Collection Magazine - Fall/Winter 2013

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THE MAGAZINE OF FRIENDS SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE

FALL/WINTER 2013

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Malala Yousafzai inspires project-based learning

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Cousin Eli and the Gettysburg Address

SPARKING CURIOSITY STEM initiatives challenge students to delve deeper

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Spotlight on the Arts: Photography in focus

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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 Ashley Principe Director of Development Karen Dates Dunmore ‘82 Director of Admission and Community Outreach Eleanor Landauer Associate Director of Development Heidi Blalock Editor; Director of Communications Amy Langrehr Alumni Director Meg Whiteford Annual Fund Director Mary Pat Bianchi, Heidi Bichler-Harris, Jenna Jackson, Kate Maskarinec, Lisa Pitts ‘70 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.

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 emailing alumni@friendsbalt.org or by calling 410.649.3208.

Thank you!

Printing J.H. Furst Co. Design Clipper City Media Cover photo David Stuck Photography: Rick Lippenholz, Edwin Remsberg ‘83 and members of the School community.

DEAR FRIENDS, There is a palpable buzz in the Friends School hallways as we collectively anticipate the holiday season and savor the thought of the two-week winter break. As we prepare to ring in 2014, there are many exciting developments here at Friends that I am pleased to share with you.

Upper School iPad Initiative — Beginning in the 2014-15 academic year, Friends will implement a 1:1 iPad program for all Upper School students.

This decision follows a two-year pilot program during which our teachers and administrators determined that the iPad, with its proliferation of education-related apps, will be of tremendous value to students and faculty as they seek to achieve the educational outcomes articulated in the Friends School Teaching and Learning Paradigm. Detailed information on this decision is available on our website — and be sure to read the article on page 8 of this issue to see how Upper School teacher Marylee Slosson is using iPads with remarkable results in her math classes.

GROWing Our Capacity — We are now in the second year of implementing an innovative, teacher-led professional development program. GROW, which stands for Growth and Renewal in Our Work, brings together faculty members in diverse cohorts of 10 to 12 people to work collaboratively over several months and craft a teaching “tool” to be shared with their colleagues. Find out more about this groundbreaking program at http://growwithfriends.wordpress.com/ University Partnerships and STEM — We’ve made a concerted effort in recent years to capitalize on the wealth of resources available to our students through our proximity to such outstanding colleges and universities as Johns Hopkins, UMBC, Loyola University, Towson University and Goucher College. From our initial collaboration with Duke University’s Haiti Lab, we now have 65 such projects and partnerships up and running or in the planning stages. Each of these presents opportunities for our students to engage in academic partnerships with undergraduate- and graduate-level students and professors. Meanwhile, a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) initiative in the Upper School has brought to campus world-class scientists, mathematicians and engineers to discuss their work with students in an informal setting. (See our cover story “Sparking Curiosity” on page 2.)

Expansion of Little Friends — After completing extensive renovations to the two recently added properties just south of the campus driveway, the School in December celebrated the opening of our Little Friends Child Care Center’s new home. At this site, we will serve children from 6-weeks to 4-years-old. This expansion — to a capacity of 44 children — will allow us, for the first time in the decade that we have had a child-care operation on campus, to serve a significant number of families from the greater community.

These developments are just a small sampling of the transformative experiences taking place across our campus each day. Guided by our mission and the belief that the world needs what our children can do, our School continues to blend a lively spirit of ongoing innovation with the timeless aspects we derive from our Quaker heritage.

Thank you for all that you do to make these accomplishments possible.

Best wishes,

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ON THE COVER

Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions’ Dr. Peter Calabresi, a Friends parent, works with seniors during a recent STEM seminar.

Matthew Micciche Head of School

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Contents

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Sparking Curiosity An explosion of seminars, symposia and workshops led by experts in business and STEM-related fields is exposing students to new areas of interest

The Malala Effect A young Pakistani girl’s tale of triumph over tragedy has touched our hearts and spurred one teacher’s journey into global project-based learning

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DEVELOPMENT NEWS Board of Trustees Chair Bill White “On Stewardship;” Meet our new Development Director, Ashley Principe; Major Donor Reception; 2013-2014 Annual Fund

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SPOTLIGHT ON THE ARTS:

Photography in Focus Once completed, Friends’ new performing and visual arts center will expand our Upper School photography program

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ALUMNI NEWS Alumni Weekend 2013 highlights including this year’s Alumni Award recipients: Rob Berman ’88 and Norman Forbush ’78

Me oyes? Can you hear me now?

Spanish teacher Cristina Saenz de Tejada and her students use Skype technology to transcend boundaries

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Cousin Eli and the Gettysburg Address Alumnus and history buff James Bigwood ’08 shares this remarkable true story as told

by Class of 1912 alumnus Philip Myers

SCHOOL NEWS New Faces at Friends; Diversity Notes; Scarlet & Gray Day highlights

Home Movies Something remarkable occurs when teachers tape their lectures for evening online viewing and use class time for “homework”

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FLOWER PEOPLE Butterbee Farm’s Laura Beth Resnick ’07 and Irene Donnelly ’02 “grow happiness” in Baltimore’s urban flower farms

COMMENCEMENT Highlights from the June 11 ceremony, including Emmy Award-winning director Jason Winer ’90’s keynote address, “Confessions of an Overachiever”

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SPARKING Curiosity

AN EXPLOSION OF SEMINARS, SYMPOSIA AND WORKSHOPS LED BY EXPERTS IN BUSINESS AND STEM-RELATED FIELDS IS EXPOSING STUDENTS TO NEW AREAS OF INTEREST

UPPER SCHOOL students this fall are delving deeper into new areas of interest through a series of semester-long workshops, seminars and symposia presented by thought-leaders in the fields of medicine, technology and business. The guest lecturers represent a wide range of professional experiences and educational backgrounds, but they share one thing in common: Nearly all are Friends School parents.

“Baltimore is home to some of the world’s leading medical, research and higher-education institutions,” says Steve McManus, Upper School Principal. “We have many Friends parents who are employed by these institutions and are excited to share with our students their work and their stories about how they became inspired to follow these professional paths.”

Among the offerings is a Business Workshop for students in grades 9 through 12 led by Dr. David Grossman, a professor of international business and marketing at Goucher College. There are also two STEM-related opportunities: an informal morning lecture series open to all students and a separate seminar series that is targeted to seniors who are interested in the biological and medical sciences. Both series feature a veritable who’s who of STEM professionals who live and work in Baltimore.

STEM Seminar Series The brainchild of Upper School parent Dr. Katharine Whartenby, a cancer immunology research scientist at Johns Hopkins University, the STEM seminar series is designed to introduce Friends seniors to a variety of research topics in biology and medical science. “Our long-term goal is to help facilitate internships and summer fellowships for students who may wish to work in a laboratory setting,” says Principal McManus, who was approached

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with the idea by Dr. Whartenby last summer.

“What Katie [Whartenby] and others have told us is that the more experience you bring to a potential principal investigator at a lab, the more interesting the work they’ll be able to give you,” he says. “This program is a good way to build that.”

Whartenby used her Johns Hopkins and Friends School connections to plan the seminar series, and generously volunteered her services for two of the lectures this fall — on immunity and transgenic model systems.

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Students also heard from Dr. Bill Matsui (stem cells, Johns Hopkins University); Dr. Peter Calabresi (neuroanatomy, Johns Hopkins University), Whartenby’s husband; Dr. Robert Stevens (behavioral science, Johns Hopkins University); and Dr. Beth Schwartz (pathology, Greater Baltimore Pathology Associates).

Student feedback has been positive: “I loved his informal lecturing style,” wrote one senior of Matsui’s October 1 stem cell presentation, adding, “It allowed for

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questions and digressions but gave us a good background on the subject.”

Although no grades are given, students apply to be part of the program, and once accepted, they are expected to attend all six seminars. Upon completing the series, the seniors will be encouraged to identify a particular area of interest and pursue the topic as an independent study in the spring.

Such investigations could potentially lead to a senior work project at a lab where the subject is studied in greater depth. (Friends seniors spend the month of May engaged in unpaid internships in a variety of work settings, including business, nonprofit, education and health care.)

STEM Speaker Series Now in its second year, the STEM speaker series welcomes scientists and researchers from the Friends and local communities to the Upper School to present their work and discuss their fields of expertise. Presentations take place once per 10-day cycle from 8 a.m. to 8:50 a.m., and students may pick and choose the lectures they would like to hear, according to Upper School math teacher Sujata Ganpule, program coordinator.

“We recognized that we have many students who are interested in STEM fields and a lot of parents who work in those fields,” she says. “The speaker series seemed like a good way to expose students to different professions and for parents and community members to share their knowledge and backgrounds with the kids.”

With Upper School colleagues Dr. Bill Hilgartner, Science Department Chair Shelly Watts and Academic Dean Christine Koniezhny, Ganpule has lined up an impressive array of STEM professionals to speak with students this year. Among them are Johns Hopkins University professor Dr. Grace Brush, a pioneer in estuarine paleoecology, Dr. David Valle, director of the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and Max Mutchler, who heads the Research and Instrument Analysis branch of the Space Telescope Science Institute.

Friends hosted seven speakers in 2012-13, including Dr. Steven Leach (zebrafish research/neurology, Johns Hopkins University); Dr. Tim Shields (malaria and Geographic Information System [GIS], Johns Hopkins School of Public Health); Dr. Bill Hilgartner (paleoecology and stream restoration, Johns Hopkins University and Friends teacher);

a field trip to the Johns Hopkins University Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR), which was arranged by Anita Sampath, LCSR’s senior academic program coordinator. Says Ganpule, “The students especially enjoyed being able to play around with a DaVinci surgical robot.” With the exception of Girma, all of the speakers

“We recognized that we have many students who are interested in STEM fields and a lot of parents who work in those fields.” —Sujata Ganpule, Upper School math teacher Dr. Steve Rokita (biochemistry, Johns Hopkins University); Deb Girma, Ph.D. candidate (HIV research, UMBC); Dr. Linda Lewin (pediatrician/educational researcher, University of Maryland); and Dr. Reed Riley ’80 (cardiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions). Additionally, the speaker series included two hands-on electronics workshops led by Dr. Yanko Kranov, a technical assistant at Loyola University’s Department of Engineering, and

from the 2012-13 series were Friends parents or parents of alumni.

Ganpule and her Upper School colleagues are excited about the possibilities the STEM series hold for Friends students and members of the School community.

“We are still developing and shaping the programs based on the needs and desires of students, and the potential of our community members to get involved,” she says. “We hope to add even more field trips in the

Dr. Katharine Whartenby leads students through a hands-on activity on transgenic model systems.

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Left: Seniors Zari, Abby and Isabel view an agarose gel containing DNA. Above: Johns Hopkins University professor Dr. Grace Brush, pictured here with Upper School students and science teacher Dr. Bill Hilgartner, was among the featured speakers in the fall STEM Lecture Series.

future, especially to local universities, so that students can tour, shadow and possibly work in a lab setting.” She welcomes ideas from the community regarding future speakers, lab visits and field trips. For more information or to become involved, contact her at sganpule@friendsbalt.org.

Business Workshops appeal to students’ diverse interests Dr. David Grossman has spent his career in business, finance and marketing, serving as a manager and a consultant across a range of industries, including hospitality, manufacturing, distribution and nonprofit organizations. Now the Friends Lower School parent is sharing that expertise with

our Upper Schoolers through a series of business workshops he’s presenting on such topics as economics, finance and sports management.

Grossman is a professor of international business and marketing at Goucher College, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate-level courses. But it is his roots in Quaker, not higher, education that inspired the workshop series. An alumnus of Friends Select School in Philadelphia, Grossman says his college preparatory program did not include a business education component.

In hindsight, he wished it had. “Business courses have traditionally been limited to students enrolled in business programs,” he explains. “Now we are advising students in

pre-med, pre-law, arts and other programs to take a course or two in business. They’ll need these skills if they plan to run their own practice.”

Grossman approached Upper School Principal Steve McManus last spring, offering to speak with Upper Schoolers about business management and its various branches. “Here’s a university professor who knows the field and brings that unique background as a graduate of a Quaker school,” he recalls. The two men met over the summer and agreed on a workshop format. The 12 sessions take place once per 10-day cycle from 8 to 8:50 a.m. “Our goal is to give the kids a broad cross-section of what we mean when we talk about ‘business,’” says

William Penn Fellows explore careers in public policy and social justice THE UPPER SCHOOL THIS FALL

also launched William

Penn Fellows (WPF), a new program that provides students who have demonstrated a commitment to and investment in direct service and social justice with enriched service experiences. Twelve students,

and learned more about how public policy and social justice work together,” says Michael Paulson, Upper School English teacher, who is one of three WPF advisers. (Amy Schmaljohn and Becky Boynton are the other two.) While in the nation’s capital, the group stayed at the

including four seniors, six juniors and two sophomores, were selected to the WPF inaugural class. On November 8, the group traveled to Washington, D.C., for a two-day retreat that included meetings with representatives from Doctors for America, a non-partisan group committed to increasing Americans’ access to affordable, high-quality

“Meeting these people who have devoted their lives to making the world a more just place … it felt like a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”

— A.J. Pruitt ’14

health care. The Friends contingent also visited Friends Committee on National Legislation, a non-partisan Quaker-based lobby, where they spoke with staffers about the lobbying process and the educational and professional routes that led them to social justice work. “The students asked them questions about their day-to-day responsibilities,

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Washington Seminar Center, a multifaith retreat space on Capitol Hill, and participated in a service project, working with members of the Columbia Heights community to install energy-efficient, cost-reducing light bulbs in a church. The Friends contingent concluded its retreat at

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Upper School Means Business

WORKSHOP AREAS OF INTEREST

Dr. David Grossman leads a discussion on the “marketing mix.”

McManus. Student response has been enthusiastic: More than 60 Upper Schoolers have signed up for one or more of the sessions. Caroline Deitch ’16 participated in the October 23 workshop, in which

For McManus the business workshops are yet one more example of how the School is providing a foundational academic experience while also giving students the freedom to explore their passions. “We have students

“A lot of them are going to go out into the world and become CEOs, COOs, CFOs …”

—Steve McManus, Upper School Principal

Grossman challenged students to design a candy bar based on the 4Ps of the marketing mix: product, place, price, promotion. Says Deitch, “Coming up with new and innovative ideas is much harder than it seems.”

here who want to go into business,” he says.

“A lot of them are going to go out into the world and become CEOs, COOs, CFOs …

We want to get them out there, wrestling with this stuff.” FS

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Marketing: Marketing Mix 4Ps — Candy Bar Design

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Leadership and Organizational Behavior: Collaboration — The Marshmallow Challenge

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Negotiation: Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement (BATNA) — The $2 Win-Lose Game

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Economics: Reacting to cycles — McDonald’s Manager

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Strategic Management: Early Bird vs. Second Mouse

International Business: Standardization vs. Globalization — Standardized Products

Sport Management/Public Relations: Joe Flacco Post-Game Conference

Economics: Specialization — Building Widgets Finance: Personal Finance Accounting: Taxes Entrepreneurship: Ethical Decisions — You’re the Boss Human Resources

the Newseum, where they connected with Friends alumnus and Newseum producer Frank Bond ’69 and toured the interactive museum’s exhibit on the prominent 1960s civil rights group, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). “Meeting these people who have devoted their lives to making the world a more just place … it felt like a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” says A.J. Pruitt ’14. “I have to be honest and say that I have been frustrated with the direction that our country and culture have been heading, and I think that has worn me down as I continue to become more aware of the issues. From this opportunity I have become refreshed and have been granted an enhanced belief in what I want to do with my life, and how, no matter the size, I can affect the world for a positive change.”

The Upper School this fall inaugurated the William Penn Fellows, a program for students who have demonstrated a commitment to and investment in direct service and social justice. From left, Julia ’14, A.J. ‘14, Maria ’15, Andrew ’14, Alex ’16, Alexis ’14, Dalia ’15, Dylan ’15, Yasi ’15, Troi ’15 and Connor ’16.

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[THE MALALA EFFECT] FIFTH GRADE TEACHER Heidi Hutchison recalls the day she became a true believer in project-based learning.

“It was on October 9 [2012],” she says.

“I took part in this education chat on Twitter and people kept tweeting out, ‘How can we help Malala?’… I asked ‘Who’s Malala?’”

It was then she learned about Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who, in 2009 at the age of 11, became an international symbol of courage when she spoke out against the Taliban’s decree banning girls from attending school.

On that October afternoon, the Twitter feeds were abuzz with news that a gunman had shot and critically injured the teen on her way home from school.

Activists and educators on the popular social media channel immediately began tweeting in Malala’s behalf, brainstorming ways to share her story and raise awareness about violence against women and girls. Reading the impassioned posts sent by colleagues from all over the world, Hutchison responded with a tweet of her own: “I’m in.”

Malala Yousafzai looks on during a Reception for Youth, Education and the Commonwealth at Buckingham Palace in London on October 18, 2013.

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“I realized it was a violent situation, and that this is fourth grade, but I thought we could do something,” she says. She saw the social justice campaign as an opportunity to engage her class in project based-learning and to “try something different with my teaching.” Unlike traditional classroom settings, in which the teacher leads the learning process by presenting students with information that they then memorize, project-based learning engages students in a more active form of learning through problem-solving. The process begins with a driving question, presented by the teacher, that captures the purpose of the project and focuses the students’ inquiry.

Hutchison has been exploring projectbased learning for the past few years and is passionate about the pedagogy. “I really believe that as 21st-century educators, to engage students and make them problemsolvers, we don’t need to feed them all this content,” she says. “I have to teach them how to ask the right questions … how to take a problem and become more self-directed; because the information is now at your fingertips. When you ask the right question it leads you down a path; your job then is to evaluate and synthesize that information and move on to the next piece.”

For the Malala project, Hutchison’s driving question to her students was admittedly a big one: How can we change cultural perspectives in order to support the education of girls? Before they could answer the question, Hutchinson’s students had to learn what cultural perspectives are. “So I taught a whole unit on that,” she says. As she does with much of her teaching and learning, Hutchison posted her classroom’s Malala project on her blog, Communicate Connect Support (http://communicateconnect support.com/). Here’s when things got really interesting.

Michael Graffin, a co-founder of the Global Classrooms Project, read Hutchison’s post and asked her if he could link it to the Global Classroom website so that others who are interested in learning about Malala might join in. She agreed, thinking not much would happen … “and then all of these classrooms started participating!” she says. Among the

examples she cites is a particular classroom in Japan, where “girls are never asked their opinion and teachers are never even allowed to deviate from their regular curriculum,” she says.

“This teacher got special permission to teach these girls about what happened to Malala and asked them what they thought about it and how they could change cultural perspectives.”

In another classroom, in Honduras, students made a video about Malala and

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university level come here to learn more about project based learning.” Additionally, Global Classrooms Project’s Michael Graffin asked her to present at the Global Education Conference, a free, week-long online event that took place November 18 through 22, 2013. This fall she is also launching a project-based learning unit based on Katherine Applegate’s 2013 Newberry Award-winning children book, “The One and

I REMEMBER ONE BOY SAID, ‘IT’S A LOT HARDER THAN THE NORMAL WAY WHEN YOU JUST GIVE US STUFF AND WE HAVE TO LEARN IT. THIS WAY WE HAVE TO FORM OUR OWN QUESTIONS AND FIND OUT THE ANSWERS ON OUR OWN. BUT IT’S A LOT MORE FUN.’ — HEIDI HUTCHISON, FIFTH GRADE TEACHER

posted it to the site. Closer to home, a high school teacher in North Carolina used Malala’s story as the basis for a poetry unit on sonnets and posted her students’ work on the Global Classrooms site.

Hutchison’s students demonstrated their grasp of the complex issues facing Malala through a myriad of hands-on projects, from public service announcements and brochures to fundraising walks. Recalling a conversation with the children last spring, as the unit was winding down, Hutchison asked the class: What do you think of this way of learning? She says, “I remember one boy, Joseph Badros, said, ‘It’s a lot harder than the normal way when you just give us stuff and we have to learn it. This way we have to form our own questions and find out the answers on our own. But it’s a lot more fun.’

I thought ‘Yes!’ That’s exactly what I wanted to hear.”

Since wrapping-up the Malala project last May, Hutchison has immersed herself in even more project-based learning. On October 5, she held a Project Based Learning Swap Meet, PLSM Bmore 13, on the Friends School campus. “I tweeted out and got help and participants,” she says. “We had educators ranging from kindergarten through

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Only Ivan,” about a gorilla that is taken from the jungle and raised in a shopping mall.

“Our driving question for that project is: Do we have the right to capture and cage animals?” says Hutchison, adding, “Again, it’s a big question for 10-year-olds.” But one she is excited for her students to tackle. FS

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Home M vies IT’S A TUESDAY night in November and Marylee Slosson’s Calculus I students are holed up at home … watching YouTube! It’s not what you think: The seniors are not slacking off or viewing “Saturday Night Live” clips (at least not until they complete their assignments). They are watching a video, created by Slosson, that covers concepts and material the students will use to problemsolve during calculus class the next day.

Welcome to the flipped classroom, where lectures take place at night, in the comfort of the student’s own home, and the actual pencil-to-paper calculations of “homework” are done at school. Slosson began taping her math lessons last year as part of an iPad pilot program. “The Upper School asked faculty to submit proposals on how they would use the machines in their classrooms,” she says. Her proposal to teach a flipped geometry unit was accepted, and she has since successfully adopted the model to her calculus teaching as well.

“Students want to be doing something in the classroom,” says Slosson. “They don’t want to be bored listening to a lecture.”

The flipped classroom method permits, even

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Math teacher Marylee Slosson guides Griffin ‘14 through a calculus problem.

“A math teacher presented the idea, and it intrigued me,” she says. She continued researching the subject, viewing the popular education nonprofit Khan Academy videos online and attending conferences dedicated to training faculty in flipped learning. One such conference in Chicago was particularly

“The kids are so much more engaged now, and it changes my classroom role from that of performer to coach.” — Marylee Slosson, Upper School math teacher encourages, students to get up from their seats and move around; this facilitates collaboration, enabling students to form natural connections with one another while also supporting those who may have difficulty focusing in class. “It’s actually amazing,” Slosson adds. “The kids are so much more engaged now, and it changes my classroom role from that of performer to coach. It also gives me a much better idea of what they know, and what they’re still struggling with.”

Slosson first learned about flipped learning at a conference several years ago.

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illuminating. “Students talked about their experiences in flipped classrooms,” says Slosson. “It was overwhelmingly positive.”

Slosson’s math students have been equally enthusiastic. “I wish I’d been introduced to this format before senior year,” says Shane Rabinowitz. Prior to Slosson’s class, the Friends senior says he was unwittingly creating his own flipped model, searching for helpful how-to videos on YouTube.

“Now my teacher does it herself,” he says.

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Slosson believes flipped learning “helps level the playing field” for all kinds of learners. “Students do not need expensive private tutors or parental support to be successful using this model,” she says. “If you are a slow processor, you can watch the video repeatedly until you are comfortable with the concepts.” Conversely, she notes, students who are more advanced can use class time to work on more complex problems.

Of course, sometimes even multiple viewings can leave students stumped. Not a problem, says Rabinowitz: “Calculus is a challenging subject, so I will always have questions about the material. Fortunately, we have the entire class period to clarify these and get one-on-one help from the teacher.” FS

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Cousin Eli and the Gettysburg Address

By Ja me s G ol ds borough Bi gwood ‘08

“Thursday, November 19, 1908: On this day, 105 years ago, every student in the Upper School was handed a copy of the Gettysburg Address with the following requirement — memorize it.”

To hear Philip Myers, Class of 1912, talk about it years later, the significance of the date had not yet resonated with the student body.

In those days, the Friends School roll was a modest 225 pupils. Girls outnumbered boys in every class, and the campus consisted of a Victorian gray-stone building, with an adjoining row house, at the corner of Park Place and Laurens Street in Bolton Hill.

After winter break and the New Year had subsided, students returned to class and learned that there would be a competition to determine the “most effective orator” among the boys of the Upper School. As Myers would recall, “The girls, it seems, were not considered fit for oratorical competition, but at least their intellectual horizons must have been expanded by their intimate contact with classical composition.”

The initial contest was whittled down to three contestants, and the final round of the competition was to take place on February 12, 1909 — the centennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth.

By sheer happenstance, this date coincided with a Friday, the day on which all of the Upper School students met for an assembly in the lecture room behind the Meetinghouse.

Felix Morley ‘11 (who became president of Haverford College) and Lawson Wilkins ‘10 (who became a leading Baltimore City pediatrician) both gave their interpretations of Lincoln’s famous address. But it was the third and final rendition that won the contest, by a unanimous choice — senior Julian Ducker Sears ‘09 (who later became a well-respected member of the U.S. Geological Survey). His slow and clear delivery displayed a mastery of oratorical skill.

