Fall 1995 MKA Review Magazine

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The * Montclair Kimberley Academy


C o ver: Headmaster Peter R. Greer chats with Tana Shah and Justin Blanes as seniors line up for Commencement.

C on ten ts From the H eadm aster! 1 From the Board of Trustees / 2 The Long Range Plan / 4 MKA at 20 / 6 Notes Around MKA / 10 Faculty Tributes / 10 Awards / 14 Cougar Sports / 16 MKA in Washington / 17 From the Alumni Association / 18 1995 Distinguished Alumni Award: Herbert H. Tate Jr. 7 1 / 22 Class Notes / 23

E d it o r s Christie Austin Susan Jones Judy Polonofsky

P h o t o C r e d it s Phil Cantor David Hollander Susan Jones Dan Katz Beverly Rezneck Steve Tober

The MKA Alumni A ssociation is an organization o f all m en and w om en w ho have attended the U pper SchooL Its purpose is to m ake know n to MKA th e ideas, in terests, and co n cern s o f alum ni and to inform alum ni o f the accom plishm ents and objectives of MKA. The Alumni C ouncil is th e governing Board, a rep resentative group elected at the A ssociation’s annual m eeting to sp on sor events and activities linking alum ni w ith th eir alm a m ater.

A lu m n i A s s o c ia t io n C o u n c il 1995-96 Joseph H. Alessi '68, Executive Vice President Jason Apter 7 7 Lisa A. Aufzien 7 6 Andrew J. Blair 7 8 Robert Cottingham Jr. ’84 Lori Windolf Crispo 7 8 , Advisory Sara Close Crowther 7 6 Martha Bonsai Day 7 4 Alan C. Deehan 7 7 , Vice Ppsident Holly E. Jervis Felber ’83 Susan Cole Furlong 7 8 Jeffrey Gurtman ’97 Frank J. Hanus ’68 Edward G. Healey 7 7 Michael F. Hnatow '89 Larissa Lury ’96 Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley 7 6 Peter S. McMullen 7 7 Kristine Hatzenbuhler O ’Connor ’83, Secretary Eric Pai 7 9 J. Dean Paolucci 7 3 , President Rudolph G. Schlobohm 7 4 1 Sabino T. Rodano ’87 Anita E. Sims-Stokes 79, Treasurer Patricia Shean Worthington 7 4 Peter R. Greer, Headmaster Judy Polonofsky, Director of External Affairs Christie Austin, Alumni Director

B o a rd o f T r u stees

1995-96 Susan V. Bershad Peter J. Bruck Martha Bonsai Day 7 4 Paul G. Edwards George W. Egan Andree (Penny) Finkle John E. Garippa, President Linda T. Garippa A. Lawrence Gaydos, Vice President Ronald E. Gennace Peter R. Greer, Headmaster Alice M. Hirsh Robert A. Hoonhout 7 1 J. Clarence Morrison Anne E. Muenster-Sinton, Vice President J. Dean Paolucci 7 3 Barry W. Ridings 7 0 Newton B. Schott Jr., Treasurer Jolinda D. Smith, Secretary Jean N. Torjussen Terence D. Wall Nina Mitchell Wells Walter L. Zweifler

A d v is o r y T r u st e e s Margaret Crawford Bridge 65 Edwin J. pelattre Austin V. Koenen Sr. Herbert H. Tate Jr. 7 1 Ronald L. Tobia

H o n o ra ry T ru stees Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54 Joseph A. Courter Susan H. Ruddick Jam es S. Vandermade ’35

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From the Headm aster

I n the conclusion of his book, T h e A dven tu res o f Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain comments: M ost o f th e ch a ra cters th a t p erfo rm in this b o o k still live, a n d a r e p ro sp ero u s a n d happy. Som e d a y it m ay seem w orthw hile to ta k e up th e story o f th e y o u n g er on es a g a in a n d see w h at sort o f m en a n d w om en they tu rn ed ou t to b e.... Over the March vacation, I accompanied Terry Greer, Judy Polonofsky and Christie Austin from the External Affairs Office, and senior faculty members Ken Gibson and Judy Nesbit to Washington, D.C. There we met with D.C.-area MKA alumni at a Saturday reception - an event that followed a lacrosse game against Sidwell Friends School. (No, the President and Chelsea did not attend that game.) This event was an eye-opener for m e.' It reminded me of what is called in educational jargon “outcomes.” That is, I witnessed firsthand the results of an MKA education. As a relative newcomer to MKA, I confess I was interested in what sort of men and women these MKA graduates had turned out to be.

Our current faculty and staff continue-the tradition of top-caliber people teaching and working closely with our students every single day. In addition, we have fine alumni and parents who are willing to work cooperatively with our campuses and who give so much of their time in classroom and fundraising activities.

All the alums I met were upbeat * they had an infectious optimism. They were successful as human beings in the conduct of their lives and they were successful with their careers. They unanimously and enthusiastically attributed their successes to the educational grounding they had received at MKA - at Brookside, at Kimberley, at Montclair Academy, and at The Montclair Kimberley Academy.

O u tco m es

What about the future for MKA? What are we doingand how a r e w e g oin g to turn ou t? At age 20,S h e institution consisting of jiiree merged schools now called The Montclair Kimberley Academy is flourishing. At the same time, it is facing stiff competition from schools that are constandy raising major funds and building facilities. MKA will never be known for its athletic fields, but we do have a splendid faculty and programs. MKA d eserves to continue as a national leader of independent day schools. We have a felling responsibility to maintain MKA’s excellence and prestige.

One graduate is traveling to Russia as part of an effort associated with a foundation for art. Another graduate is a personal aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton. A third interrupted her higher degree program to raise wonderful children. One, a former high-ranking official with the State Department, arrived wearing a tuxedo because he was on his way to the opera. One had left employment at Georgetown University and was now with a group that brought international dignitaries to Washington. One was distressed about education and wished that her grandchildren could attend MKA. Another MKA graduate was a doctor who could serve at any prestigious hospital, but had decided to contribute at D.C. General Hospital, a hospit^||where the problems of the city bring a p t of action requiring instant and accurate decisions. The compelling stories went on and on.

Those who studied anytaught and struggled and built before us have handed the T.995 MKA an obligation to ensure that MKA provides its students the highest caliber education possible in facilities that significantly enhance education. To that end, the Trustees have voted to implement the Long Range Plan, details of which are elsewhere in this Review . For our part, my faculty, staff, and administrators pledge to work steadily to keep raising the level of education so that MKA continues to be the very best school it can be.

Why were these alumni so enthusiastic about their MKA education? When I asked, their answers incfided such factors as the caliber of faculty and the rigor of their studies. They hacjjearned self-discipline that has served them well in college studies and in life.

Dr. P eter R. G reer, H ead m aster P arts o f this letter a p p ea red in Dr. G reer’s letter to p a ren ts in th eM ay -Ju n e ed itio n oftheP A M K A Press.

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From the Board o f Trustees

George W. Egan

N ina M itchell Wells

W alter L. Z w eifler

H erbert H . Tate Jr. \71

Woodrow WilsonEiational Fellowship Foundation in 1990 and 1992.

A s I lojjk forward tofSferving another year as President of ThfSMontclair Kimberley Academy’s Board of Trust^s, I thank my colleagues for their support and hard work.

Nina, a member of the New Jersey, Garden State, and National Bar associations, and of the Association of Black Women Lawyers of New Jersey, has served on MKA’s Educational Policy Committee. She and her Eusband, Ted, are parents of two children: Teresa, a senior at MKA; and Phillip, a sophomore: at Seton Hall Prep.

Special thanks to thejCommitfKsjon Trustees for their omstanding work in the nomination prolSss. George W. B gand nd Walter w Zweifler wereplelHed new membfifs of thaKlas^lbf 1 9 ® and Nina Mitchell Wells, ' Clals « 1 9 9 7 . E lf c f d to serve a second term on Board a ® Peter Bruck, Martha Bonsai Day 7 4 , A. Penny Finkle, and Ronald Gennace.

W alter L. Z w eifler is Senior Financial Appraiser of his own firm on Wall Street. He graduated from the Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania, and is an Accredited Senior Appraiser in the American Society of Appraisers. He is a member « the Metropolitan Opera Club and a former Trustee of Oheb Sholom Congregation. Walter and his wife, Roberta, were chairmen of the 1994-95 Gift Club phonathon. They are the parentsoMan MKA alumnus and a current student: David ’89 and Jonathan, a junior.

Advisory T ru stee«® ' another year are Margaret Crawford Bridge M5, Edwin J. Dc-lalire, Austin V. KoenenMnd Ronald L. Tobia. Herbert H. Tate Jr. 7 l f l Hms newly elected to^erve as an Advisory Trustee. W elcom e New T rustees G eorge W. Egan is CEO and Phairman of G. W. Egan Capital w rp . Inc., an investment management firm in plifton. He graduated from Georgetown University. Gi iitg S w h o has already served on the Financ^B Com m ittee of the MKA W ard oW ru lfeeB is treasun rt-J E f WffBoard of TrusteJI of Montclair Free P ib lic Library. Flellnd his wife, Judith, a r e » © parents of thr@®hildren||t MKA: J e s s » , injgighth grad^H Margaret, in fourth; and Brian, in slio n d .

Newly elected Advisory Trustee H erb ert H. Tate J r . is a graduate of Montclair Academy, Class of 1971. He is President of the f|ew Jersey Board of Public Utilities in Governor Whitman’s CabiUtE Herbert graduated cum la u d e from Wesleyan University, Connecticut, 2ind received a J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law. He was Essex County Prosecutor from 1986-1992 and served President Bush in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington. He is a member of the New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Federal Bar a?J®ia.tions.

N ina M itchell W ells is Vice President and Senior A ttSney of the CIT Group, Inc.Ba financial institution in Livingjlon. l l h e t^ e iv e d a bachelor’s degree cum la u d e from Newton College, and a J.D. from Suffolk University Law B h f t l in Boston. Nina serves*:,on the Board of Trustx® of the College of St. Elizabeth and of Planneii Parenthood in Montclair; she is Second Vice President of the Board of ftw a rk Day Cent® and Greater Newark Fresh Air Fund. Nina has great™ experience as chair of the capital campaigns for the N.J. UnitSl||;gro Coffege Fund, Fresh Air Fund, and Girl N uffipf^HVisiting Fellow 1® the

Herbert, who speaks often to ^mm\$|ity groups and MKA students, will receive MKA’s 1995 Distinguished Alumni Award at Homecoming. He and his wife, Hharlotte, were married in March. R etirem en ts June brought to a close ® e terms of two members of the Board of Trustees, Thomas H. Hagoort and John ^ B

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Kidde ’52x. Tom served on the Educational Policy and Bylaws committees. John was the chairman of the Investment Sub-Committee and was a member of the Committee on Trustees. The Board joins me in thanking Tom and John for their years of service.

leadership»)!' Newton Schott, the Long Range Planning Committee completed this task which was approved by the Board in May. The centerpiece of this plan is a technology component which will set MKA apart from all other schools.

This past year the Board of Trustees made great stride^ in charting the course of MKA for the next 20 years. For the past two and a half years, we have been working on the completion of the Long Range Plan by examining all areas of the school. Under the able

I look forward to moving on this plan in the coming year as MKA prepares itself for the 21st century. Jo h n E . G arippa, P resid en t

Scanticon conference [1984], a three-day Trustee retreat where we brainstormed about the future course of the ■ school. It was a stimulating, exciting time in MKA’s development.

The M on tclair K im b erley A cadem y Fou n d ation B oard o f T ru stees 1 9 9 5 -9 6 President - John E. Garippa Vice P re sid e n t A. Lawrence Gaydos Vice President - Anne Muenster-Sinton Treasurer - Newton Schott Secretary - Jolinda Smit|p|S

Susan R uddick [1984-1988]: It was ¡§great pleasure to work with Fran O’Connor. was firmly established and leading MKA to national recognition in English, computers and math....The big event of my term was the purchase of the field at 40 Upper Mountain Avenue!

Portraits of the Presidents

M argaret C raw ford B ridge ’65 [1988-1992]: My term was a time of transition for MKA....There were some difficult challenges, including student disciplinary and governance issues....I think it made us stronger in thé . long run. Hhad the opportunity to work with two outstanding educators and assist in the hiring of a third, Dr. Greer.

A new tradition began in May with the installation of a gallery of portraits in the conference room by the Headmaster’s office. Dr. Peter R. Greer recognized the past Presidents of the MKA Board of Trustees at a reception in their honor, and, as a tribute to their dedication and hard work, unveiled seven framed photographs in the newly-named Presidents’ Room.

A ustin K oen en [1992-1994]: I considered my two most important goals to be the formulation of a Long Range Plan and the orientation of Dr. Greer into the life and workings of a private school....I feel the Board accom plishedlloth things with stinpessl. .

The afternoon was filled with reminiscing as each honored guest spoke of the highlights of his or her years as President of the Board. Their memories excerpted below - combine to make an interesting 20year overview of the merged school.

Current President Jo h n G arippa [1994- ] Finalizing the Long Range Plan and beginning its implementation especially the technology advances, which will be a reality in life fall - have given me a great sense of accomplishment.

Ja m e s V anderm ade ’35 [1974-1977], who was there in spirit: My dominant recollection is of our good fortune in attracting one of the country’s leading educators, Richard Ward Day, to help us meet the challenges of merger. Other vivid memories are of the untold hours of consultation with Trustees, faculty, and parents in helping to overcome the inevitable frictions incurred in adjusting to the new environment; at the end of my term the satisfaction in knowing that most of these challenges had been met and that a solid foundation had been provided for the future growth of .the school. Aubin Z abriskie A m es ’54 [1977-1980]: I think I am the only President who served with three different Principals. One of the biggest challenges of my term was dealing with the shock of Principal Dick Day’s sudden death...but we were very fortunate to find a ^ superb interim in Ed Read. Then we found Fran O’Connor and we were on our way.

A gathering o f a ll the Presidents o f M KA’s B oard o f Trusteesfo r the last 2 0 years, L to R : A ubin Ames, George H arris, Susan Ruddick, H eadm aster P eter Greer, M argaret Bridge, Austin Koenen, Joh n G arippa. A bsentfro m p h oto; Jim Vandermade.

G eorge H arris [1980-1984]: I remember a very able, diligent Board...ffhe highlight of my term was the

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■ S e a s o n e d fe'y uasre than a century of e x p e « n c e , enriched by a diverse past,,; enjoying a gratifying period of growth in accomplishment and reputation, The Montclair Kimberley .. A cw em y stands today at a particularly auspicious point in history. PlaftsWor the future call for the ¡schoopp continue its tradition of excellence in its traditional venue, amid fields and building® that speak of heritage and continuity, while em b ra cin g K l future. The Longflange Planning Committee has guide^l the school through a long, thorough process culminating in the plan for MKA outlined below. The plan was; submitted to and approved by the Board of Trust y at its M ay 1995 meeting.

4. the hiring of an architectural-planning organization, The Hillier Group, which haftf-4 painstakingly taken all the data from the MKA community, conducted its own surveys and on­ site evaluations, and developed several plans that clearly meet the needs expressed Tjy the MKA community. E lem en ts o f th e P lan It is now time to consider the p ro p o sed elem en ts Hf the Plan. The proposal was designed to be consistent with our needs and with our stated C om m on P urpose: “....W e w ill en cou rage o u r com m u n ity to ra ise its h ead to m eet th e stan d ard s set fo rth .” I. Tri-C am pus T echnology Technology has been selected as a key component: the goal is to make MKA preeminent in gjltech n ological aspects of education. MKA’s three campuses wiMbe wired with cabling systems that havedife capacity for voice, data, and video communication. The construction will include the cabling, data closets, and data ports in each space.

B ack grou n d During th4l8f-jtw o years, there have been productive discussions as to the: continuing improvement of the academics and facilities? along with increasing our endowment over the n ex t five to ten or more years. Our important dialogue has taken place at a pivotal time - the resurgence of the Academy in reality and in the minds of the MKA im m u n ity and those who are attracted by what MKA provides the students who a * Entrusted to its care. As a result of the Boardwieliberations, much progress has been triad«! including: 1. the deve»pm ent of a plan encouraged Hi faqfitHof the MKA community to participa® in information-gatgering K isS ia tellw ith t1re|present and future educational and facilities needs that must be addressed if MKA desires to meet the needs of its studentsBnd faculty and to continue its p S itio n among prestigiouMndependent day B c h o S s . Faculty, parents, studentsfeilumni, an<m administration added their voices||Hthe specifics ■>f what is needed for dramatic improvements in space,^equipment, renovation, and new construction. 2. aippPperativeBlending o ffiSf efforts of the C om m ittee and those f l f t ciatefewith H e Middle BtatdffiEvaluafM Committee. 3. the devell&pment of a list of projects: P SiR l^ p C com p ellin g academic and athletic B jpgram s) and “Shapers” (buildings and grounds needs).

The new technology will incorporate many advances, inegding: • electronic mail for^ommunication among students and faculty, and p|<§vide worldwide access. ' • a distancetlearning room to access other schools and national scholars and also receive satellite transmissions. • internet gateway to access the world information network. “We em b race th e cla ssica l id eal o f th e educated individual w h o cu ltivates and acq u ires a th o ro u g h grou n d in g in th e arts an d scie n ce s.” II. S cien ce R oom s a t th e M iddle a n d Upper S chools With the addition «8 technology into MKA’s .science program and the renovation of existing labs, the lower level .of the Upper Schocflwill be renovated into a new science laboratory suite, which includes a lab/lecture room; a laboratory; I>reparationPn(MSjorage area;Bnd a cothputer Bab. The Middle School science rooms will be renovated, upgraded, and suitably equipped.

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VI. Upper S ch ool P ool A high-quality swimming program is a traditional strength at MKA. Th|jU pper School pool has been in need of repair for some time. The pool will be renovated, including the refurbishment of the deck area and the replacement of the mechanical/filtration systems and scoreboard.

III. Arts in th e Upper S ch ool To enhance the arts at the Upper School, both the Vandermade Art Studio and the Deetjen Drama Lab will be modernized and made far more functional and attractive. The scope of these renovations will include the complete refurbishing of the spaces, including built-in equipmengfinishes, lighting, ventilation, and acoustical/sound systems within the theater area.

VII. U pgrade the S h ap e o f E ach C am pus To remain strong, to continue to compete with other schools that have dramatic new buildings, we must make our old building^ home alive. The decision to renew the aging plant includes refurbishing - where needed - rugsBights, ceilings, and painting.

“O u r...p rogram m ust p ro v id e...an ed u cation th a t asp ires to p re p a re stu d en ts fo r full and active citizen sh ip .” IV. Tri-C am pus C itizen ship C ore C urriculum Against the background of academic rigor and accomplishment and community respect stands another defining dimension of MKA: the school’s active concern with ethical issues and education, best but not solely exemplified by the TriCampus Citizenship Core Curriculum. A program with national recognition will be established with curriculum development that includes ethics and the formation of character, as well as grounding in public discourse, logic, founding principles, founding documents, and leadership.

VIII. E n dow m en t - F acu lty C om pensation, F in a n c ia l A id (in clu d in g C om m unity S cholars), a n d G en eral E n dow m en t MKA already has an endowment, but one far too small to have a true impact on program or to provide significant financial security for the future. Our outstanding faculty is a school hallmark. Additional endowment will provide funds for faculty compensation and resources to support continuing education to enhance their skills.

“We a re con vin ced th a t o u r sch o o l com m u n ity m u st ch allen ge th e to ta l p erso n , an d th e re fo re w e p rovid e a b ro ad ran g e o f o p p ortu n ities b eyon d th e cla ssro o m .”

Financial aid assists MKA in attracting strong students from a broad range of backgrounds. Additional endowment is needed in support of financial aid, which includes the Community Scholars Program begun in 1969-

V. N ew G ym nasium Court and field time is so tight that some students with late practices may not get home until 9 p.m. - far too late to be settling down to homework. The plan suggests building a twostation teaching gymnasium for physical education plus providing an athletic facility for Sluch sports as basketball and volleyball, to be shared by both Middle and Upper School teams, Middle Schooj|physical education and athletic club activities.

Income generated from endowment will give MKA the financial security needed to continue the tradition of excellence in education. Thus the Long Range Plan maps a Scenario that supposes exciting new programs, selective enhancements to a workable but aging plant, and essential growth for the endowment.

N ew ton B . Schott Jr., Trustee C h airm an o f th e Long R an ge P lan n in g C om m ittee

The gymnasium will be fully equipped for both teaching and spectator sports events, including: folding bleachers; wall padding; backboards for basketball; a drop-down dividing net to create two teaching stations or two practice courts.

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M K À at Twenty We rljo lo red ourselves green and bluJg Betsy Benedict, Class of 7 6 , won the design contest for the new jftjgool spSi, which is stillrased. We even had lighthearted new B'h||bl songs to sing, written by Barry Nazarian, Nixon Bicknell, Marilyn Faden, and otherilf In the early days, there was a lot of “u S against B e r n : ’ LMand tMfm could be anyone: the Kimberley Girls vs. Academy Boys; the students vs. the teachers; those who wanted change vs. those who wanted to keep and integrate all prior traditions; those in favor of the “m od,sfstem ” for dais scheduling vs. those who c S l d n ’t adjust to a different luncllperiod each day (if you had one at all); supporters of uniforms vs. those against uniforms; and lastly, the debate of the year, people who wanted graduationflt the Congregational Church vs. those who wanted it moved to the Upper School.

