Fall 1970 MA Montage

“Always to be the best and to be distinguished above others.”

Homer, Iliad VI, 208 in a rainstorm through a car w indshield

MONTCLAIR ACADEMY

“talk to me like the rain and let me listen” tennessee williams

MONTAGE

FALL 1970

CONTENTS 1 2 6 8 11 13 17 21 23 24

Letters Philip L. Anderson, T970 Four Children of Kent Mingling With the Universe Alumni Review Annual Giving Honor Roll Notes of the School Sports Review Notes of the Classes In Memoriam

SOUP DU JOUR M ontclair Academy should not be a place w here m en teach boys in classroom s from early-m orning to m id-afternoon. It should not be a place w here education is later left and forgotten on the evening sidewalks th a t go back home again. It can be a place w here its own people, students, alum ni, fac­ ulty, adm inistrators, parents, trustees and friends, have th e freedom to learn and th e freedom to teach.

It can be a place for th e freedom of th e ir ideas, a place w here th e ir knowledge is the tool of thought and creation.

M ontclair Academy w ants to become involved in the continuing education of its people. So perhaps th is M ontage will become a symbol of th e ir free­ dom, a provocative experience, a source of thought and a medium of expression for all the people of the Academy.

F ritz Jellinghaus

EDITOR: fritz jellinghaus

PHOTOGRAPHY charlie flaherty lisa jellinghaus

The M ontclair Academy M ontage is published Q uarterly by th e M ontclair Academy Foundation at M ontclair, New Jersey. Second Class postage pending a t M ontclair, New Jersey 07042.

The Academy is a m em ber of th e A m erican Alumni Council and of th e N ational Association of Inde­ pendent Schools.

LETTERS As of th is issue, th is column will be reserved for letters. It is very much hoped th a t th e m agazine will provoke in terest and m any different kinds of responses.

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H A S S O R T OF W O R K E D O U T. P h ilip L . A n d erso n ,

In th e slick and m echanical tem per of these tim es of politics, of these days of late lunches and of these hours of telephones and m eetings and of trips, in th e tem per of those tim es, th ere is a hope in Philip Anderson, in his genuine w arm th, in his urgent sense of th e passion of people and in his love for them and for th e ir growth.

him and Mr. A nderson waves back. “Ken used to w alk by here w ith his head down and his eyes halfclosed. Now look a t him. T h at is the w onderful p art of th is w ork.” Mr. Anderson has a tender smile.

In M ichigan in 1923: No one rem em bers th e kind of day it was. But if they knew the quiet paintings of some of the m as­ ters, the soft eyes and the w arm smiles, if they knew in M ichigan of th e ocean’s waves, of its gen­ tle force, of its determ ined reaching, of its bursting laughter, th en they m ight have said th a t on the day he was born, they knew P hilip Anderson.

Tuesday m orning: It is rain in g h ard and Mr. Anderson comes to school early to answ er th e rest of yesterday’s mail.

He calls th e m aintenance m en about the chipped pain t above th e en trance door and about the w rit­ ing on the bathroom walls. Two boys who gradu­ ated la st year come to see him and he brings them coffee. He answ ers th e telephone constantly and his thoughts fo r those few m om ents go elsewhere, but he always tu rn s back to th e boys w ith the same

At M ontclair Academy in 1970: Monday afternon: There has been no sun now fo r days and only has th ere been a quiet and heavy h o t air and th e hope for cool spring rains. A boy w alks p ast the open door of Mr. A nderson’s office and stops to wave at 2

intense eagerness and he has not forgotten w hat they have been saying. He th in k s about them and about w hat they say of th eir own lives and he thinks about students and colleges and about the w ork the Academy m ust do. W hen th e hoys leave, his secretary brings in the m orning m ail and his schedule of appointm ents. The fa th e r of one of the students is w aiting for him. Mr. A nderson has been w orried about th e boy and he has asked th e fath er to come see him.

Tuesday afternoon: Mr. Anderson m eets w ith certain faculty members and adm inistrators about some changes in the school’s curriculum . He is pleased w ith its v ersatil­ ity and he is anxious fo r expansions and additions.

The faculty, he said, m ust have th e freedom to in ­ novate and the students m ust have th e knowledge they need for th e ir grow ing understanding of the world. L ate in th e afternoon, he is left alone in his office to finish answ ering th e mail. There is a note w ith a check enclosed from an alum nus. Mr. A nder­ son w rites him : “The real backbone of any good school is its alum ni support, th e financial invest­ m ent and the personal involvem ent of people who care. There is also th e personal involvem ent of the Academy in its own people and we are anxious for alum ni sem inars and w orkshops, for alum ni to give and gain experience in th e ir School. We have been

“Being a Headmaster takes an enthusiasm for educa­ tion and the administrative capabilities to handle the many problems arising in a dynamic institution like Montclair Academy. In his years at our School, Phil Anderson has developed great loyalty to the Academy.

He believes deeply in the boys who are educated here and, no matter what difficulties occur, he goes about his job with optimistic efficiency. I attribute a large measure of the Academy’s present strength and future promise as a leading independent secondary school to the fact that Phil is our Headmaster.”

Frederick L. Redpath President of the Board of Trustees

able to accom plish a g reat deal because of the gen­ erosity of alum ni like you and I would be proud to show you the campus and introduce you to our fac­ ulty and staff w henever you can visit us.” There is ano th er le tter from a fa th e r who is interested in sending his son to th e Academy, but who w ants to know first about th e students. Mr. Anderson sends him th e catalogue and the yearbook and w rites him a le tter: “The boys have developed a social consciousness; they are aw are of social conditions and they are concerned. Most of them give very ser­ ious and solid th o u g h t to th e understanding of these problem s before they become involved. Pew of them are inflam m atory and impulsive and these boys know th a t we will not to lerate the violence th a t disrupts th e purposes of our School. We have always encouraged th e boys to th in k for them selves and to become involved w here they th in k concern is m ost needed. But we have a t th e same tim e al-

“Phil Anderson assumed the leadership of the Acad­ emy at a time that was most critically difficult. His lead­ ership has maintained the momentum towards standards of excellence that have brought the Academy to a posi­ tion of uncommon distinction among independent schools.”

Robert E. Walker Headmaster, Ransom School 3

W isconsin he did it himself. A fter the m eetings, he interview s a boy fo r adm ission next year and he takes th e boy and his fam ily th rough the School and around th e campus.

ways em phasized th e need for sincerity and under­ standing between all of us before we seek practical involvement. F o r this, we m ust all m aintain an open m ind of com m unication, w ith th e politics of the w orld as well as w ith the hoy in the next seat.

Most of the boys recognize th e high quality of the education here. They are excited about th e ir edu­ cation and they are very expressive about w hat they learn. So, in a sense, they are both students and teachers. We w ant to encourage th is and we w ant strongly to offer the students w hat they need to be im aginative and creative leaders.” At six o’clock Mr. A nderson goes home. He has a m eeting in the evening w ith th e Board of Trustees.

W ednesday afternoon: Mr. Anderson has lunch w ith his wife. “We knew each o th er in high school,” he said. “We were m arried at a quaint old church th a t is snuggled in th e hills of n o rth ern M ichigan.” Mrs. A nderson sits w ith him in his office for a few m om ents afte r lunch and then leaves for her Garden Club m eeting in M ontclair. Mr. A nderson answ ers the m ail and finishes reading through the dossiers. He spends th e rest of the afternoon speaking w ith stu­ dents who come in to see him. “It is so im portant fo r me to be available to th e kids,” he said. Before he goes home, he begins to w rite out his itinerary for the college tours in th e fall. He will also spend m any hours w ith the students in the fall, talking w ith the representatives from the college adm is­ sions offices who come to th e Academy from uni­ versities and colleges across th e country.

W ednesday m orning: Mr. A nderson opens th e school m eeting, as he does every m orning. He tells th e students th a t the School is proud of th e ir thoughtful conscience and of th e ir courage. W hen Mr. Anderson is back in his office, his son calls. He graduated from th e Acad­ emy and he is now a sophomore at Cornell, in the school of hotel adm inistration. Mr. A nderson’s other son attends the Academy now and his daugh­ ter, who graduated from C onnecticut College, is

“A ready smile, a friendly greeting, an understanding attitude, a careful guidance and a respect for all those with whom he deals, these are the qualities of Phil Anderson which, through his wisdom and his good in­ fluence, have given the Academy its growth in all di­ rections.”

Edwin E. Van Brunt former Academy athletic coach

“He is one of the most impressive educators I have en­ countered. He has an intense interest in young people and really cares about them. I am proud to look upon Phil Anderson as a colleague and as a friend.”

Thomas H. Richardson President, Montclair State College

T hursday m orning: Mr. A nderson spends the m orning w ith several of the o th er m em bers of the N orth Essex Drug Ed­ ucation Committee. The telephone rings and people stand outside his office and his secretary comes in often w ith messages. “Before I was on the original com m ittee which form ed th is group,” he said, “we

teaching. W hen he is off the telephone, he begins to read thro u g h the dossiers of th e applicants for teaching positions in th e fall. At ten o’clock he has m eetings w ith the directors of adm issions and stu­ dies and alum ni relations. He knows th e ir w ork be­ cause w hen he ta u g h t a t an independent school in 4

tion am ong educators. We should never insulate our ideas nor become com placent w ith the progress of our schools. We always ought to come together like this to discuss our m utual problem s and to de­ velop each school to its fullest for th e benefit of the com m unity.” Mr. Anderson is P resident of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools and he also m eets w ith them to gain a g reater cooperation and understanding am ong independent schools in the state. Mrs. A nderson is having a dinner party to n ig h t for friends of the School and Mr. Anderson goes home early to help her.

asked people to th in k about th e drug problem. We were very concerned about it. We brought profes­ sionals in to speak to us and I attended all th e con­ ferences and sem inars I could. But essentially the real progress came w ith the kids. They came to us and we talked about th e problem s and we all tried to understand them together. We were sincere and we believed in each other. And th is is th e way it has always been. I am not interested in throw ing a boy out of school, I am interested in helping him. In the fall, we are beginning a pilot course on drug abuse and by Jan u ary it will hopefully be a regular p art of the curricula at both the Academy and a t Brookside.”

