son, Emmanuel, born on October 1, 2011.

TIFFANI STERRETTE COLLINS ’00 and her husband Reco welcomed a son, Reco Cayman

Collins, on October 4, 2011.

morning wakeup calls and last-minute chopper flights for a more civilized consulting role in Houston starting in July.”

In the interim, he will be finishing up his current assignment in the Sultanate of Brunei, and taking a six-month absence to raise funds for a charity he co-founded with a friend while on a trip to Haiti in September 2010. Relief Labs International supports NGOs currently working in disaster areas around the world. It’s been self-funded for over a year, but, Zach writes, “The time has come to raise money. I will be taking this time to do a 20,000kilometer charity drive through South America and invite you to follow the trip or even donate on our website www.4by4.org.” Since graduating from The School of Visual Arts in 2005, Vance Tucker has continued to pursue a career in filmmaking. He has worked in the camera and electrical department on a number of films and television series, including “30 Rock,” “Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist,” “Ugly Betty,” “Joshua,” “Reservation Road” and “New York, I Love You.” Original City Pictures recently commissioned him to pen a screenplay and somehow he has also found to time to “work in development at Pressman Film (“American Psycho,” “Thank You For Smoking”), as an editor at VBS TV (Vice Magazine’s video department), and as an assistant editor for HGTV’s hit show “House Hunters International.” Vance currently freelances for Rockstar

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Games, doing facial performance capture. He’s also in pre-production on a web series he wrote and is planning to direct this spring called “Caught In The Act.” You can learn more about this series at www.caughtintheactseries.com. Sima Fried Robins, in New York City, writes that she and her husband rang in 2012 at a party hosted by Craig Hollander and his wife Jeni.

Also in attendance were Ana Munoz, John Levin and his wife Emily. “And of course, we all got together to watch the Ravens/Patriots playoff game ... what heartache! In addition to typical football party food, we snacked on Baltimore delicacies such as crab cakes, Berger and Otterbein cookies and a cake that Craig decorated with the Ravens logo.” It pains me to even mention the Ravens in this update, but so it must be. Sima also helped Christina Schoppert celebrate her 30th birthday with Emily Heinlein, Katrina Rouse, Amy Rouse ’02, Ben Warfield, Laura Schoppert ‘85, Susie Schoppert ‘89 and Chrissy’s very lucky fiancé Andrew Deveraux. Lesley Wojcik sent in an update from Portland, Ore., where she’s in her third year of anesthesiology residency at Oregon Health and Science University. Her husband, Dave Richman-Raphael ’99, will finish his pediatric dentistry residency this June, and she is applying to pediatric anesthesiology fellowships this year.

She also writes, “I just got certified in SCUBA, and went to Belize in February,

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a welcome break from the Oregon gloom.” It was great to hear from Margo Murray, who just moved back to New York City in July after six years in New Mexico, where she finished her undergrad in May. She writes, “I started a graduate program in social work at Fordham in January and I am LOVING every second of it. I am lucky enough to get to see James Yolles and Laura McComb-DiPesa ‘02 here and there, and one Vance Tucker during football games this past season. Also, I’ll be an auntie in June! (Thanks to brother Nick Murray ’98).” She is also looking forward “to taking New York City by storm next summer” with Fern Anita Stalling. Joe Fleury is engaged to his wonderful girlfriend, Jenny Pontier. Congrats to them both! Here’s wishing them many years of happiness and Baltimore sports wins. I’m in my second year of ophthalmology residency in Nashville, learning lots

about eyes and country music. Andy Gabriel stopped by to visit on his way out to Los Angeles, and we see fellow Tennessean Billy Nobel from time to time. Until next time …

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Carrie Runde carrie.runde@gmail.com Happy spring, Class of 2001! Our classmates have been up to some great things lately. Emily Kleeman just returned to Colorado to continue her career in social work and hit the ski slopes. Right before leaving Baltimore, she was featured in The Baltimore Sun “Top Singles: February” feature! Prior to moving, she was putting her recently acquired master’s degree in clinical social work to good use as a housing manager at a nonprofit in Laurel, Md., where she helped provide transitional

FRIENDS SCHOOLERS at Kyle Harrison ‘01’s Playmaker Lacrosse Camp. Front row

(from left): Marrio Davis ‘09, Dakota Allis ‘17, Stephen Bogusky ’18, Ross Blumenthal ’18. Back row (from left): Will Mortimer ’17, Ted Kasper ’15, Langston Lee ’15, Cole Hudson ‘15, Teagan Cook ’15 and Kyle Harrison ’01.

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hypnosis and belief in the invisible. Lizzy writes, “I finished shooting and am taking a little break to freelance for a few months before I start the editing process. Zanzibar, is a beautiful island in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Tanzania. It’s a Muslim country with a vibrant local culture, and there are also lots of foreigners living here — it’s a popular tourist destination. I would encourage anyone who can to take a trip here!”

