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Dedication of Helmut E. Muenster Field / 2 Alumni Profile, Karen Vanderhoof Forschner ’70 / 12 Notes Around MKA / 6 Alumni News / 8 Class Notes / 13

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. 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.

1989-90 Alumni Association Council Joseph Alessi ’68 Melissa Cohn Alvarez ’78 Stephen Barrai ’80 Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65 Martha Bonsai Day ’74, Vice President Stephen T. Dodd ’79 Fay Taft Fawcett ’52 Anne King Franges ’56 Robert H. Gardner ’78, Treasurer Geoffrey A. Gimber ’75, Secretary Robert A. Hoonhout î?l, President Gail Tomec Kerr ’52 Paul A. McFeeley ’76 Peter McMullen ’77 J. Blake O’Neill ’82 J. Dean Paolucci ’73, Vice President Robert D. Post ’77, Vice President Linda Horowitz Rosier ’60 Ellen Wahl Skibiak ’73, Vice President Cynthia Mann Treene ’54 Albert D. Van Eerde ’73 Frances R. O’Connor, Principal Judy Polonofsky, Director of External Affairs Christie Austin, Alumni Director

Front Cover Dedication of Helmut E. Muenster Field Top: An O’Neill Family Affair: Front, L to R: Fay ’90, Mrs. Harold O’Neill, Erin ’91, Carolyn Rear: Roger, Colin ’82 Center: Karen ’88 and Lorelei Muenster ’90 pause at entrance of new MKA field at 40 Upper Mountain Avenue, dedicated to their father Bottom: Trustee John Garippa, Trustee Eugene Wahl ’66, Christopher Sinton

P hotographic Credits W. L. Bill Allen, Jr. William Bullard Virginia Montemurro Steve Tober

B oard of T rustees 1989-90 Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54 Joan Arboit-Ainbinder, Secretary Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65, President Rose L. Cali, Secretary James A. Courter ’59 Joseph A. Courter Austin C. Drukker ’52, Vice President John E. Garippa A. Lawrence Gaydos Sharon Gray Robert A. Hoonhout '71 Gail Tomec Kerr '52 John L. Kidde ’52x Austin Koenen Robert S. Kramer James Magna Anne Muenster-Sinton Frances O’Connor Susan H. Ruddick Jodi Smith Martin L. Sorger Ronald L. Tobia, Vice President James S. Vandermade ’35 Howard A. Van Vleck ’22 Eugene R. Wahl ’66, Treasurer

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.

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Trustees - Welcome and welcome back: Front row, L to R: Gail Tomec Kerr 52, Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65, John Garippa. Rear, L to R: Jodi Smith, John Kidde ’52x, Aubin Zabriskie Ames 54.

B oard O f T rustees The close of my first year as President of the Board of Trustees of The Montclair Kimberley Academy brings a touch of sadness as I say goodbye to friends and colleagues who have served with me for the good of MKA. Jack D. Cussen, an MKA parent of D onald ’83 and Doug ’88, served on the Executive Committee of the Board, the Buildings and Grounds Committee, and in his capacity as Treasurer, on the Finance Committee.

J. Paul McGrath first served from 1978 to 1981, but resigned when he was appointed Assistant Attorney General by President Reagan. In 1986, he returned to Montclair and to MKA with his wife and children, David ’88 and Robyn ’92. He chaired the Bylaws Committee and served on Buildings and Grounds.

Laurence T. Fell chaired the Investment sub-committee and served on the Finance Committee. His daughters Anne Marie ’86 and Margot ’88x will keep the Fell family link to MKA. Antoinette LeQuire-Schott leaves the Board after her successful term as President of the Parents’ Association of MKA (PAMKA). The Board will miss her presence on the Nominating and the Educational Policy

Committees, but MKA will still have her help as a parent of fourth grader April. She and her husband, Newton, are also the parents of Keith ’87.

As I say thank you to these four people, I also wish to thank the Nominating Committee, chaired by Anne M uenster-Sinton, for their efforts this year. Elected to the Board in May to serve a second term are parents Joan Arboit Ainbinder, Lawrence Gaydos, James Magna, and Anne Muenster-Sinton. The new members of the Class of 1992 are John Garippa, John Kidde ’52x, and Jodi Smith. It is my pleasure to welcome the return of Gail Tomec Kerr ’52 as Advisory Trustee and Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54 as Honorary Trustee.

John Garippa and his wife, Linda, the parents of second grader John Scott, co-chaired the Brookside Project with trustee Eugene Wahl ’66 and his wife, Patricia. John graduated from Rutgers University with a B.A. in economics and received his J.D. from Seton Hall Law School. He is a senior partner at Garippa & Trevenen in Montclair; a member of the New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and American Bar Associations; and serves on the

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Supreme Court Committee on the Tax Court.

John Kidde left Montclair Academy to board at the Hotchkiss School, then went to Princeton University and Columbia University Law School. He is with KDM Development Corporation in Upper Montclair. He and his wife, Ruth, are the parents of three children, including current MKA eighth grader Jonathan. He is a trustee of Stevens Institute of Technology, Pace University, the Clara Maass Medical Center and the Community Foundation of New Jersey.

Jodi Smith and her husband, Jeffrey, are the parents of three: Joya is a freshman at MKA, Cara is in MKA’s fourth grade, and Carter is two years old. Jodi received an A.B. from Wells College and earned a certificate from the New York School of Design.

She operates JDS Interiors from her home in Montclair. Jodi comes to the Board in her new position as President of PAMKA. She has been involved for many years in PAMKA, having served as membership vicepresident and chaired the Brookside Book Fair, the Mailing Committee, the Uniform Review and Nominating Committees.

Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54 (mother of H eidi ’81, Mark ’86 and David ’89) and Gail Tomec Kerr ’52 (mother of David III ’77 and Robert ’83) have both served in numerous capacities over the years, always willing to help out wherever they were needed. Both are parents of MKA graduates, held numerous positions on the PAMKA Board and were loyal alumnae on The Kimberley School Alumnae Association and then the MKA Alumni Association.

Their previous service on the MKA Board of Trustees was so significant, it was with great pleasure that I asked them to serve again. Welcome back!

The slate of officers for 1989-90 is: Vice Presidents Austin Drukker ’52 and Ronald Tobia, Secretary Rose Cali and Treasurer Eugene Wahl ’ 66 .

I begin my second year as the President of the MKA Board of Trustees with confidence because of the talent and loyalty of those who serve with me. Thank you.

Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65 President, Board o f Trustees

D edication

dedicated to our father

HELMUT E, MUENSTER 1933-1983 KAREN A, MUENSTER, CLASS OF 1988 LORELEI K MUENSTER, CLASS OF 1990

H IS IS A LIVING MEMORIAL IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE HE INSPIRED

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On May 21, 1989, under sunny skies and in the company of parents, alumni, students and friends of The Montclair Kimberley Academy, Karen and Lorelei Muenster and their mother, Anne Muenster-Sinton, cut the blue and green ribbons spanning the gates which mark the entrance to the new HELMUT E. MUENSTER FIELD at 40 Upper Mountain Avenue.

This single gesture, and the dedication ceremonies which preceeded it, marked both an end and a beginning for all those who have committed their efforts toward the achievement of MKA’s long-range goals - the end of a dream for additional athletic field space for our children and its beginning in reality!

Susan Ruddick, past President of the MKA Board of Trustees, who participated in the 1983 long-range planning workshop at Scanticon, Princeton, provided the historical perspective for the dedication audience. In 1985, MKA became the successful bidder for the property at 40 Upper Mountain Avenue and began the three-year process of designing the field and shepherding its approval through the Montclair Township Planning Board. Finally, all necessary approvals were in hand and the construction began.

Ron Tobia, Vice President of the Board of Trustees, parent and loyal friend of MKA and a major contributor to the field, spoke of the importance of “gifts-in-kind” in our major fundraising efforts and expressed the gratitude of the entire MKA community to the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 825, AFL-CIO who contributed the equipment and the manpower required for the job.

Roger O’Neill, the father of five MKA award-winning athletes and a former trustee, spoke fondly of his father’s love of sports and its profound effect on his children’s and grandchildren’s development. Roger’s major gift in memory of Hal O’Neill is a tribute to that love.

Trustee Gene Wahl ’66 invited those of us who did not have the honor of knowing Helmut Muenster to meet the man whose name now rests on the bronze plaques on the gates of 40 Upper Mountain Avenue.

He was a man who loved children, who saw in all children the potential for a kinder and more beautiful world. He was dedicated to the growth, the happiness and the integrity of all children. It is truly fitting that this field, which will support the development of all our children, be dedicated to Helmut.

Dr. Frances R. O’Connor, Principal, addressed the audience briefly and introduced Karen Muenster ’88 who expressed the family’s gratitude for the honor bestowed. The ribbon­ cutting ceremony was followed by a reception at the Principal’s residence and that beautiful Sunday in May came to an end.

But there is never truly an end, just a brief pause from time to time in the development and implementation of an independent school’s long-range plan. Individual projects may be completed; however, there is always another awaiting its beginning. Two years ago, the Board of Trustees committed its efforts to a major longrange campaign to improve MKA’s academic and athletic facilities and increase its endowment.

Top: Listening to Dedication speeches.

Front row, L to R: Lorelei Muenster ’90, Karen Muenster ’88, Christopher Sinton, Trustee Anne Muenster-Sinton, Trustee Ronald Tobia.

Center Left: Former Trustee Roger O’Neill.

Center Top Right: D onald M ulford ’35x, Trustee Ronald Tobia.

Center Bottom Right: L to R: Trustee Sharon Gray, Suzanne Harris, form er President o f the Board o f Trustees George Harris.

Bottom: Karen Muenster '88 and Trustee Eugene Wahl ‘66.

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“MKA: A Commitment to Children” has received the overwhelming support of the MKA community who have thus far been contacted. Both the Kimberley campus and the Brookside campus have been renovated, providing additional and much-improved space for our students, and we have begun to analyze the needs at the Academy campus looking toward additional classroom space, student and faculty lounges and improved dining facilities.

Our commitment to additional athletic space has been only briefly satisfied with the dedication of the Helmut E. Muenster field; therefore, we will be reviewing the feasibility of an indoor athletic center at the Kimberley campus during this planning year for construction in the future. And, in order that we provide greater security to the financial integrity of MKA and its programs in the future, we will look to increase significantly our endowments for Financial Aid, Curriculum Development and Faculty Education, as well as our General Endowment.

MKA’s commitment to its children began over a century ago; that commitment is the essence of the trust which we, as trustees, parents, alumni, administrators and staff, dedicate ourselves to uphold. This trust has no end.

Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65 President, Board o f Trustees

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C ommencement Awards

RUDOLPH H. DEETJEN AWARD

RUDOLPH H. DEETJEN AWARD

for athletics and academic achievement Elizabeth Crowell

for athletics and academic achievement David Ames

COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD

BUD MEKEEL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

for positive action which shows unselfish concern for the larger community beyond school Robert Young

COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD for positive action which shows unselfish concern for the larger community beyond school Deborah Hem sley

for a worthy senior Natalie Page

MAItfORIE WINFIELD EASTER AWARD for sportsmanship, self-discipline and behind-the-scenes service Matthew Braun

COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD

ETHEL M SPURR AWARD

for positive action which shows unselfish concern for the larger community beyond school Adam Sussman

for cooperation, responsibility, service and citizenship Louis Lessig

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Top: Dr. O’Connor addresses graduates.

Center: M att Braun, John Blesso, Anya Buenger leave Commencement ceremony.

Bottom: Happiness is graduating.

Awards N ight The Barras English Price Judith Ainbinder Modern Language Prize In French Kristine Mamchur Modern Language Prize In Spanish Vincent Nadal Latin Prize Mary Bilinski Social Studies Prize Elizabeth Visceglia The Nazarian Mathematics Prize Lana Kang The W illiam H. M iller Science Prize Lana Kang Elizabeth Visceglia

Klein Awards for Achievem ent In A thletics and Scholarship Grade 12: Ayana Goore Michael Hunter Grade llaK im berly Charlton Carl Rabke Grade 10: Carlton Austin Erin O’Neill Grade 9: Alison Krouse James Ringwood Physical Education Departm ent Prize Amanda Roth The Frank “Poncho” Brogan ’72 Memorial Scholarship Susannah Arwood ’90 The A1 Stapf Award for A thletics David Allen

The Margaret Jenkins Osborne Prize for E xcellence In Science Anjali Bhatt

Varsity Society Alexander Anastasiou ’90 Kate Schroeder ’90

The G.A. Downsbrough Science Scholarship Matthew Braun

Red and Black Society Steven Manning ’90 Cheryl Rizzo ’90

Fine and Perform ing Arts Prizes Art: Matthew Rodano Musical-Vocal: Karuna Venter Geoffrey Krouse

Organization o f Black Students Leadership Award and Scholarship Jennifer Gentile

The Maestro Thomas Michalak Instrum ental Music Award George Hrab

The Dartm outh Club Book Award Claire Acher ’90

The Marilyn Faden Award for Excellence In Theatre Arts Mary Bilinski Matthew Braun The Elizabeth O’Neil Feagley Creativity Award Alden Jones ’90 Senior Art Exhibit Award Judith Ainbinder Douglas Dauzier The James D. Timmons Scholarship George Hrab Headm aster’s Award Louis Lessig

The Yale Secondary School Book Award Steven Manning ’90 The Smith C ollege Club Award Robyn Williamson ’90 The R ensselaer Polytechnic Institute Medal Susannah Arwood ’90 The Montclair Society o f Engineers Award David Austin C ollege Women’s Club o f M ontclair Scholarships Amelia Jo Dix Kristine Mamchur Cari McAskill

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New Jersey Independent School Women’s A thletic A ssociation Scholar-Athlete o f the Year Ayana Goore Faculty Scholar Awards Grade 11: Susannah Arwood Christopher DeStefano Stephanie Stark Grade 10: Michael Kramer Adam Lerner Dara Marmon Anjali Sharma Grade 9: Joanna Augustyn Cheryl Sinner The Cum Laude Academic Honor Society Judith Ainbinder David Austin Anjali Bhatt Mary Bilinski Hannah Carson Elizabeth Crowell Amelia Jo Dix Jennifer Gentile Ayana Goore Scott Holwitt Lana Kang Sughanda Khanna Erin Koenen Goeffrey Krouse Kristine Mamchur Cari McAskill Adam Sussman Julie Uhm Elizabeth Visceglia National Merit Scholarship Finalists Joshua Abbey Matthew Braun Amelia Jo Dix Lana Kang Cari McAskill Andrew Weiner National Achievem ent Scholarship Program for Outstanding Negro Students Jean-Claude Debrosse Ayana Goore

N otes A round M ka Faculty Farewells

Cougar Sports 1989 BOYS’ SOCCER: 7-7-3 MVP Peter DeCandla Coach’s Award David Ames Scott Holwitt GIRLS’ SOCCER: 8-6 MVP Amanda Powers Most Improved Ayana Goore Unsung Player Leah Napolitano WATER POLO: 3-7 MVP Ralph Amirata Coach’s Award Matt Braun Offensive Player Josh Ford FIELD HOCKEY: 7-6-4 MVP Beth Webster Coach’s Award Hannah Carson Deb Hemsley Beth Visceglia GIRLS’ TENNIS: 114 MVP Melissa Roedel Coach’s Award Pam Pogonelec Most Improved Maggie Tilton CROSS COUNTRY: 4-10 MVP Vincent Nadal Coach’s Award Steve Manning Most Improved Chris Burchell FOOTBALL: 44 MVP Chris Leber Coach’s Award Sean Fitzgibbon Lineman Andrew Weiner Offensive Player Mike Hunter Defensive Player David Bettencourt CHEERLEADING MVP Kristy Mamchur

Coach’s Award Judy Ainbinder Anjali Bhatt Special Recognition Jill Porter Janna Weinstein Most Improved Anya Buenger

Most Improved Alex Anastasiou John Lee Coach’s Award Josh Abbey Allic Dvorin Sportsmanship Award Ralph Amirata

VOLLEYBALL: 8-9

GIRLS’ FENCING: 12-3 NJSIAA State Championship MVP Lana Kang Most Improved Eden DeGirolamo Coach’s Award Jill Porter

MVP Pam D’Amato Coach’s Award Suzanne Rosen GIRLS’ BASKETBALL: 16-8 NJISWVA-A Division State Championship MVP Ayana Goore Unsung' Player Kate Hnatow Coach’s Award Jamie Reif BOYS’ BASKETBALL: 5-13 Coach’s Award Dan Weiner Bram Zeigler SWIMMING: 4-8 MVP Martin Chen Coach’s Award Liz Crowell George Hrab Most Improved Mark Marshall

BASEBALL: 3-13-1 MVP

Dan Weiner GIRLS’ LACROSSE: 5-7 MVP

Kim Charlton Coach’s Award Suellen Bizub Ayana Goore BOYS’ LACROSSE: 10-5 Offensive Player Dan Murphy Defensive Player David Austin Coach’s Award Mike Hunter GOLF: 67 MVP

ICE HOCKEY: 11-10-3 MVP David Ames Joe Egan Coach’s Award David Allen

Joe Egan Coach’s Award Geoff Ktouse SOFTBALL: 10-5 MVP Coach’s Award Kate Hnatow Leah Napolitano Most Improved Kate Schroeder Unsung Player Kim Kohlman

BOYS’ FENCING: 11-2 Sabte: NJSIAA State Championship Cetrullo Tournament 1st Place MVP Adam Sussman

BOYS’ TENNIS: 11-3 Parochial B State Championship Coach’s Award Scott Holwitt Atul Sharma Ryan Sdhinman

SKIING: 32-16 MVP Luke Sarsfleld Most Improved Rick Diamond Tim Werkley

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From Principal Fran O’Connor’s Tributes at End-ofYcar Faculty Meeting James T. Kolb: The Colonel The Business Manager’s task is a complicated and multifaceted one-, to students, keeper of activity funds; to parents, collector of tuition; to faculty and staff, keeper of the budget; to maintenance, taskmaster; to the Board CIA, investor; reporter; fortune teller Jim has worn all these hats and more with distinction during his six years at MKA....His even disposition, unfailing good humor and military precision have been an example to us all. Vffe send him thanks from all of us for his efforts and successes on our behalf and wish him bon voyage in his retirement.

Donald (Scotty) McPhail: Friend to 1400 Students Scotty came to MKA eleven years ago and since then has been a friend to 1400 students at the Upper School and a help to ail who work and study there.

