Spring 1994 MKA Review Magazine

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C over: The Bellringers, third graders at Brookside, and Barbara Rabuse, Head of Campus at the Primary School, wave goodby after their performance at an all-school Community Gathering at the Upper School in September.

C ontents From the Principal Ml From the Board of Trustees / 2 Community Gathering / 3 Fine and Performing Arts: The Halls Are Alive /' 4 Notes Around MKA / 9 Awards Faculty News From the Alumni Association / 12 Profile: Laura Scher Altman 76 / 12 From the President / 13 Homecoming 1993 A Banner Day"$ 14 Career Day / 15 Class Notes / 17 The MKAAlumni Association Is an organization of 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 accomplish­ ments and objectives of MKA. The Alumni Council is the governing Board, a representative group elected at the Association’s annual meeting to sponsor events and activities l in k i n g a lu m n i with their a lm a mater.

A lumni A ssociation C ouncil 1993-94 Joseph H. Alessi ’68, Vice President Susan McIntosh Awerdick ’68 Laura M. Bartlett ’81 Andrew J. Blair 78 Lori Windolf Crispo 78, Treasurer Sara Close Crowther 76 Martha Bonsai Day 74 Alan C. Deehan 77, Vice President Robert H. Gardner 78, President Pamela Eastman Garvey ’80 Hugh J. Gleason 75 Edward G. Healey 77 Holly E. Jervis ’83 Peter S. McMullen 77, Vice President Kristine Hatzenbuhler O’Connor ’83, Secretary J. Dean Paolucci 73, Executive Vice President Rudolph G. Schlobohm 74, • Vice President Anita E. Sims 79 Ellen Wahl Skibiak 73 Albert D. Van Eerde 73 Peter R. Greer, Principal Judy Polonofsky, , Director of External Affairs Christie Austin, Alumni Director

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Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65 Peter J. Bruck Martha Bonsai Day 74 Robert H. Gardner 78 John E. Garippa, Vice President Linda T. Garippa A. Lawrence Gaydos Ronald E. Gennace Peter R. Greer, Principal/CEO Thomas H. Hagoort Robert A. Hoonhout 71 John L. Kidde ’52x Austin V. Koenen, President Robert S. Kramer Anne E. Muenster-Sinton Elizabeth M. Noonan, Secretary Richard M. Pisacane Newton B. Schott Jr., Treasurer Jodi Smith, Vice President Jean N. Torjussen Terence D. Wall

A dvisory T rustees Gail Tomec Kerr ’52 Eugene R. Wahl ’66

H onorary T rustees Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54 Joseph A. Courter Susan H. Ruddick James S. Vandermade ’35 E ditors Christie Austin Susan Jones Judy Polonofsky

P hoto C redits James Burger Susan Jones Jeff Goldman Dan Katz Steve Tober

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From the Principal

\ V 7 hy don’t we check up on someone in ” authority, after commitments or promises have **** been made? I was thinking about that as I reviewed the fall issue of the Review. What had I promised students, parents, alumni, faculty and staff in that fall issue and what were the results? What would our “report card” show?

I commented that we had hired excellent new and replacement faculty. Now, how did I know that? I knew that our new hiring process made it probable that we would hire effectively and well and that these faculty came from prestigious colleges and universities, but I held my breath. Given their teaching, coaching, and advising of our students over the last six months, the report card shows a very good grade. I also promised that in the fall we would produce a “photobook” of our faculty. Our timing was off, but the Faculty Profiles came out in January and provides a compelling inside-look at our 130 faculty. [For a copy, please call the Office of External Affairs, 201/746-9800.]

Dr. Greer teaching Ethics at the Upper School.

parent, we will build a new cork playground for our pre-kindergarten students. Thanks to PAMKA and a Primary School parent (who is also an alumna), we will be able to restore the famous Kimberley handbells. Thanks to a Middle School parent, we will provide faculty with summer fellowships in the study of ethics with two national scholars (specifically, the study of Plato’s Republic and informal logic). Can you imaginahow that study or restudy by faculty will pay off with our young students in our MKA classrooms?!

Speaking of generosity, parents and alumni have increased their contributions to our Annual Giving Program. We hope this increase is part of our attempt to bring MKA closer through the reinstitution of MKA traditions. We recently unfurled twenty-two banners in the Fairleigh Dickinson Gymnasium at the Upper School in recognition of championship teams, 19781993, who were not previously recognized.

I promised that we would reinstitute Latin in the curriculum. Latin is flourishing at the Middle School and Upper School. In fact, next year we will probably see two Latin I and two Latin II sections at the Upper School. Our new Latin teacher has the experience and ability to teach through Latin V. I promised that we would plan for the introduction of a third language in the 4th grade, but we have decided against that. We may, however, add a foreign language at the Primary School.

I promised that we would introduce a “wellness” program for our faculty and staff. It turns out that ours is the only formal program of its kind in any public or independent school in New Jersey. Recently about sixty faculty and staff participated in a “bonus event” — an evening of Western dancing and Western food. The student’s new dress code is now accepted. Parents tell me that they spend extra minutes with their sons assisting with the daily question, “Does this plaid tie go with this striped shirt?” The girls’ attire still has a way to go, but we are working on it. The “official” MKA tie is worn more frequendy by faculty, administrators, and students. We have budgeted for a Career Services Office that will be opened next year. Using parent and alumni networks, this office will assist MKA graduates in summer and post-college job searches.

An excellent faculty, a strong program of studies, a dress code, a wellness program, attention to MKA traditions, and the generosity of parents and alumni — what results do we see? For one thing, the enrollment is currently at 1002, twelve over the budgeted figure for this year. Inquiries have increased by 45 percent and applications have increased by 36 percent over last year.

MKA remains an exciting place to learn and as a site for a career. Remain proud.

Finally, I want to comment on the generosity of parents and alumni this year. Thanks to one Primary School

Peter R. Greer Principal and CEO

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From the Board o f Trustees

n p h is is th e seco n d in a series o n th e va rio u s sta n d in g co m m ittees o f the B o a rd o f Trustees.

Finance Committee The basic responsibility of the Finance Committee is to manage and preserve the school’s financial resources and endowment and to monitor the “institutional fiscal health.” Accordingly, it is the duty of the Committee: — to evaluate and review the financial performance and activity on an ongoing basis throughout the year; — with the Administration, to prepare and present to the Board the yearly budget for approval; — to review the yearly audit the the certified public accountants; — to recommend to the Board the purchase or sale of property; — and to review employee benefits, pension plan and personnel practices, and insurance coverage.

The M echanical Engineering B uilding at the New Jersey Institute o f Technology proudly displays an aw ard wall to honor its distinguished alum nus, Joseph A. Courier.

MKA is extraordinarily proud a n d grateful to have Joseph Courier as a n Honorary Trustee after years o f service and generosity as an active Trustee. Two o f his sons, Joseph A. CourierJr. ’57, a n d James A. Courier ’59, graduated from M ontclair Academy.

The Board performs some of its functions through two standing subcommittees: (i) an Investment Committee, which oversees the investment of the endowment funds and the short-term investments in the operating budget; and (ii) an Auxiliary Operations Committee, which oversees auxiliary operations involving the school or school facilities.

It is hoped such membership will provide the expertise and depth of knowledge of school affairs needed to enable the Committee to fulfill its significant duties.

The Finance Committee is composed of: the Chairman; the Treasurer (who may be the same person as the; Chairman); the Building and Grounds Chairman; the Development Committee Chairman; the Auxiliary Operations Chairman; the Investment Chairman; the Busineg Manager; Trustee members-at-large; and the President of the Board of Trustees and the Principal, e x

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MKA in M anhattan: Bernard Crawford ’68 a n d his wife, A nne W hitehead Crawford ’71 (right), hosted a reception fo r New York alum ni to m eet MKA’s Principal Peter Greer. The Crawfords are shown with B ern’s sister, Margaret Crawford Bridge ’65 (left), a n d Dr. Greer.

Margaret is the past President o f the Board o f Trustees; current President A ustin Koenen also attended the reception.

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T he Com m unity Gathering

T ittle Bellringers from Brookside played the school song. Two faculty members choreographed and ■ I danced an original number. Two educators dressed up as sea creatures told tales of the deep. But an octogenarian in sensible shoes stole the show.

Students and faculty from all three campuses gathered at the Fairleigh Dickinson Gymnasium at the Upper School on September 24 for the annual MKA Community Gathering to foster school spirit. The program was designed to appeal to everyone from kindergartners to seniors. Faculty were honored by the presentation of the first Founders’ Cup Award.

Representing alumni, Charlotte Fitch ’29 — whose aunt, Mary Kimberley Waring, founded The Kimberley School in 1906 — told stories about Miss Waring and of being a student in the early days. She approvingly noted the diversity of the assembled group, and said, “Aunt Mary would be very pleased with the school today.

Dr. Peter Greerpresents an MKA sweatshirt to honored guest Charlotte Fitch ’29. Looking on are fa cu lty member Helen Faulkner, parentJam es Q uinn, a n d alum nus J. Dean Paolucci ’73, ci m em ber o f the MKA A lum ni Council.

Miss Fitch endeared herself to the audience when, presented with an MKA sweatshirt by Dr. Greer, she declared she would wear it to her next aerobics class.

After the assembly, Miss Fitch toured the school, visited classrooms, and chatted with students and faculty to learn what they were learning or teaching and how they were doing it. Her curiosity knew no bounds. She wanted to see the Middle School swimming pool, which she had used in the 1920s when it belonged to the Montclair Athletic Club. She traipsed up the hill behind the Upper School to Dolven’s Woods to see the ropes course written about in the last MKA Review. She asked about curriculum and dress codes, and the fine and performing arts.

Trustee M artha Bonsai Day fff4, one o f the Kimberley Bellringers the last year before the schools’ merger, cam e to see her daughter Heather carry on the tradition. Heather is in the third grade a t Brookside.

Miss Fitch — a Smith College alumna who taught speech and theater there for 27 years — had an instant rapport with students and faculty alike. She has been class secretary for the Kimberley Class of ’29 for years, and contributed many facts and reminiscences to the school history, W ithin These H alls.

Faculty members Rick Kitts a n d M arita Kleissler choreographed a n d danced an original number, Boy Meets Girl.

MKA parent James Q uinn presents the Founders’ Cup to Helen Faulkner on behalf o f the cup designer an d donor, Tiffany & Co. The Founders’ Cup is an alum ni-inspired aw ard to honor outstanding faculty.

Faculty members Randy Svane a nd Barry Centanni ’77 share their talent a t the "Gathering."

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T he Halls are Alive w ith the Sound o f M usic T he Sight o f A rtw ork A nd the Shuffle o f D ancing Feet Students a re beginning to com e to MKA f o r th e A rts D epartm ent. P o sitive things a re building on each oth er.

— Tony Cuneo, chairman Upper School Fine & Performing Arts Department hey are drawn by the arts curriculum and by the caliber of the faculty, all of whom are outstanding practicing artists in their own right. (The faculty can claim a debut at the Met; an Emmy Award, a tour with Sinatra, and numerous professional awards.)

For more than a decade, MKA’s outstanding Fine and Performing Arts Program has been a source of pride for the school. Today the program has been refined and strengthened, increasingly sharing resources among all three campuses. And it begins in Pre-K. Brookside: Translating the intellectual into a visual product.

On the floor of the art room is a six-by-twenty-foot paper, painted with a nursery full of toys and a window. It is scenery in progress for the Brookside holiday production of “The Velveteen Rabbit.” Third graders crouch around offering ideas for color and wallpaper design. There is always scenery in progress at Brookside, as some eight or nine productions each year incorporate art 'all well as musicBdance, and drama.

In the early years, art isErery physical and childcentered,” says Fran Kurds, arts coordinator at Brookside. Accordingly, the Primary School abounds with students in smocks, learning about intellectual subjects by doing projects.

A colorful cardboard town begins with a discussion of What Is a Town? Second graders learn about resi-

(lential^commercial, and municipal areas. They discuss concepts: pointy roofs for residential buildings, flat roofs for commercial ones. They have to think and plan. Each child decides what kind of building to make — a movie theater, a supermarket, a barn, a hotel. They learn about spacial relationships and how to mix colors. If they want a pink building, they figure out how to mix pink. The details show how much the students think about their work: there is a pole inside the firehouse, a horse drawn inside the barn.

Not incidentally, the students learn to work in a large group. They discuss, they help each other work, and afterward, when the buildings are done, they help map out the streets. And they are responsible for cleaning up their own mess. Cleanup and display are part of the process.

“It is very important to display the work, to recognize it in a public manner,” says Fran Kurtis. “It helps students’ self-respect to recognize THEIR work and THEIR FRIENDS’ work.” The walls of Brookside are covered with artwork.

Art is integrated into academic themes at every opportunity. After reading about the West in class, third graders painted western landscapes in art and learned western folksongs in music. Kindergartners painted a tepee with Native American designs, and beat rhythms on drums they made. First graders visited the Montclair Art Museum to sketch Inuit artifacts.

“Every child has the opportunity to perform at least once a year, and usually more,” says Barbara Rabuse, Head of Campus at the Primary School. All classes do a class play every year, often with themes from the curriculum; everyone performs at the holiday concert; and everyone participates in dance performances.

Those held on the Brookside stage are enhanced with student-painted scenery. Dance teacher Marita Fran Kurtis, arts coordinator at Brookside, consults with second grader Gioiella Mayer.

Four “Little In d ia n s”: Kindergartners Sean Gaffney, Andrew Barchenko, E liza^khm idt, a n d Jacob Lasher beat the drum s they m ade in art class while their classmates dance. In the background are “hides”they decorated with symbols.

When the fourth grade studied ancient man, they made bricks the old Sumerian way in science class. Sixth graders studying Shakespeare during the Elizabethan unit also study Renaissance art.

Kleissler and music teacher Joyce Appelquist help the classroom teachers with plays and rehearsals.

Music for Pre-K and kindergarten concentrates on rhythm and percussion; songs and theory begin in first grade with the Silver Burdett & Ginn series. Students are exposed to rhythms from all around the globe — learning, for example, dance steps to a calypso beat.

By the third grade, students choose and report on serious composers such as Joplin or Gershwin after hearing their music, All third graders learn to play the recorder, and some learn to play the celebrated Kimberley bells.

“A lot of classroom time is spent collaborating,” says Scott Coronis, “the give and take of ideas, comments, and criticisms. I t’s a s m u ch

“ W e w a n t th em to love m u sic so m u ch , ”says Joyce Appelquist, “th a t th ey w a n t to stu d y it fu r th e r .”

The Middle School: Maximum Participation Maximum participation and integrated arts and academics continue at the Middle School.

a stu d io atm osphere as y o u c a n g e t in a school. We try to

“We teach about art by participation in the arts,” says Scott Coronis, chairman of the Middle School Fine and Performing Arts Department.

“We teach about art by participation in the arts."— Scott Coronis, chairm an, M iddle School Pine a nd Performing Arts Department.

motivate the kids, open their minds, and develop skills and creativity.”

The participation covers four areas: production, aesthetics®criticism, and history. Every student is involved in the production, or creation, of both fine and performing art, through actual painting, singing, acting, and dancing. Students learn aesthetics, or concepts, like beauty, line, and perspective. They also learn to look at work critically: Why is a creation good?

Bad? Why did the artist/perform er choose to do something a certain way? Through study of trends in the history of an art, students put it in context with its timeJM

A goal is to work for an arts portfolio for each student, similar to the writing folders showing the creative form in process, that follow a student from year to year.

