Spring 1971 MA Montage

M O N T C L A IR

ACADEMY

S P R IN G , 19T1

S O U P DU JO U R editorial comment

Perhaps there is a certain ego­ centrism in us, bred by the need to define ourselves and piece to­ gether our experiences to direct ourselves where we walk. Per­ haps it is a confidence we look for late at night, after we have lis­ tened to each other and under­ stood, but disagreed, with toler­ ance. Perhaps late at night we look for that confidence where we have hidden it and,use it to tell us that we do know some kind of truth.

Cultures and nations seem to have the same need to believe that they are right and it is this ethnocentrism which brings some of them to the battlefields, with the belief that theirs is the only healthy civilization and that all others would benefit by forced acculturation. We learn to revere technology and to laugh at or fear the cultures upon whose high­ ways delivery trucks have not yet transported technological prog­ ress. Perhaps we need to learn tolerance and the naturalness of mutual coexistence.-.

Why is it that we do not learn the respect for cultures and na­ tions that we learn for people?

We learn that murder is evil but not that the inhumanity of cul­ tural snobbery is evil.

The Academy's African Studies course has produced a curriculum project designed to provoke some thought about how African studies are taught, where mistakes may have been made and how they might be corrected. The Project is based upon the research of twenty-five Academy and Kim­ berley students at schools across northern New Jersey and, though by no means intended as defini­ tive, it does indeed provoke an evaluation of cultural ethnocen­ trism. c. j.

MONTCLAIR ACADEMY

m o n ta ciQ Volume 1

Number 3

s p r in g

, 1971

CONTENTS 1 Africa Our Africa

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Alumni Review

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Notes of the School

1 1 Trustees

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Sports Review Notes of.the Classes Proposed Revised Constitution

editor: fr;itz jellinghaus editorial advisory board: herbert kreger '59 ■ arthur littman, director of develop­ ment ■ paid r. miller, jr. '43, trustee ■ robert h. muller, m.d.

'39, president, alumni association ■ frederick I. redpath, president, board of trustees ■ Design and Printing: Livingston Publishing Co. The Academy is a member of the American Alumni Council and of the National Association of Independent Schools.

The Montclair Academy Montage is published fall, winter, spring and summer by the Alumni Association of the Mont­ clair Academy Foundation of Montclair, New Jersey. Second class postage paid at Montclair, New Jersey, 07042.

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"I feel," writes one student in the African Studies Cur­ riculum Project, "that an African Studies course shows us that different peoples have different cultures and, there­ fore, different habits of living. That which may seem absurd to one man may be completely understandable to another— Donne's poem shows us that all men affect each other."

Lamont Thomas, the Academy master who has taught the African Studies course since 1967, has said that "if we who go through this course can gain a knowledge about African people and their lives, as well as to better under­ stand America, ourselves and our lives, then we have really learned something."

The African Studies course has enabled Montclair Acade­ my to broaden the awareness of its students to the Black man's heritage, in a response to the expressions of com­ munity and national concern over the gap of misunder­ standing between white and black Americans. In the last several years, many of the educational institutions of America have assumed the responsibility of bridging that gap. Across the country, it is no longer a question of whether or not we should institute African and Black Stud­ ies courses, but rather a question of how we should insti­ tute them.

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Last year, the Academy sponsored an Audio-visual Con­ ference for more than a hundred teachers in Northern New Jersey, to explain, develop and improve the methodology of audio-visual materials, ¿specially for use in the inquiry form of teaching. This year a group of twenty-five Academy boys and Kimberley girls from the African Studies course have researched a random selection of twelve North Jersey schools. They have combined their research into the Afri­ can Studies Curriculum Project, an evaluation of the meth­ ods of teaching the African heritage.

This Project's introduction states the theme borne out by the entire report, the gap of misunderstanding between fact and fiction. "For centuries," the students write in their in­ troduction, "Africa has been thought of as the 'Dark Con­ tinent,' a land of naked savages one step beyond the Stone Age. Many people envision it as a land without history or culture. But today archeologists and research scientists are discovering infinite knowledge of Africa's past. These facts reveal the errors in our conceptions of Africa's cultures.

Through this project, we have reevaluated the widely con­ sidered myths that Africans were incapable of progress and that their history was one of stagnation and savagery before the arrival of the white man."

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. . that tree over yonder splendidly alone amidst white and faded flowers That is Africa your Africa which grows again Which grows again patiently obstinately and whose fruits acquire little by little the bitter taste of liberty."

David Diop, Senegalese

But the myth is by no means dead. The African Studies Project concludes that at least half of the students inter­ viewed react to the word "Africa" with the standard stereo­ types and that better attempts can be made to realign those stereotypes with the information available about contem­ porary Africa.

The first section of the Project deals with the knowledge students had of Africa, where they learned it and how rele­ vant they thought it was to America. Generally, much of the knowledge students held about Africa was stereotypical and their terminology revolved around emotive value judg­ ments: cannibals, pygmies, savages,; tribes, spears, poison darts, elephants. There were few students who reacted with non-stereotypical terms or with more realistic an under­ standing and those few tended to think first of such terms as: Nigeria, Biafra, Haile Selassi; the Peace Corps, colonial­ ism. But there was little doubt that most judgments were arrived at through the visual media, the theatre of film and television. There was aiso little doubt among most of the students that the study of African history was significant and relevant to America today, although only sixty-five per­ cent felt that it was particularly relevant to Black America.

The feelings of the Academy students in this first poll were little different, though they had a stronger desire for further ¡study than did most of the students at the other schools.

The second section of the Project concerns an investiga­

tion of the African and Black Studies courses in the twelve suburban secondary schools in Northern New Jersey, pri­ vate and public. In four of the private schools investigated, there were no African or Black Studies courses at all. There were very few Black students in these schools and, of all the students interviewed, most "implied that a minority of stu­ dents would be interested and that most of them would be the Black students." The students interviewed also felt that "a white teacher was capable of teaching any African or Black Studies course." Most of the Academy students interviewed thought that a Black teacher would be prefer­ able. Of the public schools investigated, it was concluded that the racial make-up of the public school community has E n most cases determined the extent of courses in African and Black history. Because of the continually innovative study given to the curriculum at the Academy, African Studies was introduced to respond to the community and national concern and there was no need for any pressure.

"Generally speaking," the students write in their conclu­ sions, "we feel that these courses are still in their growing stages, with a majority of them only half-credited and avail­ able for only one semester. We see, in the future, the cour­ ses broadening in their scope and attracting a greater num­ ber of students, as more people become interested in ano­ ther environment and another society."

The most valuable section of the Project is the third,

"M y life is between two worlds, each of which has a hold on me. The first is the world of civilisation. . . and the other is the world of the past represented by my home life amidst the proud and conservative Masai who have not yet taken to Western ways. . .

An African student

"H ow sweet it is to lie beneath a tree At eventime and share the ecstacy Of jocund birds and flimsy butterflies; How sweet to leave our earthbound body in its mud, And rise towards the music of the spheres, Descending softly with the wind, And the tender glow of the fading sun."

Chinua Achebe, Nigerian

which evaluates conventional history texts and other avail­ able literature. "It is most perplexing," a student writes, "to discover that the continent of Africa, which has ap­ proximately one eighth of the world's population and onefifth of its land area, has only one-one-hundredth or less of the total content material in the conventional world history texts. The obvious dirth of information about African history in these sources, in addition to the bias in interpreta­ tion, are reasons which some Black leaders today are giving as examples of white racism. In Living World History, the author describes the life of African people as 'a primitive tribal existence, with few of the tools and skills needed for civilization. They had no system of writing or counting and no knowledge of the wheel or sail. This backwardness. . . .'

Here, not only is the stereotype simple and superficial, but it is also grossly inaccurate: there were African civilizations that did write and count and have a knowledge of sailing.

After my research on the coverage of Africa's past by con­ ventional history books, I must admit to the fact that these texts (used today and for the past ten years) have failed to display or deliver a representative picture of Africa's history.

Facts gathered by historians came generally from traditional sources (written documents) and these sources have neglected to reach an understanding of Africa's past through its oral traditions, neglected to seek the feelings of Africans about their own history in Africa and in Europe.

The history of Africa is told as the history of European activities in Africa, from a Eurocentric frame of reference alone. The European or Caucasian races are credited with making the most progress in the African cultures. To add to this distortion of history is the lack of the feelings of Africans about European activities in Africa." The conclus­ ion ends that, "although the recent history texts present a more progressive and factual outlook on Africa's past than do the earlier sources, I still find these books to be inef­ fective: there is still the tendency to present a European judgment and consequently an inadequate objective ac­ counting of African cultures."

In the ambitious undertaking of selecting written mater­ ials for use as historical data, the students list many books which they feel are valid for learning Africa's history; they comment on the author's qualifications and give succinct summaries of each of the books. "O f the goals which we decided upon before beginning the research," the students write in the preface to their literary analysis, "one was to discern the difference between a European frame of re­ ference and an African frame of reference. Our conjec­ ture was that there would be a marked difference, the Euro­ pean dealing with the uncivilized aspects of African history and the glories of colonization, whereas the African frame of reference would look at the opposite side of the issue.

Frame of reference is a touchy subject anyway and, in a

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So I came back Sailing down the Guinea Coast.

Loving the sophistication Of your brave new cities: Dakar, Accra, Cotonou, Lagos, Bathurst and Bissau; Liberia, Freetown, Libreville,. . . .

case of this sort, its problems become even more serious for the researcher. At first glance, one might mechanically ascribe a frame of reference to a person on the basis of his nationality, though one must ask if nationality can be truly equated with a point of view on a given issue. The danger, as with every labeling process, is crucial when the general­ ization oversteps itself in only one case. And there is yet an­ other problem: most of the books which we researched were pro-African, perhaps arising from reverse prejudice or through over-compensation. The decision will involve a basic knowledge of the subject so that the reader can judge for himself whether a book is over or under com­ pensating. In conclusion, a discretion between pro-Euro­ pean and pro-African frames of reference is relevant, but it cannot be determined by the nationality of the author, al­ though nationality can be used as a primary guide. Instead, the judgment should be made after having inspected the work and compared it to what can be truly accepted as general fact."

The final section of the Project concerns the evaluation of the audio-visual aid. The conclusion was reached that, because of the lack of interest in Africa before 1957 and because of the inadequacies of unsophisticated audio-vis­ ual equipment, much of the earlier audio-visual aids are not significant. But there was a definite feeling that aids should be used. "A study of a culture should focus on the people and their ways of life. It is important to show stu­

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dents the occupations, the means of transportation and communication, the written and visual arts of Africans to enable them to understand the culture. Slides, films, records, tapes and maps lend themselves to an interesting and in­ structive method of learning."

