Winter 1975 MKA Alumni News

GRADUATES....

MAY WE PRESENT THE MONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY? BOARD OF TRUSTEES

James S. Vandermade '35, President Ulrich V. Solmssen, Vice President Mrs. R. Bruce McBratney '50, Vice President Harold B. Abramson, Treasurer Mrs. Lincoln Ames '54, Secretary Willibald H. Conzen Richard W. Day Mrs. Raymond Healey James T. Mills Ms. Sally Minard '60 Peter N. Perretti, Jr. '49 Frederick L. Redpath Walter J. Sperling, Jr., M.D. '34 Mrs. Thomas F. Troxell, Jr. '46 Howard A. Van Vleck '22 ASSOCIATE TRUSTEES: S. Thomas Aitken '56 Mrs. Harold B. Abramson

J. Stevens Bean Robert D. B. Carlisle Mrs. Albert Cohn Joseph A. Courier Mrs. C. J. DeCotiis Rudolph H. Deetjen, Jr. '50 Willard W. Dixon Daniel E. Emerson '42 Mrs. William E. Frederick Macdonald Halsey Mrs. Richard J. Hatzenbuhler Mrs. Wallace S. Jones Robert E. Livesey '37 Henri C. Marsh, D.V.M .

C. Gorham Phillips Mrs. Charles B. Sanders '41 Edward J. Schadler James D. Timmons Francis A. Wood, M.D.

VOLUME I

JANUARY, 1975

CONTENTS

Conversation with the Principal

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Dear Alumnae and Alumni: This first issue of MKA ALUMNI NEWS is an in­ troduction: to Richard W. Day, our Principal; to Francine L. DeCotiis, Rudolph H. Deetjen, Jr., and J. Stevens Bean, our Primary, Middle and Upper School Heads; to our students and faculty; and you to each other - our alumnae and alumni.

We plan, in future issues, to tell you more about MKA's college counseling, curriculum, student activities and, of course, to keep you informed about alumni activities and give you news of your classmates. Montclair Kimberley Academy is your school, as ALUMNI NEWS is your magazine, and we welcome your suggestions as to its content.

The Alumni Office is located at the Middle School, 201 Valley Road. Please visit us either in person or through the mail!

Sincerely Yours, (Mrs.) Jo T. Callaghan Director of Alumni Affairs

Introduction to The Primary School The Middle School The Upper School

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Bulletin Board

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Kimberley Alumnae Association Kimberley Class Notes

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Montclair Academy Alumni Association Montclair Academy Class Notes

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Member Council for Advancement and Support of Education, National Association of Independent Schools, Alumni Presidents' Council of Independent Schools Published by the Montclair Kimberley Academy, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, New Jersey 07042, twice a year in winter and spring. Entered as third class matter at Montclair, N. J. 07042

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■ A CONVERSATION BETWEEN RICHARD WARD DAY, PRINCIPAL, AND JAMES S. VANDERMADE (MA 35) PRESIDENT OF THE MONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY BOARD OF TRUSTEES

JSV: Dick, I know that by now most of our friends

and alumni know a little about your unique professional background...your ten years as Principal of Exeter, and twelve years before that as head of two other fine schools - Hawken and Germantown Academy...but I wonder if you could tell us a little more about your own education, your experiences in the classroom as a teacher and coach and in the Army during the war?

RWD: The reason, I suppose, for my lifelong fascination with education is that I have been ex­ posed to great teachers ever since I can remember. I was brought up on tales about my grandfather who was chairman of the mathematics department at Yale in the 1890's. My father was clinical professor of surgery at Harvard and Tufts, and shared his en­ thusiasm for teaching with me.

My first school experience was at Shady Hill, an extraordinary elementary school founded during World War I by a group of Harvard professors. Ernest Hocking of the philosophy department and his wife were among the prime movers, and at first the classes were held on the Hookings' porch, outdoors in all

weather. From the beginning, the school attracted great teachers, whose names and vivid personalities I still remember. Daily they communicated to their students the enthusiasm they themselves felt for learning. They always confronted us with the best books, plays, music, art. We were never presented with the second-rate on the mistaken theory that it would be easier for us to understand. Certainly, we were never bored! As third-graders, we probably did not fully understand the poetry of Yeats as Mrs. Hocking read it to us, but from then on we knew that language can be musical, and we began to listen for it.

At Belmont Hill School, too, where I spent the last three years of high school, I had some memorable teachers, who refused to let this indifferent student get away with doing the minimum. At college I chose courses for their teachers rather than for a particular major.

The year I graduated from Yale, 1938, was a dismal one economically. I was lucky to find a position at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, teaching history and mathematics, coaching three seasons, running a dormitory. The job was allabsorbing and I enjoyed every minute of it, but by 1

the middle of the year I realized that to continue in teaching I needed more education. Just as war was breaking out in Europe in the fall of 1939, I began my graduate studies in history at Harvard and had two wonderful years under the personal direction of such remarkable teachers as Samuel Eliot Morison, Charles Howard Mcllwain, David Owen, Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. I had just returned happily to teaching and coaching at the Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut, when Pearl Harbor came, and by the following March, I had enlisted in the infantry.

Surprisingly, four years in the army added to my teaching experience. For one thing, I attended at least seven schools^, then I taught commandos, and served as aide to a parachute general, who was, among other things, a remarkable teacher. Along the way, I picked up a good deal of administrative ex­ perience as a parachute company commander and division staff officer.

With the war over, I returned to Harvard to finish my Ph.D., and then to St. Paul's to continue my teaching. I also coached football, hockey, baseball, ran a ninth-grade dormitory, served as advisor to the Student Council. Again the extraordinary teacher turned up, this time my department head,Bwho encouraged my efforts to start new programs and stimulated my thinking about teaching techniques.

After twenty-two years as a headmaster, I still consider myself first and foremost a teacher. Run­ ning a school involves a lot of teaching.

JSV: At some point in your early career you married

Kathy MacAusland. I don't think our alumni know much more than that about your family.

RWD: Kathy and I were married in 1943, while she was in the Navy, so she shared many of these school experiences with me. She, too, was born in Boston, and she is an alumna of Bryn Mawr College. While at 2

the Hawken School in Cleveland, we both became interested in the teaching of reading. I began hearing about Anna Gillingham through her work at the Francis Parker School in Chicago, where she had literally eliminated the need for remedial reading.

Miss Gillingham agreed to train some of our teachers in her techniques. When a vacancy occurred, Kathy filled in. With the Gillingham training as a base, she and a colleague, Patricia Lightbody, developed Hawken's reading and spelling program, and later co­ authored SRA's Spelling Series, Words and Patterns; which was published in 1971.

We have three children, Richard W ., Jr., who is a first-year medical student in Guadalajara, Mexico; Andrew, who is a member of the Hare Krishna movement; and Lydia, who is a secretary in a Boston law firm.

JSV: As an outgrowth of your own experience, study

and environment, I know you have developed some fundamental thoughts as to the responsibility of the student for his own education - beliefs that held great appeal for the Trustee Selection Committee when considering your qualifications. You may wish also to comment on your feelings about the critical im­ portance of the elementary grades.

RWD: I'll begin with that because that is where it all begins. It was at Germantown in 1952-56 that I rediscovered elementary education and became aware of its singular importance and its challenge to a teacher's intellect and perceptiveness. This im­ pression was strengthened by eight years at the Hawken School. Even after we had added kin­ dergarten and grades 10-12 to the original nine-grade school, we still felt spurred on by the impetus of the exciting elementary years.

Every child is born with a powerful drive to learn, and begins school brimming with eagerness. It is the task of parents and teachers to keep this eagerness

alive. We must be wary of curricula structured in such a way as to deprive the child of a feeling of responsibility towards learning. We must stimulate and reward initiative with plenty of exciting materials, guidance, and encouragement. Children can contribute in original ways to the understanding of their classmates and their teachers. We must convince them that they are in fact partners, not subjects, in the process of education.

Too often, by the very nature of our courses and materials, the student comes to see school as a place where teachers give answers to problems that bear little relationship to his life. We tend to teach children that learning is basically the teacher's responsibility and pleasure. Even our system of reporting directly to parents, rather than first to students, has confirmed the student's belief that he is not accountable for his own progress. If we wish to help children to be independent in thought and responsible in action, the school day must consist of satisfying experiences in independence and responsibility, carefully observed. It should go without saying that this can't be done unless stimulating and worthwhile subject matter and materials abound in every classroom.

JSV: Relative to these convictions about the responsibility of the individual to himself are those you hold about his responsibility to the school community at large, and your thoughts about how

the school should handle student errors in judgment in this area. Would you care to touch on this subject as we conclude this conversation?

