Spring 1986 MKA Alumni News

H E R Alumni News •Spring 1986 THE

M O N T C L A IR

K I M B E R L E Y

A C A D E M Y

“Ourgreatest contribution to the future is the hand we give the next generation. ” Frances R. O'Connor

Alumni, parents and friends come to Career Day

HER CONTENTS Report from the Principal/1 The Impact of Man/2 Career Day/5 Community Scholars/8 Notes Around MKA/10 Alumni News/12 Class N otes/18

EDITORS Susan Jones Judy Polonofsky Virginia Montemurro

PHOTOGRAPHIC CREDITS W.L. Bill Allen, Jr. William Bullard James T. Burger Daniel L. Weber

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION COUNCIL Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65, Vice President Curtis E. Brunner ’78 Lynn Towner Dodd ’54 Stephen T. Dodd ’79 Fay Taft Fawcett ’52, President Mary Crawford Fry ’64 Robert Gardner ’78 Geoffrey Gimber ’75 Robert Hoonhout ’71, Treasurer Gail Tomec Kerr ’52, Vice President Alan Kessler ’47, Executive Vice President Jane Lugaric ’78 Bonnie McBratney ’74

Oscar Mockridge ’55 Blake O’Neill ’82 J. Dean Paolucci ’73 Julie Ruddick ’80, Secretary Kit Eavenson Sanders ’41 H. William Schulting III ’42 Charles Small ’58 Cynthia Mann Treene ’54, Vice President Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner ’70 Ellen Wahl ’73 Frances R. O’Connor, Principal Susan Jones, Alumni Director Judy Polonofsky, Director of External Affairs

ALUMNI NEWS ADVISORY BOARD Fay Taft Fawcett ’52 Robert D. B. Carlisle Austin C. Drukker ’52 Audrey Carroll McBratney ’50 Member: Council for Advancement and Support of Education National Association of Independent Schools Alumni Presidents’ Council of Independent Schools Published by The Montclair Kimberley Academy 201 Valley Road, Montclair, New Jersey 07042, twice a year.

Front cover (Mt to right): Richard Sandler, MA ’48; Sally Minard, TKS ’60; Rudy Scholbohm, MA ’74.

Notice of Non-Discriminatory Policy as to Students: The Montclair Kimberley Academy admits students of any race, color, and national or ethnic origin.

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FROM THE PRINCIPAL Americans will probably debate the value of education until the end of time — and they will also debate what a “ valuable education” is. Some want only basics, some citizenship, others health (wellness is the current term), and others a “ well-rounded” program.

In the debate we often lose sight of the fact that, in our culture, education is one of the main components of child rearing. It not only teaches the three R’s or the elements of civilization, but must help our children prepare for adulthood in a complex, interrelated society. The complexity comes not just from the technological and scientific advances but from the need to work with so many other people in every area of life.

The “ loner” is an anomaly now. The wilderness has been populated.

Therefore, it is increasingly necessary for people to understand each other and to be able to work together well.

Automation has reduced the need for manual and unskilled laborers; computerized technology has replaced many skilled labor jobs. The most opportunties for the future now lie in the service industries, those that depend on strong interpersonal skills. The heart of education for today’s students must include “ people skills,” for that is the key to their future success.

People skills are those abilities that make it possible to work with others successfully; good listening skills; a mind that can both analyze and synthesize; an approach to problem­ solving that appreciates the value of

compromise; and those human qualities that encourage, motivate, diffuse anger and insert good humor into human interaction. This is not to say that there are no other things to be learned at school. One cannot function in today’s world without a good command of numbers and the language. A knowledge of humankind through literature, history and the arts is essential not only in the United States but in our international world. The study of science and foreign languages is growing in importance. Schools have always focused on these areas of content and learning; we must continue to do so even as we recognize the importance of teaching strong “ people skills.”

When I hear lingering rhetoric of “ the basics” or see the public cut down its funding of sports, arts and activities, I worry for our future. For it is in these precise areas that “ people skills” are learned and practiced. The greatest value of the basketball team is learning to work and think together as a team, not learning to dribble and sink hook shots. Any adult who has been a school athlete will tell you that the memories that linger are memories of working, rejoicing and grieving as a team. The individual development of stamina and skill was important, but the team experience was paramount. Adults who worked as young people in the theater remember the same thing. The experience was not that of the two hours when the curtain was raised; it

was the weeks and months of preparation, the coordination of efforts among crew and actors, the excitement of selling tickets and filling the auditorium. It was a group effort — a coming together of interests, time, talent and energy. Our school editors, politicians, community service leaders, athletes and artists are learning to be capable and competent adults. They are learning to work with other people and learning that their success depends not only on individual efforts but on the ability to coordinate the efforts and energies of others.

We spend too much time in America talking about competition and trying to get into “ competitive” schools and colleges. Our best educational institutions will turn out cooperative graduates, not competitive ones. They will be well-trained in specific areas — mathematics, foreign language, the humanities, and the arts, for example but that training will flower through interaction with others. There has never been a time when it was more important to raise our children to work well with others. It has always been a key to happiness. It is now the key not only to happiness but to success and perhaps even to survival.

Frances R. O’Connor Principal

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“THE IMPACT OF MAN” (otherwise known as surviving SURVIVAL) URVIVAL! For those who develop educational policy at MKA, it represents a commitment to providing students with an outdoor learning experience. For the teachers directly involved, it becomes a semester devoted to an interdisciplinary approach to English, social studies, and science, culminating in a field trip. For the seventh graders, it means the start of what is for most a totally new experience.

Survival — it is one of MKA’s spring rites of passage.

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For eight years, the seventh graders have traveled to the Kittatinny Mountains in northern New Jersey as a culminating event for a unit project entitled “ Survival.” However, the trip in May 1985 benefited enormously from science teacher David Love’s training at the National Outdoor Leadership School in the summer of 1984. After spending over a month in the mountains of Wyoming with other outdoor educators, Mr. Love returned with an ambitious plan for a course called “ The Impact of Man” — a revised, expanded version of Survival. This course combined standard classroom activities, initiative games, and a field trip with a program that would attempt to accomplish three goals: 1. To promote an understanding of ecological relationships.

2. To develop outdoor skills which insure safe wilderness recreation.

3. To enhance skills relating to positive group dynamics.

The classroom learning experience started with lectures and discussions dealing with minimum-impact camping and resource protection, including campsite selection, sanitation and waste disposal, respect for wildlife, and activities relating to topography and geology. The outdoor living and recreational skills tended to be the most enjoyable portion of the classroom experience. The students “ practiced” with activities that ranged from food preparation to climbing and rapelling using various parts of the school building. Initiative games were a very important part of the training. These served to familiarize students with proper technique and maintenance of the camping equipment. However, the more important function of these activities was for the group to establish decision-making policies and to select leadership styles that would suit them when in the wilderness.

The training lasted for three months. By the middle of May, the students and teachers were prepared to face living on their own in harmony with the environment.

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David Love, using several seventh graders’ journals, gives us a first-hand account of the field trip: “The night before the trip, I was so scared. ” “Where will I go to the bathroom?”

“What i f it rains?”

The bus ride was far more quiet than the normal school excursion.

Kids were attentive, listening for any last instructions or hints from teachers or more experienced classmates. We arrived at the road head. There was the commotion of unloading the buses, followed by the sudden realization that the buses were leaving. We were on our own for three days.

“How will I ever carry that pack?”

The expedition was divided into three groups. Each was given its position and a separate route to follow to arrive at the evening’s camping area.

“Our group started and found it was a very steep climb. We traveled fo r a long time with seemingly very short breaks every thirty minutes.

The hike was tough, but there was a great reward... a beautiful view.

I never realized that New Jersey was so beautiful. We were on the ridge fo r about forty-five minutes when lightning flashed. ” The lightning at first was a shock, but the students adjusted to the situation quickly and rather than becoming depressed, a ►

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(Far left) Initiatives are problems which require a group to devise a strategy for the solution. The process requires a cohesive decision in which everyone is important, everyone must agree, and the solution must work! Here the class wrestles with the now-famous “cavernless walk” problem in Mr. Love’s classroom: How to get across an eightfoot “cavern” with a seven-foot board.

(Left) Rapelling down the side of the Middle School building in preparation for the cliffs of the Kittatinny Mountains.

During breaks on hiking trips, students share their experiences with Mr. Love.

This climbing routine was a great test of the group process, for each student lent support either as actual technical help on the climb or by cheering on a classmate.

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Cooking from a ration of flour, cheese, dried milk and other staples meant that a great deal of thought had to go into each meal. It was wonderful to see such great endeavors as pan pizza, homemade biscuits, wild flower quiche and grilled cheese sandwiches without bread. Of course there were also such forgettable items as chocolate scrambled eggs and biscuits made from lemonade mix mistaken for flour!

► boost in spirit prevailed. A bushwack off the ridge down to a safe altitude for walking gave us a path to reach our first night’s campsite. Some of the group busily set up the tarps while others prepared warm meals to ward off the cold.

The rain cleared. Our first night was restful and the students awoke early for the second day’s activity.

Each group was asked to break camp, orienteer to a climbing site and step into a climbing routine that would eventually take them up and down the face of a 106-foot cliff. This was the biggest challenge of the trip and a great test of the group process!

The hike to the next campsite was long, a test of the hiker’s willpower. However, the view that night offered wonderful sky­ watching and a marvelous opportunity for the whole group to share experiences and thank each 4

other for help offered throughout the trek.

The final day brought a mixture of feelings. Some were happy to be hiking home while others were just becoming comfortable in the woods and would have preferred more time. Bagels and oranges awaited us at the bus. No finer meal could be imagined at the time!

“As I look back upon this experience, I realize how much I learned from it. People whom I thought could never get scared had the same fears as 1.1 became more fully aware o f how much I take fo r granted the comforts o f modern day living. I learned that I can maintain a positive attitude under unfavorable circumstances. I saw a different side o f my teachers and friends, and can appreciate them with a different respect. I can identify somewhat with what the founders o f our country had to

withstand in order to survive. And now I realize how beautiful nature can be, and how I can benefit from its beauty. ” “I don’t know what part was the most fun. Was it being away from home with my friends, or maybe that I was doing something I had never done before? Was it the challenging sense o f being outdoors, or peaceful sense o f discovering a part o f nature I have never known before? Whatever the reasons I think it is an experience that I will remember fo r a long, long while. ” *

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As a natural outgrowth of both the needs of the Middle School students and the long-range goals articulated by the Board of Trustees, “ The Impact of Man” will be an integral part of the Middle School curriculum for years to come.

CAREER DAY Career Day at the Upper School provides a unique opportunity for adults and students to talk about the working world. On January 31, twenty-nine parents, alumni, and friends of MKA visited for an hour with individual classes of students to share with them their job experiences in areas as diverse as graphics design and athletics.

Several weeks before Career Day, the student body of the Upper School was polled to determine careers that were of interest to them. Alumni Chairman Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner TKS ’70 and Suzanne Saldarini, Director of Student Services, then set about arranging speakers whose careers were suited to as many interests as possible. Registration was held and a student from each group was invited to serve as host, guide, introducer and evaluator for each speaker.

Phil Allen, Upper School Head, said, “ We are grateful to the speakers for the generous gift of their time and experience.

The students learned a great deal, not only about a specific career but also how to approach choosing a career.”

The combination of excellent speakers, a registration which enabled students to attend the class of their first choice, and student involvement as hosts made Career Day a very positive experience for all involved.

(Top) David Bruck ’61 answering a student’s question about picking a jury. (Center) Student host David Schwartzbard ’86 with speaker Howard Phillips, parent of Gary ’88. (Bottom left) Dawn Geanette ’68 during her slide presentation on educating handicapped young children.

(Bottom right) Frances Furlong ’42, a music major in college, tells her class how she developed a career in finance.

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VIEWFINDER ON THE WORLD Career Day Participant Lily Solmssen Moureaux ’59

Lily Solmssen Moureaux sharing her experiences as a photographer and photo­ journalist with Upper School students during Career Day.

CAREER DAY SPEAKERS Graphic Design: Ann Gel Michelsen ’63 Photography: Lily S. Moureaux ’59 Athletics: Oliver Gelston Business Management: Noreen O’Hara Chemical Engineering: George McDonald Computers: Wyndham and Doug Eberle Medicine: Robert B. Gollance, M.D. Foreign Language: Virginia Citrano Banking: Scott Bartlett ’50 Financial Consulting: Frances Furlong ’42 Broadcasting: DallasSTownsend ’36 Advertising: Sally Minard ’60 TV Production: Hal Goodtree ’76 Law: Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65 David Brack ’61 James Castiglia ’70 Julius Fisher Richard Sandler ’48 Insurance: Howard Phillips Military: James T. Kolb Aviation: Robert Iverson Clinical Psychology: Judith Gurtman Industrial Psychology: Roy Gates Perham III ’76 Real Estate: Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley ’76 Marketing: Rudy Schlobohm ’74 Education: Dawn Geanette ’68 Veterinary Medicine: Kathleen Schweitkart, D.V.M

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“ A camera is a kind of passport which opens doors to you,” says Lily Solmssen Moureaux, class of ’59, a sensitive photographer whose work has made an impact in international exhibits and magazines. Her first published photographs appeared in the KIMBERLEY KOURIER, the school newspaper, and KIMBERLEAVES, the yearbook.

After the initial showing of her essay, “ Violin-Making,” at the Modernage Discovery Gallery in New York City, these photographs were also exhibited at The Montclair Kimberley Academy in 1976.

As long as she can remember, she has been fascinated with photography. However, a career in this competitive field was not seriously considered until a college choice was to be made.

After majoring in photography at Endicott Junior College and attending the Philadelphia Museum College of Art, she did apprenticeships in the New York studios of Carl Fischer, Irving Penn, and the late Ben Rose.

Her first job at the magazine MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY as an Assistant to the Photo Editor has been a key influence on her career not only in directing her work in photographing, but also in researching pictures for publications and exhibitions.

She was lured to Switzerland in 1966 by the combination of unbeatable landscapes and worthwhile international endeavors.

She worked there first as a Photo Librarian for the International Labour Office, then for the World Health Organization, and later as Photo Editor for the League of Red Cross Societies until she moved to Austria in 1979.

