Spring 1988 MKA Alumni News by Montclair Kimberley Academy

A lumni N ews Spring ’88

T he M ontclair K imberley A cademy

Contents

Editors

Report From The Principal / 1 Centennial Convocation / 2 On With The Show / 6 Notes Around MKA / 8 Alumni News / 11 Class Notes / 16

Christie Austin Judy Polonofsky Virginia Montemurro

Photographic credits W.L. Bill Allen, Jr. William Bullard Steve Tober

1987-88 Alumni Association Council Stephen Barral ’80 Martin Brayboy ’80 Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65, Vice Pres. Curtis E. Brunner ’78 Martha Bonsai Day '74 Stephen T. Dodd ’79 Fay Taft Fawcett ’52 Anne King Franges ’56 Mary Crawford Fry ’64 Robert H. Gardner '78, Treasurer Geoffrey Gimber '75, Vice President Robert A. Hoonhout ’71, President Gail Tomec Kerr ’52 Jane Lugaric '78 Peter McMullen ’77 Oscar Mockridge ’55 Blake O’Neill ’82 J. Dean Paolucci ’73 Robert Post '77 Linda Horowitz Rosier ’60 Ellen Wahl Skibiak ’73, Vice President Charles Small ’58, Secretary Cynthia Mann Treene ’54, Vice President Albert Van Eerde ’73 Frances R. O'Connor, Principal Christie Austin, Alumni Director Judy Polonofsky, Director of External Affairs

Alumni N ews Advisory Board Fay Taft Fawcett ’52 Robert D.B. Carlisle Austin C. Drukker ’52 Member: Council for Advancement and Support of Education National Association of Independent Schools Alumni Presidents’ Council of Independent Schools Published twice yearly by: The Montclair Kimberle y Academy 201 Valley Road, Montclair, NJ 07042 (201) 746-9800 Notice of non-discriminatory policy as to students: The Montclair Kimberley Academy admits students of any race, color, and na tional or ethnic origin. Entered as third class matter at Montclair, New Jersey 07042 Design: The Gemini Studio, Montclair, NJ Front cover: Life at 100 — scenes from MKA Centennial year. Clockwise from top left: Fran O’Con nor and Robert Jackson ’73; Cougar fans; Director of Admissions Barbara Rabuse with former faculty member Ellen Wright Drewes Studdiford; Jill Tobia ’88 and Brookside student.

Report From The Principal

Congressman Jam es A. Courier '59, Dr. Frances R. O’Connor, M ayor RobertJackson '73-

Remarks Taken from Centennial Convocation Address September 16, 1987 What a day! This is our day. A hundred years ago a small group of parents brought a head master, Mr. MacVicar, to Montclair to open a school for their sons . . . . In the following hundred years, my estimate is 8,000 boys and girls came to this school and 1,086 of them are sitting in this room today. We’ve never seen each other all together before. There you are. You are the largest and the best independent school in New Jersey. We all tend to think of the past as unreal and a story book. But it was very real. The times were different, but the young people weren’t a whole lot different than you. [Dr. O’Connor then recounted anecdotes about life in the schools over the decades.] • In the beginning, the boys wore military uniforms and went through drills. They got up at 6:45 in the morning and had lights out at 9:30 at night . . . . • At the turn of the century dancing was the big rage. The students danced in the study hall but first had to go down to the basement to prop up the floor with great big boards . . . . In 1907 the Montclair Academy football team beat Pingry 76 to nothing! By 1910 volleyball replaced dance as the rage, and was played in jacket

and tie. (You think Mr. Webster doesn’t let you take them off often!) • For recess at Kimberley, crackers and cocoa were served by Dillard the custodian who wore a crisp white jacket. However, when World War I came, they couldn’t get chocolate or sugar, so they had potato soup. • In the 1920’s Brookside was founded. The school had a pony, geese, ducks and rabbits . . . . The older girls at Kimberley were reprimanded if they chewed gum or went downtown to Montclair without a hat. The Academy was a boarding school. • Kimberley had sewing and cooking classes in the 30’s, until there was a fire in the kitchen and cooking was taken out of the curriculum for years . . . . A football player made a fantastic touchdown. He ran more than halfway down the field — in the wrong direction! • The 40’s brought another war. The military training was for real: the boys were drafted from and returned to high school after active duty. Everyone collected scraps of paper, bottles, what we called tin foil . . . . and promised to ride a bike or drive a car carefully to conserve rubber in the tires . . . . Interscholastic games were cancelled because there was no gasoline to drive to other schools. • Students in the 50’s were taught 1

that neutrons and protons were the smallest elements of matter and you could not break an atom down any further. Pluto was the furthest planet away and there was no other . . . . The big thing was “The Prom .’| l | • The 60’s were rebellious and turbulent years; there were tremendous objections to the dress code. The most famous story is one young man who came dressed in jacket and tie and pants that stopped at the calf — to be greeted by the headmaster who said, “Oh, are we having a flood today?” . . . . Four boys in that era scored 800 on their S.A.T.s. • The 70’s saw the merger, the time when MKA was born. • The 80’s are your years and the 90’s are your years, and believe it or not our kindergarten class graduates in the year 2000. So what are your school years for? They are for living, for energy, for fun, for learning, for joy, for suffering, for success and for failure. They are for life. There is no better cameo of life than a school. Our active MKA community goes from five years old to 85. We embrace all of life here, from birth to death. MKA is the gift of a hundred years of people, young and old, to us. It is a place for you to grow, for all of us to learn and to love, a place to develop values and character, a place to dream dreams and to lay the foundation for a lifetime full of accomplishments. So go ahead — beat Pingry 76 to 0 if you can! Get an 800 on your S.A.T.! Speak French or Spanish like a native! In kindergarten and first grade, learn to read and to write, and don’t worry if you’re not first, just learn it well! In third learn to divide; track the whales in fifth, and survive the impact of man in seventh and Williamsburg in eighth, but whatever you do, do it with your whole heart and with your whole strength — do it with your might! These years are your years, and they will never come again. — Frances R. O’Connor, Principal

Centennial Convocation

Trustee, the H onorable Jam es A. Courier 59, and bis father, Trustee Joseph A. Courier.

Trumpets soaring and drums resounding, The Montclair Kimberley Academy inaugurated the school’s centennial year with a stately convocation. On September 16, 1987 for the first time in history, all the students from three campuses were together, joined by faculty, administrators and trustees in full academic regalia — some 1300 people — in the Fairleigh S. Dickinson gymnasium. Susan H. Ruddick, President of the Board of Trustees, welcomed guests and related a brief history of the school. She then introduced two distinguished alumni who addressed the gathering: The Honorable James A. Courier ’59, in his fifth term in the United States House of Representatives, and The Honorable Robert D. Jackson ’73, Mayor of Montclair. Both are Trustees of MKA. James A. Courter ’59 This is a distinct honor and privilege for me, and a very personal experience because I graduated from this school 28 years ago. In celebrating the 100th

anniversary of this great school, The Montclair Kimberley Academy, it’s hard to think back about what life was like 100 years ago in the United States, and indeed in Montclair . . . . The year, of course, was 1887. It’s easy to see as we look back exactly how far we have come. That’s sometimes the important part of education — to find out what people were thinking years ago. The education you’ve been receiving here at Montclair Kimberley teaches you many things. One is learning about the community and our country, and what it is to be a citizen of the United States. We were taught here, you and I and others, what George Washington said when he laid the foundation of our empire, that it was not the gloomy ages of superstition, but a time when the rights of men and women were understood. We were taught here that unlike many countries in old Europe, our country was founded on the idea of human rights and an enlightened idea of education. We were taught here that America was different, that as Thomas Jefferson

said, “In this country, the people are sovereign . . . . The people govern.” Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. He was a great believer in science, in progress, but he knew that one thing would always remain the same. He said, “Nothing is unchangeable except the inherent right of men and women to lead their own lives and to govern themselves.” We have learned here at MKA that no matter how many improvements come along in our lives, how many inventions, how many new businesses, how many new ideas, how many new space trips . . . . the fact is that the major thing in this country is that men and women rule themselves. . . . . The story of our country goes on. We had first a Revolutionary War where we had to protect our freedoms, and a Civil War but . . . this country has survived . . . and grown . . . and become steeped in a democratic tradition. As I walk through the halls and mall of Washington . . . I remember the words in the wonderful Lincoln Memorial: “In this temple as in the minds and hearts of the people for whom he saved the Union, the memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever.” And as I think of that temple, our Constitution, our

Susan H. Ruddick, President o f the Board o f Trustees.

Declaration, I think of all the things I learned here at the Academy, and I deeply believe that if there were institutions like this in Asia, in Central America and South America, in Eastern Europe, in China, inside the Soviet Union, then the ignorance and the superstitition that tyrants use to embrace people and to keep them not free — would not be there. As Jefferson once said, “All eyes will soon be opening to the rights of man all over the world, and the world will be able to live free.’’

Robert D, Jackson ’73 . . . Being here in my alma mater inspires a lot of memories, a lot of good thoughts . . . . Today I’ll do three things. In my official role as Mayor of the Township of Montclair and secondly as a graduate, I will share some memories and some thoughts about the school, and finally I’ll relate some ideas you might think about as you move from kindergarten up through the 12th grade. . . . . As Mayor of this town I see organizations make presentations to the Township Council and to me as Mayor. One of the great pleasures I have, again and again, is seeing the influence of The Montclair Kimberley Academy in Montclair, through activities of the students, the faculty, administrators and trustees. We have students who volunteer in the social organizaions and the government in Montclair. We have faculty members, administrators and parents who are involved with our advisory committees and with our boards. .. .1 think not only is this a great place of education, but certainly it’s a great source of talent to make a much better community. So on behalf of the governing body of Montclair, I welcome you to a new year of learning and growing, and I wish you the utmost success. I graduated from Montclair Academy in 1973 when it was an all-boys’ school. One of the great

pleasures I have looking out at the audience is knowing how you must enjoy a co-ed education. I was the first Community Scholar to enter the Academy. One of my great traumas was adjusting to the social environment at the time, but I found that between faculty members and my classmates it was actually quite a smooth transition to MKA. I enjoyed it from day one — playing sports, being involved in academic activities, community activities. I think it’s very important to note that from then on more than 20 students have come through the Community Scholars Program. It has provided opportunities for kids like me who could not afford tuition to be able to enjoy the superior education at the Academy. One of the memories that occurred to me as I walked in here — every time I came in [the gym] I had sweat pants on, or gym shorts to play basketball, or to work out in football when it was raining outside . . . . And looking at all the banners up here I realize how the fine tradition of not only academic

excellence but also athletic excellence has continued. I don’t know how many of you realize the great history of academic and athletic achievement of this school. Mr. Marnell at my time was the athletic director, and Mr. Hrab has picked up the reins and done a tremendous job. That’s another area where The Montclair Kimberley Academy has contributed tremendously to the proud tradition of Montclair. I think back on the tremendous faculty that I had here. Even as I look at the first row I see Mr. Hemmeter, Mr. Noble, Mr. Gibson, Mr. Mansuy, Mr. Hrab, Mr. Matzke, Mr. Rabke — all those people whom I had at the Academy. They represent a tremendous tradition of excellence, great faculty members who I stay in touch with, and [who] remain in a caring role about me, think about me, care about me, help me out, and I certainly feel the same about them. I hope that as you continue your education and your lives you will continue to remain close to the faculty members and the administrators

Faculty in academ ic gowns a t C entennial Convocation.

here, because they can be a tremendous resource as you move through your college and your professional lives. I will also mention a couple of things that I think are important as you continue into that phase. First of all, two words that have guided my career and my thinking: first word, integrity. I’ve found particularly since I’ve become very involved in politics that there are many opportunities to compromise your integrity, to be less than you can be. I suggest that, as you’re going through your years here, as you move on, think about the things that will make you a better person, and be true to yourself, honest with yourself. You’ll be able to look yourself in the mirror every day and say, “I’m happy about what I did yesterday, and I feel comfortable about what I’m going to do today.” The other thing is hard work. Montclair Academy was not easy for me. I enjoyed it but it required hard work. Princeton was hard; Harvard Business School was even harder. But I think that as you dedicate yourself to hard work, to doing the very best that you can, you can be the exception. You don’t have to be the smartest person in the world to be successful. Finally I’d like you to consider, as you think about the two people on the podium this morning, careers in public service. There is a tremendous need for talent of the calibre in this room to dedicate themselves to public service. Congressman Courter has been superlative in dedicating his life to bettering mankind as a whole. I would like for all of you to consider, at some point in your lives, dedicating part of your career to helping others, to getting involved in government or some aspect of public service. We sorely need you. I am very honored to be here, not only as the Mayor of the Township to congratulate you on 100 years of

a tremendous school, but also to say that I’m honored to be a graduate of this school, I’m honored to participate on the Board of Trustees. If I may be of any assistance to any of you in my role as Mayor. . . as Trustee . . . as graduate, I’d be happy to do so. Congratulations. T H E M O N T C L A IR L IM B E R LEY ACADEM Y

niece, Charlotte Fitch ’29. • Evelyn MacVicar, daughter-in-law of John MacVicar, sent us his wonderful account of his entrepreneurial years in building and expanding the Academy between 1887 and 1925. In addition, two of MacVicar’s nephews provided reflections Marston Ames ’34 and John Ames ’40. • Another correspondent, Marionita Chalfin Ranger ’22, wrote several times, telling of the World War I years when she and her sister boarded with Misses Waring and Jordan on Clinton Avenue. • We interviewed 23 present and former teachers and heard from eight former administrators. MKA has a very appealing history because of the richness of the material. And we have enough pictures for an encyclopedia! — R.D.B.C.

