Collection Magazine - Spring 2013

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THE MAGAZINE OF FRIENDS SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE

SPRING 2013

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FIRST in State: Friends Robotics

ART HISTORY’s

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Combatting human trafficking in Maryland

curatorial debut

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Growing Squash: a club sport takes root

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From the Head of School

Collection MAGAZINE

DEAR FRIENDS, Published twice a year by Friends School of Baltimore.

Matthew Micciche Head of School Bonnie Hearn Assistant Head for Finance and Operations Eleanor Landauer Associate Director of Development Karen Dates Dunmore ‘82 Director of Admission and Community Outreach Heidi Blalock Editor; Director of Communications Amy Langrehr Alumni Director Meg Whiteford Annual Fund Director Mary Pat Bianchi, Jenna Jackson, Kate Maskarinec Development Office Staff M I S S I O N S TAT E M E N T

Founded in 1784, Friends School of Baltimore provides a coeducational, college preparatory program guided by the Quaker values of truth, equality, simplicity, community and peaceful resolution of conflict. By setting high standards of excellence for a diverse and caring community, Friends seeks to develop in each student the spiritual, intellectual, physical and creative strengths to make a positive contribution to the world. Recognizing that there is that of God in each person, the School strives in all its programs, policies and affairs to be an institution that exemplifies the ideals of the Religious Society of Friends.

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Correction: The fall 2012 issue of Collection magazine incorrectly listed Heather Gange, a Friends trustee, as a member of Stony Run Friends Meeting. We regret the error.

From time to time, I am reminded of just how fortunate I am to be in a school like Friends, where we conceive of education as a process more than a product — one stage in a lifelong journey, rather than a ticket to be punched. Those were my thoughts recently after reading an article by CNBC reporter Jermaine Taylor entitled “Are Private Schools Worth the Hefty Price Tag?” My quarrel is not with the author’s reference to the price tag. I agree that the tuition at any independent school is undeniably hefty and represents a significant degree of sacrifice for all but the very wealthiest of families. Indeed, the fact that so many families willingly undertake this sacrifice humbles and motivates all of us whose work is supported by those tuitions. What I found utterly indefensible about the article was its premise: that the “worth” referred to in its title can be measured entirely by the selectivity or the perceived prestige of the college to which some members of its graduating class are accepted.

In attempting to determine the “return on investment” that parents get from independent schools, the author notes that, at one New York school, “over 20% of last year’s class attended Ivy or Little Ivy schools,” as if this criterion could possibly purport to capture the cumulative value the school imparts to its students. Even putting aside the fact that 80% of the school’s students are completely disregarded by this calculus, the logic of this means of assessment is absurd and, ultimately, insidious.

I find myself wondering, for example, how the college that a student attends can possibly measure the effect of the powerful, life-altering relationships that students at Friends School develop with their peers and their teachers — relationships that have everything to do with the unique environment they inhabit here every day. How would this crude tool account for the weekly experience of Meeting for Worship, which, I believe, has far more impact on the future path of a student’s life than the prestige of the college he or she attends. Where in the methodology put forth in this article is any measure of the values that are being developed throughout our students’ formative years with us — values that will be the lens through which they view every decision and experience that lies ahead?

With the college admission process so heavily reliant on standardized measures such as SAT scores and so powerfully influenced by legacy status, athletic prowess and other self-serving factors, the colleges that students attend strike me as among the least reliable indicators of the quality of their education. Among its many other shortcomings, this formula completely ignores the all-important qualities — passion for learning, a critical mindset, intellectual curiosity, the ability to collaborate, the desire to put one’s knowledge to work in the service of others — that, as both a parent and a school head, I see as the true “return on investment” of the education our students receive. A system that defines success, quality, or return solely in terms of college matriculations is, at best, deeply misguided, and at worst does a profound disservice to those who are being encouraged to use it in making these critical decisions.

I recognize that I have the luxury of making my case from within an institution that actually fares quite well by this form of measurement. In fact, I am proud of and happy for the many students from Friends School who attend the selective and prestigious colleges cited in this article.

But I am equally proud of and hopeful for the future of their classmates who, for a variety of compelling reasons, attend schools that fall outside the limits of this arbitrary demarcation.

An independent school education is indeed an investment, and a hefty one at that, but it is one whose return is not contained within the letters that our seniors receive in early April. It unfolds, instead, over a lifetime, long after the college admission process has faded into obscurity for the young women and men on the receiving end of those fateful envelopes.

Best wishes,

Matthew Micciche Head of School

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Contents

SPRING 2013

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Feature

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Real Life Learning Whether they are improvising a courtroom cross-examination or embracing the discomfort of a new culture, students use the tools they’ve acquired at Friends to navigate real-life challenges.

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Through the Russian Lens

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Comic Relief Upper School Principal Steve McManus puts pen to paper to connect with students, faculty.

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SCHOOL NEWS Diversity Notes: Reflections on the Student Diversity Leadership Conference; FSPA News: First annual Festival of Friends

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AT H L E T I C S Friends makes its mark in the local squash community; Saturday morning Basketball Clinic builds skills, community.

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DEVELOPMENT NEWS Spotlight on the Arts: Art History students explore connections in The Gallery; Major donors enjoy A Celebration of the Arts

A Turn for the Better Polaris Project alumna Molly Doyle ’07 inspires Upper Schoolers to help combat human trafficking.

ALUMNI NEWS Friendly Gatherings: The Alumni Office hosted gatherings for grads in NYC, DC and here at home; Generations at Friends: Our annual children and grandchildren of alumni feature

Eleni Lampadarios and Lee Roby pilot a collaborative teaching model that explores how Russians understand their history.

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CLASS NOTES

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MILESTONES

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REMEMBRANCE Legendary teacher Sam Legg, Gayle Latshaw, Assistant Head, and Kathy Smith, Assistant to the Head of School

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CIRCLE OF FRIENDS

ARTS The All-School Art Show unfurls each spring like a force of nature.

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Real Life

Learning Whether they are improvising a courtroom cross-examination, engineering a robotics competition or embracing the discomfort of a new culture, Friends students are applying the skills, knowledge and habits of mind they’ve acquired in the classroom to navigate real-life challenges.

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LEGAL EAGLES: Student autonomy is key to Mock Trial’s success

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ach year beginning in December, a small, diverse group of Upper Schoolers comes together to form the Friends School Mock Trial team. The students meet after school three times a week to scrutinize a case that more than 130 high school teams across Maryland will also inhabit over the next several months.

Meetings are organized but noisy, as the student attorneys run through their direct examinations and memorize their closing arguments. On trial day, the atmosphere in the courtroom is tense and demanding. Though they’ve crafted an action plan for the contest, team members must prepare for the inevitable challenges their opponents will throw at them. They must know their material cold, deliver their ideas with oratorical flair and think quickly and effectively on their feet as the case evolves.

Amidst all of this student-driven activity, two advisors sit nearby in the courtroom — attorney Brian Murphy and Upper School math teacher John Bonn. Since inheriting the faculty advisor’s role in 2010 from his Math Department colleague Carl Schlenger, a former practicing attorney, Bonn has seen dozens of high school mock trial teams in action. Most, he observes, feature “heavily involved adults

pushing the students to quality work.” But not Friends School, he adds. “Years ago, this team evolved a highly student-centered approach to its operations.”

Bonn believes this autonomy may be the key to the team’s ongoing success. Over the past five years, Friends has won the City Circuit Championship four consecutive times between 2009 and 2012, and has traveled to Annapolis to compete in the State Semifinals three times: in 2009, 2011 and 2012. The first trip to Annapolis was spearheaded by Emily Keamy-Minor ’09 and Josie LaBua ’08.

Emily’s brother, Sam Keamy-Minor ’12, then carried the torch in concert with Carlyn Hoffman ’12 during the second States run.

Sam and Abby Preston ’12 led the team in its third appearance at States last spring.

“When Sam graduated last June, I worried about whether we would have enough legal knowledge on hand to maintain the studentcentered approach,” recalls Bonn.

It turns out that Friends’ Mock Trial team is like a living organism, he explains. “The various parts work together, they compensate for each other when necessary, and they constantly replicate to lay the groundwork for inherited knowledge.”

The process of working through the case

Mock Trial team members, from left: Dylan Brown ’15, Matt Musachio ’16, Jane Murphy ’16, Evan Hoffman ’16, Jordan Hartman ’14, Josef Zeller ’16, faculty advisor John Bonn, Katrina Keegan ’15, Maddie Shay ’15 and Rebecca Cerasoli ’13. Missing from photo: Lynne Cullen ’15.

It turns out that Friends’ Mock Trial team is like a living organism. The various parts work together, they compensate for each other when necessary and they constantly replicate to lay the groundwork for inherited knowledge. practice after practice with the students contributing input and learning from each other works powerfully, he adds. “The students truly own the arguments they are crafting.

This ownership is especially useful in the heat of battle at the courthouse, when unexpected twists and turns occur. It allows the whole team to advance their overall knowledge of the process.”

Recalling a recent practice session, during which a rookie team member filled in for another, more seasoned student attorney, Bonn flashes a wide grin. “She improvised a cross-examination right out of the casebook on the fly,” he says. “And it was excellent!

Clearly, the knowledge had been passed on, not through direct instruction but through participation in the process.”

This year’s Mock Trial team is one of the youngest in recent memory, with one senior, one junior, four sophomores and four freshmen. Even though next year’s case will not be announced for months, the group is already beginning to strategize and recruit new members, according to Bonn. “They are determined to maintain the excellence of Friends School Mock Trial,” he says.

“They know they are stewards of a precious legacy.” FS

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By D a v i d H e a th

OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM: The Friends Robotics Team hat starts as a flash of insight in a student’s brain, or some colorful pixels in a Google SketchUp document, may end up in an aluminum invention that performs brilliantly and earns a championship.

This is perhaps what I appreciate most about coaching Friends Robotics Team.

The FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Robotics State Championship took place on February 23, 2013 in Laurel, Md. at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab. (FIRST stands for “For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology.”)

In a qualifying match the month before, the team’s two robots — Phyllis and Lana — competed against each other. Phyllis took first place, earning the “Innovation Award,” and

Lana took second. As captain of the winning alliance, Phyllis — and her Friends School engineers — earned the right to compete in Laurel against a field of 31 of the state’s top high school robotics teams.

Friends Robotics Team is mostly juniors, many of whom are in their third robotics season, so they have weathered some stormy and low-ranked competitions — especially as freshmen. (Sophomore year was somewhat

From left: Willem Beeson ‘14, Ryan Frank ‘14, Michael Latman ‘14, Ginno Geocadin ‘15, Santiago Loane ‘14, Noah Todd ’14 and Augie Calabresi ’14 celebrate their winning performance at the FTC Regionals in January 2013

The “Ring It Up!” playing field: Robots place rings on the vertical rack.

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better.) Still, they really impressed me at several critical junctures during the State Championship. In the morning qualifying rounds, they had only five matches in which to place into the championship round. Our expectation was that we’d need to win at least four, but preferably all five. This year’s competition, called “Ring It Up!”, involved gathering plastic rings from a dispenser and placing them on a rack with a three-by-three

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grid of horizontal pegs, configured like a four-foot high vertical tic-tac-toe board.

(See photo.)

Phyllis was faster than most of the bots out there. She also had great balance, even when placing rings on the rack’s top row.

This stability was due largely to a chassis wheelbase redesign the team implemented following the Regional Qualifier. Since under competition rules every robot must fit within an 18" cube, one of the most important challenges facing the teams was the ability to extend their robots, once the match was underway, from the 18" size limit so that they could reliably reach the highest row of pegs, some four feet from the base.

Phyllis employed a system of hollow rectangular aluminum conduits of decreasing size, fitted within each other like a set of Russian nesting dolls. A designated driver on the team, usually Michael Latman ’14, drew them up and out to the necessary height using a fiber rope pulley-system that attached to a gear and joystick-controlled motor.

At the top of the thinnest conduit, with a stabilizing motor, was a scoop used to carry and position the rings.

The FIRST competition is not Battlebots®, but the robots do come into sometimes-forceful contact with each other. In one round, our scoop had been knocked apart, wires ripped out and rendered unusable — and our next match was in only ten minutes. Luckily, we had the foresight to have brought an identical replacement scoop, and somehow we were able to attach and successfully test that in time. After another match, the fiber rope had become frayed and tangled, and the crucial

Moments like these, when the team showed their talent, thoughtful preparation and calm problem-solving under pressure, made the subsequent victory all the sweeter.

Robotics team co-heads Noah Todd ’14 and Augie Calabresi ’14 and team member Leina Brock ‘15

raising system would not budge. Noah Todd ’14 and our mentor Jim Veatch calmly assessed the situation and reworked and repaired the system — eliminating the cause of the fraying in the process — and we were ready for the last match, just in time.

Visually speaking, the most memorable moment of the entire robotics season may have been watching Michael Latman ’14 systematically fill every peg on the rack with red rings, scoring a competition-record 470 points in under two minutes! Moments like these, when the team showed their talent, thoughtful preparation and calm problem-solving under pressure, made the subsequent victory all the sweeter.

Like so many great ideas, the Friends School Robotics team was a student initiative.

In the spring of 2009, Platon Lukyanenko ’11 and two of his sophomore classmates in my Java Programming class approached me about forming a robotics team. One thing I have learned over my 32 years of teaching at Friends is this: When a student comes forward with an ambitious, well-researched idea and shows the energy and enthusiasm to try and

make it happen, my job as a teacher and mentor is to encourage and to facilitate, no matter what my own doubts about the feasibility of the idea. Although Friends’ Teaching and Learning paradigm had not yet been formalized in 2009, its key concepts were already in the air among the faculty, and robotics seemed like a great way to bring these habits of mind to the fore in the STEM (Science/Technology/Engineering/Math) realm.

Habits such as collaboration, communication, information technology-literacy, resiliency, problem solving and reflection are in evidence every day in robotics. Although this year’s team did not go on to the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championships in St. Louis, Mo. in April, they proved to themselves and to their opponents that they have the resolve and the skills to compete among the nation’s top teams. With not a single senior on this year’s roster, you can be sure we’ll be hearing more from Friends Robotics in the future. FS

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From left, seniors Rachel Weinman, Molly Farrugia and Reed Thayer in the Spanish Alcazar in Segovia.

Panadería in Segovia.

Out of their Comfort Zones In March, 38 Upper School Spanish students and seven Latin students traveled, respectively, to Spain and Turkey for two weeks.

The Foreign Language Department sponsors such trips annually, alternating between the Spanish and Latin programs one year, and the French and Russian programs the next. For the foreign language faculty, the trip is considered a capstone learning experience, according to Department Chair Lucy Hand ’80. “Each of us has been powerfully affected by our time abroad,” she says. “We want to model those transformative experiences for our students.” Being in a foreign land, away from family and immersed in a new language and culture, can be “nerve wracking,” as Noah Todd ’14, a Spanish IV student, will attest; but the rewards are sweet. Here, Collection shares student reflections from the Spanish immersion homestay and the Turkish tour.

Success in Failure in Spain

By N oa h Todd ’14

A church in Telavera, in the Plaza del Pan.

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he hour-long drive to Talavera, Spain for my Spanish immersion home-stay was nerve wracking. I had been on trips to other parts of the Spanish-speaking world where I was encouraged to speak the language, yet I never felt comfortable. I worried that this trip would be the same.

I recognized my host family as the bus pulled up, but I naturally looked away and nestled myself in the safety of my group of friends. When my name was finally called, I was quickly thrust into the thick world of Spanish, speaking to the strangers I would be living with. I greeted them with awkward gestures, not knowing if I should kiss their left cheek first or just shake hands. After we huddled into their car, I was met by a thick, dreadful silence. During the ride to my

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new home, I only asked one question and received one answer.

Despite all this, I knew one thing: that if I strived to interact with the Spanish people to the point of embarrassment, I would have a wonderful time. I accepted the fact that I would make dozens of mistakes and wouldn’t understand many words (Spanish was my weakest subject). Moreover, I understood that no matter how many mistakes I made, no matter how much I didn’t understand, I would be totally fine.

My new home was a small apartment across the street from a gym. When I was finished settling into my room, I began to engage in some actual conversations with my family. My host sister came in and started talking with me about random things. When

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The Turkish Delight Tour: Friends’ Latin students explore ancient sites

By G e orge P i s a no ’14 a nd L i s a C ounte s s , U ppe r S c hool L a ti n te a c he r

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tepping off the plane in Istanbul, of a sleek, modern funicular, which took us our first preconception of Turkey on a harrowing, windswept ride to the ancient was dismissed. The city of 15 million acropolis. The incredible Grand Bazaar, with people seemed to go on forever. Its towering more than 4,000 stalls, still carries spices, as it apartment complexes dwarfed the traditional has for the past 600 years. (It also carries some mosques and their minarets, but the incredible of the most expensive watches in the world.) monuments and traditional architecture of In front of the Greek gymnasium at nearby every culture that has called Istanbul home Sardis we met some Turkish students who was still prevalent. Roman walls encircled the were about our age. While Friends School old city; an Egyptian obelisk stood next to the juniors agonize over English electives, the Great Blue Mosque. During our first night, the Turkish students have already decided upon whole town was mad for soccer as the team and committed to their careers. They insisted Galatasaray played a German team. on having their pictures taken with the “exotic I didn’t understand a question, I would Turkey was less conservative than many foreign” Americans. smile and say “¿Qué? ” When I didn’t know of us were expecting. While primarily male On our way to the port city of Bodrum, how to say something I would act it out pensioners filled the cafes of every town we we visited the great oracle of Apollo at Didyma or scribble a picture. Soon, failure was not visited, in the larger towns and in the coastal and the birthplace of ancient philosophy, only good, it was fun. resorts, men and women in western School brought on a whole new form dress sipped beers and cocktails in of entertainment. Meeting enthusiastic boutique cafes or drank latte grandes teenagers, saying hello to young kids and at Starbucks. greeting teachers were all in my repertoire.

Throughout the trip, we saw My host sister helped me with names, and familiar sights that were nonetheless soon I was giving them all high fives. I slightly askew to us. When we visited tried to approach everyone with positive Gallipoli on an appropriately overcast energy. If I failed to make myself clear, it day, busloads of old women filled the wasn’t a crisis but rather something to Turkish cemetery on the anniversary laugh at with the others. of the great Turkish victory of WWI. Through all of these experiences, and It was a little strange witnessing the by making thousands of mistakes a day, From left, Darby Lasky ’15, Rayna Verstandig ’15, Langston Lee ’15, elation and pride due to a defeat of I started to pick up the Spanish language.

George Pisano ’14, Ginno Geocadin ’15, Lynne Cullen ’15, the Allied forces.

I was learning grammar and vocabulary, Jovae’ Castle ’16 and Lisa Countess The juxtaposition of the ancient and would now respond instinctively in and the modern was also fascinating. We loved Miletus. While Apollo did not offer any porSpanish. The language became something how we could see shepherds and their flocks tents of the future at Didyma, we did witness fun and exciting that had opened up crossing a modern highway near a high-tech the beginnings of a Kurdish celebration from a world of opportunity and learning. store, which stood next to the ruins of an which the police hurriedly and efficiently led Much more than the difficult class I ancient temple. The coffee table in the lobby us away. The whitewashed seaport town had associated it with, Spanish was of one hotel was made of a “borrowed” of Bodrum was a perfect end to our tour of now something I could speak, and use, Doric column section topped with Plexiglas.

Turkey. Its gentle breakwater was guarded with relative ease.

At Pergamum, we found ourselves at the base by the crusader castle of the knights’ templar.

The charming resort town was home to chic boutiques, hand-crafted designer boats and The Spanish and French trips hold the homestay as the critical point of the program. The one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, students are immersed in the culture and language, attend school with their host sibling the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. and become a member of the family. Friends’ Russian language students stay in the homes Exploring the mixed Asian and European of Russians, but the emphasis is on the daily tutoring and cultural outings. The Latin trip is cultures of Turkey was enriching. Our excellent a tour of Roman sites around the world. Unlike the others, it is not a homestay and is open tour guide, Mina, was experienced and accomto students in all levels of Latin. Financial aid is available to help defray — although not modating; she adjusted the tour to cater to cover — the cost of the trip. For families with freshmen and sophomores, planning for this the desire of the students, even going so far as capstone language experience can begin now. For more information about the biennial to invite us to her home. We were extremely Foreign Language trips, contact Lucy Hand ’80 at lhand@friendsbalt.org. fortunate and grateful. FS

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his fall seniors in Eleni Lampadarios’ History of Modern Russia class benefited from a trove of Russian-language history documents and a second teacher, Lee Roby.

The veteran Upper School Russian teacher joined Lampadarios in piloting a collaborative teaching model that exposes students to Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet history and culture as experienced by its citizens. The interdisciplinary model takes advantage of a naturally occurring “information gap” within the Modern Russia class, explains Roby.

“Every year, almost half the students who enroll in Eleni’s class also take Russian 5 with me,” she shares. This distinction created an opportunity for the teachers to introduce Russian language into the course so that the Russian speakers in the class could use their language skills as a tool to gain new information and insights. Adds Lampadarios: “We wanted to show the students how Russians understand their history.”

To support the course’s “living history” dimension, Lampadarios and Roby selected texts created during the Soviet-era and also in present-day Russia. Students explored excerpts from textbooks as well as public opinion polls and analyses, videos of Russian statesmen commenting on historical events, and blog posts. Using the information gap concept, the teachers then divided the class into two different work groups: Non-Russian language students read or viewed one set of materials on a topic, and Russian language students explored other sources on the same topic, only in Russian. Frequently, the English language sources created one picture of the events, and Russian language sources, another.

Upon completing the readings, the two different groups came together to share their findings.

The repeated process of comparing various Russian and English language sources resulted in far-richer conclusions than the students would have drawn from the English source material alone, according to Roby. “One of the wonderful gifts of this model was that it gave the students a natural reason to process and synthesize the material aloud for one another, as each group needed to present to the other group in a coherent fashion the most salient information from their assigned texts,” she observes. “So, instead of explaining their conclusions to the teacher to show their understanding of the texts, as frequently happens

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in the classroom, the students needed to share their information with one another in order to have the other ‘piece of the puzzle’ to draw fuller conclusions.”

As they were exposed to opinion polls from Russia that relayed how Russians perceive various historical phenomena — such as the role of Stalin, the war with Chechnya and the 2012 free-speech scandal surrounding the rock band Pussy Riot — the students were challenged to understand how American perspectives differ from commonly held Russian perspectives, and to speculate on why such contradictions exist.

“Recognizing that different cultural perspectives exist and that they are often formed by our individual circumstances — where we grow up, how we access information — is essential in educating all students to become truly global citizens,” says Lampadarios.

Ben Musachio ’13, an advanced Russian student, described an excerpt from a Soviet-era textbook as “positively eye-opening.” “The Soviet ‘version’ of what happened during WWII varied widely from U.S. accounts,” he said. “The Soviets believed that Russia’s role on the Eastern front was absolutely instrumental in the victory over fascism. In their minds, after 15 million Soviet soldiers perished, they could authoritatively claim that they were the primary force behind the Allied victory.”

The students are not the only ones who benefited from the curricular experiment. Reflecting on their collaboration, Lampadarios praised Roby, noting, “Lee’s contributions were much more than providing Russian language resources to the Russian speakers in the class. She really helped to shape the course.”

Roby, too, praised the approach, noting, “The outcomes for the students were even greater than I had anticipated. Most of all, I didn’t anticipate how much I would grow from such collaborative work with Eleni. It was amazing to bounce ideas back and forth with a colleague who shares a passion for Russia.” FS

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Since becoming Upper School Principal in 2011, Steve McManus has distinguished himself not only as a talented administrator and a teacher of tenth grade U.S. history, but also as a cartoonist. His comic strips are a regular feature in The Quaker Quill, the Upper School student newspaper. We wanted to share his work with our audience. Enjoy!

