Collection Magazine, Winter 2016

Collection WINTER 2016

THE MAGAZINE OF FRIENDS SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE

THE MAKER ISSUE

Student-designed learning takes off

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BRINGING THE WORLD TO FRIENDS

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A TRADITION OF TEAMWORK IN HONDURAS

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SETTING THE STAGE SETS SIGHTS ON $25 MILLON

Collection M AG A Z I N E

Published twice a year by Friends School of Baltimore Matthew Micciche Head of School Bonnie Hearn Assistant Head for Finance and Operations Ashley Principe Director of Development Stephanie McLoughlin Director of Marketing and Communications Karen Dates Dunmore ’82 Director of Admission, Financial Aid and Outreach Jocelyn Kehl Director of Major and Planned Giving Heidi Blalock Director of Communications Kate Maskarinec Director of Alumni Relations and Engagement Meg Whiteford Director of Annual Giving Lisa Pitts ’70 Capital Campaign Manager Heidi Bichler-Harris, Virginia Layfield, Erica Mundell Development Office Staff MISSION STATEMENT Founded in 1784, Friends School of Baltimore provides a coeducational, college preparatory program guided by the Quaker values of truth, equality, simplicity, community and peaceful resolution of conflict. By setting high standards of excellence for a diverse and caring community, Friends seeks to develop in each student the spiritual, intellectual, physical and creative strengths to make a positive contribution to the world.

Recognizing that there is that of God in each person, the School strives in all its programs, policies and affairs to be an institution that exemplifies the ideals of the Religious Society of Friends.

If this issue is mailed to a son or daughter who no longer maintains a permanent address at your home, please notify us of the new address by emailing alumni@friendsbalt.org or by calling 410.649.3205. Thank you!

Design Mid-Atlantic Media Printing J.H. Furst Co. Cover photo Laura Prichett (LimePop Photography) Photography Heidi Blalock, Rick Lippenholz, Laura Prichett (LimePop Photography), David Stuck, Justin Tsucalas and members of the School community.

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FROM THE HEAD OF THE SCHOOL IN THIS EDITION OF COLLECTION, you’ll catch a glimpse of the many ways in which the “Maker Movement” is manifesting itself on our campus. Like so many developments in the field of education, the current focus on making represents not so much a new breakthrough as a rediscovery of a self-evident truth — that humans have an innate drive to actively fashion, often with our own hands, solutions to the real needs and challenges we face. In earlier times, such hands-on craftwork was a staple of college preparatory curricula. Indeed, our own campus offers ample evidence of the extraordinary woodworking program led during the mid-20th century by the legendary teacher, Roman Steiner, and his aptly named successor, Henry Woodman. The objects created by their students — intricately carved benches, decorative signs and other impressive artifacts — grace many of our buildings.

Two modern iterations of the old-fashioned woodshop include our new Upper and Middle School MakerSpaces. In these and other locations, students are using the latest technology — 21st century inventions such as 3-D printers and laser etching devices — as well as many tools that would have been entirely familiar to Roman Steiner’s pupils nearly a century ago. Opportunities for our students and teachers to create will be further enhanced with the opening of the transformed Forbush Building Performing and Visual Arts Center and its state-of-the-art scene shop, sophisticated lighting and sound systems and well-equipped visual arts classrooms.

The user-centered philosophy that’s at the heart of the “Maker Movement” manifests itself in powerful ways in the academic arena at Friends. Our students are being given a degree of responsibility for designing and executing their learning that just a decade ago would have seemed remarkable. Our teachers increasingly serve as subject matter experts and guides to relevant resources, shaping the parameters for the learning experience and outcomes and then stepping back to allow students to choose the particular focus that will drive these processes. This phenomenon is on display in the Upper School’s Extradisciplinary Certificate program and its Research Methodology elective, the 8th grade Documentary project, the 2nd grade Animal Research project, the Pre-Primary’s “Daily Five” reading program and the student-led Kid EdCamps that are a highlight of the Lower School program. In these settings and beyond, our students are being asked to shape their own learning experiences, a shift that invariably brings with it higher levels of engagement and deeper, more enduring learning.

Not surprisingly, we’ve found that this pattern holds true when a similar approach is applied to the adult learning process. In recent years, our teachers have made use of the GROW (Growth and Renewal in Our Work) professional development program and the monthly PLUSS (Professional Learning to Uphold Student Success) days to collaborate on those aspects of their own teaching and learning that will have the greatest impact on their students’ experiences.

As we prepare to chart the future course of Friends School, we will build upon this awareness by using a design-thinking methodology that bears little resemblance to more traditional forms of strategic planning. This user-focused approach will call for active involvement from all constituents, with the goal of crafting a dynamic, responsive and broadly informed outcome to help us navigate the rapidly evolving educational landscape.

Stay tuned for opportunities to be involved in this process in ways large and small.

Best wishes in the New Year,

Matthew Micciche

CONTENTS

WINTER 2016

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F E AT U R E

2. The MAKER Issue

The “Maker Movement” has arrived

at Friends with students of all ages employing creativity and their own hands to solve challenges.

FRIENDS GLOBAL

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Neurodiversity affinity group brings welcome support

ALUMNI NEWS

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Collection shares excerpts from recent works by Friends alumni

BY BRIANNA PARKER ’13

AT H L E T I C S

BY JOSH VALLE ’89

14. An action-packed fall Highlights included a Boys Cross-Country championship

Alpha Docs: The Making of a Cardiologist

BY DANIEL MUÑOZ ’96

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Bringing the world to Friends Now in its third year, the Office of Global Engagement currently supports students from China, Saudi Arabia and Switzerland.

BY JENNA KOTARIDES

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A tradition of teamwork in Central America Friends students and faculty serve as Spanish-language translators for medical, social and public health workers volunteering in Honduras.

BY PETER KIRCHGRABER P’18

Of Stinkbugs and God

AND JAMES DALE P’96

F S PA N E W S

16. Highlights from the recent Scarlet & Gray Day and Holly Fest; plus, mark your calendars for this spring’s Festival of Friends gala on Saturday, April 30

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

18. Two challenge matches – from the Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Family Foundation and Ozzie and Joe Cowan ’64 – promise to generate an additional $1 million for the School.

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Alumni Weekend 2015 26.

The Class of 2015 Welcoming Friends’ newest alumni

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CLASS NOTES

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MILESTONES

48. C I R C L E O F F R I E N D S

DIVERSITY NEWS

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PROFILE: Priyanka Rupani Friends’ Director of Diversity, Equity and Social Justice engages students and faculty in the difficult but rich conversations that build community.

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THE MAKER FROM ENGINEERING AND ROBOTICS TO WOODWORKING AND WELDING, STUDENTS EMPLOY A MAKER MINDSET TO DESIGN AND EXECUTE THEIR LEARNING.

Located in the Upper School Library basement, the MakerSpace is open to the School community.

A HAVEN OF UPPER SCHOOL INNOVATION In the depths of the Upper School Library an expansive workspace neatly stocked with hand and power tools, paints, adhesives and an array of construction materials greets visitors. Multimedia sculptural objects dangle from the ceiling, the faint whiff of soldered copper peppers the air, and, tucked behind a door, members of the Robotics Team tinker with motors and sensors.

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Depending on their year of graduation, alumni will recall the gaping basement as an after-school cinema, a gym, a computer lab, a study hall, a storage room or a detention headquarters. But for today’s Upper Schoolers, it is the MakerSpace, a “fabrication studio, wood shop, metal shop, design-thinking zone, prototyping studio, innovation lab for the entire Upper School to use,” says Upper School art teacher and newly appointed MakerSpace Coordinator Ramsay Antonio-Barnes. In his latest role Barnes works with faculty to integrate

STEAM*/maker studies into curriculum development, partnering with colleagues across divisions and working to connect Friends to other schools, colleges and organizations involved in the Maker Movement. “There’s real value in the physical act of making something,” he says. “Taking ownership and the mental investment of seeing an idea through each stage of development is a powerful way to learn and live within today’s world.” (STEAM stands for science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics.)

About three times a month Barnes hosts a series of Maker Workshops during which he demonstrates different design or fabrication methods using some of the available tools and technology in the MakerSpace. He also invites visiting makers, artists and engineers to speak on such topics as bronze casting, jewelry making, 3-D printing and Arduino, an open-source microprocessor platform. In January he will welcome Porter Gieske, global packaging design manager for McCormick & Company, who will speak with students about the design process, his career path and large-scale industrial design.

With few exceptions, including those times when Barnes is teaching classes in the Upper School art studio, the MakerSpace is open daily to faculty, staff and students during drop-in sessions and by appointment.

On this day, Middle School Librarian

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MAKING IT IN BALTIMORE Everywhere it seems people are learning the value of making things using borrowed tools and their own ingenuity. In Baltimore, several community-based design and fabricating spaces have cropped up.

BALTIMORE HACKER SPACE 6410 Landay Ave., Baltimore, MD 21237 baltimorehackerspace.com

Tracy Thompson has brought a group of 8th graders to the space for a tour and conversation with Barnes. “We’re still building out our MakerSpace. This is giving us some great ideas,” she says. (See “High Tech to Homespun,” page 4.) The Lower School, too, is in conversations about launching its MakerSpace. “It’s going to be an exciting year,” says Barnes. “Each division is growing its MakerSpaces organically, based on the curriculum, faculty areas of interest and students’ needs.”

Barnes, who joined the School in 2011, is active in the local maker community and hopes to spread the maker mindset at Friends through a host of offerings, including Upper School student-run Maker Nights (“Coffee House style”), cross-divisional and

alumni “make” events and maker field trips.

In September he accompanied students to the 2015 World Maker Faire in New York City. Sophomore Imani White went on the trip and wrote about her experience in the Quaker Quill: “There were printers ranging in size from 12 inches to 12 feet, printing everything from shoes and clothes to rockets and life-sized portraits.”

With its student-centered focus on innovation, critical thinking and real-world applications, Making ties directly into Friends’ 21st century educational approach.

“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if making were an integral part of the K-12 curriculum?”

Barnes opines.

If the past few months are any indication, we are well on our way.

Students are encouraged to drop in and start making. At left, Ramsay Barnes works with curious 9th graders. At right, student design, like this paper mobile, fills the space.

Baltimore Hacker Space is a nonprofit charitable organization established in February 2009 to “provide a place that encourages nerds to get out from behind their desks.”

BALTIMORE FOUNDERY 207 S. Central Ave., Baltimore, MD 21202 bmorefoundery.com Baltimore Foundery is a nonprofit founded around the principles of community, education and innovation.

OPEN WORKS 1400 Greenmount Ave., Baltimore, MD 21202 openworksbmore.com Open Works, a soon-to-be-completed two-story, 34,000-sqare-foot warehouse, will include a café, textile, metal and wood workrooms and state-of-the-art 3-D printers and laser machines.

BALTIMORE JEWELRY CENTER 10 E. North Ave., Baltimore, MD 21218 baltimorejewelrycenter.org The Baltimore Jewelry Center is a nonprofit makerspace that offers classes, workshops and studio access to anyone interested in contemporary jewelry making.

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MAKERSPACE

Seventh graders Sophie W. and Sam B. work together on their bookstands.

FROM WOODWORKS TO GOOD WORKS Friends has a long tradition of teaching woodcraft — one that dates back to 1899, when Roman Steiner joined the Friends faculty at its then-new Park Avenue location.

Dean Esslinger, author of “Friends for 200 Years —The History of Baltimore’s Oldest School” wrote, “… generations of Friends students filled their parents’ homes with the woodcarvings, bookends, stools, magazine racks, and chests made in Roman Steiner’s woodworking classroom in the basement of the school.”

Among Steiner’s notable students were Anne Homer Martin ’37 and her sister Frances Homer ’38, who hand-carved and fashioned the beautiful bench that sits in the James L. Zamoiski ’68 Alumni Center.

Ms. Martin was talented and also incredibly generous. Following her death in 2013, she left the School $2.2 million, its largest gift to date.

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MIDDLE SCHOOL: HIGH TECH TO HOMESPUN The Middle School benefits from not one but two vastly different MakerSpaces in the form of a traditional woodshop and a separate technology studio, where students learn and create using the latest 3-D design tools.

BUILDING. CONFIDENCE. Three days a week, amid the sound of handsaws, hammers and electric drills, Scott Harrington leads a group of 7th and 8th grade fine arts students through the challenges and joys of woodworking.

“Don’t hit somebody! You’ve got a long piece of wood there.”

“OK, now what are you going to do?”

“Good! You’ve got it.”

The Middle School Principal and master woodworker is in his element, moving from child to child in the Middle School woodshop, which doubles as a ceramics studio. Funded by Trustee Barbara Katz and her late husband, for whom the Jay Katz ’45 Art Fund is named, the program is in its second year.

Harrington sees it as yet one more setting for pre-adolescent learners to explore, gain new skills and build confidence. “It’s about making something and the tremendous satisfaction of following a plan and ending up with a really cool finished project,” he says with a smile.

“You get handier, and people love having handy people around!”

The students work independently, moving from station to station and assisting one another with the power tools. Beside each child a set of printed instructions for one of

three different woodworking projects — a birdhouse, a box or a bookstand — that they will take home at the end of the unit. Prior to beginning their individual projects, students completed a simple wooden box, watching their teacher demonstrate a skill and then practicing together. The exercise inevitably results in some funny-looking boxes, but even those are instructive, says Harrington, “We get to say ‘what happened here?’ and learn from our mistakes.”

Because the class is a mix of first- and second-year woodworkers, differences in talent and confidence are readily evident. At one station, Carter Hollins ’21 struggles with his birdhouse. It seems the power sander has rendered one side of the structure slightly smaller than the others. “It’s hard,” he says, his frustration evident. “If it’s not perfectly done, then it’s no good.”

Across the room, Samantha Asher ’20 confidently assembles the sides of a large soapbox she is donating to the Middle School for use by smaller students during Collection announcements. “I like it,” she says of the class. “I’ve learned a lot about putting things together.”

Scott Harrington demonstrates a wood-gluing technique for Rachael F. ’20.

A STATE-OF-THE-ART TESTING GROUND Seated in the spacious computer lab-turnedMakerSpace, Middle School Librarian Tracy Thompson reflects on the legacy of her predecessor, Paula Montrie, and contemplates the work ahead. Montrie was diagnosed with late-stage ovarian cancer in early 2014 and died later that year. “Paula had the idea years ago that this would be the perfect space for a ‘making’ lab,” she says. “She had great insights and was ahead of her time.”

Today, Thompson and her colleagues are charged with making Montrie’s vision a reality. Working this summer with Jeanne Phizacklea, Friends’ Library and Information Services Director, and Middle School Principal Scott Harrington, she began researching different design and fabrication tools and exploring the best ways to use them in a maker setting, even attending a three-day MakerSpace workshop. “I returned to campus with tons of ideas,” she says.

Pointing toward different corners of the room, Thompson offers a quick overview.

“We have circuitry available, a 3-D printer and 3-D scribble pens, a vinyl cutter …” she says. “We’re experimenting with the different tools to see what we like. We’ve also been removing desks and playing with the space itself. It’s an ongoing process.”

The students play a critical role in the lab’s development. “They’re my testers,” says Thompson. “When all the stuff arrived at the start of the year I told them, ‘Pick something up that you might be interested in and learn how to use it; then share what you’ve learned with the rest of us.”

Thompson sees natural tie-ins for further incorporating STEAM studies into the Middle School curriculum, offering 6th grade social studies as one example.

During the “Create a Culture” unit, students create a fictitious land, mapping out its history and geography and crafting artifacts and clothing articles suitable for life in its particular climate. Imagining a futuristic civilization, Thompson offers, “I’ve got copper wires, batteries and LED lights. They could make light-up clothing if they wanted.”

The MakerSpace is presently part of the Middle School fine arts curriculum. As one class completes a six-week rotation in the lab, another rolls in behind it. “We’re not going to know all the possibilities of what the students can do until they’ve all rotated through — because they’re the ones with the ideas!”

On this day, Teb Brownlee ’21 is giving a class presentation on designing in Tinker Cad. “He’s been awesome about it,” says Thompson. “We’ve only had the program

The new MakerSpace will be dedicated to former Middle School Librarian Paula Montrie.

a couple weeks, but we watched YouTube videos together and I told him, ‘I want you to figure out what you can do with this.’ ” Although time and technical issues prevented Teb from completing his 3-D prints of Superhero logos (Green Lantern, Black Lantern and Fantastic Four), he did learn digital design fundamentals and how to troubleshoot 3-D printing problems. “It turns out there was a loose screw,” says Teb. Hmm … an 18th century fix for a 21st century machine? Sometimes the old ways are still the best ways.

Left: Sophia W. ’20 leads a class presentation on how to use a 3-D pen. Right: Tracy Thompson and her 7th grade class visit the Upper School MakerSpace to bring ideas back to their growing innovation lab.

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Collection 5

MAKERSPACE

A BEELINE FROM CODING TO HIGHER LEARNING

BY ANDY HANES, LOWER SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATOR

“The world needs what our children can do.”

Peek into any Friends School classroom and you’ll discover that these words ring truer than ever. The world needs resilient learners, empathetic friends and creative writers — all qualities our children exhibit. But it doesn’t stop there. The world also needs thoughtful computer programmers.

According to the educational website Code.org, computer programming jobs are growing at twice the national average as compared with other jobs in the workforce.

By the year 2020, forecasters predict the U.S. will need an additional 1 million programmers to help drive the economy.

The implications for Lower School education are huge. Computer science, and the vastly growing skill set it entails, represents a critical form of literacy for the 21st century student. Until recently, Friends students learned computer programming skills beginning in 3rd grade using MicroWorlds, a Logo-based software in which children program an on-screen turtle to follow a set of commands. The students continue in Logo throughout Lower School, building upon the basic rules to create more complex outcomes — from an animated maze in 4th grade to an animated story, complete with characters, a plot and

Pre-Primary students marvel at their ability to make Bee Bot follow their directions.

resolution, in 5th grade. The benefits of this kind of thinking and creating are manifold.

Students use math skills such as addition, multiplication, estimation and angles when writing their procedures and critical thinking skills when testing them. They become scientists, changing variables in their coding to affect different outcomes.

While we still use MicroWorlds in grades 3 through 5, today children in kindergarten through 2nd grade are also learning to code — with a little help from Bee Bot, a programmable robot the students use to navigate through a maze of pumpkins, fall

leaves and cornucopias, “picking up” whichever autumnal object they’re assigned. Bee Bot, along with several other new tools, is part of a plan that science teachers David MacGibeny and Lisa Filer, Assistant Director of Library and Information Services Jennifer Robinson and I developed in 2014 to introduce this new language to our youngest learners.

Response from both teachers and students has been positive. “The experience of problem solving — and the focus, planning and reflection it involves — motivates the children to try different navigational

FROM SHEEP TO WEARABLE ART Friends School 1st graders Lilly R. and Madisyn F. received first- and second-place ribbons, respectively, in the “Hand Weave/Child with one year or less experience” and the “Home Arts/ Weaving and Spinning” categories of this year’s Maryland State Fair. The two students entered their woven “treasure pouches” created last spring in teacher Melissa Ekey’s pre-1st class. “I teach a ‘sheep to wearable art’ unit every year,” she says.

“The students go through each step of the process: washing the wool, then carding, spinning, dying and finally weaving it.” The beautiful treasure pouches are the final product in that hands-on fiber arts lesson. (Ms. Ekey also wishes to recognize former Friends student Michael Escoe, who also entered his treasure pouch in the competition and was awarded 4th place.)

Lilly and Madisyn show off their prize ribbons and treasure pouches.

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MAKERSPACE

LEARNING THE SINGAPORE WAY When educators and administrators sat down eight years ago to begin plotting a new path for the Pre-K through 5th grade math curriculum, they set their sights East — toward the island nation of Singapore, where students in grades 4 through 8 consistently score at or near the top in international math exams. Their secret? Educators developed a teaching method based upon child development milestones — one that relies heavily on multi-sensory, hands-on learning, beginning in the early years.

Lessons frequently include colorful blocks to help provide children with concrete challenges and solutions. Such blocks give way to hand-drawn pictorial diagrams and ultimately symbolic or abstract representations as students progress through the curriculum and on to Middle School algebra.

An ingenious problem-solving technique called “bar modeling” is built into the curriculum, according to Greta Rutstein, Friends’ Director of Academics. “For many students, word problems are the most difficult part of any mathematics course,” she says.

“Bar modeling helps students solve problems by allowing them to build, or draw, their solutions along this same concrete to pictorial to abstract continuum.”

Bar modeling helps students visualize concepts such as fractions.

paths,” says kindergarten teacher Frances Morrissey. “The more they practice, the more thoughtful, analytical and creative they become.”

As with their older peers, Bee Bot coding reinforces a host of beneficial skills for K through 2 students, including letter recognition, numbering, handwriting, directionality and syntax. Collaboration comes into play as the children work together to transfer their visual ideas to their procedure page before testing them on the Bee Bot and maze. “We’re asking them to not only figure out the solution to the problem, but how to get to the solution,” says Kindergarten teacher Miriam Fleury ’71. Adding to its appeal for young learners is the fact that Bee Bot is, well, cute. “I liked it when Bee Bot moved around.

You could see him move after you pushed the buttons,” says Charlotte Andrews ’27.

Along with Bee Bot, Lower School students this year have begun using Sphero, a movable robotic ball that can carry out simple instructions. Users teach the robot to have “feelings” and can also program LED lights to flash in sequential patterns.

Both Bee Bot and Sphero actively engage young learners in tangible activities that strike a balance between on-floor and on-screen time. In short, they’re a far cry from passively watching a computer monitor.

