Spring 1989 MKA Alumni News by Montclair Kimberley Academy

Alumni

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Editors

Report From the Principal / 1 Beyond These Halls / 2 Alumni Profile, The Music Man / 5 Notes Around MKA / 6 Alumni News / 9 Class Notes / 11

Christie Austin Judy Polonofsky Virginia Montemurro

Membership in the MKA Alumni Association is open to all men and women who have attended the school. Its purpose is to make known to MKA the ideas, interests, and concerns of alumni and to inform alumni of the accomplishments and objectives of MKA.

P hotographic Credits

The Alumni Council is a representative group elected at the Association’s annual meeting to sponsor events and activities linking graduates with their alma mater.

W. L. Bill Allen, Jr. Christie Austin William Bullard Virginia Montemurro Marguerite Johnson Sliker ’68 Steve Tober Brett Zbar ’90

1988-89 Alumni A ssociation Council

B oard of T rustees 1988-89

Stephen Barral 80 Martin Brayboy ’80 Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65 Martha Bonsai Day '74, Vice President Stephen Dodd '79 Fay Taft Fawcett '52 Anne King Franges ’56 Robert H. Gardner ’78, Treasurer Geoffrey Gimber ’75, Secretary Robert A. Hoonhout ’71, President Gail Tomec Kerr ’52 Paul McFeeley '76 Peter McMullen ’77 Blake O’Neill ’82 J. Dean Paolucci ’73, Vice President Robert Post ’77, Vice President Linda Horowitz Rosier ’60 Ellen Wahl Skibiak 73, Vice President Cynthia Mann Treene ’54 Albert Van Eerde '73 Frances R. O’Connor, Principal Judy Polonofsky, Director of External Affairs Christie Austin, Alumni Director

Front Cover MKA Past and Present - Scenes from Homecoming 1988: Top: Varsity Cheerleaders Center Photo: Tom and Laura Marnell Garvey ’78 and children Bottom Photo: The first 55th Reunion - the Class of 1933!

Joan Arboit-Ainbinder, Secretary Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65, President Rose Cali James Courter ’59 Joseph Courter Jack Cussen, Treasurer Austin Drukker ’52, Vice President Laurence Fell A. Lawrence Gaydos Sharon Gray Robert Hoonhout ’71 Robert Jackson ’73 Austin Koenen Robert Kramer J. Paul McGrath James Magna Anne Muenster-Sinton Frances O’Connor Susan Ruddick Antoinette Schott Martin Sorger Ronald Tobia, Vice President James Vandermade ’35 Howard Van Vleck ’22 Eugene Wahl ’66

Member: Alumni Presidents’ Council of Independent Schools Council for Advancement and Support of Education National Association of Independent Schools New Jersey Association of Independent Schools (NJAIS) Published twice yearly by: The Montclair Kimberley 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 national or ethnic origin. Entered as third class matter at Montclair, New Jersey 07042 Design: The Gemini Studio, Montclair, NJ

R eport F rom T he P rincipal

Seventh grader Kristin Drukher helps Toni Green serve lunch at Tbni’s Kitchen, a longtime MKA community service project.

President Bush’s “Thousand Points of Light” is not a new idea! The idea that the individual is responsible for the welfare of the community has been a motivating force in American governmental structures and educational systems throughout our history. America was the first country to establish free public education for all, and it was done not so much to give each individual an opportunity to flourish, but rather to give the community the ability to flourish as a democratic society. The finest American schools throughout history have had among their goals the development of strong contributing members of the community. Montclair Academy, The Kimberley School and Brookside all had traditions of community service and all felt that it was essential to introduce their students to the concept of community service and to graduate young people who were eager to participate in the life of the community. The Montclair Kimberley Academy has as one of its central goals to educate young men and women to make a positive contribution to their community. This goal is stated in the very first page of the admissions brochure, in the MKA charter and in its accreditation papers. As early as kindergarten, our teachers and students work together to find ways to better their community. You will read about some of MKA’s community service programs in the article that follows,; “ Beyond These Halls.” Education is our society’s way of rearing children. Our youngsters spend almost half of their waking hours between the ages of five and

eighteen at schools and educational programs. Every form of education, whether it is an apprenticeship, tribal initiation or school, has strengths and weaknesses. One of the great weaknesses of formal education is that it can neglect the development of community. Interpersonal skills, the single most accurate predictor of a happy and productive life, often get a schoolboy or girl in trouble. In many schools it is easier to succeed if you work quietly, compete for the best grades and don’t disturb the routine. This behavior, however, also tends to make one self-centered and to curtail the development, spirit and interpersonal abilities. At MKA the curriculum is planned to overcome this structural problem of schooling by teaching students to work collaboratively, having them work in pairs and small groups on writing and research, and by helping them understand that people are not independent but rather interdependent. This style of learning, it is hoped, will help youngsters to grow up aware of the needs of others, the advantages of working together and the pleasures of community. In a more direct fashion, community service is introduced at every level. The primary community of family and home receives first attention, but our students are also invited to lend their services to hospitals, old age homes, environmental and recycling centers, political campaigns, animal shelters, tutorial centers, churches and synagogues, and all the other organizations that help a community prosper. Because education is child rearing, it is a long-term enterprise

and we often wonder if our efforts are successful. This year MKA students have given many indications that they are in fact becoming responsible citizens and giving members of their communities. Our seventh grade participates regularly in a community service, “Toni’s Kitchen” at St. Luke’s Church, which offers free meals for the needy. This year Toni’s Kitchen was faced with closing because it had neither the funds nor the food it needed, as the government had a smaller supply of surplus food. When our seventh grade students learned about this in December, they spontaneously organized to keep the kitchen going. They organized a cabaret and faculty contacted local foundations, and they raised over $13,000 to help Toni continue her work. The cabaret was a hilarious, fun-filled event in which faculty and students produced skits, songs and dances for a paying audience. It will never win a Tony, but no one who was there will forget the pleasure and excitement on the children’s faces when they realized they had raised enough money to keep the kitchen alive for two more years. MKA has received some outstanding awards for its Reading/Language Arts program, its computer program, its drug and alcohol abuse prevention program and its college preparatory program. No award captures the essence of an MKA education as well as this example of community mindedness and love of others. It gives me great pride to report it to you.

Frances R. O’Connor, Principal

B eyo nd T hese H alls BY CHRISTIE AUSTIN

— Last year Alexandra Costikyan Jewett, of the class of 1914, volunteered in the political campaign of George Bush. — Harold Demarest, MA ’30, spends two days a week as a counselor with the Service Corps of Retired Executives. — Doris Keller Hamlin, Kimberley ’36, had a bottle bill passed in Connecticut after seven years of effort. Now she has a new idea to combat solid waste and throwaways. — Robert Weinman, MA ’53, a neurologist in California, has waged a personal crusade since 1976 against medical fraud and abuses in his Nightletter fo r Am erican M edicine (“ in the muckraking tradition”). — Donna D el Gaizo, MKA ’84, worked with disabled children and retarded adults, and won a graduation award at college for her promise in a humanitarian career.

In every issue of the A lum ni News, the Class Notes section is filled with stories of such dedication. Alumni spend hundreds of hours on boards and committees of museums, libraries and social agencies - or hands-on in hospitals, schools and political organizations, volunteering their talents in the service of others. Many spend years in the Peace Corps. MKA is proud that our education reaches beyond books. Community service has been part of the philosophy and activity since the earliest days of Montclair Academy, Kimberley and Brookside. Indeed,

The Brookside M itten Tree: Kyle Torjussen, Eric Wahl, and Patricia Chin-Sweeney pose in fro n t o f a holiday tradition.

the MKA Alumni Association honored a graduate this year Aubln Zabriskie Ames ’54 - for her lifelong commitment to voluntarism: she received the Distinguished Alumni Award. Today the tradition of social responsibility continues on each campus. Some current activities:

P rim ary School Many of the projects at Brookside are related to holidays. At Halloween, students “ trick or treat” for UNICEF, collecting about $1,000 each year. At Thanksgiving, they bring in food for a church Food Closet. Since the early 1960’s, Brookside children have brought in mittens, hats and scarves to decorate the Mitten Tree at holiday time. The school encourages the children to choose and pay for the clothing themselves; later it is given to needy children. Throughout the year, Brookside invites residents of nursing homes to watch play rehearsals. Sometimes students troupe a one-act play to nursing homes and then mingle with the audience. Readathon is an ongoing project. With the help of their teachers and librarians, students obtain pledges and read books at or above their grade level. In the eight months of 1987-88, 86 Brookside students read 1,130 books and collected $5,300 for Multiple Sclerosis.

Sometimes a community service develops from the curriculum. A “ litter crusade” evolved from a science project on environment: students became aware of their own responsibility and picked up litter around their school.

M iddle School Every homeroom at the Middle School is required to do some form of community service. Some projects are short-term, most are ongoing. The sixth grade has set up an MKA recycling center. Students painted special boxes for plain and colored paper and placed them in every classroom and the duplicating rooms, and put containers for glass and aluminum in the dining room. Every week sixth graders sort and collect the used copy paper and bundle magazines, then deliver them to the school’s recycling pickup center. They also bag newspapers and put them at the curb on pickup days. On World Hunger Day each fall, Middle School students eat a lunch of rice and beans to foster awareness of the hunger crisis in the world. They collect food every month to help keep a church food pantry stocked, and many also participate in the annual CROP walk on a weekend. This year Middle School walkers raised $3,018.50! Since 1983, seventh graders - with a faculty member or parent - have helped serve lunch each Thursday and Friday at Toni’s Soup Kitchen at

St. Luke’s Church in Montclair. Students help set up, serve and clean up for 20 to 40 people a day. Many projects involve animals. Seventh graders in Jean Meyers’ and Ken Bishe’s homerooms raised $306, which they presented to the Seeing Eye Dog Foundation. A representative from the foundation came with his dog and spoke at an assembly for the entire student body. Subsequently many students tried being blindfolded for a day, to simulate being blind. Several sixth, seventh and eighth grade homerooms held soda and bagel sales to raise money for PAWS Animal Shelter. Students regularly visit the shelter and take blankets, food and treats for the animals. In addition, library aide Julie Edelman and three students a week volunteer with pet therapy: they take small dogs and kittens from PAWS to nursing homes after school. Pet therapy vividly heightens students’ awareness of the loneliness of old age and the immediate benefit of companionship. Some school efforts involve younger children. Eighth grade

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A fourth-grade class teams with a class at the Communica tion Disorders Demonstration Program, run by Montclair State College. MKA students write descriptive letters to “their” neurologically impaired students, then discover who their partners are by reading each others’ letters. “This provides a strong speech model for MSC children,” says teacher Rita Singer, “and puts our students in the role of helping others.” Biweekly followup visits include storytelling and listening, playing games, scavenger hunts and lunch. The benefit is twofold: MKA students gain a sensitivity of what it means to be “handicapped,” and MSC children gain a special friend. “The things we take so for granted,” said a fourth grader, “these kids have such a hard time learning.”

Top: Eighth grader Raghuveer Vallabhaneni takes p et to nursing home resident. Bottom left: Seventh grader Jason Brody w ith his “Buddy” a t South End D ay Care Center. Bottom right: Fourth graders Lesley Berry and Sham ari Christie share a joke with special friends a t M ontclair State College’s Com m unication Disorders D em onstration Program.

interns are trained in peer leadership for the fourth, fifth, and sixth grade overnight trips. A few students tutor younger ones in reading at Brookside. Helen Faulkner’s seventh grade regularly visits the South End Day Care Center. There, MKA students play games, read stories, and act as big brothers and sisters to pre-school age children. Reactions are immediate and enthusiastic: “Let’s go for two periods next time.” “Yeah, those little kids are so cute.” “Just think, when they go home, they’ll be talking about us\” The entire Middle School contributes to food baskets at Thanksgiving, and two groups go caroling in nursing homes before the holidays.

U pper School By the Upper School, many students volunteer regularly on their own through Scouts, religious, and community projects, or spend summers with service groups. Many, unheralded, devote countless hours to help faculty and staff with various duties. For two years MKA students have volunteered in rural Latin America through the AMIGOS de las Americas project. Last summer, after a fivemonth leadership training program, five seniors and recent graduates helped with: sanitation projects in Ecuador and the Dominican Republic, dental health in Costa Rica, community health in Ecuador and Mexico. John Rabke, Upper School

Runaways Since the production of the play “Runaways” last year, MKA has been involved with the homeless. Students donated the funds from the production to Covenant House in New York and followed that by clothing donations. The junior class invited a speaker from the Covenant House volunteer services program. With faculty sponsor Michael Beigman - who has trained to become a “direct care volunteer” - 15 students toured the facility and donated work time. (Covenant House is already using photos taken by MKA students in its publicity.) Another group visited this fall, and students held a fundraiser in January. As a result of the involvement, MKA’s club is an official chapter of Covenant House, called “ Lonesome of the Road” after the finale of “ Runaways.”

Language Department chairman, is President of the New Jersey chapter of AMIGOS, and Nancy Rabke, school nurse, is on the Board of Trustees. Every fall and spring, faculty and students donate 30 to 40 units during a Blood Drive. There is a student chairman; PAMKA (MKA Parents’ Association) provides snacks and volunteers to take blood pressure. Students have become increasingly serious donors with awareness of the AIDS crisis. A small but dedicated group goes with faculty member John Noble to exercise the animals at PAWS Animal Shelter every week. A new aspect of junior-year American History is a service requirement. Students must donate 10 hours to political or civic action groups, and then write a report on their experience. Last year’s juniors worked in local congressmen and Senators’ offices, in the mayor’s and town attorney’s office, on political

campaigns, lobbying groups and SANE. The ground rules state that the students have to do all the contacting and arrangements themselves. “The dividends,” said faculty chairman Ken Gibson, ‘‘are an interest in politics, the machinery of government, and working experience at the local level. When they go on their Washington trip [in the spring] and see a national lobbying group, they’ve already had experience sealing envelopes at the ‘grass roots.’” The current senior class - the class of ’89 - has a long history of community service projects, beginning with the donation of turkeys to the Salvation Army when they were freshmen. Starting in March of their junior year, when they contacted alumni and school administration, the class organized a baseball card show in December to benefit research on ALS (“ Lou Gehrig’s Disease”). Through concerted promotion and effort - and the presence of baseball great Yogi Berra to sign autographs - the class

raised $1700 to donate to the ALS Foundation in the name of Jack Rabuse, revered Upper School faculty member who is challenged by the disease. The Mastersingers, which originally started at the Academy in 1966 as a caroling group, is one of the longestrunning traditions at MKA. Under master director Nixon Bicknell, the group takes the joy of music to nursing homes, retirement homes, church groups, service organizations (Kiwanis, Lion’s Club, Chamber of Commerce), rehabilitation institutes and to other, primarily elementary, schools. “We are representatives of MKA,” says Nixon. Principal Frances O’Connor states the school philosophy succinctly in the centennial history of MKA, W ithin These Halls. “The faculty wants students to see that they benefit as much as, if not more than, the people they’re giving time to.” The goal is no less than a lifelong commitment to voluntarism.

