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CONTENTS

1 Brookside School (the Foundation's younger half): Kaleidoscope August, 1972: Presidential incumbent, Richard M. Nixon at the Republican Convention in Miami. Page 4.

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November, 1972: Le Roy Monroe, center, joins Cary White, left, and Ed Van Brunt in retirement. 132 years of service. Page 10.

January, 1973: Career Exposure Night, as juniors and seniors talk with parents and alumni about writing and singing, surgery and building, the courts and the pulpit. Page 12.

Political Involvement '72: a non-partisan effort to tap the energetic resources of three Acad­ emy alumni who were involved in last year's Presidential campaign and election.

The Gallery: country historian Bob Muller '39

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Notes of the School

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Alumni Review Sports Review: Up, Up and Away (said the lion) Notes of the Classes Upcoming issues of the Montage: Further plans for the unification of The Montclair Academy Foundation and The Kimberley School.

Zoning and Life in a Model City.

A plethora of news about alumni gathered dur­ ing the Annual Giving telephone campaign in February.

Expanded student responsibility on School com­ mittees.

What young alumni think of the Academy.

The Head Boys: what are they like today?

Henrik Lerche, our Norwegian American Field Service student.

editor: fritz jellinghaus editorial advisory board: alumni members: waiter j. sperling, jr. m.d. '34, dallas s. townsend, jr. '36 H faculty members: nicholas 1. childs, douglas s. jennings, robert r. just B trustee member: robert d. b. Carlisle Design and Printing: Heden-Livingston, Inc.

(Ed. Note: We apologize to the readers of the Montage tor the delay in mailing this issue. The Montclair Academy Foun­ dation is moving in a variety of exciting directions and this magazine is now back to its regular schedule).

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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.

On a Monday afternoon at Brookside School several weeks ago, if you stood in the hallway outside the kindergarten room, you could feel at once all the drama in the electric mood of this marketplace of things to do. You could hear the crash of the wooden blocks of a half-built pyramid that collapsed to the floor, accompanied by prolonged groaning and a quick rustling to start the building again. You could see these young children painting, playing the piano and trying on different hats, a fireman's,, a doctor's, a fancy lady's, an old man's. The purpose is to be challenged by everything, to see what can be done with all that's here. Call it role playing, call it a composite of boys and girls acting out a lot of crazy and serious feelings; it's no doubt both and perhaps a good bit more that only they can really hear and feel in a marketplace which truly belongs to them.

There's a drama to their noise in the kindergarten as there is on this same Monday to their quiet down the hall in the Library, Brookside's focal point, where they read and write essays; and downstairs in the science lab where they inspect under microscopes the bodies of insects they have collected on their walk by the brook; and in the music workshop where they listen to records for the sounds of the orchestra's violins.

Brookside's varied and extensive facilities are used in­ ventively in the many different ways these children learn.

Outside in nice weather, a teacher draws a large clock in chalk on the sidewalk and asks pairs of children to position themselves to make it seven o'clock, four forty-five, a quarter to one. In several of the classrooms with televisions, the students watch and discuss the inauguration of an American President, the funeral of another, the signing of peace treaties and a variety of educational network shows about growing up, living in Africa, being a doctor or a

construction worker, about breaking an arm or taking a trip alone. In other rooms, they make their own instruments, hear concerts and perform their own; in the art room, they give voices to shapes and colors with string, clay, wood, wire and wax, with paint and charcoals. Outside, they play soccer, baseball, field hockey and tennis and often swim in the pool. And on some days they travel to the fire depart­ ment, the museum or the zoo, go skiing on a winter after­ noon or in the spring to study the shoreline ecosystem of plants and animals (one of which studies produced their own film for Project Earth, sponsored by National Educational Television).

This is a school where the noisy and quiet moods of children are respected, indeed cultivated, for their enjoy­ ment, relaxation and creative potential. Students are watched carefully, their fundamental skills — reading, thinking, understanding, expressing — are analyzed and their ad­ justment and self-respect are appraised and encouraged be­ cause they will learn more from success than from failure.

They'll succeed far more than they'll fail. This is a school of remarkably full and active days, startling in its activity and in the vibrance on the faces of children whose levels of frustration are mitigated, if not often overcome, by the feverishness of their constant motion and accomplishment.

This is also an atmosphere of close relationships between the students and their teachers, men and women whose interest, fascination and faith in children and the vigor of young imaginations form the basis of an open, uninhibited and challenging learning experience.

At its simplest, Brookside's philosophy is a love for the spirit of children and faith in their capacities, a receptive enthusiasm for the vastness of their resources and their potentials. Each child's development is motivated by a

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sensitive and highly creative faculty whose respect for fun is as serious as their care for the gradual shaping of habits, attitudes and values, self-respect, confidence and the freedom of thought and expression.

Such is Brookside, a careful balance between traditional structure, students as a group listening to their teachers, and a more open atmosphere, students directing themselves, their teachers as facilitators. There's an interwoven mixture of firm guidance and encouraged independence. And there's the inevitable joy of discovery.

But it hasn't always been this way at Brookside. Indeed, it's been a long time in the making, nurtured by years of encounters between students and their teachers, adminis­ trators, parents and the many friends of the school, all in a remarkably open and friendly environment. Brookside was founded by a group of community parents who, in 1925, a quarter of a century before joining The Montclair Foun­ dation, were deeply interested in the progressive education of the day; not so progressive that structure and discipline were abandoned, but enough so to achieve a healthy medium as a pioneer of new teaching methods and philos­ ophies. As a non-profit institution, Brookside was owned by its parents, men and women who devoted enormous energy to the school, painting, repairing and planting, working together on educational attitudes and practices.

Such was the groundwork of the school which »opened in September, 1925, with thirty girls and boys in kindergarten through the fifth grade, all of them housed in a Victorian mansion and carriage house. Brookside grew rapidly in its first five years, to an enrollment of seventy children in 1926 and, by 1930, to more than a hundred students and to the completion of a new classroom building. Twenty years later, in 1950, Brookside opened under the aegis of The Montclair Academy Foundation, itself founded two years before, and welcomed a group of boys who had formerly been a part of the Academy's lower school, welcoming their teachers and the new Board of Trustees. Since then, Brookside has more than returned its share of boys to the Academy: in the last decade, the large majority of Brookside sixth grade boys has entered the Academy's seventh grade (107 of the 133 2

who have graduated since 1967). This is by no means an automatic promotion; Brookside boys have been evaluated equally with applicants from other schools. Yet such high percentages of matriculation into the Academy's seventh grade would seem to speak well for the enthusiasm which Brookside students feel for the Academy and for the faith their parents have in The Foundation and the solidarity of its standards and goals.

But at the time of Brookside's incorporation under The Foundation, the school was not in the best condition; its enrollment was declining (and would decline even further by 1958) and its facilities were beginning to disintegrate. A special Brookside committee, composed of trustees and parents, was formed to analyze those problems and to determine the direction Brookside should take. It was finally decided that The Montclair Academy Foundation had a responsibility to the community's elementary education and that all energies would be devoted to the resurrection of the school. There was no doubt then, regardless of the physical and enrollment declines, that Brookside was wellestablished and well-known for its educational style, its humane and warm atmosphere and the gentleness by which its administrators and faculty lived.

And so this resurrection began in the late 1950s, with the construction of a new wing in 1959, adding seven class­ rooms, the razing of the old buildings which originally served as the school in 1925, and finally, in 1968, the construction of a major, modern extension, more classrooms, art and science workshops, the diningroom, kitchen and the primary resource center, the library.

This last extension was begun several years after Brook­ side gained a new Headmistress, Martha C. Johnson, who came to the school in 1962 and will step down from admin­ istrative leadership of the school this June. For elementary education, this has been a decade of change in the roles of students and schools across the country, a decade of enormous development and, to some degree, of liberation.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that Brookside has grown to reflect many of the best of these changes. In the last ten years, the physical plant and facilities have been

modernized and expanded to their most flexible and creative use, the enrollment has risen to two hundred and thirty-one boys and girls of varied religious and ethnic backgrounds, the quality and diversity of the academic programs have grown with intelligence and imagination, the philosophical attitudes, principles and direction have been put forth soundly and the genuine faith in people s interest to care more for life than simply living it has still been maintained.

As The Montclair Academy Foundation enters further into its unification plans with The Kimberley School and as Brookside begins next fall with a new Headmaster, Rudolph H. Deetjen, Jr., there is no question that the qualities in­ herent to Brookside's success are also endemic to the lives of those who love the school, its parents, teachers and trustees, its many friends, and that the natural development of the school in the future is assured guidance by their firm and sensitive principles.

Perhaps the best final reference to Brookside should be to the kaleidoscope; because, unquestionably, the school does encourage among its students and teachers the broadest variety of interaction, learning and self-expression within the shapes and colors of many different experiences.

Martha C. Johnson, Brookside's Headmistress for the last ten years, graduated from Greenwich Academy as a young girl, studied for a year in schools in Paris and Florence and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College in 1935. She later received a Norrie Fellowship for research in Dutchess County, New York, which led to extensive study on the impact of growing suburbia on rural families and the publi­ cation of her book, " Middle County." Soon thereafter, she began studies for a master of education degree at New York University's Graduate School of Education and had nearly completed those studies when the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor forced her husband, a Washington diplomat, back to Washington and later, in 1946, to China. Mrs. John­ son returned to America in 1948 and began teaching at the Low-Heywood School in Connecticut in 1951, where she stayed as Head of the Lower School until leaving in 1960 for two years as Lower School Head for the Bedford-Rippowam School in New York State.

Headmistress Martha Johnson: Elementary education has changed enormously in the last decade; we have observed several important trends which have had a substantial impact on America's elementary schools: 1. Children are better informed and more socially aware than they were ten years ago. Their academic competence and social awareness sometimes make them impatient with routine chores (both intellectual and physical). Accustomed to the "quiche lorraine" of such media as Cousteau's underwater photography, our young gourmets are quickly bored by the plain potatoes of percentages and spelling. The answer may be more independent work, planned to challenge each student.

2. The knowledge explosion forces educators to re­ cognize the hopelessness of memorization as a prime educational objective. Even teachers must each year master new technologies, such as making video tapes of educational television programs and sound tracks for 8mm films. Undaunted by overwhelming masses of new information, we agree that our first challenge is still to teach children how to think, learn, teach themselves, make critical judgments and adapt to new environments.

3. Teams have replaced the lone eagles. In the past ten years, we have recognized that the days of Horatio Alger, Albert Einstein and Charles Lindbergh are over.

The skills of group communication and cooperation are essential. Schools are reevaluating marks and prizes, which often overlook collaborative skills so necessary to future leaders. Part of fostering such skills is a new emphasis on the recognition of feelings as the first realities in human relationships. Today's elementary children are taught to sense each other's feelings to gain access to their own sensibilities.

4. Along with the emphasis on group work has come the challenge of understanding the value of individualized learning. Independent schools have always prided themselves on "attention to the in­ dividual." But we have noticed that small classes do not necessarily quarantee the responsive environment required for developing the abilities to think, learn and collaborate. Have we been more inclined to train children to obey and win, rather than to innovate, create and question? We at Brookside are convinced that a child learns best and internalizes concepts most permanently when he or she is genuinely involved with finding out what he wants to know. Therefore, our goal is to design the school day to help him do so. The struggle within the elementary schools today pivots around techniques of balancing individual freedom to learn and the discipline which is a part of group living.

See page 11 for the story of Mr. Deetjen's appointment.

