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S O U P DU J O U R I looked through my old yearbook from boarding school several months ago for the first time since I graduated six years ago. There was a photograph of the student newspaper staff and in the corner of the room somebody sat ripping a copy of the paper in half, a contrived look of concentration on his face and obvious pleasure with being so defiant and laissez-faire. Under his pic­ ture, he had written: "This is going to be hard to write, like a letter to someone you may never see again. A relationship which recognizes the attitudes of others helps us realize our own attitudes. You know you are one of the best friends I have. . . . Thank you for tolerating my bad moods and for always being there to help and advise."

I have not seen him in six years. I have not thought of him nor heard any­ thing from or about him since his last unhappy remark at graduation that he was leaving for a school in Hawaii to repeat his senior year. Yet, looking at that picture, I suddenly passed through a lifetime of forgotten people and re­ lationships, remembering all at once valuable friendships and learnings, care§|essly and seriously lived out through four years.

The carelessness could be expected for those times, but it was the sudden memory of the seriousness which sur­ prised me. This afternoon, perhaps the relationship means nothing. But it is difficult to say how much of it has in­ fluenced me, how deep the impact is of once meaningful friendships and ex­ periences and to what extent a school can be given the credit, as it offers en- ; vironment, encouragement, guidance, for the maturing, the curiosity and ful­ fillment of its students. In the end, we are simply talking about the significance of the movement of people together.

This particular Montage is devoted to the renewed rapport that has developed in the last few months between the Academy and many of its alumni. There is a rather full class notes section and various thoughts and items of personal news about many alumni.

And somewhere ..in between these notes must be moving other lifetimes of forgotten people and relationships. Per­ haps what is most important for all of us as alumni is to be reminded of what we have forgotten. fj

MONTCLAIR ACADEMY

montage Volume 2

Number 7

SPRING, 1972

CO N TEN TS

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The Next Best Thing to Being -There

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From the Rough to the Ritz: music, dancing and singing

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The Gallery

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Notes of the School: potpourri

Alumni (P)review

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Sports Review

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Notes of the Classes

editor: fritz jellinghaus editorial advisory board: alumni members: robert h. muller, m.d. '39, dallas s. townsend, jr. '36 ■ faculty members: nixon bicknell, nicholas I. childs, robert r. just ■ staff member: c. arthur littman ■ trustee member: frederick I. redpath Design and Printing: Heden-Livingston, Inc. 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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Thirty Alumni, Using Ten Phones in Seven Sessions, Talking to Almost One-thousand Alumni from M artha’s Vineyard to Hawaii: The Next Best Thing to Being There The program was called a "Fund-A-Thon" and this was the first time it had ever been held for an alumni annual giving campaign. In the evenings of late January and the beginning of February, these thirty devoted alumni came to the School, had supper, learned from Development Director Art Littman what the program was about and then went out to the ten phones in the hall to call classmates and fellow alumni, from 7:00 p.m. until often close to midnight.

At least Tom Aitken, Class of '56, stayed that long and must have made as many calls to his wife to apologize for being late as he did to members of his own class and other alumni. Tom was joined on almost every night by Bill Thompson, Class of '33. But this was what the Fund-A-Thon was for, to renew rapport, to bring the Academy and its alumni closer together.

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“Hi! How are you? Remember me?” . . . . “Hell, no! Do you think I’ve got a memory like an elephant?”

And, of course, to raise crucially needed funds in support m the Scho<™ With almost one-thousand alumni reached, nearly a third of them pledged their supfflrt and a. total of $2,66^ C h e w from those alumnSwho pledged a specific gift, as well asPom those who specified no definite amount continue to come in. For weeks, the gals who keep the records, Helen Risdon and Betty Russell, havSt been sub­ merged in gifts and letters. Complete 197|®Annual Giving figures will be printed in the Montage Summer Notes. It would not be presumptuous to sayThat those figures w l certainly ¡exceed the figures of every previous annual giving campaign and that more alumni than ever have been anxious to invest their hope and therasupport in the Academy..*.

C The nights of telephoning were fun and they went q iS k ly .

Alumni AnnuafiGiving ChairmanMTave Ramsay, Class of '59, and Class Agent Chairman, Ed “ Van" Brffit, had Recruited Alumni Council members, Trustees, Agents, faculty and alumni to ||eep the hall oujfide the Development Office crowded and the ten phones busy. Ohe first few calls were always quiet, shy, but as more calls were made, each caller learned more about members of his class and more to tell the next classmate. Few callers approached their calls with the ease which Bogie Thompson, Class of '35, felt, saying simply,“ Hi! How are you? This fp Bogie Thompson, Academy Class of '35, a voice from your past. Remember me?" Said simply enoughBfntil one classmate answered, "Hell, no! Do you think I have a memory like an elephant?" Dave Ramsay

“On several calls, he said, ‘Good­ night, honey,’ which was thought to be a bit strange until it was learned that he was sneaking in calls to his wife around the corner.”

Alumni Annual Giv­ ing Chairman, Dave Ramsay, left; Rags to Riches Chairman, Tom Aitken, right

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even seemed to end his conversations with ease. On several calls, he said, "Goodnight, honey," which was thought to be a bit strange untpyit was learned that he was sneaking in calls to his wife around the corner.

Following each night of calling, letters were sent to each alumnus contacted, thanking him for his pledge and for the chance to talk with him.

The program itself was not too expensive to operate.

Including the installation costs, the rental and call expenses, the bill will amount to under $700. If all the specific pledges are paid and if the gifts from those alumni who promised to send "something" average $10., then the Alumni Annual Giving could realize the great success it is poised to achieve.

But in the end, the Academy and its Alumni Association have grown |§oser and the School has been in touch with almost one-thousand of its most important people.

Headmaster Philip Anderson is "capped" by his wife as the night begins

The first toast of the evening, as Alumni President, Bob Muller '39, fills the glass for Alan Werksman '50; between them are their wives, loan Muller (left) and Ann Werksman (right)

MUSIC PROM THE R0U6H TO THE RITZ

After a long summer and fall of Informal conversations', alumni meetings and rigorous planning, winter at the Academy gave birth to the first fund-raising party of a large nature, Musical Rags to Riches, February 12th. A night that saw the Dining Room filled with almost 250 alumni, parents and friends and a night which raised nearly $1,500 to defer alumni expenses and support the Scholarship Fund. It was a night indeed of rewards, particularly for Chairman Tom Aitken '56.

The extravaganza featured a potpourri of music, dancing and singing, with a late-night, hot buffet. Music came from the banjo and brass of Bobby Domenick and His Orchestra, from the soft-tongues of The Heritage Barbershop Quartet, from the piano and sing-along slide show of alumnus Rudy Deetjen '50 and from the keys of the international accordion champion, Donald Hulme, who came to the School at the end of his evening performance at Radio City Music Hall.

The Musical Rags to Riches party was fun. It was a marvel­ ous accomplishment for the Alumni Council and for the Academy; maybe it was a milestone in a history of continual attempts to involve alumni with their School.

At two in the morning, the curtain came down on the diehards. But another curtain has come up and the show has just begun.

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TH E G a L l ERy of the Boards of Trustees at the Academy, the Montclair Art Museum, the Near East Foundation, active volunteer with the Church, the Eagle Rock Council of the Boy Scouts, the Park and Recreation Department, the Community Chest and proud father of the fourth generation of Academy Van Vlecks. He would not tell you this, nor, of course, would he ever tell you or believe himself that he has been in his lifetime a deeply-loved friend of the community of Mont­ clair and of the Academy. He would say of his life, as he has said, not proud of his obvious modesty, not even per­ haps aware of it, that “ it's just been trying to do my own little part; not a big guy doing a big job, but just a little guy trying to do the best he can. That's all anybody can do.

But everybody does not live with quite the same humility, meticulous care and loyalty that have no doubt always distinguished Howard. He will not talk to you about him­ self. He loves his Church and will gladly show you around, but he would not tell you, unless you asked, that he built the cross on the altar which his wife Betty decorates oc­ casionally with greens from their own gardens, would not tell you that he made the columns that encompass the speakers, that he worked out the subtle, indirect lighting and that he painted a portrait and sculpted a bas-relief bust of one of the Church's previous ministers. And, outside the Chulgh, you would have to watch his eyes carefully to know that he is thinking about trimming back the ivy from plhe slate walks. Howard would not boast of his fifty-six years of involvement with the Boy Scouts, joining at the age of twelve when it first met at the Church and later, with a friend, acting as Scoutmaster for twenty-five years. But he would tell you happily of what the Scouts can mean to young boys. "It builds independence for the kids," he says, "and the feeling of sharing with other people; that it takes many people doing little things to create a tolerable com­ munity, rather than each one of us going off on his own pet peeve, saying, 'I'm me and the heck with every­ body else.' Independence, but also a sense of community.

People do not have the opportunity to go out into the wilderness anymore, but if they know how fo take care of themselves in the wilderness, then they are that much better equipped to take care of themselves in the heart of civiliza­ tion, with an appreciation of the Lord Almighty through the study of nature and an understanding of Him, of It, whatever It is, the spirit of God." Howard was the Chairman of the Academy's 75th Anniversary Program to rebuild the School. And he did. He traveled through New England and down through the Philadelphia area to see how other schools were designed, excited about creating a new cam­ pus from the ground up, an informal building that rose on the hill and wove between old trees, looking out towards the skyline of New York. He studied the architect's plans and watched the construction day by day, the wrinkled sleeves of his white shirt rolled up, his pipe between his fingers, lifting rocks, planting greens. If you walked this

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howard a. van vleck, class of 22 voltaire s gardener On the 50th anniversary of his graduation from the Academy, Howard Van Vleck sits quietly reading in the back of Montclair's awesome First Congregational Church which he has; attended since he was a boy and where he now spends three hours every Wednesday to be there for those who want to pray or meditate. The organist plays loudly, waving back every now and then at Howard, who sits slightly on his side, legs crossed, holding his unlit pipe between his large, tough-skinned fingers. Much has hap­ pened in those fifty years. Howard's face has become firm and strong and a warmth and kindness, a gentleness, ebb slowly from his eyes and smiling mouth. He is soft-spoken and speaks little of himself or the history of his life as architect, landscaper, painter, Sculptor, carpenter, member 4

afternoon through the Humanities Building, which is named in his honor, you would see in the hallways the plants he has grown in his greenhouse and on the walls his paintings of the Academy's founder, John G. MacVicar, and of William H. Miller and Claude W. Monson. But he does not talk about this, rather that he is pleased with the growing re­ lationship between the School and its alumni. "What's being done at the Academy now to maintain alumni interest is tremendously worthwhile. If you don't keep showing an interest in your alumni, they're not going to come back and show an interest in something they've been through and are done with unless they have some human relationship that they can touch every once in a while and feel that the School is still going on and needs them." Twenty years ago, when he was active with the Scouts and had his troop, Howard would leave when the troop meeting was over and go to the meeting of the Board of Trustees at the Art Museum, still wearing his Scout uniform. "Everyone would look at me and say, 'Well, it's just about time to adjourn the meeting,' so I'd move for adjournment." Howard still attends the Board meetings and is, of course, very much involved with the architectural and facility needs of the Museum. He says that there may have to be a capital drive someday to ex­ pand the building and suddenly there are memories and images of Howard standing over his shovel, planting and trimming ivy, holding his pipe. His years of involvement with Montclair's Parks and Recreation Department have given him other gardens to work in and a park at the west end of town, where he planted two hundred or more geraniums that later died after two hot, dry summers.

