Fall 1986 MKA Alumni News

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FA LL 1986 A L U M N I NEW S

CONTENTS Fitness and Fun/1 The Jones Boys/2 Notes Around MKA/4 Alumni News/12 Class N otes/17

EDITORS Susan Jones Judy Polonofsky Virginia Montemurro

PHOTOGRAPHIC CREDITS W.L. Bill Allen, Jr. William Bullard Jay Hague ’47 Steve Tober

1985-86 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 Me Bratney ’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.

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

Entered as third class matter at Montclair, NJ 07042

THE KIMBERLEY SCHOOL CLASS OF ’36 (On front cover) Back row - Left to Right: Eva Mentzendorff, Ruth Hunt, Elaine Beling, Marcy Buffum, Doris Keller, Douglas Taylor, Doris Ferry, Elizabeth Howe, Katherine Webster, Mary Osborne, Catherine Ward, Elizabeth Van Wie, Cecilia De Golyer, Polly O'Gorman, Marguerite Pentlarge.

Front Row - Left to right: Olive Cawley, Mary Ayres, Jean Winpenny, Patsy Soverel, Josephine Mur­ ray, Bette Surbrug, Betty Bell, Edith Finlay, Jaqueline Isaacs, Betty Rhoades, Betty Kane, Betsey Lawes, Charlotte A Itemus.

Right: Using the “fa t bat” fo r softball at the Primary School helps Brooksiders gain confidence with their hitting ability. When they feel successful, they move on to regulation softball bats.

Top left: Swimming is considered by many experts to be the ideal lifetime exercise. A t the Upper School, each entering student is tested on a 50-yard swim fo r speed and a 15-minute swim fo r endurance and efficiency. Those who do not attain a minimal standard are scheduled fo r the remedial swimming program until they can pass the test, so that every MKA student graduates possessing the ability to swim.

Middle left: Emphasis is placed on proper warm-up and stretching at the beginning o f each class.

Bottom left: A formal physical fitness test is administered at the Middle School to give a measure o f strengths and weaknesses.

EDUCATION PROGRAM

FITNESS AND FUN MKA provides all of its students with a physical education which begins in first grade and continues through every year of school. The program includes fitness and conditioning, team sports and games, and individual sports and games. Physical education coordinates with the health department to provide students with information about nutrition, values and decision making, substance abuse, CPR, first aid and family living at the appropriate age levels.

The curriculum offerings at all levels reflect the belief that physical activities are an important part of healthy living and that young people need to establish habits and interests that will involve them in a lifetime of physical fitness.

In describing the Primary School program, the physical education coordinator, Audrey Gelston, explains, “ There is some type of physical activity with which each child can be both successful and happy. As we work on basic skills, the range of activities is broad — games such as kickball, running for time and doing laps, rhythmic exercises to music — and the children are encouraged to try everything.”

Middle School athletic director Sanford Lonsinger described a continuing emphasis on participation and fitness for young people in the Middle School years. In addition, Lonsinger sees this period as a time for the development of some key concepts which include sportsmanship, fair play, cooperation with others in working toward a common goal, and respect for oneself and one’s teammates, opponents and coaches.

George Hrab, Upper School athletic director, says that good health habits and fitness are an integral part of the physical education program for this age group and that they are taught as lifetime goals.

The program at this level covers a wide range of sports and activities designed to provide students with daily opportunities to develop physical fitness.

Does the program achieve its goal of encouraging students to develop a lifetime commitment to physical fitness? George Hrab believes that it does. “ It is gratifying to hear from so many alumni who, upon their return visits to MKA, tell us of the various conditioning programs in which they are involved, programs for ongoing lifetime fitness. It is especially gratifying to see alumni jogging the streets of Montclair, running of their own accord, years after our department wielded its influence.”

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Gerald as a junior at Holy Cross.

Top: The Jones boys relax at home during a break from sports.

Bottom: Slowed by a knee injury in the spring o f 1985, Max spent part o f last fall helping MKA football coach Kevin Monahan plot strategy fo r the Cougars during one o f their best seasons ever.

GERALD JONES ’77

MAX JONES ’78

Gerald Jones, physically very different from his brothers, is 6 '2", 175 lbs. and has the lean build of a track star, which he is. He entered MKA in 7th grade and immediately plunged into athletics — wrestling, baseball, football, basketball and track.

Though he soon concentrated on track, he was a tri­ season standout, famous for his pretzel lay-up shot in basketball. A t Holy Cross he was All-New England and still holds a number o f track records at the school. Having trained for the 1980 Olympics, he was denied his opportunity when the U.S. did not participate. “ I wasn’t crushed,” said Gerald. “ I used the extra time to go from ‘good’ to ‘b etter.’ ” Although he qualified for the 1984 Olympic trials in track and field, he decided to drop out to finish his studies in podiatry.

He plans to try one more time for the Olympics, in 1988. Even though his medical classes and working hours total 40 hours a week, he still trains, and runs for the New Jersey Striders, an am ateur track club.

Coming to MKA in 10th grade, Max Jones was the first black team captain in the history o f the school and held this honor in football, basketball and lacrosse. All-State in two o f the three sports, he made his presence felt whether playing football, clearing the boards in basketball, or scoring in lacrosse. He went on to play as a defensive halfback for the University o f M assachusetts football team, where he became an All-Yankee Conference cornerback. Big (6 '3 ", 235 lbs.) and fast, he moved to the linebacker position where he now plays for the Birmingham Stallions.

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EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT THE JONES BOYS Three brothers who have attended M KA have gone on to greater glory in the world o f sports.

Loyal classmates, friends and fans follow the excitement. One might even say they love to “keep u p ” with the Joneses!

Sean as a Los Angeles Raider.

SEAN JONES ’80 Described in the 1980 Yearbook as “ the ultimate defensive end,” Sean was an All-State football player for MKA. He also played basketball (nicknamed “ Dr. D unk” ) and was an intimidating lacrosse player during his two years at MKA. He went on to star on the defensive line for N ortheastern University and was the number one draft choice o f the Los Angeles Raiders in 1984. In fact, the Raiders had to “ trade u p ” in the draft in order to pick Sean, who has seen considerable duty during the past two seasons tallying up an impressive number o f “ sacks.” A t 6 '7 ", 275 lbs., he will be the starting defensive end this season, following the retirement o f Lyle Alzado.

Although the Jones brothers adm it that they carry on a healthy com petition, they are a close family.

They give enormous credit to their parents, Sylvia and Walter Jones. “ O ur parents were the catalysts,” they agree. Sports per se were secondary to Mrs. Jones. “ She’s practical. She saw a career in sports as too unstable. She wants each o f us to be able to rely on our education and our other skills.” “ Jo ck ,” which connotes all brawn and no brains, is a term th at simply does not apply to the Jones boys, who can be more accurately described as “ scholar athletes.” “ Academics have always been very im portant to u s,” said Sean. Max, Sean and Gerald all have college degrees. They also have followed their parents’ advice and have planned for the future. Max, who has a degree in hotel, restaurant and travel adm inistration, has a job with Sheraton waiting for him when he is ready. Sean m ajored in computers and marketing and, though he once thought about law school, plans on a career in business. Gerald, who graduated from Holy Cross, is currently in his third year at the New York College o f Podiatric Medicine and will specialize in sports medicine.

W hat role did MKA play in their current successes?

Max: “ Going to MKA was a definite help academically; in sports, not as much. W hat it did was enable me to adjust better to college because the academics were already in place and I could concentrate on sports.”

Sean: “ MKA was the instrum ent to get into a good college. I had good study habits and I had learned to budget my tim e.”

Gerald: “ Even though MKA was a non-athletic environment, the lesson learned in classes also applies to sports and to life — ‘Do your best.’ ”

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AWARDS NIGHT: In Recognition Of Excellence

David McCants receives the Klein A ward from basketball coach John Rabke.

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The Barras English Prize: Nancy Castro Modern Language Prize in French: Laura Baczko ’87 Modern Language Prize in Spanish: Alexandra Hrab Latin Prize: Michael Doyle ’87 Social Studies Prize: George Dolatly The Nazarian Mathematics Prize: David Schwartzbard The William H. Miller Science Prize: Andrew Murgio Fine and Performing Arts Prizes: Art: Maria DeLima Music: Julia Weil Theatre: Acting: Carey Cannon Technical: Anthony Salvanto Physical Education Department Prizes: Frederick Rimmele Mario LaCorte The Dartmouth Club Book Award: Meg Allen ’87 The Yale Alumni Book Award: Deborah Cheung ’87 The Smith College Club Award: Christina Rabke ’87 The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Medal: Deborah Cheung ’87 The G.A. Downsbrough Science Scholarship: George Dolatly The James D. Timmons Scholarship: Alexandra Hrab The Wilfred John Funk Awards to ranking scholars: Grade 11: Michael Doyle Grade 10: Andrew Cheung Grade 9: Melissa Kemlitz

Klein Awards for Achievement in Athletics and Scholarship: Grade 11: Meg Allen David McCants Grade 10: Jill Tobia Henry Nakamura Grade 9: Ayana Goore Geoffrey Krouse The Margaret Jenkins Osborne Prize for Excellence in Science: Rohina Gandhi The Frank “ Poncho” Brogan Memorial Scholarship: David Margolin ’87 Senior Art Exhibit Award: Lauren Beck The A1 Stapf Award for Athletics: Alexandra Hrab Organization of Black Students Leadership Award and Scholarships: Elizabeth Nolley Marcel Green National Merit Scholarship Finalists: George Dolatly Allison Leader Andrew Murgio Samuel Sussman National Achievement Scholarship Program Finalist: Lisa Cohen National Hispanic Scholar Awards Program: Nancy Castro Inducted into the Cum Laude Academic Honor Society: Heather Bruce Nancy Castro Douglas Coyle George Dolatly Rohina Gandhi Robert Loigman Erica Lubetkin Andrew Murgio Ramzi Musallam Richard Ort Lisa Porter Frederick Rimmele, III Samuel Sussman

COMMENCEMENT AWARDS

RUDOLPH H. DEETJEN AWARD for athletics and academic achievement Elizabeth Noiley

RUDOLPH H. DEETJEN AWARD for athletics and academic achievement Mark Ames

ETHEL M. SPURR AWARD for cooperation, responsibility, service and citizenship Samuel Sussman

COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD for positive action which shows unselfish concern for the larger community beyond school Frederick Rimmele

MARJORIE WINFIELD EASTER AWARD for sportsmanship, self-discipline and behind-the-scenes service Beth Ann (loin

BUD MEKBEL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP :; j for a worthy senior .: . \ Nancy Castro

NEW BOARDWf Montclair Kimberley Academy board o f trustee members gathered recently. Pictured are, from left to right, standing, Dr. Frances O’Connor, principal o f MKA, Robert S. Kramer, Susan Ruddick, president, A. Lawrence Gaydos; seated, James Magna, Anne E. Muenster-Sinton, J. Paul McGrath, Dr. Joan M. Ainbinder, Laurence T. Fell.

MKA WELCOMES NEW TRUSTEES At the annual board picnic in June, six retiring trustees were honored, the largest single group since the merger in 1974. They were Dr. Merle Allshouse, Educational Policy Chairman, Richard Anderson, Nominating Chairman, Gail Kerr, Building and Grounds Chairman, Dr. Martin Sorger, Student Life Chairman, Frederick “ Bud” Redpath, Development Chairman, and George Harris, Bylaws Chairman and past President of the Board. Altogether they represent fifty-four years of trustee service and dedication to MKA and its predecessor schools. There is no way to adequately express the gratitude of the Academy for their wisdom and guidance. Suffice it to say they will be sorely missed.

However, we are truly fortunate to have taking their places new trustees of equal strength and commitment. Joan M. Ainbinder is the Assistant Director of the Pediatrics Department of Elizabeth General Hospital. This past year she has served on the MKA Medical Advisory Board. She and her husband, Dr. Martin I. Ainbinder, a psychiatrist, are the parents of Jane ’87 and Judy ’89.

Laurence Fell is the Executive Vice President of Lehman Management Company, Inc. in New York City, and will be a member of the Investments

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Committee of the Board. He and his wife Eileen, the sports hospitality chairman of the Parents’ Association, are the parents of Anne Marie ’86 and Margaret ’88.

Lawrence Gaydos is with the law firm of Soriano, Henkel, Stein and Gaydos in Bloomfield. He previously served two terms as Advisory Trustee for Annual Giving. He and his wife, Darlene, are the parents of three MKA students, Larry ’91, Chris ’92, and Kimberley ’95. Mrs. Gaydos served on the 1985-86 Parents’ Association Board as Ways and Means Vice President.

James Magna is President of The Magna Group, Inc., an advertising agency, and the father of two MKA students, Alexa ’87 and Jason ’91. He and his wife, Denise, who was the fundraising co-chairman of the Parents’ Association for 1985-1986, reside in Franklin Lakes.

Anne E. Muenster-Sinton is the President and CEO of Capri Associates, Inc. of Clifton and is also serving as a trustee at the Benway School, Inc. in Mahwah. She is the mother of Karen ’88 and Lorelei ’90 Muenster. She resides in Clifton with her husband, Christopher Avery Sinton, a senior vice president of the United Jersey Bank.

J. Paul McGrath formerly served as a trustee for The Montclair Kimberley Academy from 1979 to 1981 before he was appointed as Assistant Attorney General by President Reagan. With his return to Montclair, he has returned to the MKA Board of Trustees, involved in finance and long range planning.

David ’88 and Robyn ’92 are again at MKA. Mr. McGrath is with the law firm of Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer and Wood in New York City and resides with his wife Eileen in Montclair.

Robert S. Kramer is President of Servitech Associates in Wayne.

Mr. Kramer will be the Advisory Trustee for Annual Giving for 1986-87.

He and his wife Frances were Parent Chairmen for Annual Giving in 1985-86. Mrs. Kramer was membership vice president for the Parents’ Association. They are the parents of three MKA students: James ’89, Michael ’91, and Lesley ’96.

It is always exciting when new ideas and fresh perspectives are added to a board. This group promises to do just that and their presence is very welcomed!

Susan Ruddick President, Board o f Trustees

BRAVO!

Recognition for Our Talented Faculty

■ for George Hrab, athletic director, elected in May as President of NJAISAA (New Jersey Association of Independent Schools Athletic Association). This organization is charged with overseeing all the athletic events of participating independent schools, particularly the post­ season tournaments, and meets three times a year to discuss rule changes, dates for events, any problems during the season, etc. They have also created a scholar-athlete award.

■ for Ellen Steege, Upper School physical education teacher, who is serving her second term as President of NJAISWAA (the women’s athletic division).

■ for four of our faculty members who have published educational articles: Laurie Newbauer, Upper School science teacher, whose undergraduate (Clark University ’84) research project in chemistry has been submitted for publication in Inorganica Chimica Acta', Donna Carrara, Primary School teacher, who jointly authored an article on the writing process for 4th graders for March 1986 Language Arts Magazine; Roberta Hart, Middle School computer teacher, whose article, “ The Triple Process: Writing, Reading and Computing,” was published in the Spring/Summer 1986 issue of The Reading Instruction Journal', and Doris Schroeder, Middle School teacher and computer department chairman, whose article “ Come to the Logo Show” was published in the December 1985 National Logo Exchange.

■ for Constance Blauvelt Carluccio, Middle School science teacher, who has been nominated for consideration in the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching program sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

■ for Marion Held, Upper School art teacher, who participated in a group show at M okotoff Gallery in New York City in February and at Todd Capp Gallery in New York City in May. ■ for Diane Boyer, Primary School art teacher, who has had articles and photographs of her design work published in Women’s World, Furniture Today, Home Furnishings Weekly, The Star Ledger, and The Montclair Times.

■ for Ginger Kriegei and Donna Carrara, Primary School teachers, and Joan Grevatt, Middle School reading/writing specialist, who gave outstanding workshops on MKA’s award-winning reading/language arts program at the NJAIS Conference in April.

MKA Participates in Hands Across America Char Charlton, Upper School math teacher, organized M K A ’s involvement in Hands Across America. Following is her account o f that unforgettable experience.

Photographs were taken by Jason Spiotta ’88.

On May 25 over 50 Upper School students, faculty members and parents participated in the Hands Across America campaign to raise money for the homeless and underprivileged in the United States. Because the MKA group was the first school group to become involved in the historic fundraiser, they were given their choice of locations.

The students selected the George Washington Bridge and were the only school group allowed at that location. Rather than collect money from each student to “ reserve” our group location, the students agreed that a fundraiser would be more meaningful to them and more in keeping with the spirit of the day. The funds were raised by holding a fivehour car wash. Many Montclair residents contributed more than the car wash fee in support of the students and their cause.

Prior to the event, the Channel 9 news team visited the school and interviewed a number of students. During the Hands Across America event, news anchor Sara Lee Kessler participated with our group and additional interviews took place. The enthusiasm and excitement generated during the event and the spectacular location on the George Washington Bridge cannot be described in words superlative enough to convey the feelings of the day. It was a moment that all involved will remember.

Bob Loigman ’86 summed up the feelings of the students: “ It was fun! But more seriously... when we first began to sing, there was some confusion, but by the time we got to ‘America the Beautiful,’ the whole chain was singing in unison. The spirit was there. Everybody was conscious that helping the hungry and homeless was really what it was all about.”

MKA GOLF CLASSIC From the tee to the hazard to the green, May 15 was a grand day for the MKA Golf Classic at Baltusrol Golf Club. Thanks to co-chairmen Jack Cussen and Dick Hatzenbuhler for an enjoyable day of golf and an evening of camaraderie.

Top right: Dr. Frances O’Connor congratulates co-chairmen Dick Hatzenbuhler and Jack Cussen fo r a job well done.

Bottom left to right: Craig Cameron ’66, Jim Magna and Jack Windolf

Notes from the Office o f External Affairs ■ During this past school year, which ended June 30, MKA received several generous new endowment gifts to fund scholarships in the names of Denise Farandatos Anastasiou ’62 and Elizabeth O’Neil Feagley. The family and friends of Denise have established “ The Denise Anastasiou Memorial Scholarship Fund,” while Mrs. Feagley’s daughters Sheila Feagley James ’43 and Anne Feagley Wittels ’45 have set up “ The Elizabeth O’Neil Feagley Award for Creativity.”

■ MKA was also the recipient of two bequests, one from an alumnus of Montclair Academy, and the other from a good friend of the school.

These gifts totaling $142,000 were a great addition to MKA’s endowment.

■ The 1985-86 Annual Giving goal of $350,000 was realized with a 14% increase over the previous year. These funds go directly into MKA’s operating budget. The Community Scholars Program which began at 8

Montclair Academy and continues to be an integral part of MKA is funded through Annual Giving.

■ The Tenth Anniversary Fund Campaign, which was established to celebrate the merger of Montclair Academy and The Kimberley School, ended June 30 with receipts totaling over $900,000. These funds were used to build the Middle School music studios, to convert the Vandermade Lecture Hall into the Vandermade Art Studio, to fund curriculum and faculty development, to resurface the exterior of the Kimberley School, and endowment.

■ The success of the Tenth Anniversary campaign was a real tribute to its Chairman, Frederick L. Redpath. Coinciding with the completion of this campaign, “ Bud” Redpath concludes 21 years of service as Trustee of Montclair Academy and The Montclair Kimberley Academy.

He has served in every capacity, from Chairman of the Board of Trustees of

the Montclair Academy to his latest post as Chairman of the Development Committee. His successful fund raising over the years has helped make MKA the financially secure school it is today. Thank you from all of us.

— Judy Polonofsky Director

"Bud” Redpath.

PAMKA/Alumni Association Fundraiser

CHANCE ENCOUNTER Chance Encounter was indeed a fun­ raising, friend-raising, fund raising good time! Over 250 people attended the May 3 event held at the Middle School dining room, following fabulous dinner parties hosted by parents and alumni in their homes.

Elegant coffees and desserts added a gourmet touch to the evening. Music filled the room, inspiring some fancy footwork on the dance floor. Prize and raffle drawings provided excitement at the end of a very enjoyable evening.

In addition to being a fun-filled evening for guests, Chance Encounter also raised over $27,000 which PAMKA and the Alumni Association donated to the school. Thanks to Denise Magna, Jane Cohen, Gail Tomec Kerr ’52 and their committees for their time and hard work in producing this very successful event.