F riday afternoon: Mr. Anderson leaves his office for a w hile to go out to Brookdale P ark to w atch the track practice.

“I feel strongly about the values of athletic partici­ pation. W hen I was a t M arquette, I lived in the gym and a t th e beginning of W orld W ar II, at Notre Dame under th e V12 program , I continued my p ar­ ticipation in track as a polevaulter. I had fa ir suc­ cess, but nothing like the heights th a t are being reached today. W hen I was teaching in W isconsin, I coached football, track and boxing and it was a deeply rew arding experience fo r me and hope­ fully for th e boys. Most of them had g rit and great determ ination and it was a joy for me to be able to help them find them selves. I love kids and I w ant very strongly to help them w here I can, in the class­ room or on th e fields.”

Friday evening: On th e wall behind his desk, th ere is a recent photograph of the Academy. On an o ther wall, there is a p ainting of th e old Academy m any years ago.

Mr. A nderson looks from th e p ainting to the photo­ graph. “Look a t w here th is School has come over th e years. In 1962, I was asked to come to the Acad­ emy as an A ssistant H eadm aster. F or the next four years u n til I was appointed H eadm aster, I served as D irector of Studies, D irector of Admissions, C hairm an of th e H istory D epartm ent and D irector of Sum m er School. It was wonderful. But in 1962 th e School’s facilities were in a bad condition. N oth­ ing in new construction had been done since the early 1900’s. It was a real challenge and I came here th en w ith excitem ent. This excitem ent grew so much m ore fully when I soon knew the people I was w orking w ith, th e sp irit of the kids, the w arm th of th e parents, th e enthusiasm of the fac­ ulty and adm inistration and the devoted interest of the alum ni and th e Board of Trustees. They have all been concerned, in telligent and w arm people.

They are th e reason for th e phenom enal grow th of th e Academy, they have been much of its suc­ cess.” He smiled and looked around a t the photo­ graph. “Gee, it has sort of worked out.”

“I have deeply enjoyed my association with Phil ever since he became Headmaster and it was with respect and appreciation that 1 turned over to him the Presidency of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools.”

Prentice C. Horne Headmaster, The Wardlaw Country Day School

Thursday afternoon: Mr. A nderson has been a t th e K iw anis Club for lunch. He is on th e ir Board of D irectors and he has stood on the street w ith them recently to collect money for the program s of the Drug Education Committee. L ater in th e afternoon, he goes to the m eeting of the M ontclair E ducational Council, as he does every m onth to m eet w ith th e educators of in ­ dependent, parochial and public schools. “I am convinced of th e need fo r th is kind of communica5

“to deeper levels of self-understanding’

The F rench have a loving way of speaking of th e ir dead: “les enfants de F rance,” the children of France, they call th e ir fallen soldiers. These are th e children of Am erica who were shot dead in Ohio. Those of us who are parents know only too well how th e ir p arents grieve, fo r in our n ig h t­ m ares we have recapitulated scenes in w hich our own children were dead and felt an im agined grief as though bracing ourselves ag ainst w hat m ight happen to us and to them .

A POST-MORTEM AND A HOPE FOR THE DAWN

FOUR CHILDREN OF KENT by Elwyn A. Smith, PhJ).

Professor of Religion, Temple University

[Dr. S m ith’s rem arks were w ritten prior to the deaths of two black college students in Jackson, M ississippi.]

But all of us in universities, w hether we are p a r­ ents or not, m ust recognize a profound identity w ith these A m erican children who died a t K ent State. Doubtless th is tragedy will be forced to sup­ port a sea of slogans; two boys and two girls will be called m arty rs to m any causes. But they were p articu lar people w ith nam es of th e ir own, precious in th e ir individuality, not to be prostituted to pol­ itical uses of contending factions. F or those who die, th ere is an end of slogans and politics, of hope and love. It is fo r us who survive to seek to under­ stand the living im pact of death.

Dr. Sm ith, who has been on th e Temple staff since 1966, became vice president for student af­ fairs in July. He has been a m em ber of th e Com­ m ission on Student P articip atio n w hich drafted the Temple P lan for U niversity Governance and was chairm an of th e special com mission to study re ­ form of the basic studies program . He holds ad­ vanced degrees from H arvard, Yale D ivinity School and P rinceton Theological Seminary.

In th e very m idst of violence, th e dead cry out th a t violence has failed and is destined to fail w herever it is re newed, w hether across a border in Indo^ C hina or on the campus. _________________ 6

It is an ancient duty of thoughtful men and wom­ en to ask them selves w hat the deaths of th e ir brothers and sisters should m ean to them . In J e r­ usalem , the dead of Treblinka, Auschwitz and Dachau are honored as the seed of m odern Israel which, if they had not fallen into th e ground and died, could never have given b irth to a new land.

One wonders w hat th is nation will finally make of the m ore th a n 40,000 Americans, half of them black men, who have died in V ietnam in a w ar th a t was ost the day it began.

We hear it proudly boasted th a t th is nation has never lost a w ar; but now our tim e has come. The w arrior in his prim e claim s he never lost a fight; but th is nation now needs quite a different strength.

America needs a stren g th of m aturity, possible only to men, women, and nations th a t no longer depend on th e ir ability to com mit violence to vindicate th e ir causes but have turned to deeper levels of self-understanding.

Let us take our own preachm ents of love w ith real seriousness. W hat is love if it is not trying once again to understand a m an whose opinions you have already heard a hundred tim es? W hat is love except m aking yourself a receptacle for a n ­ other person’s frustrations, to th e very lim it of your capacity? W hat is love if not the readiness to s ta rt all over again in th e m orning w ith a person who wore you to your very nerve endings the day before? W hat is love if it is not a determ ination to let no b arriers of race or the years and cultures th a t V^divide us destroy our openness to each other?

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Let us take w ith full seriousness our own com­ m itm ent to a political system th a t confers sover­ eign power upon the people. T h at is w hat the teachout is all about; th a t is w h at honest journalism is all about; th a t is w hat participation of stu­ dent and faculty in university governance m eans; th a t is w hat honest and responsive adm inistration is all about. Democracy is brought to ru in when it is no m ore th a n a field in w hich to wage a contest for dom ination. L et groups th a t are totally agreed w ithin them selves advocate and persuade; hut once power is acquired, th e rig h ts of th e people are vio­ lated if those in power refuse to take seriously those who disagree w ith them . Is th ere any better proof of th is th a n those divisive public figures who call students “bum s,” th e ir professors “effete intellec­ tu al snobs,” and charge th e splendid K ingm an B rew ster of Yale U niversity w ith im m aturity?

P erhaps, then, all these children of America, in V ietnam and at home, can teach us th a t it is high tim e we put behind us th e boastings of adolescence and the braggadocio of th e killer. It is high tim e to recognize th a t th e power to kill is a feeble power by com parison w ith th e power to cultivate, to build, and to endure.

In the very m idst of violence th e dead cry out to us th a t violence has failed and is destined to fail w herever it is renewed, w hether across a border in Indo-China or on th e campus. Violence has failed in V ietnam ; violence is the very nam e of failure in the cities; violence has degraded a hundred cam ­ puses. We m ust choose w hether we will set in mo­ tion still an o th er m elancholy cycle of violence in our outrage a t the m indless killing of protesting students; or w hether we can see in it th e u tte r fu­ tility of the principle and practice of violence itself.

In the nam e of the dead and dying children of America, let us take th e hum an person w ith re ­ newed seriousness. Much th a t we do and say, w hether th e violent verbal provocations of a few exasperated youths or the silent violence of those in uniform , profoundly dem eans our brothers and sisters. Behind the epithet of an enraged protestor is th e pathos of a fru strated hum an being who can­ not find his way out; behind th e hideous im person­ ality of the gasm ask is hidden the face of a m an who is still w aiting fo r a m om ent when face to face w ith someone who cares, both unmasked, love can reaw aken.

In the nam e of th e dead — in th e nam es of the 43,000 children of Am erica dead in V ietnam , in the nam es of the students dead a t K ent State, rem em ­ bering David P inem an and th e 50 black youths who have died in gang w arfare in th is city in recent m onths the nam e of all these dead on our b attle­ fields and cities and campuses, let us tu rn to the ta sk of peace. The only fit m em orial to them is an » end of the A m erican intervention in Indo-China \ and a serious and sustained social reconstruction o ^ th e United States of America.

There is a terrible justice abroad in our times, th a t ex traordinary justice th a t A braham Lincoln saw in th e deaths of tens of thousands of soldiers in the civil w ar who had never owned a slave. He s a id : “If God w ills th a t th is m ighty scourge of w ar continue u n til all th e w ealth piled by the bonds­ m an’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and u n til every drop of blood draw n w ith the lash shall be paid by an o th er draw n w ith a sword, as was said 3000 years ago, so still it m ust be said: ‘The Judgm ents of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.’ ”

W hat m ust we do? Let us acquire th e knowledge w ithout w hich we will sim ply make false starts and compound the erro rs of th e leadership we reject.

T hat is one reason fo r the teach-in; but it is also an essential reason for the discipline and tedium of classroom study, library reading, and clinical ex­ perience. The city is a fantastically com plicated place; so is th is U niversity; above all, th e com­ plexity of A m erican life resists all but th e m ost de­ term ined minds.

We are now seeing such a terrib le justice. There is a vast debt to he paid fo r the m easureless cruel­ ties th a t th is nation has imposed on people w ithin and beyond its borders. We who protest the w ar m ust also pay the debt. The paym ent of debt is a hard business hut th e peace and justice we seek are w orth any labor and any suffering.

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MINGLING WITH THE commencement

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senior class address

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no definite direction, for we’ve had no discom fort forcing us to sacrifice. W e’ve had no hunger forc­ ing us to find food. W e’ve had no cold forcing us to find w arm th. The w arm th was provided by the Academy. A sort of built-in clause in the contract.