His supervisor; John Edgley - the Director of the Physical Plant - said, “Scotty came to know every nook and cranny of the school, how everything worked (or was supposed to work), and how to fix it when it didn’t work. He learned how to lay out the playing fields for every sport and demonstrated to his soccer kids how ‘football’ was played in Scotland, with emphasis on teamwork, not individual scoring statistics.” Scotty always has a word of advice, a joke to share or a supportive comment for all of us.

The students thanked and honored him in the yearbook and Awards Assembly, and I’d like to add my thanks and that of all the MKA community. In retirement, Scotty finally has the time to fish to his heart’s content, live in his beloved Scotland, and visit his family in New Mexico and \hncouver

Janice O’Hara: Magic at MKA Janice came to MKA in 1974. She has served as secretary to three principals, helped in admissions and college guidance, answered the main phone, and been honorary grandmother to hundreds of Middle School students.

I will always picture her seated in the front hall at 3:15 p m. surrounded by girls and boys, all talking at once, all offering to answer the telephone for her and all seeking her advice on issues as disparate as pizza, American history, sports and fashion.

Fran Ferlauto, Mr. Burger’s Adminis­ trative Assistant, said that Janice is ‘‘always smiling and pleasant, doing for others and pitching in where needed.”

Schools are magic places where adults and children build wonderful and unique friendships. Janice has been magic at MKA for 15 years. It is hard to let her retire, but we do so with heartfelt thanks, love and best wishes.

Jack Rabuse: Knowledge, Vision, Integrity From speech by Academic Dean Bob Sinner ...Whether at Montclair Academy, the Middle School, or the Upper School, Jack has been a living exemplification of the MKA school motto: Knowledge, Vision, Integrity. Jack’s knowledge spans the spectrum from sports to politics to history to what makes a student feel important. His vision and leadership led to the creation of the Interdisciplinary Committee and its foundation of the present Freshman Humanities program. It also bore fruit in a special coordinate English-American History course....Jack’s integrity is a model for us all: faculty, administrators, students, and staff.

Jack is in every sense a scholar and a gentleman - a “gentle man” showing by his quiet, cheerful example that big things can be accomplished by cooperation and collegiality.

His students and colleagues respect and admire Jack’s strength, courage and example. As he goes on permanent disability leave, we know that Jack is not leaving MKA, that he will be visiting us whenever he can.

Fran O’Connor also thanked her Administrative Assistant, Irene Kolb, who is leaving to travel with her husband. “Irene has been organizer, transcriber, decipherer, diplomat, dog-chaser, clock-watcher.. .and my friend, confidante, assistant, and the role we all love best, ‘Mother’,” At the Middle School, Jim Burger announced that Tracy A sselin is leaving to pursue her interest in science and ecology in Alaska, and that Bonnie Jason is taking a year’s leave to teach in Alaska. He thanked A lice McKeown, a “ longstanding substitute,” for stepping in to fill a one-year position, and wished D orothy Stark ’84 best wishes as she pursues a Ph.D. in philosophy at Princeton. Judy Lawson, husband retired, will move to new challenges as chairman of the math department, K-12, at Albany (N.Y.) Academy for Girls. Kay Wylie-Jacob will be on a maternity leave.

At the Upper School, Dick Webster announced that after twenty years involved with athletics at MKA, George Hrab - “a scholarathlete if ever there was one” - will focus his talents and energies on the intellectual side of students’ development, donning a lab smock to join the science department. MKA alumni and colleagues salute George and thank him for his dedication to excellence.

Dick said that M ichael Bergman, through “his creative genius, diligence, love of theater, and affection for young people, helped to establish our fine and performing arts program....We will miss his zany good humor and leisurely prance through the corridor in search of an aspiring actor or actress” as he leaves us for Morristown-Beard. The science department is losing Audra Di Cesare to Penn Charter School (Pa.), and Gary Lundquist to computer business in Amherst, Mass. Howard Haase, about to be married, will teach closer to his home in Brooklyn. Jennifer Steinm etz will also have a shorter commute, to Rutgers Prep.

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Three young faculty members are returning to graduate studies: Brian O’Toole will work on a doctorate in math at Harvard and Robin Reagler on a doctorate in creative writing at the University of Houston. Joe Halm (“a dedicated coach, inspiring teacher, and role model”) will begin a graduate program in ecology at Penn. State. Deb Jennings and Rosem ary Steinbaum will be on maternity leave.

Dick introduced B ill Bullard, who recounted an amusing anecdote of a fishing trip that illustrated four qualities he sees in Lynn B enediktsson, who is joining the faculty of Morristown Beard: “Next to your spouse, your fishing partner is the best measure of your character. Lynn is the best fisherman I know, the best teacher, the best department head....Lynn, with her startling eye for detail, powerful ability for deduction, infinite patience, and a certain irreverence or iconoclasm...has showed us How. She has showed us how to understand books, to ask the best questions, to lead students to the best answers; to deal with the chemistry of a particular class, to help a colleague in trouble, to find and embrace consensus, to understand and admire individuality and talents... in short, she taught us that the keystone to real intelligence is the ability to listen.”

Ed. Note: As we were going to press, Richard E. Webster, Upper School Head, resigned effective August 15, 1989- An interim Head has been appointed to replace Mr. Webster, and we will introduce him in the next issue of the Alumni News.

From T he A lumni A ssociation Many thanks to Jane Lugaric ’78 and Martin Brayboy ’80 for their years of commitment and service to the Alumni Council of MKA. Both were eager greeters at Homecoming, friendly callers at Alumni Phonathon, and hardworking, delightful members of the Council. We wish them good luck in their new jobs and relocations!

Robert A. H oonhout ’71 President

The Uses of Power Peter N. Perretti Jr., Attorney General of New Jersey and member of the Montclair Academy Class of 1949, addressed Upper School students in May. In a thoughtful speech entitled “Uses of Power in a Free Society,” Peter outlined the structure and scope of his office and gave a case study on the uses of power in criminal law enforcement.

“The Office of Attorney General must be permanently non-political,” he stated. But within the structure, the task becomes a question of priorities and value judgments. The Department of Law & Public Safety has 8,500 employees and a budget of $365 million: how to manage?

Within it, the Division of Criminal Justice has 21 county prosecutors (including Essex County Prosecutor Herbert H. Tate, Jr. ’71): how to focus its power to tap phones, investigate,

subpoena and call up a grand jury?

The office, as he sees it, is more than an exercise in responsibility; it can be used to advocate, to espouse a view - “as a basis for beginning to influence society.” He then gave a detailed example of the decision for more vigorous drug enforcement “zero tolerance” - and the effect on the crime statistics. The statistics (arrests, indictments, sentences) go up with the priority, he stated; the crime is always there. But this emphasis on prosecuting drugs leads to neglect of other justice divisions, including civil disputes, civil rights.

And with the caseload going up, the state needs more money and jails, courts and jurors. Every decision has a ripple effect.

Peter, who served on the Montclair Academy Board of Trustees for 16 years, was President of the Board at the merger in 1974. The Perrettis’ three children are MKA graduates: Peter III, Class of 1972, Earl ’74, and Ruth ’79.

The Attorney General urged MKA students to work their way into positions of power, then to exercise their responsibility and use their value standards to improve society.

He concluded with the words of his former teacher William Avery Barras, “When you leave this world, leave it a little better place than you found it.”

Peter N. Perretti Jr. ’49, Attorney General o f New Jersey, speaks with Marc Gurtman ’90 and Beth Visceglia '89 after addressing an Upper School assembly.

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Career Day What do you want to be w hen you grow up?

Career Day provides a chance for alumni, parents, and friends of MKA to speak with Upper School students about their careers. In informal groups, they discuss their jobs, education, training, and related fields; answer questions and offer advice. Students ask very candid questions, both practical and philosophical.

This year’s Career Day on February 14 was organized by Ellen Wahl Skibiak ’73, Suzanne Saldarini, Director of Student Services, and the Alumni Office.

Top: P hotojoum alist Michael Yamashita '67.

Bottom: Faculty member Calvin M atzke and television producer H al Goodtree '76.

CAREER DAY SPEAKERS F = Faculty Relative P = MKA Parent Year = Alumnus/a Advertising Hal G oodtree ’76 Anthropology Dr. Nancy Ann Sarsfield P Biology, Research Dr. Ronald Saldarini F Engineering Howard Greenspan F Food Criticism, Consulting Joanna Pruess P Investment Banking John Eberhardt P Barry Ridings ’71, P Law: Robert H. Gardner ’78 John Stone ’78 Hon. Herbert H. Tate, Jr. ’71 Military Col. Jam es Kolb F, P Music Richard Reiter F,P Fine/Performing Arts Joseph Zeigler P Photography M ichael Yamashita ’67 Psychology Dr. Judith Gurtman P Psychiatry Dr. Martin Ainbinder P Medicine, Surgery Dr. Martin Sorger P Veterinary Medicine Dr. Carmen Scherzo P Real Estate Finance, Entrepreneurship M elissa Cohn Alvarez ’78 Writing Patricia (Clapp) Laurence C one’30 Dana Jennings F

Top: Faculty member Judy Nesbit chats with environm ental lawyer John Stone ’78 and entrepreneur Melissa Cohn Alvarez ’78. Center Left: Trial lawyer Rob Gardner ’78. Center Right: Playwrite and novelist Patricia Laurence Cone ’30 (pen nam e Patricia Clapp) discusses young adult literature Bottom: Essex County Prosecutor Herbert H. Tate, Jr. ’71, ju n io r M artin Torjussen, Fran O’Connor, and Dr. Judith Gurtman, MKA parent.

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Senior Breakfast Welcome, new alumni!

The MKA Alumni Council welcomed graduating seniors into the Alumni Association at the Senior Breakfast on May 4. In the sun-filled William Avery Barras Library, students were introduced to the responsibilities, privileges, and events they can expect as alumni.

Principal Fran O’Connor wished the students good luck and presented them with a laundry bag designed with every signature of the Class of ’89.

Top Left: Father, Daughter: Beth and Upper School H ead D ick Webster. Top Right: Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65, alum na, parent, and President o f the Board o f trustees, tells o f her dedication to MKA. Center Left: Josh Raym ond and Fran O’Connor search fo r signatures. Center Right: Jon Alexander, Keith Vesley, Brian Lees, Julie Uhm, Bem ie Reilly. Bottom Left: Beth Visceglia and Jen Gentile. Bottom Right: Charry Godwin, Librarian Vivi Greenspan, Aim ee Stark.

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Author Philip Fradkin 53 pauses on a Utah m ountain crest, “w hat I love doing best - exploring and w riting about the American West."

1 9 8 9 D istinguished A lumni Award P hilip L. Fradkin The Alumni Council of The Montclair Kimberley Academy is pleased to announce that the 1989 Distinguished Alumni Award will be presented to Philip L. Fradkin ’53. He has achieved great distinction in his career as a journalist, author, editor, publisher, and university teacher.

Philip is a 100 percent product of the MKA system: he attended Brookside and then Montclair Academy for 12 years (and his former home is now the MKA Principal’s residence!). He graduated from Williams College with a degree in political science in 1957, then served two years in the Army.

He worked for various California newspapers in the Sixties, then for 11 years was a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, covering urban news, the Vietnam war, and the environment.

In 1965 he shared the Pulitzer Prize awarded to the metropolitan staff of the Times for their coverage of the Watts Riot.

He was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1971 and for a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1981.

Philip was assistant secretary to the California Resources Agency in the administration of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., then western editor of Audubon magazine from 1976-1980.

He has published four books and numerous magazine articles and book reviews. His earlier books are California, the Golden Coast (Viking, 1974) and A River No More: the Colorado River and the West (Knopf, 1981).

This year he published Fallout: an Am erican Nuclear Tragedy (U. of Arizona Press), an enlightening and sobering account of atomic testing in Nevada in the Fifties and - in the words of the Washington Post “a searing indictment of official indifference” to the consequences.

His latest book, Sagebrush Country: Land and the American West

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(Knopf, 1989), combines colorful history with concern for the problems and opportunities now facing the federal land system.

Philip has taught writing at Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley, and recently founded Redwood Press, a small book publishing operation in Marin County.

MKA is proud to honor Philip Fradkin, who has spent his life as an environmental crusader and who has dedicated himself to researching and publishing the facts, no matter how painful or provocative they may be.

Martha Bonsai Day ’74 D istinguished Alumni Award Com m ittee Chairman

A sk K aren “There was no place fo r us to call to give us answers, to fin d doctors.

For all the other rare diseases, there was some mom, some place I could call on a Saturday night and cry m y heart o u t to and have some direction.

“There was nothing fo r Lyme Disease, no place even fo r doctors to write to. Nobody could get access.”

And so Karen VanderhoofForschner ’70 started a foundation.

Buoyed by her own heartwrenching trials and three-year quest for information, Karen started the Lyme Borreliosis Foundation in January 1988, devoted to prevention, education and treatment of all aspects of Lyme Disease.

Last year - its first year - the foundation, headquartered in the Forschner’s family room in Tolland, Connecticut, answered 10,000 pieces of mail and an estimated 50 phone calls a day. Karen - articulate and vivacious - has appeared on “ 20/20” ; “Inside Edition” ; “Home Show” ; CNN, NBC, ABC, and CBS local news, and been mentioned in The Boston Globe, The New York Times, M aclean’s, the April Reader’s Digest, and July Family Circle (“Women Who Make a Difference”).

“We’ve put Lyme Disease on the map as a serious, life-threatening illness,” says Karen, who was the only non-medical expert of 30 from around the world invited to a threeday strategic planning session at the National Institutes of Health last December. Karen was the final speaker.

Karen was also introduced at the press conference in Washington when the Comprehensive Lyme Disease Act of 1989 (a bill to fund research and treatment) was announced. She is considered such an expert on the tick-borne illness that the national Center for Disease Control [CDC] advises, “Ask Karen Forschner of the Lyme Disease Foundation.”

Her expertise has come painfully.

In 1985, Karen, a life-insurance consultant, became ill with eye and heart problems and pains in her joints while pregnant. After the birth

of her son, Jamie, she was confined to a wheelchair and couldn’t feed herself or walk. A specialist in joint inflammation suspected Lyme Disease and treated her with antibiotics.

Jamie, apparently normal at birth, began vomiting and manifesting peculiar symptoms - eye tremors, paralysis, heart disease, brain damage - that eluded diagnosis. Over the next two years, the Forschners were told he had recessive genetic disease, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy.

Four times they were told Jamie was dying. He was tested by a battery of specialists, who subjected him to brain scans, dyes, probes, electricity, muscle biopsy, four operations, 12 hospitalizations. Nothing helped.

Finally Karen and her husband, Tom, sat down with all the records (“I’m a documenter”) - the videotapes, medical records, testing results - eliminating diseases. Lyme was among the notes. In the fall of 1987, a New York neuroopthamalogist concluded that nothing but an in utero infection could explain Jamie’s multiple symptoms, and that Jamie had inherited her Lyme Disease. Karen then went to an international conference in New York City, attended by experts on Lyme Disease.

She convinced the hotel to give her free room and videotape facilities; and - armed with photos and videotapes - “asked 600 doctors to help save Jamie’s life.” As a result, doctors began new treatment of Jamie, now permanently handicapped.

“W hat we were suffering from was ignorance.”

Her son’s disease identified, Karen realized that all over the country, scientists and medical people were doing independent research on Lyme Disease, but no one was making the connections. “ None of us would talk or interact with each other. There was no place for the public or doctors to go for the implications.”

In January 1988, Karen decided to start a foundation as a clearinghouse for information. She and Tom set up the board of directors with experts from the medical, scientific, business and public advocacy fields, many from the conference. (One board member is Dr. Willy Burgdorfer, who discovered the spirochete [“ Borrelia burgorferi”] which causes Lyme

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Disease.) They found an attorney who donated services for the foundation’s incorporation, bylaws, and constitution.

The not-for-profit Lyme Borreliosis Foundation has a three-way function: education, research, and patient support. Its volunteer experts give conferences and seminars, videotape and slide programs. They have established joint ventures in a national pregnancy registry and epidemiology (they have charted the increase of the disease from 33 to 43 states), and a tissue bank; for patients there are medical and testing referrals, an information network and support groups in 50 states. Karen is the most active speaker.

The Kimberley graduate, who has a B.S. in biology and the coveted insurance appellations CLU and CPCU, now volunteers full time on the foundation - all day, nights and weekends. Warm, highly organized, and impassioned in her convictions, Karen rattles off statistics without notes. But her blue eyes cloud when she recounts sadly that they live 50 miles away from where the disease was discovered [in Lyme, Conn.], but information available a t the tim e did not travel even 50 miles. “If someone had acted immediately, Jamie would not be the way he is,” she states. “What we were suffering from was ignorance.”

“What scared me before, was I didn’t have information,” she says.

“The knowledge we have now keeps us going. Nobody knows more what Jamie needs than me; no one can be a better advocate.”

Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner virtually devotes her life to the Lyme Borreliosis Foundation. Asked why, she replies quietly, “It’s because we have Jamie waiting for answers, and we’re running out of time.’’

For inform ation about Lyme Disease, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope plus SI to: Lyme Borreliosis Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box 462, Tolland, CT 06084

C lass Notes Editor’s Note

Our condolences to the families of W illiam Creighton Reed and Carl Wynkoop, Jr.

As those of you in classes that have secretaries already realize, we use one official mailing each year to obtain news, which 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 items might seem “old,” we have found that most people love to read news whenever. The time lapse is unavoidable, as the processing of Class Notes from secretary to Alumni Office to classmates to secretary to Alumni Office to typesetter to printer covers a l4-to-l6 week period! Please remember that you can send a note to your class secretary or to the Alumni Office anytime.

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

The job has been simplified to the point that you will probably find it downright enjoyable!

It is no exaggeration to say that the position of class secretary, like that of class agent and reunion chairman, is absolutely essential to the vitality of the school.

Please consider it.

T h e B ig W in In 1907, the Academy football team beat Pingry 76-0. That season they scored 281 points to their opponents’ combined 4.

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For information and help, please contact:

D orothy Sexton Ritchie moved in November to a new life-care place in Essex, Conn., “in the midst of all its growing pains.

But things are straightening out,” she reports, “and I am enjoying it immensely.”

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Judy Polonofsky Director of External Affairs The Montclair Kimberley Academy Montclair, New Jersey 07042 201/746-9800

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TKS Mrs. Jonathan Chatellier (Alice Vezin) 16 West Elm Street, Yarmouth, ME 04096 Our condolences to the family of Ruth Waring Bogart. Ruth, who died on the third anniversary of her husband’s death, was Miss Waring’s niece.

K illy Greene Cole went on her annual trip to England to see daughter Sue and family, including Oxford to see grandson Greg.

