Spring 1976 MKA Alumni News

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«^»^-=5» merica’s Bicentennial is not just an explosion of fireworks on July 4, 1976, or a few costumed parades compressed into one summer.

Rather, it is a challenge to the nation — to each of us — to look clearly at where we’ve been and where were going, during the rest of 1976 and in the years before us.

The Montclair Kimberley Academy, the Alumni and Parents Associations welcome that challenge. To meet it, they will inaugurate on April 20 a series of special events conceived to help illuminate the future of this dynamic nation, not just in 1976 but hereafter.

You are invited to join with The Montclair Kimberley Academy family in meeting this challenge.

W e wish you a ll could have been with us!

Cover: Middle School-ers John Wood '80, Alexandra McManus '81, James Irwin '80 and Heidi Ames '81 pause to view the historical art exhibit loaned by Fraunces Tavern for our Bicentennial Evening.

M KA A LU M N I N EW S VOLUME 4

JUNE, 1976

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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 Mont­ clair, N.J. 07042

Our Bicentennial Evening . . . . .................................................

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Sports Review ................................ .................................................

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Bulletin Board

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Alumni Association .................... ................................................. 13 Class News ..................................... ................................................. 14 Mrs. Jo T. Callaghan, Editor Editorial Advisory Board Mrs. Aubin Zabriskie Ames '54 Miss Elizabeth L. Specht '44 Marc S. Kirschner '60 James S. Vandermade '35

OUR BICENTENNIAL EVENING Over six hundred friends and members of the MKA family attended our Bicentennial Evening on April 20 to hear Jill Ker Conway speak on "The Continuing Revolution: The Changing Role of Women 1776-1976." Prior to introducing Mrs. Con­ way, Principal Richard W. Day welcomed our guests of honor — Bruce McGowan, Headmaster of Haberdashers' Aske's School, England, who brought Bicentennial greetings, and the members of MKA's Class of '76.

Jill Ker Conway is the seventh president of Smith College and the first woman to hold the post in the college's 100-year history. Australian born, Mrs. Conway spent her childhood on a sheep ranch and was graduated first in her class at the University of Sydney. She earned her Ph.D. at Harvard University and became an assistant to fellow Harvard historian John J. Conway whom she married. In 1964 she joined the history faculty of the University of Toronto, and in 1973 was appointed Vice President for Internal Affairs, serving until she assumed the presidency of Smith College in 1975.

We have selected highlights from Mrs. Conway's remarks, which we recorded on April 20. In presenting these excerpts, we hope to share with you the intellectual stimulation that each of us present gained that evening.

stimulate in us about the third century and the new ex­ pressions o f the aspiration to create a just society which will be forthcoming before the next celebration of the anniversary of the Revolution?"

"If one looks at American society during the Revolutionary period, it was a society, of course, predominantly rural with very small urban aggregations in the population. It was a society in which, from the first days of settlement in New England and in Virginia, the position of women had been very strictly disciplined by Protestant thought."

On our Bicentennial Evening program we had printed a quotation drawn from a letter written by Abigail Adams to her husband while he was at the Philadelphia Convention in 1776: "I long to hear that you have declared an independency — and in the new code of laws I desire you would remember the ladies. Be more generous than your ancestors; do not put such power into the hands of the husbands. That your sex is naturally tyrannical admits of no dispute, but if attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion. I will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no representation." Mrs. Conway reminded us that John Adams answered this somewhat jesting letter by saying, "We have been told that our struggle has loosened the bands of government everywhere. That children and ap­ prentices were disobedient — that schools and colleges were grown turbulentE- that Indians slighted their guardians and Negroes grew insulant to their masters. But your letter was the first intimation that another tribe, more numerous and more powerful than the rest, were grown discontented."

"The move to change the political structure in 1776, then, was a move made without respect to the people defined as dependent."

"What I hope to do tonight is to provoke in you some reflections about the place accorded to women in American culture since the Revolution, and to describe and discuss a little some of the social trends which have influenced that place; to draw your attention to some historical themes which recur over the two hundred year period of the national ex­ perience; and, finally, to try to throw some light on why, in 1976 during the Bicentennial, we should be witnessing both an attempt to secure ratification of an Equal Rights Amend­ ment to the Constitution and the growing popularity of a movement which, for lack of a better title, is described as the 'total woman movement.'

"Now, what social forces and intellectual trends do these developments, two hundred years after the Revolution, represent? What are their roots in the past? What questions can we ask about them? And, what reflections can they

"Generations o f travelers visiting the United States have always commented on the unique place of women in American society. They began doing it before the Revolution, they continue to do it right up to the present d a y . . .. I am referring to the development of a society in which the ideology of equality is associated not with the breaking down of the segregation of the sexes but an increased stress on the separation of their roles in society and a consistent effort to raise the status of women within their segregated position in the social structure."

"If one looks at the early national period from about 1800 to the 1830's, one sees developing in the United States a very strong impetus toward the education of women and very early the foundation of academies for the education of wom en. . . . " 1

"Corresponding with this elevation of the status of women in the early national period within the family, one sees the emergence of a new female working class in the United States associated with the development of the textile industry in New England and various kinds of small industry in New York and the Middle States. .. . They are paid for their early in­ dustrial work approximately a third of the salary paid males for the same work — and, in cities where they are engaged in what was to be designated later in the century 'sweated labor,' they are paid less than subsistence for a 14 hour, 6 day working week."

"[from the 1830's to the Civil War ] , .. .in the abolition question, one encounters the first political issue which brought the division of labor, which had been established between males and females, into serious conflict. Females were appropriately supposed to band together and concern themselves with moral reform. Many of them saw slavery as a moral abuse which they were obligated, because of their responsibility in society, to correct; and yet this aspiration intersects with the assumption that women will not exercise political rights or speak in public on political questions."

services for Union soldiers raised more money than any philanthropic activity to that date in the United States; and women gained the experience of managing large organizations, speaking in public, raising large sums of money and dealing with it in a very efficient and managerial way.

"The war is also the period that sees the emergence of the nursing profession as a respectable activity for women -Bone which takes over the military discipline of an army, the idea of uniforms, the idea of strict obedience, but which provides for the first time an independent kind of activity for women which is respectable outside the home besides volunteer work.

"Out of the experience of the war grew a very powerful organizational force for middle class women known as the Women's Club Movement in which women banded together and formed clubs in most of the major urban areas of the United States, and used that banding together to organize politically for various urban reform causes."

"The period after the Civil War was also the period in which the popularized concepts of evolutionary biology first had impact in the higher education of Americans. These ideas, of course, had among other very important themes the notion that there was a hierarchy of races which justified most segregation policies, but also that the female was the less developed form of life than the male. . . . "

" . . . It is not very long before the’ conflict between the received view of women's moral responsibilities and their inability to act on them politically produces the famous Declaration of Rights at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848.

But if you read that Declaration of Rights carefully, you will see that there is some problem about the arguments which are advanced for giving women political rights. It isn't clear whether the drafters of the Declaration want equality for all human beings because it is just or political rights for women because it's important that the sphere of action they represent in American Society should be represented in the polity and in the political life of the society. There is a real confusion and conflict between the arguments advanced by suffragists at this point."

. . . The long period of dependence o f a human infant, as opposed to other young of other species, made social theorists conclude that social instincts developed in human society from the need to nurture the young, and that these instincts are genetically built into females and not into males.

This means, o f course, that if you do anything that will un­ dermine these nurturing activities or call them in question, you may be undermining the whole source o f the social in­ stincts in society and all characteristics of human altruism and collectivism . . . "

"The Civil War period was a period of extraordinary collective activity — public activity — by American women both in the Confederate States and in the Union. The fairs organized by women in northern cities to support the work of the United States Sanitary Commission in providing medical

"[access to education for wome n] , . . .in women's colleges such as Smith, Mount Holyoke, Vassar; in the state colleges of the Midwest which became open to women in the generation after the Civil War; in coordinate schools with men's colleges like Barnard and Radcliffe; or, indeed, in institutions with an

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aspiration to graduate education like lohns Hopkins in the 1890's — the admission of women was accompanied by the notion that the education had to support these nurturing characteristics and not encourage them in aggressive in­ tellectual life or, indeed, in the attempt to create knowledge. " . . . .In their careers, as graduates trying to create a proper role in society for educated women, they all built oc­ cupations. .. .based on female nurturance and the ability to empathize with the weak and dependent. The argument for educating women for social work was made from about 1900. . . . "

"The profession of Ubrarianship was developed because it was assumed by all the proponents of the public library in the United States that ordinary people would be scared of libraries if they were not made comfortable and homely — a notion that Europeans would have found very funny."

"As far as teaching was concerned, a profession that developed for women from the 1830's in their first access to education, the arguments for training them, in all of the discussions in state legislatures about the creation of normal schools to which women would be admitted, were strictly economic. They simply argued that, if a tax supported system of public education was to be developed, it would be much more important to train people with no acquisitive drives to carry out that teaching function because it would cost the tax payer less. And, this was very clearly articulated from about the 1840's on. " . . . . in almost all the state universities which began to admit women or, indeed, in schools like Cornell right after the first generation o f women students were admitted, there is another trend in education to reinforce their focus on domesticity and the proper sphere of activity for women. This came from the founding of schools of domestic science and home economics which were deliberately created with the

aspiration of directing women's attention to the proper area of their concern and giving them the opportunity to apply science to domestic activities, but not, o f course, to do any research about it."

" . . . .special sex-linked characteristics were assumed to give women their ability to function effectively in a sphere of activity that was quite separate from that of males and was compensatory for characteristics that males had of aggressiveness and acquisitiveness. Many people do not realize that the suffrage, the right to vote for women, was won on the basis of these arguments and not on the basis of arguments for justice and equity in the treatment of half of society."

"During the first World War, you see a period in which married women began to enter the labor force in numbers unparalleled before and, at the same time, new kinds of occupations were opened up to this new female labor force which was moving into the market place. These were the secretarial and clerical roles which came for women after the invention of the telephone and the typewriter."

"The expansion of women's place in the lab oflorce in the twenties is not really accompanied by any change in ideology at all."

"The period from 1930 to the 50's was one in which the mental hygiene movement was very active in the studies of the curriculum of women's education and deeply concerned with leading women to accept their biological destiny and to be happy with the roles assigned to them in the domestic world."

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. . . in the period o f the 50's we see a real return to ac­ ceptance, in a very public way, of the domestic sphere for women and a very high evaluation being placed on it. " . . . . The decline of women, as represented in all areas of theoretical academic work such as graduate study, and a reduced participation in the professional life o f the country, fell in the 50's below that achieved by 1900. What happened to change these trends is something that social historians will be puzzling about and battling about for a good many years."

"Demographers have shown us today that what we call the isolated conjugal family, husband and wife living with their offspring in a single dwelling, is the most clearly established pattern in Western European culture going back to the twelfth century; and that it has been consistent with a great variety of legal systems, a great variety of economic systems, and its support or vitality has had very little to do with the attitude toward it of the state or of the society at large. It certainly has not been influenced in its vitality by anything having to do with the respective roles of males and females. But, as I think I have been trying to suggest to you, there are deep con­ fusions in American culture about how the political system relates to the maintenance of those roles."

"[In the 60's]. . . came a new perception of wha t . . history has meant and how real the segregation of women has been within the domestic sphere, and how little their access to higher education has really meant in terms o f ability to move into central positionsjjof power and authority in cultural institutions and actually create knowledge or generate ideas on their ow n."

" . . . . there is a sudden perception in the 1960's and 70's of a great deal of work to be done and an upheaval with which you are all familiar and which I don't need to recapitulate.

But, perhaps what very few people would have predicted is the emergence in the 70's of an equally strong set of arguments about the importance of the maintenance of the domestic role of females and the danger to society of un­ dermining those assumptions and attitudes."

"One of the arguments advanced, of course, by all the supporters of the 'total woman movement' and all the op­ ponents of the Equal Rights Amendment is that somehow or other if there should be any change in the division of labor between males and females, all human characteristics will be reversed: one will see total role reversals — submissive males, dominant females, total breakdown of established patterns of family life. The very interesting point to remember is that this fear comes out o f some very important functions allocated to the family in this culture and not out of anything that the study o f history would support.

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Following Mrs. Conway's excellent address, a Response Panel — consisting of E. Claire Healey, MKA Trustee and Professor of English, Montclair State College; Robert C. Hemmeter, Chairman of MKA's Social Studies Department; and MKA Seniors Robert Brinning and Robin Towner — reacted to Mrs. Conway's remarks, with our Principal acting as moderator. Our guests then enjoyed an 18th Century reception and an exhibit of historical art from Fraunces Tavern.