We were w arm and secure and w here’s the sense in seeking cold? W hy should we venture from our w arm school halls into the cold n ig h t just to go tu to r in Newark? Or why should we disrupt our neatly planned schedule to travel over to New York to atten d a rally? We have found the “p le asu re ;” we are content to sit back and comment. P erhaps th is is the way of all young people, but we certainly cannot call ourselves m en u n til we see the p a th ­ lessness of th is security. And we cannot expect to gain the respect we demand. We are inferior as long as we are incapable of sacrificing a p a rt of ourselves for some g reater cause. U ntil we do this, we can have no self-respect. And our dem ands have no foundation if we don’t respect ourselves enough to fig h t for them . *Lord Byron: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

Mr. Anderson, H onored Guests, Faculty, Students, P aren ts and F riends: "There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea, and music in its roar: 1 lone not man the less, but nature more From these our interviews, in which 1 steal From all 1 may be, or have been before, To mingle with the universe, and feel W hat 1 can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.”* And so here we sit about to “m ingle w ith the universe” of our future, feeling th in g s we can’t express, but th in g s so much a p a rt of ourselves, we can’t conceal them . Like the child in Lord B yron’s poem, we can consider our term in M ont­ clair Academy, “the pathless woods.” We have traveled throu g h th e years, protected, and w ith 8

not only are these convicts shut away and punished, but th en once having paid for th e ir crimes, they are never really accepted back. And finally there are th e drug addicts. Young people our own age who have not found even the sm all place we have in society, and have begun using drugs to escape this alienation.

Byron says, “There is rap tu re on th e lonely shore.” Well, we’ve certainly found th a t rapture.

H igh on our lonely hill. W e’ve become a separate community, satisfied to observe and comment.

W ith every surge of idealism or radicalism quelled by the calm reply, “You’ll have plenty of tim e when you’re older.” But, w hat if th is is an un­ breakable habit? W hat if we’ve become so com­ placent w ith th is habit of security th a t we’re content to relax for th e rest of our lives? Oh, sure, we could find jobs requiring little or no flam boyancy; we could, in fact, live our entire lives w ithout ever pushing too h ard . . . and, w orst of all, we would be satisfied. We would have no restlessness driving us as we do now. We would have no desire to change. F o r th e apathy th a t is molded here would become our life-style of the future.

These people are outcasts. They have no place in th e society. They are n o t cared for; they are not even recognized. P aren ts w arn th e ir children to beware of these people. Children are afraid to realize th a t these people are hum an beings. F or these outcasts have been subjected to such poverty and isolation th a t it is impossible to identify w ith them . They are no longer of our kind. Now, any society th a t abandons its own members like this cannot be good. Any society th a t encourages its children to move to the suburbs away from these people instead of to th e ir m idst to help cannot be good. And any society th a t continues to pro­ duce m ore outcasts each year is not only bad, but grow ing steadily worse.

The next line, “There is society, w here none intrudes.” We a t the Academy have produced th a t perfect womb-like society. F o r only in the womb is there no outside influence. Only in the womb can a person exist w ithout going home a t 4:40 to hear the news on television. Only in th e womb will pictures of bloody prisoners of w ar and calm politicians not stir some feeling. And only in the womb can a person feel self-righteous about not sh atterin g his com fort to help. Obviously the Acad­ emy is not a womb, for all these influences are present. They a re n ’t ignored, and are, in fact, brought to ligh t in classes and film s and readings.

But, a m ajor inconsistency is also brought to light: for while th e Academy com m unity preaches involvement, it continues to forbid, by its very existence as a com m unity in th e trad itio n al inde­ pendent school sense . . . continues to forbid an individual’s identification w ith crucial issues be­ yond the bounds of Academy life. If the entire student body is herded into representing one idea, we lose our freedom of choice. T he-prom ise of having this choice when we graduate is not soon enough. We have a responsibility to ourselves, to our peers, and even to our p arents to contribute now to the society.

Describing th e speaker’s naive escape from prob­ lems w ith no ap p aren t solution, Byron says “I love not m an th e less, but n atu re m ore.” And so we’re still children, still naive, fo r we don’t hate or love the outcast. We rem ain innocent and ra th e r th a n express our dislike fo r p arents or rules, we m erely tu rn to som ething we like better. But, w hat of th is grow ing up we’re feeling inside ourselves?

Is th a t when we face w hat we don’t like? Is th a t when we form our hate, when we begin to love m an less? Perhaps, th e child-parent friction begins here; fo r here is w here th e p aren t w ants the child to heed his upbringing and duplicate his fa th e r’s ideals. H ere is w here a child is expected to accept those th ings his p arents accept and reject those th ings his parents reject. H ere he m ust love w hat his p aren ts love . . . and learn to hate as they hate. And the friction th a t develops is called th e “generation gap.” F o r grow ing-up is not m erely an acceptance of adult ideals. It is a questioning w ithin ourselves; a questioning first of our own thoughts, and then broadening to decide how these thoughts can, in some way, effect changew here we believe change is needed.

But w hat of we who graduate . . . we who will finally have th a t choice? W ill we choose to be­ come full-fledged m em bers of th is society? Will we contribute, w hether by criticizing or defending it? W ill we step from th is factory onto th e m arket to be treated as w ell-prepared products? This so­ ciety is not perfect. This society th a t has so well cared for us. This society th a t has schooled us and fed us and clothed us. This society into w hich we are being th ru st is not perfect. F o r it does not care for everyone as well.

To h ate th e outcast is n o t enough. But, to hate is a t least becom ing m ore involved th a n to stand by and w atch others hate. There is a fire kindling in each one of us. We can’t ignore it, for this fire will bring about a change. It will eventually change our personalities and mold our ideals. It will force us to grasp our ideals and not be swayed by people around us. It will, in fact, become our m otivation, our desire.

The extent of th is desire, however, is determ ined by our im m ediate environm ent. By the speeches we h ear on television; by th e songs we h ear on th e radio. It is determ ined by th e seeds of ideas planted by our parents. It is determ ined by the new spapers . . . and th e h istory books. It is deter­ m ined by our football coaches and our team m ates.

There are still drunks sleeping on th e pave­ m ents in New York. A lack of som ething in the society caused them to drink. There are still p rosti­ tutes on the streets. They are forced to sell th e ir bodies to earn money. Not money for college, but ju st m oney to eat. The prisons are overcrowded with m en and women shunned by society. And 9

CLASS OF 1970 IN COLLEGE Cornell Richard August Vassar Thane Benson American University Jay Biggins Westminster Bill Bronander University of Pennsylvania Jim Brothers Northwestern Randy Carignan Dickinson Jim Castiglia Florida State Roger Cole Vassar Bill Davey St. Vincent’s John Doerr Rensselaer Polytechnic Dave Donnelly Lehigh Bill Evans George Washington Ray Falco University of Michigan Mike Grady Vassar Jim Guterman American University Scott Hanus Lafayette Mark Haubenstock University of Rochester Seth Honig Boston University Kenzie Halt Vassar Sam Magee Rensselaer Polytechnic Elliot Maginn St. Lawrence Alan Mancusi-Ungaro Franklin & Marshall Bruno Manno Susquehanna Bob Margoles Yale Rene Mathez Cornell Craig Nash University of North Carolina David Paterson Georgetown Jordan Pollack Bucknell Harvie Porter Colgate Barry Ridings Ohio Wesleyan Garret Roosma Emory Steve Schuster Vassar Ave Schwartz Yale Fred Sheldon Colby Roger Silverstein University of Pennsylvania Dave Simon American University Gordon Sussman Emory A1 Thrower Amherst Peter Webb

By our com petition and by the rules of th e game.

But, m ost im portant, th e extent of th is desire is determ ined by our teachers, for it is to them th a t we tu rn for answ ers. Oh, we’re big boys and we don’t go runn in g to class each day w ith a lot of p ertinent questions, but we do draw from the experience of these m en to supplem ent w hat we have not lived long enough to experience. And from th is supplem ent we form our own opinions.

But, these opinions cannot stop here. They eannot be m erely tran sferred from m aster to student.

F or we will have not only th e benefit of th e ir experience, but also th e opportunity to g ath er our own. And we will learn. We will learn fo r ourselves th e rig h t and wrong, th e good and bad. We’ll learn all over again those th in g s our parents and g rand­ parents learned years ago. And we’ll m ake the sam e m istakes our p arents made, but we’ll m ake them for ourselves. W e’ll learn to respect danger, probably only after we’ve been h urt. W e’ll learn to fig h t . . . and we’ll learn to sacrifice. We’ll learn to strive and we’ll know failure. W e’ll learn to love. And we’ll learn to hate. But, hopefully, we w on’t hate instinctively, but constructively. As in a cloudburst, we w on’t h ate all ra in for m aking us wet, but just th a t one cloud. And perhaps th en we will clear the sky of these dark clouds.

"To mingle with the universe, and feel W hat l can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.”

W e’ve begun a t la st to feel. Let us not conceal these feelings, but sing them loud fo r everyone to hear.