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POLITICS 72 in retrospect With the end last November of another election year and the subsiding of the frenetic national fever, America seemed to blend wholly back into itself again and lose the intensity of segmentation so often delineated by political attitudes.

Nonetheless, though most severe quadrennially, America re­ mains a highly politicized culture and one in which political acumen and commentary draw widespread public attention.

Thus, this Montage feature: a non-partisan effort to tap the energetic resources of three Academy alumni who were in­ volved in last year's politics and the summer conventions, as anchor man, photographer and volunteer worker.

Dallas Townsend, Class of 1936 and Academy Outstanding. Alum­ nus in 1970, Anchor Man for CBS radio's World News Round-up, covering both party conventions since 194&.

Dallas Townsend: Now that President Nixon has embarked on his second term and the 1972 campaign is receding into the past, it might help to take a backward look before plunging into the rigors of the 1976 campaign (starting any day now).

Repeatedly, over the past several years, we have been told that the American political system is in a state of transformation. For an even longer period, it has been a political article of faith that the national convention as an institution is being streamlined.

Like all cliches, these two are in some measure correct.

But in both cases, some notable exceptions must be stated.

First as to the transformation. There are grounds for believing that there is less to it than meets the eye. In the initial flush of excitement over what happened at the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, many people thought they saw the New Politics rising like a phoenix from the ashes of the Old. It is true that more young people attended as delegates than ever before — more delegates wearing less, more women, more members of minority groups, more first-timers among the delegates, far fewer of the old-line political strongmen and party leaders. In that sense, certainly, this was new-style politics.

To state the case as briefly and baldly as possible, how­ ever, this was as much of a controlled convention as any on record. Once the California challenge had been settled on opening night, the McGovern forces ran things almost entirely their own way. Controversial proposed changes in the platform, on such matters as abortion and homo­ sexuality, were rejected one after the other, because 4

Don Mulford, Class of 1935, President and Co-Publisher of The Montclair Times, also covering both conventions since 1948, more recently through the camera eye.

lay Biggins, Class of 1970, Young Delegates, Inc. (Founder and National Chairman), National Youth Caucus (N. I. Vice Chairman), League of New Voters, N. ]. Citizens for McGovern-Shrlver (Essex County Field Director).

Photographs by Don Mulford '35

McGovern's strategists felt they might damage his campaign.

Many McGovern delegates supported these ideas, but they obeyed orders and voted against them.

There were clear signs of rebellion during the voting on the vice-presidential nomination, especially among wortien delegates. Sissy Farenthold polled a surprisingly large number of votes, and literally dozens of non­ candidates received support. Roger Mudd may never be the same. At one point it even appeared possible that no one would win a majority on the first ballot. But even there, the McGovern people finally exerted enough muscle to make sure that Thomas Eagleton was nominated without having to undergo the embarrassing experience of a second ballot. (Remember Eagleton?)

And just as the Democratic Convention in July was controlled, so too was the Republican Convention in August.

With the incumbent Richard Nixon running for a second term on what seemed like a wave of strong support, amidst a hurricane of unrest among the Democrats, this was natural and inevitable. In this connection I often think of the wellordered Republican convention which renominated Dwight Eisenhower at the Cow Palace in 1956. Surely no one could detect many signs of a political updating among the Republicans in 1972.

It seems to me, in short, that the transformation so widely discussed these days arises mainly out of the agony that has been wrenching the Democratic party since the disaster of 1968. If the long-term result really does mean greater participation by the rank and file in party affairs, and more intense interest among young people (and their seniors), I'm all for it.

From both a professional and personal standpoint, I am equally for a streamlining of the convention process. But here too, in my opinion, there has been more talk than action.

The Democrats, it is true, did remove a lot of outworn frills and frippery. They prohibited the "spontaneous" demonstrations which have traditionally occurred on nominating night. Their nominating and seconding speeches were admirably brief.

On the other hand, they never even remotely met their owh schedules. Every single session opened late and began with no less than an hour of utterly meaningless trivia. The proceedings were punctuated throughout with lengthy stage-waits and superfluous addresses. The debates on plat-

form planks and credentials challenges seemed interminable.

I shall never forget staggering out of Convention Hall at seven o'clock one hot and muggy morning, after a session that ran all night without a break.

The worst of it, from the point of view of both the Democrats and the networks, was that so much prime listening and viewing time was consumed in secondary matters. As a result, some of the most important and dramatic moments of the convention occurred when most of the audience was sound asleep. So much time was taken up with preliminaries before the vice-presidential ballot that Senator Kennedy did not make his show-stopping ap­ pearance until well past midnight; and Senator McGovern did not begin his acceptance speech until 2:45 A.M. Thus this first great opportunity for the Democratic presidential candidate to address a really massive nation-wide audience was needlessly lost. This is streamlining? The same thing happened at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia back in 1948, long before anybody was worrying about prime time.

The Republicans, of course, did it much better, largely because they were not faced with the problems which faced the Democrats— problems which contributed materially to President Nixon's landslide victory in November.

Clearly, more streamlining and transformation are needed, in all aspects of the political system. Both processes, how­ ever, are running up against the hard realities of practical politics and human nature— neither of which is likely to change in a hurry.

"Some of the most important and dramatic moments of the (Dem­ ocratic) Convention occurred when most of the audience was sound asleep."

Jay Biggins: Political involvement in America is undergoing some very strenuous and necessary growing pains. While there has been an increasing "ground level" influx of new people into the political system, there has also been an ironic and startlingly intense degree of cynicism among young people and in our whole social system. These seemingly incom­ patible circumstances are indicative of the complexity of the changes which are occurring in American politics and of those which must occur. The American party system itself is crucial to the peaceful deliberation over sharp ideological differences; and any trends which affect that form for social debate necessarily affect our lives.

The American party system was developed in the second half of the 19th century as a conduit for political patronage.

The functions which our parties were then designed to perform do not meet the demands put upon them today.

The party structures have been increasingly called upon to act as the secure framework within which the great issues of the day might be resolved; this is a function they must perform, but one for which they are least capable. Our parties must become more ideologically inclined.

Besides becoming more ideologically oriented, the parties must undergo a change in definition and development of constituencies, broadening their popular bases and develop­ ing a "between elections" issue-oriented membership which seeks to perpetuate and expand itself. The time-honored and jealously protected hierarchies within the party struc­ tures feel threatened by these changes. However, parties will always function as conduits for political patronage and many aspects of their physical structures can function as they are. It is the "who gets what?" and "who's doing the giving?" questions which will require redefinition. It does seem that, if the parties cannot bend to the demands of the future, they will fall into obscurity as a lost footnote in American history. With the effects of the mass media on the ever-present tendencies toward demagoguery, the more issue-oriented party structures may be the only insurance against a complete departure from substance and the loss of our politics to the level of empty rhetoric and demago­ guery "without redeeming social value."

At the Republican Convention, Presidential Advisor on Foreign Affairs, Henry Kissinger, with actress Ruta Lee.

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High-hatted Nixon delegate.

Our task is to discover our direction and seize upon the opportunity to channel, cultivate and sophisticate the energies of social change, with a rational and deliberate plan.

It was into this scheme and upon this thesis that my own political involvement began six years ago. It has been an attempt to contribute to the plan of taking the reins of inevitable and necessary change.

My own experience extends from involvement with voter registration through delegate and National Committee selection reform, from reapportionment to election law. All of these processes and institutions have been sorely in need of "fresh blood" and progressive yet rational per­ spectives.

The first task was to broaden the electoral franchise to include the young and to try to swell the registration rolls with new voters. Legions of volunteers were dispatched to schools and factories, to the streets and beaches, everywhere that unregistered Americans could be found. Prohibitive reg­ istration laws, peculiar to each state, had to be challenged.

The second phase of this metamorphosis involved a more defined and sophisticated level of activism: the "ground level" party decision-making apparatus of the national con­ ventions. The laws governing the selection of delegates and alternates to the conventions, also peculiar to each state, limited participation and excluded all but those party regu­ lars with the most seniority but least authority, encouraged procedures which choked debate and muzzled minority opinion. The old methods of delegate selection maintained the historical concept of the delegate as a no longer useful party worker who has been given his political "gold watch."

This motley collection of political has-beens was shep­ herded by cadres of political brass. The selection pro­ cedures and the national conventions themselves were mere floor shows to legitimize prearranged decisions.

The conventions must be the ultimate and final decision­ making body of the parties. Their mandates, in terms of platforms, rules and credentials, are delivered every four years. The national committees, the interim administrative

bodies, must then perform the functions of translating those quadrennial policies into day-to-day decisions. There­ fore, the procedures by which national committee members are selected and the composition of each of those com­ mittees must also change to reflect the demands of the day. They have to be concerned with questions of pro­ portional representation; that is, that the ratios of repre­ sentation on the committees be commensurate with the ratios of population and each party's strength from state to state. Member selection and final composition of these committees must also be concerned with the questions of minority representation, female participation and the re­ presentation of other previously underrepresented con­ stituencies. If the committees are to legislate for the activi­ ties of the parties, they must structure themselves along functional lines; this is but another facet of reform.

My own political involvement has lately been with the Democratic Party, an admission which I hope will make my opinions no less useful. The Democratic Party seems to have been awarded the dubious honor of carrying the burden of the reforms examined above. It is natural that the Republican Party would stage the floor show brand of con­ vention last August as a consequence of their incumbency in the White House. But, even as a Democrat, my reason will not allow me to say that the Democrats have any monopoly on "right;" rather, that the circumstances have played a major role in determining that the Democrats be the first beneficiaries (or victims) of inevitable change.

These reforms, I contend, are inevitable and desirable, albeit insecure. Yet, the prospect of the revitalizing in­ novations in party process has been sufficient enough to provôke my sixteen hour per day commitment for the last two years. These same prospects of reform have lured thousands of newly involved Americans into party parti­ cipation, though there is skepticism about the resilience of the parties and the persistence of their new members. But, in time of change, doubt too is inevitable and desirable.

Change on all levels has been met with fierce

Liberal anti-war priest and Massachusetts Congressman, Father Drinan, in heated discussion with New York delegate Bella Abzug at the Democratic Convention.

Feminist Gloria Steinern at the Democratic Conven­ tion.

opposition. Considering this conflict, it is important to remember that, with the infusion of "new blood" and new ideas, the "regulars" must be welcome. It would be a mistake to expel older party members, inculcated with a sense of nostalgic memory of what the parties used to be, because with them would go the sage advice and experi­ ence which has kept us afloat for so long.

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THE GaLl ERy robert h. muller 39 country historian If you drive out from the crowded and busy Jersey suburbs of New York City, northwest for fifty miles towards Pennsylvania, across the hard traveled highways and past the congested rows of gas stations, hamburger stops, motels and real estate offices, if you drive northwest from the City for an hour, you may find Bob Muller driving his jeep through the woods and across the fields on the quiet hundred acres of the more than century-old farm he has brought back to life in the last decade. It has been a hobby, this rejuvenation of the old farm, a prospective museum, and of an old way of life when our forebears were more self-reliant, closer to the inherent needs and simple elements of survival, when we made more than we bought. It is familiar enough to Bob that, the farther we have come from this direct process of making and using, the more involved have become our values, attitudes and concerns; that the less we come to be interested in the basic sources of life, the more distorted can be our view of reality and the more likely our belief that food comes from the deep freeze and that happiness is a purchasable commodity. And Bob, through the energetic reconstruction of his family's old home, has developed not only a working farm, but also an extensive library of books describing activities and styles of living which we have long forgotten, together with an exciting museum and a symbol of the history of how we once lived.