RWD: In matters of discipline, schools often rely upon a system of detentions, and reports to parents, which punish teachers and parents rather than confronting the student directly with his error in judgment, and forcing him to come to grips with his responsibility for it. Just as it is instinctive for young people to want to learn, they also by instinct want to be constructive members of their school com­ munities. Most misbehavior in school is the result of thoughtlessness, a generous portion of selfishness, and boredom. We must take time to help each student understand the nature of his failure in developing self-control.

We should involve young people at every age in shaping the decisions that affect them. Democracy, as we well know, is a fragile mechanism. It must be experienced to be understood. Confidence in it as a way of life cannot come about overnight, but only through repeated experience with it in solving actual problems. It is therefore crucial that a school be alert to opportunities for young people to gain confidence in their ability to make decisions together for themselves, and to assume the responsibilities decisions entail. No institution is perfect, but that is the goal towards which this school is striving.

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B Introduction To The Primary School

By Mrs. Francine L. DeCotiis, H eadm istress

It is too late to invite you to Brookside to enjoy the fall foliage from our classroom windows, which on three sides looked out across the playing fields to miniature forests aglow with color and on the fourth upon the still-blue water of the swimming pool beyond the dark green and bright orange of the fire thorn.

Now .we invite you to visit our primary school and listen to the sounds from the classrooms and play areas as the youngest generation of school children learn. As one crosses the play area one hears, instead of the sharp barks of a coach, the happy squeals of little children above the squeaky wheels of velocipedes driven at full tilt. Inside from the kindergarten may come the not-too rhythmic pounding of hammers as five-year olds pound at their workbench. On the other side of the room, Sarah Guinea Pig, oblivious to the important decision just made, nibbles away. "Sarah is going to my house Friday" In the hallway there is often the sound of scraping shoes skipping. Running in the halls, of course, is forbidden but at age five who can forego the chance to skip in a long hall? "Evry budie is nise."

From a classroom one might hear the proud though perhaps hesitating reading aloud by a first grader, or from a second grade classroom the muttering as a youngster struggles with a sum. From the science room perhaps you will hear the soft whirring of a movie projector as intent youngsters watch an interesting film. "Is it already Friday?" In our music room you might hear the clear tones of our new metalophone above the muffled bongo drums and treble voices. The low buzz of voices in the art room often is interrupted by an imperious "I want to use it."

If you have not completely concentrated on listening during your visit, you may have noticed the aroma of perking coffee 'coming from the faculty room. Here we would be delighted to share not only the coffee but teachers' plans for the children in the primary school.

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Mrs. DeCotiis and Claudia Ross, First Grader.

.... PRIMARY SCHOOL

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Introduction To The Middle School

By Rudolph H. Deetjen, Jr., (MA '50) H eadm aster - and students Tami Oki (5th grade) and James Johnson (8th grade)

From Mr. Deetjen Our Middle School on the Kimberley campus has a newness that enhances an exciting educational program. The curriculum for the 396 students in grades four through eight was designed over the past academic year by existing faculty and department chairmen. It emphasizes areas of skill building in traditional subjects with a strong concentration on proficiency in the use of our own language. A new modular schedule based on a six-day cycle provides for periods of varying length, with increased time in English and the fine arts. We have strong programs in mathematics, science, social studies, and foreign languages, and our physical education classes are augmented by intramural practices and games. Optional interscholastic competition is available for seventh and eighth graders. An audio-visual Resource Center, an art department kiln, and home economics kitchen add further dimensions to our program.

Our first Middle School Student Council was elected in September and collaborated with the faculty in setting up a Code of Conduct. With these guidelines clearly understood, students have found they can function acceptably and comfortably, with ample consideration for others.

A recent eighth grade dance, as well as swimming and volley ball contests, have brought out the natural fun of coeducation. Nowhere has this been more obvious than in our dramatic productions and glee club performances.

Rigorous academic standards are assured by a watchful and industrious faculty. In addition to continuous com­ munication and planning in weekly meetings, committees in special areas such as grading have provided a fresh look at our objectives and have devised systems to meet individual needs. The student-advisor conference is an important aspect of the reporting system, with each boy and girl maintaining daily contact with a faculty member who cares about the total development of that child. This chance for friendly help and recognition is a fundamental strength in the busy life of the Middle Schooler.

Mr. Deetjien, Tami Oki and James Johnson.

from Tami....

This year I'm taking French, and I really like it. Music lessons are very enjoyable. We're making a book of stories, poems, and cinquains in the fifth grade, and covers with string designs on cardboard are being made in our art class. and from James....

This first year "In the Middle" is really great. There are many different things for a student to do here. There is the interscholastic sports program which has sports for both girls and boys, and there are also clubs to suit a student's par­ ticular interest. This will prove to be a very interesting and fun-filled year, "In the Middle."

MIDDLE SCHOOL

m Introduction To The Upper School

By J. Stevens Bean, H ea d m a ster ...and Seniors...Kay Towner and Hugh Gleason

From Mr. Bean....

The Upper School is off to a strong start. Student spirit is high, the faculty is united, the curriculum provides an ex­ citing breadth of study opportunities, and the athletic program is in full swing.

There are 432 students in grades nine through twelve, with a ratio of approximately three boys to two girls. Student planning which was begun last spring insured that both sexes would be represented in key leadership positions. Thus, for this first year, there are co-leaders of most student organizations. The high level of school spirit is evidenced by the enthusiastic turnout of spectators at athletic contests. For example, MKA fans clearly outnumbered those from the opposing teams at two away football games. The dance sponsored by the Athletic Association this fall was a huge success, having a larger attendance than can be remembered in recent years.

The forty-nine faculty members who work full or part time at the Upper School campus include only five who were not previously at either The Kimberley School or Montclair Academy. The merging of the two groups began last year with a combined curriculum study which resulted in a more diversified curriculum as well as a unified faculty. While planning the curriculum for the new school, the members of the faculty came to know and respect one another so that they have been able to work together easily since September.

The curriculum developed for the Upper School is based on a trimester system of elective courses together with the traditional required subjects. Course requirements in each of the disciplines have been maintained or strengthened while opportunities have been provided for students to pursue their special interests through a wide variety of elective offerings.

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Mr. Bean, Kay Towner and Hugh Gleason.

from Kay....

Yes, academically, the school is off to an excellent start.

The faculty's success in planning course electives is evident.

Students are excited and talking about courses that range from a study of Freud to the study of the stars. The ad­ ministration, faculty, and student body have combined ef­ forts to produce a curriculum which is similar, in many respects, to offerings listed by colleges. The new school easily fulfills the purpose of a college preparatory school. and from Hugh....

From the students' point of view, the combination of schools and their extra-curricular activities has also been smooth. Clubs are operating and contributing to the new school. Two of the many activities that involve students are: the American Field Service, which for the first time in its history at the Academy, is sponsoring a girl student (Marianne Gertsch, a native of Switzerland, who will live at two different Seniors' homes during the year); and the Athletic Association, previously a Kimberley organization, which has made a concrete contribution to the school. By sponsoring a dance, the A .A . has bought sweat suits for the use of the soccer and other teams.

UPPER SCHOOL

Bricks And Mortar Christmas vacations have come and gone, and have helped to push into the dim gray yonder those glorious vacations which we had, or were supposed to have had, last summer.

It was a momentous summer for the up and coming new Montclair Kimberley Academy. With all the decisions which had to be made in launching our new school, your House and Grounds Committee found its hands full during those holiday months.

At the Brookside campus, locker room areas were remodeled to provide a general purpose room in the basement, while many of the classrooms were altered to conform to the requirements of the new teaching program and to house more adequately the new classes.

At the Kimberley campus a boys' locker room was an absolute necessity, and this was accomplished by rebuilding the old south porch and storeroom. This has resulted in a fine facility with new toilets, showers, and storage with direct access to the field and the pool, and connection through the field level floor to the gymnasium.

The girls' shower room has been rebuilt. The locker room has been reconditioned, and new ventilation and a new heating system have been installed.

At the Montclair Academy campus two new girls' toilets have been added in the Humanities building, and a new nurse's station has been installed in the administration building. In the gymnasium, the large locker area has been divided to provide a girls' locker room - and showers, accessible to the upper floors, also have direct con­ nection to the swimming pool.

Most of these alterations have taken place within the bounds of existing walls and, as we look at the

buildings today, it is gratifying to realize that necessary changes have been made without changing the exterior appearance of the buildings on our three campuses.

In closing this very brief sketch of structural changes necessitated by the merger, let me just mention the hours devoted by one member of the Committee, Harold Abramson, in our effort to complete this program.

Next year we will add to our tennis facilities by, hopefully, adding four new courts at the Kimberley campus.