Left, from the top: 1. Parents Lincoln and Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54, also a trustee, enjoy the dancing.

2. Pat Wahl, PAMKA President and wife o f Eugene Wahl ’66, welcomes parent John Cali and Principal Frances O’Connor to her home fo r dinner.

3. Julie Ruddick ’80 and her mother, Board o f Trustees President Susan Ruddick, parent Judy Allen and parent Norman Polonofsky relax while they wait fo r the raffle winners to be announced.

4. Daniel De Cando, trustee and parent Jim Magna, and parents Hal Cohen ’57, Don Marshall and Kevin Carroll toast to the success o f the evening.

Below: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lugaric take a moment to look over the Chance Encounter program.

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SPORTS 1986 IT WAS A VERY GOOD Y EAR Boys’ Soccer 13-3-1.. .best season since 1977 MVP: Dave Weston Coach’s Award: Brad Van Siclen Unsung Hero: Mark Ames Water Polo 2 -5 ... a rebuilding year MVP: Don Calder Outstanding Defense: Jamie Kramer Outstanding Offense: Eric Richardson Football 6 -2 ...best record since 1976 MVPs: Rob D’Alessandro Solomon Johnson Outstanding Defense: Anthony Rabb

Girls’ Basketball 13- 8 ... hard work paid dividends MVP: Liz Nolley Unsung Hero: Marcia Podvey Coach’s Award: Monica Thompson Boys’ Fencing 3-11... individual strength, team promise MVP: Peter Silver Coach’s Award: Henry Park Most Improved: Marcel Green Unsung Hero: Jonathan Fairchild Volleyball 14- 7 ... new heights of offensive and defensive strategy MVP: Sandy Hrab Coach’s Award: Jodi Schneider

Cross Country Girls’ Fencing 5-7 (Boys and Co-ed). .. a young 1 4 -0 ...ranked second in the team, a promising future country 51 (Girls). .. consistent strength MVPs: Adrienne Amirata MVPs: Liz Crowell, Chris Wight Kelly Iverson Coach’s Award: Sarah Infante Coach’s Award: Jill Tobia Most Improved: Carl Chapman Most Improved: Anne Fetherston Unsung Heroes: Lisa Cohen Girls’ Soccer Nicole Gray 8-6-1... fourth consecutive winning season Golf MVP: Louise Weston 0 -7 ... young team looking for a Coach’s Award: Marta Branca more successful season next year Unsung Hero: Jodi Schneider MVP: Bill Richards Field Hockey 10-5-2...a tremendous season Unsung Hero: Pam Fawcett Coach’s Award: Kelly Iverson

Baseball 6-10... optimistic for next year Most Promising: Henry Nakamura

Girls’ Tennis 18-2...rolled through its Prep competition undefeated Coach’s Award: Sandy Hrab Unsung Hero: Laura Diamond

Girls’ Lacrosse 6 -7 ... speed and determination in a much improved team MVP: Meg Allen Coach’s Award: Anne Marie Fell Most Improved: Lauren Green

Boys’ Basketball 61 2 ...a young and talented Boys’ Tennis group that made tremendous 9 -6 ... a creditable record with progress during the season some decisive victories MVP: Dave McCants MVP: Doug Coyle Coach’s Award: Damon Zeigler Most Improved: Bruce Redpath Swimming Softball 45 (Co-ed). . . ended the season 8 -3 ... strong defense and strong awesome hitting 51 (Girls). .. finished second inCoach’s Award: Marcia Podvey Girls’ State Meet Unsung Hero: Tara Frenkl Coach’s Award: Don Calder Boys’ Lacrosse Most Improved: Hannah Carson 12-4.. .a close, exciting season MVPs: Mark Ames Ice Hockey Rob D’Alessandro 0-15-1.. .effort and perseverance Coach’s Award: Brad Van Siclen in a very tough league Most Promising: David Allen MVP: Mark Ames Coach’s Award: Geoff Krouse 10

Left, top to bottom.

Above, left to right.

The boys’ lacrosse team scored in the third overtime to bring home the Garden State Cup.

A fantastic season sent the boys’ soccer team into the State Tournament Finals.

An impressive level o f play by the girls’ volleyball team took them to the State Tournament Finals.

The girls’ fencing team has a 51 match winning streak and a sixth State Tournament Team Champion­ ship from within the past seven years.

For the first time in MKA history, the field hockey team advanced to the State Tournament Finals.

The girls’ tennis team swept to its third consecutive A Division State Championship.

FACUITY CHANGES

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Spring at MKA brings change and this year was no exception! At the primary school Head Anita Cole said good-bye, reluctantly, to Joan Bliss who was on maternity leave but has now decided to stay at home with her son Timmy. She will, however, continue to tutor MKA students. Susan Gleacher, who stepped in and took over for Joan, decided the commute from New York City was too much. In September, she will be teaching at the Cathedral School, two blocks from home! Pat Parke will take a one year leave of absence to spend with her children, and Bonnie Jason will be moving to the Middle School.

Between Vida Welsh and Jerrie Baber, both Kimberley and MKA have had 28 years of service, and Anita acknowledged those years as she expressed her feelings to both of them. To Vida she said, “ It won’t be the same without your wonderful humor and incredible stories; we will miss your expertise and leadership.” To Jerrie, on the occasion of her “ third retirement,” she expressed wishes for “ happy days in your beautiful new home in Arizona” and “ thanks for the memories you leave behind.”

Moving from the Middle School to the Primary School are Robbie Hart and Pat

Ostrander. Vivi Greenspan will be filling in at the Upper School for Diane Looney’s maternity leave and Eileen Keenan will fill in for Vivi at the Middle School. Headmaster Jim Burger said good-bye to Andy Smith who came to the Middle School as an intern to “ see what school mastering was all about” and is now going back to college, and Gloria Norman, “ who touched the lives of quite a few of her students during her year at MKA.” Anne Colligan, “ a superb math teacher,” is moving to the Boston area. Cheri Clark is moving on in her personal and professional life and Jim thanked her for her leadership in the art department. Marilyn Veatar also feels it is time to move on — to the Big City — and will be teaching right next door to the Met! Head Phil Allen said good-bye to Bemie Roche, who, after two years in the science department teaching biology and chemistry, will begin a graduate program at North Carolina State University in Raleigh where she will also be involved in pollination research. He wished Jamie Johnston “ good luck in the bed and breakfast trade” and thanked Gwenn Kenyon for “ her pro-

fessionalism and effective ways,” wishing her well in the world of business next year. A temporary good-bye to Deb Jennings, who will have a year’s leave of absence to adjust to parenthood, after which she plans to return to MKA.” To Barbara Gerry, whose second child is due in September, he said, “ I don’t really feel as though we are saying good-bye.

I’m sure that we’ll see a lot of her at school and that she’ll rejoin the Upper School English department in the near future.”

Phil gave credit to MKA’s vacation field trip program for bringing Joanne and Bill Hammond together and now they are leaving for Naples, Florida. As he wished them the best of luck, he recalled their many contributions. “ Valued members of the English department, various coaching staffs and the school community in general, Joanne and Bill have added a dimension to the faculty that will be hard to replace...

They initiated and sponsored many school activities, especially in the area of community service, and their close friendships with present and past students have meant a great deal and kept many a kid from falling through the cracks.”

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Joseph E. Wiedenmayer 924 to Receive Distinguished Alumni Award The Alumni Council is pleased to announce that the 1986 Distinguished Alumni Award will be presented to Joseph E. Wiedenmayer ’24 — career diplomat, consultant for programs for the hearing impaired, artist, and writer.

Born in 1905, Joe attended Montclair Academy along with his brother and three cousins “ back when we all wore military uniforms” during W.W.I. His brother Gustave received the Montclair Academy Outstanding Alumnus Award in 1967.

After graduating from Cornell University, Joe served abroad as U.S. Consul and First Secretary in the Diplomatic Service in South America, Western Europe, and Australia.

He received the State Department Meritorius Award when he retired in 1965.

Joe has devoted much of the last 20 years to aiding the hearing handicapped and the visually impaired at the national level. He visited schools for the deaf in the U.S. and abroad and wrote articles and booklets of benefit to the hearing impaired and dual impaired in hearing and sight.

As special assistant to the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf 1965-1972, Joe recognized the need to encourage profoundly deaf students to seek a college education. He founded the unique National Scholarship Awards Program to recognize and reward deaf students going to regular colleges. He also originated the World’s First Braillegram Service announced by Western Union in 1975.

He himself has been progressively hearing impaired since childhood and became dependent on a hearing aid supplemented by lipreading. He speaks several languages.

Listed in “ Who’s Who in America” , Joe has received many prestigious awards, including a commendation from President Johnson. He received a People-to-People program citation for his efforts on behalf of the hearing impaired, and the Hospitallers’ Cross from the Middle East Association for the Deaf. The Perkins School for the Blind established the Annual J.E. Wiedenmayer Achievement Award for its students in 1984. He has been commended by Prince Phillip, and has also received a special citation from the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf.

Joe lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland with his wife. He has three children and six grandchildren, who must be very proud of him, as are we, for overcoming his handicap and using his diplomatic and linguistic expertise to be a great humanitarian.

Cynthia Mann Treene ’54 Chairman, Distinguished Alumni Award Committee

My Philosophy From Talks to Young People by - Joseph E. Wiedenmayer.

WHERE THERE’S A WILL THERE’S A W AY EVER YBODY CAN’T BE A WINNER BUT EVERYBODY CAN TRY TO BE THE EXTENT OF A HANDICAP IS NOT A S IMPORTANT A S THE EXTENT OF OVERCOMING IT P ITY NOT THE HANDICAPPED BUT RATHER THOSE WITH A LL THEIR SENSES WHO ACCOMPLISH SO LITTLE WITH ALL THEY H AVE THOSE WHO SAY, "I CAN’T” C AN’T AND THOSE WHO SA Y “/ CAN” CAN THE QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVES AS THE QUALITY OF UNDERSTANDING IS RAISED NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER!

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President Fay Taft Fawcett ’52 at the Senior Breakfast in May, inviting the class o f ’86 back to Homecoming on Septertiber 27.

Report From The Alumni Association A great big welcome to the eighty-nine wonderful graduates who make up the Class of 1986. We are so pleased that Sherry Ahkami and Marylouise Neary volunteered to be class secretaries and Megan Cole volunteered to be class agent.

Your Council officially introduced these new alumni to the Alumni Association on May 1 at our annual Senior Breakfast.

After a delicious breakfast, seniors listened to Alumni Council members talk about the various aspects of keeping in touch with the school.

We feel very privileged that Joseph Wiedenmayer ’24 has accepted the 1986 Distinguished Alumni Award. We look forward to honoring him during our Reunion Luncheon on September 27th.

Once again Gail Tomec Kerr ’52 deserves our thanks for the hours and hours she spent helping make our PAMKA/Alumni Association “ Chance Encounter” fundraiser last May such a success. After much deliberation, your Council voted to disperse the alumni portion of the profits in the following way: $5,000 to kick off MKA’s capital fund campaign to celebrate the Centennial; $2,000 to the Denise Anastasiou Memorial Scholarship Fund; and $2,000 towards MKA benches to be placed in the Upper School entrance and lobby.

I want to thank Julie Ruddick ’80 and Bonnie McBratney ’74 for their service on the Council and wish them both good luck in their moves. Julie will be working towards her MBA at the University of Virgina and Bonnie is transferring to Philadelphia. I’d also like to thank retiring members Lynn Towner Dodd ’54, Bill Schulting ’42, and Karen VanderhoofForschner ’70 for their years of commitment and service on our Council.

Hope to see you all at Homecoming/ Reunions on September 27!

Fay Taft Fawcett ’52 Alumni Association President

DISTINGUISHED ALUM NI AWARD To all alumni, parents, trustees, faculty, staff and friends of The Montclair Kimberley Academy: The Distinguished Alumni Award Committee is hereby accepting nominations for the recipient of the 1987 Distinguished Alumni Award.

1987 Nomination Form Information on Nominee: Name _______________________

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Address____________________________________________:—

The purpose of 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 of alumni and of students.

Telephone____________________________________________

Please use a separate paper to state the case for your nomination, giving sufficient information to establish the person’s qualifications. Include, in as much detail as possible, the following: career an d /o r volunteer information; awards, achievements, honors; personal data.

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

Submitted by: Name ^

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Address_______ ,_________ ____ ■ _______,_____________ T elephone_____________________________________ ______

Detach and mail to: The Montclair Kimberley Academy, Alum ni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, N J 07042

ALUM NI ASSOCIATION COUNCIL BALLOT The Nominating Committee proposes the following Alumni Association members to serve on the Council: Steve Barral ’80 Barry Belmont ’65 Martin Brayboy ’80 Alan Kessler ’47

Susan Ailing Miller ’45 J. Dean Paolncci ’73 Albert Van Eerde ’73

The undersigned hereby appoints Fay Taft Fawcett ’52, proxy to vote F O R ______A GAINST______ the election at the annual meeting to be held September 27, 1986 of the proposed members of The Montclair Kimberley Academy Alumni Council as set forth in the Fall issue of the Alumni Magazine.

Election for Alumni Association Council members will be held at the Annual Meeting of the MKA Alumni Association on September 27, 1986. Meeting place will be at the Upper School Library, Lloyd Road, Montclair, New Jersey. Time 11:00 a.m.

Name

If you do not expect to be present at the meeting, please sign the proxy below and return it to the Alumni office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, New Jersey 07042.

The following persons presently on the Alumni Council have been nominated to serve as officers of the Alumni Association for 1986-87. These officers will be elected by the Alumni Council at its annual meeting on September 27, 1986:

Upon election of the proposed slate of nominees, the Alumni Council for 1986-87 will consist of the following: TERM EXPIRING 1987 Curtis Brunner ’78 Stephen T. Dodd ’79 J. Dean Paolucci ’73 Kit Eavenson Sanders ’41 Charles ¥ . Small ’58

Gail Tomec Kerr ’52 Alan Kessler ’47 Jane Lugaric ’78 Oscar Mockridge ’55 Blake O’Neill ’82 Cynthia Mann Treene ’54 Ellen Wahl ’73

TERM EXPIRING 1988 Fay Taft Fawcett ’52 Bea Crawford Fry ’64 Robert Gardner ’78 Geoff Gimber ’75 Robert Hoonhout ’71

TERM EXPIRING 1989 Steve Barral ’80 Barry Belmont ’65 Martin Brayboy ’80 Susan Ailing Miller ’45 Albert Van Eerde ’73

President.......................

Executive Vice President Vice President...............

Vice President...............

Vice President.............

Secretary .......................

Treasurer.......................

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............... Fay Taft Fawcett ’52 .......................Alan Kessler ’47 Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65 ............... Gail Tomec Kerr ’52 ....... Cynthia Mann Treene ’54 ............... Charles Y. Small ’58 ............. Robert Hoonhout ’71

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WELCOME ABOARD, CLASS OF ’86!

On May 1, the Alumni Council of the MKA Alumni Association hosted a gourmet breakfast for the senior class. It is on this occasion that seniors are introduced to the Alumni Association — the purposes and goals, the responsibilities, the events, the dreams, and the fun!

The breakfast ended with a humorous “ speech” by Dr. O’Conner on the care and stuffing of a laundry bag. Each senior received an oversized laundry bag with the MKA logo and each classmate’s signature as a gift from Dr. O’Connor, along with her best wishes for the future.

A festive spread o f fruit, ham biscuits, and assorted breakfast breads met with hearty appetites. No calorie counters in this line!

On the more serious side, seniors, sitting with senior advisor Calvin Matzke, listen to Alumni Council members speak o f their changing relationship from students to alumni o f MKA. These senior girls are all smiles fo r English teacher Bill Bullard, the photographer fo r the occasion.

Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65 explains the importance o f alumni interest and support.

HOCKEY GAM E

Alumni Association Flea Market Spring 1987 Save all your “ trash and treasures” , talent and time for this fantastic fundraiser! More details to follow.

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Saturday, December 20, 1986 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.

MKA Alumni vs.

Montclair High Alumni M ontclair Ice R in k

Anne La Bastille ’51 Visits MKA

Following her slide show fo r the Upper School students, Anne La Bastille talked informally with a ninth grade biology class on the lawn o f the Upper School.

Dr. Mary Lee Fitzgerald, Dr. Anne La Bastille, and Dr. Frances O ’Connor at the afternoon reception at Dr. O’Connor’s home.

Ecologist, conservationist, and author, Dr. Anne La Bastille returned to Montclair on May 13th for her first visit since her graduation from the Kimberley School in the class of ’51. Dr. La Bastille came at the invitation of Dr. Mary Lee Fitzgerald, Superintendent of the Montclair Public Schools, and MKA Principal Frances R. O’Connor to share her experiences with students at two of the schools she attended as a young woman. In the morning Dr. La Bastille spoke to students at the Mount Hebron School; in the afternoon she talked with upper schoolers at MKA. She shared with the students some of her experiences of living alone in a log cabin she built herself in the Adirondack wilderness. Her home in the wilderness became a visual reality for the students when she showed them color slides of her cabin, lake and animal neighbors.

Sharing her story with the students, Anne described her lack-luster high school per­ formance and her youthful day dreams about a life out-of-doors. After graduation from The Kimberley School, she left Montclair for Cornell where she pursued a growing love of nature by majoring in conservation. The lakes of the Adirondacks were a magnet to Anne; she hiked, camped and ultimately became an inn keeper in the Adirondack paradise. Continuing her education at Cornell, Anne earned a Ph.D. in wildlife ecology and focused her energies on the environment. From her solitary base on Black Bear Lake, the ficticious name she has given her home location to preserve her privacy, Anne pursues her interest in conservation. The author of four books and numerous articles for scientific and popular magazines, Anne uses her pen to pursuade others to join her efforts to save endangered plants and animals. Of particular note is Woodswoman, in which she describes the experiences which led to her present life as an ecologist.

Dr. La Bastille ended her visit by speaking of her grave concerns for our planet at an afternoon reception hosted by Dr. O ’Connor for women school and community leaders of Montclair. For all, worldwide, she believes the nuclear threat is of greatest concern. For her beloved Adirondacks it is acid rain that has brought death and destruction to plant and animal life over the past twenty years. In closing, Dr. La Bastille challenged her listeners to join her in her efforts to improve the quality of life through the conservation of natural resources.

Avalin Green Assistant Principal

MKA Chairs Available

MKA chairs are available through the Alumni Office. They are antique black with maple arms and bear the official MKA seal in gold. Each chair sells for $120 and is shipped express collect directly to you from MKA. Your order must be accompanied by check made payable to Montclair Kimberley Academy.

The Kimberley Class of 1936 remembers — vivid, warm, funny, serious memories. Eighteen of them gathered in May to celebrate their 50th reunion (in addition to the “ official” reunion given by the school in September!) and each filled out a questionnaire prepared by the Alumni Office. Their answers offer wonderful insight into this remarkable group of ladies.

I Below left, the Maypole, 1936. Right, Olive Cawley Watson as May Queen.

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Collectively, these 18 Kimberley girls spent 137 years as students at Kimberley.

While there, math was both their best subject (for 7 of them) and their worst (5 votes)! The most remembered teacher was Miss Henny, for her sense of humor.

These girls showed their diversity early, participating in extra-curricular sports ranging from field hockey to horseback riding to soccer. (Evidently there were “ demon” soccer games at recess.) One of the most popular activities was Glee Club.

A favorite memory was having cocoa and crackers at mid-day recess.

Thirteen of these Kimberley girls went on to college (remarkable for 50 years ago) and a fourteenth is currently working towards her B.A. degree. All of them married, producing 64 children, 75 grand­ children and two great-grandchildren!

Eight of them have held a variety of jobs; all of them have done impressive volunteering. They now live in ten different states and came from as far

away as Wisconsin and Kansas for this reunion.

But back to the memories.

Recollections of May Day are strong. “ All the funny smells of dust, flowers, and excited little girls” ... “ Maypole dancing” ... “ being in the Queen’s Court” . . . “ never could wind those maypoles correctly!” ... “ loved the songs that harked back to early English customs” ... “ dust!” ... “ I loved May Day but my crown of flowers always wilted!” ... “ playing the rear of a horse to Polly O’Gorman’s front end!” ... “ I passed out from the heat and Miss Waring revived me” ... “ I always had high hopes of not messing up the Maypole this year, but me thinks I always did” ...