Howard says that someday they will get around to replacing them; in the meantime, his interest in the Department is active with the town's shade trees and with the other parks, as well as with after-school activities which touch thousands upon thousands of young kids. Written in a citation awarded to Howard in 1964 are the words: "No building enterprise in Montclair has been born unnoticed by you." Howard is truly a gardener, in physical and metaphysical senses. A month ago in his greenhouse, he and his son Roy crosspollinated a large, white moth orchid. They may wait as long as another eleven months before they plant the seeds and then wait two or three years for the plant to bloom. It is not unusual to drive past Howard's house in good weather and look beyond the trees and bushes to find him on hands and knees in one of his gardens or sitting under some of the trees with lunch of sandwiches and milk.

His life in these gardens follows a progression of the sea­ sons' changing beauty. His concerns, too, are with over­ population and with starving people and inevitable famines.

He has been, for many years, a member of the Board of the Near East Foundation, a grass roots agency for helping people to take care of themselves, their health, their chil­ dren, their crops and their water. He talks of the Montclair artist, George Inness, and of the clear spansiveness of his

paintings. "There is little of the wilderness left and few places where we can walk out into the country and drink from a stream in the woods by ourselves. There are a lot of prob­ lems for our future and we've got to face them with good, sensible thinking. Ecology is not a clean job; you can't wear your best clothes and say, 'I'm an ecologist.' We've got to get out and get dirty. This is important for anybody to know in any line of work. A man came to repair my oil burner a while ago and, as we stood together in the cellar, he said to me, 'I wish I were as old as you are." I asked him why and he said, 'Because I can't bring myself to look forward to the future with any pleasure at all because of overpopulation and starvation.' And I said, 'Well, I wish I were young as you are, with as much time as you have ahead of you to accomplish something.' " Perhaps that is the other sense of the gardener in Howard, the metaphysical sense, that he has simply brought so much around him to life. As Voltaire wrote in "Candide," ". . . we ought to look after our garden . . . for when man was placed in the Garden of Eden, he was placed there, ut operatur cum, to cultivate it; which proves that mankind is not created to be idle. Let us work . . . without disputing; it is the only way to render life supportable."

charles s. joelson, class of '33 judge, superior court of new jersey "You hear people complaining about business," Charlie Joelson says in his chambers at the Paterson Court House moments after he has adjourned a criminal case he is try­ ing, "but business here is very good. We have too many customers." Charlie has been a judge in the Superior Court of New Jersey since 1969, when he ended his fifth term as a congressman, determining cases of probate disputes, the constitutionality of municipal ordinances, civil suits and now primarily, because of a backlog, serious criminal offenses. "My main claim to fame, of course," Charlie says with a smile, "is that I graduated from Montclair Academy."

He also graduated phi beta kappa fijBjm Cornell and later from that University's Law School, practicing law for a brief time before 'beginning his military service as an intelli­ gence officer with the Navy. After leaving the Navy, Charlie practiced law in Paterson, as City Counsel, and later served as New Jersey's Deputy Attorney General from 1954 to 1960, when he was elected to the United States Congress; his first term was on the House Committee on Education and Labor and hiBsubsequent terms on the Appropriations Committee. “ As a congressman, I was used to a very out­ going life," Charlie says, “ many dinners on Saturday even­ ings and outings on Sundays; you name it, I was there. I do miss Washington now, although I do not miss the perpetual motion of campaigning that was necessary to remain in office. Bifiwhen you are a judge, you are withdrawn and not too easily available. It -is a life of study and introspec­ tion. The law really is, in many cases, philosophical and an exercisiffn logic and in the ability to distinguish. A good •Paw background develops an objective, analytical sense about people and human behavior. So, my mind is probably a little keener than it was when I could get by with ring­ ing generalities on a platform." Charlie is very serious about the integrity of the law and about his commitment to up­ hold it. He says that the New Jersey judiciary is considered among the best in the country and that the courts are re­ sponsive to the changing needs of the people. He feels that the recent trend among law students and young lawyers towards "pro bono publico" law, involving such issues as. consumer a ffa g , the environment, poverty and civil rights, may be subsiding for a general return to the law establish­ ment. “ This pendulum has swung before, perhaps in a different way. During the New Deal, lawyers made a bee­ line for Washington with stars in their eyes to get into government workwhey were the "pro bono publico" people. After a while, the trend was towards Wall Street.

More recently, the public firms seemed to be the magnet and now there may be a lack of interest in them. But I would not discount that force at all. A lot of those lawyers became disenchanted because they cannot change the world overnight. If they are realistic and have the stamina, I think they will stay with it." Although Charlie feels that change deserves time, he does not feel that the law's system of courts is at all a bureaucratic, temperate or even slow process of change, but rather that the courts have been forced to inherit the responsibility as catalyst for change from legislative bodies which have not reacted quickly enough to the public needSj"! am not sure it is good," Charlie says, "that people look for change from they*, courts and not from their legislators. It is certainly not what was intended when the three branches of government were set up. Being men of affairs and out,in the mainstream, legislators should attack the problems and be best able to see the practical effect of what they are doing. We are not

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supposed to make statutes, we are supposed to interpret and apply what the legislators enact. Yet, judicial legisla­ tion happens in this State and across the country, courts grappling with social issues and responsible for social change; although I like what they have done, I am not so sure it is their function." He cites the example of how the courts were pressed into legislation in the area of landlord/ tenant relations: where tenants, by law, were forced to pay their rents, regardless of building conditions or personal expenses incurred in repair; if they did not, they could be evicted; but if the landlord did not maintain lawful hous­ ing conditions or reimburse a tenant for repair costs, the tenant would have to undergo the drawn-out procedure of suing his landlord. "Because of the fact that the legislature never really moved in," Charlie says, "the courts were com­ pelled to. Another example is the Warren Court, which was accused constantly of legislating. Yet, in the famous school desegregation case, Congress did not act. We waited and waited for Congress to implement the Constitution and, when they did not, the Court had to. Then they were ac­ cused of usurping thé legislative function. It is time when people ought not to look to their courts for social change, but should demand it of their legislators." As a congress­ man and now a judge, Charlie has seen both sides. "One of the reasons I decided that being a congressman was a very frustrating business is that our machinery is so cumbersome and repititious and that we are not really able to move quickly or effectively. The Congressional machinery and its procedures are about one hundered years out of date.

There is no reason why Congress cannot act decisively; but as long as we have the present system, it is not going to really happen. The machinery and procedures are out of date because we have a committee system: too few com­ mittees and too much power in the hands of so few chair­ men. If a chairman does not want to hold hearings on a bill, he puts it in a drawer and that is the end of it. And, since the chairmen want to keep all their power, they have more work than they can possibly handle. We do not have a committee on housing and urban development in Con­ gress; anything having to do with that is handled by the Committee on Banking and Currency, which has plenty to do in other fields. The Congressional machinery generally has to be overhauled." But Charlie does not raise his voice with anger or resentment. He smiles often, sitting quietly in his chambers, and talks in soft and pleasant tones of many different things. Behind him are pictures of himself with John F. Kennedy and with the Johnsons and book­ shelves are filled with bound volumes of law history, case studies and published opinions, some of which are his own.

One gets the impression that, through the nearby doors info his courtroom, Charlie's life begins behind his bench, that he enjoys the serious challenge of what he does.

NOTES OF THE SCHOOL

Riding on the SST With Communi­ cating Dolphins While Listening to Underground Radio Stations and Talking About Model Cities and Human Sexual Behavior That's quite a journey, but it didn't actually happen that way. What really happened was that the Academy's Fathers' Committee held its first Career Exposure Program with thirty fathers and one mother who came to the School to talk with fifty-six juniors and seniors about their professions and a kaleidoscope of ideas that ranged from the SST to human sexual behavior.

The Program was the outcome of more than a year's con­ sideration of the best means through which the Academy could activate its responsibility to expose the older students to various careers. The first thoughts of the Fathers' Com­ mittee were to set up plant and office visits for interested students. But, because of scheduling problems during the school day, this idea was abandoned for the evening Program which took place in the Academy Dining Room in midJanuary. It was a "free-form marketplace" whereby the stu­ dents could participate in any of the roundtable discussions.

Which is exactly what happened — and quite successfully.

They talked about television and radio, advertising and public relations, about psychiatry and psychology, about banking and stocks, about the law, about biology, chemistry, physics and computers, about architecture and community planning, about insurance, aerospace, general business, medi­ cine, pharmaceutical sales and hospital administration. Some of the fathers made their own signs and diagrams and brought with them boxes filled with descriptive reading materials. And the students moved freely from table to table, learning something about the different professions and the backgrounds necessary.

"The purpose of this Program," said Fathers' Committee Chairman, George P. Maginness, "is to offer the boys a chance to understand a broad range of careers and to realize that they should not feel pressured to make professional decisions at this point in their lives. We offered the Program not to pressure them, but to give them an early opportunity to experience what is involved with different careers."

And it seemed a fine experience; a bystander could not help but feel the enthusiasm with which people talked and listened. Many of the fathers and students spoke about offering the Program more than once a year and the students seemed anxious to follow up the seminars by visiting certain offices and plants. The Fathers' Committee is presently con­ sidering these ideas, as well as the idea of expanding the Program to include interested alumni.

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a kaleidoscope of ideas / career exposure program

Dotmurri The Sunday New York Times February 6 edition began a new section for ex­ panded coverage of New Jersey. In­ cluded in that first section was an article about the State's independent schools, which are under the guidance of the Academy's Headmaster, Philip L. Ander­ son, President of the New Jersey Associa­ tion of Independent Schools. Portions from that article are printed below.