While all of this was happening, the students noticed that something was amiss.

Eli Lamb was sitting in the room. This was a curious discovery, for Lamb, or ‘Cousin Eli’ as the students called him, was the principal of the intermediate department — grades 5 through 8 — and was not ordinarily present at high school assemblies.

Lamb, who had gone into semiretirement a decade before, had long been a fixture at Friends School. He was always immaculately dressed — wing-tip collar shirt, bow tie, waistcoat and a black sack suit (with characteristic smudged chalk dust here and there on the coat) — his was an unwavering image of dignity and quiet elegance. As the principal, or School head as the position is now called, from 1864 through 1899, he was arguably

the one most responsible for turning Friends into the institution that it is today. When he first started at Friends, it was merely a grammar school attached to the back of the Meetinghouse on Lombard Street. Through his efforts, the Education Committee of the Monthly Meeting allowed him to open an Upper School division for the 1865–66 school year, thus creating Baltimore’s first private high school.

It was just as the students were idly wondering at his presence that the reserved Cousin Eli rose to speak. Standing there, before a hushed lecture room full of students, he told them of Abraham Lincoln’s boyhood,

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his tenure in New Salem, his political ascent and eventually, of his time in the White House.

While this stuff seemed like it had happened just yesterday to Lamb, for the average Friends School student of 1909, Abraham Lincoln and the 1860s both were relegated to the textbooks. These students had been born in the early-to-mid 1890s; they had grown up in the age of the telephone, the electric light and even the automobile.

As Cousin Eli spoke of the Civil War, he did so with great feeling in his voice. The students could sense that with each carefully chosen word, their former teacher was reliving the agony of the conflict.

As a Quaker, and a conscientious objector, Lamb did not take up arms in the war. But he did feel it was his patriotic duty to lend a helping hand. In the autumn of 1863, he volunteered for a short time as a hospital

corpsman in the United States Sanitary Commission — a private relief organization (and precursor to the American Red Cross) that was instrumental in taking care of sick and wounded soldiers.

About this time, during his talk, the students in the lecture room finally began to understand why Lamb had attended the assembly and why they had been tasked with memorizing Lincoln’s words in the first place.

For on that 19th of November in 1863, Cousin Eli had been present at the dedication of Gettysburg’s National Cemetery. And while it was unclear what his duties had been, as a member of the Sanitary Commission, amazingly, he found himself posted at the base of the wooden speaking platform.

There, on an unseasonably warm, sunny day, surrounded by a crowd of thousands, Lamb heard the Honorable Edward Everett’s two-plus-hour-long philippic. The Massachusetts politician launched his flowing phrases out into the ether, his voice carrying so far that even the people at the farthest reaches of the crowd could understand his eloquence. Everett was the premier orator of the time, and it was he, believe it or not, who was supposed to be the program’s featured speaker. But the speech that followed Everett’s is the one that has endured in the history books and the one that sparked the imaginations of the Friends students inside the Park Avenue lecture room on February 12, 1909.

As Cousin Eli stood before that school assembly, it was like he was back at the foot of the speaking platform, in Gettysburg, nearly 50 years before.

Amid the restless crowd, suddenly Lamb heard the President’s voice coming from over his head. Abraham Lincoln delivered the most famous speech in American history, right over Lamb’s shoulder; a speech, it seemed, that was over almost before it had even started. Afterward, there was no applause. It was more of a sigh — a moan that passed through the crowd. And with that, the moment had passed. The schoolmaster dabbed his eyes with his handkerchief, gave a shy smile and sat back down in his seat.

It was then that the spellbound students realized what they had just witnessed.

Lamb was standing so close to President Lincoln that day that he could have practically touched him. And, it was through his recollections that Friends School students were able to touch history. FS

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¿Me oyes? Can you hear me now? ¿ME OYES? Can you hear me now?

Verizon’s trademark question is an oft-repeated phrase in Spanish teacher Cristina Saenz de Tejada’s classroom, as she and her students use Skype technology to transcend the boundaries of Upper School Room 118. A native of Barcelona, Spain, Saenz de Tejada regularly uses Skype to communicate with friends and family back home. “I’m always looking for native speakers who are willing to talk to our students,” she says.

Such networking led her last year to Carlos Moreno Pérez, an associate professor in the Department of Psychology, Education and Sports at Universidad BlanquernaRamón Llull in Barcelona. Professor Moreno agreed to “meet” with Saenz de Tejada’s Spanish 5 students for a discussion on Spain’s continued economic crisis. In the days leading up to their meeting, the students read about and listened to authentic sources addressing the socioeconomic impact of the crisis, a process that rendered more questions than answers. To make the most of their Skype session with Moreno, the class collaborated on a list of topics they wanted

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him to address: How do people cope? How are families affected by unemployment? What are some of the measures that the Spanish government is taking to address the crisis?

Should Spain abandon the Euro zone?

“Hearing Moreno’s perspective was meaningful for the students, not only because they learned about the issue from a primary source, but also because the experience affirmed their linguistic abilities … on both

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the question ‘Do you hear me now?’ is more about understanding the language differences than it is about the unavoidable technology issues that tend to arise during these sessions.”

A unit on relationships, also in Spanish 3, included a serendipitous Skype conversation

“Hearing Professor Moreno’s perspective was meaningful for the students, not only because they learned about the issue from a primary source, but also because the experience affirmed their linguistic abilities.”

—Cristina Saenz de Tejada, Upper School Spanish teacher the interpersonal and interpretive levels,” she says.

Since that time, Saenz de Tejada has plumbed her connections to bring more Skype guest speakers to her classes. “It’s a wonderful communication tool,” she says of the software application. Students in her Spanish 3 class chatted with their peers from a school in Argentina. “They used both their native and target languages to test their abilities,” says Saenz de Tejada. “In this way,

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with Saenz de Tejada’s brother Paco, who lives in Barcelona. “He saw that I was on Skype and so he reached out,” she says. As the face of his teacher’s sibling appeared on the screen, sophomore Alex Kaplan used the opportunity to get the scoop on his teacher: “Tell us about your sister? How is your relationship with her?”

“It was very funny,” says Saenz de Tejada. FS

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PRESENTING THE

Class of 2013 1. From left, Cole Snyder, Rohan Makle, Kristen Merritt and Maggie Ireland

2. From left, Molly Farrugia, Cedric Charlier and Samantha Enokian

3. This year’s class included five legacy graduates — students whose parents and/or grandparents attended Friends. From left, Sarah Lambros and her mother Cristin Carnell Lambros ‘79; Anna Mortimer, her mother Amy D’Aiutolo Mortimer ’87 and grandfather Henry “Hap” Mortimer ‘58; Emma Remsberg and her father Edwin Remsberg ’83; Nico Binford and his mother Dahira Lièvano-Binford ’81; and Kathleen Butler and her mother Jean Young Butler ’81.

4. The Class of 2013 had 107 graduates, 48 girls and 59 boys.

5. Jake Bass and Morgan Klausner proceed to the dais.

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To see the complete list, including the number of students accepted at each school and the number who are attending a school, go to friendsbalt.org/upper/collegecounseling.

To see more photographs from the June 11 Commencement, as well as from Final Assembly, go to Friends’ Flickr photostream at Flickr.com/friendsbalt.

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“It’s time to embrace the chaos th Jason Winer, the Emmy Award-winning director of ABC-TV’s “Modern Family,” presented the 2013 Commencement address on June 11, 2013. His often hilarious remarks included stories from his Friends School days. Following are excerpts from that speech.

You have gotten these kids up for school for 15 years now.

Packed lunches and monitored bed times. Essentially creating a structure within which your kids could thrive. All to arrive at this special day and finally hear me say these words: Kids, it’s time to rebel against the structure that your parents and teachers have so lovingly provided. It’s time to break rules and question conventions; it’s time to embrace the chaos that is life in the real world. That is what I want to talk to you about today: order vs. chaos. Your entire lives up to this point have been lived on a schedule. When you head off to college you’ll have a schedule there too, but it is going to be up to you to construct it. And I’d like you to view that as practice for the complete chaos of adult life, where the challenge is truly to make something out of nothing.

Let’s talk about Friends School for a second. I loved my time here. I have a brain and personality that thrives within structure. Friends provided that in so many amazing ways. I loved knowing that Collection was every morning at the same time. And I marveled at the ritual of Meeting for Worship.

Meeting for Worship is a great example of order vs. chaos.

The time of the Meeting is prescribed; the duration of the Meeting is predetermined. However, during those 20 minutes there is no format. There is no leader. Nothing must be said, and nothing needs to be accomplished. It took me awhile to be

I was desperate for it. Grades are, of course, a form of structure, and I craved it. So Friends School it was.

Cut to junior year and the most notoriously difficult class at Friends: advanced chemistry with Mr. Drews. I talked to some of the seniors about this yesterday. Apparently this class, even as recently as this past year, has been challenging the emotional well-being of Friends School students. The

“This is when it is important to forget about your grade point average and challenge yourself to actually learn things that you are interested in.”

— JASON WINER, THE EMMY AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR

comfortable with this lack of structure. I didn’t stand up and speak until my very last meeting. When I finally did, as I think back on it now, what I said was interesting to me … but more on that in a minute.

I didn’t come to Friends School until ninth grade. Full disclosure: It came down to a decision between Friends and Park. I visited both schools. And you know why I chose Friends? Because Park freaked me out. There are no grades!

My thinking was … if there were no grades how could anyone quantify my awesomeness? I needed the validation of a 4.0;

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problem for me, in particular, was chemistry’s mathematical nature. It just did not make sense to my creative brain. But I needed an A. I would not accept less. As a result, I was staying up until 4 in the morning, drinking Pepsi and walking around like a zombie. That is until one day, my parents thankfully said “enough.” We sat down with my guidance counselor who said, “Guess what? You’re done with chemistry. You’re going to have a free period instead.” I was furious. What am I going to do with a free period? He pointed out that I had an excellent grade point average, I was hosting a TV talk show on the side,

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os that is life in the real world” and I have everything I needed to get into college, so I did not need to take chemistry.

Next, I went to therapy. What therapy ended up being about for me, as a 16-year-old, was why I put so much pressure on myself. It was a really good question to ask. I still don’t exactly know the answer. I feel like the process of being forced to take a free period and going to therapy taught me more than I ever could have learned in advanced chemistry. Apologies to Mr. Drews.

I had to confront life with a lack of structure.

What do you do when you finally have time to yourself? What are you interested in? Not because you were assigned something to work on or because you need to do it for your class, but because it’s what you want to learn about.

The great author Gabriel Garcia Marquez once wrote, “Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mother’s give birth to them, but … life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.” I think that’s what those free periods were really about for me, and that’s what the next four years are really about for you guys.

Most colleges do a great job subtly managing the transition from your structured life thus far to the entrepreneurial nature of the world. You will start off having certain requirements to meet and certain classes to take. And it will feel a little bit like high school. But then you will get to choose your own major and your own classes. This is when it is important to forget about your grade point average and challenge yourself to actually learn things that you are interested in. Embrace this lack of structure. I did. In fact, I became a little bit of a rebel, as I became kind of an expert at knowing the rules … and then manipulating them to my benefit. I’ll give you one example from college and one from life in Hollywood.

I declared a second major I had no intention of finishing …

Creating a little bit of chaos. Steve Jobs [said], “It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.” For me, it’s fun to be a pirate while in the Navy.

Why have I succeeded in the television business in particular? It’s all about structure and rules. An episode of a television comedy has to be 21 minutes and 30 seconds exactly, made up of three regimented acts, plus a 30-second tag. Every year the buying season for comedies goes from August to December, pilot season from January to April, upfronts in May, staffing in June, writing over the summer and

production in the fall. Then it all starts over again. Structure!

I love it. But guess what? Inside of that structure … absolute chaos. It’s my job to build systems, put together writing staffs, production crews and make order out of the chaos that is Hollywood egos and network notes. And that insanity of creativity and comedy still has to arrive on a deadline and fit inside of 21 minutes and 30 seconds.

Preparing for this speech has made me think a lot about my days at Friends, and particularly the structure it provided me, a rule-abiding overachiever who was hungry for it. It also got me thinking about that last Meeting for Worship, when I was finally moved by the spirit, as we say, to share something. At the time I didn’t know why I told the story I told, but this was it: The story was about my brother and me in a Chinese restaurant, Golden Dragon, on Liberty Road. My brother, who was always more of a troublemaker than me, had been hitting me with relentless but subtly delivered spitballs from his straw. My parents always had a laissez faire attitude to such skirmishes. They had a policy of non-intervention. I was frustrated with this; I wanted them to scold my brother. I wanted structure. When they didn’t provide it, I prepared a big spoonful of sticky rice as a mode of retaliation. I threatened to flick it at him. At this point everybody perked up, but nobody said don’t do it. They all seemed to stare at me with curiosity as I held that catapult of rice at the ready. The thought that I would actually flick it was so far from my ruleabiding character that nobody actually believed I would do it.

Egged on by their doubt, I let that sticky rice fly. In a swift motion my brother ducked and the rice went smack in the back of a woman’s head in the neighboring booth. Her husband saw the whole thing go down and looked at our family with anger and horror. I was totally mortified. My parents thought it was hilarious, and they got us out of there really quickly.

So why was I moved to tell that particular story about a little moment of family chaos? About a moment where my regimented rule-abiding brain got overridden by emotion, and something ridiculous and awkward happened? Maybe it was prophetic, because, as it turns out, my professional life has been about chronicling the ridiculous and the awkward. And because success for me has been about occasionally overriding the voice in me that longs for structure and becoming a bit of a rule-breaker.

What better metaphor for all that than sticky rice in the back of that lady’s hair? Congrats to the Class of 2013.

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ADMINISTRATION Cassandra Malloy, Assistant to the Head of School, joins us from Jos. A. Bank Clothiers, where she served as an executive assistant. Prior to that she served in a similar capacity for the Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Ashley Principe (B.A., Sewanee: The University of the South; M.E., Vanderbilt University), Director of Development, joins us from Gilman School, where she served most recently as Associate Director of Development.

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES Jessica Garman (B.A., Goucher College; M.L.S. University of Maryland), Upper School Librarian, joins us from 826 Valencia, a San Francisco-based educational nonprofit organization, where she tutored and led after-school writing workshops.

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Frederic Skrzypek (Bachelor of Philosophy, M.A., University of Paris XII), Upper School Technology Coordinator and French teacher, joins us from Francis Parker School in San Diego, Calif., where he chaired the Middle School Technology Committee.

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LOWER SCHOOL Eric Danowski (B.A., University of San Francisco), Pre-Primary associate teacher, joins us from Beauvoir, the National Cathedral Elementary School in Washington, D.C., where he served as an assistant educator in the school’s pre-kindergarten, preschool and after-care programs.

Heidi Bichler-Harris (B.A., Brock University), Development Services and Prospect Research Manager, joins us from the Washington, D.C.-based Global Fund for Children, where she served as the database and research manager.

Linar Etemadi-Cusic (B.S., Indiana University of Pennsylvania; M. Ed., University of Pittsburgh), first grade homeroom teacher, joins Friends from Montgomery County Public Schools, where she served as a substitute teacher.

Jenna Jackson (B.F.A., University of Florida), Development Office Associate, joins us from the Kennedy Krieger Institute, where she designed curriculum for the developmental playroom. She also spent two years serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia.

Michelle Feiss (B.A., M.A., Notre Dame of Maryland University), fifth grade teacher, joins us from Kowloon Junior School in Hong Kong, where she was the Year 4 classroom teacher.

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Safina Kleinman (B.A., Macaulay Honors College; 90-hour child-care certificate, Howard Community College), Lower School Teaching Fellow, has served Friends as a frequent Lower School substitute.

Gillian Lucas (B.A, M.A.T., Goucher College), Pre-First Associate, brings more than 12 years of experience as a kindergarten and pre-first teacher, respectively, at Glenelg and Calvert Schools.

Caren Shelley (B.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art), Lower School Art assistant teacher, joins us from Legacy School in Eldersburg, Md., where she taught visual arts to grades 1-8.

UPPER SCHOOL Dahira Lièvano-Binford ’81 (B.A., Franklin & Marshall College), Upper School Spanish teacher, is a longtime substitute teacher at Friends and Roland Park Country Schools.

Niquiche Guity (B.S., Ph.D., SUNYAlbany), Upper School Biology teacher, joins us from Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, where she served as a research associate in oncology with an emphasis on blood, colorectal, and prostate cancer. She was also adjunct faculty at Loyola University of Maryland and University of Phoenix.

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Kristy Norbert (B.A., Northwestern University; M.S.W., University of Maryland School of Social Work), Upper School Counselor, joins us from Boys Hope Girls Hope, a nonprofit organization, where she served as executive director. She also spent two years serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Madagascar.

Joshua Ratner (B.A., Carleton College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania), Upper School English teacher, joins us from William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where he taught 10th and 11th grade English and also coached soccer.

James Torain ‘09, Upper School Science Teaching Fellow, is a 2013 graduate of Haverford College, where he received a B.S. in chemistry.

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Anna Melville ‘01 (B.A., Franklin & Marshall College; M.F.A., University of North CarolinaWilmington), Middle School English teacher, joins us from Harford Day School, where she taught middle school English.

Kyle Harmon (B.S., M.S., Salisbury University), physical education teacher, joins us from Woodhome Elementary/Middle School #205, where he taught physical education and health.

Crisiauna Nelson (B.A., Morgan State University), Middle School Teaching Fellow, joins us from the Village Learning Place, where she served as an enrichment teacher. She also co-owns Made Beyond Fresh, an apparel brand.

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Rodney Rice (B.A., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; M.A., Berkeley Divinity School at Yale; M.Div., Yale University; Ed.M., Harvard University), Middle School English teacher, joins us from Roland Park Country School.

Lee Deitch is a senior sales executive and managing director of retirement plan services for J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. A member of the Development and Marketing Committees, she and her husband, Dr. Mark Deitch, are the parents of two Friends students.

Jeremy Wetmore (B.A., Gettysburg College), Middle School geography, history and Extended Day assistant director, previously served the School as a long-term substitute teacher.

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Herbert Burgunder III is principal of the Law Offices of Herbert Burgunder III. A member of the Building Committee, he and his wife, Dr. Tamara Burgunder, have three children at Friends.

Jeffrey K. Gonya is a partner with Venable, LLP, where he oversees the firm’s tax and wealth planning practice.

A member of the Finance and Investment Management Committees, Mr. Gonya and his wife, Ann, are the parents of a current Friends student and an alumna.

Amy Lieber ’14, the student representative to the Board of Trustees, serves on the Diversity Committee. A member of the Varsity Soccer teams, she is co-head of Friends’ Jewish Student Union and is a frequent volunteer at My Sister’s Place, a local women’s shelter.

Pamela Loeb is principal and co-owner of Edge Research, a full-service marketing research company. A member of the Development and Marketing Committees, Mrs. Loeb and her husband, Eric, are Friends parents.

For a complete listing of our faculty, staff and trustees, go to friendsbalt.org/about/OurCommunity.

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Diversity Notes Each summer, members of the Friends School faculty come together in cross-divisional, cross-disciplinary groups to explore ideas about teaching and learning that our busy school-year schedules do not otherwise allow. In August, a small group of us, including those who teach math, English, cultural competency and history, met to discuss best practices for engaging students in classroom discussions about race. Common themes emerged, most notably that our colleagues are hungry for more reading, conversation and learning so that they can help prepare students to engage others in these important discussions.

HELEN BERKELEY Upper School English teacher and Department Chair

KELLY CAUSEY Fourth Grade Coordinator and teacher

We began by sharing stories of our own experiences with race in classrooms, growing up and as teachers. We then made our way through a rich pile of articles about white identity, stereotype threat and teaching about race. In the end, I came away without the handout for students on talking about race in a productive way in class I’d hoped for, because I learned that what I most need to do is to continue to read and learn and listen.

I’m not ready to make the handout yet; deeper learning and transformation is needed first. I emerged from the summer grant with the sense of having a support network around me of colleagues willing to pursue these conversations and to encourage me in my learning.

MOLLY DOYLE ’07 Upper School Administrative Secretary, Ninth and 11th Grade cultural competency instructor

I loved how, in what can only be described as a “Quakerly” way, we took time throughout the process to have periods of silent reflection and research. After each of these periods, we came back together as a group, full of ideas, thoughts and information to share.

We huddled around each other’s iPads, reading to each other quotes from blogs, scholarly articles and studies. It was a privilege to be able to have respectful, informed and challenging discussions about race with my colleagues (many of whom were my former teachers).

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In fourth grade, we discuss race when we read “The Watsons Go to Birmingham” by Christopher Paul Curtis, a historical novel set in 1963; we also address race sometimes when discussing current events. Some fourth graders have had deep conversations about race at home, while others bring very little background knowledge to the classroom. Often, the first conversation we have about race occurs when the students take a standardized test in the fall, and they must fill in the question bubble for race. Many white students do not know how to self-identify. Children begin asking innocent questions about skin color at an early age and learn not only from our verbal replies, but also from our body language and levels of comfort or discomfort. Like others who participated in this opportunity, I find myself wanting to read and discuss more.

I have a lot to learn.

TOD RUTSTEIN Middle School History Coordinator and teacher

I reached out to colleagues because I wanted to learn how better to prepare my students to engage in conversations about race. Unlike many adults who avoid such conversations because they see them as contentious, we require our students during class to actively participate in these discussions. Is there a way to scaffold instruction, to give students a list of tips to keep in mind while having conversations about racial inequality and difference? We

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SELECTED RESOURCES USED DURING THE SUMMER GRANT “Five Things High School Students Should Know About Race,”

by Lawrence Blum Harvard Graduate School of Education, Volume 28, Number 6, November/ December 2012 “Talking to children about race: the importance of inviting difficult conversations” Childhood Education, September 22, 2006, CopenhaverJohnson, Jeane “Whites Swim in Racial Preference,” Tim Wise, February 19, 2003 “Thin Ice: Stereotype Threat and Black College Students,” Claude Steele “Color Blind or Just Plain Blind? The Pernicious Nature of Contemporary Racism,” John F. Dovidio and Samuel L. Gaertner NPR’s Code Switch on Race, Culture and Ethnicity: http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/ NPR’s Race Card Project (and many other articles): http://www.npr.org/series/173814508/ the-race-card-project

approached the summer grant opportunity with an appropriate posture of humility and embraced the premise that everyone living in our society is tainted by racial prejudice.

Having established this foundation, we engaged in plenty of personal reflection, since all efforts to elicit meaningful conversation among students must rest on our own commitment, as teachers, to do this vital and challenging work ourselves.

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SCARLET & GRAY Day Highlights Threatening skies could not dampen spirits during the annual Scarlet & Gray Day on October 12, 2013. Organizers moved carnival games, food stands and children’s activities inside, while outside Friends’ Varsity and JV athletes played a full schedule of competitions. Sponsored by the Friends School Parents Association, Scarlet & Gray Day is an important community-building and fundraising event for Friends with all concession proceeds benefiting the School.

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3. Middle School boys show their Quaker pride.

4. Varsity Volleyball’s Meg Conner ’14 sets up the offense.

5. It was Quakers vs. Quakers on the gridiron, as our team took on Sidwell Friends. Here, John McGagh ‘15 rushes for a touchdown.

6. Bailey D. sells treats for the fifth grade fundraiser.

7. Scarlet (and blonde!) and Gray: Lucien Walsh ’88 and Axel head for the carnival games.

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FROM THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES:

Friends welcomes new Director of Development FRIENDS SCHOOL in July welcomed Ashley Principe as Director of Development.

She joins Friends from nearby Gilman School, where she served for 10 years, most recently as associate director of development. “We conducted an extensive national search for our new development director and ended up finding someone in our own backyard,” Head of School Matt Micciche told faculty and staff during opening meetings. In addition to managing the nine-person Development Office, Principe is working behind the scenes with the Board and administration to prepare for the community phase of the School’s comprehensive campaign. “This is an exciting time to join Friends,” she says. “I look forward to working with alumni and current families to advance the School’s transformational mission.”

On Stewardship IN MY SERVICE as Chair of the Board of Trustees, I am sometimes asked by those who are unfamiliar with Friends if I find it difficult to fundraise in a Quaker school community.

My response is always the same: “No way!” Then I offer a brief lesson on Quaker values, placing particular emphasis on the stewardship testimony.

Friends School has flourished for 230 years because of our foundational commitment to advance the Bill White, Chair Board of Trustees mission of the School by stewarding our resources.

Quite simply, we have inherited a precious gift from the School’s founders. Here in Baltimore and across the country, all of us play an important role in carrying forward the traditions of Quaker education at its finest.