Lizzy’s film is still “in progress,” but if people are interested in following the project, seeing some pictures, or CHRIS WRIGHT ’02 and his wife Samantha at their August 2011 wedding in York, Maine. catching up, they can contact her via housing for families with children at Bethesda, Md. and are enjoying www.LizzyBrooks.org or find her on risk of becoming homeless. Warry renovating and setting it up! Ashley Facebook. As for your class secretary, Siebert has been hard at work on his Bastinelli is still living in San Francisco I am currently living in D.C., where I am latest technology venture called and just started a new job at San completing my medical residency at BuzzTable, a “customer relationship Francisco State University as a human GW’s Center for Integrative Medicine. I management platform that allows resources manager. Rob Tand is in his love being back on the East Coast near restaurants to maintain real-time sixth year working at Goldman Sachs, friends and family, and I encourage any mobile connection with their guests.” where he was recently promoted to a Friends classmates to get in touch He is the co-founder and CEO, and is team that designs trading and servicing with me! proud to report that the company is systems for syndicated loans, like those getting some great traction in the New used for leveraged buyouts. Rob finds York City market and was even the work in finance to be fun and challenging subject of a New York Times article last but especially difficult over the last few Camille Powe September. They are currently working years since the global economic crisis. camille.powe@gmail.com with over 20 test restaurants and will He’s almost done with his M.B.A. at soon be expanding to the Baltimore NYU Stern. He and his wife Jennifer live Chris Wright and D.C. markets. Sara Chapper is in Bellmore, N.Y., where they recently cswright@gmail.com excited to be finishing her master’s bought a house. On January 30, 2012, degree this May in school counseling the couple welcomed twins, a boy and We’re happy to report that Chris after completing a grueling 600-hour girl, Brandon and Juliana! James Wright has signed on as co-secretary. internship at a high school in Northeast Woodson and his wife Michele are Be sure to keep us updated with all D.C. She and Mike Chapper ’00 also new parents. They welcomed baby your big news! Chris moved to recently purchased their first home in Jeremiah Emmanuel Woodson into Durham, N.C. last year to start working their lives on October 1, at Duke University in neurology and is 2011. James and Michele BECCA FOGEL ERWIN ’02, Carter Erwin ’03 and now a student at the Duke University also produced their play, their son, Auden.

Fuqua School of Business, M.B.A. Class “Love’s Gonna Get You,” of 2013. He married his longtime at the Times Square Arts college sweetheart Samantha Watkins Center in New York City last August in York, Maine. Chris in February. Heather writes, “We tied the knot at the York Dow is living in Hampden Harbor Inn, which is right on the water, with her husband Matt and we could not have asked for better and their son Aaron. weather, friends and family. My brother Heather is thrilled that Tim Wright ‘04 was my best man.”

Aaron (now 4 years old!)

Many members of our class are keeping will be starting school this it local, holding it down in B’more. fall at St. Thomas Ashley Busher Phipps writes, “This Aquinas. Lizzy Brooks is January I began studying in Goucher still living in Zanzibar College’s M.A.D.Arts program. While where she’s working on studying in their limited-residency her Fulbright project program, I am able to live wherever I creating experimental choose, traveling to Maryland twice a documentary film about year for residencies. This has given me

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the opportunity to continue to live and raise my children in beautiful Clermont, Fla. just outside of Orlando. I have been fortunate enough this past year to get to get together and catch up with several Friends alumni, including Ryan Major, Becca Fogel Erwin, Dorothy Williams and Kate Bouxsein. I am looking forward to continuing to come “home” twice a year for school and to catch up with friends and family in the area. When not studying, I spend as much time enjoying living in the gorgeous weather, here and you can regularly find me relaxing at the beach, springs or lakes that are so easy to enjoy year-round here. I also spend quite a bit of my time rock climbing, biking and participating in endurance events, such as mud runs, 5Ks and half-marathons. This fall, my sister Amanda Busher Lane ‘98 and I are getting a team together for a Ragnar Relay, which is a 200-mile, 12-person team relay race.” Jordy Alger is back in Baltimore, attending medical school at the University of Maryland. Andrew Jazwiecki also lives in Baltimore, where he works for Under Armour.

Outside of work, he finds time to spend with his 6-month-old Vizsla puppy, whom we hope will make an appearance at Reunion this spring. Dorothy Williams works at Kennedy Krieger as an occupational therapist. Brian Doctrow is a graduate student in biophysics at Johns Hopkins. Last September, he gave a talk about his dissertation research at the Gibbs Conference on Biothermodynamics.

Not too far away, in Washington D.C., Katie MacLean is earning a doctorate in psychology at George Washington University. Meanwhile, in Philadelphia, Meghan Richie is a neurology resident at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. From the West Coast, we have exciting news from Meret Erni, who is living in Los Angeles and working as a recruiter at Creative Circle. Meret is getting married in August. Congrats! Producer Jason Berman’s newest film, “LUV,” premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Baltimore native Sheldon Candis, the movie was filmed in Baltimore last May and features a star-studded cast, including Common, Michael Rainey Jr., Danny Glover, Dennis Haysbert, Meagan Good, Charles S. Dutton and Michael Kenneth Williams. “LUV” had its Maryland premiere at the Maryland Film Festival on Saturday, May 5; it will be theatrically released in the fall.