Students in 1st through 3rd grades are also exploring coding through the apps Kodable, Cargo-Bot and Move the Turtle, creating loops that repeat procedures — essentially a procedure within a procedure — a critical element in computer programming and one that, for the 3rd graders, allows them to delve much deeper in their MicroWorlds unit.

Coding can be placed in a larger context under the umbrella of “making,” as many of the tools and techniques employed in design-thinking, such as 3-D printing, involve computer programming and robotics.

The Lower School is working with the Middle and Upper Schools to ensure a coordinated “making” experience is available to all students as they move through each division.

If we can teach coding and computer programming in smaller, developmentally appropriate chunks to our younger learners, students may be more willing to explore this exciting field when they’re older. Fourthgrader Henry Blanchard sums it up best: “Coding and programming are fun because you get to create things and then see what you actually have made when it comes to life.”

4th, 5th graders partner with public school peers to bring about peace Over 11 weeks, from Oct. 27 and continuing into Jan. 2016, 15 Friends 4th and 5th graders and 15 of their counterparts from Robert W. Coleman Public Elementary School in the city’s Mondawmin community have been gathering twice weekly at Friends for an after-school club dedicated to playing the World Peace Game.

Founded more than 30 years ago by veteran educator John Hunter, the game seeks to place “all the problems of the world,” including economic, social and environmental crises and the imminent threat of war, on a 4-by-5-foot playing board and “let the children solve them.” Friends is the first Quaker school to play the World Peace Game.

Fourth grade teacher Jillien Lakatta and her Robert Coleman Elementary colleague, Tayamisha Thomas, attended a World Peace Game master class this June in Charlottesville, Va., and together facilitate the club. “Our role is to guide the students but to never give answers,” says Lakatta.

Atman ’96 and Ali Smith ’94, founders of the Holistic Life Foundation (HLF), have been instrumental in bringing the Friends and Robert Coleman Schools together, as the latter’s students are enrolled in HLF’s after-school programs.

For more information, visit worldpeacegame.org.

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Collection 7

RE-CREATING HISTORY

BY TOD RUTSTEIN, MIDDLE SCHOOL HISTORY TEACHER

In its nine years of existence, the 8th grade Documentary project has distinguished itself as one of the signature assignments of the Middle School experience. Students show up on the first day of class eager to cut to the chase, visions of whom they’ll cast to play the part of Richard Nixon, Malcolm X or Eleanor Roosevelt already decided — even though the official start is nearly two months away. Unbridled enthusiasm is, no doubt, a good initial sign.

The project is designed for groups of four or five students to produce a five- to 10-minute documentary on a post-WWII topic of their choice. November through January are focused on intensive research.

Students invariably learn to balance the use of tertiary, secondary and primary sources, which they cite and annotate using Noodletools, a platform of integrated tools for note taking, outlining, citation, collaborative research and writing.

February through April are busy months.

As with any well-crafted documentary, archived photographs and film clips are essential to the process. After crafting

storyboards, students begin producing original film clips and taking still photos, re-creating iconic images that prove central to their stories. By early May, the groups are ready to upload all of their film and photos into iMovie for the editing stage. Difficult decisions about film editing, voiceover narration and musical soundtracks must be finalized by mid-May, when the final product is due.

Throughout the process students are building writing, research and technical skills.

The most important lesson, however, revolves around blurring the lines between product and process. In the end, students are most proud of having met the challenge of such a mammoth task. But we always make time for them to reflect on what it took to get there. Most kids readily note that the work could not be done without honing their collaboration skills. Groups that functioned well invariably appreciate our adopted mantra: “It’s all about unity of thought and unity of action.” The degree to which groups experience lasting struggle directly correlates with the degree to which this watchword is resisted.

In this image, a Ruby Bridges look-alike is escorted from her “home” (the Pre-Primary building) by 8th grade “federal agents.”

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In the “School Integration” documentary, black students are escorted to school by military personnel. Friends’ Gothic stone buildings play a cameo role.

Of course, creative approaches to collaboration often prove to generate the most fun, and sometimes that is best achieved by thinking outside the box. Imagine an Upper School student, who happens to resemble Rosa Parks, giving up time in her busy schedule to be photographed inside a Friends School bus on what is supposed to be Dec. 1, 1955 (the day of Park’s arrest).

Consider the behind-the-scenes work that is employed when a handful of 14-year-olds succeed in convincing one group member’s neighbor to portray Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis (because, frankly, the resemblance is uncanny).

Once all the documentaries have been graded, and usually a day before school ends, an Oscars-inspired awards ceremony is held. Categories include the obvious: “best acting performances (male and female),” “best score,” “best direction” and “best overall documentary,” to name a few. Less obvious but equally important categories include: “best creation of a primary source interview,” “best group research” and “best collaboration.”

Looking back, plenty of overwhelmed students recall having begged for the opportunity to trade in the Documentary project for a traditional final exam.

Ultimately, those feelings prove fleeting compared to the sense of satisfaction and profound learning they experience after having come together and worked extremely hard to create a final product of such quality and integrity. For a teacher, that’s the ultimate gift. FS

FRIENDS GLOBAL

Office of Global Engagement:

BRINGING THE WORLD TO FRIENDS

BY JENNA KOTARIDES, UPPER SCHOOL LEARNING SPECIALIST AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENT COORDINATOR

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August 2013, Tianyu (Claire) Qiao ’16, a 15-year-old from Beijing, China, arrived on campus ready to begin 10th grade. Unlike her peers at Smart Start orientation, Claire at the end of the day would return not to her family, but to a dormitory at the Notre Dame University of Maryland to live with several other young women from China attending neighboring schools.

As Claire embarked on her journey to receive an American high school diploma, so too was Friends School exploring a new frontier — creating a program of global engagement that would not only offer support and a sense of community to students from across the world, but also enrich the lives of our students by fostering authentic and reciprocal cross-cultural understanding.

Now in its third year, the Office of Global Engagement presently supports nine students from China, a student from Saudi Arabia and another semester-long visitor arriving in January from Switzerland. Our international students no longer live in dorms; rather, they are carefully placed into host families — a provision that is paramount to their well-being and success at Friends.

Describing her experience as host mother to Yixuan (Sherry) Pan ’17, now in her second year at Friends, Liz Wilson, whose son Henry is a Friends 8th grader, shared, “I had a handmade ceramic bowl that Sherry admired.

When I mentioned it had been a wedding present, she seemed surprised and asked, ‘You give bowls as wedding presents? What does that represent?’ These exchanges help us look back on ourselves with different eyes — what we consider normal is not what others necessarily do.”

After returning home from their family’s second trip to China, Friends parents Anne Parshall and John Pritchett agreed that hosting a student from China and providing Ruby ’17, who was born there, with exposure to authentic Chinese culture “right in our home” would be a positive experience for the whole family. Taking that leap has proved to be worthwhile, according to Parshall. “Claire is incredibly thoughtful and polite, and it filters down to the rest of the family,” she says. “The two girls really enjoy being with each other. I hear them up there on the third floor, laughing and doing their homework.”

As the School’s international student program continues to expand, Friends will be working with the nonprofit organization ASSIST, which helps NAIS-member schools diversify their international student populations with scholars from 51 different countries. Likewise, the Office of Global Engagement is working to build sister-school partnerships based on principals of reciprocity, broadening perspectives, developing intercultural understanding and enhancing linguistic understanding.

We can all share in the work of making Friends a more dynamic and globally minded institution. As opportunities arise for hosting additional international students, we look to our own community — and to curious, openhearted families like the Wilsons and the Parshall-Pritchetts — to help us bring the world to our School. FS The Office of Global Engagement welcomes your involvement with current or future international students. For more information, contact Jenna Kotarides at 410.649.3252 or jkotarides@friendsbalt.org.

Left: Yixuan (Sherry) P. ’17, second from left, and Yiting (Cloris) F. ’16, second from right, engage in an iPad primer with fellow Upper School students.

Center: Classmates Chase H. ’16 and Claire (Tianyu) Q. ’16 attend last year’s Prom. Right: International students experience Quaker Community Day with their friends and classmates.

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FRIENDS GLOBAL

A TRADITION OF TEAMWORK:

Friends students serve at public health clinic in Honduras

BY PETER KIRCHGRABER P’18

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the gathering dark, miles from where we left the pavement, it was hard to tell where the stars left off and the lights of Atima began. Dust and the lingering smoke of wood fires drifted across the valley as our buses bumped and heaved down the last rutted slope into this small town in the coffeegrowing highlands of northwest Honduras.

The buses screeched to a stop outside the elementary school, where our local team waited. We stepped out into a sea of hugs and handshakes and quickly got to work unloading equipment and supplies.

The OCHO medical brigade was back!

So began the annual marathon for OCHO — the Organization for Community Health Outreach, a Baltimore nonprofit — and its small army of volunteers who provide medical, social and public health services in remote communities of rural Honduras. For the next five days, OCHO’s medical staff would see more than 2,000 patients at free clinics in Atima and Choloma, an hour’s drive to the south, and would perform several cataract surgeries. A team of occupational therapists would fan out across the area, visiting disabled children in their homes, ildren await their Atima school ch physicians. with the OCHO

checkups

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and providing special equipment to increase their mobility and quality of life. Public health workers would continue OCHO’s outreach efforts on clean water and personal hygiene and would train 25 youth leaders as peer educators for a saferelationships program.

In addition to the medical staff, this summer’s team included a host of interpreters, including Friends Upper School Spanish teacher Upper School Spanish teacher Dr. Cristina Saenz de Tejada Dr. Cristina Saenz de Tejada and translates for a local family at one of OCHO’s free clinics. three of her students — Bo Brand ’15, Julia MacGibeny ’16 and Aidan The effort started in the wake of Kirchgraber ’18.

Hurricane Mitch, one of the worst Atlantic For the students, it’s a total immersion storms on record, that struck Central experience that puts their Spanish skills to America in October 1998. Hurricane the test. Every moment requires their full Mitch was a disaster of biblical proportions, participation — working side-by-side with pounding Honduras and its neighbors with health professionals, patients and the merciless intensity. Landslides and Honduran team — to ensure the success of widespread flooding left a devastated the mission. For Bo Brand, it meant traveling landscape of failed crops, shattered deep into the countryside to visit children with disabilities, bringing a new wheelchair to infrastructure and stagnant pools of contaminated water, breeding dysentery a boy named Henry and an iPad to help him and malaria. communicate. For Julia MacGibeny, it meant Just hours from Baltimore — closer than helping doctors to diagnose California — a massive public health crisis and treat patients and learning was unfolding, and many in the community to read the sonogram of a felt moved to do something about it. Among pregnant woman. For Aidan them were Drs. Bill McConnell and Ken Kirchgraber, it meant assisting Tellerman, two Friends School parents of in the pharmacy and alumni who organized the first medical upgrading the IT systems at missions from Baltimore to Atima and Atima’s school for specialbrought along their children — Will ’01, needs children. Together, they Thomas ’05 and Katy ’09 McConnell and joined a long line of Friends Shanna ’99 and Rachael ’09 Tellerman — School students who have to interpret for the medical team. served in Atima since this There was no doubt about the need: international public health Under the best circumstances, this mountain collaboration began village was loosely tethered to the outside 16 years ago. world, connected only by a network of dirt roads. Access to health care became nearly

Left: The view from the elementary school, OCHO’s home base each year.

impossible after the hurricane washed out the roads and bridges. Visiting Honduras three months after the storm, Dr. McConnell found people still living in tents, weakened by hunger, parasites and infectious disease.

The conditions were shocking, but he was impressed by the people he met and their resilience in the face of catastrophe; some of them would become his partners in this effort.

With generous support from the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer and a wealth of donated equipment and supplies, Drs. McConnell and Tellerman launched the first medical mission to Atima in June 2000.

Over five days, the clinical team saw more than 3,000 patients, treating everything from minor infections to life-threatening diseases.

There was plenty of work to do, and the clinic became an annual event.

With each visit the Baltimore team has come to better understand the needs of the community, forging strong working relationships with local leaders. The health interventions have evolved in tandem, sometimes by trial and error. The Atima water project is a case in point. Early on, many patients — especially children — presented with diarrheal illness, due to tainted water and poor hygiene.

The team devised a primitive but effective stopgap solution: home water-filtration kits, consisting of a couple of 5-gallon plastic buckets, a basic

filter and packets of water purification chemicals. The following summer, they discovered that few people actually used them; the buckets were repurposed as rain barrels, toilets, chicken-feed dispensers, even chairs. Further research yielded another solution, a low-cost system that could treat all of the community’s water at a central facility.

Thanks to an international partnership — including OCHO, the Rotary Club, Cornell University’s Agua Clara Project and Honduras-based Agua Para el Pueblo — Atima now has its purification plant.

Asthma was another major problem, especially for women and children. The culprit: sooty smoke from inefficient wood stoves, as the medical team learned during a series of home visits. The solution — a new stove design that uses half as much wood and burns hotter and cleaner than older models — emerged from another Baltimore-Atima collaboration; two longtime volunteers, Richard and Dee Lawrence, founded Proyecto Mirador, a nonprofit that now produces the stoves in Honduras. Since 2004 the company has installed more than 100,000 units throughout the region. For the community, this means lower rates of asthma, decreased pollution and less deforestation.

In 2012, OCHO teamed up with Honduran authorities and a Japanese foreign aid agency to build a full-time health clinic in Atima, with a basic operating room, a labor-and-delivery suite, consulting rooms, a pharmacy and an impressive array of medical equipment, supplied by OCHO and its U.S. corporate and philanthropic partners.

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Even with the new facility, primary health care remains a scarce commodity due to a shortage of medical personnel. To address this, OCHO is working with local partners to train health providers, occupational therapists and special educators, building the capacity to sustain the mission permanently. It’s also raising funds for a new school for specialneeds children and for a clinic in Choloma, another medically underserved community.

It’s a fruitful partnership, says Cristina Tejada, OCHO’s Board President.

“Truly, it’s a privilege to work with the people in Atima and Choloma. They are very passionate about building a better life for themselves. The only impediment is the lack of resources. They know what they want and how to do it; our job is to provide the technical help, and it’s a job I can’t recommend highly enough! ” FS For more information about OCHO and how you can help, visit its website, ocho.org, or email Cristina Saenz de Tejada directly at ctejada@friendsbalt.org (use OCHO in the subject line).

Right: Bo B. ’15 interacts with Atima children. Far right: Aidan K. ’18 helps upgrade an Atima school’s IT system while working with Dan Medani, a San Francisco-based technology expert.

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DIVERSITY NEWS

PROFILE: PRIYANKA RUPANI

Director of Diversity, Equity and Social Justice GROWING UP in the suburbs of Chicago, Priyanka Rupani, Friends’ new Director of Diversity, Equity and Social Justice, fell in love with African-American history.

Describing it as a “silenced” history, she says the classes “provided a counter narrative” to her U.S. history studies. “For me, it was a transformative moment in continuing to seek truth in a different way.”

Today, Rupani continues to plumb for truth, engaging students and faculty in the kinds of difficult but rich conversations that open eyes and hearts and build strong communities. “I’m doing a lot of listening and learning the culture here,” she says.

“My long-term vision focuses on student leadership in the work — that’s my passion, cultivating student voice. I want the students to see themselves as diversity practitioners.”

Rupani, who identifies racially as South Asian-American and ethnically as Indian, joined the Friends community from Mastery Charter Schools Thomas Campus (MCTC), a racially diverse school in Philadelphia, where she taught 9th grade African-American history and helped the multischool network develop its in-day and after-school diversity programs. At MCTC, “conversations about race came up all the time,” she says. “The challenge was engaging the community in diversity work outside of racial diversity.”

Here at Friends, she says, “It’s interesting because diversity work has been done, and the foundations have been set across a lot of different identifiers. Here it’s a much deeper conversation.”

Rupani’s entrée to Friends and to Baltimore coincided with the unrest following

Just four months at her new post, Priyanka Rupani (center) is beloved by Upper Schoolers. From left, Jawi T. ’16, Jovae’ C. ’16, Emma D. ’16, Carlyto J. ’16, A.J. G. ’18, Sophia G. ’19 and Alex K. ’16.

Freddie Gray’s death, which sparked a national outcry. (“My interview here had to be rescheduled,” she notes.) Since then, she says she’s been helping the students navigate through their emotions and working with adults on campus to reflect on what happened and how it affects our community. “We have some students for whom this is their reality and others whose experiences have been on a more intellectual level,” she offers. “For the students living it, it’s an entirely different conversation.”

As part of her acclimation to Friends, Rupani has been popping into classrooms and attending faculty meetings, where she engages colleagues in experiential activities that “get them to think about diversity work in a different way,” she says.

Rupani has offices in both the Upper School and the Middle School, where she leads a 7th grade group class. “This particular set of students has been awesome,” she says, her eyes lighting up. “There’s so much that they bring to the conversation if they’re just asked the questions, or if there’s an activity that allows them to reflect on their identity — who they are, what people see versus how they see themselves and how that impacts how they navigate the world.”

Reflecting on her Friends experience, even Rupani seems surprised by the growth that’s transpired. “It’s amazing to see how we’ve evolved from being strangers to now being able to talk about deep emotional things. Developing that trust with me, and with one another, is inspiring.” FS

‘Waking Up White’ IN SEPTEMBER, Friends hosted an evening with “Waking Up White” author Debby Irving, who led audience members in a candid conversation about race, culture, identity and privilege.

The critically acclaimed book was this year’s summer reading for Friends faculty. FS

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DIVERSITY NEWS

Members of the Neurodiversity Affinity Group met with Priyanka Rupani during the group’s fall gathering. From left, Ms. Rupani, Mike Dupont, Marc Jacobs, Jen Parker and Missy Sinwell Smith.

Neurodiversity affinity group brings welcome support BY BRIANNA PARKER ’13 NEURODIVERSITY is a movement that asserts

that learning differences, such as ADHD and autism, as well as mental health differences such as depression and anxiety, are simply a variation in the wiring of the brain. It’s the acknowledgement that human neurological functioning occurs along a spectrum and that the prevailing cultural stigma against mental health and learning differences needs to be addressed.

Non-neurotypical people face many challenges in daily life, and being an adolescent in an academically rigorous environment while dealing with mental health and learning challenges can be especially difficult. The situation worsens when students and parents are reluctant to discuss these challenges or seek help because of cultural stigma, according to Jennifer Parker, the parent of a current student and an alumna. After discussing the issue with School administrators and fellow parents, she formed the Neurodiversity Parent Affinity Group in 2011 to help stimulate conversation at the School regarding stigma and accommodations for students with mental health and learning differences.

Originally established as an affinity group for parents of children with mental health challenges exclusively, the group after one year merged with a separate parent affinity group dedicated to supporting learning

differences. “We found that our children were facing similar challenges and could be supported in similar ways by the faculty,” said Parker.

The Neurodiversity Affinity Group serves two purposes. First and foremost, it provides a forum for parents to share their experiences with their children’s neurocognitive differences and to discuss available resources. “It’s very welcoming, and there’s no judgment,” said Friends parent Karen Levin. “People come to the group with vastly different concerns and experiences, but there is room for everybody.”

One major concern among attendees of the group is the level of stress and anxiety experienced by many students. In response to this ongoing issue, in May 2015 the group organized “Healthy Strategies to Decrease Anxiety and Build Resiliency,” a symposium for parents and Upper School and Middle School students. Over the course of the evening, three psychologists led separate sessions for each target audience. “I very much enjoyed the adult workshop,” said Friends parent Ann Ciekot. “It gave me a better understanding that stress is perfectly normal, [and] also tools to identify when stress starts to become a problem and specific ways to address it when that occurs.”

The second purpose of the Neurodiversity Parent Affinity Group is to work with the

School administration on policies and practices to better support students and families with neurodiversity concerns.

Since June 2014, the group has been in dialogue with the School about how best to meet the needs of neurodiverse children at Friends.

“I think the most rewarding thing so far has been the positive response we’ve received from Friends School,” said Parker.

“They have given feedback and consideration to all of our concerns, and we’re pleased to see many helpful changes implemented in terms of support for students with neurodiversity issues.”

One such positive change has been in the ways the School administers Learning Profiles (LP, formerly known as an Individual Service Plan, or ISP), a potentially helpful tool for students with learning differences and their parents. Several parents expressed concern over inconsistencies in the LP process. In response, the administration created a single policy, which appears in the student handbook. Another area of concern dealt with staff training and development.

“Behavioral and neurocognitive issues are very common and growing among American youth,” said Parker. “Parents in the affinity group reported varying levels of education and understanding among faculty around their children’s differences.” To address this concern, Friends will now dedicate two professional development sessions a year to focus specifically on mental health and learning differences. FS The Neurodiversity Parent Affinity group welcomes all parents with children facing mental health and learning challenges and their allies to attend their meetings, which take place on campus two to three times a year.

Babysitting and dinner are provided. For information, contact Jennifer Parker at jenbie4@yahoo.com.

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ATHLETICS

FA L L S P O RT S R O U N D U P Friends athletes did us proud this season, representing the School with grit, grace and a conference championship.

Varsity Football’s 2-7 season belies the joy and energy with which this young team — comprised of nine freshmen, seven sophomores, five juniors and three seniors — took to the gridiron.

Far left: Manny E. ’17 tackles his Mt. Carmel opponent.

Left: Kavon S. ’18 breaks through as Tyler B. ’18 blocks.

The 15-7-1 Girls Varsity Soccer team made it to the B Conference semifinals but ultimately fell to St. Mary’s Annapolis, 5-4, on penalty kicks.

Right: McKenna K. ’19 controls the offense.

Boys Varsity Soccer on Nov. 5 finished its 18-4 season at home with a heart-breaking 2-1 double-overtime loss to Boys’ Latin in the M.I.A.A. B Conference semifinals.

