Spring 2001 19th C entury American Literature AP Spanish AP Calculus AP Physics Advanced Biology Shakespeare Heroes Citizenship Core A rt & History American Film First Aid and C PR Decision M aking Character and Choice Tennis Team Softball Team
The Montclair Kimberley Academy
COVER Senior Lauren Stefanchik at work and play, representing MKA’s scholarathletes. The courses listed are merely her senior-year classes.
CONTENTS From the Headmaster......................... 1 MKA-mail..........................................2 The Blue Ribbon P lu s .......................3 Lessons from a Scholar-Athlete . . . . 4 The Real Jurassic Park.......................7 Notes Around MKA........................... 8 Cougar Sports..................................12 Athletic Hall of Fame V I .................14 Homecoming 2000.......................... 16 From the Alumni Association.........18 Class N o tes..................................... 21
REVIEW EDITORS Christie Austin Judy Polonofsky
CONTRIBUTORS Debbie Kozak Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley**76
PHOTO CREDITS W.L. Bill Allen Christie Austin Anthony Cunedgj§ Rudy Deetjen ‘50 David Hollander Dan Katz LisaKnowlton Debbie Kozak Albert Leger ^L aurie Hoonhout McFeeley ‘76 Denis Molner Published twice yearly by: The Montclair Kimberley Academy 201 Valley Road, Montclair NJ 07042 973/746-9800. FAX: 973/783-5777 www.montclairkimberley.org Entered as third class matter at Montclair NJ 07042 Design: Gemini Studio, Inc., Montclair NJ Printed on recycled paper The MKA Alumni Association is an organization of all men and women who have attended the Upper School, k Its purpose is to make known to MKA the ideas, interests, and concerns of alumni and to inform alumni of the accomplishments and objectives of MKA.
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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION COUNCIL 2000-2001 Lisa S. Aufzien ’76 Toby Bizub ?83,|| Lindsay Braverman ’01 Robert Cottingham Jri ’84 i Krin Cuffe Crawford '74 Lori Winiloff Crispo ’78, President Ralph Delouis ’02 Lawrence P. Duca ’79 Crystal A. Elliott ’88f Susan Cole Furlong ’78,1W Vice President Richard G. Jenkins ’77 Alex Joerger ’96 India Hayes Larrier ’80 DaraMarmon ’91 Mark D. McGowan ’85 Eric E,S. Pai ’79 Joshua H. Raymond ’89, Secretary Andrew D. Rod ’79 Scott Rumana ’83 Alec P. Schwartz ’88,Treasurer Patricia Shean Worthington ’74, Executive Vice President Alexis Polonofsky Zebrowski ’85 Peter R, Greer, Headmaster Judy Polonofsky, Director of External Affairs Christie Austin, Alumni Director Laurie Hoonhout McFeeley ’76, Director of Alumni Giving and Planned Giving a d v is o r y
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Martha Bonsai Day ’74 Peter S. McMullen ’77 Kristine Hatzenbuhler O’Connor ’83 J. Dean Paolucci ’73 Sabino T. Rodano ’87
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
2000-2001 Linda D. Almeida , 4 Lori Windolf Crispo ’78 (¡•»George W. Egan A.J. (Penny) Finkle Michael P. Frasco John E. Garippa Peter R. Greer, Headmaster , Alice M. Hirsh, Vice President Michael V. Johnson Peter S. McMullen ’77 J. Clarence Morrison, Secretary Anne E. Muenster Kevin G. Quinn Marisabel R. Raymond Michael L. Rodburg, Treasurer Rudolph G. Schlobohm ’74 Newton B. Schott, Jr., President. JolindaD. Smith. Vice President Robert L. Tortoriello David L. Turock Denise G. Wagner
HONORARY TRUSTEES / Aubin Zabriskie Ames ’54 Susan H. Ruddick James S. Vandermade ’35
ADVISORY TRUSTEES Edwin J. Delattre Keith D. Phillips Barry W. Ridings ’70 Herbert H. Tate Jr. ’71 M
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From the Headmaster Dear MKA Community, Recently, an 8th grade girl asked me if I wanted to race down the hall. She was confident she would beat me. If she beat me, I had to allow for a “dress-down day for ten students.” If I beat her, we resolved, all Middle School girls had to wear ties for one day. I was confident. I had been the fastest runner in the 8th grade at Ft. Benning, Georgia, and despite my age, I still ran the bases well at our annual employee softball game this year. Students lined the hall as we took our marks. We raced. I had a good start and surged ahead. She won by three feet. My opponent was very nice to me in victory. However, the next day, she wanted to race me again because more than ten of her friends wanted that dress-down day. Within three days, an 8th grade boy asked me to race him for a dress-down day for his friends. I explained to him that a major part of the virtue of self-control was knowing oneself. I now knew that I couldn’t beat many students these days and it would be folly for me to pretend I could. I had not initially exercised self-control, one of seven focus virtues in our nationally acclaimed Ethics and Formation of Character Program. The substance of this spring issue of Review is not about a twice All-America in softball who holds national records, who is a serious and accomplished student, and who represents all those other students at MKA who are named “scholar-athletes.” This issue talks about self-control, or if you prefer, self-mastery or moderation. Dr. Steven Tigner, our mentor for the ethics program, has taught us that self-control literally means ‘Soundness of mind.” Those who have self-control “know themselves”: they know their capacities and their limitations; they are self-legislators. During her time here at MKA, Lauren Stefanchik has consistently demonstrated what Tigner calls “disciplined effort and practice that pay off in increased competence and self-mastery, opening new avenues of self-expression, enjoyment and service.” Tigner has never met Lauren and has not watched her brilliance on the softball diamond or her competitiveness on the tennis court. If he did meet her, he would tell her that self-mastery on the playing field has no automatic carryover to other areas of one’s life. As a softball player, Lauren must master her hitting and running with patience and practice. As a student, Lauren must master her rigorous course load with patience and constant attention and commitment. We have an expectation for all our students for each of the seven virtues we study. Lauren, and all those students she represents at MKA, can be judged by the MKA expectation for self-control: They w ill have known jo y in the exercise o f hard-won competence and gained sufficient particular knowledge o f their own appetitive and aspiring natures, their passions and propensities, interests and inclinations, to become intelligent managers o f their time and judicious cultivators o f their talents. Relaxation and amusement w ill each have a place in their lives, but neither w ill eat up all o f their leisure time. They w ill know enough o f their own make-up to deal prudently with both temptations and challenges. Lauren Stefanchik is surely a model for this expectation, and that is what the main story in this issue is all about. Dr. Mark Boyea, our outstanding Director of Athletics, has written a powerful article about Lauren, with lessons for us all. The courses listed on the cover of this Review are for her senior year only, and are evidence that our students are engaged in courses of true rigor. The lessons hold: Two other recent All-America scholar-athletes, Liza Boutsikaris ’99 (fencing, Notre Dame) and Craig Fleishman ’00 (lacrosse, Bucknell), continue their pursuits with distinction. As we go to press, we leam that MKA has an additional All-America selection, senior Wesley Kirk (soccer), who will attend the University of Maryland. I have met many alumni at the Shore reception, at Homecoming, at Thanksgiving, and at the recent Florida receptions. It is heartening that you come out for these events and heartening that you do read with care each issue of Review and are very well informed about the MKA of 2001, a grand and flourishing school with a history since 1887. For this issue, I ask you to read the inside back cover and leam about one alumna who has contributed to MKA - as others in the past contributed at the time when she was at The Kimberley School. With gratitude, Dr. Peter R. Greer
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Dear Dr. Greer, What prompts this letter is the current issue of the MKA Review. What a magnificent job, what a far cry from the mimeographed, stapled MA: Alumni News Frank Brogan and I pasted together in the late Fifties....From falling-apart buildings we built a beautiful campus, and rebuilt a great school earning.. .a National Blue Ribbon. Too bad Howard [VanVleck ’22, late Trustee and benefactor] is not here to enjoy the glory to which he contributed so much in so many ways. Richard Carrie ’41 Just a note to let you know how pleased we were to see the chess team featured in the Review. Sean was very proud to represent his school last year [at the National Elementary School Chess Championships] and hopes to do so again this year. Wendy Schacher Finn, parent Kudos on the fall issue of the Revie w: On a lazy Saturday morning I actually read most of it and am very impressed with what’s going on at MKA - particularly the senior class May Term. Everything from Irish Studies to Habitat for Humanity. What a grand finale for the senior class! Bikes to Panama and books to Namibia - S wonderful. And the clever, darling Middle School chess team. Such worthwhile and fun pursuits, and valuable life lessons. Keep up the good work. Gail Zabriskie Wilson ’56 I’m taking a break from studying for finals.. .to thank you and Montclair Kimberley for providing me with a solid academic foundation. Because of MKA, last year I was able to post a 3.6 GPA allowing me to be inducted into the Hall of Scholars [at Northeastern University], and this year I am keeping on the same academic track. MKA has made the transition to college easy; I say this because the classroom and study skills I acquired are proving very beneficial now. And for that I am forever grateful. Leroy Watkins ’99 Ed. note: In addition to academic prowess, Leroy the only freshman on the Northeastern M en’s Varsity soccer team last year, and earned America East “Rookie o f the Week” honors.
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[To Patricia Forbes, chairman, English Department, Upper School] ... I am having a great time at Northwestern. I am taking a seminar entitled “Shakespeare and Tragedy.” My first paper is due on Friday, but I am not worried because it is a lot like the papers we had to write [at MKA]. Next quarter, I want to take a class about 20th century British literature (which makes me think of Brit. Lit with you my junior year, although I’m sure this class won’t be as much fun). I passed out of taking the writing proficiency test and also out of the English distribution requirement.. .MKA has prepared me so well for college that even though I am at a top institution, I am not intimidated. Jenny Glasser ’00 The following is a letter to Headmaster Peter Greerfrom pilot/businessman Robert Iverson, husband o f faculty member Ellen Steege Iverson and parent o f alumni Robert Iverson '84 and Kelly Iverson Sellers ’86. [In October] I had the privilege and pleasure of teaching five health classes at the Upper School. Part of the reason I agreed to accept the assignment was to get a firsthand look at the MKA teaching experience from the perspective of your frontline troops... .1 stuck to a topic that I regularly teach my pilots and which has some universal applicability. Critical thinking skills and individual decision making are part of the cockpit resource management curriculum at all airlines because they are so influential in making quick and correct safety decisions. We played several riddle-answering games that allowed students to team up, collaborate, and argue about the solution. They could switch teams freely and try to convince each other of the merits of their own thought processes.. ..At the end, we examined the process they had just completed, specifically discussing relevant facts, the influence of individual conviction, group pressure, focusing on the prize instead of the answer, urges to achieve quick closure, and self-protective apathy in the face of frustration. Primarily we concentrated on why they arrived at a decision and not the decision itself. We looked at what information they chose to process and whose influence they accepted
or rejected and why. While each class had a distinctive personality and played the games with varying degrees of enthusiasm, they were all respectful, debated with civility, and displayed highly evolved critical thinking skills. They were surprisingly open to instant learning experiences during the immediate discussion. I came away with a new sense of respect for the teaching profession at MKA and needed a nap when I got home. I was particularly struck by the practical challenges of sustained adequate preparation and consistently having enough material to fill fifty minutes. My deepest awakening, however, was to a feeling that this is important work, which carries a relentlessly serious obligation to avoid wasting the students’ time. The whole time my kids attended MKA, I always suspected they were getting much more from their educational experience than could be easily quantified or discussed in casual conversation. Now I know it for certain. Congratulations on sustaining and nurturing those special qualities that define a rich educational experience. Thank you for the opportunity. I can assure you that I got more out of it than the students did. Bob Iverson Correction: Readers may have spotted a strange “fi ” after a number in the fa ll Review. For some mysterious reason, while on press, the printer’s system converted the half symbol 1 / 2 to letters. Therefore, a child 3-and-a-halfyears old became “3 fi” in the columns. Which Twin Attended The Party? Apologies to Jack Roth ’58, who was pictured on page 21 at the alumni party at the Yogi Berra Museum. The caption misidentified him as his twin brother, Jerry Roth ’58. Jerry lives in California. Keith Schott, son o f Newton Schott, President o f the Board o f Trustees, graduated in the Class o f1987, not 1989 as reported on page 4.
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More Than a Blue Ribbon by Patricia Dancy, A ssistant Head, M iddle School Campus
The MKA M iddle School not only was selected as a Blue ,, Ribbon School, but also won the distinction o f the Special Emphasis Award fo r the ethics program. The vote by a national panel was unanimous.
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In September, as Boni Lima, Newton Schott, and I traveled to Washington, D.C. to represent the Middle School at the Blue Ribbon Awards Ceremony, we had no way of knowing how unforgettable our two days there would be. We had learned of the Blue Ribbon Award months earlier, were thrilled that we received it, and by September were quite accustomed to the designation. We were excited about the ceremony but anticipated no surprise; after all, unlike the Oscar ceremony, we went knowing we had won the award. We spent about seven hours each day in meetings, meals, and lectures. We heard stimulating speakers addressing educational issues that transcended regional and economic differences. We spoke with educators from other schools in New Jersey to share information about our schools’ special programs. Even from the perspective of several months, I am still amazed at how personalized the award ceremonies felt. We were sitting in a room with some 600 other people, and yet each of us knew that our school was indeed special - one of the 198 being recognized out of all the secondary schools in the country. Receiving the Blue Ribbon Award paled in comparison to the special recognition in Character Education. It is difficult to convey the emotions we felt when, out of the 198 Blue Ribbon Schools, The Montclair Kimberley Academy Middle School was called to the stage with only two others to receive the special award for Character Education. As Esther Schaeffer, executive director of the Character Education Partnership, read a summary of our ethics program and the ways our teachers and students implement it, our pride in the school was only exceeded by our regret that more members of the Middle School community - and especially Dr. Greer, who conceived the program Bcould not be there to share the moment. As we walked back to our seats, perfect strangers heartily and sincerely congratulated us. When at last the Blue Ribbon Award was given, it was in an atmosphere of celebration and pride. Richard Riley, then Secretary of Education, presented the awards. When our turn came again to walk to the stage, we marveled that Secretary Riley, in congratulating us, specifically mentioned our award in Character Education. The three of us in the MKA delegation felt a sense of great exhilaration and good fortune, the good fortune of being part of such a wonderful school. We departed Washington full of pride and affirmation that the work we are doing at the Middle School is exemplary.
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Newton Schott, President o f the Board o f Trustees, andfaculty members Boni Luna and Pat Dancy accept MKA’s special recognition awardfrom Esther Schaeffer, Executive Director, Character Education Partnership.
From the winter 2001 issue, Independent School magazine:
Montclair Kimberley a Blue Ribbon Standout The Montclair Kimberley Academy was also chosen as one of three schools to receive the Blue Ribbon Schools special emphasis award in character education. One o f the site visitors who made a recommendation to the Department of Education wrote, “The Montclair Kimberley Academy’s character education program and emphasis on ethicspin the daily lives o f all community members is truly the jewel in their crown.” For the general Blue Ribbon Award, special mention was also made o f the impact o f the MKA Core Works Program..., the advisory program, th||six-day rotation schedule, and the Shakespeare program for seventh grade. “I couldn’t be happier,” commented then-Middle School Head Dan Rocha. “The Blue Ribbon Award validates the work of the students and faculty in the Middle School who have worked so hard to make this a great place to learn and teach,. Most of all, it is a well-earned tribute to a group o f Middle School professionals who always put the needs of their students first.”
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W ithin T h ese Halls a n d O n T h ese Fields Lessons From a Scholar-Athlete B y D r. M a r k B o y e a Director o f Athletics
T h e r e are “scholar-athletes.” There are SCHOLARathletes. There are scholar-ATHLETES. There are even SCHOLAR-ATHLETES. Then there is Lauren Stefanchik. And Lauren Stefanchik simply defies categorization, for her accomplishments since her arrival at The Montclair Kimberley Academy four years ago seem to be the stuff of old fiction, of the days when Clair Bee or Matt Christopher used to write stories about high school sports heroes who were “straight A” students and model citizens. But then again, those stories were never about female athletes, and everyone knows that those great athlete/top student/outstanding citizen characters were just products of the author’s imagination. There were no individuals like that then and there certainly aren’t now. Or are there? So just where do you begin in telling people about Lauren Stefanchik? Do you begin with the softball career that has included being named All-America twice, first team All-State three times, first team All-Essex County three times, and first team Colonial Hills Conference three times as part of a three time conference and two-time state championship team in just her first three years? Do you start with the tennis career that saw her named second team All-Conference four times, and which ended with her capturing a State Prep championship at third singles? Or do you start with the 4.0 average over her first three and a half years at MKA and being named Academic All-America? Maybe it’s best to just start where Lauren would start - as a young girl at home with her parents and older sister in Berkeley Heights. Her career as an athlete began like many people’s, following around an older sibling who played several sports and being coached by her dad. Randy Stefanchik introduced his daughter to softball in the third grade, and Lauren fell in love with it right away. Tennis was another matter - she didn’t begin to play until the eighth grade. Lauren had been searching for a fall sport she enjoyed enough to commit to, and settled on tennis after playing some with Randy. Her eventual coach at MKA, Bill Wing, still finds it remarkable that Lauren became as good a player as she did, having not taken up the game until the year before
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she began competing at the high school level. The key to her development as a young athlete, according to Lauren, was clearly her parents. “My parents (Randy and Maryann) are wonderful people who gave me the opportunity to try out different sports and never insisted that I do any particular one. They were never pushy, and still aren’t. All they’ve ever told me is to do my best and have fun.” Both Wing and MKA Head Softball Coach Bob Gervasi echo Lauren’s take on her parents. “Her parents are terrific and have been an incredibly positive influence on Lauren,” says Wing. Gervasi adds, “Lauren’s parents have only ever encouraged her to give her best effort and enjoy the experience of playing and competing.”
Love o f Competition If there is any common thread that runs through Lauren Stefanchik’s success as an athlete and as a student, it is this love of competition. But listen to her, Gervasi, and Wing for a little while, and it’s quite clear that what they’re talking about isn’t the obsession with winning at any cost that many athletes, coaches and parents try to pass off as “love of competition.” It is something very different indeed. “She doesn’t worry about winning or losing. She is only interested in putting forth the best performance she can,” remarks Wing. “I don’t remember her being any other way.” Gervasi says, “Lauren is rare in that if you compare her statistics against the best teams we have played and against the worst, they are almost identical. This shows how her approach is geared toward doing what she has to do and doing it well, as opposed to worrying about her opponent.” But to truly understand Stefanchik’s success as an athlete, you must look beyond her having terrific parents, opportunities to play, and a love for competition. For the truth o f the matter is that she doesn’t exactly fit the image that comes to mind when one thinks of an elite athlete. A college basketball coach tells a story about going to an all-star camp once and spending the time during warm-ups watching the
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players who looked the most “athletic” - the biggest, strongest, and fastest. However, once the games started, a kid whom the college coach had paid little attention to because he was not very big or fast was clearly the best player at the camp. He turned out to be Billy Donovan, who went on to an outstanding college and brief professional career. In many ways, Lauren Stefanchik is softball’s Billy Donovan. Coach Bob Gervasi tells it this way: “Lauren’s fast, but not the fastest. And she’s certainly not the biggest or strongest. She’s just the best player. She reminds me of Wayne Gretzky in that way. Like Gretzky, she possesses the ability to make the right play at the right time, is superb technically, and has tremendous body control.” Adds Wing, “She commits very few unforced errors, and is extremely tough mentally.” In this way, Stefanchik calls to mind Chris Evert, the great tennis champion who wasn’t impressively big, strong, or fast. All Evert did was to keep hitting the ball over the net Hand winning.