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at the University of California, Berkeley.

Beth Copeland is living in Portland, Ore., working as a hydrologist.

Laura McComb-DiPesa is working as a social worker at the Center for Urban Community services in NYC. Caki Zamoiski is also living in New York City, working as a sales and marketing manager at ‘wichcraft. If you find yourself in NYC, be sure to stop by one of their many sandwich shops! Meg Baldwin will be studying landscape architecture at UVA beginning in July.

For the last six months, she has been doing a gut rehab of her blue house in Charlottesville, Va. Meg writes, “Looking for renters soon ... anyone moving to Charlottesville?” She has run into Alice Simpkins several times and they hope to get together soon. Also living in Charlottesville, Alexis Johnson Walpole writes, “I married my wonderful husband Joe back on July 16, 2011 at the American Visionary Art Museum.

Since then we’ve been enjoying married life in Charlottesville, Va., where Joe is an M.D./Ph.D. student.

We’re at about the halfway point, but still have at least four more years to go before he graduates. In the meantime, we’re keeping busy, going out with friends, working out at our local CrossFit gym, attempting to do some work on our house (with occasionally successful results), and playing with our three incredibly spoiled cats.” Mali Royer is finishing up her M.D./M.P.H. at the University of Virginia and applying for residency in family medicine. Last year was a very busy one: She completed a mini-triathlon, hiked the Grand Canyon from rim to rim and got married. She and her husband Benjamin are expecting their first child in July. Arielle Goldman is living in Richmond, Va. and working as a designer for the Chesapeake Design Group. Casey Gillece is a lawyer at Latham & Watkins in Chicago, Illinois.

Kenneth Mallott lives in Salt Lake City and works as a Chinese translator for Goldman Sachs. Maggie Flook graduated in September with a Ph.D. in chemistry from M.I.T. She recently moved to Ohio, where she works as a senior research chemist at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in Akron. We have quite a contingent of our class living in and around Boston, braving cold winters and brash Patriot fans (who are still rubbing that missed Ravens field goal in our faces).

Kat Waller writes, “I moved to Massachusetts and will graduate from Brandeis University with an M.B.A. in nonprofit management in December.

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as a home team.” Lauren Smith works at a satellite autism clinic of the Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, where she does research and educational work — and absolutely loves it! She will soon begin a teaching job at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., where she’ll be working with students with autism/Asperger’s along with co-morbid psychiatric disorders.

When she’s not working, she enjoys spending time with her family, especially her 6-year-old nephew.

Nicole Durand is living in Cambridge, Mass. and working as director of production systems at Velir Studios.

Laura Gaskins married Jay Bertovich in Cohasset, Mass. last July. They just bought a house in Marshfield, Mass., which is a small beach town south of Boston. Laura received her LIC-SW last year and is now working as a clinical supervisor at an outpatient mental health agency outside Boston. Becca Fogel Erwin and Carter Erwin ‘03 are living in Medford, Mass. and at press time in March were expecting their second child. Auden, 18 months, is excited to be a big brother! Becca is keeping busy with grad school applications, singing in an area a capella group called Mass Appeal, and raising a family. The Erwins are thrilled to have “Uncle Benson” Erwin ‘01 now living only a few minutes away, in Boston!

As for me, Camille, I graduated from Harvard Medical School last summer and am currently surviving my internal medicine residency at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston. I’m also engaged to Manny Foster, my boyfriend of six years, who is now studying at Harvard Law. We’ll be married this June in Philadelphia, and we’re excited to have Irene Donnelly as a bridesmaid in our wedding. That’s all for now. We hope to see everyone at Alumni Weekend in May! Big thanks to our 10th Reunion Chairs, Caki Zamoiski and Katie MacLean!

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JOE and Alexis Johnson Walpole ’02 on their wedding day, July 16, 2011.

therapy a little over a year ago at and now am working at Duke University Children’s Hospital in the pediatric outpatient clinic, with children who have a variety of medical conditions — and I love it! I am also recently engaged and planning my wedding for this fall in Maryland!” Liz Gilliams writes, “I’m still living in Baltimore, working on my M.D. at University of Maryland and plan to graduate May 2013. Outside of school, I’ve been lucky to spend time with Friends friends Jackie Small, Laura Buck, Ellen Kutzer and Courtney Carlson, who just returned from Bogota, Colombia. I’ve also set my craziest cycling goal this year: I’ll be participating in a 140-mile Ride for the Feast supporting Moveable Feast, on May 19-20 on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Please consider supporting me or my team, Fierce Chicks Rock, at: rideforthefeast.kintera.org/ridelizride.