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Friends School students are organizing to combat human trafficking in Maryland

By Molly Doyle ’07

what human trafficking was when I accepted a threemonth fellowship at the Polaris Project the summer after I graduated from college in 2011. Polaris is a nonprofit organization committed to fighting human trafficking both at home and abroad. They require that their fellows go through an intensive training program at the beginning of the summer, so only after 40 hours of training did they let us start our fellowships.

I worked with victims in their case management center, in a confidential location in the Washington, DC area.

At Polaris, I learned that human trafficking is an umbrella term for modern-day slavery. It occurs when people profit from the control and exploitation of others through regular work (“labor trafficking”) or sex work and prostitution (“sex trafficking”). Unlike gun or drug trafficking, people do not have to move or cross borders to be considered human trafficking victims. Nor must they be tied down, beaten or physically “enslaved” to be trafficked. In fact, traffickers often use a variety of physical, emotional and

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psychological tactics to keep their victims enslaved. In the case of pimp-controlled sex trafficking, it is extremely common for pimps to use a combination of threats, false promises and emotional manipulation along with beatings, rapes, isolation and intimidation to keep their victims from leaving them. Some pimps even brand their victims — most of whom are recruited when they are 12 to 14 years old — with tattoos on their necks and chests.

The Polaris fellowship was a rewarding and eye-opening experience, but it was also emotionally draining. I came to realize that, while I was passionate about combatting human trafficking, I was not ready to work directly with victims on a full-time basis. It was August and my fellowship was winding down when I learned about a secretarial opening at Friends School. I jumped at the chance to return to the campus.

As I settled into my job in the Upper School, I started to volunteer at TurnAround, a domestic violence and sexual assault center in Baltimore. Working exclusively with victims and survivors of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking (DMST),

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I began to understand how big of a problem we have in Maryland. I learned, for example, that Baltimore is a prime location for sex trafficking because of its central location in the I-95 corridor, its many high-profile conventions and sporting events and the lack of strong legal punishments for traffickers. I also learned that sex trafficking victims are often forced to recruit other victims at their schools, and that they work their longest hours on holidays, because that is when the demand is highest. And I learned that Towson Mall is a popular place for recruitment because of the hotel that is near the mall. (Pimps like to be able to “keep an eye” on the girls they have working in the hotels while they recruit in the mall.)

Every time I worked with girls from TurnAround, I learned something new, and I began to share this information with my Friends colleagues. After one such conversation with Lisa Countess, she suggested I speak to the students about human trafficking during morning Collection. I was hesitant at first — issues surrounding human trafficking (especially

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In January Molly Doyle took ‘07 took a group of students to Annapolis to lobby their congressmen for the Maryland Human Trafficking Asset Forfeiture Bill. In addition to having individual meetings with their representatives, the students attended a press conference, where they heard victims/survivors tell their stories. The Friends’ Turnaround Club contingent was also coached on how to effectively lobby for a bill and (peacefully) demonstrate for stronger penalties against traffickers.

sex trafficking) are generally considered inappropriate for younger audiences — but after careful consideration, Upper School Principal Steve McManus approved the idea.

It’s worth noting that not all high school principals would have agreed to a presentation about trafficking. I’m glad he felt that Friends students were mature enough to handle this difficult but important subject matter.

The morning of my Collection presentation, it suddenly hit me: I was about to stand up in front of the entire Upper School — including my former teachers, my boss and students as young as 14 — to essentially talk about

pimps, prostitutes, and all types of abuse.

I was extremely nervous, but the students in the audience listened attentively to my “Human Trafficking 101” presentation, which was decidedly PG-13. I avoided the more horrific details and instead focused on some myths and misconceptions about the issue.

After the presentation, several students approached me about starting a club to raise money for TurnAround and build awareness about human trafficking in Baltimore. It was May 2012 — too late in the school year to implement any new initiatives, but we brainstormed ideas and agreed to regroup in the

fall. True to form, the students returned and hit the ground running with plans for a lateSeptember Powderpuff Football fundraiser.

Other activities soon followed. In addition to club-sponsored programs, students in Amy Schmaljohn’s Peace, Nonviolence, and Social Justice class chose to combat human trafficking as their collective semester-long project.

(See sidebar for a complete listing of student-led initiatives.)

I am incredibly proud of all the things that Friends School students have done this year to fight human trafficking in Baltimore. How fitting that my Quaker school has, in true Quaker tradition, embraced this modern-day abolition movement. FS

----------------------Inspired by alumna Molly Doyle ’07’s work in behalf of sex trafficking victims, Friends students rallied behind the cause.

Here’s a rundown of their efforts:

> Raised $1,500 on behalf

of TurnAround Inc.’s antitrafficking program through such efforts as the first annual Powderpuff Football Tournament (for the record, the freshmen beat all challengers) and an Anti-Human Trafficking Benefit Concert

> Lobbied lawmakers in

Annapolis for stronger human trafficking laws, including an “asset forfeiture” bill in the Maryland House of Representatives. This would allow the courts to seize the assets of convicted human

traffickers and forward the money to victims and service providers through a Victims Fund. (The bill was signed into law on May 16!)

> Invited teachers from FairGirls Inc., including a trafficking survivor, to speak with the junior and senior classes

> Hosted a holiday party at

Friends for survivors of domestic abuse and their families

> Posted the National Human

Trafficking Hotline (1-888373-7888) at area truck stops so that truck drivers can report tips about potential trafficking situations

> Published articles in the Quaker > Raised awareness through a Quill and researched modern human trafficking for their Upper School English, History, Latin and Russian classes

The freshmen, in orange, defeated the sophomores, in green, during the first round of play in the all-female Powderpuff Footbball fundraiser.

If you would like more information about how to fight human trafficking in Maryland, or if you have questions about the facts and statistics stated in this article, please contact Molly Doyle at mdoyle@friendsbalt.org.

Twitter account @htbeproactive

> Started a community garden at TurnAround’s transitional housing site for survivors of sex trafficking

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School News

Diversity Notes Reflections on this year’s Student Diversity Leadership Conference Each year Friends sends a delegation of Upper School students of color to the National Association of Independent Schools’ Student Diversity Leadership Conference. The multiracial, multicultural gathering engages participants in dialogue and skills training to help them become advocates for equality and social justice in their schools. Three young men represented Friends at this year’s conference in Houston, Texas. As you will learn from their reflections on the conference, each was transformed by the experience. Since returning, all three students have led workshops for their peers around cultural sensitivity.

Addison Thompson, Freshman

Chandler Walters, Junior

Alex Brooks, Senior

The moment that still sticks with me from the conference is when Rodney Glasgow, one of the conference leaders, calmly mounted the stage. “Anyone who needs to be heard,” he said, “come down to me.”

I couldn’t imagine who would take him up on his offer to share their feelings in front of such a large group. After a couple awkward seconds, a brave girl walked down to the stage. Then others followed.

For the next 30 minutes, I heard the saddest, most touching stories. The kids who came down talked about being bullied and about being outcasts; students who were homosexual talked about not knowing how to come out of the closet, not feeling welcomed where they attended school, and for some, not even feeling welcomed in their own homes. Every conversation ended the same way: Rodney told each person that the only thing that was wrong was how they were being treated. He concluded by saying, “When you go home, what are you going to change?” Every student who talked to him walked back to his or her seat to the cheering of the crowd. I could go on and on about how amazing Rodney was, but the real heroes were the kids who had the courage to stand in front of all of us and share their stories. I learned a lot from them about how I can be a better ally.

My experience at the Student Diversity Leadership Conference was life-changing.

The balance of seriousness and stomachcramping laughter was a dynamic I loved being part of. In my affinity group, we explored the concept of a legacy and what that means for African-Americans.

Our group leader asked us to write in our journals about what we thought the legacy was for African-Americans.

I wrote: “The legacy of the Black race is that we started with no respect and no opportunities. We take full advantage of each opportunity because nothing is given and nothing is taken for granted.”

I learned that our African-American legacy is much more than that. Everything we do is for the generations that follow us.

At the start of every meeting, our group leader would shout “Whose legacy?” and we would all yell back “Our legacy!” This became our motto and reminded us — the world’s future leaders — that we are in a position to make history and to have a lasting positive impact on generations to come.

At the beginning of the conference we were divided into different “families.”

I was placed in the Wang Family, which included about 60 people. Our instructors told us that we would develop very close and strong relationships with each other by the end of the conference, but I was skeptical. I didn’t see how I would connect deeply with people I had just met. In our family groups, we were asked to have an open mindset, and to challenge our comfort zones. To my surprise, it was easy to be open during our discussions.

With that mindset I was able to get to know my family over the course of three days better than I have gotten to know most people who have been in my life for several years. Most importantly, our family groups allowed us to experience true diversity, people of different backgrounds, and opinions, including those active in affinity groups and those who didn’t identify with any. In the end, we were united by our humanity rather than divided by our differences. FS

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FSPA News First annual Festival of Friends a success More than 200 parents, faculty/staff, alumni and friends gathered under the tent at the Zamoiski Alumni Center on April 13 to help launch the Parents Association’s first annual spring fundraiser, Festival of Friends. Featuring a delicious selection of small plates created by Friends’ own Chef Bob Whitehead, an open bar, desserts

by La Cakerie and music performed by the Upper School Jazz Ensemble and other student groups, the event culminated with a live and silent auction, proceeds from which raised more than $25,000 for the School.

Plans are already underway for our second annual Festival of Friends on April 12, 2014.

Seniors Robert Barkley and Aimee Bitzel show off a Friends School platter signed by the members of the Class of 2013 — one of many items that guests bid on during the silent auction. The live auction included such attractive items as a week in a picturesque Spanish villa and two nights at the Annabelle Inn in Aspen, Colo.!

SAVE THE DATES:

Scarlet & Gray Day Saturday, October 12, 2013 Friends’ annual Spirit Day promises fun for the entire family, with carnival games and activities for young children, food, live music performed by student ensembles and a full day of Varsity athletic competitions. Mark your calendar and make plans to join us on October 12. For more information, or to learn about volunteer opportunities for this day-long festival, proceeds from which benefit the School, contact Laurie Haas, Parents Association Volunteer Chair, at lauriehaas@comcast.net.

28th annual

Holly Fest Saturday, November 23 This Parents Association-sponsored fundraiser is one of the area’s best-loved holiday bazaars.

Featuring some 90 quality artisans and crafters from the Mid-Atlantic region, plus free gift-wrapping, a silent auction and a hands-on children’s craft booth, Holly Fest draws hundreds of visitors to the Friends campus each November. For more information, or to get involved in planning this year’s event, contact Laurie Haas, Parents Association Volunteer Chair, at lauriehaas@comcast.net.

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Athletics

Friends a rising star in the local squash community

MAKI NG ITS MARK:

By Kate Pisano

FROM ITS HUMBLE beginnings in 2005 as a club sport, Friends School Squash has quietly risen through the ranks of the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) to become one of the Baltimorearea’s top programs. At the 2013 MIAA Individual Squash Championships on February 21, the 8-2 Quakers secured three

“ This is the first year we

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of seven titles, including Aria Fazelimanesh ’13 at the No. 1 slot, Will Rogers ’14 at No. 5 and Henry Askew at No. 7. Additionally, three players, including Griffin Bonner ’14, newcomer Noah Walsh ’15 and Fazelimanesh, also received All-Conference honors. A native of Iran, Fazelimanesh is presently ranked 10th by U.S. Squash in the under-19 division.

Next year he will play Division-I squash at University of Rochester, whose squash program is ranked fifth in the nation.

After graduating a group of strong players in 2012, this year’s squash program had all the makings of a “rebuilding” season.

Instead, the Quakers trained hard during the off-season and continued to attract players at the JV and Middle School levels. The results speak for themselves.

“This is the first year we have had so many players advance to the finals,” says team coordinator Eric Loeb, whose son Eli ’16 is a member of the Boys JV squad (Friends also has a Girls JV squad). He and the team’s coach, Lucky Odeh, a squash professional at Meadow Mill Racquet Club, have been with the program almost since its inception.

While the squash community is justifiably dazzled by Fazelimanesh’s abilities on the court, Loeb also has high praise for team captain Colin Fowler ’13. “Colin exemplified what the Friends squash program is about,” he says. “He set the tone and made it clear that each Varsity and JV player had a responsibility to his teammates to work hard, play well, and represent Friends with great sportsmanship.”

He also cites Noah Walsh as an example of how quickly players who are relatively new to the sport can build a strong skill set.

From left, Eli Loeb ’16, Sam Johnson ’14, Quinn Gillison ’16, Colin Fowler ’13 and Nick Hill ’16.

The Friends sophomore finished the 2012 season at the low end of the JV roster. “He worked hard and had an impressive finish near the top of the Varsity ladder in 2012-13,” says Loeb.

Squash has always benefited from a cadre of parent supporters who love to watch — and play — the game, and who want to share that experience with their kids. At Friends, those ambassadors have included Julie Gilbert, Pat Gilstein, Pat Dayton, David MacGibeney, Chris Holter ’80, Ken Kolodner ’72, Eric Loeb, Kathy Vaselkiv and Newt Fowler, among others.

“It’s a terrific way to network in a city where you don’t have any real business contacts,” says Pat Dayton, whose son Kelly Dayton ’09, a senior at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, joined a local club near the university and plays on a regular basis. FS

Many Friends alums have gone on to be successful college players: John Harriss ’11 plays at No. 4 for Ithaca College Chris Holter Jr. ’09 plays at No. 5 for Brown University Brad Kolodner ‘08 started the Ithaca College team and coached Boys’ Latin’s JV team this year His sister, Hilary Kolodner ’10, plays at No. 7 for Hamilton College Will Pisano ’11 plays at No. 13 for Connecticut College Sam Bogrov ’10 plays with the Vanderbilt University club team

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Clinic begins with warm-ups led by the Varsity players.

More than a Game: Saturday Morning Basketball Clinic builds skills, community

By Kathleen Forbush

IT’S EARLY ON a chilly Saturday morning in February, hours before most teenagers will rise and shine, but Al Holley, Friends’ head basketball coach, and members of the Boys Varsity and JV Basketball teams are in the gymnasium, running drills and working on game fundamentals. Only, this practice is not for their benefit; rather, it’s for the roughly 40 boys and girls enrolled in Friends’ Lower School Basketball Clinic.

In a serendipitous spirit of collaboration and goodwill, the Upper School athletes are teaching basketball basics to these future Friends players. The arrangement is scoring big points with the players, parents and coaches.

“This is just another great example of the cross-divisional interactions that make Friends so special,” says Michael Chider, whose son Luke ’23 is enrolled in the clinic.

Now in its third year, the clinic was designed to provide Lower Schoolers with a solid foundation on which to build future basketball success at the Middle School, Junior Varsity and Varsity levels. “Up until this year, we mostly relied on parent volunteers to run the various drills and referee the scrimmages,” says program organizer Norman Forbush ’78, whose son Ned ’21 is also enrolled in the clinic. “We had good participation, and the children seemed to enjoy themselves.”

Al Holley’s arrival this year from Milford Mill Academy, where he led the boys basketball team to Class 3A State Championships, provided Forbush with the proverbial light-bulb moment. “I called him and asked if

he’d be interested in helping out,” he says.

Holley enthusiastically agreed and promised active participation from his team. “It’s natural for me as a coach to want to promote the program and work with younger players,” he says. “This opportunity is about more than basketball. We’re building connections across the Friends community.”

The clinic splits second and third graders together in one gym and fourth and fifth graders in the other. The players are then divided into smaller groups where they work with the Upper Schoolers on such skills as dribbling, passing, shooting, and playing good defense. Afterward, the children scrimmage, with the Upper School coaches excitedly shouting pointers from the sidelines.

Some of the older players were a little skeptical at first about having to wake up so early on a weekend morning. “Given how busy my schedule is, I was not looking forward to missing a day of rest,” says Ted Kasper ’15. “Very quickly I came to really enjoy being here and interacting with the younger players.”

Describing how, after one of the sessions, clinic participant Walter Clemons ’23 told him, “I wish you were my big brother!”

Jamal Gross ’13 says, “These kids make you forget about being up so early on a Saturday.”

Watching her son and Gross interact from the bleachers, Clemons’ mom, Erin Chung, says, “The Upper School players seem to really embrace their roles as coaches. There is no reluctance or lack of enthusiasm on their part.” Referring to Gross, she says the senior

power forward always knew just what to say to Clemons “to get him back in the game after he made a mistake.”

For their part, the Lower Schoolers love interacting with the upperclassmen. “I like how the players have taught me how to dribble and shoot, and how when I make a mistake they tell me to ‘keep on trying!’” says Maisie Burgunder ’23. Baylee DeSmit ’21 says she appreciates older players’ tips: “They’ve helped me to improve my shooting and how I play defense,” she says.

Coach Holley thinks the experience of working with the Lower School children has helped his players in a variety of ways.

“They probably have a little more empathy for their coach now,” he says with a chuckle.

He also remarked on the camaraderie that developed among the players given their coaching roles, and their increased understanding that their attitude and approach is noticed by the younger players.

This sense of community cultivated in the gymnasiums during the Saturday clinics crosses over into the school week. The Upper and Lower School basketball players warmly greet one another en route to the gym or to the dining hall. Describing a typical encounter with his Lower School players, Ted Kasper says, “They get so excited to see a ‘big kid’ from the Upper School acknowledge them — their whole face lights up!”

Gross concurs. “I am so glad I did this,” he says. “I have loved every second of it.” FS

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Arts

ART ALL-AROUND FRIENDS’ ALL-SCHOOL ART SHOW unfurls each spring like a force of nature, taking over

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the west wing of the Gymnasium complex with all manner of works created by students from Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade. Art teachers in each division, with support from parent and student volunteers, set up the show over two days, carefully transporting pieces from the studios and installing them on art boards that form a labyrinth across the gym floor. The show is designed in a linear fashion: The exhibits grow increasingly complex and sophisticated as the viewer moves from one end of the space to the other. Careful observers of this year’s Art Show remarked on the exceptional quality of work and the high level of finish, according to Ramsay Antonio-Barnes, one of three Upper School art teachers. “The new School schedule allows longer studio time, which makes a difference in the students’ ability to work and refine what’s there,” he shares. “Having 70 minutes of class time has really allowed me, as a teacher, to dig deeper and listen longer to what my students have to say about their art-making experiences.” The Upper School Art Department used the gift of additional studio time to launch new semester-long medium-based electives in drawing, printmaking, painting, digital photography, animation, computer imaging and sculpture. Elizabeth Causey ’14, an art major, explored the realm of sculpture in her work, “LiveCircus,” and earned a gold medal in the 2013 national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. She is among a select group of some 1,600 students in grades 7-12, representing 47 U.S. states, as well as Washington, DC and American schools abroad, who was honored on May 31 in a ceremony at Carnegie Hall. This is the second consecutive year that a Friends School artist has earned gold in the prestigious competition. Last year, Emilio Martinez ’12, presently a rising sophmore at Cooper Union, won for his sculpture, “Inside Out House.”

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Art major Elizabeth Causey ’14 (above) earned a gold medal for her sculpture, “LiveCircus,” in the 2013 national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

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Alumni News

F R I E N D LY

Ga t h e r i n g s

The Alumni Association hosted gatherings in New York City, Washington, DC and Baltimore. Here are some highlights from those visits.

New York City FOR THE SECOND consecutive year, a small gathering of NYC-area alumni met for an intimate luncheon on October 23, 2012, with Head of School Matt Micciche and Alumni Director Amy Langrehr.

The Friends contingent dined at Beacon Restaurant, where Mr. Micciche gave an update on the School, including highlights on the upcoming capital campaign.

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1. From left, Carrie Maylor DiCanio ‘98, Gant Powell ‘03, Marc Wienert ‘72, Matt Micciche, John Fleury ‘03, Warry Siebert ‘01, Betsy Fader ‘81 and David Rosenberger ‘89.

Veteran faculty Randy Cooper, John Watt and former Upper School English teacher Gary Blauvelt joined Matt Micciche in New York later that day at Stout, where they welcomed a spirited group of NYC-area alumni.

2. From left, Ana Munoz ’00, Gary Blauvelt and Miles Finn ’74.

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3. From left, Jen Insley-Pruitt ‘97, Trevor Soponis ‘95 and Lauren Dopkin ‘97.

Washington, DC A GROUP OF 30 Washington, DC-area alumni gathered at Sonoma Restaurant and Wine Bar in Capitol Hill for an evening of light fare and libations. Head of School Matt Micciche and faculty members Terry Moorad James, Tom Binford and Tom Buck enjoyed the chance to catch up with the alums.

1. Martin Rosol ‘78, Sara Hagigh ‘80 and Nancy Marchetti ‘81.

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2. Kylie Davis ‘09, Amy Jacks ‘08, Tom Buck and Marshall Daly ‘08.

3. Charlie Russell ‘07, Leigh Weitzmann ‘07, Joe Hornig ‘07 and Tanya Tavassolie ‘07.

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100 Nights Dinner FRIENDS SCHOOL The Alumni Association Board feted the Class of 2013 on March 3 with a dinner reception in their honor at the Zamoiski Alumni Center. Called the “100 Nights Dinner,” the annual celebration marks the official countdown to Commencement, which this year will be held on June 11. Friends’ own Jason Winer ’90, award-winning director of the ABC-TV comedy Modern Family and NBC’s 1600 Penn, will deliver the keynote address.

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1. From left, seniors Chrissie Baker, Molly Green, Haley Sieglein, Hannah Kaufman and Rachel Weinman.

2. Jessica Monterastelli, College Guidance assistant, and Jamal Gross ‘13.

3. From left, seniors Kristen Merritt,

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Robert Barkley, David Brokaw and Jack Angelone.

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4. From left, seniors Tejas Vora and Susie Wopat with Alumni Board member Mike Lurie ’81.

Baltimore HOPKINS CLUB

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Approximately 70 local alumni from the Class of 1935 on up to the Class of 2008 gathered on November 8, 2012, for a reception at the Johns Hopkins Club.