Concentration What her coaches describe may just be the key to best understanding Stefanchik’s success athletically and academically. For what consistently comes through when watching her play and in listening to others talk about her is that she has a remarkable ability to maintain a high level of concentration, to remain free of distractions which would take her focus off completing the task at hand. Stefanchik believes that this may be her strongest attribute as an athlete and student. “As far back as I can remember,” she says, “I’ve been able to keep my thoughts positive or on the technique of whatever I ’ve been trying to do. It’s not that I don’t feel anger or frustration at times, but I’m able to push out negative thoughts. I know that they will not help and can only hurt. Also I think it’s important not to let your opponents see any anger or frustration you might feel because that might make them think they can get to you. In tennis, it’s really hard sometimes because I ’m not a power player and my points often take a long time. I just try to keep the ball in play until the other player makes an error or puts a ball in position for me to hit a return she can’t get to.”
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Coach Wing couldn’t agree more. “Lauren has incredible focus, and has produced more comeback wins than any player I have ever coached. As for her composure, players who are bigger than Lauren physically have often tried to intimidate her, but she never changes expression and just keeps on returning ball after ball. In this past fall’s Prep semifinal match, the girl she was playing tried her best to rattle Lauren. She made several questionable line calls, and if there’s one thing Lauren hates it’s lack of honesty on the court. I really thought that she was struggling to keep her focus in that instance, but she’s so mentally tough that she refused to let that happen and ended up winning that match and then the singles championship after that.” Echoing Gervasi’s comparison of Stefanchik to Gretzky, Lauren says, “[In softball,] when I go up to the plate, I take a mental ‘snapshot’ of the location of all o f the defensive players,” something which Gretzky was renowned for being able to do on the ice. “I look at the body positioning of both the catcher and pitcher in order to determine how they’re going to pitch to me, and then hit accordingly.” It is this ability to visualize skills and strategies that Gervasi noticed in Stefanchik at an early age. “Lauren first started learning how to slap [a hitting technique in which a player begins to move toward first base and put the ball into play at the same time. It makes a player with speed difficult or in Stefanchik’s case, next-to-impossible to throw out] when she was in the sixth grade and taking private lessons from me. Slapping is extremely difficult to learn how to do well, but I vividly remember the day when I just showed Lauren how to make the correct steps. I don’t remember her doing it incorrectly since. In fact, it is unusual for me to ever tell or show Lauren something twice.” Exceptional powers of concentration are not uncommon among top athletes. But unlike many people whose special abilities tend to be limited to one particular area, Lauren is blessed with the same remarkable focus in the classroom as she is on the field and court. George Hrab, one o f MKA’s most esteemed faculty members, has had the opportunity to teach Stefanchik twice. He marvels at her mental discipline. “Lauren’s level of focus is unbelievable. She hangs on every
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word you say^and somehow always-senses what the most important pieces of information are. When I consider something to be a point of emphasis, I have a habit of repeating it before I move on. I have,:: regularly seen Kauren writing these things down before I intentionally emphasize them the second time. She just always seems to know what she has to do in order to succeed.” State Championship Softball Team Another facet of Stefanchik’s mental make-up, which Hrab sees as crucial, is that “she deals with any setbacks or shortcomings constructively and positively. She sees them objectively, and doesn’t take them personally.” Indeed, she is clearly Randy and Maryann Stefanchik’s daughter. Lauren Stefanchik is now looking at the closing days of her academic and athletic career at MKA. She came here because she and her parents felt that the Academy would provide her with a range and quality of opportunity that she would not get elsewhere. In addition, they believed that MKA was committed to both academic and athletics excellence, and that Lauren would receive the support she needed to blossom in both areas. Disappointment? Regret? “No. Absolutely none. In fact, MKA has met and often exceeded all my expectations academically, athletically, and personally,” she says. “I have had a great experience with my teachers, and received unbelievable preparation for college (Stefanchik will study science and play softball at Harvard next year). I had two coaches who both knew how to win, expected our teams to act with classy and conduct themselves with a great deal of professionalism. More important, I also learned some things that go beyond either academics or athletics - things like the importance of teams, focusing - not just on anything, but on the right things - and that dedication is the key element to success.”
If she is about anything, Lauren Stefanchik is about the team. She does not seek or feel terribly comfortable with individual attention. So it’s only natural that she would want to pass on some thoughts to those who will come after her at MKA. “While I can’t say it’s been easy, it has been worth it. For two out o f three seasons for four years I have had to get up between 6:00 and 6:30 in the morning, travel a half hour or so to school, be in class from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 P.M., be at practice from 4:00 until 6:00, travel home, and then shower, eat, and study until 11:00 or later. But I’ve found that it’s been easier to organize my time in-season. In fact, I’ve had a harder time academically during the winter when I have not played a sport. If you want to be successful at MKA, you need to utilize your time well and get help from your teachers immediately when you need it. The teachers here are always ready and willing to help a student who wants it. I guess that’s a pretty good formula for being successful at most things.” And with that, the modest young woman with the extraordinary list of accomplishments is off to study, or to slap, or to serve, or to. . .
r. M a rk Boyea, D irector o f A thletics, w rites “The H ea d C oach ” colum n fo r The M ontclair Times. H e has a doctorate in sports psychology, an d is a F ellow an d in stru cto r a t the C haracter an d S p o rt In itia tive Program at C ulver A ca d e m y’s C enter fo r C haracter and Sport. The program conducts sem inars around the country to help coaches, parents, and
H er coaches would probably argue with her a little on those last thoughts. She may have learned more about those things at MKA, but they are things she already knew a lot about from the fields, courts, and especially the home in Berkeley Heights.
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program adm inistrators understand and d irect the influence o f sp o rt p a rticip a tio n on m haracter fo rm a tio n . M K A is a regional center fo r the CCS.
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Last summer thirteen MKA students and two faculty members took part in a reallife Jurassic dinosaur dig, complete with heat and dust and rocks and fossils. In the process, they discovered the remains of a previously unidentified species of carnivorous dinosaur. At the invitation of world-renowned paleontologist Dr. Robert Bakker —who spoke at The Montclair Kimberley Academy last y e a rs faculty members Laurie Smith and Dr. Albert Leger organized a weeklong trip to Rock River, Wyoming, and the Como Bluffs site. Thus began an ongoing research project that continues during the academic year, and reflects the emphasis placed on experiential investigation by the MKA Science Department. The students, sophomores to seniors, shared an interest in paleontology. They spent nine hours a day at the hot, sandy site, painstakingly working with paintbrushes and dental picks on fossils in the 150-million-year-old sedimentary rocks. Junior Corinne Gaby was working on a partly excavated fossil when she uncovered the bottom part of a dinosaur’s pubis, which Dr. Bakker immediately recognized was from a new species. The reality of the discovery, and of unearthing and holding bone fragments millions of years old, was an unforgettable experience. “Lots of people like dinosaurs when they are kids,” says senior Ben Mintz. “This experience let me return to that and allowed me to take a deeper look at what most people only glance at.” The students did the same work as the experts, and most of all, enjoyed learning while doing. The project continues back on campus. Dinosaur bones arrived at the Upper School from Wyoming in a plaster cast, which MKA students opened, dissected, labeled and mapped. The bones will return to the Wyoming site this summer with a new group of students. Based on an article in PAMKA Press November/December 2000
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Notes Around M KA The H eadm aster is very pro u d to announce.... National Merit Finalists Joshua Berg Lindsay Ferstandig Jonathan Leifer National Merit Semifinalist Louis Eskin National Merit Commendations Kathryn Auw Bryan Bishe Laura Brown Jared Dematteis Alexander Dunham Nicole Duva Edward Grossi Steven Jacobs Joan Kubicek Phelps Lambert Katherine McHugh
Andrew Murphy Diana Reiter Jason Schwartz Lauren Stefanchik Louis Waldman National Achievement Commendations Raven Ali Pascalle Arnold Michelle Winkfield Edward Bloustein Distinguished Scholars Kathryn Auw Joshua Berg Laura Brown Margaret Dziadosz Lindsay Ferstandig Steven Jacobs Jonathan Leifer Matthew Nielsten Lauren Stefanchik Louis Waldman
This fall students and faculty returned to campus to two new science labs, two new sections of parking lot, air conditioning on two campuses, and a new Upper School dining room, called the Cougar Dining Hall. • Voices From a D istant Planet, last spring’s Upper School video production, received a Bronze Telly Award and a Communicator Award of Distinction. It also garnered an Honorable Mention at the 48th Annual Columbus International Film & Video Festival. These are professional awards. It was MKA’s third Telly Award, and Voices is the fourth film to earn multiple honors. • Faculty members Christian Ely, Sharon Stephens, and Scott Coronis were presenters at the NJAIS Conference 2000 at the Lawrenceville School in October. They discussed “The Play’s the Thing: Shakespeare in Action,” a report on the 7th grade Shakespeare production from the point of view of the director/designer, producer/costume designer, and faculty team coordinator, describing how to weave the production into the curriculum.
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Composer Randall Svane, Musical Director at MKA, receives raves and a bouquetfor his Songs ofInnocence, sung by the MKA Girls Chorale and the Pingry Glee Club at a holiday concert o f the Colonial Symphony,
The Montclair Kimberley Academy Girls Chorale and the Pingry Glee Club joined with the Colonial Symphony for a concert titled “Holiday Voices” in December in Morristown. They sang Songs o f Innocence, a choral setting of William Blake’s verse by Randall Svane, Musical Director at MKA. “Svane’s sense of the young voice was palpable at every turn,” wrote the Star-Ledger reviewer. “His choral lines always maintained a fine balance with the orchestra, and the music was eminently singable and filled with surprising twists of harmony and intriguing overlapping lines.. ..The female forces brought an added touch of innocence to the piece.”
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At the same NJAIS conference, Headmaster Peter Greer, Patricia Forbes, and Anthony Cuneo presented “Designing a Core Works Curriculum.” It was a revised version of the^« presentation they did at the NAIS national conference in Baltimore last spring. • Dr. Mark Boyea, Director of Athletics, taught two classes in sport coaching and sport management at Duke University in November. • Alumni Director Christie Austin presented a seminar on Career Day at the Alumni Program Council’s annual East Coast conference in Washington, D.C. in October. The APC is an organization for alumni volunteers and professionals in independent schools.
ELECTION SPECIALS • The fall PAMKA Lecture Series featured a discussion of the election a week later, titled “What Really Happened and Why.” Noted journalists Jonathan Alter, Dave Marash, and Tucker Carlson gave anecdotal discussion followed by questions from an MKA student panel and the audience. More than 400 members o f the Montclair community attended the event, which was part of the annual lecture series sponsored by the Parents’ Association. Alter commented on the media Website Inside.com about his visit, “The kids there generally ask better questions than the adults.”
• Randy Svane, Musical Director, was one of two New Jersey composers to address the American Choral Directors’ Association last fall. • The Speech and Debate team under coach Chris HollowaySheldon continues to rack up wins in local competitions. Junior Kerry Bishe placed first or second in dramatic interpretation in four different tournaments, and Gil Kruger placed 4th in impromptu speaking. Steve D ’Amico placed 2nd in the Varsity Lincoln-Douglas Debate category in two different tournaments; Kara Ross and Ricardo Riethmuller each won 5th in dramatic interpretation. These students were all eligible for the state tournament. The team as a whole placed 7th of 30 teams at a January event. • Almost 400 grandparents and special friends attended the third Grandparents’ Day at Brookside in November. They came from as far away as England, Puerto Rico, and Montana to share classroom time, campus torus, and a concert.
• A Swedish television team interviewed members o f Geoff Branigan’s political theory class in the Upper Schoolfor a news program seeking teenagers’views on the election. • Thirty students from the Middle School’s Ruby’s Bridges: Kids-in-the-Middle Club polled members of the Montclair State University community for a school project on the election.
• The Art School of the Montclair Art Museum displayed MKA fifth graders’ interpretation of Georgia O ’Keeffe at a special exhibition in December.
M E E T IN G S A N D R E U N IO N • Science awards. Four MKA sophomores won prizes for their projects and presentations at the North Jersey Regional Science Fair this winter. Jessica Moses won one of the four top prizes, and will go to the International Science and Engineering Fair in San Diego in May all expenses paid. Faculty member Warren Marchione will accompany her, also all expenses paid. Julie Fierro and Meridith Mikulich received second place in their field, and Andreas Argyrides received third place in his field. Jessica’s winning project was "The Effect of Cellular Technology Use on the Operators of Motor Vehicles."
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Faculty member J.C. Svec of the Fine and Performing Arts Department will direct his former student, alumna Sara Shaning ’95, at the New York previews o f his one-act play, Meetings in a Wooded Area. The play will be performed at Frank Calo’s “2001: A Spotlight On Festival Odyssey” in early March. Svec is the winner of 12 national awards for his film and video work. Shaning had a role in the first-ever MKA movie A World Gone Wrong, which earned MKA its first of three Telly Awards.
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Within These Halls: Illustrations o f M KA’s Core Works program now deck the halls o f the Middle and Uppermshools. A frihie depicting authors, artists, titles, and criteria decorates the Headmaster’s reception area, dubbed the "TempleSpf Core Works. ” Faculty member Calvin Matzke did a Core Works painting at the entrance to the Upper School library.
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Students representing all three campuses signed the Code o f Honor at the annual Gathering in September.
Parents Deborah Hirsch, Ronni Levering, and Betsey Schweppe publicize the first Pancake Breakfast, kicking o ff the annual PAMKA Book Fair. More than 300 people - parents, students, and faculty from all three campuses - attended the Sunday morning event in November. Dads cooked, kids served, and moms staffed the book tables.
The MKA Middle School Chess Team is'co-champion o f the New Jersey S tatafehe^ Tournament, Junior High Division. The players present their trpphy to Dr. GtMr: Mackenzie Molner (7th grade), Michael Mastakas (5th), Headmaster Peter ( g H p l e a n Finn (7th), Marshall Paulson (4th).
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• Twelve students, ranging from freshmen to seniors, form a touring actors group through Project H.A.T. (Health through Art and Theatre) that entertains children in local hospital wards and daycare centers. Their debut was in January, when the “Mad Hatters” visited the pediatrics unit at Saint Barnabas Medical Center and played games with the young patients between performances. The project was conceived last year by junior Kerry Bishe, and is guided by faculty advisor J.C. Svec of the Fine and Performing Arts Department. • A new chapter of Kids Who Care, a non-profit organization of students from public and private high schools, began at Rutgers University last year. The group was started in 1996 by MKA student Ali Seidenstein to help bridge socioeconomic barriers “to enrich the lives of less fortunate peers and families.” They have contributed to the community in several ways, including a mentoring program, building a playground at a children’s center, raising money for holiday gifts and meals B even a “Senior Prom” for senior citizens.
V E T E R A N S ’ DAY For the last two years, the Upper School campus has observed November 11 with moving assemblies to give tribute and pay respects to those alumni “who walked our halls and gave their lives in defense of democracy and our nation’s honor.” This year’s ceremony featured the rededication of a bronze memorial listing the Academy men who died in World War I. As each name was read, the alumnus’ yearbook photo appeared on a large screen on stage, rendering real these young people who never survived to grow old.
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SAVE T H E D A TE: October 13, 2001 An extraordinary event will take place next fall, when the world-renowned Borromeo String Quartet will give a concert at Merkin Hall in New York City, with benefit to The Montclair Kimberley Academy’s strings program. MKA will host a reception. The Quartet will play the world premiere o f Randall Svane’s Second String Quartet, Debussy’s String Quartet in G Minor, and Beethoven’s Opus 127 in E Flat. The Borromeo String Quartet, founded in 1989, is one o f the most exceptional ensembles o f its generation. The Quartet was winner o f the 1991 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and the Cleveland Quartet Award in 1998; they have performed around the world in distinguished concert series and festivals, Berlin to Tokyo. Further information will follow in the fall Review.
The ceremony commenced “OperatiomTribute,” a program to raise funds to erect a memorial on campus to the Academy veterans of the century’s five major conflicts: World War I, World War II, Korea, Viet Nam, and the Gulf War. All members of the community may donate - for example, the Senior Class has already designated their gift to the project, and all the proceeds from the production of faculty member J.C. Svec’s play War’s End will go to the fund. More details will follow in the fall Review. In the meantime, to verify the records, alumni are urged to contact the Alumni Office (973/509-7940 or caustin@ mka.pvt.kl2.nj.us) if they served or particularly if they know of someone who died in any of the conflicts. Faculty members David Flocco, Assistant Head of the Upper School, and J.C. Svec of the Fine and Performing Arts Department are advising OperatiomTribute.