Left: Nik S. ’17 takes flight.

The Varsity Girls Tennis team finished its season with a 7-2 record and a fourth-place finish in the I.A.A.M. B Conference Tournament. Said coach Jon Hilzendeger, “Our girls proved to themselves they can push their own limits. The Quakes will be stronger next season.”

Far left: No. 1 singles Anne Marie G. ’16 powers a return.

Left: Julia W. ’18, with No. 2 doubles partner Rita B. ’18 (not shown), showed great progress this season.

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ATHLETICS

Varsity Volleyball (5-7) made great gains this season. With a sophomore-heavy roster and a strong JV feeder squad, expect great things from this up-andcoming team.

Far left: Madison M. ’17 prepares to serve.

Left: Maggie G. ’17 returns

The Varsity Field Hockey team ended its season with a 4-12 record. Still, there were many highlights that kept the girls fighting the whole way through. Coach Angie Brewer praised upperclassmen Molly D. ’16, Kate J. ’16 and Erin F. ’17 for their leadership and standouts Sydney W. ’18 and Sophia G. ’19 for steadily improving their level of play.

Far right: Bentley K. ’18 prepares to rocket the ball downfield.

Right: Holly H. ’19 takes control of the offense.

The undefeated Boys Varsity Cross-Country team ended its season by winning the C Conference crown at the M.I.A.A. championships on Nov. 4, 2015. “The first-ever Cross-Country championship race finished the same way all the rest of the team’s victories did this year — by running with a lot of heart, focus and a never-give-in attitude,” said coach Ken Fowler.

The Girls Cross-Country team finished its season on Oct. 29, 2015 with a 7-3 record and a strong fourth-place finish at the I.A.A.M. C Conference finals. “It was a great day for the girls,” said coach Ken Fowler. “Almost every team member ran their fastest time of the season.”

Right: Boys Cross Country runners attempt to overtake the girls in a pre-race warm up.

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FSPA NEWS

Scarlet & Gray Day

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This year’s Scarlet & Gray Day, on Saturday, Oct. 3, saw parents and children of all ages turn out for a fun day of spirit-filled interscholastic athletic contests, carnival games, food, musical performances and student-led fundraisers.

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1. In advance of Scarlet & Gray Day the Parents Association distributed T-shirts to all Friends students.

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2. The day included a full schedule of interscholastic athletic contests, including those played by the Middle School Girls A and the Boys JV Soccer teams.

3. The Quaker mascot made new friends.

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4. Student performances, including a rocking 6th grade band, made our day.

Here, Grace D. jams on bass.

5. Friends families came out in force, despite chilly temps and blustery winds.

6. Fifth graders sold baked goods for their class fundraiser.

7. Lemon stick anyone? Jack C. sold tart treats for the 8th grade fundraiser.

8. Carnival games kept the little ones entertained.

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From left: Leah Boelman sells her one-of-a-kind embroidered wood signs; a visitor checks out one of the Silent Auction theme-inspired gift baskets, the contents of which were once again contributed by families from each grade level; Upper Schoolers raise money for Unicef.

HOLLY FEST It wouldn’t be fall at Friends without Holly Fest! This year marked the 30th anniversary of the popular holiday market and fair, which annually draws hundreds of visitors to campus to browse, shop and enjoy unique handcrafted items, live musical performances, children’s crafts, fresh greens and more. Holly Fest is one of the Parents Association’s largest fundraisers, and this year it did not disappoint: The PA raised more than $23,000 for the School. Many thanks to all who volunteered and supported this year’s event. We couldn’t have done it without you!

Festival of Friends Some 300 parents, faculty, staff and alumni attended the Parents Association’s annual Festival of Friends last April at the Evergreen Museum’s Carriage House. Denim-clad guests, in keeping with the gala’s “Blue Jean Ball” theme, enjoyed delicious food by The Classic Catering People, an open bar and live music and dancing to Sly45.

Live and silent auctions on such sought-after prizes as “Lower School Librarian for a Day,” a behind-the-scenes tour of “The Simpsons” and a spectacular Utah ski getaway helped the Parents Association raise more than $30,000 for Friends.

This year’s event promises to be even bigger.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR: Saturday, April 30, 2016 Stay tuned for details!

Pictured at last spring’s Festival of Friends are (top) Matt and Frances Micciche (center) with Anita Sampath and Sam Rajamanickam; and (bottom, from left:) Katherine Crosby, Rebecca Snyder, Mont Brownlee and Lisa Ennis.

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DEVELOPMENT NEWS

FROM THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

save the date OH, THE SPACES WE’LL SHOW! JANUARY 23, 2016 • 6 PM We’re so very excited, we’re ready to burst, And we invite you, friends, to be among the first To see our dazzling new home for the arts.

And to ring it all in with a rip-roaring start!

Opening Celebration of the Forbush Building Rediscover Friends while you rediscover Forbush! Explore the newly transformed Bliss Forbush Building and even learn a little something new about your favorite School.

Save the date for a night of fun and friends.

Adults only. Casual dress.

KINDLY RESPOND by Thursday, Jan. 14 to www.friendsbalt.org/ohthespaceswellshow QUESTIONS? PLEASE CALL 410.649.3206

IN 1983, THE YEAR I graduated from

Friends, the Forbush Auditorium looked and felt the same way it did the day we enrolled our daughter Alex, now a 10th grader, in the Pre-Primary. The cavernous space featured the same stage and the same uncomfortable folding chairs that characterized it during my Friends School days. As Alex progressed at Friends, I had the opportunity to experience the Auditorium as a parent. I recall sitting in the audience during a Middle School choral concert and thinking, “Some things never change.” My view of the stage was obstructed by hundreds of other parents’ heads — all of us eager to spot our child. In this particular instance, I actually couldn’t see my daughter. I imagine my own parents experienced something quite similar.

Thankfully, some things do change. My daughter, along with all of our current and future Friends School students, now enjoys a transformed Forbush Building outfitted with comfortable, raked seats; a striking glass atrium and lobby; increased onstage, backstage and side-stage spaces (no more trekking outside and then around the building to get from stage left to stage right!); an amazing scene and woodworking shop; the list goes on. Better yet, we have a new home for our visual arts program on the lower level of the building with dedicated teaching and learning spaces for photography, painting and computer imaging; and gallery space for student and visiting artist exhibitions.

The Bliss Forbush Auditorium has always been at the heart of student life at Friends. It’s the place where children of all ages and their teachers gather for the daily and annual rituals that form the fabric of our School; and it’s where generations of actors, musicians, choralists, dancers, lighting and sound technicians, running crews and directors tapped into their passions for creating memorable performances.

The difference is that today, the quality of the space is finally in line with the extraordinary talent of our students and faculty.

Needless to say, it’s an exciting time to begin my tenure as chair of the Board of Trustees. I look forward to seeing you at the Performing and Visual Arts Center.

Trish Backer-Miceli ’83, P’18 Chair, Board of Trustees

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DEVELOPMENT NEWS

FROM THE SETTING THE STAGE CAMPAIGN THANKS TO THE GENEROSITY of our alumni, parents, parents of alumni, grandparents, faculty, staff, students and friends across the country, the Setting the Stage campaign has raised more than $22 million toward our goal of $25 million — a figure far greater than all of the School’s previous capital campaigns combined.

During this final year of Setting the Stage, two generous Friends School families — the Brown family, through the Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Family Foundation, and Ozzie and Joe Cowan ’64 — have issued challenges to our community that together promise to generate an additional $1 million for the School.

Here’s where you come in. Through June 30, 2016: • W hen you designate your new* Setting the Stage commitment to the transformation of the Forbush Building or to unrestricted Annual Giving, the Brown family will match each gift dollar-for-dollar, up to $500,000!

Even better: Gifts and pledges from alumni of the Classes of 1984 and 1987 and from parents and grandparents of the Class of 2025 (3rd grade) will generate a $2-to-$1 match!

• W hen you designate your new* Setting the Stage commitment to the Ronald A. Friedberg ’64 Memorial Scholarship Fund,

Joe and Ozzie have promised to match your gift $5-to-$1, up to $500,000!

As we look toward June 30, 2016 and reaching our goal of $25 million, we are awed by the widespread support this campaign has inspired. If you’ve already made a commitment to this effort, Update 2015-2016 we thank you. If you have not yet joined the hundreds of supporters who have heeded the call, please consider making a gift this year.

To learn more, visit: friendsbalt.org/settingthestage

Tim Hearn ’78 Co-Chair, Setting the Stage

Bill White P’12 Co-Chair, Setting the Stage

*Only new gifts and pledges count for the challenge.

Those made in prior school years do not qualify.

Generous $2 Million-Plus Estate Gift SUPPORTS FRIENDS’ STUDENT athletes AND artists ANNE HOMER MARTIN ’37 graduated in one of the first classes at the School’s Homeland campus; in truth, she never really left. For nine decades, she remained connected to Friends — personally, professionally and philanthropically.

By designating the School as a beneficiary of her estate, even now Ms. Martin’s stewardship of our students continues.

ASK US HOW YOU TOO CAN BECOME A STEWARD OF THE FRIENDS SCHOOL COMMUNITY.

OFFICE OF GIFT PLANNING 410.649.3316 | jkehl@friendsbalt.org friendsbalt.plannedgiving.org

BE PART OF

something bigger.

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ALUMNI NEWS

OF STINKBUGS AND GOD – SPIRITUAL NURTURE IN YOUNG CHILDREN

BY JOSH VALLE ’89, PRE-KINDERGARTEN TEACHER I AM SITTING on the floor in a circle with my 15 young students, 4- and 5-year-olds, during our morning worship time. This year, as a deliberate change, I have given up imposing themes or reading books during worship in favor of a less structured approach.

We began the year merely by greeting each other in turn around the circle. Over the first few weeks of school, the children, of their own accord, began using this time to discuss the things in their lives for which they are thankful. Without any input or suggestion from me, they have developed a spontaneous ritual of gratitude, one all the more meaningful for being purely their own.

Instead of pat remarks suggested by some book or theme, they follow each other’s lead, expand on what’s come before or open new avenues of discussion. I have become very proud — perhaps too much so — of the fruits of their progress and my restraint.

Wholly on their own, my students have spoken of their love for their siblings, their appreciation of those who care for them, their desire for sick classmates to feel better, their gratitude to God and Jesus — as well as, of course, more mundane topics, such as a love of crab cakes or the fact that it is night in Hong Kong when it’s morning in Baltimore.

The divine and the mundane are seldom less separate than in the world of childhood.

This particular morning, we are being observed by an admissions tour guide and a number of prospective parents. Doing my best not to betray any urgency, I help the children settle into silence. I watch the visitors out of the corner of my eye and wonder what impressive gems will fall from my students’ lips: perhaps a heart-warming desire to hug a newborn brother or a request that God watch over an ailing

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family member. I nod toward the first child, and the class wishes him a good morning. He greets us in turn and thinks a moment. “Good morning, friends. I am thankful for … stinkbugs!” The quiet circle dissolves into peals of laughter. “P.U.!” “Stinky stinkbugs!”

“Smelly!” I sigh inwardly and settle the children back into worship. The parents move on. I shake my head at my own pride.

Working with young children provides, if nothing else, a firm grounding in reality.

I have been thinking lately of what it means to teach, both in general and in particular at a Quaker school. What is it we bring to children? What is the true role of the teacher? Dealing with such young children, I feel that the teaching I do is the most elemental; it is teaching stripped bare of the disguise of rhetoric and jargon. We’re really dealing with the raw stuff of human nature, as the children begin to look outward to recognize and respect others. There is also, perhaps, a corresponding inward turn, as they learn to examine their own thoughts and feelings. Their young world is expanding and, hopefully, will continue to do so for the rest of their lives. Emotionally, intellectually and spiritually, these years are foundational and thus crucial. This realization lends an extra urgency to my questioning.

In my search for meaning, I have been greatly aided by opportunities to convene with my colleagues. The role of the teacher in a Quaker setting is something many of us ponder. It is through this work with Friends that I was introduced to the writings of Rufus Jones, which immediately captured me with their beauty and profundity. Here I came upon the notion of spiritual nurture and its unique importance to the Quaker faith. This concept captured my imagination. I was intrigued that a great mystic and activist would place such importance on our work with children, finding in education a spiritual task. Indeed, in Rethinking Quaker Principles,

Jones speaks of Quaker schools as being first and foremost “nurseries of spiritual culture,” meant to “nourish the inner life of the child.”

But how are they to do this? In a typical maneuver, Jones proposes no definitive answer but instead meets our uncertainty with a challenge: But we need to ask once more very seriously in the silent confessional of our Queries: Do you still in these modern times … bring up your children and those under your care in the nurture of Truth?

So, as I deal with stinkbugs and scraped elbows and broken crayons, I have been letting this query from Jones simmer in the back of my mind. It is clear that the spiritual is not a gift we bestow but a natural endowment we attempt to nourish. This is the beauty of the term spiritual nurture. We may fabricate things and shape them to our exact specifications, but we nurture living beings, who assume a shape imprinted upon them by their very natures. We are charged not with inculcating set values in those in our care but with allowing them to develop values of their own. FS ©2015 Friends Publishing Corporation.

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INTRODUCTION

A Life-Changing Event EAST BALTIMORE IN JULY, and the

temperature and humidity are an identical, unbearable ninety-eight. It wasn’t raining, but walking one block left you soaked. I walked three. That was my route within the invisible Johns Hopkins safety zone, the world’s biomed fortress, surrounded by lead-painted welfare housing and occasional crack dens.

By the time I stepped into the outpatient entrance, my shirt was like a second skin. A blast of AC turns the perspiration to a chill as I enter the underground tunnel that leads to the main hospital, content to be out of the heat for the next thirty hours. Nothing about this night seems different from any of the others I’ve spent as the internal medicine resident on the cardiac intensive unit (CICU) rotation — but then, life-changing moments rarely come with advance warning.

In the CICU, the attending doctor leads the team — a cardiology Fellow and a small squad of residents that includes me — through rounds, patient by patient, checking charts and meds. The attending fires questions like the lightning round of a game show; we spit back answers and then move on to the next bed. When we finish, the attending glances outside, through a window steamed with sweat, and casually says, “This is the kind of weather that can kill people.”

He’s right. Not far from the hospital, at 6:00 p.m., a man named Randy is walking through Patterson Park in East Baltimore.

In the daytime, Patterson is still just a park, full of kids on bicycles, joggers, and softball teams. But a few hours later, darkness transforms it into an open-air drug market, where people such as Randy can buy a small packet of coke, their little nightly jolt. Out of a job and with nowhere else to be, Randy lights a cigarette and waits for night to fall.

Randy is thirty-nine, but an overweight, dissipated thirty-nine. Even the short walk from the southeast corner of the park to the crisscross at its center has exhausted him.

He sits down on a splintered green bench and waits for the fatigue to go away, but it doesn’t. His chest feels strangely heavy, as if

something were sitting on his rib cage. Even when Randy stretches out on the bench, the unfamiliar pressure refuses to let up.

An old woman walks by, a park regular who pushes a stroller filled with empty bottles and cans, but no baby. Seeing Randy, she stops and asks, “You okay?” He doesn’t answer. “You need help?” He tried to shake his head, but it won’t move. The woman starts to walk away, then turns back. “Want me to call an ambulance?” Hearing Randy’s faintly whispered “Yeah,” the elderly lady fishes a flip phone out of her collection of bottles and cans, and dials 911.

When the EMTs find Randy on the bench, they ask him his age, name, and pain level; check his vital signs; then roll him onto a gurney and into the ambulance.

After putting an oxygen mask on Randy and hooking him up to an IV, the medics phone ahead to Johns Hopkins with the data: time, 6:47 p.m.; thirty-nine-year-old male with substernal chest pain; 10 out of 10 on pain scale; nauseous; likely MI (myocardial infarction) according to the electrocardiogram (EKG) in the ambulance, eight to ten minutes from the emergency room (ER).

The call from ambulance to hospital is a trigger, alerting each of the appropriate hospital care units to be ready. Even though Randy is a heavy-smoking, obese, habitual drug user without a job, having a life threatening emergency in the locale of East Baltimore means one thing: He is headed to Johns Hopkins, one of the top-ranked hospitals in the United States. Unlucky Randy has lucked out on this one thing.

The Hopkins ER — a contradiction of rusty steam pipes and chirping digital monitors — has a bed slot ready. By the time the ambulance team bashes the swinging doors open with the gurney, another team is waiting for the handoff. An ER nurse hooks Randy up to the twelve leads (sensors) for the EKG, which will measure the rhythm and strength of his heartbeat. Another nurse draws blood to check whether elevated enzyme and protein levels are leaking into

Randy’s bloodstream. Definitive lab results will take ninety minutes — minutes that Randy doesn’t have. The nurses give Randy aspirin, slip a nitroglycerin tablet under his tongue, and connect his IV to a cocktail of morphine and heparin, to help the pain and thin his blood. Meanwhile, Randy pants. He can’t seem to catch his breath. The weight on his chest is relentless.

The attending emergency room doctor and his resident read the jagged lines on Randy’s EKG, looking for “STEMI,” an elevation in the ST segment of the EKG that indicates MI. Although Randy’s EKG is ambiguous, it is abnormal enough to kick off a series of rehearsed responses: The STEMI code is sent to the pagers carried by both the cardiac catheterization team and the cardiac intensive care unit doctors, and the EKG printout is faxed up to my team in the CICI on the fifth floor. My CICU Fellow and I each see the EKG and draw the likely conclusion: this heart tissue may be dying.

This is a significant moment for me: Perhaps for the first time, I think I know what this is.

And I know what to do. FS From the Book ALPHA DOCS by Daniel Muñoz and Jim Dale. Copyright © 2015 by Daniel Muñoz and Jim Dale. Reprinted by arrangement with Random House, an imprint of Random House, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

Learn more at randomhousebooks.com/ books/196684 Dan Muñoz is a 1996 alumnus and Jim Dale is the father of Andy Dale ’96.

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ALUMNI NEWS To view and download photos from Alumni Weekend, please visit the School’s Flickr site at flickr.com/friendsbalt and click “Albums.”

A LU M N I W E E K E N D 2 0 1 5 More than 300 graduates and their families reconnected on the Friends campus, Thursday, Oct. 1 through Sunday, Oct. 4, for Alumni Weekend 2015. This year’s festivities coincided with Scarlet & Gray Day, offering alumni opportunities to connect with current families and students amid a backdrop of interscholastic athletic contests, carnival games, food trucks and student fundraisers.

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Once again, Mike Lurie ’81 did the honors as master of ceremonies.

1. From left: Katie Hearn ’81, Phoebe Flowers O’Neill ’82, Pieter DeSmit and Dia Price Matthews ’81 2. Inductee Kenny Wilson ’85 with his wife Nichole and their children 3. From left: Cynthia Knust, Michael Owens ’65, Nancy Dashiells ’65 and Phil Buck ’65 4. Plaques waiting to be awarded

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50th Reunion 5. T he Class of 1965 gathered at the Zamoiski Alumni Center on Friday, Oct. 2 for a celebratory dinner in honor of its 50th Reunion. Sam Fisher ’65 served as official emcee for a fun-filled evening of laughter and reminiscing. Following the Saturday night cocktail reception at Friends, the class reconvened at the Mt. Washington Tavern and kept the party going.

25th Reunion 6. During the Saturday evening reception, members of the Class of 1990 gathered for a photo to mark their 25th Reunion.

6 SERVING THE COMMUNITY: Empty Bowls Painting; Work at the McKim Center On Saturday, Oct. 3, alumni and their families participated in two special service projects — glazing bowls for the Empty Bowls Project and volunteering at the McKim Center.

7. Pictured at McKim (with a local volunteer in foreground) are, from left, Amy Schmaljohn, Eric Thompson, Lisa Countess, Carrie Hildebrandt ’10, Jimmy Bigwood ’08, Chrissy Schoppert Devereux ’00, Mike Levin ’04 and Bruce Parkhurst ’70.

8. Carrie Hildebrandt ’10 organizes donated school supplies at McKim Center.

9. A lovingly painted bowl for Empty Bowls waits to be fired.

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ALUMNI WEEKEND 2015 ROBERT A. NICOLLS AND TOM LAMONICA ’67 BARBECUE

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Two Friends School traditions combined for one grand celebration on Saturday, Oct. 3, when the Mr. Nick and Tom LaMonica ’67 Barbecue brought alumni and their families together for a festive afternoon of down-home barbecue under the tent. Among the afternoon’s highlights: Head of School Matt Micciche presented the Honorary Alumni Award to Barbara Katz, a devoted Friends School supporter and Trustee, and the wife of the late Jay Katz ’45. Afterward, guests chose from a campus tour, shopping in the Quaker Closet or engaging in community service at the McKim Center.

10. From left: Tom Baker ’60, Bruce Gable, Betsy Beatty Gable ’60, Barbara Lindemann ’60, Heather Landheim ’60, Susan Huff Schmidt ’60 and Sandy Cochran ’60

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11. Frank Bond ’69 and Jimmy Bigwood ’08 12. Good friends: Barbara Katz H’15 and Joan Klein enjoy time together celebrating Barbara’s honorary degree.

13. Wilson Taliaferro ’99 and his daughter Eliza 14. Old pals reconnect on Saturday afternoon. From left: Joe Corvera ’89, Read Carter ’90, Tyler Buck ’90 and Josh Davis ’90 15. A time to celebrate!

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Saturday morning, Oct. 3 saw alumni participate in a variety of activities and events, including the Half Century Society Breakfast, Back to the Classroom sessions, campus tours, community service and a special Alumni Collection.