Such farms are not easily developed or maintained, even as hobbies; Bob is not a gentleman farmer. It has been laborious and a project which Bob, his wife Joan and their two sons have worked hard at during summer vacations and on Bob's weekends free from his job as Director of Student and Employee Health Services at Montclair's Mountainside Hospital and as one of the three staff physicians of the Montclair school system. It is not unusual, then, to find him working on his farm.

If you ride up the long driveway and around the large white main house, you will face the farm, its fourteen buildings standing against the side of the distant hills, some of them in the midst of flowers, fruit and vegetable gardens and others rising one above the other on the slope which leads to the hay fields overlooking much of the farm, the mountains, valleys and the lake beyond. You may find Bob in the small building, the first museum which he rebuilt and completely refinished, with its two small windows, one looking down toward the pool, the other across the vegetable gardens and the field where the sheep are grazing. In here, in neat, clean and

carefully placed rows, are many of the small tools: molding planes and saws, branding irons, lanterns, ice choppers, grain cutters, wood shovels and husking pegs, animal bells, sauerkraut pounders and butter churns, apple presses, ox yokes, traps for eel, rabbit and fox, tools for measuring, cutting, leather working and wool weaving. Bob knows the history of each of these tools, their functions and how to use each of them. Along the back wall are several books: Barn Plans and Out Buildings; How to Harvest, Store, Ship and Use Ice; Sheep, Swine and Poultry; Gardening; and Saddlery.

Down the hill is the spring- and smoke-house, the original source of and the site for pickling, smoking and preserving meats. On stone ledges and shelves against the cold wall are numerous pieces of stoneware: the jugs, butter churns and crocks once used here. And back up the hill to the main house is the Tap Room, which Bob built from his own designs, with old stone and dark wood and shelves behind the bar with old decoys, bottles and mugs. Further up the hill, past the woodshed used to store wood and garden tools, past the cow barn, horse stable and milk house, is the blacksmith

shop, with its brick forge, ancient leather bellows, its coal box, post drill, anvils, hammers and tongs; again, the tools are all here, Bob knows the history of each and one strike of a thick wood match starts this 1840's blacksmith shop into motion. Upstairs is the spinning and weaving shop and here are a loom and spinning wheels for flax and wool. Across from these shops is the future wagon shop and further back down the hill is the corn crib, then the tractor house and finally the main barn, hand-hewn and rich with the smell of hay and old wood. Here are the heavy machines, for blowing the chaff from grain, shelling corn, processing flax to make linen; the farm wagons, buckboards and sleighs; above are nine hundred bales of hay which Bob has helped cut to feed his forty Dorset sheep. There is an obvious sense of the past here, contrived because the bones have been dug up, the pieces collected from country sales and auctions and antique shows, but still natural because they have been returned to their original usefulness. The farm may someday be enshrined as a museum, time halted in early Americana. But for the moment it is a working farm and the Mullers are there working.

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NOTES OF THE SCHOOL

LEROY AND CARY

qualities that cannot be taken lightly

As the Academy nears the end of its eighty-sixth academic year, so too ends the year which saw the retirement of two gentlemen whose combined decades of service almost reached a century and whose love for the School they helped motivate had the kind of impact which, for many boys, made going to the Academy far more than academic.

This near-century of service came to an end this year with the retirement of dining room headwaiter Le Roy Monroe and maintenance worker Cary White, who together gave ninety-six years of their active lives to the Academy, sturdy and in good health, taking with them the love of current students and teachers who had more recently come to know them and taking the kinds of memories of the Academy's eighty-six years which few others have.

As vast changes took place at the School in the last fifty years and particularly in the last decade, as the physical complexion altered with the construction of the new Academy and as the faces of students changed somewhat from year to year, there were few indeed who watched this growth so persistently and who were such an integral part of it as Le Roy and Cary. Their service, their remarkably loyal, devoted, tireless work, their thousands and thousands of days of relationships with friends — these are not qual­ ities which can be taken lightly, least of all by any school which values its good people as the Academy does.

And so last June Cary retired after forty-four years of service in the maintenance department, forty-four years of holding the old buildings together and of keeping the new buildings of a far more complicated campus in perfect condition: "holding" and "keeping" are rather inadequate words to describe the varieties of know-how and skill which came so easily to Cary.

Several months later, Le Roy retired after fifty-two years in the old and new dining room as headwaiter and almost two years since the Alumni Association honored him as an Honorary Alumnus. Fifty-two years of seeing that hundreds of boys were fed their lunches (and all their meals during the boarding days), that parents, alumni, trustees and all friends of the School had the coffee, tea and cookies for their meetings, years and years of early rising in the morning and often late hours into the night. The best restaurants and hotels in the world can't boast of this kind of service.

Both of these men spent most of their lives working with Montclair Academy; each with a different personality and effect on the many people they knew. Cary, quiet, shy, soft-speaking and Le Roy, bursting into laughter, his eyes wide. But there was much to these men — they were very different and, too, they were very alike, unequalled in their years of working for a School which they were proud of and which was so proud of them.

Cary White, right, being honored last fall and presented with a photograph of the old school by Headmaster Phil Anderson, left, and Board Chairman Bud Redpath.

LeRoy Monroe, right, being presented with the Honorary Alumnus Award in 7977 by the late Arthur A. Goldman '25, 1972 Outstand­ ing Alumnus.

Michelangelo had his Sistine Chapel. Le Roy had his dining

Leonardo Da Vinci had his Mona Lisa. Cary had his boiler

rudy deetjen '50 brooksides new headmaster Assuming in July the post of Head­ master of The Montclair Academy Foun­ dation's elementary school, Brookside, will be Rudolph H. Deetjen, Jr., Acad­ emy alumnus in the Class of 1950. Rudy has long been a friend of The Founda­ tion and has especially served it recently as Trustee and for many years as Alumni Association Class Agent and Alumni Council member. Rudy and his family come to Brookside after seventeen years at Greenwich Country Day School in Connecticut, where Rudy has served as Head of the Middle School and Assistant to the Headmaster.

In their February announcement to all friends of the Academy and Brookside, Peter N. Perretti, Jr. '49, President of the Board of Trustees, and Philip L. Ander­ son, Academy Headmaster and Admin­ istrative Head of The Foundation, de­ scribed the Board's faith in Rudy's edu­ cational background and potential. "We are most confident that Mr. Deetjen's leadership will continue to reflect the same sensitive and genuine concern which has long characterized Brookside and, indeed, his own educational impact at Greenwich Country Day. . . . We look forward with enthusiasm to the future development of The Foundation and feel assured that Mr. Deetjen's personal and educational relationships with our schools will be instrumental to this exciting development."

Rudy began his seventeen years at Greenwich Country Day in 1956 as a sixth grade teacher. In 1961 he became Head of the Middle School and, retain­ ing several of his courses, additionally assumed the duties of administration for 270 boys and girls in grades 3 through 6, as well as responsibilities with parents, the guidance of student and faculty affairs and curriculum de­ velopment. More recently, he became Assistant to the Headmaster and under­

took additional responsibilities for inter­ disciplinary curriculum development throughout the School and for alumni relations.

Rudy has been extensively involved in community affairs and has served on associations concerned with education, health, young people's development, music, religious education and conser­ vation; he has also maintained a strong affiliation for twenty-six years with Camp Robin Hood in Maine, as coun­ selor and associate director.

Rudy's energetic involvement with the Academy and Brookside has its roots in the founding and early development of The Foundation by his father, the late Rudolph H. Deetjen, Sr., Academy alum­ nus in the Class of 1915 and first Presi­ dent of the Board of Trustees in 1948.

Rudy's mother currently resides in Glen Ridge and his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F. Schlobohm, Jr., live in Montclair and have a son, Rudy, who is a senior at the Academy.

After his Cum Laude graduation from the Academy in 1950, Rudy attended the University of Vermont, from which he graduated in 1955, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and with military distinction. At both the Acad­ emy and the University of Vermont, he was active in literary, musical, dramatic, governmental and student activities.

Since college graduation, Rudy has pur­ sued graduate courses in educational administration at Columbia's Teachers' College and he continues to participate in in-service and summer workshops for independent school administrators.

Rudy and his wife, the former Patricia Ann Blun of Rye, New York, have two sons, ages eight and six.

venereal disease seminars In addition to its well-received Career Exposure Program, the Fathers' Commit­ tee also initiated late last fall two semi­ nars on venereal disease, the first for 11th and 12th grade students and the second for all interested Academy parents. The seminars were conducted by Fathers' Committee member and noted pedia­ trician, Donald P. Beirne, and were ar­ ranged by the Committee and the School because of their recognition of the growing national concern with the epidemic of venereal disease and the need, particularly among young people, to understand this widespread health

problem, its causes® symptoms and cures.

Dr. Beirne's credentials are extensive and varied. He is President of the Med­ ical Staff of St. Mary's Hospital (Orange, N.J.), Vice President of the East Orange Board of Health, Assistant Clinical Pro­ fessor of Pediatrics at the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry, Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics, Fellow of the American Acad­ emy of Pediatrics and Director of the East Orange Health Department's venereal disease program.

In his presentation to the junior and senior students and later to the parents, Dr. Beirne spoke of the history of syphilis and gonorrhea, the prevalence of widespread epidemics which struck down vast numbers of people before medical and social understanding were even adequate enough to slightly curb this rampant disease — and long before the current public knowledge and partial acceptance of less inhibited, less guiltful sexual ways of life. Indeed, that as sexual behavior has become more open and free, more conducive to the com­ plexities of emotions, to pregnancy and to disease, so too have discussion and treatment become less guiltful, more open and free.

It was with this hope in mind that the Academy and its Fathers' Committee designed the seminars. There is no ques­ tion that venereal disease is a contro­ versial subject; but the controversy arises not over the need for immediate treatment, rather over the choice of trying to eliminate the causes of in­ herent emotional complexities, preg­ nancy, and disease, or accepting them by the adaptability implicit in pre-marital sex counselling, liberal abortion laws and venereal disease clinics. Can and should the family unit be expected to exert a tighter moral rein over its chil­ dren's sexual behavior? Or should sex­ ual behavior be liberated from its his­ toric taboos, from guilt and shame, and people be taught to exert a greater personal and social responsibility for themselves and their sexual partners?

These were some of the thoughts no doubt generated by the venereal dis­ ease seminars. As part of his presenta­ tion, Dr. Beirne showed a film acquired through the New Jersey Medical Society, entitled "A Quarter of a Million Teen­ agers," statistics high enough to more than justify the growing national con­ cern for this epidemic 11

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Around and around we go and where we'll stop nobody knows. Such might be the confused feeling of the Academy's juniors and seniors and most young people their age, looking around the border of this page, considering the multiplicity of careers and their own continually expanding interests.

Although grossly premature to ex­ pect young students to inhibit the pleasurable experimentation with learning by the pressure of profes­ sional choices, the Academy has felt a responsibility to at least expose older boys to a variety of ideas and career possibilities. Such was the rea­ son behind the second Career Ex­ posure Night held last January by the Fathers' Committee and the Alumni Council for the juniors and seniors and interested college alumni. Fifty parents, alumni and several faculty members conducted informal conver­ sations in a free form marketplace in the dining room where the stu­ dents wandered frpm table to table, talking about anything and everything from writing to singing, to surgery and building, from courts to the pul­ pit, psychiatry to international diplo­ macy, television and radio to city design and environmental research, from banking to real estate.

