Spring 1987 MKA Alumni News

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Principal’s Report / 2 Faculty Continuing Education / 4 Notes Around MKA / 8 Alumni News /11 Class Notes /16

EDITORS Christie Austin Judy Polonofsky Virginia Montemurro

PHOTOGRAPHIC CREDITS W.L. Bill Allen, Jr. William Bullard Steve Tober

1 9 8 6 -8 7 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION COUNCIL Stephen Barrai '80 Martin Brayboy ’80 Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65, Vice President Curtis E. Brunner ’78 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 Oscar Mockridge ’55 Blake O’Neill ’82 J. Dean Paolucci ’73 Kit Eavenson Sanders ’41 Charles Small ’58 Cynthia Mann Treene '54, Vice President Albert Van Eerde ’73 Ellen Wahl ’73 Frances R. O ’Connor, Principal Christie Austin, 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 twice a year by: The Montclair Kimberley Academy 201 Valley Road, Montclair, New Jersey 07042 (201)746-9800 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

Front cover: MKA freshmen on a field trip to Paterson as part of their Humanities course. Top: Brett Zbar, Jimmy Yoo. Left: Jimmy Yoo, Paula Kovanic, Michele Santoro.

Bottom right: Brett Zbar, Parag Lodhavia, Rebecca Blauvelt.

Correction, Fall 1986 Alumni News: Cover photo, Class of 1936, third from right, front row is Ruth Dorothy Kane, not her sister Betty. (Thanks to Evie Penick.)

The M iddle S ta te s A ssociation o f Secondary S ch o o ls and C olleges 1 9 8 6 R eaccreditation o f The M ontclair Kimberley Academy Running a school like The Montclair Kimberley Academy is a complicated operation. In addition to handling an $8 million budget with more than 200 lines, this school also has over 200 employees with all the Federal, state and local regulations that apply to them, college requirements and parent expectations to meet, a complicated plant in four locations with difficult maintenance areas such as science laboratories, pools, computer rooms and playing fields, and management headed by an active Board of 20 parents, friends and alumni that defies any organizational chart.

Unlike most American businesses, the aim of schools is not to make a profit. It is to give the very best education possible. In financial terms, the operation is a success when the bottom line is zero. No one makes a profit from an increased enrollment or a successful fund raising drive: the money all goes into improving the educational program for the students.

Unlike other businesses, schools must undergo an evaluation and accreditation process every 10 years to assure that they are doing the job they say they are. MKA’s evaluation was completed in October.

Although the formal written report has not yet arrived, a thorough oral report was given at the time. We all have reason to be proud: the friends, alumni and parents who

have provided the means to make an outstanding school; the faculty and administration whose daily efforts to improve it did not go unnoticed; the Parent Association which contributes an astonishing amount to the school; the alumni who are growing in strength and activity each year; and the Trustees, whose foresight and planning received special commendation.

The written report will contain 26 different committee evaluations.

Every aspect of the school will be discussed — plant, management, educational program, atmosphere.

What follows is an abbreviated version of the candid oral report given to the school community in October.

In assuring us that MKA would be accredited for the next full ten years, the Chairman of the Evaluation Committee, Redmond Finney, Headmaster of the Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland, commented that the self-study was an excellent one — thorough and honest. The committee said MKA’s most outstanding feature is the quality of the people associated with the school, including the Board of Trustees, administration, faculty, staff, students and parents.

PAMKA, our Parent Association, was praised not only for its many and valued contributions to the school, but also for the quality of the individuals involved. Mr. Finney emphasized that the committee’s first and foremost

heartfelt commendation was for MKA’s people.

Remarking that the separate campuses make communications difficult, the committee praised the Academy for its management of the three. Mr. Finney drew laughter from the audience when he commended the “creative use of space.” While citing the quality of the physical plant, he did not fail to note the creative use of closets, hallway niches and basement rooms.

But most of all, the committee commended the overall learning program and environment, including innovative ideas and innovative programs which have been developed on campuses, and the continuous striving to improve.

The committee found no complacency, but rather people talking, thinldng and growing.

They found the learning environment manifested in the behavior of the students — their involvement in the learning process, obvious thinking skills, creativity and willingness to take risks.

The final praise was for the extensive activity program including inter-scholastic athletics and the dedicated efforts of the faculty to give extra time and attention as advisors and coaches.

The professional development program, the committee said,

contributed greatly to the intellectual vibrancy of the school, and greatly strengthened the quality of teaching. They commended the Board and administration for making these resources available.

The visiting team made the following recommendations, many of which were also contained in our own self-study: an increased emphasis on inter-campus communications; clearer roles for administrators; an expansion of the professional development program to include training for advisors; a reexamination of the school’s policy to use available library resources of the community rather than building an extensive collection of its own; an expansion of the service aspect of the

students’ education; continuing efforts to increase the financial aid program; redoubling efforts to hire additional black faculty and increase the number of black students; and additional courses in non-Westem history and third world cultures.

MKA’s faculty, staff, parents and Trustees were impressed with the caliber, openness and candor of the visiting committee. Many of their recommendations are already underway, and we feel a debt of gratitude for their time, wisdom and advice, a

Frances R. O’Connor Principal

Addendum from the President of the Board It should be noted that a special commendation was reserved for Dr. O’Connor and her Administrative Council. The evaluation committee praised the administration, led by “ the most talented” Dr. Frances O’Connor. ‘‘Her leadership and organizational abilities, her vision for MKA, her confidence in selecting an outstanding administrative team and faculty, her personal attributes of caring, dedication, and unquenchable perseverance are really admirable,” they said. Also, her team, including her highly competent Assistant Principal, Heads of Campuses, Registrar, Business Manager, Director of External Affairs, and Admissions Director are profoundly impressive. “The diversity of the organization is commendable and we note that it cuts across every level of the school experience including students, faculty, and staff.’’

On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I would like to add my own commendations — to everyone who gave countless hours to the self-study last year and for the outstanding cooperation of everyone who had contact with the Evaluation Committee during their October visit. Congratulations on a job well done.

Susan Ruddick Board President

Commendation This statement, in a departure from protocol, was sent to the Middle States Central Committee as a special commendation for the Academy: “ Throughout our visit we were constantly impressed by the observed interaction between the teachers and students. Difficult to describe, yet easily observed, was the feeling of caring concern. In short, the students were respected as individuals.

During our visit, we often heard a comment or observed an extra something that made MKA a safe and wholesome place for kids to learn. As colleagues, we would like to congratulate the teachers and staff of The Montclair Kimberley Academy for their genuine love of and respect for children.”

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What Did You Do This Summer?

Ask MKA’s teachers that question and 54 of them will answer, “ I received a grant an d. . . ” The fact that more than 40 percent of our faculty take part in continuing education represents a commit­ ment that is wholeheartedly endorsed by MKA’s Board of Trustees.

According to Susan Ruddick, President of the Board, “The impetus for faculty development came directly from Dr. O’Connor.

Since the day she arrived at MKA seven years ago, she has fought extremely hard for higher funding for faculty continuing education . . . making it one of her highest priorities.”

In 1977 the school spent $6,563 on faculty development; in 1980 , $9,000. This year the 1986-87 budget designates $74,500 for professional development. In

addition, PAMKA (Parents’ Association) sponsors a continuing education grant to one or two faculty members each year.

The commitment translates into interesting experiences for faculty members each year. Courses include an advanced writing workshop on Martha’s Vineyard, Ph.D. courses at the University of Pennsylvania, classes at the LOGO Computer Institute, a poetry course at The New School, and a drug and alcohol abuse workshop at Rutgers.

Grants have also been given to faculty members to develop courses for MKA. The entire computer program K-12 was developed this way.

The teachers involved come back revitalized. Their experience translates into new ideas, skills, methods -S even new curriculum.

Three of their experiences follow.

The Making of a Curriculum Thirty high schoolfreshm en enter the spare confines o f a United Nations conference room. A reservedfigure enters, a diplom atfrom the South African mission. Speaking in the clipped tones o f the Afrikaaner official, he declares, “Ih a ve thirty minutes. You m ay ask me questions.” The silence extends to a minute. A hand is tentatively raised, then two, three; the students’ unrehearsed questions begin. “Why are the changes in apartheid so slow in coming?” “Why have you spent money sending troops into Angola when your resources are so badly needed in m any o f the areas w ithin South Africa?” “Has constructive engagement worked?” Questions follow about the m eaning o f the term “subversive element,” about the fairness o f American press coverage. Astonished by the precision and authority o f the questions, the diplom at becomes progressively engaged in an inform ed debate. Thirty m inutes stretches to an hour and more. A group o f students learns why knowledge is power.

A sm all group o f fourteen-yearolds gathers on the top o f Garret M ountain on an icy day in December. They spread out along the ridge overlooking Paterson, hunker down with their faces to the frig id w ind and begin to inspect the cityscape below. Soon there are cries o f recognition.

“Look, over there, you can see the Falls.” “Right, and ju s t after the Falls you can see the old factories along the east bank.” “Look a t all the churches; I wonder why there are so many.” “Maybe it’s because the im m igrants came from so m any different countries.” Others recognize the path o f the Morris Canal, fin d a stretch o f railroad tracing the old commerce route to Jersey City, discover the rem nants o f the m illworkers’ housing. They wonder about the absence o f parks, about the height o f the chimneys, about the large windows lining the brick factories.

As they huddle together in sm all groups, taking notes and sketching maps, the economic and hum an logic o f an industrial city comes slowly into focus.

Students questioning diplomats and congregating on Garret Mountain signal the curriculum development now occurring in the 9th grade at MKA. The work has required the steady efforts of many Upper School teachers and equally steady financial support from the administration. It began in 1983 with a recommendation by the Curriculum Committee to pilot an interdisciplinary humanities program. In 1984 Bob Sinner, Michael Bergman, Marilyn Faden, Jeanne Jones and I were given curriculum development grants to meet over the summer and write goals and objectives. We concluded that such a course should not compromise the Academy’s commitment to teaching writing, reading and analytical skills, though it should stress the inter­ relations among disciplines. Since the ultimate goal was to teach the skills of learning and the rewards of intellectual discovery, the committee decided that the teaching should focus on student activity. Since academic success for most students means discovering and learning to use one’s own talents and interests, the committee decided to emphasize independence and encourage the students to work in a variety of media.

In the spring of 1985, the four who volunteered to teach a pilot version — Rosemary Steinbaum, Anne Moore, Bob Hemmeter and I — began designing a freshman curriculum that would walk the fine line between our commitments to the disciplines of English and history and our willingness to abandon traditional organization.

We met frequently throughout the spring and early summer, brainstorming, arguing, and generally doing our best not to re­ invent an old academic wheel.

Finally, we decided on a format: the study of four cities, using historical, literary, social and artistic materials. But which ones and in what order? Should they be historical cities or modem cities, Western or third world, well documented or relatively unknown? After more debate, we decided on 5th century Athens, 16th century Venice, 19th century Paterson, New Jersey, and contemporary Cape Town, South Africa. Though obviously

chronological, there was no attempt to peg a historical survey on the sequence. Instead, each city would be appreciated as a particular place in a particular moment of time, with its own personality, its own richness of life, and its own brand of justice. Their differences would be as cherished as whatever conclusions the students might draw about the universals of civilized life.

Each city w ould be appreciated as a p articu lar place in a particu la r m om ent o f tim e, with its own personality, its own richness o f life, an d its own brand o f justice.

By the end of the summer, after we had each researched and prepared materials for one city, we made a decision that turned out to be the signature of the course, to reverse chronology and begin with South Africa. With the state of emergency in Pretoria that August, world affairs seemed too pressing to ignore. We hoped as well that involvement in a crisis would galvanize the classes and help create a momentum that would propel the students, provoked and challenged, into the rest of the course. Their performance at the United Nations proved that this was a good choice.

Each city presented a different personality and also suggested a distinct model for teaching and learning. By involving students in the South African crisis, the course initially encouraged students to become engaged, responsibly partisan observers. The proximity of Paterson then allowed students to use that city as a laboratory for inquiry into the social effects of industry. The Venice unit concentrated on the influence of commerce on both art and class structures, while our work with classical Athens focused on deeper philosophical issues concerning the nature and responsibilities of citizenship. This sequence allowed the concrete and immediate

learning experiences of Cape Town and Paterson to precede the more abstract or theoretical issues underlying Venice and Athens. By moving backward through history, the course encouraged students to see the past enlivened by parallels to current affairs.

Curriculum development of this magnitude can only come about through long-term financial support, and this summer further monies were allocated to permit both the growth and refinement of the course. Michael Bergman and Lynn Ann Baker-Brown, who received summer study grants, joined the Humanities team this fall, allowing the course to expand from two to three sections.

In addition, the founding members of the team received grants to develop a few ideas for change. We found, for example, that the students displayed strength and interest in attempting to “sympathetically re-enact” history in their creative writing, and so this summer we devised a year-long sequence of assignments teaching them to write progressively sophisticated historical narratives.

During the Paterson unit, whose long-term assignment was a photographic essay accompanied by a text, we were astonished by the ways in which photography could serve to make the students’ writing more authentic and precise.

As a result, we collected visual materials for all four cities to serve as springboards to student writing.

We were struck, too, by how well the students listened to outside visitors, and as a result we devised a unit on oral history in which the students will learn how to elicit and record the personal stories of actual Paterson immigrants.

— B ill Bullard

Writing on the Vineyard Two weeks on Martha’s Vineyard — what a way to go to school!

I had visions of picnicking on the beaches of the uncrowded north shore, climbing down the clay cliffs in Chilmark, returning to my favorite inlet with a scoop net and flashlight to hunt for those succulent island crabs, and, of course, I figured I’d get a nice tan while soaking up the Massachusetts sun at State Beach. Ha! When those people at Northeastern University say workshop, they mean work. I spent a total of three hours on the beach. I even had classes on Saturdays and Sundays. That workshop was the most intensive and profound learning experience I have ever had. And I believe if you asked Tina Urband, Trudi Rodin and Lois Riley, who also attended, they would agree.