Middle School students rotate art/dance/music/drama with every quarter of the year. Instrumental music is taught one day a week. There are two choral and two instrumental concerts a year, and three musical productions. In addition, there are occasional arts lecture-demonstrations, in which students perform before parents; the content comes out of classwork.

The sixth grade typically does a demonstration in pantomime, the seventh in public speaking or monologue.

Middle School arts are not taught in a vacuum. An enormous amount of faculty work goes into connect­ ing with other disciplines. When Jean Meyers did a poetry unit with the seventh grade, for example, she chose Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon R iver A nth o lo g y. Scott Coronis was able to “segue” into character work and monologue in his seventh grade drama classes, offering the interpretative and dramatic possibilities of Spoon River characters.

Any student can audition then share his/her talent in a recital setting before the rest of the Middle School at a morning assembly once a month. Performances have ranged from Scottish sword dancing to a solo sung in Latin.

Ralph Caparulo works with Adam Roth, Aaron M andelbaum, a n d Sunil Ayyagari on a sculptural project involving design, space, and structure. They started with 2 x 2 pieces o f white cardboard.

Faculty member Louise Wohlafka, front, rehearses M iddle School students before their m ini-recitals a t a m orning assembly. Standing: M yshka Simeus, Katie Higgs, Bridget Love, Allegra Love. Front: Laura Sharp, D ana Fleishman, Sara Uslan, Sam antha D inzes. Not pictured: pianists Aaron Feigenbaum, Jason Schwartz, M argeaux Ulmer.

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strengths and weaknesses, and the students’ work is judged on four specific elements: artistic concept, craftsmanship, inventiveness, and productivity.

Music: Developing Abstract Thinking In reading/performing music, says Middle School music teacher Louise Wohlafka, “the brain has to scan ahead; visualize the task; coordinate the execution of music through breath and body (e.g., fingers on the keyboard); control up and down, left and right; and become adept i t remembering patterns of rhythm,

“The faculty share a strong belief that success in the arts isn’t based on your talent. Natural gifts can be enhanced with clear concepts, clear feedback, and an understanding of where they have to go — just as in math,” says Tony Cuneo.

pitch, phrases, and/or words.

In addition, she says, “the execution requires the social rapport of how to be a part of a group that can maintain the same beat, can attempt to sing in the same key, and maintain an expression.’! ¿The sophistication of the harmony and the difficulty of the foreign language lyrics are tailored by the teacher to the appropriate grade level.

An integral part of that evaluation process is student self-assessment. “If they have to write about it, they will remember what they accomplished and apply it to the next step,” says Calvin Matzke, curriculum coordinator and acknowledged dean of the fine arts. “Reflection equals reinforcement.”

Music thus challenges students with abstract reasoning, visualizing relationships: how things fit together. This is the same reasoning used by advanced mathematicians, chess players, and engineers in forecasting and predicting.

Upper School gallery space is being enlarged with the addition of lighting in the hall by the cafeteria, for year-long student exhibits of painting, photography, sculpture, stage and costume designs. The hall of the Weiss Arts Center is the traditional gallery to showcase the Senior Art Exhibit.

Music as brain food?

Upper School: Learning to Be Creative

In the performing arts, students are introduced to all aspects of the theater, not just four years of acting. In Experience of Theater, they learn history, concepts, backstage and onstage work, and different directorial approaches. In Acting I and II, they try monologues®'/' dialogues, and different approaches to comedy and tragedy.

By the time students reach the Upper School, they begin to specialize a bit in their arts courses. All students are required to take nine credits in fine and performing arts, including one in public speaking. But the number taking more than that is rising: 96 percent of current students will have taken more than the S quired amount by graduation.

A Curriculum revamped in 1992-93 and a faculty “incredibly committed to teach in g ,” who bring ideas from their ou||ide professional work, make courses that much richer for students, according to departm ent chairm an Tony Cuneo.

Three Little Pigs From the W olfs Point o f View: ReporterJim m y Connolly interviews Phelps Lambert, witness to blowing the house down, a t a fifth grade F&PA presentation to parents.

The fa c u lty sh a re a stron g b e lie f th a t su ccess in th e a rts isn ’t b a se d on y o u r talent. N a tu ra l g ifts can be enhanced w ith clea r concepts, clea r feed b a ck , a n d an u nderstan din g o f w h ere th ey h ave to g o ju s t a s in m ath.

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The||dsual arts wer®*/ restructured o v ^ the last three years to emphasize a conceptual, rather than media-based approach. This means, for example, that instead of a month of drawing, a month of watercolor, students can work in any medium because they understand the intellectual side of art, the visual elements of volume, line, solids, voids, texture, etc.

Assessment methods were changed as well, to make them more helpful. There is more feedback on

In Performance Workshop, class members put on a piece for the entire school at a morning meeting — written, designed, cast, directed, and videotaped entirely by students with sophisticated lighting by their peers.

Recent additions to the curriculum include m asaj| communications, media production design, and the history of American film. Taught by faculty member J.C. Svec, a working designer of videos and stage sets, the course takes advantage of his connections and MKA’s proximity to New York with trips to offBroadway productions, video shoots, or a day at NBC studios. i

MKA’s extracurricular theater productions continue with a fall ensemble piece and the legendary winter musical (this year, “Li’l Abner”). The winter musical involves almost half of the Upper School on stage, in the pit, or behind the scenes, and is The Experience many MKA alumni recall most fondly. Theater productions will break new ground this spring with a Svec-written, student-acted and -produced movie video.

Those other traditional hallmarks of student life, holiday and spring concerts, have taken on new aspects with professional affiliations. Music director Randall Svane, a working composer, has brought in the Colonial Symphony to perform with students and its musicians for masterclass workshops with sections of the orchestra. MKA’s own Barry Centanni, Class of 77 — a renowned musician who regularly performs on Broadway, television, and in concert — occasionally takes his classes to rehearsals of professional orchestras.

The Faculty After School See your teacher on Broadway? Help hang an art show in SoHo? Sing a song your teacher wrote? The j fresh perspective of outside professionalism plus dedicated teaching make for exciting classes for students. In the words of Scott Coronis, it exemplifies “the tradition of passing on knowledge in the arts.”

MKA’s faculty lead inspiring lives.

Brookside’s dance teacher and choreographer, Marita Kleissler, trains daily in New York and dances in professional productions. Arts coordinator Fran Kurtis, a former museum education specialist, uses the resources of the Montclair Art Museum frequendy, and is taking a clay class to enrich her specialty of ceramics. Music teacher Joyce Appelquist gives private piano lessons after school and writes children’s theater scripts and lyrics. Music teacher Jane Smith received honors in the Music Educators Association piano auditions both as a student and in 1992 as a teacher.

She plays piano for shows in local theaters and organ for her church.

M aking bricks the old Sum erian way: Bill Brow n’s fifth graders unite art, science, a nd history.

Performing With Sinatra And Other Notable Gigs Faculty member Barry Centanni, alumnus of the MKA Class of 1977, performed with Frank Sinatra in his two-week Atlantic City and Connecticut tour last fall — “1500 seats every night sold out® Barry continues his packed pace of teaching at MKA (a driver brought him back after every Sinatra performance so he wouldn’t miss the students) and his Broadway and symphony work. He has been made contractor of the show Blood Brothers, which means he is in charge of payroll and staffing.

Last year Barry accompanied Skitch Henderson to Japan for a two-week tour over the holidays, and they will return in 1995. Barry has presented to MKA seven compact discs in which he was the principal percussionist with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, including the celebrated “Carnegie Hall Christmas” with Kathleen Battle and Frederica von Stade.

Barry is a greaUfavorite among students at Career Day, telling of life as a professional musician. He graduated from the Manhattan School of Music and received a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in 1984. He was one of two alumni chosen by Juilliard as part of Lincoln Center’s Arts-in-Education program; for two years he was in an alumni/student quartet that gave a concert at Juilliard every July and toured one week each season. Barry has been with the New Jersey Pops since 1981, and has been solo timpanist with the Stamford Chamber Orchestra, Colonial Symphony, and Garden State Arts Center Orchestra during the s u m m ^ p Barry has also been in the timpani/percussion chair at Radio City Music Hall, at Carnegie Hall, and at “Phantom of the Opera,” “Grand Hotel,” and other Broadway shows. He has performed freelance with a long list of legends, including Tony Bennett, Luciano Pavarotti, Andre Previn, Sting.

At MKA, he teaches instrumental music and works with the concert band, jazz band, and percussion ensemble. As his outside commitments have grown, so has his ability to communicate his enthusiasm for music to students.

Says a colleague, “The students are crazy about him. He is very intelligent and kind, and his zany humor is infectious.”

Ambassadors of Joy MKA’s youngest traveling performers are the thirdgrade Bellringers, a white-gloved legacy from The Kimberley School. (The original bells were brought over from England in 1936.) The Bellringers always evoke respectful silence then enormous applause when they ring out the school song at all-school Community Gatherings.

J.C. Svec a n d Ton§Cuneo o f the Upper School Fine a nd Performing Arts Department “strive to advance our students through a wide variety o f distinctive classroom and non­ classroom experiences' [Our Common Purpose].

The Middle School’s F&PA chairman, Scott Coronis, is in great demand as a freelance technical director and lighting designer for area drama productions. Music teacher Louise Wohlafka made her debut at the Metropolitan Opeja in 1978 and was a solo artist there for 10 years. She did 25 roles on the Met stage, singing in five languages. Louise now sings with the Tri-Cities Opera Company and teaches a performance masterclass at Montclair State College. Richard Reiter, an accomplished jazz musician, producer and composer (an Emmy Award to his credit), has a stateof-the-art recording studio in his home. Dance teachel Sharanya Naik — formerly a professional dancer in India — choreographs for various schools around Montclair.

The Middle School’s two fine artists are well-known outside MKA. Ralph Caparulo exhibits his paintings, collages, and sculptures in exhibitions all over the Northeast and has received numerous awards. In addition to painting and drawing, Drew Knapp has worked on a church mural in Italy and won a prize for house renovation and historic preservation.

The Philosopher King. Upper Schoolfa cu lty member Calvin M atzke brings years o f experience a n d invaluable perspective to Upper Schoolfin e a n d perform ing arts curriculum .

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The Middle School chorus also takes its show on the road. They sang at the New Parent Dinner one evening in Octobeffand this January — on 36 hours’ notice, during a three-day weekend — 25 members of the chorus volunteered to entertain at the Montclair Art Museum’s 80th birthday party.

Two students sang solos in Hebrew and Latin, a trio sang, and two played the piano.

A collaboration of varied ages and abilities comes together for one unified musical event when some Upper School musicians join the pit orchestra at the Middle School musical.

The Upper School’s elite singing group, the Mastersingers — which began as an all-male group in the days of Montclair Academy — continues to share the joy of music throughout the community. One such visit — to Montclair’s Overseas Neighbors — inspired an invitation %> do a concert tour of Russia this spring and again next year!

At the Upper School, maestros Centanni and Svane, Svec of the theater department, and the rest of the arts faculty bring their professional affiliations to class — or the class to their affiliations. Artist/photographer Tony Cuneo has taken students to help hang his paintings in SoHo’s Amos Eno gallery. Calvin Matzke is still fresh after years of teaching art, architecture, and mechanical drawing. His watercolor paintings of Brookside and Kimberley hang in the Upper School. (In a display of creative versatility, Calvin sang a solo in this year’s holiday concert and will sing a baritone part in the recording of an opera written by Randy Svane.)

It’s Okay to Play Football and Dance in the Chorus Upper School dance teacher Rick Kitts perhaps exemplifies’why the faculty so inspire students in the arts. Rick — who teaches dance and choreographs and directs the winter musical — is no typical dance instructor. He has coached football and lacrosse, is a jiertified instructor on the ropes course, and regularly competes in marathons and triathlons. Both by his example and his exciting choreography, Rick has recruited many male dancers to the winter musicals.

Thus the arts at MKA — inextricably integrated with academic subjects — are fun, challenging, and a source of pride and achievement for students and their mentors. MKA is enjoying, you might say, its own cultural renaissance.

C hristie A u stin

Notes Around MKÀ

The Good News

A Decade

'T* he Principal is proud to announce: National Merit Scholarship Program 1994

A t the 1993-94 opening faculty meeting, Austin V: Koenen, President of the Board of Trustees, and Dr. Peter R. Greer, Principal and CEO, thanked the following faculty and staff for their loyalty and devotion to MKA for 10 years.

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Semifinalists Franklin Kim Jason Tepperman Paul Yoo

Debra Allen Ken Bishe Scott Coronis

Letters o f Commendation Maria Bollettino Andrew Choi Michael Dorè Eugenie Go Jill Lutzy Alex Mangili

Elizabeth Osur Elias Slyder David Steinberg Gregg Tully Lauren Visceglia Ethan Yungerman

The Return o f the Alumni anis Girt ’87 and Paul Nigro ’83 joined the MKA faculty this year; both teach at Brookside. Other _ MKA alumni on the faculty are Susan McIntosh Awerdick 68 Sang Mi Batoff 88 Barry Centanni 77, and Margaret Parker ’50. Hannah Carson ’89 works in the Admissions Office; Allie Dvorin ’89 is assistant fencing coach.

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Edward J. Bloustein Distinguished Scholars Maria Bollettino Emily Ehrenberg Monica Fernand Jill Lutzy

Alessandro Mangili Candace Messinger Benjamin Roth Jason Tepperman

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Nancy Gibson

Garden State Scholars Jaime Bedrin Michael Dore Eugenia Go John Saroff

Mary Elliott Joan Monico Vicki Wheeler

Justin Vandergaag Lauren Visceglia Paul Yoo

You could hear a pin drop.

Sixteen small faces displayed rapt attention as the story unfolded and Nancy Gibson once again wove her spell.

Few knew the hours that Nancy spent searching for just-the right story to share with each particular class, or the further hours rehearsing and practicing for the presentation. But each child knew the result.

There is no question that the children of the Primary School were fortunate to have such a librarian for so many years.

Rutgers Presidential Scholars Candace Messinger Benjamin Roth

The Metropolitan Connection D acuity member Rachel Stettler is an educational -*■ consultant for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in ■ i New York for their spring exhibition, “The Painting of Modern Life.” She assists in planning and writing the educational materials for this exhibition of Ameri­ can Realism and Impressionism, which opens in May. Rachel, who has a master’s degree in architectural history, was a Klingenstein Fellow at Columbia University in 1991-92. While there, she wrote a paper for professor Heidi Jacobs, an interdisciplinarycurriculum “guru” who has been a guest speaker at MKA in past years. Jacobs was so impressed with Rachel’s thoughts on integrating art and architecture into the broad curriculum that she asked Rachel if she could use her paper as a resource. The next year, the MMA’s Education Director took Jacobs’ class, read Rachel’s paper, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Naricy Gibson taught us all in a myriad of ways.

She shared knowledge, recipes, good humor.

Her laugh was infectious, her traffic direction exemplary, her courage extraordinary. We are all better for her time with us. She will always be remembered at Brookside.

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The PAMKA Lecture Series.

The Parents’ Association of MKA (PAMKA) — under tireless president Linda Garippa — is in its second year of sponsoring outstanding speakers. Two of the 1993-94 speakers:

Doris Kearns Goodwin, historian and author o f the acclaim ed biographies Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream and The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga, entranced the audience with “The Private Lives o f Our Public Figures: The A rt o f Biography. ’’ Her latest project is the life o f Eleanor Roosevelt.

M ichael Dukakis, 1988 Democratic Candidate fo r President o f the U.S. a n d form er governor o f Massachusetts, spoke on the Clinton presidency. He is shown here with Linda Garippa, President o f PAMKA. A photo o f Gov. D ukakis wearing an MKA sweatshirt accom panied an article in the Star Ledger.

