Spring 1982 MKA Alumni News

E l iz a b e t h J o n e s , Kimberley Graduate and W>rld Renowned Jalist,is C hief Sculptor-Engraver o f The United 11th and First Wfoman Ever to Hold this Prestigious Post.

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ALUMNI NEWS MONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY

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VOLUME 10 SPRING, 1982

Three Million Dollar Campaign Goes Over the Top/1 Fine Arts at MKA/2 Elizabeth Jones/4 Dressing for Success/8 It's A Computer World/11 Notes From Around MKA/13 Class News/19

Editors: Carol V.V. Carpenter Judy Alien Susan N. Bergen

Bill Bullard, Upper School English and photo­ graphy teacher, gets credit for most of the photo­ graphs in this issue. His photos appear in the Report From The Principal and Notes From Around MKA, as well as for the articles on Homecoming, the Alumni Hockey Game and the college-age Holi­ day Party. Bill was also on hand to take the class reunion photos which ap­ pear in the class notes section.

Bill is a graduate of Wes­ leyan University and holds a Ph.D. in Modern Litera­ ture from Boston College.

He joined the Upper School staff in 1976. Bill’s wife, Barbara Gerry,also teaches English at the Upper School.

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Aubin Z. Ames ’54, President of the Board of Trustees when the campaign was undertaken, and now chairman of the Fi­ nance Committee of the school says, “The benefits of the campaign can already be seen on all three campuses. We are moving toward our goal of funding our scholarship pro­ gram. In the past three years, gifts to annual giving and to our growing general endowment have made it possible to in­ crease faculty salaries greatly.

Salaries still do not reflect the real worth of our outstanding faculty, but our salaries are pulling ahead of most compar­ able independent schools in the area while maintaining tuition levels at or below those of these same schools. This is what we had hoped to accomplish and we are excited to see it happening.”

MKA TOMORROW! Montclair Kimberley Academy’s three year, three million dollar capital campaign went “over the top before the December 31,1981 pledge deadline," reports John A. Windolf, campaign chairman. “Achieving this goal, on time and on target, is a tremendous accomplishment. The credit goes to the hundreds of alumni, parents and friends who worked and gave. It is an expression of confidence in MKA and lays the groundwork for the endowment the school must build to maintain its place as one of the nation’s outstanding schools.”

The campaign was the result of a study of the Academy’s long range plans made by the Board of Trustees when Richard Ward Day was Principal. The Board decided to undertake the campaign at a meeting in June 1977. Then, tragically, Dr. Day died a month later and the Board was confronted with the decision as to whether or not to go ahead. The amount to be raised was well above what most day schools in this country could even consider. After serious deliberations, the decision was made to go forward with the plans, based on a strong commitment to the purposes of the program and a trust in the support which it would elicit from the school constituency.

The Board, working closely with Interim Principal Edward M. Read, formally announced the campaign February 28,1978. The goal: to raise three million dollars, over a three year period. Prior to the official beginning, the Florence and John Schumann Foundation, in an unprecedented endorsement, made a challenge grantwhich stipulated that the Foundation would match with $1 every $2 paid to the campaign by a donor (excluding otherfoundations or current M KA trustees). The challenge was to prove enormously importantto MKATomorrow!

Donors throughout the constituency took particular pleasure in knowing that their gifts would be increased 50% by the Foundation’s generosity.

The specific objectives which will be realized when all pledges are paid are: $1,250,000 for general endowment, primarily for faculty salaries; $1,000,000 for scholarship endowment, to provide a larger share of scholarship awards from endowment income ratherthan from tuition revenue; and $750,000 for a wide variety of improvements to the physical plant.

Support for the campaign began immediately, and the momentum built. In 1979 Dr. Frances R. O’Connor was named Principal and assumed the administrative leadership of this major school program. Alumni from across the country sent in gifts, often with expressions of appreciation for what the school had meanttothem. Parents gave generously — both as individuals and through PAM KA, the parents association of MKA. Friends, corporations and local businesses gave and the campaign was further strengthened by a number of grants made by foundations and designated for specific purposes within the general campaign objectives.

Current Board President George Harris notes that, “Jack Windolf and his campaign committee did an outstanding job. Under their leadership in this three year period, hundreds of volunteers have been involved. Their dedication to the importance of this campaign for MKA was the key to its success. It is a great tribute also to the leadership of our Principal, Fran O’Connor, and to the hard work of Director of Development Carol Carpenter and all of the development office staff.”

Principal Frances R. O’Connor, expressing her thanks said, “This marks a significant milestone in MKA’s history. We’re planning a celebration in the spring — but for now, my thanks to each person who has made this success possible.”

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Report From The Principal

To some Americans, the fine arts are a diversion to be enjoyed when times are good and money is plentiful, tolerated as long as they don’t interfere with “real” learning, and to be eliminated in times of lean budgets or when the winds blow in favor of “basic” education and “hard work”. Many American schools have been the victims of a decade of budget cuts aimed at areas dubbed as “frills”, “enrichment”, or “play”. At the Montclair Kimberley Academy, however, the arts are viewed as essential to a liberal arts education. They enhance the development of a student’s personality and of his ability to experience the world around him.

Those who would downplay the importance of art in education need only reflect for a moment on past civilizations to realize that we judge their greatness and values by the work of their artists. We can all name many great artists of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, but find it difficult to name more than a few mathematicians, linguists or politicians. Impressed as we may be with the entrepreneurs of the industrial and emerging technological ages, we are even more familiar with the idiom of the cubists and surrealists, or with the works of Dickens and Cezanne.

The Montclair Kimberley Academy views the arts from two distinct and important perspectives. First they are disciplines in themselves, with histories, artists, skills and symbols to be learned. Second they contribute to the development of an educated person. While mathematics helps to teach logical thinking and to develop the left side of the brain, the fine arts encourage sensitivity and draw on the right hemisphere. Ideas and feelings that can be communicated through poetry and music cannot be adequately translated into prose or scientific symbols. A person competent in the fine arts, whether or not he is an artist, can understand and communicate more fully than one unexposed to its symbols.

Because the fine arts are so engrossing and so satisfying an expression of pur human experience, the intense discipline, concentration and effort they require can go unnoticed in a school setting and seem more like play than work. We are urged to break up the intensity of a science and math lesson by placing forty minutes of music between them.

Kelly Garvey—Grade 6

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We hope the students will find “relaxation” in an hour of studio art placed between economics and French literature. We are aware of the long hours and difficult rehearsal schedules involved with theater and dance, but the powerful camaraderie that evolves is something we associate more with leisure activities than with serious learning and productive work. Historically, Americans have tended to feel that enjoyment and significance are in inverse relationship to each other: the greater the enjoyment the less significance. This underlying puritanism can blind us to the place of fine arts in the education of our youth.

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John Fotiadls—Grade 12 Portrait of Jeanne Jones, Upper School art teacher

The Montclair Kimberley Academy has developed a serious and sequential fine arts curriculum. Our artistsAeachers (for they are all artists in their own right) teach the fine arts as disciplines in themselves and relate them to the content and symbols of other subjects. Perhaps it is best explained in their own words: “We consider art as a necessary expression of experience as well as an expression of ideas,” explains Jeanne Jones, an Upper School studio art teacher. Sharon Duffy, also a member of the Upper School art faculty, says: “Students who allow themselves to become involved in art work in a personal way can experience a growth they never imagined possible.” Mary Ellen Clark, teaching music to our youngest students, “aims to make music an important part of the students’ lives as well as the school’s life.” Children write music and develop instrumental accompaniments to poems learned in language classes. In studying rhythm and meter, they’re shown the parallel with fractions and base arithmetic. Social studies’ concepts are illustrated with songs from the American Indians, Korea and the Civil War. The real success of MKA’s program, however, is illustrated by the students’ eagerness to learn more than the required minimum in each course. They enroll in more courses than are required for graduation, spend many of their leisure hours developing their own artistic expression and appreciating that of others. MKA’s vision of fine education will always accord a central role to the fine and performing arts. Our continuing commitment to excellence demands no less.

Frances R. O’Connor, Ed.D.

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The New York Times hailed Eliza­ beth Jones as “one of the leading medalists of the world.”

October 1981 Elizabeth Jones with her fellow scu lp to rengravers of the mint in Philadelphia at the Swearing-In Ceremony.

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“ONE OF THESE DAYS YOU ARE GOING TO OWN SOME OF HER ART WORK.” With these words, a recent television special introduced Elizabeth Jones ’53, a Kimberley graduate, who is the new Chief Sculptor-Engraver of the United States Mint. Elizabeth is thefirstwoman to hold this postand the eleventh holder of theofflce which dates backto the founding of the Mint in April, 1792. In July of this year, when President Ronald Reagan made the appointment, the New York Times hailed Elizabeth Jones as “ one of the leading medalists of the world,” and cited her appointment as “another major breakthrough for advocates of equal rights for women,” pointing out that she was named to this prestigious post just six days after Sandra Day O’Connor was appointed to the Supreme Court.

Upon assuming office last September, Elizabeth began work on the Presi­ dential Medal for Ronald Reagan. A medal is created for each presidency and its design is the prerogative of the Chief Engraver. Working from photographs provided by the White House, she has completed the design in plasticene, a clay-like substance which is the first step in the creation of a coin or medal. Now she is waiting for an appointment with either the President or Mrs. Reagan to have her design approved. “ I had hoped to meet with the President,” she explains, “but his schedule is so full it is most likely that the design, if she likes it, will be approved by Mrs. Reagan.”

How does one approach doing a portrait medal? Miss Jones says, “For a national figure of any country, I just pick what I think is a typical image and try to catch the right mood. For example, I am going to depict President Reagan with a slight smile because to do him very, very seriously, in the classic style, is not really his character. I think he seems amiable.”

Once approved, the plasticene model, which is approximately 10" in diameter, will be cast in copper. This casting, known as a “galvano”, is in turn used to make a die the size that the coin or medallion ultimately will be. The Presidential Medal will be approximately 2 V2" and the first will be presented to the Reagan family. Copies of it will be on sale at the mint, as are copies of many commemorative coins, including some made from dies dating back as far as the 18th century.

Galvanos of famous U.S. co in s— the liberty head dime and the $5 gold piece for example — decorate the walls of Miss Jones’ office, high above Indepen­ dence Square in Philadelphia. The office looks across, appropriately enough, to the Federal Reserve Bank where the coins, made at the Mint, are immediately transferred for safekeeping.

As Chief Engraver, Elizabeth and the six other sculptor-engravers of the Philadelphia Mint produce the approximately 171,000 dies needed annually by Philadelphia and various other branch mints for U.S. coinage. Coins are made in Philadelphia, Denver, San Francisco (“proof coins”) and West Point (pennies), but all dies are made at the “mother mint” in Philadelphia under the supervision of the Chief Sculptor-Engraver. Each die is good for “only” 500,000 strikes before it must be replaced, hence the astonishing number of new dies needed

yearly. In addition to dies for coins, the Philadelphia engravers modify existing dies as they become worn, and place the “mint marks” on dies to be used by the branch mints. The mint mark is the tiny initial placed on the bottom right of each coin. It is so small that the engravers use special microscopes when putting it onto the dies.

In the sixteen year tenure of the preceding Chief Sculptor-Engraver of the Mint, only two new coins were authorized: the Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Susan B. Anthony dollars. However, it is possible that Elizabeth will have more opportunity to design new coins if the proposal to issue a half-dollar coin in 1982 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of George Washington’s birth is authorized by Congress. This could mark the resumption of issuing commemorative coins. In addition to regular coinage, the artists of the Phila­ delphia Mint also design and produce all Congressional or otherspecial medals

Kathy MacMullen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John MacMullen of Montclair, NJ 1969

Reverse of Picasso Medal 1973

Elizabeth Jones, working on Nobel Peace Laureate Medal for Poetry, Odysseus Elytis, Greek Poet—and Mother Theresa of Calcutta

authorized by Congress and various government departments. Examples of these may be the twenty-nine special coins proposed to mark and'help finance the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

Elizabeth brings impressive credentials to her new assignment. She has an international reputation in the field of medallic art and has exhibited around the world. How does someone become world famous in this specialized art? For Elizabeth, it was a series of discoveries about her own artistic interests and gifts. During her years at Kimberley, from kindergarten through graduation in 1953, she demonstrated both talent and interest in drawing and painting. She went to Vassar College and while majoring in art history, took all the studio art courses available “though, of course, you only got half credit in those days for something like that.” After Vassar came a couple of years of study at the Art Students' League in New York and work at Wittenborn’s art bookstore. Then, in 1961, she went to Rome to continue her study of painting and drawing at the Scuola Libera del Nudo.

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“ I had been in Rome about a year when I was looking at abas relief at the Academy one Sunday, and suddenly felt, ‘I could do that’. I bought some clay, went back to the pensione where I was staying and just started, with no instruction, to do a head of an old man.” She showed it to Renato Signorini, a friend and Italy’s most famous medallist. He responded by giving her some additional projects, then, seeing the quality and ease with which she completed these, said, “You came here to be a painter but you really are a sculptor.”

Children of Ambassador and Mrs. Frederick Reinhardt sterling silver with precious stones 10" 1965

Elizabeth’s sister, Mrs. Guy T. Steuart, Is a graduate of Kimberley In the class of 1950 and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Griffith Jones (Jeanne Perdue), is a member of the art faculty in the Upper School at MKA. Elizabeth’s parents are Dr. and Mrs. W. Rhys Jones who lived in Montclair until their move to Chatham, N.J., 4 years ago.

He suggested that she apply to the Scuola deN’Arte della Medaglia. It is a most J unusual school located inside the Italian Mint and the only school run by a national mint. There, with a dozen or so other students from all parts of the world, Elizabeth spent two years and learned the craft and skill of medallic art. In these J years she did a number of portrait medals of friends. Then, in 1964, afriend with a tiny gallery had a show of her work. One medal in particular at this show brought a number of commissions, a portrait of American Ambassador Frederick Reinhart’s four young children done in profile. Elizabeth had been asked to do the medal by a friend of the Ambassador’s family who came for a visit, broke her leg,and had to prolong her stay. In appreciation of the Reinhart’s hospitality she commissioned Elizabeth to create the now famous medal.

Soon Elizabeth was receiving commissions from around the world. A show at Tiffany’s in New York, and subsequent shows in five major American cities brought further fame and work including making medals for the Franklin Mint, the Medallic Art Company, and the Judaic Heritage Society. In 1979, the Italian government commissioned her to design a solid gold medal, 120 millimeters in diameter, honoring PopeJohn Paul II. The medal was presented to the Pontiff as a gift of the government. She has done commemorative medals of Picasso and Mozart for the Stefano Johnson Mint in Milan, and the medals for the Nobel Prize Laureates in 1979. In 1975, she was commissioned to do a medallion of ^ Gloria Steinem as Ceres, the Roman Goddess of Agriculture, as part of a series of special medals issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

During the twenty years Elizabeth lived in Rome priortothis move back to the United States, she established a reputation not only as a medallist, but as a photographer and painter as well. Asked how she feels about this new post which requires a high level of administrative as well as artistic skills, Elizabeth < indicates that she does miss the freedom of being solely an artist. But in another sense, being named Chief Engraver of the Mint is a culmination of her years of work in the field of medallic art. Her work is described as “free, almost abstract in style,” but it is her gift for portraiture which will be challenged most at the United States Mint. Says Elizabeth,“ ! do prefer designs which are mildly abstract rather than photographic realism, but of course, I wouldn’t do anything drastic.”

We look forward to the day when each of us may own, in our coins, some of j Elizabeth Jones’ work.

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1975 Holy Year Medal 2'k", gold, silver and bronze

Dressing for Success Fraggles...G orgs... Pod People.. .Visitorsfrom outerspace? No.. .creations from the producers of The Muppets and the fruits of labor of costume designer Polly Smith ’67 and colleagues at Henson Associates.

Polly works in a mysterious warehouse-type building on the Upper East Side of New York, amidst yards and yards of cloth, jars and jars of electrostatic hair called flocking, scores of clay molds, kilns filled with baking foam heads and a mind boggling collection of eyes, noses, buttons, monsters and minute gears.

Out of this seemingly chaotic environment Polly and fellow designers and puppet builders give birth to Henson’s repertoire of world famous puppets.

When asked how she came to work for The Muppets, Polly said it happened quite simply. Three years ago a friend who worked for The Muppets suggested she apply for a position. “ I came to work part-time for ten days,” she said, “and I’ve been here ever since.”

Actually, it was not quite that simple. Polly has both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in fashion and costume design, as well as several years behind her as a costume designer for the theater. “ I’ve always been interested in costume design,” she said, “I guess partly because I had to wear a uniform for five years at Kimberley.” Polly went on to explain that in order to placate her daughter’s insatiable desire for more clothes, her mother brought her all the material she wanted. Hence, Polly learned how to design and sew her own clothes.

“While I was a student at Kimberley I always thought of being an artist,” Polly said, “but I thought that meant drawing and painting. I never made the connection between fine and commercial arts.”

Polly studied fashion design at Moore College of Art in Philadelphia for three years, and spent her senior year in costume design at Dartmouth College.

After graduation she stayed at Dartmouth for another year working in theater costume design, then went to work at The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, The Hartford Stage Company and as a free lance designer for regional theaters in New York City. In 1975, she received a master’s degree in costume and scenic design from New York University’s School of Art. When asked whether she preferred dressing actors or puppets, Polly intimated that puppet personalities are a bit easier to handle. “There is a great deal of freedom in working here,” she said, explaining that sketches are not used much since Jim Henson, the man behind The Muppets, likes to see costumes made up. Thus more time is spent working with materials in the raw.

Polly’s job is many faceted. She does costume research, designs and sews, dresses puppets and often goes out “swatch hunting” -visiting Manhattan cloth merchants in search of the right materials which must be both durable and in good taste. Miss Piggy, the prima donna of The Muppets, it seems, is quite choosey about clothes and partial to violets and silks.

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Much of Polly’s time at Henson has been devoted to dressing Miss Piggy. During the filming of the popular Muppet Show series, she spent fifteen months on set in London. She and Colista Hendrickson, the main designer who developed the “Piggy” look, worked long hours, sometimes twelve a day, on a hectic weekly schedule that included building and dressing on Sundays and Mondays and filming Tuesdays through Thursdays. Polly explained that for many years there was only one Miss Piggy, but that her stardom has necessitated the creation of innumerable identical versions to handle the demand for photographing sessions and the stress of television and movie filming.

While In England, Polly also spent four months creating a village full of Pod People for Henson Associates upcoming mystery film, Dark Crystal, to be released in May. Where do Polly’s ideas come from? She quoted a favorite source, Peoples Of All Nations, an encyclopedia published back in the 1920’s when many nationalities still dressed in native costumes. She also researches costumes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Library and at the New York Public Library.

Polly’s; latest project involves the development of the Gorgs, three life-size fallen aristocrats who will appear in Fraggle Rock, a television pilot scheduled to be filmed this month. In order for the show to appeal to children (and adults!) of all nations, she was asked to come up with a universal symbol for royalty. Next she was told that the impoverished Gorgs’ regal symbol had to be fashioned out of “found” objects which predated 1912. A difficult assignment but not im possible-the Gorgs will be crowned with pots and pans!

Polly admitted that sometimes the characters she works on wind up with personalities somewhat different than those she had anticipated, once they are released to the imagination of the writers and puppeteers. But she feels the results are pretty amazing. She also explained that the success of The Muppets is in part technical due to the flexibility of movement and expression possible with the foam rubber construction first developed by Jim Henson.