The workshop was divided into three separate courses. The first, Prose Writing, was taught by Ben McClelland of the University of Mississippi. In it we became engaged in the composing process of a non-fiction work. In addition, Ben provided us with instruction in methods of teaching writing.

The Composing Process, taught

by Mimi Schwartz of Stockton State College here in New Jersey, intensely analyzed the most integral aspect,

revision. Mimi’s book, W riting fo r M any Roles, was our major text; however, she also provided articles from professional journals reporting the most recent research in the field of composition. I was, quite frankly, overwhelmed by the volume of research and practice currently going on.

The third course, Responding to Writing, has an interesting title. I might have called it Responding to Literature. However, my teacher, David Bartholomae, of the University of Pittsburgh, recognizes that authors are writers and what they write is writing. Actually, it’s quite logical. This course addressed the question of how we get our students to respond to writing. As participants, we wrote a reading.

Not many of us were too sure of how to write a reading, but we tried. Actually, we learned that we all bring to our reading our experiences, our prejudices, ourselves. And that’s what we wrote about. We also wrote poetry and journal entries. David provided us with a thick, comprehensive volume of research regarding the reading-writing connection. Again, I was awed by the profound work going on in the pedagogy of teaching literature.

In each class, the most special

Toni Schott presen tin g PAMKA Continuing E ducation G rant to Anna Segreto

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times came when we shared our writing with one another, and we did that every day. Like our students, we handed in papers and received comments from our teachers; however, these comments were received while we were in the process of writing our pieces so that we could return to them with that helpful feedback and revise.

We learned th at we a ll bring to our reading our experiences; our prejudices, ourselves. A nd th a t’s w hat we w rote about.

However, we also challenged those comments. In fact, David was challenged simply because he had crossed out sections of partici­ pants’ papers. We insisted that such a practice only served to take ownership from the author. As it was viewed as a practice that hurt rather than helped, David decided to stop crossing out sections of papers. He had listened and learned from us.

We empathized with our students, for we were overworked, overwhelmed, and subject to what we believed were unreasonable deadlines. But during the last two days of class, we read our finished pieces to one another in our celebration and felt as our students must . . . proud for having done the job and for having done it well.

We learned more and worked harder than we thought we could.

As a result, we grew stronger in our commitment to the writing process and the writing-reading-thinking connection. And, we got two wonderful bonuses: a chance to meet and speak to William Styron, the famed novelist, and Peter Elbow, the pioneer of writing process.

So, maybe I missed the beach; I really don’t like all that sand anyway. But one thing is certain, I did not miss the boat, and next year, when the ferry from Woods Hole leaves for the next Writing Institute, I’ll be on it.

— Anna Segreto

Rebecca H ayes (center) uses C u isenaire ro d s to d em o n stra te reg ro u p in g in su b tra ctio n to J essica Toumsbend a n d Chris loon ey.

Summeimath 1986 Problem-solving strategies, LOGO, modern dance and tennis were parts of an intriguing course which I attended in July at Mt. Holyoke College. Although LOGO and problem solving in a mathematics seminar were logical, I was puzzled by dance and tennis on the agenda. It didn’t take long to find out that problem-solving strategies take place in learning all four subjects.

Our first challenge was to remember the names of forty classmates. We played a game in which we changed positions in a circle after every eighth rotation.

That demonstrated how repetition plays a part in learning. But I needed to find other ways to identify my classmates when I could no longer rely on position or sequence. Repetition and accumulation were also necessary to learn our dance routines. Each time I was taught new steps I would forget some of the old ones until I saw how the new fitted into the total picture. In tennis we were grouped by ability. Small groups worked on specific techniques and then applied what they had learned with other groups. Children, too, need to make connections when building new skills on earlier ones.

Giving them a chance to refine new material in small groups, then including them in a larger group, helps children become more secure in a concept.

Each of our math-strategy sessions began with a mental math exercise. Discussion then revealed how and why we approached a problem in a given manner. I was able to determine why some strategies did or did not work for me. Math and LOGO problem­ solving made me think of the process approach used to teach writing at Brookside: assessing a problem (rehearsal), finding a strategy for solving it (brainstorming), facilitating ideas (composing), reviewing operations (conferencing) and proving and correcting (revising and editing).

This connection helps our teachers carry their writing process expertise into teaching math.

At Brookside students explore problem-solving concepts using a wide variety of manipulative materials. We use games to apply skills and to encourage thinking strategies. “Thinking Stories,” “ Problem-of-the-Week” or “Weekly Challenges” encourage mental math exercise. First graders demonstrate the meaning of

numerals 2-10 using beans, color cubes, Cuisenaire rods and numbers in an assortment of arrangements. When they are ready, students write their own word problems, which demonstrates another level of thinking. Second graders, for example, learn the speed of light (186,000 mi./sec.) in science class.

Given the circumference of the earth (25,000 mi.) they devise ways to calculate how many times light could travel around the earth in one second. Since they have not learned division and are not adept with large numbers yet, they arrive at an approximate solution by repeated addition, deleting the zeros. Third graders do word problem “mind joggers” using whatever strategies they can devise.

Problem-solving strategies are not obvious; they need to be taught and learned. Once the strategies are mastered, they can be applied to all areas of learning and living.

— Rebecca Hayes

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N otes Around MKA A pp lau se! A pplause!

R eco g n itio n for Our T alen ted F acu lty

D onna C arrara a n d th ird g ra d e r B rittan y Trevenen.

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Marion Held, Upper School art teacher, and Drew Knapp, Middle School art teacher, exhibited their work at the “Review/Preview” exhibition at Aljira Arts gallery in Newark in November and December.

• M ichael Bergman, of the Upper School fine and performing arts faculty, was musical director/arranger for the play “How I Survived High School.”

He wrote songs for the production and played the piano for its New York run at the Jan Hys Playhouse during April and May, and during its summer run at Middlesex College. He is awaiting the possibility of a national tour.

Chap Ostrander of the Middle School was in the orchestra.

G inger K riegel a n d fir s t g ra d e r Aneeta Saxena.

workshop on “What Children Teach Us From Their Writing” at a National Council of Teachers of English conference in San Antonio. She has also been asked by the Department of Education, Washington, D.C. to be a reading evaluator of literacy in research proposals.

• Rita Singer, Middle School teacher, has had an article, “Estimation and Counting in the Block Corner,” published in Arithmetic Teachers Magazine.

• Tom Parente, Eurhythmies teacher at Brookside, last spring was pianist (and piano soloist) with the Antelope Valley College Community Orchestra at Lancaster College in Lancaster, California. This fall he was asked to compose music to be sung by the Newark Boys Choir.

• Ginger K riegel and Donna Carrara, Brookside teachers, presented “An Overview on Writing Workshop” at Spotswood Elementary School in November. Donna presented a

• MKA sophomores Rob Young and Adam Sussman recently formed Elderfun, a non-profit company that provides entertainment to nursing home residents. Elderfun relies on volunteer talent. One such volunteer was Anna Segreto,, Upper School English teacher, who entertained residents of Van Dyke Manor with guitar music and song.

Alumni, parents, friends Help MKA by donating your “outgrown” knickknacks, books, lamps, furniture, sports equipment, computers, software, anything (alm ost no clothes or shoes, please) to stock the first alum niflea market. Your trash could be someone else’s treasure.

Call the Alumni Office, 746-9800, X240, fo r more information.

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Fall Sports Report

Coacb Kevin M onahan a n d B illy Hall, ’82.

The 1986 fall varsity teams compiled a high .602 winning percentage. The fine overall record was due in large measure to the excellent seasons of girls’ tennis, field hockey, and water polo.

Girls’ tennis continued to dominate the Prep ranks by winning its fourth consecutive Independent School State Championship. The team also brought new trophies to MKA by winning the New Jersey State Parochial North B and Overall B Group State Tournament in its first year of entry. The team, 20-3, was rewarded with a consistently high ranking in the Star Ledger’s state top twenty.

The field hockey team culminated an excellent 12-2-3 record with a second consecutive appearance in the final game of the State Championship Tournament.

The team lost the game 1-0 on a sudden victory goal by Princeton Day School in overtime. But the loss could not dim the glow from the fine accomplishment of achieving the best record and the highest ranking in MKA’s history.

Water polo compiled a terrific 6-1 record. The team has had a nice resurgence into pool prominence through the hard work of the young squad. Coach Van Eerde has occasional flashbacks to the old days when he was on the squad, and to the glory days of AllAmerican Schulte, MacGregor, Brunner, and the Rentos. Dr. Dick Rento even came back to inspire the team in workouts and give emergency help as official.

Cross country has come back slowly from winless seasons to a creditable 6-7 record. With continued hard work and dedication the team will surely progress in stature and achievement.

Though girls’ and boys’ soccer had poor won-lost records, neither team was ever really out of a ballgame, and with luck the records could very well have been reversed.

The boys’ team received some retribution by eliminating higherseeded Gill/St. Bernard’s from the State Tournament with a stellar 5-0 performance. Hopes are high for the future as the boys’JV posted an excellent 9-2-1 record, and the girls’ team had a large squad of more than 25 players, a large number of whom were freshmen.

The football team’s 3-5 record did not accurately reflect the team’s

dedication and hard work. Three of the losses were by a touchdown or less, as in the case of the 22-20 loss to Wardlaw-Hartridge and the 3-0 loss to State Champion Pennington in the season finale.

The team had a fine showing against a Group II school, Ridge High, whom we played as a fill-in date for Dwight-Englewood’s cancelled varsity football program.

It is sad that schools in addition to Dwight-Englewood have fallen on hard times in football. Long-time rival Horace Mann School of the Bronx, which many alumni remember with varying degrees of fondness — i.e., Hubie Morgan running all over and through our bodies — had to drop its football program after eighty years of competition.

But the beat goes on at MKA where Solom on Johnson was the premier back of the League this year to crown his record-setting career, and where coach Kevin Monahan used the inspiration of Gerald, Max and Sean Jones (who instructed during summer football camp) and clippings of Mark McGowan’s successes to motivate his squad.

Through such hard work by all the coaches, hopes are high for continued athletic achievement.

— George Hrab

Sean Jones, ’80, Coacb Kevin M onahan a n d the cam pers a t su m m erfo o tb a ll camp.

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Faculty/Staff Honored

C harter m em bers o f the fa c u lty h on or society.

“Institutions o f quality are not built overnight. Educational institutions are not b uilt o f stone, slate or wood — but rather o f hum an spirit, wisdom and optim ism .”

With these words at the opening faculty meeting this fall, Dr. Frances O’Connor thanked long-term faculty and staff for their loyalty and commitment to MKA. She announced the establishment of an honorary society whose charter members include those who were at MKA at the merger in 1974.

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Robert C. Hemmeter Oscar Maynard Leigh B. Smith 1965 Nixon S. Bicknell John Noble 1966 Marilyn Faden Kenneth D. Gibson Frances B. Ferlauto 1967 Thomasina M. Brayboy Kenneth Mansuy

Audrey J. Gelston 1969 Joan Grevatt George Hrab Marion Loesch Judy Nesbit Susan H. Straten 1970 Jeanne Jones Calvin Matzke John Rabke Lois P. Riley Joanne Noble 1971 Vivi S. Greenspan Rebecca Hayes 1972 Judith Kemlitz 1973 Georgiana Cameron Elvoid Christmas Phyllis Ingenito JohnJones John Rabuse Robert J. Sinner 1974 Douglas Alsofrom Lynn Benediktsson Patricia Dancy David Doster Constance Insley Jacqueline Laks Sanford Lonsinger Janice O’Hara Charles T. Ostrander Barbara Rabuse

N otes from th e Office o f External Affairs • “A Giving Tradition” — MKA’s 1986-87 Annual Giving Fall Phonathon was a great success! Our goal is $350,000 and as of January 1 we have reached the $325,000 mark. Participation among parents, alumni and friends in Annual Giving is at a record high. If you have not joined the 1986-87 “Giving Tradition,” the deadline for gifts is June 14, 1987.

• The Montclair Kimberley Academy was the recipient of a bequest from the estate of Henry B. Fernald, Jr., Montclair Academy ’28. The $65,000 received will help strengthen MKA’s financial base, as these funds go directly into endowment. His bequest perpetuates his lifelong commitment to MKA. Mr. Femald served as a Trustee of Montclair Academy and was a very loyal alumnus.

• The Parents Association of The Montclair Kimberley Academy (PAMKA) will hold their annual fund raiser at The Manor on April 28, 1987. The luncheon’s theme is “April in Paris” and the co-chairmen are Rose Cali and Janie Lorentzen. For more information call the Office of External Affairs, 746-9800 Ext. 232.

Parents R osem ary Iversen a n d Tony G iam papa callin g a t the P aren t Pbonatbon.

ALUMNI NEWS Our Man In Newark

Tbe H onorable H erbert Tate Jr.

When H erb ert Tate Jr. arrived at fifth grade at Brookside School, he dealt with things the way he used to in Newark: by fighting. His teacher, Mrs. Johnson, pulled him aside and said quietly, “Herbert, we discuss things; we don’t fight.”

Years later Tate recalls the incident fondly. He has learned to discuss, and he has returned to Newark to fight crime and corruption. Herbert Tate Jr. is Essex County prosecutor, considered the most significant law enforcement job in New Jersey. He is also the state’s youngest prosecutor, and the first black prosecutor in Essex County. He is only 33.

Tate attributes his achievement to his family and to Montclair Academy, from which he graduated in 1971. “My goals and achievements were set high because of the accomplishments of my parents and grandparents,” he says.

“It was expected.” His father, a former Montclair Academy trustee, served as assistant minority leader in the Assembly, as assistant county prosecutor, and as Superior Court judge; his mother taught school in

Newark for 30 years; his grandmother was long active in the Montclair YWCA. The goals were reinforced at Montclair Academy. “As a young black guy growing up, I could be anything, anybody I wanted to be, according to the effort I put in,” he says. “There were no limitations.”