That is why I find it easy to ask our alumni, faculty and staff, parents, grandparents — the entire Friends family — to join me in giving back so that future generations can benefit from the well rounded Quaker education that Friends School of Baltimore offers. Renewing facilities, supporting faculty, and providing expanded opportunities for students to achieve a balanced yet rigorous education are at the heart of Friends School’s mission and therefore our development efforts. For me, that is an easy concept to get behind. I invite you to join us.

Annual Fund 2013-2014: HAVE YOU MADE YOUR GIFT? EVERY DAY YOUR ANNUAL FUND GIFT SUPPORTS FRIENDS STUDENTS AS THEY • Find balance in an ever-changing world through academics, arts and athletics • Seek to respond to challenges, drawing on Quaker values to guide them • Grow stronger and truer to themselves in a diverse, dynamic and caring environment.

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a goal of $1.46 million. The CEO and founder of StraighterLine, a company that provides quality first- and second-year general education college courses to career-focused adults, Smith attended Friends for 12 years and says he appreciates the values and life lessons the School imparted. “Today, as Friends parents, Jen and I want the same enriching educational experiences for our children and for all Friends students,” he says.

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“I wish I were able to give more …”

DO YOU KNOW that there is an easy and flexible way to make a significant gift that benefits Friends School and costs nothing now?

Please consider including Friends School of Baltimore, Inc. in your will or living trust or naming the School as a beneficiary of a retirement plan, savings account or life insurance plan.

To learn more, contact Eleanor Landauer, 410.649.3316 or elandauer@friendsbalt.org, or visit the School’s planned giving site at friendsbalt.plannedgiving.org. Thank you!

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FÊTING FRIENDS The School honored its leadership donors and members of the Circle of Friends on October 3, 2013 with a dinner reception at the James L. Zamoiski ’68 Alumni Center.

The event provided guests with an opportunity to learn more about Setting the Stage, a comprehensive campaign with three components: to grow the School’s endowment, create a performing and visual arts center in the Forbush Building and secure gifts to the Annual Fund.

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PHOTOGRAPHY IN FOCUS Once completed, Friends’ new visual arts teaching spaces will expand Upper School photography offerings

a picture-crazy world where photos flit onto cell-phone and computer screens and are shooed away with the touch of a button, the Upper School photography classrooms feel like sacred passages to a time-honored art form. Here, away from the social media maelstrom, students are crafting digital and darkroom images under the watchful eye of Art Department faculty, for whom the photograph is considered a foundational tool in teaching students how to see.

“Photography combines visual thinking, chemical processes, the physics of light and craftsmanship,” says Upper School photography teacher and Friends alumna Erin Hall ’98. “Particularly black and white photography, because it is simplified, we can see composition, shapes and light. It is similar to how we teach students to draw — first, we use a pencil in black and white to create lines, then we use charcoal to get value, and then we move on to color.”

Approximately 90 students, or about 22 percent of the Upper School, are presently enrolled in either digital photography with Ben Roach, Art Department Coordinator, or darkroom photography with Hall. Classes are taught in two different buildings: Digital meets in the Mac lab in the lower level of the Forbush Building; darkroom photography, which includes traditional black-and-white as well as alternative (non-silver) processes, takes place in the art room and adjacent darkroom on the Upper School’s fourth floor.

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Hall teaches 60 students in three different course levels: Fundamentals of Photography, Advanced Photography and Photo 3.

“Generally, a lot of students will take Fundamentals, half as many move on to Advanced and about eight students, all seniors, take Photo 3,” she says. Across the Upper School quad, Roach teaches four sections of digital photography annually to approximately 30 to 40 students.

While the teachers are clearly pleased with the program’s popularity, providing students with the appropriate spaces and tools continues to be a challenge. “We are so crowded up here,” says Hall, referring to the Upper School art room. “I have small classes because I have insisted on having one enlarger for every kid. But when you stand in the space with eight kids, and we have one table that we all work at, and they are developing in the same space, going in and out of the dark room … meanwhile I’m connecting different hoses … it can get really crazy.”

Over in the Forbush Building, the digital photography program is experiencing similar growth. Head of School Matt Micciche’s announcement in November that, beginning next fall, the Upper School will move to a “1-to-1” iPad program presents new challenges, and opportunities, for digital photography students and faculty. “The department is exploring a variety of apps that will help us to transform our curricula and take advantage of the built-in camera that the iPad affords,” says Ben Roach.

“As an instructor, I’m looking forward to working with these tools.”

The planned transformation of the Forbush Building into a performing and visual arts center will address these needs, providing more students the opportunity to engage in this hands-on form of learning while also aggregating Upper School arts disciplines under one roof.

Traditional photography students will benefit from a professional setting that can accommodate different functions simultaneously. “So someone can be printing while someone else is developing at a different sink — which is great,” explains Hall. “If a student has made the effort to reshoot [his/her work] and wants to make From right, Teacher Erin Hall ’98 works in the studio with Hannah Gartner ‘11 and Margaret Reed ‘10. “You have to teach people to ‘see’ — and that happens in small increments.” Photo by Edwin Remsberg ‘83

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A STUDENT’S VISION

“After watching the movie ‘Miss Representation,’ I was inspired to take photographs of my young sister. Ava describes herself as a princess. She is always wearing Disney dresses with a crown and jewelry. In her mind, a young girl should look like a Disney princess … My photographs try to capture the struggle young girls have with femininity.”

— Lauren Linehan ’14

better images, I don’t want to say, ‘No, we’re done developing.

Today we’re doing this.’ ” The new Forbush Building darkroom will feature 15 work stations, nearly doubling the current space’s capacity. It will include a large coating area equipped with a hefty sink for developing film and processing alternative prints, including cyanotype, Van Dyke and gum bichromate — techniques that Hall learned as a graduate student at MICA. Students will critique their classmates’ work and view slideshows and other presentations in a spacious classroom equipped with drying areas for prints, negatives and printing screens. The room will also afford plenty of space for students to display their work.

“Photography has always been a robust part of the art program at Friends,” says Hall, who took photography in the Upper School with former art teacher Lyn Ostrov. “Lyn talked about things on a large scale — it’s working or it’s not working — and I appreciated the challenge,” she adds. After she joined the faculty in 2006, Hall reorganized the program to help ground students in the technical skills before they moved on to more conceptual work. “I love

SETTING THE STAGE Our plans call for dramatically transforming the Forbush Auditorium and existing spaces within the Forbush Building — providing our students with hands-on learning opportunities and new course offerings. Stay tuned for more information about this comprehensive campaign.

explaining the physical processes to the students,” she says. “I show them camera obscuras, and we make pinhole cameras. There’s nothing — no lens, just light going through a hole, making an image.

They are in disbelief. That’s the fun part!”

Friends alumni frequently credit Ken Drews with having sparked their interest in photography. The former chemistry teacher taught a black-and-white darkroom photography elective in the 1970s. “Not only did [he] show me the ins and outs of apertures, shutter speed, film speed, composition and even panning,” says Skip Klein ’79, “but he also taught me how to process film and then print wonderful images.” An investment analyst with Brown Capital Management, Klein in recent years has become a freelance photographer and says he hopes to one day teach photography “as a way to return the favor that Ken Drews did for me.”

Like Klein, Edwin Remsberg ’83, a professional photographer, and a Friends School trustee and parent, also learned darkroom fundamentals from Drews, but he credits art teacher Ron Roberson with making him a “working artist.” “I had the freedom to pursue what I loved and spent endless hours in the darkroom and in the art rooms — sometimes talking about how to do this or that, but more often just talking about why to do any of it and what matters,” he adds. “Without the ability to appreciate the visual world and see meaning in it, I would not have amounted to much.”

Advances in digital imaging, technology and social media are changing the ways in which we visually communicate. Friends’ photography program embraces the possibilities in this new milieu while staying true to its focus on teaching students the art and science behind creating precise, purposeful and visually stirring images. FS

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Alumni News

ALU M N I WE E KE N D

2013

Alumni Weekend saw hundreds of Friends graduates and their families converge on campus for three days of fellowship and reminiscing. This year’s celebration kicked off on Thursday, May 2, 2013, with the ninth annual Friends School Hall of Fame ceremony. The reverie continued on Friday, May 3, with a morning Golf Outing and, in the evening, a special 50th Reunion celebration for the Class of 1963. Saturday saw our post-50th Reunion alums gather with the Head of School for a breakfast in their honor in the Upper School Library. Meanwhile, other alums went “back to the classroom” for lessons taught by Friends faculty. The beloved Mr. Nick Bull Roast and evening cocktail reception with class photos capped the School’s official hosting duties; however, many alums celebrated late into the night at their respective off-campus class parties. To view and download photos from Alumni Weekend, visit the School’s Flickr photostream at flickr.com/friendsbalt.

FRIENDS SCHOOL ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME Alumni Weekend kicked off on Thursday, May 2, 2013, with the ninth annual Friends School Hall of Fame celebration. This year’s induction class included 17 athletes, one coach — Randy Cooper — and three teams: 1953 Boys Varsity Basketball, 1968 Girls Varsity Lacrosse and 1972 Boys Varsity Soccer.

1. From left, Marge Rowe Felter ’63, Heather Harlan Warnock, Jeb Felter ’63 and Mary Dell Gordon Harlan ‘65 2. Head of School Matt Micciche and veteran English teacher and coach Randy Cooper, a veteran Middle School teacher

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3. Head of School Matt Micciche with members of the 1968 Girls Lacrosse team, from left, Winifred Briddell Cowee ’68, Deborah Lynch Greenslit ’68, Elizabeth Price ‘68, Nancy Sands Lumpkin ’68, Coach Micul Ann Morse and Leigh Friedman ’71 4. From left, Amy D’Aiutolo Mortimer ’87, Carol Samuels, Judy Turnbaugh and Joan Sullivan Little ‘82

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50TH REUNION DINNER 5. The Class of 1963 enjoyed a festive dinner at the Zamoiski Alumni Center to honor its 50th Reunion.

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GOLF OUTING Formerly a fall event, the annual Friends Golf Outing is now a part of Alumni Weekend festivities. Twelve foursomes, including alums, parents, faculty and staff, enjoyed a Friday round of golf at Pine Ridge Golf Course in Lutherville.

6. From left, Mike Barber, John Hehir, Marshall Henslee and Tom Binford 7. From left, Will Sale ’03, John Fleury ’03, Betsy Banghart Flaherty ’58 and Brendan Meagher 8. Friends faculty (from left) Tom Marechek, Greg Whitley, Steve McManus and Judy Turnbaugh

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MR. NICK BULL ROAST Approximately 150 alumni and their guests enjoyed a hearty barbecue prepared by our own Milt Brownstein ’68. Following the presentation of the annual alumni awards, Friends Head of School Matt Micciche took many of the guests on a tour of our newest buildings, including the Quaker Closet, where they updated their Friends wardrobes.

9. Class of 1988 alums and their children gathered on the lawn at the Alumni Center during the annual Mr. Nick Bull Roast. Back row, from left: Liz Felter Farrell ‘88, Bill Farrell, Allison Jensen ‘88, Alex Christoff, Marsha Iwata Tolbert ‘88 and Tara Carter.

HALF-CENTURY SOCIETY BREAKFAST Members of the Classes of 1953 and 1958 gathered in the Upper School Library for breakfast with Head of School Matt Micciche and his wife Frances.

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10. From left, Ron Renoff ’58, Martha Beall Keller ’53 and Nancy Towner Butterworth ’53 11. Guests shared stories about the “old days” at Friends and peppered Matt with many questions about Friends School today.

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BACK TO THE CLASSROOM Many Reunion alums went “back to school” for Saturday morning classes and activities with Friends faculty, including Erin Hall ’98, Ramsay Antonio-Barnes, Paula Montrie, Tod Rutstein, Marylee Slosson and Helen Berkeley.

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The Alumni Weekend cocktail reception at the Zamoiski Alumni Center was our biggest ever — topping out at around 375 guests. Reunion classes mingled under the tent on Saturday evening before having their class photos taken and then heading off to their individual class parties.

14. From left, Lisa Viscidi ’98, Jennie Ray ’98 and Alison Schwarzwalder Rebman ‘98 15. Dotty Snodgrass Goldsborough ’48 and Head of School Matt Micciche 16. From left, Sarah Standiford ’93, Carrie Mallonee Huebner ’93, Luke Davis ‘93 and Margo Lauterbach ‘93 17. A happy Class of 2008 at their class photo shoot 18. From left, Ron Renoff ’58, Barbara Long O’Brien ’58, Frank Windsor ’58, Kandi Foell Slade ’58, Bettie Mullikin ’58 and Carl Hossfeld

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2013 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD: ROB BERMAN ‘88 The Friends School Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes graduates whose outstanding professional or volunteer contributions have garnered national or local attention.

Past honorees have included Julia B. Frank, M.D. ’69, George Washington University professor of psychiatry, J. Frederick Motz ’60, U.S. District Court Judge, Greg Neumann ’64, NASA scientist, and Rose Burgunder Styron ’46, poet.

As Friends prepares to enter the public phase of a comprehensive campaign that will transform the Forbush Auditorium into a first-class performance venue, it is fitting that we have named Rob Berman ’88 as this year’s Outstanding Alumnus. The Emmy Award-winning music director for Broadway, the Encores! concert series at New York Center and The Kennedy Center Honors, cut his teeth, musically speaking, as a Friends first grader, while studying piano with longtime Lower School accompanist Jane Donnelly — a practice he would continue until graduation.

“I sang in the Mixed Chorus with Libby Pennachia and Kathy Hartzell … played Albert Peterson in ‘Bye Bye Birdie,’ Billy Bigelow in ‘Carousel’ and Oberon in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’” Berman told Collection in a 2005 interview.

“I also played in the Jazz Ensemble with John Gifford. And, yes, I helped form the Quaketones [Friends’ all-male a cappella

singing group] back in 1986.”

Presenting him with the Distinguished Alumni Award during the May 4, 2013 ceremony, Hilda Imhoff, Berman’s former English teacher, adviser and drama director, hailed his work at The Kennedy Center Honors, where he has conducted such artists as Anna Netrebko, Jessye Norman, Kelli O’Hara, Patti Lupone and Beyoncé. But it is Berman’s contributions to Encores! that she most admires. “[The productions] feature the orchestra by placing it on stage, and they use a full 30-piece ensemble, unheard of today in musicals,” she told the gathering. “The appreciation that Rob brings to these shows was inspired in part by his experiences here at Friends, where his parents, Howard and Debbie Berman, took their three boys to the Mixed Chorus productions every year and supported their participation in our Upper School musicals.”

2013 OUTSTANDING ALUMNI SERVICE AWARD: NORMAN FORBUSH ‘78 The Outstanding Alumni Service Award recognizes a Friends graduate who has generously donated time and energy to enrich the School. Recipients of this special award — which, unlike the Distinguished Alumni Award, is not presented annually — are ubiquitous at Friends School athletic competitions, theater productions, alumni gatherings and other School-sponsored events, and they are the first to ask: What can I do to help? Past recipients include Brooke Bognanni ’91, Mac Price ‘59, Bob Heaton ‘56 and Susanne Davis Emory ’52.

This year’s recipient, Norman Forbush ’78, meets all these criteria and then some, according to his wife Kathy Forbush, who, with the couple’s son Ned ’21, presented the award at the May 4 ceremony. “If it were possible for an institution to be a part of one’s DNA,” she told the gathering, “then Friends School is indelibly embedded in Norman Forbush’s genetic code.”

Indeed, the Class of 1978 alumnus, trustee, parent and longtime coach is the latest in a long line of Forbush family members who have served the

School, beginning with the patriarch Bliss Forbush, Friends’ Headmaster from 1943 to 1960, and extending to Lois and Bliss Forbush, Jr. ’40, Norman’s aunt and uncle who, respectively, taught fourth grade (1954 to 1986) and Upper School mathematics (1950 to 1986). And, of course, Norman’s father, W. Byron Forbush II ’47, served as Headmaster from 1960 to 1998.

Recalling the family’s move from Lexington, Mass., to Baltimore in August 2006, Kathy Forbush noted, “We barely had the boxes unpacked before Norm was itching for ways to contribute.” Today, his presence is felt throughout the School — as a Board member and Annual Fund phonathon volunteer and also on the playing fields and courts, where he coaches Middle School Boys’ Soccer, Basketball and Lacrosse. With Varsity Basketball coach Albert Holley, he has also spearheaded a successful Saturday morning basketball clinic in which Upper School Varsity and JV players teach game fundamentals to girls and boys in grades 2 through 5. Not surprisingly, Ned is an enthusiastic participant in the Saturday morning program — and is also a great fan of this year’s honoree. “My dad is awesome!” he exclaimed. “Please join me in congratulating him on winning the Outstanding Alumni Service Award.”

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FLOWER PEOPLE:

Butterbee Farm’s Laura Resnick ’07 and Irene Donnelly ’02 “grow happiness” by Carling A.W. Elder LAURA BETH RESNICK ‘07 relaxes in

Finding suitable land for farming in Baltimore City proved to be a challenge. a chair after a long day of tending flowers at “I spent days writing proposals and sending Butterbee Farm. She’s tired, but it’s the good kind of tired that comes from doing work you out feelers for land in the city through such vacant land resources as Adopt-A-Lot, Power love and from building a business, quite in Dirt and the Baltimore Office of literally, from the ground up. “What’s the Sustainability.” Unfortunately, the available best part of owning my own flower farm?” plots were either too far away or were unsafe she asks, her face beaming, “It’s how happy for a lone female to be working late hours. flowers make people!”

Just as Resnick’s dream of starting an “It’s why we love the work we do,” adds urban flower farm began to feel distant, Irene Donnelly ’02, a local floral designer and a solution appeared last winter. Elisa Lane, one of Resnick’s employees. manager of Whitelock Community Farm in Located on two urban plots in the city’s Reservoir Hill, approached Resnick about Reservoir Hill and Clifton Park communities, taking care of the farm’s flowerbeds and Butterbee Farm is Resnick’s creation. Her stewarding the plots. Resnick jumped on the interest in farming grew out of a desire to opportunity. With land finally secured, she escape the hustle and bustle of Manhattan began preparing the soil and ordering seeds, and Boston, where she attended Barnard hoping to sell her organically grown flowers College and New England Conservatory for at the Waverly Farmers’ Market, the graduate school. Internships and apprenticeWhitelock Community Farm Stand and her ships at Kearsarge Gore Farm in Warner, own CSA, as well as to interested florists and N.H., Drumlin Farm in Lincoln, Mass., individuals. When the first eager seedlings and North Star Orchard in Cochranville, Pa., poked their way through the soil, Butterbee convinced Resnick that (cue the theme from Farm officially became Baltimore City’s TV’s “Green Acres”) “farm living was the life first urban flower farm. for me!” She began hatching a plan in With flowers and a September 2012 to start a young business to care for, sustainable vegetable farm in Resnick quickly realized she her hometown of Baltimore. needed help if Butterbee A providential meeting Farm was to succeed. “One with Ellen Frost, owner of thing I’ve learned in all my Local Color Flowers in entrepreneurial classes and Charles Village, convinced books is that you can’t do Resnick to grow flowers everything yourself,” she instead of food. During that says. “If you start your conversation, Frost told own business, it’s equally Resnick of her success in important to work hard designing with 100 percent and to carve out time for locally grown flowers and Irene Donnelly ’02 designs floral leisure.” Resnick needed to explained the need for, and creations for every occasion. find reliable help. potential benefits of, having Enter Irene Donnelly, whom Resnick an urban flower farm in Baltimore City. met at Local Color Flowers, where Donnelly “After that conversation, I did some further is a floral designer. The two women bonded research and soul searching and realized over their love of flowers and soon realized that growing flowers was what I wanted they were both Friends School alumnae. After to do.”

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Stop to smell the roses: Butterbee Farm founder Laura Beth Resnick ’07

Donnelly volunteered to spend a day turning dirt and compost with Resnick at the farm, their friendship took root. “I have a true respect for the work Laura Beth is doing, and I’m amazed by her broad vision for Butterbee Farm,” says Donnelly. Sharing the physical and often emotional workload of starting a new business with Donnelly by her side has made Resnick’s farming life easier, and also more fun.

As Butterbee’s operations wind down for the year, Resnick is already looking ahead.

The 13th of an acre she farmed was perfect for this year, but she hints at expansion.

“I want to farm eight hours a day,” she says.

Whatever form Butterbee evolves into, it will surely flourish under Resnick and Donnelly’s care. After all, it is their dedication and commitment to flower farming, and to friendship, that produced the farm’s first growing-season success. FS Follow Laura Beth’s farming adventures on her blog at: http://butterbeefarm.com/blog/

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Class Notes.

WE LOVE SOCIAL MEDIA But there’s still only one place you’ll find Friends School Class Notes.

In these pages, generations of alumni have caught up on significant milestones and shared in one another’s joys and sorrows. Be a part of the tradition. Send your news and photos* to alumni@friendsbalt.org. * Digital images should be 1 MB or larger.

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Marguerite Frost writes, “I don’t have much news except that I’m still alive and kicking. I will be 90 on my next birthday. I just thought someone from the Class of 1942 ought to say hello to everyone! My best news lately has been the arrival of a new greatgrandson, Luke, who joins his brother Noah. Almost at the same time my grandson, Michael Forward, published a book on Amazon called ‘Alex Quinn and the Gemstones of Dunkel,’ which I found quite exciting to read even though it’s meant for a much younger audience (fantasy fiction for young teenagers). Last time I wrote, I was reminiscing about my teachers from 1940 to 1942, in particular, my Latin teacher. He was a great favorite. His name was Kenneth Webb, and my best friend Katherine Heller Taylor and I referred to him as ‘Webbibus.’ Those who have studied Latin will recall that the ‘ibus’ is part of one of the noun declensions we had to learn. I wonder if anyone else remembers that Latin class as well?”

This class needs a secretary.

If you’re interested in helping with this volunteer job, please contact the Alumni Office.

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Mara Donovan Dudrow maradudrow@gmail.com

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Pat Peake Tisdale Glent24@aol.com It was great fun doing a bit of sleuthing this spring, along with Page Singewald Williams, trying to locate the email address of Al Seivold. Al came to our 50th Reunion and, quiet man that he is, had not been heard from since then. He writes, “After retiring from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center after 32 years and time at Orbital Sciences Corporation, my wife Cathie and I are now living in the Adirondacks in our log home overlooking the fourth lake in the Fulton Chain. Our grandson was recently visiting and helped us split firewood that will be needed to keep us warm when the snow is falling and the temperature drops to 10 to 20 degrees below zero. Finishing and adding to the home have been my hobbies. I designed a garage and an office/family room addition and hired a builder to erect the primary structures.

Cathie and I finished the interiors.

We have also finished the basement recreation room, added a wine cellar (kept at 55 degrees), a sauna and also added stone on the outside basement wall. Cathie’s real hobbies are her flower gardens on both sides of the house, and they are glorious. Of course, we have to fence them in

to prevent devastation by our deer (friends) who like to visit at night. Our greatest pleasure is staying in touch with our family and grandchildren.”

Robin Biddison Dodd can always be relied upon to help me with this column and is gracious with her contribution of family news. She writes, “Along with my husband Paul and my daughter Robin, we will be going to Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., in August to attend our granddaughter Sara’s family day and graduation from Military Police Boot Camp. Sara will then be going on to Fort Huachuca in Arizona for 20 weeks of intelligence training. She is currently a member of the Florida National Guard.

Our grandson Frank is a sophomore at Mount St. Mary’s University, where he will be a resident assistant this year. He was a disc jockey on the school radio station last year and will probably do the same again this year.” Bob Millhauser says, “It’s fun watching my 6-year-old grandson play little league lacrosse. It brings back many happy memories at Friends! Until recently, I still had what was left of my lacrosse stick, but it did not make the cut during our recent move from Owings Mills to nearby Quarry Lake. Our family is now 18 strong with five children and their spouses and seven grandchildren ages 1 to 13 years old (six of them boys) spread out all over the country, from Raleigh, N.C., to Portland, Ore. All is well with me, having retired from my second career in commercial real estate with Cushman and Wakefield two years ago. I’m keeping busy volunteering at the Maryland Food Bank and SCORE, hiking with the Mountain Club of Maryland, playing bridge and

enjoying the occasional round of golf.

I would welcome a get-together with whomever is around.”

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Lorinda Rugemer McColgan lrmccolgan@verizon.net Gretchen Seabold Johnson writes, “I recently enjoyed a flight on Delta Airlines from JFK to Orlando, piloted by my son, Cpt. John Keith Mitzelfelt.

What a smooth flight and a very proud moment for me! I’m now living at The Villages in Florida and loving it here!” Patricia and Mike Tabor are continuing to enjoy their small farm near Middletown in Frederick County.