WITHIN THESE HALLS Robert D.B. Carlisle Notes from the author, on research by Susan Jones and on writing the centennial history o f The Montclair Kimberley Academy: • We interviewed or heard from 107 men and women. Many were interviewed face to face, others by phone. Others sent audiocassettes or wrote letters. • Eight of these people attended MA, TKS or Brookside before 1929Ten went to the schools in the 1930’s. • The oldest correspondent was Eileen Trone Harrison, who was one of the nuclear group of teachers at Brookside when it opened in 1925- Now 94, she lives in Cape Town, South Africa. • We also heard from Miss Waring’s

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D edication O f Portrait O f Howard Van Vleck A highlight of the Centennial Year was the portrait dedication of Howard Van Vleck ’22 on October 24, 1987 in the William Avery Barras Library on the Upper School Campus. Fifteen members of the Van Vleck family, representing three generations, were on hand for the celebration. The portrait was painted by Montclair Artist Tim Gaydos and will hang permanently on the stone wall of the library, overlooking the grounds Howard himself landscaped so beautifully. After brief welcoming remarks by Susan Ruddick, President of the Board of Trustees, James S. Vandermade, first Board President of MKA, and Principal Frances R. O’Connor spoke of what Howard Van Vleck has meant to The Montclair Kimberley Academy. From Mr. Vandermade’s remarks: “Howard has been personally acquainted with every Headmaster in the school’s history . . . . He was one of the real catalysts in advancing the dream of a new campus to the reality we know today . . . . He was ‘clerk of the works’ throughout the construction period . . . . He proposed a full cellar be added . . . selected the stone for our facade . . . designed the foundation planting . . . . I could go on and on! ‘‘It is only fitting then that in this 100th Anniversary Year, we demonstrate to him our genuine affection and appreciation by hanging this portrait in recognition of his and his family’s remarkable record of devotion to the school for virtually the whole 100 years of its existence.’’ From Dr. O’Connor’s remarks: “Everyone who passes through a school leaves a mark — a fingerprint on it . . . . Some few leave more than a fingerprint. They leave their signature on a school. But one or two people give so much of their spirit to a school that they breathe the very soul into its complex and vibrant history . . . . Such a man is Howard Van Vleck

. . . . It is right that we celebrate the Centennial by honoring Howard, and it is right that so beautiful a portrait hang here in the library to remind us of the gifts of time, talent and fortune that he has

poured into the school. It will be here for the next century, still speaking of beauty, intelligence, morality and love.’’ — Susan H. Ruddick President, Board o f Trustees

H oward A. Van Vleck, M ontclair Academy Class o f 1922.

Van Vleck fa m ily members, including Howard, Jr. ’59, Roy ’64, Anne Van Vleck Webb ’54 a n d Louise Van Vleck, w idow offoseph Van Vleck III ’19■

“On W ith The Show ” by Marilyn Faden Director of Drama, 1966-1987 Twenty-one years, fifty-one productions, hundreds of classes and thousands of students make for a trunkful of memories. That is not unusual; all teachers have memories. But perhaps mine are a bit different, because working in theatre, so many are shared — with faculty associates, casts, backstage crews and audiences. So here I come with some nostalgia; join me if you remember. It began for me at The Kimberley School in 1966. There had been no drama program hence no Drama Room, and since the building still bore remnants of the Montclair Athletic Club, I taught my classes in the bowling alley (now the lower gym) and the squash courts (now classrooms). With renovation came the “Crow’s Nest” from which years later we looked out on the excavation for the Penick Wing, an enormous hole which, despite continued draining, kept filling with water. But I am jumping ahead. My most vivid recollections are of those annual traditions for which I had to produce a show. Among them were: The Christmas Pageant. It involved the entire Lower School, grades one through six, and each year I tried to think of a new way to enact the story of the Nativity. The May Day. Another Lower School event, an entertainment for the May Queen and her Court — outdoors. Wet grass and overcast skies notwithstanding, we presented MARY POPPINS, PETER PAN, CHARLIE BROWN and others. The Father-Daughter Dinner. This was an Upper School show, performed by the girls and dedi cated to their dads. Once we had our way with CAMELOT. What fun! And there was the BIG ONE: The Kimberley Academy Play! Years before the merger, that major production was a coordinated activity by the Kimberley girls and the Montclair Academy boys. Neither the Weiss Arts Center nor

the Penick Auditorium yet existed so we mounted the plays in the all purpose room at Brookside. A tiny stage, four small spotlights and a curtain, but we made it work! Finally the Weiss Arts Center was completed (the merger still five years away) and we had an excellent facility. After three more produc tions, it was time to try a musical. We began with LADY IN THE DARK, forged ahead the following year with SOUTH PACIFIC, and for better or for worse, I had created another annual event. When The Montclair Kimberley Academy was born (1974), I moved to the Upper School. Here, again, there was no Drama Room so I taught in the original Executive Dining Room, now the Band Room. Space was limited, but the theatre program thrived. New courses were added, and we did shows, shows, shows! Twelve more musicals: OKLAHOMA!, THE MUSIC MAN, MY FAIR LADY, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, GUYS AND DOLLS, and WEST SIDE STORY to name only some, with a few dramas and comedies added for good measure. How about THE

ONCE UPON A MATTRESS (1984)

TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON in which the “star” was a live goat? She lived in Dick Day’s garage, and each day was escorted to rehearsal. The script called for her to sample the natives’ potato brandy and to like it. At perform ance we used Coca Cola and she not only liked it, she licked her lips and followed the actors around the stage wanting more. I am often asked which was my favorite show. How can I say? It’s like asking a mother which is her favorite child. They are all different, and I loved each one for its particular attributes. There’s a funny thing about those of us in the theatre. We remember with joy all the triumphs, but we also remem ber — sometimes with joy and sometimes with horror — the mistakes, the mishaps, the “brush fires” as Nixon Bicknell calls them. What makes them special is that they are our own private secrets. In all but one instance, the audience never knew. Now they are about to find out. In SOUTH PACIFIC: A major piece of scenery was Bali H’ai, the twinpeaked volcano which rose

in the background and enchanted all who saw it. During the matinee, as it was being lowered on its wires, Bali H’ai was bumped and throughout the scene that followed, the volcano swung ever so gently back and forth. If you were watching closely, you weren’t enchanted; you were seasick. In MY FAIR LADY: After her success at the royal ball, Eliza Doolittle, in emotional turmoil, bemoaned her position to Henry Higgins. Henry was directed to show his lack of concern by fussing with a plate of chocolates. One night, there was no plate of chocolates. (PROPS!) Our Henry amused himself with the chair upholstery while Eliza poured her heart out. Nobody knew the difference. Similarly, in WEST SIDE STORY, the gun with which Chino was to shoot Tony was not on stage when it had to be. (PROPS!) With much crawling behind the scenery, the crew got it out there, Chino found it, and the audience was never aware of the hysteria behind the scene. In GUYS AND DOLLS: The showstopping song near the end is ”Sit Down You’re Rockin’ The Boat.” We had 40 people singing it, and every time they did sit down, the benches collapsed. Happily, it was during rehearsals and by the time we opened, the benches were extensively braced. In ONCE UPON A MATTRESS: One actress’ only speaking part was the word “yes.” It was the punchline of the scene but when the time came, she forgot to say it. The others on stage covered, and nobody caught the mistake. In BELLS ARE RINGING: The turning point comes when an actor arrives at a critical moment to announce that Beethoven wrote nine, not ten, symphonies. The critical moment arrived but the actor didn’t. The others improvised until he appeared, but what a heart stopping moment it was! That’s show biz. Every production has those unpredictable, harrowing times none of us w ill,

ever forget. And “Gag Night.” It became the custom at the second dress rehearsal for the cast and crew to change a line or a lyric or to add something to the scenery or the props, just for laughs. The CBS Eye, the Miss Piggy doll, the shark in the Teahouse pond, the Christmas stockings hanging from Tevye’s fireplace, the Hot Box chorus girls dressed as Mouseketeers — there were dozens of goodies. But the alltime classic came in FINLAN’S RAINBOW when Curt Brunner and James Johnson changed just one word of dialogue, then played an entire scene in a different style. It started with “Where is my Bromo?” and ended with Nixon falling off the piano bench with laughter. Unfortunately, a change in the school calendar several years ago deprived us of 10 days rehearsal time, and with every minute so precious, “Gag Night” had to be abandoned. It was a sad loss. Yet not all my memories are derived from productions. I remember the 4 5-minute improvisa 7

tion in which two students portrayed termites who opened a restaurant under the wooden floor. The menu featured such delicacies as oak, walnut, maple and mahogany, and the entrepreneurs even provided entertainment for their patrons. “Tiny Bubbles” became the class theme song. I could go on and on, but enough already! This is but a sample of my memorable experiences. I will miss them. I will miss my colleagues, and believe it or not, I will miss my office. It was a cluttered, window less corner which I frequently referred to as “the Black Hole of Calcutta.” But it was a place where students came to talk, to question, to laugh, to cry, and just to hang out, and that made it a very special place. But then, MKA is a very special place.

N otes Around m k a graciously they welcomed her into the school. “They have made my move into a new job and a new community an easy one,” she says. '“ It did not take me long to call MKA and Montclair home.” In addition to MKA, Jean is most enthusiastic about Montclair’s sense of community, with its art museum, theater and many volunteer groups.

Jean Gisriel

Jean McCoy Gisriel, the newly appointed Assistant Principal, has been at MKA since August. Along with her administrative responsi bilities, she has been the assistant field hockey coach and taught a section of Senior health. On any day she can be found on any one of the three campuses helping with evening programs, chaperoning field trips and cheering MKA teams to victory. Jean worked at The Madiera School in McLean, Virginia, where for 13 years she was chairman of the physical education department and coached varsity tennis, lacrosse, field hockey and basketball. For the last 10 years there she was Dean of Students and Director of Residence. Prior to Madiera, she was chairman of the physical education department at the Bishop School in Lajolla, California. Jean has a B.S. cum laude from Boston University, and an M.Ed. and M.S. from Johns Hopkins University. Jean finds her new job at MKA “exciting, challenging and a wonderful new experience.” She praises the faculty and staff for their dedication and for their support for sports and extracurricular activities, and mentions how warmly and

Decade Club Last year an honorary society was established to honor faculty and staff for their long-term commitment to the Academy. Charter members were pre-merger faculty and staff. At this year’s opening faculty meeting, Dr. Frances O’Connor thanked the following faculty and staff for ten years of loyal service. “Life is not filled with heroic moments,” she said, “it is filled with dailiness . . . . This is the most human profession in the world.”

Nancy K. Gibson Linda Humphreys Jan P. Leighton Patricia C. Parke Karl E. Szmak Sonia Parry Tyson Barbara Fielding 1976 William Bullard Jean Della Ventura Peter Ebling Judith Evangelista David M. Love Ruth Meglio Linda B. Stark Ellen S. Iverson 1977 Charlaine Charlton Virginia Kriegel Anne Marie Rabke Albert Van Eerde Caroline Vlaskamp Honor Society: 2 5 years of commitment to the Academy Robert Hemmeter Oscar Maynard

1975 John W. Edgley Walter Frager

Tbeir Honors. Fran O ’Connor thanks Bob Hem m eter a n d Oscar M aynard fo r a quarter century o f com m itm ent to the Academy.

Fall Sports Report The 1987 fall season provided much excitement, a high level of competition and some frustration. The varsity boys’ soccer, water polo and cross country teams suffered a fair share of frustration with seasons below the .500 level. Boys’ soccer finished at 7-10, a twogame improvement over last year but still below pre-season expectations. The team was buoyed by the stellar performances of its few seniors, and hopes are high for next year with the return of eight starting juniors. Water polo, with a very small but devoted nucleus of swimmers, ended with a 3-4 record. The highlight was two victories against Horace Mann School and two very closely contested games against powerhouse Lawrenceville. Cross country runners finished their season at 4-9 and had seventh place team finishes in both the Prep Conference and state championship meets. Girls’ tennis, finishing at 6-6, was disappointed as MKA’s string of four consecutive state championships was broken. The girls should be highly commended for coming through with a .500 record in light of many difficulties during the season. The field hockey team also might have been very frustrated after graduating ten seniors from the 1986 squad and having two new coaches this year. But everyone worked hard and pulled through with a well earned . 500 record of 7-7-2. Girls’ soccer added more skilled freshmen to last year’s fine young squad and came through with an excellent 8-4-3 season. The team, with a good mix of youth and experience, built up momentum going into the state championship tournament by victories in their last five games of the regular season. They advanced to the semi-final round of the tournament with a 2-0 victory over Dwight-Englewood School, a team which had tied them on Homecoming.