We Were All Freshmen by L ori W in d olf C rispo ’78 M v first day of school at The Montclair Kimberley Academy » in c id e d with the first school day in MKA’s existence. I was one of the new kids, a public school kid, starting at the newly merged.Montclair KimberleyAcademy in Se member Ig S ® I lin l| ® p with all the kids in W ^H Arts Center to pick up my books on ■■ stage and folded m y s e lf» talk to some o f the others in line, if only to be a b l^ ttj tell my mom later that I had, indeed, m et^oil^ nice new friends.

As ^new com er to the Academy, I was able to listen to the issuejlthat divided the students And the faculty with an outsider’s objectivity. I didn’t havlimany answers, nor did I have the passion for the fight, since I didn’t havj a B rsonal stake in the traditions. Like any high school freshman, I mostly cared about making new friends, getting tfiC grades to. go to a good college, and having some fun in the process.

I took my bot|*of books. tcfSny new locker and tried the|ldmbiM.tion that had. been given t im e . No luck. So m eo n ^ & d to K | Mike to fix it. I looked around and w ® pointed in th M iiSction of .a cluster of very loud boys swarming one:|W the cuslpdiatfs, Mike Gallelo. They were all joking with him and|Jatching up on their summer stories. It seemed a formidable Crowe 1 to m|| Another boy yelled, “Hey Mike, this girl n ^ ^ Sg p u r help.” I was mortified and relieved. The crowd turned and lo ok elM n d MikapusjUed his way out, with a big smile on his fagfe. E o w can I help you, hon?” lie asked, and p re c e d e d to get the locker unstuck.

I ro u b w ia tfe d a y ’s entering freshmen are m ijjh different. As in 1 ^ 5 , MKA once again has an inspiring New Englander with a funny accent in charge, wholgpeaks of values, ,e|hics, and a solid liberal arts education. We continue to define ourselves, only now, instead of asking “Who are we?”, the question is, “What sets-tl| apart?” The MKA im m u n ity has spent hours upon hours drawing up

Looking back, it sjem s that we w e r e f t fr^hm en at the timeMearchingi for a smiling face in the crowd to help. Studentij teachers, and administrators alike were caught in the developmental struggle of an emerging identity, whether it v g s the ¡Irhool’s of our own. In 197^ and 1975, theBvefriding quesfpj| was “Whcfjhre we?” Wd;’Spent more time Analyzing and defining ourselvea our school, and our traditions than at any other time in t h B lh o o l’s history. W ho A re We? We renamed ourselvifij that year. We were now The Montclair Kimberley A^Hemy; the MKAraougars; the Pumas and Adidas; and o u r^ » rlw o k was “Genesis.”

L ori W in dolf Crispo ’7 8

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Two Decades of Dress Code, Morning Meetings, and Other Everyday Events by G eorge H rab Upper School faculty member since 1969

O ur C om m on P urpose, a document that maps out what we stand for and where our objectives lie. Old traditions have been revived over the past couple of years and new ones have been initiated, such as the MKA-Newark Academy Thanksgiving Football Game. In essence, the work that was started twenty years ago continues.

Students, teachers, an d administrators alike were caught in the developmental struggle o f an emerging identity... During this twenty-year evolution, only the superficial details have changed. For students and faculty, the faces and the accessories are the only things that are different. The Dress Code is still an issue, even though uniforms are history. The gadget of the moment in 1975, the cool and expensive Texas Instrument Pocket Calculator, has been replaced with cooler, more expensive IBM Think Pad computers. Yet the same family environment exists among students and faculty. Teachers still demand excellence from the students while managing to be approachable, available and more than “just a teacher.” Students, as always, are concerned with friends, grades, c& eg e, sports, extracurricular activities, avoiding detention and getting to graduation. But for MKA students in particular, these concerns and the experiences they will generate are colored by the unique atmosphere of the school. At MKA, the friends you make, the teachers you know, the things you learn and activities in which you are involved, will all play a significant role in your life, for many years to come. E a c h 0 f us has stories to tell of a special MKA person who made art impact on us, whether for a moment, a year or a lifetime. This experience is what makes MKA great - and what sets us apart. * The official MKA school song was com posed by N ixon Bicknell a n d Lois Riley in 1 9 8 4 in honor o f the tenth anniversary o f the m erger.

Though it may seem like a tremendously hackneyed expression, appearing in yearbook after yearbook, nonetheless I’ll use it once again, “Ever-changing, yet eternally the same.” These words certainly » m e to mind as I think back on .the experiences and people of MKA over its first 20 years of existence. The school has seen many, many fine students, faculty, adminis­ trators, and staff people come and go. MKA has weathered many winds of change, stormy relations, cyclones of personalities, and egos of hurricane force. Yet, through all this, it has maintained such a consistency of purpose and standards that all alumni can continue to share proudly the common crossgenerational bond that is represented by their diploma - regardless of generation or era. Oh, there may have been some changes over these past two decades, but, all in all, most of these changes, do run in cycles, and if one hangs around long enough one does tend to see history repeat itself. And this writer certainly qualifies as having hung around long enough, sometimes even in effigy! So what follows are some musings and reminiscences on a few of those cycles, some impressions, ramblings and rantings about the. common everyday events we all shared at MKA’s Upper School over the years. U n iform du jo u r In dress and appearance w e’ve gone from uniforms in the 1970s (spring and fall “handiwipes,” winter blazers and kilts for girls, blazers and slacks for boys) to a strict dress code in the early 80s, to a convoluted dreSs code in the late 80s (no “hightop” sneakers!) to an even more convoluted dress code in the 90s, to the point where the “U” word is popping up again: UNIFORMS! It seems that no matter what interpretation of the dress code was made by the dreaded Chudomel-McBride-Van Eerde-Cooper-Reydel disciplinarian monster, the students always seemed fully capable of finding their own unique interpretations of the rules. See what I mean about cycles? In clothing styles, boys have gone from Brady Bunch collars and polyester suits to wearing unlaced work boots, to


unlaced sneakers, to pants worn below the hips, shirts outside the pants, and, after school hours, baseball caps so tight (forward, or even more rakish backward) on tM head that afflblood f» w to the brain must be short-dnSited. All our preppy boys know the de rigueur uniform du jour. But they do still wear ties.

Sandy H rab ’8 6 an d George H rab in early .8" s.

Girls have gone from wearing their blazers to carrying them in their hand, to leaving them in their book locker (for which my daughter received her one and only dflention in high school, from the b ou ton n iered Mr. Stackpole), to leaving them at home, to appearing ps if they have a “dress-down day” every day! Ah, yessss, UNIFORMS! In hair styles w e’ve gone from original protest ¡¡§ng hair (HAIR- The Musical!) in the 70s to Reagan conservative short and slicked in the 80s, to the anything-goes o f the 90s, with some of our preppy t» y s looking simply adorable in their Rastafarian dreadlocks. Like, you know, man, after all t h e lS e a r s , w e’ve uhm, like learned to, y<M know, like, go with the uhm flow?!

F a ce s o f tw o d ecad es: Top: P rin w a l FrancgmR. O’Go'hnor, P hilip Stackpole, R obert H em meter, N ixon B ickn ell

C en ter: IjjMigk Smithy Carm en M arnell, P hilip A llen, N ancy Gibson B ottom : D aiiid Doster, M arilyn Faden, leanne mmmmlohn N pble


now meets in mid-morning rather than early-morning, but that would be just to|>i cumbersome. .¿Follow? Anyway, classes now lfegin at 8:05 a.m. because the even-wilier administration |ff the early, early 90s figured that if the wily student continues to be late to school in the early mornings, important class time may as well be missed rather than good old morning meetings. And morning meetings have, on the whole, remaine<$p good old morning meetings,Some zanier and more creative than, others, but that always depended upon the zaniness and creativity of the students and Student Council leadership. The zaniest occurrence is what happened to the location of the podium (yep, same old podium) over®ie years. It has been moved and relocated almost as much as the college guidance office throughout the years. It’s gone from center stage, (©: left of stage, to center of orchestra pit below the stage, back on stage to center stage, and now currently again to left of stage. But enough. Although w e’ve gone from the MKA seal to the “Pac Man” logo and now back t<gj? the MKA seal, the school motto of “Knowledge, Vision, Integrity” has remained true and unchanged. The one i constant over all these years has been the unswerving commitment of all in the MKA community to do the best job possible - always with the students’ best interests in mind. As the many classes of aBrnni come back to visit MKA - regardless o£ whatever craziness went here at school during the.* years as students - we are all gratified and rewarded in seeing the consistently high caliber and achievement of thetpitizenry coming out of MKA.

R ichard W ard Day, the fir s t P rincipal o f The M ontclair K im berley Academ y

G iving D eten tion th e Slip In discipline, w e’ve gone from no detentions at all in 1975 (did the kids ever catch on quickly to that freedom), to having detentions but no “working them o ff’ because work was to be valued, to working them off (usually by helping BB Belverio in the bookstore), to Saturday morning “work” details with Gallelo, or Scotty, or Julius, to carrying chairs out of the gym forever after exams. We’ve gone from R, S f and T blocks, to 1, 2, and 3 blocks, from 4 and 5 blocks to LI and L2 blocks, from activities period to supplementary period,, to supplemental period. We’ve gone from 3:35 dismissal, to 2:40gfo 2:45, to 2:50. But we still have those six-day cycles and NO BELLS! We’ve gone from morning meetings at 8:15 a.m. where late students needed to use all their wiles to try to avoid B e denizen of the Weiss Arts Center Lobby: the stalking and prowling Gibson-Doster-Van Eerde detention slip-in-hand monster, to morning meetings in mid-morning at pi 50 a.m. It seems that students proved themselves to be indeed wilier than the detention-slip monster, and more and more of them avoided morning meeting altogether!

Across all generations MKA alumni can be proud of their continued common bond: excellence!

So, morning meeting was moved to mid-morning, although it’s still called morning meeting even though it really should be called mid-morning meeting since it

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Notes Around M K A Facu lty Tributes

her quietilpmpetence on our fourth grade team and her effective methods of working with children of all ability l e v ^ S She was often sought as the teacher for those who needed extra support, g u t no matter who they were, she made children feel valued. Rita was always available as abounding board for me and a wonderful help and mentor for new teachers.

A t the final faculty meeting of 1994-95, j 8 m Garippa, President of the Board of Trusj|'e§, praised the faculty, administration, and staff for their year of notable a|llomplishment. He announced that all thrülHI ¡¡Sgjipu^iw ould be wired over the summer for new technology, implementing the first part of MKA’s LongRange» Plan.

The H ead m aster is P rou d to A n n ou n ce...

Headmaster tieter Greer observed that it wa|&k particularly demanding year with ongoing ¡¡Elfevaluation for the Middle Srate| report and an application by the Upper School for selection as a Blue Ribbon School. HeStnnounced proudly that MKA has beengeiected to be a ’SitS-of a Blue Ribbon panel of visitor# this fall.

• The MKA literary magazine Stylus has been ranked “llfperior” by the National Council @f Teachers of English, the highest level awarded in New Jersey. The NCTE provides this annual ranking for high School literary publications to promote and recognize excellence in writing. Upper School faculty member George Berry is the advisor for Stylus.

Dr. Greer thanked the following faculty and staff||or their years at MKA and wished them well in their new venture#; .Jo y ce A ppelquist, L arry Blom berg, H annah C arson ’89, D ani D iPietro, C arol Fred en , Jo a n H avens, W alter Jim en ez, B ren d an K enny, K aren M uenster ’88, P a tricia M ullette, K aren R osen, D eb orah St. Louis, Lynne Sw anson, H elene T u rn er. I Rf-had special word||bf praise for K ristin a U rband for her 15 years at MKA, and for retiring faculty members R eb ecca H ayes and R ita Singer.

• MKA had the second largest number of finalists, 13, of all,schools in the state - public, private, parochial in this year’s Johns Hopkins Young Students Talent Search. • MKA Middle School m athem atijl students had an outstanding showing in the New Jersey Math League contest in February. The S v en th grade team placed first in Essex #bunty and the eighth grade team placed second in the county and nineteenth in the state (of 311 schools). This was the highest ranking :;:’si§f any independent school. Individual honors went to seventh grader Emmanuel Go and eighth grader David Newman, who each placed third in Essex

R eb ecca H ayes fr o m sp eech by P a tricia P a rk e Twenty-four years. That’s a long time. YcSS could have graduated tw ll p This is the very last djxnference report on Rebecca, [using] some phrases Bri8B8sicy»| teag p rs use to , Bleis.cribe their students^ W orks w ell in d ep en d en tly . H igh marks; here. Uses tim e efficien tly ; again high grades. O rgan izes m aterials w ell. Anyone who has ever walked inj§| the math lab knows [Rebecca is] the queen of organization. She organized two math labs during her time at MKA. Rebecca integrated sqjsial studies and math long before anyone’ ever put those two words together. She began her career teaching communication skills...then teaching illiterate six-year-olds how t||read and write. T h en 5# ® taught science to all Brooksiders, filling their journals with notes and their minqsjwith queSions.

^ ^ B lh ty .

• The- Upper School Math Team, under faculty advisor Boyd Herforth, has becom e a competitive force in various math leagues, ffie result of weekly practices wherein students apply concepts from their classes to new, more challenging problems. Sixty students participated in the New Jersey Math Contest; 90 participated in the National Math Contest. This year six students - Andy Koplick, Mssica Bruder, Matt Giampijjba, Kristine Sova, Michael Sesser, and Kori Pirouz - advanced to the second level, the most ever in MKA’s history. In the Essex County Math Competition, the MKA Algebra and Geometry teams each placed 9th; the Algebra 2 l a m placed,3rd; the Precalculus team was 8th; and the; Calculus team placed 7th. • T w o llg h th graders were effected to the Latin Honor Society of the National Junior Classical League: Alan Davson and Devin GriffithisM

R ita Singer fr o m sp eech by N orm iM f5 D ickerson

• MKA had seven medal winners and five cu m la u d e and m ag n a cu m la u d e clftificate recipients on p e ' 1995 National Latin Exam. Lauren Klein and Jessica

Hard as I tried, I could not change Rita’s m in d n b ^ t retiring this year. We will miss 10


Bruder received gold medals; Tanya Barnes, Jason Herlihy, Sheronda Richardson, Tana Shah, and Emily Zakin received silver medals. Certificates went to Latha Ballen, Devon Kelly, Ashley Pajoohi, Jennifer Platt, and George Si|||§

• Upper School English teacher Patty Forbes received a grant from the National Endowment » r the Humanities to study literary criticism at Princeton. • Middle School English teacher Jean Meyers participated in a poetry writing and discussion group for te a S e rs sponsored by the Dodge Foundation. The group met once a week for six weeks, April June.

Sum m a Cum Laude Lauren Klein ‘96 received a perfect score in the 1995 National Latin Exam. Only 949 students ¿1 89,454 in the w orld attained this distinction.

• Middle School language teacher Boni Luna received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for “Project Pluma” - a five-week course at Columbia University and Mexico.

• The MKA Spanish Team, all freshmen, took third prize in the Spanish Day Language Competition at Drew University in March. The Level 2 vocabulary contest featured three rounds of competition among 41 New Jersey public and private schools, some 241 participants.. The MKA students - Matt Bucciero, Ben Berkowitz, Chad Dinzes, Chris Stockel, Alena Weller - who had received thorough grounding in four years of Spanish at the Middle Schogh credited both their former teacher Sonia Tyson and current Upper School teacher Carol Freden. • Tanya Barnes ’96 was selected for the Governor’s School in sciences. • Alena Weller ’98, as a freshman, received the prize in drama from the Governor’s Council on the Arts for her work in a summer pfbgram at Montclair State University.

L to R: JeffP h ru ksaraj, Am ish Shah, facu lty advisor R ichard Rodin, E d N ugent Front: Joon Choi

Peak P erfo rm an ce

• The Junior Class trip to Washington, D.C. - organized by faculty member David Hessler - made some Very Important Contacts. The class met Senator Bill Bradley and Congressmen Donald Payne and Bill Martini. Martini is an MKA parent. Other MKA connections: David Dollar, an alumnus of the Class of 1972, spoke to the students at the World Bank; Donna Crewes ’77 is the executive assistant to Congressman Payne.

In June four MKA physics students, all juniors, under the direction of faculty member Richarda ! Rodin, entered the Boston University College of Engineering’s fifth annual Design Competition, “Peak Performance.” The team of Amish Shah and Jeffrey Phruksaraj placed seventh ou t o f 9 0 team entries. Jo o n Choi and Eddie Nugent also went to B.U. with an entry. The students had to design a vehicle that would, under its own power, climb a sloped ramp, stop at the top, and defend its position against another team’s vehicle. The MKA team declared its participation very worthwhile despite some ■IlSst'minute complications.

C on gratu lation s Belated congratulations and apologies to Em ily O’D ell, whose name was inadvertently omitted from the list of All-State girls’ tennis awardees in the last issue. Emily, a member of MKA’s 24-2 State Championship team, was selected to AllState, Parochial Third Team.

“It was technically a great challenge,” says advisor Rodin, enthused about the students’ excitement, “but they had an intuitive sensejdf the technical/mechanical, a great feeling for it.” He will take advantage of this interest by mfering the MKA Science Club more hands-on p « je cts.

The good news is that she did this in her sophomore year, so MKA can expect two more years of Emily’s outstanding play.

He is also very proud of this first-time entry, since MKA - not ©ling a technical school - has “such diverse kids who have a b ro a d slant on education.”

C on gratu lation s to O ur Facu lty: • ffipper School English teacher Pier Kooistra received a prestigious Klingenstein Summer Fellowship to study at Columbia University Teachers College.

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The Fou n d ers’ Cup At the year’s final faculty meeting, Alumni Council member Kristine Hatzenbuhler O’Connor ’83 presented the 1994-95 Founders’ Cup to Primary School faculty member P atricia C. Park e. “The recipient of the Cup is representative of the best qualities of MKA’s excellence in teaching....A primary school teacher’s greatest impact and grpitest challenge comes from the daily work they do to spark a child®intellect and imagination. ...Pat has the most important quality for a teacher, an absolute commitment to the child’s point||f view.” “To the faculty of MKA,” Kris said, “from personal experience I can state unequivocally that your reputation in this community anlgin New Jersey for academic superiority is truly outstanding and each one of you has ftbntributed to that reputation and ¡should be proud.”

• Upper School: science teacher Richard Rodin was among thc^lpictured in tM April 1995 issue of Sky a n d T elescope magazine, as a member of the award­ winning Astronomy in Montclair Committee. They received the prize S the amateur group that best captured th||i:$®ncd|©f Astronomy Day 1994. “Astrononji in Montclair” was^mollaborative effort of the Newark Museum Dreyfui|i Planetarium, the Montclair Public Sch ools’ Glenfield Planetarium, Montclair State University, and MKA. Rodin will use MKA’s part of the prize for a la|,er ^ R $ k about lunar exploration, to be used in MKA scie r| p icltl^ lli He first subscribed to Sky a n d T elescope magazine in 1949, at age 15, and is pleased, '■»long last, to har e ‘appeared’ in it.” N ien Cheng, author o/Xife and Death in Shanghai, addressed a p a ck ed a u d ien ce d u rin g a February evening lecture. The author, whose wit a n d acuity entranced the audience, spoke about h er years o f incarceration d u rin g the Cultural Rmolution a n d analyzed cu rren t political a n d econom ic trends in China. Mme. C heng h a d previously m et with MKA ethics students at h er hom e in Washington, D.C.

Strings P ro g ram Celebrated violinist (g ea r Ravina will guide a special new music program in strings this year. Under Ravina’s direction, MKA third through sixth graders are ablMt© learn violin, viola, or cellcMfom higartist instructor. The program iijfh e gift of parents Cheryl and J. Clarence Morrison in honor of his mother.

Scientist-scholar Farouk El-Baz, in a retu rn visit to MKA as the spring PAMKA lecturer, gave a slide talk based on his 'SM k, The Gulf War and the Environment. Dr. El-Baz is a p io n eer in the field o f rem ote sen sin g which com bines geoim m xeography, a n d archaeology fo r practical study a n d application. Form erly a p rincipal investigatorfo r NASA, ElB a z is the person who selected the sitefo r the Apollo landing on m e m oon.

Gladys and Babe The stars o f t^ m gn ter m usical The P ajam a w dftie” 1987)an d 1995 m et backstage after M W fear’s sm ash perform ance;- L eft: G ladys-B m pt an d p ast = L iz B ram billa ‘9 7 a n d L aummC harlton ‘88. Right: B abe ' fiS lm i Pas\ - Sara Shewing '95 an d Susan F ehn el H art §37.

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“The Bank volunteers help stretch students’ understanding of how the real world functions,” says a faculty member. “The program exemplifies l i e partner­ ship between parents and faculty in the educational process.”

Y ear O ne fo r C areer Services Thanks to the involvement of MKA parents and alumni, the Office of Career Services has confirmed that being an MKA student has distinct advantages - even after graduation! This office, divided into two areas, has successfully completed its first year.