To say that the Bicentennial Evening was a cooperative venture would be to vastly understate the teamwork demonstrated by the many members of the MKA family — parents, alumni, students, trustees, faculty, and ad­ ministrators — to make the evening a success. We are grateful to everyone who worked so willingly and well. Our special1(hanks go to Mrs. Walter H. Hasbrouck and Mrs. George C. White, Jr. '52, Chairmen for the Parents and Alumni Associations, and to the members of their Steering Committee: Mrs. A. Hager Bryant, III '57; Mrs. Hartley D. Bingham, Jr.; Robert D.B. Carlisle; Mrs. William N. Farlie, Jr.; Mrs. David G. Fernald; Henry B. Fernald, Jr. '28; Mrs. William E. Frederick; Mrs. Robert G. Greene; Marc S. Kirschner '60; Robert T. Sessa'68; Mrs. Stephen J. Sopkia; and Mrs. Thomas F. Troxell, Jr. '46.

Kay Flasbrouck, Bicentennial Evening Chairman for parents, and Carol Humphrey White '52, Chairman for alumni, take a welldeserved break at the reception.

Mrs. Conway with future "Sm ithie" Linda Gardner 76.

The Response Panel - Robert Hemmeter, Robin Towner, Robert Brinning and E. Claire Healey - with Mrs. Conway.

Sue Faulkner DeDecker '61, a busy hostess at the 18th Century reception.

Miss Margaret Gallie, former Kimberley Headmistress [and Smith '12] with Mrs. Conway and Richard Day. 5

SPORTS REVIEW

Metiner Kimel, our guest columnist, was manager of the basketball team 1974-75, a member of the varsity basketball team 1975-76, and has been sports editor for the student paper, MKA NEWS. A member of the senior class, Metiner will enter the University of Pennsylvania this fall.

When the final page is turned on the 1975-76 sports scene, all associated with MKA will be able to look back on it with a satisfying smile. While more established teams, such as soccer, football and baseball, have been going through rebuilding programs, basing, their future hopes on an outsanding freshman class, more recently introduced programs, such as water polo, hockey, fencing, girls' basketball and girls' volleyball, have all established themselves as bona fide powerhouses. The only way to do justice to the numerous teams in the school is to treat them team by team, season by season...

FALL

When returning to school in the fall, everyone's attention turns to football. With both starting units returning virtually intact, spectators were looking forward to a thrill-packed season. However, nagging injuries to key personnel on both offense and defense dampened hopes, and football could only muster a 3-5 Season. Despite the disappointing record, the defense did post two shutouts in the three wins, and, generally, played well during the entire season. But, football faithfuls can look to the future with high hopes as a blue chip crop of freshman is waiting in the wings to replace graduating seniors Brad Scott, Hansi Kunz, David Hughes, Bob Pariseau, Bob Russo and Warren Waters.

Soccer also suffered through a rebuilding year with a 4-8-2 record. However, fans were able to witness the blossoming of John Urgaand MattTroxell into All-State players, and the fine play of senior rookie goaltender, Chip Read. Varsity followers also received their first glimpse of highly touted freshman 6

James Johnson. James should help provide the backbone for future squads, as MKA slowly re-establishes itself as a North Jersey soccer dynasty. Look for underclassmen to play a significant role next year.

Cross Country relied on the strength of senior Greg Mancusi-Ungaro. Greg re-wrote the school record books this year.

Cross Country was also one of the only coed sports in the school, with Hillary Hoffman giving the boys a run for the roses.

Field Hockey, hampered by injuries, suffered through a mediocre season but can look forward to help from the Jayvee ranks. The team is a young one, losing only one senior, Betsey Benedict, and possesses a bright future.

Although most of the fall Cougars were kept docile, one Cougar did show its fangs. The swimming Cougars of the water polo team ripped through their opponents and established themselves as the best team in the East for the third straight year. It is number three in the nation behind two West Coast ball clubs. Captain Billy Dioguardi and junior Scott Schulte were named to the. All-American team, while Alex Hodge, Bobby Rento, Ray Knox and Paul Gelenitis received the highest plaudits for their achievements.

Followers can expect the same high quality waterpolo for years to come as this program has built up a strong following of dedicated players.

WINTER With the onset of cold weather, the Cougars moved inside.

As anyone knows, it's not safe to close in a Cougar, and many opponents learned this the hard way.

Girls' basketball, in only its second year, swept through the season with a 17-3 mark and was seeded first in the state until the girls were upset in the first round of the state tournament.

With the wonderfully multi-talented sophomore Laura Marnell, girls' basketball should continue to devastate op­ ponents in the near future.

Girls' volleyball was also a highlight of the winter season.

The only undefeated team in the school this year, the girls posted a glittering 11-0 tab. On the strength and experience of seniors Hil Hoffman, Dale Frederick, Marina Adams and Captain Penny Wood, the girls only lost one game during the entire season. (Winning two out of three games constitutes a match.)

Fencing has also made a resurgence at MKA. In its first fall season the team posted an 8-2 record. The fine record can definitely be traced to the play of a young and talented girls' squad with Laura Waters, Sue Conzen, Ruth Perretti, Vanessa Noble and Virginia Hall comprising the nucleus. With such youth, talent and depth, it appears that the girl fencers may have a dynasty on their hands in a few years.

Boys' basketball was hampered by injuries to key starters Ray Swan and Buddy Royal but, if one were to sum up the season in two words, they would have to be Dave Minchin.

The Academy's own "scoring machine" broke the school scoring record and was named to three all-state teams — honorable mention in All-Area, third team in All-Essex, and sixth man in All-State Prep Schools. Freshman Tony Barnes also came on strong, averaging about 10 points a game, and became the first freshman to start in MKA history.

Hockey, in its fourth year, won the "B" division cham­ pionship handily and almost qualified for the "A" division championship. It also possesses a slew of All-State players, including Captain Brad Scott; freshman Phil Molinaro and Steve Dodd; and juniors "Duck" McMullin, Brad Protas and Mike Platt. What is so frightening to opponents is that this club is only losing senior Brad Scott while gaining a year's experience. Goaltenders will not rest easy for the next few years.

The mermen left many an opponent in their wake on their way to being ranked the number five swim team in the East. In addition to this, Mike Schmitt, Alex Hodge, and two relay teams were given All-American recognition for their out­ standing times. Alex Hodge also set a national Y record in the 200-yard backstroke.

Finally, the wrestling team, which had been set back by the influx of expansion clubs, came up with four victories — including a big win against Wardlaw.

As any fool knows, you don't keep a Cougar inside and the Cougars' mauling of their opponents during the winter simply reaffirms this statement.

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SPRING Spring arrives and the crack of balls against bats fills the air.

Golf bags and tennis rackets make their seasonal appearance at the School. Once again, the Cougars have been turned loose outside.

Baseball went through an offseason marked by crippling injuries to the pitching staff. However, a vast improvement can be counted on next year, with many top notch Jayvee players getting the nod for varsity jobs. Spectators can look to the future with great anticipation.

The boys' tennis team has gone through a rebuilding year but has not suffered because of it. Playing at a .500 clip, the team is primarily composed of sophomores and freshmen led by fii;st singles sophomore John Phillips. With a year's ex­ perience, tennis may blossom into a powerhouse next year.

The story for girls' lacrosse and tennis is similar...youth.

Both clubs are losing just a handful of seniors while un­ derclassmen gain valuable experience.

Girls' softball chalked up its first victories this year and, once again, youth is the telling factor. Most players are un­ derclassmen and should be much tighter as a unit, both on and off the field, next year.

The boys' lacrosse team, another new club, has shown a drastic metamorphosis in winning 5 of 9 matches.

Finally, both golf and tracj< put together successful seasons and came up with good performances in the state cham­ pionships.

This year can truly be looked back on with satisfaction. It was a year of growth and rebuilding for some, and continued dominance and success by others. With the great amount of experience attained by underclassmen, fans can look to the future with great anticipation as present dynasties continue and old ones re-emerge.

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The Goals of The Montclair Kimberley Academy Now included in our admissions brochure is a statement on the goals of MKA. A committee of faculty members and students presented an original draft of the statement to the Principal who, after adding his own thoughtful con­ tributions, presented it to the trustees for their reflection and approval. Since the statement is so truly a product of the thinking of everyone at the school, we would like to share it with the rest of our family members.

"The aims of The Montclair Kimberley Academy are to develop independent and inquiring minds, to foster the pursuit of excellence, and to provide the in­ centive and the tools for a life of con­ tinuing learning and growth.

The Academy believes that these aims are best achieved in small classes where a teacher can follow each pupil's progress closely, so that teachers and students learn in an atmosphere of mutual confidence and respect.

The curriculum is carefully coor­ dinated to provide both balance and depth and to ensure steady development of basic skills: reading, writing, and speaking our language, and the un­ derstanding and use of numbers. Other subjects — h istory, scien ce, foreign languages, literature, and the arts S contribute to the development of a child's judgment and to his un­ derstanding of human civilization.

Beginning in the elementary grades, students are encouraged to assume increasing responsibility for their own performance in all activities, academic and extracurricular. The Academy is an interdependent community which seeks to provide opportunities for experience in the democratic process, to encourage concern for and service to others, and to give students a sense of their continuing

responsibility to an ever larger com­ m unity H classroom , scho ol, town, nation.

As an independent day school, the Academy considers itself a community of mutually concerned partners. Its success rests on the individual and collective efforts of students, faculty, parents, alumni, and trustees. These groups share responsibility for the education of each student, for the continued growth of the school's aspirations and accomplishments, and for communication and cooperation with the community around us."

New Upper School Head Richard W. Day has announced the appointment of Burgess N. Ayres as Headmaster of the Upper School. He will assume his new duties on July 1. A graduate of The Choate School, Mr. Ayres received his baccalaureate degree from Lake Forest College in the field of history and his Master of Education degree from the University of Hartford in secondary educatio n. He attended N orthfield Counseling In stitute in Massachusetts.

Mr. Ayres brings to the school a wide range of experience in education. During seven years at The Gunnery in Wash­ ington, Connecticut, he taught history; and served as a dormitory master, as the Director of Admissions, and as one of the college placement advisers. He was an adviser to the freshman class and a member of the Disciplinary Board. Mr. Ayres also coached ice hockey, football, and tennis. As a First Lieutenant in the United States Army, Burgess Ayres served as an aide to the Chief of Staff at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and as the post protocol officer.

Mrs. Ayres is also a graduate of Lake Forest College where she majored in English. She taught a second grade class in the Elgin, Illinois, public school system for a year and also taught in a Washington, Connecticut, public school for two years. Four-year old Barbara completes the Ayres' family. She will attend our Primary School in September.

J. Stevens Bean, who served as Headmaster of the Upper School for MKA's first two years and was Assistant Headmaster at MA, has accepted the position of Headmaster of the Staten Island Academy. As we welcome Burge, Carol and Barbara Ayres, we all wish Steve and Betsy and their children, Sarah, Suzy and Jamie, much happiness in their new school.

Mastersingers The twenty voices of the MKA Mastersingers were heard throughout the Northern New Jersey area during a busy season that is not over as of this writing.

Formed from the special singing groups of the former schools, the group chose to retain the Academy group name and continues to maintain a busy schedule.

During December of 1975, the Mastersingers had no fewer than twelve performances in two weeks, including three in one day. Church groups, nursing 9

homes, the Kessler Institute, Montclair Teachers Club — these and other organizations invited the group to present programs of holiday music.

Lest someone think all of the above is little more than getting out of class and tasting a bit of "show biz," be advised that the sacrifices made by the singers in order to participate in the group are substantial. Regular rehearsals during the activities periods prevent the singers from p articip atin g in other ex­ tracurricular groups as freely as they might wish, and the rehearsal at­ mosphere is anything but playtime as they learn difficult music together and, whenever a few minutes may be available,to work separately.

The major "work for December was Benjamin Britten's "Ceremony of Carols" arranged for mixed voices. The twentyfive minute cycle of Medieval carols in contemporary musical settings is a modern classic. It was learned and memorized during these extra rehearsals, and the group Was very fortunate to have alto Robbin Gordon to play the original harp accompaniment. Robbin is very active professionally, having performed with several orchestras both in ensemble and solo work. She learned this difficult score in addition to her other demanding work, studies, and athletics, performing it beautifully with the Mastersingers on several occasions.

Along with the ceremony, the group sang contemporary arrangements of traditional carols, the old favorite "Twas the Night Before Christmas," and three Israeli folk songs with tambourine.