The football team culminated their strong 6-3 season with a 29-15 victory over Pennington. They then moved on, for the first time in history, to the Parochial B North State Playoffs against perennial powerhouse Pope John of Sparta. Though the squad was definitely outnumbered (100-30) and not given much of a chance by football pundits, it was just as definitely not outplayed. Its great determination and pride led the Cougars to many “firsts” against eventual State

Champion Pope John. On that cold and bitter day MKA was the first team all season to score first against Pope John, and the first team to take a stunning halftime lead into the locker room. After leading 9-7, our squad succumbed to the greater numbers of the opposition, and thus was eliminated from the state playoffs. But the entire Prep ranks could take heart and pride from the fine and honorable representation given by its sole contender — MKA! — George Hrab, Athletic Director

G irls’ soccer: Melissa M addox ’88, Justine McBride ’88, Fay O’N eill ’90, Kate H natow ’90.

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From The O ffice O f External Affairs Mrs. Kenneth D. Brown, mother of Sheila Brown Lindveit, Kimberley Class of 1953, recently donated $25,000 to MKA restricted to Community Scholar Endowment. A small luncheon was held at Principal Frances R. O’Connor’s home to thank Mrs. Brown and to introduce her to some of the people who have supported this fine program since its beginning in 1969. Robert D. Jackson, Montclair Academy 1973, a Trustee of MKA and Mayor of Montclair, was the program’s first graduate. Along with Sheila Brown Lindveit, who flew up from Baltimore for the day, Susan H. Ruddick, President of the Board of Trustees, Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54,

• “Let’s Make It Their Century” — MKA’s 1987-88 Annual Giving Campaign — began in the fall with a successful Phonathon. If you have not yet made a commitment to the 1987-88 Annual Giving Program, you can help meet the $350,000 goal with a gift before June 15, 1988 .

Trustee Jack Cussen a t Parent Phonathon.

George R. Harris and Frederick L. Redpath attended the luncheon.

• Barry Centanni, Montclair Kimberley Academy class of 1977 and a faculty member of the Fine and Performing Arts Department at the Upper School, has established an-Instrumental Music Award in memory of Maestro Thomas Michalak. According to Barry, Maestro Michalak “especially cared for the student musician and those who, like him, were not financially able to study were it not for funds from a patron.” To preserve the memory of someone who was perhaps the greatest influence in his “musical” life, Barry will provide the funds for this award to be given to the most deserving instrumental student in the graduating class. • The Parents’ Association of The Montclair Kimber ley Academy (PAMKA) will hold its annual fund raiser on Saturday, April 16 in the Upper School gymnasium. The theme is a rock and roll ’50’s sock hop with live music by Phil Dirt and the Dozers. The chairman for this “blast from the past” are Merley Boshart, Connie Cain and Pat Wahl. For more information call the Office of External Affairs. —Judy Polonofsky Director o f External Affairs

Standing: Fran O’Connor, Susan Ruddick. Seated: Sheila Brown L indveit a n d Mrs. Brown.

From The Alumni Association I am very happy to be serving as the new President of the MKA Alumni Association. I’d like to thank past President Fay Taft Fawcett ’52 for her tireless contributions. The Alumni Association is stronger than ever. We also welcome new members Martha Bonsai Day ’74, Anne King Franges ’56, Peter McMullen ’77, Robert Post ’77 and Linda Horowitz Rosier ’60. In the past few months we have been busy organizing our yearly events. We sponsored the Alumni Hockey Game in December and won an exciting game against the Montclair High alumni by the score of 6-5. Our Career Day committee is getting ready for its annual event, which is always a favorite of the Upper School students, and the Distinguished Alumni Award Committee is preparing to select a new honoree. The teak benches which we purchased for the Upper School have arrived and can be seen in constant use in the lobby. We have donated $1000 toward the publication cost of the Centennial book and thus purchased the first three copies to present to the three school libraries! Finally, we have scheduled our second annual “Alumni Attic” fleamarket for May 14 and welcome anyone who would like to help. Please do not hesitate to contact the Alumni Office with any comments or questions. We hope to see all alumni return to our school in the next year! — Robert A. Hoonhout ’71 Alum ni Association President

Retiring A lum ni Council President Fay Taft Fawcett ’52 w ith Council Vice President Cynthia M ann Treene ’54.

A lum ni Council members G ail Tomec Kerr ’52 and Charles Sm all ’58 a t A nnual Meeting.

From T he Alumni Association Robert A. Hoonhout ’71 was elected President of the Alumni Association at its annual meeting during Homecoming. A dedicated MKA volunteer, Bob has already served five years on the Alumni Council, the last four as treasurer. He has spent countless hours help ing with fundraisers like Chance Encounter and the Alumni Attic and as a speaker for Career Day. Bob received an A.B. from Lafayette College and a J.D. from Seton Hall School of Law. He has a private law practice and is Assistant Attorney for the Township of

Montclair. As Alumni Association President, Bob now sits on MKA’s Board of Trustees, where he is on the educational policy and nominating committees. Bob and his wife Kathy — who also participates in alumni events (she even brought her mother to help with last year’s Alumni Attic fleamarket!) — have three preschool-age children. We welcome Bob Hoonhout to even more active involvement in the MKA Alumni Association!

A lum ni Council President Robert A. H oonhout.

The Great Cougars. A lum ni Hockey Team, fro n t row L to R: J e ff Day, Peter McMullen, M ichael P latt, John Towers, John Booth, Colin O’Neill, Jim Cannell. Standing L to R: Coach Tom Preville, Charlie Shulm an, Tony DelGaizo, Pete Schiffenhaus, Steve Dodd, Tad Cohn, Rob Cerfolio, Phil M olinaro, Chris Bruce, Eric Wong, D ave D unnigan.A bsent fro m photo: Captain Blake O’Neill, Assistant Coach Ken Smith.

Homecoming At the Reunion Luncheon during Homecoming, The Honorable James A. Courter ’59, recipient of this year’s Distinguished Alumni Award, was surrounded by friends, family, and former faculty. Previous recipients of the award — Dallas Townsend ’36, James Vandermade ’35 and Howard Van Vleck ’22 — shared the occasion. As his wife, Carmen, and daughters Donica and Katrina listened, the Congressman re counted incidents from his years at Montclair Academy and acknowledged his former teachers Frank Brogan and Philip Stackpole. Jim’s brother, Joseph Courter, Jr., was there for his own class of ’57 reunion. Principal Frances O’Connor presented Cougars caps to the guests of honor. HOMECOMING 1988 — Septem ber 24tb

Congressman Jam es A. Courter ’59, recipient o f D istinguished A lum ni Award.

Three cheers f o r 1987 Reunion C hairm en

Alan Kessler MA ’47 General Chairman Peggy Klotz Young TKS ’37 John and Elsie Luddecke Kelsey MA, TKS ’42 Bill and Kathy Kluge MA ’42 Joan Cook TKS ’47 Louise Rudd Hannegan TKS ’47 Alan Kessler MA ’47 Joan Wallace Bryant TKS ’57 Edward T. O’Brien Jr. MA ’57 Barbara Bywater Creed TKS ’62 Ken Kessler MA ’62 Gerald Jones MKA ’77 Blake O’Neill MKA ’82. Thank you to Upper School students Rebecca Corris, Douglas Dauzier and Sarah Picchi for creating the Centennial memorabilia displays at Homecoming.

Jim Courter ’59 and his daughter a t Reunion Luncheon.

L to R fro tn the top: Faculty m em ber Bob Hem m eter w ith fo rm er students o f ’67: Peter Brundage, Joe M arino, Pat Paterson and Steve Swift. Alexis Polonofsky ’85, D irector o f External A ffairs Judy Polonofsky, and Reunion Chairm an Blake O’N eill ’82. Patricia Cox M ansfield ’47 and Petey H offm an Reade ’47. P rincipal Fran O’Connor a n d Jim Courier ’59 in Cougars caps. Faculty m em ber Calvin M atzke w ith B rian M orris ’80 and his wife. Formerfa c u lty m em ber Phil Stackpole w ith Vicki M anchester ’86. Faculty m em berJu d y N esbit w ith Sue M ahler ’82 and Betsy Brown '82.

Homecoming ’87

L to R fro m the top: Faculty m em ber Ken Gibson w ith A ndy D obbin '77 and A lan Deehan '77. Faculty m em ber N ixon Bicknell w ith Misho Protic '77, Pat Cane '77 and Bruce Sanders '17. Grace Aldrich Andersen '42 and Ann Adams Beetle '42. Irene Kolb (l.), A ssistant to the Principal, with Parker Arm strong '3 7 and his wife, Jean. Peter D odd '80 and M im i Swanson '82. Faculty m em ber John Rabke w ith John deC. BlondelJr. '74 and Kathleen Blondel. Senior Jason Spiotta and fa n . Cheerleaders.

C lass Notes

Editor’s Note

As those of you in classes that have secretaries already realize, we are now using only one mailing each year to obtain news. News gathered by the one official mailing will be in the FALL magazine. SPRING magazine Class Notes are taken from reunion, holiday, and phonathon news, the flap on the Annual Giving remittance envelope, and the “ Grapevine” on the inside back cover. Although the news might seem “old,” we have found that most people love to read news whenever. This time lapse is unavoidable, as the processing of Class Notes from secretary to Alumni Office to classmates to secretary to Alumni Office to typesetter to printer covers a l4-to-l6 week period! Please remember that you can send a note to your class secretary or to the Alumni Office anytime. To those of you whose class has no secretary, how would you like to volunteer? The job has been simplified to the point that you will probably find it downright enjoyable! It is no exaggeration to say that the position of class secretary, like that of class agent and reunion chairman, is absolutely essential to the vitality of the school. Please consider it.

14 TKS Mrs. H enry W. Jones (Elizabeth Prentiss) 254 Ivy Street, W allingford, CT 06492

17 —.... TKS Mrs. Sam uel Meek (Priscilla Mitchel) 88 D oubling Road, Greenwich, CT 06832 In response to the request for memories for the centennial history project, Priscilla Mitchel Meek wrote, “I can only think of happy days and times in the nature class at Kimberley. The caterpillars were kept in a large cage, and we watched them carefully from cocoon to butterfly, learning of the importance of nature and conservation which has remained with me all these years and given me a wider appreciation of guarding the world outdoors.’’ MA Dr. Edward Seymour, c/o Bryan 415 Lynwood Blvd., Nashville, TN 37215

20 TKS No secretary Anna Lincoln Ames had a wonderful twoweek trip to France in late June. In October she saw old friends at the Cape, among them Killy Greene Cole ’23 “in her delightful new surroundings in a retirement home in Orleans,” Marionita Chalfin Ranger '22, and Georgianna Chalfin Foresman ’26.

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TKS No secretary Our condolences to the family of Madeline Mulford Horr.

23 TKS Mrs. Jonathan Chatellier (Alice Vezin) 16 West Elm Street, Yarmouth, ME 04096 MA Mr. Richard E. K leinhans 190 Scribner Avenue, S. Norwalk, CT 06854

24 TKS Mrs. Philip Taylor (Helen Patrick) 590 Palm Circle West, Naples, EL 33940 MA No secretary Our condolences to the family of Donald G. Masson.

25 TKS No secretary Helen Saint John Ball has been exhibiting her work in art shows in Montclair and in Fairhope, Ala. She is known for woodcuts and block prints. Our condolences to Marjorie McComb Sexton on the death of her husband Dorrance ’28. MA No secretary Our condolences to the family of Arnold D. Rood.

extend their fond sympathy on the death of her husband, Donald '24. Dorothy Ayres Holt sent an excellent photo of the class of ’27 for the archives. She observed that she is a ‘‘casualty of the infamous ‘Palmer Method’ and never learned script” but nonetheless has wonderful memories of wonderful women at Kimberley. MA Mr. Eugene Speni 85 U ndercliff Road, M ontclair, NJ 07042 Our condolences to Eugene Speni on the death of his wife, Myra.

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TKS Mrs. Gordon Bowen (Barbara Newell) 50 Forest Avenue, Glen Ridge, NJ 07028 Our condolences to the family of Natalie Ross Leonard, whose husband wrote, ‘‘although physically crippled by an attack of polio when she was 5, Natalie managed to live a full and active life, right up to the end. She is survived by a daughter, Barbara, and a son, William.” MA No secretary Our condolences to the family of Dorrance Sexton.