Isabel G allie Gassaway told me she had a reunion with Libby Taylor Randall not long ago when they met down Shrewsbury way.

Our congratulations to Bee Cee Hawkins W ilson for receiving an honorary degree from Bowdoin College!

It is super that our graduation picture with all the flowers was chosen to be put in the school history book, W ithin These Halls!

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H elen St. John Ball lives in a retirement village at Spanish Fort, Alabama near Mobile Bay, with family near by. She planned to visit upstate New York to see a beautiful great granddaughter, and her son and family in Toronto this summer.

MA No secretary Our condolences to the family of Richard C. Overton.

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TKS Mrs. Julian M iller (Julia Hawkins) 4747 Bayard Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Welcome to new class secretary Julia Hawkins Miller!

Our condolences to the family of Phyllis Bower Lamborn.

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TKS Mrs. Sam uel Meek (Priscilla Mitchel) 88 D oubling Road, Greenwich, CT 06832

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Have you included MKA in your estate plans?

If so, please let us know.

Perhaps a charitable remainder trust would meet your family’s needs better.

Theron Butterworth’s fifth great­ grandchild, Kevin, arrived in January.

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

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Katherine (Kay) Meyer Mauchel has lived in Sarasota since her husband died, and is active in the garden club and bridge. She loves her large apartment but misses the dogs they had at their home, farm and kennels in Connecticut. Kay writes, “I hear from Marion Jayne Berquldo whom I have known since the third grade! and remember all my classmates. After Kimberley I went to Sweet Briar and attended Oxford [England], Lo! these many years ago.’’

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Homer W hitmore '26 ( “M ajor U.S.A., Retired”) was featured in a Pearl Harbor Special. He served w ith Gen. Joseph Stillwell in the Asian theater.

Homer W hitmore was featured in a Pearl Harbor Special in the Brighton-Pittsford Post (Pittsford, N.Y.) last December. During the war, Homer trained soldiers at Camp Upton on Long Island (Irving Berlin’s old training grounds) and at Fort Benning, then after Command General Staff School, served for two and a half years with General Joseph Stillwell in the China-India-Burma theater. “Stillwell and Whitmore were responsible for stiffening Chinese resistance to the Japanese threat,” states the article. “Whitmore himself trained almost 100,000 Chinese soldiers during his stay.”

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TKS Mrs. Paul M acdonald (Louise Russell) 35 Bank Street, New Canaan, CT 06840 I’m thrilled to have heard from so many of you. There are 17 on our class list, counting x’s; that’s pretty good after 62 years! Louise Stauffen Barnard (Chip) reports trips to Arizona a year ago and on to Seattle to see Carol (Barnard Ottenberg) ’56 and husband.

Chip and Frank were with them last May in Cambridge, England where their son-in-law was spending a sabbatical.

Chip expected to see Eda Bainbridge Kolbe and Hat Lowry Rydstrom in Florida this spring, only Hat, unfortunately, had to cancel because of tom muscles in her leg. In January Chip and D oris Blondel Krebs went from Montclair to see their shared grandson in an off-Broadway performance of “The Student Prince.”

D ot Ayres H olt also has a theatrically minded grandchild. Tony’s daughter Kyle is working in New York - acting, directing, any phase of theater.

Eda Bainbridge Kolbe and her sister, D oris Bainbridge McIntosh ’33, spent Christmas in Hawaii. Mary Yonngman Ayer keeps busy in church and town affairs in Berlin, N.H. Both her daughters own property near her and come for summer vacations; two grandchildren are married, the other five in college.

Our sympathy goes to Jo Gibbs D ubois for the loss of her husband of 51 years. Jo is staying on in her home in Wisconsin, a son living nearby, and keeps up her synchronized swimming program and volunteer work.

Resa Darius Hayes had two grandsons run in the Boston marathon last spring! She and Dick are proud great-grandparents of a little girl. They recently had a wonderful trip to Norway.

Stan and Jane K ilbourne Horstm an have moved back East to Connecticut from California. Jane retired as manager of public relations for Pan American Airways after 30 years, during which time she staged 59 fashion shows for women’s clubs in “strange and faroff places.” For six years thereafter she wrote a newsletter for women in public relations. She is currently engaged in putting on a fashion show at a convalescent center, using “gray­ haired models.”

My older grandson has finished his sophomore year at Boston University, a granddaughter and younger grandson fast on his heels. There will be two at a time in college for several years to come! I visited my sister Libby R ussell Thom pson '30 in March.

She and her husband are in a retirement

community near Orlando, Fla. that belies the designation, being a very zippy place. My son Ron’s second book will have been published by the time this appears.

Louise MA Mr. Eugene Speni 85 U ndercliff Road, Montclair, NJ 07042 Our condolences to the family of Peter Kuhn. His daughter wrote that Peter had moved close to his two daughters and four grandchildren in Maryland, enjoyed a trip to Alaska last summer, and remained active in community affairs and the Lafayette College Alumni Assn.

John (Jack) J.B. Cooper wrote that he has been corresponding with Jack Beck ’29x, who sees Sylvia Stoutenburgh Bliss in California. Jack also corresponds with A lfonso Alvarez, now living in Miami. Alfonso, like his father before him, served as President of El Salvador. “Time marches on after 62 years.”

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TKS Miss Charlotte H. Fitch, Box 45 24 Cape B ial Lane, Westport Point, MA 02791 Lewis and Jane Foster Lapham were off for two months in Hobe Sound, Fla., when she wrote. Their son, Lewis, editor of H arper’s

magazine, has a program on Public T.V. called “Bookmark.” I stumbled across it one Saturday and thought, “This is good!” and then noted Lewis’ name in the closing captions.

Jim and D orothy Minsch Hudson spend half the year in Florida and several months on Cape Cod, usually traveling abroad in between.

Four of their eight grandchildren are married, and their first great-grandchild arrived in February.

Glnny Hamilton Adair became a great­ grandmother in May. Daughter Kappa and son Douglass and their families had a great reunion in Holland. Because of poor eyesight Ginny feels her own traveling days are over. She still plays recorder in a couple of early music groups.

Marge McComb Sexton continues her interest in local and national Garden Clubs of America and volunteers in her church and hospital. Her two sons have presented her with seven grands, 10 to 19. They all had a marvelous Thanksgiving 1988 in Bermuda.

The only classmate she has seen since the 50’s is Jane Lapham, but she enjoys hearing from the rest of us and sends all good wishes.

Had a lively letter from Kit Meeks who still works for her same California congressman.

She was planning a trip to see friends and relatives in New Jersey and her great-niece and godchild’s wedding in Maryland in the spring.

She wondered if there were any plans for our 60th reunion which unbelieveably occurs this year.

A note from Connie Parkhurst Chauncey was full of pleasant plans for a Royal Viking cruise through sunny Atlantic islands to Portugal, then Sanibel Island, then to Maine for the summer, stopping off for a granddaughter’s wedding. She hoped to see D oris Blondel Krebs. The Chaunceys saw Mary Stewart Cunningham Johnston in Florida last year.

5t>ur secretary keeps busy with art group, historical society, book club, aerobics, Westport River Watershed Alliance and Fall

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD lb all alumni, parents, trustees, faculty, staff and friends of The Montclair Kimberley Academy: The Distinguished Alumni Award Committee is hereby accepting nominations for the recipient of the 1989 Distinguished Alumni Award.

The recipient should have achieved distinction in some field of endeavor, or through outstanding character or dedication been of special service to humanity.

Race, creed, sex or contribution to the school should have no bearing on the choice of recipient.

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

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

1990 NOMINATION FORM Information on Nominee: NAME__________________________________________ CLASS___________________________ ADDRESS______________________________________

PHONE ________________________

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

Submitted by: NAME__________________________________________ CLASS___________________________ ADDRESS

__________ _ PHONE ________________________

Mail to: The Montclair Kimberley Academy, Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, NJ 07042

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River soup kitchen. She also takes care of orchids in the greenhouses of new neighbors who are only on deck weekends; the job combines well with the morning dog-walk.

She played the role of Abby, one of the pixilated ladies in “Arsenic and Old Lace” in May with an amateur group in New Bedford.

It’s fun but hard work and she finds she is no longer a quick study. Then off to her 55 th reunion at Smith.

Next time let’s hear from all of you not appearing in this column!

Charlotte MA Mr. Robert Dorrill 42 Godfrey Road, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043

Pat and Chara Church P hillips are loaded with descendants; I envy them. Pat has something like 10 and 2/3 as of this writing and Chara has 16, including some “steps.”

Chara commutes seasonally between Siesta Kay and Mantoloking. She is still painting, feels fine, and like most of us, can’t believe we’ve been 75 for the second or third time....

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TKS Mrs. Richard DuMont (Marjorie Kieselbach) P.O. Box 766, Bemardsville, NJ 07924 Grace and Esma did such good things with this job that I can only try. We wish we had heard from Kay Cerf Brown who did such brave work during WWII and from Grace McCollum Brennan.

Lillian was a dear and we’d like to know what she does. Then there were Barbara, Ann, Miggy and Kay, Grannie, Jasie, Dot, Evie and Libby. Lib was at Knox when I was, having turned into Betty. That’s all right, changes happen: I turned blonde not long ago. My point is you’re all fixed at seventeen in our minds and we’d like to know how you are.

Pat Laurence Cone has done exactly what was expected in those days and become an author (Pat Clapp by pen name) of books, plays, poems, etc. for “young adults.” She’s even had rights sold in Australia. Pat spoke at MKA on Career Day this winter, suggesting that writing does not make one rich, a condition also applying to painting. I’ve sold three recently. Pat wrote a play, “The Truly Remarkable Puss-in-Boots,” which was presented in March by the Studio Players with several MKA students in the cast!

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TKS Mrs. Jerome Drew (Jesse Taylor) 1076 S. E. St. Lucie Blvd., Stuart, FL 34996 After reading W ithin These Halls, D aniel Bushnell ’29 sent some recollections of his years at Montclair Academy during the Twenties. “...During the golden years MA and Kimberley flourished. MA had great athletic teams. In football East Orange High was our great rival....In one final E.O. game Capt. Harry Abbott called the signals from the left end position because of a hurt shoulder, so end A1 Holm es became a halfback and helped win the game. In those days there were not many subs. ‘‘Also, ’Dab’ Penick gave his all, weighing around 130 pounds... ’Peanuts’ D orrill was a bruising halfback....At Kimberley, Katherine Simmons Dana could run around anyone on a hockey field and Jane Foster Lapham could run over and through anyone on a hockey field; they both were and are very smooth dancers!!”

We have lost contact with D oothy Devega Becker and Blanch Cosgrove. If any of you have information of these “girls” let me or the Alumni Office know. Many thanks.

Jesse

The spring letter proved to be quite profitable: 21 were sent and I got nine cards back. Thank you all.

“By” and “Travle” Roberts A llis play a lot of golf. A while ago they had dinner with Gilbert and Marlon Howell Holt.

Nancy H olton Bartow saw Barbara W illiam son Mlal a while ago. Barbara lost her husband in December, 1988; our sincere condolences. She lives in Hanover, N.J. in a house furnished with beautiful antiques, and is the first one of us to have a great-grandchild, as far as I know....

Bill and D ell H alsey B ell celebrated their 50th in March ’88 in Sea Island with five children, their spouses, and eight grandchildren, three of whom are steps. The Bells have moved to a retirement village, still in the Naples area. They travel a lot.

Gay Lemkau Fitt’s grandson lives near her in Montclair and is a big help to her.

The best quotation I’ve received appropriate to our age group comes from Irene Burbank Frell, “Rene,” who writes, “Time goes by so fast at our age. We wake up in the morning with nothing to do and go to bed at night only half finished!” Her husband, Albert, was the first surgeon to do corneal transplants in 1950.

Rene plays golf, has taken up painting and piano lessons, and has written “Memoirs of Kimberley School.” The trouble is, when I wrote her for the “Memoirs” she couldn’t find them!

Jean Batt Kagen was 75 last summer. She has two daughters and two granddaughters.

Jean loves life in metropolitan D.C. (Silver Springs, Md.), but plans to move near her daughter around Chesapeake Bay when the time comes.

Gertie Mount McKeel spent 10 luxurious days last summer aboard the “Bermuda Star” cruising to Nova Scotia, Gaspe, and Montreal.

She sculpts and enjoys her wonderful family and friends.

Bless Eleanor Vreeland McKnight; she was the only one to reply to my 1988 letter!

She’s busy with children and grandchildren, who all live nearby. She also says she doesn't want a reunion, preferring to remember all of us as we were....

Jesse Taylor Drew and Virginia Taylor Wagner celebrated their 75th birthday together. The Drews drove over to the Wagners’ for luncheon in Sarasota. Edward Wagner, Ginny’s grandson, is one of the “best freestyle swimmers in competitive school history,” (quote from the Summit, N.J. paper).

He has had an early acceptance at Princeton.

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It was great to hear from those of you who wrote!

Lucy Fields Haskins said they had been iced in for several days on top of their hill which has a great view. She was looking forward to spring. Lucy is all for a 60th reunion of our class in 1992!

Lucy reported that Midge Wenk Spencer enjoyed a trip to Africa last winter, this year will go to Egypt and Morocco.

Mary Harrsen Van Brunt Is well but had “no news for the Alumni Notes.” Anita Schwarz Beamon’s energy level is amazing!

She snorkelled every day during her annual trip to St. John and will tour Spain this spring.

She comes to Washington for special exhibits at the National Gallery of Art. We wish we could get together then, however tour schedules are very tight.

My sister, Joy, was in Beaufort, S.C. last fall prior to the elections. In visiting a political headquarters there, she detected a “Jersey accent” and discovered Zaida Jones D illon ’31 and that both of them came from Montclair. They, of course, played “Do You Know?”

Bill and I are getting our house ready to sell this spring as we are moving in the late summer into “The Fairfax,” the Army retirement community at Ft. Belvoir, Va. As we’ll have less space, we are faced with disposing of antiques and treasures collected over the years. Decisions, decisions.

Fortunately our three sons are all settled and have houses... .We will keep our place in Maine.

If any of you have news from time to time, don’t foiget to drop me a line or send it to the Alumni Office.

Frances MA Dr. James A. Rogers, Apt. 205 921 Seagrape Drive, Marco Island, FL 3393 7 The tennis captain of ’32 is still In there pitching, er, hitting. Tom Braine of Southern Pines is listed sixth in Men’s 70 Singles in the North Carolina Tennis Assn. Tom teaches history, an interest since he “had the responsibility of editing the old Eagle Rocket with the help of George B ell and Dave Stanley ’33.”

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W elcome To O ur N ewest A lum ni T he C lass O f 1989

Joseph Egan.............................................................College of Boca Raton Laura Eng......................................................................................... BarnardCollege Joshua Abbey.................................................................................. HarvardUniversity Meredith Fisher........................................ George Washington University Judith Ainbinder............................................................................ StanfordUniversity Sean Fitzgibbon................................................................................ LehighUniversity Shane F ry ...................................................................................... FordhamUniversity Jonathan Alexander......................................... University of Pennsylvania Peter Fusco.................................................................................... CaldwellCollege David Allen............................................................University of Rochester Jennifer Gentile................................................................................ LehighUniversity Daisy Altamore............................................................. SUNY Binghamton Laura Glasser.................................................................................... ColgateUniversity David Ames...................................................................... Bowdoin College Charry G odw in............................................................................. SyracuseUniversity Ralph Amirata.............................................. Pennsylvania State University Andrew Goldberg.....................................................University of Virginia David Austin....................................................... Northwestern University Anjali Bhatt..........................................................................................DukeUniversity Wendy Goldstein......................................................University of Arizona Ayana G oore...................................................................................StanfordUniversity Mary Bilinski........................................................................ Vassar College Kelly Guise...................................................................................... RutgersUniversity Suellen Bizub................................................................... Hartwick College Deborah Hemsley.............................................................................BostonUniversity John Blesso....................................................... University of Connecticut Michael Hnatow........................................................................... VillanovaUniversity John Boeckel.......................................................................Babson College Scott H olw itt............................................................................WashingtonUniversity Matthew Braun.............................Massachusetts Institute of Technology George Hrab..................................................................................MoravianCollege Anya Buenger................................................................Gettysburg College Michael Hunter...................................................... U. S. Military Academy Hannah Carson............................................................ Middlebury College Edward Jervis...................................................... University of Pittsburgh Elizabeth Crowell.................................................................. Smith College Keisha Johnson.....................................................University of Maryland Virginie Daguise........................................................... Gettysburg College Lana Kang...................................................................................... StanfordUniversity Pamela D ’A mato......................................................... Villanova University Sughanda Khanna.............................................................................. UnionCollege Douglas Dauzier....................................................................Pratt Institute Erin Koenen................................................................Dartmouth College Jean-Claude Debrosse........................................... University of Maryland Geoffrey Krouse............................................................... Duke University Peter DeCandia...........................................University of New Hampshire Jeremy Kruger........................................................University of Vermont Amelia Jo Dix......................... ..........................Johns Hopkins University William Lamson....................................................................... ConnecticutCollege Alexander Dvorin......................................................New Abrk University

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Sarah Lane......................................................................................... ColgateUniversity Christopher Leber.............................................................................. LehighUniversity Jason Lee........................................................................................... RutgersUniversity John Lee...............................................................................................VassarCollege Brian Lees......................................................................SUNY Binghamton Dana Leibowitz................................................................................. TempleUniversity Carl Lejuez.......................................................................................... EmoryUniversity Louis Lessig................................................................................MuhlenbergCollege Yale Levin........................................... ................... U. S. Military Academy Polly Lieberman.............................................................................. SyracuseUniversity Franklin Liu....................................................................................... ColgateUniversity Amy Lorentzen.................................................... Marymount College (CA) Kristine Mamchur..........................................................................WellesleyCollege Scott Marshall..................................................................................Depauw University Cari McAskill..................................................................................ColumbiaUniversity Daniel Murphy..................................................................................OberlinCollege Vincent Nadal......................................................... University of Vermont Jennifer Nyselius.....................................................University of Delaware Natalie Page....................................................................................... RutgersUniversity Niloufar Pajoohi........................................ George Washington University Robin Press..............................................................Centenary College (NJ) Joshua Raymond............................................................................ SkidmoreCollege Bernard Reilly..................................................................................FairfieldUniversity Matthew Rodano...........................................................................DickinsonCollege Suzanne Rosen............................................................................WashingtonUniversity Amanda Roth...............................................................................DartmouthCollege

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Jennifer Russell....................................................... Washington University Sharad Sahu...................................................................................... BostonCollege Ryan Schinman......................................................... University of Florida Atul Sharma.......................................................................... NorthwesternUniversity Sukhjit Singh...................................... ................. University of Wisconsin Aimee Stark...........................................................University of Wisconsin Mark Strobeck......................................................St. Lawrence University Gregory Sullivan.............................................................................. HobartCollege Adam Sussman................................................................................ HarvardUniversity Renu Thamman..................................

