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Stephen Chinlund '51 painted the cover image of this issue this past October. Over the years, Stephen has painted the Meetinghouse during different seasons. The winter scene watercolor featured on this page was painted a few years back. ď&#x20AC;¸

To view more of Stephen's work, visit www.chinlund.com/paintings.html.

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7 | Class of 2014 Commencement

1 | Mission Statement

13 | Let Our Lives Speak: Quaker Words Writ Large in the Common Room 16 | A Common Quaker Thread 29 | 50 Years of Hunter Hall

31 | Reunion 2014

News from Friends is published by the Communications Office at Friends Seminary two times each year for alumni, parents, grandparents and friends of the School. The mission of News from Friends is to feature the accomplishments of alumni, while capturing the School’s remarkable history, values and culture. Each issue will have an underlying theme, such as (but not limited to) the sciences, the arts, athletics, history, literature and service. Additionally, the magazine gives insight into recent events at Friends Seminary.

Director of Alumni Relations Katherine Farrell Director of Communications John Galayda Assistant Director of Communications Thomas Appleton Communications Coordinator Shea Furey-King

Editor John Galayda Graphic Design Anna Pipes Principal Robert “Bo” Lauder

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our mission Friends Seminary educates students from kindergarten through twelfth grade, under the care of the New York Quarterly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Through instruction and example, students follow their curiosity and exercise their imaginations as they develop as scholars, artists and athletes. In a community that cultivates the intellect through keen observation, critical thinking and coherent expression, we strive to respond to one another, valuing the single voice as well as the effort to reach consensus. The disciplines of silence, study and service provide the matrix for growth: silence opens us to change; study helps us to know the world; service challenges us to put our values into practice. At Friends Seminary, education occurs within the context of the Quaker belief in the Inner Light – that of God in every person. “Guided by the ideals of integrity, peace, equality and simplicity, and by our commitment to diversity, we do more than prepare students for the world that is: we help them bring about the world that ought to be.”*

* This last sentence is adapted from Faith and Practice: The Book of Discipline of the New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (1974).

diversity mission The Society of Friends is founded in the belief that there is that of God in every person and that truth emerges as new voices are heard and incorporated in our understanding. We believe that the quality of the truths we know is enriched and deepened by welcoming people with diverse experiences of the world into our community. We want to foster a community that addresses the challenge of valuing difference and making every individual feel welcome, supported, and safe: a community in which each person is asked to make the rigorous commitment to recognize the Light within every other, to hear that piece of truth each person brings to the continuing dialogue which is the foundation of our community. We want our daily interactions to demonstrate that maintaining respect and pursuing the hard work of understanding difference creates strength as we work to define and move toward common goals.

Our mission as an educational institution is to prepare our students to participate in an increasingly interdependent world and, by graduating an increasingly diverse group of students, to help build a more effective citizenry and representative leadership for the future. We seek to develop the skills and discipline necessary to communicate effectively and to learn from a rich variety of experiences and points of view. This work is central to valuing diversity, to the purpose of education and to the Quaker ideals of integrity, peace, equality and simplicity. In a world in which people continue to suffer profound inequalities of opportunity, we dedicate ourselves to stretching what we have and are capable of: to working to become a community more representative of the city in which we live and to improving our ability to support a diverse student body. The gap between our ideals and the possible creates struggle to which we commit ourselves with energy and joy.

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Eva Goss ’49 “I feel very fortunate, and grateful, to have been able to attend Friends Seminary. The teachers were inspirational, and fair; we were all encouraged to feel special, and we knew we could accomplish great things. A very important item, critical thinking, which seems lacking in some schools today, was taught us by example daily in the classroom. I have so many cherished memories at Friends, which was my home away from home for eight wonderful years. I hope my annual giving and bequest will enable many more potential students to have a wonderfully expansive learning experience.”

In 1786, Robert Murray, a prominent Quaker shipping merchant, left a bequest which provided a building and financial resources for the School that would become Friends Seminary. During subsequent decades, Friends Seminary has held steady to its course, offering an exemplary education within the context of Quaker values. Following Robert Murray’s example, other generous donors have made planned gifts, thereby providing current and deferred contributions to the School. Many planned gifts offer significant tax or income benefits to the donor. The Friends Seminary planned giving donors are members of the Friends for the Future, a group who have chosen to express their appreciation for Friends Seminary through a charitable gift in their estate plan.

If you would like to learn more about how you can help support Friends using this giving opportunity, please contact Susan Wilen, Campaign Director, at 212.979.5056 or swilen@friendsseminary.org.

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notes on silence

The Calm Soul of this Building by MARGE GONZALEZ

here's a Matthew Arnold poem that in some churches has been made into a hymn. I often thought of it in the many hours I spent in morning meeting during my 30 some years as a teacher at Friends Seminary. Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, I did not make, and cannot mar! The will to neither strive nor cry, The power to feel with others give! Calm, calm me more! nor let me die Before I have begun to live. If ever there was a Quaker hymn, there it is. Very often the "city's jar" was quite audible. Horns, garbage trucks, shrieks from the courtyard. I would wonder as I mulled these words, who the "thine" applied to. Who was the poet addressing? I supposed it must be a God, to whom I gave little credence. But upon further reflection I remembered that Matthew Arnold didn't have much truck with this sort of deity either. In Dover Beach he describes how the "sea of faith" had receded for him. Anyway, I had been trained in a form of literary analysis that did not consider the poet's intentions. So I could figure out who this "thine " applied to on my own. I decided that this apostrophe was to the Meeting House itself. The Meeting House offered a calm which could intensify our own empathy, "the power to feel with others," and our awareness

of the preciousness of our own lives, as we asked the calm soul of this building to make sure we lived before we died. Some of the former students may remember a day in the Meetinghouse when a Middle School ensemble played a song to promote their concert. The song was Tallis' Canon, the tune Arnold's poem/hymn has been put to. Do you

remember that I stood up and lined the song as the ensemble played? Oh well, it was a great moment for me. Margaret "Marge" Gonzalez, a long-time language teacher at Friends, was inducted as a Faculty Emerita in 2006.

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Congratulations to the Class of

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Class of 2014

Faculty commencement Address

Maria Fahey Maria Fahey has taught English at Friends Seminary for more than twenty-five years. She is the author of Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama: Unchaste Signification, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award.

arents and Families, Colleagues, Alumni and Students, Class of 2014: I am honored to have been invited to speak on the occasion of your graduation, to celebrate all you’ve learned and done during your time here at Friends Seminary and to anticipate your journeys hence. I’ve decided to speak tonight about how we come to know things and about the importance of waiting and of attending to detail. I’m going to tell a few stories and shall try, in the process, to say something about the relationship between how we come to know our world and how we come to imagine new ones. ONE: ON WAITING Much of what we know about chimpanzees we owe to the ethologist Jane Goodall who has spent more than a half century observing them in Gombe National Park. Goodall was only twenty-six years old and without any formal graduate training when she first set up camp and began her daily

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excursions into the forest. For months she would spend long hours at some distance from the chimpanzees, quietly waiting for them to grow accustomed to and, thus, to ignore what she has called “this strange, white ape,” imagining herself from their point of view. 1 And eventually the chimpanzees came to disregard her enough to go about their ordinary activities in her presence, making possible Goodall’s observations that revolutionized our understanding of our primate cousins. In various interviews, Goodall has recounted that when she was five years old she wanted to know just how a hen makes an egg. “I hadn’t understood,” she recalls, “where there was a hole big enough in a hen for an egg to come out.” 2 First, she tried following the hens into the henhouse, but soon realized that when followed a hen would rush back out squawking. One day, the fiveyear-old Goodall instead snuck into an empty hen house and hid herself in the straw. She waited nearly five hours for a hen to enter—her mother had sent out a search party and was about to call the police. Goodall remembers: It was very stuffy and hot where I crouched, and the straw tickled my legs. There was hardly any light either. But I could see the bird on her nest . . . . She was about five feet away from me, on the far side of the chicken house, and she had no idea I was there. If I moved I would spoil everything. So I stayed quite still. 3 By quieting herself to the point that she was not noticeable, the fiveyear-old Jane Goodall came to know just how a hen lays an egg. And as a twenty-six-year-old, this very willingness to wait quietly, longer than any ethologist before her, allowed Goodall to come to know our closest primate relatives—their intricate family and social bonds, their joys and griefs, their nurturing and aggression, their simple tools, their wars. 1 Jane Goodall: My Life with Chimpanzees (National Geographic Television, 1990). 2 Ibid. 3 My Life with the Chimpanzees (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988), 2.

TWO: ON WAITING AND HANGING ON TIGHT In Homer’s Odyssey King Menelaus recounts that on his journey home to Sparta he was marooned in Egypt— utterly becalmed, all rations consumed, desperate. Fortunately the sea-nymph Eidothea took pity on him. Her father was Proteus, the immortal Old Man of the Sea who would know how Menelaus could reach home as well as all that had occurred while he had been away fighting in Troy. Although Proteus never lied, learning what he knew would not be easy since this god, famous for shape-shifting, never willingly stuck around to tell the truth. Menelaus would have to bed down on the beach with Proteus’s beloved seals until Proteus arrived to take his noonday nap. Disguised in fresh sealskins Eidothea provided, Menelaus and his three best men waited motionless in “the awful reek of the sea-fed brutes,” the stench only bearable with the ambrosia the goddess daubed under their noses. 4 Curiously enough, the disguise fooled the god: after counting his seals—unaware that four of them were, in fact, men in seal suits—Proteus lay down to take his nap. The men then rushed Proteus and flung their arms around him. Proteus, however, would not be detained without a struggle.

“Acts of knowing and acts of imagination begin with surrendering the self, with efforts to quiet or even disguise the self in order to regard the world’s details.”

First he shifted into a great bearded lion / and then a serpent—/ a panther—a ramping wild boar— / a torrent of water—/ a tree with soaring branchtops—5 But Menelaus held on for dear life. And eventually Proteus relented and told him that he could reach home with the proper sacrifice to Zeus. Only by waiting all morning, by bedding down with the stinking seals, by making himself unrecognizable, and then by holding fast to the shape-shifting god did Menelaus learn what he wanted to know. Knowing, Goodall and Homer’s stories suggest, depends on a willingness 4 Homer, The Odyssey , trans. Robert Fagles (New York: Penguin Books, 1996) 4.497.

to wait in unobtrusive stillness and to be ready to hang on as the object of our study reveals itself in what can be a dizzying and exhausting process. I am not suggesting that such efforts to quiet the self in order to learn means that knowing can be detachedly objective. Postmodern philosophy has stressed that no knowledge is unaffected by our efforts to perceive the object of our study. And quantum mechanics, further recognizing the world’s protean nature, has described how measuring the object of our study is itself what brings that object into a fixed state. Yet these stories illuminate the need to reduce the ways in which we project ourselves onto worlds we wish to understand, and they suggest that efforts to grasp the shape-shifting nature of the world increase our chances of coming to know something true.

5 Ibid., 4.512-14.

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THREE: ON ATTENDING TO DETAIL James Joyce was an expatriate living in Paris when he was writing Ulysses, a novel set in his home city of Dublin. As he was working out one scene, Joyce wrote from Paris to a Mrs. Josephine Murray in Dublin with a question about the city in which he was born and raised but to which he had not returned for nearly twenty years. I quote from Joyce’s letter so that you can hear just how specific his question was: Is it possible for an ordinary person to climb over the area railings of no 7 Eccles street, either from the path or the steps, lower himself from the lowest part of the railings till his feet are within 2 feet or 3 of the ground and drop unhurt. I saw it done myself but by a man of rather athletic build. I require this information in detail in order to determine the wording of the paragraph.6 Joyce was determined to portray accurately even the smallest details of life in Dublin—details he was recalling from his observations twenty years earlier. But how could the accuracy of such a detail possibly matter in a work of fiction? How, in particular, could it matter in a work of fiction as imaginative as Ulysses—a novel in which 6 Richard Ellman, James Joyce (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982) 519.

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one chapter’s speaking characters include a deadhand, a hollybush, a crab, and a doorhandle? The novelist Vladimir Nabokov, when teaching literature at Cornell in the 1950s, gave a pop quiz on Anna Karenina. A former student recalls the question: “Describe the train station in which Anna first met Vronsky.”7 Another student recalls a question on a midterm exam: “Describe the wallpaper in the Karenins’ bedroom.”8 Now, you’re probably suspecting that there’s some secret training school where English teachers learn to ask perversely picky questions. But maybe it’s not only perversity that motivates English teachers to demand that their students attend to the very details that artists find so important in the first place. Acts of knowing and acts of imagination begin with surrendering the self, with efforts to quiet or even disguise the self in order to regard the world’s details. A scholar or artist’s revelatory moments and discoveries and the finished works they eventually share with the public can obscure— indeed, must obscure—the hours and days and years they have spent waiting, attentive, uncomfortable, toiling, even bored. The practice of patient observation of the world-that-is allows artists to imagine worlds-that-mightbe. And just as quietly attending to the world’s details allows us to know the world-that-is, attending to literature’s details allows us to know an imagined world and prepares us to imagine worlds-that-might-be of our own. And yet we cannot know a world— real or fictional—by its details alone. Sometimes we are presented with parables to decipher; sometimes we have to figure out what the details mean. What if King David, after stealing Uriah’s wife, Bathsheba, persisted in hearing from the prophet Nathan only a story about some man who liked to nuzzle his sole baby lamb on his lap? What if the disciples, when taught by Jesus, heard only tips on investing talents of gold profitably? What if you students leave here tonight feeling satisfied that you’ve been advised how to see a hen lay an egg? Surely enlightenment in the earthly realm depends on seeing 7 Edward Jay Epstein, “An A from Nabokov,” The New York Review of Books 60. no. 6 (2013). 8 Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1991) 358.

beyond the apparent details. But, for us mortals, those details are our only clues. Those of us who can afford computers and access to the internet never have had faster, easier, more ubiquitous access to information. With our various iDevices—iPhones, iPods, iPads, iClouds—it seems we can command a universe of information without so much as getting off the couch. I remember some years ago a cartoon in The New Yorker: two people are chatting at a cocktail party, and one is asking the other, “One question: if this is the information age, how come nobody knows anything?” Paradoxically, the Information Age, which brings us extraordinary and speedy connections to information, presents its own obstacles to knowing. What I want to suggest tonight is that certain knowledge requires regarding the world patiently with one’s “I” hidden—in the corner of a hot hen house, on a beach among stinking seals. Friends Seminary has demanded that you learn many details about the world, from the perspective of many disciplines, with rigor, and with concern for others. These very demands are the privilege of being part of a learning community. It has been my privilege and my pleasure to toil with you, to witness your hard work, your moments of revelation, and all you have shared with the community. Most fortunately of all, perhaps, is that we have practiced, right here in this meetinghouse, a most vital part of knowing: here we have gathered regularly in meeting for worship with the sole task of quieting ourselves, waiting together, directing our ears and eyes outward. This is the quieting of scientists who wait in anticipation of discovery; this is the quieting of bards who make room for the muse to sing in them, through them. My prayer for you tonight is that you continue to draw upon our collective practice of silent waiting as you experience the discomfort and the selfeffacement that will bring you into ever clearer relationship with whatever it is you wish to know. May you continue to make and do things informed by the keenest attention to detail, by grit and tenacity, by deep and patient regard for others and yourself, things that promise to make our world more truthful and more beautiful. Wait, hold fast. It can be so.