Prep Schools Re-evaluating Roles in Today's Education

By Richard J. H, Johnston Special to The New York Times MONTCLAIR — Rising costs, changing urban patterns and in­ creasing demands for coeduca­ tional training are forcing i n ­ dependent" preparatory schools in the state into a re-evaluation of their roles as educational institutions.

Philip L. Andersort|,president of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools and the headmaster of Montclair Acad­ emy® one of the state's most prestigious college preparatory boys schools, said that, despite the rising 1 wets, palong with strangling inflation and social ^criticism of the schools for beingBncubators of snobbery," the independent school-system would unquestionably survive and thrive.

(Note that the use of "private" has been shelved by both head­ masters and trustees in the 8

description of the prep schools as a provocative word in egali­ tarian times. )H "Without the independent schools we would lose the right of choice in the education of our children," Mr. Anderson de­ clared. "The system has to sur­ vive. The value of this kind of education cannot be overesti­ mated. And it is a training ground for future leadership."

The educator was speaking against the backdrop of an in­ creasing number of mergers or closings of long-established pri­ vate schools in New Jersey for economic and-other reasons.

'A Tough Ball Game' The list of mergers of inde­ pendent schools contemplated, planned or completed in this state alone in the last several years seems to have given sup­ port to Mr. Anderson's observa­ tion that the independent schools are "in a tough ball game."

Mr. Anderson's evaluation was endorsed by John Chandler Jr., vice president of the National Association of Independent Schools, with headquarters in Boston.

The association has recorded the closing of at least eight long

established American boarding schools, most of them in the Northeast in the last several years.

While none of these closed boarding schools is in New Jersey, a small wave of mergers of independent schools is under way in this state, according to the New Jersey Association.

The New Jersey association membership includes 14 coedu­ cational day schools; seven boys day schools; seven girls day schools; seven boys day and boarding schools; three girls day and boarding schools, and four coeducational day and boarding schools.

The total enrollment of the schools in the association for the 1971-72 academic year was 13,430 or 0.0747 per cent of the state's school-age children, when the enrollment of the 280,000 in Roman Catholic parochial schools is included.

The State Department of Edu­ cation estimated the 1971-72 enrollment in the public schools at 1,503,000.

Insofar as the Academy's current pos­ ture is concerned on continued inde­ pendence, expanded coordination or co-education, all alumni/ae, parents and friends of the Academy, Brookside School (both operated by the Montclair Academy Foundation) and the Kimberley School have been notified of the present study to analyze and define the optional relationships available to the three schools. The services of educational con­ sultants Engelhardt & Englehardt, Inc. of Purdy Station, New York, have been ac­ quired for this study, which began in January and will continue until the spring. The consultants are meeting with a Joint Committee of the two Boards of Trustees, as well as with alumni/ae, parents, faculty and students. At the moment, no decision has been reached and none will be announced until the extensive study is completed and evalu­ ated by the respective schools.

At a recent dinner for the Academy and Kimberley faculties, President of the Academy Board of Trustees, Frederick L. Redpath, and President of Kimberley's Board, James T. Mills, discussed the study. “ This is not a crash idea/' Mr. Redpath said. “ Neither of our schools is under the gun economically and our considerations are made not primarily on a financial basis, but rather on the basis of a history of cooperative com­ munication, respect for each other's tra­

ditions and values and earnest desire to fully develop the best educational pro­ gram for these three schools in the com­ munity." Mr. Mills then presented several questions he had received from the Kimberley faculty and the group spent the remainder of the evening dis­ cussing the possible options in their re­ lationship.

interest and encourage independent and creative work. The student response has been favorable and many boys have given'up their free periods to take two or three of the electives.

The 1972 Summer Program at both the Academy and Brookside School will begin on June 26th and last until the 18th of August. The expanded activities in­ clude Summer Studies, Day Camp, The­ The gray and hazy February "blaahs" which affect many of us are being suc­ atre Workshop, Athletic Camps and the cessfully combated this year by the Travel-Study Tour of England.

The broad range of courses offered in Academy's English Department. Stu­ the Summer Studies program gives stu­ dents are finding many creative outlets in the new "Mini-course" Program dents the opportunity to enrich their educational experience, strengthen aca­ being offered by English teachers and several students. Regular English courses demic skills and review subjects in which they were unsuccessful during the regu­ have been suspended for the four-week lar school terms. The Day Camp, oper­ period and each student has chosen a ated at both the Academy and Brook­ course which interests him from the list of seventeen electives. The scope of side, involves enrichment programs in art and ecology, developmental programs in courses ranges from serious studies of literature to satirical imitations of popu­ reading and math, typing and a versa­ tile recreation program which includes lar shows in the TV Workshop. arts and crafts, swimming, soccer, bas­ One of the most popular courses is ketball, badminton, softball, archery and “ Hidden Persuaders," a study of the other activities. The facilities of both various games, gimmicks and gadgets Schools provide campers with art and aimed at the American people by the music workshops, science laboratories, advertising industry. Another course athletic fields, gymnasiums and exercise looks at the clever cult of the review rooms and both indoor and outdoor writer and then asks the students to swimming pools. The Theatre Workshop, write their own musical, dramatic and literary reviews. For the student who en­ ^¡under the direction of English master Robert Just, writer and producer of the joys a good thriller, there are courses in '71 Workshop's "Itch of the Witch of the modern detective novel and the W ur," is designed as an experience for horror story.

Classes which are more activity-ori­ acting and stage craft. It operates the Summer Company, a theatre providing ented include “ Animated Film," "Drama young actors the opportunity to become Plunge," "TV Studio" and “ The Viewer involved in the dramatic arts and main­ Strikes Back." The students enjoy trying tain a summer theatre at the Academy their skills in the different media and for Montclair and the surrounding com­ the Academy's Weiss Arts Center and munities. The Athletic Camps in basket­ video equipment are being well-used. ball and football are designed to help Many upperclassmen have embarked boys develop individual talents through on rather high-level ventures into "Freud personal and group instruction, drills, and Modern Literature," "Dos Passos's lectures, films and competition among USA" and "The Book of Genesis as similar age and ability groups. The Literature." These seminar classes have not only produced an important ex­ Travel-Study Tour of England includes a change of ideas, but have also led indi­ series of lectures and tours, with empha­ vidual students to pursue tangential sub­ sis on Elizabethan history at Oxford and drama and literature at Stratford-onjects of particular interest.

Avon and at the University of Warwick; The seminar approach has also been students reside in the residence halls of used quite successfully in the "Black both Universities and devote almost a Voices" course. Two students, juniors month to study and travel through the Bob Jackson and Durwin Johnson, have done excellent jobs in leading two sec­ country.

"Summer is a time for all sorts of tions of this course. It is hoped that more students will be involved in a activity," said the Summer Program's Director, Carmen M. Marnell. "The Pro­ teaching capacity in future elective gram of the Montclair Academy Founda­ courses. tion provides students with a wide A popular section in Greek and Roman variety of special activities and educa­ mythology and workshops in playwrighttional opportunities, designed to meet ing and poetry found out the English the needs and desires of active young Department offerings. The emphasis of people." the Program has been to arouse student 9

Frederick L. Redpath, President of the Board of TrStees“ of the Montclair Acadenra Foundation, has announced the election of three new Trustees to the Board which oversees both Mont­ clair Academy and Brookside School, ■hey are E. Clair®-Healey, Rudolph H. Deetjen, Jr. and Henri C. Marsh. The new Trustees replaced Everett L. DeColyer, Jr., alumnus of the C llls of 1941, Paul R. Miller, Jr., alumnus of the Glass of 1943, and John C. Steggles.

Dr. Healey is a member of the English Department of Montclair State College, an Associate Graduate and Undergrad­ uate Professor and a member of the Gradmte Faculty. She graduated from Boston University magna;cum laude, with a Bachelor of Science degree, and later from Columbia University with Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Before-foining Montclair State College in 1968, she taught for three years in the English Department of Hunter College in New York.

Dr. Healey is a member of several pro­ fessional, educational organizations; the Modern Language Association, the American Association of University Pro­ fessors and the College English Associa­ tion; she is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Association of New Jersey State College Faculties, currently as its secretary, and Vice President of the Greater New York Regional College English Association; Dr. Healey also is a member of the English Graduate Council at Montclair State.

Dr. Healey and her husband live in Upper Montclair arid have a son Glenn in the 9th Grade at the Academy and a son Grant in the 5th Grade at Brookside.

Rudolph H. Deetjen, Jr. is an alumnus of the Academy's Class of 1950 and an active participant in the Alumni Associa­ tion, as Class Agent and member of the Alumni Council. Mr. Deetjen is an ele­ mentary edif|ation administrator, with ten years of experience as the Head of the Middle School at Greenwich Country Day School in Connecticut.

While at the Academy as a student, he was the Editor of the Montclair Academy News, a member of the Student Council and the Red and Black Honor Society and President of the Glee Club, the Drama Club and the Forum Debating Society. In 1950, he was graduated cum liude. He went to college at the Uni­ versity of Vermont and graduated in 19511 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, later pursuing graduate courses in edu­ cational administration at Columbia Teachers College.

Mr. Deetjen has served on the staff of Robin Hood for Boys in Maine during the summers since the age of fifteen, 10

holding the position of Associate Di­ rector for eight summers and as Advisory Birector for the past three summers. His community involvement has been varied and he has served as district man­ ager for the annual Red Cross drive, a member of the YMCA Youth Program Committee and the Teachers Advisory Committee of the Greenwich Health Association, as usher and stewardship

Dr. E. Claire Healey

Rudolph H. Deetjen, jr. '50

Dr. Henri C. Marsh

worker for the First Presbyterian Church and on various academic committees.

He is also a limited partner in the New York brokerage firm of Emanuel, Deetjen, (Havenfield) and Co., a member of the Children's Concert Committee, the Greenwich Windjammers and the Class of 1971 of the National Association of Independent Schools seminar for ad­ ministrators.

Mr. Deetjen and his wife live in Greenwich and have two young sons, Rudolph, III and Clifford.

The third new Trustee of the Mont­ clair Academy Foundation is Dr. Henri C. Marsh. Since 1970, Marsh has been actively involved with the Academy's Fathers' Committee and as the Treasurer of the Montclair Academy Chapter of the American Field Service Program.

