Spring 1975 MKA Alumni News

ALUMNI NEWS

MKA ALUMNI NEWS VOLUME 2

JUNE, 1975

CONTENTS Report from the Principal .............................................

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We Always Begin With the Pilgrims ........................

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College— Unlimited Opportunities

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Alumni Sons and Daughters ........................................

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Bulletin Board ......................................................................

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Alumnae, Alumni A ssociations..................

Class News

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C o v e r:

MKA Seal— story on page 9.

Member Council for Advancement and Support of Education, National Association of Independent Schools, Alumni Presidents' Council of Independent Schools

Mrs. Jo T. Callaghan, Editor Director of Alumni Affairs Editorial Advisory Board Mrs. Aubin Zabriskie Ames Miss Elizabeth Specht '44 James S. Vandermade '35 Alan J. Werksman '50

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Published by the Montclair Kimberley Academy, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, New Jersey 07042, twice a year in winter and spring. Entered as third class mat­ ter at Montclair, N.J. 07042

REPORT FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Juniors Frances Mills and Penny Wood and Senior C eo ff Cimber visit with Mr. Day at the Upper School.

We are reaching the end of our first year. Most of you, when I came, held allegiance to either Montclair or Kimberley.

Perhaps a newcomer's view will put the new school in perspective for you.

My first impressions were of your loyalty to each school, your pride in the standards and traditions of each. The same was true of faculty, students and parents. It is greatly to the credit of all of you that the end of the first year finds us a closely knit Academy. Each group has worked hard to bring about the union. This has meant giving up some cherished traditions, accepting some different standards, helping to make changes go smoothly.

I had an encouraging visit this winter from someone who knows all about traditions and standards. Miss Margaret Cal lie was Headmistress of the Kimberley School when it made the move to the Athletic Club. She toured the school with an experienced eye and an enthusiastic approach, pointing out ties with the past, looking for auguries for the future. I was delighted to find that we had not done violence to any of her aspirations for the Kimberley School I have watched with pleasure as the innate friendliness of

this community overcame difficulties and smoothed over the misunderstandings. The year has been studded with remarka­ ble cooperative ventures: the faculty has begun work on a unified thirteen year curriculum, the parents have devised new by-laws for their association and put on a huge and delightful luncheon and fashion show, the students mounted a superb production of Oklahoma, the athletic teams at all levels, spurred on by their cheerleaders, have had successful seasons.

As a newcomer, I can say without prejudice thatyour school and your community have accomplished a tremendous amount in a short time and with spirit, humor, and enthu­ siasm. You now belong to one school, in which we take pride and that you can be proud of. When you come back to see us, and I urge you all to do so, you will find much that is familiar, some that is new, and a great deal that deserves your enthusiastic support.

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WE ALW AYS BEGIN WITH THE PILGRIMS!

by Robert C. Hemmeter

Robert C. Hem m eter, a graduate o f Newark Academ y ('51) and Princeton University ('55), received his Master's in G ov­ ernm ent from N ew York University. He has done graduate stu dy at the University o f Hawaii and at the University o f California, Berkeley. Follow ing a background in advertising and p u b lic relations, Mr. H em m eter began his teaching career as an instructor o f history at the Punahou Sch o o l in H onolulu.

H e came to M ontclair Academ y in 1962, and was appoin ted Chairman o f the H istory Departm ent. Besides his o th er duties atM A , Mr. H em m eter acted as tennis coach, and was Dramatic D irector for ten years. He has served as Chairman o f the Social Studies Division o fN JA IS T , and was on the Executive Com m it­ tee o f that organization for in dep en den t sch o o l teachers for two years.

A t The Montclair Kim berley Academ y, Mr. H em m eter is Chairman o f the Social Studies Departm ent, serves as tennis coach, and this sum m er w ill be the D irector o f MKA's Tennis C enter which begins its first season on Ju ly first.

“We always begin with the Pilgrims" was a phrase recently neard in an eighth grade classroom. The rest of the class endorsed the statement. It was symptomatic of how students feel about the way so many schools have needlessly dupli­ cated the offerings of their social studies curriculums at pro­ gressive grade levels and have, for all intents and purposes, overlooked what students have studied earlier. It under­ scored the failure of the schools to ask themselves how a particular course in the social studies fits into the total picture of the individual student's academic experience.

For the most part, this lack of a continuum in the learning experience has been due to the lack of coordination between schools. A student moves from elementary school, where he studied “the Pilgrims," to a junior high school where he studies "the Pilgrims" again, to a high school where almost every eleventh grade course in United States history begins chronologically with the study of "the Pilgrims" in colonial America. The teachers of these courses have little opportunity to coordinate their programs because they are in different schools which are, more often than not, educational islands unto themselves. Program coordination by administrators and the exchange of intellectual ideas among teachers at different levels has been, therefore, exceedingly rare in independent and public education.

The result of this approach has been that students have been needlessly put through a repetitive wringer of subject matter which bores them and makes the job of teachers so much harder when they seek to stimulate students with what they consider new and exciting subject matter.

With the merger of the Brookside School, The Kimberley School, and Montclair Academy into The Montclair Kimberley Academy, the combined faculties have the unique opportu­ nity to coordinate an integrated social studies curriculum for

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Mr. Hemmeter visits the Primary School

grades kindergarten through twelve. They have become one social studies department and have set themselves to the task of creating a program which will eliminate needless duplica­ tion of subject matter and create a rationale for offerings which will begin with the students' known experience of the immediate environment in the earliest years and move from there to an awareness of cultures more remote in time and place as they mature.

Beginning in the kindergarten with an introduction to the local community, the students' attention will be drawn to the important people and governmental institutions which can be easily identified. They will examine the roles these people and institutions play in daily life. In the second and third grade the students' intellectual awareness will be expanded and di­ rected towards the study of similar institutions on the state and national levels. Comparative studies of cultures in Europe, Asia, and Africa will enhance the natural curiosity of students to compare their own experiences with those who live in far distant places.

More and more, teachers will make use of new findings in the disciplines of economics, anthropology, and psychology in the attempt to shed light on the whys and wherefores of historical studies in any given period. The use of terms and

investigative techniques indigenous to these disciplines will provide the student with the tools for a more thorough histor­ ical analysis. The compartmentalization of historical study will be broken down by the awareness that data in all these disci­ plines can be shared and used to reinforce analytic processes.

A better appreciation of the total human experience is the considerable benefit derived from this approach.

A word might be said about chronology and sequential studies of historical periods. Beginning in the fourth grade, the students will begin with the study of prehistoric man. They will continue in the fifth grade with studies of ancient Greece and Rome, followed by an introduction to the Medieval period in the sixth grade, together with historical studies of non Western cultures.

After concentrating on in-depth studies in geography and Early American studies in the seventh and eighth grades re­ spectively (enter the Pilgrims), the courses of study in the Upper School will include in the ninth grade comparative economic and political systems (with particular emphasis of Medieval economicand political models), European historyin the tenth, and U.S. history in the eleventh. College level courses in anthropology, Asian studies, African studies, polit­ ical theory, law and economics will be the senior offerings.

Here the broad elective program will be the appropriate cul­ mination of the integrated academic experience which was begun in kindergarten.

Such a curriculum is the result of combined efforts by one social studies faculty of one school. Meeting on a monthly basis, it has forged a program which is designed to promote the students' awareness of their place in Western civilization and foster their knowledge of the unique qualities of the human experience in the history of man.

COLLEGE—UNLIMITED OPPORTUNITIES

by Claire E. Kleinschmit

Claire E. Kleinschm it, a graduate o f Ripon College with a major in English and biology, received h er M .A . in English education from the University o f M innesota. She has had teaching experience in pu b lic and in dep en dent sch o o ls, in­ cluding military sch ools in Europe.

Prior to com ing to The Kim berley S ch ool in 1973 as Director o f Studies, M iss Kleinschm it had been Assistant to the Head­ m istress o f Saint Margaret's School in C onnecticut; Principal o f St. H elen's Hall, Portland, O regon; and Assistant Headm is­ tress o f The Bryn Mawr Sch o o l in Baltimore, Maryland. In all these administrative p o sitio n s, sh e has w orked extensively in college adm issions. A t The M ontclair Kim berley Academ y M iss Kleinschm it holds the title o f Director o f C ollege Guidance.

Oversimplification of college admissions problems is not one of the many fallacies committed daily by the American public. Rather, popular periodicals as well as technical jour­ nals describe the status of the confused perspective college student and his parents, analyze the cause and effect of swell­

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ing enrollments (5.5% this year*) and, paradoxically, empty beds throughout the country, and cry for the institutions themselves who are temporarily resolving their problems by necessary but unpopular measures with faculty and students alike.

The Academy, created in 1974 by the merger of three long established independent schools, has directed its curriculum, its emphases to meet the increasing and varied demands of colleges; and in this first year it has already established a reputation of which its graduates can be proud. However, at this point the school must assume greater responsibility for leadership in seriously exploring alternate forms of education and resourcefully implementing educational career develop­ ment at all levels.

The so-called college admissions process at The Academy actually involves the home as well as the school, the parents as well as their sons and daughters, in the realization that the intellectual and personal qualities one brings to a college determines success in gaining admission to, in addition to the successful completion of, all college programs. The student must be encouraged to gain a sense of personal and social responsibility through an understanding of himself and others; to practice self-discipline; to develop techniques for acquiring and evaluating knowledge, accepting its challenge and extending his narrow vision; finally, to acquire determina­ tion to pursue an education despite problems and changes with a flexibility to adapt himself to circumstances over which he may have little control and to bend them to his own pur­ poses. The educable student accepts the fact that education itself is meaningful.

In the freshman and sophomore years in a secondary school, a student should concentrate on the mastery of basic skills, investigate all of the various academic disciplines, de­ velop an interest in the various art forms. He should actively seek information and thoughtfully work through the options open to him, which, in turn, builds both the intellectual curiosity and the responsibility needed to pursue any ad­ vanced work.