Montclairm Channel 34 ran the speech in its entirety.

FIT in Mind, Body, Spirit

Yearbook Honors

A If KA has established a voluntary fitness program for the faculty and staff called FIT (Faculty and ■■■ Staff In Training), to enhance their level of well­ being. There are currently 48 faculty and staff par­ ticipating in the program, for an annual fee of fifty dollars.

FIT was instituted this year under director Jan Peterson Leighton and a Wellness Advisory Committee, composed of reprepntatives of each campus. It offers such activities as aerobics (led by a parent volunteer® Regina Elberg); a walking club; lap swimming; weight management; t’ai chi chuan «¡tress management (taught by former MKA parent Shari Skoloff); and individual fitness guidance by Jan Leighton, a certified personal trainer.

TUT ats off to new alumni Lauren Hyman, Brian Wecht, and the staff of the 1993 MKA Yearbook, ■ ■ The Tracker.

The 1993 book was chosen by Jostens as a sample book for their 1994 List, one of only twenty chosen on the East Coast for this honor. As Jostens is the country’s largest publisher of yearbooks, The Tracker is now being seen by schools all over the country as a pace-setting publication.

Several features of the book distinguished it from other high school and college yearbooks: a lengthy opening section in color (including the “Investiture” of Principal Dr. Peter R. Greer); an exceptionally creative senior section wherein each student received a personal page; and an innovative ad section in which senior parents, family and friends advertised their pride and support of a graduating senior.

The goal of the program is to promote a healthier lifestyle by enhancing “the six dimensions of wellness’Sphysical, social, intellectual, emotional, occupa­ tional, and spiritual. As an added bonus, FIT recently held an evening of Western line dancing open to all faculty and staff — reported to be a rousing success.

The 1993 Tracker was almost a third longer than yearbooks of previous years, by 75 pages. This year’s book promises to be another winner! Editors Dana Fiordaliso, Leanne Gattie, and Adam Brin are producing another 350-page memory book that will be done entirely on the computer using Year Tech, an exciting program that puts student publications into the 21st century.

Patty Forbes Yearbook Advisor

Soccer Scores Stuart Ward, coach of the MKA Boys|fiSoccer team (shown here at practice), was named Essex County Soccer Coach of the Year.

Congratulations to the the 1993 Boys’ Scmcer team, who won the State Prep B Division Championships for the first time. They compiled an enviable 16-3 record. Other good news is that the Cougars will only lose one player to graduation: senior captain Mitch DeflBj. 10

Kimberley and Clarence, anda| introduced them to the children.

Hoping to encourage writing and an interest in geo­ First graders Christopher Gregory and Karl graphy ,phe Eber and second grader Sean Curran talk said the about the Brookside Bears with Star Ledger reporter Towanda Underdue. students orl their parents could take the bears on trips if they first wrote for permission and then sent cards and letters back to the school during the trip. A daily journal entry and photographs were also part of the deal. Once back at Brookside, the children would track the bears’ travels on a world map.

How A Book Is Made ■p o ra week in January, thanks to the creativity and •*- hard work of volunteer parent coordinator Gail ■ Bryan, the entire Primary School turned into a publishing company — writing, editing, illustrating, producing, and marketing three original stories. The books, which will become part of the Brookside library collection, were dedicated to librarian Nancy Gibson.

Accepting for his late wife, Upper School faculty member Ken Gibson expressed to the students Nancy’s love of children, her love of books, and her delight in bringing the two together.

Kimberley alumna Patricia Laurence Cone ’3 0 — well known by herpen name Patricia Clapp, author of numerous books and playsfor young people— speaks with Primary School students during Brookside Book Week.

Clarence the First (now there are 10 bears -— more had to be purchased to keep up with demand) made his inaugural journey on a business trip that ended leisurely in the south of France. The parents wrote six postcards from Clarence back to Brookside and took five rolls of film of him in front of various statues and churches.

They were amazed at how many strangers came over to ask about the bear. (Clarence, sadly, met an uncertain fate: While the parents were having lunch on their way to the Nice airport, Clarence was bear-napped!)

Other bears have traveled on business trips as far as China, Switzerland and Brazil. One father went to elaborate lengths to repack his attache case to accomo­ date the bear. Another took a bear with him to a charity dinner in Los Angeles, where the bear had an enviable seat just ten feet from Elizabeth Taylor. A business couple traveling with a bear to London thought to take a bear-sized raincoat along.

Back at school, teachers use the bears’ adventures as grist for learning: Can you show me Puerto Rico on the map? What language do they speak there? Can you write a story based on a trip to an island where the children speak another language? The children also read their journals to their classmates, trace the journey on the world map, and add their own photographs and souvenirs to the bears’ showcase of postcards and letters set up in the school’s front hall.

Barbara Rabuse, Primary School Head o f Campus, and faculty member Ken Gibson look at one o f the books produced during Brookside’s book project, How A Book Is Made. The books were dedicated to his late wife, librarian Nancy Gibson.

On the Road With The Brookside Bears T T ow many business men and women do you know who travel with a teddy bear in their briefcase? If ■ ■ they are parents of Primary School students at Brookside, they just might.

Brookside students are immersed in a project known informally as The Traveling Bears, and their parents have also become involved in the comings and goings of these six-inch stuffed bears. In fact, the bears have logged more than 75,000 miles with parents on business trips and with families on vacations.

Parents as well as teachers find the children’s imagi­ nations are stirred by tales of the bears’ adventuresj||||| faraway places. Why is the Forbidden City forbidden?

What is bear-napped Clarence doing now? Other timesl parents can see that a litde psychological transference has taken place: One first-gradir reported that his bear was bored with so much Sightseeing!

“It’s a great way for parents to be involved in making their children life-long learners,” says Rabuse. “This project has been successful beyond my wildest dreams.”

It started in September, when Barbara Rabuse, Head of Campus, purchased two little teddy bears, named them

By Susan Jones. Variations of this story have appeared in The Star Ledger and in the business section of Worrell papers.

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From th e A lum ni A ssociation

Charity Begins at Work

Thus the Working Assets bill — printed on recycled paper — has become a powerful lobbying tool in addition to a fundraising tool. Laura estimates that it generates 20,000 to 30,000 calls and letters a month to Waders such as Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve (opposing minority lending practices) and the chief executive of McDonalds (supporting veggie burgers).

“You ca n h a ve a jo b th a t m a tch es y o u r p rin c ip le s w ith y o u r ca reer goals, ”says Laura Scher 76. “You c a n d o socially b e n e fic ia l w ork, m a ke it m ore responsible to ■society. ”

Growing Up at Kimberley Laura grew up in Clifton and began The Kimberley School in kindergarten, enjoying what she calls the “house nature” of the school, with all its nooks and crannies, and the fun of May Day. (She is still in touch with the other litde second-grade attendants and pages from the 1966 May Day.) Laura recalls “great rapport” with Kimberley teachers Judy Nesbit (math and school plays) and Sally Bailey (biology), who “showed what girls can achieve in medicine and science.” She also recalls commuting from Kimberley to Montclair Academy for sophomore English, and being one of only two g irls in Philip Stackpole’s senior calculus class.

Laura is chief executive of Working Assets Funding Service, a San Francisco company which aims to be “a role model for how corporations can operate — with conscience, with heart, with caring — for people and for the environment— with the same effort spent on maximizing profit.”

The company is so successful that The N ew York Tim es ran a long, glowing profile of Laura in the November 7, 1993, Sunday issue titled, “She Took One Look At the Age of Greed And Made a Quick Left.” In c. magazine named Working Assets one of America’s 500 fastestgrowing companies. Laura, as chief executive, is credited with “translating a simple idea into a complex organization.” Working Assets combines a donationlinked credit card with a similar long-distance telephone gervice.

After graduating from Yale, Laura spent 1980-81 in Geneva, Switzerland, studying international economics and politics on a Rotary Fellowship. She worked at Bain & Co. in Boston for two years before enrolling at Harvard. After rejecting New York corporate recruiters, Laura moved to California in 1985. There — on the S ta n fo rd University alumni bulletin board —i’She read a notice for the fledgling Working Assets Funding

“Generosity can be painless if it is linked to purchases people are already making and bills they regularly pay/(states the Tim es. “Cardholders ‘donate’ a nickle on each purchase to a group of charities...and long­ distance customers give 1 percent of each monthly bill.”

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Laura and her husband, Ian Altman, a benefits consult­ ant, live in Tiburon with their daughter Alison, 3.

Laul|, who earned a B.A. at Yale and an M.B.A. at Harvard, attributes the success to three things, according to the article. The first is sociological: the climate of the decade, wherein baby boomers wish to give something back. The other two are technological: Working Assets acts as a reseller of telephone time instead of §£§ a sales agent, earning greater profits; and it controls its own billing.

How to Give Away Money The Working Assets donation process “belongs to the consumers, mays chief executive Laura Scher 76. Consumers nominate some 500 national or international causes or organizations and an outside foundation checks them for due diligence, The Assets staff and board narrows the list to 35; customers are presented a choice with their bill.

Some 30 percent to 40 percent of the customers vote to allocate the donations, an extraordinarily high return. Last year Working Assets gave away $1 million to such groups as Planned Parenthood', the Rainforest Action League, and the National Coalition of the Homeless.

“No one else thinks of the bill a||a product,’¡ffishe is quoted. “They think of the bill as a transaction.”

Assets’ customized bill allows customers to round up their payments - from $38.43 to $40.00, for example — and donate that balance to Working Assets causes.

The bill “Can also promote timely causes and tell subscribers which corporate and political decisionmakers to call or write to have their opinions heard.”

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From the President T t has been an exciting start to 1993-94!

Homecoming turned out to be a great day with ■ wonderful weather, exciting games, and large alumni turnout. Holiday time brought out the alumni hockey players for another exhibition game with the alumni of Montclair High. Although the Cougars lost 6-3, the game was exciting. A big thank-you to all players, coach and volunteers who put together a great event.

We welcome to the Council Lisa Aufzien 76, Andy Blair 78, Michael Hnatow ’89, H olly Jervis ’83, and our student members Jaime Bedrin ’94 and Ben Silverman ’95.

Keep in touch and —- Go Cougars!

R obert H . G ardner ’78

Homecoming 1993

Our sixth annual Night With the Devils fundraiser was sold out; two busloads of MKA alumni, students, and parents rode our yellow school buses from the Middle School to the Arena. Eighteen alumni returned on Career Day to participate and speak about a diverse group of topics.

We do bid a fond farewell to Ellen Wahl Skibiak 73, who resigned from the Alumni Council to spend more time with the new addition to her family. Ellen served for eight years as an officer and secretary and dedicated volunteer on our events. Also we bid farewell to Hugh Gleason 76, who served almost two terms with dedication and enthusiasm, and Laura Bartlett ’81, who brought the perspective of both faculty and alumni to our meetings. They all con­ tributed to the Council and their efforts were greatly appreciated.

SeniorJaim e Bedrin, Lisa A ufzien ’76, a n d Holly Jervis ’8 3 tour the Primary School Campus before an A lum ni Council meeting.

A lum ni Council members Susan McIntosh Awerdick ’68, Ed Healey '77, a n d Kris H atzenbuhler O’Connor ’83 a t the Brookside library.

Ellen Malcolm ’65, recipient o f the 1993 D istinguished A lum ni Award, chats with students over lunch during her visit to MKA the day before Homecoming.

Principal Peter Greer an d Elizabeth Jones 53, first recipient o f the MKA D istinguished A lum ni Award, look a t leather book o f the awards in the Upper School visitors’ lounge. In the background, oilpainting o f Academ y Headmaster an d fo u n d er John M acVicar by Howard Van Vleck ’2 2.

Very distinguished. Four past recipients o f the MKA a nd M ontclair Academ y D istinguished A lum ni A w ard gathered at the 1993 Reunion Luncheon: P ulitzer Prize-w inning author/joum alist Philip Fradkin ’53; Elizabeth Jones ’s M c h ie f engraver o f the V.S. Mint; Honorary Trustee A ubin Zabriskie Ames 54, quintessential volunteer; a n d legendary CBS newsm an Dallas Townsend 36.

Deck The Gym: A Banner Day Hp wenty-two of MKA’s|state and conference championship sports teams were honored on *** February 2 with a short ceremony to unfurl 22 new banners in th^Fairleigh Dickinson Gymnasium.

Local alumni who had played on some of those championship teams returned to their old practice grounds, joined by three winning coaches — George Hrab, Ellen Steege Iverson, and Stuart Ward. Principal Peter Gfejfr, the Cougar fan who made possible the banners, looked proudly on.

Tim Saburn, Upper School Head of Campus, and Athletic Director Sandy Lonsinger congratulated each alum and coach. Judy Nesbit, MKA’®iumber 1 Sports Fan, was introduced and thanked for having made all the other banners already hanging in the gym.

India Hayes 8 0 holds g ift o f Within These Halls, the school history, asfa cu lty members Bettyrose Schwier an d Ken Gibson look on.

As the finale of the ceremony — which preceded a victorious boys’ basketball game — the new banners cascaded on cue. Scores of blue and green banners now proudly proclaim from the rafters, “Our Cougars are the best.”

Athletic Director Sandy Lonsinger greets Peter DeCandia 8 9 while fa cu lty members Ellen Iverson a nd Judy Nesbit look on.

Alumni Hockey Game They Came From Around the World

A B anner D ay - A lum ni a n d coaches gather to honor champ­ ionship teams: Peter DeCandia ’89 (1 9 8 8 Hockey), coach Stu W ard (1993 Boys’ Soccerffpoach George Hrab (1978, 1979, 1981 Girls’ Volleyball, 1979 Boys’Baseball), Toby B izub 8 3 (1983 Boys’Baseball), India Hayes 8 0 (1980 Fencing), A ustin Koenen ’9 4 (1990 Football), banner m aker Judy Nesbit, Blake O’N eill 8 2 (1 9 8 2 B ^ s ’Lacrosse), coach Ellen Steege Iverson (1981, 1982 Girls’Fencing), Athletic Director Sandy Lonsinger.

Turnout was great, the skating was sharp, fans and players had a wonderful time, but the final score was disappointing. Cougar alumni played a spirited game, but lost to Montclair High alumni, 6-3, in the annual holiday rivalry. It was the first loss in eight years. As usual, the players returned from far and wide: this year Cougars came from Minnesota and Indonesia!

Thanks to the 1993 Alumni Hockey Team (no photo, was taken): David Ames ’89, Chris Benedict ’90, Peter Benedict ’92, Chris Burchell ’92, Rob Cerfolio ’80, Peter DeCandia ’89, Peter Dodd ’80, Joe Egan ’89, Joe Ferrara ’92, Cliff Finkle ’92, Matt Fiore ’90, Jeff Glasser ’91, James Goldman ’84, Geoff Krouse- ’89, Mike Leichtner ’92, Bryan Lonsinger ’90x, Mike Morris ’93, Dan Murphy ’89, Jason O’Neill ’85x, captain/coach Blake O’Neill ’82.

Blake O’N eill 8 2 chats with Montclair Trags sports reporter Steve Tober.

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C areer D ay

You have to make choices (but one choice opens up an area w hich leads to other areas...) n February 10, the day after Snow Day #7 in New Jersey (and the day before Snow Day # 8), eighteen alumni defied treacherous roads to return to MKA for Career Day. They came from as far away as Morris and Monmouth counties to share their experience, advice, frustrations, and inspiration with students at the Upper School.

The “day” is the cooperative production of the Alumni Council (this year’s chairman was Anita Sims-Stokes 79), the Alumni Office, and Upper School staff, faculty, and student hosts.