The continued success of the Office of Career Services is directly related to the involvement o f the MKA community. We welcome all alumni and parents who would like to join us in supporting our students and alumni. Call us at 201/509-4870. G in ger K rieg el

C areer S ervices is a networking referral bank for MKA alumni to draw on during college and for two years thereafter. About 140 parents, alumni, and faculty have signed up to be career advisors.: Thirty recent alumni have contacted the office since January to inquire about internships and/or career opportunities in all fields. Among the placements made as a direct result of the work of Career Services: a full-time job in publishing and three internships - in the arts, publishing, and politics. An alumna from the Class of 1990 states, “The contacts that I have made through the service have provided me not only with great career advising, but also with everincreasingly fruitful leads and contacts.” The interest in Career Services has also resulted in the expansion of our network to include the Washington, D.C. area. The second area, the B ank o f C om m unity R esou rces, sends alumni, parents and faculty members into classrooms to share their expertise on all three campuses. About thirty volunteers from various professions were asked by faculty to speak to students this year on topics ranging from “How the Heart Works” to “Surfing the Internet.”

Dr. Larry Rosen 8 4 , a ped iatrician , shows B rookside students how he listens to their heart. Dr. Rosen visited as p a rt ofM K A ’s B an k o f Comm unity Resources, whereby alum ni an d parents volunteer in the classroom.

“L ifetim e” students who began M KA in kindergarten or first grade a n d their parents atten ded a breakfast a t H eadm aster Peter G reers hom e in Jun e. B ack row : K im Gaydos, E rica Wolf, Charles K aplan, M att Ebling, A lex Joerger M iddle: M ichael Richardson, Anthony D iG ilio, M eghan Torjussen, A li Tobia, P eter Varkala F ron t: Park Burger, M att D rukker, Elena Brown, Sara Shaning A dam Schräger. M issing from p h oto: RaeLynn Schwartz, Rip M cCollough

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Com m encem ent Awards

for coopJfation, J íMponsibility, |¡¡prvice and citizenship Shan-Shan Yam

S C H O L A R S H IP

for athletics and academic Achievement V anessa M izzone K ori P irou z

M A R JO R IE W IN F IE L D ,.'1 é | t

B U D M E K E E L M E M O R IA L

R U D O L P H H . D E E T J E N A W A RD

E T H E L M . S P U R R A W A R I)

er aw ard

foAsportsmanship, -sfelf-discMine and behindthe-scenes service A lisandra Tobia

T H E R O B E R T C. H EM M ETER

for a worthy senior C h ristin e Little

C O M M U N IT Y S E R V IC E

M E M O R IA L A W A RD

A W A RD

for intellectual curiosity, love of books and sports.; and enthusiasm for living Am y Y am n er

for positive action which shows unselfish concern for the larger community b ew n d sch®>l Jo n a th a n H irsh

Cum L au de Class o f 1995 Thirteen seniors were inducted into the Cum L aude Society in a fo rm a l ceremony in the Upper School Library. Jam es Jo h n so n ’79, U S. Attorney fo r the Southern D istrict o f New York an d h im selfa m em ber o f Cum Laude, was the featu red speaker. B ack row, L to R: Dhruv Singhal, Tana Shah, Ju lie Porter, Ben Silverman, Alex Joerger, Vanesm Mil§Ji>j$e Front, L to R- Carolyn Seuglinm Kouri PirouJZ§:Amy Yamner, Brendan Mulvey, LlaJta Safer, A m i Shah, M ichael Richardsoit

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Awards N ight THE BARRAS ENGLISH PRIZE

C arolyn Seugling

THE MAESTRO THOMAS MICHALAK INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC AWARD

THE YALE SECONDARY SCHOOI BOOK AWARD

Olivia Sharp

Alan Hawes ’96

lian a Safer

THE JAMES D. TIMMONS SCHOLARSHIP

THE M O U ff: HOLYOKE COLLEGE BOOK AWARD

MODERN LANGUAGE PRIZE IN SPANISH

HEADMASTER’S AWARD

MODERN LANGUAGE PRIZE Ilfsg FRENCH

Benjam in Silverm an THE WILLIAM H. MILLER SCIENCE PRIZE

Jessica Bruder ’96

KLEIN AWARDS FOR ACHIEVEMElg® IN ATHLETICS AND SCHOLARSHIP Ju lie P orter GRADE 12:

THE RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE MEDAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL AWARD

GRADE 11:

Kelli K essler C arlton Pote

GRADE TO:

Brooke Travis B rett Colaiacovo

THE MONTCLAIR SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS AWARD

GRADE 9:

Rebecca M ishler P eter Tiboris

I'ACiil.TY SCHOLAR AWARDS.

M ichael R ichardson THE OSBORNE SCIENCE PRIZE

Jeffrey Phruksaraj Am ish Shah

D eborah H aight ’96

Brendan Mulvey

C arolyn Seugling THE G.A. DOWNSBROUGH SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIP

THE SMITH COLLEGE CI§§§;AWARD

M atthew Seelig

Ju lie P orter Amy Yam ner THE NAZARIAN MATHEMATICS PRIZE

Larissa Lury ’96

Rita Papaleo

THE AL STAPF AWARD

Nicole Kam ine

D hruv Singhal

GRADE 11:

Jessica Bruder Allison C onnolly Lauren Klein Larissa Lury

GRADE 10:

Abigail Love N icholas M arantz Ellen Stern

GRADE 9:

Parag Butala Lauren Moses Anthony Ndu K ate Scelsa Em ily Zackin

Benjam in Silverm an

THE HISTORY PRIZE

K ori Pirouz

HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT PRIZE

THE JOHN RABUSE HISTORY AWARD

R obert P erron e

C arolyn Seugling FINE AMD PERFORMING ARTS PRIZES

THE FRANK “PONCHO” BROGAN 7 2 MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

Jessica Bruder ’96

Visual: Ju lie P orter M ichael R ichardson Music-Vocal: Rita Papaleo Com m unications: Sara Shaning D ance: Rita Papaleo

RED AND BLACK SOCIETY

THE MARILYN FADEN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN THEATRE ARTS

STUDENTS OF COLOR LEADERSHIP AWARD AND SCHOLARSHIP

Acting: Sara Shaning Technical: M atthew D rukker THE ELIZABETH O ’NEIL FEAGLEY ' CREATIVITY AWARD

D eborah H aight ’96 Lee Vartan ’96

G lenn-John Jeffers THE DARTMOUTH CLUB BOOK AWARD

Lee Vartan ’96

A drianna DelCollo

A thletic D irector Sandy Lonsinger, facu lty m em ber George Berry, Business M anager R ichard Sunshine, an d R achel Stettler, D irectorS A dm ission s, in Com m encem ent regalia.

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Sports Awards 1 9 9 4 -9 5 COUGAR ATHLETIC AWARDS AND HONORS FALL 1994 FOOTBALL Justin Blai||Si|| Greg Gennace 1 Alex J o e ra B Rgfcsjft Reif M a tth ^ ^ S lig Ben Silverman i iarreiV Witmer Phil Gennacl|j| Luke McLarty: Peter Tiboris

SWIMMING '95 ■ p p ta in , MVP, 1st Team Offense Prep B ’95 Blaptain, 1st Team Defensg Prep B •’95 1st Team Defense Prep B 95 Honorable Mentiln Prep B ’95 Captain, ISf Team M fense Prep B '95 Captain, 1st Team Offense Prep B m 1st Team Defense Prep B '96 C o a c l l Award, Honorable MentiomPrep B ¡ ¡ ¡ 1 H om table Mention Prep B '98 Honorable Mention-Prep B

Rob Pel§>ne Brendan Mulvey Marcy ShapirqCj Dhruv Singhal

BOYS’ FENCING David DeMatteis Joon Choi 1layong Kim Adam Lutz Alain M orHi^«!

FIELD HOCKEY Rita P a p a lJffii Elizabeth mura Kristen Klank Jfesley Berry

’95

BOYS’ SOCCER iktnisl Byrd . Charl®|Kaplan Jon Monicfeik Kori Pirouz -.1 Bryan Beaker Joshua Lite Sharif Siddiqui Gregory DecteasB # B^R aab

Alicia Lee Ali Tobia ^ B fin a Mirchandani

Captain, Honorable Mention All-County Honorable MenticH All-(KnferenG^M ’9 5 , Hoj||alple Mention All-County 2nd Team Almonference "95 Captain, HoHsrable Mention AllSfounty Honorable Mention All-Conference ■ i n c h 's Award, 2nd Team A ll-Conferenctlil Hgafirniile Mention All-County '96 2nd Team All-iSgnference HiMMable Mention Ail County Honorable Mention AUMounty HtHorable Mention All-Conference '96 2nd Team Allr^Dnference Honorable Mentldnl All-County MVP, 1st Team All-Conference 2nd Team A iKountv '97 2nd Team A ll-In feren ce 3rd Team All-County

Carolyn Sjflgling Rich Sutter Amy Urband Matt Giampapa

’97 MVP j P g l MIP

’95

Captain, MVP, 1st Team All-Prep

’95 ’95

Captain Coach’s Award 2nd Team All-Prep 2nd Team All-Prep

m m Captain, 1st Team All-Prep Wm '97

SOFTBALL Allifon Connolly Anna Graneli Katie Hayes- Tasha Murphy Colleen Rabke EmilyEl’Dell Brctfke Travis Lisa Yamner

’95 [tap tain , Coach’s Award 9 Captain, MVP 3§7 MIP

’96 i n ’96 ’96 m '97 ’97 |§7

Captain JV Most Improved MVP Coach’s Award JV Captain Honorable Mention All-Prep MIP, 1st Team All-Prep JV Cbâch’s Award

GOLF

CROSS COUNTRY

Blair flare Claudio Kawecki

Michael Richardson ’9§ -Captain, MV Runner Tana Shah 8 5 Coach’s Award Dhruv Singhal '95 MI Runner '98 MV Runner Amanda Wallace

WINTER 1994-95 B O Y S’ BASKETBALL D a n is McNeil ’95 “Captain, MVP Jaym e Califanè^B 1 1 1 MIP

GIRLS’ BASKETBALL Kristen Klank m m Captain

Kristen Klank Vanessa Mizzone Meghan Torjussen ¡¡Ä ourtndigBoshart Kelli Kessler Abigail Love,- . Alice Huang.

’95 ’95 ’95. ’9 6

mm '97 ’97

Coach’s Award, 1st Team A|||||te Prep Captain, MVP, 1st Team All-State Prep Captain -2nd Team All-State Prep 1st Team All-State Prep JV Côiâëh’s Award JV MVP

BOYS’ LACROSSE

'95 Captain, M II^p '95 ||||i!|in, MVP

Matthew Drukker Kori Pirouz James Staedler

’9 | i Captain, MVP '95 Cat)tfiin.^^^5i.’s Trophy A. W m Bmgmn’s Award

BOYS’ TENNIS Brendan Mulvey Andrew Kolpick Reuben Atlas A sh le^ ajo aB B H

VOLLEYBALL '95 ip

’97 [lo a c h 's Award ’97 Low Scorer

GIRLS’ LACROSSE

ICE HOCKEY

Sha||ptan Yam Amy Yam nerlal

Captain

BASEBALL Justin Blane^H Charl|§| Kaplan Jon MonkSif-; : Bobby Reif Michael Reiter Brett Rlaia#s>v.O'

GIRLS’ TENNIS

Charles Kaplan Matt S.eelig Timothy Fox '.

’95

m>5 Captain

SPRING 1995

GIRLS’ SOCCER

VanM H Mizzone Julie Porter

Captain, 4th in Districts, 9th in States 2nd Team All-State ’95 «Captain, Coach’s Award ’96 Captain, MVP, 2nd Team All-State Placed 17th injr-. Olymp&s 15 & under Placed 2nd ih flS Fencing Association 19 & under

i| s

SKI RACING

jpourtnev Kilwyne ";9 p ilSsracly.s Award Alexis Silver MIP l ü Monica Manginello '98 MVP

Julie Porter Marie Albarelli Pam Saxena

'95 Captain, 2nd in Districts, 5th in Slates ■ ’96 3rd in Districts, 10th in States ’96 MIP ’97 1 6th in Frosh/Soph Tournament ’98 Outstanding Rookie

GIRLS’ FENCING

W m Ufaptain, MVP.piad Team Ali-Prep Captain m ■ Captain '97 K & g h ’s Award

’95 Captain ’95 Prep State Champion, County Champion Captain ’95 Captain

Captain, MVP Captain

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’95

Captain,Award .

m b 1Captain

’95 » ¿ t a i n , MVP

m

Coach’s Award, 2nd Team All-Prep H I Captain ¡ll7 jlp&Ch’s Award, 2nd Team All-Prep-. '97 MVP, 3rd Warn All-Prep


O n the Road with M K À

Later that afternoon Bill and Jean Sperling Catherwood ’68 and their charming family hosted area alumni and members of the MKA faculty and administration. Mud® like Homecoming, the reception reunited alumni who had not seen each other - or their faculty - for years. Headmaster Peter Greer thanked alumni for their support and gave descriptions of “what a superb institution MKA continues to b e.”

JN/Ik a took advantage of the travels of the boys’ lacrosse team to meet alumni in Washington, D.C. during spring break in March. Local fans turned out to watch MKA’s scrimmage with Sidwell Friends School. A short ceremony honoring a founder of MKA lacrosse, Mike Martin 7 4 , was held at halftime.

P atrick Boyle 7 7 an d son w ith “Cougar S pirit” cap

Lew is Townsend ’4 1 an d Paige Cottingham 7 9

Senior facu lty m em ber K en Gibson, his daughter E lizabeth Gibson Boyer ’8 2 an d Terry G reer pau se a t the fie ld o f Sidw ell Friends School, Washington, D .C.

Jea n Sperling C atherw ood ’6 8 a n d M adge H uber H enning 7 0 hadn’t seen each other in 2 0 -od d years

Terry Greer, hostess Jea n Sperling C atherw ood ’68, H eadm aster P eter Greer, an d B ill C atherw ood chat before the guests arrive.

R udd Trim ble K envin ’4 5 an d Selina H ird Taylor ’4 0x

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From the Alumni Association F ro m th e P resid en t W h a , a year! The l| ® 9 ^ c h o o l year can only be categorized as a great success. Numerous events were well-planned and well-received. ||areer Day and the Senior Breakfast exposed ihBstudent body to tlicH wonderful talent of the w m n i. The first Alumni Table, designed to ptigh light current topic^M, interest, wa4|| moderated by the HonMSple H erb ert H . Tate Jr.y 71. recipient of the 1995 Distinguished Alumni Award. It contrasted opinions on theffFirst and SixtftAmend­ ments: freedom of the press vs. the r i g * to Hfair trial. M oregian 100 alumni and gufgts attended our ni aporking event at the beautiful Van Vleck House and G g ^ g is for a festive evening of winetasting. The 7th annual Night with the Devils wffl again our most ekpiting undertaking. Another 1(m m umniBitudents, parents, faculty and friends watched and chSered as the;p e w Jersey D evif|jb^M d their way enroute to the 1995 Stanley a p championship!

K aren Law ton, N eha A rora, W hitney Lomassow, Raelyn Schw artz a t the Senior B reakfast.

Farew ell an d W elcom e: The S en ior B reak fast E v e r y year the MKA Alumni Association reaches out to its newest members even before|jommencement, by purchasing an ad in the senior yearbook and hosting the Senior Breakfast.

On|§ happy note, we welcom e five new members., to t i l l Council. .They are Bob C ottin gh am ’84, Sue Cole Fu rlon g ’78, Ja y H anus ’68, Lau rie H oon h ou t M cF e e le y » 6 , and E ric P ai ’79- I am confident they all will makfiloutstanding contributions to MKA. I am a lio S e a sed to announce that Je f f G urtm an ’9 * h a s accemed the student representative p'dS|tion.

This April, J. Dean Paolucci ’73, President of the Association, and Trustee Martha Bonsai Day ’74 welcomedmhjg Class of 1995 and spoke about the challenges, rewards, and re.sponsibilies of being alumni. Alumni Director Christie Austin and Virginia Kriegel, Director of Career Services, explained their “link” with alumni.

We say farew a| to retiringj|§ouncil member A1 Van E erd e ’73 and student representative B en S ilverm an ’95-llThey both depart with our thanks.

Dr. Peter Greer presented the Headmaster’s traditional farewell gift - a laundry bag with a photo of the e|tss to take off to college.

See you B l at Homeefiming ’95 in October! /. D ean P a o lu cci ’73 P resid en t

ThigHon. H erbert H . T ati Jr. '71 m eets B em m term d in K p a n d T enia W eJmMiMi tbejjw stA lum ni Table, aduxichtim e discussion group. H e.fh is a m em be^pw N j. WyUt. Whilma7PX@a.binet; the topic was First vs. p i •1 'nimfa - tnwgmh%ofa free f i n H the sM \ to a fa ir trial.

Class agent A dam Schrager an d class secretary R ita Papaleo distribute laundry bags w ith the class photo.

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Andy B lair 7 8 , H olly Jerv is Felber ’8 3, an d L ori B lair w elcom ed guests a t the entrance table. C heryl D ’A lessandro M cM ullen ’7 7, P au l M cFeeley 7 6 , an d L au rie H oonhout M cFeeley 7 6 look a t baby pictures.

Victor L u pi ’84, his w ife D ebi Jones, an d facu lty m em ber George H rab Olympicfen cer B ob Cottingham ’8 4 a n d his fia n cee Alison Thom as ’8 4.

W inetastin g 1 9 9 5 : It Was a Very G ood Year T h e MKA Alumni Association sponsored an elegant winetasting gathering at the Van Vleck House and Gardens in April. More than a hundred alumni and friends from several generations turned out to sample wine and see old friends. The event was organized by the Alumni Council under chairmen Joseph Alessi ’68, Alan Deehan 7 7 , and Kristine Hatzenbahler O’Connor ’83- Musician extraordinaire John Bicknell 7 8 donated his time and talent at the piano to set the mood. The event was such fun that the Council has already set the date for a winetasting next year - M a y B ji- again at the Van Vleck House and Gardens. E d H ealey ’7 7

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Welcome to Our Newest Alumni The Class of 1995

Matthew Accarrino ......................Moravian College Marie Albarelli . . . .................Villanova University Alexander Aldea . . ...................... Hamilton College Neha Arora .......... . . . .Johns Hopkins University Karla Arria-DeVoe . . . .Parsons School of Design Annetta Benedict . .............. University of Vermont Joanna Berman . . ............................. Smith College Justin Blanes.......... .................Wesleyan University Jason Boshart . . . .............. University of Vermont Elena Brown . . . . ...........................Boston College Inna Burakov ........................Drew University Park Burger .................................... Oberlin College Lauren Burt ..............................................Undecided Daniel Byrd ......... . . . .University of Pennsylvania Chia-Lin Chang . ,........................ Douglass College Brian Davidson . . .............................Ithaca College David DeMatteis . ................. Columbia University Anthony Digilio . . .............. Ohio State University Steven DiPasquale .................Villanova University * Matthew Drukker ........................Williams College Matthew Ebling . .......................Dickinson College Eva Gabel.............. .George Washington University Kimberly Gaydos . ............................. Pitzer College Gregory Gennace ........................ Lafayette College

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Olivia Sharp ...................................... Smith College Robert Perrone..........................................VanderbiltUniversity Kristen K lank....................... Loyola College (Md.) Jennifer Goldman ............University of Rochester Benjamin Silverman ................. Cornell University Kourosh Pirouz............University of Pennsylvania Robert K ram er............................ Colorado College Elissia Greenberg. .George Washington University Dhruv Singhal..............................Cornell University Julie Porter................................................... PrincetonUniversity Ronald Laskin.................................................RutgersUniversity Alison Herlihy................... Evergreen State College Min S o n g .................................................. Undecided Robert R e i f ......................................................LehighUniversity Karen Lawton ......................New York University Hanzy Herrera ....................... SUNY-Stony Brook Kristine S o v a.......................... New York University Michael Richardson ................. Cornell University Alicia L e e ............................................. Smith College Jonathan Hirsh ...................... Syracuse University James Staedler......................... University of Arizona liana Safer ...................................... Duke University * Christine L ittle .............................................. ColgateUniversity Terence H olu sha..........Ohio Wesleyan University Nicholas Stephenson . . . .Susquehanna University Adam Schrager...............................................ColgateUniversity Whitney Lomazow......................................... EmoryUniversity Carl H u d ig ..........University of Colorado-Boulder Richard Sutter ................. Susquehanna University Rae Lynn Schw artz............University of Vermont Gina Maggio .......................... Villanova University Charles Ingersoll .............. Washington University Gabrielle Sutton. . University of Colorado-Boulder Elizabeth Scura................... . .Villanova University Kathleen M cClear....................................... FordhamUniversity Henry Clay Irving IV . . . .Georgetown University Alon T erry .........................Northwestern University Matthew Seelig...............................................RutgersUniversity Ripley McCollough..........St. Lawrence University Glenn-John Jeffers.Northwestern University Alisandra Tobia . . .University of New Hampshire Carolyn Seugling.................................. GeorgetownUniversity Dennis M cN eil..........ColU ge of William & Mary Alexander Joerger...................................GeorgetownUniversity Meghan Torjussen................... Bryn Mawr College Ami Shah ............................... Columbia University Vanessa Mizzone . . . . .UnJ S/ersity of Pennsylvania Charles Kaplan............................................ WesleyanUniversity Peter Varkala..........................................Reed College Tana Shah .............................University of Chicago jUniversity of Vermont Jonathan Monico Brian Kennedy...................................Ithaca College Helen W alter................................ Rutgers University Sara Shaning.................................................BucknellUniversity Brendan Mulvey Yale University Elizabeth Kennedy............................Smith College Colin W a rd ................................ Bucknell University Marcy Shapiro....................................Ithaca College Rita Papaleo..................... Northwestern University Courtney Kilcoyne ................. Syracuse University Thora W estock ..............................Lafayette College Kristin White ........................New York University Darren W itm er.........................Villanova University Erica W o l f .....................................Skidmore College Shan-Shan Y a m .................St. Lawrence University Amy Y am ner..............................Dartmouth College ‘ Alumni Children

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1995 Distinguished Alumni Award

H erb ert H. Tate J r . ’71

must address pie problems of self-image and self-worth among-.our young....” Herb .backed thèse words w itlK actHn .o.n tough-issues and developed a reputation for being personally accessible.