The overwhelming memory for all of them was their friendships, which have lasted for 50 years. They got along famously then, and they still do. Patricia Soverel McGee said, “ When I saw my Kimberley friends again... the years melted away.”

And what of their Kimberley education? “ Very progressive for those years” ... “ has always stood me in good stead” ... “ our teachers were splendid and taught us how to learn" . . . “ a remarkably fine education.”

Mary Ayres Schweppe expressed a common sentiment: “ The school founders, Miss Waring and Miss Jordan, were extraordinary women.

They made The Kimberley School a very special place. Personal interest was taken in every girl. A simple ‘good sense’ philosophy helped many students find self-confidence and a sense of place.

Everyone was made to feel important in some way. I will forever be grateful for my years at Kimberley!”

CLASS NOTES Editor’s Note A s those o f you in classes that have secretaries already realize, we are now using only one mailing each year to obtain news.

News gathered after Christmas by holiday cards and the one official mailing will be in the fall magazine. Spring magazine Class Notes are taken from reunion and phonathon news and the very successful use o f the flap on the Annual Giving remittance envelope. Although the news might seem “old” to some, we have found that most people love to read news anytime. This time lapse is unavoidable, as the processing o f Class Notes from secretary to Alumni Office to classmates to secretary to Alumni Office to typesetter to printer covers a 14-16 week period!! Please remember that you can send a note to your class secretary or to the Alumni Office anytime.

To those o f you whose class has no secretary, how would you like to volunteer?

The job has been simplified to the point that you will probably fin d it downright enjoyable! It is no exaggeration to say that the position o f class secretary, as that o f class agent and reunion chairman, is absolutely essential to the vitality o f the school. Consider it.

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TKS Mrs. Henry W. Jones (Elizabeth Prentiss) 254 Ivy Street Wallingford, CT 06492

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TKS Mrs. Samuel Meek (Priscilla Mitchell) 88 Doubling Road Greenwich, CT 06832 Much of my time the early part of 1985 was taken up searching for housing for the Cambodian refugees sponsored by Christ Church as I was on that Committee. They were unusually fine and gifted people, numbering twelve and their ages ranging from 26 to a 3-month old baby. We finally found a house which we were able to make livable, which they appreciated. They arrived in a snow storm clad in sandals and cotton clothes, so we had to begin from scratch.

They were in Greenwich for nine months and by accident they ran into relatives and friends whom they had thought dead, living in Danbury, Conn., where we have since happily settled them with good jobs and housing.

I visited my daughter and grandchildren in England last February where it was freezing cold, and even snow and ice on the ground, and I later visited her again in England in September to attend the wedding of her second son in St. Albans.

I am a member of the “ Still Pond” conservation group, which is under the Nature Conservancy of Connecticut. We are

continuously working to prevent encroach­ ment on what open space is left in Greenwich.

The spring and summer were very active times because of visits from my large family, which now consists of our four children, seventeen grandchildren, and six great grandchildren, two of whom were born in June and July. Visits included my daughter from England and some of her family. One of the greats made his first visit to our home in Brattleboro, Vt., with his mother and father.

In June, I visited Glebe House and attended a farewell supper at the lovely old Church in Woodbury, Conn., given in honor of our Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, The Right Rev. John Maury Allin.

In the fall I went to West Point to attend the Yale-West Point football game, which was an historic event as it was the first to be played between them in fifty years.

I was injured in an automobile accident the end of October, which prevented me from participating in many activities I had planned, including a trip to Washington to view the “Treasure Houses of Britain” and my annual meeting at St. John the Divine for the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

However, I did recover sufficiently to have my annual Christmas carol singing party for the choir from Christ Church.

(Editor’s Note: Mrs. Meek wrote a charming letter to her classmates to solicit news, to which they unanimously responded in an equally charming manner that their lives were not the stu ff o f which Class Notes were made. Not only do I beg to differ, but I would also like to take the liberty o f publishing their personal regards to her.)

From Jeanne Van Breda Kolff: “ You certainly are a dedicated and efficient class secretary and your recent letter to us deserves an answer, even though I have very little interesting news to report. Unlike you, I lead a very uneventful life here on Cape Cod. Last February I spent ten days in Bermuda with friends, then in March visited an old school friend from Miss Wright’s School in Carey Key, Fla. The rest of the time I stay put as the years roll by much too quickly. Never get to Montclair any more or New York. I still do volunteer work once a week at the Chatham Library and try to help out a few ailing friends when necessary...

From our class of 1917 I do keep up with Betty Platt McGhie, Ruth Van Cleve Emerson, who lives in Martha’s Vineyard and is owner of 5 cats (one is enough for me), and Florence Herring Bruce.”

From Marian Tichenor Dow: “ Dear Priss B - That old name rings a happy bell from my childhood in Montclair. I still remember the laughing, pink-cheeked girl who lived across the street. I could not resist writing to you, for I think you are very kind to be the class secretary.”

From Betty Platt McGhie: “ Yes, I have good news to report because I am still alive and kicking?— of course my kick is not as high as it was! “ We still live in New Canaan, where I do a little volunteer work. I poke around in the

garden and try to remember it is considered a very dangerous place. I remember a friend fell in hers — broke something and could not get up — horrors. “ We hope to go to our home in Cutter, Maine, this summer and will be joined by our two children, six grandchildren, and new great grandchild. Not all at once! Cutter is a fishing village on the entrance to the Bay of Fundy. From our house we look out to sea to Grand Manan Island, where Miss Jordan came from. Wish I had known it while she still lived.”

From the daughter of Florence Hening Bruce: “ Mother is no longer at Rockridge in Northampton. In late June she had a stroke which has left her pretty much immobile.

She is compos mentes and can speak perfectly but cannot walk. She is now in a nursing home near us here in Newton, Mass.

She is only minutes away from me and pretty contented in her new setting which overlooks the Charles, and she enjoys that.

She often speaks fondly of you.”

MA E.T. Seymour, M.D. 5055 Lakewood Drive Nashville, TN 37220 Thanks for the football report [sent to him by MKA football coach Kevin Monahan because of his continuing interest]. I was on the undefeated team of 1916. [Included in his note to the Alumni Office was the Glee Club Concert program of 1916, in which Dr. Seymour sang second bass.]

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TKS Margaret Moir writes, “ Since June of last year I have been hostess for our Sunday afternoon services here at ‘Green Hill.’ It is interesting work and keeps me busy. We also have a full schedule of activities every month.”

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MA The New Bedford, Mass, newspaper reported the death of Russell Makepeace after a long illness. He served in Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., as a member of the board of directors for 31 years and corporate secretary for 15 years. He was also involved in town government, beginning in 1938, and served as director for several companies. After graduating from Montclair Academy, he attended Williams College, where he graduated in 1925.

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TKS Gilberta Wood Westbrooke writes, “ My hobby is genealogy. In Washington, D.C., in April 1985, I was elected Governor General, Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors.”

Welcome io our newest alumni The Class o f 1986 College Placement Decisions Sherry Ahkami Mark Ames Adrienne Amirata Rini Banerjee Lauren Beck Brian Brooks Heather Bruce Donnie Calder Carey Cannon Nancy Castro Patrick Ciccone Lisa Cohen Beth Ann Cohn Giacomo Colacci Paul Colatrella Megan Cole Valerie Cordover Douglas Coyle Francesco Crocenzi Robert D’Alessandro Elyse Decker Vincent Del Gaizo Maria DeLima

University of Virginia Princeton University University of Pennsylvania New York University Moravian College Emerson College Wellesley College Bethany College Carnegie-Mellon University Brown University Villanova University Columbia College Duke University New Jersey Institute of Technology University of Rochester The Loomis Chaffee School (PG) Bucknell University / Fall ’87 Lesley College Duke University Skidmore College Bucknell University George Washington University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute University of Rochester

Donald DiDomenico George Dolatly Guarina Dominguez Anne Marie Fell Denise Fink Rohina Gandhi Sharri Ginsburg Marcel Green Sean Haran Adam Hauser Alexandra Hrab Catherine Hunter Kelly Iverson Darschelle Jones Victoria Josifovski Joseph Kavesh Penelope Kent Charles Kim Karestan Koenen Mario LaCorte Allison Leader

Lafayette College Cornell University / Fall ’88 Princeton University Columbia College Lake Forest College Tulane University (Newcomb College) Brown University Tulane University (Newcomb College) Pomona College University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Virginia Dickinson College United States Military Academy Rutgers College Ithaca College Syracuse University Muhlenberg College Sarah Lawrence College Boston University Wellesley College Colgate University Johns Hopkins University

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Rebecca Link Robert Loigman Erica Lubetkin Victoria Manchester Peter Michelotti Andrew Murgio Ramzi Musallam Malini Narang Mary Louise Neary Elizabeth Nolley Donn Norton Richard Ort Henry Park Marcia Podvey Lisa Porter Anthony Rabb Bruce Redpath Jennifer Remington Frederick Rimmele Scott Robinson Michael Rosenblum Claudia Ross

New York University University of Pennsylvania Brown University New York University Widener University Dartmouth College Colgate University Wellesley College Connecticut College University of Virginia Washington University Princeton University University of Rochester Mount Holyoke College Dartmouth College University of Colorado (Boulder) Lansing College UK (PG) Hobart College / Fall ’87 Lehigh University Amherst College Sarah Lawrence College Brown University Boston University

Chris Russell Anthony Salvanto Stacy Sarna Jodi Schneider David Schwartzbard Gabrieile Silia Peter Silver Marc Spiotta Samuel Sussman Patrick Sweeney Thomas Thill Monica Thompson Lisa Unger Brad Van Siclen Paul Voltmer Elizabeth von Nardroff Julia Weil Corey Weinstein David Weston Louise Weston Andrew Yee Joseph Yudin Damon Zeigler

Washington University Tufts University Brandéis University George Washington University Northwestern University New York University University of Pennsylvania University of Colorado (Boulder) Yale University University of Vermont Franklin & Marshall College Creighton University Colgate U niversity Hobart College Gordon College Sarah Lawrence College Dartmouth College University of Pennsylvania Hobart College Choate Rosemary Hall (PG) University of Chicago Boston University Washington and Jefferson College

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TKS Mrs. Jonathan Chatellier (Alice Vezin) 16 West Elm Street Yarmouth, ME 04096

MA Mr. Richard E. Kleinhans 190 Scribner A venue South Norwalk, CT 06854

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church, is program chairman for the local Friends of the Library, and she and Dick both work as hospital volunteers. Their summer was busy with grandchildren’s weddings. I spent Thanksgiving with my sister, Libby Russell Thompson ’30, in Stuart, Florida. I keep busy being the librarian for my church and with various other volunteer jobs. Thank all of you who sent me news.

MA Mr. Eugene Speni 85 Undercliff Road Montclair, N J 07042

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TKS Mrs. Philip B. Taylor (Helen Patrick) Quoguonset Lane Little Compton, R I 02837 MA No secretary

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TKS Mrs. Gordon Bowen (Barbara Newell) 50 Forest Avenue Glen Ridge, N J 07028 Our condolences to Barbara Newell Bowen whose husband died in February.

The Montclair Times reported that Elizabeth Nelson was recently honored by Mountainside Hospital for having contrib­ uted over 5,000 hours of volunteer service.

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TKS Mrs. Paul Macdonald (Louise Russell) 35 Bank St. New Canaan, CT 06840 Eda Bainbridge Kolbe joined the condo­ minium dwellers, moving just a few miles from where she lived for many years. Dot Ayres Holt got a look at Eda’s new quarters when she was in Florida this past winter.

Gretchen Eshbaugh Engel and I meet periodically for lunch halfway between Southbury and New Canaan. She and Bob were also in Florida this winter, where she hoped to see Helen Dayton Masson. Hat Lowry Rydstrom had a great reunion with children and grandchildren at Christmas.

She and Chip Stauffen Barnard just missed each other in Hawaii the summer before.

Helen Underhill Gamble has been deeply involved since 1960 with the American Association of University Women’s Education Foundation Program as a fund raiser. She was twice named honoree by the EFP. She attended her 55th reunion at Skidmore in June and expected to see Priscilla Douglas Polkinghorn and Betsy Butterworth Gordon. Jo Gibbs Dubois planned to return to Sweetbriar for her 55th.

Resa Darius Hayes and Dick had a wonderful trip to London a year ago last spring and another to Paris this April. Resa is in charge of memorial flowers at her

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TKS Miss Charlotte H. Fitch Box 45 24 Cape Bial Lane Westport Point, MA 02791 I received a good letter from Ginny Hamilton Adair, who had a lovely warm Christmas at her son Douglas’s date ranch, enjoying her two granddaughters, Rosa and Rebecca, aged seven and nine, and their three pet geese, who “ stand around joining in the conversation, accompanying us on walks, etc.” She still enjoys bridge, recorder playing with three different groups, and continuing her Zen meditation. She writes poetry but usually fails to type up a fair copy. We can all hope for her remedying that. She had a note from a fellow Californian, Maisie Fobes Williams, telling of Newton’s blindness. It’s good to think of all the beautiful photographs and desert archeology he has accomplished. Ginny hopes to get down to see them in the spring.

Frances Fernald Draper sends greetings.

No news on her card but good to hear from her.

Jane Ferris Fryatt spends her winters in “ sunny Tucson” and her summers surrounded by grandchildren on the Cape at Harwich Port. In the fall she had a Rip Van Winkle visit to the Smith College campus after a twenty year time lapse and was astounded at the changes.

A Christmas card from Jane Foster Latham contained a picture this year of just the grandparents and the five beautiful grandchildren, the only addition being a cute wooly dog on Jane’s lap.

A letter from the indomitable Motions, Laura Hurd Motion and Bob, contained the news that both have recuperated from hospital stays. Their daughter Sprit was married to Bill Kurtz in Houston last August 30. Our sympathy to Laura for the loss of

her brother Ben whom we will all remember as the cute little boy on the sidelines when we had those glorious and active birthday parties in Nutley.

Ethel Kellinger Woodruff wrote that this past year is the first quiet one she has had since 1981 and she found it welcome. The hip replacement surgery she had in 1984 has restored her to normal life once again and she was looking forward to a visit with her daughter Nancy in Houston where she has returned after three years in France.

Harriet Laffey Files, whose letter I have put “ carefully somewhere,” so I can’t give a full account, did say she had no news but she does work in the library three days a week and sent greetings to all.

Life for your secretary is pleasantly busy is Westport Point with aerobics, environmental and historical affairs, art group activities;'* pruning and clearing brush, and a bit of campaigning for worthy local candidates. The visit with great-niece and three little greatgreats at Christmas was most enjoyable and she fell in love with the wide-open spaces and skies, snow-capped Rockies and wonderful friendly people of Colorado.

Dorothy Minsch Hudson writes, “I had an interesting trip with Jim last October: Ireland, mostly Dublin this time, London and Paris. On my return, I was shocked and saddened to hear my sister, Elizabeth Minsch Buys, died the morning I returned. On a happier note, one of my 22-year-old twin granddaughters, Susan Bond, was engaged to be married in June 1986.

We extend our condolences to Mrs. Hudson on the death of her sister.

MA Mr. Robert S. Dorrill 42 Godfrey Road Upper Montclair, N J 07043

TKS Mrs. Paul Christner, Jr. (Esma Currier) 31 Aubrey Road Upper Montclair, N J 07043 Children in Tina Urband’s fourth grade class at MKA’s Brookside campus were delighted last fall with a visit from Patricia Clapp Cone, who had written a book called Jane-Emily that the children had particularly enjoyed. She sat among the children talking about writing and answering their questions about becoming better writers themselves.

She offered many tips; and now, according to the teacher, the children are definitely hooked on books — reading them and writing them!

Our condolences to Mrs. Cone, whose husband died in February.

Patricia Clapp Cone ’30 at Brookside.

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

Stuart, FL 33494 Tavie Roberts Allis and her husband spent January and February in Florida at a golf mecca near Tarpon Springs. Their four children are scattered as far away as New Zealand.

Nancy Holton Bartow is still going strong, but is confined close to home since her husband had his stroke. She recently gave two lectures on “ The Ipswich Witch Trials” !! Also she gardens, appliques, and researches genealogy.

Dell Halsey Bell is successfully recovering from a severe attack of angina, which she says is now under control with pills and “ nitro.” She and her husband enjoy golf together in Naples, Fla., where they spend four months of the year. The other four are in Little Compton, R.I. They will celebrate their 50th in March of ’87.

Zaida Jones Dillon writes from Beaufort, N.C., that she frequently sees “ snow-birds” traveling on the intercoastal waterway. She and her husband moved there in ’82 to get away from the New York area.

Irene Burbank Frell (didn’t we used to call her “ Reene” ?) now “ Nikki” is also in Naples, but she and Dell Halsey Bell belong to different golf clubs! She is studying painting, and both she and her husband love to dance and play bridge. Her one daughter writes and has had several articles in McCall’s and other periodicals. Another daughter works for an oil company and frequently “ lobbies” on the Hill.

Jean Batt Kagen, writing from Churchton, Md., on the bay, says she is living with her youngest daughter, but hopes to migrate to Washington, D.C., soon. She likes the city better.

Virginia DeGolyer Maxson from Dallas has had all sorts of problems with cancer of the tongue, throat and lung, but with radiation treatments she seems to be better.

Her four children live in Ontario, Texas, and Plano. The oldest son travels with rock groups such as The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and the Who, doing their lighting and audio. Gina says she doesn’t buy any of those records.

Anne Hodgson McBriar lives in Caldwell and has five children; three are her second husband’s. They are all married, and she has ten grandchildren! One in Japan is studying the language, and art. Mac and Annie are planning to go to Israel this fall.

Eleanor Vreeland McKnight, known to her friends in Red Bank, N.J., as “ Ronnie,” has been a widow for ten years. She is glad she sold her house and is living in an apartment where she is near her nine grandchildren, who keep her busy.

Virginia Taylor Wagner finds time to go “ bowling with the other old ladies in tennis shoes.” She is pretty much confined to home caring for an ailing 83-year-old husband. They had their 50th in 1982!!

Jesse Taylor Drew wishes to thank you all for your great letters. I wish I could really answer them all in detail. We have lived in Stuart since 1967; I am active in the Episcopal church and Jerry is the “ Mr. Fixit” man at our local museum. We had our 50th in 1983.

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

MA James A. Rogers, M.D. P.O. Box 93 Normandy Beach, N J 07839

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

MA Mr. William J. Thompson 415 Claremont Avenue #2E Montclair, N J 07042 Dave Stanley writes that he and Helen are just back from a great three-week educational safari trip in Kenya and Tanzania. They saw thousands of wild animals close-up and learned a lot about geology and archeology.

As if obtaining his B.A. at the age of 70 were not accomplishment enough, Vardy Laing reports that he will embark this fall on his master’s degree. He will have six years to complete six full courses plus an ability to translate a foreign language successfully. He continues, “ On March 23, 1985, I had another granddaughter. Marion and I took a cruise through the Mediter­ ranean Sea for 14 days and also spent four days in Paris. Income tax refund paid for this extravaganza. Last January we took it easy for 4 weeks in Hawaii. We went to Waikiki where the action is! We took a quick motor trip to California last August but didn’t come close to ‘Woody’s’ abode.

Marion and I and our families remain well.

We still talk about the 1983 reunion of the class of ’33. That was certainly a good ‘do.’

The only other thing that I can tell you is that I was the oldest in my university classes (professors and students) except for one professor of 84. I wrote all the essays and examinations the same as the kids just out of high school or those in their early 20’s going to the university. Thought I did pretty well graduating at age 70!”

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Dave and I returned to Montclair March 31.

I hear Libby Gracy Kenny and Bill were able to get away to the Bahamas. The now famous artist, Willard Dixon of California and son of Betty O’Gorman and Bill Dixon, has had this winter another auspicious oneman exhibition of his paintings in New York City.

I am saddened to hear of the death of Edith Baker Campaigne in California. While she was in Montclair, she was a member of the Junior League and the Montclair Music Club.

MA Dr. Walter J. Sperling Fearrington P.O. Box 192 Pittsborough, NC 27312 From the Montclair Times it was learned that Dorothy and Marston Ames are the new grandparents of Kathryn Anne Parisio, born on March 30.