16. Several alumni gather for Alumni Collection on Saturday morning with Head of School Matt Micciche.

17. Alumni visit with Frances Micciche, Head of School Matt Micciche, Jocelyn Kehl and Lisa Pitts ’70 during the Half Century Society Breakfast.

18. Natalie Santos Ferguson ’90 and her daughters enjoy a campus tour with Amy D’Aiutolo Mortimer ’87.

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COCKTAIL RECEPTION The annual Alumni Weekend Cocktail Reception on Saturday evening, Oct. 3 drew a large crowd under the tent at the Zamoiski Alumni Center for fellowship, light fare and libations. Among the highlights, Class of 1985 grads Kate Windsor and Tom Whiteford, respectively, were presented with the 2015 Distinguished Alumni Award and the Alumni Service Award.

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21. From left: Lisa Lott MacGibeny ’85, Michael Cohen ’85 and Moriah Cohen 22. Class of 1975 sweethearts Jon and Chele Riley Garman 23. The Class of 1970 wishes everyone “peace.”

24. From left: Janelle Milam Schmidt ’96, Rosalie Parker ’99, Justine Alger Forrester ’98 and Lisa McKissick ’83 25. From left: Class of 2010 buddies Max Levine, Lyz Berg, Henry Callegary, David Cain and Joey Peyton 26. The Class of 2000 gathers for a group shot.

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HIRAM HOLTON II ’95 SCHOLARSHIP BRUNCH On Sunday, Oct. 4, friends, family and classmates of the late Hiram Holton II ’95 gathered for a special brunch in his memory.

27. Remembering Hiram 28. Mike Fine ’95 honors classmate Hiram Holton II ’95 with remarks and a moment of silence.

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HONORARY ALUMNI AWARD: Barbara Katz On a day in which she and her late husband Jay Katz ’45 would have celebrated his 70th Friends School Reunion, it seemed perfectly fitting that Barbara Katz, Trustee and beloved Friends supporter, would accept the School’s Honorary Alumni Award. “It’s about time!” Matt Micciche told the gathering, adding, “She has certainly felt like a family member all along.”

Passionate about the arts, Ms. Katz has used her resources to generously support arts programming at Friends. Among her and Jay’s enduring gifts, the Katz Gallery will soon reopen as the central hub of the Forbush Building’s new fine arts spaces.

But it is the students with whom she connects most directly. For many years, Ms. Katz has made it her personal mission to ensure that Middle Schoolers who may be struggling academically receive the summer tutoring they need. She also gives generously of her time, serving in the Lower School as an honorary grand-friend during Grandparent Days, school plays and other special occasions; and she’s a regular in the Lower School Library, where visitors will frequently find her reading aloud to the children.

On behalf of the entire School community, Friends welcomes the Class of 2015’s newest and most benevolent member, Barbara Katz.

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD: Kate Windsor ’85, Head, Miss Porter’s School for Girls Well before Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg urged women in her 2013 book “Lean In” to challenge gender bias in the workplace, Dr. Kate Windsor ’85 was quietly and passionately blazing her own trail in the independent school world. As head, since 2008, of the prestigious Miss Porter’s School in Farmington, Conn., she has led the school through an $87.6 million campaign and established an innovative technology integration plan. Prior to that she served as head of The Sage School in Foxboro, Mass., and was women’s athletic director and a department head at Sandy Spring (Md.) Friends School. Along the way Windsor earned an Ed.D. in educational and organizational leadership from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree from the College of Notre Dame in Baltimore.

In her “free” time, Dr. Windsor serves on the Boards of such notable organizations as the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy, the Center for the Study of Boys’ and Girls’ Lives, the Association of Boarding Schools and the Association of Independent Schools in New England.

Said Head of School Matt Micciche upon introducing Windsor: “One small measure of Kate’s prominence in the field is the number of times her name is mentioned during conversations with fellow independent school heads — which happens frequently. On such occasions I never miss the opportunity to say, like a proud relative, “Well, you know, Kate’s an FSB alumna.”

ALUMNI SERVICE AWARD: Tom Whiteford ’85 Introducing this year’s Alumni Service Award recipient, Upper School history teacher and coach Jon Garman ’75 recalled the spring of 1984 and his first interaction on the lacrosse field with Tom Whiteford ’85. “I learned very quickly that Tom was a terrific leader and that playing for the School was the most important factor,” he told those gathered under the tent for the Saturday evening Alumni Reception.

“For Tom, it was all about the name on the front of the jersey, not the name on the back.”

What Garman could not have foreseen back then was the extent to which Whiteford would give back to his alma mater. While attending law school he returned to campus to help coach alongside former Athletic Director Pieter DeSmit and former Middle School teacher Randy Cooper. In recent years he has assisted the Middle School Boys Lacrosse and Soccer programs and has also worked with the Boys Varsity Lacrosse team.

His commitment to the School goes well beyond athletics. Over the years he has served on the Alumni Board, the Athletic Hall of Fame Committee, the Class of ’85 Reunion Committee and as an Alumni Class Agent. He has also volunteered on behalf of the School’s Admission office and has mentored 12th graders during their annual Senior Work Projects in May. “I can’t think of a better example for our graduates,” Garman told the audience. “How can they not be inspired to give back after seeing him around so much?”

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2016 Friends School Alumni Awards. For more information, contact Kate Maskarinec, Director of Alumni Relations & Engagement, at 410.649.3205 or kmaskarinec@friendsbalt.org.

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The Friends School of Baltimore Alumni Association welcomes its newest members … the Class of 2015

THE CLASS OF 2015 COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES AND MATRICULATIONS Acadia University Adelphi University Albright College Allegheny College Amherst College Arcadia University * Arizona State University University of Arizona (2) University of Baltimore * Bard College Barnard College Beloit College Boston College Boston University Bowdoin College Brandeis University (2) Brown University (2) * Bryn Mawr College Bucknell University (2) * Caldwell University University of California, Los Angeles University of California, San Diego University of California, Santa Cruz * Case Western Reserve University * University of Chicago * Claremont McKenna College Coastal Carolina University University of Colorado at Boulder (4) Colorado College * Columbia College Chicago Columbia University

Connecticut College * University of Connecticut * Cornell University (2) * Davidson College (2) * Delaware Valley College University of Delaware (3) Denison University (2) * University of Denver Dickinson College (3) * Drew University Drexel University (8) * Earlham College (2) Eckerd College Elizabethtown College Elon University * Emerson College Emory University University of Florida Fordham University (3)* Franklin and Marshall College Furman University George Mason University The George Washington University (3) Georgetown University Gettysburg College Goucher College (4) Grinnell College Guilford College (4) * Hampden-Sydney College * Harvard University * High Point University (5) Hobart and William Smith Colleges * Hood College (3)

Howard University Iona College * Ithaca College (2) James Madison University * Johns Hopkins University (2) * Kalamazoo College University of Kentucky (2) * Kenyon College * Lasell College Lehigh University Lesley University Lewis & Clark College * Loyola University Maryland (2) * Loyola University New Orleans Lycoming College (2) * Marquette University University of Maryland, Baltimore County (11) * University of Maryland, College Park (13) * Marymount Manhattan College University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Boston McDaniel College * University of Miami Michigan State University University of Michigan (4) Middlebury College Morehouse College (2) * Morgan State University The New School, Eugene Lang College (2) *

University of New Hampshire New York University (2) * Northeastern University (7) * Oberlin College (2) Occidental College Ohio State University The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University * University of Pennsylvania * Pitzer College * Portland State University Pratt Institute * University of Puget Sound Purdue University University of Redlands (2) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute University of Rhode Island University of Richmond (2) Rider University Rochester Institute of Technology University of Rochester * College of Saint Elizabeth Salisbury University (4) University of San Francisco (2) Sarah Lawrence College * University of Scranton Seattle University Skidmore College (4) * University of South Carolina St. John’s College St. John’s University St. Lawrence University * St. Mary’s College of Maryland (9) *

St. Olaf College Stevenson University Suffolk University (2) Susquehanna University * Syracuse University (3) University of Tampa Temple University (4) Towson University (3) * Trinity College * Tufts University Tulane University (3) * Union College * United States Coast Guard Academy * Ursinus College * Vanderbilt University * University of Vermont (5) * University of Virginia * Wake Forest University (2) * Warren Wilson College Washington and Lee University * Washington College (4) * Washington University in St. Louis* Wesley College * Wesleyan University West Virginia University Wheaton College, Mass.

Whittier College (3) Williams College (2) * The College of Wooster Worcester Polytechnic Institute York College of Pa.

(#) indicates number of seniors accepted, if more than one. * indicates that a Class of 2015 alum is attending

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Class Notes THIS IS THE PLACE In these pages, generations of alumni have shared life’s significant milestones and reminisced about their Friends School days. Be a part of the tradition.

Send your news and photos to alumni@friendsbalt.org.* * Digital images should be 1 MB or larger and sent in .jpg format.

1941 Save the Date! May 5-8, 2016 Alumni Weekend 2016 and 75th Reunion Celebration Send us your news!

1946 Save the Date! May 5-8, 2016 Alumni Weekend 2016 and 70th Reunion Celebration Send us your news!

1950 Mara Donovan Dudrow maradudrow@gmail.com Send us your news!

1951 This class needs a secretary.

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

Save the Date! May 5-8, 2016 Alumni Weekend 2016 and 65th Reunion Celebration Send us your news!

1952 Carol Lee Fordyce May carollee.may@gmail.com Send us your news!

1952 Susanne Davis Emory vermontsue@aol.com I heard from several classmates who responded to my invitation to

Buzzy Hodous’ house for our mini-reunion but, because of distance, couldn’t come. Alan Halpern says hello and wants everyone to know he misses seeing them. He and his wife Harriet have been living in San Diego going on two years now. He says it was the best move they’ve ever made.

They live near their daughter Emily and her family in Carlsbad, Calif.

Hunter, their oldest grandson, is a freshman at the University of Arizona, and Spencer is a sophomore in high school. Alison Herriott Wilder celebrated her 80th birthday by taking a Road Scholar trip in late March to the Sea Islands of Georgia. She writes, “They kept us hopping, breakfast at 7, on the road at 8:30 to see wildlife, historical sites, winter homes of Rockefellers and that ilk, contents of a shrimp trawler’s nets (pursued by pelicans and laughing gulls), even a demonstration of what Civil War-era ladies had to put on, along with the corsets, regardless of the weather or chores. It was very interesting, especially the wading birds roosting in the trees outside our window.” Then it was home to Rochester, N.Y., where it was 40 degrees and raining. Joanne Mathias Stevenson also celebrated her 80th by visiting her son Will Love in California. Shirley Hanby Hatch lives in a retirement home in Newtown Square, Pa. She moved there to be nearer her children following the death, three years ago, of her husband Benjamin. He passed away just three months after they moved into their first retirement home. Clay and I traveled to northern Italy and Switzerland in September. This is the trip that was postponed last year because of Clay’s infected knee and subsequent surgery. He is nursing along his second (temporary) implant and will probably have the permanent

knee replacement when we get back.

Please respond to my email. I love hearing about what you are doing.

1953 This class needs a secretary.

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

Send us your news!

1954 This class needs a secretary.

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

Send us your news!

1955 Pat Peake Tisdale glent24@aol.com Many members of our class traveled to Baltimore in May, so we carried on with the special party for our class. It was a gala indeed! Pat Fiol Morrill, who chaired the committee of Bob Kriel and myself, began in late winter to organize, check venues, assemble menus and call/send notes/email everyone in the class to save the date for Reunion Weekend, May 1, 2015.

When the Baltimore riots erupted that week and Friends School postponed the weekend, there was overwhelming disbelief and then a concerted scramble and effort to save our Reunion. Classmates were flying and driving from across the country to attend, and Pat Fiol Morrill was determined to proceed. Ginny Pearce Mitchell and husband Fred graciously offered to host the group at their club,

the Maryland Golf and Country Club, which moved the dinner out of Baltimore City, which was under a curfew. The Club was a grand choice, and the 15 of us who gathered had a lovely evening, dining and catching up.

Ellie Johnson Dubbelde came from her new home in Seattle and stayed with Glenn and me. Lolly Crowther Schorreck, Ellie and I got together for lunch on Saturday, toured Ellie’s old neighborhood of Roland Park and strolled Sherwood Gardens in Guilford before joining the class for dinner.

Linda and Bob Kriel came from Minnesota, stayed with family and did a Road Scholar week on the Eastern Shore after the reunion. The Maryland monthly lunch group, instituted and organized by Pat Morrill after our 50th Reunion, includes Ginny, Lolly, Pat M., Iris Windsor McFaul, Robin Biddison Dodd and myself. At our May lunch we were joined by Bill Morrill and Bob Millhauser and seated at a large oval table that afforded lively conversation from one end to the other. A class photo was taken and gratitude extended to the Mitchells for saving the evening.

1956 Lorinda Rugemer McColgan lrmccolgan@verizon.net Save the Date! May 5-8, 2016 Alumni Weekend 2016 and 60th Reunion Celebration Mimi Curlett Cooper, one of the first members of our class, passed away on June 5, 2015. Friends School and I shared the news with the class, and many of us were able to send condolence notes to her family. If others would still like to write, you may reach her husband, David Cooper, at 3805 Winterset Drive, Annandale, Va.

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FROM LEFT: Bob Miser, Jeannie Downs

FROM LEFT: Anne Carter Bowdoin, Jim Bird and Martha Kegan Graham, from the Class of 1959 enjoy Sanibel Island in February 2015.

22003-2239. Additionally, memorial gifts may be sent to the Mimi Curlett Cooper ’56 Scholarship Fund, c/o Development Office, Friends School of Baltimore, 5114 North Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21210-2096. Clarinda Harriss sent the following: “Tom and I attended the memorial service, as did Joan Ellis Chirgwin and her husband. To their great regret, both Sue Bonnett Hamel and her husband, as well as Ann and Bob Heaton, had to be out of town that day, but Sue, in her infinite graciousness, told a close friend of hers to be on the lookout for Tom and me; said friend greeted us warmly at the reception, which followed the beautiful communion service, and made sure we didn’t feel too left out among the hundreds — literally hundreds — of neighbors and relatives and Navy friends who crammed the enormous Episcopal church. Waiting in the receiving line at the reception could have been a tiresome affair, given the number of people, but no: A relative had prepared a fantastic slide show of photos dating back to toddler Mimi, through teenage Mimi, through young bride Mimi, to mother Mimi, to grandmother Mimi — and then some. It was fun to see the pictures and then see the real people, children and grandchildren who in differing ways looked incredibly much like Mimi.”

Happier news came from Bob Heaton.

“In May, Ann and I moved to Broadmead, the continuing care retirement community founded by Stony Run Friends in the late ’70s.

Many Friends School people have settled there, including Ruth Dibert and Sam Legg. We encourage visitors, as we hope to be joined at Broadmead by many more Friends folks during the coming years.”

Pohlhaus ’60, Mary Ann Ramage, Joe Ramage ’60 and Sandy Cochran enjoy their class gathering at Kathy and Steve Levinson ’60’s home.

1957 Nancy Hearn Aronson nharonson@gmail.com Send us your news!

1958 Susan Shinnick Hossfeld shossfeld@comcast.net Susan Rugemer Kurtz reports she is looking forward to her Christmas in Hawaii — a new destination for her — Dec. 21 through 31. Spending 10 days there with her wonderful family is “as good as it gets … and no hectic Christmas shopping!” This will be the family’s first “giftless” Christmas. (Of course, Nanny might tuck a few things for Kayla Kurtz ’21 and Nicholas in her bag.) Marty Bald Huyette is accompanying Susan so it should be a joyful and fun trip for all. Nancy Born Edwards reports, “My Aunt Elizabeth Born Little just died at 103. She was a member of the Friends class of 1929!

My father, Richard Born, was Class of 1931, and my grandfather also attended Friends at one point. Great history. I still enjoy a few weeks in Rehoboth Beach every summer with my two daughters and my grandkids, ages 15, 14, 13, 12. We still have the cottage my parents built when I was 16. I loved seeing Susan Stott Dugan, Barbie Goldberg Leand, Diana Kann Feldman and Susan Hooper Hogge while enjoying the winter in Vero Beach, Fla. As you can see, the beach is a big part of my life!” Hap Mortimer writes, “The Sherwood Forest community celebrated 100 years (1915-2015) over 4th of July. The Mortimer family has been here since 1917. Betsy and I moved here full time in 1973. There are now 11 grandkids and 8 adults here for the summer in three houses. We are blessed to have

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TOM BAKER ’60 (LEFT) AND JOE RAMAGE ’60 share some laughs at the Hopkins Club

during the October Alumni Weekend.

them all living near us. Two G-kids are in college, and the rest are at Friends, Catonsville Middle/HS and Notre Dame Prep. They play every sport you can think of, and we spend a lot of time on the Beltway. We enjoy good health, and we also travel to many interesting destinations. Best regards to all classmates.” Jean Morrill Owings writes, “Jim and I just returned from a trip to Richmond, Va., where we visited my daughter Karen, who is spending two years in the States after having spent 15 years in West Africa heading an organization called the Mobile Member Care Team, which equips missionaries and cross cultural workers to withstand the many stresses and traumas of life in full time ministry. It is very exciting work. My son Cody is about to retire from the Greenbelt Police force. My daughter Molly and her husband Manish are living with us.” Jean continues to work on a master’s degree in theology at St. Mary’s Seminary. As for yours truly, Carl and I are doing well and leave shortly for London and Scotland. After just watching a little of the British Open, I am packing a pair of gloves and a hat. We both love cold weather

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so this might be a nice break from Baltimore’s hot and humid summer.”

Sally Price Normile writes that she’s “still alive and kicking” in Punta Gorda, Fla. She’s a big fan of the Scottish singer Susan Boyle and attended one of her shows not long ago, where she was thrilled to have an opportunity to meet the “Britain’s Got Talent” star after her performance.

1959 Anne Carter Bowdoin abowdoin@mac.com Send us your news!

1960 Mary McElroy mem2008@comcast.net Thanks to Joe Ramage for his thorough work in helping to collect this special Reunion update! The Class of 1960’s 55th Reunion really started when one of our “lifers”— Howard Jones, III — was inducted into the Friends School Athletic Hall of Fame ANN MCALLISTER WINDSOR ’60 found a terrific photo of some of the girls in the class in 8th or 9th grade. It was taken in Ann’s back yard.

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HEATHER HEATH LANDHEIM ’60 and

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MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1960 gathered for dinner at the Hopkins Club on the

he will be visiting nursing homes and assisted care facilities, checking on conditions and meeting with residents and management. Sue Crowley Jackson lost her husband, Hugh, this summer after a long illness.

Susan DeHoff Montgomery spent a wonderful vacation in Maine this summer, dividing her time between daughter Joanna in Farmington and Susan’s family summer home on Deer Isle. Back home in Denver, Susan has begun working on the long-range planning committee for Windsor Gardens, a community of almost 3,000 condominiums, and she’s welcoming the challenge. Mary McElroy took a long-planned trip to Alaska in September. She loved it so much she hopes to return for another visit.

Her final craft show is in December, after which she plans to close her jewelry business and focus on the genealogy history of her father. Lynn Hoehn Patton lives with her partner Alan in North Carolina, where she’s an accomplished porcelain painting artist and teacher. She gives seminars both in- and out-of-state and has been invited next year to teach international students at two prominent porcelain painting schools. Alan’s children live in North Carolina, Maryland and California, so they plan visits with them throughout the year. In July, she visited California son Rob and his family, where they took a camping trip to Yosemite in the High Sierras,

campus of Johns Hopkins University as part of their Alumni Weekend festivities in October. Here, Susan DeHoff Montgomery catches up with Barbara Lindemann (left), Susan Huff Schmidt (center) and Diane Howell Mitchell (right).

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Howard was unfortunately unable to attend the Reunion but was with us in spirit, as I’m sure was his father, Howard Jones, Jr. ’27, physician and renowned in vitro fertilization pioneer, who died this summer at the age of 104. As class members began arriving in Baltimore on Friday despite the storms up and down the East Coast, about 14 of us were able to gather at the Hopkins Club that night, courtesy of Jeannie Downs Pohlhaus’ arrangements, for a sumptuous dinner and great reminiscences. Saturday’s events arranged by the School were attended by different class members, including Diane Howell Mitchell, Susan DeHoff Montgomery, Dellie Strickland James, Tom Baker, Susan Huff Schmidt, Cholly Hisle, Matt Worthington, Sandy Cochran, Eli Renn, Heather Heath Landheim, Corky Smith Hoshall and Joe. Among the on-campus activities were a post-50th Reunion classes’ breakfast and an old-style Collection — both with Head of School Matt Micciche, a tour of the School, including the new construction, and the traditional

afternoon BBQ. Another highlight for some of us on Saturday was going to visit Lynn Hoehn Patton’s gorgeous hand-painted china exhibit at the Meetinghouse. Saturday was capped off by a School reception for all Reunion classes, after which our class retreated to Kathy and Steve Levinson’s home for a gracious evening of fine food and good fellowship. One highlight of the evening was Brad Meyer again entertaining us with his guitar and singing many familiar songs that took us back a few years. At Steve’s house, Betsy Beatty Gable had a booklet she had prepared similar to our 50th featuring notes from classmates with recollections and recent events in our lives. Sunday saw a number of us gathering for breakfast at the Towson Sheraton and a finale to the weekend before departing for our homes. A total of 19 of us enjoyed one event or more, including two class members not seen for many years: Sandy Cochran, who left after ninth grade to move to the Boston area, and Barbara Lindemann, who has not been back with us since graduation

and lives in California. The Reunion is best summed up by some e-mail comments right after we left. Folks felt it wonderful to be together, to enjoy talking and seeing those from across the country, including those who braved the rain to leave sunny Florida. Sandy was a little worried he wouldn’t know anyone after 57 years but was thrilled to reconnect with a great group with whom he spent his first nine years of school, and he thanks Brad and sister Liz for bugging him to come. Barbara was especially struck by the warm welcome she received, by the sense of care we showed for each other and by the special bond those early friendships forged. Like everyone, she shared that she really missed those who were not at the Reunion; many of their names’ frequently came up during our discussion. In other Class of 1960 news, after training in September, Michael Jackley will be a senior ombudsman for Loudoun County in Virginia. As part of his responsibilities,

BETSY BEATTY GABLE ’60 and Susan Huff

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ANNE WASSERMAN LUTHER ’61 enjoyed time with her grandchildren in July.

complete with snow and gorgeous views. Jeannie Downs Pohlhaus is looking forward to becoming a grandmother again when her son Ty and daughter-in-law Tracy have twin girls in November. That brings the total to 14 grandchildren! Susan Huff Schmitt came to the originally planned Reunion in May and visited with other alums who had also come to Baltimore. Ann McAllister Windsor emailed a wonderful photo she found that was taken in her backyard and features most of the girls in the class back when we were in the ninth grade.