K g are livinggin a time of changed political landscape which hasjour nation re-examining the role of government and re-emphasizing|jjfe responsibility of the individual. It is fitting, therSpre, that the incipient of thgp year’s Distinguished Alumni Award be an individual whose: life has been clearly marked by the themes of hard work, personal responsibility, and volunteerism. The Montclair Kimberley Academy Alumni Association is most pleased tH honor Herbert H. Tate Jr. of th B ciass of 1971.

Born to a former New Jersey Superior Court Judge (an Academy Trustee) and a Newark school district teacher, Herbert Tate attributes his achievement tojgK® high expectations of his parents and the challenges of academic and personal discipline he encountered at Montclair Academy, which he entered in fifth grade.

The S ed en tia lsg f HdfifrTate*>r¡academic and career history rfflid lik J a laundry list (^superlatives: He graduated cu m la u d e from Montcgdr Academy in 1971 and cu m la u d e fr||n Wesleyan UniversilJM ree and a half ^ s r s later; he r^ iv e M S t T.D. from Rutgers Law School in 1978. He was appointed Essex County Prosecutor t^ K o v e m p f Tom Keamfe the age o f |J,.?the. youngest prosecutor and first black in th e iJa te W l busiest office. There he p£f§lecuted Some notabl^B cas®. and reduced the caseload^of some ||toOQ .cases pel; year) by'Jialf in four y ears* Herb then served a lH President BusMs top law enforcement officer in the U-SBEnvironmental Prbf<J|§tion Agency in Washington.

“As a young black guy growing up, I could be anything, anybody I wanted tifibe, according to th® effort I put in,” he said in an interview with the MKA A lu m n i News in 1987. He a lsfi» n sid e rs it his responsibility to give back to. those institutions yrhich have brought him forward. “Kids thèse days don’t have Heroes, role models. I’d . ' like to go back and tell them what it takes to make it.” Indeed, current MKA students benefit regularly from Herb’s candor and ex p erien ce^ * he is a ffequent participant at Career Day and a popular guest speaker. He led the lunchtime discussion at the first Alumni Table this spring (topic: First vs.’Sixth Amendment). Herb, also shares his expertise with MKA’s Board of .Trustees as an Advisory Trustee.

In filfe Herb was asked by GovernomChristine T » d Whitman to b|:om e President of the New Jersey Board of Public S ilite | l in charge of regulating the conduct of •tMephoneMablaand power authorities. In that position today, Herb reports dirfectly to the Governor and is a valued member of her Cabinet.

Herbert H. Tate Jr. fulfills allgifflthe possible criteria for MKA’s Distinguished Alumni Award: Ife has achieved great distinction in some field of endeavor and through Writing to the Newark S tar L ed g er as pSSfigutor in gÜtstanding characte||ànd dedication been of speciitl:;*I. 98c. Herb said,.“A moral crisH-is facing the nation and serviiè'To humanity. is ditMtly affecting our young peopl^.ThH tim e has come for cominu nities! rel igioitts institutions an q K R udy S chlobohm ’7'4 parents to imecome involved and take a long, hard look D istin gu ished A lu m n i A w ard at the crisis of human itlu e s within communities. We C om m ittee C h airm an

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Class Notes

E d ito r’s N o te W e use one “official” yearly mailing to obtain news, which appears in the FA LL MKA Review. SPRIN G magazine Class: Notes are taken from reunion, holiday, and phonathon news, newspaper clippings, 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 people love to read news whenever. The time lapse is unavoidable, as the processing o f Class Notes from secretary to Alumni Office to classmates to secretary to Alumni Office to designer to printer covers a l 4 - t o - l 6 week period! Please rem ember that you can send a note to your class secretary or to the Alum ni Office anytime. W e keep ongoing files for each class. T o those o f you without a class secretary, how would you like to volunteer? T he job has been simplified to the point that you will probably find it most enjoyable! The position o f alumni class secretary, like that o f class agent and reunion chairman, i§ absolutely essential to the vitality o f the isdlbol. Please consider it.

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IfK S Karolyn Greene Cole was looking forward to a big family reunion on her 90th birthday in August in “beloved Cape C o d & She has a new great-granddaughter, Abigail - Karolyn’s daughter Linda Cole LeStage ’5 6 is the grandmother. Daughter Sue and family live in London. Karolyn sees Kimberley friend Ruth M organ Oliver occasionally. O ur condolences to the family o f D orothy W h ite Logie. She was long 'active in genealogical research and garden and horti­ cultural societiesp^ MA Theron Butterw orth reports “nothing spectacular,” albeit he celebrated his 91st birthday in M arch. H e has moved to a limitedcare facility, C ountry Meadows, in Hershey, Pa. O ur condolences to the family o f Percy S. Y oung Jr. H e was active in comm unity service and was an enthusiastic traveler.

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M ontclair to Old Lyme, C onn., but sent no further details. Polly Richardson Evans, whose death was noted in the last Review, was an accomplished professional artist o f pastel portraits and watercolptS.' H er portrait o f Kimberley Headmistress Ethel Spurr, the gift o f the Class o f 1959 (her daughter Betsy Evans M anchester’s class), hangs in the Headmaster’S office. Polly was nominated for the 1994 Jefferson Awards for her com m itm ent to . helping others.

tennis and golf. H om e is a life-care facility in Gladwynne, Pa., “where we find life fflure and happyw|| MA O ur conw lences to the family o f Eugene Speni, who served M ontclair Academy as Trustee and President o f the Alumni Association. Gene was J I ^ m secretary in recent years. Joh n J. B. C ooper is “still plugging along at age 8 6 .”j§psk goes to the office (financial services) each morning and plays tennis twice a week.

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M iss C harlotte H . Fitch, BixWjS 2 4 C ape B ia l Lane, W estport P oin t M A 02791

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M rs. Ju lian M iller (Ju lia H aw kins) 18 Shannon Terrace, Easton M D 21601 O ur condolences to the family o f Georgianna Chalfin Foresm an. She lived happily on Cape Cod, following the doings o f numerous grandchildren and keeping ifi touch with Kimberley friends. MA H om er G. W h itm ore hopes to have a great pianist friend to- accompany him to N ew York “to play the famous ’Cole Porter’ piano in the Waldorf-Astoria lobby.” H om er received 2',*?' certificate from the American Legion national headquarters this spring denoting his 50-year membership. O ur condolences to the family o f H ow ard K. “K im ” Halligan. H e was long active in comm unity affairs and was five-time club champion at M ontclair G olf Club.

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Mrs. Joh n E. H olt (D orothy Ayres) 4 0 3 West Center St., M anchester C T 0 6 040 Frank and Louise Stauffen Barnard “are well and unusually active for our ages.” They spend four months in Sebastian, Fla., with biking,

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Francis and Chara Church Phillips spend the winter in Siesta Key, Fla., then return to a continuing-care comm unity, Harrowgate, in New Jersey. They enjoy their two children, seven grands, and seven great-grands. Chara is still busy with painting and traveling: to Russia last summer and a recent M B|®ippi cruise. O ur condolences to Anne Halligan M orse on the death o f her brother, H ow ard K. Halligan ’26x.

Annie H odgson M cB rair volunteers at? a hospital and visits shut-ins in their homes and prisoners at the jail in Caldwell. She is active in church, garden club and bridge. Annie has five married children and two o f her 11 grands were married last year, so she is hoping to add “great” to her name. N ancy H olton Bartow is already feeling great


after a hip operation. N ancy compliments herself on her move to Kendal, a retirement home in Kennett Square, Pa., “a very rewarding place to spend one’s latter years...beautiful setting, good care, and a marvelous variety of residents. Almost like a large extended family,?;, Jesse Taylor Drew is getting along very well in spite S&troke a few years ago. She has a wonderful philosophy o f life, and is grateful '.h r. she and her husband are still in their beautiful home in Stuar|y’F la. She makes it a point o f remembering the good dmes and forgetting the bad. Zaida Jones Dillon and I keep in touch by phone. She was our next-door neighbor in M ontclair, so “keeping up with the Joneses”® Syas, quite apropos. O ur friendship began in kindergarten at Kimberley when we were both five. Mary Adele Halsey Bell and I plan to get together for lunch and a few hours of “rememberingMyhen I return from a trip to Colorado and Arizona. I still dabble at painting and writing, and someday hope to be. in the Guinness Book o f W orld Records as The Oldest W om an in the W orld to Have an Article Published. Rene O ur condole|TSjte;to Eileen Halligan Foreman on the d e a ll o f her brother, Howard K, Halligan ’2 6x, and to Suzanne Strassburger Anderson on the death o f her brother, Beaver Strassburger ’37x.

MA Stephen Bartholomew reports being retired for 2 2 years: “Just more fun.” O ur condolences to the family o f John Howe

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“T he golden years are great,” writal Frances Elliott M cCahill. She and Bill enjoy their Virginia retirement comm unity and long cruises - J f orway and the midnight sun last year, N ew Orleans to Montreal this. Frances walks three miles a day, plays a leafof Mah Jong, knits for military and local charities, and does pastoral phoning for her church. Their boys and grandchildren are close by.

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After years o f living in N ew Jersey, Margery Atwater Crane sold her farm and bought a J 1 house in Quogue, Long Island. H er children “agitated for this move, as they come here in the summer with the grandchildren. I had misgivings about how it would be to live in a re|®rt town all winter, but to m y surprise it was fine - very lively.”

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Ross Roe, retired V .P. o f Selective Insurance Co. H A m e rica , divides his tim;g"between Branchville, N .J., Fort W orth, Fla., and his daughter’s hom e on Cape Cod. Ross has made 17 round trips to F lo r id a ;® says he is acquainted with every restaurant and motel on Route 9 5.

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MA M r. W illiam J . Thompson 3 6 H aw thorne P lace #1K, M ontclair N J 0 7042 H enry D orem us spends the summer in Shelburne, V t., and the rest o f the year in Vero H a. H e speriCTmuch time as a tour guide at the H arbor Branch Oceanographic Institution in Fort Pierce, a major research and education facility o f the marine sciences. Jay “H erb” Reid has retired to H ilton Head Island. His wife died two years ago. F iv ^ H children and ten grands frequently visit; he enjoys friends and political activities aimed at preserving the natural environment.

M rs. Stew art C arpenter (Josephine Fobes) 4 L aS alle R oad, Upper M ontclair N J 07043 T he faithful have written - thank you.

Jean Black Jennings, in Oregon, keeps busy skiing with grandchildren and friends. She went on a trip to Central America hiking through the jungles. Helen Strong Oechler’s granddaughter is-a j u n ia at Andover and grandson entered Exeter. She keeps in tough with Betty Dixon Vogt ’33 and Betty O ’Gorman Dixon ’3 4 . H er cousin, Nancy Reynolds Cooke Booth ’3 3 , who lives in California, visited Helen. Visiting longtime friends in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, was delightful for H arold and Jeannette Bell W inters. They spent several years there whdiMfirst married. Bill and Marie Pels Stuart live near Pinehurst, N .C . W hen Lewis and Carol Prince Allen visited, they decided to move there too. T he W inters visited them last year. Stewart and Jodie Fobes Carpenter went on a wonderful trip to Ireland in August 1 9 9 4 and planned to cruise to Alaska with Jodie’s sister Mary Anne Fobes Williams ’2 9 this June. W e keep busy volunteering, etc. ' Jo d ie

MA Eddy Palm er is practicing medicine on Schooley’s M ountain (N .J.) “as usual - the old grind!

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Dallas S. Tow nsend Jr. ’3 6 1 9 1 9 -1 9 9 5 Agpilden voi®|of radio was stilled and M KA lost a great friend and alumnus when Dallas Townsend died in June. Dallas w orkeifet CBS News for 4 4 years and anchored the “W orld News Roundup” for Sp'. H e «avered every presidential campaign and convention from p f)48 to 1 980, the Vietnam peace talks in Paris in 1 968, and eight NASA launchings.,,: Dallas received the duPont-Colum bia University Broadcast Journalism Award, a Peabody Award, an Armstrong Radio Pioneer Award, plus the Lowell Thom as Award in

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Mrs. W. K en t Schm id (Josephine M urray) 9 Brandon Lane, Bishops Cove’ ♦ M ystic C T 0 6355 Betty H ow e Glaze reported an annual reunion with classmates at Manasquan, N .J., f e t August and hoped for another this year. O nce again D oris Keller H am lin was in the news for her splendid environmental efforts. In April The L itch field E nquirer ran a front-page piece on Doris (“T he environment’s best friend’i ja n d her involvement in recycling, conservation, and environmental legislation since 1969! She also made her second appearance on T V . O ur condolences to M arguerite Pendarge Strassburger on the death o f her husband, Beaver Strassburger ’3 7x. MA

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Peter teaches English in Mexico and daughter Diana works at the National Geographic Society. Leonard and Sally Young Shertzer’s eldest granddaughter was married in Charleston, S.C. in May. Your secretary and husband, Bill Young ’28x, attended; ’twas a mini-reunion o f the Young family. Sally plays tennis and golf, gardens, and walks two miles a day with Leonard, who had a knee replacement in October. Shirley Noyes Lathrop has a farm in Southern Pines, N .C ., where she rides every day when not playing golf. She had a three-day event this spring there involving 2 0 2 horses! Cosy saw Sally Bausher Litdefield in Florida this winter. Jodie Fobes Carpenter ’35 joined us for lunch in April. W e hope she will make it a habit. Peggy MA O ur condolences to the family o f Beaver Strassburger.

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Mrs. W illiam Young (Peggy K lotz) 1 0 Crestm ont Road, ID , M ontclair N J 0 7 0 4 2 Teppy H olton Sjolander and a friend went Down U nder on an Audubon Society trip, “T he Birds o f Australia.” If you would like to know why the male satin bowerbird never heard o f “women’s lib,” come join our Lunch Bunch and ask Teppy! Charlie and Virginia Kracke Leavitt cruised aboard the Nantucket Clipper, visiting Eastern Seaboard towns and their art museums. In September they will return to Oxford U . for a Smithsonian seminar. Ginny says many fellow students are second- or third-timers for good reason. D ick and Betty Pierce H arding went on a Baltic cruise. T he highlight for Betty was a visit to the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. This winter in Florida, she went to the namesake sister-city to see a loan exhibit o f paintings from the Hermitage - all different. Sally Jennison Riter fell in the spring and broke her hip. W e hope she is all recovered by now and send best wishes. Betty Roberts W illiam s would love to have Kimberley friends visit her in Virginia Beach. She has lots o f room and there is lots to see. Betty is well but has had much sadness in her life, especially the loss o f her youngest son, Scott, who died last October. H e was in his third year o f anesthesia residency in Burlington, V t. Betty’s daughter, Bonnie, and son Mark and their families live near her. She has two great-grands, 10 grands, and two stepgrandchildren! O ur condolences to Betsy Townsend M cFadden on the death o f her brother, Dallas Tow nsend ’3 6 . Betsy went to her condo in Naples, F I S in April via the auto-train. She planned on June in Ogunquit, Maine with daughter Pam and two grandchildren. Son

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optimistic. Also plan to complete a new novel by the end o f the summer. •“.‘..I may be in for a three-year ministerial study program for ordination as a deacon in the Episcopal Church. M ary and I work together on some o f the projects. She’s m y sine qu a non.” They do all this and take care o f M ary’s 103-year-old mother. Take that in, you retired guys! A t long last, one o f Peter’s letters got through to Geoffrey C rook and a reply found its way b a ck .' Both had moved. G eoff is widowed and living by himself in Lancashire, England. H e plans to move to his daughter’s property two blocks away. H e has threlb granddaughters. Four years ago he suffered a coronary thrombosis and is limited in his activities. H e ends, “H ow nice to hear all the old names... Those were the days.” T he Alumni Office has his address if any who shared the olden d a y s '’ would like to write to him. Serena and D ick Benson continue their careers, D ick in textiles and Serena as Superior C ourt judge. They traveled in Turkey last spring and when time comes to retire, they’ll head for Italy or southern France. Dick successfully underwent treatment for colon cancer in September. Bridge H u n t remains active in the "Iniadhunting” business. H e commutes between Shelter Island and N Y C and is easing up on the hours (only 4 0 -4 5 a week). H e has no plans to quit, unless 1) the phone stops, 2) it isn’t fun any more, or 3) the quality drops. For sport he sails his 4 l-fo o t catboat around the bay and takes part annually in Operation Sail. H e is also studying computer imaging. In June Peg and David Higgins attended his 50th reunion at U .S.M .A . at W est Point, a three-day affair including a memorial service, dinner dance, and full-dress parade by the cadets. In June they were feted at a surprise 50th wedding anniversary party o f 3 0 friends and family, including their two daughters, best man, and bridesmaids. A1 Pels does ski patrol work and in summer works around his acreage. H e and Betty are involved in many activities in Hancock, N .H ., from rebuilding the church belfry, to bell-

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M r. C. R. Lyle I I 168 M ountain Rd. P. O. Box 3 9 4 Ja ffrey Center N H 0 3 4 5 2 -0 3 9 4 Apparendy one o f the afflictions o f the mid70s is writer’s cramp. Response this year could only be termed thinimal. Peter Funk was first in with the news. “Along with the R eader’s D igest ’W o rd Power’ feature, am involved with a T V series I’ve created. Though the prospects are encouraging, having had past experiences with Hollywood, M ary and I are what you might call cautiously

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In Ju n e, three m em bers o f M rs. Travers’ second grade class a t M on tclair Academ y, 1928-29, h a d th eir fir st reunion since W orld W ar II. L to R: A l Pels, P eter Funk, an d B u d Lyle o f the Class o f 1 9 3 9 are p ictu red in N ew H am pshire, jo in e d by Gerry Lyle an d M ary Funk.


ringing and chairing the Historical Society. Tfeey¡¡visit warmer,climes at least once inithe .daiji^months and visit their younger fkmillfe in M asS and N .J. Bud Lyle enjoys life in Jaffrey, N .H ., "H om e o f M t. Mojfadnock” (it’s away on M a a o B M f c y foggy days), paints and occasionally exhibits watercolors, tries to ld ® d too many volunteer jom . -He an<tj3erry-cruised around Scandinavia ¿ast'sllmflfier. This summer they planned risV. enjoy the ecosystem o f their backyard flooded “meSfow ” (honestly, that’s what the GeoMgical Survey map calls it). Bruce Swenson says he isn’t planning anything major, is semi-retired and just enjoying lifedn Daljas and Texas generally. H ||e€j >active. B ud,

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M rs. A lfred D. Williamsi'@jff,un Bayne) 10 Foxglove Court, Yarm outh M E 04096 T he news'fisthe M KA Review brings s e v e r * , classesiibgether with both condolences and congratulations.« Another 50th wedding celebration! Bill and Bobbie Kluge D em ing were treated to a j f B t t fce holiday in the Hawaiian Islands. They wrote theyBvill be eternally^|a|efiil” to their ^‘fres nirios” for the beautifully organized trip. In the spring Review I didn’t make it clear that George and M arilyn Gates Crandellj^M three-day “Family was a 50th celebration. Also, there was a typo stating they began with an altitude adjustment period. Altitude is not a problem oil the California coast. Theirs was an aifiiwifeadjustment period, very festive and jolly. Their Christmas * g rd shows one o f Gatsie’s-wonderful paintings. N ancy Schoonm aker H eidt was in P ort St. Lucie, Fla.BW t M arch and contacted Helen Keenan Thatcher. Both were so involyfjl that a get-together could not ^ a rra n g e d . Helen has moved near Sarasota and has hgitn caught up in new activities! Schoonie has all three children and a granddaughter gjlarby in New Jersey. She visits her brother in Maine and I have made her prpm M to call me. Iris F o x Flournoy has moved to a townhouse in P riB e to n but has not changed her phone nor zip code. Daughter Victoria and family have moved into her I K house. She has K fiv e rte d a barn’on her family property in B la in e to beBsum m er plaeeifej the familiesRpf h B fiv e daughters and six grandchildren. M ire daughter teachesiaw |wthe U . o f Florida. I also hope S segjlris in Maine. Iris Was introduced to her husband by Russ Gregory, Sis® nderw ood® rusbaiid. Russ and Richard were rjs5®mmat®in Kansas and NYCji when they wetjglvith T W A . Sis and Russ are on the .mend from major, m ajH surgerffc. Tw o daughters nearbypvere indispensable during their long, recuperations™« Last fall I discovered Elde|M ||tel and went to an Epis®pal monastery in New York. In March I went to W illiam & M ary where Williamsburg is a big bonus, th e» to Clemsoin

in South Carolina. (Their Shakespeare Festival was superb!) These,w eifttops on a leisurely trip o f more than||month. Saw Betty Perry Gleason ’39 outsiddjjiSChapel Hill, N.<Sg and N ancy W illiam s Brundage ’41 in Naples, Fla. I am a few miles north o f Portland and can meet planes or boats any time; Belgrade Lakes is not far from N ew Hampshire either. Baynie