The program was under the direc­ tion of Fathers' Committee Chairman William P. Breen and Alumni Council member Bogart F. Thompson '35.

Headmaster Philip L. Anderson, who has strongly supported the program for two years, spoke of its merits.

"If formal education is a springboard for the development of interests and talents and for the assumption of responsible service," he said, "then we feel most seriously that our boys should be aware of the enormous range of avenues which they may pursue/' ^

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trustee elections At the annual organizational meeting earlier this year of the Board of Trustees of The Montclair Academy Foundation, all but one of the major executive offices changed hands and two new members were inducted. Former President Fred­ erick L. Redpath assumed the Chairman­ ship, succeeding James S. Vandermade who continues as a member of the Board. Filling Mr. Redpath's post as President is Peter N. Perretti, Jr. whose former office as Vice President was filled by the previous Secretary Daniel E. Emerson; the newly-elected Secretary is S. Thomas Aitken. Remaining as Treas­ urer is George P. Egbert, Jr. The two new members of the Board are Peter W. Adams and R. Bruce McBratney.

New Board of Trustees President, Peter N. Perretti, )r., Class of '49.

Mr. Redpath assumes the Chairman­ ship of The Montclair Academy Founda­ tion after four years as its President. He is a graduate of Princeton University and is currently the Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee of the University's Alumni Association; he is also a member of St. Luke's Church in Montclair. Mr. Redpath is General Manager of the Edi­ torial Services Division of Time Inc. and lives in Upper Montclair with his wife; they have six children and their second eldest son, Peter, is a senior at the Academy.

Mr. Redpath succeeds James S. Van­ dermade as Chairman. Mr. Vandermade, an alumnus of the Academy Class of 1935, is a graduate of Princeton Uni­ versity and of the Harvard Business School. In his first year as Board Chair­ man in 1966, he was selected by the Academy Alumni Association as the Outstanding Alumnus of the year. He

was recently elected a Trustee of the Montclair Art Museum. Mr. Vandermade and his wife live in Montclair and have two children, a daughter and a son, James, Jr., who is an alumnus of the Academy in the Class of 1966.

Filling Mr. Redpath's former post as President of the Board is Peter N. Per­ retti, Jr., Academy alumnus in the Class of 1949. Mr. Perretti graduated from Colgate University and later from the Cornell University School of Law. He is a partner in the Newark law firm of Riker, Danzig, Scherer & Brown. He and his wife live in Montclair and have three children, a daughter and two sons: Peter who graduated from the Academy in 1972 and Earl who is in the Academy's 11th Grade.

Former Board Secretary Daniel E. Emerson assumes the post of Vice Pres­ ident. Mr. Emerson is an Academy alumnus in the Class of 1942 and has held various positions with the Alumni Association, particularly as its President in 1955 and 1956. He is a graduate of Cornell University and has done exten­ sive graduate study in business adminis­ tration at George Washington Univer­ sity, New York University and Boston University, as well as participating in a study program at the University of Penn­ sylvania's Institute of Humanistic Studies.

Mr. Emerson has been President and Treasurer of the Lackawanna Cornell Club, is a member of the United States Chamber of Commerce Communications Committee and of the Community Con­ gregational Church in Short Hills. He also holds several honorary member­ ships in prominent electrical engineer­ ing fraternities. Mr. Emerson is a Vice President of AT&T Co. and lives in Short Hills with his wife; they have three daughters.

Succeeding Mr. Emerson as Secretary is S. Thomas Aitken, Academy alumnus in the Class of 1956. Mr. Aitken is a graduate of Hamilton College and of the Amos Tuck School of Dartmouth College.

He is Vice President of the Academy's Alumni Association and a Board mem­ ber of Clara Maass Memorial Hospital.

Mr. Aitken is Vice President of Peoples

National Bank and Trust Company and lives with his wife and two children in Upper Montclair.

Inducted as a new member of the Board of Trustees is Peter W. Adams, alumnus of the Class of 1967. Mr. Adams was active in school activities at the Academy, particularly as a student gov­ ernment leader, editor and athlete. He was honored at his graduation with the Faculty Head Boy Award and with the Princeton Alumnus Award. He is a stu­ dent at City College in New York, pur­ suing a doctorate in marine biology and, with a teaching assistantship, con­ ducting courses in biology and genetics.

During the summer, he has done re­ search at the College's Marine Microbial Ecology Lab. Mr. Adams is also in charge of the Biology Department's darkroom and serves on the Executive Council for Biology at the City Univer­ sity of New York. He is a graduate of Trinity College and lives in Upper Montclair.

Also inducted as a new Board mem­ ber is R. Bruce McBratney. Mr. McBrat­ ney graduated from Franklin and Mar­ shall College and shortly thereafter be­ came affiliated with the Wall Street investment firm of Wood, Struthers & Winthrop, of which he is now President.

He is a life-long resident of Montclair and has been involved as an elder of the Central Presbyterian Church and as past president of the Red Cross. He is also a Vice President of the Board of Trustees at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina and a member of the Boards of the Milbank Memorial Fund, the United Presbyterian Foundation and the American Youth Hostels, all of which are located in New York City.

Mr. McBratney and his wife live in Montclair with their three children, two daughters who attend The Kimberley School and a son, Bruce, Jr., who at­ tended the 5th and 6th Grades at Brookside and entered the Academy last fall in the 7th Grade.

Retiring from the Board this year were Bernard K. Crawford of Montclair and The Honorable Herbert S. Tate of Newark.

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dispelling the sisyphus myth: student government by g. hunt geyer chairman of the executive board and co-president of the student council "The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor."

At certain points during a sometimes bleak-looking career at Montclair Acad­ emy, I was sure Albert Camus had me in mind when writing his philosophical essay, "The Myth of Sisyphus." Without being unfair to the Academy, there were indeed many times when I felt my eternal academic rockpushing was somewhat futile and hopeless labor; I know that I was not alone in my melancholy. The existence of a limited curriculum and the late 4:40 p.m. dis­ missal time certainly did not encourage any great interest in school activities.

This year, however, at the risk of sounding extremely "preppie" or re­ ceiving many a jeer from my classmates who would flinch at the thought of being considered "rah-rahs," I believe that the majority of the student body maintains a remarkable enthusiasm con­ cerning school activities; and, although some hide it better than others, for the most part they enjoy each academic year.

It is difficult to pinpoint what initi­ ated this new attitude which has swept through the School. But it seems most likely that the new sense of student responsibility and cooperation began last year, when the administration al­ lowed four student representatives on the Faculty Committee for Educational Policy. This Committee is the major decision-making force at the Academy and it was extremely important that the 14

students have a chance to voice their opinions at the appropriate times.

The admission of these four repre­ sentatives to the Committee was a signi­ ficant step in the advancement of student-faculty cooperation and co­ ordination. I know that the student body was very pleased with this decision and I think that, after a year's trial run, the faculty and administration members on the Committee appreciated the constructive suggestions and views which the students offered.

Hopefully, this year will be as pro­ ductive and eventful as the previous one. In order to help inform this year's representatives about those issues which are the most important to the students, I have set up a student forum in which each member of the student body has a chance to voice his sug­ gestions openly to the student govern­ ment. Through this type of format, the faculty and administration have the opportunity to sense and under­ stand how the majority of students feels on specific issues. They will hopefully use this information when making decisions on school policies.

When I look to this year and the progress which will follow in the years to come, I can only think that indeed the gods have granted Sisyphus an appeal.

dramatic public relations At the end of a very tiring and hot July day, hundreds of evening com­ muters climbed off trains at the Upper Montclair station and were greeted by the king-turned-lion, the blue-faced witch and by a variety of warlocks, wizards, jesters and gnomes, all mem­ bers of the cast of Summer Company, out to promote their play. The thirteen actors, complete with costume, make­ up, posters and flyers, lay siege on the train station at 5:30 p.m. and entrenched themselves there to meet the com­ muters until 7:30 p.m.; cars stopped along the streets and children pushed their giggling faces out the windows to catch a glimpse.

And so, several days later, began the second season of Summer Company, the repertory theatre of the Academy's summer Theatre Workshop which the year before had produced The "Itch of the Witch of Wur," a children's fantasy written and directed by English master and drama coach, Robert Just. Publicity had been the major problem for that play; one morning the cast played to an audience of six people and, although all six seemed to enjoy it, the actors were disappointed that the other four

hundred and ninety seats were empty.

To counter that problem, last sum­ mer's cast of “Warlike the Warlock/' another children's fantasy play written and directed by Mr. Just, put on their costumes and make-up and spent two hours walking the train station platform, greeting commuters, talking about their play and distributing flyers.

Because of the play's success last summer, it was performed again this year, under the auspices of the Fine Arts Department, on December 15th and 16th.

to give me directions to my destination.

The beautiful, if perhaps puzzling, fact was that I never asked him. That seems to typify the English character to me: a quiet, friendly, purer outlook on life.

It seemed that all Britons I saw had a perpetual half-smile on their faces, as if anticipating the punch line of a joke they were telling themselves. Even mundane aspects of life carried that bit of lightheartedness with them. I remember making a simple phone call and having a better conversation with the operator than with the person I had called. As friendly as they are, though, British people have their bad side. I found some people very bitter and cold towards me because I was a young American student traveling around and, to them, easily identified in the hippie stereotype. Being honest people, they are not afraid to speak their minds. But I generally found the people easygoing, quite a change from the fast American pace.

Jim Lyons, senior.

Our trip was quite an experience: one entire month spent studying, seeing "the sights," relaxing and getting to know people better. Our first five days were spent in London; we saw Buck­ ingham Palace, Big Ben and the other

landmarks tourists see, as well as riding the underground and wandering the streets with native Britishers. Oxford was our next stop, a city of tradition.

We not only visited the buildings which have stood there for more than six hundred years, but we also lived in them. Later, on a bus ride to North Wales, we saw the scenic beauty of the British Isles. We experienced the mod­ ern side of England at Warwick Uni­ versity, in the city of Coventry, and were in contact with English students.

Our last days were spent at Carlisle in the lake country before going back to London. As we left to come home, we seemed to have an “ English aura" about us: we had been influenced by the charm of the English countryside, the austerity of the universities, the sense of the past felt throughout the country and the extreme friendliness of the people. We came home with a new understanding of another country and of some of the world's people. The trip not only left an impression on film, but as well on mind and heart.

Sandy Fenske, The Wilson School, Mountain Lakes, N.J. One of the primary purposes of our trip to England was to study British history. Our group was given regular

summer travel-study As was reported in the Montage Summer Notes, the Montclair Academy Foundation's Summer Program was ex­ panded to include a four-week venture through England, from July 11th until August 8th. Eighteen senior-high level students (fourteen of the seventeen boys were from the Academy) partici­ pated and enjoyed their varied experi­ ences through the history and culture of the country, attending plays and lectures, touring museums, libraries, schools, theatres, cathedrals, castles and palaces, shopping and visiting some of the national landmarks. The trip, plan­ ned by Director of Admissions John E. Polhemus and led by History Depart­ ment Chairman Robert C. Hemmeter, was such a success that the program will be continued again this coming summer with a trip planned to Russia, France and England from June 2 4 -July 14. Beneath are the reflections of some of last summer's travelers.