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ALUMNI REVIEW OUTSTANDING ALUMNUS AWARD The M ontclair Academy Alumni Association held its A nnual D inner M eeting at th e Academy on May 21st. The highlig h t of th e evening was th e presen­ tatio n of the O utstanding Alumnus Award to the H onorable Spruille Braden, Class of 1910, prom i­ n en t diplom at and businessm an. Mr. B raden was born in E lkhorn, M ontana in 1894 and, after spend­ ing several years gaining th e experience of m iner, m ucker and tim berm an, he received his Ph.B. in M ining E ngineering from Y ale’s Sheffield Scien­ tific School in 1914. He la ter w ent on to receive honorary doctorates from m any of th e m ost re ­ spected universities of the w orld and today, a t the head of his list of aw ards and honors, is th e coun­ try ’s highest civilian honor, th e “U nited States Medal of Freedom .” But perhaps Mr. B raden is best know n throughout th e world for his w ork in in te r­ national diplomacy. Since 1920, he has served as an Advisor to th e U nited States D elegation of the Inter-A m erican H igh Commission and as a dele­ gate w ith the title of Ambassador to the V llth In ­

te rn atio n al Conference of Am erican States. He has also served in a sim ilar capacity a t the P an Am eri­ can Commercial Conference and he has been the U nited States Delegate, w ith th e ran k of A m bassa­ dor E x trao rd in ary and Plenipotentiary, to the Chaco Peace Conference, in w hich he also rep re­ sented P resident Roosevelt as a rb itrato r in the fin al settlem ent of th e ferociously fought w ar be­ tw een Bolivia and Paraguay. Mr. Braden has served as Am bassador to Columbia, Cuba and A rgentina and as a special am bassador on m any other occasions. From 1945 to 1947, he was the A ssistant Secretary of State for Am erican R e­ public Affairs and he has also been called upon fre­ quently as a special advisor to th e State D epart­ m ent. Ambassador Braden, who has three daugh­ te rs and two sons, and Mrs. B raden live in New York City. The dinner and presentation were pre­ ceded by a cocktail hour and by tours of the new Academy buildings. Alumni past president H enry B. Fernald, Jr., Class of 1928, presented the rep o rt of the Alumni A ssociation activities for the past year.

The N om inating Committee presented its program fo r the coming year and H eadm aster P hilip L. An­ derson made his A nnual R eport to the Alumni. Fol­ lowing the form al dinner m eeting, the guests en­ joyed a concert by th e M ontclair Academy Glee Club and M astersingers, under th e direction of Nix­ on Bicknell, the D irector of Music.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ELECTIONS Dr. R obert H. Muller, Class of 1939, was elected P resident of th ^ M o n tc la ir Academy Alumni Asso­ ciation a t the A nnual D inner M eeting in May. He has served th e A ssociation for m any years and was m ost recently a vice president of the group.

Muller, who is th e D irector of H ealth Services at M ountainside H ospital in M ontclair, is a graduate of Princeton U niversity and of the Columbia U ni­ versity College of Physicians and Surgeons. Bob lives in M ontclair and is th e fath er of two sons, one of whom attends Brookside School.

Elected to th e offices of Vice P resident were A rth u r A. Goldman ’25, Jo h n A. Cosentino ’40, Da­ vid G. Ram sey ’59 and Dr. W alter J. Sperling, Jr. ’34. The office of Secretary w ent to D aniel K. Read ’52 and T reasu rer R andolphe P. Swenson ’41 was elected for an o th er year. Im m ediate past president H enry B. Fernald, Jr. ’28 will serve as Alumni Rep­ resentative on the M ontclair Academy Foundation Board of Trustees. As an expression of th e ir appre­ ciation, th e m em bers of the 1969-70 Alumni Execu­ tive Committee announced a contribution of $100 to th e Miller-M onson Scholarship Fund in honor of Mr. Fernald.

Elected to serve on th e Alumni Board for a threeyear term were R ichard L. C arrie ’41, Em il J. P. Dul ’62, C harles M. Ebers ’41, A rth u r A. Goldman ’25, Marc S. K irschner ’60, George J. K ram er ’54, John A. Law rence ’63 and Alan J. W erksm an ’50.

In an effort to retain th e experience and wisdom gained by m em bers of the Alumni Board over the years, th e Executive Comm ittee has established a P ast P residents Advisory Council. Members of the Council are invited to all th e m eetings of the Alum­ ni A ssociation and will serve as advisors to m any of the o rganization’s activities. The chairm an-elect is H enry B. F ernald, Jr. ’28. Members of the Council are R ichard M. Drysdale ’49, R obert E. Livesey ’37 and M. Eugene Speni ’27.

P resident M uller also announced the appoint­ m ent of com m ittee chairm en fo r the com ing year.

Alumni a t large are rem inded of the need for talen t to w ork on m any of th e com m ittees w hich handle th e business of th e Association over the year. In ­ terested parties should contact th e individual com­ m ittee chairm an or th e Alumni Office a t the Acad­ emy. Chairm en for 1970-71 are: Class R epresentatives David G. R am say ’59 A nnual Giving P rogram R ichard L. Carrie ’41 George J. K ram er ’54 N om inating Committee Jo h n A. Cosentino ’40 Awards and Scholarship Dr. W alter J. Sperling ’34 Alan J. W erksm an ’50 C onstitution and By-laws H enry B. Fernald, Jr. ’28 Endow m ent and Deferred Giving C harles M. Ebers ’41 H om ecom ing Em il J. P. Dul ’63 C hristm as Luncheon Jo h n A. Law rence ’63 A nnual D inner and M eeting R obert N. Lieder ’51

VANDERMADE ELECTED CHAIRMAN ENDOWMENT AND D EFERRED GIVING Frederick L. R edpath, P resident of th e Board of Trustees of the M ontclair Academy Foundation, has announced th e appointm ent of alum nus Jam es S. Vanderm ade ’35 as th e C hairm an of th e Commit­ tee for Endow m ent and Deferred Giving.

Mr. V anderm ade has long been active in th e af­ fairs of the Foundation and has given freely of his tim e in support of both th e Academy and Brookside School. A p ast president of th e Board of T ru st­ ees, he currently holds the position of C hairm an of the Board. Mr. V anderm ade was elected a trustee in 1958.

A fter graduating from th e Academy in 1935, he attended P rinceton U niversity w here he received his Bachelor of A rts degree in 1939. He received his M aster of Business A dm inistration degree in 1941 from th e H arv ard U niversity School of Busi­ ness and la te r served in th e U nited States Navy during W orld W ar II, w here he attain ed th e ran k of L ieutenan t Commander.

F or m any years Mr. V anderm ade was P resident of Sow erhutt Q uarries, Inc. of Paterson. W hen th is fam ily corporation was acquired by W arren B ro th ­ ers Company, he became D istrict P resident and he has since, th e n been appointed to the post of Dis­ tric t C hairm an for th e company.

A native of M ontclair and, w ith his wife, Peg, and two children, Lisa, currently in a “Senior Year A broad” program a t Sm ith College arid Jim , Jr., a 1970 graduate of Princeton University, he lives at 157 South M ountain Avenue in M ontclair.

The Endow m ent and Deferred Giving Committee m em bers will be announced in th e next issue of the M ontage. It appears th a t several m em bers of the Comm ittee will be alum ni. The program is cu rren t­ ly in th e leadership solicitation phase and will move into active solicitation of endow m ent and de­ ferred gifts in Jan u ary of 1971. The Board of T ru st­ ees and the Long-R ange P lan n in g Comm ittee a n ­ ticipate th a t a to tal of $4.5 m illion will be neces­ sary to cover th e costs of education a t both schools over the years ahead.

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ANNUAL GIVING PROGRAM

1969-70

ago to strive fo r distinctive and excellent education.

Now th a t th e building program is complete and we are in sight of th e end of capital fund raising, our efforts m ust be turned to th e expansion of the A nnual Giving P rogram and to th e establishm ent of a responsible Endow m ent and Deferred Giving Program . Alumni m ust express th e ir firm convic­ tions in th e quality of the education they received.

P aren ts can endorse th e curriculum development and th e quality of education th e ir sons are benefit­ ing from a t the Academy. F riends can dem onstrate th e belief in independent education and in its con­ tribution to society. All of th is one can accomplish th ro u g h support of th e A nnual Giving Program .

To those of you whose nam es appear in this list, the adm inistration, faculty and students of M ont­ clair Academy express th e ir deep gratitude. We hope th a t w hen th e 1970-71 list is printed, we can proudly point to a significant increase in the num ­ ber of donors and in th e funds which will result.

A nnual Giving is a vital organ in the complex m ake-up of the Academy. It m ust be nourished, it m ust be cared for, it m ust live on to greater heights.

It is disappointing to rep o rt a drop in th e final results of the 1969-70 A nnual Giving Program , from a high in 1968-69 of 341 donors and $26,071 to 271 donors and $21,435. It is ap p aren t th a t some of this decline can be attrib u ted to the decline in the fi­ nancial m arket and in th e natio n al economy. How­ ever, we are m ost concerned th a t few er people p a r­ ticipated. H ad all of th e previous donors repeated th e ir generosity to M ontclair Academy, th e picture m ight have been different. One can, however, take h eart in the fact th a t th e average gift rem ained at the $75.00 level.

The Academy and th e Board of Trustees wish to express h eartfelt th an k s to those loyal alum ni, parents and friends who participated in th e pro­ gram . If we are to m eet th e grow ing needs of funds for scholarships, expanding cultural program s, student projects and th e attractio n and reten tio n of an exceptional faculty, the funds m ust come in p art from A nnual Giving. This is th e one and only m ethod to bridge the gap between th e tuition and the cost of educating the student.