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M r. D am , B aird Jr. f t Parkw ay, M ontclair N J 0 7042 D ick Carrie writeslifrom Vero Beach, Fla. that he had lunch with Howard Parker. Howard, Bob Dwyer, and N elson Lawes live nearby. D ick also talked to Bill Decker, who still practises law and lives in Madison, N .J. > Dick planned to attend his 50th at Amherst and hoped to see Bill Brow n and Perry M inton. Bruce Cornish has moved to a retirem entsg B jm m u n ity in -Lees Summit, M o., where he enjoy! gardening and is active in a iften’s glee club. Dale and H ow ard D odd took a 14-day cruise to Alaska. They too were in Florida this year and they too had lunch with Howard Parker. The Dodds planned to attend his 50th ait^H Williams. T o m G uthrie sjlll practices neurology in N Y C , where he is head o f the department at St. Lukes Roosevelt Hospital. T o m and Virginia planned t® attend his Princeton 5 0 th ^ H § li: keeps in touch with Charlie Holm es who expected to do lik ew iB at C o rn e lB | Bill H all does volunteer work in C hieag» : ggs|.Tal d a ® week. H eB ijo y s golf and fly­ fishing iislhisf^aeatiom'home in northern . W j i ^ S i n ; he planned on hfs-50th at Harvard. K em pton Hastings is busy running Hastings Development C o ., which m akes||||s polishing com poun4li§tr precision optics. H e enjoys sailing in Maine. Bob Miller spends about 11 months on Sanibel Island, Fla., where Daphne is on the C ity Council. 'B p i y had a visit from Howard Dodd. The Millers (spend the other |®a|th near the Thousand Islands in Upper N Y State. Perry M inton, Siby, and sister Lynn toured Arizona this year. H e planned to attend his US Navy ship reunion (the USS Thompson) in Florida fillowing the Amherst affair. O ther known reunionists are Jam es (Tommy) Tom pkins and David Baird, Princeton. . O ur condoldfc® to Lewis Tow nsend on the d e a th B h is brother, Dallas Tow nsend ’3.6. Lewis: gave an eloquent rem em b ran cB t the»?;} memorial service, • H lleveral M A.alumni have expressed a ^ n te re s t in a: 55th reunion in the fall o f 1 9 96. W e

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D id you hear the story about the lady who breathed life into a frozen chicken? W ell, it was true, and the lady was Audrey Gates Bonney ’4 2 , who lives on Fur & Feather Farm in South Harpswell, Maine. One day last winter, a storm approaching, Audrey found Chicken N o. 7 cold and hard beneath her porch. She took it inside t| 9| give it a proper burial and found its legs wouldn’t fit into |||hoebox/casket. Audrey warmed it with a hot water bottle s6 she could bend its legs and felt a heartbeat. She breathed into its beak and thumped on its chest and in 4 5 minutes, the chicken revived. Audrey renamed the hen Valerie, for its valor; now big, Valerie is one o f her best layers. A local paper wrote about the story; the Associated Press and National firblic Radio aired it nationwide; Regis and Kathie Lee clucked; David Brinkley talked about it on his show. Someone from Guam and Australia called. Audrey writes it has been fun. She heard that the story even reached Nepal and Moscow.

From an article in T he Times Record, M aine Though ‘jgtemi-retired,” Eleanor W att Shull s g l works three days a week at an advertising agency, and attends a painting class for two. She has gone to a painting workshop in Maine for the last three summers; she drove there with Andy Schneidewind W alker ’4 6 last year. Eleanor recently had her own show in a loc||j«| gallery. She is lucky to have two children and two grands near enough to visit fairly frequently. O ur condolences to the family o f N ancy W igg Bergen.

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M iss L u cile G. M ason 14 2 N orth M ountain Avenue M on tclair N J 0 7 042 Gloria Carnrick Ewing is happy in her home andjpssS in N orth Ft. Myers, Fla. The golf course'is a block away, the tennis courts a mile «awayyshe plays tennisjfbur times a week (golf Bill and M ary Johnson Addison’s home in B B U , M d., is for sale. H e has lived there all ■ his life (his. parents built Cedar Hill in 1916)


and it has been their hom e for 45 years- The Addisons’ two new granddaughter's were baptized with all their family o f seven, spouses, and thirteen grandchildren present. Tw o nieces, M aggie Johnson Sliker ’6 8 , and Sydney Johnson P etty ’7 1 , were there for the happy occasion. I have been appointed by New Jersey’s Partnership in Philanthropy to be fundraising consultant to Paterson’s 107-year-old Memorial D ay Nursery. This fall H i be teaching two fundraising courses, one at the M ontclair Adult School and the other in Caldwell. I also serve as co-chairman o f the awards comm ittee for the N .J. Conference on Philanthropy to be held in October. Lucile MA

M r. R ichard R. Angus 3 8 H inchm an Avenue, D enville N J 0 7 8 3 4 O ur condolences to Robert Tow nsend on the death o f his brother, Dallas Tow nsend ’36.

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M r. W in terfordJ. O hland 4 Abler, s Lane, Blairstow n N J 0 7 825 Robert K im m reports an active, productive retirement. H e moved to Texas countryside, “complete with dogs, cats, horses, and emus mares to be bred, emus to start laying.”

are both fin© and enjoyed a- “treasu res o f the Czars” Elderhostel not long ago. Ed and Josie M urphy Rayerm ann have bought a new hom e in Sedona, Ariz», where they spend a fair amount o f time. They expect to m'ove-there permanently one o f these days. Their fourth grandchild, first girl, was born in 1994. Josie stays active in the Garden Club and W om en’s Club. The news o f Rudd Trim ble Kenvin comes, not from Rudd, but from Josie. She saw Rudd and Roger when they were in California in January for the wedding o f their daughter Brooke. They are moving back to California, to Arcadia, during the summer. After living in Florida year-round, T o m and Barbara Bumsted Shand now return to Lancaster, Pa. for summers and holidays. They have a son and “three enticing granddaughters” plus her parents there. Another son and family live in New Hampshire. I’m still keeping busy with art (mostly) and writing (some). I keep in touch by phone, fax, and notes with m y cousins Jo y O ’N eil Banta ’3 9 and Hayden O ’Neil ’4 6 . Hayden and Pat will be stopping briefly in L.A. in October on their way Ijw n Under. As I write this, we’re getting ready for a trip to N ,j.. to celebrate jerry’s mother’s 85th . O ur son Steve and Michele and their son Paul - our first grandchild! - will give this trip a pass. . Daughter Laura will go, then we’ll spend a few days in the Big Apple. M y sister, Sheila Feagley Jam es ’4 3 is doing her peripatetic thing and will be in New York at the same time.

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Class secretary an d reunion chairm an: A nne Feagley W ittels (Mrs. Jerom e L .) 2 1 1 6 Via A lam itos Palos Verdes Estates CA 9 0 2 7 4

Reunion chairm an: M r. L ake U nderwood 9 H olm ehill Lane, R oseland N J 07068

O ur ever-faithful correspondent Leigh Berrien Smith sent news that “Again the President golfed in our neighborhood, on the course where I ‘exercise the sport’ regularly, and Hillary R. played too. (Lady Bird Johnson enjoys M .V . also, and I chanced to meet her and thank her for all her highway beautification w ork.)” Leigh says she doesn’t like the thought that it’s been 50 years, “but we’ve been a pretty lucky bunch on the whole.” She hopes favorite faculty member Ellen Drewes Studdiford, who just turned 9 0 , will join our 50th reunion. P at Driver Shuttleworth still holds the post o f Quogue Village Historian and creates »slide talks on local history. She is also involved with the Garden Club. She and T ed enjoyed a cruise up Alaska’s Inland Passage,'Seattle to Juno. M ary Burton Blakney had a stroke in 1990 and is slowly recovering. She and Peter ’4 4 have crossed the country three times in their travel trailer; they have also been Down Under. They have three sons and four grandchildren. Judy Shearer Turnbull called. She had just been ¡liking with Josie M urphy Rayerm ann they celebrate a joint birth date. Judy and Bob

Carol Lee and Kenneth H anau check in from Madison, Conn. They have four children and eight grands, all doing well. Ken is still involved in the corrugated case business when not soaking up rays in their winter home in . Sanibel, Fla. H e is.looking forward to seeing classmates in October. W illiam G rant has launched some businesses in Russia, including “G rant’s Russian Experience,!’ a summer school for American college students to learn Russian language and culture and Russian students to learn “the efficacy and morality o f market economics J H (Bill has been taking four hours o f Russian a day, five days a week for two years to learn the language himself.) H asta la vista. ; Your scribe will be visiting Arizona this spring. I hope to have time in Prescott to check out Robert Angus ’4 4 and his grain farm. I wonder if he raises Black Angus (pun). See you this fall. B ob

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TK S T he M K A Alumnii'Office and archives were delighted to receive years o f Kimberley, Academy, and M K A yearbooks from Heidi Ames Troxell as she prepared to move to Caldwell. Robert and Joan Denny Carlisle spend most o f their time in Chatham on Cape Cod, though they maintain an apartment in M ontclair. Sh|l| writes, “Finally, grandmotherhood has come into m y life with a boy and girl living in Orleans, Mass., and New Canaan, Conn. The latter is the daughter o f son Stuart ’8 2 .” Their oldest'sbn, G ordon ’6 9 , an artist, was married a year ago and lives in New Hampshire with his wife Susan, an actress. They recently wrote and produced a m u siS jU ln M y M ind I’m T h in ,” which had a successful extended run. MA

D r. P eter B. Law rence 4 8 0 2 C arriage PL, W ilson N C 2 7 8 9 6 W elcom e to new class secretary Peter Lawrence, who writes: An anneal to the ¡¡IflMtsf ’4 6 . Let’s plan now to b & t our 50th reunion. I was the only one at our 40th . W h at’s the m atter with you guys? I’m looking at the yearbook and Bill Brown had written in part, “...someday when you’re a history teacher...” W ell, I became a history teacher and a coach, also many years aséaihigh school principaffin Long Island (believe it or not) and retired in ’85 as superintendent o f school^ Aren’t you proud to have been taught by a W illiam H enry Miller, learned t© create a paragraph by M r. Barras, and be coached by someone as decent as E d Van Brunt? So make your plans and let’s all be there next fall.

Seafaring C aptain P hilip M . C ke^ '4 6 x , Who spent 1 9 4 0 -4 2 a t M on tclair Academ y as an English evacuee during W orld W ar II, visited M KA in M ay fo r only the sw bnd tim e in fifty years. H e toured the campus, m et students, an d h a d lunch'w ith th e facu lty. C aptain C heek is shown here in the A lum ni O ffice, poin tin g out to. Dr. G reer an d others the o ld A cadem y cam pus h e attended as a schoolboy.


Bill Brow n has completed the book for a new musical, Twist. Based on O liver ThvSjit features a multi-racial cast and is set in New Orleans during Prohibition. It’s scheduled to open in New Brunswick in Má|| 19:96. Bill hopes “it will get to N ew York/so 11lewhere d e w » the road. ” Philip M . Cheek, seafaring captain extraordinaire, stopped by the Alumni Office in May. H e has been writing and researching a romantic novel set in New Zealand. “The research involved living in a former gold town for three months building up notes on the mystery surroundinggdisappeared towns in a country only 150 years old.” His own travels all over the world to places exotic and nefarious read like a novel. (Call the Alumni l )ffice for a copy o f Captain Cheek’s latest adventures.)

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Mrs.. D av id H annegan (Louise Rudd) 3 4 M onadnock D riim W estfordM A 0 1 8 8 6 W ell, the response wasn’t so good this time. I’ve talked to Cookie [Joan Cook] several times, since we’ve been unable to connect in person. Also Cyn O verton Blandy, though Dave and I did meet her and Gray for dinner in March. The Blandys had a family reu n iom n April at the old home near Saratoga, N .Y ., with lots of cousins getting reacquainted. Cyn and Gray were presented with grandson # 3, Matthew, by son Peter et ux. Teeny Redfield Sander broke the ’ten’ barrier in December with twins Joseph and Henry, born to N ancy Sander Best. They visited Teen in Florida last winter and she visited them in California in Ju n fg H er m om is 93 ancfflgdll going strong. A note from Kathy (Kay) Crowell said she keef^busy as a church library volunteer and swims at the Y.C$he visited in California la s fe : spring and was planning a cruise along the coast o f Norway uSp ^tem b er. A family gathering in June was the first time in ten years C om er Fisk Polak’s children had been together and the first time ever for five cousins. She rented a house in Peru, V t. near pfster Nell. Com er and Ben play a lot o f golf she played in a tournament in M ay in Bermuda. Com er’s Cord Caddie went n ation al cornpliments o f Starcrest o f California. Herb and Barbara N ash H anson are back in business as Total Return Stables. They bought a thoroughbred filly and raced her at Santa Anita. They traveled to Europe and Russia last year, and this year, after a week o f racing ttfk? Saratoga, will go back to the British Isles. Peter and P atty C o x Mansfield are expecting a fifth grandchild this fall, to join their four granddaughters. They visited daughter PanM a and husband in California last year and had a grand time s la n g the Hansons as well. Son Peter directed the H ouston Symphony on Ice (on the A & E network) and repeated same with the Adanta Symphony. Patty now chooses her own hours for real éstate'work. W e Hannegans made some major changes, all

within the month o f April. First we bought a condo in Stuart, Fla., which precipitated selling our house in Carlisle (in three days) and buying a condo in nearby Westford. N o guessing how we’re spending the summer! I had the role o f Clairee in Steel M agnolias in January in Boston - great fun, good reviews. Kids and grandkids are well and enjoyed. This, rest o f you, please w rite||;* W eepie

June, have three children and five grand­ children. This winter Audrey saw M ary Anne Treene Evans in Naples, who was visiting Gay (darke Perry. Their husbands were skiing out west.

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M r. R ichard H . D avis 3 5 M ill Glen Rd., Upper Saddle R iver N J 0 7458 Congratulations to Donald Bren, who was inducted into the Denison University Athletic! ;; Hall o f Fame last fall. Hecstill holds three 4 3 year-old D U records - for most punts returned (23), most yards on punt returns (3 3 1 ), and the longest return (84 yards for a touchdown). D on notes that the yardage on punt returns plus that gained on eight pass interceptions totaled more than any o f the offensive backs that year, 1 951. H e also was a “standout pitcnir” for baseball varsity his senior year. H e coached football for three years, and has been a general agent for the M anhattan Life Insurance C o. for 3 2 years. H e and his wife, Gail, have three children. Pamela and A1 M urray have been married 4 0 years and have three sons and four grand­ children. They live in Naples; Fla., and have a summer house on the Jersey Shore. A1 is active as a college basketball official and plays senior softball with the Ft. Myers traveling team.

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M argaret Jones Steuart ’5 0 was selected D .C . M other o f the Year for 1995 for her many efforts as a com m unity volunteer. Peggy has served on the boards o f the schools o f her five children. She was a founding trustee o f the National Museum o f W om en in the Arts and president o f the board o f the Washington Cathedral’s All Hallows G u iH among her numerous volunteer commitments to religion, horticulture, and music. Evolved from a “M others’ Friendship D ay” after the Civil W ar, the American Mothers organization was founded in 1 935. Sara Delano Roosevelt was the first honorary chairman.

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Mrs. G ail Robertson Stroh 4 7 6 L akelan d Ave., Grosse P ointe M I 4 8 2 3 0 T h e class has been busy working, traveling, and visiting! Pat and N ancy Eberhardt W hite, our bride and groom, visited me in Boca Grande after an earlier visit to her daughter in the Dominican R e p u b liJp f Bruce and Betsy Smith Berquist just celebrated their 39th anniversary. Their new careers are beginning: Betsy is training to be a couples therapist; Bruce is a mediator. They love W ashington State. G erry Lockerty Hendricks was in Olympia last fall and came by to visit; Betsy encourages the rest o f us to, too. Gerry is fine and her daughters are doing well. ||§|j|ext time I go to New Jersey to visit my mother, I hope to see Jane Gassaway Bonner. H er m other has moved to be near Jane. Dave and Joan M iller Buchanan continue to enjoy golf.


T o m and Judy Frost Costikyan love living on Dataw Island, S.C. They too are involved with golf and see Bruce and Audrey Carroll M cB ratney ’5 0 nearby in Beaufort. N o recent news from June Crow e Cronquist. Baxter and Julia Smith G entry have really become Texans. They love it there and even sound Southern. Linda H erbert is now retired and on the move constantly. H er entire family was in Maine at Christmas, nine adults and eight children. Linda has been to the Orient, the Ozarks, and planned on Oregon in August. T ed and M iriam Eustis Irwin celebrated their 4 0 th wedding anniversary on Easter Sunday. They had a weekend o f celebrations with their family o f 29, including Mrs. Eustis, 9 0 , and Pegeen Eustis Keating ’50 and her husband. Anne LaBastille has just completed five weeks o f Earth D ay lectures and will be a scholar-in­ residence this fall. Jim and P at O verton Lee are planning to sell their inn in Manchester, V t. this winter. They want to travel and enjoy some free time. Brownie Cleaves Lewis traveled in France last summer. This year she crewed on a 3 8 ’ sailboat, from Cape Cod through the Erie Canal to Milwaukee. She has a horse, Bailey, who was entered in shows this summer. Joan Jacobus M iller has been teaching in the project schools in Chicago for 25 years. Joan and Suzie Bailey Twyford went skiing in Colorado in M arch. T he Millers have bought a place in Maine. John and Franny Hedges Parsons were getting their Farmington house in shape to put on the market. They had mixed feelings after being there for 3 3 years; however, Jamestown will be a great permanent move. They went to Puerto Rico, their favorite island, in January. I have seen Polly Faw cett Redfield twice in the past few years when visiting my daughter in California. W e m ust get Polly to come east for our next reunion. M ary Jane S cott Schnitzler lives at the shore and works in a real estate office. I spoke to her mother last fall; she is about 98 and sounds great! Joan Spinning commutes from M cLean, Va. to visit her m other in N .J. every weekend, a 4 hour trip. W h at a commitment! Jack and N ancy Jones Trescot have a wonderful life in northern Florida. She feels great after an operation last winter. Their five children are all over the place. Bob and Suzie Bailey Tw yford visited me for a few days in Florida. Then she headed west for some skiing with Joan Miller. She should have stayed on with me because she injured her leg during the second day o f skiing. Suzie’s painting is going well - some works were featured in an invitational exhibition at the Perry House Galleries o f Old Tow n, Alexandria, V a., in February. H er daughter, Holly, is an actress. N ick and Ruth Ransom W ilson also visited me in Boca Grande, from Vero Beach. M rf|||l Dear, Susan D ear Ross’s mother, came to have dinner with us - 4 5 years was bridged in minutes! Ruthy was very involved with her Vassar reunion in June. N ick is retired. I wonder if Shirley W akem an W righ t is still

taking care o f all those children? I am extremely with the Grosse Pointe Historical Society. O ur 1 8 1 4 farmhouse is 80% completed and we are restoring another building to house the archives. M y sister, friend, and I took a trip to Kenya and the Seychelles in January - flew 2 2 hours to get home: four meals and three movies. The biggest excitement is m y daughter Franny being awarded a Fulbright grant. She will go to London in September for a year to study art. W e ’re off to Greece in June. I know you are all looking forward to our reunion in October 1996. I count on seeing everyone! G ail

David Jr. ’7 7 works in textiles with Dave; Rob ’83 is in Seattle. I had a surprise birthday trip to Bermuda. N ed and I spend about three months in N antucket each summer. O ur P am ’8 7 is getting married in September and it’s taken one whole year to prepare for the six-hour event.