Plans for the future? If the Fraggle Rock pilot is successful, Polly said she might be asked to go on location in Toronto where it will probably be filmed. “ I never realized before coming here that there is an entire puppet world out there,” she commented. She spoke fondly of her eighty or so colleagues at Henson and the special play atmosphere of working with puppets. When asked whether most of her co-workers were young, she responded, “No, not all of them, but anyone who works here is young at heart.”

COMPUTERS TAKE OFF AT M KA— The screen flashes a list of French words. A student reviews the choices, then selects the entrees she would order if dining in a Paris restaurant. The computer translates her menu choices into English. But watch out! If she doesn’t know her French, she’s likely to dine on dead frogs and burned pots. .■‘It’s not just game playing ’’ explains Char Charlton, director of MKA’s computer program. “It may be fun for many students, but it educates, too. The French menu program, designed in-house by teachers Ken Foster and Jackie Laks, is just one of innumerable software programs used at MKA to tutor students in everything from spelling to math and music.

MKA got into computer education with the encouragement of Trustee and school parent James D.Timmons. Mr.Timmons, seeing the place of computers in education, gave the school its first hardware and convinced a company to donate time sharing services. This year, he has been instrumental in the broadening of the school computer capabilities to include computerizing the business office.

Once begun, computer education occurred quickly. As reported in a recent article in The Montclair Times, “the idea sold itself.” The school now owns thirty Apple and Pet microcomputers, ten housed on each of the three campuses. In addition, two Basic 4 Mini-computers, a gift from parent Alan Goldman of Management Assistance Information Systems, have been installed at the Upper School. Atthe Middle School, two word processors, part ofthe same gift, enable students to type and edit their essays by computer.

According to Char, computer literacy is an important aspect of MKA’s jump into the computer world. “As computers become more and more integrated into our daily lives, it is necessary for students to overcome their fear of them as well as to understand how to use them effectively."

At M KA, students are introduced to computers in kindergarten. Atthe primary level they spend at least 2 to 3 hours each week on the computer doing math and spelling drills, studying letter recognition, and shape recognition. Drill exercises based on a text written by teachers Vida Welsh and Doris Schroeder help fourth graders learn about social studies. On order are additional programs covering Indians, parts of the body, correct word usage, rhyming words, synonyms and homonyms. Also planned is “Apples For Lunch,” which will enable Brooksiders to use the Apples during lunch recess under the guidance of an Upper School student.

In the Middle School computers are used daily in second instruction and during help periods to review arithmetic skills as well as vocabulary, spelling and grammar in both English and foreign languages. Teachers Peter Ebling and Linda Stark are teaching English students to type and edit their essays on the word processor. Students also use the computers to graph and display their science lab data, create graphic designs and brush up on note and tune recognition in music. Basic computer programming is offered to seventh and eighth graders who meet twice a week to learn how to write and debug their own programs. The more advanced programmers have created educational programs for specific teachers. Char says that time on the computer is so popular that the afterschool extracurricular course always has a waiting list.

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Basic Programming is offered as an elective in the Upper School, and a data processing course will be added to the curriculum as a result of the new Basic 4 machines. Many advanced students work on independent projects as well as with MKA teachers to create programs to be used in the school’s classrooms. Drill and tutorial programs also help Upper School students in biology, chemistry, algebra, geometry and in SAT preparation. Plans are underway to open the Upper School computer room on Saturdays for SAT drill and practice and for teacher use.

Char explains why using the computers in the classroom challenges and interests students: ‘The response is immediate... if you get the right answer,you know right away; if you get it wrong, you know that, too. It’s very motivating.”

Students learning with computers require a great deal of individual attention, especially at the lower levels. In addition to the Upper School students, many parents have volunteered to help. A group will be trained this winter to be teacher-aides.

Char commended her fellow MKA teachers for their quick acceptance and interest in adopting computers into their classrooms. Nineteen faculty members have attended intensive summer seminars on computer education conducted at the Taft School and have as a result designed and produced software specifically tailored to MKA classroom use.

M MKA FACULTY OFFERS SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR TEACHERS— An exciting outcome of MKA’s computer involvement is a $40,000 grant from the Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge Foundation to establish a software library and develop a summer institute for public and private school teachers. The Summer Computer Institute ForTeachers will run six weeks this summer at MKA, in conjunction with Montclair State College. Principal Frances R. O’Connor is directing the Institute.

The course will be offered in two three-week sessions, and will be taught by four MKA teachers: Char Charlton, Director of Computer Programs; Judy Kemlitz, Upper School Science Chairman; Ken Foster, Upper School Math teacher; and Peter Ebling, Middle School English teacher. Three Upper School students will be computer lab assistants.

The Institute will focus on using the computer in the classroom and basic programming. Also scheduled are sessions on how to create educational software and do advanced educational programming.

HI MKA SCORES 6TH IN

NATIONWIDE COMPUTER CONTEST — It is a computer world and the impressive results of MKA's students’ performances in a recent nationwide contest confirm the school’s role In the forefront of computer education. A team of five Upper School students competed against students from two hundred and fifty-seven schools across the country in two contests sponsored by the American Computer Science League in November and December. MKA placed 7th overall and took 3rd place in programming problems, and tied for 5th place in short problems.

In cumulative scores, the Academy took 6th place overall. MKA sophomore Ray Cheung placed 3rd nationwide. Freshman Matthew Rosin, sophomore Victor Lupi, and juniors Elizabeth Ghini and Stephen Hays all placed in the top group of programmers. The team’s coach,Upper School math teacher Ken Foster says, “ I’m really proud of the team and the results speak for themselves.”

Ken also reports that he has just been notified that, on the basis of their overall performance in these computer contests, the school is one of two named as the outstanding schools of the month by Electronics Learning Magazine, and has won a year’s subscription.

N otes troni A round MKA. MKA’ERS TRAVEL FAR AND WIDE

Garden Party Alumni, parents, faculty and students are invited to a garden party on May 2, 1982, at 2:00 p.m. in honor of former Brookside Head­ mistress Francine DeCotiis, who retired in 1981 after a year’s leave of absence.

The party which is being sponsored by MKA’s Par­ ent Association (PAMKA) will be held at the Primary School. Says Anita Tim­

mons, PAMKA President, “ Mrs. DeCotiis felt that gardening activities were an important part of chil­ dren’s educational exper­ ience and therefore, we felt a garden created and dedi­ cated in her honor is appropriate.”

Anyone interested in ser­ ving on the committee should contact Bari Schwartz — 783-6570.

Congressman Courier Joins MKA Board

During Spring break, forty MKA’ers in grades 4 thru 12 will take on the ski trails of Whiteface Mountain,the setting of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, NY. Upper School teach­ ers Nate Fuller and Nancy Hayes, and their spouses, Joyce and Curt, will lead the tour. Novice skiers will benefit from free lessons given by Nate, and MKA seniors Jim Windolf and Tom Robinson. After their full days on the slopes and in the mountain air, the weary athletes will retreat to the Golden Arrow Motor Inn to enjoy the indoor pool with saunas and jacuzzi.as well as cable color TV in their rooms.

Red Square, the Kremlin and the Winter Palace will be visited by another group of MKA students on a 10 day tour of the Soviet Union.

On March 17, thirty-two 7th through 12th graders will

fly from Kennedy Interna­ tional Airport to Helsinki and on to Moscow via the Soviet airline, Aeroflot. Af­ ter a four day stay in the Soviet capital, they will travel to Vladimir, a provincial city east of Moscow and the former seat of the Suzdal principality, an important economic and political center in the 14th century.

The students will then travel by night train to Leningrad, former capital of the Rus­ sian tzars.

Accompanying the travel­ lers will be Middle School Headmaster Sandy Calder and his wife, Nancy, social studies teacher Tony Daur, physical education teacher George Hrab, and parent Jim Marston, who coordin­ ated the tour through his travel agency. In prepara­ tion for the trip, the students have studied Russian and Soviet history, art and ar­ chitecture.

U.S. Congressman Jim Courter '59 has joined MKA's Board of Trustees.

He was appointed last fall to fill the unexpired term of J. Paul McGrath who moved to Washington, D.C. Mr McGrath, a parent of four former MKA students, re­ signed to accept Presi­ dent Reagan’s appoint­ ment to be U.S. Assistant Attorney General (Civil Di­ vision).

As a 1959 graduate of Montclair Academy, Mr. Courter was named “Ath­ lete of the Year,” for his sportsmanship and leader­ ship as captain of both the track and football teams.

He also received the high honor from the faculty who

named him “head boy” of his graduating class for his outstanding character, scholarship and influence on fellow students.

After graduating from the Academy, Mr. Courter at­ tended Colgate University and Duke University Law School. He served two years as a member of the U.S. Peace Corps in Vene­ zuela before entering the law profession. In 1978, he was elected to the U.S. Congress as a Republican Representative from New Jersey’s 13th Congres­ sional District. Re-elected in 1980, he was chosen by his colleagues as presi­ dent of the Republican Sophomore Class. He is the Assistant Regional Whip, and a member of the Armed Services and the Post Office and Civil Service Committees.

The Courter family has strong ties with MKA. Mr. CourteTs brothers, Joseph A. Courter, Jr. ’57 and Don­ ald H. Courter '56 are both Academy graduates, and his father, Joseph A. Cour­ ter is an honorary member of the MKA Board of Trustees.

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COLLEGE AGE PARTY On the afternoon of De­ cember 29, before the an­ nual alumni hockey game, senior class president, Robert Kramer, with other, members of his class and some juniors, entertained college age alumni in front of a blazing fire in the Up­ per School library.

Later in the day, hockey became the focus with MKA alumni when our team, coached by Tony Daur, Middle School social studies teacher, and cap­ tained by Steve Dodd 79

took on their arch rivals, an alumni team from Mont­ clair High School. The game was very close and exciting with a final score of 5-2 for MHS. MHS grad­ uate, Peter Von Hoffman, now an M KA Upper School math teacher, captained the high school’s team.

Following the game, alum­ ni and faculty flocked to the residence of MKA Prin­ cipal Dr. Frances O'Con­ nor, for conversation, pizza and beer.

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A. Post hockey game party for young alumni at Princi­ pal’s residence B. The party attracted a large crowd of col-5 lege age alumni C. Gwen Jones 79 D. Hockey players E. MIKA Cougars vs MHS

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Mlounties F. Coach Tony Daur with Phil Mlolinaro and Eric Wong G. Peter Dodd and David Lucci H. Juniors Mau­ reen Towers and Amy Felber at donut party

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Drusiila Patkin from Australia meets the Allen at the headmaster’s home. Accompanying her is Holly whose family is hosting Drusiila.

HOMECOMING AND REUNIONS Homecoming on October 17 last fall was a great success! The sun shone on a large crowd of stu­ dents and alumni gathered to watch the gam es-all but one of which were won

by MKA. This year our opponent was the Dwight Englewood School.

Girl's field hockey 1-0 Boy’s soccer 1-0 Football 26-0 Girl’s cross-country 45-16 Boy’s cross-country 16-45 Before the football game the classes of ’31 and '56. celebrated their 50th and

25th reunions with,acocktail party and luncheon at the school.

After the football game a balloon was launched from the field and many onlook­ ers were taken up for a ‘run’. Then there was a cocktail party in the middle school dining room which was well attended by alum­ ni, faculty and friends.

This year classes cele­ brating their 10th, 20th, 25th, 40th and 50th reunion will be invited to the lun­ cheon with their spouses.

A. MKA vs Dwight Englewood B. Dr. O’Connor with Reun­ ion Chairman Dawn Geannette Danzig ’78 and husband Howard C. Members of the class of *71 D. “Victory”!

E. Athletic Director Carmen Marnell F. Luncheon G. Girl’s hockey H. Mary Hayes leads girl's cross country to a 45-16 victory I. Guests at luncheon

H O M E C O M IN G October 2,1982

MKA vs Princeton Day School

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Seniors Step Back Four MKA seniors are taking a step backwards in time and spending several hours a week on the Brookside campus as student interns. Betsy Brown volunteers as a teacher’s aide in kinder­ garten, Elizabeth Gibson

FACULTY NOTES Come August the Appa­ lachians should seem like a tried and true friend to Connie Insley, Middle School physical education teacher. Connie is taking a leave of absence, begin­ ning this month, to hike the entire Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine alone. Carrying all her be­ lo n g in g s in her backpack, she will be on the trail from March through August, expecting to work up to 15 miles a day. Sounds hard?

Connie says,“ I can’twait!”

The Middle School wel­ comed David Robinson and Jacqueline Parker this January as part-time Eng­ lish teachers to fill in for Elizabeth Hays who re­ signed due to poor health.

David, who comes to M KA from Burlington, VT, has degrees from both Wesley­ an U. and Yale Divinity School. He has studied at Harvard,holds an| M.Ed. from the U. of Vermont and plans to attend Columbia Teachers College doctoral program next fall. Born in China, David is fluent in Chinese and interested in introducing middle school students to the language.

Jacqueline Parker is a writer with an M.A. in crea­ tive writing from the City University of New York. For the past six years she has taught literature and writing workshops in New York City, Montclair High School

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helps out in the art depart­ ment, Jeff Osofsky works with a small group of first grade readers and Scott Maron’s expertise enhan­ ces the computer program.

“The internship program, initiated this year, has off1 fered some exciting learn-

ing experiences for both the students and the teach­ ers who are involved,” says Brookside Headmistress Anita Cole.

Upper School students earn one credit for partici­ pating in the program which is coordinated by

third grade teacher, Joyce Applequist and Upper School social studies tea­ cher John Rabuse.

The program will be ex­ panded next year to in­ clude juniors as well as seniors.

and the Montclair Cooper­ ative Elementary School.

Her poetry has been pub­ lished in several maga­ zines and she is currently writing a novel for young adults. She also wrote the text and lyrics to Gretel's Dream, a musical adapted from The Brother’s Grimm which was performed in several elementary schools in Essex County.

There will be two major administrative changes at the end of this school year.

ness program and ‘ the eighth grade Williamsburg project, were expanded and strengthened. Dr. O’Connor stated that he will be missed by students and faculty alike. “Sandy has brought warmth, flexi­ bility and creativity to the Middle School and has fostered an atmosphere where children learn and grow happily.” , On March 11,, Beverly Wilkinson gave a solo voice recital with selec-

tions from Mozart, Weber and Barber at the Middle School. Beverly, who was a voice major at Moravian College, teaches music and directs the 7th and 8th grade chorus.

We regret to report the death of Mary Ramsay Hart, former French teach­ er at The Kimberley School.

Mrs. Hart was an author and artist who had painted many portraits of Mont­ clair residents.

Claire Kleinschmit has announced her resigna­ tion as college guidance counsellor effective in September. Claire estab­ lished a college reading room for students to study a varied collection of college catalogs. She was cited as “ the most important woman in our senior year,” by the Class of 1982 who dedicated, their yearbook to her.

Sandy Calder has also announced his resignation after five years as Middle School Headmaster, effec­ tive in June. Sandy has been active in every as­ pect of the school. He taught social studies, parti­ cipated jn field trips and enfcouraged and partid-' pated in sports with stu­ dents. Under his leadership the Middle School science and social studies curri­ cula, including the Know Your Body health and flt-

New Faculty 1981-82

Faculty Development As part of an ongoing faculty education pro­ gram, three education specialists addressed MKA’s faculty this fall and winter.

Dr. Morton Botel, Pro­ fessor of the University of Pennsylvania was on cam­ pus in November and January to work with ad­ ministrators and faculty members on implementa­ tion of the Pennsylvania Comprehensive ReadingLanguage Arts Plan (PCRP) which was intro­ duced to the Academy curriculum last May. This

reading-language arts pro­ gram, which is currently being piloted in selected classrooms on M KA’s mid­ dle and primary campuses, focuses on four critical experiences: responding to literature; sustained si­ lent reading; oral and written composing; and in­ vestigating our language patterns.

In designing the PCRP Dr. Botel was influenced by research which indica­ ted that American schools were doing a better job of teaching the individual skills (“decoding") than in

encouraging youngsters to employ the more com­ plex inferentiajjpthinking skills needed to read tor content. American schools, research showed, primarily taught the patterns of lan­ guage. Botel’s program emphasizes literature, writing and reading for pleasure, as well as for content, to establish a love of reading and simultane­ ously develop competent young writers.

Dr. Donald Graves, a leading authority in the

field of children’s writing, addressed the faculty in January, sharing his find­ ings on how children learn to write. A professor of education at the Univer­ sity of New Hampshire,and director of the Writing Pro­ cess Laboratory, Dr. Graves has done extensive re­ search over the past ten years on the process through which children learn. He emphasizes a process-conference ap­ proach to teaching writing which involves a series of

Exchange Teacher’s View Wayne Warren, our Fulbright exchange teacher from the Haberdashers’ Aske’s School in England, has shared some of his thoughts on his year at MKA. Mr. Warren and his wife Jennie, who teaches kindergarten at the Brookside campus, have already travelled to the west coast and Mexico during school vacations and plan many more trips throughout the year. Mr. Warren is taking courses in Chinese painting at N.Y.U. and in experimental stage design at the Parsons School. A one-man exhibition of his abstract paintings and drawings was held at the Montclair State College Art Gallery during February and March and another exhibition at Gallery 6, 80 Washington Square in New York during June and July.

In the next issue of the Alumni News we hope to print Calvin Matzke’s description of his exchange year at the Haberdashers’ Aske’s School in England.

Wayne Warren hanging his paintings for the faculty art show Calvin Matzke with Bruce McGowan, Headmaster of Haber­ dashers’ Aske School.

MKA and Haberdashers share many characteristics — Both are well situated.

MKA is high on a hill over­ looking the Meadowlands and New York. Haber­ dashers Is in a beautiful private parkland, with its

own water gardens, rhodo­ dendron bushes and lush greenery. Both are pre stij gious independent schools with high academic achieve­ ments-and fine university and college placements.

Despite these similarities,

individual conferences be­ tween the teacher and student during the process of writing. According to Dr. Graves, “teachers should work with each student through a series of drafts, giving guidance appropri­ ate to the stage through which the writer is passing.

Emphasis should be given to the student’s reasons for writing a particular composition.”

The ultimate goals of education was the topic of Dr. Elizabeth Coleman’s

address to the full faculty last fall. Dr. Coleman, Dean of the Undergraduate Divi­ sion of the New School for Social Research, NY, dis­ cussed the fact that edu­ cators often spend too much time in organizing materials into disciplinary study when in reality life and learning are not disci­ pline-oriented. She pre­ sented a broad overview of curricular and educa­ tional goals.

my first impression at MKA was one of mild shock — to start the day at 8:00 instead of 9:00; to eat lunch at 11:19 instead of 1:00; and to be reliant on a wrist watch (school clocks never work on either continent) instead of a bell to start and end lessons.

of continuity although the subject choice is larger in England and the subjects are“builtup” over a number of years, not “speedily dis­ patched” in a year or a trimester.

Discipline differs,, from school to school. Both sides of the Atlantic have a working disciplinary sys­ tem, though perhaps MKA’s is a little more “democratic” and less for­ mal in regard to the pre­ sence of various reviewing committees to which stu­ dents have recourse. An­ other difference is, to me, the sometimes undue em­ phasis at MKA on “the grade” and “the test.”

In my own area — Art — MKA is comparable,other­ wise I wouldn’t be here!

Painting, drawing, sculp­ ture and art history are universal. However, other subjects taught in the M KA Art Department, such as mechanical drawing and architectural drawing, would belong elsewhere at Haberdashers.The main thrust in England is on “artart” — the skills and abili­ ties, the sensibility, the emphasis on personal expression and the vital importance of art in the world and in all of our lives.