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TKS Mrs. Stewart Carpenter (Josephine Fobes) 4 La Salle Road Upper Montclair, N J 07043 It was wonderful to have so many of our class at our 50th reunion. We missed those who couldn’t come. Those who came were Ruth McCord Alexander, Betty Ryan Asbury, Betty Bristol Bell, Elise Manson Brett, Kay Richards DeLancey, Mary Jane Whitehorne Schoeler, Jodie McNair Schutt, Elizabeth Higgins Thompson, Patty Tonnele Wilson, Jeannette Bell Winters, Ellie Barrett Vernon and myself. We all enjoyed the buffet dinner at Ellie Barrett Vernon’s new house just for our class and their husbands.

Thanks to Ellie for masterminding our class 50th reunion booklet. Also, many thanks to the Montclair Kimberley Academy alumni committee. They really knocked themselves out entertaining all the reunion classes.

Pleasant memories! I had a nice chat with Bobbie Littlejohn a few days later. She was sorry she couldn’t attend the reunion. We did not hear from Elinor Gates Ritchell, Caroline Wrensch Dudley or Joyce Abbott Noyes. Does anyone have any information about them? Thanks again; it was worth bombarding you with letters last summer.

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TKS Mrs. David Haviland (Barbara Spadone) 185 Gates Avenue Montclair, N J 07042 We regret to say that Frank has taken our Kay Halsey Hutson home for consultation and probably surgery. They had just one month in Florida and troubles developed. In April at the latest I expect she will be mending.

Meanwhile, while the saints went home, we sinners were enjoying Naples, including Terry Bull Sterling, Jean Berry Walton, Nan Williams Brundage, Jean Marquardt, and Betty Yallalee Dominick at Boca Grande.

Kimberley girls Jodie Fobes Carpenter, Betty Bristol Bell, and Mary Jane Whitehorne Schoeler at Ellie Barrett Vernon’s dinner the night before their 50th reunion.

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Mrs. W. Kent Schmid (Josephine Murray) Mason’s Island Mystic, CT 06355

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Reunion Chairman: Mrs. H. DeHaven Manley (Jean Winpenny) 206 Devon Road Essex Fells, N J 07021 We are pleased to announce the arrival of our first grandson!

MA Secretary and Reunion Chairman: Mr. W. Kent Schmid Mason’s Island Mystic, CT 06355 William Mattes writes that he hopes to attend his 50th in September.

Does anyone know the whereabouts of George Koch and Charles Silver? They are “ lost” on our records.

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TKS Mrs. Charles L. Leavitt (Virginia Kracke) 93 Stonebridge Road Montclair, N J 07042 The Alumni Office would like to welcome Virginia Kracke Leavitt as the new class secretary, who is replacing Ruth Russell Gray, a busy lady who has earned a rest.

Thank you, Mrs. Gray, and welcome, Mrs. Leavitt!

The class records with sorrow the passing of our classmate Bessie Lipscomb Gregg, who died of cancer on April 11 at her home in Pawley’s Island, S.C. A graduate of both the Stoneleigh-Burnham School and Finch Junior College, she served as a pilot in the WASP during World War II. Our sympathy goes to Bessie’s husband Don and family.

It may shock you, but we are about to become venerable! We shall mark our 50th next year. Our reunion will be held during Homecoming, Fall of 1987. Start now to plan to be in Montclair when we gather to celebrate!

Tibbie Caldwell Soper reports from Connecticut that she is “ extremely healthy” and keeping busy. Son John has been an accountant in Alaska; son Henry to be married in California.

Ruth Russell Gray is again her spry self after a double hip replacement operation.

Our other lawyer, Jane Rinck, retired from the law, sold her beloved boat, and has purchased a bit of heaven in Vermont complete with outdoor living room. At home in New Jersey, Jane occupies herself with her own chamber music group (the Collegium Musicum) and also plays violin in the Garden State Philharmonic.

We have a number of enthusiastic travelers. Peggy Klotz Young took her granddaughter and friend to Quebec during the Spring recess to practice French. Peg goes to California in June to celebrate her youngest son’s 40th birthday. How time marches on! Peg reports that Janet Gaylord Newsome and George spent April in Portugal, one of their favorite places.

During the summer, Peg and husband Bill (MA ’28) go to the Massachusetts shore; they expect to see Sally Young Shertzer and Kitty Young Davis (TKS ’35).

Frannie Montgomery has taken on the post of Literature Chairman for the Fortnightly Club of Summit; she is busy planning programs for her group. Ruth Duff Eager has been re-elected President of the Auxiliary of Mountainside Hospital, an office in which she has given valuable service

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to the hospital. Her son Bud has just been made operational manager of the Golden Inn Hotel and Conference Center in Avalon, N.J. Jean Hamlin Noyes burns up the miles, visiting family in Texas and California, and in May attended the installation of her son Worth (MA ’63) as pastor of the First Congregational Church of Hatfield, Mass.

Teppy Holton Sjolander continues to combine her artistic talent and love of nature; recently she made illustrations for trail signs at N.J. Audubon’s nature trails in Franklin Lakes. She is assisting the American Museum of Natural History in its mammal count of New Jersey, ascertaining the kinds and numbers of mammals in the state. She also takes part in the breeding bird census for National Audubon’s “American Birds” ; this involves going out eight mornings between 5:30 and 6:30 when the birds have to be identified primarily by song.

Sally Bausher Littlefield and Bill (MA ‘34) are both enjoying life as retirees; they plan a trip in late summer to England, with luxurious return home by ship. They look forward to grandparenting for the first time in September.

Stil says that Sally Jennison Riter and husband Tac take happy trips in their camper, often venturing from Florida to the north to visit their children. Sal reports that Helen Hodgson McLellan saw to the wedding of her youngest daughter last fall.

Ginnie Kracke Leavitt and Charlie love to travel, but have scant time for it. However, this year they have managed short trips to Santa Fe, N.M., and with the Smithsonian to the Arizona Sonora Desert. They adored both.

Those of us who are still in northern N.J. try to meet monthly for lunch. We’d love to have any of you who come this way join us.

Let us know your plans! And please do drop your secretary a line about your doings. And remember, Reunion in ’87.

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TKS Miss Jane Carpenter 12 Francis Place Montclair, N J 07042 I regret to report the death of two family members in our class: Mary Ames Poor lost her son Curt in July 1985. Ann McNair Bushnell lost her husband Francis in February 1985. He attended the Montclair Academy before going to the Choate School in Wallingford, Conn., graduating in 1934 and then to Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. Our deepest sympathy to both these classmates. Other news: Mary Ames Poor is very busy since retiring with courses in New Testament Greek at Villanova and an “ in depth” Bible study at her church. She also assists the director of the Sunday school. In between she is helping her daughter-in-law in Virginia with her two boys.

Pril Bennet Ritter reports that her grand­ daughter Shelby was the only 15-year-old finalist in the “ Miss Teen New Jersey” Beauty Pageant. Grandson TY (aged 8) is into wrestling and snake collecting. Another granddaughter, Heidi, has discovered

fluorescent jewelry and is painting sweat­ shirts. Daughter Shelly spent Christmas in Mexico and the summer camping near Mono Lake in the High Sierras. August was reunion time in Pennsylvania for all the family.

Barbara Bailey Hoey rented a cottage in Quogue, Long Island, last summer. Both she and Bernie are very proud of their son Richard — front page of Barrons, Nov. 25, 1985, and quoted recently on the New York Times front page.

Joan Garrigan Dial, now living in Pinehurst, N.C., came back to Montclair over the Christmas holidays and had a nice visit with Narcisse and George Cadgene. We should have “ mini-reunions” when special visitors arrive. Joan and Charlie had a delightful trip to London and the English countryside last fall.

Edie Henderson Scripps is our world traveler. She “ did” Paris, Holland, Switzer­ land, Singapore, Thailand and Burma. Not only that, she had two trips to Hong Kong ' and got the Amazon River in there, too. She and Kay Jackson get together often.

Ann McNair Bushnell had a nice trip from the Poconos, where she summers, to Texas, taking in Big Bend National Park in south­ west Texas on the Rio Grande.

Barbara Porter Anderson is our sailor.

They are having a new ketch built in N.C. to be ready this spring. They visited daughter Susie in Malibu over the holidays.

A s the Alumni News was going to press, we learned o f the death o f Jane Carpenter.

We extend our condolences to her family and her friends.

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TKS No secretary Our condolences to Ann Dixon Curtin on the death of her husband John in January.

MA Mr., Charles McGinley 1911 W. Magic Place Tucson, A Z 85704 Bridg Hunt continues to work in the field of Executive Search in N.Y.C. He lives in Shelter Island and is looking forward to participating in Op Sail to celebrate the renovation of the Statue of Liberty, scheduled for July 4th in New York Harbour. He has been invited to bring his cat boat along.

Peter Funk reports that all seven children are married and that he and his wife Mary

Chuck McGinley ’39 and Tere with daughter Nancy and granddaughters during a recent visit in Cambridge.

are expecting their 10th and 11th grand­ children this year. As a writer, Peter is completing his ninth book (a novel) and as a lexical semanticist is the author of “ It Pays to Enrich Your Word Power,” a monthly feature that appears in the Reader’s Digest.

Peter and Mary work closely together on their writing projects and keep in shape by running in marathons. They live in Princeton, N.J. Bruce Swenson continues to live and work in the Dallas area. He and his wife Nancy have six children and several grandchildren.

They have maintained their roots in N.J. by spending part of the summer at Bay Head.

Bruce reports that it is a lively household when the grandchildren arrive for a visit.

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IKS Mrs. Charles V. Cross (Barbara Armstrong) 2306 Cardinal Drive Point Pleasant, N J 08742 The accompanying picture shows a mini­ reunion of Joan Bayne Williams, Jean Girdler Grinnell, Betty Burnham Hinckley and Harriet Palmer Pickens at Schooley’s Moutain, August 1985. They had a great time. Baynie also saw her goddaughter (Harriet’s daughter) and her children. Girdie helped Baynie close up her summer home at Echo Cove last fall, and then Baynie took off for the Greek islands and Athens. Talk about getting around! Girdie wanted us all to attend the wedding of Joan’s daughter, Matti, at Colby College, June 28.

Betty and Hugh Hinckley have spent a vacation in Florida with all their family and last May attended an international real estate meeting in Rome. They then visited Greece and returned just before the hijacking! “ Burr” keeps busy with her real estate business and is president of the Greenwich Board of Realtors.

Jo Watt Clark enjoys her large family every summer in Michigan. She had a brief visit with Barbara Kluge Deming and Bill at the Houston Airport. They had a stopover on their way to visit their daughter in Mexico.

I had a lovely visit- with Marilyn Gates Crandell last June. Her home overlooking the Pacific is lovely, and my daughter Lyn and I enjoyed seeing their famous motor home. Marilyn’s mother is vivacious as ever

Class o f ’40 mini-reunion. L. to r.: Joan Williams, Jean Grimnell, Betty Hinckley, Harriet Pickins. in her little cottage. I was in California to meet my newly adopted grandson, Richard S. Cross, age 6. Chuck and his wife Mary are the proud parents.

On the local scene, our sympathy to Helen Keenan Thatcher on the loss of her husband, Albert, in January. Nancy Schoonmaker Heidt’s mother, Marguerite Schoonmaker,

passed away in January also.

I’m still working on that reunion — as Girdie says, it’s too chancy to wait until the 50th!!

Mary Chapman Shearer and Chris are still in Pleasantville and are working on their house at the Cape.

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TKS Mrs. James F.C. Hyde, Jr. (Enid Griswold) 5402 Duvall Drive Bethesda, MD 20816 The Alumni Office notes with great pleasure that the Kimberley class of ’41 has a secretary, thanks to the willingness of Enid Griswold Hyde. We would like to welcome Mrs. Hyde, who wrote, “ I note with dismay that for yet another year my Kimberley class has no secretary. We have had no news of all those great people and their families for a long time. I will therefore take the bold step of volunteering to be the Class of 1941 secretary for a time.”

The Montclair Times reported that Shirley Campbell was honored recently by Moun­ tainside Hospital for having contributed over 5,000 hours of volunteer service.

MA Mr. David Baird, Jr. 9 Parkway Montclair, N J 07042 Roger Etherington is still active as chairman of Horizon Bancorp in Morris­ town and vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of Fairleigh Dickinson University, where he heads the Educational Affairs Committee. He and Barbara are enjoying periodic visits with their three grandchildren.

Bill Hall, who took “ early retirement” from Duff and Phelps in Chicago, reports that he now has more time to do crazy things like becoming a Lloyd’s of London member, investing in Albuquerque real estate, and bringing a new company public.

Bill and Ann have six grandchildren with a seventh well on the way.

Charlie Holmes reports that Perry Minton, now retired from Chevron and living in Rosemead, Calif., visited him last fall in Lexington, Ky., where they spent a pleasant evening reminiscing and comparing notes.

Chuck Sanders and Kit, who have been married 41 years, were expecting their eighth grandchild around Easter. Kit devotes much of her time to Hospice and the emergency area at Mountainside Hospital. Chuck is vice president of Louis Hoffman Associates, a product and package development firm in Randolph, N.J., where he puts his 37 years of manufacturing experience to good use.

His other major activities include a directorship at Horizon Bank in Montclair and a trusteeship with the Schumann Foundation.

Tommy Tompkins and Mary live in Mendham, where they play a lot of golf and tennis at the Morris County Golf Club.

Mary shows one or more of their five golden retrievers on the circuit, and Tommy sails and races his J-36 out of Rowayton, Conn.

They have three married daughters and four grandchildren.

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TKS Mrs. Robinson V. Smith (Joan Trimble) 16 Marshall Terrace Wayland, MA 01778 Our condolences to Sally Sanders Appenzeller on the death of her husband Donald last spring.

The Montclair Times reports that Frances Johnson Furlong, an employee of Shearson Lehman Brothers, Inc., has been elected to the Nuveen Advisory Council, comprised of a group of investment professionals across the country who are cited for “ continuing excellence in financial counselling in the field of tax-exempt securities.”

Connie Nagel Messinger writes, “ Ed and I have just moved into a new townhouse in Menlo Park, Calif., to be near our four married children and six grandchildren. Lots of excitement all around!”

Polly Rowe sent in news of her marriage to Fred Gordon Barrows in February. After graduating from the Kimberley School and Finch Junior College, Mrs. Barrows was a member of the Junior League of New York.

She is a former travel manager in the advertising departments of Harper’s Bazaar, Holiday, Town and Country and Venture magazines. She reports that she sees Jack and Ginny Usher and John and Charlotte Westerfield, as she now lives in Madison, Conn., having “ scampered about for the last few years.”

Jean Jeffers Hill writes, “ In the last 1!4 years, my family has had three weddings!

My youngest son John and his wifeE- both Seattle residents — came back east for their marriage in November 1984. They are expecting their first child in early May. Middle son Bill is still single and lives in Mass. It’s nice to have one member of the family nearby. Martha, the oldest, just had a baby boy! She met her husband-to-be in Newport the night before Australia won the America’s Cup. He was a boat-builder from Australia who had come to see the races and would be on his way back the next day.

They kept in touch with letters and visited each other. Last spring, they were married in Rhode Island, and today they live in Tasmania, where we will visit them later this year. “ I’ve been an Early Childhood teacher for 20 years, which I have enjoyed, receiving great satisfaction from this career. I retired in December 1985 and was married January 18, 1986.”

Jean included a newspaper article that shed some light on how she met her husband-to-be. Evidently Jean and Harry have known each other since he was a student at Brown U. He was a friend of her first husband, had attended their wedding, and even dated one of her bridesmaids.

Later, his career in government took him far from R.I., and after he retired, he and his first wife lived in Great Britain. Meanwhile, back in R.I., Jean was divorced and became a teacher at the Gordon School in East Providence. During a visit with family and friends in R.I. after his wife’s death, Harry called Jean. She wasn’t at home to receive his call at the time, but he began writing to her from Britain. She wrote back, and their relationship progressed. A real love story!

MA No secretary James L. Prescott, Jr. writes, “ I am corporate V.P. and secretary for J.L. Prescott Co. in Passaic, N.J. My wife Joy and I summered in Nantucket and Christmas Cove, Maine. Daughter Donna McKenna and granddaughter Tia are living in Vero Beach, Fla., and son James III is working in South Jersey. We visited Germany and Switzerland in September.”

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TKS Mrs. E.B. Ruffing, Jr. (Joan Sweeney) 125 Westview Road Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 MA Mr. James Mackey 213 Geneva Street Elizabeth, N J 07206 In January 1986, Bill Gardam went to Florida for a vacation. Wallace Shanks practices corporate, financial, securities, and business law with the firm Eikenburg and Stiles in Houston. Wallace and his wife have a 4'A-year-old named Lily — a redhead.

Dick Angus and his wife went to Bolton, Vt., where they enjoyed themselves skiing in late January 1986. Besides skiing, Dick likes to chop and saw firewood. I had a winter leave from my job as a groundsman at the Suburban Golf Club in Union, N.J. I returned to work in February and have been renovating my old house with some painting.

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TKS Mrs. Nancy Heydt Green 99 Belvidere Road Falmouth, MA 02540 Betty Specht and 6-year-old daughter Louisa stopped by last fall on an impromptu trip to New England. They were delightfully comfortable and enthusiastic guests, and it was a joy to see them. The oceanographic research vessel Knorr was in port in Woods Hole (back from discovering the Titanic), and we poked around the deserted ship late Saturday afternoon and enjoyed the quiet village and setting sun. After tucking Louisa in, Betty and I reminisced, updated, and futured. Betty has some exciting plans for new building renovations in Montclair. I was sorry to see them depart for friends and fall foliage in the north.

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where I work in Public Information, is involved in basic ocean research, and the Titanic find was somewhat more flamboyant than our customary line of business. For a week or so a media frenzy took place in my office (a sort of store front); and then it passed as all media events will, and research goes on as usual.

However, there are plans to return to the Titanic site this summer, this time going down in a three-man submersible, Alvin, and using a small robot to enter openings in the ship’s hull. The Navy is funding the expedition as a fine opportunity to test capabilities of new technology.

Spent a quick weekend in Essex Fells in November visiting my family and lunched with Betty Specht and Louisa in an attrac­

tive restaurant at the old Lackawanna Rail­ road Station. A federally funded revitaliza­ tion program has transformed the old station and some acres around it into an exciting new center in Montclair, potentially upgrading the whole neighborhood. Since this visit, I received a Christmas card from Betty announcing the long-awaited arrival of Diana, a new baby sister from Brazil for Louisa. Everyone is thrilled.

Had a nice chat with Mary Ellen Spangler Helman. She moved to McConnelsburg, a small town in the hills of Pennsylvania, in 1948, after attending Bradford Junior College, and except for brief forays into the outside world, has been there ever since.

Sounds like a happy and tranquil life. She has two grandchildren, via her daughter Judy, named Mike, age 16, and Kimberly (without the e), age 10. She’s been an avid golfer and currently is working in a dress shop.

An intriguing Christmas card from Mary Smythe Coley provoked a phone call. A photograph shows her handsome son Christopher with his bride, Diane Suda; bridesmaid Susan Coley; usher Peter Coley; and the attractive mother-of-the-groom, Mary Smythe Coley. Mary has started a private practice in child and adolescent psychiatry in West Hartford after three years training in Boston and Providence. She received her medical degree at Harvard Medical School after college. Chris is in his last year of training in internal medicine at Mass. General in Boston; Susan is graduating from Rome Art School and is getting married this summer; and Peter is graduating from Colby after taking time off teaching in Zimbabwe.

Have not been able to reach Betty Deyo Garner, but her plans were to winter with Steve in their new home in Vero Beach. Hope to get together with them this summer on the Cape.

Jan Mount Shruhan and Bob have moved to Orient, L.I. — think she must be in her true environment there, surrounded by water, beaches and boats.

Received a cheerful note from Connie Soverel Gattle. All goes well in Lake Park, Fla. MA Mr. Winterford J. Ohland Box 137, R.D. #3 Blairstown, N J 07825 The Montclair Times reported the marriage of Gerald Youngman’s daughter Gretchen this spring. The father of the bride is president and founding partner of North East Structures, Inc., of Morristown.