The students have not felt their statistics to be neces­ sarily final, but rather that they are sufficiently authentic to provoke valid questions and hopefully to make them understand America and themselves better, through the understanding of Africa and another culture. And this, Mr. Thomas has said, is what the course is all about: through inquiry and inductive reasoning, to allow each student to learn about himself by experiencing Someone else. "W e all learn in the course," Mr. Thomas said, "about Africa from African resources; we do not neglect other sources, but we combine them with what Africa says of itself. It is an interdisciplinary course and we use archeology, anthropol­ ogy, sociology, the arts, studying both the written and oral traditions. As such, this Project is both a means for helping the student to improve his understanding of the history of Africa, as well as an end in itself for use by stu­ dents and teachers. We study and discuss together what we have learned and what our reactions have been. The ulti­ mate role of the teacher is to withdraw as the authority and allow the students to inquire and search for their own answers."

Co up-country, so they said, To see the real Africa. .

For whomsoever you may be,.

That is where you Come from.

Co for bush, inside the bush, You will find your hidden heart.

Your mute ancestral spirit.

And so l went, dancipg on .my■wcty.. ' An A/r/can studéni'- ,

Lamont D. Thomas graduated from Trinity College in 1960, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. He went on to graduate study at King's College, at the School of African and Oriental Studies, both of which are part of the University of London, at Virginia Theological Seminary, Boston University and at Trinity College, where he received his Master of Arts degree in history in 7966. Throughout those years of study, he taught at several schools in Maryland, Phoenix and in Liberia, West Africa, and in the summer of 7969 was a curriculum consultant for Project Africa at Carnegie-Mellon Uni­ versity. He came to the Academy in 7966 and, in addition to his teaching, is researching the history of Paul Cuffe, an early Black American, with the hope of eventually having his research published.

Mr. Thomas lives with his wife, Marge, in Montclair.

These photographs have come to us put of the refrigerator in a home where fohn Rabke lived on the western coast of Africa. Mr. Rabke, a French master at the Academy, spent two years with the Peace Corps in the Ivory Coast and the heat was often over one hundred degrees and they had to preserve their slides in a cool place. While in Africa, Mr. Rabke and his wife, Nancy, lived in Bouake.

During the first year, Mr. Rabke worked with two native male nurses and an interpreter in a four-member health team which traveled across the fields, from village to village, checking the health standards, lecturing on proper health practices and generally educating the villagers in preventive medicine. In his second year, Mr. Rabke took only day trips to teach health in local grammar schools. The Rabkes returned from Africa a year ago and live, with their two daughters, in Montclair.

The editor wishes to express his appreciation for the many hours of time Mr. Thomas spent in interview preparing for this story.

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ALUMNI REVIEW

DALLAS TOWNSEND: Only one step behind the footprints of history In the night, the dark draws the dusk into dawn while the country sleeps. In the night, politicians and statesmen vie in smoky convention halls for the power of the people, and the Pope, ancestor of the Holy Roman Empire, walks in the streets of New York; in the night, men make war and peace and two men romp on the face of the moon; in the night, atomic bombs explode in Nevada and a tender mother gives birth to four healthy children. The country wakes to a strong, resonant, distinct voice. "Good morning.

This is Dallas Townsend." When the country comes alive to the world at 8:00 in the morning, Dallas Townsend has al­ ready been there for three hours.

Dallas Townsend is always only one step behind the foot­ prints of history. The anchor man of radio's "CBS World News Roundup." One of their finest newscasters, known across the world in radio and television.

Mr. Townsend joined CBS in 1941 and, with the exception of three and a half years as an Army officer in the Pacific during the second World War, he has been there ever since.

As news editor. As director of special events. As a manager of television news broadcasts. As anchor man on the morn­ ing "Roundup." While a special correspondent, he has

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covered the opening of the Vietnam peace talks in Paris in 1968 and the student and labor riots which followed, also the Japanese Peace Conference, the early atomic tests in 1952, 1953, 1955, the crucial sessions of the United Nations, the inauguration of every President of the United States since 1953 and the many visits of dignitaries and heads of state to America. He has covered every major political convention since 1948 and is the exhausted possessor of an endurance record of thirty-one hours of unrelieved duty during the Democratic Convention of 1960, which he al­ most duplicated at the Republican Convention in 1964. On those days, Mr. Townsend came off the floor nightly around 2:00 a.m., rested and went to work at 3:00 a.m. to prepare the "CBS Roundup," which went on the air at 5:00 a.m.

Pacific time. He has also reported on the major achieve­ ments of the space program since John Glenn's flight and, from the decks of recovery ships, his voice has welcomed home seven missions. Where American history has been made in the last two decades, Dallas Townsend has been there.

But he has also been here in Montclair and very involved in the community. He has worked with the Heart Fund, the

SONS OF ALUMNI If a man is proud of his school, excited about the lines he blocked on the football field or the lines he drew in the art room, convinced that he learned to understand people and most of all to understand himself . . . if a man is proud of this, then one of the highest compliments he can pay that school and one of the firmest investments of faith and hope that he can make is to send his son there.

In the 1970-71 school year, sixteen alumni sent their sons to the Academy: NAME Emerson E. Brightman '33 Richard L. Carrie '41 John A. Cosentino '40 Roger B. Etherington '41 Eugene I. Haubenstock '34 David Jacobs '40 Robert A. Kovacs '44 Young Women's Christian Association, the Community Chest, Skating, Inc. (the organization which founded the Essex County Skating Rink), the New Task Force on Drug Abuse, as the Chairman of the Board of the First Congre­ gational Church and as Founding Chairman of the Mont­ clair Urban Coalition.

Mr. Townsend graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts degree and he later graduated, with his Master of Arts degree, from the School of Journalism at Columbia University, where he also began his radio career as a news writer for Station WQXR. He lives in Montclair, in the Academy's backyard, overlooking the school, with his wife, Lois, and their four children: Douglas, Katherine, Patricia and Nancy.

He graduated from Montclair Academy in 1936 and has over the years shown concern for the day to day experience of the students and for the long-range growth of the School.

The Alumni Association is deeply proud to announce Dallas Townsend as this year's "Outstanding Alumnus."

Samuel L. Lewis, III '49 Peter N. Perretti, Jr. '49 Peter D. Purvis '45 William D. Seidler '38 Walter J. Sperling, Jr., M. D. '34 Bogart F. Thompson '35 Thomas F. Troxell, Jr. '43 John H. Wallace '50

STUDENT Robert L. Jeffrey P. Paul B. R. Barrie Steven Glenn R. Robert W. William F. Samuel L., IV Peter N., Ill Earl P. Scott L. William D. B. Christopher W. John F. David M. Benjamin F. John K. Matthew A. Thomas R.

YEAR 73 73 71 76 75 74 71 73 73 72 74 71 74 76 72 75 74 72 76 72

ANNUAL ALUMNI DINNER The Montclair Academy Alumni Association will hold its Annual Alumni Meeting and Dinner at the Academy on Thursday, April 22nd. The affair is stag and all alumni, friends and seniors and their fathers are invited. The highlight of the evening will be the presentation of the Outstanding Alumnus Award to Dallas S. Townsend, Jr., '36 internation­ ally-known anchor man of the "CBS World News Roundup."

The presentation and dinner will be preceded by a cock­ tail hour at 6:30 p.m. Dinner will be served at 7:45 p.m. The program will include a report on the year's activities of the Association by its President, Robert H. Muller, M.D., a mem­ ber of the Class of 1939 and a resident of Montclair. The officers of the Alumni Council will be nominated and elect­ ed and Headmaster Philip Anderson will make his Annual Report to the alumni. Following the dinner-meeting, guests may adjourn to the Library.

The invitation and reservation forms will be mailed soon.

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NOTES OF THE SCHOOL

independent study For the second consecutive year, Academy seniors will be involved in an extensive program of independent study. "The purpose of the pro­ gram," said this year's director, Lamont D. Thomas, Academy his­ tory master, "is to afford sen­ iors an opportunity to pursue in depth an academic or artistic pro­ ject of their own choosing. Through the conception and execution of such a project, the student can exer­ cise independently methods and ap­ proaches developed in earlier course work, develop academic self-dis­ cipline and resourcefulness in the use of research materials, and gain a foretaste of the kind of indepen­ dent work which is increasingly a part of the college curriculum."

The independent study program, developed last year by a committee of seniors in conjunction with the Faculty Committee on Educational Policy, has proved a fine experience for students, in cooperation with faculty advisors, to express them­ selves creatively about a subject in which they are interested. A studentfaculty committee approves each student's project and faculty advisors are assigned before the investigation and study are begun. To provide ample time to complete each pro­ ject, regular class schedules are ter­ minated two weeks earlier for all participating seniors. Each project is duplicated and the additional copy remains on file in the Academy Li­ brary.

Last year, under the direction of Joseph R. Kerner, Jr., Chairman of the English Department, the independent study program produced several unique projects: an investigation and experimentation in laser holography, a process which leads to the recon­ 8

struction of a three-dimensional im­ age of an object; a canoe trip down the Delaware River to collect, an­ alyze and photograph evidence of water pollution; a study of the history and recent revival of the ancient oriental handweapon, the "nuchaku;" the production of a short film, using both motion and still photog­ raphy; a report on two weeks' ex­ perience as a volunteer orderly at Community Hospital in Montclair; a study of the Four Gospels of the New Testament; the composition of a uni­ fied series of poems relating to the poet's experience with life and death; the development of a cam­ paign to publicize the poisonous na­ ture of insecticides and to collect and incinerate them as a public ser­ vice to Montclair and the surround­ ing communities. "The success," Headmaster Philip L. Anderson said of last year's program, "is very en­ couraging and we look forward to even greater efforts and results from future classes."

The projected program this year is equally diverse, including such pro­ jects as: the study of artistic schools and styles and, in addition, some original art work; filmmaking and criticism; collections of original short stories, poems and plays, with brief analyses of each collection; research­ ed studies of the environment, based upon field observation and docu­ mentation; the study of the me­ chanics of civic government; a de­ tailed analysis of urban architecture.