In addition to the curriculum, such encouragement gave “the most tremendous boost to my development.”

He still remembers the names of all his fifth grade teachers — Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Bacon, Mr. Warden, Mrs. Suggs* — because the change from Newark schools to Brookside was so drastic. The teachers eased his transition by their genuine interest in his development.

Through the turbulent years of the late 60s, when authority was challenged from every direction, Tate says, “ I could appreciate and respect what teachers at Brookside and Montclair Academy were trying to do for me.”

At the Academy, Tate played football and chess, and was vice president of the Student Council his senior year. He recalls tremendous competition for achievement.

He graduated cum laude from Wesleyan University in three and a half years, and received a law degree from Rutgers in 1978. Tate credits Montclair Academy teacher Bob Hemmeter for his decision to major in history at Wesleyan: “He had a way of inspiring you, of titillating your mind and giving free rein on projects.”

His father inspired him to become a lawyer, by example and with the observation, “Lawyers are in so many aspects of society, all you need is a pen, pad, and know where the library is, and you’re in business.” In August 1986 the retired judge swore in his son as Essex County prosecutor.

As head of the largest and busiest prosecutor’s office in the state, Herbert Tate Jr. oversees a staff of 360 , including 105 lawyers and 150 detectives, and a budget of $12 million. The office tries 25 percent of the crime in New Jersey; last year

it handled 22,000 cases. Though he loves trial work, which he did for seven years, his priority now is administrative reorganization. At his swearing-in, he pledged to establish a bond between law enforcement and the judiciary. He promised to consider his task “a 24-hour job, as crime never sleeps.”

Tate, called “a tiger in the courtroom” by U.S. Attorney Thomas Greelish, is relaxed and extremely articulate in private, peppering his conversation with boyish good humor. Among the framed certificates, degrees, bar association memberships, photos with distinguished officials, and letters from Governor Thomas Kean in Thte’s office is a framed newspaper article with his picture under the headline, “Suspect held in bar killing.’’ It does not mention that the picture is of the prosecutor, not the suspect. Tkte loves it.

Herbert Tkte Jr.’s connection to Montclair Academy continues. He occasionally attends home football games. He sees many classmates in the course of their profession — John Golden, John Alessi, Orlando Caprio, Robert Hoonhout. The prosecutor also spoke to MKA students at Career Day. He says, “It is part of my responsibility in this position, to go back and give encouragement. Kids these days don’t have heroes, role models. I’d like to go back and tell them what it takes to make it . . . What I thought back then is a lot different from what I feel today.’’

Even back then, Herbert Tate Jr. provoked discussion and issued challenges. The ’71 yearbook quote beside his picture says, “Asking the questions everyone else is afraid to ask.”

•Martha C. Johnson was headmistress of Brookside and a science teacher. Charlotte Bacon taught social studies; Alan Warden, math; and Seamans Suggs, English.

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From the Alumni Association

A lum ni Executive Council: Back row (l to r) Bob Hoonhout ’71, Alan Kessler ’47, Charles Sm all ’58. Front row, (l to r) M argaret C raw ford B ridge ’65, Fay Taft Fawcett ’52, Dr. Frances O’Connor.

I regret to announce the “retirement” of Susan Jones as Alumni Director. Susan, mother of Alden, a freshman, and Amy, in 7th grade, continues to devote time to MKA through PAMKA. We welcome the new Alumni Director, Christie Austin, mother of Kristin and David, a sophomore.

Christie, a graduate of Wells College, is completing a master’s degree in journalism at New York University.

D a vid D unnigan *79 a n d Steve D odd ’79.

University. She has been editor of the Montclair Adult School catalog and the Junior League monthly publication, “Postmark.” She is a member of the curriculum committee of the Montclair Adult School and of the scholarship committee of the Montclair Education Fund.

I am also pleased to announce that Steve Barral ’80, Martin Brayboy ’80 and A1 Van Eerde ’73 have become new members of your Alumni Council. I am grateful to them and all Council members for donating their time to MKA.

Six sporting events had to be cancelled due to rain, but nevertheless approximately 300 alumni returned for Homecoming/ Reunions on September 27. This popular day included a luncheon at the Upper School and a dinner at the Montclair Golf Club for reunion classes, a cocktail party for all alumni and a victorious football game.

A special note of thanks to Laurie H oonhout McFeeley and husband Paul who chaired their 10 th reunion and enticed 67 members of the class of ’76 to return to MKA. That is a record number. Can anyone top that next October 24, 1987 when the classes of 1937,1942,1947,1957,1962,1967, 1977 and 1982 have their reunions?

On December 20th, the MKA alumni hockey team beat their annual rival Montclair High School alumni, 7-5, in an exciting contest reminiscent of our glory days in hockey. We owe sincere thanks to MKA parent George Humphreys and Council member Steve Dodd ’79 for recruiting players.

Following the game, Dr. O’Connor hosted another wonderful pizza party for all college-age alumni.

Career Day on February 6 was under chairman Ellen Wahl ’73 and Suzanne Saldarini, MKA’s Director of Student Services.

Your Alumni Council, under the leadership of Margaret Bridge ’65 , will be working hard to organize our first Flea Market on Saturday, May 9— Fay Taft Fawcett, ’52 A lum ni Association President

Back (l to r): Coach Tom Preville, Bob Welsh, Blake O’Neill, Tony DelGaizo, D oug Colwell, John Towers, John Booth, A ndrew Walsh, Eric Wong, Chris Bruce, D arrin O ’Neill, Asst. Coach Ken Smith. Front (I to r ) Larry G arrigan, J im Connell, Rob Cerfolio, Robby Pruyn, M ichael P latt, P eter McMullen, Steve D odd, D a vid Dunnigan.

From th e Alumni Office Three Cheers for 1 9 8 6 Reunion Chairmen Alan Kessler, MA ’47, General Chairman Jean Winpenny Manley, TKS ’36 W. Kent Schmid, MA ’36 Joan Denny Carlisle, TKS ’46 Florence Johnson Jacobson, TKS ’46 Gail Zabriskie Wilson, TKS ’56 John W. Clapp, MA ’56 Christine Keller, TKS ’6l Arthur Rosen, MA ’61 Francine Onorati Crawford, TKS ’66 Alan Balma, MA ’66 Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley, MKA ’76 Paul McFeeley, MKA ’76 Heidi Ames, MKA ’81 Reunion chairm en: Back ro w (l to r) Kent Schmid, ’36, Jean W inpenny Manley, ’36, A lan Kessler, ’47, A lan B alm a, ’66. Front row (l to r)Joan D enny Carlisle, ’46, Florence Johnson Jacobson, ’46, C hristine Keller, ‘61.

A lum ni D irector C hristie Austin.

A lum ni Council m em bers a n d reunion workers: Back ro w (l to r ) Ellen Wahl, ’73, Rob Gardner, ’78, TeacherJ u d y Nesbit. Front ro w (l to r ) Fay Taft Fawcett, ’52, Teacher M arilyn Faden, Lynn Towner D odd, ’54.

Homecoming 1987 O ctober 24th Plan Ahead! Save th e Date!

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THE M ONTCLAIR KIM BERLEY A CA D EM Y

HOMECOMING September 27,1986 “ . . c o m in g b a c k to la y o ld g h o sts

to r e st.”

1, Alumni Council member Oscar Mockridge, ’55, accepting Distinguished Alumni Award for Joseph Wiedenmayer, ’24. 2. Amy Harris, ’88. 3- Middle School head Jim Burger and son Parkins ’94. 4. Carolyn Van Vleck Edwards, ’56, and Fran O’Connor. 5. Richard Moskowitz, ’81, Wayne Alder, ’81, and teacher Ken Gibson. 6. Homecoming crowd. 7. Jane Ann Sweeney, sister of quarterback Mike, ’88. 8. Upper School head Phil Allen and Rohina Gandhi, ’86.

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9. Teacher Nixon Bicknell, Carolyn Stanton, ’81, and Betsey Stanton, ’79. 10. Rhys Jones, ’76, Larry Duca, ’/9, and Dave Dunnigan,£79- 11. James Petretti, ’88, and Mike Hunter, ’89, during the Homecoming game. 12. Elyse Decker, ’86, and Valerie Cordover, ’86. 13. Corey Weinstein, ’86, Beth Cohn, ’86, andMary Louise Neary, ’86. 14. Anita Cole, head of Brookside, Kent Schmid , ’36, and Jim Burger, head of Middle School. 15. Fran O’Connor with Homecoming T-shirt.

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E d itor’s N ote ¿4s those o f you in classes that have secretaries already realize, we are now using only one m ailing each year to obtain news.

News gathered after Christmas by holiday cards and the one official m ailing w ill be in the fa ll magazine. Spring m agazine Class Notes are taken fro m reunion and pbonathon news, the fla p on the A nnual Giving rem it­ tance envelope, and the “Grapevine” on the inside back cover. Although the news m ight seem "old” to some, we havefo u n d that m ost people love to read news anytime. This tim e lapse is unavoidable, as the processing o f Class Notesfro m secretary to A lum ni Office to classmates to secretary to A lum ni 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 A lum ni Office anytime.

To those o f you whose class has no secretary, how w ould y o u like to volunteer? Thejo b has been sim plified to the p o in t that you w ill 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 chairm an, 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. Sam uel Meek (Priscilla Mitchell) 88 D oubling Road Greenwich, CT 06832 MA E.T. Seymour, M.D. 5055 Lakewood Drive Nashville, TN37220

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MA The Montclair Times reported the death of Maurice Hall in December. He had lived in Montclair for 48 years before retiring to Florida in 1965. As a building contractor in the 1920s, he had constructed many office buildings and residences in Montclair. Later he worked as an insurance executive in New York. He is survived by his wife, Marian Clough Hall (TKS T8).

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MA Samuel Scott wrote from St. Petersburg, ‘‘Bob Ward, George Beach and I all were at our 60th reunion at Princeton. Had the pleasure of having my grandson John S. Scott graduate at that time.’’

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TKS Mrs. Jonathan Chatellier (Alice Vezin) 16 West Elm Street Yarmouth, ME 04096 MA Mr. Richard E. Kleinhans 190 Scribner Avenue South Norwalk, CT06854

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TKS Mrs. Philip B. Taylor (Helen Patrick) 590 Palm Circle West Naples, FL 33940 ‘‘I went back to Africa last summer,’’ writes Edith Keys Stoney, “to Kenya only this time . ’round. It was my 13th African visit in 21 years . . . and I patted an elephant! Her name is Eleanor; she’s one of the “Orphans of Tsavo” — and I touched her briefly once before, in 1969.

This time I fed her a banana I was supposed to have for lunch. Her ranger broke it in four pieces and she took each one from my hand.

Heaven!!”

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TKS No secretary Marietta Ewald Cook sent an article from the Cape Cod Times about the launching of a 58-foot yawl which her son William, a naval architect of Greenwich, Conn., designed. The boat was unique — made entirely of wood by hand; a six-year project.

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TKS Anna Lincoln Ames writes, “After a long illness my dear husband died peacefully on November 2, 1986. My daughter Heidi Ames Ti-oxeH and my daughter-in-law Aubin Zabriskie

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Ames are both Kimberley graduates. Four Troxell grandchildren and two Ames grand­ children are also Kimberley graduates.

[Grandson] David Ames is presently an MKA-er.

As the other four of the 11 grandchildren have lived in Oregon, it was too far a commute. Best luck always to MKA.” Our condolences to Mrs. Ames and thanks for such a loyal MKA family.

Homecoming 1987 October 24th Plan ahead! Save the date!

L etter o f T hanks Mrs. Fay Fawcett Chairman, Alumni Council, MKA Dear Mrs. Fawcett, “I cried with pride when I read the article about my father in the MKA News.’’

This was the reaction of my oldest child, now 54.

Margaret joins me in thanking you and the other nice people on the MKA Alumni Council for The Distinguished Alumni Award and specifically for the citation printed on a parchment scroll and the beautiful engraved polished pewter box.

The recording of the award ceremony beginning with your reading of my citation followed by Oscar’s remarks and anecdotes and Frances O’Connor’s articulate speech — made us feel as if we were there, very touching.

As a little souvenir for you I enclose a copy of one of my early booklets, “Listen Please!" written in 1968. In it I said: Remember that spouses and parents of the handicapped deserve and need empathy and understanding too.

Thank you all again for everything.

VIVA MKA. Sincerely, Joseph E. Wiedenmayer (MA ’24)

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TKS No secretary MA Lt. Cmdr. Alden W. Smith Penury Priory Temple, NH 03084

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TKS Mrs. Paul M acDonald (Louise Russell) 35 Bank Street New Canaan, CT 06840 MA Mr. Eugene Speni 85 U ndercliffRoad Montclair, NJ 07042

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TKS Mrs. Gordon Bowen (Barbara Newell) 50 Forest Avenue Glen Ridge, NJ 07028 The Montclair Times reported the death of Frances Love Engle in June.

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TKS Miss Charlotte H. Fitch Box 45 24 Cape B ial Lane Westport Point, MA 02791 Dorothy Mlnsch Hudson and Jim's first wedding of a granddaughter was in Maryland in June, Susan Bond to James Kearny. In October, she and Jim had their fourth visit to Ireland, followed by two weeks in London. They went to Florida in December.

MA Mr. Robert S. D orrill 42 Godfrey Road Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 After about 50 years of practicing osteopathy Clem Eddy is now retired. He has two sons and two grandchildren.

Edward M. (Ted) Holm es wrote: “My four grandchildren are all in school; the oldest, a girl, a junior in high school in Iowa. I go to Iowa about once a year to visit my oldest daughter and her family.

“My two other daughters and two of the grandchildren live here in Maine, one about 45 miles away, and the other, ten miles from my house, a situation which is very helpful, since I find living alone in my ten-room dwelling at times rather lonely.