What a treat! We all looked so pretty and sooo young!

found time to fit full-time work into my life,” she says. She has two sons, living in Washington and Wisconsin and shared a picture of her and her Wisconsin grandchildren: “Happiness!”

Bob Seabold and his wife Nancie are enjoying their “perpetual” vacation life in The Villages, Fla. His golf game is improving. “Seems like the greatest stress is deciding which course to play!” he adds. Bob enjoys frequent visits with Bill Seabold and Gretchen Seabold Johnson ’56. We extend our sympathies to Tom Spicknall, whose wife Rosemary passed away in early August. She and Tom attended our 50th Reunion. Prayers for you, Tom.

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Linda Brecht Stevens

Eleanor Blake Fuller

lindabstevens@aol.com

eaerobic@hotmail.com

Save the Date! May 5-8, 2016 Alumni Weekend 2016 and 55th Reunion Celebration

Our class sends our classmate Georgeanna (Bee) Jones Klingensmith and her siblings, Howard Jones ’60, Lawrence Jones ’63 and step-sister Gayle Rummel Jones ’65, our deepest sympathy for the loss of their dad, Dr. Howard W. Jones ’27. He was 104 and accomplished so much in his life, including pioneering the first birth in the U.S. through in vitro fertilization.

“Bee” Jones writes that it was so nice to hear from many of her classmates as well as other Friends School friends. And, since her dad was also a Friends School alumnus, it was doubly nice to have support from Friends School. Hearing from Jens Neumann was great, as he has started to travel again and has recovered from various health problems, including cancer and two hip replacements, as well as the death of his wife, Evamarie. Their daughter Livia and youngest grandson,

Hello to the Class of ’61! Remember to put May 5-8, 2016 on your calendars for our 55th Reunion! Hoping to see many of you there. Carroll and Bert Taylor keep busy on their 19-acre rural place in Denman Island, B.C., where he says this August all the fruits ripened at once — figs, plums, peaches, blueberries. Would’ve loved to be there to help, Bert! They have hosted a writer from Newfoundland during the Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival in which they are involved. Bert wishes the class all the best and would love to hear about the interests, passions and paths that have carried each of us into our 70s. Anne Wasserman Luther is still living in Little Rock, Ark., where she’s enjoying her retirement. “I was an R.N. in ophthalmology. Now I’m not sure how I

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JENS NEUMAN ’62 and his grandson Julian in Amsterdam

Julian, came to the Netherlands from their home in Potomac, Md., where Julian is in the 7th grade, and they all spent some time on the Dutch shore and in Amsterdam. In the Neumann family, history seems to repeat itself.

Jens hopes to be able to attend our 55th Reunion at Friends. That means we all must attend as we need to see Jens! John Littleford summered at his place on Passamaquoddy Bay in St. Andrew’s, New Brunswick. In the fall, he was planning to go back on the road, spending about 300 days a year working as a management consultant for nonprofits and independent schools as well as some businesses worldwide. Terry Walker had a cute recollection about “Bee” and Howard Jones ’60. Terry, from age 3 to 6, lived in the county (as it was known back then) in an old plantation overseer’s house out Jarrettsville Pike about five miles north of Towson. He and Bee were in nursery school or kindergarten at the time and Howard was two years ahead. Howard was climbing a tree and fell out from pretty high; fortunately, the branches broke his fall.

Bee attended to her older brother “like a mother hen” according to Terry. So, of course, she would become a

doctor! So, Chris Sherman Raywood completed her 21st season at the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach last winter. She enjoys taking tours out of the mansion and working in their store.

She went to France in April, driving from Nice and Provence up through the mountains to the Atlantic coast.

She had great weather and wonderful meals. In May, she was in Baltimore for 10 days to attend brother Bill Sherman ’69’s middle daughter Jenny and her fiancée Matthew Harvill’s wedding. It was a beautiful ceremony and a fun, busy time. Chris was home all summer climbing 46 steps due to an elevator not working, and she is tired of the forced exercise but thankful for her new knees. In September, she planned to travel for a month-long visit to Italy — Viterbo, north of Rome, Florence and Bologna — and then back to the south of France and on to Paris. Carol Davidson Methven is proud of her granddaughter Kendall, a 7th-grader, who was awarded a medal from Duke University for her participation in the Duke Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP) following her high score on the high school ACT test. This recognition places her in the top

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5 percent of students nationwide. In May, Carol and her husband went to Florida for their granddaughter Lauren’s high school graduation. She is now officially feeling “old!” They are planning their annual trek to Montana and hope the government does not shut down the national parks as it did last year. John Slingluff and Paula have enjoyed having all the kids and grandkids visit at their place in the Adirondacks this summer. At one point, there were 20 of them there!

The grandkids have a blast and enjoy each other’s company “but they grow too fast,” he says. The oldest two boys, Ryan and Johnny, are 13. The youngest, Natalie, 4, discovered she really likes kayaking across the lake.

“She’s good at it, too!” says John.

Kate, 9, Taylor, 7, and Savanna, 6, are busy all day “pestering their brothers.”

Charlie, 11, is the fisherman and caught a few lake trout. Alec, 12, the “adventurer,” unfortunately broke his arm riding a mountain bike. And CJ, 8, “gets into everything,” according to John. Paula and John had also planned some lovely fall time up there, without the gang, when it is totally relaxing. He is looking forward to reading about our other classmates in the next Collection. Emily Holman remembers going to the Joneses’ home on Hawthorne Road for post-Dramatics Club play gatherings.

She writes, “I know how hard it is to lose your parents, no matter how old they are, but knowing the satisfaction of a life well lived is helpful.” She hopes Bee and her siblings will be comforted by good memories. Emily’s church has just completed their goal of raising $5,000 for an Episcopal Relief and Development Village to help provide access to clean water in a remote underserved region of the world. “We had some help from other parishes but raised 60 percent on our own,” she says. The idea all started last January after her trip to India, where she saw people pumping water in huge jars at their local wells to take to their homes. She recently completed a trip to Iceland, where the water was fresh, clear, bountiful and beautiful in huge waterfalls pouring over the lava formations. A mission trip to the Dominican Republic was in the works for October. She is still on her Companion Diocese Committee serving Ecuador and has a few months left on her second term on the Northern Ocean Habitat for Humanity

Board. Barbara Ensor Sena Brizzee and her husband Bob, having left Pilot Point, Texas last year, have settled in as “semi permanent” residents of the Pioneer RV Resort north of Phoenix.

In April, Bob bought a Polaris Outlaw ATV and Barbara bought a Kawasaki ATV. They enjoy riding the bike and ATVs in the desert and hanging out with friends. And, yes, they still have their Harley Heritage Softail! Barb is a volunteer at Horses Help, a therapeutic equine riding program for mentally and physically challenged people. She and Bob are both still retired but looking for that “perfect part-time job.” They sold their last horse in April, and Barb says she misses them so much. “Come West!” she says. Lucy and Bruce Goodwin are having an eventful 2015. Their fifth grandchild — their son’s first child, Ramzey Diamond — was born last November. (“Can you guess his parents are surfers?”) Following a conference in Berlin in October, the couple plans to visit the Normandy Coast from Caen to Dunkirk, France.

Lucy is “nearly 100 percent” retired, and Bruce is working on it. “Maybe one more year but with much less business travel,” he says. Lastly, in May, they went on a three-week trip to southern Africa that included Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. During their trip, Bruce and Lucy encountered Cecil, the lion who was tragically murdered by the Minnesota dentist and his guides. The couple was on a game drive when their guides spotted the big cat and asked for permission to go off-road for a better view. They saw Cecil emerge from some thick brush and then saw one of the pride’s females and some of the cubs. Two days later, they again encountered Cecil while he was resting from a night of hunting to feed his pride. There was still blood on his mane, and he looked majestic. “Just like an MGM lion from the movies,” says Bruce. Cecil and Jericho, another lion he had befriended, had been expelled from other prides, and each now had their own prides of six females and nine to 12 cubs.

Recounting events leading to Cecil’s slaughter, Bruce says the lion was baited off the park’s land by the hunters, who tied a dead animal to their vehicle to lure him to a scented area. The hunters then unsuccessfully used a cross bow and had to track the wounded cat for another 40 hours to

BRUCE GOODWIN ’62 and his wife Lucy at the Cape of Good Hope in Africa

finish him off with a rifle. “The principal elements here are that wild animals have a normal behavior of living and surviving each other and the elements without humans,” says Bruce. “There is apparent corruption, and those involved were most likely lacking in conscience or ethics.” He recalls how he and Lucy felt connected to the animals while there and the shock of hearing about Cecil’s murder from their guides before reports even surfaced in the international media.

Social media may have performed a valuable international service in this case. Robin and Nick Nicolls have been very busy getting their house ready to go on the market. They have decided to go back to Baltimore to be closer to family, friends and doctors.

They will miss the quiet of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, where they currently live, and are not looking forward to dealing with traffic back in Baltimore, where finding a house suitable for “old” people continues to be a challenge. All their kids and grandkids are well. They will return to the St. Pete Beach area again in January, as they and their rescue dog Daisy thoroughly enjoyed their visit last year.

Jim Hammond was fortunate this year to be able to take some Sundays this summer at Trinity Church in Upperville, Va., while their rector was away. The Episcopal Church elected a new presiding bishop this summer, the Rt. Rev. Michael Curry, currently the Bishop of North Carolina. Jim was also looking forward to a conference at the Claggett Diocesan Center in Buckeystown, Md., in September,

where the Rev. Curry, a gifted speaker, will present. I confess, Jim, I have no idea where Buckeystown, Md., is without Googling it! For John and Caroline Clifford Coe, it was a summer full of family and friends, from newborns to 93-year-olds. Visiting St. Michaels, Md., for Eastern Shore gifts to share with their grandsons; Boone, N.C., for Rocky Creek, rhododendron and the mountains; Leesburg, Va., for the Audubon Convention and the birds; and the Shenandoah Valley and Highland County, Va., for a family reunion and for pastoral quiet with friends. This summer Linda Kardash Armiger and her husband Buck finally decided that after 20-some years traveling the Chesapeake, the time was right to sell their boat, Linda Lou II. Their granddaughters, MacKenzie and Logan, each spent a week with them at specialty camps on Solomon’s Island. “Logan, 10, is the art lover and very accomplished. She devoted a week at Annmarie Garden Art Center Camp,” Linda wrote. “Mackenzie is our sport/horse lady. She spent her week at Calverton School engaged in a variety of sporting activities. We already miss them.” Linda and Buck will plan, as usual, to visit the girls in their fall school settings. As of this writing, they’re off to Ocean City or, as we used to say, “down the Ocean.”

They plan to return to Summerville, S.C., for the bulk of the winter fox-hunting season with their daughter Tara. As for me, Eleanor Blake Fuller, Cliff and I had two granddaughter graduations this spring — one high school and one college — so Carol

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JAGGER, grandson of the late Joe HARRISON AND LINDA LAMONICA MONK ’63 with Hank Kaestner ’63 at Hank’s summer

“camp” in Vermont

Davidson Methven, don’t talk to me about being old! My grandson entered first grade in Orlando, Fla., but will be home-schooled for a while as the schools there are not Friends School, for sure. I am nursing Cliff from his recent rotator cuff surgery following a fight with a fish fin that attacked him while he was fishing off our dock in Florida. The fish won for a while!

We’re still plugging away as fast as we can, which seems to be slower than in years past, at the office in Pennsylvania and are looking forward to returning to Florida. So, do we all need to step back a bit? A little maybe, but not so much that we don’t smell the roses. As I always say, please stay as healthy as you can. I will need your input in six more months! Remember, we get that free breakfast at the 55th, and Jens Neumann has promised to show up with his new hips!

BARBARA NOLTE KEARNEY ’63’s eighth

grandchild, Ava

1963 Donna Hasslinger Dhassli@aol.com

Chick Fetter Deegan deeganchicke@aol.com Last spring our classmates were able to get together twice for lunch. First in March, when Gail Moran Milne, Steve Greif, Marge Rowe Felter, Anne Skinner White, Joan Shinnick Kreeger and Donna Hasslinger had a great time at Johnny’s in the old Morgan Millard shopping center. We caught up with each other and discussed books and trips to celebrate our 70th birthdays. We also learned more about the courses for seniors offered at Roland Park Country School, Towson University, Notre Dame and Johns Hopkins. Classes on literature, history and the arts seem to be popular, although we’re sure that having no exams and no homework contribute to our interest in the classes. Since some classmates could not join us in March, we organized another lunch in May, this time at the Rams Head Inn near Columbia, Md., with Barbara Nolte Kearney, Judy Klingelhofer O’Mara, Linda LaMonica Monk, Joane Knight Schumacher, Marge and Donna. We learned that Barbara had a wonderful trip to Ireland and Anne Kaye Joyner’s mother, who is 107 and lives at Pickersgill Retirement Community in Towson, had a fall followed by some hip surgery.

Joan brought her latest painting, and Marge brought some newspaper

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Albert ’63 and Button Browne Howard ’63, at the Brooklyn Bowl in New York City

CHICK FETTER DEGAN ’63 with granddaughters Kate and Meredith at their vacation cottage in Michigan

articles about one of our classmates, the late Dana Jones, and a picture of our 10th Reunion that we scanned and emailed to the rest of our class.

Although Anne Skinner White was judging ice skating in Delaware and couldn’t make lunch, she still contributed a book recommendation for our discussion. We also talked about other venues that might work for one of our class lunches — Gertrude’s Café at the Baltimore Museum of Art, with its Levi Sculpture Garden, and also beautiful downtown Annapolis.

After joining us for lunch, Barbara emailed a picture of her latest grandchild, Ava, who is 5 months old.

Ava’s parents — Barbara’s son, Tim and his wife Katie — now have four children, including two sisters for Ava, ages 15 and 12, and a brother who is 18. Barbara’s oldest daughter Kim and her husband Dean have two children, ages 12 and 19. Her youngest daughter Cindy and her husband Brad have two children, ages 13 and 18. Barbara loves being a grandmother and is having a lot of fun with all eight of her grandchildren. In July, Linda LaMonica Monk and her husband Harrison visited Josie and Hank Kaestner at their summer “camp” on Lake Champlain in Charlotte, Vt., where, after Linda and Harrison had spent the day in the Shelburne Museum, they enjoyed dinner on the porch overlooking the water. The previous evening they dined at the wonderful Inn at Shelburne Farms. In addition to Linda, Hank and Josie in recent years have hosted five other classmates at

their home on the lake, including Biff Forbush, Lily Kok-Forbush, Lin Parker and the late Heikki Reijonen. Hank is wondering who will be visiting next. It sounds like an invitation to me! Over the summer, Chick Fetter Deegan and her husband Mike returned to Glen Arbor, Mich., for a couple of relaxing weeks of vacation on the LeeLanau Peninsula. They then spent a few days in London before leaving on a three-week cruise to France, Spain, Portugal and Italy for a little taste of retirement before returning to work.

When we caught up with Joan Shinnick Kreeger, she was in Glacier National Park near Kalispell, Mont. finishing up one of her Women Traveling Together tours that she leads. She said that the Going to the Sun Road at the park was spectacular.

She also led a tour to Waterton National Park in Alberta, Canada. Joan still loves tour directing and, although it’s a lot of work, she gets to see such magnificent places. Her next tour is for polar bear viewing in Canada; in March, she will return to Hawaii, where she’s lived for 30 years, to lead another tour. She turned 70 recently and her son, a Los Angeles-based actor and singer, along with her two stepchildren from Kansas, joined her for a long-awaited reunion to help celebrate. On a sad note, our classmate Joe Albert died of cancer in August. Joe was such a presence in the lives of so many people; he will be missed. We continue to track the progress of Joe’s and Button Browne Howard’s grandson, our young rock

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CLASS OF 1964 BFFs at graduation (from left): Suzy Katzenberg, Kathy Benesch, Sue Grathwohl Dingle, Savitri Gauthier Fambrough and Marianne Benson

1964 BFFS reunite at Savitri Gauthier’s wedding (from left): Betsy Knoche Wilhelm,

piano prodigy Jagger. He is in his school’s academic and music honor societies and had his first experience at the Brooklyn Bowl, a New York City club, as the guest of Chuck Leavell, the keyboardist and music director for the Rolling Stones, who was playing that night with Karl Denson, the Stones’ new saxophone player who is also the head of Jagger’s music school. The club appropriately inked an X on the back of Jagger’s hands to show that he’s a minor. The next day he went on an 8th-grade class trip to Washington, D.C. From a hot New York club to a field trip to the nation’s capital — that’s quite an experience!

commissioned to write a poem for the 375th anniversary of a church in Southold, N.Y., which she performed in July. In October, the poem will be performed by church members.

Susan’s calling is to “bring poetry to the community and the community to poetry.” She continues to perform and host the monthly open-mic “Poetry Street,” which she started last year in Riverhead, N.Y., to create a safe space for writers of all ages and ethnicities to share their work. Paul Newbury writes: “After five months the Mill is finally just a hole in the ground. Soon it will be filled with 100 truckloads of dirt. The Mill could never be rebuilt, so if we do anything, it will be minimal.

Perhaps we will build a music gazebo and continue outdoor concerts. We are focusing our efforts on David’s (my oldest) place in Emlenton, where

1964 Susan Grathwohl Dingle s123dingle@aol.com

Marianne Benson bensonclemons@aol.com Note to younger classes: After the 50th Reunion, things get REALLY interesting. So interesting, that the Class of 1964 now requires two class secretaries to keep up. Thank you, Marianne Benson, our new co-secretary. How ironic that the two classmates most likely to have shared Friday (and sometimes even Saturday) detention are now in charge of the class notes! Here’s some news from Marianne: The Benson Clemonses, along with a very small community of like-minded families, are bracing ourselves for the End of an Era. After more than 40 years of faithfully and

lovingly stewarding a nearly extinct way of life (think Henry David Thoreau) on the back shore of Provincetown, Mass., we are on the verge of being kicked out, as the federal government wants to take over. We consider this an act of betrayal. Naturally, we plan to resist. Doesn’t that sound Quakerlike? We’re going to try to change legislation. If anyone out there knows a lobbyist who wants to take on a worthy cause, please get in touch.

Peter and I have self-published a book about the little-known history of this community and our joys and challenges. It’s called “Traditional Dune Dwellers. A way of life on the back shore of Provincetown & Truro.”

(For information, see blurb.com.)

Doug Fambrough and Savitri Gauthier (neé Donna Ariosa) eloped on Oct. 7, 2014, with a hand-fasting ceremony in their home, followed by the Blessing of a Civil Marriage service held on June 7, 2015 at The Chapel at the Saint Paul’s School in Brooklandville, Md. (So glad it was a chapel!) They feel so blessed to have found each other and look forward to sharing many wonderful years with all their friends and family. Their celebration was a “thank you” to their community and an opportunity for all to meet the Ariosas, the Fambroughs and the Gauthiers. With them to celebrate were Suzy Katzenberg, Kathy Benesch, Marianne Benson, Sally Huff Leimbach and Betsy Knoche Wilhelm. Stay tuned for more celebrations, as Doug and Savitri continue their honeymoon.

Susan Grathwohl Dingle was

Sally Huff Leimbach, Savitri Gauthier Fambrough, Marianne Benson, Suzy Katzenberg and Kathy Benesch

we hope to build a recording studio.

My youngest, Michael, married in June. Daniel, my third, just accepted a job offer in Alaska to teach science in a very small town about as far west of Anchorage as you can go.

My daughter Saralinda is enjoying being a mom and a part-time nurse practitioner. The February Album Writing Month (FAWM) international songwriters returned for the fourth year, hanging out at David’s building and giving a concert. Note: FAWM is an annual songwriting challenge — to compose 14 original songs in the 28 days of February. Stay tuned, and let’s start writing some songs! Recently, we heard from a classmate who didn’t graduate with us but had a special place in our hearts. Ben Fromme writes: “I was a Stoneleigh Elementary School alum and came to Friends in

APPLE PRESSING at Paul Newbury’s in Emlenton, Pa.

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the fall of 1958 with fellow classmates Don Wilson and Faris Worthington.