Mr. Thomas, with the help of Mr. Kerner, has spent many long and hard days in the preparation of this program. "This is a very concrete ex­ ample of student responsibility," Mr. Thomas said, "and we hope this in­ dependence in academic work will be a milestone in the future of Mont­ clair Academy."

theatre Had you visited the Weiss Arts Center theatre on any afternoon in February, you would have found Academy boys and Kimberley girls hitting the boards with a new pro­ duction, "The Happiest Days of Your Life," a British farce by John Dighton.

The play concerns the problems a British boys' school faces when in­ formed by the Education Ministry that, because of the bombing during World War II, there must be a shar­ ing of facilities. The other school naturally turns out to be a girls' school. The prospects of co-educa­ tion are grisly for both schools, but the attempted solution of problems thus incurred eventually brings them into a working harmony with hilar­ ious discords.

The play is quite a challenge. It demands the precision of crisp arti­ culation and of exact timing and also an appreciation of the drole comic situations. The actors handled it skill­ fully and, against the setting design­ ed by the stage crew, the perfor­ mance was successful.

During the summer months of July and August, we plan to establish a permanent repertory workshop at Montclair Academy for young people. As a workshop, its atmos­ phere would be relaxed and flexible, teaching dramatic and stage craft skills within the context of the pro­ ductions performed by the members.

trustee—faculty dinners Montclair Academy believes in the free expression of thought. It believes in the need for people to be acces­ sible to one another in honest and open dialogue. These feelings have

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become the impetus behind what is intrinsically meant by the great pass­ word "communication." The School works provocatively and thoroughly to enlarge the resources of know­ ledge and opinion from which the growth of the Academy will come in future years. So the School does communicate.

One of the most recent examples of this far-reaching communication is a program to bring the faculty to­ gether with the Board of Trustees, at a trustee's home for dinner with members of an academic depart­ ment and other members of the Board. The first dinner was held in early January, with the English De­ partment at the home of Willard W. Dixon of Montclair. The second din­ ner was held with the History De­ partment in late February, at the home of Frederick L. Redpath, Presi­ dent of the Board, also of Montclair.

They talked about new departmental programs, about the future of the Academy and its involvement in the

community, about the kind of stu­ dent the School now serves and about the kind of student it will be serving in years ahead.

Joseph R. Kerner, Jr. and Robert C. Hemmeter, respective Chairmen of the English and History Depart­ ments, both felt that the evenings were very satisfying and that the continuation of this program held great promise for the development of the Academy, for the trustees to explore the diversity of the educa­ tional experience and for both the trustees and the masters to know each other's personalities, attitudes and philosophies.

"I think it very important," Head­ master Philip L. Anderson said, "that the members of the faculty and the Board learn about each other. They are all dedicated to serving Academy boys and their efforts together, their interest and their thoughts, can only provoke us all to work harder, more sensitively, more humanely to main­ tain a school of distinct excellence."

In the last issue of the "Montage," English master Al Penner described what we feel is the philosophical foundation of a boy's educational experience at the Academy. "In class­ es over the past several years," Mr. Penner wrote, "there has been a trend towards inductive rather than didactic teaching. Teachers are pos­ ing less as authorities who dissemin­ ate information and more as experi­ enced guides to lead students to think for themselves. . . . Some of the boys find the lack of specific an­ swers frustrating, but the inductive method forces them to think rather than memorize. . . .the boys are chal­ lenged to think, to look at evidence and to form hypotheses. . . .Simply, the Academy tries to allow boys to crack molds."

This is the premise from which we work every day, that education is not all about itself, but rather all about what each boy can do with what he learns. It is the response to knowledge that we want to cultivate, with small classes, through a dedic­ ated faculty and in a personal atmos­ phere.

It is with this in mind that we con­ tinually reevaluate the program of each academic department, seeking to broaden and intensify the learn­ ing experience. It is the purpose of our curriculum to expose students, through the versatile offerings of each department, to a liberal educa­ tion, as well as to tailor the curricu­ lum to each boy's interests and abilities; to encourage his curiosity and to enrich his understanding and appreciation of life.

Because I feel that a description of our philosophy is not a sufficient enough explanation of what really happens every day in each class­ room, I would like here to briefly

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describe several of the innovative programs initiated by each of our academic departments.

In the English Department, special elective courses are offered in grades nine through twelve for students who have demonstrated above average ability, courses which consist of a condensed version of the regular program and followed by a semester of journalism, drama or creative writ­ ing. Seniors of high ability may take the advanced placement English course, All students are trained in public speaking and are required to record their thoughts and activities in a journal.

The Mathematics Department of­ fers to students of strong ability the opportunity to take Algebra in the eighth grade and, as seniors, to take the advanced Calculus course. Two different courses are offered in Geo­ metry and the more proficient mathematics students combine ad­ vanced Algebra with the study of Trigonometry and Analytic Geom­ etry. Seniors who are on the ad­ vanced track, but who are not ready for the Calculus course, may take a course in Probability and Matrix Al­ gebra.

In the Science Department, stu­ dents who are placed on the advanc­ ed track in mathematics are not re­ quired to take eighth grade Science, allowing them therefore to take the Ecology course when they are sen­ iors. Two different courses are offer­ ed in Chemistry and Physics, so that students of varying abilities may study materials at their own levels.

In the Language Department, all seventh graders||take a course in spoken French and may, if they de­ sire, continue with that language through the twelfth grade. Spanish is offered in the eighth through twelfth grades. The language program pro­ gresses from emphasis on oral techni­ ques at the lower levels to the read­ 10

I. Stevens Bean graduated from Bowdoin College in 7962 and, after receiving his Master of Arts degree from Brown Uni­ versity, he spent one year there working towards his Doctorate of Physics degree before coming to the Academy in 1964.

He began teaching General and Earth Science and since then has taught Physics, Introductory Physical Science and Time,

Space and Matter. He was named Chair­ man of the Science Department in 1967 and Director of Studies in 1969. Mr. Bean has been working in a doctoral program at Rutgers University, studying for a Doctor of Education degree in educa­ tional administration. He lives with his wife, Betsy, and their two children in Denville, New Jersey.

ing of literature at the upper levels.

For students who wish to study a classical language, Latin is offered, beginning in the ninth grade.

The History Department offers Geography in the seventh grade and, in the eighth grade, Early Civiliza­ tion, from an archeological point of view, which encourages an apprecia­ tion for the sources of our knowledge of history. A number of special elec­ tive courses are offered for juniors and seniors; African and Asian Stud­ ies, economics and advanced place­ ment United States History.

In the Art and Music Departments, students in grades seven and eight study the basic principles of art and music. Students of music may choose to join the Glee Club or participate in the experimental instrumental program recently begun with the Kimberley School. Art students may now also continue classes through the twelfth grade.

There are many other courses

which we would like to offer, in psychology, sociology, Russian and Latin American Studies, contempor­ ary events, mechanical drawing and typing, to mention only a few, and we continually look for ways to in­ corporate exciting and relevant pro­ grams into our expanding curriculum.

One of the most effective ways of enlarging our curriculum with in­ novative courses has been the co­ ordinate program with The Kimber­ ley School. It has resulted in com­ bined classes and assemblies which the students of both Schools seem to enjoy very much.

Although this brief description of several aspects of our departments does not fully encompass what we feel is a certain intellectual excite­ ment in the School, I do hope that It conveys an idea of our concern for the capabilities of each student and how we activate that concern throughout the curriculum. □ □ □

WITH THE TRUSTEES

In late January, I reported to the Trustees of the Montclair Academy Foundation, with the intent of pro­ viding highlights in the current situation at both the Academy and Brookside School. The growth of our Schools is so significant that I would like to share these highlights with you, our alumni, parents and friends.

The academic programs are in excellent shape and both Schools show the highest enrollments in their history. The credit for this condition goes to Martha Johnson, Headmistress of Brookside, and to Philip Anderson, Headmaster of the Academy, as well as to their able, dedicated faculties and staffs.

Although our position now is strong, the 1971-72 school year presents more uncertainties than the Board has known in recent years. We must study closely the effects on our enrollment of such factors as the eco­ nomic recession, the various proposed changes in Montclair's public school system, the decision of

Newark Academy to accept coeds next fall and the study of coeducation by several other independent schools in the vicinity. In view of these factors, applica­ tions to date at Brookside are in line with applications of a year ago and those at the Academy are running slightly behind. It is our aim to maintain the same level of enrollment in 1971-72 as we have this year (350 boys at the Academy, 225 girls and boys at Brookside). We are confident we can do this. It is disappointing to note, however, that in this year's Academy student body, only 20 boys are sons of alumni (see page 7 ).

This is not enough! We hope more alumni will send their sons to the School and we will urge the Ad­ missions Committee to give extra consideration to applications received from boys whose fathers are Academy graduates.

I commend to your attention four current activities which are significant. First is the curriculum of Drug Abuse Education which was introduced this year at both of our Schools under a pilot program. It was de­ veloped last summer by a joint committee of educators and students from public, private and parochial schools in ten adjoining communities. The actual writing of the curriculum much involved Academy English master, Douglas Jennings, with the assistance of Mrs. Gale Francis from Brookside. Second is the expanded schol­ arship program which, because of special underwriting, has made it possible for underprivileged boys from minority groups to attend the Academy. We hope that, through the increased income of endowment and an­ nual giving, it will be possible to further expand this program at both Schools. Third is a new plan to bring Academy faculty members and trustees together in­ formally. Recently, the members of the English Depart­ ment and several trustees gathered for dinner and an evening of conversation at the home of Trustee and Mrs. Willard Dixon of Montclair. Measured by the spirited dialogue, the affair was quite a success. Other departmental dinners are scheduled for the spring, involving different masters and trustees. Fourth is the progress of the coordinated programs with The Kim­ berley School. This year's joint activities include aca­ demic courses, music and dramatic productions and a series of combined assemblies. Plans are under way for a greater sharing of the facilities, faculty and staff of each School. To insure a continuing exchange of ideas, the Headmaster and I have met from time to time with

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Richard Loveland, Headmaster, and James Mills, Presi­ dent of the Kimberley Board. As a result of these meet­ ings, and continuing contact at the administrative level, communications between the two Schools have never been better.

In recent weeks, a major consideration of the LongRange Planning Committee has been the development of a collateral use of the Academy's fine new buildings.

Without penalizing our School programs or causing inconvenience to our Lloyd Road neighbors, we hope to generate more community use of our facilities. As a beginning, a group of girl swimmers from the Mont­ clair YMCA is using our pool one night a week. Con­ sideration is also being given to a proposal to establish a repertory theatre workshop next summer for young people, making greater use of the superb facilities of The Weiss Arts Center in teaching dramatic and stage craft skills through the actual production of musicals and serious drama.