connecting ALUMNI

Please consider being listed in our new alumni directory Dear Friends Seminary Alumni, Friends Seminary strives to keep our alumni connected to the School and with each other. In order to do this, Friends Seminary has authorized Publishing Concepts (PCI) to launch a new alumni directory. This is the best way for Friends to improve our information about our alumni and will be valuable in helping us serve the alumni community better. Once PCI has collected the information, they will compile the data and create a new alumni directory. The directory will be available for purchase, allowing you to find and reconnect with fellow alumni by class year, by region, and alphabetically. Additionally, the Alumni Office will be pleased to provide Friends Seminary alumni with directory information at no cost. This is subject to our standard privacy practices: Your information will not be sold outside of the Friends Seminary alumni community, and if you do not wish your information to be shared, we will respect that request. PCI is a trusted partner of Friends Seminary, and we hope you will join us in contributing to our alumni directory project. If you have questions, please contact Claire Brennan, Interim Director of Alumni Relations at cbrennan@friendsseminary.org or 212.979.5039 ext. 5053. Sincerely,

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MY CONVICTION LED ME TO ADHERE TO THE SUFFICIENCY OF THE LIGHT WITHIN US, RESTING ON TRUTH FOR AUTHORITY, NOT ON AUTHORITY FOR TRUTH. — LUCRETIA MOTT, 1827 BE PATTERNS, BE EXAMPLES, IN ALL COUNTRIES, PLACES, ISLANDS, NATIONS, WHEREVER YOU COME; THAT YOUR CARRIAGE AND LIFE MAY PREACH AMONG ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE, AND TO THEM; THEN YOU WILL COME TO WALK CHEERFULLY OVER THE WORLD, ANSWERING THAT OF GOD IN EVERYONE. — GEORGE FOX OUR LIFE IS LOVE, AND PEACE, AND TENDERNESS; AND BEARING ONE WITH ANOTHER, AND FORGIVING ONE ANOTHER, AND NOT LAYING ACCUSATIONS ONE AGAINST ANOTHER; BUT PRAYING FOR ONE Quaker Words Writ Large ANOTHER, in AND HELPINGRoom ONE ANOTHER the Common UP WITH A TENDER HAND. — ISAAC PENINGTON, 1667

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by LIVIA TENZER Commonplace, noun: a notable quotation or striking passage, traditionally copied into a commonplace book to be repeatedly read and pondered. Equality. Community. Peace. Integrity. Simplicity. When members of the Friends Seminary community step into the Common Room – a space that connects the school to the Fifteenth Street Meeting House -- these words greet our eyes in big, bold letters, reminding us of the testimonies at the core of Quaker education. Starting from these touchstones, we can turn to the other walls of the room for thought-provoking statements by early Quakers. The words of George Fox and Isaac Penington speak to us from the seventeenth century, and those of Lucretia Mott from the nineteenth, encouraging us to make our lives exemplary, to love and forgive each other, and to find our greatest conviction by listening to the voice of truth within.

The Common Room did not always echo these voices and ideas. Originally constructed as a gymnasium, and familiar to Friends Seminary families today as both gym and hub for after school activities, it was a plain and functional space. Indeed, its nondescript character allowed it to serve diverse purposes for Fifteenth Street Meeting as well as the school. Since 1983 it has provided shelter to the homeless: cots are rolled out every night and the small kitchen at one end is used for making sandwiches and other simple refreshment. On First Days (or Sundays) people attending Meeting for Worship gather in the space for a coffee social hour. And every December there is a holiday potluck for the shelter guests, complete with bagpipers who march around the room to serenade them. So, when did this commonly used room gain its commonplaces – its inspiring testimonies and quotations? Early in September 2013, just before the start of school, my daughter and I stopped by Friends to drop off some

required forms. A pre-school hush was in the air, but from the lobby we could detect a rustle of activity from the Common Room. Imagine our surprise, upon peeking through the door, to find two Friends parents, Clora Kelly and Carol Warner, unrolling huge scrolls of text across the floor, while scaffolding, erected along one wall, stood at the ready for their ascent. Michelangelo climbing perilously high to decorate the Sistine Chapel came to mind – though in this case, there were no images being applied to the walls, rather quotations from essential Quaker thinkers. Their words had been translated into vinyl lettering with adhesive backing: the scrolls were giant stickers! Kelly and Warner, who are both members of Fifteenth Street Meeting, were engaged in intense discussion of the quotations, of which they had to choose a few out of many to fit onto the walls. As I later learned, the installation I was witnessing was the fruition of a long process, involving the communities of both Friends Seminary and Fifteenth

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Street Meeting, and an outpouring of creativity and collaborative energy. Many quotations had been proposed by members of the Meeting, while the school had readily agreed to the project and prepared the walls by repainting. The initiating spark for the project had come from Kelly, who had a desire to see Quaker wisdom visibly present in the everyday life of the school. Originally from Ireland, she grew up

difficult to cull. She remembers sitting in the apartment of Linda and Charles Brainard of Fifteenth Street, who helped her gather and sift. In the end, she ordered numerous quotations, hoping to squeeze as many as possible onto the walls. By late summer 2013, the scrolls of stickers had arrived and Kelly enlisted her friend Carol Warner (mother of Antonia Gialamas ’21) to help with in-

how warm the quotes make the room: “as I look around, I think, ‘Oh, that is my favorite,’ and then I look at the next one and feel the same way.” In reflecting on the project today, Kelly feels awed at the way the Friends Seminary and Fifteenth Street communities worked together. If she provided the spark, the project ultimately was a communal one, and the result is “friendship on the walls.”

Shelter guests were ardently discussing the quotes and favored the one by Penington, who speaks of “helping one another up with a tender hand.” in a home where her mother regularly listened to RTÉ radio and wrote down salient sayings, later placing the quotations around the edge of the mirror where she brushed her daughters’ hair every morning. The children found themselves reading quotes from the likes of Yeats and Cardinal Newman. One from Benjamin Franklin that especially stayed with Kelly is “If a man empties his purse into his head no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” Here in New York, Kelly had adopted a similar practice in her own home, applying quotations to the walls of her kitchen. She had discovered a company that could turn any text into a 3M sticker, and soon was decorating her walls with lines of John Donne and Rudyard Kipling and the thought of George Bernard Shaw and Martin Luther King, among others, aiming to foster knowledge in her own children, two of whom attend Friends (Isa Skibeli ’18 and Sadie Skibeli ’21). In 2011 Kelly had the idea to bring the words of eminent Quakers to the walls of the Common Room and approached Fifteenth Street Meeting. Her proposal was warmly welcomed and approved by the Property Committee, whose clerk, Carol Jackson, brought it forward to Meeting for Business, where the Meeting as whole lent enthusiastic support. Then a call went out for quotations, and “pages and pages” poured forth, a “fabulous selection” that Kelly found it

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stalling them. Warner proved critical to the success of the project, Kelly says. An artist and arts educator, she had the discerning eye needed to position the quotes perfectly – an arduous task, given that the only tool available was a hand level. Kelly credits Warner’s visual sensibility and also her courage, in overcoming a fear of heights to mount the scaffolding and apply the adhesive lettering many feet above the floor. Warner also helped with selecting the quotations: both women wanted to include Mott, whom Kelly calls “a beacon of moral courage,” for her important role in the American abolitionist and suffrage movements; Penington vitally reminds young people to be kind and generous; while Fox, the founder of the Quaker movement, may have the most important message of all in his dictum “Let your lives speak.” Another essential Quaker text, the Peace Testimony, unfortunately, proved too long to fit on the wall. While the duo labored over several days, the quotes also began to perform their work: teachers and staff passing through the Common Room got into conversations with Kelly and Warner about the meanings of the quotations. Soon they heard from the Shelter Committee that shelter guests were ardently discussing the quotes and favored the one by Penington, who speaks of “helping one another up with a tender hand.” Recently Margery Cornwell, longtime member of Fifteenth Street and an early supporter of Kelly’s proposal, spoke of

As for the quotations themselves, as one elder at Fifteenth Street pointed out, they are all excerpted from longer writings. While it is enriching to ponder the words on the walls, we can benefit further from learning about the contexts from which the words are drawn. With this in mind, we provide here not only the quotations but also information about their sources, hoping that the wisdom of these words will inspire readers to explore the extraordinary lives that gave rise to them. Livia Tenzer is the mother of Julia Williams ’23 and a member of Fifteenth Street Monthly Meeting. She works as an editor for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

FURTHER READING • George Fox: The Journal (New York: Penguin Classics, 1999) • Lucretia Mott’s Heresy: Abolition and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-century America, Carol Faulkner (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013) • Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2002) • The Inward Journey of Isaac Penington (Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Publications, 2014) • Works of Isaac Penington, 4 vols. (Glenside, PA: Quaker Heritage Press, 1995–97)

A Common Quaker Thread There is a common Quaker thread running through our country, through our history and through our community. In the next few pages, we present a few silhouettes showcasing some of these commonalities and the impressive footprint Quakerism has made on our society.

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William Penn's charter sealed with William Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coat of arms in red wax.

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A New Kind of Education PHILADELPHIA Penn saw the school as central to his ideas for a democratic society. He knew that, for the new colony to thrive, its citizens would need to have a moral education for a participatory democracy.

Penn Charter, established in 1689, from the beginning was different from other schools in the colonies and in the “Old World.” Penn’s school was founded not for some people but for all people. It was one of the first schools open to children of all religions and races, one of the first to educate girls and to offer financial aid.

He envisioned a new kind of education that would prepare young people to be teachers, merchants, builders, and farmers, as well as political and professional leaders. Penn’s school began in 1689 with the hiring of a headmaster and school records show that it grew quickly, eventually evolving into a network of schools.

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Albert Einstein and the Society of Friends PHILADELPHIA You may have seen the iconic image of Dr. Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out for the camera, but did you know that the pose is just a cropped portion of a larger photograph?

Aydelotte and Einstein were close friends and Einstein regularly visited Swarthmore, even giving a famous commencement address to the graduating class of 1938.

The full frame reveals Dr. Einstein flanked by his friends, Dr. Frank Aydelotte, and his wife, Marie. Dr. Aydelotte served as the president of Swarthmore College from 1921 through 1940 and was nationally renowned for blending traditional Hicksite Quaker values with educational processes he learned at Oxford University.

As for the photo: A celebration was being held on the night of March 14, 1951 at the Princeton Club for Einstein’s 72nd birthday. After the event, photographer Arthur Sasse was trying to persuade him to smile for the camera, but having smiled for photographers many times that day, the visibly tired Dr. Einstein stuck out his tongue instead.

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A few words from Dr. Einstein From Einstein’s 1938 Commencement Address at Swarthmore College “If you will allow me, I should like first to express the great pleasure that President Aydelotte's invitation has procured for me, by giving me an opportunity to speak before this Quaker college. During many years I have witnessed, with admiration and respect, how the Society of Friends has labored in the whole world, as unselfishly as usefully, to mitigate the sufferings of men, and to fill the realities of daily life with the teachings of Christ, in their innermost sense. Every man, whoever he may be, if he has a concern for a better fate and a more decent conduct for the world, owes to the Society of Friends profound gratitude. This Society provides a happy testimony against the view that, as has been said, all organization kills the spirit that had created it.”

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President Hoover (circled in photo) with members of the Friends Church in Newburg, Oregon in 1885.

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Our Quaker Presidents NEWBURG, OREGON Richard Nixon was not our country’s only Quaker president. As a young boy, Herbert Hoover (a birthright Quaker) attended the newly established Friends Pacific Academy in Oregon. When he wasn’t busy studying, Hoover paid his way through school by stoking the furnace, sweeping floors, and cleaning blackboards. Reflecting on this experience later in life, Hoover remarked, “As a young student there for three years, I received whatever set I may have had toward good purposes in life.” Friends Pacific Academy later became George Fox University, named after one of the founders of The Religious Society of Friends, and Hoover remained close with the school’s then-president, Levi Pennington.

President Hoover, right, and Levi Pennington, President of George Fox University

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All the Presidents’ Kids WASHINGTON D.C. What do many of our nation’s leaders have in common as parents? They overwhelmingly choose Quaker schools to educate their children. Sidwell Friends current students and alumni include both of President Barack Obama’s daughters, Sasha and Malia, Vice President Joe Biden’s grandchildren, President Theodore Roosevelt’s son Archibald, Richard Nixon’s daughter Tricia, Bill Clinton’s daughter Chelsea Clinton, and Vice President Al Gore’s son, Albert Gore III.

President Obama and First Lady Michelle are pictured with daughters Sasha and Malia, both current Sidwell students.

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President Theodore Roosevelt is pictured with son Archibald. [BOTTOM LEFT] President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary with daughter Chelsea pose for a photo following graduation ceremonies at Sidwell. [BOTTOM RIGHT] President Richard Nixon, a birthright Quaker, is pictured with daughters Julie, left, and Tricia. [TOP]

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Ben Frisch’s Great Great Great Grea Grandfather NEW YORK CITY

Ben Frisch isn’t only a great math teacher, he is a direct living link to Friends Seminary’s humble beginnings. Ben is a descendant of the Murrays, a prominent Quaker family for whom the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan is named. In 1786, Ben’s great (x4) grandfather, Robert Murray, left a bequest which provided a building and financial resources for Friends Seminary. Additionally, his great (x5) uncle, Lindley Murray, was the largest-selling author of school textbooks in the world in the first half of the 19th century. His texts were some of the first textbooks used at Friends Seminary.

[LEFT] Robert

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Murray [RIGHT] Lindley Murray [OPPPOSITE PAGE] Ben Frisch. See any resemblance?

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Work Benches to Meeting Benches SAN FRANCISCO

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Not all Friends schools were founded hundreds of years ago. In 2001, educators, parents, and graduates of Friends schools felt the need for a Quaker school in San Francisco. By September 2002, the school was welcoming its first students. In 2008, the school moved to its permanent location, the refurbished Levi Strauss building — a well known landmark of the Mission

neighborhood. During the renovation process, the school worked with architects to preserve the character of the building, from keeping nicks and scratches in the floor to repurposing old wooden beams to construct the steps of the main stairwell and the benches in the Meeting Room. Students who entered Kindergarten for SF Friends’ inaugural school year will graduate from high school at the end of this academic year.

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Gil Fleitas ’75, a Friends Seminary alumnus, served on the San Francisco Friends Board of Trustees. Speaking about the school’s decision to move into the Mission neighborhood of San Francisco, Gil said, “The school really wanted to find and connect themselves with that community, and how it would benefit from having a great school located in it. We think of ourselves as Quakers — it’s not an inward looking perspective, it’s an outward looking perspective.”

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By February 1964, the steel frame was erected, the floor welding finished, and the outlines of rooms and halls sparked the imaginations of all community members.