29 TKS Miss Charlotte H. Fitch Box 45, 24 Cape B ial Lane Westport Point, MA 02 791 MA Mr. Robert D orrill 42 Godfrey Road, Upper M ontclair, NJ 07043 Bill Kohlins has been out in Washington State since 1970, where he has his own company doing consulting work and selling machinery. Both his children are married, one living nearby and one in Atlanta. One grand child is at Georgia Tech, the other in high school. Bill is a “rabid” Seattle Seahawks rooter and hoped to see MKA’s Sean Jones ’80 when the Raiders play in the Kingdome. Our condolences to Vincent Mulford on the death of his sister.

TKS No secretary MA Lt. Cmdr. Alden W. Sm ith Penury Priory, Temple, NH 03084 Homer G. Whitmore recalls, ‘‘Mr. Miller taught me in chemistry. He bought his first auto, a Buick, but he couldn’t learn to drive to get a license. I helped him and then went while he got his license, and he was appreciative.”

27 TKS Mrs. Paul M acdonald (Louise Russell) 35 Bank Street, New Canaan, CT 06840 The classmates of Helen Dayton Masson

TKS Mrs. Paul Christner, Jr. (Esma Currier) 31 Aubrey Road, Upper M ontclair, NJ 07043 “ Our French is improving,” writes Marjorie Kieselbach Dumont. “We used it exclusively in Quebec just to prove to them that it’s possible to speak two languages. They were very nice about it!” MA No secretary

31 TKS Mrs. Jerom e Drew (Jesse Taylor) 1076E. St. Lucie Blvd., Stuart, FL 33494

Three children and eight grandchildren, ages 9 to 24, give Eileen Halligan Forman ‘‘a pipeline to the nuclear age and some understanding of it.” She visits them in Boston and Washington, D.C. and they enjoy seeing her in California. Eileen has a daughter and her twin daughters living in Santa Monica, so once again she goes to plays, dance recitals, and athletic events. She volunteers at a thrift shop, a museum, and a church and in sparetime, takes literature and yoga classes. MA No secretary Our condolences to the families of Walter Hehmeyer and Edson Hoyt Nichols, and to John Carlee on the death of his brother.

32 TKS Mrs. W illiam M cCahill (Frances E lliott) 3114 Russell Road, A lexandria, VA 22305 A visit to the hospital cancelled a planned trip to the U.S. national parks, so Anita Schwarz Beamon’s “only” trips this past year were to the Virgin Islands and Canada. She still enjoys tennis and gardening. Mary Harrsen Van Brunt reports that her husband, Van, has made a wonderful recovery. Joan Williams Van D olen also reports that her husband is greatly improved. Frances Hardy Feezer is on a search committee for her church to find a new bishop. Bill and Frances Elliott McCahill were blessed with their seventh granddaughter to give them a total of nine grandchildren. The class extends its sympathy to the family of Mary Church “Anson” Kidd. MA Dr. Jam es A. Rogers, Apt. 205 921 Seagrape Drive, Marco Island, FL 3393 7 Tom Braine is still playing tennis, researching, studying and teaching his “now or never Pastward history.’’ He enjoys the great year 'round North Carolina weather.

33 TKS Mrs. Thomas Shaughness (Ruth Powers) 6428 B arfield Drive, Dallas, TX 75252 The Spartanburg, S.C. H erald Journal did a front-page feature story on Jarrett Wells

Schmidt last spring, when she was the general chairman of the Block House Steeplechase (for the ninth consecutive year), and lauded her organizational efforts and ability to attract sponsors. She is a former thoroughbred breeder and rider of major distinction. Two of her horses have won Block House Championships, and her hunter, Naute Mia, is considered to have been the best hunter in the country prior to his retirement in 1962. During those years, the pair captured 43 championships, 226 reserves, 222 firsts, 524 ribbons, all in A-rated shows. MA Mr. W illiam J. Thompson 415 Clarem ont Ave. #2E, M ontclair, NJ 07042 ‘‘Jean Dale and I were delightfully surprised with the beauty of Hawaii,” writes Cedric Jaggard, “during our stay last spring. It was a big reunion year for us, with our 45 th at Princeton Theological Seminary and our 50th at Dartmouth, where we had some wonderful fellowship with Dartmouth classmate C. Everett Koop . . . Hank Doremus was there. In ’86 I greatly enjoyed visits with Walt Sperling '34 and his wife in their retirement home near Chapel Hill and with Jay Reid and his wife in Bethesda, MD.” The Reids have five grandchildren, a son married in September, and “a fourth son in reserve.’’ David Stanley and his wife, Helen, had a most interesting trip to the Soviet Union (Moscow, Leningrad, Central Asia, and the Caucasus) in September — ‘‘a nation to be respected and, in some ways, learned from.”

34 TKS Mrs. D avid H aviland (Barbara Spadone) 10 Crestm ont Rd. Apt. 2D M ontclair, NJ 07042 The M ontclair Times did a feature on Beatrice Barclay Carlson, who has been chairman of legislature for the Mountainside Hospital Auxiliary since 1976. As such, she travels to Trenton for committee meetings on health legislation and attends selected Senate and Assembly sessions. She is also chairman of the Republican Committee in Montclair and President of the Friends of the Montclair Free Public Library. MA Dr. WalterJ. Sperling Fearrington P.O. Box 192, Pittsborough, NC 27312

50th reunion, class o f ‘37.

3 3 .~.................. TKS Mrs. Stew art Carpenter (Josephine Fobes) 4 LaSalle Road, Upper M ontclair, NJ 07043 Edgar Blackledge ’34x sent word that his sister Elizabeth (Betty) Blackledge Fenger is in an apartment near him in Palo Alto, Calif., but is not too active. Jean Black stopped by last May. They are all well. He writes, “I’m glad you stay in touch with Betty so that I have the opportunity to touch home with you.” The M ontclair Times ran a picture of Betty Bristol Bell as she led a workshop for docents at the Crane House last fall. Our condolences to the family of Mary Milnor DeLand. MA No secretary Our condolences to Donald Mulford on the death of his sister.

36 TKS Mrs. W. Kent Schm id (Josephine M urray) RD 1, Box 623, M ason’s Island, CT 06355 Betty Glaze wrote, “I have many happy memories of my 12 years at Kimberley and still keep in touch with many in my class, especially in the summer when I return to my cottage at Manasquan. Our reunion was a very special time and one that I will never forget!” The class is sad to learn of the death of Doris Ferry Severn and sends sympathy to her family. MA Mr. W. Kent Schm id RD 1, Box 623, M ason’s Island, CT 06355 Dallas Townsend is again a visiting professor of broadcast journalism at the Newhouse School, Syracuse University. He has 10 grandchildren.

3 7 ..... TKS Mrs. Charles L eavitt (Virginia Kracke) 93 Stonebridge Road, M ontclair, NJ 07042 The class extends condolences to Tibbie Caldwell Soper on the death of her sister

50th reunion, class o f ’3 7.

Reunion chairm an Peggy K lotz Young w ith husband B ill (standing) and Parker A rm strong ’37. Mary ’42, and to Ruth D uff Eager on the death of her mother. Helen Hodgson McLellan was “stuck” in New Orleans and couldn’t make reunion, but says it is “a great place to live, plenty going on.” Sylvia Caldwell Soper wrote the Alumni Office, “The class of ’37 was really nifty — bonded by something I have never seen before or since.” MA No secretary

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had a wonderful, nostalgic and catch-up time and hope to stage another reunion some where sometime soon. Next time we hope more will be with us. June Carlson Hardie wrote that her husband, Allan, is now retired. Their daughter and son-in-law live nearby with two grandchildren. The Hardies have been to New Hampshire, Maine and their favorite spot, Skytop in the Poconos. Beverly Crane Osborne wrote a newsy letter saying that her son Craig is the secretary of the class of ’67. Son Scott ’69 lives in Connecticut with his daughter Sarah. Both sons and granddaughter visited Bev last summer. Bev keeps in touch with June Carlson Hardie and Ann Dixon Curtin. MA Mr. Charles McGinley 1911 W. M agic Place, lUcson, A Z 85704

40 TKS Mrs. Charles V. Cross (Barbara Arm strong) 2306 C ardinal Dr., P oint Pleasant, NJ 08742 Barbara Douglas Macmillan graduated from The Connecticut Center for Massage Therapy in December ’86. A licensed therapist, Bobbie has a private practice in Greenwich and gives workshops. She had a month-long visit with her sister, Priscilla Douglas Polkinghorn '27, in California and saw Marilyn Gates Crandell.

TKS No secretary LOST: Linda Herr Russell, Evelyn Dwyer Van Sclver

Barbara Armstrong Cross is assistant treasurer of All Saint’s Church in Bay Head and belongs to two bowling leagues and a bridge club. She plays golf with Nancy Schoonmaker Heidt.

MA No secretary LOST: Arthur Dixon, Jr., Norman Norman, Alan Silverbach Our condolences to Jerome Cuppla on the death of his mother.

MA No secretary Robert Braunworth enjoys retirement by traveling and “ trying to keep up my badminton in tennis country.’’

TKS TKS Mrs. Jam es F.C. Hyde, Jr. (Enid Griswold) Mrs. John Rauch Jr. (Jane Wilson) 5402 D uvall Drive, Bethesda, MD 20816 8115 Spring M ill Rd., Indianapolis, IN 46260 Since her two daughters and six Last May, eight members of the class — grandchildren are living in France, Mildred some living or visiting in the area and some Wright Dorland commutes between the two who came especially from out of town —r had countries. She offers her address to any a mini reunion at Glnny Taylor Voorhees’ members of the class of ’41 passing through home in Alexandria, Va. It had been 48 years France: 43 Blvd. Magenta, Fontainebleau. since many of us had seen one another. We The Fall ’87 Alumni News sent Anne Thompson Knapp scurrying into old albums for photographs and anecdotes. She writes: “During my senior year at Kimberley when I was head of the Athletic Association, Mrs. Griffen and I divided the entire school from the first grade through 12th into two teams — the Kimbers and the Lees. At that time, M ini-reunion TKS ’39, L to R: Kay M ay C ondit Degman, Janet I knew the name and face Reigbley McIntyre, Jane W ilson Rauch, G inny Taylor Voorhees, of every student at the Jackie Osborne Buell, Cornelia Carswell Sarota, Janie Emslie Kimberley School . . . ” M cCullough and M ary Gilmore Thomas.

MA Mr. D avid Baird, Jr. 9 Parkway, M ontclair, NJ 07042

42 TKS Airs. Robinson V. Sm ith (Joan Trimble) 16 M arshall Terrace, Wayland, MA 01778 I am sorry to report the death of Mary Caldwell Soper in August. Our deepest sympathy to Sally Sanders Appenzellar and Connie Nagel Messinger on the deaths of their husbands. Our 45th reunion has come and gone; we had a wonderful day at MKA and a marvelous evening at the Montclair Golf Club. Grace Aldrich Andersen, Helena BurrUl, Marilyn Rosen Feldman, Elsie Luddecke Kelsey, Eleanor Watt Schull, Rob and Joan Trimble Smith, Peggy Krout Taylor, Bob and Franny Johnson Furlong, and Anne Adams Beetle — all TKS ’42 attended the luncheon. From MA came Allen and Claire Brown, Dan and Pat Emerson, Gordon and Louise Powell Hall (TKS ’44), Kathy Kluge (standing in for Bill), Dave and Anne Reppert Lewis (TKS ’43), Jim and Joy Prescott, Ralph and Janet Shearer, and BUI Schulting. Joining this jovial group for dinner were Helen Jones Gordon, Betty Staudlnger, Jack and Glnny Westen Usher, Tom Shull, Jack Kelsey, BUI Kluge, Fred and Mary Calder and Jeannie and Perry Swenson (MA ’41). At the last minute, much to our disappointment, Jim Ritchie, Bob Clifford, and Gloria and BUI Walker could not come. Over the months approaching reunion, Joan Trimble Smith, Kathy Kluge, and 1 tried to contact everyone in the classes of ’42. Please let us know if we missed anyone. We thank many of you for your nice notes. We hope we will have an even bigger and better 50th. In the meantime, keep in touch! — Elsie Luddecke Kelsey The Alumni Office has learned that a portrait done by artist Joan Trimble Smith hangs in the Supreme Court. MA No secretary Our condolences to Stuart Keebler on the death of his father.

43 . TKS Mrs. E.B. R uffing, fr. (Joan Sweeney) 125 Westview Rd., Upper M ontclair, NJ 07043 LucUe Mason was lauded in the M ontclair Times for doing the publicity for Montclair’s Presby Iris Gardens. She has been responsible for features about the gardens on radio and television, in New Jersey tourism calendars and newspapers rtf even the phone bill insert which reached more than two million families before the garden’s 60th anniversary. SheUa Feagley James has joined the museum world of Chicago, having become a docent at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Field Museum of Natural History. She reports that it’s a wonderful way to enjoy a new city, expanding the mind and meeting lovely new friends.