The Academy was founded eighty-three years

HONOR ROLL ALUMNI ’ll Donald G. MacVicar ’15 Winthrop P. Culver Pierre N. LeBrun Wilfred B. Utter ’17 Philander H. Betts ’18 Arthur V. Youngman ’21 John M. Birdsall

ALUMNI ’22 George B. Dodd Howard A. Van Vleck ’23 Percy S. Young, Jr. ’24 George Findley Griffiths ’25 Chester Baylis, Jr. Arthur A. Goldman Richard C. Overton Leopold Edward Thron Gustave E. Wiedenmayer 13

ALUMNI ’26 Fred C. Griffiths John W. Hayes, Jr. Otto E. Kuhlmann D. Richard Mastriano Homer G. Whitmore ’28 Henry B. Fernald, Jr. Hudson B. Lemkau Dorrance Sexton Alvin Sloan

ALUMNI ’30 McCaughan Heizer Mac A. Kaplus ’32 Robert L. Carlee Henry E. Perry Blake Reynolds ’33 William M. Sayre Erwin N. Wilson ’34 Marston Ames Walter J. Sperling, Jr. Beaver Straussburger ’35 John A. Hoif Donald L. Mulford Gerard B. Podesta John Markeil Stacey Bogart F. Thompson James S. Vandermade ’36 John W. Little H. Ward Reighley ’37 Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr. Robert E. Livesey John P. Schroeder ’38 William D. Seidler ’39 Richard S. Benson ’40 David Jacobs Frederick D. Little James A. Russell ’41 Bruce C. Cornish Charles M. Ebers Charles M. Holmes Charles B. Sanders, II Richard D. Scheuermann ’42 John M. Coward Daniel E. Emerson Edwin D. Etherington James M. C. Ritchie ’43 Paul R. Miller, Jr. Edward S. Olcott Thomas D. Webb

’44 Robert A. Kovacs W. Ford Schumann ’45 William B. Grant Richmond B. Hopkins ’46 Robert B. Baird William F. Brown, II ’47 George P. Egbert, Jr. Edward J. Goedecke, Jr. Joseph F. Hammond, Jr. ’48 Frederic A. Alling Joseph C. Bamford, Jr. Varick D. Harrison Fred C. Schneeweiss ’49 Richard M. Drysdale Samuel L. Lewis, III Peter N. Perretti, Jr. Carl H. Shaifer Clark McKercher Simms ’50 Rudolph H. Deetjen, Jr. Jack Heller Jean L. Larsen Frederick S. Magnus ’51 John Ford Barlow Kenneth L. Crowell Mark R. Hanschka Robert N. Lieder Richard W. Wentz ’52 Robert M. Kim Louis A. Noll Roger S. Webb ’53 Howard T. Bellin George M. Cohen David J. Connolly, Jr. J. Alexander Onderdonk Arthur R. Ramee, Jr. Philip H. W. Smith ’54 Donald M. Karp George Kramer ’55 Robert Brawer Michael L. Cohen Edward C. Reifenstein Peter M. Smith

’56 S. Thomas Aitken John W. Clapp Richard R. Hobbins, Jr. Paul D. Kramer Lawrence F. Nazarian ’57 John S. Allen John R. Higgins ’58 Mark M. Jaffe Martin N. Rosen Charles Y. Small David C. Will ’59 Finn M. W. Caspersen James A. Courter David G. Ramsay Dorrance Sexton, Jr. Howard A. Van Vleck, Jr. ’60 Marc S. Kirschner Peter John Lima E. Hawley Van Wyck, III ’61 Wilson S. Ailing Fred Lewis Stephen P. O’Neill Arthur G. Rosen ’62 John A. Bleyle Milo R. Gerow, Jr. ’63 John D. Harris William P. LaPlant, Jr. John A. Lawrence F. Bronson Van Wyck ’64 Paul R. G. Horst, II ’65 Arthur K. Brown Robert B. Marin, Jr. Neil T. Mutchler ’66 John R. Howald William H. Hutson ’67 Axel Epe Stephen Swift Robert A. Wolff ’68 Norman White Germond

TRUSTEES

Macdonald Halsey Howard P. Johnson Robert E. Livesey ’37 Paul R. Miller, Jr. ’43 James G. Paterson Peter N. Perretti, Jr. ’49 Frederick L. Redpath W. Ford Schumann ’44 Walter J. Sperling, Jr. ’34 John C. Steggles Herbert H. Tate James S. Vandermade ’35 Howard A. Van Vleck ’22

Harold B. Abramson S. Thomas Aitken ’56 Marston Ames ’34 Philip L. Anderson Robert D. B. Carlisle Joseph A. Courter John M. Coward ’42 Bernard K. Crawford Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr. ’37 Willard W. Dixon George P. Egbert, Jr. ’47 Daniel E. Emerson ’42 Henry B. Fernald, Jr. ’28

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D O UBLE Y O U R M O N E Y A large num ber of A m erica’s greatest cor­ porations participate in m atching gift pro­ gram s, under w hich they encourage th e ir employees to support th e ir colleges and schools by giving them funds equaling those contributed by the employees.

W hen you contribute to M ontclair Acad­ emy, find out if your em ployer participates in a m atching gift program . I t’s an easy way to double your gift.

The prim ary and continuous fund-raising needs of an independent school are for higher and m ore realistic faculty salaries and fo r m any more, and m ore generous, scholarships. These are tw in necessities, both of which enrich the minds and spirits of th e students in th e Academy, and are provided by A nnual Giving.

PARENTS Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Abramson Mr. and Mrs. Philip L. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Arthur Mr. and Mrs. Samuel S. Baldanza Mr. and Mrs. David K. Banker, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin J. Benigno Mr .and Mrs. Richard J. Bennett Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Benson ’39 Mr. and Mrs. John deC. Blondel Dr. and Mrs. Charles R. Brooke Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Brown Mr. and Mrs. William L. Brown, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Carignan Dr. and Mrs. Peter C. Castiglia Bernard K. Crawford Mr. and Mrs. James M. Crawford Mr. and Mrs. John H. Crowther Mr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Davis Dr. and Mrs. Samuel J. Della Penna Mr. and Mrs. Williard W. Dixon Mr. and Mrs. K. Philip Dresdner Mr. and Mrs. Samuel V. Ehrenberg Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Evans, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Herbert R. Parber Mr. and Mrs. Craig C. Fitzpatrick Mr. and Mrs. William E. Frederick Dr. and Mrs. Earl X. Freed Mr. and Mrs. Donald Frey Mr. and Mrs. Gene Gallo Mr. and Mrs. Manuel J. Gibbs

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PARENTS

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gioffre Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Goddard, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Goldblum Mrs. Peggy Gross Dr. and Mrs. John S. Guttmann Mr. and Mrs. Lyman C. Hamilton, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Harrison Mr. and Mrs. David Jacobs ’40 Dr. and Mrs. Sigurd E. Johnsen Mr. and Mrs. Howard P. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. George Kaytes Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kaytes Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Kovacs ’44 Mr. and Mrs. Samuel L. Lewis, III ’49 Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Lobdell Mr. and Mrs. Carmen J. Maggio Mr. and Mrs. George P. Maginness Dr. and Mrs. Bruno V. Manno Mr. and Mrs. William W. Mauke, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Mayfield Mr. and Mrs. Stanley J. Norton Mr. and Mrs. Albin H. Oberg Mr. and Mrs. Frederick P. Palen Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Paretti Mr. and Mrs. James G. Paterson Mr. and Mrs. Peter N. Perretti, Jr. ’49 Dr. and Mrs. Michael A. Pierce Mr. and Mrs. Philip Pollack Mrs. Ruth Harvie Porter Mr. and Mrs. Junius L. Powell, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Prince, Jr. Frank Racioppi Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Radin Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Redpath Dr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Richardson Mr. and Mrs. Lester W. Ridings Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Roosma Mr. and Mrs. William J. Ryan Dr. and Mrs. Parke P. Sandler Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F. Schlobohm, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. W. Ford Schumann ’44 Mr. and Mrs. Perry Schwartz Mr. and Mrs. Wiliam D. Seidler ’38 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Spain Dr. and Mrs. Walter J. Sperling, Jr. ’34 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas B. Stearns Mr. and Mrs. Joel J. Steiger Mr. and Mrs. Irving Stolinsky Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Sussman Mr. and Mrs. Edward V. Tarnell The Hon. and Mrs. Herbert H. Tate Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Taylor, Sr. The Rev. and Mrs. Trevor E. G. Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Bogart F. Thompson ’35 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Veit, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Vesco Mr. and Mrs. Homer A. Vilas, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Mario A. Vitale Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Webb ’43 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Wells

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FORMER PARENTS

In Answer To Many Questions Mr. and Mrs. David T. Agens Mr. and Mrs. Marston Ames ’34 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Baten Warren G. Bauer Dr. and Mrs. C. Abbott Beling Mr. and Mrs. Bioward D. Brundage Mrs. Alexander Calder Dr. and Mrs. Orlando G. Caprio Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. B. Carlisle Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Courter Mr. and Mrs. John M. Coward ’42 Mrs. Rudolph H. Deetjen (In memory of Mr. Rudolph H. Deetjen T5) Mrs. Fairleigh S. Dickinson William L. Dill, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Francia Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Goldman ’25 Dr. and Mrs. Robert V. Holman Mr. and Mrs. Philip F. Keebler James R. Kennedy Robert E. Livesey ’37 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. McFadden Mr. and Mrs. Peter Malcolm Mrs. John S. Mekeel Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Miller, Jr. ’43 Mrs. Oscar F. Muller Mrs. William D. O’Gorman Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. O’Neill Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Perry ’32 Mr. and Mrs. Gerard B. Podestà ’35 Mrs. John J. Redfield Mr. and Mrs. James A. Russell ’40 Mr. and Mrs. William M. Sayre ’33 Mr. and Mrs. William Scheerer, 2nd Mr. and Mrs. John P. Schroeder ’37 Mrs. John J. Schumann, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Sessa Mrs. Constance Skinner Mr. and Mrs. John C. Steggles Leopold Edward Thron ’25 Mr. and Mrs. James S. Vandermade ’35 Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. Van Vleck ’22 Dr. and Mrs. Harrison R. Wesson Mr. and Mrs. Samuel L. Wolff Mr. and Mrs. Sumumu Yamashita Arthur V. Youngman T8

The following is th e proper w ording for a bequest to th e M ontclair Academy Foun­ dation. The consideration of a deferred gift to your Alma M ater is m ost im p o rtant to both you and your school.

“I (We) give and bequeath, free and clear of all estate, in h eritance or sim ilar taxes, unto the M ontclair Academy Foundation, a New Jersey corporation, th e sum o f ............. dollars (or rest and residue of my estate af­ te r the paym ent of the foregoing bequests). a. To be used as th e Board of Trustees of th e F oundation may determ ine. h. To establish t h e ...................Fund, the income of said fund to be used as the Board of Trustees of th e M ontclair Academy F oundation may determ ine. c. To establish t h e ...............Fund, the net income of said fund to be used for (here specify th e purpose for which the in ­ come is to he used). If, in the opinion of the Trustees of th e M ontclair Acad­ emy Foundation, the need for principal or income fo r th e aforem entioned pur­ poses no longer exists, a t some future date th e Trustees are authorized to use such funds in th e best in terests of the In stitu tio n s.”