From an artist's point of

The next hurdle was the schedule — a masterpiece of confusion, with two dif­ ferent mod lessons jostling for position. Dotted lines, heavy black lines, light black lines (the schedule) seemed to be a mathemati­ cal device designed to improve every MKA stu­ dent’s addition and sub­ traction skills. It works, of course, by common under­ standing, but didn’t the originator know there are only five working days ina week? Still, it does keep one on one’s toes trying to figure out what day belongs to what day. (ed.note: M KA classes are scheduled on a 6 day cycle, to permit more courses to be offered and more flexibility.) The big advantage of the MKA schedule is the frequency with which students are seen. In England, I see most students onceaweek, here five days out of six. 1t is a better system in terms

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view, Haberdashers’ Aske and Montclair* Kimberley share another magnificent similarity: the immense opportunities, in London and New York respectively, to see first rate art of various cultures — both living and

dead.

My salient impression of MKA is of a fine, friendly school, a lively and healthy place. My year here is a rare opportunity to live and work in a vital, enriching environment.

Judy Allen is the new co­ ordinator of alumni activi­ ties. She comes to MKA from Rome, Italy, where she and her husband, Phil/ (Headmaster of the Upper School) lived for fourteen years. Judy accepted the alumni post in September and immediately plunged into organizing MKA’s biggest and best Home­ coming.

Originally from Ireland, Judy is multilingual. While in Rome, she worked as a freelance researcher and translator for television and publications. (She also became something of aTV star just before moving to

the U.S., winning week after week in an Italian TV quiz show.)

The Allen’s two children, Meg, 13, and David, 10, are students at the Middle School**-» Says Development Direc­ tor Carol Carpenter, “We are absolutely delighted to have Judy handling alumni activities, and know MKA’s alumni will enjoy working with her on all kinds of projects for MKA. Even in putting out her first Alumni Magazine, she’s kept her sense of fun and her enthusiasm. We hope that you’ll drop in, get to know Judy, and learn how you can take part in MKA’s alumni activities.”

Judy, who works part time, can be found in the Alumni Office (The Kimberley Campus) all,day Tuesday and Wednesday and Thurs­ day in the morning - 7469800, ext. 240.

NEW LIBRARY To enhance MKA’s new focus on reading this year, Brookside opened a new library. For many years the lower campus’ collection of children’s literaturewas in the individual class­ rooms. “The creation of a separateBibrary places more focus on reading,” explained Headmistress Anita Cole, “as well as pro­ viding an attractive retreat.”

The library houses a growing collection of chij-

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dren’s literature as well as the primary school’s audio­ visual equipment and an Apple computer.AII class­ es visit the facility at least once a week on a regular basis. Librarian Nancy Gib­ son, librarian assistant Leigh Smith, and parent volun­ teers offer a full range of programs including oral and silent reading, story­ telling, films and film strips.

The new room also houses a cable TV hook up enab­ ling the viewing of educa­

NEW DRAMA LAB The opening of the Deetjen Drama Laboratory on the Upper School campus has brought a new dimen­ sion to M KA’s theater arts program this year. Origi­ nally a science lecture hall donated by the late Ru­ dolph H. Deetjen ’15, the laboratory theater seats approximately 100 people in tiers.

“The lab is designed for flexibility and provides an ideal setting for all styles of performances,” says Drama Director Marilyn Faden. It is used for all acting, stagecraft, and public speaking classes, as well asforsmall produc­ tions and an advanced

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acting workshop. English classes use the new facility during their study of drama.

Last fall, professional directorTom Bullard, brother of English teacher Bill Bul­ lard, lectured to freshman and sophomore English classes on techniques he used in directing a produc­ tion of Henry IV. The construction of the Deetjen Drama Lab marks another step in MKA’s ex­ pansion of its Drama department. Michael Berg­ man joined the Upper School staff in September as a drama and speech teacher and technical supervisor for major productions.

Students perform a scene from Cyranno de Bergerac In the new Deetjen Drama Lab as other members of their English class look on.

tional programs.

Beginning in the third grade, Brooksiders are taught how to use the li­ brary and are encouraged to develop good library

and study skills.

The creation and renova­ tion of the new library was made possible by a grant from PAMKA to the school’s capital campaign.

C lass N ew s TKS Emma Dickson Carswell writes “A bit older than last year but still able to “paddle my own canoe.” I have a small apartment overlooking my son Jim’s swimming pool. For the safety of other people I do not drive anymore, which I do miss! I still play bridge when I can find 3 others, not easy when one lives 8 miles from town. Stop to see me if you come to Virginia.”

TKS Mrs. George O. Bailey, (Dorothy Cert) Old Point Road Quoque, NY 11959 Dorothy Cerf Bailey writes from Quo­ que that she expects to go to Alaska and the Klondike this summer and perhaps to Italy in the spring.

TKS Mrs. Charles W. Williams (Geraldine McBrier) 1717 Gulf Shore Blvd. #404 Naples, FL 33940

TKS Mrs. Samuel Meek, 88 Doubling Road Greenwich, CT 06832 The class sends its sympathy to Pris­ cilla Mitchell Meek whose husband died on August 15,1981, after a long illness. Priscilla writes that she was able to go to England in October to visit her daughter for a month and to attend the North Atlantic Treaty meet­ ings as a delegate, a responsibility which had always been her husband’s.

MA Edward T. Seymour writes that he sailed to the Rose Bowl on November 30th via the Panama Canal on the Royal Viking Line “SKY.”

TKS Elizabeth Thorne Staudinger writes, "One of the few remaining and it’s hard to find the others. My daughte(C,Elizabeth (Betty) M. Staudinger ’42 lives

with me at 77 Orange Road, Montclair, and works at Hahne and Co. Anne Staudinger Abels '47, has five children, and lives in Wheaton, ILwith husband B ill.”

TKS K. Kent Marsh writes that she and her husband, Chauncey '23, are living in Essex, Conn., and enjoying the oppor­ tunities for fishing and boating. “We have a cottage on the ocean in R.l. which is only an hour away. Each year we have travelled, especially to Mexico where Chaunce catches marlin.” Her two sons, Vance Kent and David Kent live in San Francisco and Colorado Springs.

TKS Margaret Moir writes from her new home in West Orange that this is her first move since 1903!

MA William C. Reed writes “ If there are any other survivors of our small class it would be good to hearfrom them, lam still active in tennis and golf e live on a golf co urse-an d other sports with friends and our large athletic family.

Best fortune to MKA!

MA George Beach writes that he and Mary recently hosted Edna Lee Gil­ christ ‘22 and her husband Joseph, as wel I as Barkie Penick '21 and Evie Van Wle Penick '36 down at their farm in VirginiaforaMontclair-in-Virginia week­ end. They were disappointed that ill­ ness prevented Alice Vezin Chatellier ’23 from attending.

We would also like to extend our deepest sym pathy to Howard Van Vleck Sr. whose wife Betsy Tomlinson Van Vleck '27 died December 9,1981 after a long illness.

We regret to report the death at hiis' country home in Culver Lake, NJ of your class secretary, Dolson W. RauscheriRe is survived by a daughter Mrs. Jane Elliott andlyhis son Walter ’50. Mr. Rauscher donated an annual mathe­ matics prize to M KA and was one of the men who organized and set up the MA Foundation to purchase the school from Dr. Walter Head. He then served as a member of the Adacemy’s first Board of Trustees.

TKS Dorothy White Sogie writes. “Of our eight grandchildren, two girls are now married. One, a Dartmouth graduate, received her MBA from Dukewhile her husband got his lawdegreethere. Her sister is currently at Boston U. Law School. Our only son’s daughter, Mary Washington, was married in June, The couple now live in Winston-Salem, NC where she continues as a lab assistant in medical research. All other‘grands' pursue interesting careers or are still students.

Jim and I are‘stay-at-homes’this year - a real change after so many years of travel in foreign lands and our own U.SA” Alice Vezin Chatellier writes from Maine,“ Each summer I lookforwardto seeing Evelyn Chard Kelly '16 and Tyler and Nancy Holton Bartow ’31. I drove down to Montclair in June with my Maine granddaughter, Margaret, for the wedding of granddaughter Eve Chatellier ’74 to Scott Purvis ’71. I also met my great granddaughter Eliza­ beth. Grandson Jonathan and wife Stephanie are proud parents.”

TKS Mrs. Philip B. Taylor (Helen Patrick) 80 Norwood Avenue Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Marion Jayne Berguido writes that her youngest daughter Jill has a new son. Edith Keys Stoney was about to visit herforthe weekend. Edith did not go to Africa last summer. Polly Richard­ son Evans is loving her new abode in Maine and comes down every so often to visit in Montclair. Dottie Monroe Dill and Bill went to Europe again for their yearly summer vacation.

Yours truly spent Thanksgiving in Little Compton, R.l. with our whole family, which included my granddaughter Pamela Taylor ’72 and my daughter Janet Patrick Taylor Dill ’54. A happy time was spent by all.

Elizabeth Evans Baker writes that she is back in Essex Fells after living in N.Y., Cambridge, Mass., and Athens, Ohio, where her husband was Presi­ dent of Ohio University for 17 years.

“We summer in Chatham, Mass, where I have been active in the Monomoy Theater for 25 years. Have three very satisfactory daughters. My husband and I in our old age devote ourifine to furthering the cause of Peace, ending

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the arms race and stopping the nuc­ lear industry which could destroy us all.”

TKS Mrs. H. Kimball Halligan, (Helen Raymond) 55 North Mountain Avenue Montclair, NJ 07042 Our deepest sympathy to the fami ly of Emma DeLuca who passed away last summer.

Marietta Ewald Cook reports that son Bill, designed the N.Y. 36 for the N.Y. Yacht Club last fall.

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MA Howard Kimball Halligan lives in Dorset, VT. Retired since 1976, he sees Dick Overton '25 and Gus Wiedemeyer ’25 who live nearby, and also Thurston Greene'25,who lives in Millbrook, N.Y. Alden W. Smith writes, “ Preparations for another New Hampshire winter now occupy most of our time and energy.

Our animal population stands at 13 cats and 1 dog, so we will at least have company when the snow flies and the great white cold walks abroad. Have shed the last of my civic “honors” as Selectman and Planning Board mem­ ber, so the nightly flood of complaining, suggesting,arguing,and even threaten­ ing phone calls has been reduced to a trickle and I look forward to more lei­ surely activities.”

Homer G. Whitmore has sent some fascinating memorabilia including a photograph of the Montclair Academy Dramatic Club. “After graduation I worked in various businesses, includ­ ing Hotel Seneca Corp. in Rochester, N.Y. I graduated from Syracuse U. in 1931 with a B.S. and worked as an insurance agent and broker until 1940.

During WWIII served as an army officer overseas in India and Burma and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for serving with Gen. Stillwell’s Chinese troups. Back to Florida in 1945 I was relieved from active service, and then returned to insurance. I was widowed in 1973, remarried and in 1981 was divorced. Now I live with my daughter in Syracuse, N.Y.”

TKS Mrs. Paul Macdonald, (Louise Russell) ‘V > 44p \H ojlo)ivH r^T nd ^, R oad' DariefhCT 0&820

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We are sad to report the death of Betty Tomlinson Van Vleck on Decem­ ber 9, 1981. The class extends sym­ pathy to her husband and children.

Gretchen Eshbaugh Engle became a great grandmother in July 1981. She says she has adjusted to everything but son David’s being a grandfather!

Gretch attended an exhibit of Royal Bed Linens in Hanover, N.H.this sum­ mer. The beautiful lace-trimmed sheets, pi Ilowcases,etc., co mp Iete with c rests, were the property of Princess Anastasia of Greece, aunt of the late Nancy Green Bertram. The display was timed to coincide with the British Royal wedding, since Prince Philip of Edinburgh was a nephew-in-law of Princess Anastasia.

Louise, “Chip,” Stauffen Barnard and Frank sold their lovely “ Lookout Farm” outside of Woodstock, Vt., and have moved into town while making plans to build. Chip wonders a bit about “urban life” after so many years of miles and miles of privacy.

Barbara Barker Sprouse, in spite of health problems, continues her Garden Club activities. Lastsummershe judged a show in Seattle, attended another in Tacoma and was the stage manager of her own Portland, Oregon Garden Club Show.

I don’t have time to write asking for news as I’m in the throes of house­ hunting, but if you enjoy hearing about classmates as much as I do, please let me know what’s going on in your lives MA Mr. Eugene Speni 85 Undercliff Road Montclair, NJ 07042

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TKS Our deepest sympathy to the family of Muriel Cebern Lowell Lee who died June 3,1981.

MA Alfred F. W. Stapf Century House North Doylestown, PA 18901 Alex “Fritz” Hehmeyer retired from his law practice in 1975 but has re­ mained counsel to a Chicago law firm.

He and his wife, Sheila, live in the city within walking distance to the office.

They have two daughters, one son and three grandchildren. They spend sum­ mers in Westport, CT. Alex has fond memories of MA and his NJ boyhood “All was so much simpler and, in many ways, I believe, betterthen - at least for us.”

Joseph Ward “Dorie” Doremus is now living permanently in Towaco. He

is married and has six children, nine grandchildren and one great grand­ child. He is semi-retired from farming but still raises a few pigeons.

Thurston Newell fully retired from his business five years ago and has been living in northern Westchester County ever since. He doesn’t feel it has been that long since graduation 53 years ago!

Dorrance Sexton writes that he and his wife Marjorie McCoomb Sexton ’29 enjoy living in rural northwest Con­ necticut playing golf and serving on a number of charitable boards. They have two lawyer sons who, between them, have produced seven grand­ children.

Al Sloan writes, “ I am retired from the motion picture theater business and am now director of The Vernon Oakes Society, an organization to honor the memory of the man who started our Washington Emergency Squad in this part of N ew J ersey. I was mayor of the town when the emergency squad was started 45 years ago.

Since receiving Al S tapf’s notes his wife, Doris, has given us the very sad news of his death on December 31 while they were on vacation in H aw a i'||, Al was one of Montclair Academy’s most devoted alumni and each year has given a commencement prize for the student who conquered a physical dis­ ability to excel in sports. His family has asked that memorial contributions should be sent to Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL. or Montclair Kimberley Academy.

Our deepest sympathy also, to Henry Fernald whose beloved wife, Dorothy, died suddenly last October.

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TKS Miss Charlotte H. Fitch Box 45, 24 Cape Bial Lane Westport Point, MA 02791 In this column your secretary will try to meld the infomation she failed to get into the Fall '81 edition with'information more recently received.

Early this fall Doris Blondel Krebs and her three daughters, Doris Krebs Barnard ’54, Joan Krebs Neuhoff ’57 and Catherine Krebs Suitar ’60, went to the Island of Guernsey, where her father’s family came from, to visit a cousin with whom Doris had corres­ ponded for years. They all fell in love with the island and look forward to another visit some springtime. She also sent the family picture you see here

which was taken when they had a family reunion in Bermuda.

TKS ’29 Doris Blondel Krebs’ family: Reunion in Bermuda Maisie Fobes Williams and her hus­ band, Newton, keep very busy with their archeological findings. The mam­ moth she discovered has been identi­ fied as a thirty-five (approx.) year old female “Mamuthus Columbi,” probably dating back to a million and a half years ago. Maisie is very busy cata­ loging the collection.

More up-to-date interests are her three granddaughters, two of whom grad­ uated last June from high school and one from college.

Jane Foster Lapham has another grandson, born January 1981. She has been busy since last spring helping her roses recuperate from last winter’s severe weather. She had to plant numerous replacements.

Ginny Hamilton Adair is a confirmed “canauler” . She spent part of her va­ cation last summer on her third, or is it fourth, trip on England’s canals. She enjoys her cabin in Wrightwood, CA., 6,000 ft. elev., and her grandchildren ranging in age from 1Vèto 10years. She and her daughter and two daughtersin-law are planning a winter trip to Mexico City and beaches.

Ethel Kellinger Woodruff writes that she and her husband have visited in Maine and Vermont, had summer vis­ itors on the Cape and spent Christmas with their daughter in Houston. Ethel also told me of the death of her longtime friend, Antoinette Hubbard Loudon, whom those of you who date back to the earlier years of our class will remember.

Harriet Laffey Files has a new address; 310 Forsythe, Apt. B., Monroe, LA 71201.

She writes very sprightly return postals and sends greetings but insists she has no news.

Marge McComb Sexton and her hus­ band celebrated their forty-fifth wed­ ding anniversary this year. They have two lawyer sons, “two marvellous daughters-in-law” and seven grands.

She continues with volunteer work, travel, needlepoint and weeding.

Kit Meeks also has a new address.

She is subletting her apartment in Coronado, CA where she still plans to

spend the summer months, and is living in Palm Desert, CA 92261, P.O. Box 2662. Tel. (714)345-2308. She would love to see any of us who happen to get out that way. This fall she is visiting cousins all over Florida and finishing her travels with a visit in Woodbridge, VA. Do Minsch Hudson and Jim visited the USSR this fall with five days each in Moscowand Leningrad. Theywenton to Switzerland for five days, then to Italy - Florence and R om e-for nearly two weeks. Labor Day they attended oldest grandson’s wedding in Wash­ ington, D.C. Do’s son, Nelson Bond, Jr., has a daughter who is a senior at Lehigh and a second son who is a junior there, and his twin daughters entered Hood this fall. Her daughter Nancy’s youngest child is a junior at Cornell. The Hudsons went to their home in Florida December 1st.

Jeanne Price Goodlatte ’29 Jeanne Price Goodlatte is full of news, the chief item being her retirement in October, after 29 years as an East Longmeadow, MA reporter. When she wrote, she was planning to go to an awards dinner at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where her granddaughter (Dick’s oldest child) was to receive a scholarship award from In Flight Food Service Assn, for a “quality job” at the university and in the food service industry. Last summer Ginny was in charge of all restaurants at the American Air Lines Terminal at Kennedy Airport. Perhaps she is the modern version of “The Duchess of Duke Street”? Jeanne has a new grandchild, her sixth.

You may have seen in the class notes of ’24 in the last issue of M KA news the notice of the death of Helen Raynor Hannah, our Louise Raynor’s sister. I’m sure we all wish to send our belated sympathy to her. “ No news” cards came from Connie Parkhurst Chauncey and Ruth Kilgore Murray who send their greetings.

Your secretary returned October 26 from a wonderful but all too brief eight­ een-day trip in The People’s Republic

of China. At the time of writing this report I am still suffering from cultural reentry but have found the heavy storm damage, (power now restored so that this can get typed), an aid to bridging the gap. I loved every minute of my visit in China and found it an expanding and rewarding venture. Many thanks to you all foryour responses. Dropme a line any time something occurs and I’ll save it for the next issue.

MA Robert S. Dorrill 42 Godfrey Road Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 The following responses were re­ ceived from my questionnaire: Henry Perot says he is married and retired with three children and four grand­ children. He likes to swim and watches baseball. He is on the Board of a hospi­ tal and says he has been around the world and then much more.

Clem Eddy is a doctor now working part time. He is married, has two children and two grandchildren. He likes to bowl and watches baseball and football as well as playing the piano and collecting stamps. Clem has travelled west to Hawaii and East through Europe.

Bill Kohling lives way out west in the State of Washington. He is still working, married with two children and two grandchildren. He plays golf and watches footbalI. BIII has been to most of Europe, South America and Japan.

Ted Holmes is married with three children and three grandchildren. He is working, even though officially retired, (Professor Emeritus, U.of Maine), teach­ ing the History of Civilization. He has travelled to Mexico, Scotland, Berlin, Paris, Montreal and OH OH Las Vegas!