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Fall Sports Notes: Cougar Awards and Honors C H C g Colonial Hills Conference (Hills Division) ECADA= Essex County Athletic Directors’ Association
ECCA = Essex County Coaches Association NJIS = New Jersey Independent Schools
FOOTBALL - State Tournament Qualifier
GIRLS’ TENNIS - State Semifinalist
Brandon Blackbum-Dwyer ’01 Jared Cook ’01 Benjamin Feldman ’01
Heather Abramson ’01 Lauren Abramson ’01
Daniel Weller ’01 Michael Fortunato ’02 Frank Herrmann ’02 Lood Olibrice ’02 Adam Shapiro ’02 John Watson ’02 Taylor (J|ssidy ’03 Richard Cunningham ’03
2nd Team CHC Hills Division Center 1st Team Hills Division Running Back 1st Team CHC Hills Division Linebacker; 3rd Team All-County Linebacker, Star Ledger 1st Team CHC Hills Division Offensive Guard Honorable Mention CHC Hills Division Offensive Guard 2nd Team CHC Hills Division Quarterback Honorable Mention CHC Hills Division Defensive Back 2nd Team CHC Hills Division Fullback 1st Team CHC Hills Division Defensive Tackle 2nd Team CHC Hills Division Defensive End 2nd Team CHC Hills Division Wide Receiver
FIELD HOCKEY 3rd Team All-County, ECADA Honorable Mention All-County, ECADA Honorable Mention All-CHC; 2nd Team All-County, ECADA; 2nd Team NJFHCA 1st Team All-Prep; 2nd Team All-CHC; 2nd Team All-County, ECADA; Honorable Mention NJFH CA; 3rd Team All-County, Star Ledger Honorable Mention All-County, ECADA
Erin C a in ’01 Melanie Endo ’0 1 Kaitlin Ryan ’02 Lauren Sunshine ’02
Randi Sunshine ’04
Lauren Stefanchik ’01 Nicole Pugno ’03 Anjali Saxena ’03 '
BOYS’ CROSS COUNTRY Colonial Hills Conference Overall Champion; Colonial Hills Conference Hills Division Champion; Essex County Champion; 3rd Place State Parochial B Douglas Wall ’01 Michael Dulong ’03 Oskar Nordenbring ’04
1st Team All-County, Star Ledger; 1st Team All-CHC 1st Team All-County, Star Ledger; 1st Team All-CHC 1st Team All-County, Star Ledger; 1st Team All-CHC; 2nd Team All-State Parochial, Star Ledger
GIRLS’ CROSS COUNTRY - Colonial Hills Conference Hills Division Champion
GIRLS’ SOCCER Laura Brown ’01 DanaPisacane ’01 Katherine Klimczak ’02 Victoria O’Kane ’02 Evyn Cameron ’04
Inga Emigholz ’01
2nd Team CHC Hills Division, 1st Doubles 2nd Team CHC Hills Division, 2nd Doubles; 2nd Team All-State, Star Ledger; 1st Team All-County, Star Ledger; 1st Team All-State Parochial, Star Ledger 2nd Team CHC Hills Division, 1st Doubles; 2nd Team All-State, Star Ledger; 1st Team All-County, Star Ledger; 1st Team All-State Parochial, Star Ledger 2nd Team CHC Hills Division, 3rd Singles; 1st Team All-State Prep A, 3rd Singles 2nd Team CHC Hills Division, 2nd Singles 2nd Team CHC Hills Division, 1st Singles
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2nd Team Hills Division, CHC; 2nd Team Prep A All-State 2nd Teams Hills Division, CHC; 2nd Team Prep A All-State Honorable Mention Hills Division, CHC; 2nd Team Prep A All-State Honorable Mention Prep A All-State 1st Team Hills Division,
Christina Marrazza ’03 Meridith Mikulich ’03
2nd Team All-County, Star Ledger 3rd Team All-State Prep, Star Ledger
VOLLEYBALL - State Tournament Qualifier Diana Reiter ’01 Jillian Ditinyak ’02 Jeanne Lehmann ’02
2nd Team All-CHC Honorable Mention All-CHC 1st Team All-CHC; 2nd Team All-County, Star Ledger; 3rd Team All-State Group 1, Star Ledger
BOYS’ SOCCER Colonial Hills Conference Hills Division Champion Gabriel Bernstein ’01
Bradley Bershad ’01 Craig H irsh’01 Wesley Kirk ’01
Matthew Meisten ’01 Andrew Pack ’01 Adam Simon ’02
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Player of the Year, Hills Division, CHC; 1st Team All-County, ECADA; 1st Team Prep B All-State; 2nd Team All-State Parochial, Star Ledger; 1st Team All-County, Star Ledger 2nd Team Hills Division, CHC; Honorable Mention All-County, ECADA 1st Team Hills Division , CHC; 2nd Team AllCounty, .ECADA; 2nd Team Prep B All-State 1st Team Hills Division, CHC; ECADA Player of the Year; 1st Team All-County, ECADA; 1st Team Prep B All-State; 1st Team All-County, Star Ledger 1st Team All-State Parochial, Star Ledger 1st Team Hills Division, CHC; Honorable Mention All-County, ECADA 1st Team Hills Division, CHC; 2nd Team All-County, ECADA Honorable Mention Hills Division, CHC; Honorable Mention All-County, ECADA
The Girls Swim Team performs a choreographed cheer before a meet.
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“Do your best and have fun.” • Girls’ Softball coach Bob Gervasi received an Easton Victory Club award for his 200th victory at a special luncheon during the National Fastpitch Coaches Association national convention in San Antonio, Texas. Gervasi was named as a member of the NFCA ethics and High School All-American committees, and will chair the committee to report to the National Federation of High Schools. • Next fall the MKA track team will have a new venue - Verona. The Montclair Kimberley Academy and Verona High School have begun a rare partnership to share the cost and use of the track at Verona’s H.B. Whitehome Middle School. The MKA track team has been practicing in the street because the school doesn’t have room for a proper track; the old Verona cinder track is in disrepair. Under the agreement, both schools will share the costs to upgrade the facilities, and will share equally in the mangagement, finances, and use of the track. The idea came to pass through MKA Trustee John Garippa and Philip Giannuario, a member of the Verona School Board, who are partners in a Montclair law firm. If all goes well, the joint-venture track will be built and ready by the beginning of the next school year. • The MKA Wrestling Team had four individual champions at the Newark Academy Tournament, leading MKA to a second-place fin ish, its best showing since 1972. Outstanding Wrestler Brian Picillo at 125 pounds, Andrew Murphy (152), Jon Bruno (160), and Masamba Sinclair (171) each won his weight class.
The MKA Boys ’Cross-Country team became the first in school history to win the Essex County Championship. L to R: David Sivin, Jonah Kruvant, Steve Wall (partially hidden), John Leifer, Cooper Knowlton, Doug Wall, coach Tom Fleming, Headmaster Peter Greer, MikeDulong. Front: Bill Betts. Missing from photo: Zak Waksal.
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The varsity Ice Hockey Team is pictured with the Stanley Cup, arguably the most coveted and historic trophy in pro sports. The Stanley Cup, symbol o f excellence and teamwork, visited the MKA Middle and Upper schools in January. Students andfaculty were treated to a fact-filled assembly and had their picture taken with the legendary trophy.
• Senior Wesley Kirk has been named All-America for boys’ soccer. The forward/midfielder has traveled to California, Florida, Chile, and Portugal with the Under-16 and Under-18 U.S. Men’s National Soccer teams. Later this year, he will travel with the Under-18 team to play in the Lisbon International Tournament against Portugal, Ireland, and Norway. Wesley, named First Team All-Essex County and All-Parochial by The Star-Ledger, will attend the University of Maryland.
“M aintain a high level o f c o n c e n tra tio n ...”
The MKA Boys’ Cross-Country team finished the dual meet season unbeaten, won both the county and confer ence championships, and placed third in the State Parochial B championships. Three runners received individual honors. This was their first year under coach Tom Fleming, a noted runner himself who won the New York, Tokyo, Cleveland International, and Los Angeles marathons, and who was a member of the U.S. National Track and Field team. Fleming was selected as Essex County Cross-Country Coach of the Year by the ECCA (Coaches Association).
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Athletic Hall o f Fame VI The Montclair Kimberley Academy will induct four athletes and a coach into the Athletic Hall of Fame at the awards luncheon on May 5.
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Mark Baran was the first in an era of Academy powerhouse swim and water polo teams. He was captain of both teams senior year and was twice named AllAmerican in water polo. Also the winner of innumerable swimming awards, Mark was named All-America as a freshman (Prep relay), and for 50 freestyle and 100 backstroke in 1974. Indeed, 27 years later, he still holds the pool record atM KA in the 50 free at 22.2. Mark was given the scholar-athlete award in sophomore and junior years. At Yale, where he earned a B.A. in 1978, Mark lettered his freshman year on the varsity swim team. He lettered in water polo all four years and was named All-New England each year, and All-East for sophomore through senior years. Yale named him MVP those same three years and elected him captain senior year. Mark continues with Masters Swimming and was top in the 100-yard backstroke at age 39 in his age group at the Nationals. (Mark was one of the “old guy” alumni swimmers who defeated the MKA varsity at the dedication o f the refurbished pool two years ago.) He plays water polo at the New York Athletic Club. Mark, who was designated a Certified Investment Management Analyst at Wharton College in 1998, is a managing director at Spencer Trask Ventures in New York City.
They represent the sixth class o f individuals and teams honored for their athletic achievements.
JUDITH DIXON ’67 T e n n is
Judy Dixon turned her love of sports into a profession. She is the head coach of both men’s and women’s tennis at the University of Massachusetts (“the second winningest tennis coach in UMass history” says the program). She was the 1999 USTA/ New England Coach-of-the-Year and the 1998 Atlantic 10 Women’s Coach-of-the-Year. At Kimberley, Judy (named “Outstanding Senior Athlete”) was undefeated in high school competition and won the Kimberley Invitational all three years. She was ranked #1 in the East for 14-, 16-, and 18-and-under. In 1967 she won the Junior National Indoors and was ranked #12 in the U.S. At the University of Southern California, Judy played #1 singles for three years and won the Pac-8 doubles in 1973. She then became a touring professional, competing in the U.S. Open, Wimbledon, and the Virginia Slims tour. Her doubles partner was Billie Jean King. Judy was a delegate to the U.S. Collegiate Sports Council for five years and a clinician for the USTA Training Center. At Yale University she served as head women’s tennis coach and assistant director of athletics. In addition to her playing and coaching credentials, Judy is an accomplished journalist. She was the first woman nominated for an Emmy Award in Sports Broadcasting (1975); she has done color commentary for tennis, announcing for NCAA women’s basketball, and commentary for ABC’s “Eye on Sport.” Judy has two children, a son, Selin Dixon-Wheeler, 21, and daughter, Mariah Dixon-Wheeler, 17.
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Bill Hall has been associated with a lacrosse team either playing or coaching every year since fourth grade. He was goalie for MKA’s Prep-B Division championships in 1981 and 1982; he was named All-State two years, AllConference three. Bill started every game for the last three years and was captain junior and senior years (MVP). He was MVP and Most Promising Newcomer at the coveted state North-South Game. Bill had an astonishing 70-plus percent save average in high school, 65-plus in college. At Denison University (B.S. in economics), the litany of impressive statistics continued: Conference Rookie of the Year, four-time All-Conference, conference MVP, Mid-West MVP. He played three years in the NCAA lacrosse tournament, and earned All-America junior and senior years. He is Denison’s all-time save leader with 720 saves. Bill spent a decade teaching math and coaching lacrosse at Fairfield (Connecticut) Country Day School, Fairfield University, the University of New Hampshire, and Cornell University, where he was assistant lacrosse coach. He earned an M. Ed. in administration at UNH in 1993.
Jeremy Kahn continues in the great fencing tradition of MKA. In 2000 he received Honorable Mention as one of The Star-Ledger's Boys Fencers of the Decade. MICA was state champion his senior year, 1993; he was second in individual championships (epee) and First Team AllState. He was captain both his junior and senior years. In 1996, Jeremy won Duke University’s first NCAA championship in fencing. He started on the Blue Devils varsity all four years, was twice team captain and three times MVP. Twice he was named All-America. He won fifth place in the 1997 NCAA championships. The YMCA of Greater Bergen County selected him College Athlete of the Year in 1996. Since graduation from Duke, where he earned a B.A. in cognitive psychology, Jeremy has worked as an equities trader for Momentum Securities in New York City. He has continued to compete - earning fifth place in 1997 and sixth in 1999 at the open National Championships Division 1 Band at alumni-varsity meets at his alma mater. Jeremy also teaches a junior fencing program on Saturday mornings at the New York Athletic Club.
Since 1997, when he moved west, Bill has managed a private investment fund. He played for Team Colorado at the Vail Elite and Masters tournaments, and coaches the Heritage High School team in Littleton, Colorado; they are ranked fourth in the state. Bill - whose three siblings also attended MKA Bwas married last June to Frances Mary Duhig.
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from 1965-72. Betty then coached at three New Jersey colleges, including eleven years at Princeton University, where her team earned two Ivy League titles and appeared in the NCAA Division I field hockey tournament. Betty’s renown, however, came from her role coaching and umpiring the U.S. Field Hockey Association, which ran monthly training sessions for elite players for Olympic and college play. Her Newtown summer camps were legendary; they ran for six weeks and her staff came back year after year. “She not only taught players to play well,” said one coach, “but taught young coaches how to coach successfully.” Literally hundreds of former associates - a Who’s Who in Field Hockey - attended the memorial service of their mentor last year. Page 15
Joan Fencil Irwin ’60 came the greatest distance to Homecoming -from Sequim, Washington -W>r her 40th reunion.
Long Distance Awards. Lori Windolf Crispo ‘78, President o f the MKA Alumni Association (secondfrom left), honors alumni who camefrom the West Coastfor their reunions. Harry Jackson '75flew infrom Seattle; Clifford Evans '50, Mary Anne Treene Evans '50, and Antony Brydon ’90 camefrom California.
Rudy Deetjen ’50, Patty Deetjen, and Newton Schott, Jr., President o f the Board o f Trusteed Deetjen, form er Head o f the MKA Middle School Campus, received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1994.
HOMECOMING 2000
10th Reunion co-chairmen Merle Pear ’90 and Meredith McGowan ’90.
Bruce McBratney chats with reunion co-chairman Nela Wiesing Simberkoff ’50.
Betsy Kimball and Alison Smith Hitesman o f the Kimberley Class o f 1970.
Ann and Bill Grant ’45 look at photos o f his revered faculty in the Founders ’ Cup display.
Ken Rockhill ’75 and Alison Hunt Noger ’75 in the lobby.
Fifth reunion co-chair Jonathan Hirsh ’95 and classmate Vanessa Mizzone ’95.
Legacy and married alumni: reunion co-chairman Audrey Carroll McBratney '50 back fo r her 50th reunion - with Don D Alessandro ’75 and Sally McBratney D Alessandro ’75, back fo r their 25th. Headmaster Peter Greer accepts a symbolic check from the Class o f 1950’s reunion agents Audrey Maass Lewis and Jay Bitting. By the end o f the luncheon, the amount had risen to $7,400 - after only three weeks o f fundraising.
“M y 50th reunion a t first seemed like a movie where you return to the past to a strangely altered town and people. B u t oh, was it fu n seeing my old classmates and reminiscing!” Edith Hoisington M iller 5 0 Faculty member Barbara Mamchur with Elissia Greenberg, Joanna Berman, and Vanessa Mizzone o f the Class o f 1995.
Alumni Council member Dara Marmon ’91 presents reunion tote bag to class agent Mary Anne Coursen Doty ’60.
Retired faculty member Marilyn Faden greets her form er student, Anne Thomas Manes ’75.
Reunion chairman Nicki Smith Coffaro ’60, right, greets Kimberley classmate Kerwin Kipp Meyers
Lori Windolf Crispo ’78, President o f the MKA Alumni Association, and Alumni Council member Rick Jenkins ’77 greet returning alumni. They stand in front o f the photo display o f the Founders ’ Cup Award, which the Alumni Association presents each year in honor o f outstanding faculty.
Alden Jones, Kim Charlton, and Paula Kovanic Spiro o f the Class o f 1990.
Dallas Gordon ’75 and his aunt, Dorothy Bradley, who came to see his cousin James Johnson ’79 accept the Distinguished Alumni Award. Dallas notes that he and his sister, Robbin Gordon Cartier ’79, have fo u r cousins who attended MKA: Durwin ’74, James ’79, and Margaret Johnson ’81 and John Ward Jr. ’69.
From the Alumni Association From the President Dear MKA Family and Friends, I am very pleased to be serving as the president of the MKA Alumni Association. One of the most important functions of the Association is to help reconnect alumni with MKA. We have already had a very busy year sponsoring events and traditions that bring alumni from all over the country back in touch with the school. October brought another hugely successful Homecoming. It was just the kind of beautiful fall day that makes you nostalgic for “the good old days” - a mild, clear, sunny day with the excitement of the game and the chance to mingle with friends, Lori WindoV Crispo 78, president qf§ the MKA’fflitmni Association, presents teachers, and alumni. We had a terrific turnout for the game and the reunion the Distinguished Alumni Award to luncheon. The newly air-conditioned dining hall at the Upper School - the Cougar James Johnson 79 at reunion Dining Hall - was standing-room-only as alums reunited and shared their stories of luncheon. the past years. The highlight of the luncheon is the presentation of the Distinguished Alumni Award. This year’s recipient, James Johnson, Class of 1979, brought three tables’ worth of family, fans, and supporters to share in his special moment. The festivities continued that evening with the reunion dinner at Montclair Golf Club. This year’s dinner was especially memorable with the introduction of a DJ, which got everyone out dancing the night away. This fall the Black Alumni Network Initiative (BANI) formally became part of the Alumni Association. We are proud to recognize this new affiliate. One of BANI’s main goals is to network between black alumni and current MKA families; to this end, they held a holiday bowling party in December. It was a really fun afternoon, with new and old faces joining together for pizza and good laughs. In January the Alumni Association sponsored its thirteenth Night With the Devils. Through the generosity of Peter McMullen ’77, we have been able to hold this event for MKA’s former and current families. This year our date was bumped from a weekend night to a Wednesday evening due to the Giants’ playoff game. Many faculty members were able to attend the event this year through the PAMKA Faculty/Staff Ticket Pool, which made the Night even more fun. As I write this, we are gearing up for our spring events: Career Day, the Senior Breakfast, our first alumni golf/tennis outing, and selecting the next recipients for the Distinguished Alumni and Founders’ Cup awards. Thank you all for making our job with the Alumni Association so worthwhile and enjoyable. Best regards, L o ri W in d o lf C rispo ’78
Black Alumni Network Initiative More than 50 black MKA alumni - who live, work, and study in cities from Atlanta to Boston - meet regularly to pool their talents, identify areas of need and develop pro grams to support MKA students, focusing their efforts on networking and mentoring. Through BANI’s mentoring, students have an opportunity to explore career options, develop personal and academic goals, and identify ways to achieve those goals. BANI H a u m n i attended varied colleges, universities, and graduate programs and have distin guished themselves in a variety of professions^and can offer information, guidance., and support from a unique perspective.
Bob Cottingham ’84
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On the Road With MKA Alumni rekindled friendships and heard about their alma mater at four MKA receptions this year - at the New Jersey Shore, Hoboken, and both coasts of Florida. Esther and Bill Dioguardi ’76 hosted a reception at their home in Avon in August; a young alumni group met in Hoboken in November. This
winter, Susan and Perry Ruddick ’54x hosted in Palm Beach Gardens, and Jim and Sally Webb Brown ’64 hosted alumni, Trustees, friends, and administration in Naples, Florida. This spring MKA will hold an alumni reception in Bedminster, N.J.
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Headmaster Peter Greer with Shore reception hosts Esther and Bill Dioguardi 7 6
Diane and Joseph Alessi '68
Mirja and Alex Adams 7 8
Doreen and Rich Steenland 75, host Bill Dioguardi 76, Erin Cujfe Crawford 7 4
John Urga 7 6 and classmate Dave Hughes 7 6
M ark Baran 74, Ken D ioguardi 7 9
Young Alumni in Hoboken
Jean and Leon Richtmyre ’44 and Hank Leonhard ’48
Paul M cFeeley 7 6 with Taryn Rotondi ’93, her frie n d Alysa Buchanan, and Jennifer 0 ’D ea ’93 a t a yo u n g alumni event held in Hoboken with other area independent schools.