Dr. Marsh is the Director and Owner of Marsh Hospital for Animals, estab­ lished in 1958. He graduated from Bloomfield High School in 1948 and later attended the Rutgers University College of Agriculture and the College of Veterinary Medicine of Cornell Uni­ versity, where he was graduated with honors in 1954. During the following year, Dr. Marsh was an Assistant Pro­ fessor of Clinical Surgery at the College of Veterinary Medicine of Texas A & M College, where he also received gradu­ ate credits in veterinary surgery. From 1955 until 1957, he served in the United States Air Force, as a Captain in the Veterinary Corps.

Dr. Marsh is involved with a number of professional organizations. He is a member of the American, as well as the New Jersey, Veterinary Medical Associa­ tion, serving presently on. the Jersey Association's Legislative Committee; he is a Past President of the Metropolitan New Jersey Veterinary Medical As­ sociation, a member of the American Animal Hospital Association and of the American Veterinary Radiology Society; Dr. Marsh is also a member of the Verona Rotary Club, of which he is a Past President, the Verona Board of Health, the New York Bromiliad Society and as an Associate Member of the University Glee Club of New York.

Dr. Marsh and his wife live in Mont­ clair and have two sons at the Academy, Bruce in the 10th Grade and Keith in the 11th.

All five officers of the Board of Trustees were recently reelected: As Chairman, James S. Vandermade, Class of 1935, as President, Frederick L. Redpath, as Vice President, Peter N. Perretti, Jr., Class of 1949, as Treasurer, George P. Egbert, Jr., Class of 1947, and as Secretary, Daniel E. Emerson, Class of 1942.

ALUMNI (P)REVIEW

annual alumni dinner/ thursday night, april 20th The weather here this winter has been fairly dreary and, after only a few scattered days of good snow, it seems that spring is almost here and with it, of course, the Annual Alumni Dinner. This year's dinner will revolve around three special activities: the presentation of the Outstanding Alum­ nus Award to Arthur A. Goldman, Class of '25, extensive class reunions and the elections of new officers and members to the Alumni Council.

The highest award of the Alumni Association will be pre­ sented to Arthur for his loyal service to the Academy and its alumni and for his outstanding performance in the hotel and motel industry. Arthur's day-to-day interest in the Academy's alumni, his warmth, humor and kindness in his relationships with people have always distinguished him as a very special friend of the School.

He has also been a distinguished leader in the lodging industry and has been inducted into the Hospitality Maga­ zine Hall of Fame. Arthur began his hotel career forty-four years ago. During those years, he became director of the American Hotel and Motel Association, council member of the International Hotel Association, chairman of the Allied Member Division of the AHMA and hotel advisor for Fairleigh Dickinson University. He has been chairman of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, which regulates the hotels and motels in the State, and he is one of the few men to have served three consecutive terms as chairman of the State Association, where he is now chairman emeritus.

For many years, Arthur was the owner and proprietor of the luxurious and well-known All Seasons Hotel and Golf Club on Pleasant Valley Way in East Orange. Several months ago, he sold the All Seasons to Town and Campus, Inc., though he continues to maintain his office there as a con­ sultant to the new owners.

But the days wear well with Arthur now, relaxing and no doubt just as busy; he still loves his long, thick cigars and delights in admitting that he has lost a few pounds. It's a wonder, because he has spent quite a while traveling with his wife Doris, to Nassau, to London and through parts of the United States. And nobody knows good hotels and good food like Arthur.

Another special activity of the Annual Alumni Dinner will be the class reunions, celebrated in all classes which end in either numbers 2 o r || (if your matbsjs not as good as it used to be, check the Notes of the Classes under your year!).

Finally, the slate of officers and new members of the Alumni Council w jjl be presented to the group for voting, in a brief business meeting. Those nominated for officers are 11

President, Walter j. Sperling, Jr. M.D. '34, for Vice Presidents: S, Thomas Aitken '5(f|john A. Cosentino '40, Arthur A. Gold­ man '25 and George«. Kramer '54, for Secretary, Alan J. Werksman '50 and for Treasurer, John A. Lawrence '63.

american field service alumni The following letters were received late last fall from the Academes American Field Service alumni. The School is in its sixth year of participation with the AFS Program, which is designed to offer young people of varied racial, economic and religious backgroundman opportunity to experience home, ¡school and community life in America.

Axel Epe, Germany, Class of '67: "I finished my secondary education at my old school in Remscheid. I managed to do it in a year, thanks to the sup­ port of my teachers and clwsmates and the good practice I got at the Academy. In®968, I started my studying at Tub­ ingen, a small town south of Stuttgart, northwest of Munich.

As yoiBmight know, we don't have something like your college, but we specialize immediately after our secondary education. So I'm studying law. I hope to finish the first part of my university career in the spring of 1973. Tubingen ‘j| a very smaMtown, 55,000 inhabitants, but 13,000 students; so it's a great place to be. This semester, I am the President, Speaker, of the fraternity I joined. That will take a lot of my time; and I have to begin to study seriously. I would like to say something about my experience at the Academy. I got to know a new environment, different people and new friends. And, in the confrontation with all this, I had the chance to learn something about human nature and about myself. | just hope that all the students, faculty, parents and others at the Academy connected with the AFS Program feel as I do. Thank you and:'best regards.''

Alfredo Da Silva, Brazil, Class of '68: “ I hope you will Understand my English; there is a long time I don't write in English, so it should be probably pretty bad. To talk about what I have been doing all this time since I left the Academy, I would have to write a book; neverthe­ less, I will try, giving you a succinct and concise idea of my activities. As soon as I got back to Brazil, I began to study in order to take the 'entrance exams' of my state- university. I tried for two different courses: the law school and the le iffa p h y teacherstfSchool; I got the first place in the law school and the fourth in theffigeography. Everybody around here thought I couldn't study the two courses at the same time, but I started ancwright now I'm finishing my third year in both schools. There in a lot more. In this same year I began to study in these two schoollj, I also got a job as a clerk in a bank. But I was not yet satisfied, so I accepted to teach primary English in a nearby school. Let's have the 'replay': I was studying lawggnd geography, working in a bank and teaching. I had my time (even the nights) com­ pletely filled up by those four activities. It is quite unbeliev­ able, but if is true! M o rellcen t news is that I left the bank because I got a better job in the State Traffic Department; and that I'm going to marry on the 20th of November. All the other activities still are the same."

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Guillermo A. Duarte, Guatemala, Class of '69: "It has been my idea to write to the Academy before, but I have been kind of busy; but I still remember the Academy as my Dear Academy. When I came back, I worked as W. P. Chairman, selecting candidates to go to the States. I sent thirty-five students, the largest group Guatemala ever sent!

In January 1970, I got into the University of San Carlos to study chemical engineering and most of the things that Mr. Faurot (my Academy math teacher) taught me were very use­ ful to me. Anyway, I had a hard time, but now I am getting my way around. Now I am in the second year of my career and I expect to get my degree in three more years. I am working for the government as an English teacher and I am earning $150 a month. I was expecting to go back to the States, but with your surprising gift (the 10% tax) and be­ cause we are a country which follows the U.S.A. economical way, everything went up and now I will have to wait at least a year in order to go to the Academy again. I have gone steady for two years now and am planning to get married in two more. We are saving money in order to realize our dream; she is working as a bilingual secretary for the Agency of4International Development. Please tell them that I miss the Academy and the Sheldon family as well. Good luck and good bye."

Stanley K. Civin, South Africa, Class of '70: gPgl have been in the army; two months in the Transvaal and a year in S.W.A. . . . I was in no hurry to reach my des­ tination. Objects of less than trivial importance attracted my attention. Although I stared long and hard, my mind did not focus on any particular object. The day in question was more than a year ago, but I can still recall my sense of unreality. . . . As I strode along that day in January, with the sun prom­ ising great things for the new year, I tried to convince myself of the necessity of it all.-riOf course it was necessary!

Why, any moment from now, some aggressive, heathen, nasty nation could come plundering our beautiful homeland, killing our mothers, raping our sisters, burning our houses and defacing our golf courses. . . . But first, they would have to deal with me! Stanley K. Civin, number 67255190, 2-handi­ cap golfer. Fired with heroic visions and humming the National Anthem, I marched into the barbershop. Three minutes later, my patriotism was shorn. Horribly aware of my newly-uncovered ears (when had they grown so big?), I knew that this was finally it. Tomorrow I would become a learned soldier. New friends, new boots, new pains. No sleep, little food, plenty of exercise. Roll call, parades, in­ spection. Lectures, examinations, drill. And drill. Everything a drill. Run to wash, run to eat, run to bed. Sometimes to dream of roll call, parades, inspection. Each day a repetition, each repetition tomorrow. Basic training ended after six weeks. At this stage, all of us could use and maintain three different weapons, march in step and make a 'square bed.'

New, specializing courses began. We were being molded into parts of a complex machine. Semi-soldiers became mortarmen, cooks, signalers. My potential and ability must have been recognized; I became a truck driver. We were told not to think, just obey. The army was giving us a chance to ex­ press ourselves. Silently. Physically. Obediently. As training slowed down to only hectic, we began to take stock of our­ selves and what we were doing. Often we would lie in the darkness and talk. . . . Ten bodies in neat rows against oppo­ site walls. Men - I no, boys, just out of school, from all parts of the country, sons of doctors, farmers, bus drivers, lawyers, potential heroes, cowards, all. And we would lie awake at night and marvel at our progress, at our increasing pro­ ficiency in the art of extermination. And the voice belonging to the other end of a glowing cigarette would admit that he had enjoyed charging with bayonet at the 'enemy.' I too remembered lunging with a blood-curdling cry, careful to twist my weapon as I drove it home, enjoying my instructor's praise for a job well done. It was all just a game, a continu­ ation of a game we'd played many years before. We all agreed on one thing: we didn't want to die; not unless it was really necessary. But why should it ever be necessary?

At the best of times, rhetorical questions can be dangerous.

In the army, they could prove to be fatal. At the first hint of doubt and lack of motivation, we were reminded of our 'duty.' But it was not needed. Today, military training is almost a fact of life, an interim between school and uni­ versity. Don't think that the prospect of war excites us. On the contrary, most trainees are only too enthusiastic about peace and love. But everytime a man dies on our borders, the same boys with the peace signs on their sweatshirts become more determined, conditioned to the 'game' of war.

We don't want a fight. But defend ourselves we will. My

experience in the army was a rare one, shared one. Together we learned, laughed, hoped and feared. At times we were happy, often sad. But what made it bearable was that it was an experience of sweat, not blood. We don't burn draft cards. We don't protest. Our duty is still easy to do.''