While I was lost in London, a slightly graying English chap was kind enough 15

lectures on such subjects as British imperialism and sea power in the 19th century, medieval life styles and many others. In addition to these lectures, we went on tours of such historically important places as Westminster Abbey, Stratford-upon-Avon and Windsor Cas­ tle. It is readily evident to the American tourist that there is a greater awareness of history in England than there is in our own homeland. There are monu­ ments and statues of historically signif­ icant people everywhere one looks; more evident than this is the fact that the British seem to be so traditionbound. Not only is the pace of life in England much slower than it is here, but it seems that the people are quite proud of most of their history. My advice to the tourist interested in his­ tory who visits England is to walk the streets and talk to the people, soon to realize that in England history is all around.

Tom Galligan, senior.

Our trip began with a six-day stop in London, where we toured about, attended the theatre and participated in lecture-discussions. From there, we spent a week at the renowned Queens College at Oxford University, where we were immersed in centuries of tradition. Several excursions were taken from Oxford, including a memorable afternoon at Blenheim Palace, home of the Dukes of Marlborough. At Oxford, we also went to the theatre to see the Oscar Wilde play, "The Importance of Being Ernest," and a rendition of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta "Mikado." The end of our stay at Oxford brought both sadness and excitement: the trip was half over and yet there was so much still lying ahead. From Oxford, we went on to panoramic Wales, one of the highlights of our trip in its startlingly beautiful scenery. After two days in Wales, we turned south toward War­ wickshire and the facilities of Warwick University; our stay there was diversified and our activities ranged from lectures to discotheques, castle-visiting to ex­ cursions to the Cathedral at Ely and Cambridge University. We left Warwick for Carlisle and spent a delightful afternoon climbing the ruins of Had­ rian's Wall and the fortress. Finally, we went back to London for two days of shopping and reminiscing.

Peter Stolinsky, senior.

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During our four weeks in England, we made excursions to Bangor, Wales and Carlisle, near the Scottish border.

The bus rides were long and tiresome, but we saw much of the attractive countryside. The country in northern England is very green because of the large amounts of rainfall; if it is not raining, there is a heavy mist, though on occasions the sun does come out.

Throughout this region, the landscape is very hilly, but not too mountainous.

The land is used almost completely for grazing sheep and cows and the green rolling hills are dotted with the animals, fenced in by eighteenth century old stone walls. Among these pastures are small forests scattered through the hills.

On the way to Bangor, the countryside was similar to that in northern England, though as we went through the Cam­ brian Mountains the view changed from rolling hills to forest-covered mountains and small winding roads.

Allan Cox, junior.

new faculty On September 6th, the Academy began its eighty-sixth year with a total enrollment of slightly over 350 boys, ninety-one of whom were new students.

Also joining the School were five new faculty members.

Joining the Science Department as master of biology was James J. Chudomel. Mr. Chudomel graduated in 1970 from Iowa Wesleyan College with a Bachelor of Science degree and, two years later, from the University of Vermont with his M.A.T. Anthony M. Daur, a 1969 Bachelor of Arts graduate of Fairfield University, joined the Academy's History Depart­ ment.

Joining the English Department for one year to replace Joseph R. Kerner, Jr., the Academy's second recipient of a sabbatical grant, who is currently studying at the University of Michigan, was G. Wells McMurray, II. Mr. McMurray graduated Cum Laude from Prince­ ton University in 1966 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Colombian-born Alberto M. Muñera joined the Language Department as Spanish master. Mr. Muñera received his "Bachillerato" diploma in 1959 from the Seminario de Medellin in Colombia and later, still in his home­ land, continued doctoral studies in philosophy and training in mathematics

and social studies. He also received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1969 from the University of Massachusetts and his Master of Arts in Spanish American Literature from Columbia University.

Joining the two-year-old Fine Arts Department as Director of Art was Egyptian-born Mohammed M. Nasr. Mr. Nasr graduated in 1966 with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of Applied Arts in Cairo.

It's been a busy year for alumni: first the play, ALUMNI REVIEW

"Birds," and supper party, then in November Homecoming

Homecoming picnic, clockwise: the late Arthur Goldman '25, A! Stapf '28 (back to camera), Harry Abbott '22 and Peanuts Dorrill '29.

Headmaster Philip L Anderson bids a last farewell to retiring Cary White and his wife.

the Annual Giving campaign began

then

by April, 288 alumni donors $15,433.47

and in December the Christmas Luncheon for college alumni, then to call alumni across the country, then to cure

Headmaster Phil Anderson, Alumni Annual Giving Chair­ men Tom Aitken '56 and Bill Thompson '33.

the dead of winter with the alumni/parent Hofbrau Night and now the Alumni Dinner on May 4th.

the first jointly sponsored Alumni/Parent fund-raiser: 370 guests, $4,100 for educa­ tional needs.

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SPORTS REVIEW

English instructor, grammar book author, assistant football coach, wrestling coach and the fire behind the " rahs," Barry Nazarian, alumnus, Class of 1962.

Nowadays, when football heroes of yesteryear say that football is not what it used to be, when some schools are forced to drop football from their athletic schedules because they do not have enough interested players and when pep rallies are no longer con­ sidered de rigueur while bonfires burn out unnoticed in open fields, nowadays with the spirit of football somewhat dampened, who would ever expect the head football coach, the cross country coach, the father of one of the senior players and a member of the faculty dressed as a lion (the School's mascot) to land in a helicopter at midfield on the fifty-yard-line and walk out to face hundreds of cheering alumni, parents and students two minutes before kick-off?

Such was the beginning of the Academy's Homecoming celebration and football game last fall, a tour de force produced by assistant football coach and English master Barry Nazarian and his troupe of thoroughly-spirited "Rahs." Mr. Nazarian, an alumnus in the Class of 1962, has been an assistant football coach for several years and has become perhaps best known for organizing many students into the kind of exciting rallies which have spurred 18

on such games as the Homecoming game against Horace Mann. It has been under his direction that many Academy students, often joined by Kimberley girls, have raised high the spirit and support for Montclair Academy's athletic teams.

Thus the "Rahs," as they have come to be known, have continued to organize rallies for the whole School, made literally hundreds of flyers, ban­ ners and posters and acted out a variety of clever skits and staged-productions to enliven school spirit in sup­ port of the teams. Even an away-game at the Englewood School found five bus loads of Academy boys and Kim­ berley girls travelling to Englewood, to a "street theatre" production designed

by Mr. Nazarian and his "Rahs" which began with a simulated construction road-gang to welcome the team as it arrived and which ended with a van­ guard of motorcyclists, friends of Mr. Nazarian, who led the team bus to the field and again to cheering Academy alumni, parents, students and friends.

And so last fall, the final hurrah was for the "Rahs," who once more had staged an extravaganza almost beyond belief. Out from the helicopter which had circled the School for nearly ten

minutes before landing came history master, Elliott Williams, dressed as a lion, followed by Joseph Paolucci, father of the team's right tackle, Dean Paolucci, and the man who was responsible for securing the helicopter, and behind Mr. Paolucci came football head coach Carmen Marnell and cross country head coach Douglas Jennings.

And the crowd was in ecstacy as the team came on the field to line up beneath the rising helicopter.

With such School and team pro­ moters as the "Rahs" so hard at work to foster enthusiasm for School sports, it may well once again be said that, win or lose, it is the spirit of how you play which counts.

if,

Missing and Missed Over the years, we have lost some of our alumni because they have moved and not forwarded to us their new addresses. As the beginning of our search to find them, we have listed beneath by class the names of those graduates whose addresses are unknown. We very much hope that you will be able to help us locate those classmates of yours who are missing and missed.

1900-1919 Arthur V. Youngman '18 33 Glen Road Verona New Jersey 07044 Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of any of these classmates of yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. Harry S. Bickford '11, Elmer Blossom

'11, James J. Bettes '12, Arthur W. Clark '12, Leonard C. Cocheu '13, Thomas A. Conant '13, Roland E. Bell '14, William N. Chew '14, James Bradley, Jr. '15, John Chapman '15, G. Roger Harvey '16, Otto Schaefer '16, George D. Clark '17, Ralph Cooke '17, William Althouse '18, Charles Chapman '18, Talbot Broome '19, Noel DeCordova '19.

from Samuel S. Scott '22, who is a partner in the Pittsburgh law firm of Scott, Neely, Swenson & Scott. At about the same time, Harry was visited by Russell Makepeace '21: "We spent a couple of hours talking over the old days," Harry wrote the Alumni Office, "and remembering friends of long ago.

Russ played varsity football at Williams and was on the team that beat Cornell around 1925. He was also 'boy of the year' in his class, being the first boy born to his father's class of 1900." In a postscript to his letter, Harry added: "Had not seen Russ for fifty-one years. He brought along a bottle of 'Wild Turkey,' which helped our memor­ ies considerably."

1920-1931 Henry B. Fern aid, lr. '28 221 N. Mountain Ave Montclair New Jersey 07042

Class of '23: Your 50th Reunion! May 4 Class Agent Henry Fernald '28 received a long letter last November from Miller R. Hutchison, Jr. '20. Hutch retired from Kodak in 1967, though he continues to live in Rochester and still spends his summers on Nantucket.

As the Montage Summer Notes reported, last April's Alumni Annual Dinner at the Academy was the setting for the exciting initiation by members of the Class of '22 of the "Chief" Broadhead Memorial Fund, in honor of the highly respected and well known coach. Under the diligent direction of Harry A. Abbott '22, letters were sent to all members of the Classes of 1922 through 1934, explaining the birth of the Fund and inviting other friends of "Chief" Broadhead to participate. By the end of the summer, many alumni had contributed a total of $2,760.00 and, in a meeting of Headmaster

Philip L. Anderson, Trustee Howard A. Van Vleck '22 and Harry, the Fund was estab­ lished as sponsorship of a Broadhead Memorial Scholar-Athlete, the Fund itself to be invested and the annual interest ac­ crued to- be given to a worthy and needy student of academic and athletic potential, as scholarship assistance. Since that meeting, the Fund has grown substantially to $4,499; a major gift was recently contributed by the Class of '26. Incidentally, Harry has located Mrs. Broadhead's address for anyone who may wish to write her: Mrs. William G Broadhead, 10 Spring Street, Keene, New Hampshire 03431.

In his correspondence with members of the Classes of '22 through '34, Harry has been in contact with quite a few alumni.

In the early summer, he received a letter

Wanted: Interesting memorabilia from your years at the Academy: letters, documents, photographs, medals, awards, trophies. The Alumni Office wishes to establish a permanent exhibit of Academy history and needs your memora­ bilia to illustrate the years. Also, if you can spare a Saturday in the late spring to help organize and set up this exhibit, please write the Alumni Office.

Joseph E. Wiedenmayer '24, the first and only United States career diplomat born with a hearing loss, continues his devoted work on behalf of the deaf and blind: as Special Assistant to the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, Trustee and Honorary President of the Memphis Foun­ dation of Otology and an affiliate of the Middle East Association for the Deaf in Lebanon. Most recently this year, Joe joined Ralph Nader's Retired Professional Action Group as Director of the Hearing Disability Study. Among his writings is a booklet en­ titled "Listen, Please!" with specific sug­ gestions to improve understanding between hard of hearing persons and their friends, and another book entitled "Look or Listen" which was published in braille by the Library of Congress for blind people who are hard of hearing; this book was distributed in October to all schools for the blind and deaf/blind throughout the country.

The Academy and the Alumni Office deeply regret having to report the death on March 20th of Arthur A. Goldman, Class of

NOTES OF THE CLASSES

'25. A tribute to Arthur appears on the in­ side back cover of this issue.