Basic to the future of the two Schools is their alumni program. In an effort to broaden the base of this pro­ gram, Fritz Jellinghaus joined the Development Office staff this year, as the Director of Alumni and Public Relations. He is also responsible for the School pub­ lications, including the "Montage," our redesigned alumni magazine, and for promoting alumni interest in the Academy. Recently, Arthur Littman, Director of Development, and Mr. Jellinghaus met in Boston with several Academy graduates and brought them up-todate on their Alma Mater. More of these regional gettogethers are planned for the months ahead.

Another major concern of the Board is our fund­ raising activity which is proceeding actively on three levels: 1. The Capital Campaign, necessary to raise the balance of the funds needed to have our build­ ings debt-free, started last fall under the leader­ ship of Bogart Thompson '35 and has raised ap­ proximately $90,000 in new gifts and pledges, including a contribution of $25,000 to underwrite the Music Room in The Weiss Arts Center.

Therefore, we enter the new year with slightly over $125,000 remaining to be raised.

2. The Annual Giving Program at both the Academy and Brookside began in November and the re­ sults to date are below expectations. Both Schools must develop more alumni and parent support if annual giving is to be a truly signifi­ cant factor in their finances. One cannot help but be concerned with the present 22.6% parent participation and 6.7% alumni participation at the Academy and the 33.7% overall participation at Brookside.

3. The Endowment Program, headed by James Vandermade '35, was organized in 1970 to build the Foundation's slim endowment, approximately $135,000,Sth rough both current and deferred gifts. Although it is difficult to measure progress in this kind of fund-raising, the Committee is

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looking for tangible results in 1971. From the Finance Committee's preliminary work on the 1971-72 budget, it is dramatically clear that endowment income is essential to sound fiscal operation.

The Board has long recognized that our main asset is an outstanding faculty and staff. Consequently, sal­ aries comprise 80% of the total budget. In important respects, schools are handcraft industries — like sym­ phony orchestras, barbershops or ballet companies — where technology contributes very little towards in­ creased productivity or cost improvement. By its very nature, the educational system at the Academy and Brookside means steadily rising costs. We feel it is important to raise faculty and staff salaries for meritor­ ious performance, as well as to enable our masters and staff members to meet the rising costs of living.

One thing is certain: only with generous inputs of annual giving and endowment will it be possible to moderate the effects of rising salary costs and the re­ sultant increases in tuition. And it is essential that we do not raise tuition costs so high that we price our­ selves out of the market.

In conclusion, I introduce the subject of student life, which is an appropriate area of trustee concern at this time. Last summer, the Executive Committee of the Board held several meetings with the Academy's Faculty Committee on Educational Policy to discuss a proposal by the administration to enable students, through the revision of school hours, to become en­ gaged in non-academic interests outside of School.

As a result, the adjustment was made at the opening of School in September, on an experimental basis, and it appears to be working well.

There are numerous other areas of importance to our students which the trustees should consider. The Board plans joint meetings with students, so that we might better understand the changing values of Acad­ emy students and their attitudes toward their School.

In this connection, one question is of particular sig­ nificance: remembering that these students could be the first generation to spend most of their adult lives under a four-day work week, just how far does the School's responsibility extend beyond the academic atmosphere in the provision of extracurricular oppor­ tunities and instruction which will nourish their avocational interests?

The Foundation has many important resources. More important than the facilities in our beautiful buildings are the men, women and young people who believe in Brookside School and Montclair Academy and who selflessly devote themselves to the support of these fine institutions. With the concern and cooperation of alumni, students, parents, trustees and friends, there can be no question of our future success.

Frederick L. Redpath ' President, Board of Trustees

BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTIONS Frederick L. Redpath has been reelected as President of the Board of Trustees of the Montclair Academy Founda­ tion. Also reelected were James S. Vandermade '35, as Chair­ man of the Board, Peter N. Perretti '49, as Vice President and George P. Egbert, Jr. '47, as Treasurer; W. Ford Schu­ mann '44 was replaced as Secretary by Daniel E. Emerson '42, though Mr. Schumann intends to remain actively in­ volved in the affairs of the Board.

Mr. Redpath has been a Foundation Trustee since 1964 and has served as secretary and vice president. A native of Maplewood,-New Jersey, he is a graduate of Princeton Uni­ versity in the Class of 1939, of which he is president. He is general manager of the Editorial Services Division of Time, Inc., having previously served in the Life magazine advertising sales department and, until appointment to his current post, as a member of the Time Corporate Staff. He lives at 53 Porter Place in Montclair.

There is Still T im e .......... to give to the 1970-71 Annual Giving Campaign.

Mr. Vandermade, Chairman of the Board, is a member of the Academy Class of 1935 and in 1966 was selected as the "Outstanding Alumnus" by the Alumni Association. He joined the Board of Trustees in 1958 and served as its president from -1961 to 1966. He is District Chairman of Warren Brothers Company, Paterson, and lives at 157 South Mountain Avenue in Montclair.

Although the formal 100 Days of the 1970-71 Annual Giving

Mr. Perretti, the Foundation Board's Vice President, is a member of the Montclair Academy Class of 1949. He is a graduate of Colgate University and the Cornell University Law School. He is a partner of Riker, Danzig, Scherer & Brown, Newark attorneys, a member of the Essex County, New Jersey and American bar associations and has served as a Deputy Attorney General of the State. He lives at 262 South Mountain Avenue in Montclair.

On that Friday morning, February 12th, thirty-eight masters came to Montclair Academy at eight o'clock. Over 350 boys

Mr. Egbert, Foundation Treasurer, of 18 Warfield Street, Upper Montclair, is a member of the Academy Class of 1947 and was chosen Head Boy by the faculty in his gradua­ tion year. He has been a Trustee since 1959. A graduate of Yale and former president of the Yale Club of Montclair, Mr. Egbert is Senior Vice President of the First National City Bank of New York.

Mr. Schumann, retired from his position as Secretary, is a Montclair native and lives at 83 Plymouth Street. An artist and educator, Mr. Schumann is a graduate of Williams Col­ lege and a member of the Academy Class of 1944.

Mr. Emerson, replacing Mr. Schumann as Secretary, is a graduate of Cornell University and a member of the Acade­ my Class of 1942, when he was elected Head Boy. He is Vice President with American Telephone and Telegraph in New York and lives at 18 Chaucer Road, Short Hills, New Jersey.

Campaign ended on February 12th, there is still time to give.

Gifts will be accepted for this year's Campaign until June 30th, when we begin a new year.

We are concerned that less than 9% of 2904 alumni, parents and friends contributed, 248 people.

came. Pencils scratched across paper. Voices sang. Paint brushes stroked across canvas. Montclair Academy went through another day with each and every boy, his curiosities, his talents. But how long can we do this without your help?

If you have already contributed, you know our deep grati­ tude. If you have not yet contributed, you know our deep need.

Independent education is worth preserving, in Montclair and in America. Let's start with Montclair Academy. Your partici­ pation is essential, regardless of the size of your gift. Send your check today. .

DARTicipAlïOlN

IMEANSl

SUCCESS 13

SPORTS REVIEW

WRESTLING The wrestling teams at the Academy have had an impressive history over the years. In the last four seasons, there have been forty-four winning matches and only seven losses. In the Prep School National Tournaments at Lehigh University, they finished one year with a full team in the top five teams out of the forty represented; another year, without the full team, they finished in the top twelve. In the State Championships, they have never finished below the top five teams and they once finished as the third team. They have been small, tight squads, beginning the seasons with scrimmages against four of five of the toughest high school teams in the state and often ending the seasons with many of the wrest­ lers recruited by ivy league colleges.

Coach Barry Nazarian has a history to be proud of.

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This year, with the assistance of Colby Longley and John Noble, Mr. Nazarian is particularly proud. “ There are only nineteen boys on the squad," he said, “ but they are boys who have been with us for almost five years and they are a solid and refined team. This is a sport that demands a severe per­ sonal discipline and these kids have it."

They certainly must: junior Tom Baldanza, senior Captain Peter Rothwell and junior John Talbot, who have never lost more than one match in a season; and junior Henry Talbot, John's brother, who has never lost a match at all since he began wres­ tling in the 7th Grade. “ The season has been a surprise," Mr. Nazarian said. “ We will only lose three seniors next year and the other wrestlers will return for what we hope will be another fine season."

BASKETBALL It was not a good season for the basketball team. Coach Carmen Marnell and his three assistants, Jack Nugent, John Rabke and Al Saxton, worked as hard with the team as each boy did with himself. “ We were as strong this year as last year," Mr. Marnell said, "but the competition was tougher." The com­ petition in the North Jersey Indepen­ dent League was indeed tough, against such teams as Neumann Prep, St. Bernard's, Wardlaw and Rutgers Prep. But the competition was less tough against non-League teams. "The League teams were better than we were," Mr. Marnell admitted, "because they were stronger and tighter and because their shooting and scoring were more consistently good. We had little team success, but the individual success, the personal achievement, was high." On the varsity, seniors

Jeff Arthur and Co-captains John Brandow and Mike Zebrowski leant strong service; juniors Tom Brueckner and Glenn Veit were the top scorers; and sophomores Bobby Jackson and Jim Lyons, although not always on the floor, gained valuable experience and will be future starters.

Mr. Marnell and his coaching staff have a close eye on the junior varsity and junior teams. "Both teams are coming along strongly," Mr. Marnell said. "As squads and in individual performance, they are improving and will soon be the impetus behind what we hope to be a better varsity squad."

FENCING "When we think of fencing," Rod Grodt, sports editor of the Mont­ clair Times, recently wrote in a long article about the Academy's fencing team, "the first people who come

to mind are Douglas Fairbanks or Errol Flynn. They leaped from second-floor balconies, swung from chandeliers, climbed the rigging of sailing ships and vaulted from castle battlement to castle battlement, skewering bad men on their sword tips likeshish kebab. However, the art of fencing is a bit more compli­ cated and a lot more sophisticated.

Just ask Dave Forman. He is the coach of the Academy fencing pro­ gram. . .undoubtedly one of the best programs in the State."

Mr. Forman did not disagree. "It is a demanding physical sport," he

man will be assisted by Calvin Matzke, Academy Director of Art.

said, "and an acute intellectual exercise, requiring a good mind, an alertness and a refined hand-to-eye coordination. The man-to-man con­ tact forces each player to be on guard every second and to under­ stand and anticipate his opponent's strategy."

The fencing program has finished its third year as a full varsity sport.