Warwick N. Wilson, New Zealand, Class of '71: “ Since my arrival back in New Zealand, I can only say I have been bored. New Zealand lacks so much when it comes to night life and good entertainment; but this I conquered by taking a night-shift job at the Ford Motor Company, as­ sembling cars. My working hours are from 5:40 at night to 3:40 in the morning; the pay is good. I have bought a car, a Jaguar, in wrecked condition, and am having it panel-beated, painted, reupholstered; in other words, a total restoration.

The hard part about it is that I am doing it all myself; how­ ever, it should be finished by the end of November and sold in the beginning of Decem beSAfter my car is sold and I have worked a few more months, I am leaving New Zealand for Europe, Switzerland, to be precise, where I am working and studying; this will presumably take a while, in time for me to master another language. I would like to thank every­ one I came in contact with for their valuable friendship and interest in me; without them, my year would not have been the outstanding experience it indeed was."

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SPORTS REVIEW

by David Dollar '72 Montclair Academy's winter athletic teams turned in good performances again this year as the five varsity teams ended the season with a combined winning percentage of almost sixty per cent.

The varsity wrestling team had an­ other fine year, posting an 8-1-1 winloss record and producing two state champions. Seniors Henry Talbot (123pound weight class) and Peter Perretti (136-pound weight class) were the mainstays of the team. Each was un­ defeated in dual meet competition and both won first place in their respective weight classes in the state private school championships.

The team's eight victories included tough wins over Wardlaw and Pingry and a stunning upset of a superior Peddie team. Their only loss came at the hands of the Delbarton team.

In addition to the superb efforts by Talbot and Perretti, Coach Barry Nazarian also had consistently good performances from Jay Finney at 98, Earl Perretti at 130, and Billy Kolfax at 141.

The varsity swimming team also turned in an outstanding season, finish­ ing with an 11-2 record and setting five new Academy records. The team managed to beat tough Newark Academy, Blair and Montclair High teams, but was unable to get by peren­ nial powerhouses Wardlaw and Peddie.

Good performances from seniors Steve Berke and Dan Prescott were supplemented by fine efforts from a talented group of juniors, particularly Rick Goldblum, Keith Marsh, Zach Richardson, Al Van Eerde and Bob Nagel. Sophomore Mark Baran and freshman Rick Steenland also made important contributions to the team.

Despite a core of talented, experi­ enced players, the varsity basketball team finished with a disappointing 7-13 record. The team started the season well, winning seven of their first eleven 14

games, including victories over Newark Academy, Neumann Prep, Pingry and King teams. After that, though, the team could not quite get it all together and they dropped eight straight contests.

Seniors Glenn Veit and Tom Brueckner both had productive seasons, as did a number of talented juniors, notably starters Jim Lyons, Bob Jackson and Peter Redpath. The team also got im­ portant contributions from Bob Brightman, Durwin Johnson and John Baccaro.

The fencing team had a disappointing season, losing all six of its contests.

Coach Forman, though, was working with a young, inexperienced team and had the satisfaction of seeing them develop throughout the season. His efforts paid off when the team took third in the state private school cham­ pionships at the end of the season.

The sabre team in particular turned in a fine performance. Senior Vince Mascia took first in the State in sabre and this, combined with good sabre performances from Randy Ryan and Dave Kaytes, put MA just one point behind Peddie's first place sabre team.

The team also had good performances from Team Captain John Sperling in foil and Marc Chinard and Don Fry in epee.

The Academy's ski team had another good year, racing in a league with ten schools. The team had four races, with all ten teams competing in each race.

MA took first in one race and second in the other three, putting them in second place in the league standings.

Hunt Geyer led the team, taking first place in a field of forty skiers in one race and coming in second and third in each of the other races. The rest of the team, comprised of Craig Maginness, Hugh Crowther, Blair Per­ kins, Glenn Healey and Dave Bauer, also raced well all season.

(Ed. Note: David Dollar is Editor-inChief of the student newspaper, The Montclair News.)

NOTES OF THE CLASSES

1920-1931 Henry B. Fernald, lr. '28 221 N. Mountain Avenue Montclair New Jersey 07042 HAPPY 50th REUNION, CLASS OF ANNUAL ALUMNI DINNER, APRIL HAPPY 45th REUNION, CLASS OF ANNUAL ALUMNI DINNER, APRIL

'22!

20th.

'27!

20th.

Richard C. Overton '22 is a Senior Pro­ fessor of History at the University of Western Ontario; he is also President of the Business History Association. Dick writes, "This aca­ demic year, I have a sabbatical leave from the University and a Canada Council grant to enable me to work up a new course to be entitled "Transportation and its Impact on Society." Research done (or planned) in Boston, Washington, Wilmington, Chicago and here in London, Ontario. Expect to retire in June, 1973, and to live in Man­ chester Depot, Vermont."

Joseph E. Wiedenmayer '24 has retired after a decade in industry and a quarter of a century in the United States Foreign Serv­ ice. He has also retired, after the last seven years, from the Alexander Graham Bell Asso­ ciation for the Deaf, devoted to the educa­ tion of deaf children.

In early February, the Alumni Office re­ ceived a postcard from Arthur A. Goldman '25 and his wife, who were vacationing in Palm Beach. Arthur was awarded this year's Outstanding Alumnus Award and will be honored at the Annual Alumni Dinner on April 20th.

Frank H. Sommer '25 is a guidance coun­ selor at Chatham High School in New York.

Gustave E. Wiedenmayer '25, one of eight division chairmen of the 1971-72 United Community Fund Campaign of Essex and West Hudson, was honored in late Janu­ ary for his "outstanding service" in the 48th annual campaign. Gus headed the corporate division and raised $1,057,000. He is also Chairman, of the Board of the National; Newark and Essex Bank.

The publication of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce last December honored Homer Grant Whitmore '26 as their "Sales­ man of the Month." "Several common de­ nominators seem to surface with each suc­ ceeding 'salesman of the month/ " the ar­ ticle begins, "and Homer Grant Whitmore personifies these traits best. Blessed with manly good looks, a Grecian proboscis and an aristocratic demeanor, he is nonetheless 'real people' and, in addition, all of the fol­ lowing: well-schooled . . . of local stock . . .

married and a homeowner . . . successful in business . . . always active in the community . . . an avid hobbyist. . . . Comfortably off, Grant will never retire from life. He still represents the Travelers Bsurance Company, makes calls neaify every day when in town, and is certainly performing an outstanding sales job for the Rochester Chamber of Commerce."

Dr. Murray L. Jones '30 has four children: two sons (one married last August, the other at law school) and two daughters; he is currently writing science books.

HAPPY 40th REUNION, CLASS OF '32!

ANNUAL ALUMNI DINNER, APRIL 20th.

1933 William I. Thompson, lr.

20 Windermere Road Upper Montclair New Jersey 07042 Emerson E. Brightman has recently been written about in several newspapers. One of them reads, "An Upper Montclair man plays a prominent role with the Grand Union Company . . . Emerson Brightman, Execu­ tive Vice President. He is in charge of the Company's Supermarket Convenience Stores and Grand Way Divisions, as well as the Company's Grand Patio Restaurants. He also directs warehousing, trucking, manufactur­ ing and consumer affairs." Emerson has been with the Grand Union Company since 1948.

Dr. Charles E. Roh is practicing chest medicine in the Hartford, Connecticut area.

He and his wife Sara (a graduate of Kim­ berley) have four children: two married daughters, one married son who is at Harvard Law School and another son who is attending Boston University. Charlie writes that he sees Chester Fairlie '32 often.

Class Agent Bill Thompson continues to be a very active alumnus; during the FundA-Thon telephone campaign, Bill came to the School almost every night to call his classmates, as well as many alumni in other classed Bill was recently nominated as a member of the Alumni Council.

1934 Eugene I. Haubenstock 10-07 Plymouth Drive Fair Lawn New Jersey 07410 E. M. Prentice works for Vermont Tech­ nical College; he has five sons and lives in Montpelier.

Bennett E. Tousley, Jr. is still with the International Division of Westinghouse.

1935 Donald L. Mulford 260 Highland Avenue Upper Montclair New Jersey 07043 Richard E. Boschen sold his business and is now semi-retired, living in Sea Girt; he owns and operates a small store in Spring Lake.

Franklin Ferguson lives in Pittsburgh and isHn the insurance business; he has two children in college.

Class Agent Don Mulford continues his active involvement in the community of Montclair, as President and Co-Publisher of The Montclair Tim e^ H 1936 Kenneth Reile Fritts 12 Brookside Avenue Caldwell New Jersey 07006 The Alumni Office received a note from Dallas S. Townsend, Jr. in early January: he and his wife Lois visited George Koch and B s wife Jenny when they w e rS in Florida.

Dallas writes, "They operate the Four Winds Motel on Longboat Key, a handsome resort on the Gulf of Mexico, a few miles from our own modest pad. This was the first time George and I had met since we graduated from the Academy." Last summer, George provided jobs for Dallas's daughter Pat and her husband John Burkholder, soon after their marriage, while they were awaiting orders from the Peace Corps. They have just returned from Brazil.

1937 Robert E. Livesey R. D. Cortina Company 136 West 52nd Street New York New York 10019 HAPPY 35th REUNION, CLASS OF '37!

ANNUAL ALUMNI DINNER, APRIL 20th.

Kirk Usher lives in Portland, Oregon, "very happy close to the skiing and boat­ ing," he recently told David W. Brett '41 over the telephone.

1939 William Marchese 15 Leslie Drive Wayne New Jersey 07470

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As noted prdVJOuslyjjFrederick D. Little is the owner and marijager of the Old London­ derry W olS t op, Inwj in Londonderry, Ver­ mont. From November to Ma>wFred and his wife Jeanneffiive in Fort Lauderdale, where Fred se rvSf^ H the Board of MiMctorpiof th || Pine Crest (PreparatoS i® o o l and on thBgGaunjS of the Fort Lauderdale Congre­ gational Churc.h. At the Schm l, Fred fS| a member of the P la S in g Coordination saffll FiS||n<|| Committees; there are 1200 stu­ dents, one of whom; is his 9th Grade daugh­ ter Jane; his other daughter Linda® a fresjjri m arSat Em oB Un»ersiCy. "We ha«| the pleasure of Peg and Jim Vandermade visiting our gift shop agairM j||t fall," Fred w rit|j|| ■fin, Class of . '35;, is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Montclair Academy Foundation.

1940 , ,j John AQtjsjsentino

15 Wellesley Road Upper M S tc la ir New ^ rse y 07043 Thomas J. Dwyer lives with his wife Irene and tligir two .ch ild rS in Eagle River, Alaska; he is a L i l i a n engineer with the A ^ Force.