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Alumni in Florida Palm Beach Gardens
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Hosts Perry Ruddick ’54x and Honorary Trustee Susan Ruddick with Bob and Betsy Hasbrouck Cole ’56. Bob was an usher in the Ruddicks’wedding.
Longtimefriends Nancy Tieman Swenson '42, Bruce Swenson ’39, and Polly Rowe Barrows ’42 reunite. The Swensons have two grandchildren in the Middle School at MKA, Michael and Billy Swenson.
Headmaster Peter Greer chats with Albert and Nikki Burbank Frell '31, who hosted M KA’s previous reception in Naples.
Kimberley classmates o f 1953 Sally Maxon Jones, Suzette Armitage Whiting, and Stephanie Miller Gray have a mini-reunion in Florida.
Longtimefriends Austin Drukker ’52, Gay Clarke Perry ’50, and Audrey Maass Lewis ’50.
Sandra Fates Pekar ’66, Jay Pekar.
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Naples hosts Sally Webb Brown '64, Jim Brown, Anne Van Vleck Webb '54; Roger Webb '52. Sally and Roger arefirst cousins.
Harry Nimmergut '75 and sister Karen Boyle ’81 listen to Headmaster Peter Greer tell o f the current MKA.
Guest Percy Hill, who attended with his father, PercivalHill ’43, with Eleanor Bell O'Neill ’64.
Jill Rodburg ’96
Bob Brightman ’36 is parent o f three Academy or Kimberley alumni.
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We use one “official” yearly mailing to obtain news, which appears in the FALL MKA Review. SPRING magazine Class Notes are taken from reunion, holiday, and phonathon news, newspaper clippings, the flap on the Annual Giving remittance envelope, and letters or e-mail to the Alumni Office. Although the items might seem “old,” we have found that people love to read news whenever. The time lapse is unavoidable, as the processing of Class Notes from secretary to Alumni Office to classmates to secretary to Alumni Office to designer to printer covers a 14- to 16-week period. Please remember that you can send a note to your class secretary or to the Alumni Office anytime. We keep ongoing files for each class. To those without a class secretary, how would you like to volunteer? The job has been simplified to the point that you will probably enjoy it immensely. The position of alumni class secretary, like that of class agent and reunion chairman, is absolutely essential to the vitality o f the school. Please consider it. MA - Montclair Academy TKS - The Kimberley School
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Dorothy Ayres Holt at 91 fives in a wonderful retirement community in Connecticut, where there is “a lot to keep me busy,” she writes. “My past at Kimberley was wonderful. I was always ‘in trouble’ because I dreamed up crazy things. I drove Miss Waring and Miss Jordan ‘nuts’ but they loved me anyway!!!”
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Kindergartner Hailey Goldberg’s great grandmother, Mary DeLong McKnight, graduated with the Kimberley Class of 1914. Hailey’s grandfather, Malcolm McKnight ’52x, attended Brookside in the early 1940s. After attending Grandparents’ Day at Brookside this November, McKnight presented the graduation issue (June 1941) of the Brookside newsletter, Good Old Daze, to the MKA archives. He also sent some photos o f Brookside students in 1940. This is our first-known great-grandchild of an Academy or Kimberley alumnus/a to attend MKA. If anyone else has a “legacy,” please call the Alumni Office at 973-509-7940.
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MA _______________________ Our condolences to the family of Gerald A. Eubank Jr. Condolences also to John J. Newberry Jr. on the death of his wife. They had been married for 60 years, and celebrated with a great anniversary party in October.
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Emily Parsons Ridgway celebrated her 90th birthday by giving a large party at the Short Hills Club for 240 “friends and kin.” Congratulations and best wishes!
MA _______________________ Joseph W. Doremus reports that he has been living in Bradenton, Fla., since 1988, and that his two brothers, Henry Doremus ’33, and Nelson Doremus ’41, also five nearby. He writes with some irony in early December, “Not much news from faraway Florida.”
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Our condolences to the family o f Anita Schwarz Beamon.
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M iss Charlotte H. Fitch, Box 45 24 Cape Bial Lane Westport Point MA 02791
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Mr. C. Irving Porter Box 2750 Quaker H ill Road Unity M E 04988
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The Longest Climb Blake Reynolds ’32 should be the pride and envy o f his whole generation. At the age of 86, he climbed New Hampshire’s notorious Tuckerman’s Ravine on Mount Washington last July. “It was like climbing a stone wall,” he told The Lincoln County News (Damariscotta, Maine), “eight feet wide and 2.5 miles long from the ground level to the top floor of a 185-story building.” He climbed it with his daughter and son-in-law in four hours and descended in less than three. Sixty years earlier, when he was a student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Reynolds had climbed Tuckerman’s and skied down the ravine. He still recalls skiing over the lip in spring snow onto the 45-degree slope. He sent in his news modestly : “If the conclusion is don’t need [for the Review], please hand the article to the head coach as evidence that the old MA athletic program under Coach Broadhead was somewhat effective even on a fellow who never made a team.”
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Mrs. Albert Frell (Irene Burbank) 580 Admiralty Parade Naples FL 34102 Our condolences to the family of Mary E. Eisele. She leaves a brother, two nephews, and several great-nieces and -nephews.
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Dr. Vardy Laing 228 Valley Ridge Heights N W Calgary, Alberta, Canada T3B 5T3
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Mrs. Willard Dixon (Betty O ’Gorman) Crane’s M ill, Apt. 199 459 Passaic Avenue West Caldwell N J 07006-7461
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Mrs. Stewart Carpenter (Josephine Fobes) Crane’s M ill, Apt. 249 459 Passaic Ave., West Caldwell N J 07006
Brookside School, 1940. The children sittin g in the fr o n t row have been identified as (L to R ) : Stea d y A ilin g [H olt] '52, D aphne Driver [M cG ill] ’52, and M alcolm M cK night ’52x. M cK night presented the photo to M K A after visiting the school during Grandparents ’ Day at Brookside in November. H is granddaughter,
MA _____________________ Mr. John Graham 1129 Kings Ranch Road Bandera TX 78003
H ailey Goldberg, is in kindergarten. M cK n ig h t’s mother, M ary D eLong M cK night, graduatedfrom Kimberley in 1914. T he A lu m n i Office would welcome any fu rth e r identification or information about the picture.
Prospect. Sally enjoys Massachusetts in summer and Florida in winter.
MA _______________________ Our condolences to the family o f Kirk Usher.
Mrs. W. Kent Schmid (Josephine Murray) 9 Brandon Lane, Bishops Cove M ystic CT 06355 Jim and Elisabeth Rhoades McCabe are still in close connection to their colleges: Syracuse and Wesleyan (Conn.) from which he graduated; Skidmore where they summer. Jim is a Trustee Emeritus o f Wesleyan and Skidmore. “Education tops our list of interests,” she writes.
MA ___________________ _ Bogart and Elizabeth Higgins Thompson ’35 report “All’s well. Had many people and family for Thanksgiving and Christmas, getting caught up on MKA news from Sally’s 25th reunion” [Daughter Sally Thompson ’75].
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“The 80s have slowed down neither Henry nor me,” writes Mary Ames Poor. “We are active in church and community work, especially at soup kitchens for the homeless of the city [Newton Square, Pa.]. On Christmas Day we help put on a festive dinner for over 400 homeless and needy, with gifts for the children.”
MA _______________________ Our condolences to the family of Arthur W. Dixon Jr. Art, who was active in the early days of the Montclair Academy Foundation, had an impressive business career with the Dixon Chemical Co. and Runnymede Corp., a land development company. He is survived by his wife, daughters Judy Dixon ’67 and Barbara Dixon ’70, and two grandsons.
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Mrs. William Young (Peggy Klotz) The Village at Duxbury 290 Kingstown Way, Apt. 253 Duxbury MA 02332 Margaret Richards Chapman writes that the family expects Curt to recover from a physical setback in November. “The rest o f the family is fine.” Last May Sally Bausher Littlefield did a trip to Berlin and a river cruise to Prague on River Elbe. In November, she went on safari to Africa, to the Seychelle Islands and on to Luxor. She spent Christmas with Mary, Bill and “the girls.” Bill has a teenager hook coming out and a paperback of his novel
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Class agent: Mrs. Saul Serota (Cornelia Carswell) 6891 Wilson Road, M arshall VA 22115 Our condolences to the family of Betsy Krichbaum McAlister.
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Mrs. Alfred D. Williams (Joan Bayne) 10 Foxglove Court, Yarmouth ME 04096 Bobbie Kluge Deming is a great letter-writer and I thank her! She made her usual visit to Twin Lake Villa in New Hampshire and saw her sister, Nancy Kluge Rumery, whose golfing was on hold due to a damaged bone in her hand. In September Bobbie went on a paddleboat trip on the Mississippi followed by a “monster-sized wedding” for her oldest granddaughter in Mexico. Bobbie passed on the news that Sis Underwood Gregory moved to Boca Raton, Fla., in June. I called to say hi, and she is enjoying the freedom and new friends at the retirement place they found there. Harriet Palmer Pickens was at Schooley’s Mountain, N.J., for the summer where her daughter and grands visited. She left just in time to escape the floods in Hackettstown. She has decided to do as many have, to move before long to a retirement place; hers, Richland Place in Nashville. I also am waiting for “Piper Shores” south of Portland to be completed, probably in another year. I invited myself for dinner with Iris Fox Flournoy (and daughter and son-in-law) when she was briefly in Maine. So glad I did. What a dinner and what conversation. They have converted their sheep ham into a great spot, still on the same property they had ‘way back. Baynie
MA ___________________ Mr. C.R. Lyle II 435 M ountain Rd., P.O. Box 394 Jaffrey Center N H 03452-0394
S k s i _____________________ Mrs. James F.C. Hyde Jr. (Enid Griswold) 5402 D uvall Drive, Bethesda MD 20816 “Contrary to popular belief, democracy and
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grass roots’ effort can prevail,” writes Joan Ailing Wuerth. “On Martha’s Vineyard Island, we have just voted to radically change the makeup of the Development Commission from pro-development to conservation. This change will doom the attempt to build another golf course on our Island!” Our condolences to Helen Hanau Breen on the death o f her brother, Kenneth Hanau Jr. ’45.
MA _______________________ Mr. David Baird Jr. 9 Parkway, M ontclair N J 07042 David Caldwell still lives in California. “Did vacation in Tucson, Ariz., at the time of the National Gem and Mineral Show last February,” he writes, “and hope to get back east sometime this coming year.” Ann and Lewis Townsend were in Lima and Paris this year, organizing art exhibitions to be shown in the U.S. Currently they have four exhibitions on tour, with several more in the offing. “Ann is President, I am Financial Officer, and we have a staff of five,” he writes. “This is my second career, having retired from the Foreign Service in 1982.” Charles M. Holmes is still auditing courses in international relations and foreign policy at the U. of Kentucky, Lexington, and leading a “Great Decisions” foreign policy discussion group. Our condolences to the family of Phillip Nelson Lawes. He is survived by his wife, three sons, two daughters, three stepchildren, 13 grandchildren, and his brother, Elliot Lawes ’36.
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Mr. Richard L. Charlesworth 121 Cherry Brook Rd., Weston MA 02193 Our condolences to the family of Walter Freygang Jr.
M iss Lucile G. Mason 142 North Mountain Avenue M ontclair N J 07042 Mary Batt Taylor writes that her husband, Arnett, is very ill with Alzheimer’s.
MA _____________________ Mr. Richard R. Angus 38 Hinchman Avenue, Denville N J 07834 Joan and Harvey Weeks have moved to a more modem building in Astoria, Oregon.
THE LONG LINKS Frank Jacobs, Frank Sweeney, and Ted Olcott, all ’43, Dan Emerson ’42, and Gerry Youngman ’44 have played five or six golf games annually for 25 years. They rotate play at different clubs, and, according to Olcott, “continue to impress caddies and others about their 60-year friendships.”
Mr. Winterford J. Ohland 4 Abler ’s Lane, Blairstown N J 07825
Roger and Rudd Trimble Kenvin donated another book to the MKA library, their Necessary Ports [July Blue Press, 2000]. It is an enticing travel memoir o f their years teaching in Switzerland and travels to “Byzantium,” India, and Paris. Noted in the acknowledgements is Leigh Berrien Smith, “who helped make this collection possible by saving my letters to her over the years,” writes Rudd. The Kenvins are embarked on a three-month around-the-world tour aboard Cunard’s QE2. They will surface in New Hampshire for a couple of months, then return to California in June via train. Tom and Barbara Bumsted Shand sold their Florida home after 25 years in Palm Beach County (!), and have moved permanently to Lancaster County, Pa., where they have a beautiful new home in a large retirement community. She continues with artwork and Tom, with golf. Their grands are very close and they have Friday “sleepovers.”
MA _______________________ Richmond Hopkins writes that he is alive and well with three kids and seven grands, including two sets of twins. “I have often reflected on my commute to MA from Caldwell on the TROLLEY,” he writes, “and getting off at the top of the hill in Verona to save five cents with Bob Mapletoft ’46 (where are you Bob?).” Our condolences to the family of Kenneth Hanau Jr. Ken, who served in the Navy during WWII and graduated from Wesleyan U., had a distinguished business career. Ken founded K&H Corrugated Case Corporation and led it for 40 years. He also served on many corporate and charitable boards. He leaves his wife, Carol, three daughters, a son, nine grandchildren, and a sister, Helen Hanau Breen ’41.
Anne Feagley Wittels (Mrs. Jerome L.) 2116 ViaAlamitos Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274
The classes o f 1945 and 1 9 5 0 ,5 5 th and 50th reunions.
The Class o f 1 9 5 0 ,50 th reunion. Standing: M olly Prescott Kindred, Pam N eill Collins,
Standing:A nn and B ill Grant ’45, B ill Rowe, M ichael and Edith H oisington M iller
Bruce McBratney, Brook Kindred.
Seated: Patty Deetjen, K im and Katherine Rowe, Rudy Deetjen.
Seated: G uest D ick Collins, Peggy Jones Steuart, S u e D avis Tull.
Inset: B ill Rose, B ill “D oc”Warren
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The Class o f 1 9 5 0 ,50th reunion. Standing: Audrey Carroll McBratney, M ary A n n e Treene
The Class o f 1 9 5 0 ,5 0 th Reunion. Standing: C liff Evans, Tony Kiernan, George H allock, Jack
Evans, guest D ick Lewis, Edith H oisington Miller, Pegeen E u stis Keating, L ouise Green
Wallace, R udy Deetjen. Seated: Jack Heller, reunion co-chairman Richard H opkins, class agent
D unham , guest M arshall Keating. Seated: Audrey M aass Lewis, Nancy Northup Demarrais,
Jay Bitting. Co-chairman Walter Rauscher is m issing fro m the photo. ■
Nela Wiesing Simberkoff, guest Richard Guarino.
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»twfuNION OCTOBER 20,2001 TKS____ __________________ Nancy Rudd Eddy writes that they are building on family property in Lakeville, Conn., near sister Louise Rudd Hannegan ’47, to be “in reasonably close proximity to children, grands, etc.”
MA _______________ Dr. Peter B. Lawrence 4802 Carriage PL, Wilson N C 27896 From Bill Brown’s holiday letter: “How To Steal an Election is the prophetic name of a successful Off-Broadway musical Oscar Brand and I wrote in 1968. This year the Actors’ Gang Theater did a production in L.A. at the time of the Democratic Convention. Oscar and I updated the show and included Watergate, Travelgate, and Monicagate. Tina and I enjoyed the show and party afterwards hosted by Annette Bening and Warren Beatty.” The Browns traveled all over the continent, then appeared in Stage Presence, a three-hour show they co-wrote for the historical society celebrating 70 years of the Westport (Conn.) Country Playhouse. The Browns and Philip Morgan Cheek have been working for a year on a joint movie project, based on some true 1998 happenings in the South Pacific. Captain Cheek, a freelance merchant marine captain, skippered a 400-room floating hotel on an ancient salvage tug from a French atoll to Australia. The London shipping journal Fairplay did an article about the movie project. Cheek - who attended MA in the early 1940s as an English evacuee —spent six months in New Zealand this year.
Mrs. D avid Hannegan (Louise Rudd) 34 Monadnock Drive, WestfordMA 01886 Bill and Anne Staudinger Abels moved to a duplex on one floor in Southington, Conn. Their daughter Arden, married in December at home, lives in the front part of the home and helps them a great deal.
MA _______________________ Our condolences to the family of Oscar Weissenborn. It was good to see him at reunion last year.
MA _______________________ “We moved to a larger home (I know, it’s supposed to be smaller) in Boonton,” writes Richard Hehmeyer. He continues work as an actor/writer of commercials, promos, and corporate presentations. “Mr. Barras would have been proud to see the second comma before “and,” he observes. “I think only The New Yorker still uses it.”
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Mrs. Stanley M iller (Frances Lane) 462 SW 27th Ave., Delray Beach FL 33445 Last summer photographer Helen Montgomery-Drysdale had a successful exhibition in Del Mar, Calif., entitled “Ginger Rogers: Yesterday, Today, Forever.” It featured photographs she had taken over the 30 years Helen knew Ginger. Some of the photos had first been exhibited at the Gallery of Modem Art, NYC, during Ginger’s first film retrospective in 1967.
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Our condolences to Jane Hinton Smith on the death o f her brother, John Hinton. Jane and her husband, Harwin, spend six months of the year in Georgetown, S.C. She welcomes any classmates passing by; they are in the phone book.