Mike continues his interest in dairy farming, presently raising registered Jersey heifers. He previously raised Holsteins. Clarinda Harriss writes, “I just received the exciting news that BrickHouse Books, Inc., Md.’s oldest literary press, which I have directed for 40 years, has just been named ‘Best of Baltimore Presses’ by Baltimore Magazine this year! I have recently returned from Santa Barbara, Calif., which is where my ‘polo family’ lives during the ‘little season’ of polo. They live down in Florida during the rest of the year. As you might know, my son Andy Lott ’89 is an equine veterinarian, and my grandson Liam, 15, plays polo in the U.S. as well as several Latin American countries. I’m so glad that my daughter Lisa Lott MacGibeny ’84 and her family live much closer now — Ruxton, to be exact.” John David recently received the following information about Don Hale and

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Ever-loyal classmate Frank Windsor ’58 got off a plane from

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Turkey on Thursday and was in Baltimore by Friday evening for the first class Reunion event.

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Ellen Snyder Hale from their daughter-in-law Pam Hale, who says, “Ellen and Don are doing well. They are sharing a room now. Community Care has completed construction of a new walkway between buildings outside their window. Don is giving them guidance on what to plant in the Center’s new courtyard area, and they will have a wonderful view of it when it is finished. Don was very sick in the spring and wasn’t eating, but he’s much better now and is back to three meals a day. He loves to get letters from friends but can’t hold a phone any longer. Ellen also enjoys getting updates on old friends. She moves around Community Care in her wheelchair all throughout the day and speaks to most everyone with sweet words that make them smile.”

You can write to the Hales at Community Care of Rutherford County, 901 Country Farm Road, Murfreesboro, Tenn. 37127.

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Nancy Hearn Aronson nharonson@gmail.com Jules and I went to Cape Cod for a family reunion and vacation and stopped over to visit with Liz Cochran DeLima. Coming to D.C. anytime soon? Let us know! You can find me on Facebook. Also, as you can see above, I’ve taken on the job of Class Secretary — send me your news!

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Susan Shinnick Hossfeld shossfeld@comcast.net The highlight of the past six months was our 55th Reunion at Friends School.

It was so fun reconnecting with our classmates, beginning right where we left off five years ago. On Friday night, we had a wonderful dinner at an Italian restaurant followed on Saturday by many events at the School. An early Saturday evening cocktail party was graciously organized by Friends School, which also included taking our famous Reunion picture. The wonderful day wrapped up with a fun-filled dinner at the Country Club of Maryland.

A continental breakfast with very fond farewells completed the weekend on Sunday. We now have a Class of 1958 email group set up by Betsy Banghart Flaherty. You may join the group by sending your information to Betsy (Bobflah@Bellsouth.net) or to me (shossfeld@comcast.net). This is a great way to keep up with one another as

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the years march on! A special thank you to Betsy, always supportive of Friends and her class, for the hard work in getting this email group organized!

Susan Stott Dugan writes that she was unable to attend Reunion but reported that she has moved into a new condo, which she loves. She broke her hip recently but the good news is that she has regained 95 percent of her mobility. She was able to visit Nancy Born Edwards, who was in Florida and unable to attend Reunion and they had lots of laughs.Susan reports that Nancy, her husband John and their family have been healthy and happy. They have four children.

She saw Susan Hogge Hooper last year and met Barbie Goldberg Leand and Susan Stott Dugan for lunch in Palm Beach, Fla., earlier this year.

Anne Williams reports she could not attend Reunion because she was out bird watching on a small-boat cruise in the islands off the coast of the United Kingdom. She sends her best wishes to everyone! Ron Renoff, now retired, joined us at Reunion.

He has been quite busy traveling to Hawaii, Alaska and the Baltic Sea over the past few years. He now lives in Severna Park and wonders if anyone remembers his graduation party at his family’s summer home? Kandi Foell Slade, always the life of the party, still participates in Paint and Powder activities. Mac Price too was at Reunion and also never changes. He is a great supporter of our class! He has three sons, five grandchildren AND two greatgrandsons (only one girl in the group)!

Hap Mortimer has seven grandchildren, two of whom are currently attending Friends. His oldest granddaughter, Anna Mortimer ’13, is now attending Fordham University. She received many awards during her senior year and was a scholar-athlete. Her mother Amy D’Aiutolo Mortimer ’87 currently works in Friends’ Admission Office.

He sends his best regards to our class.

Bettie Mullikin’s big news is that she’s now retired after 30 years at Royston, Mueller, McLean and Reid, LLP. Dick Jeanneret, now retired from full-time counseling, stays more than busy as adjunct professor at University of Houston and Rice University, with some tennis and golf for good measure.

Travels consist of trips to Western Europe, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, the Caribbean, Switzerland, Africa and Egypt. Susan Rugemer Kurtz enjoys her family and her two grandchildren.

She babysits on occasion and enjoys time spent volunteering at Friends, where her granddaughter Kayla Kurtz ’21 is a student. She also enjoys

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traveling with friends and family. She recently moved to a lovely apartment in Roland Park Place. Jean Morrill is now retired from the National Security Agency. She recently left for a trip to Africa and India to visit her two daughters — Karen, a missionary to missionaries working in West Africa, and Molly, who was visiting her fiancé in India but is now back in Baltimore.

She began work on a master’s degree in theology at St. Mary’s Seminary.

Most of Barbie Long O’Brien’s latest news appeared in the last issue of Collection, but she reports this is an ever-changing time in her life, full of surprises and delights with visits to the gym three to five times a week.

Marty Bald Huyette could not attend Reunion since she had just spent time away from work for her uncle’s funeral in Baltimore. A fleeting glimpse of Marty was caught as she dashed from the airport and back for the return flight to California. I guess you are not surprised that Marty has not changed one bit! Speaking of dashing, ever-loyal classmate Frank Windsor got off a plane from Turkey on Thursday and was in Baltimore by Friday evening for the first class Reunion event. What a supreme effort! Susan Hogge Hooper writes that she’s sorry to have missed Reunion, but that she’s always driving home from Florida. Susan and Jack have two children, Jay and Betsy, both married, and they have five grandchildren. Jack has been retired for 16 years, so they are able to do a lot of traveling. They enjoy spending time in Florida and taking the entire family to the Outer Banks in N.C., for summer vacations. Joellen Geyer Armitage, with her always cheerful smile, was able to attend the Reunion weekend, and it was so nice to see her! Gail Welch Goldman had a hip replacement several days before Reunion and was unable to attend. She has had a wonderful recovery and is doing well! Carl and I just returned from Iceland, stopping on the way back in Marblehead, Salem and Newport, R.I. We leave soon for a week in Rehoboth, Del., with our family for our annual seashore trip. In late September, we leave for Amsterdam to begin a cruise along the Moselle River and the Rhine River for 13 days, ending in Basel, Switzerland. We are then renting a car to drive through the Alsace region, ending in the small town of Friedewald, Germany, where Carl’s family originated and the original Hossfeld residence still remains. I want to express a huge thank you to all of the Class of 1958 for their support of the class Reunion. Classmates came

from far and wide, and those who weren’t able to join us sent in their news. The Class of 1958 is terrific!

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Ann Green Slaybaugh Friends59@verizon.net In early June, Joan and Nick Stoer joined Marsha Carow and Karl Pfrommer for two weeks in Tuscany at Villa La Caggiole in Montepulchiano, Italy. They enjoyed side trips to Siena, Perugia, Assisi and Cortona. Along the way, they were able to appreciate many of the local wines and wonderful food.

Claire and Dan Reed have moved into their new house in Millsboro, Del. They are wildly happy to have completed this major move. Fay Karfgin Stevens had a wonderful summer vacation in Cape May, N.J. I am currently down on the farm in Virginia spending my time with the chickens and overly friendly raccoons. I am looking forward to our 55th Reunion so please forward me all your new addresses and email addresses.

If you have any special requests and ideas for our class party, please forward them. If you would like to join in our class lunches in Baltimore, please contact Skip Merrill.

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Mary McElroy Mem2008@comcast.net Two of our classmates passed away this spring and summer: Carolyn Suhr Leborys and Cornelia ‘Corni’ Ham Lingley. Carolyn’s death was sudden, and although Corni’s was a bit more expected due to illness, it too felt sudden and surprising. We miss them very much. We have lost classmates in the past, and they are still sorely missed, but for some reason, these two recent losses hit us harder, judging by the emails I have received CAROLYN SUHR LEBORYS ‘60

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CORNELIA “CORNI” HAM LINGLEY ‘60 and her husband Stewart (standing, center) with their family in 2001. Pictured are (from left) Amy and Nic with Eleni and Maria, Teri and Francis with Caity and Zach and seated is Becky.

as class secretary. We used to think of age 70 as really old; but as you reach it and feel almost the same as you did when you were at Friends, it seems young — and we are, indeed, still young at heart! Carolyn’s husband Ben sent this information about her saying, “Carolyn was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor and passed away a month later. It came without warning, and fortunately she did not have any pain. It was a shock to all of us. She taught children from preschool through high school, had a master’s from Johns Hopkins in special education and retired as assistant principal of Parkville Middle School in Baltimore County.” Susan DeHoff Montgomery contributed some lovely remembrances of Corni, saying, “She was always fun to be with, a bit of a madcap, and life was never dull when she was around.

She had an irrepressible spirit and was very intelligent. She raised three accomplished daughters and had a successful career in the telecom industry in the early days. She played Mrs. Savage in the Friends School Drama Club production of ‘A Curious Savage’ and there was no doubt that she was perfect for the part.” Several classmates attended Corni’s funeral in Annapolis in August. Tom Baker reports that his life continues pretty much the same. He has not yet retired from his day job in a law library, is still a boat tour docent at the Camillus Erie

Canal Museum and of course still plays the piano. He enjoys hiking when he has time and has a new granddaughter named Delphine. He reads voraciously but says he will never catch up with Eli Renn! Susan Huff Schmitt enjoys her life in her Fort Myers, Fla., Life Care Community called Shell Point. She says that life there compares with both a cruise and college, with classes, concerts, clubs, restaurants, pools, and lovely views of the water. Susan DeHoff Montgomery visits her for two weeks each year. The local Unitarian Universalist church also enriches her life. Susan Mears Whiteford had a terrific trip to Southern France with her husband Dick Whiteford ’53 and daughter Suzanne and her son-in-law David.

Their grandson Chris also joined in for part of the trip. They did a lot of exploring and hiking, and a friend of Suzanne’s from second grade, who she met when Susan and the family lived for a year in Switzerland, joined them for a few days. I continue to be busy making jewelry and home improvements to my condo. This year it was a new master bathroom, which ended up costing double the estimate! Not a totally uncommon experience, but it looks wonderful. Next year was to be the living room, but now my thoughts lean more toward a trip to Alaska, which could be much more fun! During the summer, I spent most of the jewelrymaking time out by the condo pool,

swimming to cool off every now and then. Tough life, huh? But the unusual super-hot weather this year made even going to the pool not quite as pleasant.

It was just too hot for going outside!

Keep the news coming, Class of 1960!

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Barbara Turnbull Davis akitabay@gmail.com I received a phone call from Linda Brecht Stevens. She and Don celebrated their 50th anniversary this past August. Don has plans to keep his jewelry store in Richmond, Va., open for at least another two years. Linda spends some time every year in Texas visiting with her family. And when not helping out at the store, Linda burns the tires between Baltimore and Richmond to be with their children and grandchildren. I talked to Mac MacNichol who says Oakland, Md., has been unusually cool this past summer, which gives him some concerns about the upcoming winter. Also, he wanted me to know that his special companion had “crossed over the bridge” and that both he and his wife were searching for a Golden Retriever puppy to fill their void. I also managed to catch up with Dave Windisch. He has moved back to Cincinnati, where he fortunately was able to reconnect with his friends from his old neighborhood. He says

that once he gets his cable connected he will be just fine. I heard from Anne Wasserman Luther in Arkansas. She says that one of her sons is married and is routinely commuting between Washington state and Japan. Her other son is in Wisconsin and married with two children, Ashlyn Marie and Aaron Robert Luther. As for Anne, after nine years she has finally turned over the reins of the support group she started for those with gluten intolerance. Bob Dalsemer wrote me an email to say that after 22 years he has finally retired from the John C. Campbell School only to be appointed guardian ad litem by the local court. For pleasure, he has taken up Tai Chi and bought a kayak. Needless to say, he has not slowed down. From Washington, D.C., Bruce Steinwald writes that his son Peter has just earned a master’s in social work from Johns Hopkins and is on his way to medical school. And his son Alex is in his third year at Northwestern working toward a mechanical engineering degree while participating in a 30-hour dance marathon and a Tough Mudder race.

His wife Ronnie is working hard trying to get doctors to adopt electronic health records. Bruce is also busy checking off his bucket list with trips to Kenya, Tanzania and the Galapagos Islands (makes me jealous!). From NYC, Jackie Hornor Plumez writes that she spends a good amount of time on Skype with her daughter and granddaughter, who are still in Singapore. Otherwise, she spends a good amount of time writing and is already thinking about another book or two. Good luck, Jackie, from all of us.

Tom McLaughlin contacted me about his wife Mary Ellen Price McLaughlin to let me know that in August she underwent surgery for heart problems.

The procedure was unexpected, but as of this writing she is home and improving. Everyone is thinking about you, Mary Ellen! Pat Clouse Epifanio lost her husband John this past Christmas day. He was her best friend and constant companion and is so missed. A friend took her to the Florida Keys, where she was able to swim with the dolphins in Marathon. Currently, she is keeping busy using her nursing skills working for the Shriners Hospital for Children and developing a new ministry for her church. Bob Seabold emailed that he and Nancie will be spending January and February at The Villages in Florida to escape the winter winds of the Delaware shore.

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Johnson ‘56. And who has time for a bucket list? Bob has gone back to work, works out at the gym three to four days a week and volunteers for the local historical society. Bert Taylor checked in from Canada to say he is trying to retire but his list of projects just keeps growing. He was delighted when his wife Carroll acquired another horse, because it gave him an excuse to buy the planer that he wanted in order to mill the boards for the paddock for the new horse. He did mention that his term on the board of the residents’ association had expired and that he declined another term. He also said that his sister Sarah Taylor Carter ’63 and her husband had visited, and they went salt water canoeing, mountain climbing and beachcombing. Bert sends “best regards to everyone.”

And last we come to Bill Wharton, who we only had with us through the 10th grade. He and his wife Gwen live in Boulder, Colo. They have a son Paul who lives in Chicago, a son Ken, a physics professor at San Jose State in Mountain View Calif., who has been featured on the Science Channel, and a daughter Ruth, who is a play therapist for troubled young children and lives in St. Louis, Mo., and Nederland, Colo.

Bill walks/hikes with his Golden Retriever up to two miles daily. He also volunteers — at their church and for Meals on Wheels, the Optimist Club and Children’s Hospital, as well as at the University of Colorado men’s and women’s basketball games. Bill and Gwen attended Stanford and its overseas campus outside Stuttgart, Germany.

Bill was on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University for nine years doing research, then taught at Wheaton College outside of Chicago and retired

as a physics professor. To sign off, I want to remind everyone to put the first weekend of May 2016 — that’s 2-0-1-6 — on your calendar and plan to be in Baltimore for our Reunion.

Thanks, everybody. I look forward to talking with you in six months.

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Eleanor Blake Fuller eaerobic@hotmail.com For those of you who may now know, Diana Fleischer Schofield’s kidney transplant took place in April of this year at the University of Maryland Hospital. Her sister-in-law from St. Louis was her donor, and Larry’s other sister came in from Las Vegas to help out with things. Diana is being closely monitored by the transplant clinic and has a million doctors’ appointments with blood being drawn every week.

Although she still gets tired easily, she is working part time supervising graduate students from University of Maryland Baltimore School of Social Work. One positive thing is that she says she has lost 35 pounds and is down to 128 pounds, but does not recommend a kidney transplant as a diet plan. Diana’s grandsons Henry Blanchard ‘24 and Grey Blanchard ’18, are in second and eighth grade at Friends. Both boys are doing well. Grey has turned out to be a math whiz, but Diana insists that those genes do not come from her. She does feel a little weird going into one of the old classrooms, but she is amazed at the level of work the kids are doing! Larry’s volleyball team made it to the state finals. Diana thanks everyone for their emails, cards and letters of support.

She appreciates all the help and

LUCY and Bruce Goodwin ‘62 recently visited classmate Lane Williamson (center) and enjoyed a lovely afternoon in her garden.

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concern but wants to know if there is a volunteer to take some of her 29 pills a day, which fill her 12” x 12” pill case! Robin and Nick Nicolls are living on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. They have three grandchildren and one on the way. Nick is painting a lot, and Robin says his work is wonderful. He is also an avid train collector and most of their upstairs contains his set-up of trains. Robin is always trying hard to outdo Terry Walker in their Words With Friends games. A “grand adventure” was recently had by Caroline Clifford Coe and her husband. They took a 13,000-mile road trip to Alaska with a small camper in tow. This does not include the boat miles on the Alaska Marine Highway ferry and a seven-day cruise in Alaska’s Inner Passage.

Caroline says, “North America is large and quite beautiful, including some very remote wilderness, glaciers, wildlife, Denali in its full glory, the Kenai Peninsula as well as some of the U.S. and Canada’s very special national parks.” There was much alone time together and some great time spent with family and friends, both old and new. Their trip included a boat ride up to the glaciers that were “bluer than blue” and a visit to hot springs. They were on roads like they have never seen before. Permafrost and long, frozen, dark winters are a nightmare for roads if you work on them. There was endless daylight and not a star in sight and whales and puffins, more mosquitoes than Alaska has seen in years, as well as halibut, prawns and salmon. Summer was not too cold in Alaska. There were record temperatures in the 90s and Anchorage had around 20 days in June when the temperatures were over 70 degrees. This followed late and heavy snows in the latter part of May. Caroline found she didn’t even have to wear her long underwear! For them, it was a true adventure. Rehoboth Beach, Del., is soon going to have new residents.

Colette and Wayne Sutherland recently bought a house there. They put their house in Nottingham, Md., on the market in late summer and will be downsizing quite a bit. They hope to sell quickly and get out of Dodge

by Christmas. His kids and grandkids are all well. Wayne and Colette will certainly miss them, but they will only be two hours away. We are all thinking of you, Diana Fleischer Schofield, and anyone else facing health issues such as Linda Kardash Armiger and Chris Sherman Raywood with those knee issues. Jim Hammond is moving to Westminster/Canterbury area of Winchester, Va., which is a life care

CAROL DAVIDSON METHVEN with her son

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community in the Shenandoah Valley.

Even though he realizes that his cottage is quite small compared with the recent ones he has owned, he plans to keep his “get-away” house in Cross Junction, Va. This will help abate the full impact of downsizing a bit. As always, he invites anyone coming his way to visit.

Last spring, Lucy and Bruce Goodwin had a great trip to the Amazon, Machu Picchu and the Galapagos Islands. It exceeded their greatest expectations.

They were lucky enough to see my favorite bird, the blue-footed booby!

They also took a trip in August to tour sites in the Northeast, visiting Lane Williamson and John Slingluff along the way. Emily Holman recently returned from a Road Scholar trip to the Black Sea, with “Voyages to Antiquity.” She spent three days in Istanbul and then boarded the Aegean Odyssey for 10 days, with stops in Turkey, Georgia, Ukraine and Bulgaria. Highlights of the trip included a visit to a village near Trabzon, Turkey, beautiful palaces in Yalta and Sevastopol in the Ukraine and a performance of “Swan Lake” at the Grand Opera House of Odessa, the ancient Greek city of Chernesosis. She was with other groups of Smithsonian and alumni travelers plus others from Canada, England, Australia and New Zealand. It was a new part of the world for Emily with lots of history and movements of people. In June, her sister Elizabeth Holman ‘69’s daughter Rachel was married in a beautiful wedding, and next year there will be two more weddings. In the Tom’s River, N.J. area, people are

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BUCK and Linda Kardash Armiger ‘62 in Saratoga

Springs, Fla.

BRUCE GOODWIN ‘62 hiked the daring Inca Trail up to Machi Piccu in March 2013.

still trying to rebuild from Hurricane Sandy. Emily feels it could possibly take 10 years to repair completely.

Carol Davidson Methven enjoyed the summer playing golf and quilting.

In August, she visited Norfolk for her son’s Change of Command ceremony.

He was transferring from the N.A.S. Oceana to the Pentagon. She was also looking forward to the family’s annual trip to Montana in October. Carol says hello to everyone. I think John Slingluff deserves to brag a bit, so let’s hear it!

John and Paula’s oldest daughter Jenny Levy has been the University of North Carolina women’s lacrosse head coach for the past 18 years. This past season the Lady Tarheels won the NCAA Division I Championship for the first time, defeating Maryland 13-12 in triple-overtime sudden death. It was the longest championship game on record. John and Paula attended the game, holding their breath for most of it — and Jenny was named Coach of the Year! She is also one of only four women in Division I lacrosse to have won a championship both as a player and as a coach. I would say that bragging is well deserved, John. John says that the spring was busy with 10 grandkids involved in all sorts of activities. He adds, too, that the Adirondacks provide a great backdrop for all of them to enjoy their summer.

It’s hot and humid in Texas, according to Barb Ensor Sena. She is still working at the city of Aubrey, Texas and has been there since mid-November of last year. Barb and her husband Bob are showing their mares in reining and reined cow horse classes and are

having a blast. What travels will Chris Sherman Raywood be telling us about this time? Last spring, she went to Scotland and the U.K., visiting the usual castles and cathedrals, along with shopping. “I was able to spend a day with Susie Seiler Haw, and we had lunch in Enser, a tiny village on the Chatsworth Estate, home of the Duke of Devonshire.” They also drove around the Peak District and enjoyed catching up over tea and cookies (or is that crumpets?) before dinner. What a special day! Chris spent the last week of June in Baltimore celebrating her birthday with Bill Sherman ‘69 and family. They visited Chris in July for their annual Florida get-together, and Liz (Bill’s eldest daughter) came down with his new grandson, Grant, who was 8 months old at the time. As luck would have it, that was the rainy week in Florida. Chris is getting her knees in shape by getting a series of gel shots, which should kick in when she leaves for her next trip to France. She will go to Provence and then drive up through the central area like last year but is hoping to explore some new cities, along the way. Well, Chris, you are amazing. I am sure you will find plenty of new cities, and we all thank you for your continuing travelogues as they are always enjoyable. Buck and Linda Kardash Armiger began their summer with the annual granddaughters’ birthday party. Two of them have birthdays in June, and they enjoyed a pool party for the family on Solomons Island. A new sangria recipe was a hit this year. I assume that was for the grownups, Linda! Then they hosted

granddaughters Logan and MacKenzie for a week in July to attend the Calvert Marine Museum’s Pirate Camp. One camp day was spent at St. Mary’s City, where they “worked” on the Dove, one of the ships the settlers of St. Mary’s arrived on, visited a tobacco plantation and dressed as early 17th-century settlers. Both girls are continuing their equine experience over the summer and are doing very well. They are running in several horse show series championships. Linda and Buck finally completed another “bucket list” trip.

They spent a delightful eight days in Saratoga Springs and scenic Lake George, N.Y. They enjoyed the racetrack in Saratoga as well as breakfast at the track which was a unique and “must do” event. They made good betting choices and came home with more cash than they started with, which is always nice. Linda and Buck plan to visit Sarasota, Fla., early next year to watch the Orioles in spring training. They will also combine the trip with their yearly visit to South Carolina to see their daughter Tara and the closing fox hunt meet of Middleton Place Hounds in Charleston. On a sad note, Linda’s dad passed away in May, but he made his 96th birthday party with all the family there so that is the good part. She has subsequently learned much more about her family’s history. As for me, Florida keeps on calling me. I would love to be there more often than I am, but Cliff and I continue to have our small business in Pennsylvania, so we travel back and forth many times during the year. My grandson Max, 4, is in Orlando, Fla., and he will be starting “voluntary pre-kindergarten”soon. I love seeing him when I am in Florida, and it’s exactly a two-hour drive from us, so, Wayne Sutherland, it is very doable.

One granddaughter in Pennsylvania is at Temple University and helping edit the yearbook, while the other is a junior in high school and is excited that she just got her driver’s license. We have some cruises planned, which I will tell you about next time. Please stay in touch, everyone. We all love to hear the news. As always, stay healthy!

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Chick Fetter Deegan deeganchicke@aol.com In March, Judy Klingelhofer O’Mara, Gail Moran Milne, Barbara Nolte Kearney, Joane Knight Schumacher, Joe Albert, Anne Skinner White and Donna Hasslinger met for lunch in Baltimore. Biff Forbush stopped by for an hour or so on his way from the airport to visit his mother Lois Forbush at Broadmead. Biff was in San Francisco visiting Frank Wing recently. As usual, we all had a great time. Joane brought some pictures of our classmates from the late 1950s and early 1960s, and they certainly brought back memories.