As for your secretary I am working part time as a salesman. Married with two children and five grandchildren. I love to fish and watch baseball and football. We spend the month of Febru­ ary in Florida and most of the summer at our home on the Jersey shore. Re­ gards to one and all.

TKS Mrs. Paul Christner, Jr..

(Esma Currier) 31 Aubery Road Upper Montclair, NJ 07043

TKS Mrs. Tyler M. Bartow (Nancy Holton) 88 Forest Way Essex Fells, NJ 07021

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We had our 50th Reunion this past October with eleven of our class atten­ ding. Everyone seemed to enjoy seeing each other — in fact were ridiculously pleased — grey hair,aging figures not­ withstanding. The school treated us to a delightful sherry hour and luncheon and we were introduced to the Principal and given an up-to-date account of the curriculum,achievements and goals. It is an impressive picture.

Class of 31 By this time all of you should have received my account of the occasion plus excerpts from letters I have re­ ceived and an address list for all 31-ers I could find. Jesse Taylor Drew and Virginia Taylor Wagner came all the way from Florida as did Dell Halsey Bell.

Please keep me posted on your coming-goings and grandchildren.

Alden P. Walther and Wayne Du Mont ’31 MA Heartfelt sympathies to Virginia C. Shand and her family on the death of her husband Kenneth Rae Shand, Jr., who died at Mountainside Hospital, Montclair November 15,1981.

TKS Mrs. Arthur Van Brunt (Mary Harrsen) 14 Oldchester Road Essex Fells, NJ 07021

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ALUMNI PROFILE: FRANCES HARDY FEEZER ’32

Frances Hardy Feezer was saluted recently in Carlsbad, NM.whereshe and her attorney husband, Charles, have been living for 31 years, and where she has earned a reputation as one of their top gourmet cooks.

Cooking is a serious art to Frances and recently she went to Paris to attend the La Varenne Cooking School, which was founded by Julia Childs and some associates. Julia Childs is not a stran­ ger to Frances for they attended Smith College at the same time. One of the most important lessons she learned at La Varenne was the importance the French place on using the best and freshest ingredients possible. While Frances enjoys French cuisine and international recipes of many sorts, her first love Is American food. She particu­ larly likes the foods of the Southwest,

I have heard from the following girls who are all planning to return to our 50th Reunion luncheon at the school on October 2nd: Mary Turnbull Barfield, Anita Schwarz Beamon, Nancy Audette Evans, Margaret Doody, Fran Hardy Feezer, Lucy Fields Haskins, Mary Agnes Church Kidd, Joan Williams Van Dolen, and of course myself. I hope many more of you will plan to be with us, of course our husbands are invited, too.

MA «j / t f James A. Rogers, M.D. ^ tr* P.O. B ox/ 05, i Normanqy Beach, NJ 08739 John (4). Newberry writes that he is living up in Stowe, VT where he is a Trustee of Stowe Community Church and Treasurer of Historic Stowe Inc. Tom Braine wants to know what the class is doing about our 50th Reunion.

He will try to come from Southern Pines, N.C.

and has shared with us her recipe for: Green Chili and Cheese Pie 1Vi cups shredded Jack cheese 1 cup shredded milk Cheddar cheese 4 ounces green chili, seeded, skinned, and chopped 1 cup half-and-half (milk and cream) 3 eggs, slightly beaten Vs teaspoon ground cumin Pie crust as follows: Finely cut 6 table­ spoons butter into 1% cups unsifted flour until particles are the size of small peas. Mix in Vi teaspoon salt and 1 slightly beaten egg yolk. Stir with fork until dough holds together.

Shape Into ball, roll out and fit into a 9 or 10 inch pie pan. Flute rim, prick gen­ erously and bake in a 400°F oven for 12 minutes.

Sprinkle all of the Jack cheese and half of the Cheddar over the bottom of crust. Distribute chilies over cheeses.

Beat half-and-half with eggs and cumin.

Pour into the pie shell-sprinkle with remaining cheese.

Bake in 325° oven for 40 minutes or until center of pie is set, shake gently to test. Let stand 15 minutes before cutting.

Serve hot or cold.

Frances also enjoys playing bridge and is a very proficient weaver. She has covered many of the sliding doors throughout their home with her original weavings. She is also active in the local community where she helped form the local League of Women Voters and was Chairman of the Red Cross.

Since Frances plans to come to Homecoming on October 2nd we may elicit other recipes from her then.

MA William J. Thompson, Jr. 415 Claremont Avenue #2E Montclair, NJ 07042 I was delighted with the avalanche of mail compared to previous years! Dick Colman writes, “Am retired from Middlebury College where I spent 9 years as Director of Athletics. Keep busy work­ ing on a variety of volunteer projects — of prime importance right now is the drive to get a resolution on the ballots in 100 Vermont towns favoring — indeed calling for — a Mutual Freeze US/USSR on further development and deploy­ ment of nuclear weapons. Participated in ‘A Walk from Washington, VT to Moscow, VT’ to dramatize the call for a Freeze.

Had open heart surgery in 1974 and have to slow down a bit, but am feeling great. Had to give up skiing and head forthesun inthewinters. Thisyearwill be on Anna Maria Key. We have two children and one grand­ daughter living in Vermont which is great for the old man. Shep and I are Quakers and into a lot of friends’ p ro H ects.

Hear from Len Beardsley every Christmas.”

Fred Stickel writes “Still practicing law and have no thought of retirement.

Am the father of 7 children and 11 grandchildren and am able to handle them all! Have been in touch with Hank Doremus over the years. Last July we went to Baffin Island fishing and had a ball. Hank still in excellent condition.”

Hank Doremus tells me that Fred is a member of the Masters Swim Team in Roseland and swims a mile each ses­ sion several times a week. He has competed nationally and won many honors. Congratulations Fred!

Hank Doremus writes “ Migrated to Vermont in 1960 where I built and operated an animal hospital, then to the College of Medicine at the U. of Vermont as a member of the faculty and Director of the Animal Research Facility. Retired this past year and am now devoting my time as volunteer veterinarian to Humane Societies. My wife is also a veterinarian and practices along with me. We have two sons, one a lawyer in Vermont, the other in busi­ ness in Boston.”

Dave Stanley — “What’s new with me is that I have a new grandchild, born August 5. This is grandchild number 6. My wife and I travelled to Holland and Belgium in October, meeting Helen’s cousins in Holland and getting to know their way of life. I do volunteer work on public administration and criminal justice, play tennis, cut fire­ wood, and work on a committee at church.”

Your secretary has recently retired from the Jaymar Speciality Co. Inc., in Brooklyn, N.Y., where I have been em­ ployed for the past 8 years, following a 35 year stint with the Louis Marx Com­ pany, both in the toy manufacturing, field. The two hour commute each way' finally got to be too much for me. Am now looking around for something closer to home. Have-one daughter who lives nearby, who by pure coinci­ dence also works fo ra toy company!”

TKS Mrs. David Haviland, (Barbara Spadone) 185 Gates Avenue Montclair, NJ 07042 Margery Atwater Crane had her usual delightful New Year’s Day luncheon party at their farrrrin Stockton, NJ. It proved to be quite a class reunion I saw, Catherine Halsey Hutson, Eliza­ beth O’Gormon Dixon, Elizabeth Gracy Kenny, Jean Berry Walton and we had a wonderful time.

Betty Dixon and Bill went to Ireland and Scotland last spring, “We loved both countries.” Betty’s oldest son, Willard Dixon will be represented in a two-man show at the Fischbach Gallery on W. 57th Street in June. Willard lives in California and paints large realistic landscapes.

Our big news was the marriage of daughter Cathy Haviland 75, to William Emott, which took placeatoursummer home in the Thousand Islands, July 4, 1981.

MA From Marston Ames this note: “Am still alive and well and living in that best of NJ cities, Jersey City!”

Our heartfelt sympathy to Hugo De Luca on the death of his sister Emma De Luca ’25, August 17,1981 Howard Reid writes, “ Never got back to NJ after the war except for visits to Princeton where I went along with my roommate from MA, Charles W. Davies, who now luxuriates somewhere on the West Coast. I just got back from 3 months in Europe attending my son’s marriage to an Earl's daughter outside London. Quite an experience. Am now retired and spend time between Boca Raton, FL, Westchester and Martha’s Vineyard. Can’t ever seem to get back to MA on alumni day though each year I plan to, getting old and lazy, I guess.

Maybe I ought to move back and start over, wouldn’t mind a bit duplicating the same mistakes!”

MA Edward R. Miller has recently retired from his practice as a'Doctorof Osteo­ pathic medicine, and is living in Briertown, NJ. He has two sons, and two grandchildren.

36— TKS Mrs. W. Kent Schmid, (Josephine Murray) Mason’s Island Mystic, CT 06355 No news from the class of ’36 this time around but a friend in the Montclair area sent in these wonderful photographs of Olive Cawley Watson and her husband Tom.

December 15,1981 TKS ’36 Olive Cawley Watson and husband Tom Watson, Jr. MA Mr. W. Kent Schmid, Mason's Island Mystic, Ct 06355

TKS Mrs. Stewart Carpenter (Josephine Fobes) 4 LaSalle Road Upper Montclair, NJ 07043

TKS Ruth Russell Gray, (RuthjRussell) l 5 1 / dentrah Avenue> w fa in f\eld,NJJX7QfFif

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Word from far and wide: Camie Hyer Van Sant writes from Edmond, OK, that she loves to wake up in the morning and see cattle and horses instead of automobiles and highways. She is presently at work, after a year of retire­ ment, as a nurse in the operating room of the local hospital. In her spare time she keeps up with her four children and seven grandchildren, but her immediate source of comfort is three sheltie dogs who take center stage on her Christmas card.

Peggy Klotz Young is still pursuing her interest in French and France. She went to France last September with her French group even though she had broken her wrist three days before the trip. Despite her disability, she had a wonderful time. She and her retired husband Bill '28, spent some time in Seattle chaperoning his 103 year old aunt. They were accompanied by Sally Young Shertzer. Peg's son, John Sacret Young, published his first novel The Weather Tomorrow, (Random House) in January, 1982. Let’s support our classmate and make some purchases!

Peg is kept hopping by keeping up with seven wonderful grandchildren.

TKS ’37 Teppy, Jean Noyes, Tibbis, and Miss Callie - June 1981 Jean Hamlin Noyes reports she has taken a full time job with the American Red Cross as Director of Blood Ser­ vices and Public Relations. She is very happy and enjoys what she is doing and remembers the days she spent in England as a Staff Assistant forthe Red Cross during the war. Jean plans to spend Easter with her son, Worth Noyes 73, who is a minister in northern Massachusetts.

Dee Vondermuhl Young writes from Homewood, Alabama. Her daughter Anne lives nearby with her two children.

Dee spent Thanksgiving with the whole clan. Sheseesherson Rumsey.apilot for American Airlines, whenever he comes into Birmingham. Rumsey has two children. Dee spends time working as a volunteer at a halfway house for recovering alcoholic women. She finds it very rewarding even though some­ times frustrating and exasperating. She

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has a “cute disaster area” which she calls home, plus a dog and oodles of good friends in the South, but she does miss all of us up here in the North.

TKS ’38 Mary Ames Poor, Mallets Bay, VT

TKS ’37 Barbara Vondermuhl Barbara Vondermuhl writes that she still continues to enjoy living in Florida, playing tennis night and day practically all year long. She enjoys her commu­ nications through the mails and tele­ phone with her son and daughter who live “up North.” One of these days she will surprise us all and make a trip to NJ. We look forward to that, Barbara.

We haven’t heard the latest from her! but we do know that Ruthie Duff Eager and her husband had a marvellous trip last spring to the West Coast and Hawaii.

Ruth wrote, “Imagine being surrounded with orchids, pineapples, macadamia nuts and rum!” Ruthie was Chairman of the Hospitality Shop at Mountainside Hospital, and is now serving a threeyear term as Trustee with the Montclair Ambulance Unit. More power to you, Ruthie.

As for yours truly, Ruth Russell Gray, “I have decided to sell my office building of 15 years and at the time of writing this am busy cleaning out files, selling furniture, and getting rid of 15 years of accumulation before moving my office to a simpler arrangement in the nearby townofWatchung. I am looking forward to the closing on my property so I can take off for the sunny climes of Florida!”

Mary Ames Poor writes that Malletts Bay, Vt., has been the scene of a family reunion for Mary and Henry with their five children for the past 3 years — a Christmas present to the children. Lucia is a practicing psychologist in NYC, Curt, his wife and two little boys are in Franklin, VA, Bill in New Hampshire, Betsy, husband and little boy in So. Dakota, and Martha, the youngest, is in San Mateo, CA. Priscilla Bennet Ritter reports that she has retired from her work at Moun­ tainside Hospital and moved to Mendham, NJ , (ah, Paradise, where strangers smile and say “ Hello”). I enjoy the club­ house Jacuzzi which unaches aching bones, and heals bruises. Last sum­ mer I languished by the pool, grew fingernails and unjangled jangled nerves. Son Ben exceeded a million dol lar sales goal i n real estate. He has two delightful small daughters. Daugh­ ter Lynn and husband Dan have a busy Animal Hospital and a booming winery. Dan has won 8 medals for his wine and their house has been featured in many newpapers and magazines.

Son Shelly lives in California and loves the West Coast.

Holly Mitchell Kimball: Now living in Winter Park, Florida. Both of her child­ ren, Carla and Jonathan, are married and living in the same area. Holly had a nice visit with Ann McNair Bushnell when Ann moved down there in retire­ ment. Holly and husband Ed took a wonderful cruise to Alaska last summer.

As Holly says, “We saw geography in the making — great chunks of ice falling into the sea as the glaciers recede.”

Thanks to all of you who have sent news and pictures. Keep it up! I’m still

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commuting to NYC to the Lutheran Church headquarters where I am a Records Manager. Between that and taking care of a house and garden and one small poodle, Cricket, I manage to keep busy, but 1 do entertain and go out to dinner on occasion!

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TKS Mrs. Charles V. Cross (Barbara Armstrong) 108 Sunset Avenue Verona, NJ 07044 Nancy Taylor Craw has moved to 130 Squan Beach Dr., Mantoloking, NJ 08735. She and Nancy Schoonmaker Heidt get together occasionally. Nancy (Craw) is still putting together an exotic bird exhibit and is writing a Health Food Cookbook. She has just taken up skiing so now rents her house in Vero Beach and heads for the cold regions in the winter! She has 5 grand­ children.

Nancy Schoonmaker Heidt and Bob took an interesting trip to Portugal, Spain and.Morocco. With the Middle East crisis, they saw armed soldiers everywhere! Their daughter, Darcy, was married in early December.

Jo Watt Clark expected grandchildren 8 and 9 in November and January.

Frances Johnson Ames had a wonder­ ful vacation in May with Helen Jones Gordon '42 in Am sterdam -a canal barge trip through the tulips, Vienna down the Danube on the hydrofoil to Budapest-back to Holland and Bel­ gium. Frannie is now written up in the “Who’s Who” of Industry and Finance.

Helen Keenan Thatcher’s husband Albert, is recovering from a stroke. He was able to join his family for Christmas, then was continuing therapy.

Selina Hird Taylor and Lou ’37 report that son, Douglas, was married to Elea­ nor Watts on April 11th. On May 25th, John and Nanci presented them with their first grandchild, Joan Ainswroth.

Daughter Martha, a real feministflfe working toward her MBA at the U. of Rochester. Selina and Martha traveled to Florida, Mississippi, and other points south in the spring, then Selina and Lou visited Austria in June.

Betty Burnham Hinckley has a second granddaughter, Lisa, born November 17. Son Carter will finish Harvard Bus­ iness School this spring. All spent the holidays in Chicago with the grand­ children.

This fall, Marilyn Gates Crandell and George traveled for 6 weeks by car, trailer and ferry to Alaska, the Yukon, British Columbia, Glacier National Park, Colorado, then home, with snow cover­ ing someof the trails behind them. Mari­ lyn volunteers in the UCLA Cultural History Museum Satellite Project and finds painting in watercolors an on­ going challenge. Her mother is well and still living across the patio from them.

Joan Bayne Williams is getting a Mas­ ter’s in Humanities. Her husband, Bud, had a gigantic heart attack in June and retired from DuPont end of ’81. Be sure to visit them in Maine in the sum­ mer, J u ne to October, and Palos Verdes the rest of the year. Joan met Connie Nagel Messinger ’42 at her painting class.

MA Frederick Little writes, “Our oldest daughter, Linda, became Mrs. H. Glenn Russell on July 12, 1980. Linda is a spec. ed. teacher in Asheville, NC, and Glenn, a native of Asheville, is a CPA with Axona Corp. there. Our youngest daughter, June, is a long distance de­ partment manager with the telephone company in Dqllas.TX. Jeanne and I have been married over 30 years and are taking a cruise on Royal Viking Line “Sky” abound New Zealand, Jan. 13-Feb. 10. In June we shall reopen our gift shop in Londonderry, VT, east of the Magic Mountain ski area. This will be our 32nd season.

Class of ’41 Our Kimberley class celebrated our 40th reunion with the return of 10 of us for a great evening in October at the Breens and our homes. We are only sorry everyone couldn't be with us.”

Our deepest sympathy to Enid Gris­ wold Hyde whose mother died on December 26,1981.

MA Richard T. Sanborn is practicing Orthodontics in South Orange. He also navigates ocean yacht races and swims a mile a day.

Charley Ebers wanted to make it to the Reunion but had recently moved to Puerto Rico where he is working with a steamship company. Previously he had spent 20 years in public education, retiring to his original field of marine engineering. He enjoys the climate of Puerto Rico, lives two blocks from the beach and two miles* from the docks which he finds hard to beat!

42— Anne Thompson Knapp reports: I en­ joyed our 40th Reunion tremendously — the first for me in 40 years, and give thanks and praise to Kit Eavenson Sanders and Hedy Hanau Breen who knocked themselves out supplying food, drink, entertainment and beds.

Raced off shortly thereafter for two weeks in Egypt sailing up the Nile with youngest daughter, Caroline. Of our four children the older two are in Ver­ mont, the younger two in California, none married and no grandchildren as yet.

Kit Eavenson Sanders reports “Chuck and I were rewarded with grandchild number 6 November 1, when Heidi Sanders Bryan ’70 and Bill ’72 became the proud parents of Weston Redfield Bryan who weighed in-at 9 lbs 10 oz.

So, our tribe increases and we’re de­ lighted with them all. Lynn Sanders Pizzirusso ’64 has two, Debbie Sanders Lewis ’67 with three, Bruce '77 is still looking the field over!

TKS Mrs. Robinson V. Smith (Joan Trimbie) 16 Marshall Terrace Wayland, MA 01778 MA Bill Schulting is busy organizing the class’ 40th Reunion and is hoping fora great turnout at Homecoming on October 2. He also reports, “After 25 years of basketball officiating I have hung up my whistle for good. However, football and baseball are still going strong! After almost a lifetime as a Passaic resident I am moving to Clifton, NJ on January 1st.”

David E. Lewis is now President and Chief Executive Officer of Blessings Corporation, a conglomerate traded on the American Stock Exchange.

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TKS Mrs. E.B. Ruffing, Jr. (Joan Sweeney) 125 Westview Road Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Congratulations to Helen Schmid Ketcham of Cohasset, Mass, on the publication of her first book Mistress of the Wynds, a gothic novel published

by Dell Publishing, Inc. While living in the Montclair area Helen was involved in many theater productions and haS penned a musical and a spoof for the theater.

MA William. D. Polhemus is currently an Assistant to the Superintendent of Schools in Madison, NJ.