There were twenty-five members on the team and the competition in­ cluded matches against parochial, public and private schools, with record victories against some of the traditionally best teams in the State.

"W e had an influx of fine athletes this year," Mr. Forman said, "and a very good season. We are begin­ ning now to discover new people and are excited about next year."

There has been no delineation between varsity and junior varsity teams; though next season there will be a junior team and Mr. For-

ones of real quality. Sophomores Rich Goldblum, currently with the hundred-yard backstroke record, Keith Marsh, outstanding in the breaststroke, Zach Richardson, hold­ ing the fifty-yard freestyle record, Al Van Eerde, with consistently fine performances in the butterfly and freestyle events. Juniors have also been of great support. Steve Berke, who has recorded the two fastest times in the two distance events, and Dave DuBell, also one of our best distance swimmers. Seniors, Captain Dave Faulkner, who has helped to sweep the breaststroke events, and Johan Thorbecke, another fine dis­ tance man. Our good divers have been sophomore Don Frey and fresh­ man Cary Oberg."

The Academy again sponsored the Relay Carnival for almost a hundred independent school teams in the State and also hosted the revived All Group Prep School Swimming

SWIMMING The swimming team, coached by Charles Faurot, with diving assistance from George Hrab and with junior team assistance from Ted Gregg, finished the best season it has ever had in Academy history. "Much of our strength." Mr. Faurot said, "came from the sophomore class, from several boys who will leave behind them this year outstanding School records and from a general team whose performances have been

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Championship.

"We can well judge our success by the victories we have had over previously unbeaten teams," Mr. Faurot said. "Our junior program grows stronger and its potential for varsity talent becomes more and more obvious."

The spring sports season has begun: baseball, under Coach John Noble, who has replaced "Van" Van Brunt, Academy baseball coach for thirty-five years; golf, under Coach Jack Nugent; tennis, under Coach Bob Hemmeter; and track, under Coach Doug Jennings.

VARSITY BASEBALL Fri. Wed. Fri. Sat. Tues.

Tues.

Fri. Mon. Wed. Fri. Mon. Tues.

Thurs.

Mon. Fri.

April April April April April April April May May May May May May May May

9 14 16 17 20 27 30 3 5 7 10 11 13 17 21

Englewood School Newark Academy Morristown Neumann Prep Ward law Rutgers Prep Stevens Academy St. Bernard's Newark Academy Wardlaw Delbarton Morristown Rutgers Prep St. Bernard's Neuma'nn Prep

Home Away Away Home Away Home Home Home Home Home Home Home Away Away Away

3:30 3:45 3:45 10:30 3:30 3:30 3:30 3:30 3:30 3:30 3:30 3:30 3:30 3:30 3:45

Away Home Home Away Home Away Away Home Away

3:30 3:30 3:30 3:30 3:30 4:00

VARSITY GOLF Tues.

Thurs.

Mon. Thurs.

Mon. Tues.

Wed. Thurs.

Fri.

April April May May May May May May May

20 29 3 6 17 18 19 20 21

Newark Academy Delbarton Wardlaw Delbarton Pingry School Parsippany Hills N.J.I.S.A.A. Tourn.

St. Bernard's & Newark Wardlaw

3:30 4:00

VARSITY TENNIS Fri. Tues.

Wed. Tues.

Fri. Tues.

Thurs.

Fri. Mon. Wed.

April April April April April May May May May May

16 20 21 27 30 4 6 7 17 19

Wardlaw Newark Academy Morristown Pingry Collegiate School Englewood Delbarton Rutgers Prep Hun School N.J.I.S.A.A. Tourn.

3:15 Home 3:30 Home Away 3:30 Away 3:30 3:15 Home 3:30 Home 3:30 Away 3:30 Home 3:45 Away at Lawrenceville

VARSITY TRACK Wed. Fri. Fri.

April 14 April 16 April 23

Wed. April 28 Fri. . April 30 Tues. May 4 Fri. May 7 Tues. May 11 Sat. Wed.

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May May

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Relay Carnival at Newark St. Bernard's Immaculate Conception & Paterson Catholic St. Bernards & Wardlaw Newark Academy Wardlaw Morristown No. Jersey Ind School Athletic Assoc.

Peddie School Relays N.J.I.S.A.A.

Home

3:30

Home Home Away Away Home

3:30 3:30 3:30 3:30 3:45

at Newark 3:30 at Peddie at Lawrenceville

ATHLETIC DINNER

On Thursday night, December 10th, three hundred peo­ ple celebrated, the fall sports season at the annual Fall Athletic Dinner at Montclair Academy, hosted by Director of Athletics Carmen M. Marnell. The guests of honor were 175 boys, who were awarded letters, and many of their parents. Mr. Joseph Veit, President of the Football Fathers' Committee, presented the three highest trophy awards; to the symbol of leadership, to the spirit of achievement, to the complete ballplayer Lion Captain Paul Cosentino of Upper Montclair, the King of The Beasts Award; to the outstanding offensive player, with physical and mental determination which gave the punch to the team's offense, again to Captain Cosentino, the Two Platoon Award; and the third award, to the outstanding de­ fensive player, tough and dependable, with the desire of competition, to junior Glenn Veit of East Orange, the Bad Cat Award. In appreciation of the warmth and the devotion, in appreciation of the strength and the skill of Head Coach Carmen Marnell, Cosentino, on behalf of the football team, presented Mr. Marnell with a plaque, listing the scores of the games in their historic 7-1 season.

The other letters were awarded: by Mr. Edward Williams, junior varsity soccer Coach, to twenty-four boys; by Mr. Robert Black, representing the junior football coaches, to twenty-two boys; by Mr. Alan Saxton, junior soccer Coach, to thirty boys; by Mr. Kenneth Gibson, junior football Coach, to thirty boys; and by Mr. Douglas Jennings, junior varsity cross country Coach, to nine boys.

Finally, the varsity letters were awarded: to nine boys by Mr. Jennings, whose varsity cross country squad ran its way to a successful 7-3 record and third place in the State Championship Meet; to nineteen boys by Mr. Charles Faurot, whose varsity soccer team brought in a record of 11-4-1 and the winning titles of the New Jersey Independent School Athletic League Championship and the Rutgers Prep Invitational Tournament; and to thirty boys by Mr. Marnell, whose varsity football team had the best record in the last fifteen years and made a distinctive and proud history no one will ever forget.

"It is very gratifying," Headmaster Philip L. Anderson said, "to see so many mothers and fathers and sons here together tonight. We have had a fine season because of fine coaches and fine boys. I am impressed with your sons and I am proud of them. They have given of themselves in a dedicated and courageous way."

loseph Veit, President of the Football Fathers' Committee, presenting his son Glenn with the Bad Cat Award for outstanding defensive playing.

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Winthrop P. Culver writes that he is in his thirty-first year with the Eastern branch of Rainfair, Inc., work­ ing in their control valves, safety, in­ dustrial and uniforms divisions.

Alfred F. W. Stapf, who had read the winter "Montage." He remembered the 1926 football team and wrote, "a team of which I was a member.

The faces of all those who played on that team came back to me, fel­ lows like Mark Andrews, who was all-state Oliver Pinkney, Eddie Valleau, Del Kenyon, Holmes VanDerbeck, Dick Mastriano, Harry Loprete, Jack Fenlin, Ralph Snyder, Bud Van Duyne, Latham Flanagan.. . . If it would ever be possible to bring as many of this team who are still living back to the Academy for fall 1971, I would do all I could to help." (Rarely has so strong a chal­ lenge been recorded in the annals of Academy football history, Mr. Stapf. We can only hope that your teammates will respond and carry the ball at the next Homecoming, your 45th Reunion).

1920-1931 Henry B.

1932

James A. Rogers, M.D. 346 East 34th Street Paterson New Jersey 07504

1933

William /. Thompson, jr.

20 Windemere Road Upper Montclair New Jersey 07043

NOTES OF THE CLASSES

1900-1919 Arthur V. Youngman '18 33 Glen Road Verona New Jersey 07044

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Fernald, /r. '28 221 N. Mountain Ave. Montclair New Jersey 07042

'20 William C. Reed has retired, though he is still involved in some business interests begun several years ago. "Tennis and golf and swimming at our Martha's Vineyard home and Barbados winter visits keep us quite fit. We still have our Strafford, Penn­ sylvania home, pear the bulk of our large group of married children and grandchildren."

'25 Gustave E. Wiedenmayer, chairman and chief executive officer of the National Newark and Essex Bank, received the 1970 Cancer Award from William C. Bowers, Essex County Unit president. As chairman of the I970 Essex County Cancer Crusade, Gus exceeded the quota of $213,000 by $10,000, the highest amount in the history of the Essex County Unit.

In 1967, he received the Outstanding Alumnus Award from the Montclair Academy Alumni Association.

'26-'28 Joseph W. Doremus farms about two and a half acres in Towaco, New Jersey and lives on part of the farm with his wife. He has six grown children and eight grandchildren.

Headmaster Philip Anderson re­ ceived a letter in late January from 18

1934 Eugene I. Haubenstock 10-17 Plymouth Drive Fair Lawn New Jersey 07410

1935

Donald L. Mulford 260 Highland Avenue Upper Montclair New Jersey 07043

1936

Kenneth Reile Fritts 7 Edgemont Road Montclair New Jersey 07042 Henry G. Riter, IV is a senior vice president on the American Stock Ex­ change, "married thirty-one years to Sally Jennison Riter (happily)." Tac has two sons who attended the Aca­ demy: Henry J., now a salesman for Union Camp Paper Company, and Michael C., a senior at the Morris­ town School.

1937 Robert E. Livesey R. D. Cortina Company 136 West 52nd Street New York, New York 10019

1938 «a/ph Gleason Ward Avenue Rumson New Jersey 07760

1939

1940

William Marchese 15 Leslie Drive Wayne New Jersey 07470

David lacobs 4 Breton Place Livingston New Jersey 07039 Frederick Little has been re-elected to serve on the Pine Crest Prepara­ tory School Board of Advisors, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; he and his wife Jeanne have two daughters there, Linda and Jane, in the 12th and 8th grades respectively. He is doing fund raising work and is also publicity chairman of the First Congregational Church. In the summer and fall, the Littles operate a gift shop in Londonberry, Vermont, which has been visit­ ed, Fred writes, by a good number of Academy alumni in the last twenty years: Old Londonberry Workshop, Inc. on Route Eleven, next to Magic Mountain.