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Jessica Vanderhoff jessicavanderhoff@gmail.com Ben Pittman is still living in New Orleans and working for KIPP New Orleans Schools, a network of public charter schools in the Recovery School District. Ben and the lovely Jackie Gang had quite a year, buying a new house, new car, and most importantly, celebrating the birth of their son Nico Pittman on September 19, 2011. Feel free to contact Ben if you’re heading to NOLA! Emily Shadur writes “I finished up my master’s degree in occupational

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Nick Colvin moved back to Baltimore in June 2009 after completing a sixmonth leadership development training program with Branch Bank & Trust (BB&T). He has since been working as a credit officer for BB&T’s equipment finance division in Towson. He lives in Federal Hill with Gilman alum Matt Pope, an individual who is proudly acknowledged for his involvement in the legendary “Friend’s School Birthday Raids” that took place in 2003 and 2004 during Mr. Fowler’s and Ms. Fetter’s math classes. Also in the

Baltimore area, Charlie Totten and Throop Wheeler are working at a startup managed healthcare company.

Charlie will be graduating from law school this spring. Kathleen Gorman is also currently living in Baltimore in an apartment with Lindsey Syropoulos.

Kathleen is finishing her third year at University of Maryland Medical School and looks forward to graduating soon!

Lindsey is working at Fundamental Administrative Services as a staff accountant and recently started Loyola’s M.B.A. program. Alanah Webb is finishing up her second year at UMD School of Medicine along with fellow Friends School alumni, Randall Cooper ’05 and Amy Rouse ‘02. She is also the current chapter president of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA), a student-run organization dedicated to increasing diversity within the medical profession, supporting and advocating for underrepresented minorities in medicine, and addressing the health care needs of under-served communities. This spring she’ll be playing her third season with the Della Rose’s Women’s Lacrosse Team in the Mid-Atlantic Club Lacrosse League! Ben Barchey is living in Orange County, Calif., where he works for a real estate investment company in Newport Beach and is also the head lacrosse coach at Los Alamitos High School in Seal Beach. He says he’s still dating and madly in love with his college girlfriend, but is depressed and a little angry about Lee Evans’ missed catch and Billy’s missed field goal. Ben also assured me that Colin Molloy will be the next Brad Pitt, just give it a few years. Meanwhile, in February, Daniel

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Robertson starred in an off-Broadway production of “Love’s Gonna Get You,” written by James Woodson ’01 and his wife Michelle. Samantha Cusack graduated from University of Hartford last May with her master’s in early childhood education. Shortly after graduation she moved to Charlottesville, Va., where she now works as a kindergarten teacher. Murray Fenstermaker is still working as a biologist in Louisiana on the oil spill. It pretty much takes up every waking moment of every day, he says, so he’s had little time for other pursuits. Across the pond, Alex Broekhof is at Cambridge University studying a novel type of generator for use in offshore wind turbines. Outside of the lab, he is putting his Friends School musical education to use playing his trumpet in a funk/soul band. The landscape is extremely flat there, he says, but it’s also perfect for exploring a bit of the English countryside by bicycle. If only we were all so lucky!

2005.

Tim McLaughlin timothy.mclaughlin3@gmail.com Hello from the Class of 2005, where the past year has been a very exciting one. Lauren Richie writes that she received her master’s degree in environmental management from Yale’s Forestry School in 2011. She is now working at Defenders of Wildlife in Washington, D.C., where she focuses on finding solutions to human-wildlife conflicts. Also living in D.C, Brittney Bogues says, “I recently started All In PR, a full-service sports and

entertainment PR firm specializing in digital communications. We represent an array of clients who have been featured in several top-tier publications, TV and radio features and reputable blogs.” She adds, “I’m planning to spend my 25th birthday with Sarah Ritter in San Francisco!” Sarah is working in SF for Pacific Community Ventures as a program coordinator.

Sydney Hargrove and Sarah Doran are both enjoying the Big Apple.

Sydney happily reports, “I’ve been living in New York City and, since graduating in 2009, have been working for Morgan Stanley in risk management and desk control for fixed income and equity securities.” Sydney traveled to Rio de Janeiro this summer with Ashley Gatewood ’06, where they soaked in the sun, drank caipirinhas on the beach and shopped in Ipanema.

She frequently sees fellow New York City resident Erica Lasan, who is working on her own jewelry line QueRica. Sarah Doran has been living in Chinatown and working as a freelance web designer. Farther down the East Coast in North Carolina, Dan Faulkner-Bond is putting his creative skills to work and writes, “I graduated from Warren Wilson College and am still living in Asheville, where I’m pursuing a career as an independent woodworker, filling booth spaces around Asheville, applying to arts festivals and trying to sell my handmade guitars and furniture. My etsy.com site, Endgrain Studios, will be up soon and a new shop space is in the works to be completed this spring. If any city folk need a mountain getaway, Asheville and I welcome you.” Chris Wilcox is living in Boynton Beach, Fla.