We learned that Joane is getting back into painting again; Anne continues to be active in judging figure skating events. Joe showed us a video clip of grandson Jagger (the sixth grader being trained by the Rolling Stones’ keyboardist in the art of rock piano) playing with his high school band.

What a prodigy! In May, 35 of our classmates, along with Betsy and Dr. Byron Forbush ’47 and Dr. Gordon Bruno and his wife Beth, returned to Friends School for our 50th Reunion weekend. It was great to see so many of us together again, laughing and chatting as if 50 years had not gone by. I think a few classmates even asked Gordon to reconsider some grades he gave them for English class! We enjoyed great weather and great camaraderie among our spouses and guests throughout Reunion Weekend, which officially began on Thursday evening, May 2 with Hank Kaestner, Jeb Felter and Chuck Harlan being inducted into the Friends School Athletic Hall of Fame. The next day, we had two foursomes play in the golf tournament: Jeb, Harrison Monk, Judy and her husband Jack as well as Steve Greif, Gordon and Tom and Debbie Bloucher Irvin. It was a beautiful day out on the links! Jeb was a terrific host for the official 50th Reunion dinner on Friday night. To get us warmed up, he

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MEMBERS of the Class of 1963 gathered for a class photo at their 50th Reunion in May.

passed around pictures of the boys at his birthday parties in 1951 and 1952.

We recognized Barry Stott, Jeb, Biff and Alex Levi in the 1951 picture and Biff, Alex, Jeb, Rob Wiltshire and Mike Keene in the 1952 picture. Jeb also remembered Heikki Rejonen, Dana Jones, Tony Frenkil and Bunny Lawrence, who have since passed away, and our classmates shared their memories of them. Lin Parker wrote a Reunion song and recruited Lary Jones, Lily Kok-Forbush, Steve, Debbie and Judy to sing it with him.

On behalf of our class, the Reunion committee (Marge Felter ‘63, Linda LaMonica Monk ’63, Judy, Chuck, Gail and Donna) presented Head of School Matt Micciche with a check for $46,000. After our official class photograph was taken, Frank popped up with his camera around his neck and took some additional shots. He continued to take pictures throughout the Reunion events culminating in a beautiful slide show of photographs that he created for our classmates. On Saturday evening, we met again for a class dinner, told some more stories and shared updates about those classmates who were not able to attend the Reunion but who were in our thoughts and were there in spirit.

On Sunday, we had a farewell brunch at Linda LaMonica Monk’s home in Annapolis. We missed seeing Keiko Hashimoto Kishimoto, one of our exchange students who lived with Linda during our senior year, but she broke her leg and was unable to make the trip from Japan. During the Reunion we learned that many of those who played on the Maryland state boys lacrosse championship team in 1963 continued to play lacrosse in college and often participated in

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inter-league championship games. We found out that Bob Caffee is still in search of the perfect catamaran at the right price, and Alex is busy with foundation and board commitments and his psychology practice. His office is in the same building as his condo in New York City; he doesn’t even need to go outside to go to work, but he said on some days the elevator can be a little slow … We were happy that Trudi Feinberg Cohen traveled from California to join us. We learned that after directing over 30 theater productions when she lived in Vermont, she moved to Los Angeles, produced two one-woman shows and served as the executive producer of a short film, “Dandelion Dharma,” which won several awards at film festivals. It seems like only yesterday that she choreographed the Mixed Chorus’ production of “Oklahoma” at Friends School. Now she spends her time enjoying her two sons and five grandchildren. She also reports that Matt Damon moved into her neighborhood, and she’s ready to come out of retirement if he has a project that needs her! We learned that, in addition to running his own business in Boston until retiring just before Reunion, Fred Scholz is clearly a man of many talents. He is a Volvo and motorcycle aficionado and has enjoyed photography since spending a year in New York City working for photographer Arnold Newman. Fred built and continues to use a fly fishing camp in Maine, and he and wife Margot built a cabin in Vermont, where they cut, split and store wood for heat and enjoy hiking and cross-country skiing. Fred makes wine annually with a group of friends and likes fishing with the Bass Hole Trout Club, whose members seem to be much

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more interested in the experience than in the actual fish! Alice Long Gersh spent a couple of years teaching political science and public policy to college freshmen before making a course correction and working in human resources for the rest of her career. For fun, she paints watercolors, knits, reads, does yoga and volunteers as a reading instructor in the literacy program at the local library. She and her husband John like to travel and recently spent eight days on a cruise to the Galapagos Islands. Alice Smith Reid worked in computer services and medical publishing before she switched to volunteering. She worked at the local library, was a docent at Ladew Gardens, raised puppies for Guiding Eyes for the Blind and was on the Women’s Board of Johns Hopkins Hospital, serving as president. In 2008, her husband Mike retired, and they moved to Spring Island, near Beaufort, S.C. She now enjoys hiking, running, horseback riding, playing bridge and golf, photography, sewing, quilting, basket making and ceramics. They spend their summers at their cabin near Telluride, Colo., where this summer she is raising a puppy for their son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren. Chick Fetter Deegan is working part time at the Baylor Health Care System. Prior to shifting her attention to human resources leading renewal and leadership development in health care, Chick taught OB nursing, served as the first woman trustee on the University of Maryland Board of Regents and State Board of Agriculture, and worked in oncology nursing. Chick’s husband Mike is enjoying working full-time in academia since ‘retiring.’

They live in Dallas, near their two children, Michael and Megan, and their

two grandchildren. The family vacations in Michigan, and Chick returns to Baltimore periodically to visit her mother and her Friends School friends. Dave Phillips is enjoying his new job as the director of economic and workforce development for Dane County, Wis., the home of the University of Wisconsin and the state capital. He continues to be active in community involvement after a career in banking, positions with various chambers of commerce and oversight of the development of the Frank Lloyd Wright Convention Center. He and wife Susan proudly claim our class record with 10 grandchildren! Dave’s passion for cooking — following in his late mother’s footsteps — led to him publishing a family cookbook several years ago. After earning her master’s degree in social work from Hood College, Joan Shinnick Kreeger moved to Hawaii where she spent 25 years as a statewide program planner for the Hawaii, State Department of Health. She met her husband in Honolulu in 1974, and together they raised his two children and their son, who developed into a singing, dancing and acting dynamo and ended up on Broadway. Joan claims he is a much better singer than she was when she played Aunt Eller in “Oklahoma.”

She enjoys her children and her four grandchildren via her stepkids. She and her husband eventually divorced, and she returned to Baltimore, where she became a tour director, leading tours throughout the United States and Europe. The adventure continues as she and her good friend John have spent time sailing and traveling to China, Egypt, Australia and the Caribbean and throughout North America. Joane Knight Schumacher worked in an ad agency and as a layout artist for a printer before getting married and having her son Chip. After she designed and built their house in Baltimore County, in 1987 she returned to work in production at Schmitz Press, where she served for 21 years before retiring as vice president of manufacturing. She and Donna started taking annual trips to Europe; over the years they have visited Paris, London, Venice and Rome. Joane and her husband eventually divorced. Today, she and her significant other, Larry, spend time at their homes in Pennsylvania and at the beach, and she enjoys oil painting, birding, boating and biking. Lary Jones retired from a career in higher education computing support, and today he and his wife Mikki live in a Sun City community between Hilton Head and Savannah, S.C. He still does

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some consulting and also loves to read, play folk guitar and enjoy the benefits of an active adult community.

Lily Kok-Forbush enjoys providing set design for various productions near her Hamden, Conn. home, including “The Music Man,” “The Wizard of Oz” and others. She has participated in art shows and has won a few awards over the years. She currently teaches watercolor to adults and clay to children at a local art school, volunteers once a week with inner-city kids, sings in the New Haven Chorale, participates in a hiking group, cares for a very old dog named Scooter, enjoys seeing friends, does lots of gardening and loves to spend time with her daughters in Massachusetts and Maryland. Skip Dugdale told us he attended Randolph Macon College, along with classmate Dave Moran, where he earned a degree in sociology, despite the distraction of belonging to a “very social” fraternity. Skip started his career in sales and then moved on to real estate. After wife Elma passed away, he remained focused on real estate and enjoys time with his daughter and grandchildren, taking the latter to the zoo, the aquarium, parks, farms and roller skating. Steve Greif was a psychology major in college, but he developed an interest in computers and earned his master’s degree in computer science. After a series of computer software jobs, he and wife Maggie moved to Columbia, Md., and for the past 27 years he has been with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. He continues to ease into retirement by working only three days a week. For fun, he enjoys reading, movies, tennis, golf, bike riding and speed walking/ slow jogging, which his daughter convinced him to begin seven years ago.

He really enjoys his two grandchildren and says that another is on the way. He says he still is trying to figure out how his kids’ generation has no sense of privacy and seems to live on Facebook!

Anne and Lin Parker have two children and four grandchildren. Lin spent his career teaching and coaching lacrosse at George School, except for one year where he taught in England on an exchange program. Their son Matt followed in Lin’s footsteps; their daughter Jen is an architect. Lin and Anne are retired and continuing to build their stone home in Maine surrounded by “nature’s gym” for paddling, pedaling, swimming, biking, canoeing and snowshoeing. Their guest room is ready, and they have invited classmates to stop by for lobster! In August, seven of us met for lunch in Columbia, Md., and had a great time

as always. Steve, Alice Long Gersh, Anne Skinner White, Judy, Gail, Joan and Donna talked about our 50th Reunion, travel, resolution of the federal debt and book and movie recommendations.

Joan is working on her new list of tours for Women Traveling Together (women-traveling.com), and we asked her to let us know which tours she leads. The groups are small, usually about 15 people, so the hassle of a large travel group can be avoided.

All of our chatting, storytelling and laughing inspired us not only to plan to attend our 55th Reunion, but also to organize a road trip or two on both the East and West Coasts. In addition, we decided to schedule our fall and spring class lunches well in advance, so those who get back to Baltimore periodically might be able to join us.

With so many of us returning for our 50th Reunion, we were one of the largest Reunions, but I think the folks in the Development and Alumni Office summed it up best by telling us we were “the liveliest.”

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Susan Grathwohl Dingle s123dingle@aol.com Pat Clouse Epifanio writes, “I lost my husband John suddenly on Christmas Day, 2012, but I am doing well. I recently went to visit a friend who is living in a retirement community and ran into Susan Huff Schmitt ’60.

It was a fun reunion. By popular demand, the pre-Reunion at Emlenton Mill was postponed ... but the 50th anniversary yearbook project, co-chaired

by Paul Newbury and Jay Biddison is up and running! Paul Newbury put it on the line in this email communication to the class, reproduced in its entirety for those not yet on our email list: “So, I’m out walking the dog, or vice versa, and I’m trying to figure out how to get people to participate in this 50th yearbook project. I could go and visit each of you. That would be fun.

I’d best bring my wife Nancy because she is the one with the people skills. I’d love to do that, but I do have a fulltime job and this mill to support. I was recently rereading Orson Scott Card in preparation for the release of ‘Ender’s Game’ later this year. I was thinking about his Speaker character, who travels about celebrating people’s lives, and I must admit I find this avocation interesting. But that doesn’t necessarily mean everyone finds it fun to share his or her histories. So the administrator in me says, ‘Why not create a questionnaire?’ The cynic says, ‘Who has time

to fill out another form?’ What would I ask? I’d ask about your family because I’m really proud of my four children and their accomplishments. My daughter Saralinda (yes, ‘The 13 Clocks’) just passed her boards to be a nurse practitioner, and my oldest son just wrote the software to allow a party of 5,000 New Yorkers to fire professional fireworks off Pier 84 from smart phones. But you might prefer I ask about your latest scientific paper or your cabin in Montana or your parents in Baltimore or your dogs or your school in India. So, I’ll put it out to you: How should we go about this project? We need to know a little bit about you and preferably get some pictures. If you look at an old yearbook page there was a formal picture, an informal picture, a list of accomplishments and a list of cryptic one-liners.

What if we did some conference calls?

I must admit, I’m not sure how or if I should proceed. Any ideas out there?”

Jay Biddison, Avijit Chatterjee, Greg Neumann and Savitri Gautier jumped on board … and we now have an online Yearbook on Facebook! Just go to “FS1964YB50,” Friends School Class of 1964 Yearbook 50th Reunion Group. When you sign in and join the group, you can post your stories, pictures, and videos. So far, Paul, Jay, Avi, Greg, Savitri, Paul and Suzy Katzenberg have posted. For the “Facebook-challenged,” Paul has created a tutorial. We notice that our class straddles the techno-divide, with some preferring an “old school” style yearbook with pages laid out and printed. But consider the benefit of sharing with people who really care about what you’re up to. Do contact Paul (paul.newbury@gmail.com) to find out more about the yearbook. If you really have severe FBP (Facebook Phobia)

contact your Class Secretary/therapist, and we’ll come up with an alternative way for you to share. For example, when Marianne Benson Clemons, Kathy Benesch and I reunited on Mother’s Day in New York City for brunch with our spouses at Kathy and Tom’s spacious pied-á-terre overlooking the Museum of Natural History, we decided to perform a musical number at the 50th Reunion, featuring tunes such as “Tonight You Belong to Me” (you do remember Patience and Prudence, don’t you?) and, of course, “Goin’ to the Chapel.”

The occasion for this divine madness was that Marianne’s eldest son Andrew was opening off-Broadway in a play called “The Weight of Water,” and he was fabulous, of course! The Class of 1964 extends condolences to our classmate Greg, whose mom Doris Neumann died during the third week in July. Doris Neumann was like a mom to many of us as a teacher whose presence graced our lives. Greg writes, “I had hoped my mother could make it to our 50th but unfortunately her strength faded rapidly this spring and she died this week, peacefully, at home.

My brother Chris and I have heavy hearts relaying this news, and I’m sure you have your own recollections.”

A tribute from the obituary in the Baltimore Sun reads, “Mrs. Neumann taught history and geography at Friends School from 1956 until retiring in 1985.

In 1984, Mayor William Donald Schaefer presented the Baltimore Citizen Citation to Mrs. Neumann in recognition of “28 years of outstanding accomplishments” in urban studies and instilling in her students “immense pride in their city.”

Mrs. Neumann was also a civil rights activist and worked for racial justice, fair housing and international peace. She and her husband helped desegregate

JOE COWAN '63 received the Tewaaraton Legend Award on May 30, 2013 for his exemplary skills on the lacrosse field. Byron Forbush ’47 was there to celebrate the achievement.

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the National Theatre in Washington and joined a vigil at Fort Detrick protesting chemical, biological and radiological warfare experiments. She also worked with the American Friends Service Committee, the Congress of Racial Equality and Baltimore Neighborhoods, Inc. She was a member of the board of the McKim Center at the time of her death.”Sally Huff Leimbach wrote, “Wendell Leimbach ’88 and I were saddened to learn of the passing of your mom … through her and my husband’s McKim board work, she became a role model to me of caring and productivity no matter what one’s age.” We were so fortunate to have known and be taught by several parents of our classmates — Mrs. Newbury, Mrs. Benson, Mrs. Matthias and Mr. Nick. Let’s include them in our recollections on “FS1964YB50.”

If you’d like to post something and don’t know how, be sure to get in touch with Paul for a tutorial. Our 50th Reunion will be here soon.

Any ideas? Email them to me at: s123dingle@aol.com.

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Gretchen Garman gitch@tradenet.net Judy Hamburger Goldthrop writes, “My big news this summer was a three-week road trip with my friend Bonnie (who is also a retired hospice RN). We covered 5,300 miles and

19 states in 24 days, from Texas to South Carolina. We then went up the East Coast to Massachusetts, then back home by way of Kentucky and Tennessee. We spent one night with Tom and Marian Mann Fletcher in Virginia and had some great Carolina BBQ. I promised Bonnie an authentic Maryland crab cake, and thanks to Judy Miller McCall, whom we met up with at Pappas Seafood in Parkville, I fulfilled that promise. It’s the best crab cake in Baltimore, I do believe! We are still talking about the size of the crab cake … bigger than the baked potato!

We visited Fort McHenry, saw the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, the Biltmore Mansion, Mammoth Cave National Park, the Incline Railway on Lookout Mountain and Graceland. We had friends and family to visit all along the way, so it was a great trip!” Chris Windisch Keightley writes, “Along with my husband Chase, we have moved from Santa Fe, N.M., to West Sacramento, Calif., for a variety of reasons, the strongest being our two grandchildren! We still own our house in Santa Fe but plan to sell it when the housing market improves. While I am searching for new choral groups in California, I will continue to sing with the Bach Chorale in Santa Fe. In September, my husband Chase will join me on tour in Spain with the Santa Fe Women’s Ensemble. We will be performing in Madrid, Seville, Granada and Barcelona.” Soon after the snow had stopped in Colorado during

JUDY GOLDTHROP ‘65 (right) and her friend Bonnie visiting Lake Meredith in

New Hampshire in summer 2013

mid-May, I flew west to visit Kathy Hutman and her husband George Beggs who live in Boulder Canyon. The creek next to their house was gushing with the snowmelt, and tiny chartreuse buds were just popping out on the two Norway Maple trees in the front yard.

We enjoyed the fair weather as we hiked on the trails in the town of Boulder and walked around the Pearl Street Mall. At the university, we heard Dr. Bernie Goldstein give the final lecture in a series on hydrofracking sponsored by the the Center of the American West and chaired by Dr. Patricia Limerick. Driving 17 miles west on the Canyon Road, we spent one afternoon in Nederland, an old mining town near the Continental Divide, because Kathy wanted to show me the Carousel of Happiness. In 1986, the carousel, then dilapidated and abandoned, had been purchased

by Scott Harrison who had served in the Marines in Vietnam as a young man. Although he had never carved wood before, he spent the next 26 years making 50 animals and figures to bring the Carousel of Happiness back to life and moved it to Nederland, his home town. The highlight of the visit was the three days Kathy and I spent at the Shambala Mountain Center, where we made a pilgrimage to The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya, one of the most significant examples of sacred architecture in the world. The Stupa, built at an elevation of 8,000 feet, stands 108 feet tall and glistens with gold inlay as well as the five colors, each representing one of the five Buddha families. It is a unique monument to peace, tolerance and compassion. As we returned to Boulder, the tiny green flowers on the Norway Maples had grown into maroon buds about to burst into lovely little leaves, and it was time for me to fly home.

TOM and Marian Mann Fletcher ‘65 in their home in Virginia.

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1966.

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Mary “Bunny” Paternotte Sully writes, “My husband Ray and I had a great trip this summer to the Southwest.

Our first stop was a visit with Tom and Carol Foutz Stephens at their home in Santa Fe. We had a fantastic time, with Carol and Tom as the perfect hosts and tour guides. And we had so much fun catching up! Then we moved on to the Grand Canyon, which, of course, was breathtaking.

Last but certainly not least, we went to Vegas for one reason and one reason only: to see the fabulous and famous Billy Nobel ‘00, who plays keyboards for Tim McGraw and just so happens to be our nephew (my sister Brookie’s son). Needless to say we had a great time seeing Billy as well as the concert performance of Faith Hill and Tim. Early memories of Billy in the Quaketones come to mind!

1967.

Jane Thursby mejanemd@gmail.com

1968.

Arlene Dannenberg Bowes adbowesdmd@gmail.com A third of the Class of 1968 gathered for a memorable 45th Reunion dinner at Ethel and Ramone’s in Mt. Washington in May. Maryland District Court Judge Sally Williford Chester proposed a toast to dear classmates who are no longer with us: Jim Zamoiski, Nathan Kolodner and Tim Eaton. Earlier that weekend, Charlie Capute, Dave Wilson, Clay Woodman and the 1968 Girls’ Lacrosse Team were inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame.

Congratulations to all of you! Dave Wilson retired from Comcast and moved to North Carolina from Indiana in June.

Melinda Burdette has been elected to a four-year term on the board of trustees of Goucher College. Previously, she had served as an alumna trustee.

Others at Reunion included Lanny Mackall, Debbie Lynch Greenslit, Chuck Barton, Joan Boyle Dugue, Libby Chambers, Charmie Watts Flora, Wink Briddell Cowee, Rich Seiler, Milton Brownstein and John Kaestner. Steve Hesky has been living in Pittsburgh for the past 40 years, where he practices psychology. He has

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often traveled internationally with his wife Iana, a fencing coach and referee.

Steve has a step-daughter in college and two adult sons. Tim Pitts took a second retirement, this time from teaching at Princeton’s Hun School, and moved his household to Savannah, Ga., in May. He missed Reunion but shared all the glorious details of his move on Facebook. (No alligators have been seen in the yard. A biography of Union General Sherman will be hidden from visitors.) On his Twitter account, Tim Eaton described himself as an” insurance agent living in a tropical paradise.” Tim died there (in St. Petersburg, Fla.) on August 19, 2012. He loved the outdoors, animals, and the teachings of the Indian Yogi Paramhansa Yogananda. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, grandchildren, mother, sister and many close friends. He is greatly missed. Memorial donations may be made to the Baltimore Humane Society, Reisterstown.

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Frank Bond, Jr. fbondini.bond@gmail.com The Class of 1969 anticipates our 45th Reunion with utter disbelief. It cannot have been so long since we were seniors! And we’re not done yet! Becky Boswell Swanston says, “I recently received a distinguished alumni award for my architectural design work from the University of Maryland and was recognized by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake as one of Baltimore’s ‘Top 25 Neighborhood Moms’ for my hard work and dedication to the Federal Hill community.” Pete Thanhouser reports from Chicago, “2013 was a bad year for my tomato crop. I’m wondering if Mosie Lasagna had any better luck with the weather in Iowa?” Not sure about her gardening, but Mosie is keeping the wheels turning in Fairfield, Iowa, which in July hosted 25,000 bike riders on the last night of RAGBRAI (Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa). That’s the Des Moines Register, proving that newspapers can still be lively. Mosie calls it, “Way, way cool! Giant party!

It was a first time for me to experience it. Not riding, just seeing the town transformed. Riders said it was the best stop of the entire trip.” Speaking of biking, Ken Gault got back in the saddle a couple of years ago and rode the Seagull Century last October. “It was my first Century ride and raised $1,500 for Food & Friends.” Ken also had quadruple bypass surgery in May.

He asks, “Am I the first in the Class of ‘69?” His recovery will keep him out of the Seagull Century this October, but he’s seriously considering its “little brother,” the Metric Century — 62 miles. Bill Houston celebrated 40 years of employment at RTKL Associates, Inc. in July. The first 25 years were as a structural engineer. The last 15 have been in information systems. Kathy Neustadt has been running a speaker series since last winter, which she describes as “something between a Chautauqua assembly, community development and a meeting of Bilbo’s fellowship, and she says she is “starting to look into expanding it into something even more intentional, focusing on helping our community become more resilient in the face of the environmental and economic changes that seem to be in our future.” In the meantime, she made time to enjoy a midsummer visit from Christine Ramsey. They hiked, worked the garden and enjoyed eating their way through regional cuisine (no Maryland crabs, of course, but fabulous, sweet Maine lobsters!). She says, “We drove to Portsmouth, took a boat to the Isles of Shoals and spent one evening just paddling around and around in the pond in a canoe, jabbering away the whole time — so, so much fun, all of it!” Vicky Nelson Harvey still works at Woolstock Yarn Shop in Glyndon, where she serves customers looking for yarn and knitting wisdom. She has taught a number of classes and is the go-to person for pattern difficulties. Vicky resigned as committee chair to Boy Scout Troop 634 last a year ago, where she had served nine years in a leadership capacity. Her sons, who shared her scouting adventures, are now grown.

Tom received his master’s in applied molecular biology in 2011 from UMBC, while Dan is pursuing his education at Towson University for a career as a park ranger. Julia Frank is looking forward seeing everyone in May. JoAnn Early Levin has been working in the Law Department of the City of Baltimore since 2008. John Fensterwald says, “with so much going on in California for K-12 education, it’s been both challenging and exciting to write about education policy at a new organization.

You can find his work for EdSource in Oakland (aedsource.org/today), and you can follow him on Twitter @jfenster. His daughter Molly graduated from UC Davis in June and is doing research in chemistry for now. John relays a welcoming open invitation saying “San Jose’s only 45 minutes from Oakland if you’re in the Bay area.” In April, I was the Weinberg

MEG CATZEN-BROWN ‘73 with her husband Jeff enjoying their new Pacific Northwest

home in Alexander Beach, Wash.

Visiting Journalist at Park School, where I was reunited with Nancy Cole Abrams and former Friends teacher John Roemer (to whom the Class of ’69 dedicated our yearbook). The day started with a breakfast meeting hosted by the school newspaper staff, followed by a presentation to the entire Upper School and then meetings with several smaller groups. The general topic was the impact of social media on journalism.