1. Bobby Michel ‘97, Mather Preston ‘97, Anne Charlton Preston and Tom Whiteford ‘85.

2. Susanne Davis Emory ‘52 and Louise Gawlis Wylie ‘35.

3. Alice Simpkins ‘02, Irene Donnelly ‘02 and Carolyn Richardson ‘02.

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

Benjamin Bunkley ‘25 Jennifer Brown Bunkley ‘87

Jordan Ball ‘16 George Ball ‘82

Kathleen Butler ‘13 Jean Young Butler ‘81

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

Jonathan Carnell ‘14 J. Kevin Carnell ‘84

Joseph Dye ‘20 Samuel Dye ‘22 Elizabeth Gohn Dye ‘93

Eli Henslee ‘17 Julia Henslee ‘22 Anne Friedlander Henslee ‘88 Alexander Howard ‘14 Carmen Jaramilo Howard ‘80

Kyle Christoff ‘20 Allison Jensen ‘88

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

Zoë Jones-Cohen ‘20 Marcie Jones Brennan ‘91

Haley Connor ‘18 Denise Galambos ‘80

Louise Foster ‘14 Mary Louise Flowers Foster ’74

Noah Klein ‘19 Joseph Klein ‘79

Robert Blanchard ‘18 Henry Blanchard ‘24 Diana Fleischer Schofield ‘62

Alexander Corvera ‘19 Joe Corvera ‘89

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

Kayla Kurtz ‘21 Susan Rugemer Kurtz ‘58

Timothy Bricken ‘15 Holly Catzen Bricken ‘73

Baylee DeSmit ‘21 Douglas DeSmit ‘80

Nicolas Binford ‘13 Manuel Binford ‘16 Dahira Lievano Binford ‘81

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Justin Garcia-Bunuel ‘14 Jacob Garcia-Bunuel ‘18 Martin Garcia-Bunuel ‘83 Elizabeth Williams Garcia-Bunuel ‘83

Sarah Lambros ‘13 Cristin Carnell Lambros ‘79 Ana Lane ‘21 Rebecca Rossello ‘92

Matthew Goldbloom ‘15 Allison Goldbloom ‘18 Bradley Goldbloom ‘84

Samuel Little ‘17 Sarah Little ‘19 Joan Sullivan Little ‘82

Grace Hand ‘14 Logan Hand ’17 Lucy Williams Hand ‘80

Julia MacGibeny ‘16 Lisa Lott MacGibeny ‘85 Clarinda Harriss ‘56

Lower School

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Middle School

Samuel Shapiro ‘14 Jennifer Smelkinson Shapiro ‘80 Madeleine Shay ‘15 Nicholas Shay ‘18 Constance Naden Shay ‘82

Charles Mallonee ‘20 William Mallonee ‘22 Audrey Mallonee ‘25 Charles Mallonee ‘89 Mason Marchetti ‘20 Julian Marchetti ‘21 Robert Marchetti ‘81 Madison Menefee ‘14 Angel Schaefer Menefee ‘86 Alexandra Miceli ‘18 Trish Backer-Miceli ‘83 Daniel Millspaugh ‘17 Nicholas Millspaugh ‘20 Rachel Millspaugh ‘23 Sarah Johnston Millspaugh ‘88 Katherine Monk ‘24 Gage Monk ‘92 Linda Monk LaMonica ‘63 Anna Mortimer ‘13 William Mortimer ‘17 Mary Charlotte Mortimer ‘20 Amy Mortimer D’Aiutolo ‘87 Henry Mortimer ‘58

Ona Neumann ’18 Gregory Neumann ‘64

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

Charles Ney ‘21 Peter Ney ‘85 Melanie Jensen Ney ‘85

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

Alexander Prichett ‘19 Zachary Prichett ‘21 Olivia Prichett ‘25 Stephen Prichett ‘87

Gabrielle Sklar ‘20 Brandon Sklar ‘22 Ellie Goldbloom ‘87

Emma Remsberg ‘13 Rebecca Remsberg ‘15 Edwin Remsberg ‘83 Alice Riley ‘23 Reed Riley ‘80 Jackson Roberts ‘17 Philip Roberts ‘81 Kailie Saudek ‘15 James Saudek ‘18 Paige Saudek ‘22 Mark Saudek ‘85 Sander Schulhoff ‘20 Sevien Schulhoff ‘23 Stephen Schulhoff ‘84

Zachary Smith ‘19 Quinlan Smith ‘22 Sawyer Smith ‘24 Burck Smith ‘88 Sarah Smith ‘20 Evelyn Sinwell Luebbers ‘54 Anthony Smith ‘23 Benjamin Smith ‘23 Mary Adolph Smith ‘82 Hope Haggett Adolph ‘43 Asuman Smith ‘25 Ali Smith ‘94

Max Steinbach ‘25 Samuel Steinbach ‘86 Ezekiel Texter ‘18 John Texter ‘83 Margaret Valle ‘22 Joshua Valle ‘89 George Van Dyke ‘14 George Van Dyke ‘85 Isabella Voshell ‘23 Suzanne Benson ‘96 Lucy Walker ‘15 Duncan Walker ‘78 Susan Russo Walker ‘79 Elie Walsh ‘23 Lucien Walsh ‘88 Alexandra Whiteford ‘16 W. Craig Whiteford ‘87 William Whiteford ‘57 John Whiteford ‘16 Thomas Whiteford ‘18 Thomas Whiteford ‘85 William Whiteford ‘57 Madison Yost ‘15 Winslow Yost ‘17 Kiefer Yost ‘19 Sally Evans Yost ‘77 Anne Black Evans ‘54

Tara Smith Wallace ‘24 Erika Smith ‘93

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Development News

Art History’s Curatorial Debut: Students explore connections in The Gallery KATHLEEN BUTLER ’13 hangs a self-portrait of Griffin Bonner ’14 on the wall in The Katz Gallery and steps back to appraise its placement.

The collage, composed entirely of glucose test strips and packaging, is among the 14 works included in “The Artist’s Process: An Investigation of Representation,” an exhibit curated by Upper School Art History students and featuring works created by their peers in the art studios.

Such hands-on installations are among the latest advances in the Art History program, which has changed dramatically since 1988, when former Upper School art teacher Lyn Ostrov joined the faculty. “For two years I taught three girls the canon of Western art history,” she recalls. Today, guided by Upper School history and English teacher Amy Schmaljohn, Friends art historians are using new technologies and teaching tools, including The Katz Gallery, to explore the human

Avery Daniels ’13, and teacher Amy Schmaljohn research an artist using iPads.

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experience of making and engaging art. And they’re asking questions — What is art? Who is the artist?

What is the role of art in society? — to shape their inquiry of the periods and global cultures they are investigating — from the Paleolithic era to the 21st century.

Such questions, says Schmaljohn, provide students with “a meaningful way to develop their ability to look at art critically, to describe it formally and to ask ultimately, ‘What does this mean about our human experience?’ So,” she explains,

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“when we go back and we look at Chauvet Cave, which is the oldest series of cave paintings yet discovered, and we look at these pictures that were created 35,000 years before the Common Era, those questions make our study of that work really fascinating: What was the impulse that guided someone to craft this Griffin Bonner ’14’s self-portrait is composed of his diabetes exquisite work of art? What testing materials. was it like to encounter it under the circumstances in which they were living?”

The questions also help students begin to “think like art historians” by helping them to find the connections and common themes among various works of art, according to Ben Roach, Chair of the Upper School Art Department. “Back when I studied art history, we sat in a dark room and looked at slides of art work. It was ‘slides and information, slides and information,’” he drones. “Amy gets the students to look at the ‘bigger picture,’ to ask questions and to hypothesize answers.”

The art historians annually curate two shows in The Katz Galley, one in the fall and one in the spring, featuring works created by their classmates in the art major and studio courses. “The students visit the [Upper School art] studio and ask the artists to share what they consider to be their best work,” explains Schmaljohn. “The artists then talk about the processes and techniques they’ve used to create the piece.” Such dialogue enables the art historian to learn about studio methods and processes in ways that are much easier and more meaningful than by “only sitting in a room and looking at slides,” she says. “They also then are honoring the work of their classmates by saying, ‘These works are worthy of our curatorial efforts.’”

For Emma Remsberg ’13, an art major, curating the shows has deepened her appreciation for the thought processes and emotions behind the work. “Instead of just saying, ‘Oh, that looks cool,’ I’m learning to search for significance and value within the pieces,” she explains. “Studying different movements and styles gives us insight

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into the philosophies and cultural keystones that inspired them.”

Upon returning to the classroom with their individual pieces, the art historians view the collection in its entirety and collaborate on a coherent narrative, drawing from their research to explore common themes. Installing the show presents a separate set of challenges, according to Schmaljohn.

“Some of our students have never picked up a screwdriver,” she says. “They don’t know what a level is.” If the mechanics of framing and hanging art are bumpy in the fall, by spring the process goes much smoother. For their fall exhibit, “Nature and the Nature Of …” the art historians pioneered the use of QR (Quick Response) codes to guide visitors through the show. (The black-and-white bar codes are used with Smartphone applications to link viewers to The Katz Gallery Tumblr blog: http://friendsschoolgallery.tumblr.com/) “They wanted the work to be readily accessible and thought that my idea of having a hard-copy catalog nearby was hopelessly old-fashioned,” jokes Schmaljohn.

Back in the classroom, the art historians are piloting the use of one-to-one iPads in the curriculum, an innovation Schmaljohn describes as “remarkable.”

“The reproductions that are available online are extraordinarily good,” she says. “You can see brush strokes and color with remarkable accuracy.” The touch-screen technology, in combination with an overhead projector, also allows the class to jointly follow “threads of curiosity,” adds Schmaljohn.

“If we are exploring a work of art and a question comes up in class that we need to research, the student can take command of the projector and lead the investigation. It’s very seamless.”

Outside of the classroom, the art historians are also exploring the rich variety of museums and galleries in Baltimore, and they are welcoming local artists, including MICA instructor Phillip Koch,

“ Instead of just saying, ‘Oh, that looks cool,’ I’m learning to search for significance and value within the pieces.

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who met with Friends students this fall and shared his work in an exhibit in The Katz Gallery.

For Schmaljohn, the blending of the lines between the studio artists and the art historians is all part of the vision the department has for the Art History program. “I am grateful to be a part of this incredibly collaborative department; we’re moving into another exciting period with the visual arts in the Upper School.” FS From left, Emma Remsberg ’13, Aria Fazelimanesh ’13 and Amy Schmaljohn research artworks.

Cole Synder’s ’13 copper-wire dog sculpture is among the works included in the Art History class show, “The Artist’s Process.”

The quiet phase of Friends School’s comprehensive campaign continues.

Since fall of 2011, 14 donors have contributed major gifts of $100,000 or more to support our endowment and the renewal of the Forbush Building into a state-of-the-art fine and performing arts venue. “Spotlight on the Arts,” a recurring feature in Collection, explores how participation in the arts transforms the lives of our students. For more information about the comprehensive campaign, contact Lisa Pitts ’70 at lpitts@friendsbalt.org.

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A Celebration of the arts Major donors and members of the Circle of Friends, the School’s planned giving society, on December 9, 2012, enjoyed “A Celebration of the Arts,” featuring special performances by the Upper School Chamber Choir and the School’s two a cappella singing groups — The Quaketones and The Pleiades. Following the musical portion of the evening, guests toured “Nature and the Nature Of …” an exhibit of Upper School art works curated by Friends’ art history students. The evening culminated with a seated dinner in the Zamoiski Alumni Center.

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The Annual Fund Needs YOU! At press time, the 2012-13 Annual Fund still has “a ways to go” if the School is to meet its $1.5 million goal, according to Annual Fund Director Meg Whiteford. As of May 24, Friends has raised $1,269,742 in gifts and pledges.

“This year’s Annual Fund is included in next year’s operating budget,” she explains. “The money we raise will help cover the basics — like utilities and salaries. That’s why we need everyone’s participation.”

The Annual Fund closes on June 30, 2013. Mail your taxdeductible donation using the enclosed giving envelope or give online at friendsbalt.org/giving.

Friends also gratefully accepts gifts of stock. Questions?

Contact Meg Whiteford, Annual Fund director, at mwhiteford@ friendsbalt.org or 410.649.3282.

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Class of 2013 raises the bar The Class of 2013 set a new student-led fundraising effort, raising close to $8,000 for this year’s Senior Family Gift — nearly quadruple the class’ initial goal of $2,013. Led by Morgan Klausner, Anna Mortimer and Becky Rawle, the seniors organized numerous fundraisers, including a School-wide talent show and service auction in February that raised some $5,600 and a mulch sale in March that added $1,400 to the coffers.

The Senior Family Gift is a Friends tradition. The students and their families, with the Development Office, choose a legacy gift for Friends that reflects their interests. Past gifts have included the completion of the new Dining Hall Picnic Glade, given by the Class of 2012, and establishing the Thomas P. LaMonica ’67 Scholarship Fund, given by the Class of 2011.

Thank You The Annual Fund is made possible by the dozens of parent and alumni volunteers who, each year, dedicate their time and energy as Class Agents, Grade Chairs, members of the Senior Family Gift and Annual Fund Steering Committees, and by volunteering during our fall and spring Phonathons. We couldn’t do it without you.

Thank you to the following Phenomenal Fundraisers: Jack Angelone ‘13 Jim Angelone Trish Backer-Miceli ‘83 Chrissie Baker ‘13 Cynthia Barkley Sharon Bass Mary Pat Bianchi Jimmy Bigwood ‘08 Denise Bitzel Heidi Blalock Kathleen Bogusky Frank Bond ‘69 Melinda Burdette ‘68 Dale Burgess ‘78 Kathleen Butler ‘13 Mike Carter, Sr. Richard Chamberlin Susan Chase John David ‘56 Jessica Dorsey Susan Emrich Jeb Felter ‘63 Marge Rowe Felter ‘63 Suzy Filbert Lisa Filer Norman Forbush ‘78 Justine Forrester ‘98 Colin Fowler ‘13 Tim Frank Heather Gange Vanessa Gann Ana Garcia-Moreno ‘13 Jenifer Garrison Blakely Mikula Hamilton ‘93 Maddie Harder ‘13 Chuck Harlan ‘63 Tim Hearn ‘78 Cindy Heller Carrie Mallonee Heubner ‘93 Martha Filbert Horner ‘56 Marc Hurwitz Maggie Ireland ‘13 Jenna Jackson Elena Johnson ‘98 Mabel Johnson Joe Johnston ‘98 Andre Jones Debbi Kasper Ed Kasper Barbara Katz Hannah Kaufman ‘13 Morgan Klausner ‘13 Jennie Kneebone ‘13 Julie Kolankiewicz Bradley Kolodner ‘08 Emily Lamasa ‘03 Sarah Lambros ‘13 Eleanor Landauer Amy Langrehr Scott Latshaw ‘87 Margo Lauterbach ‘93 Jill Lehr ‘78 Kyle Levy ‘13 Jen Asplen Little ‘89 Joan Sullivan Little ‘82 Pam Loeb Laurie Long Tori Long ‘13 Mike Lurie ‘81 Anne Homer Martin ‘37

Rachelle Martin Kate Maskarinec Lorinda Rugemer McColgan ‘56 Lisa McKissick ‘83 Steve McNear Kristen Merritt ‘13 John Miles ‘93 Gayle Moran Milne ‘63 Linda LaMonica Monk ‘63 Amy D’Auitolo Mortimer ‘87 Anna Mortimer ‘13 Hap Mortimer ‘58 Laird Mortimer ‘53 Angela Murphy Patti Mutascio Christy Myers ‘88 Lisi Nigrin Judy Klingelhofer O’Mara ‘63 Brianna Parker ‘13 Doreen Parkes Judy Phares Lisa Mitchell Pitts ‘70 Tim Pitts ‘68 Debbie Potter Matt Potter ‘13 Jasmine Powe ‘08 Anne Powell Rob Preston ‘73 Mac Price ‘58 Steve Prichett ‘87 Becky Rawle ‘13 Dan Reed ‘59 Elizabeth Reed Lee Riley ‘78 Brian Rohd ‘87 Anita Sampath Carole Schreck Esther Sharp Daryl Sidle Haley Sieglein ‘13 Bill Smillie Jennifer Smith Larry Smith ‘83 Missy Smith Molly Adolph Smith ‘82 Doug Stevenson ‘78 Wilson Taliaferro ‘99 Martha Thayer Rich Thayer David Todd Elmar Trust ‘03 Angelo Valle ‘88 Beth Van Dyke Ed Van Wesep ‘98 Jessie Vanderhoff ‘03 Claire Vernon ‘13 Kelly Vickstrom-Hoyt Lucien Walsh ‘88 John Watt Emily Weinman ‘03 Mark Weinman Bill White Craig Whiteford ‘87 Meg Whiteford Tom Whiteford ‘85 Joellen Wojcik ‘13 Alicia Wopat Ken Zalis

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From out of the blue, a gift that transforms lives REMY JOHNSTON ’85 was 22 years old and a senior at College of Wooster in Ohio, where he was studying philosophy, when his life tragically ended in a campus dormitory fire in February 1989.

In the months following his death, his family and friends established The Remy A. Johnston Scholarship Fund.

The award is given annually to a Middle or Upper School boy who, like the scholarship’s namesake, has dyslexia and loves to play sports. (A three-sport athlete at Friends, Johnston excelled in soccer, basketball and lacrosse. In 2010, the Alumni Association posthumously inducted him into the Friends School Athletic Hall of Fame.)

Valued at nearly $300,000, the fund was already providing significant financial assistance to its recipients when the School learned this winter that Dr. Virginia Lee Ault, a deceased donor with no prior ties to Friends, had named The Remy A. Johnston Scholarship Fund as one of five beneficiaries

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of her individual retirement account (IRA).

The value of her gift: $100,000.

“It was very good of her to give the money to the School,” says Joyce Johnston, Remy’s mother. Noting that she and Dr. Ault, a pediatrician and psychiatrist, had worked together at University of Maryland Hospital in the 1960s, Johnston said, “We were good friends. After she left Maryland, she went into private practice and I worked for her for a number of years.”

Dr. Ault eventually retired from her practice and moved to Broadmead, the Quaker-based continuing care center in Hunt Valley, Md. That was one of the clues Eleanor Landauer, the School’s Associate Director of Development, followed in learning about the gift’s origins. “I had to do some detective work,” she explains. “We did not know who Dr. Ault was and had no idea that we’d been named as a beneficiary.”

Think about that.

A seemingly out-of-the-blue gift from an unknown donor will transform the lives of countless young men at Friends School for years to come. You too can have that kind of

positive impact. Naming Friends School of Baltimore as a beneficiary of an IRA is one of the simplest ways to make a planned gift.

For more information, contact Eleanor C. Landauer, Associate Director of Development at 410.649.3316 or elandauer@friendsbalt.org.

Remy Johnston ’85 was posthumously inducted into the Friends School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2010.

Accepting his award were, from left, his sister, Sarah Johnston Millspaugh ’88, with her husband Mark and their children, Rachel ’23, Nick ’20 and Daniel ‘17, and his mother, Joyce Johnston.

Make Your Gift through Your IRA

Through December 31, 2013, individuals age 70½ and older may make direct transfers of up to $100,000 per year from their IRAs to 501(c)(3) organizations without having to count the transfers as income for federal income tax purposes.

May I use the rollover to support a particular purpose of Friends School of Baltimore? Yes. You can direct your IRA Charitable Rollover gift to any number of School-related funds.

How do I know if an IRA charitable rollover is right for me?

If you are at least age 70½ and you do not need the additional income necessitated by the minimum required distribution, OR

How will Friends School of Baltimore count the gift? We will give you full credit for the entire gift amount.

your charitable gifts already equal 50% of your adjusted gross income, so you do not benefit from an income tax charitable deduction for additional gifts, OR

What are the federal tax implications for me in transferring funds from my IRA to Friends School? Provided the transfer goes directly from the IRA provider to Friends School, you do not recognize it as income. However, you are not entitled to an income tax charitable deduction for your gift.

Does this transfer qualify as my minimum required distribution? Yes — IRA charitable rollovers do count towards your minimum required distributions for the year. (Once you reach age 70½, you are required to take minimum distributions from your retirement plans each year, according to a federal formula.)

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You do not itemize deductions, OR You are subject to income tax deduction and exemption phase-outs How do I execute an IRA charitable rollover? The first step is to contact your IRA provider to learn their procedures. Friends School also offers a sample letter you can send to your IRA provider to initiate a rollover.

For more information, or to request a sample letter, please contact Eleanor Landauer, Associate Director of Development 410.649.3316 or elandauer@friendsbalt.org.

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YOUR CLASSMATES WANT TO HEAR ABOUT YOU. Admit it: This is your favorite part of the magazine. Why not share some news of your own? Photos too! (Digital images should be 1 MB or greater.) Send to alumni@friendsbalt.org.

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Carol Lee Fordyce May carollee.may@gmail.com Jean McClure Mudge stays active with tennis and traveling. She had a letter and photo from Ellen Thomas Lacourt from Geneva, Switzerland.

We heard of the loss of Mary Brown Lindsay in September. She had lost her husband John in June. I had a right knee replacement in December and from late March to mid-April 2013 will fly to Hong Kong, where my son and daughter-in-law live and work. From there I will also visit the cities of Xian, Beijing and Taiwan, China.

This class needs a secretary.

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

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This class needs a secretary.

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Susanne Davis Emory vermontsue@aol.com Clay and I had a wonderful riverboat trip this fall, cruising from Prague to Amsterdam on the Danube, Main and Rhine Rivers. We learned so much about Hitler and WWII, and we also enjoyed the countryside along the way.

This winter we decided to take care of bad joints. Clay had his knee replaced, and I took care of an arthritic thumb.

Please send me your news! You can tell I’m desperate!

As the gatherer of class news for Collection, I am delighted with the response this time and so appreciate those who addressed the request. First, an apology goes to Cynnie Miller Rosenwald: Collection mistakenly reported that Cynnie’s grandchild had graduated from Goucher College in 2004 when it was actually Cynnie who received her degree. Congratulations!

Page Singewald Williams reports that a highlight of 2012 was another wonderful trip to visit her older son Russ who has been living in Wroclaw, Poland since 2005. He and his delightful wife Anna Skudlarska maintain

a vegan household and do English/ Esperanto/Polish translations for books, movies and board games. The visit included once again helping the town set the Guinness World Record for the most guitarists all playing the same song, Jimi Hendrix’s “Hey Joe,” at the same time in the village square. This year the participants numbered 7,273, and you can see some of the amazing photos of the event at http//hevioe fest.com. Pat Fiol Morrill reports that Bill Morill retired from CB Richard Ellis Realty in August 2011. He keeps busy with tennis, workouts, lunches with old Hopkins buddies and going to as many of their eight grandchildren’s games as possible. He spends a lot of time on the computer. Pat is still painting in oil and taking a weekly class at Zoll Studio. Ever since our 50th Reunion, she has organized a monthly luncheon date with “Club ’55-ers,” including Robin Biddison Dodd, Iris Windsor McFaul, Ginny Pearce Mitchell, Lolly Crowther Schorreck, Cynnie Miller Rosenwald and me. We have eaten continually for eight years!

Pat takes their two youngest granddaughters, who live just across the street, to and from school every day and entertains them until their parents get home. As this is being written, she is in the process of totally re-doing the guest bath at their beach house and says that it is not easy trying to coordinate all the details long-distance.

The Morrills are still involved with their gourmet group, which has been together for 38 years. They have had some fabulous meals, one or two

On a recent visit to Wroclaw, Page Singewald Williams ’55 helped the town set a Guinness World Record for the most guitarists playing the same song, Jimi Hendrix’s “Hey Joe,” at the same time in one location!

disasters and even sailed to Bermuda as a group. She and Bill are beginning to “weed out the junk” for a move to Mercy Ridge in the future. They have been in their house for 43 years, and the task of downsizing and moving on to the next stage is daunting. (Who in the class has managed the next stage with grace and serenity and can give tips for survival?) From Ellie Johnson Dubbelde, who is currently in Phoenix, having spent a very brief time in Florida and a very long stint in Seattle, comes the news that she is returning to Seattle to house, dog and cat sit for a friend who lives in her old neighborhood. She departs her desert home in mid-March and returns the first week in May. She says of Seattle that even though it will be raining, she will enjoy all of the spring flowers and greenery!

She hopes to get in at least one day of skiing in March before going home and then on to Virginia to attend her grandson’s graduation from high school in mid-June. She is taking country line dancing and loving it, and she says that she will dance to just about anything. Gil Cohen is still fully employed and maybe the only one in the class who is. He and wife Pat travel frequently on business and pleasure, about 100 days per year. They went to South America last year and also on a long trip to central Europe in addition to a week in England visiting Pat’s family.

They are headed for a “bucket list” trip in May to the French Open in Paris and in June will take an extended trip through Portugal on a riverboat followed by a ground tour. Then they are off to Italy, as they are every year, this being their 18th visit. (I’m having some difficulty with Gil’s claim of full employment.) The Cohens have been married 14-plus years and, although still in their house, are beginning to consider smaller digs. Gil has two grandchildren at the University of Maryland, one at the University of Michigan and two still in high school.

He still plays tennis, although recurrent

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back problems plague. Linda and Bob Kriel continue to be active in their church choir, and Bob still is taking private voice lessons. He says they manage to spend a lot of time at their summer home on a lake in northwestern Wisconsin. Bob is teaching at a raptor rehabilitation center, one of the high points of his week. He continues to enjoy working part-time at the University of Minnesota, developing drug treatment therapies for rare childhood diseases, and says that the research is actually going better than usual. He and Linda have combined their international travel with service and were recently awarded a national grant from the Paralyzed Veterans of America for their overseas work.