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Mrs. E dw ard C. Faw cett (Fay T aft) 9 G ordon Place, M ontclair N J 0 7042 I love getting all your picture holiday cards, especially the ones showing all those precious grandchildren. O n behalf o f the class, I extend sympathy to Susan Sanders whose stepmother died in March. Susan is president o f her N Y C co-op’s board and they are fortunate as she spends enormous hours on it. Babs Pendleton D onnell retired from teaching after 2 0 years. She and Jim have a third grandchild, born April 1 9 9 4 to son Cal. Daughter Bridget has a boy and a girl. I had a wonderful chat with Jane Redfield Forsberg who expects two grandchildren in ’9 5, making three. Jane and Bob had a great 1 9 9 4 which included a ski trip to Austria and a 60th birthday trip to Aruba with all eight o f their immediate family. Mrs. Redfield lives in a retirement village nearby. W ain Koch Maass retired in June after teaching elementary school 18 years. She and Bill look forward to trips to warm weather places. Their youngest daughter, Amy, was expecting a baby in August, which will make seven grandchildren. M artha “Skipper” Gilbert M oran will be a grandmother in October thanks to daughter Peyton who lives in H ong Kong. W hitney lives in Boston. O ur condolences to Skipper, whose father, Roswell Gilbert, died in their home after a long illness. N orm and Anne D wyer Milne now have five adorable grandchildren and from the picture I saw, they all look exactly alike. David and Gail T o m ec K err are happy with their move to Bay Head, especially the quiet winter months. They see a lot o f Patty andB| George Lucas there. Gail’s mother lives in Florida and walks three miles a day on the beach. T he Kerts’ daughter Susan lives in Hoboken and works in N Y C in securities;

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Seven States o f C aliforn ia: A N atu ral an d H um an H istory is “a rich, exuberant p ortrait...of the multiple landscapes and the different states o f mind that best define America’s most populous, diverse, and transcendent region....Wildfires, riots, earthquakes, and volatile cultures in settings o f exceptional natural beauty and urban violence are only a few o f the book’s powerful charactersplaccording to the . jacket. Philip, who has been a re p o rte S ta te environmental official, western editor o f A udubon magazine, and lecturer at Stanford and theHniversity o f California, Berkeley, received M K A ’s 1989 Distinguished Alumni Award. His book F allou t was nominated for a Pulitzer and a Bancroft prize.

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M iss G eorgia Carrington 3 8 Silver Spring Lane, R idgefield C T 0687f . I f Wonderful to get news from some long-lost classmates. Paul and P atty Dennison M oser had a fabulous trip to Ecuador and the Galapagos just before reunion, which is why they couldn’t come east. T he Mosers have been in Tulsa, Okla., for 2 5 years, and||daughter{ son-in-law and two grands live “down the road.” Th eijp | other daughter is a cardiac nurse in Lexington, Ky. They spend part o f every winter in Naples, Fla, “about as c l o s e » we ever ®p'lo New Jersey.” Lynn Tow ner D odd sent an update on grandchildren, written on very official stationery for her “Select Your Service” business. Michele and Steve ’7f? have a daughter, Katie, born in October; Julie and Peter ’80 have two: Stephen, 2, and Kelly, born in February.


Cynthia M ann Treene has spent the last nSjg veSffis working on a historical book tor the Tow n o f Montclair. It contains hundreds of pictures o f the town and its citizens. C Y is also president o f anteganization that distribute» '" scholarship tnoiShy to graduating M H S seniors. CY has two granddaughters, from son Dave andjjaurie. Latest update from the Duddens (our own Tookie) is that daughter Alexis has a Fulbjtght for next year!! She-will be back in Japan. Fluffy Ferguson M orse sent some great pictures o f reunion. She is now involved with Garden Club duties-as well as the Ladies Comm ittee o f the Museum o f Fine Arts in Boston. She will be Flower tflhairman, since that is her f b r t d T h a t should give m e^flow er fix for the rest o f my life! ” Fluff)' wonders if maybe we should begin to plan for a massiveHE 60th birthday party in ’96s O ur next'f.feunion at M K A seems a long way off. Ideas? .. A Christmas card from the Valbuena^yj' (Barbara Hobart); mentions all their traveling and her two daughters. If rasa works at home for a computer company while taking care of her son, 2 l / l j S ' U p younger daughter works in M anhattan. As for me. I’m plugging along, pretending that I’m not too old to slegp on the floor when I taifestudents .to weekend work camps and housing projects....I can’t understand why it m s so much longer to do everything, including getting out o f a chair. G eorgia MA A f t . B / s D'eStefan^iMi:

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Re&nion chairman: ' M rsm ’m im lt ’l m I.yle 2 m C iyru ftiftit F arm Lane J& jitew lljp j M D 2 1 6 1 7 Cecily W ilson Lyle lives in Maryland, works' in a b ob ^ tore part time, has grandchildren, and sperjps as much time in F r a n c e s possiblw ; “1 can’t wait for the reunion in O cto b eS i she say sp B Jd hopd m pn on e from 19M> will be

ibcrcJjjH Lynn H om eyer Ramshaw, who is training for ordination to the p rieS iood alglreneral Seminary in N Y O f ^ S i t is good to be back north. H er children are well: B rijjB t surgeon in Atlanta; Dave in fourth year ©murgery re s id e n t in ■ ■ ■ .; T iacy entering senior year S So. Illinois U . Gail Sm ith Buerm ann’s thr|Soffspring are married, in graduate sclB tl, and attending this . Ujiifpf Verm ont. Gail is in real estate. Carol Cloke W ildhaber and Carol H anschka Traenkle are enjoying grandchildren. T on i H etherington Lovejoy welcomes y®u if » ® r youllfe in Mesa, Ariz., near Phoenix. Dick

and Marilyn W alrath Elliott made the big move to Hendersonville, N .C . Their sons are in N ew York and C hicago/ ■ Also in Chicago are Leigh Eberstadt Brenza’s daughter (in m e c^ ch o o l, H h S iC h icago) and sojjfc© a law firm. The Brenzas have two grandchildren nearby and youngest son, Andrew,ff| att B .U . Travel took them to Jordan and Guatemala. M y kids both graduated in May: Ryan from culinary school and Victoria from W ashington Collegia I’m now a full-time artist, will rent a: cottage in Rhode Island this summer, and go to Egypt after our 40th reunion in October. Let’s all be there!!! Susie

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Mrs. Law ther O. S m iih (L in d a LovelftftR. 3 0 W ater Crest D rivel Doylestown PA 18901 This seems tfybe the year o f weddings and reunions. M eredyth Clark G raham w rit#jthat both daughters, Margaret and Kate, were recently married, one in Bermuda, and both live nearby in Pa. Meredyth is teaching at the local comm unity college, and her father, 9 2, Ktill lives in Essex Fells-. ;■*-* After 3 0 - p * years in Seattle, Simon and Carol Barnard O ttenberg lived in W ashington, D .C . where he had a fellowship at l i e Smithsonian’s Museum o f African Art. They’ll return to D .C . in April to prepare for an exhibition opening in April ’9 7 . Carol works on her tennis game,, a shade garden (“what else in Seattle”),yand jigsaw-making puzzles. Nephew Scott, son o f Bryant and D orie Krebs Barnard ’5 4 , was married in August 1994. John and Jane Crawford Lyons have been involved in w ed d in g fcfpson Andy and daughter Debbie, after her second year o f law school at W ake Fores:. T he Lyons traveled to Mexico and skied in Canai-lli twice; Jane’s also busy with tennis, sunfish racing, and fundraising for Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center. Ju d y Lindem an’s Christmas card from Hawaii pictured a windsurfing Santa. W hile in the States to Ipfelcome a new niece, Judy caught up with Gus and N ancy Cornell Esposito in Cedar Grove, not far from Carol Cooper H enry’s home. Jan et Rodm an Koskoff has retired, giving her more time to wbrk wonde S in her Pine Book, R .| . green in ¡use. Bob and N ancy Prescott W ard sent a picture from Vicki’s wedding in Sept, to Raoul Hennin. They live in Bath, M e., not far j|®>m the W ard ’s summer home. Jen j&JBsaior at U . fylichigan and Rob is in the throes o f coU teiafi SieSsh, Bob hapclosed his ad agency and the W ards have consolidated their telecommunicationsMo now N ancy and Bob are “business partners on a daily basMiM Betsy H asbrouck Cole’s card pictured the family celebrating Bob’s morher%90th bitelhday, the birth o f grandchild H annah, and the christening o f the new Sakonnet, R.I.

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house. Bart and H enny N elson Skeen are also grandparents, celebrating the birth o f Laura and Peteafs son Ryanin M ay ’9 4 . Andy is now a trust officer with Nationsbank in Va. Henny works for Apple Pie, a children’s clothing store in V a., and for All Things Oriental when on M artha’s Vineyard for the summer. W e B o have celebrated weddings this year. Sabrina married David Brasile on M a rth a ® R Vineyard in O ctober, and they’re living in Chicago. Scott and Laura Sullivan were married in M ay and have moved to Hoboken. Henny, Betsy, and I had a grand time at our 35th W heaton reunion in May. It’s not too soon to be thinking about our 4 0 th TK S reunion coming up. Jan et Goodwillie Swann and Gail Zabriskie W ilson attended their 35 th at Wells College. Peter and Gail returned to Australia in February for a ltihg visit, and Line and Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’5 4 joined them to tour the country. Telluride, Colo, is another favorite destination with Anne and Toby and granddaughter Sandy there, plffi Peter and Karen. Bonnie and Sara live closer to hom e in Conn. N ow that Peter’s retired, they spend summers' in Maine. Lin da MA

M r. E ric Ja eck el 5 A lpina Street, F airport N Y 1 4450 Robert Fischbein writes, “I look forward to seeing our elas'sm a res at the 40 th reunion. I used to % ok at the old grads:,doming back to reunions and thought they looked like stodgy old folks. W e ’B n o t that old, are we?” H e and Brenda are practicingj|rermatology, albeit part time; she has developed a successful line o f skin care products. Their daughters are grown, the older is married, expecting a child, and pursuing a master’s in law. T he younger is in historic preservation and may combine it with law liBob spends winters on the tennis court and summers on the golf course. Your secretary’s son Brad graduated from college in 1 9 9 4 and is now learning construction in W est Virginia - joining those offspring talcing a non-traditional route. E ric

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Ms. L in da Baldai$MP 6 2 Greenview Way, Upper M ontclair N J 0 7043 George and N in a C arter Lynch’s family is growing: Laney has two children, Carter expected a seSond in June. Third daughter, W hitney, works in Boston. Son Philip is a senior at U . V erm ont; he spent a semester in Spain. N ina works in the grants office at Trinity College, George at Shawmut Bank. They spend weekends in W oodstock, V t., “unless we’re going to see the grandchildren!” MA

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Sally Braddock Dinsmore has a busy travel [ffiisiness (in 1 9 9 4 she was top salesperson in 12 offices) and a new man in her life. Daughter Betsy is away at college. Sally asks classmates to let her know if ever in the Sacramento, Calif, vicinity. MA H ow ard Levine is manager o f special markets with Continental Plastic Containers. W ife Suzanne teaches at Greenwich Academy; son Jonathan is a radiology resident at Yale Hospital, daughter Jennifer (Bowdoin grad) is a manager at Bloomingdales, N Y C .

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M rs. C. D. C reed (B arbara Bywater) 1 7 6 9 Forest View Avenue H illsborough CA 9 4 0 1 0 T he class extends its^incere sympathy to

Marby Agens Morgan on the death o f her daughter Deb in an automobile accident in O ctober 1 993, and to Barbara Bywater Creed on the death o f her mother in March. Also to Victoria Speni Munn on the death o f her father, former Academy Trustee and president o f the Alumni Assn., M. Eugene Speni ’27x. M arby writes from Cape Cod that she has been the proud proprietor o f Yarmouth Jewelers since M ay 1 993. If you’re going to the Cape, Marby invites you to come in. In her spare time, Marby golfs, bicycles, tap dances, and bowls! Barbara’s husband, Chris, was ordained an Episcopal Church deacon in June. Carolyn Heath Cariello works as a consultant/accountant for non-profit organizations, and enjoys life on their ranch in Temecula, Calif. Carolyn’s daughter is majoring in microbiology; her husband, “a former ’city boy,’ has adjusted to ranch life; even talks to the animals.” Kathy O ’Donnell Wells’s husband, a private investigator in Southern California, appeared on the N B C broadcast, “O .J. T he Trial,’’ as an investigative analyst. Kathy wrote in May he will probably appear again “as the show is on nightly.’j H

MA M r. Laurence J . M agnes P.O . B ox 6087, Louisville K Y 4 0 2 0 6 -0 0 8 7

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Beverly Harrison Miller was elected V P of hoard M arions for the Skidmore College Alumni Assn., and her daughter, B ro o k e ,^ a freshman. “N o patronage, though. Brooke turned down Wellesley and Bryn Mawr in favor o f Skidmore.” MA M r. Bronson Van Wyck A rrow head Farm s, Tuckerm an AR 7 2473

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Barbara Mahler Markussen is stacks supervisor at the RPI library. H er husband, Carl, manages N .Y . State benefit issuance. Their daughter Kris works in Alaska and son Jeff, a June RPI grad, will attend graduate RpBbol at U . o f Alaska. Sharon Newcomb Hauff has left Verm ont for warmer Charlottesville, V a., “raising Paso Fino horses, gardening, and painting botanicals. M y daughter will make me a grandmother in June!” O ur condolences to Judith Hesse Mick on the death o f her husband, Ted, and to Nancy Cook on the death o f her mother, Marietta Ewald Cook ’25. MA H on. Joh n Sheldon P. O. Box 96, P aris M E 0 4 2 7 \

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Sally Poor Owen teaches in a special public school reading program (Aurora, Colo.); husband, Harry, is with a computer software company. Scott graduated from college this year and hopes to spend the winter sponsored by a snowboarding f|m pany; Heather, .a ' gymnast, enters high school. After practicing law for nine years, Margaret Crawford Bridge entered the field o f H development (fimdraisingJSAfter two-plus years at Seton Hall U ., she moved to Rutgers Law School. There Margaret is Asst. D ean/D irector o f Development, responsible!!?!: all external relations - fundraising, P .R ., special events, and Law School alumni publications. H er children are grown f>i growing: David ’91, 2 2 ; Allison ’93x, 2 0 ; and Michele, O 7, now a senior at MKA. MA Reunion chairm arl: M r. P eter E hrenberg 4 5 0 West E n d A ve., 4B, N ew York N Y 1 0024

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M r. A lan ] . B alm a 2 9 Gentry D rive, F a ir H aven N J 0 7 7 0 4 Craig Cam eron isfi partner in a law firm bearing his name with o '!J«es in Daytona Beach, Orlando, and Ocala, Fla. Peter O rgain istangj interpersonal communications consultant” for businesses and has a private counseling practice. Hereo-wrot^p a book last year, ALignmmt: M anaging O rgW m m onal Change. His wife, Carol, is a performer and musralteacher; son David, 16, is a junior at Proctor Academy; N ateK O , is a Spanish major at U . Verm ont.

Mekong A Journey on the Mother of Waters T he trip took photographer M ichael Yam ashita ’6 7 six months, from the “roof o f the world” in Tibet, 2 ,6 0 0 m i^ ^ H through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cam bodia; and Vietnam to the South China Sea. AlongStthe way Michael captured stunning images o f the Mekong Riv&as wild waters and the people who live by them. T he crowning achievement o f Michael’! rugged adventure is the bocik Mekong, called “a tour de force o f both nature p ictograp h y and social history.” His journal provided the i nsightful words of the text., O ne reviewer calls M ekong, “quite simply, the m e ® beautiful book I’ve ever seen.” M K A students and faculty had the rare privilege to see some «fth ese phtM aand hear Michael speak in 1 9 9 2 , when he gave a slide presentation before accepting the M K A Distinguished Alumni Award. Michael’s previous book, In W e Japan ese G arden, has won numerous awards and his photos have been exhibited in the National Gallery o f Art. Fluent ijC « Japanese, Michael has spent 2 0 years traveling extensively throughout: Asia. H e is a regular contributor to N ation al G eographic, which ^JsOiSsored tb|s epic|sjjt journdpon “the M other ofW atefsl Il l

McGill Conservatory for six years, and is a graduate o f McGill U . and New York U . in piano performancej&She has two children: Tonia, 14, and Luca, 12. Judy D ixon is’ h eadcoach o f bodi the men’s and women’s tennis teams at U . M assachusetts^ Amherst. She has tyvo children, Selin, 15, and Mariah, 12. O ur condolences?to Susan Penick on the death o f her sister, N ancy Penick C orcoran ’6 8 . MA

M r. C raig C. Perry 3 4 6 7 Pinestream Road, A tlanta GA 30327. ■* Ben Farrington has spent the last 2 8 years in Southern California as his family moved thebe right after graduation from M A. H e and Susie have three children: Rebecca, 14; Ted, 8; and Beth, 5. O ur condolences to M . Eugene Speni Jr. on the death o f his father M . Eugene Speni 'Zfgy'K. who served the Academy as a Trustee and as president o f the Alumni Association. .

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Ms. A fijffil'laire K alker 5 8 0 5 B irchbrook # 702, D allas T X 7 5 2 0 6 Avie Kalker commutes between Dallas and N ew York State. H er Shaker Village Educational W ork P r o j S for Teens has turned a big co rn fil O n the horizon is a benefit with Pete Seeger, Rory Block, and probably Bonnie Raitt, S r N ew York or Boston in January o 3 H February. The summer project has doubled in size and Avie finds schools interested in running pilot/model programs. Geraldine G ardner Com eau sent news o f a new house in Gardiner, Maine. O ur condolences to the family o f N ancy Penick Corcoran.

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M rs. Charles G ildea (Lynn E hrhardt) 4 6 E. Saddle R iver Rd„ Saddle R iver N J 07458. Chip and Lynn Ehrhardt Gildea stopped by Chesterton, M d., to see Andy Goddard on the way back from visiting their son in George­ town. Lynn reports it was great to see her after 25 years; “she. prom ises t S o i n us; at the next reunion.^*A photo o f the two o f them taken under a portrait o f Andy at her bar/restaurant unfortunately would not reproduce well for the magazine. MA T o m Daniels, who moved after sophomore year, now lives in Live Oak, Fla., and works at Sports Connection. H e would like to see former classmates. Susan and G ordon Carlisle wrote and produced ainusical, “In M y M ind I’m T h in ,” ■ which had a successful extended run. They live in Portsmouth, N .H .

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Class secretary a n d reunion chairm an: Ms. Leslie Bryan 8 4 4 E ast M om ingside D rive, N E A tlanta GA 3 0 3 2 4 Liz Conzen Zellner reports happily from Lynchburg, V a., that Katie, 7, is in second grade; Maggie is 4. Liz finished«. year as president o f the W om en’s Resource Center of Central Virginia and is now on the board o f the Virginia School o f the Arts and president of P T O at Katie’s school. Liz: “T he most accurate description o f m y ’profession’ right now is point o f light. ’8 H Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner is enjoying I&eing parent o f a toddler, Christy. They went to Disney W orld in February and to Vancouver in April for a Lyme Disease Foundation conference - big announcements on an improved test and bacterium understanding and to D .C . for the Congressional L.D . national poster campaign. T he foundation needs volunteers - call Karen at 2 0 3 /5 2 5 -2 0 0 0 . MA

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T he Best Reunion Kari#;Strom, TK S ’$ $ , and Gabriel (Gabe) Aiello, M A ’6 8 , m et again at their 2 5 th oHsS »reunion at MKA. They were married a year and a half later this Valentine’s Day. They are-shown here at an alumni winetasting event in April.

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Reunion chairm an: M r. Barry RidirlgSifiJ 1 6 Erw in P ark, M ontclair N J 07042 Joan and Ja y Cow ard wrote that daughter Alyson, 6, was happy to announce the arrival of fibster Arianna in January. G arret Roosm a joined Smarte Carte, Inc. in


W hite Bear Lake, M inn, as senior V P /C F O in 1 9 9 4 . His wife, Emily, and sons Colin, 16, and Ian, 12, are enjoying the less hectic pace and snowmobiles»., ¡Garret is happy to have a “real job” and - his words -- enjoyed cleaning the attic before he moved and throwing out all o f the English literature books he was forced to read at M ontclair Academy. Barry Ridings has all five o f his sons at MKA: Alex, 9th grade; Jim , 7th; Andy, 5th; Jake, 3rd; Nick, 1st. The two older boys are playing lacrosse in the spring and in the fall Alex plays football and Jim plays soccer. Barry himself serves on M K A ’s Board o f Trustees. See you all at reunion!

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M r. Steven Schottenfeld 2 3 W oodfield D rive, Short H ills N J 0 7 078 Joh n Sperling announces the birth o f his seventh child, Alexander John, in May; that makes five boys and two girls. H e enjoys the “Great Outdoors” and his surgery practice in U tica, N .Y. Vincent M ascia reports a three-week trip to Kenya where he lived in the jungle and horsebacked through rain forests, plains and mountains. “Every day I thought it would be the last, from swimming with crocodiles to being surrounded by lions, military police with rifles, 20-m ile forest fires.” H e can’t wait to go back. H e hopes to fly between his dental office in Virginia and one in the Caribbean once a m onth. “W ho says dreams can’t com e true?”

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MA M any thanks to Jam es Bryan for his tour as class secretary. In January Jim formed a new business partnership, Global Business Services Ltd., international traders o f textile and apparel products. They “source products for customers and represent European and Central/South American producers in the U SA .” Any volunteer to pick up the pen, please call the Alumni Office. Andrew Abramson was appointed to the board o f directors o f Valley National Bancorp, a $ 4 billion financial institution based in W ayne, N .J. His daughters Heather and Lauren are entering 7th grade at M K A and daughter Carly is in Pre-K. Congratulations to Charlotte and H erbert H . T ate Jr. on their wedding. H erb ended his M ost Eligible Bachelor status in Las Vegas. Congratulations, too, to Herb as the class’ very own recipient o f M K A ’s 1995 Distinguished Alumni Award!