The winter vacation was barely over before the group performed for the Overseas Neighbors Twelfth Night party and were hard at work on Revolutionary War songs for a gala dinner at Montclair State College honoring Dr. Jeshaia Schnitzer on his twenty-fifth anniversary as Rabbi of Montclair's Temple Shomrei Emunah. They shared the spotlight on that occasion with several well known figures in politics and the arts, including in te rn a tio n ally known opera tenor George Shirley.

Heading into the spring season with only a short break, the Mastersingers were hard at work on choral selections from "Porgy and Bess," "My Fair Lady," excerpts from "The Music Man," bar­ bershop songs, and other pop arrangements. These types of songs are replete with jazz chords that are hard to tune, as well as stylistic demands not always apparent to the casual listener.

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Headmaster Bruce McGowan, students Steve Belkin and Alexis Nyman, and teacher John Rolfe from the Haberdashers' Aske's School enjoyed a visit to the Crane House kitchen with docent Audrey Carroll McBratney '50.

at various schools and nursing homes in the area.

All of these singers learned the chorus music in class as well, and provided the strong section leadership and solo voices for the two main works of the year: Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria in D, and Randall Thompson's seven-song cycle, Frostiana, on poems of Robert Frost, both of which were performed by the chorus from memory.

Even a non-musician would agree that this kind of extracurricular contribution to the school is well above the usual participation in such activities. Carrying the school name wherever they go, these young people are excellent ambassadors for MKA as they stand in concert dress and demonstrate discipline and precision in a wide range of musical styles. The enthusiastic response has been such that as of this writing (May), three December dates are already set!

Members of the 1975/76 Mastersingers are: Soprano — Beth Giannotto '76, Laurie Hoonhout '76, Donna LoBiondo '77, Frances Mills '76, June Wispelwey '77. Alto — Betsy Balmos '77, Betsey Benedict '76, Karen Blinder '79, Robbin Cordon '77, Sue Moreau '77. Tenor — Douglas Mahler '77, Misho Protic '77, Ray Swan '76, Charles Talbert '76, David Williams '76. Bass — Robert Bertsche '76, Paul Bicknell '76, Philip Maria '76, Gregory Mancusi-Ungaro '76, Jared Randall '77. They were chosen by competitive audition from the eightyfour member chorus.

Nixon Bicknell Director of Music, Upper School

Student Ambassadors On March 30 our overseas exchange program began with the arrival of twenty-three boys and girls and two faculty members from the Haberdashers' Aske's School, Hertfordshire, England.

During their three and a half week stay with MKA host families, our visitors attended classes and enjoyed a variety of outside a c tiv itie s — inclu d in g , a Metropolitan Opera Look-in with Dann.y Kaye, a rock concert at the Upper School, a one-day trip to Philadelphia, a tour of Montclair's Crane House, a visit to the Edison Museum.

Twenty MKA students are now en­ th u sia stica lly looking forward to reversing roles and becoming guests of their British friends on June 18. Ac­ companied by Mrs. Lynn Benediktsson, Upper School English teacher, and Calvin Matzke, chairman of the fine arts department, the group will remain in England until July 16.

Hi, Remember Me? Following the successful Parents Phona-thon held in the fall, forty two alumni and two MKA friends came to the MiddleSchool on the nights of February 23, 24 and 25 and March 1, 2 and 3 to hold an expanded local Phon-a-thon for alumni.

The results were extremely gratifying financially, and everyone who par­ ticipated enjoyed the opportunity to speak to old friends and to make new ones. 855 calls were completed during

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the six nights which resulted in 662 pledges.

Many, many thanks to those who were called and who responded so generously and, of course, to the following volunteer callers: Aubin Zabriskie Ames '54, Frances Johnson Am es'40, William L. Brown, Jr. '41, Joan W allace Bryant'57, Joan Miller Buchanan '51, Leslie Bunce '54, Joan Denney Carlisle '46, Richard L. Carrie '41, Ann Dixon Curtin '39, Gloria Evans Dillenbeck '43, Betty O'Gorman Dixon '34, Mrs. Frank L. Driver, III, F’eter H. Ehrenberg '65, Fay Taft Fawcett '52, Dawn Geannette '68, Geoffrey Gregg '68, Miriam Eustis Irwin '51, Theodore H. Irwin, II, Gail Tomec Kerr '52, Marc S. Kirschner '60, Herbert M. Kreger '59, Virginia Kracke Leavitt '37, William Marriott '59, Lucile Mason '43, Harry D. Milbauer '33, Sally Minard '60, Oscar A. Mockridge, III '55, Nancy Plummer Nazarian '68, Edward T. O'Neill '68, Janet Harris O'Toole '44, Helen Bryant Perry '58, David G. Ramsay '59, Arthur G. Rosen '61, Joan Sweeney Ruffing '43, H. William Schulting, III '42, Robert T. Sessa '68, Elizabeth Specht '44, William J. Thompson, Jr. '33, Hyla Ames Troxell '46, Carol Humphrey White '52, Peggy Klotz Young '37, and Percy S. Young, Jr. '23.

stitute of Applied Behavioral Science.

After working for the American Broadcasting Company and Compton Advertising, Inc., Lucile served as Executive Director for the Association of Junior Leagues of America, as Director of Public Affairs for Girl Scouts of the USA, and as Director of Public Relations for the YWCA of the City of New York. Her most recent position was Director of Community Relations and Development for the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York. For ten years Lucile served on the Board of Counselors of Smith College and was chairman of its Theatre Com­ mittee. She also lectured at the American Theatre Wing for eight years.

Lucile not only brings an excellent educational background and a wealth of vocational experience to this new position but, of course, a long-standing personal interest in the school as an alumna. Her sister, Janet, is also a TKS graduate, Class of '48.

M anager, he was responsible ad­ ministratively for the management of Union Carbide's overseas affilia ted companies and traveled to assignments from Europe to the Far East. Following his service with the international division, Mr. Wait became Assistant Secretary for the corporation in 1967 and served in that position until March of this year when he joined the administrative staff of MKA. Mr. and Mrs. Wait are residents of Montclair. Their oldest son, Robert, is a professor at W estern M ichigan University, Kalamazoo; daughter Carol lives in Nevada, is married and the mother of three; and youngest son, Richard, attends the University of Vermont's School of Medicine.

Administrative Appointments TV personality Gil Noble, Mrs. Noble and artist Wendell Lanton.

On April 1 "our" Lucile Mason '43 became M KA's first D irector of Development. Lucile received her B.A. from Smith College in theatre and music and her M .A. from New York University in communications in education. At the present time she is completing a master's degree in educational sociology and anthropology from N .Y.U . She has done further graduate study at the University of Michigan, Columbia University, and the National Training Laboratory's In­

Herman Wait, who has been ap­ pointed to administer the business affairs of MKA, received his B.S\ from the School of Business A dm inistratio n, Indiana University. After working with General Electric Company and Price Waterhouse & Co., Mr. Wait served as Secretary/Treasurer of Union Carbide India Limited, the corporation's largest overseas subsidiary. He and his wife, Mary, lived in Calcutta from 1940 to 1948, witnessing all the events leading up to the partition of India and Pakistan.

Mrs. Wait, who taught school part time in a local girls' school, also served with the Indian Red Cross and the St. John's ambulance corps during the long civil disturbances. Two of the three Wait children were born in Calcutta.

Prior to returning to Union Carbide Corporation's home office in New York City in 1948, Mr. Wait handled assignments in Egypt, South Africa, Singapore and Hong Kong. Then, as Manager of A cco unting/O p erations Analysis and Assistant Financial Control

Local Artist Exhibit The Nobles and other friends and neighbors of Montclair resident Wendell Lanton sponsored an exhibit of his paintings and drawings which was held at the Upper School during the month of May. Dr. Lanton's African collection, painted in Nigeria, Dahomy, Zaire, Togo, Upper Volta, Ghana, Senegal and other West African countries when he was a visiting professor of psychology with USAID, UCLA, was featured. There was also a representative selection of his works from the 1930's through the 1960's.

The painting in the foreground of the picture is "Ija d e -K w o " (O uting Ceremony). This Yoruba tribal ceremony celebrates the life's good work of a departed person. The masks represent departed ancestors rejoicing along with living relatives. The painting in the background is "Anansi" (The Web of Life). It represents a spider and the major role he plays in African folklore. Anansi stories for children abound in Jamacian folklore.

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The Faculty-Trustee Conference was a happy one!

One o f Lily Solmssen's photos from "The Violin M aker."

And, Our Alumni Exhibit A wide selection of art work by Cordon Carlisle '69, son of Joan Denney Carlisle '46, was on exhibit during November. The display included items ranging from whale tooth scrimshaw and stained glass to water colors, etchings, and silk-screened T-shirts. Gordon, who received his B.F.A . from San Francisco Art Institute in 1973 and who has studied at Carnegie-Mellon, the Boston Museum of Fine Art and the Art Student League in N .Y., has experimented with collages and other art forms and began silk­ screening activity in 1974.

A photo essay, "The Violin Maker," by Lily Solmssen '59 was on display during April. Lily is a 1961 graduate of Endicott Jr. College, with an Associate of Arts degree in photography, and has done graduate .study in photography at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art. Fler photography career began with ap­ prenticeships in N.Y. in the studios of Carl Fischer, Irving Penn, and Ben Rose.

At the same time she worked on the magazine, "Modern Photography." She is presently photo editor for the League of Red Cross Societies in Geneva, Switzerland. A photograph from one of Lily's pieces of photojournalism earned her one of the nine World Population prizes from Photokina, Cologne, in 1974.

SAVE THE DATE !

HOMECOMING...

SATURDAY OCTOBER 2

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With Mr. Day: First row, left to right: Francine L. DeCotiis, Headmistress of the Primary School and Trustee; Vida Welsh, 3rd,grade teacher; Sonia Tyson, Spanish teacher; Renee Lincoln, 1st grade teacher; Aubin Zabriskie Ames '54, Trustee;, Harriet Pryde, 2nd grade teacher; Joan Noble, English and social studies teacher; Robert C. Hemmeter, Chairman, Social Studies Department; Joseph Kerner, Chairman, English Department; Lynn Benediktsson, English teacher; Philip Stackpole, Chairman, Mathematics Department.

Back row: Laurence Piersol, Chairman, Sciences Department; John Rabke, Social Studies teacher; Marc Kirschner '60, Trustee; Blanche Lockard, 5th grade teacher; James Vandermade '35, Trustee; Rudolph Deetjen '50, Headmaster of the Middle School and Trustee; Thomasina Brayboy, 4th grade teacher; Erancis Foley, mathematics teacher; Kenneth Gibson, social studies and eco|pm ics teacher; James Timmons, Trustee; Stevens Bean, Headmaster of the Upper School and Trustee; Calvin Matzke, Chairman of the Fine Arts Department; Betty Wedel, Dean of Students and social studies teacher; Carmen Marnell, Athletic Director and language teacher; Frederick Redpath, Trustee.

Faculty-Trustee Conference Last year Richard W. Day invited thirty representative members of the faculty to Sterling Forest for a two-day conference.

In an informal setting, it successfully enabled him, as MKA Principal, and some of the teachers in our newly for­ med school to get to know each other better and to share ideas about the school.

This year a similar conference was held, again at Sterling Forest, at which faculty and trustees were brought together. Robert C. Hemmeter, Chair­ man of the Social Studies Department, commented after the conference, "It was a very useful kind of frank exchange between the trustees and faculty which

brought a new level of understanding to the role of the trustee in the independent scho ol. Such exchanges can only promote confidence between those various components which make up the MKA fam ily." And Aubin Zabriskie Ames '54, Trustee, further added, "The twentyfour hours together at Sterling Forest gave us a good chance to explore common goals for the education of MKA students and to share many of the peripheral concerns we encounter in the total operation of the school. I, per­ sonally, was extremely impressed with the quality of the faculty members present, and it occurred to me more than once that I would love to be a student again! One cannot help but gain from an experience like this,"

Letter from the President Dear Alumni: As I indicated to you in my first report as President of your Alumni Association, the members of your Council have spent a considerable amount of time deter­ mining the goals, functions and specific activities for your Association so that they could provide a m eaningful organization for you. We concluded that sponsoring cultural and educational events would be an important addition to the school's activities and determined to sponsor annual programs featuring major well-known speakers discussing interesting and challenging topics. This type of program also excited the interest of the Parents' Association and the school administration, so we combined forces to sponsor a bicentennial program featuring Dr. Jill Ker Conway, reported on elsewhere in this magazine.