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TKS Mrs. Jerome L. Wittels (Anne Feagley) 2116 Via Alamitos Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274 One of the real pleasures of being class secretary was the phone calls — almost immediately from Rudd Trimble Kenvin and a bit later from Josie Murphy Rayermann.

Unfortunately, I didn’t tape the conversations, nor take notes — since I was promised follow-up letters — and a lot of the details are lost in the ether.

However, Rudd Trimble Kenvin wrote that Roger is heading up a new department

A Kimberley Memory Comes Full Circle Anne Feagley Wittels is a 1945 graduate o f the Kimberley School. A professional writer and poet, now also an art student, she shares a recent experience in the following essay.

In American History during my senior year, Mrs. Dawson told us that one day people would reach the moon. “ Not in my lifetime,” she said, “ but surely in yours.”

That was the first time I’d ever heard a serious prophecy about a lunar landing.

Mrs. Dawson, regrettably, was right. On both counts.

Recently I was privileged to sit beside the speaker at a formal dinner. He was The Honorable Harrison H. (Jack) Schmitt: geologist, former U.S. Senator from New Mexico, former astronaut in the Apollo space program, and — the point of all this B the last person to walk on the moon.

Fortunately, my memory delivered up Mrs. Dawson’s classroom prophecy right then — not six hours too late, as so frequently happens. And how ironic it seemed, to be able to tell Senator Schmitt about Mrs. Dawson and her prophecy, but not to be able to tell her about meeting a moon-walker.

It seems important to tell someone, though. And who a better substitute for Mrs. Dawson than the MKA community of teachers, parents and students.

Seeds fall on, and are blown to, who knows what terrain. Germination is short, or long. Even, sometimes, an amazing 41 years.

And the flower is sometimes unexpected and altogether unforeseeable.

Usually we experience only small bits of the whole. To be a part of a completed circle such as this is a rare experience.

Without wishing to sound mystical, religious, or just plain looney, this experience now seems to be made up of equal parts of belated acknowledgment and thanks to Mrs. Dawson; an almost overpowering feeling that we’re all threads in a tapestry of grand, if almost invisible, design; and an imperative to encourage the planting of seeds.

Even in — maybe most especially in — what appears to be an unlikely soil. of Theatre/Dance at Cal Poly (California Polytechnic Institute at San Luis Obispo).

One daughter, Brooke, has decided to return to graduate school and is at home at the moment. Their younger, Heather, is “ still in Iowa doing admissions work at Grinnell College.” Rudd says they “ find California interesting, but hope to return East for retirement years.” Until then, she spends at least a few weeks in N.H. each summer. As some of us may recall, Rudd and Josie were great friends at Kimberley, and it’s a treat to know they still are. Since the Kenvins moved to California, Rudd and Josie see each other fairly frequently and phone more often than that.

By the way, Rudd was one of the reunion attendees. The total list: Susan Ailing Miller, Paf Driver Shuttleworth, Jean Talbot Sawutz, Barbara Creighton Ulbrand, Cynthia Carswell Blair, Anne Reighley Ferguson and “ assorted spouses.”

Josephine Murphy Rayermann promised to send a bunch of back issues of Christmas letters for me to edit for present purposes.

Briefly, Ed Rayermann is still with Honeywell, working on proposals, proposal reviews, and design reviews. Son Patrick extended his time with the Army in order to accept a special assignment serving on a Space Initiatives Study Group. Son Richard received his “ wings of gold” in September 1984 and as a Navy pilot is now stationed at Miramar Naval Air Station (San Diego), flying F-14 Tomcat fighter planes. Patrick and his wife Emma flew out to Arizona, joining Josie, Ed and Richard for three weeks — the first time they’ve all been there together since 1977. It was “ Christmas in September” in 1985 for the Rayermanns.

Josie’s mother, now 96, “ remains in good health.”

(Truly, if you want to feel 17 again, call a classmate. Our looks may change, but our voices stay the same!)

Jeanne Talbot Sawutz writes of the same spouse, three children and house; one grand­ child and one hatching (end of March). Son David, with a Ph.D. in pharmacology, is completing a two-year post-doctoral research fellowship at Mass. General. His wife, Kathy, has just completed training as a blood banking specialist. Daughter Linda is an interior designer at Mass. Mutual Insurance. Daughter Sandra will complete a medical technology course in August, and also in August will marry her fiance, James H ill^ S ‘so we will have one ‘Sandy Hill’ ” says Jeanne. Jeanne and George celebrated their 35th in 1985 with a trip to Europe.

Jeanne walks, plays bridge, and volunteers one day a week at Benedictine Hospital.

Someone (Jeanne?, George?) retired on 2/1/86. Someone (Jeanne?, George?) received recognition from the County Legislature for ten years of service.

Barbie Creighton Ulbrand claims “ no exciting news” but adds that their daughter, Lynne, is married and living on Long Island.

She and Bill “ still have our house on Cape Cod and will probably retire there.”

As some of you may recall, it was just about 10 years ago that Jane Powell Danforth died. I’ve kept in touch with her daughter, Penny (although not with her two sons, I regret to say), and am pleased to report that Penny is now the mother of a daughter, Kelsey Lauren Sapp, born in December 1985.

As for the Wittels: Jerry is general manager of the electronics and optics division at the Aerospace Corporation, plays tennis, and likes to travel. Daughter Laura graduated from Reed College, is on the board of the Northwest Artists Workshop, and is making her way as an artist. For two summers she has worked at an archeological dig in Soissons, France, doing archeological drawings for the dig team. Son Steve is a sophomore at Cuesta College (majoring, one is sometimes lead to believe, in skiing, girls and beer). I’m still keeping irons in many fires: freelance writing for several publications, occasional book reviews for the Los Angeles Times, giving the poetry readings, conducting workshops in which I teach teachers how to teach their students how to write poetry, and workshops in grant proposal writing for non-profit organizations. I’m also back in college —„ againg- this time as an art student.

Painting. I also like to travel. In my spare time I like to write notes about my classmates, most of whom are undoubtedly incarcerated and not allowed pencils and paper.

Nancy Nevins D’Anjou wrote a long letter, saying that her “ biggest 1985 event was a two-week safari in Kenya” and that her “ little” educational materials business, Beaver Pond Learning, is enjoying “ some great successes.” Sadly, Nev also wrote of Bill’s death in 1979 from lung cancer.

Additional news: my sister, Sheila Feagley JamesB- Kimberley ’43 — is now a resident of San Francisco with her husband David.

She celebrated her 60th with a birthday bash and family reunion at Club Med on Eleuthera Island, Bahamas, in December 1985. The four of us Wittels joined in, making 15 of us at the gala festivities.

Anybody know the whereabouts of Lorraine Dircks, Lee Miller or Marion Nye? They are “ lost.”

MA Mr. William B. Grant 41 Clinton A venue Ridgewood, N J 07451

Mrs. George P. Shoemaker (Elizabeth Smith) 11 High Point Terrace Scarsdale, N Y 10583 Reunion Chairmen: Mrs. Robert D.B. Carlisle (Joan Denney) 82 Eagle Rock Way Montclair, N J 07042 Mrs. Florence Johnson Jacobson 22 South Prospect St. Verona, N J 07044 The Class of 1946 expresses its concern and deepest sympathy to Eleanor Helm Ketchham on the death of her beloved father, Harold H. Helm. All of us who were privileged to know him felt his presence and interest in us and appreciated his dedicated work on Kimberley’s behalf.

This business of class secretary includes some definite “ perks,” chief among which is the kick when your letters come in! Perhaps the “ Will” touched a sense of mortality?

Anyhow, to the writers: Blest be your name.

And to the laggards: You’ve only yourself to blame (if you’re not mentioned herein).

Joan Denney Carlisle included this anecdote: “ A few years back, a local restaurant, ‘The Class Reunion,’ was about to open below the Claridge Theater where once had been housed another eatery.” (Was it “ The Three Crowns,” Joan?) “Knowing the new owners, I was aware that they were seeking photos... for their wall decor. The period was the ’40s and ’50s, and they wanted typical local school shots of athletic, social, etc., type functions. Remembering that a photo was taken at the Montclair Golf Club at a dance where Joan and Nancy Lockerty, some servicemen and myself were posed at the bottom of the stairs, I thought it might serve as a possibility. Some months passed, and I heard nothing, but was pleasantly surprised shortly after the restaurant opened to find the picture displayed nicely on the wall. I was particularly pleased, as it was about the best picture of Joan Lockerty Brown I had ever seen, and I rather liked the fact that she was ‘still with us.’ If you ever have occasion to visit your old home town, be sure to take a look at some former classmates.”

Connie Ritchie DuHamel sent some warm, encouraging words to “ Desperately Seeking Liz.” She’s freelancing for Woman’s Newspaper, published in Princeton, N.J., and distributed there and in north New Jersey. She reported that Young is “ still in the ‘clean water’ business” and added an impressive account of her six (count ’em, six!) children. Two are married, and three are working in financial institutions in N.Y.C. One is a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at the New School, one accepted at the Columbia Ph.D. program in English Lit., and No. 6 is an 11th grader at Miss Porter’s. All of them attended MKA for at least five years, and two graduated.

Connie seems to share the class record for most children with Florence Johnson Jacobson, who is not only mother of six but grandmother of eight! (Any other candidates for the crown?) She says her “ wonderful children have taught me to laugh at myself and, above all, to be patient.” The grand­ children “ keep me young in s p i r i t . Currently, Florence is “ associate director, Ministry to the Elderly in the Archdiocese of Newark, N.J., and pursuing a degree in theology at Caldwell College.” She “ keeps in shape” (envious editorial sigh) with aerobic dancing. ... and speaking of grandchildren, Joan Powell Adams has two — Lisa, 3, and Rob, V/2 . “ They live in Dallas so we don’t see them enough to spoil them too badly — and isn’t that sad!” Her husband, Douglas, is retired, and they’ve just finished building their dream house in Madison, Conn., where they now live year round. Joan shared a memory of the firemen helping her and me across Harrison Avenue in primary school days.

"Plus ca change... ” Remember how we used to envy Nanette Mount Cutler’s short walk to school? She writes, “ Forty years after Kimberley I still don’t have far to go to school though I can’t walk it anymore.”

She’s “ elementary librarian in a great country school only 20 minutes away.”

Congratulations to Nan and Dave, who celebrated their 35th anniversary this past November. Dave hasn’t been well, but “ has put about 3000 miles in on an exerciser!”

News of the Cutler children includes: “ Oldest, Lynne, got her master of library science at Berkeley and has been working there in the rare books dept, as well as a reference librarian in Oakland. Jodi graduated from Albany, lived and worked in Boston, and now lives in San Francisco alternating working and taking courses for a master’s in anthropology. Sharon lives on a farm in a bus decorated like a little museum.

She has a wood stove and electricity but no running water. She’s done construction work, painting, modeling for women artists, and helps some friends who are antique dealers set up. I’m happy one is close enough to visit. Kathryn is a professional interpreter for the deaf in Seattle and last summer married a deaf boy. He played in a National Theater for the Deaf production which I saw in Montclair. I’ve given up all extra-curricular activities except my choral rehearsals... I also love swimming, hiking, tennis and bicycling. In the winter I walk, at least 3 times a week. I’m probably in better shape now than I was at Kimberley.”

(Another one of you in good shape? Oh well...)

Nancy Rudd Wahlberg checked in with a fine, chatty letter. Time certainly doesn’t seem to hang heavy on her hands! “ Ruddy” '■is a member of the Board of Directors of The Holley-Williams House, of historical interest, which belonged to her father’s family and serves as a hospitality chairman for the same. She’s Garden Club president, corresponding secretary for her local Republican Club, and finds “ meetings and activities, fund raising, etc., interesting and informative.” Her son, Ted, has been accepted in graduate school at the U. of Indiana next fall “ after ten years of productive work as a computer analyst.”

Travel plans have had to be postponed because Nancy’s husband, Mike, “ had triple by-pass surgery last summer... with recovery in progress.;” Best wishes, Mike, for a speedy return to health!

Your faithful correspondent has kept in close touch with Marilyn Scanlon Reid over these forty years. Marilyn is married to Charles Reid, retired language teacher at Scarsdale High School, the mother of five (including a set of twins), and grandmother of three so f a r...! She has a fascinating job in marketing research for the Starch, INRA, Hooper Company in Mamaroneck, N.Y. The Reids live in a charming “ ante bellum” house near the Long Island Sound.

Attention Patty Youngman Ames: Small World Department. My husband, George, was general agent for Provident Life when your father was g.a. for Mutual Benefit. As a matter of fact, they both belonged to the same insurance club and both graduated from Williams!

Several of you mentioned a reunion. As the kids say, “ Let’s go for it!” And to those of you who said your news was dull, t’ain’t so. Everything is grist for this mill, and news of our class is of real interest to all of us.

Does anyone know the whereabouts of Sheila Hancock Dure-Smith, Jean Murphy or Gloria Paul? They are “ lost” on our records.

MA No secretary Reunion chairman: Mr. Alan Kessler ’47 50 Pearl Brook Drive Clifton, N J 07013 Does anyone know the whereabouts of Raymond Ward? He is “ lost” on our records.

HOCKEY GAME Saturday, December 20, 1986 4:30 - 6:30 p .m .

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MKA Chairs Available

MKA chairs are available through the Alumni Office. They are antique black with maple arms and bear the official MKA seal In gold. Each chair sells for $120 and is shipped express collect directly to you from MKA. Your order must be accompanied by check made payable to Montclair Kimberley Academy.

47 TKS Mrs. Edwin Reade, Jr. (Petey Hofmann) P.O. Box 111 Vineyard Haven, MA 02568 Barbara Nash Hanson writes that she and Herb are living in the Valley of the Moon, a wine-producing area of Sonoma County in Calif. Herb is an investment counselor with his own firm near San Francisco. They spend a lot of time in the Palm Springs area each spring. Daughter Lynn is married, lives near San Francisco, and is local sales manager for a CBS-FM radio station. Son Jeff is getting his master’s in computer service in Denver. Barb noted that her mother is 93 and lives in Carmel, still leading a wonderfully active life. They enjoyed a cruise with Mrs. Nash last year.

Nancy Hollenbeck writes from Annandale, Va., that she is busier than ever in retirement! She is very involved in golf — locally, regionally, and nationally U being a member of the Southern Golf Association Board of Directors. She also attends USGA rules seminars in both the Washington, D.C. and the Virginia associations and competes on the senior circuit! Her father is living in Montclair, and she returns frequently to visit him.

Cindy Youngman Adams sent a gorgeous family picture, and she and Dave look every bit as young and happy as their own children! Son Michael was married last

November 9; now they are busily preparing for Peter’s coming wedding. Daughter Susie is expecting her third baby in March! Susie’s children, a boy and a girl, appear most ready to handle the situation!

Joan Cook wrote that Cleave is at Salisbury and has been accepted early decision at St. Lawrence. Hunt is at boarding school in N.H. Am hoping very much to meet Cookie and other Kimberleyites in Boston for lunch some fair day in 1986.

Teeny Redfield Sanders reports that Bob’s consulting business is “ going great guns,” permitting two beautiful recent trips to France, Switzerland and Austria last spring and to the Greek islands last fall. Jim and Nancy Bryan live in nearby Norwalk, Conn., and by now have had their first baby. Heidi and Bill Bryan are expecting their third child in April, which will make a grandchild total of eight! Travel, grandchildren, and elderly parents keep the Sanders busy!

More grandchildren for Court and Midge Bethell Cross, making the grand total of five boys and one girl. Court calls them his basketball team, complete with cheerleader!

Midge was happily expecting the whole clan for Christmas. Her mother, Mrs. Richard S. Bethell, whom we all surely remember, is as peppy and wonderful as ever, and it is always a joy to see her when she comes to Edgartown in August. Am putting in an early bid to see Midge and her mother next summer! Mutual friends report that Midge is stunning and glowing with life in N.H.!

Cynthia Overton Blandy never fails to send a wonderful, newsy letter! Although there were no “ grand tours” this past year, the Blandys made several trips to see family.

In spite of hurricane “ Gloria” most were able to make it to daughter Robin’s wedding in Naples, Fla., although Cyn said they returned to real clean-up in New England... somewhat of a letdown after the wedding!

Thanksgiving was happily spent with the entire Blandy family together followed by Christmas with Peter and his family in Virginia. Gray expects to retire next October. Cyn is the one and only library substitute in the Medfield School system, which keeps her very occupied, along with other volunteer activities.

Your Island correspondent, Petey Hofmann Reade, is presently attending the Cathedral School of Religion at the Episcopal Cathedral in Boston — just loving it! Wish it could last longer! Since several of the courses are at night, I stay over at St. Margaret’s Convent. Last July 20 I was received as an associate of the Society of St. Margaret, a large Anglican order founded in 1865 in East Grinstead, England. This has given much joy. Am still warden of Trinity Episcopal Church, Oak Bluffs, the first summer Chapel to come into union with the Convention of the Diocese of Massachusetts.

It was a tremendous thrill and privilege to be a chalice bearer at Bishop Johnson’s Consecration last fall, held at Holy Cross Cathedral in Boston, and attended by 3,000 with all denominations represented. Am very active in diocesan activities, which keeps me going to and fro the Island, in addition to serving as the Chaplain’s assistant at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Ed is loving retirement and tremendously involved in community affairs. Playing tennis yearround keeps him young! No grandchildren

yet.. .just “ Maggie,” our beloved basset hound! Our son Ned is in his tenth year of school, mastering at Trinity-Pawling School and very successful as an artist. He plans to study in Italy next summer. John and Masumi hope to come over from Tokyo in the spring, perhaps with Masumi’s parents!

John is an international tennis pro, and Masumi is now teaching in Japan. Our daughter, Katie, is assistant manager of a new B. Dalton bookstore in Washington, D.C. She and Josh are happily settled in Arlington, Va. We enjoy visiting them and were so happy to see the beautiful Treasure Houses of Britain exhibit with them last fall.

As I recall, there were 39 in our class! So let’s have some news from the rest of you!

Amazing how much one can write on a postcard! Also, would one of you like to take this little fun job over? Please?!

“Weezie” Rudd Hannegan writes, ’“Dave and I are still active and enjoying The Concord Players. I’m an officer this year and production supervisor. Dave appeared on PBS last May as a magistrate in “ Three Sovereigns for Sarah” with Vanessa Redgrave — very exciting! I continue to work part-time with a partner, gardening and doing odd jobs (we’re the ‘Round Tuits’), mostly for the elderly and working couples. Dave, Jr., is now p.r. director for Outward Bound in Denver. Garret is still with the prosecutor’s office in New Albany, Ind. My parents are coping with aging and still in Lakeville, Conn.”

MA Mr. Chase Troxell 44 Windermere Terrace Short Hills, N J 07078 The Alumni Office recently heard from Allan Toub, who capitalized on a little spare time to update us on the activities of his family for the last several years. “ I am still practicing podiatric medicine and surgery in Madison, N.J., and though I have a general podiatric practice, I do specialize in podiatric orthopedics; and I am board certified in this specialty as well as being a Fellow of the American College of Foot Orthopedists. “ I studied conducting, composition and orchestration at Juilliard from the years 1975-80, and in the course of those years, managed to have many of my compositions performed. In addition, I had the unique honor and pleasure of conducting a composition by my son who had graduated from the Juilliard pre-college division in 1979 and who majored in composition during that time. Recently I found some time to orchestrate one of my works which I had originally composed some years back. “ I also have maintained my scouting work. I recently resigned as scoutmaster of a troop in Hillside after nine years to assume the leadership of a troop in Somerville which was about either to disband or merge with another troop. My former troop recognized my 30th anniversary in scouting while we were in summer camp in 1985 with a desk plaque. In 1982 I was presented with the Shofar Award for promoting better under­ standing between Jewish and non-Jewish scouts; and in 1984, my council presented me with the Silver Beaver Award for Distinguished Service to Youth, which is the highest honor a scouter in a local council can receive. I still hear from many of my former scouts and take a great deal of pride in knowing that many are distinguished

adults in their chosen fields. Needless to say, there is a great deal of satisfaction in this work despite the many problems which arise in dealing with today’s youth. I can readily see the immense pleasure instructors such as Mr. Miller and Mr. Monson had when they learned that their former students became successful. “ My son is a senior in the Pritzker School of Medicine of the U. of Chicago and will receive his M.D. degree in June 1987. He received his A.B. with double honors from the U. of Chicago in 1983 and had the pleasure of doing research with several Nobel Laureates there and having several papers published on his findings. He plans to specialize in obstetrics and gynecology. “ My wife is a former concert pianist and college professor of education. We recently celebrated our 27th wedding anniversary.”