In February they served as medical consultants on a service mission to the West Bank, where in Bethlehem they saw children living with cerebral palsy, epilepsy and birth deformities — the same types of problems they’ve encountered for years in their medical practice. They’ve done similar service trips to Hangzhou, China, where in April 2012, with their daughter Helena, they volunteered in an orphanage for children with special needs; and also to Cuba, where in February 2012, they served on a team that installed a water purification and filtration system for a local community. The couple will be in Baltimore this May for a 50th JHU Medical School reunion. Robert Seiler waxes philosophically about Friends School, saying that it gave him three focuses to his life: a love of reading, a love of athletics and a love for his wife, Wynelle Hudson Seiler. (And I swear, that was the order he gave!) Rob says that he and Wynelle began singing together when she corralled him to get some of the guys to join the Girls Chorus, thus forming the Friends Mixed Chorus in 1954. He then speculates if there is another family that had six siblings attending Friends: Jane Seiler Britton ’47, Charles “Sy” Seiler ’52, Katherine Seiler Black ’54, Susan Seiler Haw ’62 and Richard Seiler ’68.

Rich has taught history in the Upper School for 25 years. His daughter Abigail Seiler ’04 and stepson Rob Stromberg ‘05 are also Friends alumni. The Seiler family’s mother, Katherine Meister Seiler ’24, began this grand progression, and Robert has an acceptance letter signed by Alice C. Dowling. Robert signs off by saying that he has given all the news from Williamsburg, Va., where there is plenty of history and bedtime is 9 p.m. (Four Peake girls attended Friends: Pat Peake Tisdale, Barbara Peake ’56, Linda Peake Frost ’60 and

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Mary Peake ’66. They followed their mother Mary Bouis Peake ’27 and her four brothers: Ernest Bouis ’16, George Bouis ’21, Clarence Bouis ’18 and John Bouis. I think the Peake bunch outnumbers the Seiler clan by one!) Linda Flack Bunce is in transition.

After working for many years on Capitol Hill for three different Republicans and one Democrat (at a time when there was strong bipartisanship and members prided themselves on reaching across the aisle), she left to take a position in development for a small nonprofit in Alexandria, Va. She recently stepped down from that position, which she enjoyed immensely, in part because of an interesting opportunity that has brought her back to Baltimore for a number of visits. Linda writes, “Some of you may be familiar with OrchKids, the music program for underprivileged elementary school children in Kindergarten through sixth grade. The program, now in its fifth year, is under the umbrella of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and its music director Marin Alsop. It is based on El Sistema, a very successful music program in Venezuela that is available to all children and funded by the government. OrchKids was the first

pharmacist and tax preparer, passed on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 after suffering a massive heart attack.” It was suggested that donations may be sent to Covenant House, a youth shelter at Times Square Station, P.O. Box 731, New York, NY 10108-0900. As a member of the Class of 1955, Ernie was recognized as an excellent student, conscientious and with a great depth of concentration. He was an accomplished pianist and received a diploma from the Peabody Conservatory.

He played on the Junior Varsity Soccer team and the Junior Varsity Tennis team.

The class also extends its sympathy to Lolly Crowther Schorreck, whose mother passed away in December at the age of 106.

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Lorinda Rugemer McColgan lrmccolgan@verizon.net Joel Mindel writes, “After 41 years in New York, I remain a Baltimore sports fan. Last summer, it was twice watching the Orioles beat the Yankees at Yankee stadium (there was, unfortunately, one loss as well). In February, I went to the Super Bowl, but alone.

Linda Flack Bunce ’55 retired from an exciting career on Capitol Hill, but she’s still hard at work. She and husband Elliot are working with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra to bring OrchKids, a music program for underpriveleged elementary school children, to schools in Alexandria, Va. El Sistema program to be started in this country, and [husband] Elliott and I are working with the organization’s artistic director, who is from Baltimore.

Our hope is to start a similar program in one of the elementary schools in Alexandria. It is a huge undertaking but promises to be very satisfying.

If you are not familiar with OrchKids, go to YouTube, then search for “OrchKids Baltimore” and choose the first option.” Linda and Elliott continue to enjoy their visits to Switzerland and the mountain village which has become their “home away from home.” Sadly, the class lost Ernest Boatman in early January 2013. The Baltimore Sun obituary reads: “Ernest A. Boatman, a master bridge player, longtime

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My daughters and grandchildren, all born in New York, and my wife, originally from central Pennsylvania, do not share my loyalties.” Joan Ellis Chirgwin wishes to declare that she is “alive and well, happy and healthy.”

This is no mean feat when you reach our state of advanced age. Lisa and Nick Badart have moved back into their house 15 months after an abusive tree fell upon and destroyed their roof in the middle of the night. (A traumatic wakeup call if ever there was one.)

They expected to be camped-out in their living room until March 2013, when they would regain the use of their upstairs rooms. Good luck to them, and may their optimism not be abused — as their roof was.

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Please send your news for Class Notes!

This class needs a secretary.

If you’re interested in helping with this volunteer job, please contact the Alumni Office (alumni@friendsbalt.org)

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Susan Shinnick Hossfeld shossfeld@comcast.net Mac Price’s grandson Nicholas received his Eagle Scout Award last year while grandson Justin continues to work towards his goal of being an Eagle Scout. Their dad is very active as a scout leader in Easton, and mother Laura is a county council member for Talbot County. Mac just discovered from his two grandchildren in West Virginia that he will be a great-grandfather in 2013. Susan Rugemer Kurtz, along with daughter Betsy and granddaughter Kayla Kurtz ’21, is heading West for a “girls” trip to spend some time in the Los Angeles area, which includes a visit to Marty Bald Huyette. Then they are headed up the coast to San Francisco. Kandi Slade will again appear in the annual Paint and Powder Show, which she has performed in since 1969. Three of Kandi’s grandchildren are now in college, and the fourth is a junior at Garrison Forest School.

Kandi’s daughter Traci Davis was inducted in to the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. Traci is currently the athletic director at Garrison Forest.

After 30 years at a law firm, Bettie Mullikin has retired. Our best wishes to Bettie in her new adventures! Congratulations and best wishes to Betsy and Hap Mortimer on their upcoming 50th wedding anniversary! In addition, their granddaughter, Anna Mortimer ’13 will graduate in June from Friends School! Barbara Long O’Brien reports a great and fun 2012. She has seen her son George several times during his business trips to Baltimore, and Patrick, who travels most of the year with his art, has also been able to visit. Pat’s daughter Erin graduated from Dulaney High School and has a four-year scholarship at James Madison University in physics. In February, Barbara visited her brother and family in Florida, and in March she started sailing again with an Annapolis group “Singles on Sailboats.”

She became involved with this group though a longtime friend and sailed many weekends with other members of the club. In June, she was conferred Jemicy School’s “Westie Award” for

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SUSAN DEHOFF MONTGOMERY ‘60 poses with her daughters on

her 70th birthday.

FOR HER 70TH BIRTHDAY, Jeannie Pohlhaus ’60 had the opportunity to drive a race car!

her longtime service to the school.

Alumni and former colleagues reminisced and told of her significant impact on their lives. She then took trips to Maine, the West Virginia Mountains and to Hilton Head Island, S.C. For further details you must attend our 55th Reunion. The Baltimore Group has had a great time planning the event, and we are looking forward to seeing all of our classmates! Carl and I are off to Telluride, Colo., where Carl will ski with the International Rotary Skiing Fellowship and I will volunteer for the silent auction to benefit the adaptive and wounded warrior ski program. Then, on to Santa Fe, Silver City, Albuquerque and Tucson for a few weeks.”

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Ann Green Slaybaugh Friends59@verizon.net Nick Stoer reports, “We are in Hawaii this week (at time Class Notes were due) with our daughters and grandkids for winter break. It is 82 degrees, sunny and we can see whales from our balcony.” Dan Reed wrote to say, “Claire and I have sold our Homeland home and are in the process of moving to the Millsboro area of Delaware.

We currently are residing in downtown Baltimore and soon will be relocating to Berlin, Md., before our final move to Delaware. Squeezed in between moving was a trip to Aruba and soon a trip to Ecuador. We will be glad when we are settled.”

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Mary McElroy Mem2008@comcast.net Sandy Cochran reports he is now grandfather to seven children since the October birth of Maximilian in Austria, where Sandy’s son Richard lives. Catherine Felter happily reports the birth last year of her fourth grandchild, a girl named Catherine Ellen Kysiak. There is also a two-year-old brother, Kazimir. Her other two grandchildren are Sam, 10, and Anya, 5.

Last summer, Cathie joined a reunion of the 10 volunteers and two co-directors of the VISTA Vietnam group that traveled there to volunteer. This was their third reunion and was very meaningful to them all. In December, Cathie’s daughter-in-law received her master’s in nursing in acute care, took her boards and passed them with her finals. She hopes to continue working in the Johns Hopkins transplant unit.

Cathie keeps busy with part-time work, serving on committees with the American Friends Service Committee and Stony Run Meeting, plus doing lots of childcare with her grandchildren.

She also took her first cruise, to Nova Scotia, which she very much enjoyed.

She enjoyed Nova Scotia, but was not too fond of the cruise mode of travel.

Elizabeth Beatty Gable says she and Bruce have both now retired and are in the process of moving year round to their house in Rockport, Mass., where they have spent many summers and weekends in the past. They are looking forward to the gorgeous landscapes

and natural beauty of the coastal area.

Michael Jackley reported that his health is much improved and he has moved into a retirement community.

He and his wife Karen sold the farm and purchased a house in Middelburg, Va. Their daughter Megan gave birth to a baby boy named Eli in October, joining his older brother Dano. The family still lives in Seattle, where Megan is the regional head of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training program, the organization’s major fundraising effort.

Megan also runs marathons and even ran an Iron Man Triathlon! Sandra Sutley Kull emailed Mary to agree that Mrs. Dibert greatly affected her thinking and grammar. As she put it, “I, too, have Ms. Dibert in the grammar part of my brain. She peaks her head out every now and then!” Others have expressed similar sentiments over the years. I wonder if she had any idea how strong her influence was on us?

Mary McElroy has finally decided to close her beaded jewelry and accessory business gradually over this year.

“I’ll keep making things for myself and friends, but I won’t have the pressure of all the business requirements.” She had a short but wonderful trip visiting friends in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, N.M. last October. Her annual trip to visit family in Portland is scheduled for March. In between, for the holidays, she did volunteer fundraising for two charities in which she is involved (thank you, Ms. Dibert!). In January and February she had her master bath completely renovated, taking walls back to the studs. What a mess, but the result was worth it! Alice Morse Mellin reports that she and Peter are still “plying the ocean waters” with their boat. They especially love visiting the Bahamas with its great snorkeling.

Much of her time is also spent keeping up with 11 grandchildren. Many of them visit during the summer. Alice

and Peter are still working. Alice continues her painting and potting, and they make time for whatever else calls to them. Brad Meyer reported that he and Tom Baker attended Eli Renn’s surprise birthday party in December. Brad’s birthday was a couple of days before Eli’s so it was a double celebration and a lot of fun! “The fourth member of our group of school pals, Barbara Lindemann ’59, lives in California and didn’t make it.” Susan DeHoff Montgomery, like many of us turning 70, is using the occasion to reflect on what she wants to do going forward. She continues to put travel at or near the top of her list. Last year she visited Alaska, England and many places in between. Her daughters Joanna and Camilla gave her “the party of a lifetime” billed as a “Royal Jubilee,” with stand-ins for the Queen, Wills and Kate, a British bartender dressed as a beefeater, a performance of “Three Little Maids from School” (from The Mikado) and a birthday cake shaped like a crown on a pillow. The party is still being talked about. Note: Susan spent many years living and working in England. Jeannie Downs Pohlhaus continues her career as a successful realtor. When she turned 70 this year, it was a huge event for her.

Thanks to her friends Helen and Matt Worthington who made it possible, Jeannie accomplished the number one item on her bucket list: driving a real race car! All of the past year has been very eventful: losing her wonderful husband Neil after 33 years of marriage, disbanding her longtime business partnership, beginning a new company with a new business partner and moving into her own condo. As she says, she is “starting (her) new life at 70! Scary but exciting.” Eli Renn has retired and loves it! As of April, he will have five grandchildren, all of whom live in Connecticut. He and wife Pat visit often.

Susan Huff Schmitt is thoroughly

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enjoying her new home in Florida. She loves gardening in a climate that lets you plant in October and harvest in December. She is constantly busy with trips, concerts and hobbies for the 2,300 residents in three villages. Susan welcomes visitors; among her recent guests have been Nina New Cohen ’61, Sally Huff Leimbach ’64 and Susan DeHoff Montgomery. I also asked them if anyone had a 50th anniversary to report but received no response. (Ms. Dibert drilled into us not to use the word “got” and that it wasn’t a real word. So you notice I used the word “received!”)

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DIANA FLEISCHER SCHOFIELD ’62 won an award from the Maryland State Fair for her hook rug.

akitabay@gmail.com Hello again. Our share list is growing.

I am writing this in February after that big snow in New England. I received photos from Pat and Mary “Muff” Faith Woodman. Their photos show 30-plus inches of snow and dug-out paths from their houses! They moved to Windsor Locks, Conn. about five years ago, after 32 years in California, when Pat retired from the Merchant Marines as an engineering officer. They came East to enjoy the four-season life, and to be closer to her brother Clay Woodman ’68. Muff now has an inoperative knee problem. However, in August they will be cruising to Iceland, Muff’s life-long dream. Bill Seabold writes from Florida that he and his wife Evelyn are about to retire from their second careers. His son Robert and Robert’s three children live in Silver Spring, Md. His daughter Nicole, her husband and son Johnny reside in New Jersey. His twins Kurt and Kim live in Tampa. Bill says he has traveling still on his bucket list. Anne Wasserman Luther writes from Little Rock, Ark. that her second grandbaby is due in May in Wisconsin. She plans on being there to share the event with her granddaughter who will be turning two at about that time. Dave Windisch was kind enough to share with me the video from the Santa Fe Women’s Christmas Concert in the Loretto Chapel that his sister sang in. It was beautiful. Anne Robinson Hooker and Brian Hooker ’60 are approaching their 50th wedding anniversary. They have three children and five grandchildren, ranging in age from 2 to 18. They have lived in Boulder, Colo. for the past 39 years. Anne says she morphed from an English major in college (her first bachelor’s degree) to a math major (her second bachelor’s degree) to a master’s

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LINDA KARSASH ARMIGER ‘62’s daughters Kelly and Tara at Middleton Hunt in

degree in technical communication.

She has been an English teacher, a math teacher and finally a technical editor. Both Anne and Brian are now retired and spend their winters in Tucson, Ariz., where they become desert rats while painting in watercolors and acrylics. Their love of travel has taken them island-hopping in Greece. They hope to continue traveling and want to say “hello” to everyone. Bob Seabold writes from Ocean View, Del. (near Bethany) that he is fighting old age.

His children are in their 30s and 40s now, and that makes him feel ancient (something we all share now). Bob and partner Nancie share quiet winters, TV time, movies, visits to the gym, occasional dinners out and visits with his brother Bill Seabold in Florida.

However, when summer comes, it’s all family. His four wonderful children and his eight beautiful grandchildren all come to visit, and he couldn’t be any happier. Bob also suggests that you visit him on Facebook; he would love to hear from you. Lisa Dresser Stewart writes about her harrowing experiences during Hurricane Sandy, and how she experienced firsthand the power of prayer on demand. Her son Stephen is now a freshman at Principia High School in St. Louis, Mo., and she is now a remote soccer mom. She says his dorm mate is from Germany, and he is enjoying neat field trips, like following Mark Twain’s footsteps down the Mississippi. Her husband Michael was re-elected to the school board.

Apparently, life without cable has many benefits. She says that at the Dover Christian Science Reading Room, where she works, there are many days when they have non-stop visitors from Peru to Pakistan and Chile to China. And,

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she says, she is still trying to learn Spanish. In closing, I will share my latest discovery. My doctor has informed me that I have lost two inches in height.

Just another joy of getting older …

Everybody mark your traveling schedule for the first weekend in May 2016; it’s our 55th Reunion, and you need to be in Baltimore with the rest of us!

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Eleanor Blake Fuller eaerobic@hotmail.com Diana Fleischer Schofield advises that she still does not have a new kidney.

Now her sister-in-law and her cleaning women are being worked up for possible donation. Her cleaning women, who have been with her for six years, both volunteered when they found out she needed a kidney. Diana ended up in Howard County General Hospital for nine weeks due to an infected dialysis access that spread to her back. Although extremely painful, all of the staph infection is gone, and she only has a slight amount of pain remaining. Her husband Larry’s volleyball team made it as far as the State Finals this year. Both of his grandchildren, Henry Blanchard ’24 and Gray Blanchard ’18, are at Friends and loving it. Gray has turned out to be a real mathematician. Henry is adjusting well to first grade. Diana is going to two rug hooking workshops in April; one in Annapolis and one in Ocean City. She won the President’s Award in the Maryland State Fair for one of her wall hangings. After twoplus years of riding horses and running her small breeding/training

operation full-time with hubby Bob, Barbara Ensor Sena accepted a full-time position as accountant for the City of Aubrey, Texas. She moved there last November from Stephenville, Texas.

Her horse, “Baby” Joi, is four now and in training to show in reined cow horse events. Show season starts in March, and while her husband does most of the riding/legging-up now, she rides on weekends. Bruce Goodwin thinks he is “maybe partially retiring” and will pick projects that interest him and don’t interfere with his and wife Lucy’s travel plans. They planned a March trip to the Amazon, Machu Picchu and the Galapagos Islands. He has a neighbor who says he has a “Freudian Retirement Plan.” Linda Kardash Armiger has stayed in touch with many people. She LANE WILLIAMSON ’62 took a trip to northern Maine where she captured images for new paintings. This is one of the paintings. Lane says, “Give me a name for it, somebody!”

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STEVE GREIF ‘63 and his wife Maggie with their granddaughter Lila in Brooklyn, N.Y. and with his grandson Evan at the beach.

tells us something about Diana “Peppie” Yeager Rankin that Peppie humbly did not share: Peppie’s daughter Caroline last spring wrote and published a book titled A Horse Named Vikiry about Peppie’s life, including the family’s farm, her time on the Friends School riding team, and later, how as an adult she worked with dressage horses. Linda really enjoyed reading this book as, of course, she was a great rider and is still involved with her family and their riding shows.

She says the book was a beautiful tribute to Peppie. How fortunate she is to have gained such respect as a mother and a horsewoman. Linda congratulates the Rankin family. As for Linda and Buck’s spring and summer plans, they will go to Saratoga Springs and attend the races at the spa. It’s on her bucket list of something she’s always wanted to do. Linda and Buck will host the granddaughters once again for their annual summer camp experience in Solomons, Md.; they plan to share the pony show season with Logan and MacKenzie this year.

Linda’s daughter Kelly has added a new member named Velvet, MacKenzie’s new show pony, to their equine family.

Her youngest granddaughter was diagnosed with a genetic kidney reflux malfunction and will eventually need surgery. We certainly hope for the best, Linda. Linda has had some deep venous thrombosis, but it seems to be under control for now. And where is Chris Sherman Raywood visiting this time?

Oh, just France and a bit more. She started in Nice and then over to Arles.

Hurricane Isaac cut the beginning a little short as they all had “feeder storms” with lots of lightning, thunder,

etc. Her British Air flight coming into Miami was struck by lightning, which meant that all the passengers ended up in hotels before leaving the next afternoon. Back to the trip, then she drove up through the Massif Centrale area of France — beautiful mountains, extinct volcanoes, charming towns that are off the usual tourist track — then to the cathedral city of Bourges and to Paris. She ended up in Salisbury, England, where she made the drive to Highclere Castle where “Downton Abbey” is filmed, which was a real treat. She visited Baltimore at Christmas and spent 10 days with Bill’s family, which in October welcomed a new addition when his oldest daughter and her family welcomed a baby, Grant Robert Goodier. So Chris became a great-aunt! She will most likely visit Scotland and the English border area in the spring. She will try to catch up with Susie on her way back to London.

Steven and Carol Davidson Methven had a wonderful time in October in Montana. Two of their sons and their families, including five of their grandchildren, were able to join them there.

It was so much fun to see the kids delight in all the wildlife and the wonders of Yellowstone. Of course, the three grandchildren from Florida were introduced to their first snow. They had a great time throwing snowballs and making snow angels! Their son John, the Navy fighter pilot, returned safely from his deployment in the Gulf in late October. They hope next year he and his family will be able to join them in Montana for their yearly trip. Emily Holman spent a week in Ecuador in early February. She visited their Companion Diocese in Quito with three

others from her Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey. She was returning home from a trip to Peru and Machu Picchu at the time Hurricane Sandy was hitting the East Coast. Her flight was stranded in Miami for four days, and although her power was still out when she returned, she was relieved to find her house. The Jersey Shore will be recuperating for a long time from this storm, and she says it’s heartbreaking that so many people have lost their homes and possessions. Her church collected and distributed cleaning supplies, helped with “mucking out,” and is now hosting an adult support group for those who want to talk about their experiences. Emily states, “We are not our possessions, but it hurts when we lose the articles we have collected over the courses of our lives which remind us of our families and experiences.”

Jim Willis advises that it is cloudy in the northern Rockies in the winter but not too cold, which he says is very typical of the area. He also says that he and Cindy fondly remember our Reunion last year. Mary Ellen Fischer lets us know that she will have to write more next time as she has been in Hawaii for the last two months and is, at the moment, in the process of returning with delayed flights and the knowledge that she will find two months worth of mail to peruse. Lane Williamson wrote me a note that she would write something to me as she was watching the 30-inch blizzard.

Lane, I am still waiting. Are you still snowed in? Lane just returned from a trip to northern Maine, about two hours to the Canadian border. She was shooting pictures for paintings. Lane says, “Beautiful! Blizzard of 2013 was

fantastic: 36 inches of snow and 60 mile-per-hour winds on our six acres in the woods! We snowshoed for days.”

Oh, to be in Florida more! I would say to anyone who will listen. I am in Florida as I write this and enjoying the weather while others are shoveling out.

I love being here and seeing my Florida grandson, who has never seen snow.

Stay well, everyone, and keep in touch.

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Donna Hasslinger Dhassli@aol.com

Chick Fetter Deegan deeganchicke@aol.com Donna wrote to say, “Some of our classmates continue to get together for lunch in the Baltimore area twice a year, and in November we were pleased to welcome a classmate we had not seen in decades to our lunch.

Rob Wiltshire started at Friends when he was five years old, but left after the seventh grade when his family relocated to Connecticut. After a career in the military, Rob ran a technology firm in Washington, DC. He and his wife Margie retired to Pennsylvania and drove to Baltimore to join Steve Greif, Skip Dugdale, Joane Knight Schumacher, Marge Rowe Felter, Anne Skinner White and me for lunch and a mini-reunion. We had a great time reminiscing about our days in Lower School. After lunch, Joane and I started planning our next trip to the Baltimore Museum of Art. In December we met there to see the new contemporary wing, the Matisse exhibit, the latest addition to the Levi

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JUDY KLINGELHOFER O’MARA ’63’s grandchildren Jack, 4 and Kieran, 7.

sculpture garden and to do a little holiday shopping at the museum store. After touring the museum, we stopped for lunch at Gertrude’s museum restaurant, as usual. In January, Steve Greif and his wife Maggie attended their 13th Sundance Film festival in Park City, Utah, and returned with some independent film recommendations. Steve sent in pictures of their two grandchildren, Lila and Evan, taken when they were visiting them in Brooklyn, N.Y. and at the beach. Judy Klingelhofer O’Mara also sent in pictures of her grandchildren, Kieran and Jack. She and her husband Jack have been married for 44 years and have lived in the same house for 37 of those years. They still enjoy keeping in touch with lots of their classmates, and they frequently visit their son John and his family in Richmond, Va. where their time spent with their grandchildren keeps them young and active. Dave Phillips recently advised us that he accepted a new position as director of economic and workforce development for Dane County, Wis. where he and his wife Susan live. He also will be responsible for the administration and management of the county’s community development block grant program.