1941 Richard L. Carrie 76 Gordonhurst Avenue Upper Montclair New Jersey 07043 Dick Carrie has been named home and food manager of "Seventeen Magazine." He joined the publica­ tion in 1958.

Bruce C. Cornish passed by the Academy in 1963 as the construc­ tion of the new buildings had just begun. Seven years later, this past November, on his way from his home in Kansas City to a vacation in Maine, Bruce came to see the new Montclair Academy. He works with the water department in Missouri, as. a treatment plant operator. ("We make the muddy Missouri River drink­ able.")

1942 Daniel E. Emerson 18 Chaucer Road Short Hills New Jersey 07078 Robert L. Clifford is the Insur­ ance Commissioner of New Jersey.

His department is conceded by the insurance industry to be one of the country's best.

Edwin D. Etherington resigned as President of Wesleyan University to seek the nomination for the United States Senate. He lost at the conven­ tion and now, living in Old Lyme, Connecticut, is consulting on the formation of several new organiza­ tions in education and business, in

addition to speaking and writing. He is also the director of American Ex­ press, Connecticut General, U. S. Trust, So. N. E. Telephone Company, as well as a trustee of many founda­ tions, including the Schumann Foun­ dation of Montclair. He has four chil­ dren who are in school in Old Lyme.

Ted received the first Outstanding Alumnus Award from the Academy Alumni Association in 1962.

1943

1944

No Agent.

No Agent.

1945 William B. Grant 475 Upper Mountain Avenue Upper Montclair New Jersey 07043 Gerard G. Hunt, formerly presi­ dent of Berlin Laboratories, Inc., an affiliate of Schering in West Berlin, was recently elected executive vice president and a director of Knoll Pharmaceutical Company in Orange.

1946 Frederick G. Schwarzmann Campbell Road Far Hills New Jersey 07931 William F. Brown is a free-lance writer. He is the author and sketch writer of several Broadway shows and also a sketch and lyric writer for many television programs, including "That Was the Week That Was," "Love, American Style" and "The Jackie Gleason Show." He has writ­ ten material for many performers on the top variety shows and for several revues at Julius Monk's Plaza-9 and at many other clubs from San Fran­ cisco to Provincetown. As a cartoon­ ist and magazine writer, he has con­ tributed to many of the leading publications in the country and is also the writer and artist of several books. Bill is currently working on a new musical, a television show and two comic strips. He lives with his wife, Ann, and with their two chil­ dren, Debra Susan and Todd.

1947 No Agent.

Andrew Davlin, Jr. is a security an­ alyst and investment banker with New York Securities Company, Inc. He and his wife, Mary, live in Prince­ ton, New Jersey, with their five chil­ dren: Cynthia, Virginia-Marie, Helen, H. Dalton and William.

1948 James B. Regan 879 Broad Street Bloomfield New Jersey 07003

1949 Richard M. Drysdale 300 East Avenue Bay Head New Jersey 08742 1950 Rudolph H. Deetjen, ¡r.

Stanwich Lane Greenwich Connecticut 06830 1951 Ernest Keer, III 459 Club Drive Bay Head New Jersey 08742 Frederick M. Shoemaker and his wife, Sharon, had a baby in late October, William Chester Woolsey.

1952

loseph Bograd 10 Gorham Court Wayne New Jersey 07470

1953 Martin Gutkin 377 South Harrison Street East Orange New Jersey 07018 Howard T. Beilin, M.D. finished his residency at Columbia-Presbyterian in New York and has entered the practice of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, as Instructor in Clinical Sur­ gery at New York Medical College.

His new office is located at 5 East 83rd Street, New York.

On the first of the new year, George M. Cohen became a partner in the firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton, New York attorneys.

1954 George J. Kramer 199 Charles Street Clifton New Jersey 07013 Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. has named John M. Foster, a divisional vice president, as the manager of the bedspread department in the Fieldcrest marketing division. He has been with the company since 1958.

1955

The Rev. Oscar A. Mockridge, III 644 Center Street Oradell New Jersey 07649 Michael L. Cohen, M.D. is practic­ ing internal medicine and is a spe­ cialist of pulmonary diseases. He is married and lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with his wife and their two children, the third born in April.

Carleton R. Dallery writes that he is an "assistant professor of philoso­ phy at Tufts University. My wife, Arleen, is also a philosopher by profes­ sion, but taking time off to get the

next generation started. Jesse is two (a friend of Nicole Nejelski, also two) and our second child is on the way. It alb^happens in Cambridge, Massachusetts."

1956 John W. Clapp 101 Smith Lane IE Syracuse, New York 13210 S. Thomas Aitken has been chosen a member of the Board of Trustees at Clara Maass Memorial Hospital in Belleville, New Jersey; he has also been elected to the Board of the Family and Children Services, join­ ing the Academy's Director of De­ velopment, C. Arthur Littman. Tom is vice president of the Peoples Bank and Trust Company of Belleville and a member of the Montclair Academy Board of Trustees.

Richard R. Hobbins, Jr. is a senior metallurgist with the Idaho Nuclear Corporation. "Nuclear energy," he writes, "offers the promise of pro­ viding clean and plentiful power to meet our nation's growing needs."

Dick lives with his wife, Karen, in Idaho Falls.

1957 Edward T. O'Brien, Jr. 27 Park Lane Essex Fells, New Jersey 07021

1958 Philip 5. Amsterdam 356 Fairview Avenue Orange New Jersey 07050 Formerly associated with Newark Broadcasting Corporation as an ac­ count executive and with the Serta Mattress Company as assistant direc­ tor of marketing, Michael C. Gennet is now the vice president of Gulfstream Gourmet, Inc. in Miami. He will coordinate the sales and market­ ing functions of a chain of gourmet food and gift shops, as well as a national mail order catalogue.

1959 Philip Carchman 301 Western Way Princeton New Jersey 08540 Finn M. W : Casperson graduated from Brown University with high honors in 1963 and cum laude from Harvard in 1966. He passed the Flori­ da Bar examination that summer and a year later married Barbara Mor­ ris. Finn spent three years in the Coast Guard, finishing his enlistment as a lieutenant and also passing the New York State Bar examination. "I

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am now working," he writes, at Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer and Wood in New York." He and his wife have two sons.

A letter from Barry A. Meisel, M.D. in December reads that he ip in residencyHn obstetrics and gyne­ cology at New York Medical CollegeMetropolitan Hospital Center. He took his family to Stockholm, Swe­ den, where he did cancer research in the field of gynecology. "I am married," Barry writes, "to the form­ er Gloria Bader, a librarian with the New York Public Library. Wo have a sixteen month old son, Mark Ben­ jamin."

David G. Ramsay, a vice president with W. P. Kilkenny Associates in East Orange and also a vice presi­ dent of the Montclair Academy Alumni Council, called in the news a few weeks ago that Michael Baker and his wife had a daughter, Saman­ tha Jill, in December.

1960

Robert F. Crissman 49 Rutgers Lane Parsippany New Jersey 07054

1961

David C. Carrad 423 Story HafflB Cambridge Massachusetts 02138 David L. Bruck has joined the law firm of Greenbaum, Greenbaum, Rowe and Smith, in Newark, New Jersey.

Dave Carrad writes that he is "a second year student at Harvard Law School, after graduating from Trinity m 65), Columbia Journalism ('66) and three years in the U. S. Army." He will be working this summer at the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell in New York.

After three and a half years in the Navy, Richard Alton Ennis i | i now working for an accounting firm jn Manchester, New Hampshire, and studying for his CPA.

1962

Robert John Schmitt, Jr. 172 Lloyd Road Montclair New Jersey 07042 John A. Bleyle is a lieutenant in the Navy and has been stationed at Fort Meade in Missouri for a year. His first year of service was spent at Rus­ sian Language School in Washington, D. C. "Jeanie and I," he wrote,Bare 20

the proud parents of a blue-eyed blonde, Joanne Elizabeth, born De­ cember 29, 1969."

1963 lohn A. Lawrence 252 West 76th Street, Apt. A-1 New York New York 10023 Worth H. Noyes was ordained to the Christian ministry in November at his home church, the First Con­ gregational Church of Montclair.

Participating in the service of ordina­ tion was Nixon Bicknell, organist and choirmaster of the Church and Direc­ tor of Music at Montclaij Academy.

The Folk Choir of Walpole, Massa­ chusetts, a group organized and trained by Worth, also sang. He has been very involved in the First Con­ gregational Church since his confir­ mation and during his seminary years, at Andover Newton Theolo­ gical School, he participated in many programs at the United Church in Walpole. He is currently serving as associate pastor of the three-hundred and twenty-eight year old First Con­ gregational Church of Woburn, Massachusetts, the first associate pas­ tor in the Church's history.

An announcement in the shape of a theatre ticket arrived several months ago from Kenneth A. Stufko.

It read: Gail and Ken Stufko present their first howling success: "It's a Girl," starring Sandra Frances Stufko and directed by Dr. Anthony Pal­ med, St. Mary's Hospital.

Bronson F. Van Wyck served fif­ teen months in Vietnam as Infantry Plfltoon and Company Commander; five month|p as Aide-de-camp for the Commanding General 9th MAB; for United States Marine Corps as first lieutenant. He was awarded the Bronze Star, Navy commendation with Combat "V ," Vietnam Cross of Gallantry and the Purple Heart twice.

He is married to the former Mary Lynn Thomas of Louisiana.

1964

R°y T- Van Vleck 21 Van Vleck Street Montclair New Jersey 07042 Lewis R. Roberts, who has changed his last name from Solomon, spent an afternoon at the Academy early in October. He is a graduate of Am­ herst College, with two semesters of writing study in Dublin. His writings

have appeared in several publica­ tions, including The Atlantic Month­ ly, The New Yorker, Ramparts and the Kenyon Review. Lew is now writing a book.

1965

L t (Jg) H. Holt Apgar, Jr. USS Corry DD817 FPO New York New York 09501 The Alumni Office received a note from Holt at Christmas. "I have been enjoying life in port in Norfolk since September," he wrote. The CORRY will be in the yards until May, when I am due for rotation.

Christmas is different here, no snow but all of the ships are brilliantly decked out with lights. I am still living the bachelor's life also."

Michael R. Fink is in his second year of law school at Vanderbilt Uni­ versity in Tennessee. He spent a summer in legal clerkship with the Newark firm of Hannoch, Weisman Stern and Besser.

Robert M. Hauck is still in a premed program at Villinova University and hopes to begin in medical school in the fall.

"I am enjoying my work very much," wrote Neil T. Mutchler from his home in Pelham, Georgia, where he is teaching science and physics in high school.