A college admissions program becomes much more pre­ scriptive in the critical junior year, including the student's searching and realistic evaluation of himself. In October all juniors are required to take the Preliminary Scholastic Ap­ titude Test (PSAT), the results of which and a booklet of expla­ nation are given to them. Although the.results of one test are not conclusive, the scores on this test usually have a high correlation with a student's secondary school record and are, therefore, indicative of potential success in college and can be used as a factor in college selection. It is also this test that is currently used by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation for its initial screening process of possible finalists.

The fall trimester is spent in information-gatheringH reading college catalogues, conferring with college represen­ tatives who visit the Academy, attending college-sponsored conferences, panels, and fairs. Faculty members, as well as Mr. Day, Mr. Bean, and the college counselor are available to discuss academic programs, personal goals and possible careers with both students and their parents.

At the onset of the second term, a junior has begun to demonstrate reliably his strengths and weaknesses, his pref­ erences and talents. In many ways he looks forward to the decision-making process of college admissions; on the other

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hand, he needs the support of his parents and the school as he grows increasingly aware of himself and realistically finds his place among the nation's college-bound students. Although College Board examinations represent only a part of his total school record, these examinations, or similar examinations, are an integral part of the admissions process for most col­ leges, giving an objective and realistic evaluation of the stu­ dent's ability and achievement in selected areas.

Forthis reason, both juniors and seniors atTheAcademy are required to take the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and achievement tests in those areas in which they have de­ veloped competence or in those subjects whose formal study has been terminated at the secondary level. (Many Academy students by Grade 11 will already have been tested in biology, chemistry, and the first level of mathematics.) The dates for testing in the 1975-1976 academic year will allow little choice for the junior or senior candidate; only five days for the entire year have been scheduled. However, it will be quite possible for the juniors to know their SAT scores in time for spring college conferences with the col lege counselor as well as early interviews at colleges themselves.

The juniors themselves arrange for this college conference so that their parents can be present, since the subject has an impact on and should, therefore, be the concern of the entire family. At this time, based on information previously submit­ ted to the Director of College Guidance, a tentative list of colleges and the actual process of selection are discussed.

Equally important for the student is the opportunity to discuss his school record and the demands he places on himself in light of the school's experience with the requirements, pro­ grams, and atmosphere of various colleges. It is the time for a forthright exchange of ideas; for asking questions; for facing academic and social pressures.

By being reasonable and flexible it is possible for a student to have a wide choice of colleges. No longer can the "accepta­ ble" school be limited to those located in the East, and no longer can schools west of New England or the Allegheny Mountains be considered inferior. An Academy student, also, cannot afford to ignore educational opportunities, or options, that match his special characteristics and peculiar interests.

For example, this year two juniors, Dave Johnsen and Michael Lipkin (left to right above), sought early admission to college,

requesting permission to be graduated with their class follow­ ing their freshman year at college. Both assumed total respon­ sibility for the investigation and complications of this choice, and their purposefulness and maturity were rewarded by ac­ ceptance at M.l.T. and The University of Chicago. A senior Sally Apgar completed her graduation requirements last No­ vember and by thoughtful planning— and dreaming— in her junioryear is currently involved in a Washington internship in the office of Congressman Donald W. Reiegle of Michigan, a challenge usually reserved for college students. Her duties have been primarily in constituents' case work. Sally says that this work has given her real insight into the social aspects of government and how, in many instances, these can lead to legislative action.

In mid-May Sally will begin working for Congressperson Bella Abzug in her New York City district office. She will be here in June to graduate with her Class o f'75 and will enter Princeton University this fall. Unlimited challenging programs are avail­ able; unlimited opportunities to plan a program are available; unlimited college alternatives exist for the alert and intellectu­ ally curious student.

Returning in the fall as seniors, Academy students should be prepared to submit a list of colleges they have visited and to which they intend to apply, including at least one so-called "safety school." Before the winter holidays, all seniors should be able to complete their college plans, their admissions and scholarship forms. At any time they may request assistance from the college counselor, but the student himself must be responsible and observe all deadlines of each application.

Each student must be responsible for requesting recommen­ dations from his teachers; each student must be responsible for informing the school of his current college status. The school does not prevent a student from makingan application to any institution and it will submit to that institution the best recommendation that his school record justifies.

However, The Montclair Kimberley Academy cannot guarantee its students entrance into the college of their choice. The primary job of the school in college guidance is to furnish facts and indicate techniques by which a student can make choices; a student is admitted to college on his creden­ tials.

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ALUMNI SONS AND DAUGHTERS

PRIMARY SCHOOL: (left to right) Lynn Grant, daughter o f William B. Grant '45; Janet Phillips, daughter o f Janet Cook Phillips '54; Cliff Deetjen, son o f Rudolph H. Deetjen, Jr. '50; Karen Kramer, daughter o f Paul D. Kramer '56; and Debbie Dodd, daughter o f Lynn Towner Dodd '54.

MIDDLE SCHOOL: (top row, left to right) Nicolette Anastasiou, daughter o f Denise Farandatos Anastasiou '62; Donald and Carol Baird, son and daughter o f David C. Baird '41; Barbara Kluge, daughter o f Willard C. Kluge '42; Dodge Bingham, son o f Hartley Dodge Bingham, Jr. '59; Kyle Curtin, daughter o f Ann Dixon Curtin '39; Kenneth Breen, son o f Helen Hanau Breen '41; Amanda and Nina Calder, daughters o f Frederic C. Calder '42; Stuart Carlisle, son o f Joan Denney Carlisle '46; Stephen Dudiak, son o f S. Thomas Dudiak '57; Dana and Andrea Cestone, daughters o f Ralph B. Cestone '47. (bottom row, leftto right) Craig Bartlett, son o fC . Scott Bartlett, Jr. '52; Andrew Kramer, son o f George J. Kramer '54; Leif Deetjen, son o f Rudolph H. Deetjen, Jr. '50; Donald Devendorf, son o f Jacqueline Byrne Devendorf '55; Stephen and Peter Dodd, sons o f Lynn Towner Dodd '54; James Irwin, son o f Miriam Eustis Irwin '51; Emily DuHamel, daughter o f Constance Ritchie DuHamel '46; Bryant Harmon, son o f Mimi Evans Harmon '54; Susan Kerr, daughter o f Gail Tomec Kerr '52 and David Kerr '52.

MIDDLE SCHOOL: (top row, left to right) Lyn Saul, daughter o f Elayne Robinson Saul '49; Daniel Werksman, son o f Alan J. Werksman '50; Jennifer Towner, daughter o f Reginald F. Towner, Jr. '49; Margaret Schumann, daughter o f W. Ford Schumann '44; David Wallace, son o f John H. Wallace '50; Louise Sperling, daughter o f Walter J. Sperling, Jr. '34; Dorset Penick, daughter o f the late J. Dabney Penick '23; Nina and Elizabeth Stamato, daughters o f Frank Stamato, Jr. '55; Pamela and Julie Ruddick, daughters o f J. Perry Ruddick '54. (bottom row, left to right) John Pinkham, son o f David M. Pinkham '48; Charles Phillips, son o f Janet Cook Phillips '54; Russell and Robert Muller, sons o f Robert H. Muller '39; Cary and Robert Kramer, sons o f Paul D. Kramer '56; Bryant Little, son o f Diana Bethell Little '58; Julia Sturchio, daughter o f Susan Crook Sturchio '56.

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UPPER SCHOOL: (top row, left to right) James Ames, son o f Winslow Ames '32; Peter Adams, son o f Cindy Youngman Adams '47; Sally Thompson, daughter o f Elizabeth Higgins Thompson '35 and Bogart F. Thompson '35; Barrie Etherington, son o f Roger B. Etherington '41; James Egbert, son o f George P. Egbert, Jr. '47; Betsy, Katherine, and Luci DuHamel, daughters o f Constance Ritchie DuHamel '46; Timothy Breen, son o f Helen Hanau Breen '41; (bottom row, left to right) Robert Harmon, son o f Mimi Evans Harmon '54; Frank L. Driver, son o f Frank L. Driver, III '47; Linda and Catherine Haviland, daughters o f Barbara Spadone Haviland '34 and David Haviland '32; William Baird, son o f David C. Baird '41; Elizabeth Ames, daughter o f Frances Johnson Ames '40 and Marston Ames '34; Steven Haubenstock, son o f Eugene I. Haubenstock '34; Deborah Heller, daughter o f Jack Heller '50; Robert Crane, son o f Margery Atwater Crane '34.

UPPER SCHOOL: (top row, left to right) David Pinkham, son o f David M. Pinkham '48; Bruce and Sally McBratney, son and daughter o f Audrey Carroll McBratney '50; John Phillips, son o f Janet Cook Phillips '54; Janet Kluge, daughter o f Willard G. Kluge '42; Lisa, Marcelle, and Theodore Irwin, daughters and son o f Miriam Eustis Irwin '51. (bottom row, left to right) Michael Werksman, son o f Alan J. Werksman '50; David Sperling, son o f Walter J. Sperling, Jr. '34; Lawrence Kramer, son o f George J. Kramer '54; Robin and Kay Towner, daughters o f Reginald F. Towner, Jr. '49; Matthew and Emily Troxell, son and daughter o f Hyla Ames Troxell '46; David Kerr, son o f Gail Tomec Kerr '52 and David Kerr '52.

Missing from Middle School pictures: Ruth Perretti, daughter o f Peter N. Perretti, Jr. '49; Katherine White, daughter o f Carol Humphrey White '52.

Missing from Upper School pictures: Ralph Cestone, son o f Ralph B. Cestone '47; Bruce Sanders, son o f Katherine Eavenson Sanders '41 and Charles B. Sanders, II '41; and David Werksman, son o f Alan J. Werksman '50.