The very next day, I crossed the Chesapeake to explore the same topic with a group of senior citizens in a continuing education program at Washington College. The presentation was quite different because it took place against the developing story of the Boston Marathon bombings, and digital media played a dynamic role.

If you haven’t visited the Newseum yet, come on down to D.C.!”

1970.

Lisa Mitchell Pitts Lisa.pitts.bee@gmail.com Greetings from the Friends School Development Office, where I am serving three days a week as manager of the comprehensive campaign. Right now I am putting finishing touches on an amazing iPad presentation that we hope will inspire major donors to give generously and help us transform the Forbush Auditorium into a first-class performing arts space. That’s about it from me, what are YOU all up to?

Send me your news!

1971.

Lucy Crosby Price hardimanprice@gmail.com

1972.

Beth Peacock Holcomb Beth.Holcomb@sarasotacounty schools.net

1973.

Sarah Schulz O’Laughlin somohopo@comcast.net Twenty-three classmates gathered for our 40th Reunion this past May. Thank you to Jan Braun Goldsmith for making all of the party arrangements! Chris Felder and Robin Felder were not able to make it to the Reunion but reported that they have followed “twin” paths over the past 40 years. Both graduated from William & Mary, and then earned Ph.D.’s in biochemistry from Georgetown Medical School. And, 34 years ago they each married a dark-haired “Mary,” and they each have two children.

Robin has spent his career at the University of Virginia as a professor of pathology and the associate director of clinical chemistry doing biomedical research for which he has collected numerous honors and awards. In his spare time, Robin invents things, turns them into start-up companies and is a fruit farmer/craft distiller. Chris joined the NIH as a neuroscientist, enjoyed rubbing elbows with Nobel Prize winners, then moved to Indianapolis to become director of neuroscience and

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a research fellow for Eli Lilly & Co. In his spare time, Chris renovates older properties, helps run the family store (Chatham Home Interiors) and creates and casts bronze sculptures. Liz Backhaus Jonsson is also in the scientific research field, and she writes, “I am a clinical research specialist who for the past 25 years has been involved in developing new drugs for patients with unmet medical needs. I am driven by a passion to help patients, alleviate their suffering and translate discoveries into breakthrough drugs. I married my scuba diving buddy and best friend Hans, and we are currently living in Eads, Tenn.” Meg Catzen-Brown is happy to report that she and her husband Jeff recently sold their home in hot, dusty, dry, landlocked Sacramento, Calif., and moved to clean, cool, coastal Anacortes, Wash. They live in a gigantic, funky, fixer-upper beach house at Alexander Beach north of Puget Sound. The downside is that Meg is still commuting to Sacramento for work, where she has been a registered lobbyist for over 25 years, working with California water utilities and Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus.

She is hoping to retire or at least move on to her “encore” at the end of 2014. Other classmates are involved in entrepreneurial pursuits. Audrey Dannenberg retired this year from the Virginia Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired after 30 years of state service. She has started her own private practice, which can be found at visionadaptations.com. She enjoys racing a solo and tandem outrigger canoe and has recently taken on a new sport: standup paddleboarding (SUP, or as they say in the sport, “whasup?”).

Janney Woods has three sons Joe, 29, John, 27, and Cameron, 16, and lives in Winthrop Harbor, Ill. (located between Chicago and Milwaukee). She was recently able to give up her day job with a consulting firm to dedicate all her time to her antiques and vintage furniture business. The website is janneyscollection.com (check it out!). Janney would love to hear from anyone and everyone: just.janney@yahoo.com. Ann Eliasberg Betten left the world of commercial banking and commercial real estate to go back to school for landscape design.

She worked for others while her children Sam, 25, and Leah, 23, were young. With the support of her husband Alan she opened her own business 20 years ago. The website is bettenlandscapedesign.com.

Ann has also become involved in Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital, the Horticultural Society of Maryland,

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CLASS OF ’76 pals Steve Stuart and Ray Carpenter ready for a game of lacrosse.

JEAN and John Patz ‘76 were there to cheer on their son Evan as he won the

Wisconsin State Championships freestyle cross-country race.

Chizuk Amuno Congregation and has taken up both rollerblading and figure skating.

1976.

John Humphries jehriver@aol.com

1974.

Sally Slingluff salslinger@aol.com On a very special evening in June of 1974, a wonderful group of people graduated from Friends School — wait … that was us! Some of us have lost touch with our “forever” friends, and some have maintained those friendships, and some have formed new friendships with old classmates.

Unfortunately, a few of our classmates have also passed away. Over the weekend of May 2, 2014 we will be celebrating our 40th Reunion, and wouldn’t it be fun to meet up with your classmates and see what they have been up to? It’s amazing what happens over 40 years! More detailed information will be coming from Friends over the next few months. In the meantime, mark your calendars for what promises to be a great time.

1975.

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Jon Patz writes “I am now the director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin. My wife Jean and I are so proud of our son Evan who recently won at the Wisconsin State Championships for high school cross-country skiing. He started at Middlebury College in Vermont in the fall.” Steve Stuart met up with Ray Carpenter in March for Ray’s son Jack’s lacrosse game vs. the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, Long Island. Jack is a defenseman for Catholic University in Washington, D.C. Ray and Steve ran midfield together during their junior and senior years for the Quakers. Keith Tabatznik reports “I am now the head coach for the U.S. Soccer Region 1 (East Coast) Boys’ Olympic Development Program. I am still doing broadcasting for Fox Soccer and also for D.C. United games. I continue to return to Georgetown University for Athletic Department events to bump into GU alumni like Patrick Ewing!”

Jean Alexander Barnett writes, “Life in Bellingham, Washington could not be better. The weather has been exceptional; no droughts, floods, wildfires or other crazy feats of nature like the rest of the country! I am continuing my work with the local service dog agency, and in September, I will be graduating three dogs and their human partners. One dog is going

to a child with autism, one to an older adult who is losing his vision, and one is going to a veteran with PTSD. I continue to play tennis frequently along with yoga, Pilates and kickboxing. I am really loving being a step-grandma!”

After over 20 years as curator of International Space Programs at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Cathy Lewis took on responsibility for the spacesuit collection from a retiring colleague. A new traveling exhibit entitled “Suited for Space” that features photographs and X-rays of the spacesuits was developed by the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service out of her predecessor’s book “Spacesuits: The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Collection.”

Cathy organized the kickoff event in November 2010 and supplied programming and media commentary at the exhibit’s venues. She also participates in socials (previously known as “tweet-ups”) for the exhibit, which involves adult, children and family programming. The exhibition ran through December 2, 2013.

MaryAnne Bartlett Bues’ shop is still going full-steam ahead, despite the lower numbers of tourists since the economy went sideways. It’s wonderful to have a business that uses all of her talents and her even stranger hobbies!

Her push this year has been to get more designs up with the print-ondemand companies, such as Cafe Press and Spoonflower Fabrics, and she got stonkered last month by having not one or even two computers collapse on her, but three! She’s also been doing more with Mab’s Creations, her embroidery design product line that

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and teaching detox and cleansing programs. My daughters and I just completed quite a few college tours, visiting 15 schools in total. Come see us anytime in Bali!

1980.

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1981.

Dahira Lievano Binford KEITH TABATZNIK ‘76 and Patrick Ewing at a recent Georgetown Univerity Athletic

Association event.

mostly focuses on Holbein embroidery.

There’s even a new blog at mabscreations.wordpress.com. She’s still teaching and organizing various events and also started playing with the Society for Creative Anachronism again after most of a decade away.

Finally, from Scott Frenkil we learn that at the age of 55 he has finally learned how to eat. He lost 20 pounds in 15 days and has another 20 to go!

He promises pictures once he reaches his goal.

1977.

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1978.

Doug Stevenson dougstevenson@hotmail.com I hope that everyone had an enjoyable summer and fall. Since our 35th Reunion and the last edition of Collection, several classmates, including Warren Jefferies, Craig Dickinson and Leslie Klinefelter, have found their way to the Friends School Class of 1978 Facebook page. All the cool kids are doing it! If you haven’t, what are you waiting for? It’s a great and generally unobtrusive way to keep tabs on your fellow travelers, see some embarrassing (in my case) old photos and post pictures of your current doings. Here, again, is the link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1515 73141607554. It’s also the place where Ilana Tabatznik clued the rest of us in on what she has been up to. Ilana says, “When we were much younger, I wanted to grow up to be a veterinarian … until I saw one stick his arm up my horse’s butt.” As it turns out, Ilana has

been working as a nuclear physicist for NASA for the past several decades. She worked “undercover” during her years at Friends and in keeping with that cover successfully played the role of an inept physics student, coming up with an R value for her house that exceeded scientific possibilities. Ilana is now happily retired from that mundane existence and is living peacefully in the mountains of Vermont in her new role as a middle school guidance counselor.

And to think, I never knew any of that when Ilana was helping me get an F in Mr. Silver’s physics class! There are now 34 of us on the Facebook page, including seven who actually received their diplomas elsewhere, one spouseas-proxy and one former teacher.

The page has also played host to wonderful memories after the passing of Mel Heath and more recently, Doris Neumann. Thanks to the social network, I was able to catch up with Rob Beckelheimer. Rob hadn’t been able to make it to Reunion, but he knew my band was playing in Washington, D.C. in June from my Facebook postings. Having just moved to the District, Rob came by to check it out. It was a wonderful evening! I urge you to check out the Facebook page or drop me a line on email. Dougie, out!

1979.

Anne Hockett annehockett@me.com After 25 years in Asia, I now live in Bali!

My two daughters, Maddie, 17, and Becca, 18, will graduate from the Green School in Bali., Indonesia. My husband Steve commutes back and forth from Singapore but is on island more often than not. I am continuing to build my mind-body practice and love every second spent working with clients.

A new passion of mine is developing

BaltimoreBinfordBunch@ verizon.net Dear 1981 classmates, First off, I want to acknowledge the fact that many of us have reached the mid-century mark this year. Happy birthday to all of us! Whether you celebrate it with a bang (or plan to!) or ignore the milestone altogether, it’s a comfort to know that I am not the only one who is complaining about aches and pains, hot flashes, gray hair and many other hallmarks of our increasing maturity — some that ought not be published in a family magazine like this one — ha-ha-ha! Of course, I also know that there are many of us who are in the best shape of their lives as they hit the gym, bike, hike, run marathons, do triathlons and much more. Woohoo — keep at it! As for me, life has come full circle since our graduation. I am back teaching Spanish in the Upper School, where I was first employed 25 years ago, and where I met the other new Spanish teacher, Tom Binford, who became my husband a year later. We now share teaching duties in the same classroom and have a little sign on our door with “Los Binford” on it. It’s pretty funny, actually. This job came at a great time, as we have college expenses for our oldest son, and now fellow alum, Nico Binford ‘13. What a strange and wonderful feeling to attend the traditional graduation ceremony on the lawn with boys and girls dressed in white. Katie Hearn was also there in attendance as was Jean Young Butler, Edwin Remsberg ‘83, Amy D’Aiutolo Mortimer ‘87, and I watched our children Kathleen Butler ‘13, Emma Remsberg ‘13, Anna Mortimer ’13 and Nico walk across the dais. Now that I am back on campus, I have the pleasure of seeing my son Manuel Binford ’16 in the Upper School as well as Phil Roberts’ son Jackson Roberts ’17, Kakie Standiford’s son Sam Barber ’17, Lucy Williams Hand ‘80’s

son Logan ’17 and daughter Grace ’14, Liddy ’83 and Martin Garcia Buñuel ‘83’s son Justin ‘14 and many other alumni kids. I was especially delighted to see Henry Griffith ‘20, John Griffith’s youngest child is now at Friends. Liz says that Friends has been a good fit and that he’s very happy to be at his Dad’s old school. Another bit of news about me is that I had the great fun of recording an instructional CD for young kids called “Spunky Spanish,” which I am starting to market and use in my own classes for preschoolers at another school. Check it out on Facebook, and while you are there look for me and many other classmates who like to post occasional news. It has been a blast to see photos and read snippets of your lives, so keep posting! Although I am the best and only class secretary you have ever had, the job remains open to others at any time. Sending warm greetings to all of you.

1982.

Joyce Jennings joycejen@berkeley.edu

1983.

Shawn Dorman McKenzie dorman.shawn@gmail.com Well folks, I’m afraid that with our 30th Reunion now behind us, it might be hard to look at ourselves as recent grads anymore. Reunion was great fun, and the Class of 1983 is still my favorite. After the events at school, we gathered at the awesome Clipper Mill home of high school sweethearts Liddy Williams and Martin Garcia Buñuel.

Attending the party were: Liddy, Martin, Rich Espey, Marc Gamble, Trish Backer-Miceli, John Standiford, Deb Smith, Suzy Silesky, Sue Bradford Schindler, Jayne Rosenwald Myers, John Texter, James Macfarlane, Maggie Hug (inspiring a visit from Will Hug ’85), Abe Hollander, Carol Douglas Maxwell, Lisa McKissick and an assortment of spouses and guests.

Larry Smith even joined us via Skype all the way from South Korea. Larry’s big news is that he is returning home for good in late September as his 30-plus year Army career comes to a close.

Larry says, “I already have good Orioles tickets for the family for their last Saturday night game against the Red Sox on September 28. Until then, I’m having fun staying on top of their season with the help of MLB TV and my 9-year-old son’s expert commentary. My journey into civilian employment will dictate whether I seek

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HAM WHITEFORD ‘ 18, Tom Whiteford ’85, Norm Forbush ‘78, Bucky Gunts ‘68, John Whiteford ‘16, Sam Burgunder ‘21 and Ned Forbush ‘21 enjoyed the Cornell tailgate at the 2013 NCAA men’s lacrosse semifinals.

EDWIN REMSBERG ‘83 and Jon Hershkovitz ‘83 enjoyed catching up during this year’s Maryland Folklife Festival.

public office in 2014. If I don’t, it will likely be the last election I skip.” Given the difference in our politics, I might just have to run against Larry (again, like in high school)! Sue Bradford Schindler is excited that her son Jake Schindler ’17 started high school this fall at Friends! Her daughter Annie is in the seventh grade at St. Paul’s School for Girls. Sue’s husband Joe is national sales manager at the Murray Corporation in Hunt Valley and she teaches pre-K at the Good Shepherd School in Ruxton. She’s getting back into theater this fall, playing Miss Hannigan in “Annie.” Edwin Remsberg reports that our classmate in South Africa, Jon Herskovitz, passed through town recently. Ed recalled, “I saw both him and Maggie Hug at the Maryland Folklife Festival. Rich Espey is doing cool stuff with Single Carrot Theater, and he should use the Class Notes to promote that worthy thing.” Rich, we’re counting on a full report of your amazing theater work — writing, producing, acting and teaching playwriting — by the next Notes deadline!

As if that wasn’t enough, Rich is also an awesome science teacher at Park School (whom my daughter Hannah was lucky enough to have last year.)

Tom Greenman reports, “There’s not too much going on here with Sabrina and me. I am currently training for my sixth marathon in Detroit this October.”

Our London-based classmate Pamela Serfling Stack writes that she’s had an eventful year. “I made a sudden trip to Baltimore in July after Mom broke her ankle and managed to visit with Susi Silesky and Suzanne Kantt ‘82. I also took the kids — 7, 17 and 42 (that’s the hubby) to Disney. I nearly saw Nell Smith ’81 in June in London, but once again time conspired against us. I’m starting to navigate the U.K. college system with my daughter and

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wondering, how did I get old enough for that?” Indeed there are a number of us with kids in or soon to enter college, unbelievable as that seems.

Because of my 17-year-old’s dedication to rock climbing, we’ve become experts on climbing communities and campus climbing walls. Who knew colleges even had climbing walls!? I’m just back from a quick trip to the U.S. European Command in Stuttgart to give a lecture called ‘Embassy 101’ as part of an inter-agency course. The discount room of the Ritter Sport Chocolate Factory was a highlight!” I was glad to see Susan Millhauser briefly when she came through Baltimore this summer.

She and her family, along with some five or six other classmates, are still enjoying the good life in Portland, Ore. Let’s keep in touch, and start planning that next half-reunion, 32.5!

1984.

Robert Spencer-Strong robertstrong@hotmail.com

Staige Davis Hodges sdhpdx@gmail.com Lindsay Leimbach writes, “I am still living near Los Angeles, where I’m happily married to a tall husband with really tall children. I am the head of school at The Help Group’s Parkhill School. Parkhill is a special education school that embraces emotionally challenged, high functioning autism, ADHD and students with severe learning disabilities. I believe that everyone’s challenges are just stepping stones to their greatness. I am coming to the 30th Reunion and very much looking forward to hanging out with our class.”

It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly five years since we gathered for our 25th!

We had 38 of 75 attend then, and it was a blast. I am hoping we can match

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or even better our attendance with our upcoming 30th! We have a Facebook event page, and there are nearly 50 of us on it. While I know not everyone is on Facebook, there will be plenty of announcements from the School and some fun emails from yours truly. Did you expect any less? Seriously, mark your calendars for May 1-4, 2014.

Remember, it’s not the years in your life, it’s the life in your years!

CARY ANDERSON ‘85 recently co-wrote and was an associate producer on the sci-fi film, “The Vortex.”

1986.

Roger W. Hughes reosavvy@yahoo.com

1987.

Shelley Coates Stein

1985.

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Amy Chen

Jonathan Wenk writes, “I am currently an emergency department physician, working at several hospitals in Montgomery County, Washington County and Frederick. I am also the head of risk management for Medical Emergency Professionals (MEP). In addition, I practice hyperbaric medicine and own a hyperbaric treatment practice. In my leisure time (what little there is), I play guitar and am hoping to join a band soon. My wife of 15 years, Jennifer, is currently director of membership and guest services at the Jewish Community Center in Rockville. My daughter Charlotte, 11, is a competitive figure skater, having passed the Freestyle 6 level last year. My son Sam, 7, is advancing the belt ranks in Tae Kwon Do and was his Little League team’s ‘best hitter.’ We live in Montgomery County, and I welcome any alumni to stop by and say hello, or look me up on Facebook!” Trevor Buck and his family are loving life at the beach in Lewes, Del. They’re enjoying the slower pace of LSD (Lower Slower Delaware) but can’t wait for the summer to be over so all the regular prices for everything return to normal!

He recently bought a soft-top Jeep — a MUST for the beach — and says, “The Coastal Highway in a Jeep = Fun!” He misses Baltimore but is very happy that they have moved. Benton Hall has

ajochen@sbcglobal.net Michael Rohd writes, “I just completed my sixth year on faculty at Northwestern University’s School of Communication and completed my 15th year as artistic director of Sojourn Theatre (a company making work all over the U.S.). I am in my third year of running the Center for Performance and Civic Practice (a national resource working with legislative bodies, school districts, businesses, nonprofits and funders advocating for the role of the arts in public life), and I have just begun a three-year Doris Duke funded artistin-residence project at Chicago’s Lookingglass Theater Company. I currently live in Evanston, Ill. along with my wife Courtney Davis and our daughter Nina Louise, 2. A highlight of the year was watching Ken Wilson tie the knot in Atlanta this past spring, which included listening to Tom Whiteford give a truly great toast.”

Cary Anderson writes, “I recently co-wrote and was an associate producer on the sci-fi film, ‘The Vortex.’ It is supposed to be released in Japan, Germany and Australia and then have a DVD release in America. On a related note, I am willing to wash fellow Friends School alumnus Jason Winer ’90’s car to work on some sort of project of merit.”

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first grade, and we just adopted a dog from the Humane Society.” Emily Mikolayunas Rich and her husband Oliver are continuing to grow their tea business, recently adding Anthropologie to their growing list of customers!

Their 4-year-old son Ezra is a constant source of amusement and always keeps them on their toes. This summer, Emily and her family spent a wonderful weekend with Stacey Cagan, her husband Kim and their two boys.

1992.

JULIANA DE COLIGNY ’91 and her CHRIS PITTENGER ‘90 and his wife Jenny Turner have four beautiful children Ian, 11, Silas, 8, Angus, almost 5, and little Rosalie, 15 months.

written a book. Keep a lookout for more info! I am continuing to promote my dessert business called Bites O’ Heaven. Keep me in mind if you need a personal or corporate gift, party favors or centerpieces for showers, weddings, bar/ bat mitzvahs, bris/baby namings, children’s parties or as a treat for yourself. They’ll be a hit for sure! The website is bitesoheaven.com

and continues with a freelance career as a costume designer. ”It’s hard to believe we’ve lived here for over 10 years now. It was great to see so many people at the Reunion, but there were so many I sorely missed!” Hear! Hear!

1989.

Meghan Stern Cochran meghan@stern.net

1988.

Angelo Valle gelovalle@gmail.com The challenge of the impressive turnout for our 25th Reunion in May was finding time to catch up in a meaningful way with everyone in attendance. Thanks to all of the graduate and non-graduate members of the class who showed up at various points during the weekend. Special thanks to Jen and Burck Smith, the gracious hosts of the off-campus celebration, and Anne Friedlander Henslee for assisting them in coordinating the event. It was nice to be able to honor our fallen classmates Tim Dietz and Kerim ‘Zack’ Broadbent with a solemn moment of silence and the thoughtful words shared about them. Sharing good memories, updates, stories and laughs was topped off by singing the Friends School Song with the group. During the following month, I actually had a chance to travel to Portland, Ore., where I caught up with Jono Der, Laura Spivak Ryan and former classmate Eric Reid. The trip felt like a welcomed extension of Reunion.

Since then, Christianne Myers sent me an update. She continues to live in Ann Arbor, Mich., with her husband and their daughter Rowan, 6. She is on the faculty at the University of Michigan in the department of theater and drama

Amy Hutchens writes, “In May, I was nominated to and included in the Class of 2013 ‘Influential Women of Virginia’ for my work with corporate ethics and compliance. I was also recognized at the Association of Corporate Counsel Awards for pro bono work for veterans.

In addition to my role at Watermark, I serve on the board of Voices of Valor, a 501(c)(3) that holds in-residence programs for veterans to express their combat experiences through music with the assistance of psychology mentors and singer-songwriters. It has been a wonderful way to continue to serve our brothers and sisters in arms.”

1990.

Jahan Sagafi jahan@post.harvard.edu Chris Pittenger is very busy. He and his wife Jenny Turner have four extraordinarily energetic children, Ian, 11, Silas, 8, Angus, almost 5, and Rosalie, 15 months. They have two cats and 12 chickens (that’s right, chickens). Chris works does research in psychiatry and neurobiology, as well as some teaching and clinical work, at Yale University, his alma mater, where he directs the Yale OCD Research Clinic and was just promoted to associate professor. The whole crew lives in Bethany, Conn., a farming town outside

daughter Amelia, 6, always have a good time together.

New Haven, where Chris serves on the school board. Holter Graham writes, “I am recovering from a bone marrow transplant that I had in late June at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, following a relapse of my leukemia in February. Though weak, I seem to be hitting all of my benchmarks. My wife Neela is here with me until the end of the 100-day waiting period. After that window of time, we should be cleared to go back home to NYC. My mother and stepfather were in Houston for the first two months of my treatment.

I will be keeping an eye on Ed Reed’s hip rehab while I’m in Houston.” My wife Kristen and I are enjoying Ben’s ramp-up to his second birthday here in Oakland, Calif. We’re learning a lot about trucks and tractor types, the number of Cheerios that can fit in a human mouth and the sounds a “mooster” makes (quack!). Also, after 11 years of working at the same law firm with Kristen, I’m leaving to open the San Francisco office of Outten & Golden, a New York-based employment rights firm. I’ll still be representing employees in class actions, challenging discrimination and overtime pay violations, but I’ll also begin doing individual cases and executive transactional work (contract negotiation, severance, etc.). Such an exciting new challenge!

1991.

Jeffrey J. Dinger jeff.dinger@gmail.com

Rachel Kurzweil Dvoskin r.dvoskin@gmail.com Juliana de Coligny writes, “I am living in Hagerstown, where I bought my first house last year. I have recently gone back into the field of real estate with Prudential Bowen.

My daughter Amelia is going into

This class needs a secretary.

If you’re interested in helping with this volunteer job, please contact the Alumni Office.

1993.

Elizabeth Leonard Clifton elizclifton@gmail.com We had a wonderful Reunion in May! Hard to believe it’s been 20 years!

Many, many thanks to Carrie Mallonee Heubner and to Margo Lauterbach for organizing our party, Margo and her family for hosting the party at her warm and welcoming home and to everyone who attended. It was wonderful to see so many classmates!