“Since my retirement in 1976 from the department of English at the University of Maine, I have continued to teach part-time two Honors courses: one a cross-discipline look at the development of Western Civilization from 3000 B.C. to today (I call it passing a quick tray of intellectual hors d’oeuvres); the other, a seminar in twentieth century drama, some semesters, British; some semesters, American.

“My fifth book, Crosscurrents: Tension in the Novels o f H arriet Beecher Stowe, is scheduled for publication by the University of Maine Press in 1987.

“P.S. One of the students I taught in creative writing courses decades ago was Stephen King.

He gives me great credit, but I’m not sure of that, nor am I interested in horror fiction. T.' ’

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TKS Mrs. Paul Christner, fr. (Esma Currier) 31 Aubrey Road Upper Montclair, N f 07043 We are both retired if only temporarily,’’ writes Marjorie K ieselbach Dumont. “I’ve learned that with TV hanging heavily on his hands Richard not only cooks (haute cuisine or hamburgers, it makes no difference to him) but also Does Windows! I try not to push my luck.

Je suis gatee! Our French lessons proceed. If we worked as hard at it as our various ‘mamselles’ commanded we’d be Great by now, but alas, we don’t!”

Our condolences to Grace McCollum Brennan on the death of her husband Val. MA No secretary

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

Stuart, FL 33494

MA No secretary

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TKS Mrs. W illiam McCahill (Frances Elliott) 3114 Russell Road Alexandria, VA 22305

MA fa m es A. Rogers, M.D. 921 Seagrape Drive Marco Island, FL 3393 7 John Newberry Jr. updated alumni records with his impressive academic credentials: a B.S. in Economics (1937) from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, an honorary LLD (1953) from Waynesburg College, Pa. He retired in 1973 and moved away from suburbia to “the great Green Mountain State of Vermont.” From Stowe he continues to serve as trustee of several schools and hospitals.

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TKS Mrs. Thomas Shaughness (Ruth Powers) 6428 B arfield Drive Dallas, TX 75252 MA Mr. W illiam f. Thompson 415 Claremont Avenue, #2E Montclair, N f 07042 Fred G. Stlckel III wrote that in November he had a 12th grandchild, Ashley Lynn Asdal.

He hopes for a baker’s dozen.

Having received a B.A. in history last year, Vardy Laing has started courses towards a Master’s. He writes, “Don’t know whether I will survive; the first course (required) is all about philosophy of history. A philosopher I am not!” He and Marion went to Hawaii in February, EXPO at Vancouver in May, Hong Kong and Bangkok in August. They hope to see his two brothers — “the American branch of the family” S in Florida in April. He writes, “Is there to be a 55th reunion? I plan to retire permanently by May 1988 — believe it or not."

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TKS Mrs. D avid H aviland (Barbara Spadone) 3400 G ulfShore Blvd. North Naples, FL 33940 Elizabeth (Gracy) Kenny ’30 and Bill accompanied Dave and me to Andover for Grandparents’ Day in May. Their grand­ daughter’s name is Elizabeth Kenny and our grandson's is Dwayne Hutchinson. It was a delightful jaunt for us all.

— Barbara MA No secretary

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TKS Mrs. Stewart Carpenter (Josephine Fobes) 4 La Salle Road Upper Montclair, N J07043 MA Dr. WalterJ. Sperling Fearrington, P.O. Box 192 Pittsborough, NC 27312

50th reu n io n , Class o f 1936.

TKS Mrs. W. Kent Schmid (Josephine Murray) Mason’s Island, Box 623 Mystic, CT06355 MA Mr. W. Kent Schmid RD 1, Box 623 Mason’s Island, CT06355 Dallas Townsend is teaching broadcast journalism this semester at the Newhouse School, Syracuse University.

W illiam Mattes writes: "Enjoyed the 50-year reunion. Sad that more members of the class were not present. It was a most pleasant afternoon and evening.”

50th Reunion October 24 TKS Mrs. Charles L. Leavitt (Virginia Kracke) 93 Stonebridge Road Montclair, N J07042 Margaret Richards Chapman writes, “As of the end of May '86 we have two grandsons from our son, Bruce. We returned to Colorado from a 5800-mile roundtrip to the Northwest, Montana and Wyoming in our Airstream trailer.

It will take us to New Hampshire again for the summer. Hope to attend the class of ’37’s 50th.”

Kathryn Holton Sjolander’s daughter Susan was married to Howard Silsdorf in Santa Barbara, Calif, last December.

Our condolences to Sally Bausher L ittlefield on the death of her husband, William, '34.

MA No secretary

Thank you to th ese new class secretaries for volunteering: Mrs. William McCahill (TKS ’32) E.T. (Ted) O’Brien (MA ’47) Leslie Bryan (TKS ’70)

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TKS No secretary In August, the Montclair Times printed the following letter: “Editor: “Recently, we lost one of our most special volunteers. Jane Carpenter was a volunteer at Van Dyk Manor Nursing Home for more than 15 years and had served more than 500 hours during this period. . . .

“She was a volunteer who found time to give, no matter that she had a full-time job and commuted to New York City every day. She came every Sunday that she was able to, helped bring our residents to chapel services and helped them in any way she could.

“She brought flowers from the church and, most of all, had time to listen to our guests. She never let us know that she was feeling ill, and, in the truest sense of the word, gave of herself to benefit those in need of spiritual help.

“Our lives have been enriched by knowing Jane Carpenter.

“Lore Steinitz, Van Dyk Manor” E ditor’s Note: Miss Carpenter was for years the faithful secretary for the class of 1938.

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MA Mr. Charles McGinley 1911 West Magic Place Tucson, A Z 85704 To update records for our new computer, we would like addresses for the following class members. Please notify the Alumni Office if you know the whereabouts of: Victor Baer, Frederick C ollins, Leonard Cooper, G eoffrey Crook, Robert N lchol, W illiam Roberts, Arthur VanSchott, Robert Winner.

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TKS Mrs. Charles V. Cross (Barbara Armstrong) 2306 Cardinal Drive Point Pleasant, N J08742 MA No secretary Frederick Little became an honorary alumnus of Pine Crest Preparatory School in Fort Lauderdale after 13 years as Director, having served on planning coordination and finance committees. Fred and Jeanne’s two daughters are graduates of Pine Crest, a South­ eastern Conference school of 1450 students, K-12. They became grandparents of their first grandchild, Scott D. Russell, last January.

David Jacobs is a lecturer to professional insurance agents. He serves on the board of directors as secretary of N.J. Full Insurance Underwriting Association, on the boards of the N.J. Automobile Insurance Risk Exchange and the International School of Commerce, and is a trustee of the N.J. College of Podiatric Medicine.

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T he MKA C onn ection

45tb a n d 40tb Reunion, Classes o f ’41, ’46.

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TKS Mrs. Jam es F.C. Hyde, Jr. (Enid Griswold) 5402 D uvall Drive Betbesda, MD 20816 MA Mr. D avid Baird, Jr. 9 Parkway Montclair, N J07042 Needed for Alumni Office files: 1941 Montclair Academy Octopus Due to a long time-lag between class secretary and printer deadlines, the last issue missed the announcement of Chuck Sanders and Kit’s eighth grandchild, a girl, who arrived last Easter Sunday. Kit (TKS ’41) serves on the MKA Alumni Council.

Our condolences to the family of F. Somers Ritchie, who died in October.

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45th Reunion October 24

TKS Mrs. Robinson V. Sm ith (Joan Trimble) 16 M arshall Terrace Wayland, MA 01778 Jean Jeffers H ill wrote en route to their cottage in North Yorkshire, England, for a 12-week stay. “This has certainly been my year.

Spring trip to Australia for six weeks, chance to see my first grandchild there and then to Seattle to see my second — both boys. How nice to have them both born within months of each other, as long as they’re so far away.’’

The Martha’s Vineyard Gazette reported that Sally Sanders A ppenzellar spent six weeks in Sussex, England, visiting her sister-in-law, then returned via Naples, Fla., for the 90th birthday of her mother, Mrs. James Sanders.

MA No secretary.

Jim Prescott moved to Denville. He had a reunion with Dave and Ann (Reppert) Lewis at Christmas Cove, Maine, in October.

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TKS Mrs. E. B. R uffing Jr. (Joan Sweeney) 125 Westview Road Upper Montclair, N J07043 Our condolences to Mary Batt Taylor on the death of her father, former Montclair mayor George K. Batt.

MA Mr. Jam es Mackey 213 Geneva Street Elizabeth, N J07206 In the las t several years, Jam es Mackey has had several poems published, eight by the American Poetry Association of Santa Cruz,

We have learned of an institution on Martha’s Vineyard which is largely run by present or former Montclair residents, many of whom are alumni or parents of alums. Trinity Episcopal Chapel in Oak Bluffs has had as its warden for several years Florence Ann (Petey) Hoffman Reade (TKS ’47). Sylvia (Mrs. Waldo) Edge, mother of Peter (MKA ’82), is clerk of the vestry. Mrs. Josephine C. Hehre, who grew up in Montclair in the ’30s and knew many MA/TKS students through St. Luke’s Church, is treasurer.

Judge Herbert H. Tate, former MA trustee and father of Herbert (MA ’71), is a long-time trustee of the chapel.

P.S. Our informant — Brookside librarian Leigh Berrien Smith (TKS ’45) — reports that the chapel “has developed significantly since this team of Montclairites volunteered.”

Calif., and one by the Vantage Press of New York. He also continues to work as a grounds­ man for the Suburban Golf Club of Union, N.J.

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TKS Mrs. Nancy Heydt Green 99 Belvidere Road Falmouth, MA 02540 In November, Betty Specht was the subject of yet another photo/article in the Montclair Times, lauding her latest building renovation at 18-30 South Fullerton Avenue. The corner property has trompe 1’oeil paintings of birds and wildflowers.

MA Mr. W interfordJ. Ohland Box 137, R.D. #3 Blairstown, N J07825 Robert D. Angus wrote from Prescott, Ariz. that two daughters were married in August.

Martha married Dr. Frederick Flach in New York; she is head decorator for BATUS in N.Y.C. Nancy married John R. Van Plantinga in Princeton. She is a sales rep for Ciba-Geigy.

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TKS Anne Feagley Wittels (Mrs. Jerome L.) 2116 Via Alam itos Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274 Cynthia Carswell Blair writes, ‘‘I have a second granddaughter, Sarah Blair-Miller, born in March 1986 to join her 3-year-old sister, Evelyne. Enjoyed our 40th reunion! Recently saw Rich Hopkins.”

Leigh Berrien Smith writes, “We are expecting a fifth grandchild in ’87 — a first granddaughter, perhaps? (It will be #2 for young Proc and Laura.)”

Wilbur and Barbara Creighton Ulbrand had their first granddaughter, Jaimie Lynne, on December 15th.

Happy news (a fourth grandchild) from P hyllis Harder Reininger. Their second son, Craig, and his wife, Becky, had their first baby in December, Russell Johnston Reininger.

MA Mr. W illiam B. Grant 41 Clinton Avenue Ridgewood, N J07451

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TKS Mrs. Stanley M iller (Frances Lane) 2498 N W 25th Street Boca Raton, FL 33434 Our condolences to Virginia Hall Cameron on the death of her father.

MA Mr. Jam es A. Swan RD 4, Box 665 Chestertown, MD 21620-9271

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TKS No secretary MA Mr. Richard M. Drysdale P.O. Box 217 Bay Head, N J08742

40tb Reunion, Class o f 1946.

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TKS Mrs. George P. Shoemaker (Elizabeth Smith) 11 High Point Terrace Scarsdale, N Y 10583 Nancy Anne Rudd Wahlberg, as Garden Club president, headed a civic beautification project with the local Chamber of Commerce.

She has started her own business, “Country Wives,” which she hopes to expand to a partnership. It is a service for weekenders who have homes in Salisbury, Conn, and who need all kinds of house management jobs done during the week to make weekends/vacations more leisurely. Her husband sells titanium jewelry on Cape Cod. Their son is at the University of Indiana for graduate work.

Nancy and Liz Smith Shoemaker have already volunteered to be 45th reunion chairmen in 1991!

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40th Reunion October 24 TKS Mrs. Edwin Reade, Jr. (Petey H ofm ann) P.O. Box 111 Vineyard Haven, MA 02568 E ditor’s Note: Mrs. Reade has asked the Alumni Office to find a replacement. Any volunteers for class secretary?

MA Mr. Chase Troxell 20 Fox H ill Lane Short Hills, N J07078 Our condolences to Frank L. Driver III, his sisters Pat (TKS ’45) and Daphne (TKS ’52) on the death of their father.

Did you know that Montclair Academy was founded in 1887? Watch for centennial issue and events.

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TKS Mrs. E. Alden Dunham, III (Louise Green) 73 Brookstone Drive Princeton, N J08540 Audrey Carroll McBratney was reelected to the Board of Trustees of Mountainside Hospital, according to the Montclair Times. She will serve a one-year term as vice chairman of the board. She was also pictured in the Times as an original member of the Humdingers, the Junior League of Montclair-Newark’s singing group, which recently celebrated its 25 th anniversary.

MA Mr. Rudolph H. Deetjen,Jr. Northgate Road Mendham, N J07945 Having spent 30 years with the same company, Dick Hopkins took early retirement to become a financial planner for individuals.

Dick had been president of St. Paul Reinsurance Management Corp., one of the leading U.S. reinsurance operations.

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TKS Mrs. Eric Stroh (Gail Robertson) 350 Provencal Road Grosse Pointe Farms, M I 48236 A year ago I was in Vermont for a weekend and walked into Pat Overton Lee’s and Jim’s inn in Manchester. We hadn’t seen each other in over 30 years. She and Jim took over her family’s summer house several years ago. They have three children. Their daughter, Pam, was recently married and godmother Franny Hedges Parsons was at the wedding.

Nancy Ehrhardt Bambara lives up the road in Dorset. She has been redoing an old Victorian house and lives there with her twins who are freshmen at the University of Vermont.