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Enjoying a tour of the Upper School: j. Stevens Bean, Upper School Headmaster; Mr. Poor; Richard W. Day, MKA's Principal; Mrs. Poor; and Howard A. Van Vleck '22, a member of MKA's Board of Trustees who also served on the Academy's Board during Mr. Poor's administration.

Former Heads Visit MKA Two former Heads of our schools vis­ ited MKA this winter to the great enjoy­ ment of the school family. Henry B.

Poor, Headmaster of Montclair Academy from 1960 to 1966, and Mrs. Poor were on the Upper School campus in January. MA graduates will re­ member that it was under Mr. Poor's guidance that plans for the Academy buildings on Lloyd Road were com­ pleted.

Miss Margaret Muir Callie was a wel­ come visitor to her former campus in March. Miss Gallie joined the faculty of The Kimberley School in 1913 and was Headmistress from 1947 to 1950. It was during her administration that TKS moved from its original home on Plymouth Street to 201 Valley Road.

Summer Use of Facilities

Miss Callie and Mr. Day in the Principal's office at the Middle School.

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The three campuses of The Montclair Kimberley Academy will all be in use this summer in different ways. The

Upper School campus will again have a Summer Studies Program from June 23rd until August 2nd. Under the direc­ tion of J. Stevens Bean, Headmaster of the Upper School, courses are offered in English, mathematics, foreign lan­ guages, social science, science, de­ velopmental reading, and typing. This program is available to boys and girls, grades 7 through 12, and includes Academy students, as well as a number of students from public, parochial and other independent schools. In addition to this program, Carmen Marnell, Di­ rector of Athletics, will hold a football clinic for boys 12 to 17 years of age for the week of August 11 to 15.

The Middle School campus will be the site of a new Tennis Center this sum­ mer, under the direction of Robert Hemmeter, Chairman of the Social Studies Department. Membership in the center is open to MKA families,

alumni, and other friends of the school on a seasonal basis. Tennis clinics and individual instruction will be available.

Four new tennis courts are under con­ struction, which will make a total of eight courts.

For many summers there has been a popular Day Camp at the Lower School campus, under the direction of Carmen Marnell. The camp will be open this year from June 23rd until August 15th, offering recreation (including swim­ ming), enrichment, and an optional de­ velopmental reading and mathematics program. The Brookside Camp accepts boys and girls aged 4 through 14.

Second graders making Ojo de Dios ("G od's Eyes," Mexican good luck charms) to sell at the MKA Karnival.

MKA Seal Karnival Our new seal was designed by Betsy Benedict, Class of 1976. Five designs were chosen from students' entries by the student Seal Committee, with Cal­ vin Matzke, Chairman of the Fine Arts Department, as their advisor. Through a process of student voting and final ap­ proval by the Board of Trustees, Betsy's design became the official school emblem.

Describing the symbols on the shield within the seal, Betsy said, "The rising sun represents a beginning: its rays shine upon the torch of knowledge; the palm fronds of achievement; and the three arrows tied together, which sig­ nify the unification of the three schools." She further explained, "The motto— 'Knowledge, Vision, Integrity' — iswritten in English, rather than Latin, so that all who read it may understand it."

Saturday, April 26th, was billed as "a day of fun and surprises galore," and it well lived up to that promise. The MKA Karnival was held on that day from 10 in the morning until 4 in the afternoon at the Middle School campus. It was a real family production, with students, pa­ rents, faculty, and alumni contributing to its success. Judy Nesbit of the Upper School mathematics department was the general coordinator, and Mrs. Charles F. Gimber and Mrs. Richard T. Dale were parent co-chairmen.

Lower Schoolers manned sales booths for articles they had made them­ selves; Middle Schoolers were in charge of carnival games, pony and other rides, and a cotton candy booth; Upper Schoolers ran a Tearoom and an outdoor Bar-B-Que. A tennis tourna­ ment and a softball game were enjoyed

by spectators and players alike, and ac­ tivities in the auditorium included movies, a dance program, and a fashion show. The American Field Service Chapter ran a well stocked "Lucky Find" table, and other tables sold plants and flowers, a variety of food (from cakes to casseroles), and a beautiful collection of handmade needlepoint, pillows, de­ coupage, and ceramics by mothers and friends of the Academy.

Alumni (under the chairmanship of Ann Dixon Curtin '39) manned the "bank," exchanging cash for the tickets which were used for all purchases. The proceeds of Karnival will benefit the school, A.F.S., and charities of the stu­ dents' choice, including the American Indian child whom they support through the Save the Children Federa­ tion.

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Dancers are (left to right): Carlos Santiago, Bob Adams, Debbie Mann, Kay Towner, Bill Langstaff, Janet Kluge, Frances Mills, Bruce Sanders, Margie Hollander (partially hidden), Joan Leonard (partially hidden), Ralph Cestone, and Woody Winged.

Standing (left to right): Donna LoBiondo, Paul Finney, Catherine Haviland, Lisa Irwin, Alan Brown, Meredith Smith, Robin Towner, Katie Crover, Jared Randall, Dallas Gordon, Diana Rowe, June Wispelwey, and Kevin Olson.

Oklahoma /'The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" rode across the stage of the Montclair Kimberley Academy when our Upper School Players presented Rodgers and Hammerstein's American classic, "O k ­ lahoma!" Performances were given Fri­ day evening, March 7; and Saturday af­ ternoon and evening, March 8.

Featured in the roles of Curly and Laurey were Douglas Hamilton and Laurie Hoonhout. Other leading play­ ers included Diana Rowe as Ado Annie, Richard Brandt as Will Parker, Cathy Haviland as Aunt Eller, Alan Brown as Andrew Carnes, and Donna Lo Bionda as Gertie Cummings. Rounding out the cast in the roles of Jud Fry and AM Hakim were Nick Eastman and Paul Olowacz.

In addition, Musical Director Miss Ruth Moore prepared the twenty-five mem­ bers of the singing chorus, and Choreographer Mrs. Martha Lasky the fourteen dancers. The entire produc­ tion was directed and staged by Mrs. Marilyn Faden and costumed by Miss Judy Nesbit. Calvin Matzke, the scenic designer, and his stage crew put to­ gether the set for the actors.

K/A plays have been performed since the early part of the century, and this— the first MKA production— continues our proud tradition. It was a smashing success!

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(front row, I to r: Sally Suthon, Deborah Huger, Marina Adams (MKA) and Tina Friend, (back row, I to r.) Lisa Kruse (MKA), Paul Celinitis (MKA), Janice Kanter (MKA), and Liz Levy.

Exchange Program MKA and Metairie Park Country Day School, New Orleans, Louisiana, parti­ cipated in a student exchange program this spring. Four members of the junior class from Metairie Park spent ten days with families of four MKA juniors and attended classes at the Upper SchooL They also enjoyed seeing the school's production of "Oklahoma," seeing New York from the Cloisters to Wall Street, and making scores of new friends.

The four MKA juniors then traveled to

Louisiana to stay with the families of the Metairie Park-ers, and enjoyed recip­ rocal hospitality Southern-style.

The program, which was arranged by Nathan A. Fuller, Assistant to the Princi­ pal, was a pilot program designed to increase student understanding of so­ cial, political, and economic differences within our borders. It also gave them an opportunity to see at close hand how another school similar to their own functions.

New Appointment Mrs. Delmar Wedel has been ap­ pointed Dean of Students for the Upper School. A graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University with a B.A. in sociology, Mrs. Wedel received herM .A. in U.S. history from the University of Iowa. Her hus­ band, Del, is Executive of International Program Services, National YMCA. The Wedels spentthirteen years in Japan be­ tween 1956 and 1968, where two of their three children were born. Older son, Steven, is presently working in Cal­ ifornia; son, Ken, will be graduated from Montclair High School this June; and daughter, Cheryl, attends MKA as a ninth grader.

Mrs. Wedel was a teacher for seven years in the public schools of Cham­ paign, Illinois. During her residence in Japan, she taught social studies in The American School and, also, English as a second language to Japanese students, businessmen and their wives. She came to The Kimberley School in 1969 as a teacher of history, and continues to teach in that field at MKA's Upper School.

The new administrative position of Dean of Students for the Upper School will encompass many of the duties held

by Mrs. William J. Kelley, who has served MKA as Upper School Director of Admissions and Director of Student Activities. Mrs. Wedel will also assume direct responsibility for the advisor sys­ tem for grades 9 through 12.

Mrs. Kelley, who came to The Kimber­ ley School in 1966 to be a member of the Physical Education Department, was Di­ rector of that department 1972- 73. She was Assistant to the Headmaster of Kimberley 1973- 74 before assuming her present position at MKA. Congratulations to Betty Wedel, our new Dean of Students. And, thank you and best wishes to Joyce Kelley, as she and her husband, Bill, depart for their new home in Houston, Texas.

Six members o f the MKA Invitational team (left to right): Sue Felber (16-under), Leah Healey (16-under), Anne Abramson (16-under), Lucie DuHamel (18-under), Merry Aufzien (14-under), Dorset Penick (14-under) with MKA Coach Judy Dely.

Invitational Tennis Tournament The first Annual Montclair Kimberley Academy Invitational Tennis Tourna­ ment was held on May 16, 17, and 18, following a twelve-year tradition of The Kimberley School Invitational. MKA entered a team of twenty-five girls, hoping to win back the cup they have won six times in the past. Also entered in the competition were teams of girls from: Kent Place School, last year's trophy holder; Dwight Englewood School; Greenwich Academy; Mont­ clair High School; Morristown-Beard School; Newark Academy; The Peddie School; The Pingry School; Princeton Day School; and The Wilson School.

There were 122 entrants in all. Members of the visiting teams were housed in the homes of local MKA students.

Mrs. K. William Kolbe, Jr., was chair­ man of the tournament, assisted by Mrs. Marston Ames (Frances Johnson '40), Mrs. J. Dabney Penick, Mrs. Roger

T. Cole, Mrs. Donald W. Zeug, and Mrs. Craig C. Fitzpatrick. Mrs. Joseph B. Dillenbeck (Gloria Evans '43) was in charge of the draw and Donald Hobart, an official of the United States Lawn Tennis Association, served as head referee. Umpires and linesmen were supplied by the U.S. Tennis Officials Corporation.