BEN PITTMAN ’03, Jackie Gang and their son Nico, born last September.

working for the video game website Gamemine.com and is “interested in where the rest of the Class of 2005 has landed.” At least one is calling Southern California home. Charles Whitman recently relocated down the California coast to San Diego from Santa Barbara to attend California Western School of Law. Elizabeth Hogsten sends her update from South Korea. “I finished my master’s in piano performance at the University of Maryland, College Park last May and am currently in Seoul, South Korea on a Fulbright Research Grant studying piano, learning Korean and looking into traditional Korean music. I plan to stay in Korea after my grant ends in June to teach piano and continue to immerse myself in the culture.” Slightly closer to the Friends School campus, Peter Whitney has recently accepted a new position as a research analyst at Brown Advisory, where he has been working since 2009. He lives on Canton Square with Robert Wheeler. The past few months have brought fantastic engagement news for at least three members of the Class of 2005. A walk down the aisle is in the near future for Julie Maylor, as well as Randall Cooper and Bunny Kline. Julie writes, “I am living in Baltimore, working for Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as a research tech for pulmonary and critical care medicine. In October I became engaged to Kieran Lade, my boyfriend of over six years whom I met at Gettysburg College. We are in the process of planning our wedding but we haven’t set a date yet.” And, Bunny shares her good news as well; “I just graduated from the University of Maryland School of Nursing with a master’s degree and will start working at the University of Maryland Medical Center Pediatric ICU in February. I also am engaged to Randall Cooper, and we will be married this spring.” The Class of 2005 wishes both couples all of the best. I moved to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in October as a “Princeton in Asia” Fellow. I work at the Institute of Finance and Economics, serve as the editor of the English language newspaper, the UB Post, and find myself missing Baltimore every morning I shuffle to work in minus-30 degree temperatures in the world’s coldest capital city.

2006.

Nicole Runde nicole.runde@gmail.com Gina Antonelli has some VERY exciting news! On October 25, 2011,

Thomas, her boyfriend since our senior year at Friends, proposed on top of Federal Hill. She said yes! They are getting married in October 2013.

Thomas and Gina moved into their very own home in Highlandtown/Canton in January. Gina’s also been working on her master’s degree in speech language pathology. She feels so passionate about aphasia that she works for a nonprofit center called SCALE (Snyder Center for Aphasia Life Enhancement) here in Baltimore, as well as a software company that creates programs to help individuals with aphasia learn to create sentences again. When she wasn’t busy planning her wedding, moving or helping sufferers of language disorder, Gina took a trip to Poland with her family and fiancé. Drew Black writes that he graduated from Bradley University with two bachelor’s degrees, in marketing and advertising. Last March, he landed a job with Wilson Sporting Goods’ team sports division, where he assists with the launch of new products at national industry trade shows. He and his girlfriend of four years, Megan, relocated to Chicago, where they get to bump elbows with fellow ‘06ers Ronald Johnson and Tim Cadet.

After graduating from DePaul University in Chicago, Tim is working for Tesla Motors, an all-electric highperformance car company. He is a product specialist at their interactive, educational retail location for premium electric vehicles. Ronald moved to Chicago from D.C. last July when he landed a position at Allstate Insurance.

He works as a project manager and data analyst in the claims division. Josh Thomas will be in Hong Kong for the next two years as senior art director at Ogilvy & Mather advertising agency!

Katie Williams is now an animal keeper at the Maryland Zoo! She takes care of reptiles, amphibians and bats in the Maryland Wilderness exhibit.

Come visit Katie at the Zoo! This past summer, Megan Roper completed her master’s degree in medieval studies at the University of Oxford, where she now works in a student support role.

She’s continuing her research — on conceptions of gender in the lives of 12th- and 13th-century French saints — on the side. Matt Koenig writes that he graduated from Macalester last May with a liberal arts degree. He is currently taking online courses to learn computer code in JavaScript, with plans to enroll at Minneapolis Technical College to further hone his skills. Our favorite Malagasy, Katie Minton, met with several Friends Upper School classes in January, where she shared her recent experiences as a Peace Corps

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fall. Perkins DeMuth consulting firm in Baltimore. I recently wrote in that he is accepted a job with Barton Cotton, a teaching English as a fundraising consulting firm. We both Foreign Language at a teach art classes for the local nonprofit private school called Art with a Heart in our free time and Foreign Language love that we are able to give back to Center “Reard” in the community — just like Friends Volgograd, Russia. Much School taught us to do! closer to home, Leigh Weitzmann writes, “I graduated from Gettysburg College in Leah Koenig May 2011 and am lkoenig@wesleyan.edu working as a meeting registrar for the Ben Schachtel in January completed Association of American an internship at Mr. Youth, a marketing Medical Colleges and advertising firm in New York City.