Nixon Bicknell and the Mastersingers have brought the jcry o f m usic to the com m unity since the 1960's.

T he M usic M an “Practicing the drums or any other instrum ent he can get his hands on....always on his way to one rehearsal or other....winner o f a m illion com petitions.” 1977 MKA Yearbook Anyone who has seen him perform Will not be surprised to learn that MKA’s own B arry C entanni ’77 is achieving reknown in the music world, beyond his acclaim on the Upper School faculty. He currently substitutes in the timpani/percussion chair of “Phantom of the Opera” and performed with the Broadway production of “The Mikado” in 1987 and this year’s Christmas Show at Radio City Music Hall. He has been on two “Great Performances” telecasts on Channel 13: once with Luciano Pavarotti “Live from Madison Square Garden” and once “Live from Lincoln Center” with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra (July 1988). Barry, who graduated from Manhattan School of Music, received a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in 1984. He is one of two alumni chosen by Juilliard to form a quartet with two current students, as part of Lincoln Center’s Arts-in-Education program. The quartet gives a concert at the Juilliard Theater in July and tours for four weeks a year, one each season. He is also part of Festival Percussion, an educational quartet that performs more than 100 concerts annually for audiences K-college in the metropolitan area. A master of scheduling, Barry has concurrent positions as solo timpanist with the Stamford Chamber Orchestra, the Colonial Symphony, and the Cathedral Concert Orchestra, and plays with the Garden State Arts Center Orchestra during the summer. He has been with the New Jersey Pops since 1981.

In addition, he has performed as a freelance artist with - among others Tony Bennett, P.D.Q. Bach, Eddie Fisher, Vikki Carr, Roger Williams, Maureen McGovern (four times), Bobby Vinton, Peter Duchin, Ravi Shankar (Barry was tabla soloist with

Mr. Shankar when he appeared with the Cathedral Orchestra.) “This Music Thing” Barry says he was “alw ays” interested in music. His mother is a drummer who played with the big band of Eddie Farley: when Barry was in third grade, she appeared on the “ Ed Sullivan Show.” Interestingly enough, Barry was sent to MKA “to get away from this music thing” - the family wanted him to become a doctor or a lawyer! The strategy backfired. It was Chap Ostrander’s first year on the faculty, and he was a drummer. Barry credits mentor Nixon Bicknell with the thorough preparation in music theory that enabled him to skip those courses and spend more time in the practice room in college. “Nixon led me by the hand through the admissions process,” says Barry. He also is indebted to George Hrab, Sr., “who would let me out of gym for auditions, and often said, ’Go practice!” ’ Barry started out majoring in music education, but after his wife, Mary - an oboist - took him to hear the New York Philharmonic, he decided to go to a conservatory. Now on the faculty at MKA, Barry teaches instrumental music and works with the concert band, jazz band, Ocelots, and percussion ensemble. As his outside commitments have grown, so has his ability to communicate his enthusiasm for music to students. Barry sees hundreds of different children and music teachers each year when he does clinics, and compares programs. He occasionally takes MKA students to rehearsals and recording sessions to have them sit in the pit and see what a professional rehearsal is like. The students, in turn, are “crazy about him,” says a colleague. “He is very intelligent and kind, and his zany humor is infectious.” Occasionally Barry teams with pianist Michael Bergman of the Performing Arts faculty and drummer George Hrab, Jr. ’89 for morning assemblies and special events. With consummate showmanship, they

appear in costume, trade one-liners and play rags. Such a “great performance” at Back-to-School Night this year made parents wish they were students again. For alumnus Barry Centanni, teacher and musician - Bravo!

Barry Centanni '77

N otes A r o u n d M ka D ecade Club At this year’s opening faculty meeting, the following faculty and staff were honored for ten years of loyal service. Joyce Appelquist Donna Carrera Anna Claudio Mimi Crawford Peg Martin Donald (Scotty) McPhail Pat Ostrander Sue Reiter Doris Schroeder

of mathematics...avid tennis player and witty badminton fanatic [he is nationally ranked]” (’76), “apparently seeing no wisdom in anger/excitement” (’83). He expected a lot of his students, and they adjusted and responded. He is thought of fondly as “a character,” displaying a sharp wit and interesting sense of humor. After more than 21 years at the Academy/MKA, Ken decided to take early retirement and “go fishing” at his home on the Florida Gulf.

Facu lty Farew ells Joyce Appelquist Joyce Appelquist, a member of the Brookside faculty for ten years, moved with her family in December to Cape Coral, Fla., where her husband has accepted a position as college professor. We will long remember Joyce both for her classroom expertise and for her outstanding musical ability, which enhanced the many shows and special events she helped produce. Joyce’s spirit and enthusiasm were always an asset to MKA, and we will miss her. Georgiana Cameron Georgiana began teaching at MKA when the school was Kimberley, and taught science in the Middle School for 14 years until she resigned in November. Georgiana was instrumental in the development of the fourth grade land ecology project and the fifth grade oceanography curriculum. In addition, her strong interest in community service provided the impetus for the Thanksgiving basket project shared by all Middle School homerooms each fall. We will miss “Mrs. Cameron’s” unstinting love of her students and her care for the environment. Ken Mansuy Since 1967 Ken Mansuy has challenged Upper School math students, coached tennis and counseled advisees. Yearbooks over the years saw him as a “connoisseur

Maestro Takes a Bow: Nixon Bicknell and the Upper School Chorus acknowledging applause after the H oliday Concert.

Fall S ports R eport This year’s fall athletic season ended with the appearance of three of our squads in the NJSIAA State Tournament Playoffs (New Jersey’s Public School Athletic Association), plus attendance of five squads in the NJISAA and NJISWAA playoffs, the Independent School Association’s state tournaments. Field hockey finished its season with a fine 8-6-4 record, losing 1-0 in the sectional semifinals to eventual State Champion Belvidere High School. The team had a good mixture of veterans and rookies, with eight freshmen making strong contributions to the team.Such a strong young contingent should keep the squad highly competitive for a good number of years. Girls soccer, ending 8-6, lost to Group I State Champion and perennial power Waldwick High in the playoffs. This team also had a strong influx of freshmen who added much-needed depth to the squad. Big victories over defending State Champion St. Elizabeth and over Dwight-Englewood at their Homecoming highlighted the regular season. Girl’s tennis, in a tremendous performance in coach Jean Gisriel’s first year at the helm, ended its season with an exceptionally strong 12-4 record. Though the team lost to State Finalist Pingry in the Parochial semifinals, it garnered some fine victories during the season, including a dual-meet win over eventual State Champion Oak Knoll, and a strong performance in the semi-finals of the Essex County tournament. Here, too, a strong performance by freshman Melissa Roedel highlighted the season as she had an undefeated dual-meet record, was Independent School State Champion at third singles, and was selected to First Team All-State and the TV3 Suburban Cablevision All-Area Team, i It’s obvious from this influx of strong freshmen that MKA’s Middle School program is doing a terrific job in preparing its youngsters for the transition to the Upper School and providing us with athletes who can contribute positively to the program. We owe many thanks to Sandy Lonsinger, the Director of the

Field Hockey has a strong young team.

Middle School program, and all the Middle School coaches for the strength of their program. The Middle School football team has provided us with such high numbers of freshmen for the past two years that our squad numbered over 40 participants this year. At a time when most prep programs are down in numbers, it is encouraging that our numbers are up to such an extent that we were able to play a freshman game toward the end of the season, and the JV finished with a strong 5-1 record. The varsity, after a difficult start, won its last three games handily to end the season at 4-4 with a most impressive 35-7 victory over archrival Pennington. Its strong 0-7 performance against League Champion Morristown-Beard spurred it on to such a strong finish. Water polo, with a much-needed contribution from freshmen and upperclass rookies, approached .500 for the season at 4-6. A very strong performance against Lawrenceville in the season’s last game and the graduation of only two seniors provides encouragement for the future of water polo. Cross country, with very strong senior leadership, finished at 4-10 overall and came in seventh in the state championships and in the Prep Conference meet. Boys’ soccer, with a powerful and experienced contingent of seniors, finished at 7-7-3 in the inaugural season of head coach Ken Smith.

The team suffered a disappointing 1-2 overtime loss in the state tournament to eventual State Finalist MorristownBeard, after having beaten them 4-1 at their Homecoming. Highlights of the season were victories over Newark and Blair and ties against ever-strong Princeton Day and Wardlaw-Hartridge. Thus MKA had another successful fall campaign, and we are encouraged by the strong contributions made by our underclassmen - contributions which bode well for the future. George Hrab Director o f Athletics

C oaching Award In December coach Ellen Steege Iverson received a Special Sports Award from the NJSIAA for dedicated service in the field of interscholastic athletics. Coach Iverson was honored by the Association’s Executive Committee at a luncheon for her ‘‘specific con tribution to the student-athletes of our state over an extended period of time.” UnderCoach Iverson, the MKA girls’ fencing teams have won eight State Tournament Team Champion ships in the last nine years, and four Santelli Championships in a row. MKA alumni are competing triumphantly in the college fencing circuit all over the country.

F rom T he O ffice O f E xternal A ffairs Helm ut E. M uenster Field One of the most exciting events in the recent history of the school will occur this spring when MKA’s new athletic field at 40 Upper Mountain Avenue is dedicated. Karen Muenster ’88 and Lorelei Muenster ’90 with their mother, Trustee Anne Muenster-Sinton, have made this possible through thenmost generous gift in memory of their late father and husband, Helmut E. Muenster.

Brookside Capital P roject Pat and Gene Wahl and Linda and John Garippa have completed a successful campaign to raise $850,000 for a new wing at Brookside. Ron Tobia, Trustee Chairman of Development, stated recently that “in becoming new MKA fundraisers - with instant success they also win the award as this year’s outstanding hosts and hostesses!” Board President Margaret Bridge, along with Trustee Sharon Gray and

Principal Fran O’Connor, served on the committee co-chaired by the Wahls and Garippas. Special thanks from the committee to Joan and Bernie Carl and Joanna and Richard Pisacane for hosting dinner parties. MKA extends its appreciation to those families who responded with gifts and pledges to make the Brookside dream a reality for September.

PAMKA Luncheon The Parents’ Association of The Montclair Kimberley Academy is holding its annual fundraiser, a luncheon/fashion show at The Manor on Tuesday, May 2, 1989. The proceeds will be used for enrichment programs that benefit both MKA students and faculty. Co-chairmen parents Pat Di Napoli and Joan Van Raalte urge all to attend. For more information, call the Office of External Affairs, 746-9800 Ext. 7942. Judy Polonofsky Director External Affairs

Making Futures B righ t The response to this year’s Annual Giving Phonathons was overwhelmingly positive! Thanks go to the 1988-89 Annual Giving Leadership: Annual Giving Chairman Trustee Gifts Gift Club Phonathon Parent Phonathon Alumni Phonathon

Sharon Gray Susan H. Ruddick Jodi Smith Jeff Smith Susan Krouse George Krouse Austin Drukker ’52 Bob Hoonhout ’71 J. Dean Paolucci ’73

Chairman, Development Committee Board of Trustees Ronald L. Tobia If you have not yet made your commitment to MKA’s 1988-89 Annual Fund you can help meet the $375,000 goal with a gift before June 15, 1989Bequest - Another Way to Make a Gift Your bequest will help MKA’s future. Have you made your will? Have you included MKA? The following wording is suggested for a bequest: “I give and bequeath the sum of $_____ to The Montclair Kimberley Academy 201 Valley Road, Montclair NJ 07042 to be used for its general purposes.’? (i

Top: Trustee and parent Austin Koenen a t Phonathon. Bottom: Jane Lugaric ’78 and M artin Brayboy ’80 a t A lum ni Phonathon.

Our sincere apologies to the following generous friends of MKA whose names were inadvertently omitted from the 1987-88 Annual Report. Principal’s Circle Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Kovach Parents of Alumni Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Varkala Parents of the Class of 1988 Mr. & Mrs. C. Jackson Gray Friends of the Field Dr. & Mrs. Frank Di Girolamo Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth Di Stefano

From T he A lum ni A ssociation The final months of 1988 were very good months for your Alumni Association. I would like to personally thank each member of the Alumni Council who worked hard to ensure that 1988 was the Association’s most Successful year ever. We spoke with more people than ever at Alumni Phonathon and experienced record crowds at our events, from Homecoming to the annual Alumni Hockey Game in December between MKA and Montclair High School. Incidentally, despite being outnumbered on the ice, the Cougars won this hockey game by a score of 6-5 in a very exciting contest before a capacity crowd! We are, of course, working on our projects for 1989 and welcome your support. The Council sponsored a “MKA Night at the Meadowlands” in January to see a Devils’ hockey game, and got our name in lights above the arena! The Career Day committee is hard at work - many alumni will return to speak with students - and

the Distinguished Alumni Award committee is pondering nominations. Finally, a recent bylaws change has placed the Alumni Association on the same fiscal and financial year as the school itself; that is, with year-end at June 30th. Therefore you will note in this issue that nominations and the

officers’ terms of your Association have been set to coincide with the new calendar. Please join us in 1989 in coming back to visit our school. Robert A. Hoonhout ’71 A lum ni Association President

Alum ni Council members Martha Bonsai D ay '74, Paul McFeeley '76, M artin Brayboy '80, and J. DeanPaolucci '73 listen as A lum ni Association President Bob Hoonhout ’77 conducts annual meeting.