On Sunday the 18th, Richard W. Day, Principal, presented the Dillenbeck Perpetual Trophy to Princeton Day School, a four-time winner, who recap­ tured the trophy this year. The cup will be held by PDS for the year, and the S. Paul Boochever Trophy will be en­ graved with the winner's name and kept in MKA's Upper School trophy case.

Each winner and runner-up in an age group (12 and under, 14 and under, 16 and under, and 18 and under) won a small Revere bowl.

BEQUESTS TO MKA In a recent statement James S. Vandermade, President of the Board of Trustees, said, "As we approach the end of the first year, and recognizing that the new school is moving straight ahead on course, it is important for all our friends to understand that the ultimate survival of any independent institution will depend on financial help in the form of bequests. Anyone so inclined to mention the new school in his will may use the following suggested wording: I give and bequeath the sum o f$ to The Montclair Kimberley Academy, 207 Valley Road, Montclair, New Jersey 07042, to be used for its general purposes

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ALUMNAE ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS

By-Laws Committee

Latin as a Second Language

A committee is currently at work preparing by-laws for the new com­ bined Alumni Association. The by-laws will be completed before the summer and mailed to all alumni in the early fall. Members of the committee are: Marc S. Kirschner'60, Chairman; Henry B. Fernald, Jr. '28; Felicity Ferguson Morse '54; and Carol Humphrey White '52.

An alumna is a female who has at­ tended or has graduated from a particu­ lar school; two or more of them are alumnae. An alumnus is a male who has attended or has graduated from a par­ ticular school; two or more of them are alumni. When we need an adjective to describe their activities, it is alumnal . . . and, if you wish, you may call your Director of Alumni Affairs an alum nor.

Now to what is considered magni m om enti e sse : males and females who belong to a coequal alumnal organiza­ tion are called alum ni. But, remember (to even things up for the distaff side), everyone's school is his or her Alma Ma­ ter!

Dates Set for Reunions and Homecoming Dates for Kimberley reunions and Montclair Academy Homecoming have been set for next fall. The Kimberley reunions will be held Friday, October 17th at the Middle School, to be fol­ lowed by Homecoming and reunions at the Upper School on Saturday, October 18th. It is hoped that many graduates will decide to "make a weekend of it" and plan to come to Montclair, visit friends, and attend these events.

Special recognition will be given this year to the following classes: Class of 1925, returning for their 50th reunion; Class of 1935 for their 40th; Class of 1945 for their 30th; Class of 1950 for their 25th; Class of 1955 for their 20th; Class of 1965 for their 10th; Class of 1970 for their 5th; and Class of 1975 for their 1st. Also planned is a special category for all returning "Golden G rad s'E9 those who have already celebrated their 50th reunion.

Atthesam etim e,theAnnual Meeting of the Associations will be held, the by­ laws adopted for the merged Montclair Kimberley Academy Alumni Associa­ tion, and new officers elected.

Markyourcalendars now! Detailswill be mailed in the early fall.

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APC Spring Meeting Heidi Ames Troxell '46 and Aubin Zabriskie Ames '54 were MKA's dele­ gates to the Alumni Presidents' Council of Independent Secondary Schools' spring meeting which was held at The Masters School, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., this

April. The two-day meeting began with a keynote address by Lance R. Odden, Headmaster of Taft School, "Under­ standing Today's School: Crisis or Chal­ lenge." Panel discussions and work­ shops on "Publications," "Fund Rais­ ing," "Alumni and Admissions," "Alumni and Careers," "Parent In­ volvement," and "Understanding Your School's Financial Sfatements" made the session an informative and worth­ while one for our delegates.

School Spirits Invitations went out to nearby alumni in April announcing that it was "time for school spirits!" As a result, a happy party was held in the Upper School Li­ brary from 5 to 7 on Saturday, May 10th.

The MKA Master Singers entertained while our alumni (under the director­ ship of Lee Bingham '59) mixed potables and our alumnae (with Gail Tomec Kerr '52 at the helm) proffered edibles. Art exhibits, part of the MKA May Festival which ran from May 5th to May 23rd, added to the enjoyment of the evening.

To Montclair Academy Alumni: As you will see, Kimberley School classes have Secretaries for gathering news. (Class Agents confine their energies and helpful­ ness to contacting their classmates for the Annual Giving fund.) As you will also see, we have more news from the alumnae than the alumni! Would you like to have MA Class Secretaries? And, of course, if the answer is 'Yes,' would you like to volunteer for your class? The job can be a twice-a-year post card mailing prior to publication of the magazine to request news— or an on-going cul­ ling of news via your own correspondence, phone calls, etc. In any case, it is a nice way to keep in touch, and lets the rest of us keep in touch, too. We'd love to see your name in print next winter!

'21 TKS Through a phone call to Miss Margaret Gallie, we learn that Peg Stearns and Jane Steams '24 still thoroughly enjoy their home in New Hampshire.

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

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Class Secretary: Mrs. Philip B. Taylor (Helen Patrick) 80 Norwood Avenue Upper Montclair, N.J. 07043 Phil and I are spending the winter at our Naples, Florida, home. Polly Richardson Evans and Kidder had a wonderful trip to Jamaica right after Christmas.

'31 TKS Adele Halsey Bell wrote this winter that, "W e now spend six months of the year in our apartment in Naples, Florida, and run into Montclairites all the tim e!"

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

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

'1 7 TKS Class Secretary: Mrs. Samuel Meek (Priscilla Mitchell) Doubling Road Greenwich, CT 06852 From Your Secretary: The past year has been an important one for us. We became great-grandparents of a baby girl, making 18 descendants including our17grandchildren.

Activities are with the Episcopalian Christ Church, and a continuing interest in ref­ ugees and overseas relief. I serve on the National Areas Committee of the town, re­ porting violations on conservation lands and also bringing to the attention of the commit­ tee properties to save from development, if ecologically valuable.

O ur Vermont home is a joy, situated on a mountain. We have been busy sugaring our maple trees. We went to Ottawa to attend the ATA meetings, as my husband is a dele­ gate and I am an observer. This organization is under civilian support and 15 countries send delegates to support relationships with the NATO alliance.

With visits to our large family, and theirs to us, we are very busy. Hail to the new school!

'27 TKS Lucille Forsythe Schomp writes, "Al and I still together (thank the dear Lord) for 39 years. O ur son, A .L.S ., III, is now living in Maine but moving to North Carolina soon.

O ur daughter, Mrs. H. F. Day, Jr., lives two doors from our Plainfield home. We have 7 grandbabies, 4 boys and 3 girls, aged 9 years to 3 months for the whole kit and kaboodle.

We have a home in Dorset, Vermont, and spend four months over summer there— also a condominium in Palm Beach, Florida, for the winter months— but Plainfield is home sweet home. Still play golf, enjoy painting and do it all summer and any other time possible. After extensive traveling, we have closed all suitcases until the world gets a bit pulled together."

'29 TKS Class Secretary: Miss Susie Sterling 133 North Mountain Avenue Montclair, N.J. 07042

Note from Thomas Braine told us that he sees J. G. Campaigne often, and Robert Carlee, Victor Engstron, and Everett Tomlinson sometimes. Mr. Braine has two children and five grandchildren. He received his teacher certification at Montclair State in 1971-72, having graduated from Williams in 1936, and received his Master's in 1959.

'33 MA Word from Lt. Col. Oliver E. Wood is, "O ur son, Oliver, Jr. (Chips) and wife, Crete, to­ gether with our granddaughter, Catharine, and brand new grandson, Oliver, III, are vis­ iting us in Carmel over the Easter holiday.

Chips and family live in Hong Kong where Chips serves as General Manager, S.E. Asia for Levi Strauss International."

'34 TKS Class Secretary: Mrs. David Haviland (Barbara Spadone) 185 Cates Avenue Montclair, N.J. 07042 We received a nice note in the office from Edith Baker Campaigne. "We have returned to Montclair after 29 years— living 26 of them in Indianapolis and 4 in California. Jim (MA '32) is an editorial writer for the N.Y. DAILY NEWS, having retired as Editor of the IN­ DIANAPOLIS STAR. We didn't like retire­ ment— so it's back to the typewriter!"

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'35 TKS Class Secretary: Mrs. Stewart Carpenter (Josephine Fobes) 4 LaSalle Road Upper Montclair, N.J. 07043 This is our 40th year. There will be a reun­ ion luncheon in the fall which we will hear more about later.

Ruth McCord Alexander was in Montclair overnight a short while ago. It was nice to talkto herafterall these years. (Ed. Note: We were pleased that Mrs. AI exander was able to fit a visit to MKAinto her schedule, too, while she was in Montclair.)

Eleanor Barrett Vernon lost her daughter and Betty Christy Higgins lost her husband, Larry, who was also Elizabeth Higgins Thompson's brother. O ur sympathy to all of them.

Let's try to get together for our reunion.

'36 TKS Class Secretary: Mrs. W . K. Schmid (Josephine Murray) Mason's Island Mystic, CT 06355 Elizabeth Howe Glaze wrote that her two sons are members of their father's fraternity, Sigma Chi. Son, Bob, is a senior at Westmin­ ster College in Missouri, and son, Larry, is a freshman at the University of Kansas.

'37 TKS Class Secretary: Mrs. Lewis Gray (Ruth Russell) 517 Central Avenue Plainfield, N.J. 07060 Welcome to the new Secretary of the Class of '37 who has gathered lots of news foryou.

And many, many thanks to Kathryn Holton Sjolander for all her help as Secretary in the past. Read on!

Even though the class of '37 is spread out in different parts of the country, the majority of those reporting in still find New Jersey their home base.