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his school year, Hunter Hall, our central classroom building named after beloved Friends educator Dr. Earle Hunter, turns 50 years old. During its planning and construction in the early 1960s, the School Committee referred to the expansion project as a” challenge of change." Today, as we prepare to embark on a campus transformation project exactly 50 years later, our past provides ample guidance and perspective during this exciting and monumental time. The decision to erect Hunter Hall was the most fateful action of the School since the move to Rutherford Place a century earlier. The ambitious

Studies Program, provided new tools with which to inspire students where they excelled and better equip them where they had difficulty. Groundbreaking ceremonies took place in August 1963, and for ten days a huge steam shovel and trucks removed dirt and rock. Drilling and blasting disrupted the start of classes, but for the first months of the year the students were able to watch the skeleton struggle to its feet. By February 1964, the steel frame was erected, the floor welding finished, and the outlines of rooms and halls sparked the imaginations of all community members. A student at the time, Valentine

50 plan included 19 classrooms, lounges, labs, library, a new gym, art and music rooms, and offices. The impetus arose from a study of the School's educational goal, which argued that innovation and diversity were the community's source of strength. According to Meeting minutes, School leaders at the time perceived "a need for multiple levels of teaching and learning multiple quantities of courses available for different students in each class, calling for some mixing of age class groups in the different teaching levels — all with the goal of educating the child to the maximum of his or her capability." A larger school could offer different levels of disciplines — in physics, for example: "one for those who expect to continue as scientists, one for those who do not. A student need not be in all low groups or all high — he or she can better match his or her abilities." These new structures allowed teachers to test new methods such as open classrooms, independent study and mixed grades. The "multiple track," nongraded system, and Enriched

overwhelmingly Quakerish) ethos, was a collection of teachers who have taken up permanent positions in the memory and consciousness of a good many of my classmates,” Timothy wrote. “Like everyone I know who went to Friends then, I still carry all the faculty with me in grateful memory, but it is surprising to find that Earle Hunter is the teacher with whom, today at 71, I would most like to be able to sit down and talk over what is past, passing and (perhaps) to come.” On September 22, 1964, the new building was dedicated in the Meetinghouse. James Hester, President of New York University,

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(Hertz) Kass '64, remembers that she was fascinated with the construction and was very interested in documenting its progress. She served as the school yearbook’s editor and many of her photographs are featured in the 1964 edition. Despite graduating in June of 1964 — mere months before the new building opened its doors, Valentine said she never felt like she missed out on anything because the true Friends experience is not contingent of physical structures of the campus. However, she said the new space was badly needed as there was limited space to learn and to play. Timothy Foote ’44, who attended Friends pre-Hunter Hall, echoed a similar sentiment in a past issue of News from Friends: it’s not so much the place, but the people. “What made Friends wonderful, aside from a benign Quakerish (but not

told the audience that: "The Society of Friends has held since its founding certain strong principles of belief that today are equally vital to educational philosophy and practice. The Quakers have long stressed intellectual freedom, individual self-responsibility with a context of spiritual humanism and the development of the individual capacity both to discover and to understand the truth."

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Come together! reunion 2014

1. Joel Hochman '09, Teacher Nelson Shin, Tory Brewster '09 and Tyler McCully '09 2. Faculty Daphne Taylor and John Byrne 3. Carmen James â&#x20AC;&#x2122;04 and fiance Matt Schrimpf 4. Ilan Gold '14, Faculty Bob Rosen, Miles Arntzen '09 and Tommy Fagin '09

5. Faculti emeriti Paul Poet and Christina Moustakis with Ally Rosen, daughter of music teacher Bob Rosen 6. StoryCorps recording in session: Paul Supton and Jonathan Kaufman '74 7. Ruth Burlingame Georgiou '39 and daughters 8. Katie Emerson Hoss '84, AJ Berman Zabriskie '84 and Amanda Miller '84 9. Members from the Class of 1984

10. Members from the Class of 2009 11. Jodyann Blagrove '94 and Dorothy Sandler Meyer '94 12. Vivian Rosenthal '94, Annie Herrick â&#x20AC;&#x2122;94 13. Principal Bo Lauder, Principal Emeritus Rich Eldridge and Faculty Emeritus Paul Poet

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50 Years

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reunion 2014 The class of 1964 celebrated their 50th reunion on May 16, 2014. After a private luncheon in the Alumni Room, they met up with their Grade 4 pen pals. For three months, members of the Class of 1964 and Dot Cates' students exchanged letters. At the meeting, the students shared original poetry and other projects they had been working on throughout the year. The alumni told students what Friends was like in the 1950s and 1960s and brought a special treatâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;an audio recording of the their Grade 4 class recorder group performing on January 7, 1956 at the NY Philharmonic Young Peoples Concert, under the direction of Mrs. Winterbottom.

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faculty & staff emeritus

Philip Schwartz

Teri Hassid

Teacher of English and Classical Studies, English Department Chair, Dean of Students, Coach

Teacher of Language Arts and Social Studies, Head of Lower School

Years of Service: 1966â&#x2C6;&#x2019;2014

In overwhelming numbers, alumni claim Philip Schwartz to be one of the best teachers they have ever had. Perhaps this is because Philip is a perennial student himself. Friends students emulate his thirst for knowledge and the voracity with which he embraces new challenges and ways of learning. His dedication to his studies inspires his pupils to commit to their academic endeavors with joy. Without overtly directing them along this path, he has motivated a great many to follow in his footsteps as educators themselves. (The preceding was read during the Emeritus Ceremony on May 16.)

Years of Service: 1978-1982, 2004-2014

Respect and appreciation for her coworkers and students is central to Teriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s philosophy of education. She invited parents to attend Meeting for Worship, allowing lessons of reflection to continue from the Meetinghouse to home. She has led Meeting for Worship with accessible, thoughtful stories that illuminate the Quaker testimonies of integrity, equality, peace, simplicity, stewardship and community in ways that the children under her care can understand. Teri has been a strong administrator because she is first and foremost a teacher. (The preceding was read during the Emeritus Ceremony on May 16.)

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class notes know your reps cs

Class Secretary collects Class Notesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;send your news to this rep!

Class Agent fundraises for the Annual Fund

Reunion Chair coordinates Reunion

Alumni Council member provides strategic direction for alumni program

volunteer today Please contact Katherine Farrell at kfarrell@friendsseminary.org or at 212.979.5035 ext 106. Special thanks to Jessie Chaffee â&#x20AC;&#x2122;97 for editing Class Notes.

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Richard Hanau CA CS 300 West Farm Pond Road, #230 Framingham, MA 01702-6248 rlhanau@gmail.com

Eugenie Grey Laidler CS 45 Whitney Glen, #000103 Westport, CT 06880-3701

Marion Hausner Pauck CS 141 Del Medio Avenue, #206 Mountain View, CA 94040-1053 marion1426@att.net

As reported by Friends Seminary Director of Annual Giving Jenny Nichols: Richard Hanau hosted Friends staff member Jenny Nichols and her husband for lunch at his home in Framingham, MA. Jenny had visited Richard several years back at his home in Patterson, NY and was eager to introduce him to her husband and puppy. Richard gave them a full tour of his community and they enjoyed meeting many friends, including his friend Ann who joined them for lunch. Richard is a very active and popular member of the community.

1938 Alexander Watson CS 80 Loeffler Road, #G209 Bloomfield, CT 06002 ampwwatson@comcast.net Please see tribute to Anthony Gosse on page 45.

Please see tribute to Marion Cleveland Cohen and Margaret Weitz Hunter on page 45.

1944 Hope Franz Ligori CS 32-27 Murray Lane Flushing, NY 11354-3217 Please see tribute to Gerald Weinstein. Hope Franz Ligori writes, “I spoke to Joan Hitchcock-Rich who is in Lyme, CT (and to her daughter Pam). She is in good spirits and remembers our good times at Friends. Adele KostellowMorrill is still working! She tried several times to reach Helen SonnenbergTucker. I never got past “this is Helen Tucker, I will call you back”, but I am still waiting. We have lost Madge Morse-Muckenhaupt, if anyone has been in touch with her, please let Hope know.”

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Please see tribute to Sheila Brown Linz on page 45. Paul Coleman writes that he recently visited Stuart Robinson at his home in San Diego. They spent a pleasant several hours catching up and discussing the present and probable future state of the globe. Stu returned to competitive tennis, winning two recent tournaments. Shortly before visiting Stu, I returned to the US from delivering several invited talks at different medical centers in China. The changes from the first time I visited China about 30 years ago are totally amazing. The amazing things include, development of infrastructure, going from very few cars to huge traffic jams, major increases of people in the city. The first time I visited China, an academic medical center had one microscope. Now they have all the best, most expensive research equipment. In the US about 7% of proposals for medical research receive funding. In China the comparable figure is about

1941 Barbara Kugel Herne CS c/o Mary Herne 16650 Calle Haleigh Pacific Palisades, CA 90272 bherne@webtv.net Please see tribute to J. Richard Hunter on page 45.

1942 Margaret Dorkey McCormick CA 18 Still Street Brookline, MA 02446-7044 mdmtjm@comcast.net Richard Scully CS 2021 Tunlaw Road NW Washington, DC 20007-2220

Annual Fund Director Jenny Nichols, her husband Tim Popp, Richard Hanau '35 and his friend, Ann, in Framingham, MA.

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70%. But we have 11 aircraft carriers and more being built. China has one that they bought used from Russia. We kill people in other countries, China makes trade deals. China represents an interesting trade-off. They have one political party and when the Central Committee decides something should get done, it gets done. Political freedom is limited compared to the US. We have two major political parties and anyone can say anything, even if it is not true. Our politicians argue incessantly, seek political advantage and very little gets done. Marion Hausner Pauck writes, ”Jill Underhill Ligenza continues to work her farm and enjoy life in New Jersey with her husband Joe Ligenza. Jill continues to champion liberal causes. Marion Hausner Pauck delivered a major lecture titled “Paul Tillich Among the Jews” in June of this year. She spoke to graduate students and interested adults at the University of Vienna and a week later delivered the same lecture to the Roman Catholic Ecumenical Institute in Salzburg. Events in Europe in the meantime have overtaken what I experienced as a healthy atmosphere for Jews and Christians alike. I would be glad to hear news from anyone in our class.”

1946 Stuart Robinson CS 3635 7th Avenue, #1E San Diego, CA 92103-4343 trauts2@cox.net

Nancy Moore Freudenthal '50 and family during her visit to Friends in April 2014.

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1947 Jean Taylor Kroeber CS 226 St. John's Place Brooklyn, NY 11217-3406 jeantkroeber@gmail.com

1948 Anne Codding Tonachel CS 26 Bethune Street New York, NY 10014 ahtonachel@aol.com Please see tribute to John B. Rehm on page 45.

1950 Please see tribute to Henri Caldwell and Antoinette Chevigny King on page 45. Nancy Moore Freudenthal writes that she visited Friends from her home in Texas on April 25. Accompanied by her children and their spouses, Nancy was in town to celebrate her birthday.

1951 Stephen J. Chinlund CS 445 West 19th Street, PH-D New York, NY 10011-3844 stephenchinlund@verizon.net Please see tribute to Sally Lydgate on page 45. Stephen J. Chinlund writes, “Dear Classmates, Life continues to be astonishingly full! My indebtedness to Friends continues stronger than ever. I think of the school’s commitment to simplicity, silence and the endless riches of human creativity at every turn of my days. My play about two old people who fall in love has been turned into a musical and I would love to share it with any of you, or your friends, who are able to receive it by computer. (I continue to be a big klutz when it comes to ecommunication.) I am giving my course, “Happy Surprises in Later Life” one more time in NYC this fall. Everyone welcome! No cost. I hope to give one more show of my watercolors, this time featuring

new work from trips to New Mexico and Oxford. It continues to be as utterly absorbing as ever. My three children and three grand-children are ever more delightful. Help me to explain that, fellow classmates! It is beyond words: the joy of simply looking into their eyes and feeling the lovely potential that lies there! I feel very thankful for good health; my “new” knees are now 22 years old and showing no trace of wearing out; I still can see close-up with the lens in my left eye and distance with the lens in my left eye. One of the 40% lucky ones. I look forward to seeing you at Reunion.”

1952 Martha Manheim Green AC CS 2 Montague Terrace Brooklyn, NY 11201-4105 marthamgreen@gmail.com Please see tribute to Peter Caldwell and Peter A. Rona on page 45.

1953 Nora Palen Roberts CS 4185 70th Street Circle East Palmetto, FL 34221 mom.nanny20@gmail.com

1954 Constance Black Engle CS 244 Englewood Drive Hendersonville, NC 28739-7429 connie.engle@gmail.com Judith Owen Bates Lopez CS 5630 Spring Watch San Antonio, TX 78247 retiredinsa@sbcglobal.net Constance Black Engle reports: Gay Sourian Cropper prepared a delicious supper for 3 classmates in May. Connie Black & Earl Engle were in NY for the annual book award at Bank Street College in memory of her parents, Jim & Irma Black. Dick & Yara Roberts were visiting NYC from Paraty, Brazil and Dick & Lucy Sallick arrived from Connecticut. Good company, good food, good visit. Harry Moses is working on a memoir, and his agent has sent

1955 Jackson R. Bryer CA CS RC 4205 Glenridge Street Kensington, MD 20895 jbryer@umd.edu

Gail Richards Tirana CS 203 West 81st Street, #6B New York, NY 10024-5802 gtirana@gmail.com Please see tribute to Joseph L. Sweeney on page 45. Gail Richards Tirana writes, “It is with sadness that we report the deaths of Bruce Morrell and Joe Sweeney. Bruce, whose death we just learned about, died suddenly in November, 2013. He left Friends before high school, but he and his wife Helene often joined our reunions. Bruce graduated from Yale and NYU, was a U.S. Navy veteran, and became a senior vice president at Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley. Our condolences go to Helene and his family, and we’ll miss him at our 60th this spring. Several classmates have written about Joe, who joined the class for high school (and see “Tributes” in this magazine). Their memories of Joe capture much about our Quaker education, this magazine’s theme. Jackson Bryer recalls that “Joe had his run-ins with faculty who did not always appreciate Joe’s sometimes original ways of learning. But for some faculty and many of us, Joe’s habit of huge enthusiasms and his plunges into learning about them seemed wonderful. I remember that at our graduation, Mr. Prinz, the principal, listing the accomplishments of the class, mentioned Joe’s set designs for the shows—and Liz Stearns’s father in the back of the Meetinghouse raised his fist in triumph, indicating that the rebel had finally gotten recognized!” Joe introduced us to 50’s “hip.” Arthur Goldschmidt says, “I admired Joe and I thought of him as being ‘cool.’ I deliberately bought slacks that resembled ones he wore. He loved music, helping to write many songs for our class play; and he had an impressive collection of jazz recordings, although both he and I were in awe of the collection belonging to Liz’s dad, the jazz historian Marshall Stearns. Joe was a wonderful guy and I will miss him more than I can express.” “Joe enjoyed his life and made life more interesting for all of us,” writes Peter Schrag. “For example, he made sure classmates saw pianist-humorist Victor Borge on Broadway. I didn’t even know who Borge was and now I can’t forget him. Joe was the consummate

New Yorker; he loved roaming the city. And he loved the school; if there was an event related to Friends, he could be relied on to be there. Joe became an architect, and in school he wrote a sophisticated critique of housing complexes, a story about returning to an apartment in Peter Cooper Village (where Joe actually lived), getting ready for bed, and waking up the next morning to find out he was in the wrong apartment.” Nan Krulewich Socolow remembers that “one of my great high school memories is of Joe reciting Dylan Thomas’s poems (in Joe’s inimitable voice)—’rage, rage, against the dying of the light’ and ‘and death shall have no dominion’ and ‘the force that through the green fuse drives the flower’—and it must have been in one of Wilcox’s profoundly terrific English classes. I see Joe in my mind’s eye as he recites these lines.” Joe loved those classes, and decades later noted that the works he read then were the best he’d ever read. For me, Joe has embodied much of what I valued about Friends: Respect for individuality (not mere tolerance), enthusiasm for interests and talents (and Joe had so many), seriousness and humor, concern for community. Some of Joe’s own views are reported by Katherine Farrell from a 2009 oral history interview with Joe, who as School Committee Clerk (head), 1993-1999, had intimate involvement with FS growth. “What most was unique about FS was the warm and fuzzy feeling, the lack of competitive spirit, which he described as a blessing but later sometimes a burden. He felt that Friends provided the type of environment that allowed him to thrive, but didn’t prepare him tremendously well for the real world because there wasn’t much competition—although he thinks he and his classmates were all better off. Joe thought that as the school has grown in diversity and size, it has become more ‘Quakerly,’ and that it will prepare students better for the real world with the introduction of a healthy dose of competition.”