Class agent: Mrs. Richard Lewis (Audrey Maass) 4551 North Shore Blvd. N, Apt. 804 Naples FL 33940 Many, many thanks to reunion chairmen extraordinaire Audrey Carroll McBratney and Nela Wiesing Simberkoff and reunion agent Audrey Maass Lewis for their fabulous work on the grand reunion. Audrey McBratney’s report: Thirteen members of the Kimberley Class o f ’50 returned to Montclair in October for a wonderful reunion weekend. Some of us had not seen each other since graduation but we felt fairly recognizable. All those face creams had worked! Mary Anne Treene Evans came the farthest from Palos Verdes, Calif., with Nela Wiesing Simberkoff from Nevada and Edith Hoisington Miller from New Brunswick, Canada. The rest o fu sH P a m Neill Collins, Jane Soucek Coughlin, Nancy Northup Demarrais, Louise Green Dunham, Pegeen Eustis Keating, Molly Prescott Kindred, Audrey Maass Lewis, Audrey Carroll McBratney, Peggy Jones Steuart, and Sue Davis Tull —spanned the east coast from Florida to Scarsdale. We gathered for dinner on Friday night at the
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Glen Ridge Country Club with spouses and friends. There was much conversation and lots of pictures. Interestingly not all of the talk was of the past; we also discussed current issues and, of course, our families. Saturday the alumni/ae staff and Council were our hosts at the Upper School campus. (With our advanced years, we were allowed to park up on the hill - that was a shock!) We were taken on guided tours through the school and were thoroughly impressed with the technology and equipment available to students. Most important, we enjoyed hearing of the availability of teachers to students outside o f the classroom. The learning experience involves everyone in an intense yet casual atmosphere. What a luxury it would be to be able to join them! At a delightftd buffet lunch we saw our Montclair Academy classmates along with other reunion classes. We heard updates on the school and applauded the alumni award to James Johnson ’79. The weather was perfect with peak foliage and Indian summer temperatures. We gathered at the Montclair Golf Club for an evening of dinner and dancing, chatting, laughing, and just being together. Nela clearly won the dancing award. Lots more photos were taken to capture those precious moments. To those members of our class who could not come, you were sorely missed and certainly not forgotten in our reminiscences. News of you was related by those who knew it, and we really wished you could have been with us. Our heartfelt thanks to Christie Austin and Laurie McFeeley of the Alumni Office who did so much to make our 50th so memorable. To those alumnae looking forward to a 50th reunion, don’t miss it! It really rejuvenates you, stimulates many memories, and rekindles special friendships. MKA/TKS was and is a very special place to experience! And Edith Hoisington Miller writes, “My 50th reunion seemed like a movie where you return to the past to a strangely altered town and people. But oh, was it fun seeing my old classmates and reminiscing! Michael and I revisited my old house, first time since 1976, and went right into the house, where the owners let me take pictures. Aside from being active grandparents of three, I am a freelance non-fiction writer and Michael, a composerpianist. Our three sons are also composermusicians, though of different styles.” Margaret Jones Steuart also had a great time, and says, “Montclair as a town was more beautiftd than ever.” They also saw her nephew, Rhys Jones M.D. ’76 and his family. “Our 50th was the best!” write Cliff and Mary Anne Tlreene Evans in commending the Kimberley and Academy reunion chairmen for the superb turnout. “Class of ’51, you’d better be there!”
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M A ___________________________ Mr. Rudolph Deetjen Jr. 17 K ing’s Cove Lane, Brooksville M E 04617 Class agent: Mr. Jay Bitting 299 River Edge Dr., Chatham N J 07928 ’50’s Fiftieth was all that we hoped: nostalgic in reunions, warm in hospitality, impressive in MKA Upper School site, and thoroughly enjoyable from lunch and Homecoming activities to dinner and dancing at the Golf Club. The stalwarts turned out strong, thanks to preparations and encouragement by chairmen Jay Bitting, Dick Hopkins, and Walt Rauscher (who unfortunately was in sick bay but is recovering nicely).
UNION OCTOBER 20,2001 T K S ___________________________ Class secretary and reunion chairman: Mrs. Lloyd M arentette (Gail Robertson) 476 LakelandAve., Grosse Pointe M I 48230 Everyone should have the weekend of October 20 on her calendar in ink! We already have plans for the whole weekend. Linda Herbert traveled to the East Coast from California to be with family for Thanksgiving. Our condolences to the family of Joan Miller Buchanan. She leaves her devoted Dave and two sons.
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We owe a special thanks to our Alumni Office hosts Christie Austin and Laurie McFeeley, and Headmaster Peter Greer for all of the thoughtful considerations, and to our Kimberley ’50 buddies for the smiles, laughs, and special memories.
Mr. Ernest F. Keer III 459 Club Drive, P.O. Box 1030 Bay H ead N J 08742
MA celebrants included: Jay Bitting, Cliff Evans, Rudy Deetjen, George Hallock, Jack Heller, Dick Hopkins, Tony Kiernan, Bill Rose, Bill Rowe, John Wallace, and Doc Warren. We sincerely missed those who couldn’t make it. You were in our hearts and thoughts throughout the day and evening.
Put October 20 on your calendar in ink and plan to return to the Academy for the 50th reunion. See the Class of ’50 notes for inspiration.
Let’s set our clocks for ’05... Cheers and godspeed! Rudy Ed. note: Apologies to Cliff and Mary Anne Treene Evans for the error that confused relationships in the fall Review. Cliff is not a Treene; he is married to one and is brother-inlaw to one. The Alumni Office heard from an “Ex” member of the class, “Mac” French - who left MA in 1948. After a career in the computer industry, he has retired to Richardson, Texas, and now travels and would enjoy getting back in touch with former classmates. He is on the class e-mail listing/MKA Web site.
Reunion chairman: Dr. M ark Hanschka P.O. Box 4536, Sunriver OR 07707
Mark Hanschka, reunion chairman, will be in touch. He retired two and a half years ago from OB/GYN practice in Portland, now lives in central Oregon, in the eastern foothills of the Cascades near Mt. Bachelor. He still does GYN clinics for Planned Parenthood in Bend and a similar clinic in Eugene, but only four days a month. He reports that Tom Stockham has been hospitalized with Alzheimer’s disease for the last three years at the VA in Salt Lake City. Tom received MKA’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 1990 for his brilliance as an electrical engineer and invention o f digital recording.
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Mrs. Clark Moran (Martha Gilbert) 8011 StrauffRoad, Baltimore MD 21204 Class agent: Mrs. James D onnell (Barbara Pendleton) 9468 No. Florence Road. Pittsburgh PA 15237 Susie Bailey Twyford, Gerrie Lockerty Hendricks, Jane Gassaway Bonner, M iriam E ustis Irwin, G ail Robertson Marentette, an d Nancy Ehrhardt W hite (not pictured) o f the Kimberley Class o f 1951 came fro m as fa r away as Virginia and Vermont to attend a private mem orial service fo r G ail’s mother, M ary K. Robertson, in September. The classmates have kep t in touch fo r 5 0 years, and Mrs. Robertson enjoyed hosting them a t her hom e in Llewellyn Park every reunion.
Anne Dwyer Milne enjoyed a few days on the Vineyard visiting Jean Fairgrieve Granum (whose three children and grands were there) and seeing Lorna Peters Garron ’53. Anne continues to travel near and far, including Bhutan this year. Nancy Booth Kelly has been named/ honored/designated a “Living Legend,” one of the women who helped the modem Bahamas.
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She is raising $5 million for worthy causes (we await further details). Congratulations! Pres and Phyllis Lockwood Hull have been enjoying “good family times” with their three children, spouses, and grandchildren, who live near them in St. Augustine or Orlando. They gather for birthdays and holidays for fun in the sun, and were awaiting the arrival of Grandchild #4.
M A ___________________________ Congratulations to Charles Sage, who retired in June as Emeritus Professor at Iowa State U. after 31 years on the faculty. He spends summers at a family home in northern Minnesota.
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LJpdate and change: Last summer Suzette Armitage Whiting played Sister Sophia and her husband did Herr Zeller in The Sound o f M usic at Surflight Theater, Beach Haven, N J. Kneeland also did George Widner in Titanic. (Ironically, his grandfather, a marine artist, went down on the Titanic.) The Whitings both did a non-musical at the end of the summer. They have a new granddaughter, Sarah Elizabeth, bom in June.
Ms. Georgia Carrington 38 Silver Spring Lane, Ridgefield CT 06877 carrgeo@aol. com Best wishes to Vicki Wendt West and Walter Peek on their wedding! They are busy golfing, traveling, entertaining, and being entertained. “Retirement seems busier than when I was working,” writes Lois Dawn Ramhurst Ballmann from North Dakota. She and her husband tutor second and third graders with the America Reads Program, work in a local food pantry, and travel frequently to Colorado to see their daughter and two grandsons. Felicity Fergusson Morse has moved to her Cape Cod home, and plans to spend some winter time in Vero Beach and traveling. She still does flowers at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, for corporate events. “Mother is now 95, heart ticking away; children and four grands all great, doing the hockey and tons-oflessons thing. They spend the summer on the Cape with me.” Anne Warnick Winner died in October and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. She made a name for herself in the Defense Intelligence Agency, not only helping protect people like Kissinger and Presidents Carter and Reagan, but also giving briefings to foreign heads of state, Defense ministers, and congressional committees. [The Review did a
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profile of Anne in spring 2000, when she received the Director’s Medal, the DIA’s highest award.] Our class has given a tree to Kimberley in memory of our departed classmates Lea Wood Audhuy, Mary Lee Bonnell Collins, Anita Bleecker Kahrl, and Anne Warnick Winner. We had a fabulous tour of the Middle School when we came to dedicate the memorial tree. Wish I could go back to school! Georgia
M A ___________________________ Class agent: Mr. Sheldon Buck 51 Cornell Rd., Wellesley MA 02181-7408 Gloria and Phil Donlin had a great trip to the Grand Canyon, Bryce, Zion, and Lake Powell, ending in Las Vegas. “The sights were beautiful!” he reports. George Kramer reports that he, Paul ’56, Lawrence ’78, and Robert Kramer ’82 are completing the final building o f a 41-unit condominium, The Mill, in Little Falls. Bryant Barnard, retired urologist, practices medicine in needy areas as a volunteer. Last year he spent time in Albania and Kosovo at refugee camps through the International Medical Corps of Los Angeles. He has also worked in a mission hospital in West Africa. The Evening News [Salem, Mass. September 28 and 29, 1999] published lengthy articles on his heart-rending and -warming experience. Sheldon Buck retired after 43 years at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which in 1973 became the Charles Stark Draper Lab. He is on the Board of Directors of the Cambridge School of Weston and is a mentor for the freshman class at MIT.
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Cambodia, and Burma in February. She spents much time taking art workshops in her new “other” residence in Santa Fe. Her daughter Victoria will be married in Chicago in June.
M A ___________________________ Mr. Lawrence Martin P.O. Box 1058 Lexington VA 24450 Class agent: Mr. Robert Brawer 131 E. 66th St., 10C New York N Y 10021 Many thanks to reunion chairman Lawrence Martin for his work on the 45th reunion. The select group of attendees had non-stop conversation; a great time.
m ~ Mf 45th REUNION OCTOBER 20,2001 T K S ___________________________ Mrs. Lawther O. Smith (Linda Lovell) 30 Water Crest Drive, Doylestown PA 18901 lsmith6071@cs.com Carol Barnard Ottenberg spent much of the summer in Maine and New England, vacationing with relatives on both sides of their marriage. She and Gail Zabriskie Wilson enjoyed an afternoon of tennis and conversation. They have summer homes about 10 minutes apart in Maine. Jane Crawford Lyons reports their big news: Their son Toby and his wife, Ann, adopted daughter Zaylee, 1, last fall. They have three other foster babies, and Ann is pregnant. “Quiet house to busy house!” writes the grandmother.
M A ___________________________ Mr. Eric Jaeckel P.O. Box 20153, Boulder CO 80308-3153 eJf)aeckel@hotmail. com Class agent: Dr. Larry Nazarian 29 Surrey Place, Penfield N Y 14526 Greetings from your class secretary, writing from his new home in Colorado. Why, you might ask? To be close to my son Brad, who was bom in Denver and lived out west all his life. Other reasons: Weather for 300 days a year are sunny in Colorado, versus 65 days in upstate New York; employment opportunities are great, especially for “mature” citizens; a base of friends exists, as we lived in Denver mid-’60s to mid-’70s.
The Class o f 1 9 5 5 ,4 5 th reunion. Richard M oskowitz, reunion chairman Lawrence M artin, Robert "Chip " Dallety, M ichael L udlum . M issin g fr o m photo: Oscar Mockridge, Robert Brawer.
Class agent: M iss Carol Turtle 13300 Indian Rocks Rd., #505 Largo FL 33774-2009 Susie Forstmann Kealy traveled to Thailand,
No one ever called to visit us in Rochester in 25 years; I bet that will change in Boulder. I will keep track o f the number o f Eastern visitors for the record book. Sharon and Larry Nazarian have two grandchildren (ladies) and a third on the way (unknown). They had a two-week journey to Great Britain. He continues to practice
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pediatrics and edits an international journal of pediatrics. Scott Harden says hello from Westmoreland, N.H., near Keene, and would like to hear from classmates. John Clapp continues to mix real estate (John Clapp & Assoc.) with other unnamed activities in Spring Lake, N.J. John is an example to all of us of a “sound mind and body” at age 60plus. This was the 40th college reunion year for those who graduated in 1960. Time to celebrate. Eric The Class o f 1 9 6 0 ,4 0 th reunion. Standing: Kerwin K ipp Mayers, Sheila Brennan Feidstein, Joan Fencil
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Ms. Linda Baldanzi 2 Greenview Way, Upper M ontclair N J 07043 Class agent: Dr. Georgia Sherman Glick 21 Eliot Rd., Lexington MA 02421
Irwin, guest Glen Irwin, K it Snow Laudati, Adele Larsen Poholsky, N ic ki S m ith Coffaro, g uest Philip Coffaro. Seated: Sally Minard, Sally A lice U nkles Diller, M ary A n n Coursen Doty, guest John Doty.
standard so compelling that you reached for it.”
alumni. Joan and Glen came from Sequim, Washington.
[Editor’s note: Apologies to Jack Roth, who was pictured in the alumni reception photo in the fall Review, not his identical twin Jerry Roth, who fives in California.]
Our condolences to Sally Minard on the death of her mother.
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Class secretary and agent: Mr. George A. Bleyle 2259 Weir Drive, Hudson OH 44236 orion@gwis. com
Class secretary and agent: Dr. Edward T. O ’Brien Jr. 3376 F em cliff Lane, Clearwater FL 36421 eo b l072720@aol. com John Hardman writes from Great Falls, Va.: “After five years o f restoration, we are nearing completion o f installation of a 76-year-old large Wurlitzer Theater Pipe organ. It has been an incredible amount of work involving many people. With luck, it will be playing in March.”
Mrs. Judson Breslin (Wendy Worsley) 44 Lake Drive, Mountain Lakes N J 07046 Helen Bryant Perry reports happy news: the wedding of her son Christopher Perry ’82x in July, and the birth of James Bryant Kineon to Jim and Ashley Perry Kineon ’85. That makes Helen both mother of the groom and a grandmother!
Ms. Jarvis Reilly Nolan 15612 Via Marchena, San Diego CA 92128 jarvisno@ aol. com
For some reason, the class had other commitments the weekend of Homecoming/reunions this year. You missed a good time.
MA Class secretary and agent: Mr. M ichael Baker 10 Highland Dr., North Caldwell N J 07006
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Bernard Milstein happily reports the arrival of his first grandchild, Lucy Frankfort, in February 2000.
Ms. Christine Keller 1702 Church Street, Galveston TX 77550
“High-flying” IDT [International Discount Telecommunications] made the No. 1 spot on this year’s New Jersey Technology Fast 50 fist, according to the Star Ledger. Jim Courier heads the company whose sales have grown from $11 million five years ago to $732 million last year. They moved headquarters from Hackensack to Newark.
Mr. D avid L. Bruck 12 Pond View Lane, Titusville N J 08560
MA Class secretary and agent: Dr. Robert R. Haney 525 Cardinal Circle E., St. M ary’s GA 31558
Put October 20th on your calendar in ink and plan to return to MKA.
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“The fu ll merit o f a play is never really appreciated until after the spectator has left the performance. In the same way does a student seldom realize the fu ll value o f the knowledge imparted on him nor its fu ll potentialfo r him. ”
Class agent: Mrs. M ary Anne Doty 21 Juniper Drive, Queensbury N Y 12804
Fredric Kaplan donated copies of three of his books to the Alumni Collection in the William Avery Barras Library (MKA Upper School): The China Guidebook, The Four Dragons Guidebook, and his award-winning Encyclopedia o f China Today. He had a lot of travel and projects in China last summer.
Many thanks to Nicki Smith Coffaro, who worked very hard as reunion chairman, from pen to telephone to crafting vintage-photo nametags for classmates. A good time was had by all!
Henry Agens recalls being in Frank Brogan’s first class in the fall of 1957-58, and calls him a “brilliant, brilliant teacher, who set a high
It was discovered after Reunion that Joan Fencil Irwin actually came the furthest distance from among all the West Coast
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State; and their youngest daughter is in 9th grade. Abhy has worked in theater, like Merrill.
Former faculty member Eileen Keenan discovered two woodblocks of Kimberley bookplates at a garage sale last fall, and promptly presented them to Headmaster Peter Greer. One is for the Kathleen H. Anthony Memorial Collection. Research in the alumni archives reveals that Kathleen Anthony - known as “Kay” to her friends and “Mrs. Anthony” to Kimberley students - taught history at TKS from 1956-1964. The 1964 yearbook, Kimberleaves, has a two-page In Memoriam to her. The school most appropriately memorialized Mrs. Anthony through her beloved books. Mrs. C. D. Creed (Barbara B y water) 1769 Forest View Avenue Hillsborough CA 94010
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Ms. Sharon Livesey 81 Grand St., #5, New York N Y 10013
MA _____________________ Mr. Bronson Van Wyck Arrowhead Farms, TuckermanAR 72473 Class agent: Mr. Arthur S. Gurtman 11 Sunset Drive, North Caldwell N J 07006
I W sT ______________ Mrs. Frank Henneman (Lynn Ritter) 818 Staffordshire Rd. Cockeysville MD 21030-2948 Class agent: Ms. Ardath Blauvelt P.O. Box 733, H ollis N H 03049
MA _______________________ Hon. John Sheldon P.O. Box 96, Paris M E 04271 Class agent: Mr. Peter C. Mayer 133 Woodfield Road Washington Township N J 07675 John Benigno, a realtor in Haverford, Pa., was elected president o f the Philadelphia/Tri-State Artists Equity Association.