The continuing enthusiasm over the memory of "Chief" Broadhead and the grow­ ing Broadhead Memorial Fund still upturns new correspondences. This time, it is a letter the Chief wrote Alfred F. W. Stapf '28, which Al sent on to Harry A. Abbott '22, Director of the Fund, and which eventually came to the Alumni Office. The letter is postmarked December 22,1930: "I don't know that I can ever express my true feelings to you fellows for the wonderful dinner party you gave for me; as I told Harry, it could not have come at a more opportune time. The tough going and poor results had begun to take their toll of my nerve, but after seeing my old gang of fighters together, I'm feeling better.

I know we can fight our way back to the top again, can't we? It was a complete sur­ prise to me, the size of the crowd and the years it covered— and everybody was so kind and frank. I have some job cut out for me to be all the things the various speakers said I was. Well, if I'm not it won't be for lack of trying. The little old clock sits up right in front of me so that when I look to see the time I see lots more than the time: the crowd, the dinner, you, Harry and Mark (Andrews '26). Well, until I can thank you more adequately, I must just wish you the season's very best and many of them."

Class of '28: Your 45th Reunion! May 4 Class Agent Henry Fernald '28 received several other letters from members of his large group, 1920-31. Charles H. P. Yallalee '29 (Bud) wrote that he is deeply involved in photojournalism. "I am living in a camper," Bud said, "and after five years in Maine I am leaving for Florida."

Henry also received a letter from Edward D. DeLamater '30, who is a Distinguished University Professor of Science in the Ex­ perimental Cytology Laboratory of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton.

Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of any of these classmates ol yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. Guy DeCordova '20, William P.

Farnsworth '20, Thomas K. Bruton '21, Lawrence O. Erickson, Jr. '21, Valdemar Beeken '22, Joseph Feder '22, Mario Arango '23, George H. Bailey, Jr. '23, Carl L. Boos '24, Gernaise Chittick '24, William N. Ashley '25, Francis S. Burgess '25, Hugo Bondy '26, Edward A. Brennan '26, Abram L. Burbank, Jr. '27, Albert C. Castelbaum '27, Andrew W. Fulle '28, Richard Heminway '28, William F. J. Bennett '29, Ralston B. Brown '29, William H. Cook '30, Leo J. Henehan '30, William B. Canfield '31, Rudolf B. Devries '31.

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1932 lames A. Rogers M.D. 346 East 34th Street Paterson New Jersey 07504

Thomas B. Braine returned to the invest­ ment business after an "exciting year as Assistant Headmaster" of a Florida coed ele­ mentary and middle school and a year as a substitute teacher in Essex County's public schools.

An article last spring in The Paterson 'Morning News' announced the appoint­ ment of Class Agent James A. Rogers to the position of Vice President of the Medical Society of New Jersey. Former President of Passaic County Medical Society and last year's second Vice President of the State Medical Society, Jim is attending physician at Paterson General Hospital and a member of its Board of Trustees. He is also a fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and a member of the Society of Internal Medicine.

Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of any of these classmates ol yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. George F. Bender, Edward G. Buck-

enham, George V. Drew, Jr., Alan Farr, Joseph Frank, Cornelius Houtsma, Jesse I. Kays, Paul D. O'Reilly, John Royle, John M. Sayre, Thomas S. Sisk.

1933 William l Thompson, Jr. Louis Marx Co., Inc. 200 5th Avenue New York New York 10010

Your 40th Reunion! May 4 Class Agent William J. Thompson, Jr. re­ ceived a card in the fall from Harry Milbauer.

"I am selling for Camp Chemical Industrials, Inc.," Harry wrote. "My territory is Essex, Passaic and Bergen Counties. Our products are used in industry, hospitals, hotels, motels, across states, counties and cities." Harry and his wife Dottie have three daughters, all married. Harry « also -Chairman of the Class of '33 40th Reunion.

Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of any of these classmates o| yours? If you do, please notify the Alumn;| Office. Joseph B. Brensinger, Gilbert G.

Drake, Henry Giannetti, W. R. Vardy Laing, Frank W. Lippman, Alois V. Menschik, Edward L. Moore.

1934 Eugene I. Haubenstock 10-07 Plymouth Drive Fair Lawn New Jersey 07410 Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of any of these classmates ol yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. Arnold K. Baumgard, Robert S.

Brunton, Arthur W. Leadbeater, Jr., Robert H. Thompson, Frank E. Wildey.

1935 No Agent Missing and Missed: Do your know the whereabouts of any of these classmates of yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni

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Office. Frederick H. Brownwell, Jr., Norman

Carlee, John J. Fick, Jr., Clay E. Forker, Nor­ man Gallagher, Thomas D. Hardcastle, Mal­ colm S. Maskowitz, Theodore L. Siggins.

1936 Kenneth Reile Fritts 12 Brookside Avenue Caldwell New Jersey 07006 A story from the 'Bernardsville (New Jersey) News' cites the appointment of Vin­ cent M. Frost to a fifth term as Treasurer of New Jersey Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons. "Dr. Frost," the article continues, "who also serves as Presi­ dent of the Morris County Osteopathic Society, heads the State Association's finance, building and equipment committees and is a member of the Executive Committee. In addition, he is Treasurer of the New Jersey Osteopathic Education Fund and is an al­ ternate delegate to the House of Delegates of the American Osteopathic Association.'

Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of any of these classmates oi yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. Lynn T. Dowling, William F. Downey,

John L. Hess, Frederick A. Marsh, Clifford P. Morehouse, Harold L. Waring.

Wanted: Interesting memorabilia from your years at the Academy: letters, documents, photographs, medals, awards, trophies. The Alumni Office wishes to establish a permanent exhibit of Academy history and needs your memora­ bilia to illustrate the years. Also, if you can spare a Saturday in the late spring to help organize and set up this exhibit, please write the Alumni Office.

1937 Robert E. Livesey R. D. Cortina Co. 136 West 52nd Street New York New York 10019 Class Agent Robert E. Livesey received several letters over the fall from classmates scattered across the country: from Parker B. Armstrong who lives in Hawaii; from Wil­ liam J. Heidt who is in Vero Beach, Florida, for the winter, "fishing, swimming, golfing;" and a letter from Louis S. Taylor who lives outside of Washington, D.C., in Kensington, Maryland.

And some exciting news about Bob Livesey himself: he and his wife Magdalen had their ffist child last October, a girl named Sarah.

Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of any of these classmates ol yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. Frank T. Bailey, Robert F. Boschen,

Henry W. Freeman, Jr., Malcolm D. Hender­ son, James R. McAlister, Arthur C. Maerlender, Rudolph L. Renker, Harry R. Smith, Charles B. White.

1938 No Agent Class of '38: Your 35th Reunion! May 4 Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of any of these classmates of yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. William W. Anderson, John T. Car­

ter, Harry F. Coulter, Allen W. Green, Adolph D. Mersfelder, Jr., Walter B. Under­ wood, Charles E. Wilson.

1939

No Agent

William Marchese was nominated by New Jersey's Governor Cahill as Judge of the Passaic County District Court; the nom­ ination was confirmed by the State Senate in July and Bill was sworn in during the first week of September.

Roving reporter Edwin E. Van Brunt re­ cently received a letter from Peter V. K. Funk.

Pete has a family of seven children, two of whom are married. "I have been deeply in­ volved in a Franciscan movement within the Episcopal Church," Peter wrote. "Almost a quarter of my total time goes to this. Further­ more, I am attempting to study for orders within the Church. As a writer, I have ex­ tremely long hours and have been working mostly a six day week."

Country Historian, Robert H. Muller: see page 8, The Gallery.

Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of any of these classmates of yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. James Allan, Victor B. Baer, Leonard

N. Cooper, Geoffrey H. W. Crook, Patrick J. Flannery, Charles A. McGinley, Robert A. Nicol, Jr., James R. Winner, Jr.

1940 John A. Cosentino 15 Wellesley Road Upper Montclair New Jersey 07043 John H. Ames was elected President of the Life Underwriters' Association of New York.

Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of any of these classmates of yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. Bill Bailey, Benjamin J. Bartlett, Jose

I. de la Camera, Jr., Ervin F. Forrester, Marinus J. D. Hengeveld, Robert A. Holzl, Stanley F. Luques. William W. Post, Donald W. Remig, David Savage, Frederick Van Arnam.

1941 David W. Brett

17 Norman Road Upper Montclair New Jersey 07043 The Alumni Office received a note from Bruce C. Cornish in mid-January. Bruce is back in Missouri and is working in the field of water supply again.

Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of any of these classmates of yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. David Bender, Arthur L. Foster,

Howard K. Hastings, Theodore Hayford, Raymond C. Mursch, Robert F. Wharton.

1942 Daniel E. Emerson 18 Chaucer Road Short Hills New Jersey 07078

Edwin D. Etherington was elected the Governor of the American Stock Exchange (having been its president from 1962-1966).

Ted is still the Director of the United States Trust, American Express; Connecticut Gen­ eral; Southern New England Telephone. On January 1, he became Counsel to the law firm of Reid and Reige in Hartford, Con­ necticut.

Early in the fall, John F. Kelsey was elected to the Board of Directors of the American National Bank and Trust Company of New Jersey. John is Vice President of W. R. Grace and Company, in charge of Grace's Public Relations and Communications; he has been with the Grace organization since 1948 and has served in a variety of managerial capaci­ ties including assistant treasurer and director of investment relations, assistant vice presi­ dent, director of communications and vice president. John is also a member of the American Society of Corporate Secretaries, serves op the panel of arbitrators of the American Stock Exchange and is a director of Chemed Corporation. John and his wife and their two children live in Short Hills.

Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of any of these classmates of yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. Richard L. Downs, Robert L. Norris,

Wellden Pyle, Jr. 1943 Edward S. Olcott One Lorraine Road Summit New Jersey 07078

Class of '43: Your 30th Reunion! May 4 J. Randall Gritzan is employed by the New Jersey Department as a highway engineer.

He has three children, a daughter, Linda, who was married last year, a daughter, Patricia, who is a junior at William and Mary, and a son, Kenneth, who is in the 8th Grade in Chatham (New Jersey) Township.

Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of any of these classmates of yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. Robert W. Bailey, Evan M. Davies,

John O. Henry, Robert W. Northup, Albert E. Soria, Edward A. Theurkauf, William R. Watson, Norman Weiner, Robert A. Young.

1944 Arthur B. Harris 83 East Avenue P.O. Box 447 Norwalk Connecticut 06852 Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of any of these-classmates of yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. Owen A. Brooks, John Chugg, Daniel

F. O'Brien, Brian W. Rooke, John E. Sturm, Theodore R. Wiesing.

1945 William B. Grant 208 Midland Avenue Montclair New Jersey 07042 Missing and Missed: Do you know the

whereabouts of any of these classmates or yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. Robert E. Ball, Jerome G. Browne,

John E. Bush, Thomas Foltz, Robert Williams, Jr. 1946 Raymond D. Ward 17 Colombia Avenue Cranford New Jersey The Alumni Office welcomes Raymond D. Ward as new Class Agent.

The Alumni Office received a note from William F. Brown several months ago. Bill is involved in two projects he wrote about: working with Mel Casson, he is writing and drawing a daily and Sunday comic strip called "Mixed Singles," about a group of under-30 singles people living in a singlesonly apartment building; the strip is being syndicated by United Features and began last November, successful enough so far to yield a record album this coming summer.

The other project Bill is working on is a new musical version of "The Wizard of O z," He has completed the first draft of the book.