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the proposal to publishers. The working title is “My Search for Truth, Justice and the Loch Ness Monster: A filmmaker’s journey.” He is also working on a documentary (and a book?) on what happened in Ferguson, which he finds is a microcosm of the racial divide in this country. Connie Black Engle attended the annual meeting of change ringers and had the opportunity to ring the tower bells at the Washington National Cathedral—quite an experience!! The view is spectacular! Then spent a week at Long Beach Island, NJ, the 60th anniversary of the 10 classmates meeting for the first time in their freshman dorm at Pembroke/Brown. Her community handbell ensemble is in its 20th year and plans 6 December concerts. Ginnie Payne DeForest and husband Win took a small ship Alaska cruise which gets up close to the big glaciers in Glacier Bay National Park, and near enough to see calving and the many shades of blue in the ice. There were 35 passengers with a staff of 25! In September, the family gathered at the DeForest home in Kirkland, WA to celebrate Win’s 80th birthday. They came from Connecticut and San Francisco and all had a wonderful time, including 10-month-old grandson Caleb. Leslie Hulme Heyboer reports from “paradise” (Los Aptos, CA) that there is hot, sunny weather, beautiful, but not watery, which is badly needed. Leslie leads two Hospice grief support groups weekly. Daughter Judy teaches pre-kindergarten at a high poverty school in Watsonville, using a play-based curriculum that is just too much fun, and gets them reading-ready before kindergarten. Judy’s sons are A students, one in high school, one in Jr. college. The older is working part time at the famous Santa Cruz Boardwalk, saving for a trip to Japan. Daughter Kathy is doing fiber art in Oregon and training three dogs. All is good! What are the rest of you doing?

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Catherine Munnell-Smith ’60 andSmith family at her twin grandsons' baptism in July in New York. Left to right: son Carter, husband Ras, Martin and Constantine, Cathie, daughter-in-law Ana, and center front Nicholas.

1956 Peter Filene CS 215 Markham Drive Chapel Hill, NC 27514 filene@email.unc.edu Please see tribute to Karl McMaster Jones on page 45.

1957 Stephen G. Rostand CA 3078 Overhill Road Birmingham, AL 35223-1246 srostand@uab.edu John Schwartz CS 126 East 16th Street, #4A New York, NY 10003-3501 john.schwartz@ag.ny.gov David E. Wartels CS 186 Jerry Brown Road, Unit 6314 Mystic, CT 06355 Please see tribute to John Arthur Goodman on page 45. Frederic J. Buse writes, “The Buse family had an interesting year. Just before Christmas, while on a coffee break from his job as a supervisory engineer for the Connecticut Department

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of Transportation, my son Malcolm’s car was hit head-on by a pickup track. He was extracted from his badly-damaged vehicle after fireman removed two doors and the roof. He was taken by ambulance to a local hospital and then transferred to Yale New Haven Hospital. He had a damaged left leg and hip as well as various cuts and bruises. A pin was inserted in his left knee from which were hung 25 lbs. of weight to keep his leg and hip immobilized. He was operated on by a team of skillful surgeons. His hip socket was repaired with two plates and ten screws. (Future airport security scans will be interesting.) He was transferred to a rehab facility near his home in Torrington, CT and recovered gradually with daily physical therapy. His wife Tina was delighted to have him close by and avoid a one hour winter drive to New Haven. In early January, he was sent home to continue recuperation. He used crutches and a walker (avoiding pressure on his left leg) and was able to get in and out of a car with difficulty. Susan and I visited several times. My other son and my grandchildren visit regularly. The workers’ compensation carrier arranged for a hospital bed in the downstairs guest room so Malcolm did not need to negotiate stairs. Malcolm returned to work in March with only a slight limp. Wow. On a much more pleasant note, this summer my mother-in-law celebrated her 100th birthday. A weekend-long series of dinners, lunches and parties were very well attended by her children, grandchild (Emlie), many other relatives and friends. While her mobility is somewhat limited, she is very alert and lively. She still drives short distances and partakes in a wide variety of music and entertainment options available during the season at Chautauqua. I hope all is well with you and your family.” From Helen Davis Chaitman: I am co-authoring a book and publishing it on my own website. Take a look: “JPMadoff: The Unholy Alliance Between America’s Biggest Bank and America’s Biggest Crook.” I am publishing it a chapter a month (yes, a la Dickens) on jpmadoff. com.

1958 Nicholas D. Etcheverry CS 95 Conant Street West Concord, MA 02154 braamore466@aol.com Thomas Munnell CS P.O. Box 1217 Marion, MA 02738 tcmunnell@gmail.com

1959 Frederic J. Buse CA 3 North Lane Loudonville, NY 12211-1629 fbuse@shggroup.com Helen Davis Chaitman CS 115 Fairview Road Frenchtown, NJ 08825-9740 hchaitman@bplegal.com

1960 Peter Linden AC 1 Sutton Place South, #9A New York, NY 10022-2471 pjlmd@lindenohana.com Catherine Munnell-Smith CA RC 23 Meeting Street Charleston, SC 29401 smith7cm@gmail.com Liz Lyons Stone CS 415 Ash Street Mill Valley, CA 94941 stone.elizabeth@sbcglobal.net Derek Van Hoorn CS 1741 Arlington Boulevard El Cerrito, CA 94530-2005 dvanhoorn24@yahoo.com Catherine Munnell-Smith writes, “Liz Peale Allen and I had dinner together when Liz came down to stay with John and Dianne Avlon in Charleston in October. It was fun and quite enjoyable as Liz and I regaled our dinner companions with a description of growing up in New York and going to Friends Seminary. No one else had any news this time around, but classmates are indicating interest in attending our 55th reunion in May 2015.”

Barbara Hertz Burr CS 55 Hemenway Drive Canton, MA 02021 wburr6@verizon.net

1962 Steve Lipmann CA 201 East 17th Street, #23B New York, NY 10003-3680 shlipmann@gmail.com Please see tribute to Jean Seligmann on page 45.

1963 David Lowry CS 6501 City Place Edgewater, NJ 07020 davilowry@gmail.com Please see tribute to Thomas E. Weyer on page 45. Harry Harding writes, “I have finished my five-year term as Dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia, having decided that spending fifteen of the last eighteen years in full-time university administration, although really enjoyable and rewarding, was enough. So I’m “returning to the faculty,” but in an unusual way. On January 1, I will take up a dual appointment, devoting half of my time (all of it in Hong Kong) to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and half of my time (some in Hong Kong, some in Charlottesville) to UVA. I’ll be teaching and writing at both universities, but in Hong Kong I will be helping UVA expand its relations with alumni, parents, prospective students, and university partners in Asia, and helping HKUST develop a new executive education program in leadership and public policy as part of their new Institute on Public Policy and Administration. This new appointment will enable me to combine my longstanding interests in China and Asia with my more recent interests in public policy and civic leadership. Also, it will enable Shirley and me finally to be to-

1964 Barbara Carey CS 166 East 96th Street, #8-A New York, NY 10128 careybarbaraj@gmail.com Valentine Hertz Kass AC 125 Wolfe Street Alexandria, VA 22314 vkass@comcast.net

1965 Scott Garren CS RC 135 Spring Lake Road Cuttingsville, VT 05738 scott@garrenshay.com

Peter Michaelson CA 1520 Spruce Street, #500 Philadelphia, PA 19102 pnmichaelson@yahoo.com Please see tribute to Charles Yeager on page 45.

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gether all year round, and will allow me to spend more time with my son Jamey, daughter-in-law Vicky, and granddaughter Emma, who live in Shanghai, a short flight away. If anyone plans a visit to Hong Kong, please let me know. Or if there are any Friends alumni here in Hong Kong, I’d love to meet them as well.”

Compiled by Pierre A. Lehu: The biggest news from our class was the untimely death of another of our classmates, Charles Yeager. Charles was a “lifer” starting in kindergarten. His brother William was in our class in elementary school but then switched to another school. Mitty remembers that in those early years she and Charles were “boyfriend and girlfriend” and would play cowboys and Indians at Glenn Nemhauser’s house. Joanna said she spoke to him about five years ago. He talked to her about his time in Vietnam in the military but said that he couldn’t reveal too much as it was still top secret and then “he would have to kill me.” As we all are busy turning 65, I suppose it’s inevitable that we can expect more of such sad news but for the moment I wish we could take a break.

Please see tribute to Elizabeth Lunning on page 45.

1966 Anne Shapero Adler CS 938 Lake Avenue Greenwich, CT 06831-3032 anneadler11.11@gmail.com Judy Adams Anderson enjoyed a visit with close friend Tricia Jones ’67 at Pig and Prince in Montclair, NJ on September 20, 2013. On April 14, 2014, the Rothchilds visited Judy in her kindergarten classroom at Friends. Pictured with Judy are Jenny Rothchild Rittberg ’00, her daughter Amalia, Emeritus Donna Rothchild and Lee Rothchild ’98.

1967 Pierre Lehu CS 153 78th Street Brooklyn, NY 11209-2913 pierre@pierrelehu.com

TOP Judy Adams Anderson '66 and Tricia

Jones '67 in Montclair, NJ in April 2013.

BOTTOM Judy Adams Anderson ’66 in her

classroom at Friends with Jenny Rothchild Rittberg '00, her daughter Amalia, Emeritus Donna Rothchild and Lee Rothchild '98.

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By the way, the news about Charles was discovered by Jennie (DiFrancesco), who only recently has been in contact and even more recently started using computers. Wish the reason for these contacts hadn’t been regarding such sad news but glad to have her back in the fold, so to speak. Alan Antopol writes: Ken Wang and I met at Friends on Phil Schwartz’s last day to give him a gift certificate to Old Town (Pierre’s good suggestion), where he is a highly respected habitue. We located Phil and his wife at a table in the Meetinghouse yard. They were quite cordial, and we all had a good time reminiscing. Ken recalled Phil coaching him on the soccer team. Phil fondly remembers our class, and even the movie we made. We found out that he had been ranked in the top ten in squash in the 55 and over division. Among other retirement activities,

he will be writing a book about another patron of the Old Town who passed away. Thanks to everyone who chipped in for the gift. Glen Nemhauser reports: I have been in touch with Stephanie Van Horn ’63 & Richard Spencer ’66. They both live close to me in Northern California. We all survived the major 6.0 Napa earthquake on August 24th with very minor damage. Mary Jane (Grossman) Anderson writes: I have been asked to be part of the mastermind team for a new company, EM Squared, whose mission is to end childhood malnutrition through private enterprise by marketing a food bar. For every box of bars sold, a box is given to an at-risk child. The company grew out of a conversation among Muhammad Yunus, creator of microloans and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, a US philanthropist ,and Vicente Fox, past president of Mexico. This Social Entrepreneur model combines the best of the philosophy of service we learned at Friends with private enterprise. Look for us in upcoming weeks and months in the press. At the end of October, Ken and Maureen Dodge travel to Costa Rica for a destination wedding of their daughter, Jessica. Ken has been busy booking assorted adventures - zip-lining, ATVing - to try to duplicate the thrills of the trip we all took there together in 2008. My wife Joanne and I recently returned from a trip to the Pacific NW. Beautiful country and great food and drink. Hard to have a bad meal so not an area I’d recommend if you’re trying to keep your weight down! As I write this, I’m working on three books, all heading towards completion but it’s taking a while. When all is said and done I’ll be at 25 published books. Thank you Mrs. Fischer-Northrup for forcing me to learn how to BS a 40-page paper.

1968 TOP Carolyn Ward ’74 to accompany her

news — it's a self-declared selfie of Carolyn '74, Paul Reeder, Peter Hardin '70. BOTTOM Jonathan Holtzman '74 and Marcia Hochman '74 at Reunion. OPPOSITE PAGE Jonathan Holtzman ’74 , Jonathan Kaufman, Peter Jenkins, Ivy Baer Sherman, Cole Kendall, Ann Schube, David Hochman.

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Sandy Baum CA 161 East Chicago Avenue, #45C Chicago, IL 60611-6679 sbaum@skidmore.edu Penny Craven CS 1550 York Avenue, #7B New York, NY 10028-5972 penny@cravenfilms.com Barbara Kates-Garnick CA

289 Marlborough Street, #2 Boston, MA 02116 bkatesgarnick@gmail.com

1969 Michael Beckerman CS Professor and Chair of Music 24 Waverly Place, #268 New York, NY 10003 michael.beckerman@nyu.edu Daniel Conrad CS 2 Townsend Street, #1-902 San Francisco, CA 94107 dannoconrad@yahoo.com

1970 Belinda Broido CS RC 300 West 14th Street New York, NY 10014-5002 belindabroido@gmail.com

1971 Mindy Fischer CS 275 West 96th Street, #26B New City, NY 10025 yehudamom@yahoo.com Laurence Seegers CS 25 Parkway Katonah, NY 10536 jemskatonah@optimum.net Laura A. Ward AC CS 510 East 23rd Street, #5F New York, NY 10010 laura.a.ward@gmail.com Laura A. Ward writes, “It is hard to believe that most of us have entered our seventh decade. Isn’t sixty is the new forty? I just began a three–year term on the Friends Seminary Alumni Council. The Council was established several years ago to strengthen relationships among alumni with the Friends Seminary Community. I look forward to learning more about the current Friends Seminary. If you have any questions about the School, its curricula, faculty, or staff, just send me an email at lward@ nycourts.gov. On January 1, 2014, I was reappointed to another 10-year term and will continue to sit as an Acting Supreme Court Justice in the Criminal term in New York County. In May 2014,

1972 Emily Medine CS 1800 Beechwood Boulevard Pittsburgh, PA 15217-1703 emilymedine@aol.com Pamela Perkins CS 340 East 51st Street, #7K New York, NY 10022-7819 pamelaperkinsny@gmail.com

1973 Barbara Michelson CS 89 Steele Road Peterborough, NH 03458 highlylikely@gmail.com

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my sister Carolyn Ward ’74 and I traveled around South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Botswanna. It was the trip of a lifetime. Anyone interested in seeing 5000 photographs? Now that Mindy Fisher’s son, Daniel, has graduated from high school, Mindy is back studying full time to become a Rabbi. Daniel spent a year volunteering as a medic in Israel before heading off to Yale. Tim Scudder wrote that “Phil Schwartz’s retirement really telescoped time” for him. Tim’s career in medical research has morphed into information technology. During the last 15 years, Tim has been in the pharmaceutical industry. He is currently working for Pfizer developing and automating process for the global IT organization. Tim and his wife Deb celebrated their 36th wedding anniversary this year. They are “blessed” with three adult daughters, Kristen, Caitlin, and Annie and are involved in their church. Tim’s last two years have been particularly busy as he served on the team that ran their church’s $20 million dollar construction project in Fairfield, Conn. In November 2013, Richard Horwitz, Barry (alias Richard) White, Lindsay White, and David Medine visited Nelson Chang ’70’s ranch in Montana. Richard reported that they had “a nostalgic and joyful weekend together. Everybody is doing great” and looking forward to our 45th reunion. Richard, who was given two years to live 20 years ago writes the he “can honestly say it is great to grow old together.” I second that!”