Howard A. Van Vleck '22

Kimberley and Montclair Academy have always been schools of traditions, and we hope to continue many of the old ones and add new ones for MKA. For many years Kimberley has had an Opening Coffee, always held after the first Assembly. We maintained that tradition this year on September eleventh after the first assembly at the Upper School. Invitations were sent to alumnae/i parents, alumnae and alumni Board members, Parents Association officers, and MKA Trustees. As in the past, the Principal invited all guests present and the Senior Class to join us, too.

Next on the year's schedule was Homecoming Day on October fifth, an Academy tradition and an unqualified success.

Alumnae, alumni, parents, faculty and students came to tailgate and picnic, meet friends, and cheer the "Cougars" as

they played Princeton Day. The game went to PD, but the day went to MKA. The Alumni and Alumnae Associ­ ations hosted a reception for Mr. and Mrs. Day in the Academy gym for everyone immediately following the game. A good crowd gave the Days an enthusiastic welcome.

Since the Days are anxious to begin to know more and more alumnae and alumni (there are roughly 3,000 of us!), they hosted a reception on October seventeenth for the members of the two Association Boards, local Class Secretaries and Class Agents, and their spouses. A most pleasant evening of coffee, liqueurs, and dessert was followed by an excellent panel of students who told about the school.

An informal Christmas Vacation Luncheon was held on January third in the Commons Room of the Upper School for members of the Senior Class and college-age graduates of TKS and MA. Principal Day and Headmaster Bean did a superb job of carving roast beef for the over 160 alumni, students, and faculty who attended. The Luncheon was happily received as another on our growing list of MKA traditions.

There will be future events later this year. Do come and see the marvelous blending of schools. It is an exciting time, and we want everyone to share in it. We hope that many alumnae and alumni will not wait for a specific occasion, but will just stop by. You are always welcome, and you will be impressed.

Carol Snow Evans '53

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Sports Scene The Montclair Kimberley Academy athletic program for fall and winter has been notable for one major characteristic: total involvement.

Faculty and student participation has been at the highest possible level.

Physical facilities, which were being used at near-to-capacity levels prior to the merger, are now being utilized even more heavily.

During the fall season, athletic fields at the Upper and Middle Schools were in constant use by varsity, J.V ., and junior football teams. There were also three field hockey teams, two cross country squads (now on coed status), and three soccer teams operating on the Academy and Kimberley fields. The simple act of arranging schedules for use of the facilities often required a sort of legerdemain requiring Houdini-like precision.

The winter program has seen full use of equipment and gyms, and again required skillful scheduling.

Basketball is played by all Upper and Middle School students - boys and girls alike. The same is true of volleyball.

Fencing, like cross country, is coed and has many en­ thusiasts. There is also interest in tumbling and gymnastics which require time and space as does wrestling where there are two active teams. Varsity and J.V. swimming teams share time in the pool with the water polo players to say nothing of other groups which use this wonderful facility. The ice hockey teams play "off campus," using ice time at municipal rinks. The gyms and the Upper School pool are in constant use until late into the evening when faculty and members of the com­ munity can be found there.

Everyone involved in the athletic program is to be commended.

Participation is the keyword, the style is dedicated, and the cooperation is in keeping with the high spirit typical of the MKA family.

Alan J. Werksman '50

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School Ties A real joy has come to the students, faculty, and administration in building a new community. Some of the ways to do this are small but the results are then held in great affection - a new mascot, the intermural and intramural team names, and the school colors are a part of growing new school ties. The seal is being voted on at this writing.

The Academy Lion has lain down with the Kimberley Kangaroo, and the MKA Cougar has risen from their peace. If you were a "Kimber" or a "Lee" at Kimberley, or rooted for the "Red and the Black" at the Academy, you will now find that the "Pumas" and "Adidas" are out on the playing fields. All these changes, voted on by the students, have broadened the fun and vitality of the intramural sports.

The winning MKA colors are blue, green, and white.

A tremendous potential for good morale in a community school resides in the Athletic Department. Each of the three old schools had a fine one; each had its different emphasis.

Combined, they have made for new strengths, giving mutual support where needed.

The excitement of transferring wonderful old loyalties to a new school, which all are making together, has given new meaning to an educational community at this time, in this place. And that is good.

Can anyone come up with an Alma Mater?

Constance Ritchie DuHamel '46

Annual Giving Montclair Kimberley Academy's first Annual Giving program is well 16

underway with alumni, parents, and friends working for and contributing to its goal of $100,000.

To inform the parents of MKA's needs and to give them further op­ portunity to learn about the school, a Parents Committee was formed this fall with the following members: David H. Coyle, Kindergarten William H. Dodd, 1st grade Eric J. Gleacher, 2nd grade Stephen Mochary, 3rd grade Roger T. Cole, 4th grade John Curtin, 5th grade John F. O'Brien, 6th grade David L. Kerr, 7th grade J. Perry Ruddick, 7th grade Frederic G. Calder, 8th grade John R. Cannell, 8th grade Henry A. M cGill, 9th grade Thomas F. Troxell, Jr., 9th grade Joseph A. Sullivan, Jr., 10th grade Theodore H. Irwin, II, 10th grade William E. Scott, 11th grade J. Henri Pariseau, 11th grade Francis J. Gleason, 12th grade James Crawford, 12th grade These committee members held nine group meetings for parents to discuss - with the able assistance of Mr. Day, the three school Heads and members of their faculties - the educational program of MKA and to review the school's budget. At the meetings for the Upper School parents a student panel was also on hand to provide further insight into the life of the school. The meetings were all well attended, and constructive question and answer periods added to their value.

The Principal, in his letters to alumni and friends of Montclair Kimberley Academy, explained the need for and the importance of their participation in Annual Giving. As he

stated to them, the percentage of graduates and friends who join us in this effort is a measure of their support and is equally as encouraging as the total amount we raise.

For all of us in the MKA family, a response to Annual Giving enables us to make a worthwhile contribution to the quality of education that our school can provide.

Charles B. Sanders, II '41

Chairman, Parents Committee PRELIMINARY SUMMARY OF ANNUAL GIVING 1974-75 AS OF JANUARY 15,1975 Alumni

$15,881.50

Alumni Parents

4,026.75

Parents

21,142.20

Past Parents and Friends

4,900.00

Matching Gifts

1,590.00

Pledges and Matching Gifts to Come

4,030.00

Total $51,570.45

Alumnae Executive Committee An Executive Committee from the Academy Alumni and Kimberley Alumnae Boards has been formed to meet and discuss ways to effect a smooth consolidation of our Associations and their activities.

Members ‘ of the committee from Kimberley are: Aubin Zabriskie Ames

'54, Fay Taft Fawcett '52, Miriam Eustis Irwin '51, and Felicity Ferguson Morse '54; and from the Montclair Academy Board: S. Thomas Aitken '56, Marc S. Kirschner '60, George J. Kramer'54, Robert S. Sessa'68, Bogart F. Thompson '35, William J. Thomp­ son '33, and Alan J. Werksman '50.

Activities for this year 1974-75 of the Alumnae/i Associations have been and will be mostly co-ordinated, and are aimed at familiarizing alumni with MKA and with each other to help make all feel a part of the new school.

Traditions, as well as new ideas, have already been discussed, and the possibilities for an even more active and contributing alumni group offer exciting new challenges.

A by-laws committee will draw up by-laws for a combined MKA Alumni Association. Officers will be elected in the spring - in time to welcome the first graduating class.

Any alumna or alumnus who has special concerns, ideas, or sugges­ tions is urged to contact a member of the Executive Committee.

Aubin Zabriskie Ames '54 S. Thomas Aitken '56

Introducing...

Director Of Alumni Affairs, Jody Callaghan Mrs. Jo T. Callaghan, formerly Director of Alumnae Affairs at Kimberley, has been appointed Director of Alumni Affairs for the combined schools.

Jody's first association with Kimberley came as a parent to Anne Callaghan, who at­ tended TKS for six years and was graduated in 1969. In 1971 Jody came to Kimberley from the Development Office at Montclair State College to

be Assistant to Robert White, then Director of Development.

She gradually assumed most of the alumnae responsibilities, first as Alumnae Secretary and then as Director of Alumnae Affairs. Jody and her husband, Bill Kervick, live in Montclair and are avid travelers (when they can get away!).

Jody feels very enthusiastic about the possibilities ahead for the combined MKA Alumni Association.

Alumnae/i activities have been plentiful this fall - well attended, and organized with a great spirit of cooperation. The most pressing challenge, thus far, has been the consolidation and up-dating of ad­ dress, biographical, and giving records for over 5,000 alumnae, alumni, and friends of MKA. Always cheerful, Jody says, "We're getting there!"