I transferred to Poly in 1960, long, long ago, but I clearly remember many of the kids, teachers and events [at Friends]. Joe Cowan, Downie McCarty, Curt Andrews, Tommy Helfrich, Carl Zieghaus, Kathy Benesch, Carol Williamson, Suzy Katzenberg ... just to name a few. And I remember many of our great teachers: Mr. Peacock (I remember him calling Carl “Carl Taseff,” referring to a member of the Baltimore Colts), Mr. Richwagen (I think he had us carrying lacrosse sticks to class), Miss Powers (I still remember the alma mater — and the play!), Miss Dibert, our stern but wonderful English teacher, and our Latin teacher, Miss Hetrich. I remember those morning assemblies ... and the occasional skits put on by Joe Harlen. They were hilarious. Great school. I often wonder why I left. I hope you enjoy this flashback.” Thank you, Ben, and welcome home. Your class secretaries look forward to hearing from you all!

1965 This class needs a secretary.

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

Hotty Toddy gosh almighty who the heck are we? Flim flam, bim bam, the Class of ’65 by damn. • We are the class who never, ever forgets those of our group whom the Lord has taken from us. They are Laverna Bauer, Jane Royston, Julia Warner, Bessel Kok, Kenard Knust, and Lance Cpl John Yeager. • We are the only class ever who enjoyed two 50th Reunions.

“Enjoyed” is an understatement. We rollicked, hugged, hugged some more, ate, drank, drank some more and thoroughly enjoyed each other. • We are the only class who celebrated the induction of five individual classmates into the Athletic Hall of Fame. Molly Donker, Nancy Dashiells, Kenard Knust, Phil Buck and Mike Owens were honored and joined Gary Wedeking and Teela Clifford in the Hall. No class has been so blessed with so many great athletes and teammates. • Our class has been honored to participate on MSA championship lacrosse teams and to celebrate the first winning football

season since just after World War II. We sent our student athletes on to star in college athletics all over the country.

• The Class of ’65 sent more men off to the Vietnam War than any class.

Dan Merlis, Bobby Bitner, Dave Boulden, Fred Moran and John Yeager served for our freedom. Many others fulfilled their military obligation to their Country by volunteering in the National Guard and Reserves. We are so proud of these classmates. • Between the two 50th Reunions, Mary Lou Hanley had two grandchildren and George Vandora tied the knot with Laura White. It was tough to tell who was happier. We saw some of our great classmates, Kathy Hutman, Marsha Gunts, Richard Levi, Steve Cole and Charlie Gibson whom we had not seen for quite a while. The beat went on as if we had all seen each other just last week. The Class of ’65 sticks together. We had classmates from as far away as San Diego and as close as Meadowood Road at our two Reunions. The two Reunions provoked a great turnout. We are also the very first class to embrace a member of another class as one of our own, Jac Knust ’66. Check out the class picture.

• As usual, the queen of our class, Mary Dell Harlan, in concert with Kate Maskarinec, Meg Whiteford and Ashley Principe from School, made all the festivities smooth and perfect.

Mary Dell had a lot of help from Mary Lou, Holly, Gretchen, Karin and Russell. • No one left without the desire to have another get-together before the official five year hiatus ends. Now we have to make it happen. I am sure that Mary Dell will be up to the task. • Hugs to all …

1966 Nina Lasagna Patry npatry@icloud.com Save the Date! May 5-8, 2016 Alumni Weekend 2016 and 50th Reunion Celebration Send us your news!

1967 Jane Thursby mejanemd@gmail.com Mark Merlis is doing well and living in the Philadelphia area. On March 24, 2015, his newest book, “JD: A Novel”

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was published. The book, along with others by Mark, is available for purchase on Amazon.

1968 Arlene Dannenberg Bowes adbowesdmd@gmail.com After 40 years of civil trial law practice in private firms and government trial work, W. Berkeley (Buck) Mann, Jr., switched this year to pro bono cases for the Colorado Legal Services, a nonprofit legal aid organization.

His cases involve domestic violence, children at risk and poverty. Buck writes, “Despite the issues, and maybe because of them, it is good work with great colleagues.”

1969 Frank Bond, Jr. fbondini.bond@gmail.com Ron Kovach writes, “Not too much to report here, but Chad and I did some exotic traveling this past winter.

We flew to Singapore, took a cruise around Borneo and the Indonesian Islands and ended up in Bali for a week. It was a pretty cool trip, and we spent some time on the island of Komodo, visiting the Komodo dragons, a bucket list item since reading about them in the ‘Weekly Reader.’ (Is that even still published?) Nobody was eaten (only one tourist lost in the last 25 years).” From Graham Yearley:

“After two ear surgeries and the loss of hearing they brought, I am now learning the life of amplified noise with a hearing aid. I hear a lot of unnecessary things like the key sliding in my car door, but I also hear every word spoken at church or a 12 Step meeting, which is sheer joy. My father turned 100 on April 26, and it is wonderful to have him with us. I see Julia Frank’s mother almost every time I visit Roland Park Place to see my dad.” Speaking of Julia, she writes, “I have moved from GWU to a nearly full-time position at the University of Maryland, Baltimore in the adult outpatient psychiatry clinic. Although I am as green as grass there, I claim to be the longest-serving member of the staff, having started at UMB as a candy striper, back in 1967. Meanwhile, my mother is still taking classes from Gary Blauvelt at Roland Park Place.

Baltimore is a small town big city, for sure.” Chris Ramsey is on Facebook, which is where she and I usually communicate. She tells me, “Yes, Facebook is night time, zombie time for me.” For my money, one of the best zombie writers I’ve ever encountered.

It must be the training in Middle School from Ruth Dibert! Mosie Lasagna writes from Iowa, “Forgive me for failing yet again to send any news to Friends. Ah well. At least you can rely on me for that!” — translation, things are going well here. In addition, Mosie promised to meet me over a bottle of Pinot the next time she is in Baltimore.

As soon as I have a calendar date on that, I will share it and we’ll make it

FRANK BOND ’69 officiates the wedding of his son Daniel Faulkner-Bond ’05 and Daniel’s

bride Elizabeth Dacy.

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JOHN ROBERT, grandson of Anne Rowe

GILCHRIST AND JOHN HAMMOND ’70 at the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem in January

JOHN HAMMOND ’70 crosses the

Parsons ’70, celebrates July 4th.

a party! As for me, I married my son, Dan Faulkner-Bond ’05, and his new wife Elizabeth in July. More accurately, I went online, was ordained through the Universal Life Church and officiated the ceremony. The wedding took place at Lake Eden in Black Mountain, N.C. Dan and Elizabeth let me help craft the ceremony. They each wrote their own vows. It was a beautiful experience … right up to the moment I pronounced them husband and wife and told Dan he could kiss the bride. Oh, no! I was too close, I was inside the halo as they kissed! I had not anticipated this. Ha ha, next time I’ll know!

1970 Lisa Mitchell Pitts lisa.pitts.bee@gmail.com Anne Rowe Parsons let me know about her biggest update. She’s a grandparent! “John is our biggest joy!

He is 2 (going on 5!), so sweet and gifted!” When I talked to Jennifer Kauffman about our Reunion and her Reunion gift, she shared that she is planning on retiring from Kauffman Electric after being there since 2000.

She said the first thing she wants to do is “just veg out for about a month.” Volunteer work keeps her busy, including at GBMC’s Nearly New sale, where she’s served since 1990, and for the Ridgely Apartments Homeowner’s Association, where she is secretary. John Hammond wrote to let me know what he’s been up to. Since retiring from full-time employment in 2011, one of his bucket

finish line of the Richmond Marathon in November 2014.

list items was to get back in shape, so he undertook a concerted effort to power walk. The miles of trudging up and down hills in Roland Park and Mount Washington paid off in November when he completed a 26.2-mile marathon in Richmond, Va. He added that it was a bit of a nostalgia trip since the route took him past the University of Richmond and other landmarks that still remain from his college days. In January, he and Gilchrist traveled to Israel on a church-sponsored pilgrimage. “The troubles that plagued the region in the summer of 2014 occurred right after we placed our trip deposit — and we did wonder whether it was the right time to go,” he said. “Though there rarely is a ‘right’ time, for us, it turned out to be a wonderfully serene trip. It was full of incredible views, whether it was the sun rising on the Sea of Galilee or spotlighting the Dead Sea through clouds and fog or highlighting ancient Dead Sea sediment as viewed from the peak at Masada.” A loud explosion while touring the Roman ruins at Beit She’an did give them a scare. “Thankfully, the local tour guide immediately identified the noise as a jet breaking the sound barrier — our heartbeats eventually returned to normal,” he said. Bruce Parkhurst sent me this news from her “little corner of paradise:” “Sixty-something woman seeks new definition of ‘retirement.’ Whenever I speak the word, I make little air-quotes with my fingers because I certainly don’t feel that I am living a life of quiet reflection and inactivity! I thought I had retired four years ago, but, as it turns out,

what I really did was trade my highered job for a handful of jobs that drive my passion. Sometimes I work for money (tax preparation for Liberty Tax, small-scale farming and agriculturalbased crafts), but mostly I have given up trying to keep a low profile in the small community in which I live.

My favorite involvement is with the Pennsylvania Firefly Festival, which is an annual celebration of the many species (15-plus) of fireflies in the Allegheny National Forest. Part local music festival and part entomological education, the festival attracts all kinds of people. This year we had a film crew from the BBC, plus Sir David Attenborough, doing a documentary about bioluminescence. Although it rained during this year’s festival, we had a good turnout, including the new forest supervisor who came to

Pennsylvania from California and had never seen fireflies. I successfully applied for 501(c)(3) status for our organization and also helped write a winning Huplits Wildlife Grant, which will bring two years of educational outreach funding from the local Sierra Club chapter. Kathy Cox is enjoying retirement spending her time as a “behavior watcher” with the giant pandas at the National Zoo and as a tree steward, working with the National Park Service nursery. She was kind enough to put together this write-up after our October Reunion: “The first Reunion event was the Athletic Hall of Fame Induction & Celebration on Thursday evening.

Though Elizabeth Grill Pietrini was unable to be there to accept her

1970 BUDDIES (from left) John Hammond, Kathy Cox, Lucy Crosby Price ’71, Tom Price,

Berta Scott-Macaw, Carl Robbins, Bruce Parkhurst, Sue Patz and Brenda Bodian

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THE THREE AMIGOS – all from the Class of

’70: Mark Westervelt, Harry Boswell and Ramsey Crosby

award, Carl Robbins, John Hammond and I were there to cheer her on!

In spite of a cold drizzle, members of the Class of 1970 gathered at the lovely townhome of Susan and Harry Boswell after the on-campus reception. Harry and Susan have moved from quiet Roland Park to the hustle and bustle of Federal Hill. Their roof-top deck has a panoramic view of downtown Baltimore, including the amazing neon Domino Sugar sign. We know it will make for a fun July 4 gathering! Berta Scott-Macaw traveled from her new home in Asheville, N.C., where she and Wally enjoy the sense of community the town provides, not to mention milder and shorter winters. Berta recently came out of retirement to work with a home-care agency, where she works part time doing scheduling, intakes and some supervision of non-nursing caregivers. Quite a shift from being a labor-and-delivery nurse! John Hammond and Bruce Parkhurst (who once again won the Scott Campaneschi ’69 trivia contest) brought everyone up to date as well (see what they sent to Lisa, above).

Tom Price and Lucy Crosby Price ’71 continue to enjoy their lives in Annapolis, Md., where Tom reports that he has no plans to retire from the Naval Academy; he’s having way too much fun! Mark Westervelt is still the assistant head of school at Jemicy, a school for students with dyslexia and other language-based learning difficulties. He has no plans to retire, either! Ramsey Crosby

is still working at Fan Cans, which specializes in sports-branded litter and recycling containers. Brenda Bodian is in Baltimore about seven months a year, where she volunteers for projects in the community and her favorite business organization, Commercial Real Estate Women.

Though she threatens to retire from brokerage, she still gets a kick out of helping small companies, nonprofit organizations and medical practices lease or purchase offices. The rest of the year, she and her husband use their apartment in Milan as a base to welcome friends from the U.S. (hint), see Italian family and friends and work on completing two residential projects on the Ligurian Sea (“still underway, but much closer to completion now!”).

Carl Robbins proudly displayed his new wedding band, having retired his 63-plus years of bachelorhood this past June. And in case anyone was wondering — yes, Sue Patz can still fit comfortably into her red Varsity blazer (and was the clear star of the evening sporting it)! Mimi Wang Jabs was able to join us for the cocktail reception on campus before hurrying home to celebrate husband Doug’s birthday.

A couple of classmates had planned to attend but weren’t able to make it at the last moment: Harry Connolly had a last-minute photo shoot scheduled in Boston and, because of the weather forecast, Debbie Green Shortridge was unable to fly in from Illinois. Waxing philosophical, Carl commented that, as time puts more distance between us and our high school angst and ambitions, our sense of connection, affection and affiliation seems to deepen with every five-year reunion. With cheers to all classmates, especially those who could not attend, I look forward to meeting with a larger collection of friends at the Big 50th Reunion coming up in 2020!

1971 Lucy Crosby Price hardimanprice@gmail.com Save the Date! May 5-8, 2016 Alumni Weekend 2016 and 45th Reunion Celebration Send us your news!

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CHRIS SIEBENS ’72

TED NEUSTADT ’72

1972 Beth Peacock Holcomb bethholcomb54@gmail.com Biff Cox married Robyn Eubanks on Aug. 1, 2015. He recently bought a new home in Bel Air, Md., where they now live. Biff’s daughter had a baby girl on Sept. 24; now Biff, the newlywed, has three grandkids.

Richard (Dicky) Riley continues sharing his musical talents with others as an active conductor in Burlington and in Montpelier, Vt., where he has lived for the past three years. David Chang has now twice accompanied Sen. (and fellow ophthalmologist) Rand Paul on humanitarian trips to Guatemala and Haiti to operate on patients blind from cataracts. David is the past president of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons and is now co-chair of the ASCRS Foundation. Judy Strouse happily reports that she has been cancer-free this year for the first time in 10 years. She is still working in the addiction field and writing a book MAGGIE YOUNG ’72

about her life and addiction. Teddy Neustadt has no movie roles to report, but he did a commercial last year.

To see it, go to hancocknext.com and click on “show more” and then “Meeting.” Review all three alternative endings about the plight of the aging businessman ... and cry. He’s looking great as always. Maggy Young is still working in speech and language at the middle school in Enosburg Falls, Vt. Outside of work, she continues her passion for photography. Check out her work at maggy-young.weebly.com.

Andrew McBee is enjoying a new baby granddaughter born in July, so he too now has three grandkids! He retired from teaching at the end of last school year. While learning to live with the challenges of ALS, Andrew is still venturing out into the world. This fall, he traveled to France on a hiking trip with his wife in the Languedoc/ Roussillon region. He would love to hear from everyone. You can email him

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MARGE FORBUSH ’72

DEBBIE BROWN ’76 with her iguana friends in the Galapagos

at andrewmcbee@verizon.net. My husband Bryan and I are still loving life on the Gulf of Mexico in Venice, Fla., but we also enjoy summer vacations in Maine, where my parents, Joan and Dan, still thriving at age 84, live year-round. On a recent trip to San Francisco, we went to a Giants game with my husband’s boss and co-worker who were caught on camera in the stands totally flubbing a chance to catch a foul fly ball. Through my mighty connections with fellow classmate Gregg Mace, I was able to obtain a video copy of it through Gregg’s ABC Sports affiliate in Harrisburg, Pa. Thanks again, Gregg!

family in Small Point on Casco Bay, Maine, sailing and “getting rejuvenated from the sweet Maine air.” During a week in August, Margo Halle had fun vacationing in the Adirondacks with siblings, cousins, spouses and kids. Margo surpassed her fundraising goal and raised $39,000 for the Alzheimer’s Association in memory of her aunt, Ellen Halle, and Jan Goldsmith Braun ’73’s mother, Sally Goldsmith.

Don Hubbard reports that he lives in Fanwood, N.J., and has been working for the last three years in the operations area of a hedge fund/asset manager called Halcyon Asset Management in New York City. He has a son working in NYC, a son who recently graduated from East Stroudsburg State and a daughter in 11th grade. Don’s wife Rose teaches English in the Elizabeth (N.J.) Public Schools. On a final note, even though Jack Robbins was recently quoted as saying, “The beloved class of ’73 likes to stay below the radar,” please continue to send me your news so that we can stay in touch!

1973 Sarah Schulz O’Loughlin somohopo@comcast.net Our classmates have been turning 60 this year with varying degrees of acceptance and disbelief. Welcome to your seventh decade, Class of ’73!

Marty Peacock McLaughlin is tutoring at the Waldorf School in Baltimore and shared that she feels fortunate to have been able to spend a lot of time this summer with her

1976

John Humphries jehriver@aol.com Save the Date! May 5-8, 2016 Alumni Weekend 2016 and 40th Reunion Celebration Debbie Brown and her family visited the Galapagos Islands in April with Grandpa Brown. As curator of International Space Program and Spacesuits, Cathleen Lewis participated in the Smithsonian Institution’s first-ever Kickstarter fundraising campaign. The project, which ran from July 20 to Aug. 19, 2015, will help fund the preservation, digitization and exhibition of Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 spacesuit. As a culmination of the four-year project, the spacesuit will go on display in July 2019, the 50th anniversary of Armstrong’s historic first step on the moon. Bet you remember where you were on that day — July 20, 1969, at

CLASS OF ’76’s JEAN BARNETT ALEXANDER (left) and Debbie Brown

still laughing after all these years

10:56 p.m. EDT! Steve Stuart is pleased to share that his son Jeff is engaged to be married to his high school sweetheart, Rachel Leitner.

Family and friends gathered in New York in July for a celebration brunch and happy hour. Needless to say, Steve and Andrea are thrilled, and Jeff’s twin brother, Tim, will serve as best man for the nuptials, which are planned for fall 2016. Jon Patz won a Fulbright Scholar award and took a sabbatical this year, spending half of his time in Switzerland and the other half in Ethiopia. He was also awarded an endowed chair in Health and the Environment at the University of Wisconsin. In June, Lawrence Biemiller marked 35 years as a writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education, where he’s had the opportunity to write about almost every topic that could conceivably interest college administrators and professors. He’s

JON PATZ ’76 paddles a kayak made from papyrus in Lake Tanya, Ethiopia, the

headwaters of the Blue Nile River.

1974 Sally Slingluff

1972 CLASSMATES Mike Salter,

John Wood and Rufus Manning

sallykslingluff123@gmail.com Send us your news!

1975 This class needs a secretary.

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

Send us your news!

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1978 Doug Stevenson dougstevenson@hotmail.com

LAWRENCE BIEMILLER ’76, pullman

car chef

BART WALTER ’76 at work on “Battle of Wills,” which will be installed at the Jackson Hole

Airport in spring 2016

especially enjoyed doing stories about people, architecture, the arts, food, and history. Lawrence also volunteers for two railroad preservation groups.

One is dedicated to saving the East Broad Top Railroad, a central Pennsylvania short line that carried coal 33 miles from a complex of mines to an interchange with the Pennsylvania Railroad. The line is overgrown but was never formally abandoned, and six steam engines are still in the roundhouse. (“The whole property is for sale, so if you know someone with extra millions who’d like to own a great little tourist railroad, please get in touch,” he says.) The other group operates a 1923 Pullman car, the “Dover Harbor,” on public trips and private charters out of Washington, D.C., where he lives. The car has six double bedrooms, a small kitchen and a 24-seat lounge. This summer, he worked as chef or steward on a variety of runs, including a 10-day Vermont excursion that was a blast — especially the night he “fried crab cakes for 16 at 79 miles an hour while northbound alongside the Hudson River.” Rachel Talalay ’75 is one of eight directors from across Canada recently selected to attend the 20th

annual session of Whistler Film Festival’s “Women in the Director’s Chair,” which will afford her the opportunity to develop a project with an ensemble of hand-picked professional actors, technicians and other industry experts. She is presently in Cardiff, Wales, directing the series 9 two-part finale of “Doctor Who.” Her episodes from last year were made into 3-D and shown in cinemas nationwide on Sept. 15 and 16, 2015.

Also, the music from the series was turned into a symphonic spectacular touring show. Jean Alexander Barnett reports that the last thing she was planning on was another vacation this year. After spending a week in March playing tennis in Palm Desert, Calif., a week in April relaxing in Maui and an upcoming destination wedding in Cabo, traveling another 3,000 miles in July seemed out of the question, but it happened anyway: She spent a week visiting friends in Columbia, Md., and was able to hook up with good buddy Debbie Brown for lunch. Not nearly enough time to catch up, but as usual, they had a blast. Now they’re planning to reunite once again for our 40th Reunion in May 2016.

Stewart Lyons has been working as

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a public defender for 30 years now.

Pretty much all of his free time goes into playing bass in a classic rock, R&B and jam band, The Hounds (thehounds.band). He and his wife Debbie traveled to northern Spain, in Basque country, for a vacation in June. In December 2014, he traveled to Buenos Aires and Antarctica by virtue of the fact that his brother was an officer on the ship, and Stewart stayed in his cabin. As for your class secretary: After a 17-year absence I’ve moved back to Charlottesville, Va. Please let me know if you’re visiting the area. Lastly, Steve Stuart thought our class could close our notes with the following: “The Class of ’76 would like to extend its warmest thanks to Randy Cooper, who retired from the Middle School faculty this past year.

We were the first class to graduate from the newly revamped Middle School at the very beginning of Randy’s tenure at Friends. His outstanding work in the classroom, as an after- school athletic coach and, most importantly, as a great friend and mentor to our class is deeply appreciated. We wish him the very best in his post-Friends School life.”

1977 This class needs a secretary.

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

Send us your news!

Hi, all! Not long ago Friends shared a Storyfarm-produced video, “Forever,” that features a number of younger and older alumni talking about Friends School’s influence on their later lives.