Lisa Ernest Mierop CS 120 Walnut Street Montclair, NJ 07042 ljmierop@yahoo.com

1974 Norman Feit AC Goldman, Sachs & Co. 200 West Street New York, NY 10282-2198 norman.feit@gs.com Kenneth Grossman CS 18 Norfolk Road Great Neck, NY 11020-1716 kensgrossman@gmail.com Ivy Baer Sherman CS 45 Park Avenue, #301 New York, NY 10016 ivybaer@vintagezine.com Ivy Baer Sherman writes, “We have a mayor in our midst—congratulations to Greg Letica on his re-election as Mayor of Village of Asharoken, on Long Island, NY. Carolyn Ward and her sister, Laura ’71 “spent much of May in South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe. Our focus was going on safari. What a magical experience it was! And that was the reason I missed our 40th reunion. For more comments on the trip, see Laura’s take in Class Notes from ’71.” Stateside, Carolyn and Peter Hardin ’70, took a day trip from DC to Allentown, PA to visit Paul Reeder. “He showed us around the retirement community where he lives, we saw part of the Muhlenberg

campus and downtown Allentown, and went out for lunch. Paul remains intellectually engaged and the three of us had a lovely time catching up.” Laney McHarry is “still working as a social worker for Montgomery Hospice, hard to believe it’s been 10 years since we moved down! Cancelled my subscription to The Washington Post after they printed the 4th article in a year trashing hospices in general. Wrote them an irate letter to boot but they declined my suggestion to publish it. Sigh. Am still enjoying The New York Times and The New Yorker, though. My wife, Kate, and I just got back from a week away near Kitty Hawk, NC. Beautiful weather, dog-friendly beaches. With our 12 and 15-year-old goddaughters, I actually took part in: hang gliding, parasailing, and kayaking! Am now recuperating....” Deirdre Donchian sends an update from Maine: “As much as I love and value the arts, it has been very challenging making a consistent living in the craft market even though when I started it was something that could be done. Changing landscape in US manufacturing, world trade, down turns in the economy all affected the little guy too. When my children were younger and in a Waldorf School I discovered two alternative therapies for people who struggled with cognitive and executive functioning issues, such as dyslexia, ADD/ADHD, memory recall, sensory integration. I remembered how much I was attracted to psychology and sociology in my late teens but due to my undiagnosed learning is

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sues never believed I could make it in college studying in those fields. I ended up working for the two therapeutic companies mentioned above. My children and I benefited from these therapies. The jobs ended and I had to figure out a way to stay in the field of cognitive therapy and mental health. So of course more education was the answer. Now I am in the last stretch of getting an MSW (Master of Social Work) degree and will be able to practice with supervision and soon after that have my own practice. What a journey it has been. Taking statistics for the first time—yikes!! (B+ in case you want to know). Discovering that I can be a good academic student and make a contribution to people who struggle. Challenging as this has been, it has also been life affirming and a tremendous growth experience. I still can’t spell and if it weren’t for the computer and the assistive technologies of the smart phone, I do not think I would be doing as well as I am. These are great tools that I look forward to using when helping my clients. I do plan on focusing my practice on the community with Learning Challenges and all that that brings. The jewelry will then be something I make for fun. This May/ June, my daughter will graduate High School, my son will be getting an associates degree, and I will get a Masters degree. So we all get to celebrate together. Woo Hoo!” Our thanks to Norman Feit for hosting two evenings at his home in honor of our 40th Reunion—one last May during Reunion Weekend, the other in September. Scheduling conflicts unfortunately interfered with my attending Norman’s events, though I (Ivy Baer Sherman) did attend Reunion Day at Friends back in May— along with David Hochman, Cole Kendall, Ann Schube, Marcia Hochman, Peter Jenkins, Jonathan Holtzman, and Jonathan Kaufman. We reminisced over lunch and then headed into the Meetinghouse— the heart of it all— for silent meeting and a program honoring retiring faculty/staff —among them this year, the ever eloquent Mr. Schwartz. On that note, here’s to our 45th!

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1976

Delice Donchian Bolotin RC 150 Pear Tree Point Road Darien, CT 06820 deliceb@optonline.net

Suzanne Telsey CS 400 East 85th Street, #18B New York, NY 10028 suzanne_telsey@mcgraw-hill.com

Francesca Bruno CS 75 King Road Middle Grove, NY 12850 franbruno1017@yahoo.com

William Webb CS P.O. Box 420 Old Saybrook, CT 06475-0420 bill@billwebb.net

Marshall Heinberg RC 120 East 79th Street, #14A New York, NY 10021 marshallheinberg40@gmail.com David Hirst RC 14/ F Wing Cheong Building 18 Hennessy Road Wan Chai Hong Kong dhirst@hotmail.com Cella Irvine CS RC 257 West 17th Street, #3D New York, NY 10011-5364 cella@cellairvine.com Adam Owett RC 41 Warren Street, #PH6 New York, NY 10007-1072 adam.o@arcadecg.com Katherine A. Weil RC 299 Riverside Drive, #6D New York, NY 10025-5288 kweil@att.net Robin DeSilva writes, “It is with great pride and happiness that I announce the birth of my 1st grandson; his mother is: Risa DeSilva-Wilson, my daughter; the niece of Pia DeSilva, Class of 1977; his father is: Keenan Lovelace; the godchild of Derrick Gibbs, Class 1973, and the godchild of Susan R. JonesJohnson, Class of 1975! Name of Child: Maximus Ramses DeSilva Lovelace Date of Birth: Sept 18, 2014, 5:21AM Place: St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Hospital Ctr., NYC, NY 6lbs., 9oz., 19” long. Family is nesting in Jersey City, NJ. Proud Grandmother, Robin DeSilva is being called GG: Gorgeous Grandma!!”

1977 David Greenbaum CS 644 San Fernando Avenue Berkeley, CA 94707-1650 dag@berkeley.edu Peter Moulton CS 140 Riverside Drive, #PH-C New York, NY 10024 petermoulton@prodigy.net

1978 Andrew Owen AC 257 Castro Street San Francisco, CA 94114 drewster.owen@gmail.com Antonia Torres-Ramos CS 1484 Evans Farm Drive McLean, VA 22101 tonietal@yahoo.com

1979 Darcy Vassiliadis Flanders CS 2617 Farsund Drive Yorktown Heights, NY 10598-3341 darcy@baselinedesign.com Victoria Wightman Pierce CS 163 West 18 Street, #4B New York, NY 10011-4144 victoria.pierce.186@facebook.com

1980 Karen Fittinghoff CS 473 West End Avenue, #8B New York, NY 10024 karenfittinghoff@gmail.com Michael Golden CS RC 65 Springbrook Road Springfield, NJ 07081 magolden@att.com

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Keith A. Smith CS 8 Harris Street Cambridge, MA 02140 keith.smith@aya.yale.edu

1984

Robin DeSilva '75 is pleased to announce the birth of her first grandson, Maximus Ramses DeSilva Lovelace. Sarah Edmunds Goodwin CS RC 1500 Twiford Place Charlotte, NC 28207 scegoodwin@mac.com

Suzanne Gottlieb Calleja CS 5450 SW 58th Avenue Miami, FL 33155 scalleja@palmertrinity.org Alexandra D. Levinsohn CS 53 Greenwich Avenue, #1 New York, NY 10014 adl@core.com Rebecca Moore CS 2710 Downing Street, SE Huntsville, AL 35801-2247 edna.freefall@gmail.com

1987 Ellen Deutsch Diamond CS 31 Hope Street Rumford, RI 02916 ellen_diamond@me.com Josh Isay AC 789 West End Avenue, #8C New York, NY 10025-5431 joshisay@gmail.com Robin Weiswasser Markus CS 60 East 8th Street, #21E New York, NY 10003 robinjmarkus@gmail.com Leslie Werthamer Rottenberg CS 144 West 11th Street, #2 New York, NY 10011 LesRotten@gmail.com

1988

1981

1985

Cory Diamond CA 266 President Avenue Providence, RI 02906 corydiamond@gmail.com

Rachel Jones CS 5048 West 95th Street Inglewood, CA 90301 drrachel@sbcglobal.net

Nina Christopher CA RC 7 East 85th Street, #9D New York, NY 10028 ninachristopher@gmail.com

Alexander Kriney CS 640 Clayton Street San Francisco, CA 94117-2927 alexander.kriney@kaspersky.com

1982

Anne E. Kner CS 201 Clinton Avenue, #15G Brooklyn, NY 11205-3564 akner@mindspring.com

Wyeth McAdam CS 2606 Saint Margaret Court Alameda, CA 94501 wyethmc@gmail.com

Robert Longley CS 407 Norwood Road Staunton, VA 24401-1849 roblongley1@gmail.com

Alexandra Mairs Tart CA 317 Degraw Street Brooklyn, NY 11231 alexandratart@me.com

1986

Susannah Friedman Vickers CA 209 Lincoln Place, #6A Brooklyn, NY 11217 susannahvickers@gmail.com

Elizabeth Baer CS 32 Hubbard Street Lenox, MA 01240-2330 lizajane@gmail.com Sarah Halley Finn CS 2437 Moreno Drive Los Angeles, CA 90039 sarahfinn@earthlink.net Marc Rachman AC CA 150 West 26th Street, #603 New York, NY 10001 marc.rachman@gmail.com

Schuyler Allen-Kalb CA CS 169 Engert Avenue, #1 Brooklyn, NY 11222 skylarock68@gmail.com

1983

Rachel Shapiro Axinn AC CA 420 12th Street, #F1R Brooklyn, NY 11215-5188 rachelaxinn@att.net

Jason Ablin CA 8832 Pickford Street Los Angeles, CA 90035 jablin45@gmail.com

Nat Caldwell CS 35 1/2 Convent Square Burlington, VT 05401 nat_caldwell@yahoo.com

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Martha Ehrenfeld CS 1379 Sixth Avenue San Francisco, CA 94122-2503 marmac@aol.com

1989 Bess Abrahams CS 401 10th Street, #2 Brooklyn, NY 11215 bessabrahams@mac.com Weston Konishi AC CA 2905 West Calvert Street Baltimore, MD 21218 wkonishi@gmail.com

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Samantha Liebman CA 350 East 62nd Street, #4E New York, NY 10065 samantha.liebman@gmail.com

1990

1995

Nico Marcellino CS 333 East 30th Street, #16-J New York, NY 10016 nico@adlubow.com

Benjamin Ensminger-Law CS 111 Wooster Street, #6C New York, NY 10012 ben77el@gmail.com

Belkis Rodriguez Talarico CS 1 Greene Street, #112 Jersey City, NJ 07302 beltala@hotmail.com

Seth Goldberger CA RC 285 Riverside Drive, #12G New York, NY 10025 goldberger@gmail.com

Adam J. Honig CS 1234 Knickerbocker Avenue Mamaroneck, NY 10543 adam.honig@gmail.com

Sarah Greenbaum CS 4333 SW Mills Street Seattle, WA 98136-1746 sarahgreenbaum@hotmail.com

Andrew M. Laird CS 22 Florence Avenue Milford, CT 06460 andrewmlaird@gmail.com

Barrie Koegel RC 15 Clarkson Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11226-1998 bckoegel@yahoo.com

2000

1991 Nicholas Testa CS 1424 North Ogden Drive Los Angeles, CA 90046 nicholas.testa@gmail.com

1992 Jessica Wapner CS 434 7th Street, #4 Brooklyn, NY 11215-3655 jwapner@gmail.com Alexandra Zissu CS 152 Butterville Road New Paltz, NY 12561 az@alexandrazissu.com

1993 Sandra Jelin Plouffe AC CS 112 East 19th Street, #9F New York, NY 10003 sandra.jelin.plouffe@gmail.com Helen Rhim CS 1623 3rd Avenue, #8J New York, NY 10128 helen_rhim@yahoo.com

1994 Jodyann Blagrove CS 5303 Avenue J Houston, TX 77011 jodyb30@gmail.com Stephanie Davis Hazelkorn CA CS 239 East 79th Street, #7N New York, NY 10075 shazelkorn@gmail.com

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Robin McKinney CA 807 East 3rd Street Royal Oak, MI 48067 robin.mckinney@gmail.com

Indira Wiegand CS 524 East 13 Street, #E2 New York, NY 10009-3510 indinyc222@verizon.net

Bonnie Bucknell Morris CS 201 Lock Street Chesapeake City, MD 21915 bbucknell@hotmail.com

1996 Sarah Cox CS 10286 East 31st Avenue Denver, CO 80238 sarilc@hotmail.com

1997 Brian Davis CS 199 State Street, #2A Brooklyn, NY 11201 brian.davis25@gmail.com

Lee Rothchild CS 30 Waterside Plaza, #7E New York, NY 10010 leerothchild@gmail.com

1999

Lisa Hofstetter Frank CS 11 Fifth Avenue, #2T New York, NY 10003 lisa.hofstetter@gmail.com David Gilbert CS 3278 Wilshire Boulevard, #803 Los Angeles, CA 90010 davidwgilbert@gmail.com Fred T. Isquith, Jr. CS 103 East 84th Street, #2C New York, NY 10028 freddyisquith@gmail.com Russell Labiner CS 430 West 24th Street, #12F New York, NY 10011-1339 rustyscott@gmail.com

2001

Janelle Garrett CS 3340 Toledo Terrace, #581 Hyattsville, MD 20782 janellegarrett@yahoo.com

Ashley Herriman CS 33 Spruce Street Great Neck, NY 11021 aherriman@gmail.com

1998

Joey Shapiro CS 110 East 13th Street, #5B New York, NY 10003 joanna.shapiro@gmail.com

Samuel Blake Hofstetter CS 11 Fifth Avenue, #2T New York, NY 10003 thisissam@gmail.com

2002

2005

Alex Agnant CA 45 West 132nd Street, #7K New York, NY 10037 alexagnant@gmail.com

Cole Blumstein CS 55 East 11th Street New York, NY 10003 coleblumstein@gmail.com

Joanna Hunter August AC CS 105 East 63rd Street, #8D New York, NY 10065 joanna.h.august@gmail.com

Nusrat Chowdhury CS 2566 Woodhull Avenue Bronx, NY 10469 nuspurple@aol.com

Lena Bell CA 1210 Massachusetts Avenue NW, #1208 Washington, DC 20005 lenafbell@gmail.com

Richard Barbieri CA CS 433 East 83rd Street, #3D New York, NY 10028 richard13@aol.com