Alumni A ssociation C ouncil B allot Election for Alumni Council members will be held at the Annual Meeting of the MKA Alumni Association on May 1, 1989. Meeting place will be at the Middle School Music Room, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, New Jersey. Time 8:00 p.m. If you do not expect to be present at the meeting, please sign the proxy below and return it to the Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, New Jersey 07042. Upon election of the proposed slate of nominees*, the Alumni Council for 1989-90 will consist of the following: TERM EXPIRING 1990 Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65 Martha Bonsai Day ’74 Stephen Dodd ’79 Fay Taft Fawcett ’52 Anne King Franges ’56 Peter McMullen ’77 Robert Post ’77 Linda Horowitz Rosier ’60 TERM EXPIRING 1991 Geoffrey Gimber ’75 Gail Tomec Kerr ’52 Paul McFeeley ’76 Blake O ’Neill ’82 Ellen Wahl Skibiak ’73 Cynthia Mann Treene ’54

The following persons presently on the Alumni Council have been nominated to serve as officers of the Alumni Association for 1989-90. These officers will be elected by the Alumni Council at its annual meeting on May 1, 1989: President......................... Executive Vice President Vice President................. Vice President............... Vice President................ Secretary......................... Treasurer..........................

TERM EXPIRING 1992 Joseph Alessi ’68 Melissa Cohn Alvarez ’78 Stephen Barral ’80 Robert H. Gardner ’78 Robert A. Hoonhout ’71 J. Dean Paolucci ’73 Albert Van Eerde ’73

Robert A. Hoonhout ’71 ..............Robert Post ’77 .....J. Dean Paolucci ’73 .. Ellen Wahl Skibiak ’73 . Martha Bonsai Day ’74 .... Geoffrey Gimber ’75 .. Robert H. Gardner ’78

The undersigned hereby appoints Robert A. Hoonhout ’71 Proxy to vote FOR__________AGAINST__________ the election of the proposed members of The Montclair Kimberley Academy Alumni Council at the annual meeting to be held May 1, 1989 as set forth in the spring issue of the Alumni Magazine.

*The Nominating Committee proposes the following Alumni Association members to serve on the Council: Joseph Alessi ’68 Melissa Cohn Alvarez ’78 Stephen Barral ’80 Robert H. Gardner ’79 Robert A. Hoonhout ’71 J. Dean Paolucci ’73 Albert Van Eerde ’73

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MKA TRADITIONS TEST 1. What was the name of the school in 1904? 2. What was Miss Waring’s middle name? 3. What were the Montclair Academy colors?

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Top: Tony Del Gaizo '82 and goalie Jim Garino 88 m ake an active save a t the Alum ni Hockey Game in December. The Cougar alum ni won, 6-5. Bottom: Brad Protas ’77 (No. 25) does some fancy stickwork a t the A lum ni Hockey Game against archrival M ontclair High.

The Great Cougars II. Victorious 1988 A lum ni Hockey Team, standing L to R. coach Peter Schiffenhaus, John Towers, John Booth, Tony DelGaizo, Mark Ames, Doug Colwell, Anders Skilbred, Chris Bruce, D arrin O’Neill, Peter McMullen, Jason O’Neill, John Joseph, J e ff Day, coach Colin O’Neill. Front row L to R: captain Blake O’Neill, Peter Dodd, Eric Wong Phil Molinaro, goalie Jim Garino, goalie Michael Platt, Brad Protas, Dave D unnigan, Steve Dodd, Eric Betke.

H om ecom ing At the Reunion Luncheon during Homecoming, Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54 was surrounded by family, friends, classmates, and previous award recipients as she received the 1988 Distinguished Alumni Award. In a moving speech, Aubin noted that hers is truly an MKA family: three generations of her family have attended Kimberley, the Academy, or MKA [and almost all of them were present]! Citing demographics and current social trends, Aubin made an impassioned plea for voluntarism in this age of careerism. She noted the personal growth as well as the civic benefit which come from a commitment to others.

Cheers for 1988 Reunion Chairmen 1933 Cedric Jaggard 1938 Robert Buckalew 1948 Maurine Palmer Colandrea Richard Sandler 1958 Joan Eberstadt Weiant Martin Rosen 1963 Andrew Abrams 1968

Nancy Plummer Nazarian Edward “Jack” O’Neill 1978 Lori Windolf Robert H. Gardner 1983 Kristine Hatzenbuhler Donald Cussen

Top: Legacies: Three generations o f Ames and Zabriskies were present a t the reunion luncheon honoring Aubin Zabriskie Ames '54, 1988 D istinguished A lum ni Award recipient. Back row, L to R: Emily Troxell '78, Tom Troxell ’43x, M ark Ames '86, G ail Zabriskie Wilson 56, Peter Wilson. Front, L to R: Heidi Am es' 81, Anna Lincoln Ames '20, Heidi Ames Troxell '46, Lincoln Ames, Aubin Zabriskie Ames 54, Allie and Bob Zabriskie. Seated: D avid Ames '89. Bottom: A lum ni Council members Dean Paolucci '73, Martha Bonsai D ay '74, and Bob Post '77 sell ponchos as a fundraiser during Homecoming.

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E d ito r ’s N o te 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 14 to 16 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.

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

TKS Mrs. Sam uel Meek (Priscilla Mitchel) 88 D oubling Road, Greenwich, CT 06832 MA Our condolences to the family of Edward Seymour, who was for many years class secretary and the last surviving member of the Academy Class of 1917.

TKS No secretary Elizabeth Platt McGhle writes, “I went to Kimberley School the first day it opened, and graduated there in 1918. Miss Waring was an unforgettable person!” Our condolences to the family of Mabel Peaty Howell.

NEEDED FOR ALUMNI OFFICE FILES: 1902 M ontclair Academy

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TKS No secretary Our condolences to the family of Helen Raymond Halllgan.

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TKS No secretary “I was very proud to be present at the Homecoming luncheon last fall,’' wrote Anna Lincoln Ames, “when my daughter-in-law Aubin [Zabriskie Ames] received a wonderful recognition, the Distinguished Alumni Award. As she said then, we have indeed been an MKA family. My daughter Heidi Ames Troxell was a 1946 graduate. Six grandchildren have been priviledged to attend and graduate; another grandson, David Ames, is a senior.” MA No secretary Our condolences to the family of William C. Reed.

The 1919 M ontclair Academy yearbook printed the rumor that Mr. Collinge, the Bradley House master, rigged up a periscope from his room in order to keep an eye on the juvenile pranks in the house. (See inside back cover to order Within These Halls, the centennial history of MKA.)

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TKS No secretary Our condolences to the family of Edna Lee Gilchrist. MA No secretary Small world: Dan Bushnell ’29 recognized Howard Van Vleck at a Boston hotel in June Howard was at his granddaughter’s wedding reception!

Shades o f Y esteryear

MA if. Cmdr. Alden W. Sm ith Penury Priory, Temple, NH 03084 When Alden Smith wrote MKA in December, there were already six inches of snow on the ground and 0 degrees outside!

TKS Mrs. Paul M acdonald (Louise Russell) 35 Bank Street, New Canaan, CT 06840

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

MA Mr. Eugene Speni 85 U ndercliff Road, Montclair, NJ 07042

Best wishes to our faithful class secretary as she recovers from a stroke!

The M ontclair Times reported that Eugene Speni is honorary chairman of the Montclair Republican Advisory Board. “He has an extensive background in civic affairs and served for many years on the board of the YMCA. He is a past president of the West Essex Bar Association and the Kiwanis Club, and a past lieutenant governor of the NJ State Kiwanis.” He has served as a commissioner of the Montclair Redevelopment Agency since 1982 and was vice chairman of the agency for four years before becoming chairman. Speni has also been active in fundraising for the Heart Fund, the Montclair Camp Fund and the YMCA and has served as chairman for all three fund drives.

MA No secretary Condolences to the family of Richard Kleinhans. We will miss our faithful class secretary.

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TKS Mrs. Philip Taylor (Helen Patrick) 590 Palm Circle West, Naples, FL 33940 Edith Keys Stoney missed her 14th trip to Africa as she attended to family business following her husband’s death. A bright spot: her granddaughter Patricia Johnson’s forthcoming wedding in April. Helen Patrick Taylor has three grandchildren engaged to be married, with weddings coming in the spring and summer. MA No secretary Our condolences to the family of Alexander Cerf.

TKS Mrs. Gordon Bowen (Barbara Newell) 50 Forest Avenue, Glen Ridge, NJ 07028 Our condolences to the family of Elizabeth Love Nelson. Just in November she wrote for the A lum ni News, “If there are any more 1928ers please reveal yourself. We are getting mighty old and would love to hear from you.”

MA No secretary Our condolences to the fa m ily o f Robert Schmidt.

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TKS Miss Charlotte H. Fitch, Box 45 24 Cape Bidl Lane, Westport Point, MA 02791 We are sorry to lose three members of the Class of ’29. Condolences to the families of Harriet Laffey Files, Laura Hurd Motion, and Ethel Kellinger Woodruff. Harriet was one of the most delightful, original and imaginative members of our class. It was Laura who got a number of us together for a mini-reunion a few summers ago in her summer home in Connecticut. Until her last few months she was an active tennis player and a loyal volunteer. Christmas cards brought greetings from Lewis and Jane Foster Lapham and a picture of them both looking well. Kit (Katherine) Meeks said, “Still hangin’ in there!” and sent greetings. Ginny Hamilton Adair had a large family reunion at daughter Katharine’s in New Palz, N.Y. over the holidays. Ginny said neither the fires nor the earthquake had affected her home in California. My own news is that I have had about four trips to the Lahey clinic for them to try out all their latest medical technology on my kidney stones. Such machines! Then the computers get consulted by the doctors. It’s a wonderful place though and the doctors are tops and I guess the computers are pretty good too. I have been enjoying getting to know a number of Chinese students who go to a nearby university. Last year I rented a room to a young man from Shanghai and this year a young woman from Beiping. I enjoy them and their friends and the wonderful real Chinese food they sometimes share with me. Charlotte MA Mr. Robert Dorrill 42 Godfrey Road, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043

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“Robert Carlisle (and his helpers) has done an excellent job of giving continuity and perspective out of all the odd bits of information available to him and somehow managed to make something cohesive out of three disparate institutions. It was a lot of work but I’m very glad he did it.” Charlotte Fitch ’29 (See inside back cover to order W ithin These Halls, the centennial history of MKA.)

TKS Mrs. Richard D um ont (Marjorie Kieselbach) P.O. Box 766, Bemardsville, NJ 07924

Thank you to retiring class secretary Esma Currier Christner! We wish her well as she recuperates from a broken hip. Welcome to new class secretary Marjorie Kieselbach Dumont! Our condolences to Margaret Penick Nuttle on the death of her husband.

Edith Bull Miller has been living on their farm in Warwick, N.Y., for the past two years, working on their vineyard. They sell wine grapes to home winemakers and a few wineries. Our condolences to the family of Jean Getty Laurence.

MA No secretary Our condolences to the family of Stanton M. Smith.

MA Mr. W illiam J. Thompson 415 Claremont Ave. 1t2E, Montclair, NJ 07042

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TKS Mrs. Jerome Drew (Jesse Taylor) 1076 S. E. St. Lucie Blvd., Stuart, FL 34996 A letter from Eileen Halligan Forman was received too late to be printed at length in the fall A lum ni News. She writes, “I am enormously grateful to my three children and eight grandchildren, aged 8 to 23, for giving me a pipeline to the nuclear age and some understanding of it...I love to visit in Boston and Washington, D.C....a daughter and her twin daughters live nearby in Santa Monica. So once again I’m going to plays, dance recitals, and athletic events. “Some of my time is spent in volunteer activities: at a thrift shop, a museum, and a church. Some is spent taking classes in literature and in yoga...I’m fortunate to be as healthy as I am and to have as many interests as I do.” Eileen thanked Jesse for the wonderful job she is doing as class secretary! Our condolences to the family of Virginia DeGolyer Maxson, to Nancy Holton Bartow on the death of her husband, and to Isabel Lemkau Fitt on the death of her husband, Russell. MA No secretary

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TKS Mrs. W illiam McCahill (Frances Elliott) 3114 Russell Road, Alexandria, VA 22305 MA Dr. Jam es A. Rogers, Apt. 205 921 Seagrape Drive, Marco Island, FL 3393 7 Thomas Braine is in his fifteenth year teaching Pastward History at the O’Neal School in Southern Pines, N.C. - from now with hindsight to America’s roots of 19th, 18th 17th centuries and medieval Europe. He returns to Montclair annually en route to Vermont. A resident Vermonter (Stowe since 1974), John J. Newberry, Jr. continues to serve as a trustee of nearby Copley Hospital, the YMCA of Ridgewood, NJ, and the Pierce Arrow Society of the New England Region. He is President Emeritus of the Board of the Winchendon School, Mass., and Emeritus Life Trustee of The College of Wooster, Ohio.

Five of the Class of 1933 had a fabulous 55th reunion on October 24th. Chairman Ced Jaggard, Hank Doremus, Fred Stickel, Erwin Wilson, and Bill Thompson were there. Bill writes, “The luncheon and speeches at the Academy and the dinner at the Montclair Golf Club were superb. We had a great time reminiscing; Ced had done a wonderful job organizing our reunion. We certainly wished that the rest of you had been with us.” Dave Stanley missed it because he and Helen were in Norway, riding on the ship that carries mail and catgo to all the ports on the northern and western coast. Elly Wood had to cancel reunion plans after undergoing a second operation to repair his broken leg. As of Christmas time, it was improving with physical therapy. Elly was looking forward to his 50th reunion at West Point in May, then visits to family in New England. Halfway through his master’s in history, Vardy Laing hopes to graduate in 1990. His granddaughter is also at the U. of Calgary “Perhaps we shall graduate together!” He and his wife, Marion, spent a delightful two weeks in the north and south of Ireland and reported, “absolutely no trouble anywhere.”

TKS Mrs. D avid H aviland (Barbara Spadone) 10 Crestmont Rd. Apt. 2D, Montclair, NJ 07042 Our condolences to the family of Catherine Halsey Hutson. MA Dr. WalterJ. Sperling Fearrington P.O. Box 192, Pittsborough, NC 27312

TKS Mrs. Stewart Carpenter (Josephine Fobes) 4 LaSalle Road, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 “Nothing useful,” reports Jessica Roberts Gilmour. “However, three of our six sons are returning to school for various degrees, parttime. We are mostly pleased, but partly unnerved.” MA No secretary

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

John Hoff is “just plain retired” and seeing the world (Antarctica, Chile, France, Spain and Portugal in 1988). “Good photography, lousy golf!” he reports.