C. Pennington Frost, IV is% SaleSlManager for the athletic supplies division of Becton, Dickinson & CompanM l

tally ill and retarded and thousands of underprivileged children; the Department Was 18376 Em ployees and ajp operating budget of $193.6 million. In a statement to the pLISs, Governor Cahill said of Cliff, "He has- proven.IS m he last two yfclrs, to be an » tstan d in g adminilffiator. In his work as Commissioner of Insurance, he has become thoroughly familiar with Medicaid arid Medicare which will play an important part in his new responsibilities. H ^ background as an attorney and his record in government have coSunced me, fjeijis highly quaf|lfed to administerSnhis complex Department."

C liff^ W teflasBeen a member of the Cahill cabinet sincgi'the Governor took office two years ago, said of his appointment: "I do flpt have an||ill(g|ions about the dimensions of the problems that confront me, nor do I have any pretentions about my ability to solve them. All I can do B to bring to the task some firm resolve and S lo t of effort and a lot of hope."

Headmaster Philip L. Anderson received a letter in January from Edwin D. Etherington.

"MyBjife has. beenagomplicated but interest­ ing of late,'|§red wrote. 'Mhave completed my assignment as Chairman of the Gov­ ernors Commission on Services and Ex­ penditures in Connecticut and 1 am winding up 3 year as President of the National Center for Voluntary Action in Washington."

1941 David W. Brett .

1 * Norman Road

1944

Upper Montclair

New Jersey 07043 Our sharp-eked, roving reporteiBEdwin E. Van B irSt, best-lp'own warmly as "Van," spotted an aim le recently in aK rc a l1news­ paper about Dr. J. Colin Campbell, Director H f Profesiion£™Sel%teSi atmhe Hospital Cen­ ter at Orange. The arti<J| d e » ib e d C o l i^ iriVwB»emenf ‘with a health career workshop w h i® waC held at Orange Memorial H m S JlfMl ¡n mid-February.

Roger B. Etherington has become ViceBShairman of P ^ K to n American Bancorp, Jtpmposed ,of A m e ric » National B a rfl and Trust, Princeton Bank and Trust and Prince­ ton A m ffi||n Lease»rp. Roger is tllfe presi­ dent sp American National Bank andWrust.

His son B a rrif‘ is an 8th Grade student ,iat ¿.he; Academy.

1942 Daniel. E. Emerson 18 ChauQgj Road Short H iljfe£ H l^ w Jersey 07078 HAPPY 30th REUNION, CLASS OF '42!

ANNUAL ALUMNI DINNER, APRIL 20th.

Frederic G. Calder now operates the Cald­ well Travel Agency.

As the new year began, New Jersey's.

Governor vHfiam T. Cahill aniffunced the appointment of Robert L. Clifford, then In­ surance Com m isw ner, a a th,e new Com­ missioner of t » mslsive Department of Institutijgip and .AeeBflils which operates the State's prisons, hospitjpBand welfare programsJK’he Department is the largest in the State, handling in addition Medicaid, Medicare, the veterans' services, the men­

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Arthur B. Harris 2 JarvisKtreet Norwalk Connecticut 06851 Sharp-eyed roving reporter Edwin E. Van ® ont, "Van," receives^a ^ tte r in late De­ cember from '44's new Class Agent Art Harris. Art wrote that after his graduation from the Academy and enlistment in the M avS he obtaiffliSdegrees lo r n Tufts Uni­ versity S d Yale School of Law. While at Yale,..he met h S wife, Norine, who was a student at the Yale Music School. "Since the|yj we Wave both worked hardBn our respective fields and in raising our five children."

1945 William B. Grant 208 Midland Avenue Montclair New Jersey 07042 ..¿Class Agent Bill Grant has a new address, as noted above. He and his wife also have .aji new member of their family, Bill writes, ...and "after four daughter^, we were blessed with a son:;" Bill was at the Academy during the telephone campaign and most of the following notes he learned about In con­ versations with his classmates: Richard G. Adams is a researcher for J. P. Stevemft; his daughter will graduate this year from Brown University and his son is attend­ ing Colgate University.

Arthur D. Betz-0% in business for himself with Ulster Marine, making boats out of cement.

George H. Bogdanffy j,S a Product En­ gineer with Avon Products, w hile also work­ ing with his father for the last thirteen years

in a machine shop. George has four chil­ dren, two boys and two girls.

Dr. Morris E. Brown, Jr. is the Medical Director of a hospital and is also involved with the rehabilitation of the physically handicapped; he had been in private prac­ tice for ten years before in Trenton. Morris lives in Manheim, Pennsylvania, and has three children.

Kenneth R. Burker is an accountant with American O il; he has one son and one daughter.

Kent R. Costikyan, Jr. has been associated for five years with the G. H. Walker Compan|g prior to that, he was with Texaco.

He lives in Norton, Connecticut, and has three boys, ages 12, 10 and 8.

Joseph M. Cummings lives in Simsbury, Connecticut, and has four sons.

Richard C. Egbert, joining his other class­ mates in Connecticut, lives' in Greenwich and has three children, two daughters and one son.

Richmond B. Hopkins is associated with the* printing firm of W. A. Kruger; he has three children, two boys and a girl.

Gerard Hunt has been elected President of the Pharmaceutical Advertising Club of New York. Hunt is Executive Vice President of Knoll Pharmaceutical Company in Orange.

Donald E. Low is in charge of construc­ tion and maintenance for a school district in Park Ridge.

Thomas S. Motheral is associated with personnel management for the Sylvania DiESiOn of General Tel; he has four children, ages fourteen to five.

Newell Robb has been Marketing Manager for Fall River Gas for nine years; he is mar­ ried and has a son and two daughters; the family lives in Westport, Massachusetts, where NewelHenjoys fishing and hunting.

Richard D. Stead works with Canada Dry, inspecting the franchised dealers of the East Coast; he has three children.

1946 Frederick G. Schwarzmann Campbell Road Far Hills New Jersey 07931 James Elliot Hague lives in Upper Mont­ clair with his wife Joy and their eleven-yearold son and six-year-old daughter; he is in his own business.

Daniel M. McGee and his wife Ann live in Hazlet with their three children; Dan is a civil engineer with the American Iron and Steel Institute.

1947 No Agent HAPPY 25th REUNION, CLASS OF '47!

ANNUAL ALUMNI DINNER, APRIL 20th.

James D. Covert manages his own execu­ tive recruiting agency in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and lives nearby in Exeter. He has five children, ages seventeen to five, and enjoys "the skiing and snowshoeing right around home."

Frank R. Field, Jr. and his wife Helen live in South Carolina with their four children.

Sam L. Hakim and his wife Joy have three children, two boys and a girl, and live in Virginia Beach.

Joseph J. Healy lives in Los Angeles, where he is a Senior Vice President of Fly­ ing High Lanes.

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1950 Rudolph H. Deetjen, Jr. Stanwich Lane Greenwich Connecticut 06830 Class Agent Rudy Deetjen, also a member of the Alumni Council, was recently elected as a Trustee of the Montclair Academy Foun­ dation; in addition to his involvement with the Academy, Rudy is in his tenth year of elementary-leveMeducational administration as the Head of Greenwich Country Day School's Middle School; and, in addition to that broad range of responsibility as an educator, Rudy is also quite a social director and was the spirited conductor of sing-a-long piano sessions during the Alumni Associa­ tion's recent "Musical Rags to Riches" ex­ travaganza. Rudy, of course, was at the top of the riches! (See Alumni Preview for more on the three new Trustees.)

Douglas O. Hanau lives in Vermont and is the Placement Director at the University of Vermont.

1952 Joseph Bograd 10 Gorham Court Wayne New Jersey 07470 HAPPY 20th REUNION, CLASS OF '52!

ANNUAL ALUMNI DINNER, APRIL 20th.

Karl P. Gerhard works for IBM as a Pro­ gram Manager in the Federal Systems Di­ vision; he and his wife Jane have three sons.

Ralph C. Rinzler recently returned from Seoul, Korea, where he was involved in the production of a video-tape film on the tech­ nology of Korean folk-pottery. While in Korea, Ralph's wife and step-daughters were teaching at a school in Seoul.

Robert G. Werner lives in Hawthorne, California, and works with Bristol Meyers.

Robert K. Drain and his wife Virginia have six SJjjildren, two boys and four girls.

Bernard Fenster is a science teacher on Long Island.

Arthur Hurst lives in Simsbury, Connecti­ cut, with his wife Meredith and their three Pjiildren, a boy and two girls.

Ted Jorgensen is a general contractor; he lives *in Sea Girt with his wife Janet and theiHfour children three boys and a giral

1954 Philip E. Donlin, Jr. 122 Othoridge Road Lutherville Maryland Arthur H. Brook, II is in the publishing business, with the United States Publishing Association.

Sheldon Wheeler Buck works in research laboratories of MIT. John M. Foster works for Fieldcrest Mills and travels a great deal for the company.

Peter W. Grimm lives in Fort Lauderdale and works with Northrup and Johnson.

Howard P. Jones is associated with the Civilian Department of the Navy in Hawaii.

Frederick J. Kaiser, Jr.M working with the Rubber Latex Company in Clifton^H

1955 Oscar A. Mockridge, III 48 Warren Place Montclair New Jersey 07042 Burney K. Arnett, Jr. works for a computer firm; he lives in Holden, Massachusetts. ■ Dr. Michael L. Cohen is in internal med­ icine at the City Hospital in Salem, Massa­ chusetts; he is also an avid sailor.

R. Carleton Dallery is still teaching philos­ ophy at Tufts University; he is married and the father of two children, a three-year-old girl and a one-year-pld boy.

John B. MacKensie worked at one time for Hughes Aircraft; he is now in his own business with an electronics company.

Donald P. Menken lives in Poughkeepsie, New York, and works with IBM. Class Agent Oz Mockridge has been nom­ inated to serve on the Alumni Council. Oz now lives in Montclair.

William J. Silberman is associated with the Hawthorne Travel Agency.

Peter M. Smith lives in Endwell, New York, and works with IBM. Stephen R. Thieberg is a certified public accountant in Wayne, in partnership with his father; he and his wife Brenda have two sons.

1956

1953 Martin Cutkin 6 East Korwell Circle West Orange New Jersey ,07052 Peter A. Cockshaw and his wife Pat live in Wayne, Pennsylvania, with their two chil­ dren; Pete has his own publishing and pub­ lic relations business.