45th Reunion, class o f ’42.

Legacies Captain Philip Morgan Cheek '46x, an English student (now sea captain) who attended Montclair Academy during the war years 1940-42, sent a copy of his book Legacies o f Peril to MKA with the inscription: To the fa c u lty a n d students o f M ontclair Kimberley Academy p a st a n d present who both taught and touched m y life, I m ake this sm all contribution in this year o f the fir s t hundred years o f a noble school. I landed on A m erica’s shore on September 15th, 1940, the deciding day o f the B attle o f B ritain. Soon yo u r country was to m ake it possible fo r m e to return to England m uch sooner than expected. I wish I had been a better student a t ‘M ontclair,’ b u t m aybe I was nicely fin ish ed o ff by going to sea. One never knows. We m ust keep trying. God bless you Montclair. 45th Reunion, class o f ’42. Our condolences to Helen Helm Ketcham on the death of her mother. MA Mr. fa m es Mackey 213 Geneva Street, Elizabeth, NJ 07206 Edward Olcott took elected office as Councilman in Summit in January. He works as a transportation and planning consultant since his retirement as Director of Planning, Port Authority of NY and NJ.

44 TKS Mrs. Nancy H eydt Green 99 Belvidere Road, Falmouth, MA 02540 The Economic Development Corporation of Essex County gave Betty Specht a recognition of excellence award for her mixed retail and residential development of One The Crescent (on South Fullerton Ave., Montclair). Our condolences to Shada Deetjen Overton on the death of her mother. MA Mr. W interford J. Ohland Box 137, R.D. #3, Blairstown, N J07825 Robert D. Angus visited Scotland and Norway this summer “looking for roots.”

45 TKS Anne Feagley W ittels (Mrs. Jerom e L.) 2116 Via A lam itos Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274

Author/artist Anne Feagley Wittels received a grant from the American Association of University Women to write Strategies: A Guide to Low-cost Ways to M arket N on-profit Groups. Aimed at small non-profit organizations, the publication provides basic information on developing visibility in, and support for, their communities. Publication is scheduled for June first. Although there is no cost for the booklet, there is a charge of il.5 0 for postage. To order a copy, or for information about bulk orders, please write to Anne Wittels at P.O. Box 1174, Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274. Please make out checks to “ Strategies.” Phyllis Harder Reininger’s only daughter, Sharon, was married in August. They have four children married now and one bachelor, two grandsons and two granddaughters. All live in the state of Washington. MA Mr. Robert Nebergall 610 South Second St., W ilm ington, NC 28401

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TKS Mrs. George P. Shoem aker (Elizabeth Sm ith) 11 High P oint Terrace, Scarsdale, N Y 10853 Florence Johnson Jacobson graduated sum m a cum laude from Caldwell College last May with a BA in religious studies/ philosophy. She is now doing graduate work in gerontology at the College of New Rochelle.

Jane Bamford Taylor is a registered nurse with a BS degree from Columbia. Five children are in different fields: Bob — architecture; Richard — chiropratic; Craig — finance; Robbin — photography; Lois — education. The first four are married; Bob and Robbin each have daughters. Nancy Anne Rudd Wahlberg and husband moved in February into her family’s home to manage the household and help take care of her mother, as her father died in August. Our condolences to Nancy and her family. Our condolences to Abby Keebler Ryan on the death of her father. MA No secretary

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TKS Mrs. D avid H annegan (Louise Rudd) 301 Concord Road, Carlisle, MA 01741 Surprise telegram received during reunion: 40 YEARS CANT BELIEVE IT ARE WE REALLY THAT OLD? THINKING OF YOU ALL WISH I COULD BE WITH YOU FOND MEMORIES AND LOVE SUSAN HARRISON SCHUMANN MA Mr. Chase Troxell 20 Fox H ill Lane, Short Hills, NJ 07078 Ed Schotz regretted that he would be out of the country and miss reunion. He and his wife have been living in Glen Rock since 1961 and have two children, Jeff and Alison. He

40th reunion, class o f '47. practices law in Hackensack. A new Sunday edition of the Gannett newspaper The Courier News in Bridgewater, N.J., also kept Bob Ladd away from reunion. He wrote, “ Please give my best to all that do have the good fortune to be able to return to our fortieth. I will always be thankful that I was taught by such talents as Mr. William Barras who left an indelible imprint on my life.” Dan Isles is a partner in the West Orange law firm of Farley, Isles & Codey, specializing in general civil litigation. Andrew Davlin Jr. is in the aquaculture/ mariculture business on the coast of California growing red abalone in intensive systems, on land. His company, Abalone Resources, Inc., went public on the Vancouver Stock Exchange (AAO) — “an exciting future.’’

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TKS Mrs. Stanley M iller (Frances Lane) 7440 Chablis St., Boca Raton, FL 33433-3024 LOST: Jonelle Brown Harrison MA Mr. Jam es A. Swan Rte. 4, B ox 665, Chestertown, MD 21620-9271 LOST: Lt. Col. Raymond Bostock, Jr., Robert Cortland Burnet, John F. Evans, Jr., Richard C. Long, Arnold Rosenberg, Richard G. Trub.

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40th reunion, class o f ’47. MA Mr. Richard M. Drysdale P.O. B ox 217, Bay Head, NJ 08742

50— = — TKS Mrs. E. Alden D unham , III (Louise Green) 73 Brookstone Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540 “ So many changes,” writes Audrey Carroll McBratney. Husband Bruce retired from “Wall Street” last April; oldest daughter Bonnie was married in May (see ’74 notes); second grandson was born to Sally and Don D ’A lessandro ’75 in September; son Bruce ’78 began at MIT Business School in September. Audrey and Bruce moved to Beaufort, S.C. in January, halfway between Charleston and Savannah — “Hope to hear from classmates as visitors.’’ Ed. note: Audrey sent a “gala reunion” photo of all the Kimberley/MKA alumnae at the wedding — some 25 people from seven classes! We regret very much that because it was in color and not clear, the picture could not be reproduced in the Alumni News. MA Mr. Rudolph H. Deetjen, Jr. Northgate Road, M endham, NJ 07945

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TKS Mrs. Eric Stroh (G ail Robertson) 350 Provencal Road Grosse Pointe Farms, M I 48236 “ Great fun to have Nick and Ruth Ransom W ilson as guests at our Birch Hill Inn,” writes Patricia Overton Lee. ' ‘Also a terrific

surprise to have a chance to say ‘Hi’ to Gall Stroh for the third year in a row! Nancy Ehrhardt Bambara and 1 enjoy seeing each other frequently and have become warm friends.” Diane Stoney Moore and her husband also stayed at the inn during the Stratten Mountain tennis tournament, and were so impressed they returned in October. “Hadn’t seen Pat and Jim Lee since 1951 — we hadn’t changed at all!” The class extends its deepest sympathy to Nancy Ehrhardt Bambara on the loss of her son Paul. MA Mr. Ernest F. Keer III, P.O. Box 1030 P oint Pleasant Beach, NJ 08742 Max (Duke) Habernlckel is active on the St. Joseph’s Hospital Board. He and Gael (see TKS ’54) have a new home at the Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo. Kenneth Crowell teaches ornithology and conservation biology at St. Lawrence, and in January took 12 students to Costa Rica to study tropical ecology and environment.

52 — TKS Mrs. Edward C. Fawcett (Fay Taft) 9 Gordon Place, M ontclair, NJ 07042 David and Gail Tomec Kerr’s son David, Jr. ’77 was married last May to Dr. Ruth Ann Warnell. Susie Kerr ’80x lives and works in Boston, and Robbie ’83, who graduated from Hobart in June, lives and works in Chatham, Mass. Wain Koch Maass and Bill are building a new house with a wonderful view in Chester, Vt. Son Andrew recently married, Bill, Jr. lives and works in New Jersey, Kathy is with

MKA fa m ily — the Kerrs, L to R: Rob ’83, G ail ’52, D avid Jr. ’77, bride Ruth A nn Warnell, D avid ’52x, Susan ’80x.

Ad hoc 35th reunion, class o f '52.

Salomon Brothers in Charleston and Amy will graduate from Hartwick College this spring. Anne Dwyer Milne writes that they are having fun working on son Walt’s wedding this April in Kennebunkport. Both he and daughter Sue have settled nearby in Manchester. Jane Redfield Forsberg and Bob had a very quick, fun business trip to Switzerland just before Thanksgiving. Susan Sanders, Fay Taft Fawcett and Ned rented a flat in London last November. Fawcetts’ daughter Ashley ’85 was studying in London for the semester; she is a junior at Colgate. Pam ’87 is a freshman at Gettysburg College. MA No secretary Austin C. Drukker was reelected to the N.J. State Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. He is President of Press Publications, Inc. in Blairstown. “Tired of hearing me complain about missing our class reunion,’’ writes Bob Kim, “my family created a mini reunion of its own. 1 came home one day to find Priscilla and Charley Sage sitting in our kitchen, all the way from Ames, Iowa. Shortly thereafter in came Dan Read from Grundy, Va. Two short days and an ocean of Coors later they were gone but so many fond memories remain.’’ Charles Sage adds the details: “David Kim, one of four fearsome offspring, planned the surprise-for-his-father event (in Natick, Mass.). Good time had by all and promises by all participants to replicate the event a few years hence.’’

53 IKS Mrs. Thomas Burgin (Lolly Penick) 328 Fairway Road, Ridgewood, NJ 07450 MA Mr. John Wade 2 Pullm an Avenue, Elberon, NJ 07740 Arthur Ramee's two daughters are in college — Lisa at the College of St. Elizabeth, Leslie at Lehigh. Pete (Nelson) Bond has two Lehigh graduates. Daughter Sally is enrolled in a Ph.D. program in sociology at UNC Chapel Hill. Son Trevor is at Harvard Business School. Following a seven-year stint at Citibank managing pension funds, Philip H. W. Smith did institutional bond trading at L.F. Rothschild. Sixteen years later he went back to managing money with the startup of LFR’s mutual funds subsidiary. A hobby brought a happenstance meeting with Bob Coningsby at an antique market a couple of years ago.

54 IKS Miss Georgia Carrington 38 Silverspring Lane, Ridgefield, CT 06877 Gael Seton Habernlckel writes, “Must be as old as the calendar says we are because our ‘baby’ Helen is a freshman at Rollins and our oldest, Gwenn Hauk, has made us grand parents. They live in Ridgewood so it’s been fun watching Brigitt grow daily. Daughter Lisa received her masters from Columbia, lives and works in New York; Dana graduated from

Curry College in Boston.” (See MA ’51) Anne Warnlck Winner is Public Information Officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency. Volunteer Cynthia Mann Treene was sworn in as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for children. The CASA program works with the Essex County Family Court, independently investigating cases of children in foster placement and making recommenda tions to the judge. CY was also named to the state Radon/Radium Advisory Board. Aubin Zabriskle Ames was featured on the front page of the M ontclair Times when Mayor Robert Jackson ’73 appointed her to the Montclair Public Library Board of Trustees. The article chronicled her extensive volunteer experience. MA No secretary Stuart Lasher’s children have all left home: the two oldest are married (he has a 2-year-old grandson), the youngest is working as a model in Europe with no thought of coming home. So the Lashers sold their fourbedroom home in Beverly Hills and moved to a cozy two-bedroom condo in Westwood near UCLA. Sheldon Buck works at the C. S. Draper Laboratory, where he has been employed since his graduation from MIT 28 years ago. He and his wife, Dee Dee, enjoy their new home in Wellesley. Real estate broker/builder George Kramer was named vice-chairman of the United Jewish Campaign in Greater Clifton-Passaic. For news of son Andrew’s marriage, see Class Notes ’80.

55 TKS Mrs. Susie Forstm ann Kealy 232 E. Walton Place, Apt. #2E Chicago, LL 60611 MA No secretary The M ontclair Times pictured volunteer Oscar Mockrldge at a loom, demonstrating weaving at the Israel Crane House on Craft Day in August.

56 TKS Mrs. Lawther O. Sm ith (Linda Lovell) 30 Water Crest Drive, Doylestown, PA 18901 Carolyn Van Vleck Edwards is a realtor in Boston’s Back Bay, nearing completion of a three-unit townhouse in which she lives and has an office. Her three children are fine: three college graduations and a wedding in May and June! Molla Kaplan Reisbaum is busy with volunteer activities, learning golf, and enjoying life in general. Son Jonathan is at

Cardozo School of Law; Michael graduated from George Washington U. in ’87 and works for the family firm; Emily is at U. of Michigan. As owner of two telephone answering services in New Jersey, Bob and Nancy Prescott Ward service more than 1,000 accounts, employ about 50 full and part-time operators, and “keep busy all the time!” Bob is President of an advertising agency in Butler; daughter Vickie is a sophomore at Yale, Jen a freshman in high school and Rob a fourth grader. Our condolences to Anne King Franges on the death of her mother. MA Mr. John Clapp Box 256, Sea Girt, NJ 08750 Great adventurer Dick Hobbins ran the Colorado River in his kayak this year, through the Grand Canyon! Robert Fischbein practices dermatology in Livingston. His daughter Suzanne, 19, is at U. of Pennsylvania; Emily, 16, is a junior at Kent Place School, where he just completed three years on the Board of Trustees.