Her four older children are grown and gone.

Anne La B astille returned to Montclair this past May for the first time since we graduated.

She spoke at Mount Hebron and Kimberley. She has had a very interesting life. Anne received a Ph.D. from Cornell, is an ecologist, a licensed Adirondacks guide, and has had six books and 125 articles published. She lives in a log cabin

in the Adirondacks which she built herself.

Anne and I corresponded in June and she was the impetus for our reunion on September 27th.

We all met at school for Homecoming cocktails and had dinner at my mother’s in Llewellyn Park.

Anne told us about her life, which is fascinating. She has been married, has no children, and has two beautiful German Shepherds which are both watchdogs and companions.

Jane Gassaway Bonner and Bob live in Short Hills and have three children. Jane has worked for a neurosurgeon for several years.

Joan Jacobus M iller and Dave came from Chicago. Joan teaches an inner city class of 26 second readers. Their three boys are grown; the youngest is a freshman in college. The family goes to Maine every summer.

Gerry Lockerty Hendricks and her two teenage daughters are in Chatham.

Betsy Smith Berquist and Bruce have been involved in education ever since they finished college. At the moment, they are co-directors of the Solebury School in New Hope, Pa. They tan a school of their own in New Hampshire for six years. Betsy is doing graduate work at Dartmouth this year. Their two daughters are married and Sam is at Hampshire College.

Beth Sherman Fisher and Tony live in Lake Valhalla and have a 12-year-old son, Madison, whom they adopted from Korea.

Miriam Eustls Irwin and Ted live in Essex Fells and have six children and five grand­ children. Miriam is the head of the planning board in Essex Fells.

Joan M iller Buchanan and Dave also live in Essex Fells. Joan plays golf five days a week and has two boys. One is working and the other is at Morristown-Beard School.

Mary Jane Scott Schnitzler came for the cocktail party only. She lives at the Jersey shore, is married, has no children, does have a dog, and is in the real-estate business.

I came from Grosse Pointe, Mich, for the weekend. I have four children, one in the Army in Texas, another in Detroit, a daughter at Duke, and a 15-year-old boy at school in New Hampshire. I’ve been in the real-estate business for 12 years and play backgammon competitively for fun.

Everyone looks wonderful and has changed very little. I felt as though we were all still in Miss Holloway’s English class.

Those who couldn’t come, wrote: P olly Fawcett R edfleld lives in Greenbrae, Calif, and has three grown daughters. She has not been east in 23 years.

Franny H edges Parsons and Johnny are in Farmington, Conn, and spend their summers in Jamestown, R.I. Their children are grown.

Diane Stoney Moore (Slinky) and Bob live in Glenside, Pa. She missed our reunion because Bob recently had an operation and they went on an R and R trip to New England.

Joan Spinning Bloom couldn’t come at the last minute. Her children “continue to get older each year but she doesn’t.” Joan has even lost touch with Sally Young.

Judy Smith Gentry and Baxter are still in Houston. They have six children and six grand­ children. Judy is now working with computers.

Ruth Ransom W ilson and Nick are in Princeton. They have twins and one other child. Ruthy is very involved in community affairs.

Judy Frost Costikyan and Tommy, who live in Morristown, were in Hawaii at the time of our reunion.

Susie Bailey Twyford and Bob live outside Washington, D.C. They were in France and

continued Spain on a combination business and pleasure trip. Susie is submitting her drawings and paintings to the American University for the master’s program. Her son, Rob, spent six months in New Zealand on a student work exchange program. He’s studying engineering at Cornell. Holly is a freshman at Boston University in the School of Theater Arts.

June Crowe Croonquist and her family live in Hackensack. She has been swamped with family weddings recently.

Linda Herbert called from Anaheim, Calif.; she works at a college dealing with thousands of students every day, and was sorry to miss everyone.

Brownie Cleaves Lewis wrote from Wisconsin. She writes for several magazines and has a small video business. Her jobs have taken her to the L.A. Olympics, Australia twice, and Mexico frequently. Brownie plans to go to Australia next year and also to ride horseback across Ireland. Then she’ll write and sell the stories about her experiences. Alice, 19, is at University of Redlands. Sam is married and runs his own business. Charlotte works for a computer company and Kathy lives in Australia.

To quote Brownie, “I think we had an exceptional group of interesting women in our Kimberley class.''

Laura Ives G ailly de Taurines lived in Neuilly outside Paris for many years. She died recently. Her son, Christophe, turned up at my house four years ago while he was here for a year at school. He spoke like an American, dressed like a Frenchman, and couldn’t have been nicer.

Shirley Wakeman Wright, who left TKS in the middle of our junior year, lives in Wayne, N.J., has four children, and wants to come to our 40th reunion.

To complete the cycle, I was again in Vermont this fall and had lunch with Pat and Nancy.

They loved hearing about everyone.

I’ll look forward to seeing everyone at our 40th — or before.

— Gail Editor's Note: Gail Robertson Stroh has already volunteered to be reunion chairman in 1991!

Barbara Ives R iegel (TKS ’55) sent the Alumni Office an interesting long obituary of her sister Laura Ives Gailly de Taurines. She states that a fund has been established in Laura’s memory to assist orphans and needy young people in whom she had a keen interest and commitment at the American Cathedral in Paris. Contributions may be made payable and sent to The American Cathedral, Attn.: Canon Jacques Bossiere, 23 avenue George V, Paris 75008, FRANCE. MA Mr. Ernest E Keer, III P.O. Box 1030 Point Pleasant Beach, N J08742 Ken Crowell has two sons in college studying biology. He enjoys teaching conservation biology and ornithology at St. Lawrence. In conjunction with these interests, he went to Hudson Bay in June with the International Ornithological Congress and will go to Costa Rica in March.

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TKS Mrs. Edward C. Fawcett (Fay Taft) 9 Gordon Place Montclair, N J07042 Anne Dwyer M ilne writes that her daughter Sue and husband Tom are now living in Manchester. Son Walt is working in Manchester and living at home with Anne and Norman.

Wain Koch Maass sent a nice newsy letter last Christmas saying husband Bill is on the Town Council and is a Justice of the Peace in their home town of Chester, Vt. Wain is waiting for him to marry a couple in their living room.

Last July, Bill moved into his new full line hardware store which he built and designed himself. Wain is still teaching third grade in their rapidly expanding elementary school. Bill Jr. lives and works in N.J. and Andrew is an attorney in Rutland, Vt. Kathy works in Boston and Amy is a junior at Hartwick College.

Babs Pendleton D onnell started to send her Christmas 1985 letter out over Easter 1986, missed that deadline and mailed it August ’86.

Good work, Babs . . . you kept at it! Actually the delay was because after fourteen years Babs and Jim moved to the North Hills area of Pittsburgh where Jim became the Associate Executive Presbyter for Pittsburgh Presbytery.

He works with clergy seeking relocation, with churches seeking pastors and with candidates preparing for ordination. Son Calvin works in N.J. at the firm Babs’ father founded and now run by her brother Steve. Jane lives in East Cleveland and works for a battered women’s shelter and Bridget and husband Fred both work in downtown Washington.

Jean Brisbane Lumsden lives in Montreal and was picked as an extra in several scenes in the movie “Barnum” which was filmed in Montreal. Now THAT’S new and exciting! Jean has a son John and a daughter Stella who is married. Jean returns to Montclair often to visit her mother and had a nice trip to Florida with her sister Gill.

Gall Tomec Kerr and David spent a wonderful ten days in Brittany biking along the coast. Son David (MKA ’77) is with Manufacturers Hanover in their Mergers and Acquisitions Department in N.Y.C. and is engaged to a girl who is graduating from University of Pennsylvania Medical School.

Susie is living in Boston and has just spent two months touring Europe. Robbie is graduating from Hobart this June and Gail says she will miss those parent weekends when they always met up with Jane R edfleld Forsberg and Bob. Jane Redfleld Forsberg, Bob and family are all doing well. Early in ’87 they are going to Switzerland on business. Kristen is a senior at Hobart, William Smith Colleges; Bob Jr. lives and works in Atlanta where he is in sales with a paper company. Kathy lives at home and is busier than all of them with her many social activities and her job in a store that sells handcrafted items.

I, Fay Thft Fawcett, am tired of being your secretary . . . any takers? Ashley (MKA ’85) is a sophomore at Colgate and loves every minute of it. Pam is a senior here at MKA and waiting for all those colleges to grab her. I am panicked (I think) about losing our children next year and will have to find some part-time work (I think). The Fawcett family and the Forsberg family spent a week together over New Year’s up at Jane and Bob’s condo at Sugarloaf Mtn., Maine, and had a ball. As we were about to

leave a blizzard started and, too bad, we had to spend another 24 hours and ski in all that fresh powder.

— Fay MA No secretary Ralph Rinzler continues to serve as Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, where he has been a member of the staff since 1967.

E n gravers H on ored In October, the New York Times’ Numismatics column reported a luncheon honoring the nation's current chief engraver, Elizabeth Jones (TKS ’53) and her two predecessors.

According to the luncheon organizer, Harry Forman, a Philadelphia coin dealer, “Having all three of these people together was really extraordinary. To collectors the United States Mint is sort of like a temple and the chief engraver is what you might call the high priest.”

The three engravers were presented prototypes of medals which may become part of a Mint series honoring all 11 chief engravers. Elizabeth Jones was the recipient of the MKA Distinguished Alumni Award in 1985.

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TKS Mrs. Thomas Burgin (Lolly Penick) 328 Fairway Road Ridgewood, N J07450 Jacquelin Ambler Cusick’s two older sons, Chip and Ambler, are out of college and working (one in New York). Their third, Carter, is a sophomore at Denison University. Jacquelin has gone back to school and is studying painting.

MA Mr. John Wade 42 B Federal Road Englisbtown, N J07726

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TKS Miss Georgia Carrington 38 Silver Spring Lane Ridgefield, CT 06877 Barbara Hobart Valbuena writes that she enjoys her work on the Board of Directors of the Greenville Country Club in Wilmington, Del. She and Julian had a marvelous business/ vacation trip to New Orleans and Baton Rouge, La. in early February. They drove along the Mississippi and visited many plantations.

Our condolences to Lynn Towner Dodd on the death of her mother.

MA No secretary Phil D onlln has been named to the Baltimore County All-Star football coaching staff for the second time in three years. They play the Baltimore City All-Stars.

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TKS Mrs. Susie Forstmann Kealy 232 East Walton Place, A partm ent #2E Chicago, IL 60611 Our condolences to Barbara Ives R iegel on the death of her sister, Laura Ives Gailly de Taurines (TKS ’51).

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Cohen who had seen Jack Scherer, Phil Santa, and Dave Marrocco. He had talked to Don C ollester, Dick Dim ond, Tom Dudiak, Mike Kurtz and Mike Saltzman, who we gather are in good health. I have no specific news on them except Harold’s 13-year-old son is at MKA in Grade 7. Good choice, Harold! He is working selling bonds and investments for Salomon Brothers.

Richard Schlenger has been very busy, it seems, like the rest of the above, supporting your local college. He was in the real estate business for 18 years and made a mid-life career shift to Recreation Supervisor for the Township of Parsippany and is actively involved in the Jaycees as U.S. National Director.

John Allen writes he is going to be supporting higher education with his two sons.

Presently he is an Episcopalian priest in Laconia, N.H. making lives better for the people he serves. His wife is studying Arthurian legends in England.

John H iggins sent me a lovely note indicating he was actively involved professionally in the pastoral ministry doing counseling, program administration, and everything associated with being a leader in his field. He too is supporting your local college.

I note with deep regret my friend who sat next to me for five years at MKA passed away — Norrle O’N eill. I am sure we all extend our deepest sympathy to his family on this loss. f l g - Ted O’Brien

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TKS Mrs. Lawther O. Sm ith (Linda Lovell) 30 Water Crest Drive Doylestown, PA 18901 Needed for Alumni Office files: 1956 Kimberleaves.

MA Mr. John W. Clapp Box 256 Sea Girt, NJ 08750 Bob Fischbein writes: “Had a wonderful time at reunion. Lunched with John Clapp, Scott Harden, Eric Jaeckel and Larry Nazarian.’'

30th Reunion October 24 TKS Mrs. Wichard Van Heuven (Connie Hay) 909 Cambridge Oval San Antonio, TX 78209 MA Mr. Edward T. O’Brien, Jr. Box 1906N aval A ir Station FPO, New York 09560-5004 I want to thank all of you who contributed news, and for those of you who didn’t, I remind you that we are all interested in knowing how the others are doing. Find a few minutes and share your past and future with your friends.

I live in Bermuda permanently with my 14-year-old daughter and wife of 21 + years.

I am the Director of Family Services and the base psychologist for the U.S. Navy here. Life is easy with lots of time spent eating out, sailing, golf, and tennis. My phone number is 809-293-1715, and you are always welcome here. Received a lovely note from “Phonse”

TKS Mrs. Ralph Perry, III (Helen Bryant) HC-60, Box 150 Tolland, MA 01034 MA Robert R. Haney, Ph.D. D epartm ent o f Psychology Georgia Southern College Statesboro, GA 30458

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TKS Mrs. Robert P. Sumas (Deana Rogers) 4 East Greenbrook Road North Caldwell, N J07006 Susan W echslee Rose has one daughter at the University of Michigan, another a freshman at Yale, and only one stUl at home. She is a junior at Horace Mann. Susan has gone back to school for a Master’s in Arts Administration at New York University. She writes, “In two years or so, who knows what I’ll be running maybe Carnegie Hall! I’d love to hear from classmates.”

MA Mr. Benjam in Fischer 26 Delta Boulevard Palisades Park, N J07650

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TKS Mrs. Em ily S. Danson (Emily Stark) 130 Old Stone Bridge Rd. Cos Cob, CT06807 MA Lt. George A. Bleyle, Jr. 2259 Weir D rive Hudson, OH 44236

Homecoming 1987 October 24th Plan ahead! Save the date!