Among the old folks (yeah, sad to say, that’s us), Norman Forbush and Jay Bond’s brother, Frank Bond ’69, talked about what participation in athletics at Friends has meant for them. Perhaps you received an email including the video? If not, it can be found on the Friends School website (under “About”), and I’ve also posted it to our class Facebook page. The video runs just under five minutes and is well worth checking out. The perspectives presented prompted me to think about my time at Friends and of the similarities to and differences from the alumni featured in the video.

That had me musing for a while, reminded that as much as we may have in common, each of us took a singular path through the institution as we still do in our lives. Kathy Shulman was similarly spurred and shared her thoughts on the class Facebook page: “So the video really pulled at my heartstrings and took me back to my time at Friends. Friends School did several things for me that shaped who I am today. First, neither of my parents was active in a church or synagogue.

Having grown up in more fundamental faiths, each of them was actively moving away from organized religion.

As a result, my sister and I did not have a spiritual home or any education in that area. Friends School Quaker meetings (despite the fact that I giggled and was distracted through many of them) and the values of the School were fundamental to having me develop a spiritual life … Ours was one of the first Jewish families in Roland Park. (This was ironic as we weren’t really ‘Jewish,’ either!) As a result, our family was sometimes not welcomed into the larger community.

For example, we couldn’t go to the neighborhood pool. I felt culturally like a fish out of water .... Friends gave me a place where being different was almost normal. A pivotal moment for me was when our class visited the City Jail. I was shocked at how 99 percent of the inmates were African-American and by the shabby and crowded conditions and was struck by the lack

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NATALIE STANDIFORD ’79 and Eric Weiner on their wedding day in February 2015

of nutritious food. I am convinced that my career as a social justice activist was birthed by Quaker values and by experiences like the tour of the jail.

The older I get, the more I value my time at Friends … I also like that we all continue to develop together as a group. A lunchtime conversation after Darryl Logan’s funeral sparked some issues about how race affected our class. So we had a planned conversation about the issue a few months later that was rich and also somewhat painful. That would not happen in every school community.

Doug, thanks for egging me on to think and write about this. Greetings to everyone!” Stop by the Facebook page and share your insights. Or just lurk and spy on the rest of us, your call. Next Collection we’ll return to the back row of the classroom with a whole bunch of goofy pictures.

Because you’re going to send them in, right? Right?

THE “TWO SHAWNS”: Shawn Dorman McKenzie ’83 (left) and husband Shawn McKenzie with classmates Liddy Williams Garcia-Bunuel ’83 and Martin Garcia-Bunuel ’83 in Santa Fe, N.M., in June 2015.

1980 This class needs a secretary.

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

Send us your news!

1981 Dahira Lievano Binford BaltimoreBinfordBunch@verizon.net Save the Date! May 5-8, 2016 Alumni Weekend 2016 and 35th Reunion Celebration: Send us your news!

1979 Anne Burton Hockett annehockett@me.com Congratulations to Natalie Standiford, who married Eric Weiner on Feb. 18, 2015! Natalie shared, “We eloped so almost no one was there! But on June 13 we had a celebration party with family and friends, including my classmates Beth Zadek and Jenny Freeman, my siblings Kakie Standford ’81, John Standiford ’83 and Jim Standiford ’89, my cousins Kathleen Cusack Lyon ’97 and Lizzie Cusack ’01 and my niece and nephew, current students Natalie Barber ’22 and Sam Barber ’17.”

1982 Joyce Jennings joycejen@berkeley.edu Send us your news!

1983 Shawn Dorman dorman.shawn@gmail.com Happy 50th birthday to the members of the Class of 1983! This seemed a good time to check in with classmates and see how everyone is doing with this milestone. Sue Bradford Schindler says, “My husband surprised me with a party of about 50 people. My husband is great, and he just turned 45 — yes I’m a cradle robber! I am teaching and performing theater in the area and just got back from a multigenerational family trip to

Ireland.” Sue’s son Jake Schindler ’17 is a junior at Friends, and her daughter is a freshman at St. Paul’s. Pamela Serfling Stack was planning to celebrate 50 at Disneyland Paris. She writes, “Turning 40 was a huge wake-up call for me, and I proceeded to turn my life upside down: had a baby, changed jobs, changed church, lost weight, stopped taking ‘no’ for an answer. As I approach 50 next week, I am much more comfortable in my own skin. I intend to celebrate it with Mickey Mouse in Paris. Although I’m not following a very ‘Friends’ path, the values and life view instilled in me during my time there continues to resonate throughout my life. I’ve now moved just outside of London so I’m even farther off the beaten path, but if anyone is in my neck of the woods, look me up.” Over the summer, Christian Hillabrant and his family moved to the U.K. for a new job. He spent the summer touring Europe and having a great time. He also reconnected with Louis Hanover who is commuting between Paris and London weekly. Louis let us know that he reconnected with Dennis Nagel in Paris the week of July 4th and that they had a “lovely weekend,” adding, “Dennis had two daughters and an exchange student traveling along.”

Louis says his kids are off to college, so he’s an empty-nester. Drew Feng of Hawaii writes to say that he’ll be closer to the Baltimore area now that his son is attending the Peabody Conservatory. He hopes this means he can make it to one of the next Class Reunions. Victor McKusick tells

us he is still living in central New York State. He writes, “Lori and I celebrated our ninth wedding anniversary in 2015.

In 2014, I left my church of 15 years and have since been doing a lot of supply (substitute) preaching. In the last year, I’ve been taking classes at Herkimer College toward a degree in travel and events management, and in June, I got a job at The Otesaga Resort in Cooperstown, N.Y. In July, I had a blast at the Hall of Fame Induction Weekend, as the hotel hosted Hall of Famers and award recipients. In August, I met friends of Abe Hollander’s checking into the hotel. This was a great chance to touch base with Abe. Maggie Hug and I keep in touch mostly by ‘doing lunch’ in D.C. sometimes. She’s great.”

As for your class secretary, in June, Liddy Williams Garcia-Bunuel, Martin Garcia-Bunuel, my husband Shawn and I took a wonderful trip to Colorado for the Telluride Bluegrass Festival to celebrate turning 50. Here’s to embracing 50, being empowered by it, free to enjoy saying, “I’m too old for this,” to let go of things that get in the way and focus on what matters.

Happy Birthday, friends.

1984 Staige Davis Hodges sdhpdx@gmail.com

Robert Spencer-Strong robertstrong@hotmail.com Send us your news!

1985

Sharon Buckson Stewart ladystewart1234@hotmail.com A small (but mighty!) group of 1985ers were able to travel to Alumni Weekend in October. On Thursday, Oct. 1, members of the class gathered at Friends for the Athletic Hall of Fame Induction & Celebration to cheer on Jonathan Pittman (unfortunately unable to be there) and Kenny Wilson, as they were officially inducted. Robb Merritt, Tom Whiteford, Kenny Wilson, Michael Cohen, Matt Johnson, Nate Johnson, Remy Johnston (posthumously), Richard Platt, Michael Rohd and Mark Saudek were also inducted as members of the 1984 Boys Soccer Team. Congrats to everyone! On

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1988 Angelo Valle gelovalle@gmail.com

KEN RIES ’87 and his wife Pam

Saturday evening at the Reception for Reunion Classes, Head of School Matt Micciche presented Kate Windsor with the 2015 Distinguished Alumni Award, and Jon Garman ’75 presented Tom Whiteford with the 2015 Alumni Service Award. Three cheers for Tom and Kate!

KEN RIES ’87 with his daughters Amanda

and Emma

1986 Roger Hughes reosavvy@yahoo.com Save the Date! May 5-8, 2016 Alumni Weekend 2016 and 30th Reunion Celebration Send us your news!

1987 Shelley Coates Stein Shelley.stein@gmail.com Amy D’Aiutolo Mortimer writes, “Our oldest, Anna Mortimer ’13 is enjoying her junior year at Fordham University, where she’s an international studies major with a minor in French and economics. We are looking forward to visiting her this spring in London, where she will be studying abroad.

Our other two, Will Mortimer ’17 and Mary Charlotte Mortimer ’20, will be joining us and are excited about a trip abroad!” Ken Ries says, “Hello to the Class of ’87 from hot and humid Florence, S.C.” He and his wife Pam celebrated their 20th anniversary in June on Maui. He says it was their first time in Hawaii, and they now feel like they can scratch it off their bucket list.

This fall, their older daughter Amanda entered her freshman year at Clemson University “90 percent nervous, 10 percent excited and 100 percent in store for some big changes.” Their younger daughter Emma is a junior in high school and will now have the “joy” of both of her parents’ undivided

attention. Ken predicts college will not get here soon enough for her. As for yours truly, I’m excited to be serving as Alumni Association Board representative to the Friends School Board of Trustees and to reconnect with other Friends alumni. This spring, I attended Jazz Fest in New Orleans for the first time, and I’m hooked for life. I also recently enjoyed a trip to San Francisco. I keep in touch with Amy Chen ’85, Dave Brown ’88 and classmates Benton Hall, Mindy Krause Athas, Martin Ruof ’84 and Monica Wilson. I’ve also seen Matt Azrael out and about here in Baltimore.

Since the last update, Laura Spivak Ryan’s daughter Sophie competed in her first figure skating competition and took second place. I’m not sure if Tonya Harding started off that way, but let’s hope for better results from Sophie. Those of you hoping for more appearances on Charles Street by former Upper School co-president Dan Moylan will be happy to know that his two sons Josh and Noah Moylan started at Friends this fall, respectively, in the 9th grade and the 6th grade. However, your chances of seeing Ian Mendelsohn there have not improved. Ian met his wife Susan when they were both living and working in Las Vegas, and they now live in Atlanta, Ga., with their two children: son Hayden, 6, and daughter Ariella, 3½. “We own a wine bar called Vine and Tap, named as ‘one of the Top 21 Wine Bars in the U.S.’

by Thrillist.” Congratulations and continued success to the Mendelsohns! If any of you find yourselves in Atlanta, make sure to let Ian know. Elsewhere, our original Class Secretary, Christianne Myers, is still living in Ann Arbor, Mich., with her husband Dave and daughter Rowan, 8.

“In addition to my academic and professional work as a costume designer and educator, I’ve discovered a passion for puppetry. It’s refreshing

DAVE BROWN ’88 and his family at Bethany Beach in August 2015

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to be able to stretch my artistic muscles in a different direction while maintaining my passion for the performing arts.” Receiving Christianne’s update reminded me of the puppet show that our class had put on back in Lower School. I was thankful that, with my memory becoming foggier, she quickly cleared up some of the details: “5th grade papier-mâché over a balloon.” Back in Maryland, Karen Monoker Ferguson still loves living on the Eastern Shore.

“I’m designing Living Walls and Living Roofs in Baltimore and D.C., which is fun. My oldest son started high school this fall, yikes!” Indeed, time marches on! Our final update came from Dave Brown after he and Brad Dwin vacationed together with their families for the seventh straight summer at Bethany Beach, Del. After more than two decades of working for nonprofits serving children and families, Dave has established his own 501(c)(3), Echo Resource Development. “Echo’s purpose is to empower communities to become safe, healthy and self-sustaining through multi-systems resource coordination and nonprofit business development.” To learn more, get involved with the board, connect your business or contribute financially or in other ways, contact Dave at DaveBrown@echoresource development.org. Bravo and best of luck to Dave, who likes to give credit where credit is due: “I certainly couldn’t take this leap of faith without the support of my wife Carmen, two little girls Taylor and Morgan and my mother Dr. L.P. Brown.” Keep up the good work!

LAURA SPIVAK RYAN ’88’s daughter

Sophie at her kindergarten graduation

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1989 Meghan Stern Cochran meghan@stern.net Send us your news!

1990

Jahan Sagafi jahan@post.harvard.edu Send us your news!

1991 Jeff Dinger jeff.dinger@gmail.com Save the Date! May 5-8, 2016 Alumni Weekend 2016 and 25th Reunion Celebration Send us your news!

1992 David Knowles knowlesdavid@gmail.com I heard from four classmates this time around, and their news reflects the wonderful diversity of interests and personalities that makes the Class of 1992 such a great group. John Baltazar has lived in New York City for the past 17 years and works across the river in Jersey as a radiologist. He comes home several times a year to visit his parents, who still live in the same house in Timonium (the site of a memorable party or two back in the day). He’s a big Ravens fan and attends at least one game per season.

Jean Chen lives in Alameda, Calif. She quit her job as a tattoo artist two years ago to start Bubble Farm Soap Co. Jean and her husband have 12 beehives and make bath products using local beeswax. She opened up a retail store recently, so if anyone is ever in the Bay Area she’d love to have a visitor. You can buy honey, soap and all kinds of bee-related goods. Ann Goldman Giroux is a proud Guilford resident who is in a continuous process of renovating her home. She and her husband David in 2005 purchased the house that used to belong to “the Bird Man of Guilford,” near Sherwood Gardens. She has been working on an illustrated catalog of original parks and structures in The Roland Park Company District for several years. She also recently completed, Guilford, a written and

MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF ’95 gathered at the home of Jane Latshaw Lancaster.

pictorial history of the neighborhood.

The book, published by Arcadia Publishing, features photographs of many of the original Guilford mansions — some of the photos taken 80 to 100 years ago, just as the mansions were completed. Ann and David have been married for 16 years and have two girls at Bryn Mawr School. Their eldest entered middle school in the fall. She sometimes runs into Elizabeth Gohn Dye ’93, who also has a daughter at Bryn Mawr, as well as Rebecca Rossello, who has two children at Friends, and Mark Counselman.

Masha Lowenstein (formerly Sarah Morganstein) and I met up in August at Le Garage in Baltimore’s Hampden community. She and her husband Rob, an emergency room physician, and their three daughters, ages 5, 7, and 10, live in Boston. She recently was appointed director of innovation at an exciting startup company called Groupmuse, an online social network that connects young classical musicians to local audiences through concert house parties. Our 25-year Reunion is about a year and a half away. I’m hoping that we can get a big turnout, so please keep May 2017 in mind as it approaches.

1993

1994

1996

Rich Santos

Andy Dale

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1995 Trevor Soponis tsoponis@gmail.com

Taylor Smith taylor.c.smith@gmail.com Several members of the Class of 1995 got together in May for a special class gathering. Though official Alumni Weekend events were postponed until October, Jane Latshaw Lancaster was gracious enough to still open her home and hosted a wonderful gathering for classmates. The class showing in October was smaller; Jane, Mike Fine and Whitney Manger Fine (with little Riley in tow), Katherine Peck and Brian Wohlmuth all made it to Friends School. However, it was a meaningful weekend for the class, especially those who were able to attend Sunday’s Hiram Holton II Scholarship Brunch. Hiram’s cousin Tiera York Jones spoke, as did Mike Fine. This was a very special time to remember Hiram and to connect with others who loved him and miss him.

Dan Muñoz and Andy Dale’s father Jim Dale recently published a nonfiction book with Penguin Random House called “Alpha Docs: The Making of a Cardiologist.” In it, Dan recounts his time spent in the competitive Cardiovascular Disease Training Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University and his journey into the high-stakes field of cardiology.

Congratulations, Dan and Jim! (Editor’s note: See page 21 for an excerpt of the book.)

“ALPHA DOCS” by Dan Muñoz ’96 and

Jim Dale

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JUSTINE ALGER FORRESTER ’98 and her

ALEC HEUISLER ’99, Janine D’Adamo ’98 and baby son Niko (10 days old)

CAKI ZAMOISKI ’02 and Katie MacLean ’02 in New York

son Silas holding the Apgar Award

1997

1999

Claire Cherlin Kosloff

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star Emily Heinlein. Katrina Rouse, Rachel Zamoiski and Peter and Liz Yeager Guarnieri made the trip from the Washington D.C./Northern Virginia area. John Lovejoy came down from New York, as did James Yolles, who was recently recognized as one of the 40 most important New Yorkers under 40 years old for his work as an NYC metro communications guru at Risa Haller Communications. Billy Flook and Greg Lauer supported the Class of 2000, and Josh Magarick came by after rooting on the O’s at Camden Yards. Always a treat to see Galen Haggerty and Joe Fleury, although everyone was a little disappointed that Joe’s son Tripp didn’t come along.

In fact, the party at Rocket to Venus was so good that Baltimore legend John Waters made an appearance (although he was not spotted talking to any Quakers — his loss). Other class members were missed, but off doing big things. Billy Nobel spent the 2015 summer crossing the country as a member of Tim McGraw and Faith Hill’s band on their “Shotgun Rider” tour. Not only is Billy a world-class musician, but he’s also very buff thanks to Tim; he reports that band members do CrossFit together in the afternoons while on tour. When not performing, he calls Nashville home. Zach Wilcock wrote in with some great news: “I’m still living in Houston and recently got engaged to the wonderful Lindsay Parker. We are getting married in July 2016, and wedding planning is well underway. Additionally, I have joined a startup organic cosmetic company as its CFO and head of operations.

The company is called Au Naturale

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1998 Justine Alger Forrester jalger1@yahoo.com Congratulations to Janine D’Adamo and Alec Heuisler ’99, who welcomed their son into the world on Aug. 30, 2015. Baby Niko decided to arrive five weeks earlier than his due date, but everyone is happy and healthy.

Maggie Beetz and her husband Jesse Whyte are still enjoying living in Hampden. Maggie just celebrated two years working at Center Stage.

She writes, “The theater is undergoing some pretty major changes next year, so it’s a busy and exciting time.

I encourage everyone in town to come by and check out a show (and to definitely get in touch with me if you do!).” In June, Justine Alger Forrester received “the Apgar Award for Excellence in Instruction” at Calvert School, where she’s currently in her fourth year of teaching eighth age (second grade). The award is given annually to a faculty member who “has demonstrated the ability to motivate students’ interest, curiosity and love of learning and the willingness to propose and apply new teaching concepts of methods that expand students’ horizons and potential.”

2000 Sammy Williamson slwillia@gmail.com Hi, all. It was wonderful to see everyone who attended the 15th Reunion in October. Those who couldn’t make it will be glad to know that the Class of 2000 had one of the best showings there. Ana Muñoz was in town, fresh off her nuptials to the whip-smart and kindhearted Justin Steil. Craig Hollander and his wife Jeni made the trip from New Jersey, where they have recently relocated, as Craig’s been hired as a professor in the history department at the College of New Jersey. Andrew Kelly is also making waves in academics these days as a Patrick Henry fellow at Johns Hopkins. When not busy teaching the young minds of today and studying the evolution of Medicare, he has been battling it out on the tennis courts of Druid Hill Park with me. Chrissy Schoppert Devereux is similarly gracing Baltimore with her presence this year, as her husband Andrew completes a fellowship on our coast, on loan from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

Local lawyers Sima Fried and Kelly Swanston were in attendance, as was Baltimore City Health Department

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cosmetics and is based out of Green Bay, Wis., so despite changing industries, I still spend plenty of time on planes and in airports.” Congrats to Lindsay and Zach! Lisa Logan Rawlinson writes, “My son, Logan Douglas Rawlinson, was born on Feb. 20, 2015 in Johns Creek, Ga. He joins big sisters Riley and Olivia, both 4. My husband Bob and I are over-the-moon with our newest addition!” Tiffani Sterrette Collins, who presently serves as the board vice president of B.E.S.T. (Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust), was recently named one of the Daily Record’s 2015 Leading Women. Congratulations, Tiffani! Until next time ...

2001 Carrie Runde Paddock carrie.runde@gmail.com Save the Date! May 5-8, 2016 Alumni Weekend 2016 and 15th Reunion Celebration Send us your news!

2002 Camille Powe Camille.powe@gmail.com

Christopher Wright cswright@gmail.com Carolyn Richardson and Julian Kennedy ’01 welcomed their daughter, Josephine Vance Kennedy, born on June 4, 2015. Caitlin Bouxsein is active in the Baltimore theater arts community and worked on several

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of Becca Fogel Erwin ’02 and Carter Erwin ’03

AUDEN AND DEEGAN ERWIN, sons

JOSEPHINE VANCE KENNEDY, daughter of Carolyn Richardson ’02 and Julian Kennedy ’01

exciting projects this year, including an experimental adaptation of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” and an immersive piece called “The Mesmeric Revelations! of Edgar Allan Poe.” She recently became engaged and is looking forward to getting married in 2016. Meg Baldwin graduated from UVA with a master of landscape architecture degree. She is joining her partner Austin in Providence, R.I., where she will begin her career. Dan Grayson spent the last year traveling the world and experiencing such adventures as a Hindu wedding in Sri Lanka, a Japanese hot springs temple in the mountains outside Tokyo, taking

shelter from a freak snowstorm in a cave city in Georgia (the country) and a street celebration of the New Year in Iraq. He now lives in New Orleans and has invited us all to Mardi Gras! Kaitlin Toner Raimi and her husband Daniel moved to Ann Arbor, Mich., where she is starting a new job as an assistant professor of public policy at the University of Michigan. Brian Doctrow took a new job as a science writer for the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. He’s living in Silver Spring, Md., with his fiancée Amber; their wedding date is set for next summer. Katie MacLean this spring received her doctorate in clinical

FRIENDS FROM THE CLASS OF 2002 Maggie Flook, Nikki Durand and Jesse Siegel

gathered in Boston last August.

CAROLINE GARRIOTT ’03 and her groom Carlos Abreu Mendoza at their wedding in

June 2015

psychology from George Washington University. She moved back to Baltimore in August to start her fellowship at Sheppard Pratt. Over the summer, she spent a weekend in Newport, R.I., with Arielle Goldman, Caki Zamoiski Halprin and Carrie Keelty for Carrie’s bachelorette party.

In May, Jordy Alger completed his M.D. at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and has since moved to Washington D.C., following in the footsteps of Andrew Harbin ’01 as he pursues his residency in urology at Georgetown University Hospital.