Top left: Lincoln Ames, Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54, and her father Robert Zabnskie. Bottom left: Josh Raymond ’89 takes Joan Barney Gill ’58 and Roy Gill on tour of Upper School to see the Barney Science Building donated by her lather, former trustee L. Davis Barney. Top Right: Faculty member Nancy Rabke and Anne Rowland ’83. Bottom Right: Richard Kimm ’48 and Barbara Kimm. Top: Dick Rento ’78, Curt Brunner ’78 and Betina Brunner. Middle: Tilly-Jo Beatty Emerson 54, Gail Zabriskie Wilson ’56, Pat Taylor Stabler ’54 and Lynn Towner Dodd ’54 came to see Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54 accept Distinguished Alumini Award. Bottom: James Vandermade ’35, Upper School head Dick Webster, Howard Van Vleck ’22.

Top: Fran O’Connor in full Homecoming regalia speaks with Dick Carrie ’41 and Jeanne Kirkland. Middle: Reunion co-chair Rob Gardner ’78, Melissa Cohn Alvarez ’78, co-chair Lori Windolf ’78, and ’83 reunion co-chair, Kris Hatzenbuhler. Bottom: Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65, President of the Board of Trustees, greets the Hoonhout family, L to R: Bob ’71, Joan, Bob, Sr., Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley ’76.

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TKS Mrs. W. Kent Schmid (Josephine Murray) RD 1, Box 623, Mason’s Island, CT 06355 Best wishes to Edwin and Elaine Beling Phillips on their marriage! They live in Newfoundland, N.J. and she continues to work at the blood bank. Elizabeth Howe Glaze wrote, ‘‘My Manasquan reunion with my special friends in August was a highlight for me in 1988.” She also visited with Patsy Soverel McGee in Kansas City over New Year’s weekend while seeing her new grandson Benton, then ten months old. “Hope for more get-togethers during ’89!” Our condolences to Elizabeth Bell Miller on the death of her husband. MA Mr W. Kent Schmid RD 1, Box 623, Mason’s Island, CT 06355 Lois and Dallas Townsend have sold their home in Verona and moved to Florida. Our condolences to the family of John B. Coulston.

50th reunion, the Class o f '38 MA Mr. Charles McGinley 1911 W. Magic Place, Tucson, A Z 85704

TKS Mrs. Charles Leavitt (Virginia Kracke) 93 Stonebridge Road, Montclair, NJ 07042

Bernie and Barbara Bailey Hoey enjoyed a trip to North Carolina mountains last summer. They also spent a week seeing old friends in Westhampton Beach, Long Island. (“I had a house party there at my parents’ summer home 50 years ago, before our class graduated. Most of our ’38 class was there.”) On their way home, they went up in a balloon over Charlottesville! Our condolences to Judy Rose Dahl on the death of her husband.

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TKS No secretary “Sorry I missed our 50th reunion, but want to say ’hello’ to everyone,” writes Ruth Sylvester Elliott.

Many thanks to reunion chairman Buck Buckalew for his superb efforts to organize the 50th reunion and then to erect a flagpole as a class reunion gift! Buck spent hours writing notes and calling classmates, and then hosted a cocktail party before the reunion dinner at the Golf Club. Then Buck spent three nights at Alumni Phonathon, speaking with classmates about the reunion gift. His enthusiasm and persuasive powers resulted in a wonderful class reunion with a permanent memento! John Haberle, retired since June 1983, enjoys many hobbies and much travel. Our condolences to the family of Kenneth Molkenthin.

LOST: Donald Adams, James Allan, Frederick Collins, Leonard Cooper, Geoffrey Crook, Robert Flannery, Phillip Grey, Edward Marron, Robert Nlchol, William Roberts, Arthur Van Schott, Robert Winner, Jr.

TKS Mrs. Charles V. Cross (Barbara Armstrong) 2306 Cardinal Dr., Point Pleasant, NJ 08742 MA No secretary “Everyone’s well,” writes Frederick Little, who divides his year between Florida and Vermont. He was recently appointed vice chairman of the Board of Advisors of Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale.

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TKS Mrs. John Rauch Jr. (Jane Wilson) 8115 Spring M ill Rd., Indianapolis, IN 46260 Grace Currie Mitchell writes, “I spend a great deal of time with my son Jimmy in Laguna Beach, Calif, since I lost my dear husband two years ago.”

50th reunion chairm an Robert “Buck” Buckalew and Pat Buckalew.

LOST: Nancy Edds, Betty Perry Gleason, Ruth Gordon, Inez Greey, Margaret Gunther, Charlotte Hall, Inez Horton, Muriel Kutcher, Dorothy Miller, Lucille Ogden, Mireille Osbourne, Ann Heartt Spindt.

TKS Mrs. Jam es F.C. Hyde, Jr. (Enid Griswold) 5402 D uvall Drive, Bethesda, MD 20816 Annette Martin Benson keeps busy with family, grandchildren, Girl Guides, Meals on Wheels, bridge, and travel. Bill and Helen Hanau Breen went to Korea for the Olympics (“Great!”); Bill was head of marketing. Helen, for the past four years chairman of the Israel Crane Museum Store, is also chairman of the Montclair Beautification Advisory Committee and of the Garden Club Awards. She brought the alumni office up to date on their children; Bill Jr. ’73, Tim ’75, and Ken ’79 (see respective Class Notes).

Charles and Kit Eavenson Sanders moved to Martha’s Vineyard in February and look forward to retirement life. “Our three daughters have given us eight super grandchildren,” Kit writes. “Bruce ’77, recently married, hasn’t started yet!”

Bermuda. He’d won a talent contest singing “Old Man River” !

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

TKS Mrs. Nancy Heydt Green 99 Belvidere Road, Falmouth, MA 02540

Richard Sanborn is phasing out his orthodontic practice after 36 years. He enjoys ocean yacht racing and celestial navigation, “and ferrying yachts up and down the East Coast, etc.” Dick Carrie has retired after 30 years at Seventeen magazine. ’’Have gone back to college, am in the church choir (!), learning to play golf and enjoying bachelorhood. Retirement is GREAT! Don’t wait too long!” When Roger B. Etherlngton retired as chairman of Horizon Bancorp in December, the M ontclair Times chronicled his outstanding 40-year career in banking and devotion to civic causes. He continues to be a trustee of many community organizations, including Fairleigh Dickinson University, the Waterloo Foundation for the Arts, GreerWoodycrest Children’s Services, and a member of the advisory council for the National Alliance for Business. Roger is a life member of the Academy of Political Science and was recipient of the 1981 Israel Peace Medal. He received the Montclair Academy Outstanding Alumnus Award in 1974.

Condolences to the family of Mary Tlernan McShane.

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TKS Mrs. Robinson V. Sm ith (Joan Trimble) 16 Marshall Terrace, Wayland, MA 01778 “I’m starting to do things backward in my old age,” writes Sally Sanders Appenzellar. “I’m moving from Florida to Massachusetts Martha’s Vineyard - and delighted about it.” MA No secretary

MA Mr. W interford J. Ohland Box 137, R.D. #3, Blairstown, N J07825 “For almost 30 years I have lived outside the U.S.,” writes Daniel O’Brien, “three in Brazil, four in Mexico, and 22 in Spain... My second wife and I live with our two small children (4 and 1 1/2, can you imagine!) in a mediaeval hamlet ...north of Barcelona and just a short distance from the Pyrenees and Mediterranean Sea. Having, for all practical purposes, retired from the chemical business, 1 spend my time looking for old houses to restore.’’

Miss B au er Kimberley alumnae of the 1930’s and 40’s will be sorry to learn that Miss 0ane) Bauer, then of the music department, died in January just one month shy of her 100th birthday. She had only recently moved from her home in Point Pleasant to a retirement home. With Miss (Gertrude) Carpenter directing the singing, Miss Bauer logged countless hours at the piano in the small music building at 33 Plymouth Street. Alumnae of the 40’s recall with special fondness the Gilbert & Sullivan operettas the two directed. Miss Bauer is especially remembered for her pleasant smile and patience, as well as skill at the piano. Leigh Berrien Smith ’45

Jim Prescott retired in March 1988. He and Joy saw David and Ann Reppert Lewis in Maine in June, and spent August in Nantucket. He is on the Board of Governors of Passaic General Hospital. Their daughter and grandaughter live in Florida; son James III lives in South Jersey. Our condolences to the family of Bill Schulting, who was for many years an active member of the MKA Alumni Council.

TKS Mrs. E.B. Ruffing, Jr. (Joan Sweeney) 125 Westview Rd., Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 MA Mr. James Mackey 213 Geneva Street, Elizabeth, NJ 07206 MKA receptionist Janice O’Hara saw alumnus/former faculty member Tom Adair just after he’d returned from a cruise to

TKS Atlne Feagley Wittels (Mrs. Jerome L.) 2116 Via AlamitosPalos Verdes Estates, CA 90274 John and Kathryn Teaze Clark are spending the winter at their home in Naples, Fla., “if anyone wants to get in touch.” Phyllis Harder Reininger now has four grandchildren: two girls and two boys. They still love living in the Northwest. Jane Bamford Taylor, now divorced, is the mother of seven (five living - Bob, Richard, Craig, Robbin, Lois - architect, chiropractor, financial advisor, photographer, school admissions director). Jane, also a grandmother of five, is an R.N., a board member, volunteer, and “home executive mother and grandmother (read babysitter). Everyone should be so lucky,” she says.

In September, the New York Post did a feature on the Hurricane of ’38. Survivor Pat Driver Shuttleworth, pictured in the article, recalled the party in Westhampton Beach 50 years ago that ended with 17 children spending the night in the attic as the storm raged and houses floated by outside. MA Mr. Robert Nebergall 610 South Second Street Wilmington, NC 28401

TKS Mrs. George Shoemaker (Elizabeth Smith) 11 High Point Terrace, Scarsdale, N Y 10853 Margaret Shanks Moore, Abby Keebler Ryan, and Heidi Ames Troxell had a luncheon at Connie Ritchie DuHamel’s in November, catching up on families and old friends. Margaret, who lives in California, had a tour of Montclair for the first time in years. She was visiting a son in New 'Ybrk and her sister Carrol (Meteer) Shanks Schwab ’48. Margaret and Bill have three sons, two daughters and three grandchildren. The DuHamels also hosted Jack and Eleanor Helm Ketcham in November. The Ketchams are building retirement homes in North Carolina; they have one grandchild (son Jim and wife in San Francisco). Son Cliff is in Boulder, daughter Mary works at Johns Hopkins. At Alumni Phonathon, Connie spoke with Carolyn Emory McClelland in Florida (“She sounds great, plays a lot of tennis and golf,”), Nanette Mount Cutler in Warwick, N.Y., and Jeanne Jordan Freeman in Virginia. Jeanne’s brother had a successful art show in New York; her daughter studied art in London. The Cutlers have four daughters - Jude in Thailand studying language; Lynne, a librarian, studied in Spain; Sharon is getting married this year; Kathryn and her husband make videos for the deaf. Christa Arnold Buergin and Fred “have not strayed far from the flagpole [Fort Monmouth]” since he retired in 1970. They have three children, one grandchild. Christa keeps busy with church work, flower arranging (she belongs to several garden/rose clubs), golf and bowling. MA No secretary

TKS Mrs. D avid Hannegan (Louise Rudd) 301 Concord Road,Carlisle, MA 01741 MA Mr. D. Chase Troxell 20 Fox H ill Lane, Short Hills, NJ 07078 Richard Hehmeyer is the Voice of Burger King on the spring and summer TV campaign. He has written a series of original radio plays for a New England radio network.

Pegeen Eustls Keating volunteers at the American Museum of Natural History in New "fork and in the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum. She also helps decorate the origami trees at the Natural History Museum and the JAL tree on Fifth Avenue! MA Mr. Rudolph Deetjen, Jr. Northgate Road, Mendham, NJ 07945 Dick Hopkins took early retirement from the reinsurance business and went back to school. He just completed the last exam for the CFP program and will work locally as a financial planner: “ ”I don’t miss the three hours of commuting each day to NYC!”

51 TKS Mrs. Eric Stroh (Gail Robertson) 350 Provencal Road Grosse Pointe Farms, M I 48236

Some o f the Class o f '48 and guests.

Reinsurance in NYC; Tom - works for a Representative in Washington D.C.

TKS Mrs. Stanley M iller (Frances Lane) 7740 Chablis Street, Boca Raton, FL 33433-3024 Many thanks to Maurine Palmer Colandrea for patiently helping the Alumni Office find lost classmates for reunion mailings! Bill and Anita St. Germain Broas live in Marco Island now. Their nine children are scattered; by now they should have 11 grandchildren. She regretted missing reunion: “Would love to see you all!” Jean Rackell - a.k.a. Kimberley McKell is a transpersonal psychology professor and therapist in California. Carrol (Meteer) Shanks Schwab’s daughter Tatine was married in June on Long Island. MA No secretary Many thanks to reunion chairman Dick Sandler for bringing a congenial group together at Homecoming. No one has changed a bit in 40 years - Alan Augustine, Donald (D.B.) Bren, Richard (Red) Davis, Frank (Buzz) Davies, Michael (Mickey) Dwyer, Richard (Dick) Kimm, and Dave Pinkham. We have lost a faithful class secretary. Our condolences to the family of James Swan, who died in October after a 30-year career in the marine industry. Condolences also to the family of James Regan.

LOST: Marjorie Andrew, Marlene Atwood, Renee De Yoe, Eleanor Farnham, Ruth Ferris, Ann Rowland Howard, Merlon Hunt, Miriam Johnsen, Marlene Masini, Marilyn Vander May Ostendorf, Nancy Klaas Pape, Dorothy Redfield, Aileen Rose Schonbeck, Jane Lockwood Scovll, Lois Silberman, Joan Swift, Joan Tinker, Catherine Ungaro MA Mr. Richard M. Drysdale 101 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90402 LOST: Roberto Annecchiario, Henry J. Battaglia, Jr., James F. Cole, William E. Donnegan, Jr., John Graham, George Helmer, Charles Kilby, Jr., William Kilby, Christian Pedersen, Anthony Savoca, Russell Sayre, Robert Steel

TKS Mrs. E. Alden Dunham, III (Louise Green) 73 Brookstone Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540 Both of Molly Prescott Kindred’s daughters married in the past year and a half. Dorothy is an account executive in NYC; Valerie an exploration geologist in Colorado. Molly and Brook enjoy travel and sports together and she volunteers at the Elmsford Animal Shelter.