Teppy Holton Sjolander is sitting way up there at the topofthe state in Bergen County in the beautiful community of Saddle River.

Teppy's grown children have given her sur­ cease for a w hile; so she is busily involved with crafts, making her own things and work­ ing hours at the drawing board. She loves what she is doing and is even selling some of her objet d'arts.

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Ruth Duff Eager is another one of our class residing in Montclair. Ruth recently returned from a great vacation at St. Maarten's, the Dutch West Indies. She needed the vacation because she is back at work as chairwoman of volunteer services at Mountainside Hospi­ tal. She enjoys her work there and sees another classmate of ours Cammie Hyer Van Sant who is handling affairs at the operating room at the hospital. Cammi is not living in Montclair, but is in the nearby town of Glen Ridge. Cammie, may we hear from you.

Peggy Gene Klotz Young is also a denizen of Montclair. Peg is a thoughtful gal and tries to keep up on what various members of our class have been doing. She keeps us posted on who may be ill and needs some cheering up. Thanks, Peg. Peg's children are all grown and out of the house and Peg has been pur­ suing her interest in the French language and keeps up with a group in Montclair which meets periodicallytochatin French. Peg just returned from France where she spent time with eight other women in Burgundy and Paris. Two TKS graduates, Helen Raymond Halligan '25 and Betty O'Gorman Dixon '34, were part of the group.

Ginnie Kracke Leavitt is another one of the group which lives in Montclair. Ginnie can't believe it, but it's five years since she became Mrs. Leavitt. Time flies, doesn't it Ginnie— Congratulations!

Speaking of marriage, we learned just re­ cently that Shirley Noyes, within the last month or two became Mrs. George Sammis Babcock and is living in Del Ray Beach, Florida. Delighted to hear the news, Cosy!

Congratulations! Let us hear from you.

Completing our Montclair contingent, at least those we have heard from, is Jean Ham­ lin Noyes. Jean is ecstatic over her grandmotherhood. Her eldest son, Richard, living in North Hampton, Massachusetts, was just in Montclairon a visit and grandmother Jean saw her new grandson for the first time.

More power to you, Jean. Jean, you know, has become a literary light and writes a col­ umn for new residents in town for the MONTCLAIR TIMES. If you haven't seen her column, watch for it in future issues.

Midge Rile Weigel writes to us from the beautiful community of Colorado Springs, Colorado. It may not be such a community any more because Midge writes that it is a fast growing city and she has been living there watching it grow for some twelve years. The climate is glorious though with a superb view of the Rockies. Midge reports that she has spent some time traveling Eastto see her mother and father and daughter, Sally. Once in a while, says Midge, she even gets to a Kimberley luncheon. Maybe our class ought to make a gigantic effort to get to­ gether for the next luncheon coming up.

Word comes to us from way down South in Alabama. Sally Young Shertzer writes that two new grandchildren have been added to her clan this year. One of the newest of the grandchildren is called Sally Young. Sal writes that she plays golf at least twice a week

and is involved in both the Alabama Golf Association and the Women's Southern Golf Association. Last year she was the senior state champion. Sal always was the class athlete and I remember very well when she wiped up the Kimberley School tennis courts with my body back in 1937. Sal goes on to say she is still playing a great deal of tennis and has even started riding again after 35 years.

She must have a glorious shape and probably doesn't have to worry about any calories at all. We look forward to hearing more about your championship athletics, Sally.

Traveling north a little, we hear that Tibbie Caldwell Soper is comfortably settled in the state of Connecticut. In fact, she lives in Washington, Connecticut. Ever heard of it?

Tibbie says she lives between two cow farms on an unimproved road which everyone likes to keep that way for the benefit of those who ride horses. Tibbie is really living in rural America and has been doing a lot of plaster­ ing, wall papering and renovating of a home which she purchased a while ago and de­ cided to put additions to. In her spare time she is business manager of Wykeham Rise School. Apparently, writes Tibbie, she does everything for the school from keeping the plasteron the walls to getting involved inthe pension plan of the school as per the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Aside from all of this, Tibbie manages to keep up with her three sons who are spread all overthe country. She would like to know where Joan Macey Wiseley is living. We would too, because we believe she is some­ where in New Jersey. Joan, may we hearfrom you.

Jane Rinck writes from Pine Beach, New Jersey that she is still very much enjoying the practice of law, but that is not enough for Jane. She operates a puppet show called Puppet Heaven in her back yard and also owns and sails a beautiful sailboat with lots of go in it. In addition she is studying celestial navigation. She is going to be part of a crew in May of this year with a group of Irish people sailing in the Mediterranean. But be­ sides all these things, Jane has a vegetable garden and has already planted her onions and parsley for this year. Here's to the active life!

Margaret Richards Chapman writes that she and her husband have just made a big change. As of April 1, he retired as a Major General of the Army and they have just bought a new home in Alexandria, Virginia.

Daughter, Cindi, is going to school in New York City, but their son is with them finishing high school. They still spend summers at Lake Sunapee in New Hampshire. So, why not detour a little, Margaret, and look us up here in Montclair on your way north this summer.

One of our classmates is a world citizen!

Janet Gaylord Newsome lives in far away Kingston, Ontario, and has a year old grand­ son living in Paris. Passing through N.J. re­ cently, she spent a night with Peg Young, and Peg says she looks marvelous.

This is all the news I have from the class of '37 for the time being. I am another one of the group which lives in New Jersey, al­ though I am way out near Washington, New Jersey, which is almost as rural as Tibbie de­ scribes Washington, Connecticut. I live among the brooks and birds and bees and commute to my office in Plainfield, New Jer­ sey, and the second office I have in Bloomsbury. (Have you ever heard of it?) A number of years back I became active in the Unitarian Church in Plainfield and lo and be­ hold lended upbycapturingthem inister; so we are living out there together in the beauti­ ful part of New Jersey known as Hunterdon County.

May we hear the latest from other mem­ bers of our class who have not responded.

'38 TKS Class Secretary: Miss Jane Carpenter 11 Norman Road Upper Montclair, N.J. 07043 Ann McNair Bushnell's son, Frank, has be­ come a civilian again after serving as a sub­ marine officer, and he is working for an ar­ chitectural firm in New York City. Ann and her husband, Francis, spent a month in Florida this winter. She wonders whatever became of Marjorie Blake. Anyone know?

Narcisse Kunz Cadgene's older daughter, Mary Jane, is writing scripts for the movies and younger daughter, Suzy, is cooking and catering. Both happy with what they are doing and live in New York City. Narcisse and her husband, George, are bound forvacation in Florida this spring. They do a lot of traveling.

Holly Mitchell Kimball is busy with the sec­ ond annual Writer's Conference for the Montclair Adult School. It will be held on November first at the Upper School of MKA. Last year was a great success. Holly is also on the board of the Family and Children's Ser­ vices of Montclair and Glen Ridge.

Priscilla Bennett Rittertripped off to Argen­ tina, Uruguay and Brazil in 1974. When Pril isn't off on an adventure, she works atMountainside Hospital— has done so for four years. Her daughter, Lynn, has two children— Skye, aged two, and Shelby, soon to be five. A lively household! Pril has occa­ sional concern over her son Shelly's love of adventure— spelunking, scuba diving, cy­ cling. He took a "Shangri-La" cruise in Feb­ ruary, exploring the jungle and snaking through the barrier reefs off Honduras.

I am happy with my job as Records Man­ ager atthe Lutheran Church in New York. I'm enjoying seeing more of my nephews, aged 7 and 9, now that they live in Wyckoff, N.J. Friends, my poodle, my job, and volunteer spots keep me out of mischief.

Let's hear more from the Class of 1938!

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

'40 MA A nice note came to the office from Fred­ erick D. Little telling us that he is serving as a member of the Board of Directors at Pine Crest Preparatory School, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Pine Crest has an enrollment of 1200 pupils from kindergarten through high school. Their boys' swimming team com­ petes successfully at the Lawrenceville School meet annually. Fred and his wife, Jeanne, have two daughters-HLinda, a senior at Emory University in Atlanta, Geor­ gia, and Jane, a senior at Pine Crest. The Littles operate a gift shop, Old Londonderry Workshop, next to the Magic Mountain ski area in Vermont.

'41 TKS Mr. and Mrs. William E. Leavitt (Eleanore Strohm) have announced the marriage of their daughter, Eleanore, to Domenico De Sole, son of Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Gaetano De Sole of Rome, Italy. The ceremony took place at St. Alban's Parish, Washington, D .C ., with the reception at The Washington Club.

Beetle's but two of the girls' were. He is a hopeful for either Dartmouth or M .l.T. . . Jared (15) is still my Renais­ sance man . . . hockey, soccer, baseball . . . . high honor role. Melissa is just back from a semester at the University of Lenin­ grad. It was fabulous. She's Barnard '73 and now in graduate studies at Middlebury Rus­ sian School. . .

"Rob still at Bentley. Vocally about to do a tour-de-force in April here in town launching bi-centennial thoughts. . . ."

The Alumni Office was pleased to have a note from Polly Rowe this spring telling us, "AsTravel Managerfor BRIDE'S MAGAZINE, my business trips this year will take me from Bermuda to Honolulu and Rio with stops in between! Love every minute of it!"

Betty Staudinger is Department Manager of coats and suits at Hahne's department store in Montclair. She told us in March that she had just returned from a fine visit to Bermu­ da.

A note this spring from Sally Sanders Appenzellar said, "Enjoying the best of two worlds— six months in Florida and six on Martha's Vineyard. Terry (TKS '66) is in Washington with the Federal Trade Commis­ sion, and Kathe (TKS '68) is on the stage in Baltimore."

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

'45 '42 TKS Class Secretary: Mrs. Robinson V. Smith (Joan Trimble) 16 Marshall Terrace Wayland, MA 01778 A warm welcome to the new Secretary for the Class of '42. We hope you will send her lots of news for the next issue of the magazine! To catch you up on her news, which she wrote to Helen Jones Gordon: "l continue to paint and teach. At long last built my first real studio. It is my door this side of heaven. I see a lot of Grade Aldrich Andersen whenever she lights long enough in town.