The Bicentennial Evening was a great success. At the last moment, to comply with the school's fire regulations, there was great fear that we would have to turn people away at the door! We owe a great deal of thanks to Mrs. George C. White, Jr. '52, representing the alumni, and to Mrs. Walter H. Hasbrouck of the Parents' Association, who, as Co-Chairmen, did an outstanding job of organizing, planning and executing this program. We also owe many thanks to the other members of the Alumni Association who actively worked on the program, par­ ticularly Robert Sessa '68 who did an excellent job on the arrangements for the evening and to Mrs. A. Hager Bryant, III, '57, Henry B. Fernald, Jr., '28, and Mrs. Thomas F. Trdxell, Jr., '43, all of whom were members of the Steering Com­ mittee.

In February and March members of the Alumni Association spent six evenings contacting fellow alumni by telephone for our Phon-a-thon for Annual Giving.

In addition to having a great time renewing old friendships and, we hope, eliciting interest in the school among many alumni, we were able to sub­ stantially increase the number of persons

making or pledging contributions to the Secretaries and Agents Annual Giving program.

In the fall we are planning a major As we wrote in the June '75 issue, we Homecoming program based around the hope to have a Class Secretary and a school's football, field hockey, and Class Agent for each graduating class. soccer games on Saturday, October 2. You can see, as you peruse the Class Although final details for the day have News, that there are many vacant spots not been determined, activities will to fill!

Do volunteer either as a news gatherer include pre-game picnics, a program to honor the famous football team of 1926, (Secretary) or as a vital helper in the and an alumni party in the late af­ Annual Giving Program (Agent). Both ternoon. jobs are important!

One of the important roles an alumni association can provide for its school is to recommend good students to the school and to provide a source for faculty and administrators when the need arises. This year our association has been able to make a major contribution ALUMNI ASSOCIATION COUNCIL to the school, as the school has ap­ M arcS. Kirschner'60, President pointed our former active Council Miss Elizabeth L. Specht'44, Executive member, Lucile Mason '43, to fill the very valuable role of Director of Vice President Development. I wish to thank Lucile very Mrs. Frances Johnson Ames '40, much for her assistance on the Council Secretary/Treasurer and to wish her well in her new job.

Mrs. Gail Tomec Kerr '52, Vice President And, now that our basic activities prior Annual Giving to summer are coming to a close, I wish Geoffrey Gregg '68, Vice President to thank Jody Callaghan, Director of Reunions Alumni Affairs, for her outstanding Mrs. Aubin Zabriskie Ames '54 service throughout the year, particularly Mrs: Joan Wallace Bryant '57 during the detailed planning for the Mrs. Jo Taylor Callaghan, Director of bicentennial program and the enormous Alumni Affairs amount of work accomplished by her Richard L. Carrie '41 office for the Phon-a-thon.

Richard W. Day, Principal I wish to encourage all of you to become active in our Alum ni Mrs. Constance Ritchie DuHamel '46 Associatiqn. You will then be able to see Mrs. Gloria Evans Dillenbeck '43 first hand the excellence the school has Henry B. Fernald, Jr. '28 attained. As always, your views about Mrs. Miriam Eustis Irwin '51 the specific activities in which the Oscar A. Mockridge, III '55 Association should engage are welcome.

Robert H. Muller, M .D. '39 Please do not hesitate to write to Jody Mrs. Nancy Plummer Nazarian '68 Callaghan or to me. Also, please send in Franklin M. Sachs '58 news about yourselves and families for H. William Schulting, III '42 the magazine.

Robert T. Sessa '68 I hope all of you have a very fine M. Eugene Speni '27 summer. We are looking forward to William J. Thompson, Jr. '33 seeing a great turnout for our Mrs. Carol Humphrey W hite'52 Homecoming activities.

Mrs. Peggy Klotz Young '37 Sincerely, Marc S. Kirschner '60 13

'1 5 TKS Mrs. George O. Bailey, Secretary (Dorothy Cerf) Old Point Road Quogue, NY 11959 Your Secretary wrote last winter, "It's especially nice for me to have Kimberley and the Academy join forces, as I have two brothers who went to the Academy. My only news is that I'm going to West Africa for about nine weeks by freighter shortly."

iifi January, and to their daughters Elizabeth '42 and Anne '47 on the loss of their father.

they are enjoying our sunny, warm weather. I also see Jerry McBrier Williams '16 quite often We were sb sorry to read of the death of E. Florence Keys and send our deepest sympathy to her sister, Edith Keys Stoney.

'21 MA S. Barksdale Penick is now serving as president of the Montclair Art Museum. News of his family will be found in TKS '36 class notes.

'25 '16 TKS Mrs. Charles W illiams, Secretary (Jerry McBrier) 10 Crestview Court Montclair, NJ 07042 A note from Frances Campbell Earnest this winter said, "I am staying rather close to home (White Stone, Virginia) as I have an elderly sister-in-law living with me. We go back to her apartment in Richmond twice a month.

Children, grandchildren and two 'greats' all fine at the m o m e n t s !

We were so sorry to learn of Dorothy Allen Streichenberg's death this April. She served our school as a teacher of French, and she was a loyal Class Agent for both the classes of '16 and '17 for many years.

'22 TKS Elizabeth Webb Baldwin wrote that she now spends her winters in Naples and Siesta Key, Florida — summers in New Hampshire — and between seasons in her home in Wilmington, Delaware.

'1 8 TKS Our deepest sympathy to Elizabeth Thorne Staudingeron the death of her husband, Cyril, 14

MA Volunteer for Secretary?

Henry B. Fernald, Jr. '28, Agent

'23 TKS Alice Vezin Chatellier wrote this spring from Yarmouth, Maine, that it is fun having Audrey Maas Lewis '50 not far away. Mrs. Chatellier was in Montclair in November to attend the wedding of her grandson, Jonathan, and Stephanie Wright.

'17 TKS Mrs. Samuel Meek, Secretary (Priscilla Mitchell) Doubling Road Greenwich, CT 06852

TKS Mrs. H. Kimball Halligan, Secretary (Helen Raymond) 489 Highland Avenue Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Volunteer for Agent?

'24 TKS Mrs. Philip B. Taylor, Secretary (Helen Patrick) 80 Norwood Avenue Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Volunteer for Agent?

Your Secretary wrote in March, "Have been in Naples, Florida, since January and will be back in May. Dot White Logie '23 and Helen Raymond Halligan '25 are here, and I hope

'26 TKS Volunteers for Secretary and Agent?

Many thanks to Mary Bowne Joy for her years of service as Class Agent. She has asked for -Sand deserves — a respite. We would all like to hear news from this 50th reunion class, and hope that the jobs of Secretary and Agent will appeal to two of you '26-ers.

MA Volunteer for Secretary?

Henry B. Fernald, Jr. '28, Agent D. Richard Mastriano wrote from Meridan, Connecticut, in January that he had just retired after 18 years as a Family Relations Officer. His career spanned municipal, circuit and court of common pleas. "With time to do as I please, my hope is to pay a visit to the Academy more often. It will be 50 years since my graduation this June."

'27 TKS Volunteer for Secretary?

Mrs. John Holt, Agent (Dorothy Ayres) Josephine Gibbs DuBois wrote this spring from Wisconsin that she was returning to Sweet Briar College in May for her 45th reunion. She also sent news of her children.

Older son, John, is married, has two children, lives in Seattle, and flies for United Airlines.

Larry is home and in charge of photography for the County Sheriff's Department, and daughter, Joan, is an R.N. in the ICU unit at Smithtown, Long Island, N.Y.

living in was the home of Miss Mary K. Waring, Charlotte's aunt, as you may remember. Char ended up by saying she doesn't think she can ever give up teaching and directing so after a year she may be at it again. Good luck, Char. Hope to see you in Montclair.

The next bit of good news comes from Do Minsch Bond. By the time you read this she will have been married to James Hudson of Essex Fells, N.J. As you all know, Do lost her husband, Nelson, a year or so ago. James Hudson had been a good friend for over thirty years. Do and Nelson and James and his wife did many things together. Their families and friends are delighted. We are, too, Do, and send you best wishes.

MA Volunteer for Secretary?

Henry B. Fernald, Jr. '28, Agent

the desert. With their knowledge of the desert and the desert flowers, they are well qualified. Their summers are spent at Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, Puget Sound.

What a nice life for both of you.

Had a nice letter from Glnny Hamilton Adair. Ginny and her daughter, Katharine, had a good trip to Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy, Germany and England last summer. This spring while on leave from California Poly University, she spent some time with her daughter in Mexico. All the family was with her on Easter. Ginny has poems appearing in four anthologies this year and two of her poems will be discussed by the Poetry Society of America, which they chose. Thanks for writing news for MKA ALUMNI NEWS. I spent Easter with my brother's family in New Canaan, Connecticut. I keep very busy.

Would love to see you all sometime.

MA Volunteer for Secretary? ; Henry B. Fernald, Jr. '28, Agent

'28 TKS Volunteers for Secretary and Agent?

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MA Volunteer for Secretary?

Henry B. Fernald, Jr., Agent

TKS Mrs. Val J. Brennan, Secretary (Grace McCollum) 130 North Mountain Avenue Montclair, NJ 07042 Volunteer for Agent?

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Mary Ann Fobes Williams and her husband, Newt

TKS Miss Susie S. Sterling, Secretary 133 North Mountain Avenue Montclair, NJ 07042 Volunteer for Agent?

Charlotte Fitch started her note to me my saying, " .. it is 4:20 a.m. I have just finished correcting a quiz." She has had a very heavy teaching schedule with large classes this year.

She says her special news is that she is retiring from Smith College in June and will be moving to Westport Point, Massachusetts (02791), July I. This will be her permanent address, and she hopes people will look her up if they are nearby. The house, she will be

A nice letter from Mary Ann Fobes Williams came telling me all sorts of things she and her husband Newt are doing. They took a course in vertabrate paleontology and now are on their second semester of geology at Imperial Valley College, California. As you may know, Mary Ann and Newt live in Borrego Springs, California, which is the desert, I believe. They go digging for fossils, rare sabre tooth bones, mastadons, camels, bison, etc. What they find in the mudhills, where there is PhoPleistecone strata over 2 million years old, they prepare and give to the museum they are starting in Borrego Springs. They work with the State Park people, taking tours through

MA Volunteer for Secretary?

Henry B. Fernald, Jr. '28, Agent For news of Curt Campalgne and his wife, Alice Livesey Campaigne, please see Class Notes of TKS '34.

'31 TKS Volunteers for Secretary and Agent?

MA Volunteers for Secretary and Agent?

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'32 TKS Volunteers for Secretary and Agent?

It was good to receive a letter from Frances Flardy Feezer who wrote that she has spent the last twenty six years in New Mexico and lived before that in Arizona. She is married to a lawyer and their three children are about through college. The youngest graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in nursing in February. She was then to make atrip East and was planning to stay with Mary Agnes Church Kidd. Daughter Betsy is in pharmacy at the University of New Mexico, while her twin brother is just out of the Peace Corps. He was graduated from the University of the South and is planning on graduate school in the fall.

Mary Flarrsen Van Brunt's daughter, Carol Van Brunt Rasic '56, had her second child and first daughter in January.

MA Volunteer for Secretary?

James A. Rogers, M .D ., Agent For news of Jameson Campaigne and his wife, Edie Baker Campaigne, please see Class Notes of TKS '34.

time at sea and was sea sick the whole time except for three days when we went through a violent storm." After 3 years and 309 days Vardy was discharged in Calgary. "I spent three months in Red Deerj four and a half years in Rocky Mountain House and sixteen and a half year&lin Hanna as a general practitioner. The work was hard but en­ joyable. In 1965 I felt I had had enough of working night and day so I gave my partners notice, applied for the job of Pensions Medical Examiner in Calgary, and won the competition. For the past ten years I have been examining and assessing the disabilities incurred by members of the armed forces who served durihg the wars and in peace time.

"I do not think that I have seen any of my classmates since graduation. One member of the class of '34 I saw on various occasions.

This was my good friend, Jack Kayser. I first saw him at Yale when we were down there playing soccer. After he graduated from engineering he got a job in Montreal and I saw him again. He was best man at my wedding in 1940. I was not in Halifax for very long before Jack found himself working there. When the United States entered the war, Jack joined the US forces. I have- not seen or heard from him since." (Ed. Note: According to alumni records, Jack Kayser is living in Scotia, NY.) Vardy has four children: the oldest a doctor, the second works for a TV station, the third works for a bank, the fourth has one more year of high school. He has five grandchildren and a sixth on the way.