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Mrs. James Wright (Susan DeBevoise) 1 Tuck Drive, Hanover N H 03755 susanwright@ dartmouth. edu Thanks for all who responded; we have plenty of news for a change. Merrill Adickes Rich has founded the Children’s Theatre Arts Program at the local playhouse in Titusville, Fla. Having taught ballet, she now teaches drama at a K-7 charter school. You can visit her husband Dave’s Space Coast directory at www.nbbd.com. Their daughter Becky, 26, lives with them; she has Down’s syndrome and is a joy. Son Ben graduated from Colgate and works in Pittsburgh. Merrill writes, “I will truly never forget Miss Hamilton and her bouquets and bricks, Mrs. Roberts and her kind but firm teaching, Miss Fisher and Miss Norris and the hockey team, Mrs. Coursen and the Ooragnaks, Mrs. P and dragging in bags of moss for extra credit, etc.” Ellen Malcolm was much in the news this election year as founder and president of EMILY’S List. The Star-Ledger reported in August, “The feminist political fund-raising organization that began as one woman with an idea and a Rolodex in her basement has grown in 15 years into the biggest funder o f federal candidates in the country.” Kitty Haines is the only one in our class with a listed e-mail address! She and Andy live in San Francisco now, where she’s working as product manager for macys.com. She attended a Christmas concert, which reminded her of Bucky Coursen, St. Paul’s, and all of us. Abigail Hutchins, a.k.a. Abby Estey, moved to Iowa from Seattle last February. She and her husband have moved 14 times. For five years, they lived in Munich, Germany, when Don was working for K2 skis. Their daughter Jill, 28, is in Germany; Sarah, 22, is at Arizona
Abby reminded me that she and Page Paterson were at Colby Sawyer together. Funny to find myself living near Colhy Sawyer (I recently met Page’s aunt who teaches there, well-known to all in these environs). Page has had a private practice in acupuncture for 12 years, and is currently studying Chinese herbs. She and her husband, Charles Robbins, live in Wilmington, N.C. Her son lives in Texas and her daughter is in the performing arts in NYC. Mary Ayres Hack lives in Princeton, where her husband, Randy, manages Princeton’s endowment. She volunteers in the pre-school program of a mission in Trenton. She is active in church and continues to dance for fun. Their daughter, Tobin, is a senior, and son Toby is a sophomore at Deerfield Academy. Louise Brundage Lynch continues to make the world a better place. She’s building a Habitat House, mentoring a woman prisoner, assisting a Burmese refugee friend, and managing their church soup kitchen in Old Lyme, Conn. She and Chuck have three daughters, Carrie, Darcie, and Alexis - one a senior at Colby, the youngest waiting on admission to college. I e-mailed Gigi Ahrens Harvey (initially incorrectly to a Dartmouth student; imagine HIS surprise), and have so far news of her from Mary. Gigi’s in London, England, with her husband, daughter Camilla, and son Duncan. Lyn Schultz Blackwell sent a postcard from New Zealand when visiting their youngest college-aged son, Colin. It was dated Nov. 7 and her last line reads, “We are anxiously awaiting the election results!” She didn’t miss a thing! She and Terry, her husband, have been living in Vermont for 30 years. She is teaching American history at Norwich U. this winter. Joan Vanderbeck Taylor assists the chairman doing special projects for a dot.com that provides advertising, public relations, and website development, design, and hosting services. The work varies and includes legal, accounting, and strategic marketing assignments. She and her husband, Michael, live in Manhattan and enjoy weekends at their country home in the Hudson River Valley. Kate Bonniwell, her husband, Bill (a Dartmouth graduate), and son Alex, 3, live in NYC. We’re hoping to get them here sometime for a Dartmouth reunion. Gordon and Margie Bartholomew Burris live in Charlottesville, Va. They have three children and four grands, with another on the way. The boys, Beau and Matt, are married, and Bridgette is completing her master’s degree in nutrition in NYC. Margie sells historic homes, farms, estates, and land. She
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also helps raise funds for the university; her husband is a development officer and assistant to the president of UVA. At least this is a start at making up for lost time. Please tell us what color uniform you most remember Ruth Sisler, Lucille Russomano, and Cookie Sayre wearing. I think of Miss Winship and Miss Renz and I nearly saw Mr. Loveland last year when he was in Hanover. All best wishes - Susan
Sumatra, Sri Lanka, and India. Look for the three-part series in the May, June, and July issues of National Geographic.
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Ms. Avie Claire Kalker 10 Knolls Road, Williamstown MA 01267 akalker@aol. com
M A __________________________ Mr. Burton M. Webb Box 29, Free Union VA 22940
M A ___________________________ Mr. D. Carter Fitzpatrick 49 Bell Rock Plaza, Sedona A Z 86351 Class agent: Mr. Craig Cameron 11 Bay Point Drive, Ormond Beach FL 32174
Ms. Margot Escott 5135 Cobble Creek Court #101 Naples FL 34110 escott@naples. net Our condolences to Judy Dixon on the death o f her father, Arthur Dixon Jr. ’38.
M A ___________________________ Class agent: Mr. Craig Perry 3467 Pinestream Road, Atlanta GA 30327 Mike Yamashita has been working on the final leg o f “in the footsteps of Marco Polo” in
Our condolences to Bobbie Dixon on the death of her father, Arthur Dixon Jr. ’38, and to Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner on the death of her father. Karen is updating her hook on Lyme Disease; the new version is due in 2001.
M A ___________________________ Mr. V. James Castiglia 5701 Berkshire Valley Rd., PO. Box 311 Oak Ridge N J 07438 Class agent: Mr. Garret Roosma 12175 Upper Heather Ave. N Hugo M N 55038
Mrs. William E. Crawford (Frantine Onorati) 421 Beacon Street, Boston MA 02115 News from Seattle: Jan Shaw works as an RN in the operating room. She continues with scuba diving, working on technical diving certificates. Son Elliot, 17, attends high school in England as an exchange student.
dinner. Many thanks to Kim Kolbe, who inspired so many to return for a wonderful reunion.
Mrs. Charles Gildea (Lynn Ehrhardt) 46 E. Saddle River Road Saddle River N J 07458
M A ___________________________ Dr. Edward A. Griggs Jr. 32 Courseville Road, Bronxville N Y 10708 eagriggs@dellnet. com George Downsbrough works as a manager for Raytheon in State College, Pa. Daughter Melissa is a freshman at the U. o f Nebraska and is a starter on their rifle team. Daughter Lea, 15, is a sophomore and varsity swimmer in high school.
Note to the Academy men o f ’70: Talk with the Kimberley women about the fun you missed at reunion. James Brothers presented a paper at the Pioneer America Society and the Archeological Society of Virginia fall conferences, and was the featured speaker on the Colonial iron industry of Virginia at the Lost River Museum, W.V., in August. He also co-authored a paper that was presented in France. James corrected two items in the fall Review about his archeological projects: Falling Creek Iron Works (1619-22) and the canal boats at Maymont Park, Va.
UNION OCTOBER 20,2001 Ms. Leslie Bryan 844 East M omingside Drive, NE Atlanta GA 30324 lbryan@dsckd. com Class agent: Ms. Kim Kolbe 38 K ent Dr., Roseland N J 07068 The class gets the prize for Most Enthusiastic Dancers at the Montclair Golf Club reunion
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M A ___________________________ Congratulations to Jeffrey Levin, who joined Holland & Knight LLP as a partner in their New York office. His specialty is trusts and estates law, including estate planning; federal, state and local tax matters; estate and trust administration and litigation; and not-for-profit organizations. H&K has 26 offices worldwide. Bruce Downsbrough also has a new address and employment: he has moved back to Boulder, Colorado with the University of Colorado Foundation.
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The Class o f 1 9 7 0 ,3 0 th reunion. Standing: A lison Sm ith H itesm an, Madge H uber Henning, A lison Boochever Sawyer, Betsy Kim ball, K im Kolbe, Debbie VonHojfman Lanzone. Seated: A n n e M cIntyre Graves, Bobbie Dixon, H eidi Sanders Bryan, Georgia Buckner.
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Class agent: Ms. Kate Curtin Lindsey 12630 Three Sisters Road Potomac MD 20854
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The Class o f 1 9 7 5 ,2 5 th reunion. Standing: reunion cochairman Katie Grover, Sally M cBratney D ’A lessandro, Don The Class o f 1975,25th reunion. Standing: guest Colleen Moore, Anne Thomas Manes, John Moore, John "Sean" Boyle, guest Mary
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Ellen Boyle, Harry Nimmergut. Seated: faculty member Ken Gibson, Cathy Haviland Schafer, guest Lynne Nicholson, Doug Hamilton.
Thomas Manes.
Our thanks to Barbara Peto Kilnapp for her tour as class secretary. Linda Finney Williams traveled from Great Britain to California and back to Nantucket in a seven-week period. Daughter Aryn graduated from Smith and is in Australia for law school; Colin plays basketball and will be varsity soccer goalie in the fall; Evan, 4, is a “non-stop sports junkie also.” Linda claims he can already run a computer better than she can.
“I was not confused with the ballot fo r President in Palm Beach County and I attribute it to my fin e education at M KA!” Michael Cassatly ’72
J tkI # Ms. Susan Read 38 College Circle, Staunton VA 22401-2375 davick@intelos. net
Class secretary: Mr. David Soule 120 Linden Avenue, Verona N J 07044 Class agent: Ms. Erin Cujfe Crawford 102 Buckingham Road Upper M ontclair N J 07043 “Acclaimed soprano Barbara Bonney brings the composer’s musical vision to life with her ‘radiant-toned soporano voice and heart rending phrasing,’” reads the New York Philharmonic program listing her upcoming performance of Aaron Jay Kemis’ Simple Songs on March 29, 30, and 31. Barbara receives raves around the world.
Class agent: Mrs. Edward Skibiak (Ellen Wahl) 56 Hamilton Drive East North Caldwell N J 07006
From Susan Widmark Ridgway: “The Ridgways are alive and well, still living in southern Maine. I am finding it hard to believe that we have just sent our oldest child off to start her freshman year in college. Are we really that old?”
Edward and Marylyn Modny Gregory moved to Bemardsville. She works as an art director in the film industry, and has been painting murals in the area.
Our condolences to Martha Bonsai Day on the death of her mother. Mrs. Bonsai served as a Trustee of Kimberley and was a notably active community volunteer.
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Mr. Rudolph Schlobohm 78 M ontclair Avenue, M ontclair N J 07042 castlecompany@ibm. net
Class agent: Mr. Rudy Schlobohm 78 M ontclair Ave., M ontclair N J 07042
Benjamin Thompson is now in full-time private practice, counseling individuals and families dealing with various emotional concerns. His wife, Charlotte Meryman, “is enjoying some success as a freelance writer, while our children, Madeline, 9, and Sawyer, 6, are enjoying our ‘country’ life.”
Condolences to William Kovacs on the death of his father.
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C.G. Brian Thomas joined Johnson & Johnson this year as controller for the consumer products company in Skillman, N.J. His children are now 12, 8, and 3.
Class agent: Mr. Paul Zukerberg 1901 Wyoming Ave. N W #75 Washington D C 20009 Many, many thanks to reunion chairmen Katie Grover and Brian and Lisa Irwin Keane for their hard work and enthusiasm and hospitality that resulted in such a great reunion. Be sure and relive it through the excellent Web site compiled by Anne Thomas Manes at the alumni site: www.montclairkimberley.org Look it up under the class of 1975 e-mail listings. Katie, Brian, and Lisa thank everyone who came and those who shared their news, even if they couldn’t come. “Let’s keep momentum going for our 30th,” says Katie. Jay Finney is director of marketing and communications at the San Francisco Museum of Modem Art. “In the past year,” he writes, “I went from confirmed bachelor to husband, stepfather of two children, and father o f my own child B a boy, named Howard “Quint” Finney V. Whew!” Congratulations on all of the above. Lori Pink has a private psychotherapy practice in Plantation, Fla. Our condolences to the family of Paul V. Olowacz. Paul is remembered fondly for his audience-rousing performance in Oklahoma! He went on to Princeton University.
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*7 / 25th REUNION OCTOBER 20,2001 Mrs. Paul M cFeeley (Laurie Hoonhout) 238 Devon Road, Essex Fells N J 07021 Class agent: Dr. Charles Read 1918 N, D aniel St., Arlington VA 22201 Frank Gerard Godlewski visited MKA, met with Dr. Greer, and had lunch with me last summer. He lives in Naples - Italy - but is in Montclair frequently due to business in NYC. He is enjoying reconnecting with MKA after many years. Rhys Jones has three children - Rhys Jr., 7; Liam, 5; and Lilly, 4. He now practices at the Clifton Immedicenter. Esther and Bill Dioguardi hosted a reception for MKA alumni at their beautiful new home at the Jersey Shore in August. The setting was idyllic and it was great to relax with old friends. David Hughes, John Urga, and Paul and I attended, and we all started planning for our 25th reunion. Since then, many classmates have come on board to help gamer enthusiasm. (Remember how great our 20th reunion was?) Please make sure you have OCTOBER 20TH on your calendars in ink. The reunion will commence with a party on Friday night, so block out the whole weekend. Classmates are flying in from all over the country. I can assure you, after spending time with the Class of ’75 at their reunion this year, there is nothing like being with old high school friends. Time stands still and the laughter just doesn’t stop. I left the ’75ers on the dance floor at Montclair Golf Club at 11:45 p.m. (Oh come on, I worked all day at Homecoming!) See you all in October. Laurie
eB oys Alumnus Andy Rachleff ’76 and his partners at Benchmark Capital are the subjects of a book by Randall Stress called eBoys [Random House 2000]. The book’s cover tells us that it is the true story of the six tall men who backed eBay, Webvan, and other billion-dollar start-ups. It seems that Rachleff and his partners, when meas ured together, have an average height of 6'5". A description on amazon.com says the hook “blends a business historian’s perspective with a journalist’s flair for suspenseful storytelling,’’and “offers a precise and enlightening account of the ways in which venture capitalists think, evaluate prospects, and wield influence.” Rachleff’s firm was not much more than a start-up itself when it backed eBay in 1997. Rachleff, who earned a B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from Stanford, lives and works in California with his wife and two children. His specialty in the Benchmark group is network equipment and telecommunications; he reportedly approaches work with“methodical care”; his style, a “restrained minimalism.” The book notes, “His investment decisions demanded mastery of arcane technology that the others jokingly distilled down to‘moving hits faster.’” According to the MKA yearbook, even back in 1976, Rackleff was noted for his“smart mind.”
Mr. Andrew Pedersen 226 Fair Haven Rd., Fair Haven N J 07704
Betsy Gelenitis Alison ’77 was given the Leadership in Women’s Sailing Award at Sail Expo in January. “The Award is given to a person who has a record of achievement in inspiring, educating, and enriching the lives of women through sailing,” said the president of the National Women’s Sailing Association. Alison holds 22 national, international, and world sailing championships and was named Coach of the Year in Sailing by the U.S. Olympic Committee for her work with disabled, youth, and women sailors. She spent several years advising and coaching the U.S. Disabled/ Paralympic Sailing Team, and led it to a bronze medal at the Sydney Games last fall. She has volunteered in designing, promoting, and teaching sailing clinics around the world, and has been involved with the AdventureSail program, which helps inner city and at risk young women develop a healthy lifestyle through sailing. “Everyone in the sailing world knows about Betsy’s incredible sailing achievements,” said the BoatU.S. founder, sponsor of the award, “but there may be some people who don’t know about her equally important contributions to help others learn about sailing. She has a truly remarkable combination of sailing skills, energy, and compassion.” Alison is a five-time Rolex Yachts woman of the Year, and is ranked first in the States, second in the world, in women’s match racing. MKA named her to the Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996, the inaugural year.
Class agent: Mr. Robert Hubsmith 16 Warren Road, M aplewood N J 07040
The Class o f 1 9 7 5 ,25th reunion. Standing: Dallas Gordon, Sally McBratney D ’Alessandro,
The C lass o f 1 9 7 5 ,2 5 th reunion. Standing: Sally Thompson, L iz Newman, A n d y Steiger, A n n a
reunion co-chair L isa Irwin Keane, Don D ’A lessandro, Kay Towner Stalle, George S ta lk , Rich
Crawford, Janet Kluge Wiggin, Ken Rockhill. Seated: Harry Jackson, Roget Abbott, guest A llen
Steenland. Seated: reunion co-chair Brian Keane, Mr. Herb Zukerberg, Paul Zukerberg, guest
Noger, A liso n HuntN oger.
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interest rates.” SPIN The University of Colorado Journalism School alumni magazine did a profile of Jonathan Grevatt ’77 last year and his career as host o f WAXQ-FM (“New York’s Only Classic Rock Station”). Grevatt - known as Jonathan Clarke on the air - does the midnight-to-5 a.m. shift on weekends and commercials for the station. “Being on in the middle o f the night is always entertaining,” he says in the article. “I get calls from New York’s finest - bakers, limo drivers, and truck drivers, not to mention all the crazies out partying.” Grevatt has worked at MTV, Fox News, and Arista Records. He writes features for Hits, a trade industry magazine, produces commercials, and makes personal appearances for WAXQ at concerts and events. He released a CD o f his own music last year. Grevatt gets a large audience when he speaks about life in the music industry at MKA Career Day.
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Ms. Pamela Zeug 250 M ercer St., C418, New York N Y 10012 Mr. Lawrence Garrigan 6103 Ox Bottom Manor Drive Tallahassee FL 32312 Class agent: Ms. Jane Lugaric Burkhard 299 Crown Road, Kentfield, CA 94904 Melissa Cohn is quoted in the October 30 issue o f Business Week magazine. As president o f Manhattan Mortgage Co. — “metropolitan New York’s No. 1 residential mortgage broker” - she says, “The real estate market has been driven more by stocks than by
Rick Doerr won the 2.4-meter class “America’s Regatta” sponsored by U.S. Sailing in St. Petersburg, Fla., in November. Kim and John Butler had their first child, Michael Hudson, last summer. Our condolences to Fred Eiden on the death of his father, and to Cheryl Wedel Birmingham on the death of her mother, former faculty member and Dean of Students Betty Wedel.
Ms. Julia Ruddick Meade 51 Avon Road, Bronxville N Y 10708 Many thanks to reunion chairman Pam Eastman Garvey for her work on reunion and hospitality Friday evening to kick off the weekend. Pam missed all the official reunion photos! Congratulations to Julia Ruddick Meade on the birth of her second child, first son, Thomas Patrick, in March 2000. Warren and Irma Kanter Nimetz also have two children, Teddy, 7, and Abby, 2. They live in Chappaqua, N.Y. Elizabeth Nebb Owen is VP of Serbin Communications, in Santa Barbara, Calif.
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Mrs. Carlos Ortiz (Shawn Mahieu) 2163 Gilbride Rd., M artinsville N J 08836 Class agent: Mrs. Anita Sims Rainford 299 North Walnut Street E ast Orange N J 07017 Gardner Semet reports that he saw Warren Busch at a party at Tony Cristello’s and expected to ski with George Frey in February in Colorado.
Stephen Kimmel is assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology at the U. of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia. Jeanne and George Reimonn proudly announce the birth of their third child, Gregory Matthew, last year. He joins brothers Thomas, 7, and Patrick, 5. George recently started as director o f product development at Workscape, Inc., a Boston-based software company. They live in Medford, Ore.
Dale and Emily Rowland Malone have been busy with their new venture, the Boston South Shore’s first brewpub, The Quincy Ships Brewing Co. They have three daughters, Sarah, 11; Charlotte, 8; and Whitney, 5. On the other coast, Ginny Hall is with Washington Mutual Bank in Coos Bay, Ore.
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M ary L. Cole, Esq. 1 Ferrous Court, Chester N J 07930 m arycolei 2@hotmail. com Class agents: Mr. M artin Brayboy 64 Whetstone Road, Harwinton CT 06791
■ 20th «u nion October 20,2001 Class agent: Ms. Hyla Ames Bauer 240 East 82nd Street, Apt. 7J New York N Y 10028 “We hope to see everyone at the 20th reunion in the fall,” writes George George, “providing Presidential travel doesn’t get in the way.” He is assigned to the Presidential Protective Division with the Secret Service in D.C. Bob Cunniff lives in Cedar Grove, has two children, 3 and 1.
The Class o f 1 9 8 0 ,2 0 th reunion. Standing: G uest Janet Tim mons, D an Tim mons, John
The Class o f 1 9 8 0 ,2 0 th reunion. G uest John Larrier, India Hayes Larrier, guest M artin L auck.