(AAMC) in Washington, He then left for Brisbane, Australia, D.C. I get to travel a lot, where he’ll be studying at the Univerwhich I love, and will be sity of Queensland this semester. Nick visiting Santa Fe, San Lehn is very happily studying abroad at Diego and Miami this St. Catherine’s College at the University spring. When I’m not of Oxford with a focus in sociology and traveling with the philosophy. In late January, Catherine KATIE MINTON ‘06 and Upper School Principal Steve McManus shared Peace Corps stories during AAMC, I am also workRosenberg will be entering the nun’s Katie’s visit to Friends last fall. She spoke with Upper School students about her Peace Corps ing as an assistant event experience in Madagascar, where she’s presently serving. Mr. McManus served as a Peace Corps abbey at St. Andrew’s Cathedral in volunteer in Senegal. coordinator at Weddings Scotland. Lindsay Cooper is a Spanish and Events by Bliss. Now major with a concentration in medical volunteer in Madagascar. Continue to that I’m settled into Once that’s finished I will be able to humanities. She studied abroad in follow along with her adventures at work and my new apartment I’m pitch my songs to producers here in Madrid last fall, where she fully http://katieminton.blogspot.com. looking forward to volunteering at a town. Hopefully you’ll hear Carrie immersed herself in the culture, taking local animal rescue.” Lucky for me Underwood or Miranda Lambert (or all classes in Spanish and living with a there are a few Friends friends back me!) singing my songs on the radio in Spanish host family. She continues to in Baltimore, like Holly Heller, who the future! Some of my performances play Division 1 lacrosse at Davidson recently finished her student teaching at these writers’ showcases are up on College. Teonna Woolford has Lauren Marks semester and is now certified to teach YouTube ... just search ‘Kate Whelley.’ become a youth activist for Sickle Lmarks617@gmail.com kindergarten through fifth grade. She’s On the boring side, since being a Cell awareness. She has recently been looking for a full-time teaching job but singer/songwriter doesn’t pay the appointed as the first young adult The Class of 2007 was eager to report recently served as a substitute at bills (yet), I’m working in urban sustainambassador for the Sickle Cell back about what they have been up to Friends. And last but certainly not least able development as a research Association of America, participating since (most) graduated last spring. is Roz Kreizenbeck, who moved into analyst” Doesn’t sound so boring to in awareness lunches at local schools Molly Moses was the first to write in an awesome house in Federal Hill with me, Katie! If we head out West, we and churches. that she moved to New York City this me and two of our friends. Roz is a run into Catie Ryan-Norton who in past fall and started working at Seeds senior associate at a campaign finance February started a 10-month position of Peace, a peace-building youth leadwith the Conservation ership development organization. She Corps of Minnesota and says she also joined a singing group HOLLY HELLER ’07, with Friends School first graders, served as a substitute teacher last fall.

Iowa, where she works called Khorikos and is working on her with the Youth Outdoors guitar skills. She says, “It’s great to see Program doing service Friends friends around every once in a learning projects with high while!” Hoping to move to NYC after school students and graduation is Allie Mac Jordan who serving on a trail crew. writes, “I’m currently all set to graduSome of our 2007 classate this coming May from Northeastern mates have moved University! The only downside to gradoverseas: Laura Green uating in May is that I’m graduating on moved to Israel for six the same day as our Friends Reunion!” months to live on a Not far from Molly in NYC is Quinn Kibbutz. During that time Fusting, who says she is the math she is learning Hebrew, and science editorial assistant at the working hard and applyPrinceton University Press. As we ing to the Peace Corps. head down south we run into Katie On her way to Israel she Whelley who says, “I moved to stopped to see Anne Nashville, Tenn. in August 2011 to Laterra who was living pursue a singing and songwriting and working in Paris. career. I play at many of the wellAnne will be starting her known ‘writer’s spots’ around town master’s in public health and am recording a demo of original at Emory in Atlanta this songs over the next month or two.

2009.

2007.

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Ali Smith and Nora Bucke, a boy, Amar Kanoa Bucke Smith, January 7, 2012

Jen Insley-Pruitt and Matt, a boy, Oliver Winter Insley-Pruitt, May 14, 2011

1995.

1999.

Allison Lehner Eden and Jason, a girl, Hazel, April 9, 2011

Mary Beth Stricker Sieck and Dan Sieck, a boy, Maxmillian Stricker, August 23, 2011

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Marriages

Births

1984.

1986.

Lindsay Leimbach and Randall Shiffman December 27, 2010

Charles Case and Toni O’Neil, a girl, Charlotte, September 27, 2011

1990.

1989.

Kurt Schwartz and Erika Muhl August 20, 2011

Meghan Stern Cochran and Dwight, a boy, Axel, November 2011

Sherene Strausberg Drucker and Todd, a boy, Yuri Bronson, November 9, 2011

Erin Keating and Phil Hopkins, a boy and a girl, Finnegan and Fay, February, 2011

Taylor Smith and Ana, a girl, Lucia Elizabeth, November 6, 2011

1990.

Trevor Coe and Jessica, a girl, Evelyn, February 2011

1992.

Chris Henry and Marisa Rospos September 3, 2011

1994.