Annual Giving is in full swing, with materials for Class Agents being prepared at this writing; and ALUMNI NEWS is going to press. Assisting Jody in the busy Alumni/Development Office are Mrs. Virginia Durning, who was formerly secretary to Mr. Bean at MA, and Mrs. Betty Russell, who was the secretary in the MA Alum­ ni/Development Office.

Aubin Zabriskie Ames '54

Alumni Presidents' Council Workshop On Wednesday, November 6, 1974, Aubin Ames and I had the pleasure of being your delegates to the Alumni Presidents' Council of Independent Schools Regional Workshop which was held at the Kimberley campus of MKA. Workshops were held this fall in eight different geographic locations to

provide opportunities for Member Schools to send alumni who might live many miles from their schools to a workshop near their residences.

Kimberley graduate, Patricia Onderdonk Pruett '48, represented MKA at Friends Central School in Philadelphia.

We started the day with a "coffee," and then the morning session began with a panel which included Mrs. Rothwell Sheriff, Jr., Moderator from the APC Executive Committee; Richard W. Day, MKA Principal; Anna Crawford and Geoff Gimber, MKA Seniors; Adele Q. Ervin, NAIS Director of Membership and Development Services; and Aubin Ames, President of the TKS Alumnae Association. The discussion gave us all an idea of the problems in­ dependent schools face today.

Tours were then provided at our three campuses for the more than thirty delegates from twenty-four privafe independent schools, with Kimberley alumnae volunteer drivers providing transportation to the Brookside and Academy campuses.

After a basket lunch in the Middle School Library, delegates broke into discussion groups - "Development Program and Fund Raising," "Alumni and Parent Involvement," and "Coeducational Opportunities."

I attended the latter two. Each school represented discussed how they were hoping to involve their alumni with their schools today. Most of them have gone coeducational recently, and there are some identity problems.

It was helpful to share ideas and goals with alumni from schools similar to ours, and both Aubin and I felt we had spent a most worthwhile day.

Felicity Ferguson Morse '54

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Office is at the Kimberley campus, and arrangements are easily made for you to see all three campuses. I think you will be pleased and proud of your school.

Best wishes for 1975...

Aubin Zabriskie Ames '54 President, Kimberley Alumnae Association

Frances Campbell Earnest writes, "One more great-grandson added to the clan almost a year old now - named Clifford Tait Holmes. Oldest grandson was married last April. All in family are well at present, but I will always walk with a can now, and have had to give up golf because of a bad knee. Life continues to be busy and rewarding."

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Class Secretary: Mrs. Samuel Meek (Priscilla Mitchell) Doubling Road Greenwich, Connecticut 06852

Nominating Committee

Letter From The President Dear Alumnae: Your Alumnae Association has had a very active and busy fall, as you may have gathered from reading some of the articles on the preceding pages.

The Opening Coffee and Home­ coming were both well attended, and I hope more and more of you who live locally will be able to participate. We were particularly happy to host a fall Alumni Presidents' Council regional meeting at the Kimberley campus, which was attended by represen­ tatives from 24 member schools.

Many willing hands have helped to make these events a success - thanks to all of you!

Montclair Kimberley Academy is off to a good start. Enrollment is high, and the students are happy and ap­ pear to have adapted well to their new surroundings. The faculty, staff, and administration have all been superb and have shown a great spirit of cooperation in effecting the many changes that have been necessary.

Naturally, there are still some kinks to work out - policies to be decided on, curriculum adjustments, records and files (endless!) to name a few, but these will be accomplished in time.

All things considered, the transition has been remarkably smooth.

I hope that many of you will come to see The Montclair Kimberley Academy. Your interest, support, and concern provide the foundation upon which the school is growing, and you are always welcome. The Alumni 18

Fluffy Ferguson Morse '54 has been appointed by the Nominating Committee to complete the unexpired term of Jackie Byrne Devendorf '55 as Secretary/Treasurer of the Associa­ tion.

Fluffy has been an active alumna for many years. In 1971 she ran the Spring House Tour, a very successful fund raiser for the Alumnae Association. Since then, she has served on the Alumnae Board as a member-at-large, and this fall she attended the regional Alumni Presidents' Council meeting as a delegate from MKA. Fluffy is a member of the MKA Alumnae/i Executive Committee. She and her husband, Reg, live in Verona and have two daughters.

Class News '09

We were so pleased to have a note from Emma Dickson Carswell with news of herself and her family. She said that since she is Kimberley's oldest living graduate, she would be interested to learn who the Academy's oldest living graduate is.!(Our records show that he is Carlos Herrera '08, and that he lives in Guatemala. Anyone have other information?) Mrs. Carswell has one married grandson, two in the Univepity of Virginia, one in State Teachers College, and two adorable teenagers.

'14-15

Class Secretary: Mrs. George O. Bailey '15 (Dorothy Cerf) Old Point Road Quogue, N.Y. 11959 '16

Class Secretary: Mrs. Charles Williams (Jerry McBrier) 10 Crestview Court Montclair, N.J. 07042

'20

Coeducation is not new to Ruth Broughton Beggs. She wrote us recently that when she entered Kimberley in 1909, there were three boys in her class - John Fitch, Clark Costikyan, and William Hannah!

'22

An interesting note came to the Alumni Office from Miriam Cary Clifton. "In August I went on a wonderful trip to the Holy Lands. Flew to Rhodes; boarded a ship for Beirut, Haifa, Patmos; with bus trips to Baalbeck, Damascus, Byblos, Tyre and Sidon, Nazareth, Galilee, and Jerusalem. Because we had to skip Athens, we had four days at Jerusalem (St. George Hotel) instead of only two. Turkish-Greek problem kept us from Cyprus and we had to go to Brindisi, Italy, take a bus to Rome, and fly home from there. I'll never be the same!"

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Class Secretary: Mrs. Philip B. Taylor (Helen Patrick) 80 Norwood Avenue Upper Montclair, N.J. 07043 '25

Class Secretary: Mrs. H. Kimball Halligan (Helen Raymond) 489 Highland Avenue Upper Montclair, N.J. 07043 '29

Class Secretary: Miss Susie Sterling 133 North Mountain Avenue Montclair, N.J. 07042 Had a note from Harriet Laffey Files last June telling me her husband, Tom, had passed away in May. Our love and sympathy to you, Harriet.

Read in the Montclair Times that Dorothy Minsch Bond lost her mother

this fall and, as you read in the last ALUMNAE NEWS, her husband, Nelson, passed away last spring. We all send you our love and sympathy, Do. Charlotte Fitch writes she had a won­ derful trip to Europe for her sabbatical.

She visited England, Wales, Scotland. She then took a tour through East and West Germany, Poland, and the USSR, retur­ ning to London from Leningrad by Russian Motor Ship, Baltic Line.

I had a nice card from Jean DeWitt Fitz.

She is fine and sends her best to all twentyniners. She has just sold a new mystery novel called, "Graveyard Stuff" and is working on still another slightly more serious novel. Her "Devon Maze" has gone into its second printing.

Mary Ann Fobes Williams writes that she and her husband spent August at Friday Harbor on San Juan Island and Puget Sound to be near her son and five grandchildren. Leaving there, they drove across the northern states to go to Kansas City, M o., for the birth of granddaughter, Tiffany Ann Foster. They stayed with their daughter and husband until the end of September. They stopped in Arizona to meet friends and do some photography before returning home to Barroga Springs, Calif.

I am feeling fine now after a few visits to Mountainside Hospital. A year ago August two broken wrists, and last April I had an operation. All is well now and am very busy getting ready for Christmas.

Hope you will all get to Montclair some day and let me take you over to see the new Montclair Kimberley Academy. You will be impressed.

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Class Secretary: Mrs. Val J. Brennan (Grace McCollum) 130 North Mountain Avenue Montclair, N.J. 07042 '34

Class Secretary: Mrs. David Haviland (Barbara Spadone) 185 Gates Avenue Montclair, N.J. 07042 Kay Halsey Hutson and Frank gave us a big thrill in September when they arranged for us to see the America Cup races off Newport. Those old Kimberleyites who enjoyed the Hutson hospitality at Little Campton for this event included Jean Berry Walton and Hunter; Terry Bull Sterling and Arch; Liz Higgins Thompson and Bogie; Edie Bull Miller and Tom; and Yours Truly with Dave. The.Fleet of boats that followed the races was spectacular. It was all great fun.

Edie Baber Campaign and Jim had a wonderful trip at that time to Brussels and London.

Lib Gracy Kenny add Bill have been to London this fall, too. They have a new granddaughter, Erin. She is the daughter of son Fred and his wife, Tracy Bean Kenny.