One evening, when she was he re for supper, we called Barbara Bower Helm-Corria in California. It was like erasing 30 years.

"Rufus, who will be 18 in April, went with Wayland's High School concert choir to Mountain Lakes, N.J. for an exchange con­ cert. His lodgings were not at Anne Adams

TKS Jane Hagan Farno has reported on her fami­ ly's activities as follows: daughter Stephanie worked with a French family last summer, and remained abroad for a semesterof study in London; son Greg was off to Gettysburg College this year; sons Eric, Clay and Peter are all hockey players. Perhaps in selfdefense, Jane and Glenn have taken up tennis— when she's not involved in various volunteer assignments. The Farnos spend vacation time on Cape Cod where they purchased a cottage a year or two ago.

Josephine Murphy Rayermann has told us of her older son Patrick's special interest. Now finishing his junior year in high school, Pat has been involved in a special Explorer Scout project, a Jet Propulsion Laboratory, "which gives young people interested in a career in space technology an opportunity to find out about different aspects of such w ork." The Rayermanns, including younger son Richard, enjoy vacation trips in the south­ west. Jo's mother, Mrs. Murphy, whom

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45-ers remember fondly, has marked her 85th birthday and continues busy and happy living near the Rayermanns.

Jeanne Talbot Sawutz and George had an enjoyable reunion with Sally DuBois Moberg and Ed this past year. Jeanne's daughter Linda has been accepted at Green Mountain College, son David is completing his junior year at Lehigh, and young Sandy is finishing up his 6th grade year.

Rudd Trimble Kenvin and Roger, with daughters Heather and Brooke, hope to make a trip westward to California this sum­ mer. This winter Rudd undertook a course in data processing. Rudd reportsthat herniece, Melissa Smith, daughter of Joan Trimble Smith '42, recently completed a study term in Leningrad.

We see by the paper that Dorothy Van Winkle Morehouse is serving on the New Jer­ sey Bicentennial Commission steering committee.

'46 TKS Class Secretary: Mrs. W. L. Brown, Jr. (Joan Lockerty) 19 Harding Road West Caldwell, N.J. 07006 Congratulations to Joan Denney Carlisle's husband, Rob, who is the author of a narra­ tive poem, "A Beginning Forgotten," which dramatizes the construction of the first oil pipeline in Pennsylvania. Comments from readers have ranged from . . . "Whitmanesque" to "reminiscent of Dylan Thomas' 'Under Milk Wood.' " Son Gordon (MA '69) did the cover art for the 81-page book, and Joan has been in charge of a variety of promotional activities, including taking candids of the author and pulling together other materials for display windows in book stores.

'47 TKS Class Secretary: Mrs. David P. Adams (Cynthia Youngman) 3 Welsh Road Essex Fells, N.J. 07021 Peggy Pope's acting career has included at least two New York appearances this year— "New Girl in Town" and "Doctor Jazz."

Peggy has also appeared in films and numer­ ous TV shows. A role in the Off-Broadway production of "Muzeeka" won her an Obie Award. According to an article in the MONTCLAIR TIMES, Peggy in recent years has been dividing her time between New York and Hollywood, and, from what we read, keeping very busy!

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Class Secretary: Mrs. A. Stanley Miller, Jr. (Frances- Lane) Camino Gardens 729 S.W . Bay berry Terrace Boca Raton, FL 33432

Class Secretary: Mrs. W . G. Tull, Jr. (Sue Davis) 7907 G reentree Road Bethesda, MD 20034

"Stan and I got away for three or four days for our 16th Anniversary in November. Flew to Great Harbour Cay, an hour's flight from here, and took one overnight in Nassau on our way home. It was our first time away alone since our move to Florida four years ago, and greatly appreciated by me. Had a lovely Thanksgiving with everyone well and Mom and Dad Lane with us. They are staying at the Beau Rivage Apartments and going back to N.J. in April. Stan and I sold the Beau Rivage Apartments last July and Dad comes to 729 SW Bayberry Terrace to give us a help­ ing hand." Fran also wrote that, "Mom just had her 69th birthday . . and looks great."

The Millers had a full house on Christmas Day and a champagne dinner party for 85 on New Year's Eve! Fran says, "Find myself very busy, as usual, with St. Andrew's School. . . . It's a fun school to work with. . . . Still active with the Republican Club and have my monthly newsletter going out. . . . Manage to spend three mornings at Addison Mizner School, where my boys at­ tend. Spend two half hours working with two children who need help with reading and writing and three half hours with a physical education program for the first and second grades. Sometimes I feel like a shuttle, but when you actually see the children improv­ ing little by little and having great fun with our coordination program, it's well worth time spent with each and every one of them. . . .

"Just returned from a very spontaneous six-day trip to the Keys with my family. It was our first trip away all together. Had a great time sight-seeing . . . swimming, fishing . . . and, to top it, a day on a 52-foot catamaran, snorkling. Now that the boys are 6, 7 and 10, and Leisha is 15, even I had fun.

O ur weather, always perfect.

"I haven't heard a word from any of you.

Check in, and let's hear a thing or two about YOU and YO U and YO U . Many thanks for those who care enough to send a little."

Janet Mason is in charge of the Bicentennial issue of LIFE magazine, we learned from her sister, Lucile '43. Janet was one of eight people retained by LIFE when it ceased pub­ lication as a weekly.

'49 TKS Class Secretary: Mrs. T. R. Cutting (Sally Smith) 24 Inwood Road Essex Fells, N.J. 07021

'51 TKS Class Secretary: Mrs. Eric W . Stroh (Gail Robertson) 1097 Grayton Road Crosse Point, Ml 48230 Linda Herbert wrote to the office this spring. "I am still employed at the State Uni­ versity in Fullerton, California, in the Teacher Education Department and seem to enjoy the world of academic endeavor more and more. I do extend an invitation to any­ one who happens to be traveling to Disney­ land, which is only one mile from my home. I do get anxious to see people from 'home' even though I have been out here for 13 years."

'52 TKS Class Secretary: Mrs. Edward C. Fawcett (Fay Taft) 9 Gordon Place Montclair, N.J. 07042 Jane Redfield Forsberg and Bob and Anne Dwyer Milne and Norm and about twenty other friends went on their annual ski vaca­ tion, this time to Sugarloaf Mt. in Maine.

Nancy Booth Kelly wrote at Christmas time that everyone in Nassau is fine, and they have finally finished building their pool.

Nancy's part-time job selling costume jewelry is proving to be creative, fun, suc­ cessful, and it fits in well with the boys' many activities.

I understand that Anne Cook Durey was in N .Y .C . recently, visiting hermotherand hav­ ing lunch with Susan Sanders. (Sorry my line was busy, Anne, I would have loved to talk with you.)

Carol Humphrey White with her husband, George, and daughter, Kathy, spent a week in Brazil last November.

Babs Pendleton Donnell has not only graduated but has a full time job teaching Remedial Reading to the elementary grades in the local schools. She has groups of 4 or5 children, five days a week from 8:45 a.m. to 2 p.m.-ish. Congratulations! Her daughter, Bridget, a junior who has just taken her Col­ lege Boards, has been picked for the Ameri­ can Field Service summer program and will

be sent abroad next summer, she knows not where, to live with a family. Congratulations to you, too, Bridget.

Your Secretary is about to go to Florida with Ned and the girls and then will look forward to another July in Nantucket. (You can see I live from vacation to vacation.)

A note from Anne Areson Dwyer Milne to the Alumni Office told us that she had been on a fascinating tour of Romania in October and planned to go on one to Japan in April.

Both trips were sponsored by Colby-Sawyer College, New Hampshire.

'53 TKS Class Secretary: Mrs. Thomas Burgin (Lolly Penick) 328 Fairway Road Ridgewood, N.J. 07450 News from Suzette Armitage Whiting is that they moved to Highland Avenue, Upper Montclair, in April. The Whitings' Snack Bar on Long Beach Island will be opening on June 21st. Suzette will be art co-ordinator at the Operetta Club forthe next two years, and won first prize for a needlepoint Christmas stocking at the Upper Montclair Women's Club.

'54 TKS Class Secretary: Miss Georgia Carrington McDonogh School McDonogh, MD 21208 Thank you to Georgia Carrington who has just written and offered to be Class Secre­ tary. Hurrah for Georgia, and please send her lots of news. For this issue, a few calls around town by Aubin Zabriskie Ames have turned up some local news. Next issue, let's hear from those further away.

C.Y. Mann Treene and Bill are living in Montclair, and C .Y. is currently president of the Hillside School P.T.A. Hillside is one of the three middle schools (grades 5-8) in town. Bill is Vice President of Hayward Man­ ufacturing. Their oldest son, Jeff, will enter high school next year. David is in the 6th grade, and Rickie is in 4th grade.

"Puffed by Fluff" is a thriving needlepoint finishing business for Fluffy Ferguson Morse.

Fluffy works at home and does finishing for several needlepoint shops, as well as for her own private customers. (Ed. Note: and does a fantastic job!) She has also been very active in the TKS Alumnae Association this year, and has found time for paddle tennis every week. Fluffy and Reg had dinner with Nell Fisk Hamlen and John in Sherbourne, Mass.,

last fall. Fluffy reports that Nell has cham­ pionship golden retrievers, rides her horse daily, has a gorgeous home, and looks won­ derful.

This has been a busy year for Lynn Towner Dodd who has been seen "under the lights" twice in Children's Theater productions. In addition, Lynn has assumed a big volunteer job at MKA as Director of Enrichment and Volunteers in the Middle School. Steve, Pe­ ter, and Debbie all attend MKA, and oldest son, Bill, is at Trinity-Pawling.