Her favorite stories during this period were “ Skiing with the Blind,” done at a special Swiss Ski Camp (where she also assisted in teaching blind skiers), and “ The Wheelchair Athletics,” a reportage on sports for the paraplegics in Israel and in the United Kingdom.

A photograph taken at those British Games won a prize in the 1974 United Nations World Population Competition at PHOTOKINA, Cologne, Germany.

Her reportages have also included “ Project Hope in Tunisia — an American Hospital Ship,” a documentation of Red Cross activities in West Africa, and several assignments for the United Nations comprising a special report for the UN Year of Disabled Persons — 1981.

In Vienna until 1982, she documented the refugee camps for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. While in Asia in 1983, she was again requested by the UNHCR to complete an assignment of the South East Asian Refugee Camps in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, and The Philippines.

In 1984, The American Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium, held an exhibition of her reportage, “ Boat People: South East Asian Refugees.”

Lily has now returned to the United States. She is continuing to work in her chosen field at UNICEF, New York.

She is married to Ghislain F.L. Moureaux whose assignments for the United Nations had been mainly overseas. She considers herself fortunate for having been able to document these experiences.

UNHCR/Lily Solmssen Hong Kong, Chi Ma Wan Camp: This Vietnamese refugee — one of 28 persons in a boat — had been rescued at sea within the last 24 hours.

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THE COMMUNITY SCHOLARS PROGRAM:

An Investment with Significant Dividends

By Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54 The Community Scholars Program of The Montclair Kimberley Academy was established in 1969. Its purpose is to offer full financial aid to economically deprived minority students who show strong academic potential and promise for success at MKA. The program is a commitment to the diverse metropolitan area served by The Montclair Kimberley Academy, but the Academy also recognizes that the school is enhanced by the presence of these students.

To qualify as a Community Scholar, applicants must meet all MKA admissions criteria. Once accepted, their application for financial aid is processed. Following verificiation of total economic need, full scholarships are awarded to the extent of MKA’s financial resources.

This year there are seven Community Scholars in grades seven through twelve.

The scholars themselves demonstrate the success of the program. At MKA they have taken advantage of opportunities that might not otherwise have been available to them. Without exception, they have maintained good and often outstanding scholastic records and have been involved in extracurricular activities and sports. Of the twenty-seven scholars who have already graduated, twenty-five have gone on to college (Brown, Colgate, George­ town, NYU, and Princeton, among others) and two entered the military service.

The program is an investment which has returned significant

dividends many times over, not only to the recipients, but to the entire MKA community. The school has been considerably enriched by the presence of these scholars.

As the program has grown from the original single Community Scholar to the current seven, costs have increased considerably. Funds have been raised annually from a small but generous group of individuals, foundations and corporations. It is hoped that eventually the program will be fully endowed, so that it will not be subject to the vicissitudes of yearly fundraising. Anyone wishing further information about contributions to this program should contact the MKA Office of External Affairs at 201 Valley Road.

Community Scholar Close-Up ROBERT DAVID JACKSON was MKA’s first Community Scholar. Montclair-born and bred, he is active in church and community affairs. He is a Councilman for the Town of Montclair and a Trustee for Montclair Community Hospital as well as for MKA. Entering Montclair Academy in ninth grade, he went on to Princeton and the Harvard School of Business Administration. He now holds the position of Principal at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Robert Jackson relaxing at home with his wife Santa and daughter Danielle.

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How did you become the first Community Scholar?

I was in the right place at the right time. As a result of the civil unrest of the 60’s, there was an effort on the part of private schools to reach out to the community to find qualified minority students. I was in eighth grade at Mt. Hebron School when the principal and the guidance counselor recommended me for admission into Montclair Academy.

I clearly remember my interview with Phil Anderson [then Upper School head]. I went in wanting to go to UCLA or USC and be a football player. I came out wanting

Princeton and thinking I could be anything I wanted to be!

Was going to the Academy a big adjustment fo r you?

In general, I was used to predominantly white classes at school, as I was the only black in any of my advanced placement courses at Mt. Hebron. At Montclair Academy, my first day was spent in pre-season football practice, so that by the time classes were in full swing, I already had status and friends. Sports helped me hold my own and made me unique.

There were also two black upper­ classmen who took me under their wings. We started O.B.S. [the Organization of Black Students] in 1971.

How do you feel about your Montclair Academy education?

I came along at the end of an era in education — I guess you could say “ old school.” It was strict,

rigorous, and competitive. There is no doubt in my mind that because it was rigorous, I developed social and academic skills that I will use all my life. It was a great training ground and place to learn. My horizons were broadened; my goals were higher because of Montclair Academy. The teachers had very high expectations and I was encouraged to achieve at my highest level.

Why did you choose Montclair as a place to settle after graduate school?

I love the town. I love the people.

I wanted a chance to contribute to the town that had always been good to me. I felt the ball was in my court and it was my turn to give.

Why did you go into politics?

It was for me a natural transition from being civic-minded in general.

I felt I had something to contribute and I wanted to break new ground.

At 29, I am the youngest person to

sit on the Montclair Town Council.

As a matter of fact, my daughter was the first baby ever born to a sitting Montclair Councilman.

What are your future plans?

I would like eventually to move full time into public-sector activity — perhaps state-wide elected politics.

What are your feelings about the Community Scholars Program today?

It is vitally important that the program continue and grow. It is a tremendous opportunity. I know I never could have done what I’ve done without it. There is so much talent that needs a chance.

I would be happy to talk to anyone who would like to know more about the program. As a Community Scholar, I feel I owe MKA a great deal. I hope to contribute to the tradition and the future development of the school.

Your Bequest will help MKA’s future.

Have you made your will?

Have you included MKA? The following wording is suggested for a bequest: “ I give and bequeath the sum of $____________to The Montclair Kimberley Academy 201 Valley Road, Montclair, NJ 07042 to be used for its general purposes.”

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NOTES AROUND MKA Applause! Applause! Recognition for Our Talented Faculty ★ BRAVO, Brookside, for winning the Center of Excellence commendation by the National Council of Teachers of English “ for creating and maintaining an exemplary English Language Arts instructional program.” ★ for Marion Held, Upper School art teacher, whose ceramic sculptures were recently exhibited at Robeson Center Gallery at Rutgers-Newark. ★ for Tom Parente, eurythmics teacher at Brookside, who additionally gives private piano lessons to competition-winning students, performs as a pianist himself, and composes. He has just put the finishing touches on his second musical, a children’s show called “ The Prince of Granada.” ★ for Beverly Wilkinson-Di Paolo, Middle School music teacher, and friends from the faculty who presented a free and open-tothe-public valentine recital on February 13. The program was old-fashioned love songs, parlor songs, theater pieces, and singalong favorites. ★ for Leigh Berrien Smith ’45, Primary School assistant librarian, and Judy Nesbit, Upper School math teacher, who faithfully clip the papers for news of alumni and who are veritable fonts of information on the many students they have known.

(Top) Judy Nesbit at the Homecoming cocktail party. (Bottom) Leigh Berrien Smith with some of her Brookside friends.

FALL SPORTS REPORT

By George Hrab The 1985 Upper School fall athletic season will be remembered as truly outstanding for several reasons.

First and most obvious were the fine won-lost records compiled by all the squads. Another was the fact that four of our teams were vying directly for a state championship on the last day of the season. School spirit, support of the teams, and a general attitude of mutual respect and caring among all our teams was evidenced throughout the season.

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Varsity Football 6-2 Junior Varsity Football 1-1 Varsity Boys Soccer 13-3-1 Junior Varsity Boys Soccer 8-5 Varsity Field Hockey 10-5-2 Junior Varsity Field Hockey 5-2-3 Water Polo 2-5 Girls Varsity Tennis 18-2 Girls Junior Varsity Tennis 8-3 Girls Varsity Soccer 8-6-1 Cross Country Co-ed 5-7 Girls Cross Country 6-1

MKA GOLF CLASSIC Thursday, May 15,1986 Baltusrol Golf Club

Join us for lunch, golf, cocktails, and dinner (or, if you prefer, cocktails and dinner only). Chairmen: Richard Hatzenbuhler and Jack Cussen. For more information call the Office of External Affairs, 746-9800 Ext. 232.

PAMKA/Alumni Association Fundraiser

1986 A night to tempt fo r tu n e ... a chance encounter with Lady L u c k ... an occasion to dazzle the gambler in y o u ...

Buy a ticket to Chance Encounter and let the fun begin! The evening will begin with dinner parties in the homes of parents and alumni in the area. Then the scene will shift to the Kimberley campus for dessert, coffee and a complimentary table pass to warm up the gambler in you. Visit the gaming tables of your choice — roulette, blackjack and others. The “ bank” will be open for you to replenish your chips, so bring your checkbooks! A cash bar will be available to replenish your liquid refreshments.

If Lady Luck is with you as the evening unfolds, you will be a winner! But as we all know, you can’t take it with you. . . instead, you will be able to convert your winnings into “ Chance of Your Choice” tickets for fabulous prizes. Each prize will have a basket for tickets — the more you win, the more tickets you will have, the more you increase your chances to win any of numerous prizes that might appeal to you. Speaking of appealing prizes, how does a trip to St. Martin sound?! Picture yourself on the beach on the French side of this West Indies island, basking in the charm of the Cupacoy Hotel. This spectacular prize has been donated by Bob Thaler of Sea-Air Travel, parent of Russell, MKA ’91. The prize drawing and the raffle drawing will be at the end of the evening.

Then bid a fond farewell to Lady Luck, for win or lose, you will have encountered fun and friends.

Raffle books and invitations will be mailed soon. Don’t miss this chance to help MKA be a winner!

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Elizabeth Jones, a 1953 Kimberley graduate and a world-renowned medalist, is the Chief Sculptor-Engraver o f The United States Mint. She is the first woman, and only the eleventh person, ever to hold this prestigious post. During the Homecoming luncheon on October 26, 1985, Elizabeth was presented with the MKA Distinguished A lumni A ward, given by the Alumni Association. Her speech follows.

The occasion of being honored by an institution that has played a significant role in one’s early years offers the added benefit of making one reflect and weigh the impact such institutions and the individuals in them had on one’s development. In looking back to my years at Kimberley, one experience which appears to me particularly valuable — where I feel young Americans attending private schools to be particularly privileged — is the close relationship of school and family.

But let me first give you a few statistics: I spent 13 years at Kimberley, kindergarten through 12th grade. My sister Peggy spent nine, my niece Gwen Jones spent eight, and my nephew Rhys Jones spent two, and if Kimberley had been co-ed way back, my brother Griff would have completed the picture with an equal number of years. On the other hand his wife, Jeanne Perdue Jones, has been a member of the faculty since 1972 and that brings me to the crucial role the students’ parents have played in the evolution of Kimberley.

I guess it was in the early 1940’s when Kimberley still occupied the small house on Plymouth Street, and when the old Montclair Athletic Club came up for sale, that my mother, along with Mr. Harold Helm, I believe, was asked to head the drive to raise the $150,000 for the purchase of the club house and grounds on Valley Road to be our new school.

Obviously our mothers spent endless hours in meetings, but as my father told me the other day also the husbands chipped in: after the building was bought, they helped to get it cleaned up before the contractors came in; and as far as my father, who is now 91, is concerned, he still remembers the satisfaction of having painted the fireplace in the present library.

But behind these statistics of student attendance and anecdotes of parental involvement, lies the school’s raison 12

d ’etre of education, which here at Kimberley was obviously excellent enough for most of us to be admitted to the top colleges of our choice — Vassar in my case. Yet, to point again to the symbiotic family-school connection, we also enjoyed then the advantage of that invaluable supplemental education our homes had to offer.

While this interaction between family and school may appear to you as the natural state of early school years, it is not everywhere the rule, as I found out during my 20 years in Italy. Schools there - r from the elementary level on — are completely divorced from family life.

And I am quite certain that it was this particular aspect that prompted Phil Allen to start his own school in Rome to provide the expatriates and their children with what they must have missed most. It is likely that as an artist I might have achieved as much as I have if I had been the product of a European school system E - after all, alienation seems now an established precondition for any artistic endeavor. I doubt, however, that I would have been able to fulfill my present function without the foundations that were laid in the years at Kimberley.

As Chief Sculptor/Engraver of the U.S. Mint I am not just dealing with the design and modeling of an individual coin or medal, but I am involved in a much larger and more complex process — a process that extends on the one hand to the technological and organizational aspects of production, and on the other hand to the administrative and policy aspects of management. I never did have much managerial experience in my previous free-lance life as an artist, but I am facing now a situation where I have to prove myself on the shop floor as well as in the committee room, and in either world I have to deal with a great variety of people. While in most managerial situations know-how benefits from common sense, in human relations one depends entirely on one’s innate capabilities and their proper germination in early years. In my case, however, those capabilities are put to an additional test, because there are not just the usual human differences of character and background, but also specific differences of attitude — one is tempted to say of language — which makes it extremely difficult to discuss artistic matters between myself, my team of engravers and specialized craftsmen on one hand,

Elizabeth Jones ’S3 during her acceptance speech for MKA’s Distinguished Alumni Award, given at Homecoming.

and the majority of civil servants on the other. From the latters’ perspective the existence of a Chief Sculptor/Engraver — that is of an artist as a government official — must appear as an anomaly, while from any other point of view, institutionalized art cannot be but a contradiction of terms.

In any event this result of historic circumstances imposed on me the additional task — not of proselytizing among the bureaucrats, for that would be too unrealistic a goal — but just of trying to preserve some breathing space for artistic concerns. This is more a matter of daily skirmishes than of big battles, although I must admit that occasionally I see my efforts as part of the larger struggle against the menace of an ever more encroaching and stifling bureaucracy. And I may add that having been appointed by a president with a genuine aversion against big government helps to overcome the unavoidable discouragements.

What I owe to Kimberley, what it has done for me, is what I hope it will continue to do for future generations: to turn out young individualists and to help them to carve out their own creative niches in whatever field of endeavor or walk of life they choose.

Report from the Alumni Association We welcome Rob Gardner, Geoff Gimber, Oscar Mockridge, and Ellen Wahl to the Alumni Council! We now have 23 members who work hard to maintain MKA’s outstanding reputation as a leading independent school. No school can earn such respect without the support of its alumni.