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Mrs. R ichard D egener (Ann P atrick) 6 0 9 Sunset B lvd., C ape M ay N J 0 8 2 0 4 I am so sorry to have missed our 20th reunion. It looked and sounded like you had a wonderful time. W e have to make sure we all make it to the 25th . Ann MA

M r. Rudolph Schlobohm 78 M on tclair Ave., M ontclair N J 0 7 0 4 2 Kathleen and Robert Powell proudly announce the birth o f first child, Fiona Caitlin, in March.;, Rob enjoys balancing parenthood, career, and full-time graduate school (M BA).

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Senior facu lty m em ber Ken Gibson is pictu red w ith his form er student, D avid D ollar ’72, o f the W orld Bank. D avid spoke w ith M KA ju n iors during their W ashington, D. C. trip in April.

Joh n (Sean) Boyle has two children, Owen-,- 7, and Kate, born in December. “Small town living (Manasquan) is goo®!” he writes. “I can honestly say I never thought I would write stuff like this. Greetings and best wishes to okL ■ friends and classmates. Stop by and say hello.’! Anna Crawford left private law practice and joined the Law D epartm ent o f the U .S. Postal Service which she serves as labor/employment counsel. She enjoys life with two children (one o f each) and husband, Bill. In spring 1 9 9 4 Jeffrey Schiffman was named sports director at W SBA -A M in York, Pa. H e now has rh eiW -9 p.m. Sportstalk show; he handles calls and guests - “It’s really a blast to get paid to talk about sports.” N ancy Nagel Lee lives in Potom ac, M d., and divides her time between raising three children (twins Ian and N oah, 4 , and Zoe, 18 months) and working as a therapist with abused children and their families. A1 Brow n has been teaching organic chemistry at Florida Tech since 1 9 8 8 , and became associate professor last year. Debra M ahler M atthews has resumed a full­ time schedule as a physical therapist at Mountainside Hospital. She and Jeffrey have three children, Kaitlyn, 9; Christopher, 7; and Kimberly, 3. They live in Glen Ridge, convenient to hospital and their business, Maplewood Stationers. “I run into Jill and G eoff Gim ber in town and have had occasion to treat some o f your relatives and former teachers over the past 15 yearsaftThey were looking forward to a vacation cruise to Alaska sans children in July. Susan and Foster C ooper spent two great years in Mass., then took the opportunity to" change companies and move to Texas. Foster is with Banctec, which develops and sells software to small banks. H e manages sales and marketing and spends a lot o f time on the road. T he Coopers have two children, Katie, 10, and Foster IV, 8. “I’ve lost track o f most o f you over the years so I hope to be at H om ecom ing.”

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W illiam S cott called in with a new address in Hinsdale, 111. H e has been married seven years and has four children: three girls and a boy. Jim and Jennifer Renzullo M cVea proudly announce the birth o f their first child, Michael Patrick, in April. Edwin and Dale Frederick H orne had their first, Elizabeth, also in April. They live in London. Eve W o o d is in her seventh year o f private psychiatric practice. Sons Benjamin and Gabriel are 7 and 4 and growing beautifully; husband Rick Isenberg has a busy urogynealogy practice in Philadelphia. They summer on the Maine coast. Belated best wishes to M argharet Hollander


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Mr. Andrew Pedersen 2 2 6 F air H aven R ow , F a ir H aven N J 0 7 7 0 4 F.d. note: Andy Pdterson did such a detailed newsletter that it went out in entirety to d£§ class. Some news Via the Alumni O fM ep iLauren W aters ggbaeft in N.jgWorking at Appli@||Clinical Communications' - in the same building as Joe Sullivan. David and Deborah Rasin Jacobson were expecting their first child in July. They bought a house in Providence, R.I., and she has started with Lin Television Corp. as V P o f corporate development and tres&jfrer. T he company owns T V stations throughout the Mel and Beverley H all Hildebrand are expecting their third child in O ctober, joining girls then 2 1/2 and 14 rfieffiths. Mel has two years remaining o f dental school, then it’s back to W a n i n g . Bev heairs a lot from Sue M oreau Lovell in Colorado; she and husband are busy with jobs and cychngl§||irsions. Linda and W illiam Langstaff had a son, Brett, in May. Nellie M atjucha negotiated the deal with Fresh Fields, a new gourmet emporium on Bloomfield Ave., Montclair. She leases shopping center space for Vornado Realty Trust in (5 £ f$ e r Delaware Vallef| but wanted this project in her h om eto w n .^ h e sees brother Joh n ’8 3 , who’s doing l l S s i d e n q r in “E R ” at the Medical Cf§le'ge o f PaMBrothe-r Ippolit ’79 and Karen purchased a home in Sudbury,. M a S ; Jack and Annette M atjucha Hovland ’8 2 are raising Kerstin and Nils in Iowa. Betsy Gelenitis Alison#] - service manager for Sobstad N .E . and is single again. She has three World sailing championships on the agenda for 1 9 9 5 .B ^ e r y odd being a N .J. Devils fan in a sea o f B||ton Bruin fans, but it’s great to egg them on. If a n y ljH s in Newport, R .I., give me a shout.” M arcelle Irwin Pope has a daughter, ( iragec 1, and son D a n a ^ W /2 . They live in N .H . and summer in Maine.

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Mrw^^mmpe Qarrigan 6103 Ox Bottom Manor Drive LfjMdhkssee PT%WjmK Robert and N ora Gleason Leary had their first baby, E m m a '-v raS K n December. T o m and Sue Felber D urkin m H ed to Manchester, Mass,, and arefgfetting settled with Tom m y, 6, Brian, 5 / “and our newep*baby, a Lab named IS p b B H

Kurt and Jane Lugaric Burkhard were getting the house ready for Baby #,4, due in June on T om m y’s second birthday. They moved to Marin County a year ago and love the weather arid slw e rp a c e . t e n n i s ^ eath | ® s more predictable and we’re half an hour- closer to skiing in Lake .Tahoe, n o ith a t we do much of either any m ore.”■ Stevlland P am Lalli Richm ond live in Morristown and are active in the Short H i l l i ^ Ski Club (30 days on the slopes this year). Pam, who teaches in Clifton, was nominated for the Governor’s Teacher’s Award. Several M K A alumni attended their wedding last year: Debbie Campbell Bungerz, Jo e Ciccolini, Austin and H eath Betke Shelby, Kim Sisco, and Diane and P eter Van Leer. JoAnn and Alphonsus (Rick) D oerr were married New Y e * Eve in Boca Raton, Fla. They live in Tam pa, where Rick is a resident in orthopedic hand surgery at Tam pa General Hospital.

firm specializing in auction marketing. H e and Jean have children Sarah, M and twins Emily and Teddyfjstarting preschool. E d visited W arren Busch and his wife and son f i t summer. Sliflfflthen the Busches have moved to France to run a Burgundian country inn. W arren would like to become a vintner. (A trend?) ■ H arry H aram is has opened his second plastic and reconstructiviisurgery pra<face. N ow we have a choice o f T W O pl|l|s*iof refuge before the next reunion. Bill and Lisa Godlewski W estheim er are on their fourth beagle, Scooter Pie, a ‘»Suffer dog” for JF K Airport. Problem was, Scooter Pie flunked suitcase sniffing and was given up for adoption. They still enjoy riding horses at M ontclair Riding Academy and cycling around our old stomping grounds, Eagle Rock Reservation. Lisa saw Stephanie Andreani Kiebele last summer. Stephanie and Armin have a son, Nicholas, and another on the way as o f May. They are living in Germany. fi§|ean and Leslie C olem an DeGeorges bought a “beautiful” house in Millington, N .J. She is still working in N Y C . H m doing great. Looking forward to cruising the French and Italian Rivieras in Ju ly .^ ^ p finished m y certification program and earned m y CAP (Certified Addiction Professional) and have been amazed at the positive effects o f wholiilctireatm ents and addiction rehab. Olympic fever is high in Atlanta - have you ordered your tickets yet? Ja c k

W edding reunion: Jo e C iccolini ,7 * . groom Steve Richm ond, bride P am L a lli Richm oneiiJJMgjg: Front: D ian e a n d P eter Van L eer ’7 8 were am ong M KA alum ni a t the R ichm ond w edding lastfa ll.

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M rs. Carlos O rtiz (¡SM lm M ahieu ) 6 4 P yram id Way, N orth H aledon, N J 0 7 508 D r. Ja c k B rin k 1 2 9 0 Beech Valley Rd., A tlanta GA 3 0 3 0 6 Small world and all that jazz: A nita SimsStokes bumped into T o n y Barnes and Kent W alker ’80 at the Cancún Jazz Festival in Mexico in May. Sherri M oore Cardona ’80 was also reportedly there, but Anita didn’t see her. A m anda Calder and her fiarice||efFHolder, have relocated to Monterey, Calif. They plan a spring wedding. Dale and Em ily Rowland M alone live in Mass, with three children, Sarah, 6, Charlotte, 3, and W hitney, born in M arch. Dale and Em ily h j| e been brewing beer and entering their recipes in contests. (Need any taste teShsrs3§5 W hen not brewing and “M o m m irB Em ily volunteers at a local hospital. Ed M ason is V P and managing dir^ltor h f Sheldon Good a national rcahesrate

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Leadership an d the M KA connection: T im MKA alum nae attended the dissociation o f Ju n ior Leagues’ international an n u al conference in San Francisco in M ay. Lisa F arlie B annerot ’7 8 is outgoing P resident o f the Ju n io r League o f Stam ford, Conn.; K ristine H atzenbuhler O ’Connor ’8 3 is P resident-Elect o f the Ju n ior League o f M ontclair-N ew ark.

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Class secretary a n d reunion eoMdhairman: Mrs. M artin Garvey (Pam Eastman)} 7 ; 2 6 W arren Place, M ontclair N J 0 7042 Reunio'nW rchairm an: M r.mmm Jon es Wgm O range Rd., M ontclair N J 0 7042 Congratulations to Melanie Gold, D .O ., who passed the subspecialty Board exam in


Adolescent Medicine last November. She has joined the faculty in general academic pediatrics at Children’s Hospital o f Pittsburgh as an assistant professor. Melanie is teaching medical students,j$esidents, and nurse practitioners as well as doing research. She presented a poster at the Society for Adolescent Medicine in Vancouver, B .C . in M arch and went to Toronto in April for oral presentation o f research. M . Lee Shearin Jr. owns his own business, Shearin M otor C o. H e and M ary are celebrating their 10 th anniversary this year, have two little girls, Holly and Taylor, and “are living happily in Virginia Beach.” K ent W alker has moved back to Montclair. H e is a manager in business development with Pepsi Cola Inti. [See ’7 9 class notes.] Julie and Peter D odd welcomed daughter Kelly in February, joining son Stephen, then 2. Peter recently received graduate degrees in insurance and finance: the coveted C .L .U . (Chartered Life Underwriter) and C h .F.C . (Chartered Financial Consultant). Congratulations to Fort Lauderdale SunSentinel education reporter M arego Athans, who was awarded a 1995 U nity Award from Lincoln U . in Missouri. She won the award, which recognizes achievements in coverage o f minority, issues, f o r jg r reporting on housing and school integration in the Palm Beach County school system. Marego received a B.A. from Trinity College and a master’s from Columbia Graduate School o f Journalism. Congratulations to Sean Jones for his fine interview on E S P N ’s “U p Close” program. T he Alumni Office has a copy o f the tape and will show it at reunion!

81 Best wishes to Robert and Helen Scharfenberg D om iny on their wedding. Helen works at George Washington U . H ospital.. Congratulations to Rene and Paul Am irata on the birth o f their first child, Peter, in December. Kate Baker works with the Yerkes Regional Primate Center at Em ory U . Debbie and George George and daughters C hristinal5, and Katie, 2, live in Maryland. George bis is at the W ashington, D .C . field office o f the U .S. Secret Service, assigned to the fraud squad.

82 --------------— Ms. Cheryl M cCants 8 W illow dale Court, M ontclair N J 0 7 042 M r. Thom as Robbim Km 1 2 0 4 Fairuiew Rd., H avertow n PA 19083 After “vagabonding around the eastern coast,” Allen Salamone has'settled in Mahwah, N .J. in ;a townhouse com m unity and works in his family business. “A1 Sal ah;d E d A m irata still remain the best o f friends even with lapses of com m unication.” D r. Ed has completed his

residency in surgery. Congratulations to Jim W in d o lf and his wife, Susan Rushing, on the birth o f Charles Isaac in February. Double congratulationsalm was made editor o f the N ew York Observer. Class secretary T o m Robbins, who notes that five classmates are in the Philly area, says he is having a great time. H e and his wife have a daughter, Samantha, 2 , and one on the way. H e is a senior financial advisor with American Express Financial Advisors.

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Mrs. D on ald F elber (H olly Jervis) 81 A lexander Ave., Upper M ontclair N J 07043 Congratulations to Anne Rowland, who received her doctorate in clinical psychology. After teaching sailing and racing in Maine this summer, Anne begins two jobs as a psychotherapist, with adolescents and with the elderly. Jennifer H am ilton changed careers from com puter consultant/engineer to an M .D ./P h .D . program at Robert W ood Johnson Medical School. “W ith most o f a master’s in biomedical engineering completed, I hope to graduate in the next millenium.” Jennifer ran into M r. Gibson and the 1 1th grade at a truck stop in Delaware as they returned from the D .C . trip! Jod y Underwood graduated from U M D N J in M ay and will do a residency at N YU . Congratulations D r. Underwood! Jody was the first woman to give the graduating address at Ham ilton College, according to proud father Lake U nderw ood ’45x. Kathleen and Jonathan Nussbaum and baby Nicholas will be in London for about two years, as he has been assigned to the American Embassy there. M ichael Eisner has transferred with A T & T to Dayton, O hio; he’s a benefits consultant. Mike and Susan’s son Matthew, 1 1/2, “is just a wonderful baby. W e highly recommend parenthood!” H olly Sobel Arm itage also raves about being a mom . "Käthe is a fun, happy child. I am attempting to work as little as possible so I can be with her as much as possible.” Laura LaC orte is engaged and has moved to Los Angeles. H er fiance works for Paramount Pictures in Hollywood. She was to take the California Bar exam in July and was looking for a position as attorney in the government/public sector. Carm ela D eCandia, who works in Boston as «aächild and family therapist, has begun doctoral study in clinical psychology at Antioch New England Graduate School. Last September she cycled 100 milsäin the Ride for Kids to raise money for child welfare agencies. This year she will ride the 2 5 0 miles from Boston to New York in the AIDS Ride, plus do her second Ride for Kids. Happy trails, Carmela! Jam es Sarna was going through old papers and came across some photos from the class’ 8th grade trip to Williamsburg. "Jay W ech t had hair a mile wide and Laura L aC orte was fascinated by the fife player in the marching

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I Couldn’t Make Reunion Because... T o m H ochm an ’84 wasjsgrry to miss his tenth reuni<H last fall, but he was “stuck on a sandbank in the Ayerwaddy River in Burrha, sharing a #abin with the New Pagan girls’ badminton team. It was an interesting night and we swapped high school stories (they were all around 16). Strange how people tend to care about the same things all over the world. “I’d like to thank M r. Rabke and M r J j B M am chur for teaching me French so well. N o t only has it come in handy from C a m b o d ia B Tuva, but it’s actually saved my life and helped me meet strange and exotic w om en.■ Peripatetic T o m sent a photo o f Sj|me elder monks on a wagon in the middle o f nowhere, Mongolia. “They were nice guys, but they took the o jly local transport so I had to walk.”

84 M rs. T odd L ad d a (Jen nifer Jones) 4 2 4 West E n d Avenue Apt. 6A N ew York N Y 1 0 0 2 4 Best wishes to Alison Thom as and Bob Cottingham on their M ay wedding. Bob is joining the M K A Alumni Council this fall. Belated wedding best wishes to V ictor Lupi and Debi Jones, and to Giorgia and Douglas Keh. T he Kehs live in Vienna, Austria, where D oug works for the United Nations. Pam ela Dwyer, a nurse practitioner at Masg| General Hospital* is engaged to M ark Alcaide, a U V M grad. Lisa Gibson Locke, who recently had her second child, will be in the wedding in April. W illiam Stone graduated m agna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1 9 9 2 and clerked for a judge for a year. H e and his wife, Carolyn M ark, live in Pordand, Ore. H e practices with the firm Tonkon, Torp, Galen, e fc., M aria Rabb and her husband, Tivadar Szegletes, sent a card from Budapest announcing the birth o f son Balazs in January.

85 ---------------------- — M r. Joh n B ooth I I I 3 0 0 0 108th Ave. SE, Bellevue WA 9 8 0 0 4 R eunionphairm en: M r. M ark M cG ow an 4 5 M ountain Rd., Verona N J 0 7 0 4 4 Mrs. M atthew Z ebrow ski (Alexis Polonojsky) 4 9 N ew m an A ve., Verona N J 0 7 0 4 4 D r. Jack Lee is in his third year as Internal Medicine resident at Thom as Jefferson Univ. Hospital, Philadelphia.


D r. Rosie Ahkami graduated from U M D N J in May 1994|aiid has completed an internship at New York Hospital/Cornell this pea®- : " Pam and Phil Rosenblum have moved to the Main Line Philadelphia subuifg! D r. Phil enjoys his new residency program, Pam is working toward an M .E d ., and they expect their first baby in S e p te m b e * ‘just in time for Hom ecoming. R oger Brow n lives,in D .C ., works for the IRS and loiffiSBt. H e specializes ¡^international tax. “It’s kind o f funny the things we find interesting later in life.” Heide and Joh n B ooth had a son, John “Jake’ yBooth IV, in November. Tfi^fflooked '¡forward to coming to reunion from Seattle. Jim Rothwell wrote he is getting married in September. “In the meantime, I’m working hard as a lawyer in N Y C and trying not to look too yuppie-ish.” Update: Lisa Bronfm an 8 4 was maid of honor at P atti M cConnell’s wedding last fall. Best wishes to Greta and G regory Sullivan on their wedding. Greg graduated from Reed College and ista P h.D . candidate in cellular molecular pharmacology at Robert W ood Johnson Medical School. Michelle Kessler has a new position as: director o f public relations for Giorgio Armani. She lives in N Y C and,travels a- lot. Christopher Sm ith is enrolled in a doctoral program in communiSfcion arts at U. W isconsin/M adison -B tra n g e but gratifying be back in school after a fiffe-year hiatus* i£B.A. soMology, U.ffi|®i. ago).”. Chris taught language a r ts ® high school dropouts in the South Bronx and Manhattan. H e continues a« a geelance contributor to Vibe, Papers N ew York Newsd&ysinA others, writing about hiphop, reggae, and contemporary fiction. Prior to moving to the Midwest, he “kicked it in Brookjyji” in an apartment with Dave M cC ants ’8 7 . Chris is in c o h jp t with-Peter Edge ’8 2 and Dave Lockett.

8 6 “----------------------— MSm herry A hkam i 2$0% ast 5 7 th St., Apt. 2 0 B N ew York N Y 1 0 0 2 2 Mis, Jenm fter Rem ington 4 4 H am ilton D rive E ast N orth C aldw ell N J 0 7 0 0 6 B|P wishes to George and Claudia Ross N em phos on their wedding. Julia W eil and Valerie Cordover Katz were in the weddingparty. ClSudia is an assistant State’s Attorney in Maryland; her husband is in-hbuse counsel for atslorporation. They live in Annapolis. Sandy H rab chaperoned 11 students from M orristown-Beard, where she teaches, to Elche, Spain, on a three-week exchange program. She had a faculty grant to Costa?Ricar.fhis summer ¡¡©Juan international foreign language teaching conference. Donald Calder l&Mengaged to Kelli M cCulloch o f Bldomfield. H e teadhgs at Park Side i'rc-School in Mananze, N .Y.

Sister alum nae: J i ll P orter ’9 0, Ju lie P orter 9 5 , an d Lisa P orter K able a t Commencement. Jodi Schneider Scherl spent the summer studying for the N .Y . and N .J. Bar exams, and begins work in September at Jones, Day, Reavis, & Pogue in their D .M office. Sherry Ahkami graduated from Fordham Law School in M ay 1993 and is an assistant District Attorney, “prosecuting felons in the Bronx.” Craig and Elyse D ecker Fenerty had a son, Conlan Lewis, H October. Elyse writes, “Stayat-home motherhood has got to be the most rewarding job a woman can pursue. N ow I say I’m pursuing a career in futures and investments, investing in the future o f m y children.” Jason and Lisa P orter Kable.lfpent four weeks last winter trekking through the NepSjjgP Himalayas. They started outside Kathmandu and trekked up to the base o f M t. Everest at 1 8 ,5 0 0 feet. She has left Quaker Oats to move back to the East Coast, to Norwalk, Conn. She I s brand manager for Dixie paper products o f James River C orp . She has-sf|EjAndrew M urgio, who teaches m ath at the Avon School, a Con™ boarding school. Lisa U nger ran the N Y C M arathon last fall in about four hours, a significant feat since she’d jnsffefemc off a back injury - “I completed the f e tir e 2 6 .2 miles without stopping.” She is training for the 1995 Marathon. In other life, Lisa was promoted to senior litigation examiner at Chubb & Son, Inc.