New residents in Darien, Connecticut, are June Hayward Foster and husband, John (MA '54). The Fosters moved there in August. Mar­ ian Miller Castell and George also live in Darien, and Sylvia Middleton Seymour and Dave are nearby in New Canaan.

A long letter from Pixie Cole Pendergast, which this short column can hardly do justice to, describes the changes which have oc­ curred in their lives since 1971 when Pixie and Jack first became interested in the Char­ ismatic Renewal Movement. What began as a search for a fuller expression of their Chris­ tian lives has grown into a total commitment and involvement in their parish community.

The Pendergasts moved to the neighbor­ hood of their parish last summer, and five of their six children are attending St. Patrick's Parish school. Jack is a member of the "pas­ toral team" of St. Patrick's— a group of seven people who share the pastoral leadership of the parish. Last June, Pixie and Jack attended the International Conference for Charisma­ tic Renewal at Notre Dame to participate in an all day workshop. Pixie writes that about 3,000 people, including Cardinal Suenans of Belgium, attended their workshop where Pixie gave a presentation on family life. With all the above, Jack continues to be a lawyer in Providence and Pixie, a wife and mother. The six children are growing, busy in many ac­ tivities, well, and happy.

Mimi Evans Harmon and Bob have both sons attending MKA now— Bobby in 9th grade and Bryant in 8th grade. With more time in recent years to pursue her own in­ terests, Mimi has been increasingly active in the theater locallyHw ith over18 parts in the past eight years to hercredit! This spring she played with Pat Hingle in "Time of Your Life" in Wayne, N.J. Mimi did several segments on ABC's "O ne Life to Live" last fall, and now has signed with the John Filor Agency. She is a member of AFTRA and does committee work for them in the field of membership activities. Tennis and golf help keep Mimi "in shape."

News from our new Secretary, Georgia Carrington, is that she is currently Director of the Upper School at Springside School in P hilad elp hia, and also teaches several classes in English. She writes that she has just accepted a new appointment for next year at the McDonogh School in Maryland, where she will be Associate Dean. McDonogh has been a boys school but will become coedu­ cational next year. Georgia will have respon­ sibilities in the areas of academic counseling

and student activities, will teach at least one class in English, and will also be an advisorto the president of the school on coeducation.

'56 TKS Class Secretary: Mrs. Lawther O . Smith (Linda Lovell) 186 East Court Street Doylestown, PA 18901

'57 TKS Class Secretary: Mrs. Richard Van Heuven (Connie Hay) "Westmeadows," Mason Lane Slingerlands, N.Y. 12159

'57 MA Thomas E. Hobbins is Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and recently had the honor to be elected Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

'58 TKS Class Secretary: Mrs. Reginald Leeby (Anne McCormick) 135 Fairfield Street Fayetteville, N.Y. 13066 Is, Are and Does: Is Nancy Adams Scherer still living in South Dartmouth, Mass, with husband, Jerry, and two daughters? Is Pat Baldanza Godard still selling real estate in Coral Gables, Florida, and does she see Betsy Cole Sabel who was managing an art gallery for an entrepreneur? Is Betsy Barney Johnston still minus thirty pounds, plus three chil­ dren, feeling wonderful and living in Corn­ ing, N.Y.? And Sally Braddock Dinsmore— is she still "retired" and working on their house? . . . does Bob still own bookstores?

Are all the June (John) Dallery Doolittles still at St. George's School, gardening organically and listening to June play her guitar? (Ed. Note: See item at end of article!) Has Jean Eaglesham Davis gone back to nursing in the Baltimore area, or have she, Art, and two children pursued Jean's interest in com­ munal living? For sure, Nancy Ferris Hillegas and Don are in Wilmington, Delaware with Julie, 4, and Michael, almost 3.

Are Lockey Harvey Frasier, Marjie Heydt Bonner and Ginger Rhoades Newkirk still in

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California? No, the Breslins (Wendy Worsley) aren't in Maryland but have moved with their three boys to Rochester, N .Y ., where they are "neighbors" of the Leebys, who are in Syracuse.

Mary Ann Lawrence Decker and Mel still have the most children— but is it five?

Yes, Mary O'Donnell has returned from three years in Japan and is working for IBM in San Francisco. Does Linda Michele Bragg still live in Cuymon, Oklahoma with Stacy and three children? Are Diana Bethell Little, Helen Bryant Perry, Kathy D'Ambola, Gail Gamer Jacobus and Margie Brown Dinsmore "alive, well and living in or near Montclair"? And are Linda Almgren, Anne Bobst Highley and Judy Burns O'Connell still New Yorkers?

Some questions have immediate answers— our past is part of our present and part of our future. Carol (Kaiya) Schoonmaker married a gentle man, Art Simon. Kaiya and Art have adopted two wonderful boys, Peter and Nathan. Helen DuBois married a widower with a grown family, Jack Deltkamp. Helen writes of blessings and bliss.

As we have been out of Kimberly half our lifetime, will the real class of 1958 please stand up?

Addendum: The Alumni Office was so pleased to hear from June Dallery Doolittle's mother ("our" former faculty member, Mrs. Dallery) that June and her husband, J, have a new daugh­ ter. Laurin Tamlen, who was born in June, 1974 in Vietnam, was adopted into the Doolittle family in December. June and J also have two sons-^John, 7, and Andrew, 5.

They all live in Newport, Rhode Island, where J is Director of Admissions at St. George's School.

NEWS that 1974 was a good year, travel-wise.

She went skiing in Colorado, crusing in the Caribbean, sailing in Maine, and also flew to Brazil! Sally Alice has been promoted to a Trust Officer at the Landmark First National Bank in Fort Lauderdale. The Bank continues to send her to school and she expects to graduate this summer. Among hercommunity activities (Chamber of Commerce, Bro­ ward National Association of Bank Women, Coral Ridge Junior Woman's Club) she is a tour guide for the Junior League for the old­ est house in Fort Lauderdale built around 1900.

'60 MA Philip Leone wrote in April, "Living in St. Louis where I am Assistant Professor of Pathology, St. Louis University Medical School, and in August will be Director of Laboratories at St. Louis County Hospital. My wife, Cheryl, is Associate Pathologist at Mis­ souri Baptist Hospital. We have a son, Seth Aaron, born April 26, 1974."

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Class Secretary:

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Class Secretary: Mrs. J. K. Nash (Christine Kuzmick) 784 D Laurel Walk Goleta, CA 93017

'63 MA Thomas V. P. Alpren wrote this winter that, "M y wife, Kathy and I, along with our two children, Jacob and David, live in M il­ waukee, Wisconsin, where I am doing an ophthalmology residency at Medical College of W isconsin."

'64 TKS

Class Secretary: Mrs. James G. Ward (Carolyn Wilson) 5280 Durango Court Pensacola, FL 32504 I received a darling picture of the Sandburg children at Christmas time though I was unableto get together with Missytocatch upon the news.

Miss Judith Poor 96 North Mountain Avenue Montclair, N.J. 07042

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'59 TKS

Class Secretary: Mrs. Robert P. Sumas (Deana Rogers) 44 Maple Drive North Caldwell, N.J. 07006

'59 MA William Marriott writes that he has become a member of the law firm of Evans, Koelzer, Marriott and Osborne which is located in Rumson, N.J. He has two sons, Darien (5) and Donald (2).

'60 TKS

Class Secretary: Miss Carroll Tiernan Box 203, RFD Westmoreland, N.H. 03467 Sally Alice Unkles wrote to ALUMNAE

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Class Secretary: Mrs. Thomas Pohl (Carol Vincelette) 1736 Scheffer Avenue St. Paul, MN 55116 Suzanne Wright Klein sent word to the school that she and Chris are the parents of a son, Grady Fredrick Klein, born March 22, 1974. Also, "This year illustrated first pub­ lished book, WOMENFOLK AND FAIRY TALES, edited by Rosemary Minard, pub­ lished by Houghton Mifflin C o ., Boston. Plus we are soon to move to California!"

'62 MA Richard S. Rosenblum is currently Director of Evening Library Services at Seton Hall Uni­ versity. He holds an M .L.S. degree from Pratt Institute and received an M .A.T. degree from William Paterson College. A graduate of Up­ sala College, Mr. Rosenblum has also done graduate work at the University of Wiscon­ sin, Bryn Mawr College, and Case-Western Reserve University.

Earle and Kirsten Sandburg, children o f Missy Keyser Sandburg Lynn Ritter Vernon wrote of the addition to her family of her thirteen-year old step­ daughter, Debbie. Debbie "tamed and rides a beef cow, 'Friendly.'"The Vernons' daugh­ ter, Shelby, is four and their son, Skye, is two. Lynn wrote that they have busy days taking care of the house, kids, farm and ani­ mals.

Dams, £U U itw t ^ J J u /il^,a *v L

Lynn Ritter Vernon's Christmas card shows all their animals except for fifteen cattle and a Pig! Lynn Sanders Pizzirusso and her husband, Joe, and daughter, Jenny, are enjoying Memphis and remodeling their Victorian home. They are expecting their second child in July.

Randi White McGinnis and her husband, Dick, and their little boy, Ritchie, have moved back to their home in Lewisburgh, Pennsylvania, where Dick will resume his teaching now that he has completed graduate study at Berkeley.

We are trying to grow a lawn and settle in our new house. Sunny Florida is great, but a little more humid than Montclair. That's all the news as of now. Would like to hear from all our classmates.

'65 TKS Class Secretary: Mrs. B. R. Madsen (Betsy Ridge) Box 415 Essex, MA 01929 Your secretary, as we go to press, is plan­ ning to ask her classmates to join her on Commencement Day for a pre-reunion get together. We hope they will celebrate their 10th reunion with us in the fall, too!

'66 TKS Many thanks to Terry Appenzellar who has acted as Secretary for '66-ers for the last nine years. Terry, whose life remains very full in Washington, D .C ., has relinquished the post. Any volunteers out there? Please let us know.