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William J. Thompson, Jr., Secretary 415 Claremont Avenue, #2E Montclair, NJ 07042

Mrs. David Haviland, Secretary (Barbara Spadone) 185 Gates Avenue Montclair, NJ 07042

William J. Thompson, Jr. Agent Jay H. Reid, who served as a Washington correspondent su cce ssive ly for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, New York Herald Tribune, and the Wall Street Journal, is currently Director of the Information Office, International Monetary Fund. He married Virginia Helen Galliher of Washington, D .C ., and has a daughter Cynthia, 23, and sons Jay, III, 22, Jim, 19, Jack, 18, and Joe, 15. Jim and Jack played fo otball for M ercersburg Academy last fall, lacrosse this spring. The three oldest boys also played football and wrestled for !Walt Whitman High School, Bethesda, Maryland. Next year, Jay says, it will be Joe's turn.

David Stanley reports the birth of a fourth gran dchild, David Lee Feinberg, in Charleston, West Virginia, in January.

Vardy Laing wrote from Calgary, Alberta, with news of his past and present. Vardy was graduated from M cGill University Medical School in 1940 (obstetrics and gynecology) and, after his internship, became an officer in the navy in February, 1942. He began his tour of duty in Halifax, Novia Scotia. "I had some

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MA Volunteers for Secretary and Agent?

Memo to John Kayser: Do read '33's Class Notes!

Beaver Strassburger retired from Verner Cadby, Inc., Ford dealers in Fairfield, N .J., October, 1974. He is semi-retired and associated with Claremont Pharmacy in Montclair, part time. His hobbies are books, magazines, and newspapers. He and wife, Marguerite Pentlarge Strassburger '36, hope to retire to Cape Cod in the next five years. The rest of the family including Beaver's sisters, Suzanne Strassburger Anderson '31 and Betty Strassburger Crane '30 are all well.

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'33 Volunteers for Secretary and Agent?

Edie Baker Campaigne's husband, Jamie (MA '32) has retired and is busy writing and editing books for publication. Our former editor friend may go to Alabama soon to teach a journalistic seminar.

Jamie's brother, Curt Campaigne (MA '30) and his wife, Alice Livesey Campaigne have been visiting here with her family and have returned to their retirement home in the south of France. It was great fun to see them here briefly. They have lived all over the world and have a nice grown family. They are multi­ lingual and Alice, particularly, has enhanced her former attractiveness by becoming quite continental.

Volunteer for Agent?

Congratulations to Bill Hutson, son of Kay Halsey Hutson and Frank. Bill has received his Ph.D. in oceanography and, to add to the excitement, his wife is expecting!

The Hutsons and Havilands were sorry to miss the Sterlings [Terry Bull] in Naples, Florida, last winter.

It was fun to see in church (St. Luke's) on Easter Sunday, Tracy and Fred Kenny. Wish they still lived here to attend regularly. Fred's m other, Elizabeth Gracy Kenny was babysitting with their children. Tracy is the daughter of our former minister, George Bean.

I intend to visit Bermuda with my 85 year old mother-in-law under the auspices of the Garden Club of New Jersey. The trip is called "Skylark" which applies well to my mother-inlaw. Old friend Edie Bull Miller'33 will also be on the Bermuda trip. She will be ac­ companied by her daughter, Mrs. Jeffrey Wales. Jeffrey, a new lawyer, will join his wife for the weekend. Neither Edie's nor my husband can get away, alas.

Mrs. "Stewart Carpenter, Secretary (Josephine Fobes) 4 LaSalle Road Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Mrs. Sidney P. Herbert, Agent (Virginia Voorhees) MA Volunteers for Secretary and Agent?

Ed Miller recently received certification in the American College of General Practitioners in Osteopathic Medicine and was promoted to Assistant Medical Director in charge of Section V at Greystone.

Royal Schaaf's daughter, Virginia Schaaf Brooks, is teaching our MKA second graders at the Primary School.

'36 TKS Mrs. W. K. Schmid, Secretary (Josephine Murray) Mason's Island Mystic, CT 06355 Mrs. H. DeHaven Manley, Agent (Jean Winpenny) In June Elaine Beling Mann is giving a luncheon at her place in Green Pond, N .J., to celebrate our 40th! What a reunion that will

be! We'll miss those too far away to attend but hope the "nearbys" will all be there.

Many thanks to all who answered my card and to those who sent in their news to school.

Lynne Schumann Mark wrote directly to me, saying she and Bill travel a lot in this country H- but when she's home, she's busy with the Red Cross as a volunteer and is on its board.

Lynne is also on the board of the A. Ward Ford Institute, a cardio-vascular institute that Bill and she started five years ago. The Board of Trustees of Alverno College in Milwaukee also claims her as a member. There is no way she'll make Elaine's but hopes to get East before too long to see us all.

Katherine Webster Sawford still lives in Montclair with her husband, Howard, who is engaged in investment management. With both sons grown (one of whom is married and has presented her with a grandson, now seven and a half years old) Katherine has gone into the business world and is executive secretary and office manager in a local engineering firm.

Marguerite Pentlarge Strassburger retired from Rockefeller Medical Institute, New York, July 1, 1971, where she worked as a lab technician. She has been taking care of her mother, Mrs. Frank Pentlarge, who has been ill for the past three years. For news of husband, Beaver, please see MA '34's Class Notes. They both hope to retire to Mrs. Pentlarge's Cape Cod home in Yarmouthport in the next five years.

A nice newsy note from Evie Van Wie Penick said, "Barkie (MA '21) is currently president of the Montclair Art Museum, which keeps busy both his and my little hands and little heads. Peter is a psychiatrist at Princeton House, with a distinguished en­ vironmentalist wife and three remarkable children -SElizabeth at Wellesley, Barkie at Andover, and Julia at Princeton Day School.

Lolly (TKS '53) is now president of the Ridgewood League of Women Voters and the serene mother of four strongly individual daughters — Laurie, Gail, Chris and Amy. Her husband, Tom Burgin, is assistant business manager of the Ridgewood school system.

Douglas, who is a fund raiser for Karma Drong in Boulder, Colorado, is to be married this July to Tessa Pybus. Van lives in Nova Scotia, graduates this May from Dalhousie Law School, and awaits the birth of his and Bab's second child in May. (The first is Douglas, a super baby.) Babs teaches school in Canning, Nova Scotia, where they are living. Jenny (TKS '67) is married to John Young, son of Peggy Klotz Young (TKS '37). They live in Los Angeles where John writes scripts and Jenny is an assistant buyer at Robinson's. Meg (TKS '73) was married last June to Dennis South­ ward. She is completing her freshman year at Bennington.

"I am interested in the Citizens' Committee for the Children of New Jersey and, as you can imagine, in the activities of my fam ily."

Evie also sent word of Ruth Hunt Timmons, who is living in Washington, D.C. The last she had heard, Ruth was in the banquet depart­ ment at the Mayfair. Peter, her older son, is at

Randolph-M acon and N icholas is at Woodbury Forest.

Word from Jaqueline Isaacs Withington is, "News from us is not spectacular. We are both in good health and live very quietly now that our three children are no longer home. Jamie and his wife, Carol, live in Los Angeles where they both work and go to school. Eventually Jamie will become an electronics engineer.

Mary and husband, Gregory Milliman, live in Hamburg, Germany, where Gregory is a branch manager for American Linen Supply.

Paul, having graduated from Harvard last year, is now an ensfgn in the Navy, learning aviation maintenance.

"Restarick is still teaching history at Phoenix College. Although he enjoys it, he is approaching retirement with enthusiasm. I 'do nothing in particular and do it very well.'

Best to fellow class members and more power to M KA!" Mary Ayres Schweppe wrote, "All Sch­ weppes are 100% in real estate. Jim, myself, Jay, and Lee very busy in Montclair at Sch­ weppe & Co.; Dick in Maine in the greater Portland area. He and wife, Susie Riter Sch­ weppe have a 3-year old son, Jesse. Lee and her 8-year old, Duke, have a wonderful new 'father' as of last December. To all those classmates who are far afield and have lost track of their home town — we are happy to report that there are lots of interesting developments of all kinds and that many young people are moving in and loving Montclair!"

Betty Howe Glaze wrote that they were off to Scandinavia on May 14 and she would miss Elaine's get-together. Their trip sounds fabulous, however. With youngest son, Larry, the trip consists of three weeks in Paris, Copenhagen, Oslo and Bergen, with a steamer trip up further to Trondheim. Then on by train to Stockholm before they head back to France, with a few days in the Loire Valley.

They will fly home on June 6. Their son Bob, 23, is finishing graduate school at Southern Methodist University, getting his MBA. All the Glazes will be in Manasquan for their usual vacation after mid-July, so get in touch if you're down that way.

Patsy Soverel McGee wrote that she's resigned from W olff Brothers and, having been home one week, may go back! She had forgotten what farm work was like! She, too, is unable to make the reunion due to a Florida trip to visit her brother and sister. I guess everyone toyed with being at Elaine's, from what I gather.

Eva Mentzendorf Wark and her family love living in the country. Their youngest daughter is working near home in a Western-wear store.

Her married daughter lives three miles away, and they spend their time teaching and being part-time TV singing stars!!! They have a program called, "Easy Country." Eva told me this in her Christmas card and remarked that she bet I couldn't believe she had a daughter that can sing. Now I do!

Your Secretary is working full time in a fantastic bath shop. Husband Ken (MA '36) is with an automotive parts company in New

London, and life is pleasant at Mason's Island.

We don't see enough of our children, though, who are scattered from Albuquerque, N.M. to Doylestown, PA. Best wishes to one and all.

MA Volunteer for Secretary?

Kenneth R. Fritts, Agent We were so sorry to learn of the death of John B. Braine. John, a graduate of Williams College, was president of John B. Braine, Inc., and a former affiliate of Calvin Bullock, Ltd. Our deepest sympathy to his brother, Thomas Braine '32, and to all the family.

'37 TKS Mrs. Lewis Gray, Secretary (Ruth Russell) 517 Central Avenue Plainfield, NJ 07060 Volunteer for Agent?

Peggy Gene Klotz Young who, by the way, is a marvelous correspondent, is off again with her French Club to explore the wilds of France. This year they are going to places such as To ulo use, Carcassonne and Languedoc. As you may know, this French Group speaks French on the whole trip;, so by th is tim e they are becom ing quite experienced linguists. I once met them in the city of Nice when I was traveling in France and was the only one in the group who spoke fractured French. They are really a great group and Betty O'Gorman Dixon '34 is also a member so she will be going again this year as well.

Jane Rinck gave up the practice of law and is now retired. She writes that for the first time in her whole life she has some free time, and she plans to travel, work on sculpturing and sail her boat. Jane says that because of her lack of free time she "has been so mean to my friends for so long it is just pathetic." So she is now making up for lost time and recently even met with our class group that tries to convene once a month.

Ginny Kracke Leavitt and her husband, who returned from a trip to Russia in January, enjoyed it so much that they are planning to go back again this summer. Bon Voyage, Ginny.

Franny Montgomery is having a gay time in the dog world and is mother to a beautiful little Papillon female. Franny is looking forward to becoming the grandmother in May when her Papillon whelps. That is doggone interesting, isn't it?

Sally Young Shertzer still continues to be our star athlete. She is currently on the Alabama State Rating Commission for Golf, is directo r of W om en's Southern G o lf Association, and is president of the Past Presidents of W om en's Alabam a G o lf Association. She also works with something called the YWCO. What is that, Sally? I would

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recognize it if it were the YWCA. In any event, Sally is not content to let it go at that. She plays tennis once a week and also rides once a week. She lié e s Dee Vondermuhl Young occasionally, who lives nearby. In addition to all of this, Sally tries to keep up with her daughter, Kitty Robinson, and her three daughters in Charleston, South Carolina. She also is in touch with her daughter, Peggy Van Court, and her one son who live in Austin, Texas. Since everybody is down there below the Mason-Dixon line, they try to meet somewhere in the middle — in Montgomery, Alabama, or Fort Walton, Florida, at least once a year.

Your Secretary and husband,'Carl, who is retiring this year, just bought a second home in Clermont, Florida. We were in Florida at Christmas time and fell in love with the beautiful lake country comprising central Florida. Somehow I am going to manage to commute between a law office in New Jersey and a vacation home in Florida. Maybe I will run into Sally Young Shertzer down there or Shirley Noyes Babcock who, we last heard, lives in Delray Beach, Florida.