Carol Thompson Lathrop and John have gone to live in Nantucket permanently.

They occupy a wonderful new home they built. We shall miss them.

Our two daughters, Cathy and Linda, are enjoying the new Montclair Kimberley Academy. Cathy was elated to get early admission to St. Lawrence College for next fall. Linda has two more years at MKA. '35

Class Secretary: Mrs. Stewart Carpenter (Josephine Fobes) 4 LaSalle Road Upper Montclair, N.J. 07043 '36

Class Secretary: Mrs. W. K. Schmid (Josephine Murray) Magan Point, c/o Jacques Waterford, Connecticut 06385 '37

Class Secretary: Mrs. Newell Sjolander (Kathryn Holton) 11 Werimus Brook Road Saddle River, N.J. 07458 Margaret Richards Chapman has been busy reupholstering furniture as well as being active in the Army Community Service. Her husband, Curtis, has been a Major General at Fort Belvoir, V a., for three years.

Sally Weigel Livingston had a baby daughter, Emery, on June 9, 1974...a new grandchild for Marjorie Rile Weigel.

Also in June, Sally Young Shertzer's daughter, Peggy Van Court, had her first child an'd Sally's first grandson, Christopher Van Court.

Dorothy Vondermuhll Young recently moved to an apartment complex near her daughter, Anne Clark, in Montgomery, Alabama. She is also near Sally Shertzer.

Among her many other activities, Frances Montgomery is involved with bookbinding and has produced some examples of fine craftmanship.

Ruth Duff Eager's son, Robert, married Rosemary Ellis on October 26, 1974. The newlyweds are living in Old Tappan, N.J. I recently had an exhibit of my arts and crafts in the Ridgewood Public Library.

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Class Secretary: Miss Jane Carpenter I I Norman Road Upper Montclair, N.J. 07043 Mary Ames Poor's daughter, Betsy, was

married this fall at West Dover, Vermont.

Mary is still teaching elementary school in Bala-Cynwyd, Pa., and comes to see her mother at the Memorial Center for Women in West Orange.

Priscilla Bennett Ritter's son, Bennett, was married recently. Pril continues her position at the reception desk at Moun­ tainside Hospital. Our sympathy to her on the loss of her father, who passed away at age 97.

Holly Mitchell Kimball received much publicity for her excellent job as Chairman of the Writer's Conference held at the Montclair Kimberley Academy on October 26th. The Kimballs' son, Jonathan, was married in June and is studying at Columbia University. Holly's husband, Ed, is still commuting between New Jersey and Venezuela as an assistant to Nelson Rockefeller.

I am enjoying my work as Records Manager at the Lutheran Church in America, so I still commute between Montclair and New York City. Call me with any news you may have - always love to hear from you.

'39

Class Secretary: Mrs. J. P. Curtin (Ann Dixon) 101 Clinton Avenue Montclair, N.J. 07042

'41

Class Secretary: Mrs. Willian P. Breen (Helen Hanau) 24 Greenview Way Upper Montclair, N.J. 07043

'43

Class Secretary: Mrs. E. B. Ruffing, Jr. (Joan Sweeney) 125 Westview Road Upper Montclair, N.J. 07043

'44

Class Secretary: Mrs. Victor Kohman (Helen Shireff) 32 Summit Road Verona, N.J. 07044

'45

Class Secretary: Mrs. Proctor Smith (Leigh Berrien) 118 North Mountain Avenue Montclair, N.J. 07042

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'46

C/as® Secretary: Mrs. W. L. Brown, Jr. (Joan Lockerty) ¿19 Harding Road West Caldwell, N.J. 07006 Joan Denny Carlisle has three boys away Scott at Hardwick, Malcolm at Suffield Academy, and Gordie was graduated from Berkeley and f l in the silk-screening business in California. Husband, Rob, is free-lancing and sonj-'Stewart, is a student at MKA. Joan was secretary of A .F.S. last year and iSone of Mountainside's fifitrest.

We all feel the loisl Of Connie Ritchie DuHamel'B mother, Constance Curran Skinner '20. She had such candor and was so kind t® all of us. Connie and her loving family made her last days beautiful.

Connie has been! sharing >idn the Charismatic Movement, and a small group, open to all, meets at her house to reflect and pray.

Thanks to Cindy Youngman Adams '47 and Dave, some o ||u s caught up with Nancy Rudd O'Neil (that's not easSp.tShe has done and is doing so many creative things that a whole issue could be devoted tcMher. E.g., she painted on aB o u se painting crew for nine months - her ex­ periences are too much for me to relate but she has, as a result, gone into interior decorating professionally. She will be involved B th e Junior League Show House S BostorS Husband, Paul, is about to open his own consulting firm.

Patty Youngman Ames, with two children away at Duke and Ithaca, is busy taking courses at Fairleigh Dickinson and going to the theatre - no musicals!

L&test news of Sally Seidler from B. J. Gilmour Eshbaugh (who looks like the proverbial million dollars and still has wee children) p t h a t S a H has taken back her maiden name. Good luck, Sal. Hope we see you soon.

Nancy Lockerty Hoffman spent three days in this area last summer after leaving one son in Miami at scuba school, one in Maryland as a counselor at the Don Budge Camp, and one at Harvard to study Mandarin. She-headquartered, as usual, on Martha's Vineyard and then checked out son Chipper"s college in Los AlamosTrinity of Texas on her way back to Hong Kong.

Sugie Monoz Hirshon was up for brief visits with her mother. She is really into medicine and loving her para-professional career. Harold is freshman-ing at Boston U., a|i,<| continuing to develop as a tennis great.

On a reggnt visit to Scarsdale Your Secretary dined with Liz Smith Shores and Larry. Liz is toying with the idea of brushing up the secretariab-'skills she employed so well for Kate Smith. She and Bill (my husband) had' ■great fun reminiscing about the "good old days" at

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NBC. Daughter Wendy started at Wells in September. ,

'47

Class Secretary: Mrs. David P. Adams (Cynthia Youngman')®Vv 3 Welsh Road Essex Fells, N.J. 07021 Rather slim pickings this time, but here goes with what I have: Talked to Teeny Redfield Sanders who reported that she had just returned from a trip to California where she saw Barbie Nash Hanson and all was fine with the latter. Barbie's two children, Lynn and Jeff, are in eastern colleges - Lynn studying dentistry in Boston and Jeff a freshman at a small college in New Hampshire.

Teeny also said that she had talked to Jeanie Frey Drake who lives in Barnstable, Mass., on the Cape and whose three boys are in great shape: Chip, teaching swimming at a high school in Ithaca (he graduated from Cornell in June); Jimmy, working as a salesman for his Dad at Minwax Corp.; and Mike, a high school senior in Barnstable.

Teeny loves Darien, Pepsi, and paddle' teniiiis and has Jimmy, a Senior at Florida Southern, and Billy, a Junior at Cornell right next door to her old Alma Mater, Welfs.

Dave and I recently spent a weekend with Nancy Rudd O'Neill ('46) and Paul and they told us that Weezie Rudd Hannegan has just moved into a new pad near Concord and is teaching nursery school full time. Davey is at Union College and Garrett is at a nearby prep school.

Adams kids are as follows: Susie is a transfer sophomore at East Carolina University in North Carolina - Eastern part, I trusJ^Mike, a freshman at Bates up in Maine; and Peter, a sophomore at Mont­ clair Kimberley Academy, no less.

All you classmates who are not menBoned in this article, please send me your news and I promise you'll be in the next issue! Hope your holidays were happy!

The Alumni O ffice heard from Marjorie Bethell Cross last spring (after the spring issue went to press) that she has two children at the University of New Hamp­ shire, and one at Proctor Academy in Andover, N.H. The Crosses spend time commuting between their new con­ dominium in Worcester, Massachusetts and their lake home in Sunapee, N.H.

'48

Class Secretary: M r||(A . Stanley Miller, Jr. (Frances Lane) Camino Gardens 729 S.W . Bayberry Terrace Boca Raton, Florida 33432

'49

Class Secretary: Mrs. T. R. Cutting (Sally Smith) 24 In wood Road Essex Fells, N.J. 07021 '50

Class Secretary: Mrs. W . C . Tull, Jr. (Sue Davis) 7907 G reentree Road Bethesda, Maryland 20034 '51

Class Secretary: Mrs. Eric W. Stroh (Gail Robertson) 1097 Crayton Road Grosse Point, Michigan 48230 '52

Class Secretary: Mrs. Edward C. Fawcett (Fay Taft) 9 Gordon Place Montclair, N.J. 07042 '53

Class Secretary: Mrs. Thomas Burgin (Lolly Penick) 328 Fairway Road Ridgewood N.J. 07450 '55

Carol Hanschka Traenkle's father wrote to us that Carol and her husband, Jeffrey, and their two children (girl 12, son 10) are living in Wayland, Massachusetts. Jeffrey is associated with Arthur D. Little, Inc., in Cambridge.