25tb Reunion, Class o f 1961.

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TKS MissJudith Poor 9 6 North M ountain Avenue Montclair, N J07042 Daphne B ethell McCarthy sent a glowing reunion quote with the note, “Thanks to Chris Keller and Judy Poor for giving us the nudge.”

Trish Shupik Liftman is writing her dissertation for a Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. In June, after Rachel graduates from high school, they will move to Madison, Wis. where her husband will begin a private practice in radiation therapy.

Trish hopes to find a faculty position or post­ doctoral fellowship there. Their son, Josh, is in 8th grade. She w rites,1‘Two interstate moves in two years at our age is difficult, but worth the trauma. I’m also working part-time as a social worker in a neonatal intensive care unit.”

MA Mr. Robert Tyler Root, III 24 Wiedemann Clifton, N J07011 Ed R oselene called from Rochester to find out how many classmates were coming to their 25th reunion. He has been a studio potter for 10 years. He has been married 15 years, has a seven-year-old son.

2 5 th R eunion I had such a delightful time at reunion! It was terrific to see everyone looking so young. Oddly enough life’s struggles seem to agree with us. I hope more of the class will show up next reunion year (our 30th) to cheer for women over forty “doing it all and holding up well.” . . . The old school seems to be looking younger too!

•y<Ki£*Daphne Bethell McCarthy ‘61

25th Reunion October 24 TKS Mrs. C.D. Creed (Barbara B y water) 1769 Forest View Avenue Hillsborough, CA 94010

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TKS Ms. Sharon Livesey 12 Gorham Avenue Brookline, MA 02146 Sally Luchars McCarthy writes, ‘‘We are living in Tokyo where Justin is liaison scientist with the Office of Naval Research and will return to Washington, D.C. in the fall of 1987.

Fascinating city and country! We’re perched in a tiny 12th floor apartment with view (sometimes) of Mt. Fuji, enjoyed while eating kilos of raw fish, rice and great Japanese produce! Daughters Kate and Elizabeth, in grad school at U. of Chicago and Columbia, will come for Christmas; son Brian has plans to arrive in March.

MA Mr. Bronson Van Wyck BO. Box 580 lUckerman, AR 72473 Bronson Van Wyck writes from Arkansas, “Farming will recover. Bronson, Jr., 13, Mimi, 10.”

Condolences to Bob Skinner on the loss of his brother Somers Ritchie (MA '41).

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TKS Dr. Deborah Pines 710 Meetinghouse Road Elk Park, PA 19117 E ditor’s Note: This news was received too late for the fall Alumni News. Sorry it takes so long!

I was delighted with the response to my questionnaire in both volume and content, but I’ve had a terrible time distilling your wonderful letters into the “I have two kids and new curtains” that is appropriate for this format. Forgive me if I leave out the most important parts in the name of brevity.

Sally Webb Armstrong loves being whole­ sale coordinator of a silkscreen business in Marblehead, Mass. She has two girls, 14 and 12, enjoys tennis, Nautilus, aerobics, family and friends. From her exclamation points, I am pleased to tell you, Sally seems as ebullient as ever.

Lynn Sanders Pizzirusso is married to the creative director (and V.P.) of an ad agency. She worked in a home-decorating department of a now-defunct department store. She used to play duplicate bridge but now plays soccer yearround. Her kids — girl 14, boy 10 — are also athletic and artistic. They are honor roll students.

Sue Pembroke Herbert Kyle says she is “very lucky to have two healthy boys, 5 and 8, a loving husband, good friends and a career that is flexible enough to allow me to spend time with my family.” She has a consulting business working with authors, museums, TV, press, and even Mass. General, suggesting illustration programs for books, or organizing and marketing existing collections. She gets to travel and lecture.

Randi W hite McGlnness has four kids, 12, 9 ,6 and 3 ■Her husband, a professor of civil engineering at Bucknell, is now on sabbatical.

Randi chauffeurs and schedules for a living. She takes piano lessons and theater courses. She is also the Lewesberg School director.

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H elenjean Heller, a.k.a. H elen Noey, really is in Alaska with John, 10, Ann, 6, and husband Steve, age unreported. John and Arm have gotten Helen very involved in education as each has special needs: John is quite bright but has a learning disability, and Ann is “in a school for impossible children who are smarter than their mothers.” Helen spends summers in Hawaii and is up for visitors. (Alaska: 907-436-2208; Hawaii: 808-696-8021) She and Steve have worked together at various businesses for several years.

Barbara Mabler Markusson, married to an Air Force pilot, lives in Stuttgart. They’ll be back this summer, but have enjoyed Germany a great deal. Their daughter Kris, 16, is on the National Honor Society and is a school representative to the model U.N. at The Hague.

Jeff, 12, builds “model planes that really fly.”

Last year Barb ran a program for gifted math elementary students. Now she’s running a Brownie troop and sightseeing. Russia was drab and depressing. They have also seen Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Italy and Czechoslovakia.

M issy Keyser Sandberg is a bank officer.

She has adolescent kids, and does a lot of little theater, which she especially enjoys. Her letter and form were very fiinny, but not printable.

Debby D ickson (Rosenstein) has two boys, 7 and 3, who are “energetic, physical, bright, funny, wonderful, impossible.’’ Her husband’s an architect; she’s a filmmaker who recently finished a film of her own called Prances Steloff: Memoirs o f a Bookseller. The half-hour documentary will be on PBS this fall.

I’ve just refinanced my mortgage, planted a garden with rosemary and lavender hoping to reproduce Provence, and returned from a conference on the sexual abuse of children, an area I’m particularly interested in. I’m in full­ time private practice as an adult and child psychiatrist and still “working on trying to get a date.’’

— Deborah Pines MA No secretary John A. Benlgno is director of public relations for Settlement Music School in Philadelphia.

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TKS Mrs. PE. Madsen (Betsy Ridge) 58 Chestnut Street Boston, MA 02108 MA Mr. R. Victor Bernstein 40 West 77th St., Apt. 4E New York, N Y 10024 Barry Belm ont was married for the first time in September to Joanne Bahr of Verona.

The wedding was outdoors at their home in Haverford, Pa.

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TKS Mrs. W illiam E. Crawford (Francine Onorati) 421 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02115 Randy Bean called the Montclair Golf Club the night of the reunion to say she wished she were there. She lives in California, works as a writer-producer of documentaries for KQED, a public TV station in San Francisco. She says she is “not married but wishes she were.”

Margaretta Sander writes, “Enjoyed seeing all my classmates at our 20th reunion. Please visit the historic site I administer when you come to Pennsylvania. It’s a tum-of-the-century house museum, Pennypacker Mills in Schwenksville, Pa. (about 35 miles northwest of Philadelphia). When I’m not at work I’m caring for our two children, Tyler, 7, and Maggie, 3, with my husband, David Foss.”

20tb Reunion, Class o f 1966.

MA Mr. John P. Hawley 1402 Washington Street H olliston, MA 01746-2215 The New Tbrk Times ran a birth announce­ ment of Harrison Charles Schoenau, son of Charles and Debra (Friedman) Schoenau in October.

20th Reunion October 24 TKS Mrs. Margot Escott M iller 2980 Kings Lake Blvd.

Naples, PL 33962 Gayle Adler, now called Abigail, is a television reporter for the CBS affiliate in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is interested in the upcoming 20th reunion.

MA Mr. Craig C. Perry 119 East 84th Street, Apt. 6C New York, N Y 10028

68 TKS Ms. Avie Claire Kalker 5805 Birchbrook, #202 Dallas, TX 75206 Dawn Geannette teaches preschool handicapped children in the South OrangeMaplewood School District; she teaches aerobics in her spare time. She writes, “Busy with my house — joys of homeownership and all!”

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

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TKS Mrs. Charles Gildea (Lynn Ehrhardt) 46 East Saddle River Road Saddle River, I f f 07458 Anne Lavoy Guerra and her husband Bob had a girl, Elizabeth Anne, in August. The baby joins her three-year-old brother, Christopher.

The Guerras live in Westlake Village, Calif.

Virginia Munson Vultee graduated from Seton Hall Law School in January, 1986, passed the February bar exam, and was sworn in on June 5. She practices law in Bloomfield.

Daughter Heather is now a tenth grader, with her eye on college, while Adam, in sixth grade, is more interested in sports.

Our condolences to Christine W akefield on the death of her brother Walter (MA ’67) MA No secretary Bob and Barbara Haviland Brogan now have two little boys; Justis is four and a half, and Will is one. Bob is director of marketing for Micros Systems Inc. and Barbara works part time for a mortgage banking firm in Annapolis.

con tin u ed They enjoy the sailing and water sports available in the beautiful area.

J. Barton and Jill Bale announce the birth of their third child, second boy, John Edward, in March. Bart is marketing manager for EvenFlo Products Co. in Ravenna, Ohio and resides in Bainbridge, Ohio.

Dr. Edward Griggs Jr. and his wife Paulette have a new addition, Claire Louise, born in August. Ed lives and practices in Manhattan.

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hoping to show her his name on the Brookside Prize plaque. (Alas, it’s in storage.) He then visited several faculty members at the Upper School. Jim is with a law firm In Charlotte, N.C.

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TKS No secretary MA No secretary The Montclair Times carried the announcement of the wedding of Michael Zebrowski to Ava Marie Caracciolo. He is an assistant vice president and manager of the Yacht Finance Division of Citibank in New York. They live in Verona.

Andrew Abramson is president of Value Realty, Inc., a real estate development firm which owns and manages apartments in addition to residential for-sale development. He and his wife Lisa live in North Caldwell and have twin girls, Heather and Lauren, age 4.

Our condolences to Herbert Tate Jr. on the death of his mother.

Robert and Kathy Hoonhout had a daughter, Julia Ann, in October. Bob continues to be treasurer of the Alumni Council.

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Chase Golding, 1, son o f Lisa Shapiro, TKS ’70.

TKS Ms. Leslie Bryan 1277Avalon Place A tlanta, GA 30306 Kathy (Powell) and Rick Cohen had a son, Peter David, born in April.

In August the Vineyard Gazette reported the double christening of Katherine Louise Bryan and Whitney Hanan Maloy. Katherine is the daughter of Bill and H eidi Sanders Bryan.

Whitney is the daughter of Bruce and Leslie Bryan Maloy of Atlanta. D ebbie Sanders Lewis (TKS ’67) is godmother to Whitney.

Karen Breeder Connlff lives in Deep River, Conn., with her husband, Dick, and two boys, Jamie, 3 Vi, and Ben, almost 2.

Marcia Rickenbacker writes, “My mother . . . was married in June to George Wrightson.

We all went to Vermont for the wedding.

George’s family has a house on Martha’s Vineyard and we went in early August.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get together with Leslie Bryan Maloy, Susie Butel O’Brien, or H eidi Sanders Bryan. I am looking forward to my term as president of our neighborhood association ending in February. I am also a room mother for daughter Libby’s kindergarten class, work on the local Episcopal church holiday bazaar and education committee, and serve as treasurer of a local garden club (but have no garden to look at — not enough time!).”

MA Mr. Garrett S. Roosma 30 Cottage Lane Upper Saddle River, N J07458 The New York Times carried the announcement of the October wedding of John Biggins and Kathleen Frick. Jay graduated from Rutgers and Rutgers Law School, and is executive director for finance and economic development in Mayor Koch’s office.

Jam es Guterman visited Brookside with his kindergarten-age daughter, Lydia, in October,

TKS Mrs. Linda F. W illiams Box 1446Greglen Avenue Nantucket, MA 02554 D enise Chezek has had a promotion with the civil service and now works in Manhattan.

She is living in Clifton (“again”).

Lillian Leung Louie is a manager at Timeplex in charge of the voice tele­ communication group. Her husband, Peter, practices dentistry in Union. They have a 2 'h -year-old son, David.

Tacey P hillips is an associate in the corporate finance department of Goldman Sachs in New York.

Barbara Peto Kilnapp writes, “In May, Kate Curtin Lindsey and I met at the Smith College graduation of our two sisters, Kyle Curtin and Carol Peto, both MKA '82. We tried to see A lison Read, who was also at Smith for her tenth reunion, but our paths never crossed.

“I’m at home with my two daughters, Leslie, 4 (MKA 2000?), and Lauren, 15 months. They keep me busy, but I do find time for some freelance design and dressmaking. My husband, David, is vice president of a national real estate development firm.

“I’m always disappointed to see so little news from my classmates in the Alumni News. We can’t be so dull a group; come on, people!”

B arbara Peto K ilnapp ’72, D avid, Leslie, 4 yrs., Lauren 15 mos.

MA Dr. Vincent E. Mascia 800A Fifth Avenue, Suite 205 New York, N f 10021 The MKA Phonathon struck again this year with alumni news being high on the list (along with donations). Steve Schottenfeld was our only “casualty,” being accidentally called twice for donations. He was blessed on October 2nd with a baby girl named Cali.

Peter A iello says hello from Florida. He works for Lockheed Corp. at the Kennedy Space Center as a computer programmer, is married, and has a son, 9-month-old Christopher David.

Raymond W esley King has been in New York City for about five years working as a program analyst for Metropolitan Life. He married Anita Yurman in 1982; Jessica is their 3-year-old. He gave up basketball for racquetball.

Taking the prize for most kids this year, Tom Brueker has three — 7, 5, and 4 — and lives in Madison, N.J. I wrestled on the phone with Henry Ihlbot, who is running a real estate development business when not managing the Vernon Valley racing team during ski season.

Peter Peretti is always looking for a few good alumni to chat with on his bus ride home after teaching at the Dalton School in New York. Keep that news coming!

— Vince Bruce Pollack relocated to the Los Angeles area in April. He is vice president for property management, Maxicare Health Plans.

Chris Schultz, recently married, is the International Director of Advertising for Murdoch Magazines, based in New York.