Ryan Bader and Austin Scott February 11, 2011

1996.

Sarah Kremen and Jonathan Aurnou, a girl, Abigail Rae, August 3, 2011

Maddie Franklin and Kai Gross March 26, 2011

Jahan Sagafi and Kristen Law, a boy, Benjamin, October 13, 2011

Andy Dale and Lauren Lipcon July 2, 2011

1991.

Dan Munoz and Kelly Schledorf July 2, 2011 David Schummers and Laura Browne July 23, 2011

1997.

Kathleen Cusack and Chris Lyon September 10, 2011 Rida D’Agostino and Andy Qualls October 15, 2011 Hugh Peterson and Peta Hellard January 29, 2011

2002.

Christopher Wright and Samantha Watkins August 5, 2011 Alexis Johnson and Joe Walpole July 16, 2011 Laura Gaskins and Jay Bertovich July 30, 2011

Samantha Campbell-Scheben and Dean, a boy, Marlon Curtis, September 5, 2011 David Sagafi and Audra Stewart, a boy, Cameron Thomas, November 2011

1993.

Nancy Snyder Irons and John, a boy, Steele, December 29, 2011 Lisa Jacobson and Danny Karpf, a boy, Toby, November 8, 2011 Caroline Mallonee Huebner and Eric, a boy, Henry, October 27, 2011 Brooke McCrystle Mulholland and Jason, a boy and a girl, Evie and Wesley, January 13, 2012

1994.

Leila Khan and Jerome Schartman, a girl, Olivia, August 2011

2000.

Heath Shapiro and Tosca Giamatti, a boy, Val, September 9, 2011

Tiffani Sterrette Collins and Reco, a son, Reco Cayman, October 4, 2011

2001.

Rob Tand and Jennifer, a boy and a girl, Brandon and Juliana, January 30, 2012 James Woodson and Michele, a boy, Jeremiah Emmanuel, October 1, 2011

2003.

1996.

Ben Pittman and Jackie Gang, a boy, Nico, September 19, 2011

Jeannie Achuff Morrow and Ernest, a boy, Curzon, April 2011

In Memoriam

Christopher Wilson and Stephanie Hanes, a girl, Madeline Thuli Hanes, February 2011

1997.

1933.

Jeanne Bird, June 2011

1939.

Lois Williams Sutton October 7, 2011

Mather Preston and Anne a girl, Celia Anne, January 12, 2012

1945.

Marci McLachlin Morgan and Jeremy, a boy, Wesley Robert, September 28, 2011

1950.

Garrett Smith and Catie, a girl, Alexandra, February 19, 2012

1955.

Claire Cherlin Kosloff and Adam, a boy, Ellis Martin, September 28, 2011 Erik Franke and Michele, a boy, Colton Prescott, December 28, 2010

Robert Stegner November 28, 2011

Marlene McCormick, April 2011

Mary Louise Robinson Patterson January 11, 2012

1963.

Anthony Steven Frenkil July 30, 2011 Heikki Reijonen, March 1, 2012

1967.

Marika Holland Knight and Josh, a boy, Tristan Carpenter, November 8, 2011

Rebecca Leonard McWilliams and Thomas, a boy, John Tennant, January 28, 2012

Amy Kremen and Boz Wing, a boy, Luc Benjamin, October 2011

Sarah Melville Molaver and Adam, a boy, Daniel, February 12, 2012

Linda Datcher Loury September 23, 2011

Emily Leffler Schulman and Mat, a boy, Luka Nebraska, June 10, 2011

Abby Owen Perry and James, a boy, Nathaniel James, February 21, 2012

1971.

Mary Ramsey, December 2, 2011

1969.

Gregory Brown December 30, 2011

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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

1926 Jacob Epstein**

1927

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Howard O. Buffington, Jr.

1928 Alan J. Haprer**

1930 Nancy Hill Salisbury** and Arthur Salisbury**

Joseph Klein, Jr.** and Joan G. Klein Shirley Cox Seagren Richard A. Simon

1950 G. Frank Breining* Joel D. Fedder

1951 Anonymous (2)

1952 Anonymous Janet E. Mules

alumni, parents and friends who have provided for the future of the School by including Friends in their estate plans or establishing an endowed scholarship or fund.

1931

Becoming a member of the Circle of Friends is easy. You simply name the School in your will or as beneficiary of a qualified IRA or life insurance policy; make a life income gift such as a charitable gift annuity; or establish an endowed fund with a current gift of $25,000 or more.

Florence G. Oldham

Questions? Please contact Eleanor C. Landauer, Director of Planned Giving, at 410.649.3316 or elandauer@friendsbalt.org.