Happily, Homecoming/Reunions has turned into THE EVENT not to be missed, with over 200 alumni returning last fall. This successful day includes a luncheon at the Upper School and a dinner at the Montclair Golf Club (both for designated reunion classes), a cocktail party for all alumni and many MKA athletic teams competing throughout the day. Next September 27, we will be honoring the classes of ’36, ’46, ’56, ’61, ’66, ’76 and ’81 and we will be competing athletically against Princeton Day School.

Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose. Last December 22, the MKA alumni hockey team lost to their annual rival Montclair High School. However, an hour later Dr. O’Connor’s pizza party was so much fun no one remembered the score. Thank you Julie Ruddick, Steve Dodd and Blake O’Neill for

making all the arrangements.

In January, eleven courageous college-age alumni pioneered a new frontier at MKA — College-Age Phonathon. They manned telephones and called classmates asking them to join others in support of Annual Giving. Not only did they perform an outstanding job but they showed us “ old timers” how to laugh while working!

Career Day was indeed a success!

(See page 5.) Thanks to Alumni Chairman Karen VanderhoofForschner TKS ’70E- who worked with Suzanne Saldarini, MKA’s Director of Student Services - 8 for a job well done.

This spring, the Alumni Council will invite the class of ’86 to be our guests at breakfast at the Upper School on May 1. At this time, the senior class will be officially welcomed into the Alumni Association.

We are very pleased to announce that the Alumni Association is working with PAMKA on a wonderful fundraiser entitled “ Chance Encounter” to be held on May 3. Hope to see you there!

— Fay Taft Fawcett President

Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner, Alumni Chairman of Career Day.

1985 MKA Alumni Hockey Team: Back row, left to right: Tom Preville, coach, Peter Schiffenhaus ’82, Chris Bruce ’85, Steve Dodd ’79, Rob Cerfolio ’80, Peter Dodd ’80, John Towers ’84, Eric Wong ’81, assistant coach Ken Smith. Front row, left to right: Brian Taylor (substitute goalie), Peter McMullen ’77, Doug Colwell ’83, John Booth ’85, Eric Green ’83, Jim Cannell ’81, Jeff Day ’81, Darrin O’Neill ’84, Jason O’Neill ’85.

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Jim Vandermade and Dallas Townsend, recipients of Montclair Academy’s Outstanding Alumnus Award, admire the plaque which will now hang in the Upper School library. The presentation was made by award chairman Dean Paolucci and Fay Taft Fawcett, Alumni Association President, during the Homecoming luncheon.

New Alumni Council members (left to right) Geoff Gimber ’75, Ellen Wahl ’73, Robert Gardner ’78, and Oscar Mockridge ’55.

Jill Green ’83 and Alexis Polonofsky ’85 calling classmates during the College-Age Phonathon in January.

From the Alumni Office

Gail Tomec Kerr ’52 at the Homecoming luncheon in October.

Fay Taft Fawcett ’52 presenting the Distinguished Alumni Award during Homecoming.

Alumni Profiles MKA is fortunate to have these two volunteers working to make it the best possible school.

GAIL TOMEC KERR has served on the Alumni Council as Executive Vice President for the last three years. As such, it fell to her to act on behalf of the President of the Alumni Association in the last months of Denise Anastasiou’s illness. We owe her a genuine vote of thanks for her time and talent always, but never more than during this difficult time.

As a Kimberley graduate (’52) and a past parent (David ’77 and Robert ’83), Gail has spent hundreds — make that thousands! — of volunteer hours at MKA. She served on the PAMKA board in several positions while a parent. She was a council member for The Kimberley School Alumni Association and is currently serving on the MKA Alumni Council as Vice President.

She is also the Alumni Chairman of the “ Chance Encounter” fundraiser.

Elected to MKA’s Board of Trustees in 1980, she now chairs the building and grounds committee of that board. Probably no one outside the maintenance crew knows the nooks and crannies of MKA as well as Gail! She has also served on the finance and the auxiliary operations committees of the Board of Trustees.

Gail’s abilities as a leader and a doer enhance not only our school but the community as well. A sustaining member of the Junior League of Montclair-Newark, she also serves on the board of the Smith College Club of Montclair.

She also manages to find the time to pursue her love of tennis and traveling.

FAY TAFT FAWCETT was elected President of the Alumni Association at its annual meeting during Homecoming. This was a happy day for our organization, for seldom is there such a dedicated volunteer who possesses all the talents needed for this job. Kimberley alumna (’52), parent (Ashley ’85 and Pam ’87), lifelong Montclair resident and expert organizer, Fay has come to this position from many years of service to the school.

Anyone who has attended an MKA reunion in recent years has seen Fay’s ability to organize and execute a major event for the school. As reunion chairman for three of the last four years, she has put in a tremendous number of hours to make certain the day is successful and fun for those attending.

As Alumni Association President she now sits on MKA’s Board of Trustees. Her board responsibilities also include membership on the nominating and the educational policy committees.

In talking about her relationship to the school as an alumna, Fay recently said, “ One day I sat down and figured it out: I’ve been involved with the Alumni Association for at least half of the 34 years since I graduated. Besides serving on the Council, I used to organize an annual alumni-varsity field hockey game during the years from 1957-1964. I guess along about 1965 we all felt too old to play!”

The (understandable) demise of the field hockey game notwith­ standing, it is a pleasure to welcome Fay Fawcett as President of the I Alumni Association!

If your news does not appear in the Class Notes section, please do not despair! Class Notes went to the typesetter quite early this year — January 15. Rest assured that all news that did not come in before January 15 will be in the fall issue of the Alumni News.

Class Secretaries: The new system is working! News gathered after Christmas by holiday cards and the one official class secretary mailing will be in the fall magazine. Spring magazine Class Notes are taken from reunion and phonathon news and the very successful use of the flap on the annual giving remittance envelope.

Married? Moved? Please keep your address up-to-date in the Alumni Office records. Also, if you know that a classmate is not receiving the Alumni News, it would be very helpful if you could notify the Alumni Office. Thank you.

Three Cheers for 1985 Reunion Chairmen Fay Taft Fawcett, TKS ’52 General Chairman Eleanor Barrett Vernon TKS, ’35 Josephine Fobes Carpenter, TKS ’35 Gerard B. Podestà, MA ’35 Susan Ailing Miller, TKS ’45 Pat Driver Shuttleworth, TKS ’45 Gail Smith Buermann, TKS ’55 Oscar A. Mockridge, III, MA ’55 Sheila Brennan Feldstein, TKS ‘60 Marc S. Kirschner, MA ’60 Margaret Crawford Bridge, TKS ’65 Barry J. Belmont, MA ‘65 Lisa Irwin Keane, MKA ’75 Brian Keane, MKA ’75

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OCTOBER 26, 1985 “ If reunions are way stations on the train ride o f life. . . this was the Grand Central o f them all.”

D on M ulford ’35

1. Tony and Susan Miller ’45 arriving for the festivities. 2. The Thompsons returned: Bogie ’35, Sally ’75, Ben ’76, Elizabeth ’35. 3. Paul Nejelski ’55, Frank Stamato ’55 and his fiancee at the luncheon. 4. Former teacher Frank Brogan came back to see his students from the ’60s, including Barry Belmont ’65. 5. Returning members of the class of 1975. 6. Dallas Townsend ’36 returned as a special guest for the reinstitution of the Distinguished Alumni Award. 7. Upper School Headmaster Phil Allen at the soccer game. 8. Principal Fran O’Connor watching the football game with Mr. Michelotti, father of Peter ’86 and

Tony ’85. 9. The Cougars charged to a 35-6 victory over Dwight-Englewood. 10. The Swanson girls, Toby Bizub, and Eddie Amirata enjoying the brilliant fall day. 11. Rob D’Alessandro celebrating the Cougar win. 12. Assistant Principal Av Green and some “Kimberley girls” from 1935. 13. Teacher Lynn Benediktsson and Donna Crews ’77 at the all-alumni cocktail party. 14. Phil Stackpole enjoyed coming back as a retired teacher, especially to see his godson Ned, son of Joseph Hare ’65.

Gertrude Mount McKeel ’31, teacher Barbara Gerry and son Nicholas look on.

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TKS Mrs. Henry W. Jones (Elizabeth Prentiss) 254 Ivy Street Wallingford, CT 06492 Beth Stewart Provost is living in a retirement home in Orlando, Florida.

Alexandra Costikyan Jewett has returned to Buffalo after spending the winter at the Hillsboro Club in Florida.

The Alumni Office would like to wish Mrs. Jones many best wishes on her upcoming 90th birthday!

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TKS Mrs. Samuel Meek (Priscilla Mitchell) 88 Doubling Road Greenwich, CT 06832 From the New York Times, the Alumni Office learned that Mrs. Meek’s late husband, Samuel W. Meek, was recently included in the Advertising Hall of Fame.

Mr. Meek took the international operation of J. Walter Thompson agency from one London office with 18 people and $500,000 in billings in 1925 to 35 offices billing $150 million in 1964.

MA E. T. Seymour, M.D. 5055 Lakewood Drive Nashville, TN 37220 The Alumni Office heard from Dr. Seymour, who was about to undergo major surgery in September. He has promised to send lots of memorabilia from the early Academy days, particularly about sports. Included in his letter was the program from a 1916 football dinner given to honor an undefeated season.

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MA Richard E. Kleinhans 190 Scribner Avenue S. Norwalk, CT 06854 Jenny and Bob Munoz are in the West.

Bob Hereford will move in 1986 to Pensacola, Fla.

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Looking back through the decades. . .

(Editor’s Note: The Alum ni Office received another response to our questions about where alumni were and what they were doing in various decades past. The following is an account sent in by Elizabeth Prentiss Jones ’14 about her service in the M otor Corps o f America during 1917-1918.)

I drove an ambulance in New York, as no wives could go to France. It was a strenuous life; everything about a car was very different from this day, as you may imagine. We drilled once a week in the 4th regiment armory and worked a week at a time putting the fleet of cars in order with the aid of recuperating soldiers.

When the fleet came up the Hudson with flags at half mast, bringing men with the flu, we worked most of the night getting the men to hospitals. They sent them ashore in nothing but pajamas and one blanket in November. In the course of time, I came down with the flu which finished my service with the Motor Corps as I didn’t recover until the spring.

Elizabeth Prentiss Jones, TKS ’14, in the uniform of the Motor Corps of America 1917-1918.

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The MKA community extends its sympathy to the family of Joseph Van Vleck, Class of 1919, who died September 6, 1985 after a brief illness.

Dr. Van Vleck was one of America’s first Boy Scouts. He was the second Eagle Scout in the country.

A 1923 graduate of Princeton University, he attended Harvard Law School and earned a master’s degree in psychology and a doctorate degree in sociology from Columbia University. He published “ Our Changing Churches” in 1937.

Dr. Van Vleck taught at Temple University for four years and at Hartford Seminary Foundation in Connecticut for six years. During World War II, he served in Greece with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.

Dr. Van Vleck presented his “ Friends in Freedom” plan, which formed the basis for the Marshall Plan, to various groups across France.

A trustee at American University in Cairo, Egypt, for 23 years, Dr. Van Vleck founded Planned Parenthood of Essex County. He was a director of several business corporations and philanthropic organizations including the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, International Planned Parenthood Federation and Sex Information Education Council of the United States.

Dr. Van Vleck was also a sociology professor at Hampton Institute in Virginia and lectured extensively in East Asia. He published a book, “ God Knows It’s Up to Us,” based on environmental awareness and addressing the need for humanity to work together towards world peace.

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We extend our condolences to the family of Harold Allenby, who died in September. He was owner of H.F. Allenby Inc. of Little Falls and was an importer of silk fabrics and wicker. Mr. Allenby was an Army veteran of World War II. After graduating from Montclair Academy, he studied French at Lycee Jaccard in Switzerland. He graduated from Williams College in 1929. He is survived by his brother Richard, MA ’28.

The Alumni Office heard from Joseph Wiedenmayer this fall, who wrote, “ I regret my inability to attend Homecoming in October. While I am well and happy at 80, I am almost completely blind. Please give my regards to any returning alumnus of classes 1922-1925. I began as a student in military uniform at Montclair Academy during World War I.”

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TKS No secretary Our condolences to the family of Gladys Ferry, who died on July 14, 1985, after a long illness.

Via the Smith College grapevine, the Alumni Office heard that Helen Raymond

Halligan will be in Naples, Fla. from November to April.

MA No secretary Gustave Wiedenmayer was the 1967 recipient of Montclair Academy’s Outstanding Alumnus Award. In response to the Alumni Office invitation to join us for lunch for Homecoming, he wrote, “ I wish I could be with you on October 26 but we will be en route to Florida after our summer here in Vermont (Dorset) where Kim and Helen Raymond Halligan also live!”

Also in response to our reunion invitation for Homecoming, Richard Overton wrote, “ Sorry! I am not yet recuperated after 1983/84 strokes.”

The Montclair Times reported that Hank Borowy, former New York Yankee pitcher and post-graduate student at Montclair Academy in 1935, is still going strong in baseball. He fired out the first ball in a September Mountainside Hospital benefit softball game between the Montclair, Bloomfield and Glen Ridge firemen and the New Jersey Devils at Pulaski Park, Bloomfield.

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TKS No secretary MA Lt. Cmdr. Alden W. Smith Penury Priory Temple, N H 03084 All is quiet and cold this December day.

We are concentrating on obtaining an early spring from the chap “ up there” who runs the weather.

27 -----------TKS Mrs. Paul Macdonald (Louise Russell) 35 Bank Street New Canaan, CT 06840 Dorothy Ayres Holt writes, “ It was a good and busy year. All the usual: hospital, church, politics, etc., plus two trips — Nova Scotia in July and Geneva, Switzerland, in August — with my family.

I lived there for five years before World War II and it is still the same beautiful place!! I am thrilled with all that is going on at MKA. It was always such a good school and I loved it!”