A small group from the class of 3 7 still tries to meet once a month. In April the club, comprising Peggy Gene Klotz Young, Jane Rinck, Ginny Kracke Leavitt, Franny Montgomery, all met at Jean Hamlin Noyes' home and then took off to Teppy Holton SjolandePs home and went on from there to Hyde Park for lunch. Next meeting in May will be somewhere near the Montclair-Summit i'afea and at that time it looks like the club will be joined by Ruth Duff Eager, Midge Rile Weigel and Ruth Russell Gray.

(Your Secretary hopes that all those who did not respond to the questionnaire she recently sent out will do so before the next issue of the magazine goes to press.)

MA Volunteer for Secretary?

Robert E. Livesey, Agent

'38 TKS Miss Jane Carpenter, Secretary 11 Norman Road Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Volunteer for Agent?

News from Mary Ames Poor, a busy teacher at the Agnes Irwin School in Pennsylvania, is that her youngest daughter, Martha, is a junior at Mount Holyoke College. She was named a Sarah Williston Scholar last fall and spent the second semester at the University of Bath in England. Mary's middle daughter, Betsy, is living in Versailles, South Dakota, where her husband is an administrator at the University of South Dakota. Her son, Curt, started a new position last fall with Soxie Calder's Camp Paper Company in Franklin, Virginia. A versatile family.

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Barbara Bailey Hoey and her husband have just come back from a trip to Southern California with a week in Palm Springs where they played golf. In Scottsdale, Arizona, they soared in a sail plane! Thanks, Barbara, for Marge Blake Livingston's address. I sent a card but no response, as yet.

Edie Henderson Scripps lives in a "dreamy" house overlooking the sea in La Jolla, California. Her youngest daughter, Victoria, was married last summer and now lives in Oregon. This was the last wedding in Edie's family of two boys and two girls, so now she says she can settle back and enjoy her new home when she isn't roaming the world — her true hobby. Good to hear from you, Edie!

Holly Mitchell Kimball has also moved, a smaller house in Upper Montclair. She divides her time between Florida, Caracas, Vermont and New Jersey. Quite a span there! In town she has been very active in two very successful Writers' Conferences held in the fall. We were much saddened to learn of the death of Holly's sister, Janet Blumberg 35 in April. Our deepest sympathy to all of Janet's family.

Barbara Porter Anderson was last heard from last Christmas in New Orleans. She and her husband, Bob, were waiting to get on a freighter to Indonesia, Singapore, Korea and Manila. When they returned in mid-February, they and five other couples were to set sail in a newly completed sailboat for eight months in the Pacific. They have rented their house in Virgin Gorda for a year and have been visiting family in between trips. Bobby's mother divides her time between Meadow Lakes in N.J. and Sanibel, Florida. She is fine. Bob and Bobby were expecting their first grandchild when she wrote. As she said, "Finally."

Your Secretary is looking forward to attending her brother Ralph's second marriage in May. The wedding will be in Lexington, Kentucky, and the bride's name is Gail Andrews. She is a nurse at the Veteran's Hospital in Lexington and the mother of two boys, 11 and 13. Ralph has two boys 8 and 10, so, whep they all get together, they should be able to get a basketball or football game going any time. Happiness and best wishes in their new life together.

Thanks to all of you who have contributed news. Always glad to have more any time of the year.

MA Volunteers for Secretary and Agent?

'39 TKS Mrs. Henry N. Perry, Secretary (Beverly Crane) 43 Gordonhurst Avenue Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Mrs. John Y. G. Walker, Agent (Maryl Riter) MA Volunteers for Secretary and Agent?

'40 TKS Volunteer for Secretary?

Mrs. Marston Ames, Agent (Frances Johnson) MA Volunteers for Secretary and Agent?

The office received a nice note from Frederick Little this spring. "Jeanne and I celebrated our silver anniversary March 31.

Our gift shop, 'Old Londonderry Workshop, Inc.,' in Londonderry, Vermont, also has its 25th anniversary this year. Our daughter, Linda, graduated from Emory University, Atlanta, last June and is a graduate student at Georgia State (just completed practice high school teaching). Jane is a freshman at S.M .U."

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MA Volunteer for Secretary?

David W. Brett, Agent

'42 TKS Mrs. Robinson V . Smith, Secretary (Joan Trimble) 16 Marshall Terrace W ayland,M A 01778 Mrs. Kenneth T. Gordon, Agent (Helen Jones) MA Volunteer for Secretary?

Daniel E. Emerson, Agent

'43 TKS Mrs. E. B. Ruffing, Jr., Secretary (Joan Sweeney) 125 Westview Road Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Volunteer for Agent?

Catherine Hedges Barker's daughter, Catherine, was married to Jeffrey Livingston in April. The Barkers live in Towson, Maryland.

MA Volunteers for Secretary and Agent?

Edward Olcott was appointed Director, Planning and Development, Port Authority of

N.Y. and N.J. in October 1975. He was graduated from Yale in 1949 and has been with PA for twenty-six years. His son, Thomas, is Yale '74 and daughter, Nancy, Yale '77.

'46 TKS Volunteer for Secretary?

Mrs. N. Young DuHamel, Jr., Agent (Constance Ritchie)

'44 TKS Volunteer for Secretary?

Miss Elizabeth Specht, Agent It is nice to have Janet Harris O'Toole back in Montclair. She returned in 1970, having lived in Bermuda since 1947. Janet has one son, Richard Watlington, who is 25 and still lives in Bermuda. Janet married John James O'Toole here in Montclair in June, 1975. John is an attorney in Newark.

MA Volunteer for Secretary?

Arthur B. Harris, Agent

MA Volunteers for Secretary and Agent?

William F. Brown, III who wrote the book for the Tony Award winning musical, "The W iz," has just completed the books for two other musicals: "Wilbur and Me" (about the Wright brothers) and "Shala Hadra," a contemporary Elizabethan show. The national company of "The W iz" begins in Los Angeles on June 15.

TKS Volunteers for Secretary and Agent?

Volunteer for Secretary?

Joseph E. Hammond, Jr., Agent

TKS Mrs. Roger Kenvin, Secretary (Verna Rudd Trimble) Volunteer for Agent?

Nancy Brown Pracher reported that she, husband John, and daughter were to move to Waco, Texas, in March because of a business promotion. "Tearing up our roots of 20 years is hard."

Jane Hagan Farno continues busy as a high school volunteer, now working in guidance, helping pupils not planning on a 4-year college to obtain career information. "As Treasurer of the H.S. Booster Club, I spend more time worrying about their money than ours." Stephanie finishes college in '76; Greg likes and continues at Gettysburg; Eric finishes high school and goes off; Clayton and Peter will still be at home so Jane and Glenn needn't get too lonely as yet.

Jeanne Talbot Sawutz and George celebrated their 25th in July (as did several other '45ers later this year). Jeanne works for the Ulster County Health Department. Dave finishes Lehigh this year. Linny is at Endicott, her Mom's alma mater, taking interior design.

Sandy is in 7th grade. The Sawutz's enjoy yearly visits with Sally duBois Moberg and Ed. Rudd Trimble Kenvin has reported she and Roger and the girls may be making a move within Virginia, not involving any change for Roger except a longer commute. They are anxious for Heather and Holly to have access to better schools. Rudd has very kindly promised to become our official class secretary as soon as the move is completed and she reports the new address. We're all grateful!

MA Volunteer for Secretary?

William B. Grant, Agent

MA Volunteer for Secretary?

Richard M. Drysdale, Agent

'50 TKS Mrs. W. G. Tull, Jr., Secretary (Sue Davis) 7907 G reentree Road Bethesda, MD 20014 Mrs. Clifford S. Evans, Jr., Agent (Mary Anne Treene)

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Anne Fairchild Jeffery wrote this spring that her oldest daughter, Wendy, will be graduating from Kent School (Connecticut) this June. Daughter Jill is a sophomore at Kent.

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SATURDAY OCTOBER 2 '48 TKS Mrs. A. Stanley Miller, Jr., Secretary (Frances Lane) 729 S.W. Bayberry Terrace Boca Raton, FL 33432 Mrs. Virginia Aspdin, Agent (Virginia Hall) For news of Marylou Bianchi Schaffer see MA '48 notes!

MA Volunteer for Secretary?

James B. Regan, Agent John Schaffer and his wife, Marylou Bianchi Schaffer (TKS '48) returned from Tokyo in February. John is vice president of overall M anufacturers H anover Trust Jap an ese operations.

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MA Rudolph H. Deetjen, Jr., Secretary 16 Rensselaer Road Essex Fells, NJ 07021 Volunteer for Agent?

Our busy Middle School Headmaster Rudy Deetjen, who has served so long and so well as your Agent, asks that one of you '50-ers take over his fund raising duties. Rudy will now be your official scribe. Please send him news of yourselves and your families.

'51 TKS Mrs. Eric W. Stroh,Secretary (Gail Robertson) 1097 Grayton Road Crosse Point, MI 48230 Volunteer for Agent?

Your Secretary, G ail, wrote in January, "I'm in the real estate business which I enjoy. Have become a backgammon freak and play all the time. Oldest son is going to Lake Forest College next year. Second boy is a tennis player and skier. Franny, 9, and Whitney, 4, are in 3rd grade and pre-kindergarten."

MA Volunteer for Secretary?

Ernest F. Keer, III, Agent

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Mrs. Edward C. Fawcett, Secretary (Fay Taft) 9 Gordon Place Montclair, NJ 07042 Mrs. David L. Kerr, Agent (Gail TomecfflB

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The Alumni Office received a nice note from Anne Areson Dwyer Milne in February.

"Planning a trip to Russia the end of May which should be fascinating. I'm particularly looking forward to the Hermitage which contains a lot of the greatest art in the world."

Your Secretary further reported on Anne and Norm Milne: "They plus Jane Redfield Forsberg and Bob and about twenty others spent a week skiing Sugarloaf in Maine this March. I got a glimpse of both these families during Easter week. The Milnes were passing through on a trip to Washington, D.C. over vacation where Anne hoped to see Jean Fairgrieve Granum. Janie was at her parents' house for a few days without Bob, though, who was home busily writing music for and directing a play their church puts on each year. Jane said he was so busy he probably didn't know she'd left.

"A Christmas letter from Babs Pendleton Donnell finds Jim in good health following surgery on his leg and Babs teaching part time corrective reading to third, fourth, and fifth graders. Daughter Bridget is in her senior year and lettering in swimming. She is treasurer of the Student Council and college hunting. Jane is a sophomore and canoed through the 'boundary waters' of Minnesota-Canada last summer. Calvi > is in eighth grade, plays football, delivers papers, and collects stamps.

Thanks for the long letter, Babs.

"Wain Koch Maass and Bill are happily settled in Vermont, and Bill, Jr. 'is knee deep in getting college applications finalized.'

"I understand Gail Tomec Kerr and Dave were off to Europe on a business trip in May."

Where are all you ladies? Please send me a post card, picture, n o te .. . and do it now for the next' issue!

Maree's two girls, Kathy (12) and Lynne (9) keep her running from the tennis court to the swimming pool. Kathy gives her a battle on the tennis court, so Maree has taken up paddle tennis in her spare time. Volunteer work has claimed a large portion of Maree's days — ranging from work in the school library to helping in a Summit area Outreach program. Dick is with Spencer Trask.

"Coaching girls' basketball and lacrosse has been a welcome change for me from sitting at a desk all afternoon. Every now and then the girls even win a game, but an experienced coach I'm not — only a 'fill-in' this first year of coeducation. I hope to see those of you who are in Philadelphia over the summer for some first-hand news."

'53 TKS Mrs. Thomas Burgin, Secretary (Lolly Penick) 328 Fairway Road Ridgewood, NJ 07450 Mrs. John Seymour, Agent (Carol Snow) MA Volunteer for Secretary?

Volunteers for Secretary and Agent?

'55 TKS Volunteers for Secretary and Agent?

MA Volunteer for Secretary?

Oscar A. Mockridge, III, Agent

'56 TKS Mrs. LawtherO. Smith, Secretary (Linda Lovell) 30 Water Crest Drive Doylestown, PA 18901 Miss Judy Lindeman, Agent The Alumni Office heard from Carol Van Brunt Rasic's mother, Mary Harrsen Van Brunt '32, that Carol had her second child and first daughter on January 7.

MA Volunteer for Secretary?

John W. Clapp, Agent

David J. Connolly, Jr., Agent

'54 TKS Miss Georgia Carrington, Secretary McDonogh School McDonogh, MD 21208 Mrs. P. T. Dill, Agent (Patricia Taylor) Your Secretary wrote, "Thanks to Maree Callahan Currey's Christmas card we don't have a blank space under our class again.