D awn Geannette Cordo ’68

P aulJosephson ’83

Career Day chairm an A nita Sims-Stokes ’79, a member o f the A lum ni Council.

Andrew Blair ’78, a member o f the A lum ni Council, discusses the private practice o f law.

One of the joys of Career Day is the interaction of students, alumni, and faculty. Students are amazed to learn that some of these alumni role models actually studied under some of the same faculty MKA students have today! The faculty, in turn, are proud to catch up with their protoges.

Joan McConnell ’5 9

Kitty Haines ’65

Seniors Ethan Yungerman a nd Alexis Phillips host Herbert Tate ’71. Herb, recently selected to Governor Christine Todd W hitm an’s Cabinet, spoke on law in the public sector.

Faculty memberJohn Rabke chats with Chris Brenner ‘7M.

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P arent/alum na Sari Kram er ’66

Brian Davis ’83 catches up with Char Charlton, Assistant Head and Academic Dean of the Upper School.

Eric Pai ’79

John Kaplow ’72 a n d ju n io r Craig Rosenbaum

1994 Career Day Speakers Patricia Berry ’77 Magazine Publishing, Editing Andrew Blair ’78 Law Christopher Brenner ’77 Construction Barry Centanni ’77 Music Geoffrey Close ’71 Stocks and Bonds Dawn Geannette Cordo ’68 Education Brian Davis ’83 Marketing Pam Eastman Garvey ’80 Social Work Kitty Haines ’65 Fashion, Merchandising Michael Hnatow ’89 Engineering Paul Josephson ’83 Politics John Kaplow ’71 Video Production Sari Kramer ’66 Clinical Psychology Joan McConnell ’59 Language and Culture Peter McMullen ’77 Sports Administration Eric Pai ’79 Investment Banking Herbert Tate ’71 Law

Popular speaker Peter McMullen ‘77, a member of the Alumni Council, returnedfor the sixth year to talk about careers in sports administration.

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C lass N otes Editors Note As those of you in classes with secretaries realize, we use one yearly mailing to obtain news, which appears 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 designer to printer covers a l4-to-16 week period! Please remember that you can send a note to your class secretary or to the Alumni Office anytime.

To those of you without a class secretary, how would you like to volunteer? The. job has been simplified to the point that you will probably find it« o s t enjoyable! The position of alumni class secretary, like that of class agent and reunion chairman, is absolutely essential to the vitality of the school.

Please consider it.

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MA Percy Young Jr. went on “a 42-day $24-a-day round trip to the Azores from New Bedford, Mass.^gjjta small cargo ship.”

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26“ ------— TKS Mrs. Julian M iller (Julia Hawkins) 18 Shannon Terrace, Easton M D 21601

A holiday note from Julia Hawkins Miller said that “life in a retirement community is really quite pleasant and sensible for us ‘oldsters.”’ Her brother Frank has joined them there. She had a call from Naomi Bruce who was about to move, and contact with Georgie Chalfin Foresman, who lives in Orleans, Mass« Julia’s sister Elizabeth Hawkins Wilson '23 lives in Brunswick, Me. “Our ‘children’ gave me and my oldeapson, John (who hag; the same birthday as I), a surprise birthday in July,” Julia writes. “My sister was there and was just wonderful. I was 85, our son 50.”

MA Lt. Cmdr. Alden W. Smith Penury Priory, Temple N H 03084

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She has lived in her community for 18 years, and has several nieces and nephews living nearby. “I’m quite content, and they are a joy,” she reports.

MA Mr. Eugene Speni 85 UndercliffRoad, Montclair N J 07042 John Cooper still thinks “of the good old days at Montclair Academy,” and sends h S |B best. He lives in New Castle, Del.

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afe a victim of procrastination. I urge you to get rid of it or it will be a curse to you all y<S life.Hl thought it nice of Miss Ilenncy to be concerned but I have never totally overcome my; proclivity for procrastination^ especially when it comes to letter writing.

Thank you -for my Wonderful “Queen for a Day® visit, a series of happy events. Back at the Marlboro Inn, I had a nice talk on the phone with Ellen Drewes Studdiford and Naomi Bruce '26, who was in the throes of moving. I then got in my car and cruised all over while reminiscing. Drove by my old home on Crestmont Road, passing the new development where I used to play touch football. At my old home I was glad to see .slides, a playhouse and a rabbit hutch. Was surprised to See a handsome plaque beside the door with “Built c.1900, Douglass Fitch, architect.” It was actually built in 1904, but the “gj takgg; care of that..¿| was pleased with the condition of the house and ir|li-| obviously being enjoyed by children. While rolling along Valley Road I thought of going to Mt. Hebron and checking on the family plot.

Found all in good shape but if and when on a future visit I will take a pair offfippeSw ith me.

I came across Miss Jordan’s book, They Followed the Sea, Captain Oliver Jordan of Thomaston, Maine'-— 1789-1879. Miss Jordan was born on her father’s ship in the harbor of Bombay, India. She was very proud of her sea-faring ancestry and wrote the book when she retired. Copyright 1942. The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine. She has inscribed.it on the flyleaf: “To Mary K. Waring from Mary A. Jordan, Dec. 1942.” [Note: The book is now in the Kimberley library.]

I’m headed forVero Beach, Fla. to visit my brother John, to be joined by heaps of family to celebrate his and his wife’s 90th birthdays. Will be back home for Christmas.

[Added later:] When in Florida, I called Connie Parkhurst Chauncey. She said she and Pierce are “still hanging in ther.sj’ and she walks daily along the boardwalk. They go to Maine each summer but now fly up. They have four great-grandchildren. I caught her just before they were going out to dinner with her late sister Marjorie Parkhurst Sommer’s ('23) husband, Henry.

H s l i urlotte HOME LIGHT: Along The Shore An illustrated book of poems by Katharine Kidde '48 will j|j published in April. Please mention MKA when ordering; 40 percmt dflproceeds will go to MKA. North Atlantic Review, 15 Arbutus Lane, Stoney Brook, NY 11790-1408

H omecoming ’93 "Let's all pretend we 're eighteen years old again. ” Jean Sperling Catherwood ’6 8

Ray Iandoli and reunion chairman Joseph Alessi look at 25th reunion display o f their Class o f '68.

Formerfaculty member Ken Mansuy chats with Michael Hnatow '89, a member o f the Alum ni Council, and Jonathan Fairchild 88, backfo r hisfifth reunion.

TheClass o f '83 returns. Front: Suzanne Halm Locke, M arti Reiss Berger, reunionwhairman Holly Jervis, Donna Ellis. Rear: Ian Fryer, Jon Nussbaum, Charles Currin, Eric Green.

Faculty member George Hrab and Holly Jervis 83 chat with Charles Currin 83.

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Sheila FeagleyJames '43 and her sister, Anne Feagley Wittels '45, camefrom Californiafor Sheila's 50th reunion.

A ll in thefamily: Mary Joh at M KAfor her 50th reunio) Marguerite Johnson Sliker '6

Threefriends from the Class o f'88 pause during Reunion Luncheon: Lauren Charlton, Andrea Safrrstein, and Sophia Mohuchy.

Bill Burker, Ted Olcott, Bob Brown, and Jean Burker greet Dick Angus at their 50th reunion.

: Mary Johnson Addison '43, )Oth reunion, hugs her niece, on Sliker '68, backfor her 25th.

Jack and Margaret McVay McCombs 53 traveledfrom Fairbanks, Alaska, to be at her Kimberley 40th reunion.

Senior Patricia Forte begins a tour o f the Upper School with members o f the Class o f « — Mary Johnson Addison and class reunion chairmen James Mackey and Lucile Mason.

Thanks to 1993 Reunion Chairmen 1943 Lucile Mason, James Mackey 1953 Patsy Eddy Ford, Lois Creighton Lindsay, Dave Connolly, Peter Lindsay 1963 Andrew Abrams 1968 Susan McIntosh Awerdick, Joseph Alessi 1973 Margo Dockrell Horsey, Peter Redpath, Rudy Schlobohm 1978 Andrew Blair 1983 Holly Jervis, Scott Rumana 1988 Karen Muenster, James Petretti

Reunion chairman Peter Redpath '73 — who organized four days o f eventsfor his Academy classmates — chats with Susan Read Davick, Kimberley /3 - ■ 19

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Marjorie Kieselbach Dumont writes that there are at least two other Kimberley “girls” a]|| her retirement community in Hightstown.

“Most of the people here would have been most acceptable at MKA in my day...It’s alive with Princetonians, still tall and slender but nof blond anymore!’

John and Janet Autram, children of his late daughter Haidee. Janet is a freshman at Western State College, Colo. John Jr.’s son John III died in 1985; his other son, Andrew, lives ingSalt lake City. Our classmate and his wife Elizabeth live in Stowe, Vt.

The Alumni Office needs copies of the Eagle Rocket, Montclair Academy newspapea in the 1930s, for the archives.

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MA Mr. William J. Thompson 3 6 Hawthorne Place #1K, Montplair N J 07042

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Irene (Nikki) Burbank Frell sent a holiday card bemoaning the lack of class news, but enclosed a very witty poem, “A Golfer’s Prayer,’’ she had written||pi -the Royal Poinciana Club Newsletter. She has a new electric typewriter and is primed to write: short stories andgllass news columns!

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Anne Anderson Thompson reports a good year; she enjoyed the change of seasons — including heavy snow — and her garden; “I don’t feel 80.” She attended a niece’jgwedding, a three-day, SOO-family-and-friends affair.

Anne's son John had a one-man show at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC in November and De||pi>er.

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Vardy Laing retired from the practiceof medicine on December 31, saying, “I think 5M 72 years is really long enough!” He and Marion became great grandparents in February.

“Are we catching up to David Stanley?”

(The Stanleys’ great-grandlgin Ryan now talks) David and Helen still keep Vienna, Va., as home between travels, including a trip to castles, gardens, and “a smoky pub or two” in .

Britain last June, summer in New England and the Pacific Northwest. They report all family thriving, Elly Wood, recovered from his triple by-pass heart surgery in 1992, isjjback playing tennis and sailing- He was looking forward to skiing with the Carmel Ski Club, reporting, “I have been skiing free for the past eight years (senior citizen 70 and over)!” He and Sue are active with church activities and have two grandchildren in college.

Jean Dale and Ced Jaggard celebrated their 50th anniversary in August with a gathering of almost 2J|0 family and friends from the five decades of their ministry. They continued thegl warmth and memories by spending the following several days at their lake place with S of their children and grandchildren.

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9*21Seagrape Drive, MaiMt Island FL 335mk Tom Braine writes!, “Am not, as printed, a (tennis legend. (Only Davis Cuppers get that acclaim.) However, am working in Super Senior ranks at state level; was finalist in 75Doubles North Carolina States 19® — the third time in f ® years. Happy and healthy as I go into 80th year, and am thankful for a great son and daughter, three super grandsons and granddaughters, plus three great grandcKildfen!”

John J. Newberry Jr. has two grandchildren.

Do You Have Room?

Do you have a small apartment or rooms available in m r home? Would you like a Bspmpanion? Would you like someone reliable to honSgSsit while you go; io Florida fc®l® winter?

MKA is alwayMooking for suitable, affordable housing in and near Montclair for i®acuity.

PllHlicall the Alumni Office, 509-794oS

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Dorothy McCord writes in a similar vein, “Still living in Twining Village [Holland, PalW about the 12th year, antKspjoy all the changes,”

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He was confirmed by the Senate. Jerome has a long list of accomplishments as a public servant, including terms in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1966 to 1968, where he was chair of the Banking and Insurance Committee.

He has served as counsel to the Fair Lawn Planning Bureau and as designated arbitrator for the Bergen County Automobile Arbitration Program.

36 TKS Mrs. W. Kent Schmid (Josephine Murray) 9 Brandon Lane, Bishops Cove Mystic C T 06355 Our condolences to Olive Cawley Watson on the death of her husband, Thomas Watson Jr., legendary chairman of IBM, visionary, diplomat, sportsman. MKA alumni were enriched by Olive’s recollections of their diplomatic service in the Soviet Union, 1979-80.

“I enjoy each issue of the News/Review.

It’s great to know that MKA continues to be an institution of excelence. Those years at the Academy were good ones for me.” j John W. Little '36 Bodega Bay, Calif.

MA Mr. W. Kenvmshmid 9 Brandon Lane, Bishops Cove Mystic C T 06355

Our condolences to the family of Robert Caldwell. Bo had been living in Eastbourne, England.

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10 Crestmont Road, ID , Montclair N J 07042 Our condolences to the family of Marjorie Soper Gebhardt. She is survived by four children and six grandchildren.

Sally Bausher Litdefield is wintering in Tequesta, FI., “still playing tennis and golf but more slowly.” Her son Bill, host of WBURFM’s “Only a Game,” has two new books out, Champions and Baseball Days, published by Little, Brown. She has two grandchildren, 7 and 4, living in the Boston area.

Jean Hamlin Noyes spent Christmas with her son Rich and his wife in their new home near hers in Plano, Texas. She is a busy member of a craft group there.

Charlie and Virginia Kracke Leavitt went to Turkey in September but had to come home early because she fell and dislocated her hip.

She spent five days in a hospital where hardly anyone spoke English or French or German, only Turkish. Then she flew home on a stretcher: Marmoris to Istanbul to Munich, to JFK, and home. She is fine now, I’m glad to say. We saw her at our December class luncheon.

Betsy Townsend McFadden has been a welcoming friend to our former daughter-inlaw and our 11-year-old granddaughter Paige, who moved to Bethesda, Md. in September.

Bill and I hope to visit early this yearH | Kathryn “Teppy” Holton Sjolander had “a fine visit” with Betsy. She reports they walked along the Chesapeake and Ohio towpath and saw the Great Falls of the Potomac. “Thanks to Justice William O ’Douglas, instead of a paved highway, this unique area is now a national park. It is always a joy to be with a friend I’ve known since second grade.”

Teppy and another friend attended an Elderhostel program in Kansas, on the ecology of the tallgrass prairie. This was preceded by a two-day wagon train trip on the p ra iri^ ^ ^ ^ | “both soothing and exhilarating to the soul.”

I had a most delightful time in September when with Betty O’Gorman Dixon '34 and Doris Blondel Krebs '29 we took Charlotte Fitch '29 to lunch'. [See '29 column.] She is a real “live wire,” such fun to be with. We had a wonderful time reminiscing about Kimberley days.

Peggy MA Our condolene^: to the family of Louis S. Taylor.

Thank you to this new class secretary for volunteering: Joan Bayne Williams '40

Our condolences to the family of William F. Vesterman.

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TKS Mrs. Alfred D. Williams (Joan Bayne) 10 Foxglove Court Yarmouth M E 04096 Welcome to new class secretary Joan Bayne Williams! She writes: In the last MKA Review did you notice that the Class of '40 had no secretary? Barb Cross did such a good job we all relaxed. Now, let’s everyone — each one — be a class correspondent and I will collect your news and send it to the. school office. Our class is far-flung and our children even more so.

Network and keep in touch!

Now that Bill and Bobbie Kluge Deming have droved to San Antonio, we have three of our class in Texas (Jo Watt Clark and Eleanor Foust Atchley too). The Demings moved to be near their daughter and five grandchild ren-1n Mexico. They had been in Maine and I missthem. They were very much a part of the life here as volunteers and friends to a wide circle of, golfing and tennis groups.

Marilyn Gates Crandell wrote from California after the big fires that all was well and that she hears from about 10 of you at holiday time. Pa£s on your news! .

Jean Girdler Grinnell is in Massachusetts.