In the last issue of the magazine we an­ nounced Marg Sander's marriage to Brink

Messick and, incorrectly, assigned Brink's name to Marg. She has written to Terry, "My name legally remains Marg Sander and never has or will have the family name 'Messick.' I want women to know that they have an op­ tion to retain their own names or take their husband's, as long as one name is consis­ tently used. It is only a custom and not law (except in Hawaii where women are legally forced to take husband's name) that women take men's names. If people want more info on this subject, write to: Center for a Wom­ an's Own Name, 261 Kimberley, Barrington, IL 60010.

"I will be residing in Philadelphia by Sep­ tember, 1975, and can be contacted d o Art History Department, University of Pennsyl­ vania, Philadelphia, PA 19174. I would like to hear from anyone involved in feminist ac­ tivities, from otherart historians aboutwork, location, etc., and from women who have lived or travelled in the Middle East . . .

"I decided to come to Yemen to have a year's break from school after I finally got my BA in June '74. Living in the Arab world has obviously been exciting in many ways, but also very isolating. I'm doing a photographic architectural survey because it's incredibly diverse, interesting and sophisticated. But most of the time is timeless— spent living from day to day— which one can never do at home . . ."

Martha Ridge Lane also wrote to Terry, in December, that she and Peter, following Holiday skiing, planned to spend the Spring building a house on the Essex River.

Francine Onorati Crawford wrote to the Alumni Office recently that she is complet­ ing her second year of law school in Boston, and is working for a tax and estates attorney part-time. Her husband, Bill, is working on a textbook of photographic techniques which is to be published by Morgan & Morgan next spring.

We were also happy to hear from Marcia Blondel who wrote of her marriage to Randal B. Hopwood, which took place at the Stan­ ford Memorial Church in Palo Alto, Califor­ nia, in April. Marcia and Randy attended Stanford together, where she received an M.A. in Communication and her teaching credential in secondary English and he re­ ceived a B.A. in political science. Marcia teaches English, creative writing, journalism, drama, and photography at Jordan Junior High in Palo Alto and does free lance writing and photography. Randy is a student at Hast­ ings Law School.

'66 MA Congratulations are in order for Robert P. McAleerwho received his promotion to Cap­ tain in the Marine Corps.

Mark Geannette, we were told by his sister, Dawn (TKS '68) is presently working in Tren­ ton for the State of New Jersey as a Deputy Attorney General.

'67 TKS Class Secretary: Miss Linda Feinberg 20 Pearl Brook Drive Clifton, N.J. 07013 The Alumni Office had a nice note from Deborah Sanders Lewis this winter. "We are living in Worcester, Massachusetts, and just love it as we now own ourown home. We are also proud to announce the birth of our sec­ ond child, a girl, named Erin Eavenson, on September22,1974. She weighed in at9 lbs., 5 oz. Kelly, our first, is now three."

'67 MA Craig C. Perry writes that he is an account executive for Corrow & Black Co ., an insur­ ance brokerage firm, and is still enjoying bachelorhood!

James G. Paterson, Jr., is working in North Carolina, building a plant.

Recent word from John Rudd: "I am now working as a depreciation engineer for the Michigan Public Service Commission, being involved with depreciation studies for public utility companies. Shortly, I will take the sec­ ond half of the professional engineer exam and expect to pass it, giving me my registra­ tion as a P.E."

'6 8 TKS Class Secretary: Miss Avie Claire Kalker 2401 W. Southern, Box 274 Tempe, AZ 85282

'6 8 MA Gregg Deehan wrote recently from Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, "I attended Lehigh University where I received a B.S.I.E. in June '72; then went on for an M .B.A. in June '73. I joined Charmin Paper Products, a subsidiary of Proctor & Gamble and was a line manager of a team of technicians producing Pampers.

I am now in an industrial engineering capac­ ity for the operation, budgeting, forecasting, cost savings projects, etc. I am still single and enjoy skiing at nearby Elk Mountain.”

'69 TKS Class Secretary: Mrs. Charles Gildea (Lynn Erhardt) 49 East Saddle River Road Saddle River, N.J. 07458

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

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'72 TKS Class Secretary: Miss Kate Curtin 101 Clinton Avenue Montclair, N.J. 07042 We read in the paper that Brewer Doran has been named a senior fellow for the academic year 1975 - 76 at Dartmouth Col­ lege. The title of Brewer's independent study project is "Personal Art Forms of the East African Savannah."

MA Douglas Carter Fitzpatrick expects to graduate from Chicago-Kent College of Law this summer. Heand hiswifeplan to move to Arizona in the fall where he will prepare for the bar.

Gordon Sussman has been selling kayaking equipment in Wisconsin, and he spent over a week last August kayaking the Colorado through Grand Canyon. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Gordon hopes to be in law school in September.

'72 MA Vincent Mascia, who won the No. 1 sabre championship in the independent school All State Team, while he was a Senior at MA, has

'71 TKS Class Secretary: Miss Linda Braeder 27 Edged iff Road Upper Montclair, N.J. 07043

'74 TKS Vincent Mascia

'71 MA Heard from Robert Lipman that he was graduated from University of Pennsylvania with honors, and received his B.A. Economics and B.S. Finance from the Whar­ ton School. He is now finishing up his first year at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin and doesn't plan to return to the N.Y. area.

We also heard news of Kevin Basralian.

Kevin was graduated from Albright College in June and will be going to medical school in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Andy Abramson has received a $5,000 re­ search grant from ALCOA Foundation to do structural research for the national design specifications for aluminum sections. This will constitute Andy's graduate work at Cor­ nell for his master's degree of Science and Engineering. Andy has been told that John Brandow will be going to Oxford University next year: John Guttman and Bruce Downsborough to law school.

Anyone in the Class of 71 who would like to have a reunion this summer, please get in touch with Andy.

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She has a radio show of her own on WMHC and is stage manager for an upcoming per­ formance in MHC Black Theatre.

Martha Del Negro has achieved Dean's List at Georgetown and is enjoying extended in­ volvement In the Spanish Club and an inter­ national singing group. She is working for her teacher's certificate, but is ultimately planning to interpret or translate.

Overseas ventures are in the offing for Barbie Benner, who plans to study archeology in Nairobi, Kenya, nextyearatthistim e. This constitutes one half of her double major; art history filling out the other half. The summer will be spent at Mystic Seaport, Connecticut, studying and sharing a farm house with friends.

There has been more going on in the past two years of Meg Penick's life than I can pos­ sibly relate in one column, but after review­ ing a long list of activities I must instantly announce her marriage plans to Dennis Lyle Southward on June 15th. She will attend Naropa Institute this summer and Ben­ nington College in the fall. Meggo has held a wealth of jobs and has been studyi ng an awe­ some collection of Tibetan Buddhism, Madyamika philosophy, Thangka painting, and Tantric literature, but since she'll be home during May, old friends can gather for a complete and thorough rendition.

That's all, folks— have a sunny, happy summer!

continued to capture titles at the University of Virginia. In February Vincent won the No. 1 sabre title in the 1st Annual Virginia Cup, while the fencing team, of which he is co­ captain and coach, won the state title. In March Vincent won the No. 1 sabre champ­ ionship against opponents (with a 14-3 rec­ ord) in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

A junior at the university, Vincent was chosen this year to be a Resident Advisor for freshmen. He is a pre-med student and on the Dean's List. Last summer Vincent worked in the laboratory of the Community Memo­ rial Hospital (Toms River) under a pa­ thologist.

Class Secretary: Miss Leslie Aufzien 100 Upper Mountain Avenue Montclair, N.J. 07042 Maggie Murphy stopped by the Alumni O f­ fice (where she toiled for many hours this fall!) during spring vacation to tell us that she (and horse) arrived safely at Colby College in February. Both Maggie and "Tammy" love Maine!

Your Secretary writes that she will continue at Rollins next year. She's working on lay-out for the school paper, and is still active in the theatre.

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'73 TKS Class Secretary: Miss Constance Van Eeghen 191 Cooper Avenue Upper Montclair, N.J. 07043 Yourdiligent Secretary (atSmith) has more action to relate on the academic front: Linda Williams finds life at Mount Holyoke College very tolerable as an English literature major with a strong interest in communications.

William L. Brown, III, worked at the Jarrett Coffin House, Nantucket, until December.

Hethen worked duringjanuary and February at the New School of Social Research in the Modern Language Department, and assisted in teaching English as a second language. Bill started as a first term sophomore at Ben­ nington College in March.

Brian Thomas stopped by school during spring vacation, and we had a chance to thank him again for his helpful volunteer work in the Alumni Office last summer.

VITAL STATISTICS MARRIAGES Janet Waterman (TKS '70) to Gerald Zoppi Susan Lowry (TKS '69) to Brian Tilton Bris­ tol Anna Maria Ciccone (TKS '63) to Richard Jan Wein Jennifer Van Niel (TKS '60) to William F. Haughton Mildred Wright (TKS '41) Oschwald to C. Malcolm Davis Marcia Blondel (TKS '66) to Randal B. Hopwood

BIRTHS to Mr. and Mrs. Chris Klein (Suzanne Wright TKS '62) a son, Grady Frederick to Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Lewis (Deborah Sanders TKS '67) a girl, Erin Eavenson to Dr. and Mrs. Philip Leone (MA '60) a son, Seth Aaron

to Gladys Ferry (TKS '25) and Doris Ferry Severn (TKS 36) on the death of their mother to Josephine Murray Schmid (TKS 36) on the death of her mother to Frederick S. Wilson (MA 30) on the death of his wife and to George C. Wilson (MA '67) on the death of his mother DEATHS

SYMPATHY to Marianna Webb (TKS '48) on the death of her mother to Elizabeth Christy Higgins (TKS '35) on the death of her husband

Newton H. Porter, Jr. (MA '23) Mrs. Harold C. Strait (Jean MacwattyTKS '25) Mrs. Ruloff F. Kip (Alison CruikshankTKS '12) Mrs. Frederick S. Wilson (Georgia Gottfried TKS 37)

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