Northwestern University Paul Tiranno..................................................................................... LehighUniversity Juliet Traum.............................................................. University of Arizona Charlotte Tuomey................................................................................ BardCollege Julie U hm ..........................................................................................BrownUniversity Karuna Venter..................................................................................... SmithCollege Keith Vesley.......................................................................................... BardCollege Elizabeth Visceglia................................................................... GeorgetownUniversity Anthony Vitiello..................................................Sarah Lawrence College Elizabeth Webster......................................................... Gettysburg College Andrew Weiner.................................................Johns Hopkins University Daniel Weiner........................................Washington & Jefferson College Wendy Weiss.................................................................C. W. Post College Robert Young............................................................... Cornell University Donna Zanjanian...................................... George Washington University Abraham Zeigler.......................................................... Dickinson College David Zweifler........................................................ University of Chicago

Dave Stanley spent Christmas in Salt Lake City with Dave Jr. and family and 12 days in Florida in February.

Fred Stickel fished in the Arctic for the 34th year and with Hank Doremus in August.

Fred still practices five days a week (his 48th year). In March a 14th grandchild was on the way.

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Therefore I report that there were seven Kimberley ‘girls’ in Naples, Florida the winter of 1989: Terry Bull Sterling, Jean Berry Walton, Libby Gracy Kenny, Mary Adele Halsey B ell, Gay W illiam s Baldwin, Nan W illiam s Brundage ’41, and - not so girly your secretary Bobbie Spadone Haviland.

A Kimberley/Academy mother, Jean Marquandt, had a lovely trip to Arizona with Lib and Bill Kenny in February. The Kennys also managed to be in Eleuthra and Naples.

We are pleased to report that Ralph Crane is doing better after an early 1989 operation. He and Marjorie [Atwater Crane] gave a lovely luncheon with all their family and friends and none of us knew the operation was imminent.

Marge has taken a little house on a river for a change of scene this summer.

Arch Sterling and Dave Haviland played golf in Naples with Bob Zabriskie and Bill Kenny. The Havilands’ fifth grandchild, Charles, arrived in July ’88, the first child of Catherine Haviland Schafer ’75, a lawyer in Princeton.

Caroline Thom pson Lathrop’s son John is head of the Middle School, Greenwich, Conn.

See TKS ’74 for news of Mary.

D orothy McCord wrote from Bucks County that her sister Ruth McCord Alexander ’35 and her husband spent the winter in Arizona in a trailer. “My family and I spent two years in one in Florida,” Dorothy writes. “They are lots of fun!”

Barbara MA Dr. WalterJ. Sperling, Fearrington Village P.O. Box 192, Pittsboro, NC 27312 Edgar Blackledge still takes care of his sister Betty ’35, who is in a nursing home in Palo Alto. He went to Ohio the end of April for the National YMCA Master’s swim meet, and to Colgate in June for reunion.

Crusade Our condolences to the family of Harry Hazard ’34, who died in February. Harry was on the faculty at Princeton for years and in retirement edited books. He spent 40 years on a monumental scholarly project, A History o f the Crusades, which was acclaimed as “a history of the Crusades fuller than anything that has yet appeared in any language.” [Times Literary Supplement] The sixth and final volume, published in June, is dedicated to him.

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Jeannette B ell W inters enjoyed a visit with Frannle E lliot McCahill ’32 and husband in January. Jeannette’s activités include writing the family history, travel lectures, giving book reviews and traveling.

They saw the exhibit of Ramses II in Dallas over Easter and had plans for a trip to Alaska.

Jean Black Jennings joined a photo safari to Kenya in February with a college alumnae group, and reports, “It was fun to meet gals from so many different classes. I was NOT the oldest!” She returned to Sweet Briar for her 50th reunion in May and made her annual visit with family in New England.

Bill and Ruth McCord Alexander spent the winter at an R.V. resort near Tucson. Ruth’s keyboard for Christmas resulted in ‘‘Musical Encounters” once a week - organ, piano, keyboards, a Western accordian band player and a Berlin bandleader. “Great fun!”

Barbara Littlejohn writes, “There is not any notable change in my life: vacationing in warm locales two or three times a year, still doing fascinating volunteer work, and happily enjoying good health and a pretty busy social life. Who could ask for anything more?”

Gordon and D oris K eller Hamlin had a great tour of England last fall. She hopes to see Patsy Soverel McGee this summer. After four weeks of visiting San Francisco and Hawaii, Doris looked forward to the wedding of Karen Schmid in April. Still working with solid waste, Doris says, “Recycle!”

Jean W inpenny Manley dined with Barclay and P olly O’Gorman M orrison at Hilton Head in November while visiting her niece who lives two doors away from them.

Jean spent the winter months in her “little dollhouse” condo in Delray Beach, had lunch several times with Caroline Schumann Mark who lives nearby. She also had a dinner with Patsy Soverel McGee, Mary Ayres Schweppe and Jodie Murray Schmid - “Lots of reminiscing! We have been a very close class and seem to all still pick up in the middle of a sentence.”

Elaine Beling P hillips, Mary Osborne Beam, Betty Bell M iller and Jean have a reunion every summer at Betty Howe Glaze’s house on the beach in Manasquan.

Bare and P olly M orrison were looking forward to hosting a family gathering of 16 in Bermuda to celebrate their 50th anniversary.

They spent a day in February with George and Cele D egolyer McGhee who flew over from Antigua - “a rare treat.”

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MA No secretary The West Bergen Mental Health Center presented its annual Distinguished Service Award to C. Frank Kireker in April. “For many years he has given his talent, experience and energy....His dedication and commitment to the community, and his interest and concern for mental health, are well known and appreciated.”

After Princeton and Harvard Business School, Frank was in the Air Force during WWII (awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and The Air Medal). His career in finance specialized in the investment of pension and trust funds. He has served for years on the boards of the Valley Hospital and his church in Ridgewood.

Also in Bergen County, Jerom e Yesko has a distinguished career as a trial lawyer. He has served in numerous public offices, including seven years as Acting Magistrate for the city of Paterson, member of the N.J. State Assembly, and special counsel to several boroughs.

Jerome has published and lectured widely on trial law.

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= Mrs. W. Kent Schmid (Josephine Murray) RD 1, Box 623, Mason’s Island, CT 06355 Congratulations to Mary Osborne Beam, who just graduated from Monmouth College with a B.A. degree! “It’s been ten years since I started back to college taking one course at a time, and I will miss it,” she writes, “but not the exams and term papers!” Mary is enjoying her first grandchild, Max, born in June 1988, especially since Charles’ family is back in New Jersey. Daughter Pamela is working on her doctorate in psychology at Harvard.

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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 S160 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.

MA Mr. W. Kent Schmid RD 1, Box 623, Mason's Island, CT 06355 Our condolences to the family of Alfred D. Young.

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award in March, for the show he originated and produces, “China Beach.” Peggy was looking forward to a trip to Normandy, returning to places she went as a child. She expected to see her sister-in-law Sally Young Shertzer in the summer in Massachusetts.

Charlie and Virginia Kracke Leavitt celebrated her restoration to activity after hip surgery by a month-long trip to China, all the way west to the ancient silk route. They planned a trip to England and France in August, including a week on the Seine - “This is our river year!”

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In addition to overseeing her church education program for 300, Mary Ames Poor volunteers at a city mission for the homeless and is involved in a four-year ministry seminar course. She planned a trip to Israel in June.

MA No secretary Our condolences to John Schreiner on the death of his wife of 44 years, Julie. John wrote that she had a great time at the 50th reunion.

Ken Cosgrove, still practicing internal medicine, writes, “Raised five sons. Play fair golf. Still married to same girl.”

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TKS Mrs. John Rauch Jr. (Jane Wilson) 8115 Spring M ill Rd., Indianapolis, IN 46260 Reunion chairman: Mrs. John Walker (Meryl Riter) 50 Francisco Avenue, Little Falls, NJ 07424 Joy O’N eill Banta spent the summer of ’88 with two daughters and loads of grandchildren near Virginia Beach, Va. Joy has lived in Jupiter, Fla. for 21 years, retired from Pratt & Whitney, and is now a Eucharistic minister for her church. She has just been chosen to represent her church for Catholic Charities. Joy loves being busy: “Do you think Miss Livermore would be proud of me?” she writes.

Ginny Taylor Voorhees is treasurer of the Women’s Board of the Smithsonian. It’s lots of work, but fun, with an office in the “Castle.”

She has four children and four grandchildren.

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Reunion Chairman: Dr. Robert Muller 36 Glen Ridge Parkway, Montclair, NJ 07042 It was good to hear from Frank Finnerty who was a professor of medicine at Georgetown U until 1976, when he began full­ time practice in Washington, D.C. Frank and his wife Frances have 10 children and nine grandchildren. They look forward to our 50th.

Ted Van Buren has lived in Greenwich, Ct. for almost 40 years, spending the winter in Florida. He and Jean, married 40 years, have three married children and two grandchildren.

Ted claims that he is either half-working or half-retired, playing “a lot of pretty poor golf and fishing.”

George Tweddel hopes to attend our 50th reunion. After many years in the medical profession, George recently retired to pursue his hobby of skiing. He and Nina have a son, Chip, a graduate of Princeton now in his third year at NYU med. school.

Retired from Bell Lab in 1984, Seth Washburn now lives in Bath, Maine. His wife died two years ago, but their five children and grandchildren visit during the course of the year. Seth keeps busy fishing and volunteering at Maine Maritime Museum.

As usual Bruce Swenson sent a note. He continues to work full time in Dallas and spend his summers in Bay Head, N.J. He and Nancy look forward to attending our 50th to be with old friends again.

Ralph H eintz also plans to attend the 50th.

He has seen only one classmate and that was in 1944 when he ran into Seth Washburn.

Ralph lives in California and is interested in mechanical music. He says that there have been no changes in his life history, “except for getting older and more forgetful.”

The record now indicates that our class has at least two West Point graduates, as Dave Higgins wrote for the first time. Dave graduated from West Point in 1945, then spent a number of years around the world in various assignments including a very interesting one with the Manhattan District Project. After the service, Dave had private and government positions in Connecticut and Washington, D.C., now lives in South Jersey. He and Peg have two daughters and five grandchildren.

They plan to come to reunion.

Bridg Hunt works in Manhattan full time in his executive search business, and commutes to Fire Island on weekends - “It’s like having the best of two worlds.”

Teresita and Chuck McGinley definitely plan to attend the 50th. They will fly in from Arizona to attend the reunion, visit a cousin in South Jersey and a daughter in New York State.

We look forward to this great event of the year!

Chuck LOST: Donald Adams, Jam es Allan, Frederick C ollins, Leonard Cooper, G eoffrey Crook, Robert Flannery, Phillip Grey, Edward Marron, Robert N ichol, • W illiam Roberts, Arthur Van Schott

LOST: Nancy Edds, Ruth Gordon, Inez Greey, Margaret Gunther, Inez Horton, Muriel Kutcher, Lucille Ogden, Ann Heartt Spindt.

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TKS Mrs. Charles V Cross (Barbara Armstrong) 2306 Cardinal Dr., Point Pleasant, NJ 08742

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Mrs. John D oe Occasionally alumnae object to mailing labels addressed with their maiden name plus married name, i.e. “Mrs. Jane Smith Doe” instead of with their social name, “Mrs. John Doe.” An alumna’s maiden name is the link to the school record: she graduated as Jane Smith. Our computer-generated labels cannot print “Mrs. John Doe” or “Jane S. Doe” because the “Smith” is the link to her file. The “Smith” is likewise needed in case of remarriage. If the combined name is too long to print on one line, the computer will shorten the label to “J. Smith Doe” as “Smith” is the one constant.

This label occurs with bulk mailings.

Handwritten or typed mailings are sent the personal, old-fashioned way!

We hope it’s all perfectly clear.

The A lum ni Office Joan Bayne W illiam s has been to Naples, Fla. (“Montclair South”). In March she went on a family jaunt to Denmark and Scotland, then on to Egypt and Kenya. As Joan says, the problem is packing everything from long underwear to sun block!

David and Harriet Palmer Pickens have built a new home in Nashville, a bit smaller now that their four children are out of the nest. They have five grandchildren; a sixth was expected in June.

In Mountain Lakes, H elen Keenan Thatcher was doing a couple of weddings this spring and continues with doll house work.

Bob and Nancy Schoonmaker Heidt spent February at Dataw Island, S.C. I managed to see them on my way back from Vero Beach and a brief stay at Sea Pines Plantation, Hilton Head.

Jean Girdler Grinnell is very enthusiastic about our 50th\ Barb MA No secretary

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Charles and Kit Eavenson Sanders moved north to retire. They bought a year ‘round house on Martha’s Vineyard near tennis courts and golf club. Kit saw Joan Ailing Wuerth who also lives on the island, and Howard and

Nancy W illiam s Brundage in Naples in March. “Have boat, will go fishing,” she writes. They hope to travel and want visitors “Come see us!”

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MA Mr. D avid Baird, Jr. 9 Parkway, Montclair, NJ 07042 Beyond golf, Dick Carrie is busy in retirement with church choir and United Way, and is chairman of several committees for his 45th reunion at Amherst in June 1990. He is a grandfather for the fifth time via daughter Mary Beth; son Jeff ’73, an FBI agent, lives in Pompton Plains; younger daughter Holly works in New York.

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TKS Mrs. Robinson V. Sm ith (Joan Trimble) 16 M arshall Terrace, Waylartd, MA 01778 Congratulations to Roland and Constance Nagel Sawdey on their marriage last year!

They have been on two trips: one to climb the Great Wall of China, the other a month in Europe. They are now looking for a retreat at Lake Tahoe.

Betty Staudinger retired with the closing of Hahnes’ in Montclair. She hopes to get a part-time job in retail in the fall, in the meantime is caring for her mother, Elizabeth Thom e Staudinger, T8.

Elsie Luddecke K elsey writes, “I enjoy helping with the Alumni Reunion Dinner at the Golf Club every fall. We see many friends from the past. It’s great fun!” [N.B. Elsie has the undying gratitude of the Alumni Office for her superb oiganizational efforts and gracious charm.]

MA No secretary John (Jack) K elsey still works in commercial real estate at Bender & Co. in Livingston. He is President of the Metropolitan Golf Assn., on the board of Pine Valley Golf Club, and has joined the U.S. Seniors’ Golf Association!

Five of John and Pat Lambom Coward’s (’44x) seven children are married; the Cowards now have six grandchildren, two boys and four girls. They built a new house on Martha’s Vineyard that John designed.

David Lewis has been working in Washington in the Bush campaign, in the transition and as a consultant in the White House. Joy and Jim Prescott and Claire and Sandy Brown visited the Lewises in Naples this winter.

B ill Walker has “given up on the New Jersey Shore as a retirement area” and is moving to New Bern, N.C. the end of the summer.

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TKS Mrs. E.B. Ruffing, Jr. (Joan Sweeney) 125 Westview Rd., Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 See TKS ’45 for news of Sheila Feagley James.

Our condolences to the family of H elen Schmid Ketcham. Helen had noteworthy

“I often think of the school and Messieurs Hunter, Barras, Miller, Smith and Vail...all of whom had more faith in me than I had in myself. They really paved the way for a successful college and business career. I just wish I had a chance to say ‘thank you’ one more time.”

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MA Mr. Jam es Mackey 213 Geneva Street, Elizabeth, NJ 07206 B ill Gardam writes that things are going fairly well, although unfortunately his wife is seriously ill. They spend the winter in Tequesta, Fla. and live in Long Branch.

John Henry retired after a long and successful law career, now lives in Maine with his wife, Babs. His grown daughter and two grown sons are thriving. John has visited Dick Angus several times recently. Dick and his wife, Helen, had a trip to New Mexico, where they saw Carlsbad Caverns and the space museum at Alamogordo.

Jim Mackey writes poetry for the American Poetry Assn, in California and Vantage Press, NYC. The New York Times did a lengthy profile on Don W ilson in “retirement” after “four decades as a Life bureau chief, deputy Life bureau chief, Kennedy confidant, deputy director of the U.S. Information Agency and Time. Inc. corporate VP of public affairs.” Don is now publisher of Business fo r Central New Jersey, a news-oriented magazine (“central New Jersey’s equivalent of Business Week or Fortune”), with his office 15 minutes from home in Princeton.

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TKS Mrs. Nancy Heydt Green 99 Belvidere Road, Falmouth, MA 02540 C olleen Crowhurst Beacham lives part time with two sons, Bruce in Butler, N.J. and Craig in Pennsylvania. Daughter Cathy in Wayne is married, has two daughters. Colleen travels, does church work, reading, and “is constantly battling the bulge!”

MA Mr. W interford J. Ohland Box 137, R.D. #3, Blairstown, NJ 07825 After many years in Arizona, Peter Hofstra retired to Beaver Lake, Ark. Twice a year (18 times since 1981) he has led mission groups into N.W. Haiti: he took the first American doctor and dentist into St. Nicholas. They’ve built four schools and a hospital.

Sam Brent Girdler writes from California that he is President of Railroad & Equipment, Co., city councilman, planning commissioner, and trustee of a cultural center that runs a winery, radio station, and gourmet restaurant!

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Ready for 50th!”

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Leigh keeps up with just about everyone.

She spoke with Rudd Trimble Kenvin on the phone, saw Bob and Judy Shearer Tlirnbull on a cruise, corresponds with Betty Specht ’44, yours truly, and former faculty member Ellen Drewes Studdiford. Leigh has fulfulled a long-time ambition by joining a bell-ringing group.

“War taught us one lesson we’re not apt to forget, to be conscious of those less fortunate than we and to realize that the world’s problems are our responsibilities too.”

1945 Kimberleaves, on the Victory Council

Barbara Creighton Ulbrand sent a card at Christmas, but included no news\ That’s a step up from not hearing at all, but...

Pat Driver Shuttleworth wrote an article for the Long Island Forum, “An Account of the 1938 Hurricane,” for the 50th anniversary of the event. Pat, as a “touch and go survivor,” says that “around these parts, the '38 hurricane has remained a very important part of our history.' ’ In addition to writing a book on various memories of the hurricane, Pat has been swamped with requests for programs, interviews, seminars and workshops. She, Ted, the kids, and her mother are all fine.