Do you have a house you want to sell? Rent it to Jean; it will go immediately. They move in and the house® sold. They just keep the same P.O. box. One of Jeanjp[daughters lives near Reading, Pa. I see her as I drive south. How often are we near our classmates’ children?

Network! Network!

Jean sees Ann Hitner Beeler when Ann Bomes from Florida to see her children in New England. Harriet Palmer Pickens is in a new home in Nashville and comes often to ISchooleys Mountain in New Jersey.

I have two grandsons at Kent school. Conn., and have stopped off and gabbed with Sis ■Underwood Gregory.

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TKS Mrs. James F. C. Hyde Jr. (Enid GriswoldJ^k 5402 Duvall Drive, Bethesda M D 20816 Our condolences to the families of Priscilla Colburn Cokefair and Katherine Campbell Tiernan.

MA Mr. David BairdJr. • 9 Parkway, Montclair N J 0704§l18 Perry Minton reports that daughter Wendy and husband Mark have been staying with them since the Army drawdown. WhiraHj Wendy teaches, the Mintons have been babysitting grandson Andrew, 2.

Sue and David Caldwell spent time in New Hampshire with children and grandchildren last summer. Our condolences to Dave, whose brother Robert (Bo) CaldwellS6 died in June.

He had been living in England.

Charles Holmes, retired in 1992 after 32 years at Transylvania U., has been teaching a Bourse of the U. of Kentucky honors program, “The Early Modern World.

42 TKS Mrs. Robinson V. Smith (Joan Trimble) 16 Marshall Terrace, Wayland M A 01778 Helen Jones Gordon’s photo appeared in the Star Ledger in an article about the Equus October Equestrian Art Exhibit, benefiting the Somerset Hills.Handicapped Riders Club.

Helen is head of the Board of Tgstees of the club, which usesfiyen horsSand 72 volunteers for mental and physical therapy for the disabled.

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Scenes fro m the 5 0 th Reunion: Class o f 1943

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MA Mr. WinteifordJ. Ohland 4 Ahler’s Lane, BLtirstoum N J 07825 Arthur B. Harris is so interested in the 50th reunion that he contacted the Alumni Office last September!

50th reunion: The Kimberley Class o f '43 pose beneath their banner.

Mary Johnson Addison, reunion chairman Lucile Mason, Letitia Robinson Failor, Joan Sweeney Ruffing, Sheila Feagley James, Barbara Smillie Curtis, Mary Batt Taylor.

45— — ------TKS Anne Feagley Wittels (Mrs. Jerome L.) 2116 Via Alamitos Palos Verdes Estates CA 90274 MA Mr. Robert Nebergall 7-0 Planters Trace 2222Ashley River Road Charleston SC 29414

46 50th reunion, the Class o f 43. Standing: reunion chairman James Mackey, Mary Ellen and Dick Angus, Bob Townsend.

Seated: Bill Burker, Jean Burker, Nancy Townsend.

50th reunion, the Class o f '43: Standing: A l Soria, Tom Adair, Ted Olcottf.:; Seated: Freda Soria, Percy Hill, Patricia Hill.

who (indeed so many clipsmates to return for a wonderful reunion, and to Sheila Feagley James, who inspired a generous class reunion gift.

Lucile report|*||got more out.pf this reunion than any other. People shared 50 years...it was like a.soap opera.”

Our condolences to Catherine Hedges Barker on the death of her husband.

MA Mr. James Mackey 213 Geneva Street, Elizabeth N J 07206

Many thanks tP!®Ias:s;.secretaAand reunion chair James Mackey, whose many efforts to keep the class in touch rallied a fine group for the 50th reunion.

Our condolences to the family of Robert Jordan. Robert achieved national renown as a landscape artist, and had studios in South iQiftway, N,LL and Tryon, N.C. Art talent always, seemed to be his forte when we knew him. The Sherry French Gallery in NYC honored Robert with a show, “Retrospective and Last Works 1976-1993” in January 19i|ipi

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TKS Best wishes to C. Arthur and Nancy Anne Rudd Eddy on their wedding. They gathered family and friends, in the Hotchkiss School chapel; reception was at her house where thé Eddys now live. Both continue with myriad volunteer activities, play golf, and visit their five children. Rudd is back at piano playing and ||bmposing: she did most of the wedding music!

She saw Joan Cook '47 and Marilyn Magnus Larner at sister Louise Rudd Hannegan’s 35th anniversary party.

Tom and Heidi Ames Troxell’s son Matthew 76 was married in July to Denise Sakai of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is a math professor at Montclair State College.

Our condolences to Jeanne Jordan Freeman on the death of her brother Robert Jordan '43x.

MA Philip Morgan Cheek, who spent the w arH years at the Academy in safety away from England, wrote a long, newsy letter about his wartime experiences to Cynthia Mann Treene ’5g| who was researching WWII evacuees for the l-25th-anniversary history of Montclair.

Captain Cheek resides in Hampshire, England, between tours around the world as an active merchant marine captain.

Last year he spent much time in the South PadfitM&biting to Hong Kong and finally New Zealand combining seafaring with new book research in Otago...and one assignment to poor Bangladesh.Ssai Capt. Cheek’s first book, Legacies o f Peril, was in the Homecoming display of works by alumni authors.

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48 ----------------TKS Mrs. Stanley Miller (Frances Lane) 3678Arelia Drive South Delray Beach FL 33445 '.

MA Mr. Richard H. Davis 35 M ill Glen R d, Upper Saddle River N J 07458

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50 TKS Mrs. Louise Green Dunham 14 Viburnum Court, Lawrenceville N J 08648 MA Mr. Rudolph Deetjen, Jr. Northgate Road, Mendham N J 07945

Cliff and Mary Anne Treene Evans’ grandchildren count is “holding steady at seven, ages 8 to 1 They see them a lot, and managed to see daughter Pam, husband, and three boys in Barcelona twice last year. Cliff keeps busy with a construction development company in N. California, “generously sprinkled with tennis and skiing. Mary Anne still singing barbershop.”®

51 TKS Mrs. Gail Robertson Stroh 4 7 6 Lakeland Ave., Grosse Pointe M I 48230 Bruce and Betsy Smith Berquist have found the “place to stay put” in Olympia, Wash., after 27 different domiciles since 1956. Betsy has expanded her counseling practice into the area of groups.

Jim and Pat Overton Lee are stilSEunning the inn in Manchester, Vt., “though I sometimjsipk

dream of retirement!” They welcomed the birth of their sixth granddaughter (15 th grandchild) on their 40th wedding anniversary, Ted and Miriam Eustis Irwin were looking forward to a new life, as Ted left his seat on the New York Stock Exchange on December 23rd.

Jack and Nancy Jones Trescot had a good year of fun trips, “creative loafing,” good health throughout the family, and fourth grandchild due in January.

Nancy Ehrhardt Bambara enjoyed a tour of Russia last spring with a group from her arts center. Her children are all happy: Alicia is full press secretary for a Senate committee; Nan is awaiting Peace Corps assignment; George does much business travel abroad. Nancy and Pat isge each other frequently.

Dave and Joan Miller Buchanan were in China last year. She continues to teach first grade in the projects.

In Great Falls, Va., Bob and Susie Bailey Twyford now have a pool and tennis court.

Their house is filled with paintings, many of them done by Susie. She teaches painting, also.

Linda Herbert had a wonderful 1993 withKj visits to sister and two nieces in New England

last summer. She is thinking about retirement.

Anne LaBastille has written a new book, Birds o f the Mayas.

Susie, Joan, and I spent a nice afternoon together last May. We went to the Torpedo Factory where Susie a'nd.other artists work. I spent Mothers’ Day with my mother in New Jersey then up to Vermont to see Par and Nancy, whose mother lives with her.

Miriam and I had a very nice lunch together in October, and Bfti going to Chicago (January) to see the Millers. Joan, Susie Forstmann Kealy ’55 and I will go out to my SKter’s for lunch.

G ail» MA Mr. Ernest F. K eerlll 459 Club Drive, P.O. Box 1030 Bay Head N J 08742 Ken Crowell is acting chair of the biology . department at St. Lawrence U. He took ten students to Costa Rica in January. He write||Sg| “I continue to be grateful for all MA gave me.”

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Thomas G. Stockham f identified the scene pictured in the last MKA Review as the woodshop in the old Montclair Academy building on the fourth floor, circa 1948. The room, referred to as “the shop,” was near some of the bedrooms when MA had boarding students. Tom recalled that all Lower School students, first through seventh grades, had to take shop, and that at one time, it was taught by — no kidding — a Mr. Wood.

The gizmo in the background is not a projector; it is anilfrly band saw.

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Mrs. EdwardC. Fawcett (Fay Tafi) ' 9 Gordon Place, Montclair N J 07<@42 MA Austin Drukker reports four grandchildren born this year: Jack, who lives in New Hampshire; Anna in Upper Montclair; and twins Kelley and Devan in Norwalk, Conn.

53 ---------------TKS Mrs. Thomas Burgin (Lolly Penick) 328 Fairway Road, Ridgewood, N J 0W 60

Scenes fro m themOth Reunion: Class o f 1953

MA Mr. Santo DeStefano 3 3 6 Madison Avenue, Paterson N J 07524

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56 ---TKS Mrs. Lawther O. Smith (Linda Lovell) 30 Water Crest Drive, Doylestown PA 18901

Fify-nine percent o f the Kimberley Class o f f 3 returnedfor their 40th reunion.^ Many thanks to Lois Creighton Lindsay and Patricia Eddy Ford for their hard work and enthusiasm, which rallied it wonderful 59 percent of the class"to return for the 40th reunion. Our favorit^cene: “This is my — 40 years in five minutes, videotaped in the library!

“Pres and I are enjoying our home within walking distance of the beach,” writes Phyllis Lockwood Hull. “When our family J;ome for birthdays: and holidays we enjoy walking our dogs on m e beach. Ty, our grandson, 3, loves hanging ont4jffpe leash. Our granddaughter Paula attends'iM same school where I’m a kindergarten resource teacher; it’s extra special when I see her in the hall. Come see us in sunny Florida!”

MA Many thanks to Dave Connolly and Peter Lindsay who inspired a great group to come to reunion.

Learned at reunion: Peter Cockshaw is General Counsel to the Lab@£jC«imittee in the U.S. Senate.

Bob Coningsby Jr., who could nor. make it, is president oSApex Machine Company in Fort Lauderdale, Fla

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TKS MsfiMjSeorgia Carrington 38 Silver Spring Lane, Ridgefield C T 06877 Both of Lois Ramhurst Ballman’s daughters were married in 1992, one in October, the other in December “whensthe temp was belowH In Ma® Lois and Ed attended a convention at Notre Dame, “momentous for this Irish miss,and N.D;'supporter.” She continues as a nursing supervisor, he teaches at the University of North Dakota.

Sylvia Middleton Seymour is president of McKean County (Pa.) Literacy, plus has a tutoring service.

Our condolences to Felicity Ferguson Morse, whose husband Reg died in July. They had been married 37 years. She writes, “My Kimberley friends have been wonderful. The life cycle continues though And in September our daughter Wendy .give birth S H aley Nicol^^Snow I have three granddaughters and a grandson. The girls are great and my sonsin-law super support for us alLS :( Our condolenc||| to Lynn Towner Dodd on the death of her brother, Reginald F. Towner Jr. ’49x.

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At Alumni Phonathon, Linda Lovell Smith chatted with Principal Peter Greer about MKA’s faculty-wellness program, called FIT. From Molla Kaplan Reisbaum: “Son Jonathan - attorney; son Michael - married in 1991; daughter Emily - first- year law student, NYU; Molla '56 — partner Pretty Papers,; sometime golfer, sometime bridge player, community volunteer. Not bad.”

Lilia Emetaz McDonald reports a lot of travel lately, including an AAA travel trade show in Greece in October. She and John will lead a 10-day Caribbean cruise in June.

Carolyn Van Vleck Edwards Pratt moved from Boston to the Cape, where she married widower Philip Pratt in October. Very best wishes on their wedding! Carrie writes, “Many changes ahead. Travel, never-ending summer, lots of exercise. One more grandchild in October. Are we really this old? Love it.”

MA Mr. Eric Jaeckel 268 Titus Avenue, Rochester N Y 14617 I am alive and well and kicking in Rochester, N.Y., along with Larry Nazarian, a prominent member of our medical community who iW®sionally writes an excellent letter to the editor of our local Gannett newspaper.

Larry got the last of three kids through M&llege. He writes that he still ;enjoys his medic|Ipractice, and is associate editor of the magazine, Pediatrics in Review. He has discovered the beauty of Glacier National Park in Montana. Larry saysHLet’s all plan for the 40th.”H | As for John Clapp, we should ail! thank B h n for theJsuper job he performed as class- secretary for a1quarter century plus. He has a successful real estate practice in Spring Lake, N.J;.

Richard Hobbins retired from 24 years at Idaho National Engineering Lab. His home is now Jackson Hole, Wy. Dicklsja private Spnsultant three-quarter time which leaves plenty of time for outdoor pursuits of white water kayaking, hiking, and backcountry telemark skiing. He is about to celebrate'his

30th wedding anniversary. Dick writes, “Have room for visitors from the Class of '56.

By the way, I have one son, Brad, who w i|M graduate from Colorado College this year.

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57 TKS Ms. Linda Baldanzi 2 Greenview Way, Upper Montclair N J 07043 MA Mr. Edward T. O ’Brien, Jr. 3 3 7 6 Fem cliffLane, Clearwater FL 36421 Some tardy news for the class column. Hal Cohen’s son Kevin graduated from MKA in the Class of 1992 and is attending the undergraduate business school of Washington University in St. Louis. Hal has worked at the " investment banking firm of Solomon Brothers in NYC for 26 years....’’fortunately, even after all those years I still enjoy my work.” He is managing director in the firm’s fixed-income department, where he runs a sales group selling taxable securities. Wife Jane is attending Columbia U. School of Social Wofktfor a master’s degree.

Dick Schlenger continues as recreation supervisor for the Township of Parsippany Troy Hills and is coaching his 16th season of the girls’ basketball team S going for their 400th win. Both daughters are out of college and both were engaged last year; one is a physical therapist and the other a flight attendant. “I had occasion to be in the Morris County Court House and took a peek into the courtroom of classmate Don Collester. Could not say hello as he was occupied.”

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The MKA Alumni Office has some extra yearbooks in inventory, available for $5 postage and handling charg^ Pleas© , call first- to see if extras are available for your .year ,(20|*B -gB 00). itSphe archives) have at least one copy o f every yearbook published except 1902.

We need an extra copy of the following: KimberleavM 1951, 1954, 1955, 1963»»

TKS Mrs. Judson Breslin (Wendy Worsley) 44 Lake Drive, Mountain Lakes N J 07046

59 --------------= TKS Mrs. Robert P. Sumas (Deana Rogers) 4 E. Greenbrook Rd., No. Caldwell N J 07006 Lea Fitzhugh Welch teames adult basiceducation at their local community college, helping adults upgrade their skiilifin math, language arts, and computer science. “Quite a change from teaching second gradé®? she reports.

Joan McConnell and her mother survived a terrible car accident in a highway tunnel in Italy last spring, “injured but alivéï” Jban continues her professional fast pace: She went to Japan in November to do publicity and a recorded version of her newest book, Communicating Across Cultures (Seibido),.' She was guest speaker at the fortieth anniversary convention of the Japanese National Institute of Special Education in Yokohama, speaking on language, culture, and education. Joan has started two new books, one on the meaning of education, one on women. In May she will speak on “culture shock in contemporary Italy” at t h é ^ American Geolinguistic Society.