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Joseph L. Bograd, Agent

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'57 TKS Volunteer for Secretary?

Mrs. A. Hager Bryant, III, Agent .(Joan Wallace) • We heard from Judith Slifkin Kaplan in February when she reported that her son was 4 months old. Judy was married in 1973 and her husband, George, is an insurance broker in Manhattan. Judy is speech therapist in the Clifton, N .J., school system.

'58 TKS Mrs. Reginald Leeby, Secretary (Anne McCormick) 135 Fairfield Street Fayetteville, NY 13066 Volunteer for Agent?

Three cheers for the three people who wrote with their news. My heartfelt gratitude!

Linda Michele Bragg, Stacy, and their four children are living in Montclair where Linda is active in her garden and in La Leche. The Scherers [Nancy Adams] are still in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, where they are able to fully appreciate sailing. Do you know where South Dartmouth is? You should check — it looks like God's Country, and Nancy encourages us to stop by if in the area. What a shock to find out how grown up the Scherer girls are. How could any of us have pre-teen ch i Idren m uch less a teenager or two?

And, in the children department, the most thrilling news came from Sally Braddock Dinsmore. This is a "can it be true?" Sally was leading a tour for her agency, and was in New Orleans, when Bob called to say, "Guess who's coming for dinner?" The Who had already arrived and brand new Elizabeth Ann Dinsmore was home with her new father waiting for her new mother to fly back to Sacramento. Can you imagine going away and finding a new baby 9 your own child — waiting when you got home? Sally and Bob, it is terribly exciting, and we are all so pleased for the three of you!

Oh, add another cheer for Betsy Cole Sabel who wrote and told of a superb trip to California. It is Mecca, isn't it?

As for the Leebys, Reg and I are SCUBA enthusiasts, but like warm salt water rather than our local cold water — so our jaunts are infrequent. It would be so nice to hear from more of you: what are your concerns, do you work, do you volunteer, who are you?

MA Volunteer for Secretary?

Franklin M. Sachs, Agent

'59 TKS Mrs. Robert P. Sumas, Secretary (Deana Rogers) 44 Maple Drive North Caldwell, NJ 07006 Mrs. Robert P. Sumas, Agent We were pleased to receive a note from Susan Wechsler Rose last January. "I live in New York City with my husband and three adorable daughters (ages 5, 7 and 9), and I've started teaching piano. I still remember my great days at Kimberley and I'm delighted at the merger and expansion."

In February we heard that Betsy Marshall Hood was a graduate student at Columbia University, working on her dissertation for her Ph.D. MA Volunteers for Secretary and Agent?

James Courier is an attorney in Hackettstown. N.J. He and his wife, Carmen, have a 2-year old daughter, Donica.

Barry Malkin has been admitted to part­ nership in a Paterson certified public ac­ counting firm, and he and his wife, Harriet, celebrated the birth of their son Leo Ross Malkin, in February. Barry and Harriet live in Upper Saddle River and are enthusiastic tennis fans.

'60 TKS Miss Carroll Tiernan, Secretary Box 203, RFD Westmoreland, NH 03467 Miss Charlotte Judd, Agent Charlotte Judd has changed jobs and is now working for the president of Royal Worcester Porcelain Co., Inc. MA E. Hawley Van Wyck, III, Secretary 1108 North Ohio Street Arlington, VA 22205 E. Hawley Van Wyck, III, Agent Philip Leone, M .D., wrote that» he is presently Assistant Professor of Pathology at St. Louis University Medical School and Director, Clinical Laboratory, St. Louis County Hospital. Cheryl, his wife, is Associate Pathologist at Missouri Baptist Hospital. Their son, Seth, is almost two.

Robert Crissman was promoted last winter to comptroller, Food Service Division of Standard Brands, and is relocating to the home office in New York City. Bob and his wife, Karen, have two children — Bob, 10, and Scott, 6.

Michael Butan,M.D., is a resident in plastic surgery, Albany Hospital. His wife, Elie, is a medical secretary. The Butans have two children, Marc and Joanna.

Word about Eric Sandwall is that he is active in Marriage Encounter Weekend

Programs — multi denominational. He and his wife, Mary Ann, have two children — Eric, III, 5, and Christian, 3.

'61 TKS Miss Judith Poor, Secretary 96 North Mountain Avenue Montclair, NJ 07042 Mrs. Joseph H. Boyd, Jr., Agent (Margaret Mayes) Judy Corbett wrote that in 1972 she joined Boston Consulting Group, a management consulting firm, and 1973 accepted the position of Office Administrator in the firm's new office in Palo Alto, California. She's enjoying skiing and tennis and finds time to entertain Eastern friends.

Sue Faulkner DeDecker continues to enjoy more and more the activities at the Crane House. She's been made Chairman of the committee that researches each article which comes into possession. Articles are not only researched for place of original identity but also for the period in which they originally belonged. Sue's committee is bringing the Crane House records up to date and, even­ tually, filing on each acquisition will be complete, each article clearly identified. A lot of time and effort goes into this work.

Chris Keller leads a busy life. She continues to enjoy her job as a lawyer for an insurance company. Most of last fall she worked on The United Fund — loaned to them by her company. However, she definitely doesn't feel she's a fund raiser. More to her liking was being representative to the National Council of Girl Scouts at the end of October in Washington, D.C. She's very active in Girl Scouts and in her church in Houston, and is also involved in numerous Rice University activities. (She's a graduate of Rice.)

volunteer work in the school; giving court tours at the L.A. County Civil and Criminal Courthouses for school children with the Lawyers Wives of Los Angeles. I also have a Cub Scout den and a Brownie troop. I hope that while we are on the East Coast that I will be able to see everyone again."

News from Susan Sayre: "I studied art in college and am a 'professional' artist. I teach two days a week to keep myself alive since most artists don't make much money — including me. I do assemblage-type sculpture, using real and painted objects together. I'm living in a loft in an area called 'Notto' (north of 'Sotto' which is short for south-of-Houston Street) at 10 Bleecker Street. The zip is 10012.

If anyone would like to get in touch, I'd love to hear from them." Susan received her B.A. from Brown University and her M.A. from N.Y.U., and has studied at the University of Wisconsin and the N.Y. Studio School. She's been a visiting artist (sculpture) at Richmond College and Baruch .College (art history) and has had many shows since 1969.

No significant news about my musical or art activities. However, this April Sally Poor Owen '65 and son, Scott, visited for two weeks. Scott, busy and active, seems to win the hearts of all in the family. Joan Poor Clarke '66 is expecting her first baby in midJuly.

MA Volunteer for Secretary?

Robert T . Root, III, Agent

'62 TKS Mrs. Thomas PohI, Secretary (Carol Vincelette) 1736 Scheffer Avenue St. Paul, MN 55116 Mrs. Alexander A. Anastasiou, Agent (Denise Farandatos) MA Volunteers for Secretary and Agent?

General Reinsurance Corporation has opened a new casualty facultative office in Columbus, Ohio, which is headed by John Bleyle, Assistant Secretary of the corporation.

Richard Rosenblum is now Director of the Roselle Park Free Public Library, N.J. He was formerly a librarian at Seton Hall University.

Sarah Mahler Henderson's children, Anne and Taylor. Taylor's arm is fine now!

Sarah Mahler Henderson wrote, "We are just about done with our 5 year tour in Southern California. We expect to have a short assignment in Norfolk, Virginia, starting in mid-August. Ferg pinned on his major's leaves early this fall. He has also just finished law school and taken the California Bar Exam.

Taylor, 9, is our athlete with ice hockey, soccer, baseball, etc. Anne, 6, is in first grade and a Brownie. I am kept very busy doing

'63 TKS Mrs. J. K. Nash, Secretary (Christine Kuzmick) 784 D Laurel Walk Goleta, CA 93017 Mrs. William J. Wood, Agent (Susan Pettingi 11) A nice note came to the office from Mary Jane Gillespie Knapp. "I am teaching in-

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strumental music in two grade schools in northern Wisconsin where Dave is serving two small churches. Quite a difference from the kind of life I grew up in! I am enjoying the advantages of living in vacationland — everything from canoeing and backpacking to a huge garden. I just wish there was a little less snow and a little more warm weather."

MA Volunteers for Secretary and Agent?

Bronson Van Wyck has recently bought an 8,000 acre farm in Tuckerman, Arkansas. He is married and has a 3-year old son. Word is that he is "working hard but having a great time."

Remember the KA Play of '63? ["The Curious Savage"]

'64 TKS Mrs. James G. Ward, Secretary (Caroll|| Wilson) 5280 Durango Court Pensacola, FL 32504 Volunteer for Agent?

We heard from Anne Beard Smith that she would be moving from Connecticut to Pittsford, Vermont, in June.

Bea Crawford Fry is back living in Mont­ clair. Her husband, Dennis, is currently practicing orthodontics in Kearny and West Caldwell. The Frys have two children — Shane, 5, and Shannon, 3.

MA Volunteer for Secretary?

Roy T. Van Vleck, Agent

65 TKS Mrs. B. R. Madsen, Secretary (Betsy Ridge) Box 415 Essex, MA 01929 Mrs. George W. Calver, Agent (Susan DeBevoise) MA Volunteer for Secretary?

H. Holt Apgar, Jr., Agent

'66 TKS Volunteer for Secretary?

Miss Paula Pryde, Agent

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We heard this winter that Kelley DeLorenzo is working at a day care center in Brookline, Massachusetts.

MA Volunteer for Secretary?

Richard C. Kuzsma, Agent Captain Robert McAleer wrote this spring, "Our tour of duty here in Japan ends in April, so I will be returning Stateside with my wife and 3-year old son for duty at the Quantico, Virginia, Marine Corps Base."

Word from William Hutson this winter was that he was finishing up his Ph.D. dissertation on Oceanography/Micropaleontology of the Indian Ocean at Brown University.

We also heard this winter that Bruce Walton was at Harvard Business School.

Craig Cameron is a partner in a law firm which has offices in Orlando and Daytona Beach, Florida. He is presently managing the Orlando office. There are a total of eight lawyers in the firm which specializes in civil trial work. Craig is designated as a specialist in the fields of personal injury and wrongful death, trial practice, and workmen's com­ pensation. He is married to the former Pamela Richmond of West Virginia. He invites all classmates to call on him when in the Orlando area, and is very much interested in par­ ticipating in the Class of '66's tenth reunion.

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the Dean of the Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity and was a staff attorney with the New England School of Law's Neighborhood Law Office in Malden, Massachusetts. Joe is also a graduate of St. Louis University.

John Rudd wrote in February that he was working for the State of Michigan as an engineer for the Public Service Commission and, also, that he was getting married.

Christopher Steggles has been appointed Underwriter Casualty Property, Special Ac­ counts Division, Travellers Insurance Com­ pany.

Andrew Sussman and his wife are living in Shiraz, Iran, where Andrew directs the fresh­ man English courses of Pahlavi University. In August he will begin teaching and working on the development of the language program for the National Iranian Oil Company's Institute of Technology in Abadan.

'68 TKS Miss Avie Claire Kalker, Secretary 2401 W . Southern, Box 274 Tempe, AZ 85282 Volunteer for Agent?

Angela Steggles has moved to Clifton Park, N.J., on transfer by Heublein, Inc., as sales representative for Smirnoff Beverage Com­ pany for Eastern New York State.

MA Volunteer for Secretary?

Geoffrey Gregg, Agent We heard this winter that Bernard Crawford is living in Washington, D.C., and studying medicine at George Washinton University.

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TKS Miss Linda Feinberg, Secretary 20 Pearl Brook Drive Clifton, NJ 07013 Volunteer for Agent?

We heard last winter that Laurie Pekar is studying Arabic and economics at London University.

A nice note came from Deborah Sanders Lewis in February. "Although we're living in Worcester now, we are moving to Medfield, Massachusetts, in May. Mac has a new job in Boston with Northwestern Mutual Life In­ surance Company. We are all well and happy.

'All' is: Mac and I; Kelly, age 4; and Erin, age 1 and 1/2 (both children, girls). Would love to hear from anyone in the area!"

Katherine Mustacchi is studying piano and music at M cGill University, Montreal, Canada.

TKS Mrs. Charles Gildea, Secretary (Lynn Erhardt) 49 East Saddle River Road Saddle River, NJ 07458 Volunteer for Agent The Alumni O ffice learned that Christine Hannon is now living in Rochester, N.Y. She's with Merrill Lynch in the new accounts department and going to graduate school.