Ann Gerhauser Buchbinder has opened her own real estate business right in the building where she lives. Talk about an easy commute!

After 15 years of college guidance/counseling at the United Nations International School, Sue Ailing M iller has retired. She and Tony visited their son Paul in Senegal. Daughter Darcy just had her first child, Zoe. Son Fred ’69 and Kathy are parents of first grandchild Christopher, 5. All but Paul live in New York.

Phyllis Harder Reininger spent a couple of months in Florida during her father's last illness. She planned to celebrate a 40th reunion at Skidmore, Dick ditto at Colgate. They’re busy running their Suburban Airporter and Charter service, and activity in search and rescue, with Dick now in his 43rd year with National Ski Patrol. They, their multiple children and grandchildren are all well.

Nancy Nevins X)’A njou spent a miserable summer of ’88 with Lyme disease but seems to have completely recovered. I’m not sure it’s cause-and-effect, but she says she’s ‘‘ready to retire from this little publishing business, Beaver Pond Learning: anyone interested in acquiring an educational business should get in touch.’’ Her nephew lives but a few miles from me, so I’m hoping Nev will come by one of these days.

George and Jeanne Talbot Sawutz are enjoying his retirement by doing some traveling. They saw Leigh and Procter in Vineyard Haven. Their children are spread out: Dave and Kathy Sawitz in West Chester, Pa.; Linda and John D’Agostino in Springfield, Mass.; Sandy and Jim Hill in Hyde Park, N.Y. “Catching up is so much fun,” says Betty Specht ’44. You may recall that she visited me unexpectedly last year; now she writes that she and daughters Louisa and Diana visited Bob and Judy Shearer Thrnbull in Winter Haven.

My sister, Sheila Feagley Jam es ’43, and I got together several times in New York, visiting our 95-year-old aunt. Sheila is her usual dynamic self and is a docent in three Chicago museums. She, husband David, six children and two grandchildren are all fine. A daughter will be married this summer, so we’re all hoping to be in Boston for the festivities.

As for the Wittels: Jerry is with the Aerospace Corp. and plays tennis and clarinet for recreation. Our artist daughter, Laura, lives in San Francisco and son Steve is a student at Cal Poly. (Too bad Roger and Rudd Kenvin aren’t still in San Luis Obispo!) I’m still an elected trustee of the library district and a trustee of the Museum of Neon Art. When time permits, I do a bit of writing and/or painting and traveling. Jerry and I went to London last summer (business for him, pleasure for me), to Mexico (pleasure for two), and to John Steinbeck country - Salinas, Cal. where Jerry’s symphonic band held a concert.

Thanks to all for taking the time to share your news. More! More!

Anne MA Mr. Robert Nebergall 610 South Second Street, Wilmington, NC 28401

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Then came a chatty letter from Nanette Mount Cutler. As correspondent for her class at Vassar, she must have known how much her letter would be appreciated. Monty remembers being a shy little girl and “bitter disappointment over not winning the Kimberley Dog Show because some dame

Lost Alum ni 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!

brought her prize-winning Borzois....I remember being head of the Red Cross Drive, standing up in Assembly and calling for a meeting 10 minutes later, and then forgetting to show up.” As for being bawled out by Miss Kinsman: wasn't it almost a badge of honor?

Did any one of us completely escape the back of that learned tongue? Monty was proud of her father at the Father-Daughter Dinner.

Weren’t you sure that your dad was by far the handsomest and most distinguished papa there?

Monty notes that her solid foundation in English and math from Kimberley made the GREs “not as hard as I expected” 25 years later! She says that Margaret Shanks Moore is President of her Vassar class, that her five children are all smashingly good looking, and that Maggie “still looks like a movie star.”

Hoping you are the same...

Liz Connie Ritchie DuHamel was appointed to the board of NEDAC, a non-profit agency serving 10 Essex area towns with youth and family counseling and programs.

Our condolences to the family of Elizabeth Gilmour Eshbaugh.

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Herb and Bar Nash Hanson have a new home in Rancho Mirage, Cal., for the winter months and then will cool off in Belvedere in the summer. They took a cruise on the Sea Goddess last year from Rio to Buenos Aires with Bob and Teeny R edfleld Sander: only 36 passengers, “so we were really spoiled!”

Bob Sander is now CEO of Golden Valley Microwave Foods in Minneapolis, so he and Teen enjoy a triangular commute from an apartment there to a home in New Canaan and another apartment in Longboat Key. Their 10th grandchild was born in October. Teeny’s dad died in January at 94.

Cookie (Joan Cook) and I talk frequently.

She spent most of early ’88 in limbo with a knee messed up by a fall on the ice. She was back in action ASAP to keep track of nephews’ activities: Cleve at St. Lawrence, Hunt at Westminster School.

Gray and Cyn Overton Blandy helped us celebrate our 35 th anniversary. Gray retired and they are enjoying their freedom of movement. They spent April near Venice, Fla., on the beach and golf course, and hosting visits from their three children.

The highlight of 1988 for Peter and Patty Cox M ansfield was the arrival of #\ grandchild. The big news of ’89 was Peter’s retirement after four decades at Noble & Greenough, where he was Senior Master and chairman of the English Dept. Patty has had one decade in real estate and knows she won’t last for four! They escape to Cape Cod whenever possible, often joined by some of their four thriving children. Cindy Youngman Adams was in the Boston area after Christmas and Patty says they had a delightful visit.

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Activities both on and off the Vineyard give Ed and Petey Hofmann Reade full schedules, plus children and grandchildren. Son Ned married a teacher in June.

Alice Vezin Chatelller ’23 (who lived next door to the Rudds on Gordon Place) sent me news of Comer Fisk (who lived next to the Chatelliers). Best wishes to Comer who married Ben Polak in December 1987 (one of his children was the matchmaker). They live in Adams, Mass, but spend the winter in Bradenton, Fla. Comer’s three childen are married: Richard is in Paris, Philip in India and Anne in New Haven.

Sue Harrison Schumann wrote with news of successes for the Diamond S Diamond (their racing stable). Sue and Ford ’44x have four horses at home and four on the track, which keeps her in the barn! At the track in Phoenix in January three Kimberley grads stood in the winner’s circle with Sue and Ford - Helen Jones Gordon ’42, Frances Johnson Ames ’40, and Jean Berry Walton '34 - probably, says Sue, “the first time we ever had friends witness one of our horses actually winning a race. It was a Kimberley thrill all the way!”

Sue had “a fun visit with Bar Nash Hanson last fall and saw the 40th reunion pics.

Everyone looks great. We were (and are) a most exemplary class.” Sue’s eldest son, Mark, teaches at Middlesex School in Concord, Mass, two miles down the road from chez Hannegan.

Small world!

As for the Hannegans, Dave and I are having a great time with our postponed careers. Dave became a member of Actor's Equity, SAG and AFTRA (I remain non-union) and we both do commercials and industrial films. We’ve been on stage professionally in Boston and Gloucester and last summer in New Bedford in “Guys and Dolls.” We saw son Garret sworn in to the Indiana bar in June; son Dave has a teaching fellowship while working on his doctorate. His wife, Penny, got her MBA and, God willing, they will have produced our first grandbaby in September.

Weezie

NEEDED FOR ALUMNI OFFICE FILES: 1902 Montclair Academy Yeare Booke MA Mr. D. Chase Troxell 20 Fox Hill Lane, Short Hills, NJ 07078 Tom Kehoe reports that for years he has owned a business which supplies paints and finishes to the automotive and manufactured goods industries in western Pennsylvania and that it has experienced excellent growth. He also reports, as of the close of business March 7, nine grandchildren.

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TKS No secretary Reunion chairmen: Mrs. Timothy Cutting (Sally Smith) 24 Inw ood Road, Essex Fells, NJ 07021 Mrs. G. Barnes Stevenson (Josephine Reilly) 165 Cooper Avenue, Upper Montclair, N J07043 LOST: Marlene Atwood, Renee De Yoe, Eleanor Farnham, Ruth Ferris, Merlon Hunt, Miriam Johnsen, Marlene Masini, Marilyn Vander May Ostendorf, A ileen Rose Schonbeck, Jane Lockwood Scovil, Lois Silberm an, Joan Sw ift, Joan Tinker, Catherine Ungaro MA Mr. Richard M. Drysdale 10701 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024 Roger Hansen, now retired in Maine, is doing a lot of traveling and would love to hear from former friends and classmates.

Our condolences to Peter Perrettl on the death of his father.

LOST: Roberto Annecchiario, Henry J. Battaglia, Jr., Jam es F. Cole, W illiam E. Donnegan, Jr., John Graham, George Helmer, Charles Kilby, Jr., W illiam Kilby, Christian Pedersen, Anthony Savoca, R ussell Sayre, Robert Steel

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TKS Mrs. Louise Green D unham 73 Brookstone Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540 MA Mr. Rudolph Deetjen, Jr. Nortbgate Road, Mendham, NJ 07945 George H allock in semi-retirement is a part-time consultant to Dun & Bradstreet, conducting seminars across the country. He joined D&B back in 1956, following Kenyon College and the Coast Guard, then had a long term with Hoffmann La Roche and ASEA Brown Boveri as director of credit. George and Mary have two children, George Jr. and Cindy, and four grandchildren.

Bunny and B ill Rowe are Northway Mall owners near Plattsburgh, N.Y. They also have a thriving boat dealership on Lake Champlain.

They looked younger than ever at a Christmas reunion with sister Toby Hohenstein, husband George, and the Deetjens at Groton and Mystic, Conn.

Patty and I are in Mendham, pursuing my 12th year at the Peck School. Leifs a carpenter/builder in Hillsborough, N.C. and Cliffs enjoying a training year at Architecture Restoration at Cambridge, Mass. It’s fun huddling together over plans whenever we reune in N.J. or Maine Next year is ’50’s BIG 40! Watch for announcements and count on a great day together at MKA. Cheers!

Rudy

Jim and Pat Overton Lee’s Birch Hill Inn in Manchester, Vt. seems to be the ’51 reunion place! “They are the best hosts,” writes Ruth Ransom W ilson. Nancy Ehrhardt Bambara sent a nice photo of Pat and herself under the luncheon umbrellas last summer. Unfortunately the photo was in color and would not reproduce here.

As Nick is retiring, Ruth is busier than ever as President of the McCarter Performing Arts Center Trustees. Two sons are in Washington, D.C.; their oldest graduated from Harvard Business School in June, and the youngest is an actor using his middle name, Tim Ransom. He has been on American Playhouse and in a British film, “The Dressmaker.”

Robert and D iane Stoney Moore traveled this year and will visit the Lees for the third time. Son John is now a chiropractor, daughter Cindi is an analyst with a N.J. engineering firm. Diane works part time and is on three civic boards.

Emmy Award The National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences presented the 1987-88 Emmy Award to Dr. Thomas G. Stockham, Jr. '51 last fall “for outstanding achievement in engineering development ...for pioneering efforts in the development of tapeless audio recording and editing technology.” Usually the award is given to a company (RCA, etc.).

Tom Stockham invented digital recording.

This was a revolutionary idea which led to the development of compact disks (CD’s).

Before his invention, sound was recorded by wiggles and grooves on a record, or by wiggles on magnetic tape. Tom gave sound a numerical value, so it could be recorded without physical contact.

“He did for sound what the written word did for the spoken word - kept it pure.’’ Rather than distorted w ith every subsequent recording (or telling), with digital recording sound is as clear the millionth time as the first.

The invention led not only to CD’s, but to new television recording methods and VCR’s.

Though Tom developed digital recording in the 1970’s, the industry was slow to accept it. Finally there was “recognition of the intrinsic importance of his accomplishments by his scientific peers and an admiring Academy.’’ He is listed in the World Book Encyclopedia along with Thomas Edison under “Phonograph.”

After Montclair Academy, Tom received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

While at M.I.T. he won the Goodwin Medal “for conspicuously effective teaching.” Since 1968 he has lived in Salt Lake City, where he has been a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Utah. He now advises a few doctoral students. He and his wife, Martha, have four children.

With awe and admiration, congratulations to Tom from MKA and thanks from music lovers everywhere!

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Julia Smith Gentry returns to Montclair from Houston periodically to see her mother' at Van Dyke. Their son David and his family are in the Solomon Islands, teaching and working to put a tribe’s language in written form.

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

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Bill and Wain Koch Maass moved into a new home in Chester, Vt. last year. Same town, but no longer on Main Street. Everybody is fine.

Best wishes to George and Jean Brisbane Boveroux on their wedding! They have homes in Montreal and New Jersey.

Norm and Anne D w yer Milne’s son Walter was married recently. Daughter Sue is also married. They had a fascinating trip to Galapagos Islands and Machu Picchu in Peru in March.

Jim and Babs Pendleton D onnell traveled to the South Pacific in 1988, to New Zealand, Australia, and Thailand. Needless to say, the trip was the highlight of their year.

Ned and Fay Taft Fawcett’s oldest daughter Ashley ’85 graduated from Colgate in May. David and Gail Tomec Kerr took a biking tour of Southern France. Son David ’77 has been made a VP at Drexel Burnham. Susie ’80x lives and works in Boston, and Robbie ’83 works for a radio station in Woods Hole.

MA No secretary After 27 years teaching high school math, Louis Anton N oll, III (Tony) retired in June.

He plans to alternate his time between East Hampton, Long Island, and West Palm Beach, Fla.

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TKS Mrs. Thomas Burgin (Lolly Penick) 328 Fairway Road, Ridgewood, NJ 07450 Suzette Armitage W hiting teaches with the American Red Cross in Princeton, still has their summer restaurant on Long Beach Island.

Their daughter Suzette was married in May. She and Steph M iller Gray took a trip to Virginia with the Montclair Historical Group.

Patricia Eddy Ford writes, “We are fulfilling a dream of living on the coast of Maine and enjoying the advantages of a small college town, Brunswick. We’ve had interesting annual trips to visit son Doug in Caracas. Andy will go to Northwestern Business School in the fall and Jeff lives with us while working in Freeport.”

MA No secretary Arthur Jacobs practices rehabilitation medicine in the Boston area. Daughter Cathy graduated from Hamilton and Yale, Lisa from Bowdoin, and son Arthur from Bates in May. “Parents very poor!” Art reports.

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IKS Miss Georgia Carrington 38 Silverspring Lane, Ridgefield, CT 06877 My letter elicited some replies, phone calls brought more news. Lynn Towner Dodd wrote a great letter and sent her business card for Select Your Service, her secretarial service for business and personal needs. Lynn is about to gain two daughters-in-law: Peter ’80 was being married in June and Bill in September.

Steve ’79, on the Alumni Council, is cochairman of the MKA 10th reunion in October.

Debbie is a junior at Ohio Wesleyan. Lynn had a three-week trip to India - “Fabulous!”

Cynthia Mann Treene was organizing a huge Wabasso reunion, so some of you may have heard from her on “camp” business. She volunteers actively: for church, a state radon committee, town health education committee.

She’s a trustee of Montclair Educational Fund and advisor at Montclair High, and President of the League of Women Voters! One son is married; two are in business schools, one at law school. She said that Penny Gullord is now called Meredith Gray, and has a craft business in California.

The indefatigable Aubin Zabriskle Ames was co-chairman of “La Belle France Ball,” an elegant black-tie benefit celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Montclair Art Museum.

Julian and Barbara Hobart Valbuena had a glorious trip to the Cayman Islands this winter.

He has been on a heavy lecturing circuit, in addition to teaching and research. He was awarded the U. of Delaware’s Excellence-inTeaching Award for 1988. Congratulations!

Barbara’s oldest is married, lives in Maryland, and her younger works in New Y>rk, giving poetry readings in the Village on the side.

A lengthy conversation with Leslie Bunce gave news of N ell Fisk Hamlen and Mimi Evans Harmon. Neil has built a lovely home on five beautiful acres in Woodstock, Vt. She is concentrating on riding and driving her three horses. Mimi is still very busy with real estate in Essex County and local theater. Leslie has just moved into a wonderful cottage in Rowayton, Conn., and is busy with accounts, particularly a catering firm. She reads about Marian M iller Castell in the Darien papers Marian is determined to save the historic buildings!

I had a short visit with Adrianne Onderdonk Dudden and Arthur in the fall.

He is working on a book and their daughter, Alexis, hopes to spend her junior year in Kyoto (from Columbia). They had a fabulous trip to Alaska in 1988 and hope to visit China in conjunction with research that Arthur is doing on his book.

A visit with Lee Wood Audhuy was a highlight of my summer. She looks great and still teaches at the U. of Toulouse Lee and her two children had a week of skiing at Christmas and hope to be in the States this summer.

Peter and Vicki Wendt West have now been

married 29 years, and have raised a family of athletes - tennis, golf, bowling, etc. Peter retired from NAED in January, and Vicki has joined him as VP, Treasurer and Business Manager of his own consulting firm. One son will be married in October, and the youngest, who has almost fully recovered from a hideous accident in ’87, is finishing college. Vicki volunteers with the fire dept, and various golf committees, and plays golf whenever she’s not watching their boys compete in tournaments.

I’m still a happy resident of Connecticut, a tennis and paddle player, golfer and gardener.

Had a great trip to Santa Fe last summer and spent Christmas of ’87 in Maui and Kauai, where we hiked into the volcano and along the Nepali Coast. Unbelievable! ... My 9th graders at the Academy are always a challenge and no two days are alike.

Let’s h£ar from the rest of you the next time round!

Georgia MA Mr. Santo DeStefano 336 Madison Avenue, Paterson, NJ 07524 George Kramer and his son Larry ’78 build homes and manage real estate in Bergen county. George is chairman of U.J.A. for the Clifton area and is treasurer of the Daughters of Miriam Home for the Aged. He plays bridge, golf, and tennis, and skis near their second home in Vermont. He and Carole just celebrated their 30th anniversary congratulations!

Jake and Gail Garnar Jacobus ’58 “had a ball” on an 8-day trip with John and June Hayward Foster. The Jacobus’ youngest, Julie, will attend Dartmouth (Early Decision); Kathy is a junior at Parson School of Design, NYC. Jake thought of the Academy “Cinderella Undefeated Basketball Team of ’54” when Seton Hall went to the finals, as the Hall graduate Alan Brummerstedt was our ace ball handler. “I bet Alan was in Seattle for The Final!”

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TKS Mrs. Susie Forstmann Kealy 232 E. Walton Place, Apt. #2E Chicago, IL 60611 Small world: Carol Hanschka Traenkle went on a safari in Kenya and Tanzania, with a small group from Lawrenceville School. Among the 14 was Linda Lovell Smith ’56! They had a great time together. Carol’s daughter Wendy, 26, is applying to business schools; son Scott, 23, is studying aerospace engineering. Carol is involved with singing, tennis, and skiing plus travel.