MA Eugene Speni 85 Undercliff Road Montclair, N J 07042

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TKS Miss Charlotte H. Fitch Box 45, 24 Cape Bial Lane Westport Point, MA 02791 To this day I marvel over the good education we had way back then. I went to “ China Discovery, 7,000 Years” at the Boston Science Museum and while watching the paper making exhibit astounded my friends by saying, “ Why, we did this when we were in the seventh grade!” 4 MA Robert S. Dorrill 42 Godfrey Road Upper Montclair, N J 07043 Cappy and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary on August 26, 1985, by taking a Caribbean cruise with our daughter, our son, and their spouses.

Our sympathy to the family of Darrell Roberts, who died on June 18, 1985.

Pride in our alumni. . .

(Editor’s Note: Joseph Wiedenmayer ‘24 sent a biographical update to the Alum ni Office recently. Because it exemplifies the best in what we try to teach today’s children — to become involved in the world around them, to give o f their talents, to foster harmony with others - 9 / would like to share it with all our readers.)

Mr. Joseph Wiedenmayer retired from U.S. Foreign Service after 22 years in 1965, receiving the meritorious award. His activities since that time have been as a volunteer, engaged in programs to encourage and reward deaf students and blind students, on a national level. He received the “ People-to-People” program award in 1966. In 1967, Mr. Wiedenmayer founded the first national scholarship award program for oral deaf students going to regular colleges for hearing people. He was awarded a special citation by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf in 1984.

Braillegram service by Western Union, begun in 1975, was originated by Mr. Wiedenmayer. He was honored by the International Perkins School for the Blind when it established the annual J.E. Wiedenmayer Award for its deaf-blind students in 1984. He is listed in “ Who’s Who in America.”

28 ----------- 3 0 ----------TKS Mrs. Gordon Bowen (Barbara Newell) 50 Forest Avenue Glen Ridge, N J 07028 We have a new great-granddaughter born in October to the daughter of our daughter who also graduated from Kimberley! Grandmother is Barbara Bowen Skibiski.

TKS Mrs. Paul Christner, Jr. (Esma Currier) 31 Aubrey Road Upper Montclair, N J 07043 Katherine Webb Perry writes, “ I am beginning to think of Newport as a real home after six years — such lovely scenery and so much to do! I had my first

hole-in-one after 53 years of trying!!”

A letter from Marjorie Kieselbach Dumont appeared on Dr. O’Connor’s desk containing such a charming account of a recent experience that she passed it along to the Alumni Office for inclusion in the news column. Here is a part of it: “ When I retired from business I knew I could keep busy — what woman can’t — but I wondered whether my brain might rust with only books, however worthwhile, to keep it active. I decided the thing to do was to revive what I remembered of my Kimberley French and see if I could learn to speak. (In my day we “ had” French all the way through and never learned how to ask where the john was.) So I discovered Marcantorio Crespi who was an assistant professor at Rutgers at the time. He took Richard and me on.

He’s the very backbone of patience...

After a year and a half he suggested we go to Vevey on Lac Leman to try ourselves out. We did. We probably caused a few well-hidden smiles. I did order jus de Pompidou when I meant pamplemousse but we managed surprisingly well. Actually, I hated to come home. A nd the manager of Les Trois Courannes remarked that we had better accents than any Americans he had seen!... In a conversation with Marc about MKA, I said the education I received there and the training to continue it were so superlative that I could hold my own in any circle, however lofty the brainpower... I should send you some of my weekly French exercises. Kind Mr. Crespi even gave me an ‘A’ on one which no one at TKS would have because it had eleven red corrections. His ‘stylo rouge’ makes my papers look so blood spattered that I write and re-write them for hours in hopes of earning that ‘A.’ “ So few of my class came to our 50th reunion that I hope 1 catch the 60th!”

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Edward Miles writes, “ Betty was not well this summer so we did not get to Elkhart to see our sons and their families.

One is a banker in Elkhart and one is with General Motors in Detroit. I have had my troubles over the last two years with too many operations to count including an amputated leg. But now I get along on my canes and feel great.”

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TKS Mrs. Jesse Taylor Drew 1076 East St. Lucie Blvd.

Stuart, FL 33494 The Alumni Office welcomes Mrs, Drew aboard as a new class secretary, replacing Nancy Holton Bartow who did a wonderful job for years. Mrs. Drew is busily gathering news for the fall issue of the magazine.

MA No secretary

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TKS Mrs. Arthur Van Brunt (Mary Harrsen) 14 Oldchester Road Essex Fells, N J 07021 It is sad to report that Helen Duffy McNally died on December 31. She is survived by a daughter, three sons and nine grandchildren. Helen was such a great addition to our 50th reunion gathering in 1982.

An announcement has come of the marriage of Mary Turnbull Barfield’s daughter Ashton to Dr. Gordon S. Reiss on December 23.

Frances Hardy Feezer reports that she spent the holidays in Phoenix with her younger daughter and plans to spend April and part of May in France. Francis Elliott McCahill and her husband Bill went on a wonderful trip to New Zealand and Australia, with a four day stopover in Hawaii on the way back.

The MKA trip to Italy last May was greatly enjoyed by Lucy Fields Haskins and “ Hap” and by Mary Harrsen Van Brunt and “ Van.” During the summer the Van Brunts saw Anson Church Kidd and her husband Don two or three times on Martha’s Vineyard and Cape Cod. Anita Schwarz Beamon writes, “ Last July I joined my friend Hap Kipp and his marine buddies on a Noordam cruise to Alaska and had a wonderful time. One highlight: our chartered plane trip over the Juneau glaciers.”

MA James A . Rogers, M.D. P.O. Box 95 Normandy Beach, N J 07839 Tom Braine, who was on the tennis team at Montclair Academy during its winning seasons in the early 30’s, still has a sharp game. He writes, “ Winner!

Southern Pines 55 and over doubles, Seven Lakes 65 and over singles, Lawn Tennis senior doubles. Not too tuckered to pucker!!”

Anita Schwarz Beamon, TKS ’32, in Sitka, Alaska.

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TKS Mrs. Thomas Shaughness (Ruth Powers) 6428 Barfield Drive Dallas, TX 75252

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50th Reunion Brings Back Memories (The following article by Don M ulford appeared in the Montclair Times soon after he attended his 50th reunion.)

Newspaper publishers not being exempt from the march of time, I found myself back on the Montclair Kimberley Academy campus on Lloyd Road, recently, for my 50th reunion.

Since I am still on a hectic schedule, I have learned to view such events as mere way stations on the train ride of life and to wave bemusedly at their passing.

This time, however, it was the Grand Central of them all and it did bring back some memories as 1 gazed out of the window of the Upper School dining room on a brilliant fall afternoon.

I had attended Montclair Academy only through the eighth grade in the rather forbidding institutional-type stucco structure that was then run as a proprietary school by Dr. Walter D. Head, a quite severe individual who talked so fast during an interview I did with him that I forgot everything he said before I could write it down. His personality was certainly a contrast to the lively enthusiasm of the current headmistress, Frances O’Connor.

I also cannot quite imagine any of the present students marching into class to the strains of Schubert’s Marche Militaire the way we did into Miss Kochel’s room during my formative years. Most of all, however, my mind went back to Claude Munson who taught me Latin with an efficient but acerbic dourness which, I am sure, has gone as far out of fashion as his

subject. He spoke in such a deliberate manner, legend goes, that one time when he put his finger into a live light socket, he was heard to say, “ e r .. .ouch!” His greatest exercise in self-control, however, was when he looked out of the classroom window to see that one of the cars parked, as they still are now, along the Lloyd Road embankment had slipped its parking brake and was headed for Bloomfield Avenue. “ Gentlemen [there were no ladies then],” he said, slowly, “ there is going to be an accident shortly and you may leave your seats briefly to observe it. When it is over, you will return to your conjugations.”

There were, as I have noted, no girls to distract us. They were all down on Plymouth Street as Kimberley was a separate school. There was plenty of disciplined homework that stood us in good stead in the years that lay ahead. We had no TV to keep us from reading and somehow the world seemed a lot less complicated than it is now.

The buildings, the teaching and the student body have all gone through five decades of change which have seen the school evolve into a fine non-profit institution which in the words of Dr. O’Connor, is determined to make each student a creative, self-confident and responsible individual who can make a real contribution to a better world.

I’m glad of that because the Class of 1985 will be back for its 50th reunion in 2035. I hope its members enjoy it as much as I enjoyed mine!

Our condolences to the family of Margaret Riter Agens, who died in November. Mrs. Agens lived in Montclair for more than 50 years and was a member of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, the Montclair Women’s Club and Montclair Operetta Club.

MA William J. Thompson, Jr. 415 Claremont Avenue, U2E Montclair, N J 07042 I am happy to pass along news gathered from holiday cards. Bob Even writes that he promises lots of class notes news soon!

I heard from Ginnie and Jay Reid, who planned to spend Christmas and January in Bethesda, saying, “ We will eat turkey, advise the kids, decline to baby-sit, and return to Hilton Head for warmth and peace.” Sue and Elly Wood write, “ I’m still teaching full time at Robert Louis Stevenson School in Pebble Beach — an excellent prep school similar to Montclair Academy. I enjoy working with young people 9 helps to keep me young! I have an 18 ' Mercury sailboat which I enjoy sailing and racing on Monterey and Carmel Bays. In the winter I frequently go skiing 9 usually at Squaw Valley.

Now that I’m over 70, I ski free on all the slopes! (The regular ski lift ticket is $28.)

We are spending the Christmas holidays in Colorado Springs with our son Chips and his family. I hope 1 can keep up with my grandchildren, Catharine (age 12) and

Oliver (age 10), on the ski slopes — and the tennis courts! Sue and I are both in reasonably good health. Hope you are too! I am looking forward to our next big class reunion!”

Fred Stickel writes, “ I have been appointed judge of the Municipal Court of Roseland, N.J., for three years, beginning in January 1985.”

David T. Stanley writes, “ Our eighth grandchild, Edward K. (“ Ned” ) Stanley, was born in June in Salt Lake City. His father Dave works in the Folklore Center of the State of Utah; his mother, Meg Brady, teaches at the U. of Utah.”

Vardy Laing, prompted by Bill Thompson’s requests for news through the years, sent the Alumni Office a copy of his most recent diploma. During the correspondence that followed, this story unraveled: “ I am a physician with degrees of B.S. (McGill) 1938, and M.D. (McGill) 1940. But somehow or other, I never had any history during high school and university. So, in 1981, I started out to attempt to gain my B.A. in history from the U. of Calgary. At Montclair Academy, I never achieved the Honor Roll (80% or better). At U. of Calgary, I missed a degree with distinction by .07% (I achieved 3.53 out of 4). So I now have a B.A. (1985), B.S. (1938) and M.D. (1940). Not too bad for a 70 year old!

Are there any plans for a 55th reunion?”

34 -----------TKS Mrs. David Haviland (Barbara Spadone) 185 Gates Avenue Montclair, N J 07042 The Montclair Times reported that Betty Dixon has been named chairman of the Leadership Gifts Division of the United Way of North Essex’s 1985-86 campaign. A long-time volunteer with United Way, she was a member of its board of trustees and secretary and served on the executive committee for two years.

She is a member of the Montclair Art Museum, a former board trustee and docent. She was past president of the Junior League of Montclair-Newark and is a sustaining member of that organization. She and her husband, Willard, have four children and five grandchildren.

MA Dr. Walter Sperling Fearrington P.O. Box 192 Pittsborough, NC 27312

50th Reunion, Class of 1935.

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1985.

Elaine Beling Mann writes, “ Looking forward to our 50th! We expect a big gathering in June,” “ Elizabeth Howe Glaze is also looking forward to the 50th, adding, “ Hope that all of our class will be back for this special time!”

Elisabeth McCabe also plans to attend the reunion and adds the news, “ We made it through open heart surgery this year and have a new lease on life!”

MA W. Kent Schmid Mason’s Island Mystic, C T 06355 Our condolences to the family of Ralph E. Watt, who died in August of a heart attack.

Our condolences also to the family of David Demarest. He was the owner of an importing business for many years before retiring in 1982. During World War II, he was a geologist for the federal government. While in high school at Montclair Academy, Mr. Demarest was an outstanding football player. He was graduated from Princeton University.

50th Reunion, Class of 1935.

TKS Ruth Russell Gray (Ruth Russell) 60 Sterling Road Watchung, N J 07060

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38 ----------TKS Miss Jane Carpenter 12 Francis Place Montclair, N J 07042

50th Reunion, Class of 1935.

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50th Reunion, Class of 1935.

36-----------Your 50th reunion is September 27. If you would like to volunteer as your reunion chairman, please notify the Alumni Office as soon as possible.

Bogie Thompson, MA ’35, at the Homecoming football game.

TKS Mrs. W. Kent Schmid (Josephine Murray) Mason’s Island Mystic, CT 06355 Our condolences to the family of Betty Minsch Buys, who died in the fall of

TKS No secretary Carol Christopher Schmitz writes, “I am a practicing professional artist, in many exhibits. I have won many awards in juried shows and am connected with several galleries.”

Condolences to Mary Walker on the death of her sister Margaret Agens.

Thank you to the new class secretaries who have recently volunteered!

Jesse Taylor Drew TKS ’31 Charles McGinley MA ’39 James Mackey MA ’43 Ann Feagley Wittels TKS ’45 Elizabeth Smith Shoemaker TKS ’46 Barbara Bywater Creed TKS ’62 Bronson Van Wyck MA ’63 Francine Onorati Crawford TKS ’66 21

MA Charles McGinley 1911 West Magic Place Tucson, A Z 85704 The Alumni Office was delighted this fall with a visit from Charles McGinley and his charming wife Teresita. Charles was returning to Montclair for the first time since graduation in 1939, when he left town to join the Air Force. After the war, he went back to college to finish his interrupted education and obtained a B.A. and an M.A. in Library Science. He entered the foreign service in 1951 and served in the Far East. He was involved in cultural relations — the exchange of professors, Fulbright programs, etc., serving his last post in Perth, Australia.

He was married in Libya (he managed to have a Catholic wedding!) 33 years ago.

He has three daughters: an artist in Boston, a housewife in Phoenix, and another in real estate. Although he officially retired in 1980, he is busy gardening, reading, and traveling. During his visit, he agreed to consider being class secretary, and a card at Christmas caught him in the holiday spirit. Welcome aboard, Charles!