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TKS Mrs. Stanley Miller (Frances Lane) 2498 N W 25th Street Boca Raton, FL 33434 MA Mr. James A. Swan 1A Sheraton Lane, Apt. 10 Norwich, CT 06360 Our condolences to the Rev. David St. George and his family on the death of his mother.

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TKS No secretary When Jerrie Brown’s dance students gave their spring ballet demonstration, there were two children of alumnae and several current MKA students among the performers!

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

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TKS Mrs. E. Alden Dunham, III (Louise Green) 73 Brookstone Drive Princeton, N J 08540 The Montclair Times reported that Audrey McBratney was honored last week by the Executive Women of New Jersey as a member of the Board of Directors of the Community Foundation of N. J., an Orangebased foundation serving “ as the focus for community philanthropy in the state.”

Our condolences to the family of Barbara Jones Maloney, who died in April.

L. to r.: Jerry Cronin ’50, Cliff Evans ’50 and Bob Lieder ’51.

MA Mr. Rudolph H. Deetjen, Jr. Northgate Road Mendham, NJ 07945 Cliff Evans sent in this photograph of Jerry Cronin, himself and Bob Lieder ’51 at Lake Tahoe on July 4, 1985. The occasion was the wedding rehearsal dinner of Cliff and Mary Anne Treene Evans’s (TKS ’50) son, Stuart. The hijinks (i.e., festivities) took four days; the region has recovered. Cliff is v.p. of real estate for Occidental Petroleum Corp. in Westwood, Calif. Jerry runs Marketron, a broadcasting service company in Foster City, Calif. Bob Lieder is a stockbroker for E.F. Hutton and lives in Pasadena. Cliff and Mary Ann (brother Bill lives in Montclair) became grandparents when daughter Leisa and husband Rick Colett had a son Ryan on Jan. 20. Congratulations!

The Evans clan were all in Bavaria when Patty and I toured there this Sept. — don’t know how we missed them. We were on a sixweek mini-sabbatical from Peck School covering 3000 + miles of people, scenery, school, art and history in Scandinavia, Germany and the Aegean. If it weren’t for the slides and notes, it would be a fantasy now. Can’t wait to go back! Our Cliff Deetjen went through three bouts of surgery following our return. Happily he’s all recovered and thriving at Hobart.

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MA Mr. Ernest F. Keer, III P.O. Box 1030 Point Pleasant Beach, N J 08742

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TKS Mrs. Thomas Burgin (Lolly Penick) 328 Fairway Road Ridgewood, N J 07450 MA Mr. John Wade 14 Dwight Drive West Deal, N J 07723 Arthur Jacobs writes, “ After half a career teaching community medicine in medical schools, I entered the field of rehabilitation.

At present I am the chief of rehabilitation at the Edith Nourse Rogers Hospital in Bedford, Mass. Marilyn is a nurse educator at the same hospital. Daughter Cathy at Yale Divinity School (Hamilton ’85), daughter Lisa at Bowdoin, and son Arthur at Bates.”

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Bob Weinmann writes, “ I was delighted to receive a letter from John Wade, my first editor-in-chief. 1 am sending three press packs — one on the scientific and clinical aspects of brain death, one about and including my newsletter, and one about my activities with the physicians’ union. , “ My newsletter is frankly muckraking, a tradition begun in California by Lincoln Steffans, carried on by Upton Sinclair and others. However, my tradition began at the Montclair News. I’ve included articles about me and my Nightletter, plus four I’ve done for other newspapers in Calif, and Ariz. “ Although I’ve been involved with some research projects with Sandoz, not far from MKA, I don’t get to N. J. these days, and seldom to New York. I did buy Phil Fradkin’s book on the Colorado River (A River No More). A few years ago, we exchanged greetings by telephone (my two dimes). That’s been my contact with MKA these last few decades.”

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TKS Miss Georgia Carrington 38 Silver Spring Lane Ridgefield, CT 06877 The Montclair Times reported that TiilyJo Emerson, who lives in Maplewood, was honored by the Executive Women of N.J. as a member of the Board of Directors of the Community Foundation of N.J., an Orangebased foundation serving “ as the focus for community philanthropy in the state.”

The Greenwich, Conn., newspaper reported on the status of the Greenwich Academy tennis team, which will be coached

by Georgia Carrington. Seeing her job as having two goals — building confidence and instilling a team attitude — Georgia also feels she will have a strong team that will do well in competition.

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is at Cornell, mixing biology and calculus with Latin and dance. Last but not least, Andrew, 9, is happily involved with scouts, soccer and wrestling with his pet dog. The Brenzas have taken trips to Mexico and Lake Tahoe.

My son, Refan, 15, is still at Landmark School near Boston and is on the wrestling team. Tom, 13, is in seventh grade and busily getting good grades to prepare for high school. I am doing freelance sketching, working at the archicenter run by the Chicago Architecture Foundation, and doing various volunteer jobs for the Rehabilitation Institute. Please do write me with any news!

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TKS Mrs. Susie Forstmann Kealy 232 E. Walton Place, Apt. H2E Chicago, IL 60611 I recently had a nice lunch with Marilyn Walrath Elliott, who lives in Barrington, 111.

Her son, Doug, is in his final year of high school at the Bridgeton Academy in Maine.

Her other son, Stephen, is at Loyola Academy near home.

I had a nice Christmas card from Di Whittaker in Maine. She has been busy during the past year, remodeling their new little house in Boothbay Harbor. She writes that Carol Cloke Wildhaber is a grand­ mother again and is also revamping her house. Nancy Joyce Banta became Mrs. Bruce Buckley during the summer of 1985.

Congratulations, Nancy! They plan to move to a big farm in Greensboro, Vt., where Nancy used to go in the summer.

Leigh Eberstadt Brenza writes that her oldest son, Lin, is in his second year of law at U. of Chicago. He took a trip to India over Christmas. Karl is a senior at U. of Penn., majoring in electrical engineering, having had a summer in Newport News designing submarine guidance systems. Amy

30th Reunion Sept. 27 TKS ^ Mrs. Lawther O. Smith (Linda Lovell) 30 Water Crest Drive Doylestown, PA 18901' Reunion Chairmen: Mrs. Peter B. Wilson (Gail Zabriskie) 27 Patterson Ave. Greenwich, CT 06830 What fun to have heard from so many ’56ers this time! Henny Nelson Skeen wrote from Va. that son Andy is a sophomore at Conn. College, and Peter is a senior in the process of college applications. She also included a Wheaton College 25th reunion picture taken in June 1985.

Jane Crawford Lyons writes from Fla. that she and John just returned from a Colorado skiing trip, “ and for those who read about the broken chair lift... it went back into operation Jan. 1 and we were on it!” Returning from her Wheaton reunion, she and her daughter Debbie (who graduated in July from helicopter flight school at Ft. Rucker) spent a night with Nancy Cornell Esposito, who is now living in her parents’ former house in Upper Montclair. Jane’s son, Toby, a military school graduate and 2nd Lt., is now a Sigma Chi at the U. of Fla. Betsy Hasbrouck Cole included a lovely Christmas picture of daughters Carolyn and Susan. Carolyn enjoys living in NYC, following the stock market and working in advertising at Ogilvy and Mather Direct.

Susan, a junior at Denison, is an English

’56ers at Wheaton College 25th reunion, June 1985. L. to r.: Henny Nelson Skeen, Linda Lovell Smith, Betsy Hasbrouck Cole, and Jane Crawford Lyons.

major interested in publishing. Bob and Betsy launched two new projects in ’85.

They were involved with the Broadway musical “ Grind,” which sadly closed after three months. A more successful venture was being one of the 65 founders of the new Bank of Darien; adding the personal touch for the first bank to be headquartered in town. “ Plaster dust is everywhere,” writes Nini De Jurenev from Santa Fe, in the midst of renovations and “ condoing.” Christmas Eve festivities old Santa Fe-style were highlighted by luminaries on either side of the street, bonfires, and caroling. Once the redecorating is finished, she’s off to her painting again.

Lilia Emetaz McDonald’s artistic Christmas card was computer designed and printed by Malcolm, a seventh grader and nose guard on his school’s football team (which made it to the championship playoffs held at the U. of Oregon stadium). John Andrew is studying fine arts at Portland State and has completed the Marine reserves.

Elizabeth is studying at Western Washington U. on a full grant to complete her master’s in Alpine biology-ecology. John and Lilia enjoyed a spring cruise from Florida to Grand Cayman Islands and a summer in Bellingham, Wash., with a visit to the San Juan Islands.

Also on the go is Carol Cooper Henry, who has moved to Arizona from Cohasset, Mass., with her daughter Annie, 13, for a year so Annie can be trained by Linda Lichter, a well-known synchronized swimming coach. Annie will join the Arizona Aqua Stars for the year. What glory for the daughter of a former Kimberley water ballet star! Carol, who has been a coach at the Quincy YMCA for many years, has been training Annie since the summer Olympics in L.A. Annie hopes to qualify for the National Age Group and Jr. Olympics in one or two of the events. As for the Olympics, where most of the swimmers are 19-23, that’s a possible thought for the future. Charlie, 16, is away at Brewster Academy on Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H., where he enjoys sailing as well as skiing.

Billy, a spring art history graduate from Bates, moved to L.A. to be an assistant director of the t.v. mini-series “ The Long Hot Summer” and is now assistant editor on his second movie. With the rest of the family away, Bill is busy on the home front where he owns an 18-doctor veterinary practice, teaches surgery at Tufts U. Veterinary College, and works on an N.I.H. grant in bone transplantation at Mass.

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No bones about it, Janie Goodwillie Swan also has a daughter, Eliza, 16, who has been working hard in her sport — equitation. She is ranked second in Georgia for equitationhunter/jumper and her pony Once Upon a Star ranks third in the state for its division.

Jody, 18, is enjoying his freshman year at Presbyterian College in S.C. Jane is teaching 5th and 6th grades at Epstein Day School.

She ran her Wells 25th reunion and “ came home to ‘X’ out all references to gold/silver/platinum years in all my poetry books.” She keeps up with Gail Zabriskie Wilson through the “ Wells connection.”

Janko and Carol Van Brunt Rasic had a lovely trip to Italy last summer with their children Tim, 14, and Lin, 10. They visited many cities and stayed in a friend’s palazzo in Venice. Carol continues to work part-time

for Bank Leu, a Swiss bank; Janko’s architectural firm, Rassic Assoc., just finished Maxime’s Restaurant in NYC, a copy of the Paris favorite.

Our son Scott, 24, also calls NYC home, where he’s working in finance. Sabrina, 18, is a contented freshman at the U. of Vt., having spent the summer as a camp counselor. Larry and I have just returned from two weeks in the Antarctic and S. America. We didn’t follow Amundsen’s and Scott’s path to the pole, but were on a small ship cruising the Antarctic Peninsula and straits and channels of Tierra Del Fuego, S. America, making many zodiac landings in both areas.

Nancy Prescott Ward writes, “ I have had a busy year converting my answering service business to computerized equipment — a lot of problems, but things are getting straightened out now. Bob’s advertising agency continues to keep him on the go. Our oldest, Vicki, has been accepted at Yale and will enter the freshman class this fall. Jennie is a 7th grader and enthusiastic about the band; Robbie’s a 2nd grader and enjoys soccer and Tiger Cubs.

Colgate reports that Dave Perham, who is married to Connie Sommer Perham, will leave his position as dean of admissions to begin independent consulting and writing in higher education.

Does anyone know the whereabouts of Shirley Smith Kunath or Tatiana Wood Mollenauer? They are lost on our records.

MA Secretary and Reunion Chairman: Mr. John W. Clapp Box 256 Sea Girt, N J 08750 Does anyone know the whereabouts of Eric Jaeckei? He is lost on our records.

anything that flies! They now reside in Hemet, Calif.

Nancy Ferris Hillegas and husband Don are “ knee deep” in restoring their “ new” Victorian house they moved into last fall in Moorestown, N.J. They are hoping that by spring tulips and daffodils and other surprise bulbs will surround them rather than the plaster dust of the fall’s renovations. Their children Michael and Julie love their school and new friends.

Louise Alford Dillon and husband Jack sent news of their children. Holly is a high school junior about to embark on the college search and eventually delve into t.v. communications, etc.; Pamela, a sophomore, is into tennis and skiing; son Jim, a third grader, loves science and skate boarding. Louise continues to be one of our class’s finest artists — she does freelance illustrating and writing copy for several local boutiques and looks forward to a major freelance assignment in fashion illustration for a large knitwear dress manufacturer in N.Y.C. this spring. Good luck, Louise!

Our class extends its sincere sympathy to Nancy Adams Scherer, whose mother died suddenly in July. Nancy and husband Jeremy have happy news as well. Their daughter Debbie graduated from Connecticut College in June, is working towards becoming a computer systems analyst, and is engaged to be married August 16, 1986. Her sister Elizabeth, a sophomore at Georgetown, will be maid of honor. Nancy and Jeremy look forward to celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary Sept. 2. Congratulations! Nancy is very involved with a lay shepherding group at her church and enjoys tennis, bridge, reading, needlepoint, cooking, etc.

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TKS Mrs. Ralph Perry, III (Helen Bryant) 18 Warfield Street Upper Montclair, N J 07043 Wendy Worsley Breslin and husband, Jud, have recently moved into a new house in Mountain Lakes, N.J.. Their sons, Ned and Beau, are at St. Lawrence and Hobart, respectively. Middle son Dave is a sophomore in high school; youngest twin boys, Matt and Jamie, are in first grade!

Wendy says she now has time for volunteer activities, etc., which she had no time for until recently.

Great news from Sally Braddock Mueller, who married Bill Mueller on March 30, 1985. Sally and Bill grew up together in North Caldwell and after 55 years have finally “ tied the knot.” Now their combined families include 4 children (2 to 10), 9 cats, 1 sheep, a sailplane, and a hot air balloon due to arrive in April. Bill is a pilot — of

The children o f Helen Bryant Perry ’58 and Joan Wallace Bryant ’57 enjoy skiing, Christmas 1985. L. to r.: Chris Perry, Mark and Wendy Bryant, Ashley Perry.

Mary Ann Lawrence Decker and husband Mel are looking forward to the marriage of their daughter Bonnie in August 1986. Their eldest daughter Kim was married in October 1985. It was a beautiful wedding and reception at West Point, and Gail Garnar Jacobus and Jake, and Helen Bryant Perry and Ralph were delighted to attend!

Ralph and I are delighted to report that our children Chris, a junior, and Ashley, a freshman, are loving Skidmore College. Our family greatly enjoyed our reunion with my brother, Hager, and my sister-in-law, Joan Wallace Bryant (TKS ’57), and their children Mark, 20, and Wendy, 12, who came all the way from Texas to share a special New England Christmas at “ Turxis” in the Berkshires. Cross country skiing at sunset on the sparkling lake, frosty walks in the woods, “ driving” colored golf balls in the snow, and most of all being together are beautiful memories.

Thank you one and all for answering my plea for news. I hope to write you all individually soon.

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

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TKS Mrs. Emily S. Danson (Emily Stark) 130. Old Stone Bridge Rd. Cos Cob, CT 06807 The New York Times announced in April the creation of a new ad agency in N.Y.C. in which Sally Minard will be a partner. Sally, the account services professional in the group of four women, has arrived at this juncture in her career path from a senior vice president’s slot at Lord, Geller, Federico, Einstein. According to the Times, their clients will be getting “ a considerable amount of proven talent and more liberated feminine charm than is available in the top managements of most agencies.”

MA Mr. George A. Bleyle, Jr. 2259 Weir Drive Hudson, OH 44236 On Saturday, October 26, 1985, Marc Kirschner, Pete Lima, Fenton Purcell, Eric Sandwall and I attended the 25th reunion of the Montclair Academy Class of 1960. The day opened with an alumni meeting in the library and was followed by a luncheon and a football game in the afternoon. MKA beat Dwight-Englewood by a score of 27-0. A reception followed at the middle school (a.k.a. The Kimberley School). Following dinner at the Montclair Golf Club, the Class of ’60 closed the bar at 1 a.m.

It was truly a trip down memory lane to return to MA after so many years. I think I stopped by once when I was in college back in the early 60’s, so it has been at least 22 years, and probably longer, since I have visited MA. Marc, Pete, Fenton, Eric and I struck up conversations immediately; it was almost as if we had never parted. In hindsight, however, our class was so small (26) and so closely-knit, it isn’t surprising that to this day we feel like a band of brothers.

The highlight of the day, however, was seeing Mr. Brogan and Mr. Jennings, both of whom returned for the festivities.

MA will be celebrating its 100th birthday in 1987. Watch for plans and details.

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TKS Miss Judith Poor 96 North Mountain A venue Montclair, N J 07042 Reunion Chairman: Miss Christine Keller 1702 Church Galveston, TX 77550 Does anyone know the whereabouts of Ann Cameron Christie, Julia Corbett or Susan Sayre? They are “ lost” on our records.

MA Mr. Robert Tyler Root, III 24 Wiedemann Clifton, N J 07011 Reunion Chairman: Mr. Arthur G. Rosen 400 Newark Pompton Tpke.

P.O. Box 512 Wayne, N J 07470 Dave Brack reported that he has been with the same law firm for 15 years, which has grown to 70 lawyers. He has two children, Kaajia and Jesse, ages 5 and 3 respectively.

My son, Stephen, graduated from MKA last June 1985 and is now at Denison, doing well and enjoying college life.

The Montclair Times reports that Stephen O’Neill has been appointed a principal in the N.Y.C. investment research and management firm of Sanford C. Bernstein and Co., Inc. Steve is a senior trader and has been with the firm since 1982.

Does anyone know the whereabouts of Dennis Addonizio or Richard Warshaw?

They are “ lost” on our records.

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TKS Mrs. C.D. Creed (Barbara By water) 1769 Forest View Avenue Hillsborough, CA 94010 The class extends its sympathy to the family of Denise Farandatos Anastasiou, whose death in October 1985 was a great shock and loss to us all. Denise’s involvement with MKA over the years as a parent and as president of the Alumni Association was a source of great pride to her classmates. The reports of Nancy Kraus Rothschild and Carolyn Heath Cariello, who were in touch with Denise during the last months of her illness, are full of admiration for her courage and determination.

The class also offers its sympathy to Marby Agens Morgan, whose mother, Margaret Agens, ’33, passed away in November 1985.

As your new Class Secretary I am delighted to take on this job because it means I can remain in closer touch with all of you. I am extremely pleased with the flurry of notes and letters I received in response to my recent plea. Keep them coming!

Starting in sunny California, we can report on a fairly new arrival in the form of Carolyn Heath Cariello, who moved to San Diego (Rancho Bernardo) in August 1984.

Carolyn reports that she is very pleased with the schools for daughter Laurie, 14, and with the nearby equestrian center. Carolyn and her husband run an accounting service

and also own Indian Dancer, a purebred Arabian stallion, for breeding and showing.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, Suzanne Kremer Klein lives in Albany with her son, Grady. Recently Suzanne had several pieces of her art work displayed at one of San Francisco’s major galleries.

Your class secretary keeps busy with her employee benefits law practice at Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro, service on the boards of a women’s resource center and one of San Francisco’s major hospitals, and involvement with a great many professional activities. In our “ spare” time Chris and I have taken up hiking and square dancing, in an attempt to avoid the sedentary life!

Susanne Wilson Howson ’62 and her family.

From Iowa Beverly Haring Myers reports that last year she finished the college courses required for real estate exam and planned to take the licensing exam early this year. Son Mart is a sophomore at Princeton and son Walter a junior in high school.

Holly Harrison Gathright fired back the most prompt response to my plea for news.

Holly received an MBA from Bellarmine College in 1984, then went to work for First National Bank of Louisville. Early this year she resigned her position and went into business for herself — details to come! Son Joe is a junior at Deerfield and son Leigh is in middle school.

Nancy Haviland Hutchinson is keeping young by dancing S ballet, tap and jazz.