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TKS No secretary Joan Newell Sanford is VP/manager of Safeguard Business Systems in Montclair. Her children: Robert, Jr., Ph.D. - teaching and research at Colorado State U.; Pat - married, four children, in California; Beth - married, lives in Denmark; Dick - works for Gen.

To the Classes of ’48, ’68, and ’78: We are very sorry that an accident ruined some of the film shot at Homecoming; thus there are very few if any- pictures of your class at Reunion Luncheon. To share your photos in the next issue, please send to the Alumni Office; they will be returned.

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MA Mr. Ernest F. Keer III, P.O. Box 1030, Point Pleasant Beach, NJ 08742 Duke and Gail Seton Habemickel ’54 have “two nice grandchildren - Brigett 2, and Geoffrey, 6 months.’’ Learned at phonathon: Ken Crowell is enjoying his sabbatical from St. Lawrence U. where he teaches biology; spent time in Scotland. Mark Hanschika has been a doctor for 27 years and loves it. He spends his non working hours climbing, back-packing and scuba diving around Portland.

TKS Mrs. Edward C. Fawcett (Fay Taft) 9 Gordon Place, Montclair, NJ 07042 Though it’s her 24th year teaching elementary school, this is Phyllis Lockwood Hull’s first in teaching kindergarten. Their youngest son was married in January. All three children live in St. Augustine so there are many family get-togethers (“Granddaughter Paula, 2 1/2, steals the show.”). MA No secretary

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TKS Mrs. Thomas Burgin (Lolly Penick) 328 Fairway Road, Ridgewood, NJ 07450 Elizabeth Jones, designer of the Olympic Gold Coin obverse, was one of several dignitaries who struck one of the first 1988 U.S. Olympic Commemorative Silver Dollars at a ceremony held in June at the Denver Mint. MA Mr. John Wade 2 Pullm an Avenue, Elberon, NJ 07740

Nelson Bond’s daughter Sally received an M.A. from UNC, Chapel Hill last June; son Trevor will receive M.B.A. from Harvard this year.

TKS Miss Georgia Carrington 38 Silverspring Lane, Ridgefield, CT 06877 “Canterbury, Murder Most Saintly,” an original production by Mimi Evans Hannon, was presented as a benefit for Youth Consultation Service in October. ’’Canterbury” is a dramatic/musical production of the life of Thomas a Becket. Marian Miller Castell works in history, art and preservation on the boards of the Darien Historical Society (past President) and the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum. Julian and Barbara Hobart Valbuena were looking forward to their annual vacation in Grand Cayman. Julian just finished a lecture tour on Spanish literature at five West Coast universities.

“R ightful P lace fo r H istory” Edwin Gleason, who taught history at Montclair Academy in the Fifties, has won a two-year battle against the Florida Department of Education. Supported by the Sons of the American Revolution, Gleason led a fight to keep early American history in the classroom. The state curriculum guidelines did not require 11th graders to be tested on preCivil War American history (!) The guidelines only called for tests on the period from 1860 to the present, thus teachers tended to focus on later eras. Gleason and “a small, diligent band” succeeded in getting the tests changed to include a knowledge of the early American period and so the DOE must modify its basic curriculum. Gleason, who is Principal of the McClellan Park School, a private elementary school in Sarasota, was praised in an October editorial in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

Rev. Lynn Homeyer Ramshaw has gone back to school for a M.S.W. while working as assistant at St. Benedict’s Episcopal Church in Plantation, Fla. Son Bruce, 25, completes medical school this year, is looking for residencies; Dave, 23, is in second year of med school (both U. of Florida). Tracy, 18, is at community college. Our condolences to the family of Caroline Cox Eckert. MA No secretary

MA Mr. John Clapp 3 Fox Hollow Rd., Spring Lake Heights, NJ07762

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Mrs. Lawther O. Sm ith (Linda Lovell) 30 Water Crest Drive, Doylestown, PA 18901 Congratulations to Cornelius and Elizabeth Beatty Boocock on their wedding! Elizabeth Hasbrouck Cole wrote, “Enjoyed a 50th birthday celebration in July with Gail Zabriskle Wilson (excited about a daughter’s forthcoming wedding and her and Peter’s move to Australia), Betsy Beatty Boocock (a blushing bride over her wedding in August), and Linda Cole LeStage who looked lovely and serene as always. We shared a day in Darien just with us girls and were aghast at the end of the evening when we realized the topic of conversation given the most time to was the era of the answering machine!” Gail wrote later, “Peter and I moved here [to Australia] for two-plus years on assignment with IBM in September, two weeks after Anne was married to Tobin Brown of Greenwich (grandson of Allan Brown of Montclair!). We left all four ’kids' in the States: three working and living in NYC -Aubin (for Caswell-Massey), Anne (Booz-Allen Hamilton) and Toby (Gray Advertising); Sarah in her senior year at Connecticut College; Peter working for a division of Scott Paper.’’ Susan Crook Ferdinand spent an exciting year developing the new Historic Homes division for Weichert Realtors. Their advertising generated a call from another historic homes realtor in the Boston area - viz, Carrie Van Vleck Edwards! Susan manages the firm’s Ridgewood East office. Election time was busy for Lilia Emetaz McDonald, on the Board of the League of

MA Mr Santo DeStefano 336 Madison Avenue, Paterson, NJ 07524 Phil Donlin, a phys ed instructor, was chosen to coach in the Baltimore County AllStar Football Classic (v. Baltimore City) for the third time. His wife, Gloria, also works with the Baltimore County school system. Daughter Jean Marie is a communication specialist for CSX, son Matt sells for Bell Atlantic, both in Maryland.

TKS Mrs. Susie Forstmann Kealy 232 E. Walton Place, Apt. #2EChicago, LL 60611

Women Voters. She swims laps a couple times a week and volunteers as an aide at the hospital. Elizabeth received a master’s degree in ecology; Malcolm is in high school, JohnAndrew a psychology major in college. Carol Van Brunt Basic works part time as business manager for Janko’s architectural firm and is involved in many volunteer activities, including work for the Brearly School where Lynn is a 7th grader. Tim is in the 11th grade at Taft.

30th reunion, the Class o f ’58

‘‘The history of Montclair Academy [W ithin These Halls] is m ust reading. It seems that we attended the Academy at a significant time in its growth and development. Since we left, the school has diversified and become a landmark in excellence. Personally, I always thought it was great.” Edward T. O’Brien, Jr. '57 (See inside back cover to order Within These Halls.)

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TKS Miss Linda B aldanzi 2 Greenview Way, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 MA Mr. Edward T. O’B rien, Jr. Box 1906N aval A ir Station FPO New York 09560-5004

TKS Mrs. Judson Breslin (Wendy Worsley) 44 Lake Drive, M ountain Lakes, NJ 07046 Merci to Joan Eberstadt Weiant who inspired a very congenial group to return for reunion: Wendy Worsley Breslin, Jean Eaglesham Davis, Mary Ann Lawrence Decker, June Dallery Doolittle, Betsy

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25th reunion, the Class o f ’63 with Frank Brogan and Phil Stackpole, form er fa cu lty members. Barney Gill, Diana Bethell Little, and Joan Eberstadt Weiant. Everyone looks wonderful 30 years later! Thank you to Helen Bryant Perry as she “retires” as class secretary. Her columns were always filled with interesting news. We hope the Perrys' move to a new home in Avon, Conn, was smooth. Welcome to Wendy Worsley Breslin, who takes over as class scribe!

Linda Horowitz Rosier, on the Alumni Council (son Richard, 21, at Lehigh, Jeffrey, 18, at Cornell), enjoyed speaking with several classmates at Alumni Phonathon. Susan Conroy Lacasse said, “Hello from the woods of Maine!” Alison Kern Stitzer is group director with the US. General Accounting Office. She and John have a first-grade daughter, Lee, a collie named Brooke and a sailboat named Active!

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MA Mr. George A. Bleyle, Jr. 2259 Weir Drive, Hudson, OH 44236

Thank you to Martin Rosen for being 30th reunion chairman. Martin has kept close ties to MKA as two children are alumni and his youngest, Douglas, is a sophomore; his wife, Barbara, is Administrative Vice President of PAMKA (Parents’ Association)! Michael Gennet sent news of his children: Robert at U. Miami; Abby, 17, a high school senior; Joshua, 15, plays in two bands; Alexandra, 12, a serious violinist.

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TKS Mrs. Robert P. Sumas (Deana Rogers) 4 E. Greenbrook Rd., No. Caldwell, NJ 07006 LOST: Barbara (Helen) Sweeney Frost, Elizabeth Garretson, Charlotte Hope Horton, Meredith Brown Sommerville, Lois Weisser. MA Mr. Benjam in Fischer 26 Delta Blvd., Palisades Park, NJ 07650 Jarvis R. Nolan is a customer service engineer in Worldwide Systems/Software Support in Rancho Bernardo, Cal. LOST: Manter Clark, George Tierney.

TKS Mrs. Em ily Stark Danson 130 Old Stone Bridge Rd., Cos Cob, CT 06807

As he ordered the MKA book W ithin These Halls, George Bleyle observed, “It seems all I try to do lately is try to obtain books. I have been searching for two years for an out-ofprint book about U.S. battleships and armored cruisers from the period 1880-1915...” Help, anyone?

After living in Belgium and Vienna, Charles Ward Weston has moved to Athens, Greece for five or six years to be in charge of the Monsanto office there. Richard Rosenblum has added CFP (Certified Financial Planner) to his list of professional designations; he received a diploma from the College for Financial Planning, Denver, in July.

A small but dedicated group showed up for reunion: Beverly Harrison Miller, Sally Wells Robertson, Teena McConnell, and Ann Katherine Wilhelm. All look very young and chic! MA Mr. Bronson Van Wyck P.O. Box T, TUckerman, AR 72473 A loyal few came to reunion, and found the years melt away - Albert Carpenter, Stuart Emont, Arthur Gurtman.

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In th e News Governor Thomas Kean has appointed Peter Perretti '49 to be Attorney General of New Jersey, citing his ‘‘outstanding reputation” in more than two decades of civil and criminal law practice. Peter, a trial lawyer and partner in a Newark law firm, is a former assistant prosecutor and a court-appointed defense counsel in Essex County. Congressman Jim Courter '59, who received the MKA Distinguished Alumni Award in 1987 for his distinguished congressional record, is running for fall election as Governor of New Jersey, for a term to begin next January.

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TKS Ms. Sharon Livesey 12 Gorham Avenue, Brookline, MA 02146

TKS Dr. Deborah Pines 2540 D South Walter Reed Drive Arlington, VA 22206 LOST: Catherine Campaign, Dorothy Demblak Perrotto, Yasuko Kuki, Deborah Dickson Rosenstein, Constance Bruck Schlossberg, Anne Timpson MA No secretary LOST: Frederick Broadfoot, David Levin, Ira Levine, Bruce McKabe, Steven Schwartz, Lewis Solomon

TKS Miss Christine Keller 1702 Church Street, Galveston, TX 77550

TKS Mrs. PE. Madsen (Betsy Ridge) 58 Chestnut Street, Boston, MA 02108

Patricia Shuplk Littman is finishing her Ph.D. dissertation in sociology, will graduate from U. Penn in June!

In Colorado, Sally Poor Owen is trying to return to teaching amidst a sagging economy and teacher layoffs. Her husband Harry runs the family farm equipment business; son Scott, 15, is a high school sophomore; daughter Heather, 7, is in school fullrtime. Scott and cousin Nathan (Joan Poor Clarke’s oldest son

MA Mr. Robert Tyler Root III 24 Wiedemann, Clifton, NJ 07011

- see TKS ‘66) have been to camp in Maine three summers in a row. MA Mr. R. Victor Bernstein 290 West End Avenue #36, New York, N Y 10023 Judy and Greg Hare, Matthew, 14, David, 11, and Timothy, 9, have moved to Hazleton, Pa., (“Judy’s home tu rf’). Greg accepted a position with Hill’s Department Store and Judy works as a registered nurse.

66 TKS Mrs. W illiam E. Crawford (Francine Onorati) 421 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02115 Newlyweds: Congratulations to Barry and Susan Guterman Blener and to Brooks and Paula Pryde Everett on their weddings! Joan Poor Clarke lives in Colorado Springs near sister Sally Poor Owen ’65 . Joan’s husband, Larry, manages a company office; they have three sons: Nathan, 12, Christopher, 7, and David, 5. MA Mr. John F. Hawley 1402 Washington Street,Holliston, MA 01746-2215 Peter Orgain recently completed his trainer certification in neuro-linguistic programming,

The Shaping o f a C ulture The photographs of medieval Japanese gardens and castles by Michael Yamashita ’67 formed the contemporary context for an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in December and January, “Japan: The Shaping of the Daimyo Culture 1185-1868.” Eighteen of his wall sized prints and transparencies provided the setting for 400 treasures in the unprecedented show. According to the N ational Geographic press release, Michael spent three seasons last year shooting throughout Japan, producing pictures that related the major theme of the show - the burgeoning of both the martial and cultural arts during the time the feudal lords reigned. “As the lords mastered the art of warfare, they also engaged in more refined pursuits, from the tea ceremony to Zen meditation. The garden played a significant role in both these. “Yamashita captured both the meditative mood of the gardens.. .and their details -the stone lanterns and wash basins, the asymmetrical stepping stones, the geometric patterns in raked gravel.” The backlit murals of the exhibition ranged from 5’ x 8’ to 10’ x 28’. Michael - who has spoken to MKA students about photography at Career Day - returned to Japan in February to complete his four-season coverage of Japanese gardens for a feature planned for the September issue of the N ational Geographic.

“the science of human mental ‘software.’” He is a communications consultant to business and education.