F o r m any people a substantial gift to M ontclair Academy during th e ir lifetim e may not he possible but can be provided for

by Will. A bequest is, of course, deductible for estate tax purposes. A lthough an unre­ stricted bequest is th e m ost useful to the School, a bequest m ay be designated for a p articu lar purpose, such as endow m ent or a scholarship fund.

A bequest can be w ritten into a W ill eith er a t th e tim e th e W ill is first signed or can be added a t any tim e by a simple codicil.

FRIENDS Thomas A. Adams Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Brogan Edward C. Epple Baxter Gentry Mrs. Robert L. Hedges Mr. and Mrs. C. Arthur Littman Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Miller James T. Mills Mrs. Violet E. Peterson Arthur F. Schlobohm Clinton D. Seaman 16

MATCHING GIFTS Matching Gifts were received from the following companies last year.

There are more than 150 other com­ panies who will match their employees’ gifts to Montclair Academy.

Abex Foundation, Inc. Johnson & Higgins J. Walter Thompson Co. Fund Inc. Phelps Dodge Foundation S & H Foundation, Inc. Schering Foundation Inc. Squibb Beech-Nut, Inc.

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COMMENCEMENT “Man is never free,” said Dr. Thom as H. R ichard­ son, P resident of M ontclair State College and p a r­ ent and friend of th e Academy, delivering his Com­ m encem ent address. “Man is never free as long as he lives w ith an o th er m an or oth er people. The n a ­ ture of social living is in hibiting of freedom and, since m an cannot really become hum an except as he lives w ith oth er people, m an can never be free.

But he can approach freedom to the extent th a t he has a variety of experiences and a quantity of in ­ form ation to choose from. And here is w here the excitem ent, the adventure th a t your are m oving on into rapidly, is m arvelous.” A variety of exper­ iences. “We do have in th is class,” H eadm aster P hilip L. Anderson said, “a social consciousness.

This is a class of innovators . . . th is is a class th a t got excited about th e U rban A ffairs Club, excited about tu to rin g in N ewark and M ontclair, excited about going to the nursing home w here they could read and play checkers w ith people reaching the near-end of th e ir lives, individuals who got excited about helping the handicapped at Kessler Institute . . . you are a searching, stretching, questioning, probing group.”

At the School’s 83rd Commencement, th irty -n in e students received th e ir diplomas from Frederick L. Redpath, P resident of the Board of Trustees.

AWARDS The H ead Boy Award is presented annually at Commencement to “th a t m ember of the graduating class who, in th e estim ation of th e faculty, is out­ standing in character, deportm ent, scholarship and good influence am ong his fellow students.”

This year, P ete r G. Webb of M ontclair was chosen as H ead Boy. In the announcem ent of the Award, Mr. Anderson cited Webb’s service to the School and his accom plishm ents as a m em ber of the foot­ ball and w restling team s, as P resident of the Stu­ dent Council and as p articip an t in the Am erican Field Service program .

The Rudolph H. D eetjen Award was presented to Rene M athez for his outstanding record in the field of athletics and for his academic work. The Bud Mekeel M emorial Award, given annually to distinctively w orthy seniors, was presented jointly to the Senior Class President, Jo rd an Pollack, and to F red Sheldon. F o u r special aw ards were also presented. The Community Service Award to Jay Biggins, for his leadership and support of the M ontclair Youth Council; a special aw ard to Seth Honig, fo r his w ork in photography on personal exhibit and in teaching; to Stanley Civin, Am eri­ can Field Service student, a special aw ard for his outstanding w ork in every aspect of th e School; and to E llio tt M aginn, th e Buzz Aldrin Award, for his dedication and self-discipline in scholarship and athletics.

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SUMMER SCHOOL The sum m er school of M ontclair Academy was established in 1952 to provide students w ith a th re e ­ fold opportunity: to stren g th en academic skills vital to college preparation, to review subjects in w hich they have been unsuccessful during the reg ­ u lar term and to broaden and enrich th e ir educa­ tional experience. Sm all-group in struction (in sec­ tions seldom larg er th a n eight students and often as sm all as th ree or four) perm its close atten tio n to each student’s progress, thus insuring individ­ ualized, tu to rial education in an inform al class­ room atm osphere.

This y ear’s sum m er school session created a ver­ s a tile and exciting curriculum . Along w ith the fundam ental courses in English, M athem atics, L an­ guages, H istory and Science, courses were also of­ fered in the critical skills of reading, studying and typing. There were, in addition, special enrichm ent courses w hich were offered: a survey course in the best and m ost influential poetry and nrnse of con­ tem porary w riters: the study of developments in com m unicative m edia such as tel­ ev isio n , film, graphics and rock and electronic m u­

SUMMER DAY CAMP This y ear’s sum m er day camp session offered a flexible and innovative program . U nder the general direction of Carm en M. M arnell and w ith the guid­ ance of George H rab a t th e Academy and Michael J. Arace a t Brookside, th e cam pers had available to them th e fin est facilities of both Schools. W ith the assistance of experienced specialists, the children became involved in creative program s of A rt, Mu­ sic, D ram a and, w ith th e direction of David H. Seeley, in an ecological program th a t took them on field trip s to P o rt Newark, the G reat Swamp and the w ater treatm en t plants in P aterson and V er­ ona. Also offered were Developm ental R eading and M athem atics courses. The recreation program was extensive and the children were involved in arts and crafts, archery, basketball, soccer, badm inton, swimming, softball and oth er gam es designed to teach hand-eye coordination and general athletic skills.

sic; the study of th e film as an artistic medium and the in itatio n of independent projects in original film -m aking; an au ral study of th e styles of music from Medieval to Contem porary, in th e ir historical contexts.

Of these enrichm ent courses, th e D ram a W orky shop and the Field Ecology courses were of p articiy lar excitem ent to m any of th e students. The W ork­ shop provided directorial experience and th e acting experience of stage movement, voice use, facial ex­ pression, stage presence and role development, is addition to th e technical knowledge of lighting an<^ set design. The students perform ed readings of sev­ eral of the sh o rt stories of E dgar A llan Poe and^ aly so certain pieces from W auk’s The Caine M u tin g The Ecology course, though based on th e study of concepts, m ethods of investigation and intensive laboratory experim entation, was highlighted, u n ­ der th e direction of Edw ard H. W illiams, by a teny day field trip th ro u g h th e A ppalachian T rail in N e / Jersey and to Woods Hole in M assachusetts, y l t was a peaceful and efficient session’, said Jo s/p h R. K erner, th e School’s Sum m er D irector, “and w ith sm all classes and a good faculty, th e kids p r o c e s ­ sed really well.” \ 1

NEW FACULTY Seven new instructors joined th e Academy facul­ ty in the f a ll: Mr. David M. Akbar, a graduate of W agner Col­ lege w ith a Bachelor of Science degree in m ath e­ m atics and w ith honorary m em bership to W ho’s Who in A m erican Colleges, joined the faculty as a m athem atics instructor. Mr. A kbar tau g h t for a year in the Schneller School in Lebanon.

Mr. R alph M. Guerke, Associate Fellow of the Am erican Institu te of A eronautics and A stronau­ tics, joined the Science D epartm ent. After receiv­ ing his B achelor of Science degree in A eronautical E ngineering from th e M assachusetts Institu te of Technology, he became R esearch E ngineer fo r the H am ilton Division of United A ircraft and, after a year of teaching at MIT w here he received his Mas­ te r of Science degree, he became Chief E ngineer of the VTOL Division of C urtiss-W right for th irty years. He also worked for several years as M etrol­ ogy M anager of Singer-G eneral Precision.

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A FSSTU D EN T

Living in M ontclair w ith the fam ily of Mr. and Mrs. P ete r P erretti, th is y ear’s Am erican Field Ser­ vice student, W arw ick W ilson, is an eighteen year old New Zealander w ith a passionate versatility of interests and ta le n ts : as a photographer, as an ac­ tor, as an a rtis t who has had his paintings and m u­ rals on exhibit, as a student leader, as a m usician of th e trom bone and th e guitar, as a debater who has represented his school several tim es, as an athlete of golf, tennis, swimming and squash, as a student of biochem istry. As indeed a kind of renaissance man. One of his young friends, who refers to him ­ self as “16 2/3 years old,” has w ritten of W arw ick: “His outstanding feature, though, is his ability to enjoy life to the full and m ake people a t ease. W hen W arw ick is about, everything is w orth doing, w hether w ork o r play.” A fter only ten days in Amer­ ica, W arw ick spoke about his experiences w ith dis­ tinctive perception. “There are incredible extrem es in th is country, th e rich and th e poor, the healthy and the sick. But the people are all fan tastic and th ere is a very free and open atm osphere and in m any places a spacious, lovely green country.” The M ontclair Academy American Field Service C hapter is five years old and has involved students from Germany, Brazil, Gautem ala, South Africa and now New Zealand. We are as hopeful again this year th a t it will be an exciting experience for W arwick, for the Academy and for th e community.

Mr. Colby F. Longley, II, w ith study a t Columbia U niversity and a t M aryland U niversity and w ith his Bachelor of A rts degree in elem entary education from F airleigh Dickinson U niversity, joined the M athem atics D epartm ent. He has served in the U nited States Army and as a Field Representative^ for Larson M ortgage Company.

Mr. Calvin H. Matzke, w ith a B achelor of A rts degree in a rt and music from W est Liberty State College, joined th e faculty as th e D irector of Art. He ta u g h t a rt for three years a t th e U nion Free/ School in H untington, New York, and fo r two years> in the Steubenville, Ohio, public school system.

Mrs. Samuel F. Melcher, Jr., a graduate of the U niversity of Connecticut w ith a B achelor of A rts degree in E nglish L iterature, joined the faculties of both the Academy and Brookside School as as­ sistan t librarian. She has studied a t Newark State College and a t Seton H all and she has tau g h t in the M ontclair public school system and in th e com­ m unity’s YWCA tuto rin g program .