Gail Levinson Shawe is serving as the co-chair of the Baltimore Women’s Giving Circle, a group of 411 women who pool their contributions to fund over 20 programs a year that promote

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self-sufficiency for women and their families. She also is still involved with the Sheppard-Pratt Health System, The Walters Art Museum and the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, a charter school. Gail’s oldest son is married to a wonderful woman and lives in Washington, DC with their two children. Her second son lives in DC, as well. Both sons work in education, one as a lawyer for KIPP Public Charter Schools and the other as head of a girls’ middle school. Her daughter is a school counselor in San Francisco and was married this past June. Gail also mentioned that her in-laws are 100 and 98 years old and that her mother is 93 — youngsters compared to Anne Kay Joyner’s mother who is at Pickersgill and is going strong at 105. Gail looks forward to seeing everyone this spring. Frank Wing was in touch from his home in San Francisco and says he will also be joining us at our 50th Reunion. Frank received his bachelor’s degree from University of Michigan and his master’s from Harvard in landscape architecture.

Although he worked in that field after college, he was also taking photos for The Boston Globe and finally decided to concentrate on photography. We all know where his work started — The Quaker Quill — Friends School’s newspaper, and the yearbook! Frank’s diverse projects include photographing all the Rodin sculptures at Stanford’s

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Cantor Collection as well as fancy French pastries, each resulting in a 1,000-page book.

His pictures are absolutely stunning, and you can view them at www.frankwingphoto.com. Frank and his wife Dina were married in a 12th century chapel under a glacier in Northern Italy. She’s a sculptor and her work is on display at her website, www.dinaangelwing.com.

Their son graduated from Tufts last spring. Plans are underway for our 50th Reunion: A committee, including Jeb Felter and Marge Rowe Felter, Chuck Harlan, Judy Klingelhofer O’Mara, Linda LaMonica Monk, Gail Moran Milne and I sent a survey to our classmates to get feedback on proposed Reunion activities.

It should be a busy weekend beginning with the Athletic Hall of Fame induction on Thursday, May 2, followed by golf and our 50th Reunion dinner on Friday. A variety of events will culminate in a casual Class of ’63 dinner on Saturday and a farewell brunch on Sunday. It looks like about 30 classmates will be attending one or more of the events. It should be a great opportunity to reconnect with quite a few old friends. We hope that many from our class will join us!

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Susan Grathwohl Dingle s123dingle@aol.com The Class of 1964 lost one of our dearest ’mates, when Don Wilson passed away on December 14, 2012.

We send our deepest sympathies to his wife Connie, as well as to his father and his children. From his earliest days at Friends, Don always made a difference. As the obituary in The Sun stated, in 1959, Don became the youngest in the Baltimore area to achieve the rank of Eagle Scout. In 1968, he graduated from Yale Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and in 1976 earned both an M.B.A and a J.D. from Harvard. A lieutenant in the Navy, he served for a year in Vietnam as an advisor. He went on to start a Fortune 500 company. Then Don took an unexpected path: In 1997, he completed his education for ministry at the School of Theology at the University of the South and “met the love of his life, and his partner in life, Connie.” When they

married in 2000 and moved to Raleigh, N.C., Don became involved in Endacea, the biopharmaceutical company Connie had founded in 1995 to research a cure for cancer. Don was an inspired leader and a gentle soul. At Friends he played on two MSA championship lacrosse teams and served as president of the student senate. We will miss him greatly. Jay Biddison wrote, “Don was a remarkable person. I remember sitting next to him at our 25th Reunion, and watching Greg Neumann receive the Distinguished Alumni Award (Sally Huff Leimbach also received an award). Don said, ‘Well, Jay, at least one of us is a rocket scientist.’” Thanks, Jay, for sending along a photo taken during your tenure as organist at Central Presbyterian Church in Towson.

Jay and Sue moved to Towson about three years ago. After retiring from a cardiology practice, Jay has been with Social Security Disability for the past 15 years, working with Randy Rogers’ son, Jonathan Rogers ’90. Speaking of rocket science, Paul Newbury recently reported hearing an interview on NPR with “someone named Greg Neumann” talking about water on Mercury. Could it be? Our rocket scientist confirmed, “Unfortunately, that was me playing scientist for a day …” Greg gave us the inside story: “The laser altimeter that we operate has been able to discern water, ice and organic-rich dirt in areas on Mercury where the sun never shines!” Greg was the lead author of a paper published in the online journal Science Express which “in my field is tantamount to notoriety.” Laurie Owen Keene is teaching sculpture to kids at the Kent Island Art Federation “using stoneware and lots of imagination.” She and Michael are still on the farm on Kent Island, except for January when they go to the Yucatan to study the archeology of the Mayans “and escape winter.”

Asked about the Mayans predicting the end of the world on December 21, 2012, Laurie explains, “The Mayan calendar ended and they didn’t add more. That’s why nothing ended. People read more into it than there was. If you saw the stone work, you would understand.” Future Generations Graduate School, the accredited grad school Dan Taylor-Ide founded, offers master’s degrees in community-based conservation and peace building.

Students come from 31 countries and study in key locations worldwide, such as India, at Mahatma Gandhi’s study center, Haiti or Kenya, as well as back home in their own communities. Details are at www.future.edu. Details about the seven other Future Generations

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JAY BIDDISON ’64 is the organist at Central Presbyterian Church in Towson.

DAN TAYLOR-IDE ‘64 with master’s students in India at the Future

Generations Graduate School.

organizations that Dan founded are at www.future.org. In 1972, Dan and King Seegar co-founded The Mountain Institute. This website takes you right into the heart of the Himalayas, the Andes and the Appalachian mountains: www.mountain.org Greg Willis reports that he “has created an entirely new science of agriculture and biology that fundamentally solves all the problems in agriculture, doubling and tripling yields, dramatically improving quality, the elimination of plant diseases and pests naturally, without killing them, but by fixing the root cause, lowering the cost of production by 75% or more, reducing labor by 25% or more and tripling profits, all without the need for any chemicals, poisons, GMOs or for killing anything.” For details, check out: www.holisticagriculture.com.

Nicholas Young reports that his son Alexander Young ’11, a sophomore

at Lewis and Clark College in Oregon, is leading College Outdoors trips for adventures into the mountains and rivers, and will be spending a semester abroad in Kenya in the fall. Still active as a real estate attorney, Nicholas says he will continue the practice “until I am out of debt or I die, whichever comes first.” Nicholas is grateful for the emotional riches of his relationships with his children. Sally Huff Leimbach wowed ’em in Vegas … in a sparkly red jacket at 7 a.m.! As a featured presenter on financial planning at the annual conference of the American Association of CPAs in Las Vegas, Sally delivered her message about long-range planning to an audience of more than 195 CPA attendees. I am pleased to announce the publication of a chapbook, The Poetry of Well-Being, in which my poetry and that of two colleagues are featured. The three of us will sign our

CHARLIE GIBSON ’65, Michael Owens ‘65, George Vandora ‘65, Mike Jackson ’65

and Bob Ullrich ’65 “break in the privy” during their visit to Sam Fisher ‘65’s home in Birmingham, Ala.

book at Canio’s Bookstore in Sag Harbor, N.Y. in a presentation exploring the connection between poetry and healing. Our 50th Reunion offers an opportunity to reconnect with our classmates, sharing the wit and wisdom we’ve accumulated along the way. The 50th anniversary edition of our yearbook will celebrate our journey with style. Paul Newbury and Jay Biddison have already volunteered as editors.

With the theme “We’ve Only Just Begun!” we hope to inspire each other and the generations to follow.

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Arlene Dannenberg Bowes adbowesdmd@gmail.com A number of classmates have indicated that they would attend Reunion. Thanks to our Reunion planning and Facebook, classmates have sent me “friend” requests. How cool is that? One more note: I was walking in Quiet Waters Park, Annapolis, and a man and his little son stopped me. The father had seen my picture (with Melinda Burdette and my boat) in the last Collection and even remembered that ’68 had a Reunion approaching! His son is a first grader at Friends. We had a nice chat about sailing.

gitch@tradenet.net No news from classmates this time around — HINT, HINT! — but Sam Fisher did send in a photo he took of Charlie Gibson, Michael Owens, George Vandora, Mike Jackson and Bob Ullrich during their fall 2012 get-together in Birmingham, Ala., where Sam lives.

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Frank Bond, Jr. fbondini.bond@gmail.com Bill Sherman reports that Grant Robert Goodier was welcomed as the Shermans’ first grandchild on October 24, 2012. Mom, Dad and both sets of grandparents are doing fine. Grant’s dad played football and lacrosse at St. Paul’s … tsk tsk: maybe the kid will go to Gilman. Rebecca Love has retired after 24 years in emergency medicine. Her children are all doing well: One is a research librarian for the Department of Education, one an artist, and the youngest is a sophomore at the Colorado School of Mines. She says, “Whatever else I have accomplished pales in their light.” Bruce Grau says, “I’m doing well. 2013 marks my 37th year in business. Currently, my wife Kate and I are in Hawaii enjoying a vacation and avoiding February in Baltimore! Julia Frank shares, “I became a full professor at George Washington University, just in time to mark my 20th anniversary there! I also discovered that being promoted didn’t make me any taller. Louise Rengaw reports, “I’m settling into my now ‘not

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DAVID HUGHES ‘74 continues as the bass player for the progressive rock band,

DEBBIE BROWN ’76 with husband Dave and children Emily and Donnie.

Oblivion Sun.

so new’ home in a small townhouse neighborhood in Timonium, which is just under a mile and a half from Helen Blumberg’s house! And I have a new dog in my life, Hardy, who had a brother named Ollie. Hardy is between 8 and 12 and a lab ‘Heinz 57’ mix.”

Pete Thanhouser says, “In May I was invited by my son Max and his business partner to join them at Saffron Trading Group. Back to the Chicago Board of Trade and commuting downtown; Twenty years ago when I was doing this everyone, was in coats and ties (just like we were required to be when I was at Friends). Now most wear jeans and tee shirts and carry backpacks rather than briefcases.” I am STILL savoring the experience of delivering the 2012 commencement address.

It was such an honor, and I felt so connected to other class parents.

At work, we opened our new media gallery. It was two years in the making.

Now we are focused on civic education as our number one priority. Any teachers reading this need to visit our website for curriculum content and lesson plans: www.newseum.org.

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Lisa Mitchell Pitts Lisa.pitts.bee@gmail.com I heard from three classmates recently in response to an email I sent asking what folks were up to in their work lives and other accomplishments these days. Amy Frenkil Meadows says that she is no longer working in the traditional sense. As far as I’m concerned, that means we need to get

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together at Berta Scott-Macnow’s house to make chocolate chip cookies and sing “Downtown,” Amy! What she is doing currently is serving on a few pretty major nonprofit boards: The Baltimore Museum of Art, The National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian, the Washington Animal Rescue League and the Development Advisory Council of WAMU, her local NPR station. She also continues to give tours at the National Gallery of Art and is a member of the Smithsonian Women’s Committee. No surprise that those arts organizations would want to tap into her art background and talent. She and her husband Marc divide their winters between DC and Florida, and their daughter Alexandra is currently back from California and living in Washington while she decides her next step. Anne Rowe Parsons is still really active teaching visually impaired and blind students at The Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine, Fla. She adds that it’s the best school of its kind in America, and kids come from all over the country to attend. I just watched the school’s video on their website and it’s great; you should check it out. Charles Sherbow is working full-time for one of the water/electric utilities where they are at the beginning of a computer project to totally replace the computer software that he helped develop 10 years ago. As for lifelong learning, he’s working at night on his master’s degree in information software engineering. With six classes left, he finishes in March of 2014 and graduates in May of 2014. Even in our 60s we are a varied, interesting and innovative class!

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hardimanprice@gmail.com I did not receive any news from anyone, so you have to read about my recent activities. After two and a half years as an account rep for the Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE) energy rebate program, I started a business, Power Hungry Audits. I help commercial real estate owners, developers and managers find opportunities to make their buildings more energy efficient and then take care of obtaining any utility rebates from the start to the check. I would love to hear from my fellow classmates. No long letters are necessary, just a quick “hi” would be great. Cheers.

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Jim Schwabe reports, “I’ve been working in the wine business for the past several years and am founder and winemaker for Baccarossa, a micro winery located in the Santa Cruz Mountains overlooking Silicon Valley. We launched our first two wines last year and are slowly building a market for them. We ship only within California so far, but I will let you know when we can ship out of state. I live here with my daughter, 13, my son, 10, from here. Cheers!” Beth Belcher Blake lives in Richmond, Va. She has two beautiful daughters and is the risk manager for BB&T Securities.

Beth Peacock Holcomb Beth.Holcomb@sarasotacounty schools.net Sadly, Janet Sherbow Mourkogiannis lost her battle with cancer on January 7, 2013, and all of us are mourning that loss. Last year, Janet reconnected with many members of her class on Facebook, and everyone was excited to exchange updates and stories.

Before she had to cancel due to health reasons, Janet was even planning to travel to Baltimore for her Reunion last year — all the way from Greece! Janet, your friends at Friends will miss you and think of you always.

CECILY MORROW ’76 and her son Prime by the pool at their new home in Florida.

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for a taste of the band’s music — conjure the vibe of vintage Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, etc., and you’ll be on the right track. He hopes to see some adventurous Friends alums in the front row soon! A few members of the class have been talking about putting a great 40th Reunion together.

Aside from the Friends celebration, THE TRADING POST in Caves Valley, Baltimore cleared by we are looking at Scott Frenkil ’76 and Rick Rosenbloom ’76. a Caribbean cruise later that year. I will keep you up to date on the plans. In Sally Slingluff the meantime, if you are interested, salslinger@aol.com please let me know. Lynnette Young shares, “I am proud to report that David Hughes continues as the bass I received the Women in Business player for the progressive rock band, Achievement Award from Inside BusiOblivion Sun. The group released its ness Magazine here in Hampton Roads, new CD, The High Places, in January.

Va. The award presentation was given The recording is available from all the at a large banquet for local businesses standard on-line retailers such as Amaon December 10, 2012. I was one of zon, CD Baby, Laser’s Edge and iTunes 25 women honored.” and from the band’s label, Prophase Records: www.prophasemusic.com. The disc has been selling well in the States as well as in the UK and continental Please send your news Europe, and has been receiving glowing for Class Notes! reviews and garnering good airplay internationally. Oblivion Sun will tour This class needs a secretary. later this year to support the record.

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Dave invites all classmates to come out

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CAROLYN ALKIRE ’76 and daughter Keli traveling in California.

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John Humphries jehriver@aol.com Scott Frenkil provided an update on his archeological research into the history of an old ruin located in Caves Valley behind Rick Rosenbloom’s parents’ house on Caves Road in Baltimore County. An excavation is planned for October or November this year. While originally identified as an 18th century German barn, Scott was able to track down a deed and other documentation to show that the structure was most likely a trading post situated in between two rivers and built between 1684 and 1690 by Christopher Gist, a shipper and trader of English descent and grandfather of the famous explorer, Christopher R. Gist. Scott also reports that after being a life-long pull hitter, with 40-plus years of practice, he can now hit the ball down the right field line! Lisa Corinne Davis notes that her daughter Corinne is interning for National Public Radio in Washington, DC this summer before returning to her junior year at Brown University.

Her son Davis has graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and is now working on his second children’s book. Carolyn Alkire is focusing on business development for her environmental consulting firm, Alkire Economics, after “retiring” from her nine-to-five job as senior regional economist at the San Diego Association of Governments last December. She says, “After 38 years of working for someone else, enough is enough,” and notes that her first paid job was as a summer switchboard operator at Friends. She is working from her Carlsbad home — half a mile from that

other coast — and does not miss her one-hour train commute to the city.

From Cecily Morrow, we hear that she and her 16-year-old son moved to Florida last August so he can attend the IMG Bollettieri Tennis Academy.

He trains in tennis all morning then attends school on campus until late in the evening. Cecily says, “We are loving the warm weather and look forward to hearing from any former classmates who might be living in or traveling to the Sarasota/ Bradenton area.”

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1978.

Doug Stevenson dougstevenson@hotmail.com Hi, everybody. Don’t look now, but it’s a Reunion year. We hope you’ll join us in early May. Over the last few years I’ve had the chance, via the social networks, to catch up some with both classmates who graduated in 1978 and those who left Friends at some point prior. We have a Friends School Class of 1978 page on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/ 151573141607554) that old friends have joined and where there have been some great conversations that admirably demonstrate how old and memory-challenged we all are. Plus a lot of laughs. Not everyone actively engages there, but it’s a great way to

LISA CORRINE DAVIS ’76 with her children Lisa and Davis in Providence, R.I.

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stay in touch, if virtually. You’ll find David Julian, Amalie Shuck Boellner, Eleanor Ramsay Maldonado, Dan Klein, Michel Herskovitz, Ilana Tabatznik Brett, Laurence Doering, Tim Hearn, Dale Fine Burgess, Ellen Heyman McKay, Kathy Shulman, Laurie Rosenberg Levine, Peter Clark, Nina Siebens, Jill Reifler Lehr, Wendy Stewart, Norman Forbush, Jon Talamo, Stanley Levy, Steve Sindler, Richard Stein and Karen Meek — and Sonia Figler Gill, our Middle School French teacher! Sonia is a painter, living and working in northern California, who is thrilled to see what her former charges are up to. I know that there must be more of us out there, so pass on the info; after all, though not represented on the class page, I have it under good authority that Chuck Stephens, a well-respected film critic who also teaches film studies to college students in middle Tennessee, is lurking in the greater Facebook environs. And so is Amy J. Bastide, known to some of us as Amy Jo Pollack. So come one, come all … classmates, short-timers, long-timers, spouses and faculty. Peter Clark used the class page to clue us all in. He recently stopped the full-time cancer research computer work he’s been engaged in since 1993 in favor of part-time work. “I’m putting more time into developing my shamanic healing and teaching practice. I am on the faculty of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (FSS), an international organization dedicated to the research, preservation and teaching of shamanic knowledge. My business partner and I teach workshops for the FSS as well as teach our own workshops.

I see clients who wish for or need shamanic healing, and some of them keep coming back to learn from me.

Shamanism is an ancient spiritual practice (some archeological and anthropological evidence point to the roots of shamanism being 30,000 to 40,000 years old). I have a direct relationship with some 20 different compassionate, intelligent non-physical beings (otherwise known as helping spirits) that I have cultivated over the last 12 years. Check out my website for more information” (www.shamansflame.com). I, for one, have particularly enjoyed getting reacquainted with folks I’ve remembered fondly. Susan Meyer is one of those people. Susan emailed me to say the following. “I was sad when I had to leave Friends after seventh grade.

I hope some of you remember me!

I look back on my years at Friends as the happiest years of schooling in my

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long educational career. I now live outside Boston with my husband and 24-year-old daughter. I’m an English professor at Wellesley College and a children’s author. My first novel, Black Radishes, about a Jewish boy in Nazi-occupied France and inspired by my father’s childhood, was published

by Random House in 2010. I’m now struggling through writing my second novel, which I am finding a lot harder.

I’m also the author of two picture books, Matthew and Tall Rabbit Go Camping and the forthcoming New Shoes, about an African-American girl in the pre-Civil Rights South. The artist, Eric Velasquez, is currently creating the paintings for New Shoes, and I’m eagerly awaiting its release in the fall of 2014. Last year I was lucky enough to live in England for six months, but I’m glad to be back in New England where the trees grow tall.” Now, the other side of the coin is Kathy Shulman, there with us at Commencement, on Facebook and also right here in Baltimore.

A few years ago after lunch she was shocked … (shocked!) … to find out that we had graduated from college together and that we had lived in the same freshman hall. This after 13 years as classmates at Friends. The good news is that my bad memory seems to be on par with my peers; the bad news is I that I must not make much of an impression. Kathy writes by email recently that she remains “active in the causes about which she is passionate.”

In other words she is a “professional troublemaker!” Her current passion is attacking kids’ access to healthy food in Baltimore’s food deserts. At KidzTable, www.kidztable.com, a social enterprise which makes 6,000 healthy meals per day for 3,000 children in the region who attend Head Start and after-school programs, Kathy is learning a lot about what makes social enterprise work, “planning, sweat and luck,” and how to effectively take a new business

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SUSAN MEYER ‘78 is the published author of Black Radishes.

to scale. She and her husband Jack Boyson, a retired international development professional who is pursuing a new interest in wilderness search and rescue, live in a row house near Johns Hopkins University with their two dogs, Archie and Lenny. And a lovely place it is. Kathy and Jack are grandparents to two teenage boys and a beautiful year old girl, Orlagh, who was born prematurely. Last autumn, after the Friends School Scarlet & Gray Day, Kathleen and Norm Forbush, Lee Riley and myself were joined by Ed Warfield, his wife and teenage daughter and son at the Zamoiski Alumni Center for great, fat, tasty crabs prepared by the Friends School chef and kitchen staff. Normally, I would think of going to Blair Baltus for steamed crabs, but I gotta tell you, the chef has an awfully tasty crab recipe.

Ed teaches in an Episcopal school in Anne Arundel County and is in the graduate program at St. John’s College in Annapolis. See, it’s never too late to reconnect. I hadn’t seen Eddie for about 20 years. I still haven’t seen Susan Meyer in more than 40 years, but luckily we’ve been back in contact thanks to Facebook. If anyone is interested, let me know if you’d like the class to have a LinkedIn page as well. I’ve been lucky enough to be reconnected with Maurice Weaver there. Maurice, a longtime Chicago resident who has been active in global food banking, recently started a new venture, Mukthar Enterprises, as CEO and president.

Now, after all that, if you hate the social networks, remember good old fashioned email works well too. That’s how I heard from Michele Levine Brill and learned that her son is a junior at The University of Maryland, College Park, and her daughter graduated in May from Garrison Forest and is spending this year in Israel before going to The

University of North Carolina, Wilmington next September. Michele was responding to an email I sent around about my new band’s first gig last fall. Suzanne and Jay Bond as well as Dale Fine Burgess joined us, Doug Stevenson & The Spades, at the Riverdale Park Farmers Market in the Washington, DC suburbs. Train songs within spitting distance of a train line ... with produce!

Can’t beat it. That is, except for our recent second gig also in DC with me singing and on electric guitar and with steel guitars, doghouse bass and drums.

We played just my songs — a mix of country waltzes, country shuffles, boogieing rockabilly, story songs, train songs, rock, swing, blues and whathave-you. American music. This band and lineup could be gelling so I hope, before too long, to perform in Baltimore, and look out and see your smiling faces. Also, before too long there will be someplace on the web if you want to hear the band or find out where we’re playing. Until then, drop me a line, and I’ll include you in any email updates. See you in May. I’m out!

1979.

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1984.

1987.

Staige Davis Hodges

Shelley Coates Stein

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Robert Spencer-Strong

Peter Niebyl lives in Oakton, Va. with his wife Mary Anne and 2-year-old son Nicholas. He works nearby in Washington, DC He recently visited with Scott Oldham during a work trip to Chicago.

Peter would love to hear from old friends; Email him at Peterni@aol.com.

As for me, I recently began working as a business development manager with East Coast Ambulance & Wheelchair Service, which provides medical transportation. I started a business in December called Bites o’ Heaven, LLC and sell chocolate confections as corporate gifts, baby and wedding shower favors or treats to keep for yourself!

Take a look: www.bitesoheaven.com.

I’m happy to be more connected with Friends School now that I’m representing our class on the Alumni Board. During the season I watched some Ravens games with John Johnson and Monica Wilson and got together with Mindy Krause Athas as well. I usually see Matt Azrael and Benton Hall during the year too.

robertstrong@hotmail.com Staige shared the following update, “I had the wonderful treat to see Daryl Edwards in early January when he was in Portland visiting his sister Carol Edwards and her family. It was so fun to catch up and spend time with you, Daryl, and I look forward to seeing you again soon!”

1985.

CARY ANDERSON’S ’85 new Funny or Die

Amy Chen

short, Chad and the Alien Toupee, is being considered by Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim.

ajochen@sbcglobal.net

1981.

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1982.

Joyce Jennings

Cary Anderson co-wrote and associate produced a feature film called The Vortex that will be released in Japan and Germany. Cary is attached to direct a thriller that he also co-wrote. Plus his Funny or Die short, Chad and the Alien Toupee, is being considered by the Cartoon Network to be turned into a series for their Adult Swim programming block. Finally, he is working on a sitcom pilot for one of the producers of Happy Endings. Cary says, “So that’s my news.