The musical will have an all-black cast, a new contemporary score and is aimed for a Broadway opening next fall. About his family, Bill writes: "My daughter, Debbie, is now a junior at Rhode Island School of De-

Wanted: Interesting memorabilia from your years at the Academy: letters, documents, photographs, medals, awards, trophies. The Alumni Office wishes to establish a permanent exhibit of Academy history and needs your memora­ bilia to illustrate the years. Also, if you can spare a Saturday in the late spring to help organize and set up this exhibit, please write the Alumni Office. sign; she sold her first three paintings last summer up at Martha's Vineyard. My son, Todd, is now a freshman at the University of Vermont and on their varsity hockey team.

Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of any of these classmates of yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. William E. Huegel, Jr., Homer B.

Lilley, Edward H. O'Neil, Eric-L. Peterson, Richard W. Teele, Richard C. Wolffe.

M. Smith, Woodruff Smith, Jr., Albert F. Torek, Robert B. Vander May, Ulrick E. Voetter, Thomas G. Weilepp, Jr. 1948 James B. Regan 879 Broad Street Bloomfield New Jersey 07003

Class of '48: Your 25th Reunion! May 4 Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of any of these classmates or yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. Richard Carter, Thomas J. Cogan,

Jr., Dudley Ferris, Carrol J. Giles, Jr., Robert R. Haney, Ted G. Hebert, Francisco JovelMendez, John H. Leonhard, Hector Levy, Samuel F. McDonald, David P.. Michaels, William Murray, David M. Scott, Jr., Richard Waterman, Dwight C. Wilkinson.

1949 Richard M. Drysdale 300 East Avenue Bay Head New Jersey 08742

Anthony Savoca is the Manager of the RCA Service Company branch in Orange. He and his wife live in Newark and have two daughters: Laurie Ann and Denise.

Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of any of these classmates of yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. William Donegan, George F. Groves, William H. Kilby, Rolon W. Reed, Russell E. Sayre, Dudley Smith, Robert M. Steele.

1950 Rudolph H. Deetjen, Jr. Stanwich Lane Greenwich Connecticut 06830 For information on Class Agent Rudy Deetjen's appointment as Headmaster of Brookside School, see page 11.

Richard A. Hopkins has been made Execu­ tive Vice President of the Excess and Treaty Management Corporation, which manages a re-insurance association in New York City.

Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of any of these classmates of yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. Ian D. Barclay, Jay F. Bitting, Jean

L. Gaigier, John Warren Lamborn, Jr., William B. Laytham, Frederick J. Payne, Raymond Pier, Jr., Thomas R. Richards, William P. Ricketts, Harold H. Rothenberger, William J. Warren.

1947 Joseph F. Hammond, Jr. 295 North Road Smoke Rise, Butler, New Jersey 07405 The Alumni Office welcomes Joseph F. Hammond, Jr. as new Class Agent for the Class of '47.

Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of any of these classmates of yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. Lucius M. Anderson, David L. Barn-

ford, Robert W. Cagle, Nelson J. Darrow, James J. Hevers, Chester F. Huey, John M. Jacquin, Edward V. Laux, Edward B. LeMaster, John C. McConn, Hugo D. Portillo, Alan A. Rubenstein, Robert S. Schmidt, Donald

1951 Ernest Keer, III 459 Club Drive Bay Head New Jersey 08742 The Alumni Office received a note in January from John Ford Barlow, who wrote that his practice in Sioux Falls has expanded to include nuclear medicine, as well as clini­ cal and anatomic pathology; he also con­ tinues to teach at the South Dakota Medical School.

Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of any of these classmates of yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni 21

Office. Merrill B. Callen, Robert G. Cowan,

Jr., Werner Koenig.

1952 Joseph Bograd 10 Gorham Court Wayne New Jersey 07470

Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of any of these classmates of yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. Michael C. Ellinger, Karl P. Gerhard,

Donald G. lozia, Nicholas Martino, John F. Mylod.

1953 David J. Connolly, Jr. 17 Linden Drive Basking Ridge New Jersey 07920

Class of '53: Your 20th Reunion! May 4 The Alumni Office welcomes David J. Connolly, Jr. as the new Class Agent for the Class of 1953.

Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of any of these classmates of yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. Bruce Grover, George D. H. Hertz-

berg, Neil C. Lindeman, Italo Martino, Henry A. Williams, II. 1954 Philip E. Donlin, Jr. 122 Othoridge Road Lutherville Maryland 21093

Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of Sande R. De Stefano? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office.

1955 Oscar A. Mockridge, III 48 Warren Place Montclair New Jersey 07042 R. Carleton Dallery wrote a note to the Alumni Office in November; he and his wife, Arleen, are both teaching philosophy at SUNY/Stony Brook campus.

Oscar A. Mockridge, III, Class Agent, re­ ceived a long letter in November from John H. Wilson, III, who lives with his wife Celia and their three sons (two of them twins) in Dallas, Texas. John wrote that he graduated from "Penn dental in 1962 and married Celia that summer. She graduated from Bradford Junior College and studied at Wharton. We were sent to Germany for three years and made the most of the opportunity. . . . I treat a bunch of Chicano kids from one of our missions free A little dolls, all of them. . . .

We may be able to get up for our 20th Re­ union." John is a dentist in Dallas.

1956 John W. Clapp 501 Ocean Avenue Sea Girt New Jersey 08750 S. Thomas Aitken was recently elected to the post of Secretary of the Board of Trus­ tees of the Montclair Academy Foundation.

He and his wife, Helen, had a baby girl early in the winter, Heather.

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whereabouts of either of these classmates of yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. Seth S. Barton, Andrew Field.

1957 No Agent Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of Stephen F. Freifield? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office.

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

Class of '58: Your 15th Reunion! May 4 A. Michael Chodorcoff moved offices from New York to East Orange in July and be­ came a partner in Schschner Corporation, a firm specializing in all forms of insurance and employee benefit plans.

Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of either of these classmates of yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. Robert Crisp, James R. S. Zager.

Brunt brings further news of alumni; Van heard that George A. Bleyle, Jr. is working with Ford Motor Company in Michigan.

The Alumni Office wishes to thank Robert F. Crissman for his help in the last two years as Class Agent and to welcome his replacement, E. Hawley Van Wyck, III.

1961 David C. Carrad 355 West 85th Street, Apt. 77 New York New York 10024 Class Agent David C. Carrad graduated from Harvard Law School last June and has moved to New York City. He is associated with the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, 48 Wall Street, and took the New York State Bar Exam in July.

David F. Sexton has joined him as an associate at Sullivan and Cromwell, having graduated last June from Penn Law School.

Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of Richard B. Turer? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office.

1959 David C. Ramsay 137 Weston Avenue Chatham New Jersey 07928 The Alumni Office welcomes David G.

Wanted: Interesting memorabilia from your years at the Academy: letters, documents, photographs, medals, awards, trophies. The Alumni Office wishes to establish a permanent exhibit of Academy history and needs your memora­ bilia to illustrate the years. Also, if you can spare a Saturday in the late spring to help organize and set up this exhibit, please write the Alumni Office.

Ramsay as the new Class Agent for the Class of 1959. Dave is a member of the Alumni Council, the governing board of the Alumni Association. He and his wife Barbara re­ cently welcomed a third child to their family.

The Alumni Office wishes to thank Philip Carchman for his help in the last two years as Class Agent and to welcome his replace­ ment, David G. Ramsay.

The Alumni Office received notice in June that Bernard A. Milstein, an opthalmologist, opened new offices in The Eye Clinic, Galveston, Texas.

Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of either of these classmates of yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. Thomas Cassidy, Manter Clark.

1960 E. Hawley Van Wyck, III 2619 42nd Street, NW Washington, D.C. 2007 It is with sincere sorrow that the Alumni Office joins the Class of '60 in mourning for the death of classmate Steven Warshaw in early February. Deepest sympathies are extended by us all to his family.

Once again, roving reporter Edwin E. Van

1962 Robert John Schmitt, Jr. 548 Highland Avenue Upper Montclair New Jersey 07043 John A. Bleyle is working with General Re-insurance in Hartford, Connecticut.

Announcement was recently received from Charles W. Weston, IV and his wife, Nanou, of the birth in August of their daughter, Penelope. Charlie and Nanou live at Rue Vanderkindere 492, 1180 Brussells, Belgium.

Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of any of these classmates of yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. Harry A. Franz, Bruce David Guern-j

sey, Douglas Wells Johnson, Leslie Harold Zuckerman.

1963 John A. Lawrence 39 West 75th Street, Apt. 3R New York New York 10023

Class of '63: Your 10th Reunion! May 4 Andrew T. Abrams is an investment banker for John J. Ryan in Newark.

Headmaster Philip L. Anderson received a letter in July from Thomas V. P. Alpren.

"I have finished my internship," Tom wrote, "and am in the process of applying for residency programs in ophthalmology. At present, I am in the Indian Health Service, serving as a general practitioner in a smail Indian hospital in Oklahoma. It's quite a change from Boston or San Francisco. I have been married for the past two years and we have a one-year-old flankerback."

John D. Harris is a graduate student at M.l.T. in the Nuclear Engineering De­ partment.

Class Agent John A. Lawrence is an in­ vestigator with the National Association of Security Dealers on Wall Street.

Robert E. Tappan is employed in the field of law enforcement in south Florida. He and his wife, Lynn, live in Coral Springs and have two children, Robert, IV and Roxanne.

1964 Roy T. Van Vleck 21 Van Vleck Street Montclair New Jersey 07042 Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of David Levin? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office.

1965 H. Holt Apgar, Ir. Cleveland Road West, R.D. 2 Princeton New Jersey 08540 Class Agent H. Holt Apgar, Jr., recently married to Phebe Smith, wrote the Alumni Office that he is working in educational administration, as the Assistant to the Chair­ man of Princeton University's Department of History.

Robert S. Livesey left in November for a year's study in Europe under a Sheldon Fel­ lowship Grant. He graduated last June from the Harvard Graduate School of Design with a degree in architecture. He and his wife, Dorothy, expect to travel as far east as Turkey and to the north to Finland, spending about three months in Rome and Florence.

Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of Alan B. Beck? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office.

Robert A. Cargill completed his Master's work in biochemistry at Rutgers the State University and is now a pharmacologist at Hoffman LaRoche.

Michael C. Phares is continuing study for his M.B.A. degree at Washington University in St. Louis; he is also working at KSLQ/FM in St. Louis.

Robert A. Wolff will enter Simmons College in Boston next September to pursue his M.S. degree in Library Science. He is presently the tennis pro at the Fair Lawn Racquet Club.

1968 Geoffrey Gregg 305 East 56th Street New York New York 10022

Class of '68: Your 5th Reunion! May 4 American Field Service student, Alfredo da Silva, wrote a while ago of the birth of a daughter, Geisa.- Alfredo is studying law in his home city, Vila Velha, Espirito Santo, Brazil.

Raymond landoli graduated from Lehigh University last June with a B.A. degree in Applied Science. He is now pursuing his B.S. in Industrial Engineering.

Jeffrey L. Hook is working for Crawford & Co., independent insurance adjusters in Clifton; Jeff began there last November as an adjuster.

1966 Richard C. Kuzsma 370 Claremont Avenue Montclair New Jersey 07042 Class Agent Richard C. Kuzsma received a letter in November from John R. Howald.

John is a senior law student at Ohio Nor­ thern University School of Law. He finished his studies in February. Last summer, he played semi-pro baseball.