57— — TKS Miss Linda B aldanzi, 2 Greenview Way, Upper M ontclair, NJ 07043 Martha McKenzie Hug lives in Tallahassee, Fla. She is working on a graduate degree in French at Florida State University. MA Mr. Edward T. O ’Brien, Jr. Box 1906N aval A ir Station FPO New York 09560-5004 Ted O’Brien sent regrets that a last minute commitment prevented him from attending reunion. Hal Cohen sent a telegram wishing classmates a wonderful reunion. Robert Lanson, who did come, checked out the MKA library. He is a professor of Psychology at Queens College.

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TKS Mrs. Ralph Perry III (Helen Bryant) HC-60 Box 1150, Tolland, MA 01034 LOST: Carol Grosse Giannini, Anne Bobst Hlghley, Anne McCormick, Judith Shepard O’Connell

30th Reunion, class o f '57.

Ju d y Polonofsky, D irector o f E xternal A ffairs (R, rear) w ith the class o f '62 and fo rm er fa c u lty a t table: Barry N azarian '62, Frank Brogan, Phil Stackpole a n d Maye Brogan.

B ook Award W inner Fredric Kaplan '58 won the National Book Award for reference books, for his Encyclopedia o f China Today. He is also the author of the #\ best-selling guide to China, The China Guidebook. He is President of China Passage, Inc., China trade consultants and tour organizers, and Eurasia Press, publishers. MA No secretary LOST: Kenneth Gorelick, Jack Roth, Jerry Roth, David Will

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TKS Mrs. Robert P. Sum as (Deana Rogers) 4 E. Greenbrook Rd., No. Caldwell, NJ 07006 With one daughter at U. of Michigan, another at Yale, and her youngest on her way to college next year, Susan Wechsler Rose returned to school herself. She is pursuing a master’s in arts administration at New York University. Last spring she performed a piano concert at Lincoln Center Library. MA Mr. B enjam in Fischer 26 D elta Blvd., Palisades Park, NJ 07650 Our condolences to Dorrance Sexton Jr. on the death of his father. Michael Baker owns and operates two pharmacies in New Jersey. Son David is a junior at Syracuse, daughter Samantha will enroll there in the fall. “Bake” has already volunteered to be reunion chairman for 30th reunion in 1989!

60 TKS Mrs. E m ily S. D anson (Em ily Stark) 130 Old Stone Bridge Rd., Cos Cob, CT 06807 Nlckl Smith Hagerman enjoys her work with an investment firm and finds it hard to believe they’ve lived in Wisconsin for six years. She never seems to make it East. Son

M iddle School H ead Jim Burger (back row, L) w ith the class o f '62.

Hunter, 13, is a fun partner now for tennis and biking. Nicki writes, “ If anyone gets out to the end of the earth, anywhere west of Pittsburgh, please call.” Our condolences to Sandra Spenl Goddard on the death of her mother. MA Mr. George A. Bleyle,Jr. 2259 Weir Drive, Hudson, OH 44236

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TKS Miss Judith Poor 9 6 N. M ountain Avenue, M ontclair, NJ 07042 Harold and Nanci Goldman Deutsch have been living in Florida for 16 years. They have two daughters: Stacy, 19, is a junior at U. of Pennsylvania; Alison, 17, the valedictorian of the Ransom Everglades School, attends Yale. MA Mr. Robert Tyler Root III 24 W iedemann, Clifton, NJ 07011

62 TKS Mrs. C. D. Creed (Barbara By water) 1769Forest ViewAve., Hillsborough, CA94010 Our condolences to Victoria Spenl Munn on the death of her mother. Telegram received during reunion — from Venezuela! WISH I COULD JOIN YOU TO CELEBRATE OUR 25th. SOMEONE PLEASE TAKE NOTES. I WANT TO HEAR ALL THE NEWS. LETTERS AND VISITORS TO CARACAS WELCOME. CHEERS. SUSAN MARIN MONTANER MA Mr. Lawrence J. Magnes 3222 Lexington Road Lexington, K Y 40206-2714 Richard Rosenblum has been an insurance agent since 1982, and holds several professional degrees and designations in addition to his B.A. from Upsala, M.A.T. from William Paterson College, and M.L.S. from Pratt Institute.

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TKS Ms. Sharon Livesey 12 Gorham Avenue, Brookline, MA 02146 LOST: Marina Russo Denning, Mary Ellen Michele, Barbara Bart Olmstead My conscience was (belatedly) piqued by letters from Teena McConnell and Bev Harrison Miller. After a solo career with the New York City Ballet, Teena is now a highly credentialed chef with Italian leanings. She has a diploma from the American Culinary Institute, studied in Italy, and has worked at the Waldorf. She gives lessons/demonstrations in Glen Ridge. At her 20th college reunion, Bev ran into our old gym teacher Vicky Norris, who still writes to Miss Meehan, who is in New Hampshire and not well. Six weeks of driving to the American West gave Bev and family (including Brooke, 10, and Noah, 6) much togetherness. Farroll Hamer is getting married in January in Washington, D.C., a proper formal wedding. She visited me recently in Boston. Betsey Thresher Scharlack and I live within blocks of each other; our kids go to school together; we often share a house on the Cape in summer, ski together in winter. We both work full-time, in the business school line. She is Program Director at Babson College. We visited Margo T im er Doscher in New Hampshire last winter. She has a boy in prep school and a younger one at home. Margo is very much Margo, and has political talents. Anna Maria Ciccone Wein has proven that time can stand still; she works in the same building (different job — R & D at Equitable Life) on Broadway in New York. She reports that Anne Katherine Wilhelm has a very nice pet shop on Bloomfield Avenue in Montclair. Anna Maria saw Anne Falrlie

Thank you. . . . . . to all these new class secretaries for volunteering: ’45 Robert Nebergall ’57 Linda Baldanzi ’71 James Bryan Jr. ’72 Steven Schottenfeld ’73 Greg Lackey

Michelson out in the yard taking pictures of her kid. Diane Haines is a staff writer for the North Jersey Herald and News in Passaic. Winnie Stark had to be tracked down; she is staying with her mother in Florida. Sherry Dietz Mills lives in Wellesley, has wonderful children and a very nice husband. I have also put in a call to Bill Sanderson, ever the artist I suppose. At least, he still has an answering machine in upstate New York. That’s all for now. This year is our 25th reunion — plan ahead. Sharon MA Mr. Bronson Van Wyck P.O. Box 580, Tuckerman, AR 72473 LOST: Michael Baten, Jeffrey D. Blake, Christopher Dorment, James Graham, Daniel Hodges, Richard Howard, Philip W. Sommer

64 IKS Dr. Deborah Pines 2540 D South Walter Reed Drive Arlington, VA 22206 Barbara Mahler Markussen’s husband, Carl, retired from the Air Force in February after 20 years of active duty. They are moving to the Albany area. Her daughter Kris is a freshman at Cornell University and son Jeff is a freshman in high school. MA No secretary

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TKS Mrs. P.E. Madsen (Betsy Ridge) 58 Chestnut Street, Boston, MA 02108 Time flies dept.: Susan Debevoise Wright is in her fourth year as dean at Dartmouth. Her first class — now seniors — graduates in June. Katharine Haines, married in New York in December, lives in San Francisco. MA Mr. R. Victor Bernstein 40 W. 77th St. Apt. 4E, New York, N Y 10024 Learned at fall phonathon: Barry Belmont has a new baby, a son.

66 TKS Mrs. W illiam E. Crawford (Francine O norati) 421 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02115 MA Mr. John F. Hawley 1402 W ashington Street H olliston, MA 01746-2215

Within These Halls The Alumni Council has contributed S1000 to help with the publication of W ithin These Halls, the centennial history of MKA by Robert D.B. Carlisle. The council will donate the first three copies of the book to the three school libraries.

“A Shadowy World o f Moonlit Visions” Her work has been compared to Goya’s graphic work, ‘‘with its skillful draftsmanship and powerful evocation of the dark side of the psyche.’’ Artist Madden Harkness ’66 is achieving international recognition for her mixed media works. Her paintings were . part of the show — which included David Hockney and Ed Ruscha — titled “ Contemporary Southern California” which went to the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan last year. She has an agent in Japan and will have a one-person show in Hamburg, Germany, this spring. In addition to solo exhibitions at Roy Boyd Gallery in Los Angeles and at Ivory/Kimpton Gallery in San Francisco, and more than 20 group exhibitions, Madden has been selected to be included in two books to be published this year — Inside the L.A. A rtist by Marva Marrow and Exposing Women A rtists by Kenna Love and Betty Brown. She earned an M.F.A. with High Distinction from the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, and a B.S. from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, Thfts University. She attended the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. But, she says, ‘‘The most important thing I would like stressed . . . is the importance Kimberley played in my development towards being an artist . . . One must be totally self-motivated every day, and one needs a certain amount of courage to show personal work and take the criticism along with the compliments. It has been even harder for women artists, as the history of art as we’ve been taught it, has been largely male-dominated . . . Kimberley gave me a strong basis for be lieving that women have many options and

67 TKS Ms. Margot Escott 2980 Kings Lake Blvd., Naples, FL 33962 Our condolences to Margot Escott on the death of her mother in November.

can accomplish what they set out to do.” Madden feels that one teacher, Mrs. (Norman) Peterkin, was influential in her development. “Her ‘Styles of Art’ class surpassed any other art history class I have had since . . . . She not only made art come alive for me, she encouraged me, at an age when I really felt it. She remains an inspiration.’’ The artist, who was known as Sharon Madden at Kimberley, chose Madden as her first name upon the death of her father. She lives in a large loft space in Los Angeles with her husband, Richard Harkness, a film editor and director.

Vermont and is now the second-in-charge of the news division of the CBS affiliate in Burlington. George and his wife breed Russian-related and straight Russian-registered Arabian horses in Shelburne. When not writing news, riding or shoveling, George teaches flying at the local flight school. John Rudd works with the Michigan Public Service Commission where he analyzes telephone company depreciation and comes up with new and improved ways to do this work. John and his wife, Karly, have been married 11 years and are the proud parents of a 2-year-old son, Brian.

MA Mr. Craig C. Perry 119 East 84th St., Apt. 6C New York, N Y 10028 Bob Wolff has recently tied the knot and is living in Bernardsville, N.J. Bob is involved in commercial real estate development in Morris and Warren Counties and in his spare time can be found on the tennis courts. Among our classmates living in Nantucket is Jack Hobson, who is busy publishing a magazine. Dodd Mead published his book, The N avigation Workbook. Jack and Jane HobsonDuPont have a son, Maximillian, 2. George W ilson lives in 20th reunion, class o f '67

Jeff Podesta is a Vice President at SmithBarney in New York City. He and his wife, Barbara, have two children and live in Port Washington. Jeff still hits a pretty good forehand. The November 1987 Yankee M agazine featured Wezi and Stephen Swift in its Great New England Cooks series. Already written up in Esquire magazine as a furniture maker and game bird breeder (Dec. ’83), Stephen’s enterprise is described in a five-page-plusrecipes article. He has bred a special Nantucket duck — “so lean it could be served rare and sliced as thin as premium beef . . . . By 1987 (the Swifts) and six employees were producing almost 35,000 game birds a year (20,000 quail, 7,500 duck and pheasant apiece) and selling them directly to about 20 restaurants, including several hotels in Boston.” They are relocating their enterprise this year to a 30-acre farm in western {Connecticut. Our condolences to Eugene Spenl Jr. on the death of his mother.

IKS Ms. Avie Claire Kalker 5805 Bircbbrook #202, Dallas, TX 75206 Nancy Plummer Nazarian does parties large and small through her business, Classic Catering, in Montclair. Four children are 19, 10, 8 and 2, with the oldest at Syracuse. Nancy had such a wonderful time last fall at Barry’s reunion (MA ’62) that she immediately volunteered to be class reunion chairman! LOST: Holly Blondel, Imogene Fuller MA Mr B urton M. Webb Box 29, Free Union, VA 22940 LOST: Barry Kent Brlnster, Frank J. Hanus III, Jay W. Hess, Raymond Iandoli, William A. Mitchell III, William C. O’Reilly, George Read Jr.