Exciting, but Hollywood has a way of crushing your dreams on a whim.”

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1986.

Roger W. Hughes reosavvy@yahoo.com

1983.

Shawn Dorman McKenzie

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OLD PALS from Friends gather to cheer the Ravens in December 2012. Front, from

left: Davis McIntyre, Jen Asplen Little ’89 and Chris Vaughn ’89. Back, from left: Keith Ackers, Burck Smith ’88, Phil McIntyre ’89, David Brown ’88, Eli Balser ’89, Scott Nilson ’88, Brad Dwin ’88, Jim Little, Joe Corvera ’89 and Logan Smith ‘89.

1988.

Angelo Valle gelovalle@gmail.com It’s hard to believe that it’s been 25 years since we processed from Stony Run Meeting House down to the lawn east of the auditorium and received our Friends School of Baltimore diplomas.

Many of us are still saddened that Tim Dietz and Kerim “Zack” Broadbent, were taken from us much too early on December 1, 2010 and November 14, 2012, respectively, and had no chance to join our celebration in person. On the other hand, we will have been quite pleased to see those classmates who were able to gather for the special occasion. Prior to the final months leading up to Reunion, many of us shared in the excitement of the Ravens’ playoff run. One of our own footballplaying classmates, who was a monster on the Friends football field well before the Ravens were even a gleam in the NFL’s eye, if ever, Dan Moylan, got to celebrate his birthday with a Ravens Super Bowl XLVII victory. Had it been my birthday, I know that I would’ve rated it as one of the best birthdays ever. I was also able to get an update from another of our class’ gridiron greats, Wel Leimbach, who has been selected to be a Secretary of Defense corporate fellow. “It is a Department of Defense program where I am able to

spend a year away from the Marine Corps working with industry.” Wel, who has spent 20 years as an active duty Marine, reports, “It has been a remarkable opportunity to see how corporate America operates. I have been assigned to work with Accenture in the Washington, DC area and will be involved with the program until June 2013.” Wel was also recently selected to the rank of Colonel in the United States Marine Corps. “This is certainly exciting news for the family and we are honored to have the chance to continue to serve our country for at least another five years or so. Now I just have to wait two years for my turn to actually ‘pin on’ the new rank.” In those two years he is waiting for some of the old colonels to retire first. Finally, Wel gave a Friends School translation for another recent development for him, “I will be buying floating tank-like vehicles for the Marine Corps. Fun stuff.” Christina Long also updated me on big changes for her last year, including moving to a neighboring town of mine. “We transformed from Manhattanites to Boston suburbanites (Belmont, Mass., to be precise) — we even went so far as to buy a Subaru Outback. And, now that the house renovations are almost complete, 2013 promises to be a bit calmer. In our new home, my husband is busily writing a book on business innovation, and my two-year-old daughter seems to have adjusted to seeing trees and grass outside her bedroom window instead of a busy Broadway intersection.” Christina is loving her new job at architecture firm Perkins + Will where she is the project manager for a major dormitory renovation at Smith College and a new student center at The University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Like Dan, Wel and me, Christina is looking forward to seeing everyone at Reunion!

1989.

Meghan Stern Cochran meghan@stern.net All is quiet for the class of ‘89, and no news is hopefully good news. The only excitement here was a long-awaited trip to Hawaii in January. We had a great time, but Axel, 14 months, was terrified of the surf. He ran from the water, screaming, as fast as his chubby little legs would carry him. So, we watched the whales from a safe spot above the dunes, and Axel used his new plastic shovel to poke happily at the grass.

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1990.

Jahan Sagafi jahan@post.harvard.edu Rym Khalifeh writes to say, “I work as in-house lawyer for Marriott under the title of vice president and senior counsel. I am based in Marriott’s Dubai office, and I am responsible for the corporation’s hotel development work in the Middle East and Africa. Being a lawyer in the hotel industry is wonderful, and I really enjoy my work. I get to travel a lot, meet a lot of interesting people from different professions (including consultants, architects, interior designers, financiers and hotel owners) and try out a lot of beautiful hotels.”

1991.

Jeffrey J. Dinger jeff.dinger@gmail.com

Rachel Kurzweil Dvoskin r.dvoskin@gmail.com Let’s hear it for the Baltimore area crew (especially since it includes your class secretaries). Cam and Rebecca Parsons McDougall and their son George, 3, welcomed a new daughter/ baby sister, Eliza Megan McDougall, this past May. Rebecca still lives happily in Baltimore County, where she (enviably) has room for her new blow-up bouncy castle. She’s anticipating a summer of bouncy fun in the backyard. Brian Woolf is featured in a new book about how his wife, Amy Webb, used her data analytics prowess

to game online dating and meet her husband. Amy’s memoir, Data, A Love Story: How I Gamed Online Dating To Meet My Match, was published January 31 by Penguin; Brian wrote part of the epilogue. The couple has appeared on Good Morning America, The View and NPR, and dozens of media outlets have written about the book, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, People, Wired, Time and The Huffington Post! Brian’s been having a blast on the book tour where he gets to go to all the events but with none of the pressure. He says, “I just have to try to look good and play the perfect husband for the crowd.”

Juliana de Coligny bought her first home in Hagerstown, Md. last year.

She’s a single parent of the most awesome 6-year-old-girl, Amelia.

She’s working in real estate (again) for Prudential Bowen and is also teaching Sunday school at Unity of Hagerstown.

On top of all that, she is also getting around to finishing her bachelor’s degree — only 10 more classes! She has found the joy of yoga and hiking the C&O Canal, and she’s grown to adore living so far out. She gets to see owls, deer, groundhogs, foxes and lots of other animals EVERY day. Her new friends out there find her astonishment at wildlife hilarious, but she’s still a city girl at heart. She says anyone in Baltimore is welcome to invite her to lunch! She does miss the city. Speaking of the city, Rachel Kurzweil Dvoskin recently moved back to downtown Baltimore and loves living in a slightly grittier Baltimore than the one she grew up in. She goes up to the ’burbs

NATALIE SANTOS FERGUSON ’90 and Dan Abrams ‘90’s wife Heidi Abrams had

a grand old time at the Super Bowl!

NATALIE SANTOS FERGUSON ’90 enjoys time spent with old friends.

From left: Davy Lauterbach ’90, Shannon Lattik Koinzan ’90, Natalie, Jamie Ferguson and Katie Lattik.

pretty often to see her parents and has fully enjoyed watching her sons, Ike, 3, and Samson, 7 months, become indoctrinated into Ravens madness by their grandpa. She’s doing genetics policy research at Hopkins and finally playing (very casual) ice hockey again after falling in love with it years ago in Brooklyn. She’s looking forward to reconnecting with more old Friends.

Jeff Dinger has been having a great year as a realtor for Coldwell Banker and has recently joined ignition72, a local design and digital consulting firm in Baltimore City, as their director for business development. All three of his girls continue to work hard at swimming, with one attending the Jr. All-Stars Champs in the 11-12 year age bracket. Jeff’s wife Bethany recently received her realtor license and

continues to grow her business: www.OakValleyKids.com. David Thomas is living just outside of Philly in Media, Pa., with his wife Nina and their son Kiran, 4. Dave’s still keeping busy with filmmaking when he can.

Right now he’s working on a web series about the rise of the Philly tech community. A few of us are living the good life down South. Lorri Robinson Williams has been in Charlotte, N.C., for five years, where she lives with her husband of two years Keith Williams and her 13-year-old stepdaughter Ayanna. Lorri is a sales rep for Roka Bioscience and sells equipment for bacterial testing for the food industry.

We do not want to know what she’s learned! Sara and Steve Rosenberg have their hands full in a wonderful but sleepless way with their first child, Alex.

CHRISTIAN GULLETTE ’91 and Michael Stevens celebrate on their wedding day in

San Francisco with friends from Friends. From left: Marcie Jones Brennan ’91, Katie Bowman ’91, Gabriel Helmer ’91, Brian Woolf ’91, Christian, Michael and Robert Berman ’88.

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continues to train Emergency Response Teams around Australia at different mine sites. They invite anyone who ever visits Perth to stay with them for a personal tour of their Western Australian wine country, surfing beaches, caves and some of the most unique flora and fauna in the world.

1992.

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1993.

TRISH MERSON HARDING ‘91 and her RACHEL KURZWEIL DVOSKIN ‘91’s sons Ike and Samson.

partner Alastair at the BHP Billiton Iron Ore Christmas party.

Elizabeth Leonard Clifton elizclifton@gmail.com

He’s 8 months old and quite a character.

They’re still living in Atlanta, but they come home several times a year to visit Steve’s parents and brother Jason Rosenberg ’88, as well as old pals like Brian Woolf. Work is also keeping Steve busy; last year he moved into the role of director of dayside programming at HLN, which is CNN’s sister network.

And on down to the real south, Carrie Ellis Murray has been living with her family in Birmingham, Ala., for almost eight years now. They were transferred there from Baltimore when Carrie’s husband RJ became a district manager for Wells Fargo Bank. They have two children: a son Colin, 7, and a daughter Abby, 3. Carrie is working part-time for a genetic testing company called Natural Molecular. A bunch of our class

made it out West and never looked back! Samantha Campbell Scheben is still in San Francisco, going on her 18th year. She and her husband Dean have a son, Marlon, 17 months, and a daughter, Vivian, 4 1/2. Samantha is in her 10th year with the Campbell Foundation, focusing on conservation projects in the Chesapeake Bay and Eastern Pacific Ocean. She hopes to get back to making more art once the little ones are in school. Christian Gullette was married last May to Michael Stevens in a Quaker-inspired ceremony in San Francisco. He says it was a joy to have family and friends there, among them Friends alums Marcie Jones Brennan, Gabriel Helmer, Katie Bowman, Brian Woolf and Rob Berman ’88. After completing his

CHRISTIAN GULLETTE ’91 and Michael Stevens share a moment at their wedding.

M.F.A. in poetry, Christian is now a Ph.D. student at The University of California, Berkeley in Scandinavian languages and literatures. When not pursuing academic studies, teaching undergrads, or translating, he is hard at work on his first poetry manuscript. In Seattle, Kathleen and Jeff Speert were blessed by the arrival of their second child, Henry Keel, on August 6, 2012.

Henry and his sister Elizabeth, 4, have already developed a bond. And, finally, Tricia Merson Harding wins the prize for most exotic location — thanks for making us all jealous! She’s been having a great year working for BHP Billiton Iron Ore as an environmental advisor in Perth, Western Australia.

She’s the director of female soccer for Perth Soccer Club as well as a player and coach to two teams. Her daughter Halla, 9, is playing as a sought-after midfielder and keeper, and she’s started surfing lessons. Trish’s partner Alastair SAMANTHA CAMPBELL SCHEBEN 91’s daughters Vivian and Marlon enjoy bath time!

Dear Class of 1993, by the time you are reading this, we will have celebrated 20 years of being FS graduates! Many thanks to all who took part in Reunion — we are grateful to those who planned, organized, and attended. It’s a good feeling to know that we are still maintaining our connections to each other after so many years. I received news from a number of our classmates.

Karen Hudson Burd writes, “Campbell Kirk Burd joined our family on November 7, 2012. Her big sister Carly, 2, is still getting used to the idea, but we are all doing well. I am home with the girls, on hiatus from my social work career.

Travis and I still live in Federal Hill in Baltimore, which has really transformed in recent years to a wonderful community of young families committed to living and raising kids in the city.”

Heather and Matt Fogelson welcomed their second daughter, Alexis Grace, on October 11, 2012. Even though Alexis had to compete with the Orioles/ Yankees playoffs for her dad’s attention, I have to believe that she and big sister Eliza cannot help but become huge O’s fans. Caroline Mallonee Huebner received a commission to compose a new Christmas piece for NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion! The DiGiallonardo Sisters performed the piece, “Hodie Christus Natus Est/Today on Earth,” with The Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band during its live radio broadcast premiere on December 22, 2013 at New York City’s Town Hall. They also sang “Carolers at My Door,” which Carrie wrote when she was still a student at Friends (1990, she thinks?) to win A Prairie Home Companion’s new

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carol competition that year — Garrison Keillor even joined in! You can visit Carrie’s website, www.carolinemallonee.com, to listen in. Carrie also traveled to North Carolina in January to attend the premiere of her piece for women’s chorus and piano, “Shine On, O Moon of Summer.” There, she visited Carmina Valle, who writes, “It was lovely to see Carrie last week and celebrate the world premiere of her beautiful choral piece. It’s hard to believe, but I’ve been living in North Carolina since 2007. I recently completed my Ph.D. in nutrition at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and am now a postdoctoral fellow with the university’s Cancer Health Disparities Training Program. My current research focuses on technologybased physical activity and weight control interventions to eliminate disparities in cancer prevention and control.” Chris Dove and Leslie Olsson had a new baby in November — Jack joins big sister Rose in their lovely and caring family. Fernando Rocha and Elise Pittenger welcomed their daughter, Elena Pittenger Rocha, into the world on October 30, 2012. I had the pleasure of meeting sweet Elena when they visited the States in February.

They came to the United States from their home in Belo Horizonte, Brazil at the beginning of the year for Elena’s baptism, visits with family and friends, and a concert that Elise and Fernando played at George Washington University. It was “a provocative concert that

spanned electronic music, chamber music, theater and improvisation.”

I was glad to be in touch with Gregory Seidman. He says that he and his wife Carrie have a daughter! He writes, “She will be 3 in a few months, right around when her baby brother will be born. That’s the main excitement going on with me. I’m still living in Laurel, Md. and enjoying my job developing software.” I asked him how he is enjoying parenthood, and loved his reply, “As tiring as it is, it’s pretty great being a dad. That last ‘night-night, Daddy’ is so precious.”

Yes, indeed! Sarah Standiford writes that she and her husband Jeff “are enjoying our move to South Portland, Maine, close to the ocean ... and airport.

Still traveling frequently for my role as regional field manager for Planned Parenthood Action Fund, where I’m helping build our 2013 electoral campaigns in Virginia and New Jersey.

Recently I started trying to ward off middle-age by taking up soccer as a goalkeeper for a ladies’ indoor recreational team named Anger Management.” Scott Waldman is living in New York’s Hudson Valley and working as a reporter at The Times Union in Albany. He says, “My wife Frances O’Connor and I have two girls, Madeline, 5, and Phoebe, 2, and we enjoy renovating our 100-year-old home on the Hudson and raising chickens for fun. I hope to make it down for Reunion this year and find it hard to fathom that it’s been 20 years.”

1994.

Steve Peterson oxenstjerna@yahoo.com Hi, Class of 1994! Is everyone as ready as I am for this winter to be over?

February can be such a drag. Let’s get right into the scanty news that I’ve been sent: Otto and Tolya PfefferBacon Stonorov recently finished their design-build project in Alaska and moved back to the East Coast (i.e., the best coast) for the first time in 20 years.

They are now based in Montpelier, Vt., where Tolya is teaching architecture at Norwich University. Their firm, Stonorov Workshop, is working on projects in New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont.

They are enjoying lots of skiing with their little boy Niko and their dog Oscar. Tolya hopes the class of ‘94 is doing well! Lou Rouse is freelancing in New York City, and he is at present shooting a catalog for a company GQ named one of the 25 best stores in America. They sell tree swings, astronaut ice cream, vintage Japanese fabrics and, as Lou says, “jackets that cost over four times what my Thunderbird sold for on eBay.”Adelle Waldman’s first novel, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., will be released in July. For more information, you can check it out on Amazon, but, as Adelle writes, “Please consider buying it from a beleaguered independent bookstore!”

Adelle also writes that Dan Ray, Lou Rouse, Myles Perkins and Matt Bonds are all in the acknowledgments.

TOLYA PFEFFER-BACON STONOROV ’94

and husband Otto recently finished this design-build project in Alaska.

“The book is written from the perspective of a male protagonist,” Adelle explains, “and each of them contributed observations or insights into the male mind that made it into the book. Myles contributed two, I think, one of which involves toilet paper.” The Baltimore-based party for Adelle’s book will explode on the social scene this summer as will the New York book launch. If anyone is interested in finding out more, please email Adelle at: adelle.waldman@gmail.com. Finally, in case you didn’t know, I bought a house in Hampden this past fall and I’m loving the deep Baltimore accents that float through the air every day. Come visit if you’re in town! Take care, Class of 1994, and have a glorious spring!

ELIZABETH CLIFTON ’93 and her children Ellie and Sam recently spent time with Elise Pittenger ’93 and Elise’s baby girl Elena.

1995.

Trevor Soponis tsoponis@gmail.com

Taylor Smith taylor.c.smith@gmail.com Trevor wrote to share his classmates’ news: With the glow of the Ravens’ Super Bowl victory still lingering on, there are many milestones for the many beautiful people in the Class of 1995.

Andrew Gohn continues the push for Maryland wind energy this year with the successful passage of the Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Act of 2013.

This was the third time this bill came before the legislature. Andrew drafted the basic framework of the law and worked with the Governor’s office to help move it through the legislative process. This bill, along with a push to expand Maryland’s land-based wind sector this year, is helping ensure Maryland’s clean energy future. Hopefully, by the time you read this, the bill will have passed. Trevor Coe now lives in

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1996.

Andy Dale Andrew.Dale@tdameritrade.com

MADDIE FRANKLIN GROSS ’96 and Anjana Prasad Jindal ’96 spent time together with

their new additions, Brayden and Sonal, over the holidays.

Baltimore’s Bolton Hill neighborhood, has a 1-year-old daughter and is a lawyer at Baltimore law firm Brown Goldstein & Levy. Still reading voraciously, he recommends Starting Strength, by Mark Rippertoe, and Tenth of December, by George Saunders. Tara and Ben Robinson had a second baby boy, River, in November.

“He is a very good little brother to Leo, now 2 1/2.” Jon Bailey is balancing work and music, owning and operating Baileywick Home Services, while playing “folk and roll”-style jams as the maestro of the Jon Bailey Band. Check out his full-length album Chances or find him online at www.thejbb.com. Sarah Scott, not letting the birth of her son last March slow down her running schedule, is already prepping for the National Marathon this March. Further south, Cory Brown has been stuck in the Bermuda Triangle. He reports, “My wife and I had a daughter, Olivia Beverly Lynn Brown, in July, and with my son Sterling, they keep us busy.

I have found some time to dabble in the restaurant business and am part owner of a small cafe on the island.

I think I have come to realize that being a ‘foodie’ and owning a restaurant are two totally different things! Especially since I still have a full-time job working in urban, or should I say island, planning.

I definitely miss the big city sometimes and not being there to enjoy the Ravens’ Super Bowl festivities.” In a series of Facebook photos that defied belief, Doug Nilson clearly won the unofficial “best beard of 2013 contest,” cementing his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde image as both a responsible doctor and burly Maine-iac to his two growing boys.

Over on the West Coast, Ryan Artis

says, “I co-moderate one of the Internet’s largest forums for organized crime research, and I conduct research in that field for others who work in writing true-crime books. I am also currently working on my first historical fiction book.” In between work, he found his wife Melissa and they are enjoying life in Sacramento, Calif.

Elizabeth Malls reports great news about her upcoming nuptials. “I’m getting married in Coronado, Calif. on June 22. My fiancé’s name is Craig Olsson. We met in San Diego, but he is from DC, where he attended Sidwell Friends. I teach elementary school, and he is going to school to get his high school teaching credential in math.”

In a shocking revelation, Alex Karweit admits to football heresy. “I’ve lived in San Francisco for 14 years ... so yes, I am heartbroken by the 49ers losing to the Ravens. At home, my wife Suzanna and I have an adorable 1-year-old named Andy. He just started walking and constantly attacks our poor dog, Bob, who somehow doesn’t fight back.

I spend my days and nights running a mobile messaging startup, which makes me certifiably insane. I do a lot of other things somehow though.

I did take off a few years to pursue music and made some records. Weirdly, I just got on a Paul Oakenfold record, so now I’m doing a bunch of trance collaborations. I also run a lot and like to train for races. If anyone is out here and needs a running partner for a long run, let me know.” While social media hints at other milestones (Alexis Kremen, Sara Pfaff, and Anders Selhorst), we will wait for full, authorized updates from individuals before recounting them in detail.

As I write this, I am still basking in the glow of the Ravens’ Super Bowl win. I got a chance to hang out with Christian Muirhead ’97 and his brother Stefan while down in New Orleans for the game. On my way there, I hung out in Nashville with Kelly and Dan Munoz. We caught up over hot chicken from Hattie B’s, a Nashville staple. Speaking of hot chicken, Jaimie Van Pernis and Alec Hawley are expecting another baby!

They are already parents to Talulah, who is very cute and continues to put out an extremely high quality Facebook presence. Alec still works as a landscape architect in San Francisco and his internet syrup/pelt business is flourishing.

His rare bird collection has shrunk over time as they make room for another child. He’s down to two birds now, a Yellow Eyed Junco named Bert and an Artic Warbler named Plinko. Alec takes them to work sometimes, and he can even get Bert to rest on his shoulder during meetings! Alec and Jaimie recently had dinner with Jeannie Achuff Morrow at a restaurant in Berkeley where Jeannie’s son Curzon evidently ate all of Talulah’s yogurt treats. Alicia Freeman wrote in with an update and revealed that she too is a fan of The Bachelor, the best worst show on TV. More on The Bachelor later … Alicia just finished a seven-year stint as an ESOL/Spanish teacher in Baltimore City Public Schools and now works as the Community Outreach Coordinator for Archbishop Borders

School in Highlandtown, which is a dual-language, Spanish immersion, Catholic community school. Alicia was also appointed to the Mayor’s Hispanic Commission for Baltimore City and sits on the Education and Cultural Development subcommittees. She is still big on the Baltimore salsa dancing scene too.

Speaking of dancing (at weddings, not salsa), congratulations go out to Tom McConlogue who married his longtime love Nicole in January. Tom works as a senior software developer for Systems Alliance in Hunt Valley. George Ward wrote in with some interesting news.

After tours in Beijing and Washington, DC on the Cuba desk, he’s learning French full-time in preparation for a two-year assignment with the Department of State in Montreal. I’m fairly certain this is a cover story and George is running clandestine operations, taking top-secret photos with a camera inside a cigarette lighter, drinking martinis in strange Moroccan casinos, driving Aston Martins, flying sea planes and saving the world. Got a nice email from Lydia Ries O’Halloran who lives in Oregon where she and her husband Tom both teach college-level environmental science and ecology. They are busy parents as well to their daughter Ada, 2. This spring, they will be in Virginia building chicken coops, planting apple trees, gardening, fermenting things and getting ready for baby number two’s arrival in June. In more parenting-related news, Kai and Maddie Franklin Gross and their little boy Brayden made appearances in Baltimore over the holidays. Dan Kahn is also chasing a baby around — he and his wife are parents to Aidan, who as of this update is 6 months old. Alli

TOM MCCONLOGUE ’96 married his longtime love Nicole Brown in January.

Their wedding was held at Westminster Hall, where Tom’s senior prom was held!

Jed Elliot ’95 was a groomsman.

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MAELI POOR ZACCHETTI ’98 takes some time out during the holiday season with husband Jason and son Kieran.

JUSTIN GOLDBERG ‘98’S adorable little girl Vivian Mira Goldberg.