TKS Mrs. Nancy Heydt Green (Nancy Heydt) 99 Qelvidere Road Falmouth, MA 02540 Betty Specht has asked me to take over for her as class secretary. She’s done such a fine job that I said 'yes’ with trepidation. I have been living on Cape Cod for l i years, after 15 or so in California, and feel very out of touch with old friends and warm memories.

Perhaps this will help renew them.

To try to get the hang of it, I've made a few phone calls — and it’s been fun. If I couldn’t reach you for this issue, I’ll try again in the spring, so save some news.

My first call was to Betty Specht her­ self. She and her 2'k year old, Louisa, were about to prepare dinner. Betty' says she thinks there are some special benefits in being an older parent — “all those daily crises just don’t seem that important.” Betty is completing the last house (she says) of the eight houses she has renovated in her “revitalization” project near Montclair center. I under­ stand from my mother that the houses are lovely and the project has con­ tributed a great deal to Montclair.

Talked with Janice Mount Shruham in Portsmith, NH, over Thanksgiving weekend. Daughter Suzie and Hus­ band were there and adorable grand­ child Leif. Jan and Bobhave given up their antique shop but still participate in antique shows. She ways they run a “halfway house” — I think that means halfway between Boston and Portland

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— and that they welcome old friends and travelers.

Good news from Betty Deyo Garner — at least it’s good news fro me. She and Steve plan to move permanently to their summer home in Orleans on Cape Cod when Steve retires from his jewelry manufacturing business next year. I guess Steve has been having a nasty struggle with rheumatoid arthritis. They are about to leave for Baja, CA to vacation with Betty’s sister Shirley and her husband. They will also visit their daughter Linda and her “wonderful” husband in Los Altos before a stay on a ranch in Arizona and back home in early spring.

Love and congratulations to Connie Soverel Van Voast and Tom Gattle who were married in October 1981. They sound exhuberant. Tom runs a chain of elegant bed, bath and linen shops.

Connie says he is the adventurous type who says things like, “ Let’s rent an airplane and . . . . ” I suggest they rent an airplane and . . . up to Cape Cod. Between them they have 12 grand­ children ¡f| can you believe it?

MA Mr. Arthur Harris 2 Jarvis Street Norwalk, CT 06851 ¡Z r

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Jane Hagan Farno’s daughter Stephanie had her first child in October ’81 — theirfirst grandchild. Stephanie is living in Baltimore as does their oldest son, Greg. Son Clay is in college and Peter is a high school junior. Jane took the H & R Block Basic Tax Course and planned a busy season of work for them priortoApril 15. (Mrs.Richmond and Mrs. Evans would be proud of her we’re sure!)

Jeanne Talbot Sawutz and George had a wedding: their oldest daughter Linda was married to John O. D’Agostino of Springfield, MA. Son David was an usher and daughter Sandy who attends Hartwick College was maid of honor.

George has been with Ferroxcube for 25 years. Jeanne works with the UC Health Department.

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llilllHIBHIIll i ilTT it M m lU M . HJ Robert G. Nebergall reports that he will relocate to the Wilmington, NC area early in 1982. He says, “Just can’t take any more of these Vermont winters.

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TKS Josephine Murphy Rayermann’s son, Patrick, was married Christmas Eve '81 to EmmaSeline Vechtat Rancho Palos Verdes, CA. They are living in Covina, CA. Susan Ailing Miller’s son Dan has been in Venezuela playing the cello and teaching English. Son Paul spent a semester in Italy with a Syracuse U. group before finishing at Brown in ’82.

Leigh Berrien Smith and Proctor went by ferry from Martha’s Vineyard to Nan­ tucket for an enjoyable lunchtime reunion with Nancy Nevins D’Anjou and Judy Shearer Turnbull and Bob. A ferry mishap elsewhere that day forced the Smiths to return home via Hyannis with two ferry trips and two bus rides — defnitely the long way around as those familiar with Massachusetts will attest!

Undetered, they look forward to future inter-island reunions.

A note from Verna Rudd Kenvin says, “We visited the Smiths when en route to our farm in New Hampshire. I am doing part-time secretarial work for an architect in D.C., working with students on job study skills, volunteering as a docent at Carlyle House Historic site, plus a few other things. Keeps me busy!”

TKS Mrs. Thomas F. Troxell, Jr. (Heidi Ames) 50 Glenwood Road Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 3 Connie Ritchie DuHamel’s daughter, Betsy, recently returned from spending a full year studying in Peking. During the year she went to Hong Kong and visited Nancy Lockerty Hoffman, who lives there. Busy as ever, Nancy is trying to aid Hong Kong's refugees by organizing a U.S. marketing system for handicrafts.

Margaret Shanks Moore and her hus­ band have recently devoted a great deal of both time and resources to a founda­ tion devoted to water conservation, a vital cause in California where they live.

One of their five children worked at Citibank in New York last summer.

Margaret is an enthusiastic country dweller: “You can never imagine me spending my whole day in blue jeans, but I do and I love it,” she told Connie who called her during last fall’s MKA phonathon.

Sheila Hancock Dure-Smith, our class’s other California girl, has gone into the land development business there.

Her three sons have all chosen to return to Sheila’s native England for their col­ lege years.

Nanette Mount Cutler, an elementary school librarian, and husband Davie live in New York State in a stone house which Dave built with his own hands, stone by stone, over a period of ten years. Their four daughters are in such diverse fields as library science, theater for the deaf, and truck farming.

Nancy Rudd Wahlberg writes, “We have sold our house and are moving to Lakeville, CT. We will be house-sitting for my parents and looking for new living quarters. Chrysler Corp.’s layoff status and majorsurgery for Mike have made last year one we’d like to erase from the calendar! Looking forward to enjoying New England again and being with our families."

Most of the above news came as a result of Connie’s phonathon calls, which she enjoyed immensely. More in the next issue! Best to you all.

TKS Mrs. Edwin Reade, Jr. (Florence Hoffman) Box 165 Deerfield, MA 01342 Had a marvelous visit with Midge Bethell Cross whose daughter, Wendy, was married in San Diego, CA, last fall.

Midge’s mother, Mrs. Richard Bethell is still as lively as ever. We had a lovely Kimberley Reunion on the Vineyard with Procter and Leigh Berrien Smith ’45andRuddTrimbleKenvin’45. Also see Eleanor Helm Ketcham and Nancy Lockerty Hoffman ’46. Nancy and hus­ band Bill are still living in Hong Kong but have recently built a beautiful home on the Vineyard.

I was so happy to hear from Joan Cook who is enjoying her new life in Ipswich, MA with the boys. She was taking them skiing over Christmas.

Every year at Christmas I hear from our former Headmistress Helen Carlton Mason who is now settled in La Jolla, CA. It seems she is as active as ever and enjoys all the cultural events in La Jolla.

I also hearfrom Miss Jane Bauer and Mrs. Douglas Studdiford.

Cynthia Overton Blandy wrote that she is still veryactivein the town library and enjoying it.

As for my own news, there’s a lot!

1982 is going to be a very busy one.

Son Ned, our oldest (Deerfield Academy 71, Williams College 75, MA with honors from Wesleyan ’81) is Head of the Art Department at the Trinity-Pauling School. He received a grant from the school to paint in France last summer and the Hllson Gallery at Deerfield Academy exhibited 30 of his water-

A note from Peg Hodenpyl Grundy tells of her daughter and husband at­ tending Seton Hall and probably head­ ing on to law school. Peg works in a local veterinary hospital where she has found a lot of satisfaction getting back in the operating room.

colors at a one-man exhibition in January.

Our daughter- Katie has jusf^announced her engagement to Joshua RosenblattMTiey will be married in Trinity Episcopal Church on the Vine­ yard, June 27th. She is currently living in Boston working atthe Fogg Museum.

Son John (Deerfield Academy 73, Hobart College’77) is with Peter Bun wash International, Ltd., the only inter­ national tennis outfit in the world. He Is now head pro at the Tamagawaren Racket Club in Tokyo, speaks fluent Japanese and loves the job.

Husband Ed is now a “senior” member of Deerfield Academy faculty. (But is as wonderful and young as ever!) He continues to instruct at the Vineyard Haven Yacht Club every summer and I keep very busy as Senior Warden of Trinity Episcopal Church on the Vine­ yard. This year the church is celebra­ ting its centennial and I am Centennial Chairman!

This is our 35th Reunion Year. Let’s plan a get-together. Homecoming day is October 2nd.

MA Andrew Davlin writes, “ I’m Chairman of the Board of Reno-based Landy Corp., a transportation holding com­ pany owning two small interstate truck­ ing companies in the west and a leasing company. Am also Chairman of Bonney Motor Express, a Windsor, VA Trucking Company serving an area east of the Rockies, which keeps me commuting across the country once or twice a month. Am also president of a sm alt but exciting geothermal company in Nevada.

I am divorced with five children, three in college and two in prep school, so I have to work hard just to pay tuition bills!”

Mrs. C. Harwin Smith (Jane Hinton) 2508 Deepwood Drive Wilmington, DE 19810 My apologies to those of you whose news missed the last deadline due to some health problems of my own.

Members of the Class of ’49 at birthday party.

Nancy Eavenson Copp sent along this photo of the girls easing into their 50's and tells of recovering from a broken hip. She is an active golfer and competes all over the Harrisburg district.

A Christmas note from Dody De Vausney Ames included news of her children who are living and working near her in Illinois. She works three or fourdays a week in a bookstore, which she loves. She says, ‘Si’s bridge the other days!”

Sally Smith Cutting writes she saw many dorty-niners at Jerrie Andrew Brown’s daughter’s wedding. Sounded like fun — “Junie, N e w e ll Eavenson, Klaas, Duffy” — MA Richard Drysdale P.O. Box 217 Bay Head, NJ 08742 I " TKS Marv-Anne Treene Evans writes, “Have been living in the same house in Cali­ fornia for 11 years. It’s a lot quieter

MA ’50 Mary-Anne and Cliff Evans and family. these days, though, as Stuart, 25, is working in No. California for Marketron, Jerry Cronin’s '50 company, and still manages to utilize a season’s pass at

Tahoe. Leisa at 23 has just completed 4V2 years of college-, is job hunting and plans to be married this spring. Pam is 20, a sophomore at Berkeley and is now applying for the 5 year MBA pro­ gram there. Cliff '50 and I rattle around an empty house with 2 golden retrievers and a cat. He is nearing 17 years with Litton, where he is director of real estate and construction. He travels around the U.S. and Europe which he loves, plays tennis and jogs whenever pos­ sible. I travel with Cliff as often as the checkbook says ‘GO!’, sing in a barber­ shop chorus and run the volunteer staff for the switchboard of our library district. Skiing is a top priority of the family as a whole and this ensures our being together at least three times dur­ ing the season plus Christmas at Tahoe with Jerry and Donna Cronin and their five children.

Molly Prescott Kindred writes “Brook and I still live in Scarsdale and enjoy tennis, paddle tennis and mountain climbing. Valerie graduated from Middlebury in June and is working as a junior geologist for an oil company in Denver. Dorothy, a junior at St. Law­ rence, is looking forward to a second semester in Denmark. We also have four cats!

Dorothy Dill Barnes is a lawyer in her second term as a member of the Connecticut State House of Represen­ tatives and a member of the legislature’s Appropriations Committee.

MA Rudolph H. Deetjen, Jr. Northgate Road Mendham, NJ 07945

TKS Mrs. Eric Stroh (Gail Robertson) 350 Provencal Road Grosse Pointe Farms, Ml 48236 Our class had the most wonderful reunion the weekend of October 17. It was organized by Miriam Eustis Irwin

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who worked for several months on getting us together. Half of our class came back from all over the country and It was really worth the effort each of us made to get to Montclair. We all looked terrific, and were all easy to recognize. The years have treated us well, and if there were any changes they were all for the better!

Judy Smith Gentry came from Texas and brought Baxter with her. Joan Jacobus Miller came from Chicago.

Nancy Jones Trescot flew in from Flor­ ida arriving et 3 a.m. on the 17th. I came from Detroit on the $39 special (still have my Scottish ways) and Betsy Smith Burquist drove down from the wilds of New Hampshire. Suzie Bailey Twyford came from Washington, D.C. and Diane Stoney Moore drove up from Philadelphia. Franny Hedges Parsons and Johnny who live in Far­ mington, CT also came.

The New Jersey contingent consisted of Beth Sherman Fisher, Jane Gane Gassaway Bonner, June Crowe Cronquist, Gerry Lockerty Hendricks and Ruth Ransom Wilson accompanied by husband Nick. Judy Frost Costikyan and Tommy completed the group.

Linda Herbert called from California and we called Alice Cleaves Lewis In Wisconsin. Mrs. Cleaves stopped by to see her daughter's classmates. She hadn’t changed either!

We must repeat our reunion in five years because this one was such fun.

Ourthanks to Miriam and Ted Irwin for their wonderful hospitality.

MA Ernest F. Keer III 459 Club Drive Bay Head, NJ 08742 Ken Crowell is Associate Professor of Biology at St. Lawrence. In 1979 he took a leave of absence to Oxford University. “ Recently I have decided to try to take the classroom outdoors — involving students in field work. I am active in State and Federal studies of bird populations. I have two sons, aged 13 and 16 and spend summers on Deer Isle, ME.”

TKS Mrs. Edward C. Fawcett (Fay Taft) 9 Gordon Place Montclair, NJ 07042 I talked with Dorie Ruprecht Carlisle last fall and she reports daughter Debbie is married and living in Atlanta.

Her son Chris is a junior at U. of Georgia and her other son Bruce is a junior at Florida State. Dorie also said that her husband Dick was recovering from a mild heart attack and doing well. I

asked Dorie if she was working and she said, “ No! and I’m enjoying it.”

Daphne Driver McGill now has two of her children attending Williams College.

Another is a senior in high school and a fourth is a sophomore at the Middle­ sex School in Concord, MA. Skipper Gilbert Moran reports her daughter Whitney is working and living in Washington, D.C. and her other two children are at the U. of Maryland and the U. of Delaware. Skipper said, “The empty nest is great.. Am enjoying it.”

Twice last fall, I ran into Nancy Booth Kelly having not seen her in years. She looks as lovely as ever. All three boys are in separate boarding schools here in the east, and Nancy’s brother’s son John Booth is in the 9th grade here at MKA.the same grade as our daughter Ashley.

Our sincerest sympathy to Susan Sanders whose father died last summer.

Anne Dwyer Milne writes that next fall is our 30th Reunion and she would like to see a huge turnout. I agree and have already had probable commit­ ments from Daphne and Dorie. Home­ coming is October 2nd, how about it girls?

I was sorry to learn of the death of Wain Koch Maass's mother in April a year ago. Wain’s oldest son is still with Proctor & Gamble in South Carolina, Andrew is at St. Lawrence, Kathy is a freshman at U. of Vermont, and Amy is a 9th grader who spent last August in Madrid and San Sebastian with a family friend. Wain is still teaching 3rd grade.

TKS’52 Babs Pendeton Donnell and family Babs Pendleton Donnell’s daughter Bridget is living in Rockville, MD and trying to secure employment “on the Hill.” Cal is a sophomore at Ohio Wesleyan and Jane Is at The College of Wooster. Babs completed her Mas­ ters and Reading Specialist Degree Program at Westminster College. Last July she was an AFS rep at the Com­ munity International Fellows Program in Colorado Springs. 1981 marked Jim’s tenth year as pastor at College Hill Presbyterian Church.

The Fawcett family and the Forsberg family are all going out to San Francisco

March 27 to attend the wedding of Julie Redfield, who is the eldest daugh­ ter of Polly Fawcett Redfield 51. Julie is the niece of both Jane Redfield Forsberg and my husband, Ned. Carol Humphry White says daughter Kathy is a sophomore at the U. of Colorado where she is majoring in Environmental Conservation. Husband George’s business is going along well with Carol helping along at the type­ writer.

I spend all my spare time working at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Mont­ clair. About a year ago I joined the staff. My official title is Church Growth Coordinator. My hours are my own and I love playing the woman executive. It keeps me from staring at the dustballs under the bed!”

MA Joseph L. Bograd 10 Gorham Court Wayne, NJ 07470 Roger Webb writes, “ My wife Anne Van Vleck '54, and I are beginning to experience the empty nest, as our two oldest daughters, Becky and Mary, have gone to college. Ourthird daughter, Ruth, the only child still at home, is a seventh grader at Shady Hill School School in Cambridge, MA, and breaking new ground by playing on the pre­ viously all boys’ school and town hockey teams. Anne has responded to the challenge of the next phase of life by planting 6,000 grape plants on 10 acres of a soon to become 30 acre vineyard. It will be Massachusetts’ largest vineyard and we hope some day soon, it will also be be the site of New Englands best grapes and winery.

I’ve developed the mid-life itch to travel and intend to explore India and Nepal with my oldest daughter this winter, after spending Christmas with our entire family in a recycled railroad station in Alton, England!

Charles Sage writes from Ames, Iowa.

“We have a 14 year old daughter, Abigail in junior high and a 15 year old son, Andrew, in high school. My wife, Priscilla, who is still producing her soft sculptures, currently has a show at BFM Gallery, NYC. She teaches art at Drake U. in Des Moines: I am still an associate professor in the University Computation Center and Library at Iowa State University. In the winter we concentrate on shovelling snow and keeping warm, and in the summer we sail a lot on a Minnesota lake.”

As for me, my oldest son is at Yale Law School. My second, a junior at Wes­ leyan, went to Vienna in January for a semester of study in international rela­ tions. My daughter, a high school senior, is waiting to hearfrom colleges. I have

doubled the size of my furniture store in Paterson, NJ, and am still working hard at the development of Paterson’s Historic District.

TKS Mrs. Thomas Burgin (Lolly Penick) 328 Fairway Road Ridgewood, NJ 07450 Congratulations to our own Betty Ann Jones on her appointment by the Presi­ dent as chief engraver at the United States mint.

Margaret McVay McCombs is in Alaska “where business is still good”. She is selling real estate and was planning a vacation in Hawaii after Christmas with one of her daughters.

Sally Luchars McCarthy writes from Bethesda, MD of a visit with Sheila Brown Lindveit and her husband Earl.

Sally is with Iona House, a social service agency for older adults, and Sheila is parish secretary at St. Columbia’s Church in DC. Two of Sally and Justin’s children are now in college and one has graduated and is working in New York City.

Patsy Eddy Ford visited herson Doug in Spain where he is studying at the University of Madrid. Patsy and Ben also have a son at Dartmouth and one still in high school.

Sally Maxson Jones and Davy are still living in Virginia on their horse farm. Sally writes “Our oldest daughter, Lome is married and is a Lt.fi.g.) in the Navy in San Diego, CA. Cary, our second daughter, is a graduate of U.S. Naval Academy and was one of fifteen women to go into Navy Pilot Training last fall. David, our young­ est, is at Cornell Hotel School. The wel­ come mat is always out A-Y’all come!”

Good news from Ellen O’Donnell Page who is feeling much better. Ellen and Bud have two high school age sons and enjoyed a fall vacation trip to Helsinki, Leningrad and Denmark. Ellen reports continued participation in skiing, tennis and paddle tennis.

We are still in Ridgewood. I am work­ ing as a free lance computer pro­ grammer, since the small non-profit agency I was directing is out of funds.

We have two children in college, Laurie at Wellesley and Gail at Drew, and two still at home. Next time let’s hear from the rest of you!