Mr. R obert F. M orris joined th e Language De­ p artm en t to teach F rench and German. A fter study­ ing a t the U niversity of Mississippi and a t th e U ni­ versity of Munich, he received his B achelor of A rts degree in Germ an a t Millsaps College and w ent on to fu rth er study Germ an a t Rice U niversity. He be­ came D epartm ental A ssistant a t M illsaps and later ta u g h t Germ an a t Rice and a t H ouston B aptist Col­ lege. He was fo r a while A ssistant in the Educa­ tional M aterials Division of the Germ an Consulate in H ouston and he finally w ent back to M ississippi to teach in the public school system.

HOMECOMING IS OCTOBER 31st

Mr. Jo h n H. Rabke also joined th e Language De­ p artm ent as an in stru cto r of French. A graduate of K ing’s College, w here he received his B achelor of A rts degree in French, he was w ith th e Peace Corps for three years in Africa as a h ealth educator.

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CURRICULUM CHANGES The F aculty Committee on E ducational Policy has continued to w ork tow ards th e m ost complete and m eaningful academic program available in in ­ dependent secondary school education. The Com­ m ittee is responsible through D irector of Studies, J. Stevens Bean, fo r keeping th e curriculum rele­ vant, fo r continually evaluating it and for being al­ ways receptive to th e new ideas and th e new tech­ niques w hich develop so rapidly in th e changing field of education. This fall, th ere were several adkditions and expansions in the curriculum : DOWN ON DRUGS In January, th e U nited Comm unity Services of M ontclair initiated a drug task force to deal with th e problem s of th e ignorance and abuse of drugs.

The force created th e N orth Essex Drug Education Committee, composed of ten com m unity schools, from which, w ith the continuing help of H ead­ m aster P hilip L. Anderson, have grown m any other com mittees. One of these is th e Curriculum W riting Committee. “Many people have worked quite hard in th is program ,” said Douglas S. Jennings, one of th e Com m ittee’s chairm en. “This has been the first cooperative public and private effort am ong edu­ cators to attem pt to design an effective curriculum .

We have consulted oth er program s, we have spoken w ith th e State D epartm ent of Education, we have listened to school psychologists and to specialists in the com m unicative media, we have seen film s and read a good deal of w ritten m aterials. The stu­ dents have been concerned and have served stro n g ­ ly on m any of the com m ittees.” The result of the hard w ork of m any people has been a curriculum geared tow ards th e understanding of hum an re la ­ tions, a curriculum designed to help educators com­ m unicate w ith students about th e ir problems. “This is a curriculum ,” Mr. Jennings said, “w hich takes th e behavioral approach. We feel th a t the drugs them selves are not th e problem, but ra th e r th a t they are th e symptom of a problem in hum an re la ­ tions. To com m unicate an understanding of the problem s of hum an relations is essential before we can deal w ith th e problem of drugs.”

African Studies, offered as a full year and full credit course, enrolled five girls from th e K im ber­ ley School. _____ Art was offered to students in Grades 9-12 and conducted as a studio-w orkshop course.

Computer Mathematics and Programming at the Kim berley School enrolled ten boys from the Acad­ emy.

In th e 9th Grade, in addition to la st y ear’s course of th ree-q u arter E nglish and one-quarter Jo u rn al­ ism, an even com bination course of English and Journalism was added.

Advanced Placement English was initiated for seniors.

U nder the guidance of th e Independent Educa­ tional Services, an intensive Reading program was offered.

SCHOLARSHIP AID N ineteen m em bers of th e M ontclair Academy student body will receive scholarship aid during the 1970-71 academic year, as a resu lt of th e generous support of alum ni, p aren ts and friends in the An­ nual Giving and Endow m ent Program s. A lthough the num ber of scholarships given is sm all in com­ parison to th e requests received, m ore boys are benefiting from an Academy education each year.

One of the scholarship aw ards, the M iller-M onson Scholarship, was founded by th e Alumni Associa­ tio n to honor th e m em ories and services of Claude W. Monson, for th irty -n in e years a teacher of Latin, and W illiam H. Miller, science m aster for more th a n forty-six years. The other designated scholar­ ships are the C harles Hayden Scholar, th e Thom as A itken Scholar, the A lan B. DuMont Scholar, the B eatrice Crawford Scholar and th e M ontclair Acad­ emy P aren ts A ssociation Scholar. In addition to these scholarships, th irteen oth er g ran ts have been made to deserving students as a result of th e gen­ erous gifts received.

CAPITAL GIFTS CAMPAIGN E ig h t years ago, th ere was th e hope to rebuild M ontclair Academy and to expand Brookside School. The 75th A nniversary P rogram was begun, to reach th e goal of $5,055,914. Today, because of th e deep generosity of so m any devoted alum ni, p arents and friends, $4,824,914 has been given tow ards the realization of th a t hope. The 75th An­ niversary P rogram has ended.

But th ere is still a debt of 4.6% of the original goal. U nder th e C hairm anship of B ogart F. Thom p­ son ’35, th e C apital Gifts Cam paign will begin on October 1st, to raise th e rem aining $231,000 and to finally com plete th e paym ents on the building construction w hich has so greatly strengthened Brookside and w hich has so well enabled the Acad­ emy to offer th e fin est facilities of any day school in the E ast and perhaps in the country .

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SPORTS REVIEW SPRING Spring of 1970 was a tim e of change and excite­ m ent for the sports program s. On the baseball field, after thirty-six years of active coaching, Edwin E. Van B runt ended his tour as m entor of th e team , w ith a finish in second place in th e New Jersey In ­ dependent School League. W ith th e close of the season, John M. Noble was nam ed as “V an’s” re ­ placem ent. He is an E nglish m aster and an exper­ ienced coach. “W ith a few exceptions, we had a good season,” said Van, whose fam ous num ber 33 was retired a t the A thletic Banquet. “Rene Mathez, the senior cornerstone of the pitching staff, w ith a record of 6-1, suffered an injury; the season was shortened by r a in ; and we were certainly up against extrem ely tough com petition in th e Newark Acad­ emy and D elbarton games. But generally it was a fine season.” Dave Simon and Mike Zebrowski, co­ captains, received th e A ll-State aw ards respectively from the N ewark Evening News and th e Newark Star-Ledger.

Coach R obert H em m eter and the tennis team had an outstanding season. Adding to th e success of the team was the O utstanding A thlete Award w inner and captain, R oger Cole, also captain of the soccer team and a fine swimmer.

The golf team suffered th is season w ith grow ing pains and w ith th e problem of course time. Coaches Jo h n N ugent and Allan P enner are confident th a t th e team benefited from th e experience gained and they are hopeful that, w ith m any of the members returning, they will have a b etter season next year.

U nder the direction of Douglas Jennings, the track team had a m ost successful season. This was the first year th a t th e team was not involved in dual meets, but they did win th e Fieldstone Inter-S ubur­ ban T rack Conference Meet in May and they also participated in a m eet w ith th e New York School for the Deaf. A ssisting Jen n in g s were K enneth Gibson and David Rea.

A new sport in the spring was w ater polo, played in th e pool of the F airleigh S. Dickinson Gymnas­ ium. This was th e first season fo r the sport in New Jersey and th e Academy hosted the first w ater polo clinic, directed by coach Charles Faurot, the C hair­ m an of th e W ater Polo Comm ittee of the New J e r­ sey Swim Coaches Association. D uring this first season, th e Lions played th e team s of M onmouth College, Lafayette, th e Passaic-C lifton YMCA and Newark Academy. Co-captains were John D oerr and A1 Throw er and the outstanding players fo r the Academy were K eith M arsh and A lbert Van Eerde.

At th e A thletic B anquet in June, the guest speak­ er was Yale U niversity H ead Swimming Coach, P hil M oriarity. 350 fath ers and sons attended the affair, which was under th e direction of Carm en M arnell, the D irector of A thletics.

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FALL The fall sports season has begun. The following report was gathered from th e coaches just before the practice sessions were held in th e fall.

Soccer a t the Academy th is fall is under the di­ rection of coach Charles F aurot, w ith assistance from Edw ard W illiams, A llan Saxton and Lam ont Thomas. A strong season is expected, w ith m any retu rn in g letterm en filling the gaps of la st year’s seniors.

Football, under th e direction of Carm en M arnell and several oth er highly skilled specialists, will hopefully bring a strong season. There was a tig h t nucleus of retu rn in g players and it is hoped th a t the freshm en will provide a new depth. The first gam e was w ith th e King School at th e Academy field on Saturday, Septem ber 19th. All alum ni are looking forw ard to th e Homecom ing gam e w ith Collegiate School, w hich is scheduled for October 31st.

It will be difficult for cross country coach Doug­ las Jennings to b etter his 1969 season. The team was undefeated la st year and it should be as excit­ ing th is y ear during the half-tim es of home foot­ ball games, w hen m ost of th e meets are scheduled.

As a young team , it has suffered only m inim al losses and w ith coach Jennings in his second year it is hoped th a t th is season will be as successful as it has been in th e past.

The atten tio n of all alum ni, p arents and friends is called to th e complete schedules of fall sports printed in th is issue. All are invited to atten d the contests, both a t th e Academy and as th e team s travel to o th er areas.

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NOTES

OF THE CLASSES

1919

1926 1928

1953

Charles E. Maxwell was elected again for his second one-year term as the President of the United Community Services of North Essex. The organ­ ization, Mr. Maxwell writes, “is devel­ oping and financing a Drug Abuse Program, with a three pronged ap­ proach: a Crisis Intervention tele­ phone service, around the clock and seven days a week; a Training and Education Program; and a Treatment Service. These activities will be con­ ducted by our existing member-agen­ cies, with the assistance of many volunteers and professionals.”

Alden W. Smith ’26 wrote us awhile ago from Doylestown that Alfred F. W. Stapf ’28, “possibly the most faith­ ful Academy alumnus in this area,” Mr. Smith said, “had been hospital­ ized.” We wrote Mr. Stapf and received a letter from him soon after, that he was resting and feeling stronger. He enclosed in his letter a long newspaper story about Mrs. Smith who had found ninety-five four-leaf clovers in her yard. It seems that the best way these days to learn about alumni is to write their friends.