Son Dwayne’s a junior at Andover. Laura is in second grade, loves Brownies and is following in her mother’s footsteps in tap and ballet as well as baton.

1985 brought Susanne Wilson Howson and family back to the U.S. from a long tour in Brussels. The happy event that triggered the move was Bruce’s promotion to president of CIGNA, Worldwide. The family has settled in Philadelphia, except for Peter who stayed in Brussels to finish his senior year of high school. Son Brian is in school at Kent, and Keith and Stephen are in public schools in Radnor Township, Pa. Susie reports that she accompanies Bruce on many business trips and that the whole family enjoys getting together for skiing outings. She is also working for Bed and Breakfast of Philadelphia, the original Pa. B&B reservation agency.

Marby Agens Morgan reports that during her mother’s illness she switched to part-time work from her full-time job as a social worker. Now she finds she’s enjoying the extra time for tennis, folk art and church activities. Daughter Debbie is a freshman at Keene State College in N.H. Meg, who is a sophomore in high school, keeps her parents on their toes on the tennis court. John, 13, is in eighth grade. The family enjoys skiing

together and has vacationed in Puerto Rico for the past several years.

Isn’t this column fu ll of news? Next time I want to hear from the rest of you!

MA Mr. Laurence J. Magnes 6 DuPont Way No. 3 Louisville, K Y 40207

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TKS Ms. Sharon Livesey 12 Gorham Avenue Brookline, MA 02146 The Montclair Times reported that Ann Gel Michelsen, who worked for The New Yorker magazine for 18 years as circulation promotion manager and promotion art director, has opened a freelance business creating promotional pieces, located in Upper Montclair. Her decision to begin her own business after a long and successful career at the prestigious New York magazine came about after the recent birth of her son, Rad. Ann’s desire to remain close to her son prompted her to open the freelance business called “ Ask Ann Gel,” which operates out of her home.

MA Mr. Bronson Van Wyck P.O. Box 997 West Memphis, A R 72301

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TKS Mrs, P.E. Madsen (Betsy Ridge) 58 Chestnut Street Boston, MA 02108 The Alumni Office received a newspaper clipping from the Wilmington, N.C. Star News about Page Paterson. Page is an artist and therapeutic masseuse who “ uses her hands in both occupations to express her reverence for life.” An artist since the fourth grade, Page now is painting mostly in watercolors, abstracts in particular. She has been working on a project with another artist for the Kent State Memorial Competition. The memorial will honor four college students who were killed in 1970 during an anti-war protest at Kent State U. in Ohio. This abstract sculpture is very different from her other art. Page likes abstract painting “ because I think it’s less limiting. Also painting for me is trying to combine both realities — inner and outer.”

Another side of her life is health care. She got a license to practice therapeutic massage 10 years ago in New Mexico at the School of Natural Therapeutics in Albuquerque. Her interest in healing began when she was

pregnant and more concerned about her health. She wanted work that was compatible with rearing children. She studied anatomy, physiology, herbal medicines, polarity therapy, theories of acupuncture, and a form of massage called shiatsu. She developed techniques for releasing energy that she said runs along the body and can be blocked through tension or stress.

After 15 years in Texas, she and her husband moved to the East Coast where their families were. Her husband, Ken Marburg, is a physician. They have two children, Alison, 5, and Dylan, 10.

MA Mr. R. Victor Bernstein 40 W. 77th St., Apt. 4E New York, N Y 10024 James Kuzmick writes, “I have moved to Vienna, Va., to join a defense consulting firm.”

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TKS Secretary and Reunion Chairman: Mrs. William E. Crawford (Francine Onorati) 421 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02115 As I begin my reign as the alumnae correspondent for the Kimberley Class of 1966, I hope that, in the future, you will continue to correspond with me so that in turn I can pass on to the rest of our class all our exciting, or in some instances not so exciting, news. Please do not hesitate to write just because you have not gone to Nepal or were elected to the Board of IBM last year. We all want to hear the homely tales of everyday life.

Each of our classmates who wrote to me expressed her concern and grief over the death of Martha Ridge .Lane. Once again, we extend our sympathy to her sister, Betsy Ridge Madsen, class of 1965, husband Peter, her children and her parents.

Our loving sympathy also goes to Madden Harkness (Sharon Madden), who upon the death of her father chose to use Madden as her first name. I was so excited to receive her letter and was doubly excited to learn that Madden has continued to paint. Having recently received an M.F.A. with high distinction in drawing from the California College of Arts and Crafts, she is doing very large scale figurative drawings (when I say large scale, I mean it — the canvases average seven feet tall). Last year Sharon had a one person show, and her work is represented in the permanent collection of the Everson Museum in Syracuse, N.Y. Madden and her husband Richard Harkness, who is a Hollywood director/editor, live in a large loft space in downtown Los Angeles, and I must say the life style sounds terrific.

Dwight Chapin wrote in the October 11, 1984 issue of the San Francisco Examiner about Madden’s involvement in the nuclear freeze movement, focusing on a project she initiated, which was to design and execute a highway billboard for the nuclear freeze movement.

Alina Seborowski Andersen has a new job, following an old commitment to education. She is the director of The Learning Center at Piper’s Hill in Conn.,

which is an extended day nursery school and kindergarten. When she took over, the school was being closed down by the fire marshall, and much reconstruction was necessary in order for the school to open.

Alina took charge and school is now open and running beautifully. Her youngest son, Christopher, attends Piper’s Hill, while her older son, Johan IV, is in the gifted program in his fourth grade class. Alina’s husband Johan, while pursuing his high pressure business interests, found time recently to direct Gilbert and Sullivan’s “ Ruddigore” for a local group, to rave reviews.

Mary Kimball wrote from Wayne, Pa. Mary works for the Public Affairs Director at WPVI-TV, the Philadelphia ABC affiliate. She seems to do everything — writing, editing, scheduling public service announcements, and being the public contact person at Capital City Communication. She also keeps in shape with Jazzercise and sounds like she has lots more energy than I have.

A recent Vineyard Gazette obituary reported the death of Donald C. Appenzellar, father of Terry Appenzellar Hauberg on March 13, 1986. We send our love to Terry, and those of us who wish to make a contribution in his honor may do so with the Hospice of Naples (Florida) or to the Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard, Box 2549, Oak Bluffs, Mass.

Jessie Broadfoot Boyer wrote from Fair Haven, N.J. She reports that after graduation from Smith she obtained an M.S. in organic chemistry from the U. of Mass., then worked four years in Chicago for a chemical company. She married Jerry Boyer, the executive chef of United Airlines’ Newark Flight Kitchen, and has two sons, Jim (age 8) and Philip (age 5). Jessie recently went back to work as a biology teacher under a new state program which allows people with degrees in what they teach to start teaching while becoming certified. How comforting to know that our children can be taught by people who actually know the subject they teach. The class of 1966 also extends its sympathy to Jessie upon the recent loss of her mother and brother.

The only other member of our class who wrote to me this time around was Chris Clawson Higgs, who is in the midst of a major life change. Having divorced her husband of 15 years, she is bringing up three boys (John, 12, Kristian, 10, and Blake, 6), and is working part time at a tennis club as activity director, having taught Lamaze child birth for four years and worked actively as a child advocate for Pro-Kids in juvenile court. She is now marrying Jan Brandewie, a sales representative she has known since college at Miami U. Chris also remains active with church work. We all wish Chris the best of luck.

I hope to see many classmates at our upcoming reunion in September. The rest of you, please write. Perhaps it is best that a few people respond each time so that everyone’s news can be savored and focused upon. However, we all want to know what each classmate is doing, and there is no event too small to report. Some of us have children, some of us have wonderful careers, some of us may be totally at loose ends, but all of us can help each other by providing resources for family and careers in the

different parts of the country in which we live.

On a parting note, I started my own real estate development company with a partner last April, and we are developing condominiums and rental properties in Nantucket, doing a land subdivision in Martha’s Vineyard, and a commercial development in Newport, R.I. My son Charlie is 7, daughter Faith is 2Vi, and husband Bill is currently photographing in Vietnam.

Sari Kramer writes, “ I am a clinical psychologist, practicing here in Montclair. I also work at the East Orange V.A. Medical Center as a family therapist. My daughter, Sasha, is three.”

Does anybody know the whereabouts of Ellen Foley, Marsha Guernsey, B.J. Tipper or Anne Tredway Wade? They are “ lost” on our records.

MA Mr. John F. Hawley 220 Wood Avenue Hyde Park, MA 02136 Reunion Chairman: Mr. Alan J. Balma 25 Augusta Drive Uncroft, N J 07738 Does anyone know the whereabouts of Carter Fitzpatrick, Michael Kurtz, William Peters, John Rowbottom, Craig Schenck, Theodore Vassilowitch, Harry Haines, Dale Spencer or Harold Thresher? They are “ lost” on our files.

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TKS Ms. Margot Escott Miller 2980 Kings Lake Blvd.

Naples, FL 33962

MA Mr. Craig C. Perry 219 E. 76th St., Apt. A New York, N Y 10021 Michael Yamashita took the photographs for a very interesting article about Japanese Americans in the April 1986 issue of National Geographic magazine, including one of his brother Alan ’68.

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TKS Ms. Avie Claire Kalker 5805 Birchbrook #202 Dallas, TX 75206 I have accomplished the exciting task of putting together the greatest decorative arts seminar/tour since the invention of the guided tour! (I would have used a different analogy like “ since the invention of sliced bread,” but then what does sliced bread have to do with a sensational trip? You all know m e... I like the unusual!)

This journey to England is not your usual trek! There are special arrangements for all of your personal needs. Antique buying, lectures from Sotheby’s, stately homes, picnics, landscapes, seasides, and many special features — even a surprise or two!

I’d love for you — and anyone else you know might be interested — to come along.

I promise a sensational experience. We leave

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October 8!! Just give me a call; '' Geraldine Gardner Comeau called the Alumni Office recently, reporting that she is living on an island off the coast of Portland, Me. On sabbatical from her job at a Portland insurance company, she is now busy renovating a 100-year-old house.

MA Mr. Burton M. Webb Box 29 Free Union, VA 22940 According to his brother Geoffrey, Peter Gimber is married, has a 2-year-old daughter named Erin, and is living in Sudbury, Mass.

Part of a very interesting article about Japanese Americans in the April 1986 National Geographic magazine was a photograph of Alan Yamashita, taken by his brother Michael. Alan was described as “ having his hands full at Goldman Sachs and Co. in NYC as he talks with a buyer on one phone and a seller on the other. Holder of degrees from Yale and Princeton, Yamashita, 35, now oversees the company’s foreign exchange and commodities business in Tokyo.”

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The Caldwell Progress reported that Barbara Fox McWilliams has filed a petition for election to the Essex Fells Board of Education. For the past four years, Barbara has been a consultant with the Livingston Youth Service Bureau. In addition, she has done extensive volunteer work with school, church, Junior League and scouting.

Annette Colston Soviet’s daughter Elyse.

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TKS Mrs. Charles Gildea (Lynn Ehrhardt) 46 E. Saddle River Road Saddle River, N J 07458 Teresa Solmson Shatar sent a photo taken while visiting her parents in Florida.

Johnathan is 4 ¡¿and Joshua is 2. Terry and her family are still living in Atlanta and welcome anyone who is passing through the city.

Annette Colston Saviet writes that 1985 was an exciting and busy year for them.

David and Annette bought a house in Pearl River, N.Y., and moved into it in June.

Three months later their daughter, Elyse McRar Saviet, was born. Annette and her husband both continue to work for CBS Radio in NYC.

Teresa Solmson Shatar ’69 with her fam ily.

Congratulations to Mary Boyden Hinley and her husband W. Patrick on the birth of their daughter, Juliet Frances Hanson Hinley, on January 7, 1986, at 8 lbs., 14 oz.l I am sending along a picture of us that was taken at my youngest sister’s wedding in December 1985. Brian, now 11, was an usher and Kristin, 9, a bridesmaid. I’m not sure how many of you remember my sister, but she was our cheerleading mascot when I was an MKA cheerleader. Boy! That seems like ages ago, but I guess it was. I would like to thank those of you who took the time to drop me a line, and 1 hope that more of you will take the opportunity to let us know

Lynn Ehrhardt Gildea ’69 and her fam ily.

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TKS Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner 69 Riverbank Drive Stamford, CT 06903 I was pleased to hear from our long-lost classmate Christine Bonney Huppe. It is nice to know things are going well for her. She writes, “ It must be quite a surprise to hear from me after 15 years. I share my life with three wonderful men; my husband, Andy, is the greatest, as are our sons, Jason Stewart (12) and Michel Christopher (6). Our home is a comfortable Victorian set on 43 acres of Maine woods with a view of the ocean.

Sounds idyllic, doesn’t it? Well, it really is.

Andy has a rewarding position as controller of one of Maine’s largest resorts, the Samoset. I work in a restaurant in Camden where I meet so many fabulous people. And Jas and Michel are two handsome, healthy boys, who are good students and love all that Maine has to offer — fishing in the summer, skating in the winter on our pond in the woods, and watching the deer and even Bertha the Bear, who feasts on the blackberries in the backyard. “ Only twice have I been back to Montclair since graduation, and its growth and changes are really quite startling. Maybe on one of these reunions I’ll find myself face-to-face with classmates I’ve thought of so often and who will undoubtedly have so much to share. “ Thank you, Karen, for continuing to send those informative letters all these years.

You have faithfully maintained a link

between all of us gals, even when some (especially myself) seemed lost forever!

You’ve done a great job.”

Leslie Bryan also responded to my plea for news, writing, “ I recently joined you in the ranks of first-time parents. Our daughter Whitney was born October 1, 1985, weighing in at 10 lbs., 4 oz. She is a wonderful baby and we are thrilled with her. “ Bruce and I (and Whitney) traveled north for Christmas and were able to see the whole family, including Heidi, my brother Will, and their two children. Number three is expected in early April. While I was up, brother Jim and his wife produced a daughter on Jan. 4. “ I am finishing my last year of law school at Emory. I plan to take the bar exam in July and begin practicing in September (with luck after a month’s vacation on Martha’s Vineyard). I will be with the Atlanta firm of Kilpatrick and CodyH- a large firm with a diverse business practice. I’m really looking forward to it. “ Heidi and I had lunch with Anne McIntyre Graves in her beautiful new home in New Canaan. She’s also expecting #3, in March.”

Georgia Buckner has also joined the ranks of parenthood, writing, “ Brigid is now 17 months old. She’s so smart and interesting to be with. We have great fun. Blase and I are going to put our house on the market soon and move back north. If the house doesn’t sell by summer, we’re planning to spend most of the summer in Vermont. “ I’ve started a course in writing for children that I really enjoy. I’m doing yoga, sewing and enjoying the hectic whirlwind of motherhood. “ Mardi Gras was fun and colorful. But we miss the northeast and can’t wait to move back.”

Lisa Shapiro was in touch too, writing, “ Alan and I took the baby to visit his English grandparents recently. We spent a delightful two weeks running around London and outlying areas, taking in theater, dinners, old friends, and basically soaking up stimulation. ‘The baby’ is Chase Joshua Louis Golding (whew!), born on May 29, 1985, and weighing 8 lbs., 5 oz.

He’s a very sweet baby. “ My father passed away on Nov. 6, 1985.

He was 89 years old. “ I’m now in part-time private practice and am also part-time at the local mental health center in Oxford, Miss. Alan is an assistant professor at ‘ole Miss.’ It’s rather a bizarre experience to move from California (Gestalt therapy, openness, ocean breezes, and sushi) to Mississippi (Behavior Mod, small-town constriction, mugginess, and hush-puppies). We don’t see this as a permanent move! “ I’d love to hear from old classmates.

Meanwhile, if any MKA grads are ever in Mississippi, ‘Y’all drop in now, y’hear?’ ” MA Mr. Garret S. Roosma 30 Cottage Lane Upper Saddle River, N J 07458

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TKS No secretary The Alumni Office learned that Susan Von Hoffmann is now Mrs. Steven Thomson, married in September 1985.

MA No secretary The Montclair Times announced the engagement of Michael Edward Zebrowski and Ava Marie Caracciolo. He is an assistant vice president and manager of the Yacht Finance Division of Citibank.

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TKS Mrs. Linda F. Williams Box 1446 Greglen Avenue Nantucket, MA 02554

MA Dr. Vincent E. Mascia 800 A Fifth Avenue, Suite 205 New York, N Y 10021 I heard from Sam Weiss, who has been in London for the past two years. He writes that on August 1, 1985, a baby girl blessed his household.

Our condolences to Bruce Usher, whose father died in January.

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TKS Mrs. Michael F. Moreno (Martha Del Negro) 750 Woodward Road North Providence, R I 02904

MA Mr. J. Dean Paolucci 46 Village Road Clifton, N J 07013 Marc Chinard writes, “ I received my B.A. in 1979 from Antioch U. I am now attending UCLA for MIA film production.

Single, no kids.”

It was learned that Jeff Carrie is now an agent with the FBI, stationed in Tennessee.

He is a former Montclair police detective.

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TKS Miss Bonnie McBratney 321 E. 91st St., A pt. 3C New York, N Y 10028 The Montclair Times reported the marriage of Blythe Hamer and Bradley Charles Gewehr on April 5. Ms. Hamer, who will retain her name professionally, is a manager at the American Express Travel Related Services Co. in NYC. She was graduated from Middlebury College and received an MBA from the Wharton School.

MA Mr. Anthony M. Celentano 3 Conduct Street Morris Plains, N J 07950 Robert Powell writes, “ I have been anmed Analytical Product Group Manager for the Atlanta firm of Southern Micro Instruments, Inc., after two super-successful selling years with LKB Instruments, Inc. An imminent

move from Philadelphia’s Main Line to the Peach State is planned.”

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MKA Mr. David Soule 21-4230 Meadowvale Drive Niagara Falls, Ontario CANADA L2E5W 7 The Alumni Office has learned that Robert Pashman is now living in Calif, and beginning a residency in orthopedics.

Malcolm Hall and his wife Bonnie had a baby girl on March 17, 1986.

The Montclair Times reported the marriage of Katherine Grover and Michael Campbell on April 5. Miss Grover, who will retain her maiden name, graduated from Wellesley College and attended University College in London. She is a vice president and Mr. Campbell is a senior vice president with the investment services group of Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette in NYC. The Alumni Office learned that William Baker and his wife Tina have two children — William Flynn (4) and Kate (2). He is now attending Kansas State U. Veterinary School.

10th Reunion Sept. 27 MKA Mrs. Paul McFeeley (Laurie Hoonhout) 530 Valley Road #5N Upper Montclair, N J 07043 Mr. Charles Read 311 North 20th Street, Apt. C733 Arlington, VA 22201 Reunion Chairmen: Mr. and Mrs. Paul McFeeley 530 Valley Road #5N Upper Montclair, N J 07043 The Montclair Times reported the birth of a daughter, Laura Kay, on Feb. 24 to Ward and Lisa Dannemiller. Congratulations!

The Caldwell Progress reported the engagement announcement of Betsey Brinkerhoff Benedict to Kenneth Eliot Higgins. She is a sales representative with Gould Fabrics, Inc., in NYC. Edward Shelton’s wife Gina called the Alumni Office this spring to report that they have just moved to Woodbury, Conn., from California and are looking forward to attending their 10th reunion. They are expecting a second child in June.

The W yckoff News reported the engagement announcement of Eugene Mark D’Altrui and Mary Grace Rubacky. He graduated from Villanova U. and received a master of science degree from USC in Columbia, S.C. He is with Rorer Group, Inc., in Tuckahoe, N.Y. Sadie and Rob Pariseau celebrated the first birthday of their son, Robert Henri Pariseau, Jr. (Hank), on July 30, 1986. The Pariseau family now resides in Tampa, Fla., where Rob manages group operations for Massachusetts Mutual.

Does anyone know the whereabouts of Laura Scher? She is “ lost” on our records.

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MKA Mrs. Dan Gasparino (Beverley Hall) 563 Danbury Road Wilton, CT 06897 Dr. Doug Mahler graduated from U. Penn. Dental School in May 1985 and is presently doing a one year general dentistry fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center.

In July, he’ll be going into private practice and living in Fort Lee, N.J. He keeps in touch with Misho Protic, who is doing well.