MA Peter Cockshaw, P.O. Box 427 Newton Square, PA 19073 Big Bob Coningsby writes that all continues to go “great” for him and his

family in the good old Fort Lauderdale sun (what do you do in the spring, Bob, when the mass infusion of college kids rocks the town?!!) Bob and his wife have three sons in college plus a senior in high school. Their daughter is in 6th grade. Explains Bob: “After four boys, we are just getting used to dance and music and art instead of all types of sports, quite a change!” Bob also reports that “old age hasn’t set in yet,” he is still active in tennis and skiing as well as the church and rotary. He and his wife travel often, most recently to the U.K., Japan and Hong Kong. They plan to visit Europe this year. Sounds like a super life, Bob. Our old buddy Ed Van Brunt, would have been proud of you!

Bob Weinmann continues to send sparks flying in California. An article in his “ Nightletter for American Medi­ cine” alleging “massive negligence by Board of Medical Quality Assurance (BMOA) was the subject of a 1/2 hour NBC TV report. Dr. Bob was also elected president of the American Medical EEG Association and recently delivered a paper on “brain death” at the asso­ ciation’s Jacksonville, Florida meeting.

Moreover, Bob has been in contact with another of our classmates, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Phil Fradkin, who was profiled in the last edition of this magazine. He ordered Phil’s new book, A River No More (Knopf Publishing Co., 1981), and highly recommends it to all of us.

Stay healthy and let me hear some news from you all very soon!

TKS Miss Georgia Carrington Westtown School Westtown, PA 19395 Pixie Cole Pendergast and husband Jack are still in Providence. Pixie taught science and physical education in their parish school for several years but has now gone back to nursing, “ It’s a very special job,” she says. “ I’m in charge of 30 Franciscan missionaries.” Jack is specializing in labor law. They have two sons at Harvard and one at the U. of Rhode Island. Two other children in high school.

Barbara Hobart Valbuena writes from Newark, Delaware that daughter Teresa has been studying in London but is now back at the U. of Delaware and working part-time. Julian is now on the National Fulbright-Hayes Screen­ ing Committee and still giving papers in exotic locations. Barbara continues to play tennis and to help out with club activities.

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Tookie Onderdonk Dudden is the reunion chairman for the Vassar 25th Reunion. Alexis is at Baldwin, and is doing very well as an accomplished athlete, among other things.

Lee Wood Audbuy was in Cleveland this summer with her two children while she worked on her dissertation. She plans to be in Ohio as an exchange Professor for the spring term. The U. of Toulouse has a program they are trying to continue with an American University.

A marvellous letter from Vicki Wendt West. Vicki has been lucky enough to accompany Peter on some of his con­ ventions and had just returned from 10 days in Florida. She is now working f o r i Owens-Coming Fiberglass, “only 1.2 miles and one traffic light from home.”

She still plays golf in the summer and bowls in the winter. Her eldest son, John Paul, was pool director last sum­ mer and is now living at home and working in a small publishing firm in Manhattan. Christian is a senior, who swims, bowls, golfs, works part-time and volunteers with the Animal Welfare League. Ben is an 8th grader. Vicki also coordinates the Junior Activities at her club.

A Christmas card from Cynthia Mann Treene noted that she and her men are well, and a glimpse of Tillie Joe Beatty Emerson and a daughter at Baltimore’s Harbor Place assured me that they were too. Tillie and Andy went down to visit their daughter, who is at Goucher, and I went down to watch my godson play football.

My sanity was saved this fall by playing inter-club paddle tennis - what a great sport! I am still Westtown as Dean of Girls and English teacher. I directed a play last fall which took care of any spare time I might have had!

Marian Miller Castell writes, “ I have been re-elected for a second term as Selectman of the town of Darien, CT. This year I was Acting First Selectman.

My two boys, Greg and Bill, are atNew Canaan Country School in the 7th and 9th grades.”

MA Donald M. Karp 18 Shawnee Road

MA ’54 Jake Jacobus and Family

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Ronald A. “Jake” Jacobus III, writes, “ I’ve been in the investment business since 1958. I’m a Vice-President of Investments for Shearson/American Express and am on the firm’s President’s Council. I fully enjoy my work as the industry is always changing and has many challenges. Fortunately, my office is a five minute commute from our home. My wife, Gail Garnar Jacobus ’58 teaches American history at Kent Place School in Summit. We have three children, Julie 11, Kathy, 13 and son Randy, 16. We all enjoy tennis and golf and get our recreation at Morris County Golf Club in Convent Station where we live."

home and taped three-and-a-half hour shows every Saturday morning for several years, just for our own enjoy­ ment. We also handled the public address announcing chores for various sporting events in the old Academy gym.

As for the personal side of things, my wife, Melissa, and I own a home in Upper Montclair. My daughter, Cathy is a senior at Boston College majoring in philosophy. My son,.Gi'69°ry is 18 years old and a high school senior waiting for acceptances from colleges.”

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On November 2,1981 Paul Nejelski was sworn in as Circuit Executive for the Third Circuit. “That means I’m responsible for the administration of the federal courts in Delaware, Penn­ sylvania, New Jersey and The Virgin Islands. Marilyn continues to be in charge of the executive branch appoint­ ments at the National Women’s Political Caucus in Washington, D.C. Nicole, 13, is a champion swimmer, and Stephen, 11, will be an Eagle Scout soon.”

Michael Ludlum was recently named to the newly-created position of Man­ aging Director, Broadcasting, at WCBS Radio, New York City, with overall responsibility of news, public affairs and sports.

Mike began his career with CBS in 1964 as a news writer for the WCBS Radio afternoon news broadcast, Up To The Minute, and was later named producer of that serid§; In 1966, he was awarded CBS Fellowship and studied for nine months at Columbia U. before returning to CBS News. In 1967, when WCBS Radio adopted its all-news format, Mike joined the station as morning drive producer.

For the past two years, until his new appointment, Mike served as Director of the Writing and Research Depart­ ment of ABC Television’s, Good Morn­ ing America.

Thinking back, Mike says, “ My inte­ rest in broadcasting really developed when I was at Montclair Academy from 6th through 9th grades. Dave Driver and I set up a little radio station in my

TKS Mrs. Lawther O. Smith (Linda Lovell) 30 Water Crest Drive Doylestown, PA 18901 The 56’s 25th Reunion October 17 was a success. Those attending: Betsy Hasbrouck Cole and Bob, Nicole De Jurenev, Carrie Van Vleck Edwards, Anne King Franges and Thomas,Carol Cooper Henry, Janet Rodman Koskoff, Judy Lindeman (all the way from Hono­ lulu), Carol Van Brunt Rasic, Helen Nelson Skeen, Susan Crook Ferdinand and Frank, Jane Goodwillie Swann, Nancy Prescott Ward and Robert, and Gail Zabriskie Wilson and Peter. Un­ fortunately Larry and I weren’t able to join the fun because of business enter­ taining, but a few phone calls brought in some further news from class members.

Janet Rodman Koskoff is working at the Knoll Company in Whippany and is very involved in the testing of a new cardiac drug for which they are awaiting FDA approval. She is still a member of the First Aid Squad and was on call the night we spoke. Pam, her oldest, is living in New York City, while David is studying computers at Montclair State.

Philip is a senior in high school.

Nancy Prescott Ward boasts having the youngest child in the class with 372 year old Robbie, in addition to Jennie 8, and Vicki, 13. Bob is still involved ~vi/ith many small companies, and Nancy helps out with the answering service

55— — TKS Mrs. George Buermann, {Mary Gail Smith) 21 Arden Lane Essex Fells, NJ 07021

Michael Ludlum ’55

business. As a change from their usual Maine summer vacation, last year they had atrip out west, which proved to be a great family vacation.

Carol Cooper Henry says they spent last summer’s vacation cruising on their 38’ Hood-designed “Yankee Doodle” from Cohasset down to the Cape and Islands. All the children, Bill, a freshman at Bates College, Carlle, 12, and Annie, 9, have also had plenty of sailing experience at home. When Carol’s not on the water, she’s in it, heading up the syncronized swimming classes at the Qunicy Y. I wonder if any other K.S. water ballet stars are back in action in the pool?

Carol Van Brunt Rasic has enjoyed a year off from work, but skills like hers are in demand, so she is now working part-time in investments for Bank Leu, headquartered in Switzerland. Janko continues in his architectural work, and the children Timothy, 11, at Col­ legiate and Lynn, 6, at The Brearley, are enjoying the excitement of city living.

From Carrie Van Vleck Edwards a note: “So enjoyed our ‘still so nice’ class at 25th Reunion luncheon. Anne is a junior at Colby College, Peter a junior at Tabor Academy, Elizabeth at 15 is still at home. My real estateoffice is also starting to fly, yeah!”

For the next issue I hope to hear from more of you. We can’tthrowa big party at the school every time we need news from class members, but we are all looking forward to the next MKA get together, because our 25th reunion was so well run and such fun!

John Clapp and Larry Nazarian ’56

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TKS Mrs. Wichard Van Heuven (Connie Hay) 703 Morning Hill San Antonio Texas 78230 The class of 1957 will have its 25th Reunion October 2, 1982! Lynne Kenny Scott, Jean Bonnell Goodrich, Joan Wallace Bryant and I have already agreed to make the trip. We will let you know more details later.

Wichard and I moved to San Antonio, TX., last August. It was quite an adjust­ ment for the entire family, but we seem to have weathered the storm. It is terrific being near Joan Bryant. We got to­ gether with our families over Labor

ALUMNI PROFILE: NORRIS O’NEILL ’57

TKS, Class of ’56 MA John Clapp Box 256 Sea Girt, NJ 08750

MA, Class of ’56

Norris O’Neill’s brownstone in New York City contains two great recording studios and 4 cats. Here he arranges, sings and plays the many commercials

Day at Lakeway, TX., and spent Thanks­ giving in Mexico at Puerto Vallarta. We had many laughs trying to understand “manana” . When we arrived our rental car and our condominiums were not available. Joan and Hager were taken to a condo under construction! The children had a wonderful time. We also had a super time with the Bryants and Ned and Fay Fawcett ’52 this summer in Nantucket. The Bryants flewtheTexas ^flag for us and had a wild Tex-Mex party.

Hager Bryant’s company, Transco, is building the tallest building in the Gal■ erla (Houston). You may have seen It in the New York Times magazine. Joan is busy giving art lectures in the public schools and traveling with Hager.

Last year really was a busy one for seeing classmates. At Christmas, in Vermont, we had a wonderful reunion with Jean Goodrich and Lynne Scott. I hadn’t seen Lynne in 20 years. She looks exactly as she did in 1957- i t ’s disgusting! Lynne started a toy store in Oakville, Canada and now has two partners, a wonderful success story, soon to be written up. It was fun to meet her children. Her youngest, aged 5, is a fabulous skier.

Jean Goodrich is working again. She is now the advertising manager of a weekly paper, (The Valley Reporter).

Her girls, Jennifer and Wendy are adjusting to the challenge of boarding schools, at Westminster and Berkshire.

Jennifer is swimming and Wendy is on the ski team.

Talked to Drika Agnew Purvis recently.

She is working part-time at Yale, travel­ ing and studying the piano. She and

he composes. “I can never remember what's running but names such as Ford, Chevy, National Airlines, Braniff Airlines, Air Canada, Brim Coffee, Kodak, Prell, Di-Gel, Hasbro toys, Geritol, Poland Spring Water, Zest Soap, Chewels Gum, etc., are part of my ‘repertoire’! Our studio also does the music for a daily TV show, The Great Space Coaster.”

Norris and his musicians have a crazy working schedule. They make a point of never working on Fridays although this means that the workday sometimes stretches past midnight. And, “of course there are always deadlines to be met when working for television, but it’s worth it.”

There's time for relaxation too. Norris spends summer weekends on a private beach and winters in Palm Beach.

His message to kids graduating from high school today is that you don’t al­ ways have to wear a coat and tie and commute to ‘make it’.

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architect husband Alex went to Venice on a wonderful study tour.

Joan Krebs Neuhoff’s daughter, Lau­ ren, is a freshman at Hollins this year.

Martha McKenzie Hug is studying for her art degree and enjoying teaching.

The class extends its sympathy and love to Martha Hug whose mother, Mrs. McKenzie, died last July in Penn­ sylvania, and to Joanne Rowland Os­ good, whose husband, Richard, died last fall.

Please send me a card as to interest in our 25th Reunion.

MA Don Coursen and family moved to Broken Arrow, OK, last July where Don and Kris are attending Rhema Bible Training Center for 2 years. Topper, 15, and Kenny, 12, are attending Faith Christian Academy in Tulsa. Prior to the move, Don taught high school on the East Coast for 20 years.

John R. Higgins writes, “As usual I'm keeping too busy. I am still Chief Psy­ chologist at the State Facility, and serve as Regional Director for the Association of Pastoral Counselors. I also teach a graduate course in statistics/testing to ministers. My wife and two daughters are more or less tolerant of these pur­ suits. We visited Montclair in October but as it was a holiday the school was closed. With theold building gone the place looked ‘strange’.”

Michael S. Kurtz is a partner in an accounting practice in Cranford, NJ. He and wife, Carol have two boys, Jason, 11 and Randy, 7.

Michael I. Saltzmann is practicing law in New York City. In 1981 Warren, Gorham & Lamont published his book I.R.S. Practice and Procedure, to be used by accountants, lawyers, and corporate comptrollers.

Dick Schlenger writes, “ Presently the Recreation Supervisor for the Township of Parsippany-Troy Hills. Two daugh­ ters, one in her senior year in high school, the other a freshman. Have a masters degree in recreation and coach the local girls basketball team.

Last year we had a record of 30-2, and were voted top team at 7th and 8th grade level in New Jersey. I am also the Community School co-ordinator for Rockaway Meadow School of Parsippany.”

TKS Mrs. Ralph Perry III (Helen Bryant) 18 Warfield Street Upper Montclair, NJ 07043

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Congratulations to Lockey Harvey Welch and her new husband, George.

They have changed jobs and just pur­ chased a new house in Stockton, CA. We’re glad to know where you are, Lockey!

Your secretary enjoyed a lengthy chat with Betsy Cole Castner this fall. Betsy saw Anne Bobst Highley during parents weekend at Salisbury School in Con­ necticut in October 1981. Anne’s son, Alan, is a junior, Betsy's son, David, is a senior. Anne McCormick Leeby is now living in Syracuse, NY and is enjoying her work with the hospice program.

Mary Ann Lawrence Decker and hus­ band, Mel, live in Highland Mills, NY. She teaches elementary school parttime. This and her five children keep her hopping! Kim, 18, is at Albany Medical Center and well on her way towards her nursing career goal. Larry, 17, is interested in aerospace engineer­ ing and is a star swimmer. Bonnie, 16, loves math, twirling, diving and skiing.

Timothy, 13, is also a skier and a golfer, and Nancy, 11 . enjoys art and being the super student of the family.

MA Robert R. Haney, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Georgia Southern College Statesboro, GA 30458 James Zager writes from Los Angeles that he, his wife Susan, and their daughters Jennifer, 13, and Rachel, 11 are “enjoying life in Southern California with skiing, tennis, sailing, and Holly­ wood night life.” In addition to his pri­ vate practice in cardiology, Jim is asso­ ciate clinical professor in cardiology at U. of Southern California. His most recent achievement is co-directing the 3rd annual Kidd Cardiac Symposium in Los Angeles in February.

Your ob.serv. continues a practice in clinical psychology part-time and am associate professor in psychology at Georgia Southern College. My wife, Sylvia, plays tennis and provides emo­ tional and logistical support for our sons, David, a freshman at South Georgia College on a golf scholarship and Keith, 16, a National Merit Scholar who’s going to go to the engineering school which offers the best football scholarship. Coaches Van Brunt and Marnell will be glad to know their instruction and counsel took hold, al­ beit a generation late.

Jim and I share the hope that our 25th class reunion in ‘83 will be well attended.

United Nations Photo by Lily Solmssen ’59 TKS Mrs. Robert P. Sumas (Deana Rogers) 4 East Greenbrook Road North Caldwell, NJ 07006 Lily Solmssen Moureaux writes, “We are living in Vienna, Austria, where my husband Ghislain works forthe United Nations as the Interregional Adviser in Rehabilitation of the Disabled. It is quite amazing to live in this country where so much history has been made.

I continue with my work as a profes­ sional freelance photographer and have completed assignments in con­ nection with the United Nations Inter­ national Year of the Disabled, 1981.”

Joanie McConnell writes from Florence, Italy, “ In addition to the usual teaching and administrative responsibilities of my job at Stanford, I have been quite busy finishing up my last book, Lan­ guage and Culture (Seibido Publishers Inc.,Tokyo, 1980.) This textbook gives Japanese university students who are studying English a concise introduction to the relation between language and culture with particular emphasis on the United States. Preparing this text­ book was quite a challenge because in addition to the usual problems, I had to consider the different cultural prep­ aration of my readers. The book has done extremely well and the publishers have asked me to begin preparing another textbook on language. I have not forgotten my interest in ballet and did a week seminar on dance and dance techniquefor the Dieman-Bennet Dance Theater of the Hemispheres, Ltd. in Cedar Rapids, IA. Last summer I spent two months in NJ with my parents and my sister who had been severely burned.”

MA Benjamin Fischer 26 Delia Boulevard Palisades Park, NJ 07650 Our deepest sympathy to Howard Van Vleck, Jr., whose mother passed away last December.

TKS Suzanne Braddock writes, "I dis­ covered my love of science and went to medical school. Now teaching resi­ dents at the U. of Nebraska and prac­ ticing dermatology, part-time. Joyously, a mother of Gail Victoria, 16 mos. There is no conflict between career and motherhood - motherhood comes first!”

Sheila Albright Hogan writes from Arizona, where she and her husband run a year-round resort. “We have now been put on the map. Our area has a McDonalds. The kids are excited, but progress has its disadvantages as well as advantages! Patty is busy with gym­ nastics and dance, Don played football on the JV team. He works at the restau­ rant across the street to support his video game habit! Frankie is in Kinder­ garten and tried skiing this year for the first time. Nancy is an interesting 3 year old who still finds her screaming voice, when necessary! I am fine, but am not looking forward to being 40!”

Nicki Smith Hagerman writes, “ Nick, Hunter and I have been hopping around the country in the course of Nick’s career as a private school admin­ istrator (Headmaster)-Conn., Fla., Ind., LA., N.M.and now Wisconsin. We are 30 miles from Milwaukee in gorgeous lake country, which suits our main passion in life-sailing . Hunter is just 8 and a second grader who enjoys the outdoors and quiet pursuits (unlike his mother). My career has been hopping, too, having been administrative assis­ tant to the director of a museum, to a mayor and now to an attorney, parttime. My free time goes to tennis. I still enjoy singing and do so in church and community choirs. I never grew any­ more and my hair is still red and curly, and yes, I am still covered with freckles!”

Sally Minard writes, “ Kids are moving along. Gillian is in second gradeatthe Spence School. Nicky started kinder­ garten at the Buckley School. Both love school. I’m still at the advertising firm of Lord, Geller, Federico and Ein­ stein where I am now on the Board of Directors.”

Carol Tiernan writes, “I am living with my son Gerry in Scarbrough, ME. We live right on the beach and love all the seasons. Gerry who is 8 loves soccer and takes guitar lessons.”

MA George Bleyle writes, “Pilot with United Airlines based in Cleveland, OH. Pre­ sently flying Boeing 727. Married with

4 children, 13, 10, 6, 3. Volunteer ambulance driver for Hudson, OH, Emergency Medical Service. Proprie­ tor of Western Reserve Stamp Com­ pany, U.S. postage stamps for collectors.

Commander with U.S. Naval Reserve with 17'k years’ service.”