1937

Robin Biddison Dodd Robert L. Kriel Mary Allen Wilkes

Dorothy B. Krug Anne Homer Martin

1956

Anthony G. Rytina** and Theodora R. Rytina**

1934

1953 Anonymous Jane Whitehouse Cohen Sara R. Kellen E. Laird Mortimer Virginia A. Kelly Mortimer

1935 Ann Burgunder Greif

1954 Anne Black Evans

1936 Eleanor Hatch Brooks Marion S. Hayden**

1938 Ethel Kegan Ettinger Emma Belle Shafer Wagner** Donald H. Wilson, Jr. and Marion Wilson

1939

1955

Albion Bacon John P. David Clarinda Harriss Robert B. Heaton and Ann H. Heaton Martha F. Horner Mabel T. Miyasaki Linda Windsor Siecke

Daniel S. Greenbaum**

1957 1941 James G. Kuller Dorothy Eastwick Seaton**

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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 James B. Stott*

Robert L. Mackall W. Berkeley Mann, Jr. David A. Wilson

1990

1969

1991

M. Louise Wagner

Sherri Shubin Cohen

1970 A. P. Ramsey Crosby Lisa Mitchell Pitts and Toby Pitts Carl B. Robbins

1972 Stuart S. Hutchins Laura Ellen Muglia Judy F. Strouse

1960 Elizabeth Beatty Gable Diane Howell Mitchell Joseph C. Ramage Ann McAllister Windsor and Frank A. Windsor ‘58

1974 David R. Blumberg

1975 Robin E. Behm Katherine E. Bryant

1961 Elizabeth New Cohen Joan Yeager Cromer John L. Dashiells** David M. Evans** Sylvan J. Seidenman and Sandy Seidenman

1976 Cynthia Klein Goldberg Winston W. Hutchins

1977 Alison Nasdor Fass and Andrew Fass F. William Hearn, Jr.

1962 Mary Ellen Fischer Emily C. Holman James B. Willis

1978 Timothy R. Hearn*

1979 1963 Elizabeth Fetter 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 Garman Hampt Mary Dell Gordon Harlan Charles W. Harlan ‘63 Frederick W. Moran

1967 Alan B. Rosoff

1968 Jay E. Boyd Melinda Burdette

Norman D. Forbush Philip B. Gould Joseph Klein III and Judy Sandler Cristin Carnell Lambros

1980 Christopher Holter

1981 Anonymous David H. Alkire Eileen S. Goldgeier Katherine A. Hearn Diana Price Matthews James M. Matthews

1983 Louis T. Hanover Edwin H. Remsberg Sean R. Sweeney

1985 Evan C. Shubin Katherine G. Windsor

1988 Thora A. Johnson Wendell B. Leimbach, Jr.

1989 David Henry Jason Innes Gregory Moody

William M. Rubenstein and Sandy Rubenstein

Parents, Grandparents, Faculty, Staff and Friends Anonymous (5) Jeanette W. Achuff** Nancy H. Berger Deborah and Howard M. Berman Karen Birdsong and Carl Roth Heidi and David Blalock Patricia H. Blanchard Gerritt H. Blauvelt Karen B. Bleich Tom Brooks Anne R. Brown Sharon C. and D. Perry Brown Helen E. Bryant Lorraine Camp Dr. and Mrs. Michael R. Camp John and Sue Carnell Alice Cherbonnier 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 David M. Heath Mary E. Scott and Gary E. Heinlein Eleanor W. High** Charles O. and Ann Holland Laura Holter Mrs. C. Raymond Hutchins Grant L. Jacks and Margaret S. Jacks Sanford G. and Ann Jacobson Joyce Johnston Deloris Jones William R. Kahl**

Barbara P. Katz* Adine C. Kelly Michael and Narindar Kelly Ferne K. Kolodner Cartan B. Kraft Eleanor C. Landauer Gayle L. Latshaw Howard J. and Karen M. Loewenberg Susan P. Macfarlane John and Joyce Maclay Garvin S. and Pamela M. Maffett W. Berkley** and Eleanor Mann** Diana R. McGraw Elizabeth A. McKennon Mary Ellen McNish and David Miller Frieda M. A. and Douglas L. McWilliams Matthew Micciche John and Beverly Michel Douglas J. Miller, Sr. Sheri B. Miller-Leonetti Catherine G. Motz** Lee S. Owen C. E. and Joan Partridge Judy Witt Phares* Dorothy H. Powe Anne and Roger Powell Helen M. Reich** Stephen Rives* Marylynn and John Roberts Mary S. and Paul E. Roberts Jean B. and John V. Russo Mary Ellen and William Saterlie Carol French Schreck Esther Sharp Barbara and Gordon Shelton Dr. and Mrs. Charles Shubin Daryl J. Sidle Lisa and Alfred L. Singer Jerome Smalley Lynne Smalley William Smillie Turner B. and Judith R. Smith Phillip Snyder Paul S.** and Maragaret H. Strasburg** Deirdre Stokes Mark C. Stromdahl Gerry Mullan and William J. Sweet, Jr. Audrey Taliaferro** Joycelyn Wallace** Marilyn and David Warshawsky John G. Watt Mark and Sherri Weinman Bill White Thomas E. Wilcox *indicates a new gift in 2011-12 **deceased

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