Betsy Gelenitis Alison was married last August to Mike Alison, a native New Zealander. Before settling down with her present job at American Business Centers, Betsy earned many sailing awards, including the Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year 1981, 1982, and 1984! She’s raced in the U.S., Italy, Mexico, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.

Pat Berry has recently moved to a new apartment and landed a freelance writing job. Pat writes for “ consumer magazines, mostly for kids, as well as some dabbling in the trades.” This summer she co-wrote a docu-magazine on the making of Back to the Future. An ongoing project as editor of Go Bots, a high-tech magazine based in part on the Tonka toy of the same name keeps Pat busy.

Marty Cohn wrote from Miami Beach, Fla. He and his wife Amy have enjoyed their first full year in Florida, where they both work in the city of Miami. Marty is an account executive for Miami’s largest ad agency, and he invites anyone who is in southern Florida to look him up. They are expecting their first child in early July.

Susan Moreau has been living in Colorado for over 4 years and went back to school in the fall (U. of Northern Colorado in Greeley). She is working on her master’s in counseling (psychology) and thoroughly enjoys being back in school. Susan relaxes by riding her Arabian gelding, which she has owned for a year and a half.

Many of you asked what I’ve done with myself since June 1977. I graduated from the U. of Vermont (BS in animal science) and trained a stable of 7 thoroughbreds for a private family in Greenwich, Conn., for almost 2 years. During that time, I married and bought a very large German shepherd dog. I began teaching middle school science at a private school in town in September 1984, and I really enjoy myself at this job.

Dan and I bought our first house in March 1985 and are moving into our third home this March. We were able to upgrade ourselves with each move, and now we’ll be living in a brand new home, completed just two months ago. Needless to say, we’ll be in this one for a while. I’ll be attending a science workshop this summer which is being run by Mr. Chudomel [former MKA science teacher]! Small world!

Peter Adams writes, “ I have returned from 2Vi years in Tokyo, where I worked as a bond trader with Merrill Lynch. I married Diana Madden, M.D., on April 5, 1986 and joined First Boston (trading) this May.” Barry Centanni, MKA’s Upper School instrumental music teacher, took a minute to let the Alumni Office know about his extracurricula musical activities: the New Jersey Symphony, the New Jersey State Opera, the New Jersey Pops, the Paper Mill Playhouse,

and stints with Luciano Pavarotti, Doc Sevrinson, Eddie Fischer, and Bobby Vinton!

The Alumni Office has learned that Lesley Hand is now Mrs. Lasher — and she is not only a newly-wed but a newly-ordained minister! Married Dec. 28, she is the associate pastor at Grace Lutheran Church in Skillington, Penn.

Our condolences to Peter Adubato on the death of his father this spring.

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MKA Miss Pamela A . Zeug 7 Van Breeman Court Upper Montclair, N J 07043 Mr. John Glicksman 316 Green way Road Ridgewood, N J 07450 The Montclair Times announced the engagement of Susan Elizabeth Cole to Mark Furlong. She is an account executive with N.W. Ayer, Inc. Advertising Agency in NYC. Mike Berry now lives in Chicago, according to a message from his sister Pat. The Montclair Times reported the marriage of Richard McFadyen and Cynthia Iris in April. He graduated from U. of Hartford and is employed in the audio engineering division of the Bose Corp. in Framingham, Mass.

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MKA Miss Shawn Mahieu 4 Columbia Court North Haledon, N J 07508

Mr. Jack Brink 943 North Avenue Atlanta, GA 30306 Stephen Dodd writes, “I am now working for Cushman & Wakefield, Inc., in Lyndhurst.”

Betsy Stanton writes, “ I am completing my master’s at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts U. this spring and will be working in the international marketing division of Wang Laboratories, Inc., a computer company, as of this summer.”

The Alumni Office recently received a long letter from Beth Kindler. Having enjoyed the last issue of the Alum ni News, especially her class notes, she sent along her news of recent years. She writes, “ It’s been a very exciting few years for me since I graduated Northwestern U. I lived in London for a year, working for a film producer at Pinewood Film Studios. Having met so many Aussies and Kiwis in England, they convinced me to travel down to the Southern Cross. I guess I still had the travel bug in me so I traveled through India and Asia first (an incredible experience!) and then planned on a six-month working holiday in Australia. While I was in Sydney last year, I met my fiance Hugh LloydThomas, a true-blue Aussie who loves his cricket and his Foster’s. He’s a banker, working for Westpac, the largest bank in Australia. I went back to the States last summer to attain my permanent resident visa and then came back to Sydney in November.

After pounding the pavement, I have found

a wonderful job. I’m the national publicity manager for Fox Columbia Film Distributors. As publicity manager, I’ll be in charge of all 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures movies that come to Australia. A great challenge but I’m looking forward to it. “ Hugh and I hope to live in the States in several years time. Sydney, though, is a fantastic place to live — an exciting, busy city with a beautiful harbour and a lot of very fun people. The weather is great here but I still do miss the occasional snowstorm, walking up Fifth Avenue, eating hot chestnuts, and looking at the Christmas windows.”

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MKA Miss Pam Eastman 155 Oldchester Road Essex Fells, N J 07021

Miss Julie Ruddick 424 West End Avenue, A pt. 14K New York, N Y 10024 Julie Ruddick reports that she will be leaving NYC for Virginia in the fall, in order to attend U. Va. business school.

The Caldwell Progress announced the engagement of John Benedict and Katherine Hectus. He is a graduate of Lehigh U. and is employed as plant engineer for BenedictMiller, Inc., in Lyndhurst.

The Montclair Times announced the engagement of Lise Cooper and Lawrence Maier. She graduated from Susquehanna U. and is assistant marketing director with Rasmussen Exchange Associates in East Orange.

The Alumni Office has learned that Louis Serafim is now attending Seton Hall Law School after obtaining his B.A. and his M.B.A. from Rutgers U.

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MKA Miss Shelagh Daly 330 N. Mountain Avenue Upper Montclair, N J 07043

Miss Karen Marnell 25 Aldom Circle West Caldwell, N J 07006 Reunion Chairman: Miss Heidi Ames 49 Prospect Ave. Montclair, N J 07042 Ian Griffis writes, “I have my own real estate investment company. I also sell commercial real estate in Colorado Springs.

I graduated from Colorado College in 1985 with a degree in drama. Note to all alumni: Rally for the 99 party this year!”

Nixon Bicknell heard from Steven Chambers and passed along the news that Steve graduated from Wesleyan U. in December summa cum laude (the top 3% of his class). His plans include modeling and auditioning for reviews and television.

While the juniors were in Washington, D.C., during their annual class trip, they spent some time with Sam Chun, who shared his observations on the effectiveness of the bureaucracy at the Department of Labor.

Does anyone know the whereabouts of

Sarah Williams? She is “ lost” on our records.

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MKA Miss Nicole Anastasiou Oak H ill Road Clifton, N J 07013 Miss Angela DeCandia 90 Chittenden Road Clifton, N J 07013'

Class Agent: Miss Liz Abrams 3 Eagle Rock Way Montclair, N J 07042 Peter Gibson writes, “ I will graduate this June from Dartmouth with a B.A. in economics. I spent the fall term of my sophomore year at the U. of Mainz, visiting again with my A.F.S. family in Hamburg. ,1 have played A-Side Rugby, touring with the team last spring in Calif, and this March in England. We were New England champions in fall 1985, Northeastern champions in spring 1985, and played in the Eastern Championship in Baton Rouge, La., 1985. I have been active in the Dartmouth Outing Club all four years and this year was chairman of Winter Sports. In the spring of ’84 and the summer of ’85 I worked as a case clerk at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy in NYC.” Jonathan M. Sandler writes, “I am expecting to graduate cum laude in history from Harvard in June. I am planning to enter a career in mergers/acquisitions in NYC or London as of September. At Harvard, I was captain of the varsity water polo team and named to the All-New England team.”

According to his sister, Bill Hall will be leaving for St. Thomas, V.I., immediately after graduation to start a job as a recreation director at a resort there.

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MKA Miss Ann Rowland 13 Gordon Place Verona, N J 07044

Class Agent: Kevin Wilkins 95 Heller Way Upper Montclair, N J 07043 Yahoo! People are letting us know what they’re up to. Thank you, and keep writing!

First of all, Bunker Davis has made the dean’s list at Sewanee, been inducted into the Order of Gownsmen (a group recognizing academic and leadership achievement), and has been elected president of Phi Gamma Delta. He sends best wishes to all. Yes, our second class marriage (reported, that is) goes to Jennifer Hamilton, who tied the knot on June 14, 1986, to Phil Salkie and is finishing up her senior year at Princeton. Congratulations!

Kristine Hatzenbuhler, after returning from a semester studying in Vienna, Austria, was selected to represent Wheaton College at the Center for the Study of the Presidency’s annual symposium in Washington, D.C., which took place in March. She also was an intern for Senator Bill Bradley, working in

the same office as Jessica Lieder. Go Kris -B pursue that political science major!

After her debut on “ Late Night with David Letterman” one year ago, Lisa Neary plans to travel to Hollywood for her first screen test following her graduation from Yale in May. She’s hoping for a supporting role in a new made-for-television drama entitled “ Obligation and Desire.”

Belonging to the Crossroads project at Susquehanna, Diana Nolle advises senior high school youth groups at local churches.

She is a sister of Sigma Kappa sorority, and has had an internship with the admissions office.

From nearby Drew U., Gary Powell writes that he is already a second semester senior planning to attend medical school as a psychobiology major, is a primetime DJ on WMNJ, and the Friday night DJ in the campus pub. He also hires all the bands that play at Drew and is a member of Beta Beta Beta, our nation’s biology honor society.

It’s great to hear from Peter Renwick at Mount Union College in Ohio, where he’s studying business management with minors in English and psychology. He’s a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and has been captain of the lacrosse team.

Occasionally he volunteers at United Way and coaches YMCA teams. He learned a lot working at a co-op with Nikkal Industries about new and growing businesses, and is having a great year!

Junior year, Andy Voss was elected to Denison’s student senate for the second consecutive year, and had given up soccer for a part-time job as a salesman in a clothing store. Oh, Andy, how could yo u ...! He, too, is DJing a two-hour show every week for WDUB and is a brother of Alpha Tau Omega. Andy has completed an internship with Merrill Lynch in N.J. as well.

Even Arsen Zartarian wants to help “ beef up” the Alum ni News, so he writes, “ On the banks of the Raritan at Rutgers-New Brunswick, I am double majoring in English and history, probably because of the profound influence Mr. Noble and Mr. Rabuse had on my life. I am also the sports editor for the daily paper, writing about three to four articles a week, including a weekly sports column entitled ‘The Arsenal.’

I have more than once received death threats from various members of the basketball and football teams for openly criticizing the mediocre athletics... I am also a brother at Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, serving as the press secretary who puts out the alumni news booklet. I play intramural floor hockey, cutting my goals against average down to around 3.25. Thanks to my fine high school coaching by Mr. Hrab, I’m a utility infielder for the fraternity softball team.” And yes, folks, he’s even the president of the Armenian Club!

I spent the summer studying in London and traveling through Europe and I am excited to graduate, which I imagine most of us will have done by spring. Good luck, and don’t forget to tell us about your adventures in the “ real world.”

The Newark Star-Ledger reports that Brian Davis l\as been awarded his varsity letter at the U. of Rochester. Davis competed in the indoor sprint events for the Yellowjackets, who took first place honors at the UR Relays.

Holly Jervis writes, “ I love U. of Mass.

and am currently the social chairman for Kappa Kappa Gamma. I am a Spanish major.”

Chris Riley writes, “ I am president of the computer club and editor of the Daily Bulletin."

College Profile: Kristine Hatzenbuhler There is an old saying that goes something like this: Grow where you’re planted.

Kristine Hatzenbuhler ’83 is a case in point.

Kris entered Wheaton College in the fall of 1983. Now, just three years later, she has shown every sign of flourishing at Wheaton in the small-college, pre-profession atmosphere. Wheaton states its mission as “ educating women and preparing them for life after college.” Kris has taken advantage of their curriculum and of the opportunities for leadership. She has poise, confidence, and plans for the future. She feels her years there have been fun, rewarding and very beneficial for her development as a student of political science. “ It’s been a great experience!” Kris said during a recent visit to the Alumni Office.

Kris Hatzenbuhler enjoyed some skiing in Switzerland while on her semester o f study in Austria.

At MKA from kindergarten through graduation, Kris’s interest in world affairs began to emerge during the Upper School years. As a junior Kris went on the MKA trip to Russia.

While at Wheaton, Kris has also taken advantage of programs that allowed her to expand her horizons. During her sophomore year, she was selected by Wheaton to take part in the model United Nations program.

Participation in this nation-wide program helped Kris focus her growing interest in political science. In the fall of 1985, she spent a semester in Vienna, Austria, which she described as “ the perfect place to study east-west relations.” The spring semester of her junior year she took part in a program at American University in Washington, D.C. Part of that program was a 20-hour-a-week internship, during which Kris worked in New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley’s office in the scheduling department. She also managed during that time to write a 50-page paper on tax reform.

Meanwhile, Kris has attended two national symposiums, in the spring of 1985 and 1986, sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Presidency. She was selected to represent Wheaton and was one of 600 students from all over the United States who met to study government leadership. In 1985, she was appointed, among only 26 students, to the Center’s reputable Fellowship Program.

These 26 Fellows assisted in the organization of the annual leadership symposium — recommending speakers, doing research, and developing a theme project. The theme was

national security; Kris’s project was terrorism. Meeting political notables such as Edwin Meese and Donald Regan was only part of the excitement!

Kris’s 1986 summer will be spent working for Charles Walker Associates, a lobbying firm in Washington, D.C., as the assistant to the president. “ Lobbyists practically camp out at the Capitol,,’J says Kris. “ I’ll be going to hearings, taking notes, and reporting back to the office.” The specialty of the firm is banking regulations and tax reform, areas of special interest to her.

After she finishes her senior year, Kris would like to attend law school in the Washington, D.C. area. It looks as though the class of ’83 has another rising political star, one who flourished when planted in the right soil!

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MKA Miss Maria Rabb 9 Birch Drive Roseland, N J 07068

Class Agent: Larry Rosen 6 Shoshone Trail Wayne, N J 07470 Sue Bacot has decided to major in creative writing at Hamilton College. Over break, I read a few of her pieces and thought they were really exceptional. She’s cross-country skiing 2-3 hours a day for gym class to keep in shape.

Judy Brown road-tripped from Princeton to Naples, Fla., with a bunch of friends during her intersession break. It took them 24 hours driving straight through! Judy is planning on majoring in biochemistry (like ex-teacher Nancy Hayes did at Princeton).

Julio Dolorico spent his January term in the Soviet Union with about 50 other students. He studied Russian government (Sorry, Mr. Hrab, about the “ Russian,” but I wouldn’t want to misquote!) and has declared international relations as his major.

The trip not only was quite a learning experience, it really made him appreciate the freedoms of home. Julio sings bass in the Hamilton College choir and they went on tour during spring break. Next year, Julio is deciding between spending the year abroad in Geneva, Switzerland, or becoming student council vice president. Leave it to Julio to be involved and incredibly busy!

Maja Kastler is majoring in history at Middlebury. She is living in a French language house called “ The Chateaux.” This past summer Maja traveled to the Republic of South Africa with a friend and experienced first hand a lot of what we are reading about in the news.

Doug Keh is living in a beautiful, newly renovated house with 9 other people. It has an amazing view of the (in)famous gorge at Cornell. The reason I know this is that a friend of mine told me she met Doug at a wild party at his house one weekend when she was at Cornell. Some things never change!

José Montanez is doing very well at NYU. He commutes to school every day and has decided to major in fine arts. José has made the dean’s list every semester. He admits that art is a very competitive field but has decided to go for it anyway.

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Chris Noble is now a student at Providence College. He transferred from American U. in Washington, D.C., and says he really likes the school, Providence, and the soccer team.

Sean Pignatello is considering majoring in archeology at Bowdoin. He’s working at Ben and Jerry’s, an ice cream store, and is a member of the Chi Psi fraternity.

Larry Rosen’s going to major in psychology at MIT. He’s having a great time, and it’s “ a lot more fun than people think.”

Sylvia Schrader wants to concentrate her studies in cognitive science. (At Brown, people “ concentrate,” they don’t major.)

The cog sci major involves classes from such areas as anthropology, linguistics, psychology, and computer sciences. One of the practical applications of this major is artificial intelligence. Sylvie is also rowing crew.

Ritu Thamman loves Northwestern. She spent last summer there at summer school so that she could carry a lighter load this year.

She likes the relaxed atmosphere of the school.

Seth Antiles and Mark Pineda are now at Columbia U. Thanks to everyone who either wrote or called me!

Laura Dancy writes, “I will be studying abroad in London in the fall of ’86.”

Richard Cosgrove writes, “ I am ‘still’ attending Carnegie-Mellon U. I will be majoring in information systems and trying to become famous!”

The Montclair Times reported that David Fehnel returned to the Bucknell U. lacrosse team as a defenseman. Fehnel, along with Ed Conlin (now at UNC) formed one of the best scholastic defensive tandems ever in the N.J. prep ranks when they played for MKA.

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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 Mark McGowan writes, “ As a freshman at Lehigh U., I played quarterback for the football team. I will be competing for the starting quarterback position with the varsity team next fall. My freshman hall is winning Lehigh’s intramural sports program (Boxing, ping pong, football, basketball, golf, etc.).

We have a commanding lead over the 19 other freshman halls. I am also our hall’s social chairman and a pledge at Delta Upsilon fraternity. I earned a 3.0 average in the business college and am planning to major in finance.”

The Montclair Times reports that Roger Brown will probably move out of the position of goalie and into the defensive middle for Bucknell’s lacrosse team for spring 1986.

Coach Sid Jamieson describes Brown as “ a very talented athlete.”

Greetings From Japan ¡D/C Q 711jtllrn Niiironnlro nine nn avnVin«/vn Kazuhiko Miyanaka was an exchange student at MKA, arriving in August 1984 and graduating with the Class of ’85. During that school year, he stayed with Henry and Nancy Rosin and their sons, Matthew ’85 and Robert ’88. Matthew was one of the New Jersey finalists in the United States Senate Program “ Youth for Understanding” and spent the summer of 1984 in Japan. Kaz then spent the following year at MKA on the same program. Betty Wedel, at that time the Upper School Assistant Head, was especially influential in securing MKA as his host school.

Nancy Rosin describes that year with Kaz as “ extremely valuable, worthwhile and rewarding — a real learning experience for our family. It was a very exciting time in our lives.” Kaz is described as a brilliant student who did well at MKA. He would spend hours with the Rosins, talking about everything from politics to religion long into the night.

They still keep in touch. In March, the Rosins received a letter from Kaz in which he said, “ Dearest My Family — Today is the happiest day of my life and I wanted to share it with you. I find myself accepted to the University of Tokyo.”

In response to a letter from Phil Allen, Upper School Head, Kaz wrote the following letter of April 18, 1986: “ Dear Mr. Allen, ... I’ve tried to write to you since I came back to Japan, but I couldn’t do it because I had to start working on the tough study in order to get in University of Tokyo on the very day I got back to my homeland. I’ve been thinking of you so often, and of course all the teachers who were so kind to me, too. MKA students, I’ll never forget, either.

As you know, now I am a student of University of Tokyo, the most prestigious school in Japan. I had to go through very difficult entrance examinations, and now it seems to me very clear that the subjects I took at MKA, especially A.P. Biology, Calculus and U.S. History, gave me a lot of advanced knowledge which helped me very much. I hope the fact that a graduate of MKA attends University of Tokyo does contribute something to the prestige of my old school, MKA. Classes are going to start tomorrow, April 19. I will probably proceed to the law school. Also I plan to join the boat team, which owns the best facility in Japan. ... I would greatly appreciate if you say hello for me to the people of MKA who were so nice to me.

Giving all my thanks to you and to MKA for the wonderful year at MKA, I stop writing here today.

Sincerely yours,

MKA Miss Sherry Ahkam i 37 Virginia Ave. Clifton, N J 07012 Miss Marylouise Neary 27 Warren Place Montclair, N J 07042 Class Agent: Miss Megan Cole 164 Devon Road Essex Fells, N J 07021

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