We heard from Priscilla Cole III that she joined the staff of the Traveler's Village in Bloomfield in August. She says that being a travel agent is an exciting addition to her daily routine.

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Class Secretary: Mrs. Lawther O. Smith (Linda Lovell) 186 East Court Street Doylestown, Pennsylvania 18901 Since June, I've been keeping a letter from Anne King Franges waiting for the next magazine to be published so that we could share her interesting news. This summer they moved into Carol Barnard's old house at 79 Hawthorne Place. Anne extended an open invitation to Carol to drop in when she's in the area. Their new business, "The Montclair Bikery," is over a

year old now and doing very well. Anne finished her first year at Rutgers Law School and is "doing better than at Kimberley." They had a pleasant dinner with Janko and Carol Van Brunt Rasic in New York City. Janko and Tom's fathers were school friends in Yugoslavia.

In a recent note from Betsy Beatty Sanford she writes, "We are so excited my "Old House Study" group's dream is about to come true. Our area, "Franklin Corners" (our house was the Franklin Academy) has been accepted on the State and National Historic Site Registrar! Next we are pushing for local historic zoning here and for the center of Basking Ridge."

We spent an enjoyable weekend with Betsy and Dick on Long Beach Island this fall when they organized and ran a great reunion weekend at their yacht club. What organization!

Everything went so smoothly.

We're enjoying life in Doylestown, Pa., since our move here this spring. Larry has been kept very busy with his new com­ pany, and the kids are settling in well with Brownies, the soccer team, and many neighbors and friends. I've joined the Bucks County Historical Society and have enjoyed various tours to Philly, Princeton, and other places of historic interest. I spent an interesting weekend at Wheaton for Council weekend preparing for our 15th reunion this June. Betsy Hasbrouck Cole, Jane Crawford Davis, and Julie Hedges Rohrer, are you ready? There is an expanded sports program (golf and tennis) for husbands and everyone which should be an added attraction.

Marianne Doran Steinhacker wrote us of the birth of her son, Michael, who joins brothers David (6 1/2) and Daniel (4 1/2)-.

We also heard from Betsy Marshall Hood: "I am greatly enjoying my almost-ayear son, Christopher, and find that studying for my Ph D. and playing with him work well togntheifieach is relief from the other! Of course, the babysitting bills are agonizing, but I still do feel I have the best of two worlds."

'60

Miss Carroll Tierpan Box 203, RFD Westmoreland, N.H. 03467 '61

'58

Mrs. Reginald Leeby (Anne McCormick) 135 Fairfield Street Fayetteville, N.Y. 13066 '59

Mrs. Robert P. Sumas (Deana Rogers) 44 Maple Drive North Caldwell, N’.J. 07006 It was nice to hear from Marybeth Bass Lareau that she enjoyed the history issue of Kimberley's ALUMNAE NEWS, and also to learn that she has just been made Creative Group Head at DancerFitzgerald-Sample, the advertising agency in New York City. Her husband helped found a non-profit organization, Con­ sumer Credit Counseling Service of Greater New York, and is Executive Vice President of it.

Class Secretary: Mrs. J. K. Nash (Christine Kuzmick) 784 D Laurel Walk Coleta, Ca. 93017 The Alumni Office heard from Chris Kuzmick Nash this fall. She hopes that her classmates will write so you will have some '63 news! (Note her new address above.) Chris has a boy, David, born in 1971 and a girl, Jennifer, born in 1973, and she says they keep her busy. Her husband John is beginning a Ph.D. program in Psychology at U.C. Santa Barbara.

'64

Miss Judith Poor 96 North Mountain Avenue Montclair, N.J. 07042 Peggy Mayes Boyd and her husband, Joe, have a new addition to their family, Duncan Hamilton Boyd, born April 4, 1974.

Sue Faulkner DeDecker finds herself so busy that there is hardly enough time for "putting dinner on the table," Along with KEEP IN TOUCH! Please send the Alumni Office your new address when you move. We don't want to lose you! And, won't you also send news of yourself and your family (either to your Class Secretary or to the office) so we can all keep in touch through the magazine?

'57

Mrs. Richard Van Heuven (Connie Hay) "Westmeadows," Mason Lane Slingerlands, N.Y. 12159

'63

being a housewife and having numerous projects at home, she is taking visitors through Crane House in Montclair. In addition to the tours, she is learning some of the old crafts, one being quilt making.

Her daughter, Kim, aged five loves being in the "Early Childhood" class at the Grove Street Elementary School.

My sister, Joan (TKS '66) was married November 9th to Lawrence G. Clarke.

Joan and Larry live near Vail, Colorado.

My nephew, Scott Owen (son of Sally, TKS '65) is almost a year and a half old. He and his parents visited here last May. It is wonderful being an aunt!

Taping serious music and playing the piano have been chief interests, along with singing in my church choir. I'm also continuing as distributor of Amway home products. Hope you all had a joyous holiday season!

'62

Class Secretary: Mrs. Thomas Pohl (Carol Vincelette) 1736 Scheffer Avenue St. Paul, Minnesota 55116

Class Secretary: Mrs. James G. Ward (Carolyn Wilson) 5280 Durango Court Pensacola, Fla. 32504 I received a birth announcement from Gail Lewis Dickerson telling of the birth of a little gift, Tracey Jane, on September 24th. Gail took the opportunity to catch us up on what she has been doing. She andher husband, Bob, also have a little boy, Jay, three and a half years old. Bob is in the Navy stationed at Miramar, California.

Gail is keeping very busy as President of the Officers' Wives Club and Editor of her squadron newspaper. She is also a Red Cross volunteer.

We are relocated in Pensacola, Florida.

We arrived in October and are trying to get settled in a new house. We will be in Montclair during Christmas time and hope to hear news of everyone in the area.

'65

Class Secretary: Mrs. B. R. Madsen (Betsy Ridge) Box 415 Essex, Massachusetts 0I929

'66

Class Secretary: Miss Terry Appenzeller 535 2nd Street, S.E. Washington, D C ., 20003 We were happy to hear news of Marg Sander Messick from her mother. Marg and Brink are in Yemen for a year where Brink is a doctoral candidate in An­ thropology and Near East Studies (Prin­ ceton). Marg will continue her studies at the University of Pennsylvania (M .A. in Art History) when they return to the U.S. in summer of 1975. She graduated from the University of Rhode Island with Highest Distinction Honors.

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'67 Class Secretary: Miss Linda Feinberg 20 Pearl Brook Drive C lifto n ,E M . 07013 '68

C la w Secretary: Miss Avi'lFClaife Kalker 2401 W. Southern, Box 274 Tempe, Az. 85282 Your Secretary has ,a new address, as $©,1 will see above. She wriies..that she has recently opened a small antique shop in Phoenix, and plans to go on for her master's in Social PsyqMMmounseling Ed. and continue the shop. "I would like to ^ring in fine period 18th and 19th century French and English pieces as §e>on as I can.

So far, the venture is most enjoyable and educational."

'69 t,)<Class ¡Secretary: Mrs. CharlqscGiIdea (Lynn Erhardt) 49 Ea3|fad dle River Road K a d d le River, N.J. 07458 A nice note came from Your Secretary tellinges of the*Brth of her son, Brian, on November;26th. Congratulation, Lynn and Chip! Lynn also said that Barbara Fox had stopped b yiifp e e her on her way back to BosEn University where she'll receive her Master's in social work in May She had E e w s of Patty Benner and Toni DeLorenzo, too. Patty 11 working for the State, and Torlsfor Harvard.

VITAL STATISTICS

Anne Callaghan is teaching in Japan. §;he ha:l an apartment in Hiroshima near the Univelfity and is enjoying auditing courses there. She had a visit with Mike Yamashita (MA '67) andWis wife in Tokyo w heEshe aiffved p i 'Japan this fall.

Terry Solmssen, who will receive her certificate in ^occupational therapy from thlgU. of Pennsylvania this winter, will be leawrfl* for*%he,: Seychelles Islands in February as a member of the Peace Corps.