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TKS Mrs. M ichael F. Moreno (Martha Del Negro) 750 Woodward Road North Providence, R I02904 MA Mr. J. Dean Paolucci 46 Village Road Clifton, NJ 07013 Jeff Carrie became a special agent with the FBI in October 1984 and is presently assigned to Knoxville, Term. He was married last February.

Thomas Galligan Jr. received an LLM degree from Columbia Law School. He is assistant professor of law at Louisiana State University. He and his wife Susan Stokes Galligan (TKS ’74) live in Baton Rouge and are expecting a baby in February.

Gregory Lackey and his wife, Toni, live in Prospect Park with their three sons: Joshua, 7, Geoffrey, 3, and Jeremy, 9 months. Greg received an MBA from Rutgers in May, and plans to go into commercial real estate development.

Our condolences to Durwin Johnson on the death of his father.

Albert Van Eerde married Linda Schaefer in July. Both are on the faculty at MKA: he teaches science, she teaches language at the Upper School. In addition, A1 is on the Alumni Council.

Montclair Councilman Robert Jackson was named Director of Public Works for Essex County. He will be responsible for overseeing the engineering, building and grounds, roads and bridges, fleet, and security divisions, a job that involves a $22 million budget and 500 employees. Robert, a principal management analyst for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, was recently on loan to the city of Newark. As special assistant to Mayor Sharpe James, he worked on organizational, legislative and policy-making strategies.

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TKS Miss Bonnie McBratney 222 Race Street, Apt. 417 Philadelphia, PA 19106 Anne Johnson Silva is working at the Philadelphia National Bank on the Hong KongPRC desk. Though she and Bonnie McBratney both have hectic schedules, they manage to see each other a lot — “just like old home week.”

Anne wonders, is anyone else from ’74 in the Philly area?

Pat Shean W orthington had her first child, a girl — Laura Marie — in August.

MA Mr. Anthony M. Celentano 3 Conduct Street M orris Plains, N J07950 Owen Davis, M.D. finished his residency in Ob-Gyn at Cornell Medical Center. He is now an instructor at Harvard Medical School and a fellow in reproductive endocrinology at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston.

The Montclair Times announced the wedding of Richard Wood to Lynn Hickman of Dover, Del. in the summer. Thomas Wood, MA ’73, was best man. Richard graduated from the University of Delaware and teaches science at Wicomico High School in Salisbury, Md. Bruce Brand was the subject of an article in the Montclair Times. After earning an MBA from Notre Dame, Bruce worked and saved for several years until he could start his own business. He fulfilled his dream with Batchmakers, a homemade ice cream shop on Church Street which produces exotic flavors, including white chocolate and kaluah, and fresh waffle cones.

Harvey Kravis is product manager, manufacturing software products for Computer Solutions, Inc. of Burlington, Mass. He lives in Acton with his wife, Lin-Mei, and daughter Alexandria (2).

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MKA Mr. D avid Soule 21-4230 M eadowvale Drive Niagara Falls, Ontario CANADA L2E5W 7 The Montclair Times announced the engagement of Bruce Alder to Deborah Knotts of Chalfont, Pa. Bruce graduated from Dickinson College and is an assistant vice president and manager of the credit department of Meridian Bank in Allentown, Pa. The New York Times announced the August wedding of Anna Crawford to William Silva.

She graduated from Smith College and the University of Connecticut Law School, and is with the law firm of Updike, Kelly & Spellacy in Hartford. He is a lecturer in religion at Trinity College and a Ph.D. candidate at Yale.

G eoffrey and Jill Gimber had their first child, Geoffrey Alexander Jr., in June.

According to Geoff, he was 20 inches long and “everything’s perfect.”

Jim Friedlich graduated with an MBA from Stanford in 1985. He worked for Capital Cities Communications and then the New York Times before business school. He is now with The Wall Street Journal and lives in San Francisco.

He writes, “I married Melissa Stern, a sculptor, last April. We have no kids yet, and I still have all my hair.”

Malcolm Hall writes, “Our baby, Madison Dale Hall, is now 9 months old. She is just starting to walk. Received a Christmas card

from B ill Mauke with photos of his two goodlooking sons. Also, a card from Sally and Don (and son Billy!) D’Alessandro. All is well in Darien, Conn. Anyone going by our way, stop in and have a beer.’’

Anne Tischbein just changed jobs. She now works for Langan Environmental Services doing environmental consulting for industry in north Jersey.

Our condolences to Leigh Royer on the death of her father.

Lisa Dannemlller, also Montclair residents, brought their second daughter (Laura Kay, born in February 1986). Both Chris Cooper and Charles Talbert brought wives and Betsy Benedict and Eve Wood were with husbands.

Warren Waters is running a construction firm in New Jersey. Matt Troxell arrived from San Francisco where he enjoys the coastal view atop a restaurant on Highway # \. John Urga just completed his MBA at Columbia and is job searching in New York.

Robert Last could not attend as he was doing post-doctoral work at Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, but he invited anyone visiting the Boston area to get in touch with him. Barrie Etherington also could not attend as he was preparing for his October 4th wedding. They reside in Pittsford, Vermont.

Janet Nagel has changed her residency and is now training in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins.

Ana Rincon graduated from Fordham University last December with an MBA in finance.

As for me, I continue to flounder in Washington, D.C. Hope you all get in touch if ever you pass through town. Take it easy.

— Chip

10th Reunion, Class o f ’76.

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MKA Mrs. Paul McFeeley (Laurie Hoonhout) 530 Valley Road #5N Upper Montclair, N J07043 Mr. Charles Read 311 North 20th Street, Apartm ent C733 Arlington, VA 22201 It was fantastic seeing the phenomenal response for our 10th reunion. It’s great to see that despite the changes, some things remain the same. The party at David Hughes’ could well have occurred 10 years ago with Hughes and Waters up to their usual antics, not to be outdone by Cooper and Knox. With well over 60 percent of the class there, I can’t possibly relay all the news in this limited column; besides we were all there.

Paul and Laurie McFeeley were gracious organizers and had a chance to introduce their new son, Robert Craig, to the class. Ward and

Misbo P rotic ’77 a n d b is F-4 Phantom.

P au l McFeeley ’76 a n d Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley ’76 w ith R obert Craig ’2004.

MKA Mrs. Dan Gasparino (Beverley Hall) 563 D anbury Road Wilton, CT06897 Mlsho Protic sent greetings from the Philippines. He wrote: “Upon completing Air Force pilot training in early 1982 I was instructor pilot. In 1985 I was promoted to Captain and offered a job flying fighters. Now, after several months of training in Florida, I’m stationed at Clark AB, where I’m assigned to the 3rd Tactical Fighter Wing. We fly the F-4 Phantoms in both an air-to-air and air-to-ground role.

“The hours are long and the workload intense, but it’s also the most fun I’ve ever had.

The Philippines is a great place for tactical flying, and I’m enjoying the opportunity to discover the Far East in my time off. If my duty schedule will allow, I’ll look forward to

continued attending our 10th reunion next fall. In the meantime, warmest regards to MKA.” Andrew Dobbin sent his new address and phone number in San Francisco, asked MKA to print it as “Visitors are welcome here!” (415) 929-8634.

Donna LoBiondo graduated from Harvard University with a master of divinity degree. In 1983 Donna received a BA in psychology and religion from Barnard College. According to The Montclair Times, she planned to begin a doctoral program in pastoral psychology at Boston University in the fall.

Beverly Hall Gasparino wrote that she will teach 6th grade science this year. She taught tennis at a summer day camp.

The Montclair Times announced the engagement of Alan Deehan to Sara Williamson of Winnetka, 111. He graduated from Princeton and is a manager at John Schadler & Sons in Clifton.

The Times also announced the wedding of Bruce Sanders to Susan Bonagura of Clifton.

Bruce is director of marketing of Louis Hoffman Associates in Randolph Township.

Marty Cohn and his wife had a boy, John Trent, in July.

Scott Schulte was inducted into the Bucknell University Athletic Hall of Fame at Bucknell’s Homecoming, October 1986.

Schulte set an all-time NCAA water polo scoring record, was high scorer in four straight NCAA championships, holds the career record for goals in the championships and was twice selected as a second-team All-America. He led Bucknell to four consecutive Eastern championships and an NCAA Tournament bid all four years (1978-81).

He continued to be active in water polo. He was a member of the U.S. National Team from 1980-84 and has played in six National Sports Festivals (the East team was second this past summer). On land, Scott is an investment broker and VP with Thompson McKinnon and just bought a house in Mahwah.

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MKA Miss Pamela A. Zeug 19 D owning Street, Apt. 3 New York, N Y 10014 Mr. John Glicksman 316 Greenway Road Ridgewood, NJ 07450 Susan Cole lives in Birmingham, Mich, and works as an account executive with W.B. Doner advertising agency. She was married in September in Montclair to Mark Furlong who works at People Magazine, Time Inc. David Peckman wrote, “After eight years in Washington, D.C., I’ve moved to the coast! I moved to LA in May ’86 to become marketing manager for the Personal Trust Division of First Interstate Bank. I’d love to hear from any old friends out here.’’

Edward and M elissa Cohn Alvarez had a daughter, Sarah Lynn, in August. She is a founding partner of the Manhattan Mortgage Company of New York; he is with Morgan, Stanley & Co., investment bankers.

Max Jones, linebacker for the Birmingham Stallions, came back to Montclair last summer to help with two sessions of Instructional Football Camp at MKA. The camp, for players

8-14, was directed by Cougars’ coach Kevin Monahan.

The Montclair Times announced the following engagements: Deborah Campbell to James Bungerz. She is in the investment banking department of Morgan, Stanley & Co.; he is with New York Life Insurance Co. Linda Soto to Robert Harmon. He is with Dean Witter Reynolds in New York; she is program assistant with AFS Intercultural Programs.

Elizabeth Raushi to Jam es Giordano Jr. He graduated from Ithaca College and is an administrator at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; she is an account manager at MAI-Basic Four in Manhattan.

Our condolences to the family of Thomas DeVito, who died in June.

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MKA Miss Shawn Mahieu 4 Columbia Court North Haledon, N J07508 Mr. Jack B rink 943 North Avenue Atlanta, GA 30306 Paul Thompson graduated last summer from Golden Gate University with a Master’s degree in Public Administration. He is now attending Seton Hall Law School for a J.D. Jam es Johnson graduated from Harvard Law School in June with a J.D. cum laude. He graduated from Harvard cum laude in 1983. He will serve as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert Keaton, judge of the federal court of the district of Massachusetts.”

Mindy Prager received an M.D. degree from the six-year biomedical program of RPI and Albany Medical College of Union University, Albany. During medical school, she studied psychiatry in London and in Philadelphia. She is now doing residency in psychiatry at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City.

Paige Cottingham received a Bartlett Memorial Scholarship in June. She graduated from Connecticut College and recently received her J.D. degree from George Washington University.

Christopher Stork called the alumni office from California, inquiring about Homecoming.

He received a degree in geophysics from MIT and is pursuing a Ph.D. in seismology at Cal Tech in Pasadena. Even though he had to move during junior year, MKA ’79 is still “his” class.

Another ex, Craig Bartlett, graduated magna cum laude from Hartwick College. He is attending the School of Osteopathic Medicine in Stratford.

Betsy Stanton received a master’s degree in international business, trade, and politics from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Before Fletcher, she was a Fulbright teaching assistant in Paris. Betsy is now a reporter at The Bergen Record and plans a career as an international correspondent. In October, she was the guest interviewer on WOR’s “Meet the Mayor.”

Edward Mason and his wife, Jean, live in Larchmont, N.Y. in a co-op they bought in July.

He was recently appointed an assistant vice president of Helmsley-Spear, Inc. The New York Times announced the marriage of Julia Brown to Clifford Thompson in August. She graduated from Mt. Holyoke College and is a freelance writer.

The Montclair Times announced the marriage of David Fem ald, Jr. and Donna Hersey in October. He graduated from Duke University, and is a mechanical engineer at Picatinny Arsenal. They live in Caldwell.

C ollette Peters married Vincent Middleton of

Santa Rosa, Calif, in July. She graduated from Pine Manor College and Montclair State College. They live in Santa Rosa.

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MKA Mrs. M artin Garvey (Pam Eastman) 155 Oldchester Road Essex Fells, N J07021 Rowland Rincon graduated from TUfts University with a bachelor of science in environmental engineering.

Second Lieutenant John Wood graduated from the Air Force Undergraduate Pilot Training Program at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas. He graduated from Miami University (Ohio) where he was enrolled in the Air Force ROTC. He is stationed at Castle Air Force Base in California for B-12 training, and expects to report to Guam.

Peter Dodd lives in Jersey City and works in downtown New York City as an insurance broker for individual and group health and life insurance.

Lise Cooper married Lawrence Maier and lives in Stanhope. She began studies for an MBA with emphasis in marketing last summer.

Pam Eastman married Martin Garvey in September. She graduated from Roanoke College and works in the office of Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware in Washington, D.C.

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5 tb Reunion, Class o f 1981 MKA Miss Shelagh Daly 330 North M ountain Avenue Upper Montclair, N J07043 Miss Karen M am ell 25 Alden Circle West Caldwell, N J07006 Laura Bartlett, as senior goalkeeper on the Hartwick College varsity women’s lacrosse squad, was selected last June as honorable mention All-American on the New York-New Jersey regional team. She recorded 197 saves in 14 games, for an average of 14.07 per game.

Juris Nikolajs Blodnleks received a B.S. in chemistry from Lafayette College in June.

David Newman married Vanessa Christman in July 1985. He attends Brooklyn College for an M.F.A. in theater directing. He also works in advertising/group sales at the New Theatre of Brooklyn. He keeps in touch with Ken Smith, now a professional music teacher.

Alex Harris, Alaska wilderness guide and senior instructor of the National Outdoor Leadership School, spoke to a Montclair audience in November about wilderness opportunities in the west for adults and youths over 16. According to the Montclair Times, “While pursuing his degree in conservation resource studies at U. of Cal/Berkeley, Harris has directed the recreational cross-country skiing program at the University’s ‘California Adventures’ program, led NOLS courses in Wyoming and Alaska for four years, and has been perfecting his climbing skills on the cliffs of Yosemite National Park.”