Coppel still lives in Santiago, Chile, and recently had lunch in Madrid with Chris Richardson and his wife. Jessica Lichtenfeld wrote from New York City with news of a promotion: she’s now the director of on-air ad sales research for the Viacom Music Group. This is great, but I think Jessica needs to transition to a job at ABC working on The Bachelor or The Bachelorette series. I’m sure they need ad sales research too. And with that job, you get to help people find love. There’s no better way to find love than televised base jumping and margaritas in a hottub. Jessica lives with her boyfriend in Harlem and recently attended a comedy show in New York City performed by none other than Jon Yeager ’97, former All-Star pitcher for the Jr. Orioles of the Roland Park Little League. In other Jon news, I have stopped playing him in Words with Friends. He cheats, I’m sure of it. Anjana Prasad Jindal has settled into life in Baltimore, working as one of the glaucoma specialists at Katzen Eye Group. Her husband Gaurav, also a doctor, is at the University of Maryland. They welcomed their daughter, Sonal Jindal, on September 17, 2012, and they are thrilled. Anjana has seen Edith Dietz a lot and got a chance to see Maddie over the holidays. They are looking forward to a planned play date for Sonal and Brayden. Anjana also saw Laura and Dave Schummers ’95 and their daughter Emma over the holidays.

Lauren and I also saw Dave, Laura and Emma over the holidays at P.F. Chang’s — the perfect place to see friends and

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eat great Chinese food in a casual setting. I recommend the dynamite shrimp or the tuna tataki.

1997.

Claire Cherlin Kosloff clairekosloff@yahoo.com Please send your news for Class Notes!

1998.

Justine Alger Forrester jalger1@yahoo.com Hello 1998ers! Only a few updates this time around. I’m sure the rest of the news will be (or has been) shared in person at our 15-year Reunion weekend this May! Lauren Johnson writes in with good news. “In December, I completed my Ph.D. program in applied anthropology at the University of South Florida (USF), and I am in the process of applying for postdoctoral fellowships and professorships at a number of universities. Currently, I’m teaching research skills courses for international graduate students at USF.” Congratulations to Lauren on all her hard work paying off! We have two baby updates this time around.

Justin Goldberg is the proud father of a 1-year-old baby girl. After Superstorm Sandy swept through New Jersey, they were without power for 13 days but were very lucky to be unscathed and to have relatives nearby with heat and hot water. In his capacity as vice president

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of communications at the Princeton Area Community Foundation, Justin has been working to boost media attention and philanthropic support for hard-hit towns along the Jersey Shore. Maeli Poor Zacchetti is a happy new mom! “On August 8, I gave birth to a baby boy named Kieran Octavian Zacchetti. (We picked out the middle name long before he was born on the eighth day of the eighth month, but it makes for a pretty awesome coincidence.) Things have been going quite well, all things considered. He sleeps through the night about 50 percent of the time, drools like crazy, loves meeting new people and is absolutely adorable. If anyone wants to see photos (I don’t do the whole Facebook photo album thing) feel free to send me an email at maeli.zacchetti@gmail.com and I’ll send you an album link!” Maeli and her family are still living in Joppa, Md., and Maeli works as a technical writer for the United States Army at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Her husband Jason is staying at home to care for Kieran.

Maeli shares, “Fortunately my supervisor is a recent first-time grandparent, so he has been very supportive of my ‘new mom issues’. He approved me to work from home full-time for the last month of my pregnancy, and once I got back from maternity leave he approved my request to continue to work primarily from home for the foreseeable future. I feel quite lucky to have a job that I can do from just about anywhere with a keyboard and a network connection, and that it has let me get to see my baby every day while continuing my career. Someday I’ll have to go back to the office, but I’m going to delay that for as long as possible.”

Thank you — and congratulations! — to those who shared their news. I am hoping by the time this issue comes out

we will all be truly caught up with one another following our Reunion party.

Have a great summer!

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Rosalie Parker rorosalie@gmail.com Salute, my dearest classmates! Again, I’ve been fortunate to see so many of you over the past six months. I haven’t heard from many of you, as you’ve sited that there’s not too much to report, and I can say the same — I’m still unemployed. However, I can say I am trying to stay positive about finding a new career. All that aside, I had a great 32nd birthday party at my house and was ecstatic to see so many Friends Schoolers including: Sophia Silbergeld (my co-host), Lucia Treasure, Amanda Bates Parks, Alec Heuisler, Janine D’Adamo ’98, Marc Broady ’98, Adam Meister ’94, Biff Baker ’97, Steve Travieso ’94, John Renner ’94 and Lou Rouse ’94. After our November Alumni Board meeting Wilson Taliaferro and I headed over to the newly opened Mount Washington Tavern to catch up. I got to hear great stories about Wilson and Ann’s daughter, Eliza.

She sounds like a smart little talkative one, just like her parents. We ran into Jen Asplen Little ’89, also on the Alumni Board, and I also had a chance to catch up with Galen Haggerty ’00.

Living in Hampden, I’m lucky to see a good showing of Friends Schoolers at 13.5% Wine Bar where my old BF, Kate Erwin Ward is the executive chef. I ran into the Smith brothers, Atman ’96 and Ali ’94, who continue to do their positive work teaching at-risk youth the benefits of yoga through their nonprofit Holistic Life Foundation Inc. I also happened upon Max Di Pettusanto ’00 who told me he’d be a

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LAURA FINE LIEBMAN ’99 celebrated her December 8 wedding to Benjamin Liebman

with Stanley Fine, Bailey Fine, Whitney Manger Fine ’95 and Michael Fine ’95.

father soon and sounded ecstatic, and was fortunate to run into Tim Riley ’00, CJ Sindler ’04, and most recently Jamie Hubbard ’98. Next, our dearest Charlie Achuff says, “Not much new over here in Arlington, Va. I’m in school for my master of arts in history at Catholic University, and my partner Adam is studying at the University of Maryland for a master of arts in business administration. We are loving Arlington so far!” A few months ago, Lucia Treasure celebrated a year of arguing with less than computer-savvy grandparents in her job at Agora Publishing. More importantly, she joined The Annex Theater, a vibrant and adventurous theater company here in Baltimore. In December, she performed in their original adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel Ubik and is currently in rehearsals for a very unusual adaptation of Macbeth that will go up

in Station North in May. After hearing from Deana Carr-Davis, who helped me with some of our class information, she found our dear Laura Fine Liebman to say, “I am so glad that you sent out another email reminder. My update is that I got married on December 8, 2012 to Benjamin Liebman. It was a wonderful celebration, and we had the best time! We felt so lucky to be surrounded by the love of our family and friends, including Michael Fine ‘95, Whitney Manger Fine ’95, Bruce Manger ’66 and Suzanne Manger ’67, Deana Carr-Davis, Maron Deering, Mary Beth Stricker Sieck and Dan Sieck.” I couldn’t be happier for them both, and that they were surrounded by old friends! Moving on, your old friend Sophia Silbergeld and I took a hilarious trip (if I may say so) down to St. Thomas for a couple days. Not only did we eat well, snorkel and swim in

turquoise water, but we managed to come home with six novelty cups, one of which blinked! Benjamin Kennedy reported, “My wife Jennifer and I just had a baby girl, Erica, born January 14, 2013.” On another ’99 note, in January, I attended a fundraiser at the Enoch Pratt Library and happened upon an old Friends School buddy, Brian Davis.

After catching up and reconnecting with this awesome alum, I had to grill him about class notes. Here are his bullet points, summarized: Brian is living in Fells Point, is vice president of www.ezLandlordForms.com, is a property manager and makes wine and beer. His oatmeal cookie ale took first place in the 2012 Baltimore Beer Week homebrew competition! Brian serves on the board of the Maryland Historical Society’s Young Defenders, whose mission is to engage young professionals.

Before the board was created about a year ago, the average age of the Maryland Historical Society members was 65. My parents are some of the 65-and-over crew that has been involved in Maryland history since they were our age. Brian and I will work on converting you all! That said, I love to hear from you. Our 15-year Reunion is coming up in just one year! It’ll probably be the first weekend in May 2014 — save the date and send me your suggestions about possible party locations.

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Sammy Williamson slwillia@gmail.com Hi, all. I thought I would start off this issue’s column with the most important development since last time: GO RAVENS! 2000 grads from

CHRISSY SCHOPPERT ’00 celebrates on her wedding day with Friends classmates. From left:

Emily Heinlein ’00, Kelly Swanston ’00, Chrissy, Sima Fried ’00, Ana Munoz ’00 and Katrina Rouse ’00.

Baltimore to New York to San Francisco told me they gathered with other Friends alumni to cheer on Ray Lewis, Ed Reed and the rest. Ana Munoz wrote, “The Ravens’ march to victory had the added bonus of frequent reunions with Quaker pals. Indeed, I discovered that Vance Tucker is the most powerful Ravens fan in all of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.” Moving on to other good news. Bayley Kavanaugh Warner let me know that she and her husband Jeff just welcomed a son, Aiden James, on October 14, 2012.

She writes, “He’s now four months old and growing like mad. My brother, Jamie Kavanaugh ’97, and his wife live just down the street, so they get lots of baby time too. We’re still living in western Colorado, and I’m still working as a surgical nurse. We’re looking forward to spring, when we can get Aiden outside with less bundling.”

Lesley Wojcik is graduating from her anesthesiology residency at Oregon Health & Sciences University this June and will begin working as a private practice anesthesiologist in July. She took a trip to India recently for medical work; her husband Dave RichmanRaphael ’99 joined her and did some dentistry service. After their hard work, Lesley said she and Dave “went diving in the Andaman Islands ... it was great!

We’re really enjoying the Pacific Northwest and all the outdoor activities and great food. We hope that Joellen Wojcik ’13 joins us on the West Coast next year!” Ryan Anderson sent along the following news, “I am now the William E. Simon Fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC I published a book earlier this year (http://whatismarriagebook.com/), and submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court last month.” Happy news from Chrissy Schoppert.

“Andrew Devereux and I were married on June 23. We had a Quaker ceremony

OLD PALS Sasha Bergey ’00, James Yolles ’00, Warry Siebert ’01

and Joe Fleury ’00 gathered to watch the Ravens.

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BEN WARFIELD ’00, Andrew Kelly ’00 and Rob Lower ’00 got together in San Francisco.

at the Stony Run Meeting House and then a wedding celebration at Clifton Mansion in Clifton Park. And we owe it all to Craig Hollander. We met at one of his birthday parties, and he was the mastermind behind the text message that led to our first date (Andrew and Craig were in the same Johns Hopkins Ph.D. program). Andrew and I spent the summer honeymooning in Spain and Mongolia and then headed for LA in August. Andrew is teaching history at Loyola Marymount University, and I’m applying for public interest law jobs … we’re keeping our house in Hampden and hope to get back to it soon!”

I’m nearing the end of my second year of ophthalmology residency at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. My husband, Rob Travieso ’97, is busy teaching English at the University School of Nashville, coaching a fledgling lacrosse program and ardently rooting for the Baltimore Orioles, Baltimore Ravens and Maryland Terps basketball team.

We recently had dinner with Kelly and Daniel Munoz ’96 who moved to Nashville several months ago for jobs in the cardiology department at Vanderbilt, and are eagerly awaiting the return of country music superstar Billy Nobel to Nashville from the Vegas Tim McGraw and Faith Hill show. That’s it folks, until next time …

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the Redskins win, we were in good company with the extended Chapper and Zager families in attendance.

Another reason I enjoy living in DC is that I get to spend many early mornings running with Molly Kastendieck, who is still happily working at George Washington University. Jennifer Tufaro Nolley writes that baby Tufaro Nolley is on the way! Jennifer is enjoying her work in Baltimore developing Mill No. 1, which is expected to be completed in August. There will be two new restaurants opening in the Mill that will have outdoor seating overlooking the Jones Falls stream. Jennifer is enjoying decorating the lobby, lounge and model apartment. Harry Connolly ‘70, also a Friends School alum, has been taking great photos of the project.

Charlotte Marra has exciting news.

She recently moved to London where she is the new director of the Alison Jacques Gallery. I am writing this issue of class notes from Budapest where my fiancé and I are taking a winter vacation.

So far we’ve enjoyed lots of thermal baths and cultural sites. We are planning a July wedding in Baltimore at the American Visionary Art Museum.

I am still living in Washington, DC and working at George Washington University’s Center for Integrative Medicine. I encourage all members of the class of 2001 to get in touch with me if I haven’t heard from you in a while. Hope everyone is well!

Carrie Runde Carrie.Runde@gmail.com

2002.

Hello, Class of 2001! I hope everyone made it through winter a little better than usual with the Ravens Super Bowl victory. I was lucky to get to watch a game with Sara Zager Chapper and her husband Mike Chapper ‘00 at their lovely home in Bethesda. Despite

Camille Powe

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Christopher Wright cswright@gmail.com Camille wrote to share her classmates’ news. We heard from Lauren Smith,

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DAN GRAYSON ’02 and Ken Mallott ’02 during their trip to Turkey.

who says, “I am currently working at McLean Hospital, an affiliate of Massachusetts General Hospital, where I used to work doing research for autism. They all fall under the Partners HealthCare System, Inc. I am currently teaching special education to students on the autism spectrum at a school called Pathways Academy and loving it.

I still have a foot in the research door, but most of my time is spent with the students and doing some outside private consulting. Aside from work, I am busy with my friends enjoying Boston and traveling to places like California and many others to see those who have moved on to other locations. I have an amazing nephew who just turned seven in January that I try to spend as much time with as possible. Aside from that, I pretty much run out of time. I just had a major surgery on my head to help with the constant neurological difficulties that I have been dealing with for six years. I am hoping it will help relieve some of the daily pain I have. Fingers crossed. If anyone is in the Boston area, please feel free to email me if you want to catch up! Lauren2022@gmail.com.

Hope everyone else is healthy and well, and most importantly enjoying life.

Marisa and Jordy Alger welcomed their adorable son Leon Eugene Alger on July 23, 2012. Congrats, Jordy!

Daniel Grayson and Ken Mallott spent the summer traveling in Turkey.

Dan writes, “We took an inordinate number of buses to a range of places inhabited some 2,000 years ago and then made friends with the Turkish reporter who interviewed the rapper Pitbull when he came to Istanbul.”

Dan is now the Tufts undergraduate

admissions director of international recruitment and director of web communications. He published a piece on college applications on The New York Times’ Choice Blog. Check it out at: http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/201 2/12/21/a-plea-from-the-admissionsoffice-to-go-for-the-dangerous-essay/.

Becca Fogel Erwin is studying occupational therapy at Tufts University and is greatly enjoying the program. Her husband Carter Erwin ’03 has started a new job at Mathworks. Their kids Auden and Deegan are 3 and 1, respectively. Megan Richie is halfway through her third year of a neurology residency and has just started

DOROTHY WILLIAMS COOK ‘02 and her husband Mowry Cook celebrated their wedding in June 2012.

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Thanksgiving weekend 2012 with a good number of Friends friends.

We are now living in Hoboken. I work as a proofreader for a pharmaceutical consulting firm and continue to translate on the side. Jefrey’s working on the ‘next big thing’ and establishing his start-up in Manhattan.”

2004.

Abby Seiler aseiler8@gmail.com CAROLYN RICHARDSON ’02 and

Julian Kennedy ’01 took a bicycling trip in the French Alps.

2003.

Jessica Vanderhoff jessicavanderhoff@gmail.com

CAMILLE POWE ’02 celebrated her wedding with sister Jasmine Powe ’08, mother

Dorothy Powe and Irene Donnelly ’02.

interviewing for fellowships in neurohospitalist medicine. She recently published a journal chapter with mentor Dr. Amy Pruitt on infectious diseases of the spinal cord in Neurologic Clinics.

Carolyn Richardson and Julian Kennedy ’01 did a guided cycling trip in the French Alps. Their adventure included many mountain climbs from the Tour du France with the highest one of 6,774 feet of elevation gain.

Dorothy Williams Cook married Mowry Cook on June 16, 2012. She is

enjoying married life and her new job at Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital. I married Immanuel Foster on June 23, 2012. Friends’ eighth grade English teacher Rodney Rice officiated the ceremony in Philadelphia. Bridesmaids included Irene Donnelly and Jasmine Powe ’08. Fellow class of 2002 alums Jessica Hellmann and Thomas Bennett also attended the celebration. I am an internal medicine resident at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston.

Mariel Oquendo Smith writes, “Last year I graduated from New York University with a master’s in museum studies. I then moved to Arlington, Va., and I work for the Newseum as a teacher. In September, I got married at the Baltimore Engineer’s Club to Ryan Smith. Ryan and I met as undergrads at the University of Maryland. We were lucky to have many Friends alums with us on our wedding day! Kelly Hendry Cotting, Emily Weinman and Eric Oquendo ’07 were in the wedding party. Emily Shadur Braman, Lisa Gabriel, Rachel Naumann and Zach Kreinik ’07 were very special guests.

Rachel even caught the bouquet!

Courtney Carlson writes, “I returned from Bogota, Colombia in December 2011 and brought my favorite souvenir, Jefrey Bulla, with me. We celebrated our wedding in Baltimore during

Peter Weitzmann is living in a small village in western Thailand near the Burma border, where he’s been teaching English to young adults. His students are ethnic refugees fleeing Burma’s political mismanagement and a dismal system of secondary education.

In addition to English, the students study the politics of environment and human rights in the hope of returning to their ethnic state in Burma to work for the development of neglected communities and their political freedom, in general. Also abroad, Alex Broekhof is in Cambridge, UK with around a year left in his Ph.D. working on electrical generators for wind turbines. Back in Baltimore, Lehn Robinson is working for his dad’s decorative painting company and writing and recording music. He and a friend recorded a DIY folk album for Christmas, available at tallsaul.bandcamp.com. Charlie Totten finished law school at The University of Baltimore last spring and is currently serving as the director of compliance at a healthcare company where Throop Wheeler also works. Charlie lives in Federal Hill with his younger brother

JORDY ALGER ‘02’s adorable son Leon.

COURTNEY CARLSON ’03 celebrated her wedding on Thanksgiving weekend 2012 with the help of a few Quakers!

From left: Liz Gilliams ’03, Laura Buck Dukes ’03, Jess Ton, Caroline Kensler ’03, Courtney, Ellen Kutzer ’03, Pam Soffer, Hannah Stern ’03 and Neetu Agrawal.

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LIZZIE POLEK GOPAL ‘04 celebrates her wedding with Jason Yamada-Hanff ‘03,

Shruti Kumar ‘04, Kevin Kensler ‘05, Kathleen Gorman ‘04, Justin Gopal (the groom), Lizzie Polek Gopal ‘04, Samantha Cusack ‘04, Caroline Kensler ‘03, Billy Sweet ‘05 and Ben Pittman ‘03.

PETER WEITZMANN ’04 says that students and staff in Thailand live, work and

eat together. Pictured are three students.

2007.

Lauren Marks

Will Totten ’05 and sees plenty of Friends grads out and about … they don’t call it Smalltimore for nothing.

Lizzie Polek Gopal married in November at the Kent Manor Inn in Stevensville, Md. She and her husband Justin, a violinist, live in Annapolis and play with various orchestras around the area. Lizzie holds a position with the Richmond Symphony and frequently subs with the Baltimore Symphony, so come look for her in the viola section at a concert! Next down the aisle, Paul Greenfield just got engaged in January to Sarah Wilson, his college girlfriend from Vanderbilt! They are very excited and have already celebrated with some Friends School classmates. They are looking forward to getting married next spring. Out West, Ben Barchey is working for a real estate investment company in Newport Beach, Calif. and is the head lacrosse coach at Los Alamitos High School in Seal Beach. In March, they played a big game against Jserra Catholic High School, whose head and assistant coaches, respectively, are Kyle Harrison ’01 and Maxx Davis ‘06. He keeps in touch with his Friends School buds through an email group, (best left unnamed), that’s been going strong for nine years now! Sadly, he now has a side part because of his work environment and a few more gray hairs. However, he’s thankfully no longer depressed about last year’s Ravens game against the Patriots — because we are SUPER BOWL CHAMPS! Amen to that.

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2005.

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Tim McLaughlin

Happy 2013, Class of 2007! I’ve had the pleasure of running into dozens of Friends School alums in the past year, especially during Ravens season in Federal Hill. I have gotten the chance to hear about people’s amazing adventures and job opportunities. One of the most interesting things a fellow Baltimorean is up to is starting an urban flower farm! Laura Beth Resnick wrote to me saying she is starting an urban flower farm in Reservoir Hill, right by Druid Hill Park. Here’s the website: www.butterbeefarm.com.

She says that she also lives with fellow classmate Kay Fenton, who is constantly creating amazing artwork

Timothy.mclaughlin3@gmail.com Please send your news for Class Notes!

2006.

Nicole Runde Nicole.Runde@gmail.com Hello ’06ers! Hope this issue of Collection finds you healthy and happy. I’ve enjoyed 2013 thus far, but I’ll admit that I’m counting the days until summer and Orioles season. Kyla Minton ’09, Katie Minton, Laurel Black and I will most definitely reclaim our title as Fans of the Game, followed by a Baltimore World Series win. You heard it here first. Speaking of Katie, in November she started work as a research assistant at the Center for Biosecurity of The UPMC in downtown Baltimore. She is really enjoying her job and living a bit closer to her Baltimore family and friends. Plus, she has already made two trips to the White House for work! I didn’t get many official write-ins for this edition of Collection, but I’m enjoying keeping up with everyone’s news on Facebook.

If you don’t belong already, be sure to join our Friends School ‘06 Facebook group!

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and projects in their home. While Baltimore is as wonderful as ever, and glowing in purple since the Super Bowl, many people have moved away. I heard from Eileen Butler, who is getting her master’s in predictive analytics at Northwestern University. I also heard from Holly Heller who says, “It has been a busy year for me. In the fall I moved to Washington, DC to begin working as a learning specialist for the second grade at a bilingual public charter school called Elsie Whitlow Stokes. I am loving my job and living in the District! I have two roommates, one of whom is a fellow classmate, Charlie Russell! I also recently began a graduate program at Catholic University working towards my master’s in special education.” It seems like graduate school is being

JASMINE POWE ‘08 and her mother Dorothy Powe at Superbowl XLVII

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RYAN GILBERT ‘09, Jasmine Powe ‘08 and Kelly Dayton ‘09 at the Zatarain’s tailgate before Super Bowl XLVII.

widely attended by our classmates.

Laura Shingleton says, “After graduating from Johns Hopkins in 2011, I spent the year working in the Emergency Department at Hopkins doing clinical research. I am currently living in (and enjoying!) Philadelphia, where I am pursuing graduate course work at the Drexel University College of Medicine.” I look forward to hearing from more alums next time with exciting news!

2008.

Jasmine Powe Jasmine.Powe@gmail.com

Nick Rodricks is currently living in St. Louis, Mo. as a member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. He serves at a public high school in a low-income community as a college guidance counselor, helping students with applications, financial aid and test taking. In August, his contract with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps will be up and he will be ELLA DAYTON ‘08, Kathryn Stanley ‘08, Jasmine Powe looking for the next step.

‘08, Caroline Capute ‘08, Annie Kruger ‘08, Alana He will likely return to Naslund ‘08, Liz Thompson ‘08 and Jocelyn Worley ‘08 got together at their 13th Annual Christmas party.

Baltimore for a bit. This past summer, after graduating from Connecticut College, he traveled to Amsterdam, where he played in the European Lacrosse Championships with the French national team. Charles Graves is in his second semester of a three-year master of divinity program at Yale.

Austin Ritter graduated from Middlebury College in February. He is currently starting a business in Vermont that provides a biological control service for the invasive aquatic plant, Eurasian watermilfoil. Check out: milfoilmanagement.com.