Sam Rabinowitz CS 562 West End Avenue, PH A New York, NY 10024 samuel.rabinowitz@gmail.com

Hayden A. M. Hatch CA 151 West 25th Street, #8F New York, NY 10001 hamhatch@gmail.com

Nicolaas van der Meer CS 3865 Revere Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90039-1634 nic.vandermeer@gmail.com

2003 Hallie Davison AC CS 132 Havemeyer Street, #3C Brooklyn, NY 11211 hallie.davison@gmail.com Eric Obenzinger CA 235 West 102nd Street, #10G New York, NY 10025 obenzinger@gmail.com Danny Willner CS 75 Saint Alphonsus Street, #1911 Boston, MA 02120 dawillner@gmail.com

2004 Mary Gaynin Agnant CA 45 West 132nd Street, #7K New York, NY 10037 mary.agnant@gmail.com Jennifer Conrad CS 145 East 15th Street, #16U New York, NY 10003 jennyconrad1@gmail.com

2006 Aaron Bloch CS 266 East Broadway, #B906 New York, NY 10002 amb3kb@virginia.edu Nailah Cummings CA 11712 224th Street Cambria Heights, NY 11411-1704 nai.cummings@gmail.com Zuzanna Drozdz CS 3629 Powelton Avenue, #5 Philadelphia, PA 19104 zuz.drozdz@gmail.com Cory L贸pez CS 202 Rivington Street, #3A New York, NY 10002-2536 cory.levine.lopez@gmail.com Cameron McCully CS 42 Beach Street, #7D Boston, MA 02111 ckm32@cornell.edu Naledi Semela AC CA 1810 Third Avenue, #B 5-A New York, NY 10029 nellysemela@gmail.com

2007

Legacy Russell CS 315 West 98th Street #3A New York, NY 10025 legacyrussell@gmail.com

Rachel Colberg-Parseghian CS 301 East 21st Street, #14HN New York, NY 10010 cprachel88@gmail.com

James Sumers CS 7 Soldiers Field Park, #7D Boston, MA 02163 james.sumers@gmail.com

Taylor Owens CS 440 West 21st Street New York, NY 10011 tro2102@gmail.com

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Molly Seegers CS 222 Park Avenue South, #9A New York, NY 10003 jem.seegers@gmail.com

2008

Jackson Sinder CS 844 South Curson Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90036 jacksonsinder@gmail.com Alex Winter CS 234 West 14th Street, #2F New York, NY 10011 awinter@forosgroup.com

2009 Francesca Acocella AC 631 Bloomfield Street Hoboken, NJ 07030-4912 fracocella@gmail.com Claire Brennan CS 449 East 14th Street, #8D New York, NY 10009-2735 cbren3591@gmail.com Tory Brewster CA 345 West 13th Street, #3D New York, NY 10014 vcbrewster@gmail.com Lauren Chin CS 100 Beekman Street, #23C New York, NY 10038-1817 laurenchin212@gmail.com Allison Hartel CS 1725 York Avenue, #18E New York, NY 10128 allieh123456@aol.com Francesca Acocella writes that she is in her second year at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. She is focusing on constitutional law and LGBT rights. She worked last summer at Lambda Legal. She also currently serves on the Friends Alumni Council and loves

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being more connected to Friends. Nicki Zenker writes that she “is currently working at Horizon Media as a brand strategist on the Burger King Account. I am running the NYC Marathon on November 2 and happily live on the UES with Claire Brennan!” Emma Maitland is working at Town Residental right next to Friends as a real estate agent. She is also learning how to tend a garden. Josephine Messer graduated from Cooper Union and is spending time painting. Faye Tsakas works for Delos (with Natasha Franck ’06!). We focus on sustainability and health in the built environment. She dabbles in filmmaking on the side. Julia Dratel writes, “I’ve been working full-time at Drag City Records (in Chicago) for about a year. It’s a lot of fun— our release schedule has been pretty jam-packed for the past few months (Ty Segall, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, White Fence...), with a ton of our artists touring through town, too. Let me know if you’re ever in the Midwest. Samantha Tharler is pursuing a career as an art teacher and is getting handson experience at The Anderson School. Erica Silverstein: I just moved back to NYC after graduating in May, and I’m currently applying to graduate schools in special education. In the meantime, I’ve been having a blast helping out in a bunch of classrooms, ranging from elementary school reading to computer skills for seniors. Tory Brewster: I graduated with a Bachelors of Architecture from Syracuse University in May, and am now an Assistant Project Manager at Sciame Construction. Emma Weinstein started working as the assistant director at the Dillon Gallery in Chelsea. D’Meca Homer: I’m approaching my 1.5 year anniversary working for Civic Entertainment Group as an account coordinator on the NFLN account. I’ve been traveling quite a bit this fall executing fan activations at stadiums to promote the NFLN’s Thursday Night Football program.”

2010 Ellen Mayer CS 825 Carroll Street Brooklyn, NY 11215 ellenrebecca.mayer@gmail.com

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Alexander Shepherd CS 165 East 32nd Street, #6E New York, NY 10016 xander214@gmail.com

Jordan Kasarjian CS 67 Spear Street Millis Room 220, Box 374 Burlington, VT 05405 jkasarjian1@gmail.com

2011

Shivanii Manglani CA 605 Asbury Circle P.O. Box 124278 Atlanta, GA 30322 shivanii.manglani@gmail.com

Myles Davis CS 738 East 22nd Street Brooklyn, NY 11210-1120 modavis@students.colgate.edu Alison Weiss CS 60 East 8th Street, #8K New York, NY 10003-6538 alisonjweiss@aol.com

2012 Tamar Davis CA 404 East 16th Street Brooklyn, NY 11226 tamar.sarai@gmail.com Simon Pritchard CA 400 Riverside Drive, #3B New York, NY 10025-1851 spritchard527@gmail.com Patrick Smith CS 315 West 23rd Street, #8B New York, NY 10011 pshizzle1284@gmail.com Sarah Tisch CA Box 2587 Class of 2016 815 North Broadway Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 stisch@skidmore.edu Elizabeth Weiss CS 205 West 89th Street, #8H New York, NY 10024-1835 lizzykweiss@aol.com

2013 Audrey Engelman CS 4830 Campus Box Elon, NC 27244 audreyrengelman@gmail.com Christian Hoyos CA 1262 Paresky Center Williamstown, MA 01267 hoyos.christian.hoyos@gmail.com

Dyulani Thomas CA 1596 E115th Street, #202D Cleveland, OH 44106 akolebi@gmail.com Aren Lawton writes that “I stopped traveling and am actually living in the real world again. After graduation, instead of going straight to school I took a gap year. For the first part of the year, I went to South Africa and worked with an eco-tourism company doing research on whales and dolphins as well as working in a preschool in the local community. For the second part of the year I did a gap year program at the Cape Eleuthera Institute (which Friends sends students to over spring break for shorter programs) where I studied marine biology further, got scuba certified, and got to handle and study sharks, sea turtles, and conch. But now firmly back in the real world, I’m at Ithaca College where I row crew and am majoring in Environmental Science.” Evelyn Mandel just declared a double major in Economics and Comparative Literature and has been reading a lot. She’s been enjoying corresponding with Chris Doire. After a wonderful and busy freshmen year at Wesleyan University, Hannah Wolfe Eisner spent the summer video editing for CBS news online and is now managing a student-run campus restaurant, the Star & Crescent, where she gets to do adult things like write checks. Despite these practical “real world” experiences, Hannah is double majoring in English and Religion so she can talk about language and ideas and society forever. Rosa Shipley is at Kenyon College, double majoring in English and American Studies. She’s involved as a leader for the Outdoors Club and helps with the Horn Gallery, Kenyon’s student-run art and music gallery. Christian Hoyos writes that he’s “president of the Eph Business Association

here at Williams. I’m on the finance committee (we basically allocate funds to student organizations), and I’m deciding between econ, stat, and polisci for my major, loving williamstown. I was doing sales and marketing with Rustic Pathways in Costa Rica from end of May to mid-August this past summer and am looking for internship opportunities in NYC in financial services for the month of January. This summer, Simone Fillion-Raff spent two months in Hong Kong working at an investment bank. She is currently at McGill University in Montreal with an intent to study International Development Studies with a minor in Oceanic Studies. James Richardson writes, “I’m the Vice President for leadership and involvement of the InterResidential Hall Association, and the Assistant orientation coordinator.” He is also on the Rugby team. Amina Theis is working on starting a Quaker Meeting at Skidmore. She explains that she “needs more reflection time! It’s super busy here and I do meditation and yoga, which are great but they don’t allow interaction at all which I get every time during silent meeting, despite the silence. It also helps me concentrate my thoughts, which are generally all over the place. Some friends on campus also seem interested and it’s exciting to share Quakerism to people who would otherwise only think of oats when hearing about it.” For the past year or so, Perri Haser has been involved in the campaign to get Dartmouth to divest from the top fossil fuel companies, and its been really exciting to firstly learn more about divestment and secondly to learn about social activism in a concrete way.

2014 William Berg CA Mailbox 2867 Skidmore College 815 North Broadway Saratoga Springs, NY 12866-1632 wberg@skidmore.edu

Abigail Johnson CA Smith College 1 Chapin Way, #7763 Northampton, MA 01063 awjohnson@smith.edu Amanda Shepherd CS Village C West RHO Georgetown University 3700 O Street Washington, DC 20057 ais40@georgetown.edu

attending Middlebury in February, is spending her time off exploring Central America with the program Where There Be Dragons. Rose is currently in San Salvador, exploring the city, doing a homestay, and taking Spanish lessons. We are off to a great start class of 2014! Keep it up!

Alessandro Viviano CA Box #2517 University of Hartford 200 Bloomfield Avenue West Hartford, CT 06117-1599 avivmaster25@gmail.com Matthew Winter CS Box #403 Bates College Lewiston, ME 04240-6094 mwinter@bates.edu Matthew Winter reports: Hello Class of 2014! Most of us have been spending the first sixteenth of our college life adjusting to our new surroundings and meeting a ton of new people, yet some people have already gotten involved in their school’s activities! Jacob Lurye is in a jazz band at Harvard, and has gotten involved in the jazz radio station. Ilan Gold is learning how to do taekwondo at the University of Pennsylvania and Hana Koob has joined the Young Democrats club at Barnard. Both of your class reps, Amanda Shepherd and Matthew Winter, have gotten involved in their school’s chapter of J Street U at Georgetown and Bates respectively. They will both be attending the Regional J Street Conference at Tufts this fall. Matthew also got the chance to put his trumpet skills to the test, when he played the shofar for the Bates Hillel group. We also have some athletes among us. Scott Kaufman is on his way to becoming a professional tennis player, as he has joined intramural tennis at Cornell. Will Berg is on the men’s soccer team at Skidmore, and says that “It has been an amazing experience, and while it is a 6-day a week time commitment it never feels like I am playing too much soccer”. The team is in the middle of their playoff race, and we wish him and the team good luck! Rose Adams, who will be

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[LEFT] J. Richard "Dick" Hunter ’41 [RIGHT] Marion Cleveland Cohen ’43

Anthony Gosse ’39 died early in the morning on Friday, April 18, 2014 at Harmony Hall in Columbia, MD. He was born August 21, 1921, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where his father, the late John Edward Mahoney, was comptroller of a large chemical company. His parents divorced when he was two years old and he was raised by his mother, the late Mary Shaler Gosse, in Greenwich Village, New York City. When he was 11, she renamed him Anthony Cabot Gosse; until then he had been John Mahoney, commonly known as "Sean" or "Sonny." In 1940, Anthony entered Princeton University on a scholarship. On the day of Pearl Harbor attack, he tried repeatedly to enlist, but was rejected because of poor eyesight. Anthony was later drafted, and served as a Second Lieutenant in the Medical Supply Corps in Louisville, Kentucky, supervising an all-black platoon. He retired from the military in 1945 because of an ulcer; graduated from Princeton in 1946 and entered graduate school at Columbia, majoring in English. In 1950, Anthony met Dey Erben and they were married March 1953. That year he moved to Providence, RI, where he worked as an Instructor at Brown University and their first child, Anthony Erben Gosse, was born. While at Brown, he coached the debate team to an Ivy League title. Their son, Henry (known as Van) was born in 1957, and their son, Charles was born in 1959. In 1960, as

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Anthony was finishing his Ph.D., he was hired as an assistant professor at Bucknell University, Lewisburg. Their daughter, Caroline was born in 1962. In 1969, Anthony took the first of many sabbaticals in London, England, after receiving tenure the year before. His family moved to New York City, and he was later divorced. In the 1970’s and 80’s, Anthony often acted in Bucknell productions, while continuing to teach and visit England nearly every year. He retired in 1991. Anthony also became a pistol marksman and avid gun collector, and joined the Norry Gun Club. In 2006, he moved to the RiverWoods assisted living facility, Lewisburg and later to assisted living places in Maryland near two of his children. Surviving are his children and their spouses, Anthony (Rong) Gosse, Van (Deborah) Gosse, Charles (Laura) Gosse, and Caroline (Stephen) Elmendorf; and seven grandchildren. J. Richard "Dick" Hunter ’41, age 90, of Tafton died Tuesday, May 13, 2014, at Ellen Memorial Health Care Center, Honesdale. He was preceded in death by his wife of 63 years, Margaret (Weitz) Hunter, in 2012. Born February 21, 1924, in New York City, NY, he was the son of the late Earle Leslie and Helen Wight (Wheeler) Hunter. He attended Friends Seminary where his father taught for 50 years. He then attended Cornell University before enlisting in the US Army in 1942. He served

in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. After the war, he returned to school and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from City College of New York. Dick worked as a dairy farmer, teacher, and carpenter and was a true "Jack of All Trades." He was a Palmyra Pike Townswhip Supervisor for 24 years and a 19-year member of the township planning commission. He was a life member and past secretary of the Tafton Fire Company. He was also honored as a Director Emeritus of the Hawley Public Library after serving on the library's board for years. He was a passionate rail enthusiast and was the caretaker of the Pioneer Coach at the Hawley Library. He had his own 1" scale railroad with both a steam engine and a diesel locomotive. For many years, he offered rides to children, including campers at Camp Oneka, which featured him and his train on its pamphlet. Dick also loved hiking the mountains of Maine, as well as traveling abroad with his beloved wife, Margaret. Dick was a member of Paupack United Methodist Church where he was also a member of the Church Choir. He was also a member of the Scranton Singers Guild of Wayne Choralaires. He is survived by one daughter: Helen Katherine Hunter of Ithaca, NY; one son: George Oliver Hunter and his wife Donna of Tafton; a granddaughter: Jessica Lee Hunter of New Haven, CT; a grandson: Eric Richard Crouthamel of Milwaukee, WI; one brother: James

tributes [LEFT] Margaret W. Hunter ’43 [CENTER] Gerald Weinstein ’44 [RIGHT] Sheila Brown Linz ’45