Wood, guest Dana Wood. Seated: Tony Bowser, guest Kevin M unnelly and child, Curt
Seated: Rob Cerfolio, guest Lorraine Ceifolio, Julia Fernald.
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T he Class o f 1 9 8 0 ,2 0 th reunion. Standing: guest Ira Gross, Sue Greenbaum Gross, John
The Class o f 1 9 8 5 ,15th reunion. Standing: Rosie A h ka m i, Corinn Thompson, EdieS za ka cs
Langstaff, Carmen Fleetwood Paul. Seated: N ina Seborowski, guest Victor Abdow, Jonathan
Prescott, Robin Schwartz, A lexis Polonofsky Zebrowski. Seated: G uest J e ff Whitworth, guest
Parker, Fred Coles.
A llison Wiener, reunion co-chairman Jeffrey Schackner, Doug Polizzi.
She would love to hear from “Boston area (or any) classmates!” Best wishes to Lisa and Christopher Perry on their wedding. Ms. Cheryl McCants 730 Northwest Natio Pkwy; U nitE24 Portland OR 97209 Mr. Thomas Robbins 6 Bradford Terrace Newtown Square PA 19073 Class agent: Mrs. Randi Pickelny Rod 365 Peacock Drive, Charlottesville VA 22903 Jim Windolf is a senior editor at Vanity Fair (CondeNast), NYC. He spoke on journalism at Career Day last year. Tom Robbins and his wife had a daughter, Ashley, in June. Thad Yablonsky moved to South Orange with his wife and daughter, Katie (Kathryn Joyce), 2. He is a radiologist at Morristown Memorial Hospital. Jonathan Sandler “joyously” announces the birth of their son, Lev Spencer, in October. Eric and Beth Cherashore Schlager and four children - Andrew, 7; Katie, 5; Allison, 2; and Charlie, 1 -live outside Boston in Weston.
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Ms. Amy Felber 2841 Sacramento St., 301 San Francisco CA 94115 Ms. Maureen Towers Natkin 5 Riverview Road, Irvington N Y 10533 motowers@aol. com Class agent: Mrs. Kristine Hatzenbuhler O ’Connor 159 Fells Road, Essex Fells N J 07021 Steve and Suzanne Halm Locke and sons Connor, 3, and Ryan, 1, live outside Boston. Suzanne is in her 13th year teaching middle school math at the Shady Hill School in Cambridge. “Our 130-year-old house keeps us busy - the list of projects is endless!” she writes. Raul and Ileana Lopez-Balboa Torres had a “blonde, blue-eyed baby girl, Natalia” after Christmas 1999. Ileana returned to work as associate director of global marketing support and investor relations at Alpha Investment Management, a hedge fund-of-funds. Alumni callers learned the following baby news at Alumni Phonathon in November: Jonathan Cohn has a boy, Jared, then six weeks; Eric Green has three little ladies, 3 and a half, 17 months, and 10 weeks. Holly Jervis Felber has a new job as director of licensing at Carolina Herrera.
Classmates o f 1983 A n d y Voss, Garry M erkle, Dan Carson, Jay Wecht and Geoffrey Habron reunite at Don's wedding in Arizona in December. Other M K A alum ni attending were E d Conlin '84, B ill Carson '79, Bob Carson '82, and B illy H all '82.
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Best wishes to Whitney and Daniel Carson, who were married 1/01/01 at the Phoenician in Phoenix, Ariz. A large MKA contingent attended from all over the country: best man Andy Voss, ushers Bill Carson ’79 and Bob Carson ’82, Ed Conlin ’84, Geoff Habron, Bill Hall, Garry Merkle, and Jay Wecht.
Meet Me in S t Louis At a conference of 10,000 people in the health field in St. Louis in November, MKA faculty members Pat Dancy and Sue Reiter ran into alumna Tracey Adams ’84 in a neighboring booth. Tracey is community outreach manager for CDC consumer health network services in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
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Class secretary and class agent: Mrs. Jennifer Jones Ladda 110 Glen Rock Road, Cedar Grove N J 07009 Class agent: Mrs. Andrew Wilson (Laura Dancy) 325 Ridgewood Ave., Glen Ridge N J 07028 MKA’s celebrated fencer Bob Cottingham serves on the Board of Directors of the Westbrook Foundation, which teaches fencing to young inner-city athletes. He has “cut back on coaching” but works with the tutoring program. Harris Podvey is VP of United National Bank in Bemardsville, N.J. Congratulations to Todd and Jennifer Jones Ladda on the birth of twins Caitlin Rebecca and Andrew Dylan (called “Dylan”) in November. The babies weighed in at healthy sizes and everyone is doing well. Stephanie Simon lives in New York and Los Angeles with fiancé Jason Newman and daughter Alix, 1. She owns a talent management company, Untitled Entertainment, and represents actors such as Courtney Love, Ashton Kutcher, Kirstie Alley, and Matthew McConaughey. Catherine and Wayne Weil and daughter
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Mr. Dennis Rodano 14 Wayland Drive, Verona N J 07052 Mrs. Joy Booth-Roussel 5509 Camp Street, New Orleans LA 70115 Class agent: Ms. Andrea Schackner 10 Markham Circle, Englewood N J 07631
M KA fa m ily wedding on Cape Cod. Front: Bride Jennifer
H illary W indolf 8 8 and Andrea Safirstein Bernstein 8 8 at
Rabke Verani ’88, groom Andre Verani. Standing: Christina
A ndrea’s wedding.
Rabke H enry 8 7 , form er fa c u lty member Nancy Rabke,
Congratulations to Paul and Ida Boodin Ladner on the birth of Relly Diane in October, who joins twins George and Liliana, 2. The baby is named after Ida’s mother, who died last spring; our condolences.
fa c u lty member John Rabke, Carl R abke '90.
Josephine, almost 2, moved to a new apartment in Manhattan and he took a new job with an Internet start-up, Cross Border Exchange, Inc. David Fehnel and Andrea Gabriel have settled down on the north shore of Boston. David is an orthopedic surgeon at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass., specializing in sports medicine. Andie is taking a break from working as a physical therapist and is at home with their three children, Stephen, 6; Emma, 3 and a half; and Alexandra, 1.
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Mr. John Booth III 1912 Harwood Road, Annapolis MD 21401 Class agents: Mr. Jeffrey Schackner 220 E. 65th St., Apt. 7M New York, N Y 10021 Ms. Alexis Polonofsky Zebrowski 33 Glen Road, Verona N J 07044 Many thanks to chairmen Michelle Kessler and Jeffrey Schackner for being captains of the ’85 reunion. Those who didn’t attend missed a good time. Michelle says to see the January issue o f Vogue magazine for the huge story that caused her to miss it. Best wishes to Peter Baker and Susan Glasser on their wedding in Washington. A large MKA contingent celebrated: Laura Glasser ’89 was maid of honor; Jennifer Glasser ’00 and Jeffrey Glasser ’92 were in the wedding party. Jim Courier ’59, Joel Simon ’62, and Alec Schwartz ’88 attended. The bride and groom are off to head the Moscow bureau of The Washington Post. Best wishes also to Derek Sanders and Michelle Kessler. They slipped away and were married without fanfare in Negril, Jamaica in December, a party in New York to follow.
Congratulations to Jim and Ashley Perry Kineon on the birth of James Bryant (Jay) in August.
^ t ^ ^ K in io n October 20,2001 Ms. Sherry Ahkami 4386 North Talmadge Drive San Diego CA 92116 Ms. Jennifer Remington Knodel Park Glen #1602, 105 Roseland Avenue Caldwell N J 07006 Class agent: Ms. Julia Weil 115 E. 87th St., #39E, New York N Y 10014 Best wishes to Angel and Gabrielle Silla Cabrera. In attendance at her beautiful October wedding in Montclair were Marc Spiotta, Anthony Michelotti ’85, Doreen and Peter Michelotti, Penny Kent-Hort and her husband Andy Hort, and Sherry Ahkami. Welcome alumni children: Congratulations to Victor and Sandra Hrab Naumenko on the birth of Joseph Kuzma in August. They are living in Wallingford, Conn, and Sandy is thoroughly enjoying being a stayat-home mom, according to proud grandparents/MKA faculty members Myra and George Hrab. Bruce Redpath is proud father of a daughter bom in October, Riley Hope, and two stepchildren. David Schwartzbard announces the addition of two new members to their family, Nicole and Lauren, in March 2000. From Israel, Joseph Yudin announces the birth o f daughter Geffen in January 2001. Joseph is sales manager for Bpath, a European e-commerce solution company, in Haifa.
Congratulations also to June and Rich Stanton on the birth of daughter Catherine in November. She joins brother Jack, 18 months.
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Mr. James Petretti 13 Otis Place, Verona N J 07044 Class agent: Mr. Alec Schwartz 46 Plymouth Road, Springfield PA 19064 alec@cmcservices. com Many thanks to Karen Muenster Fanning for her tour as class secretary. Congratulations and best wishes to our brides and grooms! Andre and Jennifer Rabke Verani were married on Cape Cod with a large MKA cast. Proud parents were faculty member John Rabke and former school nurse Nancy Rabke; siblings Carl ’90 and Christina Rabke Henry ’87, and classmate Coley Gray attended. Former and present faculty members present included Tony Ares, Don Bishop, Geoff Branigan, Jim Chudomel, Ken Gibson, Sandy Lonsinger, Anne Moore, Tim Sabum, John Sodoma, and Rachel Stettler, and alumnus Glen Kohl ’74. Andre and Jen met through Amigos. She has completed three years at Harvard Medical School and is studying for an additional M.P.H. this year. Donald and Rebecca Corris Campbell were married at a villa/estate at Hamilton College, where they met. Rebecca’s sister Marie ’97 was maid of honor; other MKA alumni attendees were classmates Gretchen Godwin, Aimee Picchi, and Lauren Shanahan Selikoff, and Janis ’87, Marcy ’94, and Robert Girt ’00. Rebecca teaches fourth grade at Far Brook School. James Garino and Sarah Ball were married in New Hampshire in June. They live in Connecticut, where he is sales and marketing director for the ATP Tour project of ISL Worldwide, a Swiss-based company that buys commercial elements to sporting events. Adam and Andrea Safirstein Bernstein were
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married at the University Club in NYC; classmates Sonia Mohuchy, Lauren Charlton Niebuhr, Jonathan Schwartz, and Hillary Windolf attended [see photo], Andrea is an instructor at Columbia U. in psychology and is in the doctoral program in counseling psychology there. She spoke at MKA Career Day last year. Kevin Silen is an interactive product designer with Simplayer Sports in Stoneham, Mass. He designs and develops interactive Web pages for basketball, football, baseball, hockey, and so on. Kevin says, “The applications are run on the Web and allow users to watch sporting events with animation, real-time as well as analyze team and player statistics.” He also does some database design. He is engaged to marry Melissa Powers in September. Andrew and Lauren Charlton Niebuhr have built a new house in Frenchtown, N.J. They, 18-month-old son Jake, and two golden retrievers are “enjoying the country.” Dara Goldman is assistant professor of Spanish at the U. of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign.
Richard and Margaret Irwin Yenco were married in August with many nieces and nephews in the wedding party. Madeline Temple came from Moscow. The newlyweds live on Chebeague Island, Maine; Margaret commutes by ferry to the mainland, where she teaches high school Spanish in Cumberland.
Geoffrey Krouse is a corporate associate at Vinson ¿ E lk in s’ NYC office. He lives on the Upper West Side.
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Dr. Mark Strobeck is a postdoc fellow in the department of cardiology at the U. of Pennsylvania. Jeff and Sarah Lane Sproha moved to Wyckofflast summer, and are enjoying watching daughter Amanda Mitzi, almost 2, grow. Sarah works in an industrial design firm.
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a physical therapist in Springfield, Mass.
Jennifer and David Austin moved to Portland, Ore., only to learn that his new job with Quest had been eliminated in the company merger with U.S. West (and so had his boss’, recruiter’s, and 4,000 other people’s). Fortunately David got a new position with Hewlett-Packard, laptop division. He now works in Corvalis, Ore., and travels to headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.
Class agent: Mr. Chris DeStefano 225 Rector P I, 8F; New York N Y 10280
Mr. Louis Lessig 141 Thunder Circle, Bensalem PA 19020
Many thanks to reunion chairmen Meredith McGowan, Merle Pear, and David Becker for inspiring a terrific return for Homecoming.
Class agent: Mr. Josh Raymond 213 Vista Drive, Cedar Knolls N J 07927
Congratulations and best wishes to our newlyweds.
George Hrab and his Philadelphia Funk Authority hand played at Windows on the World, the 109th floor o f the WTC in NYC on October 31. John Blesso showed up in Halloween costume, Meredith Fisher, Matt Blesso ’92, and former faculty member/music mentor Barry Centanni ’l l attended. Faculty members Myra and George Hrab were proud parents.
Jennifer and Matthew Calder were married in June. They live in NYC, where he is a managing member of Calder Capital Management, LLC. Michael and Katelyn Hnatow Richard were married in September. Kate, who received a B.A. in biochemistry from Skidmore College, received a master’s in physical therapy from American International College. She works as
“Lard is Good for You,” a non-fiction travel essay by Alden Jones ’90, was selected for the book The Best Travel Writing 2000, edited by Bill Bryson [Houghton-Mifflin]. More than 300 publications were culled for the best 100 stories; of these Bryson made 25 selections “that stand the test of time.” “Many of the sharpest minds and freshest voices in journalism are drawn to foreign subjects these days,” says Bryson in the Forward. “They share a penetrating curiosity, an almost compulsive desire to experience and try to understand the world at some unfamiliar level.” Jones wrote the piece about her experience teaching in Costa Rica for World Teach. It first appeared in winter 1998-99 in Coffee Journal. Jones graduated from Brown University and earned a master’s in creative writing from New York University and an MFA in creative writing at Bennington College. She teaches creative writing and literature at Emerson College, Boston.
The Class o f 1990. Standing: Tim Scherzo, Craig Lilore, M arty Torjussen. Seated: G u est, G eoff Benjam in, guest Nicole Davis, Vincent Sm ith.
The Class o f 1990. Standing: G uest M a m ie Schwartz, David Becker, Steve M anning, B rett Zbar, L oyd Godwin, guest Em ilie Cademartori. Seated: M att Fiore, guest Greg Voth, Ellen Gilson Voth, Gregg Cademartori with baby Connor.
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Class agent: Ms. Anne M arie Verdiramo 2804 Second Street SW #118 Rochester M N 55902 Best wishes to our brides and grooms. MKA couple James Cirello and Justine Scheuermann ’93 were married in Montclair in September; Adam Ertel was best man. James and Justine live in southern California, where she works for J. Crew and he is a landscape architect for SJA, Inc. and principal of his own design firm, ACD. James graduated as a landscape architect from Cook College, Rutgers; Justine also graduated from Rutgers.
The Class o f 1 9 9 0 ,10th reunion. Standing: Kate H natow Richard, Paula Kovanic Spiro, A lden Jones, Jamie R e if Taylor, reunion co-chairs Merle Pear and Meredith McGowan, Alexa Fitzpatrick, Janna Weinstein. Seated: A lliso n S m ith Fernandez, K im Charlton, M eridith D om er Gansler, T iffin i Kriegel, E m ily Ertel Nisbet.
Brian and Allison Smith Fernandez were married in Whitehouse, N. J. in her beloved horse country. They both graduated from Drew U., where they met. Allison is the assistant to the fundraising director of the U.S. Equestrian Team in Gladstone. According to the M ontclair Times, she is “a nationally ranked amateur equestrian at the hunterjumper level.” Laura Gilman checked in from California, where she is VP and controller of Digital Coast Partners LLC, an investment bank in Santa Monica, which finances internet/ technology companies. Laura graduated from Brandéis U., earned an MBA from NYU Stem School while working as an auditor at Arthur Andersen, and worked at a private investment partnership in Greenwich, Conn, for three years (getting a CPA in 1997). She moved to L.A. in August. Dr. Dana Holwitt is doing a surgical residency at the Medical College of Virginia. Dr. Patrick Greco is a chiropractor in Atlanta, Ga.
UNION OCTOBER 20,2001 Ms. Jamie Lenis 59 Hickory H ill Court, Rockaway N J 07866 Ms. Dara Marmon 127 E ast 30th Street, 15A, New York N Y 10016 telldjm@aol. com Class agent: Mr. Luke Sarsfield 275 Greenwich Street, Apt. 8M New York N Y 10007 Put OCTOBER 20 on your calendar in ink and plan to return to MKA for reunion. The 10th is a biggie.
was best man and his sister Kim ’95 was a bridesmaid. Ainsley Campbell was a groomsman and Dave Aronow was an usher. Sharon Most, Ali Tobia ’95, and Jay Tobia ’00 also attended. According to Chris, “Ainsley’s (reluctant) shirtless hula dance was the highlight of the rehearsal dinner, and was topped off by him catching the garter at the reception.” Chris started medical school at Wake Forest U., N.C. “and am actually enjoying it.” Joseph Fiordaliso is legislative assistant to Senator Robert Torricelli (D., N.J.) in Washington. In October Joe met with Headmaster Peter Greer in D.C. to discuss news o f MKA and interests of alumni. Michael Kramer writes from California, “News of my success was greatly exaggerated. No feature film production yet, though a small film is in the works, and a major writing job is getting close to reality. I bought a townhouse [in Bel-Air] and am in remodel hell right now.” Congratulations to Camilla Galesi, who passed the New York Bar. She received a J.D. from Washington and Lee U. School of Law last year. Venu Angara is a VP/trader at JP Morgan, Wall Street.
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Mr. Enrique Neblett 40 Highview Terrace, Bloomfield N J 07003 eneblett@yahoo. com Ms. Tamar Safer Radfar 86 Frost Court, W yckoffNJ 07481
Roger and Jennifer Blanes Componovo were married in June; Laura Mamchur was in the wedding party, and Brookside faculty member Donna Blanes was proud mother of the bride. Jennifer, an assistant VP at MBNA/America in Delaware, is starting Columbia Business School. Matthew and Jennifer Lonsinger Rutherford were married in Estes Park, Colorado in June; Melissa Roedel did a reading and Bryan and Fay O’Neill Lonsinger ’90x and Erin O’Neill were in the wedding party. Longtime faculty member Sandy Lonsinger was proud father of the bride! The newlyweds both graduated from Princeton. Marie D ’Amato has left Austin, Texas, where she was teaching high school English, to begin a master’s in liberal studies at Dartmouth College. Intending to return to teaching, Marie has begun an in-depth study o f several Shakespearian plays and is applying to study at Oxford U. this summer. Kimberly Cohen works for Westgate Financial Corp. in Hoboken but lives in NYC. She is engaged to her boyfriend of six years, Jared Lubitz, and will be married in September. Ali Goodkin, her roommate and sorority sister at Syracuse U., will be a bridesmaid. “See you all next year at Homecoming,” she writes. Lauren Napolitano is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Widener U., Pennsylvania. Doreen Oliver is in her first year in Stanford U. Graduate School of Business. After graduation from Yale, she worked in advertising in NYC. At the same time, she created and produced talent showcases titled “Frustrated Artists in Corporate America,” featuring the singing, acting, comic or “otherwise creative talemts” of corporate Americans working in NYC. Taurey Butler would perform and accompany vocalists on the piano; Enrique Neblett, Adrienne Phillips, Keshia Trotman, and Matt Wirz all attended a show. Doreen also worked in marketing at SmithKline Beecham for a year.