He is excited to be applying all of the

ecological science he learned during college. Alana Naslund is working at Nordstrom in the t.b.d. department, which she loves. She also is doing volunteer work with the House of Ruth at their retail store, Ruth’s Closet. She will be assisting with event planning, visual merchandising, sales and stock work. Jackie Fullerton is living in Kingsville, Md. on the horse farm where she grew up. She lives in an apartment on the farm with her boyfriend of nearly four years, whom she met at St. Mary’s College her freshman year. She graduated in May 2012 magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a minor in education. She won the St. Mary’s Psychology Department Award for her year-long research project on the long-term effects on empathy levels in young adults of bonding with companion-animals, specifically dogs, in childhood. Currently, she is working at Physiotherapy Associates in White Marsh, Md. as a rehabilitation aide, and this past winter was taking the remainder pre-requisite courses she needs to apply to graduate programs in occupational therapy. She is not sure which master of therapy program she plans to apply to yet, but Towson is on the list. She is very excited about pursuing her interest in helping others achieve functional independence and optimal quality of life, and hopes to incorporate animal-assisted therapy into her occupational therapist practice in the future. As for me, your class secretary, I recently relocated to

Charleston, S.C. for my job. I am the foodservice sales representative for General Mills. I call on Kindergarten through 12th grade schools, colleges and universities, hospitals and other operators. I am responsible for educating operators about our products and selling the items that would work well for their business. I haven’t explored Charleston much yet, but I am extremely excited to live close to the beach and to try out new restaurants. It has been great to hear everyone’s news, keep it coming! Brad Kolodner reports, “Since graduating last May from Ithaca College with a degree in documentary film, I’ve become a full-time musician performing in concerts and teaching banjo at music festivals around the country. I play in a duo with my father, Ken Kolodner ’72. We play traditional and original Appalachian old-time folk music. Our debut album, Otter Creek, was the number-one most played instrumental album on the national folk DJ charts in 2011. We’re planning to record our next album this spring. I’m based in Baltimore, where I have a roster of about 30 private banjo students.

Besides playing banjo, I’ve picked up the fiddle and guitar as well. Check out my website: www.bradkolodner.com.

In my spare time, I’m coaching squash for Boys’ Latin.

2009.

Lisa Koenig lkoenig@wesleyan.edu Kenah Cooper writes, “I’ve been finishing up my senior year at Emerson College in Boston and also interning.

I was published in the holiday and spring issues of Boston Common Magazine and am looking forward to spending the summer in Baltimore job hunting.”

2010.

Maggie Tennis Margaret_Tennis@brown.edu Johnny Magwood writes, “When I was in high school at Friends, I never imagined my life being the way it is today. It’s a privilege to look back on these last six semesters of college as thrilling, exciting, valuable, dramatic, crazy, along with any other adjective that describes being away from home and independent, relatively speaking, of course. I was accepted to the University of Hartford in Connecticut right out of Friends. I got there, and it clearly was not my scene, so within

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a semester, I transferred further north to Saint Joseph’s College of Maine, which was an incredibly spontaneous move. Such a different way of life up north. After being up in what seemed like the tundra for the majority of the year, I decided to take a year off, take a break from NCAA lacrosse and work down here in Maryland. I felt the need to reflect on my good and bad experiences and consider a major besides business. It’s late February of 2013, and I’m moving to Florida in a few days to finish out the semester working in reception at the Ft. Lauderdale Marriott Hotel. I’m taking summer classes to ensure my acceptance to Florida State University for the fall, an experience I have been avidly looking forward to since I was a Friends senior! I wrote more than I was asked to because I felt the need to touch on some of my cornerstones.

I feel they relay the message that you should expect yourself to fly through college or whatever you’re doing posthigh school, because it is what you heard you must do. I say, take your time, actually assert yourself during class and have as much fun as you can,

because it soars by. Before you know it, you’re regretting the time you wasted.

Stay up, youngins. Mags.”

2011.

Ashley Geleta Ashley.Geleta@fandm.edu Alexander Young, a sophomore at Lewis and Clark College in Oregon, is leading its College Outdoors’ trips for adventures into the mountains and rivers and will be spending a semester abroad in Kenya in the fall. Jen Macko is currently studying kinesiology at The University of Maryland, College Park.

In addition to dedicating her time to her studies, she has joined the club triathlon team and has been training and competing in sprint and Olympic triathlons. More recently, Jen has also joined The American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life and Young Adult Cancer Support, and will be biking in the 4K for Cancer cross-country biking event this summer in honor of classmate Katie Spradling. On June 2, Jen will set off from Baltimore, traveling a total of 4,500 miles to reach the finish line in

Portland, Ore. Thus far, Jen has raised $1,925 of her $4,500 goal! We wish Jen the best of luck this summer, and if anyone is interested in making a contribution to this cause, feel free to visit this page for more information on how to help: www.4kforcancer.org/ profiles/jennifer-macko/. Dani Turner has recently declared a theater major with a concentration in directing and a religious studies and arts administration double minor at Skidmore College.

At the moment, Dani is the assistant director of a devised piece in collaboration with Skidmore’s dance department and local upstate New York artists for Saratoga Arts Fest. The work will premiere this coming June. As for me, I have been enjoying my time at Franklin and Marshall and have been extremely busy with classes, clubs and my sorority. I have been able to continue my passion for community service here at F&M, as vice president of F&M Cares, a club that reaches out to the local Lancaster community, as well as through some of Kappa Delta’s national and local philanthropies including Prevent Child Abuse America and the Girl Scouts. I am looking forward to

coming home to Baltimore this summer, where I will hopefully be interning at the Baltimore City Health Department.

As a biology and public health double major, I am looking forward to working in the department of chronic disease research.

2012.

Lauren Riley rilelp12@wfu.edu The Class of 2012 has thoroughly enjoyed their first semester of college.

I have been accepted to travel to Cape Town, South Africa on a summer study abroad program. This year, I have been involved in the fundraising and sponsorship committee for the DESK organization at Wake Forest University, a local organization that donates desks to children who do not have a study space at home. Declan Meagher is a member of Occidental College’s glee club, which went on tour during winter break to Arizona. He is also involved in Occidental’s largest club on campus, called Dance Production, where student choreographers prepare pieces for a

Spring 2013 Milestones.

Marriages

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

Deadline is August 1, 2013.

1989.

Jennifer Asplen and James Little April 6, 2013

Camille Powe and Immanuel Foster June 23, 2012

Mariel Oquendo and Ryan Smith September 2012

2004.

Lizzie Polek and Justin Gopal November 2012

1996.

Tom McConlogue and Nicole Brown January 12, 2013

1999.

Laura Fine and Benjamin Liebman December 8, 2012

Births 1991.

Rebecca Parsons McDougall and Cam McDougall a girl, Eliza Megan May 2012

2002.

Dorothy Williams and Mowry Cook June 16, 2012

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2003.

1991.

Christian Gullette and Michael Stevens May 27, 2012

1993.

Jeff Speert and Kathleen Speert a boy, Henry Keel May 2012

1993.

Matt Fogelson and Heather Fogelson a girl, Alexis Grace October 11, 2012 Leslie Olsson and Chris Dove a boy, Jack November 15, 2012 Elise Pittenger and Fernando Rocha a girl, Elena October 30, 2012

1995.

Ben Robinson and Tara Robinson a boy, River November 2012

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This March, Caroline Stanley ’12 hiked the Appalachian Mountains with her friends, crossing over 80 miles on foot — something Caroline has always wanted to do!

giant showcase in the spring. He will be dancing in two different pieces that are both largely hip-hop based. This fall he was cast in one of the main stage productions. He played Inspector Bertozzo in Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist. This semester he will be participating in Occidental College’s production of Hairspray, playing multiple characters: Sketch (one of the Nicest Kids in Town), Mr. Spritzer and Mr. Pinky. Jimmy Dendrinos has enjoyed his time at the College of Charleston and plans on taking a study-abroad trip throughout the United Kingdom over spring break. Anna Austin plays for the Skidmore College volleyball team, which made it to the NCAA finals and had an undefeated season. She plans on majoring in government. This

summer she will be working for an education consulting company called Urban Policy Development. Elliot Greenwald is studying to become an aerospace engineer at Syracuse University. He is a member of the Syracuse sailing team and traveled around the East Coast competing in sailing regattas.

Kate Strain has picked up a new passion for riding horses and has joined the Grinnell College equestrian team. Kate has also joined the college’s environmental club and helps raise awareness about sustainable living.

Caroline Stanley was estatic that the Ravens won the Super Bowl. From March 2 to March 9, Caroline hiked the Appalachian Mountains with her friends, crossing over 80 miles on foot, something she has always wanted to

do. Caroline reported that it was colder than expected on the trail! She and her friends saw other long-term hikers as well as day-hikers. Riley Drake reports, “This past December I applied to the Thiel Fellowship, a program where students receive funding to take a twoyear hiatus from their collegiate studies and pursue an entrepreneurial idea.

My idea is the development of a very effective retroviral drug. Despite the fact that viral diseases rank among the leading cause of death in almost every demographic, no cures currently exist. Viruses are only able to cause substantial harm to organisms when they can replicate inside that organism’s cells. In order to replicate, viruses must be able to get their genetic material into the nucleus of the cell; they normally

don’t have a problem with this, because they have evolved to be able to easily gain entrance to the nucleus of a cell. Some recent biophysics research suggests that there may be physical reasons for this. My proposed treatment would take advantage of these physical findings. I am working to create a construct that would prevent the virus from entering the nucleus and causing harm to the host organism.

My approach is unique, because I aim to create not only a very potent viral entry inhibitor, but also to create a broad spectrum viral treatment. This non-specificness would mean that one drug could treat a class of diseases, eventually allowing for the systematic eradication of viral diseases in humans, plants and animals and a revolution similar to that which transpired when antibiotics were developed. To my surprise, I have advanced to the third round of the Thiel Fellowship and have been named a Semi-Finalist.

Some revevant links: http://www.thiel fellowship.org/ (Thiel Fellowship Website) http://viraleigh.com/ (website for my thiel project). Hope all is well at the Friendly School.”

1995.

1999.

1945.

1964.

Cory Brown a girl, Olivia Beverly Lynn July 2012

Benjamin Kennedy and Jennifer Kennedy a girl, Erica January 14, 2013

George Myrick August 29, 2012

Donald Wilson December 17, 2012

1948.

1970.

2000.

Louis Carr September 13, 2012

Susan Koerber November 27, 2012

Bayley Kavanaugh Warner and Jeff Warner a boy, Aiden James October 14, 2012

B. Franklin Hearn January 6, 2013

1972.

1996.

Anjana Prasad Jindal and Gaurav Jindal a girl, Sonal September 17, 2012

1998.

1949.

Justin Goldberg and Sarah Goldberg a girl, Vivian Mira May 9, 2012

Betty Bachman Eser January 24, 2013

1998.

Maeli Poor Zacchetti and Jason Zacchetti a boy, Kieran Octavian August 8, 2012

In Memoriam 1936.

Marcia Frost Newell August 7, 2012

Eleanor Cummins Hatch November 4, 2012

1951.

1937.

Mary Brown Lindsay September 23, 2012

Eleanor Connor Ricards March 6, 2013

1955.

Janet Sherbow Mourkogiannis January 7, 2013

1988.

Kerim Zachariah Broadbent November 14, 2012

Ernest Boatman January 2, 2013

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MEMORIAL MINUTE:

Sam Legg SAM LEGG died in his sleep on October 2, 2012, one month shy of his 96th birthday. Sam was born in Hackensack, N.J. on November 10, 1916, the youngest of the three children of Samuel Bradford Legg, a broker, and Alicia Bell Dowling Legg, a homemaker.

Sam graduated from Yale University in 1940 with a degree in French. Born of Irish Catholic parents, he converted to Quakerism in 1941. When WWII broke out, Sam, a Conscientious Objector, was sponsored with a stipend by the American Friends Service Committee and served from August 1941 to October 1945 with the Civilian Public Service, an alternative to combat that fulfilled the military service requirement of draftees. During the war, Sam’s assignments included riding fence as a cowboy on a ranch in Montana, fighting forest fires in northern California, and serving as an orderly in a hospital ward in Minneapolis.

While an orderly, he volunteered to take part in a dual purpose U.S. government starvation experiment to determine how few calories a soldier could subsist on while functioning in the field, as well as the optimum dietary requirements of European refugees. Sam’s “after” pictures, showing how emaciated he became, were featured in Life Magazine.

Adversely affected by the mental aspects of starvation, Sam distractedly cut off some of the fingers of his left hand while chopping wood.

Following the end of the war, Sam volunteered, again under the auspices of the American Friends Service Committee, to work with

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refugees in Paris. There he met another AFSC volunteer, Edna Nichols Pusey of West Chester, Pa. They were married in Paris in November of 1948, and later settled in Baltimore’s Roland Park neighborhood.

Sam and Edna both taught at Friends School of Baltimore and became increasingly active with Stony Run Friends Meeting. They also maintained membership in the France Yearly Meeting, and later in the Geneva Monthly Meeting. During their summer vacations they participated in Quaker work projects, including digging wells and installing irrigation for a farming village in rural Mexico.

In January of 1954, Sam and Edna adopted Bruce and Nancy, then respectively ages five and six. In 1956, Sam was appointed Assistant Headmaster of the Quaker-affiliated Oakwood School in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where he served for four years. In September of 1960, Sam and a Quaker committee of Sandy Spring Friends Meeting (in Montgomery County, Md.) founded the now-thriving Sandy Spring Friends School.

In the fall of 1964, with the school self-sustaining, the Legg family returned to Baltimore. Edna taught French and French history at the new Northern High School, and Sam signed on as Dean of Foreign Students and Admissions Counselor at Morgan State College (now University).

Sam and Edna were both very active in the civil rights and voters rights movements. Sam marched in Selma, Ala., with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was also an active protester of the Vietnam War, and was arrested numerous times, including once while sitting in a “tiger cage” at the Pentagon.

In 1975, Sam and Edna retired from teaching and moved to Gex, France, just outside Geneva, Switzerland. Sam became a teacher in the annual summer school organized by British Friends to educate international young Friends about the UN and United Nations NonGovernmental Agency programs. Both became very active in the Geneva Monthly and Paris Quaker Yearly Meetings, and spent much time traveling around Europe supporting the works of Quaker committees and visiting shut-ins who could not make it to their First-Day Meetings.

When Edna died in Geneva in June of 1984, Sam remained in France an additional two years. In 1987, he returned to the U.S. and moved into the Broadmead retirement community with his sister, the late Alicia Bell Legg, a former curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Sam and Alicia quickly established themselves in the Broadmead community, and Sam resumed his energetic support of Quaker causes. He regularly attended Meeting for Worship at Stony Run Friends Meeting, where his favorite seat was a rocking chair against the eastern wall of the Meeting room. Sam loved people, and he travelled as much as he could throughout his life, visiting friends and Friends wherever he went. He strongly believed in the cause of world peace and continually worked for that goal. In the best Quaker tradition, he “let his life speak” his deep convictions.

Sam is survived by his son, Bruce Michael Legg, of Great Mills, Md., and numerous nieces, nephews, and grandchildren. His daughter Nancy died in December 2011.

Memorial Meetings in memory of Sam Legg were held at Baltimore Monthly Meeting of Friends, Stony Run, on October 21, 2012, and at Broadmead on Saturday, November 10, 2012. FS Contributors to this Memorial Minute: Bruce Legg, Joan Sexton, Alice Cherbonnier Reprinted courtesy of Stony Run Friends Meeting

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Gayle Latshaw

, who served the School for nearly 20 years as Director of Development (1994-2000) and then as Assistant Head for Development (2001-2012), died on February 1, 2013 after a lengthy illness. She was 64. A stalwart supporter of independent education, Ms. Latshaw helped to transform the culture of philanthropy at Friends, according to Head of School Matt Micciche. At her retirement celebration in May of 2012, he told the gathering of friends and colleagues: “Gayle’s diligence and determination in leading multiple capital campaigns, growing the Annual Fund from less than $400,000 to over $1.5 million and raising awareness of the crucial role that development plays in the successful achievement of our mission, have made possible much of the progress in curriculum, facilities, and scholarship funding over the past 18 years.”

A former English teacher and administrator at Roland Park Country School, Ms. Latshaw’s earliest involvement at Friends was as a parent and volunteer during her daughter Jane Lancaster ’95’s time there as a student. She went on to become Parents Association President and also served on the School’s Board of Trustees. “She was passionate about education and providing young people with the best opportunities possible,” said Jane Lancaster ’95. “Not a day went by that Mom didn’t think of what she might do to make her schools, particularly Friends, a better place for the children.”

“Her focus outside of her job was her children,” said her son, Daniel Latshaw of Washington, DC. “I can’t remember a single school event that she ever missed.”

A native of Richmond, Va., Ms. Latshaw was known for her grace and style, and for her endearing use of Southern colloquialisms.

She might describe a donor as having “deep pockets but short arms” or characterize a summer day as “hotter than the hinges of Hades.”

She loved spending time with her children and two granddaughters, Gayle and Eleanor, in Deltaville, Va., where her parents had a house. “For those of you who have not had a lesson on Virginia’s Tidewater geography,” Ms. Lancaster regaled the gathering at Second Presbyterian Church during the February 6 memorial service, “the area our family frequents is truly referred to as ‘the rivah’ — that’s R-I-V-A-H!” It was there, at the Deltaville residence, that Ms. Latshaw’s less prim-and-proper side came out, according to Ms. Lancaster. “Mom taught us to catch, clean, and fry fish; drive a boat, water ski, and sunbathe; shuck corn, shell lima beans, and spit seeds; catch crabs, pick ‘em, make crab cakes; and so on,” she said. In addition to her two children and grandchildren, Ms. Latshaw is survived by her stepson Scott Latshaw ’87 and a brother, Thomas Gaylon Layfield III. Contributions in Gayle Latshaw’s memory may be made to the Layfield-Latshaw Scholarship Fund at Friends School of Baltimore.

Contact Eleanor Landauer at 410.649.3316 or email elandauer@friendsbalt.org.

Kathy Smith

, the indefatigable Assistant to four different Heads of Friends School, died on December 27, 2012 after a lengthy illness. Known for her upbeat disposition and organizational prowess, Mrs. Smith for nearly 23 years made it her business to keep the School’s Head “on time, out of trouble and prepared” for some eight to ten different meetings each day, simultaneously keeping track of minutes, meetings and activities on behalf of the Board of Trustees. “Kathy’s flexibility is an asset to the Head, the Board, and the community as a whole,” Matt Micciche told a gathering of Friends employees and their family members in 2010, when she was recognized for her 20 years of service to the School.

“Her genuine concern for others and for Friends shines through in all that she does.” A doting grandmother, Mrs. Smith’s work space was adorned with photos of her grandchildren and whimsical “no whining” buttons, badges and pillows. These — and a well-stocked candy jar — ensured that visitors to Friends left the Head’s Office with smiles on their faces.

Mrs. Smith is survived by her husband Roger, their children — daughter Cynthia Smith Claffey and her husband Doug, and son Rick Smith and his wife Robin — and their five grandchildren: Jonny, Elise, Aidan, Aaron and Abby.

Contributions in Kathy Smith’s memory may be made to the Friends School Mission Fund.

Contact Eleanor Landauer at 410.649.3316 or email elandauer@friendsbalt.org.

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1944 David R. Millard

1945 Harry L. Hoffman III and Mary Louisa Hoffman

1946 Gisela Cloos Evitt

1947 W. Byron Forbush II and Elizabeth Forbush

1948 Anonymous

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

1950 1926

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.

Jacob Epstein**

G. Frank Breining Joel D. Fedder

1927

1951

Howard O. Buffington, Jr.

Anonymous (2)

1928

1952

Alan J. Haprer**

Anonymous Janet E. Mules

1930 Nancy Hill Salisbury** and Arthur Salisbury**

1953

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

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

1934

1954

Florence G. Oldham**

Anne Black Evans

1935

1955

Ann Burgunder Greif

1936

Robin Biddison Dodd Robert L. Kriel Mary Allen Wilkes

Eleanor Hatch Brooks** Marion S. Hayden**

1956

1931

1937 Dorothy B. Krug Anne Homer Martin

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

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

1939 Daniel S. Greenbaum**

1941 James G. Kuller Dorothy Eastwick Seaton**

1942 Anonymous

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1958 Elizabeth Banghart Flaherty Susan Shinnick Hossfeld Henry L. Mortimer J. McDonnell Price Ronald H. Renoff Frank A. Windsor and Ann McAllister Windsor â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60

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1959

1972

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

Stuart S. Hutchins Laura Ellen Muglia Judy F. Strouse

1960

1974

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

David R. Blumberg

1961

1976

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

Cynthia Klein Goldberg Winston W. Hutchins

1962

1978

Mary Ellen Fischer Emily C. Holman James B. Willis

Norman D. Forbush Timothy R. Hearn

1975 Robin E. Behm Katherine E. Bryant

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

1979 1963 Elizabeth Fetter Deegan and Michael J. Deegan, Jr. Charles W. Harlan and Mary Dell Gordon Harlan ‘65 Gail Moran Milne Alice Smith Reid Barry S. Stott

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

1965 Gretchen Garman Hampt Mary Dell Gordon Harlan Charles W. Harlan ‘63 Frederick W. Moran

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

1980 Christopher Holter

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

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

1985 Evan C. Shubin Katherine G. Windsor

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

1967

1989

Alan B. Rosoff

David Henry Jason Innes Gregory Moody

1968 Jay E. Boyd Melinda Burdette Robert L. Mackall W. Berkeley Mann, Jr. David A. Wilson

1990 William M. Rubenstein and Sandy Rubenstein

1991 1969

Sherri Shubin Cohen

M. Louise Wagner

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

Anonymous Thomas Brooks Sue Carnell Norman D. Forbush ‘78

Timothy R. Hearn ‘78 Thora Johnson ‘88 Barbara P. Katz Elizabeth A. McKennon Judy Witt Phares Anne B. Powell Edwin H. Remsberg ‘83 Stephen Rives Carol French Schreck Daryl J. Sidle Mark C. Stromdahl John G. Watt Mark Weinman Bill White

Parents, Grandparents, Faculty, Staff and Friends Anonymous (5) Jeanette W. Achuff** Virginia Lee Ault Nancy H. Berger Deborah and Howard M. Berman Karen Birdsong and Carl Roth Heidi and David Blalock Patricia H. Blanchard Gerritt H. Blauvelt Karen B. Bleich Tom Brooks Anne R. Brown Sharon C. and D. Perry Brown Helen E. Bryant Lorraine Camp Dr. and Mrs. Michael R. Camp John and Sue Carnell Alice Cherbonnier David S. Cooper, Jr. and Kryssa J. Cooper Rebecca and Bruce Copeland Albert R. and Margaret K. Counselman Connie C. Covington and Wally Covington III Dr. and Mrs. Chi V. Dang Anthony W. and Lynn R. Deering Pieter and Phyllis DeSmit Jeffrey H. Donahue Claire K. Ebeling Martha Elliott Christina B. Feliciano Susan and William Filbert Sarah Finlayson and Lindley DeGarmo Lora and Greg Gann Julie Fader Gilbert and Gordon Gilbert Irvin R. Gomprecht** Ann C. Gordon Vincent L. and D. Iveagh Gott Stanley B. and Joan Gould David M. Heath Mary E. Scott and Gary E. Heinlein Eleanor W. High** Charles O. and Ann Holland Laura Holter Mrs. C. Raymond Hutchins Grant L. Jacks and Margaret S. Jacks Sanford G. and Ann Jacobson Joyce Johnston Deloris Jones William R. Kahl** Barbara P. Katz Adine C. Kelly

Michael and Narindar Kelly Ferne K. Kolodner Cartan B. Kraft Eleanor C. Landauer Gayle L. Latshaw Howard J. and Karen M. Loewenberg Susan P. Macfarlane John and Joyce Maclay Garvin S. and Pamela M. Maffett W. Berkley** and Eleanor Mann** Diana R. McGraw Elizabeth A. McKennon Mary Ellen McNish and David Miller Frieda M. A. and Douglas L. McWilliams** Matthew Micciche John and Beverly Michel Douglas J. Miller, Sr. Sheri B. Miller-Leonetti Catherine G. Motz** 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 Carol French Schreck Esther Sharp Barbara and Gordon Shelton Dr. and Mrs. Charles Shubin Daryl J. Sidle Lisa and Alfred L. Singer Jerome Smalley Lynne Smalley William Smillie Turner B. and Judith R. Smith Phillip Snyder Paul S.** and Maragaret H. Strasburg** Deirdre Stokes Mark C. Stromdahl Audrey Taliaferro** Norma C. Tinker** Joycelyn Wallace** Marilyn and David Warshawsky John G. Watt Mark and Sherri Weinman Bill White Thomas E. Wilcox and Elizabeth Whitney Ransome

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