Eric M. Schneider is working as a patrolman with the police depart­ ment in Dubuque, Iowa, while also pursuing his studies at the Univer­ sity of Dubuque. He and his wife, Nancy, have two children: Amy, three years old and Joseph, a little more than three months old.

1966 Mr. Richard C. Kuzma 370 Claremont Avenue Montclair New Jersey 07042 John R. Howard graduated from Allegheny College, with a degree in political science and with quite a distinguished athletic history: he was selected to the all-conference baseball team, was its captain, leader in runs batted in and home runs and was the second leading hitter; for the second year, he was named Al­ legheny Athlete of the Year and also finished his career there as one of the leading scorers in the School's history. He writes that he has had "feelers from professional basketball, baseball and football."

In the early fall, a letter came from Peter A. Orgain. "I graduated in May from Trinity College," he wrote, "with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. While there, I was a member of St. Anthony Hall fraterni­ ty. I plan to begin graduate work in business at the Amos Tuck School of Dartmouth College this September.

I am presently employed as a securit­ ies analyst with the Travelers Insur­ ance Company in Hartford, Con­ nect cut.lfe'i Peter B. Schroeder graduated from Susquehanna University last June. He is working as a marine biologist in Monmouth, New Jersey.

1967 Mr. Peter W. Adams Box 334 Trinity College Hartford, Connecticut 06106 Robert C. M. Fazio was an honor student on the dean's List all four years that he attended Harvard Uni­ versity. He is now at the Harvard Dental School, one out of the sixteen who were accepted.

Another honor student is Peter E. Nosco, who has been on the Colum­ bia University Dean's List for his three years there. He spent the sum­ mer of 1969 on a two-month trip in Japan and Ias-t summer as a research assistant to a Columbia professor of American history. Pete has also re­ ceived a Columbia College Kellett Fellowship for two years study at the University of Cambridge in England, a term that will begin in October of 1971 in the field of Japanese studies.

He was at the Academy for the Christmas Luncheon in last Decem­ ber.

1969

Mr. Christopher C. Beling Susquehanna University Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania 17870 Several men from the Class of 1969 came back to the Academy for the Christmas Luncheon: Scott P. Anderson, Headmaster Philip L. Anderson's son, who is a sophomore at the School of Hotel Administration of Cornell University; Robert W. Brogan, Jr., who is trans­ ferring from Wheeling College to American University, as a psychology major; David R. Cralle, a student at the University of Virginia who has worked for three summers with Trans-World Airlines and who quali­ fied last summer for rates enough reduced to carry him to the West Coast for a weekend, to a two week trip through San Francisco, Hawaii, Tahiti and Moorea in French Poly­ nesia, all for under $80.00; Frank J. LaRocca, who is a student at Yale University, studying French; Charles Levin, who is at the University of Rochester and who has been on the Dean's List; and Karl H. Nudelman, who is studying philosophy and economics at New York University, Washington Square College.

We heard from several of the men who did come back for the Luncheon that IV. Carrett Grainger, III is at tending the University of Miami and is living in Miami with his wife and their twins; and that Thomas N. Vultee, Jr. married the former Virginia Munson (Kimberley, 1969) and that they are both attending Susquehanna University.

1970 Mr. Peter C. Webb 110 Morrow Box 1208 Station #2 Amherst, Massachusetts

1968

No Agent C. Lawrence Jaeger, Thomas P. King and William C. O'Reilly were at the Christmas Luncheon, held at the Academy in late December. Larry is a junior a,t the University of Den­ ver. Tom is a junior sociology major at Susquehanna University and very involved in campus affairs. Bill wrote that he has "transferred school from the University of Denver to the State University of New York at Bingham­ ton and am living on a farm up there with seven other people, four dogs and two cats. .and trying to be happy."

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Thane E. Benson is a student of psy­ chology at Vassar College. Also at Vassar are William FI. Davey, James H. Guterman, Samuel Magee and Avram J. Schwartz. Frederick H. Sheldon at Emory and Albert B. Thrower at Yale were at the Academy with Thane for the Christmas Luncheon.

1971

Michael D. Lidwin 83 Meade Avenue Passaic New Jersey 07055

LETTER S January 28,1971 Dear Mr. Anderson: It has meant a great deal to me to have received the most recent issue of Montage. Well-conceived, excel­ lently printed and illustrated, its con­ tent, to me, is of great significance.

More than anything else, your stat­ ing in your letter to alumni that the Academy intends to give the boys "the knowledge and intellectual skills they need to use their freedom of thought in creative expression" has served as a source of assurance to me.

I look back frequently to my days as a student there, realizing how very much I owe the school for hav­ ing instilled this very concept in me.

It has been a guideline for my life ever since.

Best wishes and strength to you in these times of challenge.

John W. Little (Jr.) M.D. '36 January 23,1971 Dear Mr. Anderson, The winter 1971 Montclair Acade­ my Montage came in today's mail and I enjoyed reading it from cover to cover.

It brought back many memories, particularly when mention was made of the 1926 football team of which I was a member. The faces of all those who played on that team came back to me, fellows like Mark An­ drews who was all-state, Oliver Pink­ ney, Eddie Valleau, Del Kenyon, Holmes VanDerbeck, Dick Mastriano, Harry Loprete, Jack Fenlin, Ralph Snyder, Bud Van Duyne, Latham Flanagan.

This team was coached by Chief Broadhead, assisted by a master named Johnson. A picture of this team is hanging in my den. To me, this was a great bunch of fellows whom I shall never forget.

If it would ever be possible to bring as many of this team who are still living back to the Academy for fall 1971, I would do all I could to help. Frankly, it would be great publicity for the Academy and cer­ tainly warm the hearts of all the old alumni and people who remember some of these fellows.

I'm sure the newspapers would get behind you and help to make this a great affair.

Sincerely, Alfred F. W. Stapf '28

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PROPOSED REVISED CONSTITUTION AND BY LAWS FOR CONSIDERATION BY ALL ALUMNI After more than a year of thorough study by Henry B. Fernald, Jr. '28, Marc S. Kirschner '60, Gerard B. Podesta '35, and Daniel K. Read '52, the Constitution and By-laws of the Montclair Academy Alumni Association have been revitaliz­ ed. They appear printed below for your perusal and com­ ment by the April 22nd Annual Alumni Dinner-Meeting, at which time they will be presented for approval and adop­ tion.

Sincerely,

Robert H. Muller, M.D. '39 President Alumni Association

CONSTITUTION of The Montclair Academy Alumni Association

ARTICLE I Name and Purpose Section 1. The name of this ; organization shall be "The Montclair Academy Alumni Asspciation" andllyts principal office shall be at the Montclair Academy, Montclair, New Jersey.

Section 2. A. This Association shall be organized and operated exclusively for educational and charitable purposes. Its principal purpose shaM be to serve as liaison between Montclair Academy and its alumni, advising each of the accomplishments, aims, and desires of the other, to advance the interests of the Academy as an educational institution and to promote friendship and fellowship among the alumni.

B. The Association shall engage in any activities which further these purposes, including but not limited to: ( i l l Detefmin'i’jfg alumni opinions and ideas for the better­ ment K M the Academy and transmitting these to the Academy administration and Trustees; assisting the administration in putting them into effect where feasible.

(2) Advising the alumni of the Academy's current condi­ tion, plans, and problems.

(3) Establishing and maintaining, or assisting therein, awards and scholarships to recognize actual or potential acMimplishments of students and alumni.

(4) Participating in the raising of funds from alumni for use in the Academy's operations, facilities and endowment.

(5) Promoting interest in and support of the Academy among its friends and the general public by all appropriate means, such as Dilnlleitv releases and word of mouth.

(6) Keeping alumni informed of each other's activities and accomplishments.

(7) Maintaining a file of -statistics and records of all] alumrifMand aidijfi) in the publication of an Alumni Directory and an Alumni Magazine.

(8) Encouraging the formation of local or regional groups of alumniMo promote the purposes of this Association.

C. Whenever and wherever possible, the activities of this Association shall be integrated and coordinated with those of Montclair Academy and the Montclair Academy Foundation.

ARTICLE II Membership Section 1. Alumni Members. Every graduate of the Academy, or any former||tudent who left the Academy in good standing upon completion of at least one semester of a regular school year, shall, upon graduating or leaving under the aforesaid condition, be a member of the Alumni Association.

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Section 2. Honorary Members. Any Faculty member, Admini­ strative Staff member, Trustee, or any other individual may be elected by the Alumni Association as an Honorary Member of the AssOciatioMand may, concurrently or subsequently, also be elected by the Association to the Alumni Council. Such Honorary Members shall not be entitled to vote at any meetings of the Association nor shall they be entitled to hold any elective office of the Association except as hereinafter provided.

ARTICLE III Government The work of the Association shall be conducted and administered by its officers and an Alumni Council elected from its membership and by an Executive Committee of the Council as follows: Section 1. A. The officers OTthis Association shall be a Presi­ dent, four Vi ce-Presidents, a Secretary, and a Treasurer.

B. The officers shall each be elected for a term of one year, or until their successors are chosen, at the annual meeting or at any other meeting of the Association called for that purpose.

C. The President may succeed himself in office once. Any other elected officer of the Alumni Association may succeed himself in office unlimitedly.

D. The Director of Alumni Affairs may be elected Secretary of the Association, provided, however, hé shall not be entitled to vote.

E. The officers shall be chosen from the membership of the Alumni Council and sHalI be members of the Council during their respective terms of office.

Seitioh 2. A. An Alumni Council, consisting of up to 27 regular members elected from among the alumni members of the Association, plus all living past presidents of the Association, re­ presentatives of recognized Regional Organizations or affiliates, the Director of Alumni Affairs appointed by the Headmaster, and Honorary Members who have been elected to the Council, shall conduct the business of the Association between meetings of the Association.

B. The 27 regular members from the Association shall be elected for terms of 3 years each, the terms of 9 members expiring each year. Such members may succeed themselves unlimitedly.

C. The officers of the Association shall be the officers of the Alumni Council.

D. The Director of Alumni Affairs and the Honorary Mem­ bers elected to the Council shall not be entitled to vote at Council meetings.

Section 3. An Executive Committee, consisting of the Officers, the Alumni Representative on the Board of Trustees, and the Director of Alumni Affairs, shall conduct the business of the Council and the Association between meetings of the Council.

Section 4. Vacancies among the officers or regular members of the Council due to death, resignation, or other reason prior to the next election shall be filled by majority vote of the Alumni Council, except that vacancies among the regular members occurring within two months of the next election meeting of the Association need not be filled.