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TKS Ms. Margot Escott 2980 Kings Lake Blvd., Naples, EL 33962 MA Mr. Craig C. Perry 119 East 84th St., Apt. 6C New York, N Y 10028 In November, your class secretary took the big step and got married; my brother Scott Perry ’69 was best man. We will live in NYC where I have been working with Johnson & Higgins for the past 12 years. Craig

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TKS Ms. Avie Claire Kalker 5805 Birchbrook #202, Dallas, Tx 75206 From Dawn Geannette: “Thanks and appreciation to Nancy Plummer Nazarian and the Alumni Office for making our 20th a memorable occasion. Nancy put forth a great effort...and fond memories abound. I know that friendships have been rekindled and we’U see more of our classmates now that we’ve been reunited. “If anyone would be willing to share their photos with me, I’d be grateful. The take-up reel on my camera slipped and I have no pictures. Jean Sperling Catherwood and Lindy Franciose have sent me some, but I’d appreciate any more.. .will pay you back, or send me the negatives.” Thank you too, to Maggie Johnson Sliker who express-mailed reunion photos to the Alumni Office for the A lum ni News! From Avie Kalker: “It seemed that we waited just about the right number of years, twenty to be exact. We put the old ghosts to rest thanks to each class member’s willingness to share her feelings and experiences. My own reaction was a surprise to me. As products of the late 1960’s, we seemed sheltered from the political and social climate that surrounded us. As it turned out in conversation, most of the 17 who came to the reunion (plus the guys from the Academy) have had aftereffects: divorces, “late” marriages, new insights, “consciousness raising” experiences, and much emotional growth. “Nancy Plummer Nazarian knocked herself out to host a cocktail party the night before the festivities officially began. That was the best idea. Thank you Nancy! Amazingly, we all recognized each other - everyone looked even better than in high school. (The guys had changed for the better too: Geoff, Joe, Scott, Jack, Gregg, Jay, Wig and Bim.) “Gale Collins Westeott, who had been ‘lost’ since we graduated, came back just in time. Gerry Gardner Comeau drove in from the boonies of Maine and told of her pastoral life on an island outside Portland. Everyone had a story of how her life had changed...

Wonderful gifts or graduation presents! MKA chairs are antique black with maple arms and bear the official MKA seal in gold. Each chair sells for $160 and is shipped express collect directly to you from MKA. Your order must be accompanied by a check made payable to The Montclair Kimberley Academy. Send to: The Alumni Office, MKA, 201 Valley Road, Montclair NJ 07042. “It was a truly wonderful two days. Jean Sperling Catherwood brought along her collection of KOURIERs, Maggie Johnson Sliker wore her class ring (she and I are the only two that still had their rings!), I wore my white blazer, chickening out about wearing the whole uniform. We had a lot of laughs about our souvenirs. “By the end of the reunion at the dinner, Carol Schmitz Callahan, Nancy Penick Corcoran, Lindy Franciose, Sue McIntosh Awerdick, Kathe Appenzellar Hancock, Corinne Foley Errlco, Dawn Geannette, Karin Strom, Angie Steggles Nevius and Sally Kimball Petito had all made it. Half the class came: a few stayed home (we missed you) and a few we have lost track of over the years. A special thanks goes out to the few spouses who endured the homecoming. They all joined right in and added a great deal to the momentum. “One of the most important events of the cocktail party: Miss Betty Logan and Mr. Wallace “Buck” Coursen came as the surprise guests. They both looked like Dorian Gray. Mr. C’s jokes were still as ripe as ever; Miss Logan (can’t break those old habits; sorry Buck and Betty) has begun a new career marketing sports events for schools in Pennsylvania. We all wished them both much luck and good health. “I do want to extend an invitation to those of you who did not join us....Much water has flowed under the dam, the ghosts have been put to rest. I hope you will reconsider and be with us for the 25th!” MA Mr. Burton M. Webb Box 29, Free Union, VA 22940 Thank you to Jack O’Neill who inspired so many classmates to return! Everyone looks great (see TKS ’68 review of reunion)!

Scenes from reunion, the class o f ’68. Lower right: Surprise guests: form er fa cu lty members Miss (Betty) Logan and Mr. (W.M.) Coursen.

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IKS Mrs. Charles Gildea (Lynn Ehrhardt) 46 E. Saddle River Rd., Saddle River, N f 07458 Letters have gone out to all concerning our 20th reunion October 21st. Nina Szot Boral works as her husband’s office director; daughter Alicia, 13, made the top-16 time in swimming in the U.S.; son Andrew is also a competitive swimmer. Amy Canter and husband Michael, a native of Toronto, had their first child, David, in September. Amy and Michael met while skiing in Colorado; he is a tax accountant, she does social work. Morgan and Phyllis Latouche Rawlins are now basking in the sun in their winter residence in St.Croix, but Phyllis has assured me that she will return for the 20th... I hope everyone has marked the calendar for October 21st! Lynn Lost: Marilyn Cowing Dulin, Elizabeth Simonson, Christine Tiernan Uttal MA No secretary George Downsbrough, Jr. lives in State College, Pa. where he designs and develops software for HRB Systems (involving signal processing and analysis for U.S. government agencies). George and his wife, Tamara, have two children - Melissa, 5, and Lea, 3. He asks, “Reunion ’89?”

Lost: David Barnes, Orlando Caprio, Kevin Posner, Frank La Rocca, John Ward

TKS Ms. Sydney fohnson Petty 134 Sum m er Village Drive Annapolis, MD 21401

i'KS Ms. Leslie Bryan 844 East M omingside Drive, NE Atlanta, GA 30324 Elizabeth Conzen Zellner and family moved to Virginia in November and are enjoying the change from Kansas City. Daughter Katie is 18 months - “She’s wonderful.” A third child, Elisabeth - called Betsy - was born in August to Katharine Ann Powell Cohn, joining sister Erica, 5 1/2, and brother Peter, 2 1/2. “Is it ever crazy around here!” writes Katharine. MA Mr. Garret S. Roosma 30 Cottage Lane Upper Saddle River, N f 07458 Steve Schuster has been in Florida since July 1986, now lives in Boca Raton with wife, Stephanie, and daughters Kimberly, 9 1/2, and Lindsey, 3 1/2. He has his own practice in plastic and reconstructive surgery: he works out of three hospitals (no more than 10 minutes from home or office) and does 50 percent cosmetic surgery, 50 percent elective reconstruction. Garret Roosma is now with Hertz in Park Ridge, NJ.

Welcome to the new class secretary, Sydney Johnson Petty - who was tired of seeing “No secretary” and no class notes - and best wishes on her wedding! Sydney writes: Please keep those cards and letters coming; it’s really so enjoyable to hear from all of you. Libby Mills Durkee sent news and a picture of Libby, her husband, Scott, and their adorable baby Mary Frances, 20 months (“sociable, on the move constantly, and very entertaining”). Libby works on sales for a screen printing company (display advertising). She lives 20 minutes from San Francisco and an hour from sister Hilary ’73x, who lives in Palo Alto. Hilary is expecting her third child and works as a computer graphics artist. Susan Von Hoffman Tompson lives in Green Village, N.J. with her husband Steven, twins Steven and Christopher, 2, and by now has had her third child, which she was expecting “any minute” when she wrote. She quit working recently (wonder why?), but until then was director of marketing in the asset management group of Prudential. Steve also works for Prudential. Some interesting news from Alison Anderson Draper: her most recent employer was none other than Dick Loveland at Crystal Springs Uplands School in California! Her husband still works with him as director of admissions and a Spanish teacher. Alison is in

temporary retirement from teaching English, to raise their son Christopher, 3, and her two older stepchildren, who are as old as all of us were when we last saw each other! This is such an interesting job.. .Alison also writes that Marlene Heydenreich, whom she saw in August, looks great and is doing beautifully as president of a company in New Jersey. As for me, 1 married a wonderful guy in December - Robert Petty, a stockbroker for Legg Mason, a Baltimore based firm. I’m fast adjusting to married life, though it does sometimes tend to clash with my longtime image as an Independent Woman. My sister Maggie Johnson Sliker ’68 is married and runs a nursery with her husband George, about a half-hour from me in Maryland. She went to her 20th Kimberley reunion and partied the weekend away [Ed. note: see TKS ’68]. She showed me a picture and I swear they all look as good or better than they did in high school. My brother Howard Johnson, Jr. ’75 also lives in Maryland, works as an engineer. He and his wife had a baby, Tyler Joseph, in August. It’s nice to have my sibs so close. Please write - I want to hear from all of you! Sydney The M ontclair Times announced the engagement of Nelia Bacmeister and Donald Wall. Nelia graduated from Rollins with a degree in theatre arts and has an M.F.A. from Penn State, and has appeared in films and several off Broadway shows. MA Mr. James Bryan Jr. 56 Devil’s Garden, Norwalk, CT 06854 Learned at Alumni Phonathon, appropriately: Bruce Downsbrough is a private fundraiser and grantsman for the U. of Colorado Foundation, College of Engineering, in Boulder. Bob Hoonhout was elected a trustee of the United Way of North Essex last summer. Welcome back to Philip Mancusl-Ungaro, who called the Alumni Office to update his records. He had been lost for several years and found an MKA magazine as he was unpacking in his new home in South Carolina. It was the 1981 issue!

TKS Mrs. Linda Finney W illiams Box 1446, 5 S. Pasture Lane, Nantucket, MA 02554

Thank you to these new class secretaries fo r volunteering: Marjorie Kieselbach Dumont 1930 Wendy Worsley Breslin 1958 Sydney Johnson Petty 1971 Holly Jervis 1983 Jennifer Jones 1984

Isabel Vock Hart was promoted to assistant VP for planning and analysis for T.J. Maxx stores, Natick, Mass. She received an MBA from Boston U. and has been with the company for six years.

new police vehicle donated by his Kaytes Ford dealership. That’s one way to stop those speeding tickets! Greg

MA Mr. Steven Schottenfeld 23 Woodfield Drive, Short Hills, NJ 07078 Peter Perretti is director of admissions at Staten Island Academy. Vince Mascia is practicing in Virginia outside Washington “part country boy, part city slicker.” He wrote that Randy Ryan had a baby boy, John Murphy had a girl!

TKS Mrs. Michael F. Moreno (Martha Del Negro) 750 Woodward Rd., No. Providence, RI 02904 Holly Schadler is a lawyer in Takoma Park, Md. Susan Berky Read received the J.D. degree from UVA last June and was inducted into the Omicron Delta Kappa honorary society. Susan graduated from Mount Holyoke with a B.A. summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. She now is associated with a law firm in Staunton, Va. MA Mr. Gregory Lackey 165 Chickahominy TrailMedford Lakes, NJ 08055 Career moves: Robert Nagel is a VP with Morgan Stanley, currently assigned to their Hong Kong office. Dean Paoluccl is in charge of the tri-state area for Infodata Systems, Inc., text management. The firm is in Montvale - no commute! Durwin Johnson has been named acting manager of the Department of General Services of the City of Newark, N.J. Bill Breen, Jr., a feature writer for the Christian Science Monitor, teaches feature writing at Brooklyn College. From Greg: Lee Cohn has been living in Voorhees in South Jersey for the past two years with his wife, Judy, and toddler Jesse Ida. After several mini-careers, Lee earned a degree in biology from Princeton and went into a career in dataprocessing (specialty-computer viruses!). He works as a systems engineer for Apple Computer, and remains an avid Rangers and Yankees fan. In Richmond, Va., Tom Murphy works for Reliance Ins. Co. (You’ll remember that Tom got his start in the insurance business by filling out his first accident claim form as a senior at M.A.) Tom married his wife, Jo, in 1987. He said that Tom Galligan lives in Baton Rouge, teachin’ law at Louisiana State, and that Steve Beckelman is married with one child. Speaking of children (those delights that have ruined our thirtysomething social life), I guess Jody and Tim Miller hadn’t had enough so they brought home a bouncing boy, Quinn, to join brother Chet. Tim was busy last year, designing and building an addition to his home in Scituate, Mass. Leave it to Allan Kaytes to work all the right angles. I recently spotted a picture in a local paper of Allan handing over the keys to a

Jukka Luostarinen, AFS student from Finland 1973-74, and daughter.

TKS Mrs. Bogue Wallin (Bonnie McBratney) 39 Sum m it St., Philadelphia, PA 19118 Tom and Susan Stokes Galllgan’s children are now four and two (Patrick and Sarah). Patricia Shean Worthington was sworn in as a member of the N.J. State Bar Assn, in June. Erin Cuffe received a Bronze Award from the Montclair Board of Realtors, signifying $2 million in sales and 15 closed transactions for the year. Learned at Alumni Phonathon: Leslie Aufzlen Levine is taking a one-year “vacation” to be with daughter Rachele, born on the auspicious date 8/8/88! Peter and Dlerdre Newman Griffin also have a baby born last summer. Jeff and Catherine Irwin Hippie and their four children have moved to Moorestown, N.J. Susan Widmark Ridgway, husband and four children enjoy the school year in New Hampshire, “but always look forward to Wyoming in the summer.” MA Mr. Anthony M. Celentano 3 Conduct Street, Morris Plains, NJ 07950 After Alfred U., Christian Varkala went west to Colorado, where he was active in the construction business. When the oil and business decline affected building, he moved back, bought a home at Lake Mohawk, and began building in New Jersey. He also has a contract to build a substantial structure in the Boston area. Chris was awarded a R>. Patent on ‘‘TimbrTite,” a device he invented which assures tightness of joints in construction of wooden buildings. Jukka Luostarinen, an AFS student from Finland 1973-74 who lived with the Varkalas, graduated from the U. of Helsinki. After the obligatory year in the Finnish Army, he received a law degree from the university. A positon with Autocumpo, an international copper mining/processing firm, gave him much

traveling to the U.S., South America, and Europe. He met and married a Finnair hostess, Paivi, who also has a law degree. A few years ago, while Jukka took a post-graduate course in international law at Columbia, Paivi was an attache at the U.N. in New York. Jukka is now head of the law division of his company, lives in Finland; they have a baby girl, Katji. Additions and Promotions, Inc: Harvey Kravis was recently promoted to director of software development. He and his wife, LinMei, are expecting a second child in June. C.G. Brian Thomas joined the finance department of Tambrands Inc. in Lake Success, N.Y. (auspicious name); wife Marilyn graduated from U. of Cincinnati College of Law. They became parents of Katherine Coats-Thomas in December. Colleen and Carl Oberg had a Christmas ‘87 surprise with the early arrival of first child, Tkra Lisa. Robert Powell is VP/general manager of AMA Analytical Services of NY/NJ, an asbestos testing lab in Edison. Met debut: Barbara Bonney made a triumphant official bow at the Metropolitan Opera as Adele in Die Fledermaus in December, receiving rave reviews.