Peter A. Cockshaw joined the public relations department of Gray and Rodgers in Philadelphia. Mr. Cock­ shaw is Director of the Construction Writers Association of America.

1936

1924 Joseph E. Wiedenmayer writes that he retired from the Foreign Service in 1965 and has since been involved full time in the education of deaf children and the welfare of deaf adults on a national basis. As United States Consul and First Secretary in the Diplomatic Service, he has served in various capacities at our embassies and consulates in the Far East, Europe and South America for over twentyfour years. Mr. Wiedenmayer was re­ warded for his success in the Foreign Service when President John F. Ken­ nedy nominated him for promotion in 1962 and, with the recommendation of the Senate, he reached senior offi­ cer class. Later, President Lyndon B. Johnson, then Vice President, person­ ally commended him for his accom­ plishments and “generous advice to others.” In 1965, Mr. Wiedenmayer was awarded the Meritorious Service Certificate from Secretary of State Dean Rusk and in 1966 he was hon­ ored with the Achievement Award of the Executive Audial Rehabilitation Society. Mr. Wiedenmayer is now Special Assistant to the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf in Washington, D.C.

John B. Braine, Investment Coun­ selor, opened his new offices in April, at 100 Wall Street, New York.

1937 Robert E. Livesey writes that he “gave up the bachelor’s life on Sep­ tember 12th, after five years of it,” when he married the former Magdalen F. Brown, film editor and writer with the American Foundation for Religion and Psychiatry.

1947 Dr. Allan H. Toub writes that the Troop of which he is Scoutmaster hosted nineteen Canadian Scouts in April, as part of the recurring inter­ national exchange program he devel­ oped for his Troop. Dr. Toub was elected again to a fourth term as Secretary-Treasurer of the American College of Foot Orthopedists, of which he is a Fellow.

1955 The Reverend Oscar A. Mockridge,

III has become the new rector of the Episcopal Church of the Annunciation in Oradell, New Jersey. He is a repre­ sentative to the New Jersey Council of Churches, a vice president of the Newark Clericus and a member of the Committee for Clergy Conference.

“The churches,” Mr. Mockridge said in an interview in The Newark Churchman, “are facing a great chal­ lenge today: to put up or shut up.

They must either become part of the world or close their doors.”

Paul A. Nejelski writes that after six years in the United States Depart­ ment of Justice, he has recently re­ signed to become Assistant Director of the Center for Criminal Justice at the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He married the former Marilyn Mills in 1965 and they have two children.

1956 S. Thomas Aitken and his wife are the proud parents of a child born to them during the summer. Mr. Aitken is a Trustee on the Board of the Academy Foundation and Member of the Alumni Executive Committee.

1957 The Reverend John Robert Higgins

writes that he has been going to school since he left the Academy and that he has recently received his doctorate in counseling psychology from Harvard University.

HOW WHEN WHERE WHY TO WHAT EXTENT HAVE YOU BEEN? We like to know and so do your classm ates, so please w rite th e Alumni Office any news.

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Thomas E. Hobbins, M.D., left the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland in 1969 and he has since been a resident in internal medicine at the University of Wash­ ington in Seattle, Washington.

1961 Jeffrey K. Abrams, a graduate in 1969 from architectural school, is working in Boulder, Colorado. He has been doing photographic work and has had his own exhibit. He is also engaged.

1962 Lieutenant John A. Bleyle is sta­

tioned at Fort Meade in Maryland with the Naval Security Group Ac­ tivity. He is married and he and his wife have a year old daughter.

1963 Andrew Thomas Abrams and his wife are the proud parents of boy, Eric, born in January of 1970.

William P. LaPlant writes that he has been doing graduate work at the University of Dayton in the inter­ disciplinary program of Information Science. He has also been working full time at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as a Computer Specialist and while there he has published several papers on the aspects of com­ puter system design.

Philip W. Sommer has been ordained to the Gospel Ministry of the Presby­ tery of Philadelphia.

1964 Paul R. G. Horst, II writes that in 1968 he recived his Bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Boston University’s College of Liberal Arts and that he has since been Boston’s Freshman Crew Coach. In 1969 he married the former Jean Fiske of Chevy Chase, Maryland.

1965 Old cronies Victor R. Bernstein and Stephen J. Edelstein stopped at the Academy in late summer. Mr. Bern­ stein graduated in 1968 from the University of Virginia and is now in his second year at their law school.

He had just come home from a long summer’s travel through Africa. Mr. Edelstein, a 1968 graduate from Get­ tysburg College, is in his second year of law school at the University of North Carolina. He had spent the summer tutoring in the Newark ghetto.

Gregory O. Hare spent a long time in service to Vista. He is presently a parole officer of the State of New Jersey and is stationed in Essex County.

Joseph H. Hare, Jr. married the former Elizabeth Cattermole of Ham­ burg, Pennsylvania, on August 29th, at the Chapel of the War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Robert S. Livesey graduated from the Harvard School of Design and began his post-graduate work in arch­ itecture in September. He spent the summer with his wife, Dorothy, work­ ing for architects in Princeton, New Jersey.

1968 Geoffrey Gregg spent the summer tutoring in an Upward Bound program in the South. Working with him was Jean Sperling, the daughter of Dr. Walter Sperling ’34.

1969 Christopher C. Beling III came by

1966 Douglas Carter Fitzpatrick gradu­ ated last June from Lake Forest Col­ lege with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology. Mr. Fitzpatrick, an active participant in varsity sports, was one of the three football players chosen as the team’s most valuable players. He was named Stentor Athlete of the spring term in 1970 and was also the leading scorer for the track team in that season.

John R. Howard received the dis­ tinctive President’s Athletic Confer­ ence all-star honor twice at Allegheny College, for his superior performances in basketball and baseball. As a junior, he had been named as Allegheny’s best athlete.

the Academy in late summer. He had spent several weeks in summer school at Susquehanna and returned there in September as a sophomore.

We neglected to mention in the last issue that Elliott Middleton, III grad­ uated from the Academy with Cum Laude honors. Mr. Middleton is a sophomore at Yale University.

IN MEMORIAM )!

1908 Harold W. McGraw Sr. died in July of 1970. Mr. McGraw, a retired vice president of McGraw-Hill, Inc. and Chair­ man of the West Side Association of Commerce, was the eldest son of the founder of the McGraw-Hill publishing house. Over the years he had himself been director and president of the Corporation.

1911 Donald G. MacVicar, son of the founding father of Montclair Academy, John G. MacVicar, died after a brief illness in Middlebury, Connecticut on Saturday, August 1st, 1970. Mr. MacVicar was a retired sales manager for Eastern Malleable Iron Company. Born in Montclair, he graduated from the Academy and later went on to Cornell University, before he entered the Army as an infantry officer.

Surviving are his wife, Mary West MacVicar; a daugh­ ter, Mrs. Henry S. Poler of Grafton, Massachusetts; a brother, Herbey A. MacVicar of Westport, Massachusetts; a sister, Mrs. Kenneth F. Evans of Bellaire Bluff, Florida and three grandchildren.

1932 Harry E. Perry died during the summer in a sailing accident. He had been a salesman for several years with Babcock and Wilcox, a metal working firm in Ohio.

1947 Paul C. Orme died recently in an automobile accident.

After graduating from the University of California, Mr. Orme became a field representative for the United Oil Company in California.

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Saturday, October 31st

2:00

football

montclair academy vs. collegiate school 5 :0 0 -9 :0 0 ambrosia (catered by 1. shupik and son, ine.) two-step (played by peter domineck and his orchestra) 6:30 - 7:30 buffet supper $ 8 .0 0 per couple

HOMECOMING

FOOTBALL Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday,

Sept.

Sept.

Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct.

19 King School 26 Princeton Day School 3 W ardlaw School 10 St. B ernard’s School 17 Englewood School 24 M orristown School 31 Collegiate School Homecoming Saturday, Nov. 14 N ewark Academy

SOCCER Tuesday, Sept. 22 Tuesday, Sept. 29 Saturday, Oct. 3 Monday, Oct. 5 Wednesday, Oct. 7 Friday, Oct. 9 Wednesday, Oct. 14 Friday, Oct. 16 Monday, Oct. 19 Wednesday, Oct. 21 Wednesday, Oct. 28 Friday, Oct. 30 Tuesday, Nov. 3 Thursday, Nov. 5 Tuesday, Nov. 10 Thursday, Nov. 12 to Saturday, Nov. 14

2:00 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:00

A 2:00

CROSS COUNTRY

P ingry School A 3:30 St. B ernard’s School A 3:45 Peddie School A 1:00 Newark Academy H 3:30 Neumann Prep A 3:30 W ardlaw School A 3:30 M orristow n School A 3:30 W ardlaw School H 3:30 Neumann Prep H 3:30 R utgers Prep H 3:30 R utgers Prep A 3:30 P rinceton Day School A 3:00 Englewood School H 3:15 St. B ernard’s School H 3:00 M orristown School H 3:00 R utgers Prep Invitational Soccer Tournam ent A

MONTCLAIR

ACADEMY

MONTAGE

Montclair

New Jersey

07042

Address Correction Requested

H H A A A A H

Tuesday, Saturday, Thursday,

Sept. 22 Sept. 26 Oct. 1

Wednesday, Oct. 7 Wednesday, Oct. 14 Friday, Oct. 16 Wednesday, Oct. 21 Saturday, Oct. 24 Wednesday, Oct. 28 Tuesday, Nov. 3 Tuesday, Nov. 10 Saturday, Nov. 14 Wednesday, Nov. 18

P ingry School A 3:30 Princeton Day School H 3:00 Im m aculate Conception High School H 3:30 Neumann Prep A 3:30 BMI H 3:30 W ardlaw School A 3:30 R utgers Prep H 3:30 M orristown School A 2:45 R utgers Prep A 3:30 Englewood School H 3:45 W ardlaw School H 3:30 Newark Academy A 3:00 N.J.I.S.A.A. Cham pionships A