Lynn Homeyer Ramshaw’s big news is son Bruce’s acceptance for surgical residency at Georgia Baptist Med. Center in Atlanta. Son David is also in med. school, daughter Tracy is majoring in social welfare. Lynn, herself a minister, is working on an M.S.W. What a dedicated family!

Jim and Leigh Eberstadt Brenza are enjoying her job’s travel-agent advantages and have been to the Rockies, Bermuda, Mexico, Hungary and Yugoslavia. Son Karl will be married in September.

D ee D onlin Mell is also in the travel business.

I visited Bruce and Nancy Joyce Buckley at their farm in Greensboro, Vt. They are busily restoring the bams and original Federal-style farmhouse.

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Carol Tiirtle has “retired” from the Foreign Service and bought a home in Key Largo, Fla. Marilyn Walrath Elliott has moved back to New Jersey from Illinois and had lunch with Beth Hyde W hittemore.

I am now happy and busy with freelance art work: I paint custom watercolors of people’s houses and interiors.

Looking forward to a May reunion in D.C. with C ecily W ilson Lyle, Barbie Ives R iegel, D lney Brown D onaldson, Toni H etherlngton Lovejoy, and Nancy Joyce Buckley.

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56 TKS Mrs. Lawther O. Sm ith (Linda Lovell) 30 Water Crest Drive, Doylestown, PA 18901 Busy 56ers have been doing their share of traveling. Nini D ejurenev faced the Year of the Big 50 by taking a trip to Italy and Delhi.

Back home in Santa Fe, she continues painting, group shows, and selling real estate.

Larry and I had dinner in NYC with Janko and Carol Van Brunt Basic in January. Lynn, a Brearly School student, was at home, and Tim, a Taft senior, was busy with college preparations. They all were planning a spring trip to the Mayan ruins in the Yucatan, having enjoyed last spring’s great trip to Egypt.

Anne King Franges visited Australia and New Zealand on a People to People exchange.

She is involved with MKA, Radcliffe and Harvard alumni activities. Tom’s bicycle company has relocated in California, resulting in a “bicoastal marriage after 28 years.”

Daughter Alex lives at home, operating landscaping businesses. Son Chris is in law school at McGeorge in Sacramento.

Martha “Skipper” Gilbert Moran’s daughter Whitney was married in the fall.

Martha has been very active in trying to get her father, Roswell Gilbert, released from prison in Florida. His “mercy killing” case was heard on “60 Minutes” in April with Morley Safer.

Jane Crawford Lyons extended an open invitation to anyone going to the Sarasota, Fla., area. All three Davis children were in Alabama last spring, Toby and Debbie for officers’ school and Andy as a junior at Auburn.

Last summer John and Lilia Emetaz McDonald and son Malcolm visited the Isle of Skye, Scotland, where the cottage that John’s father built for his parents is still occupied. It was a first meeting of Scottish cousins and a wonderful family gathering.

Henny N elson Skeen caught up with Judy Llndeman in the fall of '88 when she visited her brother in Maryland. Henny’s son Andy graduated from Connecticut College and Pete enjoys the North country at St. Lawrence. We extend our sympathy to Henny on the death of her mother in January.

Nancy Prescott Ward sent a picture of pretty daughters Jen and Vicki [which unfortunately would not reproduce well. Ed.].

Another “happy snap” was a picture from B etsy Beatty Boocock’s wedding last year with Brett’s son and her three children. They live in Basking Ridge, and Betsy enjoys her job as assistant VP at Somerset Trust.

jobs and future schooling. N icholas ’87 finished sophomore year at Lafayette College.

Deana has been busy in real estate and a new venture as a Carlisle rep.

Lily Solm ssen Moureaux did an extensive photo exhibition for UNICEF in connection with its relief effort in the Sudan. Entitled “Operation Lifeline Sudan,” the exhibit was in the United Nations Visitors Lobby in May. Her husband, Ghislain, received an M.A. from Columbia, also in May. Elly and Susan W echsler Rose had a fiveweek second honeymoon to Australia.

Daughter Amy graduated from U. Michigan in April; Isabel is a junior at Yale, Abigail a freshman at Cornell. Susan still studies piano and had a successful series of concerts. She writes, “Looking forward to seeing everyone at reunion and catching up.”

LOST: Barbara (Helen) Sweeney Frost, Charlotte Hope Horton, Meredith Brown Som m ervllle, Lois W eisser Together A gain. M embers o f the Class o f '52 on the MKA B oard o f Trustees: A ustin D rukker, G ail Tomec Kerr, John Kidde

Janie G oodw illle Swann wrote of visiting daughter Eliza at Williams College; son Jody plans graduate law work at the U. of Georgia.

She recounted an amusing teaching experience at the Epstein School: Needing extra freezer room for some homemade lasagna, planned for Jody’s homecoming, Janie stored some in the school freezer. This innocent-seeming deposit ‘un-koshered’ the entire food operation, resulting in the disposal of three freezers of food. Janie returned home with her lasagna and her job, hoping that it wouldn’t take her another seven years to learn the ropes!

Larry and I and his hither had an amazing African safari, “up close and personal” with all those wild animals, and our first extended exposure to Third World life, itself an adventure. Carol Hanschka Traenkle ’55 was in the group, and we had fun reliving old Kimberley days.

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TKS Miss Linda B aldanzi 2 Greenview Way, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 The class was looking forward to one big hen party at Georgia Sherman Glick’s summer home. Buzzard’s Bay will never be the same!

We have had another first name change: Martha Hug McKenzie now goes by Anne McKenzie. The change ends the confusion with another interior designer of the same name. Fiona (formerly Vondamae) Nary Houston has moved to Florida.

Two of Nina Carter Lynch’s daughters work in New York City, a third was waiting to hear from colleges; son, 14, is in 9th grade.

Nina herself works in the faculty grants office at THnity College. They enjoy getting away to their old farmhouse in Woodstock, Vt. Drika Agnew Purves works in the Rare Book Library at Yale, and also works with rarebook collectors.

Marilyn Leet Ray earned an M.S. in 1986 and a Ph.D. in ’88 from Cornell. Congratula­ tions! Her research considered how the method people used to resolve disputes (mediation, attorney negotiation, or judicial assist) affects the terms of settlement, and, in the divorce context, the consequent effect on the number of women and children in poverty after the divorce.

Linda MA Mr. Edward T. O’Brien, Jr. Box 1906 Naval A ir Station FPO New York 09560-5004

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TKS Mrs. Robert P. Sumas (Deana Rogers) 4 E. Greenbrook Rd., No. Caldwell, NJ 07006 Reunion chairman: Mrs. Lily Solmssen M oureaux 924 Wynnewood Road Pelham Manor, N Y 10803 Deana Rogers Sumas reported that Tammia Jane ’85 graduated from Bentley College and spent the early summer weighing

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MA Mr. Benjam in Fischer 26 Delta Blvd., Palisades Park, NJ 07650 Reunion chairman: Mr. Michael Baker 10 H ighland Drive, North Caldwell, NJ 07006 CONGRATULATIONS TO JIM COURTER FOR WINNING THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION FOR GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY. BEST WISHES FROM MKA! The American Financial Services Assn.

(AFSA), a Washington, D.C.-based trade association, elected Finn Caspersen chairman at its annual convention in May. Finn, a lawyer, has been chairman of Beneficial Corp. since 1976. Congratulations from MKA! Barbara and Dave Ramsay live in Chatham, where he has his own insurance brokerage firm and is serving in his ninth year as Chatham Borough Councilman. Daughter Linda, 22, graduated from James Madison U.; Brian is a junior at UVA; Karen a sophomore in high school. Dave is actively supporting Jim Courter’s candidacy for Governor!

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TKS Mrs. Em ily Stark Danson 130 Old Stone Bridge Rd., Cos Cob, CT 06807 Citizens and Southern National Bank of Florida promoted Sally Unities to new business development officer for Broward Co. Sally graduated from Wheaton College and Florida Trust School and is heavily involved in Ft. Lauderdale and county civic activities.

MA Mr. George A. Bleyle, Jr. 2259 Weir Drive, Hudson, OH 44236 Phil Leone, M.D. is medical/admin, director of labs, Gastonia (N.C.) Memorial Hospital and is active on the boards of several medical/civic organizations. Phil attended Tblane U. and was a major in the Air Force. He is married and has a son, Seth, 14, and daughter, Abigail, 12.

Also down South, E. Hawley (Trlppy) Van Wyck, III lives in Vienna, Va. He is President of All-American List Corp. as a mailing list

broker/manager and fundraising consultant.

Hippy has raised over tlOO m illion for various health charities, one of which contributed to the development of the “Jarvik 7” artificial heart! Hippy is married and has a son, Hawley.

George B leyle is still flying the friendly skies, now as First Officer (co-pilot) of DC-lOs. He looks forward to flying 737s next year as Captain.

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Claire Derdeyn Coles, Ph.D., received a national grant to*continue a 10-year study of children exposed to alcohol prenatally, and from the March of Dimes to study the effects of drug exposure in children of schizophrenic women. She was appointed to National Institutes of Health study groups and an AMA alcohol-study committee. She is enjoying the ‘empty nest’ now that Allison is working in Washington, D.C. and Brian is at U. of Alabama.

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

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Judging by the sparsity of return mail, major change must no longer be the order of the day for us.

John Farrar, however, writes that he and his wife, Jan, have moved to Chester Springs, Pa. “Rural living,” John says, “is a welcome change from the hectic pace of the New York metropolitan area.”

Both work for Sterling Drugs where John is VP and director of biological research seeking new therapeutic drugs in areas ranging from cancer to arthritis to mental disorders. Their three children are all away - two in college, one in prep school.

Congratulations are in order to Richard Rosenblum for his CFP (Certified Financial Planner) designation. Richard mentioned he saw an article about Ethan Feinsod in the Newark Star-Ledger several years ago. Ethan is a weaver and lives near Flemineton.

Larry Raymond H em phill’s mother stopped by the Alumni Office this spring to bring us up to date. Ray graduated from Lehigh and has two master’s degrees, in metallurgy and business administration. He is finishing a doctorate in finance and works for Carpenter Steel in Reading, Pa.

The O’Neill Family a t Field Dedication, including alum ni Jack O’Neill ’68, Steve O’Neill '61, Liz O’Neill Coopersmith ’72 and Colin O’Neill ’82.

After years of teaching art history, Betsey Thresher Scharlack earned an M.B.A. Following a stint as program director at Babson College’s School of Executive Education, last year she moved to Digital Corp. in charge of technical management education. Her husband, Ronnie, is now a technology licensing officer at M.I.T., having been in industry for years. “We hold to a Scharlack presence in academia!” she writes. They are “bracing” themselves for the adolescence and high school of sons Jeremy, 13, and Daniel, 10.

Sharon Livesey lives nearby with her husband, Neal Talbot, and son Sam. Sharon, equipped with a law degree, teaches management communication at Harvard Business School.

“I’m sure all this professional migration has broader meaning,” Betsey writes,” but I’m not sure what conclusions should be drawn.”

financial contract with New York State.

Daughter Kris is at Cornell, son Jeff a high school soph. They are all restoring their old farmhouse.

Sherry Newcomb H auff s folks have been ill and she’s “up to her ears” in hospitals, doctors and nurses. Our thoughts are with her. Sherry plans to come to our 25th Reunion and HOPES TO SEE SOME CLASSMATES (hint, hint, hint)!

It was Sherry who found the following news on our own Connie Bruck Schlossberg’s book, Predator’s Ball-.

“Connie Bruck is a senior reporter for The American Lawyer. Her articles have appeared in The Atlantic, M anhattan, inc and The Washington Post, and she received the John Hancock Award for Excellence in Business and Financial Journalism in 1984.” [Ed. note; Connie is now a senior editor at The New Yorker (yes, The New Yorker).\ It’s exciting to learn how much she’s published; you all remember Connie’s writing talents at TKS. Joel and I finally moved the end of April.

The house is beautiful.

SEE YOU IN OCTOBER! Debby

MA Mr. Bronson Van Wyck P.O. Box T, Tiickerman, AR 72473

LOST: Catherine Campaign, Dorothy Dem biak Perrotto, Yasuko Kuki, Deborah D ickson R osenstein, Anne Timpson

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TKS Dr. Deborah Pines 7800 Belleflower Drive, Springfield, VA 22152 Reunion chairmen: Mrs. Jeffrey Hymans (Linda Brennan) 31 Village Road, Florham Park, NJ 07932 Mrs. W illiam McElroy (Lynn Buttell) 100 Oak Drive, Cedar Grove, NJ 07009 Barbara Mahler Markussen is personnel/payroll clerk at the Assn, for Retarded Children in Troy, NY. Carl manages a

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Reunion chairman: Mr. John C. Sheldon P.O. Box 96, Paris, ME 04271 Back in the Northeast after years in Kentucky, Bob Eliezer is general manager of the Bryant Electric Division of Westinghouse in Milford, Conn. He writes, “Those who remember my interest in cars and drag racing will not be surprised by Bryant’s introduction of a specialty line aimed at the serious auto enthusiast, and promotion through the NHRA championship drag racing series.” Bob has completed an exact recreation of his blue 1958 Chevy and the glove compartment is full of 60’s tapes.

“My office is right at Exit 36 of 1-95,” he says, “and visitors are welcome” LOST: David Levin, Ira Levine, Bruce McKaba, Lewis Solom on

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MA Mr. R. Victor Bernstein 290 West End Avenue #36 New York, N Y 10023 Joanne and Barry Belm ont have a twoyear-old son “who is a pure delight,” writes Barry. “Joanne says however that he is the most demanding boss she has ever had.”

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TKS Mrs. W illiam E. Crawford (Francine Onorati) 421 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02115 Thank you for sending such interesting reports, by now perhaps a bit stale, but since most of us don’t get together anyway, I suppose that does not make much difference.

Jesse Vogt Dawson has been remodeling her home in California. Her three girls are in the eighth, sixth and third grades, and by fall will be at three different schools, allowing Jessa to spend more time in her beloved car. I sincerely hope she joins all three PTAs. One daughter competes competitively in diving year round at Stanford U., one is school treasurer, one or more is in the district jazz band, and all play soccer, basketball and perform in school plays and church musicals.

As we grow older, so do the daughters: Jessa says telephones are growing from everyone’s ears. Her mom has moved to Los Altos, also, to be nearer to the family.

Jessie Broadfoot Boyer’s new baby Julia, born in December, joins two older brothers. In her spare time (there’s irony here) Jessie is active in her local garden club and acts as a flower show judge. Last year she was in Montclair to judge a flower show held in the church where we celebrated Vespers, which brought back a rush of memories. Jessie recalls Mr. Coursen playing the organ and Miss Renz telling us to be quiet in corridors. Why isn’t Mrs. Winfield a part of those memories (more irony)?, Cindy Brandenburg Gibbon has finished her degree in chiropractic medicine from Sherman College of Straight Chiropractic (S.C.).

She was elected to Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities for 1988-89. She maintained a dean’s list average all along, while taking care of Glenn, 10, Geoff, 7, and twins Drew and Dale, 4. She attended classes part time and taught laboratory medical diagnosis, having received a med. technology degree from Mountainside Hospital years ago. Cindy is a Yankee to her children, all of whom have Southern accents. The two oldest go to a school similar to MKA, and last foil when the school needed a varsity hockey coach, Cindy

volunteered. The rules had changed, but her memories came flashing back. She still has the house in Normandy and spends three weeks there every summer.

Another academic is Jan Shaw Partin in the great Northwest. She is chief ophthalmic technician/charge nurse at the Eye Clinic of the Pacific Medical Center, and will soon be first assistant during surgery. Jan has about six more quarters to go before completing her MBA/MHA (Master of Health Administration).

For the last two years she has served on the Board to write and administer a certification test for ophthalmic registered nurses. She sees her family in off-hours. In February, she took husband and son to a conference in Mexico, where they sat on the beach all day while Jan sat inside in meetings. In some ways she bemoans the role reversal, but in other ways she feels it works out fine.

I heard briefly from Suzy Cadgene, who noted that Doug Nelson would be back and forth between New York and Portland, and I hope to see her on one of these trips.

AHna Seborowski Andersen is executive director of a non-profit nursery/day-care center for 108 children. Last year the landlord tried to evict the school, in a vain attempt to build condominiums on eight-plus acres. Alina thwarted the effort, leading one to believe that there is a God. Husband Johan has a new job as regional VP of Advest. Alina serves as President of the PEA, and Johan is busy with local amateur theater. Son Johan is 12; Christopher, 7, seems to have inherited some flair for music and the dramatic from his father.

Madden Harkness exhibited this winter at the Art Institute of Southern California, and spoke on her work at their Artist Lecture Series. The reproductions I have seen indicate that her paintings are truly magnificent.

This year Bill and I celebrated our 40th birthdays by purchasing a 200-year-old farmhouse on five acres, with a pool and a pond, near Buzzard’s Bay, Mass. We plan to be there on weekends, the commute being only 55 minutes from Boston. I remain active with my Neighborhood Assn, and with other citywide volunteer organizations, in addition to real estate development work.

I hope to hear from more of you as the year progresses.

Francine MA Mr. John F. Hawley 1402 Washington Street Holliston, MA 01746-2215 Robert Wenger just finished a year in the San Francisco Bay area opening the Calif, office for Environ Corp., an environmental and public health risk assessment/management consulting firm. Other offices are in Princeton and Washington, D.C., where he lives. “My two girls are 4 and 7,” he writes, and “I still can’t believe I’m over 40!”

Peter Orgain enjoys his communication and consulting business in Vermont. He gives a course, “Excellence in Action” to business groups, committees, and schools, and maintains individual counseling and therapy practice.

Congratulations to Craig Cameron, who was certified by both the Florida Bar and the National Board of Trial Advocacy as a civil trial attorney! He practices in Orlando, Fla., and remains “happily married to my first wife with

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two children.” Craig writes, “I’m still waiting for Gene Wahl to organize another golf outing. Reading about Michael Yamashita ’67 reminded me of Mike’s father who could be seen every Saturday afternoon in the fall busily photographing Mike’s every move on the football field. Congratulations to Mike on his achievements in photography!”

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Sally Kimball Petlto wrote to say how much she enjoyed the reunion and wished we could have had more time together.

Avie Kalker is traveling to Phoenix enough to consider moving back there, though would miss her friends in Dallas.

MA Mr. Burton M. Webb Box 29, Free Union, VA 22940 After working for GE for 14 years in various manufacturing positions, Raymond Iandoli went into business representing a variety of suppliers from Singapore, Hong Kong and China.