'70 Class Secretary: Miss Kathy Powell 92 Overlook Road Upper Montclair, 'N.J. 07043 71

Class Secretary: Miss LindlffiBraeder 27 Edgecliff Road Upper M o n tcla iljN .J. 07043 72

Class Secretary: Miss Kate Curtin 101 Clinton Avenue Montclair, N.J. 07042 73

Class Secretary: Miss Constance Van Eeghen 191 Cooper Avenue Upper Montclair, N.J. 07043 In my first attempt to be a proper Class Secretary I kept hearing classmates tell me that they had little that was both

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Wesley (Karen Shaver '59) a daughteH Katherine Noelle

Marriages

Sympathy

loan Poor '66 to Lawrence C . Clarke Margaretta Sander '66 to Brinkley M. Messick, III lluzan von l.engerke '68 to William Ralph Kehoe ■ ;

jo Dorothy Mingih Bond '29 * on the death of her mother to Jffin Lucas Cassidy '48 on the, death of her husband to Joanne Harder Drake '46 (G fŒ th e d eath® her daughter to Constance Ritchie DuHamel '46 ‘ 6n the death of her mother to Letitia Robinson Failor '43 and Elayne Robinson Sau l® S : on the death of their father to Harriet Laffey Filés '29 on the death of her husband to Betty Boone Jones '39 : on the death of her mother to Barbara Worcester Keenan '52 on the death of her mother to ffttirley Buncë Knowles '47 and Leslie Bunce '54 dnf the death of their father to Vondamae Nafÿ '57

Births Mr. and Mrs,.Joseph H. Boyd, Jr. (Peggy May??j> '61) a son, Duncan Mr. and Mrs:. Gecpge Buermann (Mary Gail’ Smith ||>) a son, George Mr. and Mrs. Edward Blackwell (Marilyn Siglfultz '65) a son, Spencer Mr. «and Mrs. Robert Dickerson (Gail Lewis '64) a daughter, Tracey Jane Mr. and Mrs® Charles Gildea?T(Lynn Ehr.hardt '69) ^ n n , Brian Mr. and Mrs. Robert Steinhacker (Marianne Doran '59) aVson. Michael Andrew

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newsworthy and printable; nevertheless, this article solemnly records the following: Elza Dzenis, at the Rhode Island School of Design, has announced her desire to abandon architecture and pursue film making. Straight lines and predetermined thinking boggled her brain, which perhaps explains her continuing "^Interest in volleyball and Russian. Your dedicated treasurer of yesteryear, Connie Van Eeghen,fwjhas fled economics and has chosen, instead, to embrace analytical philosphy in her long arms at Smith. Peggy Zaph left Texas Christian University to become the first draftswoman at an engineering company. She found the experience frustrating in the extreme, and has decided to give "higher learning" a second chance at Upsala College.

Finally, congratulations are due to Linda Bingham in her second to last year at Cedar Crest as "the first of us to go" to use a worn out cliche. She has formally an­ nounced her engagement to Phil for marriage in the coming month of June.

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Class Secretary: Miss Leslie Aufzien 100 Upper Mountain Avenue Montclair, N.J. 07042 Nice note from Your Secretary: "I am enjoying Rollins and the beautiful weather, ■I am 'involved' in the theatre and, during Winter Term, will be touring in 'Beauty and the Beast' throughout Flòrida. I receive all the newspapers and news from my sisters so I am keeping up with the new schooll"

on the death of her mother to Katharine Westerfield Pond '42 on the death of her father to Priscilla Bennett Ritter '38 on the death of her father to Carol Christopher Schmitz '39 on the death of her mother to Jane Goodwillie Swann '56 on the death of her father to Kathryn Dodd Teaze '15 on the death of her husband and to Kathryn Teaze Clark '45 on the death of her father to Eleanor Barrett Vernon '35 on the death of her daughter to Susan Pettingill Wood '63 on the death of her father to Peggy Klotz Young '37 o k the death of her mother Deaths Mrs. Allen B. Adams (Katherine Taylor '27) Mrs.lEdith Finlay Donahue '36 Mrs. Glenn W. Hall (Marion Stewart '12) Mrs. Constance Curran Skinner '20

MONTCLAIR ACADEMY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION,

Letter From The President Dear Alumnus: The year 1974 has been a very eventful one for Montclair Academy and our Alumni Association. We have a new institution and a new name The Montclair Kimberley Academy.

Since you have already received detailed information on the merger with The Kimberley School and have read elsewhere in this publication about the formation of the Alumnae/i Executive Committee (which is work­ ing to consolidate our two Associations), I will confine my remarks solely to the Academy Alumni Association.

During the last school year (197374) our Alumni Association sponsored or supported the following activities: Annual Homecoming; Christmas Luncheon for Seniors and the last four graduating classes; participation in the School's Career Night; Annual Alumni Dinner (in the spring of 1974 we honored Roger Etherington, Class of '42, as our Outstanding Alumnus);

Alumni-Parent Association Dinner Dance. As you have read earlier in this magazine, many of these traditional events are being continued. In fact, Homecoming and the Luncheon have already taken place.

During the past four years, our Association has worked hard to in­ crease the percentage of Alumni Support in Annual Giving to the School. There is an old saying, "Many small leaks sink great ships," and we believe that many small contributions build great schools.

Montclair Academy has meant something to each of us and needs your support.

The name may be changed; however, the quality of education, the traditions and spirit continue.

Please keep us supplied with newsworthy items relating to your personal and business activities. Any notes that have been received after the printer's deadline will be included in our next issue.

I would like to extend my personal thanks to the Alumni Office and to each member of the Alumni Association. These individuals have contributed greatly to the success of our Association.

Very Sincerely, S. Thomas Aitken '56 President, Montclair Academy Alumni Association

Class News '20

Miller Reese Hutchison, Jr., retired from Eastman Kodak Co., makes his winter home in Rochester, New York, hiS^summer home in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs Hutchison celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary in February.

They have four grandchildren. Miller was a consulting engineer with Wright Aeronautical, Chicago Pneumatic' TooH and Packard Motor Car Co. before|®ining Eastman Kodak in 1938.

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George R. Beach and his wife divide their time between their cattle farm in Hot Springs, V a ., and their home S Lake Forest, III. '24 Joe Wiedenmayer is now associate editor of Braille Forum Magazine, of the American Council of the Blind. After a quarter century in U.S. Foreign Service, he was employed for seven years in special education of deaf children.

'25 Dr. Leopold E. Thron was honored by the Advegging Club of North Jersey for a book, which he co-authored with Qr.ace A. Clark, a newspaper writer. The book, a history of the Greater Paterson General Hospital, was, singled but for "creative contribution to excellence." A Paterson obstetrician-gynecologist, Dr. Thron has

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been a member of the hospital staff since 1935. The story about Dr. Thron's achievement was brought to our attention

by Harold H. Demarest '30.

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John W. Hayes, Jr., is retired, living in Naugatuck, Connecticut, where he keeps busy with hospital volunteer work, as an officer of the retired men's club, as a member of a planning commission, and is an active golfer.

Holmes Van Derbeck continues to teach at Springfield College, Mass., where he has been Chaplain and Professor of Religion since 1940.

'27

John Ralph Van Duyne has retired and spends his winters in Florida and his summers at his camp in Maine.

'28

Alex Hehmeyer, now executive vicepresident and general counsel with Fields Enterprises (publishing) of Chicago, went to Tokyo as a member of a U.S. - Japanese parallel studies program under the auspices of the UNA-USE Association.

Al Stapf gave a picture of the 1926 football team, of which he was a member, to the Academy and sent copies to all living members of the team. A sa result, he received many interesting letters.

'29

Charles H. P. Yallalee, better k nown to his friends and classmates as "Bud," is a photo-journalist who takes his office to his work. In his fully equipped camper he travels from Maine to Florida and back, photographing and writing about wildlife migrations,) motor boating, camping, canoeing, and other outdoor activities.

His illustrated articles appear in many magazine® and newspapers.

Yankee Guide, Spring/Summer '74, for instance, has an article of his. Fie writes that now that he is doing all color plates he has had to give up his camper darkroom work.

"Was spending half my time in darkroom.

With travel, writing, and marketing, didn't have tim e."

Gus Seher is professor of Russian history at Xavier University in Cincinnati and is understood to be working on his Ph.D. '33 Vardy Laing, M .D ., writes that he would like to hear from some of his classmates.

His residence is 2 Varsplain Place, N.W ., Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and he is associated with The Canadian Pension Commission. He writes of his fond memories of Claude Monson, William Miller and "Chief" Broadhead. "I owe a great deal to Montclair Academy and to

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people like Mr. Monson. I attribute whatever knowledge and mastering I have of the English language to his Latin classes wherein one had to learn English to be able to do the Latin."

David T. Stanley now has three grand­ children. He resides in Vienna, Virginia.

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Edward S. Olcott continues as Assistant Director, Planning and Development, Port Authority, New York and New Jersey. Son, Thomas, is class of '74, Yale, and daugh­ ter, Nancy, is class of '77, Yale! Edward is Yale '49.