John W. Clapp 501 Ocean Avenue Sea Girt New Jersey 08750 Donald H. Courter lives iW.Wayne and is a United States history teacher, as well as assistant footbalrfoach, at Ridge High School in B a lin g Ridge.

Paul E. Fierstein works with Westmount Pension Consultants; he has three children.

A. Scott Harden, IV is a shipbroker; he lives in Mendham.

Dr. Lawrence Nazarian and his wife Sharon have three children, one girl and two boys; Larry is a pediatrician and does some teaching as w ell; Sharon is a nurse.

James P. Russomano is associated with Graaf Real Estate.

Dr. Peter R. Saltzman works with Beth IsraejlHospital in Bostoiglhe is married and has three sons, ages five, three and one.

Michael I. Sucoff lives in Schenectady, New York, with his wife Roberta and their twoi children; Mike is associated with a con­ struction company, remodeling the interiors of shopping centers.

H. St. John Webb works in the Trust De­ partment of the First Pennsylvania Bank in Philadelphia, as an Investment Researcher; he has three children.

1957 No Agent HAPPY 15th REUNION, CLASS OF '57!

ANNUAL ALUMNI DINNER, APRIL 20th.

The Reverend John Shepley Allen is the Pastor of the Holy Trinity Church in Hills­ dale; he is married and he and his wife Ursula have three children.

Donald T. Coursen is teaching driver edu­ cation at Bel Air High School in Edgewood, Maryland; Don is a weight-lifter and has been distinguished with a second Olympic listing. He is married and has two sons, ages five and three.

Dr. John R. Higgins lives in Massachusetts with his wife Barbara and their daughter Sharon; they are expecting another child; John is involved with counselling psychology and pastoral counselling.

Dr. Thomas E. Hobbins is I n internal medicine, a chest doctor at the University @,f Pennsylvania Hospital; he and his wife Jeanette have a two-year-old daughter.

Robert Weldon Lewis lives in Norwalk, Connecticut, with his,, wife Rosanne and their two-year-old daughter, Jennifer Lynn.

Eugene C. Neithold is.Jn the process of starting his own business a-s- a contractor for small firms, investment counselling and port­ folio analysis for security salesmen.

Michael Saltzman is a United States attor­ ney w itfilthe Internal Revenue Service; he is married and lives in New York.

Jack F. Scherer is an attorney in New York; he has been working toward his M.I.M degree at N.Y.U.'s School of Law. Richard B. Schlenger is in the real estate business he and his wife have two daugh­ ters, ages seven and five.

Roger F. Smith is a painter; he has also had associations«;with the advertising and publishing businesses; he and his wife Joy live in New York.

1958 Franklin M. Sachs 62 North Hillside Avenue Livingston New Jersey 07039 17

Henry R. Agens has B s own radio show in Schenectady, Neyv York, the "Hy Agens Show," W(~.YiSMenectady, 810 on the dial, 3:00' p.m. until 7:00 p.m. and on Sunday Big htSfro m 10:0® :).m. until midnight. The statio p H ( f l B d by Gep.eral lig t r ic .

Philip S. Amsterdam was elected Executive Vice President and W rector of MarsellisWarner Corporation in mid-March. MarsellisW a rn if Corporation, general road builders, was established» 1935. Prior t ( B associa­ tion with,' the Corporation, Phllw as assistant to the v ic ^ pr.esidentwf t B New York Stock Exchange, general administrative mana­ ger of Coenen & C o .H n c B n New York and compliance director of CBWL-Hayden Stone, Inc., also in New York. He has also served S M an adviHr to the Joint Committee on Banking and Securities Protection, the Na­ tional /^wciatiqn of Securities, Dealers and mgvhas helped to edit severalWbooks and articles fen the «nancial industry. Phil lives w itH h is wife 'lihoebe and their daughter Alison D®ora in Wgst Orange.

Michael C. Gennet.iis General Salfes Man­ ager of th|g S e a M * Mattress Company in F R id a .

-Gass: Agasi t Frank Sachs has been nominatedjrjto serve:©.n the A lu m * Council.

1959 Philip Carchman 301 Western Way Princeton New Jersey 08540 Kent J. S. Miller lives in Rochester, New York, and is a systems analyst for Eastman?

Kodak.

1960 Robert F. Crissman 49 Rutgers, Lane Parsippany New Jersey 07054 James BlarkMM a. Production Manager with AMP. Peter Brach is studying for his Ph.D.; he R married and B B S s in Philadelphia.

Dr; John P. Franz will' soon begin three f&ears^Sf med.icalWudy in Montreal; he is S till doing5 hfe\ residency in neurology and he and" his wife Jennifer live in Bethesda, Maryland.

Dr. Philip G. Leone Mas been doing hifi re sid S sy in pathology1; at last word in Janua i|| he was about to go into th e5se re ill.

John P. Marston works for the State of New Jersey*,"Btfelved in pollution control % ith the Department of the1"Environment; hSSand his wife have one S i d .

Fenton P. Purcell is a consulting engineel and a partner in the firm of Lee T. Purcell Associates; She and his w ifeB usan live in Upper S ad ® River.

Eric A. Sandwall, Jr. is a data processing manager with OTI Services 5in New York; he is married and has one son, Eric, III. 1961 David C. Carrad ‘d o Board S Student Advisors Harvard Law School Cambridge Massachusetts 02138 Denis G. Addonizio, Esq. is an Assistant Prosecutor for Essex CMinty, one of sixty18

five Assistant Prosecutors w|¡É represent the two million people in the County; "Tank" lives, in Livingston.

Peter Capell has beerRappointed Sales Manager of the fesfe-thousand-room SheratcH-Chicago H ot™ IfeCated on Chicago's] Magnificent Mile. Prior to his new position, Pete was associated with the Marriott Twin Bridg^S Hotel and the Stardust Hotel B Las Vegas,,, A nice bote from M rSjohn M. Crawford brings us up to date: she (C a r™ and John were married in 1964 and, soon thereafter, fóhn went to Germany-for th$|e years with the Army. They now live in Clinton with theimtwo children, John, Jr. and Charles.

John is a salesman for S'avin Business Ma­ chines Corporation.

Richard A. Ennis ,i‘ss pursuing a career in public accounting; he lives in Londonderry, New Hampshire.

Stephen P. O'Neill is working for Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith, Inc. He and his wife Frazier live in Montclair with their two-year-old daughter Megan.

Richard B. Turer now lives in Aspen, Col­ orado, "ski bumming." Dick is a patents attorney: Craig Van Tatenhove an d ilis wife Marsha live in Green Pond and have a three-yearold daughter; Craig is Plant Manager of the Paterson Shade Company.

Jonathan A. Wolf is1 ' involved in the mo­ tion « t u r e business, with commercial and special Mims; he and his wife Carol liv e in Clifton.

1962 Robert John Schmitt, jr.

14 Douglas Road Glen Riidjge New Jersey 07028 HAPPY 10th REUNION, CLASS OF '62!

ANNUAL ALUMNI DINNER, APRIL 20th.

Virginia Wesleyan's Poet-in-Residence, Bruce H. Guernsey, has recently published jg ^ th ird collection of poems. The book is entitled Biological Clock. According to Bruce, "the theme is man with nature and the style is imagistSli" Bruce received his Bachelor's degree in English, from Colgate University in New York State and jffiis Master's from the University of Virginia; He came to Virginia Wesleyan Bast September. His poems have been published in a number of literary magazinesfifncluding Apple and Foxfire. .

B. Michael Noone isyan instructor in compB'tion at Queensboro College; he and his wife Lana Iivé in Hempstead.

1963 John A. Lawrence 16B Long Hill Road Little Falls New Jersey 07424 Dr. Thomas V. P. Alpren is doing an in­ ternship at San Francisco General Hospital; he and his- wife Mary KathJ’een have a son Jacob. The AJprens are planning to move to Oklahoma in July.

Albert H. Carpenter works with the Bendix Corporation; he and his wife Daisy live in Hackensack.

ClaJ|| Agent John Lawrence received a letter from H. Harvey Cohen in early Febru-

ar||| Harvey wrote that he is completing a Ph.D. this semester at North Carolina State University. "My field is called Human Factors Engineeringja'nd my degree is in both Ex­ perimental Psychology and Industrial En­ gineering; briefly, Human Factors Engineer­ ing deals with designing 'better' manmachine-environment systems, an area of growing concert] to us a lB n these days, of rapidly-advancing technology. For the past two-and-a-half years, I have been a NASA Fellow in Acoustical Studies. I have done considerable research into the effects of noise and vibration on people and I have published several research papers in this field." On the home front, Harvey is mar­ ried and he and his wife Priscilla have two sons.

Douglas P. Lackey received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University; he is now an assistant professor of philosophy at N.Y.U. He will soon publish his first book.

William P. LaPlant, Jr. works with Wright Paterson Air Force Base as a software com­ puter specialist;’he lives in Fairborn, Ohio.

Henry Richardson, II is in his own busi­ ness in Somerville; he and his wife Nancy have two daughters, Heather and Cindy.

Philip W. Somer and his wife Martha live in Annapolis; Phil is a graduate of Princeton Seminary and now an ordained minister.

F. Bronson Van Wyck is a first-year stu­ dent at the Harvard Business School; he and his wife Mary Lynn live in Cambridge, Mas­ sachusetts.

1965 H. Holt Apgar, Jr. Cleveland Road West, R. D. 2 Princeton New Jersey 08540 At long last, Class Agent Holt Apgar has returned to the States and to firm land, "a civilian again." He wrote the Alumni Office a letter in February, with news about Theo­ dore R. Flagg, Jr. "Ted has been running his own photographic business in Winter Park, Florida, for about a year now. Named Mino­ taur Studios, the establishment came into existence on a pocketful of change, but Ted may be buying out nearby Disney's World in a few years. He mentions that the area is one of the last unspoiled places around; I jfein him in hoping that it stays that way.

The New York area is a stagnant sink by comparison."

Stephen J. Edelstein will graduate from law school in May, be married during the summer and begin law practice in the -local area.

Neil T. Mutchler is teaching math and science in a senior high school in Pelham, Georgia; he and his wife Brenda live in Pelham.

1966 Richard C. Kuzsma 370 Claremont Avenue Montclair New Jersey 07042 Fred S. Gurtman graduated from the Uni­ versity of Pennsylvania in 1970 and is now studying at Georgetown Medical School.

John R. Howald has graduated from Ohio Northern's Law School; he was married last September and he and his wife Alexa live in Wapakoneta, Ohio.