Jordy loves being in D.C. and living close to amigos Tim Kamphaus and Sam Fitz as well as being just five doors down from lifelong friend Zac Shapiro! Becca Fogel Erwin and Carter Erwin ’03 are enjoying their quiet family life in Medfield, Mass., where Becca is an occupational therapist, working in early intervention with children ages newborn to 3 as well as school-aged children with special needs. Carter is still with The Mathworks as a software developer and has taken on some incredibly ambitious home-improvement projects in his spare time. Their children Auden, 5, and Deegan, 3, entered kindergarten and pre-school this fall.

Maggie Flook visited Nikki Durand and Jesse Siegel in Boston, where on an evening in August, they baked a berry jam and butter cake. It was delicious. Camille Powe finished her internal medicine residency in July 2014 and is now an Endocrine Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She and her husband Manny Foster live in Brookline, Mass.

2003 Emily Lamasa selamasa@gmail.com Caroline Garriott writes, “I am a Ph.D. candidate in history at Duke currently writing my dissertation ‘Coloring the Sacred: Art and Devotion in Colonial Peru and Brazil.’ With funding from the Fulbright, I spent 12 months researching in archives throughout Brazil, Peru, Spain and Portugal. Upon my return to the States, I served as an adjunct professor at Elon University and taught a class on the History of Colonial Latin America. On June 8, 2015, I married a Spaniard named Carlos Abreu Mendoza, whom I met while he was a graduate student at UNC-Chapel Hill. Currently, Carlos and I live in San Marcos, Texas, where

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he teaches Spanish, Latin American literature and history and I am finishing up my dissertation (my hope is to finish in 2017).”

2004 Abby Seiler aseiler8@gmail.com Alexandra Nelson and her husband Michael Squires welcomed Zoe Lynn Squires on July 10, 2015 and are so in love with their baby girl. Congrats Alex! Nick Colvin has been working at BB&T Equipment Finance for the past seven years, the last four of which he’s served in their syndications group. In September, he and Kate Perito, his freshman-year girlfriend from Elon University, were married in Washington, D.C. Ben Barchey and his girlfriend Whitney were in attendance, and Ben notes that Nick “definitely married up!” Ben and Whitney were excited to see family, Friends’ friends and friends from that less-dominant school, Gilman. Tim Wright married Carol Clifford in October in Naples, Fla., and Peter Heller was one of his groomsmen. Numerous other ’04 classmates were there to celebrate.

Carolyn Coombs and her husband are still living with their pup in San Francisco. The big news is that she recently expanded her studio, Keep It Classical Pilates, to a much bigger and brighter space. The studio offers private and duet classes with three different classically trained teachers.

She says life as a small business owner is busy, often stressful, but ultimately so rewarding. If anyone is ever in SF, they should check it out!

Kathleen Gorman is in her third year of pediatric residency at University of North Carolina Children’s Hospital and is “killin’ it.” Though I should clarify that she is also saving lots of lives! Katie Ray, still living in New York City, was excited to conquer her failure at running the mile in high school gym class by racing in a 10K in Westchester, N.Y. in late September. Go Katie!

COURTNEY BARRY DABROWSKI ’06 and her husband Drew Dabrowski

2006 Nicole Runde nicole.runde@gmail.com Save the Date! May 5-8, 2016 Alumni Weekend 2016 and 10th Reunion Celebration Lots of news coming in from the Class of ’06! Natalie West finished the first year of her master’s in international development at Sciences Po, Paris.

She’s spending the fall doing an internship and will finish her degree after the spring semester. Natalie has been hired as a consultant at the World Food Programme’s Ghana office, where she will help develop their country’s new nutrition strategy.

She had a month-long introduction to WFP programming last summer at their Rome headquarters, so she is very excited to experience the field aspect.

Plus, this will be her first trip to Africa!

ROBERT JANEY ’06 kidding around with his students at Worlin International Town School in Shijiazhuang, China

2005 This class needs a secretary.

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Also somewhere over the ocean is Robert Janey, who’s been promoted to the head of the foreign language department at the Worlin International Town School in Shijiazhuang, where he’s been teaching ESL. Congratulations Robert!

He’ll remain in Shijiazhuang for six months before he heads to Beijing for the remainder of his time in China. On Aug. 7, Ouranitsa Abbas became a Board of Immigration Appeals fully accredited representative. As such, she will represent immigrants on their paths to citizenship and defend them against deportation before the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Immigration Court. In the government’s eyes and under immigration law, Ouranitsa will operate as an attorney. Great job Ouranitsa!

Brian Penza, a design engineer at Honda, serves on the design team for

DAVID WEINMAN ’06, Becky Murphy and their new baby Jacob

the NSX Honda, due out in 2016. He also does performance racing with Miatas and BMWs and is on Honda’s Rally Team. Courtney Barry married Drew Dabrowski on June 6, 2015 in Baltimore. Drew is from Syracuse, N.Y., but they met in Baltimore through mutual friends. You may recognize a few of our classmates in her bridal party, including (spoiler alert!) Jackie Murk Hart, Erica Goldman, Natalie Allen, Sarah Palmer, Sophia Bentley and Ashley Strouse. Other Friends School attendees included Sara Corbin, Randall Cooper ’05 and Bunny Kline ’05 and former Middle School English teacher Randy Cooper.

Congratulations to the Dabrowskis!

Two weeks later, on June 20, Jackie Murk married Dean Hart! The couple met through mutual friends — Jackie lived across the street from Dean’s

COURTNEY BARRY DABROWSKI ’06’s wedding party, including 2006 classmates, (from left), Sophia Bentley, Sarah Palmer, Courtney Barry, Erica Goldman, Ashley Strouse, Natalie Allen and Jackie Murk Hart

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JACKIE MURK HART ’06 and Dean Hart at their wedding (photo by Sachs Photography)

JACKIE MURK HART ’06’s wedding party at the Belvedere with Friends School Class of 2006 wedding party members, from left: Ashley

best friend from UMD, and Dean lived down the street from Erica Goldman.

Dean grew up in Howard County and graduated from Atholton High School before attending University of Maryland, where he played lacrosse.

They were married at the Belvedere in Baltimore with another great group of ’06 bridesmaids: Erica Goldman, Natalie Allen, Sara Corbin, Ashley Strouse, Sophia Bentley and Courtney Barry Dabrowski. Our classmates Max Hamaker, Maxx Davis, Milo McCausland, Pat Sissman, Sarah Palmer, and Marielle Stevens Kessler all came to celebrate and support Jackie and Dean. This past summer was exciting for me also. I took a two-week trip to Denmark and the Netherlands with Zach Adams, and we got engaged at the botanical garden in Copenhagen! Also, on Aug. 8, I became an aunt when my sister Carrie Runde Paddock ’01 and her

husband Kristaps had a beautiful daughter, Ella! Speaking of offspring, I hope the Quaker Closet is stocked up on bibs and onesies, because several Friends ’06 babies have arrived. On Aug. 16, at 3:45 a.m., Jonathan Alston and his wife Ashley welcomed a 6-pound, 15-ounce baby girl into the world, Autumn Nicole Alston. Very early that next morning, Aug. 17, at 2:23 a.m., David Weinman became a dad as well! His wife Becky Murphy delivered baby boy Jacob Murphy Weinman, 9 pounds, 3 ounces, 22 inches. Congratulations to you both on your growing families! Our 10-year Reunion is in May at Alumni Weekend 2016. Can you guys believe it? I hope to see many of you there to celebrate and catch up. Be sure to check in periodically with our Facebook page, Friends School ’06, where I’ll post updates as we get closer to Reunion.

Until then, take care.

Strouse, Erica Goldman, Courtney Barry Dabrowski, Sara Corbin, Natalie Allen and Sophia Bentley (photo by Sachs Photography)

2007 Lauren Marks lmarks617@gmail.com Hey Class of 2007! What gives?

No updates about your lives?

Please consider sending in exciting news next time around, as many of your fellow classmates love to hear what you’re up to! Besides badgering you all for class notes, I graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore with my master’s in social work in May. In November, Charlie Totten ’04, and I are moving to Mexico for a year to fulfill our wanderlust and travel bug. We hope to have many Friends School visitors (our first is Nick Silbergeld ’04).

2008 Jasmine Powe jasmine.liana.powe@gmail.com

JACKIE MURK HART ’06’s wedding reception at the Belvedere. From left, classmates

Max Hamaker, Milo McCausland, Patrick Sissman and Natalie Allen (photo by Sachs Photography)

Sarah Meteyer is happy to be back working at Friends School. She is looking forward to heading to graduate school soon to pursue a master’s in public health with a concentration in global health.

2009 Leah Koenig lkoenig14@gmail.com

engineering and cybersecurity teams since September 2014. He would love to connect with other FS alums in the city! He also sends a shout out to his parents, Bruce and Marsha Schachtel, who he loves very much. Catherine Rosenberg has just returned from traveling in Greece and Turkey this summer and is currently unemployed. Are you hiring?

Feel free to reach out. She also sends updates about a few other ’09ers.

Libby Nichols is moving in with college friends in Boston and working for Team IMPACT, a nonprofit that matches children with life-threatening and chronic illnesses to college athletic teams (the children are drafted onto the team and become an official member of the team, and the student-athletes join the child’s support team). Flannery McArdle is also in Boston working for Riverside Community Care, helping to connect adults with mental health needs to long-term services. She plays on an ultimate Frisbee team on the weekends. Kyla Minton is living in D.C. with Kerry Townsend. Both are pursuing med school. Emily Orrson is living out in Seattle. Anna Paul just graduated from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston with an M.F.A. Check out her website at annarpaul.com!

Hannah Patterson is living in Nashville with her boyfriend and their dog T-Bone.

Ben Schachtel writes in from Manhattan, where he has been working at a hedge fund called Bridgewater, doing recruiting for its

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2010 GRADUATES (from left) Hillary

Kolodner, Lyz Berg and Clare Conner enjoy time together.

FRIENDS FROM THE CLASS OF 2010 gathered in May 2015 at Mt. Washington Tavern.

2010 Joey Peyton jpey92@gmail.com The Class of 2010 had a well-attended gathering in May. Over 25 classmates got together at Mount Washington Tavern and reconnected outside in the Sky Bar. Some members of the class returned to the Friends campus in October to officially celebrate their 5th Reunion during Alumni Weekend.

2011 Ashley Geleta ageleta@fandm.edu Save the Date! May 5-8, 2016 Alumni Weekend 2016 and 5th Reunion Celebration Send us your news!

2012 Lauren Riley Rilelp12@wfu.edu Send us your news!

2013 Sam Enokian samanthaenokian@yahoo.com The Class of 2013 is up to great things, as many of us prepare to enter into our junior year of college. Many members of our class are focusing on internships and studying abroad in preparation for our debut into the adult world. My fellow Terp Jamal Gross spent the summer taking a class, serving in the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Education and working for the

UMD men’s basketball team. This year’s team is stacked with star players, and if the team is lucky enough to go all the way, then Jamal will get his very own championship ring! I would personally love to see that! Across the globe, Ben Musachio is doing great things by pursuing his interest in Russian culture and history.

In his Russian travels, he is examining the role the church plays in the complex “memory politics” associated with the Soviet terror and the Gulag repressions. The expedition wraps up in September, after which he plans to study abroad in Britain and Latvia. An article he wrote about the CIA’s role in disseminating the Russian language edition of the novel “Dr. Zhivago” to Soviet citizens during the 1958 World Fair in Brussels recently appeared in the National Review. Ben’s eager to come home but excited about his research. Colin Fowler and Will Gantt are also working on exciting research projects here in the states. Colin is busy conducting breast cancer research at the University of Chicago, where he examines the structure and role of mutant proteins in the breast and possible therapeutic treatments to overcome these mutations. He planned to study abroad in Vienna this fall. Will spent the summer at Bowdoin College, doing research in artificial intelligence. He too studied abroad in the fall, in Poitiers, France, where he focused on computer science and also improving his French! Anna Mortimer spent the summer working at Wolters Kluwer as an intern in the medical education department, where she assisted the publishing staff. In the middle of all her work, she found time to run the Baltimore 10-miler. You go

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girl! Anna plans to study abroad in London in the spring. A couple more study-abroad highlights include Molly Farrugia, who this summer studied Ottoman and Byzantine monuments and architecture in Istanbul, and this fall traveled to Brazil, South Africa and India for a comparative urban studies program.

Also, Tucker Glotzbach, traveled to Istanbul this fall! I am very impressed with our class’s interest in global studies, and I too hope to study abroad soon. I love hearing from all of you. Please feel free to reach out and tell me what you’re up to at any point throughout the year!

2014

our study-abroad experiences.

Anson Sidle spent the summer on a U.S. government-funded study program at Lobachevsky State University in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

Anson reports that he had four hours of language study daily as a recipient of a “critical language scholarship.”

Last spring, Kierra Byrd walked in a student fashion show at Savannah College of Art & Design. Her image eventually made its way to a piece about student designers on teenvogue.com. Kierra is happily studying art and design at SCAD. Jordana Lachow became engaged to longtime boyfriend Toyam Cox in June.

Congratulations to the pair! Shane Rabinowitz shared news of an exciting internship: He’s been selected as an intern for the Office of the First Lady within the White House Internship Program. Shane’s duties will include working for the social office and helping with White House party planning. Congratulations Shane!

2015 This class needs a secretary.

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Amelia Merrill amerrill@skidmore.edu With one year of college under our belts, the Class of 2014 has been all over the world recently — volunteering, vacationing or starting

CLASS OF 2013 grads David Bruder and Avery Filer at the Grand Canyon during their

summer 2015 road trip

CLASS NOTES

Winter 2016 Milestones Please send all Milestones to alumni@friendsbalt.org.

Marriages

Births

1965

1998, 1999

George Vandora and Laura White June 20, 2015

1970

Janine D’Adamo ’98 and Alec Heuisler ’99 a boy, Niko August 30, 2015

Carl Robbins and Mary Davin June 20, 2015

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1972 Biff Cox and Robyn Eubanks August 1, 2015

1979

Lisa Logan Rawlinson and Bob a boy, Logan Douglas February 20, 2015

2001, 2002

Natalie Standiford and Eric Weiner February 18, 2015

Carolyn Richardson ’02 and Julian Kennedy ’01 a girl, Josephine Vance June 4, 2015

2000

2001

Ana Muñoz and Justin Steil September 12, 2015 Elizabeth Meredith and Timothy Wisniewski October 23, 2015

2001 John Bowie and Deshka Foster May 23, 2015

2003 Caroline Garriott and Carlos Abreu Mendoza June 8, 2015 Emily Lamasa and Andrew Eyring August 20, 2015

2004 Nick Colvin and Kate Perito September 26, 2015 Tim Wright and Carol Clifford October 17, 2015 Courtney Barry and Drew Dabrowski June 6, 2015 Jackie Murk and Dean Hart June 20, 2015

2005 Daniel Faulkner-Bond and Elizabeth Dacy July 27, 2015

Carrie Runde Paddock and Kristaps a girl, Ella Zane August 8, 2015

2004 Alexandra Nelson and Michael a girl, Zoe Lynn July 10, 2015

1941 James Gardner Kuller July 3, 2015

1942 Elizabeth Sneeringer Gordon October 2, 2015

1944 Jean Black McCausland June 26, 2015

1948 Donald Fischer August 28, 2015

1949 Shirley Cox Seagren September 30, 2015

1950 Patricia Kone Carroll Kaestner August 21, 2015

1952 Janet Mules March 19, 2014

1954

2006

Barbara “Babs” Pike Rockefeller August 8, 2015

Jonathan Alston and Ashley a girl, Autumn Nicole August 8, 2015

1963

David Weinman and Becky Murphy a boy, Jacob Murphy August 17, 2015

1965

In Memoriam

1975

1927 Howard Jones, Jr. July 31, 2015

1934

Joseph Albert August 12, 2015

Jane Royston Anderson June 29, 2015

Randy Aitken November 8, 2015

1982 Christopher Baltus November 22, 2015

Florence Oldham May 13, 2011

1936 Victor Bloede April 19, 2015

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Thank you for 1926

1949

Jacob Epstein**

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

1927 Howard Buffington**

1928 Alan J. Harper** and Florence Harper**

1929

1951

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

Anonymous (2)

1930

1952

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

Anonymous Janet E. Mules**

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

1934 Florence G. Oldham**

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

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

1937

CIRCLE OF

Friends

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

Becoming a member of the Circle of Friends is easy.

• Simply name the School in your will or as beneficiary of a qualified IRA; • 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.

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

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

1939 Elizabeth Lamb Buck** Daniel S. Greenbaum**

1941 James G. Kuller** Dorothy Eastwick Seaton**

1942 Anonymous**

1944 David R. Millard**

1945 Harry L. Hoffman III** and Mary Louisa Hoffman

Learn more by visiting friendsbalt.plannedgiving.org.

1946

Questions? Please contact Jocelyn Kehl at 410.649.3316 or jkehl@friendsbalt.org.

1947

Gisela Cloos Evitt

W. Byron Forbush II and Betsy Forbush

1948 Anonymous

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1950 G. Frank Breining Joel D. Fedder**

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

1954 Anne Black Evans

1955 Robin Biddison Dodd Robert L. Kriel Mary Allen Wilkes

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

1957 Marcia Smith Clark Carol Harrington Fitting and David H. Fitting♦ J. Henry Riefle III

1958 Anonymous Elizabeth Banghart Bratz Susan Shinnick Hossfeld Henry L. Mortimer J. McDonnell Price Ronald H. Renoff Frank A. Windsor and Ann McAllister Windsor ’60

1959 Robert S. Patterson and Barbara Patterson Dan Reed and Claire Reed James B. Stott

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

1961 Elizabeth Grason New Cohen Joan Yeager Cromer

** Deceased ♦ New

providing for our future John L. Dashiells, Jr.** David M. Evans** Sylvan J. Seidenman and Sandy Seidenman E. Donald Stevens♦ Linda Brecht Stevens♦

1962 Mary Ellen Fischer James A. Hammond

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

1974 David R. Blumberg

1975 Robin E. Behm Katherine E. Bryant

Emily C. Holman James Byron Willis, Jr.

1976

1963

Cynthia Klein Goldberg Winston W. Hutchins

Elizabeth Fetter Deegan and Michael J. Deegan, Jr. Charles W. Harlan and Mary Dell Gordon Harlan ’65

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

Gail Moran Milne

1978

Alice Smith Reid Barry S. Stott

Norman D. Forbush Timothy R. Hearn

1964

1979

Katherine Benesch

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

Joseph W. Cowan and Ostella S. Cowan♦ Peter Paul Hanley Susan B. Katzenberg Sally Huff Leimbach Harry D. McCarty

1980 Christopher Holter Amy Gould John and Andrew John

Marilyn Miller Thomas

1981

Elizabeth A. Wagner

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

Donald H. Wilson III** Faris L. Worthington Patricia K. Worthington Carl W. Ziegaus

1965 Gretchen Garman

1983

Mary Dell Gordon Harlan and

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

Charles W. Harlan ’63 Frederick W. Moran

1966

1985

Steven G. Heaver, Jr.♦

Evan C. Shubin Katherine G. Windsor

1967 John H. Mears III♦ Alan B. Rosoff

1968

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

Jay E. Boyd

1989

Melinda Burdette

David Henry Jason Innes Gregory Moody

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

1969 M. Louise Wagner

1970 Katherine M. Cox A. P. Ramsey Crosby Susan Byrnes Koerber** Lisa Mitchell Pitts and Toby Pitts Carl B. Robbins

1990 Will and Sandy Rubenstein

1991 Sherri Shubin Cohen

Trustees Anonymous (2) Tom Brooks Nick and Brigitte Fessenden Norman Forbush ’78

Jeff Gonya Timothy R. Hearn ’78 Thora A. Johnson ’88 Barbara P. Katz Stephen Rives Daryl Sidle Mark and Sherri Weinman Bill White

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

CIRCLE OF FRIENDS

Deloris Jones Barbara P. Katz Adine C. Kelly Michael and Narindar Kelly Joseph Klein, Jr.** and Joan G. Klein Ferne K. Kolodner Cartan B. Kraft Eleanor Chisholm Landauer Gayle Layfield Latshaw** Howard and Karen Loewenberg Otis E. Mace** and Eleanor Dilworth Mace** Susan P. Macfarlane John and Joyce Maclay Garvin S. and Pamela M. Maffett W. Berkeley** and Eleanor Mann** Diana R. McGraw Elizabeth A. McKennon Mary Ellen McNish and David Miller Frieda M.A. and Douglas L. McWilliams Matthew Micciche John and Beverly Michel Douglas J. Miller, Sr. Sheri B. Miller-Leonetti Catherine G. Motz** Gerry Mullan and William J. Sweet, Jr. Lee S. Owen S. Opie Owen C. E. and Joan Partridge Dorothy H. Powe Anne and Roger Powell Helen M. Reich** Wayne and Janet Ries♦ Stephen Rives Marylynn and John Roberts Mary S. and Paul E. Roberts Jean B. and John V. Russo Mary Ellen and William Saterlie Amy and Alan Schmaljohn Carole French Schreck Esther Sharp Barbara and Gordon Shelton The Shubin Family Daryl J. and Sandra J. Sidle Lisa and Alfred L. Singer Jerome Smalley Lynne Tryon Smalley William Smillie Turner B. and Judith R. Smith Phillip Snyder Joan S. Stevenson Deirdre Stokes Mark C. Stromdahl Audrey W. Taliaferro** Norma C. Tinker** Marilyn and David Warshawsky John G. Watt Mark and Sherri Weinman Bill and Blair White♦ Thomas E. Wilcox and Elizabeth Whitney Ransome

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