69 = = = = = = = TKS Mrs. Charles Gildea (Lynn Ehrhardt) 46 E. Saddle R iver Road Saddle River, NJ 07458 Shelly Brightman Runyan switched to elementary school librarianship after several years at Burroughs as an information specialist. Her boys Scott, 10, and Michael, 7, followed her to Detroit Country Day. Shelley reports all are well-adjusted to new school and new home. Our condolences to Louise A. Goddard on the death of her father. MA No secretary

Lost Alumni I f yo u have any inform ation about any o f the a lum ni listed as “lo st" in the reunion year classes, please call or w rite to the A lum ni Office, MKA, 201 Valley Road, M ontclair, NJ 07042. 201/746-9800. Thank you!

Elliot Middleton, his wife, Valerie, and baby Jessica moved to Minnesota in August. “ Spike” teaches finance at College of St. Thomas in St. Paul and “welcomes communications from other survivors of the class of 1969.”

70 TKS Ms. Leslie Bryan 844 E. M om ingside Dr. NE, A tlanta, GA 30324 Pat Vilas Brown had a daughter, Rachael Elizabeth, in June. Pat lives near Seattle, Wash., and works as a nurse. After six years in Houston, Dr. Pamela Yu and her husband moved to the beautiful hill country of Texas near Austin, where she has joined the faculty of the psychology department at Univ. of Texas. She will have a part-time private practice in Austin as well. “Susie Buttel O’Brien and I went with her two children and my baby,” writes Elizabeth Conzen Zellner, “to visit Heidi Sanders Bryan and Anne McIntyre Graves and their children this past fall. Four mommas and nine children! Jimmy Bryan ’71 stopped by with his wife and little girl. It was great fun.” MA Mr. Garret S. Roosma 30 Cottage La., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Harvie Porter and his wife, Susan, had their first child, David, in July 1986, two weeks after they purchased a 116-year-old house in Vermont that hadn’t been touched in 40 years. When not teaching high school math or entertaining David, Harvie plays mason, carpenter, roofer, plumber and landscaper.

TKS No secretary Our condolences to Laurie Goddard Libby on the death of her father. MA Mr. Jam es Bryan Jr. 5 6 D evil’s Garden, Norwalk, CT 06854 The Honorable Herbert Tate Jr., his father, Judge Herbert Tate, and grandmother, Hortense Tate, were honored by the Concerned Suburbia Committee in September. The seventh annual award dinner recognized their contributions and achievements — “Three generations of loyal and dedicated community services.” More than 250 attended the awards ceremony; Governor Kean sent congratulations. Geoffrey Close has a new addition to the family, Virginia, born in November.

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TKS Mrs. Linda Finney W illiam s Box 1446 Greglen Ave., N antucket, MA 02554 Linda Finney Williams has a very full life, working for a contractor, taking law courses, volunteering as an emergency medical technician and secretary to zoning board, plus appearing in theater productions. She is single again; Aryn is 10, Colin, 2.

MA Mr. Steven Schottenfeld 500 East 83rd St., Apt. 76 New York, N Y 10028 Vince Mascia writes of new office and living style in Reston, Va. After commuting to New York City for years, he marvels at the three-minute commute to work, grass, trees, horsecountry and golf every Friday. “Seventh heaven.” Peter Aiello and his wife, Karen, are doing well in Florida. They have two children; first child, Christopher, is almost two. Raymond King gave up consulting to become a systems officer at Marine Midland Bank, wife Anita is with NYC Dept, of Buildings, and daughter Jessica is four. Andrea and Michael Vitale had a daughter, Olivia Ann, in June and report that first time parenting is fun. Mike is one of six partners in a new law firm in downtown St. Louis specializing in civil litigation and corporate law. John Troxell was married in December. He is a research mathematician with Exxon and has master’s degrees in horticulture and statistics from Rutgers in addition to a BA from Yale. Bruce Pollack writes that his second son was born on New Year’s Eve, “just in time to qualify for a year-end tax deduction.”

73 — TKS Mrs. M ichael F. Moreno (Martha Del Negro) 750 Woodward Rd., No. Providence, R I 02904 MA Mr. Gregory Lackey 165 Chickahom iny Trail M edford Lakes, NJ 08005 Congratulations to Robert Jackson, who was named Mayor of Montclair in July! He will run for the office under new township rules at the next election. Malcolm O’Hara is now a principal in the law firm of Bartlett, Pontiff, Stewart, Rhodes and Judge in Glens Falls, N.Y. After graduating from MIT, Peter Rives went to CMDNJ Rutgers Medical School and did a residency in Edison, N.J., now has an active family practice in Metuchen. Peter was married on his birthday in August 1986. Greg Lackey moved to South Jersey last November due to a transfer to the Philadelphia office of the U.S. Postal Service, Regional Real Estate division. Greg and his wife, Toni, have three boys: Joshua, 8, Geoffrey, 4, and Jeremy, 2. He still enjoys Budweiser and softball. Congratulations to Linda and AI Van Eerde on the birth of their daughter in December.

74 TKS Mrs. Bogue Wallin (Bonnie McBratney) 39 Sum m it, Philadelphia, PA 19118 There were at least 25 TKS/MKA alumnae of various generations at Bonnie McBratney’s wedding last May. Susan Widmark Ridgway coaches field hockey and lacrosse at Kimball Union Academy where husband Hap is assistant headmaster. They are expecting their fo u rth (emphasis hers) child in March.

Reunion o f '76 a t wedding, L to R. Beth G iannotto Raba, M ary Lou G uttm an, m aid o f honor Laura Scher, bride fu lie Bellet, Frances Mills, Lisa A ufzien. Mary Lathrop Will is Associate Director of Boarding Schools, a marketing program for boarding schools. She is responsible for publications and membership development. Dierdre Newman Griffin illustrates children’s books and greeting cards, and illustrated the best-selling adult game “I Bet I Know.’’ She has also written a small children’s book which she is trying to get published. Erin Cuffe received a Million Dollar Sales Award in her first year of real estate sales in Montclair. She was selected as Vice President of the Realtors Associates. MA Mr. A nthony M. Celentano 3 Conduct Street, M orris Plains, N f 07950 Bruce Brand received a Community Revitalization Grant from the Economic Development Corporation of Essex County for his business, Batchmakers, on Church Street, Montclair. John deC. Blondel Jr. is now a Vice President at Goldman, Sachs. Brian Thomas was promoted to Director of Budgets and Analysis at Kenner Products.

75 MKA Mr. D avid Soule 214230 M eadowvale Drive, Niagara Falls Ontario, Canada L2E 5W 7 Liz Newman left Smith Barney in NYC to move to Boston in September — ' ‘The

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commuting was getting to me!” She works in the investment services and private banking division of Shawmut Bank. She lives two blocks from Kassie Canter and sees Ben Thompson ’74 and his wife quite often. Foster Cooper does commute to New York where he is a marketing manager for Digital Equipment. He and his wife, Susan, have two children: Katie, 2 'h and Foster B. the 4th, six months. Don and Sally McBratney D’Alessandro had a second son, Tommy, in September. They are moving to L.A. in June for a year while Don does a sports medicine fellowship in orthopedics. Newlywed Tim Breen, Manager of Sales Planning for the West Coast office of NBC Network Sales, lives in Los Angeles. Also newly wed is Nick Eastman, who is an actor in New York.

76 MKA Mrs. Paul McFeeley (Laurie H oonhout) 530 Valley Road, Upper M ontclair NJ 07043 Mr. Charles Read 3115 Carroll Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 Moira Uskokovlc received a doctor of medicine degree from Louisiana State U. last May and is doing postgraduate training in psychiatry at the U. of Maryland Hospital. She received a BA in French and chemistry from Grinnell College and a Master of Public Health degree from TUlane. She did research

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at hospitals in New Orleans and Paris. David Johnsen also received a doctor of medicine degree from the Medical College of Virginia, after attending the U. of Chicago and U VA. He and his wife, Robyn, live in Dan ville, Pa., where he is a resident in diagnostic radiology at the Geisinger Medical Center. Newlywed Michael Rosenberg is a field editor for D.C. Heath & Co. and lives in Paterson. In June and July the Port Authority Bus Terminal had a solo exhibition of urban and industrial landscapes by photographer Hal Goodtree. In 1986 Hal won first prize in the Jersey Journal Gold Coast Photo Contest. He did freelance photojournalism assignments from 1980-84, and works as a television producer. Frances Mills was married in October and went to Istanbul on her honeymoon. She graduated from Princeton and is a regional sales manager for The Silver Palate, a specialty foods business.

77 .. MKA Ms. Beverly H all 563 D anbury Road, W ilton, CT 06897 Taylor Gray and Andrew Dobbin were ushers at Alan Deehan’s wedding last July. BUI Dalzell got married in December ’86, graduated from law school in May, took the bar exam in July. Rick Jenkins, with an MBA from Columbia

Star Grant “Whip” Hubley ’75, an alumnus of MKA productions “Lady in the Dark,” “The Crucible” and “ South Pacific,’’ is currently starring in the movie “Ruskies.” He appeared in “Top Gun” as the character Hollywood, who bailed out on the last flight. Whip appeared in the TV miniseries “North and South” last spring and does commercials. (1986), does a reverse commute from NYC to the strategic planning group at General Foods in White Plains. Deborah Rasin also received an MBA from Columbia (1987). She is a VP at the Bank of New York, with focus on entertainment/film on West Coast. Paul Hastaba has a new job as national sales manager for a TV station in Dallas. Nellie Matjucha moved to an apartment in North Bergen with skyline view of the city. She is shopping center leasing rep. with Vornado Properties. Barry Centanni appeared on Broadway in the orchestra for ‘‘The Mikado’’ last year. He also won a position in the Stamford (Conn.) Chamber Orchestra. Scott Schulte played for the East Team (water polo) in the Olympic Festival last summer; second place. He was named MVP at the Indoor Nationals in the fall, where his New York Athletic Club team placed second. Scott reports that Mitch MacGregor ’79 is still waiting to close on a big real estate deal. Peter Adams’ daughter Laura was born during the October stock market crash. “Fortunately, no margin call to damage the memory of the dav”L *

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MKA Miss Pamela Zeug 19 D ow ning St., Apt. 3, New York, N Y 10014 Mr. John Glicksman 316 Greenway Road, Ridgewood, NJ 07450 LOST: Jacqueline Blstany, Andrew Blair, Lesley Brenner, Kristin Brothers, Nina Bundgaard, Donald Dannemiller, JeanMarie DeMoose, Suzzette D el Pomo, George Keller, Lisa Lipkin, J. Marc Lippmann, Deborah Mann, Karl Mills, Kerry Olson, Paul Siudmak George Stephens is a Baptist minister in Binghamton N.Y. He was married between college and seminary (four-year master’s degree) and has two children, Jeremy, 4, and Joshua, 1. Melissa Cohn Alvarez’ daughter Sarah is 18 months: the class of 2004! Melissa is President of Manhattan Mortgage, a firm she founded in 1985. Husband Ed is with Morgan Stanley. Jane Lugaric has a new job in medical advertising in NYC, commutes from home in Nutley. After three years with the Forum Corp. designing and selling professional training programs, Bruce McBratney Jr. is back at school, at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. P. Austin Shelby received an LLM in banking from Boston U.

79 MKA Mrs. Shawn M ahieu O rtiz 4308 Cowan Place, Belcamp MD 21017 Mr. Jack B rink 943 North Avenue, A tlanta, GA 30306 James Johnson was sworn in as an attorney of the State of New York in July. He graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1986 and from Harvard in ’83, and clerked in the Federal Court in Boston. He is with the New York firm of Debevoise and Plimpton. A graduate of Brown Medical School in 1987, Ippolit Matjucha is an opthamologist interning in San Diego. Betsy Stanton is a reporter in Washington, covering the D.C. retail market for Women’s Wear D aily and other Fairchild publications. Dave Wallace works as an investment and trading banker in Caldwell. He lives with Dave Stockel in Glen Ridge. Ed Mason and his wife, Jean, were expecting their first child in February. The wedding of Shawn Mahieu was announced in the New York Times. She graduated from Barnard and has a master’s in media studies from New York University.

80 MKA Mrs. M artin Garvey (Pam Eastm an) 120 Tenth St. 5E, W ashington DC 20003 Andrew Kramer married Dr. Deborah Hammer in August. He graduated from Cornell and cum laude from the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in June. He is an associate with Cahill Gordon and Reindel in Manhattan. Hamilton Bowser received an MBA from Washington University, St. Louis, last May. Michele Zatorski was promoted to research associate in the Capital Markets Group of the Prudential Insurance Co., Newark. She is pursuing a BA at William Paterson College, is married and has two stepchildren. Sean Jones returned to MKA again last summer for the Sean Jones Instructional Football Camp, bringing several teammates from the L. A. Raiders to help coach.

Karen Shelby lives in Boston, taking courses for dental school. Michael Dobbin also lives in Boston and will receive an MBA from BU in May. Joanne Wallace works in NYC at Moody’s, hopes to continue in publishing. Christa McGill enjoys the Duke Law School experience. She graduates in May.