MKA Mr. D avid Soule 120 Linden Ave., Verona, NJ 07044 Welcome back to the States to David Soule, after a stint in Canada! Congratulations to Anna Crawford on the birth of Pia Elisabeth Crawford-Silva in January! Anna and her husband, William Silva, bought a house in Hartford, where she is with a law firm, he teaches at Trinity. Welcome to the new boys in town: Nora and Howard Johnson, Jr. had a baby, Tyler Joseph, in August. Howie works as an engineer for Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Brian and Lisa Irwin Keane have two sons, toddler Joey and Lucas Theodore, bom in September. Hugh Gleason also had a son, Andrew, in August. Jim and Janet Kluge Wiggin have two boys, Jay, 2, and Alec, 4 months. David and Catherine Haviland Schafer also had a son, Charles David (“Charlie”) in July. Cathy is an attorney with the firm Hannoch Weisman. Liz Newman, in the trust/new business area for Shawmut Bank in Boston, plans to go for a master’s in physical therapy at BU Sargent School. She loves Boston, travels often throughout the U.S. Douglas Hamilton has moved to Schenectady. A1 Brown is assistant professor of chemistry at Florida Institute of Technology. Tim Breen and his wife, Susan, live in Los Angeles where he has a new job as a salesman with ESPN (Sportscable). He was previously with NBC.

MKA Mrs. Paul McFeeley (Laurie Hoonhout) 6 Elizabeth Road, Upper M ontclair NJ 07043 Dr. Charles Read 3115 Carroll Place, Falls Church, VA 22042

Reunion o f ’76 a t wedding; L to R: John Urga, best m an D avid Hughes, groom Warren Waters, Ted Nevins, Barrie Etherington. “The boys really look great,” writes Warren Waters, who sent a picture of his May wedding party - best man David Hughes, ushers John Urga, Barrie Etherington, and Ted Nevins. Best wishes to Warren and Lisa. Congratulations also to Kevin and Barbara Hopkinson Kelly. Barbara, who graduated from U. Penn, Wharton School of Business, and Emory Law School, is with a law firm, lives in Princeton. Learned at Alumni Phonathon: Hank and Hilary Hoffman Fandel are the busy parents of twin boys, then 4 months old. Eve Wood and her husband Richard Isenberg had a son, Benjamin Wood Isenberg, in January 1988. They bought a new house, and she began a private practice in psychiatry in July. Our heartfelt condolences to the family of Robin Towner, who died in October in San Francisco one week before she was to be married. Class secretary Chip Read wrote, “I’ll always remember her for her flowery disposition and ability to enliven and enrich those around her. I’m glad I had a chance to meet her and am sorry for her loss.”

MKA No secretary Wedding bells: Congratulations to the newlyweds! Wendy WTiite was the maid of honor at the wedding of Craig and Lisa Miller Elton. The Eltons live in Seymour, Conn. Jacqueline and Rick Jenkins honeymooned in California, live in NYC where he works in the acquisitions department of General Foods. Rick graduated from Davidson College and has an MBA from Columbia. Mitchell and Patricia Berry Heisler were married in November. Patricia, a graduate of Dartmouth, is a senior editor of a new magazine, Sports Illustrated fo r Kids. Jennifer Hendrian will use her maiden name professionally. She and husband Steven Spaulding live in Greenwood, Ind. Next step: Catherine and William Dalzell became parents of William, Jr. last March. Peter Adams’ daughter is now 18 months old, and they were expecting a boy the end of February “Enough for now,” Peter writes. They also have a new house in Westchester. Jeanne and Rich Hollerith are the proud

parents of two boys, Spencer and Jamie (“and I, of course, am a proud aunt,” writes Nanci Hollerith ’73). Linda and A1 Van Eerde have a one-yearold, Christa Lynn. He is Dean of Students at MKA, and is on the Alumni Council; Linda is an admissions coordinator. Andrew Dobbin lives on the Upper East Side of New York. Marty Cohn is a VP in charge of advertising with Centrust Bank of Florida, based in Miami. Marcelle Irwin Pope is teaching high school students art in New Hampshire, does her own artwork in her spare time. In Boston, Linda Haviland runs into Bruce McBratney ’78 occasionally. He’s attending MIT’s Sloan School, she works at MIT’s Media lab (“techno-artsy”). They had a great political discussion over a chance lunch meeting but had no effect on the election! Scott Schulte was elected to the Bucknell University Athletic Hall of Fame. He scored 586 goals in four varsity seasons of water polo - still an NCAA record - and holds the record for goals in a championship tourney (50). He was twice an All American and was named AllEast for four straight years. Now playing for the New York Athletic Club, Scott helped the team to the 1987 U.S. Indoor Water Polo Nationals, where he was named MVP.

R egrets To the Classes of ’48, ’68, and ’78: We are very sorry that an accident ruined some of the film shot at Homecoming; thus there are very few if any- pictures of your class at Reunion Luncheon. To share your photos in the next issue, please send to the Alumni Office; they will be returned.

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MKA Miss Pamela Zeug 19 D owning St., Apt. 3, New York, N Y 10014 Mr. fo h n Glicksman 1725 P St., Washington DC 20036 Many thanks to Lori Wlndolf and Rob Gardner for their wonderful job as 10th reunion chairmen! So great was the enthusiasm, that the Class of 1978 already has

chairmen volunteered for the next reunion - in (gulp) 1998! - Andy Blair and Heath Betke. Onward and upward: Emily Troxell graduated with a J.D. from Georgetown Law School in May. Kerry McGill is at the U, of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Marl Ward received an MA from the College of Education at Seton Hall last summer. Linda Jackson received the Grupe Foundation award, for a medical student in Essex County. She is a fourth-year student at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons (class of 1989). Linda was the first black woman to earn a degree in engineering science at Dartmouth, 1982; she then earned a master’s in chemical engineering at Georgia Tech. She plans a career in orthopedic surgery. “It was great seeing everyone at the reunion,” writes Daniel Grolsser. After finishing a three-year residency at Mt. Sinai, Dan will be off to the U. of Michigan to train for three more years in dermatology. “M go Blue.’’ He invites anyone passing through Ann Arbor to give him a call. Michael Steinlauf, now known as Michael Stanley, is an M.D. in Cincinnati. Wig Zamore is with Boston Mariner Co. in Boston, lives in Somerville. Andy Blair is working as an associate in a law office in Clifton. “Best to all from the Windy City!” says Michael Berry, who works in Chicago for a regional real estate developer as a market analyst. He is engaged to an Illinois native, will be married in October. The Golden Gate lured Jane Lugaric, who moved to San Francisco to take a job with VICOM, the medical division of Foote, Cone & Belding. She is the account exec on a new biotech account, Cetus, and lives in a wonderful apartment with a view of the bridge! Meanwhile, back in Montclair, the Alumni Council misses her. Also in California, Lawren Soule is staffing consultant for Apple Computer - i.e., she hires people!! She was married in July on Martha’s Vineyard. Many MKA alumni attended Bruce McBratney’s wedding over Memorial Day weekend in Bay Head - Dave Hamilton, John Phillips, Dan Grolsser, Thck Irwin, Pat Berry ’77, sisters Sally ’75, Bonnie '74, brother-in-law Don D’Alessandro ’75, mother Audrey Carroll McBratney ’50, and others. Bruce is working on an MBA at MIT Sloan School. At Peter Brandow’s summer wedding, Ari Namon was the best man. Peter graduated from Duke and will receive a J.D. degree from Fordham U. School of Law in May. He is on the Fordham Law Review. Tom and Susan Felber Durkin expect a baby in May. She is sales manager at the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Mass.

Lost Alumni If you have any information about any of the alumni listed as “lost” in the reunion year classes, please call or write to the Alumni Office, MKA, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, NJ 07042. 201/746-9800. Thank You!

Kelly and Thck Irwin had a baby, Dudley McGivney, in April. They live in Falmouth, Maine, and Hick is associated with a law firm in Portland. The M ontclair Times announced the engagement of Barton Lund and Julie Andre. He graduated from Rutgers and is a financial analyst with the American International Group in New York.

10TH REUNION OCTOBER 21 MKA Mrs. Carlos O rtiz (Shawn Mahieu) 4308 Cowan Place, Belcamp MD 21017 Mr. Jack Brink 105 Hampshire Court Avondale Estates, GA 30002 Shawn Mahieu Ortiz got an advance look at reunions - she came to Homecoming 1988 and promptly volunteered to be 10th reunion chairman! Steve Dodd, on the Alumni Council and faithful alumni hockey player, has also volunteered to chair reunion! Paige Cottlngham, a lawyer, is teaching English in Psu, Japan for a year. Chris Stork graduated from Caltech with a PhD in seismology and is working on a postdoc at Stanford. Sally DePlro received an MBA from Indiana U. last May. Ken Breen is a buyer at Young & Rubicam (Y&R) Advertising in New York. “I have been gaining valuable experience prosecuting criminals in Brooklyn, N.Y. as an Assistant District Attorney for Kings County,” writes Peter Gray. “Luckily, I haven’t come across anybody from MKA in an adversarial capacity.” He enjoys the annual basketball game at Christmas time with coach Rabke and former teammates. Gwendolyn Jones began studying at New York U. for graduate degrees in art history and conservation. Last April in England, she saw former Habs exchange student Mark Palmer and former teacher Wayne Warren who now owns his own school in Broadstairs, as well as last year’s chaperone Michael Hepworth. Dale and Emily Rowland Malone moved to Massachusetts, where she works for the Patriot Ledger, a South Shore daily newspaper. They expect their first child in April. Emily has fun running in 10K races in and around Boston. Merry Aufzlen Bauer, a buyer at Prime Motor Inns, looked forward to “retiring” in February with the birth of their first child. Congratulations: Sigrid and James Johnson were married at Harvard, where she is a PhD. student in archaeology. James, who was First Marshall of his Harvard Law class, is an associate in the law firm of DeBevoise & Plimpton, NYC. Joseph and Amy Shull Flnnerty, married in November, live in New York. Amy, a freelance copy editor and researcher, graduated from Hampshire College and received an MA from NYU. The wedding of David Dunnigan and Karen O’Connor ’80 was a grand MKA reunion - Steve Dodd was best man, Karen Marnell was maid of honor, Larry Duca was an usher. Many other alumni were guests! Anita Sims was maid of honor in Tracy Green’s wedding in August. Carolyn Stanton

’81 was maid of honor for Betsy Stanton’s wedding in Washington in December. Betsy graduated from Williams College, Phi Beta Kappa, and has an MA from Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, "Rifts U.

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MKA Mrs. M artin Garvey (Pam Eastman) 120 Tenth St. 5E, Washington DC 20006 So much has happened since 1980. Mets won the series; did AIDS come from Haiti? Two elections passed for President With Geraldine setting a precedent. War talks, peace talks, victors and victims A kaleidoscope of controversy within a complex system There’s always a ray of sun or shining star Our class has proven that; here is where we are. Barbara Hollander is our own lifetime scholar. When she graduates, her gown will have a multi colored collar. From Hartwick College it was on to Lesley earning a master’s in Special Ed Now she is at Columbia University studying neurons in a person’s head. Chris Wanat graduated with honors from Connecticut College, Then to Dickinson School of Law to gain more knowledge When not working at the law firm his sails are a-bobbin, With Messrs. Kramer, Fullem, Cohn & Dobbin. From Duke University to Hofstra Law, Mary Cole has found her call. The environment she wants to defend; On the Greenhouse Effect it will all depend. From Cole to Coles, we’re moving along. What do you know? They sing the same song. Fred’s interested in the environment, too. He’s studying law at American U. The folks in insurance are substantial. Two holding forth at Prudential: That’s Martin Brayboy and Jamie Halprin. Move over VP’s, MKA’s boys are in. While Pete Dodd too, does the insurance thing, More important to him, wedding bells ring; His fiance is Julie, a real tennis ace. Watch out Pete, better pick up the pace! Crlckett Hargrow has no time to play. When not modeling, she hosts video show, “Salsero, USA.” Jim Irwin is on Wall Street and working for Yamaichi. He married Liz Counce A New Orleans girl who’s real peachy (what else rhymes with Yamaichi?). Mother Merrill scored big With good ole Jeff Chandler With an MBA from Chicago, Surely he can handle her. At the Center for Missing children I’m doing real swell. And for now, dear classmates, I bid you farewell. Pam

In plain prose, John Benedict announced the birth of a daughter, Samantha, in August. He is VP/operations for Benedict Miller, Inc. In November, India Hayes was one of 46 people to receive recognition by the business community at the ninth Black Achievers Banquet. Honorees were chosen for their “extraordinary accomplishments” in business, community and personal life, and will serve as mentor, role model and friend for youth throughout the state through the Linkage Program. India is a marketing assistant in the consumer division of NJ Blue Cross. Last summer she placed eighth overall in fencing at the Olympic festival in North Carolina. She still practices three hours a day in hopes of a place on the 1992 Olympic fencing team. Congratulations from MKA!

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MKA Miss Shelagh Daly 330 North M ountain Avenue Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Miss Karen M amell 25 Allien Circle, West Caldwell, NJ 07006 Harry Heist looks forward to his last year at Rutgers Law School, taking the bar exam, and ‘‘stop being a student.’’ August ’88, on the yacht, “Princess,” in the middle of the Hudson River: Stacy Ballen took the plunge (figuratively) with Mitchell Stier of Virginia. Both attorneys (Stacy has a J.D. from George Washington U.) are members of law firms in New York.

Though living in Brooklyn, David Newman is literary manager of the American Folk Theater in Manhattan. He teaches English as a Second Language at Brooklyn College and in September directed a showcase at the Nat Horne Theater. He and his wife, Vanessa Christman, spent the summer in Great Britain while she worked at the National Theatre in London. Margaret Johnson is in her final year of the MBA program at the Darden School of the U. of Virginia. In Boston, newlyweds Timothy and Karen Shelby Anderson are in graduate school Karen at Tufts U. School of Dental Medicine, Timothy at Boston College earning a law degree. Three Graces of Gotham: Christina (Dede) Swanson is still working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; her sister Birgitta (Bebe) Swanson ’84 is a colleague. Sister Alexandra (Meme) Swanson ’82 works at a law firm in Rockefeller Center.