MA Mr. Michael Baker 10 Highland Dr., North Caldwell N J 07006 In October, the United States hosted the World Pair Driving Championship in Gladstone, N.J., thanks to the enthusiasm and diligent efforts of Finn Caspersen. The five-

day event (combining dressage, cross-country marathon, and pones competition) drew more than 40,000 people and participants from 28c i countries. Finn, chairman anddJiEO of Beneficial Financ^porp., has been involved with horse-and-carriage driving for several yearjsi This was the first championship in the United States. .

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TKS Mrs. Emily S, Damon (Emily StarkJ^k 23215 L HermitagejXEjrcle, Boca Raton FL 33433 After 10 years, Alison Kern Stitzer is taking a break from her full-s|ale career in the U.S. General Accounting Office to spend more time with daughter Leigh, 11, husband John, an d . her mother — who lhil-s with them — and horseback riding. “Leigh is an avid pony hunter kid.”

Sally Unkles has moved into a 1930s-style house on Lake Worth overlooking Palm Beach, Fla. She studied at Oxford last'summer and hopes to receive her next graduate degree in June.

Found A request in the last MKA Review for a photo o f Frank Gartley, coatfe and athletic director at Montclair Academy and Brookside for 40 years, drew interesting response. Janice O ’Hara, alumni parent and former MKA receptionist, remembered that Mr. Gartley used to belong to her church. She looked up the former church secretary, now retired, to learn the address o f Frank’s daughter. The Alumni Office wrote to Barbara Gartley McKee in North Carolina, and received warm reminiscences, several photos, and newspaper clippings.

One photo (left) is now in the honored-facult|j(!gaBery on all three campuses.« Thomas Stockham '51 knew Mr. Gartley from fiF|mhrough 12th grade, as well as at a summer camp in Connecticut. Tom used to go to the coach’s house andlnelp with his bees and honey. H e recalls that Frank G:m.ley and Athletic DirSetor Ed Van Brunt werjggreat b u d d i e s «

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2259 Weir Drive, Hudson OH 44236

61 — TKS Ms. Christine Keller 1702 Church SWket, Galveston T X

Close Encounters T ||ry Grepiv— wife of MKA’s Principal, Peter Greer — was driving their car with MKA license platefat the Portland, Maine, airport. Suddenly a man pulled up nearby and beeped his horn and shouted, “Montclair Acad­ emy! Is that the MKA on your plates'?”

It was George Bleyle '60, a United Airlines pilot and therefore no stranger tp airports, also in M « e on vacation, j j g y had a good chat.

You never know where or when The MKA Connection will connect.

MA M r'JyJwid L. Bruck Metro Corporate Campus I, P.O. Box5600 Woodbridge N J 07095

62 — TKS Mrs. C. D. Creed (Barbam Bywate/yrm.

1769 Fo^^^MpmvenuMyU Hillsborough CA 94010 MA Mr. LaurencMJj. Magnes P.O. Box 6087 Ihouisville K Y 40206-008’^ ^

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TKS Dr. Deborah Pines ijjjSd Paper M ill Road Meadoiybrook PA 19046 Our peripatetic class secretary is off again.

Debby Pines is spending four to six months in Auckland, New Zealand, working in community health with the Maori natives, * MA Hon. John Snjjjdon P. O. Box 96, Pans M E O C f/l

Stephen Edelstein '65, whose daughter Kate is a freshman at MKA, ptgslnted to the archives a Montclair Academy catalog from 1941-4^ The faculty was exclusively male; its philosophy and practices were based upon “the value to democracy of individual training ; and tuition for day students was $450 a year!

Stephen noted that Athletic Director/Busin§i^ Manager Edward Van Brunt, listed in the catalog, was still on campus in 1965.

Moguls, Predators, a n d ...

Author Connie Bruck '64 dedicated a copy of her acclaimed book, The Predators’Ball/ TheJunk Bond Raiders and The Man Who Staked Them (Simon & Schuster, 1988), to the MKA library. It is about the tyrannic^takeover kings...who came to dominate the highest echelons of finance and changed the face of Y/all Street.” Excerpts from her latest bjjg>k, A Mogul’s Farewell (Simon & Schuster, 1994) formed the cover and lead article in the October 18, 1993jssue of The New Porter magazine (yes, The New Yorker). In it Connie recounts in minute detail and fascinating prose the rise and end of entertainment mogul Steven Ross.

Connie, who has freelanced and worked as a reporter for American Lawyer, received the "Jjbhn H a n ^ B Award for Excellence in Business and Financial Journalism in 1984.

Though she is now business writer for The New Yorker, Connie still thinks of herself as a general reporter; she has no formal background in finance.

You learn what Js, required for each piece,” she says. “Each story you research, andttjk questions until you get it. I had to learn about Wall Street. The folks at Drexel Burnham were mostj^lpful [with the Milikin piece], explaining.ll|| T t e g g k , a reader will discover, is vivid, clear prose, devoid of the jargon that so often characterize financial writing.

A M o ld ’s Farewell grew out of a piece Connie did on the Time- Warner merger for The New Yorker.

It was always cje.ar that writing was the thing I did well,” she says, recalling her days at The Kimberley School, where she edited the newspaper, Kourier, under advisor and English teacher Mrs. Roberts. Connie was also president of the Student Council, which she m od||tly neglects to mention. She majored in English at Barnard College, then earned a master’s degree atyColumbia School of Journalism.

Her current project is a long profile of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Connie gives no clues to it^ o n te n ^ H

63 TKS t m . Sharon Livesey TalbmjSsi 12 Gorham Avgffim Brookline M A 0 2146

MA Mr. Bronson v m n B m k Il.O. Box T, Tuckerman AR 72473 Many thanks to Andy Abrams for chM fig the class’s 30th reunion.

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65 TKS Mrs. James Wright (Susan DeBevoise) HC61, Box 221 Quail Drive Etna N H 03730

66 TKS Mrs. William E. Crawford (Francine Omrati) 421 Beacon Street, Boston M A 02115 Margaretta Sander moved to Head of St. Margets, Nova Scotia, in December.

Jan Shaw now teaches at Seattle Central Community College in the opthalmic technician program. In addition she is an oncall technician for the Washington Lions’ Eye Bank. Jan plans to spend the winter skiing, but is looking forward to a trip to someplace warm to scuba dive. She plans to buy a dry suit so sha can dive more comfortably in Puget Sound and British Columbia. Jan reports that Susan Richardson Borchardt was there for a meeting “and was able to come for a salmon dinner.

MA Mr. Alan J. Balma 29 Gentry Drive, Fair Haven N J 07704 Since 1981 Craig Cameron has been a partner in the law firm Cameron, Marriott, Walsh;-etc. with offices in Orlando, Ocala, and Daytona Beach, Fla. Craig specializes in defense of personal injury claims.

Best wishes to Hilary and Alexander Ames (Sasha) on their wedding.

Our condolences to Gene Wahl on the death of his mother, and to Alexander Ames on the death of his father, former Academy Trustee Marston Ames '34.

67“ — “ — — TKS Ms. Margot Escott 2980 Kings Lake Blvd., Naples FL 33962 MA Mr. Craig C. Perry 4 6 7 Pinestream Road, Atlanta GA 303(27 ■ Michael Yamashita attended the Frankfurt Book Fair last fall with the publisher of his Mekong River book. -“It will be out next year if I can ever finish writing it,” he wrote in September. MKA students and faculty were treated to a preview at M ikefflide presentation at Homecoming 1992; several photos also appeared in the February 1993 National Geographic’s\eaA article.

25th reunion: the Class o f '68.

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TKS Ms. Avie Claire Kalker 5805 Birchbrook #202, Dallas T X 75206 Many thanks to reunion chairman Sue McIntosh Awerdick on her enthusiasm and behind- the- scene efforts that rallied a great reunion.

The Nostalgia Award goes to Avie Kalker, who not only located all her vintage Kimberley uniforms, but could stiMSnodel them at reunion events!

Best wishes to Vincent and Dawn Geannette Cordo on their Hawaiian wedding.

Carol Schmitz Callahan teaches art and interior design in addition to running an interior decorating business. She works on projects for handicapped artists in association with the JFK Center for Performing Arts in Washington. She and her husband, Jim, have a daughter, Eryn-Carol, 4.

MA Mr. Burton M . Webb Box 29, Free Union VA 22940 Many thanks to Joseph Alessi, whose enthusiasm and telephone talents motivated so many classmates to return for part or all of the reunion. Thanks, too, to Diane and Gregg Deehan for their gracious hospitality, on Friday night and to Lisa and Jack O’Neill for the nightcaps-on Saturday.

Sally and Peter Gimber have two children, Erin, 10, and Charles§§WPeter is VP at Group W Productions in NYC. Our condolence^ to Wigton Zamore on the death of his'mother.

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69 TKS Mrs. Charles Gildea (Lynn Ehrhardt) 4 6 E. Saddle River Rd., Saddle River N J 07458 MA Thomas (Dutch) Vanderhoof was named VP of underwriting and legislative affairs for the Tribus Financial Group. Dutch and his wife, Tricia, live in Boonton.

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TKS Ms. Leslie Bryan 8 4 4 East Momingside Drive, NE Atlanta GA 30324 Congratulations and very best wishes to Tom and Karen Vanderhoof Forschner on the birth of healthy daughter Kristen Kaitlin (“Christy”) in December.

In addition to the happy news, Karen writes, “In August I received an invitation from Senator Edward Kennedy to testify at a health hearing pri Lyme Disease. It is the first time I have talked about my actual experience and the devastation to our son....Hopefully, by sharing the experience otheSwill benefit.

H n September we (LDF) finished the final version of another educational ifdeo (Lyme Disease: What You Should Know) and distributed it to every state library sw tem .^B MA Mr. V. James Castiglia .

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TKS Ms. Sydney Johnson Petty 134 Sum m er Village Dr., Annapolis M D 2 1401

MA Mr. James Bryan Jr. 3 0 5 Kimberly D r., Greensboro N C 2 7 4 0 8

Congratulations to Herbert Tate, who was nominated to head the N.J. Board of Regulatory Commissioners by Governor Christine Whitman and confirmed by the Senate. It is a Cabinet position, overseeing the state’s electric, gas, w a t e r , a n d telecommunications companies. Herb had campaigned for Whitman and served on her transition team after leaving the post of top enforcement officer of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington.

Bruce Downsbrough had lunch with Carmen Marnell in October, and reports all is well.

Bruce had heard an ad for Albany Academy on the radio, and recognized Headmaster Marnell’s voice! Bruce is Director of Development for his alma mater, Union College.

Our condolences to Richard Wahl on the death of his mother.

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TKS Mrs. DaviufKilnapp (Barbara Peto) 15 Fairway Lane, Pembroke M A 02359

Congratulations to James and Tacey Phillips Carroll on the birth of Tyler Scott in January 1993. Tacey reports, “Being a full-time mom (my third career after trying acting and investment banking) is the hardest and most fun.’’

20th reunion: the Class o f ‘73. Standing, left:faculty member Ken Gibson.

Seated, second left: Academic Dean Robert Sinner; Rudy Schlobohm, 1993 Homecoming Chairman (center).

MA M r. Steven Schottenfeld 2 3 Woodfield Drive, Short Hills N J 0 7078

Best wishes to William Crawford and Erin Cuffe 7 4 on their wedding. Bill, a graduate of Ithaca College, is pf^ident of Standard Tool & Manufacturing Co. in Lyndhurst. Erin graduated frorrpS’ufts U. and is a real estate associate with Stanton & Co. in Montclair, John Sperling, mustered out of the Air Force in 1991, joined a private surgical practice in Utica, N.Y. Child #5, Patrick, was born in 1991; #6, Sarah, in 1992. He reports all is well and sends his regards.

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Many thanks to Margot Dockrell Horsey, who inspired so many classmates to return for a festive reunion.

Constance DuHamel is in institutional sale|y municipal bonds, for Paine Webber in NYC. Ourgondolences to Ellen Wahl Skibiak on the death of her mother, and congratulations to Ellen and Ed on the arriva||>f daughter Alexa Jane in July;; , MA Mr. Gregory Lackey 165 Chickahotniny Trail Medford Lakes N J 086(55

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Many thanks to Reunion King Peter Redpath, who organized four days of events that brought ^ M sinates back from all over the country.

Thanks too, to local organizer Rudy Schlobohm, who, as a VP of the MKA Alumni Council, was overall 1993 Homecoming Chairman.

Dean Paolucci again was class golf champion: as runner-up in his club championship, he represented Glen Ridge Country Club in the Julian Curtis Cup, where he was a medalist.

He was fifth in the state in the Father/Son net division. Dean is Executive VP of the Alumni Council.

Best wishes to Linda and A1 Van Eerde on the birth of their third daughter, Sara Madelyn. A1 also serves on the Alumni Council.

Tim Miller is the first in-house graphic designer for Grand Circle Tours, which does tours for seniors in the Boston area.

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TKS Mrs. Richard Degener (Ann Patrick) 609 Sunset Blvd., Cape May N J 08204 Greetings! Our 20th reunion ism st around the corner in September and I am looking forward to seeing you all there. Remember we are the last “all girl” class of The Kimberley School!! Le® have a good turnout.

Seton Daly Beckwith writes that she and her husband would possibly like to have a party of some gart during our reunion. Sounds great!

Ann Gerson Flynn lives in Scotch Plains with husband Jeffrey and son Matthew, 3. Ann is with a regional investment bank doing public finance.

Roberta Root Weiser Blau writes, “I often think of many of my dear friends and math teacher and hope all is well. In April '93 Carl and I had our second girl. Sarah is almost three and Emily Rose almost one. After working with an architectural firm for many years, I finally took time off to be a mom. Still doing consulting but trp!y loving my girls. Anyone visiting,Disneyland? Please look us up.”

Jeff and Sue Yentema Bierly were married in 1991 and now have a beautiful baby girl, Brittany Jordan, born last summer. Sue and Brittany visited us in Cape May and we had a great time catching up.

Richard and I are still in Cape May. Boys Rick, 12, and Geoff, 11, just finished an undefeated football season. Elizabeth, 7, is a cheerleader.

See you all soon.

Ann MA Mr. Anthony M. Celentano 3 Condict Street, Morris Plains N J 07950

Brian and Lisa Irwin Keane have a fourth son, Macklin Irwin, born last April, joining J|py, 7, Luke, 5, and Dillon, 4.

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Best wishes to Denise and Matthew Troxell on their wedding. Matt sent me a postcard in which he noted that he ran into Marina Adams while he was travelling in Rome.^iSirfie returning to the East Coast from California, he has been in touch with Penny Wood, John Urga, Ted Nevins, and Hilary Hoffman Fandel, all of whom he reports are in good stead.

Eve Wood has a busy psychiatric practice; husband Rick Isenberg is a gyn-urologist. Son Benjamin is in kindergarten and Gabriel is 3.

Our condolences to Paul McFeeley on the death .¡pf his mother.

Greg Mancusi-Ungaro, who sails out of Marblehead, Mass., hailed Paul Gelenitis from his boat during the Mallory Cup regatta. [See box.]

David Hughes was in Washington, D.C. for a pjasiness meeting, and we had a chance to talk. He works with the American Automobile Assn. (AAA), lives in Little Falls, but anticipates buying his first home soon. When is the big housewarming party?

I also received a card from Susan Stanton.

She bought an apartment in New York and had a month-long visit from Frances Mills Wonnell. Frances, husband Jon, and two children live in Singapore. Susan a S writes . that Dale Frederick has moved back tp New York. r Chip

Chris Varkala has his own contracting/building company, called Cardinal Point. He lives in Sparta, N.J.