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TKS Mrs. Charles V. Cross (Barbara Armstrong) 2306 Cardinal Drive Point Pleasant, N J 08742 Our condolences to Josephine W. Clark, whose brother Elliott (Sam) Watt, MA ’36, died in August of a heart attack.

MA No secretary Frederick Little writes, “ Jodie and Stewart Carpenter came by to see us in Vermont this summer. We expect our first grandchild in January.”

was graduated from BU, now working in Boston. Barbara cruised the Greek Isles on the sailing ship Sea Cloud and went to Wimbledon and Henley. She is still curator of the Antique Costume Collection at the Darien Historian Society. Also, Donald and Sally Appenzellar had a pleasant six-week visit at his sister’s in Catsfield, England. They traveled hither and yon trying out England’s renowned golf courses and losing their share of balls in the gorse.

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TKS Mrs. E. B. Ruffing, Jr. (Joan Sweeney) 125 Westview Road Upper Montclair, N J 07043 Mary Batt Taylor writes, “ I am on my way to LaJolla, Calif, to visit my parents.

My father George K. Batt, the first chairman of the Board of Trustees of Kimberley, had his 91st birthday in October!”

MA James Mackey 213 Geneva Street Elizabeth, N J 07206 The Alumni Office would like to welcome James Mackey as the class secretary; who responded that he would be “ delighted” to serve! His column will be in the next issue of the magazine.

Edward S. Olcott writes, “ I am very busy in retirement, which involves consulting work both here and abroad, travel (Russia in 1985), Overlook Hospital Board, chairman of a pastor nominating committee in Summit and golf. It is good to be out of the New York rat race after 35 years with the Port Authority, from which I retired as Director of Planning.

41 -------- 14 TKS No secretary The Montclair Times reported that Kit Sanders has joined the board of Youth Employment Services and will be helping to revise the Hostess Helper course this year.

MA David Baird, Jr. 9 Parkway Montclair, N J 07042 Dr. Richard Sanborn writes, “ I recently toured the old airfield of the 94th bomb group (B-17’s) 8th Air Force in England and the invasion beaches of Normandy.”

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TKS Mrs. Robinson V. Smith (Joan Trimble) 16 Marshall Terrace Wayland, MA 01778 News from Leigh Smith: Barbara O’Donovan White has a new grandson, born to son Peter. Her youngest son Rob

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TKS Mrs. Nancy Heydt Green 99 Belvidere Road Falmouth, MA 02540 MA Winterford J. Ohland Box 137, R.D. #3 Blairstown, N J 07825

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TKS Mrs. Jerome L. Wittels (Ann Feagley) 2116 Via Alamitos Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274 The Alumni Office would like to thank Ann Feagley Wittels for taking over the responsibility of class secretary from Leigh Smith, who has done such a fabulous job over the years. Welcome aboard, Ann! Leigh, faithful alumna that she is, continues to send news to the Alumni Office, which follows: “ Procter and I welcomed our fourth grandson, John D.

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Brock, on October 24. This is Pam and John’s second. Now we have four reasons to head for Massachusetts E aside from Vineyard vacations.”

Jane Hagan Farno works as a paralegal for a Hartford law firm, in the Estate Trust Division. For some years she had worked seasonally for H&R Block, so she has a lot of relevant knowledge. Jane and Glenn’s youngest son Peter is the only one still in college. They regret that daughter Stephanie and her two children do not live in their vicinity.

Judy Shearer Turnbull and Bob sold their Virginia home very quickly in 1985 and are permanent residents of Winter Haven, Fla. Judy loves to see old friends so let her know if you’re going to be in the vicinity. She and Bob have caught up with Nancy Nevins D’Anjou briefly once or twice recently when business has taken Nancy to their part of Florida.

Rudd Trimble Kenvin and Roger purchased a residence in San Luis Obispo, Calif, in 1985, upon finding they’d be remaining in the area for several years at least. Rudd combined visits with family in the East with reunion weekend and enjoyed the hospitality of Susan Ailing Miller and Tony for a few nights, enabling them to catch up after not seeing each other in “ too long” ! Rudd herself wrote to the Alumni Office, “ I truly do not know how our reunion could have been better except if we had had more returning from the class of ’45!”

Phyllis Harder Reininger writes, “ I wish I could have attended reunion! I did enjoy having lunch with Sue Ailing Miller in N.Y.C. in September. It was a wonderful visit. We now have two granddaughters E both very cute — Rebecca Loren (3 Zi years) and Kelsey Nicole (4 months old).”

MA William B. Grant 41 Clinton Avenue Ridgewood, N J 07451 I am challenging the incumbent in the June 1986 Republican primary for the congressional seat in the fifth district.

[Mr. Grant is a former Montclair Town Commissioner.]

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Your 40th reunion is September 27. If you would like to volunteer to be your class reunion chairman, please notify the Alumni Office as soon as possible.

IKS Mrs. George P. Shoemaker (Elizabeth Smith) 11 High Point Terrace Scarsdale, N Y 10583 The Alumni Office would like to welcome Liz Shoemaker as the new class secretary. She will be replacing Heidi Ames Troxell, who has performed so well for years in this job. Thank you, Heidi, and welcome, Liz! Our condolences to Eleanor Helm Ketcham, whose father Harold Helm died in November. Mr. Helm was a former president of the Kimberley Board of Trustees and a leading Montclair citizen.

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47 --------TKS Mrs. Edwin Reade, Jr. (Petey Hoffman) Box 165 Deerfield, MA 01342 From Richard Macksey (MA ’48) we learned that Janet Heller is working for the new Space Telescope Science Institute at Johns Hopkins.

MA Chase Troxell 44 Windermere Terrace Short Hills, N J 07078 Andrew Daylin writes, “ I plan to spend the rest of my business life in aquaculture, starting with the growing of abalone in concrete raceways near the Pacific Ocean in Guadalupe, Calif. I was remarried in 1983 to Doris Jongeneel.”

Cole Sheehey writes, “I am still with Hennepin County E - seven years in the Sheriff’s Office and fourteen with Municipal Court.”

48 --------TKS Mrs. A . Stanley Miller, Jr. (Frances Lane) 2498 N W 25th Street Boca Raton, FL 33434

MA James A . Swan 1A Sheraton Lane, Apt. 10 Norwich, CT 06360 Fred Ailing writes that he is the proud grandfather of a baby girl, born to his daughter Helen Stearly Ailing Westland in April 1984.

Richard Macksey writes, “ Our son Alan graduated from Yale in May and is working as an analyst with Alex Brown. I received a grant from NEH for three years at Johns Hopkins Medical School pertaining to ‘Medicine and the

Humanities.’ Also a grant from Rockefeller and Sudler Foundations for related conference in January. Edited a special issue of Genre (‘The World as Text’); published a volume on Richard Wright in 20th Century Views series for Prentice-Hall; editor-in-chief M LN, which is celebrating its centennial in 1986.

Advisory Council, Princeton; consultant: Duke, Virginia, Illinois, SUNYAB, NEH. We hope to see some MKA grads interested in attending Hopkins.”

49 --------TKS No secretary Our condolences to the family of Kathryn Keer Petrie, who died in November. After her graduation from Harcum Junior College, Mrs. Petrie worked for Merrill-Lynch, becoming the youngest female stockbroker in the country at that time. Later she became special assistant to the late Washington, D.C., political columnist and writer Drew Pearson.

MA Richard M. Drysdale P.O. Box 217 Bay Head, N J 08742

50 -----------TKS Mrs. E. Alden Dunham, III (Louise Green) 73 Brookstone Drive Princeton, N J 08540 Our condolences to the family of Dorothy Dili Barnes, who died in November after a long illness. Daughter of former Montclair Mayor William L. Dill Jr. and his wife Dorothy (Monroe), both of Montclair, she represented the 21st Assembly District of Connecticut from 1977 to 1983. A former Farmington zoning commissioner, Mrs. Barnes became a lawmaker one year before she received her law degree from U. of Connecticut.

Among her chief areas of concern in the General Assembly were public health, ethics and zoning issues. The House Majority Leader said, “ The state of Connecticut has lost a very distinguished citizen.”

Linda C. Herbert writes, “ I had my first trip to Europe in July 1985. I took a 17-day tour and hit 7 countries and 13 cities, including London, Amsterdam, Lucerne, Venice, Rome, Monte Carlo and Paris. Then I spent two weeks with my niece who lives in Paris. My sister met me in Paris and it was truly a great trip.”

Molly Prescott Kindred, according to the Smith College grapevine, is the Connecticut and southern New York manager for Doncaster Clothes. She also works for the Central Westchester Humane Society, which was recently “ torched” by an arsonist, so Molly is looking for homes for some “ very adoptable dogs and cats.”

MA Rudolph H. Deetjen, Jr. Northgate Road Mendham, N J 07945

51 -----------TKS Mrs. Eric Stroh (Gail Robertson) 350 Provencal Road Grosse Pointe Farms, M I 48236 It would be great to have a 35th reunion next September. Let’s all plan to come. I’d like everyone to come for dinner at my mother’s house in Llewellyn Park — just like the old times! What do you think, classmates??

MA Ernest F. Keer, III P.O. Box 1030 Point Pleasant Beach, N J 08742 Our condolences to Ernie Keer on the death of his sister Kathryn Keer Petrie (TKS ’49) in November.

Ken Crowell writes, “I am increasingly concerned with teaching concern for conserving the earth’s biota (at St. Lawrence). My youngest son enters Middlebury in the fall.”

52 -----------TKS Mrs. Edward C. Fawcett (Fay Taft) 9 Gordon Place Montclair, N J 07042 Jane Redfieid Forsberg and Bob went to London and York just before Christmas to visit their youngest, Kristen, who took a semester abroad from Hobart William Smith College where she is a junior. (It just dawned on me why parents always encourage their children to take a semester abroad.) Bob, Jr. graduated from Bowdoin and through his camp, took a group of kids to Russia (Jane and Bob didn’t go there) and is now happily working for a paper company.

Last November, Carol Humphrey White and George took a break from White Papers, Inc., their five-year-old company, and went touring plantations in New Orleans. Daughter Kathy has an apartment in San Francisco and, at this moment, is in-between jobs.

Jean Fairgrieve Granum’s two boys went off to Vassar and Tufts for their freshman years which leaves Jean and Brad with an empty nest.

Wain Koch Maass and Bill say all is well with their family. Andrew is in his last year of law school, living in the Boston area along with Kathy and Bill.

Amy is a sophomore at Hartwick College in N.Y. Nancy Booth Kelly writes that son Andrew is in his second year at Muskingum College in Ohio, Greg is a freshman at Tulane and 16-year-old Scott is in school in Nassau. David and Nancy are expanding their store and love to travel when they can get away. Last summer they took Andrew and Greg to London and Paris, last October Nancy went with her mother and friends to Europe for two weeks and then Nancy says, “ Of course, Miami is like our second home.” In May, she plans to attend her Smith reunion.

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all of us for the enormous amount" of work she does for our Alumni Association as well as the MKA Board of Trustees.

She and Dave sneak away on some nice trips, though, including an eight-day bike tour with friends through the Loire Valley in France. David Jr. is living in N.Y.C. and works in the Corporate Finance Dept, of Manufacturer’s Hanover Bank. Susan lives in Boston where she works as a secretary for Jennison Asso. Robbie is a junior at Hobart College.

Last fall Anne Dwyer Milne and Norm celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary with a surprise party given by their children and Anne’s mother. In November, daughter Susan, who graduated from Plymouth State College, married Tom Haydock from Cincinnati and they now live in Brookline, Mass. On their honeymoon they went skiing in Switzerland. Tom is a sales trainee with Ris Paper Co. in Woburn, Mass.

I saw Mrs. Pendleton recently and she said Babs Pendleton Donnell and Jim have moved to the North Hills section of Pittsburgh where Jim is now an administrator with the Presbyterian church offices.

And, Skipper, to you we send our deepest love and sympathy.

Thank you all for sending me your wonderful Christmas notes from which this column is derived. I apologize for not responding, but I promise I will in a year or two when our nest is empty! Pam is a junior here at MKA and Ashley is an extremely happy freshman at Colgate where she is attempting to ski again after surgery last winter following an accident at Sugarbush.

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TKS Mrs. Thomas Burgin (Lolly Penick) 328 Fairway Road Ridgewood, N J 07450 To inspire her classmates to send in news for the fall magazine, Lolly Burgin shares what she’s “ been up to” lately: We are still here in Ridgewood, N.J., as we have been for the past 21 years. Tom is business manager of the Ridgewood Public Schools. I have started my own business as a computer consultant, working with individuals, non-profits, and small businesses to get them started computerizing. I also do training for those who may already have a computer and need help figuring out how to get the most out of it. I have never quite been able to extricate myself from the maze of volunteer work, so I serve on the boards of Family Counseling Service and also the Center for Electronic Learning and remain active in the League of Women Voters, the Fair Housing Council, and the Wellesley Club. In spite of having passed mid-century, I play as much tennis as possible. Early this spring, I hope to turn in my chauffeur’s license when our youngest daughter, Amy, turns 17. Amy has kept me particularly busy since she is horseback riding competitively, and shows are always at least 50 miles away! Our

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oldest daughter, Laurie, is 24 and working for Read-ak as a study skills teacher.

Gail, who graduated from Drew this year, is back living at home, and Chris is a junior at Lynchburg College, majoring in special education. There is rarely a dull moment around here, and, though I occasionally fantasize about deserted South Sea Islands, I guess we really like it this way!

MA John Wade 14 Dwight Drive West Deal, NJ

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MA No secretary George Kramer and son Larry are building homes in Ramsey, N.J., as well as Peru, Vermont.

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TKS Mrs. Susie Forstmann Kealy 232 East Walton Place, A pt. #2E Chicago, IL 60611 Leigh Eberstadt Brenza writes, “ Sorry to miss the reunion. I imagine it was great fun. Right now I have the care of my mother-in-law and couldn’t get away.

Family is fine. Our oldest Lindley is in his second year at U. of Chicago Law School, Karl is a senior in electrical engineering at U. of Penn, and Amy is a freshman at Cornell. The nest would be empty, but we have Andy, who is 9 and gives us such joy. My travel business fills the rest of my time.”