TKS ’60 Nicki Smith Hagerman and family

TKS ’60 Sheila Albright Hogan and family

TKS Miss Judith Poor 96 North Mountain Ave. Montclair, NJ 07042 Peggy Mayes Boyd lives in New York City. She has two sons, 7 and 4, and is just now going back to work in the computer field after an absence of 10 years. “ Life in the ‘Big Apple’ is frenetic but always exciting!”

Suzanne Scannell Hardy is presently doing consulting work in nursing. She is actively involved in local hospital as President of Winthrop Community Hospital League, and has one child, 9 year old Kimberly Anne.

Claire Derdeyn Coles writes, “Received Ph.D. August 1980. Presently am Re­ search Psychologist on Lethal Alcohol Syndrome Research Project and have been appointed Assistant Professor, Psychology, Emery Medical School.

Spend most of time testing babies from newborn to 3 years, teaching and doing research. Have two children,

Allison, 17, who is busy applying to colleges for the fall, and Brian, 11 ,who is in 6th grade. I have no free time at all these days but if I did I would read more, and work for ERA passage, lam presently very poor, but happy.”

Daphne Bethell McCarthy writes, “ I have been having a terrific time raising three children, Ian, 11, Kerry, 8, and Christopher, 6 years. I completed course work In Early Childhood Educa­ tion at the U. of Maryland and am now teach ing every day at the Chevy Chase United Methodist Preschool. This year I am also ways and means chairperson for Rollingwood PTA so am kept busy raising money. For fun, I’ve joined a chapter of Sweet Adelines called the Metrolarks. We’ll compete in our re­ gions 19 which includes the NJ, NY and Philadelphia area. My husband, John, recently got a pilots license and is continuing flight training. Weflewto Nantucket Island for Thanksgiving and had a terrific weekend.”

Mina Lund Krinsky writes, ‘How time flies! We just attended my husband’s 20th reunion and it made me long to see my classmates. We are living in Atlanta, Ga., where my husband is with the F.B.I. I have a 10 year old daughter who is terrific, and I am just finishing up in law school. I’m not sure what my career plans will be but looking forward eagerly to meeting the short-term goal of passing the bar. I have been in touch with Toby Finkleman Stoetzer and Beth Reilly Garifalos who is living in California. I would love to hear from anyone in this area.”

Patricia Harrison Case was the only member of our class to attend the 20th Reunion on October 17th. Pat, who runs a realty office with her husband, Dan, came all the way from Port Char­ lotte, Fla., hoping to see some of us. She was a bit disappointed but very happy to see our music teacher, Mr. Coursen, again.

Your secretary’s news is that in Feb­ ruary 1981 I went to the William Feinbloom Rehabilitation Low Vision Center in Philadelphia for a week during which time I was trained to wear two new pairs of glasses. One for distance,T.V. etc., which has a bioptic lens mounted in the glass. The other pair for reading and writing magnify fourtimes. As you can imagine, this has opened up a whole new world to me.”

MA Robert T. Root 24 Wiedemann Clifton, NJ 07011 My letter to classmates never got out this year, so please keep your news for the next issue. My son, Steve, is a freshman at MKA and is on the school swim team.”

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TKS Mrs. Alexander Anastasiou (Denise Farandatos) Oak Hill Road Clifton, NJ 07013 1981 was a busy year for the clais of 62. Marion Brown St. Onge was married last summer and is now Mrs. Lee Sar­ gent. Sue Marin Montaner went to Boston for the wedding. Sue is busy getting ready to move to Argentina. Her husband’s bank has transferred him there for 2 or 3 years. Sue Wilson Howson will be returning from Belgium and should be settling in Montclair soon. Carolyn Heath Cariello received her CPA. and adopted her step daugh­ ter, Laurie, all on the same day in December. Nancy Kraus Rothchtld, whom some of you spoke to during phonathon, is busy with her two small children. Joshua is in 1st grade at MKA and Nancy is getting involved with M KA. I saw Nancy Haviland Hutch­ inson in Virginia Beach in October. She is well and keeps busy with her 3 year old daughter and her son. She hasn't changed a bit and is still full of energy.

Barbara Bywater Creed was back east this year for her parents’ 50th anniversary.

My daughter Nikki is a senior, and son Alex a fourth grader, at MKA. Nikki and I have been busy visiting colleges.

It seems like yesterday that we were making the same important decision!

Just reminding you that next year is our Big 20th Reunion. Homecoming Day at the school is October 2nd. Let’s hope 1982 will be the year we can all get together.

Does anyone know the whereabouts of Lynn Skinner-Klee, Ruth Davis or Pat Dordelman?

MA William C. Graham writes, “We just moved to Madison, Wl. I am Vice Presi­ dent-Marketing and Sales of Trek Bi­ cycle Corp. A nice change of pace from my previous job with a brewing company. New job also ties into family Interests. My 15 year old son is Wis­ consin State Champion in Road and Criterium Racing, ranked fourth nation­ ally in track racing. Lots of bikes around the house!

Best regards to Roy Hemphill, my old skiing partner. We could use him on the National Ski Patrol here. I’ve been in and out of the patrol since college.”

Richard S. Rosenblum writes, “I am currently an Insurance Agent at Equit­ able Life in New York City. My divorce is pending. I graduated from Pratt Institute, was a teacher, college librar­

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ian and public library director for 10 years. In my opinion, private aca­ demies such as MKA must survive. I credit much of my success in college, grad school and life to my years there.”

N LF TKS Beverly Harrison Miller writes “We moved from Boston to Concord in June and our son, Noah, was born 2 hours after we completed the move! Daugh­ ter, Brooke, is now 4 years old. I’ve been a freelance editor for various publishers for 5 years, working on books in the social sciences. Wayne is spe­ cializing in tax and corporate law at his firm in Boston. Our house is in the historic district on the main tourist route, and we invite old friends to stop in if they pass through.”

Mary Jane Gillespie Knapp reports, “ ! was graduated from United Theological Seminary in May, 1981 and was or­ dained to the ministry by the United Presbyterian Church on November 15, 1981. I am currently serving two con­ gregations of the United Church of Christ in Phelps and Land O’Lakes, Wl. David is still pastor of the church in Lac du Flambeau so we are continu­ ing the commuter marriage we main­ tained through four years of seminary.

I am very happy in my new career and look forward to more interesting ex­ periences.”

MA John D. Harris writes that he has an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering and, in December 1980, received a M.S. in Management.

He is now living in Knoxville,TN and is employed by Union Carbide.

TKS Mrs. James G. Ward (Carolyn Wilson) 1148 Celwood Drive Virginia Beach, VA 23464 MA Roy T. Van Vleck Pinnacle Road Lyme, NH 03768

TKS Mrs. B.R. Madsen (Betsy Ridge) Box 415 Essex, MA 01929 Susan DeBevoise writes, “ I am back on my own again, living in Hanover, NH and advising Dartmouth students about graduate schools. It’s a great job. Roxy Faulkner Waldner works downstairs.

Merrill Adickes Rich writes, “ Becky is in 1st grade and Ben is growing up fast, he goes to nursery school 3 days a week. Dave keeps busy with his na­ tural food store and Shaker products.

I’m in my tenth year of running the dance studio and have joined the Dance Teachers Club of Boston.”

Had a letter from Barbara Sloane after our reunion. She is now living in New York City but had planned to spend the winter in California.

1981 was a very busy year for your secretary. Dean, was born on my bi rthday March 11. Sally is now 2'k. I am President of the Essex Historical Society and have just published a book on shipbuilding skills, Hooping, Dubbing and Losting, on which I had worked for two years on a grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. I also edited a book abouttrolley cars,Essex Electrics.

Michael R. fcink writes, “ I am living in New York City, and working as a part­ ner in the eight attorney firm of Fink, Lynette and Ford, Gateway I, Newark, NJ 07102, specializing in business, tax, real estate, and litigation in the United States and abroad."

Robert S. Livesey joined the firm of CUH2A, Architecture, Engineering, Planning, in Princeton, NJ,on Novem­ ber 1,1 981 as Director of Design.

TKS Mrs. Johan M. Andersen, III (Aliha Seborowski) 64 Rachelle Avenue Stamford, CT 06905 Mitzi Sans Baltna writes, that husband Alan '66 “has received his second master’s degree in Computer Science at Stevens Institute. He had a 4.0 average! He is presently employed at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel as a sys­ tems engineer. I am enjoying staying at home and taking care of our 6 and 3 year old sons.”

Randy Bean reports, “My third season as a producer with Bill Moyers'Journal on public television is coming to an end. Two programs I produced were recently nominated for National News and Documentary Emmy Awards, but, alas, lost to more widely-viewed net­ work entries like “60 Minutes”. Moyers will likely be leaving public TV this summer, and the end of the “Journal” will be a very sad event in my life. I’m not sure what’s next - possibly a journal­ ism fellowship at Stanford.”

Jessica Vogt Dawson writes, “After 10 years in the San Francisco bay area, we are moving to the Chicago area. Doug is still with Container Corp. of America and has recently been pro­ moted to Box Board Manager at the main office. Our three girls, Alice, 6, Erin, 41/2, and Leslie, 1, are very excited about the move and the prospect of a two-storey house and snow! I’m looking forward to getting settled after the move and starting up as a transfer to the Junior League of Chicago. If anyone is in the area, give us a call, we’ll be in Barrington.”

Cynthia Brandenburg Gibbon writes “ I have a new son, Geoffrey William, born on November 24, 1981. I am presently on maternity leave but plan to return to work at the local hospital as chemistry supervisor in the laboratory.”

Deborah Nelson Hammond’s husband is a banker and they have three chil­ dren, Jennifer, 6, Stuart, 4, and Edwin, 1.

MA Fred Gurtman writes, “ I recently completed the seventh marathon with the City of Lakes Marathon, Minne­ apolis, MN. Am in my third year of officiating basketball with the Minne­ sota State High School League and local colleges. Am also practicing dermatology in Minneapolis and am the Assistant Clinical Professor at the U. of Minnesota Medical School.”

Bob Wenger writes, “I have been living in Washington D.C. for the last six years. I spent four years as Senior Counsel to the United States Sub­ committee on Health and Scientific Research and for the last year have been Corporate Counsel of Clement Associates, a scientific, health and environmental counsulting firm. My wife, Kate, and I live in northwest Washington.”

TKS Ms. Margot Escott Miller 75 Summit Street Norwood, NJ 07648

Jenny Penick Young’s husband John’s first book The Weather Tomorrow was published by Random House on Jan­ uary 10,1981. In a recent note to the school, John wrote, “ It seems rather a unique thing to have had parents who all attended the same school in the same town.” John’s parents are William C. Young '28 and Peggy Klotz Young '37, and Jenny’s are S. Barksdale Penick, Jr. '21 and Elizabeth Van Wie Penick ’36.

MA John H. Rudd writes, “ It doesg^seem possible, but I went to my 10th college reunion last June at Duke U. My wife Karly and I made a nice vacation out of the trip-yi/ashington, D.C., Williams­ burg, Smokey Mountains, Cincinnati.

She is still teaching in an elementary school near'Lansing and I am still working as an engineer for the Public Service Commission, regulating elec­ tric, gas and telephone utilities.”

A note from Jay Sperling,r“ l am a freelance writer and live in Arrowsic, Maine, with my wife Alice and infant daughter Edith.”

TKS ’68 Karin Strom McCombs and Maggie Johnson

TKSA^T —¿¡twffTtV/'e Claire Kalker Dallas, T X 7 S ' 2 . 0 & Karin Strom McCombs had a baby boy in December.

Lindy Franciose Wertz, big Dan and little Danny left sunny Florida for a Christmas visit to Montclair.

Dawn Geannette Danzig is very in­ volved in local and community teachers association activities. In December she gave a presentation to the Board of Education on the preschool handi­ capped program that she runs in the district. She and Howard are part own­ ers of a house in Vermont so have been spending weekends on the slopes.

Nancy Plummer Nazarian is kept busy trying to keep up with 2' k year old Diane but she gets into New York City often as chaperone to Rye, aged 5,

who is in great demand as a child model.

MA Burton M. "Bim” Webb Box 29 Free Union, VA 22940

TKS Mrs. Charles Gildea (Lynn Erhardt) 46 E. Saddle River Road Saddle River, NJ 07458 Teresa Solmssen Shartar writes, “We are thrilled with the birth of our first baby, Jonathan Solomon, born July 19, 1981, his father’s birthday! My husband, Edward, graduated from Harvard Business School, June 4, I I completed work as an occupational • therapist at Tufts New England Medi­ cal Center June 1, and we moved to Atlanta, GA June 5! Edward is working for Citicorp as a lending officer. Our new address is 1505 Noble Woods Drive, Atlanta, GA 30319."

Phyllis Digges La Touche became Mrs. Morgan Rawlins on November 28 in Bridgehampton, LI. They have a home in North Stamford, CT., but are keeping her New York apartment. Phyl­ lis is still marketing manager at Nina Ricci and is not ready to be a full time commuter.

Lisa Schultz Vanderlinde and hus­ band Derek are thrilled with their new baby, Catherine, born December 21st and weighing in at 7 lbs. 7 ozs.

Barbara Haviland Brogan and Bob ’69 became the proud parents of Justis David on November 23, in Annapolis, MD. As for your secretary, I am working parMime with my husband, Charles, j^who has recently opened a real estate office in Hohokus, NJ,selling residen­ tial and commercial properties In northwest Bergen County.

MA 69 Elliot Middleton and Valerie Gramberg

MA Christopher C. Beling III 116 Righter Road Succasunna, NJ 07876 Elliot Middleton III, Ph D., married Valerie Gramberg of Waubay, SD, on September 26,1981. Elliot is a grad­ uate of Yale U. and the U. of Colorado at Boulder. He is currently assistant professor of economics at Temple University in Philadelphia, Penn.

Thomas (Dutch) Vanderhoof is cur­ rently finishing an MBA in finance and living in Parsippany, NJ.

TKS 7 0 Gail Herbert Trask and Family TKS Ms. K. Vanderhoof-Forschner (Karen Vanderhoof) 39 Anderson Road Tolland, CT 06084 Gail Herbert Trask writes that all is well with her family. Jimmy, 1, has more hair now, two teeth and has started to walk. Billy is 2%. Gail stays home with the kids and in herspare timeworks on a geneology and helps Bill with the paperwork for his store. She sends best wishes to the class.

Carol Ladner Berger is currently working as a senior analyst/programmer at American Mutual Fire Insurance Company which she finds very exciting and challenging. She and Bruce have taken up trap shooting. Last May they went to the South Carolina state trap shoot and Carol won the women’s handicap event with a score of 95 out of 100. Bruce will complete his child psychiatry fellowship so they will soon be moving to another place in the southeast so that he can run an ado­ lescent psychiatric ward.

Madge Huber Henning writes that she and her husband have just moved into the house they built in Donau, West Germany. She had not received any MKA news for years so I sent her my entire file. She hopes to make the 15th reunion. Whenever you come, Madge, we’ll have a special reunion!

Alison Smith is engaged to be married to Jon Hitesman in June, 1982. She

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and Jon had been casual acquaint­ ances on Martha’s Vineyard for many summers but just last year started dating. Alison is still in advertising with a subsidiary of Commercial Union Ins. Co. Lydia Keyser Nabuco was married in August 23,1980 and honeymooned in Brazil until March 1981. She and her husb an d-he plays the d ru m s-p u t together a new trio and they have played their way to Bermuda on several Hol­ land America line ships. They cele­ brated their first American Christmas together in Greenwich, CT., “ like two kids decorating their first Christmas tree!” Lydia wishes everyone “ Lots of cheer and wishes for a happy and healthy 1982.”

Heidi Sanders Bryan and her husband Bill had their first child, Weston Redfield, on November 1, 1981. Heidi writes, “Weston is a wonderful baby and we are very happy.”

Georgia Buckner and her husband have moved to the Bayou. She is work­ ing for oil comparaesfleasing oil and gas. Blase is doing well with his car­ pentry. They bought a small house in a Cajun neighborhood-“the best neigh­ bors in the world.” Georgia is learning to cook gumbo and is finally able to use her French. They are both pros­ pering and happy and wish the same for everyone else.

Pamela Yu has moved to Houston,TX where she has a new job as staff psy­ chologist at the Texas Research Insti­ tute of Mental Services, Child & Family Clinic. Pam also is a clinical assistant professor at Baylor Medical School and the U. of Houston, and has a private practice in the city. Pam writes, L |l’ve had many changes - life is busier but better than ever. Houston has been wonderful!”

Karen Braeder Conniff writes, “We’ve been living in Hoboken and I like it very much. Dick and I are writers, mainly on science. I also do research for magazines such as New York, Rolling Stone, Self and The Dial. We are now free-lancing since the magazine we both worked for, Next, went out of business last July. We have decided to move to the country and are looking for a relatively inexpensive house with some land for gardens and maybe a horse.

Your secretary is still running her own insurance consulting firm. Business has been booming for 1% years and it looked, for a while, like the recession was about to hit, but after a small scale marketing effort we picked up several new clients. I have also branched out into teaching insurance and am estab­ lishing an insurance agency.

A very Happy New Year to you all. If anyone wants an updated class address list, please contact me.”

MA Garret S. Roosma 44 Buttonwood Drive Marlboro, NJ 07746 Barry W. Ridings writes, “Our first son, Alexander, was born last January.

I am still working in New York for the investment bank, Bear, Stearns and Co-’i | Albert B. Thrower, M.D., writes, “ I am going into private practice in orthopedic surgery, July 1982, in Westfield, NJ. We are expecting our first child.”

TKS 71 Nanette Utech and husband Conrad Samuel TKS Miss Amy Schechter 74 Montclair Avenue Montclair, NJ 07042 We begin our new decade as alums with a new class secretary. If anyone would like a classmate’s address, please write to me at the above address, or call me 8 :30 -4 :1 5 p.m. NYC (212) 398-4775.

While preparing our 10th reunion Nanette Utech and I heard from more teachers than former classmates! Carol Grieves and her husband and two children are still in California. Betty Logan is still involved with hockey and lives in Princeton. Several of you have asked about our dear Miss Hamilton.

I’m afraid she has passed away.

As for our reunion day, the entire committee, Nanette and myself, showed up with no other reuniting! Nanette brought her husband,Conrad Samuel, and 4 year old son, Jesse, to liven things up. The photo shows Nanette and Conrad in front of bars for a change.

Sydney Johnson is living in Alexandria, VA. Nanette lives in Bethel, CT., a scant two miles from Sally Boyden-Smith. Gil­ lian Blauvelt Capparelli was last heard from in Texas. Anne Whitehead Craw­ ford lives in New York City, as does Nelia Bacmeister. Cindy Dillenbeck

Breakfield can be reached in Montclair.

Philippa Bowles is living in Philadelphia, PA. I’m sure I've forgotten someone.

Has anyone any news of Jan Moorhouse or Paula Van Valkenburgh?

MA David Freed 221 Ringwood Avenue #A12 Pompton Lakes, NJ 07442 Peter F. Rockwell graduated from Swarthmore College with a BA in Psy­ chology in 1975 and received an MBA in computer application from NYU Graduate School of Business Admini­ stration in 1981. “ I am now working as an application programmer at Infor­ matics, Inc. in Fairfield, NJ.”

TKS Mrs. Jeffrey Waddell Lindsey (Kate Curtin) 8911 Bradmoor Bethesda, MD 20034 MA Samuel S. Weiss 160 Riverside Drive New York, NY 10024 Our deepest sympathy to the family of Frank “Poncho” Brogan who died sud­ denly on September 20,1981 in Atlanta, GA. Friends and classmates of Poncho are organizing a scholarship fund to be established in his memory. Anyone who wishes to contribute to this memorial fund should contact Peter Peretti 201 /746-3086 or Chris Schulz 212/4270353.