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Karen Kelley Moriarty reports that twins Kate and Jack were two in November; “They are lots of fun.” The Moriartys live in Boxford, Mass.

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Off to the Races MKA’s sailing siblings, Paul Gelenitis '76 and Betsy Gelenitis Alison 77, are consisjjntly at the top of U.S. sailing circui^^B

This fall Paul competed in his third Mallory Cup finals for the U.S. men’s championship. After winning the Area C championship in Lightnings, Paul was one of ten skippers to sail the 10-race round-robin series in Marblehead, Mass., in Rhodes 19s, an older Blass “which puts a premium on crew work and tactics^M Last May Paul and his crew finished 34th in the XVII Lightning World Champion­ ships in Brazil (one of only U.S. boats).

Betsy Gelenitis Alison won the biannual Rolex Womens’ Keel Boat Championships this year for the third time. She also won the Adams .Cup — the U.'$! women’s championship — in 1984, 1990, and 1991.

Three timejs/she has been voted the 'Best woman sailor in the country, "Yachts­ woman of the Year.” Her photo has appeared in Yacht Racing and Sports Illustrated over the p i® ) .' * Paul says he and Betsy always sailed while growing up, from little boats to a 37-foot yawl. When not on or around Water, Paul has a law practice in partnership with his wife. Bet-sv, however, joins work and ayggation: she is a sailmaker with Shore Sails, in Newport, R.I.

July, as he& m petedH the 199,3 U.MOlympic Festival, "Scott hi& harvestedpmore medals — 10, seven silver and thredJ$M$g MJghan M y American,jyhimcompeting in 11 Olympic Festivals. ” He plays the driver position on the Seven-man team, “a position that requires extreme quickness. His youthful looks and trim frame also belie hisielder statesman status.”

Scott, an All- American at Bucknell U., still ho Ids an NCAA Tournament fteord. About the only thing he never did in%ater polo is com pete in the Olympic Games, which he missed becausegf the 1980 U:S. boycott.

Scott’s compStive longevity i m h ||p o r t (the average age of players is 24) is in itself-Srthy of a medal. When not in the water, sip tt® VP of Prudential Securiti||fin Paramus.

Doug Mahler continues his practici in restorative andjpsmetic dentistry in Fair Lawn.

Mel and Beverly Hall Hillebrand will be in Omaha, Nebr., for the next three yeaSwhile he attends dental S B il. Daughter Leah is one, and they are happily expecting Baby #2 in August.

Acclaimed musician Barry Centanni ’77 played with Frank Sinatra in twogweek tour fast fall. Bar|y continues his packed pace o f l | teaching at MKA and his Broadway and symphony work. Barry presented to MKA seven compact which Ip ^ H th e

principal percussionist with The Orchestra of St. Luke’s. [See article in this issue on MKA’s Fine and Performing Arts.]'

Faculty and a few o f the Class o f 78.

Seamjcfaculty member Char Charlton, Robert Gardner, Business Manager Richard Sunshine, Upper School Head Tim Sabum, Harriet FitzpatrickMStanding: Reunion chairman Andy Blair, faculty member Judy Neshit, Suzanne Haynes Bond, Jon Wood.

78 MKA Ms. Pamela Zeug 2 5 0 Mercer St., C418, N ew York N Y 10012 M r. Lawrence Ga.rrigan 3611 Glenwood Springs Drive Kingwood T X 77345

Many thanks to Andrew Blair for chairing MKA’s first 15- year reunion. A good time was had by all,® the saying goes. Andy is an active member of the MKA Alumni Council. He and his wife, Lori, live in Randolph, N.J. Congratulations to our baby boom-makers: Tracey and Robert Gardner had a daughter, Devon, in September. Rob continues as president of the MKA Alumni Association.

Kurt and Jane Lugaric Burkhard had a son, Thomas, in June. They live in San Francisco.

Gillian and Kurt Schansinger had a daughter, Kyle, in October.

Our condolences to Betsy Ames Abramowitz on the death of her father, former Academy Trustee Marston Ames 34.

79 MKA Mrs. Carlos Ortiz (Shawn Mahieu)

She saw James Johnson and his wife and 6month-old daughter at a concert of Handel’s Messiah directed by James’s mother. Both Margaret Johnson ’81 and Robbin played harp.

Stephen Dodd ran in the New Yor|f|§| Marathon to raise money for the Starlight Foundation. He is with Smith, Barney in NYC. Steve aniJJus wife, Michelle, have moved to Riverside, Conn.

The Letter From the Publisher in the September 24th issue of Time Magazine featured a copter- front photo of “Lamarr Tsufura with Team TIME.” The editorial was a philosophical essay about the Publishers’ League Softball season and playoffs in Manhattan’s Central Park (Time won).

According» the publisher, Lamarr, the team ca p ta i^ “troubleshoots computer problems during the off-Reason.”

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Mrs. M artin ■Garvey (Pam Eastman) , 2 6 Warren Place, Montclair N J 07042

Best wishes to Andrew and Anita Sims Stokes on their wedding. Tracy Green Frager and Paige Cottingham were bridesmaids, and Robbin Gordon Cartier 7 7 played harp at the service. Anita, liactijye with the MKA Alumni Council and was chairman of Career DotKi February.

Congratulations to Warren and Irma Kanter Nimetz on the birth of Edward Scott in June 1993. They inside in NYC, where Irma is an attorney with Winston & Strawn.

Andy Kramer recently switched law firms and is now with Brown Raysman & Millstein. He

The Researcher Robert L. Last 'l l is laboratory head of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Cornell If, and is an adjunct professor of graduate courses in genetics. In 1990, he was one of only 200 persons toVreceive a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, covering all branches of science and engineering.

After his undergradualldegree at Ohio Wesleyan U., Robert earned a Ph.IMin biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon where he was a National Institutes of Health fellow. He did postdoc worflln plant genetics and molecular biology at MassadhusSfts Institute of Technology. There one of his papers was published in the journal Science, with a photograph about his research on’!' , thecover.

Robert is working with 12 other researchers studying how plants synthesize compounds, with S h e hope that an increased understanding of how plants protect themselves from the effects of -environmental degradation will wild insight into how to protect humans from pollution.” [ . from the Ohio Wesleyan Magazine

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Many thanks to Laura Bardett for her tour as class secretary. ISiura has moved to Ashburn, Va., and wishes to pass on the pen.

Congratulations to Robert Cunniff, who received his Certified Professional Geologist (CPG) from the American Institute of Professional Geologists. He works as project manager for Enviro-Sciences Inc. in Mt. Arlington, N.J. Robert Orbe says “Aloha!” He is Hawaii state manager for Heublein, Inc., after five years with Heublein in California. The Smirnoff Man “never expected to be sent this far west.”

Kate Baker lived in Venice, Italy, for a year, and has a Ph.D. in anthropology. Her son Sam is.5 1/H She is an “applied behaviorist” at the New Mexico Regional Primate ResearcfflH Laboratory doing behavioral research, “responsible for the environmental enrichment and psychological well-being of 300+ chimps.”

Chip and Dede Swanson Montgomery are proud parents of Alexandra Magdalena, born in November 1992. They live in Manhattan and Dede is enjoying being a full-time mother.

They see Heidi Ames a lot. Heidi is a style associate at Conde SiasxlsfTraveler.

Dede reports that both sisters are doing well.

Carl and Meme Swanson Svernlov '82 live in Stockholm, Sweden, and were awaiting the birth of their first baby in August. Bebe Swanson '84 works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ansj.is “an excellent babysitter.”

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Best wishes to our newlyweds!

Abbe and Scott Maron were married in May. Scott has a B.S. from U. Penn and an M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine. He is a resident in internal medicine at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia.

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Rochelle and Jay Greene were married in October 1992. She is in law school at UCLA; Jay, formerly with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, is a writer for the bus® ssi||ction pf, Variety. .

They live in Woodland Hills, Calif.

Congratulations to our mommas and poppas: Bill and Sue Mahler Brogan had a son, Ryan, in June. Bill is with Wakefern Pood (2p'rp>and she is in her sixth year with Lockheed IMS aSBfe their graphics coordinator.

Alex and Blake O ’Neill had a daughter,: Elizabeth, in. June, joining Nicholas, 3 1/2, and Emily, 2.

Eric and Beth Cherashore Schlager had a son, Andrew, in August.

Janine Garland is senior programmer/analyst for Computron, a financial software vendor, in Rutherford. She spoke with Doreen Wong Rearick '83 in November and reports that Doreen had a baby and still lives in Ohio.

83 Wonderful gifts or graduation presents!

MKA chairs are antique black with maple arms and bear the official MKA seal in gold. Eaeji chair sells for $225; a rocking chair version is available for $250. ¡Ifease add $20 for shipping and handling.

Your order must be accompanied by check made payable to: The Montclair Kimberley Academy. Send to: The Alumni Office, MKA, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, NJ 07042

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Ms. Holly Jervis 44 Eagle Rock Way, Montclair N J 07042 Many thanks to reunion chairmen Holly Jervis and Scott Rumana for rallying atmH incredible turnout. Some 45 classmates, plus assorted husbands, wives, and children, turned up at various events.

Anders Skilbred flew in from Durango, Colorado. He is a captain with commuter Mesa Airlines.

Best wishes to Marla and Arsen Zartarian, who were married in November. Andy Voss

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:;i;nd Walter (Bunker) Davis were ushers.

Guests from MiKA included Marci Reiss Berger, Dan Carson, Jonathan Cohn, Ron Dematteo, Mike Eisner, Michelle Kessler 85, Paul Josephson, Paul Nigro, and Jay Wecht.

Belated best wishpgto Adam and Valerie Beasley Williams, married in Crystal Branch and Sabrina Parker 84 we^^B bridesmaids.

Congratulations to Holly Sobel Armitage on the birth of daughter Käthe Bea Sobel Armitage in Octobe™“She is an angel,” Holly reports.

Crystal Branch received an MA in public health from UMDNJ, Robert Wood School, in 1992. She will graduate from Seton Hall School of Nursing this year.

Since July 1933 Deborah Chang has been directtgsof technical assistance at the City of New York Department of Homeless Services.

Charles Currin is hub supervisor for UPS in Richmond, Va. Donna Ellis is a copy editor for the legal taxation publisher Warren, Gorham & Lamont.

Our condolences to Donna on the death of her father.

Amy Felber is managing retail stores, Evolution, in San Francisco,., Ian Fryer is a programmer/analyst for Ernst & Young.

Marea Gabriel is working her theslSBr an M.A. in environmental biology at Antioch College, New England.

Marisa Gengaro, teaching in NYC, lives in the same apartment building as Paul Nigro, who has returned to MKA to teach at Brookside.

Scenes from the 10th Reunion: Class o f 1983

Jennifer Hamilton, working on a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at Rutgers, received a National Science Foundation Fellowship.

Hope Hasbrouck is working on a second master’s in landscape architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.

Eric Green works at ADP in Boston, and is engaged to Katie Mercier.

Marshall Hendrian is an insurance broker, 'Hendrian & Hendrian, in NYC. Frank Kosarek is doing a residency at Duke University.

Heather and Garry Merkle had a son, Matthew Thomas, in 1991; Dan Carson and Sung Lee are godfathers.

Jon Nussbaum is back from Bucharest and living in Virginia.

Learned at Phonathon: Anne Rowland «fin her third year of getting a doctorate in psychology at Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology.

Scott Rumana, practicing law in Nutley with Costenbader, Strasser & Donahue, was elected town councilman in Wayne.

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Ms. JenniferJones 424 West End Avenue 17F New York N Y 10024

10th reunion, the Class o f 83.

StandingSm&fa)tliy member Calvin Matzke.

The November wedding of Helen and Chris Noble was a large happy affair with many MKA alumni, faculty, and former faculty in attendance, including Carmen Marnell, Anne Moore, Barry Nazarian, and Larry Piersol. Rob Iverson was best man; Mark Pineda and Bill Stone were usher&U Laura and Larry Rosen live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan while he works as a pediatric resident at Mt. Sinai Hospital.

Robert Eng did an M.B.A. exchange program at a Hong Kong business s&ool, and traveled for four months through China and S.E. Asia doing an M.B.A. Asia investment project. He earned the degree from UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management in June 1993.

Robert is working in Northern California as a business strategy consultant while “growing a family-owned Asia trade business.”

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10th reunion, the Claiktgf '83 with faculty members George Hrab (standing, secondfrom right) ana John Rabkffseated, left).

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Congratulations to Jack Lee, who received his M.D. degree from Hahnemann! . School of Medicine. After a year of residency ¡in te rn a l medicine in Philadelphia, Doctor Lee will do a residency in anesthesiology at Presbyterian Hospital in NYC. He received his undergraduate degree from C olum bia® Best wishes to our newlyweds: gghjrtney and Caroline Fabend Bartlett, Katharine and Mark

McGowan, Darrin and Edith Szakacs Prescott, Karen and Frederick Stanton, and Matthew and Alexis Polonofsky Zebrowski.

The McGowans live in Verona. Mark works for Nomura Securities- in the fixed-income department on the repo and money market sales desk.

Patti McConnell is now a full TV producer for the ad agency DMBIB in NYC. Among the commercials she has shot are Crest and Dayquil/Nyquil. She is engaged to be married in September.

Doug Coyle and Jason O ’Neill are working on MBAs at Kellogg School of Northwestern University.

“New Jersey just wasn’t exciting enough, so I decided to go to law school in ArkanSMU. of A.],” writes Daniel Moore.

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Ms. Sherry Ahkami 330 West 58th St. Apt. 15A New York N Y 10019 Ms. Jennifer Remington 44 Hamilton Drive East North Caldwell N J 07006 Damon Zeigler was promoted to director of appraisal operations west for Lenders Service Inc., a national appraisal management company in Pittsburgh, Pa. Jodi Schneider, in her second year at American U. Law School, is engaged to marry Saul Scherl in August.

Mary Louise Neary got engaged to John Ruben in Paris, en route to the Allen-Coyle wedding! [See '87 Notes.]

Matthew Hendrian is in aviation management at Orlando International Airport.

Chubb & Son Inc. promoted Lisa Unger to defense litigation examiner. She is involved in the management advisory committee and edits the company newsletter. Lisa lives in NYC and also teaches aerobid£T ' Congratulations to Jennifer Remington, who graduated from Seton Hall U. School of Law with a J.D., and received a distinguished service' award from the Legislative Bureau. She is clerking for the Honorable Murray Simon, Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery division.

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earned a six- year B.A./M.D. degree at Boston University and is now Doctor Chun1! She is doing a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Santa Clara, California.

Best wislraffo our newlyweds!

Jeffrey and Lisa Resotko Kruk were married in September in Andover, N.J. Lisa will defend her master’s thesis in chemistry at North Carolina State this spring, and has accepted a position with Merck Research Laboratories in West Point, Pa. James and Joy Booth Roussel now live in Amsterdam, Holland, after their September

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wedding in New Orleans. (The above addr^^B will get mail to them.) Siblings Jody Booth '88 and John Booth '85 were in the wedding party.

Willianj.and Susan Fehnel Hart were married in Montclair during the big December snowstorm, many MKA alumni attending;.,,:.

Margaret Allen and Pat Coyle were married in Rome in August, with many MKA alumni in attendance. Laura Baczko, David Allen 89, and Doug Coyle '85 were in the wedding party; David Austin '89:, Dan Murphy '89 and Mary Louise Neary '86 attended.

Marie Clair Eberle-DeMassi is engaged to Geoffrey Pancoast.

Betsy (Elizabeth) Osgood, a graduate of Stanford U., is in the teacher-certification program at the U. of Colorado, Boulder. She teaches SAT and GRE prep, courses part time.