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TKS Class secretary and reunion chairman: Mrs. Charles Gildea (Lynn Ehrhardt) 46 E. Saddle River Rd. Saddle River, NJ 07458 After living in Baltimore for four years, Andy (Louise) Goddard moved back to Chestertown, Md. where she opened a cocktail lounge/nightclub called, appropriately, “Andy’s.” She writes, “Not married. No children. 2 dogs, 2 cats, 1 rabbit. Only people I’ve seen since graduation are Sydney and Maggie Johnson” [Sydney Johnson Petty ’71, Marguerite Johnson Sliker ‘68], We hope Andy will remedy that and come to reunion!

LOST: Marilyn Cowing Dulin, Elizabeth Sim onson, Christine Tiernan Uttal MA No secretary

Reunion chairman: Mr. D avid Cralle’ 1318 22nd St. NW, Apt. 503 Washington D.C. 20037 Eric Weis’ son Josh just turned 4. “Fern and I will spend two weeks cleaning up after three birthday parties. Business has been terrific; airlines are getting rich from our travel. Regards to all.”

Though he is a managing director of Bankers Trust Co. (N.Y. headquarters), John Tally has been working in their Atlanta office. He and his wife, Ann, have been living in Atlanta since December - ‘Any MKA alumni here?’’

LOST: David Barnes, Orlando Caprio, Kevin Gosner, John Ward

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IKS Ms. Leslie Bryan 844 East M omingside Drive, NE Atlanta, GA 30324 Congratulations to Karen VanderhoofForschner for her national recognition as an expert on Lyme Disease and our best wishes as she leads the fight for education and research.

Georgia Buckner is moving to Springfield, Vt. where she and husband, Blase Provitola, are building their own home on four acres.

Their daughter, Brigid, will be almost five when you read this and Georgia was expecting number two in August. She hoped that we all make it to our 20th reunion in 1990!

I was delighted to get a letter from Bobbie D ixon, who had not been heard from in awhile and who is alive and well and living in New York City. She was in the process of cleaning out her office and switching fields to return to her “first love,” magazines. Look for Bobbie as the editor of a new publication called Elle Decor.

I enjoyed Julia Haines’ postcard of Camp Nyoda. Kim, does that bring back memories?

Julia is continuing her musical endeavors in Philadelphia and has released a cassette album: ODYSSEY: An Exploration of Afro-Celtic-HarpFuism, on her own label. The album has received favorable reviews and Julia is receiving fan mail! Way to go, Jules. The rest of her card is so Julia, it’s worth reprinting: “I’m freelancing as a music therapist with children-at-risk in the community. And I’m working on a new performance, ‘peace in process,’ THE CELESTIAL DEFENSE INITIATIVE: CDI or STAR SONGS - A harpist’s response to STAR WARS....Personally, I’m still a free-wheeling wild woman, stirring up as much feminist activity as possible....”

I saw Anne Bonniw ell Gale’s parents at my youngest brother’s wedding (for those of you who remember David at age 5 when we graduated, yes, I did feel old). Anne’s parents reported that Anne and her David are living in London and have one child. She was to have spent three weeks in the states in February.

H eidi Sanders Bryan failed to provide the promised letter, but I can report that, as of this writing in April, Heidi and Will are enjoying some relaxation since their two oldest are spending their spring vacation with my parents!

The Atlanta spring is in full bloom and I am awaiting my early May trip to Nantucket to spend a weekend with some former classmates

at Anne McIntyre Graves’ home. One nice thing about Atlanta is that Kim Kolbe, who seems to travel extensively, checks in frequently from the airport. I love talking to Kim, since she kpeps up with what’s going on.

On a reunion note, I really enjoyed reading the reunion notes from the Class of 1968. I hope you all felt the same way. I think their experience should encourage us to return in September 1990 and check back in with one another. It is ^mazing how quickly old and enduring friendships, like those we had, can be renewed.

Leslie MA Mr. G arrets. Roosma 30 Cottage Lane Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Fred Sheldon is assistant curator of orinthology at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. He and Jody have a son born in November 1988.

Jim Guterman practices law in Charlotte, N.C. and will soon have his 10th anniversary with the firm he joined as the 15th attorney.

The firm now has 150 attorneys! He concentrates on corporate finance and antitrust. Jim plans on a six-month sabbatical to travel and play tennis. His wife, Wylly, has started a new business, and daughter Lydia is eight.

Susan and Harvie Porter live in Randolph, Vt., where he teaches math and computers at Randolph Union High School. They have a son, David, 3, and a daughter born on Fathers’ Day 1988!

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TKS Ms. Sydney Johnson Petty 134 Sum m er Village Drive Annapolis, MD 21401 Anne Thom pson Seifert wrote that she lives “the rural/suburban life in Pottersville, N.J. with my husband and two sons.”

Call me a thirty-something arrested adolescent, but I find it hard to believe that so many of us are parents - and some for quite some time! Time marches on...

Gina Jones Igleheart’s mother wrote: “Gina is now in her fifth year living in Europe since her marriage to Kim Igleheart who is with American International Underwriters in Paris. After stays in Zurich and Brussels they are living in Neuilly on the outskirts of Paris with their children Alexandra, 5, and Robert, 2. They welcome visitors. [Ed. note: Please write to the Alumni Office for their address.]

Amy Schecter dropped a note from Philly, but said very little about herself. She wants to know if anyone knows where Paula Van Valkenburgh is - does anyone? Please write me and I’ll pass it on. We’d like news of both Amy and Paula!

Susan Von Hoffmann Tompson wrote that her third child, Jeffrey, was born in November; twins Christopher and Steven were “at a fun age (almost two).” I’ve heard two called a lot of things, but never fun. Susan is handling the handful just fine!

I’m sure K iesy Strauchon is miffed because I told her I wouldn’t print any news unless she wrote me an official letter. That was just a weak ploy, because she hasn’t written me since

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college days. As usual, she won, because here I am writing about her without so much as a postcard. Kiesy is working on a French degree and plans to teach. She loves Minneapolis and is very outdoorsy: she skates, skis, canoes, bikes, and Wishes...

Hope you are well and happy. Please stay in touch.

Sydney MA Mr. Jam es Bryan Jr. 56 D evil’s Garden, Norwalk, CT 06854 Herbert Tate, Jr. is frequently in the news as an active Essex County Prosecutor and public speaker for schools and civic organizations.

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TKS Mrs. Linda Finney W illiams Box 1446, 5 S. Pasture Lane Nantucket, MA 02554 Fred and Darcy W itt Zonino have moved to Minnesota with children Katie, 6, and Jim, 3.

MA Mr. Steven Schottenfeld 23 Woodfield Drive, Short Hills, NJ 07078 In April, II ’72 alums had an unforgettable night of reminiscing, laughs and good ole razzin’.

Greg Jackson, former king of pop tarts, works for AT&T marketing computers and has a son, 5. It was recalled that when Steven S c h o tten feld also entered the pop tart business, they kept cutting down the price until it hit 10 cents. Finally Greg decided to use the reasoning skills taught at MA and pointed out to Steve, “I’m going to put you out of business economically or physically and so far economics hasn’t worked.” The next day Steve was selling Ring Dings.

Dave D eB ell practices internal medicine in Clifton, has two children and a third on the way. With his full beard and mustache Dave looks professorial and doctorly.

John Sperling finishes his surgical residency from Monmouth Medical in July. He has four children, the newest bom in March.

John Kaplow specializes in commercial media production, has a baby daughter.

Rick Magglo works in computer security programming for Bell Labs in Whippany and has two girls.

Henry Talbot develops real estate and is single, lamenting that if he marries he won't be able to ski his 150 days a year.

Also single, Paul Dackow is engineering manager for the Harris Co. He plays basketball weekly to keep sharp his memorable “Deadly” Dackow Dick Barnett jump shot.

Nick A lessi works in commercial office furniture, is single, and plays in a band with some teenagers. “Pops” Alessi?

Ron Raccioppi develops real estate and is single. It was debated who won the 1972 coin hockey championship finals held fourth period in the library - Ron or Baby Face Nelson Nappl?

Steve Schottenfeld, who works for Dean Floor Covering Co., has a two-year-old and twins expected in July, and spends his time preparing corny comments for these MKA notes!

B ill Crawford continues to expand his custom machinery business.

We also received notes from: Joe Doerr, married, recently completed residency in rehabilitative medicine and hopes to practice in the Clifton area. It is Joe’s professional opinion that most of us are beyond rehabilitation.

Another doctor, Mike Cassatly, practices maxillofacial surgery in NYC and was married last year.

Chris Schulz, associate publisher for Murdoch Magazines, moved back to his roots in Upper Montclair. He has a one-year-old girl.

Bruce Pollack is also moving back to New Jersey, from California. (There goes our Christmas in L.A.) Bruce is VP for Sanus Corp.

Health Systems and has two children.

Bruce Usher also has two children. He teaches in New Hampshire and still loves motorcycling, running and music.

Walter Porter, senior buyer for Hewlett Packard, has two children. He spends his free time flying around New England in his Grumann Tiger. Bruce offers to give an aerial tour of Boston to visiting alums.

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MA M r Gregory Lackey 165 Chickahominy Trail Medford Lakes, NJ 08055 “MKA theatre is still impacting my life,” writes Jam es Crooks: he is midwest regional manager of Strand Lighting. Strand is the world’s largest manufacturer of theatrical and TV lighting equipment. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Debra. “Any ’73 alums in Chicago?”

Congratulations to Gary Caille, who completed a Ph.D. in acoustics (mechanical engineering) from Georgia Tech in 1988! Gary, a lieutenant commander in the Navy, works as a project manager in Washington, D.C. He and his wife, Susan, have two children, Stephanie, 7, and Kevin, 5.

Jeffrey Kindler is also in Washington. He is a partner in the law firm Williams & Connolly, practicing civil and criminal litigation. After MA and Hifts U., Jeff went to Harvard Law School and clerked for a judge on the D.C. circuit and for Justice Brennan on the U.S. Supreme Court! He and his wife, Sharon, have two children, Joshua, 3, and Samantha, 6 months in May. “I miss the Montclair days and look forward to our next reunion,” he says.

Peter Rives, who lives in Metuchen, has a year-old daughter, Amy.

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B etsy N ietsch, our famed math whiz, has climbed her way to stardom in the computer field - she has recently been named president of Exeter Software Limited, in Andover, Mass.

Betsy, who graduated from Smith, is working on an MBA at Babson College.

Living in the same town is Mary Lathrop W ill, with her husband, Duncan. She is balancing her demanding job at NAIS with the raising of year-old Duncan, Jr. D eedee Newman Griffin continues her career as an illustrator while tending to her newest addition, Lee. [Note from the Alumni Office: faithful class secretary Bonnie McBratney Wallin has asked to “retire.” Please, someone, take up the pen!]

MA Mr. Anthony M. Celentano 3 Conduct Street, Morris Plains, NJ 07950 Katherine and D. Michael Adams welcomed Baby David in July, 1988. Mike’s company, DMA Communications, “is out of the crazy new venture stage and publishing two successful magazines: Investing and Strategy. Company and family will move north to horse country next spring.”

Earl Perretti is president and owner of a Montclair-based home-improvement company, specializing in kitchen and bath renovations.

He also owns and manages residential and commercial real estate. He is married to the former Dorothy Deignan.

Marilyn and Brian Thomas have bought a house in Teaneck, so lucky Brian will commute over two bridges to work (in Lake Success, N.Y.)!

Henry W illiam s reported, “Alive and well and living in New York City.”

Rudy Schlobohm writes, “Spent 10 days in Rio De Janiero in January - a fabulously beautiful city seemingly oblivious to its crumbling economy. Any ’73 or ’74 alums, please help us warm up our new house on Montclair Ave. Son Karl (18 months) is now in 97th percentile for height at his age!”

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Jim wrote, “I spoke with Rich Steenland who is a doctor in Wilkes Barre, Pa. I lost a lot of money on a gum stock recommended by stockbroker Katie Grover, but I still love her anyway. I’d like to hear from Bud Johnson...”

[Ed. note: MKA has no current address for Bud. If anyone knows where he is, please call the Alumni Office.]

Anne Thomas has bought a house in Nashua, N.H., enough space for two golden retrievers! She is a product manager for Digital.

Don D’A lessandro was finishing his orthopaedic training in July. Sally McBratney D’Alessandro wrote that they’ve had a great year in L.A. enjoying the beach and sporting events as Don has worked on Dodgers, Rams, Lakers, and Kings! They are settling in Charlotte, N.C., where he will specialize in adult shoulder reconstruction and sports medicine. Billy, 4, and Tommy, 2, keep Sally busy; “I love being a mom!”

Also in Charlotte, Nathalie Rockhill is international information coordinator for the Piedmont district of Federal Express.

The New York Times featured Howard Slatkln in a March article, “A New Breed of Retail Design Store.” Howard - who spent his junior year in London - used English shops as models for his own design shop, Slatkin & Co., “in the hunt country of Far Hills, N.J.” John Adams returned to New Jersey to go into business with his brother, has married and started a family.

Peter and Nan Benedict Tischbein have left New Jersey; they bought a farm in Maine where they will grow Xmas trees and blueberries. She will work as a hazardous waste evaluation consultant in Portland, and will continue lithography in her “spare” time.

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On the Beach: L to R: Frances Mills Wonnell, Susan Stanton, Janet Nagel Scheel, Elizabeth Bruns Johnson, Mary Lou Guttm an, Sara Close, a ll Class o f ’76. Front: Thomas Johnson ’2006

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B ill Baker practices veterinary medicine in Colorado, is married, with two kids and one on the way.

For the sun worshippers in our class, Lori Pink is living in Fort Lauderdale, where she can wake up and swim each morning.

Otherwise, Lori is an investment banker/broker with Dean Witter. “I took to finance like a fish to water...” reminds me of a few poker games, only they weren’t quite as successful!

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Douglas Mahler is practicing general and cosmetic dentistry with his dad in Fair Lawn.

He still plays a lot of tennis; new hobby is barefoot waterskiing.

Congratulations to Gerald Jones, who graduated from N.Y. College of Podiatric Medicine in May! June and Chris Brenner became the proud parents of Brittney Ann in March - “At this writing, she has provided many memorable experiences.”

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Mrs. Paul McFeeley (Laurie Hoonhout) 6 Elizabeth Road, Upper M ontclair NJ 07043

Miss Pamela Zeug 19 D owning St., Apt. 3, New York, N Y 10014

Dr. Charles Read 3115 Carroll Place, Palls Church, VA 22042

Mr. John Glicksman 1725 P St., Washington DC 20036

I was fondly reminded of many great times associated with the Class of 1976 when I received several letters this year.

Hilary Hoffman Fandel gave birth to two beautiful boys last summer and has her hands full. She, husband Hank, and the fraternal twins live in Bloomfield.

Janice Kanter Apple also gave birth, to her second son, Andrew. She works as a speech pathologist in Voorhees.

Several ’76ers gathered in Old Greenwich, including Frances M ills W onnell, Sara Close, Mary Louise Guttman, Elizabeth Bruns Johnson, Janet Nagel Scheel and Susan Stanton. Tom and Liz Johnson, new parents of a baby boy, bought a house there.

Janet is in her first year of a pediatric cardiology fellowship at Johns Hopkins.

Susan Stanton has returned temporarily to Montclair where she is a health promotion consultant. Also in Montclair, Sharon Sudol has a small multiservice ad agency.

Congratulations to Hal G oodtree who was married on New Year’s Eve. Hal has “clawed his way up” to associate TV producer at Benton & Bowles. He spoke to MKA students about advertising at Career Day this winter.

Barrie Etherington has moved south to Columbus, Ga. where he works as a senior project engineer at Pratt & Whitney.

I am still battling up the ranks of academic medicine.at Georgetown where I’ve sort of become a fixture.

Last, I would again like to pass on condolences for the death of Robin Towner, a loss felt by all but perhaps best summarized by Susan Stanton in a letter... “remembering Robin as a smart pixie-ish beautiful rebellious young woman who had an huge old-fashioned heart.

A friend of Robin’s was a friend for life, and we miss her tremendously.’’

Chip

“Putting away the skis and bringing out the windsurfer,” wrote Karl Mills, “spring has hit San Francisco.” He is a senior associate with an investment management firm in Oakland. “Still trying to learn the dialect out here, but the trendy lessons have paid off. Cappuccino with a lime will be the next big trend. Trust me on this one...All the food here is Cajun style, so I’v learned how to make blackened toast.

Seriously, life and work are great.”

Also in California, David Peckman is VP and director of marketing of First Interstate Bank in Los Angeles.

Jonathan Wood, a graduate of Cornell Law, finished a clerkship with a Federal court judge in Raleigh, N.C. and is now with an Albany, N.Y. law firm.

Andrew Blair is associated with the law offices of Brian Neary in Hackensack. He and his wife were expecting their first child in August.

Bruce McBratney finished an MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. After summer travel, he and Julie are settling in Chicago where he will work for the Boston Consulting Group.

Kevin Berkowsky sent news of his pending marriage in August and of a wonderful new job as video communications producer with Eastern Utilities Associates. He and Gwen will live in Quincy, Mass.

Most degrees award: Linda Jackson received an M.D. in May from Columbia U. She has a B.A. from Dartmouth and an M.E. in chemical engineering from Georgia Tech. Linda will do a five-year orthopedic surgery residency in Hartford, Conn.

Congratulations from all to Dr. Jackson!

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Ms. Beverley D. Hall 127-A Skunk Lane, Wilton, CT. 06897 WELCOME BACK to class secretary Bev Hall! She tried resigning, but missed hearing from everyone, so volunteered again!

Bev is in her sixth year teaching science at Greenwich Country Day School. She trains horses on the weekends. She was awaiting the arrival of brother Malcolm’s (’75) second child, and sent news of Ginny ’79 and B ill ’82 (see respective class notes).

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John Joseph was married in April. He has B.A. in economics and a law degree, both from U. Penn. He and bride Dale are both attorneys in the U.S. Justice Dept., Attorney General Honors Program in Washington.

Nancy Orr was married in Chicago, where she works for Ross Wetzel Studio & Paper Source. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from U. of Chicago. Nancy and husband James live in Evanston.

Jeanne and Bruce Eng had a bi-coastal wedding last fall: one ceremony was conducted on the cliff at Stevens Tech in Hoboken with skyline backdrop, the following week one was in San Francisco for her relatives!

Many MKA friends attended Daphne and Gardner Sem et’s wedding in May: George Frey, Tony Cristello, Dave Luccl and Jon Pollock ‘80 (aka Jonathan Parker). They had a great reunion, talking about their lives and cars.