TKS Linda Williams writes, “ I graduated from Seton Hall U. School of Law last June, and am now working as a law secretary for one of the Superior Court Judges in the Monmouth County Court­ house in Freehold, NJ. My particular interest is matrimonial/family law.

Barbara Benner was married to David G. Kaytes on September 26,1981.

MA J. Dean Paolucci 46 Village Road Clifton, NJ 07013 Peter Redpath is engaged to be mar­ ried to Beth Sommer this May in North Carolina.

Bob Nagel is studying for his MBA at Carnegie Mellon U. Allan Kaytes is the general manager of Kaytes Ford.

Albert Van Eerde is teaching astron­ omy, oceanography and physical science at MKA. He started a weight lifting program at the school and coa­ ches water polo. Al is also head of the student faculty executive ‘discipline’ committee.

Yancy Thompson is working for IBM on Long Island.

Tom Galligan distinguished himself at the U. of Puget Sound as editor of the law review, and won all possible awards. He is now working in Seattle for the law firm of Lane, Powell, Moss and Miller.

Also from the legal world: Mai O’Hara graduated from Albany Law School where he won the capital district trial lawyer’s prize in senior competition. He is working for the firm of Caffry, Pontiff, Stewart, Rhodes and Judge in Glens Falls, NY. David Brandley and his wife Stephanie ijvesip Manhattan on the Upper East Side. Dave works for the law firm of Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer and Wood.

Rudy Schlobohm is working in New York City at a job which entails lots of travel, which he enjoys.

Tim Taylor is a sales supervisor for Sweepco Tube Co., in Clifton, NJ. Bill Breen is in Dublin, Ireland this semester studying Irish literature at University College, Dublin. Bill has had quite an eventful time since arriving in Ireland last November. On Christmas Day he was ousted from his rooming house by a fire at 4:00 a.m. On New Year’s Day he was bitten by a dog and nearly run over by a drunken driver who just missed him but killed the man beside him! They say disasters come

inthrees, Bill,so you should besafefor a while!

Yours truly is now with Time Sharing Resources in Paramus. I head up the Bell System’s sales group and manage major accounts. It was great to see so many familiar faces at the Alumni Var­ sity Basketball Game at the school on December 22. We had a terrific turnout and hope to make it an annual event.

Since none of you seem to answer letters, please feel free to call me at the office (201) 967-0322, with your latest news.

TKS Miss Bonnie McBratney 19 Erwin Park Road Montclajr^NJ 07042 Aufzien writes,“ ! completed j/iy MBA in marketing at NYU Graduate School of Business Administration in /June 1980 and am currently working /for the RAL Corporation in Fairfield, NJ. Anne Patrick Keith is living outside Atlanta, GA, with her husband, Dick, and new son, Richard. She has a “blooming” flower business but she and Dick plan to return to N J for good sometime this spring. She highly recommends motherhood and looks forward to seeing old friends.

Ann Robinson writes, “ I graduated in May from Boston U. School of Law and am now practicing law in Westport, CT., and living in Stamford.

Seton Daly writes “I married Brian Beckwith from Fairfield, NJ on October 3,1981. We bought a brownstone in an up-and-coming area c a lle d -d o n ’t laugh - Hoboken, NJ!” Adrienne (Maroon) Crowther is cur­ rently the assistant circulation manager at American Lawyer Magazine.

Cathy Irwin Hippie, her husband Jeff, and son, Jay, moved to Philly and love the city. Their daughter, Jane, was born in December.

Mary Lathrop has announced her engagement to Jim Ord of Nantucket.

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David Soule writes, “ Lots of news for this issue. Several classmates have surfaced from their past obscurity!”

My co-class secretary Sally McBratney and Donald F. D’Alessandro were mar­ ried in Montclair on December 19.

Guests at the wedding included Maijj colm Hall and Bonnie, Lisa Irwin, Liz Newman, Kassie Canter, Jeff Gimber, Dave Sperling and Anne, Kay Towner and Nathalie Humbert.”

Malcolm Hall is working as a bond broker and living in Montclair.

Ken Rockhill is also into bonds at the Municipal Bond Department of the Marine Midland Bank, NYC. Wendy Weiss was last seen in Kansas purchasing 20 foot lengths of steel! She is teaching fine arts to 20 ‘twinkling eyed’ undergraduates.

Bill Baker and his wife, Tina, are enjoy­ ing the beautiful hills of Wyoming, and are expecting a baby this year.

Andy Stieger is finishing his lawstudies at Cardoza College in NYC. Tom Isenberg and his wife, Margaret, spent last summer in Hamden, CT, where Tom was working as a law cle rk .'

John Sanders, having worked as a writer in Washington, D.C., is now study­ in g for an MBA at the U. of Virginia.

Michael Ehrenberg is working for Bunker Raimo, Trumbull, CT., and living in New Haven.

Anne Thomas is living in Chicago where she teaches computer software systems at the IBM corporate training center.

Leigh Royer is in Boston working part-time as an industrial designer. She spends the rest of her time doing studio, work. Leigh is sharing an apartment with Kay Towner.

Tim Breen is studying literature and political science at the U.of Minnesota.

Russell Freed and his wife Amy have been transferred to Long Island where he works for Diamond Shamrock. Wel­ come back east, Russell!

Alison Hunt gets this issue’s award for the most informative letter! Having graduated from Rollins College with a BA in business, Alison moved to the Florida Keys where she is a legal secre­ tary. When not in the office she is an independent beauty consultant. Alison loves both her jobs and the Florida sun.

Sean Boyle writes to confirm his con­ tinuing existence in Sea Girt NJ. He wishes all, “ Happy Trails!”

Catherine Gay Haviland married Wil­ liam James Emott on July 4, 1981 in the Thousand Islands, summer home of Catherine's parents Barbara Spadone Haviland ’34, and David Haviland '31.

Catherine started law schoolrlasj fall and William works for the American Satellite Co., in Rockville, MD\

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As for myself, Dave, I completed my MBA at NYU and am now working in the international division of the Ameri­ can Cyanamid c and looking for­ ward to freo! : less trips abroad.”

MKA Miss Laurie Hoonhout 14 Kenneth Road Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Charles Read, 162 Inwood Avenue Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 It was great to see so many class­ mates at Homecoming, October 17.

Rob Pariseau made it from Virginia, Mary Lou Guttman came from law school at Duke U. Margie Hollander did an internship in January on Wall Street as part of her business education at Rutgers U. Paul Gelenitis is a first year student at Seton Hall Law School.

Cindy Close is working for The Wall Street Journal and loves living in New York City.

David Hughes sends his regards from law school in Ohio.

Mike Schmidt and his wife Betsy have moved toTeaneck, NJ. Welcome back Mike! : Lisa Kruse and Ward Dannemiller will be married in Montclair in June. All the best for many happy years together!

Chip Read is in medical school atGeorgetown U. Donald C. Williams writes, “ I received a call during phonathon and really enjoyed the conversation with the vol­ unteer. I’ve started my first year of Law

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School at Seton Hall. I graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson U. last spring. I’ve been pretty busy with my school work, which I know no one at the Academy would believe! Had to miss Home­ coming as I was scheduled for a moot trial court session."

As for myself, Laurie, I am still at Seton Hall law s c h o o l-o n ly one more year to go.

On a sad n o te -th e Class extends its sympathy to the family of Bob Brinning who died August 8,1981.

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MKA Miss Donna Crews 218 Turrell Avenue South Orange, NJ 07079

lü u d * A * * Marty Cohn 316 Howapd/Avenue ^ Passaic NO 0-7055 1fCPj Your secretary Marty Cohn reports “The response for this issue of the Alumni News was the best ever, thanks!

Paul Hastaba is in market research with a media market analysis firm in New York City. Handling several large accounts on his own, Hasti enjoys the work and its challenges.

Bob Hubsmlth is doing para-legal work for a law firm in New York City.

Hubby has done a fair amount of travel­ ing for the job.

Steve Cowles and Andy Read are finishinguptheirtermsatSusquehana U. and the U. of Virginia respectively, as is Dave Jones at Rensselaer Poly­ technic Inst, Pete Valentine is i nvolved with adver­ tising with a local newspaper. Jason Apter also works in the area. Paul Finney ||s with a local real estate agency and offers his services to all classmates!

Chris Brenner is a structural designer

for an engineering firrtv in New York City.

Doug Mahler is a first year dental student at the U. of Pennsylvania and says it’s very hard.

Jon Grevatt wrote from Moulder, CO where he is finishing up seboql'at C.U. that “theskiing is great and I’menjoying playing in a few local bands.”

Deserving a paragraph to himself is Misho Protic. Get ready for this! After graduating from Harvard with honors Misho fulfilled his “lifelong ambition of flying jets for the U.S. military.” Located in Enid, OK, Misho is several months into flight training. He sends regards to all at MKA and wishes to “enlighten the curious as to my present disposition.”

Nancy Cohn is enrolled in graduate school at NYU while holding down two part-time jobs.

The University of Tierney’s has brought together familiar faces such as Paula Barsotti and Donna Crews.

As for me, I am director of advertising and marketing for a manufacturer of industrial products in Newark. I’m in­ volved in layouts, copy, public relations, mailings, market research and anything to do with advertising and marketing.

I’m extremely happy and enjoy the frustrations and challenges I meet each day!

Happy New Year to you all and please keep in touch!

MKA Miss Pamela A. Zeug 7 Van Breeman Court Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 John Glicksman 316 Greenway Road Ridgewood, NJ 07450 Betsy Ames is majoring in American Studies and minoring in History of Art at William Smith College where she was on the Dean’s 1980-81 list. Betsy had a great trip to England and Italy last summer, arranging to be in London at the time of the royal wedding. She even managed to meet Mrs. Reagan at an American Embassy reception.

MKA Miss Lori Dewey P.O. Box 146 Moravian College Bethlehem, PA 18018

ALUMNI PROFILE: SCOTT SCHULTE ’77

In his senior yearbook, MKA class­ mates hailed Scott Schulte as an “ex­ ceptionally quick water polo player” ... a modest attribute to this superb athlete who went on to break all kinds of college records, represent the U.S. on the Na­ tional Water Polo Team and appear in the “Faces In The Crowd” section of Sports Illustrated.

Since graduating in 1977, Scott has literally ‘gone swimming.’ He started as a freshman on Bucknell University’s mens’ varsity water polo team: During four ensuing years, he broke school records for the most goals in a season, the most assists in a season, the most goals in a four-year career and the most assists in a four-year career. He led Bucknell to four straight Eastern Cham­ pionships and four trips to the NCAA Championships where he earned the

distinctions of All-Time NCAA Scoring Leader in the NCAA Championships Tournament and Alaim e NCAA Scor­ ing Leader for Four Seasons.

During his senior year, Bucknell dou­ bly honored Scott by naming him Top Senior Athlete and initiating the Scott FJ;: Schulte Award to be awarded perpetual­ ly to those water polo players who have contributed the most to the team each year. Reflecting on his achievements, Scott commented, “Having the oppor­ tunity to play water polo at MKA helped me tremendously during the past four years.”'; Scott's water polo success did not stop with college competition. During his sophomore year he also competed on the U.S. Junior National Team. This past summer he competed on the U.S. World UniversityGamesTeam in Bucha­ rest, Rumania, and toured three weeks in Yugoslavia as a member of the U.S. National Team.

This fall he joined the New York Ath­ letic Club and helped their team win the 1981 U.S. Indoor Water Polo Nationals, while earning yet another distinctionthe U.S. Indoor Water Polo Nationals’ Most Valuable Player.

In spite of this impressive list of awards and achievements, Scott does not spend every minute in the pool.

While at Bucknell he was also active in the Congress of Business Students.

With a B.S. in Business Administration he started working in the securities business and is presently an account executive trainee with Thomson MacKinnon Securities, Inc. in Saddle Brook, NJ. To quote the closing words of his yearbook entry, “ it is proof that fish can live out of water."

Jack Brink 81 Brighton Avenue East Orange, NJ 07017 Notes form Lori: It was great to see so many ’79ers at the college-age Christmas party in December. Among those there were Peter Gray who is attending Indiana University. Peter is playing varsity basketball and studying business. George Frey, a Bio-Chem major at Cornell is on leave for a year and is studying at Berkeley, This fall, George is coming back to the cold weather to write his Senior thesis. Dave Lucci is majoring in business at Duke.

He has been on the golf team for the past two years and is a brother in Phi Kappa Alpha fraternity. Among his brothers are Peter Dodd ’80 and Jeff Chandler ’80. Roger Weber, a Civil Engineering major at Wooster Polytech

Institute, is planning to go to England for a year to study at the City University of London. Tony Cristello reports that he has been getting some great skiing hi while he is up at New England College. Larry Principe is majoring in Chemistry at the University of Delaware.

He is presently working on a thesis in Medieval Chemistry for the Dean Scho­ lar Program and plans to go to Germany for graduate school after graduation.

BUI Carson is planning on leaving Alfred University for a semester in order to attend Richmond College in England.

Bill's major is management and his minor is history. Shawn Mahieu has been attending Barnard and on days when she has no classes, she has been substitute teaching in N.J. Ken Dioguardi is at Montclair State. He is swimming and majoring in history.

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Ken is an ROTC student and recently joined the National Guard. After grad­ uation, he will be going into the army as an officer. We ail send our sincere sympathy to Chet Juall and his family on the loss of his father who passed away this past spring.

I am still attending Moravian College where I am a Journalism and Elemen­ tary Education major. I am an editor of the school newspaper and was recently elected vice-president of my sorority.

Mike Sullivan was a standout offensive lineman for the Ohio Wesleyan football team this year. The team set 33 records in the Ohio Athletic Conference as well as NCAA records this year.

James Johnson set an Ivy League record at Harvard last year with his 24' 7" jump!

Marc S. McCloud’s news arrived too late for the last magazine. He wrote, “ Enjoying Northeastern University. I have a co-op job at Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, NJ forthe next six months. Hope everyone is doing fine.”

Members of the Class of 79 at College Age Party, December 29,1981

MA ’79 Bruce Eng and Chet Juall

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MKA Miss Julie Ruddick P.O. Box 7237 College Station Durham, NC 27708 Miss Pamela Eastman Roanoke College Box 385 Salem, VA 24153 Julie Ruddick writes, “After a year at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Joe Catania has left school. He is now working for MicroBusiness Systems, Inc. as a computer programmer and helping with computer programming at MKA as a volunteer.

Ruth India Hayes is on the fencing team at Temple U. Shewon an unclas­ sified tournament last October. Pam Eastman writes that the last she heard, “ India and her ‘fix-it 101’ class have been working hard at repairing the Liberty Bell!” In the last issue of the magazine we credited India’s Junior Olympics qualification to her mother, Rebecca Hayes.

Also fencing is Tony Bowser who is an engineering policy major at Wash­ ington U. Mike Feldman is double majoring in biology and chemistry at Muhlenberg College.

Tracy Cunningham writes that Arizona is not so healthy a climate as it is rumored to be, but she still enjoys the U. of Arizona and her major in radio­ television.

Mary Hunt is busy at Lehigh with many club activities.

At Duke U. Eric Dobbin is joining Peter Dodd and Jeff Chandler in the fraternity Pi Kappa Alpha. In addition to academics and fraternity life, Jeff keeps busy boxing in Durham. Peter is back on the ice as one of Duke’s hockey stars.

Lise Cooper is happy at Susquehanna U., especially having won a schoolsponsored all-expense paid trip to the Bahamas last fall!

Andy Kramer and Rob Fullem travelled throughout Europe last summer. They met Sue Greenbaum on the Riviera and went windsurfing together on the Mediterranean. Pam Eastman writes, “While in Vermont, I had a drink (or two or five) with Andy Kramer who is well into his fourth season as a ski instruc­ tor on Bromley Mt.” Helen Carpenter spent part of the summer as a white-water rafting guide at Harper’s Ferry, W. Va. Later she went out to San Francisco and met Frances to go hiking. Helen is swimming varsity at Middlebury and in January Frances

transferred from Smith College to Brown U. Duke is as much fun as ever. This year I am working with children in the pediatric playroom at Duke Medical Center. It was great hearing from you all. Let’s hear from more for the next Alumni News!

Pam Eastman writes, “Will Gary Kramer ever get sick of hockey? Hamil­ ton U. hopes notl In January I will be going to Germany to visit the Hofbrau Hausand then backdown to Virginny.”

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MKA Miss Sheila Daly Providence College P.O. Box 832, Friar Station Providence, Rt 02918 Miss Karen Marnell University of North Carolina Morrison, RM 1036 Chapel Hill, NC 27514 A few notes were gleaned at the Col­ lege Age Party day at M KA, December 29th.

Janis Joseph played field hockey at U. of Pennsylvania and Christa McGill played field hockey atTufts and is now playing basketball. Janis is a member of the red and blue pep squad. They are both enjoying school and the social life. Christa says that John Kim likes Tufts too.

Meg Schumann and Charlotte Sohn say “ Hello and we hope everyone is having a grand time at college.”

Wayne Alder was seen wearing a gorilla suit visiting BobCuniff at Colgate U. Tracy and Karen are having lots of fun and “yes, we are giving it ’the old college try!”

David Newman says “ I am losing my sanity at Franklin and Marshall College.

That’s sad because one really can’t afford to! Ken Smith tells me he’s loving Rutgers Newark.”

Recent graduates, Homecoming ’81

DEATHS

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William Russell McHenry Dolson W. Rauscher Emma De Luca Betty Tomlinson Van Vleck Muriel Vintschger Lee C. Roy Christie Alfred F. W. Stapf Kenneth Rae Shand, Jr. Alice Francisco Norman S. Weismann Frank D. Brogan Robert J. Brinning

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Hornell, NY Calver Lake, NJ Spring Lake, NJ Montclair, NJ Qaks Comer, NY Russell, PA Malaki, Hawaii Montclair, NJ Thetford, VT Hackensack, NJ Clifton, NJ Chicago, IL

October 1981 November 28,1981 September 26,1981 December 19,1981 August 23,1980 September 26m981 October 3,1981 June 19,1981 July 4,1981

Bridgehampton, LI. Waubau, SD U. Montclair, NJ Brazil U. Montclair, NJ Fairfield, NJ Montclair, NJ Thousand Islands, NY

December 9, 1981 j f i e 3, 1981 April 3, 1981 December 31,198T" November 15, 1981

MARRIAGES 1944 1969 1969 1970 1970 1973 1974 1974 1975

Connie Soverel Van Voast and Tom Gattel Phyllis Digges La Touche and Morgan Rawlins Valerie Gramberg and Elliot Middleton III Deborah Anne Von Hoffman and Dale M. Lanzone Lydia Keyser became Mrs. Nabuco Barbara Anne Benner and David G. Kaytes Mary Seton Daly and Brian Beckwith Eve Chatellier and Scott Purvis ’7 lH Catherine Gay Haviland and William James Emott

MKA Chairs Available M KA chairs are available through the Alum ni Office. They are an­ tique black with maple arms and bear the official MKA seal in gold. Each chair sells for $110 and is shipped express co llectdirectlytoyou from MKA. Your order must be accom pa ­ nied by check made payable to Montclair Kimberley Academy.

Alumni Help Wanted!

Some Upper School students are Interested in starting an MKA crew team. They would very much appre­ ciate any Alumni help and/or coach­ ing. If you can help or suggest someone, please contact Alan Wilzig ’83 at the Upper School.

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