82 MKA Miss Nicole A nastasiou Oak H ill Road, Clifton, NJ 07013 Mrs. Stephen B arral (Angela DeCandia) 240 9th Street, Apt. 14, Jersey City, NJ 07302 J. Blake O’Neill, team captain, played in the alumni hockey game in December and happily reported that MKA came back from trailing MHS 4-1 to win 6-5 • Mary Rachael Hayes competed for the United States in the World University Games in Yugoslavia last summer and placed fourth in the women’s foil event at the Olympic Sports Festival. She graduated from Temple with a BS in physical therapy and is engaged. Alfred Clarke, a graduate of Penn State, is community access coordinator for Gateway Cable in Newark. He is engaged. Annette Matjucha Hovland is “ Lois Lane” for a Highland (N.Y.) local paper. She is also busy with Kerstin (3) and Nils (9 months). Jim W indolf was married in July and is studying creative writing at the U. of Texas. Elizabeth Gibson Boyer has started a master’s program in math education at the U. of Maryland. Liz Cullum lives in Manhattan and works with Irving Securities, specializing in government securities. Jeffrey Osofsky received an MBA in health systems administration from Union College last June; his BS was in chemistry. “Hello to all,” writes Daniel Perera. He has settled in Boston and works as a loan officer for Norwest Financial after graduating from Hobart with a BA in economics. Thaddeus Yablonsky graduated from Hamilton College with honors in chemistry, and is in his second year at the New Jersey School of Medicine and Dentistry. Roger Raichelson is his classmate. Thad and Dave Bailey live together in New Brunswick.

MKA Miss Shelagh D aly 330 N orth M ountain Avenue Upper M ontclair, NJ 07043 Miss Karen M am ell 25 Alden Circle, West Caldwell, NJ 07006 Graduations: Laura Bartlett — BA in management from Hartwick College. Bruce Colwell — BA in theology from Boston College. David Newman — MFA in theater from Brooklyn College. Tracy Yablonsky finished an MS in marine biology in December, plans to go to law school to specialize in ocean and coastal law. Shelagh Daly is a media planner for the New York agency Hill, Holiday, Connors, Cosmopulos.

5th reunion, class o f ’82

83 MKA Miss Anne Rowland 54 Melrose Street, Boston, MA 02116 Class agent: Mr. Kevin W ilkins 95 Heller Way, Upper M ontclair, NJ 07043

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LOST: Pamela Miller The class of ’83 moves on: Amy Felber and Doug Colwell spent November in New Zealand. In December they went to Sydney, Australia, where they were joined by Maureen Towers, who flew in from her teaching job in Taiwan. Jill Green and Carmela DeCandla joined the group in January. They all hope to travel and work for a while Down Under. Rebecca Bowser, who graduated from Yale last May, visited Australia last summer on a six-week concert tour w ith “Whim ’N Rhythm,” Yale’s senior women’s singing group. They gave several concerts in Los Angeles and made radio and TV appearances. Eric Green, who graduated from Colby College, is working in the ski area Jackson Hole, Wy. Geoff Habron graduated from U. of Miami (Fla.) and has a marine science internship with the U.S. Parks Service in the Virgin Islands. Dartmouth graduates: Maureen Towers (history), Dennis Goldstein (English, cum laude), Kevin Wilkins (government, m agna cum laude). Kevin received the Dean’s Recognition Award for outstanding contribution to the school. He has joined Procter & Gamble in brand management. Suzanne Halm graduated cum laude from Lafayette with AB in psychology. She is teaching at a private school in Boston. Also in Boston are Hope Hasbrouck, who is with an architectural firm, and Libby Jeffrey, who works in the Harvard chemistry department, and is about to work in a new art gallery. After graduation from Vassar, Lisa Anne Pecora is at U. of Pennsylvania for a master’s degree in political science. Last January, Lisa visited the Soviet Union on a cultural exchange program. Holly Jervis is back at MKA, teaching Spanish for the winter trimester. During her undergraduate years at U. Massachusetts, she attended the U. of Seville. She spent another

month in Spain last fall. Ole! Andy Voss graduated from Denison U. with a speech communication major. He works at an advertising agency. Tom Cole lives in Montclair and works with a land development company in Clifton. Doug Colwell and Stephanie Dadaian graduated from Boston College. Stephanie is in the merchandising training program at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York. In law school: Kristine Hatzenbuhler (BA with honors in political science, Wheaton) at Seton Hall Law; Paul Josephson (U. of Michigan) at George Washington U.; Laura LaCorte, at Georgetown Law. Also in D.C. are Marc! Reiss, who works for a Congressman, and Elliot Semet, in med school. James Sarna attends Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva U., and has his own apartment in downtown Manhattan. He reports, “Although I’ve been working as a carpenter, I am leaving my tools and jeep at home. There are too few parking spaces and nobody is building houses in NYC without using cranes!” Don Cussen received a BA in economics from Hobart, has joined Prudential, and was seen at most Cougar football games last fall. Anne Rowland is Registration Manager of Katharine Gibbs School in Boston, MA; Andrea Lockett works with a medical publishing firm in Philadelphia. John Matjucha was named Phi Beta Kappa at Washington University, now is in med school at U. of Chicago. Walter Davis graduated cum laude from the U. of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. He is in a bank management training program in Nashville and is engaged. Degrees: Lynne Gabriel, BA, psychology, Ithaca College; Diane Kimmel, BA, French, Muhlenberg; Jill Green, BA, psychology, Middlebury; Amy Felber, BA, government, St. Lawrence.

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MKA Miss M aria Rabb 430 Upper M ountain Avenue Upper M ontclair NJ 07043 Class agent: Mr. Larry Rosen 6 Shoshone Trail, Wayne, NJ 07470 Dave Fehnel, pre-med at Bucknell, is one of only 68 Bison athletes who made the dean’s list last semester. He is co-captain of the lacrosse team and is considered one of the top defenseman of the East Coast Conference. Allen Klapper, a biology major, was named to Phi Beta Kappa at Union College. A James Goldman and Danny Kwiat ’85 compiled a 43 record in doubles for the TUfts U. men’s tennis team last spring. Jim also had a 62 record in singles. Maria Rabb made the paper for helping lead the Brown crew team to the Eastern championship last spring. Dean’s list at Denison: Marc Andre Buenger, Lisa Gibson. Raymond Thill is engaged and will graduate from Lafayette in May. Jill Sorce is® finishing her degree in biochemistry at Fairleigh Dickinson and plans to attend medical school. Bob Cottingham is America’s top-ranked sabre fencer. He received the Arthur Ashe

Sports Award at the Concerned Suburbia Committee awards dinner in September.

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MKA Miss P atti M cConnell 131 H arm on Cove Towers Secaucus, NJ 07094 Class agent: Miss Loren M iller 1055 R iver Road, Apt. 5606 Edgewater, NJ 07020 Lovey Cerfolio received her third varsity letter after helping the Kenyon College women’s soccer team to a 7-7-3 record. Roger Brown is a resident assistant at Bucknell, where he is majoring in international relations. Rosie Ahkaml is an RA and biology major at Colby College. She spent her January term in sunny Cuernavaca, Mexico, “studying Spanish” and living with a Mexican family. Marcle Cullum is spending this spring semester in London. Robin Schwartz lives in The City, majoring in urban design at NYU. Glngy Klgglns is majoring in history, minoring in philosophy at Swarthmore. After studying for the fall term in Lancaster, England, Edle Szakacs travelled around Europe with friends. She is an economics major at U. of Colorado, Boulder. Doug Polizzl is double majoring in engineering science and mathematics at Vanderbilt. He will be treasurer of DKE fraternity next year. Football stats and accolades continue to follow Mark McGowan at Lehigh, where he was the starting varsity quarterback. Mark was also elected President of DU fraternity for the second term.

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MKA Miss Sherry A hkam i 37 Virginia Avenue, Clifton, NJ 07012 Miss M ary Louise Neary 27 Warren Place, M ontclair, N J07042 Class agent: Miss Megan Cole 11444 Lost Tree Way North Palm Beach, PL 33408 Bruce Redpath has returned from a memorable PG year in England, and has joined Brad Van Siclen and Dave Weston at Hobart College, where he is enjoying himself immensely. Megan Cole is happy at St. Lawrence, after PG year. Anne Marie Fell is double majoring in art and English, and has made dean’s list at Lake Forest College. She is the goalie for their intramural women’s ice hockey team. Denise Fink is a pre-law, political science major at Tulane, and a member of AEPhi sorority. Malinl Narang loves Wellesley College, where she is a pre-med biology major. Mary Louise Neary was named to the dean’s list at Connecticut College. NEEDED FOR ALUMNI OFFICE FILES: 1902 Montclair Academy Yeare Booke

Alexa Magna ’87 has been ranked 16th in the nation at number one singles in Division III Women’s Tennis. She won the first singles title at the New England Women’s Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament and had a 16-3 regular season record at Wellesley College. Alexa was described by her coach as ‘‘brimming with mental toughness.” At MKA she won All-State honors for three years. Sherry Ahkaml is on the dean’s list at U. Virginia, where she is a government major and communications minor. Last summer she

had an internship with an investment banking firm on Wall Street. She plans to study in Paris next fall. Corey Weinstein, a communications major at U. Penn, plans to study in Florence, Italy, during her junior year. At Boston U., Claudia Ross not only made the dean’s list last year, but became part of ‘‘something very special.’’ She was elected President of a group of 30 girls bringing a new sorority to campus. When last heard from, Claudia was looking at national sororities, “and hopefully we will become a colony by October.” Mario LaCorte’s Colgate sorority is going national. She is majoring in English, minoring in women’s studies, and hopes to study in London next year. Last year Julia Weil had the female lead in the Dartmouth Players’ production of “ She Stoops to Conquer.’’ Damon Zeigler is sports editor of the campus newspaper at Washington and Jefferson College, and plays intramural volleyball and basketball. He is treasurer of his fraternity and earned a 3.58 GPA majoring in economics and mathematics. Good sports: Don Calder swims butterfly and freestyle on the Bethany (W.Va.) College swim team, which went to Florida for the holidays. Matthew Hendrian, while at Culver Military Academy, competed in the U.S. Fencing Association Nationals in Phoenix.

Editor’s N ote MKA is delighted to receive news of alumni and their families. We apologize if we have inadvertently omitted or misspelled any names. Please advise us of any errors so that we can correct our records.

MKA Miss Laura Baczko 102 H ighland Avenue, M ontclair, NJ 07042

In Memoriam

Marriages 1965 1972 1972 1972 1975 1975 1976 1976 1976 1977 1977 1978 1979 1980 1982 1982 1983 1983

Miss Ida Boodin 338 North M ountain Avenue Upper M ontclair, NJ 07043 The class extends its deepest sympathy to Jon Small on the death of his mother last fall. First graduate of ’87 to make the New York Times: Solomon Johnson. Solo was named MVP of the undefeated Columbia freshman football team for which he was the leading scorer and rusher. Ida Boodin (U. of Richmond) and Meg Allen (Georgetown) won varsity letters for field hockey. Meg will play goalie for Lady Hoyas’ lacrosse. Pam Fawcett started in JV field hockey at Gettysburg, where she pledged Chi Omega sorority. Chris Wight ran cross country at Lehigh. Tanya Nemeth was given a merit scholarship award by the Sony Corporation of America. At U. of Rochester, Lauren Green was accepted into the Ventures Program, which is the opportunity to combine freshman courses with an over-arching theme.

Katharine Haines and Andreas Hauer Dec. 12, 1987 Bruce Usher and Marion Mueller October 1987 Michael Vitale and Andrea Horvat Feb. 23, 1986 John Troxell and Gersony Hildebrand Dec. 19, 1987 Timothy Breen and Susan Mason Fall 1987 Nicholas L. Eastman and Mary Kirk Nov. 28, 1987 Julie Bellet and Mitchell Zuckoff Aug. 16, 1987 Frances Mills and Jonathan Wonnell Oct. 24, 1987 Michael Rosenberg and Barbara Jane Collins Dec. 20, 1987 William Dalzell and Catherine Logan December 1987 Alan C. Deehan and Sara W. Hill May 9, 1987 Elizabeth Du Hamel and Robert Williams Sept. 19, 1987 Shawn Mahieu and Carlos Francisco Ortiz Jan. 16, 1987 Andrew Kramer and Deborah Hammer Aug. 8, 1987 Mary Malfltan and Mark Cicalese Sept. 19, 1987 James Windolf and Susan Rushing July 18, 1987 Diana Nolle and Scott Deitch Sept. 12, 1987 Holly Ann Sobel and Glenn Armitage Sept. 8, 1987

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Madeline Mulford Horr Paul P. Smith Donald G. Masson Arnold D. Rood Natalie Ross Leonard Dorrance Sexton Edwin B. Hinck Alice Blackledge Fleet Walter Hehmeyer Edson Hoyt Nichols Mary Church Kidd Mary Milnor DeLand Robert A. Messier, II Doris Ferry Severn Mary Caldwell Soper

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