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5th Reunion October 24 MKA Miss Nicole Anastasiou Oak H ill Road Clifton, N] 07013 Miss Angela DeCandia 90 Chittenden Road Clifton, NJ 07013 Congratulations to the follow ing college graduates: Eddie Amirata graduated from Bucknell and is now a student at Tufts Medical School in Boston.

David Greenbaum was awarded a bachelor’s degree from Lehigh University and plans to pursue a career in advertising in NYC. Jill M iller is continuing her acting career in northern Florida.

Pam Ruddick graduated from Princeton University and is now working for Banker’s Trust in NYC. A1 Clarke graduated from Penn State University and is thinking about attending graduate school to continue his education in math communication research.

M elissa C rlstello graduated from Villanova and will be living in the Beacon Hill apartments. She is thinking about attending law school.

Kyle Curtin graduated from Smith College, where she was the author of an article in the summer edition of the News Smith. Her piece, called “Starting the Search,” related her experience with Smith College’s Consortium on Careers, a “marathon week of lecture, discussions, presentations and writing,” which was followed by on-site visits to firms in the “real world” — in Kyle’s case, Boston, where she plans to reside. She attended Katharine Gibbs School over the summer.

Kate Curtin Lindsey, TKS ’72, Kyle Curtin, MKA ’82, Carol Peto, MKA ’82, a n d B arbara Peto Kilnapp, TKS ’72 a t Smith College gradu ation .

Anthony DelGaizo worked at the Jersey Shore last summer and graduated from Merrimack College in December.

Steve Eisner writes that he graduated from Tulane University and will live in Philadelphia or Dallas and pursue a career in biomedical engineering.

Joyce Griggs graduated from the Management School of Boston University with a degree in marketing. She is living in Boston, temporarily working for Roots clothing store.

Jay Greene graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. He is continuing his education at Columbia School of Journalism.

Betsy Lewis graduated from Hofstra

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University and is now auditioning in NYC to pursue a career in drama. She received a prestigious Drama Award at graduation.

Doug Moxham was awarded a degree in Business Administration from Washington and Lee. In September he began working for Midlantic Bank in their credit analyst training program.

Jam es Paone also graduated from Washington and Lee and now attends Dickinson Law School.

Dana N ifosi graduated from TUfts magna cum laude. Over the summer she worked for Greenpeace environmental group in Boston and began applying to law schools in the fall.

Colin O’N eill graduated from Boston College and now works for Agora Securities, a specialist firm in downtown Manhattan.

Chris Gengaro graduated from Boston College and is attending law school in Boston.

Carol Peto received a degree in education from Smith College and is now teaching first grade in West Caldwell, N.J. Allen Salamone graduated from Temple University and continues his education there with graduate courses.

Peter Schlffenhaus graduated from St. Anselm’s College in N.H. He plans to work for a year and then apply to business schools.

Meme Swanson graduated with a degree in English from Boston University. She plans to pursue a career in journalism.

Jim W indolf graduated from Hamilton College with honors in writing and is now on the faculty of MKA, teaching English.

Beth Cherashore traveled through the Orient for a month last summer and upon her return began working for Chase Manhattan Bank in NYC in their credit audit training program.

I was engaged last Christmas to Steve Barral, Class of 1980, and we plan to be married February 28, 1987.1graduated from St. Lawrence and am now working for the Bank of _^ New York as a credit investigator.

The Montclair Times reports that Peter Dancy received a B.A. from the College of Wooster. He served on the Student Activities Board and was instrumental in developing a Big Brothers of America program on campus.

During his senior year he was captain of the varsity lacrosse team.

The Times also reported the graduation of Peter Gibson from Dartmouth, where he was an economics major. He served as chairperson for winter sports and was a member of the Dartmouth Rugby Club, which won both the New England Championship and the Northeastern championship.

Shari Stein writes, “I am currently in my 5th (yes, 5th) year of college. I did not graduate in June ’86 like everyone else because I am attending Northeastern University Pharmacy School in Boston and enjoying it very much! I plan to graduate in June ’87 as a registered pharmacist.”

Stuart Carlisle’s father wrote that Stuart ran in the New York Marathon and finished in 3:12.

He is now working for a small PR firm in NYC. The Alumni Office learned that Jonathan Sandler graduated cum laude in American history from Harvard and is now a financial analyst with Banker’s Trust Co. in NYC. and that Scott Maron is a first-year student at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.

David Simon wrote that he graduated from Grinnell College where “I concentrated most

of my free time in politics as the chairman of the Campus Democrats, a member of the County Central Committee and a county election registration official. In 1984,1 was one of the Iowa state coordinators for George McGovern’s Presidential campaign, and was elected as a delegate to the Iowa Democratic Convention.’’ He is now at Emory University at the School of Law and the School of Business Administration.

During the fall football season at MKA, B illy Hall aided Coach Kevin Monahan as an assistant coach of the offensive line and jayvees. Cougar Clippings in the Montclair Times said, “Hall is a former standout lineman from MKA who drew national recognition as a lacrosse goalie at Denison College.”

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MKA Miss Anne Rowland 13 Gordon Place Verona, N J07044 Class agent: Mr. Kevin W ilkins 95 Heller Way Upper Montclair, N J07043 Alumni in the news: A lison Lochhead was named a George Cobb Fellow at Colgate University in recognition of her leadership and influence among fellow students. She was among 19 students presented the award by the college president at a luncheon last May. Nancy Cambria earned highest honors last term at Skidmore College.

At Lehigh University, Marshall Hendrian was inducted into the national honorary societies Sigma Tku Delta, for English, and Omicon Kappa Delta, for leadership.

Eric Green was named to the dean’s list at Colby College.

Maureen Towers was the subject of an article in the Montclair Times on her prowess as lacrosse goalie at Dartmouth College.

“Dartmouth, ranked as high as sixth in the nation, is atop the Ivy standings.” Maureen, a history major, spent the summer in Leningrad studying Russian language and culture.

Paul Josephson, president of the University of Michigan Student Assembly, was the subject of a two-page profile in the Michigan Alumnus magazine. ‘‘An honors political science student, Josephson oversees the MSA’s $500,000 budget and the programs it funds, including student health insurance, student legal services, course evaluation services, and the Ann Arbor tenants union . . . Top student concerns are tuition, financial aid . . . and the proposed code of non-academic student conduct.” His job involves meeting with the university president once a week and lobbying with the Board of Regents, the Ann Arbor City Council, and the state legislature. Paul is majoring in political science and plans to attend law school.

Stephen Pineda completed three years at Columbia College and is now a freshman at TUfts Medical School in Boston.

Hope Hasbrouck will receive a B.A. in May from Washington University School of Architecture. She will spend the summer studying in Barcelona, Spain, then a year of apprenticeship in Boston before attending graduate school in 1988. She sends “greetings from the Midwest.’’

H olly Sobel is finishing at Hampshire College with a thesis on black women’s literature in the 1920-30’s and the 1970-80’s.

She will marry Glenn Armitage in early September and go on to law school.

Diana Nolle, a senior at Susquehanna University, is engaged to Scott Deitch, who is assistant director of public relations at the University.

U.S.A.’s No. 1 S a b re

Robert Cottingham , ’84 , has been named Number 1 Sabre in the United States. The rank was achieved in a series of international fencing tournaments based on a point system. Last spring, at The New York International, he was 23rd, the second highest American after teammate Peter Westbrook, 34, winner of the bronze medal in the ’84 Olympics. In June, Bob was seventh at the Nationals in New York.

He trained in Germany, went to the World Championships in Bulgaria in July, then went to Mexico, where he was first in the Junior Pan American Games. At the Wilkenson Sword Tournament held in Nancy, France, this December, he placed 23rd. He will go to Budapest, Hungary, for a World Cup Tournament in February.

Bob, 20, is called “Youngblood” by his teammates on the U.S. National Team. He is a junior at Columbia College.

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MKA Miss M aria Rabb 9 Birch Drive Roseland, N J07068

Class agent: Mr. Larry Rosen 6 Shoshone Road Wayne, N J07470 Brian Jones was elected Judicial Board Representative for the class of 1988 this year at Connecticut College.

Andrea Gabriel was selected as a member of the Concert Chorale at Bucknell University.

The chorale performed in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and Florida.

Karen Vlaskamp was named to the dean’s list at Colby College last year. She is an economics major.

Our condolences to B ill Stone, whose mother died last spring.

Joseph Leonard! studied in England with the Colgate economics study group this past fall, finishing up with a one-month internship at a firm in London.

Tracey Adams is president of the New Jersey NAACP Youth Council and president of her sorority chapter. She is an English major, and wants to be a lawyer, but doesn’t want to go to law school just yet.

Marc Buenger went from economics to political science and has finally settled on religion as his major at Denison. He also started an underground newspaper with a friend; the paper provides an alternative view on political and campus issues.

Sonia Stetklewych is majoring in psychology, minoring in art. She is also very busy with many activities at Connecticut College: among them are student activities council, giving tours of the campus, and the psych advisory board.

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MKA Miss Patti McConnell 126 Sm all Road Skytop Apartments, South Campus Syracuse, N Y 13210 Class agent: Miss Loren M iller 1055 R iver Road, Apt. 5606 Edgewater, NJ 07020 According to the Montclair Times, former MKA ice hockey and lacrosse star Jason O’N eill was selected to the All-American Lacrosse Team for secondary schools after excelling for Choate. He scored “an amazing” 103 points in 13 games. At MKA he had earned Second Team all-state honors in 1984. In hockey, he was a center on the first line for Choate, which won the Housatonic League title last year. He will play both sports at Yale.

Michael Lane is a sophomore at Skidmore College. He is majoring in political economy and is the treasurer of the Skidmore College Young Republican Club.

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MKA Miss M arylouise Neary 27 Warren Place Montclair, N J07042 Miss Sherry Ahkam i 3 7 Virginia Avenue Clifton, N J07012 Class agent: Miss Megan Cole 164 Devon Road Essex Fells, N J07021 Megan Cole is a post-graduate at the Loomis Chaffee School in Connecticut.

Peter Silver qualified for the national trials in the under 20’s of the U.S. Fencing Association, to be held in Orlando, Fla. in February ’87.

The story is in true Hollywood tradition: backup quarterback steps in to replace ailing starter, goes on to win the game and become a star.

MKA’s own Mark McGowan, class of ’85, took over midseason as starting quarterback at Lehigh University and led the team (5-6) to four victories in its final six games. He even played the final game against archrival Lafayette with his left arm in a cast.

Such performance earned him a host of honors: Colonial League Rookie of the Year; five times Colonial League Rookie of the Week; three times Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Rookie of the Week; twice MVP by the Lehigh coaching staff.

He earned the league’s top quarterback title with these statistics: 188 attempts, 114 completions for 1589 yards and 8 touchdowns (60.6^ S completion).

Mark 6'2", 185 pounds-?- played football, basketball, and golf at MKA. He is equally proud of his 3.06 (of 4.0) grade point average at Lehigh, where he is majoring in finance with hopes of becoming a stockbroker. He is pledge master and treasurer of his fraternity, Delta Upsilon.

All this from a “red-haired, freckle­ faced youngster with the looks and boyish enthusiasm of Huckleberry Finn,” to quote the Bethlehem (Pa.) Globe Times.

Central Casting couldn't have done better.

Did you know that Montclair Academy was founded in 1887? Watch for centennial issue and events.

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ClassYear 1965 1968 1970 1970 1971 1972 1973 1973 1974 1974 1975

Names Barry Belmont and Joanne Bahr Katharine B. Tieman and Peter M. Rooney Dr. Pamela Yu and Dr. John Bannister John Biggins and Kathleen Frick Michael Zebrowski and Ana Marie Caracciolo Christopher Schulz and Julie French Albert Van Eerde and Linda Schaefer Lee Cohn and Judith Schuback Richard Wood and Lynn Parsons Hickman Leslie Aufzien and Peter Levine Anna Crawford and William Silva

Date Sept. 6, 1986

Class Year 1975

Jan. 17, 1987

1976

Mar. 21, 1986

1976

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1979

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Jan. 18, 1987

1980

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In M em oiiam Class Year 1913 1919 1923 1928 1928X 1932 1934X 1935 1935 1936 1937 1939 1941 1951 1957 1967 1978

Name Sabra Bradlee C. Maurice Hall Francis Morton Frances Love Eagle Richard Allenby Marita Murray Sylvester William Littlefield Joan Crook Wood Katherine Young Davis Charles Frost J. Fred Ross Carol Christopher Schmitz F. Somers Ritchie, Jr. Laura Ives Gailly de Taurines Norris O’Neill Walter Wakefield Thomas DeVito

Date o f Death Sept. 1986 Nov. 21, 1986 Jan. 7, 1987 June 21, 1986 Dec. 8, 1986 Jan. 31, 1985 Nov. 12, 1986 June 22, 1986 Nov. 3, 1986 Dec. 28, 1986 July 24, 1986 Nov. 7, 1986 Oct. 14, 1986 Nov. 20, 1986 1986 Oct. 29, 1986 June 20, 1986

Names James L. Friedlich and Melissa Stem Christopher B. Cooper and Leslie A. Spengler R. Barrie Etherington and Lisa Micalizzi Bruce E. Sanders and Susan Mary Bonagura Susan Cole and Mark Furlong David G. Femald and Donna Hersey Julia Brown and Clifford Thompson Collette Carolyn Peters and Vincent Middleton Pamela Eastman and Martin Garvey Lise Anne Cooper and Lawrence John Maier David Newman and Vanessa Christman

Date April 1986 May 3, 1986 Oct. 4, 1986 Sept. 20, 1986 Sept. 19, 1986 Oct. 11, 1986 Aug. 9, 1986 July 26, 1986 Sept. 27, 1986 1986 July 1985

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