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Graham A. Nelson has been engaged for the past 11 years in offshore tin ex­ ploration and mining in South Thailand.

Bennett E. Tousley, Jr. would welcome calls from classmates passing through Pittsburgh, where he has served since 1973 as area administrator, Overseas Licensing Dept., Westinghouse Electric Corp. The Tousleys have four offspring, all adult.

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Dr. John W. Little, Jr., his wife and nineyear old son, are enjoying Westbrook, Connecticut, after many years in Southern California. The Littles have four other children, now adults, scattered across the nation.

KEEP IN TOUCH! Please send the Alumni O ffice your new address when you move. We don't want to lose you! And, won't you also send news of yourself and your family so we can all keep in touch through the magazine?

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Ralph M. Heintz lives in Los Altos, California. He divides his time between working as a senior research engineer at Stanford Research Institute and operating an antique shop specializing in mechanical musical devices.

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Fred Little has been reelected to serve an additional three-year term as a member of the board of directors of Pine Crest Prep School, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He has one daughter at Pine Crest, another at Emory University.

Gerard G. Hunt of North Caldwell, N .J., president of Knoll Pharmaceutical Co., was elected President of the West Essex, N .J., Regional Board of Education.

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William F. Brown and his partner, Mel C asso K have a syndicated comic strip, "Mixed Singles," which is distributed by United Feature Syndicate to 175 daily and Sunday newspapers in the U .S.A . and Canada. A second comic strip is on the boards and should see the light of day this fall. William has completed a book for a new musical version of "The Wizard of O z," called "W IZ ." His daughter, Debbie, was graduated from Rhode Island School of Design. His son, Todd, js majoring in forestry at the University of Vermont.

Arthur West Hyde was recently ap­ pointed senior trust officer at Midlantic Bank, Essex County, N.J. He resides in Chatham Township, N.J. '48

Dr. Richard A. Macksey, 107 St. Martino Road, Baltimore, Maryland 21218 (telephone: 301-235-6237) said he would be glad to see any Academy students (not just pre-meds) interested in Johns Hopkins. He is the author of several books, including The Structuralist Con­ troversy and Velocities of Change.

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Gordon Bruce, his wife Maxine, and two daughters live in Sacramento. He is a pilot with Pan American, flying the Pacific/Asia area.

Clark McK. Simms would like to see his class hold a reunion meeting soon. He can be reached at The Gunnery, Washington, Connecticut 06793.

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Robert L. Clifford, a Justice for the New Jersey State Supreme Court, has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Bar ¡Institute and Law Center of New Jersey, a non-profit corporation dedicated to law reform and legal research. Robert is a graduate of Lehigh University and Duke University School of Law. In 1970 he was appointed State Commissioner of Banking and Insurance and in 1972 he was named Commissioner of Institutions and Agencies.

Ernest Keer brings to our attention a book published by Marnie Reed CrowelH the wife of Ken Crowell. The book, Greener Pastures, which was reviewed in Christian Science Monitor, tells of the family's country life on an old farm near the Adirondacks in upper New York State.

Ken and Marnie, bo tlE biologists, are active in local and national movements to preserve the environment.

Thomas G. Stockham, Jr., has served on Chief Judge John J. Sirica's Watergate

panel since November, 1973. The January 28, 1974 issue of Time carried a story on activities of the panel. Tom, his wife Martha and four children, live in Salt Lake City.

The Alumni Office was happy to have news of Mark Hanschka from his father this December. Mark is an obstetriciangynecologist, practicing with the Permanente Clinic in Portland, Oregon. He has two sons and one daughter.

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Dr. Howard T. Beilin was made chief of plastic surgery at Columbus Hospital, N.Y.C. A. Robert Coningsby, Jr., has been president of Apex Machine Co. for five years. The Coningsbys have four sons, one daughter.

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Philip.E. Donlin, Jr., is the recipient of two Master's Degrees, one in ad­ ministration and supervision of secondary schools, one in history. He is head football, wrestling, and lacrosse coach at Pikesville (Md.) High School.

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. Oscar Mockridge is completing work for a Master's in public administration at New York University and serves as an ad­ ministrative resident at the Hospital for Joint Diseases, N.Y. '56

Dr. Lawrence F. Nazarian has a pediatrics' practice in Penfield, N .Y., and teaches at the University of Rochester Medical School. He and his wife, Sharon, and three children live in Penfield, a suburb of Rochester.

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Dr. Philip Leone is Director of the Histopathology Division of the hospital laboratory at Scott AFB Medical Center, Belleville, III. His wife, Cheryl, is Clinical Pathologist at Missouri Baptist Hospital, St. Louis.

Dr. William C. Weber began three years' tra iS ig in July as resident in otolaryngology at the United Hospitals of Newark, N.J. '61

Alexander Mead will serve his internship at the University of New Mexico Hospital, Albuquerque. He was the recipient of an M .D. from the university in May. The Alumni Office heard from David Clayton Carrad this winter that he has become associated with the law firm of Morris, Nichols, Arsht and Tunnell in Wilmington, Delaware, where he also makes his home.

Peter Stern has been admitted to the New York Bar and is now a law clerk to United States District Judge Edward R. Weaver in N.Y.C.

1953 as an expression of British gratitude for the European Recovery Plan instituted

by Secretary of State George Marshall in 1947. Recipients may attend any of 44 universities in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland for two years of study beginning this fall. Frederic has been a reporter on the staff of the Southampton (Long Island) Press. A major in English while at Princeton, he will work toward a second B.A. degree in English as a student at New College, Oxford University. He plans to continue a career in writing after completing his fellowship.

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Harry Haines received his Bachelors degree with Phi Beta Kappa honors in economics at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., where he was on the Dean's List and an officer of Kappa Delta Rho fraternity.

He is Executive Director of News of Paterson News and director of North Jersey Auto Club. Harry is engaged to Miss Donna Lynn Adler and the wedding is planned for the summer of 1975.

Loyd G. LeCain, Jr., is an Ensign, U .S.N .R. (inactive), residing at Morris Plains, N.J. Robert P. McAleer has been in the Marine Corps since graduation from college and is now on a three-year tour of duty at Marine Barracks, Yokosinka, Japan. He and his wife have a small son.

Geoffrey S. Close, an economics major at University of Virginia, has been ac­ cepted into the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society, the oldest and one of the most respected societies of its kind in the U S.A. Among its earlier members: Edgar Allen Poe and Woodrow Wilson.

Jeffrey Fischer was elected president of the Haledon, N.J. Board of Education, the youngest school board president in the State of New Jersey. After graduation from the Academy, he spent a year at Washington and Lee University, then transferred to Fairleigh Dickinson University as a biology major.

Bob Lipman received a B.S. in Finance and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania this June. He has been a Dean's List student there for the past two years. Bob will attend the University of Texas Law School this fall.

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The Alumni Office also heard from W. Douglas Donald this December that he is living in Fort Lauderdale (Hollywood) and is manager for the computer division of Memorex Corporation in the state of Florida.

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'67 J. Michael Nolan, Jr., was married last summer and lives in Bryn Mawr, Pa., 19010 - Box 37, Ellen Cushing Junior College.

Andrew Sussman has returned from Afghanistan and is studying at Teachers College, Columbia University, for his M .A. He plans to teach English to speakers of other languages. He was married in the fall of '73 to Diane Bignall of Newport News, Virginia.

George Wilson is a news-photographer w itlS WCAX-TV, a C .B.S. affiliate in Burlington, Vermont. George loves the wide-ranging diversity of assignments he performs for this small station - doing a moiijijng newscast, tracking down feature stories, covering Ted Kennedy's ;i|972 presidential campaign, shooting motion picture films. George has been with the station since his graduation in 1971 from the University of Vermont with a B.A. in history.

'69 Frederic A. Miller, a 1973 graduate of Pfiijiceton University, is one of 30 recipients - out of more than 1,000 ap­ plicants - of ;l|ighly prized Marshall Scholarships. Miller was one of five Pififlcetonians honored. Valued at about $6,000 each, the grants were established in

'73 Zachary Richardson was a member of the men's varsity swimming team at Franklin and Marshall College this past winter, competing in free style events.

Also on the team was Albert Van Eerde who competed in the free style and butterfly stroke events.

VITAL STATISTICS Marriages Keith Morton '67 to Patricia Nixon

Births Mr. (MA '63) and Mrs. Kenneth A. Stufko, a daughter, Cheryl Marie

Deaths Mark Andrews, Jr. '27 Philander H. Betts '17 Otto E. Kuhlmann '26 John Markell Stacey '35

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