“Within a year, I hope to be teaching history, literature and dance at an alternative public school in Denver, based on experiential ed. I loM the Rockies and plan on settling.here...where I hike, bike, camp, rock climb, and ski.” .'

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Many thanks to reunion chairmen Karen Muenster and James Petretti for their calls and notes that brought so many classmatef(back to reunion.

Jim Garino, living in Albuquerque, N.M., does personnel recruitment for a temp. agencJS| He also has a contract with Bauer to teach tollerblading.

Graduation clip pings pfictoria Rollins earned a B.A. degree in political science from Hood College, Md. She minored in German.

James Kramer graduated cum laude ito m Rice 1JSwith a degree in economics and political science. Jamie was inducted into the economics honor Society Omicron Delta Epsilon.

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Onward and upward! Congratulations to those who received their undergraduate degrees this year. N |||'s of a culled frciin newspapelSSphonathon, and questionnaires:.

Ali Dvorin has returned to‘MKA part time as assistant fengig coach. At New York U., where he lj§js captain of the fencing team and won nugjjSpus collegiate Allig trained under Steve Mormando (who coached at MKA one year). A llies training for the Olympics with the prestigious New Yfflc Fencers Club, home of another MKA champion, Olympian

Bob Cottingham '84. In July 1993, Allie competed in the Maccabiah Games in Israel.

Hannah Carson has also returned to MKA. She has been working in the Admissions Office, attending Trenton State College at night for a master’s in counseling psychology. Hannah graduated from Middlebury with a B.A. in English and psychology.

Daisy Altamore earned a B.A. in law and society at Binghamton U., and is in her first year at Santa Clara U. School of Law in California. Daisy got together with Hannah Carson in Colorado.

Judith Ainbinder has stayed on at Stanford U. and will receive a master’s degree in psychologyin June.

David Ames reggived a B.A. in economics from Bowdoin College, with a coordinate major in environmental studies.

Geoff Krouse graduated from Duke yjj with a B.A. in public policy studies. He is working as a legal assistant at Christie’s auction house in NYC while applying to law schools. Geoff and David toured Europe together in the fall.

Suellen Bizub graduated from Hartwick College with a B.A. in English. She is/working in men’s design for Polo Ralph Lauren in NYC. Suellen and Amy Lorentzen traveled; to England and Scotland for the Thanksgiving holiday. Amy lives in Boulder and attends U. rqf Colorado.Suellen reports that Mark Strobeck is at the U. of Cincinnati Medical School; Sean Fitzgibbon (B.A. from Georgetown EL) works with IBJ, Industrial Bank of Japan, in NYC. Sean often^^g Adam Sussman, who works for Lifetime T devision.

Ralph Amirata, with B.A. in history from Plan Srate U., attends Hofstra U. Sq&fl of Law. David Austin, B.S.M.E. from Northwestern U .,H a design engineer with H an rtffy fe. in Chicago. David and David Allen spent last ,Rummer trekking throughout the Middle East.

TheMreturniJ.! to ItalMn time to attend the Meg Allen-Pat Coyle '87 wedding.

David Allen, B.A. from U. Rochester plus an international certificate, has stayed on to work in Europe. .

Most Exotic Job Award: Daniel Murphy is copy editor with The Jakarta Post in Indonesia.

“MurphfS who received a B.A.Sjft philosophy from Oberlin College, was news editor of the O berlin Review, DJ on the radio station, and Kpjijtain of the lactpsse team.

Elizabeth Crowell graduated cum laude from Smith College with a major in philosophy, minor in Latin American literature. Liz' : re||'ived the Seven Sisters Student-Athlete Award for academic and athletic excellence.

Her* college activiteMncluded captain of the swimming and diving teams and dorm president. S^^feassistant to the president of H.M. Long, executive search firm, in NYC. Karuna Venter also graduated cum laude from Smith with high honors in women’s studies.

She is living in NYC.

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Did You Graduate W ith Honors?

MKA would like to honor our Academy, Kimberley, and MKA alumni who graduated from college sum m a cum laude, magna cum laude, and/or P hi Beta Kappa or Tau Beta P i (or equivalent).

We hope to display your achievements visibly to inspire present students and to impress visitors to the Upper School.

Please help confirm or update our records* drop a note to the MKA Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair NJ 07042. Or call: 201-746-9800. ,

Amy Jo Dix is working on a master’s in civil engineering at Johns Hopkins U. Andrew Weiner, with dual degrees in mechanical engineering and physics from Johns Hopkins, is a research assistant at Georgia Tech while working on a master’s in systems engineering.

M att Braun graduated from M.I.T. with a B.S.M.E. with a concentration in biomedical engineering. For his senior thesis, he designed a Mspiratory monitor for use by emergency medicabservices. Matt, who was involved in many theatrical productions, is completing a second B.S. in theater.

Michael Hnatow, with B.S. in chemical engineering l ||m Villanova ® , is a partner in his father’s engineering firm. Mike is an enthusiastic member of the MKA Alumni Council, so if you have any alumni concerns, ask Mike!

Cadet Captain Peter Fusco will receive a B.A. this year from Norwich University, the Military College ©f Vermont. Peter is in the history honors program and was selected to be staff member at Senator Jeffords’ office in Vermont.

He is applying to law school^M Andrew Goldberg, with B.A. from U. Virginia, has moved to NYC, where he is working as an assistant to Chemical Bank’s short- term interest rate swaps traders.

Deborah Hemsley re e v e d a B.S. in occupational therapy from Boston U.’s Sargent College. She interned at Children’s Hospital in New Orleans through December.

Scott Holwitt graduated with a B.A. in history and French from Washington U., St. Louis, and is now in W.U.’s Law School.

After earning a Bs||. in performance music, George Hrab Jr. stayed on to become technical advisor at the Moravian College Musical Institute and head librarian at the college music library. He performs at college functions and works with-various musical groujS on weekends.

Sarah Lane graduated cum laude from Colgate U. She will be married to Jeff Sproha in July.

Yale Levin is now a 2nd Lieutenant and will : serve-three years in Germany after Armor

Officer Basic Training at Fort Knox, Ky. Yale graduated in the top 10 percent of U.S.M.A. at West Point, and earned gold wreaths for excellence in physical, academic and military achievements, according to a newspaper clipping.

Second Lt. Michael Hunter, also a West Point graduate, is in the Army Airbourne forces, stationed in Fort Bragg, N.C. Louis Lessig is attending Widener U. School of Law. He graduated from Muhlenberg College.

Another attorney-to-be, Nilie Pajoohi, attends New York Law School. She graduated from George Washington U. with a B.A. in criminal justice.

Matthew Rodano earned a B.A. in Italian and international studies at Dickinson College, where he also sang with the college choir, chamber choir, and a barbershop quartet.

Girard Ruddick, B.A. from Colgate, is working in Atlanta with B.B.D.O. advertising agency.

Greg Sullivan works in New York with Young & Rubicam advertising agency.

Ryan Schinman is an entertainment and sports agent for an NYC firm. He travels all over the country recruiting college talent.

Bram Zeigler is a research associate with Economists Inc. in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Dickinson College magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa in econmics.

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Ms. Meredith McGowan 54 Gordon Road, Essex Fells N J 07021 Ms. Lorelei Muenster 125 Country Lane, Clifton N J 07013 Class agent: Mr. Shane Mahieu 4 Columbia Court, North Haledon N J 07508 Last spring Johns Hopkins '®, awarded its SEALS award to Paula Kovanic for her outstanding contributions to the student community.

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Ms. Jamie Lenis 25 Taylor Drive, West Caldwell N J 07006 Ms. Dara Marrnon 108 Tanglewood Dr., East Hanover N J 07936 Carlton Austin attends Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., where he is actively involved with varsity basketball, his fraternity .(Orrif^B Psi Phi), and his dorm, where h ^ a residence assistant.

Owen Grover wants everyone to know that he isiflow a DJ at WKCR, Barnard CoIled§|s7: radi|®tation. If you are searching on the AM dial, you won’t find him there; the station is 87.9 FM. So, next time you are in New York....

Another Columbian, Radhika Kunamneni, a religion major, & interested in doing human rights worRlfil Across Broadway at Barnard College, Parisa Salimi is an environmental science major and a philosophy minor. She volunteers at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital as a co-therapist in the child psychology department.

Parisa informs me that Veenu Narang spent her fall semester studying Spanish in Argentina.

Michelle Pflumm writes from Haverford College. Michelle has spent the past three summers working in biochemistry labs. At school her major ^chem istry with a concentration in biochemistry; she tutors others in biology and chemistry and is a teacher’s assistant for a chemistry lab. One of the most “exciting” things Michelle has done is to work on a petition presented to the United Nations.

The petition asks for children to have the right to medical care regardless of their parents’ religious beliefs. Michelle hopes to submit a copy of the work to President and Hillary Clinton.

The Class of 1991 extends its sympathy to Mr. Ken Gibson and his family on the passing of Mrs. Nancy Gibson. Many members of the class first met Mrs. Gibson at the Brookside Library and learned to love the books and story hours. Others met her at her home where she and Mr. Gibson generously served us donuts and cider and collected our economics term papers. Mrs. Gibson colors many of our memories from our years at MKA. She will be missed greatly by our class and the entire MKA community.

Dara

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Mr. Enrique Neblett 102 Park Street, Montclair N J 07042 Ms. Tami Safer 876Aztec Trail, Franklin Lakes N J 07417 Class Agent: Ms. Alison Raymond B White Oak Road, Roseland N J 07068 John Eberhardt made dean’s list last year at Duke U. and is looking forward to spending next year at the London School of Economics.

A m em be® f Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, John teachsP.E. three times a week at a Durham school; he also races on the Duke ski team.

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Ms. Renee Monteyne 1:0 Lookout Point Trail, Totowa N J 07512 M r BziaytWecht 51 Glen Court, Pompton Lakes N J 07442 Class Agent: Ms. Lisa Gittleman 34 Windermere Rd., Upper Montclair N J 07043 Clippings: Elizabeth Wells attended the New York State Music Camp and Institute at Hartwick College last summer.

The Alumni Office received word that Thomas Page is attending the 17.. of Southern California on a full-tuition Trustee (academic) Scholarship for four years. Tom also was awarded a National Merit Scholarship. Mrs. Page credits his academic success to his years on the three campuses of MKA. Tyson Lamazow was elected a freshman representative to the Emory U. College Council.

Planned Giving A Gift by Bequest: A Legacy o f Education Throughout its history, The Montclair Kimberley Academy has flourished through the care of alumni, parents and friends who have created and sustained a tradition o f generous giving. Wfiiile many have given in their lifetime, others have chosen to include MKA in their w ills!»

A gift by bequest to MKA will help ensure a tradition of excellence for generations of students to c o m ^ H Your bequest may take a variety of forms, including: • A gift of cash, securities or real property • A specified percentage of your estate on your will if other beneficiaries are no longer living You may wish to consult your attorney to decide which vehicle best suits your needs. Please feel free to put your attorney in touch with the school.

W e can help you or your attorney with specific wording.

For more information, or to notify.; ,, MKA that you have included the school in your will, p le ^ ^ a ll or write; J u d y B Polonofsky, Director of External Affairs, The M o n S a ir Kimberley Academy,'201 Valley Road, MontdlSir, NJ 07042 (2 0 1 * 6 -9 8 0 0 ) T he M ontclair Kimberley Academy has established a Pooled Income Fund.

Please call for details.

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Cougar Pride M KA P rin cip a lly. Peter Greer received the following letterfrom J. Frank Vespa-Papaleo, 1993 SpecialAssistant to the Chairman o f the New Jemm/- Democratic State Wommittee: Dear Dr. Greer: I recently had the pleasure to work with seveA fine young men and women, all recent graduates of The Montclair Kimberley Academy. These students are a well-prepared, professional, and intelligent group of young people, and a testament to the fine teaching and learning that are part o f the MKA tradition.

Matthew and Bennett Wirz, Michael Samojlik, Daniel Liu (Class of '92), Rupali Gandhi and Tyson Lomazow ('93) all interned this summer for the Fioria 93 Campaign. As the intern coordinator, I had the pleasure to work with these young men and women. Their daily responsibilities required the use of their writing, speaking, foreign language, and computer skills, as well as organizational and leadership skills. Everything they did was done with the highest level of professflnalism, expediency, and care 5 - and always with youthful vigor and a sense of humor. And their efforts did not go unnoticed. Every department, and in fact, every staff member, was extremely impressed and conscious of the efforts of these fine MKA alumni. Even Governor Flo rio commended some o f them for their fine work on a project in the office one evening. This is not only a credit to the individuals, but to The Montclair Kimberley Academy ¡¡Immunity.

The reputation of MKA rests in its people — its faculty, parents, and students .S ta n d by all indications from these young alumni, it is a reputation o f great regard. M att, Bennett, Mike, Dan, Rupali and Tyson exhibited their pride in their alma mater through their hard Vfork— and their qualify, commitment, and effort were outstanding.

At a time when i t is difficult to read or hear about anything but the failure of education and the apathy o f young people, it is encouraging to see how some of our young people are preparing to lead the future by getting a good education and spending their time wisely. O ur campaign had a great experience with your fine young alumni, and S elie v e they made a real difference. I also believe they will continue to do great th in lja n d to be proud o f their common roots in MKA. O n behalf of our campaign staff, I thank these young men and women, and I thank all the students, alumni, administrators, teachers, and parents of thè MICA community. Keep up the good work, Cougars! t

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January 21, 1994 December 25, 1993 November 1, 1993

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION COUNCIL BALLOT Election for Alumni Council members will be held at the Annual Meeting of the MKA Alumni Association on May 9, 1994.

Meeting plac'e will be at the Upper School Library, 6 Lloyd Road,Montclair, New Jersey. Time 7:30 p.m.

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

Upon election of the proposed slate of nominees*, the Alumni Council for 1994-95 will consist of the following: TERM EXPIRING 1995 Joseph H. Alessi ’68 Robert H. Gardner ’78 Pamela Eastman Garvey ’80 Edward G. Healey ’77 Anita E. Sims-Stokes ’79 Albert D.Van Eerde ’73

TERM EXPIRING 1996 Martha Bonsai Day ’74 Alan C. Deehan ’77 Holly E. Jervis ’83 Peter S. McMullen ’77 Kristine Hatzenbuhler O’Connor ’83 Rudolph G. Schlobohm ’74

TERM EXPIRING 1997* Lisa S. Aufzien ’76 Andrew J. Blair ’78 Sara Close Crowther ’76 Michael F. Hnatow ’89 Sabino T. Rodano ’88 Pat Shean Worthington ’74

The following persons presendy on the Alumni Council have been nominated to serve as officers of the Alumni Association for 1994-95.' These officers will be elected by the Alumni Council at its annual meeting on May 9, 1994: President................................................... Robert H. Gardner ’78 Executive Vice President.............................Joseph H. Alessi ’68 Vice President..'.........-■.......................... Peter S. McMullen ’77 Vice President...............................................Alan C. Deehan ’77

Vice President...........................Rudolph G. Schlobohm ’74 Secretary.................... Kristine Hatzenbuhler O’Connor ’83 Treasurer...........................................Anita E. Sims-Stokes ’79

The undersigned hereby appoints Robert H. Gardner 78 Proxy to vote FOR_____ AGAINST______ the election of the proposed members of The Montclair Kimberley Academy Alumni Council at the annual meeting to be held May 9, 1994 as set forth in the spring issue of the MKA Review magazine.

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Homecoming ’94 September 24, 1994 Reunion Years 1944.1954.1964 • 1969 • 1974 • 1979 • 1984 • 1989

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