MA No secretary Oscar Mockridge reports that a small but terrific group showed up in October for their 30th reunion. Those at lunch were Bob McClintock, Larry Martin, Paul Nejelski and Frank Stamato. At the cocktail hour at the Kimberley campus, Steve Theiburg and Mike Ludlum with wife Melissa joined up. Also joining the group at dinner was Art Messineo.

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Your 30th reunion is September 27. If you would like to volunteer to be your class reunion chairman, please notify the Alumni Office as soon as possible.

TKS Mrs. Lawther O. Smith (Linda Lovell) 30 Water Crest Drive Doylestown, PA 18901 Lilia McDonald writes, “ My daughter, Elizabeth, is in graduate school at Western Washington U., Bellingham, Wash. Her field is Alpine Botany Ecology. A new AAA office has been built in Eugene which my husband is managing and pleased about.”

Gail Zabriskie Wilson writes, “ This is my fifth year working as an instructional aide in English and social studies at Greenwich H.S. and my sixth and last year as Alumni Trustee of Wells College.

I am involved with First Presbyterian Church and A.F.S. Bonnie (Aubin), 24, is assistant buyer at Macy’s in N.Y.C. Anne, 22, is with Booz-AUen in Washington, D.C. Peter, 19, is a sophomore at Hobart. Sarah, 18, is a freshman at Connecticut College. Husband Peter is still with IBM in N.Y.C. We celebrated our 25th anniversary in Maine this summer with Linda Cole LeStage in a bridesmaid’s dress!”

MA John W. Clapp Box 256 Sea Girt, N J 08750

57 ----------TKS Mrs. Wichard Van Heuven (Connie Hay) 909 Cambridge Oval San Antonio, TX 78209 Martha MacKenzie Hug writes, “I am in school working towards my graduate degree.”

Georgia Sherman Glick writes, “ In September, I started a new job — Administrative Assistant for Community Relations for the Lexington Public Schools. I develop materials about our programs and activities, including press releases, and I am establishing a volunteer network among non-parents. A newly created position, it’s fascinating.

Moreover, it’s part-time and on the school calendar. I am fortunate indeed!”

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

MA Laurence J. Magnes 6 DuPont Way #3 Louisville, K Y 40207

MA Robert M. Haney, Ph.D. Department o f Psychology Georgia Southern College Statesboro, GA 30458

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TKS Mrs. Robert P. Sumas (Deana Rogers) 4 E. Greenbrook Road North Caldwell, N J 07006 Susan Wechsler Rose writes, “ My daughter Amy, who is a freshman at U. of Michigan, will join her two sisters and us parents to go to Machu Pichu and the Galapagos Islands this Christmas vacation. My music career continues, after having given a concert in Carnegie Recital Hall last April. Recently Cynthia Hooten Magawan visited with her husband Merrill from California. We shared a quiet dinner in our home.” h^A Benjamin Fischer 26 Delia Boulevard Palisades Park, N J 07650

HOMECOMING 1986 September 27 Plan ahead! Save the date!

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TKS Mrs. Emily S. Danson (Emily Stark) 130 Old Stone Bridge Road Cos Cob, CT 06807 From the New York Times we learned that Sally Minard has been elected president of Advertising Women of New York for 1985-86. AWNY is a 900-member organization of women communications executives. She is also one of the originators of the Cannes Advertising Film Festival held each year in N.Y.C. Alison Kern Stitzer writes, “ Very sorry to miss the reunion. Looking forward to seeing pictures in the Alumni News soon.

Very busy at work (USGAC) as project director in the banking area and at home answering Leigh’s (now 314) questions (such as ‘How do you spell_______ ’ and ‘Why doesn’t our computer have a turtle?’). John, Leigh and I were still sailing in Nov. on weekends on our sloop ‘Active’ on Chesapeake Bay. Hope to get my mother (Mrs. E. Clarence Kern) out for a sail before Thanksgiving. She’s moved down here and is involved in Coast Guard history.”

MA George A . Bleyle, Jr. 2259 Weir Drive Hudson, OH 44236 I never imagined that I would have as good a time at my reunion as I did... it was a really great weekend! I hope it won’t be 25 years until my next visit to MA. Fenton Purcell writes, “I was recently elected to the Diplomatic American Academy of Environmental Engineers.”*

25th Reunion, Class of 1960.

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Your 25th reunion is September 27. If you would like to volunteer to be your class reunion chairman, please notify the Alumni Office right away.

TKS Miss Judith Poor 96 N. Mountain Avenue Montclair, N J 07042 Christine Keller writes, “ I moved to Galveston, Texas in May 1985, buying a gorgeous old Victorian home, completely restored. I plan to have a Bed and Breakfast in the future. I joined the Galveston law firm of Dibrell and Greer on Jan. 1, 1986 where I will continue to do insurance work.”

MA Robert Tyler Root, III 24 Wiedmann Clifton, N J 07011

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TKS Mrs. C. D. Creed (Barbara By water) 1769 Forest View Avenue Hillsborough, CA 94010 The Alumni Office would like to thank Barbara Creed for stepping in as the class secretary for ’62.

Carolyn Cariello writes, “ I fulfilled one of my life’s ambitions — having an Arabian stallion to show and breed. We love San Diego §1 the people, the weather, the beauty. My husband and I started an accounting practice this year.”

Ruth Cahalan writes, “ I am working part-time as a research assistant with my husband, Michael, a professor at U.C. Irvine. I enjoy the work and appreciate the flexibility it gives me in pursuing my greatest pleasure — raising my children: Rachel, 4, and Stuart, 2.”

The Kimberley Class of 1962 joins the MKA community in mourning the loss of classmate Denise Farandatos Anastasiou.

Carolyn Cariello, TKS ’62.

TKS Sharon Livesey 12 Gorham Avenue Brookline, MA 02146

MA Bronson Van Wyck P.O. Box 997 West Memphis, A R 72301 The Alumni Office would like to welcome Bronson Van Wyck aboard as the secretary for the class of ’63. He is filling a job that has been empty for several years and we thank him! During phonathon we learned that he married Mary Lynn Thomas and has a son Bronson Jr., 12, and a daughter Mimi, 9.

He is the President of Bronson Van Wyck and Co., which is involved in financing and management of small companies, usually related to agriculture.

64 ----------TKS Dr. Deborah Pines 710 Meetinghouse Road Elkins Park, PA 19117 Bob Hemmeter reports that Barbara Doubleday Perry has her own craft business. She designs blouses which she exhibits and sells at major craft fairs.

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65 ----------TKS Mrs. P.E. Madsen (Betsy Ridge) 58 Chestnut Street Boston, M A 02108

20th Reunion, Class of 1965.

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MA R. Victor Bernstein 40 W. 77th St., Apt. 4E New York, N Y 10024 As a result of Alumni Office efforts to “ find” Francis “ Skipper” Schiffer, it was learned from his mother that he is designing the space telescope to go up in the 1986 satellite launch. He also handled all the computers for NASA! Greg Hare writes, “ l a m located in Lake Hiawatha, N.J. since 1978. I am married to Judith Demko and blessed with three sons: Matthew 11, David 8, and Timothy 6. I continue employment with N.J. Division of Developmental Disabilities serving as a Senior Community Program Specialist.”

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Your 20th reunion is September 27. If you would like to volunteer to be your class reunion chairman, please notify the Alumni Office right away.

TKS Mrs. William E. Crawford (Francine Onorati) 421 Beacon St. Boston, MA 02115 The class of ’66 now has a secretary, thanks to Francine Onorati Crawford, who actually volunteered!! Welcome aboard, Francine. In a note to the Alumni Office, she also wrote, “ I started a business in real estate development with a partner last April.”

Jane Francisco writes, “ I married Samuel Van Dam in 1978. We live in Portland, Maine, where he has his own architectural firm. I worked at Westbrook College as Associate Director of Continuing Education up until the birth of our children: Sam, age three, and twins Peter and Abigail, age one.”

The Montclair Times reported that Cynthia Thomas Kimmel participated in the annual Montclair Craft Show, held at Hillside School shortly before Christmas.

Cynthia is an eight-year veteran of the show. Her love of fabric and color originally drew her to quilting. When her thoughts turned to fabric design, she turned to self-screening textile designs. At that point, she put down her needle and thread, but never strayed from her fondness for the traditional quilt designs.

Her first series of notecards were created in 1976 and today her credits include doing commissioned silk-screened posters for the guest rooms at the Williamsburg Inn in colonial Williamsburg, and teaching at the Newark Museum and Montclair Historical Society. She is president of her own wholesale company, First Mountain Handprints.

Mitzi Jean Sans Balma writes, “ I have completed an associate degree in Computer Science at Brookdale Community College.”

MA John F. Hawley 220 Wood Avenue Hyde Park, MA 02136 Alan J. Balma writes, “I am presently a supervisor at AT&T Bell Laboratories responsible for software systems technical specifications. I have recently spent extensive time in Japan in support of

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marketing and contracting.”

Peter Orgain writes, “ I had a wonderful visit to MKA in November and visited the A.P. History classes of Bob Hemmeter. My new career in Neuro Linguistic Programming — the study of how the brain receives, encodes, and retrieves information S takes me all over the country, teaching people how to actively ‘operate’ their own brains. I am currently developing a project with the Vail Ski School to enhance their mental strategies for safe skiing.”

Bob Hemmeter reports having recently visited with Blake Traendley, who is married with two children, working in the construction business, and living in Strafford, Vermont.

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Naples, FL 33962 MA Craig C. Perry 219 E. 76th St., A pt. A New York, N Y 10021 John H. Rudd writes, “ Karly and I had our first child, a son named Brian John, on April 21, 1985.”

Our condolences to Peter Adams, whose brother Robert died on December 26 from brain cancer.

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of our first child, Jamie. He is a very happy baby who spends a lot of time laughing and smiling. However, it was a difficult pregnancy from the beginning and I spent months in bed rest, followed by months of hospital stay. I was ambulanced to the hospital in N.Y.C. and Jamie was born six weeks early. We both had problems — I had severe arthritis and Jamie had weak neck muscles. By November I was getting better and so was Jamie. He goes to physical therapy twice a week to build muscles. Our son the body builder!

Tom’s job at the executive office of Peat Marwick is an exciting challenge.

However, the commute to N.Y.C. from Stamford is terrible.

Starting parenthood at 34 is a trip! We now have a live-in nanny/housekeeper who makes life a lot easier. The dogs and cats are all healthy and well. I’m back working and the disaster of 1985 ended in one of the best Christmases ever!

Gail Trask writes, “ Little did we know that our Radio Shack vacation spot in 1984 was to be our new home for 1985.

Winter saw Bill working in Hawaii and

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TKS Ms. Avie Claire Kalker 5805 Birchbrook #202 Dallas, TX 75206 The Montclair Times reported Carol Schmitz has joined the faculty of The Yard School of Art and will instruct the Saturday morning teenage classes. She has studied at the graduate school of fine arts in Florence, Italy, and the Pythagorean Institute of Art in Samu, Greece. The Yard School recently featured an exhibition of her paintings.

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

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The “Pettibackers.”

Jon and Alison Smith Hitesman’s son J.P. Alison writes, “J.P. is making tremendous progress! We feel very lucky.”

70 -----------TKS Ms. K. Vanderhoof-Forschner (Karen Vanderhoof) 69 Riverbank Drive Stamford, CT 06903 The major good news for us is the birth

Jamie Forschner, age 3 months. Karen says, “What an angel!”

me tying up loose ends in Boulder. Spring reunited our family and brought new experiences of house hunting, being tossed by giant waves on our boggie boards, living with cockroaches, sweeping flowers off of the driveway, Jimmy riding a two­ wheeler and Bill ‘jet-setting’ to the mainland every other week. On one trip in March, Bill got stuck supervising the pack and move of our Boulder home. “ In June, Bill supervised the Grand Opening of the first company store of the Big Island, Hawaii. We were able to accompany him and explore Hilo and Kona. We missed seeing an active volcano by six hours. Billy had his sixth birthday in July and began to learn how to ride a skateboard. “ The fall brought us to our present living situation, the delivery of our housegoods, Billy to kindergarten and Jimmy to preschool. Both the boys were anxious to start school and have met several new friends. I am assisting in Billy’s classroom and enjoying working with a committee to build a children’s museum in Honolulu.”

Elizabeth Conzen Zellner promises to send a picture of her wedding and says, “ It was a wonderful reunion!”

Marcie Rickenbacker writes, “ Doug went off on a golf weekend in May and I went to Liz Conzen’s wedding. Julie Haines played on the harp, some pieces of her own, at the wedding. Mrs. Haines and Kitty were there, as well as Anne McIntyre Graves and Otto, Susie Buttel O’Brien and Kevin (Susie was due with #2 in a few days), Leslie Bryan Malloy and Bruce, Heidi Sanders Bryan and Will, Jim Bryan and wife, Kim Kolbe (who is secretary to the head coach of the Giants), and Betsy Kimball. I hope I haven’t missed anyone. Anyway, it was a fun evening. Liz looked the same, but radiant.

I had a great time catching up with everyone. “ The kids keep me pretty busy. I am looking forward to Libby going to kindergarten next year. I could use the break! Doug and I did get a short break from parenting in March, when we went skiing for three days in Vermont.”

MA Garret S. Roosma 30 Cottage Lane Upper Saddle River, N J 07458 David G. Paterson writes, “ I was promoted to a vice president and trust officer of Midlantic National Bank.”

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TKS No secretary Amy Schechter called the Alumni Office to relate the latest news of Gillian Blauvelt Capparelli. She and her husband, Dr. Edward Capparelli, are still doing missionary work and are currently in Honduras. They just had an addition to their family, a son named David Blauvelt Capparelli, born on March 20, 1985. They are hoping to start a new clinic soon.

Amy’s own news is that she is working freelance as a typesetter in Montclair.

Sarah Boyden-Smith writes, “ My husband, Craig Smith, has been transferred to an IBM Bethesda office staff position. We (and Rebecca) are

looking forward to exploring the Washington area.”