Congratulations to Gil and Merry Aufzlen Bauer on the birth of Andrew in January, and to Dale and Emily Rowland Malone for Sarah Anne in April!

Jean and Ed Mason have settled in a new home in Fairfield, Conn. Daughter Sarah “is growing so fast it’s scary.. .Looking forward to 10th reunion.”

George Frey is finishing his orthopaedic residency in Chicago. His wife, Heidi, is an attorney.

Tony C ristello is enjoying following in his dad’s footsteps in the family business.

Ginny Hall has bought a house in Seattle, WA., where she works for Security Pacific Bank in the foreign exchange department.

A card from Kenny and Lori Dewey Dioguardi in Germany sends everyone their best. Kenny was promoted to captain, she teaches at the post, and both enjoy exploring Europe.

Jack Brink has his own holistic/chiropractic health facility in Atlanta, Ga. He has a unique service: he can communicate with hearingimpaired people using American Sign Language!

Carlos and I celebrated our first anniversary in Quebec in January. Even though the temperature dropped to 20-below, it sure beat getting robbed in Mexico. Carlos has completed his LLM in tax law and wants to litigate in tax court when “we” leave the Army in January.

SEE YOU ALL AT REUNION!!

Shawn

Mrs. Carlos O rtiz (Shawn Mahieu) 4308 Cowan Place, Belcamp MD 21017 Mr. Jack Brink 105 Hampshire Court Avondale Estates, GA 30002 Reunion chairmen: Shaum Mahieu O rtiz Mr. Stephen Dodd 511 East 83rd St. Apt. 3B New York, N Y 10028 Congratulations to our newlyweds!

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We begin with some questions to ponder.

For years I have often wondered...

Do 7th and 8th graders really need A recess with cookies, juice or iced tea?

Or was it the tired faculty, I believe Who needed time to rest their feet?

With our uniform skirts of blue, green or pink We wore checkers and stripes.

Did that match, do you think?

Then again, perhaps you don’t care About the cookies we ate, or the clothes that we’d wear.

More important I’m sure is how classmates have fared.

So here’re a few tidbits I’m happy to share.

Thank you to th e se new cla ss secretaries for volunteering: Julia Hawkins Miller 1926 Beverley Hall 1977 Thomas Robbins 1982 Tracy Cunningham left Minnesota with computer time under belt She’s now in California sun, since north country snow would not melt.

Nina Seborowski is at Georgetown U. in D.C. You know it’s in medicine that she wants to be.

She’s not yet sure of the kind of degree, But she’ll make a fine doctor, just wait and see.

On the road with other NYCity lawyers, Irma Kanter found her path, Following Cornell Law, she’s a litigation associate with Fulbright, Jaworski & Reavis McGrath.

With an MBA from UVA Julie Ruddick is on her way.

In corporate finance she’ll spend her day At Pru-Bache Capital Funding she will stay.

Pam Our condolences to Steve Barral on the death of his father.

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Miss Shelagh Daly 330 North M ountain Avenue Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Miss Karen M am ell 25 Alden Circle, West Caldwell, NJ 07006 Margaret Johnson received an MBA from UVA, Charlottesville, in May. She is working as assistant treasurer with Bankers Trust Co. in New York.

Jerem y Wood is working on a Ph.D. in political science at U. of Michigan.

Robert Cunniff, with an M.S. in geology from Michigan State U., is working for Converse Environmental East in Caldwell.

Joseph DIStefano is attending UMDNJ, will graduate from dental school in 1990.

Anne Malfltan, who teaches first grade in Mountainside, is working on a master’s in drug and alcohol counseling at Montclair State. She was planning a July wedding to Stephen Horohonich.

Christopher N icholl works in the bond department of the Prudential in Newark. After graduating from Rutgers, he spent six months in Europe (where he bumped into Julie Sturchio).

“A great big hello from Ithaca, N.Y., where I am working as assistant to the curator of the Icelandic collection at Cornell,” writes Nancy N elson. “Love my job and am looking forward to coursework in Iceland. Am still singing lots...Med bestu kvedju.”

David Newman directed a production of Subterranean Homesick Blues at the Manhattan Punch Line Theatre. He and his wife, Vanessa Christman, “are trying desperately to get out of New York and move somewhere civilized.”

Debbie and George George bought a townhouse in Columbia, Md. last year. He works for the Secret Service (!) in Washington.

Jam es Habron is a junior foreign officer in

the consular section of the American Embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica.

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Mr. Thomas Robbins 554 South Gulph Road, Gulpb Mills, PA 19406 Many thanks to two “retiring” class secretaries, N icole Anastasiou and Angela DeCandia Barral, and welcome to new scribe Tom Robbins!

Nikki, who teaches third grade in Saddle Brook, is engaged to be married in May. She will move to NYC where her fiance lives and works as a building management agent.

Engagements: K elley Smith, who graduated from the American School in London and Boston University, planned an August wedding to Peter Mongeau of Attleboro, Mass., also of B.U. Pamela Reisch is engaged to Robert Lasher, a fellow Dickinson College graduate. She is with USAA Ins. Co., in Tampa, Fla. Suzanne Mahler plans to wed Bill Brogan of Montclair in June 1990. She works as graphics coordinator for corporate headquarters of Lockheed Datacom in Teaneck.

Peter Gibson is engaged to another Dartmouth graduate, Marjorie Wallace. Peter is a senior associate with Orion Consultants (financial management) in NYC. Marriages: Tom Robbins was married in June ’88 and lives outside Philadelphia.

“Looking forward to running into some ExCougars in the area. Best wishes to all.”

Newlywed Steven Eisner moved to TUcson, Ariz. in January - “No question that it beats Manhattan.” He works for Photometries, Inc., a manufacturer of CCD camera systems.

Dina Steinberg d el Amo, married last August, lives in France.

Rachael Hayes McDaniel is ranked eighth

country in fencing and is assistant women’s varsity coach at Temple. She works full time as a physical therapist in a hospital and has begun an MBA in health administration!

Elizabeth Gibson Boyer will finish her master’s in math education in August.

After three years in corporate finance at Bankers Trust Co, Jon Sandler has moved to Boston to attend Harvard Business School.

Pam Ruddick also left Bankers Trust and is living in San Francisco. She does a reverse commute to work as a junk-bond buyer with Franklin Resources in San Mateo. Pam is already a qualified Californian: she took a wine course at Berkeley and often tours the wine country!

Betsy Lewis was promoted to stock-security specialist at Price Waterhouse, NYC. She deals with international and domestic financial markets - “interesting, but very timeconsuming.”

Janlne Garland was named to the Outstanding Young Women of America for 1988. She works at Ricoh Corp. in West Caldwell but plans a move to Florida this year.

She saw D oreen Wong Rearlck ‘83. “She has a beautiful baby girl and lives in Lexington, Ky.” Peter Dancy has been living in Chicago for over a year. He’s an assistant treasurer with National Westminster Bank USA. B ill Hall teaches math at Fairfield Country Day School (Conn.), and coaches lacrosse there and at Fairfield U.

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Miss Holly Jervis 55 South M ountain Avenue Montclair, NJ 07042 Class agent: Mr. Kevin W ilkins 95 Heller Way, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043

DeCandia Family alum ni a t Commencement: L to R. M aryanne ’85, Peter ’89, Angela DeCandia Barral ’82, Stephen Barral ’80, Carmela ’83

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The Class of ’83 never sits still for long...Kris Hatzenbuhler, Paul Josephson, David Spiller and Laura LaCorte continue success in law school. Scott Rumana started NYU Law School in January and Don Cussen begins classes at Seton Hall Law in September.

Good luck to our future lawyers!

Also continuing their education: Hope Hasbrouck, who spent the summer in Versailles studying the layout of European cities, is now at UVA for a master’s in architecture. Kevin W ilkins has left P&G to attend Harvard Business School. Michael Eisner is working for Quawsha Lipton and studying to be an actuary.

Liz Ghini is considering graduate school, but for now is working for a small computer firm and teaching computer classes at a community college in California.

Amy Felber and Maureen Towers are working for Senator Bill Bradley in Washington. Dan Carson runs his own excavating company in Newton, N.J. Toby Bizub is now a full-time mortician.

The Big Apple has lured D oug Colwell, who works for a computer firm, and Greg Eng, now with McCan-Erickson Advertising.

Congratulations to Gary Merkle who was married in May! Also to Kristine Hatzenbuhler, who is engaged to Michael O’Connor of Verona; they plan to marry in September 1990.

Peter Renwick has moved back to Cedar Grove from Ohio and is eager to be in touch with people.

Janine Marnell will be teaching third grade at Brookside and H olly Jervis is still teaching espanol at the Middle School. Drop by if you are in the area!

Holly

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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 Reunion chairman: Mr. D arrin O’N eill 6 Old Quarry Rd., Cedar Grove, NJ 07009 Karen Vlaskamp will miss reunion because she is in Japan, working for the town of Noda as an English language resource teacher in the schools.

Claudia O cello’s fellowship with the American Numismatic Society in New York was renewed for 1989-90. This spring Claudia took a group from MKA’s Middle School to visit the society during their study of archaeology. She will teach fifth grade at MKA this year.

Carla Stanziale is in her second year at Fordham U. Law School.

Come to Reunion and catch up with everyone!

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Mr. John Booth III 15 H athaway Lane, Verona, NJ 07044

Class agent: Miss Loren Miller 1055 River Road, Apt. 5606 Edgewater, NJ 07020 The Graduate: Craig Voorhis earned a business degree from Skidmore and won MVP on men’s polo team (horse polo, that is).

Tammia Sumas graduated from Bentley College.

David Tessler was on the dean’s list at Hamilton College.

After two years at Smith College, Maigann W estfall took a year off and backpacked, alone, through Scandinavia, behind the Iron Curtain and the Eastern Block, where she became interested in Eastern European history, which she then studied at Kings College, London. Maigann founded a rugby team at Smith, which she hopes to reestablish upon her return.

Merri Ray graduated from Colgate. She majored in French, and studied six months in Dijon. Merri received the dean’s award for two semesters and was a founding sister of Kappa Alpha Theta. She hopes to teach at the secondary level.

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an internship in Washington, D.C. with the Senate Finance Committee Matt Hendrian is at Florida Institute of Technology, studying aircraft systems management in an intense three-year advanced flight program. He is still fencing and was voted VP of the 1989-90 student government.

Matt spent summer ’88 in E. Hampton with Peter Silver. He is also in touch with Mike Rosenblum, who has been skiing with the U.S. Handicapped Ski Team in Utah, and Matt Mochary, who spent last year traveling around the globe with a backpack, India to South Africa.

Bruce Redpath spent spring semester interning with a brokerage firm. He played varsity tennis while at Hobart.

Mark Ames, an economics major, is on the Princeton lacrosse team and is “also having fun” at his eating club.

At UVA, Sherry Ahkami earned Intermediate Honors and was inducted into the Golden Key National Honor Society. She is also a Peer Lifestyles Educator and is active in her sorority.

Also at UVA, Adam Hauser has announced his ENGAGEMENT to his girlfriend of two years. Yes, a first for the Class of 1986! The wedding won’t be ’till the summer of ’91, but congratulations are in order!

Miss Sherry Ahkam i 37 Virginia Avenue, Clifton, NJ 07012

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Miss M ary Louise Neary 27 Warren Place, Montclair, NJ 07042

Miss Laura Baczko 102 H ighland Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07042

Class agent: Miss Megan Cole 11444 Lost Bee Way North Palm Beach, FL 33408

Miss Ida Boodin 338 North M ountain Avenue Upper Montclair, NJ 07043

Our hearts were young and ...

Sandy Hrab spent her junior year in Malaga, Spain, and loved her family, classes, and all the wonderful Spanish people. Her parents and brother George ’89 visited during spring break. Sandy and Rebecca Link traveled to Paris, Munich and Geneva over Christmas break.Penny Kent spent the year living and studying in Paris.

Rohina Gandhi spent a semester in London, supposedly “studying” history, although that is not her major at Brown. Sam Sussman and Julia Well were there with her too.

Lisa Unger also studied in London, where she swam for the London U. swim team. At Colgate, she is in her third year swimming on varsity, and is a DJ and business director of the college radio station. She is a Big Sister volunteer and made the dean’s list too!

Anne Marie Fell spent the spring semester in Greece studying architectural history.

D enise Fink is involved with student government and her sorority at TUlane, is majoring in poly sci and art history. She planned to study in Europe this summer.

Lisa Porter is an Asian studies major at Dartmouth, specializing in Chinese language and culture. Fortunately her summer studies were shifted from Beijing to a university in Taiwan! Lisa belongs to a sorority and occasionally performs on the piano on campus.

Paul Voltmer spent Christmas break with a Gordon College group building a church in a small Dominican Republic village. Then he had

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Suzy Criqui is co-captain of the women’s lightweight crew team at Notre Dame.

D ennis Rodano earned a starting position on the Lafayette lacrosse team. He was hoping to go to Russia on an exchange program, and has joined Kappa Delta Rho with Sabino Rodano and Nico Sumas. Sabino had Major Reconstructive Surgery on his shoulder and is in rehabilitation and out of sports for a whole year.

LaRhonda Foster is a poly sci major, peer assistant and member of the Black Pre-Law Society at Emory.

Joanne Pundyk, a history major at Cornell, interned this summer for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington.

Frank B lesso is on the vatsity sailing team at TUfts, so spends much time practicing, traveling or competing. This summer he was surprise - a sailing instructor on Cape Cod! Victor Chi covered the “Woeful Northwestern Wildcats” (basketball) for the D aily Northwestern. As assistant sports editor, he wrote a weekly column; he also broadcast a few NU games on the radio. He helped his team capture second place in the university­ wide sports trivia bowl contest! He was spending his third consecutive summer with NBC News in New Ybrk.

Sloan Chase W lesen is a Benjamin Franklin Honors Scholar at U. Penn. He’s been in a play, is on the Student Union Advisory Committee and is a speaker for the Office of Student Life.

Sloan spent summer 1988 as an abstract writer in Washington on a privacy project, did research for the Lautenbeig campaign, then traveled in South America.

Tara Frenkl is an honors student at the

College of Pharmacy, Rutgers, and works at a hospital as a pharmacy technician. After her six-year pharmacy program, we’ll be calling her “Dr. Tara Lee.” Pat Coyle is a star in the Conn. College singing group, the CoCo Beaux, who perform on campus as well as at area schools. He also plays intramural rugby and cricket.

Andrew Nydick plans to study art history this year in Florence.

Lisa Martinez, an international studies major, is secretary of the Vassar SpanishAmerican organization. She’ll spend the fall semester at the U. of Madrid. Lisa joined Beth Speizer and Kathy Joslfovski for spring break in the Bahamas. Ole!

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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 Dean’s list: Mint! Goel at Northwestern, Hayley Silver at Tufts U. Sue Bartlett made the dean’s list at Lehigh, and was on the field hockey and track teams.

She pledged Gamma Phi Beta and worked on a benefit for the homeless.

Danielle DeVlta is in an a capella girls’ singing group at Skidmore that travels around performing concerts. They recorded an album in the spring.

At Columbia, Negi Ahkami has had her artwork displayed in the Postcrypt Art Gallery.

She has taken up drum lessons and is a cast member of Columbia’s own student-run soap opera which appears on cable TV! Sports report: Jill Tobia started on the Columbia women’s fencing team which was undefeated in the Ivies and which won the NCAA fencing tournament for the first time!

Alyson Beasley won Most Improved on the Temple fencing team. She is involved with free

speech protests and is an integral member of several Black Student League committees.

Wiemi Douoguih made headlines “Freshman leads W&L over VMI 10-9” as our hero scored four goals, including the tying and winning goals in sudden-death overtime in the great traditional rivalry. Wiemi, sidelined by bronchitis, only played six games all season.

Lauren Aquino made the varsity swim team at Lake Forest College, which won the MACW meet (Midwest Athletic Conference for Women; Division III). Lauren finished 7th overall in the 100 and 9th in the 200 breaststroke. She also made the women’s varsity soccer team (10-3-1 record) and plays with the jazz band.

Also on a swim team (at Hamilton College), Rebecca Corris was delighted to sleep past 6 a.m. and play racketball when the swim season ended. The team went to Puerto Rico in January for “intensive training.” Rebecca also is busy giving swim lessons, workstudy, drawing, dancing, and representing her dorm.

Kim Ray lettered on the UVA field hockey team and played lacrosse in the spring. A pre-

Constance Nagel and Roland Sawdey Comer Fisk and Benjamin Polak Jean Brisbane and George Boveroux William Breen Jr. and Lise Michelman Jeffrey Crawford and Michelle Ready Sally Apgar and James Kelly Hal Goodtree and Lindsey Chester Bruce Eng and Jeanne Yee John Joseph and Dale Grayson Barbara Kluge and Richard Hickox Nancy Orr and James M. Sheperd Gardner Semet and Daphne Aharoni Peter Dodd and Julie Levering Martha Nevins and Edward O’Callaghan J. Christopher Nicholl and Susan France Steven Eisner and Jill Hawkins Thomas Robbins and Carolyn Whinery Dina Steinberg and Jean Michel del Amo

89 Miss Suellen Bizub 107 Country Lane, Clifton, NJ 07013 Mr. Louis Lessig 78 Kent Road, Huntingdon, PA 19006 Class agent: Mr. Josh Raymond 4 White Oak Road, Roseland, NJ 07068 Welcome, Class of 1989, to alumnihood!

MKA Traditions Test II 1. Who was “Mr. Mason” ?

2. What were “Spinach and Eggs” ?

3. What were “Handiwipes” ?

4. Who was the “ Chief” ?

5. Where does the Manassas Road Crew work?

6. What is the MKA mascot?

7. What were the Forum and Rostrum?

8. What was the largest dormitory at Montclair Academy?

9. What was the name of the Kimberley literary magazine, started in 1907?

10. What was the name of the women’s school 1906-1909?

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med major, Kim pledged a sorority and volunteers in a pediatric ward.

Sports chronicler Alec Schwartz, manager of the Penn lacrosse team, was promoted to general sports writer of the D aily Pennsylvanian. He wrote a series of articles leading to the removal of the women’s basketball coach: for such dedication to investigative reporting, the sports dept, nicknamed him “The AXE.”

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A C en ten n ial C o n c e rt By the Chorus and Mastersingers o f MKA Directed by Nixon Bicknell In celebration of the Centennial, a tape was made which features songs from the 16th century, Mozart, Haydn,B Schumann, Grieg, Ellington, Gershwin, Porter, Simon and Garfimkel; “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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