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Christine W oititz graduated from U . V erm ont with a B.S. in biochemistry. After two years working for Hoffm an-LaRoche, she decided to go back to school and has completed two years o f a P h.D . in immunology at U M D N J. Rob and Lynne Yellin Sutton live in Dallas, and both work for American Airlines. Ken Gilson, a gradúate o f W heaton College, 111., is on W heaton’s admisssions staff while working on an M A . in Christian education. Laura Baczko, in her second year o f an M .B.A . at Ui. Michigan, had a fellowship to Chogging, China, this summer. Andy Friedm an had an article published in the winter edition, o f the New York R eal Property Law Jou rn al (Vol. 2 3 , N o. 1, page 6). H e lives in Bethesda, M d., and works for a D .C . law firm while attending Georgetown U . for dual L L .M . degrees in real estate and taxation. Sigrid Cook was married to A .J. M organ last July and lives in W ashington, D .C ., where s h ® is working for Edaw, a landscape architecture firm. Michael Maline and Andrea Schackner, both lawyers, were married in M ay and live in N Y C . In the wedding party: Jo y B ooth Roussel, M arie Claire D e Massi, Jeffrey Schackner ’85. A s o present: T ara Frenkl, Lauren Green and Johanna Roedel Spencer. Andrea has not changed/added to her name. Best wishes to Michael and M eredith Safirstein Bergm ann on their wedding. I am an assistant treasurer with N atW est Bank. I am responsible for bankcard and Bgrvice quality operations, related to self-service banking channels (ATM s and future technologijss)*|i D ennis

88 Ms. K aren M uenster 12 5 Country Lane Clifton, N J 07013 M r. Jam es P etretti 2 1 9 Otis Place, Verona, N J 0 7 0 4 4 i. Class agente •; M r. A lec Schw artz 1803 P in e St., Apt. 1R, P hiladelphia PA 19103 Nicole G ray spent the first half o f 1 9 9 5 in Tem a, Ghana, working as a volunteer with a women’s cooperative. She taught beekeeping skills and helped edit materials in an international youth exchange. Coley was on leave from her publishing job after editing their biggest-selling biology text. Andrea Safirstein received an M .A. and E d.M in counseling psychology from Columbia U , ,in May, specializing in gender issues and group d yn am ics She hfflbeen accepted into the highly competitive doctoral program for the fall, the youngest candidate chosen in more than five years. Jason Schwartz lives in N Y C and woikSjfor the G uttm an Foundation. N egar Ahkami finislfed her second year at


Georgetown Law School, where she is an editor on the Georgetown Law Jou rn al. She worked in the legal department o f the Museum o f Modern Art, N Y C , this summer. “T he economy in Albuquerque is thriving,” writes Jam es Garino, who works as a headhunter. “I f anybody wants to relocate to the great Southwest, give me a call.” Jim is captain o f the Subterranean Hockey Experiment, a roller hockey team that plays in tournaments all over the country. Also out west, Justine M cBride is a technology specialist at Jeremy Randjjpf Elementary School in Park City, U tah. “Lots o f skiing and still playing and coaching soccer!” Justine is engaged to Cristopher Fellows, a rugby player. A m y H arris, at George W ashington U . for a Ph.D ., is engaged to b® married in September in D .C . to Chris Kletl. D ara G oldman is in a P h.D . program at Em ory U . Jonathan Schwartz is in his third year o f medical’ school at the M ount Sinai School o f Medicine, N Y C , Anne Fetherston, a therapist for autistic children at the Princeton Child Development Institute, is pursuing a master’s degree in speech pathology at night. M ary Savage completed a year o f research in a pharmacology lab at Medical College o f Pa. and is a first-year medical student at U .M .D .N .J. Ian and Jennifer Blum Cronin have setded in

Minneapolis after extensive travel throughout Europe and the Middle East. Jenna is working on her second novel - her first is under consideration by a M ajor Publisher.

89 Ms. Suellen B izub 2 4 7 W. S jth St., Apt. 6D, N ew York N Y 1 0 0 2 $ M r. Louis Lessig 2 5 1 6 Jacqu elin e D rive, Apt. C -25 W ilmington D E 19810 Elizabeth Visceglia is beginning a Ph.D . in political theory and women’s studies at Rutgers U . Beth spent two years teaching in Virginia. Andrew W einer is beginning a Ph.D . program in aerospace engineering at Princeton. H e earned a master’s in systems engineering at Georgia Tech. H e is engaged to Kim Solnov and will be married in June. Bram Zeigler has entered a Ph.D . program in economics at W ashington U . Exotica: David Zweifler works on research and the trading desk at Mashill Securities, a division o f Bank Mashill, in Jakarta, Indonesia. H e is the only N orth American at this Indonesian-owned bank. David Allen is a reports officer in Zaire, Africa, with the United N ation’s W orld Food Program. H e uses French and English for his analytical reports, which are sent through

Rome. H annah Carson has moved to M aui, Hawaii, whjjre she is director o f counseling at Seabury Hall, a small private school in Makawae. She earned a master’s degree in counseling and personnel services from Trenton State College in M ay and was inducted into Chi Sigma Iota, which recognizes academic, personal, and professional excellence in the field. Deborah H emsley lives in River Ridge, La. and works in the occupational therapy department o f Children’s Hospital. Three guys: Ryan Schinman, Adam Sussman, and Sean Fitzgibbon are sharing an apartment in N Y C . Ryan, a sports agent, travels: all over the country recruiting at colleges. Juliet T raum has also moved to N Y C and works as executive assistant to the producer o f the Montel Williams Show (Channel 5, N Y C area). M att Rodano auditioned and was selected for one o f eight positions with the New York Choral Society. Their first concert was at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center - in Russian!

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Ms. Lorelei M uenster One A stor Place, Apt. 3D , N ew York N Y 10003 Reunion chairm en: Ms. M eredith M cGowan 2 0 5 E ast 9 5 th St. A pt 9D , N ew York N Y 10128 M r. M artin Torjussen 4 9 Wilson St., N utley N J 0 7 110

Attention, Art Lovers and Sports Fans In a grand synergy o f art, sports, and talent, W ayne Elliott ’88 is the lead graphics designer for ESPN . His designs for the network include W orld Cup Soccer 1 9 9 4 and W inter Olympics 1 994. Wayne received the 1 9 9 4 Cable Ace Award for on-air technical merit o f “N F L Gameday Prime Tim e” and the 1995 Em m y Award for best o f show, again for “N F L Gameday.” I hjsmine he went to Washington, D .C ., to accept the individual 1994 International Broadcast Association Design Award for his ■logo o f the “U p Close” television program on ESPN . Wayne says it was a “brilliant convention” o f broadcast greaH Maya

Angelou spoke. Wayne graduated from Clark University with a major in fine art, minor in communications. He credits his internships which were geared to learning sophisticated equipment - with helping prepare him for the job at ESPN , where he uses a “half-milliondollar high-end broadcast computer” to design. A t M KA, Wayne took four years o f fine art, mechanical drawing, and architecture. H e is a great sports fan and a very talented soccer and tennis player. He was nationally ranked in tennis at Clark.

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.Cheryl Rizzo, who graduated from Ithaca College with a B.F.A . in theatrical production arts, planned to spend the summer producing dinner theater in Denali National Park in A laska. Cheryl spent 1 9 9 4 -9 5 touring as a stage manager with a theater company out of Philadelphia. Alex Anastasiou, B.S. in material science from U .S. Air Force Academy, is a “structural failure analyst” with the Air Force in O hio. H e is beginning graduate work in material science at the U . o f Dayton. Leah N apolitano, who received a B.A. in history from N otre D am e, is taking pre-med courses at Bryn Mawr College. Danielle Bergamo received a B.A. in communications from Lehigh U . in 1994. Rhoan Jones, B.A. from Boston College in English and African studie^fstin his second year at U . o f Pittsburgh School o f Law. H e spent the summer in Africa at the U . o f Nairobi School o f Law. Best wishes to M ark and Kate Schroeder Braun on their wedding. Kate works at Shady Side Academy, Pittsburgh, as basketball coach and swim instructor while pursuing a master’s , in spqrts science at U . Pittsburgh. M erle Pear, M eredith M cG ow an, and Kristy Scanlan had their own small reunion at Kristy’s new home in Los Angeles, Calif. Kristy and her boyfriend, Jason, both work in the film industry, she for Outlaw Productions. Merle


lives inAdantagj|ia., and works for a sports marketing firm, Advantage Inti., on the IBM Olympic-sponsorship account. Meredith is an assistant analyst- ln the oil industry for Bear Steam - iifeNYC. A ntony Brydon's 1995 ¡Habitat Bicyt 1; Challenge received an overwhelming amount of corporate support, from bicycles and support van to energy food. Antony hoped to “create an M K A legacy” in the Challenge. Best wishes to Richard and Paula Kovanic Spiro on their June whirling.

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Ms. Ja m ie Lenis 2 5 Taylor D rive, West C aldw ell N J 0 7 0 0 6 Ms. D ara M arm on 108 Tanglew ood D r., E ast H anover N J 0 7 9 3 6 Congratulations to those o f the Class o f 1991 who graduated this year. News o f a few, from letters, clippings, and proud parents: Carlton Austin was selected to “W h o ’s W h o Among Students in American Universities and Colleges” for academic achievement, service, and extracurricular activities. Carlton majored in business administration. Roberta G riff wrote from Penn that she will be living in M anhattan and doing investment banking for a firm that specializes in technology. O ther news from the Keystone State is from Michelle Pflum m. She graduated from Haverford with a B.A. in chemistry, with a concentration in biochemistry. She is attending U .C . Berkeley to gain a Ph.D . in molecular and cell biology. She was awarded a Phi Beta Kappa key her junior year and this year she received the American Chemical Society Scholastic Achievement Award. Congratulations, Michelle! Stephanie Decker informs us that not only is she “alive but doing very well!” She is a linguistics major and Spanish minor at M ontclair State U . (She sees Joh n Crawford and Khalidah M cM orrin around campus.) Stephanie sends greetings to everyone. I received a letter postmarked A Z and thought, “W h o do I know in Arizona?” It turns out that Shannon Fry graduated from the U . o f Arizona with a B.A. in ecology. She will do research on sharks at the M ote Research Laboratory in Sarasota, Fla., then teach at the U . o f Miami and earn a master’s degree in marine biology. Congratulations to everyone who graduated this spring, best o f luck to those who are still in school and to those who will continue their educations this fall. D ara

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Class Agent: Ms. Alison Raym ond 4 W hite O ak Road, R oseland N J 07068 Joseph Adler is doing well at M IT and earned membership into the E ta Kappa Nu and Tau B p a Pi honor societies. H e is enrolled in a 5y;car master-1 program in computer science, and is looking into various Ph.D . programs. Christopher Gaydos has decided that snakes may be manMbest friendsgChris, a biology concentrator at Brown U .renjoys them at work in a morphology lab and even carries one around as a personal pet! H e plans to take time off after graduating in May. Enrique N eblett has discovered a newfangled interest in sleep research, and spent months observing thagffects o f sleep deprivation on willing volunteers. Enrique, a psychology concentrator at Brown, appeared a® EaS $ soloist in a performance o f Handel’s Israel in Egypt. Occasionally, hejl|g| thqface of Adrienne Phillips, who spent the fall semester in Argentina. Enrique,aiso hears from David A ronow and Saurabh Agarwal from time to tipfefSaurabh is entering Boston U . Medical School. Daniel Solomon is treasurer for Circle K, an active com m unity servicMorganization at Johns Hopkins U . Daniel studies psychology and biology there and hopes to enter medical school after graduation. Chris Burchell earned a second varsity letter in ice hockey at Wesleyan U. last winter. H e is majoring in sociology and is a member o f Beta Theta Pi fraternity. M arni Schinman is back at Duke from a g m e s te r in Sydney, Australia (yes, she did BBuR. the Great Barrier Reef!)... She is studying for the medical school Boards and had an internship this sum m erSf Columbia Presbyterian, N Y C . V incent Visceglia has finished his junior year at Boston College and is thinking about law •school after graduation. S cott W einer stayed on after his year at the London School o f Eco®om i|||for a summer internship at Morgan Stanley’s London office. Cheryl Sinner studies linguistics at the College W illiam & Mary. Th is ram m er she volunteered in gjlieonatal ajadiology unit at Mountainside Hospital and studied language pathology at M SU in preparation for graduate school. Cheryl reports that Sharon M ost is alive and well. Laura M am chur is well on her way to becoming licensed as a registered nurse. N ow at N Y U , Laura occasionally runs into Julie Lee and A toosa Salimi, and is in touch with Jennifer Sutter. Laura reports that Joh n Sorger is doing fine as well. Trivial Pursuit: W h at is the most popular eating club at Princeton for M K A grads? Jen Lonsinger, D oug M unson, Erin O ’Neill ’9 lx , and Jason Pogorelec ’931^11 belong to Cap and Gown Club. (F a u lty member Rachel Stettler also ioinedjp ecG while at P rin ceto n ..« E nrique

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93 Ms. R enee M onteyne 10 Lookout P oin t T rail Totow a Borough N J 0 7 5 1 2 8 s M r. B rian W echt 51 Glen ((hurt, Pom pton Lakes N J 0 7 4 4 2 Class Agent: Ms. Lisa Gittlem an 3 4 W inderm ere Rd., Upper M ontclair N J 0 7 E 3

E d Seugling ’9 3 an d sister Carolyn 9 5 a t Com m encem ent.

Laura Caprario spent spring semester at Harvard U . and studied piano at Boston Conservatory. She gave a sol® concert at Harvard in April. During the fall semester, she was co-editor o f the Yale B anner (the yearbook) and competed on Y a l ^ ballrbom dance team. For sophomore year, Alexis Lury transferred to Barnard College, Columbia U ., where she was a D J at the school radio station. She relinquished that for an internship at 9 2 .3 F M K -Rock (Howard Stern All Morning, Classic Rock N Roll All Day). Yes, she has m et Howard Stern. Alexis will return to W ashington U . for junior and senior years. E d Seugling won a special award and was honored at a dinner at Boston College as the top sSienceggcholar. H e f i ranked fifth in his i class (of 1,4 5 1 ). Ed is pre-med, majoring in chemistry, and worked in a lab there this j$|m m er for a prd gffligg^ Jeffrey H ochberg is an accounting major, computer science minor, at Muhlenberg College. H e is engaged to a fellow M C student, M artha Phipps. Hq|l|® a summer internship with a computer corporation. Jason Pogorelec, an economics major at Princeton, had an internship with Senator Lautenberg’s office in D .C . this summer. Jennifer O ’D ea has transfered into the Sargent School o f Allied Health at Boston U . and is majoring in öjsfitipational therapy. She had an internship with an L A . company and is ! ä rep. for the music scene in Boston.” She spent the summer there, taking gl-jssea-r-i;


O ur condolences to the R eif family on the death o f their father in April: Jam ie ’9 0, Taryn ’9 3 , Robert ’95.

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Ms. M onica Fernand 160 Cheyenne Way, W ayne N J 0 7 4 7 0 Ms. Rosemary M onteyne 10 Lookout P oin t T rail Totowa Borough N J 0 7 5 1 2 Class agent: M r. Jo h n S a ro ff 6 7 E agle R ock Way, M ontclair N J 0 7 042

Parul Agarwal has seen many MKA-ers on the Columbia U . campus: Gene M azo ’9 1 , Jason Brody and Genie Go. Parul interned at Merrill Lynch, N Y C , and traveled to Ireland this

summer. D ana Fiordaliso had a great year at Ohio Wesleyan U . She pledged Tri-D elt sorority and was selected for the Wesleyan Student Foundation, a selS t group who give tours o f campus. Lauren Visceglia deferred her acceptance at Georgetown for a year. She spent the spring Semester in Crete, Greece, studying in a cultural exchange program sponsored by ITHAKA. Anand Pathuri made dean’s list at Rutgers U . H e was appointed chair o f the Student Music Comm ittee and is co-founder and V P o f the Hellenic Student Organization. Anand did neuropsychobiological research this summer.

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Class agent: M r. A dam ScJ$ager: 121 C hristopher St., M ontclair N J 0 7042 W elcom e, Class o f 1 99 5 , to your own falumni column!

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Ms. R ita Papaleo 31 Fem w ood Terrace, N utley N J 0 7 1 1 0 Ms. Shan-Shan Yam 115-52 B lack O ak Lane, K innelon N J 0 7405

H enry Chang ’9 3 an d sister C hia-L in 9 5

Marriages 1968, i'4 '9 6 8 1971 1980 1976 1981 1984, 1984 1984 1984 1985 1986 .1 9 8 7 1987 1987 1988 1990 1990

J . D ean Paolucci ’73, President o f the M KA Alum ni A ssociation, congratulates his nephew, D arren W itm er 9 5 . D ean presented D arren his diplom a during Com m encem ent exercises.

Gabriel Aiello and Karin Strom Herbert H. Tate Jr. and Charlotte Smith Elizabeth Bacot and Stefan Aigner Margharet Hollander and Frank Nash Helen Scharfenberg and Robert Dominy Jr. Robert Cottingham Jr. and Alison Thomas Douglas Keh and Giorgia Dario-Paolucci Victor Lupi and Deborah Jones Gregory F. Sullivan and Greta Eustace Claudia Ross and George Nemphos Sigrid Cook and A.J. Morgan Meredith Safirstein and Michael Bergmann Andrea Schackner and Michael Maline Jennifer Blum and Ian Cronin Paula Kovanic and Richard Spiro Katherine Schroeder and Mark Braun

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Trustee R onald L. T obia an d his wife, Sandra, w ith their three M KA children a t Com m encem ent: A li 9 5 , Jill, 88, a n d Josep h , in eighth grade.

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Dorothy White Logie Percy S. Young Jr. Marietta Ewald Cook Gustave E. Wiedenmayer Georgianna Chalfin Foresman Howard K. Halligan M. Eugene Speni John Howe Jr. Shirley Henderson Jones John N. Watson Dallas S. Townsend Jr. Beaver Strassburger Evelyn Dwyer Van Sciver Nancy Wigg Bergen Joseph E. Reilly Nancy Penick Corcoran Ashley McShane

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MKA Bulletin Board Did You Graduate W ith Honors? M K A would like to honor our Acadenv§H8 Kimberley, and M K A alumni who graduated from college su m m a cum lau d e, m agn a cu m lau d e, and/or P h i B eta K a p p a o r T au B eta P i (or equivalent). W e hope to display your achievements visibly to inspire present students and to impress visitors to the Upper School. Please help confirm or update our jecordSB drop a note to the M K A & i m n i Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair NJ 07042. Or call: 201 §¡46-9800.

Lost Your Yearbook? The M K A Alumni Office has some extra yearbooks in inventory, available for $5 postage and handling charge. Please call firstto see ifextras are available for your year (201/746-9800). filhe archives have at least one copy of every yearbook published except 1902. W e need an extra copy of the following: K im b erlea v es\ 9 5 \ , 1954, 1955, 1963.

MKA Chairs Wonderful gifts or graduation presents! M K A chairs are antique blackwith maple arms and bear the official M K A seal in gold. Each chair sells for $ 2 2 5 ; a rocking chair version isavailable for $250. Please add $20 for shipping and handling. Your order must be accompanied by a check made payable to Mhe Montclair Kimberley Acaalmy. Send to: The Alumni Office, MKA, 201 Valley Road, Montclair NJ 07042.

A W A R D S C R IT E R IA D IST IN G U IS H E D ) A L U M N I A W A R D T o all alumni, parents, trustees, faculty, staff and friends o f The M ontclair Kimberley Academy: T he Distinguished Alumni Award Com m ittee is hereby accepting , nominations for th ^ fe ip ie n t o f the 1 9 9 6 Distinguished Alumni Award. T he recipient should h ave^ w ev ed distinction in some field of endeavor, or through outstanding character or dedication made a special contribution to humanity. Race, creed|: Sex or contribution to the school should have no bearing on the choice o f recipient. The purpose o f tmJjDistinguished Alumni Award is “to bestow recognition and appreciation for outstanding achievement.” This award will be a meritorious reflection on the school and will provide inspiration and encouragement for our young people. It is hoped that the recipient will come to M KA and addrës.® gathering o f alumni and o f s tu d e n t^ B You may nominate m ore than one alumnsgilumnus. There will be one Distinguished Alumni Award recipient each year; all nominations will be , maintained in confidential files forlionsideration in following years.

M K A A T H L E T IC H A LL O F FA M E The M ontclair Kimberley Academy Athletic Hall o f Fame was founded to BEsttor those who have made telling contributions to the schotilfs athletics. Its purpose is to perpetuate the m em ory o f those persons who have brought distinction, honor, and excellence to M ontclair Academy, The Kimberley School, Tlw Brookside School, and M K A in athletics. 1. Nominee must have been an outstanding varsity athlete, coach, Athl®ic D irector, trainer, or major contributom(financial and/or participant) at M A, TK S, Brookside, or M K A and/or brought distinction to the itehool through related and subsequent athletic accomplishments. 2. Student nominees must have attended MA, TK S, Brookside, or M K A for at least two years, and have graduated from M A, TK S, Brookside, or MKA. Student nominees must have graduated at least five years prior to the year o f nomination. 3. Nom inee must have conducted his or her life in keeping with school standards and in ways which reflect positively on MKA. 4 . T he n o m in atio ^ E n be a posthumous award. 5. N om ine® may nominate themselv®), be nominated by alumni or others. 6. Each year, a minimum o f one qualified male and one qualified fem Jefej will be selected. Nominations will be kept on file for subsequent years’ review:'- ■J . 7. A team may be inducted.

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