MA No secretary Bob Hoonhout writes, “ I am presently serving as Treasurer of the Alumni Council. I am working in private law practice in Montclair and have two great little boys — Eric, 3Vi, and Blake, 114.”

Geoffrey S. Close writes, “ I have been made Associate Vice President of Dean Witter Reynolds in August. Bought a house originally built about 1780. I look forward to hearing about other classmates.”

James H. Bryan, Jr. writes, “ I have a new position as European Marketing Manager for Klopman Fabrics, a division of Burlington Industries. Every six weeks I go across the water and merchandise fabric to European customers that is ‘crafted with pride in the U.S.A.’!!!”

Robert A. Benigno writes, “ My wife Cathy and I would like to announce the birth of our baby girl, Catherine, on June 5, 1985. I am practicing cardiology in Bridgewater, N.J. and have admitting privileges at Somerset Medical Center and St. Peter’s Medical Center. We live in Bedminster.”

Alumni Office to report their new address in Kinnelon, N.J. Their daughter Samantha is in kindergarten at Brookside and they also have a daughter Lindsey, almost a year old. Pam also had news of Peter Aiello and his wife Karin. They were married last year and are now expecting a baby. He works at the Kennedy Space Center and they live in Coco Beach.

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TKS Mrs. Michael F. Moreno (Martha Del Negro) 750 Woodward Road North Providence, R 1 02904 MA J. Dean Paolucci 46 Village Road Clifton, N J 07013 The Montclair Times reported that Thomas Wood and Bryn Macy Luxner were married on Sept. 28, 1985. She is property manager for Minot, DeBlois and Maddison, Inc. in Boston and is a member of the Junior League of Boston.

Thomas received his M.B.A. from Northeastern U. He is a financial analyst for Sprague Electric Co. in Lexington, Mass.

The Montclair Times also reported that Robert Jackson has been selected for inclusion in the 1985 edition of “ Outstanding Young Men of America.”

This program recognizes achievements and abilities of men between the ages of 21 and 36 who have made outstanding civic and professional contributions to their communities and states and to the nation.

The men were selected from nominations received from senators, congressmen, governors, mayors, state legislators, university and college presidents and deans, and civic groups.

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TKS Mrs. Linda F. Williams Box 1446 Greglen Avenue Nantucket, MA 02554 Tacey Phillips writes, “I just started work as an associate in the corporate finance department at Goldman, Sachs and Co., after receiving my M.B.A. at Columbia Business School.”

MA Dr. Vincent E. Mascia 800A Fifth Avenue, Suite 205 New York, N Y 10021 One of the advantages of being part of the annual phonathon is to catch up on some news about our classmates. Bruce Pollack has a 5 'A month old son named Benjamin Adam and has also changed jobs to a regional vice president of Maxicare in Glenview, 111. Nelson Nappi is married to Janice and as yet has no children. He is working for IBM in customer service in N.J. Ron Racioppi is a contractor and developer, not yet married, in Springfield, N.J. Tying the knot with his new bride-to-be Andrea very soon, Michael Vitale will be starting a law firm in Clayton, Missouri, while Craig Maginness has just become a partner in his law firm. Practicing internal medicine in St. Louis, Ken Kreski has been married five years to Marianne and has a three month old child. Also blessed with a new baby girl Julia, John Murphy and his wife Mary live outside Philadelphia where he practices law. John Kaplow lives and works in the Westchester County region of N.Y. while Steve Schottenfeld, Chris Schulz, and Mike Cassatly live in N.Y.C. and have a tennis group that meets every Monday night. Nick Alessi is a sales representative in Manhattan. Randy Ryan is finishing his second year of radiology while Melina nurses in the operating room down in Delaware. And for the rest... only the best of regards.

Pam and Frederick Maggio called the

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TKS Miss Bonnie McBratney 321 E. 91st St., A pt. 3C New York, N Y 10028 Deirdre Newman Griffin writes, “I was married to Peter J. Griffin in 1984. We live in our new home in Upper Montclair.

I am doing freelance book design and illustration.” MA Anthony M. Celentano 3 Conduct St. Morris Plains, N J 07950 The Alumni Office learned that Michael Adams was married to Katharine Scanlon of Washington, D.C. and New York on Nov. 9. They are living in N.Y.C. The Montclair Times announced the marriage of Jeffrey Phillips Stanton and Diana Wieboldt on Sept. 28, 1985. She is associated with Nabisco Brands, Inc., East Hanover, in the international department. He is a senior real estate appraiser with the First Nationwide Savings Bank in N.Y.C.

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21-4230 Meadowvale Drive Niagara Falls, Ontario Canada L2E 5 W7 Malcolm Hall writes, “ Great seeing everyone at the ’85 10th reunion. My wife Bonny and I are expecting a baby in March 1986. I can’t really believe it yet!

Since graduating from Lafayette College in 1979, along with my great pal Sally McBratney D’Allesandro, 1 have been working as a bond broker at Mason, Nugent and Co. in N.Y.C. I have recently been promoted to manager of our syndjcate/new issue debt desk. Anyone traveling by Darien, Conn., please look us up.”

Stalle on June 15, 1985. She is a catering manager at the Sheraton Harbor Island Hotel in San Diego and will continue to use her maiden name professionally. He is a public relations representative of Sea World of San Diego.

10th Reunion, Class of 1975.

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Howard Johnson reports, “ I graduated in August of 1985 with a B.S. in electrical engineering technology. I currently work for Flight Systems, Inc. at the applied physics lab of Johns Hopkins U. as a programmer/analyst in Laurel, Md.” Wendy Weiss writes, “ 1 received a Kansas Arts Commission Artist-inEducation grant for 1985-86. I will be working with the city of Laurence, Kansas,to research and develop art classes for nursing home residents and mentally impaired students. In addition I am a visual artist for an experimental dance group called ‘4, 5, 6 Speed-Up.’ I just returned from a trip to Italy and London.

In London I saw my brother Sam (MA ’72) and his new daughter who was born August 1. Her name is Bryony Tutin Weiss. In Italy I plan to teach an environmental textile workshop in the summer of 1986jf f jj Russ Freed writes, “ Sorry I didn’t make reunion, but here is an update. My wife Amy (married five years) and I moved to Kingwood, Tex. (30 miles north of Houston) two years ago. I had been working for Diamond Shamrock Corp. who moved us to Cleveland, New York, San Antonio, and Houston. Once here, I changed careers, and now am a division manager for Reagent Chemical and Research, a N.J.-based, privately-held company. We’re here for the duration!”

During Phonathon we learned that Anna Crawford is in her third year of law school at Connecticut.

Lots of babies born this year: A son,William Lee, was born to Sally and Don D’Alessandro, on Nov. 8, 1985. He will be called Billy. Foster Cooper recently had a baby girl. Hugh Gleason is a new father too. Patrick Bradley Gleason was born on May 30, weighing in at 9 pounds, 5 ounces — “ a healthy, happy future middle linebacker for MKA!” Jeffrey Schiffman and his wife Lynne are expecting their first child in the spring.

The Montclair Times announced the marriage of Kathryn Towner and George

Many thanks to Laurie and Paul McFeeley, who have volunteered to be reunion chairmen for the 10th reunion of the Class of ’76 on September 27!

MKA Mrs. Paul McFeeley (Laurie Hoonhout) 530 Valley Road #5N Upper Montclair, N J 07043 Charles Read C-733 3111 N. 20th Street Arlington, VA 22201 Chip Read’s mother called the Alumni Office to report that Chip is doing his medical residency in pediatrics.

Eve Wood writes, “ I am currently in my second year in psychiatry residency while my husband, Rick Isenberg, is in his third year of an OB-GYN residency. We are planning to stay in the Philadelphia area to practice.”

The Montclair Times printed a recent article about the Montclair-Newark Junior League project called “ Kids on the Block.” This is a puppet show for special education students and Laurie McFeeley is a volunteer performer.

The Montclair Times announced the marriage of Diane Dale and Thomas Madden on Sept. 7, 1985. She is employed by Borek, Stockel and Co., in White Plains. He works for Price Waterhouse in Manhattan.

77 -----------MKA Mrs. Dan Gasparino (Beverley Hall) 23 Pleasant Street Riverside, C T 06878 I will pass along some news of classmates that my mom picked up this summer at Chris Brenner’s wedding. Peter McMullen was the best man..Brad Protas and Michael Worksman traveled up from Florida to attend the wedding. Michael is married and expecting his first baby. Joe Ciccolini and Cheryl D’Allesandro were also at the wedding.

Andrew Read’s mother called the Alumni Office to report that Andrew works for the Federal Reserve Bank in Georgia.

Paul Hastaba writes, “I am married

The Class of ’77 lost a special classmate with the death of Robert Adams on December 26, 1985.

While he was a student at MKA, Robert distinguished himself academically and was a member of the Mastersingers, varsity soccer, Red and Black Society, and was the managing editor of the MKA News. He was also elected to the Cum Laude Society. While an undergraduate at Princeton, he was a member of the Charter Club, the house manager of the Princeton University Opera Theatre, member of the Freshman Singers and the Princeton University Glee Club.

After graduation from Princeton, he worked as a legal assistant in the corporate department of Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer and Wood, a major New York law firm. He then entered the NYU School of Law, where he was executive editor of the Journal of International Law and Politics.

Our condolences to his family and friends. and father to a 7-month-old, Daniel Albert. I am presently living in New Orleans and working for a local TV station in sales. My wife Lori and I will be hosts to Bob Hubsmith and Steve Cowles for Mardi Gras this year.”

From the newspaper we learned that Joseph Ricciardi and Palma Ianiro were married recently. She is a consumer representative and home economist for Nabisco Brands, Inc. He is associated with Joseph Ricciardi, Inc., a familyowned paint and home decorating firm in Nutley.

The Montclair Times announced that Glen Brown and Juana Wilson were married on Sept. 21, 1985. She served two years in the Peace Corps as a bilingual teacher. Her last teaching assignment was that of teacher of foreign languages at Paterson High School in Baltimore, Md. He is a field engineer in systems management with the Sperry Corporation.

The couple now reside in New Orleans.

Daniel Batland writes, “ It has been a long time since I submitted information to the Alumni News. In fact, it has been almost eight years! Let me get you up-todate. “ I have often heard that College years are the best years of one’s life. In fact, my undergraduate years at the U. of Penn, were simply the greatest. Although the premedical curriculum was challenging, there was always plenty of time for Thursday night drinking, fraternity antics, and other social pursuits. “ Following graduation and a summer of traveling throughout Western Europe, I matriculated at the Loyola U. of

Daniel E. Batland, MKA ’77.

Chicago/Stritch School of Medicine in August 1981. Despite the personal sacrifices which one must often make during medical training, I believe I received an excellent education from instructors who were sincerely interested in teaching. I graduated in the top third of my class on June 8, 1985. “ As for the future, I will complete my residency training in anesthesiology at the Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore. I look forward to seeing my classmates at our tenth reunion — or sooner, if possible.”

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MKA Miss Pamela A . Zeug 7 Van Breeman Court Upper Montclair, N J 07043 John Glicksman 316 Greenway Road Ridgewood, N J 07450 Jane Lugaric writes, “ I’ve joined a new firm as an assistant account executive/ market research analyst for Salthouse Torre Ferrante, a medical advertising agency located in the Meadowlands.”

The Montclair Times reported that Heath Betke has joined the firm of Anne Cooper Interiors of Ridgewood. Heath specializes in English and French period interiors, antiques and American Impressionists. She received honor distinction at the Inchbald School of Design, Belgravia, London, where she studied after attending Skidmore College.

The Caldwell paper reported that Kevin Berkowsky has graduated from Emerson College in Boston with the Master of Arts degree in televsion production/media management. Kevin served as an intern and sports producer for the NBC and ABC television affiliates in Boston, and as technical director at the Needham branch of Continental Cablevision. He is currently freelancing as a production manager for television in the Boston area.

The Montclair Times announced the marriage of Cheryl Wedel to Richard Birmingham on Sept. 28, 1985. Cheryl is a realtor associate in the office of Schweppe and Co. and Richard is employed by the William Marton Co. The couple took a wedding trip to the Caribbean and reside in Montclair.

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MKA Miss Shawn Mahieu 4 Columbia Court North Haledon, N J 07508 Jack Brink 1948 Cobb Parkway, 39K Smyrna, GA 30080 News from Shawn: You know things are bad when the writer of the column has to keep switching careers in order to get material to write. I can’t continue to do this forever, so please supply some of your own. Just think how much you could add!

Patrick Richards is managing a housing project in Newark. Because of his innovative approach to people management, Patrick has seen a sense of pride emerge within the community.

Tony Cristello took a racing course at Limerock in Conn, with his Porsche. I saw him the day he got back, and even though he was exhausted, he was still so excited by all of his accomplishments.

Maybe Tony should consider stunt driving.

Gardner Semet is enrolled in a real estate program at NYU which he seems to enjoy. Just before New Year’s, he and George Frey went skiing in Utah.

As for George, I was flying home from D.C. one Friday night, and who should walk down the aisle of People’s Express but George. All we needed was for Dave Wallace to be working that flight and we could have had a mini-reunion. In case you were wondering why I was flying home from Washington, no, I’m not on some early planning committee for the 1989 Inaugural — surprise — I’m in law school. However, there’s a catch! I’m enrolled in the Communications Law Institute at Catholic U. Law School.

Suddenly I feel like exercising my 1st Amendment privileges and being very creative with this column, so beware!

Steve Dodd, I know you’re out there.

Sorry I missed your call.

Lori and Kenny Diogaurdi sent me a Christmas card from Ft. Knox, Ky.; however, next year they hope to be stationed in Germany.

Representing MKA on Long Island is Bruce Eng, who is at Underwriter’s Labs, where he is working with the public relations department to produce a video.

Bruce is also working toward his Master’s in Industrial Engineering, and took a trip across the U.S. this summer.

Edward Mason writes, “I was married on June 8, 1985 and am living in Westchester.”

Merry Aufzien writes, “ I got married Sept. 28, 1985 to Gil Bauer. I’m presently marketing manager for a computer supply company in Fairfield, N .J.” Harry Harami reports that he is in his third year as a student at the N.J. School of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark.

The New York Times announced the engagement of Julia Brown to Clifford Brian Thompson. She is a writer and he is a student at the U. of Houston Law Center.