Best wishes to Laurie and Christopher Gaydos on their wedding. They were married last summer in Atlanta; his brother Larry ’91
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Ms. Renee Monteyne 10 Lookout Point Trail Totowa Borough N J 07512 Mr. Brian Wecht 3891-D M iramar St., La Jolla CA 92037 Class agent: Mr. Damien Vena 1359 M agdalena Ave. Cond. San Jose #401 San Juan PR 00907 Best wishes to James and Justine Scheuermann Cirello on their wedding. See ’92 class notes. Stephen Pietrucha is an electronics engineer in Warren, N J . He is engaged to Carolyn Maurer, a fellow Bucknell graduate. They plan a July wedding. Suzanne Jacobson teaches middle school English in Ardsley, N.Y., acting as department chair, and is attending Teachers College, Columbia U. Suzanne is engaged to fellow Yalie Matthew Kirsch; they will be married in Manhattan in July. Back from Africa, Vincent O’Hara works as a freelance writer and editor in San Francisco. Major clients include the Leakey Foundation, Visa U.S.A., the AfriCat Foundation, and the Social Venture Network. “I’m gearing up for some serious international travel in 2001,” Vince writes. Jordan Safirstein, in his fourth year of medical school at U. of Chicago, is applying for residency in internal medicine. Congratulations to Margo Hirsh, who passed both the New York and New Jersey State Bar exams. She is an attorney at the international law firm of Bryan Cave LLP in NYC, specializing in lending and business finance. She graduated from Brandeis U. and the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law. Jamie Streit is working as marketing manager for the YankeeNets.
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The Class o f 1 9 9 5 ,5 th reunion. Standing: M eghan Torjussen, E lissia Greenberg, Joanna Berman, M att Drukker, Shan-Shan Yam, Carolyn Seugling, Jonathan Hirsh, Glenn-John Jeffers. Seated: Vanessa M izzone, Sara Shaning, Beth Scura, Brendan Mulvey, M ichael Richardson.
laude with a B.A. in literature. She was active in extracurriculars, particularly the women’s water polo team.
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Ms. Rita Papaleo 31 Fem wood Terrace, Nutley N J 07110 ritapap@aol. com Class agent: Mr. M atthew Drukker 400 E. 57th ST, #15C, New York N Y 10022 Many thanks to reunion chairmen Shan-Shan Yam and Jonathan Hirsh. Apparently everyone talked so much at Tierney’s that no one sent any news to the Review. The rescue: In December faculty member Rick Kitts fell while skating at South Mountain Arena, seriously gashing his head. He woke up to see - and be able to name —the EMT on the rescue squad: Jonathan Hirsh. Mr. Kitts says Jonathan was great and that he had special treatment during transportation to the hospital.
ION OCTOBER 20,2001 Ms. Tanya Barnes 7 M elrose Place, M ontclair N J 07042 tbames@ fas. harvard, edu
Ms. M onica Fernand 7 Josephein Ave., Somerville MA 02144
Ms. Debbie Haight 115 DeWitt Ave., Belleville N J 07109 deh2 7@columbia. edu
Ms. Dana Fiordaliso 638 Independence Ave. SE A pt 2 Washington D C 20003
Class agent: Mr. Lee Vartan 54 Hamilton Ave., Kearny N J 07032
Class agent: Mr. John Saroff 67 Eagle Rock Way, M ontclair N J 07042 Welcome to Dana Fiordaliso, who picks up the pen as class secretary. Chris Del Collo works for Cornell U. in the office of distance learning, doing Web design.
Congratulations to those alumni from the Class of ’96 who graduated from college this year. News of a few, culled from newspapers and proud parents: Kent Barnhard received a B.A. in communication from Muhlenberg College. He works as a supervisor with the Summit Recycling Center in Breckenridge, Colo. Lauren Klein graduated from Harvard cum
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Tasha Murphy is attending The New School U. in NYC, working on an MFA in creative writing, with a concentration in writing for children. She is also an alumni interviewer for the Union College admissions office in the N.Y.-N.J. area. Stephanie Wecht, who received a B.A. from Macalester College in women’s and gender studies, works as director of development with the AIDS Resource Foundation for Children in Newark. Jill Rodburg has moved back to the Boston area after working in NYC for nine months. She works in human resources for a software design firm in Cambridge, Trenza Corp., and asks anyone in the Boston area to contact her. Adrianna Del Collo, who graduated from Oberlin College, works as an assistant archivist on a Mellon grant at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Correction: Jessica Bruder was awarded the Ralph Waldo Rice Prize for her honors thesis, titled “This is not the Scene I Dreamed of: Writing and Censorship Under Apartheid.”
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Ms. Jennifer Platt 904 Pompton Ave., Cedar Grove N J 07009 Class secretary and agent: Ms. Jennifer Fink 154 Upper Mountain Avenue M ontclair N J 07042 Ms. M elissa Schlachter 32 Larsen Lane, Lincoln P arkN J 07035 Double congratulations to Jennifer Fink, who graduated a semester early magna cum laude from the Univ. of Pennsylvania.
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Marriages Class secretary and agent: Ms. Gemma Giantomasi 5 Kensington PL, Roseland N J 07060 Lauren Moses is majoring in economics (minor in English) at Duke U., and is “eagerly anticipating” studying at Oxford U. this summer. Anastasia Lambert has been appointed a Presidential Scholar at Dartmouth College, where she is majoring in experimental psychology and studio art. Anastasia receives an honorarium as a research assistant to a professor (topic: tobacco company fraud), and will be eligible to do independent study and an Honors thesis.
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1954 Vicki Wendt West and Walter A. Peek 1982x Christopher Perry and Lisa Conroy 1983 Daniel Carson and Whitney Panio 1985x Susan Glasser and Peter Baker 1985 Michelle Kessler and Derek Sanders 1986 Gabrielle Silla and Angel Cabrera 1988 Rebecca Corris and Donald Campbell 1988 James Garino and Sarah Ball 1988 Jennifer Rabke and Andre Verani 1988 Andrea Safirstein and Adam Bernstein 1990x Matthew Calder and Jennifer Brushaber 1990 Margaret Irwin and Richard Yenco 1990 Katelyn Hnatow and Michael Richard 1990 Allison Smith and Brian Fernandez 1992 Jennifer Blanes and Roger Componovo 1992 1993 James Cirello and Justine Scheuermann 1992 Christopher Gaydos and Laurie Dokson 1992 Jennifer Lonsinger and Matthew Rutherford
April 29, 2000 July 22, 2000 January 1, 2001 September 9, 2000 December 28, 2000 October 22, 2000 August 5, 2000 June 24, 2000 September 3, 2000 May 27, 2000 June 17, 2000 August 5, 2000 September 2, 2000 August 26, 2000 June 24, 2000 September 30, 2000 July 9, 2000 June 24, 2000
Ms. Alison Platt 904 Pompton Ave., Cedar Grove N J 07009 Class agent: Mr. Alex Holz 992 Valley Road, Franklin Lakes N J 07417 Everyone was too busy studying to send in news.
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Mr. John Garippa 30 Wayside Place, M ontclair N J 07042 Ms. Anna Labowsky 5 Highview Court, Wayne N J 07470 Class agent: Ms. Ashley Griffin 55 Afterglow Ave., M ontclair N J 07042 Ashley Griffin coxed for the Conn College crew team last fall, and is doing sports writing for the newspaper. Her roommates are from Bulgaria and Arizona. MKA soccer/basketball star Candace Watkins is on the crew team at Northeastern, the only freshman walk-on to make the team.
In Memoriam 1931 1931 1932 1937 1938 1939 1941 1942 1945 1949 1951 1954 1975
Mary E. Eisele Anita Schwarz Beamon Gerald A. Eubank Jr. Kirk Usher Arthur W. Dixon Jr. Betsy Krichbaum McAlister Philip Nelson Lawes Walter Freygang Jr. Kenneth J. Hanau Jr. Oscar Weissenborn Joan M iller Buchanan Anne Wamick Winner Paul V. Olowacz
June 9, 2000 June 6, 2000 October 20, 2000 October 2000 November 6, 2000 January 17, 2001 January 11, 2000 2000 October 23, 2000 October 20, 2000 October 31, 2000 September 3, 2000 December 22, 2000
Faculty, Former Faculty, and Trustees Jean Craven Bonsai Rusty Garthwaite Betty Wedel
October 25, 2000 October 2000 August 27, 2000
The Ken Gibson Alumni Farewell Tour June 21-29,2002 Ken Gibson, senior member of the MKA faculty, will retire next year after 35 years of devotion to the school. In his honor, a trip is being planned to all the places in Ireland Ken has always wanted to see. Alumni are welcome to join Ken and other senior faculty on the tour, which will include the sites MKA seniors visit during May Term: Limerick, Dublin, the northwest coast including Donegal, Galway City, Connemara. Page 38
History teacher extraordinaire Geoff Branigan, a veteran of many trips to Ireland, is making the arrangements. Details will follow in the fall Review. To indicate an interest and thus help MKA in planning the celebration, please e-mail gbranigan@mka.pvt.kl2. nj.us.
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M KA Bulletin Board MKA Web Site Tune in to MKA’s Web site for admissions, alumni, calendar, history, sports information: www. montclairkimberley. org
Are You Lost? Moved? Married? Please send news, photos, and/or address changes to the Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair NJ 07042, or call 973/746-9800. Or e-mail caustin@ m ka.pvt.kl2. nj. us.
A TTEN TIO N A L U M N I AUTHORS MKA has a growing Alumni Collection in the Avery Barras Library of the Upper School. Donations o f books written by or about alumni are welcome, particularly if they are inscribed to the school. A special bookplate, "Gift of the Author," is inserted. Please contact the Alumni Office at 973-746-9800, write to MKA Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair NJ 07042, or e-mail caustin@ mka.pvt.kl2 . nj. us
Letters to the Editor MKA and the Review welcome questions and comments from readers. We publish selected letters in a Letters to the Editor page, “MKA-mail.” What do you think? Please send your thoughts to the MKA Review, Alumni Office, 201Valley Road, Montclair NJ 07042.
T hank Y ou Thank you to this new class secretary for volunteering:
Dana Fiordaliso ’94 (If your class has no secretary, why not volunteer? Call the Alumni Office at 973/746-9800 for further information.)
E-mail MKA alumni can contact each other via email - if they have registeredfo r the class list on the Web site. Go to the site www.montclairkimberley.org - and under “Alumni,” find the e-mail registry for your class. (The Alumni Office may have an alum’s e-mail address from a questionnaire, but will not publish it unless so requested.) Readers can contact any member of the faculty or administration by the following formula: < first initial last name @mka.pvt.kl2.nj.us>
Alumni Dates To Remember SENIOR BREAKFAST May 3 ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME May 5 ALUMNI RECEPTION, May 19 Bedminster, N J, ALUMNI GOLF & TENNIS OUTING June 26 MKA BENEFIT BORROMEO QUARTET NYC October 13 HOMECOMING/REUNIONS 2001 October 20 for classes ending in 1 and 6. Class Notes • Spring 2001
M K A C h airs Wonderful gifts or graduation presents! MKA chairs are antique black with maple arms and bear the official MKA seal in gold. Each chair sells for $250; a rocking chair version is available for $275. Please add $25 for shipping and handling. Your order must be accompanied by a check made payable to The Montclair Kimberley Academy. Send to: The Alumni Office, MKA, 201 Valley Road, Montclair NJ 07042
Advice! Internships! JOBS! Young alumni looking for career opportunities, internships, resume help, or career advice have a resource at MKA. Call or write to the Office of Career Services to obtain the names o f alumni, parents, faculty, or friends of the school in your desired interest area. Individuals willing to offer career advice or opportunities are certainly encouraged to call or write Mamie McNany in the Office o f Career Services. We would like to expand our network into major cities, such as Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.
Presentations! Slide Shows! Discussions! Any alumni, parents, or friends of the school interested in bringing their enthusiasm and expertise into the classroom at any o f the three MKA campuses should contact the Office of Career Services. Faculty will then use this Bank of Community Resources to supplement their own teaching in a particular unit. Long distance learning is even possible. Enhance student learning and get involved at the classroom level all at once. Your participation is encour aged and appreciated. Contact: Mamie McNany at 973783-8791 or at www.montclairkimberley.org
Lost Your Yearbook?
1902 Montclair Academy Yeare Booke
The MKA Alumni Office has some extra yearbooks in inventory, available for $5 postage and handling charge. Please call first to see if extras are available for your year (973-746-9800). If you no longer want your yearbook, please contact the Alumni Office; extras are gratefully accepted.
This is the only book missing in the MKA archives back to the very first yearbook in 1900. Keep your eyes open at book sales and attic purges.
The archives have at least one copy o f every yearbook published except 1902. We also need an extra copy o f the following: Kim berleaves 1946, 1951, 1954, 1955.
Needed for the Archives:
Alumni Association Council Ballot Election for Alumni Council members w ill be held at the Annual Meeting o f the MKA Alumni Association on May 21, 2001. Meeting place w ill be at the Middle School Library, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, N ew Jersey. Time: 7:00 p.m. I f you do not expect to be present at the meeting, please sign the proxy below and return it to the Alumni OfSce, 201 Valley Road, Montclair NJ 07042. Upon elec tion o f the proposed slate o f nominees*, the Alumni Council for 2001-2002 w ill consist o f the following:The follow ing persons presently on the Alumni Council have been nominated to serve as officers o f the Alumni Association for 2000-2001. These officers will be elected by the Alumni Council at its annual meeting on May 22,
2000: TERM EXPIRING 2002
TERM EXPIRING 2003
TERM EXPIRING 2004*
ADVISORY
Erin Cuffe Crawford ’74
Lisa S. Aufcien ’76
Toby J. Bizub ’83
Martha Bonsai Day ’74
Lori W indolf Crispo ’78
Richard G. Jenkins ’77
Daniel Carson ’83
Peter S. McMullen ’77
Lawrence Duca ’79
India Hayes Larrier ’80
Robert Cottingham Jr. ’84
Kristine Hatzenbuhler O ’Connor ’83
A lex Joerger ’96
Dara Marmon ’91
Susan Cole Furlong ’78
J. Dean Paolucci ’73
Scott Rumana ’83
Mark McGowan ’85
Janine Garland ’82
Sabino T. Rodano ’87
A lec P. Schwartz ’88
Joshua H. Raymond ’89
Eric F.S. Pai ’79
Patricia Shean Worthington ’74
A lexis Polonofsky Zebrowski ’85
President.................................... Lori W indolf Crispo ’78
Secretary..................................... Joshua Raymond ’89
Executive Vice President........Patricia Shean Worthington ’74
Treasurer..................................... A lec P. Schwartz ’88
Vice President............................Susan Cole Furlong ’78 The undersigned hereby appoints Lori W indolf Crispo ’78 Proxy to vote FOR____ AGAINST
the election o f the proposed members o f The Montclair Kimberley
Academy Alum ni Council at the annual meeting to be held May 21, 2001 as set forth in the spring issue o f the MKA R eview magazine.
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TELEPHONE_________ __ ____________ ____________:__________ Detach and mail to: The Montclair Kimberley Academy Alumni Office, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, NJ 07042 MKA ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME AWARDS CRITERIA The Montclair Kimberley Academy Athletic Hall o f Fame was founded to honor those who have made telling contributions to the school’s athletics. Its puipose is to perpetuate the memory o f those persons who have brought distinction, honor, and excellence to Montclair Academy, The Kimberley School, The Brookside School, and MKA in athletics. 1. Nominee must have been an outstanding varsity athlete, coach, Athletic Director, trainer, or major contributor (financial and/or participant) at MA, TKS, Brookside, or MKA and/or brought distinction to the school through related and subsequent athletic accomplishments. 2. Student nominees must have attended MA, TKS, Brookside, or MKA for at least two years, and have graduated from MA, TKS, Brookside, or MKA. Student nominees must have graduated at least five years prior to the year o f nomination. 3. Nominee must have conducted his or her life in keeping with school standards and in ways which reflect positively on MKA. 4. The nomination can be a posthumous award. 5. Nominees may nominate themselves, be nominated by alumni or others. 6. Each year, a minimum o f one qualified male and one qualified female will be selected. Nominations will be kept on file for subsequent years’ review. 7. A team may be inducted.
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PHOTO: MKA benefactor Ardath Blauvelt ’64 holds a special MKA sweater at thefa ll Gathering, surrounded by (L to R) Headmaster Peter Greer; Bill Stites, Director o f Technology; Karen Newman, Dean o fStudies; and Char Charlton, Head o f Campus, Upper School.
“The most important education is in high school,” says alumna Ardath Blauvelt of the Kimberley Class of 1964, “It’s where you leam to leam and love to leam to leam. This is where you shape students.” “MKA is because of its faculty and curriculum,” she says with hands in motion and animated voice. “I believe so strongly in traditional education, a classical program of core works, the teaching of ethics.” Blauvelt has demonstrated her beliefs with a concrete action. She has made a generous gift to The Montclair Kimberley Academy, funding what she calls her “dream plan” to encourage faculty careers. Most gifts to educational institutions are in recognition of and gratitude for an experience that has served an alumna/us well in later life. Blauvelt’s gift is unusual, in that it is a philosophical recognition and hearty endorsement of MKA’s current teaching prowess. It began as estate planning, and her fervent beliefs led her to support MKA’s signature programs in ethics, citizenship, and Core Works - and those who teach them. In Headmaster Peter Greer, Blauvelt - an editorial writer on current events for the New Hampshire weekly, InterTown Record - found a kindred spirit. “He
is the kind of person that makes you better,” she says. She herself has 25 years of teaching experience. After Chatham College, Blauvelt volunteered at a day care center in Paterson, “fell in love with the little ones,”' trained in Montessori methods, and taught for five years. She then moved to New England, where she taught daycare/preschool in Lowell, Massachusetts, and started her own preschool/daycare over the border in Pelham, New Hampshire. When she sold it after fifteen years, it still had the same staff. That is how she knows the importance of retaining good faculty. “This grant/effort/program is seed money,” Blauvelt says of the study and implementation of programs that advance retention and recruitment of quality faculty to MKA. “To encourage the faculty when it has to matter. It will need more funding; it is very specific. The teaching of ethics hand-in-hand with classical Core Works will be the survival of the country.” For more information about this program or fo r information about the Capital Campaign or Planned Gifts, including bequests and charitable trusts, please write the MKA Office o f External Affairs, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, N J 07042, or telephone Judy Polonofsky, Director o f External Affairs, at 973-746-9800.
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