Hunter of Corning, NY; two sisters: Anne Hunter of Brooklyn, CT and Margaret DiGregorio of Park Ridge, NJ; and serveral nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by a brother, David Hunter. Marion Cleveland Cohen ’43, 87, of Tamworth, and formerly of Baltimore, Md., died at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center on Feb. 21, 2013 from injuries sustained in a fall. Known for her captivating charm and elegant style, Marion was the daughter of Francis Grover Cleveland and Alice Pardee Erdman. Her maternal grandparents were Charles R. Erdman, a Presbyterian minister, and Estelle Pardee, of Princeton, N.J. Her paternal grandparents were former president Grover Cleveland and first lady Frances Folsom Cleveland. Marion was born in Belmont, Mass., and moved with her parents to New York City where she graduated from Friends Seminary before attending Smith College and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. While in New York, she studied acting and modeling before settling into a career in the travel business. Her work took her throughout Europe where she met her husband, Fred Cohen, president of the Alfred Cohen Travel Agency. They married in 1968 and settled in Rome. When her husband retired in 1973, the couple moved to Baltimore where Marion was an active volunteer for Planned Parenthood and the Baltimore Zoo as well as the annual

Smith College Book Sale. She was an energetic and generous supporter of a number of causes and organizations, particularly those that championed the rights of animals, the environment, and a woman's right to choose. Marion was known for her quick wit, intelligence, and definite opinions. She learned, but happily avoided, the computer. She adored her cats. She had a distinct mix of chic and flair, whether sporting a classic Pendleton jacket or her turquoise, flowered cowboy boots, or driving through town in her custompainted, neon-yellow Subaru. She could equally enthrall a garage full of her favorite mechanics or a roomful of potential theater patrons. Her stories were legend, and she never failed to remark on how lucky she was to have lived a life as rich with friends, family, travel, and opportunities. Marion is survived by her stepson, Livio Cohen and his wife, Simonetta; and two stepgrandchildren, Chiara and Ricardo Cohen; numerous dear friends and cousins, including Ann Cleveland Robertson, of Baltimore, Thomas Cleveland and Elaine Cleveland, of Tamworth, Frances Cleveland and Christopher Igleheart, of Boston and Portland, Ore., George Cleveland, of Tamworth, and Margaret Cleveland, of Portland, Maine. Margaret W. Hunter ’43, age 86, of Tafton died Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at Ellen Memorial Health Care Center in Honesdale. Margaret was

born December 23, 1925 in Hillside, N.J. and was the daughter of the late Henry Edwin and Katharine (Benton) Weitz. She attended Friends Seminary and Barnard College in New York City. After graduating from college and before marriage, Margaret worked for a family and children society. Then marrying a dairy farmer, she became a farmer's wife. With the sale of the dairy farm, more college courses led her into a 25year teaching career at Wallenpaupack Area School District. She was active in the Paupack United Methodist Church and served on the administrative board. Her lifelong love of animals took her into service on the board of directors of the Dessin Animal Shelter. Travel with an equally interested husband took her to many places at home and abroad, but with all that there was time for bridge which she loved. A strong believer in environmental preservation, she was instrumental in creating a conservation easement on inherited acreage in Tafton. Margaret loved life and life loved her. She is survived by her loving husband of 63 years: J. Richard Hunter; one daughter: Helen Katharine Hunter; one son and daughter-in-law, George and Donna Hunter; two grandchildren, Jessica Hunter and Eric Crouthamel. She loved them all and they loved her. Gerald Weinstein ’44, age 84, died on January 9, 2013. Gerald received his Ph.D. from Yeshiva University and was a math professor at the City College of New York. He is survived by his companion, Vicki Steinhardt, a son,

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[LEFT] John B. Rehm ’48 [CENTER] Henri Prescott Caldwell ’50 [RIGHT] Antoinette Chevigny King ’50

Daniel, and grandchildren Jesse and Phoebe. With sadness, we report the death of Sheila Brown Linz ’45. John B. Rehm ’48 died on Monday, June 23, 2014. John is survived by wife Diane, son David (Nancy), daughter Jennifer (Russell Zide), and four grandchildren. Born on April 24, 1932, Henri Prescott Caldwell ’50 passed away peacefully on Monday, October 6, 2014, surrounded by his loved ones. Henri grew up in Gramercy Park of New York City. He loved his alma mater Friends and liked to say that he was in the top 25 of his class. He would neglect to say that there were only 26 in his class. Henri graduated from Northwestern University in 1958 after being honorably discharged from the Army. Henri had a career with Cincinnati Milacron for more than 30 years, where he went from servicing machine tools to selling them all over the New England region. He raised his family in both Sturbridge, Mass., and Woodstock, CT. Henri had a love for RVing. He drove his little Winnebago LeSharo all over the East Coast, taking him on different adventures. He had a heart for service demonstrated by years of delivering Meals on Wheels in Woodstock, CT. He was a lover of gadgets and had a great sense of humor, especially puns. He is survived by his

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son Ronald Caldwell and Ron’s wife Susan Lichtensteiger and their children Daniel and Gregory; daughter Patricia Bosco and her husband Ralph Bosco, and their children Sara and Joey; halfbrother Michael Caldwell; ex-wife Meryl Caldwell; nephew Nathaniel (“Nat”) Caldwell ’86; nephew Nelson Caldwell and Nelson’s wife Polly Vanderputten, and their daughter Bernadette; niece Juliet Caldwell; and very close and dear family friend Marti Hobbes. Henri was predeceased by one day by his brother Peter Devigne Caldwell ’52. A memorial service celebrating Henri’s life was held on November 15, at Essex Alliance Church in Essex, Vermont. Ann Katzenberg Hurwitz ’50 writes: Antoinette Chevigny King ’50, or Toni, as she was known at Friends, and I graduated from High School in 1950. Several months ago I moved to a senior residence and, in the course of taking apart my house, I uncovered many things I did not know I had; one of them was the Friends Yearbook from 1949, an odd thing for me to have kept as it was not our graduating year. Just before I put the book in a box of things to discard I flipped to the end and much to my surprise on the back page there was a lengthy letter from Toni. That school year, 1948-49, when we were Juniors and 15 years old, Toni and I bought standing room tickets for the Metropolitan Opera, then in its original home on Broadway between 39th and 40th Streets. This

experience was what the letter was about. We did this on Saturday nights when we didn't have dates, which for both of us was most of the time. Toni was, as I believe she was about all her interests, thoroughly knowledgeable in a quiet and unassuming way. She knew the opera plots and the names and statuses of the various operatic stars we heard, among whom were the great tenor, Ferruccio Tagliavinni and Bidu Sayao, the Brazilian soptrano who we saw in Strauss's Salome, a thrilling and unforgettable experience. What surprised me most about Toni's letter as I read it now was that it was a letter, quirky and humorous, from one teenager to another, more about the young men we met than about the opera. I always thought of Toni as considerably more mature than I and I was in awe of her intellectuality. She was unusually perceptive, serious about whatever she chose to do, someone who on the surface appeared timid or shy but underneath, I believe, was made of steel. As I read her letter other memories surfaced. In the spring of 1948 Toni, who already knew that she wanted to be an artist and to study art, decided to take a Life Drawing class in the evenings at Washington Irving High School and I decided to join her. Toni, of course, lasted the entire Spring semester while I gave up after attending a handful of times. At the time, Toni had already developed a lasting interest in film and particularly in the avant-

and studied painting with George Grosz and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Many of her fellow classmates, such as Robert Rauschenberg, later became wellknown. Much to her regret, although it does not seem to have hampered her in any way, she did not complete a college degree even though she took advanced courses in Art History at Columbia. It was a Columbia connection that started her on her life as a conservator. From 1968 to 1996 Antoinette worked full-time at MoMA. She first became Conservator of Paintings and Drawings and then Head of the entire Conservation Department. She taught paper conservation at NYU for 19 years and was revered by her students several of whom apprenticed to her at MoMA and are now on MoMA's staff. During her career she lectured at national and international conferences and wrote a number of important papers, one of which was on her work on Gris' collage "Roses" from the Gertrude Stein collection. In her own words the most exciting thing she ever worked on was Picasso's Guernica studies and the biggest project she ever had was Matisse's Swimming Pool. She completed a technical study of the materials and methods of Matisse's cut-outs. She went to Paris and "sat at the feet of Lydia Delectorskaya", Matisse's more-than-assistant for many years. "The idea of working closely with an artist…..and really looking into the materials and being able to do the library work and all of the documentation and know as much as possible….is a phenomenal thing." Early in the interview the interviewer asked Antoinette what about the field of conservation when she first entered it had appealed to her. She answered "I loved being inside the art." This capacity to be inside the art, to fully give her whole mind and body over to it, to keep it safe, is what made her so remarkable. Her passion was her work. Her keen eye, her gentle hands, her open mind, her perseverance, steady calm and great store of knowledge about art earned her an world-wide reputation. Her personal reserve sometimes made it hard to know her but once that was accepted the rewards were enormous. Towards the end of the interview, speaking about her last years as a conservator, she says again, "There's still that wonderful

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garde cinema of the period. We often went to the movies on Irving Place. I remember seeing Jean Cocteau's ravishing surrealistic film, Beauty and the Beast, with her. Toni introduced me to Jean-Paul Sartre and in the kind of sharing that is irreplaceable we both read his trilogy. After we graduated I went to college in Ohio and Toni continued at the Art Student's League where she had already started to study. We did not stay in touch and it was many years after graduation that we met again at a Friends reunion. Toni, now Antoinette, spent the last 5 years of her life in Amsterdam House, a nursing home on Amsterdam Ave. and 112th Street. I learned through a mutual friend that she was there and visited her but only once. When it was suggested that I might write about her, I was immediately aware that although I knew her from long ago I knew very little about her life after Friends. What I discovered made me very much regret I had not stayed in touch with her. What I found was a long interview (107 pages) from the MoMA Archives on Antoinette's development and career as a conservator. The interview covers her family background, her life as a child in California, the state of Washington and Montana, her family's arrival in NYC, her home life, her life at Friends, her time at the Art Student's League, her various apprenticeships and rise to her position as Conservator of Paintings and Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art and then head of the entire Conservation Department until her retirement in 1996. It reveals a person of great intelligence and skill who took profound joy in her work and all the opportunities and friendships it offered. Several times in the interview which took place over a number of days Antoinette speaks of how much her experience at Friends meant to her. She particularly enjoyed some of the extracurricular activities (the philosophy club) and the lively parties we had. She mentions that her two closest friends were Betsy Prinz, daughter of the then principal, Alexander Prinz, and Barbara Frank, daughter of Lawrence Frank, a wellknown child psychologist. She was, in high school, an avid reader of Freud. She started attending the Art Students League the summer of her Junior year

Sally Lydgate ’51 feeling and that carried me through thick and thin….to be kind of one with the art." In October, MoMA is opening a new extensive exhibit of Matisse's cut-outs. The Swimming Pool Is central to the exhibit. As I walk through it I know I will be aware of Antoinette's lovely presence, her quiet straight-forward intelligence and character and all that she accomplished. Antoinette's introduction to conservation began when she met a woman at Columbia who was trained as a conservator and was wrting a doctorate on Japanese art. She worked with this woman doing research on Japanese art and aftera few years was offered a job at the Brooklyn Museum which for vartious reasons she did not take . When the interviewer asked her what appealed to her about the field of conservation her response was "I loved being almost inside the art." With sadness, we report the death of Sally Lydgate ’51. Peter Devigne Caldwell ’52, 80, of Washington, D.C., died October 5, 2014, in New York City, surrounded by love, family, and music. He was preceded in death by his beloved boxer, Jenny, a French farm dog. Peter was born March 12, 1934, in Paris, France, to Blanche Campbell Devigne Caldwell and Nelson Forsyth Caldwell. He grew up in Gramercy Park and attended

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[LEFT] Peter Devigne Caldwell ’52 [CENTER] Caldwell brothers [RIGHT] Peter Rona ’52

Friends Seminary (’52, co-captain, basketball team), Yale (B.A. ’56), and Yale Law (L.L.B. ’59, law review). Shortly after law school, he studied abroad as a Fulbright Scholar at the College of Europe, in Bruges, Belgium. His legal and consulting career included work at Coudert Brothers, in Paris; as founding partner of Kevorkian & Caldwell, in Paris and New York; as Of Counsel at Kensington, James and Ressler, in New York; and as co-lead at the Graywell Group, in Washington, D.C. In the 1990s, he served in Washington as Legislative Counsel in the Office of Senator James M. Jeffords (Vt.), a lifelong friend, and was an architect of Jim’s proposed Medicore healthcare legislation. Peter was sharp, funny, charming, and bedeviling. He loved to sing, play, and provoke, and could make anyone laugh, often without speaking (much like his comic idol, Jacques Tati). He loved to connect with new friends from every corner, country, and walk of life. A root-for-the-underdog guy, he also knew how to put himself in anyone’s shoes (a strength he called on as father, friend, and lawyer). Peter adored a good caper; a favorite had his kids sneaking a blanket-draped Jenny through the lobby of a “no-dogs” hotel, while he distracted the clerk. A working title for his autobiography: “A Life Full of Loopholes.” A few of Peter’s passions were swimming, salt air, and ocean water; oysters, littlenecks, and langoustes. Another was music, and

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Peter was happiest when planted in an armchair, singing along plena voce with Billie Holiday, Jacques Brel, Edith Piaf, and Louis Armstrong. He was a hell of a good dancer, too. And a lot of fun. He will be dearly missed. Peter’s brother, Henri Prescott Caldwell ’50, died one day following Peter, in Boston, Mass. Peter is survived by daughter Juliet Caldwell (Brooklyn, New York); son Nelson, granddaughter Bernadette Caldwell, and daughter-in-law Polly Vanderputten (Burlington, Vt.); son Nathaniel (“Nat”) Caldwell ’86 (also of Burlington); nephew Ronald Caldwell and his wife, Susan Lichtensteiger (Essex, Vt.); niece Patricia Bosco and her husband, Ralph (Winthrop, Mass.); close family friend Marti Hobbes (Millers Falls, Mass.); great-niece Sara and great-nephews Joey, Gregory, and Daniel; half-brother Michael Caldwell (Oxford, Miss.); former wife Frances Sherer Caldwell (White Plains, New York); companion-in-arms Elizabeth Niederman (Washington, D.C.); and many more who loved him. The family would especially like to thank Leny Banegas and Amezene Zewdie, wonderful friends to Peter; Capitol Hill Village, in particular Julie Maggioncalda and Deborah Hanlon — Peter was lucky to have you, and knew it; and the hospital staff at NYP-Weill-Cornell who took such good care of him in his final weeks. A memorial service was held in the Fifteenth Street Meetinghouse on December 13, 2014.

Grover Wald ’52 writes: Peter Rona ’52 — A Remembrance : Both Peter and I were relative "newbies" to Friends and living on the Upper West Side many times took the long subway ride back from school together. Those circumstances and some shared interests evolved into a life-long friendship. I first noted Peter's determination and tolerance for difficulty when I watched him do multiple chin-ups in our schoolyard with loaded sand buckets dangling from his ankles. There were of course predictable consequences for his body but also indications that he might find success in challenging work. His love for outdoor adventure and dramatic landscapes emerged in his summer vacation descent to the floor of the Grand Canyon and a later ascent of Mount Rainier. These experiences were captured in evocative short stories - both published in the school literary magazine, The Stove, and later won him an Atlantic Monthly prize. These interests and abilities figured in his scientific career. While much science is carried out in the sterile confines of a laboratory, Peter's discoveries took place in one of the earth's most daunting environments. He spent many months at sea making observations and collecting sea bottom cores that resulted in his mapping of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and furthering the understanding of plate tectonics.