Don’t let the “official” Reunion photo fool you — we had at least 25 members of the Class of ’93 in all! It was great to see Nick Bentley, Alex Blum, John Breyer, Damon Brown, Karen Hudson Burd, Luke Davis, Guerric De Coligny, Ben Drain, Matt Fogelson, Joey Garner, Esther Moran Hamm, Frannie Hochberg-Giuffrida, Lauren Buerger Holub, Lisa Jacobson, Charlotte Kilchenstein, Margo Lauterbach, Kijana Mack, Caroline Mallonee Heubner, David Peck, Cliff Ransom, Brian Richards, Tori Steinmeier, Sarah Standiford and Shveta Trivedi. Extra kudos to Lauren and Esther for coming, as they were both imminently expecting babies and have since welcomed new additions to their families. Lauren and husband Travis’ son William Callahan Alter Holub, the “fourth and final addition to the Holub clan” was born May 13. Esther Moran Hamm writes, “I just wanted to update you about the birth of our second daughter, Iris Hemingway Hamm, on June 3. Her older sister Eva is a great big sister already! We also recently moved to the Stuyvesant Heights section of Brooklyn. If there are any other Friends School alums nearby, we’d love to know. I can be contacted at estherahamm@gmail.com.” As for what everyone is up to, I remember bits

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Beatrice, together with Riley Fine, Val Shapiro and Eli, Jonah and Zoe Nilson.

When Mike Stringer appeared with his wife in the midst of our visit with Heath, I knew the whole thing had become ‘Alumni Newsworthy.’ It was a blast and a huge treat to catch up with old friends. If anyone’s passing through the Detroit area, drop a line.”

1996.

Andy Dale Andrew.Dale@tdameritrade.com

MEMBERS of the Class of 1993 gathered for their 20th Reunion in May.

and pieces — apologies if I’ve missed something. Nick Bentley, Kijana Mack and Shveta Trivedi all live in NYC. Alex Blum, Karen Hudson Burd, Matt Fogelson, Joey Garner, Lauren Buerger Holub, Margo Lauterbach, David Peck and Brian Richards are all in the Baltimore area. John Breyer and Frannie Hochberg-Giuffrida both live in the D.C. area. John is working as chief financial officer of a D.C.-area charter school. Lisa Jacobson lives with her husband and their two boys in Rhode Island and works as a middle school art teacher at a private school in Massachusetts. Charlotte Kilchenstein lives in Maryland with her husband and is studying sea ducks for a master’s degree in epidemiology. Dave Peck is owner of SoundVision Systems, a Baltimore-area business that specializes in audio, video and automation systems for residential and commercial customers. Guerric De Coligny still lives and works in Honolulu. As for me, this will be my last class notes entry; I’m handing the job of Class Secretary to Carrie Mallonee Heubner, who has graciously accepted the position. Please send her your notes at carolinemallonee@gmail.com. It has been my pleasure serving as secretary, and I look forward to being in touch with you all online and at future Reunions!

for the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Good luck, Bobby! Ian Parrish reports that he will soon be welcoming a restaurant to one of Baltimore’s busiest intersections. (I’m guessing we’ll get a more concrete announcement when things are better squared away.) When Ian has time to catch up on chores around his farm, he can often be found in a field somewhere, asleep on his tractor. Ah, the bucolic life, the simple life! While working up in Towson this past summer, I tried to convince a newly engaged friend of mine to hire Michael Temchine as her wedding photographer, which led to me having a lovely email conversation with the man himself. Michael now lives in Mount Washington with his wife Eliza Feller and son Jonah. Speaking of matters matrimonial, I got engaged over the summer to Sarah Kirby, my girlfriend of almost four years. We’re getting married next year. The date has yet to be announced. I hope you all have a marvelous fall, and please be in touch!

1995.

Trevor Soponis tsoponis@gmail.com

Taylor Smith taylor.c.smith@gmail.com

1994.

Steve Peterson oxenstjerna@yahoo.com Greetings and salutations, Class of 1994! Our 20th Reunion is coming up next May, so watch your email and mailboxes for updates about what’s going on. I recently heard from Bobby Williams, who is moving with his family to Trinidad, where he’ll be working

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Peter Gaines writes, “Sarah and I hit the road for a three-and-a-halfweek road trip, leaving from Michigan and passing through western Massachusetts, Maine, Cape Cod, Brooklyn, the Catskills and Chautauqua, New York. The trip brought us to the homes of Doug Nilson, Heath Shapiro and Mike Fine and Whitney Manger Fine. We got our two girls, Mattea and

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Greetings and salutations to all. It’s been a particularly steamy summer in Charm City, though I wouldn’t know it because I’m now a suburban D.C. dweller. I like it, but it just isn’t as fun as the Salty Balty. So, I write this from some southern county, but I can still shout about the exploits of the Class of 1996 as we continue to reign domination on the world at large. We’ll start out West in Northern California. Gwen Arbruster is still living and working in San Francisco and recently joined Rally.org, an online crowd-funding start-up focused on social causes. Gwen had lunch with Alec Hawley and intends to see Jeannie Achuff soon as well. Alec and his wife Jaimie have had another baby girl! Tomasina is very cute and is attempting to trump the epic Facebook photo shoots of her older sister Talulah, but that will be an uphill battle. Alec remains a landscape architect, working on really interesting and cool projects.

He had to shutter his Internet side MICHAEL TEMCHINE ‘94’S son Jonah.

business, as his syrup supplier up in Canada retired. Despite that, Alec forged on, and he vows to start another online marketplace; this time selling supplies for rare bird collectors, of which he is one. He added another bird to his collection recently, making the grand total three. This one, a white-throated needletail named Jeeves Masterson is quite a specimen. Alec sent a photo recently of him, looking quite regal on Alec’s shoulder. In marriage news, Miriam Freedman married Ling-nan Zou on July 4 in her parents’ backyard.

Windsong Bergman was her maid of honor. Miriam is an assistant professor of chemistry at Penn State University. Jaimie Baron married Jonathan Cohn last summer and moved to Edmonton, Alberta. She’s an assistant professor of film studies at the University of Alberta. Jaimie’s first book “The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History” is coming out from Routledge Press in December. Tabitha Lewis married Stephen Ssonko on May 29, in Kampala, Uganda. Congratulations all! Dan Kahn says, “My son Aidan is 1 year old and is now standing and taking his first steps. I recently started a new position as chief system security engineer.”

Janelle Milam Schmidt is now the director of Summer at Friends Camp.

She is working on the expansion of the child care program at Friends.

Her son Drew is going into second grade and her son Connor is “4 going on 40.” Janelle is hoping to be able to catch up with Jamie Nissley Falcon

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who will be in town for a visit from California. Janelle hopes to finally get to meet Jamie’s 3-year-old daughter! Dan Munoz and his wife Kelly are doing well and living in Nashville. They just bought a house, and Dan recently called me to discuss “APR” rates and car purchasing so I imagine this means he is considering getting a car as well. Car, house, it’s all coming together nicely! Both Dan Munoz and David Schummers are coming to D.C. suburbia to visit in September. We are looking forward to some summer baseball, some steaks and some good reminiscing. We’ll probably discuss the time I took a construction cone with a flashing light on it and put it in Dave’s living room. Dave and his wife Laura are doing well and living in Northern California. with their little daughter Emma. My wife Lauren and I got to meet cute little Emma at P.F. Chang’s recently in Baltimore. She mostly slept while we ate our lettuce wraps and Mongolian shrimpatizers.

Short update this time but, nonetheless, continued impressive life performances by our class.

1997.

Claire Cherlin Kosloff clairekosloff@yahoo.com Hello, classmates! I hope that everyone had a great summer and fall. There seems to be a theme to everyone’s updates this go-round: We are a class of overachievers! It’s simply amazing what our classmates are doing! Erica Winters writes to say, “I just became an RN working in a gyno-oncology unit at a hospital in Dallas this year. I am working toward a B.S.N. at the University of Texas at Arlington

beginning this fall. Hugh Peterson says, “I’m still down in Louisiana working on my third season of Duck Dynasty on A&E as co-executive producer and director. I love the show, but am looking forward to being home for a while and spending time with my family. Christa Sterrett Gatewood has had an incredibly busy year. She shares, “Our family made a big move to Seattle in the spring, as my husband Kristian was promoted to team leader of the Amazon customer team for Proctor & Gamble.

A couple months later and a few weeks after completing the UCLA professional program in screenwriting, I gave birth to our second child, a beautiful girl we named Kalle Andrea. Big brother Kyan, 3, and the rest of our family are loving life in Sammamish on Seattle’s eastside and would welcome any visitors. At our recent housewarming party we were thrilled to reconnect with fellow Seattleite Ellen Morrow and meet her awesome fiancé.” Congrats, Christa and Ellen! Congratulations are also in order for Kathleen Cusack Lyon, who has been doing her share of overachieving as well. She gave birth to a boy, James Christopher Lyon, in March and moved to a new home in her childhood neighborhood. As if that wasn’t enough, her other baby, the newlyrenovated Senator Theater, reopened this fall after four years of hard work.

Jen Insley-Pruitt is no slacker herself.

She writes, “I started at a new law firm, Fross Zelnick, an intellectual property boutique, back in April. I am doing trademark and copyright litigation there.

In between leaving my old firm and starting at my new firm, Matt, Oliver and I took a super fun trip to Ecuador, where we visited a bunch of colonial cities/towns, hiked around a crater lake

HUGH PETERSON ‘97 is enjoying his role as co-executive producer of “Duck Dynasty”

in Louisiana.

CHRISTA STERRETT GATEWOOD ‘97 and husband Kristian celebrated the arrival of baby Kalla Andrea, who joined her big brother Kyan in July 2013.

and a cloud forest and stayed at a 17th-century hacienda. We even took our then 23-month-old child horseback riding and generally had a wonderful time.” Very jealous, Jen! In keeping with the theme, Vanessa Harbin shares, “I got engaged to my boyfriend Dan in June. He proposed in Central Park, and we are planning a February wedding in D.C. where we live. I also have just marked my one-year anniversary as a research analyst at Child Trends, a research institute in Bethesda, after graduating with my master’s in public policy from Georgetown last May. Life is good!” Hooray, Vanessa! I can vouch for the fact that Dan is one lucky guy.

Finally, Jon Yeager sends an awesome update saying “I opened for Dave Coulier, who you may remember as Uncle Joey on “Full House” in August at Jammin’ Java in Vienna, Va. I am a fulltime comedian now (or at least until I find another 9-to-5 headlining or insurance-providing gig). If you happen to read this and you have a $200K-plus salary opportunity, I’ll allow you to email me personally, and I will consider your offer.) But I am staying uber busy: I run three comedy rooms in Northern Virginia, weekly shows at Rhodeside Grill in Arlington (on Thursdays), Fast Eddie’s in Centreville (on Fridays) and a monthly show on Saturdays at Fat Tuesdays in Fairfax. Any Quakers are welcome to come, and also Friends School grads. I post most of my gigs via Twitter (@toosoon_huh) as well as Facebook, so check those out so we can hang out, Quakes! I’m living in Reston with Stout, my dog, and enjoy playing golf, taking long walks on the beach and candlelight dinners, mainly at Olive Garden, where I see how many free breadsticks I can eat before they eject me from the premises.” I will join you at Olive Garden any time, Jon! Have a wonderful fall and winter everyone.

I won’t spoil the fun, but I know there are some other little ones coming down the pipeline, so stay tuned for happy news in the next update.

1998.

Justine Alger Forrester jalger1@yahoo.com 2013 marked the Class of 98’s 15th Reunion at Friends. We had a great group come out for the cocktail reception and after-party including Jason Anderson, Maggie Beetz, Alyssa Bergey, Marc Broady, Kirsten Campbell, Mimoza Cejku, Janine D’Adamo, Justine Alger Forrester, Erin Hall, Elena Johnson, Joe Johnston, Avi Kempler, Jennie Ray, Alison Schwarzwalder Rebman, Amanda Urban, Ed Van Wesep, Lisa Viscidi, Sarah Wehner and Maeli Poor Zacchetti. Additional ’98ers, such as Sarah Brager, Leslie Deutschendorf Coleman, Terry Levine and Jamie Hubbard, showed up to the after-party at Alexander’s Tavern in Fells Point. I’ve heard people claim, “I’m not sure I’d even recognize people from high school anymore,” but I tell you what, this is one group of 30somethings for whom the aging process has been very kind! Everyone enjoyed catching up with each other, and several voiced that it’s too bad Reunion happens only once every five years. For those of you who missed out, you’ll have something to look forward to at our 20th Reunion in 2018! For those who were lucky enough to be in attendance at the event this May, you may have gotten to meet Mike Schneider and Jennie Ray’s new bundle of joy Annabelle! Sweet Annabelle was born on her due date of February 16, 2013 and boasts the same sparkling blue eyes and flaxen hair of her mother (and, to

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be fair, her father). She also has a robust personality, which, in her early months, was most often displayed through her insatiable appetite. Jennie and Mike have been thoroughly enjoying parenthood and say, “Like all parents, we’re convinced that every move, sound, and smell that she makes are unequivocal signs of superhuman genius.” Carrie Maylor DiCanio and her husband Mike welcomed their second baby boy this summer. On June 30, 2013, Zachary James joined their family and Carrie reports that big brother Ian is very proud of his new sibling. I am also delighted to report Avi Kempler’s big news: He and wife Adria welcomed their first child, daughter Lillian, on September 18, 2013.

Avi says she was a healthy 8 pounds, 6 ounces, and the entire family — including Lillian’s Aunt Toni Kempler Rogat ’94 — is ecstatic. Brett Gordon is having a big year. Brett decided to accept a new position at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, where he will be an associate professor of marketing. He says, “It will be tough to say goodbye to Columbia Business School, where I’ve been for nearly seven years, but I am excited about getting to know both my new colleagues and Chicago.”

It’s a good thing that Brett was forthcoming with his big career news because otherwise Ed Van Wesep would have tooted his horn for him mentioning that “Brett will also be tenured at the Kellogg School of Management, and that this is a fantastic result of what he’s been able to do in the field.” Ed also has a major career update saying, “I am moving to Nashville, where I accepted a job as associate professor of finance at Vanderbilt’s Owen Business School.”

Congratulations to Ed! Fellow Reunion committee member Joe Johnston is also making a big move in the near future.

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be moving to Chapel Hill, N.C., in June 2014. Jennie is starting a three-year medical fellowship at UNC, and I will be taking the North Carolina bar exam and hope to find a job in the RaleighDurham area. We’ve heard good things about North Carolina, and we’re looking forward to the slightly warmer climate, exploring the Outer Banks and North Carolina BBQ, among other things.

We had a great time catching up with some folks at the 15-Year FS Reunion this past May. I hope to cross paths with some more Friends alumni in the near future.” Maggie Beetz has a new position and is staying true to her Baltimore roots. Maggie and her husband Jesse Whyte bought a house in Hampden this spring, and now Maggie is working at Center Stage as the publications manager in its marketing department. You can reach out to her if you are interested in coming to a show.

Elena Johnson is also local and writes, “I so enjoyed helping with the Class of ‘98 Reunion in the spring and hope everyone who attended had a good time.” Since Reunion, I have been super busy working at a nonprofit job with Compassion Over Killing and hosting trivia nights with Charm City Trivia!”

She spent most of the summer planning the D.C. VegFest, a free event that was held on September 28, 2013 at Yards Park near Nationals Park. Kim Hamilton-Wendel was also involved in a major event this September.

Kim shared, “I’m looking forward to the USEA American Eventing Championships in September. My mare, Cool Cutie, is qualified again this year, but being that Texas is closer to Colorado (last year it was in Georgia) we will attend. A few more competitions are left in the 2013 season before the nationals and the regional championships.

In family news, my husband Tom just

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JENNIE RAY ‘98 welcomed her little girl Annabelle into the world on February 16, 2013.

finished building his new equine veterinary clinic so the opening of that facility will be late this summer, too. We hope to squeeze in some Colorado activities in between work and competitions as well. Maybe we’ll take the motorcycle to tour some of our state’s ghost towns before the snow falls in October.” As for me, my husband Bill and I welcomed our second baby boy, Gideon Reed Forrester, on September 1, 2013. Though he was only one day early, his swift arrival caught us a bit off guard, so I am pleased to report that I narrowly avoided giving birth in the driveway! Gideon was born within 20 minutes of my arrival at the hospital, leaving no time for an epidural — or even a doctor. There were nurses and a midwife, and my mom, an obstetrician herself, stayed with me. Bill

arrived just in time to cut the cord. Now we are enjoying life as a family of four!

Silas is so thrilled to finally have this baby brother he has been hearing about for so long and to officially be the big brother. I am spending most of the fall on maternity leave but look forward to getting back to work at Calvert School, where I am so happy to be teaching second grade. Bill took less leave, as he has started a new position as the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) lead teacher at Park Elementary School in Anne Arundel County. That’s it from the Class of 1998 this time around.

Much more was shared in person in May, of course, but with Reunion behind us you will have to stay tuned to future issues of Collection to find out more.

JUSTINE ALGER FORRESTER ‘98’s son Gideon Reed was born September 1, 2013.

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1999.

Rosalie Parker rorosalie@gmail.com Salute, my dearest classmates! My first announcement is to ask that all of you mark your calendars for our 15th Reunion — kinda unbelievable, right? I’ll be on the planning committee with our classmates, Wilson Taliaferro, Maron Deering and Reid Cherlin. Please save the date for the weekend of May 2-4, 2014. Before I get into your updates, I thought I’d let you know that Wilson and I are honored to be the Co-Chairs of the Friends School Alumni Board for the next three years. I bet you’d never have guessed that one 15 years ago!

That said, let’s start with Wilson Taliaferro who reports, “Our daughter Eliza is almost 3, which makes us feel like real grownups sometimes.

I recently caught myself joining a conversation at a party last weekend about which grocery stores have the coolest carts for kids. The work is coming along on the farmhouse renovations, and I’m having fun with the constant but ever-shrinking list of things that need repairs. We got 10 little chicks in the spring, and now they are fullsized egg-laying chickens, which is fun and delicious. I’m sorry that I missed Tim Donahue’s wedding this summer but I was able to catch up with Jessie Adkins when she was in town for her baby shower. We are working on plans for Reunion weekend, so if you have any preferences for venues let us know, otherwise I’ll have to get in touch with Jake Lodwick and see if his mom’s basement is still available.” Drew Shelton says, “My daughter Annie is 1 year old, and I attended space camp this summer. I went to space camp to make me a better astronomy teacher, but it was a blast just as a participant. If you think space exploration is cool, you will think it is even cooler after going to space camp. I met a 68-year-old woman there who kept up with us the whole way. No one is too old for space camp!”

If I am unemployed again over the summer, I think that Drew just convinced me to attend space camp. Next, I have an exciting update from Amanda Parks Bates who says, “I’ve been working on this Class Note for 14 years: My husband Devin and I recently bought a rowhouse in Charles Village. We have just embarked on the long and tedious process of DIY rehabbing. We have completed work in the basement, which included patching the sub floor, patching mortar and brick work, leveling the floor and painting. After mastering these skills, we are ready to tackle the rooms that people will actually see!

Professionally, I am the director of customers for one of Agora’s publishing houses, Money Map Press. I have been with them for the last five years. I have a team of five employees, one of which is our classmate Lucia Treasure. We spend our days making sure retirees are able to spend their hard-earned pensions in the stock market. When I’m not yelling at the hard of hearing or inhaling cement dust, I love seeing other Friends classmates such as Rosalie, Shannon Clark Early and Greg Binstock.” Sophia Silbergeld, our classmate at Friends for 10 years, sent in her first update to say, “I visited with Jessie Adkins in July! It was great to see Jessie, her parents and Suzannah Murray’s mother there as well.” I’ve been privileged enough to see Sophia often as we frequent restaurants on our tour de tartare throughout Baltimore sampling raw meat. We frequent 13.5% Wine Bar in Hampden, where our beloved Kate Erwin Ward is the executive chef. She just recently expanded the kitchen and subsequently, the menu. If you’re in town or visiting, it’s a must. The Alumni Board hosted a local event there in March, where we saw many alums from our Class including Lucia and Amanda. A few weeks later we celebrated Janine D’Adamo ’98’s birthday there with her husband Alec Heuisler and Upper School art teacher Erin Hall ‘98. You must see a pattern with 13.5% and our support of Chef Kate as I ended up there again during HonFest in June with Deana Carr-Davis and her fiancé, Laksman Frank. I couldn’t be more thrilled with their union. I was good friends with him at Boston University, where both Deana and I attended college. Congrats to them! Lastly, I have a good amount of news to report from my end, and it’s through my Friends School connections that I’m now back on my feet, employment-wise. In April, I started working for Jennifer Tufaro Nolley ‘01’s father David Tufaro at Terra Nova Ventures while she was on maternity leave. David is the developer for the huge Mill No. 1 redevelopment project in Hampden, and I was fortunate enough to fill in while she was on leave.

This, in turn, introduced me to the property management company Thornhill Properties. Since August, I’ve been working there full time. So far, I’m co-managing Mill No. 1 with another Friends School alum Steve Travieso ‘94 and continuing to work with my good friend Jennifer since she’s returned to work after giving birth to a beautiful baby girl, Elizabeth Stephania Nolley, on April 28. I managed a number of promotional events at Mill No. 1 over

the summer and was happy to see both Josh Stone and Katarina Carlin ‘97 at separate events. I hope everyone had a great summer! I see exciting life events from our class on Facebook — Gene William’s wedding, Laura Goren’s wedding, Anne Preis’s baby, John Cronin’s babies and possibly more!

Please always send your life-changing events, to the Friends Alumni office.

Hope to see you all of you in May at our 15th Reunion, if not before then. You know where I live, so if you’re in town, I’d love to see you and catch up. Ciao!

2000.

Sammy Williamson slwillia@gmail.com Zach Wilcock writes, “I have been stateside in Houston lately, proudly telling everyone that I’m ‘the only oilman from Baltimore.’ While that description is probably sufficient for those on the East Coast it’s important to be more precise in Texas as everyone in Houston seems to be in the industry.

Since re-repatriating, I have been wearing the hat of oil and gas consultant, which, oddly, finds me anywhere but Houston. The past year has been spent in the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Saudi, Bahrain, India, Canada, Mexico and of course, West Texas. After the Ravens won the Super Bowl, I bought the TV and couch, where I watched the game in hopes that it would bring Baltimore sports team good luck.

Within hours, the Orioles swept the Yankees!” Ben Camp says, “I’m living in New York pursuing songwriting as a full-time career. I recently co-wrote Victoria Justice’s (of Nickelodeon ‘Victorious’) debut single ‘Gold,’ and

have also co-written the first single for a No. 1 record in Holland for a boy band called ‘Main Street.’ I’m also working with Tommy Boy record-label artist Angi3 for her upcoming EP.”

2001.

Carrie Runde Carrie.Runde@gmail.com Hello, Class of 2001! The fall brings many interesting happenings with the members of our class. Anna Melville is excited to tell us that she has returned to Friends to teach Middle School English and is excited that many of her favorite teachers are now her colleagues. Previously, Anna was teaching at Harford Day School in Bel Air. Rob Tand is a busy father to adorable 18-month-old twins, Julianna and Brandon, and he recently graduated from NYU Stern Business School with an M.B.A. in economics and finance. This year marks Rob’s seventh year working for Goldman Sachs as well as his seventh wedding anniversary with wife Jennifer.

He is enjoying fatherhood and hopes to explore a career change in the future once his twins get a bit older.

Emma Viscidi writes that she finished her Ph.D. in epidemiology at Brown University and began working as an epidemiologist at Boston University.

Heather Dow Anderson is working as a preschool and elementary gym teacher. She and her husband celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary this year and are happily living in Hampden. Their son Aaron attended Summer at Friends camp this year and is entering the first grade at St. Thomas Aquinas this fall. I am

JENNIFER and Rob Tand ‘01’s 18-month-old twins, Julianna and Brandon.

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JORDAN TALER ‘03 creatively used a plaque installed in an art gallery as part of his

recent marriage proposal to Christina Forsting ’05 in NYC.

happy to share my own news that I married Kristaps Paddock in Baltimore in late July. Our wedding was attended by a handful of Friends graduates including Molly Kastendieck, Sara Zager Chapper, Mike Chapper ’00, Nicole Runde ’06, Dylan Runde ’10 and Marion Donald ’10. After the wedding, Kristaps and I traveled to Turkey for two weeks. We’re still living in D.C., and I recently started a new job working at the Casey Health Institute in Gaithersburg, a public nonprofit primary care medical home. Please continue to stay in touch!

2002.

Camille Powe

2004.

Camille.powe@gmail.com

cswright@gmail.com Jason Berman produced a film in West Virginia this summer called “Little Accidents.” The project went through the Writers and Directors Labs at the Sundance Institute. The film stars Elizabeth Banks, Boyd Holbrook, Chloe Sevigny, Josh Lucas and Jacob Lufland.

The logline reads: “In a small American coal town, the disappearance of a 14-year-old boy draws a young miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive and a local boy together in a web of secrets.”

2003.