ARTICLE IV Committees The President shall have the power to appoint the members of such standing and special committees as are created by the Alumni Council, as well as of any other committees which he may from time to time deem necessary for the conduct of the work of the Association.

ARTICLE V Meetings Section 1. Alumni Association.

A. The annual meeting of the Alumni Association shall be held in the spring of each year at a time and place to be designated by the Alumni Council. The Secretary shall send written notice of such meeting to each member of the Association at least fifteen days in advance.

B. Special meetings of the Association may be called at any time by order of the President or of the Alumni Council, pro­ vided written notice setting forth the time, place, and purpose of such meeting is sent to each member of the Association at least

clair Academy Foundation, a nonprofit corporation organized fifteen days in advance. No business other than that stated in the pursuant to Title 15 of the Revised Statutes of the State of New notice for the special meeting shall be Transacted.

C. No quorums apply to meetings of the Association ex­ Jersey. cept as hereinafter provided in ARTIC LE V III B-Amendments.

Section 2. If upon dissolution of this Association the Montclair Section 2. Alumni Council.

Academy Foundation is no longer in existence as aforesaid, then A. Regular meetings of the Alumni Counc|l|shall be held and in such event the net assets of this Association shall be trans­ four times a year, generally but not necessarily in the months of ferred and distributed to one or more corporations, trusts, funds, or May, October, January, and March. foundations created and organized in the United States and orga­ B. Special meetings of the Council may be called at any nized exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or time by order of the President or upon written request of any educational purposes, no part of the net earnings of which inures three members of the Council, provided written notice setting to the benefit of any private share-holder or individual and no forth the time, place, and purpose of such meeting is sent to each substantial part of the activities of which is carrying on propa­ member of the Council at least three days in advance. No business ganda or otherwise attempting to influence legislation. The Alumni other than that stated in the notice for the special meeting shall Council of this Association shall have the power to select such be transacted. distributee or distributees and to determine and direct the assets C. A quorum for the conduct of business at any regular or upon dissolution. special Council meeting shall be seven voting members, except that for amendment of the By-Laws the quorum shall be twelve voting BY-LAWS members.

Section 3. Executive Committee.

To The Constitution of A. Regular meetings of the Executive Committee shall be The Montclair Academy Alumni Association held monthly except in July and August; however, a monthly meeting may be omitted in a month when the Alumni Council meets.

ARTICLE I B. Special meetings of the Committee may be called by order of the President or any two Vice-Presidents, provided written Purpose notice setting forth the time, place, and purpose of such meeting The purpose of these By-Laws shall be to supplement and carry is sent to each member of the Committee at least three days in into effect the provisions of the Constitution of the Montclair advance. No business other than that stated in the notice for the Academy Alumni Association. Nothing herein contained shall be special meeting shall be transacted. contrary to the provisions thereof.

C. A quorum for the conduct of business at any regular or special meeting of the Executive Committee shall be four.

Section 4. Voting.

ARTICLE II Passage of motions, resolutions, and other actions put to a Election of Officers vote at any meeting shall be by the favorable vote of a majority of those 'present, except when a larger favorable vote is Section 1. The President shall appoint each year at least one required by this Constitution or its By-Laws for specific purposes. month prior to the annual meeting of the Association a committee In case of a tie in the voting, the presiding officer may cast the to prepare a list of nominations for officers of the Association for deciding vote. the ensuing year. The committee shall prepare a list of nominations for the offices of President, four Vice-Presidents, Secretary, and Treasurer and shall submit its report at the annual meeting of the ARTICLE VI Association or at any other meeting called for the purpose. At the Alumni Representation on the Board of Trustees same meeting the Alumni Council's nomination for Alumni Rep­ The President and one other member of the Alumni Council shall resentative on the Board of Trustees shall be submitted. Imme­ serve on the Academy Board of Trustees as representatives of the diately after the nomination committee's and the Council's nominees Alumni Association. The second representative shall be nominated have been named, nominations for any of these offices may be by the Alumni Council and elected for a term of one year at the made from the floor. same meeting as the Association officers are elected; he shall not Section 2. Where there is no contest for an office, voting may currently be an officer of the Association but he may be the be by voice vote or by any other method the President may immediate past President; he may succeed himself unlimitedly. designate. Where there is a contest for any office, voting shall be by written, signed ballot unless dispensed with by a duly passed ARTICLE VII motion, in which event voting shall be by such method as the President may designate. In the event writter« ballots are used, the Contributions nomination committee shall act as a Committee of Elections and Section 1. No member of the Alumni Association shall pay shall prepare, distribute, collect, and count the ballots. It shall dues. certify the result to the President. The person receiving the highest Section 2. Alumni may be solicited from time to time for number of votes for each office shall be declared elected. contributions to the Annual Giving campaign, special fund drives, Section 3. All the officers shall enter upon their official duties and other objectives consistent with the purposes of the Association. immediately after the close of the meeting of the Alumni Asso­ ciation at which they were elected.

ARTICLE VIII By-Laws ARTICLE III The Alumni Council is empowered to make, adopt, change, alter, and amend By-Laws for the Constitution.

Duties of Officers Section 1. The President shall serve as presiding officer at all ARTICLE IX meetings of the Alumni Association and of the Alumni Council.

He shall serve as Chairman of the Executive Committee and shall Amendments preside at all of its meetings. He shall be a member of the This Constitution may be amended at any meeting of the Board of Trustees. He shall ex officio be a member of all standing Association by a vote of two-thirds of the voting members present and special committees of the Council. He shall promote the provided that no less than forty voting members are present and interests of the Alumni Association and of the Academy and he further provided that written notice of the proposed amendment shall perform such other duties as usually pertain to the office and shall have been mailed to each member at such address as appears as specifically provided in the Constitution and By-Laws. on the latest membership roster of the Secretary at least fifteen Section 2. A. The Vice-Presidents shall perform such duties days in advance. as usually pertain to that office or as may be assigned by the President, the Council, and the Executive Committee.

ARTICLE X B. At its first meeting after the election of officers each Distribution of Assets Upon Dissolution year, the Council shall designate one of the Vice-Presidents to act Section 1. Except as otherwise provided by (aw or by the for the President during the latter's absence or temporary disability, terms of a specific legacy or gift, the net assets of this Association such designation to be effective until the next regular election upon dissolution shall be transferred and distributed to the Mont­ of officers.

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Section 3. The Secretary shall perform the usual duties per­ taining tofi^hat office. He shall keep the minutes of meetings of the A lu m ll Association, the Alumni Council,, and the Executive Committee and shall send notices of meetings to members in con­ formity with the provisions of the Constitution and the By-Laws.

He shall maintain, or assist in the maintenanceBf, an up-to-date list of addresses of all living alumnMHe shall perform such other duties as may be assigned by the President, the Council, and the Executive Committee.

Section 4. The Treasurer shall maintain a set of books as a record of the funds of the AssbciatioiiiHe shall receive all funds specifically donated or assigned to the Association and shall deposit same in one or more accounts as trustee for the Association. He shalrtissue checks or otherwise disburse such funds as specifically directed or generally authorized by vote of the Alumni CoungtfjlS

ARTICLE IV Operation of Committees Any standing or special committee shall be responsible to the President and shall make all reports to him. Any committee so appointed shall conform to the following procedures, as applicable.

A. In obtaining information and opini^Js of those at the Academy, the committee chairman is to work through the Director of Alumni Affairs and the Headmaster.

B. If the committee des§|es to communicate with the Board of Trustees, it is to do so either through the Headmaster, through an Alumni member of the Board who is serving on the committee, or through one or both of the Alumni Representatives on the Board.

C. Results of the committee's actions, if deemed advisable by the President or the Alumni Council, shall be referred to the Headmaster, who may refer the same to the Board of Trustees.

ARTICLE V Alumni Council Section 1. The Alumni Council shall meet at such times, within the limits imposed by the Constitution, and places as it may have set at prior meetings, or as set by the President if so permitted by the Council. The Secretary shall send written notice of each, such meeting to each member of the Council at least ten days in advance.

Section 2. The Council may invite such other persons as it may from time to time desire to attend its meetings and to assist in its discussions and deliberations; however, these invited persons shall have no permanent status as members of the Council and have no vote on matters under discussion.

Section 3. The Council sha|gcarry into effect all duly passed resolutions or motions of the Alumni Association. It shall conduct

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the business of the Association in the interim between annually or specially called meetings of that body.

Section 4. The Council shall formulate, discuss, and propose to the Alumni Association plans or projects to further the purposes of this AssociatioiMas set forth in the Constitution. Said Council shall receive proposals or suggestions from any interested alumnus or group of alumni and take such action on said suggestions or proposals as it may deem appropriate.

ARTICLE VI Executive Committee Section 1. The Executive Committee shall meet at such times, within thgÿjlimits imposed by the Constitution, and places as it may have set at prj^fr meetings, or as set by the President if so permitted by the Committee.pjffihe Secretary shall send written notice of each such meeting to each member of the Committee at least ten days in advance.

Section 2. The Committee may invite such other persons as it may from time to time desire to attend its meetings; however, these invited persons shall have no permanent status as members of the Committee and have no vote on matters under discussion.

Section 3. The Executive Committee shall conduct the busi­ ness of the Association and the Alumni Council in the interim between regular or special meetings of the Council.

ARTICLE VII Regional Organizations Section 1. Whenever and wherever deemed advisable, the Alumni Council may foster and promote Regional Organizations and affiliates of the Alumni Association. Nothing contained herein shall grant the Council any control or supervision over the internal operation of such organizations or affiliates; however, their aims and objectives shall be compatible with the purposes of the Alumni Association.

Section 2. Any Regional Organization or Affiliate of the Alumni Association, upon due recognition by the Alumni Council, shall be allowed one representative on the Council.

ARTICLE VIII Amendments These By-Laws may be amended at any meeting of the Alumni Council by vote of two-thirds of the members present, provided that the quorum specified for this purpose in the Constitution is present and further provided that written notice of the proposed amendment shall have been mailed to each Council member at such address as appears in the latest membership roster of the Secretary at least ten days in advance.

If your mailing address will change in the next 2-3 months, or if this Issue is addressed to your son and he no longer maintains his permanent address at your home, please help us keep our mailing addresses up-to-date by: 1. PRINT your full name, class year and new address on the opposite form, and 2. Attach the label from the back cover of this issue and mail to the Alumni Office, Montclair Academy, Montclair, N.J. 07042.

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