Gail Richards Tirana ’55 writes: Joseph Lee Sweeney ’55 died on September 22 after a brief illness. He

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In his dives in miniature submarines he became fascinated by the novel and fantastic forms of life gathered around the undersea hydro thermal vents, while facing the risk posed by temperature outside the submersible approaching the melting point of its glass portholes. I still have on my mantle the thimblesized remains of a styrofoam coffee cup that had been crushed and deformed by the tremendous undersea pressure, that he gave me as a memento of his Alvin IMAX dives to a depth of two miles. This in 2001 when he was 66 years old! Peter was proud of his scientific achievements but he never proclaimed them. You would have to read his articles and papers to know what he was doing. He was keen on teaching and getting young people interested in and excited about science. Peter gave talks at Friends and made an IMAX movie featuring his discoveries and his lengthy efforts to obtain a specimen of a living fossil. The movie, Volcanoes of the Deep Sea, demonstrated that science could involve adventure and a sense of awe, as well as an appreciation of beauty, in the course of revealing nature's remarkable structures. Listening to Peter's stories contributed to my enthusiasm for exploration involving challenge and closeness to nature, as well as an interest in preserving and sharing the memory through writing. Peter enjoyed reading my periodic "reports" and encouraged me to further develop my writing skill. Peter left the stage of life prematurely. He believed, rather firmly, that one should keep working as long as possible. Nearly to the end of his life he continued to carry out his research, teaching and writing. A memorable legacy is Peter's striking photograph of the interior of the unoccupied Meetinghouse - the pictorial preface to our 1952 Friends Yearbook. The image captures the ethereal atmosphere suggested by slanting rays of sunlight and conveys beautifully the Quaker spirit and values. In his modesty, sensitivity and involvement with others Peter's life reflected those qualities. We will miss his company but continue to be inspired by his example.

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was surrounded by loved ones, his wife Monica and his family. Joe was a vibrant member of our class and was very involved with the Friends community throughout his life. Joe came to Friends in our tenth grade year. He was bursting with life and was in our lives everywhere. He designed the sets for our plays (genius was the ivy growing inside the Sycamore's batty house in You Can't Take It With You), and acted in them too. He inspired us to scholarship or mischief in classes. Sometimes Joe got into trouble—Joe's enthusiasms could take him far from an assignment or due date, as far as "still researching," or "found a better subject," or "I was at the movies," or "a jazz concert," or working on short stories and poems for The Stove, or doing the art for our newspaper—which classmate Arthur Goldschmidt remembers he named: The Oblivion—or decorating the Gym for dances. Imaginative and witty, he led us on chases throughout the city with “Treasanger hunts”. Teams raced to find the clues leading to a treasure or to scavange the city for odd items (e.g., snake, boulder, your photo in a fur coat). Peter Schrag remembers the first clue of the first hunt: "Go And Run In Back and Look Down Instead"—which did not lead to the next clue in the basement or around the block, but to Garibaldi, the statue in Washington Square. Joe introduced us to modern jazz and clubs like Birdland. When Joe liked something—and his intellectual

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and artistic interests were many—he loved it. He adored jazz and he really learned jazz. Joe was a great student after all. Another of Joe's lifelong passions was social justice. He knew about issues in depth and he cared about them with commitment. He and Monica met in 1962 working in the civil rights movement, knew they were serious about each other while on the 1963 March on Washington, and celebrated 50 years together by going to Ohio to work for Obama's reelection. In jobs and as a volunteer, Joe worked for affordable housing, for people with disabilities, and for the homeless. Joe recognized the troubles of life and he also celebrated life. At our many reunions, he made emotional and funny toasts, hugged, connected our Friends background with current issues, created a 50s trivia quiz for our 50th, and told us wonderful jokes. Joe was important to the spirit of the class of '55.  After graduation from FS, Joe received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Minnesota. He taught at Pratt Institute and CUNY and combined his love of mathematics and teaching by tutoring math for several organizations. During his professional career with the Ehrenkrantz Group, Mckee Associates, MBM Associates, Perkins and Will, the Housing Authority of Newark (NJ) and UJA-Federation, Joe was involved in

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[LEFT] Karl McMaster Jones ’56 [CENTER] John Arthur Goodman ’59 [RIGHT] Jean Seligmann '62

various aspects of the housing industry, including housing management and cost analysis. He was instrumental in developing low-cost housing in the U.S., Caribbean, South America, and the Middle East. Joe brought his professional expertise to Friends. As clerk (head) of the School Committee from 19931999, he was the first alumnus in the position (according to school records). Katherine Farrell, Alumni Director, reports that Joe made "extraordinary contributions. Using his architectural training, Joe guided the school through the purchase, renovation and opening of the 15th Street Annex, an enormous accomplishment that increased the school's usable square-feet by almost one-third. He was also responsible for the construction of the play roof on the top of Hunter Hall. As he stepped down from his leadership role, he wrote, 'It's not just what we do at Friends, it's how we do it that matters.' Principal Bo Lauder remarked, 'I always enjoyed my time with Joe. He was unfailingly a gentleman and his sense of joy in whatever topic we were discussing was palpable.' " Not just committed to the School, for twenty-five years Joe volunteered regularly at the Friends homeless shelter, which operates in the Gym every night of the year. And he and Monica have been members of the 15th Street Meeting. The Class of '55 sends deepest

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sympathies to Joe's wife, Dr. Monica Sweeney; their son Marvin Sweeney; their daughters Marilyn B. Sweeney, Simone Mouflih (Zouhair), and Monica Musich (Mikel); their grandchildren Kieran Sweeney, Sojourner Lee Coles, Leila Mouflih, Mikel and Mya Musich, and great niece Monica Bunch, fondly called “the sixth grandchild." We shall all miss Joe. Karl McMaster Jones ’56, U.S. Air Force Colonel (retired), passed away peacefully on June 27, 2013, after a short and courageous fight. He lived his life to the fullest, and will be missed by those whose life he touched. Karl was born in Glen Ridge, N.J., in 1938. He attended the USAF Academy where he received a bachelor's degree in Engineering Sciences. He later attended the University of Colorado graduating with a master's degree in Aerospace Engineering. Karl served his country in the U.S. Air Force at a variety of assignments, including a tour in Vietnam as a F-4 fighter pilot, assignment as a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base, followed by Command of a classified installation. After he retired from the U.S. Air Force, he enjoyed his second career as an adjunct professor of mathematics at Northwest Florida State College and Pensacola State College. He was also a grateful friend of Bill W. for over 24 years. Karl is preceded in death by his father, Karl, and his mother, Elizabeth. He is survived by his loving

wife, Mary Ann of Niceville, Fla.; his sons, Karl, Kurt, and Lane; his stepsons, Clay and Butch; and his stepdaughters, Karla and Charlsie. He also leaves behind his feline companions Chiangmai and Taunggyi. The family would like to extend a Special Thanks to the doctors, nurses and "angels" at White Wilson Medical Center, Twin Cities Hospital, Fort Walton Beach Medical Center, and UAB Hospital. In lieu of flowers, we kindly request a donation to Disabled American Veterans. You may sign a guest book and offer the family condolences at www.heritagegardensfuneralhome.com. John Arthur Goodman ’59 passed away peacefully on July 4. He was born on December 29, 1940 in New York City. He served in the Coast Guard for 20 years and then enjoyed work as a Tax Accountant. He is survived by his daughter, Rachel, along with her husband Bob and children Dylan and Ben, who reside in Maine. Originally published in the Orlando Sentinel. Barbara Carey ’64 writes: Jean Seligmann '62 died on July 11, 2014, after a long and valiant battle with MS and ovarian cancer. Dear sister of Mary Ascheim, loving aunt and great-aunt of Tom Ascheim, Jane Winston, Nicholas Ascheim and their eight children, devoted friend of June Winters. For 30 years, a courageous and talented writer and editor at Newsweek and a

Thomas Elliott Weyer ’63 of Marshall, Virginia passed away peacefully at his home on April 27, 2014, after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 69. Thomas was born in New York City on February 6, 1945, to the late Elliott Ross and Wilhelmina (Longcope) Weyer. Tom graduated from Friends Seminary and then received a bachelor’s degree from Washington and Jefferson College in 1967. After serving as a Captain in the U.S. Army during Viet Nam, he earned his MBA from Harvard University. He spent his career working as an aviation consultant for both domestic and international airlines. As part of his work, he traveled all over the world. Tom is survived by his daughter, Susanna Weyer Brown, of Marshall, Virginia and his daughter and son-inlaw, Wilhelmina and Richard Cagle of Derry, New Hampshire, and by four grandchildren: Rachel Brown, Adelaide Cagle, Josiah Cagle and Graham Cagle. He is also survived by his cousin, Georgia Weyer York of Stonington, CT. Elizabeth Lunning ’65 died July 1, 2014, in Houston, Texas, after a brief illness. Liz was a long-time member of American Institute for Conservation and the Print Council of America. An advocate of professionalism and standards within the field of conservation, Liz was a member of the AIC Ethics and Standards Committee during a seminal review and revision of the Code of Ethics in the 1980s, a project which benefitted from Liz's intellect and dedication to the profession. In 1996, she co-authored The Print Council of America Paper Sample Book: A Practical Guide to the Description of Paper, which remains a valuable reference for curators and conservators. She was also a contributor to the exhibition and catalogue Italian Etchers of the Renaissance and Baroque (by Sue W. Reed and Richard Wallace; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1989), in which Liz wrote an essay on Italian paper that beautifully encapsulated not only her studies of paper but also her sensitivity to the aesthetic and physical qualities of paper from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Liz was

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lifelong lover of languages, classical and modern. Her sharp wit and gentle wisdom will be long remembered.

[LEFT] Thomas Elliott Weyer ’63 [RIGHT] Charles "Chuck" Yeager ’67

born in 1948 and grew up in Manhattan, surrounded by artists and craftspeople that were friends of her family who owned the Georg Jensen shop in New York for many years - an experience that helped shape her well-known extraordinary visual sense. The family's creation of the Lunning Prize (19511970) greatly increased awareness of Scandinavian design in the United States and abroad. Liz graduated from Radcliffe College and received her conservation training at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University under Marjorie Cohn. On completion of the then- three-year program, she moved to Ohio to begin work at the Oberlin Intermuseum Laboratory (now ICA Art Conservation). Liz returned to the East Coast in 1978 to accept a position at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston where she worked with Roy Perkinson from 1978-1990. During this period, she also served as a consultant paper conservator at the Toledo Museum of Art and took a leave of absence to work with Christa Gaehde. Drawn to the opportunity of working on a renowned collection of modern art, Liz relocated to Houston in 1990 to work as paper conservator for The Menil Collection. In time, she became Chief Conservator heading the Museum's conservation laboratory, from which she retired in 2006. Liz was a brilliant muller of all things under the sun, with a mind and wit that turned the everyday into something extraordinary.vA wonderful

conversationalist, Liz drew friends from diverse walks of life — a chat with Liz always left one thinking. Perhaps most unique to her was an exceptional aesthetic sensibility. Liz saw real beauty in things that often went unnoticed by others. The home she designed and built in Houston — minimal, unique and sublimely functional to the last detail — is quintessential Liz. With sadness, we say goodbye to a truly singular friend. Contributions may be made to the animal rights or animal rescue charity of your choice. Submitted by Roy Perkinson and Annette Manick. Charles "Chuck" Yeager ’67 of Springfield, Missouri passed away on Thursday, August 14, 2014. He was 65. Chuck was born on July 7, 1949 in Trion, Georgia to William and Gay Van Matre Yeager. Chuck served proudly in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. Chuck was united in marriage to Rebecca Turner on July 26, 1975 in Alexandria, VA. Chuck is survived by his wife, Rebecca; two sons, Chris Yeager and wife Kathy of Ashland, MO and Patrick Yeager of Columbia, MO; five grandchildren, Aidan, Ciara, Alex, Chase, and Sophia; one brother Bill Yeager and his wife Lynn of Tulsa, OK; two nieces, Amy and Allison; and one nephew, Todd. Memorial donations may be made to the Disabled American Veterans, 1708 E St Louis, Springfield, MO 65802 or to the charity of your choice.

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back in the day

Together in Wartime At her 40th reunion, VICKI LEONARD RUSHWORTH '72 and her daughter, Merrell Hambleton, discuss how group decision making was a key component of Quaker Education.

The following is an excerpt from a recording created on May 19, 2012. Vicki Well yea and it’s funny because Friends is a Quaker school and Quakers tend to make decisions by group and not by individual. It was very different when we would be involved in things; it was always a group decision. For example, I was in school during the Vietnam War, and as Quakers, we were protesting the War and we would make this decision and it would be everybody. [Dr. Hunter] would announce it or the principal might announce; decisions that we would be bussed down to Washington to protest the war. We would show up on a school day at, God knows, 4:00 in the morning, take a bus down to Washington, so that we could stand in silent protest. Now, you imagine all these kids in high school not talking for four hours. I mean, when I think about it, it’s incredible. It was by their example and their sense about this war that we really found a way

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to do something constructive instead of something destructive. When we protested, it was a decision the School had. We would work with the group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and we would set up tables and the School would say, ‘Okay, now where are you going to be today?’ I remember Pam and I would have a table outside Macy’s and we would hand out leaflets and everything. It was just this—everything was a group in a time of crisis, it was always a group thing. It was the same for let’s say you got in trouble. My friend Cindy and I snuck off campus. We were allowed outside by the time you got to be in high school, but we were out at a time when we were not supposed to be out. We were walking and we were laughing and we were just so cool we’re sneaking a cigarette, I think, or something and all of a sudden we hear this voice behind us—a very deep one. “Ladies” and it’s one of our teachers. And it’s one of our favorite teacher, Mr. Schwartz. He walks us back to School and “Well, you know, I can’t really tell

you what to do because you all have to decide and we have to decide together. Um so I won’t say anything, but if I were you, I would think about going to tell the Headmaster that you were off campus.” Well, of course we had to go hand ourselves in! It was much worse than if he had gone and reported us and we had been punished. Merrell I’m curious about the fact that the War was going on. Do you remember, did you feel strongly about it on a personal level or how did you feel about the war? Was it something that everyone was doing so it just felt like the natural thing to do or do you remember having a strong personal reaction to what was going on? Do you remember how you got news about it? Vicki I think when you’re in your teens, you think you understand everything probably a lot better than you actually do. Of course we thought we understood, but we didn’t. What made it different was that (and this will be alien to you) it was the first time when you could see on television what war is about. And I remember being so horrified by some of the things that I would see. Of course you were going to protest it and maybe we didn’t know the politics very well but we did know, as a group, that seeing people shoot down innocent people--this makes no sense. I felt really fortunate to be in a place where everyone felt that way. And everyone understood that and everyone thought it was okay to take a stand on it. Even if you didn’t quite understand and I mean it was such a tumultuous time. You know we had to go through as a school when President Kennedy was killed. I remember having a silent meeting after that. It just was such a powerful thing because you felt secure, because you were with people who mattered to you, and in a way they protected you. But you also didn’t really have to say anything. It was just that quiet strength. You know we went through that and we went through Kennedy being assassinated and Martin Luther King and it was just, when I think back on all those things, all in such a short period of time, it was so nice to have a community of people that could help you through that.

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