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MKA Miss Nicole Anastasiou Oak H ill Road, Cli/ton, NJ 07013 Mrs. Stephen Barral (Angela DeCandia) 240 9th Street, Apt. 14, Jersey City, NJ 07302 Best wishes to the newlyweds: Katherine and Daniel Perera, Bridget and Christopher Tortorello, Alexandra and Blake O’Neill, and the ultimate MKA couple, Linda Daniel! and Greg Kowalenko ’83!

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Daniel Perera, a graduate of Hobart College, is studying at Babson College for an MBA. Chris Tortorello, a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson, is a computer programmer with United Parcel Service. Blake O’Neill, alumni hockey team captain extraordinaire, is on the Alumni Council and works as an account manager for Hospital Publications in Secaucus. Thomas Robbins is engaged to Carolyn Whinery of Maplewood. After graduating from Jacksonville University, Timothy Hills was commissioned in the U.S. Army. After “some schoolwork” at Fort Sill, Okla., Tim was posted to Bavaria, West Germany in April ’88 for two-three years. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant in July.

MKA Miss Holly Jervis 55 South M ountain Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07042 Class agent: Mr. Kevin W ilkins 95 Heller Way, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Many thanks to Anne Rowland as she retires as class secretary! We have enjoyed her faithful correspondence and diligent keepingup-with-the classmates. Anne is a research assistant in psychology at the VA Medical Center, Boston. Holly Jervis, on the inside now teaching Spanish at MKA, takes over as class scribe!

Thank you too, to class reunion chairmen Kris Hatzenbuhler and Don Cussen, who enticed so many to come “home” for the first official reunion! As Kris wrote, “Homecoming was a true HIT! The class of ’83 had a super turnout with 55; everyone had a great time.” Kris is now in law school at Seton Hall, and interning at a law firm in Kip’s Castle! Also in law school, at George Washington U., Paul Josephson will be working as a summer associate at Sills Cummis in Newark. Nancy Cambria is a teaching associate at Ohio University, working toward a master’s in literature and creative writing. Two classmates are serving in the Peace Corps and would like to hear from friends! Jason Gross teaches high school English in Botswana, sends his regards. Address: Lotsane Senior Secondary School, Private Bag 50, Palapye, Botswana. Geoffrey Habron is in the West Indies: Peace Corps, Box 123, Castries, St. Lucia, West Indies. Andrea Lockett has a new job as editor of medical journals in Philadelphia. Jill Green lives in Charlottesville, Va., where she is manager of a small tack shop at a horse farm. Reportedly she gets as much riding as she wants. Eric Green works for a brokerage house and shares an apartment in Boston with two college friends. “Dexter says, ’What’s up, everyone?“ ’ Marshall Hendrlan is a sales rep. for Burlington Air Express after working for a year as a helicopter flight dispatcher. He graduated from Lehigh, was a member of Chi Phi fraternity, Omicron Delta Kappa leadership honor society and Sigma Tau Delta English honor society.

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MKA Miss Jennifer Jones 515 S. Aiken Ave. A pt 101 Pittsburgh, PA 15232-1507 Class agent: Mr. Larry Rosen 6 Shoshone Road, Wayne, NJ 07470 Welcome to Jennifer Jones, who volunteered to be the new class secretary for ’84! Congratulations to all those who graduated last year! We are proud of so many honors and distinctions. A few, gleaned from newspaper clippings and the faculty grapevine: Allan Klapper graduated salutatorian summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Union College - a B.S. in biology, with a cumulative GPA of 3-93! For two years Allan was head photographer for the college newspaper and all sports events, and worked summers as a volunteer ambulance medic. He has entered Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. Ross Zbar graduated with a B.A. magna cum laude in biology from Harvard, and at graduation was awarded the Adams House Coat of Arms. He had a weekly classical music radio show on WHRB and ran a social service committee which paired volunteers with disabled children in Boston. Ross is now at the Yale University School of Medicine. Also in medical school (Dartmouth), honors student Judy Brown would enjoy seeing anyone passing through Hanover, N.H.

Tufts graduates: James Goldman graduated summa cum laude, while earning All-America honors in tennis. Jim (the team captain) and his doubles partner finished in the top eight at the NCAA Division III national championships. BUI Stone graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. JU1 Cohen also graduated from Thfts, now works for a real estate development firm. Gentlemen songsters: After graduation from Yale with a B.A. in anthropology, Matt Colagluri embarked on a 12-week world tour with the Whiffenpoofs, Yale’s famous a capella singing group. Matt was also active with the Yale Dramatic Assn, and started for three years on the volleyball team. Brad Pedlnoff received a B.A. in anthropology from Oberlin College. Chris Nemetz graduated from Connecticut College. John Martin received a B.A. from Northwestern U.; he majored in English with a concentration in fiction writing. After graduation from Guilford College, N.C., Laura Dancy spent three months in Kenya with a British community service group. Patty Morozov is in her third year at the Architectural School of N.J.I.T. Her project, “Student Conference Centre,” won the Excellence in Design award last semester. AUson Thomas graduated from the U. of Maryland with a B.S. in psychology and is pursuing graduate work there. She is a member of the University Gospel Choir. Claudia OceUo graduated cum laude from Bryn Mawr College, with high honors in the department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology. She was an assistant field supervisor at a second century B.C. archaeological site in southern Italy last summer. She now has a fellowship at the American Numismatic Society in New \fork, and substitute teaches at MKA’s Middle School! The Entrepreneur: Craig Miner stopped by MKA last fall to tell of the opening of his new art gallery, the Ambassador Gallery in Whippany on Route 10. Craig graduated from Babson College with a degree in entrepreneurial studies and marketing. Jennifer Jones graduated from Bucknell with a B.A. in political science, and was elected to Alpha Lambda Delta and Phi Eta Sigma national honor societies. Her service to Tri Delt (Delta Delta Delta) sorority earned her initiation to the Order of Omega, a national honor society recognizing interftaternity contributions. Jennifer is now studying law at the U. of Pittsburgh, where she is a class representative and member of the Legal Bar Assn. David Fehnel also graduated from Bucknell, with a degree in biology. He is working this year at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York and will enter med. school in the fall. First wedding: Congratulations to Elizabeth and Raymond Thill on their marriage! Ray graduated from Lafayette and is with New Mark Life in Waltham, Mass. Small world! Bob Cottingham met Doug Keh in Japan in October, after the Seoul Olympics. Doug is teaching English in Takefu, Japan, this year, under a program funded by the Japanese government. Bob and his parents also visited sister Paige (see ‘79) in Japan. Of his Olympic experience (the U.S. men’s fencing team placed seventh), Bob said they were “happy to place above the Bulgarians.” He himself is “going for ’92!”

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MKA Mr. John Booth III 15 H athaway Lane, Verona, NJ 07044 Class agent: Miss Loren M iller 1055 River Road, Apt. 5606 Edgewater, NJ 07020 Loren Miller just became a senior after spending a semester studying in France. She writes, “Though I won’t graduate until December, I congratulate the entire class of ’85 who will be graduating this spring. Best of luck!” Michael Lane wrote that he is applying to law schools. At Bucknell, Mickey Mohuchy is captain of the men’s swimming team. Christopher Lillo, a math major, is treasurer of UAgenda, the yearbook. Roger Brown has played Division I varsity lacrosse for three years, and was the leading rugby scorer this year. He is a resident assistant in a dorm and is president of the Afro-American Studies Program, and.is active in the Bucknell Activities Council and International Relations Club. He has worked for the United Nations for two years, for UNICEF and the Economic Policy Council. All that and the dean’s list! “Lehigh’s Engineer,” quarterback Mark McGowan, was having a banner season - and the best win percentage in 10 years - when a knee injury ended his college grid career. Following surgery, Mark has a 10- to 12-month rehabilitation. Nonetheless, he is in the Lehigh record books and is considered one of the best Division I-AA quarterbacks.

M erci The Alumni Office thanks seventh and eighth graders who volunteer every Wednesday to help organize school memorabilia and archives in the alumni closet in the Crow’s Nest.

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MKA Miss Sherry Ahkam i 37 Virginia Avenue, Clifton, NJ 07012 Miss M ary Louise Neary 27 Warren Place, Montclair, NJ 07042 Class agent: Miss Megan Cole 11444 Lost Tree Way North Palm Beach, FL 33408 Sandy Hrab is spending her junior year in Spain at the Universidad Internacional de Malaga. She is majoring in Spanish at Dickinson College. Also abroad, Julia Well studied English in London last semester with Dartmouth’s Foreign Study Program. At Dartmouth, Julia has received academic citations in drama and English. David Schwartzbard is working as a co-op student from Northwestern at IBM in Raleigh, N.C. - “Having fun - great experience!” he writes.

Damon Ziegler spent the January session in China. He is having a busy year at Washington & Jefferson College: is VP of his fraternity and sports editor of the campus paper. He was elected to the economics honorary society Omicron Delta Epsilon. Last summer he interned at Merrill Lynch in New York. Carey Cannon is thriving as a theatre major at Carnegie Mellon JJ. Her family moved to Boston in January. Bob Loigman transferred from U. Penn to Amherst.

MKA Miss Laura Baczko 102 H ighland Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07042 Miss Ida Boodin 338 North M ountain Avenue Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 “Gallivanting around Boston,” writes Deborah Chun, “aside from keeping busy in six-year med. at Boston U., heading for med. school in August.” Wendy Ertel “highly recommends” B.U. to other MKA students. She is on the dean’s list, edited a school publication, was an orientation leader this year, and is chairman/treasurer of the BusinessProfessional Advertising Assn, of B.U. Word from WPI (Worcester Polytech): Physics is tough but fun. Diana Hart will be in Hawaii for spring break and is looking forward to a summer semester in London. Diana has seen Sandy MacDonald ’88 at Holy Cross. Jon Eisner is in his second year studying architecture at Carnegie Mellon, and gets “very little sleep doing so.” He joined Delta Tau Delta fraternity and it has become a true home away from home. Lisa Resotko, a chemistry major at Bucknell, has pledged Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.

Andrew Nydick, a student at Skidmore, interned at the Montclair Art Museum last summer. It was our own Solomon Johnson who scored a touchdown to provide the winning margin when Columbia beat Princeton last fall, snapping college football’s longest losing streak at 44 games! Rich Stanton, a brother of Theta Chi fraternity at Colgate, spent the January term “exploring the ice fishing opportunities that can be found surprisingly close to the thriving metropolis of Hamilton, N.Y.”

MKA Miss Karen Muenster 125 Country Lane, Clifton, NJ 07013 Mr. James Petretti 13 Otis Place, Verona, NJ 07044 Class agent: Mr. Alec Schwartz 87 Heller Way, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 We are sorry that Tiffany Ricker’s name was inadvertently omitted from the Class of 1988 graduation list in the last issue. Tiffany is attending Muhlenberg College. Condolences to Marta Branca from all ’88 on the death of her parents last fall in a small plane accident. Alec Schwartz stopped by the Alumni Office during the holiday break and gave news of classmates. Alec covers women’s squash (ranked eighth in the country), lightweight football and women’s fencing for the D aily Pennsylvanian (and is one of two frosh in the sports department). Alec is also asst, manager of the Penn men’s lacrosse team.

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Reportedly from Alyson Beasley at Temple U., Jill Tobla - fencing for Columbia - placed ninth at the Temple Open last fall. Alec is looking forward to seeing Jill and Alyson cross swords, and against Penn. Remember Adrienne Amirata ’86 is fencing for Penn, so several meets this year on the East Coast will pit MKA grads against each other! Doug Cussen and Jason Spiotta are rooming together at Western Maryland U., made the football team, and reportedly are having a good time. Jim Garlno beat out a senior for a goalie position at Connecticut College and is most enthusiastic about the school! Todd Van Siden likes Hobart and will probably be a premed major. His brother Brad '86, also at Hobart, is thinking about the legal profession and thus grad schools. Vicki Rollins is considering transferring from Hood College to a coed school. Roman Klufas also hopes to transfer to “any California school.” At Holy Cross, Sandy MacDonald has dropped ROTC and is now playing lacrosse. He says, ‘‘Fish would like me now; I’m quick,’’ referring, of course, to former MKA coach Doug Alsofrom. Chris Kruse spent September in Costa Rica and started Duke in January. News from clippings: Mary Savage was one of three winners of the Presidential Scholarship in the Humanities at Goucher College. Justine McBride made the starting team of the varsity squad (women’s soccer) at Brandeis! At Lehigh, Susie Bartlett was the backup goalie for the women’s field hockey team. Coley Gray not only made the Yale varsity fencing team- she is Connecticut’s Under 20 and Under 19 champion, undefeated in both difficult tournaments! Franclne (Beth) Wormley is really enjoying her freshman year at Lafayette College, majoring in biology (with pre-med orientation) and rowing on the women’s crew team.

Elaine Beling Mann and Edwin W. Phillips Elizabeth Beatty Sanford and Cornelius Brett Boocock Paula Pryde and E. Brooks Everett Susan Guterman Roche and Barry Biener Craig Perry and Anne Douglas Dillard Sydney Johnson and Robert Petty Tacey Phillips and James Carroll Barbara Hopkinson and Kevin Kelly Warren Waters and Lisa Smith Patricia Berry and Mitchell Heisler Cheryl D’A lessandro and Peter McMullen Jennifer Hendrian and Steven Spaulding Richard Jenkins and Jacqueline Dicks Lisa Miller and Craig Elton Elizabeth Ames and Richard Abramowitz Curtis Brunner and Betina Dideriksen Deborah Campbell and James Bungerz Lawren Soule and Vincent Amela Tracy Green and Keith Frager James Johnson and Sigrid Gabler Linda Mancusi-Ungaro and James Napoli Amy Schull and Joseph G. Finnerty III Constance Tkmell and Edward Sullivan Jr.

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A C entennial C oncert By the Chorus and Mastersingers ofMKA Directed by Nixon Bicknell In celebration of the Centennial, a tape was made which features songs from the 16th century, Mozart, Haydn, Schumann, Grieg, Ellington, Gershwin, Porter, Simon and Garfunkel; “The Last Words of David” sung by the Mastersingers and alumni at the MKA 10th Anniversary celebration in 1984; and the school songs of TKS, MA and MKA. Available at the Upper School Bookstore or order from the Office, of External Affairs, MKA, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, NJ 07042. Cassette: $10 plus $1.00 for postage.

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