1967 Peter W. Adams ^■6 LaSalle Road Upper Montclair New Jersey 07043 HAPPY 5th REUNION, CLASS OF '67!

ANNUAL ALUMNI DINNER, APRIL 20th.

Class Agent Pete Adams is living at home and studying biology in graduate school.

He has been in touch with many of his classmates and has collected most of the notes which follow: On January 15th, Richard Brightman was married to Natalie Szymans® HeMs now stationed with the Navy and they are living in Norfolk, Virginia.

James S. DeBow is studying economics at Ursinus College.

Michael Nolan, Jr. has begun his studies at Villanova University's Law SchooB Last summer, he received a $9,000 grant from the Prudential Insurance Company and the Hayden Foundation of New York to con­ tinue his work with an experimental school in Newark, dealing with children who are frustrated in the traditional academic realm.

Mike states that "we try to deal with atti­ tudes, trying to change them among, the children, hoping that we can demonstrate to them that education is valuable." Mike was featured in this past fall's Montage.

Craig C. Perry is working in New York, going to Upsala College at nights, studying business; he presently lives in Montclair, but is planning to move soon to New York.

Peter E. Nosco graduated from Columbia University last June; he graduated not only Magna Cum Laude, but he was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa, distinguished by The Taraknath Das Prize in Oriental Studies and by a grant of the Kellett Fellowship to study Japanese intellectual history at Cambridge.

Wrote President William J. McGill of Colum­ bia University, "News of the award to you of a Kellett is reminiscent of those who have gone before and their high standards.

Those of us who have watched you here believe you will equal or perhaps surpass previous levels of achievement.Bhe oppor­ tunity given you is an extraordinary one."

Peter is now at Cambridge under his twoyear Fellowship.

Michael C. Phares graduated from Wash­ ington University in Missouri, with a degree in Classics, and is now pursuing his M.B.A. there in the Graduate School of Business.

Pete writes that Mike "has been working full-time for the past year at a 'progressive' FM rock station and claims that this, with graduate school, leaves him little time for anything else."

Andrew Sussman is in the Peace Corps in Afghanistan, teaching English at a nursing school in Jalalabad, "a beautiful town near the West Pakistan border."

George Wilson is presently working as a reporter for WCAX-TV, a CBS affiliate in Burlington, Vermont. His job includes news reporting, broadcasting and filming. Before that, George worked for an advertising agency in Burlington, marketing to the more

than 10,000 college studentsBn that city.

"He has become increasingly sensitive," Pete writes, "to the inconsistencies and in­ adequacies of present-day education, both at the secondary and university levels.

George feels that education is too s e B contained. He writes, 'Once you learn the world, the world will reward you, but it won't signless you are exposed to more than your own self-contained universe.'"

Robert Wolff graduated from the Univer­ sity of Virginia and, after a summer trip to Europe (indjiding Scandinavia), he is be­ ginning his studies again at the Albany Law School of Union College.

1968 Geoffrey Gregg 305 East 56th Street New York New York 10022 Class Agent Geoff Gregg is studying at the Parsons School of Design in New York.

Robert T. Sessa has been nominated to serve on the Alumni Council.

Burton M. Webb, Geoff Gregg discovered from a phone conversatiollwith Mrs. Webb during the telephone campaign in January, ip "in Coloradolooklng for work."

Two letters, one dated Thanksgiving and the other dated Christmas, were forwarded to the Alumni Office from Yale University, their author, Alan Yamashita, s till in Ghana.

"My job," Alan writes, "is to upgrade the lunch programs of the schools in Northern Ghana . . . classic Savannah, hot and dry . . . trails of dusty potholes for roads . . .

BusmBschools. Corrugated iron roofs, some­ times a floor. A few broken desks w ife pieces of laterite stone for chairs. Mwenty Children huddled together with twenty thou­ sand flies.. Munches. Government surplus wheat boiled with dried milk. A bucket of thick gruel shared by countless small hands . . . convincing underpaid teachers that the children need the food more than they do.

Persuading children to drink milk in a cul­ ture which has never used it. Unable to metabolize it, the children become sick from drinking milk . . . the living theatre of the absurd? . . . the smiles on their faces keep you going."

1970 Peter G. Webb Station # 2 Box 1208, 110 Morrow Amherst Massachusetts 01002 At the end of January, The Montclair Times released the following front-page story: "Nineteen-year-old John C. Biggins this week became the youngest potential candidate in Montclair's Town Commission history. Mr. Biggins received two sets of candidate nominating positions from Town Clerk Mrs. Constance R. Arnott. While he indicated that he was 'undetermined' as to his plans, he said, 'there is a very good pos­ sibility that I will enter the Commission

race.'" In a recent statement to the press about state education, Jay said: "L cannot justify any plan that would remove the ad­ ministration of schools from local control.

We must consider three variables: the qual­ ity, the cost and equitability of opportunity in public education. The Botter decision clearly mandates the State of New Jersey to reclaim its responsibility for public educa­ tion from the municipalities chartered under it: . . . public education m constitutionally an ¡Jnimal of the state.' I believe that the high quality of p u b li® e d u c a tio n « de­ pendent upon local control of the schools . . . and that the state assumption of educa­ tional finances assures the tax payer that an expensive,ifumbersome, inefficient and un­ responsive state bureaucracy will emerge: The long route of tax monies for education, from the locality, up to the state and then dispersed back again to the localHeswconstitutes an administrative nightmare that can oiff|' serve to push the already-high costs of education even highegs' In addition to his active concern for the Montclair community, Jay continues to spearhead the national, bi­ partisan, delegate-selection organization which he helped found, Young Delegates, Inc., acting as both National and Essex County Chairman. The North Jersey Chapter is located in Jersey City.

Bruno V. Manno, Jr. earned highest aca­ demic honors at Franklin and Marshall Col­ lege for studies completed during the 197172 fall semester; he was named to the Honors List as one of 130 students who earned honors for academic achievement.

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1971 Michael W. Lidwin P. O. Box 1771 Williamsburg Virginia 23185 Jeffrey C. Jones, a freshman at HampdenSydney College, has been elected as the Chairman of the Religion Department of the Campus Christian Association; he haBalso started a devotional ministry. "I will have my own radio station next year," Jeff writes, "a one-hour gospel program, featuring ser­ mons and interviews with religious leaders in the area. I am also starting .¡a- Bible Study Group and am involved with the Glee Club and photography as well."

Many alumni visit the Academy during the year. We welcome all alumni and hope that you will drop by whenever you can. Some things have changed, some have stayed as they have always been. It is exciting and we would like to share it with you personally.

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in memoriam We regret to write of the deaths of the fol­ lowing alumni: MS (approximate) William B. Leeds, the tin­ plate 4feir who became a model of the yachting rich in the pre-Depression days, died last January at his estate in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Mr. Leeds was w elR no w n for hiajphilanthropy,-sending a boatload of medlcalltupplies to Pitcairn Island in the days before Pearl Harbor, supporting a flp e r colony in Tahiti, donating an ggHjjre ambulance corps to the British when they were fighting Germany alone. "Their son was born on September 19, 1902, in New York C i|§ " reads the obituary in The New York Times. "When the elder Mr. Leeds died in Paris, 5|n 1908, thej.'-boyHnherited $7 million. MrsWLeeds established a large home for herself and her son iMMontclair, New Jersey. Twenty servant^ g&isiinesses and private detellves watched the bof^s? every movement. Two detectives took him to school at Montclair Academy and to the Episcopal ChurcMon Sundays."

'27' William K. Clayton '34 Lubin Palmer, )r.

'40 M urrayp. Marvin died in mid-January in California. He was | | member of the* Los Angeles law firm of Musick, Peeler and Gar­ rett. Mr. Marvin was an artillery lieutenant in the FirsSA rm y in Europe during the Second World War. He was subsequently, graduated from Princeton University and three years latgir from Harvard Law School.

New Alumni Classified Ad Service At the last meeting of the Montage Editorial Advisory Board, the suggestion was made that the magazine might be of service to alumni by of­ fering free classified ad space to those who are looking for jobs or for employees. Alumni at the Academy have often ex­ pressed an interest in helping other alumni in this regard and so, with this issue, we begin the service and encourage inter­ ested alumni to write the Mont­ age editor of their needs and, briefly, of their backgrounds (if looking for employment).

Although we cannot, of coursé, assure any employment, we very much hope that, by print-' ing the alumnus's needs and place of referral, we can be of some assistance.

Missing and Missed We have lost the following alumni and we miss them. If you know the where­ abouts of any of them, drop us a line.

1903 Cunningham L Elliott G A B Johnson J Marvin C Palmer C Richards A R Schwarz W Sheldon W Spaulding H E 1904 Alpers O Brooks D S Cannon F Cannon S Cornwell G G Dussenbury D Harries H L Imlay T B S Jackson F W Johnson F M McKnight R Merrill E F Riggs O Schwartz R Wilson J W Jr

1905 Atwood E N Baker C Bonbright H Dodd A R Flanagan J R Fuller B R Hallsted S J Handy J M Hess R V H in e lC F Jr Horstmann E Lyon O McKerson B Meyer C H Miller F B Nickerson. B Read W H Richards W Saxton C E Schultz L Swetland M J 1906 Barr J L Bausher C L Jr Buck A F Burnett W C Cahill W L Cornwell H K deLa Guardia A

Edgar C Elliott A M Fields J J III Grant H Handy H C T Malcolmson M McGraw F Morse J |f|agel F Pittman S L Portner H Portner O C Stern K C Strong C Vought D W 1907 Aballi G Baker F A Bausher H A Beattie F K Booth C Burnett J C Campbell A B Connelly J W Correa J Kenney E T Hinney D Littlejohn L Porter F J Reed A RÎker J M Sangster G M Jr Stretch H Weber R West D C Wright S 1908 Behr A M Blood H L Bogardus A G Bristol C F Bristol G Camp P D aviellì G Farrand P Jr Fields R Hansel P Higgins R B Merrill D D Montgomery B L Nagel F C O'Naghten T Partridge W Pearson G M Rickard R D Schwartz E Scott H L Searle H V Simmons L A

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1909 Bissell H E Bohatink R Begreton A Chandler F A Cornwall D V deLima A E deSelding E F Evans L A Gaston G H Jr Gentsch C Gordon W Heuschkel A Keyler G Lobdell E W Lyon W C Merrill T E Murdock R S Murray A Person D V N Rand C H Schmidt E L Smith D R Smith J Taggart D Trevor G W Van Holden F P Walden C F Jr Ward K Ward S R

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