Jessica Vanderhoff jessicavanderhoff@gmail.com Ben Pittman writes to say that he was married to Jackie Gang on May 11, 2013, in New Orleans. Among the guests were Carter Erwin and

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BEN PITTMAN ‘03 and Jackie Gang were married on May 11, 2013 in their

hometown of New Orleans.

of Social Work with the Public Allies Maryland program. Laura Zager is living in Baltimore and recently graduated as a physician’s assistant. In September she’ll be starting a new job in surgery focusing on breast surgery and plastics. Kathleen Gorman has moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., to start her residency in pediatrics at University of North Carolina Hospital.

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Becca Fogel Erwin ‘02, Jason Yamada-Hanff, Katie Fisk and Lizzy Polek Gopal ‘04. Jordan Taler says “Christina Forsting ‘05 and I rekindled a lost love forged in the early ‘90s in elementary school. After traveling with Christina and working a lot in NYC, I proposed to her in an art gallery. We are happily engaged, living in Park Slope, Brooklyn with our dog, Belle.”

Emily Weinman writes, “I spent the summer in Park City, Utah working with a venture-backed, organic juice start-up. I will be returning to Charlottesville, Va., in the fall to complete the second year of my M.B.A. program at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.”

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2005.

Our class has quite a few engagement updates! Samantha Cusack is engaged to Julian Freeman and has moved to Philadelphia. Lindsey Syropoulos is engaged to Russ Wedekind and is living Baltimore while working and attending business school. Alexandra Nelson will marry Michael Squires in October in Harbor East. Julianne Grim is one of her bridesmaids, and Emma Garren, former Friends Lower School classmate, is her maid of honor.

Alexandra is working at University of Maryland Hospital in cardiology and has decided to pursue the business and administration side of hospitals.

After the wedding she’ll be applying to business schools. Gary Williams married Christina Drushel this summer right here in Baltimore at the Hotel Monaco. Landon White and Brandon Jimal Booth both attended the wedding ceremony. Gary is working at the University of Maryland School

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timothy.mclaughlin3@gmail.com Christina Forsting says, “I am happy to report that Jordan Taler ‘03 and I got engaged on July 25, 2013. Currently, I’m working as a grant writer at a New York-based nonprofit think tank focusing on a resolution to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict.”

2006.

Nicole Runde Nicole.Runde@gmail.com It was an awesome Baltimore summer for me! My older sister Carrie Runde ‘01 got married in July. It was the highlight of my year. I’m pretty pumped to finally have an older brother (even if he does like the Red Sox). I also started a new freelance job for Emeco, a domestic aluminum chair manufacturer. I’m

working from their studio in Pigtown doing product development. I spent June-August playing my seventh summer of softball with Jackie Murk and the usual suspects, riding bikes, watching outdoor movies on the hill and attending Orioles games (somewhat obsessively). I caught games with a fair amount of ‘06ers: Katie Minton, Jake Stern, Owen Murphy, Rob Houston and Kaitlin Boswell (who just moved back to Baltimore in June). Besides spending all of the money earned from her job at UPMC Center for Health Security on O’s tickets, Katie Minton spent the early days of her summer mired in GARY WILLIAMS ’04 married Christine

Drushel on July 6, 2103 in Baltimore.

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KATIE WILLIAMS ‘06 and Josh Coiner were married in Baltimore in May 2013.

law school applications. It seems to have paid off because she was accepted to Columbia Law School and will start in 2014. In other Katie-related news, the zookeeper formerly known as Katie Williams is now Katie Coiner! In May, she married Josh Coiner, whom she met at UVA. Congratulations, Katie. It turns out we have lots of prospective lawyers in the ranks of ‘06. Jeb Cook spent the summer working at Venable LLP in Baltimore and exploring different practice areas as well as “doing a lot of cool lawyer things,” such as seeing the Supreme Court on the day the DOMA decision was issued. He will be here next year for his last year at the University of Maryland School of Law and plans to practice in Baltimore after school. Ouranitsa Abbas writes that she is still working with Immigration Legal Services at Esperanza Center (Catholic Charities of Baltimore), helping people on their way to freedom and U.S. citizenship. I didn’t get many other update submissions, but, hey, I saw a lot of you this summer! I ran into Camille Stokes and Robert Janey at Chipotle. They are fantastic and really enjoy their burritos. I saw Phil Bartolini at the Waverly Farmer’s Market. He is doing well and enjoys produce. I met up with Brian Penza and Os Cole at Dan Kotowski’s house. Brian is engineering and driving really fast cars, Os is an

EMT, and Dan has a super secret job doing intelligence analysis.

2007.

Lauren Marks lmarks617@gmail.com Congratulations to Katie Vaselkiv who got married in July. Class of 2007 wishes her the best and happiest marriage with her new husband! In other news, Eileen Butler and Molly Moses have moved to Boston. Eileen came up from sunny Orlando and Molly from NYC. Eileen moved to work as a market analyst at a marketing agency, and Molly will start her master’s in theological studies at Harvard Divinity School. Also in New England, Austin Gifford writes, “I am illustrating an education app and volunteering at the studio in the Eric Carle Museum for Children’s Book Art in Amherst, Mass.” Moving down the map, we encounter Allie Mac Jordan in New York City who writes, “I am working for an ad tech start-up focused on collecting intent expressed by consumers through a variety of social media platforms and harnessing that intent for marketers to deliver ads against. I moved to NYC about a year ago and honestly can’t picture ever leaving.” Ali Gilbert just left NYC for South Africa, where she is living in Cape Town for a year. She is on the

marketing team for Grassroots Soccer, a nonprofit that uses the power of soccer to educate and mobilize youth in the fight against HIV/AIDS. You can learn more about her work in South Africa on her blog (hakunamasoccer.wordpress.com).

Also abroad, Anna Swicklik writes “I spent the summer in Dublin, Ireland working for the Consero Group. I ran into Justin Einstein on the streets of Florence while on holiday with my family. What a small world!” In the Mid-Atlantic region we have Laura Beth Resnick, who is expanding her Butterbee Flower Farm to a half-acre plot in Pikesville so that she can spread more beauty. I know from firsthand experience, her flowers from Whitelock Farm in Reservoir Hill are outstanding!

(See article on page 26.) Sadly for me, my buddy Roz Kreizenbeck moved out of our house in Federal Hill and into Holly Heller’s apartment in D.C. where Roz is studying museum education at George Washington University. I am happy to say that in September I started at the University of Maryland School of Social Work in downtown Baltimore, which has been great. For my fieldwork placement, I landed the opportunity to work with inmates at the Baltimore County Detention Center in Towson. There is always something interesting to report!

2008.

Jasmine Powe Jasmine.Powe@gmail.com Daniel Feinberg is working on his master’s degree in wildlife ecology and conservation at the University of Florida and planning to graduate in May 2014. He still plays the guitar that used to float around senior hall at Friends. Bill Hicks graduated from Drexel University in June with a B.S. in electrical engineering and minor in business administration and mathematics. He accepted a full-time position as an engineer at PEPCO in D.C. He now is living in Roland Park and pursuing a professional engineering license. Emily Fleming is starting her second year as a Teach for America corps member in Chicago. She teaches middle school special education on the west side of Chicago. She is also a certified yoga instructor and will complete another 100-hour teacher training this fall with international yoga teacher Elena Brower in New York City. Rachel Pologe has been living in Los Angeles for the last year and working in television production on “The Birthday Boys,” which will air on IFC in October, and “Review with Forrest MacNeil,” which is coming to Comedy Central in 2014. Rill Causey moved to Brooklyn in September to work on audio post-production. Give him a shout if you live in the area at causey.rill@gmail.com. Alana Naslund is still working for Nordstrom and recently got a promotion to assistant

MEMBERS of the Class of ‘08 had a wonderful time visiting Ireland.

Pictured (from left) are Annie Bancroft, Alexis Bond and Hannah Allen.

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manager of the junior’s department.

She loves working for the company and is excited to further her career with them. She is also planning on volunteering at Johns Hopkins as a nurse assistant or in the children’s ward. Spencer Rothbell is writing for a Cartoon Network show called “Clarence,” which should come out next year. Jocelyn Worley recently moved right outside of Tel Aviv, Israel.

She is doing a post-baccalaureate pre-med program at Bar Ilan University.

It’s a one-year program offered to American students who did not get their medical prerequisites during undergrad. She is excited to be following her dreams while having the opportunity to live abroad.

As for me, I have really been enjoying living in Charleston, S.C. It has always been my dream to live on the coast so I am taking full advantage of all the great beaches and seafood that Charleston has to offer. Keep sending me your news! Love to hear from all of you!

2009.

Leah Koenig lkoenig@wesleyan.edu It’s an exciting year for the Class of 2009 with many of us having recently graduated and moving on to our first jobs, graduate school or other new adventures. Eva Jacobs writes, “I am excited to finally begin studying to become a veterinarian, something I have wanted since before I can remember. I will be attending the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine for the next four years. I moved to Philadelphia in August after traveling to Budapest and Vienna with my family.” Kylie Davis has joined Teach For America in the D.C. corps, where she will be teaching fourth grade for the next two years.

Kurt Herzog says, “I am returning to Bowdoin for my final semester this fall, and I am majoring in economics and environmental studies. I am currently working in New York City for a solar energy developer called Syncarpha Solar.

I am hoping to travel for a few months after I finish school in December.”

Lindsay Cooper will be teaching

English in La Palma, Mallorca, Spain for the year starting this fall. Kelly Dayton graduated in May and is beginning a master’s program in accounting in August at Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business. He hopes to pass the C.P.A. exam next summer before he begins working as an audit associate with Rothstein Kass, a public accounting firm that specializes in alternative investment funds. He just moved into a new apartment in downtown Dallas and is very excited for the year ahead.

Hannah Patterson graduated magna cum laude from Auburn with a B.S. in agricultural communications. While studying at Auburn, she interned in Belgium, served as a College of Agriculture ambassador, was the president of the Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow club, and was crowned Auburn’s Miss College of Agriculture. She recently moved to Nashville, where she works at Journal Communications, a custom media company, in its agribusiness department creating magazines and websites for state departments of agriculture and for the National Future Farms of America organization. As for

me, after graduating from Wesleyan, I moved to Brooklyn and am settling into my new job assisting with some exciting international reproductive health initiatives at a maternal health research NGO. Keep sending me your updates; it’s always great to hear from all of you!

2010.

Maggie Tennis Margaret_Tennis@brown.edu Most members of the Class of 2010 have now entered their senior year of college. Tyler McDermott writes, “As I prepare to enter into my senior year at Columbia Chicago, I’m currently wrapping up an internship at BET Networks as a production intern for its music countdown show ‘106 & Park.’ I’m also a featured writer and contributor for Billboard.com and Billboard Magazine.” This summer I completed an internship at T. Rowe Price and am looking forward to all that my last year in college has to offer. As you prepare to graduate, remember to send notes to keep your classmates

Fall/Winter 2013 Milestones.

Marriages

STAY IN THE LOOP! Please send all Milestones to alumni@friendsbalt.org.

1996.

Deadline is March 1, 2014.

Miriam Freedman and Ling-nan Zou July 4, 2013 Tabitha Lewis and Stephen Ssonko May 29, 2013

1999.

Gene Williams and Colleen Homa July 6, 2013

2001.

Carrie Runde and Kristaps Paddock July 27, 2013

2003.

Ben Pittman and Jackie Gang May 11, 2013

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1995.

Gary Williams and Christina Drushel July 6, 2013

Alison Bomgardner Miller and Travis, a boy, Owen Jude June 19, 2013

2006.

1996.

Katie Williams and Josh Coiner May 2013

Alec Hawley and Jaimie, a girl, Tomasina

1997.

Births 1993.

Esther Moran Hamm and Erich, a girl, Irish Hemingway June 3, 2013 Lauren Buerger Holub and Travis, a boy, William Callahan Alter May 13, 2013

Kathleen Cusack and Chris Lyon, a boy, James Christopher March 21, 2013 Christa Sterrett Gatewood and Kristian, a girl, Kalle Andrea July 1, 2013

1998.

Carrie Maylor DiCanio and Mike, a boy, Zachary James June 30, 2013

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posted about your plans, especially if you are relocating.

2011.

Ashley Geleta Ashley.Geleta@fandm.edu Jen Macko spent her summer biking across the United States in the 4K for Cancer. After beginning the 3,500-mile trip in Maryland on June 2, Jen finished up the ride in Portland, Oregon on August 10. Pit stops included a special visit to Cincinnati and Salt Lake City to present scholarships to cancer survivors in need of academic scholarships for college. After crossing through several states, including Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Idaho and Colorado, Jen has made her way back home to Baltimore after raising more than $4,500 for her cause. Way to go, Jen! Dani Turner writes, “I began my summer as an intern for Saratoga Arts Fest, where my principle job was assistant producing the event ‘Steppin’ Out Live with Ben Vereen’ at the Arthur Zankel Music Center. I also co-directed a devised piece for the festival called ‘Spirit of Life.’ After the festival, I

Jennie Ray and Mike Schneider,a girl, Annabelle Boyd February 16, 2013 Justine Alger Forrester and Bill, a boy, Gideon Reed September 1, 2013

traveled to Vassar College, where I was one of five directing apprentices at Powerhouse Theatre/New York Stage and Film, an organization dedicated to providing Broadway, off-Broadway and new emerging theater artists with a safe place to work away from the pressures and critics of New York City.

While there, I had the honor of shadowing Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie as he directed the first workshop of Steve Martin and Edie Brickel’s new bluegrass musical ‘Bright Star.’

Working with and learning from these three artists may have been the most amazing experience of my life. Also at Powerhouse/NYFS, I shadowed Portia Krieger as she directed Rachel Bond’s play ‘Swimmers’ for a festival, assistant directed a production of Aeschylus’ ‘Agamemnon,’ directed numerous one-acts by the playwriting apprentices and took classes in text analysis, composition and use of the creative process in peace-making and community dialogue. I also shared a bathroom with the voice of Princess Tiana and rapped with Damien (Daniel Franzese) of ‘Mean Girls.’ It was a wild summer.” Sam Chase also did some traveling this past summer, heading

John Cronin and Audrey McLoughlin, a girl, Emily Aiofe May 23, 2013

to Guatemala to work on a project he and fellow Colby classmates created.

The Migrant Peacebuilding Project, funded by a Davis Projects for Peace grant, aims to connect migrant workers who have been deported from the United States with jobs in Guatemala.

Sam’s two-month stay in Guatemala has included hosting a job fair in Guatemala City and doing academic research on social and labor discrimination among migrants. He is hopeful that the progress will continue as the group returns to the U.S. but plans to continue to dedicate time and effort to raising awareness and eradicating stigmas of deported immigrants. For more information on Sam’s project, visit migrantpeacebuilding.org.

Christopher McClenney sends his regards to the Class of 2011 and has been quite busy since graduation. He recently established a hip-hop, R&B, EDM music collective/band called Mack Five and just finished up a summer internship with the Washington, D.C., Water and Sewer Authority. His material can be found on Soundcloud under “Mack Five.” Christopher will return to College Park in the fall and will continue his jazz piano performance

and Spanish language majors and work towards applying to law school in the near future. Alex Young spent a part of his summer with his choir, Cappella Nova, on an international tour in Cairo, Egypt. This fall, Alex will head off to Africa, where he will spend time in Kenya and Tanzania. He plans to stay with host families in Nairobi and Zanzibar and will even have the opportunity to research coral reef health off the coast of Tanzania. Upon his return to Lewis and Clark College in the spring, Alex will continue with his biology major and music minor studies.

It sounds like many members of the Class of 2011 had amazing summers, and we’re looking forward to hearing of our other classmates’ journeys around the world!

2012.

Lauren Riley rilelp12@wfu.edu

2013.

Samantha Enokian samanthaenokian@yahoo.com

1943.

1960.

Herbert Davis May 14, 2013

Cornelia “Corni” Ham Lingley July 6, 2013

1945.

Carolyn Suhr LeBorys May 11, 2013

In Memoriam

Wendy Forbush Morrow October 4, 2013

Avi Kempler and Adria, a daughter, Lillian September 18, 2013

1933.

1948.

1999.

1936.

1956.

1968.

Jennifer Tufaro Nolley and Dawson, a girl, Elizabeth Stephania April 28, 2013

Madeleine Schauman Alban July 2, 2013

Anne Nicholson Sandberg July 27, 2013

Egerton Robert (Tim) Eaton August 19, 2012

Mary Bolgiano Filler May 13, 2013

1937.

Anne Preis and Audiel Vera, a girl, Lucille Frida December 2, 2012

Anne Homer Martin June 22, 2013

Champ Sheridan August 7, 2013

1957.

Tom Cleaveland May 19, 2013

1962.

Elizabeth Smink Evans April 9, 2013

1999.

Michael Malin September 10, 2013

Chuck Briddell July 25, 2013

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1939 Elizabeth Lamb Buck* Daniel S. Greenbaum*

1941 James G. Kuller Dorothy Eastwick Seaton*

1942 Anonymous

1944 David R. Millard

1945 Harry L. Hoffman III and Mary Louisa Hoffman

1946 Gisela Cloos Evitt

1947 1926 Jacob Epstein*

1927 Howard Buffington

CIRCLE OF

Friends THE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS recognizes those 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.

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.

Questions? Please contact Eleanor C. Landauer at 410.649.3316 or elandauer@friendsbalt.org.

1928 Alan J. Harper* and Florence Harper*

1929 Caleb R. Kelly, Jr. * and Adine C. Kelly

1930 William R. Kahl* Nancy Hill Salisbury* and Arthur Salisbury*

1931 Anthony G. Rytina* and Theodora R. Rytina*

1934 Florence G. Oldham*

1935 Ann Burgunder Greif Harold A. Ricards, Jr.* and Eleanor Connor Ricards ‘37*

1936 Carmian Forbush Davis* and Carle M. Davis Marion S. Hayden*

1937 Dorothy B. Krug Anne Homer Martin* Eleanor Connor Ricards* and Harold A. Ricards, Jr. ‘35*

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

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W. Byron Forbush, II and Elizabeth Forbush

1948 Anonymous

1949 Joseph Klein, Jr.* Shirley Cox Seagren Richard A. Simon

1950 G. Frank Breining Joel D. Fedder

1951 Anonymous (2)

1952 Janet E. Mules

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

1954 Anne Black Evans

1955 Robin Biddison Dodd Robert L. Kriel Mary Allen Wilkes

1956 Albion Bacon Clarinda Harriss Robert B. Heaton and Ann H. Heaton Martha F. Horner Mabel T. Miyasaki Linda Windsor Siecke

1957 Marcia Smith Clark J. Henry Riefle, III

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1958

1969

1990

Anonymous Elizabeth Banghart Flaherty Susan Shinnick Hossfeld Henry L. Mortimer J. McDonnell Price Ronald H. Renoff Frank A. Windsor and Ann McAllister Windsor ‘60

M. Louise Wagner

Will and Sandy Rubenstein

1970

1991

A. P. Ramsey Crosby Susan Byrnes Koerber* Lisa Mitchell Pitts and Toby Pitts Carl B. Robbins

Sherri Shubin Cohen

1959 Robert S. Patterson and Barbara Patterson Dan Reed and Claire Reed

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

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

1974 David R. Blumberg

1975 Robin E. Behm Katherine E. Bryant

1961

1976

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

1977

Cynthia Klein Goldberg Winston W. Hutchins

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

1962 Mary Ellen Fischer Emily C. Holman James Byron Willis, Jr.

1978

1963

1979

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

Philip B. Gould Joseph Klein, III and Judy Sandler Cristin Carnell Lambros

1964 Joseph W. Cowan Peter Paul Hanley Susan B. Katzenberg Sally Huff Leimbach Harry D. McCarty Marilyn Miller Thomas Elizabeth A. Wagner Donald H. Wilson, III Faris L. Worthington Patricia K. Worthington Carl W. Ziegaus

1965 Gretchen A. Garman Mary Dell Gordon Harlan and Charles W. Halran ‘63 Frederick W. Moran

1967

Norman D. Forbush Timothy R. Hearn

1980 Christopher Holter Amy Gould John and Andrew John

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

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

1985 Evan C. Shubin Katherine G. Windsor

Alan B. Rosoff

1988

1968

Thora A. Johnson Wendell B. Leimbach, Jr.

Jay E. Boyd Melinda Burdette Robert L. Mackall W. Berkeley Mann, Jr. David A. Wilson

1989 David Henry Jason Innes Gregory Moody

Trustees Anonymous (2) Tom Brooks Sue Carnell Nick and Brigitte Fessenden Norman Forbush ‘78 Timothy R. Hearn ‘78 Thora A. Johnson ‘88 Barbara P. Katz Elizabeth A. McKennon Judy Witt Phares Anne B. Powell Edwin Remsberg ‘83 Stephen Rives Carole French Schreck Daryl Sidle John G. Watt Mark and Sherri Weinman Bill White

Parents, Grandparents, Faculty, Staff and Friends Jeanette W. Achuff* Virginia Lee Ault* Nancy H. Berger Robert K. Berger* Deborah and Howard M. Berman Karen Birdsong and Carl Roth Heidi and David Blalock Patricia H. Blanchard Gerritt H. Blauvelt Karen Bleich Tom Brooks Anne R. Brown Sharon C. and D. Perry Brown Helen E. Bryant Dr. and Mrs. Michael R. Camp Dr. Oscar B.* and Lorraine Camp Sue and John 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 Nick and Brigitte Fessenden Susan and William Filbert Sarah Finlayson and Lindley DeGarmo Lora and Greg Gann Julie Fader Gilbert and Gordon Gilbert Ann C. Gordon Vincent L. and D. Iveagh Gott Stanley B. and Joan Gould Eleanor H. Gross*

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 Barbara P. Katz Adine C. Kelly Michael and Narindar Kelly Mrs. Joseph Klein, Jr. Ferne K. Kolodner Cartan B. Kraft Eleanor Chisholm Landauer Gayle Layfield Latshaw* Howard and Karen Loewenberg Otis E. Mace* and Eleanor Dilworth Mace* Susan P. Macfarlane John and Joyce Maclay Garvin S. and Pamela M. Maffett W. Berkeley* 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* Gerry Mullan and William J. Sweet, Jr. 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 Carole French Schreck Esther Sharp Barbara and Gordon Shelton The Shubin Family Daryl Sidle Lisa and Alfred L. Singer Jerome Smalley Lynne Tryon Smalley William Smillie Turner B. and Judith R. Smith Phillip Snyder Deirdre Stokes Mark C. Stromdahl Audrey W. Taliaferro Norma C. Tinker Marilyn and David Warshawsky John G. Watt Mark and Sherri Weinman Bill White Thomas E. Wilcox and Elizabeth Whitney Ransome * Deceased

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Guest artist exhibit: Gant Powell ‘03, “Pictures at Play” Katz Gallery, Forbush Building (through February 13)

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23

12th Annual Friends School Video & Animation Festival Lower School Multipurpose Room, 7 p.m.

APRIL 11

Upper School Choral Concert Auditorium, 8 p.m.

28

Upper School Instrumental Concert Auditorium, 8 p.m.

All-School Orchestra Concert Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

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29

Fourth & Fifth Grade Band and Orchestra Concert Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

Upper School Wind and Jazz Ensemble Concert Auditorium, 8 p.m.

Seventh & Eighth Grade Band and Chorus Concert Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

24

All-School Art Show Opening Reception Gymnasium, 4-6 p.m.

Upper School Student-Run Play Auditorium, 7 p.m.

Show hours: April 24-25: 8 a.m.-6 p.m.

April 26: 10 a.m..-2 p.m.

April 28: 8 a.m.-6 p.m..

April 29: 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

Closed Sunday

FEBRUARY 1

Upper School Student-Run Play Auditorium, 7 p.m.

24

Upper School Art Major exhibit Katz Galley, Forbush Building (through March 14)

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MARCH

MAY

2

16

7-8

Private Music Lesson Recital Auditorium, 7 p.m.

Upper School Choral Concert with the Bach Concert Series Christ Lutheran Church, Inner Harbor, 4 p.m.

701 South Charles Street Middle School Dragonfly Theater presents “The Wizard of Oz” Auditorium, 7 p.m.

1

Private Lesson Recital Upper School Choral Room, 2 p.m.

2

Sixth Grade Band and Chorus Concert, Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

4

Fourth & Fifth Grade Band Concert/Recital Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

5

Pre-Primary Spring Sing Gymnasium, 12 p.m.

7-8

Private Lesson Recital Upper School Choral Room, 2 p.m.

Lower School Rock Bands Recital Auditorium, 7 p.m.

Lower School Spring Sing Gymnasium, 2 p.m.

16-18 Upper School Musical Auditorium, Friday-Saturday: 7:30 p.m.; Sunday: 2 p.m.

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JUNE

Spring Dance Showcase Auditorium, 6:30 p.m.

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