Peter A. Orgain wrote the Alumni Office in December that he married the former Carol Richmond and that they are living in Thetford Center, Vermont, where Pete is in the process of building their house out in the woods. "Blake Traendly has been my mainstay in helping to build it," Pete wrote.

"He and I are the homebuilding crew for Huntington Farm Builders Inc. in South Straf­ ford."

Missing and Missed: Do you know the whereabouts of either of these classmates of yours? If you do, please notify the Alumni Office. A. Craig Cameron.

1967 Peter W. Adams 16 LaSalle Road Upper Montclair New Jersey 07043 Class Agent Peter W. Adams was elected in January as a new member of the Board of Trustees of the Montclair Academy Foun­ dation; Pete is the youngest Trustee. He is currently pursuing his doctorate in marine biology at City College in New York and, with a teaching assistantship, is conducting courses in biology and genetics. Pete is in charge of the Biology Department's dark­ room and serves on the Executive Council for Biology at the City University of New York.

Wanted: Interesting memorabilia from your years at the Academy: letters, documents, photographs, medals, awards, trophies. The Alumni Office wishes to establish a permanent exhibit of Academy history and needs your memora­ bilia to illustrate the years. Also, if you can spare a Saturday in the late spring to help organize and set up this exhibit, please write the Alumni Office.

Christopher A. Kluge graduated last June from Lake Forest College with a Bachelor of Arts degree, with major study in sociology and anthropology. Chris was a newsman and cartoonist for the weekly paper, a member of Honor Council, on the Yearbox editorial board and photographer for the College's literary magazine.

A final letter came in May from Alan K. Yamashlta, on his way back to America and Yale University after an experience in Ghana, West Africa, under the auspices of a Yale Bachelor of Arts Fellowship. "It's been a year of a lot of questions," Alan wrote, "and, here and there, some answers. I be­ came involved with my job (working for the Catholic Relief Services on feeding pro­ grams and social development). Knowing American foreign policy to be somewhat absurd at times, I was not surprised to find American foreign aid, one arm of foreign policy, has its quirks. But having been con­ nected with an American aid program for about one year leads me to question just

what it is America is doing to and for these countries. U.S. aid is in need of major re­ vision in philosophy. In fact, nothing less than a total change in America's conception of its relationship with the underdeveloped countries of the world will do. For the U.S. must sincerely wish to help in the develop­ ment of a recipient country or it should get out. Creating bulwarks against com­ munism or easing balance of payments might be good selling points to the old men on congressional funding committees, but they mean nothing to these countries.

Nor is the strictly philanthropic motivation, by itself, adequate justification for our pres­ ence. It is not enough to be well-inten­ tioned; we must be able to deliver the goods. Giving with respect and human dignity is difficult. With the wrong ap­ proach, more harm than good is done. . . .

As the Ghanaians say: 'Strangers are like floods/ (for they do not stay, but travel on).

Yeah, I'm coming home."

1969 Christopher C. Beling Susquehanna University Selinsgrove Pennsylvania 17870

Jeffrey R. Schlegel, who is presently at­ tending Georgetown University and will graduate this May, is engaged to Catherine O'Kalhahan. Jeff will attend law school in the fall.

Notice was received from Rutgers, the State University, that Jonathan E. Palmer, be­ cause of his "outstanding scholastic per­ formance" last year, was selected for in­ clusion on the Dean's List.

Roving reporter Edwin E. Van Brunt dis­ covered a news story in a local paper about Robert A. Veit. Bob is participating in a U.S. Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps field training encampment at Elgin AFB in Florida. Bob is a member of the unit at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina.

Bob's brother, Glenn C. Veit, graduated from the Academy last June and is a freshman at Duke University.

1970 Peter G. Webb Station # 2 Box 1208,110 Morrow Amherst Massachusetts 01002

James H. Brothers, IV is Rush Chairman and Steward of Sigma Phi Epsilon, Penn Delta, at the University of Pennsylvania.

Bruno V. Manno received highest aca­ demic honors for studies completed last June at Franklin and Marshall College.

Garret S. Roosma is a member of Inter­ national Economic Honorary, Omicron Delta Epsilon at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Class Agent Peter G. Webb was awarded last spring with his first varsity letter in rugby at Amherst College. A College press release quotes one of Pete's teammates as saying, "In his second year of competition, Pete proved himself to be an excellent player. . . . With two years ahead of him, he should become one of the team's stellar performers."

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1971 Michael W. Lidwin P.O. Box 1771 Williamsburg Virginia 23185 "I now have a radio gospel program for an hour every Sunday afternoon," writes Jeffrey C. Jones, who is a student at Hampden-Sidney College in Virginia.

Robert D. Lipman achieved Dean's List status at the University of Pennsylvania; he joined ZBT fraternity and is also playing in a band.

1972 lacob Prince, III Cornell College Tarr Hall, Room 316 Mt. Vernon Iowa 5214 Steven L. Berke, a freshman at Bucknell University, was elected Director of the Buck­ nell Ivy League Liaison Committee and in­ tends to finish his education at Scotland's University of Edinburgh where he will reside with several other exchange scholars from the Middle Atlantic Ivy Exchange Program.

The Alumni Office welcomes Jacob Prince as Class Agent for the Class of '72. Jack is a freshman at Iowa's Cornell College. He is an established member of the Cornell Players and has already landed two major roles in first semester productions, "Black Comedy" and "Endgame." He was also elected as a representative to the Executive Committee of the Cornell Young Republicans and in ad­ dition has his own radio program.

Michael A. Vitale, a freshman at Lake Forest College, was awarded a major letter last fall for his performance on the Col­ lege's soccer team.

S. Scott Weiss is a freshman at Harvard University; he was elected to the editorial board of the Harvard Lampoon and Is also humour editor of the Crimson.

Christmas Luncheon Of the more than 240 college alumni which the Academy's Alumni Office has addresses for, nearly a quarter of them came back to the School on the day after Christmas to celebrate the Christ­ mas Luncheon. Joining them were most of the Senior Class, members of the Ad­ ministration, Faculty and Alumni Coun­ cil. Walter J. Sperling, Jr. '34, Alumni Association President, briefly welcomed the group and introduced Headmaster Philip L. Anderson, who spoke of some of the year's highlights. One of the most important thoughts expressed again and again by the speakers was the Academy's need for the interest and the ideas of its young alumni 24

Dear Alumni in College: A new feature in the school paper, The Montclair News, this year is a monthly column called "The College View." In this space, we hope to print the thoughts of recent Academy gradu­ ates as they look back at their alma mater from the perspective of college Throughout one's Academy career, , one hears a great deal about the im­ minence of higher education. It seems sometimes that all Montclair Academy life is geared to that impending voyage to the world of the university. In "The College View," we hope to hear the thoughts of those who can speak with real authority: the former M.A. students in college.

With that in mind, we would like you to write for the column. Your story can be of any length and on any subject re­ lated to the column's premise. It could be about your views of college life, your memories of the Academy, the differ­ ence between the two, the preparation (or lack of it) that the Academy offered you for college; or, just about anything you wish within this broad topic. Feel free to make it funny, sad, wistfully essay-like or fictional: it's entirely up to you.

If you feel you are unable to write this type of piece but would like to con­ tribute something, then, if you are in the vicinity of the School, maybe we could arrange a personal interview.

Please enclose a recent photograph of yourself with your article, all of which should be sent to The Montclair News, in care of the School. Any questions should also be sent this way. We'd ap­ preciate contributions of any length at any time. Whether you liked the Academy, felt indifferent or hated it, we feel you might like to say something about it. If you have any interest in this project, please let us know as soon as possible. Thank you for your coopera­ tion.

Sincerely, G. Hunt Geyer, Associate Editor.

Jeffrey B. Kindler, Editor-in-Chief.

Who Could Ask For Anything More?

Read the School Paper!

The Montclair News is the monthly stu­ dent publication of Montclair Academy.

Each issue contains six pages of news, feature articles, reports on school athle­ tics and editorial comments. The News

is sent free of charge to the two most recent graduated classes; it is now avail­ able to other alumni, friends and rela­ tives at the annual rate of $6.00 for the seven issues. For information, write to: Rudolph Schlobohm. The Montclair News, Montclair Academy, Montclair, New Jersey 07042.

Arthur Goldman '25, right, on the night a year ago when the Alumni Association honored him as their Outstanding Alumnus; with Arthur is Headmaster Philip L. Anderson, awarded on the same night as Honorary Alumnus.

ARTHUR GOLDMAN: IN MEMORIAM On Tuesday, March 20th, Arthur Goldman died in New York's Mt. Sinai Hospital at the age of 67. He was a mem­ ber of the Class of 1925 and a long-time active member of the Alumni Association's governing board, the Alumni Council, which he served as Vice President. It was in recog­ nition of that service and of his genuinely humane impact on so many people that the Association last year honored him as the 1972 Outstanding Alumnus.

"I thank the Alumni Association for this Award," Arthur said a year ago at the Alumni Dinner, "and I thank you all for the honor of your friendships and for the pleasure it gives me to be here with you. This Award symbolizes the richness of my memories, my relationships with you and the Academy and the deep pride I feel because I am an alumnus. I am proud of you for your love of the School, I am proud of the School because it is a good school and a school that likes and believes in its alumni."

The Academy liked and believed very deeply in this particular alumnus, whose love was expansive and whose warmth and kindness enriched the many friendships he so valued.

Making people happy was, after all, innate to Arthur, well-known hotelier and proprietor of the popular Goldman All Seasons Hotel and Golf Club in East Orange. He be­ came a distinguished leader in the hotel industry during his forty-five years of involvement and was honored with a number of the industry's major awards: as a council member of the American Hotel-Motel Association, Arthur received their Allied Membership Division Award in 1971, the same year he was inducted into the Hospitality Mag­ azine Hall of Fame. He received the Innkeepers Award of the Year in 1967 and was given the American Hotel-Motel Association Executive Committee Award in 1970. These awards aptly honored his intense participation and experi­ ence in the hotel industry, an experience which included

directing the American Hotel-Motel Association, its Allied Membership Division and the New Jersey Hotel-Motel Association, as well as serving as Chairman for the Board of Hotel and Multiple Dwellings in the New Jersey Depart­ ment of Community Affairs, President of the Garden State Chapter of the Hotel Greeters of America and Hotel Advisor for Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Arthur's involvement in community affairs was equally extensive: he was a Board member of the Jewish Vocational Service and the Jewish Community Council, a member of the American Jewish Committee and former Chairman of the Suburban United Jewish Appeal. In 1960, he received the Kessler Institute of Rehabilitation Award and, in 1962, the State of Israel Award. He also served on the boards of several banks and banking corporations and maintained an interest in horse-racing and breeding.

Arthur's life was motivated much by love, by a sincere and large interest in people, in their happiness and welfare.

He travelled widely across the world and was the king at tables of good food and company. When he was honored as the Outstanding Alumnus last year, many of his col­ leagues from different parts of the country came to join Academy alumni in paying him tribute.

His loyalty to the Academy was intense. This was his School and the alma mater of his two sons, Robert, Class of '58, and Donald, Class of '62. He worked diligently over many years for the Alumni Association and was of continual help to students interested in many facets of the hotel indus­ try. His friendships with alumni spanned many years: they had no barriers and grew with interest and affection.

When Arthur shook your hand, he held on for a few seconds after the formality was over. But it was never a formality with Arthur. It was always a firm symbol of his feeling for people, unembarrassed, loyal and indeed expan­ sive.

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