Barbara Haviland Brogan wrote from Annapolis, Maryland, that she is a real estate associate and that Bob is in the commodities exchange business and also bartending parttime.

MA Volunteer for Secretary?

Peter W. Adams, Agent Joseph Marino has received the juris doctor degree from New England School of Law in Boston. Joe, a Dean's List student, served as

MA Volunteer for Secretary?

Christopher C. Beling, 111, Agent J. Barton Bale and Jill Ann Bale, formerly of Cleveland, Ohio, had their first child, a boy — John Barton James Bale, II — in January, 1976.

Bart has been with Beecham Canada, Ltd. in the marketing department since May, 1975.

The Bales live in Downsview, Ontario, Canada.

Word came through Kevin Basralian (MA 71) that Andrew Salzberg is in Mexico, at­ tending medical school.

For news of Bob Brogan see TKS '69.

70 TKS Ms. K. V. Forschner, Secretary (Karen Vanderhoof) 5553 S. Chatford Drive Cols, OH 43227 Volunteer for Agent?

Anne McIntyre Graves and her husband, Otto (James Peter) enjoyed skiing this winter at their home in Keene, New Hampshire. Anne went home to New Jersey a few weeks ago and saw Suzi Buttel and Kim Kolbe. Suzi is fine and working for an orthodontist in Montclair. Kim worked as a chef in Bondville, Vermont, and is presently in the process of moving to Aspen. Anne included some more information about some other classmates.

Heidi Sanders and Betsy Kimball are sharing an apartment in Boston. Liz Conzen is living and working in Clinton, N.J. Debbie Von Hoffman is working for Scoop Jackson in Boston.

Gail Herbert wrote, "I am alive and well and living in Colorado." Gail spent two years in Virginia after graduating from TKS. She then moved to Boulder where she earned a B.S. in education at the University of Colorado. She now teaches fourth grade at the Hygiene Elementary School. The town of Hygiene is twenty miles northwest of Boulder. Gail also wrote that she saw Georgia Buckner about four years ago in Boston. Georgia was the manager of Papagallos shoe store (down­ town).

Carol Ladner graduated from Northwestern University in December of 1973 with a major in geography. She moved to Minneapolis where she was hired by the St. Paul Com­ panies as a programmer. Carol will marry Bruce Beiger (also a Northwestern graduate) on June 12. The ceremony is to take place in New Jersey. Bruce will graduate from the University of Minnesota Medical School in December 1976.

Barbara Dixon attended Mills College in Oakland, California, for two years. She then became assistant director of United Cerebral Palsy of North Jersey. In September of 1974 she returned to school at the University of Southern California. Bobbie will graduate in June with a major in journalism and public relations. She presently is a contributing editor to "Los Angeles Sports," a magazine.

Pat Vilas is finishing a two year nursing program at Pasadena City College and will receive her R.N. this summer. She graduated from Occidental College in 1974 with a B.A. cum laude in speech and drama. Pat hopes to stay in southern California and work as a surgical nurse. She is active in her church, singing in the choir and taking part in prayer and praise services.

Kathy Powell graduated from Connecticut College. She then worked as an editorial

assistant at a publishing company in New York City. Kathy was the editor of a children's book, IRISH, by Arnol Dobrin, which was just published in February. In August -.Kathy started to work in the admissions department of Goucher College.

Lisa Shapiro wrote, "My life has been full and exciting since TKS. I double majored in theatre and psychology and really devoted myself to acting at Case Western Reserve University. Now I'm getting my master's degree in psychiatric social work at the University of Chicago. I've been working at Children's Memorial Hospital in Psychiatry as part of my training. My interests are Gestalt therapy, drama and drama therapy, and group and family treatment."

As for myself, my name is now Karen Vanderhoff-Forschner. I graduated from Muskingum College in December, 1973, with a B.A. in psychology and a B.S. in biology. In January, 1974, I married Thomas Edward Forschner (Muskingum 72 ). Shortly after graduating from college I obtained a position with State Auto Mutual Insurance Co., as an underwriter. In the beginning of 1975 I was promoted to a systems analyst. Last year I sat for and passed the law part of the CPCU degree. I will sit for two more parts this fall and, hopefully, complete my exams in 1977.

Tom moved out here in 1973 from Long Island to work for the accounting firm of Haskins and Sells. He is currently working for a management consulting firm as director of accounting services.

As your new Class Secretary, I will be looking forward to receiving any news you might have that you wish to share.

MA Volunteers for Secretary and Agent? ' We were happy to have news of Albert Thrower from his parents. Al will graduate from Hahnem ann M ed ical College, Philadelphia, in June, 1977. He was married in August, 1975, to Patricia Finneran, now completing her first year of dental school, University of Pennsylvania.

We heard in February that William Evans was a graduate student at Lehigh (electronics engineering).

We also picked up the news that Randall Carignan is living in Hawaii. He is running a restaurant, is married, and has twin boys. And, through Kevin Basralian 7 1 , we learned that John Doerr is in Mexico, attending medical school.

71 TKS Miss Linda Braeder, Secretary 27 Edged iff Road Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Volunteer for Agent?

Amy Schechter has graduated from Montclair State College, Class of 7 6 , with a B.A. in English.

MA David Freed, Secretary 500 Riverside Drive, #845 New York, NY 10027 Michael W . Lidwin, Agent Robert Benigno wrote to the Alumni Office this winter, "I received my B.A., cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in May, 1975. I'm currently finishing up my research for my M .A. in biology from the University of Pennsylvania, and in September, 1976, I'll be going to the University of Pittsburgh Medical School.'-' Word also came to the office last winter that Thomas Wells (s living in Brattleboro, Vermont, and doing occupational therapy.

And, we . heard that John Brandow was studying at Oxford University.

Your Secretary reports: Received a great note from Kevin Basralian who wrote that "after finishing at Albright College and then managing a bar/disco, I decided to take a trip to Mexico — for medical school." (How's that for job mobility?) "I'm presently in first semester along with Andrew Salzberg '69 and John Doerr 70, so we hope to start an alumni club soon." Bas also notes that he is still single — hard to'believe, at that. Hope things are going well for you, Bas. Soon to be no longer single is Guy Della Penna, who plans to be married in May, 1977.

He met future wife Margaret while working on his B,S. in Business Administration at Ithaca College. Guy is currently pursuing an M .B.A. in finance at SUNY, Albany, and plans to settle in Saratoga Springs upon graduation next year. Best of luck, Guy. Other countries heard from include Rick Cancelosi who graduated from the University of Virginia and Is presently employed way out in Houston, Texas. Herb Tate writes that he completed studies at Wesleyan University a semester early, graduated cum laude, and then held what sounds like a fascinating position as investigator/field representative in the Newark Public Defender's Office Child Abuse Program. Herb is back to the books now at Rutgers Law School and w ill, I am sure, make a formidable attorney to have to argue against in court.

From Maine, Sig Johnsen reports that he is enjoying a self-styled sabbatical from graduate English studies at Western Illinois University. Sig plans to spend the summer working in Maine and then buzSdow n to Florida for the winter and assemble a catamaran with some friends. Keep in touch, Sig. John Guttmann is at Cornell Law School and has an interesting summer position lined up doing research for the Cornell Institute on Organized Crime. Sounds like a lot more fun than class, anyway!

Your Secretary is thoroughly registered for another summer session at NYU. I'll be busy completing my master's thesis on the everyday subject of Uniform Accounting for Airline Food Service, which is right up my alley (or should I say right down my runway) as a result of prior work experience in this

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area. I invite anyone in the area to drop in at the address fisted at the head of this column or call 678-4923 so I can clean up my room before you come. (Usually takes about a week, working straight^® Looking forward to seeing you all at our fifth reunion in the fall. Further details will be forthcoming, so stay tuned!

72 TKS Miss Kate Curtin, Secretary Box 1476, Rollins College Winter Park, FL 32789 Miss Deborah Peck, Agent We were happy to hear from Denise Chezek that she will be attending Boston University Law School in September.

MA Samuel S. Weiss, Secretary Winthrop House, C 31 Harvard College Cambridge, MA 02138 Jacob Pnnce, III, Agent

73 TKS Miss Constance van Eeghen, Secretary Hopkins A, Smith College Northampton, MA 01060 Miss Martha Del Negro, Agent Your Secretary reports: "Debbie Kent, twinged by a guilty conscience, broke d o w n . . .and w rote a w o n d erfully in­ formative letter about her past year. After her second spring semester at Smith College last year she transferred, with some regret, to Princeton, where she felt the academic of­ ferings for architectural history were greater.

Debbie left Smith right after her theatrical debut in 'Ruddigore' and worked in a curatorial position at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City that summer.

Debbie spent an energetic, successful semester at Princeton before, we're sad to hear, getting extremely ill with hepatitis and

mononucleosis for three months. Happily, she has recovered well, and is exploring the-mixed pleasures of the salaried world as a Saks Fifth Avenue salesperson back in New York. Debbie will be back in the Guggenheim this summer fully enjoying the variety and extremes of the Big City. She is presently doing research for a paper on Llewelyn Park in West Orange for the bicentennial."

The Alumni Office learned that Stancy DuHamel, an art« history major at Smith, is spending this year with a Stanford University program at the Intercollegiate Institute for Classical Studies in Rome. During spring vacation Stancy had a marvelous trip to North Africa.

MA Volunteer for Secretary?

J. Dean Paolucci, Agent We heard from Tom Galligan this winter that he played the lead role in "The Man Who Came to Dinner" at Stanford University.

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Rudy Schlobohm is double majoring at St. Lawrence University in English and theatre.

He traveled to England in January to study theatre.

Al Josephsen is majoring in biology at St. Anselm'^College in New Hampshire. He'S active at the college radio station and has his own show. Al also sings in the college choral group.

Bruce Marsh moved with his parents to Sarasota, Florida, and is majoring in physical oceanography at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He's busy playing tennis, too, in that warm climate.

As for myself, I have just returned from a trip to Roanoake, Virginia, where the Westminster Choir did a program of American music with the Roanoake Symphony Or­ chestra. I am also currently serving as the O rganist-Choir D irecto r at the First Congregational Church of Verona, part of an "apprenticeship" program which the Choir.

College has for church music majors.

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TKS Miss Leslie Aufzien, Secretary Box 1199, Rollins College Winter Park, FL 32789 Miss Martha Bonsai, Agent We heard from Franklin and Marshall College that Cathy Irwin, a sophomore, is on the women's tennis team. The team was to play a 16-match schedule this spring and to compete in the Middle States Tournament at Princeton and in the Middle Atlantic Con­ ference championships at Gettysburg College.

Susan Stokes was one of 43 Mount Holyoke College students who went on tour in central Europe with Coro Mount Holyoke, a women's choir, this winter.

Our deepest sympathy to Susan Woods on the death of her father this May. MA Anthony Celentano, Secretary Box 128 Westminster Choir College Princeton, NJ 08540 Brian Thomas, Agent

Miss Lori Pink, Secretary Box 23248 Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322 David Soule, Secretary 229 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02116 Dallas Gordon, Agent We read in the paper that Douglas Hamilton is a member of the Laurentian Singers, St. Lawrence University's mixed choral ensemble. The group visited Canada on its annual spring tour.

And, that Nan Benedict was elected captain of , the women's team of the Bucknell University Sailing Club for 1976-77.

Anne Thomas stopped by the office to tell us she'd had a great year at Wellesley. She was on the crew team and active in theatre.

Your editor enjoyed a brief chat with Bruce Alder in May (while we were visiting and Bruce was working at his father's restaurant in Little Falls). Bruce said his first year at Dickinson College had been great.

Vital Statistics DEATHS The editor records with sorrow the death of the following alumni and extends the sym­ pathy of the officers and members of the Alumni Association to their families.

Charles F. Abbott (MA '36) Mrs. George Ast (Doris Mann TKS '33)

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Mrs. Phillip Blumberg (Janet Mitchell TKS '35) John B. Braine (MA '36) George B. Dodd (MA '22) Mrs. Francis Giammattei (Betsey Presby TKS '23) Mrs. Jonathan Harris (Cecil Chapman TKS '12) Miss E. Florence Keys (TKS '24) Mrs. Jose Reynes, Jr. (Jean Polhemus TKS '35) Stephen Schwartz (MA 72)

Mrs. Albert Streichenberg (Dorothy Allen TKS '16) MARRIAGES Albert Thrower (MA 70) to Patricia Finneran Linda Finney (TKS 7 2 ) to Charles Wesley Perryman Carol Snow Evans (TKS '53) to John Seymour

Could these be your busy hands?

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