It was learned that Bryan Schuman has announced his engagement to Jill Kallman. They plan a fall wedding. He is now studying for a master’s degree at Columbia U. Graduate School of Business. She is presently in her third year at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, N.Y. Vanessa Noble has accepted a position as a Corporate Paralegal for the firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Philadelphia.

Founded in 1873, it is one of the country’s largest law firms with approximately 420 lawyers and offices in Washington, D.C., New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, Harrisburg and London.

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Carolyn Kuras writes, “1 am in my second year of medical school at Southwestern in Dallas. Last summer I worked with Dr. Denton Cooley in cardiovascular surgery at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston.”

81 -----------Your 5th reunion is September 27. If you would like to volunteer to be your class reunion chairman, please notify the Alumni Office as soon as possible.

MKA Miss Shelagh Daly 330 North Mountain A ve.

Upper Montclair, N J 07043 Miss Karen Marnell 25 Aldom Circle West Caldwell, N J 07006 The proud mother of Christine Anne Margitich dropped a note to the Alumni Office recently to fill us in on her latest news. Christine Anne graduated from Westminster Choir College magna cum laude and was elected a member of the Society of Pi Kappa Lambda of the National Music Honor Society. Presently she is teaching music, grades 4-7, in Saugerties, N.Y. Future plans include an audition with the New York City Opera Chorus.

It was learned that Thomas Richard Powell was recently named to the President’s List and graduated from Rollins College. Students must earn a grade average of at least A-minus to qualify for the President’s List.

The Montclair Times reported that Margaret Schumann was graduated from Williams College with a B.A. in English.

Eric Wong passed along the news that he graduated this past summer from Hiram College, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He is now working in Michigan for E.D.S., which is part of General Motors.

The Montclair Times announced the engagement of George K. George to Deborah Gross. He is attending William Paterson College in Wayne where he is majoring in political science. He is employed by Nanes Finishing and Assembly Corp. in Newark. An October 1986 wedding is planned.

The Caldwell Progress announced that Pamela Berkowsky was graduated magna cum laude in June from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs. While at Princeton, she was active in Princeton Triangle, served as an assistant at the International Center and produced an original play for the Edinburgh Theatre Festival in Scotland during the summer of 1984. During her summers, she served as assistant to the Women’s Division of the Democratic National Committee, as assistant to the international division of the National Endowment for the Arts and as special assistant to the U.S. Information Agency.

Her special field is in the area of international cultural exchange. She is currently serving as a tour guide for American students living in Rouen, France, as part of the Experiment for International Living program. In September she accepted a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the U. of Geneva, Switzerland, under the Institute of

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International Education program. She has been accepted for graduate studies in the fall of 1986 at Tufts U. Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy where she will pursue her master’s degree.

The Montclair Times announced the marriage of Kate Canfield Baker to Roark Thurston Miller on August 24, 1985. She graduated from Oberlin College where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She is now a graduate student in biological anthropology at U. of Michigan. He is a graduate student of musicology at the U. of Michigan.

Kevin Edgely is working for European Auto Restoration in Costa Mesa, Calif.

This shop repairs and restores exotic cars, sometimes shipped to them from all over the world, from “ fractured Ferraris to mangled Maseratis.”

The Montclair Times reported that former MKA standout Laura Bartlett, affectionately known to her Hartwick College teammates as “ Bart,” snared an amazing 15 rebounds while leading the N.Y.S. college to a recent romp over SUNY Binghamton. She is a business management major.

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MKA Miss Nicole Anastasiou Oak Hill Road Clifton, N J 07013 Miss Angela De Candia 90 Chittenden Road Clifton, N J 07013 Class Agent: Liz Abrams 3 Eagle Rock Way Montclair, N J 07042 Our condolences to Nicole Anastasiou on the death of her mother in October.

Liz Gibson tells us that she is engaged and plans a May 1986 wedding. She is a senior at Wilkes College. Her fiance, Paul Boyer, is a graduate of Wilkes College and works for the FBI in Washington, D.C. According to Nixon Bicknell, who played at the wedding, Robert Carson “ plunged into the sea of holy matrimony” in October at the Carson family farm in Newton.

Mary Rachael Hayes writes, “ l a m majoring in physical therapy with three semesters to go. I’m still fencing and doing well in the sport. I am now engaged to Reginald McDaniel, but the date is not yet set.”

Randi Pickelny writes, “ I am now living in Manhattan and am working as a buyer for women’s couture clothing in a buying office. Our clients are small specialty stores all across the country. I love every minute of it ^ especially living in N.Y.C.” Stuart Carlisle writes, “I am going to Bangladesh to study.”

Blake O’Neill called the Alumni Office on Council business and said how sorry he was to have missed the alumni hockey game. Blake works for Dean Witter in Boston.

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13 Gordon Place Verona, N J 07044 Class Agent: Kevin Wilkins 95 Heller Way Upper Montclair, N J 07043 Karen Hammerstroem writes, “I am a junior at Pace U. and a member of Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society. I was inducted into Alpha Chi National Honor Society in Nov. 1985 and am the vice president of my sorority.” ■ When Brian Davis came to the collegeage phonathon, he gave us a little news about Brian Smith. He did a post­ graduate year at Lawrenceville after he graduated from MKA. He is currently a sophomore at Connecticut College where he plays on the varsity soccer team.

The Montclair Times reported that Kevin Wilkins was elected treasurer of the Green Key Society at Dartmouth College, where he is a junior. He has served as both an undergraduate adviser and an alcohol peer counselor. He is also a member of Chamber Singers, Dartmouth’s premier a cappella group.

He spent one term studying Spanish language and culture on Dartmouth’s Language Study Abroad program in Granada, Spain. He is a member of Zeta Psi fraternity.

Eric Green reports, “ l a m still at Colby and will be traveling in Europe during the January term.”

Jody Underwood writes, “ In the spring of 1986 I will be taking a semester abroad with Syracuse U. Architecture Program in Florence, Italy. I return in May to continue training for race car driving. I will return to Hamilton College in the fall of 1986.”

During phonathon, Brian Davis got the news that Gregg Kowalenko and Linda Danelli, both now at Fairleigh Dickinson, are getting married in the summer of 1987.

Doreen Wong is still at Hiram College and has decided to double major in English and art. She spent the summer in Ireland taking a course in Irish Nationalism. She plans to become a teacher.

Keryn Rod writes, “I am still at Goucher. I’m doing an internship for a video production firm for the whole semester, three days a week, and I’m finally starting to enjoy Baltimore.”

Veena Nayak reports that she is alive and well and living in N.Y.C.!

84 -----------MKA Miss Maria Rabb 9 Birch Drive Roseland, N J 07068 Class Agent: Larry Rosen 6 Shoshone Trail Wayne, N J 07470 Maja Kastler took a trip to South Africa this summer. Sylvie Schrader moved back to Belgium in July but is staying at Brown. Lisa Bronfman and Stephanie Simon are rooming together at George Washington U. Doug Keh has been promoted to a head waiter at the Manor, where he worked many hours during the summer. Jason Bernstein made College Scholar at Middlebury, and Tom

Lanigan is proud to announce he has a 3.2 grade point average at B.U. I was on the Brown novice crew team, and we had an undefeated season this past spring but came in second in the Eastern Sprints.

This summer I had a job making $16.75 an hour in N.Y.C. If people want to find out what I did, they should write to me!

The Montclair Times reported that former MKA standout Rob Iverson is a freshman foil prospect for the RutgersNewark varsity fencing team this winter.

Bob Eng called the Alumni Office to report that he was elected liaison officer to Barnard College from the Columbia U. Engineering Student Council. He added, “ In addition to my pursuit of a B.S. degree in computer science, I will also be going pre-med.”

During the college-age phonathon, caller Patti Morozov learned that Bob Cottingham, as a world class fencer, traveled to Japan, Hungary and other European countries.

Chris Noble has transferred from American University to Providence College in R.I. where he is playing Division I soccer.

The Montclair Times reported that Meg Lugaric was a big winner on “ Wheel of Fortune,” a TV game show. She won cash and awards which included a new automobile, a spa and a set of golf clubs.

The segment in which she appeared aired Oct. 28, 1985. Meg is a sophomore in the School of Speech at Northwestern and is majoring in television production. She is the school’s mascot, Willie the Wildcat.

She is one of 40 Health Aides on campus, providing health care to fellow students.

She has organized a cycling squad on the club level at N.U., and serves as a Big Ten Track and Field official. She is an active member of Delta Delta Delta sorority.

Our condolences to John Pellecchia, whose father died in January.

MKA Miss Patti McConnell 131 Harmon Cove Towers Secaucus, N J 07094 Class Agent: Miss Loren Miller 1055 River Road, A pt. 5606 Edgewater, N J 07020 The Montclair Times reported that Kenyon College freshman Lovey Cerfolio earned her first varsity letter as a forward for the soccer team. She finished the year as the team’s second leading scorer, as she tallied 5 goals for 10 points.

Lea Kramer reports that she is pursuing a dance career at SUNY/Purchase in the Performing Arts School.

Ashley Fawcett is at Colgate and loves it!

Dee Disbrow reports that she is at Rutgers - Douglass College, preparing for a career in landscape architecture.

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD To all alumni, parents, trustees, faculty, staff and friends o f The Montclair Kimberley Academy: The Distinguished Alumni Award Committee is hereby accepting nominations for the recipient o f the 1986 Distinguished Alumni Award.

The purpose o f the Distinguished Alumni Award is “ to bestow recognition and appreciation for outstanding achievement.” This award will be a meritorious reflection on the school and will provide inspiration and encouragement for our young people. It is hoped that the recipient will come to MKA and address a gathering o f alumni and o f students.

You may nominate more than one alumnus/alumna. There will be one Distinguished Alumni Award recipient éach year; all nominations will be maintained in confidential files for consideration in following years.

Distinguished Alumni Award 1986 Nomination Form Information on Nominee: Name_______________________________________________________________________________ Class______ Address ________________________________________________________________________________________ Telephone ______________________________________________________________________________________ Please use the space below to state the case fo r your nomination, giving sufficient information to establish the person’s qualifications. Include, in as much detail as possible, the following: career and/or volunteer information; awards, achievements, honors; personal data.

Please state below why you think this person should receive the award.

Submitted by: Name_______________________________________________________________________________ Class________ Address __________________________________________________________________________________ Telephone__________________________________________________________________________________ _ Detach and mail to: The Montclair Kimberley Academy, Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, N J 07042.

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Marriages 1973 1974 1974 1975 1976 1977 1977 1978 1979 1979 1981 1982

Thomas McNeal Wood and Bryn Macy Luxner Jeffrey Phillips Stanton and Diana Wieboldt Michael Adams and Katharine Scanlon Kathryn Dear Towner and George Etienne Stalle, Jr. Diane Blackburn Dale and Thomas Anthony Madden Glen Allen Brown and Juana Christina Wilson Joseph Ricciardi and Palma Ianiro Cheryl Wedel and Richard Birmingham, Jr. Edward C. Mason and Jean Lint Merry Aufzien and Gil Bauer Kate Canfield Baker and Roark Thurston Miller Robert Carson and Beth Ann Roos

September 28, 1985 September 28, 1985 November 9, 1985 June 15,1985 September 7, 1985 September 21, 1985 October 1985 September 28, 1985 June 8, 1985 September 28, 1985 August 24, 1985 October 13, 1985

Deaths 1909 1915 1919 1924 1925 1926 1929 1932 1933 1936 1936 1936 1949 1950 1952 1962 1977

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Emile Schmidt Pierre Le Bran Joseph Van Vleck Harold Allenby Gladys Ferry Elizabeth Ryan Ward Darrell Roberts Helen Duffy McNally Margaret Riter Agens Betty Minsch Buys R. Elliott Watt David Demarest Kathryn Keer Petrie Dorothy Dill Barnes Carl Nylk Denise Farandatos Anastasiou Robert E. Adams

1985 June 6, 1985 September 6, 1985 September 12, 1985 July 14, 1985 August 1984 June 18,1985 December 31, 1985 November 1985 October 1985 August 31, 1985 August 2, 1985 November 19, 1985 November 1985 1983 October 21, 1985 December 26, 1985

Montclair KimberleyAcademy Alumni Association December 1985 Dear Classmate, Each of us has our own memories of our days at Kimberley. For some of us, those have dimmed, replaced by alumnae quarterlies, solicitations, but most specifically by the voice of one classmate calling yearly, gossiping but firmly cajoling us to reaffirm old ties.

Sometimes this infectious enthusiasm and determination worked, as in bringing us together for our 20th reunion.

This person, our classmate Denise Farandatos Anastasiou, died on October 21, 1985, after a two year fight with cancer. The specifics are not necessary, only that her determination and commitment to life remained with her to the end.

And now each of us must find a memory of her. I have shared mine.

Nancy Kraus Rothchild ’62

The family of Denise Farandatos Anastasiou has established a scholarship fund in her name. For information, please call or write the Office of External Affairs.

It is with a real sense of loss that we report the death of Denise Anastasiou Ori October 21, 1985.

Denise’s ties to MKA were numerous.

She was a member of The Kimberley School class of ’62 and the mother of Nicole *82 and Alex ’90. Denise served as a member of the PAMKA Executive Committee, as President of the Alumni Association, and as a member of the Board of Trustees. As President of the Alumni Association, Denise was instrumental in setting up a new system for dass reunions and Spearheaded the drive to get the members of her own class of *62 back for their 20th reunion. Under Denise’s leadership, the PAMKA Ways and Means Committee reached new heights of support for MKA. She encouraged the partidpation of new PAMKA members and broadened the friendships within that group.

Denise leaves many friends in The Montclair Kimberley Academy community. Her energy, serise of fun and undaunted optimism are her lasting gifts to MKA.

Frances R. O’Connor Principal The Montclair Kimberley Academy

ENCOUNTER 3rd, 1986

Begin your evening with dinner at homes in the area followed by games at the Kimberley Campus.

Encounter a chance of your choice: Roulette, Dice Tables, Big Wheel, Black Jack, plus Raffles.

May 3rd promises to be an exciting evening you won’t want to miss. Watch for your invitation.

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